Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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H THE TREMBLING HEART. ? [ lift my head and walk my ways Before the world without a tear, EjH^nd bravely unto those I meet I I smile a message of good chcer; give my lips to laugh and song, US And somehow get me through each day; HHCut oh, the tremble in my heart B9 Sinpe she hnn <rnne awav! j^HHer feet had known the stinging thorns, 389 Her eyes the blistering tears; Kent were her shoulders with the weight MSB And sorrow of the years; B^EThe. lines were deep upon her brow. Her hair was thin and gray; HHAnd oh, the tremble in my heart EkH Since she has gone away! |^B[ am not sorry, I am glad; BbB I would not have her here a^ain; B^BGod gave her strength life's bitter cup Hsi Unto the bitterest dreg to drain. will not have less strength than she, MR I proudly tread my stony way; But oh, the tremble in my heart ?g| Since she has gone awav! Bag ?Ella Iiigginson. Hi/NBAB^NfllllAUABBAE J^ome y\gain. ?ABBABAI?eiAnABBAI The lately acquired suit case actually belonging to Parkin Jones was lying on its glossy, bright, yellow side, just as it had been dropped, 'With the more familiar scuffed family valise, between the dining table and the wall, in defiance of all rules of order. Parkin Jones' new derby hat reposed on the table cloth. Parkin Jones himself was pinned in the faded Morris chair with the comfortably broken springs by young Parkin and Lauretta, who were crumpling tall shape out of his smart new suit. Baby Jones was gnawing at the expended tip of his patent-leather shoe, -unregarded by his fond mother, who, flushed with the glow of the recklessly flaring gas log, sat at Jones' feet with one plump hand on an unoccupied part of his knee. "You looked so grand coming along |*we hardly knew you," said Mrs. .Jones, with a loving little pat on the burdened knee. Jones smiled complacently. "Pretty swell guy, ain't I?" he said. "'.'Ouch! How many new teeth has that infant accumulated since I've been gone? Quit it, you skee zicks! What makes him so fond of shoes, I wonder." "It's the blacking." explained Toung Jones. 'It's got sweet in it. J tasted it." . 'I knowded you, papa," said Lauretta, burrowing into his shoulder with "her curly head. "I knowded .you dess ve moment I saw you." "Did you, sweetness?" asked Jones hugging her. "Well, tell me what's been happening, mother." "There's three new puppies over at " began the boy. "Hush!" said his mother, raising a warning finger. '.'Let your papa talk. * My! nobody can get a word in edgeways. You've got to tell first, lather. Tell .us all about everything." 'Tell us!" begged the chorus. "Can't you wait?" asked Jones. Aren't you going to give me time to get my breath?" "No!" was the shouted reply. "Very well, then," said Jones. "I started last Monday week, went away, away off to Pittsburg and got safely back home five minutes ago. 1 Now tell me about the puppies, son." "There's three of them " n " 'Des as cute!" added Lauretta. "Children!" said Mrs. Jones. 'Waif nnw We'll hear all ahniit the . puppies later oil. I want to hear what your magnificent father has been doing with himself. I have my suspicions." Jones pinched her cheek. "Tell me, dear, did everything go all right?" "Smooth as velvet," replied Jones. "There wasn't any work to it?hardly. It was just a pleasure jaunt? regular junket the whole time. Private car going down." "What!" ejaculated Mrs. Jones. ' "That's what I'm telling you. Why, what do you think? Do you suppose that the great and only Burmerly was going to travel like ordinary mortals in just a common ordinary Pullman? Well, I guess not. I hardly think he would have requested Parkin Jones, esquire, to him t.hp nlpa?mrp of his rnmnnnv if he hadn't been prepared to do the thing in the style to which the Honorable Parkin Jones has been accustomed." . Jones chuckled at this joke and Mrs. Jones joined heartily. The children went into shouts of laughter, whereat Jones and Mrs. Jones - lkughed the more. "Private car," resumed Jones; "private cdok, private porter and Burmerly's own private vallay." "Was he nice to you?" asked Mrs. Jones, rather anxiously. "The vallay? Well, yes, considering his position. He unbended / quite a little." "Goose! I mean Mr. Burmerly." "Treated me like a prince. 1 hadn't any idea he could be so nice. He's all right, for all that hang-youdnn't-rarp-to-nrpswmp wav hp's e-nt Once or twice he was almost jolly. iYes, it was 'anything you want, touch : the button,' and the meals we got on i- that trip! Whew! Game, fish, ' steaks three inches thick, and?say! I never knew there were such steaks. And I ate right with his imperial nibs." "I should think you did!" said Mrs. Jones, with a flash in her pretty dark eyes. "The idea!" "I didn't know but he'd give me a handout on the rear platform," said Jones, jocularly. "And I met all manner of magnates." "I'm so glad you got that suit," murmured Mrs. Jones. j "It did happen pretty well, didn't it? Made me feel good. too. Two hnnra tn p'pt rr?oHv rrocn'f Tv?nr?li no. | tice, eh?" ! 'I should think not. Then you I think he liked " fc;- | "I know he did. As I say, there 1^ '-wasn't much work to do, take it all i round; but once or twice I had tc Rustle. The old gentleman's a fiend j for setting t pace, but when we got through he gave quite a successful 'imitation of a smile. 'We cleaned v. 'that up in pretty good shape,' he Vsays. 'Jones, how long have you ^ been with us?' And when I told hin: SfeEir. .. } : . . - ' v V ' ' .*v . t I Vi *%. 'TJrtli f * r.n/1 lr\n1r/\^ f r AM O'^ I iic oa?3| 1r2.au. auu auunv>u tuuuijuv ful. Another time he said: 'I don't seem to miss Ridgely at all.' " "Really?" "Honest. And when we met Gibbuns at Hookerburg, he introduced me as if I had been an old friend of his and began to talk business right away. Gibbuns raised his eyebrows and sort of looked at me and Burmerly said. 'You can talk be'iore Mr. Jones.' You see I'm Burmerly's confidential man." "You ought to have said. 'Yes, I'm paid well to be trusted?$25 a week.''' "I know that's what I should have said," said Jones, smiling. "But I have a foolish streak once in a while; I just kept my head closed. But I have what is known as a hunch." 'Papa," said Jones, junior, 'those puppies " "Parkin!* said his mother. I "We stopped at the Gibbuns mansion palace in Clydale?automobiled out there, and if you had seen my room! Such a magnificence! Rugs so thick and soft it was like walking on I don't know what. Furniture! I Gorgeous bathroom with silver fau' cets and pier glasses. Servants and flunkies and table cloths with lace i edges rand china that scared me to death. Man came up to know if he t could help me dress. Oh, maybe I wasn't 4treated well! I saw Ridgely's wife. Style!" ! "What did she wear?" asked Mrs. Jones, looking down at her own bargain silk waist. "Don't ask me," replied Jones. "Suppose some day we had all those things," mused Mrs. Jones. "If Mr. Burmerly has taken such a fancy to you he'll give you something better now, and then What a beautiful time you must have had!" "The darnedest, most uncomfortable time I ever had in my life," said Jones. "Here, I want my old coat and slippers?my old slippers. Get off me, you scaramauches. Mother, what have you got the cloth laid for? You don't mean to say you are going to feed me! What's for supper?" "I suppose after all the lovely things you've been " "What's for supper?" reiterated Jones, embracing her. "It's?it's Irish stew," faltered Mrs. Jones. Jones took his .hat from the table, threw it in the air and dexteriously. caught it-. "Hooray!" he cried, "I thought of it, but I hardly dared hope for it. Now I'll have a square meal at last. Children, leave my legs ' alone. Let's all go out to the kitchen and help mother. There's no place like home. Irish stew."?Chicago News. I THE HAWK AND THE SQUIRREL. A Contest in the Wilds of California Related. Driving down the gentle slopes of Sonoma Mountain?the mountain is 2340 feet high?we observed a very large hawk?the largest of the hawks, a large brown-spotted fellow, perhaps rightly an eagle?perched on the fence by the roadside. As we approached, he flew quartering toward us, dove down at the foot of a rocky hill and arose in the air carrying a full-grown gray ground squirrel in his talons. This squirrel is nearly the size of the timber gray squirrel of the east, and looks very much like it, except that it usually has several light-colored bars on its sides, and old specimens are of a lighter earthy gray. It lives in holes in the ground, usually in dry, rocky places. The hawk flew about fifty yards, when the squirrel reached up and bit him on the leg. This squirrel has a very tough hide, sharp, strong teeth, and is a fighter from away back. The hawk at once released his talons, but thf> snuirrpl hnntr nn with his fppfh quite a little time, and then dropped to the ground and started for his rocky home. The hawk flew down 100 yards^urther and alighted on the fence. The squirrel was injured somewhat, but made very good time back. The hawk waited until he was within a few yards of home when he darted foi: him again and arose 'with him. This last flight o? the hawk showed with what wonderful velocity the great bird could pass through the air. The hawk had flown only two or three rods when the squirrel bit him again, and he dropped it. The poor squirrel was now badly used up, but he did his best to get under cover. The hawk again perched on the fence. The squirrel had reached within a few feet of its burrow when the hawk started for him again. This time he seized the now well nigh helpless squirrel securely with both feet and sat down on his tail?the hawk's tail?stretched out his legs to their fullest extent and stretched his haad and neck away back out of danger, and so held his victim until his struggles were over, and then he flew up on an old tree to enjoy his dinner; and the show was over.? . California, in Forest and Stream. Camphor Tree in Florida. As showing how favorable to the growth of the camphor tree is the soil and climate of Florida, an in| stance may be cited of one grown V*v P.a nt _T "P T? c>nfrno r\f T> ?/*V? 1 o ? ? A It is a splendid camphor tree seventeen years old that is forty feet in height, its branches cover forty feet and its diameter twelve inches above the ground is four feet. The splen. did hills around Richland se'em to be specially adapted both in soil and , climatic conditions to the growth and i development of the camphor tree in its highest state. The tree becomes useful for the production of the gum > within a few years after planting. The growth mentioned is an indica lion that the tree thrives well in thi3 , State.?Wade City Democrat. Suppressing the Cigarette in China. i The Empress Dowager received a memorial advising the suppression ? of the cigarette. She evidently did 1 not KllOW me pleasures ur uuagert ? of the cigarette, and as she did not [ scent any anti-dynastic trick sha : called in the palace doctor, who sup1 ported the memorial. [ Immediately the Empress ordered ? that all the cigarettes in the palaca i be collected and thrown into tho i lake.?South China News. ' x > , '' * 5mart Styles New York City.?It is a well recognized fact that the stage has a marked influence upon fashions, and here is an exceedingly smart and exceedingly attractive blouse that is modeled closely after the one worn by Margaret Anglin in her success of the winter. It has the rolling collar and open throat that are so desirable for all sports, and, indeed, for general warm weather wear, and allows a choice of elbow or long sleeves. In the illustration it is made of white handkerchief linon with a finish of stitching and is worn with a blue and white silk tie, but it will be found W W available for all waisting materials and for the entire dress as well as 'for the separate blouse. There are a great many lovely soft finished linens this season, ail of which are admirable, while cotton goods such as batiste, lawn, voile and the like make up admirably both for the separate waists and gowns. Again light weight and wash flannels are charming so treated and it is well that one or two at least should be included in every summer wardrobe. The waist is made with the yoke I ' j portion, the full fronts and back. The ! fronts are gathered and joined to the j yoke but the back extends to the neck. The sailor collar can bo cut 1 11! ? X 1 on square op rouna outline iu iue back. There is a convenient as well as smart patch pocket and the sleeves are gathered into bands whether they ' are finished with cuffs or with overlaps in shirtwaist style. The quantity of material required for the medium, size is four and a I quarter yards twenty-one, two yards: thirty-two or two and a quarter yards J Corty-four inches wide. For a Dainty Neck. , There are some very neat little j butterfly ties?to be tied by the vearI er?in noft silk, embroidered taffeta j and linen. They certainly make a beautiful little bow and one which, no matter how "thumb^" one's fingers are, will always be successful. Tho nr^'-Hocf- pr>llar ic rorfninlv n high L iste tucked collar, a tiny batiste flounce either pleated or fluted bordering it. The ties attached to these collars are less worthy of praise, as their ends were trimmed with quite unnecessary little batiste flounces like the collar. Coat Material Different. Skirts of one kind and coats of another are in high vogue, but there is no hit and miss union of the two. The one invariably harmonizes with the other- in tone and repeats definitely j its leading color. One gown of this kind is of shantung pongee, the skirt of plain and Jthe coat of a novelty pengee of two tones. The coat is a lnnca ahona oil fho Inntr nnoo Ka. IWklV IU1U Uil l/UVy 1UII{3 vuca VJ t ing brought out. The plain silk borders it and furnishes collar an cuffs. Roses For Dainty Gowns. Tiny artificial roses in natural Bhades dot lace ruffles on some dainty gowns and form the accompanying hair ornament. Ribbon suspenders and girdle are of the same delicate shade. ? for 5prin?. Solid Color For Skirts. Skirts are especially good pleated to yoke depth to show a colid color with the fulness flying below. Wide Range of Colors. So wide a range of colors is now provided in hosiery, that it is seldom necessary to call in the offices of the dyer when a gown is to be matched. Novel Auto Wrap. That is a novel auto wrap whose immensely wide sleeves are cut in one with the coat, and its good points are at once apparent to those who have struggled to pull on a too-scant wrap over heavy clothing. Mushroom Hats in Vogue. The mushroom hats continue in vogue, the wide bandeau at the back furnishing a most convenient place for much of the trimming of feathers, flowers, or velvet ribbon bows, which droop against the hair with pleasing effect. Occasionally the bandeau passes all around the head size, and is covered with looped ribbon, raisins: the hat in a becoming way. Filet Lace. The popularity o' filet lace is practically assured for the season, most of the new dentelles designed as trimmings showing the influence of this vogue. The prettiest tea-gowns, as well as afternoon frocks, are fashioned of snowy crepe de chine, supplemented with graduating panels of string colored filet lace mounted ever chiffon, or are adorned around the hem with diamond-shaped motifs of the 6ame, outlined with narrow pleated frills of string-colored chiffon to match. Sectional Walking Skirt* There is no skirt so well adapted to washable materials as the one with straight lower edges. Here is a model that is graceful as well as new and that is suited alike to plain and to figured fabrics while it can be utilized for silk and for wool quite as well as for cotton and linen. In the illustration "t is made of white linen simply stitched, but if a more elaborate effect is desired the hems can be hemstitched and the tucks?put in by hand, a finish which gives an exceedingly dainty and altogether attractive effect while it is in the height of style. Again flouncing cr bordered material can be used if the hem and tucks either are all omitted or the tiny ones are put in above the design. The skirt is made in three portions. The lower flounce is hemmed while the upper flounce and the skirt are finished with wide tucks at their lower edges. Above this hem and these tucks are groups of narrow tucks and each fiouuce is gathered at its upper edge before the joinings are made. The fulness in the skirt io arranged in lengthwise tucks that are turned outward from the hips and stitched flat, so doing away with all bulk at that point while the additional fulness at the back is laLd in inverted pleats. 1 The quantity of material required for the medium size is eight yards twenty-seven, five and c, quarter yards thirty-sis, five yards forty-four inches wide or ten yards of bordered / material twnntv-nina Inches wida v * *' t <*1 >o.' 1-' ! ;l vV: . V PGTATD SIM CORNERED' Disastrous Freeze in the South Causes a Dearth. Speculators Bny Up Supplies and Jump Prices Fifty Per Cent. Following the Freeze. New York City.?The wholesale price of potatoes in this city has advanced fifty per cent, and as practically all of the large operators have bought all they could get hold of, there is little prospect that the consuming public will have a chance to buy supplies at the prices which have prevailed hitherto this season. Maine potatoes, which were quotable at $1.50 per bag, are now held firmly at $2.25, and State stock has advanced in about the same proportion. The flurry in the market wa9 caused by the freeze in the South, particularly in the large producing districts around Charleston and Savannah, where the supplies of new potatoes for this market are largely obtained during the spring months. Prior to the freeze It had already been known that the potato crop of Florida had been curtailed about fifty per cent, by the protracted drought in that State, and while some of this stock is already in the market, it is held at $6.50 to $7 per barrel, a price too high to bring them in competition with old potatoes, even with prices of the latter much further advanced. European potatoes, which are ordinarily called upon to relieve a shortage here in the spring months, cannot be delivered here for less than $2.80 per sack, so that there is room for the large operators to force prices still higher without meeting competition. i No sooner had the speculators confirmed . the freeze dafoage early in the-week than they sent telegraphic orders throughout all the large producing districts in New York State and Maine and bought all the supplies of old potatoes they could quietly obtain. In the meantime prices in New York City were not advanced, because this of course would have caused the growers in the country to put their prices up. The big buyers had obtained all the supplies they wanted and then suddenly advanced prices. In addition to the effect of the freeze upon the potato market it nas caused an advance of about 100 per cent, in the price of strawberries owing to the fact that the Southern crop was curtailed by the freeze. It will aisp mean that watermelons and cantaloupes from that section, which usually reach this market about June 1, will not be here until about July 1, and that there will be a very short supply of Southern vegetables of all descriptions here this spring. The freeze has been the most disastrous to the trucking interests through the Southeast that has ever been experienced since this great industry developed. TO VALUE THE BIG RAILROADS. John F. Stevens Likely to Do It For the Pennsylvania Railroad. Washington, D. C.?John F. Stevens, who recently resigned as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, is to enter the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad for the purpose of making a valuation of its property. It is believed that this action is in-' tended to anticipate such action oy the Government, as the roads see that in the near future the matter of making a Government valuation of railroad properties is likely to become an issue and they desire to know their status and what may be expected when that time comes. In other words, the roads want to be protected against the possible disposition of Government appraisers to underestimate the value of their holdings. MOB OF WOMEN BEAT A MAN. Take Eever.ge on a Farmer For Cruelty to*His Wife. London, Ohio.?George H. Ward, a farmer, near Roscoe, Madison County, was soundly whipped > by sixteen women because of his alleged continual whipping of his wife and other cruelties^to her. Mrs. Ward died ana wara uuneu her, digging the grave himself to save expenses. The women met at an appointed place armed with buggy whips. When Ward came from the grave they pounced upon him and beat him, crying, "Beast," "Brute," and "Dog." Mrs. Ward before her death filed a petition for divorce, alleging cruelty. Lovers Leap to Death. Balked in their plan to elope, Stewart C. Gay, nineteen years old, and Mable Pendleton, seventeen years old killed themselves at Clifton Forge, Va., by jumping from the suspension bridge. Bryan Believed to Be in Race. noninpmttc leaders exnressed the opinion that W. J. Bryan, in his Brooklyn speeches, removed all doubt of his candidacy for the Presidential nomination. Dr. Aked Arrives. Dr. Aked arrived from Liverpool tc take charge of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York City, saying it should not be called Rockefeller's church. Nude Statues Draped. Students of the Danbury, Conn, high school, who bought statues ol Apollo and the Discuss Thrower tc adorn the schoolroom, were ordered *- - J ? ? ? 4-Y%r\ rtAwmiffoomon lu uiape lucui u/ ttic Boom in Fishing. The fishing boom is now on in Nantucket, and the industry shows more activity than has existed since the decline of the whale fishery four decades ago. \ From Woman's View Point. Announcement was made of the marriage of Arthur T. Kemp, millionaire clubman, to Miss Sybil Kaye, in England. The wealthiest British woman living is a Welsh woman; more, she is single. Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot was one of the three children of Christopher Talbot, a popular M. P. of "the mid-Victorian era. President Thomas, of Bryn Mawr, fcas decreed that henceforth all the learned young women under her rule 1 must have practicable, common sense nockets in their dressas. : 11 HIFRK RfMNYIM 6AI Douglass Is Said to Have Taker $250,000?Lost In Wall Street Part of the Loot Found in the Mat tress of a Bed Occupied by O. M. Dennett, a Stock Broker. New York City.?Detectives work ing in the interests of the Trust Com' pany of America, whose assistanl bond clerk, W. 0. Douglass, abscond ed with Chicago, Rock Island and Pa clflc bonda valued, according to th( company, at $50,000, stopped Olivei M. Dennett, sole partner of O. M Denn&tt & Co., brokers, 42 Wal Street, as he was leaving, the Manhat tan Club after spending the nigh there, and told him he.would have t( submit to a search. The detectives went back with Dennett to his apart ments in the club add found aboul $20,000 worth of the missing bonds between the mattresses on his bed. It was admitted that the tota' peculations of Douglass would +? nnnaiH orohlv mnro thnr auiuuut vu wuwiwv.-M*., ?w. v. the $50,000 in railroad bonds h< hypothecated to protect his 'margii losses in Wall Street speculation. In the confession he made aftei two of his fellow employes trailec him to his hiding place, Douglass saic he had dipped his fingers into the se curities to the extent of probabl] $250,000. While denying that th< embezzlement has reached such pro portions, the officers of the bank nov concede that Douglass had been con fiscating negotiable paper to his owr gambling uses for come time. Ii one quarter it is said that the de ficiency will not fall short of $200,' 000. As a result of Douglass' admissions a part of the last batch that dis appeared?$50,00'0 in bonds of th( Rock Island and Pacific?are now ir the hands of a reputable broker wht is holding them by consent. Steps are being taken to recover the othei bonds. This announcement was made aftei Oakleigh Thorne, the millionalrt president of the Trust Company, had had a talk with Dennett, the brokei who had been named by Douglass ir the statement which he made aftei his capture with his wife in the Portland Hotel. Douglass, who lived at No. 180 Elton street, Brooklyn, is thirty-fOui years old and bore a reputation second to no employe in the Trnst Company of North America until it developed by chance that lie was a defaulter. Then it was tpat his felloe clerks, headed by A. M. Ostrom turned sleuths. It was Ostrom whc ran down the alleged young defaultei and who turned him over to the police. Douglass gave out a statemcnl which would indicate that he had been depending on his employers tc finance stock speculation of his owe for some time. "I have been hitting Wall Street; that's what was the matter," he said, "I first started in speculating in a small way and gradually I got pulled into it deeper than I had expected. In the recent slump in Wall Street 1 was lost before I realized it. I have given the detectives information which I think will be favorable tc my case." DEED OF BROKEN HEART. Millionaire Merchant of Philadelphia, Benedict Gimbel, Commits Suicide. Hoboken, N. J.?Benedict Gimbel a Philadelphia milllouaire ^department store proprietor# died in St, Mary's Hospital here of wounds which he inflicted upon himself after his arrest in New York City on a sensational charge. The wounds alone were not of sucl: a nature as to have necessarily caused death. The surgeons whc fought to save Gimbel asserted thai it was the man's overwhelming shame and a broken heart that ended the most "amazing tragedy ever recorded in the police history of New York. r%t ? ?.-* ? x ti Vjruuuei (JUL 1112 lurudL iu luc rai^uc Hotel, Hoboken, with a broken water pitcher. He had lost much blood by tha time he was found, lying, unconscious on the bathroom floor, but 11 was expected that he would recover, Even opiates could not make him forget his terrible disgrace, however, and it became apparent that his mental strain was slowly killing him. Benedict Gimbel was only thirtylive years old. A week ago he was one of the best known young business men in the country. He was respected. He had many traits of character, geniality, generosity, kindness, which endeared him to his friends. When he ran over to New York his reputation was without a stain, and It would have been hard to find any one with aught to say against him. He was arrested in a cab in Central Park. With him was a sixteenpear-old boy, Ivor Clark, whose mother had made a complaint to the DisAHnrnflv that Crimbel exercised an evil influence over her son. Gimbel was overcome with fear at the prospect of publicity following his arrest. He offered to Detective Reardon a bribe of $2100. T.o Assistant Distrftet Attorney Krotel he offered a bribe of 550,000 if he would drop the complaint. He was out on $6000 bail when he :ut his throat. Unable to Sleep, Killed Himself. Unable to sleep, Humphrey Jarningan, sixty years old, killed himself at Morristown, Tenn. BANK PROMOTERS SENT TO JAIL. President Smith and Others, of Chicago, Found Guilty of Conspiracy. Chicago.?Ex-Judge Abner Smith and Gustav F. Sorrow, president and ?MnA_nt?opMAnf nf fhn Hiinot Rqnlr nf vivv^-picroiuvub u*. uv4uuv? v> America, which failed after less than two months' life, were found guilty of conspiracy by a jury in Judge Pinckney's court, sentenced to the penitentiary and fined $1000 each. Jerome V. Pierce, cashier of the institution, was also found guilty and was fined $500. Newsy Paragraphs. Americans will run Cuba at least a year longer. The Russian lower house has agreed to the restrictions imposed by the Premier. The meeting of the sovereigns of Great Britaiu and of Spain may "\tenally influence thebalance of pov. In Europe. The annual depreciation in the ralue of warships is shown by the sale t\ 4- o,,nHr>r\ aC WQT* VnCCfllC CI I ClULLiUa \J 4, J1A JLI1 1UOU " among them the Sans Pareil, wnich cost $3,597,210, and which hrougJ,v S133.QQO. ; PliMS "UmiHEII LIW" 5 . I I Judge W. 6. Loving Kills Young Cntan in Uirnrinii litCUUUJC LdLCO -III VII guild. ' /'vBS . 4 Manager of T. P. Ryan's Estate Says No Power Could Have Prevented Death of Daughter's Assailant. ! n Lynchburg, Va.?Former Judge W. G. Loving, who shot and killed Theo? dore Estes at Oak Ridge, the country; estate of Thomas F. Ryan, was admitted to $5000 hail. He will plead , the unwritten law at his trial. j Charging Estes with drugging his daughter Elizabeth, aged nineteen, and assaulting her while in a drugged condition, after learning of the al' leged incident from the lips of his daughter, Judge Loving drove some -; ' eight or ten miles before locating the youngf man, and he shot and killed " him with a double-barreled shotgun, c without waiting for the victim to 3 make any explanation. Judge Loving represented Amherst ' County before moving to Nelson la 1 the Legislature and served as Judge 1 of the County Court of Nelson until' ; that court was abolished by the new. 1 Constitution. For three years he haB been in charge of the Ryan estate as [ superintendent. Ball Commissioner J Payne, who allowed Judge Loving's 1 bail, made the following statement: "Judge Loving learned that Estes 7 had taken his daughter riding Sunday, 3 night, and he brought the girl back' " home drugged and unconscious. r .Judge Loving waited until he could get the full story from the girl's lips . 1 about the drugging and assault, and i then he took his gun and went in search of Estes. Judge Loving said: "When I heard the awful story from the Hps of my, dear one I was insane. I waited to learn all the facts and then nothing ? in God's or man's power could have i stopped me from taking his life. I i did it after careful consideration." J Miss Loving is in a highly nervous condition as the result of the affair, and is confined to her bed. Harry; 1 * Snead, a brother-in-law of Judge Lov; ing, learned from his sister, Mrs. I Loving, of her husband's mission, and he made a desperate effort to stop, i him, reaching Oak Ridge three minutes after the shooting. No further trouble is anticipated. ; ; WRECKS DUE TO RUSH ORDERS* Railroads Demand Material to Make Their Tracks Safer. ^ Chicago.?Imperfect steel rails, hurriedly .rushed out of the big mills to meet the extraordinary demand for | material, are held responsible for the multiplying train wrecks and the ap- palling loss of life And enormous destruction of property. This state ment was made by some of the most ' prominent operating officials in the 1 United States. They are here ?t1 ' tending the spring meeting of ther American Railway Association, the most powerful organization of Its kind in the railway world. 1 Aided by chemical experts and ' noted metallurgists, a committee 1 composed of prominent operation officials has been making a quiet in> vestigatlon which has convinced Its 1 members that the time has arrived ' to make a demand on tho steel raiL manufacturers of the country for material which will make the operation of American railways a great deal safer. PRESIDENT DEFENDS COURSE. ! Mentions Labor Leaders and Harriman As Undesirable Citizens. ! Washington, D. C. ? In a letter President Roosevelt defended his course in speaking of Moyer, Haywood and Debs, the labor leaders, and | E. H. Harrlman, the capitalist, as "undesirable citizens." The letter was in answer to a protest from the . ; "Cook County Moyer-Haywood con| ference," of Chicago, against what / \ the President said about Moyer and Haywood, officers of the western Federation of Miners, who are to be . tried for the murder of ex-Governor r Steunenberg, of Idaho. Honore Jaxon, of Chicago, chairman of the Moyer-Haywood conference, wrote to the President that his reference to them was designed to influence the course of justice in the V ;; trial of Moyer and Haywood. The President in reply not only holds that he had a right -to say what he did, but condemns Jaxon and his colleagues on the ground that they have \ organized to prevent a fair trial for the accused men. FAIRBANKS' PLANT BURNS. i ' Vice-President Loses $330,000 in Fire at Springfield, Ohio. I Springfield, Ohio.?The Indianap-. oils Prog and Switcn uompany, a large manufacturing concern, owned by Vice-President Fairbanks and operated by his brother, N. H. Fairbanks, and his brother-in-law, M. L. Milligan, was totally destroyed by; fire. The building covered three acres. N. H. Fairbanks said the loss would reach $350,000. Sebastopol Robbery. A band of armed robbers drove up to the postoffice at Sebastopol, Russia, made the officials hold up their hands under penalty of being shot, took $5000 of the postoffice funds and escaped, leaving no traice of their identity. ??_______ " v Guilty of Illegal Rebates. [ A jury at Minneapolis convicted F the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis I and Omaha Railroad and H. M. Pearce, its acting freight agent, of. granting illegal rebates to a milling company. , Christian Scientist a Suicide. t: Miss Mary C. Tomlinson, of Concord, N. H., a sister of Irving C. Tomlinson, the Christian Science reader, committed suicide by jumping from a window of the Parker House in Boston. Taft Party Returns. Secretary Taft and party arrived i. at the Washington, D. C., Navy Yard' ? tha Mavflnmop nffpr an ab uu uuaiu tuw iuv?^ uv ?. v. sence of exactly a month on a trip that included Panama, Cuba and Porto Rico. Mr: and Mrs. Taft were immediately driven to their residence. Beokman Winthrop, former Governor, of Porto Rico, and Mrs. Winthrop returned with Secretary Taft on the Mayflower. Others in the party were:1 Representatives Burton, of Ohio, and Dearmond, of Missouri; Senator Kitf tredge, of South Dakota, and Miss Marlorie Ids. ;