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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-11-30

In the new map for 1905, issued by
the general land Office, the little dot
Of land lying off the coast Of Cuba and
known as the Isle Of Pines will no
longer have the letters GU. S." fol-
lowing its name. This decision has
been reached by the general land Of
flee, which since 1900 has designated
this bit Of land "Pine u. 81 Official
maps have had the island indicated as
an American possession for over four
years. Frank Bond, Of the map di-
vision Of the general land office, said
that the letter "U. 81 had been plac-
ed after Pine Island by mistake and
that the mistake would be rectified on
the new maps. There is now pending
in the senate treaty formally turn
ing over the Island to the Republic Of
Cuba.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-11-30

Secretary Taft says the. expendi-
lures by the canal board were. author
lied by law.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-11-30

AS soon as the historic battleship
Oregon, now under orders to return
home from the Asiatic station, reach
es American waters she will be sent to
4 government navy yard and placed
out of commission for thorough over
hauling. Having served in the first
line, she will, when recommissionedy
be placed in the second line of de-
Tense, use being found for her in home
waters.
Enough republicans and democrats
on the Interstate Commerce Commit
tee have agreed to stand together to
report rate bill probably the, Gull
Tom bill. Senator Aldrich has gone.
to New to confer as to the oppo-
s1tion course.
The Keep Commission may recon-
mend the adjustment of the Crop
Reporting Bureau Of the Department
of Agriculture.
The naval board will ask for three
frst-class sips Of $4,000 tons displace-
ment, two cruisers and other boats.
Secretary Taft says the expendi-
lures by the canal board were. author
lied by law.
Ambassador White will be one of
the American representatives at the
Morocco Conference.
General Chaffee, Chief of Staff, has
terminated his connection with the
Army.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-11-30

Ambassador White will be one OF
the American representatives at the
Morocco Conference.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-11-30

The naval board will ask for three
first-class sips Of $4,000 tons displace-
ment, two cruisers and other boats.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-11-30

General Chaffee, Chief Of Staff, has
terminated his connection with the
Army.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
SWORDOF FREDERICK
EVIDENCE THAT WASHINGTON
RECEIVED SUCH A PRESENT.
'sFrom tho Oldest General to the Great
est General in the World"- y
History Of This VAL
liable Relic.

Washington.-The story that Fred
erick the Great sent George Washing
ton q sword with the characteristic and
epigrammatic message, From the old
est general to the greatest general In
the world" has been familiar from our
earliest childhood. It is a plain mar
rative, as given by members Of the
Washington family, who alone have
any knowledge, real or traditional, of
the fact. says a writer in the Evening
Star The appraisers list Of the per
sonal effects of Washington, made at
Mount Vernon. May, 1900. contains this
item: Swords and blades, 81, 0OO.'
Among these. which were chiefly pres
ents, was the one sent by the king of
Prussia. The personal effects of
Washington were divided among the
heirs, but large proportion were left
at Mount Vernon for Mrs. Washington,
who was still living. Upon her death
Justice Bushrod Washington took pos
session of the mansion, for he was his
uncle's chief heir and the one to whom
he intrusted his papers. Bushrod Wash
ineton lived 30 years at Mount Yer
non, and bequeathed the estate and
personal property, save an occasional
gift, to his nephew, Col. John Angus
tine Washington, who also lived there
30 years. There was an immense &C.
emulation Of papers and relics
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
AnchorinR to Icber9s.

1t has been found that the currents
round the coast of Newfoundland make
at times q wide difference in the direc-
ton Of the drift Of icebergs and that Of
the fiat or pan ice, which, having no
great depth, is governed in its motions
by. the surface currents and the winds.
The icebergs, tho larger part of which
are submerged to a great depth, follow
only the movement of the ocean water
rs q whole and are uninfluenced by the
winds. Thus huge iceberg may often
be seen majestically maintaining It's
slow advance in opposition to the wind
and across the general motion Of the
fields of nat ice surrounding it. The
sealers often take advantage Of this fact
by mooring their vessels to an iceberg
to prevent their ship drifting to lee
ward. The movement of these great
mountains Of ice is practically ire
sistble.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
AFTER THIRTY YEARS
BENAToR coCKRELL, OF MIS-
SOURI,, - TO RETIRE.
First Elected to the United States
Senate in 1076-Has Been Con-
ciontious and Hardwork-
ing omcial.

Neutrality-suspicious. Of the most not
able victims of the Roosevelt landslide
u Francis Marion Cockrell. senior
United States senator from the state Of
Missouri, whose fifth consecutive term
in the senate will expire on March I,
1906. President Roosevelt expressed
tho general sentiment Of republicans
and democrats when he said:
Il am truly sorry that my good
friend Senator Cockrell retires from
the United States senate as b result OF
the republican victory in Missouri"
Senator Cockrell has long been q con-
spicuous figure on the democratic side
OF the chamber. While the democrats
held brief control of the senate during
the Cleveland administration he was
chairman of the committee on appro-
priations, and as such was playfully
spoken Of as watchdog Of the treas
ury," because of his well-known views
regarding an economical expenditure OF
the public money. When the republic
ans regained control of the senate Mr..
Cockrell became the ranking member
of the minority on the same committee.
but continued as the special senatorial
guardian of Uncle Sans strong box.
Visitors entering the gallery while
the senate was in session had pointed
out % them an old man, closely resem-
bling some of the caricatures Of Uncle
Sam, sitting in the front row of seats
on the democratic side Of the chan her,
following attentively the ordinary
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
BOX HELD KINGS HEART.
Very Interesting Old Relic 81 IL O.
thedral Church ct Rousn,
z France,

Paris.-In the splendid cathedral
church of Rouen Is suite Of three o.
four rooms containing what - known
40 the "tresor." This is Z collection
Of very valuable and interesting relies,
forming quite little museum, % which
admission may be obtained for the mod
est fee Of Is confines. TO IN Anglo
Saxon quite the most interesting article
in the collection IL the plain leadsn
casket in which was buried the heart q
the famous King Richard Occur Do
Lion, who, 1t will be remembered. was
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05

carrying steamships are able to carry
sufficient boats for lack of room.
The ordinary boats in case Of accidents
are liable to be stove when being low
cred, or when lowered to be overcrowd-
ed and swamped. The Englehardt col
lapsible boats. it is claimed, combine
the requirements Of economy in space
with the utmost carrying capacity.
Should emergencies arise the Engle-
hardt boats need not be launched. Only
the lashings have to be cut, and when
the ship has sunk the boats will be
found floating on the water like RATS.
Two men or boys can, In a few seconds,
extend the sides of the boats simply by
lifting in the cross beams and thus con-
verting the raft-shaped boat into q life
boat that will hold bread, water tanks.
oars and supplies enough to support the
passengers 4 considerable number Of
days.
The invention is pontoon-shaped
boat of wood or iron and filled with
kapok, in water-tight cushions, which
are placed in water-tight compartments.
Kapok combines the greatest floating
capacity with the best weight and will
sustain from 30 to IS times it, own
weight in water. r.,
The boat has q superstructure which
can be folded up or erected, the whole
surrounded by q fender also filled with
kapok, in watsr-tight cushions. In e.
tending tho boat, the oars are released,
an oval-shaped thwart supplied with
cross-thwarts will slide into position and
stanchions and other parts drop into
their places automatically. The mech
anism IL simple and not easily put out
Of order. =.
The boat, according to advices 10
ceived at the department Of commerce
and labor, from Ernest L. Harris, COM
mercial agent at Eibenstock, Germany
has been subjected to exhaustive tests
and has successfully withstood all Of
| them.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05

HISTORIC .LEADEN CASKET.
Ut Held the Heart Of the Famous Rich
ard Occur de Leon.)
slain by a bolt from the crossbow Of
Bertrand De Gourdon at the siege Of the
castle Of Chalus. His body was buried
at the feet OF his father in the abbey of
.Frontrevault, near Tours, but his heart.
incased in two leaden csskets, was
placed in the Cathedral Of Rouen, ''the
faithful city," The exact place Of the
burial seems to have been forgotten in
the passage Of centuries, but It Was re-
discovered in 1870, placed in q new cof-
fer and reburied in the choir.
The inner case is in comparatively
good condition, the inscription being
perfectly legibls after the lapse OF all
these centuries. The Latin Is some
what peculiar, and 1t Is curious to find
that at q period when art-working IN
metals was at an advanced stsge the
engraver of the inscription on thu coner
which was to contain the heart Of such
a high and mighty ,potentate. did not
take the trouble to ascertain what space
he required for the kings name. 20 that
he had to carry over the terminal let
ter to the next line. 1t is noteworthy
too that Richard Is styled Regis An
glorum"-"King of the English" not
"of England"-while no mention. at all
is made of Normandy or Aqustaine.
The box is nearly one foot long eight
inches wide and five inches deep.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05

among other souvenirs of interest was
the sword of Frederick. ,tt-
Mai. Lewis Washington, Of Belle
Air, Jefferson county, Va, visited his
cousin at Mount Vernon in 1858. At
this time he was the owner of two OF
the five swords willed by Gen. Wash
ington to his nephews-one direct
from his grandfather, William Angus
tine Washington; the other, that one
which Justice Bushrod Washington re-
ceived and had willed to his father,
George Corbin Washington. Maj.
Washington admired the elegant dress
sword sent by the king and offered In
exchange for 1t. being perfectly salts
fed as to it's authenticity, the Bushrod
Washington sword. During his life
this beautiful rapier was seen by many
neighbors and friends at his home.
Some years after his death his widow,
Mrs. Ella Bassett Washington, sold
it. with other valuable" Washington
relics, to the state Of New York
These are now deposited in the library
at Albany. In the catalogue will be
seen: "No. 4, dress sword of Washing
ton," which, through THE courtesy of
ofiicials,7I am permitted to reproduce.
The sword acquired by Col. Washing
ton in this exchange was sold a few
years since by his son, Lawrence
Washington, Of Alexandria,, to John
H. Havermeyer, of New York, who
presented it to Mount Vernon, being
thus happily returped to its original
abode.
When Col. John A. Washington dis
posed of the home of our first presi-
dent to the Ladies' Mount Vernon
Association Of the Union. he gave pos
session early in the year 1860.
He carefully packed his valuable pa
pers in barrels, Of which there were
IL. He left them in the care Of his
friend, Mr.. Upton Herbert, first super
intendent of Mount Vernon, thinking,
in the disturbed state of the country,
they would be safer than at any other
place. Col. Washington's sad death
occurred in 1861, and these papers re-
NAMED at Mount Vernon until Mr.. Her
bert left his office. In 1866 he removed
them to Alexandria and stored them in
an old bank building: this building in
1868 was burned and nearly all the pa
PER- and documents were destroyed.
OF documentary proof I have not
found any, though the search is not
yet complete. The archives of Ger
many may yield all we need.
One Interesting item Of circumstan-
tial evidence came to me few months
ago. A German artist, vigorous and
full of Renaissance, at the ripe age
of SO, resented a rejection on Wash
ington as a general and Wanted Fred
erick the Great When told that old
story was a myth, he replied with fine
contempt: "Oh, yes, you say 80 in
America, but I heard II at my moth
er's knee, and at her mothers. II
false, who gave 1t to the mothers Of
Germany"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05

to Asiatic Ports)
the exhibits. The American consul at
all of the cities to be visited will be
Informed in advance Of the exhibition
and it, purpose and announcements
will be made in the public press of the
names of the firms whose representa-
tives are on board the vessel, their
line Of business, ETC.. and tho consuls
will be requested to see that importing
and exporting merchants In the inte-
rior and adjacent cities will be fully
advised Of this exhibition.
The itinerary Of the vessel II ar
ranged with q view Of taking advan-
tage Of the time Of year that is most
seasonable, with reference to weather
and climatic conditions. to afford,
apart from the exhibition purpose It
the tour, notwithstanding cruise.
Exhibitors will be awarded 100 to 500
cubic feet of space and will be permit
ted to carry five tons of cargo If de-
sired. The lower decks, where the ex-
hibits are to be arranged, will be gor-
geously decorated, brilliantly lighted
and supplied with power. While in
port the exhibition will be open from
eight a. m. to eleven p. m. The crew
will be at the disposal of the exhibitors
in arranging and caring for the exhib-
its. ~All exhibits will be set up be-
fore leaving Seattle and will remain
In place until the voyage is ended
Only the exhibitors and their exhibits
will be carried. While there are &C.
connmodations for ZIG first-class pas.
sengers the number will be limited to
100 actual exhibitors, but rs of these
may have the opportunity to take their
wives.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
CHIEF JUSTICE MAY RESIGN
Rumored Mat He May Leave SUI
prems Bench After Rooss.
velt's Inauguration.

Washington.-Chief Justice Melville
w. Fuller, of the supreme court Of the
United States, plans. it is said, to resign
his once on March s. 1905, the day after
no has administered the oath Of ONCE
to President Theodore Roosevelt. In
this event 1t is conceded that Secretary
OF War Taft will be appointed by the
president to the vacancy on the supreme
bench. Chief Justice Fuller will be u
years old on February II, 1905. and will
then be entitled to retire from the bench
and enjoy a salary of $10,50O q year as
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
!. NEW UNSUITABLE BOAT
Many Requirements Have Been Met
by the Invention Of Danish
Engineer.

Washington.-Unsinkable life boata
are numerous, yet when the test comea
these unsuitable boats do not fulfill their
requirements. The navy department
and the life saving service are just now
interested in experiments which are be.
ing made with the Englehardt unsink'
able life boat. the invention Of Capt
Englehardt, . Danish marine engineer.
The Englehardt boat IL said not only
to be unsuitable, but is collapsible and
can be slowed in small space on the
decks. Few of the great passenger
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
BIG FLOATING FAIR.
WESTERN TOWN Is GOING AFTER
THE ORIENTAL TRADE.
Seattle, Wash, Proposes to Show tho
Asiatics What We Have to Sell
1.-THE Fair" to Sail
Next Year.

Seattle, Wash. place comes TO
the front with . twentieth century
development Of the exposition idea
that promises to have an important
bearing on the oriental trade that
everyone has heard 50 much about IN
the last few years. Instead Of waiting
for people to come to fair the Seat
tie people, or, rather the Northwestern
Commercial company Of Seattle. pro-
poses to send the fair to the people
exclusively to people who have money
to buy goods The exposition was to
have been started out this month, in.
stalled on the steamship Victoria, but
the Russo-Japanese war upset the
scheme and the sailing date of the
floating fair as been postponed to
November Is. 1905. -. ..
The idea is to offer American COM
mercial houses an opportunity to send
representatives to establish permanent
agencies and also to make immediate
sales to the countries bordering on the
Pacific ocean. which contain the larger
portion of the worlds population, and
which are in direct water communica-
ton with the United States. The
floating industrial exhibition will visit
the cities of Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki
port Arthur and Vladivostok If wal
conditions permit, Shanghai, Hong.
kong, Manila, Singapore, Colombo
Nautilus, Delagoa Bay Tor Valparaiso
and Callao, South Americao, Cape
Town, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney
and Honolulu. The steamship will
remain from two to ten days in each
OF the places named. according to
their importance, thus giving ample
opportunities to all interested to visit
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05

The Doukhobors Improving.
A Canadian government agent who
has Just returned to England says tho
Doukhobors in Canada are making
prozress. "They no longer work their
women instead of their cattle in the
aalds." .~
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05

6 as he lives. No chief justice Of tho
'reme court has ever resigned. All
Ke died on the bench. Chief Justice
pr has administered the oath of
to four presidents, Harrison.
sland and Mckinley twice. He was
inted April 80, 1883.
stice Fuller has been chief Justice
he United States since 1883, hav-
been appointed by President Cleve-
During his incumbency of the
3 he has been called upon to pass
ment upon many of the most i'm
ant cases that have ever come be-
the supreme court in the history
he nation, legal tangles that grew
of the expansion of the nation fol-
ng the war with Spain.
stice Fuller was born in Augusta,
February II, 1888. After his
uation at Bowdoin college, in 1853.
ormed a law partnership in his
ve town. and also engaged in
5paper work at the same time, be-
associate editor of The Age, q
ocratic paper there. In 1856 he
ht new field in the middle west.
settled In Chicago, where he
ed a law Office. From that time
the date of his appointment to
supreme bench he figured to q con-
rable extent in Illinois politics. He
q member of the Illinois state
Btitutional convention in 1862: was
ted to the state legislature, and
elegate to the democratic national
ventions of 1864, 1872. 1876 and
b Washington Justice Fuller has
IN prominent figure in social life.
has been extremely popular with
classes of officialdom. He is .
lat admirer of President Roosevelt,
his desire to remain in Office long
ugh to entitle him to administer
oath of Office to the president on
4th of next March is the result
the friendship of the two men.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
Easy Money for Pima Donnas.

Singing for Photographs seems to be
as high-paid musical exercise as there
IL. A photograph company has offered
q prima donna, who sings at the Metro
politan opera house this winter, $4,000
for four songs. That is $1,000 as soon
as the songs are sung and $4,000 year
for four years as reward for not sing
ing into any other machine. Great and
many are the means Of income Of Z god
dess ofegrand opera. She could live
splendidly on what she can get for using
a pill, a perfume, piano. or a phono-
graph.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05

afforded no safe path of descent,
now, through the efforts of M. Mar
a French lawyer, winding stair
". inclosed in a steel skeleton tower,
been built from the hoor to the
|uth Of the cave.
he crystal formations, which have
In compared in beauty to those Of
[mmoth Cave, Kentucky, glitter in
light of electric globes, with which
cave has been fitted.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
REAT GAVE OF FRANCE.
Was But Recently Explored and Is
One Of the Wonders Of
the World.

karis.-lt has been known for . l02g
Ee that there are wonderful caves In
! department of Lot, east of Bordeaux,
! nee, but until lately they were not
!, to visitors. .s
Q tunnel-shaped, almost perpendic-
shaft which led into the Padirae
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
CANDIDATE FOR A ToCA.
Congressman John ]. Esch Nay Suc-
- csed ouarlss 90 Senator from
~. That State.

La Crosse, Wis.-Of the several men
who are being mentioned as peasible
successors to Senator Quarles, who will
retire next March as a result Of the stall
wart victory in Wisconsin, none are
more favorably known throughout tho
state than Hon. John ]. Esch. 1T IL said
that Gov. La Toilette favors State Chair
man Conner for the place, but many Of
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
Dilution Extraordinary.

A member of the French Academy re-
ported that rs experiments on animals
showed each time that poisoned blood
is active even after dilution one trillion
one million times. The strength OF the
average homeopathic dose is from about
the third to the sixth decimal. This
demonstrates that-those who say that
there is no medicine in . homeopathic
dose betray ignorance.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
Pensioning Railway Employees.

Pensioning Hallway Employees.
The Pennsylvania railroad has q sys-
TEN by which aged employees are retired
on a pension. This is q liberal method
of providing for men Of advanced years
who have served the company long and
faithfully. Three employees have just
been retired after faithful service of Il,
As and 4S years, respectively.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
A Checking System.

In Thibet nearly every public once
has two incumbents. One is supposed
to be . check on the other. But some
times this dual authority does not work
voll-in war. for example.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
A Novel Celebration.

A civic celebration for q literary crit
anniversary will be a novelty even
France. Boulogne-sur-Mer is to hold
in memory Of Sainte-Beuve, who
h born there q hundred years ago.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
THE SPIRAL PUTTEE.
Latest Ingenious Invention Of Eng
lish Tailors to Make Outdoor
Life Comfortable.

London.-Among the latest lnven-.
lions by English tailors calculated to
make outdoor life more comfortable is
the spiral puttee. This is shaped to
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
Odd Use for Church.

rhorverton Church, Devon, England,
b recently used - . storehouse for
(isky which had been taken from the
hage inn during Z dre.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
Quantities Of Material.

Two million bricks will DO used II
the new Rockefeller building in Cleve
land; 10000 square feet of glass win
Le put into windows and the steel alone
will cost S130.00o.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05
Amazon Rubber.

The rubber exported from the Amazon
river In the season of 1904 amounted
to 1874, 116 pounds.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-05

the governors friends are in favor of
Congressman Esch, and he Is likely
winner in the senatorial race. He allied
himself with the La Toilette forces in
the closing days Of the last campaign.
and worked hard for the election Of the
stalwart ticket. He resides at this place
and represents the Seventh Wisconsin
district in the lower house, where he II
now serving his second term