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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
History of the Tnstitutfon that Now Bears washington,s Name and to Which He Made Request ---Movement te Give this
 DistanefiveIy American
 University . suit-
 mble Home.

Washington. March 2s, fso7.--The most recent and most important move ment of the year 1907 in American higher education is the plan just de- veloped in detail to carry out on very large scale the original idea of Presi- dent George Washington for a worthy university in the city which he estab- 1ished. Few undertakings are mem tioned more frequently in Washington this spring than the steps that are be- ing taken for the fulhllment of the thought of the Father of His Country that & weli-eouipped university at the capital of the nation would bring to- gether gifted students from every sec- ton of the United States, giving them the training that broadens the view point and obliterates provincialism, and returning them to their homes the stronger for having come into personal contact with the activities of the na- tional government.
 The notion that there is no local patriotism in Washington is erroneous. People in all walks of life have con- tributed something toward the money necessary to purchase worthy site for the principal buildings of the George Washington University, formally in- corporated in 1904 and now about to become a realty as well as q name. This fund is all coming from people who make Washington either their winter or their all-year home. After the requisite land has been secured, then the rest of the nation, which, 1t Is we'll known, regards Washington with "a different feeling from that in which
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
UNPUBLISHED TALE
oTn-TTHE PRINTER PRESERVED
 MANUsCRTPT LEFT BY POE.
It Contains a Brief Sketch, Enut.eo aThe Skull and Forked T"ns"e'
 and Some Verse.

A travelling man who spends mucn or hia time in Richmond, Va, has In nis possession what is said to be the orig inal manuscript of Q short story by Edgar Allan Poe, says The Indianapo- lis News.
 The manuscript was given to Mir. Alp piegate at Richmond by an old-time printer. who was once employed as eomnosttor on The Southern Literary Messenger, of which Poe was editor for a brief period The manuscript, al- though faded and timeworn, is in fair state of preservation. The chiro~ Rraphy is plain. and resembles slightly that of James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet. The story, so far as Is known, has never been given to the public.
 Forked Tongue" and is as follows.
 '"This Is e strange hotel! There are bars on the windows.
 '@The door of my room Is often open, yet I may not go out. have books, flowers, a clean, white bed, and from my window inc view of the garden and a high wall. They say l am Ill. Perhapsi
 srIer picture--I have hung it near my bed. Every day put fresh flowers the kind she loved--beside 1t. All Is well with her. for she is dead.
 ''sometimes I sit for hours before that picture-lost in tender musings contemplating the beauty of her life. The eyes arc brown wide open and deep with intelligence. The silvery hair is parted in wavy folds over her forehead. The mouth is firm and aweet
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
CANADA'S NEW
 SUNDAY LAW
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST NEWS PAPERS ONE or THE STRICT
 PROVISIONS.
BIue Laws of an Anffquated Descrip- tfon Have Gone Into Ef- feet in the DO-
 uafnfOm
Minneapolis Tribune

Minneapolis Tribune
 If it is a hardship to have the sa- looms closed on Sunday in the United States what is to be said of the penal izing of every kind of secular, commer- cia1 and industrial activity on Sunday except the running of drug stores, liv- cry stables, and boathouses?
 That will be the practical effect of the new Sunday law of the Dominion of Canada, which went into effect March 1, if 1t shall be enforced liter- ally. Probably it will not be so en- forced. The law is full of loophoies and contingent exceptions.
 While it is intended to discourage Sunday passenger trains, work in con- nection with the transit of passengers and malls and the operation of ferry lines and drawbridges is classified with the supplying of gas. water and elec- tricity, the maintenance of fires in power plants, the caring of perishable products, and the making of maple su- gar as works of necessity and mer- cy."
 The Dominion Railroad Commission may on application authorize Sunday work in connection with freight traf- flo and crews may handle cars in yards before 6 a. m, and after 3 p. m But all excursions and entertainments which charge an admission fee out side of churches are forbidden. The operation of street car companies Is left to be governed by provincial or municipal Legislation.
 The discrimination against Sunday newspapers is so severe that one is in- clined to suspect this to be a main purpose of the law We believe there are few Sunday papers in Canada, most of those read being imported from the United States. This importa- ton is prohibited as well as the sale and distribution of domestic Sunday papers, and no work can be done on the Monday morning issue before p. m.
 All sorts of severe penalties for vio- IaSion of the law are prescribed against persons who direct Sunday work to be done as employers, as well as against those who do it. But the cu- rious provision is made that no pros- ecution shall be begun under the act without the consent of the provincial attorney general. This gives that functionary power to enforce the act in full, in part, or not at all, as he may think conditions require from time to time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24

enrolment, and at a recent meeting President Needham stated that where as the Harvard graduate school. the largest of it's kind in the country, now has somewhat more than 400 students, the educational opportunities in Wash ington are so exceptional that without doubt when George Washington Uni- versity has been settled in it's new home 1t may easily gain an attend ance of 5000 graduate students.
 Particularly for American young men and young women who have ta- ken their degrees at their local col- leges or technical schools, Washing ton already affords greater facilities for advanced study than any other American city. Leading authorities in various lines of scholarly activity are at the head of governmental scien- tifc departments, and many of these men are regular members of the faculty of the George Washington University. If a young man has studied chemistry, for example, and wishes to make a series of special in- vestigations relating to the chemistry of foods, nowhere in the world will he have a better chance to work among men who are themselves en- gagged in frst-hand Investigation of tremendous consequence than in the governmental bureau of chemistry presided over by Dr. W. H. Wiley. George Washington University already has extensive laboratories of its own, and these will be largely increased in the new plant; and to these ad- vantages 1t adds those given by the act of Congress which allows uni- versity students residing in the Dis trict of Columbia special privileges in the use of the laboratories and scientific collections Of the govern ment.
 So energetic Is the movement for further endowment of George Wash ington University, and such is the growth of the apparatus of scholarship at the national capital, that many old TWashingtonians are asserting the day is at hand when the city our first President took so much pride in found ing will be not only the political but the educational capital of the United States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
And vel half suspect my lrntfe were

And yet, I half suspect my knife were
 kind To clip you without pause. wAsn I What man you are. That you oouIa
 kill with words, And had a dsvilish glee in doing so |. would that all might know--GhAre~
 fore take heed Unto the things I utter ere ycy gol "Thy tardy taking off I fear Wall breed sorry peStilence In hell Nor priest, nor book, nor bell win Rol@
 low thee, All men shall flee but I--who Iovm
 thee well. Again your pardoni seel The tsars {
 shedi My good blade quivers in the frosty
 air. Respecting your gray hair. Farewel1s
 Lie stillf The blow I strike pledge you viii
 be fair. And now preparei Strike. blade An.
 neatly donei The baaJxet takes its quarry with a
 groanl Thy little soul hath lied. The block
 still holds A shroud of flesh upon a rotten
 bon0."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
.Ana ue. sha married nv dsndlr ens- l

"And yet she married my deadly ens- my--my fathers enemy-the man I should have killed.
 But she paid the price with her life, and may her gentle spirit, where eer it dwells, forgive the son for whom she suffered so much.
 My father died when I was but a boy, and i've years later my mother married this man. He was a coarse, ignorant fellow He had a mind like a dirty rag--a heart of flint. He was thought to be rich. Three years later left home. Fear that I might kill him drove me away.
 Long years of busy life in a new land failed to quiet my hatred. My mother died. Then her husband.
 When the word reached me that he was dead had 6 wild desire to reach my old home in time for the funeral-- solely that I might spit in his face ere the grave hid him forever from my fury. Fool that I was to have remained silent so long! Yet it was for her dear sake.
 "rhey say that he was put away decently. He had neighbors and some friends. and they spoke softly at his grave. The parson and tho undertaken rounded up a mound over where he lay. and when all were gone the old sexton locked the gates for the night, and he. too, went his way.
 There. under the white stars-- under the wide sky--side by side they lay my mother and her husband. But be- tween those two graves, the one green with Gods fresh grassland the other a new scar in the soil--there stalked the spectre of my hate. Years came and went. and once in a passing fancy dreaming that he still lived, and that my hatred might not Hull itself to sIeep--I wrote these lines, which call:
 aThe Headman'H M0nOlOgue." ''Your pardon. sir. ago hath q quality
 That challenges the headmRn's first
 respectl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
UNIVERSITY PLANNED
 BY GEORGE WASHINGTON
After More Than a Century the Ideas of the Father
 of His Country Are Being Carried Out.

and giving the Board of Trustees power to change the name.
 Since then remarkable progress has been made and the George Washing ton University, in it's various depart- ments, is already one of the larger institutions of the country Its grow ing attendance has been attained not by lowering standards but in spite of raising them. More than thirty pro- fessors and instructors have recently been added to the teaching stan, night classes have been discontinued, and regular lectures made to close at e:3o. Teachers courses have been pro- educational idea, to enable those who are engaged in educational work. whatever their age and previous ex-
 perience, to gain the advantage of regular contact with trained scholars. Above all, a beginning has been made of developing for the first time in this country a university of the type of Oxford or Cambridge in England one made up of number of com ponent institutions. each with it's own management, yet all educationally connected. Under the charter of George Washington University there is nothing to prevent any religious de- nomination. for example. from build
 ing as part of the great school college whose degrees would have full value and whose students would be admitted in due course to other de- partments of the University Thus. as an important part of the institution, the -honored Columbian College still is continued under the auspices of the Baptist denomination. as 1t has been since 1822, though there Is noth- ing sectarian in the character of the instruction offered.
 To provide for scientific training of the most advanced kind, the Washing- ton College of Engineering was organ | ized in 1905. Besides this there are various divisions of the university | which may possibly become separate | colleges. Professional departments of medicine. law and politics, and of de plomaoy are strong features. The graduate school already has large
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
Belxsum,s Herring Harvs.s.

Belgium Is reaching rich harvest frons a great glut of herring with which han coast Is blessed. It may be doubted iG there ever were such times aA ostend an were witnessed between February 1 nna 10. There were sold in the public market there In the period named something more than 1.4o0 tons. From this impeding catch the Belgian fishermen have drawn eBAs so00a and the French fishermen about s1.3oo. The extent to which the Hons share haa fallen to Belgium iA explained hR the fact that tho figures relate exalusfsolE to the catch within BsIgian territorial was tors or limits How France may have Sary ed in her own waters there Is no record t4 show.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
hack CT was her Grand Dad.. But he grew " - "" c.--..s. - p. ,.rni.,,, 4 M.,ur MeKrsnrv

Tn the song are interwoven the var ious Municipal. State and National cha racters such as Father Knickerbocker. Manhattan, Miss Columbia, Uncle Sam and Miss Liberty These each play a part and form aauaint plot for the de- light of children as well as adults.
 The song was originally intended for the stage, but since the public schools took it up for educational purposes. a popular style of .two-step has been
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
MAY RING THRO' ALABAMA
New National School Song from the Pen of the
 Late Presidents Niece.

terest, reflecting the tdealism of the American flower Golden Rod" which recently was adopted as the emblem of the nation. The words convey unique story of the discovery of the plant. and the application of the fair sex in an old lyric text which is set to music of a fascinating character. The follow extracts of the melody of the chorus will convey an idea of the retentive qualities of the tune
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24

near New Brunswick. The farm is successful so far as the production of pure drug is concerned, but 1t is not yet profitable enough financially to make many farmers abandon their garden truck and take to cultivating the deadly nfghtshade.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
By MABEL MCKINLEY.

made from the melody which bands and orchestras are arranging for con- ley is the author of "Anona", Kara ma, and other odd instrumental conn positions; and the Golden Rod'' song is the result of months of careful con- struction. created particularly to fill a void for new. song of patriotic character. Copies are being distributed In the various schools and colleges throughout the country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24

A peculiar musical work from the pen of Miss Mabel Mckinley, niece of the late President has just been writ ten for the American public schools, which has been adopted by the varf- ous Boards of Education in New York. Philadelphia, and Boston. and which will. no doubt, find e responsive rec- pgnition in the educational institu- sions of the South.
 It is a song. of contemporaneous in-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
Has Plenty of Company.

Mobile Item
 water works question. This is some- thing that comes to all progressive towns. Others have had them and Selma is not without plenty of sympa- thy,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
The CrowninE crilne.

ROam0k8 LeaueTs
 An Atlanta woman has alleged that her husband tried to sgouge her eyes out and to strike her with a baseball bat, but it was only after he had cut her nices clothes Into shreds that she brought suit for divorce.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24

A BeIIadonna Farm. 4 manufacturing firm has & fifteen acre belladonna garden in operation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-02
AFTER Vanderbilt CUP RACE
SEEKING TO HAVE THE EVENT
TAKE PLACE IN NEW JERSEY.
Gov. Stokes Favors the Proposition.
Militia May Be Used to
Police the Course.

TRENTON. N. J.. July "A. r. Part.
ington. a personal representative of VIII.
liam X. Vanderbilt. jr. and chairman Of
the Vanderbilt cup commission, was here
by -appoin tment with Gov. Stokes yesterday
and received the approval Of the governor
to holding the elimination race to be run
October II. on the roads in New Jersey
The course has not been announced. and
will not be announced until special legis-
latton Is had at this session of the legisla-
ture to allow municipalities to accept the
provisions Of the coming law. That statute
will provide for permission to close certain
improved county roads during the running
OF both races.
Wilbur F. Sadler. jr president Of the
New Jersey Automobile Club. accompanied
Mr.. Darlington to the governors office. and
urged the chief executive to accede to the
Vanderbilt plan to bring the annual cup
race to- New Jersey.
He pointed out to the governor that 5000
900 was taken to the county of Nassau. on
Long Island. last year. The governor was
at first averse to agreeing to the plans
but when the money to come into the state
was mentioned to him. and on the assur-
ances of Mr.. Darlington that all expenses
incident to the race, such as repairing
damage to roads. the employment of police
governor said he would send special mes
sage to both houses of the legislature urg-
ing the passage of the measure legalizing
the closing of the county roads if the bill
would then be ready for Introduction He
refused to recommend mandatory law
saying that he was opposed to such legis-
laton.
The governor further said there would
likely be opposition to these races be-
cause of the immense amount Of money
they would bring into the counties The
new law simply will allow boards of free
holders permission to close county roads
during the races. AS for the policing of
the course. the governor is agreeable to
calling out the militia for the service all
expenses being. of course. paid by the cup
commission
While at the present moment no course
is announced the officials of Merce~. Essex
Union and Monmouth counties have been
quietly correspondent with. and Mr.. Sidler
said that everybody wanted the race held in
New Jersey. and in the counties named.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-02
BILL SQUIRES' RECORD GOOD
WINNER OF EVERY BATTLE HE
HAS FOUGHT.
CT His Twenty-Six Encounters, Twen-
ty-One Have Been Knock-Outs
Nearly All Short Fights.

If Bill squires holds true to the record he
has brought from Australia and improves
as he did with every man he has fought
more than twice. he very likely will take
the American championship home with him.
He has fought &c battles; p have been
knockouts. and the other were decisions
Not one of them has gone over eleven
over four rounds That looks like a good
record to start with on American soil. With
regard to his improvement, every man he
fought more than once he beat quicker
| than in the first meeting
In November 1903 he fought Bob Hide
brandt. and beat him in six rounds, but as
the fight was conducted the Philadelphia
fights are, no decision was rendered. In the
following month he fought him again and
knocked him out in one round.
In March, 1904, he fought Nick Ryan and
knocked him out in the fourth round. and
the next month he succeeded in putting him
away in the third round.
In NOvember of the same year he hooked
up With Peter Felix and knocked him out in
eleven rounds. In the following January he
fought Felix again, knocking him out in
seven rounds.
The following October, being the third
meeting with Felix, he put him away in one
round.
there Is likely to be a new, heavyweight
champion Squres doesn't believe two big
men fighting on the square and in earnest
should fight more than ten rounds
The comparative measurements of Suuires
and Burns are as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-02
CAPITAL CITY LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
Throng Sees Aloysius Win.

One of the most brilliant contests of the
season was played yesterday afternoon
with the Aloysius and Columbia Athletic
clubs as opponents, the former winning out
by the score of to 2
The crowd was immense. and it was
toss-up which team had the most follow
erS. Their presence was felt whenever a
good play was in order, and there certainly
was an abundance of spectacular plays, so
1t can be judged that excitement reigned
throughout the game
1t was a pitchers battle, with Gallagher
and Fulcher as the artists, the former hav-
ing a little the better of the Columbia
standby. Up to the eighth inning not q
Columbian could get beyond second base
and only two got on base up to this time
they being retired at second on a couple
of fast double plays
In the eighth. with the score standing
three to a goose EFF. the losers found
Gallagher for four singles and scored their
only runs of the game. At this point ex-
element was intense. the two runs were
made with no one out When they had
crossed man was still on base but the
next batter popped up one to Gallagher
the next hit safely, but was thrown out
trying to pilfer, and the third drove up a
NY which Fenton easily corralled Aloysius
made its last run in the NINTH and in this
round the losers went down in one-two-
three order. ending an interesting and ex-
citing battle.
The Southern Railway and ST. Stephens
clubs will line up this afternoon and an
other fast game will undoubtedly result, as
both teams are going at d fast clip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-02
WILL BE HERE SATURDAY.
Seattle High School Team Plays in
Philadelphia Today.

PHILADELPHIA. July 2.-After a long
trip across the contipent from the state of
Washington the Seattle High School base
ball team will play its first game in this
city today. 1t will line up against the
strong frankfort Club in twilight game
az Wistar Park, the contest starting at 9
o'clock.
Twilight contests an innovation at
Frankfort, but they should prove of suf-
ficient interest to attract big crowd. The
Seattle High School boys are in fine condi-
ton. despite the hard trip of thousands of
miles They have gained victories over the
strongest high school and club teams dur
ing their trip. and also have the credit of
a three-game victory over the Seattle Club
of the Pacific Coast League.
The Seattle team will meet the Philadel-
phia Giants Wednesday on the Paschall
grounds. They will then play at the shore
Thursday and leave for Washington for a
contest Saturday. After that they will
wind I'D their long trip at Jamestown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-02
RAINEY Furnishes HIS
$4,000 JOCKEY

NEW YORK. July 2-The American TODAY
says: Paul ]. Rainey. the millionaire .crse-
man. after repeatedly warning his SO 900
rider. Herman Radtke. that he would have
to turn over new leaf and pay more at
tention to business. grew tired yesterday of
continually complaining. and notified the
jockey that he would not allow him to ride
his horses for the next week. According to
common reports. Radtke has been basking
under the bright lights of Coney Island
until the wee sma' hours, which rendered
him unfit to do justice to his mounts. What
probably forced Rainey to adopt such dras-
tic action the finish of the Mermaid
stakes. in which Killaloe. the Whitney filly,
was only beaten a head by Yankee Girl
killaloe started on Friday in a mile event
with a lot of cheap platers, and Radtke
was in the saddle. 1t was the first appear
ance this season of the Whitney fily, but
she had worked fast enough to make her
figure to beat the poor field. When the
barrier went up Radtke got her off in fifth
position. He seemed to have gone to sleep
in the saddle. as she kept dropping back at
every post. He never made move with
her. and it was only through the fact that a
few horses in front of him could not keep
up that -llaloe finished sixth, beaten seven
lengths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-02

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