HA Vou Bellefonte, Pa., September 6, 1912. NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY Comic Opera Ending of a Serious War Scare. Ludicrous and Rather Undignified Man- ner in Which Mason and Slidell Were Surrendered to the British Authorities. By E. J. EDWARDS. Forty-eight years ago, on January 2, the United States’ government, yield- ing to the demand of England, ordered the release of the confederate foreign agents, Mason and Slidell, and so brought to an end the possibility of war with England over the seizure by | this government of the two commis- sioners from an English vessel. All this is history; but how many Amer- icans know the somewhat dramatic and decidedly amusing story of the opera bouffe manner in which Mason and Slidell were given back to the British government? [I will repeat the story as it was told to me by the late R. D. Webster, who during the civil! war was a confidential agent and ex- ecutive officer of the state depart- ment. “After President Lincoln had or- dered the re'ease of Mason and Slidell,” said Mr. Webster, “Gustavus V. Fox, the assistant secretary of the navy, called upon the secretary of state. “*‘Mr. Seward,’ he said, ‘you know | that there is a sort of etiquette among naval officers which causes them to ask to be relieved of the duty of undo- ing what some other naval officer has done. Therefore, the secretary of the navy is anxious that the state de- partment should take over the release of Mason and Slidell. Have you any- body who can undertake the work? “ ‘Yes,’ said Mr. Seward, ‘there's Mr. Webster. Please tell Mr. Welis that the state department will place him in | charge of the work.’ “It was necessary,” continued Mr. Webster, “that Mason and Slidell, who were incarcerated in Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, should be transferred ! secretly, because public opinion was running so high against them in Bos- ton and elsewhere that it might not have been safe to take them through the streets of Boston. municated with Lord Lyons, the Brit- ish minister, offering to deliver the two prisoners to any British vessel and at any place he might designate. After some consultation he informed us that | a British vessel would be anchored off the harbor of Provincetown, Mass, | ready at any time to receive two com- | missioners. “We engaged a tug at Boston, which was to await us at Fort Warren, and then steam across Massachusetts bay to Provincetown. When we reached Fort Warren and gave our instructions to the commanding officer, he sum- moned Mason and Slidell. Mason was | a great user of tobacco, and the evi- dences of it were plentiful upon his chin and his linen, for he was not al- ways discreet in his expectoration. He | was simply tickled to death to get out | of Fort Warren and to be taken to Eu- | rope to meet his family. ! “But Slidell, who realized that as | long as the north held him a prisoner, | the chances of British intervention in | favor of the confederacy were not | hopeless, declared that he wowlan': | leave the fort. “‘You have put me into this place,’ he said, ‘and now you have got to keep me here.’ * ‘Mr. Slidell,’ retorted the command- er of the fort, ‘you were received here by orders of the United States gov- ernment, and now your release has been ordered by the same authority. If you won't go willingly, I shall have to call a body of soldiers to put you out.’ “Slidell still protesting that he would not budge of his own accord, a file of soldiers was ordered up, and they were all ready to take the recal- citrant commissioner, feet first, and deposit him in the tug, when Slidell thought that would be too undignified, and so reluctantly went aboard. “A heavy sea was on ,and that iittie tug rolled in Massachusetts bay like a cocklesheli. The two commission- | ers were frightfully seasick, and ire | Slidell, amid his groans, muttered dire imprecations upon the United States government. “At last we sighted the British man- of-war, signaled to her, and found that it was going to be almost impossible to persuade Mr. Slidell to leave the tug. He was a pitiable object, with his seasickness, his anger and his heavy So we com- | | nothing said about him. Great Politician Who Relied on His Intuitions. Samuel J. Tilden's Prophecy of the Intention of Conkling and the Stalwarts to Nominate Grant for Third Term. By E. J. EDWARDS. I know that many persons who knew Samuel J. Tilden well were accus- tomed to look upon him as oge of the most sagacious and cold blooded poli- ticians that the country ever had pro- ducd. But because of a confidence that he reposed in me shortly after his return from Europe in the early au- tumn of 1877, 1 have always looked ; upon Mr. Tilden as a great politician who followed in great measure the ‘lead of his intuitions. Immediately after the electoral com- | mission had decided in favor of Ruth- | erford B. Hayes for president, Mr. Tilden set sail for Europe, where he spent the summer. On the afternoon of his return home 1 called upon him, bearing an important message from Mr. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun and an intimate friend. After he had given me a very cour- teous but dignified greeting, the gov- ernor asked a servant to draw two chairs in front of the open fireplace, in which a cannel coal fire was burn- ing, for the day was a little chilly. Seating himself, Mr. Tilden removed his slippers and stretched out his | feet toward the fire. [ noticed that | he wore old-fashioned, home-knitted | woolen stockings made of gray yarn. He drew my chair close to his, and | then, in almost whispered tones, and | putting his lips close to my ear—al- | : though | saw no one within hearing— | began to question me after having ac- | knowledged the message which 1 brought from Mr. Dana. “l have been away since early April ; —nearly sl» months,” he said. “I ! have only learned in the most inci dental way what events of interest have happened in the country since ! that time. You have been here, and , You can inform me on some things. Is there anything of interest ot Washing- ton, or in this state?” Instantly there came into my mind the events of the New York state Re- publican convention, which had been | held at Rochester a few days earlier, and | told the governor that Senator Roscoe Conkling had made an ex- traordinary speech in which he had : bitterly attacked the so-called reform element in the Republican party for causing certain removals of federal officials by the new administration—a one-cent stamps for the r covered | RSPR = Book. speech that was a defiant challenge to | Sex or 31 ne for pel io Ad- | PVR: = FREE Ch SF sont dress Dr.R. V. ed President Hayes and Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman in behalf of the so-called stalwarts, the radical sec- | tion of the party in the state. And Ram’s Horn Wisdom. Trials are not sent to crush us, but to lift us. The wider the Bible is opened the hard- | broke er it strikes at sin. God makes some men strong in order that they may help the weak. } The young man who has no fixed pur-' pose in life will soon be “fixed.” Whether truth is handsome or not de- pends upon who looks into its face. | You can find a dozen honest men to! where you can find one contented one. You can generally tell how much peo- ple love the Lord by the company they cep. A rich man may give the Lord too lit- He, put a poor one can not give him too m Every man wrongs the world who does | not do what he can for the public good while he is in it. jungle Manner. It is the etiquette of the jungle for the elephant to drink first. No matter how many animals are around the water hole, they all stand aside for the greatest beast of all. Many of the animals come forty or fifty miles for a drink and there is a truce between even the most deadly ene- mies. After the elephant comes the rhi- noceros. Although most of the other animals observe the water-hole truce faithfully, two rhinos will fight over their | precedence. i When the rhinoceros has finished, the | iraffes drink their fill, followed by zebras. ' bras always travel in herds and some- | times forty or fifty will arrive at the water | hole at a time. According to the etiquette of the jungle, however, they only come | in fourth for the drinking. e first | four animals are fixed in order, but the rest get a drink just how and when they | can.—{ Pearson's Weekly.) : Passes for Bird and Beast. | y Nowadays, even animals have to have a pass to enter a country. Did you know that without special permission from Dr. Palmer, chief of the game reservation division of the survey, no animal, wheth- er bird or beast, ry enter the country? The animals are divided into classes, marked injurious, beneficial or neutral. One day Dr. Palmer received a telegram from El Paso, on the Texas border. It read: “Party wishes to bring in one gray squirrel and two chachalacas.” Dr. Palmer at once wired back: “Admit them.” So this gave the foreign squirrel and the two little gray birds permission to take up their abode in the United States.— Selected. In a dark night a traveler gropes his | way along a familiar path, slowly and | doubtfully. Suddenly a blaze of light- ! ning shows him that he is on the brink | | of a precipice, having wandered in the darkness from the familiar road. What that blaze of lightning is to the eye, Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical viser is to the mind; a revelation of unknown dangers and unappreciated perils. This great work on biology, physiology and ygiene is sent jree on receipt of stamps | to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 —‘‘He always was a bad but no- body seemed to notice it ile he was “Yes, he was all right until he was ”» - Hardware. EE To Quality Counts. 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D., PRESIDENT. the action of the United States Government and the Established and maintained by the joint on ¢ FIVE GREAT SCHOOLS—Agriculture, Engineering, Liberal Arts, { Mining, and Natural Science, offering thirty-six courses of four years each—Also courses in Home Economics, Industrial Art and Physical $ Education—TUITION FREE to both sexes; incidental charges mod- : : First semester begins middle of September; second semester the first of February; Summer Session for Teachers about the third Monday of June of each year. For catalogue, bulletins, announcements, etc., address THE REGISTRAR, State College, Pennsylvania. The sunshine of lager beer satisfaction radi- ates from every bottle of ELK COUNTY BREWING COMPANY'S EXPORT. Every ing draught of and is as pure as skill can pos- entire establish- with the very cal inventions vices known to ing, having re- bottling equip- second to none. methods of ster- before they are scientific process the beer after it matically bottled lasting purity of bottle our beer in AMBRE bot- injures flavor. light 1 added that the spech had caused in- tense excitement and was taken to in- dicate a set purpose of the stalwarts, | under the leadership of Senator Conk- | ling, constantly to give battle to Pres- ident Hayes and his administration. For some time after I had finished | my recita. Mr Tilden plied me with many questions, seeking particularly to know ot the personnel of the con- vention. Then he became silent, and for a long time looked very thought- fully into the fire. At last he put his lips close to my ear. “Young man,” he said—and I shall never forget his impressive tone—‘"my political intuitions are infallible. They now tell me the meaning of this Rochester ccnvention and reveal to me the hidden purpose that is in Sen- ator Conkling’s mind. From this time on the senator and those who regard him as their leader will strive to con- centrate and organize sentiment in the Republican party so as to force the nomination of Gen. Grant for a third term at the Republican national con- vention in 1880.” I went away, puzzled. Gen. Grant, who had retired from the presidency in March, was then on his triumphal tour of the world, and until Mr. Tilden mentioned his name there had been But when, months later, it first became evident to the players in presidential politics that Senator Conkling and his follow- ers were planning cunningly to secure a third term nomination for Grant, Mr. Tilden's strange prophecy came back to me, and ever since then I have believed that all through his public career he was guided in large meas- ure by what he was pleased to tell me were his infallible political intuitions. (Copwight, 1909, by E. J, Edwards.) Pawnbroker Out One Ring. One of the oldest established pawn- brokers on Lexington avenue, New York, learned something at his own ierce, Buffalo, N. Y. CLOTHING. BEER EEE SRE ERE BOY'S SCHOOL SUITS ElK County Brewing Company ST. MARYS, PENNSYLVANIA 57.27-14t CLOTHING. An Extra Big NOW READY. THE BEST BOY'S CLOTHES We Ever Offered. Assortment of sense of dignity which had been se-| expense the other day when an Ital verely shocked. But we told him that | ian came in with three diamond rings if he did not leave the tug willingly, | to pledge. The Italian asked $350 for we should have the sailors put yim the lot. The pawnbroker, who after upon the British launch. Then Mr, | the custom of the trade carried a very Mason, who despite his seasickness | fine diamond on his finger for pur- was quite happy over his immediate | Poses of appraising others, took off release, came to our aid. ‘Come, his ring and matched its setting with Slidell, don’t be a baby,’ he cried. And | the stones offered. 80 this former senator from Louisiana i “Three hundred for the lot,” he an- stepped totteringly into the launch, | nounced. and in this rather ludicrous manner | ‘“No-no, tree hun’erd feefty,” the Ital- the two commissioners, over whom so | ian protested. much fuss had been made, invelving | They haggled over the value of the danger of war with Great Britain, de- | pledge for some minutes and then the parted from the United States.” (Copyright, 1508, by E. J. Edwards.) | pawnbroker shrugged his shoulders to | indicate that he would do no business ; on his customer's terms. As he did "Twas Ever Thus. | so he pushed the rings over the coun- “There are tricks in every trade! ter. The Italian swept them into his but mine,” quoted the stranger. , ralm and departed. It was not until “What's your business?’ we ven-! too late that the pawnbroker yoticed tured to inquire. that his own gauging ring had been “I'm Boxo, the Great Magician,” we among the lot that he pushed across worn informed, f the counter, £ y BKK E&E&=K As ALL PRICED THE FAUBLE WAY, HONESTLY. Brockerhoff House Building. FAUBLES.
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