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' 'Old Da Columbia, Nov. 17.?Dan Murphy, aged prisoner of the penitentiary, who created considerable surprise early this year when he announced that he would not accept a pardon if Gov-| ernor Cooper should see fit to grant ( executive clemency to him, but whol ? * T ~ * r\ rrro nt 1 later asked Governor narvej iu fei him a pardon because life at the prison had become "too rough," died yesterday morning in his cell shortly after 3 o'clock from heart trouble. "Old Dan," as he was known at the prison ,was perhaps the oldest man in the penitentiary from t)he point of service, having been placed there in 1895. With his passing the . prison lost a unique figure. His death was sudden, coming before medical attention could be summoned. He was over 65 years of age. Early in the morning he 'had been let out of his cell to get a drink of water and again a 3 o'clock he was let out. He complained to his cellmate, James Faulkner, of a "terrible < burning in his heart," but Faulkner did not suspect anything serious. A few moments later Faulkner told Dan his feet were cold and Dan replied i that "he felt peculiar," a feeling that he had never experienced before. With a sigh Dan turned over and said, "God bless you, my boy," and passed to the other world. Dr. R. T. Jennings, penitentiary physician, examined the body and pronounced death due to apoplexy. Coroner Scott was notified, but after i a consultaion decided bhat an inquest was not necessary. Dan had served nearly a quarter of a century in the penitentiary and until the riot there some months agOj had been happy. He ran a little store\ in the prison yard and had accumula-| ted a good deal of money from ;his -! sales of soft drinks, tobacco and; other articles. After the riot at the! prison some of the "hard boiled" j prisoners thought Dan had taken the! side of the authorities, and. according; to his story, were "after him." He ex-| pressed a desire to leave because the j men were getting "too rough" for j him. Colonel Was His Friend. Col. A. K. Sanders, superintendent of the penitentiary, has always be-j friended Dan and the aged prisoner j almost worshiped tihe colonel. He often said he would never leave as long as Colonel Sanders remained superintendent and when the pardon board recommended that the governor grant him full executive clemency he announced that toe would not leave. Governor Cooper never offered the pardon, but the pardon board favored clemency for Dan. It was only last year that Dan was brought up the street to a moving) picture show, the first toe had ever seen. Colonel Sanders brought the old man up town and gave him the treat of his life by riding him around the streets, carrying .him to a show and riding him on an elevator. It was Dan's first "joy trip," the first time he had ever ridden in an automobile and an elevator and he was delighted at the sights on Main street, It was like a new world to Dan. When Dan was thinking of the pos ^oibility of a pardon being offered him he said he was "away behind the times." having been behind the grim walls for many years. He did not think -he could get out in the world again and keep progress with business. He was content to remain with his friend, Colonel Sanders. Dan was convicted of killing Robert Copes, treasurer of Orangeburg county. The evidence against him was exceptionally strong, but there were no eyewitnesses. Dan always said he was innocent. Last year he expressed deep regret that he had not taken the stand during he trial and told his story, but it was too late. Evidence Against Dan. Treasurer Copes was making the rounds of the county collecting taxes when he was slain. Evidence at the trial showed that tJhe gun used belonged to Dan and it was also brought out that the tracks around the scene of the killing were made by shoes worn by Dan, certain tacks in the heel pointing conclusively to this. The killing occurred on May 6, 1895. Dan was convicted of murder and " 1 ^ q senieiicea IU ue uaugcu ^? 1897. Governor Ellerbe granted him a respite until March 26, 1897, and on March 25 commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On March 26, 1897, Dan entered the penitentiary to begin his life sentence. On September 20, 1900, Dan escaped and went to the Philippine islands, where he joined the cavalry. He returned to the United States and, -vtfhile working in Georgia, became involved with his landlord. He was sentenced to a term on the Georgia chaingang and while at work on the ?ang was discovered by the auditor of Orangeburg county, a close friend of the slain treasurer. He was hrougiht back to the penitenlary on n" Dead | December IS, 1905, and there re| mained until he died yesterday morn; ing. Dan has a son in Georgia, and prisi on authorities notified him yesterday morning of his father's death. Dan's wife also lives in Georgia and tihe body will likely be taken there to be ! laid to rest, the son notifying the authorities that be would come for it. Dan had accumulated considerable money, but he left no will so far as Colonel Sanders knew yesterday. TYPO ERRORS. Many Grotesque a^d Ludicrous Often Found in Newspapers. Fred G. Xeuman in Paducah, Kentucky, Evening Sun. Grotesque and laugh provoking? what is funnier than typographical errors in a newspaper? Some of the finest jokes extant come through the fact that the printer's finger slips. Usually, these mistakes or "breaks" are funny a long, long time afterward ?never at the time. For instance, several years ago a newspaper was threatened with suit because an article was printed about a prima donna being engaged as a screen star to act in the movies. A typographical error made the heading read, "Scream Star Was Once Singer." To be 9ure, there was considerable excitement in the editor's sanctum before the vocalist ' could be pacified. And yet, no one detests the sight of an error more than the editor himself. If some one could invent or suggest a way for forever doing away with mistakes? could make infallible the columns of a newspaper the public itself would probably feel constrained to give that ^ individual a loving cup and every ^ community would feel like naming streets in his honor. . Suppose your name is Haskle. Would you not feel a bit peeved , should you find in a local paper that an "R" had inadvertently placed it- , self where an "H" ought to be? You . would certainly not be able to ex- ' tract as much amusement from such an incident as your neighbors, but your position would be no more embarrassing than that of an . American who had been for ' a tour around the world and found himself much annoyed with a reporter who had written "His numerous friends are surprised that 1 he is unhanged!" He sped to the J newspaper office and in his fury could have grabbed the ulotrichous editor by his woolly hair, but learned that 1 the offender was the compositor, who, in setting up the report had ommited the letter "c" thus substituting the word "unhanged" for "unchanged," which the reporter had written. Only recently a somewhat elaborated per- : sonal telling of a young lady's visit and departure said "she made many fiends while here." the fact that an "r" failed in the personal noun, gives the sentence an entirely different meaning than the intended. A Buffalo paper, in describing the scene when Roosevelt took the oath : of office as president, said it was a 1 spectacle never to be forgotten when * Roosevelt before the chief justice of the supreme court and a few witness, took his simple bath?meaning oath, of course. But perhaps the most unfortunate error appearing recently protruded itself from the columns of a Bridgeport, Connecticut, newspaper last August, in the description of a wedding. It read "The bride carried an arm bouquet of punk roses." "Pink" wras the word intended, but it seems the god9 are powerless in the hands of the printer. Else, how can one account for a dis- 1 play line in an advertisement reading, "We shot the entire family," when "shoe" is more profitable and healthful? Less tragic, but nearly as embarrassing was the experience of a reporter who had been assigned to "cover" the outdoor end of a fashionable church wedding. He described the throng of uninvited guests that had clustered about the awning in hope of gaining a glimpse of the brid- : al pair as they emerged from the church to enter a waiting automobile, : and he recorded the result in the fol- : lowing words: "The comely bride was 1 quickly swept from sight by the eager < groom." But the pitiless type set it ' forth thus: "The homely bride was ' quickly swept from 9ight by the eag- 1 er groom." One's sympathy for the ' reporter is lessened, however, by the < fact that he applied to a liewly-mar- ' ried man a term that should be con- 1 fined to a maid. ] Only those who have gone through ' an operation which is fresh in the 1 memory can appreciate the gravity? 1 and humor?of a "break" in an Oklahoma daily. "Mr. Blank, who was operated on for appendicitis," read an item in the western paper, "is rapidly recovering. His many friends hope 1 to see him cut again soon." The same 1 paper shortly afterward intended to i state that the windows on a certain 1 street in the town needed washing : and the "n" was omitted in the "windows;" but the widows did not have nearly as much of a grievance against the printers as the clergyman in the eastern part of Kentucky who preached on the subject, "The Cup in ; Joseph's Sack." The town weekly's 1 linotype operator made the reverend gentleman talk about "The Cup in \ Joseph's Sock." If the widows and this clergyman have cause for protest j so has the Louisville pastor who took i his text "The Broken Net." Imagine ( his chagrin upon seeing the an : _ ? J.il.. ?1?i- u ~ 1 uuuucemeui in a. ua.ii,> mat lie ^vuuiu preach about "The Broken Neck!" Indeed, it became necessary on one occasion for a minister to make ex- . planation of an error appearing on tickets for an entertainment, with which he was charged with having < printed. "I wish it to be thoroughly understood," said the preacher to his congregation on Sunday, "that the pulpit is not responsible for the printer's error which occurs on t'he tickets for the Sunday school children's entertainment. The affair is for the entertainment of the arch fund?not t'he arch fiend!" More than one Paducahan remembers the write-up of a social event which occurred at Wallace Park several years ago. It was proven in this / ?Qock tViat fha orrnr woe t-Vi a fault tliu U LliV V_/1 A V* UU (>UV 4 V* IA * V v an excited reporter. Of course, the operator followed copy. In detail the reporter told of the evening's pleasure, but marred the whole society lead when -he wrote that "a suspicious gathering was present." Every one knew "auspicious" was the word intended, and laughed at the "break" knowing that even the good Homer sometimes nods. ^ The story is told of the mixing up j of two news items in a Washington . paper many years ago. The announce- ! ment that a minister was to be presented with a token of appreciation ( by his congregation was printed. A ; write-up of a newly patented pig-kill- ] ing machine which had been demon- i strated appeared in the same issue, rhis was the rather amusing result 1 of the two stories being "pied up," as ; the printers say: "Several of the Rev. D. K. Mudge's friends called upon him yesterday and after a conversation the unsuspecting pig was seized by the legs and slid along the beam j until he reached the hot-water tank." rt took considerable explaining to set the editor right that day, though he 1 was innocent of the mixup. 3 John Locke, the Irish poet, was j mown as "The Southern Gael." When 1 he died an obituary appeared in one " of the Irish-American journals and referred to him as "The Southern Gale." This was a breezy transposition, to be sure, and changing the < meaning considerably. The editor did 1 not get "in bad" because the two let- J ters were transposed, though a pro- j minent pelitician did "howl" when he i saw intelligence of his resignation < from public office printed under the 1 heading of "Public Improvements." r But the most startling ridiculous f transposition on record is probably ? that appearing on the first page of a J Chicago daily, for "breaks" are cer- j tain to be displayed in the most con- t spicuous places. rirst tnere was j an article with this caption, the dash , c separating the first line of a three- \ line heading: "The Condor of the < Andes?Albert Seaton Berry, of Kentucky Bears That Distinction." In another column, on the same page of the paper in question, was this announcement: "Tallest Man in Congress?Soars Far Above the Eagle and Reaches a Height of Six Miles." The insertion, omission or substitution of a single letter in a printed word, or transposition of letters and even whole lines of type as shown above, is then, the cause of much merriment and laughter?years afterward. "Our delicious canned meats from the best houses," was the way the advertiser wrote the line. "From the best horses" was the way it appeared in the paper, and complaint was justified in becoming" infuriated. "Thousands of our patrons are wearing trousers of our make," and the tailors w*ho so advertised had reason to be angry when the printer made the fourth word of their announcement read "matrons." An English 1 railway company advertised request- ! ing owners of unclaimed goods to re- j move same. "Come forward and pay ^ the awful charges on your merchandise." were the final words of the ad- ] vertisement. One "1" was missing in 1 'lawful" and thus the announcement i became a typographical curiosity. A i writer, in commending the ability of ^ a lady principal of o girls' school, T U9ed this expression: "The reputation ^ for which she bears." But that horrid [inotype operator omitted the word 'Which" and the error created mere ( than a gig?le. A theatrical mm not long since contemplated writing an irticle on "Greenwood Cemetery's Dramatic Shrines." A Brooklyn paper \ announced his intention, and left the * 'r" out of "shrines." Few people j know that Ada Rehan's real name r was Crehan. Early in her career her J same appeared oh a program without b v :ke "C ?a typographical error? and she was known ever after as Kebau. To Stop a Cough Quick take HAYES* HEALING HONEY, a cough medicine which stops the cough by healing the inflamed and irritated tissues. A box of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATE SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and Croup is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The salve should be rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Croup. 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