The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 15, 1906, Image 2
POVERTY? THE NEWER WEALTH.
Mr. Carnegie has come out as an ardenl
advocate oi the value of poverty.?Daih
Paper.
The Laird is in love tvith the pauper's lot;
He deems it as fine as can be.
The bare garret lodging acd hard tvooc
cot
Are better than luxury.
The dry crust of bread and the coffee cold
The tattered and torn old coats,
Art? hptfcpr hv far than thp stores of ?Told
That he in his suit-case totes.
Far better than gilded sofa and chair
Is the storm-swept wooden sear
That stands in the parks, where poverty's
heir
Sits resting his weary feet.
Bkimmed milk is finer than rich champagne.
And toil is far sweeter than case;
To walk in the drear of the sleet and the
rajn.
In winter to shiver and freeze!
ITo
go without fire, to go without meat,
Frost-bitten from forehead to toes.
With hardly a sole to your swollen feet.
And blue to the end of your nose!
Oh, these are the things that the million
aires
All say when their riches pile up?
How gladly they'd swap oil their trouble.and
cares
To go back to Poverty's Cup!
Hi-4'*
Sf:
And so T would sav to the famished and
worn,
The hopeless, down-trodden ard sore.
Brace up and forget vour condition for
lorn:
Hope's knocking at last at your door.
For poverty's now a desirable' thing,
JSot a creature of ashes and dust.
f|lf only to market your assets you bring
In tk? form of a Poverty Trust.
?John Keudrick Bangs, in Life.
;
l/\We S^LGetl
gj By HELEN ROWLAND. ^
vj, OLLY sat on the other side
sfc. of the table making tea.
T> She wore a ridiculous little
JL apron (for nothing but
X 1 show), about the size of a
handkerchief, and a housewifely
expression that she always dons
on such occasions. Suddenly she
looked up.
"Look! Quick! Out of the window,
Jack. No, the other way. There she
goes."
"By Jove, what a pretty girl!" I exclaimed.
"Who is she?"
"But you were looking the wrong
?|*wa.v," said Polly, "and that wasn't the
m- girl I meant."
"I was looking at the girl across the
|6treet," I said, "and she was quite the
prettiest girl I have ever seen?except
one," I added, dutifully.
Polly set the kettle down with a
thump that jarred the teacups.
"Of,course she was!" she exclaimed.
"The girl across the street always is.
There isn't a man living who doesn't
worship some girl across the street.
She's like the girl you couldn't get, the
fish you didn't catch, and the cake you
didn't eat."
"But that girl! Why, Tolly, she was
Titian?"
"Per-oxide!"
1 " and Gibson *
! "Conceited!" *
! "?and Burne-Jones?
| "Loud!"
! " all in one!"
Polly sighed as she turned to put a
light under the kettle.
\f "It's always that way." she said, resignedly.
"The girl across the street,
like the girl lie didn't get. always is a
man's ideal. If he never marries, lie
. carries her image about in his heart.
|t,i. or her photograph about in bis pocket,
and uses it for a standard with which
to compare all the other women he
may meet. If he does marry somebody
else she becomes a sweet memory thai
|. .. rises every time his wife burns the bis
^ cuits or forgets to take her hair out ol
1 DaMT
(curi papers. uj js n: iuiu i
tilted her little r.ose upward until sh<
looked almost dignified, "that the mere
fact that a girl doesn't want to many
a man makes him wild to get her?"
"Polly," said I, "do you remembei
when you were a very little girl hov.
you used to lie awake nights try in'
to catch Santa Clans? Do you recol
lect how the jam on the top shelf wai
always the kind you liked best? I)U
you never long to see the other sidi
of the mcon. or eat what wasn't goo;
for you, or play with the naughty lit
tie girl whom you were forbidden t<
speak to? It's human nature, l'h
Illusive, the unattainable, the thine w
cannot get always has been and alway
' .will be the thing we want."
Polly pushed back a little curl tha
will get into her eyes, and began cut
ting lemon, meditatively.
i "Yes," she agreed, "but it's differen
with a woman. She always feels ;
sort of resentment toward the man wh
r-;. won't fall in love with her. while
j. '' man rather respects a woman for re
fusing him and admires her for snul
bing hiin. The longer she remains o:
the other side of the street "
"That is it," I broke in. "the longe
she remains on the other side of ih
street. But I have observed tbat it i
generally very easy to cross over you;
self! aud theu "
"And then she is no longer the gi;
across the street?" broke in Toll:
-waving half a lemon triumphant):
4,Then she loses her illusion, her attra<
tion. It is as if you had turned tl
limelight off the leading lady in tl
play. Her Titian hair becomes m
you observe that her nose turns up :
the end: her diamonds are only past
and her figure is nothing more nor Jes
than the result of wearing a straigh
front corset. The stock market fall
and you are glad to sell out your ii
terest in the girl at the very lowe
figure. The very fact that she k;
succumbed to your entreaties or yo:
fascinations, the very fact that si
loves you, or is willing to flirt wil
"Polly, will you put down that lemon*
It is taking the color out of me al:
ready?'
Polly subsided.
; "Let me ask j'ou," I "went on. seri
ously, "why, if you girls know all this
do you so often cross the street yourselves?"
, "What do you mean?" said Polly.
"You send us sofa pillows," I retorted.
Pollv winced.
"And necktie case?,*' I went on, "and
. invite us to violet teas."
"Mr. Heavyfeather," said Polly, "will
you kindly pass the sugar?"
I passed.
Polly took two lumps with the dig>
nity of a tragedy queen.
"It is evident," she remarked, in a
tone like the trickling of ice water,
"that your charms have made you a
victim of feminine attentions. But,"
she continued, "there are girls and
. girls. The kind to whom you have
reference never were like the girl on
the other side of the street. They
never gave you nor any other man an
opportunity to observe them from a
J distance.
' "You never had any perspective on
them at all. They were the nine girls
out of ten. But there is always the
tenth girl, and she is the girl across
the street, the girl of whom you "are
never quite sure, the girl who has
eluded you. Can you not recollect, in
all your varied and interesting career,
any woman who has escaped you, who
has talked with you, flirted with you,
chummed with you, but whom you
* ? ?i.j. ?? ?aom 0 Unro
; nave never guueu acuh.v uvai; nu.t
; you never known a woman who would
be as interesting to you if you had
married lier as she is now that you
' haven't got her?"
I blew the smoke of my cigarette rei
flectively. It is always amusing to
; hear Polly talk sensibly, because?
1 well?because her pompadour is fluffy
and her nose is retrousse?and in that
, nonsensical apron?well
"Ye'es." I began slowly; "now that
you come to mention it, there was once
a girl "
"I don't ask for particulars, Mr.
Heavyfeather."
"The most beautiful girl I ever
knew?"
"Will you have some more tea, Mr,
Heavyfeather?"
"The cleverest?"
"One lump, or two?"
"The girl with the greatest amount
of common sense "
"Lemon?"
"And she was the girl across "
"I don't want to know!"
"The girl across "
"I won't listen?"
"The girl across "
Tolly rose in righteous wrath.
"The girl across the table."
And the kettle bubbled merrily.-*
Washington Tost.
Dolus? For the Pamon.
The old custom of having the minister
and the schoolteacher "board
round" is not wholly forgotten, as is
seen in an incident reported by the
I Florida Times Union, 'me parson is a
successful circuit preacher, who in his
younger days was sent a? a missionary
to Florida. The town was off from any
railroad line, and was sparsely populated.
The new minister gathered the
people and told them that he intended
to establish a church; that churches
brought schools, schools settlers and
settlers prosperity.
"I have no money.'' he said, "but I
intend that you people shall care for
me. "What can you'do for the preacher?
I don't intend to put the burden
of my living on any one family, but
' upon all of you, turn and turn about.
' I will not go, however, where the latch
| string is not hanging out of the door.
What can you do for the preacher?"
One old lady, who had a dim recollection
of a small church in the piny
j woods of Georgia when she was a girl,
. said:
"I kin eat him. but I can't sleep
; him.v
"That's good." responded the parson.
"Now, who's next?''
"Well, if Sister Jenkins is gwine to
[ eat him, I'll agree to sleep him, but I
' can't wash him.''
"That's good. Who next?"
Here another sister spoke up: "Well,
* I reckon I can wash him, but I ain't
* muoii on D'iica ruins."
' Whether any one was found to "bile''
the parson the story does not state.
Intelligence of Ant*.
The testing of the intelligence of
e ants is a favorite study of naturalists,
s and recently there have been published
accounts of some interesting experi*
ments to determine the seat of the recognition
sense. It is well known that
ants, not only of one species, but of
t one community of the same species,
a are able to recognize one another, while
0 to members of other colonies or species
a they are markedly hostile. In this last
' investigation the author rejects the
theory that there is a "language sense"
n in the antennae of the ant, stating
that these organs are employed in feelr
iug objects of all kinds, both animate
e and inanimate. He believes, however.
s that the antennae have some sense of
smell, and accordingly he anointed ants
of one community with infusions made
from their friends and foes. When anr
ointed with the former, the hostile ants
were not attacked as long as the intiuence
of the infusion persisted. In furie
ther corroboration of this theory it
was found that when an ant was de
^ priveil of its antennae it would attack
both friend and foe without discrimine
ation.?Harper's Weekly.
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t- ! Flaxseed Candy.
s. Cook together in a porcelain or a
n- bright tin saucepan one pound ganu?t
luted sugar, three-fourths of a cup of
is water and a tablespoonful of glycerine,
ir Cook until nearly on the "crack," then
ie! add flaxseed in quantity to suit the
tl: | taste. Pour into buttered pans and
I when nearly cold mark into squares.
WOMAN RELEASED CN BOND.
Friends of Mrs. Standifer Furnish $5r
000 Bail and is Liberated.
In the superior court at Atlanta
Monday, Mrs. Willie Standifer, who
shot and killed her sister, Miss Chapeil
Whisenant, was released on a $5,000
bond by order of Judge L. S.
Roan.
Judge Roan said that prisons were
made to force oeonle into court, and
he believed Mrs. Standifer would be
on hand ready for trial if she was
out uitder bond.
The bond was signed by Robert
Gordon, M. W. Reed and W. U. Cotton,
Mrs. Standifer's brother-in-law.
Standifer, who was bound over in
a $1,000 bond on the charge of adulter}*,
is still held a prisoner in the
tower, as he has so far not been
able to make the bend.
Mrs. Standifer returned to her
boarding house, 203 West Alexander
street, as soon as she was released.
Her brother, Ross Whisenant, who
came to Atlanta from Littleton, Ala.,
will remain with her for a while.
Two physicians testified before
Judge Roan that they knew Mrs. Standifer,
and believed she was not In a
physical condition to remain in a
prison. They said she had tuberculosis,
and was physically unable to
endure close confinement.
MIAMI BILL IS VETOED.
No Circuit and District Court Sittings
in Southern Florida.
President Roosevelt Monday vetoed
the bill "to provide for sittings of
the United States circuit and district
courts of the southern district of Florida
at the city of Miami, in said district."'
I
In his message to the house of rep- |
reseutatives, where the bill originated,
the president said, in giving his rea
?UU9 IU1 LUC VCL\J .
"Terms of court are now held in
said district at Tampa, Jacksonville,
Key West and Fernandina. From information
obtained in the examination
of accounts of court officials for
said districts, it appears that very little
business arises in the vicinity of
Miami, and that there is no real necessity
for terms of court at that place
in addition to terms at the other
places above mentioned."
GOING AFTER DIVE KEEPERS.
New York District Attorneys Make
More Startling Discoveries.
A New York special says: The district
attorney's office did not rest even
for Sunday in its investigation of the
"white slave" trade. Chief Clerk
Henneberry and Assistant District Attorneys
Ely and Garvan spent the entire
day at their office hearing recitals
of the cruelty imposed on women alleged
to have been under the control
of negroes.
Mr. Henneberry said that a score
of indictments will be asked against
men said to have been affiliated with
Robert Spriggs, the negro under arrest
One of the women taken in a
raid last fall in a aegro dive on Minnetta
Lane, told Mr. Garvan Sunday
that she had been bound and gagged
for three days as punishment for tryins:
to escape from the place. Another
told of being deprived of food for a
week for a similar indiscretion.
WICKEDNESS IN WASHINGTON
Cails Forth a Bill in House by Representative
Heflin.
Representative Heflin of Alabama
introduced a bill in the house Monday
providing that no labor in constructing
buildings or railroads, or
work on the streets, or hauling material,
etc., shall be permitted in the
District of Columbia on the Sabbath
day, Mr. Heflin said:
"Why, you walk around this city
on Sunday, and it is no uncommon
thing to see men working on buildings
as though this were a heathen
J land, or there was no such thing as
the Sabbath."
Moody Not Ready to Quit.
Attorney General Moody, when asked
regarding prospective changes in
the cabinet, replied: "I am not yet
ready to leave the cabinet and when
I am I will announce it. I do not
know anything about any changes in
the cabinet and have no right to know
anything."
SMALL BOY KILLS FATHER.
I
I Was Playing "Hoid Up" and Thought
Gun Was Not Loaded.
Near Tampa, Fla., Monday, playing
"hold up" Charles Ryals, 10 years
old, pointed a shot gun at his father,
J. 0. Ryals, and playfully crying
"hands up," pulled the trigger. Jhe
gun was loaded and the charge entered
the elder Ryals' breast, he dying
in a few minutes. The boy believed
the gun was not loaded. Ryals
was a prominent farmer.
STATEHOOD BILL IN HOUSE.
It is Received from the Senate Without
Comment.
The house devoted its attention ro
legislation for the District of Columbia
Monday.
I An effort to bring up the naturaliza|
tion bill failed because of lack of a
j quorum. The statehood bill was rei
tnrnrH to the house by the senate,
and was laid on the speaker's table
withcui comment.
: Palmetto State News I
Interstate Y. M. C. A. Meeting.
un iuarcn zs-zq tne interstate convention
of the Y. M. C. A. will be
held in Charleston. Prominent men
from South Carolina, Georgia and
North Carolina and interstate secretaries
will be present to speak during
the sessions of the convention. Governor
Heyward and Governor Glenn
of North Carolina are expected to be
present and deliver addresses.
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Adams Doomed to Hang.
R. A. Adams, the Colleton county i
farmer who killed his kinsman, Henry
Jacques, some three years ago, will
be hanged for the crime, the supreme
court reversing the circuit court,which
granted a new trial on alleged afterdiscovered
evidence. Adams escaped
from the Walterboro jail while the
death sentence was pending, and remained
in the county two years before
boins rearrested.
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Georgian Invited to Act Judge.
Hon. Hoke Smith, one of the can!
didates for governor of Georgia, has
! been invited to be one of the three
j judges at the oratorical contest of
| the South Caroline Intercollegiate Orj
atorical association, composed of the
j following colleges: Clemson, Furman
| university, Wcfford, University of
South Carolina, Newberry college, E**skine
college and the Citadel. This
| annual event held in Greenwood is
the greatest in the college year
j in South Carolina.
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Seizure of Liquor at Dispensary.
A few days ago the United States
marshal seized 7,000 gallons of liquor
at the state dispensary at Columbia
! on the report of the revenue collec
tor's office that it was improperly
I marked and branded. The goods will
be advertised for sale at once. This
is the largest single seizure since the
dispensary became operative. The
liquor, which is said to be valued at
$10,000, was shipped by a house in
j Savannah, which claims only technical
violation of the law and will make
an effort to recover possession.
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President Jordan's Tour.
j Hon. Harvie Jordan, president sf
, the Southern Cotton Association,
, made a tour of this state the past
j week. At many places he delivered
speeches. The meetings were well atJ
tended by the farmers and the head
of the association was well received.
Mr. Jordan, among other things, requests
the members of the association
to not increase the cotton acreage,
but plant more corn and raise J
ether crops. He also spoke regarding |
warehouses for the protection of the
i cotton, and asked them to hold the
balance of their 1905 crop for 15 cents.
J Mr. Jordan's appearance in the state
will help the associateion in every
way, as all who heard him are very
enthusiastic over the farmers' prospects.
Troops Protect Policeman.
John Marion Ashley, a white farmer
of Honea Path, was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Policeman
White, who was endeavoring to
arrest Ashley. The wounded man's J
relatives and friends soon gathered ;
and threatened to do violence to the
officer. Fearing serious trouble, Governor
Heyward was notified and requested
to hurry troops to the scene.
Accordingly the Anderson company
was dispatched to Honea Path by a
special train, and quiet was soon re
stored. White was taken to Anderson
jail for safe keeping.
The direct cause of the trouble was
the ancient feud existing between the
municipality of Honea Path and the
numerous Ashley family. Marion
Ashley was resisting with arms the
arrest of the latter's son, Jim Bob
Ashley. Upon the officer's attempting
to arrest young Ashley, it is stated
that the father opened fire upon the
officer, the shot taking effect in the
thumb, whereupon the policeman fired
twiee, both balls taking effect in the
elder Ashley's body, from the effects
of which he died shortly afterward.
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Truck Outlook Promising.
South Carolina truck is now in particularly
fine condition, and the farmers
are looking forward to an especially
fine season. Lettuce is already
moving at a lively rate and strawberries
and other crops will be soon
on the move. Unless there is a late
frost, the farmers will realize hand
tv,o foor nf frost is not, ]
some proms. xnc
however, worrying the farmers as J
much as the thought of trouble in,
the transportation of truck which j
caused the farmers some trouble and 1
loss of money last season. The assurances
of the railroads have been
given., however, and if these promises
are kept the truck people will
realize their best profits of years.
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Convention of Young People.
T,,n ctnf^ invention of the Baptist
1 lit. OVUvv
Young People's Union will be hekl in
Spartanburg, commencing April 3. and
continuing several days. Hundreds of
young church workers from all sections
of the state will be present
either as delegates or outsiders. The
total attendance will be about 200 at
least, for 125 delegates have been
chosen to represent the various Sunday
schools.
The program promises to be exceedingly
interesting, for a number of
well known speakers have consented
to assist in making the convention
one of the best ever held and one
that will give Increased impetus to
Sunday school and church work in the
state.
Aside from the business, the social
features will be many, the people cf
the city having determined to make
the stay one of pleasure to the vistors
as well as profit
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Trustee Named fcr Union Mills.
A meeting of the creditors cf the !
Union Cotton mills was held at Union !
a few days ago, it being the first!
meeting since the corporation was ad-!
judged bankrupt. Claims aggregating
$3,244,871.72 were proven before the J
referee, Edward W. Hughes of
Charleston. E. \V. Robertson of Columbia
was named as sole trustee.
The nominal assets aggregate $2,554,-;
221.27, of which amount the plant
represents more than $1,400,000 ;
claims against the former president,
T. C. Duncan, $1,0G0,619.18. The Union
Mills of Maine represented more than
$3,000,000 in claims.
The meeting adjourned, subject to
the call cf the referee upon five days
notice. It is the tacit understanding
that the properties of the mill will
be sold, but tljat operation will not be
suspended.
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Georgians to Build Electric Road, j
A petition has been submitted to !
the city council of Charleston for an.
extension of the franchise of the
Charleston-Summerville Railway company,
which General A. J. Warner and
W. A. Carlisle of Georgia are promoting.
The company is to conduct and
operate an electric road in Charleston
and to Summerville, a suburban resort
twenty miles from Charleston.
The franchise was granted a year ago,
but on account of delay in acquiring
the right of way, and on account of
the engagements of General Warner
and Engineer Carlisle in promoting
the North Georgia Electric company,
which is to furnish power to Atlanta
from the Chattahoochee river, the local
projcet has not been actively
pressed.
General*Warner states that the
Georgia projecv has now advanced far
enough to permit him to give attention
to the railway, and this work will
now be taken up and pressed forward.
The extension of the franchise is preliminary
to the beginning of the woric
of building the new electric road.
FKtlNUM CAQIINtl MCOIVaNO.
?i
Government Defeated in Minor De'
bate Over Church Law.
A Paris special says: Like a bolt
from a clear sky, the Rouvier ministry
was defeated in the chamber of
deputies Wednesday and immediately
resigued.
The defeat of the government came
on a comparatively minor debate over
the church disorders. The government
succeeded Jn holding only 234
votes, while the various elements in
opposition ? clericals, socialists anu
nationalists?united and polled 267
votes, thus placing the ministry in
a minority of 33.
KENTUCKY HOLDS POWERS.
Case Not Removable from the State
to the Federal Courts.
The Caleb Powers case was decided
by the supreme court of the
United States Monday against Powers.
The opinion was delivered by
Justice Harlan, and lield that the case
was not removable from "the state to
the federal courts. The case was
therefore remanded to the Kentucky
state courts.
Powers is charged with complicity
in the murder of William Goebel while
Powers was occupying the office of
secretary of state.
JUSTICE BROWN TO RETIRE.
Will Leave United States Supreme
Court Bench In the Fall.
Associate Justice Henry Billings
Brown of the supreme court of the
United States, intends to retire from
the bench, and has so notified President
Roosevelt.
The president offered to appoint
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania to the
vacancy, but the latter declined. Jus|
tice Brown is 70 years old.
j He will serve through the present
term of court, and will probably retire
in the fall.
I I
i CASH FOR STARVING JAPANESE.
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Christian Herald Makes Third Large
Contribution to Fund.
For the third time the Christian
Herald, through Dr. Klopsch, its editor,
has made a large contribution to
the Japanese famine reliet tuna, un
Thursday the state department received
from that paper through the Red
Cross the sum of $10,003 for?transmIssion
to Japan through the American
embassy, and it is understood that
similar sums will probably be contributed
weekly for some time to comt..
OVER THOUSAND DIE
Frightful Mine HorrorOccurs
in Northern France.
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MENSUFFOCATEANDBURN
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Of Nearly Eighteen Hundred Coat
Diggers Caught in Explosion Only
Six Hundred Escaped Horri- ble
Death. - /
A Paris special says: A mining ca.
tnQtrnrihp nf hnrror anri
?
magnitude has stricken the great coal
center of northern France.
s
An explosion of fire damp at sevea
'
o'clock Saturday morning carried . >
* death
and destruction throughout the
,
net work of coal mines centered at
Courrieres. Fire followed the explo- ,
sidn, making resctfe difficult and al- '
most impossible.
All France has been profoundly
shocked by the magnitude of the-disaster,
which is said to be the greatest
in the history of continental mining.
President Fallieres sent his secre- 4
tary, accompanied by Minister of Public
Works Gautier and Minister of the ^ H ?
Interior Dubief on a special train CO ^
the scene of the disaster. . fv
The scene of the catastrophe is the
mountainous minincr reeion near Lens.
in the department of Pas de Calais.
Here are huddled small hamlets of
the mine workers, who operate the
most productive coal mines in France.
The subterranean chambers form a
series of tunnels.
Six of the outlets are near Lens . ^
and others at Courriers, Verdun and
many other points. The output of
these mines is particularly combustible,
and is largely used in the man- -V^gM
pfacture of gas and in smelting. About
2,000 miners work the group of mines *
and with their families make a popn- *
lation of from 6,000 to 8,000 souls.
The catastrophe took place shortly; .i.djg
after 1,795 men had descended Into *
the mine early Saturday morning. vV?l?e|
There was a deafening ; explosion* >
which was followed by the cages and
mining apparatus being hurled from
the mouth of the Courrieres mine.
Men and horses near by outside the
mine were either stunned or killed.
The4 roof of the mine office was torn
Immediately following the explosion
hames burst from the mouth of
the pit, driving back those who
sought to enter and dooming thosd '
within.
?f+Awnfir^or f A rOCIkllA
1 lit' WUI A UJL w a vwvmv _
the imprisoned miners was hastily .
begun by oficials, engineers and miners
from the surrounding mines, who
formed parties and made heroic efforts ' ~
to obtain details to force back the gen- ". rj
darmcs who kept them from the
mouth of the pit.
Later dispatches state that the
worst fears as to the enormity of ^
the disaster have been realized. The
death list numbers 1,100, and the
whole of the region stands appalled
at the terrible tragedy which has
brought sorrow to 6,000 fathers, m<K
tilers, wives and children.
The vast mortuary camp is under 0$,
military guard, four hundred soldiers <j
having arrived there to assist in hold'
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1I1S CUCCA. IliC V/l V TT UU u<wvk MW
ed mourners. ' ^
Ministers of Public Works Gautier,, %sj
Minister of the Interior Dubief and
the secretary of President FaKierea '
remain on the ground endeavoring to
comfort the distressed families of the
miners. President Falliers has given 1
$2,000 to aid in relief measures. The ;
ministry will add a further sum to
this, and the chamber of deputies will
be asked to vote $100,000 for the pun- - f
pose of alleviating distress.
Ministers Gautier and Dubief have
received complete details of the catastrophe
from M. Lavaurs, the director
of the mine. > ^
"Of 1,800 miners who were down
in the pits when the explosion cc- : ?
curred," he said, "673 were working
in Pit No. 4; 482 were in Pit No.
3; 571 were in Pit No. 2, and the re- . v
mainder were in Pit No. 10.
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BODY FOUND IN TREE TOP.
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Mangled Remains of Victim ot rynamite
Explosion Are Located.
When a quantity cf nitro-glycerine
exploded near Williamston, W. Va.,
some two weeks ago, H. D. Kerr was
driving the wagon in wnicn 11 was
being carried. A!1 that could be found
immediately after the explosion were
a few pieces of flesh and these were
shipped to Ohio for burial. "Wednesday
his lacerated body was found in
a tree, 300 feet from the scene'of the
explosion.
SEEKS TO RECOVER LOST CASH.
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Man Beaten at Horse Race Game Appeals
to the Courts.
Alleging that he lost the sum cf
$3,975 to Montgomery Thrower and'
Lorenzo Jones by betting on horse
races in New Orleans, Jce Eplan has
filed suit in the superior court at Atlanta
to recover this sum. . ?
He claims that the two defendants
have been conducting a hand-bookmaking
scheme on horse racing held io
New Orleans.
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