PAGE THREE
SEWARD TALKS .
0FAPMU4J865
Recalls Attack on His Fattier,
Lincoln's Secretary of State,
Yosliihito, Heir to Japan s Throne
AND ALSO OF HIS OWN ESCAPE
THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1912.
He Was Assistant Sooretary of State
During the Administrations of Lin
coln and Johnson Has Just Observ
ed His Eighty-seoond Birthday.
Frederick II. Seward, asstHtnnt secre
tary of state ilurliiK the mlinInlntrutlons
of Presidents Lincoln and Jolinson and
Hon of Willlnm II. Seward, who was"
secretary of state at that time, recent-'
ly ohscrved hi elphty-Hoconcl birth
day. !
Mr. Seward has lived nt Montrose, X.
Y,, for forty-teven years. He went
there to reenicnitc following tho at
tempt upon his life by the man who
tried to assassinate his father almost
at tho game minute that "Wilkes Booth
shot and fatally wounded Abraham
Lincoln la Ford's theater. In "Washing
ton, not fnr from tl home of Mr.
Seward.
A Memorabl Night.
Tlio Incidents of the memorable nlcht
of April 14, 1SG5. were recalled by Mr.
Seward na if they had happened only
recently.
"It was about 10 o'clock when tho
doorbell at my father's hotite rane,"
he said, "and one of oar ncro .serv
ants, after an altercation, admitted a
man who espial--ed that ho bad come
with a prcscrii..lon from Dr. Verdi,
our family physician, for my father,
who -was then 111 with a hiirh fever, in
ducod by Injuries Imj sustained in a
carriage accident
"I met the man nt the top of the
Etairs and told him to hand over tht
prescription to me, ttosltively refuslnp
to let any one disturb my father. Im
pressed by my determination to pre
vent hla occoss to my father's cham
ber, tho Btranpcr turned ns if to de
part and after descending two or three
steps suddenly whirled around and,
drawing n long revolver, roshod at mc.
He snapped tlx pistol clone to my tem
ple and when it mlwd lire exclalmod,
'That navy revolver!
Thought Him Done For.
"Before I conld selw? him ho proso
ed the rovolver in tlio middle and
dealt me a Wow on tho bond that
stunned mc and sent mo staggering
against tho wall. In tho fierce pcuflle
that followed bo hept pounding mc
over tho bond and finally wrenchod
hlinfwlf from my grapp. IIo Chen dart
ed into tlio room where my fatlier-was
lying fortunately an the far side of
the bed on account of Ids Injured arm,
which he allowed to bang over tho
side and .there attacked Mm with a
long bowie knife. Before ho could be.
restrained by my sister and an invalid
nurse, who were In tho room at tho
time, ho euocoeded In inflicting a dan
gerous gash in my fathcrB throat, al
most reaching tho Jugular veto, and.
making several slashes ct bis foaa..
Thinking that he bad tujcompllehod hla
purpose, no dashed out of tlio room,
down the stairs, mounted, his horso,
which liad remained standing In tho
street, and galloped away.
"Thin man was later arrested, and,
of course, you know that his namo
was ITonry Pnino-Powcll, an accom
plice of Wilkes Booth, who had con:
splrod to assassinate tho socrotary vf
state and tho president of tho United
States.
"Well, tho Injuries I received that
night loft ino in an unoonockroa mdl
tlon for nine days. It was etc months
before I was ahk to resume my du
ties, and after I had fftdsltod my term
as assistant poc rotary of ntate trader
President Johnson I docldod to seek a
quiet llfo to recuperate. For tho ben
efit of my family I decided to tako
oat a life Insurance policy, but I could
not get one, bocaoro tho doctors said
I couldn't live but a few yoars. I
enmo to Montrono, and, to my eurprttw,
I found that I was etlll Irving beyond,
my allotted Uino."
CONSTELLATION ROTTING.
Navy Department Urged to Save Hulk
of Gallant Ship.
Tho frigato Constellation, Truxtrm'a
gallant old 'ship, which" cleared tho At
lantic of French prlvatK;rs and struck
tho colors of many a hoetlto craft in
the war of, 1S12, Ilea off Nttwjrt with
bottom a-rot. Many patriotic poclotlce
are prowing the navy deportment to
seo to it that she is preserved,
Whllo thero Is n strong ftcntlmcnt In
the navy for tho preservation of the
famous old ship which first won re
spect for tho ilag on ttie high was,
congresa has been reluctant to appro
priate for It -
The facious Constitution 'OM Irort
sides" to a loving nation was saved
from an ignomjnlaufl end only after
tho genios of Oliver Wendell Holmes
had Immortalized her nnmo in verso. ,
Unless a patriotic public sentiment
demant'l her preservation tho onco
magulllcent old Constellation will be
come a rotting wreck of old timbers
nnd moss,
Big Russian Project.
Among tho gigantic projects for tho
Industrial advancement of IluBsia 1b
one for connecting tlio Volga river
with tho Black and Azov eeas. Tho
plan contemplates the construction of
a canal vtfilch would, p'vo ships of tho
Volga typo a direct rolito to the sea.
DECLARES THERE WAS
NO GARDEN OF EDEN.
THE SEVEN WONDERS
OF THE MODERN WORLD.
Chicago University Man Calls Bible
Narrative "Figure of Speoch."
Professor Edward Ilobertson of the
University of Chicago has been boarch
lng for tlio gnruVn of Eden. Ho haa
sjeut years on tho hunt, nnd Iw now
writes that It was "folly." He denies
tho claims of critics who havo placod
the garden variously in Armenia, in
Babylonia, In Arabia and elsewhere.
Professor Robertson advances the
theory that the section of Genesis con
talning tho oocount of tlie garden is
not tho work of one hand, but a com
posite document. IIo asserts:
It is evident that the wholo narra
tivo Is a figuro of epooch enshrining
tlio doctrine of an lrreponlblo and
slnlcsd state in which man wns cre
ated, whence ho passed into one re
sponelbla and sinful. From what wv
can gather thero appears to have been
no definite location of the garden in
tho mind of the narrator. Ilia pleasure
garden is on ideal locality."
'IIo Intimates that the tradition of the
creation of woman In Eden may be the
result of corruption of the text Of
the efforts of early editors to weld the
different documents he says:
"By arranging the texts suitably It
might bo roado to appear that woman
was created after man was put Into
tho garden. The same, too, with the
beasts of tin field. Tints it comes
about that the creation of woman and
of tho boasts of tho. Gold Is mado to ap
pear aa a work performed by tho Lord
God within the garden, while the lan
guage uned, as can readily be observed,
conveys not the slightest hint that eueh
was really tlw case."
Wireless, Tolephono, Aeroplane, Radi
um, Antiseptics Among Them.
NAME WOMAN FOR CONGRESS.
Democrats of Los Angeles 8o4oot Mies
Musa Rawiinga ae Candidate.
Democrats of tlw Ninth congrofSion
al district of California have selected
as the next candidate of the Demo
cratic party for congrotw MIsb Mima
Ilnwllngs, who wns secretary of tlw
Women's Champ Clark club during the
recent campaign.
Those who arc tietiind Miss Itnw
llngH' candidacy declare a campaign
wlH lo made with vigor nivl serious
ncus and exieet tlvtf tle first woman
member of eongreiss ls"to come from
Los Angeles, Petitions for Miss Haw
tings' nomination arc being circulated.
It fa thought there will be tittle dllfi
culty in getting a putflelcni num)er of
Higners to Miss Bowlings' petition to
have her name placed on the ballot.
TIkwc who have proposed Miss Haw
lingH namo as a congressional candi
date declare that she would capture
the .fOinnn vote of the district with
tltc Democratic vote and that with the
probability of tho Bepubliean vote 1k.'
lng split In tlw coming election tho pos
Hlbillty of her election is extremely
hrlht.
STOCKINGS OF GOLD THREAD.
Others Showing Peacocks In Natural
Colors Shorter 8klrts.
According to a Vienna fashion pa
per, women's stockings mado from real
gold thread nnd silk are to bo the fash
ion there this autumn. They will coBt
$23 a pair.
Another novelty will bo black or
whlto silk stockings which above tho
nnkles will bo worked In various do
signs, such as a peacock with Its tall
outstretched, fn gorgeous colors.
To enablo theso embellishments to
be visible shorter skirts aro to bo In
sisted upon by'tho dressmakers.
The seven wonders of the modern
world, according to tlw poll of u thou
sand ncientists In America nnd Eu
roiK!, are, in tlw order of Importance:
Wireless telegraphy, telephone, aero
piano, radium, antiseptics and autltox
lu, spectrum analysis, X ray.
Tlw vote was taken by tlw editor of
tho Popular Mochnnlcs Magazine. The
seven wonders of the ancient world
wero chosen by tho Greeks before tlio
birth of Christ. They were: Pyramids
of Egyirt, Plwros of Alexandria, Hang
ing Gardens of Babylon, Temple of
Diana and Ephosus, Statue of;Juplter,
by Phidias, Mausoleum of Artemisia,
Ookwsua of lthodcs.
Tho Pharos wns a Ughthouso 400 feet
high. The Colossus woe of cast met
al, not half as high as tho Statue of
Liberty.
Tlio modern wonders were chosen
from a ballot containing fifty-six sub
jects of scientific and mechanical
achievement. There were blank spaces
for the Insertion of any other sub
jects the voters might select Wire
less telegraphy got the greatest num
ber of votes. Tho Panama canal was
given 100 votes; anaesthesia, 01 and
synthetic chemistry, SL
Only one ballot, the last to be re
ceived, which bore the namo of one of
the most distinguished authorities on
chemistry of Munich, Germany, was
checked for the seven titled, tho total
vote showed to havo 'been selected.
Six ballots, one, from India, two from
jiuucu, iu uwu uunmuiy miu one
from the United States, showed tlw se
lection of six of tho final seven.
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