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?V:-Vv-V.., v V > m pr I ? UNCHAN Oh. the wovld is growing older. bu All the wooing songs we whisper ar And the softly murmured story in i Is of Paris' love for Helen, told in , Oupid's eyes are bright with laught My a? straight and true as ever: fo Through the heart of lad or lassie. < Is the same that c-upid tipped with Oh. the moonlight's spell is eliange "Lead love's footsteps in the pathwj In the eyes of maidens lifted to the rt.n unvlr ri'r.-'/t tli-it When the earth was in its cradle, Tells to love the blissful story tha For the shyly whispered answer, t is the speech tliac tinkled golden o: And the bowl remains unbroken tli Though the grapes of love be gathei And the path by lovers trodden in t Is the path the ages followed, thrc Soft the skies breathe benediction a Swell and tell a bridal chorus as th Tis the song through untold ages r .' ? % For the world is growing older, bu S t I _A OVEETH T {IP By S. A n r =rrr- y^IKST, I must tell you -who u i 1 am, and how I came to j,- I JT I be iu Tiie Baysville Bank a j; i, in the "wee, sma' hours" jj?-.' . one dreary December night, some three years ago. My name, then, is Olive Hudson, and I was seventeen years old that samh T*\AAA?v^b/,* on/1 CA rAIT cmnll EI uuu ov ? v fcj v ?? ? Mrs. Knight's Dollic. who was not twelve, was half a head taller than myself. * We were rich folks once, but father died and left us very poor. Mother struggled along in a weary hand-tohand light with poverty till I was sixteen, and died. She had rented two rooms of Mrs. Knight, a widow also, .with two stalwart sons, an aged father and two daughters. After mother died, I was adopted by the Knights', and although I was earning a support as music teacher in the Baysville Academy, I was like one of the family when I was in my good landlady's home. / They were all in good positions, although by no means an aristocratic family. John, the eldest son, was in New York in a wholesale sugar house; Tom was the night watchman of the Baysville Bank Building, and grandpa ?we all called him grandpa?was telegraph operator of the town, while Mary wgs a milliner, and Dolly still at j school. Baysville Bank Building was a large granite structure, containing the postoffice and bank on the first floor, the I telegraph office and a number of pri- j vate law offices on 'he second floor, j and other private offices on the third i floor. In the basement were post-1 office rooms for sorting the mail, and also the large bank vaults. I knew the building well, for I was fond of telegraphing and spent half my leisure time perched up beside grandpa in his office, sending and receiving messages, while he slept peacefully or read the newspapers. And that was the beginning of my amusement at Dryden. the next sta lion. The operator at Dryden was a .wit,' and flashed nonsense to our office when business was dull. It fell flat when grandpa was in the office, but if I were there, I sent back jest for jest, and sometimes an'hour slipped by like a minute as we talked over the wires of every topic under the sun. He called himself Lion, and I. for nonsense, signed myself Elephant, laughing while I did so at the reflection of Sr- my tiny ligure in the office mirror. Beyond Dryden, and only five miles ^ from Baysville. was C , a large com?? . * mercial town, the nearest railway station, and whore an office was always kept open' for the accommodation of travelers. As I have said. Tom Knight was the night watchman of Baysville Bank Building and a lonely time he had of it. The last mail came in by stage at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the postoflice was vacated at C. The bank closed at 3. and by every office was & ; . ,* deserted for the night. !At 7 Tom was on duty, and grandpa, who was restless at niglit. was in the j liabit of taking down some coffee and luncheon, as the building was only a stone's throw from our house. On the December night I have already mentioned, it had stormed heav-1 ily all day, and I had taken a new class at the Academy, coming home biter in the day than usual, and excited over my increase of salary. Everybody else had gone to bed. and I was lingering over the kitchen tire with Mrs. Knight, dreading the plunge into -my cold room, where I had allowed the fire to go out. The clock struck 12. and Mrs. Knight, lifting her face from over the fire, said: 'Do call grandpa, Olive; he's asleep on the sofa in the sitting room. I'll have Tom's basket ready by the time grandpa has his hat and coat on. I hate to call him. for ho was complaining of rheumatism to-day, and the ground is very wet. although the storin is over." "Let bin: sleep." I said: 'Til run over with the basket. It is not a step." "KiU i; is so dark. Are you not afraid:" "Not a bit. 1 "II slip on my waterproof and rubbers, and draw the head ?f the cloak over :ny head." ;t> T!.t II \i'il n :i!. ijj 'iiwij ? u 111 afraid Tom will si-old at my letting you go." "I'll j.ul the basket on the table and rum and he v.*i!l never know who left It." "(Ir> into the rear hr.sr:r>ent door. lie leaves that oner, for grandpa." "i iil.OW. I grasped the handle of the basket, hurried across the spaoe between the building and the house. and itole softly in at the bcs^itest deor, is parswraeo kBfcs . : ; . . : V --'TV T^ItAlL r.. fj. <' .... O ,'d'. V' . j*,. . y ..* GEABLE. it the heart of love is young; ;e the songs for ages sung; the maiden's ear to-day iu>t another way; er and the shafts of merriment r the barbed arrow sent iriven high or driven low, love a thousand years ago. less and the soft skies overhead iv where the steps of ages led; pleading eyes of men have leaped and died again while the love-impassioned tongue t. was told when time was young; old in trembling tones and low, a t he harp of long ago. lough the sped years sap tiie wine: -ed. springtime thrills the budding vine; he ecstasy of song nigh a leafy way and long; nd the muses of the air e troth is plighted there; ?y the chorused angels sung, t the heart of love is \ oung. . -J. \Y. Foley. I WIRES A ' J-* lie Frost. *ljl* I of my plan to drop the basket and run. 1 Ill my rubber shoes my steps were < noiseless, and I had scarcely passed the threshold when I stood rooted to the floor in terrified amazement. Somebody was talking. I crept forward and listened. There ( were men in the bank vault, aud a ( light shone under the door. < While I listened some one said: "There's a confounded draught here. ( Did you shut the door, Smith?" < "Yes, but the wind may have blown , it open." ( I had just time to dart under the staircase and crouch down, when the door of the vault opened and a man j came out. < He crossed the entry, drew the two ( heavy, noisy bolts, -fastening the door , by which I had entered, and returned ? without closing the vault door. < I could look in by the dim light to see < two men working at the safe locks by j the stream of light thrown from a dark j lantern. There was the outline of a man j hound and gagged upon the floor, but 1 I could only conjecture it was Tom, 1 for I could not see distinctly. < There I was nicely caged, for it would be impossible for me to draw j those heavy bolts without attracting notice. And the bank was being , robbed, that-was evident. How could ] I prevent it? I could not get out, I ? could not reach Tom. Suddenly I re- ( membered the telegraph office on the second floor. If I could summon help j from C. . It was only five miles. and there was a long: job for the burglars before they could open the safe. Could I creep around the staircase? If one of those busy men turned his head I was lost. I softly crept out on all fours, slowly, watchfully, and gained the stairs. Up I darted, blessiDg my India rubber shoes, till I gained the door of the telegraph office. All dark there, and I dared not strike a match. I listened, and then. leaving the door open, groped my way to the wellknown desk, and gave the signal at C . I could hear my own heartthrobs as I waited for the answer. It came! Still working in the dark. I sent this message: "Burglars in the Baysville Bank vault! Watchman bound and gagged! Can you send help?"' Again the agony and suspense of listening, but at last the sound reached me: * "Will send help immediately!'* I crept to the head of the staircase, afraid the clear ring of the instrument had been heard in the vault; but no one came upstairs. The window of the telegraph office faced the street, so I returned, bolted myself in safely, and ? sat down to watch. 1 The town clock gave one resonant < stroke, breaking the deep silence, aud t no signs of life were visible on the 1 long stretch of road leading to C . i I was numb with cold, wishing heart- ? ily that I had not left Tom's basket J under the staircase, thinking regret- c fuly of my own cosy bed, when I heard ? afar off the sound of horses' feet. 1 Xo sister Anne, in Blue Beard's i tower, was ever more watchful than ' I was then. ? Would the burglars take the alarm? 1 The building made a corner of two- < streets, and I saw eight mounted men 1 dash up the road, separate, and while J four dismounted in front, four went < to the rear. 1 The burglars were unprepared for 1 - -r-- < Vin tins nans movement, iui *?umr police in front were thundering at the I main entrance, the robbers rushed to i the rear basement door, right into the i arms of the police stationed there. * I could hear the hubbub, pistol shots i fired, the shuffle of feet, cries, oaths, i and general confusion, and I slipped 3 down stairs, out of the now deserted 1 main entrance and home. 1 Everybody was abed, and I went to 1 my own room, had a good crying spell. 1 and comforted my half frozen body i in double blankets, where I soon fell asleep. All this was on Friday night and I j had no teaching to do until Monday, j so I slept late; but on coming down. 1 ! found all the family prepared to make ] a heroine of me. i "I never knew until mother told me j this morning." said Tom. "that it i ! wasn't grandpa who sent the telegram J to C . By Jove. Olive, you're 1 srvimfcr. if von :ire little. I gave up ? | when four of them pounced upon me' < j from one of the upper rooms. They | must have goj in through the day and ; I hid there/' j I tFi=ed to make the Knight* puoodse ! not te tefi ?y a?tre?t?re, but not. j < Before night all Baysvilie knew liow Olive Hudson caught the burglars. I was in the office with grandpa, when over the wires came this message: "What does Olive Hudson look like? Everybody in Pryden is talking about her great exploit." I flashed back: "What do you suppose such a woman would look like? She 's nearly six feet, broad-shouldered and loud-voiced, - C ~ . i. ? a poriocL "Was it really yourself. Elephant?'* "Dear Lion, it lvally was!*' "Do you know, I want to soo you. T am going to Xcw York to-day, but I'll bo back next spring." If ho came to Baysville. ho did not ceo me. I ran away in a fit of shyness. In March a wonderful thins: happened. My mother's brother, who had been seventeen years, nearly all my lifetime, in Cuba, came ?o Now York, found mo out and took me into a life of ease ami luxury, making me his pet in his splendid house. He was a bachelor, over fifty years of ago, and with large wealth. He introduced me to old friends of his own. and my circle of acquaintances widened every day. I was entirely happy. One day Lucie Ooorgo brought home to dine a stranger, whom he introduced as: "The son of an old friend, Olive, Mr. Roberts." I made myself agreeable, as in duty bound, to Mr. Hohers. a man of thirty [)r thereabout*, with a face that was downright ugly, bur pleasant from the expression of frank good humor and - - i e intelligence upon it. w c TaiKvu <>j *-ver.vtliiiitr. and I was surpris* at the congeniality of raste that we soou discovered. In an animated discussion if heroines, Mr. Roberts, turning to Uncle George, said: "You were kindly inquiring this morning about my fortune since father lied, but I did not tell you one little episode. Before I was fortunate enough to obtain my present lucrative situation, I was for a time telegraph iperator. in a small place called DryJen, and there I heard of a real herone of whom the world will probably lever hear." I knew what was coming, but I kept my face perfectly composed to listen. When the story was finished, giving Uncle George a sly pinch to keep him luiet, 31 said: "What kind of a looking person was :he wonderful heroine?" "I never saw her: for although Baysfille was the nest village to Dryden, [ never went there. But she was described to me as tall, strong and masculine." VIn short, my dear Lion," I said gravely, "she was a perfect Elephant." Such a stare as greeted me I am certain never came upon Leo Roberts' !ace before or since that hour. His >yes dilated until I thought they would >op out of his dear, ugly face, and his nonth opened in utter amazement. Finally he gasped: "Pardon me, I?was it really you?" "Uncle George," I said, "will you jlease introduce me properly to Mr. Roberts? I believe be thinks your liece must share your name." With a flourish Uncle George arose, mil gravely introduced: "Mr. Leo Roberts. Miss Olive Hudson?Miss Hudson. Mr. Roberts." After that we could not certainly be Grangers. Mr. Roberts came "many a irne and oft" to dine with Uncle Reorge. And one day there was a wedding, vhere the bride was very small, buried n lace and orange blossoms, and the iridegroom was ugly and good natured; nit it was a true love match, a fit endng for the flirtation commenced at Dryden and Baysville, over the wires. -Waverley Magazine. Bliss Jane Addnms. It is her habit to be rather silent, md yet, curiously enough, she has nought about her at one time or an>ther, the most brilliant thinkers and alkers in the country. At the long .able with its simple fare, where the esidents of Hull House break bread ifter their day of diverse duties, have gathered, first and last, most persons )f original, peculiar, or dominating bought of the present time. Some lave been refugees, some revolutionsts; some have represented the conrentions and have been distinguished is achievers of modern forms of pros)erity; some have been passionate theirists, others heroic demonstrators of his or that system. But one and all, speaking in this tongue or that, have lone their best to explain and justify :hemselves to Jane Addams. I don't enow why. Miss Addams has incurred those renal ties which are inevitable to one ,vho thinks and acts counter to popular deas. She has enemies. Hull House md its policy are not infrequently misrepresented. At least cne newspaper n Chicago misrepresents the acts of Hull House with deliberate attempt But I really do not think these things lave much effect on the general public, which has, indeed, reached the point, ivliere it is willing to wait until she nnkes her motives and meanings clear. -Elia Peattio, in Harper's Bazar. Some Women Would. ' The Chinese woman is ridiculed fci tier small feet/' she said. "True," he replied. "Civilization does not sanction foot binding," "And the woman with large l'ect i3 :ilso ridiculed." "True again." "Oh. dear." she sighed. "TVrj:a:i does have a hard time i:i this world, doesn't she? I wonder if she waul/n't h? hettor off without feet/' Possiblj'." he replied, "brti I ean't help rhinkiug she wodd attract aansuierable unfavorable cenuuefit wafeiaig Bii her ka?4s."?New Y?rk Press H ' -v r: ; ' i f:~] I SOUTH CAROLINA \ i STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ uf\>Tsjrorg>CNir^irsJ M9 Williams Given a Respite. Governor Hevward has respited the sentence of Aaron Williams, a negro who was to have been hanged Friday at Camden, to December 23. Wilj liams was convicted of having corn?? n con i-1 (- nnnn a whifro wn. UlllLCU Clil aooaua upvii M < .. V man. The respite- was granted on the ' ground that new evidence had been discovered and a petition saying that the negro did not deserve the punishment imposed upon him. i Capitalists Visit Lancaster. j Lancaster had some distinguished ! vistors a few days ago, a party of Northern capitalists, who had been spending several days in the South ! in charge cf Colonel M. V. Richards, ! of the Southern Railway land and industrial department. I Colonel Leroy Springs, president of i the Lancaster Cotton Mills, met the | party at the depot, from whence they | were driven in carriages to the mills, i A thorough inspection was made of ! both mills and the visitors express! od thpmselves as being delighted with I v? - ? - - ~ w ? J the properties, especially with the i new mill, which is conceded to be one , of the largest, handsomest and best i equipped- industrial plants in the I South.. Homicide in Spartanburg. At Spartanburg J. L. E. Jones, dealer in bicycles and proprietor of -a repair shop, shot and killed J. M. P. Young in J. R. Fant's fruit store on Magnolia street. The ball entered Young's left side just above the heart, severing the large artery. Jones was arrested immediately after the killing and committed to jail. Jones claims that he acted in self-defense, claiming that about an hour prior to the tragedy Young entered his place of business and made an attack upon him. Later, while Jones was in Fant's fruit store, Young entered and the difficulty was renewed, resulting in Jones killing Young. It seems the men have not been on the best of terms of late, and though I they both live over their places of business, which are close together, they have quarreled frequently. Young was unarmed, but carried a large walking ?tick when the fatal affair occurred. Both men are married and well known in Spartanburg. * ? * Columbia Place Selected. The Conference of Education of the South will be held in Columbia next year. The announcement is made in a letter from Dr. Edgar Gardner Murphy, the secretary to State Superintendent of Education Marti/. This means that 1,000 or more of the most intelligent and progressive men of the country will spend a week there next spring as the city's guests. The date for the meeting has not been definitely fixed, but it will be the last week in April most probable. The attendance will include the governors of several states, the state superintendents of education, college presidents, professors, city and county superintendents and people , from all portions of the south, besides the two dozen or more northern men who usually attend the meeting. The president, Mr. Robert C. Ogden, a New York millionaire, generally comes in a private train with several personal friends as his guests. * * * Cheese Industry Profitable. A Columbia news item says: The commercial development of agriculture ought to be the first thought now of every one interested in the material development of the- State. There ' ' ?i? is no reason in the worm wuy mjo development should not be material in South Carolina. The commercial side of agriculture is what has made ehe great Western States to immensely wealthy. It is one of the chief purposes of the work of Commissioner Watson. There is one apparently small line that is showing fast and substantial development?the dairy and cheesemaking industry. Within the past few years six or eight cheese-making establishments have been started. They are all said to be making money and the industry is growing. There is a great future for the work in this state and especially so in the section of the state below Branchville, where cattle can thrive and where there are fine possibilities for cattle raising. * 4 Fire in Orphans' Home. One night the past week, the heaviest blow that has ever befallen the Thornwell Orphanage at Clinton fell suddenly. One of the matrons was awakened by a light in the kitchen. It was soon discovered that in some way the handsome memorial hall used as dining hall and cook room was on fire. As quickly as possible help was summoned. With the inadequate fire protection - ^ tito o fnun /I | tti&t. xne [own ciiiui ui it ** <-*o iv/uM^ ] impossible to stay the flames and after a few hours the building was in ashes. Now only the great stone walls of the building remain. There was absolutely no insurance on it. The walls *v ^ .? .* ' ' I were not completely destroyed. Two hundred and twenty-five ciiil- . dren and officers are taking their meals from the good people of the town. Help is needed immediately to rebuild. The work of rebuilding begins at once. Georgia owns and loves the Thornwell Orphanage. About $7. 000 worth of property was destroyed. ! * * s ' Thou Shalt Not, Kill." The News and Courier prints in its ^ Monday morning's issue, outlines of . sermons preached Sunday in all parts 1 of South Carolina, having for their i general topic the crime of murder. In ' The Sunday News preceding reports. 1 were printed giving briefly the facts J about the homicides committed in this state in ten months of the current j j year. These reports merely assem- j bled for the sake of convenience facts i j about a condition which was already I , .receiving the attention of all God-fearj ing and country-loving people. They j j sharply defined and aeentuated the j * {extent of the homicide evil as it af-M [fects South Carolina. They were not'3 I printed with the design of providing j sensational news, and The News and ! j Courier hoped that an increased awak- i 1 ening of the moral sense of the people ! i and a step forward towards a remedy j ] j would follow their publication. With i < j this hope and aim in view, The News \ j and Courier suggested to a number i ! of ministers it wou^d be glad to pre- i j j sent to its readers sermons that they ! j might care to preach on the 6th ?.fj5 ; November on this theme. A number of ! ' ministers responded. i . * ** j A Story of Stolen Jev/elry. i < (From Atlanta Journal. 1 The arrest of Frank Johnson, 15 years old, a negro, who was brought < to Atlanta Thursday night from Co- ] lumbia, S. C., by detectives of that city,, has unearthed a gigantic diamond robbers conspiracy which radiated from Colombia all through this ' state and South Carolina. The affair was first brought to light by the recovery of a diamond ring lost by a traveling man said to have ' hailed from Atlanta, in Wright's ho- ] tel, in Columbia. The police suspect- < ed the Johnson boy, and he was ar- J rested. He made a confession which implicated the porter in the hotel. He < declared that the porter took jewelry j j from guests in the hotels and made i him take is to other cities for dispos- 3 al, thus throwing the detectives off , the track. j Johnson stated that he had disposed ( of this jewelry in various places, among them Atlanta. He was brought here to locate some of the missing articles. and with Detectives Simpson 1 and Campbell went to various places ' here-in the city. The detectives found two diamond 1 rings; valued together at about $400. The boy enumerated other articles dis- 1 posed of in other- cities and towns 1 which may aggregate several thou- ] sand dollars. Johnson was taken back ] to South Carolina Thursday night. 1 _ v LEFT MONEY TO NEGRO CHILD. , I Will of Deceased Savannah Citizen to . Cause a Legal Fight. A Savannah, Ga., dispatch says: j The will of Charles Tutty, white, leaves his estate, estimated to be worth $33,000, to Rosa Otto Tutty, thu 10-year-old daughter of the testator by 1 his colored wife, Rosa O. Tutty. The will was executed three weeits 1 ago, just two weeks before the eld i man died. After stating that he is of | i sound and disposing mind, the testa- tor states that it is his wish for all of his property, real and personal, includ- 1 ing money in bank, to go to his daugh* ter, Rosa Otto Lee Tutty. < There is no doubt that a caveat < will be filed to the will. The testator left three sisters unprovided fo". One of the attorneys interested in the ( estate said that his caveat would fjt , out the fact that the old man was no: of sound and disposing mind, but that ! he acted under duress of Rosa Tutty, ! his colored wife. The Tutty woman is well known in the community. Her incarceration 1l jail for the alleged detention of three < $1,000 bonds belonging to the old man and her subsequent release, after fro 1 quent and futile attempts had be 30 ? made by him to repudiate his actlor 1 In having h?r placed in jail, are of re cent occurrence. } TREATY WITH GERMANY. Negotiations Initiated by President Roosevelt and Ambasadcr Sternberg. A Washington dispatch says: Negotiations have been initiated for a trea'y of arbitration between Germany and 1 the United States. Several days ago President Roosevelt suggested to Baron Sternberg, the German ambassador, that a treaty of arbitration between the United States and Germany would ' in his opinion be very desirable. Ambassador Sternberg coincided wiih this view. ! < . OUTLAWS SURROUNDED. J Capture of Murderers and Bank Rob- , bera Expected at Any Moment. The different hands of men hunting 1 parties who killed the cashier of the ; First National bank at Cody, Wyo., j have the robbers practically surrounded in the foothills of the Owl Creek mountains. 5b miles away, and their death or capture is certain within a i short ttae. ) I / r-b-iriri ++4HhH- 4 , I Cream of News.| IBrief Summary of Most U Important Events I i of Each Day. t J { ?The Temps and The Journal dcs j Cebatfc, Pans newspapers, devote leadmg articles to the Franco-American K \ arbitration treaty, the former pointing 1^1 aut that this is the first agreement of 1 its kind that the United States has made with a European nation. ?A fire has destroyed the Central - N Hotel and a number of stores adjoin- \ ing the hotel at Tazwell, Va. Total loss about $15,000. Several. people were hurt. o ?The Japanese reservists residing s. n the Philippines have been called \ 4 to the colors. Their number is estimated at 600. \ ?J. Samuei McCue, for four years ^ mayor of Charlottesville,. Va., has '< ^ J tl been tonne guiny 01 iae muruer ui jlub wife. The verdict was murder in the Srst degree, which carries with it the ieath penalty. . . ! ?Fire has destroyed the entire west side of the little town of Marion, in Tuscola county, Michigan, a hun^rtu miles northeast from Grand Rapids, entailing a loss of $200,000. ?A hundred Algerians have been irowned by the sinking of the French - ; 3teamer Gironde, after having been vin collision with the French steamer A. ' Schiaffino near Herbillon, Algeria. , ?The Texas quarantine which has existed against Mexico for many v months has been called off. , -i ?Two thousand alumni were present a few days ago at the one htm- 1 j Ired and fiftieth anniversary of the i * founding of old Kings College,. Co- J lumbiL University, in Nev York city. ?The bat! if ships Oregon and Wisconsin, the cruiser Cincinnati, the tor- ^ pedo boat destroyer Decatur and the collier Sterling, of the Asiatic squad- >. ron, have arrived at Manila. ?Timothy i. Lee. the American locomotive engineer, who was held responsible for the railroad wreck on the Central railroad, in Mexico, about 1 ; nine months ago, which resulted in the loss of about twenty lives, has t ^ been sentenced to four years' lmpris- ^ onment . \ ' . ?Extra guards of marines have i been stationed around the partly constructed $2,000,000 dry dock at the Norfolk navy yard oa account of the threats that had been made by die- ' charged Ital.'atf workmen. j, j ?The Virginia state . corporation commission has granted a charter to ? the Virginia and the Southwestern 1 Railway Company. The capital stock .1 la placed at from $1, 00,000 to $10;- | 060,000. The main office erf the com- < '*| pany is at Bristol, Tenn. ?Judge Babcock, of the/ common v| pleas court, at Cleveland, O., handed down a decision declaring the Chap- v man law closing the polls at 4 p. m. * i Instead of 5:30 p. m. in the. cities of Cleveland and Cincinnati, to be un- v constitutional. ?Rev. Albion W. Knight, dean of f A Bt. Philip's Episcopal Cathedral, At-?-. / j lanta, Ga., has decided to accept the appointment as bishop to Cuba, to | which he was elected at the recent general conference of the church in ?! Boston. ?The president has issued his -j Thanksgiving proclamation, setting 1 aside Thursday, November 24, to he observed as a day of festival add thanksgiving by all the people of the. \ United Sttaes at home and abroad. . /| ?A cotton compress company in % Oklahoma has contracted to furnish ' $30,000 worth of cotton to a firm of J Japanese for Immediate shipment to '1 Nagasaki. It will go via New Or- ? leans. | ?It is understood that Steps have J 3 been taken to bring about another fj| conference between representatives of On* strikinz cotton mill operatives and <; tie manufacturers at Fall River to discuss a proposition to submit the itrike issue to' arbitration. , ?Negotiations between Great Britain and Russia looking to a settlement of the North Sea affair are pro- greasing favorably and there is not the slightest danger of any frktfcm arising between the two governments. ?J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. an- ^ nounces that they have sold the Dhl- i ince of the $30,000,000 New York Cten- A tral and Hudson River railroad 4 per j cent debenture bonds purchased by j| them last June. ' * " ? I ?Real estate valued at fully $100,000,000, and in the possession of about 280 persons, is involved in a series of legal actions, in New York city, one j?4 of which has just been brought is' |? Bupreme court. ?Charles A. Manston, under charge 9 of counterfeiting, was found "not gull- ^ i ty" in federal court in Atlanta. M ?Italy and Austria seem to be on ? the verge of war, owing to outbreaks 1 between Italian and German students at Trmftshriu-k Austria. jg ?The total value of'real estate In North Carolina, aa shown by a report 4 d Jast made up., Is $220,303,339. The last report, a year ago, showed a total J* value of only $178,892,819. >