The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, May 26, 1904, Image 8
*Ew Largest
Photograph
in the World.
T tbe recent Dresden Bxhl
bitlon of Qfrutn CItIc
IJfe, tbe Nene Pboto
grsphlscbe Gee. Berlin
8teftlts exhibited a proto
graoh which ia Mid to be
tbe largest ever taken. This gtgsntlc j
picture measures twelve meters bj
soe and one-half meters (thirty-nine
fsst eight indies by four feet eleven
laches).
Tbe photograph represents the Bay
af Naples, and was taken from Castel
8an Marino, tbe highest point behind |
Naples, from which the eye commands '
tbe whole city and l>?y ait far as Mount
Vesuvius and 'Japrl. In order to se
?ore ss extensive a panorsma as pos
JlWe, six different views on ss many
pistes, measuring twenty-one by twen
^!fV?n.ce,;tIaiet*r* <elght sod one
' *8 7 t-n *nd oue-half lut lies)
were flrst taken. Prom these six
vtew^' rVCli Were de,,Kned with a
In T - Connect?d to one another
m.?. C0^UU0U? "rles. ?lx enlarge
ZT'r?* a?d ?ne La,f *>y tw<> meters
l?UJrt elev,en inches by six feet
n Inches) in slse were prepared
^h^r?lefn,, ?f "n ?P*mrat"8 with a lens
dUm. TUlneter8 (one ?n
enlargements weiv
made directly on sliver bromide paper.
Mia^ inherent difficulty of connecting
CO as to avoid any
?k ? . Wrts overcome so successfully
A ,S f>ract!e'lI,y impossible to de
tect the boundary Hue of any two
p es. According to their character,
Mnfi "*?a"ves were exposed for m?
SFf in . * varvln? between one
liuir aud one and ono-fourth hours
hu?w.der, t0 d9wU* tbe P'ctnre. a
nirwi ? was made of specially pre.
pared wood. The wheel was four
(.th,rtoon n,,d twelve one-buu
ZTr* *U 1U llia,u,',< r and one ??d
rjrf; . *, UMtvr* (l,ve and one-half
*nJ i" . re,ldti1' ,ht' Periphery thus be
?ng twelve and one-half meter* (forty -
?n?n f '- and "Staining ninety slats
Jit noea iw receiving the photographic
?ap%. There were further used three I
nibio ^"rl ab?nt ?PVe,,t>" a,"l one half
.able feet In capacity, .utended respec- !
Q*in? i Ji deVeloI?,n?. clearing and
fixing solutions, acetic add and sodium
bo^fftt/0!,,t,',,1S- K*ch Ulnk ~?M
mnvlnli " 0,1 live lrou wheels
if v .* K ni,,s s,xt,'Hn meters
. nmi forty eight hun
dredths feet) in length. A gigantic
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On account of the large developing
by night Hle l>aper Wus developed
?>y night In the opeu air. Before <l<?
nitett with a protecting cover wis
wueel was then set rotating As it
turned It dipped the lower part of the
paper into the developing liquid The
Hght portions were esp*, ally treated
with sponges Impregnated with ener
getic developers. iwu,,,,* wI,ohJ 'i^.
elopment was too rapid were checked
An 1KT ?f, ,CeU aCet,C a^?? solutions
After" ?!?? Vt devt,,?')er was used.
After first Interrupting (lie develon
Ing process by projecting leed acetic
" d on the photograph bv means of a
band pump, the paper was c> Ve3vd
Into an acetic add bath, where the
twenty* mlmi*** Wa" "Her
twenty minutes'- lime. The picture
mir? . .2 flxln* ^th. where It re
malned three-quarters of an hour
WMrthr?ther r,n8,u# ,,,e Photograph
II!k, eiiCe ??nvpyed into the large
l7 relll*. 1 #bOVe me?tioned, where
?hiin for 0,>out eight hours
Til .a r?nt,n?ou? supply and with'
drawal of water took pK ^To!i
Ui! plSft ^wr??f J"tPr ,n wa"Mng
Aftol \h 0??Ut 10093 cul,,c 'eet.\
After the water was drawn off th*
picture was stretched out on wooden
bar. attached to the ^VoMh"
taok, where It remnlneil for about ton
hour, before It >v? ,-OD.pleteljdMw -
American'"*'*1*011^*01 ?"
The
Of the tin signs used in this country Is
?n observer of advertising matter ml
experience Indicates that tin signs ? !
?0.t valuable a. a? odJU?
paper publicity. He g?vs "Vf. K ^
*7,:v:r.:!r ?>?<?>
??. z izztjxz
Wko use newspaper H>ace."
aV g bopn ?fveu up as lost
nwnts onJwWeh8,A the 0^1*,r,?, l?dlct
ents on which Aaron Hurr was tried
V" or"C,d
In Una at R'ebmond, Va
ar^r. #f ,h?
ro?ru;^x: ,be
? Tiffany, who worked with
?"? ?* ,*?caUoa Uftr two year a 7, .
SwraTw! *!**' 41 r*c*nU* ?? Jamea
U dog meat la la great re
l?Mt at certain ? mnt
CAUGHT BY H6 CURIOSITY.
Mhad of mttnrrlmg ? Tlf?r Tor
tb? Purposes ot Exhibition.
The trap akowa la tb* sccompsnylsg
rat, from Pumfi Weekly. shows tho
method <MWSI>S(1 Is raptwtaf s tiger
for exhibition porposss when ft Is de
sired particularly not Is nsr his Aao
for In soy msoner.
I ECONOMY M FLAME.
I i . .1 - ?
Is Qm fcouartsld In 1b used Cm tttM
? Ulamlnatloa. hfttlag tad
cooking? and ftMrallj It rtqalm I
MptnU aid iiiUict apparatus foe
each of thea* porpoeee.
Boat* good |Mhn baa laveoted am af
fair ?hkk eoBbioca all tbcaa prlaeft*
pies la ?aa Llgbt frost tbo flame of a
?Wis TIE UlfiEST PIITOCIIPI M IK MM.
Unreeling the Print Into the Clearing Bath.
The principle of tbe trap Is uiuch the
same us ttiat of an ordinary mouse
trap. A great square inclosure Is erect
ed in a likely piuce Id tlie depths of the
forest. It Is constructed of strong logs,
fastened together as securely as possi
ble. In the inside of this inclosure Is
placed a large looking glass, while the
MIRROR Cf iTHE TIOKR TRAP.
top, or Ud, Is fastened in the nlr and
attached to a strong spring. In tbe
course of time the tiger is almost sure
to pass in the direction of the trap, in
which case he is always much inter- :
ested in his reflection in the mirror,
and will climb inside In order to dis
cover what this curious thing is. As
he clumbers over the side and drops to
the ground the spring of the lid Is re
leased. with the result that the animal
Is caught, and cannot possibly make
his escape until the lid is removed.
There are holes in each side of tbe In
closure. provided for the purpose of
doping the infuriated tiger when once
he bus fallen a victim to curiosity.
(.oral W??kly'? Hold on Its Field.
Probably the time will never come
In this country when the local news
paper will case to be a unique feature
of every considerable community, a
sterling necessity of every growing
and progressive town, says the Klll
Ingly County Observer. And as to Its
character and tone, its ambitions and
its aspiratiou, they will continue to
be, as they now are, as much depend
ent upon the community as upon the
publisher, for the town journal Is,
after all, what they make It.
?luatlflnblw llomlrliln.
A man went Into tbe office of the
News at Mortonville, Kan., a few days
ago and announced: "I've come to
kill a printer."
"Any printer In particular?" asked
?he foreman.
"Oh. any one will do. I would pre
fer a small one, but I've got to makr
some sort of a show at tight or leave
home, since the paper called my wife's
tea party a 'swill alTulr.' "?Minneapol
is Journal.
A seaman, whose body was found
ii the Thumcs Illver, Kngland, was
tattoed from bead to foot.
lamp at the base of the machine is dif
fused throughout the room. The upper
part of the tlaiue heats au oven attach
ment, and In doing so passes through
a coil of pipe, the air lu which flows
rapidly out Into the room as It is
TIIK IilGHTKR, HBATKR AND COOXXK.
heated. and is replaced by /?ooler air,
which in (urn reaches a high tempera
ture.
Thre? Srore Year* and T tin.
Seventeen persons In a hundred la
the State of New York live to be over
seventy years of aico.
GENERAL STOESSEL,
Tli? Russian Olfloer Who Ha* Come Into
PrnmioBQUH um (lommander of tbe Gar
rUon at Port Arthur.
PEACE MONUMENT,
Washington.
balloon adtbntubb.
na wmwomte hbnby di la
PAULX. (Urine aero
I C a *1 Mut. who la it prawn t
conducting a MhM of ax
?Mi perlmeots la marine bal
looning on tba Mediterranean. in the
vicinity of Cannea, predicts that, it
thlnge go aa ha haa reason to expect,
ha will, daring next summer, show
that ha can sail about on tha Medit
erranean aa safely in his balloon as
ha could on a yacht, remaining for a
week or fortnight on tha water. Ha
says ha haa already aolved tha prob
lems of demonstrating tha atablllty
of tha balloon nt a small elevation over
the surface of the water for an indef
inite length of time, and of deviating
from the course of tha. wind at least
thirty degreea. On land the Count has
bad some wonderful adventurea. His
hundredth aerial trip was accom
plished In November of laat year, and
since then he has made five more as
cents. He has beaten every .record in
the world, having covered k distance
of about 13,300 miles; passed 882 hours,
that is to say, about thlrty-slx days, in
his balloons, and conveyed 327 pas
sengers.
"One of the most sensational excur
sions I ever made." he said, "was on
October 22. 1898, when M. Mallet and
myself sailed over the furnaces of
Liege, with a thousand cubic metres
of Inflammable gas at an elevation
which was rather dangerous, and land
ed In Pomeranlo, near Rostock, after
a voyage of more than 050 miles. It
was a glorious nigbt. and at 10 o'clock
we passed over a town, where a sil
very, chime rang out the hour with
tones that seemed to gather a marvel
lous sweetness as tbey echoed through
the silence of the nigbt. After passing
over the town of Cblmay, In Hainault.
Belgium, we emerged from a momen
tary fog and saw the Meuse, near Dl
naut, like a silver streak In tbe land
scape, ;he Chateau of Walsen, the old
abbey of Waulsord, and tbe rock of
Bayard. The next scene was one of
tbe most memorable I ever witnessed.
Tbe horizon looked strangely Illum
inated In tbe distance, and as we ap
proached tbe lurid blaze of llgbt be
came stronger, uutll the whole sky
seemed to be ou lire. We looked at
our maps, and concluded tbat we were
in tbe vicinity of Liege.
"As we came nearer tbe effect was
grandiose, flames shot up hundreds of
feet Into tbe sky from innumerable
furnaces, and tbe sight was realisti
cally Dantesque. It required by little
'imagine. tlon to make us believe that
we were about to enter the inferno, and
the doleful inscription, 'Abandon hope,
all ye who enter her.?,' would have been
quite in place in the burning sky be
fore us. Suddenly we realized that
we had better mount higher If we did
not want to be roasted. We quickly
threw out some ballast, and the bal
loon rose about 4<H> yards higher. It
was not too much, for the conflagra
tion seemed to increase every instant,
flre belching out of a hundred funnels,
tbe flames roaring with a sinister
noise as they shot up into the air.
rarefying it and threatening to suck us
into the burning whirlpool. The sight
was unique and fascinated us In spite
of ourselves. AH the foundries and
blasting furnaces were In full work,
crowds of men were shouting, immense
Cyclopean hammers rebounding on
enormous anvils, and steam drills
were hissing and seething. Looking
down from our frail basket It se?med
as if the ground were burning. We
could distinguish the forms of the
workmen, who looked like pigmies sur
rounded on every side by tire, and we
wondered how they could live In the
midst of the flames. We gave a sigh
of relief as we bounded over tbe last
furnace and were carried on over the
plains of Holland and the north of
Germany. At 1 o'clock we landed in
a pine forest near Itostock."? London
'J lobe.
I.OST IN THE DK8ERT.
"The craze to find n metal In n funny
thing." said the old prospector. "I al
ways had it. and once, in British Col
umbia, away north, it gave ine a dose
rail. I was alone when I got as far
ns the Inst settlement. There were
four Indians and a fur trader there.
They all advised me n.?t to go Into the
barrens, but like a good many others.
I thought I was wiser than the na
tives, and I only meant to go a few
miles. There was nothing to do but
foot It. am! carry your provisions and
blankets on your back.
"The rountry was flat as a floor and
bald and smooth as my head, with no
landmarks. The only way I could get
direction was by the sun and the stars.
"When I had been out for about two
ila.vs my provisions were nearly gone.
I was going to turn back and make a
.lash for the settlement. AH day long a
gray cloud had been moving up from
the west very slowly. I suppose It
was coming on so slow I didn't realize
what It meant to be without the sun
to guide me. There wasn't even a
blade of grass on that desert, nor a
living thing, nor a s'one sticking up.
The clouds kept bending over more
and more, and Anally they closed down
over me like a trap.
"I shall never forget the lonesome
ness of that place, and how, whenever
( stopped walking, I would strain and
strain my ears without heariug any
thing but the tbrmp of my own heart.
But I thought I was all right, and kept
>n walking toward the settlement,
steadily, until It was nearly night.
Then I saw something white a few
ranis off to one side. In one gasp the
jreath went out of me. The white
bin* was a bit of cracker I had
Iropped when I had eaten my lunch!
"J sat down aod tried to think. I
knew It was no use to walk that way
tny further. I began to think my bones
would whiten out there on the barrens,
?)ut Anally I went to sleep. In the
nornlng I was crazy with hunger. I
ate my last piece of hafdtack, and
nenrly all day I walked aimlessly, hop
ing to And some landmark. There was
no sleep in me that night. Whenever
I abut my eyes I could see nothing but
a great Aat plain with * line across It?
the str Mghtest line yotf ever saw,
"Well. It x?s that crazy notion ibat <
ntrtl WKf life. It nMtiiy octtnl
to m that I could draw a Um WWW
this desert. When ?t was getting light
la the bm:b1b| there wers a few min
utes when 1 coold sse which side of
the circle was sast by ths glimmer
through the cloud*. 80 I worked with
njr sheath knife till I had built a lit*
tie pile of earth, aad waited for day
to come. The moment I saw the glim*
mer and had the direct .on I ran toward
the sua a hundred yards or more, sight*
Ing back across the two piles, and
built a third. They were oaly two lit*
tie piles of dirt, but they looked Jlke
towers on the desert.
"All that day I built piles of earth
southward until I lost rount. and the
next day when I saw the glimmer of
morning I knew I hsd the right direc
tion. Toward night I struck a dog's
track, and Anally I sighted s clump of
three and a group of cabins. I 11 red
my revolver several times, until I saw
two men on horseback coming out to
me; then I swung down on my knees
snd fell over, list on my fsce.
"It was several weeka before I could
close my eyes at night without sight
ing along little pilea of earth."'
Youth's Companion.
FOUGHT DOG IN DARK.
A half hour's light with a mad dog
iu a dark cellar wns the thrilling ex
perience that fell to the lot of Police
man Quirk, of the Morrisnnin station,
on a recent afternoon. The mongrel
had bitten two children and caused a
panic In the neighborhood before the
policeman cornered him. Shortly af
ter 1 o'clock the dog, fonmiug at the
mouth, plunged Into a crowd of chil
dren at 159th street and Melrose ave
nue, and bearing little Elsa Heinz to
the ground, fasteued his teeth Into her
left artn. A boy struck the brute a
glancing blow with 11 ball bat, and was
attacked for his temerity. He dodged
and the animal spraug for four-year
old Joseph Kern, who stood dazed di
rectly in the animal's path. With teeth
flxed iu the boy's right arm. the animal
l>egan to tear the child's Cesb. Po
liceman Quirk arrived jist as John
Murphy had beaten the dog off the
child. The two followed the dog down
Into the cellar of 800 Melrose avenue.
The moment they entered the brute
made a rush at them. The policeman
stunned it with his club, but the dog
came back at him in an Instant. Mur
phy retreated to the dumbwaiter
shaft, and Quirk hit the springing
brute with his revolver. A wound In
the side only made the animal more
savage, and it closed in on the officer,
even catching his trousers in its jaws.
Wounded a second time the animal
drew itself together and made a fly
ing leap for the officer's throat, but a
well-directed bullet ended Its career.
When Quirk appeared dragging the
carcass a rousing cheer went up from
a thousand throats. Whe:. the ex
citement had subsided it was fouud
that the girl's wounds were slight. On
the upper part of the boy's right arm,
however, were two bad wounds, while
his clothing was torn and be was suf
fering from slioek and frigh'..? New
York Times.
A STORM AT SEA.
I contented myself with the fore
crosstrees, some seventy feet above
the deck. As I searched the vacant
stretch of water before me, I compre
hended thoroughly the need of linste
if we were to recover any of our men. I
Indeed, as I gazed at the heavy sea |
through which we were runuing, I
doubted that there was a boat afloat.
It did not seem possible that so frail
cruft could survive such stress of
wind and water.
I could not feel the full force of the
wind, for we were running with it. but
from my lofty perch I looked down as
though outside the Ghost aud apart
from her. and saw the shape of her
outlined sharply against the foaming
sea as she tore along Instinct with life.
Sometimes she would lift and send
across some great Wave, burying her
starboard rail from view aud covering
her deck to the hatches with the boil
ing ocean. At such moments, sturting
from a windward roll. I would go fly
ing through the air with dizzying
swiftness, as though I clung to the
end of a huge, inverted pendulum, the
arc of which, between the greater
rolls, must have been seventy feet or
more. Once the terror of this giddy
sweep overpowered me, and for awhile
I clung on, hand and foot, weak aud
trembling, unable to search the sea
for the missing boats or to behold
aught 01 the sea but that which roared
beneath and sirove to overwhelm the
Ghost.? From Jack London's "The ties
Wolf," I11 the Century.
(URL FIGHTS MOUNTAIN LIONS.
Wounded almost uuto (tenth l>y two
mountain lions which a tacked her in a
lonely mail, near Clay Run. Pn., Miss
Mary Dougherty, a young society wo
man. of Pittsburg, was found soon af
ter dark Sunday evening, By her side
lny the carcasses of the two animals,
which she had riddled with bullets
before losing consciousness. Becnuse
several travelers had been attacked by
wild beast* the femiulue contingent of
('lay liuu and the neighborhood had
armed themselves with small weapons.
Miss Doherty was visiting in Clay Run.
Xlie had left there Sunday morning to
spend the day In the home of a former
schoolmate. While returnlug from
Clay Hun, and wheu only half a mile
from the village, she was startled by
the lions, which sprang from behind a
rock on the hillside. Before she could
recover frcm her fright the beasts were
upon her. Drawing a small revolver,
she opened tire, killing one and wound
Iiik the other lion. Overcome by the
nervous strain, she fell to the ground
bleeding from cuts on the neck, face
and body. The wounded beast re?
newed its attackf* and Miss Doherty
fired again, nnd the second lion fell
dead by her side. Returning from a
drive to his home in Mill Run. Philip
Co*e, a farmer, almost drove over the
young woman prostrate in the road.
She was unconscious, but soon revived
sufficiently to tell the rtory. Coxe
drove rapidly to Clop ?(un, where to
Miss Doherty medical attention was
given.? New York Press.
Imports of books. fr?e, la 1903,
amounted to $2, 038, .139, and dutiable to
5tl.900.348, a total of $*.r,38.087. Ex
ports were represented by the sum of
$4,330,732, the balance In ftvor of the
United States being a little over $200, ? i
ooa ? ? -
News tl Merest
AFKO-AHEKKANS
Kduoata ColorMi Qlrta.
The Montgomery. AhL. Industrial
School hu just bMD Incorporated,
rhe purposa la the education of the
colored girls of the oltjr.
? * ? ?
"National Liberty" Party.
The "National Liberty" party presi
dential convention will meet in St.
Louis on July 6. It ts expected that
s large number of delegates will be
In attendance.
? e e ?
No Freedom In America.
A Chicago paper quotes Bishop H.
IC. Turner as saying In an address bo
fore the A. M. E. Conference:
"I am unwilling to sing 'America'
until this country Is what It claims to
be 'Sweet Land of Liberty.' 'The
Negro In Science,' " the subject of
the address delivered by Bishop Tur
ner. which caused him to take up
every phase of the Negro question iu
this country and led him to say "that
ti>ls was not the Negro's home, but on
the contrary, that God had allowed the
Negro to come to this country to be
enslaved In order that he could be
trained and go back to his native land
and make it what it should be."
In concluding his address Bishop
Turner said: ?
"The supr-me court of the Unitod
States is against us. We have good
friends in this country, yet they are
comparatively few and the only thing
left for us to do is to leave. Let
us be men. let us go where we can be
men. The Negro is here, some declare
tnat he la here to stay, but I doubt
It very much, unless he is to stay un
der the ground."
Rev. E. W. Lampton. of Washing
ton, D. C.. financial secretary, and B.
P. Watson, secretary of the Church
Extension Society; John R. Hawkins,
secretary of education, and H. T.
Keatink. general missionary, reported
In detail on the work of the several
departments over which they have the
superlnt endency.
* ? * *
"The South and the Negro." ....
At the recent educational confer
ence in Birmingham. Ala., Bishop (ial
loway made a notable address on the
race question. He said, in part:
The subject of this hour's discus
sion Is not of my selection. With
tha honored invitation to accept a
place on the program of this great
convention came also the request that
I should speak on 'The South and the
Negro.' The distinguished honor of
this request was accorded, not because
I have the capacity to spoak on thht
subject by the authority of fuller
and more accurate knowledge than
others, but rather because I live in
the south and am a friend to the
Negro.
I shall speak tonight with perfect
candor, if not with approved wisdom,
and I appear not as the partisan of
one idea, but as an ambassador or tho
truth and a lover of my country.
"Present duty has been neglected in
an acrimonious wrangle over history.
Por, after all, the only difference be
tween tho south and the north on the
slavery question is a difference be
tween father and grandfather.
"Whatever the cause or causos,
there is no disguising tho fact that
there Is great unrest and growing dis
contentment among the Negroes of
the south. They are beginning to feel
frindless and helpless. The frequent
lynchings that disgrace our civiliza
tion. the advocacy by some of limiting
to the minimum the school advantages
provided for them, and the widening
gulf of separation between the young
er generations of both races, havo
produced a measure of despair.
"We need not close our eye* to tho
inevitable. We are soon to laco
industrial disaster unless conditions
are radically changed. Our cotton
fields cease to yield their valuable
lands will lie fallow, and our fertile
fields cease to yield their valuable sta
ples. Already the scarcity of labor is
the despair of large land owners.
"(Unfortunately for tills question,
and for the best interests of both
races, it has not be?n eliminated from
local and national politic*. So long
ax it. furnished an easy and exciting
latum for contending partisans t'.ere
will bo little opportunity for construc
tive statesmanship to deal wisaly with
the siupendous problem.
The old cry of 'white supremacy'
may be Imperiled is a travesty on
Anglo-Saxon chivalry. With every
executive. Judicial and legislative of
ficer of the state in the hands of whit a
people and with suffrage qualifications
that have pracMcally eliminated the
Negro from political affairs thy old
slogan is the emptiest cant.
"This Is no question for small poli
ticians but for broad, patriotic states*
wen. It is not for nou reiidcut
theories, but lor practical .nbiiclsts,
not for academic sentimentalists, but
(or clear-visloned humanitarians.
"Hut for some of the acute phases
of thin question the south can bo ac
lultted of blame. The once beautiful
tnd pathetic attachments of the older
people of both racos were rtidly sev
Brod, not alone by the shock of war,
but by the fanatical unwisdom of cer
tain boasted benefactors.
"Mistakes that have become a
tragedy were made by some mis
guided porsons who came south after
the war to be the political leadors of
the Negroes. Representing them
?elvos as the only friends of the re
cently emancipated raco. they made
denunciation of former slave owners
an apology for their presence, and ci
part of the Negro's education. That
policy only complicated the difficult j
problem. It poisoned the spirit of ?
one race and aroused the fierce antag
onlsm of the other.
In the study of this momentous
question some things may be cor.sld
?red as definitely and finally settled:
*'1. In the K)utli there will n?ver
bo any social mingling of the racos.
i WMbar It be prejudice or pride <4 "
raea, there la ? middle wall or partt
tfcm which will oot ba broken dowa.
~t- They wttl worship la separate
eharohee aad be educated la sopsrat#
schools. Thla alike desired by both
raoss. and la for the good of each.
MS. The political power of this see
ttos will remain la pressnt hands.
Here, aa elsewhsre. Intelligence and
wealth will and should ooatrol the ad
ministration of governmental affairs
"4. The great body of the Negroes
are here to stay. Their coerced col
oalsatlon would be a crime, and tbelr *
deportation a physical Impossibility.
And the white people are less anxious
for them to go than they are to leave.
Thoy are natives and not intruders."
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Monumsnt Erected By Ex-Slave.
A dispatch from Columbus. Oa..
?ays:
It Is a singular coincidence that Co
lumbus. the only city in America to
erect a monument to a Negro, should
also contain a marble tribute from an
ex-slave to his former master. It i?
naid (hat this is the only monument In
the south erected by an ex-slave ovor
tue grave of his white master, and
these two incidents tell their own
story of how Coiumbus has long ago
settled the race problem.
Over a grave in a private cemetory.
Just one mile west of Columbus, thero
rises a monument which speaks more
eloquently than words of a slave's
beautiful devotion. Deep cut in the
marble is the following inscription:
JOHN GODWIN.
Born October 17. 179S.
Died
February 26. 1859.
This stone was placod here by
Horace King, in lasting remem
brance of the love and gratitude
he felt for his best friend and
former master.
The career of Horace King was one
full of interest, although his begin
nlng was one of thp humblest. A
slave of such industry that his mast era
voluntarily gave his his freedom in
recognition of his useful service*, he
at once set to work and made money
and celebrated his advent as a freed
man by acquiring slaves himself. 1 1 a
was attracted by the glitter of poli
tics immediately after the war and
disregarding the advice of liis white
friends, entered politics and was
electe.l to the Alabama state senate on
the republican ticket. Of much skill
as a brid^ebuilder. he acquired con
siderable property, yet In his old age
King at times felt the pinch of pover
ty. The inconsistencies of hit: careei
but added to the human interest iti his
life story.
King was the porperty of the bridgs
building Arm of Godwin & Bates, of
Columbus, a firm which operated ex
tensively through the southern stat '9
in the forties, spanning with substan
tial bridges many important, streams
m Georgia and other states. King
learned the trade of bridge builder
Wiidn young and proved very protl
cieat. rapidly mastering the practical
details and showing such apptitude for
the work that ho was soon made fore
man or the building gang. As lis
grew older his responsibilities in
creased and In time he was virtually
In charge of several enterprises car
ried on by the firm.
The firm of Godwin & Bates was ap
preciative of King's faithful work and
decided to show thoir gratitude by
freeing him.
OPERATOR HELD UP.
Masked Men Make Successful Raid on
Railway Station.
Three masked burglars committed a
daring robbery at the Mcsgrove sta
tion of the Allegheny Valley railroad,
five miles notth of Kittanning. I'a.
The night operator, A. L. lllackburn,
had occasion to leave the telegraph
office aud pass to another part of the
building. He was suddenly startled
by hearing a noise at the door lea>liti'4
Into the waiting room. A few minute.*
later he h<*ard a rough command at Ii i.?
back to throw up his hands, and turn
ing quickly he was surprised to see
three masked men standing be: ore
him with drawn revolvers.
They seized the operator and. going
through his pockets, secured about $?>.
They then biindtoided him and 'jed
his hands. Kscorting him to another
room, one of the robbers was left to
guard him, while the other two pro
ceeded to the telegraph and ticket of
fice, where they began to work on the
safe.
The knob was knocked off antl an
explosive used to blow off the door.
The shot watt heavy and damaged the
safe badly as well as breaking all Uiu
glass in the office windows. While
awaiting for tho explosion the bur
glas 'vlLhdrew to the freight house.
Alter the shot the robbers vial fed
tho office and secured about $65. Th^ir
Job completed the thieves warn.nl
Blackburn not to stir for 10 minutes
and then left. The operator after a
few moments succeeded In freeing
himself, and running out gave the
alarm to the residents of Mosgrove,
and then reported the Incident to the
train dispatcher In Pittsburg.
The only clue that the burglars may
have left behind Is that three men
stole a horse and buggy belonging to
Joseph lloilman, who lives several
miles from Mougrove.
Leather RaWroad Ties.
A railroad tie made of scrap leather
from 3hoeshops Is the latest. It has
been tried In the West. The len'her
is taken Into a disintegrator. roH:j?d,
and molded Into a tie hard enough to
have spikes nailed securely Into If.
Tho three great essentials In a cross
tie are apparently found In this leath
er sleeper, for It Is guaranteed to hold
a spike, the fishplate will not splinter
In It, and It will ii?>t rot. It might al ?i
be added that In the case of elevated
roads It may serve to deaden the noise
.if passing trains. Sample ties whl^h
have already been down twenty-eight
tuooths fall to show the least wear.
Tha Retvisan.
That Russian stranded battleship
Retvisan, which has figured so promi
nently In the news from Port Arthur,
Is called after a Swedish battleship
of sixty-four guns which was captured
by the Russians at the battle of Wl*
bor^ in 17'?0. The word Retvisan
ueana "Justice."