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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
CHINA REFUSES TO SIGN
Unable 70 Agree to the Russian De-
mand For Manchuria.
CANNOT FAVOR ANY ONE POWER
The Formal Noiihcation Snv. That. O,,-
hhS I" tho Attitude of the Powers.
China i- Not Able To Sign the Man
"hurinn Convcnti"n-Court said to Dc
spair Of n Peaceful Settic,n.n,.

Pekin. China.-Thc Chinese Cover,
mcnt has formally notified RUSSIA that
China. owing to ihc attitude of tho
Powers. is not able to sign the Man.
churia convention
1T 10 China's desire" says the
formal notification. 80 keep ON friend
ly terms with all nations. AT present
she is going through 81 period which
is the most perilouS In the empires :
history. and II is necessary that she
should have the friendship of all.
"However much she might he will
ing to grant any special privilege 10
one Power. whom others object il Is
impossible that. for the sake OF max
ing one nation friendly. she should
ALLEVIATE the sympathicS of all others. -"
Ih-IIunC Chang says this letter set
ties the matter definitely
Prince Ching asserts that every
Chinaman except Ii-ITmc- Chang was
against signing the convention.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
FOHEIGN.

Inccdiaries burned the palace OF the
Governor of Trieste. Count Giess, in
the Austrian Tyrol.
One hundred and fifty-fvc municipal
physicians at Lcipsic, Germany. struck
for better pay and more conslderate
treatment.
A merchant OF Liverpool. England,
promised To pay reward Of $500 to
the officer commanding the company
which shall capture General De Wet.
Five persons were killed by soldiers
during political riots in Para, Brazil.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
The SIerrimac Blown Uo

The collier Merrimac. which was
blown up and sunk in the harbor of
Santiago. Cuba. by Lieutenant Hob
son while Admiral Cevera's fleet was
inside in 1898, was successfully de-
stroyed by ton of dynamite. Hither-
TO 1t has been extremely dangerous
Tor vessels to attempt the narrow
entrance to the harbor. but now that
TINS wreck has been destroyed it is
perfectly safe
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
sIss. 900 shertare in Manila

Lieutenant Frederick Boyer. OF tia
Thirty ninth Volunteer Infantry. Grief
Commissary for the Second Distric.
OF the Department OF Southern Luzo4.
L. l.. has been charged with misapp-.
priating hfty cnses OF bacon and wisi
other Irregularities 1t is alleged th..r
the shortage in the commissary dep@s:
in Manila aggregates SIS5.O 600.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
Eumor ofImpcndin- War

Canton. China.--It iS reported here
that the Viceroy has received n tclc-
gram from the court ~ the effect
that pcaceable sentiment Of affairs
Is impossible. The Viccroy Is do
scribed rs much disturbed by this
communication.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
oil Strike In wyoming.

Cheyenne. WyO.-Great excitement
prevails throughout Southern Wyom-
ing as the result of he discovery of
the highest grade OF illuminating oil
at Pioneer Hollow, near Evanston. by
the Union Pacific Railroad. Thousands
OF acres have been fled upon.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10

The experience OF the German i.rnsf
in China tends TO prove that .aVr4
American and Australian horses G-9
unsatisfactory In that country. hes
are OF good blood and breed. but s.E=>-
sadly from the long sea voyage =x'S
the unaccnstomcd food, as. unforrlSg
ately, only green forage is usual! ~
tainabIe. honsol ponies are proNt<R,
the most useful.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
THE TEXAS OIL BOOM.
Secretary OF States Once Flooded with
Company Charters

Austin, Texas-The fact that all of
the four wells drilled In the Beaumont
oil fields have struck oil. their output
being estimated at over 2OO,O 900 bar.
rels daily, has caused every man in
Texas with money to invest to become
oil crazy.
The Secretary OF States Office here
is being flooded with company char
ters. The States revenue for fling
fees or oil company charters have aver
aged over $1,000 day for several days
past
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
Awful Mortality In Russia

Famine and typhus are ractCs.
throughout the Governments OF Kte,c
son and Bessarabia and portions M
the Governments or l<icn and Tn,
ida in Russia. The Mortality IL ,ni,-sx
per cent OF The entire Population.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
Name For Cum Def.nds

Constitution is thc name for tYy,
New York Yacht Club yacht that hS.s
received official sanction as the .rs;T..
that, ir proved worthy in the trix4
races. is TO defend the America Ls.u
in the International race next fan
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
Many Arrests For Trc.son

The Cape Town correspondent of the
London Daily Express. reports whole.
sale arrests for treason I'm Graaf Rel.
net and Aberdeen. South Africa.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10

Increased Reyerue in United Kingdom.
The revenue returns for the United
Kingdom fOr the year ending March
81 total S70c.093. l2O. an increase over
those of the preceding year OF SOL.
3O9, ,470.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-04-10
MURDERER sURReNDsRs HIMSELF
Witnesses Funeral Of Mother and Brother,
His Victims, While Hiding.

Sunhury. Penn. Rcmorseful. hag-
gard and worn. John Gulicll. who
murdered his mother and brother in
their home near Klincs Grove was
placed in jail here. He was found in
the spring house on the Gulick farm.
He said he was tired and had come
back home to surrender himself
Since the day of the crime he had
roamcd over the mountains during the
day and at night went tc nearby
towns and begged for food from back
doors To Chief of Police Meilrr he
said that lie witnessed the funeral OF
his victims from nearby hill.
The Largest Vessel Launched.
The White Star Line steamer Celtic.
the largest vessel in the world, was
launched ut Belfast, Ireland.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

load of sixty or seventy tons, the sec
Ond will only sustain half as much. The
first kind is termed cast, because 1t is
prepared in crucibles; the second Is
called mild steel, because it is of so ac-
cOmmodating and yielding n nature
enduring almost any amount of ham
merlng and twisting-even doubling
close. without breaking. The first kind
has been made for more than century,
the second only since Bessemer and
Siemens--those modern magicians-
showed how to do it. In 1866 HALEY
went from America and purchased the
Bessemer rights for this country for
$4,000. Immediately previous to that
time 1926 ton had been paid here for
imported steel rails. and the duty on
them was about $5S ton. To-day
rails are made and sold In the United
States FOR about $50 ton, and this
country, in which so many gigantic
fortunes have been made by the Besse
mer process. has honored the inventor
by naming seven towns and cities after
him.
A few years after the Bessemer con.
verter was introduced William Siemens
produced steel of similar quality to
Besemers. but in an entirely different
method. using large "open hearth"
furnace, in which the iron was first
purified previous to the addition of car
bon, 1t is said that Abram S, Hewitt
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

pies the chances are that not one will
fail under testing. Every steel works
employs its chemists, whose business it
is to watch vigilantly over the purity
of the product. In some works many
chemists and assistants are employed
who make upward of 100000 analyses
In Il year.
The Age of Steel.
Many of us have been born since tile
advent of the age of steel. We enjoy
its advantages quite as a matter of
course, and scarce bestow a passing
thought upon 1t. But consider how
much we should have lost If the inven.
lions of Bessemer and Sieinens had not
been given to the world. Then your
trains would not have been so luxurI.
Gus, nor SO swift-these are only posi-.
Bile on track of steel. The heavy fast
trains of the present day would have
crushed the iron rails of the COS out
of shape. Steel, moreover. is used for
railway wheels and axles. and for the
frames which support the cars. To this
material, therefore, the democratic
passenger owes his seat In yestI-
buled car in the fastest expresses. his
dining car, and berth in the sleeper, be-
cause steel permits the use of faster,
longer and heavier trains than iron
ever did.
On the ocean the influence of steel liz
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

Steel is king. To 1t in large meas
ire America owes her Industrial and
commercial supremacy. Yet only few
years ago steel entered very little into
the worlds manufactured products out
side cutlery and numerous small ar
ticles. In the making of Steel Ameri-
cas- primacy is recognized, and, SO
rapid has been her progress In this
field of activity. she is likely soon to
put Great Britain out of business as
an important source of the worlds
supply. Yet it was an Englishman,
Henry Ressemer, afterward knighted
by Queen Victoria, who discovered the
process of converting cast-iron into
steel at a nominal cost, and thereby
revolutionized the worlds industries;
and 1t was to England that America
had to so to learn the process and se-
cure the right to use 1t.
The process is simple, but Its discov.
cry has aptly been characterized as the
most wonderful single incident In the
nineteenth century. 1t is an interest
ing story; its narration is timely, too,
in view of the prominence steel has
been brought into by Its commercial
triumph the organization of the steel
trust, and the industrial war in which
the steel trust and organized labor en-
gagged.
The Bessemer process of ready steel
making consists Of mixing diamonds
with cast-iron. That is startling state
ment, but it is practically true. AT least
1t is true in this sense: A diamond is
composed Of carbon. Carbon is mixed
with cast-iron to make steel. Now,
metallurgically speaking, there is moth
ing in common between iron and steel.
They are more individual than gold and
copper; vet the addition Of one part of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

the amount of the whole subscribed
capital. In all, the fortunate partners
received eighty -one times their original
capital in fourteen years."
Great Britain. until the United States
dethroned her. was the greatest iron
and steel producing country in the
world. Yet in 1855, when Bessemer an
nounced his discovery to the incredu-
lous world, Great Britain produced only
$4,000 tons of steel. But In 1890 she
produced 4,S55,O00 tons, or over nine
ty-seven times the quantity made for.
ty-four years earlier. In the same year
the total production of the world was
2G, 595, 600 tons. But 1t was long years
after Bessemer made this output posi-
BILE before her late gracious majesty
the Queen rewarded him with knight
hood. Steel" says trade writer, sis
the most precious material which is
used by engineers, for it is the great
est triumph of the latter half of the
closing century, as steam locomotion
was that of the earlier"
Thirty years ago iron took first rank
among the metals most useful to man
But steel is employed today for almost
every purpose for which iron was then
used, and for many Others, and the
time is near when, except for few spe-
cial articles. the iron age will have
passed away. as those of stone and
bronze have departed.
And yet, the basis of steel is cast iron
to the extent of more than 80 parts in
the 100 in most specimens. Thus, 49,
100000 tons of pig iron We're used in
1899 in the manufacture OF the worlds
steel.
The steel of which your knives are
made, though strong, breaks off abrupt
~ when overstrained. The steel wifi
little carbon, though strong, can be bent
and tied into knots, and 1t will stretcl
one-fourth Of its own length before II
parts in two. The first is SO strong thai
bar Of an inch square will support 9
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04
Natural Waters.

All natural waters contain n greater
or less amount of mineral matter In So
luton. Rain water has the smallest
percentage of solid impurities of any,
and therefore 1t is taken as the stand
ard variety of soft water.
The terms soft and hard. however,
as applied to water are scientifically
considered purely relative.
Water is usually reckoned to be
soft" when it contains less than one
five-thousandth part of Its weight of
mineral ingredients and "hard' when Ii
contains more than one four.thou.
sandth.
Soft water has the property of easily
forming lather with soap, and is
therefore suitable for washing pur-
poses. while hard water will only form
a lather, and that imperfectly. with
considerable difficulty.
mineral water has more than one
two-thousandth Of Its weight of natu-
raj dissolved acids. and medicinal
water is a variety of mineral water
containing varying percentage of dis.
solved natural solid or gaseous drugs.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04
Hanna and Morgan.

Senator Hanna says he is not trying
to settle the steel strike. 1t is the Sena-
tors duty to try, all the same. Much is
expected of him, and MS matter of
good faith he should put his shoulder.
to the wheel. What if Mr.. j. Pierpont
Morgan does tell him to keep out-that
his interference is not required? Can
Mr.. Hanna afford to be obedient to Mr..
Morgan merely because he is a Billion
aire. or something of that sort? Can
the leading candidate for the Republic
can domination for President of the
United States-the man who has only
to say the word and all other candi-
dates will subslde-afford to "lay
down" to man who has nothing but
money!"
Mr.. Morgan probably doesn't care II
there is general strike. 1t will not
interfere with his personal comfort for
minute. He is not politician in the
sense of being candidate for office.
He merely wants the power OF wealth.
10 be the richest man in the United
States, controlling products and trans
portation and handling many millions
of money and directing the material
| destinies of millions of men. would no
doubt be a prouder position to him than
that Of Chief Executive of the greatest
republic of all time. II this were mon
aychy 1t might be different. but 1t Is
even possible that Mr.. Morgan would
rather be n financial and railroad mag
nate than n King or an Emperor. 1t
would probably not be putting too fine
a point on the subject to say that he has
more real, practical power to-day than
either Edward VII. or William H.; and
It is due to him to say also that he prob
ably has more brains. speaking gener-
ally and specifically, than both of these
menarchs together.
Mr.. Morgan no doubt thinks great
strike now to be the best thing for his
ultimate purposes. There was time,
very recently. when the differences be-
tween the strikers and the capitalists
seemed on the point of adjustment; but
when the workiDgmen's representatives
asked for modification of the terms Of
settlement Mr.. Morgan peremptorlly
0aclined to treat further, and now an
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

The acquittal of Robert S. Fosburgh.
charged with killing his sister, will be
approved by all who followed the trial
at Pittsfield, Mass. Fosburgh, n young
man of prominent family, seems TO
have been the victim of an overzealous
police official, whose anxiety to make
n cease" placed an innocent person
in peril of his liberty and brought into
the public gaze those nearest and dear
est to him ut time when the loss of
member of the family had plunged all
into deepest grief. Fosburgh's sister,
Miss May Fosburgh, who held the af-
lection of family and friends, was shot
and killed in her bedchainber one night
last August, presumably by burglars
who had entered the Tosburgh house.
The incentive to the burglary was the
knowledge that large sums Of money
were occasionally kent in the house to
meet the weekly nav roll at Mr.. Fos-
burgh's factory. The natural conclu-
sion was that the burglars. Intercepted
by Miss Fosburgh, shot her with a
pistol they had taken from another
room. and which belonged TO her broth
or. In the CONFUSION resulting from the
crime. the bewildered members of the
family told stories that the chief of no.
lice declared were conflicting. and he
evolved tho theory that Miss Eosl,urgh
had haan l,;I,ad dnrjno n nuarrol no.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

Bob Fitzsimmons said good thing
the other day. He was showing a
young fellow how to fight to win, and
he said: Take your chance when you
see 1t; hit from where your hand Isl
"Why do l win fights? Because see
the chance when 1t comes, and take
it, There is sermon in these few
lines of type. text for millions of am
bilious young men and women. 1t fits
every walk in life. In this country
there are thousands of young fellows
who are drifting. They are ambitious
In a mild way. They want better
jobs and more money, and are always
hoping that something's hazy, indeti-
mite something turn up to better
their condition. The right kind of a
man will hunt for his chance. All the
time he will be watching for it. If he
is working III an office he will be at his
desk, perhaps ahead of time, but never
late. The man who is around when he
2 Is wanted is generally useful man.
A good many men have missed their
chance because they were habitually
ten minutes late getting to work. And
good work pays. 1t is part of the
chance. 1t may be over set of books
or collecting fares on street car, or
running a locomotive or laying sewer
pipe. There is always chance for ad-
va1cement, and It is for the man who
works to find 1T and deserve it. He
must do the hunting. "Hit from where
your hand is" Can't you apply that
10 your position In life, Mr.. Toiler?
What do you make Ct it' Doesn't 1t
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

was the first American to use the "open
hearth" process. The maker of Bes-
semer steel, on the other hand, pours
pig iron into converter, and while the
iron is in molten condition drives n
hurricane of air throughJt, and burns
out the carbon, sulphur and other I'M
purities, leaving pure, soft iron. Then
a small measured quantity of an alloy
of iron with carbon is introduced,
which contains the exact amount of
carbon and manganese required to con-
vert the iron into steel of the precise
quality wanted, And presto! In five
minutes 1t is ready to pour like a
stream of liquid gold into the ingot.
Within twenty minutes of the entry Of
the pig, the steel is produced.
Different Methods.
In the process invented by Siemens,
the pig iron, with old scrap, is melted
in large shallow furnace, which is
lined with materials that extract the
impurities from the iron, and then an
alloy of iron, with a measured quantity
VI CilIVoLis 10 uuucu. i HIS UCCupleS
about SIX hours, and the steel costs
about the same as the Bessemer. These
two products came. into rivalry and
continued so; but owing to some min
ute differences in them which no one
not an expert metallurgist could hope
to understand, each is better suited to
some purposes than the other. For ex-
ample, Bessemer is better for rails, Sic
mems for ships, bridges, steam boilers,
etc.
Seldom has an inventor encountered
such disheartening difficulties as those
which the early manufacturers Of mild
steel had to face. But to-day 1t is the
most reliable material which the en-,
gineer handles, much more so than cast
iron or wrought iron. You tell the steel
maker exactly what you require-soft
hard, dnctile, or specially strong-and
you get 1t, and out of thousand sam.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

In the long continued discussion of
the negro problem no solution has been
offered that is more fallacious than that
the negro will gradually die out. The
census reports show that during the
last ten years the negro population has
increased by p per cent. Another
theory on the race question advanced
by Booker Washington to the effect
that the tendency of the negro is to re-
main or migrate to the farm, has been
exploded by the late census. 1t shows
that the negro has growing fondness
for the towE.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

Now. the Meadow Hunt Club is made
up Of extremely fashionable New York
ers. Its conventions are as rigid as
those that prevail In the smartest draw
ing rooms. And one OF them happens
to be the use of side saddles and riding
skirts for women. These preiudices
Mrs. Hitchcock dared to defy. She rode
astrlde once. People gasped. She con-
tinued her practice. People began to
compliment her appearance. She now
announces that cross-saddle riding will
be her custom henceforth-and there is
even hint that riding trousers may
become the fashion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04
Travel over London Bridge.

Twenty years ago it was estimated
that 100000 persons crossed London
bridge daily, 10000 on foot and the
rest in vehicles. With the growth OF
population these numbers have almost
doubled, in spite Of the relief afforded
by the building of the tower bridge,
half mile downstream. 1t has, there
fore. become an urgent matter to In.
crease the capacity of the older bridge
and it has now been decided to accom-.
plish this by means Of granite corbels
which will carry the footway MS pro.
jections over the water on each side Of
the bridge.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04
WOMAN RIDES ASTRIDE
IN NEW YORK HUNT.

Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., of the
Meadow Brook Hunt Club, has intro
duced cross-saddle riding to the women
of New York under circumstances
where no other woman has dared to be
n pioneer. Some weeks ago Mrs. Hitch
cock, who is young, charming and the
finest horsewoman in her set, appeared
Mt meet of the Meadow Brook Hunt
Club riding astrlde and in a costume
distinctly masculine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

Emperor William is disappointed be-
cause his third son, whom he wanted
TO be at the head of the navy, cannot
overcome seasickness. That seasick-
ness does not obey his commands and
spare his children Is a matter of NOR
tification to this ruler, who is under the
impression that his wish and word
should be respected by Neptune and
the rest.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04

mean that you should always be ready
to grasp an opportunity and make it
your own, even IL the perspiration
oozes out of every pore and you would
much rather sit in a cool spot and
dream about what you would do II you
had as much money as Russell Sage?
The man who hits from where his
hand is" is a worker, not a grumbler.
He mixes brains and muscle and turns
out superb product. He doesn't put
things off or seek for delays, or sug-
gest to the boss that some other en-
ploye do part OF the work assigned
to him. His motto is Ready.