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4k. t ttOobOOooOOooOOooOOooooocOQ * A MOUNTAIN SIRENS By John Wiotbrop Green Greta 0OO0oOOO 0OO00OO0 oOU man bas a story to tell, I be- Itere he should be permitted to tell It iA his own way and 'that the reader should not sneer and criticise because the teller must use the personal pro noun end perhaps refer to his percep tion or his prowess. If It Is his ad- renture, how can he avoid sayinK, “1 did thus gr so?” if hls courage pulled t*, him out of a tight place, why seek to demean it? A man Is what he Is. If .things have happened to him which mpy-he of Interest to others, let him write them ns they took place, wheth er he was a hero or a craven. Yoor atlas will show you that the •astern Carpathian mountains form a portion of the l*oundnry line between Bervla and Bulgarin. If you cross nuy- ‘where to the north of Plrot. you must cross the range. In my wanderings afoot 1 had planned to cross the range , by the public road between 1*1 rot and N'lssa. but for three days 1 was a guest at a poor little wayside Inn In the shad ow of the foothills. This Inn differed In DO degree from a hundred others, be ing only a wretched apology for it house of entertainment, tmt I had made a long tramp and wanted u breathing spell before the long and rugged as- cent. The landlord was a silent, morose mpn, giving me little attention, and bts wife was a sloven'with a fait* which a tnmn would look St twice OUl.V *1oT itS wickedness The beds and the fare were of the meanest, but as I had ex pected nothing better 1 was not dleap pointed On the second day of my arrival as I was walking along the banks of a •tream half a mile from the Inn an Kngllab pedestrian came along That Is. be was a pedestrian In the sen* he was afoot. As soup a« b who I was lie told me that i of bis bad Journeyed that way three month* before, but bad mysteri ooaly disappeared The missing nisi >een traced as far as Ptrut. He known to bare set out for tbe tain road, but be could not t* Into Bulgaria Bomewbere « tbe mountain trail be bad ranl*h< sight Tbe story did net Intere •h American and Kugh ns abroad bare a babtt of d appearing from the world now ai thaw, and It Is Warned latgr •« th He wan also fishing qr pretending (o, and an heectne In night the called him. and he Joined us and wan Introduced as her brother. A glance from race to face made me doubt the rclntioiuiblp tnybwn mind 1 figured that he wae her husband. He tried to smile iimJ •boxy a plea Sant faro, but * Instinctive ly felt that be was n rascal. He had a furtive eye and n bud month, and 1 thought I caught signals between the pair. Such a thing as fear, however, had in) place In my heart. . I hail no weapon aside from my stout stick, but I was afraid of no man by daylight on a public high May. I was ready to move on when the wo* man ni>oke of the castle ruins. They were only a stop away, she sn!<J,-nnd il I missed them 1 Would be sorry forever after. The'tnan at oncc-added his per suasion, but ns l was ready to go with them he claimed to have left his knifi a hundred rods ^iwny and set out aftei It and left the two of us to walk on to gether. From the moment we started 1 noticed a change In her. She looked about apprehensively, her laughter was forced, and her demeanor put me on my guard. It wps as. If she expected inr* tn he slmfr down.from ambush * Hjji. AN UNOFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE. ii tWy tucked away taler That •rwrrbw pea* Iwqulrtea a me Ibat Is U >o< si oa id IW« bad ■ old my Mtra jrrd w wr it* tug t by a sdrl the I He lls ami ansi two tbrr md bad itwg ■ msshhI ara He waa a satire Bervt ■l Leufeovata. and bad been t Flwncbmau to pruerrute to<|ulrw gardtnf tbe dlaappraram v of • > ••a of Su wtao waa making a pr»l aa tour ladred I auoo reralksi (an of aeettag tbe young man a Irta two meutba perilously. fur tbe l arpnthlana be bad uleo diaapp* ea tbe mountain* Krra • ben ib# diaapp*a rams-* were cuupled t<>c< I aaw no(bitig aUnulag. It wa* tbe tblrd day that I felt I for apeculatloo TV-n a pulb-e ml out frvoi Norlbasar by tbe widowed roolbt r of a young man wbo bad dlaapis-artsl aa myatefioualy aa tbe ..»ber two r. a- h.-d tbe loo Tbla young man. « bo almply set out for a two weeka’ tramp Hi <*rd. r to boa at of barltig i rvaaril the • arpa tblan*. bad ts-ua trae«sl to wltbln dve milea of tbe loa, but tbe landlord and hia wife atoutly ^lenltsl Ibat be had •fft rtacJ^Ji hkxv and coottnued hit way. but yet the offi cial waa not aatlafii-d. He frankly t<>ld me that be belleTod young Hull had come to the Inn and been made away with tor the money be carried. 1 had aaen nothing auaplclous. and he had no real grounds for an accusation, hut he' went away, taring that he would have the place iy*tcbed. I waa ready to take my depurtupu ou I Ool most hair wa* pall a ill 1 a bap •elf I I k. d n Hi f! _ M Id up lli, If bl rililia al d I should ded Aa It ring If this isdineetr i hat might eg Senator Tillman and Governor McSweeney Exchanging Com pliments. Senator Tillman itqt the following reply to Governor McSweeney’* letter relative to the resignations. He open* a new phase of the qneationa involved by suggesting that the Senate itself might take up the matter His letter is as follows : J Thbmton, 8. C., June 5, llifll Hit excellency, Miles B. McSweeney Columbia, S C Dear tdr: I am In receipt of your telegram In which you say ‘I under dand henator McLaurin’s letter to be a withdrawal of his resignation,’ and I have read that worthy’s communication in which he graciously consents, * at your reoui st to bold on to his com in is don as United States Senator and con tinue to serve the State as he has done in- tbe past to the best of his ability.’ This leaves me one of three alternatives: Tp appeal to the Democratic executive committee to take the matter up and determine what the beat interests cf the party require to be done; to appeal to .be Senate itself to determine the quts elqn as to whether a reaignation from hit body to take effect at some future imeis binding; or withdraw njy own resignation. There are no precedent* on thia subject, because in the hundred and twenty five years of our national life, with more than two hundred resig nationa from the Senate, no Senator has oilherto beep willing to occupy the despicable attitude now assumed by Sen athr McLaurln and forced on me. 1 am certain of one thing, that the executive of a State haa no authority to decline a reaignation that baa been tendered, and I am equally certain that had yoor ei cellcnry confined your action within legal bounds that your appointees would tic seated*in the Senate when that body meets in December, and bold their seal* until the Legislature should set in Jsnu My chief regret is that I am forced (W hosu have HM. * Iona It L •I tl u H ost 4*14 ary. by your action to engage in what tbi outside world will consider a game of opera bouffe by withdrawing my own resignation after Senator McLaurin’s 'in dignified and puerile action, but iba pur poac for which it waa tendered haa been thwarted by Senator MrLanrin s pre Ipitona acceptance of executive advice lUob Acres has been outdone for once As 1 nave already said,* I bad-m. motive or purpose la resigning cirept to forte McLannn and there is nothing for me to do bet accept tbe aitaation and with draw my reaignation, if il be lawful l do so . Yours respectfully, , B K Tili wsm. Governor McSweeney made the ft>! lowing reply fo Tillman s prrvioo* Irtlnr and says bn will accept an aaroadllioi realgnaitoa from Tillmaa. if be d«ema to realgat CoLCwnia, S C.Juan S Su YeMtr Utter of June Itl has bee received I have carefully n<>U4 Hat >a teals and the moat caaritab t vt* w w hub | ias take o* It ie that It was wiittcw in he heal of pnasloa and withoet due coesiUeraitoa. I nuts that you any that I have “ transcended ** my auth- rtty and I opthirtt that the Governor "cannot compel • mem ner of the United Male* Senate to hoU alt' CommlMton sail eiemee I he fene (tons of that o®ev,’ - If he rt render it My eole porpi«s« • l I f. mI 11 ' • • THE WIDOW OF WAI>DY THOMPSON A Victim of the Great and Disas trous Fire in Jacksonville, Fla. The Jacksonville Times Union has the followin’^ sketch of Gen. - Wnday Thompson, a brilliant and distinguished awyer. in Oreeuville for many years, whose widow fell a victim to the lUmes in the recent destructive fire In that cltv: The magnitude of the Jacksonville fire finds apt illustration In the fact that many incidents connected with i*. which ordinarily would have excited widespread attentioil and comment, were forgotten or ignored in the pre senceof the vital and urgent emergen cies which the people of the city were compelled to face, and face promptly. The tragic death of Mm. Thompson, widow of Gen Waddy Thompson; in the Home for .the Aged, was duly noteid in the press, together with the pathetic ciicumstances of the finding of her re mains by one of the.old servants of the family. What man or woman then in Jacksonville paused to inquire who this lady was or what was her history? Of course those who knew her or iu one way or another were connected with her, manifested their interest, hut. to the public mind, so much was it engross ert with the larger and hearer results of th»*confiagration. even the statement that she was the "widow of General Thompson” failed to cause the slightest show of curiosity. And yet the time was when the husband of this lady was one of the distinguished actors in the public affairs of the nation, a leader in Congress, an eminent diplomatist and the author of a book that had much to do in shaping tbe policy of tbe United Statea al a critical time, and,consequent ly in moulding its later bisto r y. Mrs Thompson was a Miss Cornelia Jones tbe daughter of a prominent citi- /.en of Willfnington. N C. Her husband, Gen. Waddy Thompson, was a son of a lawyer of note of (be same name at Pickens courthouse, the county site of Pickens County, one of the extreme northwestern, liiuc Ridge mountain counties of South Carolina General Thompson waa born in Pirkcus in 1?V*. TRUE RURALINDEPENDBNCE The Greatest Revolution in Farm- ing Since the Days of Abraham In the World’s Work for May is the description of a typical, well organized, small, farm in the Central West, where electricity, modern machinery and good niauagoment have wotked a wondrous revolution, and it is herewith given to out readers for their enlightenment as to,the progress,being made in farming in this age of improvement: To show the modern organization of agriculture under the best conditions in a wcll-devtdpped community in one of ihe central States, I take the actual instance of Air. Russell, a farmer Who owns eighty aer .s of laud and makes a specialty of dairying and fruit raising. Of course he hires a man and his wife by the year ; gives them a neat, separ ate tenant house, and pays them $300 a year 1$ cash for their services. Au electric car line runs past the farm to a good market town, about four miles away. A creamery and canning fac tory is reached by this same frolley route. . t, * - At 5 o’clock in the morning, whir-r, it it taken to Mr. Russell’* packing house, and there “ torted ” by an in- geni< us machine grader into three or lo j? grades or sizes. After being care fully packed, the various grades are stenciled for shipment. Toward night a trolley-car^takes the day’s gathering dirtfet to its destination—canning fac tory, steamboat dock,, or con mission man. Checks for sales come back promptly by mail. Therp is a telephone in the barn and in both houses, connecting the farm with town and neighbors. Mr. Rus sell, like any other merchant, has an “ office ” of his own gt his place of business—the farm. He takes one or two daily newspapers, which reach him promptly by rural mail carrier, and he keeps constantly informed on market conditions. Everyday he tele phones to his commission man, or to private customers, or to the cannD factory, and he makes detinite ar rangements about shipments and sales Each day’s business is regulated ac cording to the prevailing conditions ; not a single consignment is sent off blindly. You wilHiud no suspicion of “ pig in a poke ” about Mr. Russell's methods. No crop can be grown without Potash. ^' Supply enough Pot ash and your profits will be large; without Potash your crop will be “scrubby.’ Our books, U'llim; about composition of fertilizer! •'esl adapted tor all crops, ..re free lo all farmers. GERMAN K.YI.I WORKS, oj Na.>- .u bi.. New Vork. A Confederate Home.—A C >n- whir-r goes an automatic electric alarm I He keeps a simple set of books, and I federate boqie is no poor bouse. In in ihe tenant house. The hired man be knows at tbe end of each year just his speech at the opening of the Geor- gets up and hurries to the big barn, how he stands. He works hard, but I gm institution on Monday Gov. Can- Hi* feeds and giooms the-cows and not in tbe way his father worked. He dler said the State had not endowed cleans out the stalls. Then the pro- directs the machinery, whereas his I the institution as a pauper’s retreat, prjetor arrives in Time to help at the father was the machinery Usefr; he “ God forbid it shall ever be looked on milking. Both men wash their hands I farms with brains instead of hands; he in that light,’’ he said, addressing the and put on clean vrtiite duck suits used rides a good saddle horse about' his veterans. “ It is a home that Georgia only when they milk. place, whereas his father was ridden has given you and to which you are The milk coes to a ncitt miik-rooui 1 by bis work. , I' utitled, for you paiJ for il long ago. adjoining the haru and is fed intoa cen-! Now take a lookjntO’Afr* -nug farm- [That is the view to take. It is the Inlugal cream separator operated by house and what do yob see? There sane and just view. A man who fnith- electric power derived from the trolley are new books and magazines, pictures fully served his State in the armies of line. A touch on a lever and the little and dainty furnishings. There is a the t'oufeiler«<;y has purchased all the motor hums merrily. Almost before piano in the parlor, and a bicycle or home* his State can furm-h. I^t us two on the back porch. Everything not take many years to buihl our home looks comfortable, cosy and attractive, I for the veterans. Let us have it ready without Hlttempt at style i»r show. I in the shortest time consistent with Tbe chairs are iiiit udcd to ait on, and proper caution >nd provision for the the old hair chub, sofa is now a gen • I future. Ihere is.no lime to w.nte. you know it the separator has whirled all of the cream out of tbe fresh milk lute tbe -hipping cans ; while the skim milk—*1111 warm and ap|>etieing—is ready for feeding to calves aud pigs. graduated at the Aouih Carolina College I The filled cream can. are booked to iu MU, practiced law al Greenville. S » wire carrier, which spins them, by C.. was a bri haul lawyer and orator, force of gravity, direct lo the trolley platform on tbe road. cloth, sc X pllvt*. and was a member of tbe Legislalare of South Carolina from 1*4*1 to t*du, during the troublous 4*ys of nullification He waa also ab ut lust time a;q>oiiite*| sj( ur , n brigadier general of militia, and to that p« n..J of intense political eiClUnicbt such a positi >o memo! id-or tbau it doe* BOW. Gcaeral Tbompaoo waa. politically, a staunch A log, aud iu l*& wa* eltcUid a member o( the uatutaai Hou*e of Ke:>re scntativi* where he served until 1*1-’ for h part of the tune aa rbatrm«n at tl® In a few min utes n trolley car comes along, with a freight car bUjmJmnI, stupa at the plai- lakes the cans oa board, aud thru whirl Is away with them to the rerrawfy. Tbo freight charge* are but f a few cent* i( which arc ex > licet ed week- I Ijr) and tb< e empty can* Bit n ‘turned 1 UM*r in ih< 1* day tree .4 rharp r. Mr. I K.mmm t: i#n miitr.1 t»v lit*-1 ‘ft Brut ry wnh 1 *0 mut h ff miu and on e* HU# an ml &b\ uine lounging p! la winter the bouse it heated by u hot water furnace iu the cellar; and Vt ntdation is iutured by open fireplace* Id the kitchen there is o m<*t«rn range ; and to the cellar you will find a refrigerator. Electric lights are every where- -to ihe house, ou the porch in the barn. The trolley liar ioroishe* the current of e--ur**. Think* tv the windmill aud took, good water ie oo tap wherever oeodmi—hot ur told. And, if you fancy a'lisUi, yti will find a* i oiitmiroi a* South Caiolifia is already a dozen yean (•ebiutl Georgia iu planning for it, and | now we should retrieve our honor by completing the project within twelve I mouths matfad of. twelve yean. -Co lumbia State. Naturalist* in Genuauy are much io- uxvtsd in a.wonderful old tree which, has been discovered near Hamburg, says tl Xi rotnmilte hls splen aUakamruts al n posit ina of comi IB *11 IB# he waa oae of th At that pens the Mr at**a q war with Meaici la PH* General Shot ooen try »» Ie that po*iiioa attain Jcuts ai I • I tl the Uoascli hot hr your own to the rl The lays and attend the high »e of tbr family the town, the i# I <h Ii< <0}" r*l# Ur raid. Il is an ■ not only on ac- U4 I >. tells wax A Mi the irelgaatloa* waa 1 ate a lo eoasldvr rmmly the roaseqoract* f I j ad gad ip be-a ha •4ioitt to have been a hi •net coafese that I am prised hi the tnac of y*mi re q seat. I eooetdcrtd lha eoara* la thia main r to ba for th of th# people of Booth < a*k you an-I 1 h> r the people ly hrl, had w 1 hasty ar* jo *4unrot o hi r be* tu #uf Mesiru were tt*wew yfftifti * #l 1 • tl 9* • r t ' f##!«# Me lieu # ur«*tk #1 M#ff SftlY and wl<l # eircul#tLftU A oa»i !»kftb.ic uft« # u*i y- 1# !#«•## 1 dkiy •* Mmi Mi • ##•! 1 mtaeat. Bl il ki&e wMmi #1 Mir t fHM i*it % e #mr#r r Hi in j lft#ll*i*# VMMi **f 14# % cuulil jio#*4t>.| hm\ 1 UH>k 1 llirAJUKb BBf utllcf I A* » «a f (a* • t * m *01 fr»i A oil c if 01 ( r< aao 'or m 1. , >d I j4»ar. rx..n. wa; th. i. which ei In-art Is-nt. aca m. nut to man bad call..1 ><*< 11 hlni d In r f f. || « a* I he My I Hit I d not ruin* *#ta ghu mad f ClH/#0#kl Ic’t# of Buy Yoor Idbii Lirtuocii lo 4# lO IhtlX! Biull f jrthrrm. rt I •llil betuve t* timi otcl III# * f Ibc riti###t of I be l ^ ##UiiiAl#|C b »* #Uii rt4 «>K Ie ou earth 11,. respou ribilit iu* sot need the ter oae to tell them their duty ualk n that 1 have twea ** iio awatt tbe coBvcaicuce '* of • any pe.' latira an. . ...1 .M, e a*i> wh. < roak the wonpin jiulicl herself ti> •tU«T and me to the window. i> iv-u- U tin- o|m nink wc had to clluit up three utooe stops, und she stood for a moment looking out and dinging to the nail for *ii|>t>ort. “You w ill see a fine view-a fine view," she said as ah** made room foi um*. “Step out aud look up aud down.- *r tlhl not step out. Th. rt-.was some- the fourth day. when there was a •Ud'l thing so modern about that platform den change In tbe demeanor of the landlordsHtd his wife. All at once they became obagq^lptia and amlllng and •ollcltuus. A nrcFlonch was put up for me, and they refused pay for It. 1 was given tbe clearest directions and was told that almost as soon as I had begun the ascent of tbe-mountaln I would, find an interestinp-ruln a-little off;the road. It was something I ought not to miss, and they kept extolling ft until I promised to turn aside. I set off In good spirits, though wondering a bit a* to the sudden and singular change in the people of the Inn, and by noon 1 had covered a distance of 12 miles. 1 passed two Inns without stopping and likewise three or four peasants’ huts, and when I sat down to rest it was on a large stone by the roadside and close beside one of tbe branches of the Dan ube. I nibbled at lunch as 1 rested, and I had been sitting perhaps 20 min utes when a young woman with a fish pole In her band suddenly appeared. I gave her good day as a matter of course aud was not much surprised when she laid down her pole and came and sat beside me und began to ask questions. She was a peasant girl of about 24, netter dressed and better dressing a stranger.she broke no rule of con vent lohallty' according to the peasant code. I invited her to share my lunch, and presently we were chat ting away like old acquaintances. In many Instances the peasants of Bervla had displayed more curiosity than a horn Yankee, but this girl went deeper tb«ti any of them. Some of hm questions were answered and some turned aside, but she certainly came to know • good deal about me. 1 was a single man, and J bad not communi cated with my friend* for months. I was strolling from point to point to My <b» people and •** tbe country •ad was 00c expected at any particular paint I* Bulgaria. Peasant though she the had Uk gift at a lawyer In ami it had l>een built so deftly that I fenr.-d it. 1 simply cluqg to the wall aTTHTTHtust my head out. and I was look tog up the valley when tbe woman gave me a push with all her strength. Her llamas did not strike me fair of my ho)d would have been broken. I was whirled half way round and part ly thrown down, but as I recovered my _ footing I swept her aside with my arm, sad oho went to the ground, with a scrcmn. Next Instant tbe man came dashing through the doorway In-the tU! He had a knife In his hand, and hk Meant murder. I leaped down to naeet him that I might have free play faff NO staff, and I believe we battled faff tin minutes. Still lying on the gtoUMti. the woman seized my legs and titNI lo pull me dowil, but I kicked her nw«y and gave all my attention to tbe mfitt. Aye, but that fellow was crafty aai flllaiuous and determined. Had I faaqgtt him with a knife he would soon have pettled me. It was the stout staff wfclcfc kept hlni off, and it was the stmff which hnally dealt him a blow tlmt kid him out unconscious. I look ed for the woman as I stopped to breathe, but she had disappeared. I went over to the window and examln- any prt»e ,t --r ar« ” aot jnat yet ready, for varxiaa rva aoaa, to enter tbe o>Blr*t brought on k oe* ~ they btive, I* uouurib} t>T a pian.holdirg tbe h%h C'-mmiMion 'ainch ni, lecIT given you hy toe people of 8.»uthC*ro Hoa, and deserves 1 otice in thia cooarc tiou. However, i may a*y for yonr benefit that 1 alone am responsible for my reply and will give account for the course* I have lake a to tbe people wbo have honored me, and not to any one individual. . - In this matter I have dona. whaL 1 thought best calculated it promote tbe present prosperity aud contentment of ihe people of my State and sha l coniinue to do so regardless of what any one man may say or think of my course I did not think that a political campaign this summer could do any good. However bid tbe resignations been unconditional and unrestricted, my action might have been otherwise. With due respect for your opinion, I think I have as high “ conception of tbe office of Senator and its powers "as you or any°Other cilizeh of the State, and you must have known that the brief* interview to which you refer meant that 1 would simply meet the responsibility and perform my duty under the conditions If you still wish to resign your commission anti will send to this office an unconditional resigns tion, I will exercise the authority and power vested in me by the people. Respectfully, M. B. McSwkknky, ■ • ^ Governor. Ada IftiU* * rtf Klf# MM. !♦ V i# U 1'iCt ufrAu htj**T% up lift# til ‘ Mil *t**i*il«J turrotiMtlc ticWM lurk# lo **#lf tfeftf"#) # t >4# Act Tturc #ri a fcft«>iiM; t*»i t bl if bIaUi fruit sad < tile <<( the aud Valley, •uty urue* re*p.eadeu • fltMM itae r I, r of Ur# Uo of Fein » %Uuii !y 1 eclat. J *|m t . 1* 41 1 \ H ’ k' iftl t»f lli t» T# •id# !*•# r.k#i li r4 Id uf l bjr B M Ur 11 llJ#d«-' • UK»#ljr tbr «•## l«l b# lr#c#i « f lb # cbiofti l! Fitic# ic or. #yd ti# b f# m . #oi it 1 it #ad ruiUbt iilui * in Its f rt ii KioritoU • VI## bill and farm. #xl#ndi a ilb lue nty •»f Grt iu tbe •uaiigu ;! j U ft th jiefiu^ltMe e * . , <ta iillc -Tri looking than the average, and In ad- v ed the platform and foumj that it waa sustained by a lever which could be polled out and allow the bottom'to drop. As the man begun- to return to life I lifted up my staff and 'beat him till I was weary, and then I went my tvay up the mountain road. That am bush had gathered at least three vic tim*. but it was not for me to carry a mystery to the police and be detained In n filthy Jail for mouths or yean while they took their time to solve It A fine proMlae for wheat and a gen erally good hey outlook was American Agriculturlefe summary at the begin mint •* M*J- J A miniature Louisiana rleedsld. with ioei pump* sad thrashing machine. Jwrt os found to the Cmwley district L o*e of Ihe the A Gloomy Picture.-—Tbe follow ing from the Eldorado (Kas ) Republi can, a Republican paper, does not read like a prosperity argument: “When the cold wave comes-—aid it will come; when financial distress hits every business man in the land,—and it will hit; when the seven lean kine are turned loose—and they will be turned —all the blooming idiots who baVe blown their mt‘lions ami. billions - into iliese balloon trusts will be annihilated as quickly as a doll paper house iu a Texas tornado; while the distiess to be brought upon the country will Cause —if not a revolution—something very nearly Approaching one. Judgment day wdi come to all these billion dol- ar hot air schemes and it will come with a force and power that will shake he financial world from end to end; *nd the fortunes that will be swallowed <ip will be counted by billion*.. We have had panics before, but all of them urn tuned will not be a patching com pared to the one Ibat la bound to fol low tble criminal mil at too of every- and it wi}l call out ad it* eeid etorece pnirioUam in tbe renor*bia. aro t-ur-iog c -ni’nia* nwgrirnwy ■ great 1 r*>wwu nrttor DurtU aud wtal »<iim> lacuiy m taut rite, tier upou.licr,'.u« aznt« C ad peaks of Hit* H,uc Hulgefan at Iktir fool n pointed rncr” of *Grti-uvtlle Cou <4 twi 1 c#nu f«*r tbe nmih! i rip. I’bur b and e 11 c rial tt (Bem* ar# L ‘•1, fff»r oK#lenj (arm •s" rally pot- ife—tbaiik* j lo Ibe irealtf —ti*» i MKn 414 '! l Hu '> rntb «ljy oai^U)* i Or le NM#*i rural carrier brlof* lb# mai. to the farm b_turc. an. Ijr # 1 1 *### UrtM I# #44h# *€» lb# I goven murrt! Beainer f *feci mutie v •Jf4#r*e and II# •eH* I Uk#* Utter* #n«! (h tobatfr* fui ouiftltu^ t iflrU, U4I, ia r • are 1 f* fivtfc rrni#«l« ft*# * |Bay for lb# favor. |.e .M^e #!>«• |K» lb# 0**%* aiMl k« 4 V# tbl* •ffMTt j %4 far •#T ibry c*« (»l«#r4 !b#ir t • Alkel taelF F 4#re lit* «tK* 1 #•*! tj Ie MW#t#i life ( # l| 1 #bat tb#| •re |# tb# !••##, aB»l ar# e# attciftte 1. T«i *uto ii|f v Mr. Ha*##l! r ode lit BMli IQ lb# #t ie the ommI ltd. ID bee rr•. \ aehlvvv«! lb# i**d« n-leore that aa* bbeQ talbed a u #ilb farruktii. - ——•• • ».-Lit IQ C'*l». IMM.* * TAXED TO i.\K& RttAldt IFT RAID Got error LsFolWtU', «4 WiscoMio. 1* ba slog tire *aae kind of an rxpe« nroce ti bl* l^-ifi.la ure that Govvr- nor 1* logrte bad oub tbst id MKbigau w beQ trying t» aecure the fulfil.lUrlit of pla Iform pl.dge* lo e<|i jaiixe Uxa- (too. The platform* of 1 >otb portie* 10 W lacoosiu at the last elect l<4l lie* lb il I* deed ft rt feet i tbr • from senli t <4 tl •tl tb entire! . ia tuM •■f mans. Hocbm Saar*. 1VJ notab great bulk, but also for •t the base of tbe trunk hollow. The trunk in- nofr than eight or tune I it is more th**^twenty nlrrence. Nontv idea of nay Im gathered ur |»er»ou* re- rtititu in it. Iu ,* very hare and to peaaanU in » have known it lUziy put* forth la inlet wrl lb# •i #ti>| 41 <#ik 1. llll Mb*I lebatel^qp ##### »t»fill£, #u Hi Mlftfl llfttHft^b II# b#, t! M Dr«#nb#!### CfOW(ft* IIO*«llft«l#t! With tMJMf of |ti*l A# ft! M-ft# Uft lb# ilATt Mt N*t ■ •04 I 04*110 wa* in ■ Wl you kin recent. "e •! t'ordi Rust be would tut the llible. nl up to biiu •• Ihmr Mr. Mr e *r< king to help tell Uc who a aa ut termed a pdber, nee waited with intense 1 red otib amuaemenl, lo cot man would extricate elf. Aflfr a pause tar aatd “I jouug n». »i, r«|*ecially young id- era f«»r light, aud I would give this g man a word of ailvice. It la 1 , leap the gi l» -n' t aft. I AM •se your aoul's tahraliou (her i^opfe’a wives.'’ Mrs. I am n<la Nainpat<a, one .if the very few women who lived to see three ccntonee, died on Monday last at the < home of her son in Cambridge, Mass. She wa* DM year* of age, and remark- 4*4*1 visitor, at l • Diffk. Cor where thv moonshiner, eveu iu latur days, slill fiuJa a fastuis* in tne dale*, where the in<.-unihia.vendetta ha* not lost its Vogue, au4~where tac r.tL ball aomelime* fiuds a r.stiog place iu | the heart of the unwary revenue officer This f jrmer mansiou ou the monquia brow wa* the hotuu of Gen. VVadjjy Thompson, a home where fbr years and ten* of year* the leader and the m-tker* of political thought in tbe alway militant I’almetlo Nude were woul lo enjoy a princely hospitality, and widen had for its welcome guest* score* of in brightest mind* that illumed Am r can pufi ic life of that period Could llu ‘gray stones of the oi l wall but speak wuat stories they could tell of a state* man-hip whose skeleton^ only survive in the cold vaults of n corded history what sparkle of wit and repartee would flash down to us from the gatherings ot brilliant iulellectk-met and -wedded Jl good fellowship 1 Of this Wountaii home, Mrs. Cornelia Thompson, th aged lady who met her sad fate in th fiawes that Consumed the Home for th. Aged during the great Jaqksonwlle con llagration, in a asl tffort lo save a few mementoes of- her dislinguUbed hus band, was the noble matron and mi* tress. ' General Thomptou owned a winter home in Florid**, and spent the latei years of his life in the Htate He died in Tallahassee in 186S. A Sunday school Hass of over 4 0 i< was present at the Dunkard Nationa! Conference at Lincoln, Neb .on Sunday The meeting was in charge of a com mlttce of three elders, who served more in the capacity of safieriutetfde’nts th u as teachers Following the Sunday school came ^teaching services .in the big tabernacle* making an almost c >n tinnous services throughout tbe day and evening , * —The Japanese now manufacture large quantities of boots and shots and send abroad to Southern Europe and Africa some 30,000 yeu ($15 000) worth annually These boiota and ahoee aver age shoot 75 cent* a pair. They are beginning to do an export trade in glovM, hats, caps and bonnet*, Cotton •huts and »t< ckings —Over tbe side d»K>r of a village etanreh iu Cheehlre t» carved the follow tag MMeNUba : ' Tli* i* the-gale to he* Tea * Under seal h ie posted a notice " This eblraaer eloeed daring'the ffer - is. Inquired, uud *he S|ienitor lldei comfortably at hi* w-»ik with a *un- awming rigged up’over hia head. One man aud leum cm now do the work of many men, and do it belter. The man .With the hoe ha* become the man with the home*. And it is -luucb tbe same with fruit or other farm product*. The ground i* plowed with a «ulkv plow, or torn to pieces with a sharp disc harrow. Whether plowing or harrowing, the operator ride* or walks as be chooses ; machine uud teem do the work. The tree* are systematically sprayed by a system of compressed air operated by power obtained from a wagon’* moving wheels. One man drives the team, aud two other men hold the nozzles.ami send the fine spray ex actly where needed. The proportions and ingredients of the various spraying mixtures have been exactly determined by scientific expeuniHnt. Injurious in- sects and fungous diseases are. thus combatted rapidly and succes*fully. When the fruit is ready- to market Gray Hair “I have used Ayer’s Hair Vigor for over thirty years. It has kept my scalp free from dandruff and has prevented my hair from turn ing gray.” —Mrs. F. A. Soule, Billings, Mont. There is this peculiar thing about Ayer’s Hair VigoT*—it is a hair food, not a dye. Your hair does not suddenly turn black, look dead and lifeless. But gradually the old color comes back,—all the rich, dark color it used to have. The hair stops falling, too. II.M a tank All a’S.ta sfjinttaaaa— of toot Br»r«i *irr*** orfc* A<Ur*«*. J t. AVUOO .Low*!!. mrttVWtofflV -TtNrj^ Stab- J axTuiummiott, appointed by the Legislature of iNtttt (ipwu tb« maud of tbe friends of the railroad* reported that tbe railroads were not taxed much more than half as heavily as were farms and homes aud business place* throughout the Slate. In spile of platform pledges and the compiis sioner’s repott, however, every effort to secure a higher tax upon railruai property bas failed. Even the bill rais ing tbe tax upon gross receipts from four to fire per ceA, which wouli still leave the railroads more lightly taxed than the general public, wa* de feated in the Senate after it had pa**- ed the Assejnbly. In erder to supply needed revenues the Legislature pass ed instead an act taxing all the dog* in the State from one to three dollar* each. Governor LaFollette has vetoed this bill in a message which must com mend itself to the people of the State “The tax imposed,” he says, “may not he. estimated by the Legislature a serious burden in itself, but it would add lo burdens borne by tfie great ma jority of the people, which are already out of nil proportions to those borne by others whose influence would seem to be more potent in shaping legisla lion.” After reviewing the Legisla ture’s rejection of the bills to prevent this unjuvt taxation of small property- owneis by the just taxation of corpora tions, he-concludesRS follows: “I am unwilling lo present to the people of this .State iri litu of legislation tb equal ize taxation a scheme which may be deecribed as an act to relieve the farm er or city home-owner of a small meas ure of increased tax upon his realty by imposing a "-license fee upon hi* dog.” It i* worthy of note that the same forces in (he Wisconsin Legisla ture secured the defeat of the bill to equalize taxation which secured the defeat of tbe bill lo establish direct primaries., The machines and the mo nopolies w hich wish to purchase legis lative favor work hand w hand, 10 that the stiuggle against machine rule aud that against monopoly rule are really bu,Hwo parts of the Marne great conflict -.Vtic Fork Outlook. Tbe county cooimiuiocers of Elqr. id* have formed aa ass nr jetton tcrato iff tDe work of estabhtliing uniform methods for work upon the public rood* of the State. mjwnn -wn* horn in Newport TT T July 1»‘. IT'.*!, and was the grand- d-tugbter of .I.>hi| Fowler, chief of the I'cquol tribe" of Lidians. Among the things plainly remembered by Mis. Sampson wa* the burial of U iiumodore Ferry, whose body was brought to Rhode Island from Iwike Erie. Mr*.. Sampson is survived by one son, David A. Sampson, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Mrs. Elizabeth liutr HamiKoo. said to be (lie last member of the seventh generation of the Rurr family, who died at'Bridgeport, Conn., last week, at the age of ninety, was the fifth cousin of Aaron Burr, the third Vice- President of the United States, who killed Alexander Hamilton, the lawyer and statesman, in a duel in 1S04. Her death recalls the fact that, though the families of Burr-and Hamilton were the most bitter enemies at the beginn ing of the last century, love fpund a w'av thirty-two years after the famous duel to bring the families together again by the marriage of El zabeth Burr and Alexander Hamilton in 1836. Lord Overtoun, the. millionaire peer of Glasgow, has conducted a Bible class of about 500 young men in that city for more than thirty years, and as a preacher and evangelist he is much in demand. Jle is specially interested in everything that has to do with the well being of young men, and, among, other things, he pays a well known Scotch minister £1,090 a year to devote himself to thfijwork of an evangelist. He is a keen fisherman, is more than a fair shot and is not he despised at golf. . - We need educated men 00 the farm. There is work for the educated and in- y4-lligent v farmer. Our advice to. thb young boys is lo educate themselves' and stick to the old plantation. The farmer is the backbone of the country. MONEY TO LOAN * Un tarmlr g lands. Rasy pay menu. No e iDiiaistiona chargAd Borrower pays ac- ual co«t of perfecting loan. In'•reel 7 m* *nt ur, according to eecqHty. 4 NO. B. PALM KR A SON, O'daaMa.«. 0 P omona' Pue<T!OM!t Mure flails ‘ aaweof SITIOS9!! JTO Gnar- A44raea. OOLC ‘-V4.C ■ Si* RAHh a rtralMSfivfffafr