Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Wido Sarai Haskins, used to cali h.ei i garret "the junk shop," but her hus band alwxyB 'spoke of it as "the mn Beum/* This difference of definition was explained by the fact that Jonas Hashim? was a bora collector, while" his wife^was albora abolitionist, if such, a word may he applied to one ^ who hafl long straggled against slav ery to possessions. .*I don't see the good of all those things .'elutterin* up the: attic and colleetlh* dirt," 'she used to remark. "Ia all that "heap o' stuff there ain't ono oserai -article, so far as I can see." ".There's lots ot thing3 In the world that Mat useful, bttt w? can't get on without Tem just the same,". Jonas would answer, with sagely nodding head. Bat this supply was never sufficiently satisfactory to silence his vite's criticisms. As a hay Jonas had gone through the usual symptoms of the disease of collecting; there -were drawers full of. minerals, ?>helves loaded with scuffed and stuffy birds, books of stamps and autographs, and rows of ' pin stabbed insects. His mother had sighed over the accumulations of the ; boy, as his wlfejlsirter ; complain eu of tho hoardings of the mai'. \j Instead of dev el oping' into a min eralogist or ah ornithologist, as his e?rly tastes 'might' have betokened, Jonas became a hunter of auctions, where he would nick up odd pieces of furniture, rare bits of china, and any curions relics of the past. By pro fession he. was a farmer, by inclina tion a collector, by temperament ? alas! something of a miser, but In all his different capacities he combined good nature and shrewdness. Oat Wednesdays he used to address his wife nr. "Martha," for r.fter the week's -washing and ironing were fin-1 ished, she became "careful and trou-1 bled about many things" to aa" en-j tent that tciad ill for animate and inanimate ejects alike. Jonas learned to seers* his particular treas ures just heisre ?3 TTecIily "dear in g-ap day" ess roraS. The chief ?07 of. the o'd man's heart and the .delight of his eye was . an old' andina which had somehow got separated from its mate, and led a life, of single uselessness on the top shelf of the KaskltiS'garret. It was of carious shape and design -wrought iron twisted into all man ner bf curves and angles, the .whole 'N surmounted by a sphinx's head. The peculiar pointed head gear tender which the metallic face gazed enig matically in io the future had led Jonas Haskins te give his forsaken andiron tue name of "the widow." Ile had ransacked the neighbor hood in his endeavors to unearth the missing mar? hal in vain. He had once picked np the sisgle andiron with a lot of miscellaneous trash and treasure in an old curiosity shop, and had announced publicly that he would give twenty dollars io- any one who would supply its lost .companion. ^ This lavishness was especially noteworthy b-eeaose, although he was xeputedrto have axeat little fortune, no public charities or ^private Indi yHnals had ever been known to prof it by his prosperity. One day it "was announced that there was to he a rummage sale In "the town hall, for the benefit of the ^Midvale Orphans* Home, and Jonas and Sarah Haskins exulted in secret . at the prospect. ^Here's my chance to pick up some thing new!" chuckled one. "At last I can get rid of some of the old things!" rejoiced the other. The day before the sale was Wed nesday-an ominous fact if Jonas had "only remembered it, hut for once he -forgot his weekly greeting of .'Good morning, Martha;" and his mind being full of plans for an on-' slaught againsc an army of weeds in the potato patch. ' ? When Sarah saw him off for the hattie field, armed with a hoe, she betook herself to the attic. "Talk abbat -weedin''! I gaess it ain't nec essary to go outside o' this house to do some pullin* up!" she soliloquized, as with -discriminating fingers she se lected the least conspicuous of Jonas', treasures. "This rubbish sale is just what Fro; been waiting for: to get rid o' some o* these antiques an' horribles. I guess I can do a little collectin' my self that Jonas will never notice," and she crowned the miscellaneous pile she hr.d gathered together with the precious andiron. To do her justice, ah? did not realise the' extent of 'her husband's devotion to the curious piece, of rr. stal work. . As Jonas had driven off in the tip cart, she had to be content with the wheelbarrow. She .filled it to oyer flowingv chuckling the wbile at the picture she would pr?sent trundling the unwieldly load through country lane.-? ard village streets. .T don't eire what folks says," she ? reassured hers.-lf. "It'll do 'em good I to,have sorasth?a* to talk about. Any- . way, ITs for a charity - though T guess most: o' the trash I'm cartln' away fs more blessed to give than to receive." With'this b-?ne!"!?'*t?on to her spoils she gave h?r h-r.d a toss to express contempt of p?bl?e opinion, and with soma swaying of the load, as If lt were the cargo of an overfreighted boat, she pushed squeaking vehi cle over the rough -pads to the town hall. The next roo-n>ng at breakfast Jonas announced h's intention of looking in at th? s*>.'3. "Shouldn't wonder If I picked up somethin* pret ty fair," he sa;d. "DDin' business with folks in this town Is like trudln* with Indians. They'd Rive you old mahogany chairs for a siring o' glass beads. Th-?y weed out pewter por ringers and sprain' wheels as if they was sorrel in a bay field, when any baby could tell 'em that spinin' wheels is as scarce as hens* teeth." About noon Jonas took a fat roll of hills out ol his improvised bank and started for the rummage sale. It was the first time thl3 method .f conjuring mon?y out of people's pockets had >??n tried in the neigh borhood, and Jonas wai bewildered by the,chaotic scene to which the respectable old town hall had lent itself. Second hand clothing, broken down furniture, clumsy kitchen utensils and delicate trinkets jostled one an other in their efforts to attract the undecided purchaser.. But Jonas turned a blind eye to such obvious appeals. Like the magnet in the song, From needles and nails and knives he'd turn. Tor he'd set his heart on a silver churn, or a pewter candlestick, or a brass knocker, or anything of unusual shape or make that could not be found any day in the week at a hard ware or dry goods shop. .. Suddenly a light seemed to kindle the pale blue eyes that .roamed searchingly round the room. "At last!" he called out triumphantly. "I knew I'd find the widow's . husband if I looked long enough, an' there he is! Fetch me down that there and iron, will you?" and with his stick he-Indicated what seemed to him the exact duplicate of the sphinx andiron in his garret at home. The saleswoman, knowing nothing of the source cf her supplies, reached for the. long coveted treasure and fuit It into Jonas' clutching hands. He looked into the unresponsive counte nance of the iron sphinx, and passed his fingers over it with clumsy ten-, derness. ' "I reckon you're the widow's hus band that she's been waltin' for nigh on to twenty years," he remarked, la cmonlcally. "I'm pleased to make your acquaintance." After this discovery Jonas was too much excited to search for further plunder; consequently the rest of his own recent possessions, which were scatter sd about in various, corners, es caped his notice. With a magnanim ity inspired by the "widow" rather than the orphan, Jonas put a reluc tant but determined hand into his pocket. He handed four crisp bills to the bewildered woman. "I've al ways said that I'd give twenty dol lars for the widow's mate, an' I'm geln' to do it," he said, with decision. "Why, that old andiron's marked only fifty cents, and it isn't worth that!" expostulated the saleswoman. "That don't matter to me. I promised to give $20," te persisted, "so here you be." Sarah Haskins was sitting at home, waiting, with some trepidation, for her husband's return. It was scarce ly possible that n?s eagle eye should not have fallen on some of his own property at the sale, and she was try ing to frame an explanation of it? presence there when the door slammed and Jonas stood in the room. But in stead of showing reproach, his face ehone with good nature and delight, a fact that seemed the more incom prehensible when his wife saw, hud dled under his arm, his own treasured andiron., < "Well, I guess I've rummaged to some purpose this time," he said, chuckling. "Here's the mate to my widow up,stairs-that I've been lookin' for for the last twenty years!" He set it down on the table and turned to go out of the room. "O Jo nas!" his wife gasped, and could say no more. The words of explanation would not come out of her dry "and trembling lips. "I'm just goin* up to the museum to get the widow!" he sang out cheer fully. "Oh, dear, oh, dear, he'll never forgive me!" wailed Sarah. "Oh, I'll never, never touch his old things again if he only won't be terrible mad when he Snds out!" She heard his slow tread going up, up; then followed the distant shuf fling steps of one who sought for something. Sarah Haskins winked fast and rocked her chair violently. "I think I'll go down-street and see how the sale is goin'," she announced to her self, as if "she were explaining her con duct to a third person. "I'll just leave a line for Jonas." She went hastily to the table draw er and took out a scrap of paper and a pencil. With nervous fingers she wrote, still conscious of overhead gropings. \ She placed this message conspicu ously on the table, then snatched her bonnet and shawl from a neighboring hook and disappeared. About ten minutes later, when Jo nas slowly plodded down stairs and found the sitting room empty, his mystified face took on a still deeper look of wonder. "What ails all the women folks?" he queried. "The widow's disappeared, and now my wife's gone." His eyes fell on the bit of .paper with the hastily scrawled words. His bead felt glddv and confused from stooping to look under things, and he seemed Unable to control his thoughts. While he "was searching for hi3 spectacles his memory jumped back to a sfory he had once read In which a wife had decided that she r i^ildrerT at Jsje Judge Wllllard H. Olmsted, . "Of Spfcct?l S&33ions, New York, coating before the Children's Coi "Children essentialy are not "3ut th?y present a serious p "The answer to the problem the Court is the educating of its Foreigners predominate in uo'.'b ?pt mean the American bo OthrT.? '..Sew York is overwhelmlngl; be strange if the greater numbe; by this element. ..'if we could get the Immigi Anv .va, instead of colonizing, stride! "Colonies shut out advancen men val and moral progress of the "Some condren are very mate ping, though I do not advocate it "We are working under the c to coiumit a certain class ol yo religious institution where it ls ready is filled. "The House of Refue" ' n sent there is In danger oi coming < "The principal trouble with t onment." couldn't stand her httsb&BdVi peculia rities any longer, and had disap peared, leaving a written message saying that if he wished to find her she was at the bottom of the nearest pond. The absurd thought flashed across his confused brain that Sarah migbt ciave adopted the same melodramatic means of escape. Hi3 knees began to tremble as he sank helplessly into a ihair. Then he read. the message, ?.nd as its meaning penetrated his slow comprehension, his sense of re lief united with his sense of humor to make him laugh as he had not laughed for years. "That's a good 'un!" he cried. 'That's a good joke on me! Hali a iollar was too much for you, was it?" ne continued, reaching out for the indlron.- "Now, look here, don't you ;ver tell Sarah Haskins how much I paid to get you back." Then his roice dropped from its tone of com mand to one of half-humorous con .'ession. "I was kind o' 'fraid," he ?aid, "that that written message night be to tell me I was a widower, nstead of which"-and he laughed igtfin-" 'twas only to tell me that rou was the widow!"-The Youth's Companion. Tl F1C NDVSTRJ. ******* A caterpillar, according to a scien :1st, eats 6000 times its weight each nonth. . a.lWt" Parchment paper Is made by dip ping ordinary unsized paper for five >r six seconds In dilute sulphuric tcid, and then washing. . , How to burn smoke, avoid sparks md eliminate combustible matter are .equisltes of railway locomotive milders in Holland. All railway lo :omotives before acceptance must be irovlded especially with a contrivance .'or burning smoke and preventing ?parks emission. Monsieur Lippmann, who is widely f rmown for his many experiments in | :olor photography, hopes so far to i inprove his new process that it will | 10t be necessary, as at present, to 'lew the developed plates through i special apparatus in order to cause he colors to appear. One hundred thousand gallons of rater sterilized by electrically gener ited ozone are used daily by the Mttsburg Homoeopathic Hospital. Dry dr is passed through the ozonizers md the ozone produced is mixed with he water by means of aspirators, ["bree ozonizers are used for steriliz ng water, while two provide ozone tsed for sterilizing instruments and tandages. The pollution of streams by factory raste is being shown by the Investi rions of the United States Geologi al Survey to be unjustified. The xperiments proved that the sewage an be purified at moderate cost, and hat the valuable materials recovered nay make good 'this expense, while n some cases there should be a good irofit, as in the recovery of wool fat md potash from wool scouring liq 10 r. French interest in Frofessor Beh ing's researches for the treatment if tuberculosis has drawn from him . new statement on the subject, from i'hich it appears that the investiga ion of his preventive system of im-? uunising against the disease has tak m a decisive step forward. Until a, ew weeks ago, says the London Hobe, the professor's system has leen confined to animals, and the di ector of the Pasteur Institute at Aile claims to have succeeded in im aunising goats by means of it. Beh ing himself now announces that he las taken the definitive step, from rhich he had previously shrunk, o? nocculating a number of persons at [ifferent times, and is now watching Levelopments. Mother Sees Son Slain. A mother's vision was the primary ause of the discovery of the murder if her nineteen-year-old boy, Thur uan Walker, of Goodland, Kan. The onfession of the murder was given he Pueblo police by Clarence Nunn. Jo strong was the dream of the nother that she sent another son to Colorado to hunt for the lost boy. )n September 12 the body of the routh waa found in the Arkansas tiver near Nepasta with a strap Irawn tightly around the neck. The mother in her dream had seen he boy lying cold in death on the iralrie, while a companion galloped iway on a horse in the darkness. Nunn is alleged to.have told the) )olice that he lured the boy to take in overland journey, thinking Walker md some money. All he got was a ?addle and $S, which he took from he body after shooting him as he ilept. The body was too heavy to :arry, 60 he put the strap around the leek and dragged it to the river. ^ew York Telegram. 3 who, as a Judge of the Court has handled countless cases irt, says: bad. iroblem to the community. of the child brought before parents. the juvenile cases, but this y is so much better than the y a foreign city, and it would r of cases were not furnished ?znts to scatter on coming to we would be taking a giant lent and retard the physical, i child. rially helped by a sound whip in all cases. lisadvantage of not being able uthful offenders, because the held they should be sent al todel reformatory, and no boy jut with a criminal bent. he children is their bad envir THE C< -Week? cleverest cartoon, by 0. CAPTAIN TULLS '< Ship Sljik Under Him and He Williams, the Second Officer, Fished From the Water Fin For the Captain-Praise '. New York Clty.-Captaln William I. Sealby, of the wrecked White Star liner Republic, told the story of the disaster. One thing he did not tell ras why he had elected to stay with his sh ?j) until it sank. Being an nfl! cer of the Royal Naval Reserve and a. commander for the Wblto Star, Captain Sealby presupposed that this act needed no explanation. "Before 6 o'clock on Sunday night we knew that the Republic would never live to reach Martha's Vine yard," was the way Captain Sealby began his tale. "By 7 o'clock she was way down in the stern, and wal lowing with long, painful rolls, that meant there was very little more life left in her. Williams (R. J. Will iams, the second officer) and I stood on the bridge and kept our eyes ahead on the lights of the Gresham and Seneca, which were towing. The ship was so low in the stern that the waves were breaking over her at .that point and the water was swashing clear un to the ladder of the saloon deck aft. "I think it must have been Just about S o'clock when we both saw that she was going to drop under us within a very few minutes. First thing we did was to prepare a Holmes distress light, which burns when it touches water. This we left on the bridge with us so that when we went down the men-on the revenue cutters could be directed to the spot where the Rpnublfr. Vent down. TVhil" we were working over the light Will iams, who has a bit of sporting blood In him. joked about our situation. " 'What do - you make of it, Will iams?' I had asked him. " 'I don't think it will be a long raco lo the bottom.' be laughed. 'When you'..are" ready let her go and we'll m?ke a sprijft of it.' "Before .we had finished with the Holmes light we began to hear a roar ing and cracking of the deck seams l>ack of us.. T-t was the air driving Dut ahead of the advancing water. That is the last call of a sinking ship. ? directed Williams to burn two blue lights, the signal to the revenue cut ters that we wer? going down and for them to fast. off. Then I let loose fivf: shots with my revolver. "Wo were going down steadily Lhen and pretty fast. I yelled at Williams to make for the foro rig King. We both dropped down the ladder 1o the saloon defk. each carry ing a hine light in one hand. Hy the time our feet touched the saloon deck lt was at an angip of nearly thirty degrees, wet and slippery. Wo could not keep our feet, so we grabbed the rall and crawled. The water was rushing up on us from behind and the explosion!? and rending of thc? tim bers from 'midships told us that al ready the stern was under water. "Wo had i reached the forecastle head when Williams slipped to the tieck and grabbed a post of the rall with his elbow. That was the last I ?aw of him until after lt was over. 1 managed to get forward to the fore mast and to climb the rigging as far fis the forward running light, about 100 feet up.,. Below me about half of the ship was visible and she was tipped up like a rocking chair about to go over backward. "My blue light would not burn be cause it had become wet. I fired one more shot from ray revolver, the last. Then everything dropped and T w?s In the water with the foremast slip ping down beside me like an i-loralor plunger. "There was a boiling, yeasty mass [)f water about me and a great roar ing. T went under, but came up again, for the air had gathered un der my greatcoat and buoyed me up. I guess I went around spinning for a Lime: then 1 hit a spar. From the spar I managed to get toa hatch cover. Things were flying around in the wat er and 1 came near being badly banged up before 1 managed to pull my body up on tho hatch cover and lie there all'spread out with nothing but my head and shoulders above the nray?s. "It was very cold. I saw the Ko Refuge On Earth Now For Embezzlers and Defaulters. Washington, D. C.-The last haven of refuge on earth for American bank wreckers, embezzlers, defaulters and other criminals of that ilas3 was re moved when the Senate ratified an extradition treaty with Honduras. It is believed that under this treaty Honduras may bo persuaded to sur render many old offenders who have taken up residence there, although that country has found them desira ble because they always bad ready cash. Unlls of Congress. i Senator Tillman Insinuated that some Federal Judges were on the payrolls of corporations. The House Naval Committee was lefeated In Its efforts to replace ma- ; j rines on board warships. The urgent deficiency bill was passed and the postal savings bank jill was considered in the Senate. The President appointed a national :ouncil of arts, consisting of eminent irehitects, painters aud sculptors, under whose direcci?n. national I yorks will be planned and erected iu t he future. J g R. Maca uley, in (he New York World. OF THE WRECK Was Rescue? From the Sea-' , With Him to the End st, He Directed the Search For All the Ship's Men. searchlights on the Gresham and Sen eca trying to pick me up, but they went around and around and misled me. I managed to load my revolver again and lt went off, although it had had a ducking. Soon after that a boat manned by four of the Repub lic's crew and four sailors from the Gresham commanded by Gunner's Mate Johnson slid up near me. I waved a towel I had picked up out of the water. They saw me and came and picked me up. I was weak and cold-quite finished. Williams was In the boat when it picked nie up, I was glad to see. He was quite done up, too. We were quite back on our feet again after the men on the Gres ham had ministered to us. T cannot speak too highly of the work of the r?venue cutters that were trying to tow us; it was magnificent." Captain Sealby had a word to say about his officers and crew. "I have nothing but praise for the actions of the officers and crew of tho Republic both at the time of the col lision and subsequently dnring the very trying task of getting the pas sengers transferred to the Florida. The success of this maneuvre 1 at tribute to the remarkable discipline and cohesion between officers and :rew. The passengers themselves aided greatly by their conduct. There ?vas absolutely no panic arnon? them ind the women behaved splendidly." I* The Republic's commander also I 1 iald a trenerouR compliment to Binns, che wireless operator, who had- stuck :o his key although part of the wire less cabin on the boat deck had been carried away by the Florida's prow. Second Officer Williams told of his ?xperlences after he had become sep irated from his superior on the slant ng deck of the Republic. ?He said: "When I fell down on the saloon leek on the port side I hung onto the .ail with my elbow. In three minutes t was all over. I felt her lift straight ip in the air and saw the prow right iver my head: then she just slid iown. I felt the stern strike bot :om, for there was a jar and then I 'elt something give. I believe she iroke in the middle where she had )een rammed by the Florida. "I was pitched off the deck before :he last of her drooped but of sight. 1 just caught a glimpse of the keel Iropping. past rae as I hit the water. 1 tread water for a second to get my valance, then I struck out for about a lozen strokes before the boil of the vater got me. "A grating hatch hit me and I held m. I couldn't climb onto it because ;he seas rolled me off every time 1 brambled up. I was getting tired of rying when another grating came ilong. I grabbed it with one hand md held on between them. I guess I vas in the water almost half an hour vhen the boat from the Gresham ?ame along and pulled me out. .1 di ?ected the men'where to look for the :aptain and we found him in another ive minutes.n Williams saved a brier pipe and a locketniece out of the wreck and that vas all. Jack Binns, the wireless operator vho flashed the news of the Repub Ic's ramminc to Slasconset wireless ?ration and wno subsequently kept at Us place communicating with the ?hips hastening in relief, seemed to relieve that the loss of 500 cigarettes ie had with him when the Republic eft New York on Friday was one of he most serious features of the vreck. "Part of the wireless cabin was ora away in the crash," said Binns, but the instruments were not hurt. \s soon as the captain heard what he damage was he sent me orders to ?end out the distress signal. 1 found hat the instrument was dead. The dectric motors had gone bad with .he flooding of the engine room. I cnew where tho accumulators-stor ige batteries you call them-that ire carried for emergencies just such is ,that one were kept, and T groped or them in the dark. When I got hem coupled up I tried the key and ound that the spark was right." Virginia Railrcr.ls Lrcc . Two-Cent Case Again. Richmond, Va.-The right of ap peal to the State Supreme Court ol Appeals in the two-cent rate case was .efused to the railroads. The roads low have two courses open to them. They can either go into tho United states Circuit Court of Appeala and ?ave tho case heard at lengtb, or they an go to the Corporation Coinmission ind make application for a revision if tlie rates on the ground that the oads are losing money. Meautlme he two-cent rate preval?a. Feminine .Notes. The Moody Bible Institute, Chl ago, plans to erect a building en Iruly for women students. Girls attending tne Lakeview high chool iu Chicago receive lessons in he art of jumpiugfrom a moviug car. Mrs. Eleanor ReJyea, a clerk in the igual office of the War Department, viii be thd next ?social secretary ol .i .. W'nite House. Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the Jritish member of Parliameuc, has iiiide a reputation for eloquence iu he interest of the suffrage propa anda. i ELECTRICITY FROM WAVES William Snee Finds Way to Caten , Power From Wind and Wave3. Washington, Special-Within tho n?xt few days Atlantic City is to wit ness a practical demonstration of1 a new invention that- will'.utilize the limitless force of the ocean tides and waves in the production of power, light, and heat. The inventor claims that he has mastered the problem in a manner that makes its application both economic and practical. Engineers who have tested the wave motors invented by William Snee. of Pitsburg, state that these motors will do the work for* which they are in tended. The motor, or rather the revolving portion of the motor,1 resembles in construction, and is. in effect, a tur bine. It is the only turbine wheel ?ver invented for generating power from wave and tide motion. The notor revolves within the stationary shield .that is equipped with reflec tors and guide blades set at such an ingle as to harmonize all outsidd ?onflieting forces of the water, so that no matter from what direction ;he water is jetted into the interior, the motor always turns in one direc ;ion. Models of various sizes have been nade, and the experiments have proved such an unqualified success ;hat two 61-ton motors have been;; nstalled at the end of Young's pier it Atlantic City, a id the power ob ;ained will be utilized to make the jier and beach a blaze of light. The wave motors works as well on and as it does in the water. This eature was tested recently at Pitts >urg, the motor proving itself to be wenty per cent more sensitive to the :urrents of the air than the ane nometer, and the same principle that ?armonizes the outside wheel per forms the same service in harmoniz ng conflicting forces of wind. This discovery naturally suggests be idea of using both the wind and vave motors in government light ?ouses, and the inventor at once jrought the matter to the attention of he government officials. Nine Jurors Found. Nashville, Special.-When the sec )nd venire of 500 talesmen wes ex ?austed without the completion of the iul*y to try Col. Duncan Cooper, Rob n Cooper and John D. Sharp for the ilajfing of former Senator Edward W. }armack, Judge Hart announced that ie would' devote Wednesday to the ?earing of charges against Jurors jeigh and Jackson. Meantime he trew another venire of 500 names and he sheriff is summoning them for ser vice at 9 a. m. Friday. Just before court adjourned the : State filed charges against Juror H. }. Jackson, claiming that he was in- | ompetent because he was an habitual j Irunkard. The State has been trying ince last week to get a hearing on he charges against Juror J. S. Leigh ' ind its witnesses were summoned to j ippear Wednesday, when both cases rill be gone into. ] There are uow nine men in the box i vith charges against two of them. < ?he failure of counsel to complete the < ury from the first thousand talesmen < ogether with the fact that the num ler already selected may be reduced < ly the court makes it extremely im ?robable that the twelve men will be | worn in before some time next week. - Ho Election Yet in Illinois. Springfield, 111., Special.-Senator ] Libert J. Hopkins, Republican pri mary choice for Senator, with 90 votes ame within nine votes of re-election n Wednesday's first ballot, the 13th oint ballot taken, since the senator- 1 al deadlock began. The 90 receded ! o 85 on the 17th ballot. None of the ' ther candidates made consequential ' ains and the election of a Senator ^ ocs not seem to be in sight. * Root Bids Goodbye to the Cabinet. Washington, Special. - Secretary toot attended .his last Cabinet meet- ? ng Tuesday and his colleagues in the facial family gave him a farewell uch as he will long remember. The j inderstanding is that Robert Bacon ?dil be confirmed Wednesday as Sec- ' etary of State and will at once take he oath of office. Mr. Root will 1 eave Washington at noon Wednesday : or Albany and in a day or so will : eave for Hot Springs, Ark. Runaway Cars on C. C. ? O. Spartanburg, S. C., Special-A core of laborers on the Carolina, ^ .linchficld & Ohio road came near leering their death Monday afternoon j rhen eight dirt cars, attached to an ' ngine, became uncoupled, ran down a 1 teop grade and, plunging into a tres- J le, demolished 120 yards of trestle 1 rork. The cars were reduced to 1 lindling wood. The men at work on he trestle saw the wild cars-rushing 1 own thc grade in time to escape from 1 ertain death. The accident occurred 1 t the camp of the Asheville Construe- ! ion Company, about four miles from ! he city. . _ - i /loveland Woman Leaves Money to Negro Schools. Cleveland, 0., Snecial.-Mrs. Sam el Mather, sister of Mrs. John Hay, rho died a few days.ago, left an es nte valued at $2,000,000. Of this 250,000 is set aside for charitable 1 urposes. Among these bequests are 1 15,000 for superannuated ministers < f thc Presbvterian Church; $5.060 ] or Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., nd I?:,000 for Tuskegee Institute, 'u?kegec. Ala. ' Crushed to Death in Well. Wadesboro, Special.-Watson Cole, , well-di.fger, employed to clean a ^ ?rell on the Ashcraft farm east of , own, was almost instantly killed Jonday. Cole was at the bottom of lie well and his assistant was draw ing out thc refuse. The rope, which ! 'as almost worthless and had be<?- ' nliced. broke and th** bucket, weis:!' nar with its conant nbcut 300 pourc" ll rm' sh'" .. him on the hoad. U' '-nil was rrusbfil and he died in ' cw minu'r* CUBAN G?VJMliGUKATED Provisional Governor Magoon Es corts General Gomez tb the Palace For the Inauguration Ceremonies, and Then Sails Prom the Island on the New Maine-Cuban Gunboat Sees the Americans Safely Off. Havana, By Cable.-Major Gen. sral Jose Miguel Gomez was inaugu rated President of the restored Cuban republic Thursday at noon and with in an hour after he had taten the solemn oath of office administered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Sourt, the American officials who had been in control of* affairs since the autumn of 1906 had departed from the island. The American provisional Gover nor, Charles E. Magoon, who escorted General Gomez to the palace and there turned over fro him the reins of government, sailed on the new Maine. The Maine was followed by the battleship Mississippi aad the army transport McClellan. A swarm of small vessels joined in the proces sion out of the harbor. A Cuban gunboat also accompanied the ships some Ettie distance to sea .frith a band on board playing from time to time ?he Cuban national an them. Earlier in the day Governor Magoon and Presfaent-elBct Gomez were , seated S??e b}- s?He ia the ear ring'?h^ nowie to the" palace in the wake of a galloping eseovt of rural guards or native cavalry there was silence on the part ?f the holiday tfrrongs who lined the sidewalks. Hats were lifted as the carriage swept by, and the salutes were return ed in the same manner by the Gover nor and General Gomez. At night fireworks burned through out the city in the same profusion that characterize the 4th of July in the. United States, and the cafes were gay with music and singing. About 3,000 troop are still on the island under the command of Major General Thomas L. Barry. These will be returned to the United States as fast as the transport service will permit, the last of the troops leaving on April 1st. Cuba begins her new period of in dependence under conditions which seem as propitious as could be evolv ed. Peace reigns from the western extremities of Pindar del Bia to the eastern promontories of Santiago province, and no disturbing element is anywhere* ?H evidence. TWO MOEE JtJBORS ACCEPTED. Nine Men Are Now in tie Jury Boa to Fear the Cooper Trial-Fourth Venire ls Ordered. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-The ninth day of the trial of Duncan B. Cooper, Bobin Cooper and John D. Sharp, for the murder of former Sen ator Edward W. Carma ck closed with two additions having been made to the jury, which now numbers 9. The two recent acquisitions are Gus Knipfei ?md P. 0. Beirman. Up to Friday Night, 1,165 tales-, men have been examined in an effort to get the 12 men. Of . those, who qualified the State challenged 13, the lefense challenged 23 and the court summarily excused two after they had been declared satisfactory to both sides. It is conceded that the action of the State in charging two talisment ivith perjury has greatlv reduced the chances of getting a jury at once. Many of those summoned say they may have expressed an opinion at the time, the murder occurred, .md for Pear of an indictment, they disquali fy themselves. After hearing testimony in the case Df Juror Whitworth, whose health is said to be such that his life would be endangered by the confinement inci dent to the trial of the case, Judge Hart was disposed to excuse him at mee, but the State asked that a de ?ision be withheld until the n?xt pan ;1 was exhausted. Bulgaria Complains of Turkey's At titude, J Sofia, By Cable.-fhe Bulgarian government has delivered a note to the representatives of the powers, :omplaining of the irreconcilable and uncompromising attitude of Turkey and declaring that the Porte must be responsible for the consequences. The ! aote does not solicit the intervention )f the powers but draws their atten tion to the tension of the situation. Desperate Man Breaks Jail. Wilmington, N. C., Special-Jap B. ?Valker, a white man in jail at South port, charged with the murder oi Sheriff Jackson Stanland, of Bruns ivick county last December wmile re sisting arrest by a posse headed by the sheriff, made his escape from the prison at Southport by braining the night guard, J. B. Fountain, with some ' heavy instrument procured in some unaccountable way af'er he had ?scaped his cell into the corridor. The ruard was disarmed of his pistol and all the cartrdiges he carried and a tvhite man named Butler, held as an accomplice of Walker .escaped too. European Powers Keeping Peace'Be-' tween Turkey and I 'raria. Paris, Special.-An official^ not? issued here sets forth that the powers of Europe are earnestly con tinuing their efforts to -prevent an jutbreak of hostilities between Tur key and Bulgaria, an outcome threat- . med by the recent mobilizations by seth countries concerned. '* Foreign News. Mrs. Carry Nation met a hostile reception at Canterbury Music Hall. London, ou last Monday night and vas egged. Th'ere is a quarrel again between Peni and Chile. The difficulty came to general notice when the Peruvian government a few months ago re fused to permit Chile to place a tablet on the monument erected by Pena to the memory of her soldiers who lost their lives in the war ol L879.