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Had Sense of Humor.
The latest sotry from a Scotch
•Pooting box. A young lady, much
admired by a young man staying at
(lie same house, was kissed by him
one day, greatly to her indignation,
“If you dare to kiss me again,” she
•aid, “I rrust tell my father.”
Upon this the fled to her father’s
room, where she happened to find
him examining a gun.
“Ob, papa,” she exclaimed, If.- “doj
run downstairs and show Mr.
your new gun. Jle is so interested j
in guns.” !
“Very well was the good-natured |
reply, and down went the uniuspoet
ing father. At sight of the girl’s
parent armed with a gun, the young
man fled prtcipitatelj.
That girl must have had a sense of
humor, there is no doubt.
A Record hi Widowhood.
A Mexican woman, the Senora
Kay Castillo, certainly holds the palm
for supreamacy m the number of her
real, gtnuiue widowhoods. She Las
worn the weeds seveu times between
1880 and 1895. So widely different
have been the cauaes of death by
which her seven spouses quitted the
world, yet so simple in tbo violence
thereof, it would almost soem that
the fair senora was somewhat of a
•‘hoodoo” to the genus husband.
Her first husband foil out of a car
riage, her second took poison by ac
cident, the third perished in a mining
accident, the fourth shot himself, the
fifth was killed while hunting, the
sixth met his death by dropping from
a scaffolding and the seventh was
drowned.
As the senora lives in Mexico she
lias not gained the notoriety which
would otherwise have been
hers from her varied matrmonial
ventures were she a residnt of some
progressive American city.
Forty-two wives scattered through
out the world, four of whom are in
Chicago, was the confession made by
Walter L. Farnsworth, a Chicago
candy commission man, who was ar-
rested charged with bigamy. Farns
wonh also admitted that he was a
man of many aliases. Some of these
are Charles Bradford, A. J. Ilittig,
*S- L. Thomas, A.L. Iveifor and Brad
shaw. “I can not toll exactly how
many women I have married,” said
lie. I know of eleven in Europe,
four in China, three in Peru, one in
Egypt, and over twenty others in
differnt parts of the world, but to save
my soul I could not tell how many.
I married them for different reasons.
I did not live with them long. Tiny
will ail tell I was good to them.”
The Cambridge (Ohio) Sun tells
the Story: “There was a man who
was too stingy to subscribe for his
home paper, so he sent his little son
to a neighbor to borrow one. As
the boy was going home he fell down
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and broke his leg. Tho father heard
his eries and ran out to see what was
the matter, but slipped and fell, dis
locating his kueo and teaing the
bosom out of liis ten dollar pantaloons.
Iii* wife ran to his assistance, leaving
a two-year-old baby on the floor.
Ihe baby crawled out and fell down
the well, and while the mother was
fishing the child out the house caught
lire and was totally destroyed.
Moral—Now is tire time to subscribe.”
The obiturary •ditorials on
Vic» President Hobart, which are
•landing in type in half the news
paper offices of the United States
•eem to have given the vice pres
ident a new lease on life.
A ballot box stuffing sensation
has been stirred up in Pennsylva
nia. Boh Quay should guard
hi* practices better than this.
(loin? it Iflin<I
Probably the most remarkable inai
riagervet known took place recently
at the homo of Mi;. Geo. W. Deweeso,
Cleveland O. Pewccse is the score
of the Blind People’a Association
,-md he is sightless. Deweesu threw
open his house for the wedding fes
tivitic.**.
The groom was W. M. Moose, 33
years old and is blind. The bride,
Miss \; v/a ; w Brown, is blind also.
The knot was tied by a blind justice
„f t | )e j )eac#} and the best man was
blind. Fifty guest were invited all
f whom wero i,]j n ,{.
Illiteracy and Crime..
Govorner Candler, in bis message,
makes an interesting contribution to
the discussion of illiteracy. For 30
yean, under our free schools, illiter
acy has rapidly decrased among our
cobred people, but crime has much
more rapidly increased and the ex
pense of administering the criminal
law has grown correspondingly heavy.
This last charge in Georgia is $600,
000 per annum and 85 per cent, of
this expense is due to the negro
dim cals. A sum is thus expended
alone equal to the total expenditures
of the stale for all purposes in 1860,
and yet taxable values were nearly
twice thin what they are now; m
other words, tl;e negro costs (he tax
payers now as much as both races
j cost them in 180,0. The governor
says it is true tint (it) per cent, ol the
crimen commtted by negroes art
committed by those who have had
the opportunity of free schools and
only 10 per cent, by ex-slaves who are
illiterate. And yet 90 per cent, of
the property acquired by the race
since emancipation is iii the hands of
the illiterate ex-slaves and not in the
hands of those educated in the
schools.
The Thernwell Orphanage.
The Thorn well Orphanage, under
the presidency of its founder, Uev.
Dr. Jacobs, is an institution for the
education and technical training of
orphan boys and girls. It is located
in Clinton, South Carolina. Nine
handsome stone cottages house the
children. In 'addition there are
school buildings, general dining-hall,
Industrial and Technical schools,
library and shops. A farm of an
hundred acres gives tho boys oppor
tunity for learning that business.
These orphans ropiesent fifteen
diffent States,—(every Southern
State) and their parentage was of
eleven different denominations of
Christians. They tire received at
the tender age of six, and after being
taught to take care of themselves, go
out to lucrative situations.
’Phe cost of support is comparative
ly small. I’ve dollars will board,
clothe and school a boy or girl for a
month. This could not be done,
were it not that the young people are
a busy set amt practice se.f-help.
The money that cares for them is
that which each benevolent individual
gives, as moved by his own heart, or
the Father of all. There is not a
state in the Union th$t does not con
tribute. Ko one compels. No one
is responsible for their support.
Often, there is but a day's supply
ahead; but never, in the 25 years of
its existence, has there been want.
He that sayes: “I am tho Father of
the fatherless,” seems to have a hand
in this. And what of you?
Get on our subscription list and
don’t miss a number.
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Governor Roosevelt began an
address to a Mothers’ Congress a
few days ago by saving: “I am
not a mother.” This is the only
honor that Teddy has admitted
did not properly belong to him.
Kx|»Iosi6n Fell Forty Miles Around.
A special !rom Tifton, Ohio, on
Ten-day tells of*a terrible explosion
Monday and it* as follows: “A mag
azine used , , by the brad lord.
glycerin factory to store the explosive,
located i
two and- a half miles of
Gibsonburg, exploded this afternoon.
The shock was heard in towns within
a radius of forty miles and the effects
of the explosion in the immediate
neighborhood were terrific. The
magazine was located in the woods a
quater of a mile from any Jewelling
and this alone prevented greater
loss of life. Benjamin Card, driver
of a stock wagon, had luiiUgid A load
of 720 quarts of nilro-glycerin from
the factoay at Bradford and was un
loading it when the explosion occur
red , Just how it happened will
never be learned. Card and the two
horses driven by him received the
full effect of the explosion, fie was
blown almost to atoms, only a few
slireds of his body being found and
peices of horse flesh were juried
several miles. It is supposed that
Card had a companion, but this is
not postively known. The explosion
made a hole seven feet deep in the
solid rock and trees in the vieiniiy
were torn to splinters. People
within a mile of the place were
knocked down, pictures were torn
from the walls, dishes thrown out of
cupboards, windows shattered and
houses moved from their foundations.
All the windows in Gibsonburg were
broken. There were about 1,5(JO
quarts of glycerine on the wagon and
In the magazine. Card lived in
Bradford, ()., and left a family. The
shock was dislinetly'feU here”
Our Pensions.
'l'he State pensions have f grov^
from $185,000 in 1890 to $678,000
in 1899’ In seven years the number
of pensioners increased from 7,000
to 11,000. There is one pensioner
to every 165 inhabitants.'- In Fulton
county there is one pensioner to every
137 people, in Bibb one to every 199,
in Itiohtnoiid one to every 239, in
Chateui one to every 836. Banks
county, whero the famous Banks
County Guards loft for the war, has
one pensioner to every 54 people.
Banks has the largest pension roll of
any ooanty in the state to its size.
It is inrerosting to note that in the
counties around Atlanta—Cobb,
Gwinnett, Walton, and Forsyth—are
the largest number of pensioners,
being in each case one to less than
100 people. The futher we get
from Atlanta the less men seem to
draw upon tho public treasury
for support. In Efimham county
there is one pensioner to
700 people. In Camden, Charlton,
McIntosh, and Early the number is
very small. If divided among all the
taxpayers in the state each would
pay $1.78 annually for pensioners.
The number of widows on the pen
sion roll is growing smaller, but the
number of invalid soldiers is\i nereas
itig, while the indigent roll increases
annually at the rate of 25 per
cent. In five years, the governor
thinks, more than $500,000 will be
requred to pay this class of pension
ers alone.
A blockader rode all the way
from Buektown, Gilmer county,
on a horse last, week with two
jugs of liquor. He arrived Fri
day night and after disposing of
his liquor returned shortly af
forwards. If he comes before
Judge Estes he will turn him in
another direction and let him ride
a part of the trip on the train and
at' his destination be furnished
with a pretty striped suit.—Pah
lonega Nugget.
ALL OVER THK COUNTRY.
LON r n NKvn s s: oi K i.r. L'CKli
If.) ,V 1• VI! (
Fire at Milton, FIs , d< Oil 2.090,
OOo test of lumber owned i»y Ouaihu Hi
Oo. omi wortii atout ;.;i5,i)00
ftoricus atorinn, Occampa Died by floods.
prevail in thesonibemdistriotstif Itaiy,
working widespread damage
It is stated that John D. Rockefeller,
tbo Standard Od company magnate, Is
about to increase bis mining to a large
eitent on Texada island. B. 0.
President Loubet has jardonod Emilo
Arton, who in 1890 was sentenced to
eight years’ imprisonment for complic
ity in the Panama canal frands.
At a meeting of the board of directors
of the Nashville and Decatur railroad,
the lease of the road for 09 year* to the
Louisville ana Nashville railroad was
ratified.
Ten former Spanish soldiers, who
were captured by Filipinos and for a
time acted as officers of native artillery,
determined to surrender. - The plot was
discovered by the insurgents, who killed
seven of the conepiritors, the other three
escaping to Manila.
$ * $
Spaniards are emigrating to Cuba,
aud Havana believes ZOO,000 wili arrive
within a faw months.
William Appleton of the Co., publishing
firm of D. Appleton – is dead at
his home at Riverdaie, N. Y., aged 85
je–ra.
William Bennett, one of the oldest
and best known furniture manufac
turers in the country, has filed a deed
of assignment at Louisville.
The United States transport Thomas,
the Cramps’ finest troopship for afloat, New York, sailed where from
shipyard drydoek painted.
she will go into to be
Chicago medical students throw bot
tles of ammonia and other missiles at
Dr. John A. Dowie, a “divine healer,”
and the police with difficulty saved him
from serious injury.
Congressman Champ Clark of Mis
souri, in an inierview, predicts that
Bryan and McLean will head the Dem
ocratic ticket in 1900 if McLean wins in
the Ohio campaign this fall.
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The British channel squadron has
b@6n ordered to proceed to Gibraltar
next Tuesday.
The firm of Mitsui – Co. of Japan is
considering a plan to establish a new
transpacific steamship lino.
A report from an authoritative source
says Bir Thomas Lipton, the cup chal- cult
lenger, will invest $600,000 in tea
ure In South Carolina.
The plans for the three now battle
ships authorized at the last Session of
congress will provide for the largest
and most formidable vessels in the navy.
Advices from Bogota, Colombia, say
that a Liberal revolution has started in
the department of Tantander and Toula.
Military law has. been established all
over the republic.
.After ja two day’s session of the di
rectory of the Pullman Palace Car com
pany iirOhicago it was announced that
the Pullman company had absorbed the
Wagner company.
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General Jituinez has been elected
president of Santo Domingo.
J. Skelton Williams has been elected
president of the Florida Central and
Peninsular railway.
Dock Robinson and James Jones,
farmers, fought a duel to the death with
knives near Huntsville, Ala.
Secretary Long has issued an order
assigning Admiral Dewey to special
duty at the navy department.
The North Carolina board of agricult
ure has made an appropriation exhibit the toseonre Paris
a creditable state at
exposition.
The census office is sending out a
large number of letters and circulars
intended to perfect the work of making
a complete census on dairy products.
London authorities have decided upon
the novel municipal step of devoting
£10,000 to the erection of a building to
shelter families whose houses are in
process of disinfection after outbreaks
of infections disease.
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Sir Thomas Lipton announces that he
will try for the America’s cup again in
1901.
William P. Lord of Oregon has been
appointed envoy extraordinary and min
ister plenipotentiary to the Argentina
Republic.
Emperor William will exhibit the
Frederick the Great collection of curios,
literary treasures aiid French paintings
at the Paris exposition.
E. P. Ingham, United States district
attorney under Harrison, and H. II.
Newitt, his assistant, have been con
victed in Philadelphia of conspiracy to
aid counterfeiters
Governor Candler has called on Sur
geon General Wyman of the marine
hospital service to protect the towns of
South Georgia against the yellow fever
refugees from Miami, Fla.
The Alabama Boys’ Industrial school,
chartered and endowed by the last state
legislature, will be located near Bir
mingham, and bids for erecting the
main building have been asked.
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The people of Marion, S. C., have
presented Lieutenant Victor Blue with
a loving cup.
Leota, a lion tamer, was severely bit
ten on the thigh by one of three beasts
she was training at Atlanta.
The Tennessee conference, Methodist
Episcopal church, south, has raised its
total-subscription to the twentieth cen
tury education fund to $10,000.
The Forty-eighth volunteer has infantry,
now at Fort Thomas, Ky., been or
dered to proceed to San Francisco
preparatory to embarking for the Phil
ippines,
The Kansas City and Eldorado rail
road has been sold to the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas railroad company for the
amount of its bonded indebtedness,
$225,000.
The governor of Mississippi has par
doned Charles O. Summers, the noted
express robber and ex-Pinkerton de
tective, who voluntarily returned to the
prison several weeks ago to serve out an
onp.xnired sentence.
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Half of the subscriptions taken must be for a longer time than three
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We want 1,000 new subscribers hut if we receive 400 new ones in
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