The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 09, 1900, Image 1
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