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ADP QUOTES BEECHER
Philosopher Quotes the Words of the
Famous Preacher
Tim HrtT UlCnurn / " rr ?
Ut, wis i n LA IIICK LALStU II, 1
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Sage of Bartow Has a Melting Collar I
And Is Not at All Pleised With It? '
Some Remarks.
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The horrid, torrid weather reminds (
Die of what Henry Ward Beecher said |
in his church one sweltering day in
July. He took no text. He wiped the j
perspiration from his h<*ow and look- (
lug solemnly at the large congregation, (
said: "It is hot today. It is damned
hot. It is as hot as hell!" Everybody ,
was amazed and shocked until he added,
"That is the language ! heard two
young men use at the door of the |
church as I passed them. My young
friends, it is not as not as hell." Then
in a low, earnest tone he pictured thu
torments of hell and the certain fate
of the wicked until atmosphere of the |
rhurch seemed to be cool and pleasant j
in comparison. The lilies ceased to j
move their fans and everybody was ,
still and solemn as a funeral, it was
something like Jonathan Edwurds at (
Northamuton when he rni hl? h?mru
bo wrought up and alarmed that they
groaned In fear and grasped the posts
and braces to keep from sinking into
hell, and another preacher in tLs pulpit
begged Mr. Edwards to stop. "S;op
Mr. Edwards: stop now and tell them
of the mercy and love of God." What ,
wonderful power Is in the words of an
eloquent, earnest man. Mr. Beecher
was all of that?a gifted, eloquent man.
1 hoard hi.n preach twice before the
war aud was profoundly impressed. I
looked upon him as the Impersonation
of the man of God. Later on. when he
began his vindictive war upon tho
south and said that Sharp's rilles weru
better than Bibles for John Brown in
Kansas and it was a crime to shoot at
a slave-holder and miss him. I wonder
at my infatuation with the man and
exclaimed with Isaiah. "How are the
mighty fallen." And at 111 later when
Til ton charged him with alienating
nn 1 seducing his wife aud it took two
months to try the case and the jury
i?Yi> ua.Yw u> niiiK?- up a vernici, wmcn
virtually said. "'Hi' is not guilty, but he
must not do so any more." 1 was mortified
at my own weakness in becoming
his idolater and resolved to worship
rro man again while he lived. A groat
nxait's character cannot be niado up
until after he is dead.
But 1 was ruminating how easy ix ij
for a young man to say damn and
damn It. I'll be damned and even to
take the name of God In vain. Damn l?
a more convenient and expressive word
than dogon or dingnatlon or blamed
and it shows a defiance of the devil and
a self-conceit in the man who uses it
But it Is a very handy expletive an.l
when a young man gets In the habit of
using It he rarely reforms, or knows
that It Is not good manners, for he
does not use it In the presence of ladiei
or preachers or his parents. Nevertheless
there are some good people who
think damn it without saying it. I
hoard a good story the other day on
Colonel Livingston, our member of
congress from the Atlanta district.
Last summer he was sent over to West
Virginia to speak and help the democrats
in their canvass. He ventured
into a pretty hot republican town and
was haranging and electrifying a large
audience, and while scarifying the republicans
and this fighting administration
a soft, half done Irish potato took
him kerzip right between the eyes. It
knocked off his spectacles and flattened
into mush all over his classic counte
nance, it surprised ami mocked ntm
of course. Recovering his glasses lie
wiped the sticky stuff from his face an i
said with excited tone," My friends. )
have been?I have been a consistent? ,
a consistent member of the Presbyte ,
rinn church?the Presbyterian church
1 say for more than mot* than fifty
years- yes. fifty odd years, ami have
tried to live?tri"jl to live in harmony
with aii men?with all men. but if the
dirty, dostond. dadhlamed puppy whe
threw that potato will stand v.p or raise
ills right hand I'll be?I'll he dadb'aated
if I don't stop speaking long enough
fo come down and lick the hair an.
bide off of him in two minul.es bv the
clock." As nobody rose or rniiod a hand
the colonel resumed his broken remarks.
but declares that he never cam*
ns near cursing since he joined the
church.
This thing of cursing Is of very ancient
origin. SoreotimoR It was done by
proxy, llalak. the kink of Moab. hireJ
Balaam to curse Israel, anil some of u*
veterans remember when we, too
wanted to hire n cussin man to expend
our wrath upon the yankeea. Petei
cursed and swore when accused of b ?ing
one of the desciples. It Is probable
that he said "I'll be damned if I am."
or perhaps worse. Soldiers and sailor?
have in gll ages been profane?the very
class that are in greatest* peril an.1
should have the greatest rovesance for
their maker. Uncle Toby s.-.vi? "Our
army fwotc terribly In Finnaers." An I
Uncle Toby hlmse.lf swore an oath
when he found the sick soldier lying
and dying at his gate. "He shall nr-t
uie, by God," he said, and the accusing
spirit flew up to heaven with the oath
and blushed as he gave it in. The recording
angel as he wrote it down dropped
a tear upon the word and blottel
it out forever." Tfcrt to b\autiro>. laeit
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it? Verily, charity hldeth a multitude
>f sins.
But this is enough on this subject. It
8 too hot to fvock in the garden and
so I get in the shade of the vines on
my verandah I and ruminate. Judge
Griggs, our honored member of congress,
tells that story on Colonel Livingston
and he told another that will
make the old nfen forget that it is I ,t.
for they never "get too old to enjoy any
story that has. a pretty woman in it.
One of the last) cases brought before
Lhe Judge was a young unsophisticated
country boy who was charged with an
assault upon a bonnie country girl In
that he had caiught her at the spring
and hugged and kissed her against her
will. Her mother saw it from her p azaa
and heard her scream and saw him
run away to thV field where he was
pi iwing. She was very indignant, and
prosecuted him.s She was the witness
md po whs the ^tirl. but the girl dirlent
seem very Trdlcative. She satd
he dldent hurt her but took her by
surprise. She hall filled her bucket and
was about to go back win n he caught
hei and hugged her and kissed her
right on her moif"o. The solicitor closed
his rase. The young man was put up to
makt his st&tenncnt. and all he said
was that she looked so sweet and pretty,
he couldent help It. and he d'.dcut
believe tliat Miss Molly was very mad
about It nohow, for she irent off singing
of a hymn. '"'What hyme was she
singing?" asked the Judgo. "1 don't
know." he said. "What hyme were you
singing. Miss Molly?" asked the Judge.
She smiled and said It was "The Lord
Will Provide." The Judge charged the
Jury very mildly^ and told them that
an assault Implied mallco, etc., but as
the Jury couldneUt see where the malice
came In, they, came back with this
verdict: "We. the Jury, find tho defendant
not guilty, as there was no malice
or hate in it. and we recommend him
to the mercy of the court." This story
reminds me of Jo&n Riley's vcrdlr* in
the Past case. Good old John Riley,
the foreman of The Rome Courier's
pressroom for years and years, and the
foreman of the Jury in the case of the
state against Rom Hup Pass for hog
stealing. Pass had been suspected of
killing Wallis Warren's shoats as they
ran in the woods, and so Wallis laid for
him and one evening about dusk, when
he heard a rifle shot, he slipped up and
caught Pass in the very act of putting
the shoat In a suck. Wallis dldent go
to the war and managed to save his
stock. Pass went, and left his wife and
three little children to the mercy of
God and the community. When he returned
he found there was nothing left
to live on. and one of the children had
died. Judge Wright volunteered to defend
him, and introduced no evidence,
but had the last speech. T will never
forget the tender pathos of that speech
?his picture of a poor soldier returning
home to find desolation and despair.
He never alluded to tho evidence,
but had the jury and the court in tears.
Tho judge charged them as fairly as
ho could, and they retired. In a brief
time they came in with this verdict:
"Whereas, the late, unhappy war reduced
many of our brave soldieis and
their families to waut,.*nd poverty by
reason of which 1hey were forced at
times to wander In the woods for such
game as they could find In order\to
Ktn>p tuo woir rrom me noor ?nn meir
little ones from stirv-ation; therefore,
we. the jury, and the defendant not
guilty. John Itlley. foreman."
"Hy gracious!" aa/d Wallls, "they
found Pass guilty and then pardoned
hint." Judge Wright never lost a case
where h" had the loat speech and a
woman or a poor man was his client.
Hut It is getting n little cooler now
as the sun nears the horizon. I must
stop :lnd turn the water loose on my
garden. The city ha.<? no water meters
yet. and I can steal water with impunity.
hut as the nigger preacher said to
his flock. "You mtjsont be catched
steaJin' chickens?cotcbed. I say. ? Llill
Arp ui Atlanta Constitution.
Ne? CouItii? Station 8347,813.
The Nuvy lucpartinvht, ac Washington,
has uwarded to Augustus fctinui.
or New York City, the coutruci lor
establishing the ivaieustve coming statlou
on Xarruguuseu May, t.i a cost
of $347,Sid.
No A in vim- nit* ii t s oa Mciiiorlitl Uhj,
Tuo Charles Kusscll i'osv, .\o. .. cJ.
A. it., of iiosiou, Mass., has s.utvjd a
luoveuieut lor u new law to prov.de
mat uo games or other amiiM-uicUis
shall take place ou Memorial liny uiiweeu
the hours of 'J u. in. and u p. m.
Cl|5?rf^t? Victim's Boilj Turn# Black.
Cigarettes found auother victim at
Elgin, 111. Jauies Ylckers was fouud
dead 1? bed, and the Coroner's Jury
laid the cause to the CSciMlve use of
the paper cigars. Soon after death
the body of the victim turued black,
and the doctors said it was from excess
of "dcotlne in the system.
I.jin-Illiik In North Carolina.
D. D. J ouch, u negro preacher. who,
it is alleged, attacked Mrs. Noah l?avis
neir liU Grunge, N. C? was
lynched: _ _
liauk Cashier Pardoned.
President MeKinley has pardoned
Charles W. Mursey, former cashier t.f
the National Bank of Rutland, Vt?
who was convicted last year of the
misapplication of $100,000 of the funds
of tin- bank and sentenced to seven
years i in prison men t.
Colombia Imposes an Ki port Duty.
A dcctee has been issued by the
Colombian Government imposing mi
export duty on ull produce shipped
from the isthmus. This includes bancocpanuts.
Ivory nuts and wood
MIL
OUT MILL, S. C., WED
imTuHrE
J. Pierpont Morgan Presents $1,000,000
to Harvard.
YALE'S BICENTENNIAL FUND
President Hoillr.T Announce* Tlint the
SVI.OOO.OOO, lte<|ulre<t For New Itu11 ?1 )nc?,
lln* Il?>en Secured ? Amherst**
President Proclaims Contribution* of
S17C.OOO?Haunt. Olres Sr.o.ooo,
Cambridge, Musk. ? President Eliot
nnuonnced nt the Harvard nlumni dinner
tlint John Pierpont Morgan had
pi von more than $1,000,000 for the eree|
tion of three of the five buildings
planned for the Harvard medical
6eliool on land now held In trust for
the university on Huntington avenue,
in Boston.
A few days ago I>r. Warren received
a cable from Mr. Morgan in which he
raid: "Referring to our conversation
and plans submitted I am prepared to
erect the central buildings and two
side pavilions as a memorial to Junius
Spencer Morgan, a native of Massachusetts.
and for many years a merchant
of Bostoo. You cun announce
this."
Junius Spencer Morguu wus the
father of the donor.
President Eliot called attention to
the phrase, "plans submitted." which
he said Included specifications, ami
said that these called for un outlay of
more than SLOOO.tXM).
The present medical school, biological
department. Is situated in one
building oti Boylston street, next the
Boston Public Library. The erection
of the new buildings would, it is understood,
involve disposing of this
property, which is in a part of the
city where values are very high.
When the plan was published, some
months ago. it was suggested that the
land he taken for the Public Library,
which Is already cramped for space.
although only mmtii yours opened.
Tlio new Morgan buildings, < n Huntington
avenue, will include a hospital.
Hitherto Harvard Medical School has
had to depend wholly for practical
clluics upon the public hospitals.
New Haven, Conn.?At th? Yale alumni
dinner it was announced that
the S'J.otMUHM) tixed as the amount of
the ld-ceutennlal fund, has all hoen
pledged.-the list of the new contributors.
whose contributions make up the
desired amount, is as follows: Omrge
miss. SeOOO; Matthew Itordcn, Sluu.OOtt;
James .1. Hill. $lOft.O<Mt; Frederick
AY. Vnnderbllt. $loo.noo; the Mlsres
Stokes. $GO,OUO; raised last week,
$1:15,000.
Amherst, Mass.?President Harris
nnnouueed that .additional gifts
amounting to $!)(HiO had been received
for scholarships ami prizes, making the
I total amount of gifts for the past year
fclTG.OOO.
Cleveland. Ohio.?At the commencement
of Kenyan College, at Cambler.
It was announced that Senator Ilanua
u:.d made a donation of $.">0,000.
MANY KILLED IN A WRECK.
! Italian Kmlgrantft on '1'rutn TIihI Wont I
Through m Trestle in Imlluna.
Peru. lad.?Sixteen persons were
killed and about llfty were seriously
injured In a wreck of Train ft. the
i westbound Wabash limited, nine miles
west of iliis city. The dent! are all
! Italian Immigrants en route to Colora,
do. Many of the Injured undoubtedly
will die.
Two section of Train P. cue coming
from Detroit and the other from Toledo.
were consolidated in this city into
a train of eleven ears, making up the
tiler for its journey to St. Ixmis
Having left here one hour I; to. the
train was speeding westward at a
high rate, when the engine plunged
through a trestle which had been undermined
by the recent heavy rains.
The embankment on both sides of the
trie, u distance of forty feet. Tit eulittlc
stream dropped at a sharp angine
plunged into the soft earth on the
opposite bank and fell to the bottom.
The express ear and the first chair
car were telescoped. The emigrant
ear. followed by two chair cars, went
down on the left side of the trnck and
j the llrst sleeper pitched forward upon
| the mass of debris. The remaining
cars also left their trucks, but were not
badly damaged. It was in the emigrant
and day conches that most of
the deaths and injuries occurred.
SAM0AN3 HAV? CONSUMPTION.
Coininnndcr Tlllry Si?y? Civilization tVorlo
to tlm Detriment of the Natlvm.
Washington. 1>. C.?Commander Tilicy,
the Naval Coventor of Samoa,
was taken by Secretary Kong to lite
Cabinet meeting and made an interesting
statement 0:1 tiie conditions in
Samoa. Ho pointed out the need of
industrial ;.:ul agricultural institutions
j there. In view oi the alarming extent
of sickness, particularly among young
children. It lias been suggested that
American nurses would tind Samoa an
exceptionally good field for their humane
work.
Commander Tllloy snys that in one
respect civilization has worked to the
detriment of the Samoans. While
they lived without clothing they wor.?
linrdv and fr,?i> from 1 nt
since adopting clothing they get vet
from rain, contract colds and a tui-iher
have developed consumption, a
disease not known before.
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>NESDAY, JULY 3, 19C
IINOR EVEHTSOFTHEWEE)
1TA*HINOT?N ITEMS.
Mm. McKlnley, with the President,
took the flret carriage ride she had had
In a long while.
At the State Department a protocol
was signed, which extends for one
year the peudlng reciprocity treaty l>etween
the United States aud Santo
Doaiingo.
While trying to save a yellow dog
from drowning Georso It tVn?iitni?.
ton, of Washington, was drowned.
President MeKinley appointed I-'. IT.
Hnwfcs. of Huntington. W. Vn., warden
of the new Federal Prison at Atlanta.
Ga. "
There were U.l.riGS patents issued hy
the Patent Office for the fiscal year
just closed, breaking the record.
The report that Secretary Hay was
to resign Is denied. The President expects
him to return to Washington in
the fall.
Secretary I.ong formally adopted designs
for the medals to be awarded
navy officers and men who fought in
the West Indies. Hear-Admiral Sampson's
profile Is on the medals.
on: ATJOPTKD ISLANDS.
Atauasio Taitano Peres was appointed
to he the first postmaster of
the island of Guum.
All Cubans must he vaccinated, a
Commission having been appointed for
the purpose.
Harold M. Pitt, Government contractor,
was acquitted of the charge
of improperly purchasing Government
stores at Manila.
In a tight with Insurgents In Sninar,
1*. 1.. Eicutenaut Edward E. Dowues,
First Infantry, was killed.
The Navy Department will order an
investigation of the trouble between
Commander Sehroeder, the Governor
of Guar.), and his men.
There were four bubonic plague
deaths at Honolulu, Hawaii, from
May 20 to Juno l>.
The volcano Kilaucn, in Hawaii, is
showing sigus of renewed activity.
DOMKSTIC.
Tlio United .States Crnnd Jury, atj
Helena, Mont., reported 102 indict-,
ments against land grabbers in the
State.
Two guards, brothers named Xesbitt,
of Baton Itouge, at the State convict
eaiup. near New Orleans, La., were
killed by a third guard.
(teronimo, the famous Apache chief,
arrived at the Exposition at Buffalo,
N. Y. He is Vi-der guard.
Seven tobacco rchaudilng liouses and
thirty-two small residences at Maytield.
Iv,v.. were burned. Loss, $200,000;
partially insured.
Wholesale grocers of Saginaw
Mich., formed a trust capitalized at
;<S.t)(K).(MM?.
1 ?r. William S. Wyman v.*as elected
President of the University of Alabama.
Stephen Clark, a gambler, of Poplar
Bluff. Mo., killed Pearl Clark, while in
a jealous rage and then fatally stab1?ed
himself.
Lightning killed Robert C..ke and his
son. at Piedmont, Ala., and William
liuss and two sons, at Lincoluton, N.
U.
Jes-ie Morrison, of Eldorado, Kan.,
was found guilty of manslaughter in'
the second degree for killing Mrs,
Oiive Castle, bride of licr old sweetheart.
Mlackinnilcrs who demanded S."iOrtOf |
from \Y. ('. Carson, a Kansas farmer, j
set lire l<> his house, and his wife was
ialally burned.
General Homes arrived at Tampa,
Pin., and said lie was glad to lie on
Ameriean soil, for he felt that lie was
among friends.
San Praueiseo 13 now in Rise the
ninth oily of the Union, and according
to tli? last census has a population
cif 342,782 souls.
Three boys, nil under eleven years 1
r?hl, were drowned below the dam of
the Ward's Paper Company, at Grand
iCapids. Mich.
Ilmuct r.liss. at Mount Clemens.
Mieli.. eoufessed t<> killing Ins father,
hut "aid it was accident1.
Oil was struck at Cusack's weii. No. |(
i, at J a mestown, Tenu., a: a depth of
li7."? feet.
The south IkiuiuI cannon hall train
tvns wrecked near B.ebe, Ark., hut no
one was killed. I
Excessive hen. killed W. It. Itradford.
of I'tlea. N. Y.. who was riding
ou u train in Missouri.
FOREIGN*.
Ihtndits seized four walled cities '
Dear Mukden, Manehuria.
King Edward Issued a proclamation (
nnuouneing that ids coronation will
take place next June, the date not being
fixed.
Russian negotiations with China regarding
.Manchuria will not. be reipeued.
Charles Lily White, American citizen,
unvoted in Welliiurion.
land, on charge of oeing Arthur
ii.iuh, a murm rcr, was released.
Twelve eases of bubonic plague and
four deaths occurred at Oporto, Portugal.
1
Tin? Peruvian Government signed a '
contract for the construction of a floating
pier and bonded stores at Iquitos.
Austria sent Count Gilbert lichenwart
von Gerlachsteln at Minister to
Mexico.
A Paris correspondent who talked
with Agoucillo previous to his depa?ture
for lloug Kong, quoted the ell.plno
as saying the struggle 'a the Phil- 1
ippines is far from over.
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OUR CLIMATE NO BARRIER
United States to Beat the World on
Products of the Soil.
WORK OF SECRETARY WILSON
Ilcncl of Aprimltiiral Deparlinrnt Snjr.
Wc 'Will Soon Compete With All Conntrlcn
In Their Own Special Crop*?Will
Grow Hotter T??l?nooo Than Ctiha ami
Make Hotter Macaroni Than Italy.
Washington, 1). C.?American ingenuity
is to overcome tlic laws of
climate anil put the United States
aliead of all other countries iti their
own natural specialties. At least Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson has so
told President MeKinley ami his
iuet.
Secretary Wilson told of the experiments
which are to accomplish won
dors for tlu> United States in the matter
of products of the soil and the
manufacture of those products. In
the matter of tobacco we are soon
be independent of Cuba as to quality,
and the Italian macaroni enter will
have to import his favorite dish from
tile United States if lie wants the best.
"This country now sells S30.000.0QO
worth of tobacco and buys Sirt.OOO.OdO
worth of high priced varieties," said
Secretary Wilson. "Now. our department
is teaching Americans how to )
produce these high-priced varieties.
We took the medal at I'aris for Sumatra
wrnpi?ors. which have been costing
us So.Oon.iMtii per year. We have been
paying SS.ooo.oimi per year for filler tobacco.
mostly Cuban. Our experiments,
we hope, will result in our producing
both wrappers and fillers to meet ail
our demands.
"Heretofore. American-made macaroni
has been considered inferior to the
Imported, because we did not have
suitable macaroni wheats. Experiments
have corrected this, so that 1PO,(100
bushels of wheat will be grown
this year, especially for the macaroni
mills. In a few years we will make |
all our macaroni."
Secretary Wilson also told of export- j
monts in rice culture, through researches
in tl? Ear East, that will result
soon in our producing all the rice
we use, and that of the finest quality.
To Organize it Forestry Ritrrvr.
Washington. 1>. <\?Secretary Hitchcock
announced after a Cabinet meeting
that he is preparing to organize
a forestry bureau in the Interior l>epartment.
to carry out an extensive
system of reforest ration, somewhat <>11
ti,.? .u.... ?
. ... mm rnM llliy ]>urSUC<l II) C?Tluany.
It was too early to go imo details.
he said, but the President mal
his colleagues were satisfied with the
practicability of the scheme, and Impressed
with the results which could
he achieved in restoring the rapidly
disappearing woodlands of the couu?
try.
A NEW YORK BANK FAILS.
riif Seventh NuHoiiul I'mtblf to Meet Ot>llcutlonH
sinil Controller's ltc(|iilrniiipnts.
New York City.?The Seventh Xn.ional
Rank has closed its tloors. Clearing
House othelitis do not predict that
it will resume business, its coutisel,
however, hints that it may be reorganized.
The bank received no comfort from
the Clearing House, and its plight
tame of Inability to settle a debit balance
there of $04-1.108.03. and to meet
the demands of its couutry correspondents
and the requirements of the Controller
of the Currency that cash be
substituted for the $1,000,000 of Martina
ltd & Co.'s paper.
There was Clearing House authority
for the statement that no weak spots
have so far been detected in any other
bank or financial institution. Officers
r>f several concerns supposed 1 > he
Identified with Seventh National interests
said that the failure had not
affected them.
r?ltur<> of Marcpinml ? f'n.
New York City.?The banking and
brokerage house of Henry Marquaud
iV: Co. has made a general assignment
without preferences to Frank Sullivan
Smith. The generally credited explanation
of the failure was the inability
of the firm to secure enough financial
support to take up its $1.G00,000 paper
at the Seventh National Bank. Assignee
Smith at once put an accountnut
i?t wnrb ti?o p 41
...... ..u . .... imi/nn U1 I lit" linil.
Ho said that ho ha<l no Idea yet as to
the aocuruoy of the report in hanking
circles. which placed the liabilities at
SO,000,000, outside of $2.000,0<H>. believed
to ho duo to Henry (J. Marriuaud,
father of lleury Marquand. of
the lirtn.
lour 1'emoim Drowned.
William K. Clarke, his two daughters,
Mary B., aged twelve, uud Frances
it., aged niue, and (jeorgc it.
itryan, the ten-year-old sou of Green
1 try an, were drowned at Nov Berne,
N. C. The party was out rowing opposite
the water Works when the boat
was swautped by the waves. Mr.
Clarke had at different limes been
State Senator, Representative, Deputy
Collector of Customs and Postmaster
of New Berne.
Parker tiet* Five Year* iu Prison.
Thomas O. Barker, who shot the
I lev. Julm Keller iu Arlington, N. J.,
was sentenced to live years Imprisonment
at hard labor.
Collected by the War Tain.
About $U00,000,(K Kl lias been collected
iu the past two years by tua spec.ul ,
war taxes.
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NO. I?.
STERNER SEX DOMINATES
Population of Seven States by Sex;
General Nativity and Color.
Morfi Men Titan Women in Alaltntn^
IAIntUu. Arlsona, Arknimitx. California,
Colorado tinil Connecticut.
"Washington. D. C.?The Census Thireau
has given out the first of a series
of eleven bulletins giving the population
by sex. general nativity and eolor
by groups of States and Territories.
The group just announced comprises.
Alabama. Alaska. Arizona. Arkansas.
| California. Colorado and Connecticut.
In all these males constitute the
larger percentage of the total population.
In Alaska, which shows >Jie lore
eat disproportion of the sexes, tlu?
males are nearly three-quarters, or Tl'.T
per cent., of the population; Arizona.
r?S.-l; California, 55.3, and Colorado.
54.7.
There Is only a slight excess of
males In Alabama and Arkansas,
while In Connecticut the population is
about evenly divided, the difference in
favor of the males being only Ids in
a total population in 1!HX) of 00S.42U.
The foreign born element constitutes
about one-fourth of the population of
California and Connecticut; not quite
one-fifth of Alaska and Arizona, ami
a little more than one-sixth of Colorado's
population. They constitute, however,
less than one per cent, in Alabama.
and a little over one per cent..
In Arkansas.
In Colorado and Connecticut ninetyeight
per cent, of the population is
white; California, almost ninety-five
per cent., the rest being mostly Chinese;
In Arizona, the colored, who are
principally Indians, constitute not
quite one-fourth of the total population;
while the colored clement In Arkansas,
being almost wholly persons
of negro descent, constitute twentyeight
per cent, of the population.
In Alabama the colored population is
fort\-tive per cent., and is practically
made up of persons of negro descent.
Of the population enumerated
lu Alaska, forty-eight per cent, are
white, the large colored element comprising
childly native ludiau tribes and
a few thousand Chinese.
Of 1he total population of Connecticut
in foreign white persons constitute
2?',.i per cent, and native white
persons of foreign percentage 31.1 per
cent., these two elements combined
representing very nearly three-fifths
of the entire population of the State.
These same two elements of the white
population constitute more than ouelialf
of the total population of California
In ISltK). about two-fifths of that ol
Colorado and Arizona, and ouo-tlfth
of that of Alaska.
The white population of Alabama
and Arkansas is composed principally
of native white persons of native parentage
and tills element in 1900 constitutes
08.4 per cent, of the total
population of Arkansas and 52.3 per
cent, of that of Alabama.
THE REV. JOSEPH COOK nr&n
Woil-Known Writer nixl Lecturer Sue#
cutnlm to llrlglit'D Disease.
Whitehall, X. V.?The Ilov. .Tosepli
Cook. of Ticonderopn. a prominent historical
writer, died of Brlpht's disease,
lie had for many years been widely.
known as a clerpyman, author and
leeturer.
For more than twenty yeaiv ltcv.
Mr. Cook was the principal of the
"Boston Monday lectures." lie was
born at Tieouderopa in 18i!S.
NEW YORK BANK IN TROUBLE.
Seventh National tV?? Eml>nrraSHfi<l l>\ a
Shortage of Nearly 81,000,000.
New York City.?The Seventh Xationai
Bank was embarrassed by a
slioriape (>f uearly $1,000,ti(K). President
William II. Kimball resipned as
a result of his bank's dillleultles.
The ohicials of the bank, in n fee
Rial statement, chared that the bank's
troubles were caused by rumors circulated
for stock jobbing purposes. But
President Kimball's resignation was
Accepted. K. It. Thomas was hastily
elected President lu Mr. Kimball's
a tead.
It was said that a stock brokerage
firm had been permitted to overdraw*
its account to an amount close to Rl.UOO.OOO.
The bank raised that amount
iu a few hours and the Clearing House
olhcially declared it "cleared."
Humors about the condition of the
Seventh National and other banks
caused a decided slump In the stock
market.
Kulchlc of an Artilleryman.
Joseph W. Ettinger, of the Nluth At
tlllery, stationed at Jackson Barracks, i
just below New Orleans, La., com- i
mittcd suicide by shooting himself. II<? j
was thirty-six years old. He served '
Lu the Philippines.
ratal Artillery Accident In KneUnd.
While artillery practice was iu progress
on the Isle of Wight the breech
of a twelve-pound ritle blew out, killing
Captain A. Le M. Bray, of the
Boyal Artillery, and one enlisted man
and wounding eight other men. three '
( f whom will die. Colonel A. J.
Nixon, It. A., was slightly wounded
by the explosion.
Colombia's One tVamlitp.
The steam yacht Numouna, formerly
of New Yuri; City, and now brlnngin?
to Colombia, le.t St. Thomas, 1 >. .
1., tor Colon, where she will be put
into commission.
Science 1.1 row trying to demor Wraf?
that a man can get on without a stomach,
hut it has not yet dosed ud any
restaurants
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