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BILL ARP’S LETTER
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His Reference to Beans Brings
Forth a Communication,
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ATIVE OF “JACK” WRITES TO BILL
7 or t ).• \ *--*f will#*, Which
lld lUriow Mini Mu< li
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mouths occasionally. My
one of the shorts aud says
p strangled several times on tip-
r These bean vines and other vines
have often excited my wonder and con
templation. Solomon says: “There
is a purpose for everything under
heaven,” and Addison says: “In rea
son’s voice all rejoice.” And so I
would like to know why all the bean
vines, morning glories, madeira and
cinnamon vines grow and wind toward
the sun, starting on the south side of
the pole aud going east, while the hop
vine and some others reverse their
course. Everything has its law and
you can’t make anything change its
nature. A viuo will die if you force
it the wrong way. And yet Raphael
Hemmes says iu his groat book that
south of the equatoo everything is re
versed aud the bean vines that climb
against the sun up hero climb with it
down there. Of course the motion of
. the earth on its axis has something to
I do with it, but why is it so? We don’t
! know much after all. Mrs. Hemans
: says: “Aud flowers shall wither at the
I north wind’s breath,” but if she had
] lived in South America she would
have said “at the south wind’s breath,”
for that is the cold wind below the
equator.
XVo are all inclined to view things
from our own standpoint. Of course
it is very natural for us to do so for we
live in the same aone and latitude that
Adam aud Eve lived in. “Westward
the course of empire takes its way.”
[ That’s all. No change iu the course
of the sun or moon or stars or climate
!or temperature. Paradise was on a
i line with Cartersville, and it is yet,
and the Euphrates river is the Etowah
now and the gold of that land was good
and so is the gold of this.
But I was rumiuatiug about thess
mysteries of nature that surround u
! aud are so common that we do not no*
tiee them. Last night our grove was
] illuminated by a thousand fireflies —
more numerous and more brilliant
I thau ever before. It was regular pyr
otechnics for an hour. They lighten
as they rise from the grass and emit a
! spark of gold and green luster that is
lovely.
Some naturalists say it is phosphor
us that they can illuminate at will by
breathing hydrogen or oxygen into it
aud that it has no heat. Ever since
Linneus lived this little, innocent bug
has been under the fires of dissection
aud discussion, and no solution of its
wonderful faculty has yet been agreed
upon. 1 bail to catch a bottle full for
the little girls. They played with
them until bedtime aud then I turned
them out. aud one of them was dead
with the light still shining in its tail.
It had illuminated its own death and
kept its lantern burning without a
breath of hydrogen or oxygen. Away
down in the tropics these fireflies are
ai inch long, and a score or two of
them will illuminate a room and a
dozt'n iu a bottle gives light to read
by. .Travelers tie a dozen to a stick
aud travel -at night by their light. I
would like to import some of that
variety iuto my grove. In fact I think
we could utilize them iu i our street
lamps and get more light than we do
now.
The other morning about sußirise I
was surprised at the number of little
dew-covered cobwebs that adorneld the
grass and weeds around the blouse.
They were almost touching each isther
aud glistened in the' morning sunfike
a frost was upon them. Most of tliem
were about the size of a sancer And
had their tiuy cords and stays fastened
securely and in everyone was it can
ning little aperture where the/weaver
lived aud waited and watched' for his
prey. The workmanship of these lit
tle webs was exquisite, artistic and
perfect—where did the littie creature
pet its material and who *old it that
this was a good morning to set its
traps? The books tell nfe that it has
withiu its little abdomen! a tiny reel
that turns as the web is spjnn and that
the fiber is so wonderfully fine it
would take ten thousand strands to
make a thread of sewing silk. Wendell
Phillips delivered a lecturip in Boston
aud his subject was: “TheiK' Is Noth
ing New Under the Sun.” L e declared
that 3,000 years ago the Persian ladies
Ii t me one of
little Jack
to theky.
1 up like a
thought at
5 about the
iean and is
inches long,
are and am
lirty inches
vine, for it
. He writes
ant of Jack
variety has
l seventeen
and these
iody except
se veterans,
ptain Daw
lth Georgia
hat memor-
I the Shen
bt and the
:d over the
coma weave lanrics as aeiicate as a
spider’s web and that once a Persian
princess who was going out to a fash
ionable dance went into her father’s
room to show him the beautiful gar
ments she had on.
The old king was amazed at her ap
parel, or rather at the lack of it, and
raid: “Go back, my daughter; go back
and dress yourself. Your garments do
not conceal your nakedness.” She
seemed indignant at his rebuke and
fa id: “Father, I have on seven differ
in'. coverings besides my dress. ”
This is enough of beaus and vines
aud insects. My folks are busy now
making jelly—made thirty-six glasses
of horse apple jelly yesterday and are
working on the blackberries today.
Never was such a crop of berries—
these berries of chameleon colors that
are red when they are green and black
when they are ripe. The poor country
women and little girls have taken in
many a dime already. They want 20
cents a gallon, and I never jew them.
When a poor woman and her little
children turn out in the wet grass
aud scratch their hands and tear
their clothes and get wet up to their
knees and tote their buckets to town
two or three miles thev oiurtit to have
20 cents for a gallon, bnt they don’t
get it often.
A woman came yesterday with a
peck of nice berries and I knew her,
though I hadn’t seen her sinae her
husband was in the chaingang. How
is he doing now? I asked her. She
smiled and said: “He’s at work;, he’s
been doin’ right well for a good while.
His health ain’t good, bnt he’s at work.
Me and the children have got aright
good garden, but my little daugh
ter needed a pair of Sunday shoes
mighty bad and I told her we could pick
berries for ’em, and we will.” Now
that poor woniau tied herself to a
trifling man when she was young and
fairly pretty, and she don’t want to
get loose. It is most astonishing to
me—the devotion of a woman to a
trifling husband. She says he is-good
to her and loves the children,, but he
has his failings aud so she clings to
him and keeps her marriago vows. St.
Peter will let her in when she knocks
at the gate and will let her children
in, too, but I don't know what will
become of him. Maybe he is elected
for her sake; I hope so.—Bina, Arp,
in Atlanta Constitution.
LISCVJM’S DYING WORDS
Urged the JTen at Tien Tsln to Keep
Up the Fighting.
A special to The New York Herald
from Che Foo via Shanghai says:
The Americans engaged at Tien
Tsin were the Ninth infantry and 430
marines. The army casualties were
IS killed, 7Twounded and two-missing.
The marine casualties were-four killed
and 23 wounded.
Major Reagan was woumited in the
leg, Captain Bookmiller ins the leg,
Captain Lemley in the arm and Lieu
tenant Lang in the foot. Lietenant
Leonard carried -Lieutenant Butler
under a fierce flanking fore, aud was
shot in the leg and arm. He swam a
ditch under lire, still carrying Butler,
Leonard’s ariu has been amputated.
“Colanel Liscum was shot in th®-
abdomen and died in half an hour.
His last words were: ‘'Keep up the
fighting.’
“The Ninth regiment and other
Americans, with the Japanese, ad
vanced against a flanking fire, but
were forced to lie in the mud al3 day
unable to help their wounded and
compelled to drink canal water. They
could not drive the foe, or charge, or
do anything except fire a fev rounds.
“The American hospitals at Tien
Tsin are crowded aud surgeons
are needed. Colonel Liscum’s body
was escorted to the burial place at
Tongku by two battalions of the
Ninth.
“The Japanese were the heroes of
the battle, fighting with remarkable
bravery. They charged through the
breach and fought the Chinese hand
to hand. Their conduct after the bat
tle was equally good.
“Fifty guns were captured by the
allies.”
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
List of New Industries Established
During the Past Week.
The more important of the new in
dustries reported during the past week
include brick works in Mississippi;
canneries in Georgia aud Louisiana; ee
meut works iu Alabama; coal mines
and coke ovens in Alabama and West
Virginia; cotton mills iu Alabama,
Georgia and the Carolinas; cotton seed
oil mills in Louisiana and South Caro
lina; electric light and power plants
in Arkansas, Virginia and West Vir
ginia; a grain elevator in Texas; an
insulator pin aud bracket factory in
West Virginia; a lubricating oil manu
factory iu Virginia; lumber mills in
Georgia; a machine 9hop in Virginia;
a mattress factory in Louisiana; a
mining company in Mississippi; a
navigation company in Louisiana; an
oil aud gas company in West Virginia;
phosphate mines in Tennessee; a shut
tle and bobbin factory in Alabama;
stamp mills in the Dahlonega district;
telephone exohauges in Georgia, Ten
nessee and Texas; tobacco factories in
Georgia aud Kentucky; a yarn mill in
South Carolina.—Tradesman (Chatta
nooga, Tenn.)
CHARTERING TROOP SHIPS.
Germany Secures Fifteen and United
States Hire Seven.
A Philadelphia special says: Twenty
two steamships are said to have been
chartered by the American aud Ger
man governments to carry troops,
stores and war material to China.
Seven vessels were chartered by the
United States, and the remaining fif
teen by Germany.
BUSINESS MEN
OF THE SOUTH
Gather In Atlanta to Discuss Condi
tions In This Section.
MEETING WELL, ATTENDED
Second Annual Convention of
Southern Industrial League.
The Southern Industrial League
met in second annual convention at
Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday morning.
Three hundred members of the
league were on the floor of the conven
tion hall when President J. K. Orr
called the assembly to order.
In a vigorous address setting forth
the history and aims of the league
President Orr said in partr.
“A little over a year ago-less than a
dozen eitizens of Georgia happened to
meet in Atlanta on a matter of busi
ness. After this had been disposed of
they fell into a discussion on the many
visible hindrances to southern pros
perity. The result was the formation
of this industrial league. Many thou
sand copies of the proceedings of its
first meeting were distributed all over
the south. The real Sruits of that
three days’' session who* can measure?
“When within your recollection or
mine has the south made such indus
trial progress as in the past twelve
months. Here is in part the record of
the year:
“For the first time since 1865 we
have had a* wheat crop* to be anxious
about.
“For the first time- ini five years
cotton sold for over nine-oants.
“Fori the first time in more than a
generation, the people who grew the
cotton* seemed to have some voice in
naming its price.
“This was* directly traceable to the
demand created by our local mills, al
ready built.
“Now what do we add!to the record?
“In* twelve months the south has
built I'OO new cotton millo, costing 25
million dollars, they will consume an
extra 2D01.000 bales of- the crop now
growing: This additional demand will!
hardly lessen the price. I am told
that there are just that many more
mills projected that will be built iu*
the next 12 months. Gontinue this
five years, and instead! of exporting:
raw cottoa to net us five or six cents,,
we will* give the world the product of
the spindle and the loom, and it will
' come ba@k to us fourfold.
“And better than ail) this, for there
are other crops than cotton, and in
dustries of equal imposiance with mat
ton mills, for whole sections of our
great country have grown opulent
without either, for Georgia gives you
the gratifying message of a 25. per
cent, increase in her wheat crop. One
county in central. Georgia, heretofore
ea r .Jidered below the wheat line-, has
enough harvested- to feed its people
two years.
“The Honorabia Pope Brown,, presi
dent of the State Agricultural society,
is my authority for the statement,
that in Georgia at least, ‘wheat culture
has come to stay. ’
“And now, fellow members, where
do these widening waves cl reform
touch us, and what is our peculiar
mission? Ik is the old, old story oi
the self sustaining farm. As business,
men, is it not our plain duty to en
courage in every way in out power the
agricultural community to avoid debt
and create a surplus? This would so<sn
build up a banking capital that will
fund every worthy enterprise that hao
the right men behind it.
“I give it as my deliberate opinion
that the day will come when following
the illustrious lead of those who tend
the vineyards of France, the real bank
ing reserves of our country will be
held by the farmers.
“You ask me when. I would briefly
answer: The year after the south
makes its first crop of cotton on a
strictly cash basis
“You may remember that a year ago
I gave you the startling figures that
every ten years enough profits are
wiped out by insolvencies to pay the
national debt. Can we save this for
our people? I firmly believe this to
be only one of the many missions
within the province of this association,
and to these calls, when they come to
us, I do not believe we will give that
trite and truthless answer, ‘I am not
my brother’s keeper.’ ”
President Orr, at the close of his
address, introduced Mr. F. H. Rich
ardson, of The Atlanta Journal, whfl
made the speech of welcome.
“Atlanta opens her arms in doubla
welcome to you,” said Mr. Richard
son, “because you are the men whose
experience she wants to study and
whose counsel she wants to follow.
She is glad to have you here.
“On this occasion I am able to say
that not only the press, of which I am
a representative, but everybody in
this city, bids you thrice welcome.”
Mr. J. M. Wilkinson, of Valdosta,
replied to the address of welcome.
After the speech-making committees
were appointed and the business of
the convention was taken up.
Big Odds on McKinley.
A. P. Hennessy, of California, and
Joseph Green, of New York, have
wagered SIO,OOO to $4,500 on the
presidential election. Hennessy took
the McKinley end.
To “Enlighten” Boxers.
At the meeting of the Christian
Missionary Alliauee at Cleveland, 0.,
Sunday, SIO,OOO was subscribed for
foreign missions.
SENATOR GEAR DEAD.
lowan Suddenly Stricken With
Heart Disease and Expires at
His Home in Washington.
United States Senator John Henry
Gear, of Burlington, lowa, died at
430 a. m. Saturday, of heart failure,
in his apartments at the Portland in
Washington. While Senator Gear had
been in bad health for a year or more,
death came unexepected. He was in
excellent spirits Friday evening, when,
accompanied by Mrs. Gear,, he went
out driving with Secretary Wilson,, of
the agricultural department. They
returnedabout 10 o’clock andt&a sena
tor retired an hear later iu his usual
health.
Shortly before 2 o’clock Saturday
morning the senator summoned his
confidential secretary and informed him
he was troubled) with congestion in
his chest. Mrs, Gear was callfed and
she concocted; some simple remedies
which seemed to give the senator soma
relief. At 2:30' the senator complained
of serious difficulty in breathing: His
condition became critical aud hisfam
fly physician, Dr. Davis, was sum
moned. An examination convinced
Dr. Davis that his patient was suffer
ing from heart trouble and announced
that Senator Gear could scarcely last
an hour.
About 4 o-’cloek: the senator seemed
to be easier, and when asked by Mrs.
Gear as to hia-condition replied faint
ly:
“f feel a* trifl’e-better.”
These were his-last words. Fifteen
minutes later ho was dead.
Sergeant-at-ASrms Eandells,. of the
senate, was notified of Senator Gear’s
death and began to make arrangements
for it. The remains were taken di
rectly to Burlington, lowa, whioh, for
many years,, has been the home of the
senator. A special car was attached
to the 3:30 p ; m,. train Sunday for ac
commodation of the funeral party,
A SUSPICIOUS DEATH.
The Coroner Will Investigate Demise
of Mrs. Natalie Mayer.
A New York dispatch says: Mrs,
Natille Mayer, wife of John Mayer,
and eldest daughter of tho late Theo
dore Haveineyer, died in* the Mayer
maasion, near Mahwalq, N. J., lata-
Saturday, afternoon.
Little definite was known concern
ing the-cause of death until Saturday,
when Commander Winslow, United
Staten navy,, who is married to a sister
of Mrs. Mayer, gave out the following
statement::
“Mrs, Mayer died froia the effeot of
a pistol shsot accidentally fired. ’Fhe
wound, was not at first believed to* be
fatal. There will be a coroner’A in
quest in* accordance wnth the law,”’
Lb was an Friday afternqon, twenty
four hours before tha time of Mrs.
Mayer's death, that the pistol shot: was
fired. Commander Winslow’s state
ment* does not even toll who hold the
weapon, On this point, however, Dr.
Albert Seabriskie, the first physician
to be- called after Mrs, Mayer was hurt,
said: •
“I understand that Comauander
Winslow said to cass of the n&embers
of the family that be would have some
body before the eoroqer wba would
testify that Mrs. Mayer said, she acci
dte-atly shot hersa-'iS. ”
COURTMARTIAL FOR' RAY.
Charges Are brought Against Com
mander oS Troops In Alaska.
Charges haw been fil<kl at Nome,
Alaska, against Major Patrick Henry
Ray, who pra-rious to the arrival o?
Brigadier Gsaeral Randall commandau
the troops ia Alaska, by Captain W.
K. Wright, of company L, Seventh
United States infantry, who in turn
has been the subject of a counter sons
plaint by Major Ray.
The charges against the major- con
tain over twenty spes-iffcattons—-allega
tions in-solving his integrity and oon
duet as an officer. Wright is charged
with disobedience of orders. General
RandaJl is expected to hold a court of
inquiry at Fort Egbert, wh&ye Major
Ray is now stationed.
COSSACKS ROUT BOXERS.
Czar's Soldiers Slay 3,000 Chinamen
and Capture Six Guns.
The London Daily Mail’s St, Peters
burg correspondent says that in a sis
hours’ battle outside of Tien Tsin on
July 9th, the Cossacks captured sis
Krupp guns and killed numbers of
fleeing boxers. The Chinese lost
3,000. including General Jek.
DECREE REACHES FRANCE.
Edict From China Is Placed In Hands
of M. Delcasse.
Yu Keng, the Chinese minister at
Paris handed to the minister of foreign
affairs, M. Delcasse, an imperial edict,
dated July 18th, giving the assurance
that all the foreign ministers in Pekin,
except Baron von Ketteler, the Ger
man minister, were then safe and
sound under the protection of the im
perial court. The edict was trans
mitted by the viceroy of Naukin un
der date of Saturday.
NOW A MAJOR OENERAL.
New Commission For Chaffee W'ho Is
En Route to China.
A Washington special says: The
commission of Brigadier General Chaf
fee as major general in command of
the Chinese expeditionary forces was
made out at the war department
Thursday morning and sent to the
white house for the president’s signa
ture. Cable notice of the appoint
ment was sent to Nagasaki, Japan,
where it will meet General Chaffee on
his arrival there.