Newspaper Page Text
4p Il-k - p " ' ; M77, llli Jw* BI~DI I I ** 'F0. 141'e 0,4 the larger attOim e* onnby anid i hfe sterp ~rt f Oconee oobjty Oe i. ye~y' 'iiu wrought 6veia la *o reker~oi 'that hs re"h a ty,' In built by the Sapphire Hotel co ny, i themiouutain f . th U (I9in i jueperiI the1 e4 from "Pick" lns coubty and on the head' waters of the 8treams Whieb fop '2 ee siid BSiino Ri'ters: '1 ei Toilferbre, ank Li. Uat e y cingidani aurelsa -4inrod ravine just- below obac 'omoun ainiit a point where the Toxaway and Horsepasture ilvers run to'. Ja gether. Th'e dam has beeu biiltof f earth exclusively, it is said, and 0 *ithout stoie.o wood or aoything ' to gie it strength . It is feareid 0 that the dam is so weak that Ni a, will be swept _away by rains , in , summer or ei'tnkbled by freezes in.: 'winter. Ad if the. dam ever N does give way the people who. live P on the streams below it fear the 0 results that will follow. he as stated, is said to be b, -in ciroumference,. and it J at in places it is nearly 50 W . What wopld follow if 0( ousa body.of water should 1 d loosee into the narrow 0 leading out of the moun- b y be imagined. 01 n was constructed dur- 01 at year by the Sapphire h which is buildi ng a chain ti in tli Sapphire- country leasure spot H e- who spend summe'r A untains. -It wi ttiest places in the south ti er, and will afford excel- H, ug, boating and bathing, Ft y prove a source of great fe bc id that. the , dat cirie Je ling a short timeb ago, -aiid 0 re-enforced by: rook work av per side, but those who tIl it are not at alllsatisfied re beein riade safe. i m well Gaines, of Cen. fo to see the damn a short si nd he, with 6thers of hi n, have been trying to thing done about it. He N O of the people who live ti la n td take the matter W ourts, but' they Lold him ol -who live below the dam *L1 *o fearandthat they were b th take the action. I n Mr. Gaines has been givlbg matter a 'good deal of at, tention, 0nt1 is understood~ that the COotnty Colinmissioners d lk. ens and Oooneo dountiga have be- t come interested and will~ probably b look ito thW sitt~iation for'tle Ipyur- ty pose of finding out if thfere really. "] is any danger. The matter may i' 'get into the United, Stale8 Court * befdte a greh -while, it isundeir- $, . TIhe rfatter ee'ne to bp one of ti c.,nsidei'tfli inmportaiuee f of If ts P lake is as large as has been repre. f sente4>aud the dam -.abouldhrgi. y *and suob a large body, of watei-; be RI sudidenly 6 ez~d looge, i great dei al o Kastid and .ddetrutidza would be bound ed.follow. The waiter 'would flow 4Avkeowee rise iitno~ ~-eneca ;-an thiehcO into the Savan nah. dIt w 4 probably inean the washing aw iy of .the Portmnati Din thtAdro ~~l o iL Wnagain, and that is the 3 a Ifitty c tocauintemplate./ *Penn ..la e eIrqagg Was csed bo the urs &' ~pee ure lake widoI~'& nVmu~ ty 14rggm thai fitIi o b 8abyldre,.-Anmdeisoknli~~a the St MpthewjdiiA$ --4s efatol o 4r Qrpabs, w'ites de~~ af5~- Oiai ola n'olt ~ nd palid' )o.4 ILexohe~~'t:~ ~ k~~ 41aratsear t t,) ' oit tft isd ofb ro y f ,1 for50At dr(@gal 4. sid , ruir of _jes ened otidde6 eeno oui ortp pefolanlee t tedsftllfrylt oarid Irirnadevep.Ph4ligsop' ratinga the Sti A iugh sor 1e ,hat butfisicri6ted 'h atidd'e *ig freven'aith with'. Winlchesters 1 orbes th eir'sho U rse 5p0ial't i ery quietly. any rendpd t0-'herns lves. The two on" e taken, to .i alhalla, wher ithe ere gput y in a't I relirinary heafrind 'bound i Ver to the hijgheqAt~ couort-- e 'Another 0 illicit uitneted ear the. home of and belonging to0 ass Holbrook in Ocionee County, I s destroyed. -It'cnsisted 'of a >ppor still with a capacity. of 70 J Mlons Cap aind worm, 40 gallons r r 'siiirits, about 1;400 .gallon's of a D e rmenters and other prop. ty. Holbrook, the suppoed I vner of the stillwas arrested and d as beon bound o.ver to .coirt for t On Tuesday i st in company ith T. 0. Israol, Deputy Colleotor j iken raided an illicit istillery Glassy postoffice, focated'in f Y r 7 Dark Corner. fj ere they seized a t ntlly der- g Syed a 10 gallon op courtill, enters and -1,000 gallon of, v .Ban Burrell, the owner, ad -a Mes Lindsay, an operator, we I iknon thed an illiiTh s ti 'is completely, destroye4' but as? P r l was no datty marsoal indthe b iding9 party to make ,arrests, the h ere r eaied. t ay d rtoer a res0 galoweer havei been 12 rmornteut and -'100 gallo iif he Be ofle, the- ower 4 l mews minsthan ohe radr was oe of an mos ti succesfl, he hadeve i adie. Deprt the ae thae mai rther rsto'er have been ood e mot hndr no rbin' d1eI gn agai the manufatureso Mnr.-Ai'en si~oGeville'ei ewsomntat te Whait wa oeaon' Of moft stesfu ,o had hvehly adectedsitene ofac thtsolac i had th- forls aen een esrtroedi' r odieson, rebuWild ad ignatin ithe ofmEnerprisel of n o and bee ra'te.~1R~ Rey ph0cas ~h pthou cazny pomf ti le, fA w. onths ago. he, co jid dktl iarrhoea Nloihredy ah p~~h cr4 ribowvsfetirej ~uc Myny od 'us" of fLoterj i e ho kugow~ Ab~e in~lem~n wifl t~i fy to thes, fthi lness of this st~tempent'? glrr spite j~r.Q yV .Erle, Piokens, anud Dr~ n Holzi ofatwy,*e' ~lly'shot ~wtla iester rt nd,~ ~ys a Seneca peo ew They Were using a coin fpr~t at. ir. von Ilollen wah~l ~WlII~nI~e wh he-6o hy W.hitmire's gun w ~oidentally.The hall enter .' b oo and to-the right b. t th ~e le, al !jdy hig 'An 0un tyXid4 a bither:df a n ttr r~j . uslt Wint y college for -several afdiw Iiyris Weli known tile tata. 1 -ori Stin's account of t~i~' b ae odent is given in he followinr spe1l1 from- New Brunswick Y 'New Broins wk, N.J., April 14. -A dispatch .received here late bhie afternoon from Providerice, 1. [.itelling -f the siicideof a woman vho Was a passenger on the Joy jne steanier'Tremon which le .aw. Yorlk. on Monday nightefr, Prgvidence, confirmed the fear that % Martha Haijilton B1reizeal6 vho disappeared yesterday, had aken her own life. "Mrs. Breazeale was the wife of Villiamn E. B reazonIe, assooiats >rofessorof nmathematics in Rut. ,ers colloge. She left iher honie-it 02 Hanmilton street yesteiday norning. As she -had boon a geatt ifferer from nervous trouble " d 2elancholia for severil years,- t114 ears of the household, when she id not-return- in-a few hours, were ht she had wandered off just as he had done a few yearsago before hile suffering from a' similar do ression. "The police werd notified to look jr :her, and Prof. Breazoalo's .iends, including many of the Rut ers students, started a search. !'The first elie .to the woman's rhereabouts came thisrmorning in .bttofrom hor. direoted to Prof. reaeale, postmarked at aew 7o4k-01 Monday night. It3 -aa itiful letter teling how the wz iter ad struggled in vain to overcome er despondency. There was a :iuching farewell to her, husband, losing with the information that y the .time the letter was received Lie would be dead, "Prof. Breazoalo started for New ork as soon as he received the let r, accompanied by hi's brothers i-law, Prof. R. W.- Prentiss. Ha isi-ted various: steamboat offics dg lhad them telegraph their New ngland ports, to see-if his wife's arne-vas oe any, of thi passenger st5. As she hadI relatives in Wor ester, Mass., he thdught that :she ig~htigo therei and that .her pen le Vould~ itei'vene before sheoca. epub thret&. A-thE.3oy diuo office Prof,13reazeale learned a t d. 0i~ yhose describtidi, orresponded with. that-of his; wife ~d:pfehta ticket. - '*bi'edefioite aewseiwaited the ToIesSOr when he~ arrived' hre e o WN& dispatcli Tr-5m rovideddce w eown to him tell. C ho a womian,. who. had regis d. ~o e Ne* .York,, aaum roil thetTren~onwdur b ea~ een seen Ylate as l3), 3854nps upied until it was od~xd'1) this niorning that, one jt pthdsoa .was lookedL r t~ aette bVokight his fw rWou- c 4re rng 8rqara" age. She ie & 'old, "MrV ~Br *~ie wll do ii d ruiba Wi1 hhrqb empt once -s then seit Phfiladelphia -'4 a1dt for' some t8 6soa~e fe the hospi al on one debcatioif" b WM, ogertaken aiil carried bat Shlle iiihu thrdtiin tiiU ' was pronounced cire. by the ph ioiatis.itz~pharge.s ?r f, T.I~eW4a then- resigned his poition 'at.i throp' ind' wentot' Bordeai Fra e ,eif he spert t~Vo 'ei in the hope that the chatige wou Prove' benfiia" to -his 'wife, 6T uiyated to-the UJnited' 'tates h Sept'ein ier; anz Prof.- Breatenle ai cgpted the, position .of itnstructor mathematics, in Rutgers -colle Tiy have beer 6 tere aince. Th4 you-ngn t child was orti z Fraia aho'eenarried lif-> -o'f Prof. at g . .Hrazfaleh'as always bon inot happy due, with the excepti o the p64ed' di'ing *which Mi Breazeale :would suffor f i'amn mela cholia. Even then she was affe tionate to her husband. Hit-i' dwelt -Jargely' upon her'childrei ard at times she would becon imbued' with the idea. th.tTb would not live to rear them as .1 wouklike. . It was while sufrerit rrom oe tf'.'theso spell i of nmiar 3holia that she made Lhe attoii upon her life at Winthrop. Befo loing it she left a note for' herhu band-expressing her love for hi and explasiin was s'ho viiirdn' and ,,. he r ro li-j-oi P'o, It.is snipp' sed she hed h rtit'ee attack s of dpres on recently, and .that while su Bering from its effects ah left h< tome and and took a steametr i dew York, anld jumped overoar )O for& reaching port.-AbadOern Daily-Mail,. Ftd a inei Fou d .iton. Mr. Myatt, a farmer who is farn ng with cotton,. hauled 1 [taleigh, N. C., a few days ag< Sl dhales of cotton withem b gre )nm 85 acres of land.. lie sold 3or nearly $5,500. Thore is mone Ln hcotton when growin at the ra bf 'n2 bales on 85 acres, especial when the price is up to niear-t'E enlts por :lpou1nd. But the m< who lat th samo land yoar t'ft ear in cottol, vith a 'little dzibb >f fertilizer, generally' reqidre fot 1r' five acres to make a bale, an there is litste profit for tho ov ltoenl centd per pound, and whi the: price was~ down to. five cen ts was absoluto starvation to t.heni But hero' and-thor, in- the-Sou th wi mitd men like Mr. Myatt,- who ai arming in reity a.nd have dropp( the old planting idea, an-I hen<i ire. anuaking mnoney' at farming r'h& staugentthing about the wh o situations is atimn 'will contini in the ol a hathey ha' such examples before .them. \\ baVolsen it stated that the famoe acQg(.fand in Maurlborr-o count 251 hushpole of.y Qq);P, rhlVs nov sinedh ?hae- fztr\d:iigi nkdeo le thanI -bgle of 'c<Yttn -)>er aci Woitd it'note bpiLer to'get ff tokwoO4--acis4O get il difhdtmt' or"fege? -- And y 141 1~Ca 1 ken torIg 4 d V.W l"%O i Frida~y,Eg aof maiiug an arrange th Maon' lookersmith -id to kill Goebel. Hooker asi wanted to interview Gov TAyIor before. do'ng the shooting pd the witness wunt to see Tay wfl br-to, arrange for ,an Interview ti TOYor t6d the witness he emult ud' ndafrord to risk the' negro. 'ho wtnees refttrned antd told Hocker at milhat he said, nels said. ho wr sto ard to come to'Frankfort at once a was. aboub to ke robbee . knw when he arrived heN that he n had been selected to,-do the killing, re Youtsoy said hesiat alone in the .9 office on January 30, waiting for Ut Howard. "When Uloward raP d on th door I went ou; jib' 'haske if that - Nas You tsoy. left Howard at, ther glass door of Powers' privat .ofliCe and went I, around to the ante rooni ahd lot ra h'i ' ~ e d imm thro' the glass door. .T then pulled down the blinds and ar. Fy ranged for the slioating, showing ca him the rifle. I told him I had ar . ranged so no one saw him enter the Oflice., "Did you come out of the office before, as you say, Howard .ired the shot?" "Yes, sir, a "Did you state to Tom Camp bell, after your trial, that ither Jake Van Dipper, Berry, Howard, "TalloW Dick" or Jim Howard, you did not know which, fired the fatal shalot?'' 'Probably I did, but'it was falso,' esaid YoutSev. "Why-did you want to implicate 10 tho men if your statoment was 1 falso ai'1 youkCnew the men to Le )t e "My recolloction is that this was rather a suggestion for Arthur Goebel, and as he'lost his brother and was 'n trouble, I did not i t amounted to inuclanyway. I did not care muho about it at the time," carelessly answered YoutseV. The Sugar Beet Works a Transformation. T wenty yearl'3 ago I was a travel ing mian). I miade the Michigan -Qwn1s from Detroit to Bay City and( Saginawv, then across to Grand Rapids, down to Three Rivers, and -. baick byv way cf K(alamazoo, Jack-. o son), andl( the present place of the y, Biheakfast Fo~s where they make w bec.aom, bailavorax and helta it she'lta ; then tvor to the jui~hawker y tOgwn of Ann Arbor where there :4 was niotin g but a school ; on to *y Ypsilanti, the land of the Yage m~ rit, ,.:nn~I)ion forev'er! I wore a n diukey dlerby, spring- bottom panlts, ir. a red uneckl ie, a wa~xed mustache, la and a warm . vest that would have ur made that coat of Joseph senm like d the silence. I used to have a new n vest every trip, and it was always a n) miraclei in chromatics, But tils it was notihing to my smile-my smile i. was con tagious - when I arrived in 'o a place overybody smiled, and in e vie others to smile. The man dI who deals ont Rled Rato'n Split o smiled, the 'bus 4 rivers glod, the ~. babies cooed, and the dining room 1(0 girls giggled, wh'len I came to town. 1o That is what I I scattered smiles, ,e lilac-tin ted stories, good cheer and 'a silver small change all over the is route. Especially the stories-I y, always started. out with three new w ones, and I told 'em from Detroit er clear around to Whilte Pigeon and as back. And I sold the goods.I e. did not merely lay corner-stones b.y and get things in shape. I (lid not Ln s0'ure a p~roniise of a.n orderge le next time~ 3dut*'6ot'hx theimn el 'forwi'future trade and then brag iu about it. Not I. I got his name 0on the bottom of the order sheet,. r'- That is what I old. Business was good up around that Saginaw country-it was the lumberi iAll y the rivers were full of lumber .booms, Business boomed, and I te boomied business. But there camne aday when things began to relax. e Tiinbyr was getting scarce, and 9, tbre were dire reports of failures. n- You had to be careful to whom you d sod. Whole town# quit business 9 anid imoved a~way before you got ~~k. j'Dhgygent whero there was ~ Urber~ ~as fot the far ~ ~t. ~Lfarm to arty ~h Y arj hnd 8o. 4d I gave t 46d of t.be Michiganders the o' shako. P 4-heA Was oelghteei years ago. *II it over that same seIn& This time I was dis. ~ 'the East Aurorm lo. 46.0' -I epake at Lansing, Kala -0 , manti, Ann Arbor, Caro, . ag ay City, Owosso and Aima ah laoe, the siz> of the aun itod by the capadity of t )at e9. Talk about your pa1my dayq*',tlio New Ewo gland Lyceumi A bOwp for in stance, there were fiftee'flndred people in a church that wAis'e. signed to seat a thotaanfl. The people. were. well .dresstl, appre ciative, intelligent and prosperous. paved, new brick blocks wore being built, there Were trolley liries, pub. lie libraries, water works, 'eleotric plants, high schools and savings banks. I looked for the lumber mills, but they were not there. Span-new brick and stone factories stood where the old saw mills once wQre. "I thought this country was going to the devill" I said to my friend, Dr. George F. Butler, at 'Altma. "lWe thought so, too, but we wera wrong," smiled the doctor as he adjusted his diamond pin--"it < is the sugar beets!" ] The lumber business enssts in cutting down trees. It is a pro cess of de-struction. The trees tock I nature a hundred years or moro to 3 produco. And you, can never grow a second crop of pine on the bane land-the trees once gone are gone forever. It was a man by the name Y of Bradley at Bay City who con- C ceived the idoa of raising Bug boots in Michigan. All this pros perity wts once an unspokon. thought in the imud of' this oe < man. Ho studiod the chemical properti-s of the soil, and whilo making a trip through (ermany he found out the sort of soil that was required to raise sugar beotq. t He put the two things togother and hastened home with a valise full of beet seed. that you could raise from six to ten tons of eugar beta on anl a cro of that lumber land; and those becet were worth fiye or six dollars e a tol.. That was only six years ago and now there are furteen beet sugar factories in Michigan, that each employs a capital of ' over six hundred thousand dollars. The total capital (of theso facto ies is nine muilion dollars. In ~ a the season ot 1902 there were sev onty-one thousand acres -ini M ich i- a gan devoted to raising beoio. The I amount of cash paid out to the far mners for beets was oVer four mill jeln dollars. The a~mount'paid outa for labor in the factorIies was over a million and a half dollars. Th'le ( machinery used in these factories ~ f is the product of A merican labor. A beet sugar factory can only th Evo t in a small town-in a big town the a' farming larid that produces tho I. beets imak es too long a banl, Beets 1 C growv in (ho ground. Farmers raise beets. Beets mak sugr-the best c that is. Everybody usos sugar i: three times a dahy. This sugar in- c dlustry in a town) means prosperity, education--pianos, books, schools and good roads. Wherever there is a beet sugar industry, there are efforts being put foith in the line of matadamized roads. Good roads in a farming country Imans civili-. zation, andl whero the road~ arc ] poorest there the po0ople1 are the most illiterato and bar barie. At Alma, M1ichigaun, is a man by the name of A- W. Wright, eighty t y'earA young, who has shown the world whiat one man can (do for the town in which lhe lives. This man vacgof' the first to recogniizf' a 1,hat sugar- beets were a good tling 1 for farmers to'araise. Hie imported boot seed from Gormiia i nd sup~ plied the farmers, giving o t hitera tuae on the subject and o uragu. ing them In every way ,) thor ough and good wor brough the efforts of this wial 'ighit a I whlole country has' od with < prosperity. Hie ha ditches, graded roads, pay ts, built factories, hotels, ium, on cou raged the sob set thous ands of men to And the result is'that the haepi up their mortgathsvig banks have somoe lt they do Dot knmo ttowt it.* The hopd, . oniyle jprimarily't$ rmers. They ~ . g' fr'eedom's i~therwise. 4Mosl)rous every Wily to ehe er ear'l have b --eVery goi4.iJ4 the grounld- az. America has the i j men and womeS!) need we Can Ou shapir 'ur po1M to wQ' for pow k on all Old World Coqpj can set the nations a i beauty, civilization ad such as this tired old .A a never seen.--Tho Phihastino . A TRUE OKLAHOM l. tpicalOklahoman was, n ly asked what were the attriw"u 6 a true Oklahoman. "Well r hOp you) rsponded'ALA. rim loaui'ik back in hic botwket to the summit of . ;iph lU itd patrioticaIfy werniI to tIemle. "Theo zen hM' allthe solbrie the fearlessness of 'Iexas diness of Iowa, the fran Tennessee, the endurance ol'. soti, the thrift of Nebrawkdc dustry of Ohio, the conservi of Indiana, the energy of the incredulity of Misso suavity o:f Mississippi, the ity of Georgia, the chivalry tucky, and if these attribut t mtitle the Oklahoma citizc the courtesies in the calenda ial aienities, then I wouhi cnow where an .1 at."-Exc4 Marksmanship of the Form 11. Ml. S. Frlidable has Ired twenty-seven rouni . -ound costing the countr 62. These twent '-seven sA: ired at a target 600 squarc trea at a range of about 1,5( Phis range is -o 0 at which J_ to battleship wvgMd engage mi i > war on accountrof torpedeus. 0" he twenty-seven rqinds flrv' b . S. Formidable'one hit t) 'in. a. pereentalge of 3.7. . ' lormnidable cost cofit )ver ?1,000,000. The gun. ?orinidable, imade at WVooh idimirable Vealpons. Whja var value of a X1,000,0O0 b hat misses a small target a 'I 'ange twenty-six timnes out y-seven ?--onudon ISpectat r. Seal of the Confederac The great seal of !Ib(' Conl s supposed to be inl the bili 'he original design callcjli f questrian portrait of Wah .iln . the center, after the statw 1i., urinounts his monument it apitol square in Richnionc, oubt that design was exe osephi S. Wyoni, chief enj er majesty's seals, 287 t reel, London. Ihis c!harg 'orkc was 2122. Somnebot roofrs of the "great seal 4 ad Washington wearing nd( a Confederate slouch h as the (lie from which t truck ? I.t should be wort) ome stun as a curiosity.-, 'rec Press. The West a Conditic The west, somehow has c. conidit ion rather thani 44 ~fter days in a luxurious asual traveler finds hims, ities of tihe Pacilic wvith t hat hero are not the d. lie strangeness, the we hat he had expected. 'est which he has picturc< - r, the free, the hearty, the ig, seems in some degree v. scap~ed him. And present -' overs that the condition all western is singularly a the wvest; that the mno f American cities is not r Seattle, but Butte City, o the east of the coast. Lard Baker in Century. "Pricking of Sherifi King Edward lately he ri, ouincil at Buckinghami vhich the principal busia~.. bprickcing of sheriffs" f'i~ unglish and Welsh count The old 1plan wvas to-ro : ames of "good .men and' '. or a 'mund stick, which the k itjbbd Lt raindomu with a pin, so E~m when lhe p~archmenlt wasBUf uro.' mame might be appareniya >y chanhce.. Chance has now been . ;~ ['he names are written o a .nd wound into the desi; *o pion i;" y a system of rollers ana .. d by the novereign's b a i ilver bodkin at a point 4 ieb lit the namuesq selected b' n~. A dis.ordered stomach. 4 11d of trouble. When ails to. performn its funct ' . 'I become deranged, t -r cidneys conigested, caitWi UCII 44u lisoases, the most fatal Co bh 4 4 >ainIoHss and( therefore t 4 t44b lreadled. The fit rtn. estore the stomaelft.. 4 4y~ pose no better prepar '. a bI used than Ohiambeilaini' Iil'tic tum Liver Tiabltsm. For b1)'I W. Earle, P'ickens,ai . Smith, EasI y. A ThInughtti ... know what t. 40 in t1h hl'41 V lits wife hat s uch ten 1' ani4 ~ could(1 notlie her. H~ ith41)'.a u tried 1)r. Ktin 'New L'.Pye ~d' got relief 4X one and e W.h.:' eU Onli 2jo, at Pt ,j)r~~(~i store," ,i 'h k n' rcf * au ki)d .. - t t b .w (>h ($ n1 }I I n. ' ' i'' 44$ I L ) C \1 I uh P~1( t ~~'' $cI '~ n~tr '. i4 d 441 t' , -4 i -' I . 4 T I 4 ] )i 1Na tI - r -4.- ' 4. - '. A .'1ZIt ~ ~ e t 1 .4 i i '4e ' 4 4 4- 4 ef4 4 44ti 4 b '*3, In t - -. * I 14 .4 ':4 4.0 - n , . h L ip.., .G n f I I * ,i-'' 4 ' 444)4 . 4 e { ' A4 To 4 bus he 4 I N tonme 4.4 h '%