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THE COUNTY RECORD
KLNGSTREE, S. C.
LOl lS J. BKISTOW, F.?L i Prop'r.
One of Chicago's speculative phi!- i
oaophers declares that there are 6,- j
456 different kinds of fear.
A few rears ago Alfred F. Calvart,
the mining king of West Australia,
refused $5,000,030 for his mines. The
other daj h? sold the same mines for
$825,000
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The peanj-in-the-slot idea has been I
applied in London daring the past
year on a large scale to gas meters.
More than 30,000 families have adopted
the new arrangement, by means of j
Which a penny or two will fnrnish gas ^
tor cooking a meaL
The South African republic embraces
some of the richest reefs of
gold and other mineral wealth now
known to the world, and as jet ther
hare been scarcely more than tonched.
Every year the products of this new
Golconda increase in quantity.
Constantinople has abont S79.000
Inhabitants, of whom 155,000 are
Greeks and 150,000 Armenians, and ;
lees than 400,000 Moslems. If the
Checks and Armenians 6honld revolt, j
it woold make matters lively for the.
Porte, and might cause it to recall j
aome regiments from the Thessalian
frontier.
-Florence .Nightingaie nas come to
jV the defence of tee in print She thinks
there is Altogether too much said
Against tea-drinking, and says she would
be vary glad if '%nr of the tea-abns>>
era would point oat what to give to
an English patient after a sleepless
aight instead of tea. It is the almost
uiversal testimony of English men
and women," she oontinaes, "who
have undergone great fatigne, such as
tiding long journeys without stopping,
or sitting np for several nights in sae<-ession,
that they oonld do it best on
an occasional cop of tea and nothing
No one eaa seriously question that
if Great Britain ant oat in earnest to
sonqaer the Boers she would ultimate*'
ly do sol At best the Boors ooald Dot
sssster probably more then 50,000
mm- Bete campaign against 50,000
(| Boers battling for their homes and for
iadepeadenee will be no holiday expedition
for British redcoats, adds the (
Hew York Tribane. These stardj ;
farmers know how to fight, as the I
-crashing defeat they administered to j
British regulars at Mm j aba Hill ran i
testify. They eome of the strain j
y which eat the dykes of Holland to >
I stay the troops of the Duke of Airs, j
and the lapse of time has not weak- |
% ened the indomitable courage of their
- nee. Moreover, Greet Britain will |
not find "Oom Paul" Krnger and his |
borghera unprepared. For months ;
they have been quietly equipping for 1
what they believe to be an "irrepressible
conflictM And it is coming.
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A? eddresa by Jadge Thayer of
Iowa, who has spent a great deal of
???nn tha imnroremsnt of
roads has been issued ia,a pamphlet
by tbe department of agriculture.
Jadge Tn?jer utb that the country
abends annually $250,000,000 on
muddy roads, which is practically a
total loaa^ and declares that while mad
may have a place in tbe natural organisation,
that place is not on the roads.
He suggests that if $8,000,000 a
year were pat into improving the
thoroughfare* of a state, in ten years
there would not be a iniie of highway
laid oat in the state that would not be
a permanent atone road. He does not
reco-emend the spending of so much
money by the state, but would make
road improvement a township matter,
based upon local opinion. To illustrate
hi* position he says: 4'A township
whose assessed valuation is $300,000
wants to baild twenty-five miles
of good road at a cost of $2000 per
mile. Including the per capita tax
ad the usual levy, such a township
now pay* seven mills on the dollar, or
$$100 per year for road purposes. It i
borrows the required $50,000, paying
for it $1500 a year, leaving $600 a ye?r
? a P. #u.. ... 1
lOr rUlU rcj/iiU% u ? iur vuunavi. a? ?ten
tweniy-tive tniies of road I
J.' ,
oto Ik? baili m taroe v?r^" He >aya i
that iowa is taxed, one way and an* |
other, $2,000,000 annnaily for road '
purpose*. This, he says, would take j
care of $60,000,000 of 2 1*2 per cent j
bonds, and release them in seventy- j
> two years, besides leaving $.300,000 each '
year for keeping the roads iu repair. !
On this plan at the end of seventy-two '
years the state would have a eyateni of I
fine roads, while under the present plan
it would have no more than it has !
now, which :? urac >?"
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~WAYE~SWEEPS A TOM
An Immense Wall of Water Strikes I
West Guthrie, Oklahoma.
A CLOUDBURST AND WHIRLWIND.
A Ware m Mile Wide and] Fight Feet High
Swept the Canadian Talley ? Many
Houses Carried Away?Scores Ferith?
Hirer Turned Into a Torrent That Came
Upon the City With a Cyclone's Roar.
GrTHarx. Oklahoma (Special).?At sunrise
Wednesday a wall of water eight feet
high and a mile wide broke upon West j
Guthrie without warning, drowning scores
of people and carrying away scores of j
houses. Every movable thing was swept I
before the wave which passed on into the
Canadian River Valley, wreaking destruction
to life and property wherever it
reached. Just how many lives were lost
may not be known for weeks, but the list
is almost certain to exceed a hundred.
Hundreds of houses were wrecked; for I
many miles many farmers were completely
ruined. Bridges and tracks were washed
out and railway traffic in every direction
is at a standstill. More than a million dollars'
damage was done to property. The
efforts of rescuing parties have in many
cases proved in vain: many persons floated
down stream before they could be reached.
Business was wholly suspended all day in
Guthrie, the stores and banks being closed.
As thorough an organization for relief as is ;
possible has been made, but all aid has been ,
necessarily retarded by the confused condi- :
tion of things.
It has been impossible to explore the !
houses until the water subsides, as many of
them are submerged. As darkness gathered
over the scene many overturned houses I
were seen far out in the"flood, but it could J
not be learned whether their occupants escaped.
The river was thirty feet above its>
ordinary level.
The flood is supposed to hare been caused
by a cloudburst, supplemented by heavy
rains. The Cottonwood River, ordinarily a
small stream, that winds between steep
banks in West Guthrie, was bank foil from
a heavy rain, bat no alarm was felt.
Early in the morning water from a cloudburst
above had added to the already high
stream and a flood began sweeping through
West Guthrie, a section of the city populated
mostly by colored people.
Those who saw the first wall of water
said it was eighteen feet high, spreading
entirely across the valley. This was followed
by others in quick succession, until
the whole settled into a bank of water,
from six to eight feet high. Many persons
had already begu n carrying their household
goods to places of safety, but few had made
more than one trip when they were forced i
to flee for their liTes before the raging tor- .
rent.
Some thought the roar was that of a tor- 1
nado and sought their cavee. only to perish
a few moments later. Others stopped to
save things until it was too late. '
The railroad tracks are on the east
bank of the river. For three-quarters
4? tV> t*11pt rannlnp
through the western part ot' the city, j i
and in it are many of the finest resi- I
dences, and a small business section. 1
where are about twenty stores and sereral 1
mills, warehouses, etc. In less than
twenty minutes from the time the flood J
struck the city this entire section was in- i
undated, and within an hour the water was
ten feet deep and hundreds of buildings
were floating away. <
Not only the meaner structures, but fine I
residences, store buildings, n cotton gin '
and other large structures went into ruins I
or floated away down the stream. <
On many buildings were men, women and
children. From hundreds of trees came I
piteous calls for help, and the air was hide- 1
ous with the struggle? and screams of domestic
animals. Most of the boats were I
crushed or carried away, and little could i
be done to help many who fell or were i
swept from places of refuge and were j
drowned before the eyes of helpless specta- i
tors. <
A colored woman with a baby in her arms
desperately tried to steady herself in a tree i
top, calling the while for heip. She grew
weak, and the baby slipped into the water |
and was drowned." She was finally rescued
and said her family of six had been lost. *
A woman wading from home, with her
baby on her head, was seen to go under, i
and a man swimming the channel to reach
four women and a baby in a tree was carried
down stream.
Two women and a child were carried
away on a bridge further down stream, and
one man and two women in plain sight of
shore were on a house roof when it went
to pieces. They all perished.
W. J. PEBOE ELECTED. .U-.
End of the Kentucky Senatorthlp Deadlock |
at Frankfort.
William J. Deboe. the nominee of the Republican
caucus, was elected to the United
States Senate from Eentucky to succeed exSenator
Blackburn. The rote stood: Deboe
(Bep.) 71. Martin ?Pop.1 12. Stone 1,
Blackburn (Dem.i 50. After the official declaration
of the election of Mr. Deboe, there
was a loud and prolonged demonstration.
The Gold Democrats joined in the jollification.
There never was such a scene in the
Kentucky State house.
W. J. Deboe is forty-seven years of age. a
native of Crittenden County. Kentucky,
and a life-long Republican. He was a delegate
to the Republican National Convention
in 138$. and since 1390 has been a member
of the State Central Committee. Last
??- k" ?a- fti>K of the four
Bradley delegatc^-at-large to the St. Louis
Convention, whe-e he was selected as Chairman
of the delegation in spite of the antiBradiey
faction. Ee is* a graduate of
Ewing* College in Illinois. He studied
medicine in Louisville and practised for
some years. But he later studied law and
for eight years ha? practised that profession.
n?hermpn Forced to CanalbalUx.
The French fishing vessel Vail!vat crashed
into an iceberg on the Grand Banks, off
Newfoundland, and only four members of
her company of seventy-four reached port.
Of seven men who escaped from the sinking
vessel in a little dorr and speut twelve days
in the open sea without food or clothing,
two died and were thrown overboard, and
a third died and was eaten by the four survivors,
who were picked up maniacs.
Turkish Murderers Sentenced.
The Turkish authorities have condemned
to death the murderers of the agent who
wa- distributing the British and American
relic: funds at Diarbekir. Asiatic Turkey, j
Americans Killed'in Mexico.
Edward Callahan, of Cleveland, Ohio, and
a metallurgist named Klein, were attacked
in Mexico by five bandits. They were on
their way from Ameca to the Barranca
mine, about six miles distant, of which
Callahan was superintendent and {>art
cwner. Klein was deal when found and ]
Cailahan was dying. The bandits got *400.
Turkey Raising a Loan.
The Ottoman Bank having declined to accept
the terms of the Porte, Berlin bankers
are arranging to grant to the Turkish Government
a private loan of *5 000,000 c<r f 10,000,001.
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- V - ;v* ANTONIO
MAXIMO MORA.
The Celebrated Claimant Paun Away at
a Ripe Old Aff.
Antonio Maximo Mora, whoso property
In Cuba was confiscated twenty-Axe years
ago, and whose claim was finally settled
In 139Cby the payment by Spain of nearly
1,000.000, died a few davs ago at the Hotel
Grenoble. New York City, aged seventynine
years.
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A2CTOXIO WAXTXO 3T0RA. !
Mr. Mora to a native of Cuba, bat be- '
came a naturalized American citizen in
May. 1869. after the outbreak of the ten
years' rebellion in Cuba. Mora, who was a
wealthy planter, was arrested for being- in
sympathy with the insurgents, tried by
court-martial, and sentenced to be
shot. The court also directed that his
property be confiscated. Mora and
Lis brother escaped to this city, where
Mora laid his claim before Hamilton
Fish, then Secretary of State. He estimated
the loss to himself and brother at
,000.00-1. Diplomatic correspondence began.
and in 1386 Spain acknowledged the
claim to be a valid debt, although deduct- !
Lag one-half of the original amount demanded
by Mora, who, being In need of
money, agreed to the reduction. The latter
remained unpaid for near nearly ten
years. More than 1100,000 was expended t
by the United States Government in collecting
the claim.
SIX HANGED ON ONE TREE.
A Wbolml* l.TBthlnf ef Colored ta it
Texas Tmtd.
For the murder near8unnrside, Texas, ?if
Henry Daniels and his two stepdaughters, j
the assaulting of the girls and the j
burning of their home a mob, composed of
colored people swung to the same branch
of a large oak tree Fayette Rhone, twentyone
rears old; WIB Gates, thirty-fire years
old; Lewis Thomas,twenty years old; Aaron
Thomas, thirteen years old; Jim Thomas,
fourteen years old; Beamy Thomas, fifteen
years old, all colored dots. The 1m roar |
are brothers and It la probable that Will '
Williams, who was also implicated, met his
death at the hands of the same mob.though
his body has not yet been found.
Henry Daniels an old colored man, Mred |
near 8nnny?ide in a little hot with his stepdaughter.
Marie, and a srren-year-old
child. The bouse was broken tato, Mario
Daniels, aged eighteen, and the seren-yearold
child assaulted, and old Daniels crabbed
to death trying to protect those In his
charge. Then Daniels and hi* stepdaughter
were thrown into the house and the
child was thrown into the veil. The house
was set on lire and the fiends left, thinking
that they had covered their inhuman deed
trom the sight of the world.
Bloodhounds tracked the Thomas boys to
their home and they were arrested. They
confessed, implicating the others, who wers'
quickly secured. Shortly after 10 o'clock
p. m. a mob surprised the officers, took the]
men to the lone oak tree In the road and,
without ceremony, strung them up.
ORVILLE H. PLATT MARRIES AGAIN.
Senator From # Connecticut Weds Mn.
Hoyt, of I'pper Xoatdalr, X. J.
Orrille H. Piatt, United States Senator
from Connecticut, and Mrs. Jennie P. Hoyt,
of Upper Montdair, N. J., were married at
St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church, in
Upper Montclair.
They knew each other first in the little
school at Washington, Conn., in which town
both were born. They grew up together.
The boy became a law student and the girl
a society woman.
The bride formerly Heed at Stamford.
She is a daughter of Truman Smith, once a
Senator from Connecticut. She is of middle
age and a handsome woman. Only tiie
representatives of the two families were
present. The bridal couple were unattended.
The bride wore a traveling gown of
henrietta doth.
f? Senator Piatt lives at Meriden, Conn, lie
is now serving his fourth term. He entered
politics early in life, and from the Legislature
of his native State he went to Congress.
He was elected United Jitates (Senator in
1879. He is in his seventieth year.
Great Britain and theJEoere. '
The British [Budget was made public in
the House of Commons; it provoked a hot
exchange of words between Joseph Chamberlain,
Secretary of the Colonies, and Sir
William Harcourt, the Liberal leader, over
the Government's war preparations. Sir
William denounced the Government's South
African policy, and Joseph Chamberlain declared
Harcourt"s language " pernicious,
dangerous and unpatriotic.''
, - Many Deaths in an Earthquake.
News has just been received of an awful
series of earthquakes throughout the chain
of Leeward Islands that caused the loss of'
hundreds of lives, it is reported. All the
Islands in the group have been affected.
The loss of life has been very large.
Many buildings collapsed during the most
serious shock, which lasted fox forty seconds.
The damage to property is very
large.
Japan Excited Over Hawaii.
The belief prevails at Honolulu, Hawaii,
that annexation of the islands to the United
States is close at hand. There is much excitement
in Japan over the presence of the
American cruiser Philadelphia at Honolulu.
The exclusion of Japanese* emigrants from
i U^> vauTU TUiuua vuuipuvaiiuus. I
Japvie?-* n-wspapers are full of war talk.
They proless :o believe that the United
States has a scheme to annex Hawaii.
A Cuban Patriot Teaches Boys In Jail.
Dr. Luis, now in the Baltimore city jail
as a Cuban filibuster, has begun to teach a
class of twenty-seven boys under sixteen,
who are confined there on various charges,
from era;., shooting to stealing. The prison
school wa- suggested by Warden Bailey and
Mayor Hooper, and it bids fair to become a
permanent feature of jail life.
Mississippi Breaks Its Itecord.
The Mississippi Rive* at Natchez, Miss.,
rose until it stood at 49.75, one and a quarter
feet above the highest record of my
^reuo'os year. 1 'l_
| RELIGIOUS READING.
MI TRAT THEE VISIT WE.""
0 God. O kinsman loved, bat not enongb,
0 man with eyes majestic after death.
Whose feet have toiled along our ;>a:hways
rough.
Whose lips drawn human breath:
By that one likeness which is ours and thine.
By that one nature which doth hold us kin.
i By that high heaven where sinless thou dost
shine.
To draw us sinners in ;
By Thy last silence in the judgment ball.
By long foreknowledge of the deadly tree,
By darkness.by the wormwood and the gall,
1 pray Thee visit me.
?Jean Ingelow.
THE ESSENCE OF OflRISTLXNESS.
The art of photography is now so perfect
that the whole side of a great newspaper
can be taken in miniature so small as to be
! carried in a little pin or button, ana yet
| every letter and point be perfect. So tbe
I whole life of Christ is photographed in one
! little phrase?"not to bo ministered unto,
but to minister." He earae not to be
erred?if this had been His aim He would
never have left heaven's giory. where
He wanted nothing.where angels praised Him
and ministered uuto Him. He eame to
| aerre. He went about doing good. He altogether
forgot Himself. He served all He
met who would receive His service. ?u
hast He gave His life in uttermost service?
giving It a ransom for others. He came
not to be ministered unto, but to minister.
Yon say you want to be iike Christ. You
pray Him "to print His own image on your
fteart. Here. then, is the image. It is r.o
vague dream of perfection that we are to
think of when ire ask to be made like
Christ. The old monks thought that they
were in the way to become like Christ when
they went into the wilderness, away from
men. to live in cold cells or on tail colamns.
But that is not the thought whi.*h this picture
suggests. "To minister"?that is the
Christlike thing. Instead of fle-ing away
from the world we are to live among men.
to serve them, to seek to bless them, to do
them good, to give our life for them.?J. E.
Miller, D. D.
MtLlEr IS IinrOBTMITT CSITIKSSt.
When you laid the white flowers upon the
offln. and listened to the dull thud of earth
to earth. ashes to asnes to asaes, uus? w
dust, and bent eagerly forward to catch a
last glimpse of that which enshrined the
loved one. hidden from sight, with pale li ps
and breaking heart von asked once more,
"if a man die. shall he live again?" What
proof have we. what evidences "the dead are
not dead, but alive?" May not immortality
be. after all, only "a beautiful dream." only
"a lofty aspiration of the human heart."
doomed to disappointment? (feneration
after generation has come and gone, Uut
not oae of the myriads who have passed
into the silent land has ever been permitted
to return and tell us the great secret that
lies beyond the grave. But through ail that
deep, unbroken silence of ages, men and
women have never lost their faith in a future
life. In every age. in eherv country,
men and women have had some belief in a
life beyond the grave.?Bev. S. G. Fielding. I
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rssrs issrsTs ox obeduscx.
Obedience is everything in a Christian '
life. We are told that without faith it Ls impossible
to please God. but faith can usually I
be spelled o-b-e-d-i-e-n-e-e. Obedience is
necessary always to prove our faith. "fVth.
without works, is dead." Some people ;
think that believing a sound creed makes '
one religious. Bat Jesus insists on obe- 1
dlence. He says that mere hearing His
words with oat doing them is building os ;
sand, and that all who bull i oa such a foundation
will be swept away when the floods i
come. Creeds are important. We must ,
have true beliefs about God and His truth. ,
hnt nn matter how risrht crnr creeds are. if
ire do not follow Christ .mi do His will, *11 ,
oar beautiful religion will be bat a showy
house bniit on the sand.wb ieh some day will ,
be earned away in life's floods.?Forward.
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a prates pcs s a critics.
O thou, who com est frozr. Edom, glorious j
in thy apparel, traveling in the greatness of
thy strength, who spe&keth in righteousness,
mighty to save, graciously behold thy people
who call apbn thee. In all oar affiletion
thou wast afflicted and the angel of thy
presence saved us. Thou who didst tread (
the winepress alone, when of the people (
there was none with thee, see now the
travail of thy soul and be satisfied. To
thee, sacrificed for us. do we here and now, I
in thy presence and in the week of thy Pas- 1
sion present ou selves.our souls and bodies. 1
to be a reasonable, holy and living sacrifice
onto thee, beseeching thee so to strenghen |
os by thy grace that we may both follow the j
sample' of thy patience and also be made
partakers of iay resurrection, who art with
the Father and the H olv Ghost, one God,
world without end. Amen.
I
as o:;s sees he wales.
How differently do men walk ! One bends
forward, another backward ; one steps tlrm.
mother cautiously; one is quick and
another slow. These differences are not
altogether matters of muscular strength
or weakness or of nerve activity. A man's
stoppings and attitudes depend a good deal
on his eyesight. If ho has "progressive
near-tight ' he is likely to show it in his
mode of bodily progression. And one's
spiritual gait depends chiefly on his spiritual
fight. If lie sharply discerns the law of
right and dutj it will tell upon his "doily
walk and conversation." If he lives In intimate
recognition of God's countenance his
walk will be free, unwavering, upright, undaunted.
full of grace.?S. S. Times.
WIT a CHRISr IS PE4CE.
Where is the task that terrifies the man
who lives by Christ ? Where is the discouragement
over which he will not walk, to go
to the right which he must reach? You
may starve him. but he has this inner food.
You may darken his life, but he has this inner
light You may make war about him.
but he has this peace within. You may turn
the world into a hell, bat he carries this inner
heaven saiely through its fiercest fires.
He is like Christ "Himself; he has meat to
oat that we know not of. and in the strength
of it he overcomes a: last, and is conqueror
through his L ord.?Phillips Brooks.
O Corn of Wheat, which God for u* did -ow
In the rough furrows of this world of woe.
That Thou the Bread of Life for us mii ht be,
To nourish us to all eternity;
Grant us. through faith. O Christ.to re- a on
Thee! ?Anna E. Hamilti.n.
A bed of freihly turned earth, if allowed
to lie undisturbed, will show itself to be. full
of seeds we I new not of. So our life on
earth is full o' germs?the beginnings of all
the trees of itamiise or of ail the poison
tines and u,*a> "trefs on the banks of the |
river of eter.al death.?E?v. J. S. Wrightnour.
We know tlat we ai-e made in the ima?->
of God because we cannot in our best moments
accept any standard bat this?of perfection
to be s>ugnt after through eternity;
the grandeur of our being is that there will
always be something beyond for us to seek.
?Lucy Larci -m.
Your life needs days of retirement, when
tt shuts the eates upon the noisy whir, of
acrion and is aioae with God.
The true fast ?s the making of an empti!
ne? about the ev. .1 that the higtur fullness '
may fill it
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Wuhin{ton Itvmi.
The Dawes Indian Commission has
reached an agreement with the Chootaws I
and Chickasaw* at Anoka, Indian Territory, '
abolishing tribal government and allotting j
lands in severalty.
W, J. Calhoun, of Danville, m.. was |
chosen by President McKinley as special j
Commissioner to Cuba to investigate the |
cases of American prisoners there.
Admiral Miller will probably be sent to |
Europe to attend the Queen's jubilee on j
the cruiser Brooklyn before he assumes
command of the Pacific station.
A new passenger traffic association was j
formed by the principal railroads of tho
Sou'ih at a meeting in Washington.
The Democratic members of the Senate
Finance Committee have employed an expert
to examine the tariff bill." They do
not expect the examination to delay reporting
it to the Senate more than two
weeks.
Lo:rin A. Thurston. Hawaii's Special
Commissioner in Washington, has submitted
to the Senate reasons why the Hawaiian
recfT.rocitv treaty ought not to be j
K*. *\ia Ki'l dine (npi^b.
els thinks the abrogation of the treaty
would be a benefit to the United States. J,
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' Domestic.
"5fid" Moore, an outlaw, was shot dead
by a po?ie in Xew Mexico. "Ed" Xeweomb
was eanght in Oklahoma after a fierce
fight from behind a tree.
Aji old sawmill in Crestoo. Wirt County. 1
W. Via., blew up, and George Conley and
Perry D eevors were killed instantly and
Zac t Hickman. Thomas Hickman.* Will
Bolton, John Williams and John MeCauley
were mortally injured. Alderman, the
owner* of the mill, was also badly hurt.
The big plant of the Maryland Steel Com- |
pany, near Baltimore, decided to start up,
after three ysazs of idleness, affording work
for JOOO men.. *
It Is rtow estimated that the loss of life ''
by the flood in Oklahoma will not exceed
twenty.
Tlie New Hampshire Banking Com pany at
Kashua lias suspended. Solomon Spalding,
fattier of Charles W. Spalding, of the broken 1
Globe Savings Bank of Chicago, is Presi- i 1
dent of the institution. For four years the !.
bank hat been gradually losing depositors, i
?-? ??....... *? i n- i<M (a ! 1
per nit withdrawals to a larger amount '
thai $2ii? month.
Four lives were lost it Brooklyn, N. T., In
ft tenement house fire, supposed to be ot ,
lucvndifxy origin. In a frantic effort to
savs her "two baby a mother threw 1
them from a fourth rtory window and the
fall killed them almost instantly. The i
mol.her perished in the flames. The j {
dead M?: Mrs. Carrie Newell, aged
thh ty-eight; Louis Newell.aged three; John '
Not tell, aged five; Mrs. Celia Barnett, aged I
flfkr-flw. Before the fire could be extin- j
guished $90,000 worth of property was de
stroyed.
The total Indebtedness of the three Howland
mill corporations at New Bedford, 1
Mass., trill reach about $2,230,000.
A new parapet, designed to resist the flre
ot modern high power guns, was tested at
Bandy Hook. N. J., by General Miles and
the Board ot Ordnance and Fortification.
A tornado passed just west of Solomon,
Kan. Considerable damage was done to |
telegraph lines, but no dwelling houses,
were struck. A beery wind accompanied, i
by a eold rain prerafled all day, damaging
orchards to some extent. A cloudburst
washed away 190 feet of the track of the 1
Santa Fe Railroad four miles west of Hor- <
toorille, Kan. About three Indies of rain |
fell In a co uple of hours.
The announcement of the assignment of,
N. Burruss, Son A Co., of Norfolk, Ya., one.
of the most widely-known banking firms in !
the South, was announced. The Habilities .
amount to between $340,000 and $300,000;' .
and the assets are stated by the firm to beJ 1
MOG.OOCi available, with nominal assets
much more. t
Former State Treasurer of Nebraska 7.
3. Bartlev was arrested at Lincoln on a
charge of embezzling #301,000. Hartley,
it is alleged, sold a warrant to reimburse
the sinking fond to the Chemical National
Bank, of New York, through an Omaha
t>ank, and pocketed the money.
At Jackson, Mo., an accident occurred
which resulted in the drowning of four
persons. Joe Johnson was going to town
in a covered wagon, accompanied by Mrs.
Bugg. her son, five years old, and her baby,
and Miss Minnie Fraser. Johnson attempted
to ford the creek.
A trolley car ran away In Portland. Oregon,
and plunged through a bridge into a
ilough twenty-Are feet below. Three of the
passengers were drowned.
Fire at Newport News, Va., destroyed
property rained at $2,000,000..including two
piers belonging to the Chesapeake and
Ohio Bailroad, three vessels, and a tug.
Eight persons were burned, one of whom
may die of his injuries.
A snowstorm visited the upper portion of
New York State, threatening great damage
to fruit*.
The people of the Elkborn Mountain locality,
in Kentucky, have fought as desperately
for the last four days to save their
lives and property as the people in the delta
flood district have. Forest Ares have been
devastating the hill country for a week, and
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nniiiiy irtconi uic ^tuuucuw vu *uw ,
mountains. Flails were used to fight the ,
flames, and help had been asked for from
tho Virginia farmers down on Clinch Hirer.
Three farmhouses and four barns were de- <
stroyed before last night's rain came. \
Colonel Jesse Peyton, known a? the (
"Father of Centennials," died at Hsddon- ,
field, N. J. He originated the Centennial ,
Exposition of 1S76 and other celebiations. '
John Waggoner, aged elghtv-flre rears, j
and living near Freetown. Ind., was supposed
to hare died of old age. His physician
announced him dead, and relatives of '
the family were telegraphed, and arrived
for the funeral. That afternoon the body
showed signs of life; slight breathing was (
noticeable, and in a few hours he ha<l sufficiently
recovered to talk to the family. 1
The National bank at Wintbrop. Mass.. 1
closed its doors the other day, giving as a '
reason that the stockholders are growing j
old. The bank was in good condition. j
A despatch from Kansas City says that j
ex-Supervisor Hiram A. Champion, of Clifton
Park. N. T., has shot himself at Kansas I
City. It Is said that at woman disappeared <
with his money before he killed himself. <
Champion disappeared from Clifton Park <
about two months ago with about CIO,000 '
borrowed money. '
There was a big slump in wheat at Xew 1
York and Chicago, caused by the news of
Turkey's victory in Greece. The price of
the cereal dropped more than three cents
in half an hour.
1
Foreign. I
f Th* Inn of the Mavllower was nrcjjalcd
to ex-Ambassador Bayard in London, to be
taken to Boston.
Yellow feYer has appeared on the Chilean
steamer Falena and she has been quarantined.
The revolution in Ecuador has been suppressed.
A despatch from London states that the
money market is regaining more confidence
every day in view of the Turkish victories.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and
the Czar of Russia held a review of the garrison
at St. Petersburg.
Forty-one persons were reported killed by
hail in Mexico, some of the stones weighing
over three pounds each.
An explooion has occurred in a church in
the Island of Cyprus, injuring thirty persons.
It is believed to be the result of a
Turkish outrage. _ _
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HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
ANCTEXT AJND HODBBX MS US.
We used to hare old-fashioned things Sft?
hominy and greens We
used to have just common soap madt
oat of pork and beans,
Bat now ks bouillon, consomme, and things
made from a book,
And Pot an Feu and Julienne, since my
daughter's learned to cook.
We used to have a piece of beef?jast ordinary
meat?
And pickled pigs' feet, spare ribs, too. and
other things to eat;
While now it's fllle; and ragout, and leg of
mutton braised.
And macaroni an gratia, and sheep's head - VHoliandaised.
?Good Housekeeping.
WHTTKNTTO 1TOBT KXTFK HAXDhSS.
Ivory knife handles may be whitened
ew.i Iran* thae a?o /vwsoninnalIt
soaked in alnm water. The alum water
must boil first and then cool. After
they are treated thus they should be
well brushed with a nail brush kept
for the purpose and then allowed to
dry slowly in a wet linen toweL
TRIFLES THAT COST.
Cold potatoes allowed to soar.
Soar milk thrown away.
The kerosene can left open to evap*
orate.
Cold fish thrown awuy.
Cheese permitted to monld.
Lemons left to dry.
Fat pat in earthen dishes.
The mustard erase remaining open
to dry.
Canned goods left exposed in was
Bread pan left with dourh sticking
to it.
STARCH! FOODS.
Many mothers allow their children,
to live almost entirely upon starohy . *
foods, simply because they seem to
prefer paddings of every variety to
the more substantial dishes. The
mother argues, "Well, let him make :?
hie dinner on the pudding, if he prefers
it; it certainly is as nutritions as!
anything else on the table." But itj
should be remembered that those
foods that are pore str.rcb, as cornstarch,
or corn flOnr, eo called, and; %
all those that thicken in like manner,
contain bat little propori;on of nutriment,
being less sustaining and- also
more difficult of digestion than stale
bread. In all case?, food that contains
traoea of bran, and also glnten, gam,
sugar, cellulose and saline matter, j
especially the phosphate, in propor
tion to the ctarch, are to be preferred: :*
If the child has formed a taste for
paddings antil the appetite- craves
these alone, and no other form of food
seems desirable, the paddings can at
least be varied, and need not neeaa
sarily be made only from starchy
foods; plain fruit paddings?with
stale bread for a foundation?all sorts
of custards, and aggs and milk form a
good substitute.?Home Queen,
itfim
Transparent Pie?Four eggs, tto
cups sugar, two tablespoons melted
batter. This will make two pies.
Cream Pie. ?Yelloirs of five eggs,
one teacup batter, one tablespoon
door. This will make three piae. Pat M
the whites on top.
Caramel Cake?Three en pa btowa
sugar, two-thirds cap batter, on cap
tweet milk, fresh, eook twenty minstes,
or no til almost candy; spread
between layers. ^
Mexican Omelet?Heat the third of -J
? minced, peeled, green pepper, from i 'J?,
rhieh the seeds hare been taken, and
keif a dozen shrimps in half a capful
>f white saace; simmer for three ^ r
minutes, end fold half in an omelet of
tix eggs, pouring the rest around.
French Carrots?Boil young carrots
in just enough water to oorer until
lender, then oat them into halves
lengthwise. Melt some batter in a f; v
hot spider. When it babbles laj in ivv
the carrots (a pint), and dost them
rith a saltspoonful of sugar; a heaping
saltspoonfal of srlt and half a
laltspoonfal of pepper and a teaspoonful
of chopped parsley. Fry until the
edges become crisp and brown. W
Omelet Souffle a ia Creme?Poor
eggs, two tablespoonfnls of sugar, a *
speck of salt, half a teaspoonfal of A
ranilla extract, one eapfal of whipped
cream. Beat the whites of the eggs
to a stiff froth, and gradually beat the
sugar and the fl*Tor into them. Whan
veil beaten, aui the yolks, and lastly
(DO wnippeu fttmu. i^aio m uuu ^
slightly battered and balding a quart.
Poor the mixture into this, and bake ;
jast twelve minates. Serve the momeni
it is taken from the oven. 7g
Broiled Herrings?Hake a marinade
Df the juice of half a leiaon, two tableBpoonfuls
of oil, eiz of vinegar, one of
onion juice, a speck of cayenne, one
teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth of %
teaspoonful of pepper, one-tenth of a
teaspoonful of ground cloves and a 4
bouquet of sweet herbs. Mix all to- i
gether. Clean, wash and wipe half a ^
dozen fresh herrings, make small ia>
cisions on both sides, and let stand *
for an hoar in the above marinade,
turning occasionally. Broil quiekly
and serve.
Archery in Crete.
The Cretans are said to hare been ,
the first people to practioe archery, ^
they having learned the art from
Apollo. Three of England's Kings
and two royal Princes were killed by V
arrows Harold and his two brothers 1
came to their death by arrows shot '
from the crossbows of the Norman
soldiers. Wil'iam Rufus was killed
bj an arrow shot at a aeer, ana rucn- 7?
trd I, who revived arohery in England,
was finally slain by an arrow.
Three great battles of English history,
Crecy (13-16). Poictiers (1356) and
Agineonrt (1-415) wero won by the
archers. In those days there were
men who conld shoot an arrow from
300 to 500 yards, and Robin Hood is
said to have shot from 600 to 800.
yards. Eenyon College, Ohio, inoluded
archery as one of the courses
of study about three score years agut.
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