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aviation field. He drove them up
to a fence and then started tothe
cowboys.
A six million dollar mortgage
has been recorded in Greenville,
S. c., by the Greenville & Knox
vile Railroad Co., to secure bonds
to be isseud for the construction
of the line through to Knoxville
from the present terminus at Riv-
er View, 25 miles from Greenville.
The bonds, it is stated, will aggre-
gate $4,000 a mile for construc-
ton. This is taken to mean that
the road will be built through to
Knoxville at once, without further
delay. The mortgage is given to
the Central Bank & Trust Co., of
Atlanta.
With only the help of a little
red OK to do his blowing, hauling
and everything else of the kind
Henry Mitchell, a negro living
near Pavo, in Thomas county,
Georgia, has in five years paid
every cent with interest that he
owed for fifty acres of good
Thomas county land and is now
the owner both of that and a neat
dwelling house, which he has
built on the land. Starting out
with practically nothing, he has,
by hard labor, done what very
few could accomplish and is an
example of industry to both white
and colored.
The wedding trousseau to be
worn by Miss Viven Gould, daugh-
of Mr.. and Mrs. George j. Gould,
when she is married to Lord De-
cies, February Z, will cost $4,000.
The famous tailor, Redfern, is
making the wedding dress and
gowns. The wedding gown, it is
said, will be worn by Miss Gould,
as Lady Decies, when she is pre-
sented at the British court. 1t will
be Of heavy white duchesse satin,
in semi-empire style and heavily
embroidered with silver roses.
The court train will be eight yards
long. There will be a low collar of
real lace and a real lace veil.
Forty years ago the beautiful
Hotel Royal, one of New Orleans
best known ante-bellum show
places, with their frescoed walls
and onyx mantelpieces, gave shell
ter to scores of those who were
blessed with the worlds wealth.
Now those who seek the shelter
of it's roof are of an entirely diff
ferent class. The present dodgers
are men who are ''down and out"
and have nowhere else to sleep.
A branch of the Home for Home
less Men was opened at the hotel
recently. Four floors of the old
building have been leased and
will be fitted up with clean beds
for the unfortunate, who will be
accommodated whether he is able
to pay a small fee or not.
When Pastor G. T. Russell of
the Brooklyn tabernacle, Brook
Ign, N. Y, speaking Sunday at
Convention hall on the millennium
announced that Christ would re-
turn to earth in 1915, he was
dramatically challenged by W. A.
Cuddy, an evangelist of Atlanta,
Ga, In the rapid fire exchange of
words that followed, the crowd
became excited and a panic was
averted only by the suppression
of Cuddy, who was led aside by
friends. More than 1000 people
Missed and hooted when Cuddy in
terrupted Russell and declared
that 1915 was altogether too soon
for the millennium. "Put him out"
shouted several in the auditorium.
"Let him stay, he's all right"
cried others.
Colonel Edward III. Green, the
hale, hearty bachelor son of Mrs.
Hetty Green, after much persua-
sion, has permitted some of his
intimate friends to read some of
the many letters he has been re-
ceiving from girls proposing mar
riage. At his suite at the Waldorf,
where he has been stopping since
his return from Texas, Colonel
Green opened a large trunk to
convince some of the more skep-
tical who so strongly adhere to the
Missouri idea. "There," he said,
fare some of the o recent, but
none the less persuasive" It ap-
pears that the number must have
-innroaood rinon tho