COUUHBC/tE K1CK3LSCN OF GUD NAVY commends Pa-ru na- -Other Prominent Men Testify. !y^ JSTichohon Commodore Somerville Nicholson, of the United States Navy, in a letter from 1837 It St.. X. \W. Washington, D. C., says: "Your Peruna has been and Is now used by so many of ray friends and acquaintances as a sure cure for catarrh that 1 am convinced of its curative qualities, and I unhesitatingly recorameud it to all persons suffering from that complaint."?S. Nicholson. The highest men lu our nation have given Peruna a strong endorsement. Men of all classes and statious are equally represented. II you UO not derive prompt hiiu saiisfactory results from the use of Peraoa, write at once to Dr. Hartman. giving a fall statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman. President of The Har t ma n Ca itariu m, Columbus. O. Ask Your Dr??gi't for a free Peruna Almanac for 1904. Missing No Opportunity. A large, good natured man was greatly attracted to a little girl in the dining room of an up-town hotel the other day. She was about two and a half years old. was beginning to run about and talk a good deal, and also appeared to be at- home in the hotel. After smiling at him across the dining room and making friends with him At a distance he accosted her In the nai;. ne usksu oer ine regulation questions put by strangers to children, .all of which she answered as promptly -as her baby fashion would permit. Finally the man shook hands with her and said: "You are a nice little girl. Shall I bring you a box of candy ^ .to-morrow?" The little one looked puzzled a moment, then spoke up brightly: "No; 'oo better doe det It now!" She got the candy that evening. The total production of gold throughout the world in 1903 was $327.000,000. against $299,000,000 in 1902. and $291,000,000 in 1901. neapolis, Minn., tells how woman's monthly suffering may be permanently relieved by Lydia EJPiokham'sVegetable Compound [ *'D?a* Mbs. Pinkham :? I have '*?.^ever before ffiven my endorsement rfor any medicine, but Lydia E. JPinkhiim's Vegetable Compound ihaa added so much to my life and ^happiness that I feel like making an "^ iccption in this ca3e. For two years iovery month I would hare two days of .-loevere pain, and could find no relief, but ^one dav when visiting a friend I ran Jnacross Lydia E. Pink ham's Vege?, tabic Compound, ? she bad ur-ed it with the best results and advised me to try it. I found that it worked wonders with me ; I ngw experience no pain, and only had to use a few bottles to bring about this wonderful change. I use it occasionally now when I am exceptionally tired or worn out."? Miss Alice M. Smith, 804 Third Ave., South Miuneapolis. Miun.. Chairman Executive Committee, Minneapolis SCudy ( lub. ? iCOOC forfeit if original e f above Utter prc'iitf nrnii'.enc.ia ct.nnot Oe /.rtdi/cerf. hvdiil K. Piukham's Vegetable CoiajMnmc! carries women safely through the various natural crises and is the safe-guard of woman's health. The truth about this great medicine is told in the letters from women being published in this paper constantly. Saw mills TIm DeLoach Patent Variable Friction.Peed Saw Mill with 4 h p cuts 2,000 fret per day. Al' sizes asd prices to suit. DeLoach Shingle Mill* TMtti.v Trimmers. Planer*; Cora and Buhi Milts, Water Wheels, L*Jh Mills, Wood Saws Oar handsome new Catalog wtll interest you Loach Mill Mfg. Co.. Box 8M. Atlsnts. Ge A SOFT-HEARTED BAKER. Assumed Woes of Actress Too Muc for His Composure. Recently a new play was performe in Prague, the principal characters i which are a beautiful young lady am a brilliant young officer,but are uuabl to rasrry because they are as poor a church mice. True, the young lad; has a very rich uncle, from whom sb hopes to obtain aid, but she very sooi discovers that he is a:i arrant mise and will not give her a farthing. The woes of the lovers touched th< hearts of many in the audience, bu only one person proved really equal t< the occasion. This was a worthy am wealthy baker, who had actually beei moved to tears by the distressinj scenoe on the stage. At last his hear overflowed, and the moment the ricl I uncle vanished with a bitter sneer a i his niece's folly on his lips, he rushei j from his seat to the footlights, and taking a well-filled purse from hi; pocket, handed it to the astonlshei heroine, saying: "Here, take this?you'll find a gooi dowry in it?and have nothing mor to do with that wretched miser." Every one in the theater roared a [ the good fellow's simplicity and gen ! erosity, but he could not see that h I had done anything unusual, and, a he refused to take back the purse, th , heroine, with a smile, laid it on i ; table, and the play went on. I Curious Lawsuit in Ceylon. A curious lawsuit regarding th< ownership of lands was tried recentlj In Ceylon. The trouble originated al an archery competition held by King Parakrania Bahu VI., who ruled ovei Ceylon in the fifteenth century, it which there were two champions whc outdistanced all the rest and alike hit every mark that was submitted tc 1 them. The king was about to dividt the prize w^en from a neighborly pond a frog was heard to croak. Th( king seized upon a solution and de clared that whichever could hit th< frog, aiming only by ear, should gair j the prize. One of the archers trans i fixed the frog with the arrow. So de lighted was the monarch that, beside; the original prize, he gave to the win ner an estate of 50,000 acres. Tht ! present claimants in the lawsuit were the descendants of the archer. The ministry will never be a soft snap to the man with a sensitive soul. "My nightly rest was broken, owing to irregular action of the kidneys. I was suffering intensely from severe pains in the small of mv back and through the kidneys and annoyed by | painful passages of abnormal secre; tions. No amount of doctoring relieved I this condition. I took Doan's Kidney ' Pills and experienced quick and lasting relief. Doan's Kidney Pills will prove a blessing to all sufferers from kidney disorders who will give them a fair trial." Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. X. Y.. proprietors. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. Dyed Young. Burr Mcintosh was taking a photoj graph of one of the theatrical com: panies in town. A youug girl of not I over sixteen years, with startllngly i yellow hair tripped across the stage. "Here comes 'The Beloved of the Gods,'" whispered the manager. "Why have you dubbed her that?" asked Mr. Mcintosh, with interest. "Because she has dyed so young."? New York Times. Impossible to Square Circle. No circle can be squared because "14159, which Is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter, is not a square. FITS p?mnnently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer. t'ilrialbottleand treatise-free Dr. It. II. Kliss, Ltd.. 331 Arch St.. rhtla., Ph. A bent pin is the easiest thing imaginable to iind when you are not looking for it. lO.OOO Plants For I6e. This is a reu.arkable offer the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse.^ Wis., makee. They will sena you ineir Dig piant ana need catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1.000 fine, sdid Cabages, 2,000 delicious Carrots, 2.000 Blanching, nutty Celery, 2.000 rich, buttery Lettuce, 1,000 splendid Onions, 1,000 rare, luscious Kadishes, 1.900 gloriously brilliant Flowers. This great offer is made in order to in duee you to try their warranted seeds? for when you oucc plant them you will grow no others, aflH ALL FOR RUT 16C. POSTAOE, providing you will return this notice, and you will send them 20c. in postage, tliev \i ill add to the above a package of tlie fa mous Berliner Cauliflower. IA.C.L.] What a crand and glorious world this would be if every man would follow tiie sdvicc he gives to others! Mrs. Window'sSoothiDgSvrupforehildrer f cofhinp, soften the gums, reduces inflannna t ion .allays pain.euros wind colic. 25<\ a bottle Trie only persons who don't break good resolutions arc those who never make them. Tuts am Fadeless Dyes are fast to light and washing. Chronic complaining doesn't make a hard lot any softer. >o. 5. m SMISWHtRlAlLllSt FAILS. IS B??t Coucb Syrup. Tastes Good. Use H Ba In tlma. 8oid by druggist*. |w| PLANS THAT WENT WRONG. h Showing How Hard It Is to Driv Folks Into Matrimony. d Once upon a time, before everybod; a I hau learned to attend strictly to hi d own affairs, a man and a maid were ii e ! love with each other, but, though thi s was patent to all their friends, neithe ' ~ * ?? ' ???. ? TJ/Mi'rtrnr t Vi n i y j Ul III U III IVilOV 11. vm'-. e i friends said unanimously: "We wil a i demonstrate it to tliem and write i r triumphant Q. E. D. upon their wed ! ding morn." e ; Therefore, the maid never was in t ! vlted anywhere that she did not fln< 3 ' the man invited also; nor wa9 the mai i j invited anywhere hut that he fount i i the maid likewise a guest. Further 5 ! mere, the man always was detailed ti t take the maid in to dinner, and the; i could not so much as glance at eacl t other without everybody else havin; i an errand out of the room, and societ: [, became a vast manufactory of oppor s ! tunities for them to revel in earl j other's company alone and undis ! turbed. Now, before this had time t< d ' become a habit with them, both thi e man and the maid penetrated the darl j plot. t ; Whereupon the maid tossed he: i- ! head, saying: "They needn't think e have only one chance," and immedi s ately betrothed herself to an Impeculi e ous fortune hunter whose only rec a ; ommendation was his title. I And thereupon the man hastily mar ! ried himself to a grass widow fron j Chicago, whose reputation, they d< > I say, was responsible for the big fire. Consequently all their friends nod t ! ded their heads sagely, and whisperet ' to each other, "Didn't I tell you so?"? Alex Ricketts In Philadelphia Ledger C ' Golden Sands. L i In twelve months Yarmouth, Eng. ' i derived a revenue of about ?2,85! 'r j from its beaeh. The sale of sand ant ; : shingle produced ?504, and payment; ' ; for the right to place stalls on th< " i beach ?700. > ; i ! National bank notes are onc-sixti . i of the money in circulation. ' I "Don't you find It tiresome," sait j Mare Ai.ior.y, "to fievote so mueh tim< } ! to literature in addition to your variou; ! ; ways?" "Yes," replied Caesar, "bu' ' it pays. Tliere is nothing like beiuj i your own military critic."?Washingtoi Star. t This? We offer One Hundred Dollar; Reward for ' any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured 0/ I lull's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., To'.eio, O. Wc,theuuder3lOS i ge?ses." ! J Jr. Alsop said: I heard lately from a brilliant speaker an address on "Commercialism." To the '* surprise of all, it was a panegyric rather 3 than a diatribe. His argument was that f commercial, that is, business activity, the industrial epoch in which we live and 1 whose push we feel, engenders certain use* fui and even moral qualities, such as thrift, j underlying all accumulations of capital: truth telling, which is essential to successful trading: trust, without which the vast i credit system of the day could not exist: i- the sense of responsibility shown in the honestv of the great army of clerks and place holders, among whom breaches of ? trust, defaults and the like are comparai tivelv rare, the percentage of the honest being surprisingly high. At the same time our Civil War and the Pot War have r shown that the commercial spirit did not I extinguish heroism and liberality. itness the gifts of rich men to education and charities. Now that is all true, and yet there is a * bad flavor about the word commercialism. It has another cannotation. Is it not a w matter of emphasis? Jesus says. "Seek ve first the kingdom of God." He says again, 1 "What wall a man give in exchange for his ) life?" What are men exchanging their life, with all its possibilities of symmetrical de velopment, for? W Hat are tney seeKing first? Is it not too largply material sueI cess? St. Paul says: "Having food and - raiment we have enough." The feeling of to-day scorns such moderation. A modest ' competence is nowadays nothing accounted of. To make a living is not enough: to achieve comfort for self and family is a small thing: men aim and toil and struggle for more dazzling prizes?a success that ) makes a noise and is talked of; that glitI tcrs and dazzles the eye. ? Tltis is commercialism as I understand it: the measuring of success by the stand' aid of the market place, the sinking of other aims in the eager rush after gain. There are high things possible for man. Culture of body, mind, growth in moral and spiritual attainments, expansion in faculty and usefulness. There are magnificent careers open to him in science, in art, 1 | in literature, in philanthropic service. ? ' Over against all these stands the spirit of I the age and cries follow me. The ideal is a ? man who turns everything to gold that he t I touches: a man who gets ana holds and j 1 then goes on to get more and hold more. ' Two conversations lately overheard illustrate the point. Dr. Kainsford, of St. George's Church, walking down a Xew York avenue, overheard tne talk of three or four university men before him. Looking upon the gleaming equipages and splendid dresses flitting by, one said to another: "I tell you. boys, it is money that goes in this town, is it not?" The belief that it is money that goes?the feeling that it is money that ought to go?are evidences of an almost universal sentiment. "Who is building that magnificent h^.se?" said one to another. '"Oh. that is io be the residence of so and so. He used to be a poor Baptist preacher, but Rockefeller found out that ne had business ability, and I tell you he did not leave hi:n long a Baptist preacher. He took him intn Standard Oil Comnanv. and now see what a success he has achieved." There speaks commercialism. There is the voice of the ideal which has almost hypnotized our generation. Agassiz's splendid reply to the lecture > bureau, "I have no time to make money," | sounds like a piece of insanity. Gordon's refusal to accept reward from the Chiuese Emperor for his help in the l'ai Ping rebellion sounds like a piece of Quixotism. The "simple life," as lived by Tnoreau in the woods, as pictured by Wagner, sums only an idyllic dream. The pursuit of learning for learning's sake, the service of man with no itch for reward, the quiet. ' unostentatious sacrifice of personal interest I for the good of others, these are repudiated as folly. The maddening crowd's | ignoble strife is what makes itself heard. I It draws like the song of the siren. Like I the suction of a vast maelstrom, it seizes ( men and draws them in. Ky and by. dizzied bv the tierce whirl, they forget the high things and are content to be simply money-makers. That i? what 1 understand oy commercialism; me iiirusuiij; iuiu me , front place of merely material success. It > is a corruption of the spirit in which life is livid. It is a low, wrong motive. It brings > in and holds before the soul a false stand| ard of value. It misconceives what is the real success of life. It subordinates the man to his possessions. It is a radical corruption of the ideal?an absolute reversal of what our text says. Commercialism de1 clares and persuades that man's life does i consist in the abundance of the things . which he possesses. Therefore, it urges let him love supremely those thiftgs; let ' tiim aim at them, follow alter them, sink his very life in them. Let him for them forego, if needs be. mental culture, artistic development, moral elevation, spiritual activity and all that goes to make a full developed manhood. Quench, if necessary, > all lofty aspirations. Get things, gather them about you, enthrone yourself on and > among thenj. Let atrophy seize every other faculty bo your faculty for getting and getting on grows stronger. ( Let me give an illustration or two. i j There is a story of a man who was so eager ( to keep safe a very precious thing that he took it with him into a closet, set his canr die on the floor and then diligently nailed fast the door, only to find, as his candle flickered out, that he had shut himself in 1 with his treasure. Nailed and encoftineJ in his own strong box. Here is another: i I read some time ago of a young man, who, i I upon graduation from college, found him- i self the possessor of $50,000 a year. He had i health, strength, education, position. ] Choices lay open before him. He might go i I in for political life, for philanthropic serv- < t ice, or college settlement work. lie might I become a student and a patron of arc. of 1 , literature. He might throw himself into i the civic life of his day. In any of a dozen I ways he might find his life bv losing it in < Vtnt Vaa' I , he was dazzled by the ideal of the age. Ambitious to turn his one million into : many, to win the power or notoriety vast ] i wealth can bring, he flung himself into a I banking house. All the beautiful opportu- ' nities that invited him he forewent simply ] and only that he might increase his pile?a i pile which was already sufficiently large. ] . Grant him ali the success he coveted, what i would be the end? A dwarfed man. with i 1 an immense tiile heaped up around him. A 1 > life practically sunk and lost in the ahund, ance of the things which he possessed. As I said. then, a moment ago, cummer* rialism is found in a wrong .emphasis. , . Wealth is good fairly won and nobly used. 1 It is not money, but the love of money, . that is the root of all evil. Business is good, commerce is good and necessary, in- 1 t dustrialism is good and brings forth a i goodly progeny of virtues; zeal, activity. ] . pcrserevance, cleverness in affairs, are all praiseworthy. Material success is dcsir- j * able. "The blessing of the Lord it maketh i rich." Yes. but to put these tilings first, to rush after them so eagerly as to forget i other and higher things, in a word, to sink in them one's life with its possibilities of growth and beauty and usefulness, that is : to have caught the spirit of the commer' cialism of the day and the age. e Who can loolc abroad without seeing how this spirit tends to invade and even / to dominate every sphere of human aetivicy. \Ve read of commercialism in politics, in art, in literature, in education, in the social world, even in religion, and '.hough we may not have a distinct definition ready we have a fairly clear idea of what is meant. The place holder in nation or city or State whose main thought is what he can make and not what he can do: the artist who listens not to the voice of his ideals hut to the bids of the market, and paints or carves simply ior the money to be got: the author who writes simply what will sell and forgets the truth for which he ought to stand and the service in the way of instruction, or comfort, or amusement which he might minister to his fellows, is each one tainted with commercialism. It has crept even into our universities, tempting boards of trustees and faculties to bow too subserviently to those who can furnish endowments, temoiinc the voting man to turn from courses that cultivate the mind to those which prepp.ro for business. Our theatres have felt the influence, and think more of pieces which will draw than of those which will elevate as well as amuse and recreate those who see and hear. Yea, it is conceivable that even the c.iurch may not escape. The ministry that sets pain above usefulness has caught the contagion. "Put ine into the priesthood that 1 may eat a piece of bread!' So cried one of o!d. The very thought was a desecration. The ministry that is sought for the sake of "the pieces of bread'' for a livelihood. whether it be large or small, is a ministry not to Hod, not to those among whom it is exercised, but to the man that holds it. The clergy who are in orders chiefly for what they can win in the way of comfort, or respectability or income are unlit for their place. They s<.r\c not Clod cr their fellows, but themselves. And so the church vWe chief aim is a large pew rental ar.ri a fashionable congregation?forgetting the while that the Master's boast was that to the poor the gospel was preached, is tarred with the same stick. Yes, commercialism is in the air. It is the spirit that now works?that stealthily penetrates every daT>artment of modern activity, always seeking to make gain the dominant motive. There is no line of work, no business, no profession safe against its insidious influence. It invades law and medicine, even divinity, as we have seen. It is felt in halls of legislation and scats of government. Yea. it pervades even society. making the fine raimept and the gold ring and the large bank account more potent to open doors than gentle birth and fine breeding. How are we to resist this influence?escape this spirit? Just as we resist the contagion of an epidemic, the depression of a malaria, by fort living the powers ot .ue. A man in whom the tide of life is full and strong will walk unscathed through the plague laden air. The health that is in nim resists ihe disease that rushes upon him. The bacteria that floats into throat or lung, or stomach finds no nidus and dies. It must be thus, then, that we escape the spiritual dauger. Fortify the life within. Remember that life is more than meat; that the kingdom of God and His righteousness are infinitely worthy of our seeking. Do not forget the possibilities of your life, what you can make of it in the way of growth, what you can make of it in the way of usefulness. Keep your eye on the Master. In Him see what you may be ?in Him see what you may do. Yea. not only keep your eye on Him, but keep in livinc touch with Him, that the tides of His life may flow into your soul, and carry you on and up to the measure of the stature of the perfect man in Christ Jesus. Finally, my brethren, "whatsoever things are honest ?'whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever tilings are lovely, whatsoever thirtgs are of gooif report, think on the?e things." Turn your thought and your eyes away from the dazzling bait of the age. Escape its snare. Seek first the kingdom of God. Determine to be a man. mentally, morally, spiritually; rlptprminp to 1>p a hrnthpr to vour fellow man, and do for him a brother's part; determine to be a child of the neavenly Father and obey His will, so far as you know it: resolve that in you the splendid possibilities hidden in the gift of life shall be realized, and you shall have learned how to use this world without abusing it. Then commerce, business, success shall minister to you but not enslave vou; shall embellish your lite but not absorb it; shall bring you. perchance, an abundance of things to possess, but leave the while strong and pure within you the life of fiod. Then shall you in very deed possess the abundance of the things which are yours. Lei them once get the better of you. climb into the throne of your heart and life, and then they possess you and you are their slave and their victim; nailed and ineotfined in your own strong box in your soul also. Living in Hop*. The habit of living in the future should make us glad and' confident. We should not keep the contemplation of another state of existence to make us sorrowful, nor allow the transiency of this present to shade our joy?. Our iiope should make us buoyant, and keep t;s firm. It is an anchor of tlie soul. Ail men live by hope, even when it is fixed upon the changing and uncertain things of this world. But ihe hopes of men who have not their hearts fixed upon God try to grapple themselves on the cloud wrack that roils along the flanks of the mountains; while our hopes pierce within that veil, and lay bold of jhc Rock of Ages that towers above the flying vapors. Let us then be strong, for our future is not a dim peradventure, nor a vague dream, nor a fancy of our own. nor a wish turning itself into a vision, but it is made and certified bv Him who is the God of all the past and of all the present. It is built upon His word, and the brightest hope of all its brightness is the enjoyment of more of Hi? presence, and the possession of more of His likeness. That hope is certain. Therefore, let us live iu it.?The Rev. Alexander MacLaren. The Poor Man'* Oay. Tn ?TT our towns, and throifghont too large a portion of our country districts, the Sabbath rest is violated and the worship which was the consequence and condition of this rest is abandoned. At the same time the soul is deprived of its nouranrl ttio KrtHv nf its renose. The poor man and the workingman are delivered up, unprotected, to the every dav increasing influence of error and evil. Thus the profanation of the day has become the ruin of the moral and physical health of the people, at the same time that it is the ruin of the family and of religious liberty. The Sabbath is emphatically the poor man's and the working man's day. And there is no surer way to break down the health, as well as tne morals and religion of the people, than to break down the Sabbath. To say nothing of the Dicine law. 011 mere worldly grounds it is plain that nothing is more conducive to tlje health, intelligence, comfort and independence of the working classes and to i>ur prosperity as a people than our Christian American Sabbath.?Count Montalembcrt. ___ Past anil Future. The pa?c is dead and has no resurrection, but the future is endowed with such a life that it lives to us even in anticipation. The past is. in many things, the foe of mankind; the future is, in all tilings, our friend. For the past there is no hope; for the future there is both hope and fruition. The past is the text book of tyrants; the figure is the Bible of the free. Those who ire solely governed by the past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in tne act of look-, ing backward, and forever incapable of looking forward.?H. Kirk White. The Year. Beautiful is the year in its coming and in its going?most beautiful and blessed because it is always "the year of our Lord."? isn George Francis Train Dies Afterj|H Varied Life W 1 [IE ACCOMPLISHED MANY THINGS ' Starting in an Humble Capscity, H? Forged Ahead to the Front Ranks In the World. New York, Special.?George Francis Train, who died here Monday night, probably was one of the most picturesque figures in the history of ^ America. Only a year ago. when he was then 74 years old, he dictated the i reminiscences of his extraordinary ca. L j a. ruer, anu iuc icauu *? aa ? book form. Summarized in bis own ^ curious fashion, this contained infor- * mation about his life: "Shipping clerk, 16; manager, 18; partner in Train & Co., 20, with an income of $10,000; established the firm of George Francis Train & Co.. Melbourne, Australia, 1853; agent White Star Line, income $90,000; started 40 clippers to California in 1849* built railroad connecting Erie with Onio and Mississippi; pioneered the first str^t railway in Europe, America, Australia^, and England; built first Pacific railway, 1862-1869; owned 5,000 lots in Omaha, worth $3,000,000; been in 15 jails without a crime." Mr. Train's parents, with several^! brothers and sisters, died at New Or-^H ! leans from yellow fever, and hi3 child-^H hood home was on his grandmother'^H farm in Massachusetts. Not long afte^^fl entering the Boston shipping hous^^fl founded by his cousin, he went and from that time on he wandereafl^^H over the globe. In 1S72 he began a career as lectur^^H and agitator, and held public debate^^fl with some of the ablest orators in th^^H country. A few years ago be made trip around the world in 60 days, say-^H Ing afterwards that his psychic force^H enabled him to overcome all obstacled^H When Mills' Hotel No. 1 was open?^^| several years ago, Mr. Train went thei^H| to live, and since then made it his^H headquarters. One of the features of i his eventful life was his admiration for ^ children, and for years a familiar spec. ^ 1 taele In Madison Square was "Citizen'* Train on a bench surrounded by a ! group of little ones. Mr. Train's last adventure occurred^^ I last summer, when he was quarantine ??* Cviiin In a QmallnAT 10A* j lation camp and threatened that city with a suit for $50,000 damages. He war the author of at least 50 books and frequently asserted that "hie j psychic power eventually would make I him the most potent sovereign of ! the eaifch. Coffin Factory Eurned. ! Burlington. N. C., Special.?On# ! of the most disastrous fires in ! the history of Burlington originated in ! the factory building of the Burlington Coffin Company of this place about 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. The plant consisted of three large buildings besides the engine and boiler house, dry kilns, storing sheds, etc., and was I one of the largest business enterprises of Burlington, as well as one of the principal casket factories south of Baltimore, and has been doing a very prosperous business. Owing to the intensely cold weather this morning, work in the factory building was not resumed, rne origin or me mc 10 uuknown. for when the fire was discovered the entire second story of the factory building was in flames, which soon reached every part of the building and spread to the engine and boiler house, the dry kilns, and to an immense quantity of lumber on the yards. The factory was equipped with a very complete outfit of machinery, most of it being of the latest and most improved designs, all of which was lost, together with the entire stock of patterns, coffin bits and machine ft room. An immense quantity of lumber was in stock, more than 250,000 feet of which were burned, together with a large stock of covered casket shells. I The total loss is estimated at frem $25,000 to $30,000, with about $10,000 Insurance on the factory building and the machinery. It is understood that f the company will rebuild, probably I upon an enlarged plan, at as early a j aaie as pracwcaoie. Governor and Judge Fined Pope, Ark., Special.?In the mayor's court Tuesday Governor Jeff Davia and Associate Judge Carroll D. Wood, of the Supreme Court* the two candidates for the Democratic nomination J for Governor, were fined for assault. ?tl The trial is the result of the'encoun- J ter bet wen the men in the joint de^ bate here on December 18 last. After hearing the testimony Mayor Black fined each defendant $10 for a breach of the peace and in addition assessed I a fine of $50 against Governor Davis 1 aggravated assault. Both filed notics J that they would appeal. King Peter to Abdicate. Vienna. By Cable.?King Peter, servia. according to a report from Cottinje, Montenegro, is prepared vol-^B untarilv to renounce the throne. Tbe^B Prince of Montenegro is said to have^H received a mandate from Russia to^H clear up the precarious situation Servia, and Kfng Peter is alleged tgjm have recognized the untenability of hi* ~W position and to be willing to abdic&U M Lee's Birthday. Atlanta, Special.?The annlverew^^H of the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Sfljfl of the Southern Confederacy, was served throughout the^South day, many schools anBanks bei^^^H closed in his honor^^^Knorlal tices were held in The^^BB banquet of tl^^^^^^LSoc^^HH was speakers being^^^B^^^^Bfl^BB| Gen. Thomas I^BBB^H^BI^^^flB Terrell,