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Next in degree of adherence in the
minds of the letter handlers is the poet
ical crank He is strongly impregnated
with the idea that all the world loves a
poet. and that. above all, postal clerks
need some intellectual refreShment To
ameIiorate the hard grind of daily toll.
One of these disciples of Silas Wegg car
oiled as follows lately:
oh carrier with the willing feet.
Deliver this Fiftieth street:
The number. Thirteen twenty four;
The town. York and on the door
You'll find. set in silver frame.
That which you seek-a persons name
James Epson Strong-who'd want a better:
And it's to him ! send this letter.
Another allowed himself to overflow
with fra gment built on the same lines
as the effervescent college yell. 1t ran:
'.Tarper's. Harper's,
in Franklin square,
New York. New York.
With haste and care.
Tie envelope was bulky and surel: held
Observation-Disclosures poem on
sprine-but whether that iabolcal bark
wolf on the war trail was to drive the
post Office to unusual exertions in for
warding the letter. or whether II was TO
convince the publishers that the author
was a rough-and-ready genius of the
west, who would not brook refusal or
copy, can only be conjectured.
1t would be supposed that the crank
bent on addressing letter to himself
and have it come back after a journey
around the world resembling a porus
plaster from postmarks is dead. 1t has
been announced officially scores of times
that letters mailed for such q purpose
will be returned to the writer by the
speediest route-that is. by local carrier.
Still, the round-the-world crank is on the
hustle. and as eagerly bent on wasting
postage stamps. In fact. he is becom-
ing more ambitious. and desires to zig
rag his letters around the globe. as wit
ness the following on the end of a let
Ter mailed here only few days ago:
ITO the postma ster: l want this letter
to go around the world. II possible take
i'm Japan, India, Australia, some part of
Africa as many of the countries of Eu-
rope as convenient. and also South
America. say Rio Janeiro Sixty cents
ought to do it,
Two thirty-cent stamps were on the en-
velope. but the letter did not go on the
circuit
a wholly inexplicable piece of crankism
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TIE R4Z77ZE az NEW ORLEHV5

Representatives, and in the first federal
election Jackson was sent to Congress.
The following year, there being vacancy
in the Senate. he became United States
senator. but he resigned the office in
few months and was elected justice of the
supreme court of Tennessee. He retain
ed the justiceship six years, but they
were not without strife Once he got into
a bitter contest with John Sewer. the
noted Nolichucky Jack who was the
father OF Tennessee and it's first governor.
Each aspired to the major generalship of
the militia, and Jackson Won 1t was not
an empty honor. for the Indians We're
troublesome. Sewer was the greatest In
dian fighter America ever has known. and
to be defeated by young and inexperi-
enced man was sore blow to the old
warrior.
Mrs Jackson managed the farm and
was remarkably successful. Gen. Jackson
devoted his attention to the bench and
politics. AS side line he bought one of
Truxton-and raced him against the best
the west could furnish. Out of match
between TruXtOn and Ploughboy develop
ed the duel with Charles Dickinson. Dick
inson was one of the handsomest men in
the state. wild and dissipated, and the
best shot In Tennessee. He was op-
posed to Jackson and. smarting under his
losses on Ploughboy. he made remarks in
tavern affecting Mrs. Jackson When
Jackson called him to account he apoIo-
eized. saying he had been intoxicated
and had no knowledge of what he said.
Agc.n while in liquor Dickinson used Of
fensive terms. Again there were eX-
plantations. Next one of Dickinsons
friends assailed Jackson. bringing Dick
inson into the affair as authority for his
statement. Jackson thereupon branded
Dickinson as poltroon and Dickinson
replied by calling Jackson coward
afraid to meet him on the field of honor
Dueling was common and Jackson
promptly challenged Dickinson
The place fer the meeting was about
forty miles from Nashville. On the way
to the duelng ground Dickinson amused
himself by giving brilliant exhibitions of
his skill with the pistol. leaving instruc-
tons to have Jackson Informed OF his
work when he came along.
But this did not affect Jackson's COM
posture. He didn't have a man with
pistol in front of him when he shot at
that mark. did he?" he would ask
Jackson had determined to let Didkin-
son have the first shot. They met in a
clearing in a poplar forest. Gen. Over
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A SOURCE OF DISEASE.
Russian street fruit vendor. His
all stages Of unripeness and decay.
and his victims are numbered In thou
sands.
or their medicines and dislnfectants One
understands. after reading it. why the
death rate is so terribly high.
Some towns in the Caucasus. tired of
trying to teach the people what medicines
they are to take. have resorted to dis
;r.buting. gratis. hastily filtered water at
the cost OF S1,J0), 600 psr town. and dou-
bling the price of vodka so that the people
could not afford to buy so much. The re-
suits are not what the municipality eX
pected. for the people refuse TO drink the
filtered water ard raid the vodka stores.
thus getting 1t for nothing. But there
are millions OF people VINO apply 10
remedy. They believe the cholera is some
evil spirit Who is hungry for human vic
tins. AS he Is a spirit and powerful. he
will not go away until he, has had "a
many people as he wants. Those who
hold this pagan theory refuse even to
separate the sick from the whole. Their
argument Is that the more people die of
cholera the better because the evil spirit
will be appeased the sooner and go away
These people resist the doctors. turn
away nurses and organize the Cholera
riots which are perhaps the worst fea-
t,Ire of the whole business. Whole vii
lagos rise against the doctors. nurses and
disinfectors whom the government has
sent TO the stricken districts. They are
mobbed. beaten and thrown into ponds
and rivers. their instruments are broken
and their medicines and disinfectants
poured out into the nearest pond or river
The result is that the police arrive fol-
lowed by Cossacks, who "quieten'' the
disorders by shutting the people up or
using the knout.
In many cases persons who have moth
ing tn do with doctors share the mob
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bling. for to be we'll clothed often causes
one to be mistaken for a doctor. Little
wonder that the Red Cross Society cannot
persuade doctors to go to the provinces.
The other day forty doctors were adver-
tsed for. They We're to be paid $50 per
month and travelling expenses, but only
ten applied and, try they will, the
authorities cannot fill the remaining thir-
ty vacancies
In the government of Sumara. where the
epidemic is very bad. the peasants have
risen even against the "popes'' or village
priests. They seem to have got hold of
the idea that the popes spread the cholera
in order to make money out of funerals.
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and carry off the patients. In many
places, Infatuated by failure, they
have set fire to the buildings, thereby
forcing the doctors and nurses to carry
the patients out.
Meanwhile. the liberal press complains
bitterly that the government is doing
nothing to combat this dread visitor, and
that they even put difficulties in the doc
tors way. One paper declares that over
10000 people have died in Russia during
the summer. simply because IL is no
body's duty to see that towns and villages
are kept clean and healthy So far the
government has resorted to its one remedy
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Cranks Who Annoy Uncle Sans Mail Clerks

was developed by letter that apparently
had no address where addresses usually
are. But in the writing i'm one corner
was scraWled:
Heat envelope and find address,.
When the letter was held to a gas Set
an address that had been written In in
visible ink was drawn out by the heat.
Strangely enough, the letter was marked
important
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1T does seem an easy matter to
properly address a letter in order
that it may slip through Uncle
Sans postal mill as speedily and
safely as possible. No racking OF
the intellect is required in the process,
and but little physical eXertion-simply
the inscribing Of name and address
Vet in the face of this, ask the man
who superintends the sorting OF the
mail in the city post Office about it. and
if he does not throw up his hands and
feryently cry. .'Our lucky stars pre-
serve us from those who don or won
know how to address a letter" it Will
be because he is too busy TO DO moro
than think his opinion.
OF the thousands Of letters which go
through the office weekly 1t Is sur
prising to learn that hundreds or them'
through faulty addresses. cause the
most Office people almost as much
trouble as the handling Of those that
are in proper form. And the acts OF
THIS same class are also the most po-
tent factor in keeping the wheels OF
industry humming In the dead letter
Office all the year round.
Carelessress on the part OF letter
writer's is the cause Of the appearance
of most of these bothersome missives.
and in this line Washington is entitled
to a seat in the grandstand. as the rec
ords of the office will show. 1T Is the
careless person who drops letter
adorned with a stamp but unadorneo
with an address, into the box; 1t Is a
kindred spirit who mails a letter to a
friend in some distant city which the
writer locates in a state having no
such city within Its borders.
It is one with similar failing who
directs his letter to a certain street ana
leaves a blank space below for the post
office officials to fill in any city or town
it may occur to them the street is stu
ated in. 1t is carelessness that brings
to the post Office neatly addressed and
stamped envelope which Is, however. I'M
sealed and destitute OF contents. just the
sort of an affair to cause a fearful
breach between two correspondents. one
angry because of an unanswered letter
and the other indignant because his tale
of the empty envelope is discredited.
But to tell of the devious and aggravat-
Ing wavs of the careless letter writer
would take day in itself
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lection into the water And yet the
people in whose family cholera has made
raids do not hesitate TO eat unripe fruit
or drink the dirtiest water from the sew
ers. In the towns boiled water and tea
are distributed free in the streets. Huge
urns OF II stand at the corners, and pass
ers-by are invited 10 drink it.
Yet even in st. Petersburg, where
cholera has ragged every autumn for the
last three years. the workingmen turn
away from the boiled water TO take
long drink out of the canals. which are
also the sewers of the city. They are en-
couraged in this b. the priests, who re-
Gently held ceremony in barge and
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the victims of the lack of sanitation.
European Russia possesses 49, cities.
OF these just $40 can boast Il water
supply. and only twenty-seven are
drained. None Of the Siberian or Ash
attic towns have any drainage at all: but
We will deal with the cholera in Euro
pean Russia, which Is in constant inter
course with the civilized world, and
must. sooner or later. spread the chol
era germs among her neighbors.
England has forgotten the horrors of
plague and cholera America never
knew them. In medieval Europe they
were almost yearly visitors. ha wing
their imprint on history's pages. TO be
read by posterity with horror. The
scenes TO be witnessed in Russia today
might be pages torn out of these an
nails.
In south Russia the people suffer
more than elsewhere. falling i'll by the
thousand. Towns. settlements and Nl-
lagos are attacked with impartiality.
The coal fields OF the Don district are
ike one huge battlefield. Four thou
sand miners persisted there within one
week. Those who had still the strength
10 do SO. ran away with their wives and
children. leaving all their earthly pos
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approaching their patients and wore kid
gloves and linen dresses, which were con-
stantly disinfected with the above mix-
turc All linen was washed with I've. and
one cottage In each village was set apart
for the sick and another as a place of
quarantine for those arriving from
cholera stricken villages.
In 1910 Russian villages can boast no
such accommodation. The peasants scorn
isolation and. instead of ipecacuanha
weak tea and Cruel. resort to a concoc
ton of equal parts Of virgin vinegar
naphtha. ammonia, turpentine and cam
phor plus big pinch of powdered pen
per. This stuff is given TO the patient in
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III o l. K r 4. that
dread Isl a S c
which. happily. is
scarcely more than
a name in Amer
lea, is again reap
ing her harvest in
Russia. Over $50
900 persons have
been attacked by
il during the pa st
SIX weeks. Half
of them have died.
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y THE minds OF
most Americans
Andrew Jackson is
pictured as tall
and powerful. slen-
der but strong,
wiry and untiring.
Maybe his sobri-
quot "Old Hick-
DRY" gives color
to this view. The
real Andrew Jack
son was far differ
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!: x
How he lived for the next few years is
not known. There is a tradition that he
served for a time as schoolmaster. Hard
must have been the lot Of any pupils of
that hot-tempered youth. Tradition has
it. too. that when he took short course
in Queens College. at Charlotte, the tail
of his shirt firted out of holes in his
trousers. SO ragged was he. When he was
nineteen he began to study law. and when
he was twenty-three he went over the
mountains into what now is Tennessee.
his friend. john McNairy, having been
appointed Judge and young Jackson
having been made solicitor general or
prosecuting attorney for the whole region,
with headquarters at Nashville.
If there was one Office in the whole ter
r1tory that was hazardous it was that of
solicitor general. There were a good
many wild characters i'm that new coun-
prosecuted them in criminal cases or
acted for the ether side I'm civil cases as
personal enemy. Every one went armed
a session of court rarely ended without
an encounter, IL not q killing. 1t required
brave man to act as prosecuting attor-
ney. 1t was not long before Jackson was
not only feared but respected Every one
knew he would fight.
He was very tall and very thin. but re-
markaby strong He had a passion for
wrestling. He had a passi1n. too. to
make Roadway in the world Out of his
earnings he bought land and laid the basis
for a large estate. Then he fell in love.
He had lived for a short time in the
nome Of the Widow Done!son. whose
daughter Rachel. had been deserted by
her husband. Lewis Richards. From Vir-
ginia, whittier Robards had gone, came a
printed report that Robards had obtained
a divorce. Accepting the report as true.
Jackson and Rachel Richards married
Months after their marriage Robards re-
turned to Nashville. Then it was tuscov-
cred that at the time Of Jackson's mar
rage the divorce decree had not been
granted. but ii had been issued shortly
before Robards left Virginia. Jackson and
his wife were remarked at once bu,
thereafter Jackson's political enemies
used this affair to discredit him. tortur-
Ing and twisting the facts in the most ma
hgn way. and never failing to drive him
to frenzy
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There could be no such deal four years
later. Then he was elected by an over
whelming majority, and again four years
later He was not a great statesman. but
he was good President. and few men
left a greater impress on his time. Never
did he lose the affections of the people.
He was able to choose his successor.
Martin Van Buren,, and had much to co
with the selection of Polk to follow Van
Buren,.
When he retired from the presidency
he had only $40 in the world aside from
few hundred acres OF his once big es-
tate. Several times he met financial re
verses. He never was known to weep
but twice. once when his wife died and
once when an old friend to whom he APP
piled for loan of $4,000 sent the money
and tried as delicately as he could to get
the old soldier to accept Ii as a gift.
Sturdy and unbending, he retained his
marvellous will power to the end. He was
but a shell when the summons came. one
lung being gone completely and only
portion of the other remaining. Perhaps
nothing i'm all his career was more won
derful than his hold on life, for. although
he bled from the lungs every day for
years although he was thin almost 10
emaciation. he lived to be more than
sevnnty-seven.
Copyright. 1910, by Richard SpillansD
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DEASAN rs Who Are
l Dying. by Thousands
Insist on Drinking Filthy
Water and Refuse to Take
Medicine or Use Disinfect-
ants Doctors and Nurses
Sent by the Government
Mobbed and Driven From
the Villages - Even Priests
Are Blamed for Spreading
the Disease Weird Home
Remedies Administered in
Veterinary Doses Kill Where
Cholera Might Spare-Home-
less Children w a ndering
About the Country Driven
From Villages for Fear of
Infection.
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doses At for a horse. Even some of the
popular papers gravely print this pre-
use 1t on cholera-Stricken friends and
have nothing whatever to do with doctors
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the waste box, but Uncle Sans orders are
to use all possible means to find the party
to whom a letter is addressed. So finally
a reformed puzzler in the office deciphered
the address to be: Fred H. Adams. Jack
son, Tenn.
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In many cases the villagers met together
and sentenced the pope to death as a
punishment for his cupidity The result
is that priests as well as doctors nee from
the villages, so that the dead are ourleo
without any religious services
The rioters show themselves most hos
tile toward the cholera barracks when
have been imprOvised in some oistrlcts'
When patients are carried there by 1orce
crowds demand that they should De given
IN to their families. When TINS Is
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Special CORRESPONDENCE OF The Star.
ST. PETERSBURG. September o. 1910.
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AS Tennessee grew Jackson prospered
When the state was admitted to the Union
n 1876 he owned more than 10000 acres
" land. and had established his famous
lone. the Hermitage. Tennessee was en-
titled to but one member of the House of
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Ignorance also plays its part In the
letter game, as few select specimens
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-03
NAY AMEND RULES
At BATHING BEACH
Opening Recommended to
Be One Month Earlier This
Year Than Last.

In view Of the several accidents which
occurred during the month of June,
Dr.. " 2. Hudson. superintendent of
the bathing beach. in his annual report
submitted 70 The Commissioners today
recommends that the beach be opened
June 1 instead Of July I, as was the
case last year
Until the close Of school the hours
suggested by Dr. Hudson are from >
10 p m daily except Saturdays and
Sundays, when the beach VIII remain
open all day During the vacation
period the beacf viii be al the disposal
Of the boys from early morning until
evening. except OF Mondays, Wednes-
days. and Fridays. when from a. IN
until 10 a. n and from p n until
D m Fl viii be given over 70 the
exclusive use Of women and their es-
corts.
IN my opinion says Dr. Hudson.
the pools are clearly the solution Of
the bathing problem IN the District
This was clearly demonstrated BY the
fact that there was but one accident 10
children swimming in the river after the
pools were opened"
DIT Hudson recommends that this
branch OF the Government service be
called the Municipal swimming pools in
stead Of the bathing beach
The avers Ee daily attendance last year
was z5S. and the conduct Of the boys.
il is said was exceptionally good
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-03
SILVER LEAF LARD, ID. -. lie
Plain BuCkWheat

10-lb. bag reduced to. .--... soc
Pure Maple Syrup,
bottle - 15c and 35e
Louisiana Pure Cane Syrup.
can $1,000 10c, I5c, 20c, Soc, CSC
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Died.

HARRISON Sunday. January ? 1910 =.
1o-30 a m. a. her residence. I70s r street
northwest, AMELIA CAN'T HARRIS.
daughter o. the late John Bowie Of Ravens
wood, Prince George county, and widow
Of Dr. Charles Morris Bainbridge Harris.
Mrs. Harris was born IN Prince George
county Nd in 1ss5- and lived there Until
her marriage in 1889. when she came with
her husband 20 Washington She was a
resident % the District for forty years Her
death followed an illness OF two weeks. and
was due 20 the inhruities q age. Mrs.
Harris IS survived BY one daughter and
one son
2IURRAY-on Sunday. January . 1910. A.
D. m. AT her residence S70a q street
northwest. MARY 1 MURRAY. wife Of
Joseph g. Murray
Mrs. Murray was born IN Washington and
was a resident an her life Her death
came after an Illness % two weeks she
s survived By her husband, four sons, and
three daughters.
CARRICE-On SUNDAY. January . 1910. a.
his restdepce- go Fifteenth street south
east. at $40 O'Clock a. m JOHN r CAR
RICK beloved husband Of Laura n. car
rick.
Funeral from Sixth Presbyterian Church.
sixth and streets southwest. On Tuesday.
January 4 $40, al O'Clock D. m
ARRICK-Msnbers Of CapitsJ Councfl 10
2. J o Z 4 II are requested 10 attend
The funeral % our late brother. J. r CAR
~ On LlsSlay' January I, 1910 a.
,. HnS az 20 Fifteenth street southeast
MORRISOS-on Sunday. January !. 1910
NARY ELIZABETH. beloved VIE OF How
ard " Morrison. at her residence in
Hyattsyille, Nd, IN the ffty-seventh year
Notice q funeral hereafter. tic
sCOTT-On Sunday. January >. 1910. a. his
residence, 2IGZ H street northwest. VAL
Funeral Tuesday. January / 1910. A. ?
o'clock D n Internent 81 Rock Creek
CeuErery- II"
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DeathA

Patrick RatiSaa. s. years. Home FOR
Aged. Little Sisters Of Poor
William b shaw. 81 years. -5-s Cniver-
Sly place. u g.
Henry n. Rothery. p years, United
States Soldiers Home D. g.
Mary NJ Simpson. o. wears. I-f5 Seven
reentE street southeast
Hannah r crosby. 50 years. rs Th{-r7
street northwest.
Gladys NJ MacEey, : years. sc H street
northeast
Catherine a. Hunt. % years. e72 Fourth
street southeast
Mary g BlackfsUC0, 80 years. Gil West
minister street northwest
Stephen r. FrawIey. 90 years. S16 G
street southwest
Runnion NJ Patrick - years. 1872 Cliff
ton street northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-03
Special Notices.

THE WASHINGTON MARKET COM
PANY-The annual meeting Of tbs
stockholders Of The Washington Market
Company VIII be held in the Office Of the
Company, in the Seventh street wing %
Center Market. IN the City OF Washing
ton. y. g. al = O'CLOCK NOON on the
first Monday. being the THIRD DAY Or
JANUARY. 1910 for the choice Of IhiT-
teen directors 10 serve the ensuing year.
a nd to act on any other subject within
the power Of the corporation that may
be brought before the meeting
FRANK G. WILKINS, Secretary.
Washington, D c. December ., 1913
de-0-eOd-st
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