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DESIRE TO BE GRATIFIED. Ernest Worth, Wife-Murder, to Pay Penalty of His Crime. * San Quentin, Cal., June 16.?The \ desire of Ernest Worth, the Los Angeles wife murderer, to die on the gallows, will be gratified to-morrow, unless there is eleven hour respite. All arrangements for the execution have been completed at the peniten* tiary here. . J i The prisoner has been anxious to . die ever since he murdered his wife at Los Angeles June 22 of last year. His wife had begun a suit for divorce. They met in a room at a hotel to discuss a money settlement. A quarrel arose, and Worth, who was a bar* tender, struck her on the jaw with nxs . ^ fist and when she fell crushed her face and skull with his heels. After ' \ his arrest and arraignment he asked . that he be permitted to plead guilty and that his sentence be death on the . gallows. His desire to be sentenced to death was gratified by Judge Wilbur, the trial judge. While awaiting trial Worth made five attempts to commit suicide. After arriving at the . r penitentiary here, weary of waiting for the time set for his execution, the ; murderer wove a rope from strips of his pillowcase and attempted to hang himself from a cleverly contrived > scaffold in his cell. The toppling of a ( chair upon his sleeping cell-mate was ( all thai' prevented his plan from being a success. Taking a Rosy View of It. ?. Miss Jane Adams, head of Hull ' House, and an ardent advocate of woman suffrage, says that women still '' have much to fight for. Our battle will be long and diffi- ; cult," she says, "and we must frankly 1 admit it. There is nothing to be ^ gained by such rose colored schemes { as William White employed. y t "William White's brother had killed a man in cold blood. i " 'Well, William, how about your brother?' a visitor to the town asked him one day after the trial. " 'Well,' said William, 'they've put ] him in jail for a month.' ( " 'That's rather a light sentence ( f for a cold-blooded murder,' said the ( gentleman. r ? -?" 'Yes, sir,' William admitted, ? 'but at the month's end they're going ' to han(f him.' j Circus Animals at Large. > Ebensburg, Pa., June 16.?A fifteen-car circus train of the Frank A. Robbins Shows, was wrecked one ^ mile from here early to-day on the Cambria and Cresson branch of the Pennsylvania railroad. 1 Two lions, -an elephant, one leopard, one hyena, one jaguar and an * ibex are reported to be at large. Several circus employees were injured. * In the darkness of the early morning the confusion following the derrailment of the menagerie cars was terrifying. The howls of the wild ? animals, which fled in every direction, mingled with^ cries of injured men pinned under the wreckage. An Aid to Digestion. The Blanks had invited a guest to p. dinner. As the last course was reached little Willie, who had been closely watching the guest almost continually during the meal, looked over at him once more and said: ^ "You haven't changed a bit since you started eating, have you Mr. ; Curtis?" "Why no," laughed the visitor. "Why do you ask that question?" - * "Because," blurted out Willie, confused by the pairs of eyes focused on him?"because I heard pa say you'd make a big hog of yourself as soon as I . you got your eyes on this feed." ? The Brake on Tight. 1 Out of the Grand Central station, t % in New York, the other day came a x couple evidently from Up-State re- j gions. The old man grasped his car- c petbag and bulging green umbrella j f firmly and looked up and down the ? r street, his mouth agape. t "There's a heap o' sights in New e York, I guess, Maria," he said. "I mis- ^ i j doubt if we see them all." t The old lady's mouth set grimly. x "Waal, Silas," she replied, and her c manner was more than significant, g "bein's as I'm with you, there's some, t | ? I expect, that you ain't goin' to see!" x t ? ^ One of our progressive county ex- f I changes calls the attention of its readers to the posibilities of the gaso- j . v line engine for breaking land, and r I contrasts methods in the South with those in the West'. This is all very well, but we shall not jump from the one-horse plow to the traction en gine. Few farms are in condition to t permit the most profitable use of the < / big tractors; but there are few farms x where a good two and three-horse ( plow would not help to greater prosperity. Let us make the threehorse - plow the rule, and then the traction engine will come as the lands are prepared for its profitable use.?Pro- i ; f gressive Farmer. t THIXK THEY HAVE RIGHT MAN Detective Cave Arrests Man who H Thinks is Wanted in Kentucky. Hampton, June 16.?Detective T L. Cave brought a man, who he think is Joseph Wendling, wanted for mur der in Louisville, Ky., here this morn ing and lodged him in jail, awaitini identification. The man gave hi uame as Charles Painter and was em ployed at a saw mill at Fechtig 01 the Charleston & Western Carolim Railway. It is stated that Painter answer every description of Joseph Wendling who killed Alma Kelner, an 8-year 3ld child, in Louisville, Ky., last De cember. Tl^e handwriting of this Charle Painter is said to be exactly that o Joseph Wendling, and when told t write Joseph Wendling it seemed t be genuine. The authorities have been wired a Louisville* Ky., to send some one t identify him at once. A reward of $6,000 has been of fered for Joseph Wendling. BAIL GRANTED TO ODOMS. Barnwell Men Charged with Murde of 'Jim Hi.v. . Columbia, June 16.?William J Odom and his son, Alvin Odom, hot] >f Barnwell county, were granted bail in the sum of $5,000 each, to-day, b; Associate Justice Gary, at chambers rhey were charged with murder o Jim Hix, in Barnwell county, on Jum 3. The father and son had rented lam \ ?dj(ining the farm of the negro Hix rhe trouble arose over a hedge row it is alleged that the negro, in turn ing his mule at the end of each row would trample down the crop of Mr jaom. PRINCE AND REPORTERS. I. Story of Edward VII. and Tw< Newspaper Man. When King Edward VII. wai Prince of Wales, and visiting this country in charge of Duke of New jastle, his movements were ver: closely watched by the newspape: nen of the day. Among those as iigned to this duty were Mortimei Thomson (Q. K. Philander Doesticks; or the New York Tribune, anc George F. Williams for The Nev fork Times. One one occasion, while writing ur he royal party in their apartments ai he Fifth Avenue hotel, the duke o: Newcastle was called away for a shori ime, and these two newspaper mer vere left alone with the prince. H< expressed himself as decidedly borec >y all the official receptions that were >eing given him and at meeting the listinguished persons that called, anc laid that he wished that he could g< nto the streets and see the city bj limself. "Doesticks" suggested tha his was a good time to do it, anc ;hat they could slip out a back wa: tnd have a good time. The prince oyfully welcomed the suggestion anc le accompanied by Thomson anc Villiams, went out a back way anc ook a run through the streets arounc Jnion square and adjoining places ^mong other places of interest he vfls introduced to the Dromineni :afes of the time, where he was re jaled with a mint julep?the firsi ime that a concoction of this kind lad ever been presented to him. He vas so delighted with it that he wanted to duplicate, but the "boys bought it was time to be getting jack to the hotel before the prince's ibsence was noticed. They reached the prince's recep;ion room all right, but found thai he duke of Newcastle had alreadj iiscovered his absence, and there was t terrific commotion going forward n consequence. The duke was exxemely angry with the newspapei nen and he threatened to have then; urned out, and refused facilities foi eporting the royal party. The rejorters said they did not object, be:ause the Story of the prince's escajade would make good reading, and imply atone for any disappointment hey might suffer by not being allow;d to accompany the party further rhey also informed the duke that il he story was printed and elaborated ipon as they felt inclined to do, the Luke himself would be in disgrace ?ts i "negligent chaperon" in allowing he prince to be kidnapped. Thereipon the duke was appeased, friendlj elations were re-established, anc Thomson and Williams accom)anied the royal party in its progress hrough the country.?New Yort rimes. Boys Charged with Murder. Samson, Ala., June 11.?For th* leath of Ollie Purvis, 14 years old it Wo r-i"iHo loct tvhqI.* tu-rt ParlcPl brothers, aged 14 and 16 years, wen )laced in the county jail at Genevs o-day. At the preliminary hearing t was testified that the Parker boys lad whetted the knife with whicl Purvis was stabbed. The younger boj vept bitterly as he was being taker ;o prison. '. GREAT SUCCESS OF SYSTEM. e Ticket Collectors Earn Salaries on the Southern Railway. Charleston to Atlanta, first as ass sistant general passenger agent of the - Southern Railway, and then to be come superintendent of ticket colg lections, has made a success of the s system installed in 1908, and it is - predicted that the present number a of seventy-five collectors will be a doubled in the near future to cover the entire system, s It has been the idea of Col. Hunt, in introducing this system and build ~ ??^+V?a rtrtn /4 n nf rvrc - IJLlg At Up, tU CUUKllC LUC WUUU^IV/IO and the public alike to the fact that the ticket collector is by no means s a spy and a check upon the honesty f of the conductor, but in reality a o help t% the man in charge of a train, o One of the chief duties of the collector is to balk efforts on the part t of the passengers to cheat the railo road, a work that the conductor has no time to perform effectively. What Hunt Has Done. In the Jacksonville Metropolis, the following 'Story of the ticket collector work of Col. Hunt is told: In the near future there will be r a ticket collector on every train of the Southern railroad. While this announcement does not come direct from the head officials ^ of the system, it is based on good authority. y A little more than a month ago the number of ticket collectors was f increased to seventy-five. e Eventually it will be increased to 150 or more?at least, enough to * cover the entire system. J It is not stated when this increase v*. <11 V\iN viA/Ia Kt* i i ^ 1? A f/\/1 f V\ A f y> ill uc uiduc, uut il i? sidicu Liiau 111 " all probability it will not be long. Even should the increase be made ' gradually, by adding ten or fifteen collectors every few months, it would not take long to run the number up to enough to cover the entire 3 system. There is an impression that a big auditing company of 'New York has a contract to take up tickets on the 3 Southern railroad, guaranteeing the foad an increase of 10 per cent, net 7 revenue on the average and taking r the balance over that as compensation. This impression is erroneous. r The system of ticket collection I now in vogue on, the Southern was ^ organized by the company, made a 7 separate and distinct department from the start, and has been rnainj tained as such ever since. As such it y will continue to be maintained. The f head of this department is R. W. t Hunt, and his headquarters are in l Atlanta, offices in the Austell build? ing. j The System was put in operation ? on May 1, 1908, beginning with > thirty collectors. It was a success j from the first. The revenues of-the ^ Southern on passenger business in T creased astonishingly. This increase has kept up steadily ever since, it t is said. The department is proba7 bly now a fixture. The system is be} ing adopted all over the country, I even some of the big trans-contipentj al lines putting it on., j Ticket collectors have increased , the revenue of the Southern railroad l r / chiefly by correcting irregularities 4 and picking up loose ends. This is (. emphasized by the officials. When the system was inaugurated t most people construed it as a re^ flection on the conductors. The con; ductors sal it in that light, too. Now this idea is changing. People are be> ginning to realize that it was not the P ductors saw it in that light, too. Now , Southern, but the passengers. All sorts of schemes have been devised to evade payment of railroad fare. t Many were nipped in the bud by alert r conductors, but most were missed. 5 It is pointed out by the officials I that before the ticket collection system went into effect a conductor had , three different duties to perform. That is. the handline of his train, the . taking up of tickets and the auditing of collections. If it come to a choice between looking out for the safe and prompt transportation of his I train, or "laying" for a dishonest pash senger, he looked out for his train, which was what the company expected him to do. f As a natural consequence, say the [ officials, the company missed much , revenue they should have got, sim5 ply because with so many things to , look after, the conductors could not > . make a clean sweep. But the ticket r collectors with only that one thing I to do, are sweeping mighty clean. . And by the same token, say the of, ficials, the conductors, relieved of . the collections, are making things hum when it comes to keeping schedules and handling trains safely. Xegro Sent Up for Life. Lexington, June 16.?Henry Lyles, * a negro, 20 years old, was tried in the i sessions court to-day for the murder i of his wife, Sila Lyles, on the night > of January 26. The jury rendered a > verdict of guilty, with recommendai tion to?mercy, and Judge Gary immer diately ^sentenced the negro to the i State penitentiary for the remainder of his life. [SAMP] DA\ JLIV/2 P We still have a s drummers' sample we are offering ; less than the regi 117 j: 11 ~J1 ..... ne win seii yuu 30c, a 50c box I on. Come and 1? SAMPLE! i We also have a sample tablets let offering at half pr Carry a supply ol vannn vmir varari JW?. mer, also take al Waterman's ;l|| in Safek ifw?i Caoi^ " in ^position ,np side down } loss it into^our trunk CANNOT Small.pnrse<?rVest pocket size/>rVac Remember we ha\ times a handsomi Cut Glass, Hand P Pirhirpc at mod r A IVIUI VV II1VVI A TH1 Herald Be BAMBERG, SOU / < 1 ?? LE | ?%? r cn 1 LLiU 1 APER | well line of that I i box paper that it 50 per cen|. m iilar retail price. IS a 60c box for A or z5c, and so , m ok at it. J m imm few drummers' ?|j t which we are a ice. 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