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The Largest Land owner.

From the Chicago Tribune.
w, C. Greene the multimillionaire cop
per king, has bought the noted San RAJ
fael de la Zanja ranch I'm southeastern
Arizona, paying $1,20O,0O0 for its 800 600
acres and the cattle upon them. This
purchase establishes him as the greatest
land owner of the North American con-
tinent, for hitherto, by the purchase of
land grants he owned about 100000 acres
eastward from his latest acquisition. as
well as fully 100000 acres in the north
ern part Of the Mexican state of Sonora.
secured in the shape of Spanish land
grants or through direct deed from the
Mexican government
Within his Mexican domain Is Included
the Cananea range of mountins- wherein
lie the great copper mines that bear his
name and whence have come his riches.
On the north these holdings join his pos
sessions within the United States, the
International line running for fifty miles
or more across the Greene cattle range.
All the upper San Pedro valley is his, and
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NOTES AND PERSONALS.

Mrs Robert C. Redus left yesterday
for Atlanta.
DIR. ]. c. LeGrande, Miss LeGrande and
Miss Catchings left yesterday for Blount.
Misses Laidh and Nora Alverson, who
have benn the guests of Mrs. G. r.
Tweedy, left yesterday for Carrollton,
Ala, where they are to be attendants at
the Hall-Cox wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. w. S. Leonard left yester-
day for Cincinnati, Ohio, where they will
reside permanently.
Miss Violet Lazarus of Louisville will
return home today after spending several
weeks with her cousin, Miss Jessie Laza-
rus.
Mrs: J. A. Levert of New Orleans is
the guest of her mother. Mrs. Florence
Earle Jordon.
Miss Sada Goldberg of Atlanta will ar
rive Monday to be the guest of her uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. D. Levy, Sixth
avenue and Seventeenth street.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Braun announce the
engagement of their daughter. Eugenia
Ge~tr'da to Mr., Charles Gordon McDow-
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VICE CHANCELLOR WILL
NOT LEAVE SEWANEE

In these glowing dog-days of self-seek-
ing and place. hunting it is truly refresh
ing to hear of the office seeking the
man" in actual fact; and still more
strange to hear of his promptly and con-
secutively declining it. Yet two cases
of this in one mans career have lately
erept down the sides of old sewanee
mountain and waited TO this sanetum,
Even as the wind cometh; no man may
tell whence"
A few weeks ago. Dr. b. L. Virgins,
vice chancellor of the University of the
South, at Sewanee, Tenn, was the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Johnson for the
educational conference. He already had
many old friends in this city, but gain
ed new ones-here and among distant
visitors-by his attractive, thoughtful,
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ing from a distant state and from the
Oldest university south of the Patomac,
was as unhesitatingly declined
Doubtless their recipient valued both
compliments TO the full; but It Is under
stood that his reasons were on the high
est plane; that he had work to do
which demanded life time, and that he
could not lay it down unfinished Such
case may astound some men, as much
as this brief statement will the modest
refuser. For be it said, no single hint
of either proffer has been given by the
quiet controller of Sewanee; nor has 1t
come from any one remotely connected
with that seat of learning. It just came
Our way.
1t is somewhat coincidental that DIT.
Virgins is a South Carolinian by birth
and education. Another eminent educator
of that state declined the presidency OF
the university of virginia--and on high
grounds, likewise-seven decades ago Dr.
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quiet manners and his evident earnest
ness in the cause of education.
Few indeed of those friends suspect
ed the double tribute that was to be
paid his worth In that regard. Yet, al
most about that time the University of
Tennessee rendered its presidency to the
Sewanee vice chancellor. This was the
compliment of his own people, in the
state where his life work has been per-
formed. That 1t was unhesitatingly de-
clined, none of DR.. Virgins intimates
will be surprised to hear; although the
news of the tender having been made
may surprise them from the quiet around
It,
More lately. the presidency of the UNI
iversity Of Virginia was Offered to the
vice chancellor. This high honor COM
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To Be Swiftly ThrottIed.

From the Providence Journal.
The supreme court still holds with the
great majority of sensible citizens that
free speech which incites to murder and
assassination is better swiftly throttled
at whatever risk to philosophic post
ulates of pure reason.
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Brewster Cameron, W. c. Whitney of
New York and couple of st. Louis cap
italists The Camerons interest has been
the largest and in their name the sale
to Greene was made
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.oMA ANr,p1,v
Continued from Eiqhteenth pase)

Continued from Eighteenth Page)
the compensation I will ask If 1t can be
placed in the archives of the Virginia
Historical society let it be said 1t was
done by the efforts of Francis Wade
Mosby, a virginian to the manner and
manor born.
IT am truly yours with much respect.
"FRANCIS w. MOSBY.'
birmingham, Ala.
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Thomas Cooper, long president OF South
Carolina college, at Columbia, was urged
to accept that post by President Thomas
jefferson. Dr. Cooper resisted all APP
peals on the ground that he had been
proclaimed by his enemies a free-thinker
and that the charge might rebound to
the disadvantage of the institution to
which Mr. jefferson wished him to go.
The feeling that duty is paramount to
personal promotion, seems to have root
ed and abided in the Palmetto state and
her sons.
A gentleman at the writer's elbow.
who knows Dr.. Virgins thoroughly,
says: SHOULD the perspiring patriots at
St Louis, on the 9Th of July. offer the
Sewanee man their presidency, I think
he would endorse the proffer: Declined
with thanks.' and he would do it on
principle"
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The announcement by Houghton. Milf
fin & Co. that one volume popular edi-
ton of Sill's Poems is in preparation
brings out the fact that the works of
few American poets are in more constant
demand, Sill's books having already
reached a sale of twenty thousand copies.
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Hawkins Springs is well
adapted for picnic purposes.
See b. R., L. &. P. Co.
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ell Reid the marriage to take place on the
afternoon of July u, at the Central Pres
byterian church.
Mrs. Lula Lynch Murphy, Master John
Gregory Murphy, Misses Nellie and jose
phine Lynch of Atlanta, are still with
Mrs. P. ]. McGever.
Mr. Thomas Lynch and Mr. Pete Lynch
have returned to Atlanta.
Mrs j. N. Wallace of Atlanta, is visit
ing Mrs j. j. McGeever.
Mrs. Eugene Jacobs has returned.
Mrs. Annie Il. Wise. assistant principal
of the Girls High school of Atlanta, is
visiting her sister. Mrs. Eugene Jacobs
at 1923 Sixteenth avenue, SOUTH
Miss Minnie Zeagler has returned.
Mr. Leonard Wise OF Atlanta is visiting
Mr. Jacobs at 1928 Sixteenth avenue south.
Miss Retta Levy and Miss Edna Gold
berg of Atlanta left yesterday for Mont
gOmery
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THE TENDENCY TOWARDS
= KEEPING LATE HOURS.

Birmingham. Ala.
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DR.. c. A. Stephens, author of 1.-THE
Ark Of 1903, has just returned from PAN
anna. where he had been gathering liter
AIRY material In a comparatively untouch-
ed field for juvenile fiction. A S. Barnes
~ Co. are his publishers
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Mrs. J. A. Levert of New Orleans is
the guest of her mother. Mrs. Florence
Earle Jordon.
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DIR. Henry Rowlands story of the inter-
cepting of a southern lynching in the
June McClure's, 1.-THE Folly of Lamar,
has reused much comment in the south
in criticism OF northerners attitude
towards this practice. Following closely
on Thomas Nelson Pages discussion of
The Negro, from the southern standpoint
in this same magazine, it somewhat
mixes southern sentiment towards Nc
Cures.
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is in progress, as reported by the Lao
Yang correspondent Of the London
Telegraph, who, in a dispatch under
today's date, says that a severe battle
proceeding 25 miles from there.
and that numbers OF wounded were
being brought in from the mountains.
The officials of the war Office repeal
the substance of the explanation con-
tanned in the dispatch today, saying
that the correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph probably referred to the re-
connoisance in force made by Lieuten-
ant General Count Keller, July 4, in
the direction of Molten pass, east OF
Lao Yang, full details,ot which were
telegraphed here and cabled to the
Associated Press the same day, in a
dispatch from General Sakharoif, to
whose army General Keller's corps
belongs.
General Sakharon reported that the
Russians lost more than 200 in killed
and wounded. The report of the Daily
Telegraph correspondent was doubt
less due to his seeing the stream OF
wounded brought in. The war office
has no further news of fighting O
Importance.
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WITHIN FIVE MILES OF RUSSIAN
STRONGHOLD.
HAS RUN The BLOCKADE
Vice Admiral SkrydIoff Said to Have
Entered Port Arthur-ToId
by st. Petersburg.

Ia Tche Kiao, July 6.-(Delayed.)-
The Japanese swarmed over the noun
tain crests early this morning and
advanced on Kai Chou, compelling
General Chirikoff, with the center OF
the Russian vanguard, to fall back.
A whole brigade of Japanese, with
masses of cavalry, followed and occu-
pied the village of Nan Tay, driving
out two companies of Russian infantry
and two companies OF Cossacks who
were entrenched there.
The Japanese arrived within i've
miles of Kai Chou. 1t was then night
fall. General Samsonoff made a he
roic attempt to check the Japanese,
galloping out with guns to she'll the
japanese left, and ~inficting great loss
on them, out fearing his retreat would
be cut off, he fell back, and is now
holding Kai Chou. General Chirikof's
force is stationed southeast of Kal
Chou. The plans of the Japanese re
main a mystery to the Russian com
manders.
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THE RUSSIAN VERSION.
st. Petersburg Account Of Advance on
Lao Yang.

st. Petersburg, July According
to official information received by the
war Office, the Japanese began their
advance toward Lao Yang June 20,
n column moving along the main
and the other over the direct road,
the former reaching Lao Holu pass,
IL miles northwest of Molten pass.
They halted at these points until July
3, the Russians falling back to Lang
Use pass, 40 miles from Lao Yang.
The Japanese advance guard, consist
ing of 1900 men, was only two miles
east of the Russian position.
The next day occurred Keller's re-
connoisance in force, when the Japa-
nese yer discovered to be trying a
flank movement in the direction OF
Liam Syan. The last fighting reported
was northward, but still farther north
a Japanese column is continuing tc
hold another, Fen Shut, pass, IL miles
northwest of Saimatsza, on the road
leading to Lao Yang and Mukden, anG
So miles east of the latter place. A
this time the Japanese forces YER
on the road at Vandpiadza and Sha
Kai Heoya, respectively 81 mile
from Hal Cheng and 80 miles from Ii
Che Kiao and Ia Chou.
The war Office denies that a battl
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CHOICE MISCELLANY
Royalty Costs.

1t is not generally realized what an
expensive thing it is for an important
nation to support its royal family. n
land, for example. pays out almost $3,-
100000 a year for the maintenance OF
it's king, queen, princes, princesses n
other royal dignitaries. The king Inc
queen alone receive $2,35O,O0O annual
Nv, the Prince Of Wales receives $780,
600 and the Princess of Wales $5O.OOO
(what the United States pays it's presi-
dent. The Princesses Christian. Louise
and Beatrice and the Duchess OF Al
bany receive $4,000; the Duchess OF
Mecklenburg-Strelitz receives $4,000;
the Duke of C~onnaught. $125.COo. and
the Duke of Cambridge 100000. Out
of the income allotted to the king anu
queen must be paid the cost OF the
royal household. This includes the
salaries and incidental expenses Of al.
most 1000 officers and functionaries.
The king and the Prince of Wales re-
ceive, in addition to their incomes,
large from several sources
Harper's Weekly.
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A PECULIAR ACCIDENT.
Boy Dumped Into Bin with Coal and
Killed.

bNIItSAs
Butte, July 7.-Unusually sad and
tragic was the death of John Ericsson,
the 11-year-old son of Emil Ericsson, a
section foreman in the employ OF the
Northern Pacific Railway company in
this city. While standing on a loaded
coal car neal the round house We'd
nesday morning, the boy and GAL
were taken up and dumped into a
bin beneath the car. On the car with
young Ericsson vas another boy nam
ed Walter Mittz, who saw the accident.
but was too frightened to give the
alarm and he said nothing about it
until tonight.
At the coroner's inquest held tonight
in Richards undertaking rooms, young
Mittz and Joseph Bertoldi, a boy OF
| about the same age as Mittz, were he
principal witnesses. Bertoldi is en-
ployed at the coal chute and he pull
ed the slide that let the coal drop from
the car into the bin below.
Bertoldi said the dust arising from
the fall of coal and slack obscured his
vision. He did not see the Erickson
boy falling through the hole to the
bin.
Both Bertoldi and Mittz are Ger
mans and speak English sparingly,
They were, however, able to make
themselves understood sufficiently tc
give Coroner Egan an idea of all they
knew concerning the unfortunate oc
currence.
Young Mittz testified that he wal
on top of the car with the Ericsson
boy, when he saw Ericsson disappear
Mittz did not know what had become
of him. The coroners' jury returned
a verdict to the effect that death wa
due to an accident, and no blame wa
attached to any one.
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safety signal For streets.

In Dresden, Germany. an automatlc
safety signal at street car crossings
that has recently been put into opera
ton consists of a box about two feet
long suspended above the center OF the
crossing and furnished with electric
connections whereby an approaching
car on arriving within a certain dis
lance causes the word. halt" to appear
in conspicuous red letters on the oppo-
site sides of the box. thus warning of
their danger all cars and pedestrians
coming toward the crossing at right
ngies.-Exchange.
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!, ron,. si.ter,. Visions.

The Petit Parisien's st. Petersburg
correspondent sends a sad story re-
garding the sister of Admiral Maka-
rolf, whose hair, although she is only
fifty years old, has turned absolutely
white. She told a representative OF
the press that she had two visions on
the night of the admirals death, b
he appeared and told her of the eXplo-
sion. Her name is Nine. Tabounoff,
She is the widow of an officer and re
ceiyes only u small pension. which Ad'
mfral Makaroff used to supplement-
London Mail. &
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Could. Not Would.

Referring to the ninetieth birthday
Of the Baroness Burdett-C outts 1t ts
recalled that at one time it was cur
rently reported that the great Duke OF
Wellington wanted her for a wife.
When the report reached the Water
loo hero he made this comment: Il
said Miss Angela Burdett-Coutts de-
served to be a duchess, not that !
would make her one. On hearing
what the famous soldier said Miss Bur-
dett-Coutts remarked quietly, Il think
his grace should have said could IN
stead of would"
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Machine shop Mnrvels.

It is now possible with high speed
steel to turn and machine steel at a
rate up to 400 feet per minute also
to drill cast iron at twenty-five lnches
per minute. These are indeed remark
able speeds when it is remembered
that only a comparatively short time
back with the ordinary crucible steers
a cutting speed Of thirty feet to hfty
feet per minute was more like the lin
it.-Page's Magazine.
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Faith stronger Than sight.

Mr.. A. was helping himself generous
ly to the hash served at a summer
boarding house.
"How is it," said his wife, Mrs. A.,
''that you eat hash at a strangers ta-
BILE and always decline it at homer"
Because | do not know what this
hash is made of."-Lippincott's Maya
zine.
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The Freshest Yet.

''This order Of poached eggs on toast
doesn't look very NICE" said the cranky
guest. Are you sure the eggs We're
fresh laid?"
Sure" replied the waiter, 'fthey
were laid right on the toast."-Phila-
delphia Ledger
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n.., E.tate value Of n Name.

Ouilca House. County Cavan, where
Dean Swift wrote part of his "Guli-
yer's Travels" has been sold IN ~
Irish land judges court, together with
the demesne. Owing to b association
with Dean Swift the house n lana
were sold on the basis of a rental OF
Eli, the ordinary rental being esti-
mated at EST London Mail.
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At Topeka.

Topeka, Kan, July AT the kaw
river gauge today the water is above
the % foot mark and rising slowly.
In North Topeka the water is running
through the principal street knee deep
and the town is deserted. All last night
a constant stream of humanity pour.
ed across the big Melan bridge to
higher ground on the south side. The
well-to-do class of people stacked their
household goods in the upper stories
of their homes and fed.
The poorer classes, driving their
livestock before them, carried what
Of their goods they could upon their
The merchants and mill
men worked all night getting their
stock to. safe quarters. Boats are
being used.
In Topeka proper the water is
| three blocks up town from the river
channels. Trains are abandoned west
, of Topeka.
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Limited.

Limited.
Henriques-I understand you crafty
your wife's slightest wish.
Ottinger-Yes. 1t is only her more
expensive wishes that l do not crafty.
-Judpo-
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skrydIoss Leaves Niu chwang.

Tien Tsin, July Tt is believed at
Niu Chwang that Vice Admiral Skryd-
loft left that place on the destroyer
Lieutenant Burukoff, which is reported
to have arrived at Port Arthur last
Sunday, after running the blockade.
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The Automobile Consumption Cure.
Motor car exercise will cure con-
sumption, says DR.. Blanchet of Lyons.
He speaks from personal experience,
having recovered his own health by
regularly covering about a hundred
miles a day in an open motor car. He
AYERS that by this remedy the cough
Of t~uberculous patients is gradually
abolished or greatly diminished and
healthy sleep and appetite produced.
1t is most essential that the body
should be duly protected from cold.
The elements of the cure are the long
stay in the open air and the increased
atmospheric pressure due to the rapid
motion, which expands and strength
ems the lungs.-London Mail.
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Germany. Queer student.

A German who had been Il student
of chemistry at the University of Gies-
sen for sixty-six semesters without be-
ing able to pass the examinations died
there recently, aged ffty-one years.
The cause Of his inability to remem-
Der what he had learned was an in
Jury of the membrane Of the brain
which he received in a duel. His name
was Christian Busch. His death also
caused comment because he had left
his possessions, valued at $4,000, TO
the town Of Giessen. But as he had
neglected to sign the document the
money will go to distant relatives. He
was the Oldest student in Germany.
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ROMAN Forum Built ON a Graveyard.

ROman Forum I3u1It On u UEHS HrU'
Commentators Boni, the famous
~archaeologist of the Roman forum.
has given an interesting clewt to his
impressions Of that treasure Gus OF
Latin antiquity. According to him. 1T
was a cemetery long before it was a
forum, and the tombs We're packed
so close together that no trace or a
pathway. however narrow, could be
found. The Via Sacra was probably
made over the tombs. Romulus. Signor
Boni thinks. was born on Il soil peo-
pied with the dead for Il thousand
year before his birth. and the wolf
only existed in the legends left by MS
ancestors.-London Globe.
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FLOOD SITUATION IN KANSAS
GROWING WORSE.
DAMAGE DONE is IMMENSE
Half of ArmourdaIe submerged-Fears
Entertained That 1908 Flood
Will Be Repeated.

Kansas City, July 7.-One-half OF
Armourdale, the packing house town
in the suburbs on the Kansas side,
is under water from the overflow OF
the Kaw river. The water is still ris-
ing at a rapid rate and conditions
approaching the great flood Of 1903 are
feared. The lowlands of Argentine
and Rosedale, other suburbs, also are
flooded and hundreds OF laboring peo-
pie left their homes.
Along the kaw.
West of Kansas City, along the Kaw,
that stream is bankfull and doing
great damage. There has been al
most incessant rain in this part OF
the southeast for five days and for
a month past heavy rains have fallen
here and in many parts of Kansas,
and today it continued.
Forecaster O'Connor, however, while
pedicting that the Kaw would contin-
ue to rise for another "a hours, said
that there hardly would be a repeti-
ton of last years disastrous flood.
He is confident that the Missouri riv-
er will be able to carry off the ex-
cess water without any great damage
resulting.
Damage to Crops.
Heavy Damage is reported through
out Kansas from Abilene, Arkansas
City, Ottawa and Lawrence, where
the Smoky Hill, the Solomon, the
Walnut and the Marias des Cygnes
rivers are rising at the rate of two
inches hourly. The damage to crops
will be enormous. In the vicinity OF
Abilene alone it is estimated that the
damage will amount to $250,O0O. The
Kaw has made a new channel at Law
renee, cutting the west portion of
from the rest of the town.
At Kansas City the market in
cash grains was suspended owing to
the non-arrival of trains from the
southwest.
Flee from A~rmourdaIe.
Hundreds of wagons were engaged
busily all day today removing house
hold goods from the suburbs of Kan
sas City, Kan, along the kaw, while
in the west bottoms near the Missouri
Kansas line thousands of dollars worth
of goods we're either removed from the
district or placed upon upper floors
Over 5000 people fled from Armour
dale, many of whom were forced t
leave their belongings. Communica
ton between Armourdale and Argen
tine is cut off except by boat and onl.
a few boats are being used becaus'
of the swift current Water in thu
packing house caused IN almost tota
suspension in those plants and pack
. ers stopped buying stock.