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BARNWELL FUGITIVE CAUGHT? S Escaped Convict Probably Captured Ge in St. Paul. Barnwell, Feb. 28.?Sheriff J. B. < Morris received a telegram to-day ide from Acting Chief of Police M. J. kil Flannagan, of St. Paul, Minn., saying nei that Elliott Gardner, alias Walter lyr Peters, had been arrested there and a that he answered the description ne; furnished by Chief Lynch, of South po] Bethlehem, Pa. The negro, how- dn ever, denies that his name is Gard- Ch ner, so a photograph has been mailed Sheriff Morris, and if the negro is thi the one wanted here a deputy will be we dispatched for him at once. Gil Gardner, or Peters, was convicted th< here about five years ago for burn- am ing the gin house of J. L. Ellis, at ins Baldoc, and was sentenced to ten cai years at nara iaDor on me cnaiu gang. After serving about one year ize he escaped and has been at large blc since that time. tui bei Queer Checks. m0 There is a bank clerk in a western pos city who ha6 for years indulged in a ' hobby of collecting bank checks drawn on queer articles. There hangs about this clerk's desk a torn Qu linen collar, a piece of lath, a cuff and various other objects used for the purpose of drawing money from the hank. lat Each of these has a story. The er\ clerk began his collection with a illr piece of lath. This was honored by net the bank for $250. It was made into bul a check by the owner of a sawmill, lie who, with his son, was at the plant in with no checkbook. The money was er.' needed to pay the hands. The saw- < mill man wrote on the lath just what wh 1 ?-Aiil/l i SL Cfl CK COITecuj "Ulan u vvuuiu utai tw* and sent his son to the bank to get all the money and explain. The lath phi check was honored after some dis- ski cussion among the bank officers. The wit cuff was drawn by an actor, who ] while intoxicated, had engaged in ble fisticuffs with a fellow Thespian and for had been arrested. He was treated in cavalierly in his cell. As he could Ru obtain no paper, he bribed a boy to wit take the cuff check to a bank. In is ( due course the player received his not money and paid his fine. If one car- qU< ries a good account it is probable ger that his bank will honor his check out even is drawn in a freaky way, but as ' a general thing they are loath to en- abc courage that sort of procedure.?New in York Press. me -~~-^ UNEASY HEADS. so Seven Ruler? of Mexico Have Suffered lieath Since 1810. on( lab With the killing of Madero and fro Suarez, the deposed heads of the rar Mexican republic, in Mexico City, the ^ec death of those who have paid the faE fatal price for ruling in Mexico is ^ai increased to seven names. Just a taE V.on o nanfnrxr ocn r 11IL1C UlUi C Hi Cl 11 CI vvuvui; Michael Hidalgor y Costilla, the par- geI ish priest of Dolores, arose as the fer "liberator" of Mexico and clutched control from the feeble hands of the fan Spanish viceroy. kill An obscure country priest, Hidal- ajj go conspired with his own parish in }n the state of Guanajuato, in 1810, and Qai in the fall of that year, when he rang the bell of his church to call ^el the people to war, an army of 5,000 att rallied to his standard. He pressed tra on toward Mexico City with his con- ma stantly increasing numbers until he pas had a following of 100,000 patriotic, a s but undisciplined men. ] A force of only 6,000 veteran sol- 'Kaj aiers of Spain .delivered a crushing sor defeat in January, 1811, and drove n0| Hidalgo to the mountains, where he f0r waged guerilla warfare until he was res caught and shot in July, 1811. }nc " The list of rulers of Mexico which rig Tioi-o "listpnpd Inst tn the rifle's speech" thus opened is as follows: Michael y Costilla, "liberator," ]ia; 1811. eni Jose Maria Mo/eois y Pavon, presi- giv dent, 1815. at Francisco Xavier Mina, president, SOr 1817. wr Augustine de Iturbide, emperor, bol 1824. of Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, the emperor, 1867. the Francisco I. Madero, president, 1913. ro] Jose Pino Suarez, vice president, bn 1913. Ot 18 Penitentiary for Women. ^ The Illinois Women's Democratic off league began a movement on Sunday l'or the establishment in Illinois of a pa separate penitentiary for women, em The institution as proposed wouid be sel entirely governed by women and Th would be separated entirely from the is other State prisons. A part of the plan is to have women employed as kit guards, attendants and in all other pr< positions. ins A bill has already been passed by wa the legislature for an appropriation ba for the establishment of a new State penitentiary, and Gov. Dunne has Ha promised members of the league that su the matter will be held in abeyance ne until he is informed of the nature of na the project for which the women are working. kit TKUXG TO TELEGRAPH POLE. orgia Mob Wreaks Vengeance on Policeman's Slayer. Cornelia, Ga., Feb. 2 8.?The unintified negro tramps, charged with ling Policeman John Gibby, of Corlia, were taken from a posse and iched near here early to-night by mob of masked men. Both the ?roes were strung up to a telegraph le in the presence of several hun?d persons from Cornelia and irksville, Ga. The negroes came into Cornelia s morning on a freight train and re arrested by the policeman. As Dby was handcuffing one of them 9 other took the officer's pistol d shot Gibby twice. Death was itantaneous. Both the negroes es)ed at the time. Posses immediately were organd and with the assistance of odhounds the fugitives were capped late to-day. While they were ng taken to the Clarksville jail a >b of masked men overpowered the sse and lynched the negroes. KINGS' EVILS. eer Diseases Which Attack People of Royal Blood. The royal family of Russia have ely returned thanks for the recovr of the tsarevitch from a serious less. There has been a deal of uniessary mystery about this illness, t the fact has now been made pubthat the boy is "hoemophilic," or clan? a "hlppd UUiil IliVJll JLLl^VtiV-w.1 mu.iDI ~ ? So was the late Duke of Albany, of om it was said that he had only :> skins instead of three. That was nonsense. He and other hoemoiles had or have just as many ns as other people. The trouble is ,h the blood itself. [f you or I cut a finger the wound eds for a time, then a clot is med, and the flow stops of itself, the case of the young heir to the ssian throne and others afflicted h this curious complaint, the blood Df a different consistency, and has ; that quality of clotting. Conseintly, even the smallest cut is dan ous, for it may drain all the blood ; of the body. There is one very strange point ?ut this malady. It is handed down the female line, yet only occurs in n. The second son of the king of tin is said to be affected by it, and are several other lesser royalties. Blue blood has its penalties. Every ? will remember the case of the e Duke of Portland, who suffered m a strange skin disease of a very e nature, and,who for this reason - "* - DrtTTftl :ame an aDsoiuie reuiutre. xw;ai ailies intermarry so largely that dly any of them are free from cerq complaints. The tsar himself, although his leral health is good, used to suffrom a mild form of epileptic , and there is consumption in the lily. It was consumption that led the tsar's brother who, during the latter years of his life, lived the comparatively warm climate of .1 casus. The king of Spain, who was a most icate baby, grew up strong and iletic owing to careful physical ining. But he has a troublesome .lady of the bronchial and nasal .sages which forces him to undergo light operation about once a year. Many people imagine that the ser's withered left hand is due to ne.congenital-disease, but this is : the case. It was due to an untunate accident at his birth. The ult is that the arm is some four hes shorter than the other. His ht hand, however, is prodigiously verful. Fhe only trace of trouble about the iser, dating from birth, is a thickng of the drum of one ear, which es him a certain amount of pain times. There was great anxiety ne years ago when his throat went ong, for it was remembered that :h his father and his mother died that terrible disease, cancer. In j case of the Emperor Frederick, i disease attacked the throat. There is lunacy in more than one ral family. In 1911 Bavaria celeited the silver jubilee of her king, to I. Otto ascended the throne in 86, and even then had been hopesly insane for 14 years. He went his head at the age of 29. His brother, Ludwig II, friend and tron of Wagner, was also mad, and ded his own life by drowning him< ' ?n tlm lcl-o in frnnt nf thp nfllnpp L til Wlic: iunv iu iivaav e disease from whicn Otto suffers technically known as "paransia." Poor Carlotta, sister of the late lg of the Belgians, and once em?ss of Mexico, is also hopelessly ;ane, but in her case the madness s caused by the shock of her liusnd's death. Several members of the house of ipsburg, which rules Austria, are bject to fits of passion which are ar akin to insanity. The unfortute Rudolf, who killed himself in jyerling, was subject to fits of this ad.?Pearson's Weekly. THOUGHT GUX UNLOADED. Lewis Martin Was (Meaning; a Gun When It Discharged. Ware Shoals, .March 1.?Lewis Martin, the 9-year-old son of T. L. Martin, was accidentally shot and in- i stantly killed while cleaning a gun with his cousin, Willie Martin, the 13-vear-old son of J. E. Martin, at the home of the latter in Laurens county this afternoon about 3 o'clock. The children were cleaning a gun which they thought was unloaded, J A1 ? ?? o Ani^An + nll'ir ana Llifc? gun wa.D av/V/xu^u \*clx i j uiocharged, the load of shot entering the younger boy's neck, killing him instantly. FORTUNE IN WASTE PAPER. A Fifty Thousand Dollar Find of Old Stamps in Philadelpliia. The philatelic world, dealers and collectors alike, has not yet got over the excitement caused by the wonderful find of a lot of St. Louis postmaster stamps among a lot of old correspondence sold to Edward D. Hemingway as waste paper by a Philadelphia business house. Previous to the first government issue of stamps in 184 7 enterprising postmasters of various cities and towns were permitted to print and sell stamps of their own. The use of one of these stamps by the writer of a letter insured the delivery of it to the address by an employee of the postmaster of the place to which the missive was sent. To collectors these are known as postmaster stamps. Some are envelope stamps, others adhesive. There are great rarities among them, such " - v^-nr Uovon the ATillhnrv. a& LUC iiU T OAi , ^ W7 Mass, and the St. Louis. The last named is known as the bear stamps, because the design consists of two bears standing. The St. Louis denominations are 5, 10 and 20 cents. A few years ago a large number of the fives and tens were found in St. Louis and the value of these two denominations was thereby greatly reduced, as the price of a stamp depends on its rarity. The 20-cent denomination, however, continued to be extremely rare, and a good specimen was valued at $1,500. To-day it is not worth more than from $200 to $300, and the find in Philadelphia is responsible for this slump in the market value. The story, as told by Jno. A. Klemann, a stamp dealer, of this city, is interesting. Some time ago he heard rumors that a number of St. Louis postmaster stamps had turned up unexpectedly in Philadelphia, and he at once went there to investigate. He learned that the aggregate value of the find was about $50,000. The letters, he was informed, were all addressed to an old Philadelphia firm, Chanlev'& Whelen. He could not ^ * ? -L _ J ? i. ^ find this firm's name in an uy-iuuait; directory of that city, so he got hold of a directory of 1845 and there came across what he sought. In a directory of ten years later he found that Chanley had retired from business, but that Whelan was still conducting it. Further investigation showed that the house is now known as Townsend & Whelan. Such a lot of waste paper had accumulated that this firm called in Hemingway and sold him a great lot of it at junk rates. Hemingway, in working it over, discovered that many of the letters had strange stamps upon them. He took a few specimens to a stamp dealer, who bought several which had on them the government stamp of 1847. One, which bore* a St. Louis postmaster stamp, he said he would keep or appraise, not being certain of its genuineness. Later on Hemingway met a friend, Sartori, who is a stamp collector, and told him what he had' done. Sartori advised him to hurry back to the stamp dealer and reclaim the St. Louis specimen. This was done. Since then the mass of waste paper has been more thoroughly gone over, and, besides many of the old stamps, J there have been found six of the St. Louis 5-cent issue, 68 of the St. Louis 10-cent and 20 of the 20-cent issue. When the stamp dealers, who had been holding on to their 20-cent St. Louis specimens in order to get top prices for them, heard this discomforting news they were more or less panic stricken and threw their specimens on the market so as to - ^ w * ? >-> V? o r? nnoooihlo f r* r* fViom (JULctlli <tS ill U ^ 11 do l/uijaoiuiv AVI wviu before the news of the discovery became public property and collectors were made wary. The price of the St. Louis stamps has been further affected by the recent find of a dealer in medical appliances in that city by the name of Schleiffert, one of whose aged customers presented him with a lot of these stamps, which were on old letters addressed to him. In consequence of the Schleiffert and Hemingway finds the market price of the 10cent St. Louis has dropped from $200 to about $40. If these discoveries keep on occurring the St. Louis may ere long be selling at the same rate as the more common postmaster issues of other cities.?N. Y. Sun. jpii toi ipnoi IKLAU D"THE STORE( We have just finished moving our it ing next to the postoffice, where we will nmade on our old building. It is our inte all stock before going back to our old st in 1 1 .i1 Tl 111 ? II ? --NEW DRESS GOODS. New Poplins (others charge 25c) our price 15c yd. nNew Striped Voilles, 25c values. Only 1 varu. c # Ramie Linens (a regular 25c value) 15c yard. ?/ Plain 25c Voilles. Special 15c yd. READY TO WEAR DEPARTMENT. One lot New Middys 50c each. Others at 75c, $1.00 and $1.50. | Beautiful Gowns at 50c, 69c, and $1.00 11 One lot Princess Slips 75c each Si One lot House and Street Dresses at U$2.00, $2.50, $3.50 and $5.00 each. Beautiful Yoille Waists at $1.00 each. I ??? II Remember this stock must be closed KLAU ^^The Store of Quality' KILLS WOMAN, THEN HIMSELF. Double Tragedy Takes Place on jjjjj^ Streets or itoanoKe. Roanoke, Va., Feb. 27.?A double || tragedy occurred here this after-1 is| fit noon when David E. Linkenhorker ? jL shot and killed Mrs. Warren L. Paint- ? er, and then turned the revolver on ? yj.i himself and ended his own life, both ' bodies falling side by side on the ^ There were no eyewitnesses to the ^ tragedy, and the cause which 9 prompted the action of Linkenhoker ^ is not known. ,It is alleged, how- || ever, that the husband of the dead || woman recently warned the dead ? man against his alleged intentions nS ? 1 to Mrs. Painter. || LdDQ Linkenhoker was formerly em- |s ^ ployed on the Norfolk and Western 9 Tjnj Railroad as an engineer, but was re- 9 lap cently discharged. The dead man 9 was 45 years old and leaves a widow || JL2Land five children, while Mrs. Painter ^ raised is survived by her husband and || acre seven children. Mrs. Painter was . bushe the wife of an engineer employed on ^ It i the Norfolk and Western Railroad. || from - * -1 J ! SI cnrf?a< sne was <iU years uiu. ^ wr ?1 three Still There. || reg. Robert had just received a whip- || _ w"*6 V< ping from his mother, who afterward 3 I LJ | angrily burst in upon his father as ot 1 H ' he was quietly reading the evening |g paper. - || 3*? n "I don't know where that child got || co his vile temper from," she exclaimed, S3 l?w throwing down a book; "not from || snow, me, I'm sure." 9 ste^ Her husband looked sadly and re- 3 f uS sponded: | "No, my dear; you certainly 9 haven't lost any of yours."?Harp- 3 er's Bazar. f 1 1% Dominick Assistant Attorney General 9 OH tb 9 wheel Columbia, Feb. 26.?Attorney 3 lugs, General Peeples to-day announced ?g rear 5 that he had appointed Fred H. Dom- 3 Carrie inick, of Newberry, as assistant at- 88 Oil la torney general to succeed M. P. De- tive, 1 bruhl, the appointment to take ef- 9 I H C i ! 3 marVii feet April first. .Mr. uununiuv ima i x? announced that he will accept the ap- ] || logue: pointment. He was a law partner of j 1 hternat' Cole Blease before the latter became |? governor and has since practiced law Q in Newberry. He is a member of the State Democratic Committee and is known throughout the State. Mr. = Debruhl will practice law after the We received first of April in the firm of Debruhl, fk|no. nppf]pf McLaurin & Smith, of this city, he ^ ? . being the new member of the firm. i^OIlie 111 3.I1C I ?O0E=30C=aE| BER'Sl 3F QUALITY" n nmense stock into the Hoffman Build- a be located until the alterations are J mtion to close out as nearly as possible 1 and. Read our prices carefully and 1 a saving to you. ______ > Ten dozen Lawn Waists, embroidered I onrl 1cjpp tvimmprl ft-nppial vfllnps 5Qc I I CCJ.1V.I ItlVV fXXAAJLXAJLVVA.* rvyj^/VV*V%* ? V\ * v? vy ^ ' 4 MEN'S WEAR. II Ten dozen New Soft Collar Shirts. Values up to 75c. Special 50c each 35c value Silk Sox 25c pair Wilson Bros Town Talk Shirts ....$1.00 i Men's Fine Shirts $1.50 to $3.50 each 100 Men's Suits that must be sold. You can save money if you need a suit. TI7? Viottq incf totflu flio Qffflnmr fnr Tlio TY C 11CIVC J U.O U UUXlbU uuv wgvuvj xvx *xxv m Scotch Woolen Mills?$15.00 Tailored 1 Suits. See this line and save $5.00 to $10.00 on your next suit. We are also agents for the Royal Tail- , ors, the best line in America. I > out. We will do our best to sell you. BER'S 3aoi^=aor-?ncJ] Value Almost Doubled I - , HEN a Lee county, Illinois, farmer j| kA/l Kmicrfit a run down 4.00-acre farm. ?5 's$ his neighbors thought he had made a || tDj bad bargain. After three years* soil ? treatment by scientific methods, he l| i more than eighty bushels of corn to the on land that produced less than thirty || Is the first year he farmed it. || s no longer unusual for us to get reports || farmers who have been using manure p ders consistently for periods ranging from ;v< to five years, to the effect that their land p ularly raising so much more produce that ^ ilue of the land is almost doubled. C Manure Spreaders | iade^ in various styles and sizes to meet 'V ; nditions. The low machines are not too ^ 3 be hauled, loaded, through deep mud or || *V I H C spreaders are made with trussed || frames in wide, medium and narrow j| ; all of guaranteed capacity. There are H return and endless aprons. In short, || is an I H C spreader Dunt to meet your ?s tions and made to spread manure, straw, g or ashes as required. ?| [ C spreaders will spread manure evenly j| ie level, going up hill, or down. The I i rims are wide and equipped with Z-shaped which provide ample tractive power. The J ixle is located well under the body and s most of the load. The apron moves rge rollers. The beater drive is posi- j| but the chain wears only one side. The P / dealer will show you the most effective jfe ine for your work. You can get cata- P 5 from him, or, if you prefer, write f| ional Harvester Company of America | (Incorporated) P dumbia SL C. 1 V\WYW\\\\W\\>\wwww?ww**\ww???"""* ! this week a full line of most every1 in an office or in the school room. I look it over. Herald Book Store. / ; i| ^