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Senator Bnkhead Peabody and
Ilia Bomb Rear Admiral Sperry
General Davis Secretary Garfield
and Pete the Bulldog Sir Eldon
Goral J J J JL
rOHX HBANKHEAD
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HEAD former
congrcHHinnn
who wns appointed
by Governor Comer
of Alabama to ill
the vuenney In the
United States sen
ate made by the
death of Senator
John T Morgan
holds his appoint
ment only until the
meeting of the leg
islature July 10
when that body will
choose some one to serve out tho un
expired term of Mr Morgan Mr
Bnnkhead ran first In the Democratic
primary for alternate senator last Au
gust He and former Governor Joseph
13 Johnston were selected at the prl
tnary to fill any vacancies that might
occur by either of the sitting members
from Alabama dying or being incapaci
tated Ills appointment by Governor
Coiner Is considered to strengthen his
chances of election by the legislature
In 1904 he contested the Democratic
nomination to the house of representa
tives with Captain Richmond P Hob
Bon and defeated the man who sank
the Merrimac Two years later Cap
tain Ilobson defeated him In the con
test for the same nomination and was
elected to congress
Mr Bankhead is a native of Ala
bama and about sixty five years old
He is an ex Confederate officer a
farmer and served In ten congresses
lie has a weakness for gambling sto
ries One that he tells is of a time
when an attempt was being made to
drive gamesters out of Mobile A wit
ness was testifying for the defense
and It was well known that the Judge
was a skillful poker player The wit
ness talked of going blind raising
Massing and so on and finally his
nor said gravely Mr Jackson you
e using a good many of what I pre
sume are technical terms Will you be
good enough to explain some of them
Tlif witness with equal gravity re
plied I shall be pleased to do so your
honor if you will kindly let me have
your poker deck for a few moments
It vas a dramatic moment in the
Ilajwood trial in Idaho Hhen former
Governor Peabody of Colorado entered
the courtroom and handled the bomb
which narry Orchard confessed to hav
ing made for the governors destruc
tion Another spectacular episode was
the meeting between the ex governor
and Orchard The latter was much
affected and almost broke down at
being greeted by the man whose life
he had sought but the former execu
tive of the Centennial State reassured
him remarking I understand how it
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OOYEKXOK PEABODY AND THU BOMB
was with you The dynamite had
been taken from the death dealing ma
chine when it was introduced in court
but it looked grewsome nevertheless
When Governor Peabody came into
court he took a seat near the desk on
which the formidable looking object
was lying
Heres your bomb governor whis
pered one of the correspondents
Mr Peabody reached forward and
with a half smile measured with his
hands the instrument which had been
ruade to hurl hhn into eternity
xts pretty bigff said he
Mr Peabody was governor of Coi3j
j rado from 1903 to 1003 and was sworn
in for a second term after having been
declared re elected by the legislature
but resigned according to agreement
Jn favor of the man elected lieutenant
governor He is fifty five years old and
u native of Vermont
Rear Admiral Gharles S Sperry pres
ident of the war college at Newport
represents the naval branch of Uncle
Sams fighting force in the peace con
ference at The Hague He was bom
In New York in 1S4
nnd 1vas educated
in the public Schools
Waterbury academy
Connecticut and at
the United States
Naval academy from
which he graduated
in 1SGG He married
Miss Edith Marcy
daughter of Govern
or Viliiam L Marcy
of New York He be
catse an ensign In
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KEAU ADMIRAL
SrERRY
ly tlirough the different grades until
jreachins uls present rank He is a
member of the general board of the
i navy and is considered a high author-
ity on the subjeet of international law
-as is affects naval warfare
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James It Garfield who has been
-working hard since March 1 to make a
record as secretary of the Interior Is a
great admirer of his official chief the
president and his fondness for Mr
Roosevelts society is so pronounced
that it has sometimes attracted good
humored comment He is a leading
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BteSssBiiaiifcga Jcrft Jft
mitulcr of the tennis cabinet goes
on horseback rides with President
Roosevelt and In general is seen much
In the hitters company A story was
printed not long ago that he was to
have a folding bed In a convenient
room In the White House ho bh not to
miss any moro of the chief magis
trates Hoclcty than necessary Of
courso this waH a Joke as was also
the story that the object of tho presi
dent In acquiring the bulldog known
as Pete was to give an element of
danger to visits to the White House by
admiring friends after dark and thus
diminish the number of such visits
Whatever the reason Secretary Gar
fields calls became somewhat less fre
quent from that time Various yarns
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JAMES B GARFIELD IETE THE BULLDOG
have been tpld about the more or less
mythical exploits of Pete and lie was
celebrated as follows by James J
Montague in the New York American
A certain dojj named Cerberus so run
the tales of yore
Was wont to tree the ghosts that roamed
on Nights Plutonian shore
Ulysses faithful Argus when the former
came from Troy
Was so delighted that he died of unaf
fected joy
Through all recorded history have sundry
dogs laid claim
And had their several claims allowed to
various sorts of fame
We grant tho laurel cheerfully to many a
keen fanged pet
Whoso name rings down tho corridors of
echoing time and yet
When Pete patrols tho White House
grounds and In their own behoof
Three statesmen and An envoy are depart
ing for the roof
When Root Is Backed against the wall
and Taft Is up a tree
And Cortelyou has shed his coat that he
may freely flee
When two supreme court Judges oer the
hedges lightly leap
Sans portion of their raiment which they
leave for Pete to keep
Well gladly let historic dogs enjoy their
little day
For Peto upholds the honor of the
U S A
Sir Eldon Gorst the new British
consul general in Egypt holds an office
that is really more important than
might appear from its name lie Is to
all intents and purposes the ruler of
Egypt and succeeds in that post Lord
Cromer who lias
yoen described as
the maker of mod
em Egypt The
latter found the
country almost
ruined her people
desperate with suf
fering her very ex
istence in peril from
the dervishes and
he left her in splen
did prosperity her
taxes lightened her
finances on a firm
basis and her neo-
SIR ELDOX GORST
pg increas5ug jQ
numbers The new Egypt has aspira
tions to rule itself and it will be Sir
Eldon Gorsts duty to pave the way for
some sort of constitutional government
Though a Conservative he Avas ap
pointed by a Liberal government be
cause he was considered the man best
fitted by training and capacity to fill
the position He Is forty six years old
and the eldest son of Sir John Eldon
Gorst who is still living He was
named after Iris father When his
ability brought him a knighthood he
dropped his first name that there might
not be two Sir Johns in the family
But in Egypt everybody still speaks of
him as Johnnie Gorst lie went
there when twenty six as an attache
and rose rapidly tlirough the diplomatic
grades He was financial adviser to
the Egyptian government when in
1903 he was summoned to London to
assist the foreign office in the nego
tiations which resulted in the Anglo
French agreement that so largely con
tributed to giving England a free hand
in Egypt His services weie rewarded
by the bestowal upon him of oiiC pf
the most responsible positions in the
permanent civil service that of under
secretary of state for foreign affairs
Brigadier General George Breckiii
ridge Davis the military expert of the
United States delegation to the peace
conference at The Hague is judge ad
vocate general of the United States
army He was born in Ware Mass in
1S47 and graduated from West Point
iulSTl He studied
law at the Colum
bian university
Washington and
married in 1S71
Miss Ella I Prince
of Springfield
Mass Before go
ing to the West
Point academy he
was a volunteer
soldier in the Un
ion army during
the civil war ris
ing from the rank
of sergeant to a
second lieutenancy
before his eight
eenth birthday He
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GENERAL GEORGE
B DAYIS
was professor of law at West Point
from 1S93 to 1900 and reached his pres
ent rank in 1901 He is the author of
a number of works on international
law
The One Advantage
Jiggers Well how do you like living
In a flat
Jaggers Great Splendid
Jiggers But you havent as much
room as you had In your house
Jaggers Thats Just It no room for
my wifes relatives Cleveland Leader
Reados Eccentric English
Reades use of the English language
too was eccentric not to say ludicrous
In A Simpleton when he wished to
signify that two people turned their
backs on each other In a fit of temper
he wrote They showed napes De
scribing the complexion of the New
Haven fishwives in Christie John
stone he says It is a race of wo
men that the northern sun peachifles
instead of rosewoodlzlng In Rcadl
ana he describes a gentleman giving
a lunch to two ladies at a railway res
taurant as follows He souped them
he tough chickened them he brandled
and cochinealed one and he brandled
and burnt sugared the otber brandy
and cochineal and brandy and burnt
sugar being Reades euphemisms for
port ami sherry respectively While
he was preparing his series of articles
on Old Testament characters he read
what he had written to John Coleman
on one occnslon and came to this star
tling passage In his argument
Having now arrived at this conclu
sion we must go the whole hog or
none
Coleman objected to this phrase
You dont like the hog I see said
Reade Well its a strong figure of
speech and its undcrstanded of the
people but yes you arc right Its
scarcely Scriptural so out it goes
Gentlemans Magazine
Bass Are Real Cute
It is related for a fact that the reason
bass jump and it is common practice
of the fish is because they wish to ac
quire grace and strength in testing
their ability against that of fishermen
Several men who say they know
what they are talking about point out
that bass do most of their jumping
during the spring and are especially
active just before the open season be
gins
At this time they may be seen doing
long distance jumps somersaults and
side stepping
One bass expert goes so far as to say
that he spent an entire afternoon
watching a three pound bass dragging
a long willow sapling tlirough the
water and acting as if it were caught
on a hook
Leaping into the air it would turn
in a half circle as if to disgorge the
barb and then it Avould swim back
ward in an endeavor to snap the
branch
This fisherman asserts that what
jumping the bass do during the sum
mer is merely to keep in practice and
not get stale Philadelphia North
American
Improving Nature
To paint the lily to gild refined
gold when taken in a literal sense
seem processes too absurd for serious
deliberation Flowers of unnatural
hues however bloom In florists win
dows and the color green as applied
to the carnation is no longer confined
to the title of a book But the Persians
do even worse things in the name of
beauty They dress up their flowers
according to Mr Wills in The Land
of Lion and Sun
Persia is not a land of flowers Zin
nias convolvulus asters balsams wall
flowers chrysanthemums marigolds
and roses are the principal blooms of
the country
The Persians not content with the
plain flower cut rings of colored pa
per cloth or velvet and ornament the
bloom placing the circles of divers
hues between the first and second rows
of petals
The effect is strange One at first
glance supposes he sees a bouquet of
curious and bizarre flowers of entirely
new varieties
The Boomerang an s Inventors
Jhe boomerang it- i r a puzzle
One might think that ilie highest laws
of mathematics had been laid under
contribution iii the perfecting of it
The convexity on one side the flatness
on the other and the sharp knifelike
edge on the inside of the convexity
have the air of having been carefully
thought out Yet the people who in
vented this singular weapon cannot
count higher than five and are desti
tute of all the arts and amenities of
life Theirs is perhaps the lowest
plane of human life Some people have
assumed that the boomerang was the
creation of an older and higher civili
zation but for this there is no evidence
It must be the product of an age long
empirical use of throwing weapons
London Spectator
Sandys Criticism
A young Scotchman went to a Lon
don school of music where he learned
to play the violoncello fairly well On
his return to his native village he gath
ered his friends together to hear his
new instrument When he had played
one or two tunes he looked up expec
tantly After a slight pause his old
grandfather spoke
Eh maun he said its a maircy
theres na smell wi it Liverpool
Mercury
He Knew
Lady Customer I wish to tell you
how these shoes of mine are to be
made Shoemaker Oh I know that
well enough large inside and- small
outside Meggeudorfer Blatter
Pretty Bad
Wife Arent you going to smoke
those cigars I gave you Husband
No Im keeping them till Tommy be
gins to want to smoke Theyll settle
It Illustrated Bits
Authoritative
So you are going to leave your stu
dio
Leave No Who told you so
Your landlord Philadelphia In
juirer
Self conquest Is the greatest victory
-Plato
CHESS CLOCKS
There Are Specially Constructed Ones
Used In the Game
nourglasses or sandglasses were
formerly used for tho purpose of meas
uring time at chess matches but now
specially constructed clocks are In gen
eral use for this purpose These clocks
consist of two clocks mounted on a
common base which moves on a pivot
the two clocks therefore being on the
arms of a sort of seesaw The beam
or base Is so constructed that when
one clock is elevated it stands perfect
ly perpendicular while the depressed
clock lies over at an angle but as the
mechanism of each clock is so con
structed that it only moves when the
clock is perfectly perpendicular it fol
lows that when the upright clock 1
going the depressed clock is nt rest
Another and more modern variety
has the twe clocks fixed on the same
level but with a small brass arm
reaching from the top of one to the top
of the other This arm acts on a pivot
and can be brought down Into actual
contact with one clock at a time by a
touch of the finger When it is thus in
contact by an ingenious device the
clock is stopped and the desired result
Is attained Tho working of the clock
during a match Is simplicity itself At
the commencement of tin match the
hands of each clock point to 12 Then
at the call of lime to commence play
the clock of the lirst player is started
then as soon as he makes his first
move he stops his own clonic either by
depressing ir or by touching the arm
referred to the same motion starting
Ills opponents clock So It goes on
during the entire course of the game
each move being marked by the stop
ping of one clock and the starting of
the other
COUNTERFEIT BILLS
The Check Letter Test on United
States Currency
The United States government prints
its currency and numbers its bills in a
series of foui so that every piece of
paper money turned out bears one of
the check letters A B C D One of
these letters Is always found in two
places on a United States bill in the
upper left hand corner and in the low
er right hand corner The placing of
the letter on the bill is not determined
by the numbctr of the bill The rule is
to divide the last two figures on the
note br four Should the remainder be
one the check letter must be A should
it bo two the check letter is B three
the check letter is C and nothing the
letter D
For example I have before me a
five dollar certificate Its number is
814S97P0 The terminal number is 30
Divide by four Tho result is seven
with two over The cheek letter is B
Here is a yellow back gold certificate
with twenty three as its terminal num
ber Divide this by four and we have
five with three over C Is the check
letter
Should this rule of four fail to work
on any United States currency note
you may bet all you have that the
money is bad Some counterfeited bills
are right to their check letters but a
great many are not so if the rule of
four works The bill may be still bad
but if it doesnt it is surely bad This
rule applies only to United States cur
rency and not to national bank notes
Minneapolis Journal
Spains Buried Wealth
The Carthaginians and the Tyrians
regarded Spain as El Dorado It is
but a poor country today but potential
wealth lies in its rock bound hills just
as in the days of the ancients When
those acquisitive mariners the Phoe
nicians first set foot in the country
they exchanged their commodities
says Aristotle for such immense
quantities of silver that their ships
could neither contain nor sustain the
load though thoy used it for ballast
and made their anchors and other im
plements of silver So rich in silver
was the country then that the people
are said to have made their commonest
domestic utensils of the metal and
even their mongers The Ilomans
found that thf ir greedy forerunners
had sadly diminished the precious
store yet enoirgh was left to satisfy
not a few proconsuls
The Truthful Woman
It is no exaggeration to say that a
more or less tri thful woman is looked
upon with grave suspicion What is
more nobody believes her If she
quite truthfully pronounces her age to
be twenty nine everybody at once says
then she must be at least thirty five
while if she should ever be cajoled in
to admitting tbj number of proposals
she had in her youth it will only con
firm the popular impression that she
had been very lucky to catch a hus
band at all London Ladies Field
Force of Habit
Redd I see tint man Finn has got
an automobile
Greene And t was quite amusing to
see him the first week he had it
ITow so
Why every tiiae hed blow his
horn hed stop and look around He
used to peddle Ssh you know Yon
kers Statesman
In Ai tomobiledom
Scientist Light travels at the rate of
about 1S7000 iniles a second Chauf
feurGee thats goin some Auto
Enthusiast sligitly deaf Pardon me
tir But what make machine was it
70U just mentioned Bohemian
Her Cleverness
She Mary Graham is certainly a
very clever wojiian yet she has little
to say He Thats where her clever
ness comes in She leads a man to be
lieve that she thinks he Is worth lis
tening to Pick-Me-Up
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