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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19

The proposition II create new Judi
Clal districts is not meeting with much
favor. The Warren Record has mis-
paragraph that represents the trend
of ooinion:
There is no need of more distr,ctc
iudses ana eaIiD
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19
AN ABLE PAPER.

There has not been written a
stronge and clearer discussion of the
relations between the State and Fed
eral governments than by President
Woodrow Wilson, in today's issue. 1t
should be read by every person who
wishes a clear conception of a prin-
ciple that President Roosevelt and
Secretary Root have tried TO change
by judicial construction. usurpa-
ton or otherwise. from the view of
the fathers to a Federal Government
with unlimited powers. The States,
says Mr. Wilson, are the ordinary
governments Of the the
Federal Government is its Instrument
only for particular purposes That
reads like one Of Jefferson's.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19

have for the orphans of Masons in
Philadelphia an ~orphanage that cost
100000 and that there are only six
girls in il. Why? The policy Of get
ung good homes for dependent chill
cTen has worked 50 well that orphan
eA}-aE n are better cared for in pri-
f@te ZONES than in institutions even
WIZ" the best equipment. A short
tlh2~ ago Mr.. Robert y. Carson, a
Fleh man Of Philadelphia, left in his
VIII a bequest Of four million dollars
Tor the care Of orphan girls in an in
@Jfution TO be established. Mr.. G.
|aFng Brace, secretary Of the Chill
1.ens Aid Society, said OF the gift.
.'1r million dollars gone wrong for
reason it is no exaggcration I,
hat there are no orphans III
'"tadelphia hat can profit by tins
'al- bingham urges the Masons,
'.'' We're the pioneers OF the insti-
MAI orphanages. TO lead IN the
held, and devote themselves
rather TO the work Of getting homes
lRe orphans thar TO getting or
..'hs INTO the institutions. There is
.'ebt that Col. Bingham Is right
declaration that orphan chill
viii he much better trained if
Ire in proper homes. and il is TO
++bed the directors Of the Oxford
'h Asylum VIII adopt this sug-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19

Speaker Graham. four years ago,
came very near getting through a
bill to equalize the number of chal-
lenges in a capital case. This year
it ought by all means to be enacted.
Every Democrat in the Legislature
is instructed TO vote for an antitrust
law with teeth. See the Democratic
State platform.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19
INDIiNA'S NEW sen .ATOR.

North Carolina people fell in love
with NJ. Kern when he visited the
xoar ans ~ I---l 49,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19

: The poet Is the prophet Of prog
reSS.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19

There can be no sound objection TO
sub section A" t. anybody except
the tobacco trust. its agents. and those
it can scare and fool.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19

The people of the South are not
wanting iii independence Of thought
ana action. They are not terrified into
being solid" They do mot divide
simply because they are honestly
agreed. 1t has not been for a sham
solidarity. forced upon them by intoi-
renee that they have c~ontended in
war and in peace.-Bishop Gambler.
BY their solidity the Southern people
work for themselves the best results,
and at the same time they thereby
make the best contributions TO the
we,l-being of the entire country. IN
a land which is filling up with multi
G of miscellaneous peoples from
every part Of the globe il is vastly i'm
portant that in one or two sections at
least there should be some stable
forms of life and civilization.-Bishop
Gambler.
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-14
of a Blow---By John Kendrick Bang.

stump to do it on, but l ye right here an now
that amt agoin tolerate seedition in this here
grocery"
"All the same, the mails been Is minutes late for
five days runnin, an | got a right free born
citizen o this here republic to say what I think O.
the way your party tends to business persisted Uncle
Silas.
My party amt blame if Jim Yokum's hoss
gifts stun in her foot last Friday, be they2" de-
manded the postmaster. Taint the fault O. con-
gress that she's been lame since-not knows
don't remember nothin in the national platform
that acceps responsibility for lame animles injured
in the persoot O. duty Besides, Jim Yokum's pro-
hybtonist; an if We think ye make party matter
out of it, blame them, not me an mine"
''Ye hadn't ought to gave him the contrack for
carryin the mails" said Sas
"He was the lowest bidder retorted the postmas-
ter.
"Ya-as, an the slowest driver" said Peterby.
That amt O my business" said the post
master. "Bsides, we're talkin about wind, Silas;
there's enough o that BLOWN around outside without
your addin' none to the general supply"
= = y =
"ft never blows around here quite as hard as it
used in Arizona said the retired army officer
who was sitting the sugar barrel Il remember
some years ago / stationed out at Phoenix and
day of those desert blasts came hiking across
the country, blowing hard that it lifted express
train bodily off the Santa Fe track and blew it across
to the tracks of the Southern Pacific IS miles away
and before the engineer knew what had happened the
rolled into Tucson as smooth as you please, and
bound east instead of west Fortunately it happened
night and all the passengers asleep, they
have been panic on board that train all right
The postmaster whistied few bars of "Tm Afraid
Go Home in the Dark" before venturing upon any
comment on the coloners contribution. Then he
threw out the observation that:
1T must ha' been quite blow to them passengers
to wake up an find themselves gon' back home agin.
What was you retired for, colonel? Heart faiure?'
NO, replied the colonel. cheerfuy. 81 was scalped
during the Apache campaign"
"Humphw calculated the postmaster. Don't seem
TO have left scars. Top o your heads as smooth
as hens egg
Yes said the colonel THAT is easily explained
You see. wig"
Wa-al," put in Bill Peavey at this point ito come
hack to BLOWN. did ever tell ye how one O. these
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-14

THE autumn breezes had been playing hob in
the vicinity Of Cape Mousam, and when the
P o. club gathered to await the coming of the
morning mail they became more or less natural
topic of conversation. 1t was Uncle 81 Peterby who
opened the discussion with the remark that it
"Blowed some last night
Yes" said Bill Peavey, who had just into
town with barrel of vinegar that was suspiciously
popular Yes, it bowed a heap up way. They
tell me that up to Skate Holler Jim Perkinses' Bred
Live Lobster sign was took clean off the verandy of
his cafee an landed half way up the front the
Baptist Church sieeple. They had call tn
hook an ladder company to git it down"
Less see, that's whar the Rev. MacSwattem
breaches, amt It. Bl?" said Peterby.
"Yeh." replied Bill Hes the fellar"
Don't see no cause for takn' down the sign, then .
said Uncle 81 Il heerd the Rev MacSwattem holdn'
forth over the Ingieside camp meetn' one night
lass summer, an he's briier all right Ye could
hear the people sizzln afore he got half way through
his firstly
Look out thar, ST." came the postmaster's voice
from behind the counter. ITS aRin the rules O. rhis
here club intereck religion into these mere acro-
nies As fedral Office holder l can't have this here
Office o. mine used fer castin slurs on no American
citizens, whatever their previous condition of spirit
uous servitood This here Office is for the people, of
the people and by the people. b'goshl"
Il want maxim criticisms o nobody's religion I"
retored Uncle 81 i didn't say them Holsters didn't
need brIin, All l says is that such things is the
facts.
=
"Ma-al its facts as makes trouble in all kinds of
arguments" said the postmaster "an' I'll thank ye
kindly to leave en- out in the future Speakn' of the
wind, though, they was feller in here this mornn'
that says the brass eagles been blowed off the town
hall up Hikem Corners, an is now standin' on his
head top 0 Hank Wilburs hayrick"
Taint the first time the Merican eagles been
stood his head under this administration" muttered
Uncle Silas still smartng under the postmasters re-
buke.
"ThatH do, Silas Peterby," said the postmaster.
1--WE don't offensive part sanship here neither
keep open house here an within these walls all men
IS born free and equal IN the persoot of life liberty an
politics. If ye want to make invijious remarks about
how an my friends down to Washn'ton is rlnnin'
this vment ye can 20 into the woods an find
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-14

in half scairt sort o way and then flew off an
perched the top of a pine tree, swayin in the
branches like tn old bobolink he was"
- -
"No, Jed he didn't do none O them things" said
Peavey. This here bein' prohibition state, ye don't
such animes the ye describe around
here-that is say, don't nothn like that,
though | don't deny that you see EN-. What a man
in his own private business, an amt the kind
of feller to go pokin my into that. This here
deer o mine gentlemen, was reg'lar-nothin about
him suggest Jeds cider bar but reg1ar straight
forward buck. He didn't climb trees, disappear
down woodchuck hole chrpn' for his mate to come
an bring him He just hit it up along his
private particular trail the minute his told him
that acomin, an he KEEP amovn' along for four
mortal hours without my gettin' him anywhere where
/ could get line him. Meanwhile the skyd got
kind o couded over an if I'd been thinkin less about
landin' that thar buck an more of home an mother
I'd ha' knowed thered be suthn' doing in the wind
line afore long. But ye know how it is--when your
minds sot thing all sorts of other things can
be happenin under your very nose an ye don't take
ptclar notice of EN- So in spite o the fact that
d big hurricane was comm up from the sea KEEP on
after Mr.. Buck. Bimeby the wind come, an, gosh
tamey the way it whstled through them trees would
ha turned the Portland fife corpse green with envy,
but it didn't have no effect No. sir; not even
when couple o big pine right ahead O me
pulled up by the roots an carried pkin' away through
the sky like pair O airy planes with sheriff after
EN-. l wanted that thar buck, wind no wind, an
he knowed it well as l did As said afore he was
a knowin old bird, an he alters managed to keep out
O range of my gun, if he was in range he'd fix it
SOS they alters big fat tree trunk bowlder
of some sort atween u.s.
''Wa-a sir, it went that way, as / says for four
hours" continued Bill, "an' then come about sun
down the wind began a-scurryin through them woods
like if it meant to carry EN- away. The buck
wa mt moren FIVE rods ahead O me- the wind BLOWN
in my direction, when all of sudden he got behind
a big rock stopped movn' altogether, turned around
and stickin his head up the top O the bowder,
began a-starin at me- like if he fascinated by
what he saw
Must ha' been afore ye lost your looks" vouch-
safed the postmaster.
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-14

here October hurricanes saved my life from a
Dustin big black bar, back in 1922"
Don't know ye hev" said the postmaster
wearily.
1t the year old Horiss Greeley was runnin for
president" began Bill
"Walkin, ye mean, don't ye Bill?" laughed the
postmaster.
'Wa-al walkin' running, he gon' some; but
that haint nothn to dc with the story, said Peavey
lie was great man, Horiss was, an he knowed
more about farmin in his little finger than any O these
scientific magazine made soil tillers we find yawpin
round the country these days teachin felers how
to suck eggs Wa-al, at any rate it around cleo
ton day, an | htched up my team an done my duty
by my country by goin up to the town hail. votin for
Horss, an parin off with half dozen other fellers
that was too tired to go to the polls Then l come
home, an took down that old musket O mine that
brought home from the war; an started for the woods
Seem as how 1t national holiday thought I'd
go out an bag few deer, an mebbe brace o pat
ridges into the bargain
You alters does suthin throwed in with what
We git" suggested the postmaster
That's why come here for my dry groceries, Jed, .
laughed Peavey 4 don't git green tradin stamps
here, but do git fine quality O white beach sand in
my sugar, an them prunes O. yours
We amt discussin prunes-not as l knows on .
retorted the postmaster, but if we was would rise
porium o mine IS generally year older n they was
when ye got EN- afore ye think o payn' for em even
when ye pay with them doorknobs ye bring in here
disguised as strickly fresh eggs"
WaivIn these here ersnalities an comm back to
my story, said Bill with my gun in hand | started
Tor the woods back on Mousam mountain an pretty
soon got on the trail of big buck an derned good
locker ne was, too Tall and graceful an smart as
steel trap 1t made my mouth water to look at him.
an ne want only good eatn, either He had pair
horns settin' on TIL top of his head that knowed
on sight could sell to summer boarder in need
OF hatrack before the next season was over for S3
but II thought | was goin' to land em without no
trouble 1 soon found out my mistake. He was a
KNOWN old Bird
That's what thought he'd turn out afore you got
through with him. Bill" grinned the postmaster.
Amt never no fakin about you be there eh? This
here buck o Bills friends and feller citizens,
bird an when he Bill acomin suppose he barked
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-14
w T A LIONS HEART
ND EoRMERLY CHEF OF THE U s. SECRET SERVICE
I. S. CRET SERVICE

the Ohio penitentary he had spent most OF the u1'
in Jail
Mason was brought to trial before Commissions
Shields in New York city charge OF naVns
passed counterfeit money on Albert Ensor OF Rocnes
ter He was quickly convicted, and when ne was
asked if he had anything to say why the sentence OF
the should not be passed upon him rePieo Oy
calling the commissioner all the vile names that came
to his mind He was sentenced to serve Il years III
the penitcntary at Albany.
His life in prison surpassed anything OF the kind OF
which I have ever read. Almost the first thing ne
did was to knock down all the guards within reach y
huge man. with broad powerful shoulders, even the
other prisoners suffered at his hands, and he was
chained hand and foot to the stone floor of dark
cell, like ugly animal He had suffered this pun
ishment for week when the warden a kindly Old
man, ordered that he be unclaimed and brought up
stairs to his Office.
The shackles were taken from Mason's arms and
legs. So stiff his joints that he could hardly
walk, but with difficulty he hobbled to the room IN
which sat the warden.
Mason, you have had pretty hard time" began
the kindly official Aren't you ready to behave like
man and receive the treatment that men gets"
Mason spit in the wardens face without saying
word He was taken back the dark cell and
chained to the floor.
A month passed by and again the warden sent for
him Asked if he was not ready to be good Mason
and swore that if he were let loose he would kill
everybody about the place
To make long story short, Mason spent the entire
II years in Albany prison chained to the floor. He
was given a mattress to lie on, and number OF
times was asked if he was ready to obey the
rules and up into the daylight But he refused
surrender and left the dark cell permanently only
at the expiration of his term
When he was released from prison the first thing
he did to visit my Office in the postofhce
building.
"Do you remember me?" he asked
"Yes" said l. "you are George Albert Mason. What
do you wantf"
81 want to know where Washburne is I haven't
anything against you but l going kill Wash
burne the first time see him"
Mr.. Washburne at that time had the contract for
building large reservoir in Westchester county,
New York, but told Mason thought his old enemy
was dead
Well" he replied, IF he isn't dead III kill him"
Without saying another word Mason left the Office
and never heard of him again. He never molested
Mr.. Washburne, who is still alive
1 always thought Peter Mccartney sized Mason up
about right. Old Pete, who the years crept over
him to look and more like German
professor Russian admiral, finally fell into the
hands of the police and served term prison While
in jail he heard how the man who betrayed him in
St. Louis had chosen remain chained to the floor
of dark cell rather than promise to be good and
remain in the daylight
That's just like Mason" said he Hes got the
courage of lion, but the judgment Of jackass He
doesn't know enough to eat good food"
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-14


leaving in his will $5,000000 their child ben sitter
his death, and 81 100000 to her. She died in 1894
1t after Kttys divorce from Ballard and prior
her marriage to Terry that we found am envelope
bearing her name and New York address in George
Albert Masons pocket We went to her house and
asked what it meant.
"You insult me" she replied by asking such a
question"
we are not here to insult you," said, but to
find out what you know about George Albert Mason
Il know he is a fine gentleman" said she If that
will help you any.
DO you know that he is wanted in Rochester on a
charge of counterfetng?y l asked-which was true.
Il know nothing of the kind she replied so far
| know he is gentleman How he makes living
is a question concerning which l have never in
quired"
It evident that if Kitty knew anything to the
discred of Mason she ready to tell it, so we
took her to the Bleecker street Office of the secret
service, not prisoner but as witness, and then
went back to search her rooms In her bedroom was
an old fashioned wooden bed with posts perhaps four
inches square at the bottom and no casters. Under
of the bedposts found $1,000 in big counter
felt bills
Kitty was told of the discovery and asked for an
explanation. She said she knew the money there,
but denied all knowledge of its spurious nature. She
said Mason had given it to her to keep for him and
she supposed it genuine money. She adhered
rgidly to this story and after a week she was re-
leased.
About this time received orders from Washington
go Toronto and look up Mason's record in Can
ada. found amazing array of facts. First of all
| learned that Mason was one of the men who forced
entrance into Secretary Stewards house the night
President Lincoln assassinated and tried to muir
der the secretary of state. l don't know whether
Chief Washburne knew this before l went to Canada
but | didn't, and he never told A man named
Payne was the who actually did the stabbing in
the Seward house, but Mason with him and for
his part in the affair sentenced to death. Presi
dent Johnson committed his sentence to 20 years
Imprisonment, and, after serving few years in the
pententiary at Columbus o., President Grant par
doned him.
I learned that prior to the assassination of Pres
dent Lincoln Mason of the conspirators who
the assassination of the chief officers of the federal
northern cities.
Throughout all of these criminal proceedings Mason
appeared purely mercenary. Born in England
and reared in Canada he had neither interest in the
south share in the animosity of any of its mis-
taken citizens. He simply willing to kill Seward
or burn New York for a financial consideration.
1 also learned in Toronto that Mason had been
arrested in the Dominion of Canada 81 times and
convicted 48 times. His offenses included almost all
of the misdemeanors and minor crimes, as we'll as
some of serious nature. He had fought, stolen,
assaulted with intent kill robbed in the highway,
rifed houses by forcing entrance at night and
forged few pieces of paper. Since his release from
The San Francisco call., 1909-02-14
7 II E.

Copyrighted 1905. by A. L. Drummond l. BensOn)
7T BIG, square jawed, keen eyed man entered
IA the Office of Elmer Washburne. chief of the
United States secret service, in Washington
late in the year 1874 and introduced himself
as George Albert Mason He declined to tell his
business to anybody but the chief and said he would
speak to Mr. Washburne only behind closed doors.
He was shown into an inner Office
Chief said he what would you give get hold
Of Peter AIcCartney:"
Mr Washburne smiled. Peter Mccartney was per-
haps the most wanted man Of his kind in America. A
few years later Missouri sheriff might as well have
been asked what he would give to get hold of Jesse
James Mccartney, sought as he was on every hand,
was not only hard catch but when trapped he had
habit Of refusing to stay caught So expert Jail
breaker was he that of sheer humor, he once
stood behind the bars in a ST. Louis prison and
told chief Of the secret service that he would call
upon him at his hotel at 10 o'clock that night More
than that he kept the engagement to the great aston
ishment Of the chief
q would pay good big reward to get Peter Nc
Cartney," replied Mr.. Washburne But 1 would
want to see my man first and be sure there was no
mistake. Why? Can you get him?"
eyes I Appoint a special officer and give
me man 10 help me and will bring Mccartney in. "
The appointment was made and an operative named
Duczworth was sent out with Mason to make the
arrest, which was TO take place in St. Louis.
Now word two about Mccartney. If ever
there was jack of all trades in crime he was one
and he master OF all He wonderfully
expert counterfeiter. He had just put imita-
ton OF s. note issued by the Traders national bank
Of, Chicago that bafaed everybody but experts Nor
did he, ike many counterfeiters know only part
Of his trade He was fine chemist, good engraver
of plates and a good printer
When business became bad in the counterfetng
line Pete could turn a hand burglary and do a
job Of safe blowing or house breaking in a manner
that stamped him amateur Once he set up shop
as dentist but at this he failed The only peaceful
pursuit at which he was ever known to prosper was
public lecturer There may be still living in the
west some persons who will recall shaggy bearded
speaker who gave minute directions with regard to
how TO detect counterfeit money Pete was the man
though on such occasions he never went under the
name Of Mccartney. At the conclusion of each
lecture 1t his custom to go about town and pass
counterfeit right and left Why he did these things
unless from spirit of daredeviltry and humor,
have never been able to figure out. All know is
that he did them It is true that in this way he
distributed good deal OF counterfeit money but that
IS explanation. There are safer and better ways
Of putting bad bills into circulation
It was 10 trap this man that Mason and Duckwortt
set out from Washington the long journey to St
Louis. Mason knew Mccartney and believed he had
his confidence The plan for Mason to discover
the room in which Mccartney did his work. lead