The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01

this was left on the grass. the chill
dren being detailed TO sprinkle II from
the stream, and a man TO guard II.
Work was expected from every ono
in the community during the six days
OF the week. but Saturday was perhaps
the hardest day OF ALL for then shoes
had to be hlackened clothes mended
and as much food as possible cooked
10 last over Sunday. The next morn
Ing found every one in church. and II
was an unheard-of thing for a man to
attempt 10 sell anything on the Sab
bath. The afternoon was spent In
strolling in the parks and along the
roads
Another home product that meant
fun well work to the boys and
| girls and the women of the village was
heech-nut oil In the fall of the year
permission was given us all by the
! government to gather the nuts in the
national forests Later they were car
| Red 20 the mills where the oil was
| extracted These nutt!ng parties in
| the forests offered great opportunities
| for counting to the young men of tho
| village.
with the exception OF meat-and
that was eaten only once or twice a
week-practically all our food was OF
| home production. Even our sugar was
| made from tho great quantities OF
heets grown on our farms. Lumber
was scarce article. and generally only
the skeleton OF house was made OF
wood. The walls and roof were then
filled In with cement made from the
rock that abounds In that section. The
poorer peasants. however, often lived
in huts OF clay and straw. A house
with n single roof was never seen,
for the matched roofs were made of
straw and cement laid in strips like
a n
Ny journey across the Atlantic was
not the most pleasant imaginable, al
though I spent most OF the time on
deck We came over In the steerage
and brought with us our bedding and
! mattress Twice a day we went to
the kitchen for our rations, though
most OF the steerage passengers were
too sick to eat. My parents remained
in Germany and travelled with party
of friends TO New York. From there
went West through Louisville, up
the Ohio 10 Rockport. Ind. America
was far greater than had ina gined,
for IL was quite a usual thing for a
villager in our little German town to
say, II you see my John in New York
give him my love- The possibilities
OF the United States seemed stupendous,
for in our little village the outside
world played little part"
Denies He's n Foreigner.
ANY claim that my birth in British
Honduras makes me foreigner seems
more or less unfair and ridiculous to
me-" said Emmett Wilson new member
from Pensacola, Fla. MY parents and
grandparents were born in this coun-
try and, in fact, the family traditions
for some little time back are all centred
around the United States For period
of about six years my father owned n
half interest in big sugar cane planta-
ton in Belize, British Honduras. Gen.
trail America. Still retaining his cit
izenship In the United States, he fro
quently spent the winter months In
Central America, a wild and woolly
country at that time. Out OF large
family an older sister. my twin. and
were the only ones so unfortunate
as TO have been born there.
"All stories of the place are mine only
by heresay, for baby Isn't apt to re-
member even so strange a country as
that was at the time. There were prac-
| tically no roads, and most of the travel
ing was done on horseback. 1t was not
easy to get from one place to an
other. and in preparing for even shor
journey man never forgot his gun
= and long knife, somewhat resembling
a sword. There were no savages II
e be guarded against, but wild animals
. were very much In evidence, and
Y have an older brother who to-day bears
: the marks OF rather fierce encounter
, with young tiger.
+ Sugar cane was a most profitable
crop in that country, for, cut close t.
the ground one year by the Cards
a or native servants, 1t sprang UP thu
next season exactly as a weed. TIL,
country was too tropical for resldenc,
:, in the summon. however, and after
time my father, a pcacticing physician
ceased to make his trips there.
grew up and was educated like mos
American boys. though with an aspira
ton for Congress tucked away SOM
o place, 1t was perhaps suggested b.
u the fact that I bore my materna
!, grandfather's name. In the Thirty
third and Thirty-fourth Congresses h
was among tho Representatives from
: Florida. but when the Civil Wa
e swept the country. he was sent to tn
a Confederate Senate. After peace ha'
l. been established. he was made judg
: OF the State Supreme Court and tn
q Circuit Court"
p A Constitutional Question.
8 In this case of Representative En-
h mott Wilson, however. there really i
It some doubt as to whether the peculia