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Saluda News. The recent rains have again raised the waters of the Saluda river so there is no crossing at Bouknight's ferrv. The crop- in some sections are looking fairly well, while others look small. The picnic and barbecue at Mt. Willing passed off pleasantly and was enjoyed by those who love to go to such occasions. Constable Tom B. Perry. of Newberry, was there with .his nephew. Mr. Brown. The death angel visited the home of Mr. John Erheredge and took away the wife and mother. Mrs. Etheredge was a god woman. a true wife and a loving mother. We sympathize with the bereaved ones. The inneral services were held Tuesday and was attended by a large number of pe,,pie. x1r Callie has had the misfortune o lotse two inu coVs. Each giving over four gallwns daily. It is slp p,,;ed tha: they had Texas fever. Mr. George Lever has purchased a large engine and is putting his ma chine in order for fall work. Mrs. A. Cogburn is entertaining friends fr.m Newberry. The usual protracted meeting will be held at Bethanv the coming week. Two services each day with dinner on the grounds. August will be the mon:h of "big meetings." One at Bethany next week the second Sunday at Salem and one Friday before the fourth Sunday at Corinth Lutheran church. There is a good opening for a phy sician here. There is no doctor on this side of the river nearer than eight miles. which is a very long way to send for medical aid. People living that distance from a doctor should keep their "lamps trimmed and burning. Everything is quiet when you at tend a barbecue this year. No hard ships, no broadsmiles welcome you now. But just wait until next year and every one will be so pleased to see. you. An old negress who had heard of "the court ho-:se ring" made inquiries concerning the medal it was made of. On having the matter explained to her, she remarked. " tort it was brass." Miss Mattie Bell Perry. of New berry. is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Karan Perry. There will be a barbecue at Ferry's Cross Roads or the 11th of August. Everyone is invi: ed and a good time is expected1. Mr. Perry is noted for his barbecues and his hash is always excellent. Mrs. Rosanna Havird is visiting her sick mothdr and brother ac Havirds ville. It ~will mean considerable to stop the 'saie "of liqjuors when tirne are so manyr who love it--moderate drink ers-are the ones it is hard to reach. They feel so sate. Rise up Christian rno:hers and fath ers, There is work for you to do. Men are drinking: men are dying; Will vou strive to save a few? NAN PATTERSON AGAIN, Back to the Old Haunts of Pleasure the Show Girl Has Gone. A New York dispatch says: Nan Patterson is amazing the public. She has not kept the faith with it. She is causing something very close to in dignation stirring within that intan gible yet irresistible power that reach ed the court room to same her and finally moved District attorney Jerome. in despair at being able to fight successfully against it, to give the word that brought the girl out side the steel bars of the Tombs into the brightness of absolute freedom. Had it willed; had it adjudg Nan Patterson to be a woman, w' .y de praved, of innate wickedness, lacking conscience, remorse and honest peni tence this intangible irresistible force of public opinion could easily enough have spurred District attorney Jerome to place the Floradora girl for the fourth time on trial for her life for the murder of Caesar Young. But the public pitied Nan Patterson. It pictured ther as being whirled along in the fastr pace. younthful, heedless and unknowing that misery must mark the end. The wretched death of Young in the hansom cab was pre sumed to be her awakening. Her long months of imprisonmen in the Tombs: her fearful talk to th good women who visited her there br whispered prayers in the chapel the tender. kindly offices that she per formed toward other unfortunati women prisoners-these things mov ed the entire r.ation to feel a big strong compassion for the girl in th< Tombs. When sufficient evidenci was not forthcoming to convinci either of two juries entirely that he: hand dealt Young his death, the au thorities understood ihe silent but un mistakeable demand of the publii crvstalized in the immortal messagi of mercy "Go and sin no more." Nat Patterson was freed. With her ol< father she went to her home. For giveness and love awaited her there lut there she did not stay. Sh< re::ppeared bethind the footlight There was silent resentment. Th se ts in the box offices remained in d and then-Broadway knew Nat Patterson again. Again was she seet in the glittering restaurants. Agait did she pass down the avenues it hansom cabs. Thursday and Frida: ha found her on the race track sti ling boldly at the starers. gain bling on tiihe races and seemingl3 wh Illv unmindful that the race tracl a a the scene of one of the sordi< ch::pters in the Young tragedy. ',oun will remember. probably. thi indignation felt against Rand when. it his summing up. he warned the jur] that to let Nan Patterson go fre< would simply mean that she woul< go back to the life, the character o which even her lawyers at the tria did not attempt to defend. Far be i from me to cast a stone at and woman, but this much is justly said Nan Patterson on the race track it gowns that her white-haired fathe1 could not have purchased for her Nan Patterson gambling; Nan Pit terson back in the old garnish tinse resorts, in the doing of these thing! Nan Patterson is dealing a stinginj blow of ingratitude into the faces o the good women. pure and kindl, women, merciful men and unstaine< girls. believed in her inheren goodness, in their pity at the suffering she endured. in their anxiety to se< her restored to her home and parents poured out their sympathy to her it prayers, in letters, in telegrams an< through the press. creating that ex pression of public will. "Go and sir no more" which set her free. FORGOT TO HANG HIM. Man Under Sentence Twenty-thre< Years May Now Escape. Twenty-three years ago; says th< Chicago Record-Herald, John Gale! was sentenced to be hanged on a cer tain day. Now he is found practical' ly buried alive in the Joliet penitenti ary. the oldest prisoner in point o: servitude that fahe institution shelters Long since has the law lost to en force itrs original mandate. so his re lease is asked by his sister unde: habeas corpus proceedings. A mystery, unexplainable from th< records of the courts, and not to b< solved through the prisoner, has com< to Judge Kersten, who has been asket to tyrant a 'hearing on the points o law involved. The puzzle comes ir the wonder how the murderer eludec the gallows, how he reached the peni tentiary. and wvhy he was then lost tc identity through long years. Gales thimself does not know why he was not put to, death. He heart the death sentence read to him, his life .o be forfeited on March 24, 1882 He watched the days pass, and sud den'y he wvas wvhisked out to th< Cook county jail and hurried to t'ha penitentiary. For years since he ha! wor dered, but in silence, fearful thal if an error had been made the execu tion would be held ,Mhen his idenit3 was dscovered. Now, the opportuni ty for freedom has come to hirr through tehe dscovery that the las him only on a faded warrant. long since void. In faded ink, written in a dust grimed book, is set forth the history of the Gales case. In legal verbiage Iis plainly copied tihe order, issued b3 Judge William H. Barnum, in th< presence of State's attorney Luthei Laflin Mills, that sheriff Orrin L Mann holds the prisoner in custod3 'in the county jail until dead. Nc stay of execution came to prolong life. No communication of sentenc< ,..s granted. To all intents, so -far < the eye of the law goes, he was execu ted. Kate Gales, a sister of the man. lives with a brother at Veeder and Di vision streets. They, like tihe pris oner, have wondered that he lived. They, like him, have feared to make inquiry lest the doomed man's life be snuffed. Finally the sister broke si lence. She belongs to the Luxem burg Independent club, a social or ganization. The members came to wonder at the situation, and as a body they placed the matter before attorney Matthew J. Huss. The plea for the man's release is made in the name of the sister, on the ground that the prison authorities have no right to keep him in bondage. In her application to tihe court 'he sister says: --And the petitioner further shows that it is provided in and by said judg tment ordered entered of record on or about the third day of February, 1882. that said John Gales be hanged by the neck until he be dead; but the peti tioner states the fact to be tihat for about twenty-three years last pasc. imprisonment at hard labor has been inflicted upon the said John Gales at the penitentiary, without any authori tv of law. Only a death warrant hangs over The man. No sentence of imprison rent at hard labor makes legal his confinement. Admittedly there is no muittimus of commitment to be found by Warden Murphy. Gales was a youth when, November 28. 1881, in a sullen fit of wrath he hurled an axe at the head of John William Hessell, a farmer, who lived near Woodstock. Now he is an old man, though but 45 years of age. I Physically, h-owever, he is scrong enough to go into the world and be gin a new life. Madison R. Harris appears in the record of Gales' coun sel. Judge Kersten referred the petition to the state's attorney for investiga tion. Assistant state's attorney John Newco'mer has hauled out the sciled records. At Springfield the acts of the governor in commuting sentences have been studied. Nowhere is lease of life given Gales beyond tihe day named for the execution. "Between the hours of 9 o'clock and noon," of Sthac day he should have been put to death. No sol:ion either can be given now of how the law overlooked the man. It can not now be in any plausible manner be shown 'how a mistake might have been made that would not have been quickly remedied. Judge Kersten is expected to grant the is suance of the writc to have Gales brought before him for adjudication of his rights. STATE FARMERS' INSTITUTE. To Be Held At' Clemson College, August 8-11-Program. The annual meeting of the State Farmers' Institute will be held at Clemson college August 8th to IIth, inclusive. Ample provision will be made by the college authorities to .ass the visitors in ekamining all the iiverests belnging to Clemson college. Lodg ing will be furnished free in the dormitories. Those attending shall apply for tickets at entrance to the barracks, where names will be regis tered and bed furnished. Meals can be secured for 25 cents each. Prof. J. N. Harper will preside at the meeting. The following is the program: Tuesday, August 8, 8 p. mn. Address of welcome and preliminary exer cises. Address by Senator B. R. Tillman on "Raising Hogs." Wednesday, August g, 1o a. m. Ad Idress by Prof. WV. J. Spillman. United States department of Agriculture. Subject: "Diversification Farming in the South."I 2 p. m. Experience meeting. 8 p. m. Address by J. A. Everett, Indianapolis, Ind. Subject: "How to Solve all Farmers' Problems." Thursday, August ro, 10 a. m. Ad dress by Dr. 5. J. Summers. Subject: "Farming in South Carolina as an opening for young men who will use lrains and are not afraid of work." p. m. Experience meeting. 8 p. m. Address by John Hamil ton. Farmers' Institute Specialist, United States Department of Agricul t... S.,jm.-,- "The New Acrricul tire. Friday, August 71, 10 a. m. Addr< by M. V. Richards. Industrial Ag< Southern Railway. Subject: "Far ers' Interest in Immigration." Miss Catherine Mulligan, of \V throp college. will give a course domestic science during the institu "DISGRACE TO STATE." Cherokee County Preacher Lamba Dispensary At Union Meeting. The mass meeting of the cour Temperance Law and Order leag held here at Union Tuesday to in crystalizing sentiment in favor prohibitidn, an election to vote on 1 dispensary question having been < dered for August 15, was quite a lar and representative gathering, thou not so many attended as were expe ed. presumably on account of t threatening weather. Rev. F. C. Hickson, the temperar champion of Cherokee county, v the speaker of the occasion and ma a telling speech. In the course of ] remarks he said that beforc the d pensary system was inaugurated told Senator Tillman. who is a frie of his and whom he considers a go judge of what should benefit the m< als of the people that "if he organi2 the dispensary system -his party woi be a thing of the past, and the peol -would erase his memory and nothi would disgrace him more." He made many comparisons, sho ing that under the dispensary systi the sale of whiskey had greatly creased, and vehemently characteri2 the whole business as "a disgrace the state." It is hardly possible to forecast 1 result of the dispensary election y though a great many citizens wli interviewed expressed their opini that it will go and prohibition v prevail by a vote of three to one. Just received 2car loads o1 Buggies. I car load of Wagons. and a lot of ule to-date and fire class Harness. -Alto be had at REASONABLE PRICES at A T. BROWN, 16 AU( EXCURS] FROM NEW OLD POINT, V VIRGINIA BEACH,' OCEAN VIEW, CAROLINA BEACH, W RIGH TSVILLE BE MYRTLE BEACH, Through Pullman No. 32 Direct to Norf a. m. August 17th. Tickets Limited toi August 31st, 1 905. ATLANTIC For Reservations or W.uJ. ci FIFTH ANNUAL in ATLANTA, GA. The New York of the South, -VIA C. N. & L. and S. A. L. R'YS.. Monday, July 31st, 1905. Ity $2 ROND ie $2TRIP. uidi he Longer Return Limit than Ever ). Before. ge gh iY U Msit IDON'T ". he Forget it. Specia[ Train--Lov Rats--F st c1 6. de LEAVE. ROUND TRIP. 1s Little Mountain 8.00 a. m.. . . $2.25 is- Prosperity . . . 8.15 a.mi. . . . $2.00 he Newberry . . . 8.30 a. m.. . 2.00 nd Kinards . . . . 8.50 a m.. . . 2.00 od )r- Ariive at Atlanta at 3.00 p. mn.: Re ed turning, special train will leave Atlanta. at 900 p. m. Tuesday, August 1st. ild Tickets good to return on regular )le trains up to and including Seaboard. ng No. 32 leaving Atlanta 1.(0 p. m. gThursday, August 3d. For further information and tickets. w- call on any C.N. &L. Agent or rn J. W. DENNING, Ag't, Newberry, S. C." inl ed to share et, en on In the -Savingl We are offer ing our entire stock of Ham mocks for one - out off the ~tiregular price. I Call and see them . 3UST 16 ON RATES !BERRY, S. C., TO S}$9.0O ACH, " 5~Q Sleeping Cars on Train olk, arriving Norfolk 7.00 return on any train until COAST LINE -'any information write IAIG, Gen Pass. Agent,. Wilmington, N. C. A'. DENNING, Agt., Newberry. S. C.