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CATASTROPHE AX1) HO-
PT ON COLORADO ROAD.
'F THE DEAD INCINERATED.
F° Hundred People Taken From
Wreck Badly Injured, Many
Of Whom Will Ole.
Ivorst wreck in the history of
K) occurred at 12:25 Friday
■ on the Denver and Rio
■nd Colorado Midland railways
Hi half miles west of Newcastle,
twelve hours’ incessant work
■king crews in clearing away
■is and recovering the bodies
■who perished, it was impossi-
Hore than estimate the loss of
■ not even those known to be
He been identified. Many of
Htunates will never he known,
■s possible that the number
■ll always be in doubt.
■the best information obtaina-
■ thirty persons are believed
■erished, Be while 185 were taken
wreck suffering from serious
■ reck was caused by a head-
■ision between a Denver and
■nde passenger train, running
Bte of forty miles an hour, and
ial Colorado Midland stock
tuning ■rifle at thirty miles.
was the concussion that
■gines, Boker baggage and express
and day coaches and two
vs were totally demolished and
■ torn up for rods in both di-
Bld to the horror of the scene,
Bk caught fire from ail explo-
■ Pintsch gas tank on the pas-
H'ain and burned so rapidly
H: passengers pinned beneath
were burned to death before
\ ^Bl Hi reach fragments them. of limbs and
■ a number of persons were
■ of the ruins.
■ost generally accepted theory
■ cause of the wreck seems to
^Conductor Hsp. Burbank, of the
Hsenger, i'ial, anticipating the time
undertook to steal a
Hud beat the passenger into
Burbank escaped unin-
■ npuii orders from Coroner
■been placed under arrest by
Hi Engineer Ostrander is mis-
H> thorough search about his
His to reveal any vestige of his
■ It is thought that when he
■threatened danger he jumped
■ engine, and realizing the re-
f his negligence, took to the hills,
soon as the news of the wreck
td Glenwood a relief train was
Irom that place and the more se-
w wounded were removed to the
er and Rio Grange company’s
lal at Salida.
F bodies were found in the ruins
b car and four in another. The
id remains of two women, appa-
clasped in eaali other’s arms,
found. Their heads and lower
were burned off.
OBTAINED A MAIL TRAIN.
H* of Decatur, Ala., Sav That Ouar-
^Kntine ■mg Rules Must Be Obeyed.
to the continued refusal of
Montgomery and Columbus road
■rnisk Irs, passes for the quarantine
the eastbound fast mail was
bed Friday by the authorities of
[tur, Fs and Ala., held just until outside the train the could city
Inspected. The officers had train orders after
•rest the crew of the
[arrived in the city unless they
llied with the red flag signal.
[G RE HARD FOR RAYISHER.
In Citizens Will Pay »1,000 For Miss
Chapman’s Assailant.
[Macon, [strenuous Ga., efforts dispatch says: being Quiet made
are
leate the assailant of Miss Sallie
pman. The offer of $250 reward
tayor Price will serve to make the
bli no more thorough, but more
nnged. le
governor will not be called on
ter a reward, as the people of the
Bill in alL probability, volunteer
■tutions to the amount .of $1,000.
GONERS GET BIG MONEY.
ir Department Shows' Amount Paid
K Out For the Past Year.
■annual report of the auditor of
Hrior department at Washington
Him: the annual amount paid for
Hs during the past year was
■ ■payments 7,637.
on pensions account
■ fiscal year 1896 was $128,722,-
hnd for the fiscal vear 1895 $140,-
141; 1894, $138,119,551, and for
$154,552,214.
e cost of the service last year was
i per $1,000; for 1896, $4.07; for
>, $4; for 1894, $3.77, and for
1, $4.35.
FILIBUSTERS GET OFF.
iclilion Leaves Florida for Cuba on
\ a Schooner,
formation has been received by
acksonville,Fla.,Times Union and
len from Carrabelle announcing
I filibustering expedition left there
li schooner at daybreak Friday
king, carrying thirty Cubans, be-
I [is arms and ammunition.
believed that a transfer was
L outside to some other vessel.
[e [e Brothers, schooners which Wild Eagle under and
were
Lion at Tampa, have returned.
WARRANTS FOR DEPUTIES.
Additional New* of Slaughter of Miners
at Latimer.
Saturday night twenty-one corpses
’ u ram8 hackle frame shanties scat¬
tered over the town of Hazelton, Pa.
Forty maimed, wounded and broken
figures tossed on the narrow cots of
the Hazelton hospital.
Of these it was almost a certainty
that five would be added to the death
list.
Such was the execution done by the
one hundred and two deputy sheriffs,
armed to the teeth, upon about one
hundred and fifty ignorant foreigners,
whose total armament consisted of two
little penknives.
All the men killed ranged in age
from eighteen to forty-five years, all
foreigners, Hungarians, Poles, Lithu¬
anians and Slavs, and nearly all had
families.
First and foremost, the purpose
these men had in view when their
march reached its tragic end was con¬
summated.
The 1,500 workers at the Latimer
mines, to whom they were bound in
an effort to induce them to join the
strikers’ ranks, have laid down their
picks and sworn to do no more work
until all the demands of the men at all
the mines in the district have been
conceded.
Warrants for Deputies* Arrest.
Next in importance was the issu¬
ance of warrants for the arrest of
Sheriff Martin and the 102 deputies.
These were issued at the instance of
the United Hungarian Societies.
Sheriff Martin was under the guar¬
dianship of the soldiers and he could
not he reached.
Saturday afternoon constables made
an effort to arrest A. E. Hess, who
led one company of the deputies, but
he had shelter within the military
lines of the Ninth regiment and they
refused to permit the constables to
pass tlie guards.
The warrants charge murder, as¬
sault and battery and threatening to
kill.
GOVERNOR’S WARNING.
Chief Executive of Pennsylvania Issues a
Pro cl a ma t i on.
On account of the horrible slaugh¬
ter at Latimer, in the coal region, Gov¬
ernor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, is¬
sued a proclamation admonishing all
good citizens against aiding or abetting
unlawful proceedings.
“I do hereby notify them,” it reads,
“that the lives and property of all citi¬
zens of the commonwealth will be pro¬
tected; that the laws will be enforced;
that the humblest citizen will be pro¬
tected in his right to earn a livelihood
and in the enjoyment of his home and
family, and that the safety of life and
property will be guaranteed to all at
whatever cost, and I do hereby com¬
mand all persons engaged in riotous
demonstrations and unlawful conduct
threatening the peace and dignity of
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to
disperse forhtwitk to their respective
places of abode, warning them that
the persistence in violence or unlawful
assemblage will compel such use of the
military arm of the commonwealth as
may be necessary to enforce obedience
to the laws and the maintenance of
good order.”
CAMPHOR TREES WANTED.
Secretary Wilson Suggests Their Culture
In Florida.
Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural
department at 'Washington says that
arrangements will be made by the de¬
partment for the thorough introduction
of the camphor tree in Florida.
He sa^l that there was no doubt that
the tree would be a success, as it had
already passed the experimental stage.
The department will give all posssible
encouragement in the way of supplying
seed and young trees, and Mr. Wilson
predicts that tlie country will soon be
producing a sufficient supply of eam-
phor for its own needs.
He also announced his purpose to
adopt a policy for the encouragement
of the growth of the English walnut,
the tree of which will, he thinks, do
well anywhere south of Washington.
DYNAMITE KILLS THIRTY.
Magazine in South Africa Explodes With
Frightful Loss of Life.
Advices from Johannesburg, South
Africa, state that an explosion of dy¬
namite took place in the magazine of
the George Gouch deep level mine,
causing terrible loss of life among the
miners. Five white men and twenty-
five Kaffirs are known to have been
killed.
LIABILITIES VERY HEAVY.
J. K. Willard Suspended From the New
York Exchange.
Regarding the failure of J. R. Wil¬
lard & Co., brokers, reports were cur¬
rent in Wall street Friday that the lia¬
bilities are much lai’ger than supposed.
One client lost about $500,000. He
may institute criminal proceedings.
A telegram from Chicago from J.
R. Willard says the capital of the firm
was supplied by the Dwiggius
Brothers, and says that he was guar¬
anteed a salary for- the use of his
uame, but had no other interest in the
business. J. R. Willard has been
suspended from the Consolidated
Exchange.
NEW YORK PROHIBITIONISTS
Hold a State Convention and Name Chief
Judge of Court of Appeals.
The New York state prohibition
convention, in session at Syracuse,
concluded its labors Wednesday by
nominating Francis E. Baldwin, of
Elmira, for chief judge of court of
appeals. The platform presented and the
issue of the liquor traffic de¬
nounced the Raines excise law and
secular amusements on Sunday. The
plank declaring for woman suffrage
Mas voted uo»vu.
SHOT DOWN BY A PENNSYLVANIA
SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTIES.
THE LIST OF DEM IS flPPflLLING.
Miners Were Marching and the Officer.
Attempted to Stop Them—Troop.
Called Out.
The strike situation in Pennsylvania
reached a terrible crisis on the out¬
skirts of the town of Latimer Friday
afternoon, when a band of deputy
sheriffs fired into an infuriated mob of
miners.
The men fell like so many sheep and
the excitement was so intense that no
accurate figures of the dead and
wounded could be obtained.
Reports were that from fifteen to
twenty-odd were killed and forty or
more wounded, many of whom will
die.
One man, who reached the scene im¬
mediately after the shooting, counted
thirteen corpses. Four other dead lay
in tlie mountains between Latimer and
Harleigh.
Those who were not injured carried
their dead and wounded friends into
the woods.
Throe bodies were found Friday
night on the road near Latimer.
HOW THK SLAUGHTER BEGAN.
The strikers left Hazelton at 3:30
o’clock Friday afternoon, announcing
th ir intention to go to Latimer. As
soon as this became known a band of
deputies was loaded on a trolly car
and sent whirling across the mountain
to the scene where the bloody conflict
followed.
After reaching Latimer they left the
car and formed into three companies,
under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hessel and
Samuel B. Price. They drew up in a
line at the edge of the village with s
fence and a line of houses in the rear.
Sheriff Martin was in command antf
stood in front of the line until thi
strikers approached. They were seen
coining across the ridge and Martin
went out to meet them.
The men drew up sullenly and list¬
ened in silence until he had once more
read the riot act. This finished, a low
muttering arose among the foreigners
and there was a slight move forward.
Perceiving this the sheriff stepped
toward them and in a determined tone
forbade advance.
Some oue struck the sheriff and the
next moment there was a command to
the deputies to fire. The guns of the
deputies instantly belched forth a ter¬
rible volley.
The strikers were taken entirely by
surprise and as the men toppled- and
fell over each other those who remain¬
ed unhurt stampeded.
The deputies seemed to be terror-
stricken at the deadly execution of
their guns and seeing the living
strikers fleeing and the others drop¬
ping to the earth, they went to the aid
of the unfortunates whom they had
brought down.
The people of Latimer rushed pell-
mell to the scene, hut the shrieks of
the wounded drowned the cries of the
sympathizing and half-crazed inhabi¬
tants.
Sheriff Martin sent a telegram to
Governor Hastings, stating that mob
law prevailed in the lower end of tho
county, and asking for assistance.
Governor Hastings ordered Colonel
Dougherty, Ninth regiment, N. G. P.,
to start for Hazelton at once.
The regiment left Wilkesbarre for
Hazelton at 5 o’clock Saturday morn¬
ing.
TROOl’S CALLED OUT.
A Harrisburg special says: Gover¬
nor Hastings ordered out the Third
brigade, of which General Gobin is
commander, Friday night, and in¬
structed General Shall to hold the
First brigade in readiness.
The troops mobilized at Hazelton,
and were on the scene before daybreak
Saturday morning. Captain A. R.
Paxton, United States army, attached
to the National Guard, started for Ha-
zeltou by direction of the governor.
Superintencent Creighton, of the mid¬
dle division of the Pennsylvania rail¬
road, was called into the conference at
the executive mansion, and arranged
for the speedy transportation of the
soldiers.
FURMAN HAS N1AY PRESIDENT.
College Trustees Elect Andrew P. Mon¬
tague to Succeed l>r. Manly.
The trustees of Furman university
at Greenville, S. C., unanimously
elected Andrew P. Montague president
to succeed Dr. Manly, who resigned
because th'e trustees objected to his
filling a pulpit while president.
Mr. Montague is professor of Latin
and dean of the faculty of Columbia
university, Washington, D. C. He is
forty-three years of age, is a graduate
of the University of Virginia, took Pb.
D. at John Hopkins. His Latin text-
b >oks are used in Virginia.
MORE BURNED BOWES FOUND
Now Estimated That Sixteen Lives Were
Lost In Santa Fe Wreck.
A special of Friday from Emporia,
Kan., says: It is now believed that
sixteen persons were killed in the
Santa Fe wreck. The charred remains
of three more bodies were found.
Two of the bodies, a man and
woman, were burned beyond recogni¬
tion. Little remains of the third
body, but a shirt bosom marked YV.
B. E., a Knights of Pythias pin and a
green stud may afford identification.
Engineer Frisbee, who was injured,
died from bis ivoanfis.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
J. W. Nall, of Troy, Ala , has been
appointed commercial agent of the
Central of Georgia Railway company T.
at Augusta to take the place of Mr. E.
Charlton, who wns recently appointed
eastern agent of the Ocean Steamship
company at New York.
The report of Receiver Joel Hurt, of
the Suwanee Canal Company, has been
placed on record in the clerk’s office
of the superior court at Atlanta. The
report states that the prospects for
realizing a good amount of assets from
the company are encouraging.
Dr. C. D. Wall, who was sent by
the Columbus authorities to Birming¬
ham a few days ago to investigate the
smallpox situation there, reported to
the board of health that the situa¬
tion is no worse than giveu out. The
hoard rocommended that tho council
adopt stricter vaccination regulations
and inaugurate a house-to-house ex¬
amination.
The much talked of Horse-Swappers’
State Convention will meet in Coving¬
ton, Ga., on the 21st day of Septem¬
ber and remain in session three days.
The object of the convention is to
elect a president, vice president and
other officers. Every horse-swapper invitation
in Georgia has has a special
to attend, and those in attendance will
be entitled to a vote at the convention
in any and all matters brought before
the union.
Mr. Phil G. Byrd, Governor Atkin¬
son’s special commissioner, appointed
to inspect the misdemeanor convict
camps, has filed the supplemental re¬
port of his investigations which the
governor asked for some time ago. It
concerns the discovery and inspection
of several private camps that were not
known to be in existence at the time of
the filing of the first report, and is a
complete description of their location,
size and condition.
At Hahira, ten miles north of Val¬
dosta, Sam Parker, a farmer, who lives
at Cecil, four miles away, was killed
by Shelton Dampier, a young man who
worked at the wood rack near Hahira.
Three years ago Parker prosecuted from
Dampier for stealing meat him.
Dampier was convicted and sent to
the chaingang. He swore then that
he would kill Parker on sight when
his term expired.
The tag business has at last been
settled. Commissioner Nesbitt has
let the contract for 3,000,000 tags to
the Dennison Manufacturing company,
of New York, at 45 cents per thousand
and a $2,500 bond has been made for
the faithful performance of the con¬
tract, which provides for the delivery
of 3,000,000 “G” tags and as many
more as the agricultural department
may need, at 45 cents per thousand.
It is estimated tkat4,000,000 tags will
be used before the year is out. They
cost this year but little over one-fourth
of last year’s price.
A question has been sprung which
may result in Chattanooga, which has
long been known as one of the leading
cities of Tennessee, becoming a Geor¬
gia town. Doubt has been thrown
upon the accuracy of the survey of the
boundary line between this state and
Tennessee, and if the theory of emi¬
nent legal authorities is confirmed, it
may be found that Chattanooga is on
Georgia soil. This view is shared by
Colonel W. A. Wiinbish, special com¬
missioner of the state for the Western
and Atlantic railroad, who has looked
into the question in his official capac¬
ity, and expressed his strong belief
that a correct survey would bring the
city of Chattanooga within the conhnes
of this state.
The fight for the courthouse and
county seat of DeKalb county grows
warmer as the time for the legi slature
to meet grows nearer, and the lines
will soon be definitely drawn. Much
arranging of detail is now being done
by the Stone Mountain people and
they will present a solid front when
the time comes for final action. Their
representatives have been in commu¬
nication with a number of the legisla¬
tors and are getting their forces to¬
gether and organized before the bill is
presented to the general assembly.
It will be oue of the first measures to
be acted on at this session, as it is
desired that the question be settled
as soon as possible, so that the
work on the new building may
begin immediately.
For years the hearing of arguments
and petitions for the pardon of con¬
victs has taken up much of the time of
the governors of Georgia, and several
of them have tried to induce the legis¬
lature to establish a board of pardons,
but failed. Now Governor Atkinson
comes forward with a proposition that ad¬
may be accepted, as it entails no
ded expense. It is that the raliroad
commissioners, whose present duties,
require only a portion of their time, be
required to do the pardon business will
without extra compensation. He
recommend this, unless the legislature
creates a penitentiary commission tc
supervise the convicts at the expira¬
tion of the lease, and in that event he
will suggest that this body be made a
pardon board. His idea is that the
pardon board shall hear all applica¬
tions for commutication and pardon
the and Governor, then make who recommendations will the final tc
pass
order. In this way the responsibility
will be shared by several heads, in¬
stead of being placed entirely upd¬
one.
CONVICTS MAY HE PUT TO WORK
ON PUBLIC ROADS.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S STATEMENT
Four Plan. Bv Which the Misdemeanor
Convict. .May Be Worked—Other
Georgia New*.
Attorney General Terrell has issued
the following self-explanatory state¬
ment:
Misdemeanor convicts may be legally
worked In lour ways:
First. Upon the chaingang of the county
where the convict Is sentenced.
Second. Upon the ehaingang of any in¬
corporated town, city or village of the
county.
Third. Upon the chaingang of any other
county of the state under a contract be¬
tween the authorities of the two counties In¬
terested.
Fourth. Upon any works except mechan¬
ical pursuits wherein the products of their
labor will come into competition with the
products of free labor, that the county au¬
thorities may see fit to employ the chain¬
gang, provided, the control or the convicts
is not given to private persons. Under this
latter plan the county authorities may em¬
ploy them upon the farm of a private person,
employ them at cutting timber for the saw¬
mill of a private person, etc;, but the county
authorities must retain control of the con¬
victs and not let any private person have
management or control of them.
Camp. Are Breaking Up.
Of the eight hundred misdemeanor
convicts illegally confined in private
camps in Georgia three hundred have
already been unshackled from their
lawless bondage and put to work upon
the public roads of the counties which
convicted them. The camps which
still exist are slowly but surely disin¬
tegrating, and it is now a question of
a very short time when the good work
of reform which Governor Atkinson
inaugurated a few months ago is
crowned with complete success.
Every day brings fresh evidence of
the healthy work of the leaven of re¬
form in this loaf of illegality. Already
the counties of Jasper, Hancock, Rich¬
mond, Wilkes, Elbert, Bulloch, Ap¬
pling and Washington have joined in
the good work, and the meeting of the
fall term of other superior and county
courts will unquestionably complete
the job. Governor Atkinson says
that he does not believe there will lx
a single private misdemeanor convio:
camp in Georgia by the time the nex
legislature meets, and there is plant;
of evidence to sustain his prediction
There was one witness bofore th
Fulton county grand jury which in
dieted W. B. Fuller, who gave some
startling testimony and furnished some
evidence which puts the prisoner in a
bad light. The witness was Mr.
Brown, of Woodbury, the brother-in-
law of Fuller. Mr. Brown stated that
after Fuller had been arrested and
carried to Atlanta, he wrote a letter to
a friend in Woodbury asking him to
get his coat and destroy what he found
in the pockets. When Fuller was ar¬
rested at a sawmill, near Woodbury,
be was not given time to go home and
get his coat. When the letter was re¬
ceived the coat was found and the
pockets searched and a bottle of mor¬
phine was discovered. The poison
had been purchased in Atlanta, and
Fuller’s anxiety about having it de¬
stroyed pointed to the fact that he had
bought it for .the purpose of giving it
to the child.
* * *
Captain W. W. Williamson, who
captained the Georgia team at Sea
Girt, has received a challenge for the
Georgia men from the Twenty-third
regiment of New'York, which has been
accepted, and the match will be shot
on the Avondale range,near Savannah,
on Thanksgiving day. The Twenty-
third regiment contains many of Nev.
York’s crack shots and those who rep¬
resented the state at Sea Girt. „ Afte:
their recent work at Sea Girt, how
ever, the Georgia boys look on the
challenge as a huge joke, and those oi
them who have returned say the con¬
test will be all one way. They say
they will give the New York men a
good time, but they will have to teach
them a lesson on the range.
For the third time Commissioner
Nesbitt will receive bids for the sea¬
son’s supply of fertilizer tags. The
Hartman company, of Demorest, did
not close the contract won by them
and for that reason new bids have
been asked for. The successful bid¬
ders wired that if they had to close
the contract by last Monday they
would let the matter go. This they
did, and Commissioner Nesbitt wrote
to the bidders stating the circumstances
of the bid and informing them that
new bids would be received at his
office until the noon hour on Septem¬
ber 10th. Owing to the nearness ol
the season it is necessary that the tags
be obtained at once, and there will b<
no delay in the matter.
The marriage of Miss Doreh to Gen
eral Longstreet is understood to in¬
volve her withdrawal from the list of
candidates for the position of state
librarian. It is learned that she will
fill the position of assistant librarian
until the term expires, which will be
nominally on the 28th of September,
but practically not before the legisla¬
ture meets, as no appointments There is will
be made until then. a great
deal of curiosity to know what effect
the retirement of Miss Dortch from
the race will have, and there are vari¬
ous opinions about it.
THE MEADOW BARS.
We stood beside the meadow bars,!'
The sun was sjnkjm: low
Behind a bank ofrosy olouds,
Fringed In with amber glow. the hill,
The evening crest shown o’er
In disk of silver light,
The mook-blrd echo’d from the tree
To greet the coming night. <
The running brook that, In Its glee,
Was Had silent babbled all day If long, hear
no\v ns to
The coming twilight’s song.
The meadow stretched, so fair and green,;
Far as the eye could see,
To distant hills with purpldshade,
Where slept the flower and bee.
The For twinkling the of the sheep’s sweet bell, j
down willow corpse,
And Was swoylbg'wlth the the evening tops. wind.
moved clover
The evening’s hand swept o’erthesky
And softly lit the stars,
And hung them in the openspace
Bight o'er the meadow bars.
My love’s head on my shoulder fell,
Her voice was sweet and low,
Her Ups met mine in sweet caress,
All In the twilight glow.
—F. V. Wheeler, in Iroquois Magazine,
PITH AND POINT.
She—“Yes, Mr. Detrop has dropped
out of my life for ever.” He—
“Elevator or coalhole?”—Chicago Rec¬
ord.
Bobby—“Popper, how did ‘Sleep
like a top’ start?” Mr. Ferry—“It is
a mispronunciation. The original
was ‘Sleep like a cop.’”—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
She—“The Sanfords contemplate
taking a trip to Europe. I wish we
could afford to do it” He—“Why,
there’s nothing cheaper than contem¬
plation.”—Puck.
“Does your husband act as he did
before you were married, Mrs. Light¬
ly?” “Much the same. When he goes
out at night he remains very late.”—
New York Weekly.
“Is the Rev. Dr. Gumms as elo¬
quent as he used to be? When I knew
him he always electrified his audience.”
“He doesn’t now. Perhaps tho insula¬
tion has worn off. ”—Truth.
Teacher (in kindergarten)—“You’ve
omitted something, Mabel, in making
your letter ‘I’s. ’ What is it?” Mabel
—“I guess I forgot to put eyebrows
over them.”—Household Words.
Agent—“Here is a cyclometer not
at all like some cyclometers which
register two miles, perhaps, when you
have only ridden one.” Lady—“Have
you any of that kind left.”—Standard.
“Did that young ballet dancer
promise to be a sifter to Jack?” “No;
she said she’d be a mother-in-law to
him if her younger daughter would
have him.” — Philadelphia North
American.
“Opporchunities,” said Uncle Eben,
“is pretty sho’ ter come ter ebry man.
But it’s a mighty good idee, jes’ de
same, foil him ter hustle roun’ an’
send out a few invitations.”—Wash¬
ington Star.
It was evident to the practiced per¬
ceptions of the young woman that be
was in a melting mood. As if to verify
her acumen, as soon as her father ap¬
peared the young man ran.—Indian¬
apolis Journal.
When a woman goes off to spend the
season at a resort, leaving her husband
at home to work through the heat and
dust, she' starts a story about how gay
men are when their wives are away.—•
Atchison Globe.
Advertising Clerk— ‘ ‘Your advertise¬
ment begins: ‘Wanted, a silent part¬
ner.’” Patron—“Yes, that’s it.”
Clerk—“Do you wish it placed under
‘Business Opportunities’ or ‘Matri¬
monial?’ ’’—Truth.
Visitor (in insane asylum)—“What
is the nature of that poor fellow’s hal¬
lucination?” Keeper—“He thinks
that he invented the various terms
used by golf players.” “Of course, it
isn't so?” “Oh, no! He is merely a
lunatic, notan idiot!”—Puck.
“Do you eat missionaries now?” the
tourist asked of the cannibal. “Oh,
yes!” responded the latter. “You
kill them first, don’t you?” persisted
the tourist. “We do now,” sighed
the urbane cannibal, meanly. “We
found quick lunches produced dyspep¬
sia. ”—Boston Transcript.
Tho Natural Bridge of To-Day.
The Natural Bridge in Virginia ia
215 feet in height, 100 feet in width,
with a span of ninety feet. Under the
arch might be placed the Washington
monument at Baltimore. Cedar Creek,
the stream over which it stretches its
arch, is clear as crystal. No photo¬
graph or painting can impress the
mind with its immensity or grandeur,
or geometrical proportions, or the rich
coloring, or the picturesque surround¬
ings. One must feast his eyes upon
this mighty arch to realize its vastness.
Under the arch are the outlines of an
American eagle, formed by moss and
lichens. Upon one side is where
George Washington, when a surveyor
for Lord Fairfax, 150 years ago, carved
his name in the rock. The ravages of
time and exposure to the elements have
nearly obliterated the name, but some
of the letters ore quite distinct. In
the years gone by Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster and many prominent states¬
men, before railroads were built, spent
days of inconvenient travel to look up¬
on this-—one of the wonders of the
world. Now the iron horse speeds
over its steel roadway, and in a few
hours one can reach this destination
without fatigue.—Baltimore Sun.
Germany Improving Rivers.
Germany has during the last two de¬
cades spent close upon $100,000,000
in dredging and improving the Rhine,
the Elbe and the Vistula. This fact
has lately been brought home to the
French Legislature, which is expected
to take early action with regard to the
restoration of the banks of the Loire
and its conversion once more into a
navigable stream and into an artery of
commerce.
Charges For Park Seats.
Paris manages to make $30,000 a year
from permits to let chairs in the squares
and gardens for the accommodation oi
p romen aders, -V -----.
