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SHE WAS A MAN. ;Man -A.CCUSS& of ]*[-aru?r IPaesed asa Wo .manfor Xlxree Years. . St Louis Ji?public. VAN BUHEN, AUK. . Joly 20.-The j Moo oyes, jurt such as would make it calm apd quiet lives of the good easy for him to impersonate a female, people of Madison County most rode- He talks more like a Vassar gradaste ]y were interrupted ono day last week, than an outlaw, and when asked why when a bearded, stranger from Texas it was, if he is innooent of any wrong arrived at ?Inn ta ville, and, without so doing, he should have abandoned the much ai i a word of explanation or a dress and character of a man and as thought er care for the pain he might sumed that of a woman, he replied ip be inflicting opon the sensitive hearts guarded terms and in the best of fing of Heveral.gallants of the neighborhood lish that it was a whim of his, a fool ami thd terrible shook he was -giving ish one, maybe, but he found it easier thc community, calmly proclaimed to get through the world as a woman Miss Eva Seats, for several years a than as a man. school teacupr- in the community, to He declined to submit to an ioter bo a man, and arrested her on a charge view and seemed tc bc ill at c?oo ?U of murdering Alvin Arnold, a wealthy the cheap, ill-fitting suit of clothes farmer, near Baird, Tex., three years the deteotive had purchased for him ago. in the little mountain town. The on If the oool stranger had not been ly vestiges that remained . of . "Eva able to prove to a degree that his sus- Sears" were the woman's tan Oxfords picions were correct, it is highly on his feet and the delicate, beautiful probably that Madison County would rings on his slender and tapering fing bave proved too hot for him ere many era. One of these rings, it is said, hours had fled, for, during the three was given him as a pledge of plighted years of her sojourn in Madison Coan- troth betwixt the in ^ersonaior and a ty, "Miss Sears," as she was known, young man of Madison County, had made many friends and won no While waiting at the station, Stokes few admirers, and her gentle manners made desperate efforts to conceal from and accomplishments of mind and publie view the heavy irons on his body had won for her a place in the slender, womanish-looking wrists, esteem of the simple-minded people . He seemed to be greatly relieved when of this community that was not rival ed by that of any young woman for miles around. Luckily for one J. B. Irving, detec tive, the supposed young woman, when confronted with "her" secret broke down and confessed that "she" was no woman, but had been masquer ading as such for several years. The astonishment of the community bordered on stupefaction when the in cident beeame known. "Miss -Sears" was an accomplished pianist and talked like a ladies' boarding-school-graduate. "She" easily ingratiated herself into the good opinion of the community and beeame the most popular young "lady" in the County. "She" dress ed woll, wore "her" feminiaagarments with becoming grace and modesty and was on confidential terms with many young ladies of the country. It was no uncommon thing to hear "MisB-Sears" spoken of as a.model of womanly grace and accomplishments for all yoong girls to note and -fol low. "MissSears" taught country schools near Huntsville, Jody and .Kingsman, in Madison County, snd waa consider ed one of the most competent and suc cessful tekohers ever brought into the County. Very popular with yoong . od old alike, "she" was, by reason of superior education and "her" musical accomplishments, a center of attrac tion at all social gatherings. This remarkable man, who wore so becomingly the ribbons and laces of ^femininity and who for three years managed to hide his true sex and re tain the. confidence of?women compan ions, accepted the attentions of the young men of the neighborhood' and, if reports be true, accepted the hand and heart of more than one of bis ad mirers. Thus for three years did the.mao who io charged with being Tom Stokes, murderer, thief and fugitive from jus tice, masquerade successfully as a wo man in tailor-made gowns, expensive hots, ribbons and laces, his lingerie being the envy of every young woman wich whom ho associated, it being of .the finest lex ture and always carefully laundered. ?He made a confidant of several young ladies, and told them that his parents had died when ho was .quite young; that he had been educated hy a wealthy uncle in New SVork, and, be ing crossed in a love affair- at the age of 18, had determined to go through .lifo alone. The deception was al ways,perfectly sustained. Never a suspicion entered the mind of. any person who learned to know "MissnSears" or learned to love "her." It was Wednesday morning of this week that the exposure took place. Deteotive J. B. Irving, of Baird, Tex., arrived on tho seene and immediately placed "Miss Sears" under arrest, charging "her" with being Tom Stokes, wanted fot* murder at Baird, Tex. An examination of. his person not only revealed tin', nature of the make up the prisoner had used to acquire ?tho form of a woman, but it resulted in tho finding of a well-worn belt next to his body >in which were stowed away greenbacks amounting to $3,000. This, the detective said, assured him that be had the right roan, for the ?um of $5,000 Was stolen from the body of the murdered Texas farmer. ' The prisoner was brought to Van Buron for transfer to the Frisco train ? ?r Texas, where ho must stand trial. As he sat in the waiting-room, heavily ironed, he did not appear to bo the dangerous character tho detective makes him out to be. Tho .mau alleged tc be Tcnvotokca ia , a decided blonde, with large liquid the train that was to take him to Tex as finally steamed out of Van Buren. The crime for which the prisoner alleged to be Tom Stokes will stand trial for his life at the next term of the Circuit Court to be held at Baird, Tex., was committed a little more than three years ago, a few miles from that little -South Texas town. The dead body of Alvin Arnold, one of the wealthiest farmers of that part of the State, was found within a few feet of his barn with, a bullet hole through the head; His pockets were rifled and $5,000 in cash that he waa known to have had on his person was missing when the body was found. . Tfiere was practically no doubt that a murder had been committed for the purpose of robbery. The evidence pointed to Tom Stokes, a yoong man of the neighborhood, who disappeared simultaneously with the murder, as the goilty man. . A reward, aggregating $2,000, was offered by the State and County offi ciais and the relatives of the mordered man. Some of the shrewdest man hun tero in the South undertook to win this reward by tracing Tom Stokes, to capture and convict him. The detectives found they had a shrewd man to deal with. After months of persevering work they got trace of Stokes at El Keno, Ok., where it appeared he had endeavored to ob tain admission to the regular army, but had failed, on aeeount of his deli cate form and apparent unfitness for the strenuous life of the soldier. All trace of him was lost for some time. When next the man-hunters heard of Stokes it was in San ?Francis co, and with the aid of the police of that city it was hoped to land the quarry. But Stokes was up and away before he could be trapped. After diligent search it was learned that he had taken a steamer to Honolulu and a detective followed him to the Ha waiian Isles. In vain. Stokes had again disappeared, as if by magio, and his trail was harder to find than it had ever been before. Although positive information was obtained as to his ar rival at Honolulu a?id as to his goings and comings after his arrival there was nota scintilla of evidence to show that ho had ever departed from Ha waii. After weeks of patient effort the sleuth on the track of tho supposed .murderer gained information whioh led him to believe that Stokes had as sumed the guise and name of a woman and had slipped ont of Honolulu on some vessel bound for tho States un noticed and unsuspected. Back to the States came tue human .blood-hound, and the trail, now grow ing, very cold, was again taken up. Back across the continent from Frisco to San Bernardino, from there to Los Angeles, theo to Phoenix, op to Den ver and Butte City, eastward to Kan sas City and St. Louis, then into the rugged country of the .Ozarks, the un swerving detective followed the man he believed tobe guilty of an atro cious murder. In the little village of Huntsville, remote from railroads, telegraph and .telephone lines, a woman teachci had snddeniy appeared and takes up her abode. Nothing was known of her an tecedents or of whence she came. She was unmarried and seemed deter mined, to remain single. The deteotive carried on hts investigation from a distance. Then he went back to Tex as and secured some necessary panera, and one bright day this week he arriv ed at what ho believes to bc the end of hiB long search. It was a most remarkable pursuit, as described by the detective to Tho Republic reporter, and well may the j en un try pcopio of Madison County ' talk and marvel of thc strange things that have happened in their midst. The Wonders of Hydrogen. ID relating his experiences to a re presentative of St. Nichols, a celebra ted ooiOD?ut grew somewhat philoso phical as well as reminiscent, His ! oba?rratinna flO?eePS?Bg hydrCg?u ?ic certainly striking. j "I bave ofien wondered," ho said one day, "as my basket has swept me along, what there is in this silken bag above me that lifts me thus over I mountains and eitles. I look up into the balloon through the open month and I see nothing; I bear nothing; I smell nothing. None of my senses answer my call; yet somehow, strange ly, in a way that I can't explain, I perceive a presence. It would not be at all the same to me were the balloon filled with air, though it would be the same to all my sonses. Again and again I have noted this thing, that hydrogen makes itself known to men when they are near it." He paused a moment as if to observe my attitude, to see if it were one of scoffing. I mado no remark exeept to beg him to go on. "After ali," be continued, "even the books allow to hydrogen proper ties that are very amazing. It is the lightest of all things; it is the nearest approaeh we know of to absolute noth ing. Who can say that it is not re lated to the land of nothing, to" He hesitated and did not go on. "You meaa?" said I. "I don't know what I mean. I only wonder. Take this case that happen ed at Ogdensburg, New York, during an ascension we made there. We had filled the balloon with hydrogen, and were just ready to start when the valve cords that hang down inside-the bag from the valve at the top became twisted and drew up out of reach from the basket. In vain I tried to get them free by reaching up with 'sticks and long-handled things; the cords would not como down, and, of course, no sane mau would make an ascension with his balloon valve be yond control. There was nothing for it but to get inside thc great gas bag and undo the tangle with my hands. 80 I called fifteen or twenty men to catch hold of the netting and pull the balloon down over me until I could reach the valve cords. Then I" "Wait a minute," I interrupted. "Were you standing inside the bal loon so that you had to breathe hydro gen?" The professor smiled. "I stood in side the balloon, but I breathed noth ing; I held my breath, which is one of the things I have practiced. Before I went inside I told my wife to note the time by her watch, and if I did not come out before one hundred and twenty seconds had passed to have the men drag me out. You see I knew I could hold my breath one hundred and twenty seconds, but no longer. "Well, we carried ont the plan, and I freed the cords in less than my limit of time; and then came the uncanny part of it-at least it seemed so-to me. I had read that hydrogen will not transmit sound, but had never tested it. It is true I had at various times taken hydrogen into my lungs, but never had I tried to speak in hydro gen, Now waB my chance, and, with all my remaining breath, I shouted as loud as I could inside that balloon. Think of it; there were my wife and tho men only a fow feet distant, with only the thinnest tissue of silk be tween us, and a gas that was like noth ing. Vet my e?*y, that would have reached perhaps a half mile in air, could not penetrate that little void. To those outside the balloon it was ari if I had not opened my lips. They heard nothing, not even a whisper. I believe you might fire a oannon in side a bag of hydrogen, and no faint est rustle of the discharge would reach yours ears. So, you see, a world of hydrogen would be a voice less world." Cures Blood and Skin Troubles. TRIAL TREATMENT FREE.-Is your blood poor ? Is it thin? Nose bleed ing and headaehe? Pricking pains in the skin? Skin pale? Skin feel hot and swollen? AU run down? Is your blood bad? Have you Pimples? 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B. never fails to euro quickly and perma nently, after all fails. Thoroughly tested for thirty years. Over 3,000 voluntary testimonials of cures by B.B.B. Hill-Orr Dru? Co.,'Wilhite *fc Wiihite, and Evans Pharmacy. -- It's a poor physician that's una ble to relievo a patient of a fee. - Nothing flatters a fool so much as asking his advice. Col. Watts Def cuds the Grasses. To Editor of the JW ?ea and Courier: IQ your issue of the 9th instant is au article from Mr. A. W. Brabham, which I regret to sea, as it is calculated to disoourage the growth of hay in our States, as he denounces in unmeasured terms the two best grasses that we hare, namely, Bermuda and Means grass, which he calls Johnson grass. I have from my youth np (which is a good long time) boen an enthusiastic .advocate of clover and the grasses, and long ago I was oonvinoed that Bermuda and Means grasses were tho grasses for our country, and the objec tion usually urged to them, that they can't be kept down, constitutes one of their most valuable traits; for the Southeru farmer is notoriously care less and neglects to give his meadows and pastures the care they need hence they need such grasses an they can't destroy by graeiog. The Bermuda is this grass. It will graze more stock and yield moro hay than any other grass, exoopt perhaps tue Means grass, and of better quality. There is no better, sweeter hay than the Bermuda. It will stand moro tramping by stook and dry weather, and will grow on all kinds of land, from thc poorest clay to the sand bank. In this opinion I am backed by many of tho best farmers in the State. The late Governor Hagood owned some very fine bottoms on Saluda, and was telling me at the State Fair about his fine oom, which ho rode through a few days before, but the grass was up to his saddle skirts. What must he do with it? I replied get you a mower and cut the grass. I would rather have the grass than your corn. The next spring he put out roots on forty acres, cutting thc roots up with a cutting knifu and scattered broad cast, from which he told me he raised ten and a half tons to the acre, worth about fifty dollars. This ho kept up as long as ho lived, and I presumed is still kept up. Several of my neighbors have fine pastures and some out hay, making more money than they could on -cotton. It is true it is an enemy to cotton, but why go through tho trials with cotton when the Bermuda grass offers more money for less work. For when a perfect sward is secured it will take care of itself, and make you more money, and, in addition to this, it is a renovator of poor land. Now as to the Means grass. Tra dition says it was brought from abroad by one of the Meanses, and took his name. A man named Johnson car ried sone of it to Georgia or Alabama, where it took his name. It is a very differentgrass from the Bermuda, but is scarcely less valuable, both for gracing and hay. On a recent visit to my son I found a lot that I put out about twenty-five years ago, whioh he told me he had grazed down once and out twice before the 1st July. Now why should anyone want to kill that grass to grow cotton, whioh enslaves those who oultivate it from sear to year? Bermuda grass has possession of DUE WEST FEM OFFERS A. B., B. S., Normal, Music, E der experienced teachers, und tba beat mo: an ideal College community. The purest restraints. Ti,o last year WGH moat Buccet occupied. Applications should be made ei I June 19,'1901-oct 1 D. S. VANMVER. VANDIVI MERCI HAVE BI Gr LINES OF Sample Shoes? 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Io all States south 4 of thia this gfUss is called Johnson grass. I prefer the old name, and I re gret that I have not five aores well set for eaeh one-horse farm. I hope Mr. Brabham is in error as to what he has written about the Texas Legislature. I intend to* find out tho troth of this matter. Texas lives on grass sod they can't afford to rejeot sooh a friood as Means grass. I write this in the interest of oar yoong farmers, whoso interest it is to grow grass and save hay, who should get some of their best land in grass for pasture and hay. Good land well set in Bermuda grass is worth one hun dred dollars per acre. J. Washington Watts. Mountville, Laureas County, July 18. ror Mothers. Cuild?cu ueed models more than criticism. To bring up a child in the way ho should go, travel that way yoursolf. The sooner you get a ohild to bc a law unto himself, thc sooner you will make a n an of nim. We cai never check what is evil in the young unless we cherish what is good in them. 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WE are selling ao LOW and on such EA8Y terms that there was some reason in the report. But we must insist that it is, to a certain extent, a mistake. Next time you come to town drop in and shake hands with us. You know we handle 8EWING MACHINES also. THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. WE WANT YOUR WIFE To see the pretty new avivais in our China Wave Department. CAN WE Not sell her a new supply for Spriug ? m Ou reprices are very low. At least HAVE HER Come iu. She will enjoy looking at the pretty and novel things for the year 190r-? A Well furnished .Home Is not necessarily an expensively furnished one, as at TOLLY'S hand some, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay,. Not that we deal in knocked-together,. made-to-sell sort, but because we are content with a reasonable profit on really good articles of Furniture. Our best witness is the Goods them selves. YourB truly, . G. F. TOUL.Y & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, 8. C. Now is the Time to Bay You a WE can give them to you at any price, and any kind that you want. We have a good No. 7 Stove with 27 pieces of ware for $7.75. We have a. big lot of IRON KING and ELMO STOVES which you know are thebes Stoves on the market. Now wo just want to speak to you one word about our HEATING STOVES, Especially about our Air Tight Heater, which you know is the greatest heater on earth. If you would see one of them in use or try one of them, you wouia not have anything else. And just look at the price-they coBt almost noth ing-only 81.75 up to 86.00. We want to call your attention to our big Stock of Tinware, Glassware and Crockery. Now we have just got too much of this and it must bo sold, so we ?u want you to come and look and let us price you through. We have some of the prettiest pieces of Odd China you evei baw. Would make nice Wedding, Birthday and Christmas Presents. Now we are just opening up the biggest lino of TOYS You ever BttW We want you to como round and bring the children and let them see a grand sight in Toys. And remember that all of these Goods muBt be sold at some price be tween now and th? 25th day of December. Come now while you can get a good selection ot' everything. Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE. CH ? g PM o < ? CO 0 2| O ?t? w 2 S C !? w a S ? . gs OSGI . ? CD ? OATS, OATS, AND RICE FLOUR. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for all KINDS of GRAIN. ^hree Thousand Bushels of TEXAS RED RUST "ROOF OATS. One Car of that famous HENRY OAT (or Whiter Grazing Oat.) The only Oat that will positively stand any kind of weather. Have just received Two Cars of line FEED O VT.S at lowest prices. Have just received Three Cars of RICE FLOUR for fattening your hogs, and it conies much cheaper than any other feed and is ranch better. . Yours respectfully, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO.