THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1912. PAGE THREE GREAT SEAL OF THE CONFEDERACY Secret of Its Disappearance Has Just Been Told, BOUGHT BY VIRGINIANS, Relle of Civil War Traced From Colo nel Pickett to Rear Admiral Solfridgs. Traditions Revived by Its Purchase i For $3,000. The great seal of the Confederacy, after being lost for forty years, has at last bocn found. Hear Admiral Thomas O. Sclfridgc. O. S. N., retired, came Into possession of the historic silver disk In 1S72, when bo acted as the representative of the United States government in a transaction by which the government obtained various Confederate state pa pers and other mementoes for $7T,000. Acting as agent for the government. Rear Admiral Selfridgo, then a young lieutenant, went to Canada and got the Confederate souvenirs from Colonel John T. Pickett, who wns n souvenir hunter, nndfln,co,nnectlon with his law practice here niadebuslness of buy ing and selling papere'1jni(I(locumenta connected with the Confederacy. From the time of Its disappearance the seal was not heard from until re cently traced to the possession of Itcar Admiral Selfrldgc. This deduction was made by Galllnrd Hunt, chief of the division of manuscript In the libra ry of congress. In looking over the Pickett papers he noted the nbsence of the great seal. Inquiry was made of Colonel Pickett's son, and it was learned that the seal had been pre sented by his father to Rear Admiral Selfridge. The rear admiral said that the seal was In a safe at his residence. 1SC7 Kalorama road. In Washington. Said to Have Been Buried. The state of South Carolina has a tradition that the great seal wns burled in a well in Abbeyvllle follow ing the last meeting of the Confeder ate cabinet James Jones, formerly bodyguard of Jefferson Davis, who is now living In Washington, at the ape of ninety, is confident that he burled the seal In Georgia, having received It from the hand of President Davis. At that time the injunction of secrecy was laid upon him by Mr. Davis, said Jones. For fifty years the people of the south have speculated over what had become of the Beal after the evacua tion of Richmond by the Confederacy Its disappearance and the mystery sur rounding have been subjects of en thralling interest at all gatherings of the gray veterans, and many theories of its whereabouts havo been put for ward and had their share of believers. At the last general reunion. In Macon, Ga., it was suggested that the peal had been burled In the cornerstone of the Confederate monument In that city. There was even talk of removing the stone. Little Doubt as to Genuineness. There is little doubt of the genuine ness of the seal that now reposes In a vault of the Jefferson hotel in Rich mond, Va., hnvlng been purchased from Rear Admiral Selfrldpe for $3,000 by Epps nunton, Jr.; William II. White and Thomas P. Bryan, all of Virginia. It will be sent to the Eng lish firm of engravers who originally made the seal to have its genuineness verified. The contract of sale contains a provision that if It is not pronounced real It may be returned. Whether any credenco is to be placed In the gossip that the great seal left Richmond in 1SC5 hidden in the bustle of Mrs. Walter J. Bromwell, wife of an officeholder of the Confederate state department, It has had an interesting history. Following the fall of the Confederacy the eeal, with n number of state papers and other documents, was removed from Richmond by Walter J. Brom well, a clerk In the state department under Judah P. Benjamin. The seal, according to tradition, had been In trusted to Mrs. Bromwell. Id Miking through the archives of the library of congress in connection with the researches for material to be used in a history of the civil govern ment of the Confederacy Judge Wal ter A Montague, formerly a member of the supremo court of North Caro lina, discovered that the seal had como Into Admiral Selfridgo's possession. RECORD FOR TELEGRAPHING. Western Union Transmitted 715,000 Words on Day Carpathia Arrived. The flood of telegrams received at and sent from New York on April 18, the day of the arrival of the Carpathia with the survivors of tho Titanic, rep resented a total of 715,000 words, n new record for telegraphic communi cation for tho Western TJnlon Tele graph company. Tho total transmis sions included private messages, offi cial communications, news dispatches and other communications. Tho highest record for one day's transmission previously made was dur ing the Republican convention in 1008, when tho total reached -333,000. Of the 715,000 words transmitted on April 18, 45,000 were sent to Europe. England Burns Chalk. In England thcro is a chalk which Is very cheap and can be burned in a erate with coal. Odd Facts of I Political I That of 1880, the Noisiest on Record, Failed to Nom- inate Grant. . . . . 'k'fc'k A A A A A A irk'k'k'k'k'k'k'k A A A A 'k'k'k'k THE unexpected actually occur red at tho Chicago convention of 1SSO that nominated Gar field and Arthur. This was a remarkable convention In overy wny. The demonstration for Grant tho third term candidate of 300 unwavering del egateswas never equaled In determi nation. Several times slnco tho out burst following a noininntlon, notice ably that of Bryan and of Roosevelt, consumed more time, but the totrt of human endurance for shouting, sing ing and all devices for creating noise by lung power wns that started by tho speed) of Roscoo Conkting, In which Grant was placed before tho conven tion. Nevertheless, in spite of tho roar, tho nomination of the presidential can didate went to a man for whom no nominating speech was made, and when Arthur was offered as a candi date for nomination for second place tho delegates of the middle west and the northwest oeked who he was. He was not known outside of New York and adjacent states. He was nominat ed. Both nominees of ono convention became president Only two permanent chairmen of na tional conventions were ever nominat ed for president Seymour and McKln ley. The first wns named in the con vention over which he was presiding In New York city. Uo vacated the chair while tho ballot was being taken, but returned to decline tho honor which wns Inter thrust upon him. That wns In 1SSS. Ho wns also the permanent chairman of tho convention that nomi nated McClellan and Pendleton to Chi cago in 1S04. Pendleton was a delegate to that convention, nnd when he received the nomination as vice presidential candi date he accepted from the platform. McKlnley was permanent chairman of the convention that nominated ITar rison and Reld in Minneapolis in 1S02. Four years later McKlnley won the presidential nomination at the St. Louis convention. lodge's Distinction. Tho only Republican United States senator now living who waa permanent chairman of his party's oonventlon is Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. The way he adjourned tho convention that nominated McKlnley and Roosevelt is a story in Itself. The only hurrah in that Philadelphia convention followed the naming of Theodore Roosevelt The work of the convention wns over. Chairman Lodgo was standing nt his desk waiting for tho "amen" motion. Delegates were scrambling to get out of tho hall; the crowd had gone. Sen. ator Piatt of New York had fallen asleep in his chair in the front row. Rcpresentatlvo Sereno Payno was try ing to restore him to waking con sciousness. Chairman Lodgo looked down upon the scene and immediately took tho cue. "On motion of Rcpresentatlvo Payne, which Is seconded, the convention stands adjourned," said Senator Lodge. He struck the table with his gavel, picked up his hat and left the plat form. The only ex-Confederate who ever presided over a national convention was Donolson Caffrey of Louisiana. The convention wns that of tho sound money Democrats, who nominnted Pal mer and Buckner In Indianapolis in 1800. The Longest Session. It is the custom to select as perma nent chairman of a national conven tion a man who Is In office at the time. The Democratic conventions have ob served this custom less frequently than the Republicans. In the convention which nominnted Cleveland and Ilen dricks at Chicago in July, 1884, W. F. Vilas was presiding officer. In the con vention which nominated Cleveland at St. Louis In June, 1SSS, P. A. Collins TRIES LEFT HANDED TUITION. School Head Seeks Cause For Failure of Left Handed Pupils, George L. Farley, superintendent of schools of Brockton, Mass., Is investi gating tho cause for the failure of the left handed students to measuro up to the standard of his right handed cluss mates, for that there Is such a failure at least Ui Brockton appears to bo the fact. Mr. Farley was induced to take up the problem because the first five In a class of seven boys who failed to at tain the mental mark of their fellow pupils aro left handed. "Tho question arose In my mind," ho said, "that the boys' deficiency might be due to their being left handed, as ail instruction, especially in drawing and manual training, is with tho right hand. "My first stop to determine tho truo cause was to have the teachers instruct tho left handed pupils in a left handed way that is, drawing and using tools with tho left hand. Tho pupils imme diately showed signs of improvement, and It may be shown that they arc not deficient, but havo been handicapped by present methods of Instruction." National 1 Conventions! When Four Candidates Were Placed In Nomination In 77 Words. A:A-A-A-A of Boston, who had never held any Important elective office, wns perma nent chairman. It Is a common political error to re fer to tho Chicago convention which nominated Garlleld and Arthur us that which had the longest session. That convention wns in session seven days. The Charleston convention of 1800, In which the Democrats met wns In ses sion In that city ten days. Caleb Cn sit ing of Massachusetts was permanent chairman. As te known to political students, tltat convention fntlod to nominate and adjourned to meet at Baltimore two months later, on Jnne 18. Thoro it nominnted Douglas nnd Johnson, the latter of Georgia. But there was nnothcr Democratic conven tion hold by the scceders from the Charleston convention, which also met nt Baltimore n few days later, on Jnnc S3, nnd nominated Brocklnridgc and Lane. The national Republican convention of tho same year met at Chicago in May nnd nominated Lincoln nnd Ham lin. George Ashman of Massachusetts was permanent chairman of that body, nnd noToce Greeley appeared ns n dele gate from Oregon. Another Republican convention pre ceded the Lincoln nnd Hamlin con vention four years. It met In Phila delphia in June, 1850, and nominnted Fremont nnd Dayton, nenry S. Lane of Indiana was permanent chairman. This was tho first Republican national convention to nominate candidates for the offices of president and vice presi dent, although it wns a continuation of a preliminary convention held at Pitts burgh In February of the same year, where, strictly speaking, tho Republic an party first root in national conven tion. Other Conventions. The national Republican convention which renominated Grant and selected Wilson for vice presidential candidate met nt Philadelphia in June. 1872. Thomas Settlo of North Carolina was presiding officer. In the next Republican national con vention, which met at Cincinnati, nayes and 'Wheeler were the nominees. Edward McPherson of Pennsylvania was permanent chairman. John B. Henderson was permanent chairman of the convention which nom inated Blaine nnd Logan at Chicago in 18S1. Morris M. Estes was pcrmaent chair man of tho convention which nominat ed Harrison nnd Morton at Chicago in 18SS. In the Democratic national conven tion which nominated Cleveland and Stevenson nt Chicago In 1802 W. L. Wilson was permanent chairman. In the convention which nominated Bryan nnd Sewnll nt Chicago In 189G Senator White of California was per manent chairman. Bryan was the sec ond Democrat present in convention to receive the nomination for first place, the other being Seymour. Some interesting facts are grouped In recollections of two national Democrat ic conventions. In the convention that nominated Franklin Pierce and W. It King at Baltimore in June, 1S52, of which John W. Davis of Indiana was permanent chairman, Jefferson Davis received cloven votes from the Illinois delegation for vice president It is a curious bit of political history that the later president of the Confederacy should have received such a vote from a northern state. In the convention which nominated Buchanan and Breckinridge at Cincin nati In June, 1850, four candidates were placed in nomination Buchanan, Cass, Pierce and Douglas In tho shortest nominating speeches ever delivered. The four speeches made exactly seventy-seven words. Breckinridge, who wa3 present when lie was nominated for vice president, declined in n speech and later accepted. The permanent chairman of this convention was John E. Ward of ilcorgln. PLANTING TREES FOR TIES. Pennsylvania System Works a Con servation Scheme For Its Own Use. Tho growlug scarcity of timber suit able for manufacture Into railroad tics, which has been responsible for a rapid Increase in the cost of ties in recent years, has led the Pennsylvania rail road to adopt a conservation scheme which includes the production of trees for its own use. More than four and a half million trees have been planted by the Penn sylvania In the past ten years. Last year nlono 515,703 trees were trans ferred from tho company's nursery at Morrlsvllle, Pa., to permanent places on railroad property. In 1009 1,000,000 young trees were set out. At the nursery the Pennsylvania has In operation thirty-six acres, which are kept up to practically maximum pro duction. In 1011 -183,118 forest trees wero shipped from tho nursery for company use, whllo an additional 4GV 553 ornamental trees nnd shrubs wero used by tho various divisions. The present stock on hand at tho nursery Is 2.200,833, of which 2,072,100 are forest trees and 221,007 ornamental plants. RAPID RISE OF SIR RUFUS ISAACS English Attorney General Took Up Law at Twenty-six. JUST MADE CABINET MINISTER He Once Pailed as a Broker The Whitaker Wright and Other Famous Cases Which Ha Prosecuted Wife His Constant Adviser. Tho career of Sir Rufus Isaacs, the English attorney general, whose ap pointment to the British cabinet has Just been announced, disproves tlie Idea tltat remarkable and rapid rises In for Mttie can occur in America alone. When it boy Rufus Isaacs ran nwny from homo nnd joined a ship's company for Rio de Janeiro. At twenty-five, al though a member of tho London Stock Exchange, he was already marked as a financial failure, and yet ten years after he had been admitted to tho bar of the Middle Tomplc, for which hu began studying when twenty-six years old, he had been created n king's coun sel and had the largest practice of any barrister in England. Sir Rufus Dauiel Isaacs is the son of loscph M. Isaacs, a London merchant Ue received his education at the Uni versity College school nnd In Brussels and Ilanover. His lutrents destined him for Cambridge, but the Idea of study was irksome to the spirited young man, so that whllo arrangements for Ills education were being perfected ho embarked on a sailing vessel for South America as a common sailor. He soon tired of this life and return ed to London. Although he might still have gone to a university, young Isancs preferred huslness and became n bro- kei". lie learned, however, that busi ness In London was ns uncongenial to him as the sea. At twenty-six he wns face to face with financial ruin. Meets His Future Wifo. It wns nt this juncture that young Isaacs met his future wife, Miss Alice Edith Cohen, who was to play an itn portnit part in his later career as his constant helpmeet and ndvlser. Miss Cohen was the daughter of an Ameri can merchant who hnd moved to Lon don. She became engaged to the young broker and advised him to study law. Isaacs remonstrated at the hopeless ness of beginning in tho profession at so late a date, but the young woman Insisted. Together lit the evenings the two used to pore over the lawbooks. Such was their success that In 1S87 Isaacs wns admitted to the bar in London. The same year, although he had left the Stock Exchange absolute ly penniless, he married Miss Cohen. Whitaker Wright's Case. When Whitaker Wright, the great English "frenzied finance" expert, who had fled to America, was brought back to London and successfully prosecuted by Isaacs his reputation was secured. It wns within a few feet of his prose cutor that Wright drank poison and es caped imprisonment. Tlie Slevcr blackmail case added to Isaacs' eminence at the English bar. Bob Slever, the proprietor of a Lon don racing paper, ran a column known as "Celebrities In Glass Houses," In "which, it was alleged, prominent men who had refused to accede to Slever's demands wero consistently blackmail ed. Finally J. B. Joel, a Londoner of great wealth, sued Slevcr for black mall, and after a sensational trial Isaacs succeeded In obtaining his ac quittal. In 1004 Isaacs was returned to par liament ns a Liberal from the Reading district From then on his rise was rapid. Up to the death of Edward VII. he was a regular "fourth" at the royal bridge table, and it was joking ly said that tho reason that the king, who was not a great bridge player, en joyed playing with Sir Rufus Isaacs was that tho lawyer played as badly as he did. In 1000 Isaacs was made solicitor general, and in 1010 he was knighted and made attorney general. The fol lowing year ho wns created irivy eoun cllor and knight commander of the Victorian order. This year, as if lion ors had not come rapidly onotigh, tlie historic precedent of tho British con stitutlon wag broken In order to make hint a member of tho cabinet, for he Is tho lirst nttorney general ever to be ad mitted. Aided by Lady Isaacs, It is generally said among the frlendB of Sir Rufus Isaacs that Lady Isaacs has been instrumental in his phenomenal riso from financial fail ure. One of the many friends who call nt Foxhlll, tho Isaacs' estuto in Ber wickshire, I James M. Barrio, the dramatist Rumor has it that Barrio obtained tho germ of his play, "What Every Woman Knows," in which a wife's wlU led her husband to io Iltlcal success, from tho continuous counsel of Lady Isancs, who first Im pelled her husband to study law. Tito sad featuro is that Lady Isancs Is nn invnlld and cannot go about with her husband nor bo preocnt when ho con ducts some famous inquiry, like the present one, on tho Titanic disaster. When Sir Rufus left practice to be come nttorney general it "was said tltat ho received not less than $10,000 ns n retainer and $1,000 for a dny's ap pearance In court. IA7TH RUB NOSES. BEAK ANNABEL! Rubbing Foreheads Also Suggested in Move to Ban Old-Time Kit ing. A Milwaukee special says: Tho Milwaukee Physicians' Association will proparo a bill for tho noxt Leg islature Intending to stop tho prac tice of kissing and stamDlnK tho habit as a "blot on civilization" and n "menace to health nnd decency." 'ino action was decided on at n meeting at which a dozen papers wero read on tho nubiect. A sub stitute for tho practice offered wna tnat or rubbing noses or foreheads, this being hold more docent bv the physicians. GREENTOWN. Grcentown, Juno 22. Simon Fields, Sr., a woll known resident of Greono township, died on Monday of last week at tho homo of his daughter In 'Prlceburg, Pa., aged 84 years. He Is survived by his wife, four daughters and three eons. Tho funeral was hold Wed nesday at Canadensis. Mr. Fields had lived In Greeno over fifty yoars. THE SUMMER GOODS AT Menner & Go's Department Stores ARE ingestions for Comfort for Hot Weather Wear In Our Ladles' Suit Department can be found. The new Rattlne and Linen Goods In Norfolk Blazer and Coat Styles. One-Piece Dresses in house and street styles. Fancy White and Silk Dresses for Evening and Church Wear, new styles. Children's Dresses In Lawn, Per cale and new stylish wash goods. Long Coats In Pongee Linen and light weight wool. Shirt Waists, new models and ma terials. Underwear in New Form and fine quality In soft fabrics. Corsets In the new, long hip shaped styles, best models. Menner & Go's Stores always Up-to-Date in Goods and Makes. 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