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SEARCH WORLD FOR
MISSING MINISTEI
GIRL’S WHIM DELAYS WEDDINC
OF A YOUNG COUPLE.
AFFIANCED HUSBAND IS SENT TO AFRIC,
Southern Miss Insists That None But Preache
Who Performed Marriage Ceremony for Her
Parents Can Tie Knot for Them—
Lover Now Seeking Him.
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Just because the bride insists on be
ing married by the same minister who
performed her mother’s wedding cere
mony, the great event has been post
poned and a world-wide search is at
present going on for 1he man.
Rev. John W. Miley is the missing
preacher. Nineteen years ago he re
sided at Crowley, a hamlet near Wil
mington, N. C. The United States has
been searched from end to end and the
frantic lover is now preparing for a trip
to the Congo in search of him. The trail
of the minister has been followed to In
dia—and now to Africa—with faint
hopes. Four Rev. Mr. Mileys have been
discovered, but Rev. Mr. Miley who
united Mason Hinshaw and Miss Fred
erick Willis in marriage 19 years ago
is lost.
And because Rev. Mr. Miley cannot be
found the marriage’ of Davis Pickens to
Miss Liza Hinshaw cannot be cele
brated.
So Pickens, deserting his plantation
and turning his business over to his
They were engaged secretly for month
I and, although there were no objectioi
i to the match except on account i
; youth, they ran away. They did n
elope exactly, but one beautiful evenii
while driving through the wooded coin
try they came to Crowley, and the
the young man proposed that they st<
and get married. They inquired tl
way to the home of the minister, at
were directed to the house in whi<
Rev. John W. Miley then lived, and th<
were married and returned home to.r
ceive the forgiveness of their paren
and t he congratulations of their friend
Miley, it seems, was a district preacl
er and was riding circuit through tl
hamlets in that district, having no regi
lar church, but preaching in the schoo
houses and in the homes of his folloi
| ers. lie gave the young couple h
blessing, Hinshaw gave him a generot
fee, and they parted.
Liza Hinshaw knew the story of hi
mother's romantic wedding, and wh<
she first began to lengthen her skir
foreman, has left Carolina and started
to search the world to find the missing
siinister, bring him back if he is alive,
or to produce absolute proof of his
death.
All this trouble, and travel, and search
results from the fact that Miss Hinshaw
refuses to become Mrs. Pickens unless
the minister who married her father and
mother also can perform the ceremony
for her.
Miss Hinshaw is a handsome, win
some, Clever and witty girl, the daugh
ter of a well-to-do planter; and her
mother, who was known through all tho
Roanoke section 20 years ago as “tho
beautiful Miss Willis,” left a heritage of
beauty to the girl. The mother died
when Miss Hinshaw was 11 years old,
and the girl remembered the tall, dark
haired, dark-eyed mother, whom site
had loved so passionately, and even
after years she remembered her moth
er’s romance as her mother had told it
to her.
Mother’s Romantic Marriage.
Hinshaw and his wife had been mar
ried uuder romantic circumstances.
she vowed that she was going to lx- mat
ried by the same minister who marrie
her father and mother. She remen
bered her mother’s story of how th
kindly preacher extended his hand !
blessing and the words of advice he gav
them.
Daughter Falls in Love.
Nearly two years ago, when Mi.»s Hit
shaw was but 1U years old, Davis Pie)
ens cauie a-courting. He had grown u
on the neighboring plantation, but i
the fox hunting, the-riding, the sliooi
ing and his going away to school j
Charlottesville he had paid but little al
j tention to Miss Hinshaw, or, indeed, t
i any other girl. She had seen him whe
lie came home at vacation times attire
in his gray uniform, with the quadrupl
rows of brass buttons, and had fallen i
love with the uniform. So when the
met it was a “case” from the tirst, an
i Ivy were engaged before lie went bac
to school to finish his career.
They did not keep their engagemen
a secret, and they had no trouble in get
ting the consent of “Mase” Hlnshan
j who Knew and liked the handsome son
| of hi.; old friend.
About a year ago the young lover
| asked his fiancee to set the date. And
right there the trouble coA'menced. She
j consented to be married on May li, but
j stipulated that Itev. Mr. Miley must per
form the ceremony. Pickens, who did
not care who performed the ceremony,
J laughingly asked why she wanted that
particular minister instead of the home
i preacher. And she told hint the story
| of her mother’s romance and of the
I childish vow she had made that she
j would be married by the same man.
So he told her lhat he would make the
| arrangement.
“By the way,” he said, “where does
Mr. Miley live?”
“I don't know. I never thought of
lhat,” replied the girl. "lie lived over
at Crowley then.” •
“I’ll drive over to Crowley to-morrow
and find him,” said the lover.
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Begin Search for Minister.
That was the beginning of the world
search for the missing minister. Pick
ens went to Crowley and found that
the minister had moved away from
there 18 years ago, less than a year after
he performed the ceremony. He hunted
among the old inhabitants until he
found one who remembered that Miley
had goue down somewhere near Spar
tanburg, S. C., to preach. Pickens went
there and learned that the church had
sent Miley as a missionary minister into
the hill country of the western end of
the state.
By that time it was April, and the date
set for the wedding was approaching
rapidly. Pickens wrote, appealing to
the church authorities to give him some
trace of the man.
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showed that he had resigned a charge
near Murphy, and no further trace of
him was found.
Pickens hurried to Murphy. Tho
parishioners remembered that Rev. Mr.
Miley had been offered a missionary po
sition—they thought in some northern
state—and had accepted. Then Pickens,
getting panic stricken, placed adver
tisements in scores of newspapers, ask
ing for information regarding the min
ister.
The advertisements brought results.
He found four ministers named J. W.
Miley and nine ministers named Miley
whose first names were not definite. The
week before the date set for the wedding
he received a telegram saying that the
man he sought was preaching near Bel
fast, O. He wrote and telegraphed, hop
ing to the last minute that he might be
! able to get the minister there, and then
| received a reply from the Belfast Miley
stating that he never had lived in the
south at all, but would be proud and glad
to come on and perform the ceremony.
For a time Pickens hesitated whether
or not to bring on the Belfastmiinister
and pass him off as the Miley who was
wanted. Then, realizing that discovery
i of such a trick might wreck the life hap
I piness of both, he abandoned the idea,
' and, going to Miss Hinshaw, he pleaded
J with her to give up her plan, and to let
| the home minister perform the cere
mony.
Wedding Is Postponed.
Her trousseau was all prepared, the
preparations made, the negroes all ex
j cited over the coming marriage of
I '“Missie” Liza, but the girl refused, and
| the wedding was postponed.
No definite date was set then, as she
; promised to marry him as soon as he
found the minister.
Pickens then sent an appeal to the
officers of every church organization in
the country asking for information. He
advertised again. Finally he learned
that a Rev. Mr. Miley had served as a
missionary in India and then had been
sent to Africa.
Whether it is the same minister or not
Pickens could not learn. He had, ac
cording to the church authorities, in
herited quite a sum of money and had
volunteered for the work, paying his
own expenses and acting as a sort of frea
lance missionary.
Pickens cabled American and English
consuls, wrote to resident missionaries,
tried in every means to get into com
munication with his man, or ilie one he
supposed to be his man, but never could
hear directly. He finally learned that
the minister was among the natives in
the French Congo region.
Now lie is preparing to start for the
Congo. But there are those who declare
Miss Hinshaw is beginning to waver,
and that she will decide at the last min
ute that any minister will do.
Hunters’ Thrilling Experience.
Loyal, Wis. — Harry Riddel and
James Cook, both prominent citizens
of Jackson county, Wis., described a
narrow escape they had from being de
voured by wolves one evening recent
ly. They had been hunting the beasts
all day with a party of hunters from
neighboring towns and farms. Be
coming separated from the main party,
they lost their way.
At night they gathered some dry
branches and built a fire. They hau
no sooner kindled the fire than the
howling of wolves was heard in the
distance, and with their backs to a
large rock the men prepared for
battle.
In ten minutes the forest seemed
alive with dusky forms, and soon the
battle was raging. The rest of the
par y had gone in search of the miss
ing men and came upon them after
they had exhausted their ammunition
and were fighting with firebrands as
a la^t resort. The wolves dispersed at
the approach of the larger party, 15
of the brutes having been killed.
1 Enough.
' Knicker Did they probe for the bul
let?
Booker—No; the victim wao a finan
cier who said he was sick a<i investigne
tion.—N. Y. Sun.
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SHOULD A HORSE
BE CLIPPED?
CLIPPING IN THE EARLY SPRING
RECOMMENDED BY LEADING
VETERINARIANS.
All Thinking Men Readily Recognize
Its Advantages.
“A horse is a valuable asspt, and
should receive the best care possible.
He should be well fed, comfortably
stabled, carefully groomed and clipped
in the early spring. If he receives
these attentions he will work well
and improve in value. A horse lives
under artificial conditions. In his
wild state he required none of these
attentions, for he was able to look
out for himself. The domesticated
animal, being worked under condi
tions that are in themselves artificial,
must be kept in condition for such
work.
The clipping of a horse in the early
spring is now conceded by all the
leading veterinarians to be as essen
tial to a horse’s well being as shoeing
him or giving him a comfortable bed
to lie on. Farmers in England and
France have been clipping their
horses for many years, and American
farmers are not slow to realize its
advantages. A clipped horse dries
ofn rapidly after a hard day's work,
and will rest comfortably and be re
freshed for ihe work the following
day. An unclipped horse is liable to
catch the heaves, pneumonia and ail
sorts of colds, rheumatism, etc. More
especially is this so in the early
spring, when his hair is long and he
is “soft.” If worked hard he will per
Rrtire frpelv ami the moisture will im
held by his long hair, and the food
that should go to nourish him will be
used to replenish ihe heat that is be
ing constantly taken from his body
by the mass of cold wet hair. If
clipped, the perspiration will evapor
ate almost as soon as secreted, a’*d
when put in the stable he rests com
fortably and his food does him good.
Some years ago a Buffalo street car
compahy tested the value of clipping
in the following manner: They own
ed 500 horses, and 250 of these were
clipped early in the spring and 250
were not clipped. A careful record
was kept of results, and it w'as found
that of the 250 undipped horsca 15,1
w'ere afflicted with coughs and pneu
monia, while of the 250 clipped not
one case of sickness was reported.
A man would not expect to enjoy
very good health if he did hard man
ual work clothed with heavy under
wear, a heavy suit and a fur overcoat,
and after perspiring freely, as he
naturally would, go to sleep without
removing same. It. is just as ridicu
lous to expect a horse to he in perfect
health if worked under the same con
ditions.
If you would get the best returns
from your investment in your horse,
treat him right, and be sure and
clip him in the early spring A first
class horse-clipping machine can be
bought at almost any hardware store
for less than $7.00.—Horse Review,
Dec. 5th, 1905.
BEAT ROLL AT 893 BURIALS
Veteran of Civil War, Still Hale and
Hearty, Holds Record of Serv
ice at the Grave.
Easton, Pa.—William Trumbore, of
this city, has made a remarkable rec
ord as a drummer at. the funerals of
veterans of the civil war. Up to rate
he has sounded the muffled roll at the
funerals of S9:i fellow' comrades, be
sides 12 Sons of Veterans.
When the civil war broke out Trum
bore enlisted in-the Fourth regimem.
New Jersey volunteers, serving under
Gen. Phil Kearney, and later under
Gen. A. J. Smith. In 1862 he went our
with the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania
regiment in the emergency call for the
suppression of troubles in central
Pennsylvania.
Trumbore was honorably discharged
from the army with a sergeant's rank.
BROKEN EGGS STILL EGGS.
Appraiser Helds That They Must Be
Levied Upon Though Sold to
Consumer by the Gallon.
New York.—General Appraiser
Waite, for the board of general ap
praisers, has just handed down a de
cision overruling the protest of L. E.
Spencer against the assessment of
duty by the collector at Detroit at five
jents a dozen upon an importation of
eggs from which the shells had been
removed. The decision says:
"It seems that in handling eggs for
exportation from Canada many of
them are cracked or broken. Front
hese shells they are removed, a'nd
ire imported into the United States
ind sold by the gallon, and are used
ihe same way as any eggs would be
ised, by bakers and confectioners.
“No change whatever is made in
he condition of the eggs except that
he shell is removed. We think egg*
ivould remain eggs whether sold by
he bushel, gallon, or by the dozen.
Icnce our conclusion is that the as
;esstnent by the collector was right.”
Temperance Has Money Value.
A Swiss life insurance company has
_akeu action which indicates that "tem
perance" has money value, it has un
dertaken to insure members of a tem
perance soc iety composed of railway
■ mployes for four pet cent, less than em
ployes who are not members of it. For
some t'ime past a Swiss accident insur
tnce company has given total abstain
srs a reduction of ten per cent, in insur
ance rates. So well satisfied is thecont
tany with results that after January 1,
1906, it will make the reduction to total
tbstainers 15 per cent.
TRICKS OF PICTURE TRADE
False Works of Masters Prepared to
Swindle Foreign Bargain
Hunters
Falsification of pictures in Paris has
become a scandal, which a case heard by
the tenth correctional court lately is
likely to emphasize, says the London
Standard. The case was simple. A
Frenchman with a Spanish name kept
a curiosity shop—a collection of old fur
niture and old pictures scattered about
in two front rooms, and spilling over
on to the pavement, after the fashion of
curiosity shops in the. Rue de Provenc",
Some of the curios were really old; oth
ers were only old in appearance. There
were several “examples of modern
French artists”—the whole being ar
ranged in perfect fashion for taking in
a foreign or provincial bargain hunter.
The tricks of the trade were not discov
ered for a long time, but in 1903 the cos
mopolitan film sold five pictures repre
sented to be the works of Chapin, Hen
ner, Ziern and Boucher. These pictures,
bought, for about £1,500, were given by
the purchaser to his daughter as a mar
riage gift. Some time later the youhg
lady got a divorce, and went to live
with her father, taking the pictures with
her. A friend who happened to be an
expert pointed out that they were all
false, and worth only a tenth of wfaa't
had been given for them. The dealers
were prosecuted, and one of them fled,
leaving the other to get out of the mess
as well as he could. This young man,
versed in all the ins and outs of his
dubious calling, patched up a very in
genious defense. He quoted mistakes
made by the Louvre experts and other
less remarkable cases, to show that he
might well have been deceived himself
in pictures which were undoubtedly good
imitations. -The defense might have
been successful had not the prosecuting
barrister asked for the receipts given to
the defendant when he bought the pic
tures. One of them was signed by a
Count del Drago, who was brought up
from prison at Fresnes, and h# admitted
having signed a bogus receipt for £320,
although he made nothing out of the
transaction.
TO FACILITATE TRADE.
Industrial and Commercial Museum
to Be Established at Pe
king. China.
According to the Anglo-Japaneso
Gazette the Chinese minister of com
merce has made the necessary arrange
ments for the establishment of an in.
dustriat and commercial museum at
Peking. A site for tlte erection of suit
able buildings has already been ac
quired. It is intended to establish a
permanent exhibition of Chinese and
foreign goods in the museum. No pro
vision has yet been made for the pur
chase of artistic exhibits, and it is
probable that the museum will be used
more especially for commercial and in
dustrial purposes. It is anticipated that
the museum will serve as a record of
the progress made by Chinese manu
facturers, and at the same time that
foreign exhibits will incite the native
industry to still greater efforts, it is
probable that foreign manufacturers
who find a place for their wares in this
museum will profit by an increased sale
in Chinese markets. The Japanese are
taking an active part in the organiza
tion of the museum, and, indeed, it is
not unlikely that they are responsible
in some degree for its inception. The
buildings are in Japanese style, and
Japanese merchants and manufacturers
have promised to cooperate largely.
Foreign firms will find it to their ad
vantage to obtain a place in the mu
seum, affording as it will an oppor
tunity to display their goods to great
advantage.
FRESCOES PAINTED OVER.
Valuable Works of the Fourteenth
Century Have Been Found
Covered Up.
An important discovery of ancient
mural paintings has just been made in
the Vatican palace. While workmen
were renovating the rooms comprisin'?
the apartment formerly occupied by the
late Mgr. Marcello Massarenti it was
found that under the coat of paint which
gave the apartment a uniform color
were hidden frescoes of the fourteenth
century which are considered by experts
of great value.
When the workmen started to tear up
the brick pavement of one of the rooms
they found that under it was hidden a
magnificent mosaic flooring of the time
of Pope Julius. Pius X. was informed
of these unexpected discoveries and he
promptly issued orders that the work of
restoration should be stopped and the
rooms turned over to experts for the pur
pose of proceeding to the total uncover
ing of the mural paintings.
If these should prove to be works of
art it is the intention of the pope to
throw the rooms open to the public just
as tlie Raphael galleries and th^ Borgia
apartments are at present.
Unique Application.
Applying for a post in the police of
I the central provinces of India, a na
tive wrote: "I have a good long equi
line nose, piercing eyelashes on a
semy-globular la-o and a good phy
fciqtte. My family has a history that
takes my imagination back to three
pedigrees, when my grandfather was a
nillioner. With the vissicitude and
times matter change, and my father
was driven to the necessity to ac
cept a school mastership. Ultimately
he enjoyed his well-earned pension by
the time he gave up his ghost. In
case my aspirations turn out a real
ity. I shall as a matter of course be
bound to prey God for your long life
art! prosperity."
RANSOM YARNS,
A sanctimonious bore whose hobby
was anti-Catholicism went to the great
evangelist one day and put the direct
question: “Mr. Moody, do you ever
intend to do any preaching against the
Catholics?’’ “Yes, I may some time.’’
“When will that be?" “After the Prot
estants are converted.’’
The late Bishop Mandell Creighton,
was once asked if he could state the
difference between an Oxford man and
a Cambridge man. The professor, as
he then was, immediately replied: “An
Oxford man looks as if the world be
longed to" him; a Cambridge man as it
he didn’t care to whom the world be
longed.”
Here is a fish story told by a British
nobleman: An Irishman had caught a
big pike. Noting a lump in its stom
ach, he cut it open. “As I cuCit open
there was a mighty rusn and a flap
ping of wings, and away flew a wild
duck, and when I looked inside, there
was a nest with four eggs, and she had
been afther sitting on that nest.”
A good story is told of Lord Iveagh.
He was once traveling through Ire
land with the lord lieutenant, and two
carriages were reserved at a certain
station, the one for the lord lieutenant
and the other for the distinguished
brewer. The porter, sticking the re
served mark on the first carriage, re
marked reflectively: “An’ that’s for his
Ex.,” and at the second carriage, “An’
this is for his XX.”
Congressman Madden, of this city,
was discussing the traits of character
of the Irish. “I went to call on a con
stituent of mine,” said Mr. Madden,
“to see a new baby. I found ths
youngster all battered up, black and
blue in spots. ‘What’s the matter with
him?’ Tasked. ‘Oh, nothing,' answered
ms momer. ion ser, ne was cnristenea
yesterday and while his daddy was
holding him the six o’clock whistle
blew.’ ”
BELATED OF WRITERS.
Some one offered to send G. Bernard
Shaw a box of game, but he replied
that he would rather die than live at
the price of bloodshed. So the anxious
donor offered flowers. “Surely you
must be fond of flowers, Mr. Shaw?”
“So I am of children,” he replied, "but
I don't cut off their heads and stick
them in pots about the room.”
Chance, it is said, turned the atten
tion of young Stephen Phillips to the
writing of verse. He had a long ill
ness and became much bored in the
course of it. “A loved voice,” reciting
at his bedside the strains of Coleridge’s
“Christabel,” inspired in him the spirit
of emulation. He speni six years on
the stage, and ought certainly to have
learned the dramatist’s craft. As for
the poet’s—no!
George Meredith, the English novel
ist, was suffering from a broken leg,
but that did not prevent him from vot
ing in the recent English elections.
He was driven three miles to the polls
in a donkey chaise decorated with lib
eral colors. A number of friends lift
ed him tenderly out, a sheet was placed
round him and in this way he was car
ried bodily to the poll box. On return
ing to nis carriage Mr. Meredith was
loudly cheered by a large crowd.
FIGURES AND FINDINGS.
France's imports last year amounted
to $034,772,600, exports $952,344,800.
In 1904, imports were $900,462,600, ex
ports $890,191,200.
Of the 646 steamers and sailing ves
sels lost last year England lost 209,
America 110, Norway 60, Italy and
Russia each 37. Japan 34. France 33.
Sweden 31.
During the lat° war the Japanese
lost only 15,000 men from sickness, as
compared with 57.000 from wounds; a
proportion without parallel in the rec
ords of war.
According to a recently published
oiiicial statement, tetanus is extremely
prevalent in Cuba, especially among
infants. During the last five years
over 25 per 1,000 of new-born infants
have died of tetanus.
Returns of the coal production la
the departments of the Pas de Calais,
and the Nord, France, comprising 25
collieries, show an increase on the
year from 22,713,1O':! to 24,272,07.1 tons;
coke from 1,543,312 to 1,772,785 tons;1
and patent fuel from 913,520 to 971,068
tons. The region produces about one
half the total production of France.
THE EDITOR
Explains How to Keep Up Mental
and Physical Vigor.
A New Jersey editor writes:
“A long indulgence in improver food
brought on a condition of nervous dys
pepsia, nearly three years ago, so se
vere that 1 had to quit work entirely.
I put myself on a strict regimen of
Grape-Nuts food, with plenty of out
door exercise and in a few months found
my stomach so far restored that the
process of digestion gave me pleasure in
stead of distress.
"It also built up my strength so that!
was able to resume my business, which
is onerous, as I not. only edit my own
paper but also do a great deal of out
side’ writing.
“I find that the Grape-Nuts diet en
ables me to write with greater vigor
titan ever before, and without the feel
ing of brain-fag with which I used to be
troubled. As to bodily vigor—I can and
do walk miles every day without fatigue
—a few squares used to weary me be
fore I began to live on Grape-Nuts!
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