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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-06
NAMED BY WILSON.

WASHINGTON. March s-The
most important vacancies in the diplo-
matte service will be filled by Presi-
dent Wilson and not by Secretary OF
State Bryan. Inasmuch as the ambas-
sadors to foreign countries primarily
are personal representatives OF the
president Mr.. Wilson considers IL best
to name them himself. although he
will consult Secretary Bryan The am
bassadorship to Great Britain will be
the first filed. The designations OF
nearly all American ambassadors and
ministers have been received as the
white house but some of them will not
be accepted Immediately. Ambassador
Henry Wilson at Mexico City is one OF
those who will be held over for some
time.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-06
MARSHALL LEFT OUT.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-Immedi-
ately after breakfast today President
officers to be at the White House at
II o'clock for the first formal meeting
of the administration. 1t is unders, -cf
that the president will hold four cabi-
net meetings a week during the next
month.
No preparation was made for the ac-
commodation of Vice President Mar
shall in the cabinet room. President
Wilson and Secretary Tumulty smash
ed all precedents by reaching their.
respective offices more than an hour
ahead of the usual time.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-06
MESSAGES FROM RULERS.

letters received by the president were
six kilograms relating to the birth of
babies on March 4. all of whom were
named Woodrow Wilson.
Another telegram which caused
amusement came from an office seek
er in Colorado. who stated he had been
a life long Republican" but added
that he had voted three times for Bry-
an and once for Wilson.
King George of England and Emper-
or William of Germany were among
the first to cable their good wishes TO
the new president. All Of these cable
grams were turned over to Secretary
of State Bryan TO be answered.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-06
Only Two Conservatives Civ
en- Place on kern's Com
mittee Which Is to Make
Assignments.
ANOTHER CABINET
MEETING is HELD
No Place Made For Vice
President Marshall-Wil-
son TO Hand Out All Diplo-
matte Jobs.


WASHINGTON, March 6.-The
Democrats of the senate again met in
caucus today and approved the selec-
tions for the committee on committees
named by Chairman Kern to make the
various committee assignments. The
members of the committee are Kern.
Martin, Clark, of Arkansas. Owen.
Chamberlain, Smith. O'Gorman. Lea
and Thomas.
Senator Gallinger named the follow
ing Republican committee on commit
tees: Lodge. Warren. Penrose, Nelson.
Brandegee. Smith of Michigan, Smoot.
La Toilette. Jones. Crawford and Fall
The Democratic committee is
strongly progressive, Martin and
Clark being the only conservatives. On
the other hand there are only two
progressives on the Republican COM
mittee, Nelson and La Toilette.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-06
WOOD RETAINS JOB.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-Major
General Leonard Wood was retained
as chief of star of the army by a spec
ial order of President Wilson today.
Under this arrangement General Wood
will remain at the head OF the army.
subject TO the order Of the president.
In army circles the presidents action
was accepted as meaning that Wood
will serve two more years as chief OF
staff under the new administration.
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Manchester elected him and In 1857 he
was returned by Birmingham. beginning
a most honorable relation with that
ancient town. He died In 1Ss9.
Those who would understand the mean.
ing of the industrial development of mod
elm democratic England. or the demo-
cratic movement forced upon England
through her industrial development will
do well to stnde the life of John Bright
Cobdens story was grandly told by John
Morley wears aeo. Tfavelyans skill never
had a worthier opportunity than in the
volumes now issued in sacred memory Of
the Tribune of the People, as Brming-
ham 50 lovingly called her great repre-
ser tative, | hope to tell Age-Herald read
ere something of what ! shall find In tie
leaves that are about to fail upon nv
table, as / find opportunity to persus
them. They will certainly revive mem-
ories OF my own days in Bfight's con-
stitueney
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region of the Chattahotchee, under the
penalty of hanging, il found there after
"a hours. He well knew what that meant
and returned to the Bahamas. Hence he
was sent by Lord Dunsmore and a party
of Creek and Cherokee warriors to Lon
don to present their grievances to the
King, who loaded them with gifts, and
Immediately after his return to the Ba-
hamas. Bowles and his red companions
became pirates and secured the gulf
for booty preying especially on the
argosies of William Panton.
Gus" Bowles became a terror on the
blue main of the gulf, having under his
command band of cut throats from the
prisons of London, and the ferocous
savages of the wilds. His daring and
success on the high seas made him the
idol of the Greeks. Emboldened by his
successful forays. Bowles returned to Ala
bana. boldly advanced into the interior
and sought to break the power of Me-
Gillivray, but he was no match for the
paany sided Alexander. whose trans
formations Awere as rapid as those of
revolving Kaleidoscope, and whose re-
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visit her debts We're enormous; when she
returned she had money enough to lift
her above her embarrassments.
Experiencing relief that her creditors
were quieted, the countess Immediately
borrowed a thousand livres. Half of this
sum she handed to her husband that he
might go to Fontette and look into the
condition of the Saint-R Remy estates,
which had passed from the family gen.
erations before. With the other half she
established herself in residence at YER
sailles, in order that she might interest
certain people of the court in her financial
affairs. She was unsuccessful in her
plans, She never was presented to the
king nor to the queen. But the shrewd
woman was equal to the stress. Her
money was rapidly disappearing Many a
woman would have fallen in despair, Not
so the Countess de Lamotte. She pre-
tended to be an intimate friend of the
queen, and would talk quite generally of
| their intimacy. People would beseech her
to use her influence in their behalf, to
mention them to the king to speak of
/ them to the queen, to solicit the king to
grant this favor that. She would make
favorable promises, although she had
never seen the king nor the queen. But
her influence with royalty became the
subject of many a conversation for had
not she confdentially related to someone
here and to another there what the queen
had said to her? And still her money was
going, and nearer and nearer was she ap-
preaching the direct poverty. But her
clever audacity and her skill in duping
people never once left her, and she could
sing and smile, secretly plan her villainies
and walt for results.
She had learned, as all France had, that
Cardinal Rohan had been forbidden to ap-
pear at court and she had knowledge of
the fact that the cardinal had a soft place
in his heart for the queen, the beautiful
Marie Antoinette. This was all that the
Countess de Lamotte needed to start with
She engaged an accomplioe who knew the
queens handwriting and forged a series
Of letters which she delivered to the car
dinal as from the queen. She moved upon
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the credulity of the prelate, and toyed
with his secret sentiments. By this enter
prise the countess robbed the cardinal of
10000 francs (which the queen desired to
bestow in charities" although. mark you,
the queen had never heard of the Count
ess de Lamotte, and would have spurned
any money from the cardinal for any pur-
pose.
This money was soon gone, and the
countess was ready for other victims The
next victim soon came, for never did
woman await victim but that one came
soon or late.
In 1774 Louis XIV died, but he had al
ready given order that most wonderful
diamond necklace should be made, which
he desired to place around the neck OF his
favorite. Madame Dubarry; but before the
necklace was finished Louis died and the
notorious Dubarry was forbidden to ap-
pear at court, and never received the
necklace. This marvellous ornament was
made of 500 diamonds and was valued at
100000 in our money. 1t was so extrav-
agantly expensive that no one could buy
it, 1t was owned by the court jewelers.,
two Saxon Jews named BONNER and Bas-
senge, who tried to sell it to anyone who
might be able to raise the money. For 10
years they offered this blazing circle of
light for sale. Thye made many efforts to
induce Marie Antoinette to buy it, but she
was always too poor to expend so much
money in that way, and gave offense to
the jewellers when she suggested that they
separate the diamonds and sell them as
single stones.
TO his great joy BONNER heard Of the
wonderful influence the Countess de
Lamotte had with the queen, an influence
altogether fictitious, for the queen had
never seen the countess, and hastened to
the apartments of the clever fraud. Boh
mer begged her to use her power to induce
the queen to buy the necklace, and offered
the countess a share of the profits for her
kind offices. The countess decided in a
moment that she would personally pos
sess the necklace, though she took months
to work out her intrigues. She had fooled
the cardinal once, why could she not dupe
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seem to have been on the down grade.
They lived extravagantly, fell hopelessly
into debt sold their lands little by little
until finally they had nothing more to
sell and became veriest paupers, drunk
ards, sots, vagabonds and beggars in
filthy rags. As such they were often
brought before the police courts of Paris
At last they all died out but one mem
Der of the family. He was a worthless
public nuisance, a sot-and beggar. When
he died he left wife and several helpless
little children. The widow married again
and deserted her children, and was gone
forever from history All this was ac-
complished in about 200 years.
One day in about 1861 the Marquis and
Marquise de Bouanvilliers were driving
down country road near Paris when
they were stopped by a barefooted little
girl of years, who was carrying on her
back her little baby sister. just 4. The
children were vagrants of a most distress
ing type. The older child appealed to the
Marquis and the Marquise Take pity on
two orphans descended in a direct line
from Henri of Valois, King of France"
The Boulanvillers did not believe their
story but later inquiry was made and the
begaars were found to be descendants of
the Henri de Saint-Remy, whose father
was King Henri II of yalois. The chill
drens names were Jeanne, the older, and
Marguerite 1t is with Jeanne that shall
have to do.
The Bouanyilliers subsequently found
the children. Jeanne was sent to school,
and when she was IA years old she had ac-
quired more than the education of the av-
erage girl of her age. She was wonder
fully bright of mind and always cherished
fancies that she might yet occupy her
place at court as the descendent of
Henri II.
After her life at school Jeanne de Saint
Remy became the companion of the Lad.
Bouanvilliers and thus came to know
many persons of high social rank. She
conceived the possibility of buying back
her ancestral estates and moved her ben
efactress to interest the king in her be-
half She thus came by a small pension.
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him again? She thought she could, and
she did.
His emnence was some distance from
Paris, and the countess must have him
back, so she called upon her former ae-
complice, the forger and dictated a letter
to the cardinal which was written in the
queens handwriting. The carCinal came
at once. Upon his arrival in the city the
countess called and laid the queens
plans" before him; she said the queen
wanted to purchase the famous diamond
necklace, but as the king already thought
her too extravagant she wanted the pur-
chase kept secret, land being short of
money she appeals to the cardinal to buy
the ornament for her, for which simple
outlay she will reimburse him in a little
while and also restore him to court, be-
sides he will win her everlasting favor"
The cardinal therefore, bought the neck
lace. giving notes that should mature at
intervals of six months each. BONNER
was more than satisfied and handed the
necklace to the cardinal, who, when Boh-
mer was gone, laid it in the hands of the
Countess de Lamotte to deliver to her
dear friend,' the queen. 1t will be seen
that the countess, so far as BONNER knew,
had no part in the transaction beyond di-
| recting the ieweler to call on the cardinal.
So clever was the countess that she ar
ranged that the cardinal should buy the
bauble. and BONNER knew her in the real
not at all.
Once having the necklace in her pos
session the countess began to take it
apart stone by stone These she handed
to her husband who hastened to London
and sold the diamonds separately.
For six months the robbery lay quiet.
Then note becoming due, BONNER waited
on the cardinal for the sum of 100000
livres. The cardinal expected the queen
to pay it and had not that much cash
about him, really thinking that his as
suming responsibility Was merely matter
of form. but he assured BONNER that in
a few days he would make good the
amount required. The jeweler became
suspicious and hurried to the countess in
a state of much excitement She impu-
IDENTIFY told the jeweer that he was de-
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There is a wonderful river that flows
through the streets of big city. Some
times it roars through the canyons of the
business streets and is angry with its
confinement between the high walls.
Sometimes it broadens out in the home
places and sings quietly of the mothers
and children sheltered from the strife of
life.
1t is the river of humanity 1t has its
ebb and it flow; it's rapid movement and
it's slow. 1t bears along on its current
the lives of men and women and little
children, their hopes. their aspirations,
their joys and their woes.
Take a plunge into the river of human
ity! Be part of its mighty swirl, if only
for one day. When you emerge go back,
If you will, to your quieter life on the
farm. in the village. the town. the small
city, but know for once at least the feel
of the mightier current.
The real city man feels that 1t is good
to be a factor in the sum of problems
that make up great heap of humanity.
He is proud of deciding for himself to be
power for the good that in the end
makes up the major portion OF the life
of city or town.
How could it be otherwise?' Cities could
not exist their sites would be given up
to the bowling of the jackal and raving
of the hyena If the majority of city men
and women were not good and true, hon
estly following the right in the light of
conscience
A city made up in greater part of ras-
Gals, of men and women selfish and bitter,
is unthlnkable.
Weigh it in any balance you will. meas
ure it with whatever yardstick you choose
conditioned that your measure be true
and honest-and the city will be found to
justify it's own existence. Despite the
fashion of the day that decries the great
cities as all Sodoms and Gomorrahs, that
sees in the winlSing of the electric lights
only the allurements of evil, at heart the
city is sound and worthy of its place
Plunge into the river of humanity Let
it infold you Feel yourself kin to the
eddying multitudes of people AS you
look into each mans eye try to picture
to yourself thS story OF hope or despair
Of joy or sorrow, that lies behind his
face. Get into your mind and fasten it
there firmly with the ties of brotherhood
that he is a man like yourself; that he
has his own tribulations to meet and
overcome, his own joy to console him
and refresh him. 1t will do you good to
battle In the waters Of humanity and
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- BIRMINGHAM, a royal city in the
county of Warwick, England
has been taken as the god
mother of our younger Birmingham.
More than half century ago the in
tense but wholly sane eradication of
that other and older city was welded to
the career of John Bright, the greatest
Saxon orator of modern times. This
year the biography of Bright has been
published, and the reading of it is one
of the anticipated joys of this summer.
Today [ purpoae to recall some of the
tremendous struggles in which the fam
Gus Quaker statesman bore a heroic
and fruitful part.
For Bright was a Quaker. born at
Rochdale, the same Rochdale in Lanca-
shire as afterward created the vast sys-
TEN of cooperative stores for and by
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" MBRACED within the circuit of
less than hundred years. as the
history of Alabama is, and though
confined to a narrow limit of territory
when we take into account the compass
of the nation, yet its history brimmed
with tragedy, drama, and romance, even
In advance of its constitution into great
commonwealth. The scenes which en-
lightened its colonial period are second to
those of no other American state. The
spirit and environment of the stirring
times of that early period made this al
together possible. From the tumults of
the revolutionary scenes of the Caro-
linas not a few fled to the distant forests
of Alabama which became the rendezvous
of refugees of different classes. They
settled in the regions stretching from the
western confines of Florida to the Tom
bigbee, feeling quite safe in a region then
so remote from the bloody tragedies of
the colonies just named. These initial
scenes of fascinating interest are yet
to be fully recorded.
Among those who sought the western
wilds, then a domain of unbroken for
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| | wish | was a rock
A-sttin' on a hill,
A-doin' nothin' all day long
But just a-sittin' still.
| wouldn't sleep; I wouldn't eat
| / wouldn't even wash;
I'd just sit still a thousand years
And rest myself, by gosh!
Funny, isn't It? l confes I laughed
when I read it first. It seemed so good
an expression of the inmost feelings of
the man who is tired of it air and just
wants to ''let everything slide"
We all have those times when nothing
seems to matter, when the work we are
doing seems not worth while, when we
seem to have accomplished nothing and
the future is not a blank page to be writ
ten on anew, but already scrawled over
with the ugly records of foreordained fail
ure.
That's when we want to Just sit still
| a thousand years and rest ourselves. OF
course those moments come more often in
summer, when moving little finger is
work and hoeing a row of beans or hit
ting typewriter is arduous TOLL but the
other three seasons of the year are not
free from them. Even when the air is
filled with snow and the icicles hang
from the caves there will come times
when all seems vanity and nothing is
worth while.
But do you really think you could sit
still like a rock for thousand years and
rest yourself? You couldn't, and you
know you couldn't If you could you
would be resting even more than the
rock. That disintegrates in the summer
heat and the winter snow and gives of its
substance to enrich the neighboring fields.
The eternal law of satisfied life is not
take, but give When you rest-really
| rest-you do not give but take in prepara-
ton for giving You take in fresh
strength and inspiration for the work
which you must do, for the energy which
you must give, if you are real, true
man or woman.
| When you feel really tired OUT and
ready to rest thousand years or any
considerable fraction of that long stretch
of time you are like a storage battery
| that abs been exhausted. You need re-
| charging. You must be taken or must
| take yourself to the great central station
of nature and fill your cells with the cur
rent of life.
Then, when you are fully charged, you
can go back to the business of fife, which
Is not resting, but doing. Resting Is
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"lnasmuch as We have done it unto one
of the least of these, my brethren, ye
have done 1t unto me-"
You will find ball player as a rule,
just about as good as he thinks he is No
man can be very good when he thinks
himself a joke.-Frank Chance, manager.
of the New York American league team
| and famous baseball leader.
| Listen to him, you young fellows who
haven't walked yet to the meaning of life.
If you won't hear wise counsel from
| prosy philosophers perhaps you will from
a man you adnire-and rightly.
| Frank Chance is good judge of men
on and off the ball field. He is a man.
ager and has made good as one. When
/ he talks thousands listen or read his
words.
mo man can be very good when he
thinks himself a joke II he thinks SO
ON the ball field he will try half-hearted-
| ly to hit the ball. and when the chances
come his way on the field he will let them
get by him. 'Im only bum ball player,
they don't expect much of me- he says.
| And if by natural ability he has got
| somehow mot the big league he doesn't
stay there. First he drifts back to the
minors; then he gets into the semi-pro-
fessional class that is the Jumping off
place in baseball Then he disappears
altogether, and only the most rabid
fans remember his name. George
might have made a ball player" they
say. ''but he wouldn't try. He never
seemed able to get a grip on himself.
Seems he took himself as kind of joke. y
That's the way it is in life, lads-off the
| ball field the same as it is on the dia-
mond. If you consider yourself a Joke
and feel that you can't make good
| You won't, that's ALL
This doesn't mean taking yourself so
seriously that you think you are the
whole thing in the game of lfe-teams,
umpires, grandstand, bleachers and ALL
| Not at all. 1t does not mean having a
swelled head. You may be a manager
| in the big game or you may be only the
| boy who carries the bat bag. But you've
got to take yourself seriously when the
game is called and when it is on.
That means all the time In life when
serious business is to be DONE
| It's the player who knows how to play
the game and who knows how to appIy
his knowledge who scores in the great
game. He is the man who heads the
column when the averages are made up.
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source Of cunning was without bouhdrY.
McGillivray pretended to have fled to
New Orleans, and Bowles ohuel5led over
his supposed discontinue, but after that
McGnlivray had laid a trap for his op-
ponent. and Bowles was led into it and
was taken in chains to New Orleans,
thence to Madrid, spain, as pirate,
his laughter was turned into tears. He
barely escaped execution at Madrid, and
was sent to Manila, of the Philippines.
in exile
Five years later, in 1T97 Bowles was
sent for by the Spanish government to
be brought to Madrid for execution, but
'succeeded in making good his escape
at Ascension island, whence he fled to
Sierra Leone, found his way back to
London was provided with a fresh ship,
and in due time reappeared on the waters
of the Gulf of Mexico as a pirate Gored
to desperation by the past, and hardened
by long criminality. he spread terror
over the gulf. For two years he
,ode the waters as the king of pirates,
when his vessel wGs wrecked on Fox
Point, when with his immense wealth