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THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1918 TRAGEDY IN BUCHANAN’S LIFE Recent Revelations 8how W h y States man Selected No Mate to Share His Greatness. President Jam e s BuchaDan died a bachelor. The story of the tragedy th a t caused him not to m a rry was, brought out during the debate in the house of representatives on a motion to erect a monument to Buehnmin In W ashington. Gen. Lsauc R . .Sherwood of Ohio told the story as he heard it from a friend of Buchanan’s at the W h ite House forty years ago. “In his youth Jam e s B u chanan’s h e a rt was won by the charm s of the beautiful Miss Anna C. Coleman, who. like himself, resided in Lancaster, Pa.,’’ said General Sherwood. “They were soon betrothed and were counted the handsom est couple in all th e country around. Some tim e after the engage m ent had been announced Mr. B u chan an was obliged to go out of town on a business trip. On his return he stopped In to see a M rs. W illiam Jen kins, who was entertaining a Miss G r a d e Hubley, daughter of General Hubley, an ofiicer of the revolutionary war. \A gossiping young woman told Miss Coleman of Mr. B u chanan’s visit and aroused her Jealousy. On the spur of the moment she penned an angry note and released him from his engagement. A s h o rt time afte r this Incident a party was arranged to go to Philadelphia to attend an opera. Miss Coleman was Included In the invitation, and on a r riving at Philadelphia, on a plea of in disposition, rem a ined at the hotel. On th e ir return from the opera Miss Cole mon was found dead. She had killed herself. This broke Jam e s B u chanan’s h e a rt, and he never m arried and never loved another woman.\ EVER STAMP W H IT E HORSES? Peculiar Childish Idea W hich May Bring Back Old Days to Some of the Readers. The car w a s a long tim e coming, and a very sm all, dirty and joyous girl on one roller skate confided to an In terested bystander th a t there were “tw o w h ite horses coming.\ “I’ll stam p ’em both,\ she addefl, and proceeded to lick her thum b and jam It Into a soiled pink palm. Tw ice over It had to be done, with eyes fixed upon the npproaching team . “W h y stam p them ?” inquired the stranger. “W hy, don’t you know? W hen I stam p a hundred I’ll find something. Found a penny last time.\ Ju s t then th e new s p a p e r boy arrived with his sack, and as he took the m oney from the wooden bench, a penny rolled tow ard the gutter. The unkem p t little figure swayed on Its single skate. A frown of disapproval followed the boy’s Industrious search. W h ile the pennies were in the bag on the bench, they were property and to be respected. B u t it was plain to any one with eyes th a t a lost penny be longed to the finder—in th e code of the little girl. W hen It w a s picked up and dropped Into the boy’s pocket, she turned to the sym p a thetic bystander. \Don’t you h a te boys with freckles?” she asked. “Besides, I’d only stam p ed ’leven. W alt till I got 'n u th e r hundred.” Are Aviators Born? T h e re w a s a tim e when It w a s held th a t a m an m u st be especially born fo r aeronautic duties. Experience hos brought < u the foot that th e average young m an can m ake an excellent aviator. C aptain Guynemer, M ajor Bishop, C aptain W illiam Thaw , Cap tain Ball of the L a f a y e tte escadrille, and practically oil the fam o u s av ia tors were not men who Im p ressed any body with being different from other men. Of the thousands of allied aviators there are probably not five hundred men who had seen m o re than a few m o n ths of m llltury service before Joining th e n lr service. Most of them had never seen any m ilitary service. In planning on organization for the selection and training of aviators, the nlrcrnft board and the signal corps of the U n ited S tates have hod to prepare to deal entirely w ith men who had never seen m ilitary service, as other countries have done.— Henry Wood- house In Everybody’s. Americanisms in Britain. Lord D e rby. In advising us not to “ g et rattled .\ has added another word to our w a r vocabulary, or, ot any rate, given an old word a new meaning. In this sense \rnttled\ Is an Am ericanism , and we rem e m b er reading a n article by W. D. Howells some th irty years ago. In which he said he was not very eas ily rattled. Of coarse we have used the word In this country w ith other m eanings for m any c e n t u r i e s ; even Pepys relates on one occasion how he rnttled his wife, but th a t w a s m o re In the n a tu re of grum b ling, while Lord Derby evidently Inteuds us not to get nlnrined or excited, which is th e real A m erican sense of th e word.—Loudon Chronicle. AMONG TOMBS OF MOMARCHS Shaft W ill Be Erected on Scottieh Coast to the Memory of United States Soldiers. N a ture has built on several of Scot* land’s western Inlands great stone shafts th a t ore viewed with wonder and adm iration; man has erected on others m any columns and m onuments th a t ore renowned in a r t and history. To m ention notable examples, the natural may be seen In the Imsaltle P'llnrs of Skye and Staffa, the artistic in the m em o rials to Scottish, Irish and Norwegian kings in the burying ground of St. Columba’s isle. Iona. T'-.ere will shortly appear amid this concourse of records a monument al together novel, a new-world monument, by which America will signalize the memory of her young soldiers of free d im whom Germ any’s subm arine dev iltry drowned in the adjacent w aters. On this knoll a lofty monolith of im perishable granite will be raised In honor of the brave who went to death undismayed and self-controlled. Islay was the chief seat of those fighting chieftains, the lords of the isles, who began in the tw elfth century their incessant w a rfare with the Norsemen, and the title of the island princes has descended to the Prince of Wales. Quiescent post and stirring present seem to m eet on this pic turesque island. If the shades of the old-world kings ever visit the royal tombs at Iona, they need look south but 30 miles to see a tow e ring sign of the m aking of new-world history. PLEA FOR \FOOLLESS\ DAY Movement to Abolish Stupid April First Jokes Surely Would Meet W ith General Approval. In connection with the m ovement for less” days it is up to some patriot who has the highest interest of the nation ot h e a rt to launch a campaign for a foolless first of April. Individuals, like autom obiles, are not foolproof, and Mr. Absent Minded, who from tim e immemorial has been a much-fooled man on th e fa ta l day. would rise up and call congress bless- Instead of calling the members thereof names, os he now does. If that body would busy Itself with legislation abolishing the April-fool jokes that wreck tem p ers, ruin dispositions and w ork hovoc generally. •n the other hand, Mrs. Absent Minded would probably fight to the last ditch against any curtailm e n t of the privileges of jeering derisively at her husband when he puts salt In his cof fee. cracks an egg which proves to be only a shell, finds the lining of his ercoat sewed up, p icks up some stage money on the doorstep and starts to work with a box of soap camouflaged as candy In his pocket to m u n ch after lunch. As a result the sons of dignity will probably have to endure the annual disturbance o f their mental equilibrium In order to keep peace in the family. Man Dumb From W a r Now Talks. P a rents of W u lter Jones, a soldier of Glen Cove, L. I., who has Just re turned from France, answ ering a tele phone coll from New York, heard the voice of their son. whom they sup posed was dumb as the result of shell shock. In the trenches In F rance a hell exploded within a few feet of Jones and he becam e unconscious. Several of his com rades were killed by the explosion. W hen Jones re gained consciousness he was dehf and dumb. He w a s sent back to America for treatm e n t and on the ocean trip hom eward the vessel w a s attacked by a subm arine. The excitem ent of this shock Is said to have restored both his speech and hearing. Hot Stuff. A rthur Feust, consulting engineer from U tah, breezed Into New York and attended a banquet at the Engineers' club. Several of the guests w e re the McLean kilties of Cannda. A feuture of the m enu was squab on toast, and one of th e Scotch veterans, after asking w h a t It was, proceeded to over It well with tabasco sauce. He ate a couple of bites of the burning liquid, and then, with a low cry, put down his knife and fork. “L a y th a u r an’ bur-r-n.\ he said. Then turning to the w a iter called : ‘Aye, mon. I’ve had eneuch o' this. Gie's a shellln’s w o rth o’ h am , wle ye? An’ say, laddie, bring a bucket of Ice w a te r.\ Phosphorescence on the Moon? Severol European observers of the total lu n a r eclipse of July 4*5. 1917. have reported th a t the brightness o f the lu n a r disk appeared much greater around the limb than near the center These observations lead M. A. Nodon of B o rdeaux to revive a suggestion th a t h a s som etim e s been m ade to ac count fo r the brilliancy of certain lu- nor c r a t e r s ; vli.. th a t the surfoce of the moon mny possess a lum inosity of its own In th e n a tu re of phosphores cence. In th a t case, p erspective would Increase th e apparent lum inosity to w a rd the limb.— S cientific American. W ide Interest in Astronomy. T h e re can be no doubt th a t there Is ju s t now a great aw akening of pub lic Interest In astronom y . Renewed evidence of this. If any were needed. Is afforded by the secretary of the American Association of V a riable S tar Observers. About a year ago. we car ried In this column a brief note de scribing the alm s and needs of the association, and appealing for addl- iion* t<> ii> «<>rps of volunteer observ ers all over the world. W ithin one m o n th th e secretary states th a t h** had received 53 replies to this very modest little notice.—Scientific Amer ican. W ITH TH E COLORS W ith th e U. S. E x p e d itionary F o rce in F ran c e : B a rns, Thos. M., 9th C o n s truction A. S. S. C. B e n n e tt, Stanley, Co. M, 305th Inf. B a k e r, David, Co. B, 308th Inf. Capt. W. S e r g e a n t B o u v ier, Co. C., 303 A m m u n ition T rain. Banks, Ju n iu s , 351 M achine Gun B a t talio n , Co. A. B e n n e tt, C h auncey A., 4th Co. 2nd M. M. R e g t, P. O. 717. Sgt. J o h n D. B e n n e tt, 353 C asual Co., A. E. F., A m e rican P. 0 . 778. C a labrese, P r iv a te Dom inic, 311 Inf. Co. B. Dom iny, E r a s tu s J., Sig. C o rps No. 38. de K a y , L ieut. D rake, 39th Inf. E d w a rds, P riv a te C larence, M o tor T ruck Co. 359, P a r. B. C. M., P a ris F rance. Edw a rds, L ieut. Clifford C., Pay C o rps, U. . N. Staff Office, c|o N a val A ttache, Am. Em b assy. Fow ler, W illiam W . Co. E, 367th Inf. F ith ian , P a u l, Co. A, 107th Inf. P r iv a te W illiam W . Fow ler, 367th In f . Co. E , A. P. O. 766. G rim shaw , S e rgt. Russell F., Divis ion S u rg e o n ’s Office, 42d Div. G u y e r, G e o rge W ., Co. D, 108th Inf. M a jor Philip P. G a rdiner, 307th Inf. H ildreth, R a lph E ., Co. B, 302 Am. T r a :ji. H u ls e , H e zzie, H d q . Co. P ioneers, 5th Reg. U. S. M. C. H a n s e n , C h a rles H., 302nd A m u n i- tio n tra i n , Co. G. H u d s o n , R o b e rt, Co. M, 3 0 5 th Inf. H a lsey, Edw in C., 5th Co., 4th Reg. M. M. D. M. A. H a s s e lberger, P r v t. B e n e d ict, 58th Reg. C. A. C., B a t t e r y A H a s s e llberger, Corp. Jo h n , 2 1 s t Field A r tillery D itch Jew e tt, E n s ign, E. H-, U. S. N. R. F. K ing, P r iv a te P e rcy, 2d Balloon Co. B, A ir Service. L a w rence, F ran c is D., 78 Division H e a d q u a r ters, A. E. F ., c|o Capt. Love, A d j. Loris, Corp. F r a n k , 308th In f . Co. B, 1st B a tt. M cG u irk, W a g o n e r Leo, H d q . 302d E n g ineers M u lford, C o rtland E., Co. H, 305th Inf. M o tt, E d w a rd O., U. S. M a rine Corps. 2d A e ro Sqd. Jo h n N. O sborne, 301 T rain H e a d q u a r te r s , M ilitary Police, V e terin ary D e tachm e n t, 76th D ivision, O s b o rn, S e rgt. R aym o n d A., M echan ical R e p a ir Shop, A. P. O. 772, V e m inil, F ran c e . P a rsons, P riv. H a r r y , 37th A e ro Sqd. R itchie, V icto r W ., C o nvoie S. S. U. 625 A u tos, P a r B. C. M. Ross, F r a n k S., 107th In f ., H d q . Co. S a n d fo r d , Jam e s L., C am o u flage S e c tion, E n g in e e rs Corp. Schulte, C o rp. G e o rge A., Co. M, 307th Inf. S c h e llinger, J. W ilm e r, H d q . 501st E n g ineers S m ith, N a th a n iel E ., H d q . 501st E n gineers S h e rr ill, C a p t. S tephen, T roop 2, 2d C a v a lry, 3d A rm y C o rps, A. P. O. 754. S h e rm a n , P rv t. Thom as T., 282 A e ro Sqd. S m ith, S e rg t. Geo. N. 222 A e ro Sqd. No 4, B. E. F., F ield No. A. S teele. H a r r y M., M. M. 1, C. A. N o rth B o m b ing G roup, A. P. O. B e n n e tt, Sgt. Jo h n D., B a t t e r y C, 3rd F. A. F irs t L ieut. W e b s ter W . S tetson, Q. M. C. H e a d q u a r ters, N .A. OLDEST DYNASTY IN WORLD Distinction Undoubtedly Bel< ngs to tho Reigning House of Japan— Began W ith Em p e ror Jimniu. The present Japanese dynasty Is by for the oldest In the world, for Yoshlhlto claim s to be the one hun dred twenty-second monarch of an unbroken line, dating from the sev enth century before the C h ristian era, says the St. Louis Post-Dlspnteh. The early history of Nippon, os recorded In the holy book, Shmto, begins with th e dynasties of the gods and Is wholly m y thical In nature. The dawn of real history begins with the reign of Jlni- mu Tenno, whose memory Is revered today by all the sons of Nippon. Jlm tnu the G reat forced the savage tribes to accept civil Institutions and extended his beneficent sway over the entire country. He established his capital at Kioto. He form u lated a code of laws, established courts, encouraged Industry, and laid the foundation for th a t m arvelous advunce m ade by the Japanese during the nineteenth cen tury. The title of mikado, which means “honorable gate,” was derived from Jlm m u . From the days of this ruler Japunese power In the Orient Increas ed. The successors of Jlm m u like the g reat em p e ror him self, were wor shiped as gods upon earth. Women were not excluded from the succes sion to the throne, and there are many fam o u s em p resses In the history of Japan. He Hoped Not. Edwin R. Hisey. the undertaker, and C. L. Dietz, the broker, are brother R o tarlans. One storm y day recently Hisey. while returning from Crown Hill with his m o tor hearse, saw Dietz standing on a corner ’way up M eridian street. Hisey stopped th e hearse and shouted to D l e t i : ••Going down. Lew?\ Dietz stared at his hospitable friend and replied: “I—I—I hope n o t !” —Indianapolis Naws. Aged Tree Is Dying. The original novel orange tree, plant ed 44 veors ago. producer of the first navel oranges grown In the United S tates and parent of m illions of trees now growing In C alifornia, Is believed to be dying. H o rticultural experts have begun efforts to diagnose the dls- enw th a t th reaten s It In the hope of prolonging Its life. T h is tree, th e m ost noted In the cit rus Industry of C alifornia, came orig inally from B ahia. Brazil. It was planted in 1573 by Mrs. C. L. Tibbetts, who o b tained It from the botanical g a r dens In W a shington, D. C. H a r r y M. S teele, U. S. N a v a l Ava. Sta., P a u illac G ironde, F rance. T u c k e r, Sgt. D a n iel, T r a n s p o r t Co. 3, 308th Inf. Viscusu, Corp. M., Co. K., 52nd U. S. Pio n e e r Force. W e lby, H a r r y S., Co. F, 10th Reg. F o r e s t E n g ineers W e b b , 2nd L ieut. H a v w o o d , Co. C, 369th Inf. W o o d , Lieut. H. O. J r . , M achine' Gun Co. 104 U. S. Inf. W ith th e U. S. N a v y , c|o New Y o rk C ity post office: deK ay, E n s ign R. D., N a v a l forces in E u ropean w a ters F ith ian , C h a rles, U. S. S. Finland Field, A n thony, U. S. S. H a rvard Grim shaw , D a n iel E ., U. S. S. Seneca, E u ropean w a ters, B ase 9 K ing, Edw. M., U. S. S. S t Louis M cG u ire, Louis, U. S. S. M t. V e rnon M o ran, Leon S., U. S. N. R. F. S tr o n g , W a lter, U. S. S. N e v a d a S a lisbury, B e rn a rd , U. S. S. M t. V e r non W illiam s, M ayne, U. S. S. C arola Lieut. W . W . D u n n , U. S. S. G u lf po rt. Culver D a y ton, N. Y. S tate N a u tical Schoolship N e w p o rt. B e n n e tt, C laire C., Section B ase No. 6, 1st Sec. 8th A ir, B rooklyn Navy Y a rd S c h u lte, Jo h n W ., 1st class Q u a r ter m a s ter, U. S. S. D o rsey P h iladel phia Silvey, Joseph, J r . , 2 Div., 4th Sec tion, U. S N a v a l Cam p , So. F e r- m a n h a m , Mass. T u r n e r , Jack , S. P. 117 U. S. S. Mo- higan, B rooklyn N a v y Y a rd In train i n g cam p s in th e U n ited S tates: B a k e r, P riv. A lonzo T., M edical De tachm e n t, D e v e lopm e n t B a ttalion, C am p W h e e ler, Ga. Belden, Chas G. B.. 24 T r. Bu. F. A. R. D. Cam p Jack s o n , S. C. L ieut. Chas. M. B a x ter, M achine Gun U n it, C am p H a n c o c k , Ga. B o u v ier, Lt. J. V., 3d, Sig Corps., Avi., C am p S c o tt, Belleville, 111. B a k e r, W ilm o n t M., 52d B alloon Co., A rcadia cam p , C alif. Collins, F r a n k D,, B ase H o s p ital P lum b ing shop, C am p M e r ritt, N. J. C a rse, D o n a ld, U. S. School M il itary A e ronautics, P rin c e to n , N. J. D o m iny, N a thaniel, H a rv a r d Radio School Jam e s D o u g las, Cam p Jos. Jo h n s to n , Jacksonville, Fla. F o s ter, W m. C., 12 T rain in g Co., Cam p Joseph E. Johncon, Jac k sonville, Fla. F lan n e ry , C o rp. F r a n k , Q u a rterm a s te r ’s M o tor T ru c k Co. 379, Camp U p ton C o rp. G e o rge L. Fow ler, J r . , 51 Co. 153 D. B., 222 Cam p Dix, N. J. Jo h n H. Fow ler, 51 Co. T e n t 216, Cam p U p ton, N. Y. N o r ris H. Fow ler, 34 Co. 9 B a ttalion, 1 P latoon, 152 D e p o t B rigade, F o s ter, P r iv a te L. C o u rtland, Bat. E, 7th R eg., 3d B rigade, F. A. R. D., Cam p Jackson, C o lum b ia, S. C. Cam p Dix, N. J. Flem ing, M a tthew C. J r ., U. S. School M ilitary A e ro n a u tics, P rin c e to n , N. J. L ieut. Jam e s E . G a y , J r . , 113 O rd nance D e p o t Co., Cam p Dodge, Des M o ines, Iowa. G rim shaw , Sgt. C h a u n c e y , Co. A, 3 0 4 thB a t., C am p C o lt, G e ttysburg, Pa. Grim shaw , Teddy, F o r t D. A. Russell, H a ls e y , Lt. F r a n k W ., M achine Gun Co., 109th Inf.,C a m p T ravis, Tex. H a m ilton, Geo. H ., Avi. C o rps No. 1, K e lley F ield, Tex. H a w k ins, Joseph, B a t. E, 7th R eg., 3d B rigade, F. A. R. D., Camp Jackson, C o lum b ia, S. C. King, Stow ell, J r . , Troop B, 11th C a v a lry, F o r t M e y e r, Va. C h a rles L e s ter, C am p D e v ens, A y e r, Mass. H a r r y L e s ter, Cam p U p ton, N. Y. M o tt, O scar, 309 L a b o r Co., Cam p Jos. E. Jo h n s to n , F la. M iller, W a llace, B a t t e r y E, 7th R eg im e n t, 3d B rigade, F. A. R. D., C am p Jackson, C o lum b ia, S. C. O s b o rne, N e lson C., N a v a l A ir S ta tion, B a y S h o re, L. I. Ph a rao h , E. F ., Co. M 3 D e v e lopm e n t b a t t a l i o n , 152 D e p o t B rigade, C am p U p ton, N. Y. Leslie D. Q u inn, U. S. G u a rds, N. A., C o n s table H o o k , B ayonne, N. J. Savage, Priv. Jo h n , 321 Supply Co., A. P. O. 712 S u tphen, P resto n , U. S. School Mil ita r y A e ronautics, P rin c e to n , N. *J. P ri. J o h n G. R am p e, B a tt. E , 7 th Reg. 3d. B rigade, F. A. R. D., Cam p Jackson, S. C. P ri. O tis R am p e, 2 1 9 th L a u n d r y Co., G. M. C., C am p U p ton, L. I. H o llister, G e o rge W h iting, F o reign Legion, F ran c e W iborg, M a ry H o y t, Red C ross Div., F ran c e S tra t t o n , R u th G., A m e rican Red C ross H d q ., P a ris, F rance. Sim o n d s, L t. F. M., J r ., Sig. R- C. Avi. Sec., c|o A m e rican Ex. Co., 11 R u e Scribe, P a ris Salisbury, H a rold, A rm e d G u a rd, C ity P o r ts B a rr a c k s , B rooklyn deK a y , K a th e rin e , A rm y and Navy Bldg. W a s h ington, D. C. W o o d h o u se, L ieut. C. D., Signal C o rps, U. S. A. B o u v ier, M a jor Jo h n V., Ju d g e A d vocate G e n e ral. W a s h ington, D. C. W ith th e A m e rican E x p e d itionary F o rce in E n g lan d : F o s ter, Sgt. P e rcy N., 479 A e ro Sqd. c'o U. S. A ir S e rvice, 35 E a ton Place, London S. W ., 1, E n g land. G o ldstein, Louis, 6 5 7 th A e ro Sqd., 35 E a to n Place, London, S. W . Y. SCREENED The Star Press is prepared to do an y kind of job printing Dodge B rothers COMMERCIAL CAR It will do w h a t it is intended to do in an efficient and economical m anner The gasoline consumption is unusually low The tire r-ileage is unusually high HALSEY’S GARAGE EA S T H A M P T O N LUM B E R & COAL CO. (Lim ited) A n thracite, Bitu m inous and Cannel COAL O F F IC E AND YARDS N E A R R. R. 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