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tive, if one of the tiniest countries on the
European. map. she cannot give public
utterances to her views. But she recent
~ remarked that in the Japanese she
noted desire to learn everything about
Americans. But they were profoundly
Indifferent about the ways of womankind
in other parts of the world. But in Wash
ington she has observed consuming de-
sire to learn everything about women in
every part of the globe where the United
States holds friendly intercourse
Il have regretted very much since COM
ing to Washington that l know so little
of the exceedingly entertaining folk
lore of the loWlands, and one of nv first
investments was a number of books bear
ing on these themes / found that the
children of my friends had quite a col
lection of pretty legends of Holland, and
that everything connected with the coun-
try was devoured with eagerness. 1t
was quite an incentive to industry to have
such an audience awaiting results" said
Nine. Loudon in discussing this point
But one might observe that while
Nine. Loudon could not boast anti
quaran knowledge of the lowland folklore
she has fund of entertaining anecdote
about salient points. She has found much
diversion in tracing the evolution Of the
Dutch housewife in many of the descend
ants of the men who first sailed the
majestic river of New York with Hendrilc
She takes keen interest in the
history of the country where it touches
Dutch exploration.
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going to sea. rose to supreme heights In
piracy. Lafitte was the hero OF Byron $
great poem. THE Corsair" and the hero
of Ingraham's romance, "The Pirates OF
the Gulf which had tremendous pop
ularity back in the '4Os and sos, yet he
never sailed under the black flag, killed
only one man, and for the gallant part ne
played in the battle Of New Orleans got
the official praise ef Gen. Andrew Jackson
and President Madison.
Queer man, indeed. was Jeean Lafitte.
He made one serious mistake and only
one. That was in being born a century
too soon. Had he postponed his advent
he no doubt would have been one of the
greatest captains Of industry of the twen-
tieth century. He had genius for Or
sanization and a wonderful mastery over
men. He knew how to hit the imagina-
tion of the people. and knew how to turn
patriotism to good account. When ne got
into a tight pinch with the authorities he
engaged the best lawyers in the land to
defend him. Rascal he was In thousand
ways, but he never was stupid rascal
Clever in mind. delightful in speech,
courtly i'm manner, he had the entree to
some of the finest houses in New Orleans
throughout his career.
Never before or since has there been
such a wonderful establishment as he
built up in Barataria. He introduced
order and system into the business or
piracy and smuggling until he controlled
large share of the trade of the Missis-
sippi valley. He gave and took orders as
do the great merchant princes of today.
His warehouses bulged with the plunder
gathered by score of Independent bands
of buccaneers but the government author
tiles had as much difficulty in proving
anything against him as do the authori-
ties today in their efforts against the
trusts. What did it matter to Jean La
fitte how his lieutenants gathered their
spoil? Some of them had letters Of marque
from the republic of France and some had
commissions from the joke republic of
Cartagena to seize the vessels of Spain.
But all flags looked alike to them IL the
vessel promised rich picking, and they
were not of breed of men who had
aualms about spilling blood. Into the
waters of La Fourche and into the Bay
of Barataria they brought their prizes or
their plunder. Lafitte never bothered to
inquire what had become of the crews of
the captured craft and never asked for a
bill of lading for the goods that came to
his clearing house. To him business was
business, and he left the minor details,
such as murder, arson and theft, to the
recording angel.
Over his vassals he reigned as did a
lord of old. The barge with which he
traversed the bayous and in which he
made the trips between New Orleans and
his chief station on Grand Terre was the
finest in southern waters: the entertain
ments he gave were the richest that land
OF plenty could supply; slaves he had by
the hundreds and his life for some few
years was all that the heart of a pirate
chief could crave.
1t does not seem to matter much what
handicaps a man has in early life. If he
has brains, ambition and courage he is
certain to succeed. Jean I4afitte was a
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DepeW in Form.

q ENATOR DEPEW at a tariff dinner
- in Washington was in superb form.
His definition of memory set the table in
a roar.
Memory" said Senator Depew, lis the
feeling that steals over us when we listen
to our friends original stories."
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in whatever environment she may be
placed, and in the conservative set which
makes Bar Harbor one of the most digni-
fed fashionable resorts she finds her nat
ural element. When the handsome
daughter of James Biddle EustiS, Miss
Celeste Eustis. married the young Dutch
diplomat it was conceded that it was an
international alliance founded on pure af-
fections. The Eustis family. distinguish
ed, through several generations In the
history OF louisiana. Is not rich as wealth
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CHE Is the Daughter of
~ the Late James Biddle
Eustis of Louisiana-Made
Her Debut Under Brilliant
Auspices When Her Father
Was Ambassador to France,
and She Met Her Husband
at the French Capital-She
Is Cultured Woman and
Representative of the Old
Noblesse Of the South.
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HE summer quar-
ters of the lega-
tion OF the Neither
lands are establish
ed in Bar Harbor
and the minister,
Jonkheer Loudon,
and his attractive
wife have been
prominent figures
in the social world.
Nine. Loudon is a
dominant parsonage
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is counted today Herr Loudon is not
of the families of the low country,
though he can show a lineage reaching
far back, and honorably enough to salts
fy the most devoted ancestor Worshiper.
He had then a minor post in the Dutch
foreign service. but his subsequent career
has been of meteoric success. something
so often noticed when an ambitious Euro
pean marries q brilliant American Wom-
an. One can hardly conceive a girl train
ed more thoroughly for the leading role
in monarchical countries than this grace
full daughter of one of Americas most
accomplished diplomats and scholars.
Before coming to Washington a little
more than year ago Herr Loudon was
minister to Toxic, Japan. His conduct OF
affairs during the peace negotiations
which followed the war with Japan show
ed a high order of statescraft and Nine.
Loudon's admirable manipulation of So
cial affairs added largely to the pleasant
impression. This was madam's first
glimpse into oriental life, that is, a
participant, though she had travelled to
the east previous to her marriage, indeed
Nine. Loudon can almost claim more
foreign experience than any woman now
in Washington's official set.
The legation of the Netherlands. locat-
ed in that staid residential quarter south
of the State, War and Navy Department
on F street. is as interesting TO visit as
a museum. Evefy object has been chosen
with exquisite taste and rare discrimina-
tion and one may examine the best
bronze and cloisonne productions of
China and Japan and see some speci-
mems of needlework and the most ex-
quisite paintings in water coorS. Nine.
Loudon has learned the secret of distrib-
uting about her drawing rooms a number
of types of art in different countries and
under all regimes without imparting an
air of incongruousness. She has not fol-
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IKE that renowned
mariner, Sir. Joseph
Porter, X. C. B.,
who by sticking
close to his desk
and never going to
sea, rose to be
ruler of the queens
n a " e e, that re-
N O w n e d pirate,
Jean Lafitte, by
sticking close to
the land and never
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Nine. Loudon received her education
principally from her father. although, of
course, she went through the prescribed
training for the southern gentlewoman.
especially those of French Catholic
families. and attended the best convent
schools in New Orleans and Paris. Mr..
Eustis represented his country twice in
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they had been to much trouble to dis
pose of their plumber, and frequently
they had been forced to sell their goods
at outrageously low prices He offered
to buy their cargoes in bulk and pay
spot cash. If fortune frowned on them
he promised to be their friend and bank
er. Clothes, arms, provisions, etc, they
could buy from him for cash or on credit.
To be sure, he charged stiff price for
what he sold, but the men he had to deal
with did not like to haggle about such
trivial matters.
They had been accustomed to so much
loss Of time in disposing of their plunder
that the proposition presented by Laf1tte
appealed strongly to them. i gave quick
action to them, and that was what they
wanted. When they returned from voy
age they wanted money with which to
gamble, to drink and to buy fine clothes,
and then, when they had squandered their
earnings, they were eager to go forth
again to search the seas for new plunder.
Only a few companions of the coast, as
the pirate captains called themselves, OBJ
jected to Lafitte's plan, and one of them,
Grambo, based his opposition mainly on
the ground that he wanted to do what
Lafitte proposed, but he did not have the
means or the ability.
Lafitte put an end to Grambos preten
and he shot his rival. so quickly and with
SO much evident pleasure that he won
the admiration of all the Baratarians.
From that moment Lafitte was the ruler
of Barataria. And he was a just and an
honest leader, according to pirate and
smuggling standards. Each OF his lieu
tenants was independent SO far as his
own vessel was concerned.
He received from Lafitte prompt and
generous payment for such supplies as
he delivered to the pirate boss. In mat
ters of dispute between captains and men
Lahtte was an umpire whose decisions
were fair and just. Under his beneficent
and admirable administration piracy,
smuggling and slave trading rose to
height of success never before reached in
the Gulf of Mexico, or perhaps. in any
other part of the world.
To handle the great amount OF goods
that came to him from the fleets of the
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In New Orleans Lafitte had opened an
establishment in Royal street, and there
a fair quantity of his goods went for sale
to the public, but the bulk of his merchan-
disc was dstributely secretly to various
merchants, who were delighted to deal
with him. Far up the Mississippi valley
his trade extended and he was power
throughout the land
Those were the golden days of the
pirates and of Jean Lafitte. Wealth
poured in upon him. but it did not turn
his head. His ambition was to become a
grande seigneur. He studied all the graces
of polite society, and in manner and in
speech he appeared the polished gentle
man. Handsome, gallant, rich, there were
not a few persons of prominence and re-
finement who opened their doors to him
and were glad to have him as their guest.
But while Laftte prospered and Bara-
taria blossomed. the legitimate trade Of
New Orleans withered and honest mer-
chants were treatened with bankruptcy
Complaint after complaint was made to
the governor and to the federal authori-
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ERENCH by Birth and a Horse
L shoer by Trade, He Loved the
United States-England Tried to
Buy His Aid in the War of 1872,
but Instead He and His Bandits
Joined Jackson in Defending New
Orleans, and President Madison
Pardoned Them for All Their
Crimes. ~ Y
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pirate and smuggling bands Lafitte had to
build big warehouses and employ many
men. Stores and shops sprang up in
Barataria and prosperity smiled upon the
land. Even the agriculturists were bene-
flied, for they found a ready market for
their produce. Here is picture drawn
by woman who visited Barataria at this
time:
The blue waters of the bay were gay
with the sails of incoming and outgoing
vessels. The landing places hustled and
swarmed with activity, and capacious
warehouses stood ever gorged with mer-
chandise, and the cargoes of slaves multi
piled, for the contraband slavers were the
keenest of patrons of Barataria. The
farms. orange groves and gardens of the
family houses of the privateers trans
formed Grande Terre and the islands
around the Grand Pass into a pastoral
beauty which, with the marvellous witch
cry overhead and about, of cloud and sea
coloring, might be called truly heavenly.
A fleet of barges piled increasingly through
the maze of bayous between the La
Fourche and the Mississippi. Under cover
of night their loads were ferried over the
river and delivered to agents in New Or
leans and DOnaldsOnyille.
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portance in Vanity Fair. Countess
Moltke who is the daughter Of Nathaniel
Thayer of Boston, and Nine. LoudOn
have created roles which rival those
filled by the ambassadresses.
Nine. Loudon is under something of a
disadvantage in never having lived in her
husbands country sufficiently long to be-
come imbued with the traditions and folk
lore of the thrifty loWlanderS. She does
not speak the language but she is study
ing 1t with diligence. Under Queen Will
heimina the Dutch has paramount i'm
portance and should Jonkheer Loudon be
summoned to fill cabinet post his wife
would find it embarrassing not to know
how to converse with the queen in the
tongue of the country. The queen rigor-
Ously enforces her rule that the officials
of Holland and their families should at
least have a working knowledge of the
national tongue, even though they do not
use it familiarly. Some Washington
friends of Nine. van Swinderen relate her
account of her first interview with Will
helmna. She had perfected herself in
French. but the queen insisted on talk
ing Dutch. of which language she was
utterly ignorant. Afterward the queen
royal autograph within. and kind note
suggesting that she would find this an
easy way to acquire a conversational
knowledge of the national language. Nine.
Loudon Is not willing to run the risk of
such an experience so she is learning
Dutch and finds it an interesting task.
xA
Having lived abroad SO many years and
in the orient for almost five years, she
has been absorbed with zeal in studying
her own country people and in dis
tinguishing the traits which have been i'm
parted and those which racial A
keen judge of men and events, Nine.
Loudon makes brilliant commentaries on
things a they are. but being the wife of a
diplomat from one of the most conserva-
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Lafitte told Capt. Lockyer he would
have to consult his people, many of whom
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1t does not seem to matter much what
handicaps a man has in early life. If he
has brains, ambition and courage he is
certain to succeed. Jean Lafitte was
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To handle the great amount OF goods
lat came to him from the fleets of the
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at this time he would have bid defiance
to the governor. but he was neither. In
stead he cautioned his followers against
violence to the authorities, and, Incl
dentally, he made sure that no more
revenue officers should be sent into
Barataria without his knowledge.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
ARCTIC TEMPERATURES.
Zero Weather Is Regarded as Mild
and Agreeable.

According to eminent arctic eX-
plorers physical sensations are rela-
tive, and the mere enumeration of so
many degrees of heat or cold gives
no idea of their effect upon the sys-
tenn.
One explorer states that he should
have frozen at home in England in a
temperature that he found very COM
Portable indeed in Lapland, with his
solid diet of meat and butter and his
garments of reindeer.
The following is a correct scale of
the physical effects of cold, calcu-
lated for the latitude of 65 to 70 de-
grees north
Fifteen degrees above zero-un-
pleasantly warm.
ZerO-mild and agreeable.
Ten degrees below Zero--pleasant-
ly fresh and bracing.
Twenty degrees below zero
sharp but not severely cold. One
must keep ones fingers and toes in
motion and rub ones nose occa-
siOnally.
Thirty degrees below zero-very
cold. Particular care must be taken
of the nose and eXtremities. Plenty
of the latest food must be eaten.
Forty degrees below zero-intense.
ly cold. One must keep awake al
all hazards, muf1e up to the eyes
and test the circulation frequently
that it may not stop somewhere be.
fore one knows it.
Fifty degrees below zero-a strug.
gle for life.-Chicago Record
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
MURDER AN ISSUE IN TENNESSEE FIGHT
Prohbonisfs Say That carmak Martyr Cause
will Fight Hard to Make the State Dry.

NASHVILLE, TENN Remember
Carmack. is the rallying cry of the
temperance forces of Tennessee, who
are gathering in the capital during
the first week of the legislative ses-
sion to demand the passage of a pro-
hibition bill that will drive every
saloon from the state. Only three
Tennessee big cities are now left in
which liquor can be legally sold, and
there is every prospect that before
long Memphis, Nashville and Chat
tanooga will be rendered dry"
The assassination of Senator Car
mack, the editor of a local newspa-
per, by a political enemy has been
made an issue by the friends of state
wide prohibition. Carmack was last
year candidate for the guberna-
tOrial nomination against Governor
Patterson. He ran on a prohibition
platform, but was defeated by a mar
row margin after a heated campaign
in which the liquor traffic was the
principal issue He did not allow
his defeat at the polls to end the
campaign, but kept the prohibition
question to the forefront through
editorials in the newspaper of which
he was the editor. 1t was his de-
voted advocacy of the temperance
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
THE LATEST BELSHAZZAR EXHIBITION

The Louisville Courier-Journal
tells us of a Belshazzars feast to
date The Courier-Journal recalls
history that is more or less familiar;
that toward the close of the presi-
dental campaign of 1884 Mr. Blaine,
the republican nominee, having
swung around the circle in the west
called by the city of New York on
his way eastward to his home in
Maine; that it proved a fatal visit;
that had he gone directly to his des-
tination there seems no room to
doubt that he would have been elect
ed; that he would have escaped both
Belshazzar's feast, as a certain ban
quet came to be called, and the in
genuous DR.. Burchard; that the Bur
chard incident is still very well re-
membered; that the dinner at Del
monicOs, where the candidate was
made to sit at the table with Jay
Gould, Russell Sage and other chiefs
of predatory wealth, fell into second
place even at the time and may not
be so vivid to the retrospect; but it
played it's part in the defeat which
followed, defeat that seems to have
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

put fate upon her mettle because it
required a combination of many
agencies to effect.
The COurier-Journal thinks that
obviously the lesson was not lost
upon our latter-day republicans.
They postponed their Belshazzar's
feast until after the election. Why
they should throw off the mask so
soon and so shamelessIy is quite an
other matter. That President-elect
Taft's bottle-holder, Roosevelt, was
inveighing against Rockefeller, Har-
riman and the rest in violent terms
and tOnes-even denouncing Rookie
feller's declaring for Taft as a weak
invention of the enemy designed to
injure the republican nominees
fresh in the public mind.
Nevertheless and Notwithstanding
at the Waldorf-Astoria love-feast
three or four night ago they were all
there, the whole bunch; every
mothers son of them answered to
his name; three Rockefellers, headed
by old John D. himself, leading the
van of the Harrimans, the Morgans
and the Schwabs; Standard Oil be-
ing 1anked by Federal steel and SUI
gar preferred; Tray, Blanche and
Sweetheart, little Trusts and all.
Where, oh, where was Foraker"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

cause, declare his friends, that led
to his tragic death in duel on the
streets of Nashville. Now he is be-
ing hailed as martyr to prohibition,
and a statewide law prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of LIQUOR is
urged as the most fitting monument
to his memory.
Despite reverses they suffered in
the first conflicts with the liquor ele-
ment the leaders of the temperance
army are confident that public opin-
ion will force the present legislature
to pass a prohibition law
1t is alleged that the prohibition
bill will have more than the neces-
sary seventeen votes in the senate.
and that nearly twO-thirds of the
members of the house are state
widers, or will eventually be brought
to that way of thinking by the force
of public opinion.
The liquor dealers have not vet
given up hope that Tennessee will be
saved from the impending fate of
prohibition, and the battle between
the vets" and drys" will be
fought to finish. Opponents of pro-
hibition assert that the attempt to
make the Carmack murder an issue
is absurd, and that the assassination
Of the former senator was due to per-
sOnal difference and had nothing to
do with the liquor controversy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
DOOM OF TOUGH OLD RATS.
French Scientist Confident He Can
Knock Out Erie Basin Rodents.

French Scientist Confident He Can
Knock Out Erie Basin Rodents.
The rats that infest the ware
houses, piers and platform of the
Erie Basin, Brooklyn, have the repu-
tatiOn of being so tough as to be i'm
mune to poison. These rats break
fast on strychnine, dine on arsenic,
and make dessert on cyanide of po-
tassium, swear the longshoremen
who work at the basin.
Tough as the rats are every one
of them is doomed to death; take the
word for it of Prof. Jean Danyse, di-
rector of the meteorological labor
atory in the agricultural department
of the Pasteur Institute, Paris.
DR.. Danyse, seeking to rid the
| French fields of destructive vermin.
found that the rats were dying by
the thousand of an infectious dis
ease, which, however, is communica-
| bic to no other animal. The pro-
| fessor made a culture" from an in
fected rat and injected a minute
| quantity of the serum in a healthy
rat which promptly turned up it's
! toes. Then DR.. Denyse sent some of
his universal lightning rat poison to
Havre, and the wharf rats there par
took of it and were not.
''Pooh!" said an American sailor.
whose ship was at Marseilles, this
stuff, whatever it is, knocks out a
French rat, but the good old rats of
Erie Basin would grow fat on it."
This remark came to DR. Danvse's
ears; he had never heard of Erie
Basin, but the yankee sailors scorn
put the French savant on his mettle
He sent enough culture" to Brook
lyn to kill thousands of rats At
) o'clock in the afternoon, in the
presence of Benjamin Rockwell su-
pervisor of warehouses of the port OF
New York, Prof. Danyse's rat ex-
terminator was scattered in all
ships, warehouses, and piers in the
Erie Basin inclosure.
American scientists are Interested
in the test. They say rats DESTROY
property worth $16O,OO0,OOO annual
ly in the United States; that thew
spread disease among men, but there
has been no means known to exter-
inmate them.-New York World
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
HARD TIMES HIT SHIPPING.
Almost One Million Fewer Persons
Crossed Atlantic Than Year Ago.

OIIO 1V1IIIIOI TtWtF IefSOnS
Crossed Atlantic Than Year Ago.
The transatlantic passenger travel,
both east and west-bound, shows a
shrinkage of almost 100000 per-
sons in comparison with the figures
for the year 1907, and of about 400
900 for the year 1906, says a New
York dispatch. During the year just
closing the steamship companies car
ried a total of 1,530,16l passengers
.of whom 670,68O were est-bound
or incoming, and $50, 481 were out
going, or east-bOund. From these
figures it will be seen that 178,8O1
more persons left the United States
during 1908 than came in.