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wh! alwaya came to our eampmeetlnga
! and attracted exeat crowds, who tame
I to hear him scare the sinners and srari-
i fy the Christiana and denounce- tne
fashions and follies of the day. I have
not forgotten his rebuke to a gay young
couple who behaved unseemly durias
i the sermon and the old man. stopped
and said, 'If that young man over tnera
with hair on his face and tnat ycmng
woman with a green bonnet on her
head and the devil's martinrab
rvomd her neck and his stirrups on
i - , , j her, ears don't stop their giggling
- ' - i A-A wnrk and Self i while I am preaching God's message to
Tells of the Splendid W ork ana -e lun. 1 will pint 'em out to the ron-
Adore. ereeation.' But we had a numoer i
WOMAN'S BIG WORK
. V ( .' ,m..i ' i '" ' 1
Bill Arp Addresses the Woman's
Home Mission Society.
i
HE GIVES HIS INSTIXTED PR VISE
'in
laith and creed the world
disagree, ',
But all mankind unite on charity."
"And Wadsworth says:
" The charities that soothe and heal
and bless
Are scattered at the feet of man like
flowers."' . '
Sacrifice of Women-Hls
Published in Full.
MADAME
ANo- MISS
Ga.. the
Atlanta Constitution,
-o.ntiv in Cartesville,
Woman'a Home Mission Society of the
nr:h Georgia conference met. Among
thos who made addr were m
.Arp. Uti talk was interesting through.
out and is by request from many re-
produced In the Constitution In lieu of
hi, regular letter. It follows in full:
H our youth la fJ
1d ace will be croned with P1"""1
'.r-isis tiff's "Sms
wUh wfrty 1 beliere that It U -sTble
KTaS.- to make tj. .
..trrtivt that even the boys wou r
rather stay m nanT bf i
very treat and notable preachers in
tfcr davs. George Pierce, the bis'iop.
and old Lovie Pierce, bis father, end :
Judge Longstreet. the eloquent presi
dent -cr Exory college, and Dr. Means
arid Walker Glenn and old brother
Parks used to attend our quarterly
meetings and our revivals. They were'
ail great and good'uKn and the people
came from far and near to hear thera.
No more eloouent end gifted divines
hare occupied the pulpits of Georgia
Iron that day to tais.
"Cut mission work was totally un
knows as aa orjranteed feature of
-hurra work. The first we ever heard of
was Introduced by some northern emls.
sarles who came to this region to plant
Christianity among tne "
of them, whose names were onee.er
and Butler, were suspects, and arrested
by order of Governor Gilmer and
nlacel ii lail In Lawreneeville. where
ihou mon wno were
DS STAEL
" . STONE.
"Charity is the essence of love, and
love Is the f ulfllllns f the law. Chari
ty, like merry, is not strained, but
droppeth as the gentle dew from heav
en upon th earth beneath. It is twice
blessed. 'It hl-.'sseth him that gives
and hlro that doth receive.' Madame
will .lag wner vne ouvpw. -
Always And a welcome and feel at home i
in any Christian churwi. ive i uw
and loveof man covers all creeps and
all forms of worship. . ,
"That is the spirit cf universal
brotherhood. Love is stronger than
creeds of kindred or country. .sPf
cially the love of woman. Davids
hig-hest tribute to Jonathan was that
his love or women, num. vire
bitess, was not an Israelite, but the
left her home and her native land to
live with her husband's mother because
she' loved hex. How often o we see
Methodist or Presbyterian -tfotaM
choosing their mates outside of thevr
church and joining the church of ther
husbands. They do not stop v um
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
serious soutBESsac::;-
de'Stail saM, "The o:i!y bank account j th(, f but change their church as"
we wui r.avp m navt-n win ue willingly as they cnange ineir
VkV fcavir vuf iu tuaiuj. wviiiL4uao ftnd I have KUvWU LEtflll IV viv
two or three times. - roiurr
Jones is not ashamed to tell how ha
found his wife in a Baptist duck pond,
and I make' no secret of telling how-1
found mine in that same old Methodist
church I have described to you not up
in the 'Amen' corner among the saints,
nor afar back among tbe sinners, cm
Kmit mldwav. where the angels con
gregate. Men do not change t-eir
i-hi, he to nlease their wives for they
sail maintain their rightful lordship as
.,.. . famiiT. But for love a
will rhanee not only nei
hi it name. The love of wo
h.a nn narallel. It exUnguisheJ
all fear. The apostles shrank from
a ViM themselves, and one be
trayed and another denied bis Iiord
----- ,..
ii iivi iimi ... . t , . . m ini u.
thin to seek the careless compau - , yankees, were ecreu, "Z .7,, vt tne missionaries
'7. i tw the Indians ioiui , ,
4ao "" """" navid s ZV .u fhair lads to Georgia
I don t anow ----- - uu w .:
tZTJV this waVneVer proven, and Gov-
?.moEr Si one of great angu h , ,rnor Gnmer turned them out on con-
rn me 1213 1 AKaf Vmi Q K(l UBtli w " "
when he said pianiT and they went I , remember
state and con
missions In the long ago,
un-.rrf Cirn inn aumor OI nuuii,
- - . . u.
when 1 was
. , - u were an ua- ?wePt H0me,' was another suspect. n.
young and the most of you were . e ei , , t0 Milje.lge-
known ouantlty j -prlsoVeV. but was soon relea,ed
teens and was 3.noiic.BR u ' -a.hinton city with an
I?, 0BS;,hUt chrcb w i-A Two mo I received a let-
for. th Methodist churcn was in e , Tmm q
fnlJlrivey. d Ha. Viy Tamillar lid X was b,rn near C.rtersville hi.
I fh Graveyard for 1 bad to pw ji. while her, father, who was a Mela
Zl iilll iiStthlt l -Uiwa ! oJ!st preacher was teaching an Indian
right by it every nigui . . In i ,,, ,.hool up the Ftowah river at
saw a ghost and ran norae " . , , . fnderwood. knew bira
rid of him, tbougn ! LT, V,m he was a rood Indian. He
ncbt itiHir w a . . . .
"Z . II .h,.r. rt the people, but
where was the "bell and where was the
tpte. for if had neither. It wua an
!d-fashioned unpainte.1 ollB
had small glass windows of 8 by 10
m rf.vnrs in front. whin
IIW, IUU " - - .
rot his feminine name according to In
dian custom, which was to name a new
born child for the first thing that the
Indian doctor saw from the door of the
wigwam after Ue" child was born, and
so. when ths doctor looked out and saw
. d . " Mr Hitarltr of Methodist an Indian maiden uugning. me
ised to be a pecu larlty or . " b b h 4 t be naB)e(1 uughing
churches. It was said that one door woy w ni . w
we questioi the selT-Ba.rriflc.e- cf mis
sionary work in foreign lands, and the
recent case cf Miss Stone has stagger-'
ed the faith of those who help unwill
ingly; but the command of th Savior
after His resurrection is ever before
us: 'Co ye unto all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature.'
Not long a go a lady said to me. "Well
ir we cannot convert them, w can
civilite them. The gospel of a clean
shirt goes side by side with that of re
pentancev Wherever the missionary
has gone. his or her message has been
addressed to the head as well as to the
heart. John Wesley aaid that cleanli
ness was next thing to godliness. A
clean body and a comfortable home Is
the beginning of religion. But neither
the abduction of Miss Stone nor the
personal sacrifices of thousands of oth
ers for a moment stops or impedes' the
It broadens
I and lengthens aa the years roll on, up
lifting the lives of the ignorant and
irgraded In the dark places of the
earth: The twenty millions contribu
ted this last ytar to this cause prov?s
that the god of greed and selfishness
has not assumed entire sway over this
nation. These millions bring no re
turn in wealth to the donors, nothing
out tne reward or duty performed.
"Just think of it for a moment. Do
you know that we have eighteen thous-
-.n! missionaries in' foreign lanasT in
China. India. Turkey. Egypt, and Cape j
Colony, and the mSssionarlea are re- (
inferred by eighty thousand native
jrcaihcrs and teachers. They have
churcheB ' la twenty-three -thousand
tewns and villages, with cne and a half
!Eill!:)n communicants and Christian
communities of over four million
iuDila. These missionaries, have over
four million pupils under iDctlcn,
Tbey have nlrety-four universities ami
colleges.' and soi-e of them are world
renowned and raak well with out own.
The Ust wdowed of these college.
o,....ntionnle. Beirut, Pekin,
and master, but woman was last at His
1 a!
HlrTn Water Does DatnagY lo
. Place.
Meridian. Miss., Special.
is .entirely rut oft from th
world, except that two West
wires are still in operation,
train Is moving with 50 '
city. A fast freight on tie Nr
ern Railroad is feet Under
the crew is in danger of beir
away. -Efforts to reach the i
boats have been futile, owtyM
swift current. Two relief partif
ed td swim an'i wane iuv. s
V The Soulh In nanufactnrioi.
Capt-.W. RPnow of High Point. N.
C . the pioncef in tne wooawpruuS in
dustry of that city, reviewing iu prog
ress during the part twenty-five years.
.,- ihat its oooulatlon of 3tKi has
gro-n to one of W0, of whom 3uw are
employed oearly ftfly fV"
rnenia. receiving about $S5i0 ia wFkly
t.-rp than t2.OtW.u00 are in-
vev-ted in mills in machintry. and rocst
of taht money has been accumulated
from industry at High Point. The Wil
miongtoa Marninf, .Star holds High
Pojnt to be a striking illustration- ot
nf liiannfadunng to a
Itiv - -
uMniiiritf not nr.lv as a meass oi
Mviihrmrf for direct employes uui jinc has been neara mim
for supplies of raw material ana iu-1 Xhur8(!ay EighL Water at J
It t3nJa other luuswmoiu ' "'12 miles south, is rising at
V5! ."V h'the ri 18 inches an hour. There 1. a
? "...,- i. not the. one which for the resumption of traffic
ti vwiuiiiuj " . . J.I , , -
ixroduct-s the rreatest quaniuy oi c uuu three days. Tne soumern
material for InduFtry. but the one j h3 bpen un(jer S feet of f
whic"h converts that material mio some d famines ha
useful article for which there is a d- ;
mand. ' , ,. . V(o-,.r rxfl
At many points in tne &oum hum .uu --
truth of this moral is being emphasiz- Nw 0rjean8( Special. Ttf
ed. the more -W.?" and rain storm which ha. z
fZiTc maarwhlh C over southern Mississippi for
been manufactured in other section. 4S hours has demoralised n
to their great gain. The South was trafnc mnfi teleuaphlc eommuj
gradually changing to a producer of The )wa of ifazlehuret. Mis
more or less finished articles when war r0JDpJrtely Isolated for I
intervened, and it was not until ltoO a0cOuntof thehea'
and later that Us proper pace -
t v - --- 1 kill unoz eucJs.aFJl cmfw emiw emi eJ tneJr banks ana an iranic
racuiuci. . ..., hv Vho f.-t that, wnue 1 . v.. Kn ctnnned.
on . j ..... - - - ? ruuuu f una r m .
h
the whole country inoreasea Hi per
iiwwn 1RS0 and 1900. the value
' j - 1 r . .. .
of manufactured products in tne soum
Increased la the same penoa
cent. In the meantime the value of
oracles or uoa. now m,..
we haev respect for the Christian wo
men of this land who are planting
those oracles at home and abroad.
. Tired of Rebellion.
Manila. Bv Cable. RuOno, who has
spent $30,000 in his efforts to incite
rebellion in me pruYiui.
lsland of Mindanao, now sa
is
manufactured products in the South
has increased from 8 per cent, to II
per cent, of the value of manufactured
products in the country. . That fact,
taken in connection with the obvioua
,Tr.ontinn nf manufacturing in iuv
tired of rebellion and has offered to , goulh aurlng tne paet ten years shows
surrender, with 75 rifles, to tne name that rau(
to turn them out. The Baptist churches
of that day had but- one door, for
when once thsy got in mey d" r
SM""'rlL '",'1'. .?.hr... Ibi U.lt-krerf.. brano conr. ...
m th town, ana at nigni w
trysting plare of the old people who
lioved God and the young men and
maidens who loved one another. No
tice was given that meeting would be
aln at early candle-light. Candles! that
ave what Milton calls a dim religious
n.. rinn't omiin mv vounc friends,
lor Shakesaro wrote by eandle-UK.it
nd says, 'How for mat, iiuio
throws Us beams, so shines a good
eed In a naughty worlV Everybody
was familiar with the amen corner ana
Triad reverence f or those ho occupied
it. Mjr wife and I still remember the
low, guttural aniens of Brother Mu
why. the snap-hcrt aniens uf Brpth tr
' Ivy, and the -deep groanings
of old
living here for sixty-Sve years, is fa
miliar with the name and the home of
Laughing Gal. The Cherokee Indians
worn.
re
nd
Ham' arn became a nreacner; ana so
did bl. grandson .and I and my
daugbtr, Mrs. Aubrey, heard him
preach at Little Rock about twenty
years ago.
CHANGE WROUGHT BY WOMAN'S
WORK.
"But you must pardon me. I did not
forget that the object of . this confer
ence was home mission work, but eto
nti.nt men and cultured women who
have preceded me have faithfully cov
ered that ground In every phas? and
have left tor me notbing'but memories
that are only kin to It. There is,' how
ever, no dividing line. Both foreisn
and domestic missions nre founded in
Christian charity and .Christian prog-
was a time wtien mere
organization as home ihiR
Father Norton in echo to the pleading j
prayers of the preachers. Father Nor- ; ' f
ton' was a very close and stingy man j no s ich
a parsonageiu the State, and the ltene- bli(,
rant preachers were sheltered in any ,
Egypt and Cape Colony. Then there are
over one thousand secondary school.
?or training in the arts and industries,
and also one hundred and twenty-two
kindergarten schools. The most gratl
SJ and significant fact 1 that more
and rejoice, for It is a pitiful facH that
girls The colleges have over two
thousand of them, and in the common
rnnstitnte more than hair
iuuv" , ,u ,
the number of pupus. -
."j" r if is a oltful fact that
?o?ceuturs Tn these benighted lanUs
! v,0 vn under thft ban, ana
t iriucu tl a--- , . .
young girla were slaves to man a donii
i ;.., B rnnvenience and passion.
. ' K.,.tif,ii and elorioua picture
she now has of the freedom and ele
vation of her sex. and it has all come
u , .i wnru nf missionaries, ana
Is worth a million times more than it
has ever cost.
',navs r.REAT WORK
"The freedom and elevation of wo
. . .u ri.,rinus and heavenly
' ... ., Kutury. and it still
sYn not omy in foreign lands but
here at home. Woman is now at the
lf.n,l of every chantaow worn.
nonerai Lanee
leave Manila April 10. on a tour of In
spection to the island of Samar. Ha
will visit every port in the island, and
will witness the surrender there o.i
April 15. of the insurgent funeral
Guevarra. After this surrender, the
American garrisons in Samar will ba
largely reduced. ,
Not After Atlantic Coast Lne.
Wilmington, N, C. Speclal.-It Is
known almost to a certainty nere tuai
great damage by
and there is
trains runninr
davs. Abjti ten ro
wti
t : . ...l
litrV tronatu'j
ch of the increase in its manu
facturing has been but an in Tease in
the first handling cf material for more
lucrative manufacturing elsewhere, for.
with a population or rJ.vw.uw. .mr
South's manufactured products in 1900
were valued at fl.46C.0OO.00O. while the
rent of the country, with a populatlou
of 63.000,000. produced to the value of
$11 571.000.000. Still, tne Jsoum u
the proper gait and the rise In recent
years of new industrial centers in near
ly every Southern State from West
viro-inio to Texas, and the enlargement
of undertakings in older communities
there is no truth in the report that the j wth the manifest tendency toward
PpnnRvlvania Rallroaa nas purcaaseu uivensnicaiiuii -
ess c- u r,rrr,hme.rnCi
thorities here are disposed to tre- . , for Ju own enrichment and
the rurmor lightly and will not discuss (b(i weifare 0f the whole country.
the matter for publication, u is Le- j Manufacturers' Kecora.
lieved. however, that a movement is oa f
.".! tnr . tnint oDeration oi iae rum . L.ooiemee i mis ucvciuiji".
System by the Atlantic Coast Line anJ , The extengiVe cotton manufacturing
nf the Cooleemee Cotton
Mills at Cqoleemee, .n. c., conuuu w.
develop towards the ultimate size ori
ginally plajined. Contracts have Just
been awarded tot the erection of nine-,
ty operatives' cottages and five officers
dwellings, which will be required for
Confederate Battle Abbey.
Atlanta. Ga.. Spoelal.-Trus.tees . of,
the Confederate Memorial Association
at a meeting held in this city last
week definitely determlnea upon uin-1" - unloves soon to be
mond. Va,. as the placoto build tne ' h"" ,nri)lo'yes will be re
Museum, one -uuhuipi
and on one occ.ation got io biiouuhb i
and clapped hi bunds and exclaimed.,
Thank God for glvlns a religion ,
that has never cost me 25 cents. And j
the preacher rcHPpm'"'. "And may th ;
' Lord have mercy 'on your stingy ul. j
"We remember, too. the good SlHter
Jenkins, who always had three or four J
'little children tagging after her, bs-i
' sides one at the breast, and how she
always took them to church .and spread
them out on the long front bench and
took a basket of blncult and frud
chkkeatQ-Jtcep lhem-qultI-an4 all th
epare between the front bench and the
pulpit was their crawling ground, and
when they wanted water she reached
up to the pulpit and got It from the
preacher's pitcher,
"By and by a new preacher came who
Hpaermlned to purge the church of
ttn liwmn an d languid members. At his
second service he had before him the
look of membership and read out the
roll and remarked that somebody had
been adding to some of the names In
pencil with such rapltal letters as H.
p., which he supposed stood for doctor
, of divinity, but learned later that It
tood for dram drinker, and there were
other letters, such as B. K.. whleh stood
for barkeeper, and N. T. for nigger
trader, and H. R. for horse racer, and
.ha it, n fnr eambler. and an TrYfor
flrMior n raised a big rumpus over nil
, ni h ns these and declared they should-
nil bo lurned out and they were. Ho re
minded me of old Simon Peter RlcburJ-
. on,. who, while stationed here, weat
- over to vlult his o!d homo on thu Pec
An in Sfiiith Carolina. When he re
turned I caked him if fie hud a Rood
. timh and he raid yes he had a glorious
time In his old church the cnurcii ne
first Joined and tised to preach in. Oh,
said 'he. we had a glorious revival, the
"best I ever experienced. Did you tike
In many? said I. 'Take In', take In; no
my friend, we never took in nary one;
. but we turned seventeen out, thank the
Lovd. Oh. it was a glorious revival.
. CHURCH WORK THEN AND NOW.
"'lint I was ruminating about thn (Hf
fnron'ce between nbW ' " BHtl then in
church work and missions and salaries
or.,1 church environments and the cul
ture of the preachers, There wan Hd
Who
slon conference. When there wns ot ei8e is educating our chil'-lron In the
schools? wno is iuir".
i,rr.h the SatibalU scuou.
house that was vacant. and could no pDWorth League and the aid socieuea.
,niui tr n trltlo ttlien. their h-.u:.v,- . ... ..n.t ovr-lnalva charge til
i'ihui ....... - - wno is in ,ui"uov v .
hold g.iods were moved from place' to j ,g conft.renee? Fifty years. ago she
place by a single tedm and th? t J 1 j h , no volco ln these things and they
wife and little children were mixed up ; w?re eonsldered beyotfd her sphere and
with-the load: when two or three hun- ! ,,0i . minted .gainst her evry
dred dollars was considered a liberal I J- ' he prcRumed to talk in meeting
allowance for a year's support, n i j Mk very ioud .t home, tne eav-
wrougnl a wona
aulred because of the additional 5000
spindles and its looms jusi rum.
fo- which latter will Increase the full
complement to 25.000 spindles and 00
V . ,.,,lr, In thu 1 lOOinS. ineiltlU'iu":"""'""
raised' by popular subscription. In the . improveraeiits . will cost probtthly
report submitted by the treasurer -n , company's capitalization
the association it was Bnou v..- i .lrf,9tiv .(PinB tjsd.iKio. The enlargeti
donated by the
late Charles Broadway Roiiss toward
the founding of a Battle Abbey in the
cth m-ovidod a like sum could be
Father Douallv. with hla wocjden lerr jeaya-:
rnnnn i wnrk nas
rrniH chanse over these conditions, and
almoHt eyexy. town oM V.illAV'.o haiipro.
vided a comfortable hor.1 ror iiib
preacher's family. The advance on thia
lino has been rapid and it has beeu
contagious.. 'Ten years aso there was
not a .preacher', permanent, dombjle
In Carteraville, but now every church
hag a comfortable home attached. But
let me say Just here that tjiere is yei
room for improvement. A house Is not
all of a home. It takes .hade trees and
flowers and f raits and green grass and
vines to adorn and shade the veranda.
Even a few nretty picture, and a mir
ror would not come amiss. : for such
thinira cannot be safely movod. ir
nothing better can ba supplied, you
might put a painted motto over - ten
mantel. "God Bless Our Temporary
Home. Our ' Cartersvllle Methodists
have built a nice, comfortable house.
but I have to furnish Brother Yar-
Urough with Presby terian strawberries
and he feels constrained to pay me
back lu Methodist tomatge?, I prffiiitsu
now to furnish "every parsonage in
town w ith Rtra wherries .nd raspber
fv nlnnts next fall If the Ek)d ladies
will have them planted. I hao noticed
that the' children of preachers are as
fond of these things as other rhlluren,
and their wives and daughters aro ns
fond of flowers. Yes, my friends, mis
sion work, whether foreign or dome-
tic. Is advancing all along the lines.
Home minalons are but a nursery for
thoHo wider fields that take In all man
kind. The Bfilrlt.rftf charity love of
Cod and love to man Is the founda
tion of alkand there is no boundary to
that, no conference limits, no Mason
and Dixon lines. The good Samaritan
did not stop to Inquire where the sui
ferer lived. Charity la the only thins
uputi wUjcU U mankind agree, i'opo
a. - .1 ton." n --).
of the additional amount, uau u.u
taincd and pledged. .
Owns a Whole Town.
Raleigh, N. C. Special. The Su
preme Court decides the Interesting
case of Mrs. Scott vs. Ingram, Involv
ing the title to the whole town of Star.
in Montgomery, county. Mrs. Scott, a
married woman, living in South Caro
lint. sold the land on which the towu
k - . A.m.. i, ,r,,B Th
lor did not so speait to me - now gtanos, ior mun. .t
nor condemn vue w,v Kgwnjwaa buliu ona it is 'uu
jew. Wlshed-tcr none iwa
the Mosaic law. 'Neither do I condemn
thee. Oo and .in no moie.
most beautful sermon on forwent
that was ever preached. But th .halt
cannot be now told y oil n r.elaton to
our mssonary work, inna oi
publshng houses that .as, year ; -v
10.800,000 volumes. .uu.
afferent transiatons oi iu
. ..0a Thnk of the depart-
L t mtdi,in that goes aide by
sidel with the mission work in every
land. We have now 379 hospitals and
-at .Hanennariea or drug Stores
during last year 6,500.000 caaee were
ti,1 r Bixtv-seven medi
cal schools and .training .chool. for
.in. nn niinils. male and re-
male. 'There are 247 orphanages and
asyioms. over one hundred homes for
is now worth ITO.wo or inereauoiuo.
The Supreme Court decides in favor of
Mrs. Scott and bo the property owners
lose It.
plant wi!l use about 1100 horse-power,
more than hnlf that available from the
cnniwrnpn fails. Uiter on an electric-
lighting, and a sewerage system will be !
established, and a "a-barrei tiour mm.
recentl" equipped, is already being
operated. E. W. Thomas, suptrintend
ent. Is now .planning to-open a night
textile school fo rthe operatives.
Wagon Factory For high Point.
A High Point; N. C, special to the
Charlotte Observer says:
The. High PoinL Buggy company nas
running bver the rat,
feet deep and four or flTe t
and two miles of track have 1
away. Telegraphic line, are
on all locations. No mail ba
. , . . . i ....... J , -1 -a
eeivea over urn ia. rw-.
rain. - i.
Mobirtv. Ala.. SpecIaL T
storm that has caused .eric
in the upper country set In he
"with steady but not neary
wind. The outer bar is report
ceedlngly rough. No vessel. j
tempted Its passage Blnc j
night and no vessels passW
the ship channel since tnif
The coast steamer Alpha. w
last to arrive, reports a very)
perlence on the bars, The .1
NasiJ- RailrnaaPs 'wxx
usual, no damage being- re'
Southern is also operatin
bite & Ohio I. tied up at vt.
Jackson, Mis..; Special
situation Is somewhat inn
as the railroad, are coi
traffic has not yet been rt
New Orleans, Vlcksburg ;
Mail from the North arrtv
hours late, but no! mail -5
from the South in tlwo day
er continuea to rise and b
out over a wide pfcrtlon c
the vicinity of Jacftson. i
the upper countryfLt
and Pearl river nai
to within J00 feeti
Si-ores of famili'l
ground. So far thl
of life.
Meridian, Miss.,
chea of rain ha. fn
past 48 hour.. Thd
and many farm.
bridges have beer
railway traffic in '
standstill. An A.os
ern freight went
Newark, Friday I
were lost on the Aoaeif
this morning, and
and NorthwestenC5f
f.ir tha mute and blind
aid 156 for the insane and the slaves
i . i. it niiT mil it i.i UK. vt v
tent -of thts-work? ft"'rs oi t
... i.r,.,irt itt Shall we neglect U
ma wv 7.. " I.... ... ..o...ri,
If it be of man it wui como i
but If It ba or oa we '
i ir wn nkmose or neglec
it it will be like ngnnus H'i
'My CUrlBtlan friend.. I thank you
for the privilege of making these , fare
well remarks. When your Pdlng
officer wrote to me a kind I ett. rr. in
viting ne to participate In those exer
i' ., a..mriod and pleased, for
It was anotner sign i -""T.
fellowship1 which U now
ph.iEnin .tonnmlnatlons. .The bitter
ness of sectarianism U P'n awavy.'
I heard a gentleman say the other day .
'I am a Lutneran, i"""' v:
church to any other, for I was ra sed
up la It but wpeu gravel .and. flndno
Lutheran church l the toxsn or vll-
(Hgantlc Flour Combine.
Chicago, Special. The final step.
. . . V . . J I 1(1!
In the formation oi me naiiuum .un
lor'. Federation representing a total
capital of 1400,000.000. and an annual
flour output of .100.000,000 narreis,
wero taken at a meeting held here.
The federation la the national or
ganization of the various State as
sociations and in addition It will In
,.i,,,in th National .Millers' Associa
tion and the National Winter Wheat
Millers' Association. . '
been organized to do business at this
place, with a capital of $125,000. The
stockholders are J. Elwood Cox, Wes-
ntt Uoberson and others. Mr. H. A.
White is secretary and treasurer or tne
new enterprise. This wlll.be among tne
lareest wood-working estaiuisnmtmis
here, It will be located on the Kendill
Improvement Company, .ana.
Meridian. No tr
departed from Iv
Aaxr Dftarnnnn
11 J lt.tuwu, , v
outs are reportIlXi
wire" are- downgnf 1
ectfiely cut '-.off. V
Mobile, Ala vi-V
Mobile & Ohio HliJ
News In. Paragraph.
- A Manila dispatch Bays:' "The out
break of cholera here does not create
alarm. No white persona have been J
stricken with the, disease. According
to the report of the medical autnoii-
tics made up to noon today, there
u. iw.r.n all told 2 cases and il
ilcuths." .
i.Newnort News. Va.. dispatch
say.r 'Jamcs Brlggs. the negro pro
...i.,. r.t c r-mn lolnt in Hampton.
died from wounds received In a pistol
.,!. i,otA-in u nosso and a score ol
negro crap-shooters. Constable- Roy
o...iir r..r-ived a bullet In the head
which may cause his death, and -Con.
etablo Joha Tlfcuor waa wouuuj4 u
I Uio arm."
Textile Notes.
Tavora Cotton Mills of YorkvlllcS.
C v 1 Increase capital from $10,000 to
$65,(Hi. This company recently buc
cccded Sutro Cotton Mill Co., having
a C912-spindle plant., ' ..
Crawford Woolen Co.' of Martins
burg. W. Va.. has declared an annual
dividend of 20 per cent, its capuai
JiiO.'OitO. and the surplus at the end of
the year s business amoHiueu to
im:0. . ' '
It Is proposed to build a $k,O00 cot
ton mill. .at Chappcll HilU-'Texaa. and
a company Is now being organizeu.
Ceorge Wv Carlisle can probably give
Information. ,-
It is Btated that New York and Phil
adelphia parties will establish at Ports
mouth. Va., a muslin mill to employ
several' hundred hands. Dr. m.
Schraoele of Portsmouth, can probably
Inform. ' . , -
has been seriously lilt
the flood, of the last t
night a trestle SO feet
of Shuqulak, Miss., wl
and the track la under
tervllle. Miss., to Iron
tance of two mlle.-.'i
are also reported betw
TiiBcalooBa. The passeii
left 'Mobile lart nlglj
back at Enterprise. I
Decatur, Ala., - Spel
vere wind and rain 1 1
ed by a heavy fall of I
about 4 o'clock Frida
Ing one hour. Heavy!
and severe and serioJ
r a I k. .AO 1 H V
a white ia;11Tv
were killed by
were blown dowu
across .treat car tra
mules attached to a
being sevcroly .hoc1.
II. c. Townsend cf Anderson. S. C.
state, that the building for his $23,000
twine mill, reported last week, will be
tw a stories hiRh, 80x115 feet In size.
The dally product will amount to 2500
pounds, "about, thirty hands., u be era
ployed at tha start. -Electrical power
V.UI be used, llou!) for Um operatives
will bo built. . '
... i. -. Valuable Jtv
Washington, Spec'
the various cities '
Railway between
Jacksohvlllo are m
tianmi.arance of a -
lace, the property Oj
a Southern train 01
on March 7. Th
missed " from J
Charleston. It wai
and In-graduated
was mftnufaetureJK
firm and xm the clal
the letters "H. S. V.
believed to be the
well-knowu WasJ-T
identity U not die
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