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TI-IE WAN ? T>p across the mountains, down* Out upon the foaming ?seas runs tl Pack your bundle, connnde, anti We're"off to sse!; contentment! wi The skies are blue above us. the The reads are warm und spring Oh, leave the home-kept people ti We must be off, fulfilling the rove Por lands we've never traveled, ft Our hearts are ail a-lumper, we i The sun. in all his glory o? rising But cails to us to follow where lie And when in sheen anti splendor He seems to send a message,-"Coi ' The end of all our journey-who But, friend, the .wander fever has I THROUGH r. I OF BEL] ET JOHN 3 Sa? OGK29 C3E9BE33B ssacr ?.Icebergs, eh?" said Captain Sar gent Spinney, in.reply to a question from a knot o? schcol cadets huddled round the stove in the Cape --?.EH Sea man's Bethel. "Oh, yes, a good many, all told. Mostly off in the distan?a, though." t' Seating himself astride a chair, he stared reflectively through the hank of crimson geranium blooms in the window out- upon the shipping ia thc harbor. Although I continued to hold up before me a volume o? Geodetic Sur vey Records, ia which I had been studying the singular changes in the coast-line, I lost all interest in its contents, and found* my eyes wander ing expectantly to the rugged skip per. "Cape Ann fishermen up in north ern waters," said he, "don't go in for scenery much; it's mostly halibut. Once in a while a duck or a seal, and sometimes a game and a dicker with the Eskimos-but it's mostly hali buL "But spring before last we ran the Nancy Lee up to latitude fifty-five degrees and fifty-six minutes. That's, about one hundred and sixty miles east by north of Cape Harrigan, and siot far from the queer little ssttle ments of the Mor av'ans. 'T*vas as far up as we could get on account of drift ice. ."The Nancy is only an eighty-ton ner, and though she is Essex-^uilt, and as clever and able for her tons as any craft fishing out of this port, she was never timbered to bunt arctic ice in those fierce currents and windy fogs. It's nearly always foggy up there, and whs a it blows it blows. "The sea was full of field ice, a good deal of it full-hedged bergs higher than the burgae on our top stick. Setfrawls? I guess not! We .didn't even try the bottom or send down an anchor. / '".First a blow kept us busy, then a snow; wet, heavy snow, too, that stacked up all over the deck and sail, and weighted her down so that we I-had to wear often and take it on the ?other quarter to keep her trim. And >fog! Twas foggy all the time. "So we beaded her back south [ -again, ane". ran until we found a hun dred ana fifty fathoms of water, about 1 .one hundred, and twenty miles east cf Belle Isle. Wc had Qshe? along.here ? many trips oe?or?, and felt quite tidy ?and homelike when we hove over the ' .dories and got the gear all out and ' -fishing. ' ? ' "The sun came out and shone ] bright in the blue, and fer nearly a * ;weeh we found good trawling. We JBa? two-thirds of a trip in the hold, ( -when one morning up shot big Judie c ( - Chisholm in the Therese Prindall, and 5 we hailed him. 'Twas on that day, 1 LFriday, that a lot of poor judgment 1 tries to hide behind. / " r- * "We've got only about ten thou . sand fish and thirty of fletchers in her now!* he sung out as ho flew by. ( ' .Qoing to try for a better berth south ? ?rn (UL* ( ** 'Better berth south, eh,' thought < X as I watched them bear off to 1 soa'west, his dories all nested and 1 made fast, both anchors taken on < deck, and the craft setting so deep 1 that if she bad a fish in her she had a ? .good sixty thousand pounds. i M 'Teaches me Judie have a liker*''1 catch, in her already, cap'n,' blurted 1 ?age Rowe, who sat beside me on the 1 house. 'Aye,* spoke he again, 'I say he's 1 on the clean leap for home by the j outside course this very minute, j lakes a navigator to slip through the straits.' ** "Me, too,' joined in Buster Plum mer. 'The Caps Ann Halibut Com pany's wbuT? is like to be that berth south a bit he have in mind, I fancy. Judie's a crafty bundle. He be that.' "While we sat there watching tl>eni np staysail and up topsail running off more to westward all the time, I calculated in my mind the difference in the price of the first spring trip landed and the second, though 'twas aaly an hour's difference in hailing the market. No fisherman likes to be shown the way home to market. "We baited up again that day, and the next morning tho dories began to come in with good fish from that -night's set. Eut before all hands got aboard the glass began to fall, and dropped steadily until, through that golden sunshine, ail hands stared Into trouble of one kiud or another. So I before noon we were headed for home by way of Belle Isle Strait, with a ? ?air trip tucked away. " 'I'm glad for one,' said Toby Snow. Toby's a black man. Negroes are scarcer than Irishmen aboard a fisherman, but Toby's one. Good ne gro, but poor fisherman. m 'Alabama's de place,' said he, every meal-time, and talked about balmy day? and chicken and hoe cakes till the crew began to get dainty and actually shivered quit.-* ladylike with the cold, though all of them were Newfoundlanders Rut" trur?1 -dogs' the "But cw... ?sic tiiac uftar noon when tho Nancy tripped into thu* Strait of Beile Isle, the deck scrubbed, her skirts ga'.'.*ered up be hind her, and stepping off ahead of a si.~-knot breeze. ."Bnt icc-as soon as we got into thc mouth of the strait, ice was every where, as far as we could see. Not field ice, but bergs, high toppers, too. And as wc ran farther in, it looked as if all thc bergs coming down from the pole had shot off into the strait ;BR TRAIL. turd through the vale, ie wander trail; take your st:it? in hacd* i ic Ii dwells "ir No Mand Land. roaming wino, is sweet. . beneath our faring feet; ? work and play and breed ?rs' easy creed. ir seas we've never crossed, lever count the cost; at the dawn : is leading on. . he sinks beneath the ssa. ne, comrades, follow me." knows what it may bring? ; wakened with the spring. ?erton Braley, in McClure's Magazine. 3BBO SGQS BggggaO 2E32 ?HE STRAIT 1 JE ISLE. COTTON. teZBSS M989SBB5SB9 203>SI ."or a farewell gamo amor.g them selves. " 'A likely lot, cap'n,' said Alec Peoples to me. . "I stood watching them sail along before supper, and I re id that to put into the strait at ' v, .ime of the year was the most f . thing I had ever dons in all my hie. "Outside was the PrlndaH, though, wallowing for home, I felt sure, with a handy twenty-four hours' start. I gulped it down as it was; 'twas no fisherman that would put back then before his crew. "After supper I went on deck to sniff the weather before snugging away for .the night in the cabin. A heavy mist had settled down, and it was beginning to rain, and I could smell a true northeaster i" the air. I felt a little chary as I watched her shy and duck in and out amongst those mountains of ice. The strait seemed full of them, and they loomed up in the deep dark so sudden and often, white and ghostlike, that 'twas scaresone to stand there and watch them sail along in that tide. "I went below, and stretching out on tbs port locker before my bunk, with my boots and watch-coat on, watched the hands at their games and listened to their bandying. "I could hear the lookout for'ard every once in a while sing out steer ing orders to the man aft at the wheel, and feeling the Nancy running smcc^:, I dozed, in spite of my de termination to keep awake. * "Yes, sir, Toby,' I faintly heard Duster Plummer say,'when we chucks that rat overboard a big gull swoops down and grabs him. and yoji may not believe m'e, sir, but what doe? that rat do but turn round and grabs that gull, and setting one wing up for a mainsail and tother for a jib, he beats into port ahead of the ship, and when we got up to our dock he was there waiting for us.' "But I must have slept in spite of myself, for seemingly right on top of, ( Buster's yaru I heard thundered on j ? deck: ' 'Up with her! Let her come up ? j qyick, man, I say!' And thougb I could swear I had not been asleep, I landed all standing as I felt the craft | j lareen to port before a short helm. "I shot a glance around the cabin, md. was dumfounded to find tho card- ! Doard deserted and the light Humed ^ iown low. I looked at the clock be- ? iore me and read half past' two, and j< is I make toward the companionway i ^ [ noticed all the aft hands sound t isleep in their bunks. -, "I felt her strike easy as I stumbled , )n deck, and then shivering and. quiv- { :r<?g she rose, as on a sea, but in that \ ;scond I felt 'twas no sea she was ^ .iding. In fact, she didn't ride at all; \ ip she went and stayed there. t " 'Long Jack at the wheel,' thought \ as I pushed by him. Surely Peter ^ lanscom and his dory-mate took the r leek as I lay down. I must have i dept. i "I stumbled round the nous*, and c hutching the starboard rail, seemed ^ :o be staring into a great white wall s :hat ran straight up higher than I c :ould see. It was ice. I could almost i .each out and touch it with my hand. 1 44 'All hands now!' I heard the man ? it the wheel roar with all his might, ind before I could collect my wits ( [rom the surprise, every man of that t :rew stood round me. ( "Not a word broke the deep silence c that held there. We could see the 1 green glare of our starboard running J light reflected against the glistening i wall, and could feel the cold air from the sides. " 'Cap'n, we're high and dry on an ( Iceberg!* came a trembling voice from 1 for'ard, and for the first time I was 1 able to fathom our true situation. "I had been up on the rocks, hove down on Georges, and with a coaster 1 poked clean into our windlass, but 1 high and dry on an iceberg I never ' was before in all my life. "We needed no torches to see how |1 we lay. Dark as it was all round us, every inch of that ice shone out as plain as day. Up on the starboard side like a great crystal cliff towered that mountain, awful to look at. its great, top pinnacles leaning out into the air, seemingly ready to drep down on us at any minute. "At its foot spread out a shelf, its breadth so great that we couldn't see or form any idea of its size, run ning from below the water at its edge up a steep grade to the base of the berg, allowing us, under our head way, to slide fair upon it, high and dry, for mere thai: our length, and as truly flush with the face of that berg i ikA- it-kit-kikitit An English paper is said t "the ten mistakes of lifo," as !. To set up our own st? wrong and judge people accor 2. To measure the enjoym 3. To expect uniformity of ^J*, 4. To look for judgment i jp\ 5. To endeavor io mold al ? 6. To look for perfection 7. To worry ourselves and remedied. ?^r S. To refuse to yield in ii 9. To refuse to alleviate, .-jL' all that which needs alleviatioi r\ 10. To refuse to make all others. ? as could well be. And there we stood. "The wind screeched round us ani< the rain shot down in slanted sheets, but the swinging of the berg had brought us fair in its lee. The little Nancy stood there, stark still and straight as an arrow, her sails limp and empty, as if she was like al) hands, dumfounded. "I ran round to the port side, thee for'ard, and as far off as I could sec in any direction lay a great white flat of ice. I ran aft again, and looking off astern, could sea that the onlj way off was the way we came on. And while I stood, there was a thun derous report beside us, followed bj a long, tremulous vibration,as though the whole earth was in upheaval round us, and with a shrieking roar, ton upon ton of ice crashed down or our deck for'ard. "Timbers crunched and crackled beneath it, and the little schooner shook and trembled until I felt as il my own life was being crushed out with her. The crew broke in con fusion for the first time and made aft from where they stood amidships, but not a man spoke. "1 felt the wind beginning tc squeeze round behind us again, and the whole mountain of ice seemed tc be revolving as on a pivot by the force of the wind and tide. *' ' 'Tis the way cf th'ese blasted bergs to turn turtle at times, cap'n!' some one said; and as he spoke, a blast of wind struck our mainsail, and over the Nancy went on her beams, sending us headlong down against the wheel cover in a bunch. "A deafening series of snapping reports traveled from beneath us. Everything solid round us seemed to shake and tremble for a second; then down she went, straight down through that honeycombed ice, until it seemed as though we were going under altogether. T tons of the schooner's weight in "apsizing had smashed through the ice that held her! "Ice and sea rolled over thc rail as we went down into it, and there we lay on our beam-ends, and spars and sail stretched flat out upon the ice. I could not move. I hung on to the wheel, my eyes and teeth shut tight as a vise. "Then I felt her beginning to right as the?broken cakes of the ice parted round her, and rising slow but sure, and coming up to her bilge, with a lurch she stood up straight again, and I could feel that we lay in good brine once more. "The big main-boom swung out with a bang; the mainsail filled, and starting off before the wind, she bid up with a glancing blow against the 2dge of ice in that little bay broken round her. Then turning a half-cir zle along it3 edge, she shot up dead into the wind, out into clear water, ind off to starboard of her own will, straight away from that monster. " ' 'Twas more than our own hands lid that!' I heard old Earnacle Gran lett say, as those thirteen men, one ifter another, let go their holds and jreathed deep again as she gathered ?vay. . "We found our rudder hanging oose and wrenched from the steer ng-gear. Tons of ice lay piled for rard on our deck, the flying jib-boom vas gone altogether, the martingale v?s forced into the stem, opening the seams in the peak; her bulwarks and stanchions were cleaved off flush with he deck on the starboard bow and aft o amidships, and thc fore chain-plate vas bent and twisted like tin. 1 ;lanced at the clock again as I ran >elow for an ax. But twenty minutes lad gone from the time we struck, ?et in those twenty minutes I seemed 0 have lived longer than in all my wenty odd years at sea. v "Daylight opened at last, and found ts running wild, with the rudder igged in a 'berther,' and water mak ng fast through the peak into the ?old. The compass had shaken out >f the ?imbal and was useless, but ve felt round in all directions for fundings until we caught the ringing )f a bell-buoy up to windward, and ve knew we had Point Rich and a anding at hand, and we made it, fast md hard. "But we got the market first for all )f that. After all Nancy's frolic, and he scrape she led us into, we were >nly steering clear of worse things m the outside course. We were the ast men to see the Prindall afloat. \.nd except a few timbers and one nan, we landed home with our trip, md as fit as when we started. "That man was Toby Snow, our colored cook. 'Cap'n,* said he from ;he shore where we beached her that norning at Point Rich, deep to the ?cuppers with water in the hold and ill hands tuckered out with the jumps, 'give my share to some needy iamily if you ever gets home again. Flshin' is likely all right 'nougb, but [ is dat sure I ain't cut out for no fisherman dat^ I prefer to go home ilong de shore.' And he did. "Many's the infidel has sailed out sf Gloucester harbor and come back 1 God-fearing man. There were two m that trip-Dan Neal over there Irinking coffee with the chaplain was me of them."-Youth's Companion. The Railway Beetle. A curious insect has arrived from Brazil at the South Kensington Mu seum in London. It is a beetle. At its head gleams a red ruby lamp, and sleven green lights glow forth from ?ach side of the little creature. These peculiarities have earned it the name Df the "railway beetle." 0 have given what are called follows: indard of what is right and dingly. eat of others by our own. opinion in this world, md experience in youth. 1 dispositions alike, in our own actions falces of ||?fe. ? ? <4r AA it A others with what cannot be * ******** nmaterial matters, so far as lies in our power, T i. Dwafnce for the infirmities of lg Good Roads, g ? Trains on Highways. Consul General Robert P. Skinner, Marseilles, furnishes the following information concerning the running of passenger and freight trains on the highways of France: "There recently passed this consul ate a 'Train Renard,' composed of a locomotor, two passenger cars and one baggage car, which had just ar rived from Paris under its own power and over the ordinary roads, thus sup plying to the public a demonstration of its own efficiency. The trains mentioned are composed of elements, each receiving the energy of a vehi cle called a locomotor, which being placed at the head of the train dis tributes the necessary power to the following elements by means of a transmission shaft extending from one end of the ' train "to the ?other, thus enabling each cr to utilize its own adhesion to f ..ad surface as a means of advancement. "The locomotor-that is to say, the creator of the energy-is therefore lighter than any of the cars. Traiu3 of this type completely loaded ara able to maintain a speed of twenty one kilometers (13.05 miles) per hour in case of passenger trains on levels and from fifteen to sicteen kil ometers (9.32 to 9.94 miles) per hour in the case- of freight trains. It is said that the freight trains of this type are able to maintain an average of from ten to twelve kilometers (6.21 to 7.45 miles), fully loaded, in any kind of country. "It would be useless to enter into further details regarding these high road trains, as far as the United States is concerned, inasmuch as we are without a road system sufficient ly advanced to make their application possible. On the other hand the adoption of passenger and freight trains over Tailless roads in France has become not only a possiblity but a fact. Already hundreds of inacces sible hamlets,.hitherto served by slow going diligences, are kept in constant contact with the outside world by means of large auto-omnibuses, mov ing at an average rate of fifteen miles an hour, transporting both passen gers and express parcels; and now, following this development, comes the explosive engine motor, drawing full trains of cars, which it is claimed can be operated on level or mount ainous roads at au exceedingly mod erate expense. In other words, if all that ls claimed for these trains is re alized, lt will be possible to give 25, 000 communes in France, which do I not at present enjoy railroad facili ties, approximately the same advan tages with respect to transportation as the most populous and highly fav ored centres. "This illustrates how much the creation of a better highway system would benefit the *ural populations of the United States, who are at a great disadvantage in regard to trans portation as compared with foreign communities, and deprived of the various kinds of satisfaction result ing from the existence of modern high-ways." 1 -poi Great State Hoad. Tn Ms, address before the Pennsyl vania B?r Association Governor Stu art led up to eulogy of thc plan to construct a great highway across this State from end to end. This project has been frequently discussed during recent years, but never with a better grasp of the principle involved than by Governor Stuart. First, there should be the great trunk line from Pittsburg to Philadelphia, offering its accommodation alike to the farmer on his'way to market and to the tour ist seeking pleasure amid the pic turesque scenes of the Keystone State. Next, there should be lateral branches, making this great highway accessible from all sections of the Commonwealth. This is a project on which the State of Pennsylvania may well expend sums for the benefit of its people. It is a rich State and great-in all things save its public roads. For reasons clearly set forth by Governor Stuart Pennsylvania has not such highways as it should have. But it is never too late to mend. The great road is by no means to be considered an end. It is only a means-a prac tical example to encourage counties and townships to build and maintain good public highways. It will serve the purpose of showing the smaller civil divisions how to do the work, and it will exemplify the advantages of having good roads in every dis trict. It ls in this aspect that it is given the sanction of the Governor and his encouragement. The time has arrived in this State when good roads are essential to its highest development. Though its in dustries have thriven amazingly and its farms have prospered, with indif ferent roads, its further development demands that which has heretofore been neglected. Its great industrial population must be put in closer touch with its rural population, which is destined to grow in numbers and usefulness. Good roads are a necessity.-Pittsburg Dispatch. Japan's Clock Industry. Japan has thirty-two timepiece fac tories, of which twenty-five are in Nagoya, one in Tokio and six in Osaka. The annual output is 209, 702 standing clocks, 441,755 hang ing clocks, 25,3 60 watches, represent? lng a value.of $794,900. Admit Their Agc. In Japan women have to admit their true age. A woman dresses ac cording to her age. She wears gold pins until she is twenty-five. At thir ty the pins are white, merely spotted with gold, and at forty she wears plain shill com'is. New York in 2(100. Stranger-"What's the excitement over there?" Citizen-"Greatest discovery of the age! Workmen digging into the con crete and Iron strata have just como unpn a vein of real dirt!"-Puck. Oysters thrive best in waler con taining less ibp.n four p?r csuc. o salt. COTTON CONVENTION To Bc Held in New Orleans Beginning November 11 th PRESENT PRICES ARE TOO LOW Meeting Called to Plan for Better Prices for the South's Great Sta ple. Union City, Ga., Special.-Charles S. Barrett, national president of ?lic Farmers' Union, lias issued the fol lowing statement regarding the in dustrial congress he bas called to meet at New Orleans, November ll th, for thc purpose cf formulating a campaign for advancing the price of cotton in the south : "As the executive head of an or ganization of more than 2.000,000 farmers in (he southern states, con trolling approximately 60 per cent of the cotton grown in the United States, I feel that is incumbent up on me to take the initiative in prac tical steps looking to stopping the downward trend of the price for this staple, and restoring it to a ligure warranted by the cost of its produc tion and its value to civilization. "It is needless for me to statt that the prosperity of every business interest between Mason and Dixon's line and the Rio Grande river is large ly dependent upon the return the cot ton crop is bringing to this section. "A proper return for cotton means prosperity to the farmer, the country and town merchant, the city business man, the manufacturer, the wage worker, the salary-earner, every rail road and corporation in the southern states. "Today spot cotton is selling in the neighborhood of 21-2 cents per pound less than one 3:ear ago. In many instances, this means that the producer is called upon to dispose o? his output below cost. "If this price-level prevails throughout the sellong season of 100S-?). the sou rh will sustain a loss approaching $150,000,000. "The significance of such a devel opment would be sluggishness in every southern commercial circle con striction of money in every business, a stoppage of construction and devel opment in each direction, and a fail ure to recuperate from the panic of last fall as rapidly as we have a right to expect. "There is no logical ?r necessary reason for this slump in the price of cotton. The output of the south will be infinitely smaller than last year, when prices ranged to a higher level American and European spinners admit that they expect to book the usual volume of advance orders at the nrices obtaining in 1007. "The sole excuse now standing between fair prices and the south's cotton, is the belief of spinners that they will bc able to chfnin the staple at their own figure. In this belief they have been aided by exchange manip?late?, whose efforts have been to show that the cotton belt would make a record-breaking yield. As a matter of fact, we who are in most intimate touch with the situation know then; is not the slightest ground for such an opinion. "The members of the' Farmers Union, ns I have said, control in the neighborhood of CO per cent of the south's staple crop. "With the co-operation of the bus iness interests, large and small, of every southern state, they will under take to secure for this crop its in trinsic value in the markets of the world. "We are determined to win tim fight, regardless of the temporary sacrifice it may entail upon us. 1 serve this notice freely and frankly upon every business man of tho south. "They can aid us materially and they can shorten the time of waiting by active co-operation in this effort. "We are battling not alone for ourselves, but for the prosperity and the freedom from debt of every man. woman and child in the southern states. "We have a right to expect their assistance under these conditions. "To the end of arriving at a def inite plans, I have summoned dele gates from every southern state to meet in New Orleans on November 11th. I will answer for a large at tendance of these men, each thorough? !v familiar with the cotton and the financial situation in his community. "I invite the co-operation of bus iness man, manufacturer, profession al man. banker and wage-earner in the south. I urge them to be p-esent personally. I urge on commereial bodies, chambers of commerce, boa nh of trade and labor organizations tc ? send representatives to this conven tion. "Wc arc going to adopt extraordi n?r-.' measures to meet extraordinary conditions. That fact is settled. With the active help and counsel ol the business men of thc south, thc success of our plans, and the pros perity of thc entire section is asr sured beyond peradventure. "I will bc glad )'> receive notice from parties, as well ns suggestions for promoting this universal move ment, unprecedented in scope and vital importance in the history of Hit south. "Bear in mind that thc moment thc south makes it evident at New Or leans that it intends to work in eon cert for a just price for cotton thc price for that staple will begin tc mount and Ih^t it will not stop short of an equitable level, correspond inj to the laws of supply and demand. "Are tin; business interests of tin south ready to join hands with Mu producers of the south in promotin this cud.'" CHARLES S. BARRETT. | President of Farmers' Union I LEPER MAY GO TON. C. North Carolina May Yet Have to Receive and Care for Him. Washington, Special.-John Eariy, the leper, may yet be sent back to North Carolina. Attorney General Bonaparte holds that the District of Columbia cannot expel him on the ground of being a public charge, but that it can do so if it is show? !':at he might spread infection. Thc ALa rine Hospital authorities may take no action for several clays, but in simi lar cases have held that leprosy is a contagious disease. It is held thai it Early were born in North Carolina that Commonwealth will have to re ceive and provide for him in the event that the District expels him. Bermuda to Celebrate Tcr-Centenary. Hamilton, Bermuda. By Cable. An influential committee of leading citizens has been elected for the pur pose of celebrating the ter-centenary of Bermuda. The proposed program, which will occupy six days, com mences April 12th next. Among thc distinguished guests it is proposed to invite are the Prince of Wales, Pres ident Roosevelt, Earl Grey, the Gov ernor General of Canada: Admiral Sir John Fisher, Sir Archibald Alli son, at one time Colonial Secretary of Bermuda: Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Geary, of the British anny; Claude A. Swanson, 'the Governor of Vir ginia, who is a descendant of Sir George Somers, the Governor of Jamaica ; the Commissioner of Turks island. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). James Gordon Bennett, H. H. Rogers and St. Georjre Tucker. Cashier Butt Short a Half-Million. Norfolk, Va. .Special.-The report of Receiver Siffin, of the Peoples Bank at Portsmouth, shows a short age in the accounts of Cashier Alex B. Butt of 549.8S4. Butt is now serving a sentence of three years in the penitertiary under a plea of guilty of misapplying the bank's funds. Body of Little Jackson Boy is Pound in Ashes of His Father's Barn. Jackson. Tenn.. Special.-Robert Edgar Cobb, the little 5-year-old son of R. E. Cobb, met a horrible death here last week, ile was burned to death in his father's barn. The building and contents were burned and the child was missed. His body was found in the ashes. It is sup posed the child was plying in the barn and in some way set it on lire, and was unable to escape. West Tennessee Town has Big Blaze. Dresden, Tenn.. Special.-A dis astrous fire at Greenfield, twelve miles south of Dresden, consumed the M. E. church. South, the Metho dist parsonage and two other resi dences. The tire originated from a defectivo fine in the house of Sam D. Baker, and rapidly spread to others. Loss. $12,000. insurance, $5.000. Thc sparks set fire to a spoke fac tory, stave mill and other dwellings which, owing to the extremely dry weather, were with difficulty saved. Pennsylvania Lad Kills His Brother Acidentally. Harrisburg. Pa.. Special.-Albert Kell, a 12-year-old schoolboy, was shot and instantly killed by his 1G ycar-old brother. Raymond, while hunting in Wildwood Park late Sat urday afternoon. With the brothers on a hunting cxpendition were three other boys, one of whom without say ing anything to any one, slipped a cartridge into the rifle, which was the only weapon thev had. Later on Raymond playfully pointed the rifle at his brother and pulled the trigger. The youth sank to the ground with a bullet in his brain. Prohibition in Ohio. Columbus, O., Special-The wave of prohibition sweeping over Ohio has already rendered 7 out of 88 counties dry, according to a state ment by the Anti-Saloon League. A total of 1,843 saloons have been put out of business. Trumbull. Greene and Williams counties voted ."dry" last week. Forest Fires Do Great Damage in West Virginia. Charleston, W. Va., Special.-For est fire around Turkey Knob near here threatened death to miners em ployed in the mine of the Turkey Knob Coal Company. The fire reach ed the fan house of the coal com pany, destroying it, then burned thc drift mouth and set the mine afire. Fortunately there was no explosion and the men in thc mine escaped. Two men were overcome by smoke but will recover. The (ire was brought under control. Pass Rulings Announced. Washington, Special.-Free passes may be issued to bona fide ex-em ployees of a railroad who are travel ing to re-enter the railroad's service. Passes cannot be extended to (he families of employees who died a natural cleat li while in the service of common, carriers, though that privilege is accorded to the families of employees killed in Hie service. I.ouisana Cashier Gets 5 Years. Baton Rouge. La.. Special.-Oscar Koudert, formerly cashier of the First National Bank of Baton Rouge, charged with the embezzlement of ?boni $50,000 of the bank's funds, was sentenced lo live years in prison hy Judge Saunders in tho United States Circu? I Court. Koudert and his family made restitution an in consequence his sentence was compar atively Lght. Splendid Success Attainer Practical Airship HIGHLY SATISFACTORY Fl Count Zeppelin Makes Ascensij Reniodelodi Airship With Pi Royalty as Guest. Frederichshafen, By Cable.-} ITenr}' of Prussia spent several in the air as the guest of Conni peiin, who made an ascension remodeled airship. Not only dil Prince thoroughly enjoy his e^ enee, but he sat at the steering for many minutes of the flight the movements of the craft andi pelling it to execute all kinds-of | plicated maneuvres. ? Prince Henry's satisfaction at great flight was unbounded an] gave expression to it in a tel which he sent to the Emperor.] der Zeppelin's guidance I felt safe as on my own flagship." The start was made in the dil of Uberlingen, to the northws Constance. With Cbuut Zeppel self at the' wheel, the airship an altitude *of 600 feet, soon| pealing behind a bank of Messages began to arrive shoi! terwards from the towns in tbd valley announcing the passagej airship, but about 2 o'clock afternoon a sonorous sound frc sky indicated that the craft turning Soon it appeared ab thronged streets of Constance, the Prince gracefully saluted know lodgement of the ovatio: thc crowds below. After maneuvring above La} stance in full view of the some time the airship made towards the S viss frontier, dis| ing in the direction of Tyrol, turned to its moorings about ! The Associated Press' cor| dent followed it in a racing boat, but WES'unable to keep ship long in view, as it soon i a speed of 37 miles an hour, ly, however, the airship rea] above the lake, emerging from I bank like some uncanny visita an unknown world. Count Zeppelin evidently w: ?how the Prince some mani by the craft and he desce?? about 300 feet from the sui the water, turning from ris:ht| and from left to right like drilled file of soldiers. Thl denly it mounted a thousand shot into the clouds, only the| bum of its propellers indicat course it had taken. Roosevelt 50 Years Ole Washington, Special. - Pi Roosevelt observed his 50th al ?arv Tuesday very simply. He ?d to his executive duties as ind except for tho reception Jelegation from the Kungari^ publican Club of New York ?ast room of the White Housd the reception of a large numl? congratulatory messages, some tributes and gifts from the ml of his family, the day was th{ to him as any other day. Late in the afternoon the Prc! donned his khaki riding uniforl rough rider hat and went for a [ back ride remaining out until There was a jolly family din] the White House in the evenij Honor of the President's annivi Ko guests were present. King Edward, of Great sent one of the first eoneratt messages received. It said : "I request that vou will acc| cordial congratulations upon casion of your birthday togethc my best wishes for your welfa| prosperity. " A Satisfactory Y car. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-A factory year's business, consi financial conditions, has just j passed by the Atlanta, Birmij & Atlantic Railroad, aecordin? annual report of the president, Atkinson, made here. All the rectors and officers were re-elec Convention of Coal Miner| Pittsburg, Special.-A conv< of delegates from all locals o| miners' union in the Pittsbur? trict was called here to considel check system and other irapol matters. The action of Hie coi] tion will directly affect 40.000 and may have an indirect effect conl miners throughout thc coui| While there has been no ruptui a serious nature between the oj tors and miners, it is claimed the operators have not been liviru; to their agreements, especially inj gard to thc check-off system. Ereakfast Food in Bankruptcy Ci Chicago, Special.-Hearing in bj rnptcy proceedings against the tlc Creek Breakfast Food Compj manufacturers of '' Esg-O-Sce," begun in thc Federal Court mal thc third move against, thc eorpp^ in four days. Thc proceeding vealed a condition of internal *w fare between the stockholders thc officers of thc coporaticn. Vessel Wrecked Off North Carol Coast. Norfolk, Va., Special.-Capt Chisholm, of the steamer GtU?rg town. Atlantic Cost Line Cornoraji?r en route from Georgetown, b. Now York from Norfolk, reports ti sighting of an unknown submerge] vessel with three masts protruding 17 miles south of Frying Pan shoal lightship, North Carolina. The ^anj of the vessel is not known. TIT wreck is a menace to navigation.