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The Washington times., 1908-11-26

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The Washington times., 1908-11-26
RATS MAY CLOSE PORT.

GALVESTON. Nov. 26.-The State
board OF health has served notice that
every port in the State viii be closed
unless cleared OF rats. through which
pest the entrance OF bubonic plague is
feared.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-12-20

the biopasm in the formation of the rudi-
ments of life on our earth.
Our own great solar orb, as seen from
our earth, is still writing in the fiery
abyss of his own grandeur; in his earlier
revolutions condensation sets in, which still
continues; in time vast rings were left on
the outside TO form satellites, who, like ODE
dent children, continue TO hover and re-
volve around their parents, all moving in
harmony in obed ence to the laws of Atm
ity and attraction, needing no intelligence
10 guide them. In the midst of these plan
etary children, a little speck appears above
the horizon; it is our little earth,-the babe
of time, in its swaddlng clothes.
Like all other celestial bodies it obeys
the mechanical laws of affinity and gravita-
ton, revolving on its axis and around its
solsr parent, at first in vigorous condi-
ton condensation taking place, heat was
generated, resulting in molten fluids which
formed its photosphere, so dense and ex-
tending so far from the main body that the
suns rays failed to reach it, This photo
sphere for countless ages, rising by heat
cooling above, and descending, kept the
planet in constant action. Put the time
came when the cooling process gained the
ascendancy, and the earth began 10 crust
over only to be broken up from the eternal
heat which kept the surface everywhere of
even temperature. The internal fires act
ing on the surface gave us the igneous
rocks which being thrown up in ridges in
some places and sunken in others, gave us
our mountain ranges and valleys. much the
appearance as our moon now presents. In
time, countless to us, the molten fluids
forming the earths philosophers, gravitated
back to the main body, leaving the lighter
ydrogen, one part TO eight
parts of oxygen, making water, which
everywhere surrounded the earth: the by
drogen in time, obeying the law of gravity,
mostly came back TO earth where it again,
in obedience to attraction, left oxygen al
most pure which has and ever must remain
the source of life on our earth
For long ages the earths philosophers in
its agitation was the result of heating and
cooling: the terrible heat of the earth
acted to expand and to force to great dis
tances these fluids which when in contact
Blue-grass blade., 1908-12-20
(By Judge Parish b. Ladd.)


On the ceaseless tide OF the ebbng ages,
Man, as a wandering homo, sings his dirge
TO the foaming pillows. The rotation of the
earth on her diurnal course marks LIES
footprints on the dial of Tine. The stars
appear above the horizon TO kiss the suns
departing rays. Time rolls on. while the
fates harvest the golden fruits. Man floats
on the tickle thread which spans the river
of life in its ceaseless flow to a world un-
known, where stern fate bears him on .ner
wings to the realms of not hingness, while
time gathers her heroes from the autumn
winds
Out from the depths of floating nebulae,
a lifeless universe was born; time without
beginning or end was wrapped in the folds
of eternity; for countless aeons worlds n
Vulnerable rolled on in ethereal space with
not a living thing to break the awful 81
lence. Space, time, worlds and eternity
nothing else What sublimity, what thoughts
here engulf mans being. Eternity from
her fathomess reaches, holds the bound
less stars in her maiden arms with
naught to disturb the serenity of a lifeless
suns are born to throw their lurld flashes
on the canvas of eternity. Countless ages
ebb and flow; new worlds are ushered in
In the solitude of this terrible conflict
Nature shows no evidence of design; not
a thought moves on the painless ocean of
time; silence regns supreme; ages on ages
arise arise only TO be lost on the sleeping
dep his of eternity. Time IS in waiting;
gravitation, the child of affinity, is at work;
male and female elements hold love feast;
suns and other planets attract each other;
the universe as a whole moves in harmony
under the guidance of the law Of mechanics;
the suns give off their satellites as parents
their children; the new born p'9nets hover
around their parents chickens gather
under their mothers wings; the universe
is broken up into suns end their solar sys-
tens. In places nebulae is disappearing
to furnish material for new suns. Through
our large telescopes one may look on and
see with his own eyes, this process of world
formation in all its stages from the first
spiral motion to finished worlds, just as he
sees through the microscope the action of
Blue-grass blade., 1908-12-20

with the cold ether caused them to con-
dense and return to earth.
Countless ages rolled on, during which
great oceans and lakes were being formed,
out of which vapors continued to rise and
fall BY the constant fall of water, heat
and cold the rocks underwent process of
disintegration, the valleys were being filled
up by the decomposed rocks which were
carried down the mountain sides by rivers,
rivulets and streams which carried their
contents not only into the valleys, but far
out into the oceans and lakes, where STRAIT
ificaton took place, thus forming sediment
AIRY or stratifed rocks; but our earth was
not ready for the flora and fauna Then
followed vast ages which We're lost in the
lap of eternity ere a wing waited the air
or a fin moved to ripple the mighty deep;
all was desolation, with not d sound other
than dashing waters, foaming cataracts and
volcanic eruptions, to break in on the
deathly silence of the worlds childhood
For long ages the earth and water were too
hot to admit of the formation of life in sea
or on land.
Nature is never N hurry; a hundred
million of years are to her as one drop of
water is to the vast oceans While the
earth and water were cooling, she looked
out on the vast expanse and smiled on the
desoation. ever dreaming of the time to
come when the earth, fed only by the suns
heat, would swarm with life. That time
came when from out the waters and moist
earth, first, appeared the germs of life:
vegetable and low forms of animal lire
simultaneously appeared on the land and
in the water.
Ages on ages came and went. Vast for
ests of gigantic trees produced by the in
ternal heat. covered all the land from pole
to pole, and the oceans swarmed with life,
while gigantic amphibous saurans made
their habitats on land and sea.
In these ancient days the suns rays, i'm
peded by the vast quantities af aqueous
vapors constantly rising and falling, but
family reached the earth. During the early
times, when these vast forests everywhere
primates. had not made their appearance.
For long ages after the appearance of land
animals portions OF the earth's crust were
constantly being broken up into ridges and
mountains, while depressions were occur
ring in other places Evolution was at work
First, few of the lower forms of life made
their appearance slowly followed by higher
forms, which have been advancing from
time to time. Man now arrogantly claim
Blue-grass blade., 1908-12-20


IN
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n VI YERE there demanded
Az "a y further evidence to es-
NV establish the fact that
v y sectional bitterness in
fhs country has dwindled into insig
pifcance it might be furnished by the
Recent appointment of Luke f. Wright
g. succeed William II. Taft as secre-
Barry of war Time was when the mere
Suggestion of putting the war Office in
lie hands of "A man who had served
D. the Confederate army would have
been received with bowls and dissent
sbut that unhealthy sentiment has
PASSED forever.
Previous to the civil war most of
fhe men who directed the war depart
1nent were from the south. The early
presidents seemed TO prefer New Eng
flanders for their war secretaries, but
from the time of Monroe down to
buchanan southerners figured con-
'spicuously at the war Office A notable
exception occurred during Tylers ad-
1ninistration. When he took Office he
peappointed the man chosen by Gen
aeral Harrison, John Bell of Tonnes
pee. on Bells resignation four secre-
faries We're appointed in quick sue
fession, all of them northern men.
|Joseph Holt of Kentucky, Buehanan's
Fast secretary of war, ended the list
Iof distinguished southerners, Simon.
cameron succeeding him and no man
lsouth of Mason and Dixon's line hold
Ping the office until now.
General Luke +. Wright, formerly
IUnited States ambassador to Japan,
Pr native of Tennessee born In Giles
Bounty. near PULASKI. In 1916. His
.parentage was of that sturdy class of
tennessee pioneers who doveloped the
Future brain and Drawn of the state.
|iiis father was Judge Archibald
wright of the supreme court of the
fsiate, and II was from him that Gen
Ieral Wright inherited many OF the
traits of character aud mind which
have contributed 10 his really dlstin-
|guished career
A Soldier at Fifteen.
Although he was only lad al the
breaking out of the civil war. Wright
identified himself promptly with the
Confederate cause and went into the
army. At the age OF lfteen years he
was enrolled In Brecknridge's com
mand and he displayed such unusual
Judgment and fortltude that he at
once attracted the attention OF that
Keen witted soldier In his seventeenth
year ne reached the rank of lieutenant
VI infantry At the bloody battle OF
STONE River he was In the thick of the
nafd lighting when soldier brought
"e intelligence that his older brother
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by armies of modern soldiers dressed
in the uniforms of the eighteenth CEN
tury and executing the evolutions
which resulted In the success OF the
British forces.
Although the celebration comment
crates the discoveries of Champlain
and his establishment of fort at Que
bee and the beginning of city, the
romantic figure of Jacques Cartier,
who sailed up the st. Lawrence long
before Champlain's time, will not be
forgotten. One of the pageants will
picture him as he appeared on the
scene away back in the year 1885
Naturally, however, the greatest promi-
hence in the various spectacles will be
given to Champlain and to the fight
on the Plains of Abraham between
the forces of Wolfe and Montcalm. 1t
is the intention TO convert the battle
fields of the Plains of Abraham and
Sainte Foye into national park. The
Dominion government has appropriate
ed 100000 for this purpose and ii is
expected that the gifts during the
celebration will result in a consider
able increase In the fund. The dedi
cation of the park will be leading
feature of the celebration.
For weeks past several thousand
performers have been drilling for the
different tableaux of the fete under
the direction of Frank Lascelles, mas
ter of the oxford pageant which Great
ed so much talk last year, who came
to Canada to undertake the super
vision of the tercentenary pageant at
the special invitation of his friend
Earl Grey, the governor general.
There is such wealth of brilliant
historic material from which to choose
in the creation of these pageants that
it was difficult to make selections. In
the various professions will figure not
only Cartier and Champlain and Wolfe
and Montcalm, but La Sale and JOLT
cite. Father Hennepin Dollard des
Drmeaux and his sixteen heroes of the
Long SauIt Nine dc la Peltrie and the
Ursulinc nuns. who will be shown
carrying on their pious work among
the red men: Count F'rontenac and his
staff in all the court pomposity OF the
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semblc, This summer spectacles win
he produced in London, in which there
will be 1900 performers
In the pagcants at Quebec the spec
tators will see as tho strains of the
overture die away group OF lodges
of the red men set beneath the trees
and an Indian dance in progress.
jacques Cartier then comes in sight
with his crew and plants in the earth
In the midst Of the assembled abor-
igines a cross bearing the golden lilies
and the arms of France. He reads to
the wondering natives, grouped on the
banks of the river, the words of the
gospel of st. John. Then he re- en-
banks upon his ship and sails away
The next scene shows the court of
France at Fontainebleau, Francis l. at
the head of a great cavalcade and Car
tier telling him of his voyages in the
west.
over fifty years pass by and the
spectator next sees the court of
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Eldredge, had been killed. The soldier
who was a neighbor of the Wrights
ran up to the young lieutenant and
without word of preparation called
out, "Eldrcdge has been killed. The
boy gave great sob. but righted him
self almost instantly and spoke the
command in steady voice, Take his
body to the rear" Then he moved
straight forward with his company.
and it was not until the fight was
ended that he hastened to verify the
sad news and TO prepare the body for
burial.
Al the close of the war Wright be
came a student at the University of
Mississippi, where he made good prog
ess. although he was not graduated
Returning home, he entered his ia
theirs Office and began to study law
with a determination TO qualify him
self which bore fruit in his subsequent
career at the Memphis bar For eight
years he was attorney general of Shell
by county, and his ability and activity
made him formidable to the law break
ers of the vicinity. He was SO UNI
yielding in his determination to up
root vice in his home city that he sue
ceeded in making a host of enemies
among those who wished to profit by
an abuse Of the law. one of these was
a Judge Of the criminal court, who
went to him privately and advised him
TO be less Jealous In his prosecutions
Wright paid no attention to the ad-
vice and the judge actually threatened
the young lawyer with bodily violence
IL he should continue his attacks. AL
though the judge was an ardent advo-
cate of the code of honor, Wright re-
piled to his threat, TRY II, sir and
one OF us will surely bite the dust"
Almost a Duel.
on one other occasion Wright be-
came so involved in a personal difn-
Guilty that a resort 10 arms seemed in
evitable. Colonel NJ. c. Galloway, who
edited a Memphis newspaper, was re-
puted 10 be a IRE eater OF the most
belligerent type. He became incensed
at a ruling made by Judge Wright and
at once began n scurrllous editorial
attack on the old jurist The younger
Wright warned the irate journalist to
desist, but he kept right on with his
abuse, The matter went from bad to
worse until fnally the son sent the
editor a challenge, and the colonel ac-
cepted II with alacriiy Although ef-
forts We're made by the friends Of the
principals TO avert the impending con
flict. neither would swerve hairs
breadth from his determination TO
make II hot for the other. II was even
suggested TO the colonel that man
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mayors show. But within a few years
new art of pageantry has arisen.
First few hundreds of people in
small towns took part in folk plays or
semihistorical tragedies or comedies.
These increased in size and impor-
tance, eliminating in the great oxford
pageant OF last summer In which some
1000 persons participated reproducing
the history of the famous university
city and bringing into play the learn
ing of historians and archaeoogists,
the genius of poets and painters and
musicians, in one great artistic en-
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cries follow the example of mankind
In eating by day and sleeping at night
IN their native state these animals
sleep away the hours 81 daylight and
hunt for their food az night,
The cotton handkerehiefs provided
for French soldiers have printed upon
them a number OF sanitary precepts 10
be observed on the march and during
a campaign ana are further decorated
with medallone containing nicinres
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time of Louis XIV, and Mgr Laval in
his ecclesiastical grandeur.
Novel Paseants.
Pageants such as those in which his
tory will be pictured in the Quebec
tercentenary are something Of nov
city on this side of the ocean. The
pageant as 1t is known abroad traces
its origin 10 the miracle and mystery
plays of the medieval church. Gus
toms of this kind survived until re-
Gently in England in the paraphornalia
and make believe of London lord
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France assembled at tho Louvre, Cor
geous halberdiers keep guard, and la
dies and gentlemen respondent in silks
and satins troop in and pavano is
danced before King Henry ". who
afterward gives to Champlain his
commission to set out for New France.
The next scene shows the little Indian
village of Stadacona, on the heights
whore Quebec now stands. and Cham
plain with his beautiful girl wife arc
receiving the wondering greetings Ut
the natives. The years again roll
along and Champlain and his wife are
long since dead Stadacona has be-
come Quebec. and the population has
increased to over 200. The governor
Montmagny goes down to the river
with his guard and receives the gentle
and holy mother Marie and the ladies
from old France, who have given up
their lives to teach the story of the
cross and the doctrines Of their church
to the heather of the new world, So
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practice has been adopted The pupils
are taught 10 draw circles and other
forms on the blackboard hrst with one
hand and then Win tho othor
The latest appeal 20 fashionable wo-
Non takes the form of ring Watches
Those dainty ornaments arc very
costly Tho cheapest cannot be pur-
chased under sl25 rhcy can he had
IN any number OF torms and Somo pf
the most beautiful are trimmed with
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OF officers OF all grades the different
uniforms being 80 distinctly portrayed
mat a French private can tell at once
TO what grade amy officer he may see
belongs.
Japanese children are taught at an
carry age to write and draw with both
Nahds, and 10 this fact has been
aserioed The superiority Of Japanese
arr IN certain directions. especially In
neat sowing In some achools this
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at the bank for deposit book show
ing the amount TO his credit Opposite
the lines for the owners signature and
address is square ruled off for the
reception of his thumb print so that
even II illiterate. depositors may
readily be Identified.
Lions. tigers and other beasts OF
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ouamcl, into which are set pearls, dla-
mouds whios and other precious
stouct Thcv are Intended 10 be- worn
ON the finger over the glove
II ls believed that The ostrich can soc
objects behind az we'll as M front OF
IT, ANY one standing directly behind
am ostrich can see the pupils of its
eyes,
II is estimated that Sew Zealand
has an available coal supply Of 1900
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BRIEF AND TRUE.

tlnserprint Identification has been
extended 60 commercial uses by The
Postal Savings bank of the phIlipnines
AZ Manila. This hank has reccntIv
issued serios of stamn deposIt cards
So. NV, aie spaces for stamps of diff
or uepos'tof has stamps to the value
pse' on INC card It is exchanged
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ANCIENT pRlpsoRooMs.

Social records give several instances
Of ancient nrldegroums. Tho list Is
headed by the Ear of WomyEs He
was born IVA 1878 ana when about
eighty two took gs his second wife the
handromo dark haired Miss Grace
Blackburn Thcu the Earl of Mount
EdBcumhc married "a aeventy-four
taking az his second spouse his cousin.
Caroline countess of RaYcnsWorth.
And the WodGiuE OF the late Marquis
OF Donegal al the age OF eighty made
AN event of December 1902
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of his Ito Hc hogan his national
service ms a n,r,n,cr or the Pbilippins
commission I'm 1900 Two years later
ne nppcarcd before tho senate COM
mittce ON thc philtnuincs and nreed ~
reduction ON goods coming to ms
country from mo ar,hipcl,an TO "a por
conf Of Tho DinpIoy rates Uc adlo-
Gated this DISCRIMINATION merely as
sentimental measure arguing that
surb action v.o,,Id nrodrrr a favorai,lo
effect ON tho disturbed .ulpinos In
1909 he became bcad of thr Pbllippine
commission and ma sucb rendered
vnlunblc service I'm the administration
of tho arohipclego's affairs After
snryire. In mi, r,r,,it, for npo war
bo was onnoiptc5 by prrsid,nt R,osc-
ven IA Tho civIl royrrnorsbin Of the
Phillppfre. From mar tlmc Inc gave
his cntiro attention To- the complex
conditions existing Nm I'nclo Sam's new
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call the duel OFF, he announced his in
tention of treating his youthful ad
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versary as the immortal Clay did Ran
dolph--to receive the fire of his enemy
and then discharge his own pistol into
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of his years and position could with
perfect honor decline to meet so young
and inexperienced an adversary. AL
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the air For some reason not given
by the historian the duel was never
fought, II Is known, however, that
from that time Colonel Galloway be
came a warm admircr of Wright and
ever aftorward supported him in his
crusade against lawlcssness In Shelby
county
The career OF General Wright as a
citizen of Memphis has been most
cnViablc one Numerous incidents
along its course have made him known
in his home city rs fearless and per
foctly level headed man. His services
during tho most distressing period
southern city ever endured. the yellow
fever epidemic of 1889. have never
been forgotten in Memphis As the
head of the citizens relief committee
he labored increasingly for months for
the bottcrmcnt OF conditions in the
stricken city. An instance illustrative
OF his irmncss and presence Of mind
occurred while Memphis was sim un-
der military control There was great
unrest among the negroes and poor
whites. and tho commisgary depart
ment. from which food was distribut-
ed 10 thousands became thu center Of
the disturbance one day negro,
melted 10y white ruftiuu attacked
colorCd sentinel aud was shot Hear
ing the shot General Wright hurried
out and in tone OF authority and
power that controlled the mob upheld
tho action of the sentinel Thus his
admirable initiative avorted what
would probably have been serious
outbreak
Dominates the Mob
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N VI WERE there demanded
IN "a y further evidence to es-
MN establish the fact that
" " sectional bitterness in