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HE WHO WROTE IT
The Man Who Penned the Dec
laration of Independence.
WORK OF THVIOTHY MATLACK.
He Wat a Clark In the Continental
Congreaa Whan That Immortal Doou
ment Waa Adoptad and Waa Also the
Fineit Wrltar In the Country.
Who wrote the Declaration of Inde
pendence? Thomas Jefferson, of course;
every one knows that. But who held
the pen and formed the letters on the
great piece of parchment that the
members of the Continental congress
signed? It Is one of the largest official
[>apers In existence—one skin of parch
ment nearly three feet long and more
than two feet wide. The writing Is
nearly twice the normal size and Is
unusually handsome and clear.
The secretary who was ordered to
promulgate the work was Charles
Thomson, a man of high character,
who had been the principal of a school
it New Castle, DeL, and an active pa
triot The first congress chose him as
secretary in 1774, and he held the of
fice until the Continental congress
passed out of existence on March 2,
17S9. During all those fifteen years It
was only on rare occasions that any
>ther hand than his wrote in the jour
nal.
One of the clerks In Thomson's offlco
!n 1775 and 1776 ■was Timothy Matlack,
who died at Holmesburg, Pa., In 1829.
wheif he was ninety-nine years of age.
To carry out the order of the con
c^ess that the Declaration be pro
jlalmed. Thomson needed more than a
score of copies, for he had to send It
to every one of the states and to the
irmy. So, to save time, he did not
ittempt to have any copies written off
with the pen, but sent the original
Irnft, which the congress had passed,
to the official printer, Johu Dunlap.
The following morning th<» printed
copies were in Thomson's hands. They
were printed on one side of the paper
jn large sheets eighteen inches long
ind fourteen and a half inches wide in
the form known as broadsides.
It was from one of those copies that
Philadelphia first heard the Declara
tion read, and it was one of them that
t>ecame the official copy, for Thomson
tiad not copied the Declaration even
Into the Journal of the congress before
lie pave it to the printer; but when ho
wrote the journal for July 4 he left
i blank space for the Declaration, and
the next day, with two wafers of red
wax, he fastened in the printed broad
side.
1 have said that sometimes an entry
was made In the Journal of the con
gress by another band than Thomson's.
The first of those occasions was on
lune 12, 1775, when Timothy Matlack
recorded a resolution to set aside a
Jay for fasting and prayer to avert the
iesolating calamities that seemed to be
Impending. Matlack had been appoint
?d a clerk In Thomson's office on May
15, and Ave days later, on May 20, he
wrote out the most Important docu
ment that the congress had Issued up
:o that time—the commission to George
Washington to be commander In chief
3t the American army. The identifica
tion of the penmanship of the commis
sion with that of the entry In the
lournal and of both with an autograph
letter of Matlack's that Is among the
papers of the Continental congress Is
certain.
Probably there was not at that time
i man In the country who was Mat
lack's equal as a penman. Fortun
ately, Matlack was still a clerk In
Thomson's office when the Declara
tion of Independence was ordered to
t>e engrossed for final signature, and
the task of copying it was assigned to
film. He copied from the printed
broadside. That is clearly shown by
the heading of the broadside. "In Con
n-ess, July 4, 177B." which is repro
iuced In the written Declaration in the
same form of lettering.
A few years ago some of the officials
In the library of congress, who knew
that Matlack was the best penman em
ployed by Thomson, made a compari
son of General Washington's commis
sion. which was known to have been
written by him, with the Declaration.
The first peculiar letter in the com
mission is the capital "N" in New
Hampshire, and we find its counter
part in "Nature's" In the second line of
the body of the Declaration. The
jraceful flourish at the top of the "T"
n the word "To" in the commission is
•epeated in the second of the sentences
jeglnning "That" in the Declaration.
In the word "offer" in the commission
there Is a marked peculiarity In the
louble "f." The first "f' is made like
the old fashioned long "s." It appears
in the word "effect" in the Declaration,
then in "suffer" and "sufferable." That
Is the most noteworthy peculiarity in
Matlack's writing. The capital "D" in
the commission and In the last line of
tho Declaration, the capital "B" In the
commission and in the word "British"
In the Declaration, the whole word
"Congress" In both documents—those
and other details established beyond a
doubt that the writer of the great Dec
laration was Timothy Matlack.
In 1824, when John Quincy Adams
was secretary of state, a skilled en
graver, William J. Stone, made a cop
perplate facsimile of the Declaration.
That is the only one that has ever been
made. It was distributed by order of
congress and Is familiar to us all, It is
a perfect reproduction in every partic
ular of the original document and is a
fine specimen of the engraver's art—
Gaillard Hunt in Youth's Companion.
OUR NAVALSCHOOL
Origin and Rise of the Grand In
stitution at Annapolis.
BANCROFT GOT IT STARTED.
jHe Worked For Ite Establishment With
. Untiring Zeal, and It Waa Formally
- Opened on Oct. 10, 1845'—Our PrtvN
1 oue Naval Schools.
We had a military academy almost
half a century before we had a naval
academy. It was not until the admin
istration of President James JEL Polk
that the government thought it neces
sary',to establish a naval academy at
which young men could be educated
for that'part of our protective service.
George Bancroft was the founder of
the United States Naval academ#,
which was at first called the Naval
school. It was formally opened at An
napolis on Oct 10, 1845. For several
years prior to this effort there was a
school working along Bimilar lines at
(the Naval asylum in Philadelphia,
[where the midshipmen prepared thorn
pelves for examination and promotion.
The school was reorganized in 1800
and the course was increased from live
to seven, the first and last two years
to be passed at the school, the inter
vening years at sea. At this time the
separate departments of Instruction
were established, a vessel was pro
vided and annual practice cruises were
Instituted. In 1S51 the requirements
of sea service were abolished, leaving
the course four consecutive years of
study.
At the outbreak of the war In 1861
the Naval academy was removed to
Newport, R. I., where it remained un
til the summer of 1865, when It was re
established at Annapolis. In 1870 the
title of cadet midshipmen was sub
stituted for midshipman, and three
years later the course was Increased
by the addition of two years' sea serv
ice in cruising vessels, at the expira
tion of which the cadet midshipman
returned to the Naval academy for ex
amination in professional subjects
prior to graduation.
Previous to the establishing of the
Naval academy several attempts had
been made to establish training schools
for officers and sailors of the navy. In
1838 Captain M. C. Perry suggested a
school for engineers, but little was ac
complished before Bancroft called the
meeting In Philadelphia which decided
the establishing of the present school.
At first there was considerable of a
wrangle as to where the school should
be located. The site finally chosen was
an old army post known as Fort Sev
ern, located on the point of land which
forms the easternmost extremity of the
city of Annapolis and lies between the
harbor and the Severn river. Poor as
the place was in the eyes of Bancroft,
he saw that it was far less likely to
challenge congressional criticism than
a more pretentious habitation, and be
sides, as the board of naval officers had
said, the fact was undeniably true that
it might "be enlarged and perfected at
some future time."
Fort Severn waa auiy transrerrea
by the 'war department to the navy
on Aug. 35,1845, and a fortnight after
ward Secretary Bancroft published
his "plan," which, together with the
'"regulations" subsequently prepared
by Commander Buchanan, governed
the workings of the school until 1850.
The first superintendent of the Naval
academy was Commander Franklin
Buchanan.
At 11 o'clock on tlie morning of Oct.
10, 1845, all hands assembled In one
of the recitation rooms, and the super
intendent, after a brief but pointed ad
dress, in which he announced he
should exact rigid compliance with all
laws, orders and regulations, declared
the school open. The old buildings at
the ancient army post at Annapolis,
where the midshipmen began to re
ceive instruction, had beeu termed by
Secretary Bancroft "a modest shelter
for the pupils," and It is said that they
certainly deserved no more compli
mentary description.
Mr. Bancroft at once began plans to
have the academy more commodlonsly
housed, and be asked congress for an
appropriation of $28,000 to be expend
ed for repairs, Improvements and In
structions at Fort Severn, Ann a poll*.
The secretary brought all his diplo
macy and skill to bear, and at last had
the profound satisfaction of receiving
the appropriation by an ample ma
jority and of seeing the naval school
of the United States then become duly
organized by law.
Thus ended the long fight for It
Three days after the bill became a law
Secretary Bancroft directed the super
intendent to enlarge the buildings and
construct new ones sufficient to ac
commodate 100 midshipmen. This
small beginning was the foundation
of the present large and effective insti
tution, which trains the sailors In a
way equal to that furnished by any
other country In the world.—Philadel
phia Press.
Train Your Dog to Wipe Hit Feet.
A puppy can easily be taught to wipe
Its feet on the doormat when entering
a house, and the habit once formed Is
seldom broken. The modus operandi is
Simple. Every time the dog is brought
to the door the command Is given,
"Wipe your feet" The trainer then
lifts each paw In succession and pulls
it twice across the mat. In a few days
the dog will be wiping his own feet
Good Housekeeping.
No man or boy is ever the slightest
good in this world unless he has ambi
tion.—Lord Stanley.
No Huaband Is Perfect
Don't expect all the virtues 1A one
hum. If he la good no tared bo may bo
lazy; If bo la scholarly be may be cold;
If ho is thrifty be may be stingy; If he
Is generous be may be wasteful; If he
Is smooth be may be deceitful. The
mm who chnrffls you with his immacu
late appearance is likely to be some
thing of an old maid; the man who is
careful to pick threads off your skirt is
pRjue to pick flaws In you; the man
who takes an undue interest in the se
lection of your hats may take an undue
Interest in tbe bill which comes home;
the man who before marriage Jumps
to open the door, lest your fingers be
contaminated by the knob, may after
marriage allow tbose same fingers to
be contaminated by the washboard.
Woman's Home Companion.
A Valuable Tooth.
There Is an amusing story of tbe
economy necessary in the early days
of the Norwegian theater at Bergen
It was in 1849, when Ibsen and BJorn
son were creating the national drama.
A lady bad been engaged for the part
of "second old woman" when it was
discovered that her elocutionary pow
ers were impaired by tho fact that she
had lost one of her front teeth. Im
poverlshed as she was, the manage
ment came to the rescue and bore the
expense of the necessary dentistry.
When she retired, however, after two
seasons, she bad to leave the tooth be
hind her. the example of the dentist's
art being the property of the tlieater.
The management was too poor to part
with it
8he Wti One of Them.
Once a high school principal was
having a dispute with one of his teach
ers, a vivacious young lady. 8be claim
ed that tbe word "man" meant man
kind as a whole, while "men" always
signified the masculine gender.
The principal maintained that there
were exceptions and triumphantly
Quoted, "Though I speak with the
tongues of men and of angels."
But tho young lady answered de
murely, "T^t won't do, for, you see,
both genders are mentioned there."—
Ladies' Home Journal
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AN OPEN LETTER
——.u .i ii
WESLEY L. JONES, < ' j]
Chairman.
J. H. DaTls, Clerk.
United States Senate
Waahington, D. C., St®t 21, '16.
lion. IX. P. King, Jr.,
Valdezz, Alaska.
My dear Mr. King:
Your favor o£ September 7th at
hjand.
You arc at Wbeuty to ubo any lat
ter of Aug. 24th la any way you
de$m wise to promote the success o
Judge Wickerf'tam. The letter waj
not written wlOU) a view otf publicity
If ft had been, I would hpJve mada It
miurh. stronger arad gone micro fullj
Int ► th» work 'that Jndgq WI clear
sham has done In the Interest o£
Alaska. I know whJat hie kasi dcxat,
I have cc-operatcd with. hJLm gla41j?
in many ways. No man could haf#
been, more earaett and active la
looking after Alaska's affairs, ai4
1a my J udgmon.t, ao oawj cauld ha?*
acted more et£feidU\TEly tlianj Judg#
Wlckeisham. His experience will
bei of^ameaeuirable yaime ia til*
future-. Alaska should have the
benefit of this experience, as well
aa the beaefflt of Judge Wlcker
alwwn'a earn.es tnaes^ enea^yj a ad
ability,
I say this solely la the inter
est o* the people of Alaska and not
with, reference to Judge Wicker
a ham's politics. I propose to do
everything In ray poiwea- to promote
the best interests of Alaska and
will heartily co-o|peiot<o with auy
on« yo.u may send. Ihere, but I feel
that more can be accomplished in
conjunction with) Judge Wickershau
than anyone else that you would
send here at the present time.
Respectfully yours,
(Signed) W. L JONES.
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