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LEAD DUAL LIFE. A Physician by Day and a Burglar at Night. WIFE DENIES CHARGE. The Police of New Roehelle, New York, Charge That Dr. Bolin, A Society Leader of That Town, Is a 9 Burglar and Is Responsible for Many Robberies, and Have Arrested Him. Dr. Samuel Bolin, physician, chemist, house owner and a social leader of the Huguenot Park section of New Rochelle, New York, was plucked from a trolley car and landed in jail to answer the accusation of the attempted burglary of a hardware store. Detectives say they will prove that the physician has been posing as a distinguished resident by day and robbing his neighbors' homes after { dark. The New Rochellians, who, prior to Saturday, had ridden with him proudly behind his pair of bays, were so stunned at his irrest Tuesday night that they could not even regain equanimity enough to go the doctor's bail. Dr. Bolin entered New Rochelle society with something of a fan-fare about four months ago. He had previously become acquainted with -? j? T_I? -i ouage JUHii van uciiii, a ^luuiiucuit lkwyer of the city, and the Judge helped him spread the report that his practice in Harlem was something to conjure with and that as an inventing chemist his reputation was little short a of wizard's. When he bought a handsome house on Summit avenue, installed his wife and three children and a stable, and spent $2,000 improving the grounds, he was accepted as a welcome addition to the social situation, without so much as a question. The horses that pulled his carriage through New Rochelle might have been blue-ribboners. He entertained well and made friends. But last Wednesday night, just after 12. Mrs. Robert Haucrh. of Hu guenot street, looked out of her bedroom window and across the lot to the rear and spied a man sawing the bars out of a window in Levison's hardware store, which backs up against her property. The sight interested Mrs. Haugh the more from the fact that two weeks ago her house was entered by means of just such a saw as she was hearing then, with a consequent loss of $500 in jewels. Other wealthy residents of the vicinage suffered similar losses. Mrs. Haugh 'phoned hysterically for the police. The station being close at hand, Detective? De Veau and Cnenowith were groping for a oiorKf r?f thp hiinrlnr in nhrmf fwn minutes. They came on a man hurrying up the rear stairway of the Levi son building. He was taking off his coat and collar as he ran and acted very much like a tardy home-comi er rushing for his cot. "What's up?" he demanded, as the detectives followed him up the flight. "We're looking for a robber answered Chenowith. "He's been breaking into this place. "You don't say," cried the man. "I'll just run up-stairs and get my poistol and then I'll help you catch1 him. Completely mislead the detectives started back for the rear entrance. The man they had been talking with bolted through the front door and ran away. Though they didn't find him again that night De Veau and Chenowith swear he was Dr. Bolin and the collar left behind when he fled is as good evidence as they had with their eyes. Under the half-sawed bars of Levinson's window they found a burglar's hack saw and a can of lubricating oil. Sergeant Cody of the New Rochelle police detailed all of his slim detective force on the case at once. He says he discovered that Bolin was home much of the day and away most of thelnight. But friendly neighbors who knew this explained with the f ?? D AIIW nTAn bcatemcui/ tuat as uumi woo yiav;tieing medicine and running a drug store in Harlem, he couldn't be ex. pected to come up from New York until late in the day. The police found out, however, that he generally arrived in town so late that he must have been compelled to use the Mount Vernon trolley car. , Just what?if anything?the de^ tectives found to involve Bolin in an HnnHlo Hfo fVxsv arill not say, but they declare they have found enough. They say they followed him four days, know where he went on his strange trips after dark, traced him until no doubt remained, and then got out a John Doe warrant for his arrest. At any rate Detective Scott was on hand when the Mount Vernon trolley care surged into New Rochelle, and as Dr. Bolin got off and started, to sounter toward his waiting carriage the detective said, "I want you for burglary," presented the warrant and dragged off the prisoner to police headquarters. T*n ti vyiien nugucuut xwmuuuu uui at daylight that Bolin was in a cell and why, it gasped and grew utterly indignant. Mrs. Bolin, declaring the arrest an outrage, ran from neighbor to neighbor, and by 10 o'clock had twenty prominent citizens in court demanding the instant release of their friend, and offering any amount of bail to get him out. But after tney naa taiKea awnne with Sergeant Coady most of them changed their minds. As a result the bond was fixed at $3,000 by Justice Van Auken. If her husband has been pursuing a double career, Mrs. Bolin says So'. ' J ft; P/ &?>.. 5;._ r.v7 THE ORIGIN OF CORN. First Discovered Among the indians by Columbus. It Has Now Become One of the Cirent Articles of Food in This Country. When Columbus reached Cat Inland on that fateful day of 1492, he found the poor savages cultivating a plant that was new to the Spaniards. Later, when they saw the islanders gathering from the stocks a material which they used for food, the Spaniards took a curious interest in their actions. This plant, which the natives called "Mahiz,"was wholly unknown in Europe or any other part of the old world. Afterwards the Spaniards themselves cultivated this plant for food callingit "maize," by which name it has since been Irnnum in fhp hnfflnipfll wnrlH Tn in this small way began what is now the most important and most valuable crop in the civilized world. Looked at from the standpoint of the botanist, a strange fact is disclosed in considering the habits as well as the habitat of this celebrated cereal. It was indigenous to the two Americas, but at the time of the conquest had made little progress toward the wonderful -development it was subsequently to attain. The Indian tribet in various sections, from the Canadas to Patagonia were found to be acquainted with its merits and depended upon it as one their chief vegetable foods. They cultivated it in little patches, planting it in a hole in the ground made with a stick and from it made certain dishes afterward famous as "succotash," - 'hominy" and "hoecake." WhaU^especially.noticeabJe is the fact that no other grain or vegetable has such difficulty in reproducing itself unaided as maize.. Left to itself it is difficult to see how it could Keep alive. The grain being encased in a thick and closs-fitting shuck, and growing closely to the cob, can not reproduce unless in falling it becomshattered and covered. Birds and other animals mierht help some in this process, butnotenough to greatly extend the area of its productivity. The aid of man is needed, not only to plant, but to cultivate the corn, and it is questionable whether, if left ungathered, the whole of the fields in our mighty belt, would spontaneously bring forth next sea* son a single ear. Fortunately, the savages in a limited way assisted this wonderful plant sufficiently to keep it alive in many places until the white man came with his hoe and plow to do the work on an extensive scale. It is just possible that but for the 'Indians, the valuable grain might, have been lost entirely to man. Its .only chance of survival originally wojild be in the tropics, where the first grains that fell and became covered would escape freezing and thus sprout in the returning season for its propagation. It is a far cry from the little patches on Guannahani island to the cornfields now smiling over the United States preparatory to a production of 3,000?000,000 bushels thisfalU These fields occupy an area* greater in extent than the Gei^nan Empire. Though every state and territory in the Union produces "corn, the principal crop comes from . Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, ^Kansas and Nebraska, which constitute the far fammic 'Vorn hplt " Tt is PstimnfpH that if all the corn produced in one year in these six states were shelled and loaded in wagons, the train would extend nearly .155,000 miles; belting the earth six times with"4,000 miles of wagons to spare. Iowa alone has produced a crop equal in value to the annual output of gold, silver and lead to'this whole country, or more than the net earnings of all the national banks. Our farmers may understand what is meant by improvr ed corn culture, when it is 'understood that an iucfease of one ear in every ten in the fivfe principal cofn states would mean an addition of $44,000,000 a year to their Wealth. Though the origin of corn is yery ancient, its use on a large scale is very muucm. i/ai win, ui^^icat natural: ist, while traveling in Peru, foiind an ear reposing in a metal vessel eightyfive feet below the present surface of the soil. Others have bften found with mummies in the tombs of' the Incas, .'1 he natives of Mexico, lon& before the conquest, worshipped a goddess corresponding to the Greek Ceres, and the method was for sun virgius to sacrifice corn chked in her honor. The North American Indians believed that com mas a direct gift from the Great Spirit. This inspiring belief was embodied in a poetical- legend, to the effect that a young warrior fasting in the wilderness prayed for a gift for his people, when a spirit in the form of a beautiful young man garbed in glistening jjreen with flowing plumes, descended in Response and brought the grain of grains as his offering. The Greenwood Index announces that its subscription price will rfe increaoed ^o $1.50 on the first of the year! Sooner or later every country paper in the State will have to raise their price to at least $1.50 or go out of business. i1 . - she doesn't know anything about it. She, too, protests that he is innocent. Judge Van Zelm also refused toput any faith in the police charges against his friend. He was retained by Bolin to get him out of the scrape and expressed much anger when Justice Van Aujcen declared to parole i-i : L: J__ trie prisoner in ins cusiuuy. Sergeant' Cody says that :the charge of attempted robbery of the hardware store has been used only as a cover to hold'Bolin for other and more serious charges. "We've got this man right," he said. "We haven't acted hastily and we can prove all the charges we will make. ' . ~ SPREAD BY MILK. It Is, Most Protent Agency li Transmission of Consumption. Government Bureau Busy Studyin Question of Infection of CattI With Tuberculosis. Twelve per cent of the deaths o persons of all ages in America ar due to the 'white plague,' popularl known as consumption. In practical ly every instance the infection of ti berculosis is communicated to pec pie through impure milk and no through the breathing of dried spul um, as generally is supposed. M belief is that the government coul do no greater humanitarian wor than in providing a fund for the ei adication of tuberculosis from cattle This work could be performed coir * *? M? ?J ?1.11 _ paranveiy easny, anu, wmie uie 11 itial cost might be considerable, i would be well worth the money e> pended. Dr. C. E.JSchroeder. of the burea of animal industry of the Nation* Department of Agriculture, mad this statement, after a very exhaiu tive investigation of the causes whic lead to tuberculosis. "If some man of the wealth of Ar drew Carnegie could be induced t devote some of his riches to the erf dication of the 'white plague' hi name would go down to history ? one of the greatest benefactors c his race. I have no doubt that cor sumption practically could be erad cated from the United States by th application of modern scientific met! ods in the handling of the disease Every cow in the country ought t be tested for tuberculosis and, i found infested, the animal ought t be kijled. Thousand of milch cow undoubtedly are infected with tubei culosis and the milk they furnis carries with it the germs of the dii ease into the human system. "In a vast majority of cases, it h? been demonstrated conclusively thz the germs of the 'white plague' ar introduced into the human systei through the alimentary canal. Theqc they are carried into the lungs c throat or bowels, where they increaf enormously. The only way to prever the,. introduction of consumptio gerrhs into the system through mil is to boil the milk and, of coura th?t is impracticable in a majorit of instances. "I am satisfied from the results c experiments made by the goven ^ rlo-nrrni* fiiKarnilL UlCUtf tliat 1/llC UCUig^X' VX l/Ufc/V'JL WWtH sis from dried sputum is incon? quental. It is not comparable wit tne danger of impure milk, Expe: iments have shown that the germs < the disease must be taken into tl system through food and milk is tl food which is the most extensive coi veyer of these germs. Therefore, we purify the milk supply of a give community we practically eliminal danger of the 'white plague.' " So important are the investigatioi of the Agricultural Department an of independent scientists regarde that it is very probable Congress ms take up the question precisely as provided for the inspection of be< cattle;after slaughter. Several men v bers df ^Congress now are conside: ing the; subject with a view to tt infcroductioil of legislation providir for a careful inspection of the sour es of the country's milk supply. T} idea is to have an examination mac of milch cows, in instances where tl milk is furnished to the public, ai. to provide for the killing of such ai imals as may be found to be affiictc with tuberculosis, the governmei to make an allowance to the own* of the cattle thus kiiled.- In this wi only, it is urged by scientists, ce the "white plague" be eradicate from the United States. A FlttfAK CHICKEN That Has Two Pair of Legs To Wal About On." \A. farmer at Elwood, Ind., repor a freak chicken with four complei legs. Two," with which it walks, ai l^He. /other chicken legs, while tl others are on its back, where tl wings bught to be. The flatter ai fairly developed, and when the fo' is turned "upside down'!, it can wal on its freak legs but is rather wabbl It'would pay to raise A breed froi such a reversible, self-adjusting, do) bleback1 action foitl.'for several re; sons. The demand for those wli prefer legs for dinner'could be m< oasior the r.hir.kens would bave moi fegs to run "away from enemies, an until they becam^ common wor.l draw well at shows at so much to st "the g-r-e-a-t-e-s-t living curiosity. COST OF HONEY,. The Labor Required to Make Onl v ?)ne Pound. Few realize' the industry necessar for the production of a pound c honey and the enormous labor nece: sai-v on nart of the little insects t supply us with this most precious c all 'feweets. It is estimated that th nectar must he extracted'from 62,00 clover blossoms to make a pound t honey, which means that the bee must make 2,750,000 trips from th hive to the flowers. Bee labor is evidently to chea] and if they had labor organization we should certainly hear of strike: But this is one of the few cases i the world where the laborer cheei fully works for nothing and feed V>ir?icolf TVio omnlnvpr PPfs all t.h benefit, but there is never a kic from the "wage slave." The Lancaster News thinks if th Raleigh man who has sued the South ern for $5,000 damages for catchini a cold in one of its depots, whil waiting on a train, wins his case th company will have to get busy en larging its.stations all over thecoun try to accomodate the inevitable rusl to "wait on trains." Y-j V*P" EGYPTIAN PRINCE. Wants to Study Cultivation of Cot^ ton at Close Range. Prince Dabro Pazratido, of Cairo, Egypt, who has stirred Boston's four Kv onnoarinor in fhp pnm. IlUllUl^VA KfJ ?..w ww... mDii street cars and hanging to the s straps at that, will start for the South e within a few days. He intends to stay at some length in Charleston. In one day the Prince stopped at r three Boston hotels. "Well, perhaps it is the fact I stopped at the first hoe tel to rest up," he said. ' T 1 J. J J y "This was tne aay 1 lanaea, ana [. then I went to the second, where I expected to remain, but I could not get a suite there. The hotel was I crowded so I naturally sought anoth. er stopping place." y Prince Dabro Pazzatido is descendj ed from an ancient family that for j. the last century has lived in Egypt, .. going there from Asia Minor. His , father, Nubar Pacha, and his grand'{l father have both been prime minis" isters of Egypt. ^ Aware of the great commercial importance of cotton growing in his'fatherland, the Prince is much interu ested in its culture and will study the ,j plant during his Southern trip. Cote ton bring 29 cents a pound in Egypt, he says, and rapid strides have Deen h made by the cotton people there is raising it. ^ He will remain in the United States J for several months and will visit the principal cities and cotton plantain tions. The Prince was educated in France. He is young and good iooklf ing and speaks good English. 1- TROUSERS OF RECENT ORIGIN i" ie ,i x_ A Hundred Years Agc^ Methodists Thought Them Immoral. ;o if The modern custom of wearing 0 trousers was taken from the military dress introduced into the army by h the Duke of Wellington during the 3- Peninsular - war, says the Tailor and Cutter. In early days these were is known as Wellington trousers, after it the Duke. e When they were coming into getti eral use at the commencement of the :e nineteenth century tire religious >r world and the fashionable were most se determined in their opposition. A it clauBeinthe original trust deed, dan tecf t820, of a Sheffield Nonconform: lr icf nkonal m>nvidaf1 +Viof "nnilai nn ft IOC Liiapvi v/? iuvu uuuvi iiu 2, circumstances whatever shall any :y preacher be allowed to occupy the pujpit who wears trousers." * >f But this was not all. Some doubts 1- were expressed in many quarters > concerning the question whether a 2- man could be relisrious and appear ;h in trousers. One of the founders-of r- the Primitive Methodist body re)f marked to a colleague ip the ministry le "that trousers wearing, beer drinkle ing so an so will never get to Heavi en," if Father Reece, a famous Methodist in minister, twice president of the Conte ference (born in 1766, died in 1850,) , could not be induced to adopt trousis' ers, and among the Methodist was id; the last to follow popular fashion in >d this respect. ft HIGH HANDED OUTRAGE. jf T ' 1- Negro Entered Young Lady's Room V!0 and Chloroformed Her. 14* ' 'r . V Miss Evelyn Cauble, aged 14, je daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Caule ble, who reside, on George Vanderie bllt's Biltmore estate, near Asheville, id N. C., was Thursday night chlorformed at. her home and an attempted ;d assdult was frustrated bythe screams it of her ten year old sister, who oc?r cupied the same room. The cries Qf iy the younger girl aroused the girl's ^ parents,'' who' put' the intruder to id flight. The Asheville police were immediately informed, and Deputy Sheriffs William's'and Penland went to Biltmore with bloodhound3. Blltm.ore village and the surrounding country have been searched by a posse but up to the present writing; no trace of the ts perpetrator of the crime had been te found. re Miss Cauble was several hours regaining consciousness, and she was ?e at first believed to be dying. It was re found that entrance to the Cauble *1 residence had been affected through K a rear windo'tf. y. m SAW RAINBOW AT NIGHT. J Talc of the Sea Told by Trans-Atlanto . ? it : tic Traveler^. l ne Atlanuc transport imer miiiued haha, just arrived at New York from ^ London, brought to port a story of having seen a rainbow at night, Captain Robinson, and a score of passengers vouched for the truth of the story. H. W. Scoviile, a retired merchant of Newburyport, Mass, said that the rainbow appeared just before mid y night, on Wednesday. All that day >f there had been occasional showers. To I fKowA woo a nloo r? n cr 5- wai u cvcniug nicic tt_c*o u v*vwi o but at night a mist set over the waif ter. ie "Along about midnight," said Mr. 0 Scoville, "a peculiar half circle of >f eolored light appeared in the west. >s Both ends touched the seas and ale though not as vivid as the rainbow we see in the day time, it was clearly de), fined and a beautiful sight." The is phenomenon remained in view twenty 3. minutes and finally faded away. n SHOT FOURTEEN MEN. rs . e Kentucky Feudist Makes Startling Admission on Witness Stand. D. D. Edwards, on trial at Chate tanooga, Tenn., for the murder of l" Sam Brooks, under cross examination g Thursday said: 0 "I have shot and probably killed fourteen men in my Jjme." He said that a majority of the killings ocl" curred in the Kentucky mountains l" and during a labor strike in Chicago, h Edwards is known as a Kentucky feudist. t > *? 1 ' 'L J ^ . / ). SOME TRAGEDIES That Have Been Enected Through Mistaken Philanthropy. The Gypsy Moth, the Guatemala Ant and the Australian Rabbits Three of the Worse. Our calamities are often due more to misguided friends than to open foes. We suffer more from the fools than the frauds. "He means well," j says Dick Deadeye in the opera, "but he don't know." Perhaps farmers have suffered more from this forcibly feeble element than any other class of human beings, says the American Farmer. The experiments are usually tried out on them. When in trouble the quack comes along with one of those remedies worse than the disease, th?y yield and are ruined. A favorite form - ? ^t.1- I-J.-1 ~vn 4U.AM.. /] 1 n Ol nils unsuiiieu punauiuiupj . ucaia with a cure for pests, especially thope of the insect species, and as farmers are the chief victims of these, the tragedies herein to he recorded are exclusively agricultural. Many years ago a kiftd-hearted but roft-headed experlmentor conceived a plan of ridding the grape growers of Massachusetts of the philoxera which by annual visitations was ruining their crops. To this end he imported- a supply of gypsy moths, whose favorite food was the identical inaect that was preying upon the vines of New England. Apparently this moth was the most harmless of creatures and only good was expected of it as a pest-destroyer. It was cultivated, turned loose and soon had increased to millions. The trouble was, however, that the gypsy moth declined to have his bill - * ltlrn In a rlvanPP U1 IttI C <ii l augcu ivi uiui in . ? He objected also to a restricted diet and demanded a more varied menu. He Insisted on eating other thingc and in time developed into a far greater pest than the one he was imported to exterminate. The State has spent millions in trying to uhloacl this costly" Importation, but in vain They can't deport him like an undesirable emigrant, they can't stop him from breeking, nor can they checfc his omnivorous appetite which it gratified at the expense of the fruitgrowers and gardeners who have beer made victims of this conspicuous example of nitetaken philanthropy. A few years ago, some genius thought he had discovered a supreme remedy for the boll-weevil which was threatening the southern cotton croi with' destruction. While "nosing around" in Guatemala he 'made the , acquaintance- of a variety of ant* which showed. an especial /fondness for boll-weevlls as an article of diet It was not definitely ascertained thai the weevil of Guatemala was th< same as that in the United States, 01 that the nature of the cotton or othei conditions were similar, me genius however, like many others of his klnl jumped to conclusions, decided witi himself that he had made a great dis covery and induced the governmenl to import a lot of the blessed ants from Central America. When they ar rived on Louisianna soil, like the smart insects that they are, thej looked around and took note of the vegetable productions and the opportunities In Hfe presented for poor bul ambitious Insects ushered without their concent among strangers in s strange land. They did not seem to have any es pecial enumlty to the boll-weevil, and the later Indicated no fear of these pauper Immigrants from the south The ants, after sizing up all things went to work with zeal on such food as lay before them, indicating an especial fondness for garden truck and various valuable plants on the farms With that community of interest which is said to prevail among ' brigands, they ;left the cotton to the boll-weevil as his special meal, while they proceeded to show what a Guatemala ant could do in the way ol making a pest of himself. At last accounts, he was climbing trees and destroying the nests of singing birds tc such an extent that the people were in fear that their favorite songsters would be exterminated by what was promised as their benefactor. 1 But "the \^orst tragedy of all in the line of .mistaken phUantrophy is reported from Australia. About thirty years ago oue of our sapheaded Kind Hearts noticed that in the distribution of the wonderful fauna of that island continent, the rabbit had been omitted. He Instantly decided that Old Nature had made a mistake and determined to import six as a starter. They were the only {hings to nibble the surplus grass, afford sport to the natives ana inciaeniaiiy iena oeauiy to the landscape with their elevated ears and cottony tails. The progeny of these six ,rabbits have cost Au stralla more money than she has spent in running the government, building railroads and constructing all her internal improvements. Many times they have brought tRe farmers and sheepherders to the bring of ruin by their devastations. It was necessary to build rabbit-tight fences around whole provinces and employ an army of men to stand guard and endeavor to hold down the over increasing supply of plant-eaters. The rabbit got Into politics and statesmen rouna it tne hardest of their problems to deal with. They are now killed by raillions and shipped in cold storagfi to Europe; other millions are shot or poisoned, but the cry is still they come, and this closes our melancholy chapter of mistaken philanthropy. y-??v Low Prices j Froa icrnrntplv I Fitted BYMAIL Frame$ fitted to face perfectly FREE' examination blanks CRYSTAL OPTICAL COMPANY 213 Temple Court. Atlanta. Ga. 'y5' RESCUED AT ALTAR. Young Lady Force* at Pistol I Point to Promise larriage. She Appeals to the M^Ber, Who I n Seizes the Would-Be JBdegroom and Lady Escapes. ^B Miss Belle Crouse, pB daughter of Rev. N. I. Crouse, j^Br of the First Presbyterian chur^Bf Stan- 1 hope, N. J., was literallVorced to c the parsonage of the Firs^Methodist church, in Asbury Park, Wednesday i afternoon by her frantic lover, Percy ( C. Bissell, who at the point of a re- * volver demanded that she marry ! . . \ t him. When the couple came before Rev. C. M. Griffin, pastor of the church, and he began to ask the usual questions, Miss Crouse broke down and begged the minister to save her from Bissell, who, she said, had a revolver in his pocket and had threatened to 1 shoot her unless the ceremony was i performed. Dr. Griffin, greatly agitated, made j a sudden attack upon BisseH. He threw his arms around the ardent lover and held him fast, while Miss Crouse made good her escape from the parsonage. She had no sooner reached the boarding house in Ocean ' Grove. , where 8he was stopping, with her parents, when Bissell reappeared and broke through a window in the house ; He demanded to see Miss Crouse, but was told she was out. Later the young man was overhauled by a poi liceman and taken to one of the outgoing trains. It is presumed he(ref turned to his home, in Stanhope [ The Crouses, it appears, had been told that Bissell, who is a member ; of the Stanhope Presbyterian church. had a fondness for card6, and on this i account their daughter severed a growing intimacy with the young man. He is a student in the State i normal schoOl at Trenton. 1 She wrote him a letter in which , (she refused to have anything more to do with him, and they went i down to Ocean Grove to escape the ; hubbub. All Stanhope had heard of i the affair. When Bissell got the iet ter he followed the Crouses after i having ascertained in Stanhope that they had gone to Ocean Grove. Late Tuesday afternoon the young j man met Miss Crouse in the street 5 and excitedly demanded that she j marry him immediately. Miss Crouse ) refuse^ point blank to accede to his ; request and tried to reason with him. ) Bissell took from his pocket an ugly ? looking revolver and showed her the j cartridges. Miss Crousd alarmed, . finally concented to go to Rev. Mr. t Griffin and be married. Bissell call> ed a cab and was driven with the ?? A ? AV ^ ?? (va r young woman vu iue pai ouua6t. Miss Crouse would not admit later , that she Is engaged to Blssell but I said she heart] some time ago that t he played cards. He told her, how evepi that he had given it all up and t she forgave him. It is understood j that Bisseirs parents will send the young man south. Miss Crou&e Is a > graduate of Blaic -Hall. [ POUND STARVING. t When Cottage- Was Searched Large t { Fortune Was Found. ? ?'VAn/\fiKn Wta cava A aispmcu UU 1VCUUOUU, II ?., n.,. j after living as-a miser for more than , 50 years, and accumulating more , than $350,000, Lander E. Merrick , died at the Home, of Strangers in 1 that city Wednesday. The old man went to Kenosha County in 1840 and I lived in the town of Randall until . two years ago when the officials of t the town found him nearly starved . and took charge of him and his prop> erty. A guardian was appointed and r when the hut, which the old man oc. cupied was searched $350,000 in f cash and securities was found. GAVE UP CARDS. I ??? s Because She Thought They Were Undermining the Church. A sensational attack on card play' ing was made at Winona Lake, Indiana, the other night by Mrs. A. B. - ? - - " ? |k/> Sims, 01 JJes ivjomes, iuwa., iu mc presence of 4,000 people. Mrs. Sims is the woman's whist champion oFThe United States, but she had seen a new light and has abjured her once favorite recreation completely. She stated that she had burned her forty packs of cards, because they had absorbed so much of her time and energy. Frequently ?h?? had played from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. She also thought that excessive card playing on the part of women was undermining the church. THEY COME HIGH. Quite an Extensive Chicken Farm in Pittsburg, Pa. A Pittsburg millionaire has established a chicken farm on a tract of nine acres in the residence district of that city, his purpose being to provide his family with fresh eggs and tender broilers. As the land is val- i ued at $450,000 this would seem to 1 be a rather extravagant outlay for eggs, even in Pittsburg. It is better, ' however, for these millionaires to raise poultry than such crops of scandals as they have been turning j out and may be hailed as a sign of rofnrm THE ONI/ j in Columbia, South Carolina. maV i | thing in the Machinery Supply Li Write us for prices before pip < | COLUMBIA SUPPLY < | On corner opposite Seaboard Aii J ' . ' COTTON FARMERS Irorarl ? VtanH Tnnrathar hv PfM. J 91 ^vw ?v v ttaina i?^w?hvi mm j ?ww Ident E. D. Smith. Ie Says the Gamblers Give the Lie to 'm Their Old Excuse of Supply and Demand. j "Hold your cotton." j That has ever been the advice of Hr. E. D. Smith. Now he adds: "Keep >n holding." The State says when he saw Wed- ' (<[; lesday morning how the report to the' *K lepartment of agriculture had vertled the claims of the Cotton associfl:ion that the crop was short and that mm :he tirlce was ridiculously low. he was. ' "V wrought up to the boiling Over pitch r when he saw that the gamblers on Wall street were pushing the price . 'f lown and giving the lie to their own sxcuse of the past?"We must yield -'"y to the law of supply and demand." "It is robbery. It is an effort to , \\-b take the money out of the pockets of the people of the South Just as.-a , v:r\>pickpocket would. do," Mid Mir. , Smith. They know that this Is 'debt paying time in the South' and they think they have us' at their mercy, ^ but we will give them li fight, which ^ will show them the spttit of the South is yet too proud to yield to them. . -f . "Supply?it is shortf Demand? why, I am Informed that the tuiHs are selling their product at a price which would Be profitable if cotton were being pruchased at '18. cents per pound. / '. ''t.J'X "'Hold your cotton.' That,1s all . that I can say to the ^faimers of South Carolina. And all who will '. \ hold are urged to let me know that they will hold and how much thfey will ho\d. ft will require just a few lines on a postal card addffefeed to our office, room 510, Skyscraper, Columbia, S. C." "The government report, both ai & to condition and number of bales gin- ffi! ned, -was <:vep moje bullish'than the friends of higher prices really anticipated, 6 7 on condition add. practically a half million bales l^s ginned to date than last year, confirming the statement that the 'crop; deteriorating in condition and that mat mere was noi ana wouia not otsf.y as much 1;o gin this year as J act V-,' possibly 2,000,006 bfk][?8 . , This amount is about correct as the per V cent, of decrease in condition shows, and the ginners report certainly con* firms this estimate. \ t t "Yet the 'professionals' take-It ?a _ a joke and proceei in the; face of these conditlons-^-that should warr/ ,, rant ftom 3 to 4 cents more per pound than it is bringing?to deduct a dollar a bale from the cpttonnow t . going on the market. Every argument, all statistics, the law of supply and demand, all In favor now of i higher priced cotton , the South through her cottoii organizations demanding a higher .price,, ?et tlneae gentlemen see fit to taunt them witfc this added insult today to a 20 pofxfe ' . drop in the market. , 1 ,V ; v "Is it possible, that the hsiricip men and farmers of the South aeir. going to have it proven to a.certain Iff that the cotton gamblers can-determine what the revenue'of i^he .South' shall be and what shall b^ the pefr- son a) wages of every individual 'in the South? Or wiir they tak?.thte occasion to prove that they are masters of the situation? ... , "The situation would be; ludicrous if it did not involve so many inter-' . ests vital to the South.- AtPsaW-HSi ... my article of last week, the' oniy posrsible answer is?to. stop selling - oot^ ton. ~ "The bankers and merchants of the South as well as the creditors of* the } South should co-operate no* in help ing the South to win this fight. This is the first time when conditions were such that we will be in a position tb prove our friends and remember them. "Once more let me urge every man > who has cotton to report to me on a postal card the number of bales he is making and how many he will hold from the market. Reports are coming in nnw T want them as full as possi ble so that I may tabulate them and give them to the public for the benefit of all parties interested." C7A,/6 OFFERED WORTHY , - YOUNG PEOPLE. 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