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"111SK UP AXI) RUN.'*
Ef you wants to reach de riches
AYha? seiners Avaits fer a*ou.
\y >n t;e bright sun say. "Good mawnin',''
You must tell "im "Uowdy-do!"
l)is livin* ain't 110 fun?
De race is ter be run!
AY'en de bright sun say. ''Good maAvnin',''
Rise up, en run!
Ef you wants tor reach de hilltop
'Fo de stars come out ter de nituit,
Be ready fer do runnin'
At de breakin' er dc light!
Rear me tr.lk. my son?
Be race is tor be run!
AY'en de bright sun say, ''Good mawnin',*' j
Rise up, ea ran!
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For ten years Mr. G. Herning
Magnus had been a writer for the
lesser magazines. He wrote short
stories and essays and sent them to
the editors in the hope they would
be accepted. His stamp bill was
Tery large.
Still, perseverance, a mild intention,
and knowledge dug from the
encyclopedias will tell in time. His
accepted manuscripts increased in
number. This perked him ud. He
started a bank account of moderate
dimensions. Nothing makes a man
so brave as a bank account.
_ And he joined two or three "literary
clubs," wherein he was a
"lion."
Pale, bespectacled ladies with
yearnings assured him that they had
read his articles in the Ladies' Fireside
Instructor on "Every Woman
Her Own Sandow," and it was "lovely."
This pleased Mr. Magnus almost
as much as did the editor's
check.
He was a slender man, with drooping
shoulders, mild blue eyes and a
sandy Vandyke beard. When
"lionized" he used to twist this
beard into a sharp point and stab
himself upon his shirt front. Though
his legs were wobbly and his feet
large, his "heart was in the right
place." This he knew from the fact
that when startled by a sudden
noise it "beat thick and quick, like
a madman on a drum."
A boisterous doctor came up behind
him, slapped him on the shoul- ;
der and howled:
"Maggy, old man, how're the brutal
editor men?"
The heart, which was in the right
place, began thumping. Magnus
"wheeled and faced him, wrath in his
pale eyes.
"I do so hate to be called 'Maggy,'
he snapped. "It really is not my '
0-:'' name."
Then his thin delicate hand went <
to his left side.
"It's all right, Magnus," the doctor
said. "Beg pardon. You look
overworked. Take a bit of free advice?go
away somewhere and rest."
It was early summer and the members
of ,the literary clubs, the fashionables
and the preachers were flit- i
|r.' tiD?' 1
The bank account was healthy. 1
Magnus looked over the papers.
Among a thousand advertisements |
' of places "with all the comforts of
home," his eye was caught by the
mention of Matfield. j!
He asked about it and was told it !
,was in a good country, with pure
air, farm foods, trout fishing and
cheapness. That seemed to suit.
Next afternoon he alighted from a 1
dilapidated cart in front of "Grass- !
.dene" farmhouse. 1
A river rolled grandly to the
.. south. The hills were blue, save J
upon their.- summits, which were
crimsoned by the dying sun. From
afar came the drowsy tinkle of a j
z cowbell. A slow wind brought the
6cent of fresh fields and flowers.
Looking from his window over the 1
sweeping river Magnus saia:
- "Here is rest. I do not want human
companionship?a cultivated 1
mind needs only itself. Surrounded :
by these eternal hills, amid which
dwell a simple people, solitude ;
should bring happiness. Their ways
x V8 *?t my ways, their souls are
half-developed, but we need not
clash."
He fell readily into the habits of
the household. It consisted of Mrs.
Loudoun, a silver-haired widow, her
grand-daughter, Elfreda Loundoun, '
a brown-eyed girl of. eighteen, with
a delicious figure, a mass of brown
hair, and a frank smile, and a man- ,
of-all-work, who ate enormously and
never sdld a word.
The two women gave him no confidences,
for which he was grateful.
He was forced to admit that their
manners were perfect, but set this
down to innate female refinement.
They made no effort at all to entertain
him. He paid his moderate bills and
kept to himself. . .
He discovered a boat in a small ;
house which stood by the river, and
used to pull laboriously a half-mile
up the stream of evenings, then float
lazily down. The heart which was
in the right place began to show
some disposition to stay steady when
sudden noises came.
In two weeks, however, he realized
that a cultivated mind needs
something more than itself. He was
bofed. Furthermore, his conscience
oppressed him. He told himself that
he was ungenerous in withholding
himself from these two lonely women,
who knew nothing of books, society,
cities, or the great world without.
He was not conscious of a desire
to alleviate the loneliness of Mrs.
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Loundoun, but he thought 'the girl
would improve mightily by converse
with a man of his cultivated. abilities
and experience. She. was plump,
and her weight in the boat made the
rowing more difficult, but he endured
the extra labor for the pleasure of
watching her intellect expand like
a flower.
j He noticed that in the half-light
! of the evenings she was a singularly
pretty girl, nor could he see that she
lost any of her attractiveness in the
full light of day.
She listened to his talk of bocks
with every appearance of interest.
He found all her comments apt, and
some of them shrewd. He felt the
unconcions charm of her innocence.
One evening, three weeks after
the beginning of their friendship,
she assumed guidance of the conversation.
It was done in a spirit of
mischief, but the eyes of Magnus
did not see it. He lacked the perceptive
faculty.
She astonished him much by a
sound, if not brilliant, monologue
upon the Elizabethan poets as compared
with those of the earlier era,
and, in a mi{d discussion of the reputed
authorship of the Shakespearean
plays, she worsted him badly.
She said they were the work of
Sir Walter Raleigh during his eighteen
years of confinement in the
Tower of London.
Next day she invited him into a
part of the house he had not visited,
introduced him to a sitting-room,
furnished plainly but in perfect
taste, seated herself at an old but
tuneful piano, and played for him,
with feeling and force, selections
from Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn,
Chopin. Verdi, Donnizetti,
Wagner, De Koven, Millard, Sullivan,
"Dave*' Braham.
The town man dimly recognized
that he might possibly have been
guilty of underestimating,the simple
farming family. A little later he
began to hold her in his thoughts
and to speak of her, when on his
rambled, as a "Devon rose."
This was a bad sign. In all his
LLLliLJ JCttia lie uau sccu uu wuc line
her?so simple, so unaffected, so
sympathetic, so beautiful. This was
a worse sign. He measured mentally
the height of his bank account, and
found it sufficient. This was the
worst sign of all.
He laid his approaches with what
he conceived to be consummate art.
In his story "Heart to Heart at
Eventide," published in the Beacon
Light, there was a scene in which
Lord Ranald de Cholmondeley had
said to Lady Blanche de -Courtney?
"I love you wildlj', madly, passionately.
Your being has entered
into my being. As the dewdrop
trembles in the flower chalice, so
trembles my soul in your beauteous
presence. Be mine?be mine?and
there shall be no sun, nor stars, nor
the opal-tinted heights of heaven,
nor the crimson abysses of hades.
There shall be in the wide universe
only you."
He thought this rather fine, and
wondered how it would sound if
softly, yet intensely, spoken amid the
murmur of the river dcwn-rolling to
the sea.
It was late in September. There
was a slight chill in the air. The
girl, wrapped in fleecy light stuff,
sat, as was her custom, in the stern
of the boat, which made no sound as
it drifted. In the moonlight her
brown eyes shone like jewels. Below
them shone the windows of the
farmhouse. Not a word had been
spoken for half an hour, 'ihen he
said :
"Miss Loudoun, when I came here
[ thought you ignorant country folk, j
[ know now what a fool I was. I
must go to-morrow, and it makes me
3ad. I can't bear to think I may
aever see you again. I have never
told you that I love you, but I do
sincerely. You must have seen it.
Will you marry me?"
She did not answer. She had
grown suddenly pale, and was staring
intently at the landing-place not
a hundred yards away. Suddenly
she clasped her hands, and a wave
of crimson rose in her face. A
happy smile curyed her lips. 'Then
she gazed earnestly at her companion.
"I have not noticed," she said,
gravely. "Forgive me, Mr. Magnus,
but I cannot marry you."
In silence he pricked up his ears.
The prow of the boat grated upon
the shore. As the girl stepped lightly
to land she was taken intc the
arms of a tall, young fellow in
khaki uniform. She stayed there
a full five mifiutes, while Magnus
stood akwardly by. Then, she
turned, saying:
"This is Mr. Landorf. .He has
been to South Africa. We have been
engaged, for two years."
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Next spring the great author, G.
Heming Magnus, wrote a book which
Is in its 150th thousand. His heart
has gone into it; its name is "Queen
Rose of a Devon Garden."?illustrated
Bits.
Word From Br'er Williams.
De Chris'mus gobbler gobble
mighty fas', but de diffunce 'twixt
him an* de human gobbler is dat he
ain't got time ter gobble all in sight.
It never does come ter de human
race dat dey orter be mighty thankful
for lots er de things dey don't
git.
Satan go ter church mighty reg'lar,
but no man ever yet kotched him
sleepin' thoo' de sermon.
Keep de hallejuia road, but don't
holler so loud dat dey'll 'res' you fer
disturbin' de peace.
W'en you er In de ban's er a receiver
you orter ms.ke up you' ruin*
ter de fact dat de l-ceo'^r got ter
live es well ez you.?Atlanta Constitution.
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Pushing Saluda Railway.
Work is proceeding rapidly on the
Saluda Valley railway. The road is being
built to Marietta, twenty-five miles
from Gieenville in the mountains,with
the ultimate purpose of going through
to the Tennessee coal fields. In fact,
the road is graded as far as Knoxville.
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Bill Affects Greenville.
Much interest is manifested in
Greenville in the bill prohibiting bucke;.
shops, that passed the state senate.
Greenville is one of the few cities
mow tiuf hn< an exchange.
1 III I IX" OlUl^ w*v?o ?V?w t w ,
j and tha local one probably dobs more
business than any two others combined.
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Wife Very Much Alive.
Sidney Bouknight, a guileless looking
youth, who strayed into Greenville
from Georgia several months'ago, was
j convicted the past week of bigamy in
j general sessions court. His defense
was that he thought his wife in Georgia
was dead, but she suddenly came
to lite and proved an energetic prosecutrix.
Boukhight was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
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Purchase More Stamps.
A committee from the Newberry
chamber of commerce has been investigating
the matter of free mail delivery
for the town. This committee
has recommended that all merchants
in paying their small bills will do
sc? by using stamps, instead of money
orders. This request is made or.
account of the fact that the revenue
derived from tile saie 01 stamps omy
enters into the calculation of postoffice
receipts.
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Crooks in Aiken Jail*
Thomas Nolan, Charles Howard and
Edward Duggan, alleged members of
a gang of pcstoffi.ee robbers and safeblowers,
who were released from the
federal prison in Atlanta, Ga., were
landed in the Aiken jail temporarily.
I^ater Nolan and Howard were taken
to Marion county, where they were
charged with the robbery of a bank
at Mullens. Duggan is charged with
the robbery of a store and postoffiee
at Mcntmore. The men were -sent to
the federal prison at Atlanta in 1902.
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Large Rice Crop Planned.
. Advices received in Charleston show
that a considerably larger crop of
South Carolina rice will be planted
Ibis year in the tidewater sections of
South Carolina and Georgia. The rice
market has greatly improved during
the past year or two with a reduction
of the acreage and the surplus stock
in the state of Louisiana and Mississippi
and Texas and the tide water
people see better prospects and are
disposed to take advantage of the conditions.
The ground is being turned
and drained and plantations made
ready, for planting.
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Woman is Granted Bail.
Upon application by attorneys, supported
by the evidence taken at the
coroner's inquest and f>y an affidavit
made by Conductor Willis *H. Arms,
Judge George E. Prince, at Lexington,
granted an order admitting Mrs.
Ethel Barringtor. Plair, now in t'ne
Richland county jail, to bail in the
aum of $2,000 on her own recognizance,
with sureties in that amount
to be taken for her appearance at the
next term of the general sessions
court for Richland county to answer
the charge of murdering her husband,
the late Cullen W.. Blair, at their
home in Columbia on January 17.
Conductor Arms, who has a run on
the main line of the Southern railway
between Danville and Washington,
came to Columbia of his own accord.
He went at once to the attorneys
lor Mrs. Blair and of his own
accord offered to sign an affidavit
averring her innocence of criminally
intimate relations with him.
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Wilson Circuit Judge.
In the joint assembly Solicitor John
S. Wilson of Manning was elected
judge of the- third circuit to succeed
Judge R. 0. Puray, who recently resigned.
Mr. Wilson aeteatea Representee
T. B. Frazer of Sumter at present
chairman of the house judiciary
committee. Mr. Wilson has for many
years been solicitor of the third circuit
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Captain D. J. Griffith was re-elected
superintendent of the penitentiary
without opposition.
For three penitentiary directors,
.Messrs. Mobley, Kirby and Sanders
were nominated for re-election and E.
H. Cain of Highland, and Jasper W.
Smith of Colleton in opposition.
.Messrs. Sanders, Mobley and Smith
were elected on the first ballot.
A Delusive Matrimonial Ad.
A suit for $5,000 alimony was ar-'
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gued before Judge Gary at Greenville
a few days ago, being brought by Mrs.
F. H. Newton, against her husband, Dr.
F. H. Newton, an optician of Greenville.
.Mrs. Newton's complaint alleges desertion,
non-support, etc., while Dr.
Newton, in his rebuttal alleges that he
was promised S3,000 to marry Mrs.
Newton, the two having become acquainted
through want ad correspondencev
she living in the west and he
in the south.
Dr. Newton alleges that the money
had never been paid him, and instead
that his wife's insane jealousy had
made his life miserable.
The suit was finally settled out of
court, the property being divided according
to settlement reached between
I ii? TVia nortioc liflvp SPI).
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rated.
President Much Interested.
Piesident Roosevelt will write a letter
on the subject of target practice
to be read at the national shooting
festival to be held at Charleston, in
May, at the time of the triennial
meeting of the 'National Schuetzcn
Bund. He will also pvess a button at
the white house which will fire the
first three rifle shot* at the festival.
President Roosevelt* made these
promises to a committee of the German
Rifle Club of Charleston, who
called on him at the white house a
lew days ago, and asked him to attend
the festival. The president expressed
his appreciation of the invitation,
but regretted he could hot accept.
He talked with the members
about rifle shooting ana encouraged
such gatherings as that to be held.
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For South Carolina Rivers.
The river and harbor appropriation
hill reported to the house by the committee
on rivers and harbors will carry
an appropriation aggregating $83;460,138.
Of this sum $34,631,612 Is
appropriated cash to be available be
tween July l, 1907, and July 1, 1908,
and $48,834,526 is authorized for continuing
contracts, no time limit being
fixed as to when it shall be expended.This
bill is a record-breaker in size,
exceeding by many millions the
amount allowed for river and harbor
improvements in any congress. The
South Carolina items in the bill are:
Winvah bay $3,0100: inland waterways
between Charleston harbtor,
South Carolina, and opposite McCieliansville,
$75,290; Charleston $25,000;
Waccamaw river, North and South
Carolina, and Little Pedee river, South
Carolina $20,000; Santee, Wateree and
Congaree rivers and Bstherville-Minin
creek canal $150,000.
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Refused to Vote for Tillman.
The general assembly of South Carolina
in joint session elected B. R.
Tillpian to succeed himself as United
States senator.
Representative C?oke, 'a Methodist
minister, refused to vote to confirm
the re-election, and gave these rea.sons:
"First, he made a worthless and
malicious attack on the Universalists
of South Carolina, charging them with
being in league with the ex-barkeepers
of the state and with Colonel James
A. Hoyt as their standard bearer, to
destroy the dispensary law in Soutli
* Carolina. He knows this was an out?
rage on common decency. ^
"Second, before I could, vote for
him. I should have to know how much ,
money he returned to Mr. Hubbel as !
rebates allowed the state of South Carolina.
1 contend that as governor he
was handing the money of the state
and he had no right to return the
money to the liquor house any more
than the president of the board of directors
has the right to appropriate
to his own use or to such purpose
as he might see fit."
VETERANS !N FIRST PLACE.
Hereafter, Sponsors to Reunions Will
Not Be "Whole Show."
I Two important orders to confed|
orate veterans, issued by Stephen D.
: Lee, General United Confederate Veterans,
were made public at New Orleans
Saturday.
Speaking of the appointing of sponsors
and maids of honor by the United
Confederate Veterans, General Lee
says; ; . .
'"It cannot be denied that what was
intended as an honor to the descendants
of the glorious women of
the Confederacy has grown to such
a decree that the Confederate sol
diers have, in a manner, been forced I
into second place."
He announces that this matter will j
be brought to the attention of the
Richmond reunion this year, and that
pending action by the veterans at this
convention he will abstain from ap- I
pointing a chief sponsor and maid
of honor for the Richmond reunion.
"It is absolutely necessary," he
continues, "that the expenses cf the
reunion cities be reduced and 1 wish 1
it be distinctly understood that the
outlay for entertainment of all spensors
and maids of honor must bt:
borne by those who make the appointments."
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The second order announces ..the
date for the seventeenth annual reunion
for June' I. 2 aric? ^/-'next. ,
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THIRTY-TWO MILLIONS
Have Been Spent So Far in Canal
Work, Says Retiring Chairman
Shonts in Banquet Speech.
Theodore P. Shonts, who on Wednesday
resigned the chairmanship of
the isthmian canal commission, was
the guest of honor in Kansas City on
Thursday evening at the monthly dinner
of the Knife and Fork Club, and
delivered an interesting address touching
the Panama canal.
The creative period," declared Mr.
Shonts, "has come to an end, and
the period of active construction has
begun. As to the manner in which
the creative task has been performed
we are content to let the facts speak
icr themselves."
In closing Mr. Shonts quoted as
fynm Pificiripn t Pm?pvelt S
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message, written after the chief executive
returned from the isthmus:
"The wisdom of the canal management
has been shown in nothing more
clearly than in the way in which the
foundations have been laid."
Mr. Shonts denied that his resignation
of the chairmanship had resulted,
from any disagreeih<ent with President
Roosevelt, or; any .member , of the
comission, and declared that the best
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of relations existed between himseif
and all his canal associates.
Regarding the necessary preliminary
work he- said:
"In this preliminary work, we have
spent down to January 1, 3907, about
'$32,000,000. Of this amount $4,500,000
have been spent in government and
sanitation; about $7,000 in construction
of quarters and other buildings,
docks, wharves, railway enlargement,
water works and sewers in the zone,
and in engineering work, and about
$12,000,000 in permanent plants; over
$4,500,000 in miscellaneous materials
and supplies, and over $1,500,000 in
the construction of sewers and water
works and atreet paving and improvements
in Panama and Colon. The last
naiue$ will be refunded ultimately to
the government.
"We -have driven yeftow fever permanently
from. the isthmus. That is
the supreme achievement. For fourteen
months there has not been' a
single case of this terror of the tropics.
The stegomyia mosquito of which
the extreme period of life is three
months, and which is the bearer of
the yellow "fever germ, has been almost
thrown out of business.
"So far as general health conditions
are concerned I can give you
no stronger evidence of their favoraide
character than by stating the fact
that among about 6,000 white Americans,
including women and children,
on the isthmus, there was for three
months in the rainy season of last year?August,
September and October
?not a single death from disease."
Continuing in his detailing of accomplishments,
he. said:
"As I said to you in the opening
part of my address, the work of actual
excavation was restricted during
the creative period to merely preparatory
lines. Still, something has
keen done in the direction of making
the 'dirt fly.' During the fiscal year
ending with June last 1,500,000 cubic
yards were taken from the canal prism
against 742,000 yards removed during
the previous year.
"Altogether, the surface in the Culebra
cut has been brought down 65
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I ieei yt:iuw mo icy^I / w; tuv
French. A large amount of the excavated
material has been used in tilling
for railroad yards and double-tracking
ot the Panama railroad."
JOB 1$. UP TO STEVENS.
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Chief Engineer Will-Also Act Chair'man
of Canal Commission.,
Announcement was made at the war
department Thursday that the office
of chairman and chief engineer of
the isthmian canal commission would
be conjbined, and that Mr. Stevens,
the present chief engineer, would be
given the appointment, the understanding
being that he will maintain a
i residence on the isthmus.
COTTON GINNING REPORT.
| Bales Turned Out to January 16 ToI
. taled 12,167,873.
At Washington Wednesday the census
report was issued, which shows
that 12,167,873 bales of cotton, counting
round bales' as half bales, have
been ginned from the growth of 1206
to January 16, 1907. . '
The number of active ginneries this
year is 218,525.
The sea island cotton ginned to
I January 16, 1907, distributed by states, J
was: Florida 23,606 bales, Georgia 24,775
and South Carolina 7,761.
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MAYOR HAD NO AUTHORITY.
NashviHe Negroes Protested Against
Presentation of "Olansman."
Alleging that it will embitter the
immediate vicinity and possibly lead
to bloodshed, a large delegaton of liegio
preachers at Nashville, Tenn.,. urged
Mayor Morris to prohibit the proposed
presents,fion of "The Clanmrp"
at a local theater. Tlaey were informed
by the mayor that he had no authority
to prevent the play being
given.
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BANGS ELIMINATED
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Oliver Wins Panama Canal ^
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'Contract on Condition. Cj
MUST FIND A PARTNER ||
New York Man's Credentials Found :
to Be Unsatisfactory and He Was -d&J
Turned Down at Conference
at White House.
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J^he result of an extended conference
at the white house Friday, it was. ^
decided to reject the bid of Oliver ^
and Bangs, who proposed to com-.
plete the construction of the Panama.
canal for 6.75 per cent of the total
estimated cost, in so far as Anson.
M. Bangs of New York is concerned. ",
While no official statement was -;^
given out, it can be authoritatively; ^ ^
stated , that if William J. Oliver ofj
Knoxville, Tenn., can enter into a. *
satisfactory arrangement with some
etcher contractor, who is financially
responsible, he will be given the big J$||
contract. r
The fact that the MacArthur-Gilles-.pio
company of New York, whose bid||j9
was 12.5 per cent, was represented ;
at the conference, leads many to be- y.l
I'leve that a oomoinauon may o&
formed between that firm and OIivefi7-v|l
\t is known that the MacArthur-Gillespie
company has convinced Pros-,
ident Roosevelt and Secretary Taft of pjaj
its responsibility and the^ canal com- ^
mission offloials are satisfied that Oil- M
ver is able to carry out his end otfgga
the agreement. There would have- -t||
been no question as to awarding the *:/
jcontract tp Oliver and Bangs
the credentials presented by Banfib ~
proven as satisfactory ' as those fur- 'kQ
Dished by Oliver.
The decision means that Mr. Oliver
will be given a chance to take some;
ether contractor into partnership. The
canal commission, with this requifep "Vjj
raent met, will not undertake to <ti^':v|||
trate to him who this contractor sh6ll;:^3
The rejecting of all bids was dj^'J9
cussed at Friday's cabinet meeting^^^S
and this decision had been practicaBy^^^
agreed upon before the night confer
ence. If Mr. Oliver refuses to constder^q
the contract after the rejection ^of^
Mr. Bangs, the canal commission *^???1
issue a call for new bids.
Anson M. Bangs of New' York,
Oliver's associate, was the contractor^|^|
for tlie Soo line canal locks.
Bangs is a brother-in-law o* John Pi ; 0.
10aynor of the firm of Greene & Gay- ; -;&i|
nor, who were implicated with Cap^^/
tain O. M. Carter in the Savannah
harbor ffeuds. This fact, however, 4t ^
is stated, had no influence with the- M
canal commission.
Alter the cabinet meeting l?r. OH- 0
ver left Washington for New York^
and it is admitted by his represent*- V
tives that he will ask the MacArthur-Giltespie
company to join him :
submitting a proposal in place of tho ./
bid submitted under the firm name, at;
Oliver &- Bang3. It is stated that a .
compromise arrangement will be con- ;
sidered by the canal commission, provided
Oliver succeeds in making' ij||8S
satisfactory arrangement with tlfb ' ' |
MacArthur-Gillespie company to pay9
per cent of. the tptai cost lor
construction of the canal.
ECHO OF RU8SO-JAP WAR.
r.?ar'? Cftv^mment to Comoleto th*
Evacuation of Manchuria .
In a cablegram received in Waan^MB
ington Friday" Mr. ROckhill adVp?i^|Vra
the state department that the CW~ ;
nese government has been informed
by the Russian minister at
that Russia would complete the evao- *'J|
uation of Manchuria at once, lear^
ing only the railway guard, which ;
is m accordance;with-the treaty cd
Portsmouth. There are about twenty
thousand troop* to be withdrawn,
HIGHER POSTAL RATES.
For Newspapers of the Cbuntry Pro<? ^
vlded in Commission Refrorfc' . i.^p
A Washington special says: Thfc&%||
report of the joint postal commission % |
consisting of senators and represent
tatives, after a prolonged and.
ing session, altered Its .original. repprt^ij
in so f9t &s daily and weekly new^.-^tf
papers axe concerned.
The commission provided. that th& >fe
postal rates on daily and weekly newspapers
throughout the country shall V,
be increased 12 1-2.per cent
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TIE* WIFE IN A CHAIR
And When He Returned With Doctor
She Was Dead.
Mrs. Cris Young,-an aged woman,
died suddenly at her hoine near Dawyon
ville,: Ga. She became sick ami :;VJ3|
ner husband, fearing' she might fall ^
out of her chair while he vent xor/ ^
assistance, tied her to the chair. \Vhe?.'"'^|
be got hack she was dead.
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