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IShe Fourth on
a Warship
How the Olympia Celebrated In
dependence Day In the Far East
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A SAILOR writing in St Nicholas
gives a vivid description of a
Fourth of July celebration on
board the cruiser Olyoipia in
eastern waters eleven years ago. Less
than a year after this celebration the
Olytnpia figured in the famous battle"
of Manila Bay as the flagship of Ad
miral Dewey:
The day we celebrate falling •.v»ou
Sunday, we "made j. >od ' the A '• '-v
-ing Monday, says th" sa!!~.. ;" J r.ob
ably never before h'l - i ..-eck
undergone such chau • > A
made from sheet Iron s up in the j
skids and, dipping and bending, wid- j
ened Into a big basin on the spar deck, 1
grew narrower again, extending out I
over the ship's side. It was lined with
stones and moss and set about with ;
countless pots of Japanese ferns, flow
ers and shrubs. When the pumps set
to work a hidden hose supplied the
water. It ran and jumped anu spar
kled, overflowing the* "lake, on which
sailed a six foot yacht (a perfect model
of the Defender), then, trickling into
a feathery bamboo forest that com
pletely shut off the ship's rail, fell in
a graceful natural waterfall into the
bay.
Since 1776 it has been customary for
all English men-of-war in foreign ports
to go out cruising on the Fourth of
July. Our sixty guns proved a pana
cea for the old grievances. They not
only dressed their ships in America's
honor, but the crew of the H. M. S.
Undaunted attended our afternoon en
tertainment. As they came aboard
they were each presented with one of
these folders:
IH. ©lynvpia
* s.9.9telUir corm-m-ooßr
3-3- COMMANDING
And gallantly they pinned to their
neckerchiefs the little silk flag that
lay between its leaves.
Inside was the following programme
of sports:
BOAT RACES.
Prizes.
Cutters, twelve oars, two miles, ma
rines versus firemen $26.00
Cutters, ten oars, two miles $22.00
Whaleboats or gigs, two miles 126.00
Sampan race $3.00 and $2.00
DECK SPORTS.
Tug of war $20.00
Masthead race $6.00
Swimming race $5.00 and $3.00
Go as you please, ten minutes
57.00 and $4.0»
Cake walk (in old Virginia style);
first prize in the cake, second $5.00
Three legged race $5.00 and $3.00
Greasy pole $5.00
Pie eating $5.00 and $3.00
Horizontal bar !...... $5.00
High jumping $5.00 and $3.00
Thread the needle race $5.00
Two boxing bouts, winner in each bout to
receive $5.00 prize.
"Star Spangled Banner." by the ship's
company.
A fencing contest between Japanese
sword masters will be a special feature.
Day fireworks at intervals throughout
afternoon. Night fireworks from
8:45 to 9:45 p. m.
The programme went off wlthont a
and everybody enjoyed _ ljg-
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
mensely, including Our British guests.
I The Japanese fencing con-test was a
particular hit
At quarters Captain Read appeared,
accompanied by a stranger. After col
ors he.turned to the stranger and re
marked:
"Captain Gridley, I turn over to you
not only the finest ship that ever rode
the seas, but the finest crew that ever
j mauned one."
There were tears in his eyes and in
his voice.
Eleven months after this, on the Ist
of May, IS9B, Commodore Dewey gav#
to our new commander the memorabl*
command, "You may fire when ready,
Gridley." The Spanish war is now ten
years past. Captain Gridley is dead,
and the Olympla Is out of commission.
Many of the old crew of the Olympia
have left the service, but all those who
are still alive will remember this year
with mingled joy and sorrow that
Fourth of July eleven years ago in the
sens of sunny Japan.
I
Wyoming Valley Massacre.
The first Fourth of July that helped to
make history after the adoption of the
1 Declaration was that of 1778. On that
I day Tory John Butler, with a party of
| loyalists and Indians, raided the beau-
I tiful Wyoming valley, in Pennsylva
nia, while most of the men were ab
sent, on duty with the army. The wo
men and children, along with the aged
s".ud infirm, had taken refuge in a
wooden fort, but nnder promise of pro
tection they surrendered and were
butchered, as were also a large number
who had remained at their homes is
the valley.
A CLERK'S BLUNDER.
Its Effect Upon the Fortunes of Our
Revolutionary War.
The element of chance as exempli
fied in the blunder of a copyist had an
Important bearing on the result of our
war for Independence. As Is well
known, the crisis of the military be
tween Great Britain and the revolting
colonies was reached when General
Burgoyne's campaign was planned in
I London. The object was to strike a
tremendous blow at the ceuter of the
Revolution. The British forces were
to take possession of the Mohawk aud
Hudson valleys by a concentric march
from Lake Champlain, Oswegi and
New York on converging lines toward
Albany. The ascent of the Hudson by
Sir William Howe's army was essen
tial to the success of a scheme by
which New England was to be cut off
as by a wedge from the southern colo
nies.
Orders were sent out from London
for the advance of Burgoyne's and St
Leger's forces from Canada. At first
Sir William Howe was merely inform
ed of the plan and was armed with
discretionary powers, but finally a dis
patch was drafted positively ordering
him to co-operate in the movement
from New York.
A British clerk made a hasty and
very careless copy of the dispatch,
which the miuister. Lord George Ger
raaine, found great difficulty In read
ing. He angrily reprimanded the cul
prit and ordered a fresh copy to be
made without flaw or erasure. Being
pressed for time and anxious for a
holiday. Lord George posted off to the
I country without waiting for the fresh
copy.
The military order was laboriously
copied In the clerk's best hand, but
' when It was finished the minister was
not there to sign It It was pigeon
holed and overlooked when he returned
and was not sent to America until long
afterward. Howe, being left with full
discretion, allowed himself to be drawn
into military operations against Wash
ington's army uear Philadelphia. Bur
goyne's army was eutrapped. cut off
from retreat and forced to surrender
at Saratoga.
Thus the fortunes of the Revolution
ary war inrned upon the carelessness
of a British clerk.—Chicago Uecord
!• Herald. '
I Tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied her raven ringlets in:
j Then to the store she went with glee,
For Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea.
E, B, Menzies
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 18,1908.
FOURTH OF JULY IN TEXAS.
Cowboys, Girls and Comanches Trip
Light Fantastic Toe.
The hottest and funniest place on
the grounds, says a correspondent of
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, describ
ing a Fourth of July celebration In
Texas, "was the dancing pavilion. A
canvas cover was stretched just over
head. When some tall cowboy, in the
excess of his patriotism, put an extra
iuch on bis spring, his bat scraped the
cover. The floor, which was of rough
bouuls in the morning, was polished
before noon by a thousand shuffles.
In a corner the orchestra, with a
strangely solemn face and downcast
eyes, saf on the spring seat of a farm
wagon and drew from a violin such
strains as might put action into a cork
leg. But the star of the pavllioa com
bination was tat caller. He was a
mild mannered gentleman named
Granger, whose flexibility of voice was
equaled by his originality of expres
sion. Sometimes he chanted, some
times he declaimed, and sometimes he
let his voice follow the music. He was
a master ot ceremonies, too, who had
learned his profession. The cowboys
would sidle up and say:
"Mister, can't we have a little dance?
We came sixty miles for this thing."
"Don't you know anybody here?'
Granger would ask.
"Not a livin' soul 'cept just the boys,"
they would affirm, with more or less
emphasis.
"Reckon mebbe I ken fix you," the
master would say reflectively. Then
he would cross over to where the
buxom daughters of the grain farmers
were shocked up along the side of the
platform. Pretty soon he would re
turn, and, with a "Come this way," he
would lead the cowboys, one at a time,
across the platform. „ The farmer's
daughter would bow prettily and the
cowboy elaborately, with a twitch at
his big white hat. Then a new couple
would join those on the floor. Occa
sionally a cowboy would intrust his
hat to a fviend. but this seldom hap
pened. The girls didn't mind, and hats
were worn as a rule.
When the set was slow in filling the
master called out persuasively:
"Two more couple and we'll have a
little dance. ,Hurry up now and throw
yourself around on this stretch like a
quarter horse. Let's have a race."
But it was not often the dances
needed encouragement to fill. More
frequently the master was obliged to
argue:
"Stan' back and give us a little room,
people; we've got a wildcat spring
here."
The crowd in the eagerness to see
the dancing gave scant the
measures.
"Hoe down on her." said the master.
The violin started, and so did the
shuffling.
"Circle to the left and gents trail home.
Let the ladies' row In front."
So he called, and. dropping his voice
an octave, he sang:
"Everybody dance; corners swing
Good style; pretty little partner;
That's the thing."
Shuffle-shuffle go the feet, and the
figure is finished. Off starts the caller
again:
"First couple right; ladies swing out;
Gents swing in, swing out and prome
nade.
Do, do, gents, slow;
Do, ce, ladies, don't you know!"
Then comes more Intricate work.
The cowboys can't begin to get in all
of their fancy steps. The pace is hot.
The skirts of the grain growers' daugh
(ers swish through the air as the mas
ter calls:
"Balance the next; three hands round;
Ladies swing out; gents swing in;
Three hands out and go it ag'in;
Gents swing out and go it ag'in;
Seven hands up and ladies swing out;
Four and balance; now partners; prom
enade all."
The master permits thirty seconds'
breathing spell, during which the cow
boys try to get rid _of some of their
surplus perspiration, while the girls ply
their fans and look moist and happy.
The caller gathers himself for a pro
longed effort. "Second couple to right,"
he calls, and then he goes it, without a
break for five minutes, like this:
"Ladies swing out; gents swing in;
Three hands up and go it ag'in;
Balance again; ladles to center;
Fall in the corner; promenade home;
Six to two and two come down;
Ladles in center and seven hands round.
Fall in the corners. Now partners ail.
Go south. Wheat's all dead,
And you've got corn bread, I guess."
"Not in the Wichita valley the wheat
ain't dead, by a jugful!" one of the
dancers shouted, but without minding
interruptions the caller goes right along
with his funmaking:
"Fall and balance; swing and run;
Four to two and two come down.;
Lady in center and five hands round;
Ladies swing out and gents swing in;
Five up and go it ag'in.
Swing out; run away with the swing;
Hold and balance; all balance;
Now, partners, run away with the hall.
Everybody dance, everybody dance."
And the next time it is something
with variations on this kind of a fig
ure:
"Four hands up; half round the world;
Gents turn a summerset; ladles Jest so;
Ladies round the gents; gents don't go;
Round up fours; everybody swing;
Swing the corners like swinging the
wing;
Swing, ladies, seaside fashion;
Pretty little partner; round Aip teure/*
And thus it went on with endless
variety in the language and measures,
but the same shuffling, the same bux
om girls and the same frolicsome cow
boys, until the sun went down behind
the Comanches' tepees. Old men look
ed on and said, "Them's the same
dances they used to dance in south
Texas when I was a boy." Occasional
ly a cowboy, overcome by the lnsplra-
Ot tin# giojnent, lgf out a yUd
''whoop." As for the Indians, they
stood about the outer edge of the pa
vilion and looked on impassively. An
Indian always enjoys seeing the pale
faces dance, but you never could tell
ft from the expressionless cast of his
countenance.
A SAD FOURTH OF JULY.
The Day on Which Two of America's
Greatest Patriots Died.
The Fourth of July. 1526, was the
death day of two of the republic's
greatest men. John Adams and Thom
as Jefferson. On July 4, 1831, five
years later. James Monroe breathed
his last. Sixty years later, on July 4,
IS9I. Hannibal Hamlin died.
The death of both' Adams and Jef
ferson on the day accepted as the na
tion's birthday was a strange coinci
dence. The day was one neither for
got. for both were among the signers
of the immortal document which offi
cially first saw the light just fifty
years before their death, both remem
bered the date, and each was cognizant
of the other's mortal Illness.
Adams wa past ninety. Jefferson
was about seven years younger. Yet
he had lived thirteen years more than
the threescore and ten years allotted
by holy writ. At midnight eighty years
ago, when Independence day was just
being ushered in, Jefferson, even then
dying, but with memory not yet alto
gether impaired, muttered, "This is the
Fourth of July." In the morning Ad
ams, the same thought apparently run
ning through his mind, roused himself
to ask, "Does Jefferson still live?"
Adams died a little after midday, Jef
ferson a few hours later.
IRREVERENT INSECTS.
\
How Flies Interfered With the Signing
of the Declaration.
Congress on July 19, 1776, ordered
the Declaration passed on the Fourth,
fairly engrossed on parchment, with
the title and style of "The unanimous
Declaration of the 13 United States of
America, and that the same, when en
grossed, \be signed by every member
of cougress."
It was a sultry day in August Jef
ferson, when in a genial, reminiscent
mood, was accustomed to say that the
signing was hastened by swarms of
fiies that came into the hall through
the open windows of the statehouse
from a livery stable near by. The
day's business had been arduous. It
was hot and sticky, and the flies as
saulted the silk stockinged legs of the
honorable members with vigor and real
Tory vindictiveness. With handker
chiefs and «U available papers the fa
thers of liberty lashed the flies, but
with no avail. The onslaught became
unendurable, and the members, capitu
lating, made haste to sign and bring
the momeutous business to a close. Of
the fifty-sfx signatures not all were at
tached even at this date.—Washington
Star.
Where the Declaration Is Kept.
The original engrossed copy of the
Declaration as signed is now In the
keeping of the secretary of state. The
document was in the patent office from
1841 to 1877, as that department was
believed to be fireproof. It is now,
since 1894, kept hermetically sealed in
a frame and placed in a steel cabinet
with, the original signed copy of the
constitution. It Is no longer shown to
any one except by express order of the
secretary. Being on parchment which
shows destructive signs of cracking,
due more probably to the making of a
facsimile ordered by President James
Monroe in 1823 than to age or han
dling, the document is jealously guard
ed. Many of the names of the signers
are no longer legible. Two pages of
Jefferson's original draft with a few
interlineations by Adams and Frank
lin, are also preserved at the depart
ment of state. The facsimile which
yas ordered by President Monroe was
made for the purpose of giving a copy
to each of the signers then living and
their heirs. These original copies ar*
now of great value.—Baltimore News.
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Generous Mrs. Crewe.
A gambling story is told of Charles
James Fox that rather reflects on his
honor. He was one of the ardent ad
mirers of Mrs. Crewe, a noted beauty
of her day, and It is related that a gen
tleman lost a considerable sum to this
lady at play and, being obliged to
leave town suddenly, gave Mr. Fox the
money to pay her, begging him to apol
ogize to her for his not having paid
the debt of honor in person. Fox lost
every shilling of it before morning.
Mrs. Crewe often met the supposed
debtor afterward and, surprised that
he never noticed the circumstances, at
length delicately hinted the matter to
him.
"Bless me!" said he. "I paid the
money to Mr. Fox three months ago."
"Oh, did you, sir?" said Mrs. Crewe
good naturedly. "Then probably be
paid me, and I forgot it"
WHEN FOOD WAS SCARCE.
Prices That Ruled in Paris During the
Siege of 1870.
The following interesting statement
of the prices that were paid for food
during the siege of 1870 is taken ver
bally out of the jourual of a French
officer stationed in Paris at the time:
"Toward the middle of October we
had to make up our mind to sacrifice
the animals of the zoological garden.
The elephants and many other beasts
were bought by M. Debos. the owner
of the English meat shop in Av.
Frlendland. The meat of the elephants
was sold from $lO to $l2 a kilogram
(two pounds), the trunk commanding
the highest price, $l6 a kilogram. The
trunk and feet were both declared de
licious by all gormauds. In the same
shop a pair of young wolves were sold
for $2.50 per pound- The meat was
soft and without taste. The biggest
price w.as paid for a young live lamb
that-had been swiped by a 'franctlreur"
from the enemy. One hundred dollars
was paid for It
"Here is an exact price list of some
victuals toward the end of the siege:
Two pounds of horseflesh $5.00
One ham 16.00
A whole cat 3.00
A rabbit 10.00
One turkey 30.00
One egg 1.00
A rat , 60
A pigeon 3.00
One pound of butter 6.00
A pound of beans 1.50
A peck of carrots 2.00
One cabbage head 3.00
One stick of celery 50
Wood to burn (100 pounds) 2.00
"Even the rich had to live on the
meagerest diet and to take into their
menu things that till then only the
trapper In the virgin forests was sup
posed to eat. I leave It to you to Im
agine what kind of meals were served
in the small restaurants and boarding
houses.
"Moreover, everybody had to submit
to the strictest orders. People stood In
file before the butcher and baker shops
to wait for their turns. Each household
was furnished with a card from the
municipality authorizing the bearer to
buy a certain amount of meat and
bread. The cook, the housewife, the
young girl, the little child (men never
go shopping in France), were posted for
hours before the shops In rain and
snow, with wet feet, shivering with
cold. The unfortunate ones endured
without a murmur these hardships.
Women throughout the time of the
siege were setting an example of cour
age and self abnegation not always fol
lowed by men.
"It was a sad and touching spectacle,
•hese long files of women, nearly all
dressed In black, grouped before the
doors of- the dealers, watched by the
national guard, with whom they at first
were laughing and chatting, tiil the
sufferings from the cold had silenced
the laugh and sometimes brought forth
the tears.
"But in spite of all precautions the
stores one by one were exhausted, the
provisions, put In too late before the
siege, were used up, and, while the ba
bies, deprived of milk, died In great
numbers or, fed ou sweet wlue and
bread, pined slowly away, the big peo
ple tried to find new resources to pro
long their lives."
Stomache troubles are very common in
the dummer time and you should not
onfv be very careful abouz what you eat
just now but more than thes you should
be careful not to sllow your stomache
to become disordered and when the
stomache goesjwrong take Kodol. This
is the best known preparatioo that is
offered to the people to day for dyspep
sia or indegestion or any stomache trou
ble. Kodol digests ?11 foods. It is sotf
oy W. S Martin 5c CM. Shuford.
No Tears Nor Hills.
In the days when Rowley Hill was
bishop of the Isle of Man one of his
clergymen bearing the name of Tears
came to say adieu to his bishop on
getting preferment The parson said:
"Goodby, my lord. I hope we may
meet again, but if not here in some
better place."
The bishop replied, "I fear the latter
Is^unlikely, as there are no Tears in
heaven."
"No doubt" wittily answered the par
sou, "you are right that our chance of
meeting is small, as one reads of the
plains of paradise, but never of any
Hills there."—London Queen.
Australian Bushmen.
Although the busbmen of Australia
are the very lowest in the scale of Ig
norance, they possess a rare instinct
that equals that of many animals and
is In Its way as wonderful as man's
reason, it is almost impossible for
them to be lost Even if they be led
away from their home blindfolded for
miles, when released they will unerr
ingly turn in the right direction and
make their way to their nest homes,
and, though these are ail very similar,
they never make a mistake.
Fool and Sage.
The fool and his money are parted,
not long did they stay in cahoots, but
the fool is the cheeriest hearted and
gladdest of human galoots. His neigh
bor is better and wiser, six figures
might tell what he's worth, but oh, how
folks wish the old miser would fall
off the edge of the earth!—Emporia Ga
zette.
Nothing preaches better than tha
ant, and she says nothing.—Franklin.
The Democrat is $1 a year.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905.
A GHOST STORY.
The Spectral Horseman That Visit*
Wycollar Hall.
This ghost story is contributed by a
correspondent of an English magazine:
"Wycollar Hall, near Colne, was long
the seat of the Cunliffes of Billington.
They were noted persons in their time,
but eril days came, and their ancestral
estates passed out of their hands. In
the days of the commonwealth their
loyalty cost them dear, and ultimately
they retired to Wycollar with a rem
nant only of their once extensive prop
erty. About 1819 the last of the fami
ly passed a way,-and the hall Is now a
mass of rulus. Little but the antique
fireplace remains entire, and even the
room alluded to in the following
legend cannot now be identified. Tra
dition says that once every year a
specter horseman visits Wycollar Hall.
He is attired in the costume of the
early Stuart period, and the trappings
of his horse are of a most uncouth de
scription.
"On the evening of his visit the
weather is always"wild and tempestu
ous. There is no moon to light the
lonely roads, and the residents of the
district do not venture out of their
cottages. When the wind howls loud
est the horseman can l>e heard dash
ing up the road at full speed, and. aft
er crossing the narrow bridge, he sud
denly stops ut the door of the hall.
The rider then dismounts and makes
his way up the broad oaken stairs into
one of the rooms of the house. Dread
ful screams. asTrom a woman, are
then heard, which soon subside Into
groans The horseman then makes his
appearance at the door, at once mounts
his steed and gallops off.
"His body can lie seen through by
those who may chance to be present;
his horse appears to l>e wild with rage,
and Its nostrils stream with fire. The
tradition Is that one of the Cunliffes
murdered his wife in that room and
that the specter horseman is the ghost
of the murderer, who is doomed to pay
an annual visit to the home of his
victim. She is said to have predicted
the extinction of the family, which,
according to the story, has been liter
ally fulfilled."
THE CRITICS.
These Observers Were Wholly Per
sonal In Their Judgments.
"Ths critical faculty is rare," said
an editor and critic at a Philadelphia
art club. "It must be Impersonal. But
most of us incline to be wholly per
sonal in our criticism. TU» fact was
brought home to me at one of the exhi
bitions at the Academy of Fine Arts.
"Passing from picture to picture, I
overheard many criticisms. Thus a
lady in a rich gown said:
" 'What a superb portrait of a young
girl! It should certainly win the Car
negie prize. It is easy to see that the
gown was made by Paquin.'
"A fat, red nosed mau in a fur lined
overcoat halted before a picture enti
tled 'The Luncheon.'
" 'This still life,' he exclaimed, 'is
the most admirable I have ever seen.
Terrapin, canvasback, champagne, lob
ster. even Perigord pie—ah, what a
genius.'
" 'ln this historical painting,' I heard
an antiquary say. 'the costumes are ac
curate in every detail. The painter is a
second Raphael.'
" 'That horse there,' said a young
polo player, is exactly like my Poda
sokus. It's the best picture in the ex
hibition.'
"An athlete uttered a cry of delight
before a daub called 'The Gladiator.'
" 'What shoulders! What arms!' he
said. 'I bet anything the jury gives
this pointing the highest award.'
' AuJ half the throngs departing. sal:l:
" The picture in the last room is the
best No, we didn't see It—couldn't get
to it, in fact—but It draws far and
away the biggest crowd.'"
Mole Superstitions.
According to tradition, if you have a
mole on your chin you may expect to
be wealthy, while if you have it un
der your arm It promises you wealth
and honor as welL A mole on the
ankle indicates courage. On the left
temple a mole indicates that you will
tind friends among the great ones of
the earth, but If it be placed on the
right temple it warns you of coming
distress. A mole on a man's knee
menus that he may expect to marry a
rich woman. A mole on the neck
promises wealth. If you have a mole
on your nose you are going to be a
great traveler. mole on the throat
indicates health and wealth.
Tfred mothers worn out by the peevi
sh cross baby have found Cascasweet a
boon and and a blessing, cascasweet is
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NATHAN HALE, YALE'S HERO.
University Plans to Erect a Monu
ment of Him on Its Campus*
A sho:t time ago a committee of
Yale alumni assembled in the studio
of William Ordway Partridge in New
York to see the newly completed statue
of Nathau Hale by that sculptor which
the alumni of the institution propose
to offer for the campus of the univer
sity. The patriot spy Is the chief hero
of the famous institution of learning
at New Haven, and Yale meu have
long felt that
i there should be
a statue upon
the college
grounds of an
alumnus who
did such honor
to his alma ma
ter; hence the
move ment re
execution of thin
has studied the
subject for tea
years and has
written a book
about the char
acter of Hal*
and the story
of his great sac
rifice for coun
try. His statue
presents an In
trast to that of
NEW NATHAN HALE Frederick WV
STATUE. MacMonnles,
which stands near the New York city
ball. Neither had any portrait of Hale
upon which to work, for none exists.
They had to be guided by the descrip
tions of the hero which have been
handed down and by their own con
ceptions of his appearance and expres
sion.
Each statue has its own special ad
mirers. Hale was twenty-one at the x
time of his cruel death. Perhaps he
seems more boyish in the statue by
MacMonnies. Partridge has succeeded
well in expressing In the features of
his Hale the patriotic fervor of the
young enthusiast in the cause of the
new nation and his athletic qualities.
The hero was about six feet tall and
could put his hand on a fence as high
as his head and clear it with a bound.
The spot on the Yale campus where he
made the famous jump that marked
him as the best all around athlete of
the college was .shown for yean after
bis time. He Is said to have possessed
not only ideal proportions, but a grace
and charm which endeared him to all
he met Yale men are enthusiastic
over the manner In which Mr. Par
tridge has met their Ideals In the por
trayal of Hale.
Thomas Jefferson's Politeness.
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Dec
laration of Independence, and j his
eldest grandson were one day riding la
a carriage together. They met a slave,
who respectfully took off hts hat and
bowed. The president, according to his
invariable custom, returned the salu
tation by raising his hat T-he young
man paid no attention to the negro's
act of civility. Mr. Jefferson, after a
moment's pause, turned a reproachful
eye to him and said, "Thomas, do you
permit a slave to be more of a gentle
man than yourself?"
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