-The Petersburg Builders' Supply Co.
of Petersburg. Va.. will establish a factory
for the manufacture of sash, doors,
blinds and all kinds of builders' sup- '
plies. The capital of the company is
$25,000. The officers of the copany 1
are Robert Cabaniss, president; C. M. (
Briester. vice president; F. O. Straii- ( t
man, secretary and treasurer. j t
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News of the Day. | a,
<" Count von Raventlow will doubtless 'tl
?, be particularly interested in the news j ?
r' that the Holland submarine torpedo j !r
? w* Dnmnijs nftpr a successful run ! ^
I under water of a mile and a half Mon- j s'
day, fired a torpedo that went straight j oi
between two liags 150 feet apart, representing
a war vessel. The submarine ! s
i^-boat will have to be reckoned with in j a
future naval warfare. c
One of the most enthusiastic base :
ball cranks in the country is a blind ; n
man, James Judge, of Minneapolis, a 1 "
master steamlitter, successful contrac- r
L tor and mechanical inventor of pro- ?
nounced ability. He has been totally
sightless for forty years and never saw
a base ball game in his life, but he
nerer allows business to interfere when
be wishes to "see" a contest on the b
diamond. Mr. Judge is always accompanied
by someone who tells him of
the various plays and he yells as loudly ji
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i If* the people who
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while they doubt who j | ,
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Aching backs arc eased. far / QES3S/A/0
Hip, back, and loin pains \SVSr I fj.
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limbs and dropsy signs troi^ewltt. so tit
vanish. VA a seiowxc. i
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J. JJ. Levis.
A LAWYER'S GOOD ADVICE.
ntending Litigants Would Do Well
to Heed It.
One of the old practitioners at the
Dsceola (Mo.) bar tells this story of
he good counsel which a lawyer in
hat town once gave a client:
Shortly after the firm of Nesbit &
Ferguson hung out their shingle aa
>id farmer called upon them in regard
o a land suit. Some of the parties
it issue were not residents of the
tate and rt was necessary to notify
hem by publication. Ferguson took
[own a blank and began to fire quesions
at the farmer at a great rate,
rhlch the honest old fellow proceeded
o answer after weighing carefully
ach word. The blank having been
Inished and put in a pigeon-hole, the
lient asked what it was.
"That is the advertisement comoandlng
the non-rosidenta to appear
aid defend the suit."
"And bow much will that cost?"
"My friend," said Ferguson, calmly,
ooklng the old man In the eye. "!f
'ou are going to figure on the cost
ou had better stay out o! lawsuits."?
Cansas City (Mo.) Journal.
Whims of the Dogs.
"Dogs have queer whims," aaid a
roman who had three. "That little
ellow is a coward, but It is always
omething very funny that makes him
ifrald. Watch, now," said she, and
aid contemptuously "Pooh!" Imnediately
th9 dog's tail went down
etween his legs, and he slunk up
itairs to bide under the bed. "New,
vatch Ted over there," she said. "I
hink he's making altogether too much
lolse, don't you? We'll stop him."
Then she tied a handkerchief loosely
tround one of the dog's legs, and he
Iropped in a limp heap on the floor
md stayed there until the bandker:hief
was removed. "Do you want to
;o to walk, Waggles?" she said to the
hird little dog. Away bounded the
log upstairs, but he was down again
n a minute with a red pincushion in
lis mouth.
"I don't know how he learned that
rick," said his mistress, "but every
ime I ask him that question he darts
or my room and brings down that red
ushion."
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Odds and Ends.
The most literary monarch In
lurope is without doubt the young
rietor Emmanuel of Italy. He knows
'nglish. French and German equally
s well as his native language, and has
vcn a reading acquaintance with that
ery difficult language. Russian. He
pends at least three hours every day
3 his study busy with current litcraare
of every kind. He is said to pr?*?r
the monthly reviews to daily jourals;
but. however this may be. it is
ulte certain that no monarch alive
eeps himself more thoroughly posted
3 all questions of the day. He has
lore than once astonished English
isitors by his intimate acquaintance
ith the intru-acies of their party pclics
and social questions, in which he
i tetter read than many members of
te British Parliament.
At the power house of the Raleigh
treat Railway, Tuesday morning,
'alter Martin, an employe, aged about
L. was instantly killed by electricity.
!e was showing the machinery to E.
. Taylor, a new employe, the two
anding in front of the switch board,
id in some way Martin got hold of
vo blades of the switch. He was in
circuit about 15 seconds receiving a
100-vo!t current. Taylor pulled him
way from the switch. MaVtin had
een with the company about a year
id a half. He has a brother. Edwin,
ho lives in Norfolk, and who is emloyed
on a steamship line between
ewport News and New York. Kic
ither, E. M. Martin, is a tax appraiser
I Raleigh.
Cuba has been suffering from a long
eriod of extraordinary drought r.nd
eat. Vegetation in and around Haana
was scorched as never before
nown. Seldom Is summer heat mere
itense than that which has prevailed
ince the 1st of February. The Cubans
incy that the climatic change was
aused by the eruption of Pelee, but
o scientific man would accept that
xplanation.
The frost of gold is worse than
hat of the want of it.
No need to eat the brambles In orcr
to gc-t the berries.
s anybody, even shouting "Down in
ont" when someone obstructs the
iew of those who can see. He is an
lveterate smoker, too, thus disproving
le oft-heard statement that one must
?e the smoke in order to enjoy a
gar.
When Thomas Dixon. Jr. in a recent
peech in Cleveland, referred to his
nticipation of a race war in this
ountry and ventured the prediction
lat the Anglo-Saxon would sweep the
egro off the face of this Continent, a
jvel-headed old darky in the audience
emarked: "Not entirely, doctor, not
ntirely. You'll want a few negroes
?ft to do the sweeping."
He who seeks to get without givug
is a gambler no matter what his
usiness.
The pruning off of sins will not of
tself produce perfection.
>NEY DOCTOR.
The reason yon can get
~ this trial frc? Is because
;?yy they cur? Kidney Ills and
anS will prore it to you.
"xX West Branch. Mich.?
f/? Poan's Kidney Pills hit the
case, which was an unusual
iT*" wtSSggsI desire to urinate ? had to get
up Ave or six times of anight.
w\ nstsV I think diabetes was well un
der way, the feet and ankles
swelled. There was an intense
pain in the back, the
__________ heat of which would feel like
putting one's hand up to a
lamp chimney. I have used
the free trial and two full
>*1] this coupon to boxes of Poan's Pills with the
satisfaction of feeling that I
W addrets on sepa- They are t?e rem__J
edy par excellence."
B. 7. Rii.uin,
LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS.
Many Matters of General Interest To
Short Paragraphs.
Down in Dixie.
Experts have examined the dam at
Lake Toxaway since the false report of
its breaking and causing floods in
South Carolina and pronouuce it as
safe as human skill and ingenuity can
make it.
Superintendent Kimball, of the LifeSaving
Service, has recently received a
telegram from Saluraia life-saving station,
in Texas, stating that the Mexican
steamer Coramalopam had stranded 12
miles northeast of that station. The
captain of the steamer was killed in
the wreckage. The crew of 13 were
covnrl in a f*nnHit?nn
Montgomery, Ala., Special.?L. A.
Grcgan, a deputy sheriff of Goodwater.
Ala.. was brought here by Deputy
United States Marshal Gibson, charged
with peonage. He is charged with assisting
in holding Emma Pearson, a negro.
in a condition of peonage. Grogan
was released on bail of $1,C00.
At The National Capital.
Commissioner Gene r.l of Immigration
Sargent says steamship companies
reem to be at work inducing
immigration to this country.
Sir Thomas Lipton was guest of
honor at a luncheon at the White
House.
Ex-Postmaster General Smilh ha*
made an exhaustive reply to the so
cauea Muuoen cnarges anu tue
tcw report.
The State Department has received a
dispatch from Minister Eeaupre, at
Bogota, saying that the discussion had
been opened in the Colombian House
by a representative opposed to the
canal treaty, who began by calling for
the documents relating to the treaty.
The government objected, on the
ground that it was not ready to present
the treaty to the House, but would
do so later. The government's position
was sustained by a vote of 38 to 5.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware has
granted a pension of $8 a month to
Thomas B. Howard, of Houston, Tex23.
for service in the Semiuole Indian war.
in 1835 and 1836. Howard is 83 years
old 2nd claims to be the only survivor
of Cactain Augustus Allston's company.
Second Regiment, Florida Militia,
in which he was a privte 67 years ago.
At The North.
Negroes were reported to have
poisoned cfttle of the whites, have
bought arms and mads threats, and
race feeling ran high.
Ex-President Gro\cr Cleveland and
family left Princeton for Buzzard's
Bay for the summer.
Several of the hosiery mills in the
Kesington district and one of t he
Southwalk mills, Philadelphia, resumed
operations.
A New York disp2tch says: "The
bicycle racing season opened here Sunday
at the Manhattan beach track. The
fifteen mile motor paced championship
was won by Joe Nelson, Bobby Walthour.
second; George Leander, third;
time, 22.45.
The Cunard Line is being backed
in its fight against the steamship
trust by the British Government, according
to New York advices.
Franklin Fylea,, playwright and dramatic
critic, is dying in New York.
The new S75.000.000 Pennsylvania
stock Issue, it is said, will be taken
largely by the shareholders.
Forty walking delegates, headed by
Sam Parks, of the Housesmiths and
Brldgemen's Union, opened a campaign
of retaliation on the Building
Trades Employers' Association of
New York.
Sir Michael H. Herbert. British Ambassador,
sailed from New York for
Europe.
The case against Arthur C. Corwell.
who was arrested in Wilmington, Del.,
on the charge of murder in connection
with the recent lynching was dismissed.
Three negroes were lynched at
Newton, Ga., for murdering a white
man, who was trying to quiet a disturbance.
George P. Hossey, a negro herb
doctor, was found guilty In Philadelphia
of murder in the fir3t degree for
killing William G. Danze.
The motion of John W. Granger and
Andrew H. McNeal for a preliminary
injunction to restrain the Cramp Shipbuilding
Company from increasing its
capital stock and its mortgage indebtedness
was heard in Philadelphia.
From Across The Sea.
Emperor William of Germany visited
the American flagship Kcarsarge
at Kiel, highly praised the vessel to
Roar-Admiral Cotton and cabled his
thanks to President Roosevelt.
The birthday of King Edward was
observed throughout Groat Britain..
Plans for a ship canal acros-s Scotland
were definitely arranged.
Pope Leo, at Rome, conferred the
pallium on the new archbishops and
bishops.
King Peter issued an address to the
Servian army, calling it the hope of
his people.
The Socialists elected at lca3t 25
members of the Reichstag on reballoting.
M. Rouvier, French Finance Minis
ter, namcn comrais>iuui;is iu (.u>u?
with the United States and Mexican
International Exchange Commission.
Pope Leo officiated at the consistory
postponed from June IS and appeared
in feeble health.
Miscellaneous flatters.
President Roosevelt has decided to
forward to the Russian Government
the petition of the B'nal B'rith in behalf
of the persecuted Jews.
The time limit for subscribing to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company's issue
of $75,000,000 of new stock expired
at noon yesterday. It is known that
virtually all of the stock has been subscribed
and the underwriting syndicate
will have little more to do than collect
about $2,000,000 commissions.
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
A Largs Addition.
Another large cotton manufacturing
plant will be established in the Charlotte
(N. C.) district. It is to be built
by the Hiss Manufacturing Co., which
filed articles of incorporation during
the past week, with capital stock
placed at $500,000. The incorporators
are Messrs. George B. Hiss and D.
O'Donoghue of Charlotte, N. C., and
John M. Rhodes of Rhodhiss, N. C.
They are largely interested in cotton
manufacturing, Messrs. Hiss and
Rhodes being president and superin
tendent. respectively, of the Rhodhiss
Manufacturing Co., now operating 15,
000 spindles and 420 looms at Rhodiss,
where the new mill will also be located.
The Hiss Manufacturing Co.'s
plant will have 25.000 spindle3 and
800 looms, driven by electricity generated
from water-power, and the product
will be high-grade cotton goods.
The engineering contract has not yet
been made. The stockholders will meet
this week to elect officers and arrange
further details. Offices are at 41 S.
College street, Charlotte.
New Kulttlrg Mill.
Through the efforts of the Hoard of
Trade of Roanoke. Va.. contracts have
been closed securing the establishment
of a $20,000 knitting mill in that city.
Messrs. Charles Michael and Daniel
Robb of 219 Chestnut str^t. Philadelphia.
Pa., will own and operate the
plant. They will occupy building three
stories high. 40x$0 feet, and manufacture
hosiery, employing about forty
operatives. Messrs. Michael and Robb
were mentioned In January last as
contemplating this plant.
Textile Notes.
It Is stated that the Lowe Manufacturing
Co. and the Eastern Manufacturing
Co. of Huntsville. Ala., will consolidate
and add a plant for finishing
the product of both mills. The output
of these mills is at present finished at
rifoKKnrff Mocc 'PVi^co turn f-OTYinfl'l
ies have been under the sam-j management
(belns in control of Fitchburg.
Ma.33., cotton manufacturers), and several
weeks ago announced that plans
and specifications are being prepare!
for doubling oach mill. Messrs. Cowell
& Lave are now preparing plans
and specifications for the enlargement.
The Love addition will be an 80x130
foot structure, and the Eastern will be
60x120 feet. The two companhis recently
increased capital by $150,000 to
provide funds for enlargements.
Messrs. Charles E. Garner and Smith
Pickett of Jacksonville. Fla.. have
made a proposition to build a $200,000
cotton factory near Albany, Ga. They
propose locating the plant at Big
Shoals dam. on Muckafoonee ' creek,
two miles from Albany, and utilizing
that water-power, which they* control.
Albany investors are asked to subscribe
$50,000 of the amount to be invested.
A committee is now endeavoring
to meet the terms of the proposition.
Some months ago Mr. Pickett
talked of building a mill at Albany.
The Washington Mills of Fries. Va..
has been fully completed and recently
begun operations. The plant has 45.000
spindles and 1500 looms manufacturing
sheeting and duck, and the company
Is capitalized at $2,225,000. When this
enterprise was first announced by the
Manuafcturers' Record in 1901 the
equipment was given as 40,000 spindles
and 1100 looms.
Extract Wool & Merino Co. of Chattanooga.
Tenn., has begun the improvements
for which it increased
capital from $20,000 to $40,000 in
March. An additional building will be
erected and equipped with sufficient
machinery to double present output.
The producet is shoddy or wool secured
from rags and cloth containing cotton
and wool.
It is stated that the Clifton (S. C.)
| Manufacturing Co. has sold about 6000
bales of cotton at a profit of about
$150,000. This company is one of those
whoso three mills were destroyed and
damaged by the recent flood. The cotton
sold is what was saved of about
9000 bales in the warehouses that wore
washed away.
Messrs. G. A. Guignard and L. I.
Guion have incorporated the Lexington
Water-Power Co. of Lexington. (S.
C.) with capital stock of $50,000. They
propose developing a water-power and
transmitting the energy by electricity, |
to establish cotton and woolen mills,
etc.
Messrs. John M. Jones, John K.
Brown, F. A. Carter, W. M. Patton,
James May and J. H. McCaslin have
incorporated Sweetwater (Tenn.) Hosiery
Mills, with capital stock of $35,000.
"W. H. Johnston, Box 546, Miami.
Fla., proposes developing water-power
octahHshiner a cotton-yarn mill in
Georgia. He is in the market for all
the machinery required.
Messrs. J. A. Abernathy, R. S. Abernathy
and T. F. Coster have incorporated
the Wampum Cotton Mills Co.
of Lineolnton. N. C., with an authorized
capita! of $100,000.
Weldon (N. C.) Manufacturing Co.
wiil erect a three-story addition and
Install additional machinery. This
company operates a knitting mill.
Witten McDonald of Kansas City,
Mo., proposes organizing $250,000 company
to build 10.000-splndle cotton
mill at Carthage, Mo.
P. O. Carpenter and others have incorporated
the Newton Hosiery Mills
Stoio Co. of Newton, N. C. The capital
stock is $10,000.
The Easley Cotton Mills of Easley,
S. C.. has filed notice or lis intention
to increase capital stock from $330,000
to $500,000.
Lumber Notes.
The Mobile Lumber Co. of Mobile,
Ala., has increased its capital stock
ficrn $150,000 to $2,000,000.
The Beane Lumber Co. of Baltimore,
Md.. has been Incorporated, with a capital
of $25,000. The incorporators are
Wm, T. Kuhns, Le Roy C. Patillo and
Wm. H. Whiting.
The Wabash Screen Door Co. of
Memphis, Tenn., has awarded the contract
to C. J. Wagner for the erection
of a $45,000 addition to its plant, plans
for which have been prepared.
i piuutto raisj
a ? s
tfi nInor Events of the Week la m m
?j Brief Form. %
The board of trustees of the State ;
College for Negrcos met in the office
of the governor last week and finished 1
the election of attaches of the institu- !
tion. The trustees present were: Capt.
D. J. Bradham of Clarendon, Gen. J.
W. Floyd of Kershaw, ex-Senator A.
G. Brice of Chester, Mr. Cole L. Bleace (
nf Vou.-herrV inH Dr TV R T-Owmari of i
Orangeburg, who was elected secretary
of the board. Williams, the former
manager of the farm, was reelected,
but the salary was reduced, and the incumbent
declined the job. A negro
from this county named Adams was
then elected. A tailor was also elected,
a negro from Beaufort, who will
teach the art of making clothes. Ther-^
was nothing else of importance before
the board.
Mr. J. C. Wasscn, a prominent farmer
of Alma, Laurens county, was in
Laurens Thursday searching for his
son. The boy is 13 years old, well
grown for his age, and bright. His
name is Grady Wasson. It was ascertained
that he boarded a southbouud
train for Greenwood at Madden's station
on the 0. & W. C. railway. It was
thought that he had gone to Greenwood.
but inquiry by telephone in that
town failed to bring any information.
The boy's father thinks that the lad
had absorbed big ideas about traveliug
and seeing the world from a negro
who was hired on the farm.
Johnson Smith, a colored man that
lives in the suburbs of Jonesvlllc,
while on his way from the harvest
field late Thursday evening riding a
mule and carrying his scythe, wap
thrown from the mule. He fell on
the 9cythe blade and cut his hand
nearly off. Drs. Southard. Douglass
and Hames attended him and found it
necessary to cut the arm ofT above the
wrist. Friday the wounded man was
doing very well.
The Thornwell orphanage has just
passed a very eventful year. Eventful
iu many respects. Progress has been
steady in every department, and new
accessions have been constantly made.
The board seeing the advisability of
electing a vice president, who would
assist Dr. Jacobs in his multiplied aud
arduous labors, chose Rev. Thornwell
Jacobs, son of the president and an
alumnus of Clinton college and Princeton
seminary.
A heavy wind and rain storm passed
over St. Matthews Thursday aftern- 11
noon about 5 o'clock, accompanied
by a severe fall of hail. Corn and cotron
are injured more or less, but tbe
tobacco crop of Mr. John McLiucblin
is well nigh a total loss. He bad 45
acres of beautiful weed which he held
as worth at least $4,000. Now he de.
elates he will take $500. This is the
third time that section has been visited
by bail this season.
After months of parleying and spinning
red tape the much-mooted claims
aeainst the Charleston Exposition ,
company are to be paid. W. H.
Welch, chairman of the board of receivers,
received from the treasury department
at Washington J95.745.S3. \
which will be devoted to the purpose
aforementioned. The money is in the
hands of M. Rutledge Rivers, attorney
for the receivers of the exposition company.
Rev. J. Barr Harris, a young preacher
who gained considerable prominence
in upper South Carolina throug'i
his revival meetings, wherein he ardently
preached sanctiflcation, has
been convicted of seduction in Montana
and sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary. Previous to his conviction
he was charged with another case
of like nature out there. He is well '
known here. \
nr RAcnt. of Charleston, secretary
of the State Board of Health, to
whom was referred the report of en
epidemic of lung disease among the
negroes of Williamsburg county, bas
made an investigation and says there
is no epidemic, but many negroes
have consumption resulting from the .
dissipated life they lead, and that the
matter is not within the jurisdiction j
of the board to act upon. ,
Chief Hammott submits a report ]
showing that the cost of the ccnstabu- |
lary has increased about $3,850 a j
month to $4,750, hut the results justified
the increased efforts to enforce I
the law. The value of seizures of j
Honor has increased from $1,230 to SI.- I
414.15, a difference in favor of the new i
constabulary of $3,184.12. ]
The eight-year-old son of P. B. (
Bryan, of Salur'a county, died of f
hydrophobia. He was bitten two or
three months ago by a mad-dog. '
The secretary of state has received j
an application for a commission from i
the Jonesville Oil Mill. The corpora- <
tors are T. M. Littlejohn of Star Ford, i
E. L. Littlejohn and M. R. Sams oi I (
Jonesville. The capital stock will be i
eor rvnn | f
V-O.VVU.
The King's Mountain Military school
of Yorkville has been chartered with a
capitalization of $14,000. The corporators
are Prof. W. G. Stephenson, Dr.
W. G. White and Prof. R. T. Stephen- i
son. i
A charter was issued to the "Su- i
preme Grand Council of the Grand
United Order of the Courts of Fraternity"
of Blackville. No extra charge 1
was made by the emanuensis who engrossed
the name in the charter, for
it is an eleemosynary concern with
small exchequer. '
Jesse, the seven-year-old son of j
Jouson Brabham of Greelyville, died ,
on Friday from the effects of a dose i
of morphine administered by mistake
for calomel.
Mr. J. H. Sloan, president of the
American National bank and of the ,
Beaumont mills, has offered to give ,
to the Kennedy library of Spartanburg
the sum of $500, provided that 19 other
persons will contribute individual- 1
ly a like sum. This would make the 1
entire gift $10,000. I
I BILL ARP. I
When Ahashuerus was king of Persia
he got so mad with Haman one Jay
that he walked out into the garden to
let his choler down?not his shirt collar,
but to cool off his anger, for tear
he might do something undigniried.
Then he came back and had Haman
hanged on the gallows he had built tor
Mordecai.
Well, I walked out in my garden
yesterday, the first time in a mouth,
but I wa3 not mad with anybody, in
fact, I am pleased that I am allowed
once more to walk outdoors and peruse
the flowers and vegetables and pick a
few strawberries. My wife and the girls
watch me and have kept me penned up
for months while the east wind chiilc-d
the air. but now they help me down
the steps and up again and arm mo
around among the flowers. They are
very beautiful from the window, Irit
more so when you are near to them.
We never had so many beautiful poppies
before?all colors?all sizesdouble
and treble and as large as saucers.
We bad our first mess of straw--,
berries April 24 and had a good mesa
yesterday, and have not missed a day.
Our vegetable garden supplies the
table bountifully, but the garden is not
mine. The girls planted it and with
a little help have grown everything.
"The world was sad, the garden was a
wild;
And man, the hermit, sighed till woman
smiled."
We are eniovins the f:uit3 of their
labor "very day for we have potatoes,
bc-ans. pe?s, squashes, onions. beet3 ?
and asparagus every day If we wart
them or have company. A little bacca
with the beans and two spring chickens
completes the first course, and
then comes strawberry shortcake,
which 13 always welcome. Wo ll"e
well at our house, and are not extravagant
either. A bountiful dinner for
twelve persons costs not more than $2,
and the grandchildren consume half of
that, bless their hearts. I do love to
see them enjoy a good dinner, and they
love to come here and always have 3 *
kiss for poor old grandpa.
I was 77 years old Monday. June is
full of our family birthdays. My wife
was 71 on the 1st and I was 77 on ths
15th and my oldest grandson, who has
my name, has my birthday. My mother
has the 24th and our granddaughter,
Caroline. Is named for her and has her
birthday. And there are some more in
June that I have forgotten. Two little
granddaughters brought me some nice
linen (h'd'k'fs) before breakfast. These
little gifts are sweet and help smooth
the wrinkles from an old man's brow.
Our little 2-year-old loves to climb on
my knee and pat my old cheek and call
me "g'an pa" and that gives me more
pleasure than a gold mine. May the
Lord keep the little ones under the
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Oh, the horror of horrors away cut
in Oregon. Will cloudbursts and flrvs
and floods and shipwrecks never cease?
Every day brings seme new disaster,
some wreck of innocent child life, some
mother torn away. Lord, good Lord,
have mercy upon the people and forgive
all their sins. Like the poor fisherman
I would say. "Lord, good Lord.
I am a fool to speak to Thee, but save
the children from storm and flood and
fire and pestilence." When I read the
day's dirasters my old heart throb*
with pity and like the weeping prophet
I exclaim. "Oh. that my head were
waters and my eyes a river of tear*
that I might weep day and night for ^
the slain of the people"?40, 46, 100.
200, 400. Every day add3 to pain aid
misery and anguish and desolation.
Loved ones are gone ajid homes.
Somtbow when I look aronnd me at nil
these happy hearts and faces and the
flowers lifting their petals to the sun
and the pigeons bathing fn the pool
and see the young people playing icnn!s
down in the court and the contented
negro plowing my neighbor's ccrn
and the cow grazing in the pasture. I
feel like it is almost a sin to be happy
whfle so much grief and heartache
abound all around us. It did not use
to be so. In my youth we had no suicides:
murders were rare: no crazy
fn fill tho cAnitaxium3: no chain
gangs; no crime of any consequence.
What is the matter with the world,
and the people? Even women have got
to handling pistols and poison, and
grave diggers have gone on a strike
and we will h3ve to dig otrr own graves
before we die. Lord help ns ail. Now
let all the people say Amen.?Bill Arp,
in Atlanta Constituticn.
Capt. AlcBee Resigns.
New York. Special.?At a meeting of
:he directors of the Seaboard Air Lino
Railway, held in this city this week,
Captain V. E. McBee, fourth vice presdent.
tendered his resignation, to take
?ffcrt on July 1. Capt. McBee proroses
to take a vacation before tak
;ng up any additional work. The duties
af the fourth vice president will be divided
among the other officers of the
company and the office of fourth vice
president will not be filled at the present
time.
Bit; Lumber Deal.
Menominee, Special.?The Kirby
Carpenter Lumber Company ha3
closed a deal for the sale of 19,000
acres of timber land in Grand Rapids
Parish. Louisiana, to J. E. Bentley, B.
W. Zimmerman, Paul Llsso and D. F.
Clark, cf Alexanderia, La., the consideration
being $100,000. ( ^
Atlanta, Special.?A merger has been
effected of the Atlanta Gas Light Company,
owned by Philadelphia capital,
the Georgia Railway and Electric Company,
controlling all street car lines
:nd electric lighting in this city
For Scientist*.
Lenard rays and cathode rays are
regarded as moving electrons?that Is,
trains of minute negative electric
charges flying with great velocity.
Roentgen rays are trains of solitary
waves or radiated energy emitted at
the impact of flying electron* with
stationary groups of electrons, L e..
solid matter.
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