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VOL LII ~ WIXNSBORO, S. G, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 20, 189T. NO. 11. jB READS LIKE A ROMANCE. THE RESCUE OF A G'RL FROM A SPANISH f RISCN Io Havana by ? R?pr?a?nt tive ofth? York Journal. AJd^d by Two Otl?r Men?An Interesting Story. Charles Daval, *he Cuban corr?s i. * iL? XT XT' V T^??r*o7 puxjufjjfc jwr mo xciA describes in a special letter from Ha vana the escape of Miss ETanerelina Cisneros, the Cuban girl, "who was W /reed from a Spanish dungeon Sy the Journal breakic^ the bars of Ricojidas prison. B ? '"I came here three weeks a?o, hav S Wf heen told bv the editor of the Journal to s?o to Cuba and rescue from her prison Miss Cisneros, the niece of the former president of the Cuban republic, a tenderJy reared girl, descended from one of the best families in the island, and herself a martyr to the unsa'isfied desire of a beast in Spanish uniform. "I arrived at Utmiuegos late m oep tembsr, telegraphed to a known and tried man in Santiago de Cuba to meet me in Havana, and then went to Santa Clara, where I picked up a second man, known to be as gritty as Sahara, and then proceeded to Havana. Here I remained in almost absolute conceal ment, so as to avoid the spies that dog one's ateps wherever ooe rosy go and make impossiole and clever work of this kind. Both men who accompaw?/* TncanVi TtannOTI^nn OT>r? TTaT juxcu uic, v ww jjkuluwuwv*' tison Mallory, pursued the ssme course, and remained quiet until all plans had been completed. "The fact that Miss Cisseros was incommunicado made the attempt seem at first beyond the possibilitv of success, but we finally, through Her nandon, who was bora on the island and speaks Spanish like a native, sucI ceedea in sending a note to her through an old negress, who called upon one of her friends in the prison. ' A centen got this note through two hands to Miss Cisneros, and three I centens later got to her a package of drugged sweets. Having established communication with her. we began work without losing a day. to Irtnafoil in Xiio vaoa ug IKWJ W awm?VV? ^ the lowest quarters of Havana, and t is surrounded by a huddle of squalid huts occupied by negroes and Chinamen and reeking to heaven by day and by night. A single alley, perhaps twenty feet in length, zigzags around two sides of the building, opening off in front of the main entrance. '"Compostella st eet runs along the rear of the building north and south, and from this leads off westwardly to Sigua street, by which dignified name is known the alley running along the P south side of Eecojidas. Turning: at I right angles to the north, the alley * tipsily forgets its name and loses record on the map of Havana. At the north end of the building and just in front of the big door of the prison the filthy lane right angles again,becomes O'Farrill street and. strikes straight forward, as though anxious to l?ave the j iil as soon as possible. It ends at L Egiuo street, opposite the Havana ar r scxiox. ^ . "A dozen times in half as many hours' I passed through this crooked alley trying to find the solution of a problem that would not be solved. VBeccj das was apparently inaccessible; its huge, thick walls towered far in H- the air. topped by a high, thick para: p* pefr.?Tlw ??ti.7-WmC10W0 K> OB 00?D> Irom tne alley were aoout miriy-nve V feet from the ground, and were pro9 fccied as are all windows in Cuba by f massive.iron bars. "Although not known to any of us at that time, as it was invisible from the street, there was a window opening: from the second sxory on a zotea, or flat roof, over lower rooms in the front of the building. Through this window the escape of Miss Cisneros ^ was finally effected, but it was not f until a week after our survey that any . suggestion looking to the use of this window was made. "For the first week we scanned and rescanned the outer walls, suggesting a dcz in plans, all equally worthless. ^ A daylight attempt was considered, and plans were inade to ge? Miss Cisneros to the haired door opening into a small court just off the main en trance. "Don Jose, the aicade. was then to be lured outside the door, lured furthf er, into a state of temporary unconsciousness, and our end accomplished by a wild dash for liberty. This scheme would probably have worked but for the fact that Miss Cisneros was incommunicado, and was not permitted to receive visitors, or even to come into the sala de j usticia on the inner side of the door. 4'The fact that the Havana arsensJ. always under a strong guara, stretched its long front across the end of * O'Farrili street 011 the other side of Egido street, and tbat the barracks of a company of the Orden Publicos was located just back of the Recojidas on Composiela street, made this plan decidedly uncertain as to results. It was abandoned. "As it appeared at this time absolutely impossible to either get into the jail ourselves or to get Miss Cisneros out, it was considered to have become a case of 'untar lossmanas,' and a a l U.XU y rv<va mauo IU ic<?VA? some of the guards or keepers with bribes, but nothing was effected. Fin ally, "when it appeared as if the only possible way to secure the escape of the beautiful Cuban would be to dyb namite a part of the building, a note was smuggled in to her as a last re sort, asking ii she could make any HHP&- suggestion tr'. could help us. mpf* 4'In answer sne sent the following message, in Spanish of course: " 'My plan is the following: To escape by the roof with the aid of a rope, descending by the front of the house at a given hour and signal. For this T rpnnirfl snirf in desirov the bars of the windows and opium or morphine so as to set to sleep my companions. The best way to use it is in sweets, and thus I can also set to sleep the vigilants. Three of you can come and stand at the corners," a lighted cigar will be the signal of alarm ior which I may have to delay, and a white handkerchief will be the agreed signal by which I can safely descend. I will only bring with me the necessary clothes tied around my waist. This is my plan; let me know if it is convenient.' "Accompanying this was a plan drawn by herself showing the exact location of the window referred to. It was at the end of a second story apart ment running along Sigua sir est on the side of the prison, but not extending clear to its front The azotea, or flat roof, on which it opens was about twenty feet wide, and a high parapet along the front of the building hid this window from sight in the street. "No time was lost in acting on her suggestion. The idea of eatip.g through an iron bar with an acid was dismiss ed, and the question then naturally presented itself as to how the bars of the window could be cut so as co per :il...?An1inTn1 + V> >./-vn rrVi T VlO V>ciopV> + LLiiL lid LU tiatu buivugui, of the building also precluded the idea of letting her attempt to come down by herself. Her plan was to use the rope on the flag staff. ' Consequently it became absolutely necessary for us to gain access to the azotea if we were to succeed. To do this, it became immediately apparent, would necessitate the use of a house in the crookd little cTIey running around the jail. By the rarest good fortune I found on my next visit to the vicinity a vacant house immediately 3 fining the j lil on the north side of O'Farrill street. "By this time No. 1 O'Farrillstreet is better known and more famous in Havana than the palace itself. By the end of ?h9 next day the house was in our possession. As Li Luncna naively remarks today: ' The lessees could find no one to become responsible for them, SO pstc two mourns xu su vaiu e. "Oar gold pieces made thisO'Far rill palace ours for the space of two months, should we care to occupy it that long. Next day the deal was closed. A colored Haberoero was sent to the house to whitewash, and, be sides the lime and brush, he carried a ligat ladder about twelve feet Icn?. The possession of this ladder was aii that brought him on the scene When he went away in the evening he forgot it it fAmainpri in thA hmsp. "Last Tuesday night we went into the squalid little den at No. 1, fully prepared, sis we believed, for all possible contingencies. "Having the key, I went first and reached and entered the house without being noticed. Hernandon and Mallory followed about an hour later, but were so unfortunate as to find the door of No. 3, the pdjoining house, standing open, with two of the occuooninor i/lltr a - + Via mfV?n wait Z-L tfkJ AV*XJ ?? VUV ' ?- ing for the arrival of the last of their household. As oar two men passed them and disappeared into the house they became very much alarmed, seeming to imagine the visit of the strange men to the house next door foreboded some pending calamity to themselves. "Although it was now 12:30, the occupants of No. 3 remained awake, busying themselves at fi^t with barricidinp'themselv?s in. Finallv. how ever, the tardy member of that household arrived and wif.hmuch noise and clamor they barred themselves in and went to bed. "It was fully 1:30 o'clock before the noises of the neighborhood quited down and the evil place fell into a semblance of repose. At the time the moon was high in the heavens and as brightas the mid day sun. Do*n toward the corner of the front of the Recojidas a large gaslighted bracket against the side of Dne of the houses made visible the smallest object in the dirty thoroughfare. 'Notwithstanding these disadvant ages, however, we mounted the roof and proceeded to business. The front of Rscojidas lay at right angles to our house, but the prison building ran back of our building so that the walls were together. At this point, how evflr, the ground wailot tnetf-rcojmas rose about twenty feet above oar -Beacs ami-was protected o?-tbe- top by a thick sprinkling of broken glass bottles. "This guard wall extended out from the front of our wall to a point ten or twelve feet distant, where it j minted the szotea. To reach this latter point, therefore, it was accessary to throw the ladder diagonally across the right angle separating our roof from the azotea. This was the most ticklish part of the business, as the ladder was frail and thrillingly short. ''Finally the ladder was in position and the trip across began. No man engaged in that enterprise that night will ever forget thit twelve foot walk across that saggir g, decrepit ladder. At one time it swayed from the wall. Heroandon was only saved from a terrible fall by the promptness with which the two men at the ends of the ladder acted. 4'As it was a lar?e niece of the weak cornice on which the ladder was resting went clattering down into the street, waking the alcalde, who came hastily to the door. By this time the ladder had been withdrawn. Two men were left on the szotea of the jail, while the third was left on the roof of the house to handle our drawbridge and guard our retreat. "A great gap opened in the face of the massive building as old Don Jose looked out in to the quiet street. He stood there for a few minutes with an absolutely unnecessary candle in his hand, staring out at the moon and ap parently greatly pleased with the beautiful ssoect of the soft Cuban night Then, apparently convinced that all was safe, he turned and passed back into Recojidas, and thus passed unharmed through the most dangerous moment of his life, for every second that he remained in the street was a second fraught with ceath. "Thr?e 44 calibre revolvers covered him and his discovery of our position on the roof would have called for his immediate execution. Time was then allowed for the natural q diet to drift back upon the scene, and when finally everything had become normal the work of getting the Journal's protege out of her loathsoma dungeon was be gun. "We crept softly across the roof to the window she had indicated. As we reached it we saw her standing before it. She was dressed in a dark colored aress ana nut easily seen in iuc giwu inside. She gave one glad little cry and clasped her hands through the bars, calling upon us to liberate her at once. She had been standing there for over two hoursand a half, and she knew that aid was coming, but her patience never deserted her, ss she could see us on the roof of No. L "Bidding her to be quiet we started ??L VVUfii biiiuu^a luv xi vu vmi between her and liberty. We selected the third bar on the left side of the window, and began cutting it nea: the bottom- Our progress was slow and wearisome, and finally after aa hour's work, we found that we had only cut part of the way through. Il was impossible to use the saw quicklj as the bars were not set firmly in the frame, and rattled and rang like a fire alarm every time the saw passed across UJLU Ik KSLL. 4'At last a stir in the room she had quitted warned Miss Cisneros that ii was bsst /or her to retire again; sc leaving us she slipped a sheet a bov* her and glided quickly back to hei bed at the far enci of the dormitory, Before going: she begrged us to return the followiagnight and complete our work. She was quickly assured we would be on hand again, and she was contented. "We were bitterly disappointed at our failurs. I had selected jLuesoftv night in vie;*- of the fact that the next day afforded an opportunity to catch the steamer to Key West, where we could seed a man with a full story of the night's cccurrance, as it was well known that do detailed account of the escstne could be cabled from Ha vana. We trusted to luck.however,to stand by us, honing only that our anxious neighbors in No. 3 would not give the alarm, and that the cut bar I M ?n-yin,'n nnH-'c-^nTTPrPrl We had ?Y VU1U lCiLloau w - 110 means of knowing the next day whether or nrst cur attempt of the night before had been discovered, but proceeded cn the assumption that it had not, and so determined to carry out our plans to the letter. "A lot of cheap, second hand furnij ture was purchased in one of the cut lying suburbs and was placed in our house, and that mgnt wnen we wem tbere there we were surrounded by our own household lares and penates. A. huge porron decorated the tinujero, flanked on either side by a bottle of ;pnevra and & big buadle of brsvas. Our sideboard was sat with plates and , other crockery, and a chest of drawers a folding table and a pair of canvas folding cots had been sent ia. "We dragged out the tables and set forth candles until it gleamed like a banquet board. Then we threw open the window so that tha neighbors j might look in upon the newcomers m tbe neighborhood and become acquain ted with them, and finally fell into a game of pcker around the table that came near destroying all our strocgly cemented friendship. ' Until 11 o'clock the game went on, A brace of guards, in their striking blue and red uniforms, lounged up to the windows to note whether we played for wind or centimes, and, finding the game a5 innocent as a day in May, I ~ " -J 1 U I wandered off witn meir sworus tiaunp^ut their heels. At 11 o'clock we shut the window and barred out the soft, 'bright moonlight that flooded the room with its silvery glory, and then turned in for a couple of hours' patient waiting. "It was not easy work, as the stone floor we lay upon was as hard as the heart of Weyler and twice as cold. The bundle of brevas went up in smoke as we lay there talking in whispers, and finally the time for ac tion arrived. The inmates of No. 3 were again awaked, and, far from fceine impressed by our household furniture, seemed to fear us even more than the night before. It was dread of th8 strangers in the alJay that kept them quiet and made Miss Cisneros' release possible. "They sat up talking this night during the entire time we were working on the roof, and were still sputtering Spanish when we left them. This time the fairies seemed to b8 working with us, and everything moved asj smoothly as clockwork. Tiie ladder was raised to the roof without a sound and as we pattered about in our stocking feet a speel of enchantment seemed to fall upon the city. Far off in the hazs of moonlight a jangling chime of bells seemed changed by some magic into sweetest music, and the ugly tiled roofs and q aeer bit3 of old Moorish architecture, jutting angularly here and there, seemed trans . f?jrcae_d b^ soaiamagiciajajs to^icb. into palaces. "Again the light, frail ladder was thrown across from the rcof of the azotea. The trying and perilous j 3urney was made as quickly as possible. The ladder was withdrawn and we were again in front of tiie window b3hind which Miss Cisneros was imprii soned. "Thi3 time there was no delay. Our nnt.fi t nonaistad of a Dair of Stilson wrenches, and putting one above and one b9low the cat made the night before, we wrenched the bar asunder ; with one snap. In a second I had caught the broken bar and had palled it out enough for a purchase, and then slipped my knee und?r, I drew it up till it was horizontal with the roof. I then stopped, slipped the bar across my ^shoulder, jand grasping the crossoar atjove, straignteneci myseir, oriaging me oar far up in the air. A second later I i had twisted myself into a huge V i aboye the crossbar, and reaching down caught Miss Cisnercs by the shoulders i and pulled her through the opening. "Could the women of the United States have seen the smile on that i poor girl's face as she realized that at last, after fifteen months of prison life, siie was at liberty, they would have felt a hanoiness as srreatalmost as hers. i That one fleeting "smile of ineffable happiness was reward enough for both i of us there at the window for all cur *ork and ris?. "To get our little heroine safely away was now the question. The trip across the creaking, swaying ladder was made by Miss Cisneros with the />wo/*a ovi/4 ojoo nf o f ?*? fori oH f il Wn ? i. OiVvi auu Vi U 4WH Mt The astute detectives who found a knotted rope on the roof stated that the ends had been held by two men on either roof, affording Miss Cisaeros a hand rail to guide her across. "Nothing of tbe sort was done. The knotted rope was to be used in case of emereencv. in case our return to the , rcof of No. 1 should be cut cif, forcing us to descend from some other part of i the building. Miss Gisneros needed no hand rail in her state of joy and exhilaration. ''No time was lost in gatting away i from the building. We quickly made I wtxy u.u uujjucu vwti OUV/UVJ i and mad9 off. The neighbors heard the clang 01 the heavy doors closing, . then the sharp, quick rattle of a carriage dashing recklessly off over the i cobbles, and then quiet fell upon the neighborhood of tne Recojidas. The cautitul girl prisoner was at liberty i and would never again feel the suffocation of its crowded walls, s "There was but one bad break in the arrangements we made, on leaving [ Hernando, taking alarm at a sound in the Recojidas, had drawn his revolver Then he okc2d it on the parapet of ; the house, laying down to assist Miss Cisneros across. He forgot it, and is r has been found there, to the great ini dignation of the police. I "The theory that Evangelina had t escaped to Key West in a small boat at once occurred to the people at the i palace, and the Naeva Espana, the I swiftest cruiser at trie island, at once > cleared for Key West, and started on a search, for tae fugitives, covering [ the entire distance from here to K*;y l Wes: yesterday and last ni?ht with > glasses and searchlights. Every tug ? that could be spared and every saaail f craft and gunboat took part in tne , search, but without avail." 'A AN UNTRUE STORY. NO HAZING AT THE CITADEL ACADEMY. Case of Cadet Way?No Truth in the Tale of Cruel Treatment? Tbe JtJoy oimpiy Deserted. Office Gbairman Board of Visitors South Carolina Military Academy, Barnwell, S C . Ocst. 13,1897. To the Editor of The Register: Will you be good enough to give space in your journal to the following papers, the publication of which seems called for by a communication from your Charleston correspondent in your issue of the 10th inst: JOHNSOX HAGOOD, Chairman Board of Visitors S C. M. A South Carolina Military Academy, Office of the Superintendent, Citadel, Charleston S. C., Oct. 11, 1897. G-en. Johnson Hagood, Chairman Board of Visitors. Dear GeneralI deeply regret to report another case of desertion. Young Way, beneficiary from Holly Hill, Berkeley county, got leave on Fridav evening to visit friends in the -5 - 2 . r 1 cixy, aia not return irom ms icavo ai 10:30 p.m., and the next morning, Mr. Thomas, an attache of the National House, brought his cap and gloves, and stated thai the lad had gone home that morning in spite of his advice to the contrary. 1 wrote at oace to his father. The lad was very timid and homesick, but he claimed, Mr. Thomas said, that he had been cruelly illtreated or hazed by the older cadets. T fo* fail&A fri finH OY1T7 A liflVO LUUO XOJL I?JUVU vv srrouuds for tnis complaint The Evenng Critic got hold of the matter mid published a vicious article in the Saturday afternoon issue, and this article was republished, almost verbatum, ia The Columbia Register of yesterday. Thi3 morning Cadet Smoak (B) 3 class, brought the enclosed commuaication to me with the request that he be allowed to send it to The Register, of which paper he has been a correspondent Mindful of art. 210 of the regulations, I submitted the communication to Col. Gadsden and Gen. Anderson, and they thought it test to let you decide the matter. If you approve, please forward in addressed envelope enclosed. Wiiile writing this, the following telegram has been received from Mrs. Wesifield. * "Fletcher, N. C., Oct. 11,1897. Col. Coward, Citadel. Am most anxious that you receive my son back. Please telegraph if you will do so. State if y ou can send some one to accompany him at my expense, i am Jane Westfield." * I have replied by wire as follows: ''Your telegram forwarded to Gen. Hagood, chairman, who alone can answer. Cannot send any one." In my judgement, the boy should not be allowed to coma back unles3 he * U? - J M does so willingly, ana conamonea ior some punishment. I did not write to you on Saturday about the Way case, because I thought his father would come down or write to get his boy back. I have heard nothing from Mm up to this hour, 4:50 p. m. Very respectfully, Asbury Coward, Superintendent. At the Citadel, Charleston, S. C., \.m ,uct. ix, iay7.. . i. , "^Editor Register: In Saturday's is' sue of the Charleston Critic there was an article given undue prominenca in which it was stated that Cadet Way was run from* this institution by a revival of hazing, and that he was cruelly treated. Knowing that the Critic did not have any prominence in the state, it was concluded not to make any reply, either in the Critic or in any paper in the state; but when your paper of yesterday contained the same article from your correspondent at Charleston, the necessity of a re piy was oovious, ia oruer iu stamp as false, the whole article. The correspondent of the Critic was in a rosi tion to have obtained a true account of the reason Recruit Way dtserted, but instead of his seeking to give a true and impartial account, he accept J UKJ iJ i? nr?_ eu a. garu-ieu s>iury tuiu uy nuu wisied to justify his action in leaving1. The correspondent of the Critic could | have obtained a true report of the oc currence by coming to the citadel and asking either the superintendent, Col. Coward, any member of the faculty, or anv cadet at the institution, but being apparently prejudiced against the institution and wjs'iing to injure it and also to win notoriety for himself, he accepted as true an incoherent made hv Wav. who wished to j istify his leaving: to his family ana all who would likely be interested in him. The writer of that article says: "Although the academy has only been open a week, two cadets have broken garrison and gone home on account of the brutal treatment they received at tJie hands of their fellow students." Now, I wish to say?and in saying it I have the sanction of the corps?that the above statement is false. The room males of the other .'cadet who left the day before Way did, affirm that he was not molested in any way by the "old boys.1' He is, besides, a chronic deserter, having deserted from another school just a few days before matriculating at this institution. We do not feel it a loss because ne ieit, except financially, as he borrowed several sums of money and as yet has [failed to return, the same. "P. Y. Way, a bright and promising young man from Holly Hill, Berkeley county," is the latest victim. He cannot be called a young man unless meaning long trousers makes a boy a man. Way was very young to have entered the institution at all, besides, "having been raised in the country," he should have had more grit than to have been frightened into leaving by the sight of ! citv life and wavs. "He is said to be i a very smart boy and came out first in his examination by dint of hard stu dy." Way may be a very smart boy, but he failed to leave that impression at the citadel, and he came out first in his examination because no one opposed him. Just here let me say that the occurrence i.* much regretted by everyone in the corps. As a cadet myself, I am in a position to know how Way was treated. H9 is naturally timid as the Critic stated. The old cadets realized this fact and felt kindly toward the boy, and had he j I stayed till now, he would have had I no cause to wish to leave. It is regretted that he left, because I j ne naa a cnance 10 ooiain an eaucaj tion. The wheel of his fortune had revolved and brought uppermost an [opportunity for improvement that ! comes but once in a lifetime, vand the | most, or one of the most important ri parts of the education he would have received here -v^oald have been a knowledge of hcfaf to make his way among fellow students while at the ( institution, and fellow citizms when he had finished, yips story of his that he had been beatfrifeand hung up by a chain till his fefctybarely touched the "J floor is maliciously false, and is so stamped by every "cadet that I have spoken to about it, When Lieut. Jenkins was command- rj ant at the citadel, Ihe put an end to the hazing business by threatening all cadets who took part in it wif1* expul- c sion. As a matter .of fact, hszing was c abolished while Jjieut. Jenkins was i commandant: at the citadel, but it was , abolished by the cadets themselves. They held a meeting and voluntarily t agreed to stop the *'pernicious habit" f In fact, previous to this time, every cadet had been required to sign a pledge to not engage in hazing, and no less than three had been expelled c for commiting the ofiense. f Bsfore and since that time all re- a emits matriculating, have been re- t quired to sigm a pledge that they will not while at this institution engage in 8 any htzing. j: ] The nigh standard of this institution, the pride the student body has in making and keeping it the "West . Point of the South," and the high 1 reverence they have for the "esprit de I corps" is enough to convince the ordi- l nary mind that waen a young man j who wears the "citadel gray" solemn- c ly obligates that ire will not engage in g hazing; that he is entering into an ^ ncrr<?pimplr?f. that >ia intends to and does _ The article I have replied to is mis* j leading, and if accepted as true, is t calculated to in j are this institution. ^ My intention is to correci this erron- f eous impression as far as lies in my power, and I cannot but think that * the writer of that article did not realiza the magnitude of the wrong he 1 was doing this "grand old academy." A reasoning mind will readily perceive that it was an exaggerated ac- j. count, and founded upon what the j boy, Way, himself said, and I hope j this article will set the matter right , and free the parents of other recruiis from any anxiety they may have as to the welfare of their boys at the citadel. All the oLher recruits say they are well pleased and would not think of leaving. W, W. Smoak. Shocking Doable Murder. Two women, an^ged and widowed mother, and her daughter, also a widow. were murdered early Wednesday morniDg at their home, 243 Line street j Camden, N. J., .by burglars. The * former was Mrs. Emma Ziiu, aged 78 i years, widow of Capfc. Eli Z me, and c the daughter was Mrs. Sarah M. Shaw, J aged 45 years. The murderers escap - 1 ed and the police are without a clue. ( The only witness to the shooting was I Eli Shaw, a son of Mrs. Shaw, who 1 has been suffering from a severe at tack of typhoid fever. The scock was * so great that he was unable to defend ? the women and he has thus far been c . j. t: r unauxe LU LUC puiiuo 1U U3WTUing the murderers. The tragedy oc- 1 curred between 4:30 and 5 o'clock and * was almost certainly the result of an attempt at robbery. Mrs. Zine wss i reputed to be wellrto-do,v nd the neigh- t borhood is said to be infested by a t number of tough characters. The only f story of the murder, thus far is that t gathered by the police from the son. t He says he was as'eep in a third story t back- room - acd-^vras awakened.by a 3 noise on the lower floor. He notified 1 his mother sad started down stairs to ^ investigate/ On the second floor his t mother joined him and went before 1 him into a room. The next instant a 1 pistol shot J*ang out and Mrs. Shaw 1 fell to the lioor. The son saw tne forms of two men crouching in a dark corner of the room, and, terrified ran to the front room and called for the police. Mrs. Zme was dead when found and Mrs. Shaw was taken to the Cooper hospital where she died a few minutes later. Her soa was turned over to relatives. Aa examination of the premises indicated that the house had been entered by forcing the window of a kitchen in the rear. A lot of silverware.had been gathered on the first floor and packed ready to be taken ftwa-c- Thn that Mrs. Z me had $289 in her possession yes- 1 terday. No arrests have been made, 1 Shaw doss not know that his mother < and grandmother are dead and the i news is being kept from him for fear 1 of serious results. i One Way to Defeat Them. AccDrding to the Rock Hill Herald, * Capt. W. L. Roddey, a very promi- ] nent business man from that thriving ] city, ''suggests that a good way to de- ] fe&t thfl nricinal tjacka?*e agents would ! be for the state to impose a heavy license tax on every person or agent selling liquors in any town, city or county in South Carolina?say of ten thousand dollars. The state could well afford to pay the license because the money would at onc9 go back into the state treasury, whi'e but few dealers would pay such a tax for the priv^ege of selling whiskey in any city or town in South Carolina. The law may nresent hinderances io the enaction of a system of this kind, but we have been told that it does not. A regulation such as suggested by Captain Roddey would soon rid the state of all nricinft] nontftcft ^Aalfira." Thft Co lumbia Register says the adoption of that proposition would be high license ( with a vengeance. It would have to be modified, if it ran the gauntlet of ; Simonton's court. Some friends of the " dispensary are working on thede- 3 tails of such a plan lor dealing with * the original package question and they may evolve a satisfactory solu- * tion by the time the general assembly ] meets. j Bryan the* Man. Arthur Sewall, the Maine million- . aire, who was put on the Democratic ! national ticket last year to the displeas- 1 ure of riaany Democrats of the South 1 and West, in a recent interview ex- J pressed the bslief that Bryan will 1 ajaiu be the presidential candidate of J the Democratic party in 1900. While he thinks he sees a great popular de- 1 j p 1 x* s J taana ior rKHommasioii ui mo auvcrtcngued Nebraska statesman, he 1 frankly admits that he sees no evi- } dence that the demand extends in his own direction. ( ( Too IiBte, Judge. 2 The Havana Official Gazette on Wednesday published an edict signed i by the Spanish military judge calling < upon Evangelina Casseo Cisaeros ] ' ? * * - - _ * 1 to present nersen ior a term 01 iuieeu j days in j lil, and ordering all civii and ] military authorities to endeavor to ap- 1 prehend her, and, if captured, to send 1 ner to Havanna j lil. The edict was s too late. The young lady had already I arrived in New York. WASTEFUL FARMERS. )NE OF THE MOST VALUABLE PRCDUCTS OF FARM ? , ?hey Throw Away?Disinterested Advlre ] of an Expert?Deplorable Ignorance as ^ to Uses of Halls ard Meal. ( ?o the Editor of The State: < May I say a few words through your J olumns to the farmers in this vicinity >n a corditioa of affairs which propa- < >ly exists in other parts of the State? ! allude to the almost total neglect of < he value of cotton seed hulls as a : teding and fertilizing material. i I wish to preface my remarks by 1 aying that I am not interested in any j til mill, am merely cioing general ex- ( >ert work in the cotton oil industry ; ind while of neoesity conversant with : he facts, am probably ss disinterested ts a person could well be in the advice : . give. I was told today by an unusually ' ntelligent attorney of this pi ace, who : s also a practical farmer, that the ; >eople hereabouts kr.ew practically no ise for cotton seed meal except as a i ertilizer; that neither cattle nor dairy : mws wprft fed in these carts on hulls ind meal and that it would be very 1 lifficult to convince the people that sattle weuld not eat their heads off if j ed cotton seed products. The fact 1 hat the oil mill here is burning by far 1 he greater portion of its hulls ccn- 1 irms the gratuitous statements. 1" ! jrieve to say this is a lamentable howing for the intelligenca of the * >eople in this section. 1 Now the facts demonstrated over and >ver again are these: * 1st. Cotton seed hulls and meal in ] he ratio of 6 to the former to 1 of the atter make a complete feed for cattle. 1 '.n the ratio of 4 to 1 they make a 1 mick fattening food. ( 2. From 80 to 90 per cent of the ( ralue of hulls and meal are excreted by ? he cattle and can be saved and used { is a fertilizer in the manure. The tes ( imony of agricultural chemists is ; maninaous on this point. In plain A ^ords it means that if $100 worth of J sotton seed meal (or hulls) be fed to 1 jatde $80 or $90 can be recovered in ] ;he manure. Consequently the far- J nftr who mits ?100 worth of cot on seed meal in t&e ground witnout irst feeding it deliberately throws iway $80 to $90. Perhaps the farmer : san stand this Joss. Nothing in com- j nerce or manufactures could. There 1 s probably no country in the civilized ' [lobe wheie a valuable food stuff is ] jut in the ground as a fertilizer except : he United States. o rrn 1? 1 o. ?iio vaiue ui uiauuic nuui bu^u . ?ed hulls and meal is much greater ; han that of ordinary manure. Air J Iried or in the|condition in which com * nercial fertilizer is sold it is worth on 1 he same basis as fetiliz?r at $10 par ! on. j Now, tnat this argument may not ! est on general statements, let me add : hese facts: Last spring I induced hree large farmers in Alabama to j eed a portion of some 90 tons of cot , on seed meal they had bought for fer- < iiizsr to 5U neaa or sorry loosing utile they had, ranging from 3C0 pounds jearlings to 1,000 pounds/bxen. I, lad to guarantee personall^featT&eyT vould lose nothing in the feed before hey would do it. I was with them and xad charge of the experiment 60 days, it the end of that time they sold 12 lead as a test. (The full feeding pe- , "? -l _ aa \ rni ? 1 'ioa is irocQ (o to yuj xney mauo a, , slear profit over and above feed, at- 1 endance and all expenses of $3 a head, tnd had 15 tons of manure besides rom the 12 head. This manure, the , adding being pinestraw, was carefuly sampled and two samples sent to he State chemist of Alabama. The malysis showed that in comparison with, commercial fertilizers and on ex ictly the same value as fertilizer for . imonia, and potash and phosphoric , icid, it was worth $2.95 per ton in the ; wet ftondition or ?L0 when dried. i Here is a still clearer illustration of ' he relative value of feed and manure, j Last April I obtained permission of , me of the agricultural experimental j itations to make a test on five cows j ihey were fattening for- beef on hulls , md meaL The cows averaged 750 ' sounds each. They were being regu- | arly fed on about SD pounds of hulls 5 md meal to the five head in the pro- ; portion of 64 pounds of hulls to 16 < rounds of meal, or the ratio of 4 to 1. ] Chopped up corn stalks were used for j jedding and the manure irom tne nve < lead for 24 hours saved and weighed < mmediately. It weighed 17?i pounds, < )r 35 ? pounds each. I made a care- < pul analysis of the manure under the , lirection of skilled chemists, and j 'ouad that the commercial value of j he 35? pounds of manure was 5 cents, ( vhich represents the value of the ma ] lure from one cow fed on hulls and ( neal at the ratio of 4 to 1 every 24 \ lours. It is easy to figure the cost of i lie herd: 64 pounds of hulls at 17i ; sents per hundred ($3.50) pertOD) make LI 1-5 cents, 16 pounds of meal at 13 jents per pound ($20 per ton) make 16 sents; total cost of feed for five cows ] 171- 5 cents, or per head 5 44 1UU. in j his case, the value of the manure was ( >ver 91 per cent, of the feed. These figures ought not to need any < somment. They speak for themselves. ) Che time will come when the commu- j lity that permits an oil mill to burn < jotton seed hulls when wood can be iad at less than $1.50 per cord will be < jailed uncivilized, and the farmer who j puts valuable food stuff in the ground x) raise 5 cents cotton without first ] 'eeding it and turning it into manure ( tfill be looked upon as a curiosity. If there is any farmer who does not relieve this let him go and make some i fertilizer from cotton seed hulls and < neal, or employ his cow to do it, I ion't car9 which, count up the cost of he feed and then have the manure malyzed. In conclusion let me say that the ise of hulls for feeding is so old a i story now that cotton seed hull ashes, which were formerly regularly in the narket, are now almost a curiosity, rhey are no longer going to the farm- : jts in sections where people have their : iyes open. They are going into beef : ind milk and butter. It was almost pathetic to day to see : i poor, half starved ox haul up a load : jf seed cotton to the gin of the St. ; Matthews oil mill and watch with ' .onging eyes tons of good cotton seed ; aulJs shoveled into the furnace simply ; /> mat a stasm tn o in his nxv Tier's eat- i :on. I hardly know which to feel sorry for the most?the man or the : aeast. Edwin Lehman Johnson. St. Matthews, S. C., October 8, '97. j THIS $10 HOG COST $4,000. I'wo Farmers FengUt Ov^r bixa la a Long and Fzpentivi Lswsult. It now develops thattbe famous $10 bog, the subject of litigation between Noah Kingst/erry and John Zimmer, prill cost the latier. the defendant, not j [ess than $4 GOO The celebrated case j 3f Howard Coumy. brought here on a 3hange of venus from the Fayette Circuit Court was d.-cided in the -Randolph Circuit Court yesterday afternoon. The case vas called last Satur:hy afternoon, and to the jury Monday evening. Oa Tuesday the jury awarded a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, Kio^sterry. for $1 damages, which leaves Z mmrr the defendant to pay the costs, amounting to over $1,300. There are also two slander cases srowing out of the hog case. One of them hi s been compromised, and the other pj-jbabiv will be. ^The full amcunt of ill" r?sts in the three cases, including' 7s' fees, to be paid I by de'eiidant. will ^ - r^ase t'<ie large | =uai mentioned. iu? *""v? case is] kno7ra o:: docket as that Noah Kiugsberrv as t John Z ! rhe Court hisioic r.f the case w.>u.d fill a book, and amo^* the lawyers it j is regarded as one of me ot.tjs cases J 2?er tried in the State of M.lw* . *a -i. It i was a suit for possession ol a ho& v*!-! aed at $10, Noah Kingsberry anc, Tr/hn 7;mmpi< Irve r?n jidimnin? farms) in Franklin Tovmship, HowardCounty, near New Franklin. Abaut a year a ad a half ago a hog strayed on to Zimmer's farm. Kingsberry identified the hog as one of his, and sent to Z;mmer for it. Zimmer refused to ?ive it up, whea Kingsberry began suit for its possession, giving a replevin bona. The Court ordered the jonstable to take the hog from Zim ClUU KObVig XU W -i-Jw WA* J In the first trial of tne case, before * justice of ihe peace, there was a misiriaJL, and a new trial was ordered, rhe secord resulted in a verdict in faster of K'ngsb2Jry. An appeii was aken by Z mmer to the Circuit Court )f Howard County, and when tne case lame to trial it resulted in a second judgment tn Kingsbsrry's favor. 3 ;ving to the alleged misconduct of me of the iarors. the judgment was ;et aside and a new "trial ordered. Simmer's attorneys at once entered a notion for a change of venue, which was granted to this (Randolph) county with the result as given.?Moberly, Mo., Dispatch to Globe-Democi-at. The Price ol CottoD. The price now ruling for cotton seems to The Journal to ba too low ind unwarranted by the conditions that surround the crop. It is often outside the province of a daily newspaper to advise the farmers either to hold or sell their ciop of cotton, but in the present instanca we feel certain that the price must shortly go higher. For several weeks professional bears have ruled the market. This clique ;annot long keep control of the situation, for the plain and eventually controlling facts are adverse to their dom [nation. Tue theory of a "recordbreaking" crop has long since besn exploded. Many of the first estimates were too high by from one to two million bales. This is the opinion of the governmental bureau, and of those who have traveled through the south, observing conditions and giving their opinions regardless of the sffect on the price of the staple either W3J\. JThe action of the b^ars on yesterday in putting down the price o? jotton^n account of the rainfall, is in ? ' "? # 4.1 Keeping witn tne policy 01 mese prvuea3ional depressers of cotton's price from the first.~ Competent judges say that the rain came too late to do any good, md there is a strong probability that it did harm. The price of cotton is too low. The Journal predicts that it will go higher?much higher?and thofie who can afford to do so should wait for better prices.?Atlanta Journal. anJ *V? A T\Itn011flftW The Columbia Register says the answers of the State preachers to the circular letter sent out by Governor Eilerbe in reference to the liquor pro alem ware still coming in briskly and voluminously Wednesday. In some instances long printed sermons accomnanu ih#? ancarprs and the Crovernor is being amused, if not edified and enlightened by the response to this jcuuding of sentiment. The governor will not give out any of the answers for publicition; ne proposes to scoop ill the newspapers on ttiis point in his message to th8 legislature, but it is stated that a goodly majority of the replies received so far favor the dispensary law. One diviae was sure ;he consumption of liquor had been considerably reduced since the dispen-: s&ry law went into effect, but the jause ascribed for the reduction was that the quality of the "stuff" ?ent by the stace dispensary to be retailed was so "rotten" that it disgusted jven the 4,sots." Not a few of the replies favor high license. It is interring1 to note also among the replies ;hat few favor prohibition, on the ground that this method of dealing with the problem is impracticable. \ Tiie Cotton Cr?p. In its issue of last Thursday_the Daily Dry Goods Kicord of New York .n estimating the size of the cotton iroo now being narvested says: 'Working on those lines by which >uch close estimates to the actual cot?n crops of the last two years were indicate a crop for 1897 98 obtain;d, the figures just now obtained which varies from 8,953,783 bales to 371,532 bales 500 pounds each. For the last crop, or 1896 97, our estimate ccrac 5? 79.9. ?J01 ha!#?s ai^inst 8.714.011 bales as the actual returns while the estimate for the previous year, or 1895-96 was 7,142,000 bales, compared with 7,162,473 bales. Tbe closeness of these estimates to the actual returns has stamped them with the imprint of correctness, and for the current crop year Dur estimate is submitted with a degree UL UJiXUUCiiVS baab) Vcu.Aj.AXg U^V.A^VVWVI. happenings, the yield for 1897-93 will not exceed the maximum figures of 9,371,532 bales of 500 pounds .cb. Mining For Wblaksy. Some Missouri msn are engaged in the rather unusual occupation of mining for whiskey, but they have good reasons for thinking their labor will be rewarded in a very satisfactory manner. Fifty years or so ago the steamboat Arabia, loaded with whiskey, went down in the Missouri river. The river has since changed its course, and tbe wreck of the craft lies a mile away rrom the water. Tiie prospectors have located tiae wreck, and are Ainni-nn fr\v tllO TellIslrPtT ho TT u^6ius ~ """"J; -j ??* icg aged fcr half a century, ought to be in~prime condition and sell for a good price. j A SENSATIONAL CASE. ' M THE WIFE OF A GOVERNOR TRIED FOR FORGERY. _ Actuated by Malice and Hatred, While the Other side Says the Opposite. "0S Some years ago there lived in West Virginia" a very rich old man who was quite prominent in politics, at one time being a judge. His name was /-x 3 . * i i % .u - -oamaen ana ne mamea m jus oia age a young woman for a second wife. After his second marriage, he did not live very long, ana his young Widow married Governor Atkinson. Of course the rich old man left Ms wife considerable money and this is what caused the whole trouble. It was charged by a grand son cf Camden that his young wife had committed forgery because she had signed her husbands name to several important papers, and tne matter was taken in the courts. After atrial lasting several days the jury failed to agree, seven declaring the lady innocent and five declaring her guilty. On the trial Mrs. Atkinson '~--M clamed that while she did sign her husband's came she had full authority to do so. After the trial Governor Atkinson, Mrs Camden's present hutr\ ^ TTTVI A ViifliAnfn Vonf tfi 11 UAUU, VY U'J uau JLUkUUl W AV|f? SHM about the trial of his wife, made a statemeat, of which the following are the priacipal points: "I have hitherto said nothing for for publication in this case, except to msreiy state that I know the prosecution was actuated by malice and hatred. It is a family quarrel, and the public knows that they are the most bitter disputes. -I have heard every sentence of the testimony given in the case. Independent of the law. which, in my judment, does not clan this cass as a probable forgery, and independent also of the fact that in my opinion, it was an error to admit testimony on other matters which cannot be directly connected with the crime set out in the indictment, I am clearly of the opinion that several witnenec, and, indeed, all the real testimony upon which the case hinged, had been induced to testify for a consideration. x am acu nv miw wuvituuvu J ?**v demeanor of the witnesses while testifying on the witness stand and by the facts and circumstances connected with their testimony, coupled with the further fact that offers were made to other witnesses or their representatives to pay money to them or oe given lands without the payment of money thereafter, provided they would testify against tne defendant, Mrs. Atkinson. It is, therefore, evident that there was an effort being made to suborn witnesses, and I am thoroughly convinced mat two or more 01 inem were absolutely purchased. I cannot believe that I am mistaken on this point The evidence brought .oat in this trial also shows that Mrs. Atkinson, prior to her marriage to Judge - ^ Camden, received an anonymous letter warning her not to marry said Camden; that at the time the will of Judge Camden was about to ba pro- - vC bated, various other letters were writ* ten to her. threatening newroaner publication unless a large sum'of money was paid, and whicn, if paid, it was promised nothing would be said or published relative to her. Prior to her marriage to me, another similar ' ^ anonymous letter was sent to her threatening her with other troubles, mcludipgv,newspaper., ..publications, which "would be thrown aci-oai Jftr . - r . >1 pathway. The demands made in the anonymous blackmailing letters were ?-r not heeded to nor complied with, and the result was coat me vuesi 01 tub of publications appeared against her in newspapers. Both at the time of the probate of Judge Camden's will and also at or about the time of her marriage with me, the man who inspired all these publications is well known to be Camden Sommers, the grandson of Jud^e Camden, the individual upon whose testimony the indictment against Mrs. Atkinson was solely found, and who appeared as the TiiiniHuiiitinA nritnMB 1T1 thil - pilUOi^CU VAJwynnu^ niiuvw w?? . case. In my honest, unbiased judgment, she is guilty of no crime whatever, and most -certainly the crime of aiding and abetting in uttering the forged papers charged against her in the indictment was in no sense proven in the trial of this case." Camden Sommers made this statement for publication: ^si "I have no comments to make con* cerning the merits of the case beyond my former statement regarding the matter prior to the present trial whereby unscrupulous publications and witnesses for the defense tortured, twisted and lied about me. I will hereafter " -"M studiously avoid giving them even a shadow of an excuse to resort to si milar tactics when the case again comec up for hearing. "I have been actuated in this matter alone by a desire to protect the estate of my grandfather from the merciless rapes of conspiring mercenaries, and to prove to the world that Judge Camion in Viie <3o/*Hnin<y tmowfl insrtAaH ftf losing that sterling sense of justice and love of his children which nad always characterized the life of this noble old man, was the pitiful victim of misplaced confidence in those by whom he was surrounded in his old . ./. age, and that his mental integrity, which he restrained until thelart, compelled a resort to demand iorgea processes to blacken his fair name and steal the birthrights of his children. I think the world, now knows this."- M Bill d Tiger Keeper Killed. A white man named Oliver Brum* . - '% bles was killed by Deputy Walter Herbert about five miles west of Marion Thursday. Brumbies was the retailer of "blind tiger" liquor and had A-J 1- iV. a/ l.? reyuncu wj wo auuxunuca ml uiv xmji, v?ho were endeavoring to correct him. Brumbies is supposed to hav? resisted ">?g his pistol being empty, and no direct testimony having been given by the deputy. He was shot three timet. Tnis is the filth death, three of "which ^ were homicides, that can be traced directly to liquor as a cause, in this section lately. Killed in the Bins* Jack Cummings and Walter Griffin, . m two New Orleans professional boxers, . m spared before a large audience in that ^7* . city Wednesday night for the benefit oi yellow fever sufferers. Both men fought hard and soon became exhaust- * ed. Ia the 15th round Griffin hit Cummings a hard punch. He sank to the floor and was removed to a hospital, Jfl where Jie died at 4:15 Tuesday morn- -1^1 irtg. The cause of death was hemorrhage of the brain. Griffia was also badly punished, but that afternoon recovered sufficiently to warrant his removal to court Cummings had been mamed but seven months,