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Show f V JTJ1 ( X is Col. nninn i helping me. I got there yesterday, r ferring to the fact that for a time h had occupied the seat of the preaid' Ing officer. Referring to the fact that he had been a confederate soldier. Col. Gor- don said: "I fought and bled, but didnt die, however. I skedaddled fro- quently. He then told of some of his exploit In the war and bow he had captured Gen. Coburn of Indiana and Gen., Shatter, he said, bad fired at him fivw different times during the confederate ; charge without bitting him. He said that whenever the union and confederate soldiers met they were always good friends. Asserting that he loved the negro, he said he wanted and Dixon line obliterated from the map of the United States because he didn't want any more strife. d A few people down our way talk differently," he said, but they are not worth cussing; they are not worth wasting invectives upon." Paying a tribute to soldiers of both the north and south, Col. Gordon said: "You may as well try to storm the heights of heaven and pluck- the diadem from Jehovahs crown, as to take away from either of them the glory of the records of the two men-- , who stood under the tree at Appomattox and brought the war to . a close.-Thiis the finest body of men that I ever associated with," he continued, speaking of the senate itself, and he beamed upon his colleagues. -- James Gord on of Mississippi. Rockefellers Great Wealth to Be Given to Mankind. I the Worlds Richest Man Will Head Corporation and Ba the Chief Almoner of Great Fund. Ben of Believes Monkeys Do Not Know Much nr ASHINGTON. tatlon Instinctive irnita the monkey has. In !erential Imitations are not among his cental equipment. Physiologically he Is closely related to the greatest mind the world has ever known, but that is where the wise man stops in his lrawing of parallels. TT is all Such are the conclusions of Prof. W. T. Shepherd, of George Washington university. He has had a dozen issorted monkeys caged in the laboratory of the university for months, trying to get from any or all of them what a layman would designate a learn of intelligence. These little copies of the human being were Invited to do dozens of stunts such as trained animals are taught, but the professor made no sffort to compel them to learn them. He simply made conditions such that tf they had had any reasoning power they would have been able to figure sut a way of doing the desired stunts without any further assistance from him. But not one showed what to the professor would be evidence of the Not one showed reasoning power. capacity to watch the professor do a :ertaln thing and then do it himself because he liked the result. Not one of them, for instance, was able to trip the lever that released a peanut, although the professor showed them often how to do it. All, however, held forth dirty paws begging for the peanut. Not one even made what the men who study mental phenomena Bandits call a tfal in error. The prof&sor is satisfied that the monkeys have no memory of things in the sense that they are able to call up a picture, place, person or thing. There is no question that they are able to recall having seen a person when that person stands before them. In other words, they are the equal of any of the domestic animals in that respect. He can not even subscribe to the Darwin belief that they have imagination, such as Darwin thought dogs have because of the evidence before him that dogs dream in much the same way that human beings .do. Professor Shepherd did not enter upon the experiments with a view to establishing a theory or to disprove a theory advanced by another, but simply to find out for himself the mental capacity or want of capacity of the lumenoids available for his experimental work. The professor la a monkey convinced that when scratches his head, very much as a man does when he is perplexed, it is no evidence of thought on the part of the monkey. His idea is that it is a purely physiological phenomenon, perhaps due to the similarity of construction of a man and a monkey. Another thing the professor feels warranted in saying is that the monkey is not any more Imitative than many other animals. He shows that monkeys that have had a in their cages, that revolves when they jump on it, will continue to jump on a contrivance of that kind that is fastened so that it will not revolve and continue to go through the motions necessary to make a proper perform its proper functions, just as if the first trial had produced results. merry-go-roun- merry-go-roun- New York. To make the Rockefeller foundation for charity what the Standard Oil Company has long been to business, and with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as its head, is the intention of John D. Rockefeller. Sr. The younger Rockefeller has announced that he had retired from the directorate of the Standard to assume the management of his fathers benefactions, of which he thus becomes almoner in chief. Rockefeller, Sr., in deciding to distribute his vast wealth, it is known, was moved by his deep religious convictions, which in his later years have led him to be'ieve that he only holds his money in trust and that.it actually belongs to thog who need it He believes that the work of scattering the last cent should be completed before he passes away, but as this seems impossible of accomplishment be named his son as his deputy. The announcement in 'Wall street was taken to mean two things that - s USEFULNESS d SPEECH iS UNIQUE d Senator Gordon Makes Striking been reduced from 40 cents to ten cents per gallon. Address on Leaving Senate. The most touching episode was his - Dirty Dozen has If been reduced by three. Judge De Lacy did it when1 he ijade three very small boys, accused of steaiing cigars, jipes. milk and bread, to kiss their parents and promise never, never, lever again to try to emulate the Forty Thieves or any other bad people and to turn back to the owners of the property three dollars and some sents to compensate for the loss. And remember, said the judge, "keep away from the gang you call the Dirty Dozen. ( If you must have a gang, make up one of good companions, who will teach you something that will do you some good. Judge De Lacy has a way of making t boy tell him just what the boy is when he has taken anything that does not belong to him. Now, what would you jcall the boy who took a watch of yours and didnt give it back? The biggest boy hung his head and twisted his cap and wanted to sink through the floor. v Dozen. f The middle-size- d boy sulked. The spirit of the proud rover of the Spanish niain told him that to kiss a woman in court, even his mother, was a puerile thing to do. Kiss me, whispered the mother. The boy still stood debating with ' himself. Do you want to go to the reform school? thundered the judge. And then the proud rover of the Spanish main turned and fled, and the erstwhile dirty digt'became his mother's little boy agamr&d was caught in a loving pair of arms, and tears ran down the faces of the boy other and his mother and several women who were in court. And the other dirty two had to kiss their fathers, that the ends of justice might be met President and Speaker in a HoewereDown even. The honors of and politically the dinner Speaker Cannon at the White House recently marked somein thing of an epoch, for not before enter-aine- d a has president nany years in honor of the speaker of the Speaker louse of representatives. Cannon was never entertained at the JVhite House with an exclusive official function during all of the seven years Roosevelts occupancy, Df President tnd no previous affair has been given In his honor by President Taft About fifty guests, nearly all of whom were senators and members of .he house, accompanied by their wives, looked on and applauded when the speaker tempted President Taft Into a test of terpsichorean agility in the east room. Both stopped, pantbut ing, when the trial was ended, the opinion was unanimous that the SOCIALLY fancy steps dancing followed the dinner. The dinner ended, the company went to the east room, which boasts an ample and smooth dancing floor. An orchestra played a gentle waits and the president led off with Mrs. Joseph H. Gaines, wife of the representative from West Virginia. The speaker, with Miss Laughlin, a sister of Mrs. Taft, glided out on the polished floor in the wkke of his chief. Then the dance was on. In the intermission, however, when the orchestra struck up a lively tune. Uncle Joe stepped briskly into the middle of the room and brought his heels together sharply. There was a patting of gloved hands and voices called encouragingly to the guest of honor. In a moment the speakers heels were swinging In a brilliant highland fling. "Excellent, eh? he called, exulting-lto Mr. Taft. I was something of a dancer when I was a youngster. For answer the president stepped smilingly forward, and those who were present say the two executed "hoe several steps of an down that delighted every one. Both were puffing when they finished. y Conscience Stricken, Appeals to Taft on a chain. Lincoln penny 4 MUTILATED fV weighed on the mind of Patrick exPeterson of Buxton, la., to such an tent that he has written a letter in Taft. regard to the coin to President a made new great penny The shining bit with Patrick, and he decided to make a lucky piece of It Fo he bored i hole through the penny to hang it OF When the hole was bored Peterson remembered the law relative to mutilating coins. He searched bis conscience and found himself to be a lawbreaker. It Is probable that he had in mind the power of the president of the United States to pardon offenders' against the law when he wrote the following letter. Inclosing the penny, which was received at the White House: "President Taft, Washington, D. C.: Please find one cent which 1 bored a hole In and feel very sorry for it Hoping you will forgive me. Yours truly, Patrick Peterson, Buxton, la. P. S. Hoping to hear from you. Talks of War Record and Pleads for Erasure of Mason and Dixon Line Tells of Pity for Millionaires. Washington. Having attained his lifetime ambition, a seat in the United States senate, Senator James Gordon of Mississippi the other day bade farewell to bis in an address that held them spellbound for 20 minutes. So deeply touched were many senators that they violated one of the most strict of senate rules, and applauded the aged veteran from Mississippi. service-ti- me After a scant enough, however, to win the hearts of every one In the capitol Senator Gordon gives place to Le Roy Percy, the choice of the Mississippi legislature to fill the unexpired term of the late Anson J. McLaurin. Senator Gordon chose as bis text, Love One Another," which he called the Eleventh Commandment His quaint phrases, bis homely simplicity and bis wise sayings, amusing though he was at times, especially when he read two of his own pomes" earned the sympathy of every person who heard him. When he bad concluded, Senator Depew of New York, briefly expressing the regret of the senate at his departure, described the address as the most remarkable ever beard in the senate," and said it would go down In history as such. For dramatic Interest, the scene in the senate has seldom been equaled In recent years. As one who fought until the very last. Senator Gordon asked that feeling, bitterness bred in the civil war, be forgotten. As one who had owned 800 slaves, be implored against breeding race hatred by agitating the negro question; and here he read his poem, My Ole Black Mammy." As one who had been a millionaire who now is both poor and happy, be denounced the "flannel mouths, who stir up envy and hatred against the rich among those who are less lucky. We have a few dollars," be said, that always want to be makin' a fuss. Theyre not even wuth cussln 1 was born a laid Co Gordon, but I never was happy until I got rid of my surplus money. I spent much of it on my Slaves and the rest of my funds I spent like a gentleman and got rid of the entire incumbrance. "I have listened with interest to the speeches here and the more I hear of them the sorrier I am for the millionaires Why, if there is a fellow in the United States that I am sorry for, it is Rockefeller, because he has more money than anyone else That is bis mV&fortune. He cant go on the street with one of his grandchildren unless he is afraid that some one might kill him. Why. I know that he loves one of those children much better than he loves all the money he has got "I think Mr. Rf'kefeller is a good man. I see his employes speak well of him, and I am told that he never bad a strike. I am told also that be be has given much money to churches and education. Now I don't suppose that everybody will like that, but those who dont like it can put it in their pipes and smoke it Id like for Mr. Rockefeller to come down to Mississippi and run his pipe lines through my land. He could have the right of way for all the lines he wanted, for 1 know that in my time coal oil has fellow-senato- all past estimates of young Rockefellers future must now be revised, and that hereafter the Rockefeller millions will no longer be a market factor. Instead, it is assumed that they will pass wholly into conservative securities, such as is proper for trust funds, savings banks and insurance companies to acquire. John D. Rockefeller 14 now 33 years oid. Greeted on his graduation from Brown university, some years ago, as In prospect the richest young man of the world, he now leaves the field to J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., ten years his Mr. Morgan, Sr., and Mr. elder. Rockefeller, 8r are both very near of an age. The former will be 73 in next April and the latter was 73 some months ago. Both are In vigorous health. Seen in retrospect, young Rockefellers retirement from the Standard Oil board, which actually took place on January 11, assumes a deeper consistency with the gradual narrowing in recent years of his financial activities a phenomenon not heretofore understood, as he showed no inclination to play the country gentleman or the sporting man, as have other sons of millionaires, such, for instance, as Alfred Vanderbilt and Foxhall Keene. He is still on the directorate of the & Western Delaware, Lackawanna Railroad Company, and of the American Linseed Oil Company, but It is known that it is his intention to withdraw from these corporations as soon as practicable. It is not thought likely the new foundation for philanthropy, as proposed by the bill introduced in the United States congress a few days ago will assume settled policies for years to come, but in this connection Frederick T. Gates, one of the incorporators of the foundation, said that two main points had been missed. In the first place, indicated Mr. Gates, "every other eleemosynary institution has been organized for some special object, and thus limited in its sphere af hopefulness. For Instance, In cases of grave disaster, such as the Paris floods, they have been powerless to aid. This Is not so of the new foundation. "Another thing there are no sectarian boundary lines in the charter of the new foundation, and nothing to prevent it from absorbing the work of other organizations which have outlived their usefulness under present conditions. Mr. Gates was understood to mean that there will be a gradual merger, along familiar Rockefeller lines, of the Rockefeller charitlek Nobody yet ventures to name the wiount for which the foundation will B endowed, but the general undersBnding among those in the confident of the fam Senator Gal-lly coincides with that bill to inlinger, who Introduced hen he said corporate the foundatio! the entire that he believed ultima t $1,000,fortune Rockefeller devoted to the 000,000- - would work e - two-mont- see-tlon- rebuke to Heyburn of Idaho, who delivered the speech bloody shirt against the bill authorizing the war department to lend tents to the Confederate Veterans reunion at Mobile next April Let the senator from Idaho come down to the Mississippi prairies; let him come to my home, said the retiring hero of many a battle of 1861-65- , will show him such southern "and life that when we return together here I will take off my hat, throw it in the air and hurrah for Grant In front of his statue in Statuary hall, and he will take off his hat, throw it in the air and hurrah before the statue of Robert E. Lee. And afterwards Heyburn stepped across to the Democratic side, shook the old mans hand and said in an undertone, "D n it; Ill do it" He then told how, when five years old, be had been presented with a toy board, which was checked oer with different objects, some of them good and some of them had. One of these objects was the capitol of the United States, and his mother bad told him, he said, that if he would be good and would live a correct life, he might some day hope to sit in the seat of the big man who was pictured there. She never told me a lie, and I knew that what she said was true. I knew that I would some day occupy the seat of that big man, and God 1 -- f SIREN ZOO It Calls Keepers to Rescue Deer, Join Elks. Seal Promise with Kisses call nr ASHINGTONS 0 the-Maso- Marguerlte-Vlrglnl- to Who-Trie- Tell me, now, what would you him? The biggest boys lips framed the words: A thief. And in that way Clerk Harper, listening attentively, knew that the boy had pleaded guilty. Each of them did, for that matter. The judge ordered the middle-size- d youngster to step around and kiss his mother and ask her to forgive him, and to understand that he would never, never do it again, and would have nothing to do with the Dirty ' New York. The big siren which was lately installed in the Bronx soo to signal the keepers the escape of any animal from its enclosure had Its first tryout the other afternoon. Keepers ran from all dlrectiorS''ird outT what was the tzoubi- -' oMte, one of the V i rgin laTtcTT had escaped from her yard and taken with her her, fawn, now a sturdy youngster of some' six months. The chain fastenings on her gate had been left loose and Marguerite in investigating it found tha way to freedom suddenly openedi. She found her way Into the elk before the keepers got trace of her. When they found her the big and ugly elk, Stanley, was making great efforts to break down the individual netting which his temper had earned for him in order to oust the interloper from his herd. When they made their rounds next morning the keepers found that a gray fox, sent to them about a week ago from the northern part of the state,, was dead. He bad been put In a runway In which were several female foxes and a 'few young ones, all of which owed allegiance to an old dog fox. Evidently the old fellow resented the intrusion, to the torn-ugrninu and teeth marks on the throat of the newcomer showed that he had beea killed In a fight. ' , p I ' Revolutionary Heirloom. Wis. Mrs. F. A. Ever hard of this city has a rare and unique specimen of continental money. It is ao issue of script of 1776 for of a dollar. On one side Is a centra) circle containing the words; We are the American congress, surrounded by IB circles each bearing the name of on of the original states. On the other' side, in addition to the amount and of the printer, is a device bearing the Inscription "Mind your bust-nes- s. The piece bas been In 'Mrs, Everhards family since the time It was In current use, handed down front' generationto generation. Ripon, one-sixt- h ? the-nam- r Heroic Work of Conductor When Coach Plunges Into River He so Reynolds tor off A part of the 8mashes Hole Through With the light opening. roofing ' around Through this ragged bole he pulled Fist, Rescuing AIL six more to safety until, himself, and bleeding, he saved all in Sudbury, Ont. When the Canadian bruised Pacific train plunged Into Spanish the car. If Conductor Reynolds had not river near this city in a driving, blinding blizzard some weeks ago, Thomas thought quickly and acted almost as Reynolds of North Bay, Ont, the train quickly the wreck would have claimed conductor, was in the dining car as It eight more lives than it did. sank into the icy water. Although everyone was struggling for life he WRIGGLE FINGERS FOR CURE French Scientists Discover Method of Curing and Preventing Chilblains Is Simple. " 'fC shouted to the passenO to hang on to the hatracks, chandeliers and other projections. Then he broke through a window and emerged outside the car, which listed sufficiently to allow him to get up between the ice and car. Mounting the roof he smashed the fanlight and screen with his bare fists. Then he reached down, seized Alphonse Relsel, six years old, of Sault Ste. Marie and hauled him out Next he rescued by the hair. of Brodie Sudbury, Magistrate who was small enough to be pulled through. The others were too large. Paris. The French Academy of Science bas issued, with all solemnity, to hn expectant world, a method of eurlng and preventing chilblains. It Is a very simple method. Hold your hand In the air for a few minutes and wriggle the fingers. Do this about ten times a day. Your chilblains, even cracked ones, will disappear, and tfie application of a little grease will help them to do 'so. The remedy has two distinct advantages. It Is quite Inexpensive, and? It Is not dangerous to life. And how delightful it Is to feel that In the first: month of the new year the the French Academy of Sciences concern themselves with such a painful trifle as chilblains. Swallows Teeth in Slumber. N. J. Something disturbed the slumbers of John Martin of Aura. Awaking fully he discovered" that he had neglected to remove his ' teeth before retiring and they had slipped down his throat- - He determined that the teeth had no business-- t such a place. He hastened to a physician of this place, who gave him some medicine. About four hours later the returned over the path they hadBJ y in the slipping process, and Martin none the worse for the experience.-Olassboro, tIh ' Y - |