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5?f ' i VOL. XII. SKETCH OF BILL ARP! Life and Character of An Original Southern Philosopher WAS A WIDELY READ HUMORIST Belonging; to the Old .school of Southern Gentlemen, He Was Always In Sympathy With New Ideas. "With the passing of Major Charles H. Smith, of Cartersville, (la., better known to the reading public as "Dill Arp," a notable figure of the old Southland goes out of the public gaze, and the South is poorer because of his death, lie was a connecting link between the periods that marked the anto-fcvdlum and the post-bellum periods oa* Southern history. An "unroconstructed rebel" he remained to tlie last. Yet Ills sympathies were always with tin' young, the progressive, the < modern. He saw with clear vision the tremendous possibilities, of Southern development, wnen others halted on on threshold of progress, afraid to uttwr the talisman, "open-sesame" that promised to unlatch thw matchless treasure house of the future. "Dill Art)" was a seer and a prophet. He ww tuore -ho was a philosopher. plantation phllospher, perhaps, but his was not the reasoning of the pessimist who sees no good in the present. Bill Arp saw the best in the past, the present and the future. He saw evil only when abstract evil existed and then was reluctant to point it out His delineations of the Old South were par exrrlle .re. His excoriations of the carpet-hugger were terrific. Ills pictures of ohi Southern life -were S8SSSK$pef r' MAJOR CHARLES H, masterpieces. Hir, hopes for the future of the section to which he. during a long ami useful lifetime, h:wl been so true, were inspiring. Hp has done much fv?r the South. His admirers are legion and us he sleeps the Ion? sleep ills work wilj follow him. \t th-8 time of his death. Major Smith was 77 years old. hirvlng been lx>rn in Owinno.it county, Georgia, in 187G. The father of Major Smith was a Massachusetts man and his mother a South Ca*.nltoian. The father of Major Saiith settled in Savannah when he first moved to Georgia, ll't taught school. afterwards mnrrytig one of his pupils. The father never returned to the North. Charles, as he tells us. "grew up as !>:hI as other town boys. went, to school some and worked some." He entered Franklin Coiloge nt Athens, but did not graduate. Later he studied law. Major Smith married Miss Mary Delay;.a Hut; bins, of Lawrenceville. They have ten eiiildrfn. Major Smith was a merchant at one t'.me. When the war commenced he began to write rebellious letters in a humorous way which attracted attention. This was not so much to the humor contained in theun. but from Yourg ti >rm 111 Nom nated. Baltimore. Special.?Col. A. P. Gorman. Jr.. the only son of United States Senator A. P. Gorman, was nominated "Wednesday by the Howard county democratic convention for the State Senate, having won a decisive victory over his opponents. Col. Gorman is 30 years old and begins his political career where his father begun 30 years ago. Reduced Tobicco Sales. Winston-Salem. Special.?The sales of leaf tobacco during August on the Winston market aggregated 127.308 pounds, a decrease of 876,434 pounds over August of last year. The sales since October 1. 1902, were 19,676,481 pounds, an Incrase of 7.9SS.567 pounds over the saine months of the previous year. The shipments of manufactured tobacco this month amounted to about two million pounds. The exact figures cannot be given, as an order has been Issued from the Department at Washington which is taken to mean that such information must not be given out any more. i OR! FO the fart that all he said was ? good natu redly said, ttiat every Southerner felt that "Bill Arp" echoed his own thoughts and feelings. From the time that he asked "Mr. Linkhom for a leetle more time" to the present day, all have looked to him to express what they feel. At first those letters were written in the Josh Biilings style of spelling, but this was afterwards laid aside. ORIGIN OF BILL ARP. The non de plume "Bill Arp" was adoptc-d in this way: When President Lincoln called for volunteers at the outbreak of the war, Mr. Smith, who was living at Rome. Ga.. wrote a ludicrous criticism on the call, lie read the article to a group of friends on the street corner, and after a hearty laugh they hedged him to publish it; but he said he was not willing to have his name signed, lu the crowd, attracted by the reading, was a country wag named Biii Arp. who suggested that his name lie put to F At once the signature became popular. The Courier-Journal said of his letters to Artemus Ward in 1865, that "it v.r.s the first chirp of any bird after the surrender, ana pave reiier ana nope to thousands of drooping hearts." Auother paper said: "His writings are a delightful mixture of humor and philosophy. There is no cynicism in his nature, and he always pictures the ! brightest side of domestic life, :>nd encourages his readers to live up to it and enjoy it." Bill Ail) told much about himself and his family in his letters, which ho sent out for thirty years. They wero "talking letters," as Coleridge would i all them. "HOME WITHOUT MOTHER." He bought a farm at Cartersville, Ga., in 1878 and there he lived and wrote until within the last few years, I when lie moved to town. His late home. "The Shadows," is situated on Erwin street.and has a largo sloping [ lawn studded with giant oaks. His description of the condition of a home without the mother showed hum helpless he felt without "Mrs. Arp." iio ! said: SniTH, " BILL ARP." I "The clock ,-un down. Two lamp ( chimneys bursten. The iire popped out end burnt a hole in tne carpet, while I we were at supper, and everything is going wrong just because Mrs. Arp's | gone. I'm poking around and hunting I for consolation. I've half a mind to ; drop her a postal card end say 'Carl is not well,' and then go to meet her ; on the first train that could bring her. ! It does look like a woman with ten children wouldn't lie so foolish about one uf them, but there is no discount 011 u woman's anxiety. I wonder ! what would become of children if they i didn't have a parent to spur 'em up? j In fa/*t it takes a couple of parents to 1 keep things straight at my house. * * It's michtv still and solemn and lonely around here now. Lonely ain't the word , nor haw 1 in' wilderness. There ain't any word to express the goneness and desolation that we feel. T>lie do;* goes whining around ? the Maltese cats are mewing, and the children look lost and droopy. Hut we'll get over it in a day or two. mayIt. and then for u high old time." Bill Arp wrote letters to The Con1 stitutlon and the Ixnisisville "Home | and Farm" for many years. Ho published a history of Georgia. WociLrt mils K sunie. Boston, Special.?Most of the score or more of mills in Massachusetts. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine, owned by the American Woolen Company, which have been shut down from one to two weeks, will be re-opened. The shutdown was ordered by the Boston ofIie.e of the company, to give the 20,000 or more employes a vacation and to per mit changes to be made. General Hasselteno Dead. i Denver, Col., Special.?General Don Carlos Hasselteno, a distinguished scholar and linguist, died at his home in this city Monday. He was born in New Orleans in 1825 of Spanish parentage. The general's great-greatgiandfather was sent by the Spanish King to America to be governor general of the entire Spanish possessions in the Nevy World. General Hasselteno was a graduate of Miami, Yale and Heidelberg Universities and served in the Confederate nrmy. He was captured as a spy and sentenced to be shot, but escaped. After the war he was a member of Commodore Porter's staff. MI] IIT MILL, S. C., WEDNI END OF CUP RACES. The American Doat Won Out la Every Test. SliE SHOWED HER SUPERIORITY. [The Final Race Wai Hade on Thursday ?Sir Thomas Mtikrs a Speech. The international nip contest that has been in progress for the past two weeks came to a close on Thursday when the American boat, the Reliance, won a third time. The raring this year I was peculiar In that the HrltUh chal; longer. Shamrock 111 failed to score a single victory, losing in every sort j of weather. Sir Thomas Lipton has made a brave light for the cup. but baa failed thrc-e times in succession. The events of the present season have bceu about aa follows: The first race was a failure, both boats failing to cross the lino within the time limit. The second r:ice showed a signal victory for the Reliance. The third race was closer, the Reliance winning by a very narrow margin?less than two minutes. The fourth and fifth races wero both failures on aeocunt of the slow brecse blowing. The yachts failed to make an | effort on Saturday because of the i stormy weather. i On Monday the wind was stationary and no race was run. On Tuesday the <-cnditions were the same, and Wednesday showed no improvement. The final and deciding race was run on Thursday and was a complete vie{3 ^ VgjP Jiiim X.X" V *?V v: '-J ^ib-1 I I ? jX:C AilKIilCA's CTT. i I tory in favor of the Reliance, the American defender. The details of the final rare are givci? in the foiowing dispatch: New York, Special. -The Reliance, the American cup defender, won the third and final race, and the scries for ti'.at famous sea trophy, the American's cup. In a dense fog. which prevented vision beyond 200 yards, she finished the race at f?::>0:C2, amid the aeelatnation of the assembled licet. Shamrock III., after running for more than an Hour in me log. misseu trie linisn liae. passed by it. and then returned to it from the opposite direction. As the Rrlianre was then being towed through the fleet yacht, ensigns fluttering from i her truck an 1 spreading in celebration of her victory, the Shamrock III. did not crofs the finish line. As often said j of the historic race when the America won the cup. there was no second. This successful result was nohlived only after four futile attempts to sail off tho final race and after the outcome had bien admitted by even Sir Thonr s Upton to he a foregone conclusion. The day's was the eighth attempt to nail a race. A.fter one fluke the K?liance won the two following races, on by 7 minutes and 3 seconds, and tho other by 1 minute and 19 seconds. A week ago tho fust aternpt to sail the third ra ? failed and attempts have been made every day this week. On two ex-casions the Reliance led tho I M'.amrocx t ) mc imian line i>y n-nour 2 miles. but failed to readi it before the expiration of the time limit of f? hours. The day's victory means that the cup is destined to remain in America until England is able to produce a genius equal to HerrtsehofT in yacht i designing. Sir Thomas Sp-r.k*. i A banquet was tendered Sir Thorn- 1 as Lipton at New York Friday night, j It was a brilliant atluir. The toasts [ and responses were felicitous. The j speech of Sir Thomas was as fol- j lows: "As regard.s the cup race| we have been beaten fairly and squarely and I congratulate America upon ; having the better boat. I wish to i take occasion hero to express my thanks for the eonrteonsaoss and : klndnes shown me by the New York l Yacht Club. I am especially grateful for the admirable way in which the course *.vaa kept clear. "I havo heard much comment for and againut the Sandy Hook course. IT ^ KSDAY, SEPTEMBER It is as good u '-nurse as any other? nay there is no other course in the world like It. "I am benglnniug to think thnt there is some magic spell about that hloorain' old cup. Two years u;*o I had almost within my grasp, but it escaped me then as it has escaped me now. and seems as far off as over. Herreschoff is the greatest de ipner of the ago. but I am still very hopeful that I will see that cup on thr other side. "The American country is very hard to beat. 1 am a very dissap pointed man. but still I have the consolation that, both conquerors and conquered belong to the same good old rare. The cup is still in the family. only it is held by a younger and more ahead generation. Gentlemen, while 1 lost the cup, I rather did not succeed in winning it ; i iiitvi' n*v?i i in** WMrriu tii.ni JV-UU | will of my American friends, which I c teem anil rood will 1 reciprocate in j the very highest degree possible. I | am sure that as the (lays and years roll by these contests will not have b en held In vain if they make u realize that wherever we are all tin world over we shall 'brithers be fca' that.' " HESTER'S ANNUAL REPORT. A Remarkable Show'nj: For tlio Mills ?>t the South. New Orleans, Special.?The totala of Secretary Hester's annnal report of the cotton crop of the United Statea were proranlgated Tuesday. They show receipts of cotton at nil UniteJi States ports for the year 7.724.104. against 7.G79.290 last year; overland to Northern mills and Canada, It .083.383, against 1.103.95.7; Southern consumption taken direct from the interior of :h<? cotton belt. 13>20,07 2. ana In st 1.897.437. making the cotton "crop of the United States for 1902-19(13. amount to 10,727.559 bales, against 10.680.G5tl last year. ( I in.::?3.422 t:,< ymr before. Colonel Roster has miidc his usual investigation into t ne ions;;.option of the South end has received reports by mail utid telegraph fieri every mfil consuming rr>tton in the cotton growing States !nelmiing woolen mills that have used cotton, and the results show a total of - 'a i .. . c 11 : . ve were taken f*.xnu porta send included in port rcThis shovs that tiie mills of the South have msed up 02,738 liaies morv than diirinr 19O1-02 and 379.758 more ttian during 1900-01, .a most, remarkable showing in faro of recent trade conditions supposed to have been brought about by the abnormal difference bet ween values of the raw raa teriai and the manufactured artie'e. Colonel |fester's full report will be issued later and will contain interest In?; and valuable farts showing the . infi"Tnt',ip r t*>.-> s'ou'h by S'iit<>s, tTno taking* and consumption of Northern mills tin- ? < ; ronsunipli->n of American cotton. Ho will also give the crop 'by States and farts in relatlon to tin1 conti nuance of the remarkable increase in ilie spindles of Southern mills. In addition to the totals of the crop and Sent horn consumption ns above. Colonel 1I< t ?r also pave out the actuaQ crop of the State of Texas, which amounted to 2.830.625 liaJes. against 2.992.<M9; of Indian Territory, v M'-'i aain ntrd fn t1< 452. against 309.834. and of Okllhoina, which amounted this year to lvi.325. against 130.SI" last year. He also gave the exports for the year as follows: To Great Britain, 2.S51.R28. against 3.035.497, a decrease of IS".909: to France, 785,679; against 745.369. an increase of 39.710; io continental fiirnvan iv:rts. 3 030 958958, against 2.859.344. ti increase <if isu.^14; tr. Hriiisi) North America, 123.677. against 122.261. an increase of 1.410; the lot i! exports foreign, including British North American, amounting to t5.80ft.84Il. against <5.703.071, an increase of ?.7.772. lie states that Japan and China took of the past crop 135.408 hales, against 169,243, a decrease of 33.825. For Southern Navy Yards. Washington. Special .? Estimates hare been submitted to Rear Admiral Endicott. chief of the bureau of yards and docks, for the improvement a id expenditure at various navy yards, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1905. Pcnsacola, Fla., total $2,545,515, which includes: Central power horse for department of yards and docks, $104,500; machinery for the same $115,000 shop and office buildings for the same. $100,000; concrete and granite dry dock. $1,400,000; wharf and vessels under repair, $185,000; quay walls, $100,000. Key West. Fla.. total $375,570. which includes to continue quay wall, $200,000; additional land. $150,000. Charleston, total $3,640,000, including extension of storehouses. $120,00; yard and power house and equipment, $125,600; quay walls, $400,000; pier No. ?100,0C!0; coaling pier and plant. ?250,000; dredging for piers, entrance to do:-!?, $180,000; floe ?ng crane. $100,000; dry dork No.l.$;;;jO,0i'i0;ship filters' sliop. $100,000; smlthery, $150,000; boat shop. $110,010. Port Royal, R. C.. total. $4,860,246, which includes two Ptone and concre.te dry docks. $2,200,000; quay wall, $1,471.000; dredging basin and widening channel $500,000; railroad from Burton Hill r ) station. $258,000. New Orleans, total $8,810,190, which includes electric light power plant extension. $250,000; improvement of water front, $1,300,000; electric conductors and pine subway, $100,000; paving and ditches $180,000; railroad system. $117,000; brick boundary wall, $100,000; naval supply fund storehouse. $120,000; boat shops $125,000, naval hospital. $150,000; ordnance shop and offices. $120,000. pime 9,1903. KILLED AND INJURED. There Were Seventy Passengers On thenars. ELECTRIC CARS RUN TOGETHER. ? The Accident Occurred on the New Hampshire Traction Company's L..I1C, Pelham, N. H., Special. Through a head-on collision Sunday betwe* n two electric cars on the New Hampshire Traction Company's line, each running, it is said, at n rate of more than 2.7 miles an hour, four persons were killed and 19 so seriously injured that they are under physicians' care and si vera I of these are exported to die. As there were 70 passengers on the two cars, many others received cats and minor wounds which did not pr vent their going to their homes. The accident occurred on the line which rutis through thju town between Lowell and Nashua, and one of the ears, a Inch was coming from the latter city, was nearly filled with people on their way to a summer resort, i The collision vras due. according' to the officials of t.he road, to a misunderstanding of the starter's orders by the motorman of the ear bound for Nashua. The car starter enleaiored to rectify this mistake by sending a man to shut off the power and trying to recall the Nashua-bound car. but it failed. The accident occurred on a curve, on either t side of which were long stretches of straight rack. i The dead as reported up to 19 o'clock are as follows: Charles H. Gilbert, f>0 I years old, Nashua; Gabriel Collctt. 2.7 years old. Nashua: George C. Andrews. R6 years old, postanistcr, Hudson. N. H.; S'vmuel Mays, motorman on Nashua ca.r, Hudson. The cars met on the curve on a downgrade, neither motorman seeing the approaching car until too late to avoid a collision. Neither was mere time for the pnsscngci* to < scan by jumping when the ears came together with ft force that threw the west I'tnuui rar cihtuj u|";:i IU?j MHW.IIU pari of the other, crushing tlio top of ftir <'.<-wri upon the others anil phi'rng those o-eupylng the first three seats in the wreckage. Not one of the passengers on the two < u. t-r>. .tpcd I:.jury of Home character, nlthough a nutnhcr were not seriously hurt. Awful Condition at MonastJ. Dondon. By Cnhlc.- The Daily Mail's rornsjKjndent at M nam Sr. telegraphing under Saturday's date, says: "There is no doubt that a Turkish war of extermination is proe<? ding in tlie Okrida district. Tlie massacres of a century ago are as nothing compared with those occurring daily in lb" villayet of Monnstir. I have obtained substantial evidence t > pr . e that the Turkish Nizams t Turkish regular troops) are in most case s oaimitting unhearil-of atrocities, which are not r-oleiy the work of the Bashi-Bazouks, as the authorities are seeking to p ovo. The plight of the survivors is terrible. Not daring to leave their houses and subsisting on grass and water, they resemble people In the last stages of I famine. The Turks arc also losing heavily, judging from the number of wounded arriving." Among the instances he gives in support of his statement, the correspondi iP relates J that a priest's son in one village was fmyod alive nnd kept in this horrible ondition for several days, to the delight of !:is tormentors, until a merciful Turk shot him (had. I Fire it Columbia Columbia. S. C.f Special.?Sunday night about midnight a destructive con narration started i:i thin city on j Main street. It originated in the so ia fountain of Xopnpaa, in the Wiiev building, which w? . a roaring ton of II;* - - .v h< f. i-e tlie alarm conld he given and 7lie department summoned. At ft a. in., the lire was still in progress and 1 it is believed that the I )c sporte-: and | Mimnaugli blocks are practically ruined. The losses will be bmiw. The | Southern Railway's offices Tfowie's i holograph gallery, and Mimnnu-.th's* clothing store are dost'o.el. The hsss cannot be estimated at this hour, but i is helmed will an ount to $7.1.< ?' Turpentine Operators. Montgomery. Special A special from Jacksonville. Fla., says: "The turtvntine operators' convention will b held in Jacksonville next Tliur.dny nr. i Friday. The official (?: < rramtsie Includes addresses from Mayor Nolan of Jacksonville; former (lovetp.or Fleming, of Florida; I\ !.. Southerland, of Jacksonville; Captain John R. Young, of Savannah .< .n:-U T)r (' H. Ilrrty. of Washington. I). ('. In iirations are that the convention will be the largest ever luld. M.;ny r.i.-vtt<rs of imronanr.e to the in.'lcst y in C " rgla, Florida, Alabama. Misyiss'pp!, Louisiana and N irtii and South Carolina will be considered." Secured Mis I* len-ur Pittsburg. Special.?Aff?r three previous attempts to have his rc.igna tlon accepted by his congregate rt Rev. Frederiek Rrand. pastor of S' Pnttl's Second Mermen Lutheran church, succeeded in gaining his oh ject and will nccopt a call to Trim' Merman Lutheran chtireh. at Sarin ' field. 111. He will leave for his nt A field In about three weeks. NO. 25. A CRANK'S VMillES. Man That Wanled to Marry President's Daughter. o ??? THE DETECTIVES ARRESTED HIM. i:elluw That Claimed An nngagomcnt NN Mil 1'rtflJ.n! Roos.vclt (lave the Secret Ser\Ice Mm a Chance to Ilaru '! heir Salaries. e'yster liay. Special. A man giving liih name as Frank Wollbrc.nncr was arrested at Sagamore Mill Into Tuesdny night while making a perclstent iletnaml to see President Roosevelt. | The man was armed with a revolver 1 fully loaded, llo was taken to the v 11? ' lago and placed in the town prison. | Shortly after 10 o'clock at ulglit I Weilhreuner drove to Say a more Hill In a buggy. II? was stopped by the Secret Service detective <>n duty. Weilhreuner said he had a personal engagement with the President and wished to see him. As it was long after the tours when visitors are revolved, tlie officer dtelinod to permit him to go to th? house. The man insisted but the office r ttirned him away. | Soon after Weilbrenner returned and again insisted that he be allowed to seo the President for a .ni.iute. This tlmo l.e was ordered awaj and warned not to return, .lust before 11 o'clock tho man returned a third time and demanded of the officii* that he should be permitted to see the President at i once. The officer's response was to take. the man from hia buggy and put. lilrn in the stables, where he was placed under the guard of two sinldc.nen. A n volver was found in tin buggy. Later Weilbreiuicr was brought to the viI? .luge and locked up. lie is live fte-t. eight inches high, 28 years old, lias A medium-sized dark moustache, dark eyis a.ad evidently in of Gorman d scent. He resides in Sy< aset, about tivo niths inland from Oyster Iiay. He was well dressed in a suit of dark material and wore an ohl-fashionM derby hat. While Wei line iiner talked rationally ; to the officers last night, it simus evident. from his eonvorsntion thai, he is demented. He said that he had received a telegraphic communication asking him to call at Sagamore Hill. Weilliiearner'3 buggy was taken to a local livery barn. When asked what had become of the rig. Wilbronnrr replied: "Oh. the President h?i3 taken care of it That's all right." Weilhrenner, several years ago, luid a nervous attack which rendered him mentally helpless for a day or two. imt his family supposed that he had been quite restored by the medical treatment. ho had received at that tlnu riiitc iiii-ii ut.1 iiiiii liiiiuin'sicu r.o symptonis of mental abrrratlon. Ho had no socialistic or anarchistic. tendencies, so far as known, never having been intr-rested In any questions of that hind. He was employed daily on his father's farm. Weilbrrnnnr was arraigned before Justice Franklin on complaint of tho Secret Service detective who placed him under arrest. Weilbrenner'g brother. William, was present at the examination. Justice Franklin questioned the prisoner about bis movements. His replies were made in a quiet tone of voice, but they indicated, apparrnt! iy beyond doubt, that (lie man is crar.y. Asked why he went to Sagamore lllll 1 he replied: i "I went to see the President about his daughter. Alice." "Had you an engagement with tho President?" "Yes." "How was the engagement made? "I talked with the President las\ night," replied Weilbrenner. "How did you talk with him?" "Oh, I just talked." "A sort of wireless talk, was it?" "Yes. that is it: a wireless talk." "Why did you want to see the President about Miss Alice?" "I wanted to marry her." "Did you ever see Miss Rocsevolt?" "Yee. I Fiiv her night before last." "Where did you sec her?" "At my house." "Did she go over there?" "Yes, she came in a red automobile.' "Who accompanied lirr?" "Her brother, Theodore." Justice Frnnklin, after the examination. conclii'h I ho would hold Weilbrenner until an iiu ulry ??f lunacy could be held upon his case. Norfolk Navy Yard. Washington. Spr ial. The following estimates for improve r.irnts and expenditures at the navy yard named have Ir on made by th* chief of t'10 bureau of yards and do.-!.a, the Hsu res Laving been prepared by th" civil engineers attached to Uv> yards: Norfolk, total $2.r>lS.OftO. the principal items bring: F >r ships and d y docks $150,000; two 10,010-t >n coal shedwharves, etc., $225,000; general sto houses. $100,000; 31 buildings. $31 000; ship-fitters' shop, mould loft, p tern shop, r;c., $.500 003; ofllc/? bul ings, $-110,000; launching ways $10t 000. t * \