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TBE GOtiMELLSYILLE HORROR. Further Details of the Terrible Railroad Wreck. Coonellsville, Pa., Dee. 34.-The summing up of the results of last sight's wreck of the Duquesne limit? ed, on the Baltimore and Ohio, eight -miles west of here, shows a total dead list of sixty-four and nine injured. Today Connel?svilie has been packed with curious people attracted by the wreck. The three morgues have found it necessary to put guards on all doors to keep morbid spectators from jump? ing into the small rooms and walking over the forms of the dead. The streets are packed, and in front of each cf the undertaking establishments hundreds -of people are grouped, eagerly await? ing fer a giimpse of the dead bodies. Friends and relatives of the victims1 are coming in cn every train and scenes at the morgue are most dis? tressing. All but a few of the sixty eight bodies have been identified, and these which cannot be- identified, will^ be laid away in Hillgrove Cemetery at* Hfche dawn of Christmas morning. Those who are still to be identified are mostly foreigners, and it is doubt? ful if their identity will ever be known. Considerable money was found on the persons of the unidentified, and lightly sewed in a belt of one foreign? er was found more than $400, which was placed in the First National Bank. Sams, ranging from $100 to 53000, were found, and this, like the balance, has been ?ut in the bank un? til some relative may be found. WORK OF A GANG OF THIEVES Many of the victims of the wreck have been robbed. There are seveial who are known to have had a large : amount of money and jewelry on their . persons. Kot a single cent was found . in the pockets of several of those, and - it was plainly visible that rings had 1 been taken from the fingers. Bobbers 3 were on the scene early, and before J Imany of the rescuers arrived, they had I taken considerable booty, much of - which consisted-of baggage and hand j bags that had been tossed about the ' ears in the wreck. A number of these j jaave not been recovered, and it is the 1 opinion of local officers that the bags j j ?were quickly picked by the gang of f thieves that operated there before as- , - sistance arrived. 4 Today the wreck is pretty weil clear- e ad away. j mm\m TIFSEB. j Hie Principals, Two Prominent 2 Barnwell Men, Dead. ; - 1 ? Barnwell. Dec 24.-At Kleins, a ? attation on the Southern nine .miles j -from our court.house, an awful tragedy was enacted last evening when* the . lives of two of our best known men, I Mr. J. T. Hogg and Mr. Ben Jenkins, were snuffed out. It seems that there had been bad v blood between the two men because * of a suit invoMng certain lands owned ? by the latter and last evening at a t school entertainment at Kleins the two c met, hot words passed, when theist- 1 ter drew his pistol and shot the former ? four times, when in turn the latter was g shot with ,a. shotgun and instantly , lolled, whether by the former or by j ^others cannot be learned. The former i Irv?? through the night but died early $ this morning. The details surround- c lag this tragedy cannot be obtained at this time. ? The Qreene-Gaynor Fraud. ' Lynchburg, Va, Dec. 24.-A suit in equity has been instituted in the tJnitted States Circuit Court here to attach the stock of tho Norfolk and "Western railway Companv, standing -in the name of I?. .Laflin Kellogg, of New York, who is alleged to be in reality the attorney for and trustee of Benjamin D. Greene, "a citizen of Connecticut, temporarily residing in the city of Quebec." The allegation is that Oberlin M. Crter, Benjamin D. ' , Greene and John F. Gaynor conspired to defraud and did defraud the United States, and that a portion of Greene's T share of the spoils was invested in the same of Kellogg, in some 400 shares of common stock of the Norfolk and . Western Railway Compny. The object of the suit is to enjoin the tansfer of the stock and to sequestrate it for the benefit of the government. A tem .porary injunction has been granted. Killed by a Skyrocket. Newberry, Dec. 24.-In the midst of the Christmas merry-making here to? night, Sam Agner, a negro, about 16 years of age, was struck by a missile from a stray rocket and killed almost instantly. The accident occurred on - Main street. The negro was standing tm the sidewalk. The occurrence practically put a stop to the shooting of fireworks here tonight. mam ..*-.!? . - Beaufort, Dec. 24.-John Major's -throat was cut from ear to ear at an early hour this morning in a field of .?he Pope plantation on Ladies Island by another negro named Armstrong. The two negroes were walking in the cUrectioa of Armstrong's house near by. The deceased was also stabbed in . 4be calf of fbe leg. The bead was almost severed, only being held on by She spinal column. On the discovery -of the murder, Deputy Sheriff Mann was sent for and after rapid ?earch captured Armstrong and placed him "in jail. Deputy Mann was assisted Jo the search by a constable of Magis? trate White. Orahgeburg, Dec. 22.-It is said to be a very unusual thing for a negro to -commit suicide. However, cn last Fri? day night a well-to-do colored man, J. XL. Crosky, living a few miles above ^this city, took his own life by jump? ing in a well at his place. Crosky was about 56 yeais old, owned his own .place and was apparently getting along well. The day before, he jumped into the well he sold cotton iii Orangeburg. In a short time after he left his house I be committed suicide, and his wife j heard a noise of something falling into \ the well, but she paid no attention to l it. After calling him for some time i she gave the alarm, and when found ! he was dead. The newspapers say li ow that General j "Wood made Roosevelt a colonel, j Gentlemen, it is positively cruel to ; .keep on exposing the General and , -Staking detrimenal disclosures like -that.--Wilmington Star. RAILROAD HORROR IN MICHIGAN. Dead Number 22 and the injured 29-Two of the Finest Trains Reduced to Rubbish. Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 27.-To? night the dead list resulting from the head-on collision between two Pere Marquette Railroad passenger trains, near East Paris, early yesterday even? ing, stands at 22, with 29 persons in? jured, several of them probably fatal? ly. It was the most disastrous wreck in the history of the Pere Marquette sys? tem, and insead of being caused by man's carelessness or mistake, is charg? ed to the high wind, which extinguish? ed the red signal light on the order board at McCord's Station, were the w?st-bound train was expected to stop and receive new orders. Two minutes before the train rushed by McCord's the light wasbnrning,saysthe operator there, but in that brief interval the bliz? zard that was raging extinguished it, and train No. 5 flashed by the station to crash into east-bound train No. 6, near East Paris. The trains which were two of the finest on the system were reduced to a promiscuous pile of broken and twisted timber and metal, with dead and injured pinned down and crushed by the fragments of the heavy cars. Five cars and two large locomotives were jammed into a space ordinarily occupied by three coaches, and the wreckage was strewn across the rail? road right of way from fence to fence. ELIJAH 60IN6 TolisTRALIA. Chicago, Dec. 27.-Preparatory to leaving for Australia, John Alexander Dowie bade farewell to his Chicago adherents at a meeting in the Audito? rium today. Standing room was at a premium. After an all-night - ! ' watch meeting" in Zion City on New Year's Ehre, Dowie will leave for New Orleans ind will travel to San Francisco via ;he Southwestern route, stopping at carious large cities en route. He in? tends to sail from the latter port Janu iry 21 and counts on being back in Chicago next June. "lam going to leave everything in Sion City, and not steal away with iither the lace works or the temple," ?id D?wie. "That was a malicious ie about my wife taking away 87, OOO, XX), but I'm foolish to deny it again [' will only take with me enough cash :or spending money." Several times in the course of his remarks Dowie spoke in a friendly nanner of President Roosevelt, and in lis prayer asked that Mr. Roosevelt's inemies be circumvented and forestall >d in "carrying out their mischievous plans." 'KOSPHATE ROYALTY DECREASES. The State phosphate commission nil meet in this city on Jan. 6 for the )urpos8 of making up their report for he general assembly. The industry has >een declining for some years and the ;ommission will suggest means for its ^vivification. The report this year is iolefui, the total revenue being only ;15,030. Last year ?12,157.68 more vas realized than has been received in 903. It is strange when it is remem >ered that not a decade ago the indus ry yielded nearly S300,0C0 to- the loffers bf the State. The five companies operating in south Carolina in the year now end ng mined about half the amount aken out in 1902. The depreciation is ittributed to the fact that the phos )hate found in Florida is of superior :rade, yet may be mined at about the ame or in some cases a lower cost, ^gain it is said that the supply of eek in South Caroilna is rapidly dis tppearing.-The State. Two Fires in Camden. Camden, Dec. 27.-Mr. P. T. Ville ?gue's beautiful home on Lyttleton itreet was destroyed by fire this morn ng about.4 o'clock. The fire is sup? posed to have originated in the kitch? in. The family was aroused barely in ;ime to escape in their night clothe?. Prof. R M. Kennedy, who lives just icross the street from Mr. Villle pieue's, rnshed over to the burning puildiug, gathered up the sleeping paby in some bed clothes and took it o his home, and by the time he could lurry back the house was so complete y wrapped in flames that ifc was im? possible to save anything, except a :runk and telescope near the front ioor. The house was valued at 85Y XX) and its contents at about 82,500. There was about SI-,OOO insurance on ;he property. At 4 o'clock this evening Mr. R. C. Johnson's stable in Kirkwood was purned down, Dut the horses were res? cued. A fine bird dog and seven pigs were bumed. The loss is estimated it S500, with 8100 insurance. The erigin of the fire is unknown. Murder in Lancaster. Lancastre, Dec. 26.-Mr. James B. Maskey, a young man, was fatally shot yesterday morning by Mr. C. B. Skip? per, saperinendent of the Lancaster Cotton Mills, in front of Plyl?n & Deas's store, in the mill village. The weapon used was a shotgun, the load striking Mr. Caskey in the neck and he died ^last night about ll o'clock. The coroner will hold an inquest over the Dody today. Mr. Skipper is in jail, as are also his bookkeeper. Mr. G. B. Brown, and a mill machinist named Clayton, the two latter being charged as accessories to the killing. The homicide, it seems, was the re? sult of some trouble the night before between Mr. Skipper and Mr. ?[Caskey at a dance. Sal?nica, European Turkey, Dec 28.-The Auhorities are informed that i,000 Macedonian revolutionists, un? der the leadership of eighty Bulgarian officers, are ready to invade Turkish territory. An order was issued here today requesting the Turkish officers to exercise extreme, vigilance. It is rumored that the second army reserve will again be called out. San Juan, Dec. 28.-The United States cruiser Buffalo, convoying the torpedo boat flotilla under Lieut. Lloyd H. Chandler, arrived off this port last night and came in at daylight this morning. Rough weather was experienced for part of the trip. It was fully demonstrated that the coal capacity was quite ample to cross the ocean. ?PLAINING PANAMA CONSPIRACY. den. f?eyes is Waiting for an An? swer to His Protest And the Officials of the Department of State Are Anxious to Have the Matter Disposed OT. Washington, Dec. 27.---State depart? ment officials have under consideration the nature of the reply which is to he made to the note of Gen. Keyes, the Colombian minister, regarding tbe action of the United States in connec? tion with affairs growing out of the secession of the department of Panama. Just when the answer is to be ready is not definitely known. Gen. Reyes is anxious for an early reply, and the State department officials are equally as anxious that the matter shall be dis? posed of as quickly as is consistent with a careful preparation of the ad? ministration's answer. The Colombian note contains a statement of the grievances which that country claims to have suffered under the interpreta? tion put on the treaty of 1846. It discusses the grievances in a calm and dignified tone and sets out the reasons which Gen. Reyes gives in support of the contention he bas made. The prob? ability is there will be several diplo? matic exc'-aneps between Colombia and the United States before anything like a conclusion of the discussion of the matters at issue is reached. PANAMA WILL PAY A MILLION. So Says Mr. Bunau-Varilla, the Minister of the New Republic to the United States. New York, Dec 27.-Mr. Bunau Varilla, minister of Panama to the United States, stated tonight that be had notified Sir Mortimer Durand, British ambassador to the United States, of Panama's willingness to as? sume a part of the exterior debt of Colombia, in proportion to the popu? lation of Panama compared with that of Colombia. Tbe minister says this will be done as soon as the independ? ence of Panama is recognized by Co? lombia. Panamanians here, who were in formed of the course adopted by Mr. Bunau-Varilla, said that this step had been taken to show the good faith of the new republic Tbey believe that no Court of Arbitration would have reached the conclusion that any part of Colombia's exterior debts should be assumed by Panama, as never in the history of the country was any part of the exterior loans utilized for the benefit of Panama. The total amount of the exterior debt, with interest added is about $15, 000,000, and Panama has a population about one-fifteenth of that of Colom? bia, so that Panama will take upon itself the payment of a million dollars, if the conditions are carried out. RANNA MCKINLEY'S CHOICE. Heath rSays Dead President Ex? pected Ohio Senator to Succeed Him. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 25.-President McKinley expected Marcus A. Hanna to succeed bim as President cf the United States. This information was given out tonight by Perry Heath, who is in Louisville spending Christmas with his wife. Mr. Heath said: "I was in Washington at the White House just a few days before Presi? dent McKinley went to Buffalo. I had a long talk with him with refer? ence to the next Presidential election and the conduct of the Republican party in general. During the conver? sation, Mr. McKinley, in speaking of the man who was to succeed him, said : 11 expect to see my friend and asso? ciate, Marcus Hanna, the next Presi? dent of the United States. I believe he will be nominated and elected.' "Mr. McKinley went to Canton the following day and tbe next'day there? after he was shot in Buffalo. It was his firm conviction that he would live to see Hanna President. I know he died with that conviction firmly planted in his mind." Continuing, Mr. Heath said : "Hanna does not want the office. That does not mean that he does not want the nominatoin. I say lie does not want the office. I came in for a good deal of criticism when I started bis boom for President in London. Mr. Hanna has his interests so arrang? ed that he can serve in any capacity in the Government. When Mr. McKin? ley Wc s Piesident he wanted Mr. Hanna to be his Secretary cf the Treasury, but ai: that time the ship? ping interests oi: Mr. Hanna ?nd his orotber were such that he couldn't accept the place under the law. These interests are such now that he can accept any position." STARVING CHICAGOANS. Great Christmas Dinner-Tons of Food Consumed. Chicago, Dec 27.-During a stampede of 10,000 men, women and children waiting for admission, which followed the opening of the doors cf the coli? seum where the Volunteers of America today gave their annual Christmas dinner, several glass doors were demolished and the dozen policemen on duty at the place managed to restore order with the greatest difficulty, in the rush several women ard children were knocked down and trampled on, but none was seriously injured. The crowd was the largest that ever as? sembled at such an affair in Chicago, and when every one had been satisfied not a morsel of the tons of food re? mained. - amu . ? ? . 1X1 Laurens, Dec. 28.- A fearful accident occurred near Cross Hill, this county, on Saturday evening. A little son of Mr. Gus Chapman, a farmer living i two miles west of Cross Hill, shot and instantly killed his little sister, an infant of three months. The boy was loading a parlor rifle, when his mother left the room for a moment, leaving the baby lying on the bed. The rifle unexpectedly went off and the load entered tbe infant's head, causing instant death. LOOKS MORE LIKE WAR. Japanese Army Authorities Ask the Press to Be Silent. Reports of the Opening of Nego? tiations for an Ofensive and Defensive Alliance Between China and Japan. London, Dec. 28.-The Daily Mail's Koke correspondent asserts that the Japanese army authorities have re? quested the newspapers to refrain from publishing news concerning the movements of troops or other warlike preparations. In an editorial, the Daily Mail says it regards this as a practical censorship and an omnious sign. Editorial articles in other morning newspapers express concern over the movement of foreign war ships towards the far East and particularly over the statement that United States marines have been ordered to Corea, fearing some unforeseen incident may precipi? tate events. On the other hand, the speech de? livered by Mr. Delcasse, the French foreign minister, in the Senate on Saturday (Saying that nothing had occurred to cause him to place faith in the alarming reports that were be? ing pubilshed daily) is looked upon as reassuring, and it is believed that the efforts of the Powers may still be snccessful in preserving peace. Special-cablegrams published in this morning's newspapers, record no im? portant developments of far Eastern affairs. The Daily Mail's Tokio correspond? ent reports the opening of negotiations with Prince Ching's party, with the object of forming an offensive and defensive alliance between China and Japan. The Morning Pest's Pekin corres? pondent says that all caisses of China? men unite in believing that in the event of war China must help the Japanese, and that if this help should not be given there will be a patriotic insurrection against the Manchu dynasty. MINISTER?PRE LEAVES COLOMBIA. Cruiser Olympia Sent ta Cartage? na to Bring Him to Colon. Colon,-Dec. 28.-Admiral Coghlan's flag ship, the cruiser Olympia, arrived here this afternoon from Cartagena, bringing A. M. Beaupre, . United States minister to Colombia, and Mrs. Beaupre. Minister and Mrs. Beaupre arrived at Cartagena from Bogota last Satur? day and boarded the Olympia on her arrival yesterday afternoon. The Olympia immediately sailed for Colon. Minister Beaupre will sail for New York cn the steamer Yucatan tomor? row. The reception of the Olympia at Cartagena was friendly. The naval authorities here received instructions from Washington on Christmas Day not to send the cruiser Atlanta, the converted cruiser Mayflower and the gunboat Castine to Cartagena with the Olympia, as previously projected. The Olympia, therefore, sailed for Cartagena alone at daybreak last Sat? urday and arrived off the Boca Chicha entrance to the big lagoon on which Cartagena is situated, early yesterday morning. TIREHFW?T??G OH HAY. Colombian Legation in Washing? ton About to be Closed. Washington, Dec. 28.-Although Secretary Hay has not yet replied to the note of Gen. Reyes, preparations are rapidly going on for the ^losing of the Colombian legation here and the departure of Colombia's representa? tives for home. It is clear that they do not entertain much hope of a satis? factory response by this Government. Already most of the legation files have been packed and arrangements com? pleted for placing them in storage here. Gen. Reyes for several days has denied himself to callers. It is believed here that while the reply of Mr. Hay has not been made, sufficient information has been obtained by the Colombian repr?sentai ves in the intreviaws they have had with the Secretary to enable them to forecast its conclusions. The preparations going on for closing up the affairs of the legation would seem to indicate that Gen. Reyes and Dr. Herran are awaiting only as a matter of form and diplomatic courtesy the official communication of Mr. Hay, setting forth the reasons why this Government cannot accept their view of the Panama situation, before sever i ig diplomatic relations with the United States. A Bold Bank Robbery. Fort Worth, Tex., Dee. 27.-A spec? ial from South McAlister, I. T., to The Record says : A boki bank rob? bery, attended by a^desperate battle between a posse of citizens and rob? bers occurred at Kiowa, a small town 1() miles south of this city today, the robbers securing and destroying about ?28,000, which was in the bank. The men went in a southerly direction and were followed quite a distance. It is said that one of the robbers was in? jured. The bank officials place their mone? tary loss at 82S,0'.K>. lt is believed that the bandtis made away with only a small part of this sum, the paper money being almost altogether de? stroyed by the explosion. A posse of Untied States marshals is in pursr.it of the robbers. Mullins, Dec. 27.-This morning about 7 o'clock fire was discovered in ! the store of M. L. McMillan & Son. A crowd soon collected hut the fire ' had gained such headway that nothing ! at all was saved. The store and i's ' contents was completely destroyed, j The loss was about covered by insur- j ance. One other building occupied by W. D. Edwards and two negro families was also burned. ? Washington, Dec. 24.- Ruth Miller! Hoar, wife of Senator Hoar, of Massa- j cb users, died suddenly tonight at her home in this city, of angina pectoris. REYES WARNS COLOMBIA, i War on Panama is War on the United States, Says the Colom? bian Minister, ? _ Washington, Dec. 23.-"War on Panama means war with the United States," is the substance of cable? grams which Gen. Rafael Reyes, the Colombian minister, is sending to the Bogota Government and to bis more influential followers throughout Co? lombia. Realizing the gravity of the situation, Gen. Reyes is endeavoring to bring the Colombian people face to face with the conditions here. He is convinced that the United States will not permit a Colombian army to land within the territory of Panama. Gen. Reyes has not been in any hurry to complete his mission in Washington, thinking that in the meantime the war feeling in Colombia would subside. Dispatches, however, which he has received from President Marroquin and from the influential Colombians have caused him to hasten his work, and it is his present inten? tion to return to Colombia and assume personal command of the army as soon as be has filed his statement at the State department. In Colombian quar? ters it is pointed out that unless Gen. Reyes soon returns the war party in Bogota will gain the upper hand, and his hitherto predominant influence there will be seriously injured. WAR MAY BE AVERTED. Some Indications That Russia May Yield to Japan's Demands. Berlin, Dec. 2.-An intimation has reached the Japanese legation here that Russia will concede Japan's re? quests. Inquiries made by the Associated Press as to particulars of his intima? tion, whether it came from ,Tokio or St. Petersburg, brought out nothing more than that a peaceful solution is now highly probable. The British Government, it is under? stood from another source, has repre? sented to the Czar that Great Britian deems Japan's demands just, and earnestly expects th?t Russia will grant them. This representation is supported by the utterances of the British ambassadors here and in Paris and Vienna, who have informed the respective Governments to which they are accredited that Japan, in the opin? ion of the British Government, will fight if Russia holds to the position taken in her recent note. The Russian ambassador here for several days been inquiring freely what the opinions of the diplomaic corps are. NO REPLY YET FROM RUSSIA. Not Disposed to Terminate Ne? gotiations Abruptly. St. Petersburg, Dec. 25.-The Rus? sian Government is still considering the reply of the Japanese Government to its note, which was sent in answer to Japan's demands, relating to the situation in the far East. A recon? sideration of the proposals made in the Russian note is considered to be a mat? ter of course here. Russia has never been disposed to take any steps which would lead to an abrupt termination of the negotiations with Japan. , ? In answer to many inquiries made by the Associated Press, the Russian foreign -office has always insisted that tba Russian proposals were so liberal that it would be scarcehr probable to conceive any further concessions. While the foreign office is unwilling to admit that Russia is prepared to offer more than the concessions out? lined in the last note, it is considered possible that the Government may suegest changes by which the Russian requirements may be met and satis? faction given to Japan. Mrs. William Robbin, of Louisville, Ky., was recently married to David Buzzard. It is her fourth 'matrimonial venture. She was a Miss Marin, daughter of one of the best-known Bourbon County families. She first married Robert Crow. He died and she married Jno. Sparrow six months afterward. She and Mr. Sparrow did not agree, and a divorce followed. Mrs. Sparrow became Mrs. William Robbin, but again a divorce was found advisable. After a year of lone? ly life Mrs. Robbin has become Mrs. David Buzzard. She has two Crows, one Sparrow, one Robbin, and a Buzzard at her home. Cape Town, Dec. 27.-A general in? surrection bas broken ont among the Bondelzwart tribes in Great Namala qaland, German Southwest Africa. The insurrectionists have collected in tho. Kara mounains. Beaumont, Texas, Dec. 2.-Pprafine well No. 3 at Batson Prairie the new oil field which was being baled broke loose today and with a roar that shook the earth, began spouting oil two hundred feet in the air and burling rocks six hundred feet through twenty feet of pipe. This is claimed to he the greatest gusher in Texas today. Land values are booming in this vicinity since the latest wells have been brought in. Letter to Dr J. A. Mood. Dear Sir: You understand chemis? try ; how*d yon like to earn 81,000?; Devoe lead-and-zinc-that's the name of our paint that takes fewer gal? lons than mixed paint and wears twice as lon}: as lead-and-oil-is made of wibte lead, white zinc, its color, turpentine dryer, and linseed oil. If any ehemist finds any adulteration in th is "paint we'll pay his bili and 81.000 besides, it's nobody's business what we put in our paint, ol' course: but we want it known. For lead-and zinc and linseed oil. ground together [ by machinery, are the stuff to paint j with: and lead-and-oil mixed by hand ! is not. ? We want if known that one word de?eribes the best paint in the world: and that word is Devoe. Are you going to paint? Yours truly F. W. Devoe & Co.. New York. 37 FOR EXAMPLE. The world is plentifully supplied with pessimists who prefer to see in the industrial evolution of the time a steady and progressive contraction in the field of opportunity open to young men. The young man himself is prone to lamentations because he is unable to see before him such opportunities as were open years ago to his father and his grandfather for making careers and building fortunes. The circum? stance that the father and grand? father in question pretty generally fail? ed to take advantage of the opportuni? ties which were open to them, and that the value of such opportunities then-as they have been ever since-were left to the discerning fevv for demonstra? tion, ought to have a certain educa? tional value to the young man who is just starting in life. He should give himself a little self-examination. There is no dearth of opportunities in this country for young men. They' are more plentiful and more easily availed of than at any time in the history of this country! The place for their development has simply shifted to new fields. While it is no longer possible to trade a pair of boots for the site of the city of Chicago, nor buy up square miles of mineral and timber lands in the North for a song, a few generations hence stories of fabulous wealth, based upon modest investments in the great undeveloped South, will sound as apocryphal as many of those relating to the amazing development of other sections in years past, which are nevertheless true. . A technical journal a few years ago published a statement relating to a valuable mineral section in a Southern State, portraying very glowingly, and at the same time very truthfully, a wonderful resource with all the essen? tial accessories convenient and avail? able for manufacturing a great staple product cheaper than it could be made in any oher part of the world. The art? icle, was reproduced in other journals ana excited a passive interest in the minds of perhaps a million leaders. A leading financier, much given to epi? gram, once remarked : Some men may be coaxed into a good thing ; the oth? ers have to be driven." It was several years later, and not until after the> great find had been trumpeted around the world several times, that a man susceptible of being coaxed into be? coming the pioneer of a tremendously ' good thing, came forward and deve? loped it. Of course thousands follow? ed, and a great industrial center was ushered into existence. Several years ago a geologist stepped off a train at a way station down in Alabama and chipped off a piece of the outcropping rock in a railroad cut. After he had examined it and an? nounced to the world the discovery of a geological formation constituently identical with that, at Dover, which had for hundreds of years been yield? ing the world's supply of Portland cement, did investors fall over each othev in the race to develop it? No; it literally went begging for years ; for, while ic had been made the sub? ject of one or more learned essays, which had been duly embalmed in offi? cial publications by the State, who wanted to invest in a wild land that wouldn't yield decent support for a Harlem goat? Moreover, what assur? ance was there that the real com? mercial value of the discovery had not been obscured by the enthusiasm of the discoverer? In the course of time the Southern Railway came into exis? tence and with it was inaugurated the policy of rational promotion. The ce? ment rock of Alabama took its turn with other dormant interests requiring attention ; English capitalists were interested in the long neglected dis? covery; and, finally, there was erect? ed, near the spot where the geologist chipped off the rock years before, a Portland cement plant costing a mil? lion dollars. What are the potentiali? ties of this great resource of the State of Alabama? The other day in the Senate Chamber ar Washington, its geographical situation anil commercial outlook were discussed wit1, reference to the construction of the Isthmian canal, and Senator Allison, of Iowa, declared that in this respect it is of che utmost importance to all the peo? ple of the United States. A sportsman was going through a strip of woodland down in North Caro? lina, when he encountered a party of men engaged in sawing pine logs; \Yhile conversing with them he casaal?y fell to counting the growth rings in the logs: this led to inquiries which established the fact, indubi? tably, that the forest was just 30 years of age: and the men pointed out to him the marks of the furrows where cotton had grown before the field was "turned ont" to grow up in pine. It was an easy matter to leam what the land was "worth," or what it could have been bought for when it was "turned out," and of course the value of the growth commercially, the cost of conversion into lumber and the marketing were all factors of a simple problem in arithmetic which was not baid to solve. After computing every possible element of expense in carry? ing an investment in old abandoned farm land from the bare ground up to the forest trees of commercial size, this investigating huntsman was amazed to find that the investment figured out. several hundred per cent, and on its face appeared to be the safest and most profitable form cf investment that had ever come undt-r his notice. There was just one thins against it-a thing which counts with the undiscerning multiude, but which cuts no figure with the mau who is competent to take advantage of genuine opportunities-nobody had gone into that sort of thing; great districts in that section were covered with young growth ot' varying age, but nobody had set the pace for engag? ing in forest conservation as a money? making investment. Opportunities for young men? The great Sonth literally bristles with opportunities. The young man with energy and some means who will exer? cise the faculty of foresight has no ground for complaint that opportuni? ties are lacking in the South. Thr fact that so many of them are "lying around loose," unappreciated, shou-;: commend them all the more strongly to the sharp, self-reliant young mar? who wants to be something more than a camp follower. Don't wait for tb' other fellow-hustle to get ahead ci him. Troy, N. Y., Dec. 27.-Troy's fifth big fire within a few weeks time broke out today in the business portion of the citv and did damage to the extent of $200, GOO.