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m FAMINE OVER, passihc of red man AM AOKD TOAD. HE WILL HANG. PRICE OF COTTON. Mtef Has Com* to CMna With Harvasthii of Crops. In Twonty-FIvo Yoars Ho WMBa — Known Ho Moro. ONE MILLION DIED HU PaMtlng U Said to He Hue to the Pulicjr the Government Haa Pur sued Toward Him. , Prom starvation In the Different In twenty-five years, according to •* > ' .. . Famine DUtrlrts of China. That Waa the RNtlmat«>d N amber of :st. 1; Deaths, But It la Thought By Some That the Number of Deatha Waa Lem. The terrible famine which has rag ed in central China for several months is now virtually over; the crops plant ed with the seed distributed by the relief committees are being harvest ed; the missionaries who have labor ed so acciduously in the cause of hu manity are gradually coming down the coast for a rest, and people are beffinning to count the cost of lives and money . 1 7 The exact number of Chinese who perished will never be known, but the estimate recently made by a prom inent member of the relief organiza tional judging from conversations with many workers, was very much exaggerated. He computted the loss in lives at over 1,000,000, but on going careful ly into facts it is found that the fam ine lasted less than eight months, and at the worst period the deaths were said to average 3,000 a day, so that even had this figure been maintained for the full period of the famine the total mortality would have been less than three quarters of a million. The smallest estimate is three times the maximum death rate in the area affected, and this would give nearly half a million deaths. These figures are a fair estimate of the toll exacted by the scourage. It may be said, in short, that the famine has not claimed anything like so many victims as was predicted would be the case. This is due in great-tneasure to the prompt way in which funds werg SHbiicribed,"‘“especially m America, and the manner in which foreigners, chiefly missionaries who could speak the Chinese language spoke in the ? central provinces of the empire, re sponded to the call for workers. • Fighting the ravages of famine has been a silent war in which China alone could have achieved little be cause of her official system, her bad estimates made by government offi cials, the American Indian—that is, the befeathered, blanketed and painted Red Man—will have patted into history and in this country will be known no more forever.. The passing of the lndian is due to the policy pursued by tne govern ment. Now, and for many years past, the Indians have been wards of the American government. They have been nurtured and protected and fostered in every possible way. At immense expense the govern ment has provided for them, lest they should starve. Reservations have been given them, food has beeniumished them and they have been cared for as children. During the past ten or twelve years, a definite policy has been pur sued, the government looking to the limination of the Indian, not in his personality, but in his tribal relations. After years of experience it was found that tribal relations of the In dian were not good for him. They encouraged laziness and shiftless ness. Under the conditions the In dian would not work. He depend ed entirely upon the government for his subsistence and, having nothing else to do, spent much of his time in fomenting trouble. Congress finally decided to break up, as for as possible, the In dian reservations and to parcel them out among Indians and whites to the best advadtage possible. The lands were allotted among the Indians in severalty, wherever that scheme seemed feasible^ bo that each Indian might have a definite portion which he could call his own arid which he was at liberty to dispose of as he saw fit. Many of tne the Indians, partic ularly of the Osage and Cherokee tri bes, are in good financial circum stances. Some of them are doing well on their farms and all of them have, better chances than white merr are given by the government. Francis E. Loupp, commissioner of Indian affairs, who has devoted much of his life to a study of the In dian problem, is convinced that the only way to make the Indian pro gressive and self-supporting is to place him on his own resources. He Said to Have Been Six Thousand a Yean Old. A dispatch from Melbourne says a miner has sent to the Zoological Gar dens, Perth, a live toad which he dug out of a strata of hard cement while sinking a shaft with exploaives. It is believed that the creature has been entombed for centuries. When released from confinement the toad was quite inanimate. Its eyes, which were transparent, with no pupil, gradually became normal, and it is now in excellent health, s The chamber in which il was con- Pink Franklin, Who Mnrdarad Mr. Henry Valanthw, Camrlctad ; Flftwn Cants a Pound PotsiMa If Farmirs Stick Together. Of Murder sad Sentenced to be Hang ed on Friday, the Twenty-llfth Day of October. The court was occupied Monday with the trial of Pink Franklin, the negro who shot and killed Mr. Henry But Mot Unless the Men Who flaJse It and Sell It Work to Harmony to Maintain Price. Last week the Farmers’ Union Oon ventlon met at Little Rock, Ark., and the executive committee of the South- 1 ~fined was perfectly smooth, and there was no room for movement. The ValentintfrwhcTwent to arrest him as Association met at Jack son. Miss. The most Important ac- A QUEER Hit Son i>t(r the Young Man Says He Never Saw His Would-Be Father Any ENTKUBD LADY’S STATEROOM lad Fellow Wanted to Km Old Man Thinks Hu Has Fouml The passengers who arrived on the where Before. steamship Atlanta from New York at Savannah on Wedneaday told a sensational story an attempted robbery on board the ship and the indignation that waa caused hy it 1$ is said that there was a ^ronff ten dency to throw overboard one or two men who were suspected of the crime. A young lady en route from New York to Macon about 3 o’clock the special constable of hit brother, who la a magistrate at Cope. Frank- HU was- given a fair trial and was defended, by two colored lawyers Jacob Moorer of this city, and Jno. Adams of Columbia, but he was con victed Tof murder and was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, October 26, Sad Franklin, who waa placed on trial with him as an accessory tq, the killing was acquitted. Franklin’s lawyer knew that he was guilty Of a cruel murder, but they fought hard on technical grounds to save his neck. Adams, who teaches at Allen University at Columbia, as well as practices law, saw that bis client had every safe „„„„ ui xo i-buib , ., .... .... . s uar( l of the law thrown around him. | n g offowwt iii* ■pi r<> in the condition of the toad, One day last week he raised^ three 1 ~ toad is now being examined by geo logists. The secretary of the Zoological Gardens cites an instance of a toad being found in a bed of magnesium limestone 25 feet under the earth. The age of the toad was believed to be 6,000 years. This creature was presented to the Hartlepool Muse um. "It is well known," he says, "that toads at the present day bury them selves in mud when the water in which they have been living dries till the next up, and so remain there rains come. r "If a drought sets in, and no rain comes to that spot, there will be no Ch and therefore^ nothing to bring him to a state of animation, and so he may continue for all time, until some one comes along with a plug of gelig nite to unearth him. "This seems very hard to believe, but still we have the fact that the toads are there, alive, and so must have got there somehow. In some cases they have been found at grea depths under the surface imbedde< in rock, as in the present instance "The toads seem to be in g state of suspended animation, and do not lose weight when in that condition.” Ill’ll A L ROUTES IN THE +jTATE Th«> Numiter Now In Operation and Their Dtatribution. Some interesting information rela tiye to the operation of free delivery routes In “Siouth Carolina was secur Sd by The Newaand Courier eorrw tta-vvmrw -ShsrtfJ Dxrtttw tooretiTr ^MocfkttSTlf^and'ed financial organization «hd the crude ineffective syste more Tidhfisv of m of relief which the officials adopted when left to themselves. It was reserved for the says, therefore, that it is the policy of the government to induce the In dians to give up their tribal relations and to mingle with the whites asin- dividuals. Naturally, he says, -the Indian is bright and is well able to ■EPbst; JjSb’, ■ P K m •" r necessity of relief works both for their intrinsic worth and to enable the authorities to distinguish betwee i the really destitute and the mere loafer. Many districts in the famine area can point to the benefits derived from relief works inaugurated and supervised by foreigners; but there are also some where the Chinese of ficials have followed to good purpose the example set them. To quote but ope example, many miles of the grand canal north of Chmkaling are now in good repair, and this will help to pre vent a catastrophe in the future sim ilar to that which occurred last year when tee heavy rains fell.' Much ol the severity of the famine could have been prevented by public ■ works, qf which the neglect can only be regvded as criminal. The difficul ty too often was that officials were reluctantT to spend money on such works, as they -feared they might, aoon after the inauguration of the work, be removed to another sphere of labor, and thus lose the large amount of money which it would have been necessary to disburse from the local exchequer and which would otherwise have gone into their pock ets. ' If order were introduced Into Chi- nese finances and an end put to the sale of positions the business instinct of the nation would discover that it is cheaper to undertake such works in time rather than wait until the- misery their neglect causes has to be roBeved. — The two relief committees collect- a sum than $1,313,000, and 4dl but a small balance has been ex pended in the saving of life, combin- od, in some cases, with preventive measures against future famine. The small balance, unfortunately, will probably be insufficient for the de mands made upon it this autumn. The devastation of whole provinc es by floods will not cease until the imperial government so rearranges its financial system that it can direct large sums to be spent on adequate repair of canal and river embank ments and the necessary clearing and deepening of the waterways of the empire. the take cAre of f, if he finds him-' seif forced to do so. . Placed in sur roundings where he must learn in order to live, the Indian will do well in most instances, and that is just what the government is doing now. Commissioner Loupp believes that it will require twenty-five or thirty years to bring about the complete change in the Indians’ condition, but in the end, the change will be of great benefit to the In dians, One difficulty is being expe rienced just now that, of course, cannot be remedied by. the govern ment. In the allotment of lands 1 in severalty to the Indians, many of the individuals of the various tribes have become possessed olA-small number cultivate the lands themsel hut the majority of them 1 sell the land and live on the proceeds The last named class cannot be in duced to work at all. They proba bly will not do'a stroke of work un til their resources are exhausted and they will have to work or starve. In. view of all the conditions, therefore it is only a matter of time pondent from the post office depart meat. In the state there are now a tota of 650 routes in operation divide* among the seven congressional dis tricts as follows: First district, 27 second district, 50; third district, 135 fourth district, 114; fifth district 140; sixth district. 73;-seventh dis trict, 106. - , Each of the seven districts men tioned has several petitions pending before the department, which will be acted upon in the near future. The whole number from the jstate is 56. For the United States there are now 37,981 rural delivery routes in operation, which are served by 37,- 832 regular carriers. All the routes are served every week day except 724 which have tri-weekly service The total number of petitions for the service which had reached the department up to September 1, was 54,973, upon which 15,066 adverse reports had been made. There are now l,41tpetitions for estab pending, 163 of which have been fa vorabfy acted upon and service or dered established—leaving a balance of 1,228 unacted upon. RIVALED CAPTAIN KOKl’ENICK. Siberian Impostor Army Official*. Cleverly Duped "The German Impostor "Koepen- ick„ who created such a sensation by fooling a whole village, has been rivaled m his line of cleverness by a Siberian, who went to Harbin, Sibe- c , , . ria, and passing himself off as an until the Indian shall have i>ecn ab- ^ogj. eacaoed with a heat sum of sorbed into the nation and shall have disappeared as a distinct entitty. 'he Indian of yesterday will have become a tradition and the Indian of tomorrow-will work out his destin; as the whites work out theirs an< the Indian blood will be a blend of American citizenship. 'I COSTLY TO JAIL YEGGS. Trisl Will Go Deep l«lo the Buckets _ of Farmer*. —= PRKACHF.il SENT TO JAIL. He Is Given 30 Days and 935 Fine (or Assaulting Librarian. The Rev. Eli Tartt, pastor of the Harrison Baptist church, of Peters burg, Va., which has a membership of more than 3,000, was before the Mayor's court, recently, to answer the charge of assaulting J. H. Ma son with a pistol in the law office of T. C. Johnson, where Mason is em- had declared that Mason bad lied to him about Johnson being out of the city. Johnson is engaged ivita in a controversy i Street church. Ma- the librarian of the Sunday The defense attempted to that Tartt was not on the ; any time on tha day of adji guilty It is not likely that farmers of Monroe and Wayne counties, New York, will want many yeggmen to visit those districts, since they have counted the cost of placing behind prison bars three men guilty of at tempted bank jobbery and burglary. The men are Fred Scultz, sentenced to life imprisionment for the mur der of Edward Pullman, a night watchman; Big Ed Kelly, given a like sentence for the same offense and James McCormick/sentenced to 19 years and nine months for man slaughter in the first degree. The cost of convicting these men will run from $50,000 to $100,000. The yeggmen murdered the night watchman at the villiage of Sodus, while he was trying to prevent them from robbing Knapp’s bank, on March 22, 1906. The men were caught the next morning in Roches ter. Seventeen post offices were robbed in New York state within a few months of the capture of these men, and it is believed they were the guilty parties, since the robber ies ceased after they were placed behind the bars. -Their trials took nearly a year and a half. The rob bers did. not lack money to fight the law and it is believed that it was furnished by fellow yeggmen. Sev eral Rochester detectives and police testified for the defense as police from Cohoes, Troy and Tonawahda. The cases are expected to lead to some sensational revelations in po lice circles. . With a capital of $30,000,000, the new paper trust figures test it ought to be able to beat its competitors to a pulp. He was forced against his will ta take asmall portion of the amount in silver. Telephoning to the barracks for two soldiers, he had them escort him to the railroad station and left them to guard the money bags for a short time. The soldiers were on guard for 24 hours before the trick was discovered. The "officer" had escaped. AIRSHIP LIKE A BIRD. Soared Gently and Smoothly Again*! Strong'Wind. So successful was the recent trial atFarnborough, Eng., of the first military dirigible balloon built in that country, that British aeronauts are elated and predict great things for future successes. In the pres ence of about 100 persons the ship performed beautifully, and with the exception of One minor defect; the breaking of a belt on the machinery, acquitted itself without a flaw. During the trip the wind was blowing at the rate of 15 miles, but the airship had no difficulty in ad vancing against it. It soared on gently like a ship in a sea-way, the machinery responding well to the canvas rudder. The airship is sau sage shaped, 100 feet long and 30 feet in diameter. It traved at a rate of about five miles an hour. It can carry three men besides the ma chinery and other apparatus, having a lifting power of one tefo. It uses the exhaust gas from its engine to ►i'V'V that Mr. Rockefeller has de- to give out no more inter views. there will be lees good advice wasted on a cynical ' Uon of each of these bodies was to fix the mtnUnum price for which cot ton is to be held this fall, and each of them agreed on 16 cents. If the farmers of the South to any great ex- tent stand by, this demand they’will niiaoubledly get 16 cents.-- 4 Cotton is’now selling In South Car olina above 13 cents, and the crop in this Stgte is generally said to be in a better condition than In the South western States, a condition which would justify the higher price. But the only way in which the cotton plantere can get, 16 cents is to hold their cotton until they do get 16 cents. If the crop is rushed on the market when 13 or 13 % cents is be- constitutional objections to the jur ies, two based on the Federal Con stitution and one on the Constitution of South Carolina. Saturday be ar gued for «, Continuance of the case pleading tome irregularity connected with the proper keeping of the coro ner^ records. In all of his motions to quash the indictment and for the postponement he was overruled by the Court. The trial of Franklin and his wife consumed the entire day, the case being called on the convening'of the Court Monday morning. Franklin, who had been In the State Peniten tiary since his arrest for safe keep ing was brought from Columbia Mon day morning by Sheriff Dukes, who took every precaution for the safety of the prisoner. Franklin’s wife was kept in the jail here. There was a large crowd In the city to attend the 15 cents. In discussing the matter Tke News and Courier says the question Is how far can the two organizations of far mers control the marketing' of the crop? The Farmers’ Union and the Southern Cotton Association are not exactly antagonistic bpt they work somewhat on different lines and are not affiliated in any way. It is im possible to say how far their respec tive organizations extend and to what extent they can secure an observance of their resolutions. They have taken similar action in recent years and it Is undoubtedly true that while their demands have been respected by some planters who do not belong to either organization there have, on the other hand, been some members of each organization who have not stood by their resolu tions, and consequently the amount of cotton has not been withheld from tHal It was perfectly orderly and "tBe market that might have been ex- seemed disposed to let the law take pected. When the .freniwnteUtow her and vista* Defile to "buy stocks" *re money. The victims of his bold escapade were army men and offi cials at the Russo-Chinese bank, The man appeared at the head quatersof the frontier forces of the Trans-Amur territory and < a document, which purport ~ ^ . . « . .... .. . tl an order, he asked for m advance “ .T*’ I ' ,'"* !\ e of M5.500 to. be need, in win* men and buying provisions. So well did he play his part that a check was made out for him and he cashed it. precaution to’protect, Franklin, but there was no demonstration. By or der of Gov. Ansel the dispensary was closed, and as far as we know there was not a single man under the In fluence of whiskey and everything passed off quietly. The verdict as to Franklin gave general satisfaction, but there are those who think his wife should be punished for her part in the tragedy. The crime for which Franklin was convicted was committed by him only a few weeke ago, and if he is hung on the day Appointed justice will be meted out to him as It Should be to all criminals of his class. His exe cution legally a few months after the commission of the heinous crime will have a letter effect than If he hag been caught and lynched immediately after he had killed in cold blood an, officer of the law, who had gone to arrest him. The crime is fresh In the memory of our readers. The doom ed, mam Franklin, was a farm hand under contract to Mr. Jake Thomas, of Cqpe. For some reason he broke his contract with Mr. Thomas and went to work for Mr. Sol. Spires, of the Norway section, where he was when he bruttally murdered Mr? Val entine. After Franklin lefj his entpioy-ln violation of his contract Mr. Thomas' had a warrant issued for hlh arrest by Magstrate Joseph Valentine, who sent his brother. Constable Henry Valentine, to arrest him. The. later went to the home of Mr. Carter and spent the night and at daybreik the next morning he went with Mr. Car ter to the home of the negro to make the arrest. _The negro was apparent ly, asleep when they reached the house and Mr. Valentine entered the front-door while Mr. Carter went to therrear to prevent his escape. When Mr. Valentine ‘entered the front door and reached the bed'room door the negro'suddenly opened .the to the floor. The negro, then hearing the approach of Mr. Carter at his hack door, turned and Bred In that directlonr-tefltetlqg a painful wound, which caused Mr, Garter to ertreat, 11 cents the farmers stuck to it and got 11 cents; when President Jordan two years ago demanded 15 cents the farmers sold for less and got a good profit.— The truth of the matter Is that the farmers of the Sonth consider that 15 cents is a very fine price for cottefi especially as some of them have sold cotton at five cents and managed' to live. Of course the conditions -then and now are different, but the facts remain. The matter of supply and demand is supposed to fix the price of cotton as of other oonmoditles. but It Is not exactly correct to -«ay that this is the case wfib' ootton. If however the farmers by'-eomhlna- tion in withholding the commodity from the market can decrease the supply they can get th$)r price. The difficulty is that so much of the cotton crop is sold before it Is picked, even before it is planted; the farmers,, who have to sell to meet their fall obligations cannot reganf the advice of their more fortunate bretheren, no matter how good that advice may be. The organizations have recognized this difficulty and have endeavored to devise some way in which ThA stronger may protect ing of cotton, etc,f-hiit these means Ire hot yet perfected and cannot be at once put in bperatlon. If- the farmers’! organizations suc ceed in this effort and cotton goes to 15 cents there will be good times in South Carolina this fall. The money centres report that qiohey is-tight and the banks, eren in South Carolina, art not pultlng out fnoney with great caution; but If the farmers get Iji, cents for their cottohTand the crop turns out to he as good as the_pros- oect the farthers wttt her abiensr Christmas,to loan money to the banks and has some to spared . i . . THE Cl DADEL SCHOLARSHIPS Announcement of Successful Contes tants and Alternates. S' F Witnesses state that four or .five shots were fired and the first three were in quick succession. The result was that both Mr. Valentine and Mr. Car ter were wounded, as were also the negro and his wife. Franklin fled following the killing and managed for three days to elude his pursuers. He made his way to Denmark and there gave himself up to Ex-Senator Mayfield, who com municated at once frith Sheriff Dukea who went to Denmark, got Franklin and sent him to the Stath' Peniten tiary for safe keeping. The murder of Mr. Valentine created great excite ment at the time, and had Franklin' been caught it is safe to say that the county would have been saved the expense of his trial. Franklin’s crime was a cold blooded one, and he richly deserves the punishment he will re ceive. His conviction was no sur prise, and it will meet with universal endorsement all over the country. The solicitor was asisted In the prose cution by Messrs, Glaze A Herbert.— The Orangeburg Times and Demo crat. FIVE NEGROES KILLED By a Fastf Train While They Were Gambling. Five negroes, their hesids close to gether, as they were totally absorbed n , ,- in A game of crape, on the naltlmorej^x! , uplap, and Ohio railroad near Newberg, W. Va., did not hear the numble of an approaching train. They were ground beneath thg wheels and five killed, so terribly n has not yet been thrhodies that ideate Following are the succearfuT con- i teatania for beneficiary scholarships at the Citadel: Abbeville—W. E. Bell, Jr.r alter nate. George C. McKelvey. Aiken—B. T. Grippe; alternate, C. S. Hatch. Andereon—J. C. Pickens and* H. Acker: alternates, J. K. Russell and E. L. McCants. Bamberg—H. A. Ray, Jr.; alter nate, C. O. Kirtsch. Barnwell—S. S. Pison; alternate, none. Beaufort—C. A. Sanders and Mc Leod Hutson. Jr.; alternates, none' Berkely—H. F. PoAcher; alternate, R. W. Wilkes. Charleston—B. R. Legge and J. R. Oglesby; alternates, E. H. Car penter. Jr. and P. H. Gadsden. » ChesterfieldT-J. K. Shannon, Jr.; alternate A. Brock.. ^ Claredon—G. W. Green; alternate R. L. Griffin. Colleton—J. F. Richer; alternate, M. B. Garris. Fairfield—H. K. Pickens and J. E. Craig; alternates, de Saussure Clarke and S. C. Lupo. Georgetown—W. R. Buie; alter nate, Ehrlich Jones. Greenvil.e—C. H. Fowler; alter nate W. E. Kilgore. Lancaster—B. A. Sullivan; alter- BAte, J. D. Armstrong. Lexington—C. B. Livingston. 'al ternate, J. S. Steadman. Marion—R- F. Bethea; alternate. Charles Gilchrist. Marlboro—Dgrgan OdomS alter- The New York' American says standing in tee store of John Galvin, |tatee'morninff was awakened by the presence of a man in her stateroom. She was very much alarmed and screamed at the top of her voice, The passengers on board were alert in an instant and rutted to the aid of the terror stricken lady. She told them she had been awakened by the presence of some one in her state room and that as she awoke the in truder had disappeared through the stateroom window. Immediately there was a search for the guilty man. in - a young merchant, of No. 513 Third avenue Brooklyn, John Galvin, a wealthy manufacturer, of Brattle- boro. Vt., late Thursday afternoon pleaded with the former to acknow ledge their relationship as father and son. ‘JCome home with me, John. Moth er wants you ever so badly,” said the old man. "I am not your son. I am not John E. Galvin. I am just plain John Gal vin. and I have lived 'here all my life," was the reply to the entreaty, a reply the young man had been compelled to make repeatedly dur ing the past few days. . Sorrowing and despondent, the old man departed for his hotel at Fourth avenue and Forty-second street, not fully convinced teat he had hot beep addressing his son. / For a week the Brattieboro manu facturer has beep haunting the store owned by Mr, Galvin, insisting upon their relationship. So confident was he of the identification he had made of Galvin as his boy who ran away from home ten years ago that he en listed the aid of the police, and two detectives Thursday visited Galvin at his store and questioned him about the cpw.-^— "It was just a week ago that Mr. Galvin came in here." said youni Mr ..Galvin Thursday night. “He tol me he had a son who left home in a fit of anger ten years ago. ^Jie had searched everywhere -for the young man without success. Then he sud denly put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Your mother wants you home, John. Every night she walks out the rear door and through the lawn to the gate, where she looks u tee road, waiting arid watching. ? take herindoors; otherwise she would stay out until midnight.’ "Of course I was amazed, and after I had repeatedly denied being his son, I asked him what had brought him to Brooklyn and to my home >" "He said that Mrs. John Green- age, of Ninth avenue and Tenth street, Brooklyn, had spent the Sum mer in Brattieboro. He had asked her ip his simple way if she ever saw his son John in New York. She told him she knew a John Galvin, and then described me to the father and mother. Both weresure I was the missing son. "I remembered then that Mrs Greenage had come home and told me about a rich manufacturer, of Brattieboro, Vt., who Had inquired about me as meeting the description of his missing son. "At first I was inclined to treat the old man’s search humorously, but the pathos of his story made me feel like giving him all the aid I could. When he still insisted that I was his son and wanted to take me bock to his wife, I brought him to my residence at 148 Prospect avenue, and had all of my friends tell him ^ . that I had lived in Brooklyn all of my L h ! " e ^_ b / P ™ Tid i n 5 i or . the _ 8t °_ r "tTrfe. We made several trips to New York, New Jersey, Coney and negro on board was taken charge. He protested his innocense. A foreigner who was a member of the crew volunteered the information that he had seen the negro coming through the window. Because of the knowledge he displayed he too was taken in custody. The passengers seemed to think that the foreigner was trying to throw suspicion from himself by accusing the negro. “Throw them overboard’'^suggest ed one of the passengers. This seem ed to voice the sentiment of all the men who were gathered about invar rious stages of undress having been aroused from their berths by the young lady’s screams. It is proba ble that if the young lady had been able to positively identify the man who had entered tier state room that he would have been summarily dealt with by the angry passengers. As it was bote the white man and the colored man were released. That Chester (Pa.) bride who fainted at the altar is no doubt be ing pitied by the girls who are sure they could go through the marriage ceremony without the quiver of an eyelash. Tom Lawson’s advertisement ad- not so very attractive just now we are looking forward to the neccessity of buying coaler other places where I thought the old man might find his son. He carried a picture with him that was taken some years ago, but I do not think it resembled me, and if it does it is merely a coincidence. "The old man appeared quite heartbroken Thursday and tuld me that he was leaving for his home on a midriight train. His last words were: " ‘What will my poor wife when I come back alone?’ "’ This is Heilqurters . V wtm Pianos and Organs. 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