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v a TRIBUNE. THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE H&ME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE. v6l. v. CLAYTON, RABUN COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. JUNE 19. 1902. m—y NO. 22. KWH. DESTROYED IN CONFLAGRATION Alexander City, Alabama, Wiped Off the Earth. DREARY WASTE OF RUINS LEFT Dwellings, Also, in Path of Fire are Reduced to Ashes-Appeal for Aid Sent Out. BILL ARPS’ LETTER William Had Heart Trouble and Thought His Time Had Come- TOOK MORPHINE, DREAMED DREAMS In Hallucination He Quotes Jingling Poetry—Says H e Will Survive the Wreck of Matter and the Crash of Worlds. The most disastrous fire in the his tory of Alexander City, Alabama, Oc curred Friday, every house In the town being totally destroyed. The Are broke out in the Robinson machine shop and foundry about 1 o’clock, caused by a ladle of molten Iron, and spreading from this to Arthur Moon’s store, block 8 was soon in a mass of flames. The flames shot across Union street and caught the Citizens’ bank building in the center of block 7, and from this point the flames eat their way In both directions until every business house on block 7 was totally destroyed, In cluding the large three-story Alabama hotel. From the Alabama hotel the flames went across the Central railroad tracks and burned the Central depot, together with all stores and the large cotton platform, Including several hun dred dollars worth of reaping machin ery just arrived, two loaded cars standing on the track and all office furniture and railroad fixtures. The flftmp* ej>read from thls-to ”3 and caught the law building. At this moment the Are alfco broke across from block 8 to the east end of the same block, making this block burn with rapidity from both ends. In this block were the largest merchants of the town, including the Alexander City bank bulldtng, M. F. Falker’s liv ery and S. J. Nolen’s sale stables and one large cotton warehouse. The Are district covers three busi ness blocks totally destroyed, besides ten residences aud the beautiful First Methodist church and parsonage. No exact estimate of the actual loss can be made just at present or the amount of insurance carried, but It can be ctated now that as a rule all the business men of the town have been fairly well insured. It Is estimated that the Are damage Is at least a quar ter of a million, with Insurance of 1200,000. An AppeaJ fer Aid. The following appeal for assistance has been issued by the city authori ties: | Alexander City, Ala., June 13.—The entire business portion of the town of Alexander City and many homes Were consumed by a terrible fire this evening. Many people are left desti tute. Not one business house of any kind 1» left, nor hotel. Among those \eft destitute and homeless are several widows Who had established moderate business bouses. The outside world will find grateful hearts here for what ever immediate help Is dispatched. Make contributions payable to Dr. M. J. Coley, president of famine relief ^ committee, and address all communi cations to him. . . BENJ. RUSSELL, Banker and Pres ident Industrial. Association. JOS. C. MANNING, Postmaster. T. 8. CHRISTIAN, JR., Merchant. REV. 3. A. WOOD, Pastor Presbyte rian Church. DR. M, J. COLEY, Physician and Chairman Committee. If anyone else was concerned I would not write this sick letter, but it may benefit others who are similar ly affected. I have been a very sick man and hardly expected to see my next birthday, but I have scuffled through and am now on the upgrade. •One of my far-away boys wired to me to work on my stomach and I would get well. He might'as well have wired: “Keep on living and you will keep living on.” No, it wasn't my stomach. It was higher up, where the left ventricle of the heart had got walled In and the trouble was what the doctor calls the angina pectoris, and my left arm was helpless. For two days and nights I suffered more real agony than I ever suffered In all my life. Our doctor boy was here from Florida, and knew ex actly what waa the matter, and I took all his medicine, but got little relief, and I was willing to die to get out-of pain. Finally he gave me morphine in both arms and I went off to sleep and rest. Those morphine dreams and visions are always a miracle to me. 1 thought that in his ta.lk about my -troutjrrTrt) called it Angelina pec toris, for I don't hear welt now, and I got the refrain on my mind, that pretty verse from Goldsmith’s “Her mit.” "Turn. Angelina-‘-ever dear— My charmer turn to see, Thine own, thine long-lost William here, Restored to heaven and thee.” FI YE DIE FROM HEAT. Weather First Fatalities From Hot Wei Recorded in Sew Tork City. Five deaths resulting from Intense In Greater New thunder storm, accom- fortunately re- Friday night. irs Mirrondered. •4 London Friday Eoers surrendered total of surreu- es up to about or It will rebdhft^t Is the engine that drives the whofe anUomlcal machine. If overworked, or overfed with Ice or tobacco or anything else It will work on faithfully until it can’t work any longer, and then gets Alscouraged and dies suddenly at its post. The book says that but little was known to med ical science concerning the heart until the eighteenth century, and that wlth- ia the last fifty years many books have been written, and now no part of the human system is bettor understood or more satisfactorily treated. The disease called angina pectoris is de clared to be the most dangerous to which It Is subject because of its dis tressing pain and a sense of Impend ing death. If I had read that while I was suffering I should have surren dered, but the doctor wouldn’t tell me nor let me read it. He says It is better to minify rather than tq^magnify the apprehensions of his patients. But the young people ought to be told, told often and earnestly, that they can't fool with the heart. A boy who smokes cigarettes on the sly is storing up trouble that will Burely $ome home and sap his manhood and shorten his his life. This Is so well known now that good men will not employ boys who smoke. One vice- calls for an other and a news manager told me the other day that one of his news boys skipped some of his patrons every week so as to have a paper or two to sell and get money to buy ci garettes. Of course he' discharged him. It Is pleasant entertainment to lis- -n to a doctor tell of his varied expe riences and this one uttered a truth the other day that ought t» provoke serious thought In every gr rent’s bo som. He says that hts greatest foe parents and It Is most generally Ever and anon I could hear it ruin ing on the tin roof, but It didn’t rain a drop. All night long I was mumur- lng, "Turn, Angelina, dear.” I couldn’t stop, it, nor think of anything else to say, but I wasn’t restored—next day I got some better, and as I hadn't taken any nourishment for three or four days I craved something acid, and like a foolish boy eat a small piece of huckleberry pie for supper, which they told me not to do. That set the dogs to barking about mid night and set me back just where I had been, aad , the doctor’s work all had to be done over again. Emetics and hot baths and hot water bags and more mor phine finally brought relief. That night after supper the young people had the dining room table cleared off and were playing that pretty little childish game called ping pong or ding dong or Hong Kong, or some out landish name with Its tinkling balls, and so I got another refrain and was murmuring ping pong, ding doag and ding, dong bell all night. Onq of my boys, who is always punning, told his mother that huckleberry pie business was simply a case of too much ple- caty, and they dried to make! me smile, but they couldn’t. I was past all wit and humor and puns and jokes. But I am done with huckleberry pie and huckleberry cordial and Huckle berry Finn and any other huckleberry. Only last Saturday my only brother died suddenly of heart failure away off from home. His time was not out, for he was nearly twenty years young er than I am, and now, alas! I have no brother, and he was always a good brother to me. But almost everybody is threatened with heart failure now, and so I am looking out for it, but don’t want It tq come Along the Ange lina line. The heart is the most won derful and mysterious organ of our anatomy. It Is called the seat of af- i LImm 4k a «t AfilvAm and 4t% A AmaIIah a mother’s fault. They will that are forbidden, but she their disobedience and so /hen they do. things overlooks the physi- fectlon. the desires and the emotions The organ of love and hate and Joy, but It Is not It is mentioned In the Bible more than six hundred times, and always In connection with “our good or bad traits, but It has nothing to do with feeling or emotion or character. It is nothing but a fleshy pulpy organism, a mechanical contriv ance,, and has to be carefully nursed get sick they will net take clan's medicines without f\)rce or a struggle, and If the doctor is not there to force it the mother lets the time pass rather than hear the s reams or cries of the child. Not ha C the pa rents enforce obedience fi:m their children. Prompt and will: ig obedi ence should be the first lesspn taught a child. Their happiness depends un- on it ana so aoes tne motnqrs peace. We old-fashioned people have but little patience with a generation that is trying to reform the world 1 with new methods—abolishing the ways of their forefathers—raising children on love Instead of discipline and filling a., the schools in the land with athl< tic sports and Intercollegiate contest.. What honor, what manliness is there In kicking a ball or batting one. or wrest ling or rowing a boat? These sports have gotten to be the most mportant part of the curriculum am fill the dally papers with pictures aba thrill ing reports of the games. It Is all an "Ignis fatuus” that tools ;the boys and make them think they :have ac quired an education. When they went to college their parents had fond hopes of them—when thley came out that hope is gone, for business or the du they are unlit for les of life. ' While I was baif recovering from the morphine state about the value of pared good health piness and the lcr er and wealth- and very thought of tb m sickened me. I wouldn’t give I got to ruminating things and I com- and domestic hap- e and devotion of wife and children ' -1th fame and pow- ambttlon and the a good shower of rain just now for F oosevelt and all he has got or ever lects.to be. But I love Roosevelt beef use he hates Miles and I love Mlle.s because he hates Roosevelt, and I A splse them boto— "Turn Angelina”— lug pong. And last of all came S« an. They are for war. They kill a t ousand negroes to our one. They mi :e a land desolate and call It peace. I hey have trampled the love ’ of, Ub.ery In the dust and all for lust of p<v er and place. A woman from Rare s City sends me a paper with a sp?< :h of a Grand Ar my of the Repuhi orator on Deco ration Day, In whirl he states that he wishes every Coifi re rate monument was burled- in tin lottom’.ess ocean, and other vlndlctv things, and she wants me {o’ ansae it. No. It Is no use. That Grand Vi my at the Repub lic is lull of just Rich contemptible creatures, and I eqji’t answer them nil. I-t Is a standing curse to the peace of the land. Let the ball roll on. Turn Angeling—ping pong, ding dong, ding dong bell. We will survive the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. And so I went off to sleep murmur ing, there Is no Grand Army. It Is a two for a nickel or four to one con cern. If I couldn’t fight better than that. I’d apologize and hide out. Some of them down here in Atlanta would like to make friends, but they have never apologized and the way they do reminds me of the old couplet: “I know that you say that you love me, But why did you kick me down stairs.” Ping—pong—ding—dong—Turn, An gelina—Wish I was well enough to work in my garden.—Bill Arp, in At lanta Constitution. HANNA WINS ONCE MORE. President Will Not Investigate Wran gle at Cleveland, Ohio. A Washington dispatch says: The president and Senator Hanna have patched up their quarrel. The president gave way to Hanna’6 .wishes in the Cleveland factional fight and there will be no Investigation of the charges filed against Hanna’s men by Representative Burton. The president and Hanna had a long conference Tuesday, and then It was their differences were adjusted. Collector Leach, one of the accused of ficials, reached Washington. Wednes day and denied the charges to James R. Garfield, civil service commissioner. It was after this denial that Hanna went to the white house. He said the civil service commis sion had examined Into Burton’s chargee that federal office holders had taken an active part-In politics and uau *8ni5 to lin'd any - violation of the law. As a result, the president con cluded not to send letters to the Cleve land officials censuring them. Hanna added that the whole thing was too trivial to occupy the attention of the president. Senator Hanna said also that It would be difficult to draw the line as to where a federal officer should refrain from taking an Interest in public affairs, and remarked with some warmth: "The mere fact that a man holds public office does not necessarily mean that he should resign bis rights of citizenship." Hanna’s enemies In Ohio have been sending messages to Burton, urging him to press for an Investigation, but their activity bids fair to defeat their ends, because if the president sees that politicians are using the incident to further their own ends he Is likely to drop the whole thing. DEATH IN UHIItLING WIND. Ternsdo Sweeps Illinois, Carrying Destruction in its Path. A special from Bloomington, I1U says: Stretching across a pathway 100 miles In width and devastating territory fully 200 miles long, extend ing from Livingston county on the north and Macoupin county on the south and leaving Its mark across the face of central Illinois, a tornado Tues day night inflicted property loss which will aggregate a million dollars and cost a dozen lives. The wind reached a velocity of 100 miles an hour and left a trail of destruction* and death. Not a village or city in McLean county es caped and from every district comes the same report of destroyed buildings, injury to growing crops and razed fruit and shade trees. The aggregate prop erty loss in McLean county will he between $200,0^0 and $400,000. The saddest feature was the killing of three young women who were at tending a dance at the town hall of Merna, a small village ten. miles east of Bloomington. There was a party of 250 young men and women at the danco in the hall when the tornado struck the building gt 11 o'clock Tues day night. Everybody rushed for tho doors. A number of young nien held- the doors to prevent the people escap ing foaring that they might be Injured or killed If they got outside. About half ol them, however, escaped before the building collapsed. The others were burled In the wreck. Three were killed and forty or fifty others more or less injured, some of them seriously. The Christmas tree was first heard of in England about 1444. —. IN TRAIN SMASH FOUR LOSE LIFE Bad Accident on the N., C. and St. L. Railway. MAIL AND ACCOMMODATION MIX All the Dead Were of Train Crews, as Well as the Seriously Hurt. Passengers Escaped Injury. A fatal collision occurred on the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis railroad Thursday afternoon between Hooker and Summit, two small sta tions about 12 miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. Four men were killed and about fifteen others more or less seriously In jured. Possibly two or three of tho wounded will die from the effects of their Injuries. The dead are: George Rollln, en gineer of the accommodation train, died after being removed to hospital: L. A. Rakin, fireman of the accommo- aatlon train; James Bernard, fireman of the fast mall train; Express Messen ger Webb, of the fast mall train. All of the seriously Injured were of the train crew. Train No. 98, known as the Jasper accommodation, left Chattanooga about 2:40 o’clock p. m. It was due at Summit at 3:08. The other train, fast mall No. 1, from Nashville, was be hind (into ana the meeting point of these trains had been changed from the regular station to Summit. One of the engineers, It Is said, over looked his orders and ran. past the de signated meeting place. Engineer George Rollins, of Pike- ville; Fireman L. A, Rankin, of Chat tanooga, and Conductor R. A. Doss, of Jasper, composed the crew of the ac commodation train. The fireman was horribly mangled and died almost instantly. Engineer Rollins was badly Injured, as his legs were terribly crushed and large holes made in kls head and left side. He died while being taken to the hospital. Engineer George J. Ray, of the fast mall train. Is seriously Injured and it is thought fatally. His left side and head were crushed and other parts of his body bruised. His fireman, James Bernard, was caught under the smaller engine and literally burned to death. A handful of cinders and charred flesh was all that could be found of him. Express Messenger Webb, of fast mall train, was caught under debris and died' shortly after having been removed to a place of safety. The story of the wreck as told by passengers on the mall train Is a thrill ing one, as they were able to see the approaching disaster. On account of the position of the track, there being a double reverse curve at the place of the wreck, the passengers were able to see from the side of the cars the ap proaching accommodation train. They thought it merely a passing of regular trains and did not heed the warning until the crash came, and It was too late to help themselves. The accommodation train, being the lighter one, was entirely telescoped, the ponderous machinery of the fast train plowing Its way through the cars and splintering them into kindlings. Both engines had their position re versed and were thrown forty yards frora^the tracks. None of the passengers were serious ly Injured, YOUNUbTEKS BEST FIGHTERS. Over Ten Thousand Boers Hate Sur rendered Up to bate. According to a Pretoria dispatch, 10,- 2(5 Boers have surrendered up to date. Many are youngsters of 11 years old and upward. The majority of them are under SO.' Reports say that the burghers are Increasingly friendly. The only bitter- netss observable among the leading Boers Is against France and Germany; They assert the war was protracted hopes held out — press.