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The Commoner
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JOHN BUNDREN, one hundred and one years
old, and Miss Rose McGuIrc, one hundred
years old, "will, on August G, 1007, be united In
marriage at Mr.- Bilndron's estate, near Tatesville,
Tcnn. An Associated Tress dispatch from St.
Louis says: "The announcement reveals a ro
mance. Bundren and Miss McGuire "were sweet
hearts in Tennessee in their youth. Her parents,
of English descent, would not give consent tor
their marriage, and finally returned to Englaud,
taking their daughter along. Bundren went to
California and acquired considerable wealth. He
never married. From California he returned to
Tennessee and bought his birthplace near Tates
ville. He decided to hold a reunion of old friends
oifhls estate this year and. sent out numerous in
vitations. Not long ago ho received a letter from
Miss McGuire, who is still unmarried. Correspond
ence followed and he renewed his offer of marriage
and -was accepted. The date of the wedding and
the reunion of friends lias been set for August G,
on the bride's birthday anniversary, when she will
be 100 years old. Bundren has long white hair and
a: flowing white beard. He does not smoke nor
drink liquor, and apparently is hale and hearty. Tu
June lie will go to Preston, Lancastershire, to es
cort his intended bride to his Tennessee estate Cor
the wedding. Young Mr. John Bundren of St
Louis, a namesake, will be best man."
THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Former President
Grover Cleveland had started on his "usual
semi-annual hunt for ducks" prompted Frederick
A. Ober of Hackensack, New Jersey, to write to
the New York Evening Post this letter: "I write
to ask if you will not join with me, and with
'thousands of sportsmen all over the country, In
protesting against this violation if not of the law
of the advanced sentiment as respects the shoot
ing of birds during their spring migration. I need
not v argue for this sentiment, for all true sports
men agree that there are. good reasons, for abstain
ing' ffo'm- shooting at this season, which any one
with common sense can understand, and any one
with consideration for the unwritten law of fair
play can appreciate and respect At this time,
when the migratory wild fowl are oh their way
"to northern breeding grounds, or about to start,
every female now killed reduces by more than that
single bird the number to return next autumn,
when, only, the true sportsmen will shoot them.
It was hoped that, inasmuch as Mr. Cleveland's
own state of New Jersey has but recently endeav
ored to secure the .passage of a law prohibiting
spring shooting of every kind, this most distin
guished citizen of that state would respect the
sentiment that prompted it. It is a good one."
REFERRING to an article in The Commoner
the New York World insists that there is no
excuse for anybody's being, puzzled over the
World's. attitude on the railroad question and ex
plains: "Its position was stated clearly enough
in an editorial printed March 22, 190G, advocating
jhe Culberson amendment to the rate bill pro
hibiting railroads from contributing to campaign
funds: 'Better no rate law at all than a rate law
(without the restriction Imposed' by the Culberson
amendment There is more than enough railroad
'influence In national politics now. There are more
than enough railroad contributions to campaign
corruption funds. It would be folly to increase
the temptation without restricting the opportu
nities for corporation control.' In the light of
last week's political developments Mr. Bryan hlm-
self must admit that this was a pretty sound ar
gument" THE Charleston, S. cf., News and Courier inti
mated that there would be prejudice in the
north against a southern candidate for president.
The Houston, Tex., Post takes issue, saying:
"Eyen in 1864 northern republicans voted for and
elected a southern vice-president and since the
war both northern republicans and northern demo
crats have not hesitated to elect southern men to
' office. We go farther and assert: Both northern
democrats and northern republicans have been far
more liberal in this respect than we of the south
have been,. For proof of the liberality of north
ern republicans, wp point to the recent election of
Joseph M. Pixpn to the senate to succeed William
A. Clark of Montana. - Dixon is a young North
Carolinian whose relatives fought for the confed
eracy. Another republican, Page Morris, a former
yirginian, was a distinguished representative from
Minnesota. And what have the northern demo
crats done to show their confidence in southern
democrats? Wo point to William A. Harris, a
confederate colonel who represented Kansas In the
United States senate; to L."F. C. Garvin, a native
of Tennessee, who served Rhode Island as gov
ernor; to Francis G. Newlands, a native of Missis
sippi, now a senator- from Nevada; to General
Roger A. Pryor, of the confederate army, who
represented New York in congress; to John R.
Fellows; who followed Ills service in the. confed
eracy, with many political honors in New York; to
Bertram T. Clayton, a native of Alabama, who
served New York in congress; to-Rufus K. Polk
of Tennessee, who served Pennsylvania in con
gress; to John II. O'Neall of South Carolina, who
represented Indiana in congress; to John C. Bell
of Tennessee, who represented Colorado in con
gress; and to many other southerners who have
been honored by northern democrats with public
oflico. The Post believes that when the demo
cratic party In national convention decides to nom
inate a southern man of the right calibre the north
ern democrats will not only support him loyally,
but that they avIU support him with more enthu
siasm than can be aroused by scarcely any north
ern democrat now within the range of -choice."
TnOSE who imagine that they can understand
the English language may be interested In
reading a few paragraphs taken by the New York
World from the report of a law suit printed in the
London Times. The extract follows: "That con
cluded the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Levctt then
stated the case for Mrs.. Jalland from a legal
point of view. This was a life estate with a con
dition subsequent, and if the condition could not
bo fulfilled the gift was good. She could not be
come a widow; therefore the gift remained. In
Slfeppard's Touchstone, vol. 1, p. 322K there was
a definition of a condition which covered tills case.
Hero there was a true condition subsequent. In
Fearne's Contingent Remainders, vol. 2, p. 4, a
mixed condition subsequent was defined. In the
same volume, at page 384, -there was a passage
which took him all the way home. It was this:
'If the condition is subsequent, as the estate to
which it is annexed cann'ot bo defeated by. it, such
estate is absolute in the first instance or after
wards becomes so. If the void condition is a
mixed condition, the' preceding estate intended to
be annihilated by it is absolute in the first in
stance or-nflerwards becomes so; and the estate
to arise or to be Decelerated on the fulfillment of
the, condition cannot arise or be accelerated.' The
hearing was adjourned till Monday."
PBOFESSOR HOPKINS of Yale read a paper
recently before the American Oriental so
ciety in session at Philadelphia. A Philadelphia
newspaper dispatcli says: "The paper was a his
tory of the kiss as we know it The learned pro
fessor traced it from its birth and proved that the
earliest peoples and earliest times knew it not.
That- there might ho no mistake he labelled the
kiss, of -today 'the genuine -kiss' and 'the perfect
kiss.' Oddly- enough; he finds that the genuine
kiss was invented by a woman. The description
Is given in the epic of ancient India which treats
of the science of love. 'She laid her mouth to my
mouth recites the poet 'and made a noise which
.gave me pleasure,' With that discovery, said
Prof. Hopkins, grew the fashion which has since
lenown ho abatement 'The early peoples,' he con
tinued, 'knew nothing of the kiss in any form.
Had they known of it they would have told some
thing of it in the mass of records that has come
down to us, for, surely, an act which conveys such
pleasure could not have been forgotten. 'With the
. development of the genuine kiss, the sniff kiss dis
appeared, never to reappear. It has served its
purpose and soon was forgotten."
JAMES H. LANCASTER, of New York, does
not entertain a very high opinion of the
cobbler's discovery. Writing to the New. York Her
ald Mr. Lancaster pays: "In your issues of yester
day and today I notice your description of au
alleged new process for burning ashes, etc. This
Altoona (Pa.) cobbler's supposed discovery is an
exploded theory and one exploited here in New
York for several years. It was called 'brilliura,'
and at the Teque3t of several finaeiertf I witnessed
precisely similar demonstrations to those you de
scribe at Altoona nt a large private house 1n West
Sixty-eighth street, near Central Park West, where
the entire house was being boated during tins
winter months of 3004-1005. The results obtained
appeared most satisfactory from partial lnvc.sU
gation, but sinh was not borne out by careful re
search after studying various effects on the fur
naces and the cost of the chemical admixtures
used. From a 'promoter's' viewpoint and as a
sensational topic it certainly has the necessary ele
ments of a stook selling scheme. There it ends
unless it Is something far more than what this
country counter and the New York shrewd 'dis
coverer' have accomplished. Tests were made of
this 'ashes burning' method at a large mamifac
turing plant at Harrison, N. J., but the result
failed to get It adopted, although the engineer
and owners of the plant were great enthusiasts
In the scheme when It was submitted for their con
sideration; As your descriptions of 4Iiis alleged
now discovery may Inspire pecuniary losses to your
numerous readers, I have deemed It wise to ad
vise you as to a few incontrovertible facts relating
to this attractive subject. If necessary 1 will en
large on my investigations of the New York 'ashes
and refuse burning' scheme and give you exact
figures and the nnnies and addresses of the per
sons then concerned. It was such au Inviting
scheme that a man with considerable engineering
and chemical skill was Induced to Invest many
thousands of dollars and months of valuable time
in the exploitation of this 'promising' enterprise.
The expected millions he had fully relied 'on
quickly acquiring from his investment and abili
ties to launch the affair on the market have not,
however, yet materialized."
SPEAKING at the Deemor dinner where Sena
tor Knox's presidential boom was launched,
Former Representative W. O. Smith of the Penn
sylvania Twenty-seventh district said; "So long
as the people of the Twenty-seventh district cling
to the theory that congressional honors should, oo
passed around, and that county lines are lftfportaut,
Jt will continue to be represented by apprentices
like myself. What we need up there is for some
body like the heathen orator, who contended xo
persistently that 'Carthage must he destroyed' io
make the destruction of the rotation system the
burden of his song, even .though ho might be re
garded as a self-seeking demagogue and a rude
iconoclast" who would deliberately demolish the
sacred idols of a people.' In commenting upon
the fact that Representative Dcemer, during his
three terms, had become a useful member of the
committee on invalid pensions, upon whom Penn
sylvania leaned heavily, Mr. Smith observed:
'Having served three terms In congress in tfio next
congress he would have graduated as a full-fledged
statesman and been eligible for appointment on
one of the great committees. T, along with Doc
tor Samuel, was cut down In the flower of my
legislative youtli by the ruthless hand' of -rotation,
and we are now about to be relegated to the rank
of congressional has-beens, and perhaps never-should-have-beens."
O
SECRETARY OF STATE ROOT, addressing
the. American society of international law at
Washington, April 30, declared that there never
was any danger of war between the United States
and Japan growing out of the recent controversy
regarding the segregation of the Japanese school
children In the public schools In San Francisco.
In his address, Secretary Root says: "The treaty
of November 22, 1804, between the United States
and Japan provided, in the first article: 'The cit
izens or subjects of each of the two high contract
ing parties shall have full liberty to enter, travel,
or reside in any part of the territory of the other
contracting party, and shall enjoy full and perfect
protection for their persons and property.
In whatever relates to rights of residence and
travel; to the possession of goods and effects of
any kind; to the succession to personal estate, by
will or otherwise, and the disposal of property of
any sort and in any manner whatsoever which
they may lawfully acquire, the citizens v subjects
of each contracting party shall enjoy in the terri
tories of the other the same privileges, liberties,
and rights, and shall be subject to no higher im
posts or charges in these respects than native cit
izens or subjects or citizens or subjects of the most
favored nation.' The matter lias been happily dis
posed of without proceeding to judgment in either
case; but in the meantime there was much excited
discussion of, the subject in the newspapers and
in public meetings and in private conversation.
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