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% The Art of B By Hon. Chauno United States Senatoi LD Epictetus, the sto W ^ the deepest obligatic fi I cated, the fortunes c | g ^ 1 Roman. It irritated M n m I still could get vastly V "with all his wealth, j B la favorite at the coi slave by the leg on Epictetus said: "St your property." T The leg of Epictetus was broken, liberty was .given to him and he founi The vnderlylng principle of his faith Is good for us better than we do. T1 ?nr end, let us accept His disposition whatever our lot. Certainly my own Which have proved significant blessin The best informed, all-round mar Was a barber. He was a success as i chant His shop kept him comforts! great discrimination, he invested in a author of which was his intimate an pedia of his neighborhood to the prea Instead of wearying his customers w for restoring their hair on the outside chair without getting something of va J& Marriage a Tu By Winifred Oliver. 0HERE is little doubt ing point in the road tirely from the friei kind of friendship m a rule 'when a man anees are regarded fi heretofore. Solid fri regard do not. of eo * is naturalliy slow nn< can always be traced back to the time The well-known saying, "There f tnie; but few people there are who, al Mends, and take the trouble to do a them. At any rate, it will hardly be aeglect their wives manage to keep Havs. For this, of course. 1 For instance, marriage is often neighborhood. Nothing, perhaps, ten than this. The young couple probat good 'wishes, presents, and even love whom in a few weeks will have aim so completely will they have drc In cases where the bride or bride native place, the moulting process is : none the less sure. Then there Is the financial aspect ?ff he cannot afford to do much visit! log. and so forth. Well, if the a vera { fairly certain that he can still less aff< Then, again, old friends who vis xatber over-critical; though, of course, effectually concealed. The element o la terribly effective as a pre-mnrriage It Is only in exceptional cases th wife in her girlish days are exactly tl (de friends possible in the eyes of tl visits of the husband's girl friends (p< Few wpmen care to entertain old rivj onsy, It is seldom that a man's frlem hers do not often please him. The Benedict and bachelor stand J&gle, if he wants society and frien< fc marriage, if be wants friends (unless them, and in the latter case he must, choice than in the days of single bless 11 this may be obvious enough t< It does not enter much, as a rule, in contemplate matrimony.?New York J I Jts? Where There'i M- . Er f"' By Margaret Stowe. ^ oFTEN it is said that "th I school of difficulty." T i culties the desperatenes I M and so often in that w a we could see none. If you are determiw ties can always be mac 1Y?Ti.T? ^ is not accident th P?se aD(I persistent indt To a man whose n ? ? J w|ll UK UapprcBL acviutruis "ill ijuoo UIIVI be sees do meaning in them. Bat the man whose mind is fille seeing those same accidents, will se slightest openings. Take the case of Dr. Priestly, the fbe neighborhood of a brewery. His object of chemistry through this fac During one of his visits to the p! attending the extinction of lighted chi liquor. At that time he was forty years He took up the study, but found lit little at that time was known. He then began experiments with and the results led to other experiuu matic chemistry. You know that Edmund Stone said inquired how he, a poor gardener's soi In Latin, "One needs only to know tl order to learn, everything else one wis In speaking of noted scientists, M *? ?rorrm! in cvuiitrvuun ?uu x luicuui i uituu electricity lay means of an old bottle. He says: "It to a curious fact tl study of chemistry by hearing one o subject at the Royal Institution." A gentleman who was a member, radfty was employed in binding books, tricity" in an encyclopaedia placed in 1 The gentleman, having made inqi -was curious about such subjects, and Boyal Institution, where he attended Sir Humphrey. He took notes on them, which he their scientific accuracy, and was si position cf the reporter. Farraday then expressed his desir< chemical studies, from which Sir Iiii Wni; but the young man, persisting Institution as an assistant: and event eccry's boy fell upon the worthy shoul apprentice. So you see how, with determinate ends of time may he worked up iuio i ^ American. eing Happy. ey M. Depew, LL.D., r From New York. ic philosopher, has laid the world under ms. A man of genius, cultured and edu>f war had made him a slave to a brutal the Roman that a man in such condition r more pleasure out of life than he did, [ind the opportunities given him by being irt of Nero. Seizing the philosopher and e day, he commenced twisting It, when in Vrtii Trill hronlr that Ion ?inrl inim-P but his cheerful stoicism conquered. His Jed one of the great schools of antiquity, i and teaching is that God knows what lerefore, doing the best we can to attain as the wisest, and be cheerful and happy i career is rich in great disappointments igs. l, and the most contented I ever knew, i barber; he would have failed as a mer>ly and furnished a surplus which, with library, every book of which and every d familiar friend. He was the encyclochers, the lawyers and the students; and ith voluble suggestions as to his patent of their heads, no customer ever left the lue lodged inside of his head. & irning Point. that marriage generally proves the turnof life which separates a man almost onids of his baehelordom. An indifferent: ocnpvlvn thn m.nrrinf'p but US i falls fn love mere friends and acquaint om a totally different point of view than endships founded on mutual esteem and nrse, end abruptly. The cooling process 1 often reluctant. Its beginning, though, ? when a man becomes engaged, ire no friends like old friends," is very iter marriage, make the most of their old ill which they really might do to retain ; denied that few Benedicts who do not up the intimate companionships of their ;here are various reasons, the occasion for removal to a distant ids to cut short old friendships quicker ily depart for their new home with the of a great number of friends, most of ost forgotten the existence cf the happy >pped out of the old circle, groom, or both, happen to settle in their more gradual; but though it is slow it is of the question. Unless a man is well ng on account of the expenses of travel;e man cannot afford to visit much, it is ?rd to entertain very freely, it one's house are sometimes apt to be while the visit lasts this is more or loss f jealousy, too, sometimes creeps in and i-friend destroyer. at young men who were friends of the le pink of perfection, or the most desirale husband. Still less welcome are the jssible sweethearts, perhaps) to the wife, lis. But apart from any feeling of jeal lis are exactly to his wife's taste, while on a different footing. When a man is is he must go out and find them; after he neglects his home) he must entertain of necessity, be far more critical in his edness. > the "old married man" or woman, but to the calculatons of young people who ournaL & s a Will There's a Way e most prolific school in the world is the hat is, when we are surrounded bydiffiss of the situation compels us to think, ay we make opportunities, wheD before ed to find a way for yourself, opportunile. at helps us in the world so much as purlstry. lind is feeble, sluggish and purposeless, e him without attracting his attention? il with determination and perseverance, ize and make opportunities out of the discoverer of many gases. He lived in attention was accidentally drawn to the t. ace he noticed the peculiar appearances ps in the gas floating over the fermental of ago and knew nothing of chemistry, tie upon that particular branch, as but crude contrivances of his own making, >nts, which became the science of pneuI to the Duke of Argyle, when His Grace 3, was able to read Newton's "Principia" ie twenty-four letters of the alphabet in hes." :r. Smiles tells us of an interesting fact ay. who made his first experiments in while he held the position of bookbinder. Iiat Farraday was first attracted to the f Sir Humphrey Davy's lectures on the calling one day at the shop where Farfound him poring over the aTticle "ElecKtr, KnniU +sv Kill/* LJ1& llilXIUO IV Uiuu. | dries, found that the young bookbinder save him au order of admission to the a course of four lectures delivered by showed the lecturer, who acknowledged jrprised when informed of the humble ? to devote himself tq the prosecution of mphrey at lirst endeavored to dissuade , was at length taken into the Royal ually the mantle of the brilliant apothders of the equally brilliaut '.tookbinder's an and perseverance, the very odds and results of the greatest value.?New York L ? . -*>' '* "&L * CROWDED BRIDGE COLLAPSES. /lore Than One Hundred People Thrown Into the R'ver. Portland. Ore., Special.?A section of the bridge which spans the Williamette River, at Morrison street, collapsed Friday afternoon, precipitating more than 100 people 40 feet into the water. Three people are known to have been drowned, and It is feared that the list of dead will be much larger when all are accounted for. Many fell on two small boatbouses mwrea iu a. p.c? wi the bridge immediately under the spot where it gave way. The known dead are: Minnie Raymond, aged 10; Lottie Cameron, aged 16; unidentified boy. aged 15. Thousands of pecplee had gathred on the Morrison and Madison 6tieet bridges and along the docks to watch Clarence Lutz. an armless man, Bwim across the rivere. which is about three-eighths of a mile wide. As Lutz was climbing cut of the water the crowd rushed to the south edge of the bridge in order to get a good view. A section of the walk gave away under the heavy weight, and the crowding, struggling mass of people were carried down a distance of forty feet. Hundreds of the people at the club house of the Portland Rowing Club, men in beats and those on shore, started to the rescue immediately. They so?-n picked up those struggling in the water while the injured, who were clinging to the boat houses, were taken into the club house and medical aid summoned. Every ambulance in the city, several fire companies and a large force of police arrived within a few minutes and the victims with broken arms and legs were hurried to the hospitals. News of the accident quickly spread, and with a few minutes thousands of people gathered at either end of the bridge, anxiously seeking information about relatives or friends. The bridge is an old wooden structure. having been built 18 years ago. and has been conslderd unsafe for seme time, although it was not condemned. x I Another fiercer. Boston. Mass., Special.?A certificate of organization was filed at the State house by the United States Cotton Manufacturing Company, with a capita! of $40,000,000 in $100 shares. Henry C. Bacon is president, and M. Shumer Holbrook, treasurer. John P. Rogers ij a director, these three constituting a majority. The charter of $40,000,000 makes it the largest capitalized corporation in Massachusetts. It is understood that the company is formed to acquire all or a majority of the cotton textile plaints of the country in one huge trust with headquarters in Boston, but details cannot be learned at present, President Bacon declining to discuss the plans of the corporation other than to say that its headquarter* would be in Boston. The charter empowers it to build or buy mills and to carry on a general cotton manufacturing business. Three Killed and a Score Injurefl. Lynchburg. Va.. Special.?At 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon three persons were killed and more than a score injured by lightning at New Hope church, Appommattox county. The dead are: Paul Gowen. Charles Austin and Aubrey Wingfield, while among the more seriously injured are: Eugene Turner. Nathaniel Morris. Tom Coleman and Napoleon Patterson. A meeting of the James River Baptist A8scoiation was in progress and a large number of men took refuge under an awning near the building when the storm came up. Lightning struck a tree in front of the awning, causing the disaster and throwing the great crowd on the ground into a panic. Tn Fvumine Food Products. Washington. Special.?The Agricultural Department took Its first action under the amended pure food act of July 1, 1903, by requesting authority fiom the Treasury Department to take samples and make a chemical analysis of certain food products shipped to this country from abroad. The permission asked for has been granted and an official examination of -these products will be made to determine whether their use is deleterious to health. An inquiry also will be made to determine whether their use is prohibited in the country of their origin. In either of these contingencies their entry and sale in this country will be prohibited. Uphold Booker Washington. Tuskegee, Ala., Special.?A resolution was adopted here by the Alabama State Colored Baptist Convention, In session in this city, severely condemning the attack made upon Principal Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, during his address at Boston. The resolution, which was unanimously adopted by the* 300 delegates of the convention, uphold Principal Washington and pledges confidence and endorsement of Dr. Washington as a "conservative, worthy and safe leader, deserving of the respect and confidence of all men." Tobacco Association in Session. Newport News, Va., Special.?The Tobacco Association of the United States convened in its third annual convention at Old Point. Besides President Carrington, of Richmond, 1 a Pv.Tret an rpr Thftmas auu tjcvivu**; - _ __ Mason, of Louisville, Ky., there were about 75 members in attendance. Owing to the failure of a large number of delegates to arrive in time for the opening session, an adjournment was taken and no business was transited. To Search Female Passengers. Washington, Special.?Secretary Cortelyou has selected a limited number of women from eligible lists furnished by the Civil Service Commission for appointment as matrons in the immigration service to board in-coming vessels and assist in the examination of women passengers. They will assist the men inspectors. A three months trial of this plan in the spring of the present year led to its abandonment. i V A DEADLY ASSAULT. - ? | lady Near Statesville the Victim of a Dangerous Negro. NOW IN THE CHARLOTTE JAIL Circumstantial Evidence Points to a Negro Named Wllford Roseboro as the Culprit Statesville, N. C., Special.?The inquest was held over the body of Mrs. Dolph Beaver, which was found in the well at her home in Cool Springs township Thursday night, and the coroner's jury rendered a verdict to the effect that deceased came to her death from being choked and by a blow on the head. They jury also found that she was outraged and Wilford Roseboro. colored, is charged with the crime. The substance of the evidence brought out by the autopsy was as follows: The dead body of Mrs. Beaver was found in the well about dark Thursday evening by Mr. Beaver and his neighbors after Mr. Beaver returned home from Statesville. There wa3 a fracture in her skull five inches long and the brain was exposed; also a gash two inches long over the eye. Her clothing was badly tern and there was evidence that she was outraged. A knife wa3 found cn the floor of the house, and also several splotches of blood. As evidence that the crime was committed early in the morning, the milk vessels were on the table and the house had not been put in shape for the day. Mrs. Beaver having beecn engaged in this when Mr. Beaver left home early that morning. A pistol was taken from a drawer that Roseboro had tried to buy from Mr. Beaver some time ago. Mr. Beaver left home for town about 6.30 o'clock in the morning and saw Roseboro in the road in front of him tielng his shoe. The negro left the road and walked out through the bushes. Br. Beaver passed the home of Mary Roseboro. Wilford's mother, and asked her if Wilfcrd was at home, and was told no. In her testimony Mary said that Wilford had gone over the creek on Wednesday night, returned home Thursday morning, was there all day until 8 o'clock last night. Another witness testified that Roseboro came to her house a while before day Thursday, gave orders to be awakened early, untied his shoes and lay down across a bed. The woman awoke him at 6 o'clock and he left, going in the direction of Mr. Beaver's. From then until 8 o'clock when his mother says he came home his movements are not accounted for. It is supposed that Mrs. Beaver was murdered between 6 and 8 o'clock. Friday morning about 11 o'clock Roseboro boarded a train at Elmwood for Saluda, Henderson county. A warrant charging him with murder was issued. He was arrested aad taken to Charlotte jail on Sunday evening. Feeling against him is very high. A Brutal Crime. Rocfcy Mount, N. C? Special.?One of the blackest crimes in tl e history of Edgecombe county was committed about noon Saturday on the person of Mrs. Pas? Lo-.g, bv vj unknown negro. Mrs. Long was alone at the time, her husband, who, bcciie herce!?, is the sole cccupant of the house, being absent. The negro struck her a blow which rendered her temporarly unconscious. Mrs. Long has not yet been sufficiently conscious to give any connected statement and does not know whether the fiend accomplished his foul nurnose but her condition wouH indicate that hedid so. Mrs. Longshows signs, of having been choked, while her arms are cut about the wrists, supposedly in an attempt of the negro to free himself from her grasp. Her head is battered and there are other marks of violence on her person. President Insulted. \ Oyster Bay, Special.?Profane and abusive language was directed toward President Roosevelt and his family Sunday as they were driving up to Christ church here to attend the morning service. The offender was a resident of Oyster Bay named McCann. He was hustled away from the church unceremoniously by the Secret Service operatives. An Erudite Senator. Senator Knute Nelson, of Minnesota is one of the most accomplished linguists of the Senate. A Norwegian by birth, he speaks that language perfectly. He also speaks Swedish, Danish, German and, of course, English. He has a very good understanding of French. Senator Nelson from the age of 12 years was brought up In Minnesota, where a mixed population of Norwegians, Swedish, Danish and German gave him a splendid opportunity to acquire their languages, and, being at all times studious, he lost no chance to add to his knowledge. mil Operative Killed. Washington, N. C., Special.?Working at her place on an operating table in the knitting mill here, Bessie Ipock, a twelve-year-old girl, had her dress wound around the exposed shaft bar that was revolving swiftly. As soon as the slack of the dress was wound up, the- girl's body was whirled round and round through the air and her head struck the floor with a sickening thud, killing her instantly. LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many Matters of Oeneral Interest In Short Paragraphs. Down in Ll.xle. The Council of Keyser, ?>r. Va., has fixed the tax rate at 85 cents on the $100. The two factions of the Populist pr.rty were reunited in a conference at Denver. A company has been chartered to operate a trolley line from Morgantown to Fairmont, W. Va. Capt. B. J. Ewen began his testimony in the Marcum murder case at Cynthiana, Ky. Mrs. Ann A. Davis, widow of SenatO! Davis, of Minnesota, and Mr. Henry Doll, of Knoxville, Tenn., were married in Washington. The barn of Mr. L. H. Freeman, of Areola. Va., was destroyed by fire of unknown origin on Monday night. A portion of the contents was saved. The German cruiser Gazelle, which had been at the Newport News shipyard for some time, sailed for Halifax. Count von Orcola, in command of the vessel, says his ship will go to Montreal from Halifax. The Clinton Coal and Coke Com ijau.v nas uicreasea us capital SIOCK to $1,000,000 and will build four miles of railroad at a cost of $100,000 to reach its mine3 in the Clinton district, Monongalia county. West Virginia. Three hundred coke ovens will be installed. The company owns 10,000 acres. At The National Capital. The officers of the United States naval squadron are being royally entertained at Lisbon and King Carlos will visit the warships on Saturday. The Secretary of the Treasury has been asked by the Agricultural Department to hold up cargoes of imported food products until they can be examined by an expert under the provisions of the Pure Food law. The State Department is advised that President Castro, of Venezuela, Is pursuing a high-handed course toward foreigners. It is said the new Currency bill will provide for the deposit of customs, as well as of internal revenue, receipts in national banks. In a communication Commercial Agent Langhorne shows how Russia is implanting herself to control Chinese trade at Dalny. Alexander Isvolsky is spoken of as the possible successor to Count Cassini, Russian Ambabssador at Washington. ? . At The North. Twelve of the convicts who escaped j at Placerville, Cal., were still at large. Though prices were irregular, there 1 was a better feeling in the New York stock market. After sleeping 44 days, Endicott C. Allen, in the Long Branch, N. J:, hospital, is awake. Martin Ebelt is said to have confessed the murder of his wife, whose body was found in a sewer at Mount I Vernon, N. Y. When he attempted to prevent Adolph Schloss, a soldier, from shoot- , ing his sweetheart. Patrolman Cornelius Mulvey, of New York, was se riousty wounaea. A South Dakota divorce was adJudged void under English law by the president of the Divorce Court, in London. A terrific explosion of gunpowder s-t a Lowell (Mass.) factory killed probably 20 persons and wounded a number of others. The convicts who escaped from the California prison have reached the Greenwood Hills, where the officers hope to starve them out. 1 The stock of the Evansville and 1 Terre Haute Railway was transferred ] to Rock Island interests. { Twenty-two union miners were ar- . rested at Idaho Springs, Cold., charged with conspiracy, a minehouse having 1 been blown up. ' From Acroas The Sea Cardinal Camerlengo Oregila has ] asked the 62 cardinals in Rome to be j ready to enter their cells for the con- ( clave by tomorrow. , Count Hedervary, the Premier, was shouted down in the Hugarian Diet at Budapest and the sitting broke up in a riot, which will result, it was reported, in several duels. A solemn requiem mass for King 1 Humbert was celebrated in the Pan- i theon at Rome on the third annlver- . sary of his assassination. Cardinal Gibbons had a conference with Cardinal Logue, and many honors are being tendered the distinguished American prelate. The Cunard Steamship Company has agreed to the British Government's offer of $5,000,000 subsidy on the pro- < posed two new vessels for the line. Miscellaneous flatter*. A. B. Youngson. Grand Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, is dead at Meadville, Pa., aged 54 years. The conclave for the election of a now Pope will begin in the Vatican i this evening. It was reported that a man named < Pupo was at the head of a revolution- , cry movement in the province of Santiago, Cuba, and the Rural Guards were mobilizing there to quell any attempted rebellion. King Edward and Queen Alexandra continued their motor-car trip through - ? J ritant I the Connemara aisirici &uu mici ?*cm. to Galway. Mr. Santos Dumont offered his airship to the French Government for war purposes. 1 Representative A. G. Dayton, of 1 West Virginia, favors fewer but more ' complete navy yards. Marine hospital surgeons who con- ' ducted an investigation at Vera Cruz, Mexico, say the germ of yellow fever is a protozoan parasite carried by mos- . quitoes. J - . . FEAiiTEXPLOSIOff Powder Magazines BL w L'p With Terxrible Results MORE THAN TWENTY LIVES LOST Fourvon Houses Blown to Atoms bythJRrorce of the Explosion?riostlyWorklnf People. Lowell, Mass., Special.?Two small/, powder magazines situated in the very midst of the humble residences of 50 mill operatives, exploded Wednesday with a frightful concussion and the resultant wave of death cut off the livea of more than a score of human beings, and injured nearly 50 others. Half a. dozen men who were loading kegs of* power from one of the magazines wereblown to pieces; four boys 200 yards away were killed by the force of the* explosion, and 14 frame houses within, a radius of 400 yards were blown down, as if they had been built of cards. Seven of these houses Immediatelycaught fire, probably from the kitchen stoves, and were completely destroyed^ At least three persons were caught in. the ruins and burned to death, while seven or eight others, who were rescued, died subsequently of their Injuries. It is estimated that 70 separate pieces of property, including those already mentioned, were destroyed, wb^* the force of the explosion wrecked windows for five or six miles around,, and its thunder could be heard distinctly more than 50 miles away. Cotton and Tobacco Conditions. Washington, Special.?The weather bureau's weekly summary of crop conditions affecting cotton and tobacco la as follows: While there has been an improvement In cotton its advancement Is apparently decided than in theprevious week, especially in the central portions ?bf the western districts; where rain is generally needed. Good growth la reported from nearly all districts, but the plant continues small and is from two to four weeks late. Boll weevil in Texas are doing little damage. Much of the crop has received final cultivation. Tobacco is needing rain in portions of Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky but is mostly doing well elsewhere." Commutes Woman's Sentence. Washington, Special. ? President Roosevelt has commuted the sentence of Lucy Smith, a white woman, convicted in the western district of Virginia, of retailing moonshine whiskey without license. The woman was convicted in May last and was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and serve six months In prison. The United States attorney recommended commutation of the sentence on tne grouna umi mo woman was the mother of five children, ignorant of the offense she had^ committed, and that the children were^ dependent upon her and were in & destitute condition. The sentence was communted to expire August 1. A Favorable Opinion. Chicago, Special.?Judge Kavanaugh, in a decision handed down in the habeas corpus case of four strikers for violating an injunction granted to the* Illinois Malloable Iron Works, decided that labor unions have the right to place pickets about & point where a \ itrike is in progress and he also declared that workmen hare the right to r>eriinade workmen to quit. The Jurist furthermore held that sending men to fall upon affidavits that they have violated an injunction is illegal. Judge Kavanagh's decisien is directly opposed to decisions rendered in the Superior Court. Contract Awarded. Washington, Special?Acting Postmaster General Wynne signed the contract of Paul Herman, of Rutherford, N. J., to furnish the money order forms to the government during the next four years. The first forma are to be supplied, under the new contract on September 4. The signature of the final papers ends the fight which the old contractors, the Wynkoop, Hallenbeck and Crawford Company, of New York,, have been waging ever since the award was made to .Herman, a former employe of that company. Trouble at Panama Subsided. Washington, Special.?The temporary ebullition on the isthmus has subBided, according to a cablegram from United States Consul General Gudgerr I ? ? Un OOVCI that. dated at Panama iueau?/ everything is perfectly quiet and he anticipates no more trouble. Mr. Gudger would like to come home oif leave of absence, but Acting Secretary Loomls has been obliged to deny his request to that effect until conditions on the isthmus are more settled. The Slave Pensions. Washington, N. C., Special.?All daylong and extending Into the night a medium sized crowd of negroes, led by an elder, has been in the county court house praying and singing and passing a petition to Congress to pass the Hanaa bill introduced into the last Congress for the purpose of pensioning the ex-slave. They have been loud !n :heir lamentations and are led by an. elder who la duping them.