Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 24

THE COOK THE COOLIE AND THE SPY By WILL LEVINGTON COMORT outline I and an escort and he Grasse the City of Perfumes LETTERS ROM A NEW CONGRESSMAN TO HIS WIE NfNlBER TE5 as they are of the one Roosevelt will not Surprised EARLIEB DAYS IN DETRO1T rials By RIEND PALMER A CHEERLESS SPOT Death ValW mud Bates owned and hall And street in the fire Oh Mc But A life out I could time at TLnnt road for a few miles and came Royal Oak a named plain feet my skir than not the dis and side and Gridley similar be a posi ship the where the Bagley should think The and fire from the tavern and when re and the tavern comes Thomas It may be kept for a year or Roses and orange blossoms on distilled give a scented water I mentally followed my good friend nor of doubt attended my arrival in Mintinsin Petruchio alive? the gling as they do with the odors oi grease and machinery the atmosphr Is hea with the thousand scent process of manufacture after years it was picnics and pleas it was called "ort knew' It was! lev I Rus from can fathom their system of what can I do for the general concluded mud to the wagon constantly becoming fast my wife unacquainted life obliged to carry a At one time I saw her log crying children fast 4 then said up A pancake which been given time to a crisp in the until three days la last moment I was observe plant became friendly intimate during hard travel in a Russian base Gridley repre rom De every direction the territory in ICAJAj to mind but a very few dwellings on Woodward avenue 1830 or for some 'years after Where the Holden road (now Palm er avenue) came Into Woodward was a dense forest: it seemed when you entered it as though you were about to explore the unknown There is a small house now standing on the corner of "Woodward and Warren avenues that was there in 1830 and before The Brush estate had a farm house at about Eliot street front ing on Woodward avenue Considerably later on Stim son purchased quite a plot of ground on the corner of what is now Stim son Place and on it erected the dwelling that is there still Many wondered why he went so far out when so many more eligible sites were available much nearer the city Mr Stimson and his wife were both young genial and being quite so cially inclined attracted the young the gay and tbe dancing element to their hospitable residence The only teeming drawback was the trouble getting there during the winter andpring and sometimes it was more than seeming as occasionally the tnovr or mud so blocked the avenue that 11 was quite an undertaking to fio so and taxed the capacity of the limited number of nacks and cabs to take car of the crowd On these dccasions ths french cart was much tn evidence an course" We him in Langcheng and he has with us every moment since until yesterday He told us other ques his very cleverness was The campaign had sud a horror to me been thinking he said dully: Azra Baldwin andlc Stimson built his and It was won cut Rev Dr Duffield a fine brick resi Both Wo spent nany weeks In we Woodward Avenue in the Thirties the Pioneer Residents ures he Is most ardently urging have been parts of the Democratic creeds in the past Still they seem to be what the people want It is highly probable that before the next presidential campaign opens there will be a pretty complete realignment of the parties the radicals and the conserva tives The old school Democrats and the standpat Republicans will go to gether with the Roosevelt Republi cans the aggressive fighting kind allying themselves with the inde pendent voters and the more active and aggressive Democrats I do not mean to Indicate that either the Re publican or Democratic parties will go out of existence but both stand a chance of being so reorganized that their old friends will hardly know them If the senate Republicans have their way and succeed In taking the Republican organization from the president the Republicans will be the conservatives and the radical Roose velt men will naturally ally them selves with the Democrats This fight in the senate is now shaping things for such a reorganization Until the contest shapes up a little more defin itely it is the wise congressman who sits tight and waits until he sees which direction the bandwagon is go ing to take I am sitting tight In my letters to you Mary I real ize that I have been writing more as one man would write to another than as a man would write to his Gridley laughed low always absorbed in the words of Petruchio tain joined us I exclaimed street lived what was two and a half It was quite a commo rapidly to help the senators in plans There has been the row the arbitration treaties which resulted in an apparent open break between the president and a majority of the Republican senators Just how deep that goes I cannot yet surance left the house free to save its face by voting in obedience to what it is pleased to call "the sentiment of the The senate has an idea that there is more emotion than senti ment back of the agitation and those wise old graybeards figure that they can smother the legislation and be taken care of by their railroad friends in the next legislature or two By that time they think some other prob lem will have diverted public atten tion and the allowed to die The direct railroads have awed tone: Gridley answered tell you what is and the You the him Mean etruchio on top of the which com alrcady heav i He was "I only hope that the commander at Mintinsin has not been too hasty in this matter of your servant You know we take very few chances in by John Hunt David McKinstry commissioners to run a road to Pontiac The other gentlemen had stuck the stake near this tree and Judge Hunt said will call this the Royal I said to Mrs Trowbridge you had better walk around this mud hole I nm afraid you may be thrown from the Mrs Trowbridge got down with the children and then commenced a continuous mud hole that ran for six miles That was a hard travel through a heavily wooded Country bed children in the mud with such a heavy child sitting on a in the we are near the promised land See that light ahead that is the land of I called at Dr Swan's and then came up to our new place where we have lived ever since the re cipients of manifold blessings tem poral and spiritual only settlements in this penin sula then were a few in Oakland county Oliver Williams father of Gardner Ephraim Benjamin Alph eus Alfred and James rolled the first wagon ever started from Detroit for the interior arrived on my land the 22d of October Rev Thompson said that when he came to Michigan in i831 the hos pitality and good cheer of the pioneer families would never be forgotten by bim and he mentions particularly that of Trowbridge trolt he went out in visiting all parts of search of a location and finally set tled on St Clair Paris In th the same time I would have stayed with Pete When we had marched for an hour the command swung into 1 double time for a distance Before noon we heard firing ahead and an hour later a distant Japanese battery sighted our column Their 'shells crept closer and closer until they found the range Then I saw for the first time the havoc of broken lines Atlas heavily burdened trotted sturdily behind His scarred face ordinarily the color of old ivory was blanched somewhat but he bore the strain well and it was through his efforts that the pack pony was prevented from bolting The command was winded and gasped for breath I could not see more than fifty yards ahead for the smoke but the faces of the men near est were drenched with sweat their eyes were wild and their mouths open The hoarse breathing of the command was a dreadful thing to I was riding well in the ad vance with the general and his staff It was like the shock of a suddenly breaking windstorm when we rode into the range of an unseen force of Japanese riflery At four in the afternoon we reached the railway to the east of which was extending for miles the roaring battle lines Our division joined the main Russian front and engaged in the fight I was too engrossed by the events of the night and morning to realize the stress of the moment 1 did not remember that I was an atom in this gigantic struggle because a newspaper wanted details As one partially hyp notized I moved to and fro looking into the faces of commanders and couriers into profiles of common sol diers lying breast down upon the ground and firing I could not see the enemy except when the wind blew away the thick pall of smoke which lay between the two firing lines leaned over the faces of wounded sians huge yellow haired boys Siberian and offered my teen when it was needed Toward the end of the day the suddenly roared with running the smoke fog thinned before eyes and I beheld an endless mishing line of the enemy less two hundred yards away The Japa nese were not firing I heard a shout ing of Russian orders down the crowd ed trenches Then the general still ness gave way to a deafening crash? of guns and unutterable confusion I saw the intrepid faces of the Japanese ahead appearing black through the smoke saw their ranks drop down to fire Behind them rolled up another section of the charge the Rus sian trenches held The rest was a jumbled horror Vaguely I remember of sitting on tbe ground with darkness all about I heard finally a group of Russian offi cers congratulating each other and liking and dug it up entire placing the root in an empty salmon tin The out fit did not move ter and at the astonished to gravely place his kettles and provisions prised pack of jur ily burdened coolie Ah surprised and disappointed in me when informed him that he' must forego such luxuries for the present urless he chose to pack them himself Pe truchio sacrificed the potted posy ex plaining ruefully that it was We had lxen stationed a number of days at Mintinsin a Chinese town twenty five miles west of the railroad when Ah i our coolie disappeared He maj have wearied of bossing? at all events we never saw or heard of him again Gridley spent the afternoon in search of a new coolie and returned at supper time with Ah a short strongly built oriental whose face was scarred and as If it had been burnt or terribly frozen and whose little black eyes were the sharpest and shiniest I have ever seen said Petruchio pointing to the broad shoulders plopa coolee Gridley and I laughed The new boy was installed as our burden bearer "We Will call him Atlas on account of those remarked Grid ley who had a way of naming all for eigners for some peculiarity "They seem powerful enough to support tbe So far as we could see there was little difference between Atlas and the one who had gone before but with Petruchio it was otherwise The latter was not one whit less overbearing dur ing working hours but when the toil was done we were surprised to see our aristocratic cook squat down before the other and engage in low gurgles of conversation Such an honor had never fallen to the lot of poor Ah i Many times during each day how ever we were informed by Petruchio that the "new had He tried to tell us more but became so involved in the bubbling intonations of his own wondrous lan guage that it was impossible to follow him wholly We drew however that there were certain phases of the Stimson learned the chandlery business or what needs of a sailing craft were in that line bn a voyage around the Horn before the mast and up along the South American cJast on a sail ing vessel collecting hides etc He was a fellow sailor with Dana Jr who wrote that highly enter taining book Years Before the Our esteemed townman Harry Skinner married a daughter of his Referring again to attending par ties at the The pleasure derived more than paid for the dis comforts Gridley and i in Tokyo and the days of reaching Langcheng on Liaotung Gulf rented an English paper and I an American journal but we both were young new to real war and became companions naturally He was a fine manly dependable chap and I learned to like him immensely Two weeks out of Japan after many changes from ship to ship we arrived at our destination and applied for per mission to follow the Russian army We were told that we must cable our editors to arrange with St Petersburg for permission This involved a neavy expense and our papers were not rich but all that was possible was done' 5V finally were informed by the Rus sian general commanding at Lang cheng that our cause was pending at the Russian capital and that we would receive a happy verdict in a shert time Gridley and I drew long breaths and set about adding to our equipr ment As our expense accounts were not large we determined to make one camp outfit one cook one coolie and one pack pony do for both Our cook a Langcheng Chinaboy whom we called Petruchio for his ease in waiving dif ficulties was really a prize He en deared himself to us not only for his expert handling of rice curry tea fish and chicken but by his appear ance his ludicrous attempts at Eng lish and his whole hearted allegiance to our interests as he Interpreted them Petruchio was very jiarticular about his person kept his padded hose and cotton garments scrupulously clean his forehead and temples shaven unto shininess and his queue tightly braided and glossy His disdain for that mortal of lower caste our coolie was complete According to his rat ing Ah i the Chinese burden bearer and the mongrel pack pony were of equal rank Petruchio had his own way of per forming all duties If we undertook tp persuade him to do things our way he would blandly thrust us aside reit erating: "Me slabie by which we were to understand that his know ledge of the thing at hand was suf ficient much longer than cared for the city was as vile and squalid as only a Chinese town can be Thpre was everywhere through the tortuous ill smelling streets a confusion of passing troops and a murmur of skulking frightened na tives As the weeks passed by and rumors of terrific fighting before ort Ar thur and north in Manchuria reached us we became very discontented Though we were doing all that was in cur power we could not help feeling that our papers expected more I will never forget the hot summer morning when the good news came A ser vant from headquarters brought us word from the general that our per mits were in tho hands of our respec tive consuls "Petruchio my Gridley said exultantly "you arc scheduled to proceed to "Me slabie Petruchio ans wered and began to drag out equip ment at onee Three days later all was arranged and we left Langcheng with thankful hearts It seemed very strange and lonely to usklthough the officers of the division to which we were attached were hospitable and friendly to a marked degree Our division did much marching but encountered little ac tion for many weeks Couriers how ever brought word of heavy fighting below and whenever we approached the railway we saw north bound hos pital trains endless and ghastly Petruchio fitted marvelously into the field work Many a time we should Have fared ill without him and many a cheerless march or bivouac was made less miserable through various expressions of his old character Back In the hut at Langcheng I id often noted his passion for plants One sum mer evening in a fresh camp he found a gaudy flowering shrub much to his "Did that medium show you any thing that surprised answered the inquisitive certain demonstrations wt! a guitar and tambourine I was aston ished find that my friends in tlt spirit world had become such Star march with all speed to Liapden a city on the railroad twenty five miles distant As Gridley and I were hur riedly preparing our outfits for the journey we noticed with much astoru ishmerrttothat there a Russian sen try both at the front and hack doors of our hut Petruchio was getting breakfast ready when the Russian cap tain with whom we had talked the night before in front of headquarters entered with two soldiers and pointed to the Chinaboy am very sorry to occasion you any he said in English "but we are forced to arrest your ser vant You may be assured that a trial will be given I was about to exclaim that etru chfo was innocent but I caught a glance from Gridley whose face was very white I will never forget the look on face as the two soldiers' led him away It was one of the hardest moments I ever passed Gridley said brokenly when we were alone "it woujd only have suspicion upon us to have interfered Besides assigned to this division and for the sake of our papers we must accept the inevitable But fond of Petruchio as well as you and hoping that he will come out all right go to headquarters now and tell them all we know about poor old Pete and ask them to give him every We could not eat Petruchio had not to turn was burned pan Atlas packed the ponies and we joined the column in front of head quarters In tha interim before the was sounded we found an opportunity to tell the commander of the force that was to stay behind to garrison the town all the good that we knew about etruchio and it was much Our statements were respect fully received although we were not allowed to see the prisoner The division was already pulling out of the town when we gained our sad dles The soldiers sang as they marched I had heard their tremen dous voices upraised a hundred times but the songs never thrilled me ith an intense sorrow before I was thinking of Petruchio and the deadly danger of being even suspected for a spy at such brief were the and how swift tence I did not that Petruchio than our servant and a most excel lent one but I realized with greater sadness that against him denly become must have thoughts for has sort of taken the of work it? If have been square with my paper at lected is not clear for there are a hundred other places which are quite as conducive to the growth of flowers and much more accessible But two or three manufacturers settled here and others followed' to today Grasse has it all her own way or miles there are orange groves as far as the eye can reach There are fields of roses tube roses violets jonquils and mignoriette The air is heavy with the scent of these (blossoms but should you wan der through the town with its dark and narrow streets the experience is vastly different Hqre the scents are stronger and more pungent and min ih touch with the situation in "Wash ington where the women are also all politicians and keenly alive to the significance and bearing of everything that is done I hope I have been able to give you little insight into affairs so that you will more readily appreciate and understand tho socio politico atmosphere into which you will soon be thrown I have pur posely refrained from trying to de scribe any of the physical attractions of Washington leaving that for your own enjoyment when you come to the inauguration I have made all arrangements for your comfort at the hotel and when you come we will have one of our old heart to hearts and then decide whether we want any more of the congressional game or whether we will go back to good old Hollingsdale and live like honest folks Your affectionate husband KENT HOWARD Gathering the Crops The pick of the crops is brought to the factories by farmers whose ut tie homes dot tho surrounding hillj says a writer in the New York Her aid Bruised and broken blo5oms loso something of their fracranee the flowers are carefully borne in largo trays on the heads of the wives and daughters Of course we all know that only eight or ten of tho countless scents which are for sale the drug stores axe what they profess to be You may ask for cherry blos som wood violet or white roeo ani receive a liquid the odor of which calls the flower which you know well but each is the creation of tr skilled chemist and manufacturer and may contain no vestige of the flower in question The flowers really ueed in scent making are the jessamine rose tuberose orange blossom caw: Parma violet jonquil mignonette end to a smaller extent geranium leaves lavender and thyme All othr aceru are judicious mixtures of the esser of these with Infusions of oriental spices and drugs Jessamine and tuberose scents ar made by what is known as the process A layer of fat is spread upon plates of glass and th petals flowers are scattered upon the 'p The petals are removed every day ani fresh ones replace till the fa' is thoroughly Impregnated with scent when it is stored as a white pomade Roses orange blossoms css sie and Parma violets are similarly treated by the hot process The fat a melted and the leaves are put to soak in it till it grows cold when it in placed in a hydraulic press and th flowers are removed by of a sleve 'This is not the pomado used by hairdressers but simply the raw ma terial used for the manufacture of es sence more being at the top of which floats the essential oil The waters are largely sold for the toilet as well as for the pharmacy and cookery Japanese spy had written a descrip tion of his work briefly and in the i first person He regretted that his explosive had proved inadequate add ed that he would shortly reach Liap den and from there make his way north along the railway to engage in the dangerous work' of destroying the Russian railway bridges The general was silent for a full minute Then he said: "The dead Japanese intended to pass this report to some brother spy in our midst who would forward it to Japan when an opportunity presented We may be able to check the Japanese army but we cannot espionage you turning to me I related hastily and graphically I trust what had befalten Petruchio and urged ray desire to save his life long have you known this Chinaboy of yours the general asked "our months I replied hired been then many times after we took this coolie spy into our service that' there was much about him which he could not understand We thought nothing of it guess the other is properly Chin the general said with a smile regret that the wires are cut but if you wish I will give: you an order for your release back to thank you gratefully "I only hope that the zf '5 THE DETROIT REE PRESS: SUNDAY EBRUARY 26 190a ers from that vicinity with their fam ilies who located in this They the men portion were typical English farmers with their smock frocks gait ers and hob nailed shoes Mr Busby always put me in mind Of Mr Pickwick ever since I knew of the latter through our lamented friend Charles Dickens and whenever I see a picture of Pickwick I 6eem to see Busby He had a beau tiful daughter a typical English girl her name was Grace I think She married James razer of Bay City This tavern used to be patron ized by the farmers living near the city and by the general public it a grand place for shooting tur keys geese and chickens Thanksgiv ing and Christmas The fowls were securely fastened to a box or sorrie thing some distance in the rear of the tavern aboutresidence now is I crowd would load back shed of the the fun was over they would spend the night in the bar room raf fling offthe victims of the day There were jio houses beyond th tavern in the direction of the firing so there was not tmuch danger from a stray bullet LeRoy afterwards occupied this tavern site and grounds with his dwelling and garden he having been burned out oh Bates of 1838 a Nearly opposite where John into Woodward Palmer my uncle In a "rough cast stories high dlous (welling and was occupied by him during the building of his new residence on the corner of ort and Shclbystrcets Adjoining and includ ing the ground on which stood the house be owned one or two acres which were enclosed at tho rear and scores of 'lanterns moved along the trench from which issued the groans of countless wounded The only firing I heard now was that of fax off artillery I was dull with fatigue and hunger I cannot tell how long I sat there before Gridley jerked my shoul der whispering "Come here qulck old chap: got something to show I followed him back through the swinging lanterns and voices of pain I saw our pony standing by the packs and Gridley pointed to a figure on the ground I knelt over this figure in the darkness Atlas our coolie had been one' of the fatalities of the battle The tragedies of war were so thick about me that the truth did not strike me so forcibly as it would have ordinarily and I had known Atlas but a time Gridley knelt beside me struck a match and drew the clothing of the oriental asideIn a thick leather belt strapped next to his skin I saw a sheath knife a wire cutter and a half dozen bomb cases Two of the latter still con tained their explosive cylinders "And I have a paper Gridley whispered' "Even in the agonies of death the nervy little Jap tried to swallow "And so it was Atlas who was abroad in Mintinsin last said in "Of quickly to be done You keep this paper turn over the whole evidence to general of our division here will have no trouble in proving truth Get a written order from for the release of etruchio while ride back to the other town now as fast as I and if they not done away with him 'already see that he is spared until you come with the I shook hands with him rode away I cannot begin to describe my feelings as the journey of what a passion thought of his Would he find question charged through my mind again and again A Russian major whom I knew was passing I called to him and told the story He placed a guard over the body of Atlas and led me to tiear quarters It was an hour before the general gave me audience When he did find a moment to hear my story he became interested at once especial ly so since he was the object of the plot the night before and had so mar velously escaped He asked for the paper which Atlas attempted to make away with before he died and his interpreter translated the Japanese writing The document proved to be a report of the occurrence at Mintin sin on the previous night Atlas the A Story of Manchuria and the Japanese Secret Service dered why he too went so far Some years after built and occupied dcnce opposite Col himself and Mrs Duffield died there After awhile the residence gave place to the present block of stores At about the same time Gen John Rob ertson owned and occupied the lot which is now grocery store his dwelling being on the rear of the lot' In the rear of the Duffield residence near the corner of High and ark streets was the fortification or earth work erected by Col Croghan pro tecting the outskirts of the city It was called "ort and was for tho protection of the fanners against the Indians a place where the former could' rally in case of an emergency It was surrounded fry a moat which was crossed by means of a draw bridge The guns of the fort commanded it In a great resort for ure outings Why I never eled many years ago Where the Methodist church now is John Williams had a larger barn and some distance back from it was a large two story and a half brick house alscT belonging to him And that is all there was in that vicinity for many years said before Grand park was nothing but a common The west side was an extensive pond of water that furnished good skating during the winter and good shooting of ducks plover" snipe and tip ups during the season Just south of this ponj on a slight rise of ground was tav ern now the Whitney block When 1 first knew this tavern it was kept by an Englishman by the name of Busby who came direct from London Eng land with his family He brought with him three or four taxixx Lions and Lavender An investigator of the effect of per fumes on animals in the London Zoo logical Gardens discovered that most of the lions and leopards were very fond of lavender They took a piece of cotton saturated with it and held it between their paws with great de light Plenty of Applicants In London recently a firm advertised for a clerk at $7 50 a week and re ceived 998 applications for the position frnm thn hand ana I chap hftv vo character of Atlas of which did not approve On the tenth night of our stay in Mintinsin we were awakened by a tre mendous explosion Gridley was first to the door of the Chinese hut we were occupying 1 "Something has happened at head he said excitedly We hastily donned our clothing There was the sound of a step in the rear of our hut as of some one coming in or going out but in the darkness we could not see whether it Was truchio' or Atlas 'At headquarters we found that several members of the staff had been injured by an explosive placed inside the building Undoubtedly the bomb had been ig nited by some person hostile to the Russian cause Through a freak of the explosive the general command ing the division the one most exposed to the destructive force and whose death was the evident object of the plot was miraculously spared ive Russian officers had received wounds but only one was mortally hurt Before the injured men were moved from the building Gridley I reached the spot Even then Russians were charging the deed some Japanese spy in their midst A score of sentries had walked their posts within 200 yards of the building The perpetrator must therefore have been within the cordon of guards when night fell "Umm velee I turned about at the well known voice Gridley laughed low He was and cap and that ways A Russian for a moment talked of the occurrence I saw his eyes were upon etruchio as he spoke and that his glance was singu larly sharp I remember that he told mo of Japanese spies In general how they had worked in Manchuria for ten years or more since the Chinese war how they had grown queues and toiled as coolies for the Russian sol diers who found it impossible to tell them from real Chinese Even the Asiatics themselves had been known frequently to be deceived the Russian officer declared Presently the captain left us and a the excitement had abated Gridley Petruchio and I returned to quarters Atlas was in his bunk apparently asleep I stayed awake for a long time and noted without concern that a Russian sentry walked by our door much more frequently than usual The next morning we were aroused early by an uncommon movement of troops IVe learned from a passing officer that the division had received rush orders a half hour before to I was lost one catacombs went jntvn the silence dreadful shnrs a my spinal column sent gnj the place was shrouded in a Pn deaTn half so doleful rooif rate agitation may be a natural death representatives of the talked the matter over with some of us and they are satisfied to let us vote as we nlease just now pinning their faith on the senate to throw the switch when the chance comes to wreck the bill That will let us out comfortably and as I have told you while I am under no obliga tions to the railroads I do not care to incur their hostility as I have ex plained how far their influence goes in making or unmaking a public career Since we shunted the bill over to the senate side things have developed very their over has a time I knew how trials in such cases the execution of sen believe for an instant was anything more on the Woodward avenue and Grand Circus park sides by a rail fence and were devoted to garden purposes There were no business liouses of any kind rom this point on either side of Woodward avenue down to Jeffer son avenue it being given up entirelyto private residences and continuing so for sorje years Those that I can call to mind as re siding on this avenue the time we lived there and up to 1850 were next to Nir LeRoy Mr Petty he being in the em ploy of the American (Express Co Mt Manchester clothing merchant: Wil liam King clothing merchant Benja min Vernbr Dr Brodie David Peirce George McMillan and "William Stead The last named lived on the northwest corner of Clifford street On the opposite side of Woodward avenue to John street were Dr sanitarium a double dwelling owned by Dr Scovell and the residences of James Abbott Dr Kane and Dr A Brown Samuel lived on the corner of Clifford street where is now the candy store he also owned the house and lot adjoining I think the property is in his heirs to this day I think Dickinson owned the two adjoining houses Gen John Williams owned and lived in a small cottage on the corner of Grand River avenue where is now William dry goods store The general died in this house and this property is now in the Kinstry heirs Those who lived on the opposite of the avenue between John State I am unable to recall ex cept Ludden Alanson Sheely John Atkinson Lemuel Goddell and David Dwight father of the late David Dwight the lumberman Mr Dwight lived in a small cottage where Rol store now is On the same' side of the avenue with dry goods house and on the opposite corner of Grand River ave That night in the little hut occupied before we three gathers together The two Cossacks abroad somewhere In the to sn truchio little the worse his journey to the gates per for us in the old good way help thinking of that tie Jap Gridley said "He was so nervy and he died aio and without "Lattles? He velee bad truchio announced glancing up the fire place We nodded gravely "Pete he boyl" he sdjaj 'moment later his face round a i bright as a new penny 1UU1O jpAta nue lived previous to 1849 and afwr Edward Shepard the hardware mer chant in quite an attractive residence surrounded by fine trees and shrA bery Mr Godfrey owned some lot adjoining and I think lived there at all events later on he improved property by building the substand Godfrey block thereon Dr Joseph Bagg also lived 1839 where is now the Godfrey and next to thorn lived Lawyer Ex 4 Seaman rank Eldred rectly opposite (To be continued determine There is a Republican junta of president makers who have never liked Mr Roosevelt very well and it is just possible that they are preparing already for the upbuilding of a machine that will rob him of his influence in party affairs before his term expires and send him from office as another Harrison Just now of course all of the committiTemon fed eral office holders and workers are Roosevelt men but while presidents come aatd presidents go the senate and the party machine go on forever and those big wigs are always think ing quite as much of the next presi dential term at' hand While Mr candidate again he will be in tion if his plans carry out to prac tically will the nomination to his po litical heir in 1908 That is just what the party leaders do not desire and there are strong indications that they are already planning the undoing at least to the extent of cre ating dissatisfaction in the party ranks and robbing hfcn of his politi cal power which now appears to be almost absolute In a quiet way the leaders of this movement have suc ceeded in thwarting 'a good many of the plans The present ses sion of congress will end in a few days and the summary of it will show that the congress has done really People tell me who have tried it dreary) in a jail That a prison cell is chccrle the universal tale And I do not doubt the story but doubtful if the gloorn Can outdo the clammy aspect hall room late Col John Winder built his residence (still standing) on This ten acre lot about the same time that terior of Michigan from Detroit I quote from the late Mr (father of General Chas A and Edward Trowbridge and brother: of Trowbridge) account of his experience in that directionpublished in the Pontiac Gazette some time in 1858: "When I arrived in Detroit with my family some time about the first of May 1821 I was obliged to hire a wild pair of rench steers no teams in the country "I loaded and started for the new home quite late in the day arrived at Mrs or "Mother Hand as she was commonly called A turnpike had been made for five miles and then a horrible road through swamps and marshes After passing some distance it became dark road terrible wife walkingleading one and carrying a great boy of thir ty pounds Oxen wild and ungovern able: spirits sunk almost sorry that I ever undertook to bring my family to suffer and die in those wild woods Presently two men came up who cheered us on and agreed to stick by if all night to help with the team and children fellows! and long to be re membered: one was Mr Miller father of Mr Miller merchant of Rochester Michigan Those men were indispen sable at that time I have often wished since then that I could do something for some of their children as token of thanks to them About 10 he saw a light from a window and finally got to tavern and camped on the bar room floor house filled with lodgers Next day started in good spirits on a firm to the 4 11 xvu maty taiA quvvv where the brooding ted Is Just loaded down and Jr? with the essence of Where the vhill miasma rises spectre from the tomb But I doubt if as gloomy room nothing that the president has urged In his message last December he out lined a large number of matters which he evidently considered important and urged to the favorable action of the congress Not one of these has re ceived consideration in the spirit of friendliness Above all tions almost the president is pledg ed to a big navy His estimates or those of his cabinet officer have been carved ruthlessly and open revolt has been with difficulty suppressed among Republican members of the congress The railway rate 'legislation has been touted strong and a measure forced through the house but the session will end without any enactment Tariff recommendations have been smother ed by the friends of the present pro tective systecn and nearly if every measure recommended by president has been ignored or posed of contrary to his wishes recommendations The president is not the caliber of a man to take defeat meekly and I am certain that he will adopt meas ures with the next congress that will either secure the accomplishment of his wishes or cause the break be tween him and the legislative branch of the government to become open There is no question today but the people with the president The old style politicians accuse him of having turned Democrat and it is cer tainly true that some of lhe meas wife but I know your the case of a suspected general added vlio a 11 ciock departed with two Cossacks sentence wbieh th en haunted me I was dit2v weariness and hunger little or nettling since ni fore and the day had been ene rifle experience I kept to die for five hours tnore the end of which period Mintinsin I wav how I could benr to hear that had not been In time i standing by the Russjan the doorway of the new headq jg? across tne street irom the old recognized the reached "Oh I say old the I tumbled down gripped Gridley's without more words that noitripp rtarl hran cuul liur would have been all over Gridley told me Kad Done Some Good know Miss Hotshott lated erdy know why but sometimes bah Jove jo me think wotshot" Interrupted Miss Ro have not vain! Leader RADLED in the hills in the heart of the Riviera tho little town of Grasse holds the mo nopoly of the trade in scents Just why this spot should have been se Woodward avenue (Saginaw turn pike) clear to Pontiac during the rainy season and particularly in the spring was dreadful on account' of the mud and sometimes it took the stage coach the best part of two days to make the journey and then the passengers had at times to get out and help pry the coach out of a mud hole with fence rails and so onj I have witnessed the operation and thought at the timo what dreary i fun it must have been for a stage load of passengers to go bumping over a corduroy road for a long dis tance and then get suddenly landed in quagmire' and bet forced ta halw LI the coacS oup 62 pfight Referring tX the hardships of the early 'settlers getting into the in Washington ebruary 22 DEAR I am happy to state that ao far aa my vote on that railway rate question is concerned I have the laugh on Jen Jkins and some of his fellows who are jealous of my and who have been intimating that I getting on too friendly terms with some of the men who are so closely identified with the railroad interests I sse that ito home papers have given prominence to the fact that I voted to support the policy and against the That will nat urally please those constituents of mine who are not yet able to drive past the Money Devil without wear ing blinders but the fact remains dear that it would have placed me in a very embarrassing position if the vote had really meant anything The bill went through the house with a whoep and there are but few of the members who will not' be able to go before their constituents and wax elo quent over their efforts to hold up the hands of the administration In its fight for the rights' of the' people against the corporations and dll that sort of bosh The fact is that we had it cold just as certain as death and taxes that the senate was really to asphyx iate the bill just as soon as it could get a safety clutch on it and that as the I i I' 1 I qC 7 'I HH.