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SHE AS Ai MN. A Woman Turns Oat to be a Burl Black Man. MASQUERADED FOR TEN YEAR Had Been Contined in Cells Wit Womten, but His Sex Was Not Disclose l. Served as House Maid. The Augusta Chronicle of Wedne: day published the following: A burly negro man, after ma! querading in this city for ten years a a woman. going under the name c Alice Johnson, was exposed Tuesda morning by the county officers. A more remarkable case is not o rec;ord in the court records of to: county, although they go back fc more than a century. The discover and exposure was the sensation of ti day, and the general topic of discu sion on the street. Johnson is an able-bodied, health negro man, and tnat for so long time he could have hoodwinked ever) body, seems almost incredible. Bu he did, and during the past ten yeas has held many positions with whit families in the capacities of cool house girl, and even as a nurse. A has also figured in the courts, an spent nights in the jail and polic cells without exposure. Mixing wit whites and blacks, male and fenalt he has managed to keep his secret an was well known in the city-but as woman. It was on Sunday that "Alice Johr son" fell In the hands of the police o a charge of disorderly conduct. I was an aggravated case. "Alice" b ing intoxicated and cursing vilely o the :treet. Monday morning Judg Picquet sentenced "her" to serve term of sixty days at the count farm. "She was sent out to the farm Tue! day morning. It is the rule of th institution that all convicts, and the are principally females, shall take bath on arrival. When "Alice" w2 forced to indulge in the abolution, tL attendant detected that the "she was a man. The astounding discoa ery was immediately conveyed to tt ofticers in charge of the. farm,-an it vestigation followed. "Alice" was promptl.eturned 1 the police, with thepatement the the commitmentymti.ed for a woma and not a man The police were i terally k c ed out by the new: well known to nearly ever officer on the force, and not a one evt dreamed that "she" was was not "she." "She" was promptly arraignE before Judge Picquet, chat ged wit violating the city ordinance that pri bibits any one from masquerading c the street in the disguise of the oppt site sex. He was given 90 days c the public works of the city for tl second offense. For at least 120 da: "Alice" will wear the striped garb a man, and'work for the city. It is learned that the same '"Alic Johnson was a witness in the Norn murder trial in May. "She" appe ir in behalf of the state and was attac ed by the defense as a lewd woma but was protected by the court, heir informed that "she" need not answi the embarrassing questions. No or thought that the "she" was a man. Johnson gives no satisfactory reasc for masqueardinlg as a woman, simp] -declaring that he preferred to be -woman. What was his object is puzzle. There are those wuo thin *he is flighty in the upper:,tory. O:.t ers believe that he is wanted somi where for a serious crime, and the he went as a woman to escape dete< tion. It is true that his exposuw greatly frightened him Tuesday. There is a report to the effect tha he bails from A bbeville, S. C., an the police will communicate with th officials of that county, giving a di scription of the negro for identiics tion if he is wanted for any crime. *WOHLER3 IS INEBLIGIBLE. Was Ineligible Because of Violatio of.Dispensary Law Sustained. Attorney General Gunter rendere a decision in the case of W. 0. Wol lers, a beer dispenser of Cnarlestoi declaring him ineligible for the ottic It-will be remembered that Wohlei was elected by the county board a beer dispenser, but ithat the point we raised that he was inelligible becau< he had been convic-ted of viohition tio dispensary law, which under tb law bars an applicant for a dispensar ottice. The conclus;ion, after a revies of the section of that code, is the Wohlers is clearly ineligible, but e: tenuating ci rcu mstances were oltere to show that his violation of the Ia was purely technical and withoL. knowledge on his part, but the boarC according to the .decision, cannot g behind the record. The point we raised that the general assemblyi requiring such an oath went beyonl its authority in attempting to mali an additional disqualifying crime f< the exercise of the franchise and holC ing ottice to those already specifiedi the constitution. This point, hov ever, was based upon a misconceptio of what constituted a county dispec ser. The laws says that the positic is one of contidence and trust and nC of right and county boards must t guided by certain standards of appl cants not anticipated by the genern assembly. Tne general asseumbly, tU opinion continues, did not transcerl its power in saying that a keepar of dispensary should be sober, an electo not a keeper of a place of publ amusement and never guilty of viol tion of the dispensary law. There a: rules to establish titness for ottice. Three Wome~n Murdered. Mrs. H.' H. Paine, an aged womai her daughter Mrs. Williams and a 1: year old dau~1hter of Mirs William were murdiered1 in their home on farm near Judson, .&nith count: Kansas, Wednesday night. Tf uiee iiad been accustowacu to slee together. Mrs. William was foun dead outside the house Thursda morning. The girl was dead in be and the granidmother was uncoc.sciot and died soon after the discovtry( the crime. The murderer had br ate in the skulls'of all the victims. atsin a cutivator bar. A young farm 1-an named Madison is suspected . I ti murders. He was enamored of 3mi Williams who was seeking a didic from her husband and who had r efu ed to marry Madison. Madison 1 a nisapnered. WRESTLED WITH A PYTHO. Keepers at Bronx Park Had a Very Lively Fight. Out of the New York zoological park, in the Blronx, there came, Thurs L day night, says the New York Sun, a tine story of tight with snakes. At 10 o'clock Thursday morning, ac h cording to the keepers, Curator Ray mond L. Ditmars set out to perform an operation on the biggest of the py thons. The reptile weighs 240 pounds and even when he isn't full of snake dinner, has a rotundity of some 30 inches. mostly muscle. Some time ago-in fact several - years ago-the python developed an abcess or sore of some malignant sort, in his mouth. In 1900 twelve men, led by Mr. Ditmars, went into the python's cage, and by main force held him until some solution calculated to y cure the sore had been applied. The twelve men had a comparatively easy n time of it. The other day it was noticed that r the python's sore mouth had been com pletely cured, and it was determined to perform another operation on the big fellow. Mr. Ditmars came to the conclusion that five men could handle the ,ig fellow without trouble and de a cided to limit h:s force to that num b3r. Mr. Ditmars and his assistant, Mi chael O'Keefe, went into the curator's eot~ice to mix up a solution they in tended to use. Meanwhile Head e Keeper Edward C. Snyder and his as .sistants George Mulvilhil and .John e Tuomey, went into the reptile house i to get things ready. At that time the big python and three companions were coiled in a a squirming mass in one corner of the cage. Snyder according to the ac count of the affair as given to the re porters, opened the door of the cage t and went in with a couple of heavy blankets, which he threw over the a snakes. Then he began to feel around e for the head of the big python. He a finally found it and, turning upa lit tle corneref the blankets, reached in and got his hands upon the snake's neck. Then Mulvilhill and Tuomey jumped into the cage. They had two a things to do, to drag-the big python out and at the-same time to keep the e otherthree from getting out to make tr uble. They soon had their hands ery full. e As they related it, the three men had to get the big python from under the blanket, when the reptile wound his tail around Snyder's legs, and be gt an to squeeze as only a good healty n python can. Mulvilhill and Tuomey were attending to the three snakes that were still under the blankets, but they had to drop that to keep the big r python from getting his coil around a Snyder's waist. In the wrestling one d of the men accidentally kicked the h door of the cage shut. The door is self-locklng and couldn't ne opened from the inside. The men began to shout for aid. There was nnot a soul in the reptile house and Cthe door of Mr. Ditmars otlice was ~closed and neither he nor O'Keefe Sheard the shouts. One of the men in the cage reached into Snyder's pocket in a lull in the tight and got Snyds r's semergency whistle. Blasts on that ddid not bring any answer. ~The curator and O'Keefe finished nmixing up their snake medicine in time and came over to the reptile h ouse, several feet away. When they reached it the tight was at its best. eDitmars and O'Keefe jumped into the cage and joined in. The five men soon bad the big snake subdued. Ditmars hit it on the head and stunned it so that it was easy to take its coil off Snyder's legs. Then the other snakes being kept under the ~olankets, the men hauled the big one out of the cage, head tirst. The snake came out with such a rush that it got away from its cap tors and began to squirm around on the floor in lively shape. Snyder, however, jumped on the snake's head, put his coat over it and managed to hold to the reptile until the other men went to his assistance. Then, when they had looked into the snake's mouth, they decided that his abcess wasn't bad enough to be treated at once, anyway. So they put him back. They had some trouble doing that, too. SHOCKED CHILD TO LIFE. -Physicians Use Etectricity on a New born Infant. 5 A correspondeat of the New York 5 Herald at Essex, Ont., says; Drs. James Brien and W. C. Doyle, physi cians in this town, were called last w ek to attend Mr;. Frank Wagner Sin confinement. When the child was 'born it was of usual size and gave no si e ns of life. -The physicians worked more than i an ..OurL o* a vaiu attempt to bring to , life the child by inverting and spank t ing, hot .nd cold water baths, inflat I, ing the lungs with a tube, artiticial respiration, and every other meant s known, and they finally decided to use electricity. STne house where the baby was born eis three blocks from the physicians' r otfice. The doctors wrapped the child .up in a blanket and carried it to the n oice, where no time was lost in al .:ernately applying the Faradie current i and the galvanic current. The nega .tive pole was placed at the base of thle brain and the positive pole to the ab t domen. The physicians administered e a current of 120 milliamperes to the - body, and in fifteen minutes af ter com i mencing the treatment tihe child gave e a short gasp. This encouraged the physicians, who increased the power a Iof the electric current to 200 milliam peres, the positive pole being changed Icto the base of the brain and. the nega L-Itive pole to the abdomen. Every mo emet the little one showed increasing signs of life, and witnin ten minutes it wa sbreathing naturally. Toe doctors then decided to give the child an electrical spray bath. This was done with a static machine, and when it was comnp:eted the youngster was to all intents as healthy as any other child less~ than two hours old. When the physicians were assured that the improvement was likely to be permanent, they hurried back to the ~mother and presented her with the pink and white morsel of humanity, and that she was overjoyed goes with out saying. Twvo Ii illed. Ihenry, S. Strata n, principal of the Pittm-m Grove, N. J., public school. was instantly killed Thursday. and aSamuel Clodenning, a farmer, of -Richmond, N. J., was 1.robab y fatal y injured mn : grade cro~sing accident t Pita Goe CAN'T SH&K NICKNAMES. They are Often Given for Absurd P Reasons Generally Stick. "Wonderful how names stick to a person," said the observant man. "There were two nice little women in our village who came to call on us A one evening and we offered them pop corn, which the children had brought in from the kitchen. They refused, but not so emphatically as to keep us from giving them two heaping plates of the corn We kept refiling the plates and they kept crashing all tie evering. There was something so fun ny about it that I called them the p.>pcorn ladies,' and the name has stuck to them so that the whole vill age knows them by it. "I once knew a man who talked in cessantly in a high-pitched voice and a] a bright girl dubbed him 'the chirpe."' e The name was quickly passed around tl among the young peopl , and now c the great part of his friends know himw by that name. A very dignified young 0 woman of my acquaintance goes by S2 the name of ' Vhunt' to this day be cause when she was a very little girl she used to call herself 'Mrs. Whont' when she played ground-up ladies, and the family picked it up. She simply fc can't shake the absurd name. of "More than one red-haired man is known by the name of 'pink' and phil osophically accepts the title. I have an acquaintance who holds a responsible c oOsiti(va who is known by the name of se Dotty.' L seems that one day a mis- g hievous girl discovered that he had three very prominent dimples. She U] promptly dubbed him 'Dotty Dimple' t and now he is known to all his ac- n quaintances as 'DAtty.' Another man fc of my acquaintance is always called m 'Blue-beard, because he has such a o: very white and thin skin if lie does o not shave daily his beard shows pl through it. That name, too came et through a woman's quick wit. tC "An old lady friend of mine is still n< called 'Peachy' because when she was al a young girl she had a complexion p, like peaches and cream. Her brother a] promptly dubbed her peachy.' and n 'Peachy' she will remain to the end of c her days. In a certain household a et very feminine little woman is still call- to ed 'The Boy,' because when she was w a young girl she went through a very o serious illness which made it neces- 1h ary to cut her hair short. Her young- di er sister said she was 'The Boy' of the 'T family, and the dainty lady is still ti called by that absurd name. . ; 'An effeminate man was once call- d' ed 'Viola' by one of the boys in th otfle, and now we know him by noth- hi ing else. hI Another one of the boys in the office si is always called 'Chesty,' and al- si though be get angry at first, he has a cheerfully accepted the name now. t "Our bookeeper is always putting in S his oar when it is not at all necessary, u and I think now he will be known v until the end of time as 'General A Bats.' A friend of mine who is al- b ways called Cheerful' doesn't know E whether he is called that because S his friends believed he hasia sunny ~N disposition, or because they consider ti him a chearful idiot. But at any rate. he can't shake the name." rEARFUL SC.ENEXS al P On a Steamer that was in the Late B Storm. s One of the most thrilling stories of i disaster of the storm is that of the b excursion and freight steamer S. E a Spring, which was driven ashore nearV Greenwich, .Conn. The Spring was a trying to put back to Stamford and y the gale bad reached a velocity of 80 j miles an hour, when the rudder failed f( and the steamer liaunder d at the hE mercy of the huge seas which sweptt over her. The panic stricken passengers fled s to the upper deca, waere taey sough? e refuge in the cabins, and the womneu becane hysterical. The pilot was still 4 trying to turn about when a sudden a gust of wind tore off the entire reef of a' the upper deck,-leavingr only the pilot house. When the roof went off the g boat was lifted half out of the water. The strain was so great that it tore or s the rudder and when she settled down again in the trough of the sea she was c perfectly helpless. Realizing that theyh were at the mercy of the storm the sailors as a last resort made a deter mined effort to get an anchor down to ho i the steamers head to the windv No sooner had they done so than the 4 chain snapped. The steamer was fasta being driven toward Shelving Rock, b one of the most dangerous shoals on the Connecticutt shore. The passen- a gers were ordered to put on life pre- a servers and be ready to board the life " rafts. A scene of wid confusion followed. P The ere w launc.hed the largest life raftb and the passengers with the life pre servers stood ready to get upon it when the raft suddenly struck the hull of the boat and was pounded ton pieces. A second lire raft put over by the crew was also destroyed. This left only one small boat of any de scription on the steamer, and it was o small that Capt. McDonald was afraid to put it over. -He tried to put up distress signals, but the wind ~ snapped off the tlagstaffs.1 The steamer drifted along the shore c an hour until she hit the rocks otT t le point at E. C. Benedict's country home and stove in her bow. As soon as she touched a colored cook droppe'l C 15 feet to the rocks. The water was al over his held and he was tossed un- I til he was badly bruised, but he kept re on swimming and tinally was tossed on el the beach. The servant ashore o1 grasped lines from the ship, and in a p; few minutes all hnads had been safely al landed. i Counterreiters Captured t Chief Wilkie of the secret service s-a received a telegram announcing the it arrests at Memphis, Tenn., of Irvine a Tolley and Luke Ray, two ex-convicts, ri together with a man named Willis, all a charged with counterfeiting in raising a notes of a low to higher denomina- w tion. The men were captured after a N chase lasting over a month and in di which one man killed. About Aug. 1 m t'e secret service received informa- w tion from a number of points in Ken- w tucky and Tennessee that three color, w ed men were passing raised notes- ti, principally at county fairs. Secret re service agents started on their trail er and finally k cated them on a train se bjund for Cave City. The officials P< telegraphed the agent of the railroad bi ompany at the point who sum- T moned several citizens and undertook 'T to arrest the party. A tight followed A in which a man named Sheppard was as killed. The negroes made their es- T cape and went to Chicago and from a? there were followed south, being 10- ot cated Trues lay night in a saloon in ar Memhis.D A STEAMER LOST. unged to the Bottom of the Coast of This State. THRILLING TALE OF THE SEA. nly Seven Members of Her Crew Are Saved by passing ships. A Story of Heroic Rescue A dispatch from New York says ie steamer Vidair, Capt. Sorrensen. rive? Thursday night from Caibari 2, having on board six members of ie crew of the British steamer Mexi Lno, which foundered during a gale i September 16. Capt. Sorrensen Lid: "I was sitting in my cabin about 9 clock Thursday morning when I yard a cry. Thinking some one was oling on board the steamer, I went it on the bridge to investigate. Then I reached the bridge I heard ie cry again. The sound seemed to >me from the ocean, but I could not e any one. I ordered a boat to be )tton ready and when I heard the -y a third time I saw something in ie water like a small log, about a ile off. With the aid of my glass I Fund it to be a small hatch with a ian in oil skins stretched full length i it. I immediately steered for the an and rescued him; he was com etely exhausted and had to be haul I aboard the boat. He was unable say a word and thinking there was > more as I could see no wreckage out, I started on my way. I bad rceed about a mile when I saw sever objects in the water which I could >, plainly make out. Upon going oser I found five more men clinging pieces of wreckage. I had the boat 'wered again and picked up the casta ays. They, too, were exhausted and ie was nerly crazy. My men had to id him in the life boat, for he was stermined to jump into the sea. 'here was another steamer some dis tce off and I could see that they id a life-boat out, but I could not istinguish her name." One of the survivors, August Oster nd, a native of Finland, says he .ard two pistol shots as he. left the lip and thinks some of the otlicers sot themselves. The Mexicano was tank steamer and carried a crew of venty-two men besides Capt. King. ome of them were probably picked p by the other steamer. The sur ivors aboard the Vidair are: Seaman ugust Osterlind and Simon Baderea, )th of Finland; Fireman Leonidas orpedes of Grece, and Sappe Poch of pain; Seaman Ross Clementine of Lanila and Juan Fontis of Spain, a reman. ONE NIORE SAVED. A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says seamer Roxby, Capt. Shields, which rrived here Thursday morning from ort Inglis, has on board Domingo alo Royarberay, the sole survivor of ie crew 'of 22 men on the British :eamer Mixicano, which foundered ith all on board off the South Caro na coast Tuesday night. Reyar tray caught a piece of wreckage and Lanaged to keep up until he was seen Tedneday morning by the Roxby ad rescued. The Spaniard, through an interpre r, told of the Mexicano's sinking. te steamer was bound from Tampico ,r Vera Cruz with a cargo of petro um in bulk when the full force of 1e hurricane broke upon her. Moun tinous seas broke constantly over the ip and finally one gigantic wave ~ashed through her decks. Tne fire ,omn was ilboded and the Mexicano be tne helpless. For a few moments ue swallowed in the trough of the tas and then plunged to the bottom. The rescued man says hundreds of llons of oil were poured over the lip's side in an attempt to calm the a, and if possiable, save the ship. then the Mexicano went down her ew went with her. All boats id long since, been crushed by ie force of the waves and the en were powerless to save them lves. Revarberay went under the essel and by the merest chance be tine entangled in some loose rigging ad spars. The buoyancy of these rought him to the surface and he Lade himself fast to a large spar. For even hours he floated in the turbul it sea until finally the Roxby hove isight. His rescue was a daring e. The Mexicano sailed from Tam ico Monday. She was last reported as sing bound from Marcus Hook to [exico, Aug. 19. Her captain was R. King. Ballo Reyarberay is unable igive accurante names of the 21 Len lost. The Mexicano, Capt. King, sailed ~om Marcus Book, Aug. 14, for Vera ruz. The Mexicano was built at underland in 1893. She was 270 et long, 28 feet beam, 22 1-2 feet lep and registered 1,254 tons net. he was owned by the Northern 'ransport company, limited of New istle, ug. - Wrecks on The Florida Coast. The auxiliary schooner Klondyke, .A. Ball, master, laden with valu ble ittings from the British steamer achulva, brings the first aiuthentic ports from the several wrecks north Miami, Fla,. About a mile north Boynton the Standard Oil Comn zny's barge No 93, oil ladern is hard ;round on the beach. Tue ;ug hay ig her in tow has gone north for an ,her oil barge into which to pump e cargo._. As this vessel les on a .ndy bottom and is practically unin ired, she ma~y be saved. About five ies south and nearly opposite D)el y, the British steamship Inchulva is total wreck. The Inchulva had a. ixed cargo of about 3,000 tons. She as from Galveston to Livespool. ie of the crew of this steamer were owned. When the vessel1 comn enced to break up the chief engineer ent to his cabin to save s100 and as not seen again. Three others ere washed overboard. The other e were drown in an attempt to :ach th shore. Just north of Jupit -is the lumber laden three-masted hooner Harriett I. Thomas, from nsacola. Her cargo is being landed, it the vessel will prove a total loss. e American schooner Martha T. homas, lumber laden, bound from palachicola to Baltimore, reported1 hore nine miles north of Jupiter. is may be the Harriett 1. Thomas lve referred to, the error growing it of a similarity of names. These e the only wrecks of consequence re Irte o n ast cast of Floridla. COTTON IS DETERIORATING. Has Suffered Considerably on Ac count of the Lack of Rain. The cotton crop has suffered during the dry weather of the past fortnight. Mr. J. W. Bauer, section director of the weather bureau service, says: "The extreme western border coun tie and the coast counties bad light but quite general rains that were highly beneficial; the enterior of the State had none, expect that widely separated places had light but in suticient showers. The average of the State was 0.11 of an inch. All crops are suffering for rain. "With only one or two exceptions to the contrary, reports on cotton in dicate further deterioration during the week due to shedding, premature opening, and the rapid spread of rust, owing to lack of moisture. Much cot ton is dead on sandy lands. There is little prospect of a top crop. Boll worms and caterpillars are reported from Barnwell county. "Cotton is opening rapidly, some prematurely, over the whole State, and picking is general, and under the favorable weather for the work made rapid orogress. Sea island cotton is less promising owning to shedding and the appearance of blight. The weather was favorable for rice harvesting, progressed rapidly, but yields are somewhat disappointing. Large quantities of fodder, pea vine hay and other forage were saved in fine condition, All minor crops have failed for want of rain, but the dry weather will add to the keeping quali ties of sweet potatoes. Fall truck planting continues. Little plowing has been done, as the ground is too dry and hard. Turnip sowing is not yet finished. "Lace corn failed rapidly on all but moist bottom lands, owing to drought, and will be a failure on light soils. "The week ending s a. m., Monday, September 14, had a mean temperture of 77 degrees, which is about 1 degree above normal. The temperature con ditions were favorable, although cool nights were complained of in some localities. The sunshine was normal, or above, and the relative humidity low during the daytime and moderate ly high at nights. The winds were light easterly. DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE. A Soldier Puts a Bullet in His Brains at Atlanta. Edward Henley, who was stationed with the Sixteenth United States in fantry at Fort McPherson as a serge ant in company F, committed suicide Wednesday by sending a ball from a Krag-Jorgensen rifle crashing into his head. The deed was committed in a bed occupied by Henley. After retiring Henley reached out and pulled under the cover of the bed his big rifle. This he loaded and p Miuting its muzzle di rectly at his face took a long stick with which he pressed the trigger. From the extent of the wound and the position in which the dead man was found it is thought that death must have been instantaneous. It later developed that the pangs of unreci procated love were largely re sponsible for his ac'iion. A short time ago during his furlough Henley spent much of his time in Main, where he became infatuated with a young lady to whom it was generally thought he would be married. On Saturday night last he received a letter from Maine and presumably from the young lady. About this let ter he said nothing, not even to his closest friends. He continued his routine duties as if nothing out of the way had occurred. The first intimation of any trouble was given early Wednesday when his companicns were awakened by the loud report of a rifle resounding clear ly throughout the sleeping quarters. A number of his comrades rushed at one to his bedside to find him dead. Henley enlisted in the services of the Sixteenth in 1900 and with them had served up to the time of his death. Through his gallant service rendered in the Philippines he was advanced to a sergeant's berth. His home was thought to be in Pennsylvania. The funeral services were conducted Thursday at Fort McPherson, SUBMA RTWE BOAT EFFECTIVE. A Conclusive Test Made With the Adder at Newport. A pretty exhibition of mimic war fare, importaht as illustrating the ef fectiveness of the navy's submarine craft, was given at Norfolk, Va., Tuesday off Brenton's reef lightship, when the submarine torpedo boat Ad der succeeded in tropeding the tor pedo boat Craven. So stealthily did the Adder creep up on the Craven that the wooden tor pedo successfully tired struck the Cra ven a smart blow below the water line amidship before the crew on the floating warshi ps could man the guns or the torpedo tubes. The Craven left the torpedo station during the forenoon and running down the harbor, cruised about Brentoni's reef lightship awaiting the attack. The Adder, instead of following im mediately, waited an hour in order to get the crew of the Craven off their guard. As soon as Fort Adams was cleared, the submarine boat plunged beneath the surface and remained for 45 minutes, during which time ottleers and men enjoyed lunch without in convenience. On getting outside the harbor, the Adder was once more sent to the surface, but only her conning tower was exposed. The Craven was sighted a short distance outside the lightship riding unconcernedly on an easy swell. The Adder again plunged and when within 300 yards of the Craven, a wooden torpedo in the shape and size of a regular projectile, was fired. The shot was a good one and the torpedo struck the Craven amidships with considerable percepti ble jar to the boat. A Good Rule. The State says Mr. U3. B. Hlammet, chief constable, has issued an order forbidd ing dis.pensary constables to in dulge to excess in the use of liquor, has also issued an order to the effect tnat "Any constable who voluntarily accepts the hospitality of a person who is suspected of violating the dis pena.y law, or accepts treats or drink, loans of money, etc.. will be dismi;sed from the service. This is not to for bid constables buying whis key, etc., from the illicit whiskey dealer when they find it necessary to do so in order to make a case against the party in court, provided they pay full price for what they receive, and, MOUNTAIN "BLIND TIGER." Regular Sign Board Up and all Ready for Business. I heard of these "blind tigers," and one day, in company with a gentle man and two ladies, I drove to Lin ville Falls. As we were going we passed a fortification on one side of the road; the drive announced that it was a "tiger." We regretted as we drove on'that we had not stopped to examine it, resolving to give it a trial on our return. Coming back we found that it was a square, log-hewn building, abutting on the road, with no front door at all, the logs fitting so closely there were no means of seeing anything whatever inside. The rear of the structure was en veloped in a large brush arbor reach ing on both sides to the mountain ravine. Tacked on the front of the "tiger" was the following sign: "Watts's Saloon, July 1st. Brandy, $2.75 a gallon; whiskey, 25 cents a pint, $2.50 a gallon. Anything else in that line. Drop your money in the drawer." There was a hole in the logs in which was fitted a box. I dropped 25 cents in it and a voice from the in side said: "Five cents more for a bottle." I added five cents to the quarter and a pint bottle of blockade corn liquor was pushed out. It was a white bottle and there were many d.regs in the whiskey. I marle com plaint and the bottle was pulled back. Another came out, but it was a black bottle this time and I could not tell whether it had dregs or not. I haven't tasted the whiskey, but brought it. home as a curiosity. We were anxi ous to see inside this mysterious for tress. So we opened negotiations with the invisible occupants and were told to put a quarter in the box, wait five minutes and come to the back en trance. Looking carefully, we could see the shadowy outlines of three men and one woman glidirg down the arbor ambuscade to the ravine. When the five minutes had expired we went to the rear, found a door open and enter ed. In the room we found two bar rels of whiskey, one barrel of brandy, a modern rubber syphon, a patent bungstarter, bottles of all sizes, jugs, etc. There were also two rifles, three shotguns and two pistols in plain view. There were also a bed, cook stove, cooking utensils, etc, in the room. Things were in all right shape and everytning was in its proper place, like any other well regulated business. That's all we saw, and we left as we had come. "Hope you got your quar ter's worth," greeted us from the "tiger" as we drove away. THE RACE PROBLEM. Calmly Viewed by the Colored Na tional Baptist Convention. At the Colored National Baptist Convention held in Philadelphia last week Booker Washington arnd Rev. Dean Richmond Babbith, of New York, gave the colored people of the country some good advice. Booker Washington addressed him sef to the church delegates and in the course of his speech said: "In a large degree the negro minister, during the last 20 or 30 years, has been the pre server of peace and harmony between the races; but for the forebearance and patience and the gentle tact of the negro minister many race riots would haveoccurred in our country. "In a peculiar sense you will find more and more that it will become the duty of the negro minister to take the unpopular side of many public ques tions. What we need in an increat ing degree is that kind of leadership in the pulpit that is willing to stamnd adverse criticism, to be misunderstood and even abused, for the saike of thc right. Our people don't need tlattery so much as they need facts. "You will find one of the problems that is going to press more seriously on you for solution in the near future than in the past, is the one of employ ment for our people, and especially in northern cities. " We can only hold .our own in the world of labor and industry by teach ing our people to do a thing as well as anybody else, by teaching them tc perform common labor in an uncom mon manner. "We cannot hold our own in the la bor world unless we are constantly taking advantage of every opportunity to improve ourselves." In his further remarks, Booker Washington said: "Bishop Chandler of Georgia, struck, in my opinion, the heart af the race quesioni a few days ago, when he said that each race should try to correct the evils among its own people, and that the white race should cease abusing the negre at long range, and that the negro at the same time should cease his cross fire at the white man, It will be tu our interest in every manly, straight forward manner to cultivate the friendship of the people among whom we live." Rev. Dr. Babbitt delivered a lectur e on "The Negro and the Nation." Hie contended that the real negro ques tion before America is to give the ne gro the highest possi ble development of American manhood. He said that voluntary, economic, industrial, per suasive transplantation from the con gested and illiterate black be.ts of thle south to the regions of the north and west should be immediately attempted and slowly, systematically carried on. Some of the practical ana speedy ben efits to the illiterate, superstitious and morally inadequate negroes of the congested black belts of Mlississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Lou isiana, he said, would be their rearing moral and general uplift, in the dif ferent and better industrial and educational conditions of the north. The north ought not to object, for this, he said, is truly a national prob lem and not a sectional one. Hnnting a Solution. A dispatch to The Tribune from Memphis, Tenn., says: United State Senator Carmack explained Tuesday night that his purpose in proposing to introduce a bill at the next session of congress for the repeal of the Fif teenth amendment, thus disfranchis ing the negro, is simuply to open up a discussion which will contribute to a solution of the race problem. To Senator Carmack's mnind the surest plan of solving the negro question as it affects the white race, both socially and politically, lies in the negro's eli mination from politics. Should the Fi fteenth amendment be repealed, the question of treating with the negro wonld be left to the States. A PINCH OF SALT. As Necensary in our Daily Life i In Our Daily Food. How could we get on without sal In our daily food, as in our daily life. little of it is necessary. and the absen of it takes away from the flavor of e erything we eat. The "salt of If which we hear about signifies ti health, vigor and wit which we find life. There was a time in cou.ntries f from the sea when primitive man ne er used salt in his food. and it w: only when nations advanced in civi zation that salt became an absolute t cessity. But it was not alone as food that sx was valued. Among the ancients na s. spring was regarded as a gift of t: gods. and it was believed that any s. found in the soil lent it a pecnliar sar tity and made it a place where praye were most readily heard. Every me that included salt had a certain sacr character, creating a bond of piety ai friendship between host and gue: hence the expression, "There is s: between us." meaning friendship, a: to be "untrue to salt" means to be di loyal or ungrateful. In the middle ages, when all class and degrees sat at the same boar they were placed according to ran above or below the great saltcello which always stood in the middle ai marked the dividing social line. "Abo the salt" meant "of high degree." B low the salt were the yeomanry. ser and vassals of the feudal days. A got description of this custom may 1 found in "Ivanhoe" where Cedric. tl Saxon. entertains his vassals as friends. A pinch of salt is always considers lucky in cooking. To take anythii "with a pinch of salt" means to excu or make allowances for it. A "salt" a sailor. To salt one's conversati means to make it sparkle. Salt is ways employed in a sense of benefit strength. The Bible has many references salt, among them being "Ye are t salt of the earth," Matthew v, 13. al St. Paul says. "Let your speech be i ways with grace seasoned with salt." Salt is used by Catholics In baptise They consider it a symbol of wisdo and put a few grains in the mouth the person baptized. DON'T GET ANGRY. Fire in the heart sends smoke in ti head.-German Proverb. An envious man waxes lean at t] fatness of his neighbor.-Socrates. One of the very best of all earth possessions is self possession.-G. Prentice. The fire you kindle for your enen often burns yourself more than him. Chinese Proverb. The envious man pines in plenty, Iii Tantalus up to the chin in water al yet thirsty.-T. Adams. An irritable man lies like a hedgeh< rolled up the wrong way.. tormenti himself with his own prickles.-E. Hood. Lamentation is the only musici: that always, like a screech,6wl. aligi and sits on the roof of an angry ma -Plutarch. A man can easily be intoxicated wi anger as with wine; both produce temporary insanity, and during t paroxysm he should be avoided as madan.-J. Bartlett. Night Air. One of the bugbears of old time pe pIe is night air, and there is little e aggeration in saying that the supers tion against night air has killed mc people than the free circulation of has ever injiured. There is abundan of proof that night air is injurious no one. On the..contrary, people wi sleep outdoors under the mere protF tion of a tent are the healthiest of people. and the practice has large gained in popularity of late years u der wider knowledge of hygiene f people in delicate health to go camping parties and breathe the ba sam of the night air. The vigor gaina from a few weeks of such an outing a marked proof that the old prejudi against night air is as foolish as mc other old wives' whims.-Exchange. Talent and Vocation. Each man has his own vocation. T: talent is the call. There is one dirt tion in which all space is open to hil He has faculties silently inviting hj thither to endless exertion. He is li a ship in a river. He runs against structions on every side but one. ( that side all obstruction is taken aw: and he sweeps serenely over Goi depths into an infinite sea. This t ent and this call depend on his orgi ization or the biode in which the ge eral soul incarnates itself in him.-E: erson. Young Men and Maidens. Life would become intolerable if gi: ould not be on frank and uncocquetti terms with men of their own age some years their seniors. The idea tl: because two young people may have great deal in common they must also in love Is happily dying out. No one hurt, no one is compromised. when friendship does not lead to marriage John Oliver Hobbes in Pall Mall M: azine. A Sorry Finish. Kadleigh-Your wife is always o1 spoken. isn't she? Henpeck-Yes, but I try to be ti way, too. sometimes. Kadleigh-Really? Henpeck-Yes. but whenever T v4 ture to be outspoken It ends in my I ing outtahked.-Plladelphia Press. Music beckons the human race< and is foilowed by the two great ei ums, the joyous. ll;ght hearted a1 happy and the sorrowful, wretched al despairing. A SPLENDID TRIBUTE Which Col. Thomas Pays to G< Micah Jenkcins. It is propoxsed to place in the Sta house a port rait in oil of Gen. Mic: Jenkins than whom no brgadier in t war between the States reflected mc lustre upon the Confederate army al than whom no general was moree cellent in Christian character al purity of life. All of his friends and admirers, a: all the oflice'rs and men of his famc brigade and especially of the .Jenki Pal metto Sharpshooters are in vited contribute to the portrait fund. Su scriptions may be forwarded to M: S. Reed Stoney, or to The St-ate. C lumbia. 5, C,, or to The News ai Courier. Charleston, S. C., or to C J. A. Hoyt, Greenville Mountaineer In his forthcoming sketch on t "Character and' Career or Gen. Mic Jenkins"-to be published at an ear day-Col. Thom.,s says at the close his paper: "in response to the su gestion of Mrs. S. Reed Stoney, sor of the patriotic and appreciative w men of the capital of South Carolin the Stite to which Micah JTenkin was a loyal and drn oted as ever Cavi TIMING EXPOSURES. V% A Work In Which Photographers Become Remarkably Accurate. t': The photographer was about to take a a picture of a young woman. "It's so ee dark here." he said, "that I guess I'll v- give you about thirty seconds," and, '' drawing out the slide and removing ie the cap. he began to count in a meas in ured and mechanical tone, "one, two, at three, four, five," and so.. on., When v- the exposure was finished the sitter is said: "You gave more than thirty see li- onds to that plate. You counted very e. slow-I'm sure it took you a full min ute to count thirty." ut The photographer handed his watch it to the young woman. He said: "I'll ie co'unt thirty again. Time me." And it he made the count exactly as before C- and he was just twenty-nine seconds rs making it. "One second off-not so al bad. Near my old record, in fact," d said the photographer. "Ten years id ago, when I made more pictures than t: I do today, I could by counting make it exposures up to five minutes without i1 being more than a second off. Usually s. I'd be a second under; but, over or un der. it was only by one second that e; I'd be out of the way. But," he added, - d. "this gift Is not remarkable. Nearly k. every photographer has it Nearly r every one of us can guess spaces of d time running from a half a second to re five or six minutes with what is for e. all practical purposes perfect acu fs racy."-Philadelphia Record. ,e Nature the Only Healer. ie Medicine never did any person a par d ticle of good except by digestion, as similation-going into circulation,' etc. :d No salve contains any healing prop ig erty except as a protection to keep s away the effect of oxygen in the air, e dirt or any foreign substance from n coming in contact with the part at I. fected. The natural powers of our be or ing possess the only power to heal. Anything that may be done to assist to in a natural way is good-contrary, e bad. Give good- food to make good id blood. Breathe good air, rest and not - l.- overexercise to the extent of fatigue. Then the body will recuperate. Thea the wound will be healed by healthy m serum that is secreted to heal all of wounds, not the salve. The salve pro. tects from outside influence, while the machinery within goes on with its work. Nature does it all.-Medical - Talk. 1 One Way to Keep Aeeountu. In a book of accounts found on the ie premises of a bankrupt dealer in a ci1. in the west of England were the fol. 15 lowing names of customers to whom D. credit had been given and which would have puzzled all the official receivers i3 in the kingdom: Woman on- the key, - yew woman, coal woman, old coal wo man, fat coal woman, market woman, 'e pale woman. a man, old woman, littel ad milk girl, candle man, stableman, coachman, big woman, leme woman, y quiet woman, egg man, littel black girl, Jew man, Mrs. in a cart, old Irish worn p a. woman in Corn street, a lad, man In the country. long Sal. Mrs. Irish woman, Mrs. feather bonnett, blue bon nett, green bonnett. green coat, blue s.i britches, big britches, the woman that n.was married and the woman that told me of the man.-aLondon Tit-Bits. aIn an Old Time House. be To go down into thi low celled kitch aen. with its heavy, rough hewn tim bers and its great -fireplace with the - logs fast turning to coals; to look into the old brick oven, where bread for a Sregiment could easily have been baked, and, perchance, to be asked to sit down on the old wooden settee under the lit re tie window where the pot of -flowers it stands and, drink tea from a quaint ce blue cup will complete the charm the to place has thrown about you. .Many 10 fantasies will throng the mind, and ethe shadows cast upon the walls by the wavering light make this house their lhome-one booted tind spurred and with na military step, the other a rustle of orsilk and a whiff of rare perfume.-Four mTrack News. shipping Cinnamon. Cinnamon is so extraordinarily sen csitive that great care has to be taken st with regard-to-Ats surroundings on board ship, as a bale of very fine ci namon will lose much of its delicate tie aroma if packed among bales of coars cer bar. Various expedienlts have been e- tiedto emey tis.ThePortuguese and Dutch isolated the bales by pack Sing them in cocoanut fiber or In cattle ihides, but it is found that the only b real safeguard Is to pack bags of pep per between the bales.-"Two Hapgy Years In Ceylon." 1i- Just the Reverse. n "Tb' boss don't allus keep his word,' remarked the office boy. "What's he been doin' now?' in quired the stenographer. "He told me when he went out thi Smornin' that he'd call me up on the sh telephone. 'Stead of that he called me odown for not answerin' it when he tcome back from lunch." - Cndnna a, Commercial Tribune. Is Her Ultimatum. a Railway Surveyor-We are going to run a railway line right through your barn. *Farmer's Wife-All right; I don't mind. But you remember that I will have no trains after 9 o'clock at night a I have no intention of getting up after that to open the door for the trains to at go through. All Arranged. n Manager-When you come to that e. line wait for the applause. Actor-How do you know there will be applause? yn Manager-That is my business, not l. yours. _______ adAn obstinate man does not hold opM Ions; they hold him.-Butler. ier was to King in English story have eproposed to secure a portrait in oil of the matchless brigadie to whom a temajor generalship was in view when thDivine promotion came upon the field be -of the wilderness-and to place tbe re picture in the State house alongside of dGordan and Hampton and Kershaw x- and Butler and Gary. Maj this ad happy thought of South Carolina's. Iwomanhood be promptly seconded and ad carried to early con.summation by her us responsive manhood, and may the st best art available be engaged to place to on the k'lowing canvas the lineaments b- of the sodier without fear and with rs. Out reproach." the Bsayard of the Pal-. m- mttoJ State-as brave as Ney, as ten d der as idney. as dashing as Murat, . and wital a devout Christian man." lIt hais been said that the fame of the soldier is a hig h and holy fame f ounde ILIon self sacrilice and achieved throughl suife ring, it shines from m,,rountai n to seashore with protecting etfulgrence and lights up every hearth stone in tne land with the solemnm a radiance of' notional feeling. Such is. Sthe fame of Gen. Micah .Jenkins. The ,l State,