Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 8, 1913, Page 11

~ LETTERS FHOI TWO STATES Washmgton County, R. L HOPKINTON School Teacher—Town Council Draws Ju- rors—Probate Business. The monthly meeting of the school committee was held Monday morning at the home of the clerk; Miss Clara A. Olney, at Scope Valley. The superin- tendent of schools, Henry J. Wheeler, ‘was authorized to make changes in the seating capacity at Scope Valley so as to bring the ninth grade under the en- tire supervision of the assistant princ- ipal and to purchase necessary desks. The resignation of Miss Cora L. Ken- yon was accepted and Miss Gavitt of Westerly, was appointed to fll the va- | cancy. Bills were ordered pald to the amount of $22.50. Town Council. The town council met in the after- noon Monday and ordered payment of bills to the amount of $241.15. Seven grand jurors and seventeen petit ju- rors were drawn by order of the court Citation was issued to Frank W. Cran- dall and Byron L. Kenyon to Serve as grand jurors February 17th and to ‘Wayland W. Boss, Gardner G. Burton and Frank C. Burdick to serve as petit jurors February 19th in the su- perior court at Kingston. Probate Court. The first and final account of Mary R. Tillinghast, administratix on the es- tate of John Reynolds, was received and referred to March 3d with order of notice: _ Arthur K. Collins was appointed ad- ninistrator on the estate of his father, the late John F. Collins and John W. Burdick, George A. Wallen and Elmer J. Lamphear were appointed apprais- ers. In General. Frank W. Mills has resumed his work at Bradford. The coftage prayer mesting, led by Rev. E. P. Mathewson, Wednesday eve- ning, was at the home of Mrs. Susan Emily Collins on Main street, Asha- way. At the same hour meetings of 2 similar nature were held at the homes of William H. Burdick, Jr. on West street, and Mrs. John Thomas, on Laurel street. 3 The Sunshine society held an enjoy- able entertainment at the home of George H. Lawton on Oak street, Asha- ‘way, Wednesday evening. The Ladies’ Benevolent les H. Langworthy Board Appoinh wmfly and unable to be about house. | 1 ,.x.* ':mmjs_' gld\: a !muw in the plfllh ouse, Tues ev K e his, conasted: for is USQUEPAUGH Thirty Friends of Dr. Kenyon Make Him a Social Call. Mrs. Mary McConnor entertained her sister and husband of Providence over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Berry Bray of Laf- ayette visited at T. S Loche’s Sunday. Mrs. J. S. Lamond and Miss Lamond vlsltad Providence Saturday. rroll Wileox visited his cousin here over the week-end. F. K. Crandall and family ofs Ar-! cadia visited Saturday and Sunday at Dr. Kenyo! Annie E. Kenyon who teaches at Poin Judith was at her home over the week-end. Richard Rafferty has gonme to visit his sister for several days. The grange met in the church here Thursday evening. Miss Clara Webster is ill. Mr. and_Mrs. Fred C. Webster at- tended a ball at Wakefield Saturday evening. Thirty friends of Dr Kenyon called on him Saturday evéning. A thorough good time was enjoyed.. During the evening an oyster supper was served with cake, coffee, etc. RICHMOND Jurors Summoned for Superior Court— Death of Perry G. Underwood. The following have been notified to attend the superior court at West Kingston as grand jurors—Willlam H. Howard, James A. Brown and Charles E. Brooks. The death of Perry G. Underwood occurred Tuesday afternoon at his home in Kenyon after an illness of several weeks. Fred J. Eaton made a business trip to_East_Greenwich Monday. Mrs. Mary H. James who has been the guest of friends in Providence for several days hes returned home. Miss Alice M. Ayres spent Sunday with her sister Mrs. Herbert Gledhill at Mystic. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dawley of West Kingston were calling on friends in society of | town Sunday. By Mrs. Gen. Pickett O Y RIS R 7.—~JEFFERSON DA VIS. N my way from Boston I stopped over In New York once whem the ex-President of our Confederacy and Mrs, Davis were there on business commected with his book, and T went to ses them, “Mr, Davis,” I eald, "Had T come from ths flouth I whould be ladem With loving messages from your people. But even in abolition Boston Fou are field in high esteem @s one sincere, honest and sarnest.” “Yes,” he said, “though we disagreed on many issues, I beiteve I held the re- Spect of my tellow Senators from Massachusetts.” “But you were not a secessionist in the beginning, Mr. Dayis, were you?” *No, meither in the beginning nor in the ending,’” he smiled. “But 1o me the sovereignty of the State was paramount to the sovereignty of the Unlon. And I beld my seat in the Senate until Mississippl seceded and called upon me to fol- fow and defend her. Then I sorrowfully resigned the position in which my State had piaced me and in which I could no longer represent her, and accepted the Bew work to which she called me. “I was on my way to Montgomery when T recelved, much to my regret, the message that T had been elected provisional President of the Confederate States of America. I Tegretted it then and have resretted it ever since. ;For I was & soldier at heart, and, ¢though I was Secretary of 'War under President Plerce and left that office for @ seat in the Senate, I was nat a politiclan and had no desire for civic office. It was my hope and ambition to commrand the Confederate Army and lead it in defonse of the Tight of my home, my peopls, my beloved Bouth. “But Mrs. Davis saw in it the hend of God, especially as she did not like Howell Cobb of Georgia, who wanted the Presidency of the Confederacy. But he e South by supporting Clay’s compromise measure of 1850.” Knowing the gentle nature of Mr. Davis and his great dosire in the beginning to prevent the war, there came to my thoaght a subject which had been much @iscussed by the Southern people. And I sald: “There was a consuitation of the officers of Pickett’s Division in our tent on the Bermuda Hundred lines just after the conference at Fortress Monroe —— “And they, @erhaps, considered me to blame for the failure to secure peace,” be interrupted sadly, the tone that sorrow had brought to him lingering like a minor strain in the music of his voice. “They censured me for not accepting an offer to overthrow the Southern Government, not realizing my helplessness. 1t was said that Mr. Lincoln submitted to his Cabinet a message which he had pre- pared for Congress and which provided for the payment to the South of four hun- dred millions of dollars for her slaves to end the war, but the Cabinet disapproved and that was the end of it “But had they approved and the offer been made it could have avalled noth- ing so far es my action was concerned. Under the Constitution of the Confed- eracy I had no power to treat with the United States Government in any way except the one etated to my Commissioners. We were fighting for the sovereignty of the States, not for a centralized power vested in one man or one littie group of men. However I may have Jonged for peace and for the comfort of my people, I had no more power to act in accordance with that desire without authority from the States than had the humblest saldier in our army.” The worn, feeble old man, broken by the welght of the sorrows which fiad fallen upon him, brought to me in his sad face and pathetic Woice the memory of the suffering he had borne for the whole nation’s errors. “Mr. Davis,” I asked, “is this story true? That when you wers being taken to prison one of your soldlers, at the risic of his life, was running along by the side of your carTiage to serve and do you honor as long a time as he could, and one of the Federal guard calied out tauntingly, “Well, Reb, you sce we've got vour President at last’ ‘Yes,’' replled the Tagged, heart-broken, outraged Con- federate, ‘and the devil’s got yours!’ and that you feaned out of the carrfage and 6aid reprovingly, ‘’Sh, my man, ‘sh! If his President had lived yours would not mow be where he fa’” OMr. Davis looked steadily before him with 2 far away, reminiscent expression (n his eyes as if recalling a scene from another life, 'And, lifting his beautiful hands in that grecefu], gracious way in mwhich I heve seen them ralsed before a company of his own suffering soldiers in war times, he replied: “These were Dot precisely my words, @y friend. As well as T can remember | now T eaid, Peace, my €ood man, peace."If his Presldent were alive your Proi- { dent wouid not be where he is to-day, nor would his beloved Southlaand be I the condition in which it will now surely be without the guidance 5i _that fearloss,’ &umane, gentle hand.’ " beautiful hills covered with orchards, A New Seaport For Mexico palms and little groups of houses af- Acapulco, the deepest and safest har- on the west coast of Mexico, is about to be transformed suddenly from srowing trade centre. The nearest of through the channe! to the west of the big island, which stands far out in front of the city, leaving anchorage room be- fording masses of color. Shipsecome in | il the harbors to the capital of Mex- ico and all the rich manufacturing and &—:ducmg centres of southern Mexico, left without railway connection,it 15 8000 to have @ direct Iine 16 the cape ital and to Vera Cruz, both ports equal- 1y distant from Chapultepec. The pro. gress first started, which includes the building of ship docks instead of thp old_large landing, and perhaps ninety to & hundred miles of subsidized rail ting $10,000 gold a mile from' ernment—and tough building the at 1] be followed by rapld and Fecided growth, The port itself offersa ddlshmu sur hind it for a vast fleet. Close to the city itself, a metropolis of 5000, scattered over the hills, are On January llthla-leddn It should be put into effect, acco Reconstruction of cross-o restored and maingained with the grestest plgct The New York, New Haven & Hartford Ma the United States. It has been, gration, angd no passenger loss has been met with by reason of this reconstruction. g to present plans, about February 2d. ®. ity consistent with safety. Line should be maintained as the s: mddgmeofthepubhcmdnmpmmofpmaibmduflng!hem lh'uchmpenodthl'oughwhldltheflewYork, New Haven & Hartford Railroad is now passing. In compliance with the order of the Public Utilities Commission of Connecticut, all trains m that State now eome!onfullstopbefmswxlcbumthrownnt anything less than No. 20 cross-overs. Tommhm&eeficwnqofwmrmmmwnmmm,mmdngnnk have been ordered and in explanation of this matter I said:— It is believed that a new time schedule pending this reconstruction period will insure greater ldc will follow, and in a few months the old time schedule .hould be t railroad In largely nbullt and its electrification inaugurated during my adminis- I desire now that this newest reconstruction shall be had without accident, and therefore ask the Indulgence of the pubfic and the press, and partioularly the press, because sattacks upon a ri in. the persennel management during a reconstruction period have possibilities of demoralization working forces that directly Increase the hazard of railroad travel. Iroad and Later Mr. A. R.. Whaley, Manager of the Gnnd Central Terminal, and formerly Superintendent of our New York Dwmon, was engaged to return to our service as Operating Vice-President. * Mr. Whaley assumed his new duties February 1st and has asked for further time in whu:h to carefully study the necessity for any general lengthening of time schedu'ss. ' : 5 : A R Whatey, Mr. C. S. Mellen, President, Dear Sir: respectfully ask for more time to consider thi demand very careful_study. lengthening of schedules during oross-over reconstructions. It appeals to m: matter. I believe the public would prefer slight delays in preference to any If weather conditions continue favorable, | Mr. Whaley writes as follows:— Boston, February 4, 1918, Referring to our recent conversations concerning proposed time table ohanges, | would s of sufficient Importance to definite believe that by making slight readjustments in Division and Suburban service, we oan ocontinue to Im- prove in our operation and postpone the Installation of a general change until the ressen for it is more apparent to me than it Is at present. I have made very careful study of the ihstallation of the news oross-overs and am prepared to ask the Engineering Department to concentrate their efforts at the mest impertant placss where we must detour our tralns. % Respeotfully yours, Vico-Presifent. isting time schedules. I desire also at this time to flmnk the Public and the Press for the full courtesy which has been extended to me in compliance with my request of January 11th, and to e in his efforts to so adjust operatin; suffer less inconvenience from d conditions d ’ In view of the above, and the responsibilities placed upon Mr. Whaley, I lnve acceded to his request for a postponement of the inauguration of the new time tables which had been prepared to meet tempo: conditions, I therefore ask the continued mdulgence of the Press and the Public for temporary irregularities in f:.lalmgown :fl:reu the hope that Mr. Whaley will be successful the installation of these new cross-overs that the Public will yed-trains than it would from the installation of a new general time-tahle, : CHARLES S. MELLEN, Boston, February 5, 1913. ships in the harber. There is a cantina, with a Jolly crowd of loafers always-on the gallery. The building, itself brown, plastered with red tiles and a total ab- sence of glass for the windows; a big yellow bufiaing _ withi robfen-in bins around it, labeled “Welsh coal depot,” the general coaling station on the coast Bailf a dozen little warehouses of one story, an iron pler for passengers,anoth- o for the barges which bring freight in from the Naviera del Pacifico and the Pneme Coast Steamship Company, the steamers that x'eally touch here. Biggest of all is the pler which marks the building of the new railway to Bal- sas, where it will conneat for Mexico, the beginning of the new era for this anclent port. The outer harbor, a great basin, is subject only to southerly gales, and not dangerous even in the worst of them to the ships passing into the anchorage. No other harbor on the Pacific equals this depth but Sydney, Afistralla. The harbor at Sibuantanejo, a little wayv up the coast, to be developed by the same railway, approaches it. The inner habor eould hold at one time all the coastwise fleet north of Panama.—Kansas City Star. MOTHER! WATCH THE GHILDREN’S BOWELS. If Cross, Sick, Feverish, Tongue is Coated Give “Syrup of Figs.” No inatter what ails your child, a gentle, thorough laxative physic should always be the first treatment given. ed waste matter and noed a gentle, thorough cleansing at once. When cross, irritable, feverish ,stom- ach sour, breath bad or your little one has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, sore throat, full of cold, tongue coated; give a teaspoonful of Syrup of Figs and in a few hours all the clogged up waste, undigested food and sour bile ‘will gently move on and out of its lit- tle bowels without nausea, griping or weakness, and you will surely have a well, happy and smiling child again ah y. ‘With Syrup of Figs you are mot drugging your children, being compos- ed entirely of luscious figs, senna and aromatios it cannot be harmful, be- sides they dearly love its delicious fig taste. 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