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BT JOHN 8. HARWOOD.
A TEN-YEAR-OLD boy with tears
streaming- down his face, stood in
the streets of a little Georgia
town nearly forty years ago, and with
agonizing appeals and frantic ges
tures, tried to stop an angered, drlunk
en woman from beating her child Into
Insensibility.
The boy was Seaborn Wright. Today
Seaborn Wright Is probably the best
known prohibition leader in the United
States ta could have had the Presi
dential nomination this year had ha
but signified his willingness to make
the race. He is generally credited in
Georgia, by prohibitionists and saloon
men alike, with doing more than any
other man to put that state in the
dry" column; and throughout the.
South he Is looked upon as being
largely responsible for the spread In
that region of the present-day re
markable temperance wave that Is ex
tending pretty much over the entire
civilized world, but more especially In
this country and the North of Europe.
It was the spectacle of the drunken
mother when sober, a charitable and
loving woman trying to kill her son,
that gave Seaborn Wright his lasting
impression against the sale of liquor,
and from the day that he tried to pro
.tect the child until now he has been
a fighter for prohibition. In its cause
he has spoken in every state In the
Union. For Us advancement he has
spent each year for many years a
large part of the income that he re
ceives from his 20.000 peach trees "and
other Georgia farm land and his law
practice. And to further Its cause he
entered politics when a young man,
has been a member of the Georgia
legislature for a quarter of a century,
and a thorn in the flesh of the Cracker
politicians for as long. Georgia still
vividly remembers his race for gov
ernor on the Pronlbitlon-Popullst
ticket ten years ago. when he polled
three-fourths of the state's white vote,
being defeated by the heaviest negro
registration known In the history of
the state.
Wright has attained his prominence
as a promoter of the "dry" doctrine not
only by his everlasting keeping at it,
but also by his eloquence. It is to be
doubted whether the cause he cham-
pions can boast today of a more force
ful speaker. A few weeks ago be ad
dressed, on their Invitation, the mem
bers of the Louisiana legislature on his
favorite subject. There was present
also an anti-prohibition delegation
from New Orleans, but before he had
been speaking long Mr. Wrlrht had not
only the legislators but the antl-pro-hibltionists
standing upon their chairs
and cheering for him l.ke a lot of de
lighted college boys. The last two
years he has delivered addresses all
over the South: not infrequently he has
spoken night after night for consider
able stretches, and his audiences have
numbered all the way from 1000 to
10.000 people.
As a member of the Georgia legisla
ture Wright always receives the clos
est attention when speaking. When he
wants to say anything ho rises from
his seat, walks to the front of the
chamber, throws his right leg across
the top of an unoccupied desk, removes
a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles, wipes
them carefully with a handkerchief,
leans his six-foot slender frame slight
ly forwards and begins, with not a
whisper to disturb his train of thought,
for though he has had many opponents
In the legislature none disputes his
oratorical powers.
Wright comes of a family., noted in
his section of Georgia for its orators as
far back as the oldest resident can re
member. Some of his ancestors were
sturdy old pioneers of the Georgia
backwoods. They were the leaders In
the brush-fire political rallies, and
swept the opposition off their feet by
their oratory. Wright's father was
particularly noted for this gift. A typ
ical gentleman of the old Southern
school and one of the leading men of
his town. yet. even at times of the
greatest soda! or political importance,
he declined to wear a collar over the
shirt that sparkled In Its cleanliness aa
for as could be seen.
When Wright made his initial ap
pearance In the state legislature he
declared his platform: "Antl-chlld la
bor, prison reform, prohibition, anti
bucket shop, pure food, and all legisla
tion looking toward the development
and protection of man. so as to make
a clean, incorruptible citizenship."
This has remained his platform, and In
order to promote it he has appealed
to the voters as a Democrat, a Populist,
a Prohibitionist and an Independent.
When he ran for governor with the
backing of the Prohibitionists and the
Populists, prohibition of strong drink
and leasing of convicts was his battle
cry. Today Wright Is a Democrat, and
It is Interesting to note that the Demo
cratic party has made Georgia a "dry"
state and Is striking the death-blow to
the convict lease system. The plat
form on which Wright ran for govern
or was the first one in Georgia to de
clare for the abolition of the whisky
and the convict traffic.
"It is all over, Seab." said a friend,
when it became known that Wright
was a defeated gubernatorial candi
date. "What Is all over?" asked Wright,
from his seat on an old lumber wagon.
your election for Governor," was
the answer.
"This election may be over, but the
fight is not," responded Wright.
Wright is still fighting, and. like the
Rev. "Billy" Sunday, who also is arous
ing Prohibition fervor wherever he
speaks, he is a man who is not averse
'to fighting physically. If necessary, to
defend himself. In the fight for Pro
hibition in this state, he was the leader
of tha "drys" in the lower House. Dur
ing the 13-hour filibuster that was fol
lowed by the passage of the bill, a
leader of the opposition and Wright
engaged In a personal encounter that
set the Howe on fire, and out of which
Wright did not come with the lesser
honors.
It wu as a lawyer that Wright dis
covered of a surety that he possessed
the weapon he has used so effectively
In the cause of Prohibition. His speech
won the first case he took, and through
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his eloquence he has won numerous i
cases alnce. It is rather curious to note
that he has never taken a case except
as a lawyer for the defense. His law
practice and his peach groves and his
farms, by the way, have received from
him but little personal attention during
the last two years. But then he has
plenty of this world's dollars with
which to hire competent help, and hto
peach crop this year was exceptionally
fine.
Man Behind Anti-Saloon League.
Howard H. Russell, organizer of and
chairman of the headquarters commit
tee of the Anti-Saloon League, and as
such one of the big personal forces in
the present temperance movement, ar
rived at his present eminence by the
farm, a clerkship In a Government
arsenal, a cattle-herder's saddle, a
schoolteacher's certificate, a country
newspaper ditor's chair, a lawyer's
license, political defeat and the min
istry. Hia failure to secure re-election as
County Superintendent of Schools out
In Iowa proved, in the early eighties,
the first turning point in Russell's
career. For several years before the
voters decided not to return him to
office, Russell's wife had been begging
him to go into the ministry, his father's
profession. When his political disap
pointment came to him he acquiesced
In his wife's desire, threw up his lucra
tive law practice, went to Oberlin with
his wife and daughter and, at 29. began
to equip himself to begin life all over
again.
It was while he was In the seminary
that he made his initial assaults on
the "demon" rum, becoming Interested
in the work through the influence of
the late Francis Murphy. The organ
izer of the movement that routed the
saloons from Berea, Ohio, which has
kept them out ever since, he was rather
badly beaten, up by a saloonkeeper In a
street assault. To the sympathy that
this attack upon his aroused for hia
cause Dr. Russell attributes the success
of his first anti-saloon movement by
just half a dozen votes. Later on,
when the Berea saloonkeepers took to
selling liquor Illicitly, Student Russell,
calling his legal knowledge to his as
sistance, collected evidence against the
lawbreakers, conducted the resultant
trials, and obtained such heavy penal
altles that the liquor laws were rigor
ously observed as long as he remained
In town.
Two years later Russell led the Ohio
state fight for a township local option
bill. He was put In charge of this
work by a temperance alliance. His
first move was to open a headquarters
In Columbus, the state capital. Then
he organized the pastors and churches
of the state Into a compact body for
circulating petitions for and literature
and other arguments in behalf of the
local option bill. The pressure that
this organization brought to bear on
the House caused it to pass the bill by
a small majority. Several days before
the vote was to be taken on the bill In
the Senate a poll showed a majority of
one for It. Just before the 11th hour
arrived one of the Senators, yielding
to pressure from the other side, con
fessed to Russell that he could not
stand by his first pledge and vote for
the bill. No sooner said than Russell
got busy, and the Senator was flooded
with personal letters and telegrams de
manding that he vote for the bill.
Which he did, and saved the day for
local option.
The lesson of organized, systematic
appeal In behalf of temperance that Rus
sell learned while conducting this cam
paign ultimately led to the organization
of the Anti-Saloon League on much the
same lines of his local option organiza
tion. But before he became the father of
the league he went, first to Kansas City,
where he began preaching In a tent on a
vacant lot. later moving his big congrega
tion Into a fine building: and second, to
Chicago, at the solicitation of the late
Philip D. Armour, where he directed the
work of the famous Armour Mission.
It was while he was on a sick bed that
Russell determined to give all his time
to promoting the cause of temperance,
and when he was In full health again he
quit the active ministry, once more sought
out Oberlin. and here practically began
his career all over for the second time.
This was In 1S93. He started his new
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work by calling a union meeting, of the
ministers and explaining liW object and
soliciting their aid. Some gave him the
desired assistance, others held aiooi ior
various reasons. It was a struggle often
a seemingly hopeless one, for a time but
the turn came at last, and today the
Anti-Saloon League is a power to be reck
oned with pretty much all over the coun
try, as the objects of Its crusade know
better, perhaps, than any of the rest of
us. Before Russell decided to organize
the league he and his family enjoyed all
the material comforts and quite a few of
the more ordinary luxuries. For months
after the league was started the Rue
sells lived in a coop of a house, Mrs.
Russell did all her own work, and the
word all along the line was strict econ
omy. The league began work with $1000
pledged to Its suport for each of the first
three years of its existence. Today it la
suported financially to about the extent
of $250,000 annually. Though Dr. Russell
Is neither Its president nor Its general
superintendent, he is looked upon as the
real power behind the organization and
Its workings. His right-hand man Is Rev.
P. A. Baker, the general superintendent,
with headquarters In Columbus, O.
Gubernatorial Temperance Workers.
Among the political leaders, big and lit
tle, of the country who have Identified
themselves more or less prominently with
the temperance movement, Frank J. Han
ly, Governor of Indiana since 1905, ts
looked upon by prohibitionists generally
as one of Its most earnest and forceful
advocates. Largely through his Instru
mentality, the question of local option will
play an unusually important part in the
approaching state campaign In Hoosier
dom. and it may- have a direct Influence
on the state's Presidential predilections.
Big, Jovial "Bob" Glenn, the ix-foot-and-over
occupant of the North Carolina
executive mansion, won his gubernatorial
honors by his telling prohibition speeches
delivered before the farmer population of
the Tarheel commonwealth. Singularly
enough, he and Peter C. Prltchard. the
Federal Judge and quondam Federal Sen
ator from North Carolina, who upset
Glenn's plan of warfare on the state rail
roads by his injunctions, were head and
front of the movement which caused the
Legislature to place North Carolina in the
"dry" column In May of this year.
South Carolina, too, has a gubernatorial
champion of prohibition Martin F. Ansel,
who led the fight against the retention of
"Ben" Tillman's pet state institution, the
dispensary, with the result that the
neither Carolina has a local option law,
and county after county is voting out the
saloon. In the meantime it fares badly
with the traditional remark that the Gov
ernor of North Carolina once made to
his fellow executive Immediately to the
south of bun.
Edward W. Koch, whose second term as
Governor of the Sunflower State Is draw
ing to a close, has been a big card for
the temperance workers for a number of
years, and he always tries to arrange
public and private business so that he can
respond to any call that is made upon
him in the name of temperance. A more
recent arrival In the lists against "demon
rum" is that ex-Senator from Tennessee
whose flaming poll has been a godsend to
the newspaper paragraphers Edward WT.
Carmack. A few weeks ago, with the
"dry" element of the state at his back,
he strove to secure the gubernatorial
nomination at the primaries held to indi
cate the people's choice for Governor.
His defeat is the first big blow that the
prohibitionists have received in the South
since the present temperance wave got
well under way.
It will be noticed that four governors
are prominent temperance advocates and
workers. There are other state chief exec
utives whose names have been identified
more or less prominently with the temper
ance movement. There is Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, for example, but though he
signed the bill that put the Cracker commonwealth-
in the "dry" column and made
his gubernatorial campaign on the Pro
hibition issue. largely, he cannot be classi
fied as a temperance worker. Broward,
of Florida, who has said that he would
sign a state prohibition bill If one should
ever be put up to him, is, likewise, In the
Hoke Smith class of governors as re
gards temperance enthusiasm. Florida,
bv the way, has been one of Seaborn
Wright's more recent fields of endeavor.
Hanly. Hoch. Glenn, earmark and
Prltchard are all men who deserve much
credit for their pnrseverance in climbing
up that ladder which eventually brings a
man into the public eye In a more or less
reputable manner. Pritohard can tell you
from actual experience what a printers
apprentice in a country newspaper office
does to earn the few dollars a week that
ara placed in his weekly pay envelope:
he, like Ansel of South Carolina, received
only a common school education, and not
any too much of that. The Civil War left
the Glenn fortunes impoverished and not
until several years after his marriage did
"Bob" possess enough money at any one
time to make an appreciable jingle; in
deed, the law was mighty hard picking for
him until his neighbors began slowly to
recognize his legal ability.
Hoch was a printer in Kentucky, his
birth state. He emigrated to Kansas, took
up a claim, and lived in a 12x14 shack un
til his itching to "stick type" caused him
to take a job with the little weekly news
paper published In the town nearest to
his claim. In the course of time his em
ployer became indebted $250 to Hoch for
labor done. He couldn't pay Hoch, and
offered to sell the paper to him for $1000.
Hoch didn't have the money, but he
bought out his boss, dismissed the start
of employes and got out the paper single
handed until he had saved sufficient
money to pay the paper's purchase price.
Hoch still runs this paper the Marion-News-and
through It he largely gained
the state prominence that led to his first
nomination as governor. When he was
struggling to pay for the paper he fre
quently worked steadily 16 and 18 hours a
day for days at a stretch, and slept In the
office.
Carmack, of the famed flaming poll, who
also made his first hit In newspaper work.
Incidentally being challenged numerous
times to fight pistol duels, was the son
of a minister, and ao, when the father
died, his widow and his boy had very
little of this world's goods from him. Car
mack, however, did inherit a few good
books, and through these he became in
satiated with a desire for an education
He sought out the principal of an acad
emy, stated that he wanted an education,
frankly added that he had no money and
was ready to work his way through.
"That's all right," responded the kind
hearted man, "and don't mind about the
work. Tou can pay me when you do have
money." '. ,
The first money that Carmack managed
to save from his earnings as a lawyer,
his initial profession, went to square his
debt to his educational benefactor.
Hanly, perhaps, had a stlffer climb up
the traditional ladder than any of his
politico-temperance colleagues. He Is
among the comparatively few men promi
nent In public life today who were born
In log cabins. Heavy responsibilities same
to him early. When he was scarcely more
than a child his father became an in
valid. His mother was stricken totally
blind when he was 11. at which age most
boys are Just beginning to have the time
of their lives: and from then on until his
parents died years later he wa their ref
uge and support.
As the family's provider, the boy be
came a ditch digger and a wood cutter
for the farmers of Champaign County,
111., his birthplace. He walked bare
foot ten miles to hear his first Fourth
of July oration. He got his schooling
in short snatches between his hiring
out to neighbors. He walked to War
ren County, IncL, to attend Normal
school for a few weeks, earning the
necessary money by doing such Jobs as
sawing wood. Then he became a
school teacher and followed that pro
fession for nine years. Five years
later he was one of "the gentlemen
from Indiana" in the National House of
Representatives the youngest man
that Indiana had sent to Washington
in 40 years. In the meantime he had
become a lawyer, by studying at nights
and served in the state Senate.
One of the old-time formulae of suc
cess -Hanly observed closely, though
unconsciously, as a boy. About the
only books that the family library
boasted were the Bible and a history
of the Civil War. The child pored over
these books time and time again until
he knew them exceedingly well. The
history of the war shaped his political
beliefs: the Bible training that he thus
gave himself has been pretty much in
evidence all through his latter life, and
especially since he became politically
prominent. It was his strong sense of
duty that study of the good book un
doubtedly gave to him which caused
him to force the resignation of a per
sonal friend from the office of- state
auditor for a serious breach of trust;
he has waged war on Sabbath break
ing and race-track and other forms of
more or less public gambling, and he
has not hesitated to remove officials
for neglecting to enforce the laws
against illegal liquor dealing. Like
Hoch, of Kansas, he is a devout Meth
odist; and like him, too, he is one of
the ablest speakers of today V the
cause of prohibition. Indeed, of the
politico-temperance champions he pro
bablv is the most gifted all-round
speaker, with "Bob" Glenn easily the
most oratorical, not even excepting.
Carmack, whose periods are frequently
as glowing as his thatch.
Among the thousand of churchmen
who are now systematically engaged In
championing the cause, of temperance
under , the guidance of the anti-Saloon
Legue. Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden
Is best known nationally. He. you may
recall, was responsible for the "tainted
money" discussion that convulsed th
country two or three years ago, fol
lowing his denunciation of the accept
ance of a Rockefeller gift by the Con
gregational church's foreign missions
body. Dr. Gladden is one ef the Anti
Saloon League's vice-presidents.
Titled Temperance Advocates.
Two famous champions abroad of
temperance wear titles Prince Ber
nadotte, of Sweden and the picturesque
Countess of Carlisle.
Bernadotte, you may recall, is that
son of the late King Oscar who for
swore the Swedish throne and all
rights thereto that he might wed the
lady of his heart, Ebba Munck, a lady-in-waiting
to his own mother. Queen
Sophia, when she finally realized that
her son was bent on marrying as he
had planned, became his ardent advo
cate before the king, gaining his re
Juctant consent to the marriage- just
oefore she placed herself In the hands
of the court surgeons for a serious
operation. The queen was the only
member of the groom's family at the
wedding festivities.
Bernadotte, perhaps, is the most ardent
temperance advocate today in the north
countries Of Europe, where, of late years,
the temperance movement has gained
great headway, especially In Finland.
With an income not that of an Ameri
can multimillionaire, he still is most
comfortably situated financially, and his
purse is continually being used to ad
vance the cause of prohibition. -He also
writes and makes speeches on "this sub
ject, which now seems to possess him as
thoroughly as did his old idea of a few
years ago of going to Africa as a mis
sionary. The Prince has been Influenced
greatly In his religious and temperance
views by his wife and in his fight against
the liquor traffic she Is his chief ally.
The Countess of Carlisle is loyally sup
ported by her husband In her battle
One Horse That Earned
Atlanta Constitution.
EIGHT thousand dollars are uncom
monly well laid out when in the
course of twenty-four years the In
vestment returns nearly $2,500,000.
This was the happy experience of the
Duke of Portland when the famous
horse St. Simon, who died recently at
Welbeck from heart disease or senile
decay probably the latter, as he was
27 years old. Curiously enough, his
sire, Galopin, the Derby winner of
1875, died at the same age.
Both on and off the turf St. Simon
was a marvelous horse. He never knew
defeat, and his success at the stud was
unprecedented for the number of his
great winners and the toal earnings of
his progeny.
In nineteen years his stock won the
huge amount of $2,649,565. His best
seasons were 1892, when he headed the
sire list with $280,000; 1896 (the
"prince's year," when hia two sons.
Persimmon and St. Frusquln, ran first
and second for the Derby), with $200,
000; and 1900, when the chief contribu
tor to his total of $275,000 was Diamond
Jubilee, the king's second Derby win
ner, who also carried off the $10,000
and St. Leger.
It was through the death of Prince
Batthyany that the Duks of Portland
became possessed of this equine gold
mine. The prince expired suddenly ac
Newmarket just before the race for the
$10,000 in 1883, and, according to rule,
all nominations in his name were in
validated, which explains how St. Sim
on came to miss the Derby. He could
not run. Sir John Willoughby's Har
vester, who dead-heated at Epsom and
divided the stakes wich John Ham
mond's St. Gatlen, was reckoned some
thing like twenty-one pounds inferior
to the "saint."
It seems strange to read now that
St. Simon fetched only $8000 when sub
mitted to auction with the rest of the
prince's horses.
"Before the sale," Sir George Chet
wynd writes, "somebody told me that
the colt (who had not then run) was
a 'flier;' that he had his leg dressed to
look like a blister and that I must se
cure him. A friend had asked me to
buy him a horse for about $5000. There
was no time to communicate with this
gentleman, but I went to a relative of
his and we agreed to go beyond this
price, and were, I believe, the last bid
ders against Mat Dawson. It has since
come to my ears that Dawson, while
looking over the horse, noticed the
dressing on his leg. stooped down and
licked with his tongue to see what.it
was made of."
St Simon made his debut in the colors
of the Duke of Portland. He won sev
eral races as a 2-year old, the last be
ing a mile nursery at Doncaster, In
which he carried 9 stone 2 pounds and
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against "demon rum." and both being
assisted by their half dozen children,
now all grown and full of their mother's
fiery enthusiasm for the work. The en
thusiasm of the Countess in the cause
of temperance 'oas caused her to do a
number of rather unusual things, but
her most picturesque move by far was
her destruction, In cold blood, of the
famous ancestral wine cellars of the
earldom and their still more famous con
tents, down to the very last drop. The
Earl, then but shortly come Into hia
title, and not then, as now, in the pro
hibition camp, looked with horror upon
his wife's proposition to pour into the
ground the precious vintages In Castle
Howard's vaults; but his wife's desires
prevailed the Countess is a strong
minded, though very agreeable person
and the Earl himself, that he might not
be present when the wanton act was
committed, traveled to London and staid
there until he learned that his ancestors'
priceless collection of wines was no more.
About the only matter that the Earl
and the Countess agree on Is that of
prohibition, and on this head both are
about equally radical, holding that strong
drink has done more to cause physical
and moral degeneration in England, than
any other one thing. In politics husband
and wife are at loggerheads; the Earl Is
an aristocrat of the aristocracy; the
Countess is so thoroughly democratic In
scored in a hack canter the most bril
liant nursery performance on record.
Next season he walked over for the
Epsom Cup and won the Ascot, Good
wood and Newcastle cups, after which
he was retired to the stud. Originally
his fee was $250. but so immediate
and great was his success that in a
few years subscriptions were difficult
to obtain, except by personal Influ
ence, even at $2500. His earnings for
some time averaged about $100,000 a
year and it can be no exaggeration to
say that in this way alone he added
quite $1,250,000 to the ducal wealth.
No other horse has ever equaled his
earnings in the stud. Then there is the
large sum which his progeny won In
stakes for his grace, $500,000 prob
ably, if not more. St. Simon himself
won only $23,360 in stakes, but he
would have "swept the decks" if Prince
Batthyany had lived and all his valu
able engagements held good instead of
being invalidated. Altogether he ran
ten times in two seasons.
St. Simon's influence on the thorough
bred Is incalculable. His stock are
-OCKS It - - s !
The Fighting "Race
Joseph I. C. Clarke.
"Read out the names!" and Burke sat back.
And Kelly dropped his head.
While Shea they called him Scholar Jack
Went down the list of tha dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines.
The crew of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in hia teens.
Carpenters, coal-passere all.
Then, knocking the ashes from out his pipe,
Said Burke in an offhand way:
"We're all In that dead man's liat. by Crlpe!
Kelly and Burke and Shea!"
"Well, here's to the Maine, and I'm sorry
for Spain,"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
VWherever there's Kellys, there's trouble,"
aid Burke.
TVherever fighting's the game,
Or a eplce of danger in a grown man a
work."
Said Kelly. "You'll find my name."
"And do we fall short," eald Burke, getting
mad.
"When it's touch and go for life?"
Said Shea, "It's thirty-odd years, bedad.
Since I charged to drum and fife
Up Marye's Heights, and my old canteen
Stopped a rebel ball on lta way.
There were blossoms of blood on our sprlga
of green
Kelly and Burke and Shea
And the dead dldn'tbrag." "Well, here's
to the flag!"
Said Kelly and; Burke and Shea.
"I wish 'twas in Ireland, for there's the
place,"
Said Burke. "That we'd die by right.
In the cradle of our soldier race,
After one good atand-up fight.
My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
And lighting was not hia trade;
But hls rusty pike s in the cabin still.
With Heaaian blood on the blade."
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her ways that she frequently has shop
girls as her guests In one or the other
of her three country seats. But though
the Earl and the Counters view the
world through widely different specta
cles, they get along famously together
and they have been married since 1864.
when the Earl was 21 and the bride
three years his junior.
For her life-long devotion to the cause
of prohibition the Countess two years
ago was chosen president of the world's
white rlbboners, succeeding Lady Henry
Somerset, still an ardent temperance
worker, but somewhat handicapped by
advancing years. The political astute
ness of the Countess has been acknowl
edged by such great politicians as Glad
stone and Balfour, and the helping hand
she has extended to numerous poor chil
dren and others of the slums bespeaks
her love for humanity and her philan
thropy. Altogether, she is one of Eng
land's most remarkable, versatile and In
fluential women.
The Countess' two sons occupy seats
in Parliament and are among that body's
most earnest prohibition advocates. Of
the four daughters, two of whom are
single. Lady Dorothy has inherited her
mother's gift of speechmaklng, devoting
It largely to' attacks on the "demon
rum."
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erary Press.)
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found all over the world. Perhaps no ,
breed of horses ever showed more ;
marked peculiarities. They are not j
race horses, they are racing machines."
was once said of his stock, the allusion
being to the smallness of so many of 1
his daughters, though some of them
could go "like the wind." Persimmon,
however, was a very commanding j
horse. Five of St. Simon's daughters
won the Oaks, all of them, with the '
exception of La Fleche. belonging to
the Duke of Portland. His Derby win- .
ners were the brothers Persimmon and
Diamond Jubilee.
There Is no guide to the relative mer
its of St. Simon and Ormonde, and it;
Is a matter of opinion which was the
better horse. Most people are agreed
in regarding them as the best two that i
ever lived. St. Simon was an Irritable
animal. More than once he had to be I
muzzled and some Idea of his temper- '
ament may be gleaned from the follow-
lng remark whloh fell from the Hps of!
his attendant, G. Fordham, On being:
questioned about behavior: "Talk about ;
Job, sir; Job never done a St. Simon." ;
"Aye. aye." said Kelly, "the pikes were 1
great
When the word was 'clear the way!"
We were thick on the roll In ninety-eight
Kelly and Burke and Shea."
"Well, here's to the pike and the sword and
the like!"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. '
And Shea, the scholar, with rising Joy,
Said. "We were at Ramllllea;
We left our bones at Pontenoy
And up in the Pyrennes;
Before Dunkirk, on Landen's Plain,
Cremona. Lille and Ghent,
We're all over Austria, France and Spain.
Wherever they pitched a tent.
We've died for England from Waterloo
To Egypt and Dargal;
And still there's enough for a corps or
crew
Kelly and Burke and Shea."
"Well, here la to good honest fighting
blood!"
Said Kelly and Burke and hea.
"Oh, the fighting racea don't die out.
If they seldom die in bed,
For love Is first in their hearta. no doubt."
Said Burke: then Kelly said:
"When Michael, the Irish archangel, stands.
The .angel with the eword.
And the battle-dead from a hundred lands
Are ranged In one big horde.
Our line, that for Gabriel's trumpet waits.
Will stretch three deep that day.
From Jehoshaphat to the Golden Gates
Kelly and Burke and Shea."
"Well, here's thank God for the 'race and
the sod!"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
The Austro-Hungarlan consul at Buenna
Ayres. South America, has succeeded In or
ganizing ft commercial company, with a
capital stork of 1400.000. for the purpos
of developing the commercial relations be
tween the dual monarchy and the Kepublio
of Argentina.