The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1909 Page: 2 of 10
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ment at.d important economic results
■-'HI fid uw. And ah that will be in
line w i :i the pruHicai hVoiS whi ■ h
govern lie department of agriculture
Manila has been cclcbratinK the
th-veiith anniversary of the capture
ot the i itv by American troops. What
has become, of that Philippine disaf-
fection and Insurrection which the
‘anti imperialsts' were wont to pre-
dii t so gloomily" asks the INening
Wisconsin. iteally the admirers of
Aguuiaido have had little to talk about
for -nine time. Perliups they will
S' i/.e tie Incident of the Invasion of
N• ■ w I.upland by the n gular army as
tut oppoi t unity first to protest loudly
ami then to take to the tall timber
n:
1st
The little shah of Persia is between
11 and 12 years old, about the age
when the average American boy is
having the care free time of his life
Vet they propose that the young shah
shall marry and assume the responsi-
bility of a domestic establishment.
And apparently they have the estab-
lishment picked out. No wonder the
little fellow tried to run away. Also
no wonder that even the sluggish east
is awakening to the farcical charac-
ter of some kinds of monarchy.
There are international exchange*
of various kinds—-commercial, edu-
cational and aesthetic. Years ago
Great Britain Inaugurated an Interna-
tional exchange In birds by giving this
country the English sparrow. Lately
England has received from this coun-
try the American robin—a generous
repayment. The new arrival is much
appreciated In the “tight little Island.”
Whether the birds will stay In Eng-
land through the autumn and winter is
uow a matter of debate.
To deprive of his adopted national-
ity a Chinaman who served In the
navy during the civil war, was wound-
ed five times In the service of the
country, and has held citizenship pa-
pers for 35 years, must be in ^accord
with the law, since (be courts say so.
But It leaves a liberty of opinion as to
what sort of law It Is that Inflicts such
results.
m
A Montreal paper has figured that In
dancing at a ball beginning at ten
o’clock at night and ending at Are
o’clock tke next morning the distance
covered Is more than XI mllea. Yet
the average girl prefers It to a day
at the washtub, where there Is very
little walking.
The bead of tke chemical bureau
says that modern housewives are Lu-
cretia Borgtas, who devote themselves
to bridge while ptomaines . ravel uw
checked’ in th* icebox. This tad let
ment is enough to (reed# the marrow
“ wan evea to the exteal a#
-C.
might to
p kopi nin-
r I iitt.it m. - ri'i'c to > ippl\ 'tie
B I \\ a . i g < .11 .1 • 111;,.!-! Thu '’Oill
* B n.ii i .-.-r- M. , hums arc tp- I up
in mm t.tpu .iik! any claimant
gut,- tl 1H legs MU i g i t* d up ill it
ipufur.- lu« has progressed a foot.
The tape is of the right color; it
turns to anarchy the thoughts
of the i humant who tries
through the disappointing years
to thread the devious course of
its windings,
-The house of representatives
once had submitted to it. by the
members of the committee on claims a report
recommending that Major Lawson M. Fuller
of - the army he paid for some articles—many
articles tu tact—which the government lost for
him nine years ago.
An army officer's pay is small at the best,
and ten years ago, when Major, Fuller's Ire-
longings were lost, hlB pay was somewhat
smaller than it Is today. Nevertheless, he had
to expend $1,325.35, as he could save it from
time to time, to replace the absolutely neces-
sary articles which were lost, “without fault
tr neglect on Ills part and with equitable re-
sponsibility by the ('nited States,*' as the find-
ing of one of the investigating officials had it.
Major Fuller s belongings comprised pretty
nearly everything l hat he had in the world,
from one pair of Romeo slippers” to a civilian
iress suit, 'evening, satin lined,” “one sack
suit from New York" and "one sack Suit from
Baltimore ” The major made affidavit that ev-
ary article enumerated in the list of his losses
"was necessary and wolild have been used had
the consignment ever reached its destination.”
The consignment went to the bottom of the
sea with the wreckage of the transport Mor-
gan. The major added to his affidavit the
datement that every article would be replaced
as soon a* he was financially able to replace it.
The goods were lost 10 years ago. A glance
at the army pay table makes it appear that by
the practice of rigid economy Major Fuller by
this time may have succeeded in duplicating
his wardrobe of the late nineties.
The end is not yet. The committee on
claims, after many years, reported Major Ful-
ler’s case favorably to the house. The house
was busy with other things. It Is not hard for
the representatives to overlook claims. They
are used to It and hardened to it. Then the
senate must act and finally the president. Ma-
jor Fuller may get his money at a time coinci-
dent with bis retirement at the age limit, and
he Is yet a young man.
There Is no means at this present moment
of finding out whether Casper H. Conrad, of
the Third United States cavalry, has succeeded
In finally wresting from Uncle Sam’s grasp
$32.85, which the usually amiable uncle took
from the officer's pay practically by force of
arms some 10 years ago. At last accounts the
cavalryman was still pegging away trying to
get bis money back, for It belonged to him and
no one has ever Intimated that It did not be-
long to him, but claims proceedings are greater
laggards In their pace than^were the Jarndyce
proceedings In chancery.
If Capt. Conrad has not recovered his $32.85
he Is still hopeful, for the most hopeful people
on earth are those who have claims, and the
deferring of hope seemingly never makes their
hearts sick. This is one of the cqmpensatlons
which nature grants to offset the iniquities of
Claims proceedings In congress.
Capt. Conrad, as an acting quartermaster,
paid $32.85 extra duty money to certain en-
listed men. A government regulation which
has existed for years authorised, in fact or-
dered, the captain to *h© money. After
he had paid it he found that the government
had revoked the extra-pay regulation, but no
»ne had seea fit to noUfy the quartermasters of
Ihe change.
Uncle Bam immediately stopped $32.85 oat
of Capt. Conrad's pay. end practicably told him
that he should have known in some mysterious
way that tke government had aa order stowed,
away in a vault somewhere to the effect that
extnAdoty pay had been cot out.
.....Conrad totoSi of. an atm torntfr
BtaSk to bis task of getUa
from the government Uk* a f
a. j
oral of the array and (he
quart'-' muster ■ general to
make the attempt to get a
hill passed by congress to
reimburse him for the
pocket picking outrage per-
petrated by Uncle Sam. lie
had to do a lot of work he-*'
(Ore he succeeded in reach-
ing the action permission
stage of the proceedings.
To be sure there was only
$32.85 in money Involved, but
the principle was worth
something, and the soldier
who won't fight for a prin-
ciple Avjm't light well for
anything else.
Of course only a part,
very likely a small part, of
the claims entered against
the government have justice
as a basis. In Ibrder to find
out the truth of things tbs
government occasionally Is
obliged to spend many times
the amount of money in-
volved.
One of the most curious
claim cases eyer known to
congress was that of Senora
Feliciana Mendiola, who
lived at Angeles. Banipanga,
Philippine islands. The Se-
nora rented a house to Un-
tie Sam for the use of some
of his teamsters, When the
mule-driving contingent
moved out of the bouse after
a short occupancy the se-
nora declared under oath
that some of the siding
boards were missing from
the kitchen wall, and she
asked for $200 In gold to re-
pay her for the dan^age to
her property. *
This case of Senora Felici-
ana Mendiola fills 14 pages
of a house of representatives
document. It contains a
long letter from the secre-
tary of war on the question
of the value of kitchen sid-
ings, another letter from the
quartermaster-general of the
United States and 53 com-
munications from army offi-
cers and civilians of various
rank* and conditions.
a board of officers was
convened to pass on the va-
lidity of the sonora's claim.
The board was in session for
days, many of its members
long distance to attend. One teamster. Wil-
liam Langworthy by name, swore that the se-
nora’s kitchen sidings were chewed up and
eaten by r«-d ants. Teamster 8ummervllle
swore that in his opinion the boards dropped
out of place by their own weight. Teamster
Pickle said: “Them boards was punk.”
The army board which Bat on the case
thought ft was very doubtful in strict Justice
If Senora Feliciana should be allowed any
money, but finally the members granted her
the sum of $30 In gold. This action, of course,
was not final, but the committees on war
claims In house and senate approved the find-
ings ’ ,
The senora received $30 and doubtless It
gave her some satisfaction to know that Uncle
Sam had spent about $1,000 to gqt authority
to pay for a kitchen siding which went to de-
struction either by way of a teamster’s foot
or a red ant's stomach.
Toe inventor's Kooky Rood.
Thera comes to Washington occasionally a
man who perfected aa invention, aa engine of
war, which la now la us* by nsarly every elvK
nsed government o* tbs fags of th* earth, ftv-
chidlng the government of tks United States.
This man rscsatly (him— ramtnlscaeUy. Ha
tk* ’town* to Ms
coming from a
trusts that the government will find merit
that he must prepare himself at the outset to
be treated In turn like an Imbecile, a lunatic
and a criminal by the department officials to
whom he tries to present his ideas.
“Every Inventor who enters a department
of the United States government with a view
to Interesting tba officials In something which
may be and often proves to be of service to
the government la set down aa a matter of
course as an idiot. This is at the outaet.
There Is in most of the departments, and cer-
tainly In the one with which 1 bad to do busi-
ness, a i set of officials whose business H Is to
get rid of Inventors and to get rid of them
without loss of politeness and without loaa of
tlms.
“The regular plan la to pasa the Inventor
from one to another, each one having an in-
creased chilliness of manner, Twit yet wearing
the aeml-lndulgent smile with which one listens
to the prattle to a child known to be mentally
deficient •
May Never Return.
"Th* last tobotai gats rM of th* lnvaator,
"bo, If h* M* *to .tot 1
and a mtataigtol
not treated as If h^ were fresh froip at»
asylum for the feeble-minded, bul J»
turned over at once to the official
whose duty It Is to examine such
things aa he has to offer, and the exam-
ination proceeds forthwith. The conti-
nental governments take Interest In ev-
erything that Is new, especially If It
pertains to warfare, and the Inventor t*
treated like what he is In most cases—
H gentleman. The United States gov-
ernment when it gets a thing gets It
by accident after having exhausted ev-
ery means lfkely to discourage a mat*
Whose brain has produced that which
finally is found worthy by those who
had met It at the outset.wlth a sneer.'’
It may be after all that truth la
stranger than fiction, though people arw
given to a doubt of the ol^ saying.
After hearing of what this Inventor had
said, a character In one of Charlea
Dickens' novels came to mind and I
looked him up to refresh the memory.
The American said that the continental
European governments were interested
in all th© schemes of inventors. H*
said nothing about Great Britain. It
may be that Edward’s government ba»
reformed, but In “Little Dorrit,” a*
anvone may find who chooses to look. Daniel
Doyce, Mr. Meagle's friend, had an experience
with officialdom much like that of the yanke*.
Of Doyce Mr. Meagle said:
“This Doyce is a smith and engineer. . . .
A dozen years ago he perfected an Invention
(Involving a very curious secret process) of
great importance to his country and hls fellow
creatures. I won’t say how much It cost him.
or how many years of hls life he had been
about It, but he brought it to perfection *
dozen years ago. ...
Becomes a Culprit,
“He addressee himself to the government.
The moment he addressee himself to the gov-
ernment. hw becomes * public offender! f . .
He ceases to .be an innocent cltlxen and be-
comes a culprit. He 1* treated from that
Instant as a man who has done gome Infernal
actloij. He Is a man to be shirked, put off,
brow beaten, sneered at. handed over by thla
highly connected young or old gentleman to
that highly connected young or old gentleman,
and dodged back agalti; fee ia a man with no
rights In his own time, or hls own property;
a mere outlaw, wheat 1$ la Justifiable to **t
rid to anyhow : a taka to bp worn out by any
possible tneens.w v
The Inventor who bad eome thtngs to a*r
about the Haiti
the Atototoaa
In which he was ;
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1909, newspaper, November 5, 1909; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1106812/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.