Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I GOD S HOUR-GLASS. i tl tc Man -is the Hour glass of God! And grain by gram his being flows ai Out of the globe of surface shows j. Into the globe below the sod! " a< Clear of the sunken sands of strife, God turns below the body's bowl? And so upturns Man's crystal soul < Brimmed with the golden grains of life. ^ ?R. Valentine Heckscher, in the Atlantic. jn D17DADT7 TUI7 /WTDT " DDruiiD inii vn/uiu. at By F. ^.^KOPTA,^ Li \fter having wandered all over the forest I thought that I had better go ju and see the notar. I found him in tn much the same state of mind as before. So I gave him the papers, fe where I had written down the prob- lit able worth of the different parts of wl the forest, to look over at his leisure, ar and betook myself to the Golden yc Calf. 1 sb This time I was lucky enough to be waited on by the "sweet Sera- ni phiene"?at least, I felt tolerably sure that it was she. for she was a nc good deal pitted with the smallpox, in I found her a tail, lanky girl of about twenty, with gray eyes and hair the ar color of tow. She did not seem at all pleased to see me, and I afterwards cii discovered that I had disturbed her he in a flirtation with a stalwart chimneysweep in the kitchen, who was very leisurely drawing his brushes fr through the chimney. Having maae h? this discovery, I was not exacting 0r about the waiting on, and soon the m two young people were having a nice a. time together. Every now and then I could hear a ia v stifled giggle from the girl, and a 0f subdued "He! he!" from the youth, sa and then a scuffle. I was propitious, m but fate willed otherwise. In the w! middle of the entertainment some one came in, evidently a person of th authority, for I heard a sound slap m given, and the next moment "sweet th Seraphiene" arrived in the room like th a bomb thrown out of a cannon. One dc rhooV had an irrmreasion of smut and the other "was crimson. I would not pi "be indiscreet, but I fancy that the of kiss was followed by a fine box on w] the ear by a third party. Out of the window I saw the sweep disappearing th rapidly around the corner. j dc - While, I wa3 meditating why true love affairs inevitably went crooked, he and trying to look as unconcerned as ig possible to the fact that "sweet Sera- w] phiene" was weeping behind the fa stove, a youpg man came in, a writer th at the court, whom I had met before, th He called for beer, which was served bi to him by a buxom matron, whose re- Ur semblance to Serapbieneleft no doubt sa that she was her mother. I knew the young man slightly, and I asked how bi he was, and if there was anything ' hi new in the town. Taking up his beer glass he came m to my table and sat down opposite J qu me. | ui "News: ne said. i snouia tmnK H( there was! I thought I would shake to In the court to-day, and all on ac- ex count of your precious Matey." Sc "My Matey!"" I said in astonish- wi * ment. ? yo /''"Oh, well, the Matey where you te live. 'Barking Matey,' we call him hi in the town." I , "What has he done now?" I asked, ye ""Barked at the pfaner?" , "Dear no! But he came as wit- th ness to the court." I w] "A witness!"I said. "For whom?" | "That is exactly the point. For to whom?" I am afraid I looked rather mysti- th :fled, for the youth went on: "Listen ? I will tell you. Two he men, both of them poachers, and sa good-for-nothings, one a butcher, the other a shoemaker, had a row. One oa of them declared the dog of the other (as ugly a brute as ever you saw) gr "had bitten him. As Matey was the bi * only witness, he was summoned to m give his evidence before the court, ce * Both men had declared under oath "their view of the matter and it only remained for Matev tn lerive his evi- hu dence. i "The judgewas in histalar (gown) ki and when Matey's name was called | he drew himself up to his full height he and looked as stern as he could. "In came Matey in his best clothes, cl( as solemn as a death head, his white, bleached-out hair standing straight sa ^ up on end. Oh, he was a sight, I tell ui TO'.'! | "'Matey Liska,' (Matthew Fox), la said the judge in his most solemn voice, 'you are called before this sa court to give witness, to speak the to truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Do you understand?' M "Matey stood first on one leg, then hs on the other. At last he said he un- re derstood. Lighting two candles, on Si either side of the crucifix standing on to the table, the judge said solemnly: w< " 'I will now administer the oath sa ^to you. I warn you that should your j itouuivu/ yi u Tc ittioc iu au; pat ciuu- j ju ' lar you are liable to be imprisoned ve for a number of years, or days, as the case may be, for perjury.' "We all stood up. Both the men j "had lawyers with them, so we were , te six. The judge recited the words, 1 co and Matey repeated them, holding up J te his three fingers, in the name of the th Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, j in ac the custom is, then we all sat' sa down to business. ar " 'Before I question you, Matey re Xiiska,' said the judge, 'I have a ques- til tion to put. i Have either of these pe men promised you money, or any- j gi thing else, not to testify to the1 of truth?' fo " 'No,' said Matey, 'they have not.' de " 'Very good! So, Matey Llska. ! tell us what you saw on the third oi July of this year.' " 'What I saw?' w " 'Yes, what you saw.' ec "Matey looked all around the it! room, as though he was looking for in facts in the air; then, turning his be catlike eyes to the judge's face, he co said solemnly: m " 'I saw nothing particular.' ti< " 'Matey Liska,' said the Judge, oi shortly, 'remember you have been w called before this court to witness, ol Did you see these two men on the Li lird of July, and did the dog of An?n Brambora bite the other man?' "Matey stared up at the ceiling, id after a while acknowledged that 3 had seen the two men, also the >g. " 'Very good!' said the judge, low tell us what you saw as quickly i you can.' " 'It was so,' said Matey, scratchg his head. 'They met on the foot ith near the old oak. No, it was ;ar the big pine.' " 'Never mind that; go on,' said ;e judge, impatiently. 'They met. ow what did the dog do?' " 'Nothing,' said Matey. "'Nothing!' repeated the judge id the two lawyers. 'Now, Matey Iska,' said the judge, severely, 'reember you are before the court; no lly joking.' " 'Now I come to think of it,' said atey. 'the dog wagged his tail.' "'Oh, he did, indeed!' said the :dge. 'And what did he do after j at, you idiot?' " 'Now, look here. You read a llow an oath, and tell him if he t >s he will be cast into prison. And ,t hen I tell you the truth you call me c i idiot! If I am an idiot, why did t >u send for me to bear witness, I r ould like to know?' j "The judge looked as black as a ght. d " 'Did the dog bite Jan Holub or C >t? Answer, or I shall have you 1 lprisoned for contempt of court.' c "Matey considered the question, id then answered slowly: " 'He may have bitten the man acdentally, but it was the sausage 0: ! was after.' ti " 'What sausage?' asked the judge, p " 'I think it was a sausage bought d om Alexander Vlastooka, or per- c ips from Vlastimil Zamecka,' went s< i Matey. 'It was long and red, a] ade out of horse's flesh, probably, a ten heller sausage I should think.' k "'Heavens!' said the judge to the a wyers, who were grinning in spite themselves. 'I asked you if you w the dog bite the man. Answer e' that. And at once, if you know hat is good for you!' " 'You have sworn me to speak e truth,' said the -plain spoken atey, 'and I will speak the truth, e whole truth, and nothing but e truth, before this court. The ig wanted the sausage.' "The judge sat down and contemated Matey, who looked the image righteous innocence. After a bile he said: " 'We will leave the sausage out of e question, if you please. Did the ig bite the man or not?' " 'Well,' said Matey, 'he may or i may not have done so. The beast an honorable brute. I knew him hen he was a puppy. Also his fher ?nd mother before him. all oi em respectable dogs. In grabbing e sausage, he may possibly have tten the man a little. But it wa4 [intentional. He was after the sau< ge.' " 'Did you, or did you not, see him rt te the man? Was there blood on w s hand?" ci "'Heavenly goodness!' exclaimed ni atey. 'For a judge to ask such a o; iestion! Setting a snare for a poor, n< ilearned lad to commit perjury! fl aw should the like of I know ho* w answer such questions? Can you P pect me to have the wisdom oi S] ilomon? Butchers' hands are al? tc lys smeared with blood. How da eu expect me, who am no doctor to ai 11 you what kind of blood it was? vi s own or an animal's?' ai "The judge turned to the law- tt rs. " 'I have no more questions to ask L is man,' he said. 'Question him io will.' hi "Anton Brambora's lawyer turned tl Matey. tt " 'So, young man, you did not see e uug uue my client: " '1 saw him bite the sausage that > held iu his hand. It was a fine usage.' " 'Then you cannot declare upon ,th that he bit him?' " 'I can declare this: That he abbed the sausage, and may have tten unintentionally. He is a righ| inded dog, and would not bite expt in the way of business.' "The other lawyer asked: " 'So you acknowledge then thai i did not bite the man?' " 'I acknowledge nothing of the nd,' said Matey. " 'What did the dog do then? Did s bite the man or not?' " 'He bit the sausage,' said the ear headed Matey. " 'It is useless to question him; id the judge. 'He has not common iderstanding.' " 'Evidently not!' said both the wyers. " 'Have you got anything more to y?' asked the judge. (An obligary question). " 'Only this,' said the impervious atey, 'that, as your mercifulness is fitly said, this is a matter thai quires more tnan ordinary sense. ippose we send for a wise woman I lay out the cards before us; then i will assuredly know if it was the usage the dog wanted or not.' " 'You are dismissed,' said the dge, pointing to the door."?Warley Magazine. Wagner's Opera Cut. __ After the performance of the "Got rdammerung" in Paris recently ao rding to Figaro, complaint was en< 0j red by Wagner enthusiasts becaus# ei e opera had not been performed its entirety. The directors, Masger and Broussau, made reply in i open letter to the effect that to nder the complete work several j lies in one week would overtax the ^rformers, and "inasmuch as we ve four hours and twenty minutes music, we should not be blamed r omitting parts which could be rented in seventeen minutes." i t Costly Palace. Parliament house. Melbourne, hich has been rushed by "the nunployed" of the commonwealth capil, is the costliest legislative palace riroQtop "Pritain A m{)lmn V* o o vii v.Mk.(Luiu. j.uiiiiivu uag | sen expended on it, and it is not yet | impleted. It belongs to the Parliaent of Victoria, but sinca federaon it has been the meeting place ! the Parliament of the commonealth, its owners moving to a wing ! the exhibition building clo3e by.?i t( andon Chronicle. s] THE NEW HINDU TEMP! It will come somewhat as a surprl ry Jo learn that a Hindu temple has ji he members of the local Vedanta Socl ornerstone of which was laid in 19 ouse of worship, and it is only by iti -1 x ^ ^ *- w la n Lmiareis, mat tuo Duaug^i to &nuu ** >eople and clime has been transplant? .nd civilization along with the teact iedlcatory services were simple, consl alia lilies and greens served as decc arge pictures of noted expounders o lative Hindu costume.?J. DeRowe, ir Peruvian Relics. In the Pennsylvania Museum, Memrial Hall, exhibited with the collecon of old pewter, are three examles of Peruvian figure work in lead, ating back probably to the Spanish onquest. The central figure reprejnts a man with mitre and crozier, pparently a Spanish bishop or abbot, .nother is Intended to "portray a night or soldier, holding in one hand two-handed sword. On his head ;sts what appears to be a crown, hile from his breast is suspended a uclflx. The third figure shows a lember of the priesthood, carrying in ae hand a chalice, while from his eck and waist are suspended crucixes. These very interesting figures ere doubtless intended by the native eruvian artists to caricature the panish invaders. They are, there^ >re, particularly interesting, not as camples of native Peruvian art, but 5 illustrating the post-incarial Peru;ans'* sense of humor In the exaggertion of the features and traits of leir conquerors. These curious ob,'cts belong to the Dr. Robert H. amborn collection. The ancient Peruvians were, peraps. the greatest caricaturists of all le Western nations, as revealed in leir pottery, their textiles and their ONLY A WANE "Mr. Jackson tells some wondei reat traveler." "No. But his mind has wander* Sensation For Children. The children will be glad to hear ! an Ingenious device recently patlted by a Texas man and shown in le illustration below. It is destined > become as popular as the roller sates In the near future, and once .E IN SAN FRANCISCO. se to the people of this Christian coun1st been dedicated in San Francisco by ety. The Interior of this building, the 05, is similar to that of an ordinary ( 3 exterior, with its domes, towers and otlce that the architecture of another >d into the midst of Western progress ( lings of tfee Vedas themselves. The sting of music, a prayer and sermon. jratlons. On the platform were two f the Vedanta faith, dressed In their | i Christian Herald. ( metal work. In the valuable collection of Peruvian antiquities brought ' to Philadelphia by J. Randolph Clay, 1 who was United States Minister to j that country nearly fifty years ago, are two bronze implements, one of them terminating In two figures of 1 monkeys, dressed in Spanish costumes ( and riding mules. Until a few years ago these Instruments were believed . to be knives or choppers, but it Is now known that they were used for cutting the wool of llamas, alpacas and vicunas, a Peruvian vase having been 1 recently discovered on which a man is depicted in the act of shearing a 1 native animal with a similar tool.? Philadelphia Record. i Waistcoat in Parts. 1 A resident of Chicago has created a coat and vest combined in one which it is claimed has many advan* 1 tages over the present cut. The chief tinnr n fra n rrnm ont la that I ^ UiaiJLU LKJl IUC ucn aitaugciuuub vwm< the vest, being made in two parts, the 1 back and front, enables the wearer to remove the back entirely at such times as the temperature demands lighter clothing without laying tha wearer open to the accusation of being partially dressed, as he is sometimes when he lays aside his vest entirely. The front of the vest is in < place as usual when the back has 1 been removed, and being secured to the coat at the sides has all the appearance of a fully shaped garment ?Washington Star. BERING MIND. % I r- ? ful stories. He must have been a }d.n?Judge. * InfrnHiinoH Ifo 1100 mill nn V*/* 1UV1 VUUVVU * <-*J uov " 441 uw UVUUV UU universal. It consists of miniature springing boards, which are Btrapped to the shoes. A slight depression of the feet causes the wearer to spring forward; the harder the depression the longer the jump. The inventor claims that a person equipped with the spring boards can travel faster than another person running, and but little effort or exertion is required to cause momentum. They are in every -way safe for young children, as there is no danger of the child falling or of the device becoming unamanageable, as with roller skates. They will undoubtedly prove to be a great amuse- ^ ment for youngsters,, both boy9 and t girls, and we may soon look for ^ streets full of live jumping jacks. ? They will also be used by acrobats instead of the springing board now usually employed.?Washington Star. s i: Telephones permanently secured to { the chairs have been introduced into f some of the leading barber shops, and t have been 'found to be a welcome In- i novation. a \IODEM BANQUET WOULD AMAZE NEEO. ~1 / Signor Ferrero Says Luxury c His Time Not Comparable Wit That of To-Day. h ''Corruption and Progress in th Ancient and Modern World" was th subject of the lecture in which Slg nor Ferrero, the Italian historia shattered all the popular ideas c Roman corruption when he spoke b( fore a large audience at Columbi University, After having strippe the romantic garb from the histor of Cleopatra on Wednesday, Signc Ferrero attacked ideas regarding th vices of ancient Rome in an equall forceful manner. "If we read the ancient source we can see that the idea of Roma corruption has been exaggerated," h said; "that we have made for oui selves out of this much famed Ron: an luxury a notion highly romanth But we need not delude ourselves Rome even at the height of its spei dor was poor in comparison with th modern world. Even when Rom Btood as a metropolis for an immens empire It was less wealthy and lea Imposing than a great city or presei Europe or America. "We have pictured the imperis banquets of ancient Rome as fun< tions of unheard of spiendor; hut J Nero could come to life and see th dining room of a great hotel of Pari or New York he would admire it fa more than the hall in which he gav bis feasts. "In the modern world every ir crease of consumption, every wast< every vice seems permissible; indeed almost meritorious, because men c Industry, gain by the diffusion c luxury, by the spread of vice. I for example, the beer makers and di; tillers of alcohol were not more pow erful in the electoral field than tb philosophers and academicians, tb governments would have more easil recognized that the popular class* cannot be allowed to poison then; 3elves or future generations wit chronic drunenkness. "Fabulous wealth is wasted by me and women to-day In luxury that j aot to satisfy some reasonable neet but to show others of their kind ho' rich they are, or, further, to mah others believe them richer than the are."?New York Herald. Sea Gives Up Its Wealth. "Californians have solved the prol [ems of the alchemists and are mal Ing gold out of sea water," says Wil iam Briggs, writing in the Technic* World Magazine. "The Golden Stal - 1 J x 4. V , Has lasen guiaen ireanuie uut ui ut mountains, has made her vallej yield millions of dollars' worth c golden fruit, has amassed tourist,gol in exchange for hor sunshine, an now turns to the great lazy Pacif and ransacks its coffers. "There is no rush of prospectors t the new field, however, as the gold : coming out of the sea in the form < salts of potassium, magnesium an bromide, which would elude the p?a and the rocker of the prospector. "Of- several 'diggings' of this m tiire, one at least is active and pro; perous and one is approaching actii Ity. The San Pedro Salt Compan: which recently entered the field, ha succeeded in manufacturing a quai tity and quality of salt which ha !ound a ready market and has alread assumed a place among the export af the port of San Pedro. The fac that San Pedro is a lively and thrii Ing port, with almost no outgoin :argoes, makes the development c this trade both easy and important Since the first of last year the coast Ing schooners returning to the nortt arn coast have taken yaway over thousand tons of this sea salt." What's in a Name? Topeka society, we regret to not< is again in a state of wild excitemen A. Topeka girl is going to marry a irmy officer and the cut-glass circl is all agog. We are frank to say thfi the girl in the case is a very admii able young woman, who has easil ieserved the tremendous popularit 3he has enjoyed. We do not knoi the man personally, but we have n ioubt that he is a fine, likable, manl fellow. Most army officers are. Bu in heaven's name why all this far Tare of the tomtoms, this soundin af the hewgags? .... See Laughlln, who died in Topeka Sue lay, went to his grave obscure, uc honored and unsung, except by thos ivho were fortunate enough to toil b lis side. And yet, in unselfish devc :ion to duty, in strict adherence t principle, in fairness, honesty an' punctilious courtesy, no army office ?ver surpassed Scot Laughlin. Fe^ nen were his superior intellectual^ ^lone turned a more cheerful face t teen affliction or exhibited more o :he instincts of a gentleman. Bu ve do not recall that there was an vlld excitement when he married fopeka girl. Wherefore, we sa; 31SD, XUSQ, punyrut iiuu pj?j. aui lapdoodle. No vaudeville joke Is a unny as small town society in th >resence of aniarmy officer.?Topek; Capital. An Order For Blueberries. The fame of those Surry blueber ies has reached to the Far West. J L Haines, of Ellsworth, recently ad rertised the Surry blueberries in thi Sllsworth American. Last week h< eceived an order ior tweive cans u ie shipped to Ogden, Utah. The or ler came from Dr. A. S. Condon, o hat city, and was accompanied by i :opy of the advertisement and a let er in which Dr. Condon said h< wished to taste again the blueberriei vhich as a boy he picked about hi! tome in Penobscot and Orland )oubtless some of the berries he wil ;et from the Surryfactory came fron he same plains in Orland which th< loctor wandered over in his youthfu lays.?Kennebec Journal. Clocks Are Fast. Whether there is some occult rea on for it or not is uncertain, but i s a fact that nearly all of the clocki n the hotels of New York City ar< ast. The average of fastness ir welve hotels within a half mile o lerald Square, as observed, was foui ,nd one-half minutes. L* Astronomers of note are inclined to the theory that the eighth satellite of Jupiter, discovered last winter, is e the missing Lexell comet, last seen in o 1779, close to the planet. n The experiment on the elevated ,f railway lines in Chicago to eliminate ?_ noise by the use of a gravel roadbed a on the structure has recently been d abandoned, as the gravel not only y failed to reduce the noise, but held ir water, with injurious effects to the e structure. Physicians have been in the habit >s of laughing at the popular custom of n burning sugar in sick rooms as a dise infectant. A scientist in the Pasteur .. Institute, Paris, has, however, recentt. ly discovered that burning sugar develops acetylene hydrogen, one of the 3> most powerful antiseptic gases known. e The peat in the extensive bogs of e Central Ireland is to be utilized with e a view to generating electric power l3 sufficient to diive the mills, run the tt railways aDd light the cities of that region. The bogs cover S74 square miles. One works can get 15,000 .. horse power fbr fifty years on a thirty [f per cent, load factor. e ;s Recent official tests of the many r valuable hard woods native to Weste ern Australia have made known the *' extraordinary properties of yate, believed to be the strongest of all known woods. Its average tensile l' strength is 24,000 pounds to the ,f square inclj, equaling that of good ,f cast iron. But many specimens are f( much stronger, *ud one was tested i. up to seventeen and a half tons to r. the square inch, which is equal to e jthe tensile Strength of wrought irqn. e The sawn timber of yate is probably y the strongest in the world. The tree )S grows to a maximum height of ldO t_ feet, and has sometimes a diameter b of two" and a half or even three feet. n The system of refuse destruction [3 in some of the English cities is beyond criticism. The money derived ^ from the material in many instances e more than covers the cost of collecy tion and reduction, and, in addition co cms, neat, ngui uuu yuwei uc supplied for municipal purposes. A notable Instance is at Nottingham, Eng land, where a third incinerator is about to be erected, which will be much larger than the two existing jj" ' plants. In that city one of the bye products of the plants is bricks for ' paving or building. The clinkers r'g from the furnace are mired with cement, and under hydraulic pressure d formed into blocks which are said to d be harder and more enduring- than tc rock itself. KNOWING THING& TOO WELL, :o _____ (s Sometimes Too Well Trained a Memjj ory Plays Odd Tricks. a Very often folks get to knowing a thing so well that they don't have to i- think to remember it. Take, for in3 stance, your home address. If you r~ have been living in the same house in 7, the same street for years your adis . .dress.gets easier and easier to recall, l- Except, sometimes. It doesn't take a, the influence -of..liquor to make you y forget, Either. It merely is that you know it too well. it There was a man who was in the r- habit of writing letters to a girl and g after a year or oo h.e got to know if her address by heart. One day, long t. after he started writing to her, he ^ was addressing an envelope to the i- young woman, when suddenly he bea came suspicions of the number he had written. Ho read it aloud and tried other schemes of convincing himself. ' He wrote the same numbers on other sheets of paper, but t. they did not seem entirely right. n Eventually he had to go over to e call on the girl, instead of writing. i Lt in order to satisfy himself that ht .. still knew the address. His figures y had been perfectly all right, but the y trouble was that he knew them too iv well. , c That sometimes occurs to a person i y giving an address in a store. It slips out so naturally that when by chance the shopman repeats "Blank Blank- , g ety-blankth street?" you begin to ,( wonder if you have it right, after all. And thp first hrsath of ausnicion [. ? __ ________ ( kills your chances of remembering e correctly. You simply have to go to i y the directory to verify the place you .1 live in, and naturally that leads to ' 0 suepicions on the part of the shopj keeper.?New York Sun. r " ~ ~ i v A Strange Farm. r. One of the strangest farms in the o world is situated in Southern Cali- 1 f fornia, 265 feet below the level of the ' t sea. The place is known as Salton. ' y It is a salt farm of about 1000 acres,* ; a Here the salt lies, as deposited by ' y nature, from six to sixteen inches in 0 depth. The salt farmers are busy ^ g harvesting this crop the year round; e and, though the harvest has contln- < 3 ued for over twenty years, during 1 which time more than 40,000 tons 1 of salt have been harvested, only ten 1 of the 1000 acres of the farm have j been worked. The salt is first plowed up into furrows; it is then thrown J into conical piles by men with bar- j s rows, after which it is taken to the j fAHnntinn wnrts nparhv and nut into j marketable- condition. The work is * done by. Mexicans and Chinese, the in- ^ j tense heifr being more than Amer- j j \cans can endure. I - * - | 1 The Earliest Corn. i ^ The earliest mention of corn in , t ^ what is now Jiansas is found in the j r account of Coronado's expedition in > j 1541-42. Professor Williston found I charred corn in the ruins of prehis, toric Indian pueblos in Scott County, I j estimated by him to be at least two * and a half centuries old. Bourgmont a found the Kaw Indians cultivating ^ corn on the present town site of Doni- j phan, in 1724. s j Uncle Allen. J "I've noticed." remarked Uncle AT- S i len Sparks, "that the fellow who ' really swears off from his bad habits ' doesn't go around advertising it be- ? r forehand."?Chicago Daily Tribune. * i ~ W" . -i i ' ' 1 I t Latest News. BY WIRE. ? Rev. W. T. Tracy Found. El Paso, Texas.?Rev. W. T. Tracy, pastor of an Episcopal church of ' Brooklyn, N. Y., who was lost during * the recent storm In the Guadeloupe ? Mountains of New Mexico, has been . v. found alive In en abandoned hut In . V7 the foothills. . ' Big Virginia Land Deal. Roanoke, Va.?One of the largest * ' deals in timber and coal lands ever 7 . made in Southwestern' Virginia has jupt been consummated between land owners of Russell and Buchanan counties, and W. H. Crockett and A. v P. Pearly, of Wllliamsport, Pa., and Captain Fugate and G. E. Boyd, ol .. < Virginia. The company is backed bjj . $12,000,000 and has bought 26,000' acres, mostly in Buchanan County. Liliuokalani .Pressing Her Claim. /,; Washington, D. C.?After years o| . vain endeavor to obtain compensation for the loss of her .kingdom, Llliuo- ' tcaiam, ex-yueen 01 nawaii, uppearmi before the House Committee oa Claims to press her claim. She la willing to accept $250,000 as a complete settlement. /. Mark Hanna, HI Born. Cleveland, Ohio.?Marcus Alonxo / Hanna III is the name given the son of M. A. Hanna. The father is the , (.. grandson of the late Senator Hanna 1 '\f and son of Dan R. Hanna. The mother was formerly Miss Adele Pratt, of New York City. Lobbyists Excluded. Boston.?The Massachusetts Senate adopted the recommendation of the Committee on Rotes, excluding legislative agents and counsel from the Senate chamber and corridors. ' ' ] Mother and Children Burned. Ashland, Wis.?Mrs. Nathan Sherrard and her four children were burned to death at Echlln's Camp. Sherrard tried to save his family and was dragged out frightfully burned. Filipinos Become Citizens. New Orleans. ? Several hundred . * Filipinos colonized in Louisiana will ask the courts to make them American citizens. . . President Elipt Honored. Boston. ? President Charles W. jgM Eliot, of Harvard, has been elected president of Harvard Alumni Association. X-Ray Ward id Hospital. Boston; ? The "X-Ray Ward," erected with money bequeathed by L. G. Burnhaga, was dedicated at thp City Hospital. The ward is two stories high and cost $150,000. s BY CABLE, i I 'I :, British Shipowners to Unite. Newcastle, England. ? Shipowners ot Northern England met and took V : the first stepB toward the formation of an international union of Bhlpowners ' i i Persian Prince Commits Snicide, ; , j St. Petersburg.?Shaft Khan, a Persian prince in the Russian service, committed suicide because he had ' 1 Deen reneveu or tne commana 01 toe Fifteenth, Dragoons. ; $j-f & w . n> * ! * ' Chileans Beat Marksmen. - Talcanuano, Chile.?A team of officers from the American Pacific fleet took part in a shooting match with Chilean markBmen, in which the Chileans won. The fleet has left for Val- ' paraiso. 7 | ' H France Most Yield to Venezuela. Paris.?Senor Jose de J. Paul, the v Venezuelan special envoy, says that he will demand of the prench Cable Company as a condition of a settlement of the controversy with Venezuela that a continuous cable shall connect La Guayra and Martinique. The accusation against the company. was that the coast line was used to assist the Matos revolution. Car Rioters Kill. * - Rio Janeiro.?The tramway strike conflict is becoming serious, in spite of the intervention of the police, and & crowd attacked and burned several cars. It is said that more than 109 were wounded and several were killed. Troops Fill Lisbon. / > London.?Dispatches from Lisbon state that great apprehension exists In Lisbon owing to the belief that the Republicans are about to attempt a coup de main. The city is filled with troops, and a number of arrests have been made. Admiral Rojestvensky Dead. St. Petersburg, Russia.?Vive-Ad? miral Rojestvensky, whowas in com. mand of the Russian fleet in Mayj 1905, when it was virtually annihij Lated by the Japanese in the Battle o| the Sea of Japan, is dead. Neuralgia | it the heart was the cause. SinovJ Petrovitch Rojestvensky had beeij ibout forty years in the Russian na? pal service. Dhinn Seizes Telegraph Office. Pekin, China. ? The Diplomatic 2orps are protesting against the seiz< are of the Pekin telegraph office vhich in 1901 it was agreed should , je under foreign superintendence. Russia Ordered 1957 Executed. St. Petersburg, Russia.?Vlte-Ad? vere 1957 persons sentenced to deatli n the empire during the Russian yeai ust ended. Of this number 782 were xecuted. The maximum for any nonth was 2 68 aeatn sentences, wicd L19 executions. ?rince De Sagan Mast Pay.' Paris. France.?Prince de Sagan, lusband of the former Anna Gould, vas ordered to pay $130,000 to a noary in Senlis, from whom he borowed this amount in 1907. 'riest Leads 48,000 Moros. Manila, P. I.?Led by the "Mad iriest." recently released from Bill" )id prison, 48,000 natives of the Islind of Baslin, district of Zamboanga, ire on the rampage. Several clashed >etween the Morosand Filipino scout4 lave been reported. The s*outs hava ucceeded in disarming the rebellion^ doros. Steamer Sinks in Rapids, Antwerp, Holland. ? A message rom Leopoldville, Congo Free State, ays the steamer Capitaine Skagersroom sank in the rapids and flfteeq >eople were drowned.