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- -1 Mini un j x i X -3j jp ninor Events of the Week In a 4 jp Brief Form. ? 4^ .H -i Mrs. Nan y Milligan accidentally shot herself at her heme at Mount Pleasant nes. Charleston Friday afternoon and died a few hours later while on her way to the Charleston hospital. Magistrate Clyde, of Greenville, bas rendered bis decision in the cases againt C. W. Clifton, indicted for petit larceny, and the defendant was given 90 days or $150 fine to cover the several cases upon which he was tried. A meeting of the stockholders of the big Gluck mill was held in Anderson March 10. for the purpose of electing four additional directors and determining upon the site for the mill. A majority of the stock was represented. most of it in person. Charley Sumpter, the negro who in- ' suited a lady near the old Sidney park j in Columbia on Friday afternoon, was t taken before the recorder Saturday ! morning and fined $40 or 30 days on the chaingang. The recorder remark- ' ea tnat ne wisnea me peuauy cuum have been greater. The pension board of Lancaster j county has completed its labors for ! this year. The number of applications j approved, including the old pensioners on the roll, is 259, but one more than the pension roll of 1902. Thirteen of j ' the pensioners of last year, eight soldiers and five widows of soldiers, have died. A special term of sessions court will be held in Newberry; convening April 6th, to try the case of George Strother, j colored, charged with a criminal assault. On the 20th of last February ; Miss Emma Bowers, a well known ; young woman of Little Mountain, was I assaulted by the negro who afterwards 1 escaped but was captured and lodged in jail. The south bound Carolina and North Western passenger train was caught in an awkward fix at Allison creek trestle seven miles north of Yorkville Thursday night by reason of the blowing out of the cylinder head. The engine was then unable to climb the steep grade leading up from the creek and the passengers had to remain there until a freight came along and carried them on to Yorkville. A Bostcn lumber firm is building a large saw mill on Cheehaw river in i Colleton county, which empties into the Beaufort river. They will saw up the immense forests of timber that are adjacent to ship North by way of St. Helena Sound. A huge dock and tramway are to be built, and the enterprise will employ a great deal of labor. The machinery was transported to the spot by a three-masted schooner. The navigation is good and deep. Deputy Sheriff J. W. McCaslin, of Greenwood, lodged a gay young Lothario in the county jail at that place Saturday afternoon, together with the object of his affection and attention. The two young people wanted to compromise by calling in a minister and having a marriage ceremony performed at once, but the girl's father was opposed. and now both languish in jail. . The girl had run away from home wifh the young man and a 'phone message from the girl's father caused the arrest. Harry Mickin, a young colored boy of Columbia, was painfully but not seriously hurt in the Southern Railway yards Saturday morning. Mickin was walking along the track, his head bent down and apparently oblivious of anything save his feet, when a train back* *? -i. 1, on/1 ing towards aim si.rui.-n. mui aim knocked hirn from the track, slightly stunning him. When picked up it was seen that his head had been cut in two places, both of his knees were wounded and he was badly bruised about the body. A dapper young white man was arrested by the police in Columbia Saturdny on a telegram from the police of Spartanburg. He is wanted in that city for swindling and he is supposed to be the same fellow who has been ' operating expensively in the upper part of the State. His name is Morris and when he went to the express office to obtain a package the police were waiting for him. He gave them a lively chase before caught. He has a partner named Ray, who, it is thoight, is in Richland county, and he will also be caught. Just in time to avoid being run over by a passenger train -the dead body of C. C. Sanders, a negro hackman, was found at Salt Water near Beaufort fintnritnv mnrnine- Tt is believed he talked to tbe spot in a deranged state and died from the effects of a fall between tbe cross ties just after crossing the trestle. He had been afflicted with heart disease for some time. He was 50 years old. The coroner's Jury rendered a verdict of death from natural causes. Articles of value found on his person were returned to his wife. Guiseppina Capitano, the Italian woman who Friday attempted suicide on the train of the Atlanta Coast Line, entering Charleston, died Saturday morning at the City hospital, where she was taken. Her two sons, to whom she was going in Tampa, were notified and they went to Charleston and took charge of her remains. Her body was . taken to Tampa for burial. The woman ' regretted her attempt at self destruction In a conversation with the Italian consul before her death. The woman was temporarily insane. S. J. Thompson, State organizer for the United Textile Workers of America addressed r.n audience, composed of about seventy-five mill operatives, in the court house in Newberry Saturday afternoon. He was there in the interest of his organization, for the purpose of organizing a labor union. His arguments in favor of a union were opposed by Superintendent J. M. Davis, of the Newberry Cotton Mill, and Superintendent E. B. Wilbur, of the Mollohon Mill. No action by the operatives was taken and those la favor of organizing a union seem to be in a minority. WILL BE TAXED. Opinion Concerning Buildingand Loan j Associations. Building and loan associations must j be taxed. That is the advice given the | Comptroller General by the Attorney General's office, the opinion being written by the assistant attorney general, Mr. Townsend. This is an innovation, at least in some counties, and uie aiiempi uj assess auu iu wueui taxes may be taken into the courts. But the attorney general has advised that this is required by the law and the Comptroller General will act accordingly. When the auditor of Richland county. Mr. W. H. Gibbes, Jr.. was told of this yesterday, he stated that he had already decided to call the attention of the county board of equalization to this matter. Mr. Gibbes states that he has had a number of people to ask him if they must make a return of their stock in building and loan associations and he has told them that the company as such and not through the individual stockholders is subject to the taxation. But of all the nine "domestic" building and loan associations in the city of Columbia, not one has been on the taxbooks and not one has made a re __ lUi. U turn uiis year. mere is auutuei iuuipany with headquarters in Syracuse, N. Y., which is said to be subject to the laws cf taxation on account of its business in Columbia. One of the Columbia companies, the Domestic, is exempted because it started in business after the first of the year. The other eight are the Building and Investment Company of Columbia, the Richland, the Citizens', the People's, the Homestead, the Fidelity. the Security, and the Prudential. Mr. Glbbes could find no evidence of returns having been made by these companies. Comptroller General Jones has r*. ceived several letters which caused him to get a declaration from the office of the Attorney General. The building and loan companies claim that their credits or mortgages should not be taxed as the property on which the mortgages are given is itself taxed and the law does not permit 'double taxation." Another contention is that while the mortgage might have been given for $1,000, and while the party might have made many payment and have reduced his actual indebtedness to the company yet the mortgage would be taxed as if no payments had ever been made thereupon. The opinion of Mr. Towneend applies to insurance companies and other organizations not now taxed. THE COMPLAINTS. Mr. Walter I. Hazard, president of the Home Building and Loan Association of Georgetown, under date of Jan- i uary 20th, filed a complaint that the company has been paying taxes for several years under protest, claiming that it is not liable to taxation, owing to the peculiar nature of its business. He contends that the funds of the association are loaned to the shareholders, secured by mortgages on personal and real property which Is already taxed. The law does not contemplate "double taxation" which, he claims, is the effect of taxing the building and loan company. Mr. Hazard then cites facts which ' tend to show discrimination. The only other building and loan company in | Georgetown is the Eureka, which has , a capital stock of $150,000 but Is not assessed for taxation. "And your peti- , tloner Is reliably informed and be- j lieves that the large number of similar associations doing business in Columbia and Charleston also enjoy immunity from taxation." Wherefore the company begs to be ( relieved of further taxation and asks ] for a rebate of taxes for 1902. This pe- j tition receives favorable endorsement from Wm. H. Dorrill, county auditor, and E. M. Lucas, county treasurer. ' Mr. H. J. Dean, chairman of the board of assessors of Spartanburg city ( -ebool district, wrote to the comptroi- , . Tuesday in regard to this same alter, and asks if building and loan ompanies should not return the ^ value of all credits and evidences of credit on the first day of the year. In ] Spartanburg the custom has been to < return surplus cash on each series on ] that date, but no account is taken of money loaned on collaterals. WILL IT WORK A HARDSHIP? ! Maj. John H. Earle of Greenville, attorney for the Carolina Loan and Trust company, also filed a complaint < with the comptroller. He emphasised i the statements that "we have no fixed 1 capital," "strictly mutual," "all loans on taxed real estate," "?ot a bank," ( 'do not take deposits," "make no loans j on endorsed notes," "generally have an overdraft," etc. The complaint concludes: "If this little company has to pay ( the high rate of tax here on the mortgages it holds in trust. It will run them ( out of business for we cannot pay both 1 on real estate and on our assumed capital stock, which is represented by j said real estate." In reply to the comptroller general. Mr. Townsend said that building and loan companies are to be taxed as other companies and he cited a decision of the Illinois supreme court to < show that it would not be double tax- ] r? i An "DniMlnff ond T A eenoio. LAW J is 11. UUHUIU5 ouu iA/au aoovvia- ^ tions should be required to return all loans secured by mortgages on real J estate for taxation at their full value." Three farmers Shot. 2 Greenwood, Special.?Robert G. 1 Cheatham, Robert Quattlebaum and Clebe Penn, three neU known white farmers of the Phoenix section, were seriously shrot from ambush at 2 ] o'clock Thursday morning at some place below Callison, a postofflce about ' ten miles below hei". Mr. Cheatham received a charge of buckshot in the 1 upper part of his body, his hands, arms ] and chest receiving the load. Although j at close range his physician thinks that the wounds are not necessarily fa- J tal. He will recover unless some com- 1 plications set is. Mr. Quattlebauno had ( his left arm broken and also received j some flesh wounds in the upper part of 1 the body. Mr. Penn's wound was made 1 *> ' ; * -: Xtfj flfedi'BtMiHM by a charge of bird shot which centered in the calf of the left. Although the shooting occurred at 2 o'clock in the morning no news of it was received here until after midday, then the report was very meagre as to details and is yet as for that. No one f. cm that section seems to know anything about it. Dr. B. W. Cobb of thi3 place was summoned, but he has not yet returned. The ?act3 as to the wounds were obtained from Dr. .T. L. Ward of Phoenix, who was the first physician to reach the wounded men. It is reported that thr shooting was done by negroes and that seven or eight volleys were exchanged. Those who really know are extremely re ticlent. LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many Matters of General Interest In Short Paragraphs. The Sunny Touth. Flood conditions still cause great apprehension and much danger la the West. James R. Kecne, though ill, continued his battle with the Harriman interests for Southern Pacific control. Plaquemine, La., Special.?The river at this point rose four-tenths during the past 24 hours. The gauge this evening reads 33 1-2. The back water on Bayou Plaquemine and Lower Grand river is higher at this time than in 1897. A number of arrests have been made by the levee inspectors of parties riding on the levees. The levees are in splendid condition. At The National Capital. The office of Director of the Census has been offered to Mr. S. N. D. North, of Boston. The State Department is hopeless of any fruits coming from the proposed Alaska boundary arbitration. A verdict of acquittal was found in the case of Easign Ward K. Wortman in connection with the explosion on the battleship Massachusetts. J. . Pierpont Morgan conferred with President Roosevelt at the White House. Mr. Geoj-ge Uhler, president of the Marine Engineers' Association of the United States, will succeed Gen. Jas. A. Dumont. chief of the steamboat inspection service. At The North. A 82.000.000 ovster combine was or ganized at Providence, R. I. Dr. R. C. Flower was arrested in NTew York on a warrant charging him with grand larceny. Clovernook, the home of Alice and Phoebe Cary, near College Hill, Ohio, has been sold. The Fire Department of Lafayette, Ind., turned a stream of water on riotous students of Purdue University. Miss Maude Mullock, of Washington, D. C., was hurt in a railroad wreck cear Mahoningtown, Pa. In a suit against the executor of Lhe estate of C. B. Rouss, in New York, the mother of the plaintiff, Miss Edna Weller McClellan, told of an alleged settlement of $35 a week on her daughter. From Across The Sea. The Czar of Russia issued a decree granting religious freedom throughout his domains and ordering other reforms. Lord Granville Gordon received a tetter from his wife, who is in France. The debate on religious orders was apened in the French Chamber of Dep II11C9. Lord Minto opened the Canadian Parliament An effort will be made to get the Pope's consent to allow his jubilee gifts to be exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition. John Redmond was the principal speaker at a St. Patrick's Day banquet n London. The Reichstag budget committee vot;d In favor of appropriating $750,000 for Germany's exhibit at the St Louis :air. Sir Robert Reid urged in the House )f Commons that international action se taken to limit naval armaments. King George of Saxony wrote an jpen letter to his people blaming Princess Louise entirely for the recent court scandal. Russia and France favor granting China's request to have the Chinese cariff dues collected in gold. A revolution has broke out In Urojuay. Miscellaneous Hatters. Another day's testimony in the Burlick inquest at Buffalo threw much ight on the facts surrounding the " * * " 1 J X ? 1 ? V> n nurder, but ianea iu mssujuac u? juilty person. Levees and railway embankments ire breaking along the Mississippi and 3ood conditions are very grave. Mysterious Dynamite Explosion. Bluefield, W. Va., Special.?A large dox of dynamite exploded at noon tolay, near the Norfolk & Western staion. Three laborers were probably family injured and a score are more or ess seriously hurt. Articles in a louse a half mile away were jarred ind all the property in the immediate vicinity of the explosion was considerably damaged. Over 500 window jlasses were broken, and Princeton ivenue for half a block is practically i wreck. The cause of the explosion is inknown. V.' 'i - ~ r THE EXTRA SESSION The Senate Stil! Talking on tho Cana Treaty. The Democratic Senators at thei; caucus resolved to stand together ii the Senate In support of two amend meats to the Panama Canal treaty One of these provides for the modiflca tion ot the twenty-third article of th< treaty so as to insure tne control or tn< canal zone by the United States, anc the other enlarges the provision in th< fourth article of the treaty which is J disavowal on the part of the United States of any intention to "increase iti territory at the expense of Columbia or of the sister republics In Central 01 South America," so as to lnclucb Mexico. With reference to the lattei amendment there was considerable debate. Many of the Senators advocated an amendment striking out the provision entirely and practically all of then: agreed that it had no place in the agreement, but it was concluded thai as it had been incorporated and would probably remain, the best policy would be to make an effort to modify rathe: than to remove it. Mexico was incorporated because it was urged that the people of that country are as sensitive as those of any other about maintaini n cr f ho intoo'Hfv a# hnli? AAtinfmr on A "C) tuvv^ltv/ VI tut 11 VVUUbi J uuu also as much entitled to the guarantj as any other . All the Democratic Senators except Mr. Dubois, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Morgan, Mr. McLaurin, Mr. Clark, ol Arkansas, and Mr. Gibson were present. It was the understanding that all the Democrats would support the two amendments agreed upon, but alter they are voted upon individual shall be at liberty to vote for 01 against the treaty as they may elect It was alao the understanding that some of the Democratic Senators would support some of Senator Morgan's individual amendments, but they will do so as individual Senators, not as members of the Democratic caucus. Democratic Senators who participated in the caucus say that whether amended cr no t.the treaty is sure of ratification. The amendment suggested to the twenty-third article of the treaty givtwentshrdlu shrdlu s'nrdlu shrdluluuu ing the government of the United States the exclusive right to police and protect the canal, is practically that offered by Senator Eacon on Saturday, ! with some verbal changes. This amendment makes the control of the United States over the canal absolute and exclusive, and its right to police i and protect the same, is under no cir[ cumstances dependent upon the request or Invitation of the republic of Colombia. The other amendment agreed upon was to article four of the treaty, relating to the policy of the United States towards other Central and Southern American republics, the language of the amendment being as follows: "The United States, following their uniform established policy in regard to their sister republic in America, freely acknowledge and recognize the sovereignty of the republic of Colombia and disavow any intention to impair it in any way whatever or to increase their territory at the expense of Co lombia, but most earnestly desire her peace and prosperity." After the adjournment of the caucus, Senator Oorman, as chairman, and Senator C3rmack, as secretary, of the caucus, gave out the following statement concerning the last mentioned amendment: "This amendment qualifies the language of the treaty to the extent of making a simple affirmation of the established policy of the government against the policy of territorial acquisition at the expense of sister republics in America, and acknowledges the sovereignty of the republic of Colombia. There was strong objection to the language of the treaty in this respect, because it was thought to be an impertinence to enter into an engagement with Colombia for the protection of other South American republics, thus in a manner recognizing that republic as the representative of all the others and giving her a sort of primacy among them. "The language of the treaty is also broadened in that the amendment asserts this policy of the United States with reference to all the American republics while the treaty confines its pledges to those of Central and South America, studiously omitting Mexico, which Is the republic most sensitive and apprehensive of aggressions on the part of the United States. "The language of the treaty also goes to the extent of declaring it to be the policy of the United States to maintain the teparate independence of all the Central and Soutn American republics, not solely as against European powers, but as against each other. This was believed to be contrary to the true policy of the United States, which is not concerned with the internal arrangements of these republics, but only with their defense and protection against the outside world, in accordance with the principles of the Monroe doctrine." Treaty Accepted. Without dotting an "i" or crossing a "t," even without changing a single punctuation mark, the Senate voted to ratify the treaty with the republic of olumbia, for the construction of an isthmian canal. The vote for ratification was 73 in the affirmative to 5 in the negative. The Senate was in executive session when the result was announced, so that only the Senators themselves and a few confidential employes were present. All the Senators announced themselves as gratified to have the long struggle terminated, hut none of them manifested their appreciation by cheers or hand-clapping. On the contrary, all of them seemed more concerned about getting away from the chamber than about anything else, so that by the time the Senate could adjourn, which it did almost immediately after the result was announced, most of the Senators had left their seats and some of them had donned their haLi and oreribaM. I , s BILL ARP. 8 X r SXSXKfXkXXSM KKSXGX9K&XX5M Last night I read to my family po: tions of a long article by a preacht | describing the sad condition of a pet pie he has recently visited. Out of or 3 hundred and sixty-eight towns in tt 3 State he visited seventy of them thi j are off from the railroads, and all < these have decreased in populatic since 1890. None of these towns ha\ * settled pastors or preachers and th I ehurches are abandoned or ha\ j preaching at irregular intervals and tt attendance hardly ever exceeds twentj five persons. The Sabbath schools ai r equally deserted, lue once busy plant , of small industries are dead and tt . people farm only for the bare neccss ties of life. Houses, barns and fence are going to decay and the little mil] I that were on the creeks have tumble . down and the dams have washed awaj Here and there you will see a statel 1 mansion sheltering some degenerat i family in the back rooms while th t vacant front greets you with the silenc I of the tomb. Sometimes you will fin an old man and woman alone in a 1 old ancestral home. I found a mothe and her two sons and two old maid in one house not one of whom coul read. The intermarriage of near rela tives or not marrying at all is commo and bachelor and divorced men an wodowers have housekeepers and the [ unblushingly cohabit with them an r young girls become grass widows b the time they are sixteen. "Where ib all this?" said my wif< "I don't believe a word of it. Itiis som newspaper lie?a fake made up b some reporter." I read on. In one tow I found the usual Saturday night danc going on in an old vacated tavern an they danced and develled and dran until Sunday morning. Sunday is n more observed than it is in Chicagt '; for they hoe and dig and gatner na i all the same as on week days. Illltei j acy, Insanity and imbecility are ver 5 marked! I found one family in whic both parents were idiots and had raise | j up a family of idiots. In another horn , j or house I found a poor father takin 'f care of three motherless children, a! j idiots. "I don't believe a word of it," sai [ j my wife. "There is no such people 1 (this country. What paper are you read i ing from?" t One can hardly conceive of the flit and vice reigning in these countr places called homes?a barbarism dil fering from the city slums only in it stagnant inertia and touched as littl I by church influences as if in the hear of Africa. Tfie country people all ove j the State are generally without ambl ! tion, improvident, ignorant, not abl to read or write, loose in their famil; j relations, socially corrupt, given t drink, and some to the opium habil And these are the towns where, half century ago. lived the best families o , the State. Among them the Field (Cyrus and his brother), the Abbottf the Barnes and Donald G. Mitchell am others. And now let me tell you, my dea wifp t am readine from The Hartfor | Times and this is only a short portioi of the report read in New Haven re j cently by Rev. Mr. Hutchins, a Bibl colporteur, of Connecticut. This report is fully accredited to b true and the editor-of The Times trie to tone it down by saying, "The sam | conditions described by Mr. Hutchin j for Connecticut are common to all th older States." Rev. George Horr, o Massachusetts, is also a Bible colpor teur for that State and he said in Bos ton the other day, 'I have driven aJ over New England with my own horse and my conviction is there is no im morality in any western mining towi that will compare with what you fini a few mWes from any New Englan* town. Mr. Hutchins' observation cor responds exactly with my own." #r Unrlo bin/1 fripnrls what 1 UUUU iiivuud, .. , to be done about this. But the edito of The Times is mastaken when hi says the same conditions are commoi to all the older States. We have n< sbuch people in Georgia. In some o our mountain counties the people an illiterate, but they are honest an< moral and attend church and observi the marriage relation and obey thi laws of the land and make the bes soldiers the *orld ever saw. They hav< courts twice a year and it takes onl] a half a week to clear the crimiua dockets. Now, I was thinking that as Bostoi and Hartford and New Haven had sea a big lot of money down here to eau cate and reform our negroes it woul< be nothing but fair for us to send a lo of the graduates up there to do mis sionary work in Connecticut and Mas sachusetts. These negro graduate! couldn't teach them the lost art o making wooden nutmegs, but the] could teach school and preach and th< New England people could pay then for it and keep their money at home Something must be done and doni quick, or the old Puritan race will become extinct. I reckon these colorec graduates would make good mission aries. They have never tried anything elese. When my good friend Mr. T. K Oglesby sent me his book, "Som< Truths of History?The South Vindicated," I was too sick to peruse i! carefully. Since I have gotten better ] have reread it?every page?and an free to say it is the most comforting little book of 260 pages I have yei found. It is masterly and as true and solid as a stone wall. He has certainlj vindicated the South and nailed th< I lies and slanders to the masthead. ] feel like I have a aeiencier in mme u?u household, and yet there is not a malignant expression in It. It is gracefully done and would bring conviction to any mind, North or South, that was open to conviction. Every youth in the land should buy a copy and absorb its contents, for It is as readable as a romance. I regard it as the best contribution to Southern historical literature that has yet appeared. Send $1.25 to Mr. Oglesby, No. 8 South Broad street, Atlanta, Ga. It seems to me that this book would convert a Northern fanatic and if it converted only one it would save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins. And there has recently come to me the March number of The Alkahest, a first-class Southern magazine, and I find in It a very remarkable article, "The Stages of Civilization," by Mr. Frank Orme, of Atlanta. I did net think that the Frank Ohne ( - / L-: ? I used to know was old aiough to hara S written an article so scientific, so "jra 5 philosophical, so Huxleyllke on the ra- *v| ces of mankind. Most of the article is an analytical history of the principal j? races and the causes that contributed ? to their advancement or their decay. aj - The latter part deals gently and fair- Jcfc ly with the negro and our efTorts to r* elevate and refine him by education. ^ From Mr. Orme's viewpoint and the I laws or etnnoiogy *uu uiuiugj hm? l? cannot be done and the effort will be ' In vain. But I have not time or space to review his admirable treatise. Let if our thoughtful men. our wise men, our ' learned professors in the college read . \ re It and they will find abundant food \ te for thought and serious reflection. Mr. Orme seems as familiar with enthnole logy, biology, anthropology, sociology ' r- and all the other ologies as Huxley or Humboldt or Darwin. We old veterans :a are pleased to see our young men takie ing hold of these things. Ever since the 1- war our people have seemed almost ;s paralyzed for fear of making their conla dition more intolerable by talking but d of late there is a renewal of independr. ence and younger men are coming to y the front. The sale of Henry R. Jack; son's great speech on "The Wanderer" >e has exceeded my expectations and It \ :e was a young man who projected that? t. d not for money but for the diffusion of /! n knowledge. T And here Is a long article in a Dea 's Moines paper from a woman who has d been recently traveling through Texas l- hunting for something she wanted to a find and she found it. It was some very f d high weeds In the front yard of one y home?and at another house was a wod man sitting on a log dipping snuff and> y she had lost all her front teeth. Another discovery was that Texas women .i - don't do anything. They won't work e the garden or raise chickens or churn y the butter and if one was caught at It II she would be taken up and put In a a -I J .-..i. Ik ? OA T /vntfl ! " glass case ana Bent iu uie ou uuu? * d fair as a curiosity. What a malignant k slanderer she is. She winds up by say0 ing that the people there hate the : j negro so bad that if the whole' race J had but one neck they would chop it off. I know Texas from eaBt to west jf and north to south and the people will d average well with the better class in -tM d the older States. When will these slan- J e ders cease? The March number of The S Review of Reviews has a most excel11 lent editorial oil the South and her people. It is kind and considerate d until it gets to Roosevelt and it gives n him the most falsome praise and de- ,,] clares that he is our friend. But I want v Mr. Shaw to tell,me !f he can about d when will Roosevelt retract his pub- , 4 y lished slanders of Jefferson Davis and ' make an apology to his wodiw. That's ; what I want to know and until he does ? that no words of praise will prove him 1 to be either a gentleman or a friend. , 'te r ?Bill Arp. in Atlanta Constitution. 0 REBUILDING A TREE. f Broken Down by an Ice Storm, It is s in Its Oldtime Beauty. |j Every passing storm seemed to wreak its vengeance on' the big elm . r tree that grew by the roadside. One 1 late winter morning we awoke to find a the world transformed by Ice on every " tree and burfi. In wonderland amaze- V-' 6 ment we looked abroad. But In front ?' e of us the elm tree lay a shapeless g mass, broken and splintered by the e weight of ice. Already vhe tree hitf teen endeared to us by its many e hardships, m which all the family had * sympathized. The tree must not perish now. \ j With ropes and pulleys the great ? limbs, some of them now several 1 inches in diameter, were drawn back i to their places; for every one of i them still clung to the parent stock 1 by a strip of bark and wood kt its - base. Iron bolts were made from half inch rodi, long enough to reach * through branch and stock Just above 0 the split. With loDg augur, half inch r j holes were bored through the tree the j bolts driven in tight and then drawn f ui) by means of a nut and thread. A ? large head and washer, and another ' washer under the nut at the other ? end, prevented the ends of the bolt ^ from drawing into the wood. So ' | g tightly was the branch drawn to the f trunk that no gaping crack was l^t, . * 1 and the crease was heremetically sealed with melted wax. Then higher ' J 1 up, between brancner two or tnree j * feet apart, other rods were run to * m " hold all the members in place. We f| knew that If the belts fitted tightly in 'm1' their holes no harm would come to the J'., . tree; but that if bands were placed M s about the tranches they would soon / f crease and girdle the parts and work / f much harm. When the storm had/ 3 passed the dear tree stood in its cui/ 1 toraary mood, and all the following ' summer it grew as if with reaewed determination.?Country Life in j America. Educating Awkward Sea Lions. A half dozen slippery, shapeless 5 seals and sea lions floundering about ' sn the stage,croaking and barking? ^ and doing some very wonderful things ! besides?do not seem in the least dan; gerous or formidable, but there is t hardly any thing more painful and 1 serious than the bite of one of these curious beasts. Mr. Charles Judge, r who has trained them for years, is 1 '1 - frr\m thA attack* of uauijr outt i vu ??vim . these peculiar half land animals, half - fish. The bite of the sea lion is poisonous; besides, it is an ugly wound 1 from the manner in which it is in1 flicted. Although the creature moves painfully and slowly on land, the motion of , its head and neck Is extremely quick. ] The neck seems to have an aimost elastic quality. One is surprised at its i reach. The sea lion is like a bull dog. When he has caught hold he does not let go at once, but sets his teeth firmly in the flesh. Then he twists his head, the teeth being still embedded in the flesh; and without relinquishing his grip he gives a quick Jerk. The result is to pull out a ragged piece of flesh, if the animal has gotten a deep hold.?? 1 Leslie's Weskily. > _ y ;