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"r1 iir 124 VOL" ----- --_ - .. _-- -_ - - - MANNING. S. C.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2)NO REAPS LIKE A ROMANCE THE RESCUE OF AG RL FROM A SPAN ISH : RISCN In Havana by a R-pr:sent tive of the New York Journal. A id e d by Two Other Men-An Interesting s:ory Charles Daval, Ihe Cuban ccrres pondent for the New Ycrk Journal, describes in a special letter from Ha vana the escape of Miss Emanelina Cisneros, the Cuban girl. who was freed from a Spanish durgeon by the Journal breakin~g the bars of R, coji das prison. "I came here three weeks agn. hav ing been told by the edifor of the Journal to -o to Cuba Std rescm-t from her prison Miss Cisneros. the niece of the former president of the Cuban re public, a tenderly reared girl, descen ded from one of the best families in the island, and herself a martyr to the unsa'iffied desire of a beast in Spanish uniform. "I arrived at Ceinfuegos late in Sep tember, telegraphed to a kncvnn and tried man in Santiago de Cuba to meet me in Havana, ar.d then went to San ta Clara, where I picked up a second man, known to be as gritty as Sabra, and then proceeded to Havana. Here I remained in almost absolute conceal ment, so as to avoid the spies that dog one's steps wherever one way co and make impossinle and clever work of this kind Both men who accompa nied me, Joseph hernandon and Har rison Mallory, pursued the same course, and remained quiet until all plans had been completed. "The fact that Miss Cisneros was incommunicado made the attempt seem at first beyond the possibility of success, but we finally, through Her nandon, who was born on the island and speaks Spanish like a native, suc ceeded in sending. a note to her through an old negress, who called upon one of her friends in the prison. "A centen got this note through two hands to Miss Cisneros, and three centens later got to her a package of drugged sweets. Having established communication with her, we began work without losing a day. "The Casa de Recojidas is located in the lowest quarters of Havana, and is surrounded by a huddle of squalid buts occupied by negroes and China men and reeking to heaven by day and by night. A single alley, perhaps twenty feet in length, zigzags around two sides of the building, opening off in front of the main entrance. "Compostella street runs along the rear of the building north and south, and from this leads off westwardly to Sigua street, by which dignified name is known the alley running along the south side of Recojidas. Turning at right angles to the north, the alley tipsily forgets its name and loses rec ord on the map of Havana. At the north end of the building and just in front of the big door of the prison the filthy lane right angles again,becomes O'Farrill street and strikes straight forward, as though anxious to leave the jail as soon as possible. It ends at Egiao street, opposite the Havana ar senal. "A dozen times in half as many hours I passed through this crooked alley trying to find the solution of a problem that would not be solved. Becojidas was apparently inaccessible; its huge, thick walls towered far in the air, topped by a high, thick para pet. The only windows to be seen from the alley were about thirty-five feet from the ground, and were pro tected as are all windovws in Cuba by massive iron bars. "Although not known to any of us at that time, as it was invisible from the street, there was a window open ing from the second story on a z:>tes, or fiat roof, over lower rooms in the front of the building. Through this window the escape of Miss Cisneros was finally e ffected, but it was not until a week after our survey that any suggestion looking to the use of this window was made. "For the first week we scanned and rescanned the outer walls, 0uggesting a d< ztn plans, all eq qally worthless. A daylight attempt was consi-ered, and plans were made to get Miss Cis neros to the barred door opening into a small court just off the main en trance. "Don Jose, the alcade, was then to be lured outside the door. lured furth er, into a state of temporary uncon sciousness, ar~d our end accomplished by a wild dash for liberty. This scheme would probably have worked but for the fact that Miss Cisneros was incommunicado, and was not p r mitted to receive visitors, or even to come into- the sala de justicia on the inner side of the door. "The fact that the Havana arsenal, always under a strong guara, stretch ed its long front across the end of O'Farrill streeL on the other side of Egido street, and that the barracks of a company of the Orden Publiccs was located just back of the Recojidas on Compostela street, made this plan de cidedly uncertain as to resuits. It was abandoned. "As it appeared at this time abso lutely impossible to either get into the jail ourselves or to get Miss Cisneros out, it was considered to have become a case of 'untar lossmnanas,' and a sturdy attempt was made to reach some of the guards or keepers with bribes, but nothing was effected. Fin ally, when it appeared as if the only possible way to secure the escape of the beautiful Cuban would be to dy namite a part of the building, a note was smuggled in to her as a last re sort, asking if she could make any suggest ion that could help us. ''In answer she sent the following message, in Spanish of course: "'My plan :s the following: To es cape by the roof with the aid of a rope, descendmng by the front of the house at a given hour and signal. For this I require acid to destroy the bars of the windows and opium or mor phine so as to set to sleep my compan ions. The best way to use it is in sweets, and thus I can also set to sleep the vigilants. '" 'hree of you can come and stand at the corners, a lighted cigar will be the signal of alarm for wraich I may have to delay, and a white handker chief will be the agreed signal by which I can safely descend. I will only bring with me the necessary clothes tiel around my waist. This is my plan ; let me kno w if it is ec2 venient.' "Accompanying this was a plan drawn by herself showing tne exact location of the window refetrred to. It was at the end of a second story apart ment running along Sigua street on the side of the prison, but not extend ing clear to its front. The azotea, oi fiat roof, on which it opens was about twenty feet wide and a high parapet along the front o' the building mid. thi wirdow from sight in the street. "No time was lcst it acting on her suggestion. The idea of eatir g through sn iron bar with An acid was dismiss td, and the question then naturally e~sented itself ?s to how thg bars of the wirrdow could be cut so as to ner mit her to crawl through. The- height of the- building also precludd the idea { f letting her attempt to. come dow n by herself. Her plan was to use the rope on the flag-staff. "Ccnse quntly it became absolutely necess rv for us to gain access to the szotea if we were to ceceed. To do, this, it bEcame immediately apparent, would necessita-e ihe use of a house in the crcokd little alley runniwr around the j il. Dv the rarest good fortune I found on my next visit to the viiinity a vacaet house imn ediately a j fining the jail on the forth side of O'UFrrini street. "By this time No. 1 O'Farrill street is better known and more famous in Havana than the palace itself. Br thr end of the next day the house was in our pessession. As La Luncha naively remarkstoday: ' The lessees could find no one to become responsible for them, so paid twomonths in advance.' "Oar gold pieces made this O'Far trill palace ours for the space of two months, should we care to occupy it Ithat long. Next day the deal was, closed. A colored Habercero was sent to the house to whitewash, and. be sides the lime and brush, he carried a lig at ledder about twelve feet lon. Tate possession of this ladder .as al; that brought him on the scer e When he went away in the evening he forgot it ard it remained in the house. "Last Tuesday nizht we went intc the squalid little den at No. 1, fully prepared, as we believed, for all possi ble contingencies. "Having the key. I went first and reached and entered the house with out being noticed. Hernandon and Mallory followed about an hour later, but were so unfo'-tunate as to find the door of No. 3, the -djoining house, standing open, with two of the occu pants gaping idly at the moon, wait ing for the arrival of the last of tbeir household. As our two men passed them and disappeared into the house they became very much alarmed, { seeming to imagine the visit of the strange men to the house next door foreboded some pending calamity to themselves. "Although it was now 12:30, the oc cupants of No. 3 remained awake, busying themselves at first with barri cading themselves in. Finally, how ever, the tardy member of that house hold arrived and with much noise and clamor they barred themselves in and went to bed. "It was fully 1:30 o'clock before the noises of the neighborhood quited down and the evil place fell into a semblance of repose. At the time the moon was high in the heavens and as bright as the mid day sun. Do n to ward the corner of the front of the Recojidas a large gaslighted bracket against the side of one of the houses rade visible the smallest cbjact in the dirty thoroughfare. 'Notwithstanding these disadvant ages, however, we mounted' the roof and proceeded to business. The front of Recojidas lay at right angles to our house, but the prison building ran back of our building so that the walls were together. At this point, how ever, the ground wail of the R cojidas rose about twenty feet above our heads and was protected on the top by a thick sprinkling of broken glass bottles. "This guard wall extended out from the front of our wall to a point ten or twelve feet distant, where it j inted the azotea. To reach this latter pint, therefore, it was necessary to throwr the ladder diagonally across the right angle separating our roof from the azotea. This was the most tir-klish part of the business, as the ladder was frail and thrillingly short. "Finally the ladder was in position and the trip across began. No man engaged in that enterprise that night will ever forget that twelve foot walk across that sagging, decrepit ladder. At one time it swayed from the wall. Hernandon was only saved from a terrible fall by the promptness with which the two men at the ends of the ladder acted. 'As it was, a large piece of the weak cornice on which the ladder was rest ir-g went clattering down into the street, waking the alcalde, who came hastily to the door. By this time the ladder had been withdrawn. T v'o men were left on the e zotea of the jail, while the third was lett on the roof of the house to handle our drawbridge and guard our retreat. "A great gap opened in the face of the massive building as old Don Jose looked out in to the quiet street. He stood there for a few minutes with an absolutely unnecessary candle in his hand, staring out at the moon and ap parently greatly pleased with the beautiful aspect of the soft Cuban night. Then, apparently convinced that all was safe, he turned and passed back into Recojidas, and thus passe d unharmed through the most danger ous moment of his life, for every sec ond that he remained in the stree; was a second fraught with t eath. "Three 44 calibre revolvers covered him and his discovery of our position on the roof would have called for his immediate execution. Time was then allowed for the natural a aiiet to drift back upon the scene, and when finally everything had become normal the work of getting the Journal's protege out of her loathsome dungeon was be - gun. "We crept softly across the roof to the window she had indicated. As we reached it we saw her standing before it. She was dressed in a dark colored dress and not easily seen in the gloom inside. She gave one glad little cry and clasped her hands through the bars, calling upon us to liberate her a once. She had been stand ing there for over two hoursand a half, and she knew that aid was coming, but her pa tience nemr deserted her, as she could see us on the roof of No. 1. "Bidding her to be quiet, we started at work cutting through the iron bar between her and liberty. We selected the third bar on the left side of the window, and began cutting it near the bottom. Our progress was slow and wearisome, and finally after an hou/s work, we found that we had only cut part of the way through..- It was impossible to use the saw gqicaly as the bars were not set firmly in the frame, and rattled and rang like a fire alarm eve rrytimne the saw passed across the iron. "At last a stir in the room she had qitted warned Miss (Jsneros that it was best for he-~ to retire again: so leaving us she sapd a sheet a ur her and glided quickly back to her B r oi s b ' us to ret"-n tV. { i n h a.- )ompiew c( r W . She was quickly asud we would be c ham again. and s'-e was contented. "We were N erl- dU at our fGil'r T I d: Pelec'F; ':u'd y npiht in fi of .'i e fac. that 1 %X dy s.lifarded a n opiur:it o 'c C th' ste'am-e to ice W , r could serd a man wih a ful s:ory of tile tig' ccc arranc-, .s it ws well known-1 thiat rno detailedi see t of the escwca cotd b e" led fr::n I a vana We trued to luck.ho-v.-erto s'atnd by i's, l nes only :11it f.! rnx ;;us "i r in' ? a. : ld no. wouli rem ai : i tj' _'.i n) mes7s eS :: e rd; wh-ether or n ' cur sele:rcpt c- the 'lbih before e. h .en ds (Cors ..!, ou' prcccde d c the assuono a had no, aud '-r; rmintd to err; out our l's to the lette". ture was uurebss-d in e'e of tlI c' lying s uiurbs nd was :aced in our house, and that rnight ;hen We :n: there th;:r: we were s2 rroundei by our own household Iares and pVuates. A huge ::orron deccrated the toujer,. : inked on eit er side by a hot*e of jpnevra 2nd a igbundlie of br evas Our sideboard -as set with plates and other crotkery, and a chest of drawers a foldinz table and a pi: of cnvas folding cots had be Sent i'. .We dre nrd cu' tIe ta bles and '. forth carndie: unil is gleamed :ie a banq:et board. Teen we thre w ,p n the wi'do' s- h'.t the neich'rs ;iht look in uru the newcco.rs in the neighboruced and became acqu..in t'd with themn, and tindiv fell i.t a name of poker around the table that came near destroyiug all our stroogly cemenrted friendship. "Until 11 o'clock the g7rae went oa, A brace of guards, in their striking blue and red uniforms. lounged uo to the windows to note whether we play ed for wind or centime=. and, ijnding the game a= innocent as a day in May, wandered of' with their swords clank. about their heels. At 11 o'clcck we shut the window and barred out the soft, ;bright moonlight that !lboded the room with its silvery g!o0y, and then turne- in for a cou -le of hours' patient waiting. "It was not easy work, as the stone f)or we lay upon was as hard as the heart of Weyler and twice as cold. The bundle of brevas went up in smoke as we lay tnere talking in whispers, and finally the time for ac tion arrived. The inmates of No. 3 were again awaked, and, far from be ine impressed by our household furni ture, seemed to fear us even more than the night before. It was dread of the strangers in the allay that kept them quiet and made Miss Cisneros' release possible. "They sat up talking this night dur ing the entire time we were working on the roof, and were still sputtering Spanish when we left them. This time the fairies seemed to be working with us, and everytning moved as smoothly as clockwork. Tye ladder was raised to the roof without a sound and as we pattered about in our stock ing feet a speel of enchantment seem ed to fall upon the city. Far cfF in the haze of moonlight a jangling chime of bells seemed changed by some magic into sweetest music, and the ugly tiled roofs and queer bits of old Moorish architecture, jutting an gularly here and there, seemed trans formed by some magician's touch into palaces. "Again the light, frail ladder was thrown ac-oss fromn the roof of the azotea. Tne trying and periious j ur ney was made as quickly as possible. The ladder was withdrawn and we were again in front of the window be ind which Miss Cisneros was impri soned. "This time thera was no delay. Our outfit consisted of a pair of Stilson wrenches, and putting one above and one below the cat madle the night be fore, we wrenched the bar asunder with one snao. In a eecor d I had caught the broken bar and had pulled is out enouzh for a purchase, and then slipped my knee uier. I drew it up till it was hur'z )n tal with the roof. I then stopped, slipped the bar across my shou'der, and grasping the crossoar aoove, straightened myseif, bringing the bar far up in the air. A sec~tud later 1 had twisted myself into a huge \ above the crossbar, and reaching down caught Miss Cisnercs by the shoulders and pulled her through the opening. "Could the women of the Unitel States have seen the smile on that poor girl's face as she realindet that at last, af t. r fisteen months of prison life, she was at liberty, they would have felt a happiness as great almost as hers. That one fleeting smile of ineffable happiness was reward enough for both of us there at the window for all cur work and risk. "To get our litte heroine safely away was now the question. Tae trip across the creaking, s waying ladder was made by Miss Cisneros with the grace and ease of a frightened fawn. he astute detectives who found a knotted rope on the roof stated that the ends had been held by two men on either roof, atf.>rding Miss Cisneros a hand rail to guide her across. "Nothing o~ mte sort was done. The knotted rope was to be used in case o' emergency, in case our return to the roof of No. 1 should ne cu: cIr, forcing us to descend from some other part of the building. Miss (Asneros needed no hand rail in her state of j y and exhilaration. "No time y ai lost in getting away from the building. We gqaiek y made our way downstairs, donned our suoes and made cif. The neighabors heard the clang ot the heavy doors closing, then the sharp, quick rattle of a car riage dashing recklessly c if over the obbles, and then quiet fel upoa the neighborhood of tue ic j las Tne beatiful giri pusouer was a' liberty and would nerer agaia fee the sudj cation of its cro wded wal. "Taere was but one bad break in the arrangements we made, on leaving Hernando, taking alarm at a s~ud in the Rccjidas, had drawnh hsrevolver. iuen he ph.c-d iton the parape: of the house. Iaing down~ to assist Miss Cisnercos acros.H irsot it, and it has been foutnd. there. to the great in dignation of the 1)0lice. "The theory that E-s.gelina had escaped to Key W\est i a smuall boa'. at once occurred to th people at ine palace, and the Nueva Em~ana, the swif test cruiser~ at the island, at once cleared for key V Wst, ad started oni a search for mae fugimtves, covering the entire diistauce f ro:n h::re to I~ West yesterday and last aia. wita glasses and searchlig hts. E rery tus that could be spared and every smali craft and gunooat took part in tne earh, but without avail." AN U NTR UE STORY NO HAZING AT THE CITACE. ACA.D EMY. C:a of G Wa-y-N: Trath In the Tale of Crne Tre- mn nt -Tiho1 :)y Sin ply a Y~ ted. O e t Cairman Board of Visitors s' tio Carolina Militarv Academy, Barnw wel, S C , 0:t. 13, 1S97. To the Eiito: of The Rtegister: W ii vu be good enoug~h to give oace in your jurz.ol to the following p:- , the pu'ZUca~ tion of which stis cal ld or by a comm-run caton'"i :om vur Ui rieston correspondELt i you-ir isi o' the! 1ith hist: JOHNSON HaJGOOD, Chairman Bsard of Visi'.ors S 0. M?. Soth Carolina Milliry Academry, O ce of the S.ipe-intendert, Cita du 1. Charleston A. C., O.t 11, 1897. Gesn. j ohnmon Iagood, Chairman B}ard of Vis:tors. Dear General :-I deeply regret to report another case of desertion. YouOg Way, beneficiary from Holly Hiill, Berkeiey county, got leave on Friday erv ing to visit friends in the city, did not return from his leave at p. m., and the next morning, ir. Thomas, an attache of the Nation a: H:use, brought his csn and gloves, and s ated that the lad had gone home int mornirg in spite of his advice to *e conreay. I wrote at once to his1 father. Tree lad was very timid and ho .esick, but he claimed, Mr. Tnom (3 said. that he had been cruelly ill treated or hazed by the older cadets. I have thus far failed to find any -iecunds for this complaint. Thse Evening Critic got hold of the matter and pub ished a vicious article in the Saturday afternoon issue, and this ar ticle wvas republished, almost verbat um. in The Ulambia Regiter of yes terday. Tais morning Cadet Smoak (B) 3 class, brought the enclosed com muaication to me with the reqiest that he be allowed to send it to The Register, of which paper he has been a correspondent. Mindful of art. 210 of the regulations, Isubmitted the corn unication to Col. Gadsden and Gen. Anderson, and they thought it best to let you decide the matter. If you ap prove, please for 'ard in addressed en 'elope enclosed. While writing this, the following telesram has been received from Mrs. Westfield. * "Fletcher, N. C., Oct. 11, 1897. Col. Coward, Citadel. Am most anxious that you receive my son back. Please telegraph if you will do so. State if you can send some one to accompany him at my expense. I am JANE WESTFIELD." * I have replied by wire as follows: SYour telegram forwarded to Gen. Hagood, chairman, who alone can an swer. Cannot send any one." In my judgement, the boy should not be allowed to come back unless he does so willingly, and conditioned for some punishment. I did not write to you on Saturday about the Way case, because I thought his father would come down or write to get his boy back. I have heard nothing from him up to this hour, 4:50 U. m. Very respectfully, ASBURY COWARD, Superintendent. At the Citadel, Charleston, S. C., Oct. 11, 1S97. Elitor Register: In Saturday's is sue of the Charleston Critic there was an article given undue prominence in which it was stated that Cadet Way was rua from this institution by a revival. of hazing. and tbat be was cruelly treated. Knowing that the Critic did not have any prominence in the state, it was ccncluded not to make any reply, either in the Critic or in any paper in the state; but when your paper of yesterday contained the same article from your correspondent at Charleston, the necessity of a re ply was obvious, in order to stamp as false, the whole article. The corres pondent of the Critic was in a nosi tion to have obtained a true account of the reason Recruit Way d.serted, but instead of his seeking to give a true and impartial account, he accept ed a garbled story told by Way, who wseed to justify his action in leaving. Tne correspondent of the Critic could have obtained a true report of the oc currence by coming to the citadel and asking either the superintendent, Col. Coward, any member of the faculty, or any cadet at the institution, but be ing apparently pre judice d ag ainst the institution and wissing to injure it and also to win notoriety for himself, he accepted as true an incoherent statement made by Way, who wished to j istify his leaving to his family anua all who would likely be interest ed in him. The writer of that article says: "Al though the academy has only been open a wee k. t wo cadets have broken garrison and gone home on account of the brutal treatment they received at tne hands of their fellow students. Now, I wish to say-and in saying it I have the sanction of the corps-that the above statement is false. The room mates of the other ;cadet who lef t the day' before Way did, affirm that he was not molested in any way by the * old boys." He is, besides, a chronic deserter, having deserted from an other school j ist a few days before matriculating at this institution. We do not feel it a ioss because he left, except fnaancially, as he borro wed sev eral sams of money and as yet has failed to return the same. "P. Y. Way, a bright and promising young man from Holly Hill, Berkeley coun ty,' is the latest victim. He cannot be called a young man unless meaning logtrousers makes a boy a man. Way was very young to have entered the institution at all, besides. "having been raised in the country" he should have had more grit than to have been frightenedl into leaving by the sight of city Lfe and ways. "He is said to be a very smart boy and camoe out first mn his examination by dint of hard sta d." Way may be a very smart boy, but he failed to leave that impression at the citadel, and he came out first in his examination because no one oppos ed nimn. Just here let me say that the occurrence is much regretted by everyone in the corps. As a cadet myself, I am in a position to know ho~v Way was treated. He is nata rally titni as the Critic stated. The old callets reil d this fact ar d felt iiudjy toward tree boy. and had he stayed tili no.v, he would have had no cauise to wish to leave. It is regretted that he left, because he had acuance to obtain an educa tion. The wheel of his fortune had revolved and brough't uppermost an opportunity for improvement thatI comes but once in a lifetime, and tne mst no- ne of the most important parts of the education he would have received here would have been a knowledge of how to make his way among fellow students while at the institution, and fellow citizens when he had finished. This story of his that he had been beaten and hung up by a chain till his feet barely touched the floor is maliciously false, and is so stamped by every cadet that I have spoken to about it. When Lieut. Jenkins was command ant at the citadel, he put an end to the hazing business by threatening all cadets who took part in it with expul sion. As a matter of fact. hs zing was abolished while Lieut. Jenkins was commandant at the citadel, but it was abolished by the cidets themselves. They held a meeting and voluntarily agreed to stop the "pernicious habit." Ia fact, previous to this time, every cadet had been required to sign a pledge to not engage in hazing, and no less than three had been expelled for commiting the ofiense. Before and since that time all re cruits matriculating, have been re quired to sign a pledge that they will not while at this institution engage in any hr zng. The high standard of this institu tion, the pride the student body has in making and keeping it the "West Point of the South," and the high reverence they have for the "esprit de corps".is enough to convince the ordi nary mind that when a young man who wears the "citadel gray" solemn ly obligates that he will not engage in hazing; that he is entering into an agreement that he intends to and does The article I have replied to is mis leading, and if accep:ed as true, is calculated to injire this institution. My intention is to correct this erron eous impression as far as lies in my power, and I cannot but think that the writer of that article did not real iz) the magnitude of the wrong he was doing this "grand old academy." A reasoning mind will readily per ceive that it was an exaggerated ac count, and founded upon what the boy, Way, himself said, and I hope this article will set the matter r;ght and free the parents of other recruits from any anxiety they may have as to the welfare of their boys at the cit adel. All the other recruits say they are well pleased aud would not think of leaving. W. W. SMoAK. Shccking Double Murder. Twc wonen, an aged and widowed mother, and her daughter, also a wid ow, wereqmurdered early Wednesday morning at their home, 242 Line street Camden, N. J.. by burglars. The former was Mrs. Emma Z in, aged 78 year:, widow of Capt. Eli Z ne, and the daughter was dirs. Sarah M. Shaw, aged 45 years. The murderers escap - ed and the police are without a clue. The only witness to the shooting was Eli Shaw, a son of Mrs. Shaw, who has been suffering from a severe at tack of typhoid fever. The scock was so great that he was unable to defend the women and he has thus far been unable to assist the police in discover ing the murderers. The tragedy oc curred between 4:30 and 5 o'clock and was agnost certainly the result of an attempt at robbery. Mrs. Zane was reputed to be well-to-do,and the neigh borhood is said to be infested by a number of tough characters. The only story of the murder thus far is that gathered by the police from the son. He says he was asleep in a third story back room and was awakened by a noise on the lower floor. He notified his mother and started down stairs to investigate. Oa the second floor his mother joined him and went before him into a room. The next instant a pistol shot rang out and Mrs. Shaw fell to the floor. The son saw the forms of two men crouching in a dark corner of the room, and, terrified ran to the front room and called for the police. Mrs. Z ine was dead when found and Mrs. Shaw was taken to the Cooper hospital where she died a few minutes later. Her son was turned over to relatives. An examination of the premises indicated that the house bad been entered by forcing the win dow of a kitchen in the rear. A lot of silver wara had been gathered on the first floor and packed ready to be taken away. The police learned that Mrs. Z ine had $2S9 in her possession yes terday. No arrests have been made. Shaw does not know that his mother and grandmother are dead and the news is being kept from him for fear of serious results. One Way to Defeat Them. Accrding to the Rck Hill Herald, Cpt. W. L. Roddey, a very promi neat business maan from that thriving ity, '-suggests that a good way to de feat the original package agents would be for the state to impose a heavy li ense tax on every perso~i or agent sell ing liquors in any town, city or county in South Carolina-say of ten thousand dolars. Tne state could well afford to pay the license because the money would at once go back into the state treasury, while but fe w dealers would pay such a tax for the privilege of selling whiskey in any city or town in South Carolina. The law may resent hinderances to the enaction of a system of this kind, but we have been told that it does not. A regula tion such as suggested by Captain Roddey would soon rid the state of all original package dealers." The Co lumibia Register says the adoption of that proposition would be high license with a vengeance. It would have to be modified, if it ran the gauntlet of Simonton's court. Some friends of the dispensary are working on the de tails of such a plan for dealing with the original package question and they may evolve a satisfactory solu tion by the time the general assem bly meets Bryan the Man. Arthur Sew-all, the Maine million aire, who was put on the Democratic national ticket last year to the displeas ure of many Democrats of the south and West, in a recent interview ex ressed the belief that Bryan will again be the presidential candidate of the D:.mocratic party in 1900. While he thinks he sees a great popular de mand for renomination of the silver tongued NEbraska statesman, he frankly admits that he sees no evi dence that the demand extends in his own direction. Too Late, Judge. The Havana 0:ficial Gazette on Wednesday publisned an edict signed by the Soanish military judge calling uon Evangelina Casseo Cisneros to present herself for a term of fifteen ay s in j ill, and ordering all civil and military authorities to endeavor to ap prehend her, and, if captured, to send ner to Hlavanna j il. The edict was too late. The young lady had already arived in New York. WASTEFUL FARMERS, ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE PRC DUCTS OF FARM They Throw Awsy-D1vnmerested Adc of an Ezperr-Depl:crbe Irorarce x to U5es of Hulls and Meat. To the Editor of The State: May I say a few words throun:h your columns to the farmers in this vicini v on a cm d'' on of a l'airs which prca bly exists in other parts of the Stadc I allude to the almost toisl neglect of the value of cotton seed hulls as a feeding and fertilz'ng mrateria!. I wish to preface my remarks by saying that I am not interested in any cil mill, am merely doing general ex pert work in the cotton oil industry and while of necesity coaverssant witth the facts, am probably as disinterested as a person could well be n the advice I give. I was told today by an unusually intelligent attorney of this place, vwho is also a practical farmer, that the people hereabouts knew practically no use for cotton seed meal except as a fertilizer; that neither cattle nor dairy cows were fed in these parts ou hulls and meal and that it wou'd be very difficult to convince the p:op'e that cattle would not -at their he-ds off if fed cotton seed products. Tho fact that the oil mill here is burn ing by far the greater p rtion of its halls con firms the gratuitop; statemeots. I grieve to say this is a lamentablI showing for the intelligeace of the people in this sectiui. Now the facts demonstrated over and over again are these: 1st. Cotton seed hulls and meal in the ratio of 6 to the foe mer to 1 of the latter make a croplete feed for cattle. In the ratio of 4 to 1 they make a ouick fattening food. 2. From 80 to 9J per com of the value of hulls and meal are excreted by the cattle and can be saved and used as a fertilizer in the manure. The tes timony of agricultural chenists is unanimous on this point. in plain words it means that if :100 worth of cotton seed meal (or hulls) be fed to cattle $80 or $90 can be recovered in the manure. Consequently the far mer who puts $1Ou worth of cot ton seed meal in the ground without first feeding it deliberately throws away $S0 to $90. Perhaps the farmer can stand this loss. Nothing in com merce or manufactures could. There is probably no country in the civilized globe where a valuable food stuff is put in the ground as a fertilizer exzept the United States. 3. The value of manure from cotton seed hulls and meal is much greater than that of ordinary manure. Air dried or in the conditio- in which com mercial fertilizer is sold it is worth on the same basis as fetiliz ;r at $10 per ton. Now, that this argument may not rest on general statements, let me add these facts: Last spring I induced three large farmers in Alabama to feed a portion of some 90 tons of cot ton seed meal they had bought for fer tilizar to 50 head of sorry looking cat tle they had, rangaing from 300 pounds yearlings to 1,000 pounds oxen. I had to guarantee personally that they would lose nothing in the feed before they would do it. I was with thbem and had charge of the experiment 60 days. At the end of that time they sold 12 head as a test. (The full feeding pe riod is from 75 to 03J.) They made a clear profit over and above feed, at tendance and all ex penses of $3 ahead, and had 15 tons of manure besides from the 12 head. This manure, the bedding being pinestraw, was careful ly sampled and two samples sent to the State chemist of Alabama. Tne analysis showed that in comparison with commercial fertilizers and on ex atly the same value as fertiiz'er for amonia, and potasn. and phosphoric acid, it was worth $2.95 per ton la the wet condition or $10 when dried. Here is a still clearer illustration of the relative value of feed and manure. Last April I obtained permission of one of the agricuitural experimental stations to make a test on five cows they were fattening for beef on hulls and meal. The cows averaged 750 p ounds each. They were being regu ary fed on about 83 pounds of buils and meal to the five head in the pro portion of 64 pounds of bulls to 16 pounds of meal, or the ratio of 4 to 1. Chopped up corn stalks were used for bedding and the manure from the five head for 24 hours saved and weighed immediately. it weighed 177k pounads. or 35i pounds each. I made a care ful analysis of the manure under the direction of skilled chemists, and found that the commercial value of the 351 pounds of manure was 3 cents, which represents tbe valuC of tne ma nure from one cow fed on hulls and meal at the ratio of 4 to 1 every 24 hours. It is easy to figure the cost of the herd: 64 pounds of hulls at 173 cents per hund red ($3.50d) per tor ) :nake 11 1-5 cents, 16 pounds of meal at 13 cents per pound ($20 per ton) make 16 cents; total cost of feed for five cows 27 1 5 cents, or per head 5 4a 100. In this case, the value of the manure was over 91 per cent. of the feed. These figures ought not to need any comment. They speak for themse Iv:-s. The time will comne when the conu nity that permits an oil mill to burn cotton seed hulls when wood can be had at less than $1. 50 per cord will be1 called uncivilizou. and the farmer who puts valuable food stuff in the ground to raise 5 cents cotton without first feeding it and turning it into manure will be looked upon as a curiosi:y. If there is any farmer who does not believe this let him go and make some fertilizer from cotton seed iha!!s and meal, or employ his cowv to do it. I! don't care which, count up the cost of the feed and then hate the mxarure analy ze:1. In codclusion let me say that ine use of hulls for fedn is so Cod a story no w that cotton sed hull s*tes which were formerly regtlarl iu h market, are nov almnostacisy They are no longr- going to the'an ers in sections waere people h'ave t;car eyes open. They are going i*-m bee and milk and butte. It was almost pathetic oday to se a poor, half starved (ox haul upn a load of seed cotton to the' in of the R. Matthews oil mill at d watc wit longing eyes tons of good coto' se hlls sho-eled into the xurnace sia to make steam to gin his owneri ca ton. I hardly know whchtofe sorry for the most-the mn or the beast. EDWIN I.ErMN JudH ''N THI $ 10 HOG COYT 8,03 r wo F armuecs : hught (er .:m in Loo; aid Expend-.3 nneR. It now develops that te fanous 1iu hog, the subj ct of litigation between Noah Kin es jerry and John Zimmer, will cost the later. the defendant, not less than $1 ,0. To e eliebrated case of Howard County. brought here on a change of venue from the Fayette Circuit Court was decided in the Ran dolph Circuit Court Thursday after noon. The case was calLed inst Satur day afternoon, and -oot to the jury :onday ev eirg. Ua Tuesday the jry awarded a verdict in favor of the plaintil., Kir x-rr, for 1 damages, wich lea ves % rnmer the defendant to pa'y the cost , amounting to over i, u 0 The-re are also two slander cases crowira out of tie hog case. One of them i s been compromised, and the *tiwr prb ibly will be. The full amO t of tim ests in the three cases, f(ciu 'Inc r fees, to be haid o.[ "' dat w' 'a r gate the large unh :-n rationed. The hog case is known . he doci:et as that e Noah Kingsbe ry aZartst Jchn Zamnc'. The Court history of the case wouli fill a boos, and among the lawyers it isregarded as one of theo r.st famous cases ever tried in the Sta.e of Misse-r-i. Itwas a suit for pcssession or a ho; va! ued at $10. Noah Kingsberry and John Z miner live on adjoining farms in Franklin Township, Howard Coun ty, near New Franklin. About a year and a half ago a hog strayed on to Zimn hr's farm. Kingsberry idern tih'd the hog as one of his, and sent to Zimmer for it. Z immer refused to yive it up, when Kingsberry began suit for its possession, giving a reple vin bond. The Court ordered the constable to take the hog from Z:m mer and restore it to Kingsberry. In the first trial of the case, before a justice of the peace, there was a mis trial, and a new trial was ordered. The second resulted in a verdict in fa ver of Kingsberry. An appeal was taken by Znrmer to the Circuit Court of Howard County, and when the care came to trial it resulted in a second judsnent to Kingsberry's favor. 0 ving to the alleged misconduct of one of the jurors. the judgment was set aside and a new trial ordered. Z-imer's attorneys at once entered a motion for a change of venue, which was granted to this (Randolph) county with the result as given.-Moberly, Mo., D.sitb to Globe-Democrat. The Price of Cotton. The price now ruling for cotton seems to The Journal to be too low and unwarranted by the conditions that surround the cron. It is often outside the province of a daily news paper to advise the farmers either to hold or sell their ciop of cotton, but in the present instanc3 we feel certain that the price must shortly go higher. For several weeks professional bears have ruled the market. This clique cannot long keep control of the situa tion, for the plain and eventually con trolling facts are adverse to their dom ination. The theory of a "record breaking" crcp has long since been ex ploded. Many of the first estimates were too high by from one to two million bales. This is the opinion of the governmental bureau, and of those who have traveled through the south, observing conditions and giv ing their opinions regardless of the e tract on the price of the staple either way. The action of the bears on yes terday in putting down the price of cotton on account of the rainfall, is in keeping with thepolicy of these profes sional depressers of cotton's price from the first. Competent judges say that the rain came too late to do any good, .nd there is a strong probability that idid harm. The price of cotton is too low. The Journal predicts that it will go higher-much higher-and those who can afford to do so should rrait for better nrices.-Atlanta Jour F'reachers am1 the D!sp ersry. The Ca'lumibia Re~gister says the answers of the S;te preache's to the :ircular le-tter seut ou: by Gmrnor Etlurbe in~ reference to the liqur pro bem were still coming in brikly and vola ninously Wvednesday. In some istances iong printed sermons accomn pany the answers, and the Governor s being amused, if not edialed and en ightened by tae response to this scunding of sentiment. The governor will not give out any of the answers for publication; ne precposes to scoop all the newspapers on mnis point in his mtssage to the legisiature, but it is :ated that a goodly majority of the re;,ies received so far favor the dis p:nsary law. Oae divine was sure the consumption of liquor hadt been onsiderably reduced-since the dispea sry law went into effect, but the ause ascribed for the reduction was that the quaaliiy of the "stf" ent by the state d:spensary to be re ailed was so "rotten"~ that it disgusted even the 'so ts." Not a few of the re pies favor high license. It is inter sting to note also among the replies hat few favor prohinition, on the yound that this method of dealing with the problem is impracticable. The Cotton Crvop. In its issue of last Tnursdiay the Daily Drv Goods Rt cord of Ne w York n estinmating the size of the cotton rop now being harcestedi says: "Working on those lines by7 whih such close estimates to the actual cOt ton crops of the last two y;ears were indicat-e a crop for- 1 :7usota d, the dizures j is. no -' obtained which varies fromi " J>) 75 3-e 9 .371532 bales a:) pouris een. F11or Ene is cron or 1. -7 our- est-na-e 3:a7,] .2 47.3 bes T. e cleessc. sa::ed hemwi~ thei-n-in ofcor Ut ~ss n for taecurrent crop 'ear our es a .i ' bined wit h ader: o'" 1iev c that, barrin unexoec ed baumaine, the vield for 1> -9 will noi.~xced th mxin n iiures of e o te c. es a mue~' cr .e posp-ct c-dthe w:'ek. and are i~ ed *cr half a ceutury, ouoht to b a prime cennditton arA dseli for a A SENSATIONAL CASE. THE WIFE OF A GOVERNOR TRIED FOR FORGERY. Her I: >.ind Says the Pros:cution was Actuated by MA.Bce and Hatred, While the Other S:dc says the Opposite. Sorme ,cars ago there lived in West 'iri"'i- a very rich old man who was quite prom'nent in nolitics,at one i-re beig a juhne. His name was Camden and he married in his old age a young woman for a second wife. After his second marriage, he did not live very long, and his young widow narrierd Governor Atkinson. Of course the rich cla man left his wife consid erable money and this is what caused the whole trouble. It was charged by ta grand son cf Camden that his young wife had committed forgery because -se had signed her husbands name to several important papers, and the matter was taken in the courts. After ia trial lasting several days the jury Sfailed to agree, seven declaring the 1lady innocent and five declaring her uilty. On the trial Mrs. Atkinson . cd that while she did sign her h .: .ame she had full authori ty to . o Ater the trial Governor A nson, Mrs Camden's present hus b who bad hitherto kept still Stie triai of his wife, made a s~a a + of which the following are the ra i points: "I have hiterto said nothing for for publication in this case, except to merely state that I know the prosecu tion was actuated by malice and tatred. It is a family quarrel, and the pubic knows that they are the most bitter disputes. I have heard every .'tence of the testimony given in the cas. Independent of the law, which, in my judment, does not class this case as a probable forgery, and independent also of the fact that in my c pinion, it was an error to admit testi mony on other matters which cannot J be directly connected with the crime Iset out in the indictment, I am clearly of the opinion that several witnesses, and, indeed, all the real testimony upon which the case hinged, had bean ind uced to testify for a consideration. "I am led to this conclasion by the demeanor of the witnesses while testi fying on the witness stand and by the facts and circumstances connected with their testimony, coupled with the further fact that offers were made to other witnesses or their representa tives to pay money to them or be given lands without the payment of money thereafter, provided they would testi fy against the defendant, Mrs. Atkin son. It is, therefore, evident that there was an effort being made to suborn witnesses, and I am thoroughly convinced that two or more of them were absolutely purchased. I cannot believe that I am mistaken on this point. The evidence brought out in this trial also shows that Mrs. Atkin son, prior to her marriage to Judge Camden, received an anonymous let ter warning her not to marry said Camden; that at the time the will of Judge Camden was about to be pro bated, various other letters were writ ten to her, threatening newspaper publication unless a large sum of money was paid, and whicn, if paid. it was promised nothing would be said or published relative to her. Prior to her marriage to me, another similar anonymous letter was sent to her threatening her with other troubles, Iincluding newspaper publications, Iwhich would be thrown across her pathway. The demands made in the aoyos blackmailing letters were no ~ee to nor complied with, and the result was that the vilest of vile of publicsations appeared against her in newspapers. Both at the time of the probate of Judge Camden's will and also at or about the time of her marriage with me, the man who in spired all these publications is well known to be Camden Sommers, the grandson of Judge Camden, the indi v ~id aal upon whose testimony the in dictment against Mrs. Atkinson was 'solely found, and who appeared as the principal prosecuting witness in, this case. In my honest. unbiased judg ment, she is guilty of no crime what ever, and most certainly the crime of aiding and abetting in uttering the forged papers charged against her in the indictment was in no sense proven in the trial of this case." Camden Sommners made this state ment for publication: "-I have no comments to make con cerning the merits of the case beyond Imy former statement regarding the matter prior to the present trial where by unscrupulous publications and wit nesses for the defense tortured, twisted and lied about me. I will hereafter studiously avoid giving them even a shadow of an excuse to resort to simi lar tactics w ben the case again comes up for hearing. "I have been actuated in this matter alone by a desire to protect the estate of my grandfather from the merciless rapes of conspiring mercenaries, and to prove to the world that Judge Cam den, in his declining years, instead of losing that sterling sense of justice and love of his children which nad al ways characterzel the life of this noble old man, was the pitiful victim of misplaced confidence in those by whomn he was surrounded in his old age, and that his mental integrity, enich ne restrained until the last, compelled a resort to demand forged urocesses to blscken his fair name and stal the birtnrights of his child ren. I think the world now knows tL dT:;ger Keepcr Killed. A *white man named Oliver Brum ble wa iled by Deputy Walter He ber abut five~ miles west of Ma ri2 Thursd-.ay. Brumbles was the re t ile of --bid tiger" uquor and had rotdt .e authort.es of the law, a lao reendavoring to correct him. D r n is supposed to have resisted 'i inib-ing empty, and no direct etioyhaving been given by the deoutv. lie was shot three times. T is. i~s the tta death, three of which were amicides, that can be traced di rsetly. to liqjuor as a cause, in this sec tion lately. iKiled in the Eing. Ja ckCmmings and Waiter Griffin, v o Ne~ C-Oleans professional boxers, spared be fore a large audience in that city Wedniesday night for the benefit a& v elio w fever- sutlferers. Bo~h men eh -dand soon btcrme exhaust i' te 15:h round Griffin hit usnsa hard punch. He sank to dwas removed to ahospital, er eldat 4:14 Tuesday morn . r.er es' se of death was hemor rhag of the brain. Griffin was also badly punished, but that afternoon re covered suiliciently to warrant his re Imoval to court. Cummings had been na~ried but seven months.