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* A MOUNTAIN
SIRENS
By John
Wiotbrop Green
Greta
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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!
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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«
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I f.
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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
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Ur raid. Il is an
■ not only on ac-
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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
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ghu mad
f ClH/#0#kl
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4# lO IhtlX! Biull
f jrthrrm. rt I •llil betuve
t* timi otcl III# * f
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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.
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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
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taut rite, tier upou.licr,'.u« aznt«
C ad peaks of Hit* H,uc Hulgefan
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nlrrence. Nontv idea of
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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
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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.
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