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IN ERUPTIONS People in the Vicinity of Mount Vesuvius Terror Stricken, GREAT IAVA STREAM Running Down on the Pempeii Side. and Cities of Twenty and Tbirty Thousand Inhabitants Tllreat ened With Destruction by Eruption of Volcano. A dispatch from Naples, Italy, says the inhabitants of the villages in the vicinity of Mount Vesuvius are in a condition bodering on a p anic. Many homes have been ab ar doned for the open air, alshouzh there has been a thick fog all day and the at mosphere has been dense with vo!Can ic ashes and the fumes of sutbterran ean Ares. The churches are crowded day and night with people praying for deliverance from an impending peril, manifestations of which are heard and felt in erplosiors which resemble a heavy cannonading and in the trem blings of the earth which are constant ly recurring. The main stream of lava proceeding from Vesuvius is 200 feet wide, and it advances at times at the rate of 21 feet In a minute, the intense hest de stroying vegetation before the stream reaches it. The peasants of P. rtici, at the west foot of Vesuvius, clea-ed tieir grounds of vineyards and trees in the effort to lessen the danger from ire, and resisted the progress of the lava to their utmost. The population of Bescotrecm z. on the southerm de elivity of the mountain have sought safety in flight, and Bosco R >al-, to the eastwar-d i also t-breatened W- m en of this village, weeping witr frient. carried a statue of St. Anre as far as they could go the f ,wirg lava. im ploring a miraice to stay the advance of the consuming stream. The cemetary at Boscotrecaz has been Invaded by lava. Tne scene at night is one of mingled grandeur and horror, as from the summit of Vesuvius there leap; a column of fire fully a thousand feet in height. the glare lighting the sky and sea for many miles. O.-oasional i great masses of molten s.one, scme weighing as much as a ton, are ejested from the crater. The village of Torrre del Greco. which has been elgct times destroyed and as often rebuilt, is again threatened and the inhabitants are in extrem. terror. Signor Matteucci, director of the observatory. is working indefatigably. He has had military ensineers es:ab lish telephonic connection between the observatory and points wintiIn range of the volcanic aclivity. The director said to the Associatee Pre.ss Friday evering that although erup tion presented a grave menace, he did not believe it would reach the villages. Indeed he said the present volca- 1c activity was not altogetber unmixed with good, for if it had not come to pass, a vioent and sud e eruption, having a far wider radiius, might have occurred. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is now most violent. On the Pompeii side the main streem of lava has di vided into two, one tnreatenirg Ottajano, a community of 20,000 io habitants, and the other threatening Torre del Greco, with a population of 30,000. The danger Is becoming serious and calls for the immediate evacuation of Bascotrecaz, the nearest village to the crater, which has the population of 9,000 souls. NON STIR INCU 3ATOR. This One Does The Work Of A fnout and Hens. The largest incubator in the worl d with a capacity cf 15,000 eggs, has lust been completed by W P. Hal of Pembroke, N. Y. It Is 102 feet long and 4 feet 4 Inches wide. Parti tions divided it into 100 compart ments, each accommtodating two trays. The trays have wide bottoms and hold seventy five eggs each. To fill the incubator a singrle time with common-not thoroughbred eggs would require an expenditure of $8,000, for eggs of the rE Quisite fresh ness would cost 40 cents a dc zen. As one hen covers fifteen eggs for hatching, the incubato: does tne work of 1,00 fowls, or has tbe capacity of one hen sitting constantly for nearly ten years. The incubi.tor is h-:ated by mar:rs of a cell of eight s:eam pipes paseig over the top of the egg chamber on one side at d returning to th~e othc r. These pipes cre c nuecred at one ernd of the streture to a water..trnk andi heater. Tbe water fliIng th rotgh the pipes is beated to exsetly the right temperature, a thr-rmostat attached to the saove opening ar d closiring the draughts to make this possie. Ti-e only attention require d by the heite r is supplying it with coal] nght sad morning. The thermcstat Is an expension tank, ten by eighteen inches, whics stands over the beater. The' tank is filled, with CIl, in which is a fi sat. As the heat of the furnace warms the water, the water in the jncket su rcunding the heater expands, and siee float In the oil rises. This movement closes a throttle attacked to the fhat arm, and shuts the draft of the heat er; another lever at the same time opens the ccld air draft of te afurnace. In this way the temperature is regu lated automatically, with Extreirely little variation, the eggs being kept at 102 degrees Fahrenheit. A second novel feature is that the heat of the eggs is regulatedi in ras lng or lowering them in the egg cham ber, which is nearly a foot high ic. side, burlap separatirg it from the pipes. The egg trays root on double frames hinged by galvemnzed arms cr levers. As the chicks develop rh trays are lowered cn these supports, t: e first drop being made in six days, and o;L ers at invervals, un~til, on the the twenty-first day, the trays are resting on the bottoms of' the chamters. All infertile eggs are tested out on the seventh day. Mr. Bill built small incurbators at first, but the oil bill for forty of his small Incubators, wIth 8.000 egg's ce pacity, was $150 for a seascn, while a 1%rge incubator was run three months| at an expnsm of less thanS8 for coal.! DO.N' WAN iIAl' 5EOPLE KICK AGAINST BARNES BEING THEIR PO3TMASTER ad Senator Tillman is Picked to Prevent Lis Confirmation by The Sonate. As if by common consent, the peO ple of Washington, the business pec0. ple, officeholders, residents and others have turned to Senator Tillman pro testing against the Senate confirming the nomination of B. F. Barnes. to be postmaster of that city. Their a; peals could not have fallen into more willing ears, for it will be remembered that a short time ago when Mrs. Mi nor Morris was violently eiscted frcm the White House under the direct or ders of Mr. Barnes, Senator Tillman electrified the Senate with a thrilling narrative of the scene and centered his bggest shot against Barne?. He and he alone, according to what Sena tor Tillman said at that time, was responsible for the disgraceful scene that happened in the exetcutive offices of the White House, and the Senator did not spare words in telling his fe' low members of the upper house of Congress what he thought about the matter. The appointment of Barnes to be postmaster of this city was no less I surprise to S!nator Tillman than to the other 300,000 inhabitants of Wash ington. The manner of the appoint ment mas out o the ordinary way that appointments are generally made and tnere were few people here who c=uld at first understand the motives of the President in selecting for Washinv ton's pos mister a man not identifi d in any way with the city's interest., and practically unknown to Washir-g ton residents and business men. Tne appoistment was not an agreeable one and it has been surmiised that it was made entirely from a standpoint ct personal popularity with the Preii dent. Ten thaound women, represer.tng every section c f the United States are said to be behind the fight that Son ror Tiliman will make againsG B-.rnes' corirmation by tbe Senate. As paw erful as the hosts of the tcmpera.n;e caiue, tbey are plannieg a vigoni u tigh, agvinst tLe man wbom they b.. ieve guilty of a great indignity !evel cd at one of their sex. They have no forgotten the White Ho.use affair, and although by direction of the President the matter has lor g since been con sidered a "clksed incident," at leaz r a efmcial standpoint, they say that it will never be a 'cosed lu-i dent" as long as the women 0f tie Uoied States have a right to v0ce their sentiments and as long as there are men in the Senate who will stand up for them in the fight that they are making. S-mator Tfllmar has already given notice to his fUllow members of the S -nate that he will ex.rcise his power to tlock Barnes' confirmation. He will be o-pposed by SEr arois Ladge and Hale both right h nd men of the President, and while it is not thought that Sznato~r Tillman will be able to keep the noxination from eventuall; going through, he will necessarily bold it up? te.r a while through his efforts. "There are many men in Washing ton more worthy of receiving the ap pointment as p es master of that city than Barnes," the Senator says, "and the time has long .si:;ce passed when fat omoies were distributed among car petoaggers." The fight will be a live ly one while it lasts. LEVEIR A BALL PL&AYSE. Mr. Gains of Tennessee Picks Him for His Team. According to a Washington special to the Chicago Tribune, Chairman Tawney of the appropriation commit tee and John Wesley Gaines of Ten nessee were engag~ed in a heated dis cussion the other day In one of the capitol cloak rooms.- I. was not poli tics this time. but tbe national sport which was the subject, and Mr. Gaines demurred to the idea that the North and West were the best piac's for de ve'oping base-all teams, giving the idea that big leaguers come South every year to gst into condition. A free-for all discussion ensued and Mr. Tawney said he could get 13 North ern and Western men in congress who could defeat a team picked by Mr. Gines from the Southern Represen tatives. One of the first m'n Mr. Gaines icked for his team was Representa tive A. F. Lever of this district. His other men were: John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, Mrris Sa-ppa-d of Texas, Mrs. Min or's champ;ion, Fred T.uiba tt of Balti more, M '., Represenative Davene of Wst Virginia, Judge Under wood of Alabama. Mr. Sparkman cof Flori d; Virginia's solitary Republican, Mr. Slemp, who was paired with Mr. Bickourn, wno enjoys the same dis incion from North Carolint; Mr. Bandi6d,e of Arkansas, with Mr. Meyer of Louisiana, as the thirteenth man. Mr. Ta 'rncy chose for his side: Ha..ry CO.;. Sulz:r or N~w York, Pre.; Lngworth of Oh?io, CbsIrman Fos of Illinois, head of the naval affairs com mimes; M-. Sulli van of Boston, Messis. Eshr ana Townsend of Wisconsin and Mihk an, respectively, Represeota tv aLit'lfield (of Maine, Oy Sulloway of New H nmpshire, the tallest man in ne hcuse; Jim Sherman of New York, the' new chairman of the Republican cot gressional committee; Julius Kahn of Sr.n Francisco, and Cuarhe Landis of Indi-na. Bairiea The Wrong Man. Th..ugh the remains of murdered negro, which h ad ~ ed in the potter's fi~d attiirderick county, M.,, almshu were positively identified as h~is body,- Eward Grsen is alive and well in Baltimore. This news came from Baltimore in the form of a dispatch to Green's relativ es telling them that a remarkabie mtitake hid been made The body of t~h murdered man was identified firss by Green's trother and then by his fater, who esme from Baltimore t. .mine it They declared that there wa. na doubt as to the identity of thel de d negro. Tuey had funeral services held at tt e grave when the body was~ reinterred Triursday, but the mes sage frcm Baltimore states thatsthe su posed murdered man has turned up E his home there. John M-les killed his half brother J. G. Sapp with a fence rail near Baa ley, Ga., on last Sunday. They were NIPPED IN THE BUD. Left Their Families and Were Run ning Away When Caught. By clever detective work, says the Atlanta Journal, Police Officer Hood, of the Atlanta force, on Tuesday of last week nipped in the bud the elope ment of Mrs. Sallie Clackum, a pretty young woman of Spartanburg, S. C., and C E Boyd, of the same city. At the time of their arrest the couple were strolling along Chestnut street envolving plans for leaving Atlanta. Both Mrs. Clackum and Boyd left families in Spartanburg, it is said. The rormer lift behind a husband and three small children, the youngest a baby of two years, while Boyd as a wife and two children. For several month& Boyd, who is a stone cutt-er, was employed at the same marbleyard with Mrs. Ciackum's husband, who is a stone polisher.' About a week ago Boyd disappear ed from home and Monday night Mrs. Clackum quietly took her de parture. A letter which the woman overlooked in her haste caused the couple's arrest. The mis.lve was from Boyd and it is stated in endear ing terms re-z'uested the woman to meet him in Atlanta. The Atlanta police department was furnished with a description of the pair and Offlzer Hood lost. no time in Icomplishing their arrest. The couple frankly confess that they were intending to go away together and admit that they spent Manday night in a hotel as man and wife. Ciz ckum. the woman's husband, ar rived in Atlanta Wednesday morning and expresses a determination t: have his wife and her sweetheart pro qpcuzed to the full extent of the law. Offizers are expected to take them back to Spartanburg some time dur ng Monday. Since Mrs Clackum left home her little baby had its arm broken. When otified of the accident and asked if she did not want to see her children he woman smilingly remarket.: "Yes, I would like to see the ch11 dren, but I wish we could have got tvn away before the police found us. My husband has always mi:treateO me and it was this that caused me to eave him. Mr. Boyd has a wif Dwice his own age and thev are not hrappy, so we thought we would star, lire Eogtther." WiLL TAKE A EAD. ve Lbor Uiions to Take Part in CUgressional E:cctions. o gariz'd labor's role in the nex: c.; greskonal elections will be far rehcuir g, if the plans now being laid are eff active. A political tureau under the directicn of the American Federation of L-tbor will soon be cs tablished in Was-ington, and will try wo make its ir-flaence felt in every congressional d:strict. Geo. H. Shib ley, president of the People's Sovere gnty league, has issued a statement bearing upon the authorized an nour.c:-ment of the American Federa tion of L3,ber that it will question tivery candidate on his Ptriu18 toward legislative questions aff cting organ zd labor. Mr. Shibley says: "Few real~z3 that the declaration fr the people means a campaign for the immediate establishmenlt of a system whereby the voters in geu-ral may Instruct by referendum vote. The system is the advisory initiative and advisory referendum, and can be isalled by a mere majority vo:e in the nstlonal house and senate, and forced tetion by the United States senators can be secured through In structions. "The great strategic feature of this programme Is that it is for the Immediate establishment of the pso pie's sovei-eignty In place of machine rule in nation, state and city, to be accomplished in this year's campaign through the systematic questionin~g of candidates. Candidates, when forced to go on record, pledge, almost Invari ably, for the people's cause. "Funds for the work will be forth coming. The general funds of the American Federation of Labor and of oter unions are at the disposal cof the political movecment. - "Of great importance- is the fact that the campaign Is. now open Heretofore the campaign has nt been opened until August or S'-ptember, but this year the candidates are to be questioned early and their replies published. In most cemes the ques tions will be asked before the pri mares are held." Died for- aer Child. A terrible tragedy occurred at Taomasville, Ga... Tnursday night, when Mrs. S. J. Kingsley laid down her own life to save that of her child. Mrs. Kingsley was sitting 431et17 in er chair at home, wit-h her little it fnt playing about the room, when the latter drew near a table ou wbich stood a lighted kerosene lamp, and pulled the tablecloth to the fijor, pre cipating the fiaming lamp with it, and carrying tue baby off its feet right ito the blaza. Tae lovlng m)ouer, fantic with fear, hurled the c:ml A fom danger, but succeeded in saving i only at the price of her own life, The lamp exploded and the blaz'ng oi envlped ner in a sheet of living f ame. Assisrnce was immediate, of no avail. The heroic woman linzgered in horrible agony for hours. Mrs~ Kingsley was a daughter of Shetiff Hight of Thomas couary. Att or Society Gambgere. rudge A. W. Fite caused constern ation in society circles at Dalton, Ga.. when he charged the Wntii~feld county grand jury to Indict all persons who play bridge and euchre for prizs or money. The judge was very caustic I his remarks in regard to what he cllled "society gambling," anid piacti clly ordered the grand jury to return indictment. " Negroes are constantly being Indicted," said Judge Fite, "for siootang crap, but ladies and gentle men who play for high stakes at so cal fr ctions escape. I want exact jutice for all." Under Judge Fite's charge some of the leading people of Dalton will be indicted. It is suppos edthat stories of recent heavy losss at card parties here.;e responsible for the judge's charge. An OAd Man S-nrenced. In the United States circuit court attCrleston Tlursday John W, Car terr, 0 years of age, o.f Mu~lins, S. C.. wassentenced to serve one year at hard labor inthe pri-on at Atlanta, on the charge of forgery, in the prose eution of a pension claim. He was a member of a company of the First S uth Carolina re glment in the Span ish American war; and be forged the :nines of six of his comrades. A f er indiciment he confessed to the er~me iard was given the minimum penaltr of the act. His hair and beard are white and he Is bent with age, but I. ,h ai no respncter of persons. 1 HE G1VES UP.. iEGRO WHO KILLED MR. WOOD WARD AT MONTMORENCI loes to Columbjia and Eurrenders to the Governor Who Has Him locked Up. The Columbia State says a man ,harged with murder was put under irrest at the door to the governor's e Moe Monday. The fugitive is Luke Gray, who is accused of t aving killed Mr. Cliff3rd Woodward at Mont morenci, Aiken county, on the night of the 2nd of February. Gov. Hey ward last Friday offered a reward of $100 for the capture and conviction of this negro. The family of the deceas ed had offered a reward of 850. Luke Gray appears to have been be. wildered when be came to Columbia. He is a negro of low mentality, and what he has had has been impared by a terrific blow on the skull when he %as run over by a train on the South ern railway last summer. There is a terrible scar on the left side of his head. and he says that the doctors have told him that it will end his life this summer if he goes out in the sun. Just exactly what he was intending to do when he went to the State capi tol is difficult to learn, but the negro says that he came here to "give him self up." Caesar Chisholm, the wise dld messenger of the governor's offioe, who has learned much in his time, espied a negro hanging around the capitol, and thought there was some thing suspicious in his behavior *'T-e man looked like a vagabond." said Caesar, "and I began to question uim. He said to me that he was afraid to go to Aiken, and I thought that he was running from the lvnch ers. I told him this was the place if he wanted protection, and I got h!m to come inside." About that time Caesar was sent up strvet on s ..me errand by the gcv ernor and the negro remained in the corridor of the State capitol, where hi; appearance caught tne attention of some of the attaches of the sffices, but they said nothing about it at the me. When Caesar came back he qu.;stioned his protege closely. Luke Ge.ty m-orde no attempt to conceal his name or identity frcm the beginning. Ee said that he had had a difficulty with a white man and was afraid to -o back to Aiken. "W;2at did you do to him?" asked Caesar. "Shot him," was the laconic an swer. "And what bEcame of him?" ask-d Caesar. 'I been told that he is dead," said the negro in reply. Caesar thought it was then ab,,ut time to look into the matter from the itindpoint of the governor's office, and he atarted to ask Gov. Heyward if a reward had been cffered for this fugitive, and to see if there was on file any information as to the commis slon of tbe crime. Before going to the governor with the informa;ion, however, Caesar saw Mr. Hliers, the State house cfieer, ad called him to take charge of the fugitive. Mr..Hiers offiialv put the negro under arrest after conferring with Gov. Hey ward as to the crime in which the nsg-o admitted his par ticipation. Mr. fliers took the negro over to the police station and put him in a cell for safe-keeping until he could communicate with the sheriff of Aiken county. Luke Gray tells a strange story. He c'elares that he did not attempt to kill Mr. Wo~dward, but shot In self efense. According to his story, he had gone to the depot to see about a freight car being placed for some wood, and while at. Monomorenci he wont to Mr. Wood ward's store and taxed the latter with having annoyed the negro's wife that afternoon. Mr. Woodward pulled a knife out of his pocket, so the negro says. and advanced. Luke back ed out of the store and down toward the railroad station, where Mr. Wood ward caughe up with him and made a stab at the negro. The latter thre w up his left hand and caught the blow, but a deep cut was made- Mr. Woodward then made another lunge and the ne gro threw up his left arm again. He states that he felt sure that Mr. Wood ward meant to kill him, so he deliber ately shot Mr. Wood ward with a shot gun. The shot took effect in the wounded man's lef t side and he lin gered for a month. The negro claims that he had been carrying the gun constantly, for he was employed by Mr. J. H. Chapman to cut wood, and In the walk of five miles to and from his house every oay he managed to kill some ganze oc casinally. Mr. Chapman had expected a car to be placed that day for some nood that he was going to ship and he told the negro to go by and see if te car had been placed. It was at that time that he proceeded to take Mr. Woodward to task. Gray is .3 years old. He says that Mr. Wo, dward s'as a young man and unmarried and that he had a reputa tion in that community which made cored men dislike him. He also de clares that the place of business that Mr. Woodward kept was not such a olace as was above suspicion from the dispnsary authorities and for that reason there was~ always somewhat of a crowd hangicg around and he was afraid to give himself up that night, for fear that he wculd be harmed. The negro's story was heard by a number of white people and they seemed impressed with the fact that he was trying to tell the truth. He gave particulars to show his cause of g~rievence with the deceased, but de nies that he did more than to go to Mr. Wuod ward to remostrate. After the shooting Gray fled down into Barnwell county, to Barton's mill the same place where young Edwards was a refuge after the Eutawville lynching, which excited so much of a stir last year. Here Gray has remaind ed at work in the saw mill owned by Mr. Gifftird, and evidently has been kept adivised by his "own color." He had started to Aiken to surreuder when he heard of Mr. Woodward's leath, but when he got to Williston, half way between Montmorenci and Barton, he learned that there was onidrable feeling against him and it as not advisable for him to go there. Consequently, he came on to oiumbia, and as has been stated, he ppeared to be somewhat bewildered 1 Lter he got here, although he declar s it to have been his deliberate pur ose to surrender. Tae negro does not leny that be shot with the intentIon( >f killing, but denies that he carried( he gun there for that purpose. He I ays that Bob Corlsv an'd another ne-C iro were eye witness. He does not row whether or not any others saw he shooting. WHEN 132S LIGtON R13IONZD. Che Unique Report ofa Confederate C mmissary at Laur-DP. Towarls the close of the war the )atriots of the sruth were called cn io pay a tax ia kind, or a teuth of al. ;he land had yielded. This was one way of feeading a famishel army. raese stores were coilected at and lispensed from designated points It ach county. At a little railroad statin in rens c:unty, COpt. Davis ha.i detailed trusted friend, J e L gn, t. act a rceiving and disbursing c ft -er. For Mal orders from the.proper authori.ies were required to s-care t;e pr v sion but always of a kialy naturp, ,Ta Ligon could nevaer refu1se a ra;ed. ungry fellow solaer, order or no o1 der. Tiese were passing 3aily, S) t", scanty hoard was soon gone. As the time far rendering his report of "stores on hand" drew ne,-r, be reaized that by evsr so c-aaritabls e construction his stewardship c'i I not fail to fall In the class k iowa b. "unprL fitable," so he took tima by tht forelock and addressed the fol'owing! ur Iq !e L tfl:1ai communication to his sup.rio-; Martin?; Dopot, S C.. - 18E 5 My Daar Cptai : Pa s iant to yor instrucions I have stayed by the stuff here unt il the rturn!ng soldiers hav: euchred me out of every damn thing in sight cxept the boards on the com missary. I herewith band you my r-signa tion in disgrace and disgust. By the time this reaches you your former commissary offlicer will be in full re treat upon the Peaceful village o! Cross Hill, S. C., in good order afoot. Al says your obedient servant, Jo'. T. Ligon. Capt. Divis has j)ined the majzrity but his big hearted sub-rdinate I:. still a respected citiz in of Greenwood, S. C. Hugh K Alken. Laurens, S. C. IN DEMaND. Additional Instances Where Ra' roads Shut Oat ldividuals. A dispatch from Washingtoa to the Spartanburg Journal says Senator Tillman is receiving all sorts of ap peals on the railroad question. Thes communications are coming from evry state in the Uaion. John L Williams & Son the bankers of Rca mond, recently wrote him a lettei calling his attention to discrim na tion in rate matters against Ricb ma:,nd. They did not write to thuir own senators but to the South Circ linian. Now cimes a letter from C. W. Edds, of R-1ston Spar, N. Y , asking Senator Tillman Do help him efore his business is ruined. A part of the letter is as follows: "I appeal to you for sympathy and hep. My case is this. For 12 years I have made a comfortable lving for myself, invalid wife and our children, now fo'ir in number. I he done this in the r& t til coal businass. The D. & H. 8,ailroad Company. over whose reaz I have received all my coal since I have been in the business, now cla-ia. they have the right to retail theis own coal and they will haul ma no moe. Now and then th y bri g me a car load, but itis not enoguh for my customers. When I complain they merely say, 'take this or nitting. Nw what am I to de ? They claim the right to retail the own coal, and i I caonot force them to haul the coal what am I to do? My bu.en ssis alost ruined by reason of the fa~c' that this road will not haul coal cars where they cem sell coal cars where they can sell coal themselves, mean time almost breaking up the busines that I have taken so many long years to build up. I appeal to you to right the wrong the road .is doing me." To Miake Them M1arry. Miss Rosa Rudspeth, of Stuart. Nebraska, who owns, sets up, prints and edits her own newspaper, Is try ing to save the bachelors of her State by compelling them to get married On the other hand the men of Stuart, who are for the most part bachelors are trying to induce Miss Rudspeth to get married and cease her attacks on them which appears in her paper each week, in a recent editorial. in her parer, The Ledger, she says: "Stuart businESS interests are do minated to a large extent by bache lors. The bankers are each and all unmated. The real estate man and money loaner is a single man. The city attorney is a bachelor. The tele phone man is a dandy. The big merchant has not been haltered. At every turn, in search of news or busi ness, an unmated bait confronts the editor. At long raoge one wcu d uppose that a woman so situated would have a picnic, a gala dlay anti Fourth of July celebration every dat in the week. Nay, the editor does not stand in with tbese gallant knight~s of the cup who prefe~r brac lng drinks to sweet coildren and domestic joys. They have all bandec together to make her eIther starve or get married. It looks ungalla t to the world, but they mean 1s in gres.t kindness. When the pesky writer of foibles is out of the way there will be no fly in society's ointment at Stuart. A woman has no place in business She keeps things flying galley west a~nd crooked. Crowd her to the wall. Don't give her a chance. Bravo ! "It makes all the diffcrence which side of the bar a man is on. If he tands behind It and fills the glasses be is all wrong. If he stands iu front nd fills his stomach he is all right. Your special position, my dear sir, lepends upon your stomach facing he right side or the bar." Miss Rudspeth has been in Stuart Eve years. She owns the paper, gathers its news notes, writes them, sets the type, makes up the paper, Lifts the heavy forms, runs the press md feeds it, starts- and stops the esoline eDgine, and does all of the Ighting. S,*oalso owns her ho me, ine finest in twn, and a large farm 2ear town, acquired by untiring work. he declares she will make marriages n Stuart if she has to l:nport the girls and hire them to win and wed he bachelors, just for the sake of norality. She persistently refuses to1 Je photographed. Buritcl Jietselt. At Louisville, Tex , Mr. W. H. 1aiborne, widow of the late W. H. laiborne, Thursday night saturated i clothing with turpentine and went lt into the lot, climbed into a box, et fire to her clothing and was burn :d to death. Her remains were not onnn ntil Thursday. I11 A WJMA.NS LOVF. EELD PRISONER NINE MONTHS BY BRUE RUSBAND. ;he and Child Cruelly Bea'en, Yet When Rescued The Clings to the Ecou drel. For nine m:.nths in the cVy cf W 1hingon, the center of govern ..sUt, where security to life and lit ,rty sh. u'd be greatest, a simple and :o'fid -ng court- girl has been held s, -1orjWr by :r master. lover ant qu *nda u husb. -d. tier im;ris'Ronment is b:-en coul.inuou; and attended b; I cir:U-fstence5 of bntality and cruelty as to shock and horrify .:' unaccustVned esr. T ie victim is F hniie Smith, or Fnri a in the abandoD o' her love she thought at tirs0 shf ;ad r rigiit to be called. Her joiilo w -s F.ank Damentt, a bricidaver, t whoim she had conflded her life and .vno is now iiims2lf a prisorer in th T'he esc:-p of the woman from th, licked doors in the house at 911 E ,rt:h street n rthwes'; 'he charge .kgainst Damtt she m ,de to the Do ic ; his capture and prelim-nay tria . the police court were dese -ib.d ii the Times Taursiay. Ta're were tb o4i details of the life tragedy, r. . 1ting enoug, in al truth. Bu for the rimes the girl has told he own story of her sLff.,rings. She told it Thur.d zy afternoon sitting in the room in which mos recently she had been held a prisoner Her little daughter, Adelle Smith two and one half years old, playee around the mother's knee while the simple sentences were spoken. BUtl notier and child gava visbtle evidence -f the brutal blows that had -beet iho vered upon them by Dmettt rge womaa's face an.d neck werf marred by great brukes and discora *ons. She did not rant uor use the Ian guage of abuse. S'ie ;ci-cAy indulge aers it in tne terms of compaint Ine lists of her wrongs fell withou nmohasis fro.m her lips. When shi could she even scemed to be trsirg t ind an ecuse fur or a Dalla&ion of thi *rutzl ties of which she had b.en tb hapless and helpless vIctim. Almost, it appeared, sie b-d be come immune to missy and s. f;ring 2he friends she bad found since he delvarence sought to be kitd an: good to her, she received their auvan .s w th timid and uncomprehendin .ratitude. She hardly knew what t( do with her new-found Iberty. "I don't love him-I don't--I don't," she declared, as thcugh, wit! Dais vehement u terance, sae sough 5 support her own flagging determi hation. But ev:rbody who heard and sa7 -er then believid she does still love Demmt.-despite every cuelty h, -as practiced-and that a smhe and *ord from nim would draw her, I. t morous gratitude and affection -aciz to his feet. It sound incredibl: &End absurd, but within -live minute f the p.issionaie avowal of the deati if her iove, she was prattling of D.: -eni.'5 "b-g brown eyes, when hi turned thim upon me," and smiling. tooishly an~d tenderly, ovar th though. Auti yet far nine months' with few ciasional-and trfi g exceptions ;ne has been allo ved no c ny-:rsatior with any person other than D ment and her child. For all toat he ka eot her under lock and key, not per .nuted to stray from her rocm. s-av nder his eve. In four d-.f rent na..uses in d.f rent sections of th city, she has nesn a prisonaer, treated wih what would appear 'ven~us bl atrocity. Waen she he been move from one h!:use to anomaer it has een in the darkeess of the night, She has seen her child inbnmanl3 beaten, time and time again. At frst she interfered, but the resul was only a beatir g for herself and more severity meten cut to the littk girl. At the last she has kept he; ptc3 and watched while her mothe! neart bled for the sufferings of her child. IRerused1 to be a Mcapigoat, Andrew H imilton, the notorious New York insurance lobyist, ref usei to b; made a scapegoat of b y tne R> publican rascals, and is making all sorts of trouble for them. H a hat caused it to leak out that aside froa the S550,000 contribution made to the republican campaign In 1896 by the New York Life, that comp~any made anadditional contribution during that campaign amounting to $75.000, which made the contributions of that one company $125,000 during one cam paign. Carnelius N. Blhss, treasurer of the republican co-mittee, has deniec that he ever receiveid the $75,000, and referring to this denial, the New Yoxk World says: 'Men familiar with the documentary evidence in the posses -sion of H amilton can not understand the denial of Cornelius N. Bliks thai ne ever received from Hamilton a pe litical contribution auiounting to $'75, 000. The $75,000 was paid to Mr Bliss by Mr. Bamilton in the first.Mc Kinley-Brown campaign, according to Hamiitm's friends. As this was ten years ago it may have siippid out of tie mind of Mr. Bliss. Bue Mr. Bliss has not qualidAd his denials by saying "to -the best of his r collecdion,' but has declared fia~tfootedly that he never recived the money. A sir gle contrI bution of $75.000 is5 so eptional in s z .that politicians.ccan understand ue failure c-f Mr. Bliss to rememnber it. This $75,000 brings the total of. known politicasl contAibutions by the New York L:fe up to 8223,000. The :1, zan trustees cf the company who agreed last Saturday personally to re imburse the compaign for its political :ontributions, will have to dig much leeper into their pockets than they >riginally counted up:.n, and before Judge Hamilton is through with that ubject the final total may be far in xcess of $223,000." - Rumor Deni+Ad. A special from Columbia says that 1 rumor has been current throughout he city for several days to the effct ihat the state board of dispensar; lirectors, at -the frecent quarterly neeting,1-did not faithfully regard the >lac list the investigatiIrgcomittee ient In of whiskey concerns not to be atronzed urntil a more thorough in estigation is made of their past lealings with the dispensary and that she Richland DI~tilling Campany, mong other concerns whose names idn't appear on the published list of urchases was given a large order of ,20b barrels. ThIs rumor Is denied. IT has been urged by some that a ation line Japan who prosecuted such war as was waged last year by her in ~Ianchuria ought to be able to expel rm her borders the wolfe of starva on in times of peace. ABOUT PUSH BALL. How This Very interesting Game is Played. Push ball is played on a gridiron field or floor 120 yards long by fifty wide, with goal posts at either end twenty feet apart and connected by a cross bar seven feet from the ground. The mammoth ball, almost globular iu shape, should measure six feet in di ameter and weigh between forty-eight and !ifty pounds. It is usuauy' intiated with compressed air. The ball Is placed In the middle of the field, and the teams line up as fol-! lows: Five forwards on the forty yard line, two. left and'two right wings on the twenty yard line and two goal keepers on the goal line, eleven men each. At the sound of the referee's whistle both sides plunge at full speed upon the ball, and then the fun begins. If the ball is caught fairly between the two human battering rams there is a rebound from Its elastic sides that sends the players sprawling like ten pins.I It does not take long, however, for the entire twenty-two men to get around the sphere, put their shoulders to the wheel, so to speak, and push for every ounce of energy In them. The heavier, stronger team will, of course, have the advantage, but some trick plays have been invented which lead variety to the game and redeem it from being a featureless contest of mere brawn and muscle. -National Magazine. WHEN YOU ARE SICK. An English Literary Prescription to Be Taken During Recovery. For reading during convalescence the British Medical Journal prescribes lit erature that cheers but does not In ebriate, and warns persons recovering from Illness against writers "whose style, like that of George Meredith. puts a constant strain on the understanding of the reader, or, like that of Maurice Hewlett, irritates by Its artificial glit ter, or like that of Marie Corelli, an noys by its frothy impertinence." Dick ens should go well during convales cence, except "Pickwick," at least in, surgical cases, because of the many side splitting episodes which would play havoc with .the union of parts. For the same reason, in order that healing granulations may not be inter fered with, Mark Twain's works are absolutely interdicted. "Smiles' 'Self Help' is quite innocu ous," says the learned journal, "but we should be cautious in recommending it in order that the patient may not there by be led to meditate over a misspent career and to have suggested to him all the opportunities in life he might have grasped, but did not A despond ency might thus be induced which would delay a restoration to health. and which might even prove fatal. Thackeray, except 'Vanity Fair,' which !s a pessimistic book, should go very well; 'Pendennis' and 'Barry Lyndon' will certainly entertain." ' SKULLS FOR CUPS. Barbarous Custom of Fierce Tribes of Northern Europe. The barbarous custom of converting the skulls of enemies Into drinking cups was a common one In ancient times among the fierce tribes of north ern Europe and was not unknown to the people of the more civilized regious farther south. The Italian poet. Ma rio, causes an assemblage of friends to quaff their wine from .the skiill of Minerva, and in his "Wonder of a Kingdom" Torrent makes Dakker say: Would I had ten thousand soldiers' heads, Their skulls set all in silver, to drink healths To his confusion who first invented war. Thomas Middleton, a dramatic writer of the early part of the seventeenth century, Is believed to be the origi nator of the phrase, "A soldier's drink Ing cup," as applied to a human skull. In "The Witch," one of his most cele brated plays, the duke takes a bowl, which he Is told Is a human skull. whereupon be exclaims: Call it a soldier's cup. Our duchess, I know, winl pledge ma, though the cup Was once her father's head, which as a trophy We'll keep till death. One of the delights of the Immortal.., as represented in the old Scandinavian sagas, Is that of drinking to drunken ness from the skulls of vanquished foes. Let Us Do Our Duty. Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, the of fle, the school, the home, just as faith fully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle and we knew that victory for mankid depended on our bravery, strength and skill. When we do that the humblest of us will be serv ing in that great army which achIeves the welfare of the world.-Theodore Parker. Progressing. "How is your daughter getting along in physical culture?" inquired the visi tor of Mrs. Goldrox. "Fine!" replied Mrs. Goldrox. "She's got so she can read an' write it now, and the professor says he's going to give her Latin an' chiropody next month. I think them foreign lan gwdges are fine, don't you?"-Milwau kee Sentinel. A Long Evening. "It's hard on the people of Green land to have night six month-s long." "Yes. Just think of the feelings of the . poor man whose mother-in-law rops In to spend an evening!" A Case of Must. The Clergyman-My lIttle man, do you go to church every Sunday? Bob bie-Yes, sir. I'm not old enough yet t stay away. Shot Herself. Mrs, Eglith Oooper, whose address s given as 2330 Germantown avenue, Phladelpli, committed suicide Thursday.in the Palmer House Chic lgi3 shooting herself through the ead Shrwent to the Palmer House arly Thauj10ay with a man about 65 years of age, who registered as Emo Bardeleben, of New York. The womn mn registered as Mrs. Bardeleben,. They were assigned to a room and ardelben left the hotel. He retnrn d three hours later and found the om locked. The door, was forced pen. The woman was dead on the loor, with a revolver on the car~oet azside her. Crushed to Death. A dispatch from Gainesville, Ga., lays: "Ab London, well known in al and Lumpkin, met death in a lorrible manner between this piace ,d Dahilonega. He was unloading a I wagon of a heavy telegraph pole1 when it fell on him and crusbed his ikull to pieces and broke his neck. e lay pinned down until a heiperi RELIGIOUS I rw In I - Gems Gleaned From the Teachings of s11 Denonilnation. Liberty. opportunity and Intelligence are the watchwords of the truly great nation.-lieh. Dr. Newell Dwiglt Hil. Us. Congregationalist. Brooklyn. Right Worship. True worship is the sol In comxmun Ion with its God. Whatever exigency may arfse in numan life the soul seeks relief- in talking with God.-Rev. Dr. W. H. W. Rees. Methodist, Pittsburg. Religionx Perfect Work. Religion does not have its perfect work in us when it makes us do right in order to win some future reward, but when it enables us so to live that each day is worth while.--Rev. Dr. Frank Crane, Unitarian, Worcester, Mass. Hate. Fear and Love. Hate is the demon of discord and moves man on to bell. Fear is the dis cord and derangement of doubt. Love is the angel of reconciliation leading us on to happiness and to heaven.-Rev. Daniel H. Overton, Presbyterian, Brooklyn. Need of More Faith. We want more faith in Faith. We want to place her upon the highest throne, as the faculty. common to all men, of entering into and alipropriat Ing the unseen spiritual world.-Rev. Dr. Roland Colton Smith, Episcopa lan, Washington. A Modern Need. The world's need today Is a return to Christ-a fresh understanding of his consciousness of himself, a new sur render in all the areas of their being, practie:l, intellectual and spiritual, to the regenerating powxer of his divine personality. - Rev. Dr. Charles A. Eaton, Baptist, Cleveland, 0. Science and Religion. Science, or, rather,. scientism, for of science we must always speak with love and admiration, has failed in all its pretentions in so far .as It was op posed to religion. It Is bankrupt,' as Brunetiere says, and, as Balfour says, "The foundations of belief are still se cure."-Rev. Dr. D. J. Stafford, Roman Catholic, Washington. How to Glorify God. The only effective way of glorifying - God is by living worthy of our calling and having power In our lives. It is not by what we profess, but by what. we do; not so much by singing his' praises as by living his life. We glo rify him by the name of Christian, but much more by the character of a Chris-_ tian. - Rev. Bernird Powell Smith, Christian Church, Atlanta. Work For Each Church Member. Each member should find his comple ment somewhere, and no man or wom an in the church s'iould be doing noth ing, We ought not to wait until our. part "turps up," as 'so many seem to do. We should seek for our place and part, for such search -ill be' evidence of our sincerity and our finding it will be proof or our success.-Rev. George Lloyd, Episcopalian, St. Louis. Bfilding Up of Character. Character is built up by an accumu lation of'small things faithfully done. Men gi -td ruin by aeglecting small virtues and then greater ones - and finally are irretrievably lost. The things that make us happy in thils life and are necessary to it are very com mon things after all. Benedict Arnold on his deathbed said to his physician he had just one want. He wanted one friend.-Rev. C. J. Tannar, Christian Church, Detroit. Elnect of socialism. - The rule of Socialism would be a rule of tyranny, dhe tyranny of the average, of the commonpiace. Everything new and 'fresh would be silenced.- N'ature is against this sort of thing. Evolu tion is only another name for growth away from sameness toward ever in creasing complexity. I believe that by and by there is to be a grander type of what you may call socialism if you please, better than the world has ever seen, but It will be entIrely free from that of the past, from that which somo are trying to establish now. It will be the free co-operation of perfected IndivIduality, all working together im pelled by the love of the common good. There is no use in giving people free democratic institutions until they can appreciate them and guard them and make the best of them.-Rev. Dr. Minot J. Savage, Unitarian, New York. Valnie of Co-operatton. Every industrious human life that Is successful always co-operates with other lives. Every Ideal human organ ization on a large scale must be a per fet human ant hive. Everywhere hu man talent should be specialized. What especial niche are you going to fill in the great human beehive? When I go and closely examine the wonderful mo 'sale floors and walls and ceilings of the Aihambra of the old Spanih Moors I do not find these individual stones yery valuable in themselves. Many of them are only common pebbles thaUt we might spurn with our feet In the street gutter. But when these common peb bles, as Individuals, are cut and pol ished and placed side by side In con trast with other stones they form the beautiful mosaics of the Alhambra, which are one of the marvels of this century. You as an individual may not amount to much, but if cut and pol Ished and fitted Into the right niche for which you were Intended by God you can become part of the perfect walls of the Temple Beautiful. Like the ant, will you be a worker, living under au therity? Will you be a co-operative worker? Will you serve the commu nity In which you live by doing the work for which you are especIally fit ted by brain and body as faithfully and willingly 'and wisely as the single ant performs her allotted task in a geat busy home hive?-Rev. Dr. Frank D WItt Talmage, Presbyterian, Los Lneles, Cal. Rich Gold Mm. Sensational disecvrievi, w h i coh clipse anythirng yet made in soutmhern Nkvada. are reported from R aund Kountan, fif-temn mile. nornai of fabattn, on 1-ft rson C-uvon road. The strike has been visited by pro rnent Goldfield opeistors. and the reports are fully verifiad. It looks ike another great esmp-t>e third Within the past mnouth. 0 R. Scott, . R Scott ard Slim Morga ware the proncto~rs who urr a-tbed the valable find. G-~dSeid m-unn men returned from the~ sc no witit bags of ~ampes. A gen~era;l rusat Is on f'or Round Mcun Man an~d th-e v!cinity, d everything IS staked. Another rich discoveryr rivaling~ that of Round fountan has.boeen mo.de three miles istant, but particulars cannot be earned. Accidentally Killed. Mrs. LEna Crabh ww. acciaentally lled by the sh~eriE r'f Laurens co'un , G.ogia, o-1 lam Thureda while eing ca-ried by !-~ to Dublin jail : the chase or andoning her idren. His pistoi fell frn his cket and exnloded, the ball striking