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CAMDEN^. 0., FRIDAY, MAIICII i>. woo AWFUL EXPLOSION.; A West Virginia Coal Mine lloi> ror. OVER 100 LIVES ARE LOST, j I'lfty Bodies Taken Out, and the Work of Rescue (lolng 0".-AcCl4<wt | Causal by Oust, Charleston, W * \'a., Special.? The greatest mining horror in tho New River region occurred at Red Ashe, j about 8 o'clock Tuesday morning, by an explosion In t ho rtaift mine of tfoo Heel Ashe Coal Company,. Tho mine was ! full of men and tho explosion occurred | near the entrance, which yas closod by I falling slate. A relief crew was quick- i ly at work. It is believed over 100 xnen wcro in the mine. Already 50 bodies have boon taken out ami the * s work of rescue is still going on. State Mine Inspector Plnkney i? pon the ground within corps of experts, lend ing all assistance possible. j Tho explosion made but little noise, J and tho accident was llrst discovered j by a laboror at tho entrance. Tho in- j Jured arc being eared for a# well as pos- I ' slble Milder the circumstances and every n?rvo is being strained to rescue those still In the -mine. Tho scene of the ac. cident is three miles above Thurmond, , on tho Chesapeake & Ohio road? Tho j principal owner of the mine is J. Fred j Aifflager, Of Slaunt?n,~Va"~TlIo in an a- j ger is Ferdinand Howell. It is believed that four-flfthS of the men in t}ie mines were killed. The mines are on the mountain side above water and the coal is similar to that y- found In the Pocahontas, district. On ibis account, It te>8ai<j befe that the ac cident could not ;(be caused by fire damp nor gas, its supposed, but from dust, as was bhe <^aso fh one of the tragedies some years agp in a Pocahontas mine. The district ]s" a wild one oh (Rush Rxm, which is a south branch of Now river, having its month at hurmond, It Is a^ut 65 miles from this city. The mlnersoecupiod the dwellings in the Yitlnity. of the nines. Tho news of the disaster swept through the -towR-IHte an -elrrtrlc Fho cK \ and within a few minutes hundreds of : men, women and children, relatives of | -the unfortu-naite miners, were crowded " ? upon the scene. As th<5 conviction that ?the rescue of the entombed men alive j w as hopeless forced Itself en. tho grief- < stricken crowds, they became frantic in ; tlielr endeavors to reach their dead and dying In the wrocked.shaft, aiitl work of attempted rescue was organized with extreme difficulty. Oil the first 12 aqen brought 1q. the surf?uui._llve-ia:ere dead or died within a tew minutes, ana several of the others were horribly burned or &rte?i1. As tho work proceeded and the dead bodies wef^. brought up, one by one, the scenes at 'the' mouth of tho ehaft be came distressing in tho extreme, Shrieking, frantic women and children Impeded the rescuers and added to the horror of the wreck. "Fire Creek, W. V?., ^peclHt.TThe ^ Red Aehe mine ? explosion la^' the ! most disastrous ?eve? known in : this district. Although the most hero ic work of the rescuing party has been ? going on incessantly all day, It is Im possible yet to estimato tho full extent of the loss of life and property. iMore than 50 dead bodies have already been taken out and the number of dead may reach 75 or more. It is thought that at least 45 miners are yet entombed in the wrecked mine. f brevities. An official call has been issued for 1Kb twelfth annual convention of the ^national Republican, league to .be held at St. Paul, Miim., Tuesday, July 17th. ^-Saoator-Pettotftr of- Alabama, 1138 In troduced a .number of amendments to (the PoHo 'Rican .bill which Include free ;tratfe~ with, (he island, reducing the president'* pow??r over the reve nue and changing the bill in various ' The Prfrgjg^nd Princess t&^Wales opened tnB^B[ (tenement builauu at Betnal (m^SbOBUnR 330,000 and aeconu^ming 5,380 people. WiUoa Coming Homr. Wiihl?trwi D,-C-, flpeotal.? Qaoc count of (ho delicate condition of Ad miral WUtffdb'a hoakh, he ha# be^> a? thorl?ed to IwttMfer his flag to the Baltimore, la to be do toched from iw Ajtt?tJcoqu*riroa and to proceed feooae far wa> of the ?uex w ? ho tho case probably THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. The South. The Virginia State Democrat lo con? vootion to elect delegates to the na tional Democratic convention,' will ba held in Norfolk on May 2. Lyeurgus D. I^aflin, tho wealthy gun powder 'manufacturer of Chicago, at Old Point Comfort, Va, It Is reported at Montgomery, Ala., that General Wheeler, who Is expcctoi homo soon from the Philippines, will aainounce him?ehf as a candidate for 'the Donioaratic nomination for governor of Alabama, and wPl not, therefore, be a candidate for re nomination to Con gress from his district. Ho in a great favorite In Alabama politically. Detectives, with bloodhounds, left Chattanooga, Tenn., for Aetna Mines, near Whiteside, Tenn., where a stiiko is in progress. It Is said there has been damaged by an explosion of giant pow der and engino and engine house havw been blown up. Nea- Wuke in Middlesex county, Va., tho boiler of tha steam mill of Mer chant and Hanson exploded, killing Mr. George $teurer and serlpusly in juring his two sons. Mr. Henry (Jar land, who was standing by, had his skull crushed and will hardly recover. Steurer was an ox -Union veteran, form* eady of Illinois. . <1 The North. Mayor Jones, of Tole:lo, 0., recently the. "golden rulo" candidate for Gov* ernor, is said to havo Congressional ambitions. Rev. Charles Patanersiton Anderson was Sunday conaet' rated Bishop Co. adjutor of t.hn 'ftpiKrnp.-il Dioceaso .of Chicago, III. ? A terrific snow?torm. acoompan'ied by a forty-mile Kale prevallod throug'h out Northern Ohio Saturday, seriously blocking traffic. Accused by her husband of infideli ty and locked out of her rooms, Mr*. Martha Ditmoyor; 20 years old, dr.iaX carbolic acid and- Aled at New York. ?Because recognition of their union was refused 600 machinists struck at the works of Prazer and Chalmers and of Crosby and Co., ajtljpiriotfg'*, 111., Sat urday. f As a result of a secret meeting at Cincinnati, O., of the Woodenware As sociation, it is said VtJhere will be an other advance in prices of all wooden ware article??. I The Penn^rldfie/ Company, oi U&av. er l'Vifls, Pa., was tjhe lowest bidder, at $94,610, for the erection of a ship fit ters' Shop ait Norfolk Navy Yard. A wealthy farxnep, Matthew L/aUi mer, aged 72 years, was .frozen to death While walking a half mile to his home, near Elyria, O. The body of Henry Water house, Jr. the Hawaiian plantar Who died at New York during his honeymoon, tha? been cremated, and the Wklow will take home the ashes. Although the American Magazine. tlur official organ or >tih 6~T>aii gbif o r s ci the American Revolution, has not been a profl'table venture, the society .'has , decided to continue It, with Mrs. Elroy M. Avery, of Cleveland. O., as editor. ilertert J. Willard, of "'Somervlllc, Mase., whose obituary was widely pub lished in New England a couple ol weeks ago, writer ton^he Dartmouth College paper 'that bo appreciates fcht eulogistic notices, buf he Is still alivn Fore&A. Her r^ I4g. King (Menellk's chief, whe la 1^ M&relHes, refutee the stofy that the K1r*g >ub planning an antl-Euglieb coup In Abyssinia. Rtfcter von J&uner, of the Carl Thea tre, Vlenak, one of- the be?$ theatrical managers in Austria, has committed ?ulcide with a revolver. Young Mrs. Ada Williams, murder ?M of her Baby, say s she "finds Ix>n doo prison life dull," and wants the officials to "expedite her execution." Oeiintess Dundomald, wife of Buller's cavalry general, 'has had a magnificent mvtmue of elms In A/bergele, North Wales, razed to spite ap offending Dis trict Council. /j * r Discovery of the. mutilated body of Thomas M. Atklnaon, a marine of tht United States enriser Piu'irle, In the canal at Havre, imiioates that lie was murdered and robbed by seaport thug3. At last accounts General Cronje wai stlJl at . Pa&pdeberg dTift, Orange Freo State, holding out against l^ord Roberts' British army. Ab assassin In the streets of Cara cas fired two ineffective shots at Presi dent Castro, of Venezula. General Duller has gained a decisive advantage by. the capture of Pieter's Hill/ Natal, one of the strongest Bon positions South of Ladysmith. hut the garrison Is represented to he in des perate straits and Buller has .ro fighting ahead. ~ AN EXPENSIVE WAR England's Expense Budget Readies $770,410, 000. PROSPECTS FOR A LONG CONTEST. The Expenses Hay Yet Be Very Large ly Increased? -Ten Year L'onds toBe Issued ?Income Tax Levied. London, by Cable. ? The House of Commons was crowded Monday, and nil the public galleries were thronged in anticipation of the budget 'utate i]?>t. The return of tho C i 1.141c/ lib r of tUpExchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Betfch, who introduced the Budget, show* that an expenditure of i54.0K;J, 000 pounds ($770,110,000) has '.o be provided for in the budget oi 1900 li>01. Tho fame statement show.s tint the e\oboquer account of 1S99-1900 would have given a surplus of upwards) of 5,000,000 pounds, but supplementary war estimates o? 23,000,000 pounds makes the expenditure exceed the rev enue by 17,770,00) pound's. 7The budget provide.} for raising 33,000,000 pounds ($175,000,000) by bond or stocks, re payable within ten yeaa-s. and ahows u deficit for the coming year estimated at 37,000,000 pounds. Tho Chancellor of tho Exchequer announced that tho country had to face a total estimated expenditure, in conaequence of the war' of no less than six times as much as had been estlmhtod lu October last. explained 'the various reasons which led to thiueaiiy introduction of pars budget, including >.? "de-ire to af ford both our adversaries and foreign critics proof of our earnestness* in the work in which we are engaged." ' He dwelt with satisfaction on the Increase in the actual over the estimat ed revenue duo to the steady and sub*., stantlal increase of business, and pointed out that tho Increase In the I value and volume of foreign exports f had been quite exceptional, it was not at the expense of home industries. Iteviewing the principal items of revenue tho Chancellor of the Exche quer said tobacco had been disappoint ing and thxt the increase from winse was not as large as was expected, which was due to the absence of winter festivities. Against the estimated ex-, pendlture of ?154,082,000 for the coin ing year, the chancellor estimated the J revenue, on the existing basis of taxa ,-tlottr at ?-116, {*00,000, trr a deficit of I ?37.000,000. He said the government' had made ! it he best calculation as to the amount jit ought to &$k from Parliament with a view of a successful prosecution of the war. But it was Impossfflfeb to he certain when the war would nc" con cluded and the expenditure might be larger. j To meet a total war expenditure of ?60.000,000, including a deficit or ?17, 170,000 tho Chancellor proposed that the stamp duties on stock exchange contract notes be extended to sales on 1 the produce exchange; that the beer duties be increased a shilling 1 2-1 cents) a barrel of 30 gallons; that there be an increase in the duty of spirits of six pence (12 cents) per gal lon, and tea two pence per pound. These changes, he estimated, would increase the revenue ?12,317,000, and he proposed to save ?4,460,000 by sus i pending the sinking fund in relation to certain terminable annuities. He propose^to borrow .the rest of the necessary funds. A totajoof ?43.000. 000 had to be raised, of which ?8,C00, 0Q0 waB now In the Treasury, and ?35,000,000 would be raised by bonds or stocks, repayable In a term not ex? eeeding ten years. (Jen Wheeler Arrived. 8an Francisco, Special. ? The United Staten transport Warren arrived here Monday; from Manila, via Hong Kong, Guam and Honolulu. General Wheeler ?.nd his daughter are aboard the trans port. The Warren made a <stop of ton day# at Guam to permit General Wheeler to make an Investigation of the government. established there by Lieutenant Leary.' The Warren bring? newu from Honolulu that of the three s impeded cases ^f pla*ao reported on February- 20,- but only one had proved to be genuine plague. .^Attempted Assault. Spartanburg, Special.? John Wilson, colored, attempted <to ravish ' two young white girls, operatives at Ttica paw mills, last Saturday afternoon. He was unsuccessful. Armed men 'have beetr hunting blm everywhere, and he will be lynched If caught. Two bodies composed of about ope hundred men each, are searching for him near Reld vjille and Greenville county line. Forty Living Wives. Chicago, Spec !il. ? Walter L. Farns worth, bigamist, was sentenced to the penitentiary by Judge Baker. He is said to have forty wives in various part* of t?he country. He was Indicted on four jt hargea and acknowledged he bad Men married #6ur time* without ? the formality of adlvoirce fom arty one Lflf the Xour wl vejL wbo$*'axo waa koo*n aa name*. Hts real Mc LAIR INS' mKW. Me Addresses the Senate on Philippine Question. In tho Sena/to last Wednesday Mr. ?McLaurln made hi a speech on thq Philippine Question, fuVorlug-tho policy of expansion, illo said In part: jfr "In discussion of tho question tUors has been manifested a disposition to Ignorv) the conditions by which wo nr?, confronted, and to project tho debat* upon a line of political sentimental- : i^rn. This mode of discussion in not ' only unpatriotic, but is an evasion of: tho true issue. This is noi a political ' question." Mr. MtfUmMn strongly deprecated j tho .pojfltiort which tho Di'inorMatW party nfcd taken in making the Phil- I ippine^Question and expansion a po- j lltlcal issue. He pointed to tho past tr. j show that some of tho greatest Demo j crats who ever lived wero expansion- i iyts and to prove 'by their acts n:>d J measures that If It had not been for j thorn Mu> United States woul I not haw ? been the nation it Is to-day. IIo took tho ground that t ho Philip- \ pines are rightfully and legally ours 'by the treaty of Paris, and that tho United States should 'hold them, af fording the Filipinos every oppartunl- ; ty 'to acquire the <u't <?f government ; and giving them all the powers end rights possible in the circumstances, j He dwek particularly on tho great op- i port unities afforded -by the islands for trad? between American and the na tions of the Orient. JIo did not as''- e ?with some of his colleagues on tho Democratic side that our <tra.de in tho easL 'Was a qaoro figment of -the Imagi nation;'- tO prove that the experience of tho last docado contradicted those who asserted that our eastern trade was not of immense consequence. "It is in the Orient," he said, "that we must look for markets. There must be a change In our policy. We must enter into actual competition for this} trade. Wo must as a nation recognize changed conditions, and I 'believe that by holding tho Philippines our t?a:lg in the Orient' will continue to increaso until all surplus products for years to come will find remunerative markets in the east." ?Mr. McLaurln then discussed tho special intr ests of tho south in the ex- j pansjon of our tradef^M "I ami-glad," said he, "to 'believe that the southern people have determined to investigate and study this question 4'aU}?r th*ui -t-oboJedfoilmUy 'bv politU I cal anti-expansionists. The southern j | 'farmer 'by the Increased price received | i for raw cotton last year has -became j t 'aroused. Fealty to party and nils- i 1 leading information, I fear, 'hus pro I j duced among thorn apposition to tor- j | ritorial expansion. The effort ha* j i been made in my own State to suppress j all 'information and arouse public sen. ; timent against expansion. The fright ! ful ghost of 'imperialism* 'has been held ' up before the people of the south to frighten thorn, 'bur 1 believe it is im possible much longer to mislead them." iMr: Mctawrln sat it, In sketching the progTess of the south during the past 20 years, that the blight of negro suT frage and negro domination had almost extinguished hope and energy and ?manly effort, but, like a giant 'bound with fetters, she aroused herself at last and again started upon an era oi in dustrial life. "Capital has flowed into that sec tion," skid he. "ThqjM Is confidence in all southern enterprises. The -bitter memories of the past are (being for gotten in the rush of the development of our resources. Our people feel that they are again a part of this great country and are left free and un trammeled to work out their own des tiny. Our southern^ manufacturers have all reached out 'to the markets oJ t'he Orient and discovered their advan tages. The southern farmer needs 'such markets for "his raw cotton tc make its production remunerative. "By the acquisition of the Philip pines we hold the toy to the eastern situation. We needr not rely eoleI> upon treaty rights to secure the un open ffoOr, but can demand equal com mercial opportunity^ with other na tions and if necessary*, wlt-h the van tage ground we have* assert that de mand Will the Unitfcd States throw away the golden opipojtunlty toy giving up the Philippines,*"*! am in favor o! hokMng t hem, autf I believe the eo??th etn farmers and manufacturers will sustain me in my position. I 'believe, further, that, the .presence of the United States and of its flag, *the fimbletn a J I human freedom, progress and oiviliza ! tlon, will carry to the millions in th? Orient unnumbered blessings which 1l the coming years will be for their bet terment and amelioration and will con duce to -the -perpetuity and glory fll our free institutions and 'the commer cial supremacy of the nation." News -Notes* The NeW York Herald prints & epe ?lal from Trenton, N. J., saying that it Is announced on good authority that f'nited -States Attorney General John W. Griggs Js booked for Justice Oray'a . Vice on the 8uprem? Court bench, rhen the latter reaches the retiring ige, a short time hence. The' Greenville, N. C? Reflector says feat Madam Elrado. the palmist, read be lines In the hands of ? gentleman tt Klnskm~oa Batwrday -aad-prafllstsd i Are at s church hs would attend 6a On the following Stmdar the attended serrtfie at the :hnrch and d?$nc the eer ? -it a m wud " wm NEW DORMITORY. Plans Submitted 1-orThc New 1'ulld ings ?t Wtnthrop. At the mooting of (lu> board of trus. loos of Wluthrop College steps wero taken looking to (ho commencement of the work on tho now dormitory at ( (ho earliest pois?jblo moment. Tho board had Architects Mil burn j and Wheeler before It an<l discussed j with thorn what is dcttlrod in tho way of plana ami specifications. They roughly estimated that the buildings desired by tho trustees tho now dor mitory and a model school building would cost $40, 00b, exceeding (he ap propriation allowed by tho general as sembly considerably. Tho arch It est* were tohl to eat off somo of tho "frills and fuPbeluwa" aaul submit plans and specifications within (ho appropria tion. When the plana have boon ?ub milted and aro approved, the boar a will proceed 'to advertise for bids for the erection of the buildings, and award the cpo'tract vd tho oarlktft' pui siblo moment*. Jl Is tho earned desire to have the new buildings ready for tho opening of the regular twholastic year next fail!. Tho board unanimously decided t i close tho college one week earlier than is announced in 'the catalogue --on March 0 jnstead of March K5. This announcement was made In tho chapel (he morning after tho board reached its decision by Gov, Mc- j Sweeney, tho chairman of the board. II? told "Hie gllla I -Hal he ami the t.i. norl(<y of tho board had endeavored to, get them a holiday at Christmas; now I the minority had captured the majorl ' ty and the girls would go home, ono week earlier than expected. The an nouncement in said to have been re ceived with vociferous applause by the largo feminine audience. War Claims. Tho iibts of those who are to reecivo part of . the $7,552.94 received from tho federal government on account of the war claims will not be published until Coi. Jones in whose hands the dis bursement of the money has been placed has carefully looked over them, it Is likely tliot he will have to secure i certain Itemized lists already referred to before ho wil proceed "to pay out nuj of 'the money. He will make a state- | ment in regard to the matter In a few j days. New linterprlscs. Tho {Secretary of State has granted a charter to the Eustey cotton mills of Easley. Tho chartcr was gran ted w-llh tho capital stated aL $200,000 with the prlvilego of increasing 'to $150,000. The cpjnpany wlshivl it placed at $2f?0,000, but having get forth $200,000 in tho de claration, the change was not possible. J. M. (leer 4s president and treasurer and W. ?M. llagood vice president A commission was issued to Win. 1\ Waterhouse and S. L. Bessemer of Ileaufoiit as corporators of tho Acety lene Gas Lighting company of that city. The capital stock is to bo A commission was a-lso issued to the Enterprise bamk of Laurens, with $50, - 000. The corporators are N. B. Dial and W. E. Lucas , of Laurens, W. S. <}fay of ,Woodruff, T. R. MoGahan and H. G. Rftytt of Charleston and C. II. Roper of Laurens. The Hartsville Hotel o ompany, of JHartsville, was also commissioned with $5,000 Vipltal. The corporators are J. W. Davit, M. S. McKeanon, Mary IBell, J. J. Lawton and 11. A. Edwards, all of Hartsville. A charter was granted the Cherokee Foundry and Machino works of Guff ?ney; cApltalizod at $5,000. The officers are J. A. Carroll, president; J. Q. Lit tles, vice president, and W. C. Sarratt/ secretary and treasurer. Tho Fidelity liflfcdiag and Lean as sociation of Anderson was' com mis sioned with Geo. W. Evans, J. W. Quattlebaum, 11. 5. Hill, James It. Vandiver, M. iM. Mattison, Ernest F. Ooohran , L. It. J'arker, R. C. I^aug'illn and W. F. Cox as corporators. Tho capital stock Is to be $25,000. Palmetto Notes. The semi-cenftmniaJ of the founding of the town oT Walhalla is to be cele brated by the people of that town on A>ugu4t 16th ami 17th next. It is likely that the date for the ex cursion of the State Press Association -will be changed, if It can- be done al this trme. Some of the members of the association do not like the kfca of traveling on Sunday afed the effoot is now bein* jnade to change the date n Um start can be made on the 14th. is- | stead of the 18th. The Idea Is *111 to Se away a week and ARP VISITS CANTON. lie Tells Ahout the Prosperity of the People. HAS KNOWN PLACE LONG TIME Mtulo ? on Horseback from l.nw rencevillo to Canton, Seventy Allies, in One Day. It looks like every township and county uud suction has got something peculiar to itself that la valuable for humui\ purposes and helps to sustain tho people and make them prosperous. 1 was ruminating about this because I have just visited Canton, a small re tired village of 2,000 people. I bavo known Canton for fifty years and have a good reason for remembering it. Soon after 1 was married my father in-law, Judge llntchins, asked me to rld.e over there and deliver some im portant legal papers to the clerk of thn court. 1 was to rldo his fine saddle horse "I-iCO," and h?> told me where to etay all night. So 1 kissed my pretty i young wife goodhy and made an early I start for the thirty-five mile Journey, j I was a good rider and I<ee was a free traveler. I'p hill and down hill and on ?the level stretches he never broke hU easy pace, unking about seven miles an hour, and it was Jiut twelve o'clock when 1 reached Canton. While 1 was feeding the horse and rubbing him : down I begun to think how lonesome i It would be to st?y there all night and how lonesome my young and pretty : wife would be all solitary and aluuc by .; herself and nobody with her to com- j fort her. I looked at liee and lie look- j ed liko he, -too, would rather go back j to where he fame from. iSo.aboul I o'clock 1 remounted and set his ears ?toward I*a.w run cevi lie. die seemed all right for many miles, but slacked up when afew miles from , homo and wo got thoro ju?t hk the family wtM'e fit ting down to supper. 1 saw mx, wife's smile of pleasure and 1 saw. 'too, the judge's look of surprise and displeas ure. ille ro.se from tho table and -went out to look after his favorite horse. T then began to realize that seventy I miles in a day was a long ride for a horse and that I had done wrong. Next morning I was up by daybreak to look After Lee. 'He was all right and as game as ever. The judge tiever/j said -anything hard, but he lookedy grieved. 'He. too, went out to look nftrr his ho-rsp and when TTCe^fhcTbSick sal<A: "i reckon l had better give you that horse or never let ydu rldo him again, for if you are to kill him 1 would rather he would be yours than mine." That is all he said, and It was enough. Somo time after that he did give him to me and he was tho ga-mest, proudest and best horse I ever owned. But I never rode him seventy miles In u day any more. I never think of Canton now but what the memory of -that episode comes over me. Well, I would rldo a hundred miles in ^a day now to reach my home, and n>y Wile, but it would be on a railroad. Canton is tho county Beat of Chero kee ? a l/rge county, that was the ho-me of tTie ?Cherokee Indian* until 188(5. 'fhe natme came from f!hi>r;?, which means fire, rfnd tho Cherokeoa were known among the tribes as the prophets of divine fire. There were sev eral Indian tow.ns <Jn this region and their chiefs were known as Stop and Chicken and laughing Gal. The region around Canton is rich in minerals. Cold and c op-pc-i and iron and marble abound in het hills. Somo of these have enriched <many men and tho pursuit of them have ruined many ?more, but lately new processes of min ing have made the results more certain and now northern and English capital has given fresh vigor to the work of digging, crushing, quarrying and re ducing the ybres and finishing the mar-, ble. Marble work Is especially being extended f and new quarries being opened, i was told that only a few years ag4 Jadge Gobor and a few as sociates nought a marble quarry not far nway for $3,000 and were recently offered $25,00'0 for It and refused It. The Georgia Marble Finishing Com pany have planted near the depot very extensive works that employ over V>0 hands, all white and all Georgians, and most all of them young men. Mr. Brady, a very courteous Boston gen tleman, Is the managerand sajdhe was pleased to say that these Georgia bo/s wore Ju&t as ready to learn the art of working and finishing marble and Just as qaick and skillful as any he ever controlled. I watched 4hem at work in tho different departments and was proud' to see their progress. This Is n. large plant and the marble waa seen In all its stages from the great blocks Just froon the quarries to the most beautiful of finished monuments and columns and building blocks. There were hundreds of them and Were all to All orders, principally from the north and east. It take? forty-elf ht hours to run the gang saws through one of those huge blocks. The sowa are of the hardest steel, hut hare no teeta. They are itfoved rapidly by steam pow der and work through sand, and* water. Soma of the men are working wtth mallet and chisel and ?ome turning marble In tur|ili?? fohes and some are polishing on the horlsonui planes of immense re*fclvin#wheela that, are flooded with thine there improvement to data" is wmwm. Hir . jl.. Ev, A. A-.: .Mining fop gojd anil sliver id, I reck tn, tho oldest Industry In the world 1 outside of agrptcuHtire. Moses tell* us that In -the qarden of Eden thei'o was gold, and It was good. CJoJd and si Ivor vovy soon began to be a bimetallic cur rency. .Abraham., bought a burying ground with 100 sftekols of silver that, was current money wltj? the merchant and it Is remarkable that a silver sliok-* el was worth 60 cents and a gold nhekel was worth $10. That isent very far from 16 to 1. Maybe w# hfcd better fall back on those nncleitt scriptural relations of tho metals and make ours 20 to 1. "Jvhey had both silver and Bold In great abundance, for Zttcharlalt 6'alth: "Thtf heaped up silver as the dust and gdljl as the mire In the streets." And Moses salth Abraham svas rich In silver aud gold. In the long ago I used to know' tho good people of Canton, but they have all passed ovor the river. The Mc Afees, MeOonnells, Wheelers, Grlsh ams, "Tntes, Brooks, RusKs, Mulllns and Dyers. Some of their sons and daughters aro there etllt and gave mo generous welcome, and I was pleased to pat their little ones on the head and say be a good boy and mind your mamma. .1 saw tho old time-honored Canton1 . home of Joo Brown, ^he place whereh* lived when, like Cln'clrinatus, he waa called on by a committee and inform ed that ho had been nominated for governor. Old Joo made his start right .here In Canton teaching school. Years ag<* 1 met (leneral Ira Foster and he said: "Yes. 1 knew Joe's .parents before ho was born. They were very popr. His Aunt Sidney' did my hashing when I wa^ it young man living- In Dahlonega. Joo cultivated a little pateh of hllleide land with a pair of bull calves and every Saturday hauled something to - town to well and lake baek ?ojrt<Rhiny ' "lo the family! In 18<39 I v^J^ndlngto Canton in a buggy and overtook a young man walking In a very muddy I lane. jj)n had a striped bag 'hanging: over Jfls shoulder aftd Iboked tired. X asked \hlm If ho would not *get up and ride with mo. 'lie looked down at Via -- shoes and said he waa too. muAd&JKui.. _ 1 Insisted Htnl iin lirnkn nff ft wjWlnr.rtP from a rail and cleaned the worst of ? the mud off and got in. i learned-front him that he was tho same Joe Brown and was going to Canton to $et some tiling to do. And ho did. They him up a sehoofand ho taught it. I have kcj)t my eye on him for . forty years and he Is still a wondier to me." A? 1 surveyed the time-worn prem ises I ruminated on bis eventful life* How ho rose and rosre and roee t|ftl| and never fell. Kvcrythhig that^Mtdaa touched turned Into gold and *0 dvery Tnlitlcai effort that Joe Pre writ j made was, a success. . 1 recalled his. long?controversy wiMr Bob Toombs and how finally- be -4e-_ - uounced Toombs In the preee as avIlar and a scoundrel and Toame pent ft friend to ask him If hlii cburc?i rela tions would prevent him from jtfttBpU ; ; ing a challenge, and old Joe fe&lied:; "Go tell him to try me," and' Toomba - . never sent it. 1 recalled the time when Henry Ofady wae discussing Wltr, ,.. Toombs the IHvantage or disadvant-' age of a young man having a collegiate L ^ ed neat Ion ...and said : were some very great" and successful men who never had any education to speak of. There ,was Patrick Henry" and Henry Clay and Tom geutmi and there was Joe Brown, who waaeo peor--^ in his youth he had to plow a bull." * "Plowed a bull, you say," said Toombs. "I never heard that of hlta, l:s but If it was so you may set that' down -to his credit Henry, but it wae a dis grace to the bulL" But I .am pleased to remember thai : hc.sc tT/c ,great and notable men made frl^ml/befdr'e they^Usd. Old FaUitr ? Time ? tt^ood doctor apti mellows ua all down.? BUll Arp, fl f Atlanta Oon? J stitutlon. A Devonshire wiTNItSff. ' Mm tl AU. The difficulty of discriminating tween the first and third pertoOs been ynuslngl y Illustrated by the Lord Yddcslslgh, who need to boi of telling Devonshire stories, aay* Westminster Gazette. Ons of htft vorite ones was of a Devonshire ift who wiw a witness in a horse stei case. "Tell us whaj jou know a) this case," said tha, proaecutii^rai sel. "Well, tar," wafc thrnwttg* the prisoner and I Md to. IM^ about that 'oaa, nntt he ami jn jj know nort about the 'oss." *T<4' the counsel said, "he didn*fc-i|| ' knew nothjng about the horss^iMtp apeak to you In the third ptnjHjgK your pardon, *ur" said the ;^hm "there wasn't no third persogjjpl oply him and me." "You <k*yQB ?(nnd what I mean." was tW"aB petulant reply. "He spoka' tjjj?3n the first peradh." ^'Yoa^Wjg agen," said the witness, "tejlS fust pusson as spoke-to I point- the Judge luteiTMHs^HH question hlmeelf. "You aaW^Sfi oner and you said, 'How. jrijgB horse?' and the prisoner Wgppgj know nothing about th* Wg "I bee pardon, mj lord," eaflfe neea. He dMo't mmimM m ship's naipa it ail.* vjjjji