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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-19
Mother
so POORLY
Could Hardly Care for Chill
dren - Finds Health in
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Bovina Center, N.Y.-"For six years
I have not had as good health as have
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-19

When a girl gives young man her
heart she expects a diamond in ex-
change.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-19
Not Visible to Him.

THAT fellow Is sui generis.'
Il never saw anything generous
about him."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-19

The artists vocation is to send
ught into the depths Of the human
heart-Schumann.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-19
Record for Ambition

"Cholly is an ambitious sportsman"
"How now?"
"He wants to climb the Matterhorn
in an automobile. louisville Courier
Journal
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-19
uucoRAr1NG To THE PALE AND

N, Old Standard general strengthening tonic
an11V E9 TASTHLHSS chill TONIC, drives out Ma
49, enriches the blood and builds mp the ~ stem
lsurs Appetizer. For adults and children ~ eta
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-19
Innorlnn Her contraet.

"A woman promises to share mans
Joys and sorrows."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-19
ParadoxIcai.

'1That fellows light-fingered-"
Yes, his are dark deeds"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-19

And yet she remains perfectly
TRANQUIL when the home team loses.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26

we have here. do not know which
is the largest, hut the British Museum
has been at the job Of collecting for
more than 200 years. while the Pari-
slams have been working at 1t even
longer Our collection began only ten
years ago. and nj tho present rate Of
progress it Will soon have larger
and more complete collection than they
have. We shall have more documents
relating to the history of the United
states than the British have relating
to the history of England"
These papers are separate and apart
from our government archives are thew
not?"
Yes These are private papers and
letters. The official archives are the
papers OF the government AS far as
they are concerned are lamentablv
wanting Not a single department OF
our government has all OF its archives
and not one OF them knows as TO what
+ IL has and what II has lost An in
/ vsntory has never been taken. In
deed. there Is not Il country OF Europe
[ That does not keep It's Official docu-
inents In better shape than We do"
What Is the Oldest official document
! In existence"
/ 1t is not SO very. very old. PeopIe
I
times. and the earliest written English
document dates back only TO the ,hir-
tcenth century The first English au-
/ thor who wrote was chauccr HI. lived
! IN the fourteenth century. and that Is
not long ago. The earliest modern
/ official document in any language is in
the archives at Milan Italy That wa
written on parchment paper about A.
4 u s23 by King otho and Queen Agatha.
I There Is another document written Just
"a little later in the archives OF Dres-
den. and another in those OF Maggie
burg"
| Tell me something about the vati-
can collection?'
The Vatican is a library of itself.
/ ii tx composed exclusively OF manu-
scripts-that is. OF manuscript books
! written mostly before the age OF print
] ing These books are chiefly religious
and are not individual manuscripts
The Vatican has the oldest written
i manuscript 1t long antedates the
/ oldest official document which. as
/ have said was of the ninth century.
/ The Oldest piece OF writing on paper
/ dates back TO the second century and
/ there is one from the third century.
/ hoth OF these are in perfect state
/ OF preservation. One OF them Is n
copy Of some OF Virgins poems and
the other IS n transcript OF {. prayer.
In addition Ia the Vatican library
italy has number OF other valuable
manuscript collections The Library
! OF Florence has the papers OF Calico
/ most OF which were written before ne
( went blind. and a few afterward In
Y the archives there they have also tho
papers OF Dante have seen them
/ all, and they are wonderfully pre-.
served"
Copyright 1913. by Frank c.
CarpcnterD
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26

but Jackson was never afraid to take
the responsibility MIR Hunt says that
jackson believed in the duel. and that
he tried when possible 10 he the chal-
lenged party. II. usually selected
pistols. and chose the distance OF from
six TO nine PAGES Such n distance he
said put both men on equal terms. the
good shot having no advantage over
the bad one.
The Library OF Congress has under
way a most important Undertaking in
collecting the material for our colonial
history. This is the having copied
everything in the European archives
which pertains 10 the American colo
MES. For some years men have been
at work in the government archives
of Great Britain. France. Spain and
Mexico. They copying govern
ment documents, letters and papers Of
all kinds relating to the story Of Amer
lea and to the American colonies. The
most of the English transcripts have
already been made. They begin with
the discovery Of America and extend
TO the peace of 1883. They number more
than 200, 900 folioS and the copying has
been all done by hand on "A handmade
paper manufactured especially for the
purpose. The writing is like copper
plate. and the papers are chrono-
logically arranged any period is easily
accessible. These papers are in great
ledGcrlil<e volumes. beautifully bound
and so made that they Will last for
ever.
Mr.. Hunt tells me that the collection
! from the British archives is practically
complete. Similar work Is going on in
| Paris, where the copyists are collecting
everything up to the time OF the Louis
! lana purchase. in 1903. and similar cop
| les will be made of the archives OF
Mexico up to the year lSI7. when Tex
as and other States became American.
The work in Spain will continue up TO
/ 1919, when Florida was bought, so that
/ the collection will form complete
transcript of all the important docu-
mcnts pertaining to the American
colonies now hidden away in the ar
chives of foreign governments AS it
| IS now. the man who wants TO write
about colonial America has to go to
| Europe for a part of his material.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26

Within very short time copy Of
everything in Europe Will be acccs-
sible in the national library.
asked Mr.. Hunt IL all this work
had To be copied by hand. He replied
Tho manuscripts which have come
from tho British archives have all been
made in that way. and the arrange
mcnt for the French archives s the
same. The Mexican papers viii be
copied in typewriter. and great many
of tho other archives have boon pho
tog raphcd and sent on in fac-simile.
There is considerable doubt as TO the
adVisability az using photoErn phy.
Many of the documents are bound. and
photography does not give complete
reproductions. Another danger is that
the photographs may fade in time.
while the ink and paper We now use
IN copying Will last indefinitely. An
other objection 10 photographs is that
the paper must necessarily be thicker
than writing paper, and several hun
dred thousand photographs would be
very unwicldy."
looked over some OF the volumes
OF manuscript with Mr. Hunt, The
most OF them are l2NlJ inches in size.
/ They are made OF Manila rope paper,
cut with the grain and are SO bound
in red Morocco that they form beau
tiful volumes. Each volume has its
own case. ana the workmanship OF In
sorting the manuscripts is cXquisitcly
/ beautiful Many OF the papers come
tattered and torn. They have TO be
cleaned and covered with crcpclne.
which makes them practically indie
structible. Each letter is moui ed on
a separate sheet, and il the writing is
on both sides Of the page il is on
hinges II il the finest manuscript
, preparing of the world and is better
than that OF tho Vatican, which has
long stood at the head as TO the beauty
Of it's manuscript preservation.
During my chat with MIR. Hunt.
asked To the other great manu-
script collections of the world. He
! replied:
4 There are only three really great
historical collections. that OF the
! British Museum in London, the Biblio-
tecque Rationale in Paris, and the one
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26

barrels of them. The papers were still
but soon after that the bank was
burned down and the papers were
burned with it. This left rs the only
group of Washington papers the one
which the government had bought II
formed about two-thirds of the, whole
where arc the papers Of John
Adams"
They are in the hands of the Massa-
chusctts Historical Society ut Boston
where are also the papers of John
Quincy Adams. They have been de
posted there. and will probably never
leave Boston, although they really
ought to be in our collection here. The
Adams papers are valuable. They are
in the special charge Of MIR Worthing-
ton Ford who was formerly chief of
this division. They are very carefully
guarded"
"Iinve YOU many OF the jefferson pa :
pers?"
Yes. our collection is numbered by
tens of thousands Jefferson was very
methodical, and his private papers were
almost as Nolumincus as those of
Washington. lie was one of The first
Americans TO use a press copy, and
there are thousands of letters in press
copy by him. Congress bought .Icffcr-
sons library, and ii was carried in
wagons from, Monticello to Washing
ton The jefferson papers were not n
part of the library. They were ac-
Guired after Jeffcrson's death. and were
bought OF Us descendants for abour
$4,000 These papers contained Il re
cord OF the whole career of Jefferson
Only about one-iifth of them have ever
been published, and II is out Of the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26
GORDONSVILuE

Special TO The Times Dispatch
,'fn9hsElnr' Va. oetoh"r = T. S,e.
nor. Nho mas been guest OF Nr and Nj.
W Wilbor Osborne FOR the ps.t week re-
turned I" Eichinond on Wednesday
James Madison TAFT. OF 'AunandaIe q" Ar.
visiting relatives In Philadelphia IA
W. Nubor Osborne attended the COUNT
inir-'i Rockingham this wrck Hc was on :.
Of the judges Of hunters
Mrs Nargare- Graves who has been The
guest Of friends and relatives in orange Tor
ne past month. returned to Richmond on
Julian Morris ~ Keswlck ana Mr Tay-
lof, OF Austria. spcu' several days mis- week
~ Orange looking Up some 90 Mr. Morri. ,
Mrs Allan Potts returned from, Harcrs-
town Md on Saturday. where she WAS =.
popular ana successful exhibitor At TIL.
annual horse show.
r. beverley Goodioc returned home on
Sundny after delightful stay OF several
days with friends Norfolk
Allan Potts ~ NJ the weekend with hts
family az Happy Creek
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26
ASHEVILLE
lSp.claI,o The Tines.pi.natch

Especial 10 The Times Dispatch
AsheVllle. y. g. October .J.-Mlss Mary
M.lendcr entertained a, an enjoyable card
PARTY Friday afternoon her home on
iearhons Drive. The house was% decorated
for tho occasion In color scheme Of mink
and white. and following the games {,
salad course was served.
The Bingham cadets entertained at de-
liEhtful dance This afternoon AZ their club.
house in bingham Heights. The Coors Of
Tho school We're used In the decorations and
refrcshmcniS were served late in the after
noon.
MIR and Mrs Nicholas y. BeadlcS return
cd 20 the city Thursday from Canada. where
they spent their honeymoon OF TWO weeks.
N!s. I. TuTnbulL OF Cleveland. and Mrs
Guy Carlton We're the guests of honor at !,
bridge party. which was given by Mrs
frederick l.. Hun, on "Wednesday afternoon
her home Hillside Street
Mrs. Zen Curtis entertained yesterday af-
ternoon at card party In honor OF Mrs
y. NJ Luther, OF Greenville. :. c.. who IS
her guest.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26
question for the government to ever
publish them all

question for the government to ever
publish them all"
Tell mo something about the papers
of James Madison
our Madison collection came from
two separate purchases Madison pre-
pared certain of his papers for publica-
bought some of these shortly after his
death. Later on we bought the re-
mainder. Then some OF the papers fell
into the hands OF his stepson, Payne
Todd. who deposited them with James
C. Mcclure, OF Washington. Mcclure
was collector Of manuscripts. He
had loaned Todd money and Todd had
given him the papers as security, and
when the debt was not paid they
fell into his hands. Later on the Me
CURE collection was sold To the Chicago
Historical Society. and il was only a
year nr so ago that | persuaded that
society to sell them to us. The heads
of the society were business men. They
thought that the Madison collection
rightly belonged to the National III
brary, and they gave ii to us at just
what il cost them. These Madison
papers comprised 10 volumes, and the
items in our Madison documents alto
gther are in the ncighborhood Of So
600"
We have also some papers of Mon
roe. and some which We're bought from
the descendants of John Quincy Adams.
Many of these have not been hound as
yet We have a large collection of
documents relating to Andrew Jack
son. The chief collection left by Jack
son was given 10y General Jackson's
adopted son TO his friend. Francis l..
blair, and Blair's descendants turned
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26

How One-Third of the Washing
ton Papers Were Burned-The
Madison Collection and the
10000 Documnets Relating to
Iackson-Stories of Franklin
Pierce and James Buchanan.
Andrew Jackson's Duels-Col-
Letting Raw Material for Col
onial Histor Vt he Oldest
Documents in EXiSte nee.
Something About the Vatican
Collection and the Private
Papers Of Calico and Dante.
Interesting Stories About
Wonderful Historical Under
taking Now Inaugurated by the
Government.
ny FRANk G. CAKrE4rER.
Washington -. G.
I HAVE already told YOU something OF
the wonderful collection OF manu-
sCripts relating 10 American his
tory which are now being gathered
together I'm the manuscript division OF
the Library 90 Congress ut Washing
ton This collection is steadily in
oreas!nc and II will soon bc the larg
est reservoir Of She raw material or
history known to the world have
spent the greater part OF the week in
going through the collection. and it is
-
value. During my visit TO the library
to-day ] had most Interesting chat
with GailIard Hunt. the American his
iorian and archivist in charge OF the
division about the papers OF the Presis
dents Said he:
The Washington papers which we
now have in hand are the largest col.
lection relating to any individual II
Is Larger than any collection OF papers
concerning any one British statesman
or any famous man OF any other coun.
Try Washiucton became famous when
Very young, ana he WAS Il prolific
letter writer. From 1913 on people
began 10 save his letters so that now
new Washington letters are always
appearing, and almost any collector
of consequence has one or more Wash
iuEtOu letters. He wrote the most or
his CORES pondcuCe with his own hand,
and he was so methodical that he ac-
Complishcd n great lot OF work IL
was his habit - rise at > o'clock every
morning and to write until breakfast
Zinc We have ourselves here. in the
maHuscrpt division. about 10000 let
tors Of WashinGtor. and tho collection.
Including the letters to him. numbers
considerable over 100000"
Where did these papers come from ,"
FROM various sources y great
many came from his heirs When
WASHINGTON died his estate NJ Mount
Vernon came to General Bushrod Wash
ington. Later ON n number OF the
heirs sold the papers which they had
inherited 10 the government. others
of the heirs kept theirs and left them
Mt Mount Vernon, and When Mount
Nernon was sold bv Colonel Washing
ton. the father OF Lawrence Washing
ton. tho papers were taken to Alex
andria and were deposited in n bank
There must have been about a dozen
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26

r 81 rS TE RI
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-09-18
MADE RULES FOR COMPOSERS
Frederick the Great, Talented Musl-
clan Himself, Laid Down I'm
peratlve Orders.

Frederick the Great was the most
distinguished musical amateur OF his
age, and his position gave him the
power to regulate the style OF COM
position employed by the musicians
OF his period. For instance. he made
the following rules TO be followed by
operate composers: "All the pTin-
cipal singers must have big arias and
different in character as an adagio
aria, which must be very cantabile
to show of to good advantage the
voice and delivery of the singer: in
de capo the artist can then display
her art in embellishing variations;
then there must be an allegro aria
with brilliant passages. a gallant aria,
duet for the first male singer and
the prima donna. In these pieces the
big forms OF measure must be used
so as TO give pathos TO the tragedy;
the smaller forms OF time, such as
two-four and three-eight, are for the
secondary roles, and for these a tenn
pa minuetto can be written. There
must be the necessary changes OF
time, but minor keys must be avoided
in the theater, because they are too
mournful."
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-09-18
Village of Hooper Burned.

Kalamazoo. Mich.-Only one house
and saw mill remain standing in
Hooper, a little settlement 20 miles
north of this city in Allegan county.
flames having destroyed the general
store. the depot, crate factory, the
freight house and nine homes.
The fire started, it is said, from
sparks from a freight engine and set
fire to dry grass. Driven by a strong
wind that was blowing, it rapily crept
TO a small shed. then leaped to a
small lumber yard owned by the rail-
road. Railway laborers, women and
farmers fought the fire by hand. but
could not stop its progress and by
midnight only a smoldering mass
marked the place where the little place
had once stood. The loss will prob
ably reach $4,000.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-09-18
Man She Wanted.

"Will you marry me-" he asked.
She paused for a moment before
she replied, Then she said
Listen carefully, please. You are
a man OF ordinary abilities and per-
fectly conventional ideas. You
haven't the slightest conception Of
the new world movement which is
now taking place. You are intensely
blind to all of its radicalism, intense
ly unoriginal, satisfied to be an in
tellectual nonenlity, engrossed in that
horrible. stagnsting thing known as
business, and q mental slave to the
opinions put forth by your daily pa
per. | am a true feminist, an individ-
ual searcher. bound by no ties, seek
ing the highest self-expression in ad-
vance art forms and acknowledging
no preconceived standards. Will
marry you? or course will. You're
just the man ] want"-Life.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-09-18
Japanese Courtesy.

A country where courtesy Is a busf
ness, and business but a gentle avo-
cation, reflects its popularity in the
most trifling details of conduct. Such
a country is Japan and such a detail
recently came into notice When a city
electric bureau Of Tokyo asked the
patrons on its street car lines how
they preferred to be addressed when
it was necessary to urge them to
move up Out of the 2,719 sugges-
tons sent in the Independent selects
and translates six, as follows:
Those not getting off, to the mid
die, please"
The middle is more comfortable!
I'm sorry, but all move on by one
strap"
There's pretty girl about the
middle of the carl"
"A pickpocket has just come on
board"
The municipal authorities frowned
somewhat upon the last three sUgges-
tons, but the conductors will be
taught TO use some OF the other forms
Is 1t possible that the Japanese hope
to enjoy an efficient traction service
on such terms? Apparently they hope
to, and we pass along the japanese
idea as a helpful hint to the gentle
men who jerk a gong on the hear Of
our own street cars.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-09-18

DIR. Hattie G.. Schwendener, one Of
the best known women physicians in
southeastern Michigan, and promi-
nently identified with social welfare
work, was struck by an interurban
car near st. Joseph and fatally in
jured.
The new $4,000 home of the local
Arbeiter society was dedicated. Mich
ael Reigle, OF Salisbury, president OF
the state Arbeiter Bund. made the ad-
dress. About 1900 members OF the So
ciety, including several from other
cities, were present
Rev. Francis r. Godolphin, for sew
en- years rector of Grace church, and
one OF the best known Episcopal min
listers in western Michigan, has accept.
ed a call to Grace church, Oak Park,
Chicago, where he will go Novem-
Der l.
State Trespass Agent Jesse G..
Woodberry died at Grand Haven OF
pleurisy after being Ill Ave months.
He served two terms as sheriff of OF.
tawa county and was later given his
land Office appointment by Huntley
Russell. The funeral was held under
Masonic auspices
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-09-18
GROWING STRONGER
Apparently, with Advancing Age.

at the age OF so years l collapsed
from excessive coffee drinking" writes
a man In Mo. For four years / sham
bled about with the aid of crutches or
cane, most of the time unable to
dress myself without help.
my feet we're greatly swollen, my
right arm was shrunken and twisted
inward. the fingers of my right hand
were clenched and could not be ex-
tended except with great effort and
pain Nothing seemed to give me more
than temporary relief.
Nov, during all this time and for
about 30 years previously, | drank
daily an average of 6 cups OF strong
coffee-rarely missing a meal.
my wife at last took my case into
her own hands and bought some
Postum. She made IL according to d.
rections and I liked 1t fully as well
as the best high-grade coffee.
Improvement set in at once. In
about 6 months began to work lit
tie, and In less than year was very
much better, improving rapidly from
day to day. I am now In far better
Lealth than most men Of my years
ind apparently growing stronger with
advancing age.
II am busy every day at some kind
Of work and am able to keep up with
the procession without a cane. The
arm and hand that were once almost
useless, now keep far ahead in rapidly
Of movement and beauty of penman-
ship"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Greek, Mich. Write for copy of the lit
tie book, THE Road 10 MELVILLE"
Postum comes In two forms:
Regular Postum-must be we'll boiled.
instant Postum is a soluble powder.
A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in q
cup OF hot water and. with the add
ton Of cream and sugar, makes q do
reious beverage instantly. q
There's q reason" for Postum.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-09-18
Webster Appointed Bank Receiver

Pontiac, Mich.-Elmer r. Webster
was appointed receiver of the +. JOSS
man state bank at Charleston by Judge
George w. Smith in the circuit court
here. The receiver was directed to
file a bond for $685. within FIVE days.
Mr.. Webster's appointment was unan-
tn,ously Endorsed Saturday afternoon
at a meeting OF creditors and deposit
tors of the bank, held at Charleston.
E. r. Webster is one of the oldest
and best known members of the Oak
land county bar association, having
been admitted to the practice OF law
in 1889.