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, .liio Out m /- r -ted u m an. t / ,r, * # m W H Ba jjj B W ■T 1 : HHpMpMr ‘■"' ■■> '■ f '>!< to |miiiil<t - 'ft’ : m .nr! that is going on. No, we cannot, "take it in and the head line, in the daily papers are all that we have time or inclination to read. Last night my wife and 1 read the pitiful story of Captain Freeman, of the Itoddam, as lie to <1 it. at. the hospital at St. Lucia wliih tenderly lying upon pillows, his fa'f and hands charred and blackened, hi- flesh raw and his eye halls bloody, and how one after another of his crew sank in a fiery death until there were seventeen of them dead upon the deck, and (his was the only vessel of the alxfeen that brought away a living soul. Ot, it was horrible and filled our h r *arfs with sorrow and our eyes with ♦ oars. Hut this was on y one ease and there are thousands who would have had as pitiful a tale to tell If they had lived to tell it. It is good for us that wo cannot Know hut a .-mat) part of th horrors of Martinique and St. Vin cent and on tin* seas and rivers—oil'* case is enough. One case of a mother trying to save her child on a burning boat on the Mississippi river a few weeks ago saddened us ail, but the memory ‘>f such thing; soon passes away and we forget it until another comes. Only last week the papers told of a man, a brute, who got angry with bis lltt'o hoy of six years anil after flapping him to I lie floor picked him no bodily and raised him above his ty‘ad and dashed him down and erush- BMfitc life oin of ills little body and picked him up a corpse. KH >iu I.;i. Mood spoon and from his HI ,1 and nose. The . ir:■ 1 made me WUx ind sad. The little ijo>. I believe, Wjr'-.w heaven, hut the poor. hrart-bro- Lu'ii mother has to stay and keep guard over the other three. Mi ndful Father, when will theso things cease to be; when will woman learn that it is bet ter to live-and die single than to chain Ip 'self to a man whose character for lov'ng kindness has not been estab- Jlsii' tlie cnmniiiiiity. Girls, let me besi lyh you to take no chances. Me a a typewriter, a seamstress, a r thing mat WBbm "'A ’ ' " •' Wmw and i..e h; mi I'.'.lM M I'iie'Ny' ll^'' general dm a;, a l a; and dn HHM-, than two 'e th H| Couni them and ask lit . How main does In know who lie willing for hi.-, sister to was rummaMig ab-mt lie's'' nra|l .... Me gre Ih.it the.: wake I'caih - noi a ,ig v- ■' jKMi.I ;■ a I- ' I r,li HHHM ,-r ijjjiScSfjjjsH tiapp.l" I 1 '; 'ie u;a 1 M •' a Ml ' than his apostrophe to death; "Come when the blessed seals That dose the pestilence are broke Amt crowded cities wail Its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly form. The earthquake’s shock, the ocean s storm: And thou art terrible—the tear. The groan, the knell, the pa l.the l.ier, And all we know or dream or fear Of agony are thine. It looks like tome of these awtul things are getting close to us These Windward islands are on our side of the worW and not so fur away. Kven now the wind is blowing their ashes on our coasts, and the earth is qtiak ing uader Florida. The explosion of coal mines at Coal Creek is the first horror of that kind in our southland, a.nd no pen can picture the scene of those imprisoned men writing xheii last loving words to wives and chii dlien as they gasped for breath— ma> the l.ohd have mercy upon them and the wind to the shorn iamb. P’o all who are in peril aud ail who tre bereaved, we would breathe the frw.;t fisherman's prayer: "Oh Lord. g om i Lord. lam a broken down poor man— a fool to speak to Thee—l am too old, too old—my lads are drowned _Tve burled my poor wife—my little lassies died so long aeo that 1 forgot I hat they were like. 1 know they [ went to Thee, hut 1 forget their litt e l fares, though l missed them sore. Mor* Pciful Lord, please comfort those who ■ have heavy hearts. 1 cannot pray ■with finer words; t have no learning Vtoo old; but, good Lord, have them all.” sad to have to write of sad things, but the wise man said: It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the hous'e of feasting." ft is good for us all to stop and think and let our hearts open wide in sympathy. Man is to blame for most of his own troubles, and ‘ man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn;’’ but that is not t3e darkest side of the picture. It Is man's in humanity that brings most all of the distress that women and children suf fer. If everybody was good and kind, what a blessed word we would have. May the Lord pity us all is my prayer, and *e all die the death of the right eous and our Fas', end he like his. — Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. lOki) PAUNCEFOTE DEAD. Chief Representative of England at National Capital is Stricken by the Hand of Death. Lord Pauncefote, the British ambas sador to the United States, died at the embassy at Washington Saturday morning at 5:35 o'clock. The improvement which had been noted in his condition during the past week received a sudden check alwut t; o'clock Friday evening, when it was noticed that he was experiencing dif ficulty in breathing. He rallied" some what during the night, but soon after :i o'clock Saturday morning a distinct weakness of the heart developed and his pulse began to eo lapse. He died so peacefully that it surprised even his physician, who feared that the asthmatic affection would prove trou blesome when the end came. At the bedside when the distin gulshed diplomat passed away were Mrs. Pauneemote, tho Hon. Maude I’aunrefote, Misses Sibyl and Audrey, Dr. Jung and Mr. one of the clerks attached to All through tiie winter Lord Pauncefote had been a sufferer from Intermittent attacks of asthma and rheumatic gout, hut he bravely attend ed his duties' so far as he was aide. Immediately upon being notified of the death of Lord Pauncefote, Secre tary Hay dispatched the following ca blegram ; ‘‘Department of State, May 21.—The Marquis of Lunsdowne, London; Per mit. nto to express my deep sympathy and sorrow at tha death of Lord Pauncefote. His majesty’s govern ment has lost a most able and faith ful servant and this country a valued friend. JOHN HAY." The secretary had fully expressed his sentiments in the above cablegram, ami all that he eared to say In addition of the deceased peer was: "He was not man of Kfci v high personal meijit, but he was a good friend of ours." w^?nk" Befi.tative. ht GRASPED , Increase and President Roosevelt drove to the British embassy "at 1 o’clock, lm had hi com*, disengag ■ expressed I 1 sense of bereave nieut at tin the ambassador, , 10 t only in tlu* government, but also for plo of the cotit dry, to whom Pauncefote had become endeareiPin many ways. Secretary Hay and tftfe other members 0 f tie cabinet Jmo Va'-Ueti. at the embassy, cards and-’ exp -essing their Ic'u-os. The G"',-ign am tnnlsters a so ti ( ,.i cards. The late Lord Pauheefott -vnj „ state funeral in Washington that. TANARUS” dean tided by *H precedent It w| u be d< tefiniyd later whethe. or not l Unttt-d States *ar ship will carry G^ e n r ains to Enif ind. *1 \ large tiitml 'f of messages of wn doience from a i over the world we received at th embassy Sunday. >- L they were not i iade public. | CRADDOCi FOR GOVERNOR. Kansas Dento< rats Name Their Mar For C tief Executive. The Kansai demoo atic stats coin vention adjourned at Wichita al,tl | l i nominating sik of the fourteen places ’ to lie filled as the Not ember election j Hon. W. H. Craddock. mayor o. Kan I sas City. Kan i.. was n imed for gover | nor A ronan itu-e of tliis convention will meet with the popt Uata~at.Topek*. June 24. with! power ti > ratify anee of tli tiiket xpe .ted out at that time. / 'w FOR MORGAN. Big Stockholders of M onon Place Ob stacles in Hii Way. A New Yoru dtspate' t says: So Mr. Morgan is not to ha\ e plain sailing with iiis Motion deal, some of. the big stockholders in the Louisville and Southern arp objectiu ; to the terms and to the attitude ofJMr. Morgan In giving out plans he intends to car.*/ into effect before allowing the stock holders to vfte on the proposition. I TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN. - This is the Number c*\ ctims So Far of Coal Creek Horror. Two ntor'- dead bodes were rooo\ ered from Fraterville mine, at Coal Greek. Saturday. William Morgan, tit only man in the mine >vho eseapH alive at the time of tha explosion, ied during the day. making the tota fatalities 2tti. He was blown out of; e mine by the force cf the oxplosiou. M’LADRIN IS BARRED Sooth Carolina State Democratic Convention Acts. BRAND NEW PLEDGE ADOPTED Kansas City Platform is Reaffirmed. Sympathy Expressed for Cotton Mill Employees, While Mill Owners Are Scored. The Sopth Carolina democratic con vention met in Columbia Wednesday. One of the principal objects of the gathering was the framing of rules to govern the primaries in accordance with which candidates for the United States senatorship and other offices must pledge their support to the sue cessful candidate and to the platform of the party. If the oath to be pre scribed by the candidates covers belief in the declaration of the party's past platforms, it will doubtless eliminate some of the candidates for the senate. A. C. Latimer is TiUmhan’s choice for the nomination. John O. Evans, for mer governor, is expected to come into the race. Latimer and Evans are of the old Til man faction. The oth ers—Johnstone, Elliott, Hemphill and. Henderson —are of the old anti-Till manites. Johnstone and Hemphill have both served in congress, while Elliott and Latimer are now members of the house. At 11 o'clock Wednesday night the platform was presented and adopted without debate. The three points covered were impe rialism, monopolies and tariff. The Philippine war was condemned; tariff for revenue only advocated. There was debate for two hours over the resolution expressing sympa thy for locked out cotton mill em ployees in the Horse Creek valley, and condemning the mill owners for their cruelty. It was finally adopted by a two to one vote. The pledge fixed for candidates for the senate and house of representa tives requires them to stand on tho party platform and to vote with their colleagues on party questions. It was not as extreme as had been antici pated. A resolution welcoming Cuba into the world of nations, declaring that she would be welcomed as a state in this union if she applied of her free will and in the meantime declaring she should have tile benefits of reciprocity, was adopted amid cheers. Without remarks or protest, a reso lution of a dozen words condemning the course of Senator Mc-Laurin was passed. By a standing vote resolutions, im pressively read by Senator Tillman, speaking of Wade Hampton’s services to Ins state in the highest terms were unanimously adopted. A resolution condemning child labor in mi Is and declaring the age limit should not he less than 12 years was adopted after some debate. The trust plank contains the follow ing: "Resolved by the democracy of South Carolina in convention assembled: “1. That we reaffirm and indorse the platform of principles enunciated by the state democratic convention of 1900, with especiai stress upon the fol lowing sections: "That we view with alarm the pow er which the trusts, through the re publican party, are exercising over legislation and national polities, aud their ability to control the prices of the necessities of life without regard to law of supply and demand. We con demn the hypocritical attitude of the republican leaders who abuse trusts and combines whi o they use the mon ey obtained from them and exhorted from the people to debauch the igno rant voters of the country. “That we reaffirm and indorse the correlated sections of the Kansas | City platform upon the subject of I trusts and imperialism. L After the convention adjourned at w late hour Senator Tillman was called i fpon and addressed the body. B PRESIDENT UNVEILS SHAFT. Monument to Heroes of Spanish-Amer ican War is Dedicated. ; Wednesday President Roosevelt un heiled the memorial shaft erected at ■rlington cemetery by the National society of Colonial Dames in memory the veterans who fell in the recent | rttggie between Spain and the United l tates. Around the platform an im it-nse crowd gathered, among whom I vre many men who saw service in (iha, Porto Rico and the Philippines, j -Cter brief services the shaft was un viled and President Roosevelt made a appropriate address. WITH CUBAN FLAG FLYING Sfearrer Vigilancia Sails From New t York For Havana. steamer Vigi'ancia. which sailed New York for Havana Thursday, w* the first ship to leave that port fiyktg the flag of the new Cuban re pullic at her fore. Herbert G. Squiers, the first United States minister to Cu ba. accompanied by his wife and Jsyghter. sailed on the Vigi’ancia. A BRACE OF NEW BISHOPS Elected at Conference of the Metho dist Episcopal Church Assem bled in Dallas, Texas. In the Methodist conference at Dal las, Texas, Thursday, after some minor routine business, Bishop Hendrix an nounced the arrival of the hour for the election of two bishops and prepara tions for the bailot began. Asa preliminary to the election of bishops, the delegates and audience sang, and Bishop Oranbury prayed. Hi:; tellers were appointed by Bishop Hen drix and the first ballot taken. Total votes cast. 260; necessary to elect, 131. Dr. E. E. Hoss received 160 votes and was declared elected bishop. The second ballot was then ordered for the second bishop. While the vote on the first ballot for bishop was be ing called the question of the unifica tion of the Methodist church in Japan was taken up. Dr. Keener, of New Or leans, strongly opposed the adoption of the report as submitted, as did a eo Dr. Boswell, editor of the New Orleans Christian Advocate. Dr. Wainwright, from the Japan mission, explained the situation of Methodism in that country and advo cated the adoption of the report as sub mitted. Bishop Wilson, senior bishep of the general conference, opposed most of the plan advocated by Dr. Wainwright, but favored a commission to arrange a plan of federation. Dr. McLean, of Texas, favored the adoption of the report as submitted. Dr. Swindells, chairman of the com mittee on missions, availed himself of the right as chairman to close the de bate. Ho favored the adoption of the report. The unification clause was then adopted and consideration of the other clauses was taken up and adopted, and then the report as a whole was adopted. On the second ballot no candidate was ejected, each failing to receive a majority of the votes. Between tho b-allots the session was devoted to onsideration of the finance committee report, proposing to raise $5,000,000 as an investment or endow ment fund, the proceeds of which is to go to the support of superannuated preachers, their widows and orphans. This feature of the report was adopt ed without material change. Dr. Janies Cannon. Jr., offered ac amendment to the finance committee report to set aside SIOO,OOO of Nash ville city bonds in which part of the war claim money has been invested, and make it a nucleus for the $5,000,- 000 superannuated fund. He earnest ly advocated his amendment. Mr. Fishburn, Dr. Whitehead, Mr. Miilsap and others vigorously opposed the Cannon amendment, which was finally laid on the table. The report was adopted as a whole. The two new bishops elected are E. E. Hoss. of Tennessee, ,on the first bal ot, and A. Coke Smith, of Virginia, on the fourth ballot. TRIUMVIRATE FOR TAMMANY. Croker and Old Guard Once Again ill Control of Organization. A New Ytork dispatch says: The executive committee of Tammany hall, composed of the assembly district leaders, met Thursday and adopted two resolutions offered by Alderman T. P. Sullivan. The first resolution advised the general committee of Tammany hall to abolish the finance committee. This was adopted unani mously. The second resolution suggested the appointment of a subcommittee of three, to consist of Charles F. Murphy, Daniel F. McMahon and Louis F. Haf fen, to constitute an advisory com mittee, with power to act and to re port from time to time to the execu tive committee. This esolution was opposed by John Carroll, who offered ari amendment that the thirty-seven district leaders be constituted the leaders of Tammany hall. Mr. Car roll's amendment was defeated by a vote of 8 to 28. The resolution author izing the advisory committee was then adopted. The district leaders who compose what is known as the “Cro ker Old Guard,” supported the pro posed changes. ANTICIPATED WAGE CUT. Twelve Hundred Girls and Women Walk Out of Cigar Factory. Twelve hundred girls and women, and about fifty men employed in the Brown Brothers cigar factory, at De troit. a branch of the American Cigar Company, went on a strike Thursday because of the announcement that Jolfn H. Brown, one of the former pro prietors of the factory, had resigned as manager of the concern for Fits American Cigar Company. Tile cm ployes believed that their wages were to be cut after Brawn's successor was installed. NAMED BY ROOSEVELT. President Sends Nominations to Sen ate For Confirmation. The president Wednesday sent the following nominations to the senate: Edward L. Adams. New York, secre tary of the legation and consul general at Stockholm. Sweden: Henry P. Fletcher, Pennsylvania, second secre tary of legation at Havana. Cuba. Marshal—George I. Cunningham, district of South Carolina. SOUTHERN EXPANDS Great Railway Reported to Have Bought Another Line. ATLANTIC, VALDOSTA WESTERN Deal Consummated by President Spen. cer—Valuable Terminals at Jack sonville Was Incentive of Trade. The Scutturn Railway has bought the Atlantic, Valdosta and Western railway. The deal was made in Jack sonville, Fla., last Monday, when Pres ident Samuel Spencer was in that city. No details of the purchase are known yet, but the positive announcement that the deal has been made comes from an official who is in a position to know. The Atlantic, Valdosta and Western has 155 miles of road. The mam line extends front Jacksonville to \ aldos ta, 110 miles, and branches and spurs make up the rest of the mileage. The company owns valuable terminals at Jacksonville, and it is said that these terminals are what tempted the Southern. When President Spencer passed through Savannah on ais way to Jack sonville last Sunday lie said that his purpose iu going to that city was t'ae arrangement of the Southern’s tracks right over the Plant system when that line has been consoidated with the At lantic Coast Line. That has been done, but there was a further purpose in his trip, and that was to see the executive officers of tho Atlantic. Valdosta and Western aud arrange terms for the purchase of that line. The executive officers of tho Atlantic, Valdosta and Western are as follows: Walton Fer guson, New York, president; G. S. Baxter. New York, chairman executive committee; E. C. Long, Jacksonville, vies president; Waiter Ferguson, Jr., New York, treasurer. The road connects at Valdosta with the Georgia Southern and Florida, a line that has been, controllr-d oy the Southern railway for some years. There has been a rumor for some time that the Southern owned or was inter ested in the Atlantic, Valdosta and Western. Its purchase of the last named may he followed by the estab lishment of a service to Jacksonville via the Georgia Southern and Florida. FRENCHMEN AT WHITE HOUSE. President und Cabinet Members En tertain Loubet’s Representatives. Surrounded by the members of his cabinet and by officials high in all the branches of the government, Presi dent Roosevelt Thursday received as the guests of the nation the distin guished Frenchmen sent by President I.oubet to take part in the Rochant lteau exercises. The arrival in the city of the bril liantly uniformed army and navy of ficers of France and their escort through Pennsylvania avenue by a troop of United States cavalrymen gavepicturesqtife interest to the occa sion, and to&his was added the inter national significance of an extremely cordial exchange of greetings between the representatives of the two na tions. After the president’s recep tion at the white house, the French visitors exchanged call* with members of the cabinet and Lieutenant General Miles and Admiral Dewey. In the af ternoon they went to Mouat Vernon, where General Brugere, of the French army, placed a laurel wreath on the tomb of .Washington, and Count de Rochambeau planted a tree taken from the battle ground of York town. Thurs day night President Roosevelt had the French party as his guests at dinner at the white house. Neely Boodle Returned to Uncle Sam. Secretary Root Thursday received from General Wood at Havana an ex press .package containing $6,234. be ing the money taken from C. F. W. Neely at the time of his arrest at Rochester. N. Y., in May. 1900. GUN WAS LOADED. Mother’s Playful Act Caused Death cf Little Daughter. News has been received of a tragedy at White Springs. Fla., iu which a mother accidentally shot and killed her little daughter. It appears that the little son of Mrs. Bullard was playing with a rifle when his mother took the weapon from him and playfully pointed it at her little daughter standing near. The rifle was in some manner disenarged, the ball striking the child in a vital spot. The mother is said to be crazed with grief and has attenuated suicide. PROMINENT RAILROAD MAN DEAD Vice President of Atlanta, Knoxvilie and Northern Taken Suddenly. Eugene C. Spalding, vice president of the Atlanta, Knoxville and North ern railway, and one of the best known railroad men in the state, was found dead by a servant in his bed room at his resident . No. 477 Peaohtree street, Atlanta. Ga.. at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning. WROTE LETTERS tEFOSE DYING. pitiful Mementoes cf Frightful Death Struggle of the Miners Entombed in Pit at Coal Creek. A special from Knoxville, Tenn, says: The latest estimates as to the loss of life in the Fraterville coal mine disaster at Coal Creek is 226, including ' contract miners, lay laborers and boy helpers. The last find reported was that of thirteen bodies in an entry, and with these thirteen, all H 1 whom were dead, were found six letters written by five men before they became overcome. One of these letters gave the time of day it was written as 2:30 o’clock Monday afternoon , thus indicating that these and perhaps other entombed men lived many hours after the ter rible explosion, which occurred Mon day meaning at 7:30 o'clock. The letters gave a general sugges tion of the suffering that was under gone, indicating that the men were gradually being strangled to death by the foul air that was entering the the shaft. One piteously read: the mine. One piteously read: "My God! For another breath'.” The tetters in the main were direc tions to families as to what disposi tions should be made of the writer’3 body and his business affairs and in structions as to raising his family. One unfortunate, who leaves neither father, mother, brothers nor sisters, addressed his letters to “everybody,” and pleaded that they change their way cf living. President J. W. Howe, of the United Mine Workers of America for district 19, went into the mines Wednesday to make an inspection as the representa tive of that organization and to assist in the rescue work. He lias received a message of condolence from Presi dent John Mitchell of the Mine Work ers of America, who stated he had sent SIOO for the relief fund. Mr. Howe announced that the Mine Workers of America would at once ex pend SI,OOO for the needy families of its members wiio died in the mine, and more will be available if necessary. State Mine Inspector R. A. Sliflett has announced that he will postpone his official examination until the bodies are rescued and the mine is cleared of some- of the debris. GRAND GREETING TO (^AULS. French Commissioners Welcomed at Annapolis by Boom of Canncn From American Warships. A Baltimore dispatch says: The ini tial reception of the representatives of tho French republic, who are on our shores to participate in the ceremonies attendant upon the unveiling of the Rocliarabeau monument in Washing ton took place on board the French battle ship Gaulois in Annapolis roads at 2 o’clock Wednesday. The scene at Annapolis bay was picturesque and inspiring. Besides the usual contingent of sailing vessels and small craft dotting the bay, there were a number of Ameriean naval ves sels at anchor. Assistant Secretary Pierce spoke on behalf of the government of the Uni ted States as follows: “General: This commission now present has been charged by President Roosevelt to welcome you and your colleagues to the United States in his name and to express his hope that you will enjoy your stay in our country and carry away with you an agreeable impression of the United States, its in stitutions and people. On behalf of our president I bid you welcome.” General Brugere was quite as brief, but no less cordial than Assistant Sec retary Pierce in his response. He said: “Gentlemen: I thank you in the name of President Loubet and the French people for the kind welcome which you have accorded to us. It is a very great pleasure to me and my colleagues to visit you on such an oc casion of international esteem as the unveiling of the Rochambeau monu ment. and I am sure we will carry back to France the most agreeable recollec tion of our stay in your midst. “Since our departure one incident lias occurred which will stir the heart of every Frenchman in grateful recog nition of American friendship, and this is the i-mmediate and munificent aid which was extended to our stricken fellow-countrymen on the island of Martinique. Gentlemen, I thank you for your generous welcome.” The American commissioners spent a pleasant half hour on the Gaulois and then returned to the Dolphin, in the meantime having paid formal calls upon the Olympia and Alabama. Later in the afternoon the French commis sioners made a return call upon the American commissioners on board the Doiphin. after which the -Dolphin re turned to Annapolis. GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED. The Two Virginias Now Face Great Conflict cf Miners. The United Mine Workers who were in session at Huntington, W. Va., two days the past week, arter ordering a strike of all the miners in West V.lrginia. to begin June 7. and last until the demands of 10 to 22 per cent increase in wages are granted. The resolutions were sent to the mine operators.