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CAUCASIANS VOL. XXVII. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY. MAY 13. 1909. No. 17. EDITORIAL BRIEFS North Carolina will have a repre sentative government when all men vote as they think. Unless all efforts fail, the next Job to be handed out in Raleigh will be that of meat inspector. Those who don't get Jobs as Oil In spector might apply for a Job as meat Inspector of Raleigh, or to fire up the crematory. There are a few Democrats that haven't applied for a job as oil in spector but then, the contest hasn't closed yet. Will some one who Is informed please tell us how many trusts have ben ' busted" under North Caro lina'; anti-trubt law? A contractor in Maryland has erect ed a monument to Adam on his farm near Baltimore, iie must think that his farm is Harden Eden. It is now time for Mr. Bryan to pay his respects to Senator Bacon of (Jeorgia, as also has gone back on that midnight platform. If some of the Democratic poli ticians should be indicted for peon age then many of the voters could cast tliojr ballots as they please. Pittsburg is putting her grafters lit jail instead of putting them in office. No, nothing intended as per sonal; yet it is a good precedent to follow. At least the Agricultural Depart ment, will not have to put the State to the expense of advertising for Democrats to accept the jobs of oil Inspectors. If any Democratic politician in this State has not yet sent in his applica tion for oil inspector, he should do so at once, as the contest closes on June 9th. The Spartanburg (S. C.) Journal. Democratic, is discussing the need of a new political party. That is an other way of saying that it has no faith in the Democratic party. Nine members of the Japanese Parliament have been arrested on charges of bribery, which causes the Wilmington Star to observe that Ja pan is becoming modernized. Some prominent New York Re publicans want ex-President Roose velt to run for mayor of their city. He is the best man they could put up to slay the Tammany Tiger. Down at Fayetteville a few days ago a man was awarded a verdict for $2,000 because he claimed he was forced to kill a man on a train. Some might term that a premium on kill ing. Rev. St. Clair McKelway says the Democrats will again nominate Mr. Bryan in 1912. If Mr. McKelway was going to speak anyway, he might at least have given the public some thing new. An exchange says that ex-Governor Glenn has been "called" to do evan gelistic work. Wasn't It a great pity for North Carolina that he didn't hear that "call" before he was elect ed Governor? Several persons have reported see ing airships in the East recently. However, we are inclined to the opin ion that they were only Democratic boomlets for the Eastern Judgeship that had lost their moorings. Since the Democratic politicians have been claiming that the judiciary should be non-partisan, some one has suggested that the same politicians might now petition Governor Kitchln to appoint a Republican to the Su preme Court bench. Senator Bacon, of Georgia, inti mates that the Democratic platform adopted at Denver was made at mid night. That would seem to be in ac cordance with the eternal fitness of things as the Denver platform has never seen daylight. Some of the Democratic papers are commenting on the fact that in the Charlotte municipal election last week a '6 years old was able to walk up it$S tne RepubU11 ticket. The fact 'f bas been an ardent Republican li-. . n him a long lease on life, due to the fact that he does not have to worry over a mis-spent life. Kin.VAPPERS GET HEAVY SENTENCE. IIoyle ;et Life Sentence and Wife Twenty-Five Vears Found CJuilty of Kidnapping Whitla Boy at Sha ron, Pa. Mercer, Pa., May 10. James Boyle was sentenced to-day to life impris onment in the penitentiary for kid napping "Billy" Whitla. Mrs. Boyle received a sentence of twentyflve years, with a fine of $5,000 and the costi of the prosecntion. Boyle did not create the scene In co".rt he had threatened. Sheriff Chess started with Mr. and Mrs. Boyle for the Wes ter nPenitentiary at Pittsburg this af ternoon. MK. ROOSEVELT FOR MAYOR General Stewart L. Wool ford Nomi nates Him. New York, May 9. The nomina tion of Theodore Roosevelt for mayor of New York City is proposed by General Stewart L. Woolford, former Minister to Spain, in a statement yes terday. It is admitted that "the boom thus launched has neither the knowledge nor the consent of Mr. Roosevelt," but It is declared that an Insistent and unanimous demand upon the part of the people of the city would com pel him to accept." General Woolford's statement is, in part, as follows: "If I had the power to nominate and elect the next mayor of New York City, I should, without a mo ment's hestitation make Theodore Roosevelt that mayor. In dignity and importance the office ranks next to the Presidency. The problem of city government is the greatest prob lem of the day, and I am inclined to think that a great and good mayor of New York could do more to the entire country today than even the President can. "Mr. Roosevelt was born here and knows the city. He has been Police Commissioner and should know the Inside workings of the one depart ment on which the well-being of the city largely depends. He has been Governor and knows the relations between the city and state. He has been President and should be free from selfish ambition. By his pecu liarly direct and effective executive ability he seems to me to be the best man for this great civic trust and duty." POWER COMPANY TO BE SOLD. Judge Pritchard Orders the Property of Rockingham Power Company Sold at Wadesboro July 14 Sev eral Million Dollars Are Involved. Richmond, Va., May 8. Judge Jeter Pritchard, sitting to-day in the United States Circuit Court of Ap peals for the Eastern District of North Carolina, entered a decree in the case of the S. Morgan Smith Company, complainant, vs. Rocking ham Power Company and Knicker bocker Trust Company, defendants, ordering the sale of the properties of the Rockingham Power Company, said sale to take place on the 14th day of July, at Wadesboro, N. C. This sale is for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the Rock Ingham Power Company. William H. Brown and W. A. Leland, the re ceivers of the Rockingham Power Company, were appointed commis sioners to make the sale. It is said that several million dollars are in volved. Judge Pritchard also entered a de cree authorizing the receivers to borrow a sum not exceeding $10,000 to pay the obligations maturing In the necessary work of protecting the property during the time that may elapse before the sale of the prop erty. CHARGES AGAINST GOV. HASKEL Government Holds to Prosecution for Alleged Land Frauds. Muskogee, Okla., May 8. Federal Judge Campbell here today over-rul ed the demurrers of the defendants in the so-called Mott Civil Creek In dian land suits, brought by the gov ernment against Governor Charles I Haskell and other prominent Okla- homians. The decision to-day, involving as it does the legality of millions of dol lars worth of lots, created great con sternation here. Not only is Govern or Haskell and associates involved in the charge of fraud, but about 1,500 subsequent purchasers of lots are vi tally interested. Judge Campbell announced, however, that all innocent purchasers would be protected. Lexington Has A Big Fire. Lexington, N. C, May 10. Not in years has Lexington suffered a cost Her fire than that which gutted the March Hotel Sunday morning at an early hour. The flames, first discov ered at 12:30 by C. C. Moore of Charlotte, a guest, swept through the two-and-three story brick building very rapidly and offered stubborn re sistance to the firemen, who, however, eventually conquered the flames and confined the fire to the hotel. The property was worth some $15, 000. Insurance to the amount of $7, 000 was carried. Mrs. M. B. Brown, lessee of the property, lost everything, hut is pro tected by 12.000 Insurance. J. C.DAVIS ARRESTED Charged With Swindling Cli ents Out of Large Sums in Washington City. HIS RECORD IN WILMINGTON Washington Author! tie Claim Thai lie Has Misappropriated About $100,000 Davis Wu a Great Church Worker When in Wilming ton, X. C, and Stole Money to Help Furnish Church He Plead Insanity and Was Committed to Inxane Asylum at Raleigh His Brother Implicated in Washington Transactions. Washington, May 8. There were sensational developments today in the case of John C. Davis, a member of the local bar, who was arrested last night on the charge of having obtained money under false pretense. The amount which Davis is alleged to have misappropriated in transac tions with his clients, mostly women, was thought to have been small, but today notes aggregating $50,000, said to have been given by Davis, were ex hibited to United States District At torney Baker, and ifis rumored that the amount finally may reach $100, 000. Martin C. Davis, a brother of John and secretary of a local building and loan association, was arrested also today on a charge of conspiracy. The largest amount alleged to have heen secured from any one person by John C. Davis, was $18,000, advanced by a woman client who received five or six notes therefor; the next largest being $13,000. When a search was made today of the safe in Davis' ele gant suite of offices, nothing was found but a few deeds. John C, was arrested on complaint of Miss Nettle McKeown, of Cincinnati, who declar es that she lost $1,500. Davis said today that he had been in the State hospital for the insane at Raleigh, N. C, between six and seven year, and that he had been in a private sani tarium in this city, but that his mind was "as bright as a dollar." "Wrhlle I was in North Carolina, I gave more than $50,000 to the erec tion of churches," he said. District Attorney Baker fixed bail for John C. Davis at $20,000 and for his brother aM10,000.. His Wilmington Record. The Wilmington Star, of Sunday, says: "The arrest of John C. Davis in Washington yesterday was received with much interest here by those who followed current events about the year 1890 in this city. He was a mem ber of the bar here before that time and was known as a man of great benefactions until suddenly it devel oped one day that all his operations had been carried on with other peo ple's money in much the same way as he seems to have operated in Wash ington, widows and administrator's of estates being his chief victims. He argly built Fifth Street M. E. Church and installed there a costly set jof chimes, which were later taken out, the congregation, however, assuming the other church debt and having struggled until only a few years ago under its burden. He was arrested and tried in the Superior Court on the charge of fraud, and it is estimated that the money involved was some thing like $25,000 or $30,000. The defense in court was insanity and this was sustained, Davis being committed to an asylum in Raleigh, where he remained from May 24, 1892, to No vember 30, 1897, a period of five years, during which he escaped twice, but was later discharged as cured, when he took up his residence in Washington. He was 32 years of age at that time. Recently those who suffered by Davis' operations here have been receiving checks for va rious amounts from time to time, ac companied by personal letters in which he stated that he was doing well in Washington and hoped to pay every cent he owed. The source of his income was not hinted at until the notice of his arrest reached here yesterday. The outcome of his case in Washington will be waited with in terest by many peple in Wilmington. Army Balloon Explodes. Omaha, Neb., May 10. Army bal loon No. 12, which ascended from Fort Omaha at 11:15 o'clock today, landed at Jackson, Nebraska, at 6.45 o'clock this morning. In making a landing the gas bag exploded a few feet above the ground and was de stroyed, but neither Captain Chand ler nor Lieutenant Ware, who made the flight, were seriously injured. Winston-Salem Has $20,000 Fire. Winston-Salem, N. C, May 10. The wholesale house of A: F. Messick Grocery Company, including the building owned by R. J. Reynolds, was damaged by fire to the amount of $20,000 this morning. Insurance on the stock and building aggregated $18,000. Guests in Hotel Forsyth, which adjoins the building occupied by the Messick company, were badly frightened and nearly all of them re moved their belongings into the street. VOTING TO RETARD SOUTHERN PROGRESS. However, Democracy is Losing Its Grip on tie Southern Voter. In the April number of South At lantic Quarterly there is an article by Mr. Enoch Marvin Backs entitled, "The Passing of the Solid South." This article is well written and de serves to be read by the whole people of the South for it Is a thoughtful pa per and discloses how, in spite of their business interests, the men of the South have been kept voting against those conditions that were working for our commercial progress. This thought and this condition is concisely expressed in a paragraph of that paper. "Not long ago the Presi dent of one of these cotton mills told the writer that, if the protective du ties were removed from his grade of goods, the enterprise would be ruin ed; and. although he consistently voted the Democratic ticket in the national as well as the local election, he did not hesitate to express the view that it would be best for the country for Mr. Taft to be elected." This means that all the time this man had been voting against his political convictions. We see and have long seen the same thing here. Take the duty off of knit goods and yon will close every knitting mill not only In our city but in the United States. General Carr, of Durham, who is the largest knit goods manufacturer in the South, went before the ways and means committee and said this much, yet General Carr Just as almost all our Southern manufacturers has been voting the Democratic ticket all the time. But the figures of the last election show. that this condition is fast changing. This country, for in stance, was very close on the local ticket, electing a part of both and some by a majority of one. Two be ing a tie, yet it gave the Republican candidate for Congress a good major ity of over three hundred and Mr. Taft a still larger majority. This feeling is growing and growing fast, so fast that I feel warranted In say ing these majorities would be largely increased were the election to be held today. But with the passing of the cry of "negro domination" so long used to hold the white voters in the Demo cratic party, the leaders of the Dem ocracy have found that they are los ing their grip on the voters, that party ties are sitting lightly on them, and that a spirit of independence is growing all over the South as this paper indicates. They realize that this condition must be met and stop ped, therefore they have adopted the legalized primary, by which means the Republicans and the independent voter are entirely excluded from all participation In the election of the officers. This trick has become so apparent that men are refusing to vote in the primaries so that they may be free to vote as they please at the election. This was fully demon strated here on last Monday where out of 1,200 or 1,5(0 voters, who usually vote the Democratic ticket, less than 300 voted 'for the Demo cratic candidate for ihayor. If this indicates anything it beans that the nominee of the primary will not get the party vote in the coming election. It also means that the vote of the Republicans and of the independents will count just as miich as that of the most rigid machinp Democrat. All this means good for the county. When reason rules tnen there is no danger. Justice, in jjnlon Republi can. FRENCH POSTAL CLERKS STRIKE Railway Mail Clerks Walk Out in a Body When Government Refuses Their Demands. Paris, May 11. The Chamber of Deputies, after a stormy session of four hours, to-day adjourned the de bate on the interpellations on the postal situation until May 13th. The response of the postal em ployes was quick and decisive. With- n half an hour the federal commit tee had issued an order for a gen eral strike and the railway mail clerks walked out in a body. An hour later a meeting of 6,000 postal em ployes at the Hippodrome took up the gage of battle and unanimously voted to strike. There was no great enthusiasm shown, but determination and resolution to force the hand of the Government were apparent. Dutch Colony to Locate Near Wil mington. ' The Manufacturers' Record of last Thursday, says: "Mr. Hugh MacRae, of Hugh Mac Rae & Co., Wilmington, N. C, who has been active for some years in in ducing healthy immigration to North Carolina, telegraphs the Manufactur ers' Record from New York: ' 'Dr. Frederick Van Eeden, a Dutch Sociologist, with New York as sociates, has selected 11,000 acres of land near Wilmington, N. C, with a view to establishing there a co-operative colony. Dr. Eeden sails today for Holland, where he expects to se cure colonists from among the skilled agriculturalists of that country.' "Another dispatch from New York intimates that ultimately 11,000 more acres may be included in his colony tract, giving it 35 square miles of ter ritory; that $500,000 has actually been subscribed for the undertaking. in which every person employed will have a financial interest." - THAT LIBEL SUIT Third Day of Trial in Which Ex-Judge Adams was Suing for Alleged Libel. SEVERAL DEPOSITORS READ Fort Smith Lawyer Says Judge Ad ams Helped to Oust One of the Indian Governors That $730,000 Fee Awarded Mansfield. McMor ray & Cornish by Citizenship Court Defense Seek to Show Adama Suddenly Ricli What Judge Ad ams Swore at IVeliminary Hear ing. (Ry Andrew Joyner, in Raleigh Xeivs and Observer.) Deposition of B. F. Hackett, of MeAlister. Oklamoma: Had been United States Commis sioner and United States Marshal Oc tober, 1902. Saw Judge Adams at Antlers, under orders from Attorney General. Judge Adams, Judge Weav er and Judge Foote were there. Gov ernor McCurtin and his party made a rush for the door. The soldiers went out and stopped it, and then 1 went back 1 1 where the judges were stand ing at the fence. Judge Adams said: (Mr. Broadhurst, who was reading this deposition, here asked that the ladies in the court room retire, since he could not read thia in their pres ence.) Judge Long asked to look at the paper, the ladies retiring. Judge Long, after reading the matter, said he would mark it and reserve it hav ing it read at another time. Judge Strudwick. for the State, called at tention to the fact that objections were made to the whole deposition as Incompetent. Judge Long ruled it was competent but ordered this part to be omitted at this time. Deponent then went on to explain that there was a contest over the Governorship between Hunter and McCurtin factions. Did not know which side Adams was working for. Cross Examination. Do not know that members of the court were then under orders. Did not criticise conduct of Judges in my report as harmful to the depart ment It would not have been gen tlemanly in me to have done so. Deposition of Johnson, lawyer, at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Was employed in 1902 as counsel for Hunter in contest between him and McCurtin. Mansfield, McMurry & Cornish were counsel for McCurtin, but the most effective worker for McCurtin and my principal adversary was Chief JuRcice Adams, represent ing the United States Choctaw and Chickasaw Citizenship Court. Sever al other men who were present help ing JudgeAdams were named. Mc Curtin was put in power and Hun ter was ousted, and Judge Adams was present when the soldiers dis armed Hunter faction. I saw Judge Adams in close conference or con versation with U. S. Marshal Hackett. Cross Examination. Have been indicted five times, and was suspended from practicing law for six months in 1889 for malprac tice. I was acquitted in each indict ment that was tried, except one for carrying a plstoL (Deponent then explained that he was prosecuting attorney from the county and at Fort Smith, Arkansas, there were such notorious violations of law that grand juries refused to return bills of indictment and the Judge himself would have himself indicted and order a nol pros of Che case. He related one case, when the judge compelled him to try a case before a jury on which sat five women keepers of bawdy houses. He openly remarked, this jury was a very ap propriate one, considering the char acter of the bench. This remark was published in the newspapers and was had up for contempt, and this was why I was suspended for six months from practice. This judge had on two occasions imposed a light fine on himself on indictments I had forced from the grand jury against him for open and notorious gamb ling.) Deposition of A. C. Crouse, lawyer of Andrew, Oklahoma: Was counsel in test case known as Riddle case, in 1902. After conclu sion of argument in case which con sumed several days, had a conversa- tion with Judge Adams. Went to his room to tell him good-bye. The clerk of the court was present. Invited Judge Adams to hold court at Ard- more If court continued. He seemed very much pleased with the Invita tion; was very complimentary as to my argument and strongly criticised argument of Mansfield and McMur ry. He said he did not know how the other members of the court were, but they would find him, if neecssary. standing like an iceberg in behalf o the law. I was counsel on opposite side form Mansfield, McMurry and Cornish and when the court unanimously decided the test case in favor of the court and these lawyers claims I refused to ever practice before the court again. Cross Examination. Do not know that there are any yelations between Webster Balllnger and Marion Bailer. Never taw Bal llnger until after decision la test ce. Gar him an affidavit In Okla homa. He said he wasted It for Mr. Bailer to um in a libel salt that Jodie Adams had brought against him. and I rave him an affidavit. Balllnrer said he was in Oklahoma to the interest of Marion Better. Mr. Vail, law partner of Butler, was ta Ardmore several day. (On objection by defendants' cocl, tb answer relating to Webster Balllnger were ordered stricken out.) Deposition of J. O. Raw Is. a law yer of Atoka. Oklahoma. Heard con versation between Mansfield and Judge Adama over the 'phoee in Me Alister. Judge Adam told Ma nine Id that certain motion had b?a made before the court and it was Import ant that he. Maasfietd. file some other motions before the court. This law yer deposed that later he desired to file a motion before the Citlienahlp Court, and Judge Adams aaked him to wait awhile, as the court was then considering some other motion. Judge Adams invited me to remain during the hearing, and appear aa counsel for the Indians in the motion to fix compensation of attorneys for Indi ans. Mr. Mansfield was present and showed him two documents, and they were recommendations by the two Governors, McCurtin and Johnston, for claims of Mansfield, McMurry Cornish. I do not know how many applicants I represented for citizen ship in the court Possibly 200. About 50 were allowed by the court to be placed on the roll. CroM) ExaminAtion. Judge Adams did state to me from the bench that he would be glad for me to remain in court and bear all, the testimony, and as a representa tive of the Indians they would be glad for rne to examine the witnesses as to the value of their services as ttorneys. and 1 closely examined Mansfield, Claude Weaver and Judge Lindsay, who had testified aa to value of legal service. Do not remember hearing Judge Lindsay testify that services of Mansfield, McMurry and Cornish were worth 25 per cent. The court adjourned to meet at South MeAlister and I was invited to go there, but did not go. Re-Direct, Understood J,udge Lindsay was president of a barnk that had advanc ed Mansfield's law firm $30,000. This drew out of him on cross-examina tion. The law had been changed by some means, so that this compensa tion could be fixed by the court. Deposition of W. I. Gilbert, law yer, of Duncan, Oklahoma: Is president of Oklahoma Bar As sociation. Represented U. S. Joins in Citizenship Court. Joins had mar ried an Indian and was entitled to itizenshlp by intermarriage. Cornish claimed that a divorce had been de nied him. In a conversation after hearing with Judge Adams, be said to me: "Gilbert, you must not worry about Joins's case, be is all right. We have agreed to render no decision in blood cases until all the cases are in." Cross Examination. Joins was not admitted to citizen ship by the court, is my impression. think he got in by an order of the Interior Department at Washington. Deposition of Webster Balllnger, lawyer, of Denver, Colorado., Wash ington City, and Oklahoma: "Was connected with litigation in matter pending before Congress and the de partment; connected with the citizen- hip court. Representing the Indi ans, there was an injunction pro ceeding to restrain the payment of the attorneys' fee. The bill was filed February, 1903. On February, 1905, tfce bill was amended so as to include Mansfield, McMurry & Cornish. Have known Judge Adams since the court was established in 1902. When the civil suit for damages! against Senator Butler by Adama in Guilford Superior Court, Butler ask ed me what I knew about the Citl zenship Court. I told him I was well acquainted with it, and on my next trip to Oklahoma I made more par ticular inquiry. Neither one of the firm of Mans field, McMurry and Cornish reside at MeAlister now. When the bill giving the clttenship court power to fix attorney's fees was pending in Congress, every member of this firm was in Washington act ively lobbying for the bill. I was in Washington at the time as a news paper correspondent. The Citizen ship Court, out of about 3,000 appli cations of Indian claimants, admitted only 156 on the rolls. Every claim ant kept off the roll, inured to the benefit of Mansfield, McMurray and Cornish and their clients, the Choc taw andChickasaw tribes of Indians. But few of the cases of Indian claimants were thrown out for fraud Most of them were denied on the technical question of residence. In a number of instances they admitted some members and denied others of the same family. There were approximately 4.000 eases of claimants who had been en rolled by the United States District Court, which this Citizenship Court threw out. Only 156 were enrolled. Judge Adams delivered the opinion of the court known as the Riddle case. This was what is known as the test case, and the opinion was to the effect that the United States Territorial Court had erred In not serving notice In claimants applica tion on both the Chickasaw and (Continued on Page 2.) BILKINSJN PARIS The Major and His Mule Bob Make the Trip From Dublin in a Boat. BILK1NS PLEASED WITH PARIS lie Nrm th IM lVratlfal lily Id Um World. atd U Plea t rrch -iiooTalk"' VMTi th Ma)ur a 1UI Ttw CUy rVetwrh V. 4 f. port unit ia by lrarr Row ! Irmch ly War m-U TUr IlirthpUrr of l'alUtt Pre Klrnt Lout Tta 'rrnality tf Napoleon Ilonapartr. (Correspondence of The Caucasian Enterprise. ) Paris. France. May IS At laat I am in Paris, the gay French capital, the most beautiful city In the world. An' 1 am glad ter be htre. I ex pect ter see both sides o 11( hr. if I stay long ennuff ter gt a ftw gude- looks. I traveled by boat in an Bob from Dublin ter I'aris. Kit Is a beautiful trip an' hit It a site ter the variety an' tha number ov craft that is on the water in that region, fer hit la not many miles betwixt the great cities in that section , Dublin. London. iJterpool an' Parts az well as other town ov lest Im portance. There bft bin talk ov es tblthtn' a line or Mem terries be tween tho.e ciU Hit ortvr b donr. an' would b l( lndon an' Paris wur In America. The English n' French air grate peopl, but they lr not Americans. They threaten ter do a grate many things, but they never do them. 1 felt sorter ticklish when 1 landed n Paris an loiitsU i)-ari) every body talkln the French language. In my time I Lev met up with purty nigh awl sorts ov folks an' the Jab berin' ov a few fellers that I couldn't understand didn't worry iu much. found hit different, though, whar probably niuety-ulue out ov a hun dred air talkln' Route talk. But 1 finally got located in a boardln' bouc on a street that 1 don't know tb name ov au' I Lev bin eatlu' grub that I don't know the uame ov. Bob is in erbout the aarue fix. 1 reckon, fer be is stoppln' at a livery slablw on a street that tops tuy cottou so far ax the name goes. But I am enjoylnn' myself. I find hat the French people air very polite an clever in metr way. siany ov them kin talk English an' onderstan' English, if they try. France Ix rite close ter England an' they lz a gudo deal ov passln' back an' forth since the two countries got ter the point whar they hev quit fltin' an' talkln erbout flitin. The French air a gay, careless sort ov people. But they air smart an brave. I don't see why they don't awl lam ter talk English, fer they air sich close nabors. France and Germany air purty close nabors. too. an', ov course, the Germans talk the German language. This language business hez awlways bin a mystery ter me. Thar lz England, France. Germany an' other couutrlen awl in a bunch, an' they awl talk different. ook different, an' hev different re- iglona an' customs. Still they air awl ov the same- race. I kin stand an' listen ter a' Englishman when he talks, but when a Frenchman or a German, Spaniard or Italian begins ter pump hot air at me 1 look the other way, an' the old war spirit rises in my bones. But I can't hold spite at them ter save my life. 1 hev hearn that the buildin' ov the Tower of Babel or sum thin' ov that sort caused a confusion ov languages an' the world can't git strate on that subject even to this day. The Chi nese, Japanese an' the Russians each hev a monopoly in language on one side ov ihe earth an they iz a gude many monopolies in that line on the other 6ide. Trust busters will pleas take notls. France Is not much ov a territory- grabber. That country once had a valuable claim in the United Stales which extended from the Mississippi river west, includln' most ov the Southwestern portion ov what Iz now the United States. Hit hez since bin termed the Louisiana Purchase. We fooled them out ov hit many years ergo, iney awiso naa some claims in Canada at one time. Eng- - land got that. The French air very iodustrious when thinngs git in a tangle. They hev paid some enor mous war claims in a very short time. France is a grate agricultural coun try, an one ov the most profitable products iz wine. Most ov them air anti-prohlbitlonist. They manufact ure a gude deal. Includln flue dress goods an' high-priced hats. Paris starts awl ov the spring an fall styles in dresses, bats, ribbons, switches, false hair, an' other femal extravagance, iocludin' high-heeled shoes, an' bustles, when sich varmints air in style. Most t the very rich American girls who start out az can didates fer the divorce courts usual ly go ter Paris fer their weddin gowns an' they pay ennuff fer them ter make them believe that they air more or less dressed up when the weddln' lz pulled off. An' they air.' The French air great when bit comes (Continued on Page 3.)
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