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FORT MILL TIMES. 1 VOL. X. FORT MILL, S. L'? WEDNESDAY; JANUARY 15, 1902. NO. 43 1 TRAINS teffl III TUNNEL < 'About Fifty Persons Klled and Iniurcd in New York Ciiy. P |1 LOCOMOTIVE B'J.IIED IN A CAT ! I Ou? Train Ila.tlii'i Tnlo lite Kaar-Tlnii ??f t Another Crou.icil Willi V'a'Hanir.MR In I t this Now ' oil; Central Cailrnail fun- , I C nei ? Kn "hirer S-'ail* to Veu s ? I . Onic'i \? ??rk o? 'Ii'sciic, New York City. ? Fifteen persona t were killed nntl two score severely in- i Jurod as a re.Milt of it icnr-end colli- ; ;; Sio:i in the south end of the i New York Central tunnel at Filly- | 1 eighth street. Tiie South Norv.ail; lo- , i ' cal. tine here :;t S.17 a. in., stopped just ( after emerging from the tunnel, to t; Jet nnoiher train he switcher. The s While Plains loeai, due here at S. i."? a. ' m., crashed into it from behind. The White Plains engine crushed its way t through liaii" the length of the rear :l ear. Beneath 'he tremendous weight . of the online many passengers were | j trapped and scalded to d:ath hy es- : 1 caphig steam in t!i -? darkness of the j tunnel. Unaccountable blunder of hii * engineer, who disregarded signals. I which lie says he did not see. are held | to he responsible l'or the accident?the I worst railroad disaster that ever oc- i s curved on Manhattan Island. The list, of the dead is as follows: FT. Franklin Crosby, of Now ltoahelle; 1 il. <1. Oimo;i. of Now llochcllo; \\ ill- ^ Jam Forbes, of Now Itociielle: Theodore . ftjaardo, of Now llocholle; B. 1>. C, j , Foskett, of Now Urn-hello; 1>. <\ Hinsdale. or Now Keelo'llo; Mrs. A. 1\ How- ' nnl, of Now Iloehelle; William How- | nnl, of Now Itochollc; William I.ovs. of Now llochello; Charles li. Mars, of , Now llochcllo: A. Edward Hunt Mills, 1 1 of Now llocUolle; Oscar W. Moyrnwi'z. 11 op.ioinu and jeweler in Now York, and J1 residence in N?-w lloohollo; A. M. Per- ,l rin, of Now llochelle: Prank Wash- " burn, of New lloohollo; Eruost P. Wal- . * ton. of New Rochclle. ! R When the crash canto a wild rush ^ was made la set out of tlio cars by the c uninjured and nton and woman fought tJ to get through tlio doors. Some climbed ? through the windows, heedless of lu-o- " ken glass, and all see mod to have lost 1 their heads. Women fainted from the 11 shock and had to he carried out of the ^ cars. The crash of the collision and I hiss of escaping steam added to the'? panic. The splintered glass and wood r J tell In showers about the cars, and the ^ Uiinttl woo f'.m'gnil ??%.! * . ..mix * ? mi v \ ? n mm r? iVil ill M AMI wnokc. The debris of l li r? wrecked | ? ears was scattered over tlie tracks, 1 md In the first moments of panic those J! Vho managed to sot out of the oars , * * did not know where to so. Many who wore injured made their way through the tunnels to tJio stairways liolow the south end: some walked to the Grand j; lentrnl station. | n Most of tlie dead had been killed in- u 'tnntly. though a few died shortly nfrward. Home wore taken from the " ur windows in a dying condition and the most powerful stimulants adminis- !a tered, lml of no avail. The wounded j were removed to various hospitals, and the pressure at some of tlirni was ' , ro great that extra surgical help had Jo l?e summoned. The survivors rushed to telegraph s'at ions to inform their ^ families of their safely. These messages of safety wore the lirst of any sort relating to the w.cck to reach New Rochc'.ie. tlie home of most of the i sufferers. Very soon afterward tlie station was crowded wilii inquirers, , many of tliom hysterical. Some one who witnessed tlie coition tuvnrd In a lire alarm. Tlie firemen made record time in respond- i lag, but it was an hour before the tlrst I Corson was fivttn Itm n-rnft: #ri'?> wreekage :iud debris clicked t lie tunnel. Tin- only way to {jet at the Injured was thron-fli tbe air holes. Firemen. climbhic: down ladders with their axes, holes in the car roofs and dravsod otit the living and dead. Ropes had to he passed around the bodies of 111 tn. of the injured to raise litem.. Cornelius Vanderbllt was one of the first to ivneh the wreck. lie attempted to eihnh down a ladder into the tunnel, but a pahceninn stopped hint, ami he walked away without 1 lolling the policeman who lie was. "This is terrible?terrible!" he cried. ^ Of all the h: roes of the wreck the I chief is lVtir Murphy, l'.inud under 1 fei oilier victims ilm thcnicn told 1 11':.i Ihe.v < ,iiid set liim out without J oripplinf ti: others. * "Ail rl^ht." lie said, "save tlrm first." 1 It was half n:i hour before ho was extricated. Coroner Schooler arrived to make an "nvoxtirtatlon early in til day, and lie f h'dd a sort of preliiiiinary inquest in . ( the station house. lie and District At- L \> v.oy Jeroni oxaminid the cnvi.ie ! | erew and the signal man. Mutineer i, Wiskar was held for the Crantl .lury li without ball, an 1 Hi ' fireman was re- |( loused under S"('ift ball. The signal man was discharged. Ten years a era a casualty of a somewhat similar character, though far less calamitous in Its results, was followed ' by the Indictment of the higher ?>tii- 1 oi.ils of the company Involved. The *llmly lighted. mist n.aly ventilated 1 ?'ontrnl Itailroad tunnel has lieen a ! menace and a scandal for years, rub- J lie spirited men have predicted .iust ' f vji-li a horror as now has happened as a result of the volumes of coal smoke nr.d steam that choke the tunnel , during the incessant passage of Inconi- ' Jug and outgoing trains, obscuring In a* ( jnisiy vapor aft cautionary lights audi1 block signals. ' s }UR TOTAL POPULATION noluding- tli9 Now Possessions, It Was ST233.CC9 in 100L t Is the Fourth 1.:ir;;e*t Aiuoti~ the l'uwi r.i-ll:i? Increased Sixteen 1'olil.tn a Century. Y.'r.sli'r-rtnn, D. C?The Census Jin eau has issued a icpjit announcing lia; the i>u:?ulaiii u ni" the entire Unit u i*u\a , iiuaunii'* :m outlying pos,. >sn.v.us iii.'t i.t in the ciu.M'.s * ill* VJbJ. This is i.emizcd us fulu\vi: (Aonln r.tal United Stater, or United 5i;U.s piui r, To,DDI,575, as before atimmuvii; Tailipp.ues, being h.' isiima.e toe t.iaikticlan to il. thdipplue Coiuuais>.oii; 1'ni'io ltico, Hawaii, loi.uni; Alaska, 05,- i it)-: liuuui, tl.American Samoa. j tiOU; persons .a . military and naval ei'Vife oi liie i .'i.iil Ma. \s outside .1 the territory u. United JS.a.es roper, t)l,-it). 'j in; report announces that the v.vilth ccusus only cau-uued to Alasaa ind Hawaii cuts do ni "Continental lined States.' hui I hat the ligurcs or tin; rest of tha Unii.il States ?5oiiain are tauen from tin; host avaiiab.e vsouices*. These ligures are b::?cil on the cmim ratiou o. June 1, i; Ub. The report ays: *A census of the Philippine Islands vns in progress in IN).; wiien the in- ' Ui.ceihai uroke oiu, ami mums tor 1 ver two-iiitlis of the population were oiiutl stored in .Mauiia. These were arctuliy tabulated, aud tile .orcgoing stiuiate is onstd upou the result. 'l'ue inures for i'orio Kico are vaaeu from iie census of lSUD, made l y the War tepariuieut in eousultaiiou with tiie ensus otliee. The ligurcs for Hawaii ml Alaska and lor persons abroad in u the mili.arv and naval > rvice are roui the lesuii? of the vvre'.Iili eeusus. 'hose from i.uani are an estimate nade iu a report of the War Deparliciu. ami those irom American Samoa n estimate reported to the census nice by the Acting Secretary of the tavy. "Tiie total popalatli n of the United limes at the co se of the nineteenth entury was about eiglny-four and a j uarier mlili his. As the population f the United States at the beginning ! f tiie eentury was about live aud a Him uuiiiuus, iiic Nation has grown learly t.::;ee:? lcld in cue hundred ea rs. "There are but three countries which i tow have a greater population that i he United States, \ .a., China, the Brltsit Empire and the Kusshm. Empire. ! 'ranee, iuciudlug its deprutlcncles, is ha fourth country of the world in crier of population, and lias about a'.nosl tiie same uumher us the United dates." Permanent Ceium* Iturunu Favored. Washington, i>. C ?The House Comnittee i n Census has ordered a favor- j hie report on the bill creating a perjnnent Census Eureuu. " PROMINENT POLITICIAN DEAD. i I'MiVlljr l ijuro nt National ltrpublltun Convention*. Milwaukee, Wis.?Ccorpe X. Wis well, 'resilient of the Milwaukee l.ife Inttrar.ee Company, died after a three reeks' illness, ay.d lifty years. \f? W!..,. a > Mionv ii .43 U C'll UUOWII I* ^v ' i OI OKOK U. WISWFT.Tw livotv'Iiout the country, lutvinjr served is Serpennl-at-Anns at the National Ippuhlicnii Convention in I'hilmlcin'.ila wo >oars a\-o, and as Assistant S-t- \ ;eant-nt Arms at 1 lie* Chicago. Mia- | icapoli;; anil St. l.ouis Conventions, ilo y rved as United States Marshal >f the Eastern District of Wisconsin tnder President Harrison. Coat I limine Tbrmtrn* riilla.lflpliin, Philadelphia and places Kuppliiil 'rout that port nro threatened with a oal famine, principally dim to the hnrt;i';e of cats and motive pow? r. 'ric.-s have been advanced twentyive cents a ton. Several factory plants tave horn compelled to close on ac:ount of inability to secure coal. Wlir.t .".nil t'luiir -Iii Tiie shipmnts o.' wh at and Hour :o far this season have exceeded all ?i. ? i i i or in.1 tax 11:011; i;s mini with Deci'inl) r the a^givyjaie < ions were 1-13.(XKM)0.? bushels, a eoai aratlve train over the lirsi halt*, of lie previous crop year oZ ou.ouu.ouu jushols. Carnp|;lo (trunli Itnllnf to Tenant*. In the reivin rent collections oil the >k'.uo Castle estate iu Sco.laml Andrew .'a.*nesle remitted from twenty to we vy-livc per '^at. oi' the mn-ums Jue A 6RIEF-STRICKEN TOWN, Vic'.ims of Rai'way Tunnel Disaster Lived in New Rochelle, N. Y. HEARTRENDING SCENES ENACTED Intm*o When Nrvn of ilm ' Acetdont W?? Rw veil ? Ititllcnntlon r-t . Citizen* nt lit* Culpability of t!ir Hailwny Ofllciitl* Gxprrsnrit :it:? ll.n? M i elliiC?Stirburb.vn T#w?b Aroimeil. Now TtocheTle, N. V.?Perhaps aft"T | all the jtreac >i sufferim; occasioned! by (he tiayedy ia the Vntral tunioi J was born in ibis litsIt* pwvu wir re live i the friends anil loved <:iC3 of alnost , every victim. There is scarcely a street ; In the place 011 which at least one fam- j Uy is not either monrnlu? for nr. dead 1 or ministering to the wants of tl.e in- ' Jtircil. On the day of the accident husii es?; was almost entirely suspended and | excitement, suspense and despair alternated amor." the people. Tile stores and shoos were tilled with trrorx ?>; men telling anecdotes ahout frier.ds ami neighbors who hml been killed. mif! SntM'lllflflMr' pnnn life of those who had been maimed. At the telephone exchange 1101 and women for a t'me fairly fought for pieces at the telephones hi search of Information. The**e was hvstorlonl laughter at tY? receipt of reassuring news and sounds of grief from time to time. At th? rallroa 1 station, vl ere the telegraph oflre is Watel. there were rracicd throughout llm day ; henrtreud'np semes. It was nit until tin* foVnwitig dav ! that this grief-siileken ohv recovered ; soniewiiat from the mralyr.ir.jr shock j of the disaster a id levin t>> awaken to a sense o" Intense indignation. ,\s the harvest of death penned In the hole* ! under the New York City streets was slowly garnered in the home of Nov Koeheile, thr towrsi iei of the deal j and the maimed began to ask each | other rot how tit's thing occurred, but why. This was the burdcu of the con- j ! versa fir *.i in many places throughout the city, r.ud even among those who stood a*;~vt the station platform with raised hats, as from the baggage cars of ve.rlors trains were taken .he co tins ! | containing the victims. These smol dering tires of iiulicr nation and wratli broke Into blaze when twenty prominent professional and business men met at the home of former Mayor | Michael -T. Pillrn. and Issued a notice j ! .. r..JI ?> , v. . lritiuM' K M jiipenu^ in uiK * whatever no.1 ion was deemed ndvi?nj hie. and to nnpolni a number of coin! mUiees Jo brinsf about 01100 and for all time snob a svsteru of railway faoill i ties as will safesrrnrrt the lives of those ' w">n are obliged to travel every day. I The feelIr.5 In New Rocliello has spread throughout Westchester Cotui- | j tv. and Mayor Clarke has received a | letter from Mayor FIsko, oi* Mor.nl Vernon, who afior expressing syri- . pnthv wllli the citizens of New Tto- I ehelle hi their bereaveiucnl. "sked Mayor Clarice i-' l:e would take pre. in a concerted movemei arum: the cities and lowr.s o' Wes'ro ester County In de.uam'Ie the ah. IiF.on of steam | iu nil lo. a.l traffic through Hie tunnel and the snbsiMuinn o* e'.eetr'.e n dor i ? ?-* ? it o'er vie lighting tlm-o'n | Mayor Fihk-- sent a icixer ro Mayor ' ' Walsh, cT vi-n. ' ; . :'net for or-opI crat'cih and it is believed that every ! town in the < oiri.y will join in the . i movenirn . j New York City.?District Attorney ' Jerome and yenre*cntativrs of the . State Kniivnad ( < . liii-sion have mad I a sen" hinc iuves Urnticn of the causes of (h.r Nf\v York Ci lurol tr.nuel lior or. Tli? results will lie u.ilized at the Cor- j tier's Inoucst. t has hem dw eloped that John M. deer, the engine driver, now barrel Si the Tombs, lias been li ^ d on'y sluce las. August, and had i r. made the south tnurd run through . I the tunnel twice before the disaster. 1 As a loeeinoiive fireninn his record is , pood. Ho is a mouther of a MetJodi*t 1 ehurc-h In Hip T?r< ;tx. and his wis tor. his laidlord and liis neighbors all s]> ai. hl-r'dy of him. Fis.riet Attorney .Toronto. nf.or ? c nntin'np ail lit" train hands involved f ox?opl the ( " driver. ::nnr. :n -d . thai h!r fa would lie pro Penh. d ar- I losslv. and thai i idiotiitt n's won! i he 1 . Ror dtt wherever top yniv deserved. j i Tho oUleers and dim-tors of th" N-w | i Ttrk rnl Ilni'.ro.ad iav hp i : : j rd for n anslnnphtp.-, as they lp: -red ' present r.ruts hy lit:- (.'rand .Ttrry and , l?y the iip\v?p."i rrs as to tin* lack of j vpnldalion and lipht In tho tunne'. I It is pre. h able tlint Mayor l,o-.v. ! hack pel hy 1'resident Canto- and r"\r* ' Hoard of Alder in n. may take carit > I slwi to compel lit.- adoption of oioc- j tvh-ity as tlm motive power in .he Nov > i York Cciiii-al I trine!, j Dnirttw suits approratinp more than s1.ut.o;m> are fxiv.ed to grew oat of Hip tunnel ontasirophe. '<"no Now ! York Central, it is exftecu-tl. will linvo I j to nay iuvpeusc sums to the amiHos | i of those who were killed r.nd to the I | many who were seriou-ly hart It 1 feared that a nitmher of fno ini tired I will in- crippled for lif.- and tk"*?- tin- j fort turn tea will demand extra heavy j damages. I I .j * ?.r.l lfi?n 11 runn it. f? l\ rmr : 'i m !i? atomiser F.ristoi. oiio of t >i old > rsi farriers of ?Ijo Pacific const. lies ] r. :il wreck 011 Sl:(? r nd of -n Wlnn-7 1 15. rnd Iter enpliln. Willi six 1?:t | Iters of l't.? crew, lias In mi drown . The vessel was on Iwr e ar from 1 . dy ] fiinllli. Vancouver Island, 'o the Tre.nl ' well toil >. on Douglass island, Alaska, with 2.100 tons ol ooa!. 1IN0R EVEmOF THEWEEK 1VAS?llM;H)N ITKMR. President lieo.? volt or.!i",i'il on Investigation of former Appraiser Wakemnn's charges of silk frauds at tile port of New York. President iloosovelt accented t Iio resignations of So -rotary tl;i;c and Pos t in no ter-CI 0:1 era 1 Smith. In tiu* last si*; mouths of Ifl.I1 the T'.ureau of \av -atiou r? gistered 717 rigged vessels o." Ki4.07il gross ions. The Slate of Minnesota llK*tl in the United States isunren Court a l>ill o? complaint against the Northern Pacitie-(4reat Northern mrrg. r. President llooseve] t appointed tiie International Faulting Corporation as liscal as'-nt of the l.'uiteU States iu Shanghai. Chhi.t. A new node < i law? went into effect 1 Iu the District of Columbia. orr. ADiit'Tta) ist.axhs. A fund of Sl in.oa.) will he ashed for by Itov. Charles II. Front, lijiiseooal Pdshop of the Philippines, to endow hi3 new jurisdiction. A decision to remove troops front IVacaeay brought out a protest from citizens of Manila. P. I. American deserters Issued a proclamation inviting their former comrades to join the Filipino insurgents. Major William tlorgns. surgeon, TI. S. A., was ordered to assume the duties r>r riit?r sam.?i>.. i m?nt of Cuba. relieving LieutenantOolcJcl Valcry Jlnvnrd. DOMESTIC. Cursing everybody within hearing, John Ilobinson. colored. was hanged at Dublin. Ca.. for murder. John D. Rockefeller extended until April 1 tlie time in which itarnard Collego, at New York City, can raise KJOO,000 to secure an equal sum from hlni. Too much illuminating pas killed Thomas Reane.v and Thomas Morau, follow -lodgers, in New York City. The sperm oil market at New Redford. Mass.. was sold out. with n.? prospect of immediate restocking. While at lunch Harry (fold berg. of New York City, had his store rilled of $1000 worth of diamonds and watches. Heirs of Absalom Case are preparing to sue the city of Cleveland. Ohio, for an estate said to he worth from $'J0,OOO.DOO ?o ?10.0()0t000. Three trainmen were killed at Tic?;, CJa.. l?y a collision on the Southern Railway. Miss Hnnnali IT. Coggim*. an artist, said to have pvomiucnt relatives In Philadelphia, committed suicide at New York City. Dr. Nicholas Murray Duller was elected President of Columbia Cnivorsit.v, at New York City, to succeed Seth Low. wiin wcneral Patrick A. Collins* s in nmrurntion as Mayor, the Democrats assumed control of munleinal affairs at Itoston. Mass. About 100 families mound Cliattano(i;':i, Tenn., were driven from their homos by high wa^cr in the river. I Seven Crow Indians will ask the (iovcrnment for compensation for ponies lost while reselling two white women from Sioux Indians in the Da* kotas. When Ids wife refused to return home Willi hit i. Ii< my Albert, of ciii- , cago. killed lor and then himself. Mm. .Mary Eska illed at Xnnnef, V. \ V. She and In r husband. though living in the same h >uso. hail not spoken to cadi other for thirty years. During the San Francisco Mint converted $3i,07.t,.T.)S from bullion into j coin. Governor Crane to the oath of ' otliee as (Invcrnor for the third time , nt Boston, Mass. Tlie failed First National Ilanl: nt Austin. Tex., was authorized to resume business. roi: Ki on. Colombia ropbed to President Castro, of Ver.c7.te la. that his grievances are not founded upon fact. London is rapidly being converted into a tint dwelling city, on the New York system. Questions of precedence arc occupying inneli nttenlb n in Loudon with re gord to the com.ng coronation procession. The military reserves are being mohllized in the northwestern province* ! of Argentiua. I'.Vitish troops near rdoenifontein. South Africa, kdied eleven and cap in in mv ir.cn oi' <t liocr cum :u:nnlo. A <-enii:in navni oon^truoto.. sent to the 1 iiitr.l Sin!' ^ I?y the merlin* s'.tf.'. highly praises the sliiuituihliu% methods employed in Amorh a. Marconi wirele.-s .111:1! station* v.ii! ho established on liulii liou.-<'s olf t ii<* west cons: ik' Scotland. A mov. nn mi i-; oil Toot In Livorp >ol I'llvl:iml. lo replace foreign sailors .i: tlx* meridian*. marine by native tni-*. Tlie killi> ?? of n yonn,' student at Jena In a dm 1 by ail ollieer who was 1111 ( nport pistol >hoi caused a sensation in Cerinar.y. i V1 no'/.Ufla wa Invaded by an anneal band of insure nis. loaded by tienernl It. va. and' landed by the I.ibo::ado:\ J from V. illemstad. lteeau e of its persistent attacks on the Queen Itocrcm n? Spain the Madriil LI Pais was susp - tided, i Kins Kdwavtl conferred the Order of Kn ulis itrnnd Cro.-s of the Hath upon Marquis lit., forme;* Premier of Japan. | From Junc'iiO !o Iiecember til. 15)01, ll'.JJ Honrs wire killed, SYU were wounded, 7.">'J3 were captured and 15)1- j burrendcred. BILL ARP'S LETTER Bartow Philosopher \V? iles of Various Tilings. WARS AND It'MORS CF WA7S. Our Hffort lo Sul'jlu ::*t- the rilipl iu?s Has Brought L).-cp Sorrow to J Many Honiss. Not counting tlic cr<nt C:vil War < r forty years ago, this last year of IS01 was the most l>Io : 'y ami lUsas.raas of i any in my rr olir- ; >n. Over -50.< 0(1 of i our soldiers died in the l'hilippin s j most of them in hospitals. That's of little conse.|i:enc?\ ol oo:i>o, ta the government. but it bromht Myriads af slrhs and tear, to mothers .ml wiw j an I ohl'lien. Th* Spanish war. ami what has grown out <>f it. lias e: raa'.ly disgraced th.o annals of the nation's history. And it keeps or and will he hi an. no doubt, bringing niisny an 1 ; ruin in its train Some preaelu rs sn_v I it Is the work of the i?ord. 1 don't believe it. "Offenses must needs oonie. but woo unto them by whom they ronio." Upsides ail this the year was full of disasters on land and sea. E\plosions in the min< s, railroad wrr its, boilers bursting. Ores. Hoods, murder*, suicides, husbands killing wives and j children, lovers killing sweethearts, and every other devilish thing. Evary day's dispatches record something n w and horrible, and we are gc.it ins so accustomed to it that It hardly disturbs or surprises us. We, too. are ; o ting hardened to blood and hloo ly deeds. This unconcern always follow ; in the wake or war. After the bittle of Malvern 1 <ill 1 remember hearing one j soldier lift another that he could walk across the ridge and step on a d all man at every step, lie tried if for a hundred yards ami won. Soldiers who had been kind and gentle at home 1 e j eante hardened to the sight of l?'o> 1 and death. After the war was over j many a good mother watched and waited for her boy to come home, bat he never came and she died st.il won- j dering how lie was killed and where he was b'Tied. Hut few of his comrades ; were left and they were widely sin tered. The records were not hep' or ] were lost in the war. Out of Hid ') buried at Vlcksburg les? than *.())) have nnmci^upnn their graves; so it Is at Fredericksburg and all the othess. I Of ilie Federals an ! Confederates 'JO per cent of all tlio dead are rn'iniwn and sloop in unmarked and unrecorded pravrs. Ami this is war and as Central Sherman said. "War is hell." There i.s enough unwritten grief to fill ar. ocean, nnd many a broken hearted mother ]e: concealment like a worm in the bad feed on her pallid checks and turn her hair to pray before Its time. And y >l \vc kcop on fighting and calling for more troops?not. for defense or liberty. but for conquest. It is a war of aggression uppn a percale who ncv r did us harm and beg to be let alum The eight million negroes here at home give us great concern, but the government wants ten millions mar.? to add to the perplexity of the p1 chirm. Oh! the shame of it?the j:ty "f it. It Is the same ni l iinehris tan slory. "Man's inhumanity to man m .Uc countless thousands mourn." lint 1 didn't, start to ley to writ?? r.n elegy on the year that has pone. It i; pleasant to wish all a happy year and to hope for a better one. A sape- lltio.-s fri n 1 says that it will he bet' r because 11 02 is div'.sihl ?. but llthl vvi> not. The times sc m piosper.e s and new industries are continually being planted o\ r the South, war .always brings activity in its train. More iron and steel far r.htps and nun oT war more cannon and guns for the army, more clothing and food for the soldiers. Rut I have more regard for all the humble, contented p-ople than 1 r all the pomp and circumstance of war. I have more regard for an uneducit ul honest man t han for an educated t ich one who made his money by quest;; nahlc schemes. My good old frlcn I Jo'n Jenkins Is dead. He hauled wood f er me n:any years anil p;ive an hon- t cord. < n h:s last bed he sent for h 8 brother dak and whispered, "Juk, I'm pwine ter die. tluy say. and I'm vvll'ln' to go; but I owe Bob lYit'.lier a dollar and a half, and it bother ? ra? nightly." "Never mind. John." . ill Jack. "I'll pay Rob that iron'y ,vh. n 1 go ta town for the coffin. Now, .irs turn over and die. just as easy as y >'i can " And ho did. He was a Hard 3 't I Baptist. The nt'ur night we had a good Inly visitor from the North, and when ah* : d something about li s horrid o'd I >1. .1' > i. I- Ihi. ..i.nv .1' .. I ' i ' tl'o hardship and saT'erinr: cju< ! ly oar Civil War. and, just lint'. " :tnl entertain her, my wife an 1 ! related haw when wo en! back ( , K vr.i w th oi:r half do:v*n lilt';. '; 11 rlrrn wo .all hurl (o sloop on thn flo I;>r V" had no furniture. and we It i i r;'i Conr <ir coffee or s rvir, and th was ncno to ho had. for what 'itt. " there was was hop! hidden and couldn't ho bought with Chinfojhv.it' money; an 1 how our mo *.l w: . n.virly all 'otic, and there wa.u'L hut one cow in tlio o( .:nlry, a: d she was kept hi! !n a eanchrake. and how 1 harrowed a ! and role iw.miles an 1 i.rv ,at Iter f r S't.OOO in < infedc.at n v.- y and drove In ' hon^c in the night and kept hor hid in li.c Inva and sho gave just enough milk to :j> our Laky from perishing; and liow 1 bought tr.n bushels of mm away downs the the river at Si"'* a bushel ami got good old Rowland U: vant to keep It fur iuo at h's home six mi .-s from town, and once a week lie too'; a onshel to mill and had it ground and brought it to town and under the f^at of the buggy; and how the scouts and outlaws robbed everbody who had anything. and these outlaws wore a <ompany of calvary made up of thieves and deserters from our own army; md bow I had a bale of factory shirting bid out in the country for two years, and as soon as we dared if was brought home and my wife could exchange a / - ?_ -i .1 r -- ? !* ? jarus *i i. ? iuu?- mi nwiauira .wiu chickens; nml liow about tbeso times the Confederate dolec: v-3 arrested a quartermaster and pet hi:n In Ja'l. and he was desperately snrod an 1 wanted to pel out and r n away, and there wasn't a I iwyer In F Imri. Tor General Morgan nn<l Gem 1 tl Prttrs and I)iwson and all the rest were in the army, and a friend of mine n 'v'.?rl him to send for n;e. and ho did. and I went down there in an old lrv;rv. for there was no railroad runn a tvn. and 1 Interviewed hint In .itil and agreed to pet him out for $10 00). and it was deposited with my ftieml and I did get him om on a halioas ? >> pus and a straw bond, and be ran away and is running yet, I reek en. a:; i how a ht'lo steamboat eame up from Mobile with some blockade goods ami I ho?:-ht t .vo pounds of opir.iti for and fifty pair of cotton cards on the leaf without hacks or handles for $103 a pair, and that took the rest of the money, and tlip captain gave nie two pounds of coffee and as much sugar, and I put the opium in one side of a little old rusty valise and the cards in the other side and returned home and formed a partneship with Hob Hargrove, who had a box of cheap tohorco, and we opened a store and took in a third partner, which was my wife, who sent down holts or the shirting, and we went to trading for something to livo on. We assessed the cards at $2l>u a pair and the opium at $10 .n gob! for an ounce and l! <> shirting at ?'J a yard. It was a kind of department stoie. llab < > *ked on one side and I on the other. We didn't take Confederate money for anything, for it got worse < very day. hut we exchange things and we r aid the opium to the few wlia needed it for gold they had hi t away. Our store was a sensation, f.,r it was the only one in town that, had a stock of goals. All the others were empty. In April, 1SG5. a company of blue eoals caine down in the night and the next morning we were all surprised to see them. Mr. Lincoln was killed two days before. So It was rumored, but we didn't believe It. 1 Jr. King was a great big red-headed man and said what he pleased, so he rode up to the company and said: "Cappen. is there any truth in the report that ole Abe Lincoln is dead?" The captain replied ruddy: "Yes, sir. he's dead and liuriod." "Well. I thought if he was dead it was like.lv that they would hury him." sjirt Kin;, and lie put spur to his ho:so and ratloped clown tho street to tell us tho news. Tho captain said afterwards ha earnc very near ordering the men to shoot him. ; n.l sr> wo talho 1 over t^" old war times and tho Rood lady and our other truest a listened and lau,:'n 1 and ncl'Ted until bed time. Kill Arp in Atlanta Constitullon. r:Ev;sY clca";ng3. A not lie;* shipyard i; M !? oroolod on I.nUe Michigan near St. .Joseph. Jlnmnnd has a .January spr'.n.cjiiin?, V. nil huUerillcs and li!::c .. airdr. Two weather sii ions u Id no estalw I lied ill YellowsiwK i'.iiI; i: m summer. New York c'liy\s clraiit !r for 1001 vais G".0'J i'.r .* iOv , ; jfain.u f>7 in Hunt. The I'nivorsl.y of reslln is to ho rebuilt, and a ucvv sl.e lias already I ren chosen. <'ceil Ithoilrr, It enisV.ered to lie rorpiiiisihlo for the hoom in Kafii.; stock* i n tiie London Nine!: K..< ha.eje. The repaired I nited S.aieA eruiser ' an ! i tinelseo lias lie n p.'need In c oiuniis.-a.ii at the Norfolk Ma>j Yard. An experiment is to he ir.aile at II a rues*, Surrey, i ial, la li.^lnln^ tho sin i'i:j with VU.J Niiiet lamps. Jc ia d: eiarcd i'lit hilly in China that U.oon o'i'i persons in I'luui i, on', of !< ,? 000.tHjO, have succumbed to .lie famine., I i llowiiijj a family (juarrel, <!ust llulke, of i.apo. ?, It.d., saturated his cloiliai; with ueso iue, li;-.iucd it and 1. i' U. c aides Wils .;i has nanouneed to loo I e a i i s 11 Koyal Sic.Ciy liiai the hoipsaiiue ?? ti .: si.n decrees l' aln tMiiioit. i 'car n ss will li n e ?' a?-i hefore I lie 'Jooa exi''a clerks la. ken i.n darln * tiia en. war < an i.,- i;.i. ?td iu liu tia.s.sii.i 1 scr\ ico. } i llicit 1 >. l'\". Ko;:?ioiit of Ma ac.'iu. lta > I), oil a'ci jIiii . il Ansi iant Si; i ician, J u pai >iit; iu oi Ayriculiiii , at \\ asltin^icli. (. ivoruor (.'on ial \\'< c?l lias issued n etc.- living the prioi* of j .ts in 11;i\aiia, ('.alia, ni ia ou.iuisii gold a IiiniiMtih| cuijlc loci. Swiss papers record a dcc'.ln in (lie export tit wood oarvin s and alliilnilo ii i<? Ilii? laoii ot vailci- in III.* osirvincs, tile Cow riliJ.cK lii-.uj o.ouotoaun.sly repealed. Ilrromoi n.iln .is Day. If It \va3 difficult for Admiral Sclilry to coal at sra as it Is fo.r tho most of <13 to coal on land, his explanation should ba accepted.?Omaha World-H uald. i ?