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VOLUME 24^ BROOKHAVEN, MISSISSIPPI, MARCH ai, 1906. NUMBER 97.
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EIGHTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY.
CELEBRATION OF WOMAN SUF
FRAGISTS IN HONOR OF
MISS ANTHONY.
Protest Against Laws Which Allow
Mothers Small Protection Over
Children - Plea for Exercises of
Corrective Ballot.
It is a rare occurrence when noted
men of the country gather together to
do honor to a woman who has worked
and striven for a cause to which many
of them are antagonistic. Yet this was
the case a week or two ago when
statesmen, political leaders, jurists,
and literary lights joined in paying
homage to Miss Susan B. Anthony,
the great woman suffragist, on the
occasion of her eighty-sixth birth
day.
This meeting was held in Washing
ton, D. C., in February, Miss Anthony,
of course, being present to listen to the
addresses and words of felicity. She
had just come from a convention of
woman suffragists in Baltimore.
Among the letters of congratulation
read was one from President Roose
velt which said:
“Let me join in congratulating Miss
Susan B. Anthony on the occasion of
her eighty-sixth birthday and extend
mv best wishes to her UDon her con
tinued good health.”
In reply to the numerous congratu
lations, Miss Anthony, owing to a se
vere cold, confined her remarks to
these few words:
‘‘I wish the men would do something
besides extend congratulations. I
have asked President Roosevelt to
push the matter of a constitutional
amendment allowing suffrage to
women by a recommendation to Con
gress. I would rather haver him say a
word to Congress for the cause than
to praise me endlessly.”
The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, a
0 prominent woman leader, presided
over the meeting, introducing the
speakers, and incidentally poking
much fun at the members of the stern
er sex. She said that any man who
accepts a post of especial learning im
mediately dons a gown. It was true
of college professors, of graduates,
and of men who sat upon the Supreme
Bench. She stated that the gown is
a symbol of wisdom.
Over One Hundred Woman Leaders.
In connection with this celebration
of Miss Anthony’s birthday, one hun
dred and fifty advocates of woman
suffrage swooped down on the Mem
bers of Congress and hurled at the
, Statesmen all sorts of feminine oratory
on the subject. In appealing to the
; solons of the Capitol, the argument
was made by the women that God did
not intend the female to be subserv
ient to man, and that she should be
given justice through the ballot.
The principal address was made by
Miss Mary Thomas, off Baltimore,
who protested against the laws dis
'l criminating against women.
"We have no right to the children
we have cradled in our loving arms
beyond the age of seven years,” she
■ said, “and now our boys of eighteen
• need not ask our permission to join
the army and navy if their fathers are
willing. The girls of Maryland, who
cannot contract legal marriages under
sixteen years of age, may then con
sent to their own degradation and
their destroyer go free. Think of this
terrible injustiqe to ignorance and
L innocence and grant us the power to
I protect the child who cannot protect
himself.
“The saloon keeper, the cigarette
^vender, and the gambler may ply their
\ nefarious trades next door to our very
m homes and we are powerless to save
the boys of the land from their influ
ence. We ask of Congress the right
to express “tour opinion at the ballot
l ox, because it will be the surest and
rrfest way to accomplish what we
! desire.” _
Miss Anthony’s Remarkable Bat
tle Against Ridiettle and
Calumny.
Susan Brownell Anthony was born
86 years ago in the Hicksite Quaker
f settlement at South'Adams, Mass., and
was as quiet and gentle and obedient a
little Quaker maiden as any of her
playmates in that tranquil spot Her
life was uneventful until she took up
teaching and went out into the world.
She was 26 years old when she made
her first fight for the right of suffrage.
I It was for the right to vote at a tern
peraiice meeting which was aommaiea
toy young men. The Sons of Temper
ance were holding a convention at
Albany, N. Y. and the Daughters of
Temperance were invited to meet with
i them. Susan "was one of the Daugh
ters who accepted the invitation. Ear
i jy in the proceedings the young women
[discovered that their position in the
convention was purely an honorary
one. The men did not propose tnat
they should have any voice in the pro
ceedings. It was against scripture
and against her natural sphere that
woman should raise her voice in the
councils of men, were the arguments
of the men in answering the protests
of the women and in refusing their
petition to be allowed to vote.
Suddenly a tall, slender Quaker girl
arose from her seat and, followed toy
six others, marched out of the convent
ion hall. The leader was Susan B
Anthony. It was her first rebellion
against that order of things which
gave men a monopoly of power. She
immediately set about organizing the
Women’s New York State Temperance
Society. That was the real beginning
of what has been her life’s work M
, which the central theme baa ever been
equal suffrage for the sexes.
Great Courage to Withstand Rebuffs
It required great courage to under
take- this work at the time and in the
manner she did. But she possessed
that requisite and exercised it on
many occasions. She never faltered,
never lost heart, though she was con
stantly subjected to ridicule, calumny
and opposition. Few women were
brave enough to follow her in those
days. In 1852 she addressed a large
convention of men teachers. A clergy
man who was present complimented
her afterwards.
“You spoke ably and well,” he said,
“but I had rather see my mother
and sister dead in their graves than
to hear them speaking from a public'
platform.”
Unceasingly she preached the doc
trine of woman’s suffrage and equal
rights. Few, even among women them
TRIUMPH FOR ROOT
GERMANYS NEW TARIFF ACT
ALLOWS SMALLEST RATE ON
AMERICAN GOODS.
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Securing This Unlooked For Conces
sion Makes Secretary of State a
Diplomat of First Rank—German
Market Prized
War has been averted between the
United States and Germany; not the
strife of cannon and sword, but com
mercial war, which nevertheless very
serimrnly threatened important Ameri
can industries.
The recent action of the German
reichstag in passing legislation defer
ring from March 1 next, until June 30,
1907, the assessment of the maximuih
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SUSANTB. ANTHONY. (
Leader of Woman Suffrage Movement Who HasUust Celebrated Her .Eighty-sixth [Birthday. (
selves, grasped her message and her
very name became a term of derision, i
She was caricatured, insulted, jeered at ;
and maligned. In the early days of the
movement Women’s Rights was the <
synonym for dress reform, for neglect
ed home duties for rabid political
tendencies and for unwomanly women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was Miss
Anthony’s earliest ally. Together they
conducted one campaign after another,
seemingly making but little headway
at first. They traveled all over the
country, going from place to place in
open wagons, stage coaches or what
ever other conveyance was obtainable,
and from door to door on foot. • They
endured many hardships and were sub
jected to insults Innumerable. People
said of them that Mrs. Stanton made
the balls and Miss Anthony fired them.
She proved her good marksmanship by
making every ball count
Partial Suffrage In Many States.
"I never saw that tall, stately Quaker
girl coming across my lawn,” said Mrs.
Stanton, “But what I knew another
bomb-shell was to be hurled into some
assembly of men.”
Miss Anthony was arrested and fined
for illegal voting in 1872. She had
cast a ballot at the election. She never
paid the fine. Since then four states
have granted the right of suffrage to
women; 23 states have given them the
right to vote at school elections, and
New York permits women taxpayers to
vote on all questions affecting the tax
ation of property. For years Miss
Anthony hoped to live to see a woman
elected and inaugurated as-President
of the United States, but she has a
Korw^AnA<4 n 4- Vi Ann oaiv +V»of
such a thing will not come to pass ip
her day.
Her life Is now less strenuous and
she and her sister, Mary, have a quiet
pretty home at Rochester N. Y. She
keeps in touch with every cause in the
interest of or for the advancement of
woman, and in her voluminous corres
pondence continues to give advice and
counsel to women in all quarters of
the globe. Out of her little workshop
in ^ the attic of the Rochester home
comes much of the ammunition used
in continuing the battle for suffrage.
Six years ago, at the age of 80 she
learned to operate a typewriter, which
she employs in her personal corres
pondence and in carry in" on bo’- wck.
Time has dealt gently with her. She
is still stately and erect, and her step
has the vigor and elasticity of most
women many years her junior. Her
memory is undulled by age, all of-her
faculties seem to retain the keenness
which made her such a power in the
prime of her life. Her interest in the
world’s affairs is unabated, and her
mind is attuned to every movement
having for its object the betterment
of mankind.
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schedules of the new imperial tariff (
against American goods, thus averting ]
a tariff war with the United States, is 1
the climax to a protracted interchange ]
of correspondence between Secretary 1
Root and Ambassador Sternberg, in i
which Secretary Root has achieved his <
first great feat of pure diplomacy. <
The success of the State Department 1
in obtaining for another sixteen months
equal consideration In the German '
trade with other governments that have j
made great concessions to obtain the '
minimum tariff in Germany, without ]
any amelioration of our schedules 1
against German goods entering this '<
country, ranks as one of the notable 1
works of statecraft in several decades '
of the recent history of the American
foreign office. Had Secretary Root not ■
already given ample promise of being ]
a diplomat of the first class, he would 1
now be hailed as the new stellar light 1
in international politics.
All Done in a Month.
Only a month before the action of the
reichstag, the German government was
still apparently inexorable in its posi
tion that the maximum rates would be
enforced on March 1.
In the light of the reichstag’s action,
at the earnest solicitation of Chancellor
von Buelow, one might be led to think
a colossal bluff had been attempted, and
pushed to the last moment by Germany.
But this, it is understood here, is not
the case. The seed of education as to
the result of the tariff war, which Mr.
Root had been sowing, did not sprout
until within the last few weeks; then
its growm was rapiu.
Realizing that Mr. .Root was thof-'
bughly familiar with all the premises
and sound in his understanding of what
the results would be of any course pur
sued by Germany, and that he could
not be shaken from his position of
polite regret that no concession was
possible at this end of the wire, the
German statesmen quickly went to
their reichstag, and had legislation
passed deferring the trouble.
Had the department here shown
signs of hysteria, or had Secretary
Root not'fully appreciated the several
angles of the esse, or had he made ex
cited efforts to have Congress act hur
riedly in giving Germany concessions
before March 1, the Germans would
have decided that fhe United States
could be coerced bv actually applying
the maximum tariff, but Mr. Root’s
placid explanations that nothing at all
could be done here, either before or
after March 1. had an exceedingly
quieting effect upon German tariff
opinions.
Secretary Root’s impassive attitude,
which was so remarkably effective In
this case, is all the more notable, in
view of the flood of excited protests
that have come to Washington from
associations of farming -"manufacturing,
and other producing interests in the
Middle West, which consider the Ger
man market their “velvet"
STOCK EXCHANGE SEATS.
Points of Vantage Where Millions
Are Made (and Lost) While You
Walt,
In keeping with the recent remark
able rise in stock prices in this coun
try is the rapid advance in rates at
which New York Stock Exchange
seats are selling. The membership of
the Exchange is strictly limited to
1,100, and seats are therefore objects
of ardent desire on the part of many
hundreds of market operators, to
whom a membership would be mate
rially valuable. A month ago a seat
sold for $85,000, a record price. A few
days ago membership rights were sold
for $90,000 and one seat was bought
at the unprecedented price of $95,000.
It is believed that if there is another
transaction of this character soon the
price will reach $100,000, or somewhat
more than 50 per cent, greater than
the rate at which seats were sold two
years ago. In 1872 Stock Exchange
seats sold for $4,000, and this was re
garded as high.
An idea-of the reason why Wall
Street operators are anxious to ob
tain the right to transact their busi
ness on the floor of the Exchange
is gained from the fact that the stock
transactions nowadays average close
upon 1,000,000 shares a day. If every
member of the Exchange were active,
and if the business were evenly di
vided, such a daily business would give
to each member a commission upon
about 990 shares, amounting to a
DOO rrn/N muin t„ i
course, entirely apart from individual
operations and profits.
These Stock Exchange seats are re
garded as assets. There has been in
the past some trading in them for the
sake of the profits gained by the rise
In the rate, but the tendency was dis
couraged by a rigid enforcement of the
rule that the purchaser must be ac
ceptable to the governors of the Ex
change. Men now Bell their seats only
tor urgent reason, such as failure of
health, or removal to other fields. In
the latter case the New York seat is
probably more profitably turned into
cash, at the high rates now prevailing,
than to be held for future use. When
i member of the exchange dies, his
executors sell his seat for the highest
obtainable rate. The bidding is often
spirited, and some of the most strik
ing advances in the record prices have
been scored in this way. '
MILLIONAIRES FOR WAITERS.
Caddies Feasted as Guests of the
Germantown Cricket Club, Near
Philadelphia.
Millionaires and men of promin
ence in the business and social, life
of the city turned waiters and fed
the little lads who have served as
caddies on the golf links of the Ger
mantown Cricket Club, at a banquet
at the clubhouse at Wissahickon
Heights the other night. The lads
were delighted with the feast, but
more pleased with the attention show
ered upon them by the dignified men
rvf affuiso vxrV»/-» loft nnthlncr iindnna fn
make them happy.
As the eighty-six youngsters, rang
ing in age from eight to sixteen years,
sat about the banquet board, garbed 1
in their regular costumes, Samuel T. 1
Heebner, one of the old members of 1
the club, wielded the carving knife,
and huge slices of turkey were prompt- i
ly huwied to the hungry youngsters
by the millionaire waiters.
First, ex-Minister to Italy, 'William
Potter would hurry away with a
plate, then Sheriff Brown and Direc
tor of Public Safety Potter would rush
from the carver’s side, carrying plat
ters heaped with turkey and tempting
vegetables. Edward S. Buckley, Jr.,
president of the club, took a hand and
was assisted by Vice-President H. H.
Kingston, Harlan S. Page, Howard
Perrin, Joseph S. Clark, Charles T.
Cowperwaite, Henry A, Lewis, Robert
C. Cooke, William R. Buckley, C. H.
Potter, William Disston and W. Find
ley Brown, -and all of them were busy
looking after the wants of their cad
dies, all of them men of great affairs.
After the collation had been served,
William C. Houston, chairman of the
golf committee, called the gathering
to order and made a brief address, in
which he congratulated the boys upon
their behavior during the yegc.- As a
means of still further pleasing the cad
lies, each was presented with a box
of candy and prizes ranging from $1
to $2.50 in gold.
A Propellor la the Air,
'An English device is reported of an
air motor boat, which, while not re
markable as a speed craft, is yet very
useful in navigating many bodies of
water which on account of their ex
treme shallowness are practically clos
ed to navigation. Other deeper rivers
and lakes are likewise avoided by a
screw or paddle wheel- craft on ac
count of their growths of rank vege
tation.
A fiat, shallow draft launch has been
constructed which overcomes both dif
ficulties, for its screw propeller or fan
works, not In the water but in the air.
Driven by a motor, the fan whirling in
the air sends the boat along at a good
rate of speed.
Curara one of the deadly poisons,
and that with which South American
Indians annoint their arrow heads,
has been found very helpful in the
treatment of hydrophobia.
IN THE WARM SOUTHLAND.
A FEBRUARY JOURNEY FROM THE
LAND OF ICE TO THE LAND
OF FLOWERS.
Breezy Account of a Midwinter Trip
to Charleston, Jacksonville and Sit.
Augustine.—Hotels Which Are
Palaces.
We left Washington on February
eighteenth and after spending two de
lightful days in New York boaYded the
“Seminole” for Jacksonville, on Wash
ington’s birthday. Now the one accom
plishment of my life has been that I
was always a good sailor; bdt on this
trip I had to Succumb, never raising
my head from the pillow from the hour
we started until we reached Charles
ton. I thought pretty faithfully of my
son who was sick for 12 days while go
ing to the Isthmus. It was a terrible
passage for us, very cold, rainy and
completely dismal. Nearly every one
was sick, only two ladies and a few
gentlemen,. my husband among them
being the exceptions. I had the dub
ious pleasure of taking all my meals
in my berth. For two nights the
steamer pitched and rolled to such an
extent, that my husband couldn’t stay
in his upper berth, and when we came
around Hatteras it seemed really peril
ous. The captain said It was the rough
est night the boat had experienced for
five years and it will be a long, long
while before I shall want to round
Hatteras again! Saturday morning -
however the misery was over, and at
eight A, M. we stopped at Charleston, <
with-a partially clear sky, and a few 1
hours before us in which to do the 1
City. We drove to the “Battery” and i
walked the length of the sea wall ]
ter in the distance, and the Ashley and
Cooper Kivers. In the part are severa.
old statues and on a warm night il
must be a charming spot.
Flowers In Winter.
Then we drove through the town,
encountering everywhere gardens in
bloom and trees in foliage as if it were
the month of May. A^ lady we mel
gave me an exquisite red and white
camelia^ and I saw a& immense bush
CALHOUN MONUMENT, CHARLESTON. S. C.
covered with red ones. We went into
St. Michael’s church, one of the oldest
Churches in the South, twice injured
by Are, and the walls cracked during
the great earthquake. The three walls
are lined with memorial tablets; the
pews are of the old style, high ones.
FORT SUMTER.
CHARLESTON HARBOR.
OSCEOLA’S CRAVE.
FORT MOULTIA.
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there. The street is broad, the houses
right on the street, their grounds on
either side planted with vegetables,
magnolia trees, roses in full bloom, and
a wealth of vines everywhere. The
houses here were built before the war,
and are immense three story structures
running way back, with two and three
story verandas facing the South to
catch the sea breeze. Quaint old carv
ings are on the doors which are also
resplendent with great brass knockers.
The view is fine and expansive, in
cluding Charleston Harbor, Fort Sum
our heads just appearing over the tops.
We rambled through the market, a ono
story building extending from block
to block till I think I counted six.
Here we saw fruits and fresh vege- ,
tables in abundance, the darkey women
balancing great flat baskets on their
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