The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 23, 1897, Image 7
THE MEN WHO LOSE.
Here's to the men who lose!
Wbut though their work bo e'or so nobly
planned
And watched with zealous care,
No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand;
Contempt is failure's share.
Here's to the men who lose!
If triumph's easy smile our struggles greet,
Courngo Is easy then;
The king Is-ho who, after flerco defeat,
> Can up and light aguiu.
r.
Here's to ihe men who lose!
Th6 ready plaudits of a fawning world
Ring swo-1 in victor's ears;
The vanqulshed's banners never oro uni
furled?
For tnem there sound no cheers.
Her 'sto the men who lose!
The touchstone of true worth is not suoceis;
There is a higher test?
Though fate may darkly frown, onward to
press.
And bravely do one's best.
Hero's to the mon who lose!
It is the vanqu shed's praises that Im
And th 18tlie toast I choose;
'A hard-fought 'allure Is a noble thing.
Hurt/a luck to them who lose."
?George H. Broad hurst.
An Unusual Burglary.
?Y WAUY II. P. HATCH.
EOPLE are deory1
J ing the fropbistiWT*^
oated state of the
country, and by
people I mean writers
in particular.
They say that there
esqueness except in
^***"*?' the backwoods and
in districts tar removed from the environments
of railroads and electrioity,
and that dialect peculiar to eaoh locality
is being flattened into monotone
' by the oranii-resent school master, who,
they complain, has his way far too
muoh in this proudly new world of
ours, hut it this be true, as a whole,
there are delightful exceptions. A
carriage drive of a few hours, or the
wmri 01 oue 8 Diojoie an hour, brings
one to the home of folk lore and pro inoialism
capable of eausing eostatic
thrills in the heart of the dialect-monger.
bnob were my thoughts as I alighted
from my wheel at nightfall, one oold
autumnul day, and rapped (tbero was
no bell) at the door of a low-browed
oottago, behind which clumps of
bu-hes shut off the horizon und seemed
to narrow the world down to the little
hou^e, the yard, and myself, with a
heavy heart,standing betoro it, steadying
my wheel, for 1 was tired.
Presently an old lady came to the
door. Her comfortable, rotund form
and mild b.uo eye but deoided chin
impressed me with inBtant respect,
whilo the inborn ladyhood of her
natnre was evidenced by her courteous
greeting and invitation to enter.
"Do you ever keep travelers over
night?" I inquired after a decent interval
bad elapsed.
"We do and wo don't," she replied ;
"but you can stay in welcome. Sit
up and eat with mo if you hain't had
no supper."
"1 haven't," was my roply; and
presently the old lady and i were discussing
her homely but toothsome
supper, and doing it ample justice in
the way of testing its qualities; at
least I did.
"My husband has gone to town," remarked
my hostess, "and if you hadn't
oome 1 should a ben here all alono tonight."
"wonirt yon have been afraid to
spend the night alone?"
"Ob, not But to-night I feel dif'runt,
for, you nee, at last wo're ready
to lift tbo mortgage. It's two hundred
and tbirty-tbree dollars an' one
oent. That last cent 1 got by selling
an aig," she mid with a happy laugh,
"and now it's altogether 'twixt the
straw bed and featherbed in my room ;
and husband, he's gonter pay it oil to
morrer?if be livos," she added, with
the reverence felt by the old who have
seen so many hopes fade and friends
die that ihey nover dare to speak cvou
of almost certainties without an "if."
"But are you not unwise to speak of
your money to a strunger?" I asked as
a warning.
"Ob, no I" she said, langhing pleasantly,
"1 know an honest man when I
seo him, and I was glad the minute 1
see your face and knowed that you
wanted to stay all nigbt. 'Taint likely
anybuddy would steal from me but
stragglers. One has been seen 'rnnml
and 1 feel a little mite uneasy."
My hostess and I spent a pleasant
evening together. She showed mo
many nn heirloom which had been
handed throngh five generations from
an ancet-tor who had been a great man
in colonial .lays. There was a silver
pnnoh bowl and a gold snuff box,
either worth more than the sum treasured
so carefully in the owner's bed ;
bnt 1 snspeot she would have parted
with her life as quiokiy as with either
of tbem.
"They are Jameson," she said, "or
will bo when fiusband and I are dono
with them. James is my nephew, and
ho's out to Chiny now. lie's had lots
of pnlloaoks, James has, or he'd helped
as. Bnt you look tired, Mr.?"
"Bradley."
"Mr. Bradley, yon look zif you
donghter he to bed. I'll light you np."
Ascending the short flight of stairs,
I-learned that my room was exactly
over the old lady's "settin"' room, as
she called it. There was a sort of register
over it, through which the warmth
struggled agreeably enough. However,
I should have closed it had not
a sense of the old lady's unprotected
situation impressed mo, and so 1 retired
to bed and dreamland, where I
wandered lazily until awakened by
voioes beneath.
Evidently the first word had roused
me, for as 1 sat up in bed, wide awake
in an instant, I heard tho old lady say
in a matter-of-faot tone?
"Good-evenin'. Set np to the stove
and war in ye."
Peeping through the register, I saw
a ragged, unkempt man creep toward
the stove, blinking uneasily. He had
come up the cellar stairs, not through
i the outside door, whioh sufficiently
evidenced his predatory intentions.
However, had the old lady's visitors
always made their entrances through
the cellar she could not have been more
at ease than she appeared now as she
bustled about, setting him a chair,
puttiug wood into the stove, and otherwise
mystifying her midnight caller by
her careless, friendly manuer.
Admirable as was her aoting, I knew
that she had not dared to retire; and
while regretting that 1 had not suspected
her intentions, it now seemed
wisest to remain where I was unless
she should need n.y assistauco, as she
probably would very soon, I reasoned.
Cooking my pistol and otherwise pre
paring myself for the emergency, I pat
down on the floor, where I could watoh
the couple without myself being seen.
"It's turrible cold out for a fall
night, ain't it?"
"Yen, it is," said the man.
"Wall, jest set here by the stove
while I set the teapot for'ard and git
you somethin' kinder warmin'. Mebbe
you're hungry, too," Bhe added.
"Mebbe I be."
"Wall then, I'll set onto the table
somethin' to eat," she said, moving
about the room with a pleasant, bust*
ling movement which must have filled
the burglar with wonder, as it did me.
"There now," she remarked at length,
"set right up and make yourself to
home. Mobbe you'd like to wash,
though. I'll git you some warm water
outer the teakittle."
" 'Twould seem good. I hain't
washed for a week," he replied.
"1 wanter know ! Ben trav'Jin' and
hain't had no chance, most like.
Here's the soft soap, and there's a cake
o* hard I keep for comp'nv."
"I'll uso the comp'ny soap," said
the man with a sardonic laugh.
And then he sat down to the table.
Ho must have eaten ravenously, for
where I sat I could see his elbows
working rapidly, while his hostess
remarked voluntarily,?
''Poor oretur 1 Mow hnnirrv irnn
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be!"
"It's tbe first square meal I've had
for six weeks," he said with his mouth
full.
' I waoter know 1" And rising, his
hostess brought from tbe pantry a
plate of cold meat and set it beiore
him.
Bnt at last tho meal was ended, and
tbe couple sat down by tbe stove on
opposite sides, she with her knitting,
auJ be fingering uneasily bis old har.
"Say !" bo broke forth at last in tbe
midst of some friendly inquiry regar.ling
tbe state of the roads. "Quit
your loolin'. Yon know what I've
come for. It's that money you've got
bid in your bed."
"How do you know I'vo got any
there?*' she asked, without a quavor in
her voice.
"I seo you paok it away just boforo
your husband left. Then i crept into
the cellar when you went to see him
off, and hero 1 be come for it. I'vo ben
hid there six hours. Come, huHtlo
round, old lady, and fetch it out, or I
shall have to git it myself."
' "I know better."
"Know bettor?"
"Yes. I know you ain't no sech
kind of a man as to steal from an old
woman like me. Yon aro too much of
a man."
"I be, be I? Wall, I guess not!
You won't never miss it, and it would
be the making of me."
"How Jong you sp'ose ma and
Josiah's ben gittin' that together to
lift the mortgage?"
"I don't know. Ain't yonr place
paid for?"
"No, and we've ben twenty years a
scrapin* together two hundred and
thirty-three dollars and ono cent.
You see Josiah's lame and can't oarn
uiucu, una x am "t bo smart aa I was
once, and wo haf to live. The times
got bard jest the wrong tirao for us.
We used to have enough, and so we
usod to take a ohild from the poorhouse
every live years and fetch him
up. Four of 'em we got started, and
all smart children, every one, and
dreadful good to me aud Josiah."'
"Why don't they help you?"
"They're jest beginnin' to do for
theirselves, and we don't waut 'em to.
James is in Chiny, Ebon's workin' his
way through college, Philaster's
clerkin' down to the Corner, and
Horace's jest married and come in
debt for a little place of his own.
Can't you got uo work?"
"No, I can't. I've tried for weeks,
and tramped miles ; but nobody wants
a tramp when there's them they know
ready to work."
"That's so. I seo how 'tis. I wish
I could do for you, but I don't seo how
I can. 1 s'pose I might lend you our
sick money." j
"rick money?"
"Yes. We've always kept laid away
fifty dollars to bury us with, whichever
goes first, Josiah or me; but we
don't like to speak it right oat, and so
we call it 'siok money.' I could lend
yon that."
The man did not reply at first, but
after awhilo said in a strangely altered
tone:
"Do you really mean that you
would lend mo that money with the expootation
of getting it back?"
"Yes, 1 would. I think if you can
get work you will pay it back sure."
"Maybe you'd like a not for it."
"Of course! I 'most forgot that.
Here's the ink bottle and Josiah's pen
and a half sheet of paper that's scarcely
got a mark on't. Set right here."
And thft old l?l'? nnokn.1 * >? -"-L ?
m?~mj |/ UUUUU DUO UIDUUO
baok into the middle of the table to
give him a better chance to write.
"You know, don't yon, that I conld
take the whole of that money you've
got hid botwoen tho strew bed and
feather bed if 1 wanted?"
"Yes. but you won't, beoauee you
aro too much of a man to steal from two
poor old cretars when joa can borry
it."
"That's so, I be. Yon shall hare
that money back if I live, old lady,
and int'rest too, I promise ye. 1 feel
like a man ag'io, and it'a yon that
made me."
"Ob, no I Yon was a man afore, bat
kinder unfortunate, that's all."
"Well, here's your note, I've wrote
it to pay in a year's time, if that will
do."
"It will, 'less one of us should die,
and th.-n 'twonldn't be as if we hadn't
got that note to show."
The man laughed a laugh of amusement
and reliof. 1 watched him as he
went to the door, snd this time his
head was up and his shouldere were
square. In listening to the oolloquy I
had entirely forgotton or overlooked
the faot that I had constituted myself
the guardian of the old lady's slender
fortune. ' What to do I did not know.
The man seemed anxious to pay the
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to trust him. Perhaps I would better
let the matter rest as it was, and in
ease he did not return to paj it in a
year pay it myself as a flue for my
negligence, which would then have
been proved culpable.
When I descended, whioh I did as
soon as the man had been gone several
minutes, I found the old lady to be
very nervous.
"Why 1" she said, starting to her
feet in alarm at my entrance, "I olean
forgot there was anybuddy in the
house but me."
"do you wish I had come down bofore
and prevented the loan you
made?"
"No, I pitied the poor cretur' so.
He'll pay it back if he oan, and if not
it'll be jest another orphan we've
helped. Most like bein' so old, both
of us up'ards of seventy, we sbau't do
tor no more as we have done, and we
shall git buried some way."
"Don't worry. If he doesn't pay it
I will," was my reply.
"You needn't think nothin* about
it. I've saved the mortgage monoy
and given a man a lilt on the road to
heaven, and I'd oughter be satisfied.
I be satisfied." she said ferven ly.
"And you have reasou to be," I said.
We did not go to bed, either of us,
and in the morning 1 returned to the
city.
But I did not forget the old lady
nor the burglar. I felt convinced that
he would return the money on the
exaot date when the note was given, if
at all, and accordingly, in just one
year, I made it convenient to visit the
old lady at her residence.
This time I was so fortnnate as to
see her husband, and I immediately
discovered that ho was juBt such an*
other guileless persoo as herself. They
wero expecting the man to pay the
note, aud it lay ready for him on tho
mantel when I entered.
Suro enough, at ten o'clock a firm,
stalwart mau walked up to the door,
whero the old lady met him with a
cordial grasp of the hand.
"You did git work," she said.
"Yes, I did, and it was you that
saved mo from crime. I bad tried
every way to lind somothing to do until
that night, and tho fifty dollars
put mo on my feet square and firm. I
got a chance in n shop where I got
good pay, and hero's the money and
the interest."
"The interest! I didn't ask you no
interest."
"But I mean to pay it."
I do not know whether he ever heard
that I was in the house that night or
not. It donsil'k matter I ViJm
several times afterward, and ho seemed
both prosperons and honest, and I
don't donbt that he was. The fact did
not tend to make me neglect my hobby,
which was that orime, when it is not a
disease, is either the resnlt of inherited
evil tendencies or of misfortune,
and that circumstances keep and make
some men honest and others dishonest.
?Wavcrley Magazine.
Cause a Run on Thermometers.
"Extremes in the weather," remarked
a druggist who handles a large
line of thermometers, "either in cold
or heat creato a run on thermometers,
and though I had a rather large stock
on hand, the fall in the weather which
started on Sunday last nearly cleaned
me out. On Monday, 1 think, I sold
more thermometers than on any other
day that I have been in business. Ordinarily
pooplo givo but little attention
to thermometers, but let a very
severe change come and they wiil have
them,it matters not how muob they cost.
I don't ozactly understand it, but itappears
that many persons are more
thoroughly convinced that it is very
oold or extremely warm when they
read their own thermometers. Another
thing is that they seem to enjoy seeing
the mercury go down or rise and
for that reason like to have the weather
measurer in their possession. Trade
was exceedingly dull in thermometers,
but somehow, though, they are generally
bought frooly at Christmas
ti mo Oin*"* ! *? A 1
siuwf kuuio nno UU1< 1CW plirOUKBOrH
until about Monday last. Then it was
very active."?Washington Star.
Woman's Position in China.
A paper published at Shanghai says
that "in China a woman is not her husband's
companion and cannot bo so,
an sooiety is at present constituted.
When a young wife is introduced to a
new family her husband teems to be
the last person with whom she has
anything to do. He would bo ashamed
to bo seen talking to hor, and if he
should ezoliango views with her he
would be laughed at by the whole
family."
British Postal Barings.
One of the greatest bankors iu the
world is the British government. As
a bank it hblds nearly $500,000,000 in
postoiHce deposits payable praotioally
on oall, and pays interest at the rate
of two and a half per cent, per annum
to its depositors. Last year the
deposits inoreased $50,000,000.?Ban
| Franoiaoo Ntws Letter.
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ANNlVLIlSAItY OF JKFFKRSON.
W. J. Bryan Was the Guest of
Honor.
The 154th anniversary of Jefferson's
birthday was celebrated Tuesday night
at the Metropolitan Hotel in Washington
by a subscription dinner given
under the auspices of the National Association
of Democratic Clubs. The
first celebration of the anniversary of
Jefferson's birthday occurred at the
same hostelry, then known us the Indian
t^ueen. i resident j ackson was
the guest of honor and the occasion was
made memorable by the presence of
Vice President oohu C. Calhoun and
others, Democratic leaders of that day.
Wm. J. feryan, of .Nebraska, the late
Democratic candidate for President,
was the guest of honor. Senators,
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. vt/iuovuMintra ?UU uvuurb CUUHIUCUUUH
in the councils of the democratic party,
were present. Many of thein were
from a distance. Covers were laid for
two hundred, and a number of people
wore denied seats for want of space at
the tables. The decorations of the
room were simple. The columns were
entwined with Southern smilax and a
full-length portrait of .lefferson. draped
with American Hags, was hung behind
the seat of Uoveruor .black, of Pennsylvania,
the president of the association.
Upon his right were Mr. Bryan
and Representative McMillin, who
acted as toastmaBter, and on
the left were benator Jones, of Arkansas;
Representatives Bland, of MisI
Bouri; Lentz, of Ohio; ex-Representative
Sibley, of Pennsylvania, and Andrew
Lipscomb, of Virginia. Mr. Bryan
was greeted with a lusty cheer as he entered
the hall. The menu was carefully
prepared and was similar to such a
dinner as miirht have h??n ???rv?d ilnr.
ing .Jefferson's days. The dishes -were
all American creations and each course,
as far as possible, represented one section
of the oountrv. The dinner began
promptly at 8 o clock, an orchestra
playing national airs, blended with
Southern melodies to conform in sympathy
to the spirit of the dinner, The
toasts were briefly responded to except
in the case of Air. Bryan, who spoke
at length to the toast, "ihcmas Jetl'erfon."
BEIjIa company wins.
A Decision in a Suit Involving Five
Million Dollars.
The Supreme Court at Washington,
D. C., has denied the petition for a writ
of certiorari in the case of the American
Bell Telephone Company vs. the Western
Union Telegraph Company to compel
the Circuit Court of Appeals for the
first circuit to certify the case to the
Supreme Court. The case involves the
question of royalties claimed from the
Bell company by the Western Union
companj*, and was originally brought
in the Circuit Court for the District of
Massachusetts to secure an account
there of royalties. About $.>,00o,UUU is
involved. After instituting suit the
Western Uuiou sought to have it dismissed,
and after it wus dismissed the
Bell Company appealed to the Circuit
Court of Appeals when the decision of
the Circuit Court was reversed. The
Western Union Company sought to
have the case reviewed by the Bupreme
Court, but the opinion rendered
denies this petition. This takes the
case back to the Circuit Court for
turthcr proceedings
It is a victory for the Bell Telephone
Company, and it is said this company
win ui uiiru go uuo uie telegraph Held,
while the Western Union Company will
be shut out from the telephone tiehl.
An expert, speaking of the possible extension
of the telephone company into
the telegraph lield, said that the new
telephone wires could bo used simultaneously
for both telephone and tele
graph service, so that the two would
not conflict in the least.
PURIFYING MISSISSIPPI WATKR.
The Largest and Rest Filter Plant In
the World.
The largest, the costliest and b est
plant in the world has just been completed
at Davenport, Iowa. Practical
men, whose experience has made their
opinions worthy of respectful attention,
according to the Chicago Times-Herald,
say that this plant really solves the
wuter supply question for nearly all
Western cities. The cost of the plant is
$1,200,000. The ten double filter shells,
which contain the immediate water
supply, have a capacity of 7,500,000
gallons. The water is taken from the
Mississippi iliver at a point above any
large sewage outlet, and where the
river water is naturally aerated and oxidized
by the presence of rapids.
STARVATION IN CHINA.
Hundreds Dying for Lack of Food.
Poor K florin.
A San Francisco, Cal., special sayB
the natives in the vicinity of 1 chang,
China, are dying by hundreds of star
vatiou. The grain crop last year was
almost a total failure, and as the |>eople
exchanged their maize for rice to
last them through the winter, food has
been scant for u long time. {Supplies
are now completely exhausted and tho
harvest of death has begun. rl he oflicials
are making efforts to furnish foo i
for the starving people by sending in
rice, but the supplies they nre able to
contribute are so small and the number
of those in direct need is so great that
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nine ^uiiii in iHTum|>llHuea.
Croat Loar of Cattle.
Between blizzards and high water
cattle on the ranged throughout the
Northwest hare been having a tough
time of it since the first of last winter's
storms. In several South I>akota counties
the loss to stockmen will he 4<> or
f>0 i>cr ceit., and scaredj* anywhere
will it fall below 'JO.
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Angry Depositors.
At Chicago, 800 angry depositors in
the Globe .-Savings bank met to protest
against the treatment they had received
at the hands of C, W. Spalding, its
president, and his fellow officers, and
to devise means for resouing, if possible,
some portion of their savings which had
beoen tied up by the bank's failure.
Negotiating for a New Loan.
The Spanish government is negotiating
with a syndicate of Knglish Dankem
for a new loan, by means of which
the war may be maintained in Cnba.
NEWS ITEMS CONDENSED.
Southern Pencil Pointers.
Judge Harlan has allowed a writ of
error in the cane of Elizabeth Nobles,
of Georgia, who iB under sentenco of
death on the charge of murder, and
who was to have been hanged Friday. <
It was represented by Mrs. Nobles' .
counsel that she is insane.
The dead body of Charles Hofftnan, a
well-known and respected citizen, was
found in a chapel, about four miles
from Brunswick, Ga. He had shot
himself through the head. He had
evidently gone into the building for the
purpose of committing suicide.
Governor Bloxham, of Florida, has
issued a call to a national fisheries
congress to be held at Tampa in January,
1898.
Forty-five thousand acres of the most
valuable coal and oil lands in West Virginia
have been purchased by a company
of New York and Pittsburg capitalists.
The price paid aggregates
?IW, WW.
Up to the present the effort to elect a
United States Senator in Kentucky has
cost about $73,000.
At Houston, Tex., the cylindrical
process of baling ootton is again exciting
discussion in cotton trade circles.
The losses of insurance companies at
Knoxyille, Tenn., foot up $330,230.
In thecase of "Cap" Hatfield a jury
at Williamson, W. Va., has returned a
verdict of involuntary manslaughter for
the killing of Ivan Kntherford.
The latest developments in the Knoxville,
Tenn., fire are that at least six
persons lost their lives in the Hotel
Knox. The hotel register has not been
found.
Suit lias been brought against the
co-operative town company of Elizabethan
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that the property of the oompany shall
he subjected to the payment of the
company's indebtedness, amounting to
$1,000,000. It is charged that the company
was insolvent when its property
was transferred to the Wautauga Land
company, more than a year ago.
Clinton R. Woodruff, secretary of the
National Municipal League, has prepared
a program for the conference to
be held in Louisville on May <>th, Oth
th. Among the speakers will beeiMayor
John F. Ficken, of Charleston,
S. C.
In the Criminal Court at Charlotte,
N. C., Friday, Chas. Blackburn, charged
with originating the fire which partiully
destroyed the Charlotte Observer
building on January 2d last, was acquitted.
All About the North.
Elizabeth R. Tilton, the wife of
Henry Ward Bencher's accuser, died
on Tuesday last at her home in Brooklyn.
A party of 01 chinamen have arrived
in Montreal by the Canadian Pacific
Railroad, from China via Vancouver.
They are to work on the sugar plantations
of Cuba, so sadly neglected during
the past two years.
The surgeons at the Presbyterian
Hospital in New York are bending all
their energies to save the life of Frank
Hastings, a newspaper man, who for
eight days has hiccoughed at the rate
of 8,040 times a day. Ice cream is
being used to cure him.
At Chicago, 111., Matthias Guster, 22
years old, was shot and instantly killed
by John Formiller, his father-in-law,
at the breakfast table.
A company capitalized at $2,000,000
has been formed at Minneapolis, Minn.,
to manufacture sugar from beets and
ficht thfl Kilfrar Trim*
The largest flog that ever flew from a
pole will be flung to the breeze on the
27th from a staff near the Grant Monument,
in New York.
Governor Jones, of Arkansas, has
called an extra session of the Legislature
to meet on the 28th.
A Montreal Court has dismissed the
action against the American Tobacco
Company, of Canada, stating that it
has a right to insist that its customers
shall not sell goods of any manufacturer.
The proposition to admit women as
delegates failed in the Methodist Conference
at Lowell, Mass., and Manchester,
N. H., for lack of a thrce-fouths
vote.
A cyclone destroyed the town of Chandler,
Okla., east of Guthrie. A
dozen or more people were killed and
probably 150 were injured.
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Miscellaneous.
Carter H. Harrison was formalty installed
as mayor of Chicago Thur-day
evoning. He delivered a short inaugural
address.
It is announced in London that the
Venozuelean treaty will shortly be ratifled.
While mass was being said in a
church near Castres, France, the roof
collapsed, killing seven women and one
man, and injuring 30 reasons seriously.
A Boston special says: "Under favorable
conditions and to the satisfaction
of all concerned, the United States battlaalil'n
1.? = V 1 . na -i t
Vtv^u?|/ *wnw uan uocu gncil HOT UlliUldl I
trial over the Cape Anne course, and I
under the inspection of the naval board
appointed for that purpose. On the
trial she made an average speed of 17
knots over the (16 mile course, exceeding
her contraot speed by one knot,
winning $200,00 bonus for her builders.
Washington.
President McKinley has deoided that
he would he unable to attend the Nashville
exposition on the opening day,
May 1, but will visit the exposition
after the adjournment of Congress.
The President will recommend to
'ongress an appropriation to pay indemnity
for the lynching of three Ital'uus
in Couisana last August.
A delegation called at the White
louse and invited the President to the
Tennessee Centennial; if he cannot go
ie will start the machinery from Washington.
President McKinley has been generally
commended in his choice of selecting
the three commissioners under
Act of Congress to prsmote bimetal,:?*n
NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA
The Duke or L??da Wilt ftneeeed LaH
Aberdeen at Ottawa,
The Dttko of Leeds, who will succeed Lord
Aberdeen in June as Governor-General ot
Cana la, assumed the title and the estate ot
the family about a year ago on the death o'
his father, the ninth Duke. The present
Poke's name Is Geo ore Oodolphln Osborn,
and Is a seoond son. His elder broi h -r dledi
In 18*11. The future Governor-General is
only thirty-four yean old, but haa already
won a prominent na ne for himself In polil ten
He has been to Parliament, where ne sat foe
Lambeth. He was formerly honored with
post of Treasurer of the Household, whleh;
ho ffAVA lltV ArtftAPtllitrt ?A AM-f/v.w ? K-.? ^?1
?f? xwva tv VP UV TfUUU UV1
retired from Parliament. Ia 1884 tio married'
I
' DUKt OP UKD8.
(lie la to succeed Lord Aberdeen in Canada.
La 1y Katharine Francis Lambeth, a dangfcter
of the second Earl of Durham, and they
have four pret.y I (tie glra. The Dulce,
when he was in Parliament as the Marqnts
of Carman hen, was the youngest merauer I*
the Commons^ ind the youngest looking ua?
with a revolver, concealed bin leaturns behind
the bills be had stolen, backed out and1
got away before the gentle Mr. Cobb hud recovered
his wits. There is no trace of the
robbers and no clue to their identity.
CREEKS TAKE KRANIA.
Turks Lom an Important Strategic Point In
At icedonia.
The Oreek insurgents have captured
Krania, an important strategic point about
fifteen miles northwest of Elassona, the general
headquarters of the Turkish army. They
pursued the defeated Turks to Ciprla, only1
two hours' travel from Oreveua.
The victory followed the occupying of;
Baltlno, a frontier town of Maood uia, west
of Elassona, to prevent the Turkish troops
from advancing in that direction.
The Turkish garrison at Baltlno, number*
ing 800. was surrouaded and besieged. The
Turks finally succeeded on the fourth attempt
In cutting their way through the Insurgent
lines, losing thirty men in the dash.
The fighting was stubborn.
Havoc Wrought by Floods.
A conservative estimate of the havoe
wrought by the Mississippi floods places the
loss of life at 200, the number of those made
homoless at 150,000. and the damage te
property at more than 1100,000,000.
Hnowsllde Kill* Three Miners.
A snowslide occurred at the Oorlnth Mine.
In the Slocan, British Columbia, killing three
men and carrying awny the head of the aerta
tramway cnoentlv erected there.
Rutter Is highly recommended ah a
food for pulmonary and other Invalids.
Therefore, If butter Is agreeable to tho
individual, and occasion no gastric or Intestinal
disorders. It would seem an Important
adjunct to the present dietetic
treatment. Then, too, Jf It Is an advantage
In this condition, why not in
other were facts are Indicated?
Spools are turned and bored by a
simple machine, which is said to bo
able to complete from 5,000 to 6,000 p?r
hour. *
in un Krew it uciira. ine uukk is a |x>puitf!
member of the House of Lords, end his el*-!
vet Ion to the distinguished position 01 Governor-General
of Cauada Is not muith of n>
surprise to thoa- who know the Inside work"
Inge of the Government,
A WET SPR NG.
Crops Have lleen Seriously Delayed by
Rains.
The Weather Bureau, Washington, has resume
l publication of its weather crop bulletins.
In a review of orop conditions daring!
the month of March It says: "F irming operations
have been retar led by wet weather In;
the States of the central valleys, and the
son is somewhat b lokwarl generally. Some
corn has been planted as far north as Tro- 1
nessoo and the southern portions of Missouri t
and K insas Farther south gre iter progress
has been made, planting in Texas an t northern
Lonlstana being about complete I, and
In Alabama, Mississippi and Texas the early
plants I crop is up. I
x_ m a
vuituu (iiriuilUK IU 1UXKS UfiH prOt?rOH8#Hl
favorably, and some has been planted in [
South Carolina, but tu other States or the
cotton belt practically no planting bail been
done up toiho cloto of the month. In Ala-'
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma
prenarntions for seeding are In progress.
"Winter wheai is reported winter-ki led to
some extent In Missouri, Iowa. Illinois, Indiana
and W sconsln. and while the crop has
sustained injury In Ohio, the outlook in that
State is reported as not discouraging. The
early sown in Kansas Is excellent, and In
Oklahoma, Arkansas an I Texas the crop Is r
reported as promising. In Michigan and In- j
dlana the crop has been damaged by (loo i&
Spring wheat is doing well In Kansas, and'
preparations for increased acreage are In i
progress in low i. In the D kotas and Mln- '
nosota preparations for seeding hare not yet'
begun."
BANK LOOTED AT MIDDAY.
It Was at Tonkers, N, Y., and a Very.
Clever Flece of Work.
The Yonkors Savings Bank, one of th?i
oldest Institutions in the city of Yonkers,
N. Y., was entered at noon Monday by robbers,
one of whom held up the aged cashier
with a revolver, and, after taking $4420.46
out of the oash drawer, succeeded in making1
his escape.
The bank is situated In tho busiest part of\
the <dty, only two blocks from Police Headquarters.
The theft was one of thecooh*8t(
and most dnring that have ever been at-'
tempted In the vtoiolty of New York.
Cashier Cobb, aged seventy-live, was alona,
in the bank at noon. A welt-drease 1 man,
entered, attracted his attention by talk ai>out;
business, nnd gradually drew him away from
bis de>k and out of sight of the door.
A man slipper! in and took the contents of
the cashier's drawer, $4400. When Mr. Cobb
cot back to his desk this man covered him