Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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R^HEf A PRAYER." , r These are the gifts I ask, M . Of Thee, Spirit serene: . Strength for the daily task, c KH Courage to face the road, c Good cheer to help me bear the traveler's p m 'And, for the hours of rest that come be- s B3j tween, C <Aq inward joy in all things heard, and SB These are the sins I fain ft; 1 Would have these take away:. c HH . t| Malice and cold disdain, . ~ Hot anger, sullen hate, Bcorn of the lowly, envy of the great, * ' 'And discomfort that casta a shadow gray g Eg On all the brightness of the common day. j ?Henry Van Dyke. I UNCLE HEWITT'S : 1 highwayman: ?C" f . . . o tj LULU LINTON. I I " h OWN the path toward the X f\ barn trudged Uncle Hewitt, O I I O his lantern casting splashes 3| )( of light out into the darkYOlf ness. of that hour which tomes just before daybreak. The wagon had been loaded with b produce the night before, so that when be had harnessed old Bets he would be ready to start on his drive of twenty miles to the city. He was congratuSating himself upon his early start g /when the' kitchen door opened with a t creak, and Aunt Mandy called in cautious tones, "Hewitt, 0 Hewitt, you'll ^ be careful on the way home, won't m you r > t0 "Yes, I'll be careful!" he called back, T sr.-'' cheerily. . "And don't forget to put your money in the sack and pin it inside your vest .with that safety-pin I gave you." s, "I won't forget," he answered, still * Eg. iwalking on. e, The kitchen door closed, then opened Quickly with a decided squeak, and m > "Aunt Mandy called, in an exaggerated y stage whisper, "Hewitt, O Hewitt!" le and the whisper reached him down w ihe length of the yard. "What do you iwant?" he asked, a trifle crossly, for | lie did not like to be detained. "Are you sure you've got the pis- w m *01 r . - - pl / "Yes, I'm just as sure of it as I've P been every time I've started to the city w lor the last fifteen year3, and just as M sure I won't have any use for it, and m ' I'll say right now that this is the last b( r time I ever intend to carry the old thing along." < b, He shut the yard gate with a bang ' that pufa stop to all further warnings y( IXs from' the kitchen door. cl Out upon the road he started old Bets 8t at a brisfc^ trot, meaning to cover a K -; good part of the drive before the sun B k came up. . I His lantern cast shadows upon each (j( side of the familiar road, making it iu ! look strange and ghostly. b( . ( " 'Tain't much wonder Maudy wor.ries and feels uneasy about me." he w \ mused. "As many trips as I make be- w ifore day and after night, it does seem f ) a bit risky, and always coming home ^ 1 jj jwith money, too,- but as for that highj * (wayman of hers that she's always con- tQ juring up, that's too ridiculous for any t use. I guess the day's past for high- ' iwa.vmen in xms civiuzeu country, Cf leastways round about here." aud he l)( ' - Chuckled as he thought of the many times he had listened to his wife's yc admonition from the crack of the kitch- ' ll ^r- en door. ^ The sun rose upon a glorious autumn ^ morning, and Uncle Hewitt jogged i into th? city in time for early market. The load of produce sold unusually ^ ,well, and by a little after noon Uncle ^ Hewitt was ready for the return trip. After he had passed the city limits, . lie stopped old Bets by the roadside, and put the proceeds of his sales into the little bag stitched by Aunt Mandy's careful fingers for this purpose. He 'u " pinned the bag inside his vest with the safety-pin, and then started again on S .the homeward trip. ' When about half-way home he saw in the road just ahead of him a dapper young man. who walked with a slight m jimiA As Uncle Hewitt drew up even e{] [with him, the stranger looked up and f0 asked, with a pleasact smile, "Could t you give a fellow a lift for a few tv '*' miles?" a "Well, now, I reckon I can, if yovi d? think that jriding behind old Bets will ai l>e any quicker way of getting over 4he road than walking." Uncle Hewitt i. responded. di : "it may not be any quicker, but it j. rfwill certaiuly be easier for one who is ti elightly crippled, and I'm sure I am sc ,very grateful to you." is "This ain't a stylish rig," Uncle (t Hewitt said as he moved over to make fC room on the seat for his passenger, "It's just my market wagon, but it's a w good one, and has hauled many a paying load for me." la The young man proved a good listener. and as Uncle Hewitt liked nothing ?V 4>etter than a good listener, he waxed a, (eloquent in his descriptions of the ^ market business and the management ^ of a paying truck-farm. ti The young man asked such very in- 0| telligent questions at such opportune times that Uncle Hewitt's heart a .warmed toward him. and he was soon st telling him with, the utmost freedom tl of his success of the day, of the early gelling out, and of the rouud sum the produce had brought him. The talk continued on various lines si of farm-work, until ia the midst of a T dissertation on the value of rotten " .wood used as a fertilizer to start w sweet-potato beds properly, Uncle c: Hewitt was interrupted by the young is man exclaiming. "Oh. what i3 that? ri Over there, just beyond that big tree! r' j [Look quick!" Uncle Hewitt looked, but saw noth- s' ing unusual. When he turned again u toward his companion he saw some- c thing very unusual?the muzzle of a shining revolver confronting him! n The young man was smiliug. and 0 " ?aid, pleasantly. 4iI was out looking e for. game, and I am very lucky in find- u ing you on one of your most successful ^ iMyi days. No, you Deedn't make any dis^ ' turbance. I happen to know that the country is not thickly settled just here, b - and you cannot obtain help. Just t band me tfce proceeds for to-day, f - . lease, and you may keep your watch md other valuables.'' Uncle Hewitt started to open his couth, but the look in the young man's yes and a little click near his own yes caused him to open his vest intead, and hand over the little bag ontaining the precious funds. The ,-oung man bowed politely; then, s he climbed from the wagon, he said, I wish to thank you for yOur kindless, and In return let me give you a lit of advice. Don't make it a cus?m to take in strange passengers and :ive them your confidence. Good-by. Ir. Hayseed!" And he started bacl^ toward the city rith no sign of a limp. That appellation of "Mr. Hayseed" ras the last straw added to Uncle lewitt's blazing temper. It was bad nough to lose so much of one's hard arnings. but to be ridiculed afterward ras intolerable. He rMowed old Bets y plod ou. but he reached down, and roping under the seat, brought out lie old horse-pistol, aad slipping out ver the tail-board of .the wagou, ha tarted in pursuit of his former pasenger. The rattle of the wagon and tie thud of old Bets' feet drowned the j ound of his approach rs he gained n the fellow. He came up behind im, and shouted suddenly: "Halt! Throw up your hands, or ou'U ce a-limping in earnest in about second!" / Turning suddbnly, the young man ilt the cold touch of the pistol against is forehead, and taken so completely y surprise, ne ooeyea oraers iuuy as romptly as Lad his victim of a few loments earlier. , The eld pistol was ertainly a formidable-looking weapon, nd ttie persistency with which Uncle tewitt pressed it to his forehead was frrifyiug, to say the least. "I'll take your revolver first," Uncle [ewitt said, firmly, "and ^ou needn't lake any resistance, for I know how use this old-fashioned kind all right" he shining revolver was transferred lthout delay from the young man's jcket to Uncle Hewitt's pocket. "Now I'll trouble you for that little ick of mine." and the sack changed sckets. Then, with a twinkle of his res, Uncle Hewitt said: "Thank you for your kindness. You lay keep your watch; it's a bit slow." !e raised the shining revolver on a vel with the young man's eyes and, ith his finger on the trigger, asked: "Shall I try this thing, to see if it is i working order?" The young man's face grew ashy hite. "For heaven's sake, don't!" he leaded. "Oh, that's all right. I won't. I just anted to know if it would work, [ine won't.' It hasn't been loaded for iore than ten years, and it couldn't i loaded, for the insides is out of reiir. I lust carry it to satisfy my wife, it hereafter I'll feel the need of a >od one. I'll be more generous with. >u than you were with me; I'll exlange weapons. I want to keep this liny pistol as a little souvenir of .our easant acquaintance. Good-by, Mr. unco!" Uncle Hewitt started on a clumsy run >wn the road, overtook the slow-mov* g wagon, climbed int over the tail>ard and chirruped to old Bets, who id not missed him. The young man, hen he had looked dazedly after the agon, threw the heavy old pistol as r as he could send it into the bushes r the roadside. Aunt Maudy listened with wide eyes the story of Uncle Hewitt's adven:re, and at its close she said id somehat shaky tones, into which there ept a distinct note of satisfaction, "Hewitt, you know I always warned >u to be careful, and I always told >u there was danger of meeting a ghwayman. Maybe you'll pay more ?ed to my warnings after this." ' Highwayman! He wasn't none of lem highwaymen like you've always >en warning me about!" snorted ncle Hewitt. "Didn't I tell you hd as dressed like a gentleman, and wad ist as pleasant as pie? And as foe >ur warnings, I guess T proved I'm )le to take care of myself." Then he Ided, triumphantly, "I told you I'd >ver carry that old horse-pistol witil e again, and I won't."?Youth's Com? mion. Period* of the Moon. The average time occupied by the oou in moving in its orbit around th? trth is twenty-seven days seven hour* rty-tbree minutes, its sidereal period* he synodic period is the interval beveen successive new moons, and it is little longer, owing to the time, 365% lys, occupied by the earth in moving ound the sun. The moon performs '27 1-3 of its orbit and the earth 305V4 each day, and therefore the ffereuce between these, 1-27 1-3 minus 365% equals l-29Mi, is the daily fracon of its path which the moou de:ribes with respect to the sun; that , twenty-uine and one-half days wenty-nine days twelve hours forty>ur minutes) is the synodic period. If ie plane of the moon's orbit coincided ith that of the earth's equator the iOon would rise about fifty minutes ter each day. but the inclination of i??se planes to one another varies beveen eighteen degrees and twenty-nine ad one-half degrees, so that this reirdation is different at different times, ^'hen full moon occurs near the au? lmnal equinox it may, in the latitude f New York, be as small as tw^ntylree minutes, while further north it lay reduce to nothing, so that for ;veral nights the full moou rises about le same time, soon after sunset Square Trunks in Vogae. The current popular demand for juare-top trunks owes its origin to hespian preference. When this shape as first introduced, the only market -orth while was found among theatrill folk. A metropolitan manufacturer ) authority for trie statement iuul aund-topped trunks are to-day being ?Iegated to the bargain sales. "Everybody seems to want this quare style of lid now," said the manfacturer. '"No, I don't suppose it's beause the square effect bears the actor idorsement. The widespread call is aost likely owing to the fact that the apacity of the square trunk is greatr, notwithstanding that the cubic aeasurement of the round make may1 ie larger."?New York Press. The British Government will reimlurse the- naval officers for the money hey spent in entertaining the French leet at Portsmouth. ' ' 811 PERSONS MUROM" Youth at Caledonia, Minn., Shoots Three Helpless Women. REJECTED LOVERTAKES REVENGE Kill* Himself by Self-Inflicted Wound in HI* Head?One Sinter of His Sweet- I heait Escape*?A w/nl Tragedy in a l Michigan Home ltevealed by Nearby Neighbor* of the Victim*. 1 Caledonia. Minn. ? Frenzy arising from disappointment in what he called ' love led a young dental student in the 1 University of Minnesota, Matthew 1 Styer. to the particularly cowardly j murder of three women and to suicide, i He sliot hiB sweetheart to death and ! sent fatal bullets through her mother and sister. Then he wounded himselt beyond recovery and flung himself < down to die with his bead 011 the breast 1 of her he would have wed. None of J the women had a chance for life. The ] I man shot them dowu one after another ( as he sped from room to room. Pearl , Wheaton, the murderer's inamorita, was the last he shot before turning the weapon on himself. Her mother, Mrs. 5. N. Wheaton, and her sister Ruth fell in her defence. A smaller r sister escaped the student's bullets by s making a flying leap through a window ^ by which Styer entered the house. <; Styer had been rejected by Pearl j Wheaton. He went to the house in the early hours, when he knew j Wheaton had not returned home, and j rapped on the hall door for admittance. ] Mrs.' Wheaton opened the door a few 5 iuches and told the young man he could j not enter her home. Styer hurled himnrroJnc-f fhn rtnnf huf if mna hold OCIt afctt 1UPV IUV ViVUi , 4.V -v ? by a safety chain. Then he rushed along the veranda to a window and smashed it with a blow of his fist.. His liand was cut severely, but he beat on pane after pane until all the glass was broken, and then he battered down the frame. Blood was streaming from the gashes in his wrists when he sprang into the house. "You mustn't come here!" cried Ruth Wheaton. "I must see Pearl," Styer shouted. "Stand back!" shrieked the girl, leveling a revolver at the intruder. The maddened man snatched the pistol from her grasp and shot her twice. Both bullets pierced her breast, and she sank unconscious to the floor. Styer leaped across her, only to be confronted by Mrs. Wheaton. "You shan't kill both my daughters." the mother screamed, throwing herself upon him. He shot her through the arm, but she grasped him about the neck with the other and tried to bear ^ him to the door. He fired again, the ball passing through her throat, and she fell across the sensless girl. . "Pearl! Pearl!" cried Styer, bounding t upstairs. It was then the child got t away. The elder Miss Wheaton was i barricaded in her room. Styer burst g tbe iock ana pusnea ohck me iurni- o ture that-held tbe door. He sent a bu!- t let through the young woman's heart and shot himself in the head. The ^ girl's body was found on the floor by i ^neighbors. Half way across it, his e head above the heart his bullet had pierced, lay Styer dying. Surgeons 0 found that heart cleft in twain. They i said they could not save the lives of 't the wounded persons. i ] Farmer Batcher* Family. t Rochester, Mich.?Alarmed by the de- n serted appearance of the farm house of * Clarence A. Barnum, who recently set- * tied near here, neighbors broke into the house and found Barnum, his wife. I his daughter, Louise. r\ged twenty- y three, and his son, Chester, aged sixteen, all lying dead. The wife and the S son and daughter had apparently been murdered with an ax. 3 A single-barreled shotgun lying neat his corpse and tbe fact that his head was almost entirely blown off, showed how Barnum himself had met his end. f Mrs. Barnum's body lay in the wood- v shed. It appeared that she had been L able to resist-the murderer for a brief ?*> time, or at any rate had succeeded in * eluding him long enough to reach tho b shed. Here she was struck down and t met the same fate that had befallen i] her son and daughter. Barnum sold a farm near Homer, f Mich., only a few months ago and n came here late in the season. It is i' said that the harvest in his new homo A did not meet his expectations and t til at ne nau oecome ciesponuenr. iuis ? was made evident in a letter he had t written to a brother in Waterloo, N. Y. r Two other sous and a daughter were away from home when the tragedy occurred. William Barnum is editor of the Col- E lege News Letter, an official publica- s tion of the University of Michigan, at c Ann Arbor. John Barnum lives in c Coldwater, Mich. The surviving ji daughter. Mary Barnum. lives in Al- / bion, Mich. p GERMAN ARMY'S NEW HEAD. Count von Moltke, Nephew of Famous ? Commander, in Command. Berlin, Garmany.?Lieutenant-Gener- s al Couut von Moltke has been appoint- fi ed Chief of the General Staff, succeeding Field Marshal Count von Schlieffen. He is the nephew of the famous Count von Moltke. ti 1 Puerto Plata Besieged. d The Dominican revolutionists hesieged Puerto Plata, and all ingress or egress from the town was stopped except for those who wished to go on t board the American war ships. s Bingham Begins Work. Police Commissioner Bingham, of Voor VnrI.- f'itu awnr<? in ns spfnnd nnrt third deputies, respectively, Arthur J. j; O'Lveefe and Joseph 1<". Mack. t ? s Pea body Takes Office. F Charles A. Peabody look his place as j president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company in New York City. e Poland in Revolt. L All Poland is again in revolt against ( Russian rule. ' t Personal Gossip. The Rev. David Hillhouse Buel is the new president of Georgetown Uni- C versity. > s George Meredith is one of the gronp c of authors who remain faithful to thq 0 old-fashioned quill pen. Jose Esjrada Palrna, son of the President of Cuba, is a railroad office clerk in the City of Mexico. Don Luis Terrazas, a great friend of [ President Diaz, has a farm at Chiliua^ liua of about 8,000,000 acres. \ Dr. Simeon S. French, of Battle Creek, Mich., is said to be the oldesf Republican in the United States. * : >. : - .1: TRAGEDIE6 OF THE v'EAR " The Number of Suicides Breaks All Records ot the Past. Ilotuicitlm and Dnntlis by Violence Nambored 9213, Against 8482 in 190 JHlgliwiiymeu'i Utnuer Time Chicago, III.?Unofficial statistics of the year show that the number of murders and suicides in this country has sjreatly increased, and that there has been a decrease in the number of legal ?xecutions. compared with the number 3f homicides. sThe homicides and ieaths .by violence total 9212, as compared with 8482 last year. The startling feature of the record is the increase in the number of muriers committed by highwaymen, being 382. against 4G4 during 1904. Four rears ago the number was only 103. I Jealousy provoked 579 murders and : liquor G42. Homicides growing out of quarrels number 5111. The record of self-destruction is one of the most deplorable of -the year, the number of prominent men being much larger than hitherto. The total.is 9982. an increase I of 542 over the iifct of the preceding vear. The steadiness#of the increase is indicated in the following table: In 1899. 5340; 1900. 0775: 1901:7245; | [902, 8397: 1904, 9240: 1905. 9982. ^MArtAwfiAM s\f cui/iirlac hofnroMi nen and women remains about the iimp, nearly twice as many men as. vomen taking their own lives. Physicians hend the list of professional nen,'the number being 340. The causes were despondency, domes- ] ie infelicity, disappointment in love. 1 II health, liquor and business losses, i ?oison was resorted to in 4732 cases, i diooting in 2861 cases, hanging in .022 and drowning in 80S. ] Ten blew themselves up with dynanite and ihree starved themselves. ! The legal executions'numbered 133,_ >f which.fifty-one were in the North ] tnd eighty-two in the South. Seventy- ] hree were negroes, fifty-nine white i nen and one a Chinaman. I Mrs. Rogers, of Vermont, was the | >ne woman executed. Showing the elative changes of murders and execu- , ions, it way be sa>l that in 1885 1808 nurders were reported, while the nurn)er of hangings was 108, while this ] 'ear 133 were hanged-or electrocuted j 'or 0212 murders committed. The number of Iynchings was "sixty- , ix. tbe smallest number reported since 88."). when statistics were first gatlired by tbe press. Of tbe total number ] yncbed sixty-five were negroes. Thiry-four were lynched for murder, fif- 1 een for criminal assault and fifteen for ( niscellaneous reasons. TRAIN KILLS TWO IN SLEIGH. ? Ian and Woman Tried to Cross Tracks I in Front of Express. East Fairfield, Vt.?While attempting t o drive a sleigh across the tracks of ( he St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain ( lailroad here Charles Hammond, of ^ 5t. Albans, and Mrs. E. D. Dickinscji, ) f Herrick. were struck by a northlound express train and killed. j They were driving from Herrick. a * 'illage in the township of Fairfield, to Cast Fairiield. to attend a social gath ring. When they reached the point mown as the second crossing they 1 bserved the approach of the express. ' lut thought they could get across the 1 racks before it reached -the crossing, ["he engineer wns powerless to pre- t ent an accident, and the engine struck -1 he sleigh. The bodies of Hammond 1 nd Mrs. Dickinson were hurled into 1 he road. The horse was killed and ] he sleigh demolished. i Hammond was not married. Mrs. )ickinsou leaves a husband. Both ^ vere about forty-five years of nge. I i HOT THREE TIMES. WINS EIGHT < larshal. Desperately Wounded. Clubs Assailant Into Insensibility. Holly. Col.?With the blood pouring roiu gunshot wounds in his body and 1 rith his strength ebbing fast. Marshal ,ish House clubbed his assailant, Howrd Brown, almost -into insensibility. Ie look Brown's weapon away from lim and walked several hundred feet o a hotel before collapsing and falling usensible. House and Brown had been friends or years, but had a serious disagreement a few days ago. The other raoning Marshal House found two men [ghting in the street, aud tried to stop hem. Brown rushed up, drew a reolver and shot the marshal three iines before House clubbed and arested him. Outbreaks in Equador. The Crito del Pueblo, of Guayaquil. Jquador. reports that there have been imultaneous outbreaks at Riobamba, apital of Kiobamba; at Latacunga. apital of Leon, and at Guaranda, eaptnl of/Bolivar/ in favor of General ilafaro. former President of the reublic. y Cuban Theatre Transferred. The National Theatre, at Havana. !uba. was transferred to the Spanish Jallegos Association, which bought it fter President Palnia had refused to ign the bill appropriating $300,000 or its purchase. Blow Safe ami (Jot $3. Burglars blew open a safe In the s rholesale grocery store of A. Liebman. 1 G D street. Washingtou, D. C., befor ( aybreak. They got $3. ( : ? 1 R. R. Stations Destroyed. 1 Serious conditions are reported aioug be line of the Siberian railway. Many I tatious bave been destroyed. i i Orders Odessans Indoors. Tbe Governor-General of Odessa lias ] rdered tbe inhabitants of .that city to ' :eep inside their houses and to lock I be doors, holding the householders re- ' ponsible for any firing from their remises. ' t Boston's New Mayor. j Ex-Conrre. sman Fitzgerald was seatd as Mayor of Boston, j.ass.. and put I tack the old Board of Schoc^bouse ' Commissioners, who were ousted by J lis predecessor. : ' Former Lieutenant-Governor Dead. Sir Hugh Muir Nelson. Lieutenant- s. lovernor of Queensland. Australia, ince 1!)03 and former Premier of this ^ olony, is dead. He was seventy years s Id. s !i Twenty Die in Collision. Two military trains were in collision j >etween Suameuka and Dnieprorsk, * tussia, twenty soldiers being killed. Desertions Tie Up Ship. t The desections of seven members of 1 lio i'i'hw t-i(vi nn the* (Jermnn sf-pnmshin' 1 Jalania at Norfolk, Va. I J X " : ' \ BIT S Z NEWS WASHINGTON. Judge William L. Penfield, Suitor for the State Department, lias'resigned, partly because of ill health and partly to re-enter the practice of law. President Roosevelt and Secretary Root desired him to remain. A delegation of Western railway officials offered to co-operate with the Interstate Commerce Commssion to extirpate rebating. John F. Stevens, chief engineer of the Panama Canal, in his annual report criticises his predecessor, Chief Engineer Wallace, for. expending $300,000 in experimental excavation in the Culebra cut. Secretary Shaw wjll dismiss Treasury clerks-who ^are habitually "broke" and who mortgage their future. He will not make the department a collection agency for money lender*. He will also dismiss any employe ' loaning money at usurious interest. -OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Winter visitors from the United States are flocking to Porto Rico in unusually large numbers. ' The Japanese residents of Hawaii -i- s.?? waHw/i fartri in ure i/eimuui? iu IUCU uunrv ?-? ... parties of fifty and hundreds. Many of them will settle iu Korea; DOMESTIC. The thousands of employes of the American Steel and Wire Company, at Wauken, 111., are to be allotted one. liour each day for prayers. Work is to be begun with devotional exercises and another brief interval will be permitted for special prayers. This innovation is expected to follow the em-1 ployment of a large number of nonunion workmen imported from Dowie's Zion City. Mrs. Helen jf. Knickerbacker, of Kew i'ork City, and her son. William H. Ivnkkerljacker, announced their intention to give to Ballston-Spa, N. Y.. a public library building which, with the land, will cost $40,000. Nine-months-old "Jack" Rogers, who, with Rex, his five-year-old brother, was ibaudotied in August by his parents, John W. Rogers and. wife, at the Hotel Ten Eyck, Albany, is dead at the liome in Ci'aut'ord, N. J.,, of Mrs. S. \'au Allen Murray, who adopted the :liildcen. Edward Carew Rice, thirty-three, rears old, local representative of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, md a prominent clubman, was found lead in his office at Mobile, Al^., with i bullet through his brain. He left a :elegram and a letter showing that the ict was a deliberate one. Judge Martin, at Norfolk, Va., appointed Catesby Jones receiver for Virjinia of the Southern Mutual Aid-Association, of Birmingham, and the Unl:ed States Mutual Savings Association, )f Virginia. This action is the result >f a suit alleging that this company *as. improperly merged with the Alabama company. The Chief ot Tolice of Chicago prohibited the blowing of boms, etc.," for nore than fifteen minutes after midlight on New Year's moruing. President Schurmau. of Cornell, defended football as the greatest of .ports, and said its bad features will je eliminated. 1 J. Rider Cady testified before the Armstrong Committee, in New York City, bat President McCurdy, of the Mutual Life, Had onereu mm a rerauier vviuir le was ' counsel for Superintendent Payn. of the State Insurance Departuent. Tbe Rapid Transit Board, of New iforlc City. directed the drafting of jills to enable the cuy.to build sub,vnys in spite of tbe Beimout-Ryau . ombiue. FOREIGN. The Merchants' Bank, of Winnipeg, tlahitoba. has lost $10,000 by two recent mysterious robberies. Tbe Press?, of Taris, France, announces th* nomination of ex-Minister bourgeois 5s French Ambassador to Jermauy. Ex-President Soto of Honduras, wbo s an old friend of President Palma, irrived ia Havana, Cuba. President ?aluia boarded the steamer to welcome jjm. Ex-Miuistec Sc.uiucs gave a farewell eccption on board hi* yacht in the harjor, at Havana, Cuba. The Atlantic Society is arranging enertaiuments for the American Rhodes scholars, most of whom are spending he holidays in London. England. American war ships are at Sauto Doningo. Rebels are menacing Santiago. Business is dull and a feeling of unrest prevails. Sipido, the young anarchist, who fired in ineffectual shot at King. Edward, lien Prince"ot Wales, in tne Brussels ailway station during the early stages >f the Boer War and was sent to the eformatory nt Nauiur, where Lie has since been, lias been released aud was carolled in the army. No fewer than 3000 persons have >een killed and wounded in the re ent conflicts with tlie Russian troops n RostolT. Yaroslav, Nijar Novgorod, Lvielt' and other centres, showing the widespread nature of the movement. The agrarian movement, which is iwelling in volume and growing -in 'erocity, uow embraces the finest agri- j ultural provinces of Russia. Scores )f the greatest estates have been I jurned, looted or expropriated by the >easauts. According'to the London Telegraph's St. Petersburg oorrespondeut the worknen of Moscow have taken little part u the rebellion. Russian rebels set up a republic in Ufa Province, on (lie line dividing Asia :rom Europe. New uprisings were relorted from various other parts of the empire. If order is temporarily restored in Moscow it is planned for the revolution o break out afresh in Kieff, Kharkoff, he Caucasus, Poland, Siberia aud the Baltic provinces. The St. Petersburg correspondent of :he Loudon Daily Mail says that competent observers hold that even now he difficulties of the Russian Govern lienc are ouiy ueyiuuujs. On (lie opening of the Japanese Diet it Tokio the Emperor, in his speech toui the throne, expressed his deep rratificatiou at the houorable conclusion of hostilities and also expressed latisfaction at the renewal of the allituce with England. Senor Rios, ex-Premier of Spain, anlounced that he would not serve on lie Moroccan commission and would etire from public life. Moscow's Civil Governor was atacked by a youth, who, failing to kill liui, took a fatal dose of poison. The evolt there has virtually been crushed, ind in St. Petersburg most of the tebel I eaders have been arrested. ... I \ DEATH IN A GREAT WAVE Giant Sea Boards Five Mastei Schooner in Vineyafd SoundCtpttln acid Mate of the Henry O. Bar ret Swept Overboard in Storm. Wood's Hole, Mass.?A wave, almos of tidal proportions, rolled, up Vine yard Sound at night and, overtaking the five-masted schooner Henry 0 Barrett, tumbled over the stern an< swept overboard to death Captaii Joshua Norton, of Rockland, Me., thi commander of the vessel, and his mate James Conley, of St. John, N. B. Thi wave jammed the helmsman agains the wheel, after smashing the yawl anc davits, and then, ranging forward, tor< through the spinnaker and jigger sail: an<t carried away the deckhouse. Captain Norton and the mate wen standing together near the stern, anc were not seen after the wave broke The Barrett, which left Newport News Va., for Boston, Mass., made a' quicfc run uo the coast aud had eood weathei until reaching Block Jsland. There ah< was overtaken by the storm, but as the wind was favorable she kept on. She passed in by Gay Head soon after dark. The wind at that time waf blowing strong from the west anc northwest, and as the tide was running against it with considerable force and a heavy sea was rolling into tbt sound from the ocean, the entire sound from Gay Head to Nobska was a turn bling mass of billows. The Barretl was abreast of Quick's Hole when the big wave came rolling up the stern. The helmsman said that he heard Captain Norton shout as the sea rolled up: "We are among the breakers!" t? .which the mate replied, "No, sir.? Then the sea tumbled aboard, com pletely flooding the poop deck and oacrying the two officers overboard. Although disabled, the Barrett kepi on. and anchored off here about mid night. The second mate came ashore at noon and reported the loss of the two officers. Captain Norton was fifty-seven years old, and a native ol Hockland. Me., where he leaves a i widow. Conley was fifty-eigl-t years old, and a native of St. John, N. B. His wife died recently. SEPTUAGENARIANS TO MAURY Martin Green Will ,Wed Woman After Forty-five Years' Friendship. Worcester, Mass.?Martin Green, sev enty-flve years old, a brother of the late Andrew H. Green, father of Greater New York, announced his engagement to Mrs. Joseph Sampson, ot Wareham. Mrs. Sampson Is seventytwo, and her friendship with'Mr. Green dates back forty-five years., . In 18G0 tile Sampsons and the Greens occupied the" same house in Chicago, 111., but wheh Mr. Sainpsoa's warehouses were burned in the fire of 1871 the families drifted apart, the Sampsons going to Denver, Col., where Mr. Sampson died. Mr. Green, after rebuilding the wharves destroyed by the Chicago fire, came to- Worcester, Mass. Soon after his wife died, last April, Mr. Green went to Wareham, Mass., where he renewed his friendship with iMrs. Sampson. The wedding will not take place for some months. A PERSIAN REBELLION. 'Martial Law in Teheran?Foreigners in Danger. Parisr. France.?The Petit Parisien prints dispatches from Batoum announcing that the religious party in Persia has risen and demanded a constitution. Tbe situation is grave and martial law has been proclaimed at Teheran. The Fu-opean Ministers have sent messages to their Governments. The dispatches add that the agitators are also imbued with strong anti-foreign sentiments and insist on the expulsion of all foreign merchants' and officials. WOMAN SHOOTS INTRUDERDEAD She Declares Victim Forced His Way Into Her Room. I Oklahoma City, Okla.?Miss Barbara Toxer shot and killed F. C. Clayton, a business man of this city. The shooting took place in the woman's room. Clayton, the woman asserts, forced his way in'to the room, when she fir8d. The bullet entered Clayton's heart. Miss Toxer, who is twenty-five years old, was placed under arrest pending an investigation by the Coroner. Clayton was s.ngle and thirty-five years old. TAPS WIRE TO TELB OF FIRE. Texas Telephone Operator Climbs Pole When the Exchange Burns. Fort Worth, Texas.?Fire at night do stroyed seven stores in Jefferson, entailing a loss of $75,000. The Telephone Exchange burned out and the news was sent by an operator perched ou top of a telephone pole. GETS POISONED CANDY. Carbolic Acid Mixed With Bonbons Sent to Girl. Clinton. Iowa.?With the words "Merry Christmas" written ou the wrapping, a box of poisoned candy was received by mail by Miss Melia Carstenson^ The box contained a dozen bonbous. the insides of which had been mixed with carboiic acid. Miss Car stenson was warned by the odor, and did not eat the candies. The case has I bwu turned over to the postal authorities. No Trouble With Frauce. Advices from Berlin. Germany, say that in both (joveruimmt and business circles (be dauger .of serious trouble with France is considered impossible. Moscow Laid Waste. Moscow was damaged $7,."i00,000 by the upfising. a square mile being laid in ruins. New York's Improvements.. New York City will make improvements this year to cost $.j0,000,000. Sporting Brevities. Columbia defeated Trinity at basketball by a score of G7 to 11. William Gershel won first prize !n the amateur 14.2 balkliue billiard tournament. The Crescent Athletic Club defeated the Brooklyu Skating Club G to 0 at hockey. Princeton's faculty passed resolutions against mass plays ill football and paid coaches. The Yale hockey team was defeated by the Hockey Chib of New York by a score of 4 to 1. \-,W^ * ... f'-/' , * ' . - \ : Quite a Trim-Down. Ia a street car in Cleveland the other day a young man suddenly stooped and picked up something from tbe floor. After looking at Jt a moment he asked ia a loud vtyce, "Has anybody lost a 55 gold piece?" Instantly a sol- . emn man at the front end of the car . rose and walking back to tbe young chap said, "Yes. I hare lost a $5 gold piece," and held out his hand. "Well," t said the young man, "here's five cento r just picked u^ toward 'it."?Kansas k < City Journal. ? > \i'M DON'T OESPAIR. 1 i ?- 1 j Cctid the Ecperleoe? of Hlnn?Mt? .| Woman s*d Take Heart. If your back aches, and yon feel ? tick, languid, weak and mic^rablp day t after day?dun't wor1 ry. Doan's Kidney Pills have cured % * thousands of womea in the same condi- > ti00/ Mrs- A- Hetni||B of Stillwater, Minn., ffl RJ says: "But for Doan's f Kidney would not be living now/ ft -ht>y cared rue a 1890 aud I've bee? well since. I used to bare sncb paia i in my back that once I fainted. The ' kidney secretions were muei disor1 dered, and I was so far goo& that I | was thought to be at death's door. , Since Doan's Kidney Pills cured me L I feel as if I bad been putted back -from the tomb." : Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-AIilburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. . StlTWPolllh. ?VaS'J*?SlUU ?TU3l. Keeping Ooo<l Coinp?nr. ,, Experienced advertisers thoroughly understand the importance of keeping ' ,/ good company?a mntter that does not ft always impress itsel* upon'Jjeginners. . \ Therefore novices in the field of publicity before spreading their wings for Ligher flight slioyld diligently/study the advertising tone of the medium they contemplate employing. Are the reputable advertisers there? Is objec- j tionabfe advertising excluded? Is the ] character of the advertising column*. such that.they are likely to appeal to people of taste and refinement? These J are vital questions which may as well be applied to the newspapers as to other publications.?Philadelphia Rec 'id MALARIA??? Generally That In Not tlie Trouble. | n ?* * !* ? f n^rtAnfiKillftT fn mala. ] t'Crwill} Willi <4 iv imu.> ?- . rial influences should beware of coffee; j which has a tendency to load up the i liver with*' bile. A lady writes from Denver that she suffered for years from chips and fever which at last she learned/were mainly 1 produced by the coffee she drank. I "I was also grievously afflicted with headaches nnd iudigestlon," she says, { I "which I became satisfied were like- V J wise largely due to the coffee I drank. Six months ago I quit its use* altogether and began to drink Postuo^^^^H Food Coffee, with the gratifying jult that my headaches have disap-^B^H peared, my digestion has been restored^^flH and I have not had a recurrence chills and fever for more than months. I have no doubt that It was Postum that brought me this relief, for I have used no medicine whiie this improvement has been going on." (It was really relief from congestion of the ' j liver caused by coffee.) "My daughter has been as great a coffee drinker as I. and for years was afflicted with terrible sick headaches, which often lasted for a week at a Hmn Slip is 21 brain worker and ex--i M cessive application together with the j headaches began to affect her memory most seriously. She found no help ia medicines and the doctor frankly ad- "T*1 vised her to quitcoffeeand use Postum. "For more than four months she has not had a headache?her mental faculties have grown more active and vigor* ous and her memory has been restored* "So more tea, coffee or drugs for usi so long as we can get Postum." Nania given by Postum Co., Battle Creek] Mich. There's a reason. Read the littl^ book "The Road to Wellvil'.e" in pkga.; i -A I The above is a common name and many are familiar with the powder or ' polish as it is called, bat perhftps f?w have any ic^ea as! to where it isfoand. V i 1 In the boundaries of Hart wick village, V | about seven miles from- Hartwlck Seminary, is the mine said to be the only j, one .of its kind known. It is found \ only a few feet underneath the anri face and is sandwiched between layers of clay. In some places it Is fonnd even to the depth of thirty feet and ? when first extricated it appears like bine clay, but after it. Is thoroughly dried it. turns to a lighter color. Whea first taken from the mine it is placed on a large platform and allowed t? dry by exposure to the air and sun. Then a temporary roof is placed over to protect it from the inclemency of the weather. When thoroughly dried heavy rollers are used to/pulverize it Into the finest-dust so perfect that not a particle of grit remains in it Finally it is pat into barrels andj , i labelled "sand buff" and shipped to the silver plate manufactories" where .it is^ used especially to burnish the metal before the silver plate is applied. Its weight in barrels is about 250 pdnnda and sells at $2 and $2.50 per barrel. Carloads of this polsh are frequently, sent out from the station at Hartwiek. -Hartwick Seminary Monthly. Ktlqaatte of Cmsllnllm. "Even among the savages of French Africa, who eat human flesh, there are differences," said Paul Pueci, a young Italian traveler. "Some while a$a, ' when coloring that couutry, I learned a good bit about the ways of the various tribes. In a majority of them cannibalism is indulged in only when the bodies are those of prisoner's taken In battle. It is all right to e^t persons who. belong to hostile clans, but it . would be a gross violation of tradition and the custom of the land to feast upoh friends or even upon memberft of the same tribe. This delicacy of sentiment, however, is not universal, and In one tribe in particular; ^where I noted the absence of any old" persons, I learned that ii was the proper thin* to add the aged inhabitant's to the local food supply. This confined* tbe population to the young: and hardy, for at . the tirst signs of deorepitudie the boiling pot was called into requisition."?