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Jackson proceeded to Spanish soil and
took the Spanish town of St. Marks, and
there found the ring-leaders of the Indians
"a chief named Francis and chief named
Himollomico. They were Spanish sub
jects. They were also murderers and tor
turers of the subjects of the United States.
Jackson hanged them at once.
He then destroyed the chief remaining
lair of border assassins- camp of
Billy Bowlegs" on the Suwannee River
Here he captured Ambrister, an ex-officer
of the British navy, an accomplice of the
assassins. He had already captured Ar
buthnot, another British subject, charged
with the same offense. Arbutfnot he
hanged. Ambrister he shot.
Having thus executed the four prin-
cipal sources of our troubles in Florida,
and having thoroughly pacified the coun-
try, jackson prepared to return to the
United States. At just that moment,
however, the Spanish governor of Florida,
at Pensacola, sent a note to jackson
saying: "If you do not retire, but persist
in your aggressions, shall repel force by
force"
This obliged Jackson to stay in Florida
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went to war with her in 1912. We did.
We were nation of infantle weakness,
and England was the worlds largest and
richest and best, organized empire. We
put up with great deal from England
because we had to. Yet, even at that, we
went to war with her in the end, anyhow,
very anyhow-without the remotest
chance of doing any real damage to an
empire which Napoleon himself had not
been able to hurt, but simply on the prin
ciple of the pugnacious kingbird, which
plunges at the hawk to worry her and to
scare her off.
Those historians are demonstrably
right who say that our ancestors hated
professional standing armies with great
hatred, but dearly loved to do lot of
amateur skirmishing around with their
own personal rifles on their own more or
less individual accounts. They were
highly anti "miitaristic, but highly ag-
gressive. They were at their happiest in
both these qualities during their conquest
of Spanish Florida in 1S16-lS, at time
when the United States was officially
totally at peace with Spain.
Our Florida frontier then, like our
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Mexican frontier now, was tormented by
disorders and raids. Florida Indians and
Florida negroes would come across into
Georgia and Alabama, and plumber and
kill. The Spanish authorities of Florida
were unable or unwilling to prevent these
occurrences. We prevented them-in a
manner that led Spain to hasten to "sell
Florida to us, and to get out of it's Florida
difficulties with as much dignity as pos
sible, and little cash.
In 1916 we went down on to Spanish
soil in Florida, and totally destroyed an
Indian and negro headquar ers on the
Appalachicola River.
Andrew Jackson's Own War
IN 1918 the War Department put An
drew Jackson in charge of the Florida
frontier. He raised volunteers in Ken
lucky and Tennessee and Georgia and
Alabama. He had only 600 regulars.
The rest of his little force of 1000 men
came with their own guns and their own
horses, full of an anti-militaristic enthusi-
assn for violating the sovereignty" and
the territorial integrity" of Spain.
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hotel, and EGGPLANT in town, and collects
rent-roH as long as the moral law 1t
was, moreover, well set up young man,
with fresh skin and clean-cut, SYM
metrical head, that passed down an aisle
with a leisurely but assured tread.
@Stage! Stage!' called some one.
"This elevation is quite sufficient" he
answered in his quick, incisive way.
"Now, as you all know, l am not
Worthwhile. Repeating here what have
freely said in private, am not Worth
while because | have always regarded the
club as trying to get something for nothing
that is to say, five thousand dollar
loan on a credit basis of five hundred. l
have never known any one, individually
or collectively, to succeed in doing that;
and you have just heard my friend, Mort
Shivers, confess that the Worthwhiles are
not likely to-"
He smiled cheerfully at cat-call
"Some of you .Worthwhiles are prob
ably thinking that your parent society
has done just that thing in absorbing
your dues. 1t has the dues, unquestion-
ably. Whether it gets them for nothing
or not remains to be seen. The peniten-
tiaries are still doing business at their old
stands. However, my advice-if you
care for it's for you to withhold judg-
ment until you hear what Mr.. Shipley
has to say. Meanwhile, I'll step over to
the hotel and make sure that he doesn't
go astray between there and here-as he
may be tempted to do when he discovers
that it is not a parlor gathering which he
has to face"
HE found the group of loungers on the
spacious veranda of the Judd House
specializing, behind their cigars, on the
chances of Mr.. Shipley showing up. The
opinion predominated that he would not.
And, sure enough, when the auto-bus
that piled between Goshen and Spring
Valley wheezed up to the curb, it's only
passenger was a young woman.
AS she stepped into the rectangle of
light from the Office door, she revealed a
slight but supple figure, clad in glove
fitting tailored suit and chic sailor
hat. She ran the gauntlet of masculine
eyes without culver, registered. and
asked to be shown to her room at once
employing staccato voice which con-
WINGED Bert Sheppard, the clerk, that
she cherished convictions concerning the
meaning Of "at once.'
When Bert returned from carving her
suitcase and bag upstairs, Dudley Sloane
was inspecting the register with a uuizzi- >
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while longer. He turned Indignantly
west, and captured Pensacola and took
possession of the person of the Spanish
governor. The virtual end of Spanish
rule in Florida had come.
Spain, of course, complained. The
government at Washington, of course,
gave Pensacola back, but it did not hest
tate to say that it was perfectly clear that
Spain could not make Florida peaceful,
and that therefore the United States
would continue to make it peaceful when
ever necessary. And Congress approved
Jackson's rather personal and private
war against Spain by formal vote.
In 1919 Spain sold Florida to the
United States. No more border raids.
Peace.
When Jackson got back to Nashville,
they gave him banquet and he proposed
a toast. 1t was:
"Om Country! Though forbearance is
her maxim, she must show to foreign ma
tions that her rights are not to be out
raged!"
Our ancestors were forbearing-oh,
very-but they were not so meek. There
fore they made the United States.
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tchiLe Club. il is my duty to explain
the purpose Of this mass meeting.'"
TN spite of torridity which the with
drawal Of the brazen sun had scarcely
assuaged, the Black Hawk Opera
II House was packed to the last gallery
seat. Not only was the admission free,
but the supper-tables of Goshen had
buzzed that evening with the rumor that
the speaker might be escorted to the
towns edge by committee of citizens
and introduced to a blacksnake whip.
Yet the speakers name was unknown
to the bulk of the audience until Morti-
mer Shivers-a thin, heavily specialized,
fidgety man with no hair north of his
cranial Tropic of Cancer shuffled out
upon the stage and for moment sound
lessly moved his lower jaw, triturating
the last of the peppermint lozenge which
he was never without since he had quit
tobacco.
GAS president of the Civic Worthwhile
Club" he began, batting his myopic eyes
nervously under the bombardment of the
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raged!"
Our ancestors were forbearing-oh,
very-but they were not so meek. There
fore they made the United States.
cal face. The last entry on the page, in
bold, far-fung script, was Up. Shipley,
St. Louis"
"I'm off, Dud!" announced Bert, slip
ping into flannel coat and sweeping a
handful of cigars from the case.
Sloane was still studying the register
and revolving his promise not to let Mr..
Shipley get lost-when bell snarled and
drop on the annunciator flashed No. 10,
the newcomers room. The Judd House
boosted bells but no bell-boys, and Sloane
stared at the number as if it were a
hieroglyphic. But when the bell whirred
again, fifteen seconds later, he laid aside
his Panama hat and cigar and assembled
the staircase.
Gomez answered voice, at his rap.
He opened the door.
MISS SIMPLIFY could not have occu-
than six minutes. Yet her tailored skirt
lay on the floor in circle, just as it had
slid from her hips. Toilet accessories and
other odds and ends were showered
about black traveling-bag as if by an
internal explosion. But what caught and
held Dudley Sloane's eyes was the lady
herself, faultlessly attired in an evening
gown and stretched upon the bed One
shapely white arm, bare to the shoulder,
hung Imply over the edge, one hand
shaded her eyes, and every line of her
girlish figure seemed relaxed.
Can you tell me where the Worth
while Club is assembled tonight. she
asked YEARLY, without looking up.
"At the opera-house,' answered Sloane.
At the sound of his unbell-boy-lik
voice, she revealed pair of tired eyes
very different from those that had run
the gauntlet below.
al am the landlord, he explained.
cat the opera-house!' she exclaimed.
THAT is very strange But, as if too
weary to seek an explanation, she yelled
her eyes again for moment. "Could
you get conveyance for me? haven't
eaten since this morning. l am very
tired. II don't understand just what
is the matter with me-"
"1t's only block" Dudley informed
her, "But if I'm Judge, madam, you
are in no condition to make an address
tonight. There is big crowd assem-
bled-and they are in belligerent mood'
He noted the glossy bronze hair piled
upon the pillow, and the hand, no larger
than ten-year-old boys, that spanned
her temples. Nor did he overlook the
plain gold band on the third finger.
Eyes; I imagined they would be bel
ligerent," she murmured musingly. Il
am used to belligerent Worthwhiles. But
II was not prepared for a mob
There was something pathetic in her
wavering, wandering voice. The mans 4
mind, moreover, was struggling to sub
stitute this Pat Shipley for the one that 4
Mort Shivers' announcement had con-
jured up.
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illustrations by Stockton Milford

footlights, at is my duty to explain
l. the purpose of this mass meeting.
Our club, as most of you know, is
one of a chain of several hundred, all
organized by the parent society in
4 st. Louis. We have been paying
dues for several years to that society,
with the understanding that when our
apprenticeship, as it is called, was up
we could borrow certain sum of money
namely, five thousand dollars-for the
purpose of opening and improving civic
park. Well, our apprenticeship was up
six months ago, and we haven't seen the
color of that money yet"
A GUFFAW dropped down from the
gallery. Another gallery god bleated,
Buncoed!" whereupon an unpatriotic
wave of laughter swept the audience.
"Buncoed seems to be the world" cried
the speaker with sudden heat, jerking
aloft a thin hand. 1--WE have been put
off and put off Even the demand for a
return of our dues, which amount to
about five hundred dollars, has been
ignored.
However, this morning l received a
telegram from the Civic Society saying
that Pat Shipley, one of their travelling
secretaries, would be with us tonight and
smooth everything out. Pat is the
word they used. 1t don't sound very
promising to me, and l don't like the
word smooth And I've got this to say
If Pat Shipley smooths things out here,
he'll have to use big iron and hot one.
A broadside of applause greeted this
bellicose note. When the smoke had
cleared the speaker continued:
"The park we had planned to build
was to be community affair, and that
is why this mass meeting was called. We
want Pat Shipley to understand that he
has to reckon not only with the Worth
while Club, but also with the citizens of
Goshen. l regret to announce that the
Spring Valley train on which we expect
Mr.. Shipley is several hours late; but |
am informed that the auto-bus is now on
its way over. So we may look for him
in very few minutes"
He paused uncertainty.
We've got no other program, but |
see Dudley Sloane, our honorable Mayor,
standing in the rear of the house, and
I'll ask him to entertain us with few
remarks while we wait"
Hand-claps followed. They come
easily to a man of thirty-fve who is
a bachelor, is known to everybody by his
first name, owns the only opera-house,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-20

Thomasville, without a particle of
sympathy for a gent who had suffered
so much.
Ten of the Mesdames Jenkins call
ed at Malachi's jail in one day, but
he was true to his soul-mate, and, at
night, when the moonbeams filtered
through the bars of his cell and the
lOVe-cal of the whip-pOOr-wil sound
ed amid the magnolias, Malachi broke
Jail and called upon Mesdame No. %,
in another county. There the officers
nailed him. They have torn him
from his soul-mate and returned him
to his old cell, where is the moon
beam and whip-poor-wil business
we've just told you about.
Many women want to be married.
Just think Of failing a wholesale pro-
motor of that lofty feminine ambi-
ton.
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SAVING A TENTF

SAVING A TENTH.-An eastern
statistician makes the tremendous
statement that 80 per cent of the men
Of today who have attained the age
of 65 years are either living upon pub
lie charity or their children. Prac-
tice self-denial, save, put one-tenth of
your wages into bank at 4 per cent
for ten years, he urges. Then he
gives figures showing that such saw
ing on 500 per month wages would
mean, in ten years, STATS.
Fine stuff! But the average wage
is nearer $50 per month. One-tenth
of this banked for ten years at 4 per
cent would mean $685.. How long
could a man of 65 years live on in
come from 1885? Maybe three weeks.
How long could he live on the 1885?
Maybe two years; maybe not. Ten
years of pinching for, say, two years
Of life at IS years of age, Is it so very
remarkable, after all, that many men
of 65 years live upon the public or
upon their children?
In most of our study of economics
how eveTlastingly we go circling
around back to the matter of low
wages, don't we?
A BLOW TO PRoMoTIoN-The
profession of promoting isn't what it
used to be, in some respects. For in
stance, there's Mr.. Malachi Jenkins,
If GaOPoia Thav aocIIaad him Of
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A BLOW TO PROMOTION

a BLOW TO PROMO 7 ION.
profession of promoting isn't y
used to be, in some respects. /
stance, there's Mr.. Malachi Je
of Georgia. They accused b
marrying % different women.
lachi, blushingly, admitted TIT
impeachment, and they jailed
New-York tribune., 1916-02-19
CROWD ON FERRYB0AT
SEES WOMAN'S SUICIDE
Young and Dressed in Mourning,
She Dives In Bay.

An unidentified woman. young and
dressed in black, crawled under the
gates Of the municipal ferryboat Rich
mond at dusk yesterday, just as the
boat was passing the Statue Of Liberty
and dived into the bay.
The cry os "W oman overboardl" "
brought The 1900 passengers rushing
to the end Of the ferry. The engines
were reversed and rowboat lowered,
but In the fog and gathering darkness
not a trace Of the woman could be
found. After twenty minutes the Rich
mond continued TO ST. George, despite
the protests of many of the passengers
that the search be continued.
Only a gray muff was left as pos
sible means of identification, though
people who had noticed the woman's
restlessness remembered that she was
apparently about twenty-elght years
old. about 5 feet inches tall, slight
and wore glasses.
In the woman's handbag. found on
the deck, was a paper on which were
several names, among them that OF
Supreme Court Justice Vernon NJ.
Davis. Justice Davis said that Mrs.
Davis was acquainted with young
woman who partly answered the dc
scription. Inquiry, however, disclosed
that she was at home.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-19
While Determined toCheck
Him, Leaders Want His
Support for Root.
PERKINS SHOWS SIGN
OF FIGHT BY MOOSE
CoIoners Rumored Favor for
Ex-senator Not Shared by
Progressive Chairman.

Old guard Republican leaders here
put out another feeler yesterday for
the Root boom. While determined TO
beat Roosevelt for the nomination for
President, II possible, II Is apparent
that they highly appreciate the impor-
tance OF having the Colonel's support
for their candidate.
One OF the leaders who exercised a
strong hand at the Republican State
Convention in Carnegie Hall said that
Colonel Roosevelt, prior to his depart
ure TO the West Indies, had sent Major
General Leonard Wood and Robert T..
Lincoln to ex-senator Root to tell him
that the Colonel would support him il
Mr.. Root became the Presidential nom
inee Of the Republican party. The
same leader added that "hc knew" that
Colonel Roosevelt had sent letters TO
ex-senator Burton, Of Ohio; Governor
Mccall Of Massachusetts, Philander
Knox and other possible candidates,
expressing his willingness TO support
them If any of them should be the
choice Of the Republican National Con-
vention.
II was not said whether Colonel
Roosevelt received replies reciprocating
his good will should it happen that he
captured the nomination. Friends Of
william Barnes among the old guai d
we're confident the Colonel would sup
port Mr.. Root or any other Republican
who might get the nomination. They
allowed for the Colonel's ambition to
get the nomination himself and admit
ted that his friends would try TO put
him over" but, they said, when he
found he couldn't get 1t he would get
behind the Republican candidate with
his vigorous support.
Leaders thoroughly believed that ex-
New-York tribune., 1916-02-19
Would Move His Offices
from Municipal Build
ing, He Says.
BOARD COULD HAVE
HAD 2 WHOLE FLOORS
DR.. Allen Terms Renting OF the
Equitable Quarters "Unwar-
ranted Extravaganza"

The new lease Of space in the Equi-
table Building for the Public Service
Commission came up for criticism at
the meeting Of tho Board Of Estimate
yesterday. Borough President Marks
declared il he had known the commits
sion wanted two entire floors in the
Municipal Building he would have va
Gated those occupied by his department
and moved TO the Hallenbeck Building,
a city owned property.
On the motion Of Frank l.. Dowling
acting President of the Board Of Alder
men, an investigation and report on the
available space and cost Of alteration
since the Municipal Building was erect
ed was ordered. William Ii. Allen, OF
the newly organized Institute for Pub
lie Service, had written Alderman
Dowling as we'll as the Board Of Esti-
mate. suggesting an investigation OF
the new Public Service Commission
lease as IAN unwarranted extravaganza
by what processes to be reform ad-
ministration."
In his letter to tho Board Of Estimate
DR.. Allen contended that an investiga-
ton by his institute had shown that
thero is 1868 square feet Of avail
able space in city owned structures.
The space required by the commission
was said 10 be $4,000 square feet when
the Equitable lease was signed. The
annual rental for the new quarters is
$4,000, and the lease is for three
wears. with the privilege Of withdraw
ING after two years at six months no
tice.
Borough President Marks at the
meeting OF the Board Of Estimate pro-
posed an expenditure of $4,000 on the
Hallenbeck Building to fit it for office
II want 10 say, Mr.. Mayor" he said
chat if | had known the Public Ser
vice Commission wanted two entire
floors in the Municipal Building and
would be satisfied with nothing else
would have moved nv department 20
the Hallenbeck Building or another
empty building, letting the commission
have the two floors assigned to my de-
partment. That would have saved the
city s550,000 in five years"
The Mayor said he was sorry he had
not known that the Borough President
New-York tribune., 1916-02-19
SHONTS'S WORDS
FOIL INQUIRY
Continued from page /

ana; and that he was connected in
1918 with some contracting firm, whose
name the witness couldn't recall. This
frm failed, he said when Anthony \.
Brady died. Brady was it, financial
backer.
Break with Read and Lane.
when did these differences between
you and Mr. Read and Dir. Lane first
manifest themselves? ," asked Mr..
Colby.
AT this special meeting Of June "a, -
answered Mr.. Shonts, (which ! called
because had booked passage on the
)mperator sailing the next day, and |
wanted 10 scquaint the board with
what I had done in case 1t acted in
my absence"
What had you done?"
81 had suggested 70 the Public SER
vice Commission. which had the night
Of SUPERVISION over the extension Of
the elevated as we had over the third
tracking. that the commission waive
the right, and that If they would /
would recommend to the board that
the contract for the work 90 to Stevens
on reasonable percentage basis"
"In other words. you wanted the
Public Service Commission 20 give
YOU exclusive supervision over the ex-
tension and third tracking Of the L
lines?"
"Yes; but they never acted on my
suggestion"
Mr. Shonts said he made the sug-
gestion formally in a letter.
To whom did you address the let
teri"
THE chairman, I suppose"
"Was that Edward +. Mccall y
IN -
around the room, Mr.. Shonts asked:
Who WAS chairman then ?"
This last angered Senator Thomp-
son, and he went arter the president
Of the Interborough savagely, firing
question after question so fast that
Mr. Shonts had no time 10 give any
hing but the shortest answers.
"Why, you know well il was Nc
Call, don't you2" exclaimed the chair
man Of the committee. you had 10
have him on the Public Service Com
mission before you could get the con-
tracts signed didn't you?"
YES" said Mr.. Shonts.
"And there was lot Of talk about
II down here. wasn't there" pursued
Senator Thompson.
yes. there was lot of talk about
IT,"
Mr. Thompson stopped when ne
thought the witness was in a proper
mood. and Mr.. Colby resumed the ex-
animation.
Didn't Mccall and you talk the
Stevens contract over before you
wrote the letter TO the commission ?"
Letter Suggested by Mccall.
Yes; he suggested l write the let
ter"
Didn't you tell the board Mccall
had approved it?"
New-York tribune., 1916-02-19
Detectives Guard Diners
at Big X. of G. Banquet

Thirty detectives under Captain Gil
dea Of the 2d Branch and numerous
repre- csentatives of Captain Tunneys
Anarchist Squad last night guarded
the 5000 people assemDled al me
knights of Columbus banquet at Madl-
son Square Garden. A sharp outlook
for Jean Croros &C. "~'
was kept by the detectives in the hall
and by others posted n the hoa4oy
saloons, restaurants and places or
vantage.
Everything eatable and drinkable
was thoroughly examined for traces Of
poison before il was allowed 20 be
given to the guests.
Monsignor Lavelle, representing Car
dinal Farley. reviewed the exhibition
drill Frank l.. bowling, PresiueH, Of
the Board of Aldermen, represented
Mayor Mitchell. Governor Whitman
sent telegram saying that state bust
ness prevented his accepting the inyi-
fatlOn