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in the South to stay. It was estimated that the value of the property owned by them is about $10,OoO. ->,F@
 The white persons who were present and witnessed the celebration of these ex-slaves were: Mrs. M. A. Wiley, of Palmetto; Mrs. s. M Dean, of Atlanta; Mrs. John A. Covfn, of Hogansville, all daughters of Major Willis Menefee; Dr. w. s. Cellars, one of the oldest in- habitants of Palmetto. who was the physician employed by Major Menefee to attend the slaves before the war; Mrs. Maggie Dean Morris, of Atlanta; Mrs. Maggie Dean Morris, of Atlanta; Willis Menefee Timmons, of Atlanta; Mrs. E. K. Farmer, of Fitzgerald, Ga.; Miss Stevie Timmons, of Atlanta; Mrs Howard Wooding, of Hogansville; B. E. l.. Timmons, Jr., of Inman; Thomas Covin of Hogansville, and B. H. Tim mons, of Atlanta, all grandchildren of Major Menefee, and Miss Mabel Brown and Mrs. T. P. Cellars, together with several other friends of the family.
 The old Menefee home is located about half mile from the center of town, and typital ante-bellum residence. It is situated some distance back from the road and is reached by broad gravel walk leading up to the large stone steps between an avenue of ce- dar trees. As 1t was before the war the large yard immediately in front of the house is filled with all kinds of beautiful and sweet smelling flowers, vines and shrubbery indigenious to southern soil, among which the hum- ming birds fit on their honey gather ing expeditions all during the sum- mer days.
 In front of the house, across the Att lanta & West Point railroad, and to the rear, after passing pine and oak grove, stretch acres and acres of rich corn and cotton fields which compose the plantation. The house and planta- ton now owned by Mrs. M. A. Wiley, the oldest living daughter of Major Menesee.
 When the old ex-slaves began to ar rive early in the morning it was an in teresting sight to a member of young CT generation of whites to watch them as they wandered about the place, viewing the scenes so familiar to them in the days before the war when they were part of the property which made
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up this southern plantatiaon. Many of them had never visited the plantation since several years after the war when they left to provide for themselves The intensely religious nature, so characteristic of the negro was clearly shown as they walked about the yard and through the house with uncovered heads to show their reverence for the
 place where they had spent what each said was the happiest period of their lives. A touching scene was witnessed when they were carried Into the spa cious parlor of the home and shown the portrait of their former master. They stood with bowed heads, many of them weeping and each speaking with
 praise unresrained of the master who
 had treated them so kindly when they were slaves.
 They visited the dairy, the stables, the apple orchard and the hill in the rear of the 'big'' house where was situated the quarters during the time they | lived on the platation as slaves. Many Interesting incidents of the former days were remembered and recited in their quaint negro dialect by the older mem bers of the tparty.
 | At the noon hour, as was her custom
 before the war, old Aunt" Hennie, the cook, blew the conch shell which had so often called them to their meals, and they gathered under the wide spreading oaks in the rear of the house where a table loaded down with god things to eat had been prepared for them.
 After the meal was finished the chill dren and grandchildren of their former
 master gathered in the yard under the trees and listened to the negroes as | they related incidents of the days o1 slavery before and during the war.
 They never tired of singing the praise
 of their master Marse Willis and l their mistress Miss Jannette.'' They told of how we'll they had been treated
 as slaves and of how, though they wanted freedom, yet when freedom came they wanted to remain on the plantation and continue to work fol their mistress after the edeath of theil master. They told of how their master had taught them to be religious, to be neat and clean, to be always homes
 and give the proper respect to the
 whites. These lessons. they said, hat
 remained with them and they were
 teaching them to their children.
 .sUncle'' Edmund, the oldest member
 of the party, and the one who hat | walked fifty miles to attend the reunion
 told of how he had remained with hi.
 mistress during the war and had gladly | protected her, the children and tht
 house while Sherman and his Yankees were marching through Palmetto
 Many old plantation melodies were
 sung and each one of the fifteen pres. ent joined in. The music was of that quaint, perfectly harmonious kind sucf l as only negroes can make.
 The song and stories continued til
 late in the afternoon, and before the gathering broke up it was agreed thai
 each year the reunion should be held or I the old plantation. $T
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true cause of the apparent extirpation of yellow fever in Cuba. a.-Boston Herald.
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handing the first platoon, Battery A, c. N. G., Milford, for the drill season,
 which will begin next Monday evening. The Monday afternoon Whist club,
 of West Haven, were entertained Mon day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Adrian Heitmann. The substitutes for
 the afternoon were Mrs. William Brain ard and Mrs. George Johnson Mrs. William Skinner, who,. accom- panied by her daughter, Miss Alice Skinner, was the guest of relatives and friends in Scranton, Pa., has returned to her home in Guilford.
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THE OLD PLANTATION.

Fifteen of the Old ex-Slaves Gather
 There.
 In sharp contrast to the bloody scene which was enacted in this town in April 1899 when the riot occurred in which three negroes were shot down by a mob after they had been placed under arrest for attempting to burn the town, was the peaceful and altogether unique scene which was witnessed at the old Menefee homestead when fifteen ne- groes, all ex-slaves, gather in re-
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Starin's New Haven Line.
Daily. ExceDt Saturda,

DdIsy, LACEpL SAturday.
 Steamer John H. Starin (Capt. McAll,s- ter) leaves New Haven from Starin's Pisr. foot of IF Brown Street, at 10:15 D. m, Sun. Sun. Glen Island, Mondays, Wednesdayss and s1,si Fridays. Steamers leave Pier IS, North River, N. Y.. ct p. m. daily (except Sat. uraay), Fare. 70 cents. Excursion tickets. -oom for sale at ]. B. Judson's, S87 Chapel st., Peck & Bishops, 703 Chapel st. Fres stage leaves depot on arrival of Hartford every half hour. commencing $40 n ml Through freight rates given and bills of lad. ing issued to points. west, south and south- west. Order your freight via Starin Line.
 Office, 150 Orange Street
 E. ]. GREGORY. Agent. Starln Pier,
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NEW HAVEN STEAMBOAT LINE New York, the South and West.
Steamer RIcHARp PECK in comnIaaIon

Steamer RICHARD PECK in Commission.
 FROM NEW HAVEN Steamer leayea T:I5 TIs, q; m. daily except Mondays, due New Iork 7:lS a. m. Passengers are privileged 10 board steamer at any time after 10:0O!
 FROM NEW YORK-S Steamer leaves 400 p. on n. daily except Sunday, due New Haven
 steamer arrives at and departs from Belle or Clarkson street, New York.
 sor tickets and staterooms apply at the omce ona on Belle Dock, also at Bishop & CO. sVs aVoso CnaRei street, or at Purser's office on New Haven. -S VIZ
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Light That Never Fails.

A Chicago inventor. Mr. George Ma
grady. claims TO have discovered =
process Of manufacturing a thirty sin
candIe-powcr lignt that Will never go
out. While experimenting with photo
graphic chemir1Is four years ago Ma
grady's attention WAS attracted by Il
glow in small globe. The glow was
caused by a .cmical which the in
ventor keeps secret. hagrady en-
larged the glow and perfected the light
by placing it in an air-tiGht glass
He says there is no reason why the
light will not remain brilliant forever.
if it is not broken. a company has
been formed to manufacture the lights
in numerous sizes. a patent hood fits
over the globe and covers it complete
ly when the light is not needed.
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HONEYMOON Thirty Years Old.

The honeymoon tour of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Fred A. Hull of Danbury, Conn,
interrupted almost at its beginning,
thirty years ago, was begun all over
again last week They have become
grandparents since then. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hull were married on March II,
1873. They started to visit Wiscon-
sin and return through Kentucky.
The trip ended abruptly at Albany,
for a business telegram called Mr.
Hull home They decided then to
postpone their tour until the first an
niversary of their marriage, but
something happened then to prevent
and also on following anniversaries
This year they sailed up the Hudson
to Albany. They will visit all the
places they intended to and will be
gone a month. Mr.. Hull is wealthy
New York World.
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But one point was new. AS to alleg-
ed rows in the house, Katie, who
waited at table, had never heard Mr..
Burdick speak to his children, to Mrs.
Hull or to his wife in anything but a
pleasant, agreeable manner. Never
in her hearing had he raised his voice
to anybody in that house. The morn
ing that Mrs. Burdick left the house
forever, at his command, Katie, wait
ing at the breakfast table, had heard
the same gentle, cheerful chat that
she had always listened to there
Mrs. Burdick had informed her and
Miss Murray that she was going
away for rest. Katie had never
heard a syllable about divorces until
after the murder. Mr.. and Mrs. Bur
dick had never said word about it.
No points of interest were develop
ed in the testimony of DR.. Marcy.
Mrs. Maria Hull, mother of Mrs.
Burdick, despite her sixty-four years
and the tremendous strain of two
hours, keen examination, withstood
the ordeal Of cross-examination well,
and did not lose control of her nerves
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Dollars fer Ninety Cents Each.

As a novel method of advertising a
business house in Washington sold
Ouo new 81 treasury notes for ninety
cents each. The sale lasted just two
hours and all that time the line Of
wOuld-be purchasers of good money
at reduced rates" was over a block
long No person was allowed to buy
more than one bill at a time. but
there was no limit upon the number
of times each person might buy. In
consequence the line was of the
nature of an endless chain. AS each
ninety cents was handed to the cash
Ter a bill of sale was made out and a
dollar bill was wrapped up like an or.
dnary purchase and delivered to the
Gus toner.
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man on the stand can appreciate the
look of one who had beheld horrors
unspeakable.
Then asked. is papa dead?' And
she said. he is dead
And was that all you said? Didn't
you ask how he came to die?:
Il said Did he smell gas or was 1t
suicide?' But | did not ask her that
then. l asked no questions till grand
ma saw fit to tell me"
Did you think that was right and
natural?"
Yes, it was right and natural"
You think it was right and nat
ural?"
Yes, do think So" the child an
swered. with a touch of passion.
Mr.. Coatsworth gazed at her won
deringly and sadly. She eyed him
back straightly A stronger influence
than his was operating with Marion.
According to the dictates of that in
fluence she saw right and wrong.
Katie Koenig, a German servant in
the Burdick family retold her story
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leads Choir in Workhouse.

4 small fortune has come to Bent
ley Worniold, a well-known character
on he streets of Akron, O.. who,
sine running through an Inheritance
OF $4,000 twenty years ago. has lived
hit or miss, spending great part of
the lime in the Cleveland wOrkhouse,
whre long AGO he won fame in that
ins .ution as the leader of the choir
on sundays. His present inheritance
comes by the death of an uncle at
Hccls, England. An aunt says she
will make application for the appoint
mcut of a guardian. Wormold was in
the city prison on the usual charge of
intoNication when the news came
that he was again favorite of for
tuEe.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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THE FoUR-TRACK NEWS.

When the different members of the
editors family ask, Why don't The
Four-Track News Gomez" it is getting
to be like Castoria. even the children
cry for it," and this tells the story.
1t is the most interesting publication
that comes in our exchanges, and the
reason Is easily told. Mr.. Geo. H.
Daniels, the General Passenger Agent.
who has charge of it, has the "Carne-
gle faculty" of getting good men
around him. who know their business.
and the result is that in everything
the publication department CT the New
York Central distributes, II is all
right. IN. " Journal.
The subscription price of The
Four-Track News" is 80 cents per
year. A sample copy will be sent free
for S cents by Geo. II. Daniels, Gener
al Passenger Agent. New York Cen
trail & Hudson River Railroad, Grand
Central Station, New York.
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when shown photograph of Burdick
with his skull crushed
Next in Importance to the testi-
mony given by Mrs Hull was that
given by DR.. Rowland. He said that
DR.. Marcy, the Burdck family physi-
clan, who was at the house when he
arrived there on the morning of the
murder, requested him to make it
appear that the case was one of sui
eide After looking at the body of
the murdered man, Dr. Howland in
formed DR.. Marcy that suicide was
out of the question.
Mrs. Hull is little woman with a
nervous but resolute face, blue eyes
and gray hair. She was gowned en-
tirely in black and wore long
mourning veil. fastened we'll back
from her forehead. Her answers were
given in a calm. quiet tone, excepting
now and then when her voice took on
peculiar ring. She used smelling
salts occasionally, but never became
confused. When excused Mrs. Hull
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Coatsworth will place in evidence a
letter alleged t., have been written to
Mrs. Burdick by Arthur r. Pennell
some months ago. The letter was
found in tho Burdick home when the
search of tne house was made by tho
police. In the letter the following
occurs:
Il feel that must kill Ed Burdick."
Whsn Mrs. Burdick comes to the
stanc she will probably be called upon
to identify the letter mentioned above
She knew both the dead men. Burdick
and Pennell, probably better than any
other one person in the world, and her
testimony promises to be the most i'm
portant and interesting of the entire
proceedings.
If Mrs. Burdick admits that she re-
ceived it, it will go a long way toward
proving that the Rev. Levi NJ. Powers.
Burdick's pastor and Charles S. Parke
his partner, were right in their state.
ment that Arthur r. Pennell was The
assassin.
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and what the movements or demon
strations of the grandmother had
been. By negative and affirmative
replies it was drawn from her that
grandma" had come into her room
while she was dressing.
She said that after her grand
mother had told her her papa was
dead she did not go to the den, +"
where the body lay, but she and her
grandmother started to water flow
ers. The child admitted that her
actions were strange" but she
would not explain them. insisting that
she loved her father dearly.
She said she thought something
dreadful had happened because
Grandma looked so pale" There was
something terrible in this answer
the fact that the face of Mrs. Hull
could ever be otherwise than pale. 1t
Is not mere pallor, then, that made
the child think something dreadful
had happened to her father, but such
q look as those who saw the old wo-
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To the housewife who has not yet
become acquainted with the new
things of everyday use in the market
and VINO is reasonably satisfied with
tbs CID, we would suggest that triai
of Defiance Cold Water Starch be
made at once. Not alone because il
is guaranteed by the manufacturers
to be superior to any other brand.
but because each l0c package con-
tains 16 ozs., while all the other kinds
contain but 12 ozs. 1t is safe to say
that the lady who once uses Defiance
Starch will use no other. Quality
and quantity must win.
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left the witness stand without assist
ance.
Maggie Murray, the cook at the
Burdick house. detained her move
ments, as previously published, as
to seeing Burdick in his undercloth es,
and afterward hearing some one
working at the furnace. She heard
no further noise in the house that
night.
She contradcted Mrs. Hull's story
of what occurred on the morning of
the murder. She said she went to
Mrs. Hull's bedroom and told her
about the door and the windows be-
ing open. She said that she did not
call to Mrs. Hull from the first floor.
She also contradicted Mrs. Hull, who
had testified that she did not look
over the ballustrade. She said she.
and not Mrs. Hull, suggested that DR..
Marcy be called. She knew of no one
who held any animosity toward Bur
dick.
Later developments threw addi-
tional light on the theory that Arthur
r. Pennell was the murderer and that
he slew his victim with the knowl-
edge and connivance of some one in
side Burdick's house the night of the
crime The questions Of the prosecu-
tors for the state were so shaped as
to intimate that Mrs. Hull, mother of
Burdick's wife, was the accomplice
of Pennell or of the hired assassin
sent to murder Burdick.
Mrs. Gertrude S. Paine, wife OF
DR.. Seth T. Paine, was one of the wit
nesses of the day. She denied that
her relations with Burdick had been
anything but proper. She told Of the
scandal arising over the relations be-
tween Mrs. Burdicl, and Pennell and
the Burdick divorce plans.
1t was Charles S. Parke, Burdick's
former partner, who furnished the
sensation He said boldly he believ-
ed Pennell or an assassin hired by
him murdered Burdick, the object
being to prevenb the scandal that
must ensue if Burdick's divorce case
went to trial. Parke's belief was
founded on information and talks he
testimony it appeared that Pennell
had threatened to kill himself and
Mrs Burdick if the divorce suit was
not withdrawn. Other evidence show
ed Burdick had been warned to look
out for Pennell, who had carried a
revolver. 1t was plain, the witness
thought, that Pennell was bent on
preventing at any cost the divorce
trial and the consequent airing of his
own misdeeds The assassination,
therefore, was the logical conBe-
quence.
The Burdick inquest was postponed
from March IS until March 23 Dis
trict Attorney Coatsworth is suffering
from sore throat and cannot speak
without great difficulty.
When the Burdicl: inquest is re-
sumed it is expected that another clew
going to show that A. r. Pennell was
the murderer of E. l.. Burdick will be
revealed.
1t is stated that District Attorney
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|HIlJRIGllIp2|
or EIEHE> TlnAkIx' e &
How She Described It.

After the callers had departed the
mother took the little one aside.
1T isn't polite to speak of stom'
ach-ache before people she eS'
planned. at shows yo" have been eat
ing too much.
The little one pondcred this for some
time.
is a backache polite?" she asked
after while.
We'll, it isn't quite so bad to say
you have a backache." was the reply
The little one promised to remem-
Der. and she did The next time there
was company to dinner she announced
at the conclusions: I've got a back
ache that's worked clean through"
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PENNELL NAMED AS MURDERER.
Burdck's Former Business of
the Murder of His Friend Daughter of Slain
Testimony Startling Calnlness

Probably the most interesting wit
ness at the inquest in the Burdck
murder case was Marion Burdick,
eldest child of the dead man. Dressed
all in black, pale except for the pretty
pink of her cheeks, her black hair
done in knot at her neck. the tif-
teen-yearold girl took the oath in an
audible voice and began answering
the district attorneys questions des-
cribing how grandma had told her
that papa was very i'll.
Grandma looked so awful, she said,
so very, very pale, that Marion knew
something dreadful had happened.
Marion thought it strange that grand
ma did not go into the den.
Marion had eaten her breakfast
and was in the sitting room when
grandma told her her papa was dead
Her examination showed the girl
was completely under her grand
mothers control No more remark
able spectacle has been seen in all
this tragic business than the exam
ination of this rosy-cheeked, self
possessed girl, and her composure
under searching cross fire.
She confronted the inquisition of
the examining lawyer with direct
ness and intentness that might well
have embarrassed him; her eyes
never wavered or fell under any
questioning, and some of the ques-
tions were hard to meet.
A clearer, stronger personality has
not appeared in the court room, yet
she was not self.willed, but obedient
to the authority which she recog
niZed.
And that authority YVES not present
in the seat of justice, nor in the law
yer who stood before her and ques-
toned her so closely. 1t was lodged
in the person of the strange old wo.
man who had sat in the same chair
two days before and had resisted the
best efforts of the same lawyer to
break her down.
Grandma controlled Marion;
from her law there was no appeal
This was the most significant fact
brought out by the examination.
If Mr.. Coatsworth had hoped to
shoY by the girls direct evidence any
flaw in the testimony of the grand
mother he was baffied and defeated;
the child betrayed nothing. She
came into the crowded room with a
quick, modest step and bowed to the
lawyers for the family" and shook
hands with one Of them Then, guild
ed by a friend, she slipped through
the crowd and came to the chair,
where she had whispered conversa-
tion with Justice Murphy, probably
with reference to her oath.
Then she faced the district attor-
ney. Never once did she take her
eyes from his while the inquest last
ed. She met his eyes when they
were fixed on her. and she gazed in
tently at him when he looked aside,
or down, to take counsel with himself
Her answers were all short and
most Of them monosyllabic-"Yes
'No"-but they were emphatic and
decisive. When the same questions
were repeated she answered with
more emphasis; but, save for this,
her clear tones did not vary.
The examination took the course
of trying to establish what words had
passed between Marion and her
grandmother on the Friday morning
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Working Under Difficulties.

While building part OF the new 81
berian railway the men had often to
carry their food with thcm. and some
times had to be lowered in baskets
in order to prepare the track. In
draining a bog sixty miles wide, both
engineers and men had for some time
to live in huts built on piles. which
could be approached only in boats
Mosquitoes were so plentiful that tho
workmen had to wear masks, OF which
1000 were bought for the purpose
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An
Voice Of Experience.

What" asks the attorney, you a
married man, and yet you say you do
not know where a womans pocket it?"
"Yes, I'm a married man." answers
the witness hotly. land | want to tell
you that when you get to be one you'll
find out that it's all you want to do
to keep your eyes on your own pockets
without trying to find out where your
wife's arei"
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les, will have many duties to per
form aside from the social tasks in
VOWED in the white house manage
mcut. He will pay all the white house
bill and be the military aid to the
ma aIiDn's chief executive Major Sy
mons will accompany President
Roosevelt on all his journeys