The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-10-03

stance TeLHS8W.SlHe other day y man
was arrested for trying to pass a
! 81 90 NOTE with a bright red back,
and yet It wassa perfectly good .biYl,
being a specimen Of the first gold
certificates, = which made their APP
pearance. in 1866. Another curtoiih
and little known note is the, three
year-interestsnote Of July. II. 1851.
These notes were made payable. to
ORDER, and were in denominations or
$50, 500, $500, 81, 900 and yS6, 900.
They were engraved only on one side,
the other side being left blank for
Endorsement Another bill that is
rare is the note of 1864 They were
compoundIinterest notes at, 6 per
cent, compounded semi-annually. On
the back OF each bill was table
showing the value Of the bill eyery
six months, the principal and inter
est being payable only at maturity,
but the notes were always increasing
in value: One collector has enc Of
! these notes which has been bearing
4 per cent interest from February
26, 1879, down to the present year.
1t is a $40 bill. and any man would
have difficulty in passing it, and yet
as a matter OF fact. it Is worth $21.
Two Ancient Enemies. &C.,.
There was&an interesting scene the
other day at Columbia, Tenn, when
In the presence i, of 5000 cheering
people, Senator Bob" Taylor and
former Senator e. Nv. Carmack
shook hands. With each other at the
fair grounds; This is said to be the
first time that. these former political
enemies have smet since there was j
bitter primary fight for the Senator
ship. When the people recognized
what was taking place they cheered
heartily. Previously each man had
been heartily received, but the DEM
onstrations then were AS nothing
compared to The spectacular Joining
Of bands. Whieh indicated that en-
nifty was over and the Ratchet bur
led. :; ~~.%:.i -" ~ +.
MonarcllaS and the Theatre. = -
= The fact that King Edward, Of
England recently left theatre be-
cause he Objected to the performance
caused some surprise, as i'm his
younger days he was deyotee of the
drama and was more or less intimate
and a good fellow with a number Of
the leading, players. 1t may be from
association with King Edward that
the Emperor OF Germany has acquir-
ed a taste, for the theatre. At any
rate, he is. now an ardent admirer
OF the. drama,taRd never hesitates to
express his pleasure at clever work
on the partaof actors or actresses.
Recently he5@want to the Court The
ater In 'Cassel 1and Witnessed a per
formance Of <tsWar and Peace. AT
the end OF the%play he made his way
to the green ftoom, where for over
an hour he !cRatted with the man
ayers and the@ members of the.-con-
fpany In most. S6cial Way, recount
tthg "Reminiscences Of his youth, when
he often had visited the same the
atre; Many or the plays he saw then,
ne, declared, he 'cbuld even now re-
peat almost by heart, while he was
able to- recall accurately the names
or many oldtime actors and actress
es. Before leaving the theatre, he
conferred the order OF the Red e agile
on the manager, and to each Of the
actresses he presented breach with
the, imperial initial in precious
stones, While to every actor no gayg
handsome scarf pin.
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Boston's Part I'm Nations Music.
Boston's part In the music Of the
nation IS certainly picturesque. It
IS not true, as has been stated that
the Hessians brought yankee
| Doodle" to this county In 1853. It
was sung in the streets of Boston by
the Britishers under Braddock as
far back as 1855 to decide the New
England troops with the feathers in
their caps. Later, In Revolutionary
times, the British officers raced their
horses across the Common on Sun
cay morning and played Yankee
Doodle" before the Park Street
church to annoy the colonists with
In. THE Star Spangled Banner" was
originally drinking song, and it
was first known to America In 1893,
when Robert Treat Paine used the
tune for the words to adams and
Liberty But the song that Is dis
ttnctly Boston's own is "Glory.
Hallelujah!" Prof Webster's regi-
ment, first sang It as, war song at
Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. in
1851. and it was, not the famous
John. Brown whom they mourned.
but, humble member Of their own
ranks. "A thousand strong, they
sang 1t marching acfoss the-Com-
mon. Boston went wild over It, and
New York took itF5up. 1t spread
through the camps@tiH the song. that
began as a hymn time in South Car
DINA, sang itself into history AZ one
Of the famous war songs OF the
world aa,t-~