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S.ENTINEL -JOURNAL PUBLISHED WEEICLY. PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLNA. Water your horses! What are the hot waves saying? Animals suffer as well as humanity. The flyless city is an irridescent [ream. What has becdme of the old fash oned sea serpent? Alaskan ice is just now more popu ar than Alaskan coal. Parts has declared against statues a frock coats. It may prefer pajamas. Some think an electric light bulb brows out more heat in summer than n winter. A Worcester boy killed 1,119,000 files in a contest, but they will never be missed. What has become of the old-fash toned man who carried a palm-leaf fan summer? Do not try to Invent a new excuse or going to the ball game. Any old xcuse will do. Doctor Wiley says that men who smoke are liable to sunstroke. Do your smoking at night. A New York woman who lost $1,000 joked about it. E'vidently she didn't have a husband to support. Aviators now fly across the English channel before breakfast as an appe tizer. It is a humdrum trip. We are told that a dog in St. Louis has learned to smoke. He shows as much intelligence as his teacher. A hog out In Oregon ate its own er's coat and $700 in real money and seemed to thrive on the rich diet. One of the dangers of being married In an neroplane is that the first falling out is likely to result disastrously. Aviator Atwood is going to try to fly from New York to Chicago. It Is sincerely hoped that he may find the flying good. One way to keep cool in summer is to avoid summer resorts. One is likely to be prostrated when one pon ders on the bill. A New York boy who walked away --oi\homo eight years ago to seek bin fortino has spoiled a good story by walking back. An advertisement reads: "Wanted -A girl to paste labels on." No self respecting girl would care to' have labels pasted on her. A physician advises us to eat onions and become henlthy. We know from personal experience that garlic is productive of great strength. A man in New Jersey killed his sweetheart wit an "unloaded" pistol. So history, unmindful of the tragedy of it, keeps on repeating itself. We have congealed winter in the form of ice to temper the summer; now why not bottle up the heat and release it on a cold day next winter? A bullfrog may be a champion fly killer, but ho is not what might be called an ideal pet, especially if there are nervous women around the house. A committee of Chicago teachers has decided that stenographers should be taught enough of English to en able themi to correct the boss's blund ers. A French scientist has devised as> Instrument to forecast thunder htormE but our amateur weather prophets cling to the old, reliable rheumatism. One man at least has felt the op pression of great wealth-the em ploy. of the San Francisco mint who was buried under $9,000,000 in gold coins. An Omaha debating society has do cided that a horse is more desirable than an automobile. Notwithstanding this we prosumo people will still go on mortgaging their homes for the lat. ter. A Wisconsin judge has ruled that a man must provide his wife with false teeth if she wants them. This, bow ever, is interesting only to the women who want them. An Ohio man boasts that he can rock the cradle with one hand and button his wife's dress with the other. We presume also that the gentleman has learned to speak distinctly with a mouth full of pins. Judging by the English, channel aviation will soon become as common as a ride on a lumber wagon in the country. Collector Loeb has seized $130,000 worth of furs. No one, however, cares what becomes of furs in the present weather. We see by the papers that a Phila delppia woman 80 years old is taking cornet lessons. EDvidently she -has do yeloped a terible grudge against her e~ighbors. A GIRL'S STRANGE MENTAL PHENOMENA NELLIE SMITH, 12 YEARS OLD, -GIVES DETAILS OF HARROW ING ATTACK. AN INNOCENT MAN IS KILLED Circumstantial Tale Arouses Whole City and Brings Deadly Wrath of Posse Upon a Fugitive, Whom the Coroner's Jury Later Exonerates. Hot Springs, Ark.-Some subtle, elusive, psychological phenomenon in a young girl's mind is blamed for the death of L. L. Shockley, for whose death Robert Ellis, a police office clerk, and Herbert Smith, brother of the girl, and members of a posse, have been held. It is charged that they shot him as lie was fleeing ar rest. The girl had aroused this whole city by a circumstantial tale of an attack upon her by a horseback rider who, she said, had chloroformed her. She gave a minute description of the horse, a description that fitted an ani nal owned by Shockley. After the man's death she positively identified his horse as the one her assailant had ridden. ,Yet at the coroner's inquest it has been shown conclusively that Shock ley could not have attacked the girl at the time she gave, and that his horse was then somewhere else. Shockley's attempt to escape is ex plained as duo to a misconception on his part that he was wanted for boot legging in Oklahoma. He discovered that omcilers were after him, although ignorant of the accusations of the girl. The girl is Nellie Smith, 12 years old, daughter of a prominent coal merchant of Hot Springs. This is not the first time she has flgured in thrill Ing adventures, which she either ex perienced or imagined so vividly she thought she had experienced them. The morning Shockley was killed Nellie, who had started to a private school, went in an hour late, trem bling with excitement, and told a har rowing story of an attack. She had been walking along Ouachita avenue, she said, when a tall man, with gray cap and brown shoes, ha'ing red hair and freckles, rode up to her on a gray spotted horse. "The first thing I knew," said Nel lie, "lie called to me to stop. He \ - / A Girl's Imaginary Experience. pointed a big revolver at me, threat eniing to shoot. T1heon lhe reached dlown and grabbed me by the shoul der. He lifted me on the horse in front of himii andc galloped off. Tihe moment weo started lie placed over my face a cloth that had chloroform on it. At least I thought it was chiloro form, I became unconscious. The niext I kneow I was awakcened by some one0 slapping me in the face. I don't know what the man said. lie dlidn't try to hurt me, anyway, except to slap) me. After I had gone a little wvay, when he had told mue to leave, I found a handkerchief around my neckc and a note which saidl, 'Don't you tell anyone wvhat has happened. If you (10 I will kill you.'" When the child had told her story, a story strongly reminiscent of a mo tion picture film, hei' teachers sound ed the alar'm. Immedliately from po lice headquarters the order to find a man ridinig a gray-spotted pony was flashed. A posse began forming. Deputy Sheriff Hlardie Hinton was riding near the fair grounds when he saw a bare-logged boy on a spottedl gray horse. The lad rode lip to the tent where Shockley and his family, who are wvandering horse traders, were living, Scarcely had the boy dismounted when a man rushed out of the tent and sprang on the horse, "Tell your ma the marshals are after me and they won't get me alive," he shouted to the youngster. The man was Shockley. Hinton reported this incident to the city police; they took up the trail, accompanied by Smith, and seen came upon Shockley. When the fugitive saw the posse ho turned from the main read into a country lane on the banks of the Ouchita river, He de fied the calls to halt and was shot. At the coroner's inquest it was es. tablished that Shockley could net have attacked the girl nor could his horse have been seen by har MURDER TRIAL ENDS IN A LIFE SENTENCI HENWOOD GUILTY OF KILLIN4 AND WEALTHY WOMAN RE VEALED AS CAUSE. Denver, Colo.-Harold Frank He wood, slayer of George E. Copeland Victor, Colo., who was shot accider ally by Henwood when the latt killed Sylvester L. Van Phul, the E Louis aeronaut, was found guilty murder in the second degree and se tenced to the penitentiary for life. Never in the history of local t bunals have the presiding judge ai prosecutor been subjected to such i excoriation as that pronounced 1 Henwood when asked what he had say "why sentence should not be pi nounced." He characterized his trei ment by the court and prosecutor "persecution." The trial of Henwood was repIe with sensational features. Like ma other sensational tragedies there w a woman in the case; and while a %/. Isl r:7,-r e. 4 '~ .AA &AAA wias on the witness stand in the mi der trial her lawyers were in anoth court asking $300 a month alino in a divorco suit instituted by h husband. The suit for divorce w the sequel to the tragedy in the hol and was won by the husband. The killing of Copeland was ac dental and occurred when Henwo, was shooting bullets at Van Phi lonwood and Van Phul were riv for the friendship of Mrs. John I Springer, wife of a wealthy bank and stockman. She had entertaln both men in St. Louis, her forn home, and at Denver hotel, where t tragedy occurred. It was inevital under the circumstances that b reeling should have been engender hetween them and (his fooling fou its logical ending when the men a in the hotel bar-room. There r conficting reports as to the encount between them; but there is no d ipute as to the fact that Henwood sli andl killed Van Phul, aLr.d in doing inf[lictedl a mortal wound on Copehua a young minier, whao had no part all in their (quarrel. Mrs. Springer's maiden n ime w Patterson andl she was born in Louis. Among her schoolmates then was Van Phul. Later in life he wai suitor fo'r her hand, but she mnarri a man named Folk and dlivorcedl h shortly afterward. Two years ago s married Springer in St. Louis. Th at once came to benver and M Springer has been a social lead, though much of her time was spc with friends in St. Louis and at 11 Springs, Ark. The Springers' home D~enver was on Washington street, 1: they spent much time at their henau futl country lace in Arapahoe coun and also had a suite in the hol where the tragedy took place. HINDU IS CREMATED ON PYF Countrymen Perform Religious Rlt of Race and Scatter Ashes on River. Tacoma, Wash.--Deder Singh, Hindu, committed suicide in Lyle, hanging himself to a rafter in a a tion house. Th~e body wvas crenmat CreatigN Hidu Th Cshsreatncaed Hin the lumbiare. Tocrso od~ ' te It, ELM it fto AZL /J AU/JLOAn /M/GRAn7 JTAT~ of Asiatic chiolera In the gov ernment's hospitals in New York hiarbor, as the result of infection brought from abroad, resulted in calling to public attention Iktwo Intensely interesting discoveries er mnade in recent years in connection ly with the disease. er Theli first Is that the allment Is not as nearly as likely to spread in centers el where It Is not actually epidemic as has generally been believed hereto al. fore; the second Is the fact that >d there are persons who are "cholera i,. carriers," accounting In many in .Is stances for a longer Incubation period V. than the formerly accepted one, which or was from a few hours to flye days. ed These gains In knowledge should or have a most reassuring effect on the heo public mind. It has been learned that >10 chiolera Is not carried along by the ad wind; and persons whio hiave been in ..d.the..vicinity* ofcolr.atet'. o adcry h.erso .hoeaawywt soe trem elyvrloent d fa, t asenl d netofsiatchoeram mnnter gon eersetsmisile.n e ~~Ykhroas the recgtonfacasul of r it.fectikno n br"chr crmrs abas reresulted in aldeerinago to liteno atwo ietenseiont l ersn dsucee er mad haing beentinearrect connctwion wim the disease.tlispesneo b ho snel cas lielyrif to rater cearch ey wher itibntacturoolallyesticThsex rh.teds g entlybn eied e og rore: twar secomning the fate tof nt. caerstig"h accountsn to any a no s tanlced fihor gatnes.uato ~ei in Tahe forerlye-fcpten oahne whih or was byfr. Aah w hoty, the has. te, Tfhlerfe aisrt owldew ok snhul er, havg yar mot rsrie haefet theicity lel publi ton.a harg een tere ethat IEAsu cholera, caiealn bytane poisn andc persos whon he hestrin dtvi nty ofual eraities.Isantv dofo lndusythe germsh of consst ofa with ea taeineircloingem whles, suche ec'lgoethihr hkn coanintestbyina er fluxtad dhesom epthelsum.erers is Teiee must tht te mint ottboues te proucthsof that rae lous onfetiou banso the sa ges.neri atwhchaphoi andresom ofl the oteta symTrognt of mclss of choera. sonssenown ars rrhtle carhers had rreudincletrination to ex ib oted a n the eight~ all he body, spete thle diseasequnt itd freene oab-th hoseki n c ld bedwe aft ser sprg atiologicalh attk Tdvncs te ratientfaldetento pa( dugoess a lng mowytowarelimnatindegt the dnerhaus ttipermittin the faltiese t hei amfoot othod within or gas. ats n stagnatese- thevin, macine builte ut ndp by .and a feet oty the elths bLys, leade ofsrviet asket thke tya of al cyaoti chreexetldh.ntr Th causeofnh rai nkon Asiatiywheraocaeial irtpeat SEposnce wndith actas upoans te grast iestinenit muous tebraot isnths of gtre yr som s amot agiou beso ese wvhen progrssively -dryseats virlews alietiper. tsma physiveanf Ilinhavea thought or conison o ce of tan microsiac getrms whtich, dfon has ln retionwhvrto the syteprp lci gt ther kind casen oftestinal is brgrelhaieverexceeded that eemnt on th anksn ofn the Gne. -. ever taken a direction different from that of commercial or military move ments. There is reason to believe the poison does not enter the system through the lungs or through any other channel than the gastro-intesti nal canal. The danger of the introduction of cholera from one port to another is not so much by typical cases as the mild or irregular ones, which often pass unrecognized. Cholera may ap pear in the form of a simple diar rhoea, which excites little or no sus picion, or it may appear in a more ob scure manner, and simulate some other affection. While certain articles of food or drink brought from an in fected district may contain '.he spe cific organism of cholera and may subsequently act as media of nfec tion, there is reason to believe that this is not of very frequent occur rence. There was some agitation in New York last year as the result of the presence of a few cholera cases at the quarntine station, but the Inst real cholera scare was late in the summer of 1892. In the 60 years preceding 1892 there were five eide~mics of cholera in this country, resulting in 15,000 deaths. The first outbreak "was in 1S32, the second in 1834, the third in 1848. the fourth in 1854, and the fifth in 1865. Asiatic cholera attacked with great virulence the 1,0010 soldiers stationed at Fort Dearborn (Chicago) in 1832, the first year In which the East In dian destroyer appeared in North America, and 200 of them were ad mitted to hospitals in eight or nine days. The troops at this p)olnt were young and in good physical condition, but the poison germs had been brought to the country in immigrant ships and they had found victims in many Cana dian and United States cities. Fatal ities at the fort wecre large, but physi cians by hard work got some 700 of the men on their feet again, and in September of that year they were or dered to march to the Mississippi river in the neighborhood of the pres ent city of Dubuqiue. They had not traveled 60 miles, however, before cholera broke out in their ranks again and before the command could reach the river the percentage of deaths was as great as it had been at the fort. France's cholera death roll in 1832 was 120,000, and of this vast number 7,000 passed away in Paris in 18 clays. The disease crossed the channel to Great Blritain in the spring and sum muer of that year and sent thousands to their graves in England, WVales and Ireland. Firom Liverpool, Cork, Lim crick and Dublin there sailed five steamers filled with emigrants, many of them having taken flight from the epidemic, Cholera broko out on all of them and 179 of their passengers (lied on the voyage to Quebec. The living and the dying were hurried by the steamer Voyageur to Montreal, w'here those who were able to travel were scattered up the St. Lawrence and to a half hundred inland Canadian and United States towns, Almost in the time that it takes to tell the story cholera broke out at Kingston, Toe ronto and Niagara Falls, and a comn pany of United States soldiers aboard the steamer Henry Clay took the death-dealing epidemic to Detroit, whence it spread along the great lakes to almost every place of 100 people as far as the "See." Eternal viglance is the price of human life in the battle with the first assistant to the undertaker. Cleanli ness and alertness should be the wvatchword of everybody. Hygienic measures should be studied and disin fection practiced wherever there seems a possibility for the discee to break out. PRICELESS CORONATION B00 Uniqe Twelfth-Century Bible on Which Many British Govereigns Took the Oath. London.-There is in the British Museum a volume known as the Coro nation Book of Henry I. All the kings from his day to Henry VIII.'swore the coronation oath on this volume. It consists of extracts from the Gospels. written in Latin interlined with 9axon. The whole is written on vellum and enclosed within deerskin-covered boards. The most striking featurt of the cover is the metal figure of Christ finely chased. The cornerpieces are of later date. As an example of Eng lish twelfth-oontury binding it is al most unique, and its value from a his Coronation Book of Hensy I. torical and archaeological point of view is quite priceless. Very interesting and beauthul is the Bible and the Communion Services which were prepared for use at West minster Abbey for the recent corona tion and were bound under the direc tion of the Oxford and Cambridge Presses at the Oxford binding house. All three volumes are bound uniformly in red-grained morocco, ornamented with hand-tooled work in gold from designs prepared under the advice of Mr. Cyril Davenport, superintendent of bookbinding in the British Museum. On the covers appear the Royal Coat of-Arms of England, with Garter, Col lar of the Order of the Garter, the Rose of England, the Thistle of Scot land, and small Tudor roses, buds and leaves. WINS REPUTATION IN MUNICH Work of Miss Kuehne Beveridge, Tal ented American Sculptress, At tracting Attenti Qiy4. Munich, Bavaria. Miss Kuehne Beveridge, the trlented Illinois sculp tress, who created a sensation at Leip zig some time ago with some passion ato groups, has completed at Munich the bust of Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, for which the prince has been sitting for her. In addition she has finished a statue of Amfortas, the kecpcr of th.+ Holy Grail, which Munich critics declare to be her best work. The model for the statue was Clarence Whitehill of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, who created the role of Amfortas in Wag ner's "Parsifal" in America and has also sung the part in Bleyreuth. Writing of the statue, a Munich critic says: "The conception in sim ple and yet powerful; it is dramatic and yet elegant--the hands alone Miss Beveridge and Her Work. would make this work remarkable; they are the hands of a strong man and a gentle man; they aro wasted by suffering almost to emaciation, but their beauty of line and character re mains." Miss Beveridge is 'i grand daughter of John L. Beveridge, former governor of Illinois. Group of Statuary of Solid Gold, Quebec, Can.--An eight-foot group of statuary with all the figures carved from solid gold will be erected within the uext year in the famous Church of Ste. Anne do Beaupre, near here. It will tbe taken to Rome to be blessed by the pope. The group will include Saint Anne, the infant Christ and the Virgin Mary and will cost $300,000. Find Two Fine Pearls. Bedford, Ind.--While digging muns gels near his camp, south of this city, F3leet Jackson, a mussel digger, found two of the finest pearls ever taken from 'White river in this vicinity. The larger weighs 32 grains, the other 20 .rains. lie was offered $900 for the earls, which were both taken from ne shelL.