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m W V * * 52==== T?e Tracks oi By Ernest Harold B pkAl SNOWFALL is a blaul I V upon it her children w fl I own way. When we l I ter woods 110 longer 1 I longer seem a dreary I V ^ H gray trees. We find M.I ? munity, whose lives ar Here, you see, tiie ten l?y a mink?a uni dragging a narrow board through tl short, so that liis body sinks in the ! "wcbhed feet, and the trail is simply st Intervals marking the points at w otter through deep snow is similar, bi fa iipnrlv four foot ill If <?tteT leaps forward, and slides for now with his chest, then leaping ag aess of the footprints depends upoi only a thin covering they are ns plai Here Is quite a different trail, s fcy a ?uiskrat, and in one iuiportanl trails?there is a sharp and alinosl That line was cut into the snow by which drags on the ground as the an American Wo By Henry Labouche: HE American woman ? Europe. She is general 1 7^ to please those whom if I V that Instinct for the cl; long to the class belov : '^P ways "stands with shoi Her Affectations and the sins which of Knropeau good manners are ove ao|d tiie tfixor accorded to her by roy OODie6tr.es acquires by marriage. i ^yith those advantages is it to tare sncceeded socially in Europe? It W*trne that comparatively few Ar Iters through the divorce court in Enj OOd the exposure entailed by divori ' access. They are tolerant and expo jla the. end-all of the life of such an talned a foothold iu England, soeiet, into a*profcssion. Has the American woman come can maintain their higher and more * Ifttoti and experience of modern sufru confTdence. assured that their l?eaut dteliclfnation to thrust themselves When men of the Old World cease tc t .the American woman and her ways ; ?Lendon Truth. f, \ A Steady At; It is a Prime R< *** >_> c*-..? fldlltlb oui m v>< From William H. Space/' in the Cenlu WI'HWJl rTTTn"rinr" t scienc BUmJu ? pertaining to the stel flm _ & Immediate family of j FI n tbe heavens of which If I q earth, and they are all ' Si Lbbs; 2% hors, and have, there) - 222223 Interest than the stell relative motions was jlmj, 80 that at the present time t fcfciedy to a study of their dimension! i For this study there is one para ?sphere. With a good atmosphere, jflrith a small telescope of only five ? pta. atmosphere the very largest teles jesse in other departments of astron tkhe stellar universe the quality of tlx /H* that it is cloudless aud transpa ' (Omj sl steady atmosphere is the fun * jki aseant by a steady atmosphere, w( * hilt stove, or along the line of a re {Is a shimmer in the uir, a wavering u {familiar. This wavering is always 1?iinllj cannot see it; but when we teeopfe one thousand times, we mngn [proportion, and they are thou not c fieriously with our observations. - { In some parts of the world the others, and It is evidently a matter j ( -ttner Interested tu planetary researcl jT^411u8trnte the Importance of this n jia one of these favored spots. I. sa\ 'even with a four-inch lens planetary eeezt even with tlic largest telescope t ^ f y f Desire is Wei V By Margaret Stowe. P jannaANY times in this colun I* you will to 1)0. f okJV It is such an impoi fc, M |T| repeated too often, v a A A Parents could do so along those lines and c I jRjR they have the uudersta1 V; laS^SI qualities of mind. P*Teach them that it man to do and to be wh , " It is not a new saying that "Wlu the force of our will, joined to the <1 ously, and with a true intention, thai No one ardently wishes to be sn does not become what lie wishes. You have possibly heard the sto esrved one day planing a magistrate's than usual carefulness; and when : wish to make it easy against the tin This same carpenter actually liw The strong desire for that position tl without resolve, or forc? of purpose. Each one of us feeis that he is f: lie M not here to be blown in any or has witbiii him the power to direct pushing along oa the path of his cho blow or how often it may change, v This will, or force, of i u'pose i< t eests with.you iudividualiy wueiln direction. Your habits or your temptations The r.dvice that Lomcnaais cncc each one of us might road and take He said: vYou are uow at the as yon; a little later you may have have dag. without the power of rollii "That which the easiest becomes will strongly aud decisively; thus lis to be carried hither aud thither, blows."?Xew York Journal. / - r Wild Animals. aynes. ^ lv page from the notebook of Nature, and rite the stories of their lives, each in his egin to read and translate them the winuesent a cheerless appearance; they no waste of snow-eovered ground and bare, Q that the}* are peopled by a busy come as full of problems as our own. first note we come across has been writ > i i? j ? i i... ?r form trail, wuicn nwgiit ue luiua.iu .,? io snow. The leers of the mink are very s< snow, often covering up the prints of his s< a gutter in the snow, with deeper spots o1 liich the feet have sunk. The trail of an 0j nt very much larger, as a full-grown otter a] ngth. In moving through the snow an t>) a considerable distance, plowing up the ^ ain. and sliding, as before. Tlie distincti the depth of the snow; when there is a as the tracks of a hare. e' ilso leading to the water. It was made fr t particular differs from nearly all other C continuous line connecting the tr.-i'ks. H the sharp-edged and almost hairless tail, d imal moves.?Woman's Home Companion, o JZ? I men in Europe. ce. ir has unquestionably been a success in ei ly prettj\ She is clever. She takes pains C( she considers worth pleasing. She lias a ass above which only they have who be- ^ r, and. to use Taine's expression, she al- ... ildered arms and feels herself on parade." she commits against tho commandments f( rlooked because of her American origin, y al personages and the exalted position she n U Ik? "wondered at that American women r< But are they also a success as wives? ^ nerican women have trailed their cliarac:land. Social success is what they aim at. Sl e court proceedings might endanger this h ct their husbands to be tolerant. Society tj American woman and since she has oh- p y has degeuerated from a polite pleasure a b to stay? If the women of this country ,ri womanly ideals and profit by the ediica- tl undings, they may await a reaction with a y, their home-making qualities and their 8 under the limelight will ho appreciated n > go the new to procure money and ween p ire no longer popular novelties in Kurope. w r mosphere. s squisite For the Study of a 2 Conditions. g Pickering's " A Lookout Into ? ry. e is divided naturally into two parts, that liar universe and that pertaining to our lanets. The latter are the only bodies in ic i we are aware that at all resemble our Q I, comparatively speaking, our near neigh- ^ fore, a much more personal and popular ar universe at large. The study of tneir *' virtually completed during the last ecnhe astronomy of the planets is confined " s and surface conditions. 11 mount requisite, and that is a steady at- * , important results may lie obtained even b )T six inches diameter; but without such si cope will be of no avail. This is not the tl oiny; for many kinds of observations on si ? atmosphere is of little account, provided t? rent; but for planetary and lunar astrou- h damental requisite. To understand wuat u e? have only to look at some object across n lilroad track upon a summer day. There 0 lotion, with which we are all more or less R, present in our atmosphere, although we mn^pify the image of a planet in a tele- p ify the atmospheric tremors m the same inly conspicuous, but they interfere very si atmosphere is much more steady than ia k of ihe highest importance for tiie astron- 'c ii to find where these places are situated. latter, 1 may say that a year ago, situated $ v night after -night, with, a live-inch and ? r markings and details that 1 have never ? in Cambridge. ^ >k '' Without Resolve e E ? ! 1.~ !... vnii ?rf, ivitnt T LIII %VUU liilU* Utvu iv/m ilu.il jvu j E tant truth that 1 do uot think it ran lie h 4 C much for their children by training: them n arefuily jruidin;; tliem to the point where ? !i(liu? to choose for themselves the sturdy ' is will?force of purpose?that enables a j, latever he sets his uiind on doing or being:, never you wish, that you arc: for such is iviae. that whatever we wish to be, seri: we become." Emissive, patient, modest, or liberal, who s ei rv of a working: carpenter, who was oh- d ; bench which lie was repairing with more n iskcd tlio reason, lie replied. "Doear.se 1 ^ H' wlieu I come to sit upon it myself." , d to sit upon the bench as a liiisj^istto. ' (I lat the man had could accomplish nothing * *eo to ciioose between good and ovil?that every direction by the wind, but that lie his own movements, and is capable cf ice no matter how strongly the wind may r] Ci lie only thins: that is wholly yours, and it ?< ;r you give it the right or the wrong ^ o; Y are not your masters, but yen of them. gave to a gay youth Is something that home to ourselves with some benefit, to at which a decision must bo formed by to groan within the tomb you yourself ig away the stone. 11 a* habit in us is the will. I.oarn then to u( ; your floating life and leave it no longer ^ a withered leaf, by every wind that ^ si * -J MASSACRE OF THE JE*S Largs Sympathy Meeting Held In Baltimore Sunday. Baltimore, Special.?Three thoumd people attended an enthusiastic teeting at the Academy of Music unday. in behalf of thn victims of le anti-Jewish outrages in Russia. . was participated in by many leadig citizens of the State and city, and jveral thousand dollars were subbribed. The meeting was presided rer by Dr. Kabian Franklin, editor ' The Baltimore Evening News, and mong the speakers were cx-Govmor William Pinkney Whyte, cxongressman John V. L. Findlay, [ayor Hayes. Roger Hull and othrs. Letters of sympathy were read om Governor John Walter Smith, ttorney General Isadora Rayner, [cn.. Simon Wolf and leading church ivines, all expressing their horror ver the massacre at Kischn:iY and onviction that the United States tould use its good offices to bring bout a suppression of atrocities in te future. Dr. Daniel C. Gilman. lent of Carnegie Institute, declared lat similar meetings should be held i all parts of the United States to the nd that the public opinion of this ountry could help Russia to adopt humane policy. Among the letters as the following from Cardinal Gibons: Dr. Harry Frier.demvald, Chairman: "Dear Sir: I regret that my enjreed absence from the city on May 7th will prevent my presence at the leeting you have called to give voice j your horror at the events that have bcently taken place at Kischn.ff. I ave no hesitation, however, to exress my deep abhorrence at the masacres that have carried to their raves gray hair and innocent child ood. Our sense of justice revolts at le thought of persecution for region's sake: but when persecution is 1 ttended with murder and pillage the rain reels and the heart sickens, and Ighteous indignation is aroused at tie enormity of such a crime. What blot upon our civilization is this laughter of inoffensive men and wolen! Please convey to the meeting ly grief for the dead, and my sinere hope that this twentieth century rill see the end of all such occurences and that peace and brotherly ive mav prevail on earth. "JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS." A series of resolutions was adopted ailing on the United States to "bring uch influences to bear on the Ruslan government as may tend to bring bout a cession of these inhmnani:es," and on the members cf Conress to protest "against the outages to which the Jews of Russia re subjected." Ticket Office Robbed. Birmingham, Ala., Special.?The un>n passenger ticket office was robbed f $7,000 Saturday. At the time the urglary is supposed to have taken lace. A. R. Cook, a clerk, who was on ie night watch, says he had taken a ap, as no trains were going out at fiat hour. There were three or four atchmen in the station at the time, owever, and there were several men iftimr in the waitine room into which le ticket office opened. After securing ?veral small boxes in the safe, conlining valuables, the burglar or burgirs escaped through a small window, hich opens on Morris avenue. The abbcry was not discovered until 3 "elocli. when Mr. Cook went to the afe to make a deposit. Several rail aad detectives and three or four spe!al men from the Birmingham police arce were put to work on the case, but o far have not obtained a clew. Th.y ept the matter a secret 3nd it was no:, nown generally until late in the evenig. The stolen property consisted of 1.300 in endorsed cheeks, besides apcr money and coin. The thief eviently was familiar with the office, as 2 opened the safe by the regular comination ami did not disturb the clerk, ho was asleep a few feet from bi:a. he lcs3 is shared by the various m'loads entering Eirmngham and earh of liem now has a special detective crking on the case. Shot at Each Other. Valdosta. Ga., Special.?News rent kd here from a r2mote section of .'chols county, of the fatal shooting cf ames Rig<^n, by William Let*- is. loth young men were suitors for the and of Miss Rosa Johnson, am! ?cording to the a counts received, they let in her father's house, quarrell 'd. nd shooting followed in the :h? young iflv's nresence. It is said that tin case . as brought before a local justice of he peace who exonerated Lewis 01 a".! lame in the matter. Will Curtail Production. London, By Cable.?A meeting of ie federation of Manchester .Cnttor dinners adopted a resolution to ttfffect that "in view of the gra-. e conitions of alTairo in cotton, we recomicnd that the whole trade stop tVrn na week at Whitsuntide and on S.rn-ays and Mondays thereafter. until fthcr notice." A nns meeting ir> ans'der the resolution has been called >r May 26. Pircmin Killed in Wreck. Birmingham, Ala., Special.?A eight train, consisting of engine, scvn cars loaded with limestone and a abcose. were wrecked Thursday night Mith of Romalip. IS miles north r.f irmingham on-the Birmingham Minral Railroad's north branch. John laxev, fireman, was killed and thrro tners were slightly injured. Spain's Defenses. Gilbraltar. Special.?Owing to the oubles in Morocco. Spain lias thrown p defences at Ceuta. a seaDort ir. [orocco belonging to the Spanish govrnment, and will ship their six heavy uns which have been lying at Algiers nee the Spanish-American war. A BAD SUNDAY RIOT Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Scene of Serious Histurbooces I CARS WEED NOT ALLOWED TO RUN Slrikc-Brcekers and Officers Pelted With Stones and Brickbats?Han y People Wounded. Bridgeport, Conn., Special?The attempt made by the officials of the Coar.erticut Railway and Lighting Company to run their oars with non-union rr.cn Sunday, resulted in a riot in which at least ?2 nu.n were injured. The sheriff says that anoihcr such outbreak would rail out the troops. At the present time the county sheriff Will succeed he police. Sunday morning six trolley cars were started out cn the Barniim j and Srate .stirr t linc3. There were large crowds a.ound the tar sheds at the time. The cats were manned by 12 of the 123 strike-breakers brought to this j city Saturday by the trolley company. There was :io disturbance of any kind for a couple of hours. When the first car, however,- had completed its third round trip and was directly in front of the Wheeler & Wilson factory, w here a crowd cf at least 1,000 persons had gathered, a bombardment of stor.e3 began. Deputy Sheriffs Hendrau and Plumb, who wore riding on the car. plunged into the crowd to arrest a man whom they had seen throw a stone, He was seized and with considerable difficulty dragged 30 feet to the car. The stonc-tbrower v;as a big fellow and struggled so fiprcly that a policeman who was standing near by went to the assistance of the officers. Immediately Mayor Mulvihill was seen hurrying through the mob. .Ho rushed to the policeman and ordered him to keep his hands off the prisoner. Ho then told the deputy sheriffs that they had better let the man go. During the argument the stonc-tbrcwer wrenched himself free and dashed away. In the meantime stones were Hying In a shower and one ;f them struck Mayor Mulvihill oa the head, bruslng it badly. The two sheriffs jumped on the car and ordered the motoriuan to proceed to the car sheds. The bombardment did not abate and the crowd on the street was such that the inotorman had to go 3lowly. The stone-throwing scon became so furious that the sheriffs drew their revolvers ;>nd fired shots iu the air. This caused the bombardment,to let up a little and the car reached the barns and was run inside. The other five cars operated on the same street3 received exactly the same treatment, as they folotwed the first car into the car barns. When the last car had passed within the doors there was a crowd of 4,000 reople gathered in a vacant lot opposite and violence once more broke loose. Brickbats, stones and everything that could be thrown tfere hurled at the barns and anything that belonged to the company In the vicinity. At this point Mayor Mulvlhill saw that the sergeant and nine policemen stationed at the barns were entirely unable to cope with the mob and he sent for Chief Coffin, of the fire department. After a short consultation, the latter ordered cut engine company No. 6, with a steamer and a line of hose. Superintendent Birmingham also ordered every available man to the spot to co-operate with the firemen and soon a stream was being played on the mob. which slowly fell back before the water. One oi the strike-breakers was assisting the firemen in holding the hose when a .well directed brick struck him on the head and knocked him to the ground senseless. When the mob had dispersed the firemen and extra policemen were ordered back to their quarters and the rgular detail remained guarding the car barns. me uiih ibis 01 me uouey company will not reveal the names of the men injured, or the nature of their injuries. It is positively known, however, that not a man of the 12 who were on the six cars escaped injury of some kind. Everyone of them, as they stood on the rlatl'orm of their ears while going into the barns was seen to be bleeding profusely from the head and face. In addition to the trolley man injured. Roadmaster Davis, of the trolley company. was severely hurt by a stone which struck him on the head. Sheriffs Hendrau ahd Plumb were appar tniiv largfLs iur ine moD as wen as the strike-breakers, for each of them was struck in different parts of the body at least a dozen times. No attempt was made to run cars at night. Postal Cl-rks. flak-' Claims. Tuscaloosa, Special.?D. D. Nicholson, a postal clerk, who runs on the Alabama Great Southern Railway, nays that the postal clerks of the United States have a claim aggregating SI 000.000 against the United States p.jsfoTieo Departments'. Nicholson says this claim will be tried before the United States Court of Claims at Washington. Tiie claim is based upon the section of the postal laws which prescribes that chief clerks and railway postal clerks shall be paid lim'r actual and necessary expenses while actually traveling cn business of the Department. .Summoned to St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg. By Cable.?Lientruant General Von Reaben. Governor of Kischecr?ff. has been summoned to St Petersburg. A ministerial circular forbidding the Jews to defend themselves has been issued. It is expected that this step will stimulate Jewish immigration to America. Three thousand suits for damages have been instituted against the State at Kischeneff. Th< dajnages demanded amount to $1,300,000 LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS, Many Matters of Genera! Interest In Short Paragraphs. D.;\vn in D xie. The S. C'. Confederate Veterans had a good time in Colombia last week at their annual reunion. The meeting of the Southern Cotton Spinners' Association at Charlotte, N. C., last week was largely attended. It was resolved to curtail production of yarns. A Mexico City dispatch says: "A meeting of the shareholders of the I National Dank of Mexico will be held here June 3rd. to vote on a proposition to increase the capital stock of that institution, which now amounts to $23,000,000." A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch says: "The case of the city of Nashville vs. the Tennessee Central liailroad Company, will be tried in the United States Court here, on Thursday, May d'r, in which the validity of the issuance of $1,000,000 bonds by the defendant company which was authorized in an election held in the city cf Nashville, one year ago, will be tested." At The National Capital. Government officials are watching the alleged movement of railroads to shut out Cuban sugar by moans of prohibitive freight rates. Owing to the prevalence of conta fclous diseases at points of concentration. the Navy Department has suspended recruiting. At The North. President Roosevelt spent the day in the Yosemlte country. Phillips C. Dermond pleaded guilty to forgery and was sentenced to three years at hard labor at Sing Sing. Two lives were lost in a fire that destroyed the Wo3t Chester Apartment House, Chicagp. The assets of the Asphalt Trust were sold at Jersey City to a representative of the reorganization committee for S0.OU6.OOO. The Woman's General Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church, at its convention in Pittsburg decided to support a weman 'missionary for every man in the field. Capt. Charles J. Senter and Mir.s Martha Fleming eloped in an auto from Notre Dame Academy, near Bc-ston, and were married. Assistant United States District Attorney Ernest E. Baldwin and Postoffice Inspector Olrfield. of Cincinnati, hud a fight with fists in the corridor ?< v^ n..tux ; ? w. I vi IJV 1-f.iriai DUllUlUg XIX .XB1Y 1 CJTK. A Minneapolis dispatch says: "After listening to the appeal of the counsel of former Mayor A. A. Ames for mercy, Judge Elliott sentenced the once powerful political leader to spend six years at hard labor in the State prison." A Trenton, N. J? dispatch says: "The American Stogie Company filed articles with the Secretary of State, with a capital of $11,975,000. The stock is divided into $11,000,000 common and $976,000 preferred. The latter pay 7 per cent, accumulative dividends." A South port. Conn., dispatch says: "A warrant was issued for the arrest of Oliver T. Sherwood, cashier of the Southport National Bank, and son of E. C. Sherwood, president of the bank, who disappeared from here last Thursday. Sherwood is charged with the defalcation of between $50,000 and $80,000 of the bank's funds." From Across The Sea. Pieraier Balfour, in an address, said he was in favor of free trade, but that protective duties might be expendient under certain, circumstances. It was reported that a rebuke from Emperor William caused the resignation from the army of the Prince of Saxe-Meiningen and that relations are greatly strained. A horrible tragedy took place In a Mexican Insane aslyicm, one inmate | killing another. The Lebaudv airshin made a success- I ful ascension. Mme. Calve was reported as improves from her attack of aconite poisoning. A Vienna dispatch says that the changes in the cabinet at Sofia are regarded there as indicating a change in the foreign poliey of Bulgaria. Prince Ferdinand is said to have been displeased with former Premier Daneff's handling of Macedonian affairs during his absence, and to have declined all responsibility for certain steps taken by M. Daneff, Including some promises made to the Russian representatives at Sofia. vitn. \ letonano Lorenzo was scn;cjcod to death by a court-martial and executed by shooting at Panama. Miscellaneous Hatters. E. H. Harriman had an attack of appendicitis coming East on his special train. A London dispatch says: "The loss of Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, who is reported to have been robbed of $50,000 worth of jewels, amounts probably to a far greater sum than at first rei ported. Mrs. Lorillard lost ail her Jewelry, except what she was wearing, and a letter of credit and other j valuables. The robbery occurred at the Berkley Hotel, to which place two men followed Mr. and Mrs. Lorillanl all the way from Monte Carlo." A brick and lumber shortage is threatened in New York, and may throw 100.000 men out of work. A reward of $1,000 has been offered for the arrest of the murderer of Agatha Reichlin at Lorain. Ohio. The Southern Baptist Convention began its session at Savannah, Ga. Returns received by the stated c lerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Philadelphia indicate the adoption of the revised Confession of Faith. The National Conference of Chari. ties and Correctons continued its sessions in Atlanta. r.h. SPINNERS' MEETING ' Manufactars From All Sections in Charlotte PROMINENT MEN AT THE MEETING The ilembers of the Southern Cotton Spinners' Association Represent a Tremendous Capital. XT P Cnnr<lnl TSo cr-W cnth annual convent'on of the Somaem Cotton Spinner3* Association,, which Is now in session in this e'ty. has brought together manufacturers from all the New England States. Thelist of visiters is largely supplemented by the presence of a number of cotimission men and the agents of big su->ply houses who find this an opportuneseason to discuss economic matters, and transact business with the uiiil people. In discussing the assembly of manufacturers, Mr. Clarence C. Bryant, sv retary of the Ccttoa Spinners' Ass< ? ciation, said yesterday: "It is a great and an interesting, body of men. I do not wish to craggc ate. but I believe that the mill ne ? now in Chariottc represent over a lion dollars in manufacturing cap'.:; 1 and probably lO.OQO.OQQ cotton spin dies." Beyond a purpose to emphasize the good to be derived from close personal contact and the purely social featmc^~~ of a great organization, the meeting o* the spinners at this time has no peculiar significance. "They are deriving, practical advantage from hearing addresses made by leaders in the thought of the industrial world and they awgiving every evidence of being pleaded with the good fellowship among themselves and- the hospitality of this city; but so far there is no indication that they will try to affect the market by any concerted action or recommendation. This policy is rather opposed to. the plan adopted at a majority of the previous meetings of the association. wnicn usually am not aajourn ueu.e outlining a new schedule of prices oi yarns. . Speaking officially, only one ?iem.>M of the association has recommend" 1 action on the part of the Southern Spinners. This was President Geo/ge B. Hiss, who, in his Initial address, recommended the general curtailment of cotton manufacturing. Mr. Hiss declared that at the present high price of cotton and the low price of the manufactured product-!?! is impossible for the manufacturers to make a reasonable profit. ' The closing day of the meeting was. dovoted to business matters. By a. vote the name was changed to American Cotton Manufacturers' Assoc hi ticn. The action of the association was taken by the unanimous endoraenu" nt of the following report, which was made by a special committee, consist ing of R. S. Reinhardt. chairman; J.. J. Hooker, Leonard Paulson, J. P.. Leak and L. C. Turner: "Mr. President and Gentlemen of theConvention: "Your committee having duly considered the important subject referred to them, now beg to submit to your consideration the following resolution: . y ''Tho rnttn-ri mnnnfartm-imr world"' using American short staplo cotton is facing conditions that are likely to continue so long as present artificial influence dominate the market for the raw material, and these conditions pre so serious that action by thcSouthem Cotton Spinners' Association is deemed imperative, and your committee to whom this subject hasbeen referred, would recommc?d that the whole influence of the association be used to: " '1st. To bring about an entire cessation of night work. " '2nd. Operation of mills not overfour days prr week. "'3rd. These recommendations to take effect not later than June 1st to 15th. 1903.' "Your committee is cf the opinion that by a proper effort the co-operation of the majority of the mills in th** Southern States can be secured and believe that an appeal shonld also l:e sent out to banks, as well as commission houses to throw their influence in the same direction. If favorable action is taken by the convention your committee recommend that the American consul at Manchester be cabled to communicate this action toLiverpool and Manchester exchanges." The association elected these new officers: President. W. C. Heath, of Monroe. Vice President, Thomas M. Swift, of Elberton, Ga. Secretary and treasurer, C. B. Bryant. Charlotte. Board of governors, R. S. Bernhardt, Lincoln, chairman; Dr. J. H. McAden, Charlotte. Arthur II. Lowe. * FItchhurg, M-iss.; J. C. Smith. Newton; Geo. B. Hiss, Charlotte; II. RRav. McAdenville; E. W. , Thomas. Charlotte; A. P. Rhyne, Mt. Moiiya R. Lang. West Point, Ga.; David Ciark, Charlotte; Val Taylor. Uniontown. Ga.; J. P. Leak, Rockingham; E. A. Smith, Charlotte; T. L. Wainwright. Stonewall, Mass.; B. E. Willingliara. Macon, Ga. The association adjourned with a. banquet at the Central Hotel on Frl- y<Iav evening. The meetings have been largely aitended, and good work has been done. Colima In Eruption. Tuxpan, Jalasco, Mex., Special.? There was a very violent eruption of Colima volcano Thursday night, accompanied by deferring subterranean r.oiscs, as abundant flow of lava and a heavy rain of ashes. The eruption continued all night. People on the haciendas and ranches in the neighborhood of the volcano are panic-stricken and are abpndoning their pueblcs for sai'ei places. > - * ... <