The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, July 04, 1906, Image 1

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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 4, 1906. NO. 40. AWFUL TRAEDY. Mr. I. T. Parks Shot and Killed in Street Row BY M1f. ROBT H. COVAB Who is Himself Seriously Wounded in the Shoulder. The Shooting Was Caused bv Some Business Tron ble Between the Two Men Brewing Sometime. A most deplorable tragedy was en acted in the streets of Orangeburg about eleven o'clock last Friday morn ing, resulting in the death of Mr. Jas. T. Parks, of Columbia, and the serious woundirg of Mr. Robt. H. Co var, of this city. Tnese two gentle men met in Church street, in the rear of the Courthouse, and without exchanging many words went to shooting each other with the result above described. The tragedy caused a great shook to the entire communi ty, and for a time business Was almost suspended and nothing was talked about hardly but the terrible occur rence that had resulted in the death of one gentleman and the desperate wounding of another. It was about eleven o'clock when several pistol shots rang out in rapid succession, which starLied every one who heard them. The shocting did not last but a few seconds, and ne one could say how many shos were ex changed between tne two combatants, so rapid was the firiLg. It is supposed that eight or ten shots were fired in all. As soon as possible people hurried to tne scene after the pistols had been emputd . inmediately after the shoot ing Mr. Parks wasseen slowly walking backward and sideways towards the Northwest corner of the Courthouse Square and Mr. Covar slowly following him, both gentieman apparently re loading their pistols. When Mr. Parks reached the corner he crossed over Church street and en tered the law office of Messrs Bowman & Bowman. Waen he reached the effle he gave his pistol to I. W. Bow man, E&q., who was standing in his (.Moe door, having gone there on hear ing the pistol shots. At this time Mr. Parks did not seem to be badly hurt, but he was very pale, and said to i those who had gathered that he was fatally shot. Mr. PArks sat down in a chair, and it soon tecame apparent that he was seriously hurt. He was examined ay physicians who at first thought that he was not fataly hurt but after being removed ti. the residence of his brother-In-law, Dr. J. H. Perrey clear, arnd a care ful examination made, it was found that he was shot completely through the body and the attending physicians pronounced the wounds fatal. Mr. Parks was hit in three places. One ball entered his obin and two struck himin the stomach, one passing clean through his body and lodging jast under the skin on the other side. He was conscious up to half past nine o'clock, but about that time his mind b -gan to wonder and at half-past t welve o'clcck the end came. Immediately alter the shooting Mr. A. C. Lindstedt took Mr. Covar's pistol. About this time Mr. Covar's father came up and commanded his son to stop, which-he did and turned from following Mr. Parks and was carried to his wffle, where he was exmined by physicians and found to ave been hit in two places. O.ie bail passed completely through his right shoulder ani another struck him In the right hand, shooting off his thumb nail. Another ball passed through his hat, but did not touch his bead. Several bullets struck the store of the Orangeburg Hardware Company on the corner of Russell and Church Streets. These balls muaL have come from Mr. Park's pistol. and indicates the position of the com baat a h time of the firing. Mr Covar 'was removed to his home, here he now lies suffering from his wounds, which are qaite painful ann may result seriously. In the excitement incident to such' a deplorable sifair statements vary, and it has been quite a aiffcult matteri to obtain the facts. Some of the nearby witnesses state that they are unable to say which of them fired the irst shot. O:,hers say that Mr. Parks spke to Mr. Covar and appeared to atk him a question. The reply from Mr. Covar seemed to be sff-ma.tivs and then Mr. Parks struck him in the ace with his flst. Then Mr. Parksi ired and both pistols were emptied in1 ~n incredibly short time. When thA shooting took place Mr. Covar was in: his shirt sleeves, and carried his pistol buttened up in his shirt. One thing1 is certain both men expected a di culty and bad prepared for it. The trouhle seems to have been caused by a rusiness trouble between the two gentlemen. While Mr. Parks rsded in Orangeburg he owned ar d publbnedC The Patriot n'zwspaper. Mr. C.,var m ,ved here from Ezigefleid cunty wu tn, ofnarge of the mechan ical work of tne paper for Mr. Parka. and was in his employ for several yeas, during which time they seemed to beon the most pleasant and inti mte terms. When Mr. Parks moved to Colum bia about two years ago Mr. Covar be came interestad in the business, and was given entire management of the paper except the editorial department. wnich was retained by Mr. Parks, who came down each week to look ater it. Abcut the first of the year Mr. Parks sold his Interest in The Patriot asd the printing outfit to Mr. J. H. Funderburg and Mr. Co var, and the newspaper has since beer. published by Funderburg & Covar as pnh~ehrs and proprietors. It is stated that since this transfer there has not been pleasant feelin.as between Mr. Parks and Mr. Cuvar. It seems that there was some trouble about business matters, and that Mr. PArks came down from Co lumbia Frid.y morning to straighten out the matter. All the parties were together in a conversaticn for some time Friday morning and they ieparated. It was only a short time when they came together again, and the shooting took place as above stat ed. It is reported that a man tele phoned to Mr. Parks at Columbia Taursday and advised him not to come to Orangeburg Friday, asking him to have his business transacted either through other parties or by correspndence, stating to Mr. Parks that Mr. Covar had threatened to kill him if be interfered. It is also rumor ed that Mr. Covar had been informed that Mr. P,rks intended to kill him on account of some reports that he had heard, We believe this idle Rancy Sinfie's talk is what caused the whole trouble. The fact is that b th parties acted on the idle talk they had heard and were well armed and prepared fcr shooting without delay. The father of Mr. Covar, an old gentleman, who resides here with his som, was also armed. He did not attempt to shzot and returned his p!stol to his pocket when the pistol was taken away from his son. After the fusilade when Mr. Covar was walking fjrward after Mr. Parks, as stated above, the old gen tleman called to his son to stop, which :e did. The unfortunate affair has created a great deal of exaitement, which oc curring as it did, in so public a place. Mr. Parks was a native of Elgefield rx.unty and came to Orangeburg from Marion several years ago. During his stay in Orangeburg he was in the newspaper work and had many friends In this city as well as county, who will be shocked to hear of his tragic death. Some years ago Mr. Parks married Miss Annie Perreyclear, a laughter of Capt. W. H Perreyclear, f this city, who with two sweet little boys survive him. Mr. R. H. Covar was also a native >f Edgefield, and has been a resident >f this city for some years. Since he :ame here he has conducted himself rn such a way as to gain the corLi lenoe and respect of 'all who have :ome in contact with him. He, like Ar. Parks, has many friends all over he county, as well as in town. He 2as a wife and several children, who Lre terribly grieved over the sad af air. Mr. Ccvar is now at home suf ering from the wound in his shoulder d it will be a long time before he will be able to do any wcrk again. ROASTS ROOSVALT. ;ouh Carolina Senator's Hit Speech on the Morris A ffair. Senator Tillman Thursday after toon paid his respects to President bosevelt, Secretary Barnes, the man ,barged with the rough handling of rs. Minor Morris at the White Rouse a few months ago, Major Syl ester of the Washington police, and he Asheville physician, Dr. Weaver or their part in the Morris aff dr, in vigorous spet ch in the senate. For two hours he held the closest ,ttenton of hundreds of spcc .ators in he galleries, many of whom were ades, who had come to the capitol ours before he was scheduled to be-. %I his spEech. His arraignment of ~hose whom he charged with the re ~posiblity cf ejecting Mrs. Morris ~rom the White House was mosti ~evere. He reccted his effcrts to have n investigation of the matter at the I ie it happened and of the reluc ance of the senate committee on ostc faces and post roads to have the atter examined into, and said that, rile Barnes, who had already beea ppinted and confirmed as postmas er of this city, cannot be affected by hat he might say, he was determin d to let the world know what he hought of the treatment accord to rs. Morris and the subsequent ap ointment of Barnes to the position postmaster in the city of Wash ngton, a place paying a $6,000 salary annally. Senator TIllman was frequently In errupted by friends of the president ad Bs~rnes, but continned to make s speech, while hundreds in the alleries listened closely, and at times emed ready to break forth in tumult )us applause. Tnis was especially oticeable when he referred to the omen and mothers of the country d to his own mother. Killed an Intruder. At Daunville, Va,., an unknown gro was shot and instantly killed at bout midnight Friday night while in he act of attempting entrance to the ome Cf Mr. R. E. Morris, a detective or the Southern Express company. he negro had raised a window to a room cccupied by Mrs. Morris and her laughter, about 18 years, when dis ~overed by Morris, who was in the room directly above that of his wife. Jrimnal assault is thought to have een the motive for the presence of he negro. Some hours after the :lling a negro giving his name as ionroe Richardson was arrested on re charge of being an acccmplice of he dead negro. Morris was released without bail, and an Investigation will take place. Hazrged inxsen Capt. Falk of the German bark -esine which arrived at Pennsacola n Thursday from Hamberg, commit ted tuicide while the vessel was at ea by hanging himself in his cabin. 'he G-esine left Hamburg in March ut went ashore on a reef and it was ecessary to unload her cargo in or der to float the vessel. After that the captian became very despondent nd one m .rning was found hanging n his cabin. Killed His M~an. Stanford White, prominent in New York society,was srot and killed in Madison Square roof garden, New York, on M-nday night by Harry Thaw, memaber of a wealthy Etts burg family. Thaw created a sensa tion some time ago by marrying Eve lyn N sbit, an actress, against the protests of his family. The row was aus by family affairs. THE DEATH RATE. More People Die from Consump tion Than From ANY OTHER DISEASE. Paeumonia Comes Next in the United States, but Heart Disease Is Steadily on the Increase. The Census Report Covers Five Years. The bureau of the census has just published a report presenting mortal ity statistics for the United States for the five calendar years 1900 to 1904. This report was prepared under the supervision of the late William A. King, chief statistician for vital stat istics. The annual compilation of statis tics of mortality was authorz~d by the act of Congress establishing the permanent eensus office. TAe statis ics, however, do not cover the entire country, but, in accordance with the provisions of this act, are restricted o what Ic termed the "registration area." This area comprises those States and cities which have laws re quiring the reg's ration of death and possess records affirdirg satisfactory and comparable data. In 1904 it in :luding 11 States and 334 cities which aad at least 8,000 population in 1900 The 11 registration States are Con ecticut, District of Columbia, In diana, M jne, Massachusetts, Michi gan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rode Island, and Ver mont; the 334 registration cities in lude, in addition to the cities in the 11 registration States, a considerable umber which are in non-registration State. These States and cities, composing he registration area, included in 1904 ) population of 32 996.989, or only a rifle more than two-flftbs of the esti mated population of the United States F'or the remainder of the United States we have at present no mortali Dy siatistics which are sufficiently re lable and complete to be included in ;his report. The registration area, owever, is gradually increasing in ex ent, as the various States and cities ome to realiz3 the importance of hav ng adequate registration laws and of -ff.:cively enforcing them. The number of deati'- reported in be registration area in 1900 was 539. )39, and the death rate per 1 000 of opulation was 17.6 In 1901 the rate leclined to 16 6 and in 1902 the rate leclined to 16. The rate increased in L903 to 16 2 and in 1904 to 16 7. The Lverage annual rate for the five years was 16 6 per 1.000. The average annual death rate in< ~he registration States was 17.8 peri ,000 In the cities of 8,000 or more cpulation in 1900 and 14.3 per 1,000 n rural districts, which as the term s here used, includes everything out< ide these cities. Rhode Island is the1 ly registration State In which the ate was as high in the rural districts as in the cities. But in Massachusetts, onneclcut and New Hampshire the I Irban rate exceeded the rural by less ~han 1 per 1 000. The excess was ~reatest in New Jersey, New York Ld Maine. The higher mortality for cities is ue largely to the fact that residents f rural districts when critically ill re ort to the hospitals and institutions n the cities for treatment, and that he deaths cccurring in such cases are egistered in the cities, thus increas g the urban mortality. The average annual rates were low st in St. Joseph, Mo. (7.6); Onvosso, dich., (10.1); Lincoln, Neo., (10.4); ad St. Paui, Mmnn., (10.5), and high st in Charleston, S. C., (31.3); Wil nngton, N 0., (28.2); and Jackson ille, Fla., (28.1). There were 44 cities in which the ,erage annual death rate for the flve ears was 20 or more per 1,000. Nine ~een of these cities are lccated in the iouthern Stat a and contain a larg= roportion of colored population, the leath rate for which in ge'ieral large y exceeds that for the whites. Tuberculosis of the lungs and pneu-1 nonia were by far the leaning causes: )f death. The average annual mortality from ubeculosis of the lungs or consumup in, 1900 to 1904, was 172.6 per 100, 00 of population. It is gratifying to ote that the rate has shown a mark d decline since 1890, when it was1 i15 4. This indicates that the war lare against the white plague is meet ng with success. The mortalita rom his disease in the registration a ea in the United States is lower than it isi n Ireland, Germany, Norway, Spain1 ad Switzerland, but higher than in England and Wales, Scotland, the Netherlans, Belgium and Italy. The average annual mortality from onumption was higher in Denver han in any other registration city. This fact is easily explained by the eaths of non-residents who resort to hat locality in the later stages of the disease hoping to be benefied by the avorable climatic conditions. Exclud ing Denver, the rates were highest in Nw Orleans, San Francisco, Wash ngton, Newark, Jersey City, Balti ore and Cincinnati; and lowest in :t. Joseph, Mo., Scranton, Omnaha, Detroit, St. Paul, Buffalo and Min eapli3. Pneumonia was second among the principal causes of death, the average anual rate being 134 9 per 100,000 population. The death rate from this cisease In the registration area of the United States is considerably greater han in E2gland and Wales and Scot land. For the principal ciths the average ~nnual rates were highest in -A tle geney, Pittsburg, New York aad KnsasS City, Mo.; and Iowest in St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Joseph, Mo., and Toledo. Among the leadirg causes of death, dMarrha anrd enteritis was third, the average annual mortality from thi disease for the five years being 113 1 per 100,000. Over 80 per cent of th( deaths from these diseases were deathi of children under five years of age, ane and over 65 per cent of children unde one year of age. Fir the principal cities the rate was highest in Fall River. It was high also in Pittsburg, ProvIdence, New York and Alle gheany. H-:art disease was fourth among the leading causes of death, the average annual rate in the registration area of the five years being 129 9 per 100.000 of population. Over 75 per cent of the deaths from this disease occarred at ages above 44, over 45 per cent occur ring at 65 years and over. It is no ticeable that the mortality from heart disease is steadily increasing, the death rate advancing from 111 2 per 100,000 In 1900 to 134 8 in 1904. Another cause of death with an in creasing rate was cancer, the rate for which increased from 63 per 100,000 in 1900 to 70.9 in 1904 A compara tively .mall proportion of the deaths from cancer occurred at ages under 40 years. Tae deaths of females far ex ceeded those of males, the proortion being 622 females to 378 males in 1, 000 deaths. The death rate from cancer in the registration area of the United S-sates was less than in E igland and Wales, Scotland, Gnrmany, Norway. the Netherlands and Swi z rland, but was greater than in Ireland, Hungary, Spain and Italy. It was higher in the cities than In the rural districts, out this Is due partly to the fact that residents of rural districts In the last stages of the disease seek the hospit als in the cities f r treament. The average annual death rate from typhoid fever in the registration area was 33 8 per 100 000 of population. 0' the ten Earopean countries for which similar statistics are available Italy. alone shows a higher. Tnqe total num ber of deaths in the five years, divid ed as to sex. shows a proportion of 588 a al3s to 412 females in every 1, 000 deaths. In each year a greater number of deaths from typhoid fever occurred between the ages of 20 and 55 than at any other age period. The number of deaths was greatest in Sep cember and O,tober, and least in June. Over one-third of the deaths >ccured in August, September and OZ Dober. Among the large cities the greatest nortality from this disease occurred tn Pittsburg, Pa., the rate being more han 120 in each year. The next high st rate was in the adjinJng city of Allegheny. The mortality from ty hoid fever was also excessively high n Claveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Lousvlle and Washingtoa. The aver ige in New York city, St Paul, Mil waukee and Jersey City. The mor ;ality was greater in many of the maller cities and in the rural districts )f certain counties in the registration itates the in the larger cities. NEW RELIGIOUS SE . atarted by a Negro in a New York City. It is said that a peculiar religious ect is getting a foothold in the city f Middletown, N. Y. It Is the .hurch of God and Saints of Christ ,d Is founded on lines similar to lexander Dowie's C..urch of Zion, ,nd like that it has a head who pro ~laims himself God's prophet and nouthpiece. William S. Crawdy, of Washington, D. C., is the prophet he church knows no color line, but , the prophet is a negro the majority f converts are from the negro raca. A branch of the church was organ red In this city some weeks ago by n intelligent negro, John H. Allen, rom Clover, Va., and already it has nade fourteen black and one white ~onvert. The keeping of the Ten ommandments and observing of saturday as the Sabbath are the irong points of the Church of Go.d. Prophet Crowdy, if he had a white ~kin, would much resemble Alexand..r owie, and his metnods appear as if ~opied from Dowie's. He publishes a ewspaper, the Weekly Prophet, which is the official organ of the hurch of God, and its chief end sems to be to urge the members to end in contrnbutions to Crowdy. Members of the church have to ~ontribute 10 pet cent of their earn Lgs, which, with all other moneys elected, goes to Prophet Crowdy. he members are told that Crowdy is mniscient and that nothing they do ~scapes his observation. Particular tress is laid on the fact that it is im ossible to fool the prophet In regard o the earnings of the foliowers, and t is suggested that If any of them ~red to "nig" in their 10 per cent ~ontributions swift punishment would llow. The prophet has a scheme of uilding a holy city at Believille, Va , imilar to Dowie's Z'.on city. Tae ther colored churches of Is city are p in arms aga'inst the Church of iod. Killed !ihiFormer Wife. At Mannington, W. V.'., Jones E. Joad, an oil driller, shot and killed is wife early Thursday, dangerously runded Samuel Hugh Williams, a oarder, and then comitted suicide. cad, It is said desered his wife last anuary. In April she was granted a livorce and then opened a boarding ouse to support her family. Thurs lay morning her h-sb'nd returned to own, and going directly to her home hot her through the head while she was still in bed. Williams was sleep ing on a lonage and CJoad then turned ihe wt apon on him, shooting him in ;e breast, after which he put a bul let in his own brain. Both husband ad wife dIed almost Instantly. Wil ims will probably recover. Out in~ the Open. Senator Tillman added the follow Ing on Tuesday to what he had said an his "Address to the People" rela tive to the campaign meetings: "I see by the papers that they are hay ng the campaign meetings in the ourt houses, which is an additional reason why I'm not going to j in the ampaign party. It would not be justice to myself after the grEat Strain that has been made on me dur ng the present session to speak Inside :f houses of any kind. I would not stand it. Beside all the campaigr have ever attended were out In the open, where they ought to be. It is better for both peonle a.nd speakers. WACES OF SIN. Goes to the Gallows for Killing a Friend. A. POLISHED R SCAL. One of the Most Picturesque Figures in Police Crookdom of the Century. Probably the Most Remark able Criminal Record of Modern Times. After a Rlf- of crime beginning with boyhood, "Lord Frederick Seymore Barrington, society highwayman, re sourceful crook, bigamist, forger and murderer, paid the penalty of his last crime on the. caffild Friday at Coly ton, Mo. The crime for which Barrington was to die on the scaffald was the murder of James P. Mcann, a well known sporting man of this city, on June 18, 1903. Mcann was shot, his body robbed and his remains thrown into a a pond at Banfils. By a peculiar co incidence the nude body of the mur dered man was ditcovered floating in the pond just three years ago Thurs day. During the active years of his ca reer "Lord" Barrington was one of the most picturesque figures in "po lice" crookdom, for, although he was of lowly origin, his speciality of pass Ing as a member of the British peer age, went well in several ciis and helped him to live without work for years. He was the son of a hack driver in runbridge Wells, England, and his real nam3 is F. G. Barton. He was arrested for the first time at the age of seven years, when he was caught setting fire to the common. At 12he was sentenced to five years in the Eed Hill reformatory for embezzlement. After serving three years he made his scape by means of a rope, only to be arrested two years later and sentenced for robbery. For this he served in Yorkshire prison. About this time he decided It would be to his advantage to give aimself a new surrounding by Joining ie army, where he could observe the ways of the offlcers who made up much If the Eaglish society. This was in ais 221 years, but before his enlist mnnb was a year old he he had forged a furlough, fled from the army and ommitted a burglary for which he did a ten years's stretch. That c.mpleted his English record. What crimes he succeeded in commit Ung in the short intervals between als prisons terms are not known, but are believed to be many. He got into some of the best households as a ser vant; studied the members of society; e served as an artist, studies his odel, and in later years made good se of his studies. He robbed a lergyman three times and each time y a sorrowing profession of repent inca and glib quotation succeeded in 1 eing f )rgiven. When he was finally anded behind the bars for the ten ears' term in Eogland he settled own to improving his education so be ould step out of prison a student. He erfected himself in French, German and the classics, and was a polished 1 raud when he came to America in 891. He posed here as the son of an Eaglishnobieman of wealth and rank. As such he won Miss Celestine Mil ier, ef Booklyn, an heiress with a for-1 une in her own right. After marry ng Miss MLller he had the eff'rontery o return to his own laud and estab ished himself with his wife in a home .i West Brighton. There he cold. loodedly told his wife the truth Aout himself. Stripped of every enny by her husband, the unhappy vife returned to this country with er child, and Barton was arrested and ~ent back to prison to serve out an old entence. As soon as the sentence 1 as expired Barton returned to the .ited Stated having found here the est field for his peculiar operations. I In 1932 Palladelphia society receiv d with open arms "Lord Burgoyne," f the E-iglish peerage. His lordship as none other than the exoonvict, ~ ut before that came to be known he ad c .urted and wedded Miss Mar. aret Eafferty, an heiress. He told aer he was heir to 820,000 and bor owed money from her. While they ere on their honeymoon, "Bur cyne" slipped from the train and disappeared. She would believe noth .ng against him until she went to ew Yerk and learned the truth from ais first wife, with whom "Bargoyne" was, at the time, attempting to eff ct econciliation. Receiving no notice from his first ife, the ex-convict, who bad been1 andering in the West, made his de but in St. Louis society under the lias of "Lord Barrington." He met dnd married Miss Wilhelmina Grace ochran, of Independence, Iowa, who was visiting in St Louis at the time. Refore he c:uld enjy the money he1 lad obtained through this marriage, hard-headed brother of Miss Coch ran had discovered his record and hadi "Barrington" thrown into prison. Follo wing his exposure "Barring ;on" succeeded in winning the confi ance of McCann, a wealthy horse wner and hotel man. Oa the night f McCann's disappearance the two were seen drinking together. The1 urder was traced to "Barriington,"i and he was convicted. The legal fight o save him extended over two years man With Twelve Toesa. P. E. Franks, of Pennsylvania, was rrested at Cumberlan~d, Md., on a harge of embezzling about $200 at harleroi, Pa. Five minutes after he telegranL was received at the police station Lieutenant Schmvtz had Franks under arrest. The fact that he has six toes on each foot was &ne of the means of Identification. He returned to Pennsylvania without a reqisition Not until ve have thrown It away forever do we realize that love is the moteciouns gift life can bringr us. 1 HUMAN FLOWERS. THIS IS WHAT AUN' SALLIE CALLS THE GIRLS. Who Are the 1weetest Things the Good Lord Created on the Earth. Come, girls, and "snuggle" up close to me while we have a heart-to-heart talk, for I expect to get as much as I give. I want to think of my girls, whether they are one year or ten or twenty, as opening flowers-some, of them early spring beauties, others summer roses-all sweet and tender, and all needing love and care to de Velop the best that is in them. Girls, dont be in a hurry to reach young ladyhood and the advantages ytu imagine will be gained by it. Do not rob yourself of the rosy flush of happy, childhood. It will scon be over. You will put away with loving hands the playthings of your child hood. How flaeting are the years of childhood. As the years pass they bring with Intelligence and experience, but take away the innocence of child hood. Girla, do you realize you are the rosebuds in the garden of life? You are the sweetest things that God cre ated. Your voices are like music-so unselfish and sweet, so helpful and loving that sad hearts grow glad and sad faces brighten wherever you go. Love this youth that GAd has given you, and forget not to thank Him for it. 'There are no skeletons in your closet, no sorrowful memories to bring the tears to your eye. I hope you are all happy and cheer ful the-e bright spring days. While the birds are building their homes in hedges and tree tops they are filling the world with music. Busy from I morning till night, they find time *to sing. Don't wait till your work is done ( to sing-sing and be happy and make I others happy. Yes, follow the bird's I example and go singing to youlr-work. I Surely God wants us to be cheerfu: and happy when He made this world i o beautiful for us. Kind, cheerful people bring out the best that is in as, so that we can hardly help being good while we are under their inla wnce. There is no sweeter music iL t our heavenly Father's ears than the nnocent song and laughter of his shildren, and no sweeter tribute could ver be made to the weary ones of 3arth than that which comes from 4he sparkling, innocent soul of young girlhood. Girls, have all the pets you want, Dut don't keep any living thing in Con- I inement. Don't have a sweet little ongster beating its wings against the zage, nor a frolicsome Equirrel. Let iem be free, happy and joyous in iheir native element. A fellow-feel ng makes us wonderous kind. It has neen eleven years since I walked the rreen earth, and the time seems long ad dreary. I often long in the gla.1 p pringtime to get away Into some eep tangled wildwood and listen toR he sweet songs of birds in joytous reedom as they flit from tree to tree. I have learned lessons of patience nd submission to the divine will. As ~ ever before I've learned the value of 1 rue friends, to appreciate more and ore the love and friendship of pure inded Christian girls. How patient y and sweetly, with tender hands' hey ministered to me when the deathr ~ngAl seemed very near. None but bd is sufficiently wise to understand ~ e heart of Christian girls. They r wring joy and peace to their homes. ' hey are their mother's companions ~ nd helpers, and their sweet influence P rings much of heaven down to earth 0 y keeping their brothers' wandering et in paths of safety. Surely the ~ eltering wings of the unseen angelse ust hover very near our sweet girls. od bless them and make us worthy a i their tender devotion. Pure minded girls are not only ~ ~lessings in their homes. We meet h ih them on the highways and by- P rays. One of them came into my life a a a ministering angel when I was far a rom friends, when I was bereft of all P at made life worth living. But we P were as ships passing and hailing each al 'ter as we passed. No girl can be a ure and good without the world be g the better for It and making her ~ n heart happier. God bless you 1 and keep you well and happy, and member you have the best wishes of 1 Destructive Storm. Charlie Thomson, a negro living ven miles east or Union, had the cof blown off his house and furniture , ,adly broken up by a storm last week. [sfamly were uninjured by the light ing. An empty house on the Sin air place near oy was also blown Lown. A special from Pride's says ere was a very heavy storm In that - cton and that great damage was. P Lone at Cnester anti Yorkville by the n iowing down of trees and other d hings, which h.ave not been cleared up,~ t REd Point, near Pride's crops ere ba~ly injured there being a savy hail storm half a mile wide all d 1hrough that section. No damageZ as done ats N.a& Siioals, though ~ he current baa t , be turned off. Buried J:W.MLfrslr H0ire. [f Herman Fisher, after having been prisoned in a treiac- ten feei deep i. with only his head acove thre ground E rom I p. in., Friday was finally dug v it at 8 o'clock Saturday morning, a e seemed no worse for his experience, a 'he work of rescue continued through- '? it the night. For a long time it was I bhougt that Fischer would succumb a rem exhaustion owing to the pres- I are of earth upon his body. Fisher ri ud several other workmen were dig- :: ring a trench for a sewer on Staten C :sland, when the sides gave way, I urying all alive. The others were ii oon rescued. I] Very Uonsiderate. 2 Rather than wake his traveling le ~ompanions-ome of whom were wo- o0 anen' to take the regular train at 5 li . n., from Atlanta to Columbus, Ga., rorge Foster Peabody, the rich edu ~atonal philanthropist, waited on a1 Koday '.ntil later in the day and a lred a special, paying for It $688, and iving the employes of the train large si dps b'sides. ALONE IN DEATH. The Sad Fate of a Young w: man at at Florence. The Florence Times says: Telling in its sad details a story of saf ring and betra3al by a man who professed to love her, and who had deserted her three months before. the birth of a child last Saturday morning, is the life of a young woman supposed to be Laura May Rhame, who died last Friday night about 11 o'clock at the Infirmary of Dr. Wm. Ilderton on Evans street. The young woman had been In Florence for some time and had taken a room at a boarding house in Eist Florence, where she was being treat ed by Dr. Ilderton. Friday morning her condition was alarming, and it was deemed advisable to take her to the Infirmary where she could receive more careful attention and be under constant medical szpervision. BuD she had passed the stage of human aid and death ensued-leaving her real identity a mystery, and a little baby girl. The remains of the unfortunate young mother were taken to Water's undertaking establishment and pre pared for burial, and the interment is being postponed in the hqpes of get 4ing intelligence from friends or rela bives. The child is being cared for by Dr. Ilderton until something else mn be done in the way of providing a iome for it. As to the real identity of the wo an no one knows. She had gotten mly one letter since she had been ere, addressed to Miss Laura May B.iame, and three letters were found In her possession addressed to Miss Relen Trautman, Wedgefield, S. C., md A. D. Bhame, Clarendon, S. C., md one to Mrs. D.Schamp, Pine wood, N. C. Another letter from an unknown party was found In which he wrote in ,he most endearing tones, and mak ng unfulfilled promises. Also a reo )rd In the faded leaves of a worn 3ible were found some faqtily records, mut nothing tending to throw any Ight on the mystery. It is said that a man came here hbout four months ago looking for a )arty by the name of the dead wo nan and that he had some money which belonged to her through the ale of some property. Bt he looked n vain and could not get In communt ation with her in any way. He has ot been heari from since. Dr. Ilderton has borne the expense if the woman's sickness and death nd says he does not miad that, but rould like to make soms' disposition f the child. IATTLESHIP SOUTH CAROLINA. L Full Description of the New Fight ing Machine. Much interest is shown In Wash gton in the new battleship South iarolna, the contract for which will ortly be awarded by the navy de artmept. The South Carolina is to be 450 feet ug and will have an extreme bredth t low water line of 80 feet and 2 ,,hes, The mean drafl at trial dis lacement is not to exceed 24 feet, 6 iches. The coal bunker capacity of oe ship will be 2 200 tons. THE AEM(AMENT The new ship will have a main bat sry of 8 twelve inchi breechi loading lies, and two submerged torpedo ies. The secondary battery will utsist of twenty 3 Inch (14 pounder) pid fire gune; two three pounder ~mi-automatic guns; eIght 1 pounder ~mi-automatic gum; two 3-incb field Leces; four machine guns of calibre C .30. The hull of the South Carolina is >be protected by a water line belt ~ ght feet wide, varying in thickness () om eight to twelve inches. Thia emor will be tapered in sections, be- I ig hicker above the water line. It ill be driven by engines of 16,000 ~ arse power, four cylinder triple ex- 1 nson in type. Tae smoke pipe of ~ ie ship will be 100 feet high and I eel masts fore and aft will be equip 3d with wireless telegrAphiy. Every ~ recaution will be taken to guard s ainst fire, and all the living spaces ce to be sheathed with metal, backed ith an inch and a half of cork and ~ ibestos and felt. The maximum time to be allowed r the completion of the South Caro na will be forty-two months and eavy penalties will be provieed for lay. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ROUND DEAD IN SWAMP. [ytery in Death of Mill Operative( Near Columbia. The body of 'Ben Walsh, an E:Iglish- 1 an and itinerant cotton mill opera ve, who has been working at Colum a, Wlnnsboro, Charlotte and other I onts, was found Friday in a swamp< ear the Assembly bridge in a badly scomposed state, though the man Is ld tohave been seen alive as late as1 'tuaday. Whether he was murdered or acci-1 entally drowned is what is now puz ling the Cificers. His body is covered rith blue marks, but the physicians< ave so far discovered no other eoi-. once of foul play. His pockets were yund turned out. Four men have been arrested pond Ig nvestigation. These are John and [nry Green, of Columbia, and P De ritt and I. C. Crouch, of Winnsboro, ! cotton mill operatives. The Greens rid Dawitt were seen drunk with falsu Thursday. Crouch's father is awtt's brother-in-law. Dewitt ent to Winnsboro on the early train riday, and Crouch says be told his latives that a dead man's body ~ ight be found in the svzamp near olumbia. Crouch came ie Columbia riday morning, after seeing DJ wit.t5 i Winnsboro. The Greens say they moved Walsh, i a hopelessly drunken condibion, 1 :om under the bridge Thursday and 1 ft him in the swamp to get him out Sdanger and cut of sight of the po Conviction o: a Fiena'. El B ainey, a negro, was convicted< SGaff ney on Monday, of committing rape on a thirteen old negro girl, 'he girl is said to have died as a re 1t of injriesinflicted on her by lih. nd. 1 POSTAL THIVES. Columbia Has Lost Many Pack7 ages in Recent Past HAVE BEEN STOLEN Between Mail Room at Union Depot and Postoffice. Inspectors Have Worked But. It Is Said, Have Secured Little Evidence of Guilty Ones. There seems to have been consider. able stealing of letters and packages going on among the postal ifiials located in Columbia. A dispatch from that city to the Charleston Post says what Postmaster E2sor calls "a regular Saturnalia of stealing" has been going on among the railway train porters and perhaps others, who have heen handling the mails betw.en the mail room at the union station and the trains. He has failed to locate over seventy-fle packages that have been reported to him as having been lost, the date of the first pack age mailed being Drcember 9 last, and that of the last April 14 last. How many more have been stolen Dr. Ensore has no Idea. There may be many cases that were never reported and still other cases that will be reported later. As a resulted of a letter Dr Easor wrote to the Washington division Inspector Williams, located at Chactanooga, de Gailed Inspectors' Palsfer, Banner man and Webers on the case. After several days' work they were unable to trace any evidence against either of the three transfer clerks who are In -charge of the mail room at the union station, in relays. So far only one arrest has been made, that of Sam Williams who was caught by a decoy letter containing silver which was handed to him to be taken to the train. He has been landed In jail by Commissioner Verner in default, of bail. Transfer Clerk Mobley, a negro, was arrest'd but was afi erward re leased. Nothing has so far been dis covered against the other -colored transfer clerk, C. P. Murray, and both he and Mobley are still on duty. Chief Transfer Clerk N. J. Davis is the only white man in caarge of the mail room. He Is an nof highin cegrity, in whon everybody has per fect confidence. Sam Williams has been at the union station only four montas. Each' )f the transfer c:erks tas a key wnich Its all the locked poucnies, and which 2e is required by tee regulations to arry on a chain attached to his body. But whether anything has been stolen. rom the first class mail, wich Is re guired .o te locked, can not be said. Lt appears from the list of lost pieces which tracing has failed to locate, ihat the stealing was confined almost dltogether to packages. These pack ages are handled almost entirely In arge sacks, unlocked, which are iandled between the mail room and he postoffce by porters. Thiere are number of pcrters working in the unploy of the postcffie. But Sam Wiilliamns is in no way con iecied with the ofche. He and other ailway porters and the postoffce por ers all have acess to the mall rooin nd as the transfer clerks have fre *uently to be away from the room there Is a good opportunity for steal nag. Though the Inspectors have given Lp the fight for the time being they iave by no means given up hopes, ad other arrests are expected in the mmediate future. On one occasion eight packagEs ent up on the Charleston train were. tolen before they reacued the Colum Ia offce. Dr. Pike, a Columbia deatist, lost dine packages, which should have eme to himin two wesks. "The thing has become notorious." aid Dr. Ensor to The E rening Post epresentative. "An a fu stench Lad arisen to the nostrls of the pat 'ons of the offce, who were taking iuelr packages to the express offie. [Ehe .vestigation has declosed that he mail room down there has turned put -to be a regular .den of thieves. )f course I hope you will say nothing hat might be construed as a reflec iion on Mr. Davis in whom we all iave the greatest confidence. "*Whether any of the stealing has een going on among the postal clerks m the tramns I can not say, but I sup. Sose not. Tna students here in the nale and female colleges have hardly >een able to get a thing sent to them n the past several months. The hieves made a clean sweep. I am atisfied that not an article has been tolen by any of the employees of this fimee, not only because I have confi lence in them but the system would equire all to be In collusion if one tole." aurnedl to Death. An awful accident happed In the tiiddleburg Mills village at Bates urg on FLiday night. Mrs. Corley, rife of one of the mill employes, in tarting a fire in the scova preparatory o cooking supper, poured korosene uto the stove when there was already small fire. -As a result the flame ame up to the can, causing an ex ilosion and ' burning Mrs. Carley so hat at a little past midnight she lied from the eff.ets of the burn. The house was completely destroyed y the fire and it was only through he heroic work of the operatives that he fire did not spread further. Al nost all of the household goods of'the Jorley family were destro~yed. Mrs. Morley was less than thirty years old nd a very sad feature of tne affair is hat she would have given birth to a ~hild in two wee. Pluck picks up her traming skirts Lad goes anter what she wants, while nock limps on down the road Legging.