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BRUTAL DIVORE.' Revelations in the Trials That Outdo Fiction. CHICAGO IN THE LEAD. Mabel Cooley, Aged Twelve, Witnesses for Mother Against Father, Who Drove Wife to Bank at Point of levolver. Judge Hears Case of Giddy Things. The Washington Post says fiction never produced anything to equal the revelation of the Chicago Divorce Courts, and moralists and churchmen would find it bard to deny the justice and benefit of divorce in some of the cases. Here is a lot that came up in just one day: Mabel Cooley, the twelve-year-old darghter of Mrs. Clauda M. Ccoley, of South Chicago, whose husband, A. J. Cooley, was arrested for threatning to shoot her, told a story which resulted in the granting of a divorce to her mother. The little girl took the stand after her mother had testified to long years of cruelty, "kept in the background and lived down for the children's sake," until fear of her life overcame her. Mabel plainly was frightened by the unusual scene and the sharp questions of the lawyers. She said in her lisping little voice: "I remember when mamma was choaked by papa a long time ago. He wanted her to go to town and she did not want to. He hit her ard she was sick a long time." ".Do you remember what tock place on the night of February 27 last?" CHILD TELLS OF ATTACK. "Oh, yes," answered the child, "Papa had gone to lodge and we sat up waiting for him. I went to sleep, and when I woke up papa was strik ing mamma. He hit her twice in the face and her face bled." "That will do," said Judge Frost sharply. The woman testified that she mar ried Cooley, a farmer, in 1892. There were four children, the oldest being Mabel. The first incident or cruelty she told of was in 1899, when he threw a glass at her, which shivered against the wall, flew back and cut her face. Again in 1900 she testified, her husband drove her out into the snow with a revolver because she refused to go to town with him. Of the last in cident, on February 27, wife and daughter told the same story. - Neighbors testified, saying that they had remonstrated often with the man over his treatment of his wife, and his only excuse was: "How could 1 help it?" "Is he a man of violent temper?' asked Judge Frcst. "Well," said the witness, a neigh boring farmer, "he is the kind of a man who would put out the eyes of his cattle if they did anything he did not like." This clinched the case. Mrs. Cooley at present is teaching school and re siding with her mother. The couple separated two months ago. ''GIDDY THIIse" VERsUS "CAD." Mrs. Stella Brennan, in applying for a divorce from James J. Brennan,. ciaimed that her husband had thrown "mystic powder" at her on the street to induce her to return to him after their separation. Judge Kavannaugh decided she was a. "f rivilous person" and her husband a "cad." As for the "mystic powder," this was ascribed to her early reading of Anderson's 'fairy tales. The ill-assorted couple were married last June. Brennan was a widower, with four children. His girl wife tes tified that these children were the fist canse of the trouble. "I did not like them," she said. Jaufes threw kerosene all over me one night, and on another occasion hit me with a wet towel." This was the oc casion of her leaving him. She ran away to Kalamazoo, Mich., and was taken back by her husband. She left again a few weeks later. "I met James at State and Madison streets one night," she said, "and he Induced me to no home by throwir g mystic powder at me. I could not see it, but I knew he did it. I felt strange and my will power was para lyzed." "She can have a divorce without alimony," said the Judge. "The girl Is a giddy thing and the husband Is a cad. She should have had more sense than to marry a man with four chil dren. It takes a long-headed girl to do that" HEUSBAND HIs OWN LAWYER. The unique sfeature of a husband pleading his own case was witnessed in Juoge Frost's Court room. The suit was that of Mrs. Mary against August Schemmer. The wo man tcok the stand with a three months old baby In her arms, a baby that laughed and crowed t-o the dis traction of lawyers and Judge, bliss fully ignorant of the fact that it was losing its father.. Mrs. Schemmer's main grounds for divorce appeared to be that her hus band, a motorman, had threatened onde to hit her with a picture, and on another occasion had pushed her over a trunk. "I was afraid of him," she reiterat ed constantly. "When he was sober he was a perfectly elegant husband, but when he was drunk he was a brute." Just as her case appeared to be won, t.he "perfectly elegant husband" ap peared in the Court in person. See ing how things were go-ing, he stopped forward. "I would like to ask this woman a few questions,' he said. The woman's lawyer demurred to this, and Judge Frost hesitated. "ELEGANT" ALSO "IPERTINENT." "This is not a question of law, but of facts," said the husband. When given permission to ask questions, he said: "Who was in the house the day I came home for my things?' The woman did not answer. "Did 1 not order a certain man out of the house and say I'objected to the company you kept?" Ihis wife re torted angrily that she would not an swer any such impertinent 'questions. The lawyers objected again, and Schemmer said: "I do not object to this divorce at, all. I am perfectly willra to have it granted. I am a yoor man, however, and I cannot afford to pay alimony' ma attoneyv's fees. "l will waive all that," said Mrs Sebemmer hurriedly. "Well," said Judge Frost, "as yo, seem to have it settled, I will let it go at that." USED WORDS, NOT A HATCHET. A surprisingly large hatchet of de szrted wives appeared in the vari.us Court rooms. The ca.se of Mrs. Matil da Collius, seeking a divorce from Thomas J. Collins, is typical. She said she had been deserted after three months. She was asked the reason for this. "I do not know," she said, "I was a good wife. He just left me." "Did he drink?" "Ycs: sometimes he came home drunk." "How did you express your disap proval of this?" asked Judge Heard. "By a hatchet? "O, no; I just talked." "call the next case," said the Judge. DIVORCE AFTER 37 YEARs. John Mulvey, sixty-ive years old, and a retired iron manufacturer, ap plied to Judge Frost for a divorce from Valenda J. Mulvey, sixty-two years old. He accused his wife of habitual drunkenness. "We were married in 1868," said the husband. "We were bappy for a number of years, until Mrs. Mulvey c-ntracted the liquor habit." A settlement was effected whereby Mrs. Mulvey is to receive $45 a month Salimcny. The Mulveys have lived at '33 Wabash avenue. "She was too fast for me and I was too slow for her," was the consise way in which William Green, 533 West Superior street, told Judge Heard of his troubles with Mrs. Eva line Green. "She left me a week after our marriage five years ago," continued Green, "and never returned. I am tired of waiting for her." WOFFORD COLLEGE. Thirty-three Young Men Given Their Diplomas This Year. Col. J. E. Norment, writing to The State says the fifty-first annual com mencement exercises of Wofford col lege mark an event which links the vital, moving present to all the tradi. tions of an honored, useful past. For more than a half century the uplift i'ng work of this noble institution has sent forth its own meaning, its own influences. "Length of days is in her righbt hand and in her left hand are riches and honor"-the wealth be ing more in what has been done than is usually included in other considera tions. The graduates Tuesday morning, thirty-three in number, composed the second largest class in the history of the college and Mr. B. C. Robertson, Jr., aged 16 years, has the distinction of being the youngest student who ever graduated from Wofford. The auditorium was again filled to overflowing, prominent Carolinians from all portions of the State being present in numbers and with these was a tine contribution of local repre sentative men. And as Wofford stu dents do throng to similar exercises at Converse, even so also do the fair mai dens gather themselves-and others togetber when Wofford sends forth its graduates. President Snyder headed the pro cession to the stage, which was soon filled with the class of '05, the faculty and others, and the exer cises began by singing the hymn which has here been sung for years, the gen tlemen "raising the tune" Tuesday morning having performed this office regularly for thirty-nine years. After prayer by the Rev. Dr. T. H. Law, President Snyder arose amid expec tant silence for the first words Dr. Snyder said he was not responsible for the request which had been sent to him, which request was something about the ladies hats! There was soft rustling heard at once, hats came off and white hands were busy fastening waving, stray tresses. Then came the first event of this crowning day of the year when Presi dent Snyder anncunced the first of the senior speakers. These young gentlemen and their subjects were an nounrced in the following order: A. D. Betts, "Turning Points in History;" J. P. Kilgo, "A Political Idealist;" M. K. Meadors, "A Friend of Conservative Freedom;" R. C. Cli ver, "Greek Literature and Modern Life;" G. J. Patterson, "Modern Knighthood;" W. D. Roberts, "Self Knowledge;" J. G-. Stabler, "Glimpse of the Future;" C. P. Wufford, "The Double Mission of the South's;" M, A. Cnnally, "Class Prophet;" J. Mv. Ariail, "Ave At que Vale." At the conclusion of those addresses President Snyder conferred the de grees upon the graduates as named below: L. Q Crum and J. E. Edwards, A. M.; D. C. Anderson, J. M. Ariail, A. D. Betts, J. W. Boyd, M. W. Brab am, J. B. Cantey, W. B. Carnes, V. Cleveland, M. A. Connally, L. A. Duncar,. E. C. Dye, W. L. Glaze, Jr., J. H. Hamell, Jas. Kilgo, R 0 Law ton, L. A. Manning, M. K. Meadors, R. C. Oliver, G. P. Patterson, C. C. Robbins, H. W. R->bbins, H. C. Rob ertson, J. A. Rland, W. D. Roberts, W. H. Smlth, J. G. Stabler, J. P. Stockman, F. P. Tatum, L. P. Walker, 'Jr., C. P. Wo:fford, all A. B. gradu ates. A certificate was then awarded Ito Mr. E. F. Brigman, and President Snyder next addressed the graduates. A Remarkable Mother. Mrs. Edith Gillespie mother of 15 pairs of twins, is dead. This most notable mother passed away recently at the ranch of her son, John Gilles pie, 10 miles south of Denver. Mrs. Gillespie, after giving bWrth to one of the most marvellous families on re cord, lived to reach the age of 84 and to see her many children scattered far and wide over the country. This re markable mother came from a long lived family and was 1 of 20 children herself. Many children seemed, it is said, only the natural course of events to her and her 15 pairs of twins were not considered at all remarkable by mther anid father. It is said that if her children, grandchildren and great grand- children couli be gathered to zeter a good sized village could easi ly be populated. Kiiled aimselr. Edward Roberts, one of the oldest ad most skillful shoplifters in San Francisco, when detected stealing goods in H. S. Crocker & Co.'s station ary store, took poison and died before the hospital was reached. Roberts was seen slipping a package of twelve pacs of playing. cards into a parcel that he carried under his arm. Killed Her Children. At Ttcumari, N. M., Mrs. George Cambell. becoming suddenly insane, killed her five children and herself with a ritlle, after she had chased her husband from their home on a ranch nne there. SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE Sends Ont Forty-two Graduates From Her Walls This Year. Forty-two young men and women, with the diplomas of the South Caro ilna College, went forth into the world Thursday. Thousands of graduates have been sent forth from this histor ic old College to serve their State and do honor to their alma mater and themselves. The young men and wo men who bore away the diplomas of this College have opportunities that come to but few. They go forth int) the world confident of their qualifica tions, their training and manho^d They go into Carolina blessed with glorious peace and prosperity, and truly few have such opportunities as these graduates. Tae degrees were conferred by Pres ident Sloan upon the following grad uates: GRADUATES, SESSIOS 1904 1905. Bachelors of Arts-Aiken, William David, Jr., Charlotte, N. C ; Black burn, Mary Ethel, Columbia, S. C.; Boyle, William Lodson, Sumtei, S. C.; Clarkson, William Anderson, Wateree, S. C.; Croft, Edward Stock ton, Aiken, S. C.; Croft, Laurence Eiward, Aiken, S. C.; Donald, Helen Stanley, Columbia, S. C.; Everett, John Fonville, Bennettsville, S. C.; Fendley, William Elbert, Maynard, S. C.; Flinn, Nell Crawford, Colum bia, S. C.: Gasque, Herbert William, Marion, S. C.: Hinds, Albert Clifton, Kingstree, S. C ; Hollis, Laurence Peter, Chester, S. C.; I'Anson, Donald son Tiller, Columbia, S. C.; Lyles, Joseph Berry, Columbia, S. C.; McKis sick. James Rion, Greenwood, S. C.; Muller, William Henry, Miley, S. C.; Potts, Frank Glenn, Pleasant Valley, S. C ; Reed, Samuel Macon, Calum bia, S. C ; Scott, Walter Marvin, Chandler, S. C.; Wannamaker, Wil liam Haynesworth, Cheraw, S. C.; Wertz, Wilbur Schumpert, Johnson, S. C. Bachelors of Science-Barron, Jacob Thomas, Jr. Columbia, S. C.; Foster, Ralph Kelsey, Lancaster, S. C.; Saar borcugh, Charles Robert, Conway, S. C.; Wilcox, John Whitfield, Darling ton, S. C. Bachelors cf Laws-Baker, D. Gor don, Marion S. C.; Belber, James Ed win, Summerton, S. C.; Bigby, Fred erick Charles, Columbia, S. C.; Breed in. John K.bb, Manning S. C.: Brails ford, James Monchrief, Summerton, S. C.; Carter, Jesse Francis, Lodge, S C., Craig, Edwa-,d Lyles, Blackstock, S. C. Hoghes, E 1dings Tho'cas, Cope, S. C.; I'Anson, Donaldson Tiller, Co lumbia, S. C.; O'Bryan, Samuel Oliver, Heineman, S C ; R'eb, Marion, Co lumbia, S. C.; Robinson, William Pressly, Lancaster, S. C.; Vaughan. George Wells, Columbia, S. C ; Wil liams, John Frederick, Springfield, S. C.; Wise, John Mahon, Chester, S. C ; Woods, John McSwain, Sardinia, S. C. President Sloan bade the young graduates God speed. The main idea of his brief talk to them was that there were no short cuts to fame or success. NEWB2RRY COLLEGE Awards Diplomas to a Class of Twenty-Six This Year. The forty-ninth session of Newberry College closed on last Thursday. This has been the most prosperous year in the history of the College, the enrol ment of new students has increased and the graduating class, numbering 26, shows thc interest taken by the Lutheran Church in the education of its young men and young women. T wenty young men and six young ladies are the statistics of the graduat ing class, 26 in all. These graduates are going out in the world to represent the old College as the last offspring of a noble mother, their reputation and the reputation of their alma mater is in their keep'ng to do evil or gocd by, for the College is judged by the repre sentatives it gives to the world. Tney leave the College with music in their ears and flowers scattered in their steps, they leave it with the best wishes of their friends and class mates, they will be watched to to see if they use their talents to the best advan tage and their success will be the suc cess of their college. The exercises Thursday closed the commencement proper, and the day has been given entirely so the gradua ting class. At 10 o'clock the Opara House was packed with visitors to hear the seniors speak. The following young men spoke: J. C. Hipp, Newberry, "Thyself, Thy Monument." E. H Olney, of Charleston, "The Big Stick." W. E. Pugh, of Prosperity, "Co quette Cotton." W. E. Derrick, of Chapin, "Shall WE Trust the Trust?" J. W. Orner, of Leesville, "The Minister and the Man." J. H. Zaigler. of Oranpeburg, "The Ogden -aovement." R W. Frick, of Chapin, "The Na tional Crisis " 'J. E. Hipp, of Newberry, "Ich Den." The board of trustees conferred the degree of D. D. on the Rev. J. H. Wilson, of Salisbury, N. 0., and the honorary degree of master of arts was conferred on the Rev. W. C. Schaef fer, Jr., now in Germany, and Prof. H. A. McCullough. of North Carolina. Diplomas were delivered to the fol lowing young men and young ladies: Master of Arts-W. B. Seabrook. Rtchelor of Arts--A B. Caughman, F. W. Chapman, W. E. Derrick, R. W. Prick, J. W. Palmer, J, E Hlpp, J. C. Hipp, J. C. Lybrand. J. W. Oxner, W. E. Pugh, H. Y. Paysinger, S. F. Stoudenmire, A. F. Swygert, D. H. Taylor, J. H. Z:igler and T. E. Zipperer. Bachelor of Science-S. B. Bowers, J. L. Amick, Hattie E. Hipp, T. W. Holloway, Leona 0. Johnson, Louisei Jones, E. H. Olney, W. P. Roof, Jr., and Lucy Suber. Bachelor of Philosophy-M:ss Mar tha Johnson. After the delivery of diplomas Dr. S'herer spcke to the graduates and rouched feelingly on the relations while in College. He admonished< hem to be faithful, to be faithful to hemselves and to the world. With these few timely remarks the exercises] were closed with prayer. He Is All Right. An exzhange asks: "What has be :ome of the boy in patches?" Why less your sjul, he is out on the farm hoppings clods 16 hours a day. He will come to town after a while to run the banks and scores, and be the suc- 1 e:sful lawyers and preachers ana phy-1 icians. Don't worry about the boy in patches. Its the slick-looking, store lothed, nicely groomed lad you want :o inquire about. He's the fellow tbat's going to drop through a crackC .n the sidewalk, out of sight one ofI ORAMEBURG OIL rhe Best for. Growing Cuban Tobacco in the Country booking for Some of the Same Sort in Texas-Statement by Department. The National department of agri eulture has issued an interesting bul letin announcing the result of its ex periments in Texas with Cuban tobac cr: seed. A large part of this report deals with Orangeburg clay and soil, and great effort has been made in Tex as, wherever possible, to find this soil, the kind that the department has found in Orangeburg county, near St. Matthews. The report says: "The soil in the Texas areas is believed to be derived from the thorough weathering of Ter tiary clays, and in some localities the clays are underlain at a depth of e:ghjt to twenty feet by a low grade of glauconite material, indiciting that the ultimate origin of the type may have been green sand of Eocene age. The iron concretions found in the soil, it is thought, have been gradually built by oxidation, and leaching of iron in the soil, which acts as a ce ment between the grains of sand. Oc casionaly, though rarely, the concre tions have the irregular form of iron crust, and such fragments sometimes weigh several pounds. The presence of these concretions is one indication of the adaptation of the soil to the production of a cigar leaf of fine quality. The Orangeburg fine sandy loam, in addition to its special adaptation as a tobzczo soil, is well adapted to gen eral farming. It combines marked fer tility with a fine friable texture, and is easily kept in good tilth. The re port then gives a table showing the results of mechanical analyses of sam ples of the soil and subsoil of this type taken from the locality of the experimental field in the Macogdoches (Texa-) area. The coaracter and relative propor tions of the principal plant focd con stituents in this soil are also set out in a table giving the iesult of a chemical analysis by the water extract method. Continuing the report says: "Orange. burg clay differs from the Orange burg fine sandy loam mainly in hav ing a much shallower covering of lighter soil over the red clay sub-soil, the latter often lying within reach of the plough, even with the shallow ploughig practiced In this part of the country. A typical description gives the following profile; soil from five to nine - inches deep, a dark red color; and ranging in texture from a heavy sandy loam, to a clay loam, sub-soil, a stiff dark red clay, generally reach ing to a considerable depths, thougn generally underlain by greansand marl at three feet. On the surface and mix ed with the soil, and sub soil, are found varying proportions of iron con cretions, and fragments of weathered greensand marl. A few limeston frag ments are found in the sub-soil. "The surface characteristics of the soil vary considerably. Tne large areas form high, evenly rolling land, while the smaller areas which occur as narrow strips, are usually more rolling, and in places even hilly and broken. The surface drainage is for the most part excellent, except for a few slight depressions found in the gently rolling areas, where artificial drainage would be very benEficial. "The Orangeburg clay, like the fine sandy loan, is a residual soil derived through the weathering of greensand marl of Ecene age. The marl is lo cally called "shell rock" and outcrops in many places in all the typical areas of the soil mn Texas. and in cuts a graduation from the unweathered un derlying formation to the most thor oughly weathered surface soil may be readily traced. In some places an al most complete weathering has taken place to a depth of several feet. The greensand is rich in lime, phosphoric acid, and potassium, and has some value for use locally as a fertilizer. "At the beginning of the year 19C4 the bureau had ascertaiced through two years experiments already detail ed, the. types of soil upon which the tobacco nearly approaching the Cuban leaf in all its qualities, could be sac cessfully produced. The experiments were then contim-.ed through the sea son of 1904 on the soils of the Orange burg clay and the Orangeburg fine sandy loam to further study their adaptation to tiller tobacco and to see if by diff:;rent methods of fertilization and cultivation, a still better leaf could be grown." In closing, the report says that the result of the work done during the year 1903, and the sales of tobacco grown in Texas, according to the de partment's methods, have proved, al most without exception, to have been entirely satisfactory. It further says that a gc-od domestic filler can be grown on the 0:angeburg soils in east Texas, and at this time about one hundred and tifty acres are being grown there. The industry looks ex ceedingly bright at this time in east Texas. Gets Ten Thousand. In the Unoited States Court at Char leson on We-in-sday a sealed verdict was opened awarding Sol Blank $10, 000 for the compound fracture of his left leg which may yet have to be am putated, having been _hurt in the head-on collision of twb trains of the Southern railway at Newmarket, Tenn, last summer. The suit was for 850,000. The verdict seems to have been satisfactory, for the counsel Ihanked '.ae jury and no motion of ap peal was made in either case The Southern railway, admitted its respon sibility, but took the position that the sum sued for was out of all reason In hat the physical condition of Mr. Blank was largely to be blamed for he slow progress which has been lade in the treatment and that the iompany should not be made to pay or this drawback. Philadelphia Biters Bitten. Accord~ng to the straries which come rom Philadelphia many of the ninety r more members of the city council ~ho voted for the gas lease steal ex eted to make several thousand dol ars apiece as a result of the expected -ise in the stock of the United Gas [mprovement Company. But when he scheme failed the shares fell in alue from 125 below par and the re ult has been to wipe out the margins which the corrupt councilmen had aid in order to secure their privileges. L'hus instead of making money outr.of ihe transaction they have been severe y punished. A Luc~:-y Girl. Joh'n P. IHunt of New York city, ~ged 19, killed himself with a pistol i Wednesday because his sweetheart 'ef used to marry him unless he would ut drinkingt. GAGGED AID ROVBBD. By Burglars Who Succeeded in Mak ing Good Their Escape. Gagged, chloroformed and robbed early Wednesday evening in his own room at his boarding house, and this without the knowledge sf the other people in the house, is the remarkable incident that befell Reuben M. Sparks, 24 years old, a stanographer of the N. C , and St. L., railroad, who resides at 88 South Pryor street. The robbery was done Wednesday night and two men who done it made their escape. When Sparks recovered consciousness an hour later and reported the matter, it was discovered that a pocketbook had also been taken from a room down stairs. The police are now investigat ing the affair. According to SparkQ, he went to his room about 9 o'clock to retire. When he entered he heard a noise but thought it was his roommate. He spoke and received a reply, and still thinking that it was his roommate, walked far ther into the room. Suddenly he was seized in front and behind by two men, who took him to the bed, threw him on it, and gaged him with a towel. He lost consciousness then, and did not awake until 10 o'ckck. "When I first entered the room and started to undress, and heard the men in there in the dark," said Sparks, "I thought it was a practical joke being played on me by some of the fellows in the house. When they clutched my throat, though, I knew it was no joke. I wanted to give the alarm then, but they held me so close 1 could'nt. They bore me to the bed, ramed a cloth into my mouth, and spread a towel over my face. I knew no more until Mrs. Steele, mother of Miss Steele, came into the room and lossened the towel. She had heard my loud breathing. "The cloth had nothing on it, but the towel was covered with some dark substance, with a sickening odor. This nauseated me and I was sick from the effects of it at midnight." According to Sparks, the robbery must have been committed by some one familiar with the hcuse. He says that a friend of his, a collector, was at the house earlier in the day. At dinner the friend handed him a roll of bills containing about $80. This he lourished before the other boarders, but latter returned t' to his friend. He says also that early in the even ing a negro was seen in the rear of the house. He thinks that this negro might have given a tip to the robbers. When the excitement had quieted down, It was discovered that Miss Mabel Morgan, a niece of Miss Steele, who conducts the house, had lost a pocketbook from her room. It is pos sible that the theives went on to Sparks' room, and being caught there, robbed him also. They escaped by a rear stairway. When seen Thursday, Miss Steele declared that at 9 o'clrck a boarder in the house told her that he heard a noise in Sparks' room. She listened and also heard a noise; it sounded like someone was being strangled. She thought, though, that it was next door, especially as she could get n> response from anybody in the room. She then returned downstairs and knew nothing more about the matter until Sparks' loud breathing attracted her mothers attention.-Atlanta Journal. Killed By Train. A horrible tragedy was enacted at North at six o'clock on Monday after noon when Capt. J. Dempsey Jones, one of the wealthiest and most respect ed citizens of the county, was run over and instantly killed by a train on the Seaboard Air Line Railway. The acci dent happened near the depot in the presence of a numnber cf the friends of Capt, Joaes, who were at the depot to meet the train. They were powerless to prevent the horrible tragedy, and had to stand there and see the life crushed out of their friend by the ponderous wheels. It seems that Capt. Jones, who was qite an aged man, being at the time of his death seventy-nine years of age, attempted to walk across the track in front of an approaching passenger train, which he either did, not see or miscalculated the distance it was from him, when the train ran into him and crushed him to death instantly. Capt. Jones was quite feeble, and it is doubt ful if he ever did know what struck him. As soon as possible he was pick ed up and given attention, but it availed nothing. When it became known the accident cast a deep gloom over the entire community of North, as the kindly old gentleman was great ly beloved by all. The !train was in charge of Conductor Bate and Eugi neer PAteat, who regretted the sad tragedy as much as any one else. Wait Awhile. The Spartanburg Journal hInts at another phase of the yellow peril as follows: "The sympathies of the American people have been almost unanimously with the Japanese in their war with Russia, but we are go ing to find that the Japanese when they are successful are going to give us a lot of trouble. They have already closed the Laio Tung peninsula, which they captured from the Russians, anid they levy what is known as a likin tax on all imports. This includes cotton goods from our southern mills and will embarrass our export trade, if kept up and extended, as It is likely to be. The Japanese are an ambitious, enter prising, aggressive and efficient peo ple and if they want to keep our goods out of China in order to exploit that country themselves, won't that make trouble?" This is only the beginning Just wait a little while, and we shall see. In a few years from now the Jap anese will sell all the cotton goods that China uses. She will do it by in fluencing the Chinese to put a duty on American goods and admit Japanese goods in free on some sort of a reci procity treaty. They will pay us in good measure for all the sympathy we are lavishing on them. Fell Four Stories. At New York Col. A. Clausen, a produce exchange broker was instant ly killed Tuesdlay by falling or jump~ ig from a window In his apartments ~n the fourth floor at 113 West Sev enty-sixth street. Mrs. Claussen, who was in the room at the time, said her husband was asleep when he fell, ha r ing rushed fromn bed suffering from a nightmare. So far as is known there was no reason for suicide. He Was Insane. John Johnson, a Swedish youth, was taken Into custody in Washington on Wednesday for annoying Miss Alice Roosevelt, the president's daughter, with proposals of marriage. He was adjudged insane. Seven People Shot. Seven persons were shot at a wild west show at Inman, Kas., when a Cherokee Indian during a war dance fired a charge from a shot gun into the crowd. It was supposed that a blan hell was in the gun. R~APID PISS OF EDWARD 20K. Gets the Biggest Salary of Any Edi tor in the Unitcd States. The ancestors of Edward K. Bok, the editor of the Ladies' Hcme Jcur nal and the Saturday Iv-ening Postof Philadelphia, were aristceratic Dutch men for a long time. The great grandfather of Edward was oblef ad miral of Holland's navy, and his grand father was chief justice o. Holland's supreme court. His father was a a minist2r to William III., whose daughter, Wilhelmina, is now queen of The Netherlands. But the B.ks lost their money, and William, the minister, came to America with his wife and two boys. Edward Bok left school when a lad, and wert to work. He tells this story of his strug gles upward: "We were extremely poor, and I used to gather wood in the vacant lot.- for our fire. I helped my mother wash dishes and do other household duties. But the first money I earned was in selling water. Prsons in New York then went to Coney Island in street cars which ran through Bruok lyn, I carried a bucket of ice water on my arm and when the cars strpped I sold it to the passengers for a penny a glass. Then I put a lemen in my bucket and got two cents a glass. I added a little more sugar and lemon juice and raised the prize to three cents. That is where I learnzd that the public will always pay the best price for the best thing. I so'd more three-cent lemonade than one-cent water and made more mcney. "In winter, when no one went to Coney Island, I carried a newspaper route on Saturdays and worked in a bakery, cleaning windcws, waiting on the counter, and running erranis, for fifty cents a week. W.aen I was thirteen years old I left school forever, going to the Western Union Telegraph Company as an cffice boy. At night I studied stenography. 1 got into Henry Ward Beecher's church and in to one of its literary societies. We printed a little paper for the society, and I took it up and developed it into the Brooklyn Magazine. My brother helped me. We published Mr. Beech er's sermons .in full, and then made arrangements for the sermons of Dr. Taimage. Curiously enough, some of the best writers of the day became our contributors. "I was nineteen years old, and in the meantime had been employed by the telegraph company as a stenogra pher. , A man conspicuous in the Standard Oil company wanted to buy our magazine for his son, and, as it was not profitable, we sold it. This man told me that magazines and oil could be carried along on the sam-. trade principles-that the methods employed to produce a gallon of refin. ed oil would print and sell a single copy of a magazine. I told him if that was his belief he would lose a lot of money. I left the telegraph com pany and went to Henry Holt and Company, the publishers, also as a stenographer. Heav..n alone knows what else I did in my own time. I started a syndicate and supplied news. papers with high-class matter of in terEst to the female sex, obtainiog what I called forty articles by forty famous women. Some of the women were.foreigners. I kept out of cook ery and needlework. Mo man should attempt to meddle with such things. I might say that 1 am the father of the woman's page in the newspapers, but I am not proaud of the relation ship. I am not proud of the relation detest it now that it has grown up. "From Holt's, I went to Charles Scribner's Sons, with whom I re mained until I was employed by Mr. Curtis. I became adrertising mana ger at Scribner's and undertook to de velop t'he Book Buyei-, one of their magazines. While thus employed I was persuaded to go to Philadelphia and the Ladies' Home Journal. "When a boy I learned the secret of success, as I have told you-work like the devil. To this I now adid, and for the delight of it. Young men in this establishment come to me and each one asks: 'What are my chances?' And I reply: 'You are making your inquiry at the wrong place. It's, up to you, no.t t: me; make yourself invaluable and your fu ture will take care of i;.self.' "-N. Y. Commercial. Row in a Georgia Town. A tragedy occurred at Chipley, Ga., at noon Thursday in which Dr. John C. Hardy, a prominent physician of that town, was killed. Mayor S. A. Goodman was slightly wounded and Marshal White had two bullet holes shot through his clothing. Dr. Hardy had publicly horse-whipped an aged citizen during the morning, and he later appeared at the mayor's omce, where he and the mayor became in volved in a difficulty concerning the amount of fine that was to be imposed upon him. Marshal White was present. Dr. Hardy opened fireon the mayor and the marshal. The marshal re turned the fire. Dr. Hardy was shot twice, once in the hea'i and once in the stomach, dying instantly. Mayor Goodman was shot in the arm by Dr. Hardy. Cauaht at Iast. George G. Glenn, former cashier at Plladelphia for the Postal Telegraph company, was arrested Tuesday night on the arrival of the steamer Talia hassee, at Savannah, from Boston. He is wanted in Philadelphia for forg ing the name of a Postal etmcial to a paper on which It is allege d he seoured 9000. He was last seen mn Pnila delphia on April 28 last. On being arrested, Glenn attempted to shoot himself, but the otlicers prevented him from doing so. Glenn will be held for requisition. Three ille.d. Three persons were killed and 29 injured in the wreck of an eastbound passnger train on the bouthern rail way at Golden Gate, Ill., Tuesday of last week. The train was a "Cotton Special," carrying Confederate veter rans to the reunion at Louisville, Ky. While running at a speed of 50 miles an hour, the engine struck a spread rail on a trestle 2(0 feet high and the engine and four coaches were over turned and fell to the bottom of the ravine. The ergine turned complete l over. A Good Sho.wir; . It is stated that the farmers who compose 50 per cenTff the country's population, only commit two per cent. of the crimes. This is prima facie evidence that it is easier todeal justly and mercifully with men and to waik humbly before God in the Dure atmos phere of the country than in the con gested cities. Pinniged to kHis Death. While being hauled up from a well at Glendale, S. C., Tuesday afternoon J. W. Arnold, a young white man, fell from the box and his body shot :ownward a distance of nearly forty feet. His head struck a rock, break ngr his neckr and he dierd instantly. FATAL MISTAKE, Three Persons Dr6wned and Two Narrowly Escape Death. FEARFUL ACCIDENT. The Driver of One Auto Passes Another Auto, Which Was Standing at a Bridge, the Draw of Which Was Open, and Plunges Into the River. At Chicago three persons were drowned and two others narrowly es caped a like fate Saturday night, when an automobile in which the five were ridirg, plunged into the Chicago river through the op'n draw of the Rush street bridge. The drowned: Jerome G. Kurtzman, Chicago, man ager for a chemical company. Mrs. Jerome G. Kurtzman. W. A. Hartley, manager f ir an au tomobile hcuse. The rescued: W. H. Hoops, Jr., manager for an automobile company. Mrs. Jerome Runyon, New York city. Both Mrs. Runyon and Mr. Hoops were unconsclous for half an hour af ter being taken from the river, but are expected to recover. The accident occurred at the north end of the bridge where there is an upward slope of 200 feet towards the edge of the draw. This slope is so -teep that it has not bsen thought necei siry to stretch chains acrcss the roadway, as is done at a number of other bridges, where the approach is on a level. The occupants of the automabile, which dashed into the river, were coming south in Rush street close be hind another machine, the chauffeur of which, seeing that the draw was open, slackened speed and was coming to a stop about 50 feet from the edge of the draw. Hoops, who was driving the rear machine, thinking to pass ahead, pulled cut to one side. Patting on extra power, Hoops' machine shot to ward the open draw at 20 miles an hcur. When close to the open draw, Hoops realized his danger, and throw ing all his weight on the steering wheel, attempted to turn the machine to the left. The machine was toc close to the draw, however. Toe automobile turned slightly and for a fraction of a second hung on the brink. The tire of the front wheel ripped off, the hub broke, and the machine dropped i:.to the river 30 feet oelow. As the machine slipped along the edge of the .draw, the women in the automobile screamed, and all of the occupants rose to their feet, but had no time in which to make any mncve before they were flung into the river, and after them plunged thE heavy machine. Hoops and Mrs. Runyon fell clear of the machine and were taken un conscious from the river by sailors who were on a wharf near the bridge. Mrs. Runyon was ta~ken to the Lex ington hotel in a hysterical condition. Neither Kurtzmnan, his wife, nor Hartley rose to the surface, and It is thought that they were pinned down by the machine. Stand by Your Town. The Rt ck Hill Ecord says some people claim the right to try and dis courage everything that goes to help build up their home town. Tais is all wrong and all should make up their minds to the fact that If there is any chance to toom business boom it Don't put on a long face and look as though you had a sour stomach. Hold up your head, smile and look for bet ter things. Hide your little hammer and try to speak well of others, no matter, now how small you really know yourself to be. When a stranger drops In jolly him and tei him this is the greatest little town on earth-as it is. Don't discourage him by speaking Ill of your neighbors. Lead him to believe that he has at last struck a place where "white" peo ple live. Don't kncck. Hold your self along by becoming popular, and push your friends with you. It's dead easy. Be a good fellow. and soon you'll have a procession of followers. Na man ever helped himself by knock iog other people down in business or c-aract r. No man ever got rich by trying to make others believe he was the only man in town who knew any thing. You can't climb the ladder of success by treading on other peoples' corns. When a man comes to town he hears the character of nearly every ore traduced, he is nearly always sus picious of the traducer, and will gen erally keep away from the man who knows all the bad things of the town, for I0 islikely a case of taking a thief to catch a thief. Thought He Was Free. Harvey Smith, Johb Collier and Will Jackson, colored, were hangt d at Decatur Ala., Friday. Smith and Collier murdered Miss Belle Blood worth, a young woman of Decatur. Jackson killed a policeman who was trying to arrest him. The three men were hanged together, but when the drop fell the knot slipped off Smith's neck and he dropped to the ground crying out '"Thank God, I am free; yes I am free." He was picked up In a semi-conscious condition and hanged a second time, the rope drawing so tight that it cut deep Into his flesh. Smith was practically unconscious the drop fell the second time and had to e helped up on the scaffold as the rope was adjusted. Both Smith and Collier protested their Innocense to the last, while Jackson claimed he killed Officer Steel in self defense. Babies Choked Station. Sixty-one infants, former Inmates of the New York Foundling Asylum, thronged union station at St. Louis, Mo., and congested traffic for a time Friday, keeping a corps of nurses busy. Oae baby, Joseph Brown, aged 3 years, fell fram a car window just before| reaching St. Louis and was instantly killed. At union station five babies succeeded in crawling under waiting trains, but were rescued from their perilous positions. The infants are being taken to Texas, where they will be distributed into homes for adop tion. Colored Woman Killed. A colored woman, whose name could not be learned was killed at Greers Frnday evening by No. 40, the illfated passenger train that was wrecked near King's Mountain that I niht. THE BOUTR'S GERRAy-8. What An English Army Ofieer Has I to Say About Them. The latest contribution of British military writers to the literature of our civil war is a work entitled "The Crisis of the Confederacy," by Capt. Cecil Battine of the Fifteenth King's Hussars. The book presents an esti mate of the military abilities of the commanding c ficers of the two armies and this feature of the work is par ticularly interesting and very gratify ing to the people of the South. In a review of the work The Army and Navy Journal gives the following sum mary of Capt. Battine's conclusions upon this subject: "Capt. Battine's estimates of the Leaders of the opposing armies In the civil war will interest even where . they fail to convince the studious reader. He.maintains, for example, that if in 1862 the North could have exchanged generals with the South, the Federal victory could not have been long delayed. He declares that the Federal cfficer who moat distinguish ed himself both at Gettysburg and in the Wilderness battle of May 5, 1864, was Hancock. "OL Grant he says. 'No great man in history surpased him In simple ness of purpose and freedom from sham and pretense of all sorts. He wam wise, modett and brave. That he was not a great master of tactical science must be admitted, but remem bering how little incentive he had re ceived to think out its problems until he was of mature age and had been for six years a civilian, It was not to be expected that he would shine in the field which of all others requires many years of long and fruitful study. As a strategist he was inferior to none of the Ameriem generals. His grim de termination to persevere In spite of a holocaust of victims has been de nounced as heartless disregard of hu man life, but his chivalry to the van quished and his tender regard for the sick and wounded show higa in a very different light. "Capt. Battine holds that McClel Ian was relieved of command 'with out any particular pretext,' that his successor, Burnside, while not lacking In bravery, had shown at Antietam 'how little capacity he had for the' most difficult task of controlling a great army in the field,' that Meade, thorgh 'unlike the conventional type of a great warrior,' in that he had 'more the appearance of an engineer than of a troop leader,' possessed valu able qualities as a chief, was perscn ally brave and had the moral courage which is so often lacking to men who never fear for their own safety. "For Lee, Capt. Battine has the highest admiration, and says of him: 'In the tact and diplomatic skill with which he softened the jealousies of his people and tightened the combina tion of the different States, he is only to be compared to the great Duke of Marlborough. In the boldness and. sagacity of his strategy and in the affectionate devotion he inspired in his troops he resembled lNapoleon himself. As leader of an army he had one great fault; he was too modestt too lacking in the stern self-assertion. which compels obedience and exacts the utmost efforts of subordinates. Such as he was, chivalrcus, brave and conscientious to a fault, he will re main the most attractive personality ~ among Am.rican heroes and one of the most famous of the world's great. generals.' - As for Stonewall Jackson, Capt. Battine heartily accepts the high and almost extravagant estimate placed upon that remarkable soldier by another British writer, Lieut. Col. G F. R. Henderson, whose 'Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil'War' is recognized in England as a master piece of military biography." The Charleston Post says whatever judgments may be held in this con. try upon the relative merits of the soldiers of that mighty struggle which rent the republic, it is clear enough, from the writings of such students as Lord Wolseley, Col. Hen derson and Capt. Battine that impar tial and critical history will award to the leaders of the Confederate armies a renown that even we of the South. will admit to be fair recognition of their glorious achievements. The fellow Peril. The Columbia ecord says "If the Chinese do carry out their reported - intention of boycottlrg American goods, the cotton mill industry for on will be up against a yellow peril that really means something. Reports con tlnue to be printed of the progress of this movement amongst the Chinese and their determination to make It ef fective unless some concessions are. made in our exclusion laws." The Record goes on to say that "some in a position to know think they see the fine hand of former Minister Wn in the boycott. When he was in this country he bitterly resented the treat-. ment given his countrymen of wealth, education and intelligence, but with all his suavity, good nature and popu laity he was not able to have the ex. clusion methods relaxed in the least. He quickly 'caught on' to American ways and methods of thooght and ac tion and, perhaps, It was here that he learned the use of the boycott and is trying to put them in effect. -The Record thinks that this country could well modify the severity with which the exclusion law is enforced without flooding the country with Chinese cool es to compete with home laborers, and that unless something Is done in that direction an Imminent peril threatens the cotton manufacters' foreign trade. This is where the fine work of the Japanese will be brought Into play. It is their purpose after they get through with the Bulisian war to make themselves master of the orient c ammercially as well as politi cally, and in doing so It will matter little to them whether they tread on the toes of an enemy or a friend. England will, of course, urge on this movement on the part of Japan and China, as she is well aware that her treaty with Japan will protect her In any discrimination China may mak against the United States. We predict that in less than ten years from the close of the present war Japan and the United States will be at war. Mark the prediction. E agineer Canble Dead. Engineeer Cauble, who was scalded in the wreck of passenger train No. 40 near King's Mountain Thursday night, died Friday morning as a re salt of the injuries he received. A telegram was at once sent to Mr s Cauble, the wife of the engineer, wh lives at Greenville notifying her " the death of her hushbind. Drowned in Wine Tank. At Cagliari, Sardina,- four men lost their lives Friday while attempting to descend into a huge wine reservoir olding fifty thousand gallons of wine. Two of them were asphyxiated by fumes and the other two while attemp ting to rescue them fell In and were droned.