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The last interment by barbarians of
a barbarian princess has occurred in
Honolulu. Civilization is now in
rogue in Hawaii. Hula-hula dances
are out of place at funerals under
Uncle Sam's administration. .
The hyphen is mightier than the
sword. What with an Anglo-American
alliance on this side, a Franco
German alliance in Samoa, a Franco
Russian alliance in the Orient, a
Turko-German alliance in Asia
Minor and an Anglo-German alliance
in Africa, there should be peace on
'earth and good will among all men.
George "Washington is universally
honored in this country, but the
'George Washington of England.
Oliver Cromwell, who made England
free and invincible, and laid the
foundations of her present power, is
to-day without any national public
statue or official recognition of his
greatness. The English people
should hasten to remedy this condi
tion and show their appreciation for
one of the greatest of their race.
That there is no love between the
Norwegians and Swedes is "demon
stated by the fact that a party of the
former hissed, hooted and snowballed
the Crown Prince of .Sweden at
Christiana a short time since. The
people of Norway and Sweden seem
to have lost sight of the fact that in
unity there is strength. Were Swed
en, Norway and Denmark united
they would be in position to success,
fully resist any encroachments from
Russia and Germany. As it is, it is
very probable that in time Stockholm
will become Russian and Copenhagen
German.
I There is one aspect of the disturb
ances in Samoa that is very impres
sive, and in more ways than one. For
the first time in their history the
United States and Great Britain ap
pear to the rest of the world using
force together o?- common end,"and
this in, a' quarter of the globe where
the United States have never before
. had interests of a serious character.
However it has come about, cr how
ever either of the two Governments
may estimate the importance of the
incident, to ail other nations it will
seem a concrete embodiment of a mu
tual policy far-reaching in scope and
intended to be lasting.
! The first organized body of Ameri
can apple growers has just been
formed in Illinois under the name of
the Mississippi Valley Apple Growers'
Association, its objects being to se
cure the best methods of selecting,
planting and cultivating trees and dis
posing of the crop. The growth of
orchard interests in this country and
the increasing exports of American
apples to foreign markets are suffi
ciently important to warrant concerted
effort in the directions indicated by
the new association, and the formation
of that body is a token that the grow
ers are at last beginning to realize
that orchard products are among
the most profitable of the farmers'
crops.
'i An event in the history of communi
cationy electricity that will be mem
orable is the success of wireless tele
graphy across the English Channel.
The Italian inventor of this system,
Marccni, had previously de vastrated
the possibilities of his discovery on
land and atross narrower bodies of
water ; but now he has actually achieved
the feat of sending a newspaper dis
pafch'from France to England without
the use of a wire. The commercial
practicability of this method remains
o be established, but it is undeniably
a marvelous development of applied
electrical seien- i Marconi's svs-
re used to send
The rftad-
the' efficiency
of the?te5ed discovery that electric
signals may be transmitted to a great
distance without even Marconi's me
chanical apparatus.
A decision by Judge Stewart, in
Fraiikhn County, Pennsylvania, if
sustained in the higher courts, may
radicaUy change some features in the
enforcement of the liquor-license law
in the State. Contrary to the rule in
many States, the Pennsylvania law
does net specify closing hours. This
omission has been remedied to a cer
tain extent by the licensing judges,
who have been in the habit of condi
tioning the granting of licenses.
These conditions have had relation to
the location of the saloon, to the re
quests of neighboring residents, to
the character of the applicant for the
license, and the like. Often saloon
keepers in resident districts have
agreed . to ciose tneir saioons at an
eayhour, in one recalled case the
ing of the doors at ten p. m. be
lequired. Last year the Pitts-
dealers had a night limit,
ist on their priv-
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ROSWELL P. FLOWER DEAD
Former Governor of New York Sud
denly Expires at'Eastport, Lt
An Acute Attack of Indigestion Brinq;s.on
Heart Failure to Which the Great
Financier Succumbs.
Eastpoht, L. I. (Special). Ex-Governor
Eoswell t. Flower died here suddenly at
10.30 o'clock Friday night of heart disease.
Dr. Timo iy F. Allen and his son, Dr. Paul
Allen; Mrs. Flower and ex-Governor Flow
er's nephews, Frederick S. Flower and Na
than M. Flower, were at his bedside when
Mr. Flower passed away.
Mr. Flower and a party of friends came
here for the flshinsr. He retired earlv. in
apparently good health and In high spirits.
On the day of his death he and his friend?
were up early, preparing to flsu. Mr.
Flower remarked that he was not feeling
quite well. He was suffering from indiges-
tion, and said he would not go fishing.
Aoout 2 o'clock in the ftternoon.it was
said at the club that Mr. Flower had had
an attack of heart disease, but was resting
quietly. The final attack came in the even
ing. Mr. Flower, already exhausted by the
first attack, sunk rapidlw There was no
longer any hope, although the physicians
exertea every euort to prolong His life.
FATAL RAILROAD WRECK.
Scores Killed and Injured in a Hear-Ea:l
Collision Near Heading, Penn,
Heading, Penn. (Special). Shortly be.
fore 10 o'clock Friday night a collision of
passenger trains occurred on the Philadel
phia and Beading Railroad at the Exeter
Station, six mile3 below Reading. The ex
press train which should have left here at
8.30 p. m. for I'hila lelphia was behind
schedule time in leaving and stopped at
Exeter for orders. A special train from
Harrisburg bsaiing excursionists who had
attended the Hartranft Monument unveil
ing at the capital left here twenty minutes
later man toe express traia, ana at Jixeter,
while proceeding at a rapid rate, crashed
into the rear of the express.
The number of persons killed is twenty
flve, and the iniured number at least fifty.
Tho first train plowed through three cars
of the forward train, completely wrecking
them.
Among the dead are: Captain Street,
Philadelphia; John E. Leaf, Montgomery
County; William Slater, Norristown; Georgef
Shaw, Norristown; John Slinghuff, Norris-'
town; Frank Showers, Norristown; Samuel
Beatty. Norristown; Milton Lewis, Norris
town, Henry Weatz, Norriatowu.
United States Seuator Boles Penrose and
General E. Burb Grubb were passengers in
the Pullman car of the wrecked train. The
reir end of the car in which they were rid
ing was crushed, but the two gentlemen,
though badly shaken up, were uninjured.
A ;ew of those whose injuries were slight
went on a train to Philadelphia, but the
more seriously injured were sent to Bead
ing. The special was running at lea3t forty
miles an hour, and the crash, as the engine
plowed itself into the train in front, was
terrific. Those who lost their lives were
in the rear ears of the waiting passenger
train. The smash-up of the colliding ioo
niotive and coaches was frightful. The
first train plowed three cars, completely
wrecking them.
KILLED FOUR OF HIS FAMILY.
Joseph Harvey, of Michigan, AYounds His
Father-in-Law and Attempts Suicide.
Howaed City, Mich. (Special). Joseph
Harvey, aged twenty, has k;iled his wife,
his three months' old baby, his unele, Bob
ert Pierson, and his. grandmother. He al
so wounded his father-in-law, JohnLogen
slayer, and finally shot himself, inflicting
a wound which is not expected to prove
fatal.
Harvey's unele and grandmother live a
mile north of town. The murderer asserts
that Pierson, his uncle, was cmarreling
with bis grandmother, and that he inter
fered; that thereupon Pierson stabbed and
killed the old lady, aged seventy, and that
he (Harvey) retalliated by shooting his
uncle dead. After shooting Pierson Har
vey stabbed him three times.
Harvey then returned to his .-borne, two
miles southwest of town. .Arriving there,
he shot his wife twice, Silling ber. He then
fired at his three-months' old baby, the ball
going intoits arm.
Next Harvey entered his father-in-law's
room and shot him twice, inflicting, how
ever, no fatal injury. He then shot at Miss
Labar, a teacher who boarded in the house,
and finally sbot himself in the neck.
Harvey's wife, when attacked, was sit
ting up with the reirtfclns of her mother,
who died the previous day. No motive is
knon for the crime.
TORNADO KILLS MANY MEN-
Terrible Destruction iii Huntington's
Mexican Coal and Coke Industries.
Eagle Pass, Texas (Special). News re
ceived from the Hondo Coal Mine, in Mex.
ico, 100 miles from this place, fixes tbe
number of persons killed by a tornado at
twenty-two. About a hundred were
wounded. The Americans killed and
wounded are: Killed Lawrence McJKin
ney. Wounded Superintendent 11. M.
McKinney, Fred McK inney, oven boss, and
Stephen Baelte.
The tornado also struct the town of Sa
binas, twelve miles away, killing two per
sons, Hondo is the centre of C. P. Hunt
ington's Mexican coal and soke industries.
Woman Forger Kills Herself.
Harriet Jackson, aged twenty-three
years, committed suicide at Towanda,
Penn., by swallowing seven grains of
strychnine. The young woman had been
arrestod upon the charge of forging her
mother's name to a check, and it was
while seated at a table opposite tho eon
stable who made the arrest that she placed
the poison in her moutb, stating that it
was for a headache.
Soldiers Ordered to Manila.
Orders have been received at Omaha,
Neb., for the Sixteenth Infantry to leave
immediately for Manila.
No German Reciprocity Yet.
The outlook for a reciprocity treaty
with Germany is regarded in Washington
as having been greatly prejudiced by the
action of the committee ot the Beichstag
in summarily disposing of the Meat
Inspection bill. It wag hoped that
this measure would pave the way
for successful negotiations for a trade
treaty by eliminating the ilWeeling grow
ing out of the meat emo
It has not
been officially stated that
ciprocity
negotiations will be . susp
but it is.
takea lor granted tnat
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German National LegisI
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED;
Washington Items. .
Warrants have been Issued by the See
retary of the Treasury reimbursing several
States for expenses incurred In raising
troops for the Spanish war. The warrants
areas follows:' Iowa, $91.4Sjt; New Hamp
shire, $28:3S8j Florida, $5533.
The body of Colonel H. C. Lgbett, which
arrived here from Manila, wjs interred at
Arlington Cemetery with full military hon
ors. Ail the available troops inthe vicinity
bf Washington were ordered but by the
War Department and many distinguished
ftrmy officers were in attendance upon the
funeral exercises;
The contract for distributing Govern
ment seeds this year has been let by the
Agricultural Department to Charles
Parker, of Santa Clara, Cal., for $61,900.
All the seeds must be delivered here by De
cember 1, and the distribution begins next
January.
Lieutenant-Commander Gottlieb Block
linger has been detached from the com
mand of the cruiser Charleston and or
dered to proceed home to be placed ou
waiting orders; He will be sbeceeded by
Commander Pigrhan, now at Norfolk.
Postmaster - General Charles Emory
Smith has been notified by the Director of
Posts in Cuba that the city Postofficein
Havana, which has been located for about
150 years in the same building, was finally
moved to new quarters at the foot of
O'Beilly street.
Bv direction of tho President the fortifi
cations of Tybee Island. Georgia, and the
military reservation at that point will here
after be known as Fort Screven in honor
of James Screven, Colonel and Brigadier
General of Georgia militia during the war
of the Revolution, who Was killed in notion
at Med way Church, November 24, 1778.
" . lomestic.
C. E. Littleiield, of Rockland, Me., was
nominated by acclamation by the Repub
licans of the Second Maine district as thd
Candidate for Congress to succeed the la' e
Nelson Dingley. Mr. Llttlefleld accepted
in a speech eulogizing Mr. Dingley and
approving the course of the national Ad
min'stration. Celeste McKenney, fifty-eight years of
r.ge, the wife of Harrison C. McKenney, a
lawer, committed suicide at her home in
Providence, E. I. She got into a bath
tub full of water, and while drowning shot
herself behind the right ear.
As a result of swollen streams in the
mountain roads fifty miles north of San
Antonio, Texas, a stage coach containing
Mrs. Emma Lawrence and five passengers
was overturned. Mrs. Lawrence Rnd two
other passengers were drowned. The
accident occurred In a ravine eight miles
from Comfort, Texas.
Frank W. McCarthy, one of the most
prominent colored citizens in Southwest
Georgia, died at bis home in Albany, Ga.,
a few days ago. His funeral was attended
by an immense Tconcourse of both whiter
and blacks. For the first lime in the his
tory of Albany, a tewn of 8000 inhabitants,
every store and office was Closed ia honor
of a negro, no business being transacted
while the funeral was in progress.
In a little eottai e over 100 years old, In
Union, N. J., a few days ago Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Johnson, aged respectively
ninety-five and eighty-five years.celebrated
the seventieth anniversary of thei mar
riage. Grand and great-grandohnaren
gathered at the house and aided in the
celebration. A daughter by Mr. Johnson's
first wife, seventy-three years of age, was
present.
Governor Sayers, of Texas, has signed
tho bill granting a niw city charter for
Dallas. It will not be in force until ninety
days after the adjournment ot the Legis
lature, which will be about June 1. The
new charter gives the city rigid control of
th corporations enjoying municipal fran
chise privileges.
Mrs. Jack Haley's home at Bowling
Green, Ky., was burned to the ground a
few davs ago bv a gang of men unmasked.
They told Mrs. Haley that if any of them
wasiiuknowa to her they would give his
name. In all there were about twenty-five
in the crowd. The house belonged to Mrs.
Bon Runner, and the men had her permis
sion to burn the house.
In the breach of promise suit of Mis3
Boss Crane against P. J. Eiley, a junk
dealer, at Lowell, Mass., the jury gave to
the plaintiff a verdict of fs 3000. The plain
tiff sued for $25,000.
John T. Hendrin, who was arrested on
the charge of solicitation to commit brib
ery while acting as a juror in Philadelphia,
was sentenced to two years' imprisonment
by Judge Audenried. Hendrin went to the
defendant in the ease in which he had been
sworn as a juror and offered a favorable
Verdict for a money consideration.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Morrison was shot
dead by "Ike" Bird at Mount Victory,
Ohio, whom he was trying to arrest. After
the murder Bird sent a bullet through his
own heart, expiring instantly.
Superintendent J. J. Stranahan, of the
Government Fish Hatchery at Put-in-Bay,
has forwarded a report to Toledo, Ohio,
of a tidal wave which took place .there.
The water rose fr ,j twenty inches, and
after it receded fishing boats were left high
and dry on the beach.
There was a run on the Chelsea Savings
Bank, at Boston, a few days ago. A case
of mistaken identity, cause by the fact that
the name of the President of the bank was
similar to that of a merchant who failed,
brought it about. The bank will retuse to
accept some of the deposits withdrawn.
Hugh Cavanagb, twenty-one years old,
Was killed almost instantly by a pitched
ball during a game of baseball at Mont
clair, N. J. Cavanagh was a lather, and
lived with his parents. Smeldt was ar
rested, but later he was released.
An explosion occurred in the nitro
glycerine' bouse of the California Powder
Works at Pinole, Cal., and two men were
blown to pieces, Arthur Graves and L. G.
Wilkins. Graves was a youn Englisman
whose parents are prominent in Bedford,
England. Wilkin3 was from Council
Bluffs. The cause of the explosion is a
mystery.
Jeremiah Kelleher, of Syracuse, N. Y.,
was found in a woods near Knox, Ind. He
had divested himself of his clothing and
was demented. The police believe that he
was robbed and thrown from a train, his
condition being the result of foul play.
Foreign.
The heads of the religious orders of the
Philippines, according to a dispatch from
Rome to th London Daily Mail, have pre
sented a petition to the Pope, in whieh
tbey protest against the "American' atro
cities." The Queen Begent of Spain has conferred
the Grand Cross of Military Merit on the
Austrian Minister of War, Edler von Kreig
hammer, and tbe German Minister of the
Navy, Yice-Admiral Tirpitz. It is generally
supposed that the decorations have been
be3towed in recognition of the friendly at
titude of Austria , and Germany toward
Spain during the recent war with the
United States.
Manuel Martinez, a Cuban, surprised his
wife with Jose Perez Avaios, a policeman,
a few days ago at Havana, Cuba. Martinez,
without speaking a word, drew a revolver
and fatally shot the woman and Avalos,
The latter was badly wounded, but he drew
his revolver and shot Martinez through thd
heart.
A caterpillar pest has been creating
great havoolnthe rich appla orchards in
the vicinity of . St. Hilare, Quebec, fifty,
miles from Montreal. The faro-srs deter
mined to organize for the extermination
of tbe .catterplllars, and a body of about
150 men a few days ago set to work to
spray the trees. Many or ehard3 will be
saved from the. ruin which tLreatened
them.
Anti-Semitic disturbances resulting in
loss of life have occurred at Nikolaleff, in
Southern Russia.
The British Admiralty has decided to
aoolisn the torpedo nets with which, the
cruiser Crescent, which is to be the flagship
of the North American . and West Indian
squadron, is equipped. The annual naval
manoeuvres will be small this year, being
chiefly, con fined to torpedo-boat destroyers
and torpedo boats, v .
''President Loubet, of France, had along
interview with Captain Vignal, the.nev
Military Attache to tha French Embassy at.
Washington, prior to his departure for Tils
post of duty. M. Loubet directed Captain
vignal to pay to President McKlnley as
surances of his profound respect and most
THE GUN IN THE MUSEUM.
The Trophy From th: Raleigh Loaned to
the Museum.
The committee having in charge the
gun presented by the cruiser Baleigb,
held a meeting and decided tc place it
in the State Museum. It is not to be
given to the museum, but ia only
loaned and may be removed whenever
the city of Raleigh desires to do so.
The Museum was chosen for the rea
son that the trophy can be better cared
for there than anywhere else at pres
ent. It seems to be necessary for the
gan to be closely guarded. At New
York, even on board the Raleigh, sev
eral screws and bolts were taken from
it by souvenir hunters; and ft Wil
mington, on board the Compton, the
sight was stolen from tbe gun. It is
to guard against such as this in future
that in&aenced the committee fa
choosing the State Museum as the
proper place to keep the gun.
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Ewart Will Oct His Money.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has decided that Judge Ewart, of the
Western district of North Carolina, is
entitled to receive the salary attached
to the office from the date of his quali
fication under the recess appointment
issued to him by the President on
April 13, 1899. During the last session
of Congress, Mr. Ewart served as dis
trict judge under a recess appointment
issued July 13, 1898. On December
13, 1898, the President again sent his
nomination to the Senate, but no ac
tion was taken thereon. On April 13,
1899, a second appointment was issued
to Mr. Ewart, under which he quali
fied, and the question was raised by
the disbursing clerk of the Depart
znent of Justice whether he was en
titled to a salary from April 13 last.
The Comptroller reviewed the decision
of a former Attorney General a3to the
authority of the President in making
recess appointments and decides the
question in the affirmative.
A Remarkable Relic.
A remarkable relic has recently been
uncovered on an island at the month
of the New river, near Marines. A
strong current set in from the sea a
few days ago, cutting away the ocean
bed to a depth of several feet and lay
ing bare tbe remains of a vast forest at
the bottom. Great stumps and remains
of mammoth trees were seen and among
them the skeleton of what is supposed
to be a mastodon. One single bone
weighed not less than six hundred
pounds, and judging from measure
ments of parts an estimate has been
made that the animal in life must have
measured not less than fifteen feet
act oss the breast and stood nearly or
quite twenty feet high.
Three Horses Killed.
The Atlanta - special, northbound,
ran into a drove of horses ou the Ral
eigh and Gaton railroad near Weldon
and killed three of the animals. One
of them was badly cut to pieces and
dragged for a considerable distance.
The horses belonged to Maj. T. L. Em
ery and were on the track at Choekoy
otte creek. The engineer blew his
whistle, but the animals were badly
frightened and only jumped back and
forth on the track. The engineer
states that he made every effort to stop
the train, but, it being a fast train and
on a down grade, it 'ran into the
horses before the engine conld be
stopped.
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Iron Furnace a Success.
The iron furnace at Greensboro is
an unqualified success both as to
quality and quantity. Monday the
manager commenced making at the
foundry number one iron which is
considered the best that can be made,
and Wednesday they commenced
making four blasts instead of three, as
bet ota. Another one thousand horse
power engine has arrived. It is also
stated that another furnace will be
erected as soon as possible.
The North Carolina Supreme Court
adjourned Wednesday to meet next
September. For tbe first time in fifty
years not a single case was carried
over to the succeeding term.
Sebator Pritchard has recommended
Prof. O. F. Pool as census supervisor
of the eighth census district. .
Copies of the school law are being
distributed throughout the State. The
demand for the law h&o been large and
they are being mailed out rapidly.
The entire State guard will - be re
organized so as to admit the entire
First Regiment of volunteers, very
probably as it stoifd at muster-out.
The Selma Oil nd Fertilizer works,
with a capital stock of $25,000, , has
been organized and will soon com
mence operation.
Governor Russell has commissioned
F. W. Hancook a member of the state
board of pharmacy for a period of five
years from April 28, 1899.
The new Winston-Salem postoffice
will have the distinction of being the
only hyphenated office in the United
States.
Graded schools are soon to be es
tablished in Newbern, the town having
voted the necessary tax levy.
An eagle measuring 6 feet from tip
to tip, and havii-g monster talons, was
killed near Wilmington Monday.
Mr. P.ichard Tillery, who is Capt.
Day's general manager of the peni
tentiary farms, was in Raleigh a few
days ago. Relative to the farms he
says ho will finish planting rot on tb is
week and that there are 4,000 acres in
cotton, 4,000 acres in corn, 800 in pea
outs. 30O in wheat, 300 in oats and
250 in rice. There is at each farm a
garden of 15 to 20 acres. All the
farms are in good shape, he says,
though about 100 more convicts are
needed on them.
The Wilmington Messenger says that
in addition to the $250, 000 cotton mill
to be erected by Mr. E. C. Holt and
bis associates, anothef $100,000 cot-
to'll is to be erected, in Wilming
ton.
Rev. Georgs.D. Armstrong, for forty
years active paster of the First Presby
ierian church, of Norfolk, Va., and
now emeritus pastor, is critical ill. He
is in his 87th year.
Mr . James -H. Cathey, of Bryson
.Cityybas written a book claimlngthat
Abraham .uinooin was corn m iun-
iornJbe ooun ty in wha is now. Swam
CHARLESTON REUNION ENDED.
Last
Day's Session a Spirited
One To
Meet ia Louisville.
Chableston, S. C; Special. With
a spirited, .and at times a stormy ses
sion, the ninth annual reunion of the
Confederate veterans was on Friday
brought to a close. General John B.
Gordon, commander-in-chief, and all
the old officers, were re-elected. Louis
ville. Ky., was chosen as the next
place of meeting and the question of
Federal care of Confederate graves was
disposed of by tbe adoption of a sub
resolution which declines the Presi
dent's suggestion except as to those
graves located in the North, and re
serving to the women of the South the
duty of caring for those in the seceding
States, and Maryland. The adoption
of this resolution and the report that
accompanied it precipitated a debate
which verged upon the sensational,
and at times much confusion and dis
order prevailed.
At night at the auditorium, a grand
reception to the veterans was held and
an address delivered by Col. Henry L.
Turner, of Chicago, commanding the
First Illinois Regiment, who has been
the guest of the city during the re-
nnion. A brilliant Dan was given at
the Isle of Palms to the sponsors, maids
of honor and Daughters of the Con
federacy. The veterans and visitors
rapidly departed and the ninth reunion
of the men who wore the gray was
practically at an end.
The convention was opened at 10:80
o'clock, with the singing of the Doxo
loey, which was followed by prayer by
the Rev. Dr. S. P. H. Eiwell, of South
Carolina.
General Gordon introduced General
M. L. ' Bon ham, of South Carolina
Sons of Veterans, who delivered an ad
dress. He was followed by Mr. Kirk,
commander of the trans-Mississippi
department. His remarks were of the
nature of a eulogy of the Confederate
soldiers. General Gordon then prest nt-
ed Robert E. Lee, Jr., who was cheered
to the echo by the assembly.
General S. D. Lee presented the re
port of the committee on history, which
was unanimously adopted. This was
one of the most important matters be
fore the convention, and the reading of
the report was listened to with close at
tention. The report alluded to the war
with Spain as a factor in obliterating
the shadows of the war between the
States, and refers to the prompt re
sponse of the Southern States to the
call for troops as showing the whole
country the depth and fervor of the
Southern patriotism.
Alluding to the question of Confed
erate graves, the report says: "The
recent generous words of President
McKinley, commending the Confeder
ate dead to the nation's care, are the
expression of a sentiment growing
everywhere, that the deeds of the Con
federate soldier are the glory of the
whole country, and that bis memory is
worthy to be cherished wherever self
sacrifice commands sympathy or brave
actions strike a responsive cord in noble
hearts. "
The committee recommends that an
effort be made to banish from the
schools any books which teach false
lessons, either in fact or sentiment,
and to this end suggests the appoint
ment of a committee of three members
in each State, whose duty it shi.ll be to
examine school histories there in, use.
In discussing the report, Dr. J, L. M.
Curry, of Virginia, discussed the right
of secession, and defended the coarse
of the South as constitutional, and then
denounced mob rule and lynchings in
unmeasured terms.
Among the resolutions adopted was
one characterizing as mere fiction the
statements made by a distinguished
Southern lecturer that the Confederate
authcrities were remiss in not improv
ing the opportunity at the famous
Hampton Roads conference, vhen Mr.
Lincoln met the Southern commission
in an effort to arrange terms a peace.
The convention then proceeded to
the selection of a city for the reunion
of 1900. Louisville, Ky., and Norfolk,
Va., seemed to be the only active can
didates. It was Boon evident that the
Kentucky city was in the lead, and the
selection was made unanimous. A reso
lution of thanks to the city of Charles
ton was passed, and at 2:15 the conven
tion adjourned, sine die.
The Bicycle Trust.
Tbenton, N. J., Special. Articles of
incorporation have been filed with the
Secretary of State of the American Bi
cycle Company, with an authorized
capital of $80,000,000. The company is
authorized to manufacture and to sell
bicycles, automobile vehicles and elec
tric and other motors.-
These officers are created by an ex
ecutive order of May 8, which has not
been promulgated. The order creates
a system for the management of the
finances oi tne lsianas, providing ior
treasurers, auditors and other neces
sary officers for keeping the accounts
of the receipts and expenditures of the
islands.
Railroad Accident.
Reading, Pa., Special. A collision
of passenger trains occurred on the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, at
Exeter, about six miles south of this
city, Friday night, and a great num
ber ox persons were killed and injured.
There is so telegraph office at Exeter
and details, therefore, are difficult to
obtain at this writing. The number
of killed is variously stated to be from
15 to 25. Fully 50 others are injured.
Tne approach to the Red Sea coast
tf Marchand, the French explorer
whose Fashoda claims stirred up such
a Soudan rumpus between France and
England, has now an interest partly
sentimental, but chiefly geographical.
and not at all political. His feat as an
intrepid explorer, in crossing equator
ial Africa on a line 2,500 miles long,
should be productive of information
valuable to the scientific world and in
structlve to the layman. - It is to. be
hoped that he will give to , the world
the results of his expedition '.'at as
early a day as may be poseibj
i HB I
1
And in Order To Be Classic He
Quotes Latin
v
TO REMIND HIM OF OLD: IMES
W hen He Was a Student at the Uai .
Talks of His School Day an$ .
Olden Times. ; "
Lsity-
rys ol
"Tempora mutantar e noi
mur in illis." I aui now in 1
the classic city, and must quota
Latin to be classic, too, and show i
ns,
me
T hor-A not forgotten my alma mater.
"The times have changed and we most
change with them," said the Latin
poet 2,000 years ago, and this maxim
is more striking now than it was then.
The changes are more rapid and more
tf dical. Old Franklin college, within
whose unpretending walls I walked and
studied and expanded my youthful
mind, has grown to be an university
and we old men are straining our
minds to keep up with the new order,
tbe widening of mental and physical
training which is now offered to onr
boys. Time was when we thought
that Dr. Church and Professors McKay,
Waddell, Leconte, Jackson, Ste
vens, Hull anp Nahum Wood
knew all tha ' was worth
knowing in this sublunary world;
when there was no higher honor than
to be a Phi Kappa or a Dcmosthenian
orator or to be cbosen as a junior ora
tor of one of these societies. Time
was when to be in lore with a lovely
Athens girl was in itself a liberal edu
cation, for they were fair to look pon,
refined in manners and fascinating in
conversation. There were only a score
or two of them then, and they had the
pick of 160 students, young men of tho
best families of Georgia and her sister
States, and half a hundred new ones
coming in every year. Just tbiuk of
it; what a blessing to girls is the proxi
mity of a male college or a university.
But by and by there comes along a fe
male college in the same town or city
and then the boys have an tqual
chance.
My visits to this classic city have
been few and far between. 1 do not
suppose there is a soul living here now
who was here in 1831. My pareuta
and my brother and I stopped over
night at the old Sledge hotel as we
journeyed from Boston to Georgia in a
carriage. We went to Boston by tea
from Savannah, but came back all tbe
way by land iu a private carriage and
never crossed a railroad. There was
none to cross. My next visit was elev
en years later, wnen J. came to enter
the sophomore class. Two mules at
tandem pulled our little car from Un
ion Point forty miles to Athens. Tbere
were common passengers below and a
score of uncommon ones on top for
they were college boys, and as such
preferred to ride high just a col
lege, boys do now. With what fear
and trembling we went through the
examination that was to determine our
fate whether we were fit ten to enter or
only fitten to get fitten. It was a
thrilling and momentous ordeal, but
we survived it. What awful majesty
appeared in Dr. Church's classic feat
ures and in the quick glances of his
dark and piercing eyes. He was from
New England, and after he came south
married a sister of our Judgo Trippe.a
beautiful woman and the mother of
five of the most beantiful daughters
ever seen in one family. They were
queenly. These yankea schoolteachers
all mated with our southern girls and
didn't mind owning a few negroes any
more than so many horses or cows es
pecially if they came with the wife's
patrimony. Old Judge Warren got
his that way, but it cot him off from
his yankee relations. Nathaniel Be
man was another distinguished yan
kee teacher, but whether he became a
slave owner or not I have not learned.
My father was a yankee school
teacher, but didn't get any slaves by
marriage, ne Duugut su.u., iiuicn.,
and that created a coolness among his
northern kindred. It took those
yankees a locg time to acquiesce in
slavery unless they cume down Suuth.
Old Bill Steward tritd to marry n
Putnam county girl who had about a
hundred, and because she would 1't
have him he went back North and ra s
ed a howl about Blavery. iosiai
Meiggs, auother Connecticut yaukut
and a grandson of Return Jooathn
Meiggs was the first prteident
of this college and held bit. place
for twelve jf ais. I think that b. too,
married a Southern girl a sister ol
Governor John Forsyth. Next came
Moses Waddell, an educator of great
renown. He married a sister of John
C. Calhoun and eduoated him and Le
gare and Pettigrew and other notable
men before he became president. Af
ter that he had for his pupils many of
the great men of Georgia, including
Stephens, Toombs, Howell Cobb, John
son, George Pierce and tbeCrawfordst.
And there were giants in those days.
Some folks say tbere are just as great
men now, but there are so many more
of them that tbey have become com
mon and do not attract so much atten
tion. Maybe so yes, maybe so.
The poet says, "I feel like one who
treads alone eome banquet hall desert
ed," and so do I when viewing these
classic halls and meandering in the
shade of these classic trees. All of my
preceptors savo one have passed over
the river. All my college-mate" save
perhaps a dozen have followed them,
and if Swedenborg divined the iutnre
state correctly they are goingto school
again in another world. Some of tbem
who were dear to me have left chil
dren or grandchildren who greet mo
kindly for their father's eake. Fond
memory recalls tbe Cburcbes, Daw
sons, Ferrells, Howards and Boling
Stovall, whom I loved, and tbere wa
the gentle Henry Timrod, who wan
as lovable as a timid school girl. How
often did we see him brushing the
dew from off the upland lawn alone or
taking his evening strolls without a
companion, but alays kind and gentle.
Jfe little dreamed that he was even
then nursing poetio thoughts and
breathing the aweet harmonies of na
ture. Poor bo.T. " How did our heart
bleed for Lim when long after we
learned of his f offerings and his sor
ows.
are the solid wen d
1 ""'W.ow
Athena who gave it cnaracter ana
dignity as tboy moved among their
people? Wh-jre is Lumpkin and the
Cobbs, tbe uuns ana morions aul
Thomases? Where tue JewtoaB tnj
Albon Chaea and John W. Burke.
whose marriage I attended ? When
is Dr. Nathan Hoyt and Dr. reM
and Dr. Cra-wford Long;, the discoverer
of anesthesia? W here are all the &veet
girls who sung in the choirs of the
churches and did not veil their facet
from us as we sat in the gallery &si
feasted upon their beauty? It iiul
that a song outlives a sermon, and to
those sweet girl angers still live ia i
memory, though the preachers' elo-,
quence wis soon forgotten.
And where is old Sam, tho janitor,
who ran;; the college bell and
our secrets and brought ns 'possum
and 'titfrs and otLer luxuries by
night after tbe tutors had gone on
their gmnd round and all was qniet
the Oconee? bere is Hansel, the
bwr'fcC'r. from whom we purchased ice
erea? or cakes for our evening walks,
and V-re are all tbe pretty girls we
used toeet or passed on tbe way to
Cobkaml remember that it was here
I first 'aav and heard Toombs and
Stephens, ,Wj!iam C. Dawson and
Doughertys atil Bishops 1'ierce
Elliott and otherXloauent fctatts
and divines. The6e"Sjjaen were
ideals my standard of bouilwrn
hood, honor and intellect, an
rridroa m in hplifiVQ that the ttttD
arl has been loaered since the ci
war. I am no pesMmist, but it
i - ii t miiliAila nnd men
ennjr lj dcd iijui .a . w .
are tolerated now that were not thf
method in the forum, in the legr
lative hails, in politics, in busincef
and in the Diiloit. But etill there I
much good that has come along wi
hft hail and in everv town and cv
and community tbere more good m
and women than Abraham could fi
in Sodom. Athens is still the centJ
seat of art and 1 art i- g, of good mor
and good manner, and the
our State, and that citizen is not to
envied whose love bf learning and whf
reverence for historic virtue does
gain force as he ponders npon her
toryofa hundred years. Bill Arp
Atlanta Constitution.
rilHE interest oft
world in Cbrf('
of Herod or of J J
das.
, Men may
born with for ton
teady made, I
character t h i
have to achieve
So great is If
! i j'O nothiog less tb
God will ever satisfy Lim.
Some forms of Bible study
attempts to satisfy soul hunger by c
lag tbe dishes instead ol the din-"
There is a world of difference"
letting your light shine before nog
making a firework display.
Tha reward of heaven are no a
on the size of our sheaves, but t
single-heartedness of onr servicer
God may be worshipped at the
is truly as at the altar. it J
INCOKSIDlCnATC.
"Did the nuu.sttr say an'
comforting ?" anLed tbe nJ'
the widow recently bir'oavuiR
"Indeed, he didn't," was th
reply. "lie said my husbau
better off."
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