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baroness buRDETr Courts

ripped the canvas of the famous Andrews
portrait of Washington from its frame
with her hairpin. Taking this and some
valuable state archives with her, she was
driven post haste into the country, where
she remained until the enemy had re-
tired.
August 3O-The American diplomatist
Horace Maynard. representative from
Tennessee. minister to Turkey and Post
master General.
September 1.-The British sloop Avon
sunk by the American sloop-of-war Wasp:
September 1.-THE famous battle OF
Plattsburg. which heaped glory upon
our naval hero. Thomas Macdonough.
This engagement occurred between his
Lake Champlain fleet and the British
naval force. under Commodore Downie.
Macdonough had skillfully prepared
HIS vessels for action. and hardly had
the British squadron opened fire when
one of its shots demolished hencoop
abord the Saratoga, Macdonough's flag
ship.
The released chickens, excited by the
and crowed loudly and defiantly. Our
sailors. interpreting this as an omen OF
good luck, fought desperately. The
battle lasted about two hours and
twenty minutes. and ended with vic
tory for the Americans, after having
been witnessed by hundreds of specta-
tors on the shore.
The victory made Macdonough the
hero of the country. The state of New
York gave him 1000 acres of land, and
Vermont voted him an estate at Cum
berland Head, overlooking the scene OF
his triumph. Congress voted him tht
thanks of the nation and a gold medal
of honor.
Thus" said Marlborough to a friend
while tears filled his eyes. from 8
poor lieutenant I became a rich man
September 13-'"The Star Spanglet
Banner" was written by Francis Scot
Key, during the battle of Fort Nc
Henry. At the time Key was dtstric
attorney for the District of Columbia
, He went int Maryland to release ;
, friend taken by the British. witnessed
: this great battle. and while it was a
, the height of it's fury composed tn
verses that subsequently formed one o
the national anthems.
, From his position he could see thu
flag at Fort McHenry waving tina
night in the glare Of the battle. A
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and the insane. He had decided to be-
come a playwright until persuaded by
a noted actress, Mrs. Seymour. to di-
rect his talents to fiction.
June 11-Our Unitarian divine and
author Henry Whitney Bellows. well
remembered today as the president of
the United States sanitary commission
of the civil war.
hymn writer. Frederick w. Faber.
whose contributions to religious poetry
are scattered profusely through our
present-day hymnals.
June 2S-Capture of the British sloop
Reindeer by our sloop-of-war Wasp in
the British channel
July 19-The inventor Samuel Colt.
who gave to the world the revolver
which bears his name
July 25-The centenary of the loco
motive. On that date in 1914 the first
successful engine to carry a load upon
the rails made its maiden trip at Kill
linsworth colliery. West Moor, Eng
land. At last substitute for horse
power traction was found and a new
era in transportation had its birth.
The inventor. George Stephenson. was
only thirty three years old when he eff
1ected this browning achievement An
odd picture his first locomotive. the
Butcher. would present to our eyes to-
day, and it made so much noise by the
eScapement Of steam that the officers
of the law demanded that its inventor
apate the nuisance stephenson was
working at the West Moor colliery
when he built the Butcher:
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1t had smooth wheels. which invent
ors at that time considered imprac-
ticable. They maintained that only
wheels with rough surfaces would adj
here to the track. On its trial trip
the Rlucber successfully drew a load
of thirty tons. This was hauled in
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that whisky has been known to be dis
pensed even when no illness was present.
But they are only vague rumors and have
never been tracked to their lair.
According to Mr.. Small. it seems a
visitor at one of the fashionable hotels
there last summer wanted something to
cool him off and ne wanted it awful bad.
His throat felt like the bottom of the
great salt desert and the tinkle of imag-
mary ice in an imaginary julep made his
mouth water.
So he hied himself Off to the landlord
and asked for bit of firewater. But he
pleaded in vain.
There is only one circumstance in
which I can let Il man have drink, -
said the proprietor, land that is when
he is snakebitten."
us that so.'' exclaimed the visitor.
well, have YOU got any snakes around
here that can accommodate me?"
Il have a snake replied the landlord
slowly. but you can't get him Just now.
He is busy. and then, too, he 10 engaged
for three weeks ahead.'
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When he placed one of these curls be-
hind his ear, any one who couldn't put
up a good old-fashioned rough-and-
tumble fight got out the door at once:
but when both curls went back any one
who could fight went out the window.
he sheriff of the county, however.
brought "Curley'" TO grief. He engineered
q wedding between the old-time fighter
and his own sister. couple of weeks
later the rumor spread that ''Curley
had joined the church and the sheriff
decided to investigate the rumor. He
found "Curley'' leaning on his hoe in a
cornfield. and asked for information.
"Sure, sheriff." the fire-eater replied.
sadly, i've got religion all right. l jest
fingered it out tibet it's Il leetle too much
fur a man to hev Emmeline fer wife
and go to hell, too!'
Representative Frank Clark of Florida.
chairman of the public buildings and
grounds committee, which is one of the
so-called pork barrel" committees, will
not make a speech in his home district
unless he is accompanied by his favorite
black SLOUGH hat
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was the bad boy of the place ana NY
10 every bit of mischief that went on.
But years passed by. The boys VINO
had met on the field for foot ball ana
marbles had gone out into the world to
meet their destiny And Murdoch had
lost sight of Jones in the smoke which
hung over his political contests But
Jones, though gone was not forgot
ten" Murdoch often wondered what had
been the path in life OF the reckless,
foolhardy boy.
At last, one night. Murdoch was called
to a town in New Jersey to deliver a
speech on some important issue and while
there met an old friend Of his boyhood
DAYS They talked over old times ana
Laughed about things over which they
had once shed boyish tears.
ITS strange how the old lads have
turned out" sighed the friend In remi-
niscent mood. Those who we're the
worst and who were expected to go to
the bad have become fine men, and
many of those who were model boys have
.one to the bad themselves"
..For instance queried Murdoch. with
interest in his voice.
well, there's Charley Jones and your
self for an instance" replied the old
friend. Charley was such a dare devil
that every one believed he would land in
the pen-he Is now a minister here in
this very town. While you, whom every
one thought a prize pupil, are actually
SoinS 70 Congress-.
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eight carriages, up an incline. The
result was not much of an economic
triumph over horsepower. for the speed
attained was not beyond that of a
horses walk, and as steam and horse
power remained equal in point of cost.
the fate of Stephenson's invention
seemed to hang in the balance.
The populace was inclined to boot at
its ungainly appearance and had the
young inventor not applied the steam
blast and doubled both speed and power
his achievement would have been
branded as a failure.
Stephenson had not learned to read or
write until his eighteenth year. AS a
boy he had driven the work horses in a
colliery near his birthplace in the en-
virons of Newcastle. Later he ran the
stationary engine in the mine and his
curiosity led him to take the mechanism
apart and put it together every Saturday
night. 1t was thus that he conceived the
idea of giving to the world the mechan-
zeal continuance which has been more
fruitful in its economic effects than any
invention that was ever devised by the
human mind.
July 25-Centeuary of the battle of
Lundy's Lane. The British Gen. Rial.
having fed down the Niagara river,
camped in the. Canadian woods near
Niagara falls. Believing the force to be
only an advance guard our young Lieut..
Col. (afterward GEM Winfield Scott
dashed into the woods to disperse them,
only to be confronted by Rails far SUI
perior force SCOTS little army was in
great peril.
To stand still would be fatal; to retreat
would create panic in the main army.
so Scott resolved to fight. During the
bloody battle that followed he had two
horses killed under him, and he was
twice severely wounded. This battle, in
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Didn't Get 0n-NohoW.

~HAUNCEY NJ DEPEw, at Peekskill
- dinner, was talking about u certain
antiquated railroad.
Its manager" he said seems almost
as absurd as the immigrant.
IAN immigrant lived on a lonely farm.
and eventually railroad was run
through the district. There was one
train day, and it stopped at the immi-
grants station on signal
The immigrant, one day, set the sig
nal, and the train drew up. But ne did
not climb aboard
".well, get on. shouted the conductor.
Get on. can't ye? -
Excuse me- said the immigrant. i
don't want TO get on. I only want TO
say that you are to stop here at this time
tomorrow. as my wife Is going to town
to do some holiday shopping.
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and lineage fully warranting the fancy
price he was asking for the beast.
Forthwith 1 purchased it. fearful lest
some other horse-fancier might snap up
the rare prize if I delayed in haggling
over a few hundred dollars difference
between us.
IA few days after I was astride my
bargain on the Conduit road, just outside
of Washington, when he cast a shoe. I
drew up at a blacksmith's shop, which
was fortunately near. to have the dam
age repaired.
"'Well, well. old boy exclaimed the
blacksmith, patting my prize Familiarity.
you back here?'
THAT horse has never been here be-
FORE said. 4 have just purchased him
from a dealer in Virginia. He is young
thoroughbred. fresh from the fields Of
Fauquier county
- don't like to contradict gentle
man. replied the blacksmith, but the
mounted policeman on this suburban beat
rode that nag for nigh on a dozen years
until he was sold by the police depart
ment last spring to some o. them horse
sharps down in Virginia. Them fellows
can do wonders with an old plug!'"
Representative Copley Of Illinois. one of
the nineteen bull moosers Of the House OF
Representatives, is said to be the richest
man in that body.
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Snake Was Popular.

r c pr C sentative
J. II. Small Of
North G arc | ina
lives in a prohibi-
ton state. and a
thirsty man has to
hunt a doctor and
get a prescription
II he wants to en-
joy himself accord
ing to a bibulous
standard.
But, it seems.
there are ways OF
getting around the
law-at least, there
are rumors afoat
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Trial of Eliza fleming.

~NE of the strangest and saddest
cases with which the English GRIM
~ inal courts have ever had to deal
was that of Eliza Fenning. The tangle OF
circumstances which surrounded this
Young girl interested the whole of Lon
DON and Charles Dickens, DR.. Parr and
several less prominent people have refer
red to and expressed opinions about her
case in their writings.
The crime of which she was accused
was committed in a house in Chancery
lane London, in 1915. Here was the home
of one of the prosperous, narrow-mlnded'
self-satisfied families of that discourasing
British middle class which Ruskin later
made it his life mission to rouse from the
DEPTHS of selfish greed and Indifferent ig-
norance. Orlibar Turner. head of this
family, was a law stationer, a prosperods
scious responsibility.
Eliza Fenning was a saucy, blue-eyed
country girl, who when she became a
servant in the Turner family introduced
a discordant element of sweetness and
youth into the soberly stupid and SELF
sufficient household. Mrs. Turner re-
yarded her as irritatingly pretty and
light-hearted and. moved perhaps by I'M
conscious jealousy, daily found some
fault which she considered Justlncatloh
for half an hours scolding. until the
sound of her nagging voice with the sight
of her red visage was the most unpleaS-
ant of all the trials which the girl found
herself compelled to endure. After SIX
weeks service with the turner's her
CHEEKY voice and smiling face were a HI
tie less SO.
nor Orlihar Turner and his son and
daughter-in-law, who were his guests an
apprentice boy named Robert Gadsdeh
and Eliza Fenning were an taken VIZ
Iently i'll. Mrs. Turner had been away
from home, and returned to ina the
entire household suffering Medical aid
was hastily summoned, and the doctor, a
Mr.. Marshall, had no difficulty in per
ceiying that the illness was the result OF
arsenic poisoning.
Olbar Turner was the frst 10 recover
and went with the doctor to investigate
the kitchen where the dinner had been
prepared. Here the suspicious OF the lat
ter were corroborated when they found
in the bottom of a dish containing the
remainder of the dumplfngs which had
identified as arsenic.
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SUSPICION Immediately fell on Eliza
Fenning, who was aGrrested March II
taken to Hatton Garden police court and
committed for trial.
She was indicted for administering pol
son with intent to murder. capital Of
tense in those days, and the trial began
at Old Bailey April II. 1915. The sus-
picion that the girl had attempted 10
poison them had concentrated the hard
ness and coarseness of the tradesman'
family into brutal hatred, and they
brought very strong evidence against her;
1t was proved that she had quarreied
with Mrs. Turner; that the poison was
neither in the flour nor the milk. and II
was alleged that the prisoner had been
alone in the kitchen during the prepare
ton Of the food.
Previous to the 21st there had been
kept a package of arsenic in a drawer
to which the servants had access. When
Robert Gadsden, the apprentice boy
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Winning Votes.

r g Pr e sentative
J. W. Langley of
K e n t II ky de-
nounces W ri t c RS
who paint the
III un I aineers of
his state as semi
b ar b a r ians and
says they are the
finest people in the
land.
When Mr.. Lang
ley was campaign
ing during his last
contest for the
House he encoun-
tered one noun
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''Hobs0n'S Choice"

Clifford Pinchot
told the only story
he knows-or at
least he claims it
is the only one-at
a forestry BAN
quet in Washing
ton several weeks
ago. 1t was of an
old-time Pennsyl-
vanian nicknaned
'Curley." The rea-
son for this name,
Mr.. Pinchot stated,
was the presence
Of two curls on the
gentleman's brow.
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tiers and Napoleon's efforts to roll
back the tide of invasion had all been
in vain.
April 11-Centenary of Napoleon's
abdication. AS his struggle against the
allies had become hopeless, his trusted
officers had deserted and betrayed him.
He was forced to abdicate and resign
his imperial throne April II, 1914. The
ancient house of the Bourbons was
reinstated in the person of Louis XVIII.
The populace tore down the great en-
peror's statue from the column of
AusterlitZ.
Tormented with the impression that
he was forsaken and execrated by man
kind, he swallowed poison. but the dose
did not prove fatal. Bidding a touch
ing and memorable farewell to the
soldiers of his guard at Fontainbleau.
he embarked upon his Punishment to
the little Island of Elba in the Mediter-
ranean.
AS he passed through the towns made
deso1ate by the commercial destruc
ton of his continental system he was
denounced as monster of crime. the
cause of all the sufferings of the
French people. At Avignon a crowd at
tackled his carriage and threatened to
throw him into the Rhone. To protect
assume a disguise.
April 12-Centenary Of the noted Eng
fish philanthropist, Baroness Burdette-
Coutts beloved by her countrymen for
the liberal manner in which she spent her
vast fortune in the endowment of churches
and charitable institutions. The beautiful
St Stephens at Westminster; a home for
unfortunate women at Shepherds Bush,
and system for helping immigrants are
among her foremost endowments.
n,Jv. hicfn rim in1a <fcf
John Lothrop Motley. minister to Austria
and Great Britain and author of THE
Rise of the Dutch Republic"
April 23-The English scientist, Edwin
Ray Lancaster. anatomist and zoologist.
April 29-Capture of the British brig
Epervier by our sloop-of-war Peacock off
the coast of Florida. with S11s.OOO in spe-
Gle
May 6-The well known journalist and
politician, William E. Robinson, member
of Congress from New York. whose jour
nalistic .thrusts were delivered under the
pseudonym "Richelieu.'
May 1.-THE Hungarian composer,
Stephen Heller.
June s-Thc illustrious English novelist
and playwright. Charles Reade The
shrine at which the literary world will do
him homage on that date is 1psden house,
Oxfordshre. his birthplace, the scene of
the childhood which he shared with his
sent to the grim boarding school of his
merciless. fogging, memory examining
master.
This great genius who gave the world
what many consider one of the three
greatest novels OF the nineteenth century
THE Cloister and the Hearth'-studied
fiction fifteen years before he attempted
to produce it.
His novels stimulated many reforms
in the treatment Of criminals, paupers
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Not Spanish Trader, Anyway.

None likes a joke
upon himself bet
ter than Admiral
Dewey.
awhile ago I
wished to pur-
chase a riding
horse" said the
hero of Manila
bay recently, land
on inquiry found
an animal in Vir-
gfnia. that home
of excellent saddle
horses. which, I
was assured by the
seller, was q thor
oughbred of youth
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During its circuit mankind will, with
eulogies as heartfelt as they are elo-
quent, hang wreaths upon many tombs
where rest the truly great. and dedicate
many tablets in places where epochs
were born. Statesmen. soldiers, in
rentors. illustrious masters of the arts
and sciences will pass once more before
US in silent, grand review; the triumphs
of a past era will be lived again in
memory.
Conspicuous III this moving panorama
are the crucial and decisive battles of
our second war with the mother coun-
try, the wanton destruction of our Capt.
toll and White House BY the British
vandals. the final negotiation of peace
at Client.
Among this passing phantasmasoria
we see the immortal Stephenson start
ing upon the rails of dingy Killing
worth Colliery the worlds first success
full locomotive, and KONG, at London.
demonstrating in the Office of the Thun-
derer the first steam printing machine
Thus came into being just century ago
the two greatest epoch-makIng inven-
lions of modern times-those which made
possible our railroads and quickly print
ed newspapers.
In the same shadowy pageant is also
Fulton. beginning work upon our first
steam battleships, forbears of the mighty
dreadnoughts of today. And although
they failed TO alter our boundaries, we
see the military Seniuses of Europe
changing the map by taking Norway
from Holland and giving her to Sweden:
by transferring Guiana from Portugal to
France; by giving Nice to Sardinia, and
Corsica to France.
In bias relief against the background
of the picture the melancholy Napoleon
ter Paris. he abdicates, and begins his
exile at Elba, while England proclaims
Thanksgiving festival fof the peace Of
Europe.
Here is the schedule sfthe years CEN
t=naries:
uralist and geologist, Charles Baker
Adams.
January 2o-Birth Of the American
jurist and politician. David Wilmot
United States senator from Pennsyl-
vania and judge Of the United States
Court of Claims.
January os-Natal day of the Ameri-
can Shakespearean scholar, Henry Nor
man Hudson.
January 31-The eminent Scotch geolo-
gist. Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, di-
rector general of the geological survey
of the United Kingdom. was born ON
this day, 1914
February birth of the great demo-
cratic politician. Samuel ]. Tilden, known
as the father of modern democracy, and
who, his party still maintains, was
elected President of the United States in
1876. although the memorable electoral
commission decided otherwise. After
this decision he formally declined the
presidential nomination in the two fol-
lowing campaigns. but did not fail to
maintain his party enthusiasm. He died
a bachelor in 1856
February 24-The great artist Henry
kirke Brown. ranked by many as the
foremost American sculptor of his
period. best known for his statues OF
George Washington in Union Square
New York: of Lincoln in Prospect Park
Brooklyn. and of Gen. Greene in the
Capitol at Washington
March 21-Battle of Great Horseshoe
Bend. in which Gen. Andrew jackson
defeated the Creek Indians
March 31-Centenary of the SURRENDER
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CENTRAL JOsLpAAooKER.
NERO OF The BATTLE. OF
hE CLOUDS. Eeem1E6Azsx IT. eAoX'

gressional Library. Then they set fire
to the building, but a heavy rainstorm
bursting forth within an hour. succeed
ed in extinguishing the flames before the
walls were badly damaged.
After these marauders had finished their
pillage of the Capitol they marched on to
the White House. where Mrs. Dolly
Madison, forewarned of their approach,
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Gone to the Bad.

When Represent
alive Victor Muir
dock of Kansas
was a young lad
he entered as a
student at an acad-
envy known as
the Lewis School
in that state He
was one of the
promising p u p ! ] s
and did well in
his studies. But
one of his class
mates-Jones might
have been his name
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Y some ineHplica-
Bile process we pay
especial tribute to
men and events
deemed our great
est assets-a hun
bred years after
their birth or oc-
currence. And this
new year. 1914.
will be especially
fruitful in these
. g n t ury mile
stones.
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Many Times During
the New Year the Cen
fury Milestones of Dis
tinguished People and
Events Will Be Noted
decisive Battles and
Great Inventions
Epochs of a Hundred
Years Ago Anniver-
saries That Will Be OBJ
served in Many Parts
of the World.
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Com nhonAs MAcDoNoUeH
HLRo OF BATTLE OF PLAITsBVRo
.STPT II. 1914 ....

of Paris to the allies. The allied armies
had poured over all the French from
tiers and Napo1eons efforts to roll
back the tide of invasion had all been
in vain.
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NE of the strangest and saddest
cases with which the English GRIM
~ inal courts have ever had to deal