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FO VOL. X. ???? ~ . . .. *..! - i i iri LYNCHED BY MM y . * Three Negroes Killed in Reprisal Fcf a Girl's Murder. SEIZED MUSKETS FROM ARMORY The Town in llir If.iailo of mi Ariiu-1 Mo!> ? Frrntlril Over I lip !t!iirdpr < > I n fair]?Negro L'o;itiln1 Ion Flpil In A1! Dlrrrtlnnn ? Their House* , nn.l Hhhlle.l AVISJi liullot*. Pierce City. Mo.?For nearly fifteen lioura this town of 3000 people has boon in the hands of a moh of armed .whites, determined to drive every i negro from Its precincts. In addition to tlie lynching of William fJodley. no* cused of the wanton murder of Miss I Gazelle Wild and the shontin.c to death of his grandfather, French Godley, the nioh cremated Peter Hampton, an aged negro, iu his home, set the torch to the houses of five hlnehs, ami with the aid of State militia rifles:, stolen from the local company's arson:'!. drove dozens of negroes from town. Hceklcss firing broke several plat.? glass windows and a train was fired into. None of the passengers was hurt. The local hardware stores sold out their arms early. The mob was composed of a thousand or more, and 110 masks were worn. Thirty negro families were driven from theit houses. , noon the excitement died down, the mob gradually dispersing, more from lack of negroes upon whom to wreak their hatred than for any other cause, l'very negro has left tli? town except a few railwav nin-t.va known to lie respectable, but these nu'.st also leave. It is now h-lievod that the man, Willia-ui Codlo.v. lynched, was not tlu? real culprit. A negro named Stark, under arrest at Tulsa, Ind. Tor., across the border from here, tallied exactly with the description of the assailant. I He was held there awaiting ideutltlca'" Eugene Barrett, also known as Carter. in a confession while a rope was around his neck, accused doe Lark, a 'Pr^co railroad porter, of being implicated in the crime, and Lark was arrested at Springfield. latter Lark gave a detailed statement as to his whereabouts Sunday, and lie is not beOkiahonta City. Okla. Tor.?William Favors, the negro porter who is under arrest here, accused of the murder of Miss Wild at Fierce City. Mo., admits that h?> was in Fierce City on Sunday, but says lie can prove his Innocence by five men. He snvs he was at the station from l". 1?>. the time when the "boh" train returned front Monnctt, until after the llnding of the girl's I __ - J I.ToTftS Sii-jro Horned at tho Staler. Dallas. Tex.?Alf Wilder, a negro charged with the nuinlor of Mrs. Caldwell. a (Irayson County farmer's wife, was burned at the stake near lied NEW YORK POLICE UNDER FIRE. Three Tenderloin" Olllchila Held l'or Neglect of Duty. New York City.?As a result of the judicial inquiry being tarried tin by District-Attorney I'liilbin, Just lee .!ironi" and the olileers tif the Society for the Prevention of Crime Into the conduct of the l'oliee Department, warrants were issued for the avres{ of Wartltnan Clen.ion, Warduian Dwyer and Sergcnut Shields. All these were connected with the West Thirtieth street, or Tenderloin police sttition. and Shields was acting captain while Captain Flocd was ui> his vacation this summer. The warrants charge neglect o' duty, (flenimn and Dwyer were served with warrants. Sergeant Shields, hearing that a warrant had been issued for his arrest, surrendered himself to Justice Jerome, the warrants being signed by that .Magistrate. I nun nil* ri'porH'r that I the had dono his duty as a police otli cor ntul that ii' a warrant was out for liis arrest it was an outrage. Th?- three police officers were quiekJy arraigned before Just lee Jerome, wlio held tlleiuion in die sum of $:itIt?>. and 'lie others In 2?*20n0 each, .security heing i?t once furnished. EUROPE NEEDS AMERICAN WHEAT. ; Short a ije of 3(1S,000,(II)0 Runlinll to It# Miulr I p ill < lie L'nlteil States. in summing up the crop situation. The best authorities estimate the wheat crop of the United Kingdom nt .rHl.000,0O0 husli'ds; that of Franco at dOO.Oijp.oh i bushels; and the crops of Il.-lgtum anil Holland at iO.oODaxhl bushels, a total of 8t)tl,(HK),<KX) bushels , . . ,..n ill r,? * ' 1 B* Northwestern Kit rope, which needs hii^hch*. Aineriea, wil'.i liomc wnnts not exreeding lotUHtO.OOO bushels, has Oo.'.OiHt bt.shcls, and is. therefore, al.le to deal with the dciiclt single-hand* d. i^m.) Accused of Counterfeiting. Secret Service agents have arrested three men at San 1 rauclseo, Cat., ?<n t ie charge . ; passing notes printed front tin* stolen plates of the dclunct State liunk of New Hrunswlck. N. .1. They ate Frank J. l'erry. Win. It* gat; | H and K. \Y. Smith. retry gave the in I formation ou which liognu and emit it 50 /ere takeu. MT rri]he; r - N'. - - 3 >RT ? *i RUPTURE WITHTHE PORTE " Tho French Ambassador Breaks Ofl Diplomatic Relations. ?r. rnnifnn* Account tlio Sultan of T>n< plirttv?Turkish Ambian trior llomulii* in rarts at Ilia Tout. Constantinople. Turkey.?The French Ambassador. M. Constnns, lias given notice to tho Sultan's First Secretary that nil diplomatic relations between Km nee ami Turkey are t>roken off. an<l tlmt the Ambassador lias in formed liis Government to Mils effect. M. Constnns communicated direct with the Sultan because tlic latest no- , foliations wore transacted with the Sultan personally. , The Ambassador justified his action on the ground that the Sultnr. broke his direct, personal promise, given to j ; y. Cor.stans. at an audience in the Yihliz 1'alace, regarding tlte purchase of the quays and the settlement of i tlte disputed French claims. The Foreign Minister also gave formal assur- ] & ! I | ~1!TT, 1 . , 1 IIIi e ?'.. a-4 \X>TJfeS&Lu 1 - BfLTiX OX* TfRKET, (The French Ambus<ndor nccutas blot Of ' duplicity iu diplomatic negotiations.) 1 ; a noes that the agreement would ho enroled out. so. in view of this double f breach of faith. M. Coustnus holds ' thai it is impossible for Franco to " continue diplomatic relations with Turkey. FKKNCII STATIIMKXTOF TITII CASI\ Abdul ilatiiid Arrined of Duplicity in Dealing Willi M. Couatan?. I ' Paris, France.? A high official of ' the Forolgu Olliee said that the exact ^ situation at Constantinople is as follows: , The Sultan, at the last audience which he granted to M. Coustans, the French Ambassador, agreed to send < the la tier the same or on the folio wiug } day a document giving complete satisfaction to France regarding the I claims cf French citizens iu the mat1 ter of the quays, iu accordance with * the lories jrranged between the Sul- < tan and m. Coustans verbally. In- ' ] stead of doing this the Sultan sent M. I Coustans a document In which the 1 - tonus differed essentially front those ! arranged at the audience. Thereupon M. Constans declined to negotiate < any further or to hold other comniu- , nieatlons with the Porte, and referred the matter to the French For- < eign Ofllce. As the matter stands reeii.ons heitvoeii Ai. < 'oust.ins and the Porte are broken off, hut France and Turkey are still in diplomatic relations through the Turkish Ambntfsa- , dor :st Paris. I "If the Sultan does not keep |tlie promises which he made tit the last audience," continued the official, Mwe shall have to recall M. t'oustans and 1 send the Turkish AmhassnUor his psissports." I iteplying to a question, the Foreign Office official said: i "So raval action on the part of 1 France has yet been decided on. The : stories in the papers to the effect that French warships are under orders to ( he 1:1 t'cadim. ss to proceed to the llc>.spi.rus have n<> fouudati n in fact. Such ' a measure might, of course, become necessary, but that eventually litis I not yet been considered hv tn?? ii>nt??i. 1 - - v" . | (Jovcruuiuut." t Opinion in Uii^liliicton, Washing n. D. Tlio Franco ^ Turkish differences regarding th? ^ wharfage concession sir?? not regarded , lion? ;is evi'ii remotely threatening , war. M. t.'onstaus, the French Am|has>a<loi a. Constantinople. has taken ( a step similar to that of Andrew 1). White wln-ii ..1 mister to I'.-rllu during | tlie disputes with llisinarck concerning tiie Herman claim to require mill tary serviee from t!erumii? natural- t Ized as Amerienn citizens. A PHYSICIAN'S SACRIFICE. Dr. Knapji. of SI. (.outs, to vliui Itiir.^alf ' I |> Willi ? I-..." - St. Louis, Mo.?Dr. Louis Kunpp, aged forty, u practicing physician of tins oily, has given up hU wife and j four children and will isolate 111mself ^ from the world. He Is to nurse Dong ( (long, u Chinese leper, who was found here two weeks ago. The doctor, who ^ is a graduate >1 a Detroit medical I cftllwge, has taken tlual leave of his ! family. l>r Knnpp and his patient will live in a thrce-r ioiii l'raine lionse now being built hy tin- city authorities at quar- . antine until necessity for his service shall have muled. Dr. Knapi| will take Ids library to quorantine and will devote the greater part of ids roie to the study of leprosy. There were Ave 1 ether applicants for the position, ?* IL MIL JRT MILL, S. C., WE HIGH MARK JN PENSIONS Roll For the Past Year Largest in History of the Bureau. A Net Gain Over 1000 of 420G ? Totn) Dlnburscmcntu From JulyJ, 1700, to June 3t?, 1901, &2,703,350,033. "Washington, r>. C.?Commissioner' Leans has prepared a statement showing the operations in the principal features of (he Pension Bureau (luring the last fiscal year as compared with former years. The statement is prepared for the use of the National Encampment of the O. A. It., which will lie held before his annual report is ready. It shows that the number of pensioners on the rolls June .".0 last was '1)7.735, a net gain of 420(1 over last year. The total net loss to the roll .mi iu;-; lue year wan A comparative table shows that tho roll for the year just closed is the uliigli-water mark" in the history of the lY-uuion bureau, the next highest having been reached in 1 80S. The gnins to the roll since 1S9S were 13,93-1 widows of the t'ivil War and 5004 from the Spanish war; total, 18.93S. The total amount paid to pensioners as first payments on the allowanee of their claims in 11 .)1 was 99,1)34,7(51, or S10G.238 more than the first payments in 100b. This amount represents the arrears of pensions aggregating 075 claims allowed, to an average of nearly ?1500 each. The fees paid to attorneys amounted to ?591,243, an Increase of almost ?74,000, due to the Spanish war. The amount paid to pensioners under the general lnw during the year was ?37.SG7.233, a decrease of ?1,790,233 from tiie amount paid last year. The Spanish ynr pensioners received ?1,173,225, an increase over last year of ?842,320, and the pensioners under ihe act of 1890 as amended May o. 11)00, received $00,973,481, an increase over last year of ?1.207,402. The total dlsburai iuenis for pensions from .Inly 1, 1790. to .Tune :to of this *ear aggregate 82.703,350,033. 't?;ore were 45,800 claimants for pondons duHng the year. Tho pension oils still contain the names of one urvivor and 1527 widow.; on account >f the War of 1812,' 1080 survivors and l'-7!) widows on acc'tunt of Indian >vnre, and 75G8 survi\ rrg and 8109 ividows on account of tho Mexican ivar. The statement gives the following unr.ujits of money paid pensioner* 1 ruler different Administrations: President Grant's first term, 811C,130.275; average yearly, 829.031,0>'> I. I'resident Grant's scconu term, >111.303,88T; average yearly, $28,508.>39. President Hayes's adininist ration >11",322,189; average yearly, $38,330,122. Presidents Garfield and Arthur's tdminlstratlon, $237,823,070; average rearly. 830.456.2CS. President Cleveland's first term. >.'105,030,662: average yearly, $70,409.10*. President Harrison's administration, >519.707,720; average yearly, $129, 20.931. President Cleveland's second term, >557,930,407; average yearly, $139,487,102. President MeKinley's first term, ?500,000,547; average yearly, $110,KKM37. L0VE-MA<1NC ON A TRANSPORT. I'hlrtjr School Teacher Couple* Wethlei) at Honolulu?Goiisi; to ainnllii. Cnrhondtde. 111. ? The transport rhontns, which reached Honolulu havng on hoard 300 male teachers and I I ..1 C 1 ^ ' ... . .i ll#.iif icaciiRl's lor the l'liiliplines to engage in educational ser\ c.-s under the Tuf; Commission had i luatriraonial epidemic. The young ru n and women ou hoard represented ilmost the entire Union of States, having been appointed from the sev. 'al Normal schools in the countr.v. After the transport, left San Francisco friendships were formed which soon ripened into love, ami the day ! d'ore the arrival at Honolulu C.'upturn bnford found that thirty couples lesircd the nuptial knot tied. lie refused to permit the ceremony on hoard the vessel and the next ?lny it lergymnn at Honolulu 'made the thirty pairs happy by uniting tliem in matrimony. Prior to the sailing of Hie transport several other cases iv.-re reporte i. This Information reached this city through one of the young men vent from the Southern Illinois Normal University. (ILLED BY YELLOW F E V E rt TESTrtio E.ipnrlmonta Willi Mo.-.ciuiloci l?. Craie a* u Comcqucuce. Havana. Cuba. ? Chief Surgeon riavard announced that the cxperineats lu the Investigation ?> * tl. >roj>ajxation of yellow lever. so far ;.s these Involved the uoosquito test, will m discontinued. Tlio derision was akou btcatise one of tac non-iuunr.nes tvho was recently bitten by tin in 'feted mosquito died of yellow fever, i'he 111:1a tva3 a Spnnhird. t'e.-divd to aeeonie an immune, nnd therefore allowed bitrself to be bitt a by an infected mosquito. Atmtlrr i nin who ivns bitten Is also suffering from irery b;ul ease. AeeonlluK to Major Ifavanl. f 'ases duo to mosquito infection pri > to the latest two wcro light. but tl uattor 1 as assumed a more dan?, raus fcrtn than tte first cx peril teats l< d die Yellow Fever Coctniiisi^u to expect. ?Tr'- .. - I ar ( / ? L T DNESDAY,"AUGLFS7 2 IINOREVENTSBFTHEWEEK "WASHINGTON ITEMS. President. MoKluley issued n proclamation inviting nil the nations of the world to take part in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be held at St. Louis. President MeKinley pardoned Michael Parr, serving a two-year sentence for embezzling funds of Canton. Ohio. 11 v*tnt!ire. The Columbian Minister called at I lie State Department, and cave nnd received assurances re.cnrdins tho staio of affairs on tlio Isthmus of Panama. Eilward V. Sheparil, chief clerk In tho Patent Offlco. was illsmlssod becauso of irregular!! ies In his otlloo. Twolvo farms aro reported in Alaska hy tho Census Bureau in a bulletin. Secretary Hoy wont to Canton to soo President MoKinley about tho South and Central American troubles. on: Aoot'TKU islands. The transport Thomas, with six Iiunilrod teachers on board, arrived it Manila from San Francisco. The customs receipts In Cuba in 100(1 were Rl!t.b!)P.!)".'J, against S14,S."Vl,lHil for IS:IP. United States Judge Fstee decided that Chinese born in tho Hawaiian Islands are American citizens. Hay rum imported from Porto Bleu must pay a distiller spirits tax. The plan for a school at Tutuila, Samoa. was abandoned for the present because of lack of funds. It was dooiilod that ootToo may go from the Fa i tod States to Porto It loo free of duty. ^ ntlMKSTIC. Bir.'glavs dynamited t li ^ safe in Hit postoltioe at Petersburg. Tetin., and uot S::UH. The Iowa Democratic State Cmiv. ntioii nominated Thomas J. Phillips, >f Ottumwa, for (Inventor. ;ui<l adopt tVl n form realiirininj; ilit? national platform of the Kansas Pity National Convention. Miifth. '.v C. P. Harden prevented a reduction of Willis and averted a strike at I'ail lllvcr. Mass.. l>y buyhit; i > all reculars rt i; > an I a hals rents. Governor Loii-fitm r.mntl Mi i flppi's Treasury short niot.ojI. lb *a.ve tlio Treasure: an opportunity t< uako good the shortage ami it \va"on\ Wilbur 1*. Wakeninn. Appraiser of he Port of New York, discovered /urthrr irregularities in importations of Japanese silks. The battleship Iowa sailed from San Francisco for Panama. A Policy car at Chattnnoopn, Tetin., 31 rtick ami killed Lewis Meaehatn, aged 10b years. Mayor II. T. Dttnenn, of Lexington, Ky? deelared he could not stop gaiiihiliigr there. Two men wore killed and seven wounded hy the explosion of a shell i at Port lliley IJeservntion, Kansas. P.eeause she believed her doff had ceased to love her l>r. Sarah V. (Iroff. of Cincinnati, Ohio. shr>t the animal and eoiuiuiticd suicide. It was estimated that 11.000 immigrants have been smuggled through tile port of New York in violation of ' the laws within live years. A thief s cured $1t)0?) in iewels left l>v Mrs. J. 1-5. Huston, of Auburn. N. Y.. Sn her berth on a steamer at Skaiciiny. The new submarine torpedo boat Moei rsiii was lamu lie?l at Lewis .Vixen's yards, in Kli/.abethport, N. J. The pilot beat .Tamos (lordnn 1! a itett w;is run down and sunk by thf .steamship Aleiie, of the Hambuv^ American Line, off Sandy Hook, and three pilots and a steward perished. 1" 11 i i1 States Senator Fairbanks was slightly injured in a runaway at Minneapolis. Minn. Two persons wore killed by a trolley ear erashimj in.o a enrria re at l\ " sjiv ('it v. Mo. .i.ii.a V. 111:"IS, wmi rolioed liie Sepiy Company at Crockett, Cal., of over in inillioii, pleaded guilty, .Inlin T. Ilayden, secretary-treasurer ol director of Swift ?V- t'o.. at New York City, is missing and S'Jn.bOO short in his aeeounts. The first bale of South Carolina eotton. weighing 5-N pounds, reaelr <i I 'liarlesiuii, ; lid sold for ton ccuts u pound. FOKKIGN. A hurrieane in Sjiain caused sit deai lis and ihe loss of a lr.rgc ainnuir of properly. Advices from Japan say that an eari.v nr. .'i; ii|? <>i ; lie t :: i n net, title Ii. internal dissension. is likely. (Iriji'i'.i' IT. O. .Jeffries. of tin* Colombian army, believed that then* would no war between thai country and Veno/.ttiJa. I'iiJt* ii persons were drowned l>y tie' lp-izitiji of a vessel at Troj;uie.\ l-'rance. There were . ovt n eases of yellow fever at I'orl l.Imon, Costa lliea. TI. Chile-,11 < aoinet resigned lieeause tlie Chamber of Deputies voted entrary to the ideas of the (Jovcrn-1 : in r--. a; ding national defense. A s -vere gale did damage in several Wi" lie];;.11 islands. Several news;inpers in Itussin oxpt" sciI their approval of a eousnieri ial nil!:itiep I t", ween Itussia and Vni. ricu against the proposed tlertuan tariff. IMES 8, 1901. I o ARP ON OLD FRIENDS Bill Says lie Receives Letters From Old Men. KNEW EACH OTHER LONG AGO Likes '.lie Letters nnd Tries to Answer Them? Rheumatism in Arm Crcmps Kls Replies. They are not all ilcatl. In fact, they seem to multiply as the years roll on? my contemporaries. 1 mean. 1 receive more letters from olil men than I ever ili.l. and they write well and give long epistles. When a man gets along in the seventies he feels lonesome, notwithstanding the near presence of children and grnndchildrch. The companions of his youth are gone, and so some of these old men unbosom themselves to me for sympathy. I like such letters and try to answer them all, hut rheumatism in my arms and hands cramps nty replies. One old gentleman from Alabama says he feels better after he has written, for he is a native Georgian and loves her people and her old red hills and the sweet memories of | Ihnory college and his visits to Ath ns. I when his uncle Klizar Newton lived. ' md he met me there in the forties. J md John Grant and Dan Hughes and Jack Brown and Billy Williams, who J married my friend's cometi and took barge of the blind asylum and how he heard Dr. Church preach and was charmed with the music of the choir where Miss Ann Waddell and Rosa j Cringle and other pretty girls snug, j ' tnd how a tall, long, high man. with a big hooked nose and a huge "pomum , \damus" on his throat, sang base, anil how lie was a roommate of Tom Norwood at Kmory and a classmate of Bishop Key and Judge A. B. I.ong!'treet. the author of "Georgia Scenes," was the president: and how lie roniov- I : to vi lloma in IMP ;>n l married an I | '..is si veil daughters and no sons an i . us ti n orphan grandchildren, and lias | [to work early and late to support and' | ilu ate them, but never so. s and rare- I ! y luais from any friend of his youth ] I .ml is at times sad and depressed and j 'tones for sympathy. Poor old man. i wisii that lm lived near me, for I ] would visit him and cheer liini up. and , .11 him anecdol s and antidotes, and we w ntld t ilk over the times and swap ' 'olleeo '.oi s and lu ag :it> ?ut the g n il ild days when there were n ? tele- j ( .'ranks or t- lephom s or bicycles.an 1 w e iid not want any; no sowing ma h.n ? ' ir store clot lies, and we didn't mod my; no football or baseball or hazing ' ' ?.? dni.?i<^<2 ?\?* -i Miiomii'. * ~~ - ..... unit ma. .\im in ' hose Mays iMiiip Toombs ami Stephens ' : ind Ju.1l' 1 loug.ierty anil Unwell Cobb I ami Walter Colquitt ami spake to tli* ' people face to face, and sin h eloquent men as (Jenrso Poarceo and Bishop j .'apers and Jesse M"reer and Dr. lloyt ind Colliding and Ingles preached to theni. Ves, we would t;lk about the 1 j lays of our boyhood, when there w;u j no gas or kerosine or friction matches ? nothing hut candles to Rive us light. ' and no Prometheus to steal Are from ' heaven to licht them with. Shakespeare knew how it was. for ho wrote; ' "How far that little eandle throws its i beams! So shines a Rood deed In a naughty 1 world." If Shakespeare wrote by randl light, why shouldn't we? And he, too, us d , th" Hint and steel to make a spar! to light them. "Pick your ft 1 lit and keep your powder dry" was (3cner.il Jackson's nrd r to Now Orleans. When 1 was a young merchant gun-flints were as i onimon as marbles, and 1 s dd them at the eiiiio price 1<? cents a do-en. Wonderful, wonderful are the cbatig s. and we old people fall in with tli at and adapt them to our in-" and our i ir.ifort. I wouldn't be s t h.e k to tin I it , i .. : r i i * 1 ' 'I 'II (III! > . I I * ' J. J, I I I I I 1 Y\ ? / til <*n. >y seeing this generation all set back about seventy years, just fur about a vvci k. .Vy A! sbam.i fri-id an I other veterans would lie tickled to (' nth to see the r.niv rsnl dismay- no railroads or telegraph. no mail bur once a week?and cents for a s'n l 1 it. No ?Ini 1 v n -wspapers in the state and only fo r weeklies, with : 1 sensations, no suicides or lym-hings There would he no cooking stoves, n coal, no steel jions or < nvelopes. no! cigarettes. No millionaires or free n.g I gers. 1 renunib r v."hen cotton was packed in round bales with a crowbar ' The Ions has was made first and was suspende 1 from a hole in the sin ' house fir a* and Undo Jacl; sot down in it and packed the cotton hard a i* ! was thrown to him. He packed tw< bal s a tla^ ?.'id they weighed lOf j pounds each. Two of them filled tho bed of the bis v;ason and five more were crossed on top and fastened down i with a lens pole. All the little spaces j were filled with eorn and fodder, the i big cover put on ami with a four or six-horse t?am we worn off f >r Augusta. It was a ten-day's trip and wo hoys wore happy to go along and camp out all nig* t and listen to the nigger dri vers ton about ghosts and Jaek-o'l.antorns and witches and raw heal and Id >ody born s. It wat gr. .it fun. We brought back sugar and molasses in groat hogsheads. It was brown sugar, for white sugar wasn't Invented, except a failed loaf sugar, which was put up in five-pound cones and , covered with blue paper. That kind j was t'ur rich folks aud was very prcc- ! r NO. 24. f " iotls. It was crystallized like these . tie square lumps that are common now. When our mother would unwrap the loaf she would let us children lick the sweet white tissue paper that was next to the sugar. It was good. Most anything was good then. A stick of striped candy was a rare treat. So was half an orange, or a bunch of "reesins." its the niggers called them. Most anything was good then, for our appetite had not been surfeited with cakes and sweetmeats, as titty are now. We loved sassafras root and angelica and sugar berries and locusts and wild cherries and the inside bark of chee#nut trees and slippery elm. We were always hungry and hunting for something.- My Alabama friend is sad. not only because he has lost his youthful companions. but his youthful appetite. Even ginger cakes have lost their relish and a gaino of sweepstakes and town hall and hull-pen their fascination. I envy the happy children as they play around me. but 1 am happy, too, in trying t,.? make them happy, for 1 know that there is trouble enough ahead of them, for man that is h.?rn ?>f .1 woman is of few days and full of trouble. The best we can do is to do the best wc can to fortify against it and t ike the had with lite good. Try to be calm and serene, for life Is full of blessings and we should school ourselves to magnify them and ho thankful. 1 have not forgotten the poor little hoy who slept under the straw, and one cold windy night his mother laid an old door on straw to hold it down, and he said. "Mother, 1 reckon there are some little boys who havent got any door to put over them." It is a good way for us to think about those who are worse off then we are, and toy Alabama frlen 1 knows there are thousands of them. lint I must stop, for it is hard to write a ? !'.< rfnl letter these gloomy days. The weather i? depressing an 1 that helps my Alabama friend t .> feel sad. Coho says that a long wot tain is worse on a man than a long dry drought. Wo have not seen the blessed sunshine for four long days and the wind has blown down mv nrc'ty buUcr bean arbor Hat to the grojnd. -Bill 4rp in Atlanta Constitution. COMFORT FROM ELECTRICITY. How Croatly it /id; Vlon to Enduro tho Heated Term's Agonies. Ti.c lint w. dii r. to equal which in iiUcn-ity the met; iologn.il authorities liavc had to go hack thirty years, had many mitigations that were not available to the la t g.iteration; and they were largely < ! an electrical nature. |.\.r ..v !.? telephone, uiul>litin iiH'ii to sii in their iliices or country homos and transact >ti-in ^ at a distance witliout any nc rossiiv t<> trudge the Saharan streets. I In v -ay the ordeal i- a trying one at >uch -i a on, to tlie little telephone girl, nit -he does lu i work hravely and well, l inn there is the fan motor, bringing "sea breezes" into the hottest building. I heir | polarity wa, Immense as t relief to weary pe pie, and the market was soon swept hare of them. We have heard of one society woman who, with a number of her family under the weather, went to an electrical store and. being told all the fans in sight, were sold, laid violent hands 011 one and refund to he comforted until she was allows >1 to carry 11 away in perspiring triumph in her carriage. As for the electric light, that has long been a familiar boon, but one needs to get out in the country <>r Ty the scaside, where > nly oil lamps and candles arc available, t > realize > nc? more how grateful and cool tiie little incandescent lamp is. Moreover, in town the ice cream free/ei >>r the ehctrie stove c;m he run fr?>:n the suite circuit as the lamp, lull i;i tlie In?li lay v. < 'rutc force and fir a- 11 aic di .agreeably ncce ary. I In u nd 1 is that electricity is -til! ij lnilt known anil u id outside tin towns and cities. It i- most lie d. d b;. th 1 i waves and amid tin- e. rn'a-ltls and potato patches. i'crliaps llie biggc t electric boon of all in tn li <. a! mini; weather as tlnit which has hull the subject of so much flattering comment recently is the trolley ear. All the street railway coinI an es report a hit-;, time, and tlu ir employees were worked to tl'.c point of rxhau tion. Any cttr?ory glance at the ears will -how that tTie travel is i|ttite largely of a recreative character, especially in the hot nights, when entire families with the late-t ailing little baby 1 loard the cars t<? go for a fifteentnile swift criti- for live cents a head? for the adults. The -ick man docs not ji w take up his hed and walk. Tic gets rein f tin- e stttnttier nights by jumping on the fir-t trolley car and leaving his l?ed In-hind hint. l ite trolley car thus ., does on ma e t r the suffering population that which electricity does more ii. hvidually f- r timber- of the community wh can each pay for a teleph'?n< . a lamp, a 'ail motor. anil a freezer t r them-elvi . f?reat indeed h cUctriiity in tin* ?!ays! < o i, j nil i ln>:*n Nffilnd, A < .1 ' I .. < < .< ;> >nil? lit. Kt'.ltes i .1 t .i i ' ;tj ' a- exhibited of ' 1 from the i! 1' i recently ills! .;i N ?.<! .1. The ? on 1 i< < on: . . ?1 v to Northum ?m. - V* . in 1 s; nt to tbfc i' v ri-altiirnl Society to . : .... > in S ookholuj and v*. / t ; i :< i ? <! I . it tiie r.rw / : ? .1 s ::t any rate, / J-r !o 1 inirro -s. J