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FORT MILL TIMES.
(VOL. XIII. FORT MILL, S. <J., WEDNESDAY, DEC EM HER 7,1901. NO. :?7.
DOWN ON CHANCES
Government Takes a Stand Against
Guessing Contests
A STRONG DECISION AGAINST THEM
The Attorney General Holds That
They Are Illegal and the Postoffice
uepariment whi Accept This View
of the Matter?The Elimination
From the Mails of Advertisements
Relation to Them Will Not, How""r'
**; T^cfe Aosolute at Once?
A Rear Admiral to be Named For
The No'th Sea Tribunal.
Washington. Special.?An important
Mooting of tho cabinet was hold today.
Two questions of concern, particularly,
were considered, the first
1 oing tho appointment l>y the President
of an American naval officer on
the North Sea tribunal, and another
being an opinion rendered by Attorney
General Moody, regarding the legality
under the lottery laws, of guessing
contests, which have been conducted
by many newspapers and magazines.
It. was settled definitely that
the appointee to the tribunal would
be a rear admiral of the navy. It is
practically certain that the selection
will be made from among three officers?Rear
Admirals Davis, Chadwlek
and Sands. Admiral Dewey let it be
understood that he docs not care for
rlit honor.
Attorney General Moody's opinion
on guessing contests is of a most ,
sweeping character, and while the
lost master General has 110 inclination I
tc. \?i rl( linrrlolilx " ? ? 1 * l? '
... 11> u)M'ii ?i;i* niMi), lit*
will put th<> Attorney General's .'ndf?
tacnt. into c-lTect as soon as may he
practi able. 11c realizes that many
thousand.? of people have invested
smail or .arge amounts of money in
the various schemes in the hope or
expectation, in the words of the opinion,
that luck would enable them to
win Istrge returns. "A comparatively
small per rentage of the participants
will realize their expectations," continues
the opinion "Thousands will
get nothing." The Attorney General
says the schemes are in effect lotteries
tinder the guise ot guessing contests.
llith'Tto the l'ortofllre Department
has hern operating in respect to guessing
contests under opinions rendered
by the Department of Justice. These
opinions have hold that whore the
1 < rsonr, could use a "dope hook," or
records, or scientific information, in
making their calculations, their guessc
<; were an -application of knowledge
which, in the view of the Attorney
(leu era I, eliminated to an extent, at
least, the factor of chance. The opinton
held, to quote one of them directly
that "calculation, foiesight. knowledge,
inqt iry and information enable
the participants to approximate the
correct results and the use of the
mails in promoting such enterprises is
not a violation of the law." Attorney
Genera! Moody points out, however.
Chat "since these opinions were written.
the Supreme Court of the Uniled
States and the Court of Appeals of
New York, have ruled that eases iden- |
ticnl ? n nrirw 1 .. 1 ? * -
.! iu uicae miner consideration
wrrc guessing contests."
Postmaster General Wynne tonight
?avo out a statement, saying: "As a
number of legitimate business enterprises
have adopted the estimating or
guessing conte.-.ts a3 a means of advertising.
and in view of admission to
the mails of matter pertaining to these
contests within the last few years,
the elimination of these schemes from
iho mails cannot be made immediately
ausolute. If such a scheme has
air. ady teen entered upon in good
faith, the Department will not issue
an order that will seriously injure
a legitimate business. Each case
will ho handled separately, and no
scheme which involves the plan ruled
against bv the Attorney General wil!
hereafter be allo??d to commence op
?rations."
Progress of "Open Shop" Idea.
New York. Special.? Members of the
Citizen's Industrial Association representing
all sections of the country
were present when the second annual
convention of the organization opened
in the new Hotel Astor. It is the
aim of the convention to bring about
a complete organization of manufacturers,
business men and all large employers
of labor to advocate the "open
shop" idea. President David M. Par
ry, in bis address, reviewed the growth
Oi" the "open shop" movement and said
that within a year 1 000 factories hav$
opened their doors to workmen without
regaid to their membership in
unions.
No Important Changes.
Mukden, y Cable.?No important
rhenge has taken place in the situation.
Only occasionally skirmishes have occurred
along the right and center. The
Japanese have been feeling out the
Russian strength on the extreme left,
resulting in four days' fighting with to*
Japanese eventually retiring.
M1WSY til.KANINCS.,
Tn Vogu may l?c seen an Kngtisn
K'-nlw keeping guard over a Ituriuesc
idol.
Tlio French Oovernmcrit h*^ decided
In erect an electric telegraph lino
across the (ileal Salmia.
Report* of the wholesale slaughter of
deer ami game birds out of season
come to Dulutli from the ranges.
More than r>00 students worked tlteir
wn.v through Columbia I'niversity last (
year, earning in various ways $71,
021.17.
The oldest woman who married in
r.erlin last year was seventy two: 22S
were over tifty years, and one under
sixteen.
A remarkable state of contraband
lias Just been brought to light iu Spain,
where the growing of tobacco in Spain
itself is prohibited.
One of the features of the Lewis and
? lark Exposition in Portland next year
will bo a great dog sliow At least 1.MJ0
dogs will bo thoro, it is promised.
An Italian. Luciano Bntti. lias porfpctiHl
a photographic appnralus'capnl?lo
of registering the incredible mini
her of *2O00 photographic impressions
n second.
An Austrian genius lias made the discovery
that celluloid, prepared in a
special way. provides a material out
of which hats and the most delicate <
flowers can be made.
Two pictures which were found in
the old Roman Catholic cathedral at
Leeds, and which were bought by a
dealer for a few shillings, have been
pronounced to he a genuine Rubens
and Vandyke.
A new form of looping the loop Is
promised the Parisians. A French engineer
says he Will make a motor cat
run down a steep slone to n wide opening
in the track, at the edge of which
it will mount a springboard ami iurn n
complete -omvr.-auir.
PROM IN FAT PEOPLE,
Roosevelt Is Dutch, and means horse
IHMU.
Copenhagen has lost its most prolific
novelist by the death of Louis ile Moulin.
The oldest orator in Germany is Deputy
Schneider, in Eberswnlilo, now 103
years of age.
tine of the ir.asl extreme vegetarians
is the well-knotvu Itussiau sculptor.
Prince Troubctzkoi.
The German Emperor once designed
a pa <5U of pihylug cards, the faces representing
voriou* npt>Jjles.
George Clinton Payne, of Newark.
N. ninety years old last .Inly, still
earns his living as a book canvasser.
Willy Hess, leader ol' the lloston
Symphony orchestra, began his musics?
studies an six and at ten was an infant
prodigy touring Holland.
Dr. Brown, explorer in the Orient
for the British Natural History Society.
who Is now in this country,
speaks twelve languages.
Father Uienrdo. director of the meteorological
observatory at Santa Clara
College, near San .lose. Cat., has discovered
three large spots on the sun.
?mi ins reccm uiriuuuy rviug IMMViirtl
VII of England conferred the honor of
knighthood ni>on Dr. William .t Sinclair,
professor of obstetrics ami gynecology
in Victoria University, Manchester.
Prince Wrede and his second wife,
the ex Madame lignite/., now divide
their time between Madrid, where the
princess lias some property, and Munich.
where the prince is one of the
dignitaries of the court.
The Earl of lteiifuriy, CovernorGeuerni
of New Zealand, who. I?y the
way, is descended from William Peiiu.
Is authority for the statement that,
in seven years, there i as liecu no labor
strike in New Zealand.
The President Returns.
Washington. Special. ? President
Roosevelt arrived here Tuesday at
7.02 a m . from his visit to the SL
I>nuis Exposition. The special train
was awaited by a throng of several
hundred peopie in the Pennsylvania
Railroad Station, and as the train drew
into the station, tlict crowd broke into
cheering. It was 15 minutes later when
the President, accompanied by Mrs.
Roosevelt and her daughter Miss Alice
Roosevelt alighted from their car.
They were driven at once to the White
House.
Favors Hague Proposition.
Washington, Special?Mr. Hioki. the
lapaneso charge d'affaires, called at
tho State Department and informed
Assistant Secretary I*oom?s that the
Japanese government had received
yesterday the invitation of th<- American
government for a second conference
at The Hague, and that the In
\iixi i"u ouuia tie prompny presente'l
to the piet. The intimation is that
the proposition meets with Japanese
favor.
Paid Negro to Kill Husband.
Jacksonville, Fla., Special. Jake
Bradford, colored, and Mrs. M. J.
Plummer. have been arrestai 'or the
murder of J. (}. Plummer. vrho was
shot and killed Wednesday night
while sitting on Iris porch, and Bradford
has made a confession, implicating
Mrs. Plummer. He says that
she offered him money to kill Plummer,
but that he refused to do so;
that he had fired the fatal shot after
she had handed hlni the gun and he ,
had taken it away.
ARMED AT THE MINE
?
Stockade Established and Bad Times
Are Expected
STRIKERS INDICT JOS. LEITER
Charge of Bringing Armed Men Into
Illinois Preferred Against Officers of
the Zeigler Mining Company?Attacks
on the Minina Settlement De
scribed By the Company's Attorney
as Desperate?Machine Guns, Aided
by Searchlights at Night, Hail Bullets
Into the Bushes in Answer to
Shots From Ambush?Military Called
Out.
St. Louis, Special.?A special from
Dmiuuin, 111., says that it became
known there. Wednesday that thrco
weeks ago Joseph Lciter was indicted
01: three count3 on the charge of
bringing armed men into the State,
contrary to recentiy passed statutes.
No attempt has been made to servo
the rapla3 or to arrest Lc'tcr. because j
Slate s Attorney Scott will retire and
wishes to leave the rase over for his
successor. Indictments have also
been returned against Attorney Henry
Piatt, of the Zciglcr Mining Company.
The charge is taking armed men
through the State without permission
of the Governor. There are three
counts in the indictments.
The punishment for tho offense on
which the two men have been indicted
is confinement in the penitentiary
from one to five years, with no fine
as an alternative. Union miners and
railroad men in charge of tho ears on
vhich it is alleged imported miners
rode and were guarded by armed men
wero the witnesses before the grand
Jury. \
Members of the executive hoard of
the United Mine Workers say that
leniency was given Loiter and Piatt.
and that no one outside the grand |
Jury room knew that indictments ha?l
been returned until the information
leaked out.
Thus far in the Zeiglcr trouble, one j
fran has been killed. That was on i
November Kith, when a car load of
miners was being imported and the
car was fired on from ambush, one
Austrian being fatally shot.
There are no records of any other
person even havtngfi been injured.
A few have been waylaid and beaten,
but they were not in Zeiglor. They
were men who had gone to some of
the nearby towns where liquor is sold.
For these assaults, only one arrest.
uas neen made, and the prisoner
proved an alibi and was released.
Attorney Piatt says the attacks on
Zeigler had grown so bold and had
become so desperate that sheriff
Stein found it. necessary to call out
the militia. All was quiet Wednesday
night. Just what effect the presence
of the militiamen will have on
the str^ko at the Zeigler coal mines
remains to be seen. At Zeigler the
Stockado is about 800 feet Jong and
de. It is a tight board
fence about fifteen feet high. At each
end at diagonal corners are blook1
ouses, in each of which is a machine
gun. As soon as the darkness
approaches these guns arc placed in
readiness for an attack. They are
used, too, Attorney Plat says, every
right.
niei- is pujnauiy no oenyinK mo |
fart that some shots aro fired into
tho stockade from ambush. It only
requires one shot for the men behind
the machine Runs to got in action.
They send bullets into the trees
f>00 yards awny like hail. Piatt says
these shots from the machine Runs
have been answered promptly.
Youngest Catholic Bishop.
New Orleans, Special. In the presence
of a conRrcRation which crowded
the old St. Louis Cathedral. Father
Cornelius Vandeeven was consecrated
Bishop of Natchifoches. Bishop Mersichaerts,
of the Indian Territory,
preached the sermon and Bishop
lmnne, oi Dallas; nisnop Allen, or Mobile;
Bishop Merdaguer of Brownsville.
Texas; Bishop Gallagher, of Galveston;
Bishop Hestin. of Natchez, and
Bishop Ritcher, of Grand Rapids. were
present. Bishop Vandeeven is perhaps
the youngest of the Catholic bishops
in this country. Until lately he has
been in charge of a church at Baton
Rouge, I .a.
Joint Invitation to President.
Atlanta. Ga., Special.?An effort originating
here, has been not on foot
to have the committees representing
Atlanta, New Orleans, Nashville and
Knoxville in the National Manufactur
ing Association, which have extended
invitations to President Roosevelt to
visit the South, meet at an early date
In Washington formally to present the
invitation.
FOR THE OPEN SHOP
Movement Among Tmploycrs Against
Labor Organizations
A NUMBER Or TALKS ARE MADE
? ? ?
Citizens' Industrial Association Takes
Steps to Fight the Boycott, Limitation
of Apprentices and Other I *.
Union Measures?Will Discriminate
Against Neither Union Nor Independent
Labor?Steps Looking to
organized Effort?president Roosevelt
Alleged to Have Assented to a
Remark That Responsibility Must
Be Put on Unions.
Now York, Special.?Plans for organizing
the employers of labor in this
country to combat the labor unions
wore considered at Thursday's session |
or the Citizens' Industrial Association
convention. Among the several addresses
delivered was one by Daniel
Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn., executive
agent of the American AntiBoycott
Association. Mr. Davenport's
topic was the purpose and work of the
American Anti-Boycott Association.
Ho (olil of the suits against the United
Hat tors, which, ho said, had been of
great moral ofToct in bringing homo to
workers responsibility for the boycott.
John Boattie, n representative of the
Master Painters and Decorators* Association.
speaking of t lie labor situation
in New York, said: "Recently 1 asked
President Roosevelt, as an American
citizen, to use his influence to put the
responsibility on lnbor unions, anil lie
said:
" "That's the thing that is needed.'
The report of the committee on resolutions
as adopted re-aflirms the objects
as adopted by the Chicago and
Indianapolis conventions of the citizens'
Industrial Association, and again
declares for "the open shop." Pemamling
only good faith and fair dealing.
it discriminates against, neither
union nor independent labor.
"The freedom of the apprentice and
' rlizllt r\ f tltn ;t* A? l- ?
- .n..v i.. ? 111\i > 1*111 (ii hi iiavr rv |
trade and follow It.
"THp right of private contract, with
irniini obligation upon employer and
employes.
I "The right to work, limiting the
I hours of lahor whether of brain or of
the hand as a matter of mutual agreement.
not a subject for arbitrary legislative
enactment."
The resolutions direct.the executive
committee to take the necessary steps
to secure a proper channel of activity
for the correction of interested organizations
with the . Citizens' Industrial
Association of America. The resolutions
oppose the limitation which the
trade union sets upon the number of
apprentices in any shop and favors the
establishment of public artisan schools
giving a diploma which shall be the
evidence of the right to begin to orae
| ti<'o a trade. r
The resolutions finally condemn the
policy of trade unions in prohibiting
membership in the State militia, as disloyal
and dangerous.
11. F. Thompson, of Birmingham.
Ala., said In part: "Politically you
speak of the solid South, hut there is
something solid in the South besides
i that, it is the 'open shop.' That is
fair to labor, because It asks nothing
but merit and skill. There nre cities
in the South that have not a single
union shop in .them. Chattanooga is
I one of them. We are prepared In the
South to protect the 'open shop' with
the same strength as we protect the
sanctity of the home, and we bog of
you to do your duty as patriotic citizens
and make the North and the West
and the Fast Just as solid against
trades unionism as we have made the
South."
David M. Parry, of Indianapolis, was
re-elected president of the associate n.
President Did Not Say It.
\Vashlngton. Special.?It was author- I
atatively Stated at the White House '
tha't the President did not make the
remark attributed to him by Mr. Beattie,
of the Master Painters' Asso.
elation.
Telegraphic Briefs.
John W. Yerkes, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, reports estimated
receipts for the present fiscal year
as $1130,000,000.
It is believed either Rear-Admiral
Davis. Chadwiok or Sands will be tho
American representative on the Anglo-Russian
commission to investigate
the North sea afTair.
Attomcy-Oeneral Moody declares
guessing contests conducted by publications
are forbidden by the Anti-Lot
tery law.
Private John Smith, of the Army
Hospital Corps, who married a negress
was dismissed from the service by tbo
war department on the ground that she
has another husband living.
Colored Industrial Schools .
Lynchburg, Special.?The better element
of the negroes in Lynchburg began
a movement for the establishment
of an industrial home and orphan*'
.school of domestic science in this cityThey
have secured a building jn
which to begin operations and the
school will be opened as soon as possible.
It is the intention of the promoters
of the project to ndil a reformatory
to the home.
t.a!*,( ?i* woni.P.
.Tnpnil luis a f,-<Million of lano- \v!t!i 1
almost ?in|.(I(hi iii?mul>nrs
The Japanese rioe wnr'aer is a fatv.il
Inr sijilit in Texas ami Louisiana. j
News from Hie Santa l-'e. Ca! . iv.a- .
obi lusts' union is very ev.veurasinjr.
The American 1'txleralion of Labor
convention was ln-Ul in San Francis-<>.
The ne\f convention of the th i.
layers ami Stonemasons' 11>.f. i 11i<?i> iT
Union will meet in San I' ; > .laniiai'j
s, t?HV?.
In Wisconsin lilt* eiihi liniir day
" iiiiifaetiuitn; and me"in
c"ts unless ??lj
ir.ii:' Toronto had
1 . Involving od'JS
nn >rler <>T II > mi; >11
lit Is
T ..rated i"nl >n tin.million
:( ivcilmion nllin : for
the in ..noli of the Now Yi'iU t.'ily >
Itnphl Transit Oonnnb ^ioe.
A State Federal Ion o* T.nl or ha* I
been organized in I'lali. and . i or;<
are to t>o made thoroughly to oi .in'/.
the workmen i". thai territory.
Keeeiitly published cer,?i;s I" ir.vs
show that every fifth i hiltl i>etv.i cii
the aires or ten aiiiI lift /en in the
United Stales is a hreadwinn
The president of the Iron Moulders'
I'll ion of North America was arre^n?d
in Cleveland, Ohio, charged with abet*
tin^r the ilestrnetioii of property
Til.. ill,.11 of t 1 I li..? . .11
Ycntion in S;iti I'raiicisco voted
for t*? *! i ?*f of 11 to -Mr ! r- ;ii '
have levied an assess!' lit lu- lUii: c
relief.
Those Sled ' i employes who at
tln? invitation ol eoinpii \ invc-lod
in shams of tli mu crn's .stock are
now eniigra t ula ilieinselvo- on 11u
rtvon* rise in u of their investment*
Gastonia ink Fails.
OnPtonta. N* I C Special ?Quito n
sensation was sprung hero Wednesday
afternoon, wlu-n State llatik Examiner
J. O. Ellington closed the doors of the ;
Gastonia Hanking Company at :
o'clock, and took charge of the assets
pending the appoint men? nf a reoeiv- !
er. The failure of tliis well-kno-vp fl.
nancinl institution came as a complet
surprise to the citira us of the town
Mr. John P. Cov?\ ;1 prominent cotton !
mill man. is president, and Mr. Jatucs
A. page is cashier.
7"~ : I
proposition Keceived.
Panama. By Cable. ? Secretary of
War Taft who is here for the purpose
of effecting a settlement of tlu> differ
ences between Panama and the canal
c^nmission received the Panama prep
osition in writing late Wednesday af
tornoon and may make his reply soon.
The negotiations between the Score
tary and the government are being
conducted in secret and no details as
to their nature will lie made public uii
til an agreement is reached.
Yacht Stranded.
Charlestaon. S. C.. Special.?The
yacht Josephine, front Providence
which left Philadelphia about three
weeks ago with Ernest T. Pepper and
James Carnan on hoard, en route to
Fort Myers. Fla., was blown ashore on
Dehordea Beach, near Georgetown, on
account of the engine breaking down,
and was towed into port this evening
by the launch Dcenee. The yacht was
slightly damaged and will be docked
and replured. n'o one was hurt.
Live Items of News.
Some striking figures are contained
in the annual report of Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson.
The President and Mrs. and Miss i
Roosevelt returned safely to Washing- i
ton from St. Ixniis.
Kansas contributed n figure of John '
J. Ingails for Statuary llall, in the
Capitol.
The New York State Court of Ap
peals declared the Eight-Hour law tin
I constitutional.
David M. Tarry was re-elected presi- |
I dent of the Citizens' Industrial Asso
elation in N<>\v York.
James n. Duke, the tobacco niillti
millionare. was quietly married to Mrs i
D. M. McCredy. ??f Camden, N. J.
At a meeting of the Citizens* Indus j
trial Association ?n Now York the i
methods of labor unions wer? denounced.
Herbert D. Newton, of Brooklinc
Mass., stated that Andrew Cornegi" .
name was on the $500,000 note offered
as collateral by Mrs. Cassie D. Chad
wick, but Mr. Carnegie pronounces
this absurd.
Had High Opinion of Carleton.
Will Car'eton while traveling re- ,
!.. I- . - *
I ? i moB^oani among the j
I Greet) mountains Is said to have fall- I
; en into a literary conversation with
a prosperous farmer. In the course
of conversation the farmer, who had
no suspicion of the author's identity,
quoted from Mr. Carleton's poems to i
illustrate some points he was
trjing to make. "Oh. that's from
Carleton!" said the poet, "and I never
. have been in the habit of believing
half he said." The farm* r eyed hint
a moment sotnewhat contemptuously.
"Well, stranger," he retorted slowly,
"I don't know you nor I don't want to
he uncivil, but if you ever know half
as much as Will Carleton does you'll
know twice as much as you do now."
END OF GREAT FAIR
World's Exposition Goes Out In Blaze
of Glory
MANAGEMENT HIGHLY GRATIFIED
Closing Exercises Held in the Plaza
of St. Louis. Exposition President
Francis and Gov. Dockery Delivering
the Principal Addresses?Mr.
Francis Says the Fair Has Consumed
His Entire Time For Four Years and
is the Work if His Life?Final Day
Designated "Francis Day" in His
Honor?Closing Scenes Impressive.
^t. Iyonis. Spci ial. Tin* Ixiuisiana
Putvlin n Kxpositi<?ti lias ended. Tho
Still '11 '.IK Illlil tii'le 11 i I i < ill I I'VuinJitldTi
whose i -ntlrilH ot' interest have extend< 1
into i \ tv portion til' the civilized
world, and ? ven itito aboriginal roo
in. britmin^ within 11? gates of St.
Louis miliii ns of visitors from
throughout the entire world, has run
its course, end now passes into history
as probably having comprise,1 the most
representative collectioi\ of the resources,
industries, ur*. pcopie and custotns
of the world ever assembled.
The hest order has been maintained
throughout; there have been a few
tires, t in all wen i," small moment,
with the e\ option of the destruction
ot the 11.nv,< | loo I loo. and the partial
destruction of the Missouri Ltuil1mg.
re, inly. The former was imines
?Ii:11? ' > i*i i-uili. No loss of life has occurred
during the exposition from accidents.
St. Loit s has proffered most
gnu iocs hospitality to the world, and
it has been ac< epted.
Throngs of visitors have poured iti to
attend the exposition with the expectation
in being please 1 and satisfied.
The> have (p p u p, | aiiiazeij and gratith'd.
The opinion has been expressed
:?t all time <m all sides and without
reserve, that '!>? Louisiana Purchase.
Kxposithn pas been a success. Tho
man probably most prominently known
in centicetion with the World's Fair is
the president. David It. Francis, and it
was deemed lit tint; that the final day
should lie designated as "Franeis Day,"
in his honor.
"This exposition lias been the work
of my life, said President. Francis, "it
lms consumed ni\ entire time for the
past four years, but ever\ hour has
iiren an leuir of pleasure to me. 1 have
exhausted my stock of adjectives in
trying to describe tliis fair, it is as
difficult to do it justi. e as if is to paint
tlie lily."
The i losing exercises were held at
the base of the Isiuciana Purchase
monument, in the plaza of St. Ixuis.
where were held seven months ago
the exercises that formally opened tho
gates to the world. The principal
spec dies (p live red w? re by tiovernoi
l.ockery, of Missouri, nnd President
Francis.
President Francis, in his address,
spoke of die lasting influence of tho
fair, "which marks a new epoch in tho
intellectual and Industrial advancement
of the world and the dawn of it
new era in the industrial relations of
governments and people." in conclusion
ho sai<': "May the enterprise with
which we have been connected for
nearly seven years past bring into still
closer brotherhood all the nations and
nil the peonies who have participated
in it. May ii deepen our patriotism.
May it strengthen our for a benign
Providence that smiles upon tin."
Promptly at I o'clock all the grent
exhibit places were closed and visitors
were excluded. In the palace of Agriculture
onslaughts were made on some
of th< i xhihits. where the settings were
composed of straw and fragile material.
and for a time general demolition
was threatened, but prompt action in
afTeeting a general ejectment put a
stop to tlio threatened turmoil.
Steadily the white bulbs silhouetted
the exhibit palaces against the night,
periodically the illumination of the
Tfli- .f
;* t I .?.*#. (II rtl.ti*'." nui IIIOIIII11II K, I'VI* LI Veil
Hill changed fn m white tr> red. then to
green. and then t> 1.1 k and white. Over
"t> Agricultural Knoll tho great floral
clock < Iirk'',i off the minutes of tiio departing
iisreint. .Ami in the night rang
"i t the '"tv ; of 'ho massive hell, an
the midnight hoar was tolled hy the
; great ,l?"'h. ins'antly a hush seemed
I to |n rvadf tiie entire grounds. The
glowing el.>(tric hulhs slowly hegan
[ dimming- the pulsations of the great
| et.gin^fi that drove the cascades gradnnliy
,jied down. The light faded steadily.
diminishing until tint a faint glow
was perceptible. Suddenly there was
darkness, and the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition had pasted into the chronicles
of history.
Oift to Methodist Church.
Nashville, Special. The lat* millionaire
philanthropist and dry Roods nior*
bant cf St. Louis, rurhanl M. Schjrrs
ir? his v-iH j"st filed, makes specific
hrqpfitr, of SI'l.fiOO. Large amounts
a if pft to tin* .Mi-thodist Church, South
foi the foreign missions. To W. It.
I-.10.1)11'h. Sccrotary of the Board of
Mi:-,.,i<:n<"! of Nashville $"?.000 arc left,
for a cirl's fchool at Hiroshima. Ja*
pan; BMinp E. It. Hendricks will get
quo for missions and tho same
siini:; a'< left to jiisliop E. E. floss,
IhahcP Chandler. ,,f Atlanta. Bishops
Calloway and V/j'^on for the same
iM'rpORt
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