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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

applies the principal no less thoroughly to his foot ball matches than to his stock jobblng transactions.
 Further on the Isis supposes tho American character will be improved by an English education. and that th-s lm- provement will be beneficial to us. bat adds that it does not suppose the rub ping the angles off uncultivated American youth was matter of concern to Cecll Rhodes, the empirc maker.
 The Oxford Point of View or thls month has an article VenturiDg that the foun@ dation of the American scholarships may be a mistake. It states that the Amer jeans are really our friends very llttle more than the French or the Germans, and goes on to say that where all sent mental cant has been brushed aside the will be found to be what Aristotle terms "a watery friendship" owing perhaps to the intervening seas. It says that tho Americans are foreigners, and intimates that they are not as welcome as the Ger mans. = L. Savory of St. Johns College at the the university In which he says "the American scholar would have too much money. and this hulking lout would set bad example of extravaganza.
 I might add other opinions. but re- gard the most of them as mere froth and am prone to believe that the majority of the professors and students here are in young Americans do come they will be fairly treated. 1t .s to be hoped that the best of our young men will be sent, and if So have no fear whatever but that they will more than hold their own.
 Frank G. Carpenter.
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building. corresponding to the cloisters of some of the other colleges. and on this you may see students in black caps and gowns walking
 The many windo Ws which look out upon the court have long boxes of flowers in them. These windows belong to the stu dents rooms. Every man at Oxford has a suite of two or three rooms of his own. He has a bed room, a sitting room and bath room and the colleges are so large that there is no crowding. The rooms are we'll lighted but the heating of them Is by grates.
 Student Life and Expenses.
 I made a number of inquiries about the expenses of living at Oxford. find that the American boys with their $500 year will he better provided for than the aver age English undergraduates. The best authorities state that a man who Is care full can live at oxford on $500 year. if he has a home at which to spend. his va cations. He Is d oxford only six months. and this means an average of q little more than Sl33 month. Some men cut down their college life to about $500 year, but A great many spend more. The entrance fee at most of the colleges is $25. In ad dition a deposit of S150 Is required to cov- CT kitchen and other fees. The matrtcu- latiou fee is SlH. 30 aud it costs from $lO0 t1 $500 to furnish ones roo ms. l have n this statement red iced the pounds sterl- ing to American money.
 Each student has his rooms in the col lege free of rent but he must have hls own furniture. The custom is to buy the furniture of the last occupant. The col lege has a professional valuator, who fixes the amount to be paid. and the in- coming student adds such things as he Dleases and takes away such furniture as he wishes upon his departure. Many of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
Copyright. 1sn. by Frank G. Carpenter

Copyright. 1so2. by Frank G. Carpenter.
 Oxford.
 In the Athens of the British empire, sur rounded by the time-eaten colleges ,of Engiand's oldest univ srsity, under the shadows of the mighty trees where for centuries the greatest scholars of our literature have walked. write for my American readers. By the beauest of Cecil Rhodes. Oxford University has be- come to us the most interesting seat of learning outside the United States. From now on a hundred picked American boys, two from each State and Territory. are to be kept here at school MT. Rhodes will provides that 'aeh student is to be allowed 300 pounds or S.50o. year for expenses and that the number shall he kept full by new appointments made through competitive examinations from year to year For this reason examina- tions for Oxford will henceforth be as common in our country as examinations for West Point and Annapolis, and a stream of Oxford graduates will slowly permeatc every part of the Union.
 In old Oxford.
 But first let me give you some idea of the university and its surroundings, I despair of transmitting more than an impression Nathaniel Hawthorne has truly said that "The world has no place
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the town of Oxford as we'll, The vice. chancellor can order objectionable per- sons to leave the city and can enforce the going away of young women whose char acters tend to injure the morality of the students. The officials can imprison such characters and fine them. and they do their best to keep them out of Oxford.
 Inside at Oxford College.
 But let us enter the gate under which Big Tom hangs. It is now noon and the heavy doors are thrown back. You can see wicket in one of them through which the doorkeeper. looks at night ana takes the name of the student who caIs after hours and collects his fine This IS an immense hollow court of about four acres, covered with grass. shaved as closely as though it were carpeted. There is a fountain in the center and wide, weillkept walks radiate from this to the main entrances of the buildings. This Is only one quadrangle of the institution. Christ Church has five, but this Is the largest and finest. The. great stone struc- ture about it is of only two stories. but the ceilings are so high that 1t has the effect of fpur-story building Of the United States.
 The walls are entered by arched doors much Nike those of great vault. A wide stone pavement runs clear around the
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desk after the Senate adjourned, and was preserved by a thoughtful clerk. The speech is d model Of brevity and is writ fen in MT. Jefferson's fine ligible hand.
 On Feb. 15. 1893, the House of Repre- sentatives sent to the Senate message notifying them of the passage or An act naking further provision for the eX penses attending the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations" In considering this bill in the House. the unusual course was adopted Of going into secret legislative session. This proce- dure was communicated to the Senate m the following message of admonitionA
 The nature and importance or the measure contemplated have induced us to act upon the subject with closed doors. You will. of course. consider this com munication as confidential.
 This unique message is written in great round bold hand and signed by the
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the rooms are magnificently fitted up. They have easy chairs and luxuriant couchcs On their walls are fine pictures and on the floors Turkish rugs.
 The students live in the colleges much as in hotel. Each man has servant, whom he shares with seven, or eight otn, ersA The servant Is known as a scout He runs errands, takes care of the rooms and serves such of the meals as are taken In the rooms.
 where all the cooking is done, and each has a common dining room or banquet hall where all the students meet in the evening for dinner. In the hall there is reading desk, at which one of the pro- platform with a special table for the dohs or professors. The dinners are served in table dhote style. at 8 fixed charge, wines and liquors being extra.
 In College Kitchen.
 The kitchens of the college are among the curiosities of Oxford. That of Christ Church has been in existence since the days of Cardinal Wolsey and in 1t hangs 0 great gridiron which was used by the cooks of the cardinal. In entering IL you of the college. You go down stone steps into the basement entering great stone, walled room, with ceiling at least six ty-five feet high. At one side of the room is a fireplace large enough to roast an OK. before which fowls and meats are still roasted on spits The fireplace IS so arranged that a dozen or more iron spits can be hung in front of 1t at one time. and as many as sixty chickens can be thus roasted at once. In other parts or the room there are large ranges. steam CTS big enough to cook two sacks Of po- tatoes at time and all the accompani- ments of the kitchens of large hotel. Twenty-two cooks are kept busy prepar- Ing meals for the students. They dress In white, with white caps, and have their chiefs and subordinates
 What the College Boys Eat.
 All the cooking for the 300 students of Christ Church College IS done In this kitchen and the kitchen accounts of the boys are kept here. The kitchen clerk has a day book and a ledger. He keeps to the cent what each student has and gives him d memorandum at the close of each week. although payment Is not ex- pected until the term following, the one for which the account Is rendered
 As went through the kitchen Isstoppad at the clerks office and looked at the accounts. Food is given at cost price and the charges seem to me very. mod crate. Tho ordinary breakfast consists Of flsh or bacon and eggs. The student Is served with three boiled eggs and some bacon for about 25 cents. He gets a luncheon of cold meats for little more, Ing hall costs him about 45 cents. l give you here the menu for last nights dinner:
 Baked Haddock.
 Piquante Sauce.
 Roast Mutton.
 Steak and Kidney Pie.
 Minced Pastry.
 Wine Jelly.
 Extras: Asparagus. 1 pence; new pota- toes, pence: cream, pence; sweet omel- cite. pence.
 Drinking at Oxford.
 In addition to the charge for the reg
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Student Life at Oxford ;::::ss:;: ;::: s ss
A Virit to Chri.rt Church.
.I do not like thee. Doctor Fell, The reason why cannot tell.

"I do not like thee. Doctor Fell.
 The reason why I cannot tell.
 But this one thing I know full well.
 There are also portraits of King Ed ward VII, who was a student or Chrlst Church: of Cardinal Wolsey. who founded 1t, and of so many others that 1t would require column to mention them all.
 Famous Colleges.
 Leaving Christ Church I visited many of the other colleges. Each has its stu dents who have made namesl1n English literature, in finance and in other ways. At Magdaien, Addison went to school add the beautiful two-mile walk ab9yt the rec reation grounds behind itnis, tknoWn as "Addison's Walk" T .suSss.I lt.ss
 In Pembroke College you4 may see the room which Samuel Johnson occupifd ann the desk on which he wrote his, idictton- ary. At New College. founded my 1sas. Sydney Smith was educated. aHd kins Bal- iioi, Cardinal Manning, Dean tategiteN ana Mathew Arnold studied. Orieb ffnjlegf fs Espey # was the one which Cecil RBsaysl Stl tended. and to which he has 1ystn glysp $500 900 for improvements andhJrepaiEAs Oriel was founded in 1926. ltvhast1anolE It's students Sir Walter Raleishia $sinop Wilberforce and Thomas Hughes, the man who wrote Tom Browns, Schooldays at Oxford" I might also speak of Erase nose College and others. but they are all the same-old and duaint-hlled with the famous literary ghosts of the past and the serious biack-gowped mortarboard- halted professors and the gay young stu dents of the present.
 What Oxford Thinks of the American
 Scholarships.
 It is difficult to get an unprejudiced view of fha Rhodea bedueSt and Of the effect 1t will have upon Oxford. There are large number of students and pro fesors who do not welcome the form or the new American invasion. The news papers of the country have pretty we'll discussed 1t, and there seems to be gen. eral fear that 1t will shake up the dry bones of the university to the discomfort of the easy-going people who was now occupy it. At present about 600 students graduate from Oxford every year. and of honors are of different grades, and 1t will be strange if the Americans, picked men as they will be. do not get more than tneir proportionate share. believe that tne students are really afraid of them, and this thought is strengthened by the un- pleasant things said aoout us and the Rhodes bequest in the several college mag azines I have before me the cntet pe- riodicals of this week.
 Tn Isis refers. insultingly to America, saving, among other things.
 "ft must be confessed that to many EnKiishmen, and particularly Oxford men, the scheme Is unpalatable to degree. The editors laugh at the idea or the American papers asserting the hope snat Rhodes tarnished gold" and adds: Fms seerls an absolute jest in the mouth or the American who too frequently adopts the Horatian motto-'0et money; non estiy If you can, but get it, ana who
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first clerk of the House, of Representa- tives, John Beckley. The available rec ord fails to show similar proceeding by the House of Representatives since that date.
 Among the original messages from An drew Jackson preserved in this historic collection is the first sent to the Senate. It is dated, Washington, December 2S. 1885" and addressed simply ITO the Sen ate" It submits the names and nOmina- tions of all the members of his cabinet and adds the following:-
 1 nominate Roger B. Fancy, Esq, of Maryland to be Chief Justice of the Su- prenie Court of the United States in place of John Marshall, deceased;- and Philip P. Barbour. Esq, of Virginia. 10 be As sociate Justice of the same court in place of Gabriel DWal. resigned.
 President Lincolns first message to the Senate Is as follows:
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Grants first message was dated sim ply "Washlngton. D. C., March ,, 1869, " and submitted the following list of nJminatiOns:
 Elihu B. Washington of Illinois, to be Secretary of State; Alexander T. stewart of New York. to be Secretary or the Treasury: Adolph E. Borte of Pennsylva- mia. to be Secretary of the Navy. John A J. Creswell of Maryland, to be Post master General; l.. R. lloar of Massa- chusetts to be Attorney General, and Ja- cob D. Cox to be Secretary of the lnte- rior.
 Garfield's first message to the Senate nominated James G. Blaine to be Secre'
 When Chester A. Arthur became Presi- dent blank forms were used for the first time in sending nominations to the Sen ate. The first one was filled out hy Ar thur and contains the name of Freder-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
ENeLAND's cArsKIN EARLs.
Three Can Wear Feline Fur. Instead
 of Expensive Ermine:
,ondona Mail.

4nIGG SdU W Nct s@SA$AAN - t@Nf -
 of Expensive Ermine. | Iondona Mau .i fN, S.
 Among fine points which the Duke ct Norfolk. as Earl Marshal might have had to decide in view Of King Edward cor onation. one of the most curious E as to wear catskin instead of ermines on their robes As nobody ykbut the furrterz ia at all likely to have disputed this right the claim has probablxnat cons
 The three earls aye those of Shrs %sbuty. created in l442; Detby. l4sS, and HnntinsT don. 1529. ~"
 an outward and visible assertion of su- periority. not a tradition either Of hu- manity or of parsimony. My Lords on Shrewsbury, Derby and Huntingdon do not thereby value themselves. as com pared to other peers in the dtrect rato of catskin to ermine, but rather Tn tns inverse.
 fore there was any ermine, and those early earls trimmed themselves with tha skins of cats As no kind Of wildcat in- digenous to Britain or any parts or En- rope then accessible to English tTaders ever had a white fur. the earls hefors the time of Henry VIII.-in whose reign the Huntingdon creation originated-must have used domestic cats
 An earl skinning the cats or ms F- cinage to make him fur tlppet IS not dignIfed picture from the life of the Mid dle Ages, but even now, when< eats arg SO much more plentiful most Of those or the back fences are black or tabby. no' white, and are, therefore. ineligible tol the adornment of any earl. As time went on earIs became like the dignitaries re fered to in Gilbert's ''Gondoliers;
 For bishops in their shovel hats,
 Were plentiful as tabby eats.
 And dukes were three a penny.
 The Dukes began to be created just afa ter the date of the Huntingdon peerage, the only duke antedating that being he of Norfolk. who ought on that accounts if not for his ancient earldoms of Surrey and Arundel. to have catskin, but has not. Just about that time, too. the mar uuises and Yiscounts came in, the former having a great run in the Tudor period
 The truth at the bottom ofsthe cat skin earldoms'' is that these three are nearly all the nobility titles in England mot Scotland or Ireland) that can claim an origin older than the Reformation: Before that period the English house ot Lords, with the exception of royal princess was made up of earls and raronS. and the latter, as they were not then allowed any coronets. probably had no right to any skins of beasts.
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I nominate William H. Seward of New York to be Secretary of State of the Tinted States. Abraham Lincoln.
 Washington, 5th March, 1S61.
 The other messages of Lincoln which have been preserved in the original are those nominating Salmon P. Chase of Ohio to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to succeed Roger B. Fancy of Maryland. and Hugh McCulloch of In diana to be Secretary of the Treasury in place Of William Pitt Fessenden Of Maine
 The first of Andrew Johnson's original messages are those in which he nomn- ates John Bigelow to he Minister 10 France and I.ieutenant- General Ulysses & Grant to he General of the army of the United States. The latter message fo.. the first time IS dated 'The Execu- tive Mansion. It was sent to the Sen ate July 5, 1866
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ick Y. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey to be Secretary of State. vice James G.. Blaine, resigned.
 Grover CleveIands first message nom- mated Thomas Francis Bayard of Del aware to be Secretary of State to suc- ceed Frelinghuysen. and as that massage closed the record for the first century of the existence of the American Govern ment Efe interesting and valuable book compiled at the direction of General Me Cook was closed.
 Of course. the files of the Senate con- talr all the Presidential messages that have been sent in since, but they. be- ing print and typewriting, and in other modernized forms of official communica- tion have little or no sentimental value, and there is not among them one message written by the hand of the President who signed it.
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UngraciOus Fellowl

Washington Post.
 We shall most 'assuredly decline to work overtime worrying about any sort of runapus the Missouri Republicans may
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-02-08
TEETH IN WARFARE.
EnEInnd'- Experience I'm south Africa
shows Need OF Dem
tistry.

After 81 mon MS fighting four dental
surgeons have been sent to South Az
RIGA to attend 10 the teeth OF the army.
Thus docs he war Office put forth
stupendou, Fprts TO atone for past
inaptitude, says the London Pail Mall
Gazette.
In nm army 81 quarter o. mil
bon men fh four surgeons should
be kept toicrably busy No soldier " no
has campaigned six months in Africa
VIII, ~ be be wise, ueglect chance
" having his teeth examined ~ H.
surgeon, therelare. Viii have cllcntele
Of ZOO alsa Ncn Assuming
net a ly of The week, incma-
ing sunday I'D men are treated by
each cetti ur teeth If lie army
wih hage overhaulcd, and ihe
work ~ Ncafatinp and filing
completed M something over go
months. 1t should console d man on
active service suffering to-day from
toofhache ia u precious molar, which
BE can III afford % lose. to know That
he viii not be troubled with the
agoni1'ns pain later than April, 1907.
IN the unequal rueele between trek
OK and biscuit oa ihe ono hand and
mere human teeth on Che other, not
~ III he men 81 ny CONF
pany came hrpugh scathclvss In
many catfs N damage was Slight: In
others. where me optb were natural
ly weak aga hritae Che mischief done
was irreparahe Even with am aver
age set aiHe rn an average bis
emit you fr't auifrc 'ch
would be he first to ea v tn
or yonr biscuit
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-02-08
MAIL IN A wHEELBARRow.
Queer Conveyance Tint Is Used by
an ola woman Carrier
Ia Tosvn.

Four times daily for q wears SUM
mer and winter, IN fair weather and
foul, Lucinda Annie Robertson has
trundled wheelharrow bearing the
United states mail form the post Of
fee al pleasantyille. la.. 10 the rail-
road, mile away She took he Job
when her husband. who had hc con-
tract 20 carry The mall fell III and
because She couldn't carry tie load
she introduced the wheeibarrow, says
the New York sun
When her husband became con-
Armed invalid She Kept the contract
for him. and nursed him. too. and at
his death the government Wouldn't
take the job away from her. IL is
worth just 500 year and il is all
most an her living.
She is now AZ, but She vows she'll
carry the mail tin She dies.
"Rut some days, She says. 1T
seems as though could never drag
myself and that old harrow another
step
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-02-08

In the manner az repairs Those Won
derful followers or principle and ruth
in art. the japanese. have q lesson 10
teach as. say The Connoisseur When
japanese counoisseur breaks some
precious piece OF pottery or porcelain,
he does not throw II away with dis
dain; neither does he try to deceive the
casual observer into the belief that il
is unbroken Instead, he has II joined
together, generally with gold lacquer,
IN such fashion that the fracture is
boldly shown and commented on. as Il
were. by the frank exposition Of the
method by which u Is made good.
Curiously enough. distinctly new and
charmingly decorative effect is in most
cases added 10y these irregular gold
lines. while the sense Of craftsman ship
Is tickled by the marvellous skin cxhib-
tied by the repairer In thus Welding to-
gether the two dissimilar materials.
Truth is preserved at no loss of ar
tistic beauty; indeed, once more II is
made clear that the two may always
walk hand In hand.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-02-08
DOWN IN THE won p.
Man who WIS once GO. ew
ueeice Working al a0b
printing.

Once tlea states senator from
Kansa N alter the governor Of New
Mexico, r. a. Rus Is working al the
case IN job printing Office in Albu-
querque Here IS what the Albuquerque
correspondent 81 ihe Boston Tran
scripi ay of Tie old man: when /
called on him recently | found him in
his woodward in the rear OF his
house i ga 81 bent. decrepit-loobing
old man with an old handsaw he
was, with painful effort, Wrestling
from the trunk 81 fallen pnion he
wood with which to cook his dinner.
The former senator IS porforce his own
man-of-all-work Ills appearance in
these small duti, 6 even more pa thet-
6 than that he PR ,ents when, every
evening as regularly as the neighbor-
ing whistle blows, he appears upon
The streets In faded garb OF ancient
sut. bending upon his cane. looking
rither up nor aside recognizing no
one. doing his few crronds, again to
return from his self-chosen isolation
Of the crowded streets 20 the greater
scclusion OF lis home he bears ever
a hunted and o haegard look"