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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

FOR the influence she acquired over the
men whom she induced TO lend her
large sums on securities which proved
worthless thus bringing ruin to their
regulations and fortunes
Mrs Chadwick is now in Jail at
Cleveland awaiting trial, having been
indicted on numerous counts. among
them being charges that she forged
the name of the multimillionaire. An
drew Carnegie, to notes aggregating
nearly a million dollars.
Mrs. Chadwicks career is shrouded
in some mystery but it is alleged that
she was born in the early 6fties in the
province of Ontario, Canada; that her
name was Elizabeth Bigley and that
her father was a poor farmer with
eight children. She was heard from in
Cleveland as the bride of a Or. w. S.
Springsteon, who married her. think
ing her TO be an Irish heiress and cap
italist. On discovering the falsity of
these pretensions he deserted her. She
afterward married G. l.. Hoover who
on dying left her wealthy widow with
a son. Leaving Cleveland about 1888,
she is said to have lived in Toledo un-
der the name of Nine Devere and to
have practiced as a clairvoyant. Nine.
Devere was tried for forgery and SEN
fenced to Il long term in the peniten-
tiary. but was paroled after serving
only part of the term. When the
heroine of high finance was recently
taken to the Jail in Cleveland she was
identified by the authorities there as
the Devere woman. Mrs. Chadwick
reappeared in Cleveland as a masseuse
and met DR.. Leroy S. Chadwick, a wild
over of wealth and social standing,
whom she married, and through use of
his standing in the community and the
claim of relationship to Andrew Car
negie she obtained such credit with
| financiers of Cleveland and elsewhere
that she was able to borrow hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

in this way: Senator, have decided
to appoint James X. Garfield a civil
service commissioner"
you say you have decided to ap-
point him. questioned Mr. Hanna
The president nodded "Well then. |
guess it's too late for me to object"
replied Mr.. Hanna, with a smile.
Mr.. Garfeld's duties as civil service
commissioner brought him in touch
with Mr.. Knox, then attorney general
who recognized his ability in problems
pertaining to corporations. Mr.. Knox
told the president he wanted him as
one of his assistants in antitrust leg
islation. Mr. Roosevelt replied that if
Garfield were such good man as that
he would make him commissioner of
corporations.
Commissioner Garfield is thirty-nine
years of age. His hair is tinged with
gray, and he has a frank smile and
sturdy frame. In physique and tenn
perament he is said to resemble his
father strongly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

GENERAL LEW WALLACE AND HIS CRAw-
FORDSVILLE HOME.
shop. Its portico is pure Greek, the
main portion of the structure is BY
zantine, and the tower is Romanesuue.
The interior is one large room, flooded
with light from the glass dome. The
bookshelves surrounding the apart
ment contain library of much value,
and above them the walls are hung
with paintings and engravings, while
statuary and oriental relics increase
the artistic appearance of the scene.
Here are many of the souvenirs and
objects of virtu acquired by the au-
thor in the course of his career.
Not only have General Wallaces
books been money makers for author
and publisher, but their dramatization
has been a source of revenue quite ex-
ceptional in the case of a literary man,
General Wallace was averse to the
idea when the proposition of putting
"Ben-Hur" on the stage was first
broached to him. He was afraid in
Producing sacred scenes before the
footlights would border on irreverence,
if not indeed cross the bounds. This
fear has not been realized. The drama
tization of the famous novel has been
one of the most pronounced of recent
stage successes. 1t was estimated not
long ago that the royalties of the au-
thor brought him at least $4,000 a
year from this play.
1t was a conversation with Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll that induced Gen
eral Wallace to write the story of
Christ and his times, which gave him
his greatest fame and which has been
published in many different languages
and sold in all parts of the world. The
conversation with Ingersoll so far
from making the author confirmed
skeptic, set him to thinking on reli-
gious subjects. He had not given them
deep study before, but his research
and reflection turned him from doubt
er to firm believer in God and Christ.
He had already begun a short story
based on the meeting of the wise men
and the birth of Christ. He determined
to remodel this story and make it an
elaborate work. The research he made
in connection with the subject, togeth-
er with the actual composition of the
story. consumed five years.
1t was "Ben-Hur' which made Cen
eral Wallace minister to Turkey. When
President Garfield appointed him to
this post he told him to take enough
time from his duties as minister to
write another book dealing with the
orient. The result was 1.-THE Prince of
India" which. though not such a re-
markable success as "Ben-Hur," has
had very large sale.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

Democratic and Republican presidents.
He was born in Spaffoul, n. Y. in
1913, graduated from Wesleyan uni
versity with high honors in the class
Of 1868 and after teaching school for a
time entered the legal profession and
established himself in Syracuse. N. Y.
He served as city attorney and thus
acquired familiarity with municipal
law and afterward in private practice
gave especial attention to laws per-
tanning to corporations. His appoint
ment to the interstate commerce COM
mission was recognized as a fitting
one, and he has been chairman for six
years He believes in extending the
power of the government over rail-
roads and said not long since:
''If we could unearth the secret of
these modern trusts, whose quick got
wealth dwarfs the riches of Solomon
and whose impudent exactions put tyr
amy to shame, we should find the ex-
PLANTATION Of their menacing growth in
the systematic and heartless methods
by which they have evaded the com
mon burdens of transportation. De-
prived of special and exclusive rates,
an advantage far greater and more odl-
GUS than exemption from taxation,
these trusts would be shorn of their
advantages and divested Of their prin-
cipal danger"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20
AN EXPERT IN HIS FIELD.
James II. Garfield, Commissioners o
Corporations. and His Career.

James II. Garfield. Commissioner OF
Corporations. and His Career.
James Rudolph Garfield, whose re-
port as commissioner of corporations
In the department of commerce and la
Dor has received much attention. was
not chosen for his important post SIM
ply because he is son of the martyr
president" james A. Garfield. He was
selected because he had shown special
fitness for il. Shortly after Mr.. Roose-
velt became president he had to fill
vacancy in the national civil service
commission and called in several men,
bers of the commission to take dinner
and discuss the matter During the
meal Mrs. Roosevelt remarked:
Il know just the man for civil Serv-
ice commissioner"
"Who?" said the president. Mrs.
Roosevelt named young Garfield.
Just the person. said ler husband
after moments thought He is the
right man for the right place will
appoint him."
Mr. Garfield while a member of the
Ohio senate had been somewhat of a
thorn in the side of the politicians, hav-
ing introduced and pressed to passage
measures which were not welcome to
them Mr. Roosevelt knew that his ap-
pointment would not especially please
either Senator Hanna or Senator For
aker So he broke it to Uncle Mark
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

ceive good money. Fun? Why, | carry
the hod from the time the curtain goes
up until it rolls down"
Miss Irwin tells many anecdotes
about Augustin Days eccentricities.
'The many stories of Willie Collier,
while he was call boy at the theater,
initiating Mr. DAILY behind the scenes
are true. The guv'nor, as we called
Mr. DAILY. got himself into all sorts of
queer postures when he was at work.
He would twist one leg up behind the
other and get all in a snarl. Willie
would get behind him and initiate him.
eXaggerating it awfully, of course, but
following him right along in every
movement.
1T was eXcruciatingly funny, and
always laughed hard. The guv'nor
would hear the litter behind him and,
without turning his head, say. willie,
tell them TO keep quiet" and Willie
would come right up to me and say:
Ssh Why, l came near losing my en-
gagement there that way"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

way, and then Mayo
stood in the middle of the street and
in voice that filled the midnight
called Henry Ford! Henry Fordr
"Windows began to go up in all the
houses, and heads were stuck out to
view the two lone men standing0 the
street, one calling Henry Ford to come
down and get your money!
"a policeman who came by walked
up to Mayo and recognized him. Mayo
explained that he had 500 that must
be paid before he went to bed and con
tinued to call. We walked nearly the
entire block when a window on the
top floor of house was thrown open,
and to the next Henry Ford, come
down and get your money which was
by this time being laughingly echoed
by the entire neighborhood, man
called:
"'What the deuce do you want?
"'rhank heaven called back Mayo,
It's you, Ford! Here's your 500.
Come down and get it,
eyes echoed the walls about Hen
ry Ford, for goodness sake, do come
down and get your money!"
Richard Golden, the star of Henry
W. Savage's successful production of
Common Sense Bracket" has an aunt
in Waltham, Mass, who seldom at
tends the theater. Recently, however,
Golden prevailed upon her to come to
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20
MRS. MAVERICKS AMBITION
To Clear Her Name and Recover He
Txvn ChiIIran

To Clear Her Name and Recover Her
Two Children.
Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick en-
titles the story of her life which she
has recently completed "My Fifteen
Lost Years" In it she gives the his
tory of her prosecution on the charge
of poisoning her husband. her long
Imprisonment, her sufferings and her
release and presents fully her own side
of the famous case.
Mrs. Maybrick says that she was
averse TO writing book about her tx-
periences, but was led to do so for sew
eral reasons. One of these was the de-
sire to tell from her own point of view
how British justice is administered
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

May Irwin, who has been on the
stage since childhood and who is now
playing Mrs. Black Is Back" ascribes
her success to "hard work and horse
tense."
Go abroad to starr" she said re-
Gently. Not muchl l would probably
come back here and sing you some Of
those wonderful coon songs they have
there about 'Alligators on the Shores
of Old Lake Erie and Picking Cotton
In Old Massachusetts, | remember
hearing one over there, My Dusky
Dark Eyed Belle From Maine"
And how | would look trying to
sing coon songs with a cockney ac-
cent. 1t would give me stage fright
Of the worst kind have it often
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

even as it is now.
For three years the clouds broke and
the light flashed through. Then they
closed again Yet God has personal
ity. We recognize it as we recognize
the personality of Titan or an An
gelo. Only God is always working, al
ways creating, whereas their work is
DONE"
DR.. Abbott says he has preached sim
liar doctrine for the past fifteen years
In illustrating a statement that the
Bible is the product of inspiration, but
not dictation, Dr. Abbott once said:
81 have child at home who desires
to write a letter to her mother. She
asks my help and sits at the table with
her pencil or her pen in hand. What
can say to mamma? Tell her where
you went Yesterday | reply oh
yes she says. and then she writes 4
went to a picnic in the woods yesterday
with Susie and Mary and Johnny and
Tom And she works out little ac-
count of the picnic, and then she
comes to me again, and make another
suggestion tell her now and then
how to spell word | even occasional
ly correct her forms of expression and
suggest better method When finally
the letter is done it is her letter, but
she has written it under my inspira-
tion Tie thoughts are partly mine
but she las made them her own"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

graph and was naturally much pleased
The next day many more came.
I've had more than a hundred re-
quests for signatures since Monday"
she said exultantly to Mr.. Brady isn't
that a sign of success? Doesn't that
look as though my autograph were
worth something's"
Worth somethingr' replied Mr.. Bra
dy dryly. "Well, should say it was
worth something! It's worth "a for
each specimen. The treasurer at the
Herald Square had cashed nearly twen-
ty orders for seats bearing your name
before he found you out"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

portion of the campaign of 1903 Dis
trict Attorney Jerome, in opposing Mr..
Lows denomination for the mayoralty
of New York. asserted that he was
lacking in humor. Others denied this
and declared that in the intercourse of
city officials quarrels and wrangling
were often averted by the mayor Civ
ing the conversation a humorous turn
or quietly interjecting joke. 1t is re-
lated that when he was president of
Columbia university and shortly after
he had given Il million dollars for its
library building a friend demonstrated
with Mr.. Low for being so generous
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

ganization since its foundation. "And
what was the biggest tip you ever re-
ceived?" asked The comedian. Two
soveregns, sir" replied the waiter
'Well, my boy" said Leno, I'm going
to make that fellow look silly. Here's
Il fiver for you. Now tell me who was
it that gave you E2?" WELL" said the
waiter, after he had carefully pocketed
the five pound note and with natu-
raj hesitation, lit was yourself, SIR
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

enough on this side.
People cannot real
iZe how full of real
dow nright hard
work this life is.
They say l skip
down to the foot
lights and sing as
naturally as if l
liked it. They think
it's fun for me, and
fun for which | re-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

waving behind him
as he ran. But the
audience, which had
caught him in the
act, applauded mad.
ly, and the uproar
did not cease until
the blushing Brady
was dragged before
the curtain.
One day in New
York Miss George
h a d forty-six re-
Ouests for her auto-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

"'Carry water in a sieve replied
triumphantly.
"'Oh, yes, you cam she said, if you
wait long enough
How long would you have to watt
! asked incredulously.
".'Until it froze, she replied, and l
realized she had me-"
Ex-Mayor Seth Low Of Few York,
who is spoken of for one of the inn
portant diplomatic posts in the gift of
President Roosevelt, has for years
been close friend and trusted adviser
OF the president. In the preliminary
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

and point Gut the crying need for
British court of appeals in criminal
cases.
Another reason for writing the book
was her desire to vindicate her char
acter from all reproach not only in the
eyes of the world. but in the eyes Of
her two children, James and Gladys,
whom she has never once seen and
with whom she has not been allowed to
communicate since the time when she
was charged with causing her hus-
bands death. They have been brought
up by her brother-in-law, Michael May
brick. in the belief that she killed their
father and are living, she knows not
where, under assumed names. Her
one great desire now is to recover the
children to whom she has long been as
dead.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

eccentric friend If hers, says the New
York Times. This old lady had an
aversion TO paying calls. She went
about once year, but never got out of
her carriage. She would send her
coachman up the steps and make him
stick card under the door, One day
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

New York and see
his show, and she
finally consented.
To Golden's mind
the perform a. ce
seemed to go smooth
ly, and, meeting his
aunt after the final
act, he inquired as
to how she liked it.
"Parts of it were
good. Dick. parts of
it were just as natu-
raj rs cOuld hp " re-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

MES this, and that
such a construction of
his remark is wrong
is seen from his state
ments further on in
the same address S
when he declared:
"There is only one en-
ergy. That energy has
always been work
ing. 1t is an intelli-
gent energy. No sci
enlist can deny it.
1t was working be-
fore Christ's time
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

like ullllSelI wear
the crimson of the
big university at
Cambridge is well
known. The young
Ohio statesman is a
lawyer, has wealth,
belongs to a great
many clubs and is
quite a social lion at
the capital. He is
h a II d S o m e, well
"put up" somewhat
bald and polished in
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

plied the aunt. "but. Richard, if were
you | would hire good teacher to
make that band play in time in the Sec
ond act"
Golden walked silently away. as he
could not muster up courage enough to
tell her that the chief source of fun in
the second act is the "Rube band,"
playing each selection in ear splitting
false notes.
The late Dan Leno was noted for his
generosity. which at times he carried
to excess. In the middle of one of his
successful tours in the provinces he
took run into London and visited his
favorite club He was so delighted
with the good dinner provided and the
excellent service rendered by the wait
er that he determined to reward the
servant handsomely. Calling the wait
er to him, he asked him how long he
had been working at the club and
learned that he had been with the or
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

uScu W tell me, lie
said. "She was con-
stantly reminding
me of the virtue of
persistence. Y o u
can do anything
she used to say, by
hanging on
"I know one
thing l told her
one day, that you
can't do by being
persistent
" What is it?' she
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

as Slle was SIdftlllS
out ON one OF these
q n IL ual visiting
tours she said to her
new coachman:
"John, l forgot my
cards. You'll find
them on my table
upstairs. Run up
there and get 'em.
John got the cards
and they went the
rounds. After some
fifty calls had been
made in rapid sue
cession, the man
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20
MRS. CASSIE /. CHADWICK.

The Strange Woman who Has Made
Record In "Frenzied Finance"
The character OF Mrs. Cassie L.
Chadwick, female exponent of "fren-
zied finance" has puzzled the public as
much MS that of any woman who has
recently. won notoriety AS she is not
youthful woman or especially attrac-
five in person. it is difficult to account
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

J. H. Stoddart. the veteran actor who
is starring III 1.-The Bonnie Brier Bush''
at the age of seventy-seven was re-
Gently complimented upon his vigor,
and he answered that he believed he
could hold his own pretty well with
the boys, saying that, like Adam in
"As You Like It," he, too, could ex-
plain:
For in my youth 1 never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.
When the subject of drinking is re-
ferred to the old actor recalls an ex-
perience which came near being his
undoing. 1t was during the run of a
Celebrated Case" in 1878, in which Mr..
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

Stoddart played the
role Of the SER
geant.
"In the prologue
l had a scene with
Mrs. Booth, who
played the wife of
Jean Renaud, the
hero, in the course
of which he was
supposed to give
me, as the SER
geant, a cup Of
wine, which l had
4 It -
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

between Seventh aV-
enue and Broad
way
" But how are you
going
" Never mind
said Mayo. Come
on And we went
out.
"In time we reach
ed Thirty eig h til
street and Broad
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

President Eliot of Harvard, who has
given fifty years of his life to educa-
tional work in the university, is the
subject of many anecdotes which illus
trate his almost impulsive generosity.
ut is well known" says writer in the
Outlook, that on one occasion a stu
dent, sick with contagious disease and
Stunned by those about him, was taken
into the presidents own house. A raw
subfreshman from country village in
Connecticut on the evening of his first
day in Cambridge found himself in
need of a Latin grammar to prepare
for the next days examination. Quite
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

ing camps and In
dian reservations
and "roughing it"
according to what
fell to his lot. He
was born in Fayette,
Mo, in 1913, and
graduated from Dart
mouth college in
1870 and from the
General Theological
seminary in 1873.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

cbo,in,, - o.rd nm, LILLIAN RUSSELL.
der every door, his mistress decided
she had done good days work.
Now, John" she said, "we'n pay
two more calls and then go home"
"All right, ma'am," he answered
chat suits exactly. I've got just two
cards left-the ace of spades and the
jack of diamonds"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

serve the present
need. BY this time the strangers per-
pleXity and anxiety to get the book eX-
ceeded the students own, and after
some thought he sent the young man
off with note to friend in a neigh
boring street who might be likely to
have the right edition. 1t was weeks
before the student learned that the
chance stranger who had given an hour
OF his time and an even more precious
measure of his sympathy to a lonely
and troubled student was the president
of the university.
I'm university that numbers over
1000 the opportunity for personal touch
between student and president is small,
but there are scores of stories of the en-
l1stment of the presidents personal in
terest in some students behalf. There
was young man who desired to study
botany, but had failed to satisfy some
technical preliminary requirement. The
committee which stood between the
student and his wish has vivid rec
objection of the warmth of manner and
the emphatic gesture of the president
as he declared, If that young man
wants to study botany, he shall study
it,"
The other day Jesse Overstreet of In
diana, chairman of the house commit
tee Oh postotiices and post roads, over
heard some one talking about persist
ence
Reminds me of what my teacher
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

1AANA AtAh nm AAtAN IL
he kept on he would
die a poor man.
We'll" said Mr..
Low, Mrs. Low
and | have talked
the matter over. We
have no children and
we love our relatives
too much to provoke
them into a contest
over my will"
Because he is re-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20

without friends at
the university, he
told his need to the
first man he met
and was hidden to
the strangers house.
There a long search
unearthed Il Latin
grammar, but it
proved to be of too
old an edition to
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-20


been intimate with the Roosevelts and
has often been seen with Miss Alice.
but that popular young lady has many
suitors. and Secretary Loeb is kept
busy denying rumors of her engage
ment. Congressman Longworth is fond
of athletics and devOtes Il good deal of
time to golf, being amateur golf cham
pion of Hamilton county, o. When he
made his maiden speech in the house
of representatives it was taken down
in shorthand by one of the official ste
nographers who also plays golf and
who prefaced the report in these words:
Representative Longworth teed up
his first oratOrical ball today and made
a pretty drive for $50 yards. He got
in trouble in the long grass with his
metaphorical iron on the second shot,
but came out nicely with poetical APP
prOach and holed down in five with
peroration that gave him bogy."