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Facts About an Eclipse. A ORE AT ASTRONOMICAL EVENT. Total Solar Eclipse Visible in the United States May 28. THE SUN WILL LOOK LIKB A BURNING CANDLE. 3?. Y. Commer?ai Advertiser. Qa May 28 of the present year we saaH have an opportunity to see an uncommon astronomical occurrence. The sun will be totaliy eclipsed, and the event will be visible in parts of the United States Occasionally, as we know, the -Boon pasee? between os and the SOD, ?Otting off the latter's light complete? ly This we cali a solar eclipse Lona eclipses, co the other hand, are caused by the moon's reaching such a position that the earth is directly between it and. the son The moon has no inherent brilliancy like the son ; it shines only by reflecting solar light ; and when that light is ?at off, the moon simply "goes ont " Bot the sun is self illuminons, and is ia reality shining jost the same when ?oder eclipse as at any other time. ID the former, the moon having sod denly ceased to meive or reflect light/the eclipse is observable wher? ever the moon, if un eclipsed, would be visible Bot at any given moment we can usually see the moon from ore-half the eaith's surface Conse? quently, if a lunar eclipse takes place a majority of the earth's inhabitants have an opportunity to observe it, ?nd thus a lunar eclipse is something that almost any person can remember to have seen But it is very differ eat with the sun. As we have said, ae continues to give4 light when eclipsed,, so that it is only in places where the sun is actually covered op by the moon that he wiil seem to be eclipsed. The moon under eclipse ie like a candle that has been ex tin gctshed ; it is dark from whatever side we look at it Bot the eclipsed son is like a burning candle, which will be invisible ?o him only whose view is obstructed by the interposi tion of some opaque object That opaque object is the moon Bot she ie comparatively small and cannot render the sun totally iovisi ble from more than a tiny circular or oval spot on the earth's surface. In the eclipse of May 28 that little spot will be onlv about 75 miles wide ; and if the moon were not in motion the total phase of the eclipse could be seen nowhere else But the moon is traveling ail the time through space in its orbit around the earth So the little spot is moving, too, and changing its position gradually upon the earth's surface Thus, instead of a spot, we shall have a long strip or band about 75 miles wide ; and by waiting for the right raomect, it will be possible to see totality from any point within this band The whole thing is much as though there were a huge peucil, with its point touching the earth, and having its other end pivoted to the 6un. If the moving moon were then also attach ed to this pencil somewhere uear the point, she would draw the pencil atong, and the point would trace ont thereclipse path on the earth Any ese standing in that path cooid then look along the pencil, and at the proper moment see the moon cover iog the 6un and obscuring the light In places situated near this path of totality, as it is called, we shall be able to see the eclipse, but not as a total one. For such places the moon wili cover the sun only in part so that some of his brilliant surface will remain in sight. The amount of ob acoration always depends upon the observer's nearness to the totality line The nearer he is, the more nearly total the eclipse will be. On May 28th the path of totality begins in the Facific ocean just weet of Mexico There the point of the hage pencil we have imagined first touches our earth It theo passes eastward across Mexico, and entering the United States near New Orleans, proceeds in a northeasterly direction until it (eaves tbe continent close to Norfolk, Va Then it crosses the Atlantic, touches Portugal, and after ward passes acros3 Northern Africa leaving the earth finally near the northern end of the Red sea. In this coontry the cities of New Orleans, La, Mobile, Ala. Montgomery, Ala, -?aieigh, N. C., and Norfolk, Va, are all on the totality path At New Orleaus the sun will be completely covered at 7 30 a m . while at Nor folk this will not happen until 8 53 a m In the former city totality will last 73 seconds, and in the latter 102 seconds At intermediate places both the time and duration of totality will fall between these extreme values For places nearer to New Orleans than to Norfolk the numbers wiil be nearer those given for New Orleans, and vice versa Having thus explained the circum stances of this eclipse, we shall now touch upon some of the interesting things that wiil be seen if the sky is clear. Total solar eclipses appeal equally to the general public and to the professional astronomer. On the one hand, they present the most superb spectacle within the whole range of astronomy ; and on the oili? er, they offer the best opportunity to study the mysterious structure and things to which astronomers atti importance is the accnrate obser tion of the times of beginning i ending of the eclipse lt is easy see that the mathematical conside tion upon which are based ocr th ries of lunar motion will be pnt tc very severe test in predicting exact instant when the sun wili covered np by the moon If obser tion agrees with prediction, we ht the strongest corroborative evidei of the correctness of our theory a of our numerical calculations, the other hand, if it be found that I predictions are slightly in error, t amount of that erroi can be det mined by observation, and mathem ical theory thus corrected for t benefit of future predictions. 1 though our knowledge in this depa ment of astronomy has reached very high state of perfection, it is fact that we caunot predict the tim of eclipse today without a poeeibili of error amounting to several se onds. Part of this error is due doubt to insufficient knowledge the moon's size, or to the possibili that contact between sun and mo< may occur at a very irregular mountainous part of the lunar surfac But each eclipse te^ds to impro^ our information and make our math matical theories more perfect. The greatest interest, howeve centers about the physical observ tioos possible duriog a total eclips Oor sun is not merely the blazin? brilliant, luminous globe we st every day in the beavens. The fiei center ball bas a vast outer appen? age, stretching millions of miles in) space-the delicately tinted, teuuou filmy, unexplained corona. It is tt corona that makes a total eclipse E beautiful, regarded merely as a spei tacle to be seen and enjoyed Ii light is much fainter than that of th sun ; we can see it only when th later is completely obscured. Ata other times the bright light of th central ball illuminates the air eui rounding our earth so as to make far superior in brightness to the fair, corona ; and observers looking pei force th *oogh this illuminated ai cannot distinguish the delicate tracer of the corona itself. But when th advancing of the moon slowly cover the sun's central disc, until at lae only a narrow sickle shaped piece i left, the waiting astronomers have few moments of intense expectation The sickle narrows gradually ; but mere thread is left ; yet even that i quite sufficient to mask the corona Then, suddenly, all is covered. Ot the instant, as though at the touch o a magician's wand, outbursts th? splendid corona into view 'Tis ? a sight of beauty indescribable, im pressive beyond comparison Met that have been privileged to see it ever after tell of its having given on? of life's most exciting moments never to be forgotteu But the quiet scientific investiga tor tries to make use of these rar* opportunities to obtain some 1 wi edge of the true constitution oui sun Before the corona's appearance, just as the brilliant central disc is being totally obscured, there are a very few brief important seconds when we receive light direct from the outer layers of the solar globe, and these moments offer the only chance to examine directly the glow ing gases that make up the sun's out? side envelope Much of our solar knowiege has been thus gathered painfully in the few fleeting minutes of observation made possible by sue cessive total eclipses. Then it is that we see great red flames flashing hundreds of thousands of miles out into space Curiing, interlacing, ever changing, veritable cloudbursts of living fire, these are proofs of the power and violence of nature's hid den forces. RAILROAD HAS BEEN SOLD. Tredegar Mineral Purchased by Bir? mingham Syndicate. ANXISTOX, Ala., May JG.-The Trede gar Mineral railroad luis been bought by Alex T. London of Birmingham and as? sociates arid will ar once; be extended from Jacksonville to Anniston, a dis? tance of 12 milis. Tiie road was built by General J. W. Burke and others and is 3 miles in length, reaching from Jack? sonville to the Ease and West railway, the lutter using it to get into Jackson? ville. One of the conditions of the sale is that snits by the Tredegar Mineral against the Hast and West now pending be considered settled, and another is that the roa I be built to Arniston with? in six months, or as soon thereafter as possible. Thc East and West and the Seaboard Air Line arc believed to be be? hind the deal. Editor's Awful Pliant. F. M Higgins, Kditor Seneca. (Ill*,) News, was afflicted for year* with Pi-es that no doc? tor or remedy helped until he tried Bucklen'? Arnica Salve. Jie writes tw<> boxis wholly cured him. It's the surest Pile cure on earth -.md the Lest salve in th? world. Cure guar? anteed. Only ?? ccn:<. Sold by J F. W Del.orme, Drug ;ist 5 Peculiar Accident at Tampa. TAMPA. Fla., May IT.-Frank Morris met with a peculiar accident here. A traveling man, running to catch a car, dropped his pistol from his pocket, which, striking the ground, was dis? charged, the bullet taking effect in Mor? ris1 arm, inflicting an ugly wound. Cotton Mill Projected. ST. MATTHEWS, S. C., May io.-Tho indications are that St. Matthews w*l, at an early date, have a cotton mill. A ?fearter has l>een applied for and the work of soliciting stock is progressing. The capital gook will be $100,000. War Tax Piling Up a Great Surplus. UMECESSAEY AM) UNJUST. A Standing Invitation to Every Rascal In the Land. EEP?BLIOAJJ LEADEES UNHAPPY. Fear of Impending: Defeat Renders Them Irritable-Cannon and Hep? burn. Quarrel-Billingsgate In the Honse-Protest of the Soldiers-In thc Grip of Buccaneers-Senator Hoar on Trae Statesmanship-Indi? ana Elections. [Special Washington Letter.] An unnecessary tax is an unjust tax. ?he federal treasury contains.a vast .urplus which is increasing every day and -which is produced by the continua tien of the Spanish war taxes. Therefore these taxes, being unnec? essary, are unjust and should be abolished. But the signs indicate that the Re? publican leaders will not permit any change at this session of congress of any feature of the Spanish war reve? nue bill, not even of those features which are the most irritating to the people and the least productive of reve? nue. Everybody knows that the bill was hastily prepared, passed under whip and spur as a temporary measure and abounds in crudities and inequalities. ' Still we are not to be permitted to change it, even in the estimation of a hair, because the Republican bosses have so willed it. The stamp taxes on medicines are 20 times what the rates are on John D. Rockefeller's products, but no change must be made, because the bosses don't want it, don't you know. Stamp taxes on small notes, con? tracts, mortgages, etc., are more pro? ductive of profanity than revenue, but they must stand, because the bosses have so willed it. By the end of the year the surplus, at the present rate, will be betwixt $50, 000,000 and $70,000,000, but the bosses appear to deem that an evidence of statesmanship, hugging to their breasts the delusion that people don't know that every dollar of that surplus is un? justly wrung from the overburdened taxpayers of the land. A surplus in the treasury is a stand? ing invitation to every rascal in the land to move on Washington with some scheme to deplete Uncle Samuel's pleth? oric pocketbook, but the bosses de? cree that matters shall remain in statu quo. Thomas Jefferson's declaration is as good and wise today as when first made-"Economy in the public expense that labor may be lightly burdened"- I but the bosses care nothing about la- ! bor or its burdens so long as they cnn j point with pride to a huge surplus, the result of unnecessary taxation. They could easily double the surplus by the simple precess of doubling the taxes. There is no end lo such a plan, except I the exhaustion of the people's patience, j Republicans Irritable. What seems to be the certainty of impending defeat renders the Repub? lican leaders irritable, querulous and Kilkenny cattish. They yowl and howl and claw and otherwise disport themselves to the infraction of the pub? lic decorum. They use loud, violent, abusive and tumultuous language to? ward each other in such a reckless manner as to disturb the peace of their Democratic neighbors, who are in a peculiarly happy frame of mind con? templating what reforms they will work when they come into possession of the government at high noon March 4, A. D. 1901. During the debate on the Nicaragua bill Uncle Joe Cannon of Illinois, chairman of the great committee on appropriations, and Colonel William Peters Hepburn of Iowa, popularly de- j nominated Colonel Pete, chairman of the committee on interstate and for- i eign commerce, committed mouth as- j saults upon each other with intent to i kill and murder-at least to do great I bodily harm. On the 7th day of this month Uncle Joe was 04 years old. has been in the | house a quarter of a ceatury and j should know better than to quarrel like a fishwife. Colonel Hepburn is past 06, though he does not look it. He has been in congress many years, was once solic- j itor of the treasury, and it would ap pear that he has seen enough years to j "cool his heart of fire." Not so, however. Those two veteran I statesmen fell a-foul of each other, like ? two Greco-Roman wrestlers, and tug- j ged, strained, torc up the ground in such ? disgraceful manner that Charlie Wheeler of Kentucky demanded that j tlicy be called to order, but nobody ? p:iid any attention to his call, as every? body wanted to sec the two illustrious Republicans wool each other to their hearts' content, but it must 1"- confess- j ed that when a row irets too hot io j please a Kentuckian things an? liable to melt Perhaps Wheeler was dis- j misted because they were confining i themselves to shaking lists and hurling epithets instead of adopting the Ken? tucky plan of settling difficulties, w?ii<-! i plan was recently illustrated by <'<>'o-? nel David G. Colson, when he killed j three men at one rime. Colonel Hepburn eas? aspersions on Uncle Joe's sincerity. Uncle Joe, with i j many gesticulations. gent:?!ex?ous ;:?:<! ? ?gyrations, reflected on Colonel Pete's; integrity and good faith. Colonel Pete, white with rage, gave Uncle Joe the lie conditionally, and when Uncle taunted him with putting in the coi tions. Colonel Pete, fairly sizzling ^ wrath, withdrew the conditions, th? by giving the lie direct to the venera Sucker. To one hilariously dispo: this exhibition of Republican int? gence. this exposition of Republh manners, was better than a circus. A Contest of Billingsgate. Now, be it remembered that this v a scene between Republican statesm and the Democrats had precisely interest in it, and no more, which ? old woman had in the fight betw< bruin and her liege lord, when w perfect impartiality, she encouraj both by first shouting, "Go it, h band!" and then, "Go it, bear!" Fi and last Republican Pharisees hs had much to say about the sweetn? and purity of Republicans and mi about "the plantation manners of Do ocrats." O wad some power the giffie gie us To see ourselves as ithers see us! If some New England transcend? talist will write au essay on "Swe* ness, Purity and Good Manners" as lustrated by this billingsgate conti of Uncle Joe and Colonel Pete, I w cheerfully, agree to incorporate it these letters for the delectation of n hundreds of thousands of readers. . matters stand I think Colonel Hepbu got a little the best of Uncle Joe, b the latter, like Major Joe Bagstock, "sly, sir, devilish sly; tough, sir, dev ish tough," and he will bide his time. The quarrelsome spirit seems to ha entered into all Republicans. Down iu Tennessee, where they ha1 only Republicans enough to elect tv congressmen, two factions, one head( by Pension Commissioner Colonel I Clay Evans and the other by Congres men Brownlow and Gibson, are wa, ing against each other a war of exte ruination. On with the dance! Even the ex-soldiers are becomir disgruntled as to the way things ai being rim by this administration, as shown by the following letter, whic explains itself: WASHINGTON-, April 26. Dear Sir-There is a proposition in congress ' give to the present adjutant general of the Uniti States army-against whom, cf course, we ha' nothing personal-the rank of major general. Tl Union Veterans' union, which I have the honor i command, respectfully, hut most earnestly, pr tests against this. In every possible manner attempts are heir made by individuals and branches of the publ: service tc get something more out of the coloss; revenues which are bein?; collected and for whic the people are being heavily taxed. The e: penditurcs for the war department are airead swollen to an enormous extent. Most urger pleas by patriotic citizens in and out of congre ?re being made for retrenchment in the publi expenditures. If there be a plethora from the in mense revenues, let taxation be lowered instea of giving the people's money away; but, undo extravagance, even these revenues do not seem t suffice, and in consequence thereof and perhap o? a wretched little war in which wc are engage and which costs more than the entire pension roll every ohstruction is said to be put in the way c the applicant for a pension in order to save (? money. If this bc true, it may be remarked tha such does not embrace the proper idea of re trenchment. Retrenchment does not consist ii avoidance of payment of just debts any more tliai it consists in presenting the public money V shoulder strapped or other individuals and un necessarily increasing salaries. In addition to the fact that it appears invidiou to increase the rank cf tho adjutant general with out increasing the rank of the heads of thc otho staff officers of the war department and to tin fact that increasing thc rank of thc adjutant gen eral is a reflection upon the efficiency of the ad jutant general's office of thc civil war, when w< had an army of more than 2.000,0?0 men and thi rank of the adjutant general was that of bricradici general, it would seem to be untimely and par ticularly wron? to give him increased raak anc thus increase the cost of his office, while and mere ly because we are involved in increased, even ii unavoidable, expense. Tiiis, especially when th< duties and responsibilities of the adjutant gen^ eral's office are at present as nothing compare*] with thc duties and responsibilities of the ad? jutant general's r.llice during our ci', il war, when, as above said, the rank of thc adjutant general was that of brigadier general. Very respectfully, lt. C. DVREXFORTH. Commander In Chief, U. V. U. A Case of Dos Kat Dos:. Colonel John W. Gates has recently given the country a startling object lesson in operating trusts and in ileec ing the lambs of Wall street. Ile mov? ed on Gotham, shut down several wire mills in order to influence value of stocks, ruthlessly threw out of employ? ment thousands of innocent, industri? ous laborers and cleaned up a million or two. Now the Wall street gang are talking of indicting him as a common cheat and swindler. With the result of the controversy between Gates and the Wall street outfit 1 am in no way interested. It was a clear case of dog eat dog. and the more they eat each other the better the world will be off. no doubt. So let the merry war go on. But my guess, is that it will not go on. Perhaps Colonel Gates ought to be in the pen. 1 am not expressing any opinion on that point. Perhaps the Wall street gamblers whom he skinned ought also to be wearing the stripes of a convict. And perhaps if they in? dict Gates he will follow suit and do the same thing to them. Stranger far stranger-things have happened. They are ?is deep in the mud as Gates is in the mire. Ile beat them at their own game. But there is a much more serious question connected with the matter than the circus between Gates and his Wall street victims, and that is that Gates or any other man shall be per? mitted, for gambling purposes, to shut down mills and throw out of cm] loy ment thousands of honest, industrious men who are anxious to earn their ? own bread and the bread of their wives ; ami little children in the sweat of their faces. That concerns the public wei- ? fare. Gates could have cut no such brutal cai)er had he not been the head of the steel wiri' trust, which is no worse :?nd no belter than scores of otb er trusts. A mau who sto.-ils a loaf of , bread is a thief and is sent to jail or to : the penitentiary, bat a man who rakes [ in ti cool SI.ooo.ooo or J2.000.000 by j taking the bretni out of the mouths ol'; thousands of men. women and chit- j dren is a financier and hero, with aspi rations for a scat in the senate of the United States, o Mores! <> Tempora' ; Senator ??oar'j* P?*-a For .Tnst?cc i Here is ti paragraph from Senator Hoar's great spree!:, th:::i which few; very few, liner ever feil from human lips. 1 commend it to the boys of thc hind as a tiling to bc treasured up and committed to memory: Mr. President-Our friends whe take another j view of this question like to teil us of the mis? takes of great men of other days, who have vain? ly protested against acquisition of territory. One worthy and most exuberant gentleman in another place points out to his hearers the folly of Web Eter and Clav, the delusions of Charles Sumner and contrasts them with the wisdom of Jefferson and Tyler and Polk. Mr. Jefferson declared that the acquisition of Louisiana was unconstitutional and wanted a constitutional amendment to justify it. 1 think the general sense of the American people is that in that particul-r Mr. Jefferson was in error and that our power to admit new states clearly involves the power to acquire territory from which new states are to be made. I wonder, however, if there be any man now alive who now holds or who ever did or ever will hold a seat in either house of congress willing to say that, hav? ing taken an oath to support the constitution, he would, for any purpose of public advantage, for? swear himself for the sake of a real or fancied good to his country. I liope and believe that thc spirit of Fletcher of Saltoun, who said he would die to serve Scotland, but he would not do a base thing to save her. is still the spirit of American statesmanship. That exub?rant gentleman con? trasts the statesmanship of Polk and Tyler with that cf Daniel Webster and Henry Clay aiyl Charles Sumner. Somehow or other the names of Webster and Clay and Sumner live in the hearts and on the lips of their countrymen, while the men who brought on the Mexican war in the in? terest of slavery are forgotten. I do not think wc hear of men building statues to those coun? selors or celebrating their birthdays or writing their lives. In all generations the statesmen who have appealed to righteousness and justice and freedom have left an enduring place in the" loving memory of their countrymen, while the men \v!io have counseled them to walk in the path of in? justice and wrong, even if it led to empire and even if they were in the majority in their own day, are forgotten and despised. Ah. Mr. Presi? dent, that gentlemen says we are the anointed of the Lord, as the Jews were the anointed of the Lord. Put the Jewish empire is forgotten. The sands of the desert cover the foundations of her cities. Thc spider spins its thread; the owl makes its midnight perch in their palaces. But still those little words: "Thou shalt not steal: thou shalt not covet that that is thy neighbor's; whatever ye would that men shall do to you. do ye even so again unto them." shine through the ages, blazing and undimmed. Mr. President, you may speculate, you may reflnc. you may doubt, you may deny, but thc one foremost action in our history, the foremost action in all his? tory, is the writing upon its pages those simple and sublime opening sentences of the Declaration of Independence. Arid the men who stand by it shall live in the eternal memory cf mankind; and the men who depart from it, however triumphant and successful in their little policies, shall perish and be-forgotten or shall be remembered only to be despised. Coming Statesmen. One purpose of these letters is to in? troduce to the notice of my readers the rising members of the house, especially new and young Democratic representa? tives who give unusual promise of fu? ture eminence. In the great debate on the armor plate feature of the naval appropriation bill a trio of young Dem? ocrats showed forth resplendent-Wil? liam Walton Kitchin of North Caroli? na, Charles Kennedy Wheeler of Ken? tucky and Williard Duncan Vandiver of Missouri. They put up a magnifi? cent fight for the people and led the Democrats to a notable viet y. The Hoosier Republicans had hardly adjourned their more or less perfunc? tory state convention before the spring municipal elections were held, in which the grand old party was the recipient of a most righteous but most astound? ing walloping. The Porto Rican bill did it; the Philippine imperial propa? ganda did it; the Cuban scandals did it; the. Macram exposures did it; the Hay-Pauncefote treaty did it; the Gage Hepburn dark and damnable perform? ance did it; the administration's pro English tendencies did it; it's evident lack of sympathy with the heroic Boers did it; the pro-English gold standard bill did it; Mark Hanna's ship subsidy bill did it; Colonel John W. Gates' bold and brazen trust caper did it; Bever? idges speeches did it; Fairbanks' pres? idential aspirations did it; Governor Steele's thrilling oration on shirtless Caribbeans did it; but, whatever did it, the Democrats cf Indiana didn't do a thing to the Republicans! Oh. no! They trampled them in the mud; that's all. Quay and Hanna*. In some respects General Charles Henry Grosvenor of Ohio is the un? luckiest of mortals. The newspapers are always pestering him. They rep? resented him as publicly congratulat? ing Senator Mark Hanna on the un? doing of Matthew Stanley Quay, where? upon the general publishes a card avowing that when he fell, figurative? ly at least, on Mark's neck in a public place it was to thank that great and good man for some kind and compli? mentary remarks personal to himself. Whether Quay will believe the expla? nation I am not authorized to say, as 1 am not in the confidence of the ex Keystone boss. Lord Byron says, "Sweet is revenge," and far stranger things have happened in this world than that ex-Senator and ex-Chairman of the National Committee Quay should find some way of evening up the score with Senator and Chairman of the Na? tional Committee Hanna. It may be that he will avenge himself on Mark's protege. William McKinley, or he may be satisfied with defeating Mark's ship subsidy bill. If the newspapers are to be believed, that palpitating patriot, j Senator Tom Carter of Montana, med- ! itates the latter method of revenge I for Mark's part in taking off his friend, j the late senator from Quaysylvania. It would be awful on the Republicans to lose that $180,000,000 steal, but not so bad as to lose President McKinley. Rats instinctively leave- a sinking ship. Senator Wellington of Maryland deserts the Republican party, or, more correctly speaking, he claims that the Republican party lins deserted him. Anyway, he announces that he will I not train with the McIIannaites this j year. It alfords great and genuine j pleasure to a lover of his country and j his kind to observe the multiplying j signs of disintegration now manifest? ing themselves in the grand old party, whose battlecry has so long been, "The old Hag and an appropriation!'' That Throbbing Headacne. Would quickly leave you. i: you used br ? ". " _ . .. I Kind's New Lite Pills. Thousands of Mitierer> ! have prove?! their matchless worth for Sick an : Nervous Headaches, They ninkc pur?? blood und str >:ig Nerv?..- and huild up your health. Easy to take. Tr; them. Only 25 aents. Money back if not cured. Sod lbj J JF. W. DoLorme, Druggist. 1-5 ? GROOM WILL SUE FOR BRIDE. Runaway Marriage Causes Serious Complications-Several In Trouble. RALEIGH, May 21.-A sensation re? sults from the marriage at Hillsboro of Miss Caroline Sims, a student at the Baptist Female university here, and daughter of a minister of Macon county, and John Birdsong, a post graduate stu? dent at the State Agricultural and Me? chanical college. The university stu? dents went to Hillsboro on a picnic. Birdsong and Miss Sims, who had made plans, went to a hotel, where a magis? trate married them. One of Birdsong'^ fellow students obtained the license from the register of deeds. The bride was upon discovery immediately taken in charge by the university faculty, brought here aud confined to her room. Some trustees will advise her father to take her home for two years and tell Bird? song if he is then in a position to marry and she is willing he can have her, but warning him against any other course. Attorneys have looked into the mat? ter and say the marriage is valid as the code says males over 16 and females over 14 can marry. The register of deeds who issued the license is in trouble and will bs sued. The law says in case the girl is at school no marriage license shall he issued save upon written consent of the person who placed her there. The groom will sue for possession of his wife and will secure her. OBSERVATORY IS COMPLETE. United States Station Put In Readi? ness For Eclipse. BARNESVILLE, Ga-, May 21.-The gov? ernment observatory located here for viewing the eclipse of May 28 is about complete, and the only thing now that can mar the success of the occasion is unpropitious weather. There will also be a number of as? tronomers here who will make observa? tions as individuals. Among these is Professor Otis Ashmore of Savannah. At the station the photo-heliograph, with 6-inch lens and 40-foot focal length, has been installed. There is also a dark room for photographic work, plate-hold? ers and all other apparatus necessary. In the building at the station is the polar axis, upon which will be mounted various cameras and photographic tele? scopes. This instrument is revolved slowly by means of a clepsydra or water dock. There are also two equatorial telescopes to be mounted in this build? ing. These will be used for the visual observation of the corona. Mill Destroyed by Fire. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., ISEay 21.-The Elizabethton woolen mill was bs&ned to the ground early this morning. The loss is estimated at ?25,000, with about $4,000 insurance. The only things saved were manufactured goods valued at $200. The fire originated in the cardrooni of the mill, but from what source is not known. Will Not Be a Candidate. FRANKFORT, Ky., May 21.-Ex-Gov eruor Bradley gave out a statement to? day that he will not be a candidate for governor in the event the supreme coure decides in favor of the Democrats in the contest cases necessitating an election this fall. _ Hoar Amendment Defeated. WASHINGTON, May 21.-By a vote of 32 to 16 the Hoar amendment and the committee amendment to the postofiice bill relating to the pneumatic tube ser? vice was laid on the table. This defeats the pneumatic tube proposition. Smith Appoints a Senator. HELENA, Mon., Maj- 21.-Governor Smith has reached Heleua and affixed his signature to the commission of Ma-' jor Martin McGinnis, who has left for Washington to present it to the renate. Tetter, Salt-Rheum and Eczema. Tho intense itching and smarting incident tfr tbese diseases, is instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain's Eye an 1 Skin Ointment Many very bad cases have been permanetly cured by it. Ic is equally efficient for itching piles and a favorite remedy for yore nipples, chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites and chronic sore eves. 25cts per box. For sale by Dr A. J. China. Dec SO-o Dr. Cady's Condition Powders are just what a horse need." when in bad con ditton. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge They are not food but medicine, and tne best to use to put a horse in prime condition. Price 25 cents per package. For sale by Dr A, J China Dec 30-o ALL WOMEN M?REEm A druggist in Macon, Ga., says: "I have sold a large quantity of Mother's Friend, and have never known an in? stance where it has failed to produce the good results claimed for it. All women agree that it makes labor shorter and less painful. " r's Friend is not a chance remedy. Its good effects are readilv experienced by all expectant mothers who use it. Years ago it passed thc experimental stage. While it always shortens labor and lessens the pains of delivery, it is also o" the greatest benefit during the earlier months of pregnancy. Morning sickness and nervousness are readily overcome, and the liniment relaxes the strained muscles, permitting them to expand without causing distress. Mother's Friend gives great recuperative power to the mother, and her recovery is sure and rapid. Danger from rising and swelled breasts is doric away with completely. Sold by druggists for Si a bottle. THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA, GA. Send for oar free illustrated book for expectant mothers.