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A SAD STORY. rai we on The First Authentic Account of How st Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.. i DIED ALONE IN THE ARTIC WILDS I be How Giant, Skeleton-Like M e n Kept Death Away by Eating at Iw Thongs and ;Bones They Picked Up. at ed Here is the first authentic story of m the pitiful death by starvatiol of se Leonidas Hubbard. .1 r.. in the wilds c of Labrador. It comes in a letter re- P ceived Wednesday from Dillon Wal- e lace. a survivor of the exploring ex pedition. though written months ago. its intensely graphic feature is the "; extract from the dying Ilubbard's iu diary: t Northwest River. Labrador. ( k December 3. 1903. i Before this reaches you my tele gram, that I will send forward by the !lo mail carrier to be transmitted to you d by cable from Chateau Bay. the near- bi est telegraph office, will have been re ceived by you. and you will know of w Ir. Hubbard's sad death, but not. until you receive this, the details. l On July 15, we left Northwest River, and on August 1 were practi- a! cally out of provisions. On August 3 we killed four geese; on August 12 a big stag caribou: from that forward we lived on the caribou meat, which ar we had dried, but which was soon i gone. and at long intervals succeeded at in killing a goose or duck or grouse. re with our rities and pistols. Early inb September the weather grew too cold bE for fish to bite. Our salt and sugar 0 were gone early and we ate everything A boiled ani drank the water our food or was boiled in. Birds were eaten whol- h ly. heads, feet and everything but the E feathers. m At length, about the middle of September, or a little earlier. we reached some large lake away in the interior. From a high, barren hill a= the great lake we had been aiming for m could be seen-Lake Michakaman. Then the time for the caribou migra- a tion was past and reluctantly we a turned homeward over our old trail in- fC land, not having seen an Indian or e any human being since leaving North- u west River. Winter was upon us and at before September was gone the ten- h1 perature dropped to 10 degrees above tr zero. Then we broke our thermome ter and could get no record. ki On October 11 we reached the camp where we had killed the caribou and got together the dried bones we had M left and boild them for soup. We m scraped the skin from the head and m boiled and ate that. We scraped up what was left of the stomach and ate that. The horns we scorched in the tire and ate them. Before we began our retreat from the big lake I had lost thirteen inches in ir waist measure. Our bones were stick ing through the skin. I know the others looked, especially Hubbard, like walkieg skeletons. We were so weak at length that we could not sit down without falling. At length one day Hubbard wouldt not carry his little pack and I made. him follow without any load. The It next day, October 1i. was the same. He could go no further. We pitchedT the tent, made him lie down and d George and I got together wood for aJ fire. We were eighty miles from Northwest River, but at the head of t Grand Lake, forty miles away, we t hoped to fidsome trappers and food. t On the way up. some twelve miles below where Hubbard gave out, we had left a bag with some remnants of i wet flour in it. and it wvas decided that we should leave our caribou bones andt some pieces of flour bag 1 found h (thrown away on the way up), for Hubbard, and that George and I go on the next morning to the flour bag we had..abandoned, hoping to find some t flour in it. The next morning, after gettingA some wood and wrapping Hubbard in my blankets, George and 1 started.li Before going I read Chapter XIV, of th John, and at his request, my favorite' Chapter XII, of First Corinthians. I some how felt that I would never seeln him alive again, and it was very hard to go. H is entry in his diary will tell tb you of our parting, and I quote: be "October 18, 1903. Alone in camp. a For two days past we have travelled Ig down our old trail with light packs. lir On Thursday I 'busted.' Friday and. Saturday it was the same. I saw it was hopeless for me to try to go dr further with the boys. - a "They will try to reach the flour tomorrow. Then Wallace will come sh back to me. George will go on to Grand Lake if he can. and send or S rea~d help to us. Our past two days v have been trying ones. I have not * written my -diary because so very~ er1 weak. ti' "Yesterday at an old camp we found Ito the end we had cut from'a flour bag si It had a bit of flour sticking to it. We bo toiled it with our old caribou bones es1 and it thickened the broth a little. ne We also found a can of mustard we had thrown away. I sat and helld it in my hand a long time, thinking how it came from home. Then 1 took a i bite of it and it was very good. We foi mixed some in our bone soup and it at seemed to stimulate us. We had a bit ga of caribou skin in that same spot. It t swelled up thick and was very good-.m "Last night I fell asleep while the n boys were reading to me. This morn- i ing I was very, very sleepy. After theta boys left-they left me t( a, the carn-hi bou bones and another end of tlour tel sack found here and some yeast cakes fat -I drank a cup of strong tea and m some bone broth. I also ate some ofsy the really delicious rawhide (boiled ga with bones) and it made me stronger*m -strong to write this. Our parting coi was most effecting. George said: 'The t Lord help us. Hubbard: with His help l I'll save you if I can get out.' Then he( cr ied: so did Wallace. Wallace stooped mi and kissed my cheeks with his poor, ev sunken. beared lips--several times: I er. kisse-i his. George did the same. and I kissed his cheek. Then they went1: away. God bless and help them. be "iMy tent is pitched in open-tent do style, in front of a rock. The rock n relLcts the tire, but now it is going p out because of the rain. I shall let it go out and close the tent till the rain 0r is over, thus keep-out wind and say-fo i-ug wood. To-night or to-morrow, per- he haps, the weather will improve so I wi can build a tire. eat the rest of my d moccasins and a pair of cowhide mit-m tens. They ought to help some. t ''I am not suifering. The acute me pangs of hunger have given way to up indiiference. I am sleepy. 1 think. death from starvation is not so bid. But let no one suppose I expect it: 1I am prepared, that is all. I think the lar boys wili be able. with the Lord's s help, to save me." ha: On the m'rning of October 1$. when .5 Georgeand T left camp, a drizzling cold n was falling. At dusk on the 20th reached the flour bag. It contained ly some lumps of mouldy green iff. The next morning Gcorue. with a greater part of this to help him in long 1 urnev to iraind Lake. and with what ciung to the ag and a ; lumps of the stiff, parted, and I gan my return narch toward Hub rd and camp. Before noon the snow is half way to my knees. The spruce d fir tree blanches were ber:ding low th their weight of snow: the river is patially frc:en, and the whole pearance of the country was chang The snow had obliterated all land arks. and after walking up and down veral timcs where 1 thought the mp must be. I was at length com lied to give up the search, and head toward Grand Lake. My intellect is numbed through weakness. and I liked in a half dream. And so it is. day after day. n-2ht after night. itil I lost all record of the time I had en away from camp and did not tow the day of the week or even at month it was. Then I heard some men shout, very ar me, and almost immediately four trk-faced men on snowshoes, with g packs on their backs, came ovt' to bank. Then I ren-embered George as to try summen to Donald Bake om Grand Lake. 1 knew ),nald and recognized him as one of the men. spoke his name. 'I'onanld Blake," :d then he took my hand in his. :d my senses returned with the uch of human flesh. In a moment *ey had a rearing tire and some hot a, and gave me a slice of bread and d butter. I ate it and it made me ;k, but did me good. Everything I e for two weeks made me sick. 'My scurers were Allen Grandy, a part ood Indian, and Donald Bllake, Gil rt Blake and Duncan MacLane, part ood Esquimaux. all trappers. I sent len Gandy and D nald Blake right to look for Hubbard. They found m in a sleeping posture dead. and had evidently gone to sleep after aking the entry quoted above on the th, and never woke up. George ard I reached IN. W. River ovember 6. Ir. Mackenzie, the man er, took me to his home, called his an from the company house to cut v hair and shave me (I had not had hair cut since leaving New York, or shave since July 15), a tub of water r a warm bath, a suit of night cloth and a good soft bed, and made a -e in my room. He rubbed my legs id put me to bed after supper. His tle housekeeper .cried over our. oubles, and did everything she uld for me. They have been very nd, and here I am making my home ile here. Mr. Hubbard's coin came to day. I r. Mackenzie had the lumber people ike it. They brought it from Kena is by dog train. With lots of love. Your Efiectionate Brother, DiLLON. A QUEEE TALE a Vision a Husband Came to a Sometime Wife. A letter to The State from Green od says an interesting and curious se is that of Charles Ilobertson, a 31-to-do negro. a native of this see on. who appears before a formerJ ife in a vision. so she declares. caus g her to leave her theni husband. I Robertson negro soon after died id now this wife No. I is about to e. Tihe dead negri's relatives are uabbing over the property left by~ m and a great suit is on to decide e case. The negroes are greatly in rested in it..I The story is this: About 10 years o Charles Robertson was a negro rpenter here in Greenwood and do g wvell. Discovermng that another gro had alienated his wife's atlee )ns he left Greenwood for Atlanta. Atlanta he began business as a ekman and at thre time of his death owned three hacks and was con lered prosperous for a negro. In e course of time he married an :lanta negro who survives him. MIeanwhile the wife hie had left in eenwood also married again. This isband having died she married a ird time. This hubsband, George vis by name, and herself were liv g amicably together until about two nths ago. One morning she announced to him at she had had a vision the night fore in which she saw her former d first husband surrounded by a oup of angels and heard a voice tel g her to change her life and pre re to meet her God. She was so imn essed with the ''vision" that she ove Davis from the hearth and home d has not lived with him since. Her tirst husband's death occurring rtly after in Atlanta and her own ious illness have created a deep imn ssion amongr other negroes that the ion is a "divinely inspired" one. ife No. 2 is suing for what the Rob son negro left as are also the rela 'es of Wife No. 1, who is still able be interested in that, and also the ters of the dead negro, who wish th wives deprived of any part in his ate. The case will be tried at the It term of court. Doing H is D~uty. iA dispatch from New York says| yor McClellan is making a record -himself. Those who were to think1 tirst that his attitude against the, bling and criminal elements of 3 city at the beginning of his ad-| niistration was merely a bluff and< t destined to last long. are bec'.m-| convinced that they were mis- i zen. The mayor has not changed| attitude in the least. in spite of all 1 ptation arnd notwithstanding the I t that a large majority of the Tam-|1 ny follow intg is by no means in npathy with his efforts to suppress| rbling in this city. Police Corn ssioner McAcdoo, who seems to be in upete hrarmrony with the mayor in s anti-gambling campiign. evident recognizes the fact that Mayor Mc silan mean~s business and is deter nedi to keep thec lid down tight., nif some of the Tlammany follow shouici get pinicheri in tihe p:oce-ss. sistanit Commissioner of Police igger'ty made the fatal miistak'e to ! ieve that the order to keep the lid| wn in (reater New York wats riott at seriously anid enceoui'agedl thei lie Oiliciais ini Brooklyn in their' itde of passive resistance to the jers from he~aiiuarter's. lIe paid -his error of j udgmen t. by losing hius ad. e waLs requestced to resign and ten eC reused to do so, he was posed wit hout. (eremony. liis re- I >al has Nati a decid~ily I saltar a act uon the I:rooklyno pol ice depr t it and resulted in a nuiimb)er ofras on gambuling houseS anid pool rooms. Thle Hay Crop.r 'he State says hay does not uigurer ey in the calculations of the t thern farmecr. vet the value of the t crop in the V~nited States is from r .'OO.O0o to $Iu0.00i0,000 greater J X TALE OF HORROR. I Mormon Bishop Married Five Girls of One Family. SISTER MARRIAGES A CUSTOM. Did Brigham Young Was Among the First to set the Example, and it Has Been Religiously Tolerated. When Andrew Jansen, of Salt Lake, the historian of the Mormon Church, was recently called to testify before thE- Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections in the Smoot trial, a resident of Utah who was in the com mittee ro m said: "Now you'll hear a startling story. Jansen has three wives. He married two sisters, and he was later 'sealed for eternity' to their mother." This was promptly verified by Jan sen. le said that he had married two young girls who were sisters, and that both these girls were then living with him in one house in Utah. Investigation disclcsas that these sister marriages" are now, and have been, customary among the Mormons. Brigham Young was among the first to set the example. In the early part of his matrimonial careet be made the acquaintance of two beautiful girls in Utah. Soon after he met them he received a divine "revelation" admon ishing him to endow them with all his worldly goods-that is, all that had not been distributed among the wives he already had. These girls were twins. and it was difficult even for members of their family to distinguish one from the other. Brigham Young determined to wed one of them. TWIN TAKES BRIDE'S PLACE. On the day of the ceremony. how ever, the chosen sister's heart failed her, and she persuaded the other one to take her place at the altar. Brig ham Young did not dis~over the de ception for several days. When he learned the facts he sent the bride ino exile-forbidding her all com pany for a number of years. Soon afterward he wedded the other sister. It is fashionable for high dignita ries of the Mormon Church to enter these "sister marriages." Among the wives of the late president of the Church, Lorenzo Snow, were two sis ters. Joseph F. Smith, president of the church, wedded the two Lamson ;iris, tirst Julia and later Edna. Fraccis Marion Lyman, an apostle of the Church has plural wives. Among them are the Calister girls-Clara and Sus in, of Filmore, Utah. George Teasdale, another apostle, wedded Mary Loretta Piston and her sister, of Nephi, Utah. Angus M. Cannon, State President at BluIfiale, Utah, numbers among his wives two sisters whose "maiden name" was Mousley. One ceremony was sufficient for both weddings. TUREE SISTER WIVES IN ONE HOUSE. The late Bishop Johnson, of Sprirg ville, Utah, wedded five sisters. Ste phen Moat, of American Fork, Utah, wedded three sisters, all of whom, with their score or more of children, live in one house at American Fork. Lons Newman, of Monroe, Utah, varied the monotony of his matrimo ial life by marrying two buxom Utah women-the first of whom is the rother of the second. Joseph Atkins, >f Preston, Idaho, followed Newman's example. William Parkinson, of Franklin, [daho, wedded a woman whom "'the 3ruelty cf fate" placed in his hands. In 1857 a company of pioneers mnak ing their way to California, was at tacked by Mormons, seeking wives. All were ma.sacred except the wo men and seventeen children from one to eight years of age. These seve~n teen children were reared by the Mor mors who had slaughtered their fa hers. One of them, when she grew up to womanhood, became the plural wife of Parkinson. BmSHOP HOLDS THE RECORD. William Maughan, the Bishop of Mllisville, Utah, holds the record for sister marriages." A mong his wives, are three paiis of sisters. He "went brough the temple" three times, and ~ach time he carried two sisters on his ~rms. The late George Q. Cannon, one of he apostles, wedded the Tully sis rters. F~manuel Balay, of Oakly, Idaho, na rried tn ree sisters-Cnarlotte, Lot tie and Hulda. Another Mormon vo wedded three sisters is George tanger, of Warm Creek, Idaho. Alma Merrill, son of Apostle Mer il]. wedded the two Hendricks girls. 'bey live at Richmond, Utah. Ole Berg, of Richfield, Utab, has wo wives. They are sisters and their 2ames are Brighamina and Jcsaphina. Mariah Smart and her sister, Char otte, are the wives of S. R. Parkin ;on, of Preston, Idaho. Hyrum Watson's case may fitly ~lose the list. Hyrum wedded two ,isters on the same day. Less than a 7ear alter wife No. 1 had twin boys. 'our days later wife No. 2 had twin is. MORMONs wHO MIARRIED STsTERS. Brigham Yodng, two siste?n. Andrew .Jansen, Church Historian. wo sisters. Loreuzo Snow, late president, two isters. Joseph F. Smith, president of burb, tsvo sisters. Francis Marion Lyman, apostle, ,wo sisters. George Teasdale, apostle, two sis A ngus M. Cannon, State President, wo sisters-at one time. Late Bishop Johnson, five sisters. Stephen M'at, three sisters. William Maughan, three pairs of isters. George Stranger, three sisters. Alma Merrill, son of apostle, two sters. Ole Berg. two sisters. S. R. Parkinson, two sisters. Iyrum Watson, two sisters, who ach bore him twins a year later. Big Damages. The Charleston Post says fiften housand two hundred dollars was the .mount of damages awarded by the urv inl the case of William G. Smith -s.'the Atlantic Coast Line, which vas tried in the court of comnmon leas Wednesday. The verdict is one if the heaviest for damages ever renr ered by a Charleston jury. Mr. P. . adisden. attorney for the railroad1, aid that ihe would make a motion for rew trial. The plaintilt brought suit *gainst thie road for injuries received ist Octo~ber. whilhe in the employ of le com'panl as brakeman and switch ian. Ihe accident occurred ini the ailroad vards. Smith went in be ween two carIs to inspect some brakes hat were defective when the train ovedl. passig over both his legs, in ring both memrbers to such an ex SOMETBMG BEHIND DOOR Wouldn't Come out, so a Revolve Was Emptied Into it. Joseph Kreig, a farmer of San Creek Indiana, township, l3arthok mew County, was entertaining friend a night or two ago. Late in the ever ing, after one of the younger guest had told a number of hair raisin stories about bold-ups out Wes' whence he had recently :eturned, Mi Fredia Kreig had occaskn to go to a adjoining room. She pushed the do: open and it hew back, hitting her i the face. She opened it again an again the dfor clos d on her as thou; some one was pushing from the othc side. She ran int'> the room where tt guests were assembled, and told hi father that some one was in the roof and held the door against her. 1 Kreig went to the door and met wit the same experience that his dauil ter had encountered. le then rusi ed violently against the door and w hurled back into the r om. the do( opening but part of the way, and a; parently being thrown back by sn one on the opposite side. Mr. Kre; told bis daughter to bring his sho gun, but it was in the room where ti suppose burglar held the dour. A r, volver was substituted. George Kreig forced his her through the opening and attempts to peer behind the door, but it w; forced back against him so that caught his neck, and lie was glad 1 pull his head back without getting look at the intruder. Then two of the guests were set outside to guard the windows, at the elder Kreig armed himself with stick of stove wood and a lamp. Bi Wilbur, one of the gaests, had a til shovel, and another guest the revc ver. Tine intruder was again calt and told to et me out or suffer, ti consequences, but he evidently cho: to suffer, for no response came t> U command. Young Kreig then put his ar through the opening, turned the r volver toward whatever was behir the door and tired one shot, Ti women screamed and the excitemer became intense. Another demand was made on tl intruder. le failed to respond at shot after shot wts ired from the pi tol in the hand thriugh the openin Still these was no movement fro within. Then the two Kreigs. WI bur and Day rushed against the do, and broke it fr..m its hinges. Just behind was the ironing boar which had fallen fro-n i~s reating pla< and had so ludazed against the do that it operated as a spring to force shut whenever the door was press< back against it. There were.f.ur ht let holes in the board. and all agreE that if it had been a man he wou have been killed by that irst sho but if that had not been fatal, ti second would certainly have finishi him. TO MINE PHOSPEATE. Cntral Company Asks for Exciusi' Right to Work Marsh Lanmds. The State phosphate commnissi( was in session Thursday and a matt, of more than usual interest to ti State was discussed. Mr. E.( Hughes, an attorney of Charlestol appeared before the board represen ing the Central Phosphate compan: which ow.1s a plant of $1630.000 vain Mr. Hughes submitted to the boal two propositions, one of which was r jected, the other granted. it is well known that in recet years South Car lina's once apparen ly inexhaustible supply of phosphia' rock has dwindled to almost absui proportions in comparison with ti outlook. The cost of mining the roc is said to be iess in Tennessee, Floric and in Algeria. three favorite sourci of supply.. Sufnice to say that while few years ago South Carolina derivt $200,000 from revenue in the indu try, last year she received but a pa try $25,000. The cost of mining is said to be excess of the prices obtained for tl natural fertilizer in view of the con petition now existing. Mr. Hugh said yesterday that his clients ht been operating at a loss for some tin' and that it was possible that the plar might have to be shut down. Hie asked that the State reduce the royalty which is now 25 cents c each ton. After consideration, ti board declined to make the chiange The tax was formerly $1 per ton an the tax is now pledged to the boni holders of the State. in case of a rih in the price of the rock a rate le: than 25 cents per ton would be out< proortion. The second proposition was an it teresting one and may help the it dustry materially. The Central con pany asked exclusive right to mir :3,000 acres of marsh land owned l: the State and containing phlosphiat rock. This marsh is covered wit water at high tide. butt the minin may be done on the ebb. The board granted this privileg with the proviso that the work mu: be conducted under the supervision c State Geologist Earle Sloan. The ta paid will be 3 cents per ton for tI: irst year, 15 eents for the second yet and :25 cents for the third year, th grant being for three years. The experiment hats never bee tried before and will therefore L. watched wvith considerable initeres1 Parisian ca pital ownis t Centr; company. The State. The I igts (of Trampsi'. The supreme court of lIcwa insist that the tramp has rights which mur be respected. it says in ril'eet tha when a nomadic individual is uncer< moniously tossed from a moving rai way train by an inconsiderate condui tor and injured thereby he may rt cover damages fremn the railway co: poration. It appears that one .Josep Josnson. a gentleman of leisure and c peripatetic habit. was forcibly ejecte from a moving train for insisting upo riding without paying his tare. 11 sustained injuries and brought sui against the roard for damages. Th tower court Of Pottawattarme count held that a tramp had1 no rights an that the trainman was justiriablei throwing him from the train,, no mat ter what the result might he. A nes trial was granted and a fav'rable de eision rendered, and upon taking th case to the supre me this last decisio1 was sustained. giving the tramp comn plainant judgment for injuries sustain ad. it has been popularly suppose< tat the tramp has no rights whici my one is bound t' respcet. but thi [owa decision puts another phase oi le matter. It is a term arimnonitioi lat the tramp must he handled gent y. If you toss him from a movini rain you must do it in sueb a way a 2ot to injure him. If he cemes to th >ack door to make inroards noon th amily larder the bulldog must b. ~ightly chained. The decision open ip geat fed for sgracious tramps DOOMED TO OBL1VION. r Such Is the Fate That Awaits Us at Death's Door. I Senator Ianna has been dead how lone To most of us his death seetrs rather a distant event; and yet it was s but nineteen days ago. February 16, g the day after, the country talked of nothing else and all the newspapers s were full of IHanna. Then came the n funeral and we had columns of de r scription and of appropriate reminis n cerce. Then we turned away from d the grave of the most prominent mau h on the continent, and one of the r strongest, and began to think of some thrivg else: and today we may search e the daily newspapers from end to end r without finding in them the natue of u launa, which occurred in some con r. nection in almost every issue of every h paper of the country from 1896 to - 1904-ten yeaars the foremost man of 1- the dominant political party, a leader Ls of thought and action, applauded and r denounced, pictured until his face be came more familiar to us than that of e our nearest friend, attended by crowds g eager to see one so famous, pointed out everywhere he went: and in ten e days almost forgot. We wbo live may learn what our fates must be. No matter bow successful our lives, d ow important we may think our d selves to be, we are doomed to oblivion s and dumb forgetfulness along with it our humb'e and obscured brotbers and ,o sisters who are unknown even to their a next door neighbors. Nobody is es s-ntial. Everybody's place can be t tilled. little as we may think it. We ,d loom large in our spheres and may a learn to believe and may make others I believe that we are the potent and -e necessary forces. But we die, our 1- succe's >rs are chosen and installed, d the world goes on its way and even e the sre.ial machinery we thougt we se were driving continues to run smooth .e ly without a jar or a break and giving no evidence that we have been or are n not. The presence once familiar and pervaise is present no more; the voice d that was heard and was waited for, te r(spected, feared, which gave the it plans and the signals for action, is hushed, to remain hushed forever; IC but there is no vacancy an I no stop c- ping. s- Our fate is a matter of knowledge. r. not of supposition. From the begin f ning of the world important men. 1- strong men, ruling men, kings, em )r perors, generals, leaders and masters in all human endeavor have died and 1, humanity and all the affairs of the :e world have moved right on, and pres ;r ently they have been forgotten. Even it of the very greatest little remains but d their nam:s -and records. The men 1- themselves are lost. Nobody living d today knows the actual personality of Id George Washington or could form an t, accurate mental picture of him. We e know in a general way how he stood d and looked when he was posing for a picture or :a statue, and his height and weight and the color of his eyes and hair, but these are but details in the mysterious thing we call person eC ality and which neither pictures nor statues can represent. We are doom ed to be forgotten. It is pathetic in none point of view and comforting in r another. It is saddening to think e that the memory of all our lives, sc - vivid and intense to us, in which we are engrossed, that all our activities. all our triumphs and disappoint ments, large or small, shall pass away -* with us. Our friends may cut our d names in stone, but two generations - hence the idle young people wvalking through the cemetery will read those t names without recognition and with -no knwledge of who we are of any e thing that we have done. Yet, if we d stopped to mourn our dead, motion e would be wasted in lamentation. It k is. a wis~e and merciful decree that we a shall forget. The world's work must sbe done and humanity may not linger a by its graves. d "If this world and this life are all. -if our living here is not preparation - for livinmg somewhere and somehow else, if death is the end, all of us may n realize howv empty and idle and futile eit is W~e cannot make anything that - will endure permanently or keep the smemory of us or even our names alive. c The builders of the pyramids are for [e gotten. Nations which combined their it powers to establish great cities have vanished, and their cities with them. df there is no life but this, our lives have but little more dignity, meaning eor purpose than those of the epheme ra, born with the sunshine and old, cdecayed and dead at nightfall. It is hard~ to understand the philosophy ewhich teaches that man with mem ory, inventive faculties, soul, purpose 'and emotions, is made for nothing more or better than this. Consider -ing life as a period of preparation or as part of a process of evolution and development, it is logieal, just and e has meaning anid design. Consider Sing it as a thing beginning when we e Iare born into the world and finished when wve are buried out of the world, it~ is empty, blank arid purposeless ard nothing remains wvorth striving efor but the gratification of the appe tites arid needs we share with the animals. The memory of any human life e fades as the waning day clouds to twi r light and to night. Human grief e vanishes as the darkness gives way little by little to the coming of the morning. None of us can hope to be e remembered long to bare our names -or our doings endure many years. It .1should be a comfort to us to know, as we do know, that the grief for us even among those nearest and dar et to us. will be mitigated presently sas time goes by, and will give way before the actual work and tI the active concerns of the iuy life of which we shall cease to e part. Yet, if there is nothing mre to come. the doom of oblivion is btterness andl we can not but feel Ithat all our striving, labor, sorrow, pain have been wasted. If we are destined to live on i:1 the Beyond, if we are privileged to know that the good we do and say sh-ill remain not ernly in this world after we have left t it but in a world to come where we sll meet it, the docom is comforting 1an the thought of it must soothe the par gs of departing. The above is from the pen of Mr. A.n B. Wlliams, Editor of the Rich-| Robbed tho Gallows. At Tuskagee, Ala., on Thursday Rtalphi Armstrong. under sentence of de(Iath for tihe murder of his cousin. Mis Alice Arms-ong. committed sul ide in his~ cell. Hie killed the young ~omand because she refused to marry hun. Amstrong~ was a son of the ite (&. II. Clay Armstrong, consul to lio Janieiro under President Cleve nd. and was a member of one of tihe most prominent families in the State. SL\uur Tillman is at his home at J.rton recuperating. His throat is about well again. JUDGE PARKIER COMMENDED. Ex-Gov. D. H. Chainberlian Writes of the New York Jurist. To the Editor of the State: It has seemed to me a singular fac1 that the name and personality o: Judge Alton B. Parker of New Yorl should have met with the treatmen which one sees on many hands. Thy most persistent and universal remarl has been that he is an "unknowi quantity." Now, it is true that Judge Parker has not been for many years praticipant in mere partisan politics I suppose he has never in his life man ipulated primaries or packed caucuses He has held judicial office since he wa 30 years of age, and he is now the chief judge of the court of appeals o the State of New York, an orice whici in dignity, power, and importance i second to but one other judicial otlic in our country. He has respected an honored his position by observing a all times a judicial demeanor and b, carefully avoiding participation in th feuds and scrambles of factions and o partisan political warfare. Does thi make him an unknown quantity? Thy truth is, he has been known on' al hands during his whole life as a stric and unreserved Democrat. I don' bclieve there is a man it the State o New York who is known everywhere as a more unequivocal, ingrained Dem ocrat in his principles, his sympathie and his conduct. Has the word Dem ocrat. has the name Democratic, n such significance, no such fixed value that a great public .character of 3 years' standing must come before th people, in the incipiency of hi, candi dacy for a political office with a defini tion of these terms, and with Ires' verbal vouchers of his political stand ing and views? It seems to me that Judge Parke has followed and is now following tb only course which self respect, person al and official decorum, and due re gard for public propriety dermit. H is no more an unknown quantity tha Grover Cleveland or Richard Olney lIe is no more called upon to issue political pronunciamento than is an other great Democrat who has live as such in the public eye for mor than a quarter of a century. It sin: ply argues one's own ignorance t speak of Judge Parker as unknowr Not only is he the peer in intellect c any man in his party, he has behini him a record of lifelong, unflinching and devoted adherance to his party, i: point, too, of personal character, habi and associations, he will bear compai ison wi h any living man. He has n occasion to attest by fresh word his party fealty. He has attested i by a life of unvarying, open and un questisned loyalty to his party an his political faith. He has carrie' the State of New York, too, whe: every other candidate of his party wa overwhelmingly defeated. For one, I trust Judge Parker wi] hold his present way until event shall make it proper fcr him to la aside his jurlicial character and accep political leadership. By such a cours he W'il1 best commend himself to tb confidence of his party and of th country. In my judgment he is quit certainly to be before long adjudget the one available Democrat who ca: with reasonable certainty carry th State of New York ini the next presi dential election: and the man wb< will then carry New York will proba bly be our next president. Cleve land has withdrawn himself peremi: toriiy and finally, and it seems th striking felicity of the hour that ou great pivotal State can present anoth er candidate second to no man in ou whole country in ability, in character in devotion to the principls of hi party as they will undoubtedly be ex pressed by the coming Democratic na tr nal convention, and in general tit ess for the high oflice of our chie executive; and quite unequaled i his probable capacity to win succes in the State and States where the rea tcst and decisive conflict will lie. D. H. CHAMBERLAIN. Columbia, March 21, 1904. A NEW TRIAL ORDERED In the Case of McDaniel Who Kille' a Town Marshal. The uow famous case of the Stat vs. R. W. 3IcDaniel has been remand ed to the circuit court of Lexingtol county for a new trial. The case ha now become very well known in Sout1 Carolina and the opinion of the su preme court is quite interesting il this connection. McDaniel killed Le Neece, the town marshal of Swan sea, Christmas eve, 1902, and wa tried for his life in January, 1903, be fore Judge Klugh. The jury fount McDaniel guilty of murder with how ever, a recommendation to mercy. Thb sentence imposed was life imp ris n ment. The defendaut appealed to thi supreme court and pending the appea applied to the supreme court for leave to move in the circuit court for a nev trial on the ground of after-discoveret evidence. This application failed b: reation of an equal division of opinior among the four justices of the su preme court-though no formal opin in was delivered so as to show hov te justices stood >n the question. The State says the appeal was thet heard in the supremne court and th sentence was arlirmed-Mr. Justici Jnes delivering the opinion and al the other justices concurring. Judgi Ernest Gary sat in place of Justice Eugene Gary. wLo was ill at the time There upon the prisoner through hi: counsel mov~ed far a rehearing in thE supreme court, on the ground that the court had o' erlooked an importam principal of t:]e law, to the defend ant's disadvaatage. After due de liberation the court gr-nted the re. hearing. The case cane up again at the las1 November term -f the supreme courr and was the rut; argued-with th~ result that the juu;nment of the cir cut court is set aside and a new tria granted. Justice Jors; says in hi~ opinion of Thurs-iay: " was error therefore, to instruct the jury o w regard the plea of accidental homic Iide if the defendant failed to estab lisi it by the preponderance of thi evidence.'' The opinion in effect holds that the plea of homicide by misadven ture does not constitute an atirma tive defense, which the defendant must establish by a preponderance of the evidence.'' The opinion further states that there wa error "in chargingz that the burden of proof has shifted to the de fendant at all on the questi >n whether the killing was accidentlal." "For this material error in an other-wise clear and able charge," sayvs Justicz Jones, the judgment must be reversed.' There was a large array of counsel for McDaniel. Gen. LeRoy F. Youmans of this city being employed in the processes in the supreme court. McDaniel had entered upon his ser vice at the State prison before the ef forts of Gen. Youmans secured for him a new trial. THE WORK OF A MOB. Several Negroes Lynched in Arkansa A for Killing Two Men. A special to the Arkansas Gazette from DeWitt, Arkansas county, says: Five negroes who had been arrested B as a result of race troubles at St. in Charles, this county, were taken from w the guards and shot to death. The victims were: Jim Smith. rE Charley Smith. Mack Baldwin. . B Abe Bailey. it Garrett Flood. T This makes nine negroes that have b been killed within the past week in a the vicinity of St. Charles on account D of the racial troubles. A few days e ago a difficulty occurred over a trivial t: matter at St. Charles between a white e man named Searcy and two negroes named Henry and Walker Griffin. s On Monday last the two negroes met Searcy and his brother in a store b in St. Charles and the difficulty was renewed. One of the negroes, e 5 without warning, struck both of the t Searcy boys over the head with a table a leg, rendering them unconscious and fracturing their skulls, one of them to such an extent that he may die. S f Deputy Sherit James Krkpatrick at tempted to arrest him and he too was knocked down. 5 The negroes then gathered and de- Y tied the officers, declaring that "no white man could arrest them." Their demonstrations aroused the s fears of the citizens of St. Charles and e they telephoned to this place for a posse to come out and protect the iown. P. A. Douglass, deputy sheriff, went out with a posse of several men to capture the Grffin negroes. The constable met three negroes-Randall t r Flood, Will Baldwin and Will Madison e -in the road. He inquired of them if they knew where the Griffins were and one of them replied that they did 5 e but "would tell no white man" adding an oath. The negroes then attempted t to draw their pistols but the posse fired, killing all three of them. Thursday 16 men left this place for the scene of the trouble. Large crowds I gathered in from Roe, Ethel and Clar endon. During the day while the sheriff's posse was searching for the Griffin -negroes, they were fired upon by a negro named Aaron Hinton, from ambush. Three of the posse were I hit, but the shot used were small and no serious damage resulted. The posse returned the fire and the negro was shot down. Several other shots were A s fired into him, killing him instantly. Five other negroes, Jim Smith, Charles Smith, Mack Baldwin, Abe Bailey and Garrett Flood, who were V the negroes that had defied the offi cers, were arrested and Thursday night a crowd of men took them away from the guards and shot them to death. I It is reported late Friday evening that the Griffin boys have been cap tured. If so it probably means that two more will be killed. Everything at St. Charles at this time is quiet, but the town is heavily guarded. e FINAL COT TON REPORT. S s The Census Department Makes a ( eComparison With Other Years. . f 3The final report of the census f bureau on cotton ginning, showing a the total cotton production for 1903,e Sgives the following:S rNumber of commercial bales, in .cluding linters, 10,399,558, agaInst r 11,275,105 for 1902. The following table distributes the scrop, exclusive of linters, in the United States: 10,205,073 commercIal bales; 9,359,472 square bales; 770,208 roundi bales: 75 393 sea island bales. fThe total crop reduced to a common r Sbasis as to size of bales is an equiv- it Salent of 9,851,129 500 pound bales as b 1against 10,630,945 500-pound bales in q 1902. y The number of bales, counting round fi as half bales, including linters, was t 10,014,454, against 10,784,473; the equivalent bales of a 500 pound stand- p ard, including liners, were 10,045,610, r Sagainst 10,287,168 in 1902. a The square bales, upland crop, re- v ported from ginneries which aggregat Sed 9,359,472, shows a decrease of 633,- e 193 from 1902; the round bales, up- 11 Sland crop, reported from ginneries 2 swere 770.208, a decrease of 211,056; y 1the bales of sea island cotton reported a -from ginneries were 73,393, a decrease c of 29.560; and the bales of linters re- i ported from cotton seed oil mills were v -194.485, a decrease of 1,738. s SThese statistics were collected v through a canvass of the individual s ginneries of the cotton States by 631 local agents, who found that 30,218 t ginneries had been operated for the c crop of 1903, compared with 30,948 7 for 1902. 1In the final canvass for this crop r where ginners had not finished gin. i. ning they were requested to prepare c careful estimates of the quantity of t cotton which remained to he ginned 1 at their establishments. Their esti -mates, amounting to 75,401 commer- b cial bales have been included in the d totals of the above table. The distribution of the crop, ex- b clusive of the linters, by States and h territories, giving the tooal commer- n cial bales, follows: Alabama, 1,023,959; Arkansas, 741,- A 230: Florida, 58,572; Georgia 1,329, 278; Indian Territory, 312,776; Kan sas, 73: Kentucky, 644; Louisiana, S58,568: Missis~i ppi, 1,439,296; Mis- 8 souri, 39,283; North Carolina, 555,330: d Oklahoma, 204,957: South Carolina; 814,351: Tennessee, 250.437: Telas, 2,562,632; Virginia, 13,681.d The complete annual report on cot ton ginning will be published about May 1.n Three Negroes Killed. A special from DeWitt Ark., says: ir Three negroes were killed in a race s battle Wednesday at St. Charles, this w county. A posse of deputy sheriffs T was engaged in a search for two ne-b ~roes, who Tuesday had seriously wounced two white men in a fist tight at St Charles, and while pas~ing through a section of woodland they Si were :ired at from a thicket by a di party of negroes. The whites return- tv ed the tire Lnd instantly killed Garrett la Fodd, Wiht Madison and Will Bald- ti win. The tragedy has greatly arous- 1: edthe community and further trouble MI is feared. h The Thrifty Yankee. The Philadelphia Record says the R Massachusetts report of labor statis- es tics for 1903 in dealing with the sta tus of the negro population in that state brings out the curious fact that Massachusetts enacted the first stat- he ute establishing slavery in America, ne in 1641. This was twenty years be- C< fore slavery was legally established in wi Virginia, though slaves had been co brought to that state in 1619. There be are now in Massachusetts 51,974 ne- 85 groes. 80 per cent. of whom live in Ce LAUGHTERED FOR FASHION. a Appeal to Our Women to Save the Birds. Eugene Bertram Willard, of Revere, ass., writing to the editor of the >ston Transcript, makes the follow g tender appeal for the little birds, bich The Journal, hoping to reach te sympathetic ears of the many wo en that never see The Transcript, -echoes in the author's words. "The old epicures of Greece and ome used on high occasions to revel a dish of nightengales' brains. his was a wanton waste of birds, at to destroy birds for their beauty ]d wear them in dead show as deco Ltions is more revolting misuse than ren the poorest pretense of turning tem into food. Women with feath .s in their hats are fcstering a giant 'rong out of 'pure selfishness. They iffer them to be slain by millions for heir 'adornment.' Woman! Wo ian! You know that without the irds man could not live upon the rth: n t, were it not for e irds the h of insect life ould be so immense t vegetation could be entirely destroy-; yet you ilfully encourage the holesale Laughter of our feathered f ds, nd knowingly s .nctiou tbis destru ion of the most exquisite creature s in be universe. With your eyes open ou permit this war of extermination o be carried on, and deck yourselves roudly with these slaughtered birds, elfishly unmindful of the crual cost. 'rom the Atlant'c to the Pacifc, rom Canada to Florida, the agents of he great millinery firms are ceaseless a their work of death and destruc ion. From early spring until late all, at all times and at all seasons, be b autiful, helpless creatures are ursued with relentless vigilance. Vhat care these bird hunters -that rithout the parent birds' tender care he little ones die of slow starvation a the nest? What care they that he glorious burst of melody is hushed o death, and that the mangled form" writhing in agony at their feet? 'he dainty creature is to them but a air of wings and a crested head! They have no power to cry to us When-pride or fashion slays them, or woman who pretends to love. And, Judas-like, betrayed them. For woman who will praise the song, Then bid them slay the singer, hat the wee head or tortured breast Some added charm may bring her. mould ye but see the bright wings torn From birds alive and bleeding, - nd ifote their quivering agony, I had no need for pleading; The wingless form flung in the dirt; Its deathly pain and terror could wake in every woman's heart A bitter sense of error., ren thousand thousand little birds In cruel hands a-dying, [ave heard with breaking mother-hearts, Their hungry nestlings crying. The bonny, bonny little birds! - It is their hour of need; hey have no power to beg for life; It is for them I plead. 'Oh, will not refined, reasonable and telligent women lead the way as ierciful women, and take vigorous teps toward putting an end to this utrage of the slaughter of our birds? >nce let refined and cultivated women se the matter in its true light, re use to decorate themselves with the athers of our birds and refuse to 1low their children to wear them, the vil would soon disappear. How light a sacrifice is this for women!" APRIL NOT 80 BAD. tverage for 16 Years Shows Nearly Half the Month Is Sunshine. The following informition, cover ig a period of 16 years, has been comn illed from the weather bareau cords at this place. The figures are - bued to show the conditions that ave prevailed, during the month In uestion, for the above period of ears, but must not be construed as a >recast of the weather conditions -for be coming month. Temperature-Mean or normal tem erature, 64 degrees; the warmest innth was that of 1893, with an aver ge of 69 degrees; the coldest month as that of 1901, with an average of 6 degrees; the highest temperature as 96 degrees on April 18, 1898; the >west temperature was 28 degrees on tpril 6, 1891; the earliest date on rhich first "killing" frost occurred In utumn, Oct. 19, 1896; average date n which first "killing" frost occurred 2 autumn, Nov. 8; average date on rhich last "killing" frost occurred in pring, March 23; the latest date on rhich last "killing" frost occurred In prng, April 10, 1899. Precipitation.-Average for the ionth 2.78 inches; average number f days with .01 of an inch or more, the greatest monthly precipitation ras 5.91 inches in 1895; the least ionthly precipitation was 0.47 inches i 1893; the greatest amount of pre ipitation recorded in any 24 consecu ye hours was 3.06 inches on April 7-18, 1900. Clouds ind Weather-Average num er of clear days, 13; partly cloudy ays, 10; cloudly days, 7. Wind-The prevailing winds have een from the southwest; the average ourly velocity of the winds Is 9 iles the highest velocity of the wind 'as 38 miles from the northwest on .pril 29, 1902. Dead Body Found. A dispatch from Pickens to The ate sals a young man was foand; ead at the north switch at Central Tednesday morning. He appeared >be about 17 years of age, was well rssed and was of good appearance. 'here was nothing on his person by hich he could be identified. Coro er Parsons found 83 in his pockets. is hat was too large and was stuffed ith a newspaper which was printed Statesville, N. C. It being.impos ble to identify the young man, he as buried at the county's expense hursday. He was kilied probably ra train in some unknown way. Bride of a Week Dies. A dispatch from Clinton to the - ate says Mrs. Richard E. Copeland ed there Monday week after only lo or three days' illness. Mrs. Cope d was a bride of only a little more .an one week, having married on the th day of this month. She was - iss East and a native of Alabama, Ling moved from that State to inton just a short while -before Iristmas. She was a niece of Mrs. .J. Copeland and Dr. East, who liv a short distance from Clinton. New M~ethodist College. Mr. A. W. Todd, of Charleston, s been selected as architect for the w building of the Columbia Female ~llege. The property in the city 11 be sold by the South Carolina nference. and the new building will erected in the suburbs at a cost of 0,000. The Methodists of South rolina will be proud of their insti tinn in its new surrounding.