Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, December 03, 1902, Image 1
VOL. XI.
I BILL AkP. I
A cbtipter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy writes to me for a list of
the Georgia senators end representatives
who seceded In January, 1861,
and also for a list of their successors
in tb?; confedwate congress. But few
men can answer these questions, and
indeed the answer is hard to find in
any book. Rnt these women are after
information that is worthy of preservation
in tieMr archives and they will
sor.n know more about the chril war
than the tomi.
"Well, oir state senators belbre the,
war were Ttobert Toombs and Ben.;
Hill. Toombs made a withdrawal :J
peech whlie11 was grnnd mul (Wiant.
Our representatives were Martin .1
Crawford, Peter E. Lore. Thomas .1
Hardenuu . Lucius J. Gartrell. John W.
Tl. Underwood, James Jarkstn. Joint
Jones anii Joshua Hill, who resigned.
They are .all dead
The members ot the first confni'erefrcongress
<were Senaton, !33?us Tl 111 <nr?d
Herschel V. Johnson. Toombs was
elected, hut had serious opposition and
it irritated h'.tn so that, he refused to
serve anfl later >n, Johnson v as elected.
Toombs vai I, "The manner in whim
this trust has been conferrals on nie relieves
me from ativ obligation to accept
it." So "he unsheathed hie sword and
went to fighting The representath.es
<!lected were Julian RaTtriflge, J. C.
Mimnertj-n, Hines Holt. A. H. Kenan,
David W_ Lewis, W. W. Chirk, Robert
T. Trlppe. L. J. GartriU, Hardy Strickland
and Augustus R. Wright. These
are all dead. "Time rots down all, both
great nnC small."
A letter from another chapter wishes
to know r he maiden names of the
wires of the presidents anr! the names
o'. the mothers of the presidents. 1 tell
you these women are in ettrnest. For
centuries their sex has boet under .the
bun. You can't find i history of ?yv Loped
la that tells anything a'oout wives ;
or the mothers of great men. and yet I
it is the mother wlro makw the men. ;
George Washington's father died when
he was 11 years old and hr.s mother
trained him ami taught hint and planted
within hint all those virtues that
made him great and yet there are In it
few of our American people who know
who Vis mother was. 1 have thiee sets
of standard cyclopedias, hut oaJy
meager mention is madoiu them of ths
mothers or wires of the president. Who
knows anything about the mother of
- * Webster. Clay or Calhoun? I hav?
#/innA SVn - f ..II ?.L.
umiii.j nit- ujara'u uaiunt iu ? mc
vivos oi tho presidents and the names
of all their mothers exo?V?t those of
Zacharlah Taylor, William 11. Harrison,
Franklin Pierre, James Buchanan,
R. B. Hayes and Ben Harrison. Maylte
they had mothers. Well, to begin.
George "Washington's mother was
"Mary BalL His wife was widow Park
Curtis, nee Martha Dawlridge.
John Adams' mother was Susannah
tJoyiston. His wife was Abigail Smith
Thomas Jefferson's mother was Jane
Randolph. His wife. Martha Wales.
James Madison's mother. Fanny Taylor
His wife, Dolly Payne. That Fanny
Taylor's brother was grandfather
to Zaehary Taylor.
J tune s Monroe's mother, Eliza Jone*
His wife, Elizabeth Kort right.
Juim Q. Adams had a grandmother
Quiey.. No mother is named. His wife
was Louisa Johnson.
Andrew Jackson's mother, Elizabeth
Hutchiaason; his wife, Rachel Douelson.
Martin Van Buren's mother, Mary
Hoes: hit wife, Hannah Hoes.
William H. Harrison's mother not
named; vile. Anna Symmes.
John Tyler's mother, Mary ArmiEtead;
wif?; Lctitia Christian.
James K. Polk's mother, John Knox;
wife, Sarah Childress.
Zaehary Taylor's mother not. earned;
vife, Margaret Smith.
.Milliard FHmorc's mother was
Phoebe Millard; lie never married.
Franklin Pierce's mother not named;
wife. Jane Appleton.
James Buchanan's mother not named.
He was a bachelor.
AbnJiain Ifinrohs's mother. Nancy
Hank*, wife. Mary Todd.
Andrew Johnson'* mother too poor
and isrwjant to tiaioo. His wife. Eliza
McCnrJo. educated him.
U. S. Grant's mother. Hannah Simpson;
his wife. Julia Unit.
"It. L?. Hayes' n:oth?r*ot named; his
wife. Eucy Ware Wehh.
James A. Garfield's motSicr was Eliza
Ballon; his wife. latere;ia Rudolph.
Chester A. Arthur's mother. Malvina
Stone; his wife, Ellon L. Hern don.
Grcver Cleveland's mother. Anne |
Neal; his wife. Frances Fobswn.
Ben Harrison's mother not .named; J
his wife was Miss Scott.
William McKinley's mother. Nancy
C Allison; his wife. Ida Saxton.
oow, or course ir a man can afford I
to buy thi separate biographies of
those men. though some have no', been
written, no doubt he could loarn more
about their mothers and wives, but
not very much. We know but little concerning
the mothers of Milton. Shakespeare,
Cowper. Powe, Gray, Johnson,
Hood, Burns, Moore, Byron, Coleridge
or any of the noted writers of England
or Scotland. The idea seems to have
been that women ns a general rule were
of no consequence?except to Inar children
and stay at home and nurse ;neni.
But that Is not the idea now. Women
are coming to the front and claim a
more notable position in history an 1
biography. Mrs. Do. Burt, of Brunswick,
ha3 in press a book devoted exclusively
to the mothers of the notable
men of Georgia, the mothers of our
governors and statesmen and ministers
and military heroes, and I know eho
will do justice to them. Some time r.-^o
a friend of mine died and as ho v.is a
man of some note, his son, who is
growing old, wanted to answer Mrs.
4,
flh. .
-minn auoui iwor?>* w ai ninyiun r ?nu
nm> of the lioys suid: ''Ho wiis bom on
Mount Vermont:" A lit'lo vtirl said:
"\"o. it was Mount Vernon." Another
hoy said, "iio wn?. nam^l fnr t: v:'y
?* Washington."' und oue thur said."lie
was the father of .:il! the county rhil?t'on."
and another.- saih, "He out a
oAiorry tree down to >nn fin ehorr es.
:md didn* t loll a lie uincit ft and "his
frliter never llekoti hint i?>- !t. but that
| Jti?ht lie "tind the* oolie priny had."
I .And h?TT.e Is a finod 'ft; ml Vtter <wf
i sjrrnpathy from a fc'll-blovdod Cherokee
i Indian. who wrihn front tiro Indian
! Territory ;;md snyj. ho wits tUtrn l?,
'Murray ecurnty and loves Georgia anft
iter people. He asks about the Rowells,
and says hlrs father "knew .'lie oVl man
on 5,ho Chattahoochee arid always said
there was some Rood lndir.n bWod in
bis veins. VSell. they do to?k like it. I
expwt our ?van caiw Sideways down
* from old Powliattan. Just its nry wife
! came from Forahontaa. Hello, Cwnsin
1?van; we ar? Jcin.?Bill Arp in Atlanta
Constitution.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
T.ord Tonuyron lias hoen nppolnloV!
| Governor-!Jonora 1 of Australia for oiu?
j year.
t'niliil Stab's Aluliassail'ir to I'.ntrlanil
Chimin i? i-i?in.r t.. i.'..i-..i ii...
" -.-J"
| opening of I lit* Xile ilnui.
Emperor William lias inv'ied <V*nio-'
: 1 i 11. the French actor. in lip a member
' of his next hunting parly.
('ri)\vn Prince Frederick of Saxony
I I ho other ilay broke his I ,-ir below tbo
knoo while hunting near daizborg.
Tin* Sultan of Turkey and the Queen
! of the Netherlands are said to he the
i only total abstainois among European
I sovereigns.
Padorewskl has decided to appear at
' the festival in Uerlin next October, despite
liis declaration not to play again
hi that city.
Sir Ivlelinrd -T. Hurt weight. Minister
of Trade and ('onimeroe of the Doinin*
Ion of Canada, lias heen made a I Sri t is ii ,
Privy Councillor.
Prince Henry XV. of Pious. who reI
ceatiy visited the Fnited Stales, said
j tie thought President Uooseveit was
| full of electric sparks.
Professor Wood, of Hm Department
| of Agrleulljive, has I?rea sp nding smile
j mouth* in Western Slates studying tlie
j dietary conditions of men in lumber
> camps.
Social lionizing since his return from
South Africa serins to hare brought
oft the Intent geniality of Lord Kiicliens-r.
lie is now deserilied as not half
1 lie- Pear he used to be.
Sir Wilfred l.auriev. Premier of Cannda.
will, it is srdil, shortly retire from
I public life, tlie step being urged l>y Ills
| physicians, who say that he can eonI
tinue his. public activities only at phy!
a leal peril.
Among tlie mnltifnrious duties assumed
by Governor Tnft in the Philippines
is the voluntary duty of urging :
the development of Filipino music. One
result has been a series of symphony
concerts by the ltizal orchestra at Manila.
Ar English publisher is bringing out
n work in which the pedigree of the
vj m i t h famlltr lo teooA/l ?11
ramifications. It is not stated how
many volumes there will be. No doubt
the Smiths are related in one way or
another to most of the reigning and
all the noble families of the world.
Tli?>re ought to be no difficulty in
tracing their descent from Adam,
whose other name is supposed by some
to have ffeen Smith. At last we shall
find out what the world owes to the
Smiths in the arts and selences, in war
and peace, in society and trade, in politics
and tr.eology. It ought to .xclte
the Drowns and Joneses, also mighty
elans, as they appear in city directories,
to bo up and doing and prove
their right to public recognition
*
FOE
Burt's letter about his grandmother, j
and he told her he dldn'tkniwanything I
about her?didn't even know her mai- t
den name. He said that he never saw
her. for she died when he was a child
and he never heard bis father say
much about her.
That has been the way, but it will
not be much longer, for the elevation
of woman to her proper position by the
side of man and not beneath him, is
rapidly coming on. This federation of
woman's clubs will assert woman's
rightH. This recognition of woman has
gained ground rapidly since the war.
Before that our school teachers were
generally men and where we had
women at assistants they were imported
from the north. We had five in succession
)7i our town. One by one they
got married and we sent off and got
another. Our well-to-do widqwers took
u "liking to them. Tor our girls wouldn't
marry a widower and our young men
wouldn't, marry a ya'akee school mistress.
But since the war our own girls
have gone to teaching and are found in
every school room in the land. If they
are more fit to teach-our children than
am the men. then why am they not
hotter "aid. and why are they not member?;
of our school hoards? 1 have
Kiitiwu men to be elected on school
1 oards who couldn't do a sum In the
rub' of ttare*> :i*nd ffin*t "knvrw whether
algebra vras L,atin c-r astrcmomy. Some
of these same men ?tre put<on the committee
to choose school bt?oks. Srhool
brards are not always elected for
scholarship, but for sectarian Influence
and because they have an nx to grind.
Hut this is enough for one letter. I
hope the young people wiE < at if- out
and pas*e it In tbeir scrap books and
keep it fv?r referent e so that when they
are married *od have inquisitive children
they car answer these questions.
"Every ytiiing person sltodll has a a
a Top book. One of our teachers was
not long ago asking her scholars about
"Washington. * Who can tell me wjoho
T MILL, S. C? WEDNI
POSTAL SERVICE IN 1902
Receipts Amounted to $121,818,047;
Expenses, $124,785,697.
DEFICIT FOR YEAR, $2,937,649
Th* Annual Repnrt of the l'oilmtltrr?
Grneral?Til* K*tln?iite<l Dfllclt Forth*
Yfir Kndius ) una 30, 1004. 8S.':?3.S56
? Somit Uenoflta of Kural Free llcllv
rjr?.Klglic-Hour llajr For Clerk*.
Washington, 1?. C.?The annual report
of the Postmaster-! Jrneral for tli?*
year ending .luue last shows total
receipts for the year of ?121,S4S.047.'Jb.
ns compared with the previous year's
receipt's of The expeti- i
<1 it ores for *he year were SllM.7N.~t.?597.07,
its compared with Si 1o,oo4,412US7
for the preceding yen;.
The excess of expenditures, $'J.0o7,- j
<54J1.S1, was less than the previous 1
year's deficit hy .S9Sti.077.d7. "i'lie esti- ;
united deticit ftir the year ending June
iW?, 19U4, is SS.lMli.Soll
Kfforts June been made in the past
and are noxv l? ing made to better,
wherever pus. ible, the <*01111111011 of '
postal employes, the report says. This I
is especially so in the ease of elerks 111 I
I postollices. There were upwards of |
i-t.ooo clerks promoted on July 1 Inst,
t2ie aggregate allowance for these pro- '
motions being about Fully :
] t.OUO of these promotions wore of
clerks \vJL*o received loss than $1(HH) por
annum. The work-ins hours of olorks
hi: the larger postotticcs were also reduced
st? as u t?i .ivora.se inoro ihan
o'islu hours *\ day. The report continues:
"ltural free delivery sort lop has become
an established fact. It is no
longer iri the experimenial stage and
iKidnubtcdly Congress will oontimio
te inoro:r-o the appropriation tor this
pej'vioo iKviil all I he people o." the conntn
are trenched, where it is thiokly
enough s? tiled Jo war rant it. Tito est!
mates of the department are to the
effort tha the available territory for
this; service cuv truce* about l.OUO.OttO
square inDes. or one-fit i I'd of tie* nutli
tr/";s area exeluoive ? !' Alaska. The
11.050 routes now iu .operation rover
alioBt one-; bird ?f the available territory.
The .rapid .extern ion of ;the serj
vioe will, of onursr. inetn.aso the deficits
I, during the next three yetrs. After it is
I completed t 'a** re von lies will .quickly
i fct*l tie efi'eet of it* establishment, and
j whiitm'r deficit rnny le occasioned
will gradually disappear. It wiia also
! 1*' Interesting Jo ttcv-te thxt rttraS free
I delivery carriers removed applications
dnrlng tJie past year for tl*JTi.t>l(? money
orders.
"Specific instances Itnve been brought
to the attention of the ftepartmciit
where The prompt delivering of live
stock quotations Indicating n temporary
glut it: the market to farmers intending
to ship to the stockyards, by
enabling them to hold back their sliint tents
til! the markets resumed their
i normal conditions, l as saved to individual
cattle raisers more than the
total enst of one year's rural delivery
over the .onu s oil which they lived.
"The number of domestic money or
! tiers issued was td. 17 1.227. amount'ir.:*
t<> .27P. The number of international
money orders issued durii.z
the year was 1.211.111. amounting: to
S22,t>74. 172. The number of interna-,
tiotml orders paid dttrirtr the year was
! 2o7.<>7!?. aiiiouniinu to JSo.S21.72D. It
will lie interest ing to note that the
amount of the foreign orders issued
was nearly four times as great as the
amount paid, 'l'lie fee at pres: tit for
an order of Sliid is thirty rents, and it
Is recommended that legislation he
passed nuthoririug tlie department to
1 educe this fee to twenty-live cents.
"The star service discontinued during
the year ended .le.ne 11)02. hy reas, n
of the estaldJslmtent of rural free de livery
service, amounted to S2(Jo <)Kl.l,s.
"Legislation is taed.d for the pros
lion of railway |t<>vt:tI olevks while in
the discharge of their duties. This is
a matter which has heen fully presented
in previous annual reports.
"Last year tiie Department v>aid for
the transportation of foreign mails the
stun of .$2.21 n,112"
tin the suhjeel of the parcels post the
report says:
"From tlte statistics taken it nnncars
that the average weight of parcels despatched
from this eounfry to nli connf
l'tne eh 1 - *
....... ..... ..... .-Aiirus unci' .'11111
one-half pounds. Tlu? averago weight
of parcels despalohcil from this romitr.v
to Germany is two and two-tliinis
pounds. In view of the fnot that footpounds
as a limit of weight will fairly
meet the requirements of this country,
the Second Assistant Postmaster-General
recommends the tender of parcels
post conventions with England.
Era nee, Italy and other countries of
Europe, similar to that now In force?
between this country and dermany.
witli the exception that the weight of
parcels be limited to four pounds nnd
that six month's notice be given to Germany
of the desire of this country to
modify the existing convention so as
to reduce the weight of parcels from
eleven to four pounds."
Attention is Invited to the remarks
of the Second Assistant PostmasterGeneral
concerning the need of a universal
stamp, or some substitute for it,
which will facilitate International corfwpontience.
XVoulit-Itn IMieliat* Krronrllrd.
Thomas BranifT. Jr., and Manuel Hi- !
eon Gallardo. the young society men. I
of Mexico City, Mexico, who were arrested
and held by the police to pre- i
vent them from lighting a duel, have '
secured their release by shaking hands
In open court and promising the Judge j
flint they would abandon their dueling
plans. BranifT was fined $180 ami Gal- '
lardo $100. which they paid.
'jl :
?81)AY, DEC EMBER '
WENT SMILING TO NOOSE
Job Williams Gave His Life For an
Atrocious Boublo Murder.
II* Cnnlrnril lie I.urnl Fanner Ilolmra
aud Mla< Sliutr to Hum. Sliot Tliem
itiitl Set Structure on I'ire.
Drill gel on, N. .T.?Willi :i smile
sprt'iulintr over his conn ten an re. .Iol?
Williams. the ooloretl murderer of .lohn
V 1 .-1 M!.... I'atl.n., ., . WI...I,.
?". i iwuiH.iim * <i> i ii i iiic r*iiuir(
walked briskly to the gibbet ami paid
the penalty of his horrible crime.
The execution took place in an enclosure
in the rear of the county prison,
and despite the fact that rain was fallins
hard, there were thousands of people
gathered about the jail, but only
those with signed passes were allowed
within.
It was exactly lO.rtn o'clock when
Sheriff Diaincut called the condemned
man from his cell. He marched with
head erect, smiling and nodding to acquaintances,
and walked briskly to the
scaffold. At 11.31 the trap was sprung
and the negro's hock was broken by
the fall. In eight minutes he was pronounced
dead.
The body was taken in charge by an
undertaker, and was buried in the front
yard of his mother's home at Othello,
:t little settlement near here.
The crime for which Williams paid
the penalty on the scaffold is best told
in his own confession, made in writing,
since his convict Ion. It was made public
after the execution. In this confession
Williams says he had robbed the
old farmer for the purpose of getting
money for his approaching wedding.
! lie had liie money in his pocket and
| was getting away from the farm, when
it occurred to him that it wouM be liec|
essary io kill Holmes to prevent discovery.
Ho told the old farmer that
|? horse -was sh'k and lured him out.
! When Holmes reached the barn Williams
felled him with a heavy mallet.
! When Miss Shttte ea?n? out he strtiek
her with his fist, knocking i:??r insensii
hie. Then he fired pistol hnlN into
, their prostrate forms to make sure of
their deaths, looked all the doors of
I the barn, set the hay and straw on fire
| and left the premises. He says in the
I eoufession that lie had no though! of
I harming the eonple until lie had the
money.
At the trial It was shown that the
| eritue was enmmitiod in the house
I and the bodies of the victims
I dragged out into the barn, which was
; then tired. Tile absence of any quaui
lilies of hi nod about the house always
puzzltvl the authorities, hut it was ae<M?pted
that the crime had Iteen committed
lit the dwelling. The confession
clears up all the mystery, and shows
that the murder was more brutal than
ever supposed, and certainly was one
of the most cold-blooded premeditated
crimes ever committed in the State.
BAN ON NEW ENGLAND CATTLE.
Kipoii From Hoiton rrohUiitnl l>y S??rr??tury
WiUon.
Washington. I>. C\?Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson Itas promulgated an
| order establishing a quarantine of eat
111.. wtmoli . .1 ..It ......I......... .....I
KwitH' in tlir New lOiv I :m? I Stairs,
lie prohibits the exportation o* Mich
animals from tlio port of iiostoii nuiil
further orders.
Tills net foil is taken oil account of
Hi!- discovery of :i highly contagious
disease known ;is "foot ;iin 1 mouth
disease" in Now Knglaud.
Littleton. Mass. fully half n hundred
rattle iti this virinili nrr ntfcctcd
with tho disease of the fret and mouth
which is causing hoards of agriculture
and Slate veterinary otlirers iniirli
anxiety. The contagion tirst appeared
in the stable of li. \\\ Whitney anion:;
cattle whicii had eouie into rontart
with 110 other animals of their I: i in I for
inont lis.
WITCHCRAFT AMONG INDIANS.
Two Starved tt? Dentil lo Drive Out Devils
?Trill* Tut Under Arrest.
Taronm, Wash, fniird States C'oinmissioiier
Kolsoin. .Marrhal Iloplinrii
aud I'rosecutl ' Attorneys Lyons have
returned to Juneau from lloonnli.
vrliere they held an inquest over the
remains of ilie two starved Indians.
They wore starve I to d 'alh because
tiny were thought to lie witehes. One
of them was tied to a tree in the woods
and eonipelled to stand eight days and
nights without food, with heavy rains
falling on him. 'i'lie olrieet of tliis
treatment was to drive out devils. lie
died soon after being released at the
end of eight days. The other victim
was handled less severely.
Federal officers placed the entire
trile under arrest while investigating.
Four members, found directly responsible.
were taken to Juneau, charged
with murder.
I.argent Gun In tlic World.
The ldg sixteen-ineh coast defense gun,
the largest gun in the world, which was
manufactured at the Watcrvlict, X. V.,
Arsenal, has been shipped tin a barge
to the Sandy Hook proving grounds.
The largest crane in the world loaded
the gun on the barge. The following
are the dimensions of the gun: Length,
I'd feet 'J.tt inches: diameter at breeeii.
r? feet: bore. It! inches. It shoots a
projectile weighing 2H70 pounds a ?1 Is taiteo
of 21 miles. The crude steel
from which the gun was assembled
weighed "(JS.OtjO pounds. Its cost was
$l.r?<).(KW>.
Oil Into Uolltnc Syrup slut t\ in Killed.
Falling Into a vat of boiling syrup
near elio, thirteen 111 ilea from Savannah.
tla.. Charles David Snooks, a
farmer, lost his life. The syrup plant
consisted of two pots on a brick
foundation under which lire was built.
While giving bis attention to one of
these pots Mr. Snooks lost ids balance
and fell backward into the other.
1902.
NAVY IN NEED OF OFFICERS
Secretary Moody's Report Shows
There Will Be a Great Deficiency.
WANTS MORE CADETS APPOINTED
Gr?:t Offlrfm Ar? >>nlfil Vow. and lOOO
Will ttp Wanted In About Knur Yeara*
Time? I'.xtrunion of A n n:?i>ol I h mill 111creime
In I*rmn?tluii4 l'rt-omitiriidctl?
Tiie Naval Programim*.
Washington. P. t\?Secretary of the
Navy Moody lias made his report for
tlio fiscal year ending June .'10. The
report deals with the ships under construction,
those authorized by Congress,
those in and out of commission,
the personnel of tli service and with
the future of the Navy, as seen by
Secretary Moody. < *f the vessels under
eousl met ion, the report says:
"At the eh.se of (lie last fiscal year
there were under construction for the
Navy, liy contract, the following vessels:
Kicld hattleslrps, six armored
cruisers, nine protected cruisers, four
monitors, thirteen torpedo boat destroyers.
seven torpedo boats, and seven
submarine torpedo boats. The general
progress upon these boats, particularly
those of the larger class, lias not lie.".!
found to be satisfactory. The battle
ships were, oil the Z tot It of June. 11 Mil!,
from ten to twenty nine months behind
contract time; the armored cruiser.ftMIII
f.tlll* III t htldillltl lllllllt lie til.. (It*.I
teeted cruisers from six to <>iixlit
months. while tln? monitors wort- fron
sixteen to nineteen months in ai rears
"Pttrint: the fiscal year the follow hit:
vessels have Oeen nnally accepted: Tin
battleships Alabama. Wisn nsin. am
1 Illinois: tile torpedo boats Hailey. Han
ley. Hartley. Ithhlle.Sluibriek ami Stock
ton. The torpedo boats Thornton ant
Wilkes, antl the destroyers Decatur
Perry and I'reble have been ]irelimin
ttrily accepted. 1 Set ween .luly I. lt'it'J
I and November 1. lbtVJ. the Thorntot
lias been linally ami the following ves
' sels preliminarily aeeepted: The inoni
tor Arkansas, the torpedo boat destroy
ers ltarry. t'hauneey. Pale. I'anl Jones
' Truxton. Wltipple and Wordett, and th
torpedo bottt l>e Long."
1 of new vessels the author i/.cd repot
j continues:
"At the last session of Pongress tit
: construction of the following add!
" j tioiinl vessels of the Navy was ttullioi
1 ir.ed: Two battleships, one to be bitil
: ! at stu b Navy Yard as the Secretar,
1 iniiriit designate: two armored cruiser
and two gunboats. In pursuance o
' litis net i lie Department without dela.
approved plans for the eonslruction <i
I he i\v<> lialtloships ami direeted ilia
\.? ! !; on one of litem, tin* <'oiineetieui
If etremeneed at onee at tin- Xnv
Ynril. .New York."
Of i lit* I'll inn- of t!ic Navy the Se<
( lvtary says;
"If tile polity i*l* sitvw.il lienitm nil
power upon the sea I ? the point wher
it ran r <puinl lit lti*' National neeils ti
not nlriudoued. tln? X;lv v 1 as manll'ol
ne. <!s'. Tin re innst (.,? ailiiMioiial iniv;
ami eonlh.tj station-: more . 'ops. flfjlil
im*; ami auxiliary; ami an iiu'iease n
i r.h?eers and men.
"The most imperative need of th
Navy to-day is of additional olliei i>.
e.inuot overstate this lma;. It invito,
the instant attention of t'on^ress. TI.,
! .'"imlnlstrntion of the I >oj>ai tnient i
?-ui!. massed almost daily l.y the lael
of oliieevs nelow eonnmind r Tin:
I condition has lieen appro.n liimc f<>
; > le a ears, and was clearly appp
headed and . tated hy my predeees.-oi
in ?.iV . Il is aenif to.da\ :>n<l o i ,
ill - ships already authorized are com
l?li t' il. it will hi dcspernl Unless t lirVi
. is early net ion."
The report shows that aI prcst n
I t' re is a deileien.y o.' .".TV officers foi
, 11 ships ol" the N:ivy. It speaks o|
l t-'O v'.ys in wiiieh more officers ina.v
( he obtained, and adits:
"I therefore earnest.y recommend
that without n year's delay the mini
h< r of midshipmen at the Academy Ik
increased sufficiently to meet present
and prospective needs of the service."
The report continues
"From time to time during the last
forty years attempts nave lieen made
l?y various foreign jrovermm tits, as
well as hy our own. to utilize .oil aa
fuel for naval service. Fourte< n
otlielal tests have oeen made, from
which valuable iufotualion ha; been
secured.
"As a result of the investigations
thus far conducted the Thief of the Kitre.'tii
of Steam Knjrinoeriiijr recommends
tli- installation of liquid-fuel appliances
without delay in at least a third
of llie torpedo boats and destroyers.
Willi respect to the larger war vessels
ami particularly the battleships, the installation
of liquid fuel presents serious
difficulties, entirely apart from
the question of the satisfactory use of
/ill lltlflnt* liAllnee
"In recommending that the Government
olitain control of all wireless telegraph
stations the rhlef of the Hnrca.i
of Kquipment says: 'In time of
war the department will undoubtedly
f'.ml if necessary to communicate by
means of wireless telegraphy with cer.
tain receiving stations along the
I coast. Nothing should be permitted
j to interfere with the transmission of
I Mich messages, nor should it be pessi!
bh? for unauthorized persons to receive
j them."
Itinfrlrt Attorney lictlir i ftrnii|i?lnlrit,
President Ifoosevelf re-appointed Sol1
onion H. Itethea I'tilted Stales District
| APtrncy for Hie Northern District of
! Illinois. Mr. Hethert is til" ofiieev who
I gathered the greater |> rt of the evi|
deuce which led to the prosecution of
< the combination of meat packers I?y
' tL_> Federal Government.
NO. .57.
Doing His Sent.
| It somehow noetus llt'lo ctiou.;li when you
say
Tha* teller. If "dcing he brat."
It mounn that ho tolls ami ho hopes day
by day
That H'.'avdi will attend to the rent.
He is jo.-tted aside hy the hurrying orowil,
I'tisouitht by tin1 lonely: fo:y,ot t>y the
proud.
He e.iYnw what he gets. and no more !
allowed
To the fellow t. lio's "doing his best." ?
Itut oiwnwr a crisis arises, wo look
T-? the man who Is doing his host.
Tire prince with his splendor, tho sage
wi'.h h'? book.
Pull oft fail to answer tho tost.
And when there's a home or a country to
serve.
We turn to the matt with tho heart and
the nerve.
The -nan whom adversity's touch could
not swerve.
The man who kepi doing his l> -at.
?Washington Star.
A Phenomenal Boy.
A merchant in I hestnut street has
become very fond of an office boy he
engaged last Juuo. The boy entered
very early in the morning when the
merchant was reading the paper. Tho
latter glanced tip and went on reading
without speaking. After throe
minutes the boy said:
"Kxcuse me?hut I'm In a hurry?"
"What do you want?" he was asked.
! "A jot).'
, j "You do? Well." snorted the man of
1 j business, "why are you in such a
1 hurry?"
i ' (lot to hurry," replied the hoy.
, "Lett school yesterday to go t > work
and haven't struck anything yel. I
' can't, waste time. If you've nethit:c
fnr tne. sav so. and I'll !o i. e'se
[ whore.1. The only place 1 can 'top
i long is whore they pay mo for it."
"When can you come?" a.K- i tl.es
\ surprised merchant.
"Don't have !o come," he v.as told.
' "I'm here now. and would hav? h< -p
to work hefisre this if you'd said so."*
I Philadelphia Dodger and Time.*.
- ; When the evolution of history is In id
hack it results in a revolution.
i !
There is morn Catarrh In tills nueiio.i of the
l country than all oilier diseases put toi;ether,
1 and until the last few years was supposed to
' I be incurable, for a great many years doctors
e pronounced it a local disease and prescribed
loi'nl remedies, and hy constantly failing to
t cure with local treatment, pronounec.i it incurable.
Science has proven Catarrh to he a
, 1 constitutional disease and thoroloro requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured hy P. .T. Cheney .V. <.'o.,
*" Toledo. <?., is the only constitutional euro on
t the market. It Is taken Internally in doses
y from lOdrops to a tcaspoonful. It acts directs
ty on the blood and mucous surfaces of llie
I system. They offer one hundred dollars for
any ease ii falls to cure. Send for circular*
arid testimonials. Addniss P. J. Chrxey <!b
Co., Toledo. I),
t Sold by Druggists, 75c.
I. Hall's Kivuiily I'ilLs are the host.
K\cry man has his price, and it's gencr?
' ally a good deal lens than he marks it up. .
I PIT .dp ?r u inontly euro l.No !ltsor ncrvonr
ntfstftor'.lrjt day's use of Or. Kline's Great
N?rvf>Iiostorer.$2trial bottle and treat.i
e j ?*? " Ml "'?
I lie girl \yiih the leg Imt seems to he nil
11 nroi until v.hi begin to talk with her
; Mr?. Wlaslow'sBoothfng Syrup forohihli a *
tcetliing.noftcn tint S'i nj, reducesintla.nu.T^
tion,allayspain,cures vrtudooUc.'Joc. u'nttfe
1 The Czar K'lssia lms eeiSblisltrd a
, l^n liour v orbing day.
. I ;
Ali creameries use hotter eolor. Why
not dr. a- they do ? use Junk Tint Kt'i,
Tint Coitm, v
l' The .li'thracite he'd is limited to a space
*>t .'l.tiKj s junto miles.
I b<? k Cure Ls the host medicine wo over r od
1 for nli .iffo-Mions of throat uml lungs. \w.
i t?. Esmlbt, Vanburan, ln?l., Feb. to, 1VOO.
A Ueriiuer takes, on the average, .-'J
street cat rides a venr
Tlic Soilttitiiiiil I'.nlln Stion
Ft. y I. CO. and the Sot; nut hn tlini. for i 1.00,
nro the most pojiular high-grade Indies' shoes
fO" tli'? price in America. They are Soutl."?'U
u..id. for Southern Maids up-to-dato er?-nti
m.-. in !?u t.stiiiitial material combined with
, artistic workmanship, from the extensive
p.ant or <'iiAimuck Tkrky i o., Lynchburg,
V:t. Iteacl their adv. in this paper.
lion.id a man, and he can't hcip having
a dog's life.
r "i
j\sthma
"One of my daughters had a
terrible case of asthma. VC'e tried
almost everything, but without relief.
We then tried Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral and three and one-half
bottles cured her."?Fr.ima Jane
Entsminger, Langsvilk, O.
j -Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral
certainlycures manycases
of asthma.
And it cures bronchitis.
II hoarseness, weak lungs,
I whooping-cough, croup,
ft winter coughs, night
j 8 coughs, and hard colds.
ftl Tfiroo mtfi: 2.V., ninuch for nri ordinary
K rtild; rifcl.t for uronrhllia. IinnrarI
ik'U, li ird colds. etc.; $1. most fH-niionilitl
M for cluuutf ooei nr.l to keep on hmiil. :
j K J. (!. AYKU CO., l/owell. Mass. V
*??>. 411.
I The dog catcher's labors should be
curtailed.
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