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week. England has been celebrating the
SOOth anniversary Of the birth of him
who made this entry IN thu Bible and
followed 1t with q number Of other en-
tries concerning his family. 1t is curl
Gus to note that the spelling Of these
shows a considerable diversity-we get
howe" how're and hover born
and "borne'-for the writer was, Of
course, the greatest English man Of let
tiers Of his day and none other than the
poet of Paradise Lost"
The 800 years which have elapsed since
the birth OF Milton have not succeeded in
destroying the actual traces of his life
10 the same extent as they have Sue
Ceeded IN the case of his contemporaries
Milton remains more vivid picture TO us
today than any OF his feliowcoUntrym men
who preceded him or lived with him. We
know over $50 portraits, Of which at least
four are most undoubtedly genuine, three
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Park OF a Sunday afternoon and climb
up on a box which has contained Var
mouth bloaters or other staple articles OF
diet and call his rerered sovereign names
until he's so exhausted that he's hardly
strength enough left to stagger home for
his crumpets and dish OF tea. But YOU
go out into the middle OF any important
street In this town where the copper is
conducting the course Of traffic IN the
kind. forbea ring. patient way common to
cops and you address a few words OF a
personal nature to him and then be sure
to get the ambulance surgeon to stop
here on the way back with you so as to
let you whisper through the temporary
bandages and tell me- what happened to
you and how long you think you'll be in
the hospital.
ION the other side you call your ser.
want girl by her last name, such as Mead.
ows, or Fleming or Briggs. and In return
she stoops and gives you a curtsey. Call
a North American hired girl by her last
name in a peremptory tone OF voice and
will she stooo down? She will that But
she won't come up with a curtsey. She'll
come up with a fiat iron or rolling pin
Or something handy like that, and before
she gets through working on you there'll
tie so many new symbols and outward
marks of the theory of divine rights
imprinted OH your dome of thought that
your head will look like a peck of winter
turnps.
why. Larry, when you come to take
d complete census. divine rights appears
to be mighty near the commonest thing
we've got. There's one set OF divine
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or a parade Of the knights Of Pythias, or
a brewery unvei1ing or something of that
sort on, yet when 1t came to running the
real show he was merely an innocent by
stander named William ]. Hohenzolern.
with a seat In the royal box and the lid
on the box and the hasp over the staple
one OF the best bungsters in the business.
the name being Won Buelow.
1T certainly was a hard blow for d.
vine rights. With the exception Of Rus
sia and our own beloved United States.
1 don't know OF any civilized country
where divine rights can feel at home any
more, now that Germany has handed GU.
the grand slam"
Did you say the United States?" said
the House Detective. puzzled.
Sure" said the Hotel Clerk. We've
mighty near got the divine rights market
cornered In this country. Over on the
other side only one family at time
has been entitled to hold tho divine rights
concession. but here, among US, Just look
how many there are that enjoy IT. Let 5
see. there's policemen, and hired girls, and
street car conductors. and gentlemen who
don't like what some editor wrote about
them in the paper. and criminal lawyers
who are cross-examininS scared witnesses,
large corporations and captains of indus
try, and head walters and others too
numerous to mention.
Now IN England they have divine
rights, but they've kept it in a safe in the
British Museum. Anybody that's suffer
in. from frct-edge crouch against the
king and the government can so to Hyde
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the Greek. the Latin, the Italian, Span
ish and French" while they neglected his
comfort conspired with his rvants to
cheat him with his trades people, and
sold a large number of his books.
No one perhaps. would seriously take
up a defense of Millions daughters: but
that he was hard to live with, like many
another great man of letters, is not to be
denied. AS with his looks. so with his
character We have enough material to
picture fairly the man as he actually
was. We have his own evidence as to
the existence in his youth of a certain
niceness of nature. an honest haughtiness
and self-esteem either Of what l was or
what I might be- which kept him from
low descentS OF mind After this it
is not surprising to hear that in the eyes
of his contemporaries he appeared not
ignorant OF his own parts. or that DIT
Cambridge he was not popular, being on
very bad terms. for instance, with his
first tutor William Chappell. afterward
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ter and ensuing spring. But guess may
be the kaiser's breakfast didn't agree
with him that morning. Anyway he
passed out line Of conversation that he
began to coagulate as soon as it struck
the open air.
And when the emperor got back a
few days later from hunting trip in
the Tyrols, after the Wild dashund. the
savage roll-nlop, the ferocious swltZer
kase and other denizens Of the wild, he
found the doctrine Of divine rights draped
over the back fence, while a lot Of husky
chaps were. standing around shaking the
dust OF ages out of it the same as II
they'd been beating a carpet. The kaiser
naturally started to voice his royal in
dgnation, but when he'd talked only a
few minutes and was some distance from
the verb the crowd closed In on him and
the chancellor took his imperial majesty
by his imperial goozle and turned Off the
flow.
1T was an awful shock to the kaiser.
You might imagine lot OF strange
things-a canary bird being sassy to a
cat or Nat Good win without another wife,
or Jake Riis speaking sharply Of the hab-
it's and customs of President Roosevelt.
but you couldn't imagine anything like
the feelings that came over the kaiser
Nothing like it had ever happened III the
kaisering business before. IT was alto
gether against precedent. He couldnt
seem to understand it. SO, in their gentle
German way they took a maui and drove
the information into HIM that, while he
might still be the regular official German
emperor, when there was an army review
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carrying this to the bureau, and when IT
has duly received the imprint from the
engraved plate and becomes money. either
notes. certificates or bonds, it must be re-
turned to the Treasury
The blank paper Is guarded just as care
fully is the finished money. Every
sheet is counted and recounted al each
stage and the trip in the money wagon is
made under guard. AL the Treasury the
accredited officials place the paper in box
like trucks and these are run on wheels
inside OF the steel vault that makes up
the body OF the wagon The doors 10 this
vault are then closed and locked and bolt
ed and barred. The trip is made 10 the
bureau, where the load Is exchanged FOR
similar trucks loaded with the finished
money. and the wagon returns Always
the wagon is accompanied by three or
more truSty guards, armed TO the teeth
and with regulations Is fighting men. An
1tinerant bandit seeing this armed force.
would hesitate before making an attempt
TO gain a more intimate acquaintance OF
their charge.
In all its history there has never been
an attempt to hold up the money
wagon The streets over which 1t travels
are quiet and often there Is no Individual
in sight There is journey In the Ma
TO be made. with trees and shrubpety All
about. Even after the wagon mas backed
up to the Treasury and the doors are
opened there might be an opportunity
for wild dash for the bundle of bills
but no such effort will be made for II
is known to the under world that at
windows, concealed yet commanding the
wagon. stand two crack shots with re
peating rifles covering the transfer Oh
the precious load to the building.
Charlie Reynolds. A Nirginian and a
strong one. has driven the money wagon
for sixteen years and has an enviable
record The wagon weighs $500 pounds
and with its load tips the scales at seven
tons The horses have heavy pull to
haul ii back and forth several times d
day yet Charlie" has never injured one
in any way, he has never allowed one to
slip On the icy pavements III winter and
fall, he has never been behind on any
trips over ten minutes In sixteen years
II lie were an hour late 1t would mean
thai ] 500 people working at he bureau
would be out OF paper on which to print
the money, for only enough at a time
Is taken to last until the next load ar
rives. Much depends on this man and
he has coed reason to be proud not only
of his care of his splendid horses. out
of his record.
The chief business of the bureau of
engraving and printing is to replenjsh
with new the old money that is worn out
scented at the Treasur they. are imme-
diateIy redeemed. From all over the
country there is u constant stream com
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the frontispice TO his History of Britain
in 1870, are both probably by the same
artist, William F'aithorne, and by the
lines about the eyes and mouth give elo-
uuent testimony to the sorrows which
fell on Milton as he grew older. We
see the Milton of the three wives, OF
whom the first. Mary Powell, deserted
him through boredom, after a month OF
marriage, and returned to bear him three
daughters and to die after the birth o.
the Youngest while the second wife.
Katharine Woodcock, died after less than
two years Of married life We see the
Milton Of the three motherless daughters
who put up so i'll with his training. ana
of whom the second Mary made the
celebrated remark when she learnt Of his
third wedding: THAT is nothing new. If
YOU had told me he was dead. il would
have been" We see. too The Milton
whose eyesight failed and who had to
relv on the same unwilling daughters for
the reading of 1.-The Hebrew, the Syriac,
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Milton Cottage at Chalfont, ST. Giles.

Rishop of Cork He took himself very
seriously. as was but natural in one who
wrote Paradise Lost" and was a
thorough egotist. 1T Is a sense of his
intense egotism.' says Coleridge. that
gives me the creates. pleasure in reading
Milton's works. The egotism OF such a
man is a revelation of spirit" Thu quail
ity however, which was necessary to the
poet might we'll be blot in the character
of the man, and the conduct OF his first
wife and of their daughters points strong
" to his being much less personally Iowa
biz than he was great. The wife found
him a bore, while in the will which he
dictated to his brother Christopher IN
1914 he left the money due to him from
Mr.. Powell. his first wife's father. to
"the unkind children ! had by her add
ing: My meaning is that they shall have
no other benefit OF my estate than the
said portion and what l have besides done
for them. they having been very unduti-
full to me- The picture OF the blind
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bills is a fine. firm quality OF linen.
known 'distinctive' paper, manufac-
tured under government inspection at
Dalton Mass. It's delicate yet tough
fibers have had a varied history before
receiving the stamp of the government.
The flax grew perhaps in the moist fer
tile fields of Ireland. 1t was gathered
bleac:ed spun and woven largely by
woman's skill. It may have formed at
one time dainty lingerie: 1t may have
been the garment of babies; 1t may have
been the confirmation suits OF children
the graduating gowns of girls. LoN-
ing hands have careSsed II. patched II,
darned it and finally consigned il TO the
rag bag. It's mission. however. was not
thereby concluded. By process of mod
ern alchemy 1t is transformed and issued
anew. not from looms. but from rolls. to
take up another cycle of usefulness.
Feeding avarice. serving as channel FOX
charity. satisfying hunger, paying bills,
building homes and perhaps lowering
brides whose mothers wore the same
fibers when they stood before the altar
the bank note could tell rare story Of
comedy and tragedy even before its fibcrs
are used for the imprint of the money
dies
But after it gets into Charlie Reynolds
wagon it comes into it's own and be
comes the power that rules the nation.
move the harvest OF the great plains, they
build railroads into the unknown. they
cut continents apart. tunnel rivers and
mountains and build the navies of ma
tions. Upon their tendency TO circulate
among the people or hide in strong boxes
depends the prosperity of millions oil peo-
pie. They are the measure for which
the multitude toll and the prize for which
intellect strives and aVarice cuts threats
With them all these have their source in
the modest money wagon that runs
short quarter of mile between the
bureau and the Treasury.
When each individual note has done its
work and has become worn and frayed.
mutilated and dirty. it is again returned
to the Treasury. This time ii arrives
chiefly in express packages and from
many and varying sources. 1t is again
subjected To the thing that has been hap
penng to it ever since !! had appeared
as specially prepared paper. 1t is count
cd. 4 due record is made of ii and the
sender is credited and sent new and crisp
bills while II is destroyed through
process. the chief feature OF which is the
reduction OF It to a pulp. Then this pulp
has at one time been worth its sixteen
hundred dollars pound on an average
is sold TO souvenir makers for forty
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high would contain 100. If all the bills
the money wagon has carried were piled
one on top of the other The top OF this
monument of money would reach into
the air fifteen miles
The collection OF books IN the Library
Of Congress is the largest n tha western
hemisphere. 1t numbers 1JH,oD books.
If each book contains on an average $40
leaves or ian pages and are octave the
amount % bills carried by this wagon
would be sufficient to make leaves for
three times as many volumes q 5 are III
the library, or 4JOU,UD books.
The average home burns about fifteen
tons of coal each winter in the furnace.
If the bills hauled III the wagon were
used for coal the supply Woud last one
family 80 years. which is about long
q time as from the execution OF Charles
| OF England To today.
II two Men eat eight pounds a day at
their meals and had begun to eat these
bills ar the beginning Of the Christian
era. they would not be through their
meals by eco years. When they finished
it would be the yea" oJJS.
There has been fine linen enough in
this money to make trousseauX for
million brides or to make two linen hand
kerchiefs for each person, man, woman
and child. in the United States.
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r NGLAND Is Busy Cele-
II brating the Tercentenary
of the Author of paradise
Lost despite the Lapse OF
Centuries He Still Stands Out
a Vivid Figure - Over One
Hundred and Eighty Por-
traits of Him on Record, of
Which Four Are Most
Undoubtedly Genuine - All
Traces of His Many London
Residences Have Disappeared
and the Nearest Remaining
Point of Connection Between
Milton and the English
Metropolis Is the Little Cot
tage in Chalfont St. Giles,
Where He and His Family
Took Refuge From the Great
Plague.
pecial Correspondence Of The Star.
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y a page of an old
family Bible In the
possession of the
British Museum in
London stands an
entry: John Mil
ton was born the
9th Of December.
zoos, die Veneris
half an hour after
E II the morning"
MS year and more
pqrtic,YlarlV this
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representing him at the age OF ten. TWEEN
ty-one and SiXty-two respectively anu
one in early middle age BY an extra
ordinary coincidence the portrait at '.ie
age of ten was rediscovered TINS year Oh
the very eve of the opening OF the en-
hibition of Miltoniana at Christs Cohese'
Cambridge, the college at which ne re-
sided ard studied from just over sixteen
UP to the time when he TOOK MS NJ. a.
degree az twenty-three.
Rv great stroke of luck DIR. q. &.
Williamson early this summer found
painting by the Dutch painter, Cornelius
Jansen. who came over to England In
1913 and took lodgings near the house OF
John Milton, the elder, scrivener In
Bread street three doors from Cheaps!de'
London. e C.-the house where the fu-
ture poet was born ard where he was
still dwelling at the age OF ten. This lor
trait was well known In Milton H1etiihe
and was in the possession or the tnlTd
Mrs Milton. when she died in ll:l. since
when It has been heard Of only htfuiiE.
4 grave and intelligent Puritan boy Is
represented. with auburn locks. which re-
mind us OF the old gossip AuberyS de-
scription OF Millions hair as light brown
or reddish"
From this. the most important md
made in connection with Milton in recent
times, and tne three lateI EoItditS, We
are able to construct an accurate MS
tory of the poets features from his
charming and somewhat naughty you.-.
down to his sad and lined old age. ,"e
picture of the young man at Cambridge,
the least Gistinctively pUritanical of the
series. is now in the possession CT the
Right Hon. Lewis Harcourt, first com
missioner of works, and hangs at his resi-
dence at Nuneham. near Oxford 1t Is a
copy made In the late eighteenth cen
ne
Millions third wife said her husband gave
her ITO show her what he was In MS
youth, being drawn when he was about
twenty-one years of age" The poet was
by no means devoid Of vanity about his
features. as is quantity shown .y the
four-lined Greek epigram which ne wrote
under the frontispece TO the original e.
ton Of his poems in 16-.. lines which have
been roughly translated - follows:
Who that my real lineament has scanned
Will not in this detect hungler's hand?
My friends. in doubt on whom his art was tried,
The idiot limner's vain attempt deride.
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VERY piece OF pa
per money in the
United States be
gan its career with
a ride III the gov
ernment'S money
wagon plying be
tween the bureau
Of engraving and
printing and the
Treasury building
i'll W aShington-
Every bill that
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hat Milton was justified in his sarcasm

That Milton was justified in his sarcasm
none who have seen the very rare print in
question and have compared it with the
authentic portraits will be inclined to
deny. The most humorous part of the
story is that subsequent reproducers of
the print solemnly added the condemna-
tory epigram. in ignorance OF It's mean
ing,
The two later portraits, one known as
the "Bayfordbury'' owing to its being
kept at Bayfordbury, near Hartford, Eng
land, and the other the engraving which
appeared with the authors consent as
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dollars a ton and they convert it into
IrinketS for curiOS-
But the money wagon and Charhe
Reynolds still keep on.
Copyright. 1903 by William Atherton Dufuy-
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WE'VE Cor T He. DIVINE
ELI. I see divine

ELI. I see divine
right has been get
ting another brutal
shove in the cpl
glottis. said the
Hotel Clerk.
Where bouts did
the latest outrage
take place - ASKED
the House Detec-
tive.
This time il s
China" said the
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the first lord OF the bed chamber had
fad out a frock coat instead of L uniform
for him and as soon he put it on he
decided TO embark in the statecraft line.
So he called up an English journalist who
put on his spats and his high hat and
hurried over to Potsdam. and the en-
peror proceeded to tell him in detail what
his intentions regarding destiny and prov
idence would be during the coming win
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fire. the kaiser was grand piece Of
work and his loyal subjects were strong
for him. They, even let him paint Oil
portraits and write German operas. which
Is a very serious undertaking. and sail
war vessels because business was going
along about as usual and his imperial
majesty supplied touch OF color around
the premises that was equal to totem
pole. But one morning the kaiser found
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Won have SD5nt In twenty years was
bumped over the Cobbles of old 18th
street in the security van that has done
service without missing trip for twenty
six years before it was allowed to 20 out
into the marts of men and wear itself out
in being spent
From the money wagon that vast bulk
Of paper that spreads and extends it
self until it reaches every obscure corner
OF the nation and every individual OF its
citizens drst sees the light of day. From
its narrow confines flows out vast
spreading stream that broadens and fiat
tens and spreads itself until ii has search
ed out the dwellcr in the city tenement.
the trapper in I'loridas Everglades the
prospector in Death valley. the explorer
in Alaska. None SO obscure that he will
not be found; none So great as to endure
without it.
The Volume of money that has passed
through this old wagon is nearly equal in
value To all the gold. silver and paper
money that exists in the whole world to-
day. Should England. France. Germany
and China drag their domains and Sc
cure every penny that exists in those
nations it would amount to only one half
Of the amount that the money wagon
has hauled.
II would take string of hay wagons
twenty miles long 10 haul this precious
paper money were II baled up and dis
Suised as horse feed. There has been
transported in the money wagon during
its career over 1,J0o.ocp pounds in weight
&c ii
It all comes about IN the simplest way
and is merely the details Of the days
work TO Charlie Reynolds. the driver o:
tie wagon. and his helpmates. The btl-
reau happens 10 be "A quarter OF mile
away from the Treasury building. In the
Treasury is kept The paper. made by 4 Sc
.l.i pro, oSs up"a which tn" mcnsy is 70
be- printed There is necessity for tht
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.
LONDON, November %. 1905
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The paper employed for the printing OF
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-05-07
The Pilot.
original.


When Ben Paddock shipped with me
for an able seaman he was absolutely
disabled and sailed simply to be saved
from himself. Ben had been decent
fellow and had wife and two little
children, but drink captured him. rem
dering him of no use to them and only
a burden to himself. Indeed. he was a
burden to them also till he left them.
Once aboard and subject to discipline
he slowly righted. like ship after a
squat, and his own real identity reas-
serted itself. Fortunately for him, we
were OF for q long voyage, and there
was not drop Of liquor aboard ship
except under my charge. and l never
gave Ben drop from the time we
sailed TIL we got back to the port we
had left three years before. I liked
Ben Paddock aud did everything |
could to help him get rid Of the habit
that had ruined him. persuaded him
not to take shore leave when we made
ports, and at such times often stayed