North Carolina Newspapers

MADTU mil MATT I Newsy Items Gleaned From Mtirnhv to rianteo. ' W mf Three persons were burned j to death in a boarding" house fire at jWaynes ville, N. C., Thursday night. j , It is said the County Commission ers of Ashe nave decided to, issue bonds and build a new court house whether the election on May 26th Is carried in favor of it or not. It ir reported that three little girls named Ailnie, Rosaie and Aggie Spake, AcrPrt rpanectfully 11. 9 and 17 years, have been kidnapped from the mi I umiu uiniL HUM If Ashe-i-bad ville Female Seminary, in Asheville. The dining car department j of thg Southern Railway Company which ha-i headquarters in Charlotte, has just re ceived two new dining cars, the cost of which," 'completed, . is about j $25,000 each. i Eight persons were indicted in ths case of the insurance agent who was killed by a mob at Wilson Thursday night. Three others who were arrested on the charge of murder, were re leased. . Governor Aycock grants a respite to Fred Vick, the 17-year-old negro under sentence of death at Goldsboro for a crime upon an old negro woman, on May 30th, so he may investigate the case. i Chief of Pilce Scott of Goldsboro, buried the body of a negro infant Mon day which was found in a vacant lot between South Elm and Ashe streets sit that place. The tody had been buried in a paper shoe box and was discovered by some boys who were at play. The infant is thought to have been still born. Commencement exercises at Peace . Institute in Raleigh will be held as "follows: May 17, 11 a. m., baccalau reate sermon, by Rev. Egbert Smith, D. D., of Greensboro; Monday, May IS, 5 p. m., annual concert; Wednesday, May 20, 11 a. m.. graduating exercises; address by Rev. Frank Stringfellow, of Boydton, Va. Dr. J. K. Hardick, one of the best known and best beloved physicians in Western North Carolina, died Sun day morning at his home in Marshall. Dr. H.'B. Weaver, Dr. W. J. Weaver and Dr. Frank Roberts did their ut most to save the stricken man, but he buffered from a complication of diseas es and the end came Quickly. The Wilmington Stone and Construc tion Company has been organized and application for a charter has been for warded to Raleigh. The capital stock will be $20,000, with $100,000 authoriz ed. The incorporators are Messrs S. P. Adams and H. E. Bonitz of that city, O r rl W- XX flriffin rt XTott- Tqt-ti Tor, company will manufacture hollow con crete building blocks. The new j busi ness will be an important enterprise In Eastern Carolina, j i An old white man, Henry Foard, who lived, alone in a little log house near Pioneer Mills, in Concord, awoke Friday night to find his house on fire ""over and all about him, with a little window as his only means of escape. Through this he succeeded in escaping cremation. He lost all his effects. He is about 82 years old. j The negro who was arrested at .feli co, Tenn., recently in the belief that he was James Lowery, the murderer of Policeman Jones, of Shelby, turned out to be the wrong party. The York county, S. C, man concerned in the 'arrest says there is no doubt of th fact that Lowery was at Jelico, and gives it as his opinion that the Jelico police made a bungle of the job. Hector Britt shot and desperately wounded Thomas Wagner at Roxboro! the two were scuffling over a loaded pistol, when Britt suddenly, whirled it in the air and fired. Wagner was at - tended by a physician, but the bullet. which entered the abdomen, was not round. A statement secured from Wag ner exonerated Britt, saying the shoot ing was accidental. Britt was aonre- liended but released after this state ment. Both are almost mere boys and work in the cotton mills at Roxboro. Wagner is still living and may recover. Edward S. Carter, a young white , man who was before Recorder F. M. Shannonhouse in Charlotte Moiday morning charged with an affrffay with Mitenen ana James Sharp, is a! de- liuiu me united states army, uaving Deen stationed at Fort Leven orin, i-um. lie is a native of North v-aroima. bergeant Shaw, of the local recruiting station, learned of Carter's presence in Charlotte and had Carter arrested. Carter was taken back to his post Tuesday. ine piant of the Key Furniture company at btatesville had a verv nar tow escape from total destruction by lire- .naonaay morning. It was about iv o ciocK wnen it was discovered. It - was burning fiercly in the roof and upper story of the finishing depart . raent, which is a wooden structure and also used for storage, and all the ma terial m it is very inflammable. At the time a strong wino was blowing from -the east which served to protect the raain building, which is of brick from danger. An afternoon paper to be known as the Evening Chronicle will appear in Charlotte May 25. The new publication will be conducted by the Observer com pany, the publishers of the Charlotte Observer, and will be served with news matter by the Associated Tess. The Old Fort Lumber oCmpany has iftSJ SBed fracts for the cutting of iJk000. of lnmber at a cost of $60,- J00. The contract provides that the mv -J? to be cutor the company within the space of three years time. Filling Strikers' Places. .. New York, Special. The 1 subway contractors began Thursday to emnlov - every man, who asked for work in the . fiubway in place of the strikers who w yesterday refused to return to work. In a short time a big force had been em ploye, t Police guarded the whole NORTH CAROLINA CROPS Good Progress' in Cultivation During the Past Week General Review. The week ending Monday, May 18th, was characterized by the general ab sence of precipitation, except very light showers in the extreme eastern and western portions of the State about the 13th in amounts altogether too small to be beneficial; over the greater por tion of central-west section this week is the tiird week without rainfajlvand the drought must be considered as be coming quite serious. All vegetation needs rain very much, small crops will fail soon, and the staple crops, if not yet actually deteriorating, are advanc ing very slowly in growth; the absence of moisture is also causing seeds to germinate very irregularly resulting in stands which will be difficult to remedy even with better weather later. Warm sunny day3 prevailed, except in the extreme south and west where there was much cloudiness, but the temperature for the week was brought down to normal by cool nights which were unfavorable for growth; harsh northerly to easterly winds prevailed most -of the week. The drought has rendered the soil So dry and hard that plowing is becoming 'increasingly diffi cult. Nevertheless farm work made considerable progress, and many cor respondents state that farmers are; now up with their work. J, Much corn was planted in lowlands, and some uplands were replanted where stands were poor; in the south early planted corn is receiving its first cultivation, though the plants are not very large; late planted corn contin ues to come up very irregularly; so far complaints of damage by cut and I bud worms are not' very numerous. On ac count of cool nights cotton is small and unhealthy; chopping has commenced in the South, where, however, a large por tion of the crop is not yet up; injthe North very little cotton is up; a warm rain is much needed;- many farmers have not yet finished planting cotton, and on the whole the condition of this crop is extremely backward. No to bacco was transplanted this week for lack of seasons, except by a few farm ers who watered plants after setting; plants in beds are deteriorating or be coming overgrown; a large portion of the crop remains to be set; tobaccb in fields is doing only fairly well. Winter wheat and oats have improved but slightly; heads are forming low; spring cats are not doing well. Planting pea nuts has advanced rapidly and in some places they are up to good stands. Irish potatoes are fine but begin to need rain; setting out sweet potato sUps continues slowly. Gardens are not im proving much. Prospects continue 'fa vorable for apples, though the fruit is falling considerably. Pastures are failing. The shipments of strawberries are now diminishing and the season will soon be over. MARKET QUOTATIONS. COTTON MARivET. . These figures represent prices paid to wagons: Strict good middling .11.35 .11.25 .11.15 .10.75 Good middling Strict middling . Stains and Tinges PRODUCE MARKET Onions . . . . .$ 70 15 33 13& 20 izYz 60 22 60 1 00 43 Chickens spring Hens per head Eggs . . Beeswax Turkey 3 Corn . . . Ducks Wheat Wheat- -seed Oats . Rye Sides . Skins calf Hides dry salt ... Tallow unrendercd 1 00 9 40 10 Bryan Favors Clark. A Washington Special to the Char lotte Observer says: Chief Justice Clark, of the, North Carolina Supreme. Court, is the choice of William Jen nings Bryan for the Democratic presi dential nomination in 1904. according to a story learned here Monday. Mr. Bryan is said to have spoken most fav orably of the North Carolina jurist cn the occasion of his visit here several weeks ago, when he attended thai Thomas Jeffenson anniversary e:cof ciscg. Wilkes Bond Case. Washington, Special. The United States Supreme Court decided the case of Wilkes county, N. C, against Color and ethers, involving the validity railroad bonds issued by the county in aid of railroad construction, in favoj: or me vaiiaiiy or tne Donas, unaer ihe State ordinance of 1868. Mountaln Sinking. Wilkesboro, Special. Considerably excitement has been created about a report that Sugar Loaf mountain, just across the Brushies, on the Alexander side, was sinking. It was reported Monday that a portion of the mountain was sinking and " had already sank about; five feet, ana tnat smoice was coming up through crevices in the rocksi There is but little doubt but that the mountain, or a portion of it at least, appears to be sinking, but it is more than probable that the story has been exaggerated. The people near th mountain arc excitea and some are frightened. Doubtful of the Reliance. New York, Special. C. Oliver Iseliu i. managing owner of the cup yacht Re-: liance, made it clear, that the speed of the new craft is as much of a problem; to him as to observers, and that until she has been raced with the Constitu tion and Columbia he will be unable to estimate her chances of being accept ed to defend the cup. Mr. Iselin added that he was not sure the Reliance would defend the cup, that the Consti tution of Columbia both might outsail her. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL Progressive Wilmington. The report of Mr. James H.. Chad bourn, retiring president of the Wil mington (N. C.) Chamber of Com merce, at its fiftieth session, is a note worthy summary of good results flow ing from j persistent, energetic and well-directed) efforts of business men for the upbuilding of their communltv. Mr. Chadboiirn shows how the Cham ber has a general oversight of the business of the port, establishing rules governing trade and shipping; he de scribes the j jmethoda . for keeping a thorough record of all commodities dealt in by jtha city's merchants, the liberality of the Chamber in spending money to promote Wilmington's, inter ests, noting! specially the prepf.raUbn of a volume setting forth the many ad vantages of (Wilmington and its vicini ty for manufacturing; for business and for residencej and its interest In at tracting new industries and sustaining those already established. He said that never before were the prospecla of the city bright and he revealed the reason fir thatfiin his additional statement thdt the merchants of Wil mington have more public spirit than ever before, are more united in their public efforts land present a solid front in bringing Wilmington forward as a commercial Center and as an export city. Manufacturers? Record. Ginning Statistics. The censusj pffice announces from re ports of cotton ginners that there were ginned of the crop of 1902, 11,078.882 running bales equal to 10,ff30,945 bales of the 500-pound standard, or counting round bales as halfbales, 10,58850, vauted at $50lj,897,13s The value of raw cotton exports in-1902 is given at $290,651,819, making jt the leading ar tide in American exports, and the value of the. cotton crop of 1902 pro duced in the j States j included in the Louisiana purchase is given at $M3, 8S5.044, an arhjount greater by more than $5,000,000 than the original price paid to Frances for the territory, with compound interest at 2 per eerrt, Textile Notes. Messrs. J. B.' McCord and G. A. Rus sell of Morristown, Tenn., will estab lish a knitting mill. Union Oil Cof, Union! Point, Ga., will not operate as a cotton? mill the Sparta Cotton Mills at Sparta. Ga., reported last week as purchased. Middle Georgia Cotton Mills. Eaton ton, Ga.. mentioned hist week as add ing new spindles, haj completed the Installations, j The new spindles num ber 2112, an increase in the plant's total to 5440. Messrs. fj. R. Makepeace & Co. of Providence, R I., were the engineers in charge of the improve ments. 1 1 'il'fej New Iberia (La.) Cotton Mill was sold during th week f to W. R. Burk as. agent, it is reported he will nut too mill in operation, f There are six teen knitting machined in the plant. producing underwear.:;! i Walter Brown, recently of Balti more, Md., has leased Dr. J. T. Bel lamys cotton mill, now idle, near En field, N. C. Hel will repeair the dam. cmarge the building and install ma chinery for manufacturing single and double yarns, ball twine, rone and batting. , m Messrs. J. H. Price. Sam R. Sthevens. C. H. Stevens. E. W. R&ld. J. P? Wnlfp A. u. Cherry, F. C. Andrews and asso ciates will organize a $5000 stock com f - . - y T vV pany for manufacturing cotton eoods. iney propose equippine: a plant el twelve looms Ifor producing fancy sheeting and novelty sofods. The nlanf wm d located at Magitolia, Miss. About $25,000 has beeh subscribed ro : 5 ' the propo3etl $100,000 cotton-mill com pany at Salley. g. C., mentioned last week. W. S. Peterson lis interested in the enterprise, and hopes to make' ar rangements for permanent organiza tion. Outside capital will be invited to invest. A watertpoweriis available for development in this connection. Dispatches state that! B. Frank Me- bane and German capitalists have pur chased 4000 acres of land at Spray, N. as ujie ior ine esLaoiisnment or a cotton mill that will contain 200.000 spindles and 14,000 looms, and of a large mill for Manufacturing woolen blankets. Mr. Mebanejfs well known as fceme: largely; interested in the sev- eiai muis at spray. jiy Lumber Notes. G. W. .Hinshaw of Winston, N. C, nas purcnased, probably, for develop ment, 4,000 acres of timber land near Wilkesboro. I " f: i ne aiue Kidge Lumber Co. of Greensboro, N. C., has completed or ganization with C. E. Holton, presi dent. The company has? a capital of $20,000, and has pegun the erection of a saw-mill plantJ 13. E. Cogblll ; and associates oi Boydton, Va., have purchased and will operate sawmill! and timber lands oi T. & P. B. Roberts. j; R. M. Smith pt Parkersburg, W. va., has purchased the Excelsior Lumber Co.'s propertyil near Elkins, and will operate Ithe milling plant. The Licking Cal & Lumber Co. oi Ashland, Ky., has purchased about 6,000 acres, of cdal and! timber lands in Morgan county rand Ml begin de veiopments at once. IjS The. shipments ? of lumber and tim ber from the port! of Pensacola for the month of April wWre unusually heavy. The total, shipment amounted to 32, 060,000 feet, of which 11,670.000 feet was lumber and 20,391;000 feet tim ber, besides 60,000 miscellaneous. it is stated mat Messrs. romeroy Bros. & Co. of Hagerstown, Md will rebuild their rim'; and spoke factory burned at a loss of $20,000. The Southern Development Co. 920-21 Colonial j Building, Boston, Mass,, is arranging to establish a plant at Lakeview, N. for lth .manufac ture of cypress alnd Juniper sTfingles. The Atlantic Shook &! Lumber Co of Norfolk, Va., started.) up Its plant last .wek in order to Jertioent with the machinery. ? Tiere is;: eesslderable wck to be done yet before the plant i' cororlete and ieady tor operation, A brick and lamber shortage i threatened in New York, and may throw 100,000 men out of work. V A reward of $1,000 has been offered for the arrest of the murderer of Aga tha Reichlin at Lorain, Ohio. The Southern Baptist Convention began its session at Savannah, Ga. j Returns received ty the stated clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Philadelphia indicate the adoption of the revised Confession of Faith, j ' The . National Conference of Chari ties and.Correctons continued its sea-'; sions In Atlanta. U i j Oppose Changing Name. I Savannah, Special. By a rotfe of 3i to 1, the diocesan convention of Geor gia voted against the; proposition to change the name of the Episcopal Church to the Catholic Church of America. The debate on the question was spirited. Rev. G. A. Ottman de claring that the time was not far dis tant when the name would be changed whether the Georgia dioces wanted it or not. Telegraphic Briefs. j Dr. W. H. Welch, of Baltimore, was elected chairman of the board of trus tees of the American Medical Associa tion in New Orleans. ,' An experimental shipment of Cali fornia oranges, raisins and other fruit products is to be made to Japan, in the hope of building up a large trade. Japan grows oranges, but they are small, and there is said that no raisins are raised there. The plan originated with a Japanese commission house, and it is hoped to send the fruit without iee and still have it in a salable coaditiail when received. V Shot at Each Other. Valdosta, Ga., Special. News reach ed hers from a remote section of Echols county, of the fatal shooting ef; James Rigdon, by William Lewis.1 Both young men were suitors for the hand of Miss Rosa Johnson, anu.ac-; cording to the accounts receive, tbey! met in her ratner s nouse, quarrejt?u,; and shooting followed in the tho young lady's presence. It is said that tl2 cascj was brought before a local justice of the peace who exonerated Lewis of a.l blame in the matter. Boodler Confesses. St. Louis, Special. Unable to bear the strain of mental tortue which he says he has suffered since the grand jury investigation into legislative boodling was instituted, former State Senator Fred L. Busche went before Circuit Attorney Folk Friday after noon, and made a complete and far reaching -confession of his connection with corrupt deals extending ov'?r a period of eight years. Busche's 'la rations involve several men of proaii- r-'ince, and he names those who have been conspicuous at the State eaoitoV a3 distributors of boodle. Dr. Robinson Discharged. Newport News, Va.,- Special Dr. Samuel Robinson, the negro Christian Science practioner, arrested on suspi cion of being an accessory to the death of Maggie Harris, one of his patients, was discharged by the Phoe bus police justice Saturday. There was no evidence to connect him with the mysterious patient, Who was found dead Wednesday with a bullet in her brain. The police are convinced that the woman was murdered, bnt aro without clew to th3 identity of the murderer. Sueing Meat Trust. Roanoke, Special. II, H. Markley, a local meat merchant, has brought a damage suit against Swift & Co., the Chicago meat packers, to compel them to live up to a contract made by their agent over a year ago to furnish meat at certain prices. When Swift & Co. allied themselves with the Meat Trust and prices were advanced 25 per cent.. the trust agent refused to furnish meat at his contract prices, declaring that Swift & Co., would lose money on such figures. Lee Statue Assured. Richmond, Special.-A statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, commander-in-chief of the Confederate Armies, will be placed in Statuary Hall at Washington just as soon as it can be prepared. The Leg islature took the final step by pass ing a bill making $10,000 available for the work and appointing a commission to see that the plans are executed. The opposition developed to the statue in certain quarters spurred the Legis lature to take action sooner than oth erwise would have been the case. Collma In Eruption. Tuxpan, Jalasco, Mex., . Special. There was a very violent eruption ef Colima volcano Thursday night, ac companied by defening subterranean noises, as abundant flow of lava and a heavy rain of ashes. The eruption con tinued all night. People on the hacien das and ranches in the neighborhood of the volcano are panic-stricken and are abandoning their pueblos for safer places. Fire in Suffolk. Richmond, Special Fire which start ed in the restaurant of Robert Tate, colored, in Suffolk, spread rapidly and destroyed the offices of the Gay Manu facturing Company, burned all the buildings on a block on East Wash ington street, some four or five, belong ing to the Suffolk & Carolina Railway Company, and burned four v or fiv other buildings, including Keller Hotel. There was little insurance. Th loss was about $15,000. ' Immense downpour of Rain. y During the forty minutes' duration of a cyclone at Broplrville, in Queens land, five inches .of rain felL TIFIC NPV5TRJ It is estimated- that the standing, timber of the Dominion of Canada eoali that of the whole continent of Europe, and Jt is double that of the United States. The turbine plants that have been in operation during the last few years have shown high; economy and call for practically no repairs. : Compared with passenger steamers of similar size, but having reciprocating engines, the In stallation of turbines has shown a gain per indicated horse power in favor of the turbine steamer of twenty per cent, j, , Lord Kelvin has suggested that living spores from other-planets might "je thrown on! into space by the perpetual hurricane of their upper atmosphere and come within the earth's sphere of ntrracti'on, be drawn to it, and then be developed. This theory of the origin of life upon the earth is as plausible as the "fortuitous concourseof atoms" theory of life's origin- . Electricity is making rapid progress throuzhout Spain. At the end of last year there were no less than G30 cities, Itowns and villages in Spain with an Ucctric- power station, and-there were only 430 towns with a, population of hi ore than 4000 souls where electricity hart not as yet made its appearance. In ihe district of Barcelona alone there are now over 830 turbines in use, repre senting 35,000 horse power. In orrcr to determine the density of tho earth, President. F.. W McNair, of the Michigan College of Mines, and Major John F. Hayforrt, of the United htates Coast and Geodetic Surveyr will conduct experiments at the Tamarack nWe, which Is particularly well fitted for this purpose, since Its shaft is one b : the deepest in the world, penetrating t a depth of 4530 feet in strata of uni form density. The density of the earth, is largely a matter of scientifle con jqcture. It has been computed liy formulae based on Newton laws fr gravitation. It is true that Sir George Biddol j Airy, the British Astronomer RpyaL computed the earth's density from experiments which he carried on at! a Welsh colliery, but the figures which lie obtained varied so much from tho?e bhsed on the formulae that they i i rhajve not "been generally accepted. The substitution of working- on a large scale, with heavy capital, for the individual operations which char acterize; a new placer mining country, is iquietly but rapidly going forward in the Yukon region, says the Engineer ing and! Mining Journal. While some hydraulic work has been ; done, the conditions are such that it will prob ably neycr.be an important clement in the region. Dredging in the rivers and creeks was tried this season with such Success jthat next year it is probable ;i large number of dredges will be at Tvotlc, despite the short working sea- soil Already mijich machinery for dredge work is on the ground, ready for 'next year. Over 4000 quartz claims were filed during the last season, and while the1 majority of them will amount to nothing, a large amount of explora tion, ;md development is certain. - j A Pozfl In Division Lobby. I once saw Mr. Gladstone fast asleep in ope of the division lobbies, while a d"ivipIon was actually going on. It shoyred how utterly tired out he must havf; been, for usually when he was soirig through a division lie rushed to find a table, and started to write cither a jetter or the dispatch to the Quen in; which he nightly recounted the events of the Parliamentary sit ting On this occasion, there was no doubt of his being asleep. Members paused for a moment as they passed. It was a dark hour in the fortunes of the liberal leader, for his Government was jbreaking up, and he himself was within- a few weeks of his everlasting farowell to public life. His followers Were; touched as they saw in the strangely ipallid' face, in the drawn lines Land in the slumber of utter fa tigue the signs of coming disaster and final jfall.-ULondon M. A. P. - Fleh Ate Their Tonne. A pair of catfish that' "were continu- ously rium watched in a Government aqua made a nest by removing the gravel from a corner. During the first few days! after hatching the fry blinked in the corners of the tank, were at! irregular intervals actively stirred by the barbels of the parents, usually the' mate. ; Subsequently the parents wre seen to suck the eggs into their mouths" and then extrude them with sonie force. The predaceous feeding hahits! of the old fish gradually over came, the parental instinct; the tend encyvto suck the fry into their mouths continued and the inclination to spit them out diminished, so that the num ber of; young dwindled ..'dally, and the 009 that had been Uft with their pa rents had completely disappeared in six weeks, - although other food was liberally supplied.. i . i ' The 8peetrMcore' UMfnlneM. Tn the field of astronomy the xnoc. troscope is often more serviceable than' ine telescope, ior by its means have been discorered dark, planet-like bodies which revolve about the stars, and which .a telescope thousands of times mm-e powerful than any we now pos sess could ever reveal. j Germany's Maritime Position.' Germany has built the finest, fastest vessels afloat, although she is not geo graphically a maritime country and no other country is so largely depend ent on , others for the raw mntorim'' which enter into the makins of a ghip.i mm - - i- me IJrir,.,. ",t cn Amiougii piracy iinon has ceased coast, it is 4 . f ... . Hfr. l" -''si unnt. .,cfc pun carried .a. " " "111. " way, and that right u Oil in the British kuthoritiPK ly at anchor in the shaW the siml0w JM the Lo,Mlon th ago a (lai, ' Peak, says took piace oi the waters of it llarbor at least, thp tir S little drama was .'ic-ti.,i n... lffJ boat, a sniaTf steamer r,r ..T tons, idles between li0I1' T- 0112 t, within shot bf the fleet yn mainland. Tin wimu i-... R 111. J j) . .. fifteen minutes- ami -n . . ni' j ' u lJi(, . , ferry is well in sight nf One night the ferry left-the nM side at 9 o'clock,, and failed n kH at Yan-ma-t, the suburb to .iv-v.. iJ.1..j..v n n f i u mat c .... . ' ing wns heard 'or the craft SH pie of days after wardr whon turned With ner crow and , H una a rouiai tic talo of pinu.; pears that w the lannoh middle of thl naruor somc of tilp senjrers drev their fellow -J11U ipM I travolors an,i u 4 Tliov filrr-.vl tl, WU to run flic ""WW , ..uu, Jl;l V:!)nr I . I tened the-res b- of -iun , . " "!: r v.. .... v , . R , ton River., wdiere Jhvov w j0llr junks were i lira ted one nftor j.xie .pimitrs,.,uviii;; ouiaincd sufiif.; ashore in a- small creek and ixh her, the . crew taking posses!' more arul bringing hor hack to U i ivong ! wnen - s tide: ! u floated wiin ibe ri j On the West Ri'vci of nirsfJ A M j- mm S n n. f m 4 .1 ! . . 1 . . t I iciiuiiz.13 kvi Lain uisirlCT na 1CTT blackmail, w L lich all bonis ililVP (. pay unless tliey carry snfTidpiu w to make a bold fight. It is r.h n,. mon thing to going up or ee :i heavily la.lou m down strrara llyin- ft many as throb pirate Cass :r-; a. that she has paid blai-kmail' -.inj-jj. ceived safe" conduct SE WORDS. The good are-great in ,m:im- m, more than the groat are goodL tTa. . . . jp: i xxis any man .1 ifienu ilitimatf that he would care to have him 1 the complete record 0 a fall dnjj thoughts? Many a man dolefully asks himself ils life wortii living?' who h;is do nothing to warrant an afSruwti answer in his own ease. rni i j 1 1 j-i , i , xiir inau uu xeiis you mat iiPi;nowj( all his faults will argue an lionr witi I you trying to prove tFrat his cliiof weak ness is his greatest virtue. There can never, bo anr linppiiscj with a narro'y- mind. Its pow may think his'tatc of negative conteBt happiness,, but Only because h? Lisnot thepower of knowing the rfaltiug when he sees it- . I - One of the ;giieafe?t mistafeueoja make" is to- diespise things. f around irs because thev are noiVmt we have been accustomed to.. Ta?re may be a better rt-ason for.il to our way,, which probably appears just as odd and ridiculous, to -others,. -Revenge is liTce naaly n:,w P serves: It seemjs sweet and lustiu. at ! first, xand We- tllink oZ it with d'.'l we can wait for it; it v. lll -hi -ill better for keenihe;. When we comet it finallv the "wiightful swtet has In come .1 foul-smelliag, ovil-tast i'.ig 'W which distrusts and makes us ill Kf persist in eating it. Raskin at Hoitier. The following dpsrintiou of IIlilS at home is from the new life ci lUf great apostle- o beauty by 1'redi'K Harrison, In the English Men of ters Series :r Not only was he in soeird .iniff courst nf of thV mnsi courteous is aw sweetest of. friends, but he was in i"aE ner one- of the tmost f ascir.atin? d fceiiiiis whom 1 ovcl" m I have talked wi son ' with Victoi h Carlyle and Tenny- Hugo and Mazz: knd '. Gninbelta. vitH With Garibaldi no one' of these ever impressed more vividly ...with a sense of intf personality, with iln inexplicable of genius that seemed to weimp pI'011 taneously from heart and brain- It1, mains a psychological pur.le how one who could write, with passion and scorn such as Carlyhi and Byron .-never reached, who in print' was so oftett Athenasius contra mundiim. AVUJ opened every written assertion I know," was in private life one the gentlest, gayest, humblest of ScandlnaTian aTarriasft Casom. The Scandinavilsn bridegroom sents to his betrothed a prayer doo and manj- other tift?, which usua". include a goose. She, in tur. ?lV. him, especially in ISweden, a slm l aD this he invariably wears on bte ding day. Afterward he puts it aa- and in no circumstances will be e ?t it again'-while alive. But he wears i in his grave, and there arc Swedes earnestly believe nlot only in the resu rection of the body1 but in the vcritaw resurrection of the betrothal shivt such husbands aslhave never brow any of their marriage vow?. 1 Swedish widower must destroy on tn eve of his second Uarriage tbeJria' shirt which his first wife gave dip TIte .ltroomtets Home. A broomless houisewife nas bcc"01 a possibility. A Yankee lias invent a machine which Sweeps and d"sts room by suction from an air pmp the basement. AH hat is neccssar) to pass a hose nozzle over the c&vv.t and furniture. ..The suction throug" ' prtvploo -:Ixt - flip ceha, none of them being thrown into the a of Uie apartment,