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HOW IS IT DONE? * - - r Trie startling Manifestations ot a Sixth Sight by a SMALL PEASANT BOY. In Norway Who Has Located Missing Persons, Found Lost Articles and Unravelled .Murder and Other Mysteries in a Way That No One So F;?r !!.:s Seen Abie to Satisfactorily in. A letter from London to the New York American says there can be no further doubt that the marvelous ciairvovant powers ot Johann Floei turn, the fourteen-year-old farm boy whose "sixth sense" has enabled him to perform feats that have set the whole of Norvvav, his native country, talking. He has located missing articles, explained mysterious murders, revealed the spot where the oody of a missing child lay, and directed the police in many searches for criminals. Sir Henry Seton-Karr, the noted traveler and hunter of bitf game, has lately returned from a visit at the home of this remarkable boy, where he tested nis occult gift with results which enabled Sir Henry to endorse all that has been claimed for it. Sir Henry describes Johann Fioet turn as an apparently normal arid healthy Norweigan farm lad of the peasant class, of good size for his age, wnich is baieiy fourteen. A closer inspection reveals, however, a pair of eyes which seem to have the habit of turning their glances inward ?rather, a lifting of the pupils until they are nearly or quite veiled by the upper lids. When engaged in ordinary conversation the lad's glance isfraoK and nis eyes do not appear different from those of ordinary persons. It is when Johann exerts his strange povver of "seeing" things which have happened, or are happenings, elsewnere, that this transformation in his organs of vision occurs. Sir Henry's visit to the lad's home was at a time last Spring wnen Johsann's puwers were about to be put to a most exacting test. Being Ovvner of an elk forest not far from Sing-Sass, the boy's native piease, Sir Henry had heard much of the gossip cireu'.auiig auuui, mc uciguborhood concerning Johann's feats of clairvoyance. And he knew the sad story of ti,rt little girl wno was lo^t in the woods near Aalesund two years before, the mystery of whose fate was now expected to be solved by the "sixth sense" of Johann Fioettum. This widely announced test of thr boy's powers was looked upon as a great occasion, especially by th.peasant class. For many miles about Sing-Sass came peasants of both sexes, in their quaint national costurru, fuil of confidence that the uoy would tell what had become of little lo*>t Sophia "Johann, my boy, you used to know little Sopia, didnt'you?" quer% /* rr u*.\? i!a.A.i w^ led Sir Henry, tne nine giri wnu has been missing two years?" "Yes, sir, we used to go to the same school," said Johann. "Try and tell us wnat has become of her; tell us where we can find lit tie Sophia," Sir Henry urged gently. Johann did not apDear to go into the conventional trance. At first he seemed to ue looting far, far a*Tay towards the mountains at Aalesund. Gradually nis glance turned inward, the pupils of his eyes turned upward until tney were concealed by the lids. Every now and tnen he passed his hand ligntly across his brow. Presently his lips began to move. The audience became absolutely silent. At length tne boy began speaking, hesitatingly, in low. dreamy tones. He said he saw the little girl leaving her home with the permission of an elder sister to go and pick berries. He saw her pass her father who was at work in a field near the house and disappear in the mountainous woods. He said he saw her picking berries and she was happy ana singing. Then he said he saw her sad and she was going in the wrong way. Then he concluded by saying: "I see poor, lost?little- Sophia crying and stumbling aloni? uy the river. I?see her?foot tripped? 1 .. J -Tu I Ic mf a tUn uy H V1IIC?ttiiu 3UC J.CU 10 111LW cut. river. I hear her screams, and?I? see?her?carried swiuly over the falls. Now?something seems to? hide her from?me." The peasants are powerfully stirred in their emotions. They lean iorward eagerly as Johann brushes his forehead absently. Now his lips move* again, and he says, with absolute certainty in his voice: "I s:;em to see little Sophia's.body Iving at the bottom of the waterfall." At this point Johann comes out of his tranco-lue siafe. It wis not really a trance, lor he remembers all the details of what he has seen. "Ja. ja, ja," says a peasant from Aale.->uud. "I know tnat waterfall. Come, neighbors, we will go and find j the body of litile Sophia." Sir Henry Setou-Karr returned to his hunting lodge in his elk forest, I where a few days later he learned ! from a message he had sent to Aaie j sund that the body of little Sophia, j two years after her disappearance, j had been found under the waterfall, exactly as described by Johann Floet-' turn. Thereupon Sir Henry invited the | v.... ... i .. uuy tu xun u<j i'.i i? *> a yy r* desiring to rr? x>:?- ?.h<- m ct. th'irou^h perdonai t?* : of hi-'. eiairv.?yane?!. ; One extraordinary ?*j<i;-.o'J-* .\.r Jionry describes a-; folio*;*.. "To corne to my own ?*xp"i ienecs with Fioettum, J may nay that they came about through clk-i.noting, ari l a certain amount of 'chnff' in regard to a big bull elk which I wounded four years ago in my forest, but could not trace, and whose head 1 much desired to find. "There was snow on the ground at the time, but altnough I followed the trail of blood for a whole day I never found the beast, and I often wondered at its immense staying power. The rain which followed completely spoiled the trail for the dogs. "I invited young Floettum to take - - ? -1'- ?- -> /llnAitfin fVlttf KifP COiree WIUI me anu uiouuoo mai bull elk, He is an intelligent type of the Norwegian boy, about fourteen years of age. There is no affectation about him, and when he is asked a question he puts his elbows on the table, covers his eyes with his hands, and describes minutely what he 'sees.' "I talk Norwegian, and I explained t) him where I had started from. Th -n i Ji-.'w a rough map for him. ami asked him to describe the trail of thceikT "This he did wi<h his eyes closed. It was an amazingly circuitous trail, ending at a pool where, he said, the head and leg bones now lie. "I next asked him to draw a straight line from the spot where I shot the elk to the pool. This was the most amazing part of the performance. "Without a moments hesitation he drew a straight line from one spot to the other, with his eyes closed, marking off with his pencil intervals of a hundred yards. He informed me that the spot where the head lies is exactly 1.800 yards, as the crow flies, from the spot where I shot fho animal "One of the 'intervals' was a trifle shorter than the others. When I asked him the reason for this he- explained that he was taking into account a s sharp dip m the ground at this spot. This particular dip I know well, and I was more impressed by this little detail in the boy's drawing than by anytning else. "Of course I am having the spot explored; and in a few davs I shall hear if the elk head is where the boy'saw'it! I should certainly not be surprised if it were." Strangely enough, a few days af- ] ter Sir Henry made' the foregoing statement, he recived word from his game-keeper at the elk forest, that the head and leg bones had been found in exactly the spot described by Johann Floettum. All accounts agree that Johann, a simple minded, honest lad, had no idea of putting his rare gift to his own pecuniary advantage. He has seemed to regard as a joke several offers from dime museum and music hah managers, He seems quite satisfied with the gratitude of neighbors, and visitors from distant Darts of Norway, when his "sixth sense has solved difficulties for them. A year ago many farmers of his neighborhood complained of mysterious losses of sheep. They went to Johann about it, He went into his trance like state and 'saw' the misssheep shot and eaten by "riper" (red grouse) hunters, a class. of sportsman who live on what they can capture. , t - This verdict, strengthened by' the prestige of t.ie boy's fame was circulated ev:ry where, with the result that no mure sheep were misled. One day in the winter a peasant! came to Jo.iann lammenting the loss of hii old silver watch, an heirloom in his family. Young Floettum "saw" it buried" in a snow drift, whrre the peasant had dropped 4t,! He gave an accurate description of the spot and there the deligted old man iound his property. - * - ? ] A resident of . a neighboring town, a man not weil balanced mentally disappeared and'" was searched for in vain, Johann was appealed to, He described a deep pool in a running by the town, and there,, at .the j bottom of the poo:, the*body of the i demented man was found. < < At the present tune most of the inhabitants of Norway are exercised the success or failure to locate Anna Jensen a young girl stolen from Christiana and carried cjfi by tramps. The boy declared that -be' "saw" the girl being carried by tramps to the sea coast, thence into the mountains and- there concealed in a certain cave. - - - -j " ' "The girl is alive," he said* <sBut she has buffered terribly and is much emaciated," He described the mountains and their location with sn much detail that there was no diffcilty in identifying them. > More than two hundred peasants engaged in the search for the cave. In Christianna interest in Anna Jensen's fate was so iriiense that a large party of soldiers' equipped for mountain travel, was sent out to assist in the popular undertaking, The cave was tinally found, jusc I as it had oeen described by Johann ; Fioettum, but owing to its size and many winding branches, could not then be thoroughly explored. Sir Henry said that when he left Norway preparations were complete for a thorough search of every part of the cavern, and there was a gen-1 eral expectation that it would prove j successful?so firm is the, faith of j his countrymen in the occult powers i of Johann Fioettum. Naturally, public confidence in: Johann's clairvoyant powers hasj j come to be shared by public officials; j in the part of Norway where the; boy lives. Upon several occasions; ! the police have sought his aid in ! solving criminal mysteries?usually i | vvnn complete success. Last Spring the police] were.at'" their wits' end to account for a se-! ries of robberies corninitfeci'iri a fine1: country mansion rot' far-from- Sir J Henry Seton-Karr's hunting lodge, i Several tramps were arrested, but j the robberies continued. Finally], Johann was appealed to. He went j ( into his trance-like state and "saw" j the confidential man servant of the ' owner of of the house stealing mon-j' ey and p'ate. which hi hid until able; to disp j.se of it in Christiana, Con-! fronted with Johann's statement,! the man confessed. j: Johann has many visitors of sci- j' ontlic pretensions, interested in trying to explain his strange';power, j; They have come to the little town to ' Sing-Sass from Christiana, from Stockholm, and even from the Ger-. 1 PAYS TO 15K POLITE. ; Some Suggestions All of I's Should licinpinber and Practice. V It does not cost anything to be polifp tn vmir friends and acauaintan ces and incidentally it goes a long way toward making life pleasant for yourself. A civil answer makes more friends A that a gruff one, fand a smile succeeds when a frown fails. We have no right to impose our little tempers and annovances on our fellow-beings. The fact that one person annoys ^ us does not justify us in visiting it ' on the next person we meet. And f yet that is what a great many of us 1 i do. One trival annoyance often 1 j upsets us for the whole day. ' r Some people have the happy knack * of showing courtesy to everyone with whom they come in contact. It i .delightful quality and one which brings its possessor great popularity. , Abruptness is a hard fault to cure, jank yet it can be done. You see, it f is so easy to hurt people's feelings \ by speaking abruptly to them. It c may be done quite unintentional but nevertheless the fact remains that it is done. And tne funny thing about j it is that those who are most given j to hurting others are.generally very [ easily hurt themselves. ( The. quickest wav of curing a hab it is by neverjforgettinglthatlvou are t ! :? , curing 11. If you are inclined to be brusque, * abrupt and harsh-spoken, you must ( keep the one thought constantly on ' your mind. Underneath all that you * are doing must run the refrain, J "I must be pleasant, I must be cour- 1 teous." . | When anyone asks you a ci\i ! question, don't snap Jhis head olf , with a sharp answer. You can at least answer civilly. There is one special case of inciv- ] ilty that we see illustrated too of- ] ten. It is that of strangers or old , people asking the way to certain , points or streets. Nine out of te.i persons whom they ask look as if t j they are being insulted. And yet j the request is a perfectly ordinary , one, and surely demands a civil an- j swer. There are thousands of other ( instances just as simple. ( Don't think, that 'you can save i your politeness for those you like or I for those whom you dare not be anything but polite. If you want to i get on well you must be polite to 1 everybody. i Sometimes you find people who i are models of courtesy when among 1 strangers and demons of incivility in < the home circle. 1 The politeness that is only kept * for show is a pretty poor brand, 1 hardly worth dignifying with the 1 name. j Politeness isn't a virture--it's an j absolute necessity, and the more ot , it you practice in your everyday life , the better off you will be.?Mer- ' chants Journal. INVENTOR OF ARTIFICIAL ICE ' . s ( Was Dr.Gorrie a'Xativo of diaries- ( ton, S. C. We clip the following interesting ' paragraph from the Atlanta Jour- j rial: - j Editor of the Journal: ' < Sir: r note in your issue on Mon- i day the following paragraph: ' 1 "Florida papers are mentioning k Dr. John" Gorrie as a candidate for the Hall of Fame. Now. who in thunder is tne srentiemanr[' In his anxiety to turn a tumorous paragraph your paragrapher has betrayed an ignorance that would be surprising were it not so common i among all our people. So little do t some of us know about men who per- v formed great services to mankind I before the days of press agents. c Dr. John Gorrie, ^-physician re- c siding in Apa'achicola, Fla., invent-13 ed the process for making ice. being, f despite the claims of certain French- e men, the first man to produce ice by c artificial mean.-. In his earnest desir j to make comfortable a. fever- t ridden patient. Dr. Gorrie produced v ice by mechanical means,:' utilizing P hi* knowledge of chemistry, and thus h laid tne foundation of an industry r wheh to-day numbers more than c threi thousand ice plants and a con- s slderab!y larger number of cold storage plar ts. _ s, . Dr. Gorrie's invention was ridicu- i' led by New> York papers to such an h extent tnat ne couia ootain no nnan-1 v cyal backing to build machines large I a enough for commercial purposes, fie " died wuhout seeing the Gorne sys- ti tfcn. applied on a-large scale. h : There is a handsome monument to o Dr. Gorrie, who was a native of d Charleston, S. C., standing in Apala- n chicola, where the first ice was made b in which nature played no part. His P name is perpetuated in the corpor- tl ate titles of many large ice manu- a facturing companies in the coast cit- t< ies, Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans, where the first factories tl were built. si Not six month* ago The Journal if published in the, Haskin's series a ft full account of Dr. Gorrie's inven-1 it tion. No man could be commemor- s< ated in the Hall of Fame who did i is c.... <u? ?-e u,\. i ir mure me cumiui i, ui mo imuw , -men in the warm climates throu ch i <-'? nut the worid. and incidenta'lv forjw the preservation of food products in ,. all lands. Geo. I). Lows, ; ir Editor "Jce?," Atlanta, (la. j tl The farmers can depend on the! banks of this county to hcip ihem a all they c-in in the fight for better L. cotton prices. Hut Lhe banks like I p, the balance of us, have limitations j e as to the money they can <jet. ' Cl man universities. | . The the try finally arrived at, :;fter , : many tes s, like those here des-1 cribe 1, is n<.t very satisfactory, b - lr ing simply that Johann Kloettum is e| a "sensitive" and a natural c'Jrvo- ( , '/ant?soni ?thi:ig which even science ; has latterly come to admit the ac- ,s count for in set scientific terms. j 01 JOKING FOR BAD MAN If M. rjil.. nninlr vesiern cuiiui marvcd uuiun Work of Two-Gun Tough. 'ickers fitted His Fists ami Toeth Against liraggard Who Was Afraid To Stand Before a Man. Quick thinking has done as much is any other agency in ridding the Vest of its two-gun bad men. Armed ifficers of the law have rendered the ife of the professional robber too msafe to pursue, but the gunless nan with nerve and muscle has play:d his important part in ridding nany a community of a "bully," vno wielded a .44 but was a coward it heart. Jack Vickers, editor of a iew.=paper in Leadville, Col., was >ne of the latter ty?e of men. In lis day he was a prospector miner, reighter and cow gouger in the Vest and Southwest. His last en:ounter is worth mentioning. After a varied life, Vickers tumid out to be an editor. He was a >rinter by trade and hailed from Philadelphia. In the rush for land n Leadville there were many East-1 ;rners. They were tenderfeet and easily imposed upon. It so happen- j id that a man named Jeff Hudson irnc nn hand to do all the imposing le could, Frequent complaints :ame to Vickers of Hudson's doings in til finally the editor decided to do something for his subscribers and triends. He knew Hudson and his record, and wrote him up in fine fashion, declaring he was a bully ind a coward: that he had killed ;wo men in Arizona and one in New Mexico, and that in both cases he shot the men in the back. Everybody declared Vickers would be tilled. When Hudson returned to Leadville from Denver, he hunted ip Vickers and rushed into the editor's room, gun in hand. "Oh, you're an editor now, you sand toad, are you?" was Hudson's greeting. "So you're the Tuscon nule-whacking shrimp that write ;hese things about me. eh?" Vickers began to utter some inconsejuential things and, with face drawn nto an expression of agony, began ;o rock back and forth in his chair. This pleased Hudson and as he had i habit of spitting into the face of lis victim before shooting *he approached Vickers, but here his triumph ended. Vickers whirled in lis chair, seized Hudson'o right vrist between his teeth and began :o bite with all his power. Hudson ?c-earned, struck, fought, and finaly dropped the gun. Then Hudson released his wolf's grip, made a sudlen spring and butted his head into jig Hudson's protruding chin. The Draggard's tougue was lolling apart ;vay out his mouth at that instant md he bit the member almost in LWO. Hudson dazed and half conscious from a blow from the buti of his )wn gun b gan to beg off, lu. his filai departure waa made simple by a Tiow from Vickers boot whicn sent lim sprawling down the rickety stairway. Hudson quit the town :hat night and never returned. The tory of the bully's downfall spread ike wildfire. Vickers thought nothng or it. Later when one of his ?mployes rrtiirned to the offi.e and isked if anyone had been in Vickers replied: "Ye-eh'but he did't subscribe." ms-K tiiniAW M INfciW \t:ll 1U l nw.irj. .'Jirls Find Method That Will Transmit Heart Throbs to Lovers. It is not necessary to place the lips lear the transmitter of a telephone ;o be heard at the other end of the vire, providing the transmitter be )!aced firmly against the chest and >ne speaks in a natural tone. This liscovery was made recently by two roung women of the St. Louis (Mo.) ashionable set. The principle involvd is the same as that in the physiian's stethoscope. Experiments developed the fact hat conversation can be earned on *? 1 l _ /ith the transmitter piacea on any iart of the body, even the top of the ead or on the kneei It is not yet on ecord whether heart throbs may be ommunicated over the wire between weethearts. Among the advantages of the new ystem which, in addition to knockag away all stereotyped rules as to ow to talk, contained in the telehone book, are that it is germ proof nd non fatiguing, since the translitter may be switched from place o place in conversing with sweetearts and the long talkers. Morever even the intuitive wife cannot etect suspicious odors under the lodern plan in talking to her husand. The directions are simpie: lace the transmitter firmly against io chest or other part of the body nH snpak in a clear, conversational Dne. Prof. Calvin M. Woodward, one of le scientists of Washington univercy, explained that there was nothlg new in the principle, but aJmit^d he had never before thought of s application to the telephone. He lid the sound vibration in the lungs i communicated through the chest istead of through the lips and then irried ovtr the wire in the usual ay. "The chest system," he said, "is i accordance with' the principle of ie physicians' stethoscope." Aftkr December 10 there will be rush for cotton on the part of the ! dinners and exporters, and the rice will advance because the govrnnient report will show that the op is short, very short. Professor Joseph H. Drake, of' ie :aw department of ihe ur:iversi-j r of Michigan, has startled his class I / declaring that he would favor,1 ecting rne>).;hre Roosevelt asking' f this country. This fool prufe&aor evidently tired of teaching and is | 1 the lookout for a government job j1 I ?fc? A MARRYING GIRL. She Married Three Husbands in: One Short Week. A special dispatch from South Norwalk, Conn., tells of the death there of Mrs. Minnie Dauchey, who, while not yet out of her teeus, was married three time and leaves four .children. She married all three husbands in one week before she was 15 years old. Her first husband was a tatooed man in a circus, with whom she ran away. She returned a few days later, and being upbraided "by her mother for not bringing name her husband, she ran away again:and the same day married Peter Strum. Both marriages were declared voidibecause of her age and wthin a %eek she became the bride of Edward Dauchey, this time with her parent's consent. She was known as the most beautiful girl in that part of the statt. ifter her last marriage she joined trie Salvation Army. BRYAN IN NEW YORK. Explains His Scheme of Government ! Guarantee of Bank Deposits. William J. Bryan was in New York on Thursday, arriving...early from Worcester, Mass., where he delivered an address Wednesday night. He breakfasted at the Hoffman House and previous to going to Dobbs Ferry, where he ate his Thanksgivin? dinner with a friend, took occasior to telf reporters who called on hiir of his scheme for a government guarantee for deposits in such national banks as will join in an agreement tc reimburse the government for losses on banks that fail. Such a plan, h< said, would restore confidence anc protect the country against future panics. KTOTR A PILE. Financier Sells Warehoused Cottoi and Dissappears With Proceeds. J. E. Reeves, head of a chain o supply stores and cotton warehouse) at Griffin, Vaughn, Jackson, Glen ville and Norcro6s, Ga., has disap peared, carrying with him a sum o money supposed to be over $100,000 Most of this he procured by sellinj cotton stored in his warehouses bj farmers who were holding it for If cents. Reeves is a young man anc has been regarded as a great finan cier. Receivers are in charge of hi: stores and warehouses, but there ii little left. A reward has been of fered for his apprehension. TRESTLB GAVE WAY. Part of Train on West Virignia Roa< Falls in Ravine. * A Pennsboro and Harrisville Rail road passenger train was grossing { trestle twenty-five feet high nea; Harrisville, W. Va., Thursday, whet the supports gave way, precipitating all to the ravine below. The engin< and baggage cars were smashed, bu the one passenger coach containing thirty persons was dragged slowlj over the side and no one was killed through a good many were* severely cut and bruised. DIED UNDER WHEELS. , In a Dream Mother Saw Her St?i Crushed. A?? Jas. A. Sattele, eighteen years old, was ground to death betusath < freight train at Hannibal, Mo., wher hurryiitg home to Chicago to 'spent Thanksgiving, his mother leajned ol his fate by mental telepathy. "In m\ dream," she said, "I saw a mangled form and huge grinding wheels, bin could not distinguish them. I oni\ knew Jimmie was in danger and ! could not help him. Then I awoke with a start and sat shivering in bed." SERVED HIM RIGHT. Young Woman Whipped Fellow Who Had Slandered Her. Because David Hirsch had made i remarks affecting her character, Miss Inez Schaefer, formerly of Boston, owner and exhibitor of blooded dogs at the annual dog show at Philadelphia, publicly whipped the man Thursday. ? ? 1.1 -1- ~ u 1' lVe limes SUt; witriueu nci ?UI]I and after each stroke blood rose in a welt across the man's face. SWIFT JUSTICE. Robbed Hank, Convicted and Sent to Prison in Two Days. Less than forty-eight hours aftei they held up and robbed the State bank at Clinton, 111., Edward Miller and Edward Davis were arrested pleaded guilty and sentenced to prison. They robbed the bank Monday evening, were arrested Tuesday and on Wednesday were given indeter minate sentence in the penitentiary at Chester. FOIiTl'NE IX XAILKKCi. Old Mississippi lawyer Had .$75,000 Thus Stored Away. Nearly $75,000. the life hoardings of an old bachelor, was discovered on Friday stowed away in an old nail keg by relatives searching the tiome of Samuel Packwood, a retired lawyer, living near Magnolia, Miss., who died recently. Down an E.uhankinent. Crowded with holliday pleasureseekers an electric car left the rails on a sharp curve n South Fort Worth, Tex.. Thursday, and. tumbling down a twenty-foot embankment Oiip passenger. Charles Gibson, was killed, and ten others were injured. A Happy Father. Richard Pearson Hohsoti. wno, 111 i addition to this fame as the hero of | S:>nti:ico, was engaged in many fr.. ions ?iigagcr.-r,*,!'S. i? -eiovvd liavc hem made th? u.tlu*r oi a scon recently. BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS. Albany, Oorgia, Terorized By Many Bi Robberies. Albany, Ga., is terrorized by an epidemic of burglaries. Dozens of homes have been entered in the last1 two weeks and not a night passes; without from one to six burglaries. |V1 Citizens are greatly excited and after B nightfall suspicious characters in all e< parts of the city are shot at by cit- jj izens on the slightest provocation. . The excitement reached it height the other night, when calls for police H wsere so frequent that not all of them si aould be answered. 1 Shooting was heard nearly all the gl night long in every direction. A policeman was mistaken for a burglar and shot at. Eight men have been ^ arrested on suspicion. Two Scotch a : carpenters were among those arrest- " ] ed. They were walking in the neigh i borhood of the home of J. D. Weston, which had just been burglarized. ci They have proven an alibi but have c not yet been released. They give ri thefir names as Bair and Philip. I( F ASSAULTED AN1) ROBBED. t] 1 In the Streets of New York by Bru- 1; tal Men. ; i Margaret Kelly, a handsome wo- ^ ? 'man of 23, is dying in Harlem Hospi tal, in New York from injuries which ; she told the coroner in an ante-morl tem statement today had been in. hv o tiiVtin-flviruin whn nftpr t - assaulting her and leaving her un- ^ I conscious, had taken her money, d > amounting to $19. '> a s According to the girl the assault t i occurred in East One Hundred and r 1 First street, near Brook avenue. She J i was brought to the hospital late that a night by two men, whose identity . has not been learned by the police, t They said the woman had* been found e unconscious at Twenty-tfotfrth and a * Lexington avenue. An hour before r Miss Kelly says she was followed t from a subway train by a man who f first strangled her, then knocked her 3 ,down and robbed her. ^ i Weevil's Advance Markech ? ? The advance of the cotton boll wee- 2 vil Eastward last summer toward the r j- Atlantic Coast was recently mapped 8 - out by the State crop pest commis- i i sion. Last summer for the first * i i j; time in the history of the pest it J J crossed the Mississippi River. The t Eastenmost outpost of the weevil is j 5 given as follows by the commission: c _| Southeasterly, beginning at White, t Ark., a line may tie drawn in a south- t easterly direction cutting across the c norteast corner of Louisiana and en- .. tering Mississippi near Waterpoff, 1 1' La. This line traverses the counties ? of Jefferson, Adams and Wilkinson, r in Mississippi, and again enters ^ j Louisiana running to Bayou Sara, in t l West Felicianna Parish. At this t _i point the line turns southwest and * , runs to a jioint in Iberville Parish. 8 1 c s THREE NEGROES KILLED. t 3 1 t Were Walking on Track and Struck ? r a by Passenger Train. 2 t ; At Hurts, on the Southern Rail- . way, south of Lynchburg. Va., on Thursday a passenger train struck and killed three unknown negroes ?*ho were walking on the track. > "Hub" (Jot Beat. In the second primary at Newberry >n Friday to nominate a candidate 'r ? for mayor J. J. Langford won over q i H. H. Evans by a majority of 3 4. i langford received 361 votes and a i 3vans 327. Mr. Langford has servr ?d the city as alderman for 10 or 12 .-ears and is familiar with city affairs. : i I THE OJTI.I I in Columbia, South Carolina, makii | thing in the Machinery Supply Mi j Write us for prices before placl | COLUMBIA SUPPLY C j On corner opposite Seaboard Air I I LOOK FOR THE H t* ?iin? nrp manufacturers I and sales agents for complete Pom ) Plants, in steam or gasoline, Stat f ary and Portable Boilers, Saw ^ Edgers Planers, Shingle, Lath 1 and Corn Mills and anything j chinery. Onr stork is 1; 2 prices are right and our g arteed. . Write for Fr I GIBBES MACHINERY COMPANY, MMX\^I] I have had several years ? JJ a" other kinds of vegetable p plants, Collard plants, and Toe ' now have ready for ship a^xll 8n-t' ^en(*erson Successions. II II the opsn air near salt water i sand, 5,000 to 9,000 at $1.25 p thousand. We have special lo' this point. Ail orders will fee money with orders. I would w^' savc t'le c'1ArKes *or feturnii II PromPt an(' P?r*cniil attention. Wr)ll 8 triai order; I gunraotee wtist /?-G?0'S Wakefield and Sucicssio.l Cabb; '-AULIfLOWtpB^ tucc, and larce typr Cauli'.owcr. ( best growers in the world. \Vc have E stock for 20 years, and it s safe to say th tamable. They have success illy stood tli drouth and are relied on by the most promise, uth. We guarantee full count and safe arri* t ICES: Cabbage and l.ettucc f. o. b. Young'* I housand; 5 to 9,000 it $1.25 per thousand I lower. J3.00 per thousand, quantities in prop Write your name and express officc | W. R. HART, ENTKRF References: Enterprise Bank, Charleston, S. ( f. KILLS HIMSELF AND WIFE. roehlynitc Shoots His Wife While She Lay Asleep. John Whitley, one of the leading jalers in stoves, ranges and house mating apparatus in Brooklyn, and ice president of the Reliance Ball eating Door Hinges Company, killi his wife with two pistol shots earr luat week as she lay sleeping in er n.om on the ninth floor of the :otel Helleclaire, Broadway and 77th :reet, Manhattan. Whitley then japed from the window into the :reet, being killed instantly by the ill. Whitley was CO years old and is wife 38. They had a home in fashionable section in Brooklyn, ut had been living temporarily at lie Belleclaire. No motive for the murder and sulide could - be discovered, but finan- . ' ial troubles are surmised. In the ooiJi occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Whitjv was found a checkbook on the Yanklin Trust Company, showing hat all the funds were exhausted, 'he couple had always lived lavish THE TEXAS RETIRED. listoi'ic War Vessel Has Been Placed Out of Commission. :^ The battleship Texas, which was he first armorclad vessel of the LiueFican navy was last week or-". lerc^ to be placed out of cdmmjssion, ,t the Norfolk navy yard. For more hat a year the Texas has been in espvve and since the opening of the am est own exposition she has been it anchor in Hampton Roads. The lisposition which is to be made of he vessel has not been decided. Sevra! states have asked that she be ( issisned to them for use of their lavnl militia, but she is considered _ oo large for such an organization. Kow to Care Rheumatism. The cause of Rheumatism and klHIred diseases is an excess of uric icid in the blood. To cure this terri>le disease the acid must be expelled tnd the system so regulated that n? nore acid will be formed in excesiive quantities. Rheumatism is an nte-nal disease and requires an taenia 1 remedy. Rubbing with oils and iniments will not cure, afTords only en-porary relief at best( causes you o delay the proper treatment, and alov. t, the malady to get a firmer hold ?n you. Liniments may ease the pain, >ut they will no more cure Rheumaism than paint will change the fibre >f rotten wood. Kcience aas ai iasi ui&cuvctcu * >erfect and complete cure, which is :ai)ed Rheumacide. Tested in hunIre's of cases, it has effected the nost marvelous cures; we believe it vill cure you. Rheumacide "gets at he joints from the inside," sweeps he noisons out of the system, tones lp the stomach, regulates. the liver wd kidneys and makes you well all tver. Rheumacide "strikes the root of he disease and removes its cause." This splendid remedy is sold by druggists and dealers generally at 5#c. mri $1 a bottle. In tablet form at !5r. and 50c. a package. Get a bottl# odny; delays are generous. aiv SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS ?ON? PIANOS m ORGANS FOH THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. WE ARE FACTO !<Y AGENTS and epresent only the best Pianos and )rg-'iis. that will last a. life time. W Ire at once for our liberal terms nd special prices. MALOXK'S MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia. S. C. ' HOI'SE ig a specialty of handling ereryie. [ng order elsewhere. v * O., Columbia, 8. C. } Line Passenger Station : ) TRADEMARK : : Box 80, Columbia, S. C. li'lUMlfHI xperience in growing; Cabbage plants ?nd ilants for the trade, viz: Beet plants, Onion Daro plants. ment Beet plants and Cabbage plants as elds, Charleston Large Type Wukefields, These being the best known reliable vanfarmers. These plants are grown out in ind will stand severe cold without injury. In lots of 1,W0 to 5,000 at $1.50 per thou* er thousand, 10,000 end over at $1.00 per w Express rates on vc.ctable plants from shipped C. O- D. unler, you prefer sending advice- sending money with orders. You ng th .- C. O. D's. in Febiuary. Your orders will have my When in need of Vegt'able plants give me action. Address all orders to MEGGETT. S. C? ts;e. i'.iu Do.sr n F. Jrcwii from so.ds .-T ^v, v ' ' ; 11> v. -ked diligently t>. -ik .v 'h.ST ..t to-day they are the I, oh. i* j?st severe tests of cold and ^^ARIBTJf i* growers of every section of the I ! .;f all goods shipped by express. \ A stand. 500 for $1.00; ! to 5,000 at $1.50 0,000 and over ?t $1.00 per thousand. ^Hf ortion. plainly ind nuil orders to * 'RISE, S. C. C ; Postmaster. Enterprise, & C.