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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-25
NEW SUITS FILED.

TAe following new suits were filed
yesterday in the ONCE OF the clerk of
the circuit court:
Thomas Grice IS. Pensacola Electric
Co and Escambia County Electric
Llsht & Power Co. damages $4,000;
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-20
The King Business.

From the Kansas City Times
King George, IL is said, will revive
the old custom Of the sovereign wearing
the crown at the opening Of Parliament
today. 1t is laudable decision. If you
are going in for the king business you
ought to do il right. This business of a
king parading around in a frock coat
and top hat just like a plain, everyday
citizen on his way to church, is calcu-
lated TO bring the profession into dis
repute. Somebody will get up some day
and inquire the use of paying large sums
for a royal establishment and that sort
of thing when there is nothing to show
for it except an ordinary looking man
with whiskers. And the first thing you
know another king will be hunting for
Job.
The fact is King ought to dress the
part. Every child knows how he should
look. II he were really onto his job he
ought never to appear in public except
encased in a gigantic suit of black armor
wearing Groin studded with diamonds
and rubies over his helmet. On his left
arm should be a shield bearing two lions
rampant on a field gules, while in his
good right hand he should carry a bat
TEAK which would tax the strength OF
two ordinary men to life. His eyes should
flash fire through the mars of his visor,
and his voice should blare like bugle.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-20
FIRST LADIES Of THE Land"
Go FROM OFF|CIALDOM UNSUNG
One Case Of Woman Who Once Held Sway in White House
and Then Passed Forgotten Into Obscury Was that Of
Betty Taylor, Daughter Of President Taylor

Now that the ship of state has sailed
for another voyage of four years, under
A full head of steam. and with new
skipper and no fewer than ten new
mates. not one of whom had previously
braved the terrors of the official sea in
the service of the general government,
the country may presume to draw long
breath of relief and ask what is to come
next.
Possibly an unexpected reply viii be
that the thing next in importance to the
prodigious activities which will be de-
manded of the skipper and his mates,
the President and his Cabinet is the
harmonious adjustment of the feminine
consorts and daughters of the admins
tration. with hope simultaneously eX-
pressed that the first lady of the land
of this administration, as we'll as the
assistant first ladies, may be writ in BIZ
ography more indelibly than some. of
their predecessors. And it is of one of
these forgotten ones that this writer
would briefly write
Though no close comparison is made,
it is probable that no former Cabinet
was composed Of men so divorced from
general knowledge of the people of the
United States. omitting Bryan, what do
the names Of the other Cabinet members,
McAdoo, Garrison. McReynolds, Burle-
son, Daniels, Lane, Houston, Redfield.
and William b. Wilson, mean to one of
10000 of American citizens? Not that
they will be less able on account of
this but merely to illustrate the crudity
that necessarily at first be exhibited by
such an aggregation. including the Pres
ident. none of whom is native and to
the manner born in departmental White
House affairs. Not one has ever been
a guest at Cabinet dinner, nor any
other formal dinner, in fact. within the
historic walls of the Presidents house.
So with the first lady of the land, her
daughters and their Cabinet associates
Not one has ever stood i'm the receiving
line at a great reception; but nj this
democratic country. of ours women and
men all unaccustomed to social formali-
ties of the highest official circles acquire
as though by magic the bearing of the
haut ton. a carriage, dignity, and poise
which would fetch them gracefully and
triumphantly through any royal court.
History and biography should have
preserved for us more of the personality
of members of the various Cabinets and
the women who were stars of the social
armament of Washington i'm the vari-
Gus administrations A purified Samuel
Pepys. gossip for a different mascu-
days Of Charles III of England. but, new
ertheless, a gossip. with successors con-
tinuing through all administrations.
would be a welcome contributor to
knowledge i'm relation to the social life
of passing administrations. As it is, al
most nothing is preserved of the person.
atty and activities of the wives of Cabi-
net officials and even the wives OF
Presidents or the first ladies when there
were no wives; except a very few of
Them have little part in preserved rec
ords,
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crates. His fame as ansimpetuous, dare
devil fighter was well known to the
Union troops, and when they came upon
the possessions Of the dashing Confed-
crate in Louisiana hardly stone or
stick was left in its former place.
Upon the death OF Col. cambridge his
widow, once the beautiful and accom-
plished mistress of the White House,
lived for many years, until her death
about three years ago in a little cottage
in Winchester, Va, her only companion
being a venerable colored "aunty," who
had been i'm the family from time inn
memorial. lit was pleasant little home,
but decidedly cramped for one who had
been accustomed to a vast estate and
mansion in her youth and to sixteen
months as the chief feminine figure Of
the home of Presidents. Mrs. cambridge
had but this cottage. a remnant of per-
practically no income. few State bonds.
the small interest from which was all
on which she could depend.
Brevity Of Political Memory.
This daughter of President and for
mer mistress OF the White House once
asked an Office of the national admins
tration. She was possibly in error.
thinking that she could not secure an
appointment from a Republican admin
istration on account of the fact that her
husband and brother both fought on
the Confederate side. At any rate. she
made no application until the Democrats
came into power in 1885. and then she
asked for the position of postmaster at
Winchester She had the most infuen-
tial Endorsement of citizens who were
mot in politics. but the citizens who
were "in politics" carried the day, and
"A daughter of a President of the United
States was rejected in the interests and
for the profit of mere member of the
local machine.
Mrs cambridge was disappointed, but
not -embttered by this lack of remem-
brance of the great services of her
father. She accommodated her life to
her income, was always cheerful,
charming hostess in her small circle.
beautiful at an age when most women
show their years somewhat distressfully.
content to remember the fine things OF
her life, and thinking as little as pos
sible' of the sad chapters. The writer
visited her at her home during the sec
ond administration Of Cleveland. She
had nothing to say about the migrate
fulness Of republics. but was charming
and CHEEKY, with just a shadow of COM
planning when she referred to her re-
lection for the postofflce position which
meant so much to her.
The life and death of Betty Taylor
suggest that biographers should have
preserved more for us of the careers or
the ladies of the White House. This has
been done in perfunctory way by
more than one writer and publisher. pos
sibly in the interests of a best seller,
but We should have something more re-
liab bic and comprehensive.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-20
UNDERMINING OLD CHURCH
! ABROAD CREEK, MD.

A force OF workmen are engaged I'm
undermining the old church at Broad
Creek. This church is said to be one
Of the oldest churches in Maryland. and.
therefore, also one of the oldest in
America. The present edifice was built
in 1894. -
On crossing it's portals one finds his
imagination busy with a congregation
Of Eye olden times He seems to see
the men and women of the old regime.
as with stately air they fill up the quaint
old pews. Two of the old pews bear
silver plates on their doors. One of them
reads: I'm Memory Of Gen. George
Washington. Restored by His Great,
Great. Great Granddaughter, George w.
Magruder, 1885,
It Is said that Washington often came
across the river from Mount Vernon to
worship here.
A roof of asbestos concrete has been
put on. The arched ceiling has lost its
oak laths and English nails, and is now
ready for a modern ceiling.
The quaint old yard is overrun with
myrtle. and many of the stones have
entirely lost their Inscriptions through
long exposure to the weather.
1t is the hope of the rector, Rev. III. r.
Ryerson, that this old church may be
restored to its former status and retain
its air Of ancient quaintness>
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-20
NEWS OF THE METHoDISTs.

The following is a complete and accurate
roll of assignments for Washington. Dis
trict of the Methodists North:
District superintendent, W. L. Nc
Dowell; Alexandria, G. A LuttrelI: Ar
lington, III. c. Owens; Camp Springs, c.
III. Corkran; District Line, Z. P-Frye;
Falls Church. G. E. Williams; Forest
vile. T. G. Owens; Gaithersburg r. G..
Koontz; Herndon. w. c. Harden; Hyatts-
vile, A. w. Rudisill; Kensington, H. G.
Spencer; Lanham, G. W. Rice; Laytons-
ville,. to be supplied; Manassas, j. E.
Slick; Montgomery, T. S. Davis; Spen-
cerville, j. c. Kerr; Washington Grove,
Albert Osborn; Woodside. A. w. Groscup.
Washington, Anacostia, G.. l.. White;
Bradburn memorial. J. NJ. McCauIey;
Brightwood Park, c. S. Cole; Brookland,
j. T. Wright; Bruen. G. a. Shreve;
Chevy Chase, Lucien Clark; Calvary, ].
T. Ensor; ongress Heights, Merritt Earl;
Douglass Memorial, W. W. Barnes: Dunn
barton Avenue, James c. Nicholson:
Foundry, W. r. Wedderspoon; Gorsuch,
w. j. Meeks; Grace, S. T Weaver;
Hamline, j. NJ. NJ. Gray; Iowa Avenue.
c. E. Wise; Langdon, NJ. F. Lowe; Lin
coin Avenue, l.. NJ. Ferguson: McKen-
dree, L. NJ. Chambers; Metropolitan Me-
"
A. s. Mowbray; Northwest and Concord,
J. E. Fort; Petworth, w. A. Haggsrty;
Ryland. E. C. Gallaher; Tenley, A. F.
Pdore; Trinity. Fl. s. France: Union. W.
V. Mallalieu; Waugh, A. H. Thompson:
Wesley, w. !. Mckinney; Wilson Ne
mortal, ]. L. McLain
j. R. Shannon, lecturer. Boston Uni
versity, School of Theology: LeopoId
Vaccaro. Italian Mission: S. w. Graffiin.
industrial missionary; supernumerary, G..
s. Cole; retired. Daniel Haskell. F. w.
Shriner. G. G. Markham, H. R. Naylor,
and W. l.. Orem.
Women Of the Methodist Church South
have built up what is reckoned the most
remarkable and most efficient publicity
system yet devised 1t is under direc-
ton of the Woman's Missionary Coun-
Gil of that church, now in session in
In every auxiliary there
is woman superintendent of publicity.
These auxiljarfes cover the vast region
from Maryland to California. and from
the Great Lakes to the, Gulf Of Mexico.
From central Office or from the auxil-
iaries. news of the Methodist church is
handed out and published in two ways.
One Is by woman's page in all Meth !
odist papers in the South The other is
In the Saturday church pages OF the
secular newspapers.
The head Of the vast service is Mrs.
Luke Johnson. of Gainesville, Ca. whose
genius built it up. Through its working
southern Methodists and the general pub
nc OF the South are reached at mini
mum expense. The Womans Missionary
Council is the woman's section OF the
Methodist South's board of missions.
This board collects and spends $4,000
a year. 1t is believed to be the only
ofiicial board in America wherein wom-
IN sit as full members along with men.
These women are elected by the general
conference. This is the more noteworthy
since women have not yet attained even
the recognition of laymen in any of the
Methodisms Of the world.
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Watch Mrs. Wilson.

But i do think that the crusades of
the moralists are making a step In til.
right direction. Thoughtful people are
waking up to the realization of wher.
society is drifting. And do you know on
whom l count for the greatest help in
this crusade for decency? Why, on Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson. Just watch her"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-20
A LONG ISLAND TOWN
STARTS COMMUNAL CHURCH

union church experiment has been
new community which had no church.
There were not enough representatives
of any one denomination to support a
sectarian church. So meetings Of all who
cared to come were held In homes. The
interest was so great that the Cord Mey-
er Development Company gave them a
piece of land, and advanced money to
build a church. A handsome structure
was reared. and a young man from
Union Seminary called. and Christians
of every denomination were urged to
join. 1t has been called the Communal
Chusch. rather than the Union Church.
The organization was effected in Janu-
airy. with thirty-five members, and as
many more signified their intention of
Joining. Eight denominations were I'm
the membership, Episcopalians, Congre
gationalists, OReformed. Presbyterians.
Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans, and
Friends. The creed, or standard of be-
lief as the new church calls it, was
framed to emphasize what all the
churches hold in common. 1t is as fol-
lows: I'VE believe in God the Father
Ghost. We believe in the fundamental
principles Of the Christian faith, as held
and taught by orthodox Protestant Chris
tians We believe in the holy Scriptures 4
as the word of God. and accept these
as our guide to righteous living. We
believe that it is our duty. as disciples
and servants of Christ, to further the
extension Of His kingdom, to do good
unto all men, to maintain the public
and private worship of God, to hallow
the Lords Day. to preserve the inviola-
bility of marriage and the sanctity of
the family, to uphold the just authority
of the state, and to live in all honesty.
purity, and charity that our lives shall
testify Of Christi
Religious bodies of all denominations
have been invited to send delegates to
the fourth peace congress at st. Louis.
May 1 to 3. Names of many clergymen
ARE included in the list of delegates al
ready submitted. Among the st. Louis
members of the committee on religious
institutions in connection with the con-
gress are DR.. Samuel J. Niccolis of the
Second Church, and DR.. John F. Cannon.
of Grand Avenue Church
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-20
Wife of Civil War Hero Says
that Women Might Better
Spend Their Time at Home
Than at Bridge.

The modern dance as it is tangoed
and the other signs of the rapid twen-
tieth century do not meet with the APP
prevail of Mrs. John A. Logan, widow of
the famous Union general Of the Civil
War, says a writer in the Baltimore
Sun. This splendid old lady. whose life
story is now running i'm current maya
zine, believes i'm the grace and beauty
of the good old days before the war,
and grieves for some of the ways of the
present age.
THE modern woman thinks il smart
to dabble in the small vices. Bridge
playing, cigarette smoking. and drinking
she enjoys as a spicy diversion" she
told me when / saw her at Eagles Nest.
her lovely cid home, yesterday.
ITO my mind there are no small vices.
Nice-well. it is just plain vice. whether
large or small. A refined woman can't
afford to try her hand at drinking and
gambling and these wicked new dances.
The temptation to do even worse things
becomes mighty strong. And the exam
pie she sets is most unfortunate.
Take the woman who plays bridge,
for instance" Il felt trise uneasy, for
| try to play myself) Just consider
the silly woman who devotes hours.
AS a rule the bridge fiend has no men,
tality in any other direction. She needs
all this time she wastes, needs 1t badly,
TO develop her brain. She needs the
time to take care of her children, or,
better still, to stay at home and have
a family.
Believes i'm Big Families.
81 believe in big families" the widow
of Gen. Logan told me. Did you ever
know of an only child who amounted to
anything? Ii is the child of large
family who develops into the best citi-
zen" I recalled the remark of Bill
Nye on Benjamin Franklin. Bill Nye
said that Benjamin came near being
an only child. and that if he hadn't had
seventeen older sisters and brothers, he
would have been"
Mrs. Aogan and laughed over the
STORY. and she declared il proved her the
DRY. We talked a while about her gar
den and trees. We admired the temer-
ity of two robins picking the newly sown
seeds from the lawn of Calumet Place,
Mrs. Logan's estate adjoining Eagles
Nest.
Calumet Place. as was told before, has
been leased by Mrs. William Jennings
Bryan and will be occupied by the Sec
rotary of State and his wife during, their
stay in Washington. Eagles Nest is a
much smaller place, but it is delight
ful. with its quaint furnishings. Books,
chairs, tables. settees, and pictures pick
ed up here and there during a long life
time give the house an intimate atmos-
phere. / got no suggestion of the i'm
personal taste of an outsider, rather was
| convinced more surely that this home
did reflect its owner.
Il have always kept in close touch
with all the workings of my home"
my white-haired hostess was telling me.
Il consider it a great mistake to turn
the management of your establishment
over to servants. Even If one has guam
titles of money and can afford the lux
ury of housekeepers and numerous men
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-20

One of the most to be regretted of the
forgotten ones. doubly to be regretted
for the reason that she is so forgotten
of all the first ladies of ting land, ID
Betty Taylor, daughter of President
Zachary Taylor. During the life of Tay-
lor in the White House, following his
amazing victories in Mexico. his daugh-
ter Betty, then the wife of Col. Blake,
private secretary to the President, was
mistress of the mansion, Mrs. Taylor
being an invalid, and bore all the oner-
Gus social burdens of the position. Her
reign was brief, as President Taylor. in
augurated March 4, 1S49. died of bilious
fever July 4. 1850.
No mistress of the Executive Mansion
ever endeared herself more to the public
than this fair young woman. who. despite
her marriage, seemed to be better known
as Betty Taylor than by the name of her
husband, and despite the fact that she
was mistress for only sixteen months
She was beautiful in person, gracious
and graceful in all things. gentle, as
though she had been nurtured in seclu-
sion instead of in an atmosphere of war,
her brother Dick who was much with
his father in Mexico, and who little
more than a dozen years later was a
general in the Confederate service being
born fighter and not a warrior to
"caper nimbly in my lady's chamber to
the lascivious blessings of a Lutte
With that death i'm the White House
one of the very few that have saddened
the gayeties of that old mansion-with
the funeral that followed, with the re-
moval of the body Of the great soldier to
his home i'm Louisiana, where he had
bought an estate while fighting in the
Seminole War. and with the advent of
Vice President Willard Fillmore as Prcsi-
dent, this most charming mistress Of the
White House since the days of Dolly
Madison, endeared to all whom she met,
passed into obscurity like most of the
other First Ladies'" And of record of
her there Is almost none. For a time
she and her husband lived at the old
Louisiana homestead. and then returned
to Washington, where the husband died.
Central Figure I'm Society.
, Yet, in the first flush of womanly ma
turity, fascinating, modest, never sug-
costing by word or act that she assumed
any prestige on account of her former
responsible position in the White House,
Betty Taylor was a central figure in
the best society of Virginia, then the
ruling social force in the National Capt.
tai, and, as was natural, in the course
of time she married again, her husband
being Col cambridge, q member of one
of the oldest and most aristocratic fam
lilies of the Old Dominion. In fact, he
was a. member of the cambridge families
one of whose daughters was Martha
cambridge, who was married to DAME,
Parke Custis, and who az "the Widow
Custis,'' so termed sneeringly by some
of the bitter opponents of George Wash
ington, became the wife of. the first
President. and, therefore, the first of the
First Ladies' Of the land.
The estate of Col cambridge had been
laid waste by tbs civil war. A similar
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-20

Prof. Taft began his first day of duty
at Yale by presenting himself at the col
lege chapel at $40 o'clock. This seems
like genuine New England piety, de-
clares the Congregationalist.
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IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD

NoueI as President Of bis county it is
interesting to recall that similar event
occurred some time ago on the borders
of Spain. in the little Republic of Al
dora. It's people chose as their head the
in office.
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fate had befallen the estate Of Gen. and
President Taylor, inherited by Gen.
Dick Taylor, who had been response
Bile for more than one of the disastrous
defeats of the Federals by the Confed-
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and maid servants, 1t seems to me to be
a sinful waste to neglect the close super
vision of ones own expenditures. A wom-
an should not be reckless with her hus-
bands money. even fhe doesn't object
TO her extravaganza. am glad to see
that the new Cabinet women are skillful
housekeepers. They will be the sort to
go into their own kitchen and undertake
any task that may be necessary"
l remarked that the Western women
seemed to be particularly capable.
Western Women Praised.
I'm sure they will set us all a splendid
example" said Mrs. Logan. Women
who have lived in the West have found
il necessary to rise to any emergency.
This training has developed remarkable
wives and Mothers
Mrs Logan does not believe In the
modern sort of woman suffrage. Like
her daughter. Mrs. Tucker. who came
into the library to talk a while, she
regrets the passing of the suffragists
of a generation ago.
Susan B. Anthony. Lucretia Mott, and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton-these were
women worth while" Mrs. Logan de-
clared. They were working for the well
ire of their sex. Although Z may be
wrong, much of the present suffrage
agitation seems to be for the purpose
of self-advertisement When the old
time suffrag ists wanted a law changed.
they went before the Legislature and
asked in a dignified, lady-like way that
the thing be done. They were usually
too.
Suffrage Is Criticized.
What does the moderf suffragette do?
Why, in A loud and inelegant way, she
tries to drive men to give her her rights.
know about the horse that couldn't
be made to drink. Well, it is true Of
men. All this silly parading and hiking
won't force men to allow women the
chance to vote When women dress up
in the clothes they did for the suffrage
parade and go right down. into the
crowd of roughs and toughs they must
expect to be jammed."
My hostess was a gentle-looking little
old lady to be giving expressions to.such
violent sentiments, but the same fire ard
enthusiasm that made her so influential
Evening journal., 1913-05-07
DOG THAT BIT
SUSSEX man MAY
HAVE BEEN RABID

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
MILFORD. Del. May by order
of the Board OF Health, the dog Of
William ~ Dorsey. which few
weeks ago bit Fred Wroten. and from
which he has suffered intensely, has
been killed and its head sent TO the
Experimental Station, at Newark, for
examination.
Wilbur Boyce. of the firm of Boyce
Brothers. while driving on Friday
afternoon, was thrown from his car
riage and had several ribs broken.
Collector Roach is sitting every day
to receive the town taxes on a rebate.
The Milford Boy Scouts have effect
ed their organization for the spring
and summer work. and have secured
the old Grange Hall as their head
quarters. Up to the present time they
have not been able to secure a suitable
scout master.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fowler, of Pam
anna, have returned to Milford. hop
ing that Mr.. Fowler. who has been
in poor health for the past year, sut-
fering with paralysis, may recover.
The Board OF Health is making a
strenuous effort to break up the
emptying Of sewers into the lake and
into Mispillion river.