The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 29, 1907, Image 8
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WHO LEFT
T1I f
DOOR OPKN.
Ity Mary 10. W ilkin-.
k*u nit' pantry door open?"
saud Mistress Hapgood, sternly.
stood before them straight and
??il! lu her Indigo blue petticoat and
K?wn, with her black hair roll
?>?*1 back under a tiny cap, and her
&fau:k eyes Hashing. Her cheeks were
.a* red as roses. Mistress Hapgood
a handsome womi.n. The chil
r^Ti'n. five iu" them?Priscllla being the
looked up at her with appre
CfafrAnlon. Somebody had left the pun
&nr iloor open and the cat got in and
tar-Jped herself to a large piece of spare
cralji; It had happened several times be
ttore thin, and now a severe penalty
-was to be the consequence.
""Who left the pantry door open?"
wepoated Mistress Hapgool. "The one
altai did must go without supper to
The children looked at ea<li other,
?fnrle ttilas and Aunt Prudence Heals
ami two cousins were to sup with
that night, and there would >je
?Johnfty-cake toast~ made wltli cream,
9>inm sauce and pound cake for sup
l*>r. It w;js a good deal to forego.
WiFlress Ilapgood stood Waiting, and
Alan great white eat that had made
Till this trouble sut on the hearth
?v?i:ihing her face. She had been shov
ed ?mt with a broom, but had walked
en again.
At lat;t Nancy, the youngest girl.
ftToke the silence.
"I saw Thomas coining out of the
gantry," said she.
Thomas, who was the very youngest
;>)!. I ri)ke into a laid wail, and the
xteara rolled down bis i'at baby cheeks.
"I didn't leave 'ee door open," he
?)bfced. "I didn't! "
"What did'yon go into the pantry
at all for?" queried his mother with
severity.
But Thomas only dipped bis double
Into his pinafore and sobbed
harder than ever.
"Answer me!" repeated his mother,
an a commanding tone.
. Thomas clioked out a word which'
JUancy interpreted.
"He says he went into the pantry
after a pancake," said she.
"'Thomas, go and stand in the eor
nur" said Mistress Hapgood.
And little Thomas, still lifting up
3xis voiee, trudged across to the cor
ner, and settled himself therein, with
/a. teary face to the wall.
"Now," said Mistress Hapgood,
??"when did you see Thomas go into the
jjwintry?"
"This forenoon," repeated her moth
'jpr. "Haven't you more sense than
Ifeat, child? The whole family has
foren in since then. Now, stand in a
ar?w." ?
The Hapgood children obediently
farmed themselves Into a line in front
aaf the hearth.
"Np^, Priscilla,"j?aid Mistress Ilap
you/tSave the pantry door
bn?"
''No, ma-am," answered Priscllla, of
(fer'a little hesitation. Her fair, sober
Xace had a troubled look.
"Polly, did you leave the pantry
wSoot upen?~
"No, ma'am."
"Isaac, did you?"
"No, ma'am."
"Nancy?"
"No, ma'am."
Thomas, did you leave the pantry
Amr open?"
"No?o, ma?a'm!" wailed Thomas
tirom his corner.
ti&nd all the Iiapgood children had
olonled leaving the pantry door open.
The frown on Mistress Hapgood's
Sarfc deepened.
"One of you left the pantry door
?pen," said she. "There is no one
??iJrp who could have done it. I have
l*rn away and yOu children were
.alone in the house. One of you is
telling a wicked flb."
There was a dead silence. The chil
dren stole inquiring glances at each
*>fhi;r, and rolled fearful eyes In their
?Bother's direction.
"'Very well," continued Mistress
Iiapgood. "if one cannot confess, all
must. suffer. You must all go without
jrour sapper."
Then Thomas' wail deepened and
jwotop of the others joined in. Prls
*Jlla strod still looking at them. Mis
tress Iiapgood, with her lips com
pressed and stepping very firmly,
fenought out thp pound-cake, and cut
it into squares, ^nd portioned out tho
plum sauce. The thin Johnny-cakes
"were baking before the Are.
?'Presently PrlsciUa went to her
mother and pulled her indigo gown
*?niy.
"Mother!" she said.
"What is it?" asked her mother,
tibortly.
*'J went into the pantry this after
noon. 1 might have left the door
""Don't you know whether you did
?r notT".
?T iftouldn't wonder If I did," an
?weied Prlscllla, trembling.
Just then there was a noise out in
the yard; the company had come.
?"Well. yu'J can ko without your ?uo
per, then," said her mother, hurried
ly. "A it<i you deserve a greater pusi'
ishthent for not telling me before."
While ilie other children sat at ilir
'ahie vsiilc their elders, anil ate the de
licious Johnny-cake toast, the pound
cake and the plum sauce. PriacilLu uJ.L
in ill..- corner and knitted on a blue
yarn AtockiitK. llei uncle and Hunt
and cousins and her father, Captain,
had all hern informed of the reason,
and Prlscilla hung her head over the
sun-king and could scarcely see the
stitches through her tears.
They w< jc almost through supper
when (irandmothrr J^llloi, Mistress
Hai.good's mother, came in. She liveil
just across the yard. She sooke to
them all; then she looked sharply at
I'rlsciHa.
"What has the child done?" asked
she.
Mistress llapgod related the story
briefly. Grandmother lOlliot looked
surnrlsed.
"Priscilla did not leave the door
open," she said. "1 came over this
after no n after your balm of (Silend
bottle. Adonlram cut his thumb, and
1 left the door open on purpose; it
was smoky in Vhere, and I was afraid
it would make your new butter taste.
1 did not think of the cat. All the
children were playing ' over in the
field."
13 very body looked at Prlscilla. Then
her father spoke up and he could not
have spoken more sternly to the sol
diers whom he commanded.
"What does this mean, Priscilla?"
said he.
Priscilla bent her face quite down
to the blue yarn stockings and wept.
"Did you know that you did ?ot
leave the pantry door open?" he con
tinued.
"Yes?sir," gasped Prlscilla.
After the company had gone her
father proceeded to deal with her af
ter the code of his day, and in ac
cordance with his own convictions. He
took down the hi re Iw rod, with which
all the children were acquainted, and
he bade Prlscilla stand before him.
"I want you to remember, daugh
ter," naid Captain Hapgood, "that a
falsehood is a falsehood, for whatever
cause it may he told."
Then he brought, down the birch
rod several times over Prlscilla's slen
der shoulders.
Priscilla bent her face quite down
to her apron and cried softly. Captain
Hapgoc.l, after he had put away the
birch rod. went up to her and drew
the apron gently away. He was not
a man given to endearments, but he
kissed her solemnly on her fair girlish
forehead.
"The rod was fcr the falsehood,
daughter," said Cautain Hajgoo.l;
"and this is for thy kindness and self
sacrifle toward thy brothers and Bis
ters."
Mist reps Hapgood was bustling
around the hearth. Presently she call
ed Priscilla.
"Draw up to the table and have your
supper, child." said she.
Mistress Hapgr-d had baked a fresh
sheet of Johnny cake that was tbanner
and browner than the others had been;
she had skimmed, more cream and
dealt out a liberal dish of sauce. Pris-.
cilia sat up and partook. The taste
of the food was very pleasant; her
shoulders still tingled from the birch
rod, and the distinction between the
right and wrong of a doubtful action
was quite plain to her mind:?Con
gregatlonalist and Christian World.
Mistletoe Loves the Oak.
A review in (he Outlook rebukes
an American writer for wondering
whether there is any "natural con
nection" between the oak and the
mistletoe, seeing how constantly they
are associated. "In Great Britain,"
says the reviewer, "the oak is one
of the trees on which the mistletoe
notoriously does not grow." And it
is true that the English child learns
In an early lesson of the honor in
uhieh its Druids held a mistletoe that
by rare chance did grow on an oak.
Hut the reviewed book, being Amer
ican, is amply justified. The hills that
pi^rround the l^ck Observatory, in
California, and that bear its domes on.
their highest summits, are entirely
covered with oaks, and it is not too
much to say that every oak carries
a bunch or bunches of mistletoe.
There are square miles on miles, a
whole district, full of the "natural
connection." And a connection cer
tainly existed in the Druidical mind.?
l>ondon Chronicle.
Bismarck's My6tic Number.
Bismarck, writes a correspondent
in reference to our paragraph on
superstition, held, with Pythagoras,
that not thirteen but three was th?5
great and perfect number. Bis
marck's associations with three were
remarkable. He had served three
masters. He had three names?
Bismarck, Schoenhausen, and Lauen
burg. The arms of his family are a
clover leaf and three oak leaves. He
was concerned in three wars and
signed three treaties of peace. In
tho Franco-Prussian war he had
three horses killed under him. He
brought about the meeting of three
emperors, and was responsible for the
triple alllanee. He had three chil
dren; his family motto was In Trini
tate Robur (Strength in Trinity):
and contemporary^ caricature pictured
him with three hafra on his head.
Three was the beginning, the middle,
and the end of Bismarck.?London
Chronicle.
All There Was Room For.
"1 see Governor Warner of Michi
gan, was Inaugurated while in bed."
"That so? How many ettce*eekera
were under the bed?"?Philadelphia
I.odeer.
CROWNED AGAIN.
??By Macauley, in (ho Now York World
"LOOK FOR THE WOMAN" HERE;
STUDY HER VARYING MOODS
Talk About "Laying Bare Her Soul '?These Brie! Stories, Gathered From One
Day's Telegraphic News, Prove What Adam Knew. That She
Excites at Ouce the Loftiesi and Lowest Kmolions.
It is not necsssary to "look for ihc
woman" in any of these short ;m<i it?- j
tercsting stories. As always she
aroused the love, inspired the jeal
ousy, excited the hatred that lends
thein all a moral and makes them all
so valuable to the student of human
nature?New York World.
Father Tears Hride of J 1
From Husband's Anns,
Richmond, Va.?Jeter Matherly, a
young man of Pittsylvania County, is
under arrest at Chatham, charged
with swearing falsely to the'age-of
Miss Edna Adkins, the fourteen-year
old daughter of Preston Adkins, to
get a license to marry her. The Hev.
A. T. Ponton, pastor of High Point
Church, had just said, "Now you are
married; may you be happy," when
Papa Adkins and a policeman entered
the parsonage.
The father seized the tearful girl
and took her home,,where he locked
her up. The young bridegroom cried
and raged In the road and begged to
see his young wife in vain. Adkins
says he will prosecute Matherly for
abduction as well as false swearing
and that on these grounds he will di
vorce his daughter. Matherly pro
tests his love for the girl, who bitter
ly resents her father's interference.
Bridegroom of 18 Shoots
AVife and Kills Himself.
Richmond, Va.?Oris Thompson, a
cotton mill operator, eighteen years
old, shot and fatally wounded his
young wife and Hilled himself at
Lynchburg. They married three
months ago and quarrelled two weeks
ago. Then the bride, who has .worn
long skirts only sincc her wedding,
left her husband and sought a board
ing house. ThonYpsoJi went to his
wife's apartmentif and talked with
her awhile. \
She vowed she wo\ild not return to
him. Mad with jealous rage, he
drew a revolver and shot her twice,
one ball piercing her neck. Then
Thompson blew out his alleged
brains. '
Kills Man, Flees With
Victiir^s Wife; is Captured.
"Richmond, Va.^-^'Kid" Solon un
wisely killed Edward Darling at tho
Eskrldge & Carrington's camp, two
miles from Freo I-lill. Darling's wifo
left him two weekB ago and went to
Solon's home. Darling, who is said
to have made threats to kill Solon,
went to Solon's house. Solon saw
him coming, ran into the yard and
fired twice, killing Darling instantly.
Ho took $40 from Darling's pockets
and fled with Darling's wife. But tho
fact that she was with him made his
capture easier, and he was soon
taken. ?
Jealous Woman Vuts on
Man's Clothes and Shoots.
Kenosha, ".Vis.?A woman wearing
man's clothes shot twice at Herbert
A. Graves, a young unmarried archi
tect, in his offico. One bullet pierced
his left hand. He cays only:
"The person who shot me stood
behind portieres and T saw a raincoat ?
SUB-TREASURY CASH NOT FOUND
Count of $62,000,000 in Chicago
Falls to Reveal Missing $178,000.
Chicago.?The official count of the
money in the Bub-Treasury was com
pleted, and with it went the last hope
that the missing 9173,000 might be
aeeounted tor through a mistake in
depositing or chcchis? up.
- Practically 969,000,000 was gone
over under the direction of Deputy
Assistant Treasurer Gideon C. Bants,
who catte from Washington to su
pervise the work.
and women's boots n<l a ? ian' ? hat.
She ran away."
Sue loft '.".is nolo, which he police
have:
"1 liave decided to kill myself.
Don't, br ig any more girls fw.n Ken
osha to Raeino while I am alive. I
would have killed yoy last night only
my nerve failed me.'/
The note is unsigned. The poll 20
say the writer is a married woman of
Racine, where the Graven family live.
Graves admits that the Racine yi'oman
is jealous of him, but vows he is not
certain that she shot him.
' Pleasant Surprise" For
Jones an<l His True Wife.
Saltillo, Mexico.?The wife of (!.
IU lie Jones, a wealthy American busi
ness man in North Mexico, has ar
rived here .from Long Beach, Cal.,
whore she lived for several years.
Shr> was pained and shocked to; find
her husband living with another Mrs.
.Jones. He weakened, was taken be
fore the local authorities and swore
the Long Reach woman was his legal
wife. ,
Jones came to Mexicp twelve f^ars
ago, bringing wife ISjo. with him.
The original Mrs. Jones says that sho
received letters regularly from liim?
lie always wrote that he was work
ing at a small salary in a remote
mining camp and could not got
enough money ahead to visit her. She
has been saving money for several
years to make this visit, thinking to
give him a pleasant surprise. He has
a son born In Mexico.
Died Rather Than Marry %
Man Her Mother Chose.
St. Louis.?Rathec than marry tho
man her widowed mother chose for
her husband, Miss Grace Truitt, a
pretty girl of sixteen, killcd herself.
She took carbolic acid at Mrs. Henry
Lang's home, No. 4 252 Finney ave
nue, and died in an ambulance'on the
way to the City Hospital. A letter
from J. H. Weakley, of Pueblo, Col.,
was found In tho girl's pocket. In
it he called her his "black-eyed
friend." He regretted, too, that Miss
Grace and hor mother could not get
along amicably.
"I often advised Grace to be less
girlish and to think of marriage,"
said Mrs. Truitt. "Mr. Weakley was
deeply in love with my daughter and
wanted to marry her. I favored the
match. Wo moved to No. 90 North
Garrison avenue two weeks ago, and
I told Graco that she could not re- I
coive any young men there."
All of n Sudden Wintnrbcrg
Lost a Good Appetite.
Lakeview, Iowa.?Mrs. Charles
Wintarberg, the young and pretty
bride of a business man here, has
suddenly disappeared, causing a sen
sation, particularly to Mr.- Wintar^
berg. He lound this note on the din- |
ing table instead of his dinner:
1 "Good-by, Charlie. I am going
away. I do not love you any more."
inquiry develops that a well-known
young man of Auburn, Sac County,
to whom Mrs. Wintarberg was once
engaged, is absent from home. The
husband says ho had no intimation of
his bride's unhanplneas.
Nine Die in School Wrcck.
Nine persons, eight of them school
children, were killed and many oth
ers Injured at Durango, Mexico, by
the collapse of the roof of the public
school building while the rooms were
crowded. The dead Include ono of
the teach erB.
William O'Brien Gains Libel Suit.
Tl? Jnry M th<\ Jtbel suit of Will
iam O'Brien, M. P., against tho
Freeman's Journal, of Dublin, Ire
land, awarded the plaintiff a farthing
on each of the six count*.
Hut Roosevelt and the railroad
presidents are not in thorough ac
cord as to what action shall bo taken
to end tlio agitation. The Presideni
desires thp enactment of a Federal
franchise law, providing for the issu
ar.ee of licenses to corporations, in
chiding railroads, and another law
which will result, in squeezing th??
wafer out of railroad securities and
protect the public against. the "high
finance" methods of the railroads.
The railroad presidents want Pres
ident Roosevelt to issue a statement
which will cause a change in the at
titude of the people and Slate Legis
latures toward the railroads, and also
desire him to use his influence to
end unfavorable legislation by the
States With this end in view Chair
man Yoakum called at the White
House to assure the President that so
far as bis road is concerned it ear
nestly "desires to co-operate with tin*
Government in the enforcement of
the new rate law, tlio lOlkins Anti
Itehate law and the Sherman Anti
Trust. law. Sir. Yoakum said there
would be 110 objection to further Fed
eral legislation, especially if It be
B'.ich as to guarantee Lo the railroads
F.tablo freight, rates and protect them
from hostile legislation by the States.
The view is entertained here that
with tlio unprecedouted prosperity of
the country and the large patronage
the railroads are receiving, the
shrinkage in values which Is recorded
in Wall Street, must bo-the result of
speculative tactics which have abnor
mally bulled the market, ami that se
curities are merely returning to their
normal value because the manipulat
ors have been unable to maintain an
unnatural inflation. The President
and his advisers make no pretense to
a deep insight into Wall Street meth
ods, but it has occurred to them that
perhaps the preset shrlr\kag>? ia'^tot. |
an altogether unmixed evil.yind ft is t
a perfectly safe inriH^mco tliat a ma- '
terlally greater RhriiiXago would not
produce anything approaching a
panic among the men UL^chtj^jfe of
the affairs of the nation.
ARRESTS FOR LONDON THEFT.
Two Famous Criminals Taken For
Robbing Tiffany's Abroad.
Now York City.?Charged with
having committed n jewelry robbery
in London, the biggest recorded by
the polico in twenty years, two
thieves well known to the police were
arrested on board the Hamburg
American liner Amerika when she
reached Quarantine. Jewelry valued
at between $25,000 and $.10,000,
which it is alleged they stole from
Tiffany's London house and another
big jewelry store in Bond street, was
concealed about their persons and in
tliei^ ilrst cabin on the Amerika.
Tiust men were booked as Arthur
Preston Green and Charles Rohror.
Their pictures are in the Rogues' Gal
lery. **
MANITORAN LAllOR FAMINE.
Vast Railroad Projects That Contrac- ,
tors Are Unable to Carry Out.
Winnipeg, Manitoba.?Six thou
sand miles of railroad are under con- ;
tract to be completed during 1907 on :
the prairies betwceu Winnipeg and !
the mountains rt Western Canada,;
on tho Canadian Pacific Railroad, :
Canadian Northern Railroad, Great
Northern and Grand-Trunk and la
cific. The latter has opened 10 J new
towns.
There is no labor to complete this
work. Contractors are growing aos- I
perate, as they are under heavy pen- j
alties to complete tho work. All hill \
contracts are let W/ith a bonus and
penalty in Western Canada.
Felony to Run a Bucket-Shop.
Governor Folk, of Missouri, signed
Jhe bill passed by the last Legislat
ure making it a felony to operate a
bucket-shop in Missouri. The pen
alty clause also includes any tele
graph or telephone company which
fuiuliiidH information to a bucket
shop. The Governor also signed a
bill amending the pool-selling law so
as to make telegraph and telephone
Instruments devices (or registering
bets on horse rao<m.
PRESIDENT S CONFERENCES
MfllMi CONTROL
Discussing Siiu*:\Iori With Various
Governors and Magnates.
VIEWS ON WALL STKEET FLURRY
II. !'\ Yoa';uin t'ir^t I > See llr-oM'vel;
??Hodi Island's Head, t.iUe liar*
lillian, Si'i's it; I'cdi'ial Control
I.t'SM'i' of 1 v ils.
Washington. l>. c President
Rooot'vclt heuau it series of confer
ences regardinn 11??* policv of the
Government toward the railroads
? when lit? had .in hour's talk with It
F. Yoakum, Chairman of the Hoard
of Directors ??f the. Chicago, Uoek
Island and Pacific Railroad
President Mtdlen, of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
also hat! a conference on railroad
matters with the President.
No decision has heen reached as
(o whether President McCrea. of the
Pennsylvania; IliiKhitt, t)f the Chi
cago and Northwestern. and New
man, of the New York Central, will
come here for a conference, but it is
the President's purpose to discuss
this matter thoroughly with the Cov
ernors of several States, and other
persons who are posted on railroad
matters.
President Uoosevclt is determined
to secure further legislation, which
will give the Government more pow
er over the railroads, and the rail
road presidents themselves are ready
to agree to it if by so dolus; they can
bring to an end the hostile legisla
tion by the Stater., which has. they
say, caused depredation* in railroad
stocks and bonds, and made It difll
cult to borrow money for better
ments.
SALVADOR JOUiS MMS
Nicaragua Wins Son Fight 2nd
Takes Trujillo.
Iluiuloran \iivj. Manned Willi Anicr*
leal (.miner*, I >*? !"??;?. I *? t!?WOt)
H.ttt.ulni'i'.iii Triin;> in I'icld,
I
l'an.iiuit. ' Informal iop has been
received h r. from tv'da'ile so'Sree#
ill Salvado. I<ti(lin.', lo ,dt<>.v (lia( t!**?
I'epublie <>f Sal; .".dor ban for 111 i'<l an
j alliance wltli I !om! u; a ; in the ,war
; against Nicaragua
i ' u x ?IV'' hundred Srt!vadorean
troops are said (>> li:,1.<? made a land
. .in;; a' Vmanala <>n .Mi r< h in, and to
. have started on ill - march lo t'liotu
leoa. Tho ii' :i it 11 <311 ;* *??.????
i niaiul ol' (lorwral li.-" 11;< sa. jiit well
t eqnlnpod. and rami* tram Sail Jdiguel.
| Honduras
CJenoral HoiilUa, President of the
; Honduran ltopuhlh. has starled for
I Sei*ovia. Nicaragua lending a Oon
I shlornhle number of soldiers, among
; whom are two largo detachments of
j Nicaraguau -revolutionists under
j command of (lenerab" ?'ha\ai ria.and
| Cbamorre.
I The Guatemalan ijovernnionl is re
: jiorlod to havt> refused 11? grant (ho
request of sonio Honduran rovolu
j lionistK for permission lo cross tho
frontier for the purporc of invading
llondura*.
| Managua. Nicaragua.- Nili?ra.<uan
| na\al forces have captured i ii?* port
[ of Trujillo, Honduras. One gun. a.
I nu nib or of rilles and considerable
; ammunition wore among tho spoils.
J Tito TTondtitan gunboat Tatnmhla
I and tho Mexican steamer Olympla,
under charter, both with ox-Amerl
can scant on on board as gunners,
I were reported to have srtlletl front
j Puerto Cortcz. Honduras, bound for
I Trujillo. It Is said heie^tltat. tho
I Hondurrxn iit>v?l voxels were defc;^.
j cd by I ho T taragaan forte? ov olso
they did not arrive in season i.o pre
vent the capture of the town.
Washington.?I'liilip llrown, soc
retary of the American Legation at
Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras,
has telegraphed thotState Denarliuent
Ihal II Is reported there that Tru
jillo, a port on tho north coast of
Honduras, Is hying at'aei:ed from
the sea ?hy Nlcaragtian forces.
It was reported several days a?o
thai three Nlearaguaii steamships
with armed forces aboard w< re in iho
\ iciniiy of Trujillo.
stkinkxhiciu; cask cwji v.
Arguments on Motions ?;? Moycv,
Hay wood ant! I'ettibone '.rrinl.
Hoise, [da ho?Moyer. Haywood
and Pettibone, accompanied by four
armed guards, wore inkcn to Cald
well. The train was stopped near Jin
Court 11 o u so at Caldwell and tin; pris
oners were taker, from tbo train.
All the aUorncvK for both (he State
and the defonsn except Clarence l)ur
row wore present when court con
vened with Judge Fremont Wood, of
Ib>ise, on t he bench.
'1'ha Court announced tin' ? he re
?nittltui' from the I'nited Statu;-. Su
preme Court hating arrived, he
would hear arguments on tho motion
to dismiss. The motion was argued
on behalf of the defendant* by At
torney Richard son. who was followed
by James II. Ilnwley, chief counsel
for the State. When the arguments
ended tho Court took the matter un
der advisement until :5 p. m. and on
convening denied tho motion.
Arguments wore then begun on the
motion of the defense for a. change of
venue.
IIKI.iCOM llATili IHTltiNKO DOWN.
Hlo^y-lo lTpton Sinclair's Colony at
/"v Knglewood.
Englewowl, N. J.?-Though lloll
con Hall, the home of Upton Sin
clair's co-operativtf colonists in En- ?
glewood, was totally destroyed by a
lire of mysterious origin, with tho
loss of one life 'And injury to Ave of
the colonists; Mr. Sinclair is -em
phatic in his statement that a new
co-oporative colony will soon take tho
place of thy old, and that the lire will
prove to bo an Incident merely and
not a quietus. The fathof of the col
ony\said that as soon as thoy got the
smoke out of their eyes tho sea reborn
after h modern Utopia would set
about re-establishing themselves.
Joseph Brlggs, u carpenter from
Providence, It. I., was caught In tho
burning building and killed.
GKTS A I'lUZK >\1> DIMS.
Town IJelle lO.vpircs After Skating
Four Horn's in a Kink.
llayvllle, La.?"I fool so tired,-'
Rasped Miss Alary IlJxon, lwent>
years old, the belle of tho town, at
midnight after she had skated four
hours in a roller rinlc without cniaaing
a number. Miss Hlxon fell baek into
the armn of her escort, Roland Will
lams, and was dead in a few seconds.
A physician said that the night's
exertion had affected the peri's heart.
Miss Ilixon recently adopted the
roller craze, and had become a pro
ficient skater. An hour before being
st ricken she and her partner had been
awarded tho prize for the most grace
ful couple on tho floor. #?
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Cuban Sugar Plantation Hurim!.
At tluantaiiamo, Cuba, lire broke
out on the ?outtuente sugar planta
tion. The Aaoiage is estimated at
more than $40tyfl00. The president
of tho company owning thin planta
tion is Senor Loiun, the Muyor of Ma
drid.
Mother ot 1?r. Osier Dead.
Mrs. Featherstoi: Osier died at her
home in Toronto, Canada, In her
101st year. She -was the mother ot
Professor William Osier, of Oxford,
tfho advocated the chloroforming of
veterans, over siity ye^rs of age.
The" fUl of ip. la*se part oT the cell
has bee* St. Petersburg,
caused aa totteAmte peetpoftement ot
the ssesions. ?