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HOW MANDY UF | MORTGAGE ?. * I . St Story of How the Home I Folks by a Youi Profit in Rail m $ * ; t "Mother, I don't know what we are | ft going to do. Here's a letter from j jl Lawyer Hardy, and he says the in-;' terest on that mortgage is so longj past due that if we can't pay it he; will have to foreclose and take the farm." Farmer Easiman looked up P* at his wife half heart-broken, after ||; reading the letter. It was a bright April morning and all nature was celebrating the beginning of a new ^ season of life. Even Biddy, the old hen, the mother of many a flourishing' flock of chickens, was adding her cackle, & announcing the fact that I there was a new egg in one of the nests in the barn. But Farmer Easiman was not in a mood to enjoy the music of nature. ",XJo ootto mftfhor +Vl*j + tVlP ITltpr lie OU * Oj JUUV tJUVl } WUM.V v**v *est for six months was due the first of January, and is now three months ! past due. He wants the money at ft once. He won't wait until July, when we could sell our wheat; and E* he says the crop might be a failure, |. and there will be another interest I payment due in August anyway. We can't borrow the money anywhere and I don't see what we can do." It was sad news indeed for Farm?? er Easiman's wife and daughter. They had become attached to the place, where they had been living for ten years. At the thought of giving | up a home which meant so much to I* them, Mrs. Easiman burst into tears. "Oh, John," she exclaimed, "can't we persuade him to wait until fall? r We'll surely have the money to pay the interest,, and we may be able to make a payment on the principal. Let me go and see him. . We have had bad luck for so many years that ifMno-c must. phaneA for the /better ^ soon." ; 3 "There, there, mother, don't cry about it. We'll see what we can do, but I don't see much hope for us. ? The mortgage has been hanging over } us now for 10 years, ever since we bought the place. At first, we tried cotton, but the price was so low we I could barely meet the interest every year. Then we tried hogs, but every year that they would sell for a high ?price ours got the cholera. Now, cattle are up, but we only have one I cow." Farmer Easiman was a typical easy-going farmer, with a small aVtrtuf rift norAS. H? had U1 UWWUV vv never given a moment's thought to V poultry and other branches of agriculture which are adapted to the small farm, except to begrudge his daughter Mandy's chickens the corn they ate. The future seemed to offer but little hope. "How much does Lawyer Hardy want, papa?" asked Mandy, the quiet v but comely daughter of the house, w who had been listening without dar\ ing to offer any suggestions. She . was just seventeen, and seldom took part in the family councils. "It's only thirty-five dollars," said her father, "but it might as well be [' thirty-five hundred, when we do not | * 1 54. 99 [j nave u. y ' "Why, papa, if that is all, I have * the money, which you can use to pay it." "You have the money, Mandy! Why, where did you get thirty-five dollars?" exclaimed Farmer Easiman, in surprise. "Don't you remember that on my |f fifteenth birthday, mamma gave me a young hen, just beginning to lay. I raised a lot of chickens from her last year, and mamma told me to keep all the money myself from the chickens and eggs sold from my flock, and then if I ever got married i y I would have some money of my -V own to buy things when I -started housekeeping/' "You are a good girl, Mandy, and I j am surprised to think you could save 6 so much money in two years." f "I'll -ell you what we can do, fpapa; if you will let me keep a large flock of chickens, 200 or 300 hens, I will agree to pay the interest on the mortgage every time it comes due. I will pay you for the feed that the chickens eat, and you and mamma just let me manage them and keep everything myself." "Well, well, Mandy; you seem to have quite a head for business," her father replied. "I never had much faith in chickens; they eat up soj much corn ana Keep geiung into [ everything. But you have the farm, and I'll agree to what you say." It was Easter morning, four years! later. Mrs. Easiman and her daugh-j ter had some great secret between! 4: them wrhich they had difficulty in j keeping to themselves. Her father had noticed the bright look on Mandy's face, causing him to remark that she was the image of her mothe, and that she reminded him of the days when he went courting. Mandy's only reply was a still deeper 4" M 'K i I ;jj:' : . feS TED THE OFF THE FARM s Was Saved for the Old ag Lady.?Good sing Poultry. blush as she hastened away to look after her chickens which had now grown to a flock of several hundred. When Farmer Easiman broke his egg for breakfast, a daintily decorated Easter offering, something seemed to go wrong; his knife would not go through the center as it should with well regulated eggs. After adjusting his glasses and looking closely, it seemed to him as though there was a roll of paper in the shell, instead of the usual contents of all good eggs. But the surprise was not complete until the paper had been unrolled and smoothed out, when it proved to be nothing less than the original mortgage on the farm, with a receipt in full for $1,000 and all interest to date of final payment. Several minutes passed in silence. Finally, Farmer Easiman mustered the courage to control his feelings, and looked up to his wife and daugh ? -- OATMQ ICT, SctYHlg. iviauuy, is tins >?uuiv ui your doing?" "Yes, papa, I have saved a thousand dollars from my chickens in four years, besides paying interest, and I have a little left. I can easily save another thousand dollars in twc or three years, with my chickens, All this I have made from one hen, which mamma gave me six years ago."?Uncle Jo in Pogressive Farmer. Uniform Divorce Law Advocated. Washington, Aug. 14.?The storm of protest which has been raisec over the approaching marriage ol Col. John Jacob Astor and MisE Madeline Force has brought about an agitation among members of the senate and house of representatives looking to a federal law regulating marriage and divorce. Foremost among the advocates ol *such a measure is Senator Curtis, ol Kansas. "The matter of establishing uniform divorce laws is one in which 1 am greatly interested," said the Kansas senator. "It is a matter thai vitally affects the social interests oj the nation, and one which must be remedied. First among the lawt should be one absolutely preventinf in any State tne marriage or ? uiau whose wife divorced him on charge of specific crime. Along with this should be laws making both marriage and divorce more difficult. A commission might be appointed to ascertain the best way of establishing uniform laws throughout the country.' Representative Shepherd, of Texas, suggested that if congress car not act in this matter an organizatior might influence the various States to join in a plan for uniform divorce laws. NEAR-LYNCHING AT ABBEVILLE Crowd Storms Jail, Takes Alleged Insulter of Young Woman. Abbeville, Aug. 18.?Bob Davis colored, had a narrow escape fron lynching, at the hands of a mob here to-night, as the result of an alleged inctiit imoroDer Droposal made to a young lady from the cotton mil' village. Instead of lynching the negro, after taking him from the jail, he was subjected to other punishment. He is said to have confessed his guilt. The fats in the case as understood here, are as follows: About 2 o'clock to-day a young lady, from the cotton mill village was on her way up-town, when she was accosted by a negro man and grossly insulted. An improper proposal was made and the negro made an indecent exposure of his persoi in her presence. She ran and reported the matter to her father and the hunt began. Davis was finally arrested, charged with being the guilty party, and lodged in jail. While he was not fully identified, little doubt was felt that he was the guilty party. It developed during the investigation thai he had been annoying two other ladies recently. The crowd whicl gathered was already excited, and this increased the excitement. About 9 o'clock to-night a large crowd, armed with guns, congregat ed on the public square, but it was not thought that any attempt would be made to storm the jail. However at about 10:30 o'clock the crowc stormed the jail, broke in the outei door, two inner doors, broke in ths cell where the prisoner was and took him from the jail. He was taken oul of town, and in about one-half houi a volley of shots was fired, indicating that the negro had been lynched This proved not to be the case, however. Sheriff Lyon is absent in Columbia. The city police and othe] officers did what they could to protect the prisoner, but to no avail. * ; ?.?> 1 > * ' v - * ' " '*5 VERY QUEER ACCIDENT. Huge Turkey Buzzard Causes Two Cars to Leave Track. At Los Angeles, Cal., the lives of. I a score of passengers on two inbound beach cars were placed in jeopardy late Friday night by a huge turkey buzzard. Just as a Venice flyer and a Del Rey car were approaching a switch the buzzard charged the brilliant head lights of the flyer. He missed his aim and crashed through ' the glass door, knocking the motorman back into the aisle just as he i was applying the air brakes to bring his car to a stop. Ths Del Rey car ' was already on the switch and the Ccrs crashed, both being derailed. None of the passenges were in-j jured. I 'Three Men Arrested. ! Coatesville, Pa., Aug. 16.?Three , men, one of whom the authorities assert was a leader of the mob, were arrested here to-day and charged ( with murder in connection with the , burning of Zachariah Walker, who . was dragged on his bed from the [ Coatesville hospital on Sunday night and cremated. Those arrested today were Joseph Schofield, master I mechanic of the Conestoga Traction company; Norman Price, a mill hand, . and George Stoll, who was employed j with Price in the iron mills. The accused were taken into custody af. ter they had been closely questioned L at the Coatesville police station and were then rushed by automobile to r the West Chester jail. ( Schofield is 35 years old, while Price and Stoll are each 20. Stoll is accused of being one of those most 5 active in the lynching. The police . declare that they have evidence to show that he helped tie the negro to his cot and that on entering the hospital he" shouted, "Come on, fel i lows, it's easy; there is only one I cop." F Schofield is said to have admitted \ that he helped to tie . Walker when t the mob first entered the hospital and later to have untied him that he j might be bound for the burning. ; Price is said to have admitted that he was in the hospital, but declares F that he was not present at the burning. * Kennedy Boyd, the lineman, who was the first man to be arrested in f connection with the lynching, was re leased this afternoon after being det tained in the Coatesville jail for F nearly 20 hours. The authorities adi mit that his arrest was a mistake > and that they are unable to establish ! that he was a member of the mob. t 5 . Women Writing Good Books. 5 1 > Jeannette L. Gilder, the famous . literary critic, says in the September . Woman's Home Companion: "Tn looking over the list of the so ? called 'best sellers' of the past few . months, it is interesting to note that t the most of them have been books t written by women. Not only are j these books popular, but they are i clean and wholesome. Not long ago, most of the popular books written by women were neither clean nor whole some, and it got to be a byword that novels written by women were not ' fit to read. There was unfortunately too much truth in th^ statement at , that time, but it is not true to-day; l then women seemed to be possessed ? by a writing demon who urged them I to write unclean stories, arguing ' "*? ( Viooiron OQPO i Iliat SUCIl liicxaiuic uuiv I the mark!) showed strength. Women must not write namby-pamby . stories any more than men. Some 5 women listened to the tempter, and i the result was a number of unspeakable novels that had their little day, I but now are forgotten. I do not think that there has been one novel writ ten by a woman in the past year that ( belongs to the class of which I speak. > If there has been one such, I do not t recall it?and it must have been a . mere flash in the pan." i ? i FATAL WRECK ON SEABOARD. [ Alabama Woman Loses Life and Fourteen Others Injured. I I , Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 17.?Miss ; Bessie Jones, of Montgomery, Ala., : was killed and 14 other persons were seriously, though none necessarily fa; tally, injured when Seaboard Air Line passenger train No. 40, from l Charlotte and Atlanta for Wilming I j ton, wag wrecked this afternoon, five mile# east of Lumberton, N. C. The > chair car and sleeper, in which were travelling a number of passengers, i bound to Wrightsville Beach,-N. C., I for the week-end, were derailed and , turned over. The injured were taken I to Delanboro, N. C., for treatment. The wreck is said to have been caus; ed by a "rail kink," following a day : of intense heat. : After receiving temporary medical * attention at the scene of the wreck, " * -? 1 1m. x i 4.^ , ine injured were uruugui uere tu. night and are being cared for by - physicians. With the exception of - Pullman Conductor J. B. Hill, of this city, who is thought to have re ceived internal injuries, none are seriously hurt. VALIDATION PLAN UNJUST. New Orleans Cotton Exchange Denounces Scheme. New Orleans, Aug. 16.?Branding the proposed plan of the Liverpool cotton bills of lading committee to institute in New York a clearing house for the validation of cotton bills of lading as a "direct reflection and insult upon those engaged in the exporting of cotton," and placing itself upon record as opposing the plan in its entirety, the New Orleans cotton exchange this afternoon, through its board of directors, passed resolutions to this effect and approved the renort of its sDecial committee ap pointed to investigate. the proposisition. The directors also adopted resolutions authorizing the president of the exchange to issue invitations in the name of the exchange to all Southern exchanges, boards of trade, bankers and exporters and others interested in the handling of cotton to meet here in joint conference, probably during the annual convention of the American Bankers' association, about November 20, for the purpose of adopting measures for the protection of their respective and mutual interests. Willing to Co-operate. The local exchange expressed itself as being willing, in the future as in the past, to co-operate if any feasible and just plan for the protection of the legitimate cotton trade and the elimination of practices contrary to commercial morality; any feasible plan that will not take further tribute from the Southern planters. All cotton exchanges in the United States were urged to oppose the proposed plan. T? tVio ronnrt nf tho QTIDnifll PDTTI JLU luv 1 VJ/V1 U VX vuv -w ? ? mittee, made public to-day, it was stated that Charles S. Haight, representing the Liverpool interests at a conference last Saturday, explained the entire plan to the local committee, but as no change from the original plan was noted he was informed that an adverse report would be made and the proposition opposed. Plan Already Adopted. "To the surprise of your committee;" says the report, "Mr. Haight thereupon informed the committee that this matter had been practically concluded by the Liverpool committee and the New York sub-bills of lading committee, disregarding the agreement to leave matters in abeyance until further conference with the Southern interests, and that a letter was being printed in 17 different languages to be issued to cotJ 3??nn J VtnnVirtnr LULL LLLiyUI"LCI B ttilU. luicigu i/atmiug interests all over the world, requesting said cotton buyers to ask their American sellers of cotton to comply with the plan and to- request American exchange buyers to have all their documents approved as to their genuineness through the central office in New York." Plan Too Cumbersome. The committee, in giving reasons for opposing the plan, reported that the losses through Knight, Yancey & Co. and Steele-Miller & Co. were nothing, and "consequently there was nothing to justify the complex and cumbersome methods of handling cotton," as proposed; "that the proposed plan is an insult to those interested in the handling of cotton;" and that it gives to New York a decided advantage in the purchase of documentary bills, while other cities will be under the necessity of paying for their bills before verification can be obtained. "In other words," says the report, "the plan is drawn entirely in the interest of the foreign cotton buyer and banker and the New York exchange buyer, without regard to the interests of the large section of the country in which cotton is produced and which bears the primary burden of financing the crop." Discrimination. Attention is directed particularly to the fact that cotton alone is se ? ' ' ..lUr. lectea out or tne enunmma quauutjr of commodities exported for the validation of bills of lading, "nor is any such plan in vogue in any other commercial country. Therefore, it can only be construed as a reflection upon the cotton business as carried on in the Southern States," concludes the report. The committee recommended immediate action upon the part of the directors in calling a conference of all cotton shipping organizations for the protection of their respective interests. T\WU4\TH mcmnv HI? SftT,T?TRR. JLTJUiTUlilx/ VUUXV/x/A vr* Private in U. S. Army Charged with Cattle Stealing Savannah, Aug. 16.?Liberty county, Georgia, authorities have made a demand upon the United States army for Private James Flowers, of the 25th infantry, stationed at Fort Slocum, New York, in order to try him on eleven charges of stealing cattle. He is under indictment, but the army officers have not yet decided what answer they will make to the civil officers. 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