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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-11-08

around to my rooms afterward. | wisl
you would, Carleton.
To be so intimately treated by the
great Clarke whom he had secretly
admired for years was something OF
which he had never dreamed. He re-
membered how, when he had first
come to the city, this young man haC
been pointed out to him as a prOmi
nent and popular person IN the socia
life there. He had envied him, but tb(
thought of knowing him had never
come to his mind. He smiled grim1y
as a mental comparison of habitua
dining in his early life and that of the
invitation he had just received.
Fred Carleton's admiration for his
friendly employer grew as he recOg'
nized his intelligent effort to be enter
tanning, and his success in doing so. II
was impossible to resist the winning
personality of Clarke; his perfect ease
gave no trace of cOndescensiOn, and he
treated his guest with sincere friendli-
ness. Carleton refrained from his I'M
pleasant habit of forcing notice to him
self; the need for impressing Clarke
with his Importance was forgotten
He didn't feel so particularly import
ant just then, although there was GER
tainly more than usual occasion TO.
such a feeling.
The luxuriously furnished rooms
seemed princely to Carleton. Here, as
at the Walcott, his host entertained
with the same cordial hospitality. The
clerk wondered at the absence of what
he had grown to regard AS a necessary
part Of an evenings entertainment
This glimpse of the life of this feal
"swell" contained some wholesome
revelations for him.
"Carleton," Clarke said, in his slow
pleasant drawl watching the rings OF
smoke float upward from he@ciSar lac
had lighted, II had a great tine UP
country a few weeks ago. | got out
of sorts one day and went ont Oh u
bicycle ride by my lonesome. I had {,
breakdown so late in the afternoon
that I couldn't get back into town,
and consequently 1 spent the night in
a farmhouse; enjoyed it, too. 1t gave
me a bit Of jar though. You see,
haven't any home; never did have, or
any people of my own, and it seemed
to me if had a place like that to go
back and remember, I'd give up big
slice of what came to me to make up
for that sort of loss. "YOu see, ,
Clarke went on, cit was an old house,
not very we'll kept up, but clean and
quiet and peaceful inside, and out
doors there were old-fashioned flowers,
pink and purple and white china asters
and big yellow marigolds, and funny
brass kettle with heliotrope."
Clarke's eyes were not lifted or he
would have seen his guest start at
mention of the brass kettle. 'And
there was a pump" he went on, "a
yellow pump, and some hens running
around, Plymouth Rocks, they called
them, and a fat yellow cat and an old
white horse" he continued reminis-
Gently; "and there were yellow chairs
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-11-08
STEAMSHIP LINE
Passenger Service.

Passenger Service.
To make connections
with steamers, leave jack
sonville Thursdays 1920
am IF. c. & P. via Fer
nandina and Cumberland
Rte, taking dinner en- rte.
Or 4:30 IF. c. & P.) "all
rail" via Everett, Pas
sengers on arrival gong
directly aboard steamer.
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General Buffers Advices.

LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE War Office has
received the following dispatch from Gen.
Butler, dated Cape Town, Nov. 16, evening:
Have received from Hildyard, Pieter-
maritzburg, a telegram, dated Nov. Is, of
which the following is the purport: The
officer commanding the troops at Estcourt
reports at midday that an armored train left
EStcourt this morning with a company of
the Dublin FusilierS and a company of the
Durham volunteers. North Of Frere they
encountered party of Beers and began 10
withdraw. While retiring some of the
troops were derailed. The Dublins turned
out and advanced toward the enemy. while
the rest of the train appears to have re-
turned without them to Estcourt- The Of
Ger commanding the troops reports that he
was sending mounted troops in order to
cover their withdrawal, but that about one
hundred are missing"
An official dispatch confirms the state
ment that Capt. j. A. Haldane, of the Cor
don Highlanders, attached to the Dublin
Fusiliers, and Lieut.. T. III. FARMLAND and
thirty-seven noncommissioned officers and
men of the Dublin Fusiliers are missing.
Captain Haldane distinguished himself by
his services in India. for which he received
the ID. S. o. Companion of the Dis
tinguished Service Order) He was also
wounded at ElandSlaagte
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GALLANT YOUNG ENSIGN.
w. X. Gherardi, Son of the Admiral, a
'Chip on the Old Block"

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE Navy De-
partment to-day gave out an account of
the conspicuous gallantry of Ensign w. r.
Gherardi, in the recent terrific hurricane
which swept across Porto Rico. 1t was for
warded by Captain Snow, commanding the
United States naval station in San Juan,
who inclosed letters of Lieut. Col. Carr, of
the Fifth Cavalry and others, concerning
the daring exploit The statement forwarded
TO the department shows that when the
storm was at its height Ensign Gherardi
and j. j. Jiminez, a civil engineer, ran
along the beach TO the point nearest the
shipping which was dragging anchors
through the terrific force of the wind. The
schooner Conception, loaded by 80 emil
grants from San Domingo, and the steamer
Varco We're in great distress. Some of the
passengers were jumping overheard. The
statement goes on as follows
Gherardi at once plunged into the water
with his clothes on and began dragging the
them 10 the shore. He ordered those on
board TO throw life line TO the shore, so
as to make fast, but they were so terror
ICED that they were unable TO do anything
but Jump into the water, where they were
taken by Gherardi and JimineZ and brought
TO shore. There were from four to six peo
pie (women and children) who did not dare
10 jump into the wafer. They were told to
do so, but remained where they were ard
were undoubtedly lost. as the schooner soon
Wnt 10 pieces. The rescued mum bered nearly
159 souls. The steamer Narco was then bat
Ting with the waves 4 few hundred yards
OFF. Gherardi called for life line and,
forming party of rescuers in a line, join
ing hands, extending out into the water,
himself at the head. he soon had hold OF
the line and, bringing ii 10 the shore, fas-
teneo the end securely, TO neighboring
tree. The crew climbed down and along
the line and were safely landed"
Ensign Gherardi is a son OF Rear Admiral
Gherardi retired.
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ChurchiIrs Last Dispatch.

NEW YORK, Nov. IA dispatch TO the
World from Estcourt, Natal, gives the last
cable from Lieut. Winston Churchill before
his capture by the Beers. The dispatch
says:
About 500 Beers have arrived at Chievely
Station. They blew up the railway line
there with dynamite, but retired on seeing
a mounted infantry patrol and other pa
trolling parties. The Beers are reported
to-day to be south of the Tugela river,
which runs through Colenso. Reports from
Winenen (twenty miles northeast of Est
courD indicate that il is possible an at
tack is intended to be made on this place.
CThis undoubtedly refers TO the movement
of General Schalkburger's commando,
which is reported advancing from the
Transvaal through Zululand on the capital
of Natal in the rear of the British troops
penned up in Ladysmith.) The troops here
are sleeping in their boots and the utmost
vigilance is maintained, but general conf
dence prevails that in the grassy (open)
country any Dutch attack can be repulsed.
The situation is much clearer throughout
Natal Further efforts TO signal Ladvsmil h
failed, but the Beers heliograph acknowl-
edged them, saying. viii be with you to-
morrow The British reply was much
shorter"
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READY TO RELIEVE LADYSMITH.
General HiIdyard Now Has an Army
of 1000 Men.

LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE Admiralty an
nounced this evening the arrival at Cape
Town to-day of the troop ship Arcana. with
battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders (the Princess Louise's regi-
ment) bringing the reinforcements up TO
300 of which 300 have already disem-
barked at Durham. with eighteen field guns,
a number of machine guns. engineers and
hospital troops, as we'll as seven hundred
mules. This force, with that already be-
tween Estcourt and Durham, is considered
sufficient to enable General Hildyard to
advance and to take the aggressive against
the Beers south OF Ladysmith. The trans
ports officially announced to-day as hav-
ing arrived at Cape Town carried the fol-
lowing troops: The Malta Mounted Infantry
Reserves and the Coldstream Guards: total,
10 officers and ,5S7 men; the City of Vienna
the cavalry brigade staff. Twelfth Lancers
and a field hospital; total 10 officers and
80 men: the City OF Cambridge, the Sec
ond Scottish Rifles and a field hospital:
total 40 officers and 965 men. The transport
Natal. The British transport Orient has ar
rived at Durham.
According to the latest advices Ladysmith
is holding out satisfactorily. everything
having been well up TO Wednesday. In view
of the Boer destruction of bridges, the
War Office has issued orders for the ship
ment OF quantity of bridge work between
this and the end OF the year.
Ii is reported that the British govern
ment has purchased the Creusot guns
ordered by the Transvaal, but not deliv-
cred.
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WILL SAIL NEXT WEEK.
Lieut.. Hit, of indianapolis, Bound
for the Philippines.

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 17.-Four trans
ports are scheduled to sail for Manila next
Wednesday-the Hancock, Duke of Fife,
Puebla and st. Paul. The headquarters and
six companies of the Thirty-eighth Infantry
will go the Duke of Fife. the field officers
and the other six companies will go on the
st. Paul. the headquarters and nine COM
panies Of the Forty-fourth Will leave on the
Hancock, and a field officer and the other
three companies leaving on the Puebla. The
two companies of the Forty-third will also
go on the Puebla. One hundred recruits will
go on the Duke Of Fife and fifty on the st.
Paul, Lieutenants Arrowsmith and Hit ac-
campaigning them.
The departure of the troops on Monday
will leave the Fortieth, Forty-second and
Forty-eighth in camp and the Forty-ninth
TO come if by that time IL has not already
arrived. Those regiments will be away,
however, inside of another two weeks The
Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth will probably
be the last to go. Both are colored regi-
ments, and it seems TO be the policy Of the
government to keep them together as long
as possible.
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RIVALRY In HIGH CIRCLES.
Titled Families Eager to BE Well Rep
resented I'm the War.

resented i'm the War.
LONDON, Nov. H.-Lord Compton's mar
row escape as captain of the Ninth Lancers
from capture in a reconnaissance above
Belmont sends a thrill through the West
End, where the exploits and adventures
of the titled soldiers are followed with in
tense interest. There is an honorable COM
petition in high circles for the prestige of
having the largest number of relatives I'M
der arms in South Africa. Lord George
Hamilton seems to have the best record
with one son and eleven nephews. The
Queen has one grandson, the Duchess of
York two brothers, Lord Salisbury one son,
Lord Lansdowne two sons and Lords
Tweedmouth and Ribblesdale each his eld-
est son in the campaign, and the list of
nitely.
Women Of rank and fashion are taking
the liveliest interest in the war Many of
them drive from theaters or dinner parties
to the War Office night after night to in
quire for news. Lady Neeld, whose hus-
band will command the regiment of house,
hold cavalry, will go with few other OFF,
GERS wives to Cape Town. Lady Sykes and
other women have decided to sail for the
Cape nurses.
All the leaders of the smart sets are work.
ing for war charities. Mrs. Arthur Paget
is organizing military theatricals. Numer-
Gus royalties and duchesses are lending sup
port TO proposed military concert at AL
bert Hall, and the concert for the American
hospital ship tomorrow promises TO be the
event OF the season. Wyndham'S Theater
outburst of loyalty and patriotic fervor
The receipts, among the largest ever known
for single performance, were devoted to
war. charities. The guinea pigs of the
Mining ard Stock exchanges fairly tumbled
over one another in singing God Save the
Queen" and applauding David Garrick."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-18
INDIANA OBITCARY.
The Rev. Daniel Hill, Prominent ana
Aged Friends Minister.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Nov. II. - The Kew.
Daniel Hill, aged eighty-two years, died at
a late hour last night at his home, In this
city He had been seriously Ill for some
time and the end was expected. His death
removes one Of the oldest and most active
and devoted members of the Indiana Yearly
Meeting of Friends He was born Nov. Is,
1871 on the Baxter farm, near this city.
In his early life the family moved to Ran
dolph county, and the deceased secured his
schooling there. From 1856 to 1850 he rep
resented Randolph county in the State
Legislature. Later he moved to New
Vienna, o., where he established and edited
the Church Worker. He continued there
until this publication was transferred to
Calvin Pritchard. The paper was finally
absorbed by the American Friend. For
some years Mr.. Hill published the Messen-
ger of Peace, which finally suspended, but
about two years ago he revived it and pub
lished it to the time of his death. Mr.. Hill
moved TO Richmond from New Vienna
about 1885, and had since resided here.
Twenty-Five or thirty years ago he was
superintendent of the Children's Home at
Cincinnati. He was secretary of the Peace
Association of Friends in America for many
years, and was a member of the representa-
tive body OF Indiana Yearly Meeting. He
was probably the most active peace worker
in the entire Society of Friends in this coun-
try. He left a widow and two children
Murray Hill and Mrs. Clarence Hadley, of
this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-18
where warships VIII he Constructed.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE Board of
Naval Construction to-day agreed on re-
port recommending that the Navy Depart
ment award the contracts for constructing
the six new protected cruisers authorized
u Congress to the following concerns:
Union iron works. of San Francisco, Cal:
Lewis Nixon, of the Crescent shipbuilding
works. Elizabethport, y. J.; the Bath iron
works. of Bath, Me: the Trigg Shipbuilding
Company OF Richmond Va; the Fore
River Company, of Massachusetts; Neafe
& Levy, Of Philadelphia. The recommends
lions will be made in a report to be submit
ted to acting Secretary Allen by Admiral
O'Niel, president of the construction board,
and the awards are not final until the
boards finding are approved by the secre-
tary. Lowest bidders did not receive the
preference in all cases, and it Is to be pre-
sunled the BOARD was influenced In its selec-
tiOns by considerations OF meritoriouS de-
sign and unquestionable ability of the con-
Germs to perform the work they will be
called upon to undertake.
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NIGHT AND DAY.
Concluded from First Page,

excellently from Pretoria to Ladysmith.
The Beers have ample food, but are short
of clothes, boots and mackntoshes."
PRETORIA, Nov. 9.-The following dis
patch has been received from the Boer
camp at Elandslaagte under to-day's date:
"Ladysmith has been completely encircled
by the Boer forces. Our second big gun
was successfully placed in position on Bull
wan hill in front Of Ladysmith. The firing
of heavy guns commenced early this morn
ing, with no casualties to the burghers up
to the present. Botha has photographed
from the south Of Ladysmith that the Brit
ish batteries opened heavy fire with big
guns and continuously dropped shells into
the works around Ladysmith. The Pre-
toria force was in a tight place, having
taken up a position commanded by the
British fire, which was so hot that the posi-
ton became untenable. The big gun, how
ever saved the situation
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Prisoners Guarded by Germans.

DURHAM, Nov. ia gentleman who was
arrested at johannesburg, taken to Pre-
toria and released, has arrived here, via
Delagoa bay. While at Pretoria he was
confined on the race course. with the mill
tary prisoners, comprising fifty-two officers
and 30 noncommissioned officers and men
from Natal Ten 9mcers ana twenty-five nom
king and four men from Fort Tuli. The
prisoners guards were almost exclusively
forts were also mostly Germans. The pris-
oners were well fed and were shown every
consideration. Most of the officers were re-
moved TO more comfortable quarters in the
town.
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CORONER'S ODD VERDICT
FINDING ON THE KILLING OF ALONZO
HUMPHREY AT BURNEY.
GIenwoOd Grain Dealer shows $4,000
of Liabilities and Sc of Assets-An-
dersOn Steel Mills Closed.
.iaI n ,he Indionanol,~ JournaI.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
GREENSBURG, Ind. Nov. 1.-THE cor
oner has returned his verdict relative to the
death of Alonzo Humphrey. who was found
dead near Burney few days ago, which is
unique and reads as follows: II find that
Humphrey was noted thief and a desper-
ate man and close-pushed for money, and
at the time Of his death he was engaged In
stealing hogs from parties unknown to me
for the purpose of selling them for means
with which to liquidate a debt and he was
shot presumably while in said act by person
from whom the hogs were stolen and who
is unknown to me; that the death Of Alonzo
Humphrey meets the approval Of the best
citizens of Clay township
The coroner was requested by citizens OF
Burney to discontinue his investigation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-18
SCHOOL LAW EVADED,


CHICAGO, Nov. H.-So that she might go
on with her work, Mrs. Ernest Hummel,
jr., a teacher in the Phil Sheridan School,
stood before Judge Wheatley to-day and
gave her baby. seven months old, TO her
sister. Mrs Bertha A. Phelps. The giving
was an adoption. and it came about by rea-
son of the Board OF Education ruling that a
years could not teach in the public schools,
and the board had just acknowledged IL had
heard of this baby. 1t asked Mrs. Hummel.
why should you not be suspended?'
Mrs. Hummel waited day before reply
ing. Then she and her sister went over 10
call upon Judge Wheatley. Now she sends
words to the board, II have no child, as re-
ported"
Assistant Superintendent of Schools Lane
saws, "The law is of no avail now"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-18
REBUFF FOR MINERS.
Proposition to Turn Over 10, 900 Mem
bers to the IA. of l.. Received COOIly.

BOSTON, Nov. lit was business all day
and dance in the waning at the General
Assembly of the knights of Labor to-day.
General Master Workman John N. Par
sons, of New York, presided at the business
session. The greater part of the session
was devoted to action on the report of the
committee on appeals and grievances. to
which was referred the contested creden-
tails of the delegate from New York,
against whom charges were brought alleg
ing that the delegate caused the publica-
ton of an article detrimental to the work
in the district. Eventually the delegate
was admitted The proposition of the United
Mine Workers of America to turn over
that body to the knights of Labor, twelve
thousand miners, provided John Flannery,
editor of the Trade Journal, was dropped
from the order. was received coolly, as the
assembly seemed to doubt the ability of
the officials TO make such a Stupendous
transfer without the twelve thousand men
having anything to say about it.
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GALLANT BRITONS.
Further Details Of ChurchilPs De-
Tense OF the ArmOred Train.

ESTCOURT, Natal, Nov. 16, Noon.-A cor
respondent who has just visited the hospital
says all the armored train wounded are do
ing well.
Captain Wylie, in an interview, said that
Sergeant Tod deserved special mention for
having surrounded him with powders to
protect him from the rifle fire while lying
helpless and wounded. Tod even lay down
beside the officer to cheer him up. A shell
exploded among the protecting powders,
scattering them with earth, but Captain
Wylie received no further injury. But for
Tod he would have been killed. Several
men escaped marvelously. When Winston
Churchill requested Captain Wylie to call
for volunteers to remove the upset truck
bullets, it is said, were dropping on the
train like rain" The men throughout
stuck to their work, responding to the noble
example set by Churchill and Lieutenant
Franklin until the line was cleared
Churchill actually left with the engine. but
he got out at the next station. Frere, took
a rifle from a soldier, saying he could not
leave the wounded and walked away in the
direction Of the Beers.
Sergeant Hassell, of the Dublin Fusiliers
behaved with the greatest gallantry. He
took charge OF the firing party and stood
up unflinchingly during the Beers hot fire
His example electrified the fusiiers, who
kept the Beers at bay by volleying. Captain
Haldane fell early in the engagement, shot
through the shoulder. Lieutenant Frank
Inns conduct is highly praised He exhib-
iteG great GOODNESS during the critical Pc
riod. He is reported missing. Copeland, of
the Durham Volunteers, was crushed to
death by the derailed truck. and Godfrey. a
plate layer, was shot through the head, but
is doing well.
Lieutenant Alexander had an exciting ex-
perience. a Fusilier who had been wounded
in the arm by shell, which shattered the
limb. swung round and hit Alexander In the
neck. almos. smothering him with blood.
nhe shell hurst in front of the lieutenant,
on level with his face, and he staggered
bnndiy for moment The next instant he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-18
UItimatum to Trades Unions.

CHICAGO, Nov. 17-Chicago contractors
and builders made an open declaration of
war tonight on the trades unions, charging
them with causing the present apathy in
building operations in the city and Grip
ping municipal growth. An ultimatum set
ting forth the employers view of the situa-
ton and stating the terms on which labor
must meet capital after JAM l. 1900, was
drawn up and presented to the Building
Trades Council. The ultimatum says the
trades represented in the Building Con-
tractors Council shall not recognize any
limitation as to the amount of work q man
shall perform during his working day; and
restriction of the use of machinery; the
right OF any person TO interfere with the
workmen during working hours; the SYM
pathetic strike; restrictions of the use of
any manufactured material, excepting
hibit the employment of apprentices.
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saw his comrade lying dead at his feet,
while he himself was unframed.
Private Kavanagh. OF the Dublins. per-
formed splendid work. When the British
firing line fell back. he time after time rail-
lied the men, volleyed and prevented the
horseshoe line of the Beers from enveloping
the train.
Afternoon.-The Red Cross train has again
returned. but without brin ging in the dead
and wounded. The Beers declined TO give
any information as to the names of either
the killed or injured, referring the inquirers
to the Pretoria press for all information.
All they would disclose was the fact that
three Of the British were dead and nine
wounded