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PUBLISHED THREE HAS CONFESSED Mrs. Faolling, Widow of Slain Man, Says Gordon Is Guilty. SENSATIONAL WITNESS Trial at Hinesville, Ga., of Alleged Slayer of Former Berkeley Man, Reaches Sensational Climax?Mrs. FanRing Claims Gordon Threaten ed to Kill Her if She Told. A dispatch from Hinesvlle, Ga., says Mrs. Helen Faulling, widow of slain William N. Faulling, Jr.,. for whose murder Charles A. Gordon is on trial at that place. Wednesday on the witness stand made a sensa tional confession of intimacy with Gordon and ended her story by de claring .that he told her he killed her husband and threatened to kill her if she should tell on him. The confession was unexpected to the big crowd in the court room, though many believed to be true just what Mrs. Faulling declared is true. "I am confessing because I don't want to go to Heaven or hell with a lie on my lips," wailed the unhappy woman through her tears at the end of her sordid narrative. In part her confession follows, and since it has been made it is believed Gordon's trial will end in rather short order. "The last time I saw my hus band alive," said Mrs. Faulling, "was on March 26,. 190SL. when he left our home about sundown to mail a letter to his father at Monck's Cor ner, S. C. "I met Mr. Gordon in Florida and have known him three years. My hus band and I ;moved- to several places, in FlorTda/ and each time Mr. Gor don moved also. We first became intlmaieat Loftman, Fla. Our meet ings continued up to the time of his arrest. The night lefore the officers came for Mr. Gordon, he spent with me. ? "My busband left at sundown and at supper.time he had not returned and so several friends had supper with me and we did not wait for him. Just before we finished sup per Mr. Gordon came in and, calling me aside said: T have done it. 1 have killed the d?.' "I was very much frightened and neariy fjainteu, but Mr. Gordon caught me and told me to be calm as he was not afraid. He then tried to get me to go and help him bury the body, but I refused. So he left the house and returned in about an hour, telling me he had buried the bod}'. He said he had had a great deal of trouble taking the body to the place as it was so stiff. "Mr. Gordon told me that last night that if I told he would kill me within the next twenty-four hours. That was the reason for my silence. Since he has been in jail he has writ-j ten me a letter trying to concoct a scheme to prove an alibi for him. ' Gordon Convicted. A later dispatch says for the mur der of William F. Faulling, Jr., at Walthouiville, Liberty county, Ga., Charles A Gordon has been found guilty and sentenced to life imprison ment. Mrs. Helen Faulling, wife of the slain man and confessed cause of the murder, was tried as a result of her confession of intimacy with Gordon and was given her choice of 6 months in jail or exile from Geor gia. She chose exile and before the Gordon jury returned its ver dict was on the way to Florida. Rumor that relatives of Gordon would attempt a rescue should the verdict be adverse were apparently unfounded as there was no demon stration. Judge Paul E. Seabrook, sentenc ing Gordon, told him he should feel grateful the sentence was no worse. Gordon killed Faulling, the widow said, as a result of her husband's knowledge of her illicit relations with Gordon, the slayer fearing that he and the woman would be punished. CHICKEN STEW EXPLODED. Woman Badly Burned While Prepar ing Dinner. The explosion of a chicken stew placed Mrs. Annie Hardy in the Pres byterian hospital at Philadelphia this week. She was burned about the hands, arms and face. The suppos edly decent stew was placed in a pot to boil for dinner, just as any stew would be but the developments were unusual. When Mrs. Hardy was bustling about the stove, preparing other things for the Sunday meal the top suddenly flew off the iron pot, the stew went hurling through the air and the pot itself rolled to the floor. When all the excitement was over an analysis of the conditions led to the theory that the lid had fit so tightly when pushed down that it did not permit the escape of the steam which gathered when the pot N-gan to boil. Mrs. Hardy's burns are serious, but not of a critical na ture. Husband Bathed Once a Year. Declaring her husband bathed only once a year, and that, though worth $50.000, bought tainted meal, eggs that were nealy rotten and rancid butter, Mrs Henrietta Newman, of Washington. D. C. has filed suit for a limited divorce from Mayor B. New man. She also charges cruelty and neglect. COOK GOT THERE WHITNEY SAYS SO AND TELLS OF PEAR1RS |JTTLENESS. Says Peary Made Him Separate All of Cook's Luggage From His and Leave it Behind. Harry Whitney, of New .Haven, Conn., has arrived at 3t. John's, N. IF. He says he believes that Dr. Frederick A. Cook found the pole and that Commander Peary did the same. In expressing this belief Mr. Whitney said that he knows no rea son for doubting Cook more than Peary. "Dr. Cook's story," he added, "seems to me truthful and probable. Nothing else would expalin his 12 months' absence." Dr. Cook left with him,atvAnnatok several cuses containing instruments, and some belongings, but so far as Mr. Whitney knew, no written rec ' ords. There may' have been record?, however, packed with Dr. Cook's per ' sonal effects, but the explorer did not tell him especially that he was leaving written records In his pos session. Speaking of Dr. Cook's detailed account of his trip to the pole, Mr. Whitney said that the explorer show ed him hajv the western drift of tha ice had lafcded him in a region far remote from where he expected to ;o,anri he was unable to get back. He could not speak with authority as to whether Dr. Cook and his two Eskimos could carry on their three sledges enough food for their jour ney to the pole, as he himself is a novice in Arctice traveling. He declared he knew* nothing of the controversy beyond the vaguest de tails. The first he learned of it was at Indian Harbor, when he received messages from several American pa pers asking for a statement. Mr. Whitney denied that Com mander Peary had removed Dr. Cook's stores from Annatok to Ecah:, What Peary really did wa3 to trans fer a few * thhigs and rebuild the house at Annatok. Boatswain Mur phy's only reason for refusing to help Capt. Bernier's Canadian expe dition to get dogs and sledges at Etah was, that they were short of dogs themselves. Mr. Whitney had troub le in getting enough dogs for his teams all through the winter and Murphy was looking out for Peary, ? bo that he would have sufficient dogs for the commander's exploring trips around the country when he retUrned from the north. The day the Roosevelt was leav ing Etah for home Whitney inform ed Peary that Cook had intrusted to him certain belongings to bring home on the vessel that was coming up for Whitney, but as this ship had not arrived Whitney was at a loss what to do with the property. Peary declined to permit Dr Cook's belongings to be brought aboard the Roosevelt and he put Whitney on his honor not to include anything belonging to Dr. Cook in his own luggage. Whitney thereup on went ashore from the Roosevelt, separated Dr. Cook's property from his own baggage, and with the aid of Ca'pt. Robert Bartlett, commander j ff the Roosevelt, whom he had ask ed to help, repacked Cook's- proper ty in boxes. After this had been done, Whit ney and Bartlett cached all Cook's property in a cave in the rocks?. They built up the cave securely with stones and turf and left it and the proper ty in charge of one of Dr. Cook's Eskimos. It may be remembered in passing, Mr. Whitney went on, that ten years ago Peary did with the explorer Severdrup, who was cruising in-Faith sound, what he has done with Cook? he refused to bring back any of Severdrup's letters or records. In conclusion Mr. Whitney declar ed he regretted being dragged into the controversy. He said he had found both Dr. Cook and Commander Peary courteous and considerate and that he had never met any men whose conduct generally was more com mendable or whose dealings with him had been more fair. Dr. Cook, when Bhown Mr. Whit ney's statement, said that hu approv ed of all that Mr. Whitney had said "Everything in the interview is substantially correct," said Dr. Cook. "It confirms all my declarations." "Mr. Whitney was in all probabil ity unaware of the written records left with him. They are of not much consequence, as I have duplicates." POLE DISPUTE CAUSES FIGHT. Macon Banker and Judge Come to Blows in Dispute. A heated argument between Robert ' H. Brown, president of the Central ' Georgia bank, and Judge W. A. Poe, in Macon. Ga., over the Cook-Peary controversy a few days ago, led to' blows, the Judge using his walking cane with telling effect on the bank- ' er. The prompt interference of friends prevented an encounter that at one time promised to be sefiou?. ' The banker insisted that honors' should go entirely to Dr. Cook, while Judge Foe was equally convinced that Commander Peary was- the dis-. coverer of the North Pole. When the Judge questioned the soundness of his opponent's argu-l ment the banker used an ugly word, it is said, which the Judge resented.; RIeriot to Start Aviation School. Louis Bleriot, the French areonaut, has decided to start a school of avi ation at Croix d'Hins?, near Arcachon, France. The proposed circuit will be nearly 2 0 miles, but at first only a four-mile circuit will be used . OKANGEBTJJ ?r WOMAN KILLED. Horrible revolting Discovery In Wcocs Near Spa.tanburg. Mrs. Martha Foster the Victim?Her Husband; Doc Foster, Who Was Seen in the Woods With Her, Held Pending Investigation ? Woman Formerly in Insane Hospital. The discovery early Thursday of the mutilated body of Mrs. Martha Foster, concealed beneath a mound of brush and pine needles in a strip of woodland north of Beaumont mill village in Spartanburg, has revealed a revolting murder and left the po lice authorities at sea. Doc Fos ter, her husband, is held in the coun ty jail awaiting further investigation of the case. The coroner's jury ren dered a verdict to the effect that the woman came to her death by being beaten on the head with some blunt instrument and recommended that Doc Foster, her husband, be held until the circumstances surrounding the case are further developed. Foster was seen with his wife in the woods where her body was found Tuesday afternoon and he is known to have been with her that morning in the Beaumont mill village. He denies any knowledge of the crime and Btated that he last saw his wife Tuesday evening in a hack with a white man and a negro going to a neighboring mill village to see some friends*. Foster says that he did not know either of the men in the hack. Mrs. Foster, who was Miss Martha Sud doth of Greenvillle county, has been in the State Hospital for the Insane i for six months and returned to Spar j tanburg only two weeks ago. She has six children, some of whom are in an orphanage in Greenville. The police believe the murder was not committed in the woods but that the body had been carried there. Physicians say the body had not been dead more than 48 hours. The marks found were on the head, the skull being crushed in several plac es. One arm was broken and the fingers bady cut. Foster's reputation ie that of an honest and law-abiding man?._at one time a successful farmer at Boiling Springs in that county. He is 69 years of age. When arrested he was seated in his room reading the Bible and expressed little surprise when told that his wife had been murder ed. He was taken to where the body lay in the woods, and, after viewing it in an indifferent fashion, said: "Yes, that's her." SERIOUS AUTOMOBILE RACE. Every Existing Record Broken by Chevi-olet in Buick Car. A dispatch from Riverhead, Long Island, says the smashing of every existing American record for auto mobile racing on the openroad, and a spill which coK the life of a me chanican, James Bates, and serious injuries to Herbert Lytle, a well known reacing driver, marked the running Thursday of the Long Is land Automobile Derby. The event was a S'tock car sweepstakes and was run over 22 miles of hitherto untried road at the eastern extremity of Long Island, between Riverhead and Matti tuck. The casualties were caused by the skidding of the Apperson car, driven by Lytle and Cnchanician Bates had completed less than two-thirds of the first lap when the sixty horse power engine, fearing down a slight declivity at a rate of 6.r> miles an hour, suddenly lurched to one side into deep sand and overturned. Lytle shot clear of the car and landed twenty feet away on his back. Bates, however, clung to the ma chine and was crushed under it as it I turned turtle. Bates died an hour I later. But Lytle was able to recog nize his. wife and baby who were hurried to his bedside at the hos pital immediately after the accident \ and there is hopes of his recovery. STUDENT DISAPPEARS. New Hampshire Lad, in School at Asheville, Missing. A dispatch from Asheville say? an appeal to the chief of police of that city by the anxious parents of Gray Churchward, of Hampton, New Hampshire, a few days ago develop ed the fact that the lad, a student at an Asheville school, had myste riously disappeared from that insti tution September 1ft, ami has not since been heard of. The school authorities state that the boy had been missed on the date mentioned and after his departure a follow stu dent had given out the information that young Churchward had told him that he intended to go to New York. The boy's father is now in Now York nsins every means to locate his miss ing son. Ball Disjoints Neck. A fatality occurred Monday in a base ball game near Greenville. Ter.n. The 20-year-old son of Alexander More, a farmer, while playing short stop, was truck in the mouth with a Ewift ball. He died in a few min utes, and it is believed he was struck with such force that his neck was unjointed. 8. C. SATURDAY. OC1 COHON IN THE STATE GOVERNMENT EXPERT MAKES INTERESTING REPORT. Shows How One Run-Down Farm was Transformed Into a Successful Enterprise. L. Goodrich, expert in the otEce of farm management, department of agriculture, has just reported to Sec retary Wilson the result of his ob servations on cotton growing in South Carolina. In making this re port,, Mr. Goodrich says: "This bulletin is an account of the progressive and successful farm op erations of a farmer of South Caro lina who, by combining thorough til lage, crop rotation, barnyard manure, and a judicious, use of commercial fertilizer, has- changed a previously badly managed and run-down cotton farm into a very productive and pro fitable enterprise. The impulse prompting the writing of this bulletin is the belief that it may sugges to other farmers of he South ways and means by which they may so improve their methods of management as. to make their farms more profitable. "The farm described is located in the east-central part of South Caro lina. It lies on a low sandy ridge having good drainage, the land slop ing in all directions from the central ridge like a turtle'^ back. The soil is a gray sandy loam, in some parts quite loose and almost white in color. It is underlain at a depth of 12 to 1T> inches by a yellow sandy subsoil. The forest growth is pine and scrub oak. There are 131 3-4 acres in the farm, of which 66 acres are under a system of rotation and 3 0 are oc cupied by tenant houses and their surrounding lost. The remainder is woodland. The farm has been under cultivation some' eight years, and for the eight or ten years previous to the present ownership bad been rented. After showing how the land should be ploughed and propertly drained, Mr. Goodrich says further as to the yield and cost of making crops: Cost of production of crops in 1909: Labor. 4 men, 12 months (cash, ra tions, house rent).$ 600;0u Wicking 50 bales of cotton.. 375.00 Ginning 50 baies of cotton, at $1.25 . 62.50 4 mules' feed (raised on farm). 400.00 .._._.'-.Fertilizer. ^-. 5 tons acid phos phate, at $12.50.. $ C7.38 5 Ms tons of cotton seed meal (raised on farm), at $24. 132.00 2 tons of muriate \ of soda, at $53.50. 10.25 1.93 tons nitrate of potash, at $42.50. 93.50 -$396.13 Manure. 154 loads for cotton (55 bought, 99 produced on farm, at $1.50.$230.00 - 627.13 Amount brought forward.. $2,064.63 Seeds. 22 bushels of cotton, at 25 cents. . . . .$ 5.50 Five bushels of corn (grown on farm), at $1. 5.00 44 bushels of oats (grown on farm I, at 75c. 33.00 55 bushels of cow poas (grown on, farm), at $2.110.00 -$153.50 Miscellaneous. Bagging and ties for 50 bale.* of cotton, at 75c. $ 37.50 Interest on 66 acres,, valued at $100 per acre, at 6 per cent. 528.00 Interest and depreciation on machinery at IS per cent. 71.41 Total cost of crop produc tion .$2,855.04 Quantity and value of crops and farm products produced in 19OS: Fit-Id A. o0 bales of cotton, at $12. 50.$2,125.00 25 tons ofc otton seed ex changed for IS 3-4 tons of cotton seed meal, at $24. . 450.00 Field It. 1,800 bushels of oats, at 75c.$1,350.00 54 tons of oat straw, at $10 . 540.00 44 tons of cowpea hay at $15. 6CO.00 Field C. 1,364 bushels of corn, at $1 .$1.364.00 2 2-3 tons of pulled fodder, at $25. 6S.75 Total value of crop-, pro duced .$6,557.75 Total cost of production. 2,855.0 4 Net value of crops pro duced.$3,702.7 1 Pork. 4.000 pounds of pork were produced, having a market value of.$320.00 Estimated cost of production of pork on rann rei ns.- . . 1 G0.00 Net proceeds on pork . .$ 100.00 Net proceeds from farm ..$3,862.71 No financial statement of the stock feeding operations is given, as theri! are not sufficient data at hand. Th<j owner states that there is a smnll profit on the feeding and that the manure is produced without cost. OBER 2. I ?IT*. LAID TO REST I ?.? Last Rites Held 0;er Body of E.-Govcr nor Miles B. McSweeney Had Been In III Health for a Year or More and Several Months Ago He Was Taken to Baltimore for Treatment*?Body Laid to Rest in Hampton Wednesday Afternoon. A dispatch from Hampton says the body of ex-Governor McSweeney reached there at 5 o'clock p m. Thursday. The funeral services were held immediately thereafter at Hampton cemetery. The body was accompanied by Mr3. McSweeney and two of his sons. The funeral services were conduct ed by Rev. J. W. Elkins, pastor of the Methodist church, assisted by Revs. W. H. Dowling and G. E. Spruill. Hampton lodge, No. 73, Knights of Pythias, then took charge and the ex-governor was laid to rest with Pythian honors. The active pallbearers were: J. S. Folk, Bamberg; W. C. Mauldin, W. S. Smith, E. M. Peoples, J. C. Lightsey, E. J. Watson, Columbia; G. D. Dowling, IS. H. Aull, Newberry. The honorary pallbearers were: Mayor E. F. Warren, Gen. Jas. W. Moore, W. F. Cummings, Dr. J. L. Folk. Former Governor McSweeney died Wednesday morning in Baltimore. The news was received here and caused widespread sorrow among the many personal friends of Mr. Mc Sweeney throughout the State. Governor McSweeney had been in ill health for a year or more and sev eral months ago he was taken to Bal timore- for treatment Since that time he had been under treatment in a private sanitarium in that city. His condition became critical a week or more ago and Mrs. McSweeney was summoned to his bedside. The end came Wednesday morning at 1:30 o'clock. SHERIFF OUTWITS MOB. Florida Officer Saves Three Negroes From Lynching. * From^Pensacola. comes the news that, evading a mob bent upon lynch ing his prisoner, Sheriff Hayes Lewis, of Marianna, Jackson county, reach ed there early Thursday morning, having in custody three negroes, Dan Davis, Cary Gray and Robert Gray, who were arrested Monday for the murder of John Dukes, a planter, of that county. After the negroes had been placed in jail at Marinna Monday night a mob was formed about midnight and demanded entrance. Concealing the ne?Toes, the mob was admitted by the jailor, and after failing to find the prisoners, quietly left the jail, later learning of the rule by which they had been outwitted, the citizens formed again and prepared to attack the jail a second time. The sheriff, however, succeeded in getting the prisoners away without being mo lested. Duke;-, it is said, was mur dered in a brutal manner, the body being horribly mutilated. His wife, who was a Mrs. King before their marriage, is prostrated, her first hus band having been murdered in a sim ilar manner by negroes. DYNAMITE DESTROYS GIN. Unknown Parties Blow Up New Plant at Ccrro Gorda, Fla. A dispatch from Bcnsacola, Fla., says dynamite set off by unknown parties a few nights ago destroyed the cotton gin owned by John Gunu at Cerro Gordo. The entire contents, including a large quantity of cotton and cotton seed, was destroyed by fire. The gin was a new one, hav ing been in operation oniy a few weeks. The dynamite had been plac ed under the machinery of the plant and the explosion shook the entire town. No motive for the act is known. Pellagra in Georgia. At Valdosta, Cn., two cases of pellagra have developed and both victims are dangerously ill. The sufferers are a prominent lady and a young negress. Attending physicians called in consultation an Atlanta practitioner who has had experience in treating the disease. He pro nounced the diagnosis of the local physicians correct. The Neptune is Launched. A dispatch from Portsmouth, Eng land, says the Neptune. Great Brit ain's eighth battleship of the Dread i nought type, was successfully launch led there a few days ago by the Duch i ess of Albany in the presence of a j great concourse. Experts regard this vessel a- unsinkable by torpedoes. Valuable Cargo of Cotton. A dispatch from Galveston, Texas, says one of the most valuable cotton cargoes that has ever left an Ameri can port was sent from there Thurs ! day to Liverpool aboard tie1 Gulf Transport linor Irak. She c:::-ri"l 26.S73 bales, valued at $1.300.000. Many Refused Naturalization. During the past fiscal year, 2,007 [aliens were refused naturalization, a material increase over the rejec tion to foreigners during the preceed | ing year. STORY OF WRECK THRILLING STORY OP THE LOSS OF A STEAMER AT SEA. Survivors of Ill-Fated Norwegian Steamer Gere Brought to Philadel* phiii From Winter Quarter Light. Saved from a crew of fifteen, the seven who had a narrow escape from death by the foundering at noon on Saturday of the Norwegian steamej Gere, six miles from the Winter Quarter Lightship which is stationed fifty miles south of the Delaware Capes and sixteen miles at sea, ar rived at port a few days ago on the British steamer Arroyo, which took them from the Lightship, before leported as having the shipwrecked .iien aboard. The men saved are Julius Meyir, the Captain, and six seamen. They are now in the ca-e of the Norwegian consul in Phila delphia. A thrilling story of shipwreck in which every one was for himself, is told by the men, in English that could scarcely be understood. They said the Gere, which left Philadelphia with a crew of fifteen and a cargo of coal for Sagua La Grande, Cuba, encountered rough weather after passing out the Dela ware Capes. Off the Winter Quarter Lightship when only three men were on deck, an unusually heavy sea struck the steamer and it keeled over at a dang erous angle. She was repeatedly struck by high waves and finally went over on her side. In the meantime the other members of the crew came on deck and taking in the situa tion secured life belts. _ Nothing could be done to right the vessel and as she was rapidly settling the crew looked about for safety. The only boat had been swept from the davits and was floating away. Therefore there was nothing for the men to do but to jump Into the sea. All of them managed to find tim ber or other floating objects from the ship which went to the bottom within three minutes, and the streng er swimmers struck out for the drift ing boat. The little craft was float ing bottom up, and after a trying time the boat was righted and an attempt made to clear it of water. Enough was gotten out after a two hours struggle to put two men in it and with the aid of their hands, and a pair of marine glasses they scooped enough water out to permit others to climb in. Meanwhile the weakest of the swimmers and two that could not swim went down, one by one. When the water was finally out of the boat, the last- remaining "man clinging to it was- hauled in and it was found that eight men were miss ing. They floated before the wind until 4:30 p. m., when they sighted the Winter Quarter Lightship. The little craft had no oars but the ship wrecked men guided the boat as best they could, and soon came near enough to the ship to be taken on board by the lonely sentinels of th? sea who spend their life on her. Members of the crew say the cap tain and chief engineer were the last to leave the ship. The engineer, H. H. Nilson, was drowned. The rapidity with which the Gere sank is believed to have been due to an unusually heavy load of coal, which is dead weight. Although the Gere was only 420 tons burden, she sailed from port with 900 tons of coal and was commented on as she passed down the Delaware river, that she had only about, nine inches of freeboard. JOHN BLACK ON TRIAL Former Member of South Carolina Dispensary' Board. At Columbia John Black, former member of the State dispensary board, was put on trial a few days ago for having received a bribe of $2,;')00 from John T. Early, repre sent!;:? Fleischmann & Co., a Cin cinnati firm. The transaction is al leged to have occurred in 190C. There was sensational testimony when Joe B. Wylie, a member of the same board, testified that there was an agreement between the whis key salesmen and members of the board by which certain houses were to be favored. Wylie submitted' In evidence his private memoranda al leged to have been made when the board was in session in March, 1906. Attorney General Lyon put in evi dence check for $2,f.OO from John T. Early, and for $.r>.000 from M. A. Goodman, both payable to Black. Defendant will try to show tfiat these were for services as salesman be fore election on the board. The Black case is the only remain ing one of the series in connection with alleged frauds in the old State dispensary which will b<> tried at this term. Indicted for Deserting Chiid. A dispatch from Spart&nburg says the grand jury returned "\ triie bill against H. A. Sack ami wife, charged with deserting their three weeks' old infant at Southern Station last Saturday night. They were arrested in Columbia, but Mrs?. Sack was not able to return to Spartnnburg on account of being ill. Comi l-'rightened Kcr u> f^'.ith. An i?ged negress, !:?::.?? o.i the plantation of J. Y. Westbrook, near Greensboro. Ala., was frightened to death this week by a racoon which she saw crawling acro:s her bed. The raccoon was kille 1 and eaten by a grandson to prevent any more of his family from perishing. () CENTS PEBCOPY RAPHAES11ES Bis Memory HcDcrtd AH Over the Soa'jV Iz-rA (hi Last Monday. i -' 'was great naval hero The One Hundredth Anniversary *A the, Birth of the Only Confederate Adniral Marked With Public Cer emonies in Several of the Southern States. At many points in the South on Monday, but especially at Baltimore', che chief city of his native Statt, in New Orleans, where he it. greatly .beloved,-.at Mobile and Montgomery, in the State of his adoption, and sev eral other places, honor v. as paid to Admiral Raphael Semmes. Born one tfundred years ago, Admiral Semmes d.ed in 1877, passing into history a.-, "the Paul Jones of the Confeder acy." America has hardiy produced" a greater sailor. Fifth in descent from a native of Normandy who came over in 1G40 with Lord Baltimore, Raphael; Semmes received a high .school edu cation and then found his way into the navy as midshipman, there be ing no naval' academy in cxistaried at the time. He rendered valiant' and efficient service in the Mexican' war and had attained the rank of commander when war between the sections, broke out. With his first command, the Sumter, a clumsy 6iA boat propelled by both steam and sail Semmes captured seventeen northern merchantmen. Blockaded by three Federal war ships at Gibraltar, he sold the vessel, and proceeded with his officers to. the Bahama Islands. On July 33, ,3 862, the Alabama, thenceforth fa mous, was permitted by British a? :tnoritie?. to sail from Liverpool, : where she had been built as "No.1 (200," her guns and war munitions she received' in the Azores. Then oe-^ g?n one of the most wonderful, careers which any vessel ever had. Within the twenty months of bcr existance the Alabama captured %i northern merchantmen, burning Imost of them at sea for the reason that few ports were open to their i reception. She sank the FedeV?^ warship Hatteras after thirteen n*?n ?utes' actual "fighting. In June, 18*1, Semmes accepted a challenge to bat tle given by Captain Winslow, of the Federal warship Kearsarge, .it Cherbourg, France, though he was under no strategical or other need, to do so. Apparently about the Alabama's strength, the Kearsarge was in realty armored heavily with chains unde* her outer planking, so that her ad i versary iwas. surprised to see h?? shot rebounded with little injury. ? Moreover, the Alabama's p?w^etf fca'* deteriorated during many mon<^P 1 passed in tropical climates; a sfypU ( placed in the steering gear of tho Kearsarge failed to explode when \\a ? explosion would have rendered toe Federal vessel helpless. Under these disadvantages the Ala bama fought a brave but foredoomed 1 contest, finally going down. Her pi '? fleers and crew were saved by tile English yacht Deerhound. Admiral, ? Semmes later complained that Cap ' tain Winslow had lured him into a combat through specifically false 1 statements, namely, by representing that the two ships were on an equal footing when in fact the Kearsarge had armor concealed. The Alabama was a fine vessel of about nine hundred tons and 2:{0 feet length, built for both steam . a*d. , sails. Her best speed with all -her resources used was. about thirteen knots, or fourteen miles an hour. She usually ran down her prizes, when they were sailing vessels, under tail alone, and such was Semmes' pride in her sailing qualities that he would sometimes prolong the chase greatly rather than resort to steam.. The havoc which she worked to. the American flag on the high sea.*} has never since been repaired. Eng land had to pay fifteen million dollars for turning ber loose, but from Uw standpoint of commercial advantage this money was repaid many tad. As far as their personal preferences were concerned, Semmes and his men would have preferred lighting to prize-making, but there was never, a day when the hostile epftbet of "pirate" would justly be applied. The Alabama was commissioned after acquisition in a foreign port, j but so was Paul Jones' Bon llommo Richard. Semmes cannot be re | proached on this score without in volving Jones, in "Service Affoat" Admiral Semmes tells in effective style the story of his stirring monthn on the Snmter and Alabama. We I advise any one who may never have ? read if to repair the omission. Saw South Pole of Mars. I That the Houlh Pole of Mars is ja white peak surrounded by an ice clad area, is the statement made by j Prof. Philip Fox, director of the : Dearborn observatory at the North ? western university, at Chicago, III., w:,o sjys that this week he bad an j unusually good observation of Mars j which-was then only 30,000,000 mi!e;s from the earth. Husband Refused Wife Shoes. That her husband had purchased her only one pair of shoes in the four years of their married life was one of the reasons given by Mrs. Margaret Dando, of .Chicago, .111., for desiring a divorce from William. Dando.