The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 1, 1908, Page 3

NFS, BAYAN AT HOME WIFE OF DEMOCRATIC CANDI- DATE FOR PRESIDENT. as Been of Great Heip to Famous Nebraskan—Has Studied Law and Been Admitted to Bar— Her Home Life. \ Lincoln, Neb.—Mrs. Bryan, the wife of William Jennings Bryan, Demo- cratic candidate for president of the United States, shares every confidence, and fs on all occasions a most reliable helpmeet by her husband's side. twain are one.” Mrs. Bryan is not only a home gpaker, but a home-keeper, and man- N@ee the daily routine at Fairview Wrh utmost system. Whatever inter- F@ptions are crowded into the day, the household machinery remains un- obanged and Mrs. Bryan always main- tains a calm exterior It always has been Mrs. Bryan's fer- Vent ambition to keep abreast with h usband’s intellectual progress. This @ has accomplished, and in doing so gives example by precept, for she has @tudied side by side with Mr. ig every phase of life’s The home life of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan truth- | fully demonstrates the old adage, “The | | PRIMITIVE IRRIGATION METHODS. Companies Organized Will System in Ctd Mexico. Improve St. Louis—The new irrigation law which was recently passed by the Mex- icay congress already has led to the inauguration of a number of irrigation projects in different parts country. The fact that the law carries an appropriation of $25,000,000 to be paid in subsidies to those who place land under trrigation, serves as an in- centive for the establishment of im- provements of this character. One of the largest of these irrigation enterprises under the n financed by a syndicate of St. Louis men, headed by David R. Francis. His son, David R. Francis, Jr., is Bryan | problem in| Which he has at any time been inter- | ested. When Mr. law as his profession, then it was that je took one step in advance of Mrs. a but it was not to be for long, t when Mrs jhe immediately began a of jaw studies, and after graduating was Admitted to practice in all courts of > state. When asked why she udied such a dry, musty subject as “law,” she modestly declared it was fust because she did not want Mr Bryan to become c ant with a Subject of whic iznorant @he sald the course was really and any woman who has the could do as she has done. » Mrs busy well course was easy time Bryan leads a very life having ever systemat.zed active and but ything ma Mrs. William J. Bryan ahead o number of years had charge of Mr. Bryan's personal correspor and has been dential Bryan's official helped in previous ns, is sident at Fairview, but this does not relieve Mrs. Bryan fron Mr. Bryan's She takes 1 mail imme which, by the way mea! for Mrs. Bryan about the house p' of work and outlining the day at five o'clock in the morning Mr. Bryan dictates his letters to Mrs. Bryan and a rule his editorials. Mrs. Bryan did not attempt te learn any de- fined em of shorthand wi Undertaking this work, but immediate. ly arranged a contracted system of her own, which she has found to be quate in ever) About five years ago she be: typewriter and now operator sh direct on Mr. Bryan all that received a for Mrs. Bryan herself daily receives more letters th any oth ma the 1 of who con- the She has for a once calls | Just enographer he con Mr se now wh campai looking after private ) the « correspondence nsideration after ately breakfast, is 2 very early way ne ‘ome suct frequently takes dictation = machine mail does comprise is view in wife Preside: has an) clude proper church means, to it is} i to} church influe possess2s ‘ which is is alway t hea Ways 5¢ I “man fag hi which friend Her avers. a smile Bryan came to Lincoln | cently sign | zatlan | the | of } in | operated as she is usually | rapid j seem a 3ryan decided upon | Primitive Method of Irrigation in Olid Mexico. actively interested in the project, and has been spending much of his time in Mexico of late. The concession for this enterpr provides for the use of the wa of Lake Chapala for ir- rigating about 500,000 acres of land adjacent to the The government | will pay a subsidy of $25 per hectare of 2% acres on all land placed under irrigation It is stated that a system of canals and ditches will be built te cover every part of the tracts of land that are to be irrigated and that great electric pumping plants will be in- stalled to raise the water out of the lake. The cost of the construction of | the system of irrigation will be al most offset by the subsidy A numbér of applications for conees- sions large irrigation plants under the new subsidy law are pending in the department of fomento of the fede ernment Minister Olegario Molina of that department re- ct with Joaquin ness man of Ma- establishment of a in the valley of ver in the state of binds himself to under irrigation ten years from the date of the to establish Redo, a wealthy for the Ss. m of irrig San Lorer Sinaloa hods of irrigation are parts of Mexico. Some plants have been nously for more The water is raised some water wheels peons The buckets on these Hl, but a considerable is lifted in the ope and sev- be irrigated from one these irris thar a fc the by native of the quantity of water course of a ion water wheel ern pumping rapidly | it is not unt | gine work | antiquated s has increased very during ual to see a gasoline en- at er wheels WISCONSIN MAN IS CHOSEN. Lorenzo D. Harvey New Head of Na- | tional Education Association. of the | Wis.—Lorenzo Dow Har- been elected president Menominie yey, who has nning various lines | duties for | first | ade- | he Nati beer | of | has | nomonie | training been a teacher or superintendent schools since 1878, the year following his graduation from Milton college, his work having been at Sheboygan, Oshkosh, Milwaukee and Menomonie. Mr. Harvey was born in New Hamp shire in 1848 and has lived in Wis- jonsin 58 years. All his life, except- ing five years, when he was engaged in the practice of law and in manufac- turing, has been devoted to education- al work. He has been president of the Wisconsin Teachers’ association and of the library department of the Nationa! Educational association and at the head of the superintendence de- partment of the National Educational association. He succeeds Edwin G Cooley of Chicago as president of the assoetation. ase teal of and Stout He has of school schools since 1903 of that | w law is being | The demand for mod- | > last few years, and | alongside of one of the | . = | nal Education association, the Me-| IDEAL HOUSEKEEPER. Washington Home of Republican Can- didate for Vice-Presidency and Wife Is the Center of an In- tellectual Coterie. Washington —Years ago Carrie | Babcock Was one of the belles of Utica. To-day she is the wife of the Republican nominee for vice-president, Congressman James Schoolcraft Sher- man. In Washington she is known as possessor of a keen intellect, familiar with all matters of current legislation. Her home, as long as she maintained one here, was the center of a little coterie of brilliant men and women. In Utica the Shermans have an at- tractive home in Genesee avenue. The house stands in several acres of ground and Mrs. Sherman has surrounded it with flowers. She has her greenhouses, which protect and each time that it has been neces. sary to leave Utica she has made it a point never to do so until the last ; Among her intimate friends Mrs. | Sherman has the reputation of being | an ideal housekeeper. She puts up her own details of her marketing. which is now her home. daughter of nent lawyer. at Balliol school. Col. Eliakim Sherrill of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New York Volunteers, to whom a monument was erected at Gettysburg some years ago, was Mrs. Sherman’s maternal grand father. Col. Sherrill was shot and killed at Gettysburg. Mre. Sherman's maternal grandmother was Emily Bt dredge, said to have been a direct de scendant of Pocahontas. If Taft and Sherman win next No- vember the Shermans will return to PS Hliy? TIRES. SAMESS CS, -&~> SHERMAN j winter. With them will come Mrs. Sherman's mother, Mrs. Babcock, who makes her home with Representative Sherman, and the two sisters of Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. J. C. De Long and Mrs, L. B. Moore, may spend the here. The family of Representative and | | of whom is married and has a charm- | ing little daughter, Hllen. This ttle | mata is the bright particular star of grandpa attractive | ticket is elected next fall, will spend a great deal of time in Washington. The Shermans have been married about 28 years and they have an happy he Among the We Mrs. Sherman pular. She has a = personality, an affable man- spirit of hospi- invitations are never de- ts ideally larly p and a delightful Her clined Last winte Shermar entertaine Representative and Mrs. i at the New Willard and in the most informal er parties were limited vests because of the ill Mr. and Mrs. Sherman. hemia Thomas A th et, res at E Philadelphia recent shad said better, drove easant pla ly job is vy showe waiter ‘t don't know nts Well sajd he, the names of most of these when I give ‘em tick, I ha note of some peculiarity of their get- sir so, MRS. J. SHERMAN 1S BRILLIANT WOMAN AND AN | land, about 1666, at the time of the res- | | the United States a brilliant conversationalist and as the | the flowers in winter, | flower has been taken in and cared for. , preserves and superintends the | Mrs. Sherman was born in the town | She was the | L. H. Babcock, a proml- | She attended the Utica | seminary and later became a student | | there, and ! twice the amount that had been paid | | 18 inches in diameter, were produced : that time works of great merit. | Clay, or slip, through a quill attached | | decorative subjects for his dishes. | each piece was decorated by hand we | | piece ; light | illustrations in Washington and take a house for the | Pennsylvania season | Mrs. Sherman includes three sons, one | the Sherman home and the idol of her | | Mrs. Sherman has an | niece who, if the Republican | Obaldia is one of the largest stock | tive in polities. ve to take | COSTLY PIECE OF EARTHWARE. Pennsylvania Museum Acquired Toft Dish Made About 1666. Philadelphia—One of the most im- portant of the recent accessions to the Pennsylvania museum, in Memozvial hall, is a large earthenware dish, known as a Toft dish, which was made by Thomas Toft of Staffordshire, Eng- toration of Charles IJ. Toft ware. as it is generally called, is exceedingly Searce, and this is the first example that is known to have been brought to The museum owes its acquisition to the generosity of William P. Henszey of the Baldwin Locomotive works. The director, Dr. Barber, who is the recog- nized American authority on pottery, has been for a long time on the lookout Toft Dish Given to Museum. Pennsylvania | through his agents abroad, for an au- thentic specimen of this early English manufacture. Some time ago he heard of a piece in possession of a London dealer, but the price demanded, $700, , was beyond the limited resources of the museum, although it was consid- ered a reasonable price for so great a rarity The matter was laid before Mr. Henszey, who at once offered to} provide the necessary sum, and the} purchase was authorized j When the director received the pre-| cious piece of earthenware from the | custom house in New York he took it up to the Metropolitan museum and exhibited it to the envious officials he received an for it. Toft dishes, which are usually about in England before porcelain was in- vented, and they were considered at The decoration is made by pouring liquid to a little cup, the designs being traced in the same manner as patterns in} sugar icing are applied to cakes. The | Toft dish which has been procured by the museum bears five medallions, | each one containing a rude portrait of | | Charles II, and in the central medal- | | lion are the | Carolus—King Charles. initials R. C., for Rex} Toft used the of the period as} As royalty and nobility consequently the | exhibition in Philadel- and is one of the finest thus far come to} find no duplications; now on is unique which phia pieces have Students of pottery are familiar} with the appearance of Toft ware from | books on ceramics, but | this is the first opportunity presented | to them to inspect a genuine piece. It | has a particular interest in connection | with the slip-decorated ware of the Pennsylvania Germans, of which the} museum has a unique collection. NEW PRESIDENT OF PANAMA.} Senor Domingo Obaidia Elected to | Succeed Amador. Don Jose Do- who has been Washington.—Senor mingo de Obaldia, blamed for the | ter except the poor, | {and argued the « jyou see, | would throw h ‘then transferred {of these offer of |* {lor | he had nothin jand having some | how suddenly became m i a OLD FORT CRAWFORD SCENE OF THE FIRST LOVE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. Ancient Spot Is Located on Banks of Mississippi River in Wisconsin— Romantic Courtship with Daughter of Col. Taylor. McGregor, la—Old Fort Crawford, scene of many a tale of manliness and | chivalry, of love and war, where Jef- ferson Davis had his early romance, is a picturesque spot. The fort is on the banks of the Mississippi river and is now a part of the ancient town of Prairie du Chien, the oldest city Wisconsin, founded by French Jesuits, who came down from Casada to Green Bay, down the Wisconsin into the Mis- sissippi in 1669 The fort is a site of prominence on @ knoll overlooking the mouth of the Wisconsin and a large stretch of the greater river into which it flows. Jefferson Davis began his military career here directly after graduation at West Point and receiving the usual | brevet of second lieutenant. He was at St. Louis for a little time and was Zachary Taylor in command in | CHINESE PIGEON WHISTLES. Queer Contrivances by Which Aerial Concerts Are Produced. Among the curious objects included in the Chinese collection recently ob- tained for the American Museum of Natural History by Dr. Berthold Lau- fer are samples of the whistles by means of which music-loving Chine‘e ebtain pleasing melodies from flocks of pigeons whose tails are adorned with the contrivances. The Chinese lover of birds does not always confine his pets to cages. When he goes for a walk he may take a bird with him, carrying it on a stick, to which one of its feet is fastened by a | thread long enough to allow it free dom of motion. Where the shade of a Here he found Col. | | Here Jefferson Davis met the three | daughters and the son of his comman¢- | ing officer; and here the young soldier fell Taylor. Picnics planned to handsome | in love with Sarah | Picture | rock and what is now known as Mc- | Gregor heights, together with romantic rambles and sails unknown to the good colonel and his wife, brought about the natural order of experience. Gentle Sarah Taylor and Lieut. Jefferson Da- vis loved each other The Donsmans and Capt. McRee and his family were happy over the love likeable young folk. of course, it being true love, it could not be expected to run smooth. Col. Tay- being approached by fellow offered manly That ng char acter of the mar 3ut the ol his mind tha should ever marr said that I kindliest feeling f knew so much of tresses of a so that he wa But the favor was not as mild Taking the matte made up laughters He the the but he the als and dis and family hole thing r of the fort be. he nothing but decision of character of | er, life iserable to the never tell Too bad irsed and old man. How But everything we that the could wrong soldiers state Everybody kne tted colonel. Finally the gir 1 There was not a spot on t! 1e man she loved “That makes it girl I don’t ascal I and be said any done with him shall stand. Y soldier.” The poor gi itor t “nothing | doing” at the ne | ment | In SLVOR DOIWINGO OBALDIA elected president of the Republic of Panama to succeed President Amador, was until lately minister from Panama to the United States, having been ap- pointed at the creation of the republic in 1903. He is a native of Panama, 68 years old and was in Bogota and in the United States until his. twenty-fourth year, when he returned to Panama and became connected with the large bust-| ness interests of his father Senor | sers in Central America and ex- rts horses, cattle and mules. He | as governor of Penama when it be/ longed to Colombia and is a conserva- Senor Obaldia defeated President; \mador’s candidate for president, Seo tary Arias. Obaldia was Amador’s noice until, when acting as president! . the absence of Amador, he insth | tuted policies which estranged his chtef. | they | the interesting affair are the he One pelled lian to row ther vn to Turkey er on the Io t there were is that that the here, and had Many is marr Another they went to colonel heard of them them brought back The young man the matter is likely to k nd and interested in best about his e are rds A boat about leaving the Dousman wharf for St. Louis was cho: and when Miss Taylor oard, accomy 2, and we took pa resigned my wo by us was ready she = to St. Louis nission in the army and Mi and I were mar- ried at the f the eldest sister of Gen. Zacha Teylor Kentucky, in the presence eneral’s two sis ter’s, but w knowledge or consent.” The estrangement ened during lifetime nm Davis 1 5 and was d ir burying ground In the spring was not straight of Mrs. Jef fr ia ir the a Sara, La f 1845 Mr. Davis met Gen. Zachary Taylor accident in travel. He was somewhat nervous as to what his reception would be like The prospective president received him cordially, hcwever, and expressed his warm appreciation of him as a man and a soldier | oo Peale socqueteme is 8 183: 1ear B by s the mat- | er father | nied by Mrs. Mc- | Davis | | ber | j | | | | | Chinese Pigeon with Musical Whistles. } tree invites him to rest he permits | the bird to perch on a twig, watching it hour after | Another expression of the pleasure Chinese find in pete is the ap- plication of whistles to a whole flock of pigeons. These whistles are at- | tached to the tails of young pigeons | soon after their birth by means of fine | copper wire and when the birds fly the wind blowing through the whistles | produces a melodious open-air coneert, | for the instruments in one flock are | all tuned differently. In Pekin, where | these instruments are manufactured | with great cleverness and ingenuity, it | is even possible to enjoy this aerial | music while sitting {n one’s room. } In spite of the seemingly large va- | riety of whistles there are but two dis- | tinct types—those consisting of oblong | bamboo tubes placed side by side, and } those consisting of tubes attached to or wind chest. They &re lacquered in yellow, brown, red | ana black. The tube whistles have | two or three or else five tubes. In | some specimens the five tubes are | made of horn instead of bamboo } As to the materials and implements | used in the manufacture of pigeon | whistles, there are small gourds that | serve for the bodies; halves of large gourds of a particular species im- ported from Shantung to Pekin for this special industry, from which stop- | pers are made that fit into them, and j four kinds of bamboo, cylindrical ; pieces of a large species that grows | in the south, for making the mouth- | pieces of the large tubes; thin sticks for making those of the small ones, hard bamboo for the large tubes them- Ives, and a soft kind for smaller ones. hour. curious a gourd body The separate pieces are fastened to gether by means of fish glue. A razor- | like knife used for splitting the bamboo sticks and a chisel to break the harder pieces. For the general | work a dozen spatulas are required, and awls used for drilling the small mouthpieces Some of the whistles, especially the smaller ones, require much skill in | their making. One workman is said@ to be able to turn out about three specimens a day, which shows the dif- | fieulty of the work is are | NEw STAR FOR AMERICAN FLAG. | Since July 4 Embiem Contains Forty- { Six in the Field. made here- government | Washington.— | after for the us flags of the elope: | an} American Flag Up-to-Date. will contain 46 stars in the field or union to conform in number to the states. The additional star follows the admission of Oklahoma to the family of states, an act of congress in the | early part of the nineteenth century requiring that on the admission of a new state one star is to be added to the flag, to take effect on the July 4 next succeeding such admission. Oklahoma came into the union Novem- 16 last The 46 stars are to be in six rows; the first, third, fourth and sixth rows to have eight stars, and the second and fifth rows seven stars each. The stars rest on a blue field. A great many American flags now flying from public buildings will have to be al- tered to meet the new conditions.