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HUNTING A BOMB.
Odd E».F*''»nec of Two Spanish Mar-
chants In Italy.
Amin b'-'s nn* tin* hugliear t»f the
Itnllnn f»< i>. A fp v werks n«o two
wspectaliU* Spun I h aterchantH, naimHl
A intro laijio y tJoHiilfo nud Qulllernio
Borrnp y Navnrro, wont to Homo m
the ho|>e of poIIIuk a oollei'tion of old
papal ootiih and a nnvagntlou chart
^ by I*on Gabriel do Vatosca, which tluy
say wan UK**d by A moi'lgo Vespucci on
hln voyage of discovery of America.
The Spaniards landed at Genoa mil
took a train to Home. Their principal
plei e of luggage consisted of a heavy
portmantc a coiualnlng the coins and
the char At the station of Genoa
w two portc - had to be requisitioned t<>
take the p . u.i'*uu Into the railway
eiuTiuK' M'-vig of an Inquisitive tur i
of mlini a- all In Man porters are.
they Inquired what the heavy hag
contained The Spaniards were fool
ish enough to reply “cannon balls."
which, it seems, is a Spanish expres
Sion meaning “Mind your own bust
ness.”
Thereupon the porters ran to the po
lice ami announced that two foreigners
were carrying bombs to Rome. ‘‘An
archists!’* exclaimed the police and
started In hot pursuit. The train had
left the station, but telegrams were
sent to Rome to watch the two an
archists at.'’ arrest them. Mir . po
licemen surro-mded the railway st..
tlon at Rome when the train from
Genoa was due. The chief of police
decided not to arrest the Spaniards at
once, but to watch them closely and
discover what sort of game they were
up to. The travelers were met on
their arrival by several Italian friends,
who drove them to a hotel. A crowd
of dctei lives followed and mounted
guard day and night. On the follow
Ing day the Spaniards and ttie heavy
portmanteau were accompanied by an
Italian friend to the Quirtnnl palace,
the residence of the king, who hap
pened to l>e out of town. The jKilice
were convin ed that the time for ac
tion had arrived.
They accordingly stopped the Span
lards' carriage and asked to examine
the portmanteau, whieh was opened
with a great many precautions and, of
course, was found to contain the harm
less hut litany collection of coins
which the Spaniards were taking to
show the king. Now every one In
Rome except the police Is laughing
about the matter. The police still in
sist that the two Spaniards are dan
gerous anarchists and are shadowing
them.—Chicago News.
Lott * n <* Found.
Lost, between 9:80 p. m., yetter-
dav and noon today a bilious attack,
with nausea and sick headache. This
losg was occasioned by Hading at the
Cherokee Drug Co. a box of Dr.
King's New Life Pills, the guaranteed
cure for biliousness, malaria and
jaundice. 25c.
LONDON'S EAST END.
The Charity Casual Ward and th«
Wracks In the Slums.
Lower than all is London’s charity
casual ward. In coming Into a stone
flagged room the “casual” Is stripped
and put Into a bath, while his clothes
are “stoved.” Then he gets supper,
unsweetened “skilly” and a dhee of
bread. No drink—not even water—is
given him, a queer, cruel privation.
Uis bed is of planks In a stone cell.
They wake him early, give him gruel
and bread again and set him to work.
If he comes oftener than once in n
month he must “stay In" four days; In
any case he must d<> a day’s work by
way of payment. He breaks stones or
picks oakum. The stones are worth
less when broken than before. Oakum
In these days of iron ships is of no use
or value. The work Is heartbreaking,
because it is empty and useless. In
fact, the casual ward has been de
signed for the express ]impose of keep
ing casuals away. In all London only
11,000 are desperate enough to accept
this hospitality. There are three times
as many who prefer to walk the
streets. They sleep under the arches,
by the riverside, against a dark wall.
And in all the world there are no hu
man animals lower in degree. 1 know
Naples and the Genovnn waterside and
the slums of Marseilles and many an
old world town, but nowhere have I
seen hmuaniti; rotted, into such itrno-
mlny. There are things one can’t say,
and I saw them. Only the*worst are
left In this east end. Thousands upon
thousands have been crowded out by
the Immense alien throngs, a diluvian
Immigration. In addition scores of the
old human rookeries have been torn
down, and the slum dwellers have fled,
making new slums on the marshes
of Walthamsiow. in watery Canning
Town, at I’lalstow, .Stratford, Leyton,
Edmonton, always east. And they
who cannot get r.v.-iy are the weakest
and worst, i on'ile to compete with
the sober and thrifty Jews, unable to
fend for themselves in work or ciime.
they have got to the bottom of life- so
low that official charity cannot reach
them—humanity in its last stage, tit
only to throw to the lampreys and the
eels.—From “The I'ont and Huddled
East,” by Vance Thompson, in Outing
Magazine.
NEW ENGLAND'S TREND.
Richard Mansfield.
▲ shadow falls across the stage;
The footlights glimmer low;
The music, pulsing Joy but now.
Saddened Is—and alow.
A hush falls o'er the waiting tlerst
The curtain creepeth down;
A spirit layetli flowers near—
The Ivy wreath, the crown.
His art was nature's sister twin;
His Intellect and heart.
His humanness, his graceful wit—
How rare a counterpart!
-Edward Branch Lyman in New York
World.
Subscribe for Tha Lftdear. fl a yaar.
Will Rsvsrt to Forest, Deolaraa Drum
mer Who Knowo the Region.
Within a hundred years New Eng
land will lie one vast forest with here
and there a city, village or clump of
farms, says the Worcester Telegram.
That Is the opinion of a commercial
man who rides ail over these six old
states at least twice a year. lie de
clares that the evidence Is 09 every
hand and can be seen by anybody who
rides a few hundred miles If He will
but look out of the windows. lie say*
be misses a pasture or mowing lot ofl
his list of old acquaintances on every
trip he takes through a township, aud
he recognizes It only In the shape of
an rikandoned lot of land ou which the
forest has begun to assume its sway
with us much haste as the condition of
the land will admit.
This drummer also says that on the
average less than once In a hundred
times are the houses rebuilt on farms
In this part of the country aud that
those which are occupied are castles
of poverty and other natural condi
tloos of Improvident living. The first
class farmers are so widely scattered
that they have to travel by trains to
get a fair quorum present at a meet
ing. There is the appearance of a hun
dred acres of land growing forests to
one acre that_ Is paying anybody, to
workUt as a farm. TheTTew England
farmers have given up the struggle to
keep the trees out of the large fields
that have been cleared for the past 100
or 200 years and are centering their
efforts, such as they are. on the few
acres that lie close to their houses and
barns.
That means that within from twen
ty to thirty years this part of the coun
try Is going to lie a great lumlier sec
tion. The city folk who have bought
the old farms for summer homes are
not bothering with the wide acres at a
distance from their houses, and there
fore the new condition of ownership
that is coming to the country districts
la no more an enemy of the forests
than that which has come about among
the regular farmers. The streams will
soon be larger If the theories of the
experts are correct because of the in
crease of forest lands, and the mills
will tie able to use more water power
instead of so much coal. That will be
the ideal condition for New England
as It is developing now.
Letter to L. W. McGuInn,
Gaffney. S. 0.
Dear Sir: We repeat:
Every job painted Devoe take* leas
gallons than of any other palnL
If not. no pay.
Yours truly
52 F W DEVOH * OO
P. S. Gaffney Hardware Company
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