The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3061, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 17, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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EX-SENATOR MILLS
Itexan Long a Distinguished Fig-
ure in Congress.
Lawyer Who Represented the Lone
Star State In the House and Sen-
ate for Twenty-Six Years
Passes Away.
Corsicana, Tex.—The death of for-
mer United States Senator Roger Q.
(Mills occurred at his home in Corsi-
tana, after an illness lasting four
(years. He was known as a Democrat
land tariff reformer of the most uncom-
promising type and had rounded out
ia long and brilliant career in both
(houses at Washington. During the 19
jyears he served in the house of repre-
Roger Q. Mills.
fcentatives and the seven he wras in the
[United States senate, Mr. Mills was a
leader of the Democratic party, al-
though criticised and opposed by many
of his colleagues because of his rad-
ical views on tariff matters.
Roger Quarles Mills was born near
the old town of Salem in Todd coun-
ty, Kentucky, in 1832. When he was
17 years old he moved to Palestine,
Texas, and soon afterward took up the
study of law. When he was 20 years
old he was admitted to the bar by
means of a special act of the legisla-
ture. He settled at Corsicana, hung
Out his shingle and went into politics
enthusiastically. Clients came rapidly
End Mills soon became known as one
of the best lawyers in the Lone Star
State. When the Civil war com-
menced he entered the Confederate
service as lieutenant colonel, fought
at Wilson’s creek, Chickamauga, Mis-
sionary Ridge and Atlanta, was
wounded three times and finally caino
out of the war a brigade commander.
After some experience L. the Texas
legislature he was elected to the
house of representatives in 1873, and
served continuously in that body until
1892. In that year he was elected to
the senate, where for seven years he
commanded respect and made a dis-
tinct impression. When he retired
from political life he interested him-
self in the oil business and made a
great deal of money.
In his time Mills was a figure that
Washington people were fond of
pointing out to strangers. Tall,
straight as an Indian, and of com-
manding presence, he was a man to be
inarked in any crowd. His forehead
was high, broad and full and he comb-
ed his gray hair well back from it.
His nose was straight He wore a
mustache and a goatee. His face was
full and his complexion fair. Senator
Mills preferred boots to shoes, went
about in the double-breasted frock
coat affected by statesmen, preferred
tow turnover collars and black string
ties and appeared always in spotless
white linen. He liked felt hats, wore
spectacles and disliked jewelry. His
watch was something of a curiosity.
It was a finely chased, solid gold hunt-
ing case timepiece, the face of which
bore the 11 letters of his name.
R-o-g-e-r-Q-M-i-l-l-s, in place of figures,
beginning with the hour marked sev-
en, and the lone star of Texas taking
the place of the 12tb letter and stand-
ing for six. In manners he was blunt
d straightforward, being a man of
strong convictions and unquestioned
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courage. He was an excellent speaker
and kept his head in debate.
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THIS WOMAN A GOOD VULCAN
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Mrs. Anna M. Albrecht, a Resident of
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New York, Becomes an Expert
Blacksmith.
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New York.—Woman has crossed the
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last frontier of man’s trades. Mrs.
Anna M. Albrecht of this city Is the
successful invader, having won the
distinction of being the only woman
blacksmith in New York city and pos-
sibly the pioneer of American women
in that trade.
Mrs. Albrecht is a sturdy woman of
35. the mother of three children and
the chief aid and assistant of her hus-
band in his smithy. She can heat
rivets, set wheel bands, straighten
spokes and set shoes with the sdsill
and strength of any Vulcan.
Mrs. Albrecht has been a black-
smith for two years. She came to the
aid of her husband when he was un-
able to accomplish all the work that
he had to do and yet could not afford
the pay of an assistant. Mrs. Al-
brecht, although new to the work,
caught the trick of it 'so well, that
many of her husband’s customers hg.vo
insisted that she do the jobs they
bring. For this reason she remains in
the smithy, although, with her aid,
Albrecht has prospered so well that
he now employs two assistant black-
smiths and wagon repairers. She used
to be in the shop from early morning
till sunset, but now she passes only a
few hours there every day.
Mrs. Albrecht does not regard her
trade as unusual for a woman.
“It seemed the only thing to do.” she
said. “My tiusband needed help and
so I helped him. 1 used to notice peo-
ple stopping to watch me as they pe.ss'-
ed, but I soon forgot I was attracting
attention. There’s no reason in the
world why women shouldn’t be black-
smiths if they’re strong enough to
wield the tools. There’s no more skill
Mrs. Albrecht at the Anvil.
required for It than for a good many
tasks in housework, and practice
makes perfect, you know.”
The woman blacksmith’s costume is
not at all indicative of her amazonic
profession. At the anvil Mrs. Albrecht
wears an old dark short skirt and a
gingham dressing sacque with a low,
frilled collar and sleeves cut off above
the elbow. Her forearms are well de-
veloped through her use of the heavy
tools. She says that she likes the
work and that she will continue at It
as long as there is a demand for her
services. ./
Jerrold’s Biting Wit.
Albert Smith once wrote an article
in Blackwood signed “A. S." “Tut,
said Jerrold. on reading the Initials,
“what a pity Smith will only tell about
two-thirds of the truth."
T is written twice in the
Old Testament that there
was a strong city, Carche-
mish, on Euphrates, when
Pharaoh Necho fought with
Nebuchadnezzar of Baby-
lon; but in records of much
earlier times we read of the
place as a stronghold of
the Hatti or Hlttites. The
Egyptians reached Carche-
mish, on a march to the
far north (as the north
seemed to them), even be-
fore the Hittites established them-
selves there; for, as we have lately
learned indisputably from the Boghaz
Keui tablets, it was not till the early
part of the 14th century B. G. that
the Cappadocian Hatti poured over
Taurus' to stay.
Thereafter all north-
eastern Syria came
to be known as
Hatti Land, and so
the cuneiform texts
call it from the first
expansion of the
Ninevites westward
to Euphrates, under
Tiglath Pileser I.,
about 1100 B. C.,
down to the days of
Nebuchadnezzar. In
this Hatti Land.
Carchemish always
appears as the chief
city, the first at-
tacked or summon-
ed to render tribute, the richest in loot
of all kinds; and moreover, as a place
of much trade, for a weight-measure,
used throughout Mesopotamia, was
known as the maneh of Carchemish.
As soon as Hittite history and an-
tiquities began to attract attention,
scholars discussed the probable site
of Carchemish. It was evidently on
the west bank of the Euphrates, not
so very far from Aleppo, but south of
Taurus. A large riverside site had
been known at a place called Jerablus
ever since the ehd of the seventeenth
century; and when Hittite remains
were reported there in the early ’70s
the British Museum organized a ten-
tative exploration of its great mounds.
This exploration was not very satis-
factorily carried out, but it yielded re-
sults which went far to confirm the
identification of the place with the
long-lost Carchemish, and enriched
the collection with some ten of the
best Hittite reliefs and inscriptions"
then known For want of proper rec-
ords, however, the excavation did not
equally enrich science.
Three years ago I was sent to pros-
pect the place, and when at last per-
mission to excavate was granted by
the Ottoman government, I was com-
missioned to begin the campaign in
the early spring of this year. I stayed
six weeks on the site, and then hand-
ed over the direction to Mr. Campbell
Thompson. Digging has thus been
going on at Jerablus for some four
months, and already we know a great
deal more about the southern capital
of the Hittites than has been known
since it passed out of history.
Jerablus is immense, as Syrian
sites go, both in area and bulk. The
space enclosed by walls, which for
most of their circuit still stand over
twenty feet high, is nearly two miles
in circumference, ana yet is, perhaps,
only the royal city, outside of which
the habitations of the commoner folk
spread themselves far over the plain.
The Acropolis mound, which is at the
northwest of the circuit, right above
Euphrates, is about a quarter of a
mile long and rises a hundred and
thirty feet above mean water-level.
It is magnificently placed, just at the
head of a majestic curve of the river,
which sweeps down in flood time
nearly a mile broad. Landward it
looks over a broad, fertile plain, dot-
ted with mounds and bounded by an
arc of hills, which shining reaches of
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BASKET BALL INJURES WOMEN
Physician Declares Game Is Not a
Sport for Girls Because of Its
Dangers.
Spokane. Wash.—Paul Pattison of
Colfax, prosecuting attorney of Whit-
man county, Washington, whose wife
Is recovering in a Spokane hospital
from an injury sustained while playing
basketball in the championship series,
is authority for the statement that
with a single exception every member
of the Colfax team, of which he was
manager, has undergone an operation,
and that every player on the Cbesney
Normal School team has been undeT
the surgeon's knife.
Dr. A. E Shuht. who attended Mrs
Pattison. declares that basket ball is
injurious and should not be engaged in
by girls or women, adding: “The na-
ture of women should keep them from
■this dangerous sport.”
Good and Evil Genius.
Every man hath a good and a bad
angel attending on him in particular,
bis lire ions.—Burton.
Dollar a Kiss Is Price.
Los Angeles, Cal.—One dollar was
the price paid for a kiss by David
Bell, a taxicab driver. Bell took the
kiss from Miss Violet Templeton of
San Francisco, whom he had trans-
ported to the railroad depot, where
she suddenly discovered that she was
without funds. Miss Templeton, upon
making the discovery, said her face
was her fortune and leaned forward.
Bell took the hint and the kiss was
the result.
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the Euphrates subtend. The view is
all bare and treeless now, but one of
the most attractive that I know, by
reason of the changing lights under
the desert sky and the unfailing fasci-
nation of the river.
The excavators have found ’that the
earliest town. pre-Hittite and a for-
tiori pre-Assyrian, lay by the Eu-
phrates bank on a rocky knoll which
is the basis of the actual Acropolis.
Its inhabitants-iiadhai'dly got beyond
the neolithic useoF'bhipped flints and
flakes of clear obsidian from inner
Asia and of hand-made pottery which
they burnished with pebble-polishers
and decorated with incised designs.
But they were beginning to know
bronze implements and to paint their
vases when the Cappadocian Hittites
came down upon them. These built a
fortress above the ruins of the early
settlement, raising the mound some-
what, and at its landward foot con-
structed a royal residence. A broad
flight of stone stairs led up to the
Acropolis, and was approached by a
spacious roadway lined with monu-
mental reliefs and inscriptions in the
peculiar Hittite script.
The Jerablus stones already in the
British Museum are parts of this lin-
ing of stairs and road, and to them
must now be added a dozen or more
great sculptured slabs—records ap-
parently of the exploits of a king, who
appears seated before the nude god-
dess of his people, with an Inscription
by his head. On another big slab,
decorated with sixteen hands, signi-
fying probably the number of the
vanquished cities or tribes, and with
three heads of royal captives, he has
written what is doubtless the story of
the war; and this, the longest Hittite
inscription in relief yet found, wt
may hope to read some day when
a bilingual in cuneiform gives us thp
W/f£P£ P£3£CPAGP££ZAP AM££C£G
or £ Gypr Aoi/GP£
key to the Hittite script Thus faa
no such bilingual has appeared,
though Jerablus, site of a capital on
the frontiers of the two scripts,
should produce one, if one there ever
was. Several fragments of cunei-
form monuments have, indeed, come
to light already to encourage hope.
Upon the Hittites descended in duo
time the Assyrians. They first wreck-
ed and then repaired the great stair-
way and palace, and over the Hittite
fortress piled a
huge brick ereo- ■
tion of their own.
Brick stamps
show that the
conqueror in 717
B. C., Sargon III,
took a hand in
this erection. His
prefect seems to
have had succes-
sors down to thal
dawn of the Per-
sian epoch; buS
thereafter was)
d e s o 1 a tion. till
s u c c e s 8 ors of
Alexander oa
forerunners of Roman occupants re-
settled the place in part, to be fot
lowed by a much more general set-
tlement under the early Byzantine
rule. A great temple rose on the
summit of the mound, and a town
with broad colonnaded streets was
laid out below. By what name it wa$
known is uncertain. It fell at Iasi
into ruins, was again used for mean
habitations by mediaeval Arabs, and
then was abandoned to the jackals.
The explorations so far made have
let in a flood of light on the darkness
of the southern Hittites and enriched
science with most important morn*
ments of a rare class, whose publica-
tion will excite the keenest interesJ
of ancient historiaus. Would that w«
were better able to read the new Its
scriptions, of which, whether in re-
lieved or incised characters, over
half a hundred had been found before
I left Carchemish, and more yet, as
well as new and finer sculptures, have
been brought to light by my succes-
sor.
The Call From Jlmvllle.
“I understand,” began a Blend era
tering into conversation with a clergy*
man of our acquaintance, “I under
stand that the people of JImville are
anxious to have you take charge ot
the new church you have just built."
“There has been some talk about
it, I believe,” answered the reverend
gentleman, "but I don’t think that 8
shall go there.”
“Don’t you think that the Lord ii
calling you to this new field of era
deavor?”
“No, I don’t believe he is. If h«
were, he would certainly put it Int«
their hearts to offer me a much big?
ger salary. I perceive no divine call,
and I shall continue In my present
field.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Brains Go With Bowlegs
Negro Graveyard on Fire.
Winchester, Va.—Terrified negress-
es ran pellmell shouting “Judgment
day is here!” when Are was discov-
ered in the Orrick cemetery, In which
hundreds of colored people are buried.
A lot owner had gone there to burn
dry grass on his lot, and the fire made
rapid headway, enveloping the entire
cemetery in flames in a short time.
Mystery.
Another thing—bow do all the men
who stand around and watch a sky-
scraper being built make a living al
IU—Galveston News. ......nl
Always the Mentally Vigorous Child
Who Wishes to Walk Before
He Should.
It Is a fact, gravely asserts the Bal-
timore News, that the physical confor-
mation usually described as bandy-
legged. is but the outward and visible
sign of an energy and mental activity
which always reflect luster upon thb
possessor. In the mellow maturity of
achievement, when his legs have
ceased to excite wonder and only his
genius is regarded, his fellow-towns-
men point with pride to his name In
blue books and red books or carved
on cornerstones.
Lest the Philistine rejoice. It should
he explained that this crescent shape
of the lower limbs is due to the fact
that nature has not compounded the
child with the usual amount of what
are known as “earthly salts” In the
bones. This deficiency renders the leg
bones soft and pliant. Coupled there-
with is the known fact that such chil-
dren are precocious. They wish to
walk before they can stand alone.
They are on their feet before the
bones are hard enough to sustain
them, and hence the curvature. Thi3
physical restlessness Is but an evi-
dence of a mental vigor which will
not be denied. We hazard the opin-
ion that if the truth were known it
would be found that every bow-legged
child ever born has wanted to go to
sea. Otherwise he has wished to Join
a circus or go west and fight Indians.
Triflers will reply that this is true
of all boys, but there Is no room for
trifling in a grave question of ethno-
logical tendencies. It would be easy,
moreover, to prove that it is only an
uneducated eye which despises the
graceful curve of the limbs rather
than the severe perpendicularity held
up—properly garmented, to be sure—'
as the beau ideal. The navy, which
turns down coldly applicants who owi
to curvature of the shank bones, could
do no better than man a squadron}
with recruits whose sea legs were
born with them. It Is the false rea»
soning, and not the bandy legs, which
should be set straight.
Favorite Fiction.
“Portland Cement.” L
“Plaster of Paris.”
“Loud and Long Continued Cheer*-
Ing.”
“Four Bottles of Your Remedy
Cured Me of Chronic Indigestion."
“Ladies and Gentlemen, Little Miss
Daisy Muggleton Will Favor You
with a Pleasing Recitation Entitled,
'Shun the Flowing Bowl!’”
“Hereditary Nobility.”
“Waiter, I’m in a Hurry; I’ve Got
to Catch a Train.”
“Your Order Will Be Ready In A
Moment. Sir.”
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3061, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 17, 1911, newspaper, October 17, 1911; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth910547/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.