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i?RIL CARRIERS 6?T KORE HI
Their Salaries Fixed tn Bili at
$720 the Year-Limits
of Their Privileges.
Wt?iing?o?; March 25.-The house
today passed the postoffice appropria?
tion bill? after a prolonged debate on
the paragraph affecting rural letter
carriers, which yesterday was stricken
ont. but which today was inserted
under a special order of the comnpttee
on rules.
Every amendment and substitute
offered to this paragraph was voted
down.
While a. number of members were
clamoring for recognition to offer
amendments, Mr. Ovexstreet suddenly
moved that all debate close and the
-bill be r?porte?Und put upon its pass?
age, which .was carried with a vim.
Mr. Moon made an unsuccessful
attempt to recommit the bill with
instructions to strike ont the appropria?
tions for special facilities over the
trunk lines south of Washington and
west of Kansas city. . His motion was
voted down, 121 to 114r
The provisions relating to rural
carriers as adopted makes the salary
9750 a year and prohibits the soliciting
. cf business by carriers but permits
the carriers under certain restrictions
to carry merchandise for hire.
A provision fora purchasing agent
for the postoffice department with a
salary of $4,000 was adopted unani?
mously. Mr. Williams said the office
of purchasing agent centralizes re?
sponsibility and makes one purchasing
?gent responsible for the purchase of
-supplies and for the honesty and pro?
priety with which it is done.
Mr. Baker of New York proposed an
amendment which the clerk began
reading as follows :
reimburse the great rilroads the
rest of supplying the president of the.
United States with special trains,
cigars, wines-"
?he reading was stopped by a point
ti order which was sustained.
Russia's Coal Supply.
The London Financial News declares
that it is too often' assumed that be?
cause Russia is largely a wood-burning
country and a considerable importer
of British coal her own coal supplies
are insignificant. . A greater mistake
could not be madef If her economic
development had depended on wood
fuel or oil it could never" have reached
its present;proportions; and, although
progress'lis slow in Russia when com
pared with England, America or Ger
; Jaany, It cannot be denied that she
1ms made great strides, from a com?
mercial point of, view, wihin the last
twenty-five years-strides that have
tinly become possible by the rapid ex?
ploitation of her unquestionable
laineral wealth. The native coal may
not always be of high quality, but it
"lias sufficed for industrial expansion
. remarkable alike in extent and charac?
ter. ?Jd ?877 the coal output of Euro
pean/Russra was no more than 1,774,
4193 tons ; twenty years later the pro?
duction had. risen to 12,032,258 tons,
.and there has been a noteworthy an?
nual Ircrea^ since then, the: total
figures for airiheTcentr?s iff 1901 hav?
ing equalled 16,270,000 tons. Added to
this, the Asiatic dominions of the
Czar' have bees brought into closer :
touch with Russia proper by means of
thc^tailwjay; and it is stated that fh
Siberia, ras .in the Ural region, vast
coal reserves have thus been rendered
nyailab?8. The Eskibastus district to
the south "cf Omsk, is estimated to
contain 200.000,000,000 poods, or over
3,000,000,000 tons, while the reserves
in the Ural mountains are inexhaus?
tible in quantity. It is true this coal
has a high percentage of ash and
sulphur, but. it is used very largely
for railway and navigation purposes in
European Russin, and, we may be cer?
tain, has also found its way further
east. Again, in the Oonetz basin the
coal resources are such as to preclude
the possibility of famine, the yield
fceing about ll,500,00J tons in 1900 and
1901. There are supplies in this dis?
trict alone sufficient to last for eight
hundred years at the present rate of
production, which progresses at some?
thing like 1,000,000 poods per annum.
Then there are the Dombrovski fields
in Poland, which cover an immense
area, and, although the quality of this
-coal is also rather inferior, it makes
up in output for its deficiencies, the
-oaanMty dispatched by land crariage
in 1901 being 2,818,760 tons.
-It will thus be seen that, while quite
a young industry, coalmining is carri?
ed on very extensively in Russia: that
the production, already large, is con?
stantly increasing, atoning in size for
defects of quality, and that, other
things being equal, thc empire can
well afford, in the matter of its coal
supplies, to depend upon its own in?
ternal resources.
Qh*ap Excursion Eat? s 7ia South?
ern S&il-aray.
The Southern Railway announces the fol?
lowing very low excursion rates to the fol
-4ewing points:
Sumter to Dallas. Texas, and return ac?
count General Assembly Cumberland
^Presbyterian Church May li), to ?7. 1904.
tiefcets on sale Mayl.">tols. with final limit
^returning May 31st, 1904. at the very low
rate of $33.95.
Sumter to Chicago. 111., and return, account
General Conference A. M. E. Church, May 2 ?
tc31. 1904. Tickets on sale April 29 and 30.
and Mavl, 1904. with final limit May 10. at
-^tbe very lew rate ofS23. 50. Limit may 1*
-??tended to June 10.1904.
Sumter to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
~>C?L; account General Conference M. E.>
Church and National Association of KetaJl
Grocers of U. S.. May 3 to 31, 1904, at the
wei y low rate of ?&x?w. Tickets on sale A pri 1
52 to 30. with final limit June 30.1904.
-*Tbe Southern Hallway offers most con
-venient schedules with Pullman Sleepers and
.Southern Railway Dining Cars on all through
strains. For full information apply to any
Agent Southern Railway, or R. w. Hunt,
division Passenger Agenu
G
OOD SCOTCH i
SNUFF I
By John Caxton
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Copyright 1902, by the ?
S. S. McClure Company 9
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The year was a decade after the close
of the Revolutionary war, and the
good ship Nancy Jones of Providence
was lying in the port of Liverpool.
While thc American colonies had been
successful in winning their independ?
ence. England still dominated the high
seas. Being continually in need of men
to man her ships, she passed an net
giving her naval officers authority to
board the vessels of any other nation
and search for and remove British sub?
jects. Searching for British subjects,
however, was generally an excuse to
force American sailors to fight for the
mother country. For yea: s no Ameri?
can craft sailed the seas without fear
of British men-of-war, and many of
them were overhauled two or three
times a year.
Captain Israel Jones vms owner and
commander of the craft named after
his wife. He was a good sailor, but
easy going, When he would return
home to tell Nancy that he had been
overhauled and lost a man or two. she
would listen with-flashing eyes and ex?
claim : , ; 4
"Waal, is^p.el Jones. I -don't consider
you much of a man to let such things
happen. If them British had me to
deal with, it would have been differ?
ent."
She had sailed with him on the pres?
ent voyage, and as the craft was com?
pleting her loading in iliverpool three
NANCY JONES TOSSED HEB SNUFF INTO
THE AHL V
Providence sailors who had been im?
pressed from the Nancy Jones a year
before and'wno'had just deserted from
the British navy came skulking aboard
and appealed to the captain for protec?
tion and a passage home. He was hesi
tatiiis:. as he knew that if they were
found aboard his vessel much trouble
would ensue, when Nancy came on
the scene.
'.Look here, Israel," she said as she
brought her hand down on "the cabin
table with a slap, "them men are to
sail with us or I'll stay behind myself;
You ain't a man if you don't hide 'em
away and take 'cm back home I"
"1 want to, but it'll be an awful
risk,"- replied Israel.
"But we don't care for the risks.
Them men are true born Americans
and our nayburs at home, and thei::
wives and children are mournin' for
'em as if dead. They was taken oft
your ship in the first place, and nov;
your ship shall take 'em back home
again."
That settled it. The deserters were
stowed . away, and in due time the
bark sailed on her return. She was al?
most clear of the English channe?,
when she discovered an English -reve?
nue cutter bearing down upon her.
These light government craft were
often used to board vessels and im?
press men, as they could dodge about
the channel much easier than the men
of-war. '
The cutter was sighted just after
noonday, and her errand was guessed
at iii a moment^ She would be sure to
have a description'of the three desert?
ers and would no doubt impress two
or three of the regular crew, even if
she did not take full possession. It was
no use to spread more sail or to think
of resistance. The enemy carried a
crew of thirty n en and mounteu four
guns.
"Well, Nancy," said Captain Israel,
"we shall lose the bark .and go to
prison, and it's all your doinV
"Israel Jones, don't you holler before
you're hit!" she replied as she laid
down the spyglass. "How will the ofli
cer come aboard?"
"In this light wind and smooth sea
that craft will probably nm right
alongside.'*
"On which side wil! she come?"
'?To leeward, of course. What sort of
a notion have you got into your head?"
*'A good deal of a notion. You've got
a hundred pounds of Scotch snuff ia
one of them empty staterooms. Tlie
first thing to do is to get it out on deck.
I also want all the pots and pans and
kettles from the cook's calley.'*
No one aboard the ourk knew just
what scheme the captain's wife had tn
mind, but the snuff was brought on
deck and the pungent stuff poured into
vessels placed a lons the lee side.
The men were still at work when the
cutter fired a gun as a signal to heave
to, and Captain Israel brought the
Nancy Jones up into the wind. Then
the cutter began maneuvering to drop
alongside to leeward. Under the direc?
tion of the woman, who promenaded up
and down as calmly as if in her own
flower garden at home, seven men, each
in charge of a vessel holding snuff,
ranged themselves along the bulwarks,
and at the hist moment Nancy took
charge of the biggest dish of all. As
the cutter came slowly luifing up, with
all her crew on deck, the woman quiet?
ly said to her men:
"Now you jest watch me and do as I
do, and we'll give 'em such a quiitin'
bee as they never heard of before. Now
altogether!"
The cutter was only ten feet away
and was prepared to throw a grapple
aboard when Nancy Jones tossed her
snuff into the air and dropped to the
deck, and her example was followed
by th 3 others. The wind carried every
last pinch of that strong snuff across
the spr.ee to the cutter, and it may be
said that she was raked from stem to
stern and from starboard to port. In
an instant every man on the English?
man's deck was blinded, coughing,
sneezing and as helpless as if bound
hand and foot.
The crew of the Nancy Jones could
have captured the whole outfit without
striking a blow, but that had not been
included in Nancy's plan. Urged on by
Captain Israel, they swung her yards
and got her on her course, and the
breeze freshened as if in sympathy
with her efforts. She was not pursued,
however, indeed ttie officers and men
of the cutter were calling out to her
for relief, and it was probably a full
hour before any one of them could see
a distance of twenty feet over the rail.
In due time and without meeting
with further adventure the Nancy
Jones arrived at her home port, and
the tale of the snuff was soon told. If
Nancy had found herself .a heroine in
the eyes of the crew, she was now in
danger of being made to believe that
she was the veritable Goddess of Lib?
erty. She wouldn't have it, however.
"La, me, but what is all this fuss
about?" she replied. "I allus knowed
that If I was aboard of Israel's bark I
could, make them Britishers sheer off
purty smart. Israel and all the rest j
of the men are too easy goin\ What
we w:\nt is more women aboard of our |
ships, and I for one am goin' to keep
right on siiilin* and lettin' King George
know the difference between apple
sass and a woman who won't stand
things no longer!"
A Little Dinner.
An Englishman writing from France
in 1S30 gives this'instance of appetite
coming with the eating: "At my left at
dinner today sat a. very pretty young ]
woman, opposite to her a young fellow,
her cousin or?lover^.I heard them
speak of their dejeuuer a la fourchette
(a meat breakfast). Yet, to my amaze?
ment, this delicate young person ate
soup, beef, pate of I know not what,
but it was said to be of brains, and
they pronounced it excellent. A mack?
erel followed, then roast fowl, cresses,
salad, kidneys, au vin de champagne,
green peas with sugar and chevreuil,
which the waiter offered to swear be?
fore a magistrate was real venison.
To this mess th? young woman added
a quantity of new cheese thickly
spread upon bread, filling up the time
between each of the removes by scoop?
ing out the quarter of a very large mel?
on; cherries, strawberries, biscuits
(sponge cakes), each enough for an
Englishwoman's dinner, and then cof?
fee terminated the meal, to which, be?
tween her and her friend, they had only
half a bottle of wine at 12 sous, but
which they diluted with (in defiance of
Abcrnethy's rule) sit least a grillon of
water. Of everything I have mentioned ?
the woman had two-thirds. 'Repletion
must have followed,' you will say. No
such matter. They had scarcely wash?
ed their fingers when the couple start?
ed up and took their places in a qua?
drille set just formed."
Not Lagrifingr" Behind.
The man who drove the colonel over
to Climaxville from Baldwin Station.
N. D., seemed to be so full of go that
he was finally asked/how he was get?
ting along in the new state.
"Oh, so so," he replied, with a wink.
"There are two brothers of us here.
We didn't come out to grub and starve,
but to make money. My brother John
lives next house. The first thing he
did was to steal a whole county'of
land and sell her off in lots to suit.
He's $10,000 ahead of this glorious old
west. John is, and still gamin' on it"
"Your brother John is. evidently a
rusher," Observed the colonel.
"You bet he is; no flies ou John."
"And how about you?",
"Don't make any mistake about me.
The first thing I did was to get elected
county treasurer and gobble every last
cent in the box, and if things go right
durin' the next two weeks I'll steal
twelve miles of that river and sell il
fur $1,000 a mile. Take, me and John
as pioneer pilgrims, and we've nothin'
in pertickler to complain of."
Time Wan Xo Object.
A shr-ewd old fanner named Uncle
Hardey was approached by a bright,
breezy young mau who was selling in?
cubators. The Green Bag. which teifc
the story, says that the salesman gjfw
Uncle Harvey the usual eloquent argu?
ments-there was not another such In?
cubator to be found, the prices were
remarkably low, and so on.
Uncle Harvey did not respond. The
young man talked himself out and
made no Impression. Finally he said.
"Yon don't seem to appreciate these In?
cuba tors."'
"NV sahl Unck? Harvey.
"But just think of the time they will
save!"
Urxle Harvey gave him oue cold look
and said, "What do you suppose I care
for a hee's time?"
Polltene??.
Little Elmer- Papa, what is polite?
ness?
Professor Brondhend- Politeness. n\T
son. is the art of not letting other poo
???*> know what you really think of
. 'l-err -Town Topics.
Old Employees Discharged.
Columbia, March 24.-Following
the orders issued by the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway, establishing a
pension system for the employees of
the road who have seen a certain num?
ber of years of service, the general
manager has issued another that will
affect a number of men on the system
who will not receive pensions. The
recent order is that all men over the
age of 70 must go. The road has
come to the conclusion that the neces?
sary work cannot be gotten out of
men who have reached that age, and
on April 1 they will step down and
out for younger men. The recent or?
der in regard to pensions provided
for 1 per cent for each year of service
for the salary received, provided the
employees had seen a service ' of ten
years. The new order provides that
if the age of 70 has been reached the
employee must go anyhow, pension
or not.
In view of the publicity given to the
fact that retired officers of the British
royal navy commanded the two cruis?
ers bought for Japan from the Ar?
gentine Governnnnt at Genoa on their
trip from that port out to Nagasaki
and Yokohama at the beginning of
the present war, it is only fair that
it should be known just as widely that
as soon as ever the British Govern?
ment learned of the matter the names
of the officers in question were re?
moved by the admiralty from the
list of the officers of the English navy.
Moreover the application made to
the British consul at Genca for per
mission'to fly the British flag on the
voyage out to Japan was at once per?
emptorily refused, and the two cruis?
ers in question made the run under
Japanese colors. It remains to be
seen whether the officers in question
can be Court-martialed for rendering
this service to tbe Mikado. But this
is doubtful, as they had not only al?
ready retired from the English navy,
but bad even compounded their pen?
sion for a lump sum a*nd were only re?
tained on the emergency list of the
admiralty. All this was explained by
Lord Selborne, the first lord of the
British admiralty, in tho House of
Lords, at Westminster, the other day.
The new cloth bound, beautifully
illustrated novels-the regular SI.50
editions-at 75 cents are a surprise to
book-buyers. They are going, and the
opportunity to duplicate them may
never be presented again.
H. G. Osteen & Co.
St. Petersburg, March 22.-A dis?
patch received from Ashkabad (the
capital of the Russian trans-Caspian
territory) says a rumor is current there
that the Ameer of Afghanistan has
been poisoned. Habilullah Khan the
Ameer of Afghanistan was born in
1872 and succeeded to the throne on
the death of his father, Abdurrahman
Khan, Oct. 1, 1931.
Columbus, - Ga., March 22.-A
special from Chipley says that a fight
occurred at Whitesville today between
two 16-year-old school boys which re?
sulted in the death of one, Tom Harai
son, son of T. W. Haralson. Robt.
Maddox, son of Hon. T. J. Maddox,
was the other participant. Young
Maddox struck young Haralson with
a large* stick, fracturing the skull
in two places, from the effects of
wihch Hraalson died a short time
afterward. The cause of the fight is
not known. The two boys were inti?
mate friends.
Saionica, Macedonia March 23.
Twelve battalions of Turkish troops,
commanded by Shakir Pasha, have
surrounded 10,000 Albanians at Baba
lepe. Shakir Pasha has asked for re?
inforcements. Ten additional bat?
talions will be sent to bim. Pending
their arrival Shakir Pasha is ne?
gotiating with the Albanians.
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to do any work in the
line of Guns, Locks, Sewing
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satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop removed to No. 22
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