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A Modern Miracle.

We may look for David T. Litter to
lead off with one of the munificent en-
tertainments which have made his name
household word in every corner of the
State When Littler entertains there
is sound of revelry by night, and all
goes merry as a marriage bell. At his
last reception to the State officers and
members of the Assembly there was a
medieval feast; the boars head and
the wassail bowl Such profusion of
meat and drink had never before met
the hungry and thirsty legions of the
State House, even on a field night with
the lobby Eat and drink as they
might, there was always enough and to
spare. The next day Senator Littler
met Bishop Seymour of the Southern
Illinois Episcopal Diocese.
Bishop" said he, Il am a convert to
your belief in miracles"
"Ah, Senator" said the Bishop. ct
was sure it would come. And since
am sure it was neither my eloquence
nor arguments, may, without egotism,
ask what has wrought this changer"
The Senator rose on tiptoe and whis-
pered in the Bishops ear
This morning" said he, 81 found
that had three baskets of champagne
left over from last night"
The good Bishop was puzzled. and
said he could not see any connection be-
tween champagne and miracles.
Well, it's this way" Littler replied.
I'm willing to admit it was possible to
save seven baskets of bread from that
crowd in Galilee when it's possible to
save three baskets of champagne from
the Illinois Legislature ''-Springfield
Qll) letter in the st. Louis Republic.
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Held to Answer Without Bail.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.-Teresa
Kerr, the woman who shot and killed
Engineer George B. King on Satur-
day last, was examined before a JUS
tice of the Peace here to-day, and held
to appear before the Superior Court
for trial without bail. The defense of
the woman will be that King shot him
self with her revolver while trying to
prevent her from committing suicide.
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imprisonment for Life.

MADRID, Jan. 6-Julison San Mar
tin, who was in command of the Span
ish garrison at Ponce when the United
States troops under General Miles landed
on the island, and who abandoned the
place without resistance, has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life. He
will be incarcerated at Ceuta, the Span
ish penal colony in MORO County, OPP
posdte Gibraltar.
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Gen, Eaton Sails for Porto Rico.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. = General
John Eaton sailed for Porto Rico to-
day to undertake the supervision of
education in the island He was for
sixteen years United States Commits
sioner Of Education. He was consulted
in shaping the educational systems of
Japan, Egypt, Bulgaria, Brazil, Chile
and other South American countries.
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Bodies Recovered.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 6. - The
bodies of two Italian fishermen, who
were drowned in the heavy norther of
a month ago off Alameda, We're recov
cred from the bay to-day. They were
identified as Gaetano Balestrere and
Giuseppe Conezzurro.
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PostoRce Robbery.

SAN DIEGO, Jan. Gan attempt
was made at an early hour this morning
to rob the postoffice at Encinitas, thir
ty miles north of here. The thieves OBJ
tanned about SO worth Of postage
stamps. An attempt to break open the
safe failed.
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Seven Years at San Quentin.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. ED Rogers,
the counterfeiter captured at San
Pedro, was to-day sentenced in the
United States Court to serve seven years
in San Quentin Penitentiary. His part
ner, Burt Huntington, will be tried
Tuesday next.
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Death From Exposure.

PACIFIC GROVE, Jan. 6.-The body
of an unknown man was found near the
Point Pinos Lighthouse to-day 1t was
apparently that of a laborer about ~
years of age. A Coroner's jury rendered
verdict of death from exposure.
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Monaghan Pheasants.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6-There
arrived on the steamer Doric from
Shanghai to-day one coop of ten Mon
golian pheasants consigned to the Cali
fornia Fish and Game Commission.
This lot will be forwarded to Los An
geles for propagating purposes.
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AGoNCILLO's REQUEST.
Asks Recognition as Representative
of the Philiupine Government

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Senor AEON
clio, who is in Washington as the rep
resentative of the Philippine Govern
ment. has asked to be recognized by
the United States as such, and to be
accorded the same rights as the other
diplomats. His request is now in the
The record-union., 1899-01-07

The perfection in Industrial methods
in the United States has resulted in cre-
ating a condition most favorable for an
enormous and permanent development
in the building of American ships for
our foreign trade. Congress needs but
to touch the button-the people will do
the rest!
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Ex-Governor Budd,s New Office.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6.-Ex-Gov-
ernor Budd was elected attorney for the
Board of Harbor Commissioners to-day.
The Ex-Governor will move to this city
from Stockton. The Ex-Governor takes
the place of TREY L. Ford
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Feed and grain are greatly benefited.
NAPA, Jan. ct has been raining
here since noon. A strong west wind
is blowing, and the indications are ia
vOrable for more
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CLINTON Qa.), Jan. 6.-In the pres
ence of thousand people at the Davis
Opera-house tonight, Tom Cannon,
English Graeco-Roman champion, de-
feated Farmer" Burns, American
catch as-catch-can champion, in
three-fall bout Graeco-Roman. Cannon
won the first and third falls.
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Hea1th Of Emperor william.

BERLIN, Jan. 6.-The health of En-
peror William of Germany who has
been suffering from influenza for some
days past, is now satisfactory. His
majesty to-day received in audience
the Minister of War, General Won Goss-
Ter, and the Chief of the Military
School, General Won Hahnke.
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If it's encouragement the Spanish
Peace Commissioners want they would
do well to ignore the Kaiser and turn
to Senator Hoar.
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OCCUPATION OF
CUBAN ISLAND.
The United States Transport Mo-
bile Arrives at Havana,
Having on Board the Fourth and Ninth
Regiments Of Volunteers.

General Gomez Sends Word to
Major General Brooke That He
Does Not Know When He Will
Leave for Havana - Funeral
Services Over the Remains OF
Colonel Mabry Held at Camp
Quemados.
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Big boys fine French
calf shoes, with hand sew
ed we1ted scles; cannot be
duplicated for less than
SO pair; not every size,
but good assortment for
early corners. Clearance
sale price, $1.25 pair.
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Misses and chi1dren's
best Russia calf shoes,
made by the best manu-
facturers, lace or but
ton, coin toes; regular
selling price, $3.50; all
sizes and widths. Clear
ance sale price, $1.45.
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SHOWED NO MERCY II
WOUNDED NEGROES.

Chicago. Sept. IA special to The
Times-Herald from Murphysboro. ILL.,,
says: One Of the dead negroes at
Gainesville is a preacher the Others
are laborers One of the negroes when
frss shot started to run. He was shot
again aud fell. One Of the white men
then ran up and shot, hin through the
head with rife. The shooting took
place Immediately in front of Mayor
Zimmerman house and in full view of
several ladies seated on the porch.
Before the noise OF the first shots had
died away the streets began to fill with
excited armed men. After the crowd
of negroes had been killed and scatter
ed, it was che evident intention of the
infuriased rsiners to 60 to Greenville,
where the big nou.uuion negro camp is
located. and finished the work. All
afternoon an angry crowd of men
patrolied the streets. Later toe pro-
jeo.ed trip 60 Greenville was apparently
called OF.
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MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE
CELEBRATED

City of Mexico, Sept. 1.-THE
wife Of President Disz is somewhat
improved 10 health, but was unable
to take part in the national independ
ence celebrations which went off with
unusual eclat The magnificent iIlu
minition f:he cathedral OF Mexico by
electricity was the cause of general
admiration. and the great build
ing could be seen for 80 miles away
like vast mound of blazing light in
the ceneer of the valley of Mexico.
The new clerical organ. La Luz,
of Chihuahua, raises the usual cry OF
the Conservative party, predicting
the absorption of the country by the
United States and the danger to
Mexico of 80 many Mexicans who
have become AmericaDized in all
taeir ideas aud are the worst foes the
fatherland has
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Killing Negroes in Illinois.
SEVEN SHOT TO DEATH
ON THE STREETS OF
CARTERSVILLE.

Gainesville. ILL.,, Sept H.-Carters-
Vile was the scene of bloody riot
about noon today, 10 which six negroes
we're killed and one fatally wounded, F.,
while two others received slight wounds.
Trouble has been brewing since the
militia was recalled by Gov Tanner
last Monday. The white miners OF this
place have refused to allow the negro
miners to come icto town, always
meeting them and ordering them back.
Today, however. 1S negroes, al! armed,
marched iaso town, going 20 the Illinois
Central depot. where they exchanged a
few words With the white miners there.
Then the negroes pulled their piotols
aud opened fire on the whites vino at
once re,ureed the FIRE. A running
fight was kept up. The negroes scat
tered. some belog closely followed by
the whites upon the main street, while
the remainder fed down the railroad
track Here the execution was done,
all who went through town escaping.
After the fight was over six dead bodies
we're picked up and another mortally
wounded. They we're taken to the city
nail, where the wounded man was
attended to aud ao inquest held over
the dead ones.
The affair is really an outcome Of the
trouble arising out of the procurement
of negroes to work iu place of striking
white miners
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sTHE MAN WITH THE
HOE"

Mr.. Edward Steiner. competen,
authority, takes substantially the same
view of the Markham poem that The
Chronicle did some weeks ago. Writ
ing about 'The Woman OF the
Apgelus," Mere Adele. who still
survives and who was Millet's model.
be says
"Millet always stoutly denied that
his pictures had any social mission
he vas an artist, he said, not social
istic agita,or or preacher. He painted
what be saw, as be saw it and felt it.
Interpreting from the social standpoint,
"Tbe Augelus" affords direct CONTRA
diction of Mr Markmap's poem. Here
the peasant is 10 his grandeur, living
BY the soil aud the fruit of hard. iuces-
SAINT work. yet infinitely above the
thing which be calls 'a brother to the
OK" Mere Adele calls herself child
O; God. She looks it 10 the painting,
and she lives it every day 10 her ham
Bile cottage 10 the picture and out of
IL her type procIaims that 10 spite of
mau's oppression--io spite OF long
hours of work. coarse fare and the
absence of cultare-tbe toile7 can be
kept from being brutalizsd by that
voice from the eky. heard 10 the bells
of the Apgelus. which speaks of peace,
of God, aod Of the 6oal redemption
If "The Augelus" has social mission
it lis to indicate the way out of the thral-
dom of the centuries-the way God has
provided
This is precisely the view in different
words, taken by The Chronicle, and we
sill advise any poet who thinks serious.
Iy of contending for the prize offered
for a proper answer to the Markham
poem to consider the suggestion Of
"The Augelus "-Augusta Chronicle.
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DETAILS OF THE STORM

Raleigh, N. G.. September 10
The weather bureau here has the
details of the death damage by the great
August hurricane along the coast Of
North Carolina 1t appears that twen-
ty.6ve lives were lost The greater
part Of these were fishermen drowned at
Swan Island. The WIND blew at the
rate of 140 miles an hour. but only in
spurts While macy of the marsh
ponies were drowned, grea, many
escaped. aud the same was the case as
to cattle. TIE greatest loss of ali was
to crops on the mainland. It is said
this amounted to half million dollars.
TIE raiofali was greatest at Hasteras,
eight ioches in forty-eigh: hours.
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THE MAN WITH THE HOE.
Written After Seeing Millet's World-Famous
Painting.
God made man 10 his own image.
In the image of God made be him.-Gen.

God made man in his own image.
In the image of God made be him.-Gen.
Bowed by the weight o; centuries he leans
Upon bis hoe ADD gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages 10 his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made MIN dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never
hopes.
Stolid and stunned, brother to the OK ?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw
Whose was the hand that slanted back this
brow?
Whose breath blew out tue light within his
brain
Is this the Thing the Lord God made aud
gave
To have dominions over sea and land
To trace the stars and search the heavens for
power (;
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the
suns
And pillared the blue armament with light :?
Down all the stretch of He'll TO its last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than this
More tongued with csusure Of the worlds
blind greed
More filled with signs and portents for the
soul
More fraught with menace to the universe.
What CULTS between him and the seraphim
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleades
What the long reaches Of the peaks of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the roses
Through this dread shape the suffering ages
look
Times tragedy is in that aching stoop
Through this dread shape humanity betrsy-
ed,
Pluudered, profaned and dieinherited,
Cries protest to the Judges of the World,
A protest that is also prophecy.
o masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
Is this the handiwork you give God,
This monstrous thing distorted and soul
quenched
How will you ever straighteu up this shape,
Touch it again with Immortality
Give back the upward looking aud the light !;
Rebuild 10 it the music and the dream
Make right the inmemorabie infanies,
Per6dious wrongs, inmedicable woes?
o masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
How will the Future reckon with this Man 2
How answer his brute questions in that hour
When whirlwinds OF rebellion shake the
world :?
How will it be with kingdoms and with
kings
With those who shaped him to the thing
W hen the dumb Terror shall reply to God,
After the silence of the centuries
Edward Markham
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-09-20

A young man in Buffalo, from some
impulsive freak. took it into his head
to save ail bis ceots He wearied
after two years. when be got l 200 OF
them. and tried to sell them, but
nobody would buy. even at 80 cents on
the dollar. Some shopkeepers init
mated that be might have been robbiog
poor boxes, aud the agony of the young
man is not to be measured by cigar
box full of cents.
Army Doctor Barth of Koesliu, Ger
many, has discovered that singing
possesses bealtb.giving properties 1t
intepsiaes. be says, the respiratory
movement. thus rendering the lungs
capable of dealiug with more air. This
increases and strengthens the actiocs
of all organs of the body, appetite and
thirst increase, aud the more frequent
movements of the diaphragm ano the
wall of the abdomen materially aid
digestion.
One of the curious social laws cs
Peru forbids women to attend funerals,
and they do not appear at weddings
unless they are very intimate friends.
When fuoeral procession passes
through the streets, says The Chicago
Record, the cofiu is carried upoo the
shoulders of the pail l-bearers. who are
followed by 80 empty hearse. drawn by
two, four or six horses, according TO the
means Of the mcurners aud their desire
for display. all the male members Of
the family aud friends of the family
follow on foot, with line OF empty
carriages behind them As long as
they are iu the presence of the dead 1t
is considered a proper and necessary
evidence of respect to walk After the
BODY has been committed to the grave
those who attend the funeral are brought
home 10 the carriages.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-09-20

"End the war in the Philippines
speedily. or the result will be disastrous
10 you and the republican party .
That is the substance of what is being
daily diDDed into the ears of Mr..
Mckinley, not by bis opponents, but
by leading republicans, who knew how
unpopular that war is becoming all
over the couatry. Mr.. Mckluley is
gradually becoming to realize the
reaction in public sentiment concerning
bis Philippine policy, predicted more
than year ago by Colonel W. j..
Bryan, aud once fully cou 0ioced, there
is 10 telling What be may do for this
couutry has never had president wao
feared the public sentiment of the
country as much as Mr. Mckicley
does, or who tried so hard 70 make his
Official acts meet its approval, regard
less of his owo opinion Spartan burg
Herald.
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TOM REEDS FAREWELL.
Portland, Me, Sept. 1.-THE
Press will print tomorrow morning toe
fclloEioe

Portland, Me, Sept. 17.-The
Press will print tomorrow morning toe
following:
portland, Sept 16.
ITO the Republicans Of the First
Maioe district:
..While am naturally reluctant to
ob.ruae myself again upon public
attention. even here at home, | am sure
DO one would expect me to leave the
First Maine district after 80 long a
service without some words expressing
to you my appreciation of your friend
ship aud my gratitude for your gener-
ous treatment. Words alone are quite
inadequate aud I must appeal to your
memories. Duriog three aOd twenty
years OF political life, not always peace
fui, you have never questioned a single
public act of mine. Other men have
had to look after their districts. My
district has looked after me- This, 10
the place where | was boro, gives me
a right to be proud of nv relations
with you No hono7s are ever qaite
those which come from home. 1t
would not be just for me to withhold
my thanks from those Democrats who
have so often given me their votes.
This friendship l can acknowledge with
all propriety even 10 letter to Repub-
libans, for both they and you know
that have pever trimmed a sail to
catch the passing breeze or ever flown
q doubtful Gag
"Ofice as ribbon to stick ;n your
GOAT, is worth nobcdy's consideration
Office as opportunity is worth all con-
side-atiou
'.Tha, opportunity you have given
me untrammeled 10 the fullest and
AN plest measure aud | return you SIN
cerest thanks If | have deserved any
praise it belongs Of right to you
Whatever may happen | am sure
that toe First Maioe district will always
be true to the principles of liber'y.
self government and the rights Of mao
"Thos B. Reed"
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DEATH OF A GRAND OLD
THOROUGHBRED.

Nashville. Tenn Sept 16 -Iro.
quis, premier stallion of Belle Meade
stud, today died OF an acute afec-
ton of the kidneys He was 81
years old Iroquois was the only
American horse that has ever won
the English Derby In his three
year old form he was raced in Eng
land, aad won. besides the Derby.
the Prince of Wales stakes, the great
Champion and the st. Leger.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-09-20

Chicago, Sept. IA new base
ball league. whose circuit will include
cities in both National and Western
leagues, and which will be known as
the American Association of Bsse
Ball Clubs was formed at a meeting
here to. day The circuit as decided
on today will include st Louis, Mil
wauke, Detroit and Chicago, in the
West, and Baltimore, New York,
Philadelphia and Washington in the
East
Dundee. Scotland. Sept. IA
lockout will begin tomorrow at 80
Dundee Mills. throwing 35 600 meo
out OF employment.
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Cuban Proclamation
Along Sound Lines.
Unity Of Patriots OF all Par
ties Earnestly Urged.

Habaca, Sept 18 the Cuban Ma
tional league, in combination with
the Cuban National party, will issue
tomorrow a proclamation along the
following lines:
"Felow Patriots:
"Union and concord are absolutely y
necessary 1t is most important to
remember that there is some on
watching carefully what we do 1t
is most important to remember that
there are elements among US perpet.
ually striving to bring to life what,
ever could injure Cuban prestige and
weaken the arguments of those who
contend that the Cubans are able to
govern themselves. Never forget that
it is the aim of such enemies of our
national life to prove that we need a
master.
:The time has arrived for action,
for the action of party willing to
be judged by results Honor, digni
ty, decorum and expediency demand
that passion should be drowned and
all forms of self seeking put aside.
The time has arrived when every
man should occupy the position he
is best fitted for by capacity or ex.
perience. The basis Of our party
is to realize the purposes of the
revolution by obtaining absolute In
independence and the constitution
of republic under democratic gov
eminent, with ample decentralization
with respect to the provinces, leaving
to them the management of their own
affairs, subject to the central control.
sit is above all necessary to keep
alive the personality of Cuba until
these ends are attained, and the best
me, rs is the union of Cubans in an
eDdeavor, with the help of the inter.
vening government, to reorganize the
country and to secure the promulgs.
ton of laws needed to put an end to
the existing confusion and the
anarchy that is now devouring Cuba.
Our proposals would leave ali asso.
ciated with US at liberty to join sny
political party whose programme is
not hostile to the foregoing decIara-
tions of principles and to the efforts
of our combined organization :"
The executive committee nominates
the following ticket to the elected at
the next general meeting as crovin-
cial officers President, Salvador
Cisneros vice presidents, Gems.
Mayia Rodiguez, Lacred, and Pierra;
secretaries Senores Godezo and Cor.
onado, and treasurer, Senor Barnal.
At memorial meeting held last
night in Bejucal, after the exbuma'
tion of tine remains Of Gen. Antonio
Msceo AID Francisco Gomez, several
members Of the Revolutionary party
spoke strongly in favor of Gen Maxi.
mo Gomez as the leader Of the
Cubans in recognizing the country
Gen Pierra, however, said the Gu
ban National league would not recog-
nize any particular individual, being
fnlly convinced that there was no one
nov before the public who represent
ed the feelings and aspiration Of the
whole population. These feelings and
aspirations. he declared, could only
be focused ia collection OF indivi.
duals representing various sections
and Interests. He made a strong
appeal to the woman of Cuba to make
their political opinion felt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-09-20

Charleston, s. C. Brunswick. Ga
ADD Augusta, Ca. have quarantined ed
against New Orleans aod other fever
infected places
Boston, Sept. 17-Interess 10 the
Baker family" troubles was re:ived
today by the issuance by Mrs. Baker
of an appeal for material assistance CO
the ground that she is in poverty
Mrs. Baker. widow OF the murdered
postmaster of Lake City, S. c., aud
ber children, were brought to this city
by Miss Lillian Clayton Jewe,t 10
all $17 has been contributed TO the
maintenance Of the family.
Maztlau, Mex Sept, II Private
advices from Sonora show that Chief
Totabiate. of the Ysquis, who remaio-
ed loyal to the Mexican government,
was seized by the rebels and cruelly
tortured. being stripped, slashed with
knives and bis body shockiugly mutt
lated, while the Yaquis danced about
him tauoting him and crying out ::
"Take your peace, now you are punish
ed for siding with the Mexican govern
ment'
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-09-20

Yellow fever in Key Weet increases !;
thirty oew cases reported Saturday !;
there is 10 case 90 the mainland Of
Florida up to date seven cases1 and
two desths at New Orleans.