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GRIEF INSPIRED HYMRN
Requiem Rendered to Victims of
the Chicago Horror.
Sentiment of the Occasion Swept
Large Crowd Which Sang “Nearer,
My God, to Thee,” at the Request
" of a Man In the Audience—Many
Were Moved to Tears.
There has been considerable specula
tion in St. Louis as to the motive and
identity of the man who on a recent
night, after the second act of Ezra Ken
dall’s play, “The Vinegar Buyer,” at the
Century in St. Louls, arose in the bal
cony and requested the audience to
join in singing “Nearer, My God, to
Thee” in memory of the Iroquois thea
ter fire in Chicago. |
The audience of 1,100 people imme
diately complied with bis request, ev- ‘
ery one from pit to gallery joining in
the hymn. The singing of a hymn by
an entire theater audience is said to be
without precedent in St. Louis.
The man, it was later learned, who
made the extraordinary request was C.
H. Congdon of Chicago, who is con
nected with a firm of publishers in
Chicago.
Mr. Congdon, when seen by a repre
sentative of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
the other day at the Southern hotel,
sald:
“1 do not know why I did it or what
the impulse that prompted it was. It
was on the spur of the moment. I am
no public speaker, and the idea of get
ting up before an audience, and such
an audience as was at the Century, is
most distasteful to me. It took nerve
to rise in a crowd filled with the New
Year's spirit and all on pleasure bent
and call them back to the serious things
of life, but, as I said, it was on impulse
and was done perhaps before I had
time to think.
“T was not in Chicago at the time of
the disaster, but arrived in St. Louis |
from there Friday. The contrast be—'
tween the merry crowd at the Century '
and the assemblies of breaved ones that |
I had left in Chicago, still hardly able |
to realize the immensity of the disaster, {
was too much for me. !
“The second act had just ended, and !
the small talk between the acts was‘i
just beginning when I rose from my
seat in view of all and said, ‘Ladies and |
gentlemen'—
“The talk through the house died out
as I continued:
“+On this, the crowning night of a
season of enjoyment and pleasure, I |
am sure you will all join me in giving |
a moment’s thought to the unfortunates
of Chicago. Let us remember the dead,
the suffering and the bereaved ones.
When the lamented President McKin
ley died certain hours of the day of his
burial were set aside in all the towns
of the country to the singing of his fa
vorite hymn. [
“‘Can we not do the same for the un- §
fortunate ones of Chicago who perished |
in the midst of pleasure such as we are l
now enjoying? Let us all join in sing- i
ing “Nearer, My God, to Thee,””’
“1 asked the-orchestra leader to sound
the G chord, and he did so. At first
only a few joined in, but as the audi
ence fell in with the spirit of the oeca
sion the volume rose and swelied until !
the" theater resounded with the notes !
of the hymn. ‘
“All were singing. Pit, boxes, bal
cony and gallery all joined to render a !
requiem to the vietims of the Iroquois.
The thin treble of the gallery gods
blended with the deep bass and the
soft contralto of those below, and, al
though I am not what you would call |
a religious man in the stricter sense, |
it was one of the most striking and im- l
pressive things I ever witnessed. It
was beautiful.” ‘
Many cf the audience were moved to |
tears. President Cook of Dekalb, 111., l
the head of the national board of ed-l
ucation, was in the audience and pro
nounced the rendition of the hymn ex- |
cellent. ‘
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I am in the guano business again this sea
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I seli the
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and guarantee quality and prices. See me
betore making purchases.
W/, G, AV EN,
NEW HARDUWARE STORE.
I have just opened a new line of Hardware on Main
street in the store with C. C. Ansley Co. I will be glad
to see all my friends and the public generally who have
been trading with me for the past tour years.
NEW GOODS AND LOW PRICES.
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JUDGE SHEFFIELD WENT ON TIGER HUNT
The Sightless Beasts and Gamblers Given Special Attention in His
Charge to the Randolph County Grand Jury.
In his charge to the grand jury of
Randolph superior court, now in ses
gion at Cuthbert, Judge Sheffield re
marked that his attention had been
pnumerously called to the violations of
the law, as regards gaming and “blind
tigers’’ in various sections of the coun
ty. Special emphasis was given these
two things.
Judge Sheffield has been holding to
the rule of sanding all violators of the
RADIUM DEADLY TO MICE.
Touched By a Tube of It They
Are Paralyzed.
Dr. Roux of the Pusteur instttote in
Puris has been superintending some
interesting experiments showing the
effect redium has on mice, gays the
New York World's correspondent. The
little creatures become paralyzed the
instant a tube containing radium
touches their bodles, and continued ap
plication results in death. :
Dr. Denicz, who made the experi
ments, said:
“We shut mice in a cage and sus
pended a tube of eight centimeters
above ‘them. In fourteen hours the
mice lost all their hair, which grew
again a few days afterward, but entire
ly different in color. Twenty days later
symptoms of paralysis appeared, and
death followed shortly. An autopsy
showed a marked delation of the capil
laries.”
BISMARCK’S CHIVALRY.
A New Story of the Courtesy of the Iron
Chancellor.
At the Donn univers.iy rectorial ban
quet Dr. von Rottenburg. tke rector
of the university and formerly chief of
the imperial chancellery, related the
following illustration of Prince Bis
marck’'s character, says the Derlin cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press:
“Many years ago Germany was deep
ly insulted by a nation otherwise dis
tinguished for chivalry. Count Caprivi.
who was at that time head of the min
istry of the imperial navy, was asked
to express an opinion as to Germany's |
chances in the event of war and said, ‘
‘We should have a gallant opponent,
who, however, owing to inferlor war
material, w=uld not be able to offer a
serious resistance.” Thereupon Prince
Bismarck decided that he could not
recommend the emperor to appeal to
the sword and that arbitration must be
resorted to, for, he said, “To win with
out danger is to win without glory.””
Dr. von Rottenburg evidently re
ferred to the dispute which arose be
tween Germany and Spain in 1885 with
regard to the Caroline islands. |
Cured After Suffering 10 Years.
B. F. Hare, Supt. Miami Cycle &
Mfg. Co., Middletown, O. suffered for
ten years with dypepsia. He spent
hundreds of dollars for medicine and
with doctors without receiving any
permanent benefit. He says: ‘‘One
night while feeling exceptionally bad
1 was about to throw down the evening
paper when 1 saw an item in the paper
regarling the merits of Kodol Dys
pepsia Cure. I concluded to try it and
while T had no faith in it I felt better
after the second dose. After using two
bottles [ am stronger and better than
{ bave been in ye®rs, and I recom
mend Kodol Dyspepsia Cure to my
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local option law to the ehaingang
without the privilege of paying out.
He stated that he might vary this rul
ing in some cases where parties had
not heretofore been conyicted.
It seems that the grand jury was im
pressed with the charge, as they had
been in session but a shors time before
three or four negroes had been
placed in jail accused of operating
“‘tigers.”
HEARST PRESIDENTIAL BOOM
It Is Making More Neise Than
All the Others.
From the New York Herald.
William R. Hearst hails from more
places than any man in the United
States. He belongs to New York,
Chicago, San Francisco and Los An
geles already, and threatens to belong
to six more cities. He has newspa
pers in each of those cities, and in
tends to start six other dailes in vari- |
ous parts of the country. |
He is being scoffed‘at by the oldi
line democrats and some of the new
Jine democrats, but he is being taken
seriously by the country democrats in
many states, and his presidential boom
is just at this time making more noise
than all the others combined. Some
of these old line democrats, and some
of the new line democrats as well,
would be very glad to haye him out of
the way, because no matter what they
may be saying about the Hearst boom
there is no certainty that Mr. Hearst
will not be a force to be reckoned with
when the national convention meets.
Mr. Hearst is forty vears old, and
therefore about the youngest man
who ever aspired for the presidency.
He was born in San Francisco, and is
the only child of the late United States
Senator George Hearst and Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst. His grandfather em
igrated to Missouri shortly alter the
Revolutionary war, and was a pioneer
farmer and trapper early in the nine
teenth century. His father was an
argonaut of '49, and he carved out for
himself a name and a fortune that had
few equals in Califoraia, that country
of eminent names and large fortunes
quickly made.
Fair Haired Tribe in Mexico.
Dr. William Bauer, the German eth
nologist who has been studying the
southern tribes in the interior of Mexi
co for the Royal Museum of Ethnology
of Berlin, has compiled an interesting ‘
and remarkably complete vocabulary |
of languages spoken by the different
tribes, says a City of Mexico dispatch |
to the New York Press. The Zapotecan
vocabulary is 8,000 words, the fullest
yet obtalned. One of the most inter
esting tribes is the Miseres, composing
some 20,000 persons, among whom are
many fair haired and light skinned
people. Tradition recounts that they
are descended from the Teutons of Eu
rope. The race is quite distinct from
any other of the Mexican Indians and
is noted for its physical strength.
Bradstreet's Review of 1903.
Bradstreet’s, in its annual review of
1903, says that it has been a year of ir
regularities in the commercial and in
%dustrial world. It declares too swift a
pace had been struck up to the middle
of the year, when troubles began to
pour in from dissensions and business
depressions. It says that unsatisfac
tory conditions certainly confront the
ovpening of the new year, but hopes
l that these will be dispelled as the year
wears on.
Saved from Terrible Death.
The family of Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt of
Bargetown, Tenn., saw her avi g and
were powerless to save her. The most
gkillful physicians and every remedy
used failed, while consumption was
slowly but surely taking her life. In
this terrible hour Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption turned
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brought immediatve relief and its con
tinued use completely cured her. It’s
the most certain cure in the world for
allthroat and lung troubles. Guaran
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New Method of Feud Fighling,
Kentucky has invented a new and
wholly improved method of conduct
ing her feud fights, says the New York
Tribune. One party stands .in Tennes
ser and the other across the line in
INentueky, and the fun begins. The one
left standing can then cavort across
the line and make the farcical legal
Why the Financier Seldom Vis
its His Wall Street Office.
Aged Eighty-seven, He Turns Busi
ness Cares Over to Others—Finan
elal Matters De Not Seem to Inter
est Him, and He Spends Most of His
Time at Home.
Ruasell Bage has departed from his
Mfelong habit of visiting his office with
‘clocklike regularity regardless of
weather conditions or the temperature
of the elevated cars in which be rides
and 1s now seen in Wall street at in
frequent intervals. He has gradually
withdrawn from particlpation in the
affairs of the financial district and is
now no longer an active figure in Wall
street, says the New York Herald.
Heeding the advice of friends and in
response to the earnest entreaties of
Mrs, BSage, the aged financier now
spends most of his time in his new
home in Fifth avenue.
When Uncle Russell, ass he is fa
miliarly called in the street, does go
downtown, he is accompapied by an
attendant..
Instead of arriving at his offlce early
and remaining until late, as has al
ways been his custom, Mr. Sage drops
in during the forenoon, looks over his
mail and returns home early in the
day. He seldom attends meetings of dl
rectors of the corporations in which he
is interested.
Mr. Sage’s condition has given con
siderable concern to those who are
near him. He did not appear at his
office at all recently, and at his house ]
Mrs. Sage, in response to a note of in- |
quiry, asked to be excused from being
seen. She sent word that Mr. Sage was
not iIL |
Mr. Sage's office work has been trans
ferred to others. Loans are made by
Mr. Menzies, his managing clerk, who
uses hig own judgment as to the value
of the collateral and does not bother
Mr. Sage with the detalls.
Mr. Osborne, who has been cashier
in the office so long that the memory
of Wall street men runneth not to the
contrary, attends to most of the routine
business.
Mr. Sage still insists upon visiting his
office once or twice a week and sur
prised his employees by going down
town during the recent cold snap. He
was eighty-seven years old last August.
Up to his {liness one year ago he was
a man of unusual vigor for his age.
He recovered his health, but since
his illnees business affairs, which for
merly absorbed his entire attention,
have ceased to interest him.
In his passing Wall street has logt
one of its most interesting characters.
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Town's Greeting to Mrs. Langtry,
Lily Langtry got an ovation at Lang
try, Tex., while she was en route to the
Pacific coast, says an El Paso dispatch.
The town was named fourteen years
ago in honor of Mrs. Langtry. Twen
ty-five cowboys and 150 other country
folk were at the station to meet the
train, and a speech of welcome was
made by the daughter of a prominent
cattleman. Mrs. Langtry received a
gift of a live tarantula in a silver fili
gree cage, a black pet bear, a span of
mules and a big six shooter. She de
clined the mules, but the bear will be
sent to her farm in California. The
tarantula and the six shooter she tock
with her.
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