Arkansas Democrat from Little Rock, Arkansas • Page 16

THE 1 DAI LY ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT. JULV 16 GREAT PIANO VIRTUOSO. and served with the greatest distinction. Hiselection was a greater honor, because being a Whig he waa elected by Democratic competitors. WILD-CAT INSURANCE VETERAN JURIST HONORED AT OF PHILLIPS HIS OLD HOME 'ortrait of Judge John Thompson Jones Presented to the Essex County Court House, Virginia.

wish to" emphasize the occasion by giving expression to my personal prlde at the high distinction the performance of this pleasant duty carries with it, and the pride of our people at the high tribute paid them, and the exalted and distinguished honor in the donation of this splendid portrait by his family. May Judge Jones and his descendants always make pilgrimages to his native' state and county, and may they always turn to the state and county of his nativity with that love that Ma-hommedan turns to Mecca sod Christian turns to the holy land. This proud old historic commonwealth and the county of Essex will, and shall always, claim him in. turn as one of her most distinguished sons. CHARMING LITTLE DOROTHY.

tleman who has endeared himself to our people by marrying one of the fairest daughters of Virginia and the county of Essex, and although he has transplanted her as an exotic and flower to another state, yet as the. years roll around and the seasons recur, he brings her back to her native town when the June roses begin to bloom, to commune amidst the scenes and memories of hei r'rlhcoa and childhood, with her friends 'o whom she is so dear, and we- admire her so much. Judge Jones was born at Retreat, Essex county, October 11, 1813. His home was Farmville, Essex county, just below this town, the ancestral home on the banks of the Rappahannock river, which has been owned and occupied by th famllv and name, with Its broad rich acres, and title deeds since 1692, the late Col. Aubrey H.

Jones, the father of Mrs. Dickev, being the last occupant. This old ancestral home, with its After the war between the states and before the carpetbaggers wrested the government from the people he was elected by the Arkansas legislature, a United States senator with Hon. A. H.

Garland, who afterwards was attorney-general of the United States in President Cleveland's cabinet, but neither he nor Mr. Garland ever took their seats because the state was not "reconstructed." But what he esteemed as the highest honor ever conferred on him was his election as master of the National Grange, when that order was in its highest proFijerlty, and exercised a potent influence for good In the nation under his administration. He was a schoolmate at Rumforrl Academy with Dr. William and John F. Brocken-brough, sons of Dr.

Austin Brocken-brough of TappaUannock, Va. He was Miss Anna Laughlln, the charming little Dorothy In "The Wizard of. Oz," is if not original. An expert swimmer, 'Mien Laughlm has Ideas of The Tidewater Democrat of Tappa-hannock, in its issue of June 24, publishes an interesting sketch of Judge John Thompson Jones of Phillips county, one of the distinguished citizens of eastern Arkansas. In connection with the article as reproduced here is given a picture taken from Judge Jones' latest photograph, which waa used by his daughter-in-law in making the pyrograph presented to the Essex county court house.

The article is as follows: The circuit court opened its June term at 11 a. m. last Monday and after all the grand and petit jurors and member of the bar had been called, and before the judge proceeded to rail the docket, a most interesting ceremony took place in unveiling of the portrait of Judge John Thompson Jones of Arkansas. The assemblage in the court-bouse was a large representative one of the people and graced by the presence of ladies. The portrait was a lifesized one In burnt wood with handsome and expen- pHiml and in Fact In Name The Equitable Life Assurance Society, of the united states Is paying a large amount of maturing policies in Arkansas Below is given a settlement made on a matured policy of Mr.

Joseph H. Brown, vice president and manager of the well known firm of C. J. Lincoln Drug Company. The original policy taken out by Mr.

Brown was for $3,000. He was offered in cash $3,798.57 or a fully paid-up policy for life of $8,310, which latter settlement he accepted. Those figures speak" best for themselves and evidence the good management of this big financial institution, which is very properly known as the "Strongest in the World." Main Office in Arkansas 205 Kahn Building, Little Rock '4 VSjSfCffWRM'A J-, NCOfOKATe Vladimar'De Pachmann, the great piano virtuoso, is announced for a transcontinental tour of from eighty to pne hundred concerts in America this coming season, under the direction of Loudon G. Charlton. De Pach-mann's pre-eminence as an artist is too well known from his former tours in this country to need even passing mention.

He is already engaged by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for one of their tours in Boston, New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, and dates are arranged for him as well with the Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Ctn. cinnati and Chicago orchestras. He will give three recitals each in New York and Boston before he starts west. After playing all the principal cities of the middle west, he will proceed about January 1, 1905, to the Pacific ccast, where fifteen dates are already booked by way of the southern and Texas cities, and he will re- turn through the northwest and Canada. I'M 80 NERVOUS." Fred Stone recently Interpolated a telling and effective catch-line in "The Wizard of Os." When he makes his entrance as the Scarecrow In the Scene of the Field of the Deadly Popples he exclaims, "I'm so ner-vous." The first time he introduced this gag it vvoked an immediate roar of laughter from the audience and the comedian was thereupon induced to repeat it In two other scenes of the play once again in the episode where the Wizard Injects brains into his pate and again In the last act where he is imprisoned in the wisteria tree.

The unctuous humor of Stone's rising inflection when. "I'm so ner-vous," is wen more delicious than Air. Lawrence D'Orsay famous catch-line. "Sarah's in "The Earl of Pawtucket" or Mr. Frank Daniels' "Is my face red?" in 'The Office Boy." At least, a Chicago critic said so.

4 RocifeARK? July-19 if 1904 Is Being Prosecuted by the Federal Authorities in the North. j- The Investigator, a Chicago Insurance journal, published the following relative to the prosecution of wild-cat insurance company promoters: S. W. Jacobs and E. A.

Shanklln, the two managers of wild-cat companies against which the federal government has begun prosecution In Chicago, were held in $3,000 bonds to the federal grand jury Thursday. Bonds were given in each case. The grand jury does not meet until October. S. W.

Jacobs waived examination, and but one witness, Mrs. Bessie Taylor, was beard in the suit against Shanklln. At the preliminary hearing held last month, testimony waa reoelved from B. B. Duval, a Baltimore broker, whe Dlaced insurance with Shanklln and was unable to collect, and from several other out-of-town insurance men wha were anxious to give their testimony and get home.

Mrs. Taylor, who testified Thursday, had been Shanklin'a stenographer, but had been discharged and had brought suit for damages against him. She notified the government that she was in possession oi valuable information and waa regarded as its most Important witness. Mrs. Taylor testified that Shanklln represented the North American, Interstate, the Citizens, the Great Britain, the American Underwriters, the Citizens' Underwriters, the Great i Western Underwriters, and the Royal Standard Underwriters.

The Citizens' Underwriters, so Shanklln said, was started in order that he might do business In(. I1H-; nois, where the law did not touch a Lloyds. The witness testiflsd that Shanklln told her that the companies had but few assets, and what securities there were had been deposited in Dr. Jaeobs' bank. She held that Shnnk-ltn was really the companies, the men who posed as officers being given $6 a month for the use of their names, and coming up regularly to collect their Mrs.

Taylor went at length into Shanklin's method of handling losses, claiming that hl3 scheme was to nursa the loss along as far as he could, hoping to wear the claimant out, and If he became tco obstreperous to turn him over to H. J. Toner, an attorney, who would then resort to all legal- technicalities to esiape liability. She held that Shanklin claimed he was not in the business to pay losses. Illustrating thin, she said that he was treasurer of the Belmont Golf Club and was grven the placing of its insurance.

He put it in outside companies rather his own, explaining that ha did not want the business, as if there should happen to be a loss he would have ta pay it, under the circumstances, and he was not in businss for that purpose. Shanklin outlined to her his line of defense In case he was again prosecuted," and held that he would compel the prosecution to prove that his companies had no assets. He said that this would be imposlble, as he had plenty of assets, if their value was not considered, and could use one lot for any of the companies that might be under fire. On cross examination Mrs. Taylor explained why.

she left Shanklln and turned against him. She said that he came into the office drunk and, abused her, and when she said she would quit he accused her of stealing postage stamps. In consequence, she brought a slander suit against him, which has since been settled for $300. Shanklin's attorney attempted to mb'-'a point out of Mrs. Taylor's personal and family history, and made much of a circular giving the names of persons lo whom losses had been paid by Shanklin's companies.

Inspector Ketcham, of the post-office department, who has worked up the cases against Shanklin and Jacobs, said that be had found 109 wild-cat Insurance companies in Chicago, and that th postoffice department had received instructions to return all mail addressed to fifty-five of these. Efforts are now being made to secure fraud orders from the postoffice department at Washington, which will close up nearly all the remaining concerns. 1 GENERAL Y. M. C.

A. NOTES. A building erected for colored men at Buxton, Iowa was opened on July 4 The building was erected by the mining company for Its colored employes. Over "three hundred miners have taken out membership. At one of the meetings of the lever east side departments of the New York Citi T.

M. C. where the subject of Citizenship and Patriotism was discussed, out of an attendance of twenty-seven men, only five were born In America. There were representatives from Ireland, Germany Denmark, Gfieee, Prussia and other countries. This was "just ordinary class" attendance, and few, if any, of these men have yet become naturalised eltl-sens.

A lecture waa given recently to thirty-five Greeks through inter- not be unworthy of his heritage and what better legacy can one have than an honored name, and these walls show how rich an Inheritance you have. Judge Jones belongs to a generation which is fast passing away, he is representative of a society, which can never be reproduced They may have been slow to develop the material resources of the county, but they made men and women, instead of great fortunes, they builded homes instead of great factories and taught purity and honor instead of high finance. When it is the good fortune of one of us of the younger generation to know a man like Judge Jones we at once recognize and admire in him' that high sense of honor which sustains him in any circumstances and wel! may we say with Bolivar Blake, of the men of the last generation of Virginia and the south, that in the next world while they may not all sit with the saints tbey will all stand with the gen tlemen. With these few remarks and in the name of Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Jones of New York City, I present this portrait of Judge John Thompson Jones to Essex county. Judge Wright said: Gentlemen of the Bar Ladies and Gentlemen: As the judge who presides over his court, it is with inexpressible pleasure that I accept in behalf of this this portrait of Judge John Thompson Jones of Helena, Arkansas, nnd nrdpr it to be placed on the walls of this courtroom. It is the portrait of a noted and distinguished man, full of years and honors, who still live at the age of ninety-two, at his distant home in a distant state, and although he is an adopted son of the state of Arkansas, yet as a son of the proud Old Dominion, he loves her and his native county of Espex with devotion, and the ten-derest emotions of filial love. The work is the joint gift of Mr. Paul Jones, his son, the chief attorney and solicitor of the American Cotton Company, No.

25 Broad street, New York, and of his wife, and is the product of the exquisite art and genius of Mrs. Paul Jones, a most accomplished lady and artist of New York. Of all the beautiful memorial tablets and portraits that illuminate our historic gallery there is none more striking nor richer in art. The only regret I experience in per forming this most pleasant duty today is the disappointment 1 feel from the fact that I am unable to introduce to you and welcome as our guest the gifted New York artist ana to hear thb thrilling eloquence of her husband. vho is one of the leading and most gifted orators and lawyers of that great metropolis, and who was expected in person to present this picture on this occasion.

But my disappointment has been removed and dissipated by the great pleasure I feel in being so fortunate in improvising a substitute in the person of our young friend, Mr. Dickey, an accomplished and gifted member of the Maryland bar, who In such a chaste, classic and eloquent wax has performed this pleasant duty in presenting this portrait to the court, and I esteem it as a matter of pride and the greatest pleasure to Introduce to you and welcome Mr. Dickey as a most talented and accomplished attorney of the Maryland bar, and of the city of Baltimore, and who has qualified in this court today as a members of the Virginia bar gen JUDGE JOHN THOMPSON JONES. Mr. Haxry M.

Haiaey Mgr. UU3V RocfcAxx. i)5eat On June 1684tI took-out" a policy? irr ydu3 for $3000. ooyiixcn matured, on Juno Your CowpanyJ offers to pay we in casn tne sum or 1 37 98.57 r' "being eturn 'of money" paid in oy me," ana a little over thirty two per oent.l in addition; or, Tin lieu or this ojf er rnej paid-up policy? for 00 tne pr lyil ct 'aloan valuet per cent" whicK lat er ee tlement 1 am please $0 accept; the neariy.tnree Sioealthe anwuntjpaid Ifi jbjrT ine.i consider; the" settlement good "an linv stment Vs andpo livtbeside 'naving haa the' pro tec ion. ourslvjeryjLtruly lve frame, and a splendid work1 of art of Mrs.

Paul Jones, New York City, a most accomplished woman and artist. The ocoasion was one of intense interest and the donation most highly esteemed. The veil waa re moved by Master Charles Newton Temple, a descendant of the Jones family. The presentation was made by I. R.

Dickey, of the Baltimore bar and the acceptance by Judge Wright. Tha following are the addresses as taken down by our reporter: Mr. Dickey said: Your Honor, Ladies and Gentlemen, I hesitated when Judge Wright asked me to make this presentation, as we had expected to have Mr. Paul Jones of New York City, the gifted son of him whom we are here to honor with u) today, and I feel that I am a poor substitute for Paul Jones, than whom there are few more eloquent attorneys to the metropolis. But when Judge Wright assured me that you would overlook my imperfections, I gladly agreed present this portrait, in order that I might have the opportunity to express my.

admiration for Judge Jones, and the men of his age, so many of whom you have sent out from your midst to leave their impress, not only on their native county, but on whatever part of the nation they have chosen as their adopted horn. It has been the custom, from time immemorial, among all great peoples to honor their distinguished sons by statues, pictures and Inscriptions, so that one can almost write history of any country in the lives of her great men, so Essex county pwes a debt of gratitude to her gifted jurist. Judge T. E'. B.

Wright, in that he has caused so emany of the great men of the county to be honored by a place on the walls of the court house, and how better can the county do herself honor than by honoring her children. This portrait, which is this day presented is one of a men, who by his sterling integrity and splendid, mental vigor, has gained (he high place he now holds in Arkansas, the state of his adoption, so tact we can safely point to his portrait and urge our children te emulate his example; It -for this reason we erect memorials to our illustrious ones. As one looks around these historic walls and sees there the memorials to the great men of the Bounty, who cannot feel the Inspiration to all that is high and honorable thrill aim till he resolves that ha too will her own about the most comfortable way to wear one's hair while in the water. "I go. bathing nearly every day," she said recently, "and I am constantly asked how I am able to keep my hair dry and glossy for the evening performance.

I. don't mind letting you in on the secret as I think it Is one worth knowing and will be of genuine benefit to many girls who are as fond of the water as I am, but dlBlike to wet their hair so as not to be presentable afterwards at the theatre or a dinner party. Before going in bathing I dress my hair exactly as I do for my work In the thwatre. I comb my hair straight bade from my forehead, tie my wig-band tightly over It and then don a thick curly wig which I fasten securely by multitudinous hairpins. 'After the.

first" plunge in the surf the wig is pretty Veil drenched through but not drop jf water touches own natural hair and after the bath my head Is as dry as if had not been in the water an alumnus of our great University of Virginia, established by Mr. Jefferson in 1830-D1-32-33, and a graduate. Now, my friends, I have told you of the public record and epitome life of Judge Jones in the briefest and most epigrammatic way. It only remains for me to speak of his merits and virtues as a private citUen In the same way. As an ideal modest and retiring gentleman and citizen, he is as refined and cultured today ever was Dr.

Arnold of Rugby. High and patriotic and lofty in sentiment nd purpose he is like good old Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, "He would give up his life for his country, but would not do a mean act to save It." What higher tribute could I pay him if I had the greatest wealth bT language to extend this encomium to an indefinite length? I could not add word more to his fame, nor place diadtm to his coronet of glofyr Therefore in concluding th-ia--rief ceremony, and in ordering the clerk to enter In the order book the accept ance of tha gift of this memorial, I historic memories, was bombirded by the British In the war of 1812. A cannon bail was thrown into the yard it not to herald the birth of Judge Jones, at least to disquiet the serenity of tie family, cartainly not as peace offering, nor bouifuet of flowers, and was preserved by Judge Jones as a war relic up to 1834 when he left the state; and by the ftwners of Farmville to the present date, I believe. The home was abandoned for a time, and Judge Jones was born at Retreat. He Is the living son of soldier who served in both the of the American revolution under Washington and in te war of 1812, although under the military age when be entered the former, and orer It when he entered the lattef.

He emigrated to Arkansas In 183, and bought and opened up large plan-' tations, and was a "Cotton Planter" In those halcyon days of southern chivalry. He was never active In politics never sought office; but in. his early life was twict elected district- judge.