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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

gle sentence from the Governor s Thanksgiving message. He declares that If Aggasiz, the naturalist, could construct the whole representation of a fish from a single bone as model, 1t Is possible to conceive the character of Governor vardaman from the one sen- tence, which is as follows:
 '1n the great bank of eternity l be- lieve the greatest credit will be given to him who has contributed the most to the sum of human joy, who has planted a flower in the fainting heart of de- spalr and kissed 1t with the sunshine of hope. and who has painted the pallid cheek of care with the rose of health and happiness. Let us, therefore, re- member the poor with our substance.
 Commenting on that sentence, pr. Fawcett says:
 "In all the tones of graphohysteria emanating from the pen of the Presi- dent or in his advocacy of that biologi- cal abnormality dubbed 'strenuousness' there Is nothing, not alone in literary cnstruction, but in virtue of sentiment. that can in any way approach this sem tence. No Northern newspaper writer, even If he receives n salary of $1.00o month can convince me that the man who penned this is a blackguard or rut- fan"
 Like anybody else, Governor Varda- man must have virtues, despite what ever faults he may have. He Is to be judged by the balance which may be struck. Taking the sentence quoted as the criterion, 1t is certainly kindlier and nobler than anything President Roosevelt ever wrote. It is equal In mental grasp and 1t contains poetic sem timent in which the President Is as de- ficient as 1t last years birds nest in eggs.
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century, forming an interesting com plement of the Ellis papers, and about l,G00 papers of John White, cashier of the Baltimore branch of the United States Bank. These deal with the financial situation in the early days of the Government.
 Another acquisition from Maryland was the gift by Bernard M. Baker of Baltimore, of letter dated August 21, l777 from George Washington to George Clymer. and a copy imitation Of Washington's autograph in frame.
 One of the most valuable recent &C., quisitions of the library was the pur- chase of the Polk and Johnson papers. The Polk papers consist of 10,500 let ters and other documents which con- stitute practically all of them except the 1.500 owned by the Chicago His torical Society. They were bought from the presidents adopted niece, Mrs. Fall of Nashville, Tenn. They in- clude many drafts of Van Buren's orig inal State papers and his autobiogra- phy written in his roth year and tin- tended as history of political parties in the United States
 The papers of Andrew Johnson con- sist of 15.000 letters and documents. They were bought from his grandson, aHoIeW JOHuSon FdtteTSOH, OI GTeen- vile. Tenn.
 The Van Buren collection contains letters dealing with his early political activity in New York and shows that when he entered the senate his views widened until he passed through the cabinet and foreign missions to the vice presidency. This collection in- cludes 150 letters of Andrew Jackson and letters of Irving Clay John Ram dolph and Francis P. Blair.
 An extremely valuable gift was made by William Kent. It consists of 300 papers belonging to Chancellor James Kent. including diaries of thirty one journeys he made between 1742 and l792 and 17s6. 2ss letters written be- fore 1900 and autograph letters of Dan- iel and Noah Webster, Clay. sewed Sumner. William Wirt and John Quin- cy Adams.
 Another acquisition was ninety three volumes of original papers given by Hempstead Washburn of Chicago, and belonging to his father. Elihu B. Wash burn. In this collection are original letters of Bismarck. the duke de Gra- mont. Lord Lytton, the comte de Paris, Theirs. Thane. Gambetta Augusta Roths child Pere Hyacinthe. Jules Faure, Os- car de Lafayette, John Jay, Cassius M Clay. George H. Boker. author of Francesca de Rimini," Andrew c. Davis and many prominent literary and political celebrities with whom Wash burn came in contact.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

he gets home. if it takes every dollar our government has got think he Is going to work the bandit racket when we get to Turkey, but, by ginger, he can leave me at a convent, because l don't want one of those crooked sabers run into me and turned around like corkscrew. Dad says I can stay in harem while he goes to the mountains with the bandits. and I don't know as I care, as they say harem Is the most interesting place in Turkey. You know the pictures We have studied in the old grocery, where whole bunch of beau tiful women are practicing using soap in a marble bath.
 We'll, don't you say anything to ma about 1t, but dad has got his foot in 1t clear up to the top button. It isn't any thing scandalous, though there Is a woman at the bottom of 1t. You see, we used to know girl that left home to go out into the world to earn her own living. She elocuted some at pri- vate parties and sanitariums. to enter tain people that were daffy, and were on the verge of getting permanent bats in their belfry, and after a few years she got on the stage. and made bunch of money, and went abroad And then she had married a titled per son. and everybody supposed she was duchess. or a countess. and ma want ed us to inquire about her when we got over here. Ma didn't want us to go and hunt her up to board with her, or any, thing. but just to get glimpse of high life, and see if our poor little friend was doing herself proud in her new sta tion in life.
 Gee, but dad found her, and she aint any more of a duchess than I am. Her husband is younger son of a titled person. but there isn't money enough in the whole family to wad a gun, and our poor girl is working in a shop, or store. selling corsets' to support a lazy. drunken husband and a whole mess of children, and while she is seven re- moves from a duchess, she does not rank with the woman who washes her mothers clothes at home. Gosh, but dad was hot when he found her, and after she told him about her situation in life he gave her yellow backed fifty dollar bill, and came back to the hotel mad, and wanted to pack up and go somewhere else, where he didn't knew any titled persons.
 That night a couple of dukes came around to the hotel to sell dad some stock in a diamond mine in South Africa. and they got to talking about how English society held over our crude American society, until dad got an addition to the mad on our girl and when one of the dukes said Ameri- ca was being helped socially by the marriage of American women to titled persons. dad got a hot box, like a stalled freight train
 Says dad, says he: You Johnnies are lot of confidence men who live only to rope in rich American girls. SO you can marry them and have their dads lift the mortgages on your an cestral estates, and put on tin roofs in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
NEW MANUSCRIPTS
VALUABLE PAPERS ADDED TO CON-
 GRESsIONAL LIBRARY.
Loan by Resident of Baltimore Which Saved His Valuable Collection from the Fire Which Wiped
 Ont Their Former Rest ing Place.

In the last year the Library of Con- gress has made many additions to It's collection of manuscripts, letters. jour nals and diaries of worth to students of American history, says Washing ton special. Many of the acquisitions came from Maryland. Massachusetts and New York. The number Of such acquisitions and their value are made known in the annual report of Her bert Putnam, the Librarian of Con- gress.
 One very interesting fact brought out in this report Is that the magnifi- cent collection of prints belonging to T. Harrison Garrett of Baltimore, was saved to the art world from destruc- tion in the Baltimore Ire by an ar- rangement between the Library or Congress and Mir. Garrett for the loan of his entire collection to the institu- tion. The prints were in part turned over to the library several hundred at a time for exhibition purposes for sev- eral years prior to last February.
 About a year ago the owner of the collection submitted proposal to deposit it in its entirety in the Li- brary of Congress for purposes of study and exhibit. On February the entire collection, which had been stored in the building of the Mercan- tile Trust and Deposit Company In Baltimore, was transferred to the Li- brary of Congress. Two days later the place of storage was wiped out in the big fire.
 The Garrett collection numbers 19.- 113 of the very rarest prints and en- cravings in the United States. It is held by the Library of Congress sub ject to the call of Its owner. It sup plements the famous Gardner G. Hub bard collection, which is the property of the government.
 By another stroke of luck the H. brary secured by purchase in Balti- more two large packing cases stuffed full of extremely valuable documents. These consisted of the papers of Syl- vanus Borne of Massachusetts, and of William, Taylor. Josiah Meredith and John White, all of whom were promi- nent in the early days of Baltimore.
 The paper of Sylvanus Borne. who came from old Barnstable. Mass, and was American consul at Amsterdam. consist of 1000 letters, 500 of which are those of Borne himself. They deal with political and diplomatic subjects for forty years, from 1776 until the war of 1872. and his comments on political conditions in Europe during the rise of Napoleon.
 JOSlan Meredith was an early baltl- more lawyer who was associated with Reverdy Johnson and the Baltimore branch of the United States Bank and was connected with the management of the estate of the late Charles Carroll of Carrollton, with which many of the papers deal. In the collection there are 3,59S documents. not counting those dealing with Jurisprudence.
 The balance of the purchase contain in these packing cases has not been ar ranged by the library or catalogued It comprises. however, about 5000 docu- ments of William Taylor. who was en- gagged in foreign and domestic com merce in Baltimore In the eighteenth
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

to have a bookkeeper and a cashier to keep their bank accounts straight. could give those old Claude Duvals and Sixteen-String Jacks cards and spades.
 But civilization, dad says has done much for the highway robbery business, and he says we in America have arrived at absolute perfection. However I was much interested in looking over the ground where my first heroes lived and died, and did busi- ness and when we went to the prisons where they were confined, and were shown where Tyburn Tree stood, that so many of them were hung on, tears came to my eyes at the thought that was on the sacred ground where my heroes croaked. and went to their deaths with smiles on their faces, and showed us around thought that dad and polite to the last. The guard who showed us around thought that dad and I were relatives of the deceased high waymen, and when we went away he said to dad: Call again Mir. Duval. Always glad to serve any of the de- scendants of the heroes. What time of robbery are you in, MT. Duval?" Dad was mad, but he told the guard he was now on the stock exchange, and SO we maintained the reputation of the fami- ly.
 Then we hired horses and took horse back ride through Rotten Row, where everybody in London that has the price, rides a horse, and no car riages are allowed. Dad was an old cavalry man forty years ago, and he is stuck on his shape when he Is on a horse, but he came near breaking up the horse back parade the day we went for the ride. The liverman gave us two bob-tailed nags, big one for dad and a small one for me, but they didn't have any army saddle for dad, and he had to ride on one of these little Eng fish saddles such as jockeys ride races on, and dad is so big where he sits on a saddle that you couldn't see the sad~ dle and I guess they gave dad a hur- dle jumper, because when we got right amongst the riders, men and women his horse began to act up and some one yelleI. "Tally-ho," and that is something about fox hunting. not a coach. and the horse jumped a fence and dad rolled off over the bow spirit and went into ditch of dirty water, and the horse went off across a field and the policemen fished dad out of the ditch. and run him through a clothes wringer or something, and got him dried out. and sent him to the hotel in an express wagon, and I rode my horse back to the liveryman and told him what happened to dad, and they locked me up in box stall until somebody found the horse. cause they thought dad was a horse thief and they held me for ransom. But dad came around before night and paid my ransom, and we were released. Dad says :)tten Row Is rotten all right enough, SIf by ginger it is cause he has not got smell of that ditch off his clothes oS,Iow he has got a new idea, and that 10 go to some country where there n1. bandits. different from the bandits wse in London. and be captured and Ht
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

crowned heads was a ravine full of empty wine bottles, a case of jimjams for a -in-law, a case of nervous prostration for daughter, and hydro phobia for himself My old pickle friend has got, at this date, three mill lion good pickle dollars invested in your d-d island, and all he has to show for 1t Is a sick daughter, neg lected by a featherhead of a husband. who will only speak to old pickles when he wants more money. and grandchild that may die teething at any time. You are a nice lot of ducks to talk to me about your English so- ciety being better than our American civilization. You get" and dad drove the dukes out.
 l think they are going to have dad arrested for treason. But don't tell ma, cause she may think treason se- rious. Yours,
 HENNERY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
 (Ex-Governor of Wisconsin. formerly
 publisher of "Pecks Sun," author
 of "Peck's Bad Boy" etc.,
 Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.) London, England.-My Dear old Skate: We'll, if we are going, to see any of the other countries on this side of the water before our return ticket expires. we have got to be getting 9 move on, and dad says in about 9 week we will be doing stunts in Paris that will bring about a revolution, and wind up the republic of France, and seat some nine-spot on the throne that Napoleon used to wear out his buck skin pants on.
 Dad asked me tother day what ] cared most to see in London. and told him I wanted to visit Newgate prison, and the places made famous by the bold highwaymen of a century or two ago. He thought I was daffy, but when I told him how I had read 'Claude Duvar and "Sixteen-Strine Jack" and all the highway literature, in the haymow, when dad thought ] was wedding the garden, he confessed that he used to hunt those yellow covered books out of the manager when l was not reading them, and that he had read them all himself when I thought he was studying for his cam
 
 would go with me. So we visited Homestead Heath, where Claude Duval used to ride Black Bess," and hold up people who. travelled at night in post chaises, and we found splendid spots where there had been more highway robbery going on than any place east of Missouri, but I was disgusted when I thought what chumps those old highway robbers were, compared to the American highway robbers and hold-up men of the present day.
 In Claude Duval's time he had g. brace of fiint-lock pistols. which he had to examine the priming every time a victim showed up, and while he was polite when he robbed duch- ess. he used to kill people all right. though if they had had cameras at that time the flash from the priming pan would have taken a f1ash-light picture of the robber, so he could have been identified when he rode off in the night to a roadside inn and filled up on beer. while he counted the ten shil- lings he had taken from the silk purse of the victim. Why. one of our Amer ican gangs that hold up a train, and get an express safe full of greenbacks. and shoots up mess of railroad hands and passengers with Winchesters and automatic pistols, and blows up cars with dynamite and gets away and has
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
Rhlnocero. Butt. Train .

St. James Gazette.
 A collision recently occurred on the Uganda Railway. British East Africa that would be possible nowhere else on earth. huge bull rhinoeeros rushed out of the bush and charged at full speed the so-calIed "up-mixed'' train, which was slowing down as 1t approached the station Sultan Ham ond, 21S miles from Mombasa. The train was stopped, and the ''rhino" was discovered about 100 yards down the track. Slowly he returned to the jungle, and was lost to sight. He did not escape unharmed, for pieces of his thick skin were found adhering to the train. but the ferceness of his as- sault smashed the engine step ana splintered the inch and half foot board of the first carriage.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
Will Try to Recoup.

Daniel J. sully. who for a time carried the sobriquet. the cotton king" on account of his immense speculations in the cotton mar ket. casually remarked the other day to friend in one of the New York clubs that within a year he would more than get back the losses which led to his failure. Where will you do it-in the market?" inquired the friend. If you lose a thing." rejoined sully. tersely. the place to look for 1t is where you lost it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

taken to the mountain fastnesses, and held for ransom until our government makes a fuss about it and sends war ships after us. I tell dad 1t would be just our luck to have our government fail to try to get us, and the bandits might cut our heads off and stick them
 on a pole as a warning to people not to travel unless they had a ransom concealed about their clothes. But dad says he is out to see all the sights. and he Is going to be ransomed before
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
Defense of Yardamnn

Portsmouth (Va) Star.
 Dr. Robert Fawcett of Baltimore un- dertakes the defense of Governor Var daman of Mississippi by quoting a sim
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
THE BEAUTY QUEST.
To Resist the Winters Colds.

THROAT YOU WILL
 AND --
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

An Old Subscriber."-The camers hair face brush is the proper kind. You can use it, dry. if more conven- tent, immediately after the washing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

May.-Treat your complexion to nightly hot baths with soda. castillo soap and the camels hair face brush as recommended to Clara K. Bathe 1t with cold water in the morning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

Mrs M. K.-For parasites: 100 grammes glycerine, grammeS bf- chloride mercury. Apply to the scalp and shampoo in half an hour with tar soap.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

Mrs. F. E.-No. am not the friend you name. regret that cannot help you to find her
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

M. W.-To prevent your growing taller is certainly a problem. Our grandmothers used to threaten to put stoves on our heads. but I fear this method never accomplished much. Do not worry about your height. in this age, when the splendid Hebe is so much admired; devote yourself to building yourself out into proper pro- portions. Beauty depends more upon proportion than size. To keep the hair light, sun 1t all you can. Borax or soda in the shampoo help to keep 1t light, but they are drying.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

Mrs. M VA bone tumor is too serious matter for anyone but a physician who examines it personally to advise you upon it. It can. be re- moved.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

I. B-You are quite right not to tamper with the spot on your face. 1t may be trifling. but I would not treat 1t until after consulting a physician.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

Estelle--Skin food: { OF. sweet ai- mond oil. OF. lanolin, OF. cocoa nut oil. OF. white wax, 1 OF. sper- maceti melted together. Beat untfY cold. adding gradually while beating 3 drops tincture benzofn and finally OF. orange flower water. To increase the growth of the eyelashes, apply occasionally a tonic made of 10 grains sulphate of quinine dissolved in oz. colonge. Clipping is of bene- fit.
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Answers to Correspondents.

D. D. D.-Proud flesh Is the result of wound, and the treatment should be entrusted to a physician. If you will wet your hair with slightly di- luted alcohol and brush 1t out thor oughiy twice day you can control it better. I wish could give you rules for the preparation of various toilets waters and perfumes. but space will not permit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-20
The Auto Rubaiyat.

Move,-Or the Devil Red who puts tf
flight
Whale'r,s before him. to the Left OF
Right,
Will toss you high as Heaven when nc
strikes
Your poor clay carcass with his master
might.
AS the Cock crows the "FiendS VINO
stand before
The Starting Point, amid the Streams
wild roar,
Shake hands make wills. and duly are
confessed,
Lest. once departed. they return no more
For whether toward Madrid or Washing
Whether by steam or gasoline they run.
Pedestrians keep getting in their way,
Chauffeurs are being slaughtered one by
A new FOOLS every minute born, you say;
Yes. but where speeds the Fool OF les
Beneath the Road he sleeps. the Autos
roar
Close Ger his head, but cannot Thrill his
clay.
Well: let him sleep! For what have ye
With him. who this or Anything pursue
So it takes swiftness?-Let the Children
Or Constables shout after-heed not you.
Oh. We who anti-auto laws would make
And still insist upon the silly brake,
Get in, and try spin. and then you'll
see
How many fines You will impose-and
take!
All my Beloved. fill the Tank that cheers.
Nor heer the Laws rebuke. the Rabble' $
tears
Quick! For Tomorrow you and 1 may
Ourselves with Yesterdays sewn Thou
sand Years.
pair of Goggles and Cap, trow,
A stencil, a Roar, and my Machine and
Beside me. going ninety miles an hour
Oh, Turnpike-rOad were Paradise enow!
Against the sorry World for our desire,
Would we not shatter it to bits without
So much of damage as a busted tire?
And wash my Body in it when I'm died.
And lay me. shrouded in my Cap and
Cape.
BY some not Autoless new Speedway
side.
Yon Devil that goes prcking DER the
How oft hereafter will she go again,
How OFT hereafter will she seek her
But seek alas for one of us in vain!
And " When .a like her. Love, you come
Your morning spin for Appetite's sweet
sake,
And pass the spot where 1 lay buried.
In memory of me. fling wide the Brake.
Reginald Wright Kaufman in Lippin-
colts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-20
AUGUSTA, WINTHROP
& GARDINER RAIlWA
Change Of time on the Winthrop Divs
in effect Nav /. 1904.

Change Of time on the Winthrop Diyin1
in effect May !. 1904.
Cars leave Augusta for Hallowel Z
Gardiner every half hour on the hour :
Hallowell at II p. NJ. First car Sundg|
A. NJ.
Cars leave Augusta for Winthrop I
and $50 A. NJ. Commencing at $50 n
10 minutes before every hour until 4
p. M. Last car 1870 P. M.
Cars run every half hour from Augu1
to Island Park from 1.50 A. M. to sa1
from 1215 to 9.15 P. NJ.
The SIS car from Gardiner, SS n
Hallowell, $50 from Augusta connecy@
Winthrop with train for Lewiston, III
land and Pennington. The I,5O P. u q
f from A ags9s,d eSaa sf at WinthFSn
Cars leave Augusta for Togus M q
8. 8, 10. and commencing at IL A. NJ ks1
every half hour till P. NJ. and and y
First car Sunday, s A. M.
Cars leave Togus for Augusta WssI
connections are made with the WinAn|
and Gardiner lines 6, Z, $50, $50. loa y
commencing at 11.30 leave every =
First car Sunday $50 A. M.
Cars leave Winthrop for Augusta
Commencing at $50 leave every hour, !
minutes before the hour till $50 r
First car Sundays 7.50 A. M.
The $50 A. M. car connects at Aug11
with M. C. train West. All cars run
M. c. station at Winthrop week days 4
$50 p. M. Good connections made
Winthrop with M. c. trains.
Cars leave Gardiner for Augusta wiz
connections are made for Winthrop y
Togus lines every half hour fifteen nj
utes before and fifteen minutes past
hour from 6.15 A. M. to 9.15 P. NJ y
945 P. NJ. for Hallowel only; lois p Y
for Hallowell and Augusta only.
Sunday time same as above except rr
cars start two hours later in the mornia
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