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A CHILD IS BLOWN UP..
AN ENGINE EXPLODES WITH FATAL
RESULTS.
A Little Bov Blown Thirty Yards Into a
Branch and Yerribly Mangled. His
Mother’s Deep Grief.
CLHAUDCY, GA.—About 8 o’clock this
morning a terrific explosion was heard
to the south of Chauncy. No one could
account for it until about an hour af
terward, when a runner came in and re
ported that Mr. Eph Evans’ steam gin
nery, aoout four miles from town, was
blown up and oue of his sons killed. Mr.
Eph Evans was in town and at once left
for home,
Your correspondent procured a buggy
and at once went to the scene. It was
indeed pitiful at the come. The moth
er's grief was most touching, for lying
before us was Epk Evans, Jr., one of the
twin boys—one of the babies—who had
been instantly killed by the explosion of
the boiler. Mr. Evans bad four boys,
the youngest of whom were the twins,
about 15 vears of age. These boys were
bright, intelligcent young men, and were
running the gin without other assistance.
They had stopped to eat breakfast,which
had been sent to them, and were about
starting up again. Two of them were
above in the gin house, and Eph, the de
ceased, was in front of the furnace
mending up the fire. The brotaers up
stairs had called out ‘‘ready,” and then ‘
the explosion came. The wreck was the
most complete, perhaps, that was ever
seen. Nothing was left of the boiler
that would indicatve the shape of it, The
engine, pulleys and fixtures of all kinds
were wrecked and bent until unrecog
nizable. Had the gin house been one
story nothing could have saved the two
boys upstairs, . Eph was blown thirty
yards into the brauch near by, and never
knew what killed him. One arm and one
leg were broken, and his nose cut in
twain between the eyes. His face was
fearfully disfigured by bricks, cinders
and other smail substances, The boys’
mother heurd the explosion, and with
that motberly instinct, knew something
terrible bad happened. She was the first
to reach her boy’s side. The other boys
were too much stupefied by the azcident
to go to the dead brother before the
mother was nu the scene.
The accident was most remarkable in
two ways—because the other boys were
not killed, and because of the compiete-'
ness of the wreck. Absolutely nothing |
pertaining to the boiler, engine or ma
chinery is left that can ever be of use
again. 'f'he wreck is total, The furnace
door, or a piece of it, was found seventy
five yards trom the place.
Harvesting the ¢«Fruits.”
The Sugar T:ust bhas the honor and
glory of harvestiug® the ‘‘first fruits of
empire.”’
It has bought the entire sugar crop—
-250,000 tons—of our new Hawaiiin pos
sessions. It will use this purchase in
destroying the independent refiners. As
the Sugar Trust was the most potent
advoca'e of Hawaiian annexation, it is
fitting that it should reap the rewards of
its patriotism. ’
Sugar aud leprosy are the only con
siderable Hawaiian produets. N)ow that
the sugar bas been appropriated there
re nains only tLe leprosy.. |
Who will harvest that?—Naw York
World.
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Photographs.
Dawson, Gecrgia
~ AN ANCIENT CHESS KING.
Haply some rajah first in the ages gone
Amid his languid ladies fingered thee,
While a black nightingale, sun swart as he,
Sang his one wife love’s passionate oraison;
Haply thou mayst have pleased Old Prester
John
Among his pastures when full royally
He sat in tent, grave shepherds at his knee,
While iamps of balsam winked and glimmered
on.
What dost thou here? Thy masters are all
dead,
My heart is full of ruth and yearning pain
At sight of thee, O king, that hast a crown
Outlasting theirs, and telist of greainess fl",d
Through cloud hung righisof unabated ricg
> K mnjestic town.
And murmurs of the dark e
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GIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE.
A Contempoary Doesn’t Think the Ponnd
of Flesh Should Re Demande | This Year.
The autumn time of 1898 presents
many opportunities for the prastical ex
ercise of christian yirtues. Many of our
peop'e have mnever before had greater
persuasion to put into practice the Di
‘yine injunction: ‘As ye would that
others do unte you do you even so to
them.”
On the farms and in the towns there
are many men who are absolutely unable
now to pay all they owe. Thereare men
to whom debts are due can wait if they
will. Let the debtor present the case
fully to the creditor, paying what he can,
and then the creditor should be lenient
concerning the balance, and give the
debtor another chauce., To strip him of
his foundation entirely might work suf
fering that would be out of proportion
to the benefit accruing to the man fore
ing full payment,
If the debt r w:ll be thoroughly hon
est and pay ail he can, then the creditor
forcing a saceifice of all his proporty
would be absolutely lacking in christiap
humanirty.
We have heard of an exceedingly sad
case in Pulaski county. Both parties
are well known in Houston and have
relatives in the county. A young farmer
with a mother, sister and brother to sup
port had by industry accumulated mules
and farm supplies. This year he rented a
3-mule farm, agreeing to pay $3OO for
samwe. He was unfortunate—some time
ago being stricken with infiammatory
rheumatism. The doctors told him a leg
must be amputated. He failed to pay
rent when it became due, The officers
refused 10 execute the papers that would
force payment by sale of crops and stock.
The landlord himself demanded pay
ment, with the alternative that he wouid
by authority of law take possession of
the crops and stock if settlement was
not made. Fortunately relatives of the
young man came to his assistance and
prevented immediate sacrifice of all he
possessed.
We hope there willi be nothing like
this in Houston. It is better tor the
well to-do creditor to wait another year
than for the hard-pressed] debtor to sac
rifice all he holds. But there must be no
evasiou or deception on tha part of the
creditor, a fuli honest showing must be
made,
There will be other years, and the
cre litor, of this year will need to sell or
loan another year.
The spirit of Shylock should not pre
vail.— Perry Jourral.
Manvy a household is saddened by
death because of the failure to keep on
hand a safe and absolutely certain cure
for croup such as One minute Cough
Cure. See that your little ones are pro.
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AN EDITOR LOOSE.
“I would flee from the city’s rule and
law—from its fashions and forms cut
losse—and go where the strawberry
grows on its straw and the goouseberry
grows on its goose; where the catnip
tree is climbed by the cat as she clutches
for her prey—the guileless and unsus
pecting rat on the rattan bush at play;
I will catch with ease the saffron cow
and the cowlet in their glee, as they
leap in joy from bough to bough on the
top ot a cowslip tree; and list while the
partridge drums his drum and the wood
chuck chucks ,bis wood, and the dug de
vours the dogwood plum in the primi
tive solitude.
*O let me drink fron the mossgrown
pump, that was hewn from the pumpkin
tree! Eat mush and milk from a rural
stump, from folly and fashions free
new gathered mush from the mushroom
vine, and milk from the milkweed sweet
~-with pineapple from the pine tree. And
then to the whitewashed dairy I'l] turn
where the dairymaid hastening hies, her
roddy and goldenred butter to churn
from the milk of her butterflies; and I'}}
rise at morn with the earliest bird, to
the fragrant farmyard pass, and watch
while the farmer turns his herd of grass
hoppers out to grass.—Union Pasitic.
Seems as if consumption always picks
out the brightest and best. Fully one
sixth of all the deaths that occur in the
world are caused by consumption.
Many things were once considered im
possible. It would be etrange if medi
cal science did not make some progress.
The telegraph and telephone, tte pho
nograph and eleciric light—all were
once impossible, and once it was impos~
sible to cure consumption.. That was
before the time of Dr. Pierce’s Golden
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directions, this standard remedy will
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st e
Wishing to retire from business, I offer for
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). W. F. LOWREY, Dawson, Ga.
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This celebrated remedy is most e§-
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Doses are small and pleasant to take. Doctors
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CORPSE STOOD BY THE THROTTLE,
Engineer House, With a“ Smile onx His
Face, Stood Looking Ahead.
While the fast refrigerator train on the
Chicago and Altor was sp2eding toward
Glendala, Mo., Eugineer Richard A.
House sat dead in his cab, his hand
grasping the throttle, his glazed eyes
fixed straight ahead on the track and a
peaceful smile on his face.
Fireman John Verndell, who had been
busy for some minutes in the tender,
walked into the cab, continuing bis fir
ing, and it was not until he spoke to
House that he discovered that his mute
was dead. The train was stopped, the
remains were carriel back to the ca
boose and at Glendale transferred to anp
incoming train. The cause of the death
is not known.
Testing Cornstalk Pith,
'The American consul general at St.
Petersburg gives this account of a trial
of cornstalk pith made by the Russian
admiralty board on the proving grounds
at Peligon, near St. Petersburg:
**A cofferdam 6 feet long, 6 feet deep
and 3 feet broad was packed with blocks
of cellulose made from the pith of In
dian corn stalks. The material was sup
plied by an American corporation. A 6
inch solid shot was fired through the
dam, striking it about 20 inches from
the bottom. The shot passed clear
throngh both the iron walls and the
cellulose packing. Less than half a
pound of cellulose was carried out by
the projectile. The water compartment
of the dam was filled, giving a pressure
of nearly five feet of water on the per
forated surface. In just half an hour a
moist spot began to show on the outer
surface of the dam, but it was evident
the moisture had come along the bottom
of the packing and not along the path
of the shot. In four hours no water had
come through the shot’s path.
““The experiment conclusively dem
onstrated that a ship provided with a
cofferdam packed as was the one used
in the experiment could be perforated
five feot below the water line without
the least danger of the entrance of wa
ter. IR}
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