Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

6 HOLY ROL[ERS Blasphemous Wretch Shot Dead by the Brother of His PRETTIFST VICTIK, Then the D. luded Girl Kills Her Own Brother, and the People of Ore gon Have Arisen to Break Up the Impious Rigious Sect. The "Holy Rol.ers," religious dupes of the most infamous creature in the shape of a man that ever used religion as a cIoak for his evil designs upon women and young girls, are at last scattered and disillusioned. Jahn Creffald, their diabolical prophet, shot dead by the brother of his latest and fairest ycung victim; the avenger promptly acquitted by judge and j..ry 'and proclaimed a hero throughout the State of O:egon and about to be pres ented with a medal by papular sub scription when his life was sacrificed at the hands of the crazed baiter whom he avenged-these are the incredibly tragic events Which have shocked the now prophetless "Holy Rollers" into a reaflzation of their folly. They know that if they permit their delusions to return, that if they continue their grotesque- practices, the thoroughly aroused people of O:re gon will scatter them to the four winds. In the midst of his dcbauch ories, which hisdupes excused in their prophet, John Creffield had planned an awful sacrifice as a means of fur ther strengthening his divine preten tious among his followers Upon that altar in the "sacred" grevw near Cor vallis, Ore., upon which, at his corn mand, his followers had given to' the flames their most valuable goods, their dogs and cats and other domes tic pets, he had ordered the turning alive of an infant child. Everything was ordered ready. Th plans for this diabolic sacrifice of In nocent babyhood were all prepared. I was to be the beginning of the great eat glorification cf this beast of a man The baby was selected and being ten deny nurtured for the orgy. The'HJl Rollers" were all chosen for the howl ing and dancing and general devil ment. But for just retribution, o which an outraged and resolute broth er of his girl victim was the instru ment, by this time that infant sacri ace would have beem made ami< flames and satantic frothings. In all the history of the rise anc fall of religious sects, none has beet organized and dominated by so self seeking, cruel and libidinous a scoun drel as this same John Crt ffi id. Ii order to have the fullest warrant witi his disciples for his-iniquities, he firs declared himself to be John the Bap tist born again, and to that charac ter went on adding divine attribute until his followers looked upon him a the Saviour reincarnated. When hi declared in a recent communion ser vice that the bread his dupes wer eating was actually the flesh of hi body, and the wine they were drink lag thie very blood from his veins their sut jugation was complete. A fe that he Lew that any atrocity, an, license, and hideous blasphemy hl might comit would have their fu!i and enthusiastic sanction. In this newspaper three years agi the grotesque ceremonies of the Hol. Rollers were fully exp'loited in connec tion with the interrupted purpose c their prophet to make a human sac rifice, the victim mark- d for this aw ful fate being a beautiful young gi named Matilda Johbnson. Up to tha time the only living sacrifices hat been pet dogs and cats and other ani mals treasured by his followers. Thesa people bad already made themselve such a nuisance to the people of Cor vallis with their frenzisd shouting and their contortIons as they rolled ove the floor with demoniac actions al their meetings-together with the had Influence of all this uponi the suscep tible women ano girls ef the neigh borhood-that the prophet had beer obliged to run away till the excite ment died down. His return was thi occasion for frantic rejoicings. Cref field rose in the midst of his peopli and said: "GCd bade me return. Human be. lags cannot harm us." The effect oJ this declaration was electrical. Thei altar in the grove gas prepared fo: sacrnice and the wood was lighted Back of the altar, with arms tossed wildly above his head, the prophe1 shouted: "Sutjugate all lustful de sires. Allh that has price contamina. tes the spirit ana binders communior with God." Thereupon, the frenziec dupes cast their personal belongingi into, the flames. Jewels, money, cloth imr, furniture and anil pets were sacrificed. Little girls threw thei dolls into the fire. A pretty young -woman sacrificed her mirror, the em blem of her worldly vanity. BoyS gave their most ,cherished toys. 0. 'V. Hurt, a well- to do merchant, ef Corvallis, with his entire famnily, joined the "Holy Rll1ers," abandon lag his business. His name was en tered on tue "Holy Rulls" kept in thu sanctuary, a tent in she grove, withir which it was profanation for any but! the prophet to set his foot. But whet it was noised about that CreB1d was preparing for a human sacrifice, and that Miss Matilda Johnson was mark ed for that horriole fate, the sane men of the neighborhood revolted. They brought and proved such charg es against Creffneld that he wa sert to the penitentiary for two years. The "'Holy Rollers"s regarded him as a martyr, and held their organiza tion together pending their leader's release. When Cretfiald got out o1 prison it was soon apparent that he was going to make the most of his "crown of martyrdom." His dupes were ready to believe anything he told them. The basest part of the man's nature now came to the surface. He proclaimed himself the Savior, but as it was ordamned that he would one day die like ordinary man it was necessary that there be a fitting successor. Hs preached with shameless and incredi ble hardihocd that the future prophet would be, like Jesus of 1% zeareth, born of a virgin. When that virgin ap peared 4mong his followers he would recognize and proclaIm her. In spite of the outrageous profanity of this declaration it drove many y oung wo men and mere girls into a religious freszy. They luft their honles and joined the "H.ly Rollers." St on the events were linking into a cLa:n o evinitahle tragedy. Among ?he young girls who came aceer the evil influence of Creffield w E he e tchell and her married sister, who had left their home in Pert'and, O-e., to j'"n the "Holy R liers." T 'eir fanaticism was co;m piete. Cretfi d, row known to be a degenerate of a type without a parall z. had his wicked will with both of them, and they gloried in their situa ion. Rumors of their sisters p'ight brought their three brcthers--Gr crge, Perry and Fred Mitchell-from Port ;and to reclai- tiassi. C. orge, the eldest, was twenty-five, while Fred, the youngest, was only a boy of seven teen. While the brothos +riod to get their sisters to go home with them Creffield boldly proclaimed that Eith r Mii.cLel was indt.Ld tie virgin whom the Amighty had ordained to become the motoei of his successor. L'arning that their sisters were both victrims of the worst passions of the prop he s, and that they were now infatuati d, beyond redemption-Com pletely cr zs z -George Mitchell bold ly declared that he would avenge them. H : said he would kill Creffield on sight. Upon hearing this threat the prop'het slipped away in the night to Seattle, -Wash.. taking his chief tool, his wi e and E .ther Mitchel wltb him. Hiding Ia a house in ar obscure part of the city, he gave him self up to the worst excesses. In the midst cf his orgies he sent message0 to his t !lowers at. Carvallis that on his return, which would be soon, he would carry .ut God's command to of f-r up a human ac:11ica. This would mark the summit of his elevation as a true prophet, and thenceforth his people would be fret from persecution and would absorb al' other religlous sects. F3 this seer fice they must obtain a male infant When George Mitchell and his broth era followed Crffield to Seattle on their mis.ion of vengeanoe the "Holy R "lhers" were in a frenzy of zeal t% carry out Their lea'er's awful com mand. For a week George Mitchell walked the streets of Seattle with his hand on his revc:v .r. Oie day he met Cr ifield face to face, and without a word sent a bullet crashing through his brain. He stood calmly beside the body of the prophet till the police came and took him to jail. Never was there a more complete vindication of the crime of murder than resulted from that brief trial. Neither the sisters nor the widow of the pi ophet appeared in coart. When Esther was asked to testify for her brother who had .avenged her, she evinced only the u'most hatred for him. The elder M1tchell bad arrived to do what he could f.>r his son. Now that he was free, father and the three sons - went in search of Esther. All met at the house where the widow of Creffield, and Esther were living. t Either submitted to a partial recon ciliation. She agreed to go home with them. - -a the following day all went to i t.e station to take the train for Port land. While -waiting for the train I they sat together on a bench in the s waiting room. The train rolled up to the station. Esther motioned to George to go first and look for seats. , She was next behind him. As George lIfted his fcot to the car Lep, Eter I Mtchell drew a revolver from her skirts, placed the mezzle within a few Iches of her brother's head, pulled the trigger and 'he rolled dead at her feet. Tue murderess of her brother a was immediately arrested. As she was beIng taken away, her two living brothers, Perry and Fred, sat on a station bench weeping in each other's arms. Tnis is the story Esther Mit ,chell told in her cell: r Mrs. Creffeld'and I telked over the i matter of killing George. The one that bad the best c'2ance was to do It. Mrs. 1 ef :ld bought the gun We were at the room about i ocock this afternoon 3 and I thought I would have a better chance to do is than Mrs. Crifield, as my brother wanted to see me and be f lieved that he would think nothing -about my gding a the depot. Then -Mrs. Creffeid gave me the gun and I I was to do it. We agreed that it must t be done as soon as possible. I took the gun yesterday and my brother Fred walked 'wth me down to the depot a when my father went away. S"They wanted me to see George then, and I did not want to, because I could not get the gun unwrapped. I had the gun wrapped up and conceal ed, and I refused to see George. When I went home I took the gun and pla. ed it under the mattress. Then I took -it out nbout noon Tuesday and kept tit with me. Mr brother Fred was up -to my room to-day and said that Perry and George were going to Portland Tuesday. I went to the depot and saw Perry get his ticket. At last I saw George and I shock hands with him and I was walking to the door with him. He and Perry were walking in front and Fred and I were walking be hind.- At that time I had the gun in my Coat. I was walking to the door and George was in front of me. "That was the chance I wanted and I shot him.- My brother Fred grab bed me and I sat down on his lap and put my arms about his neck. I sat ,nhere and the offcers caine. I intend ed to follow him to Portland if I did not get a chance at him there. I do not regret the shooting; I am glad I did It. I am not Insane, nor do I pro pose to tiry to escape punishment. George Mitchell murdered a holy man. He himself v-as a defiled one. I have fulfilled my mission, and I am satisfi Lter the widow of CrEffeld signed with Esther Mitchell a joint state ment to the effect that they had con spired together to kill Esther's broth er. Thas both the woman and the girl are insane it is hardly possible to doubt. Yet scntiment against them in that region so Infested with "Holy Rollers" Is so strong that it seems not improbable that both may go to the gallows. But th'ese tragedies will prove to be the deathblow to this horrible sect, which had no other cause of beIng thsn to pander to the voics of its propaet. Cremfeld leaves no leader strong enough to combat public resentment-and there is no fear now that any Infant life is men aced by the deceased prohet's plans to make a human sacrifice. Tried to Assault Woman. When the steamer Henry M. Stan hey was Wednesday two miles from Gallopols, 0., a negro entered the Icabin of a woman passenger and at tempted to assault her. He was dis covered and driven over the aide of the boat by the captain. As no trace could afterward be found of the negro it is believed tnat he was drowned. Boy H ero Drowas With Sister. While a brother and sister named herk, aged seventeen and eighteen years, were bathing In Like Brie, off Point Abino, Tuesday, they were drowned. The sister was being car- I. ied out by the undertow when the boy went to her assistance. Their j ClUGT BY SBAK. AN AND A BOY BIT BY A MON3TE a. knother Nan Takes a Ride on the Back of a rolphin. The Charleston Post says last week a party of railroad men from the Southern railway went down to Cole's Island, a small strip of land near Kiawah Island, for a marooning trip. They took Detective John Hogan along with them for safety, but not withstanding this precaution the ma rooners met with numerous adventur es some of which came near resulting seriously. On Friday afternoon Capt. M. P. Danner, general yardm.bster of the Southern, took a small raft bateau and paddled out intc the creek, which runs along the shore of Cole's Island, and commenced to fish. Be had caught a few whiting when suddenly seme'hing seized his line and Capt. Danner was dragged with terrific force over the side of his bateau into the water. An enormous porpoise had se'z:3 his bait and in swimming away had pulled the fisherman into the creek. These fish are noted for their great strength and it is not to be wondered at that Capt. Danner was dragged out of his boat when he kept clingirg to the line. Capt. Danner immediately called for help and Mr. Fri z Diers, a car in spector :tcr the Southern, who was fishing in a boat nearby, sprang to bis assistance. It was a peculiar coincidence, but just as Mr. Diers j amped from his boat into the stream the porpoise darted under him. It was very large and Mr- Diers landed pump (n his back. The sight was highly ludicrous. Mr. Dkrs scooted along at a fist clip through the water seated on the back of the por poise, whose body could be plainly seen. Had the occasion been less serious, the spectators would have been re minded of the story of Arlon, the fa mous old Greek musician. According to the legends of the ancients, Arion was on a voyage to Corinth when -the 3voricious seamen determined to slay him, but the god Apollo warned him in a dream. So he played on his lute and a number of dolphi'ns, or porp 'is es, chirmed by the sweet music, assembled round the vessel. Arion leaped on the back of one of them and was carried safely to Corinth. M'. Diers, however, was not desir out of proving the delights of porpoise er.cportation. He had no idea of making a journey on the back of a dolphin, so he slid into the water a% soon as he could collect his faculties. Capt. Dinner, during this time, was in a dangerous condition. He was al most drowned when lelp came to him and it was with the greatest dffl ulty that he was taken from the water and revived. Hs is still quite unwell and unable to be at his work. The day before, Thursday, witness ed another adventure that almost terminaied seriously. Ba j min Hernande z, a 15 year- old boy, the son of the owner of ale's Isiand, Mr. R ibert F. Hernandez, was swimming in the creek alone. Mr. Charles E. M 11igan was fisning from a wharf tat is used as a river landing for small craft. Suddenly Mr. Milligar heard -young Hernanc' z shout "Shark!I shark I Save me l' Ht. jumped in the water for the boy and the shark turned from the lad and made for him. The jaws of the monster said to be about twelve feet long, came together at Mr. Miligan's foot, takirg off a toe and some fi'sh. The injuries to Benjamin Hernandt z were more serious. Tnie shark had bitten the boy, taking off two large pees of his right limb, in the calf of his lower leg and in his thigh. Capt. Danner, Mr. Diers, Mr. Bren nan and a number of otkhers came to the assistance of the two and got them on the beach. Dr. Fripp 'was summoned and the .wounds dressed. The injuries to Hernandt z are of such nature that ,hze will be laid up in bed for a number of weeks and in all pro bability will loss the use of his limb. Touched Live Wire. At Sumpter Mr. 3. J. Harby was shocked very much by a live electric wire Tuesday evening and Mr. Eu gene Moses met with a similar acci dent in trying to relieve Mr. Harby. T wo wires were crossed in rear ..f Mr. C F. McFaddins yard causing a blaze. Mr. Harby was investigating the trouble when he noticed a wire on the ground in an adjacent yard, and believing it was dead he grasped it to remove it, when the current whizz..d all over him, throwing him to, the ground, and he could not turn loose. Mr. Moses attempted to knock with a stick the wire loose from Mr. Harby's hand, when he was knocked helpless himself. Mr. Harby was severely bur ned about the bands, legs and back. Holes as large as a dollar were burn In his clothing. Fortunately it was not from a direct current, but from the transformer, else both of them would have met death. An Election Row. At Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday . G. Wellington, a saloon keeper, was killed. W. J, Cooke, a judge. of election Is fatally wounded and a third man less seriously injured in a fight at a polling place, a few minutes af to the closing of the polls for the elec tion of county offlers. B. E. Conn, the third man woundied was another judge of election. He was not ser ously hurt. The trouble arose over the county election, which was held Thursday. Wellington insisted on be ing present at the count of the bal lots and In an argument, Wellington is said to have drawa a revolver and begun shooting. According to the tory told to the polica, Conn rushed out of the polling place, securedi a shotgun and began firing. The first hot fairly riddled Wellington with buckshot. Wellington kept on firing until he dropped and when the smoke of battle cleared away, Cooke was found on the floor desperately wound ed, a bullet from Wellington's xe~vol yen having pierced his side. syrian Leper. Gorge Rosset', the Syrian leper whose movements have been watched for the last few weeks arrived in Prkville, W. Va. Wednesday and his travels were brought suddenly to a halt when the Baltimore and OLio omcials refused to allow him to ride on that division of the road. N-;gro K:11ea by a frain. An unknown negro man was killed by an utgoing freight train in the liouthern yards Wednesday morning Lbout 8 o'clock at Atlanta, Ga. The iegro fell from a car, the wheels pess ng over his left leg above the ankle. J ao on knew anything of the dea d U A COI TON HARVESTER. 1. Ncw Process of Picking Cotton HaS Been Invented. The following article appearing in he weeks issue of the Manufacturers' Becord, as a special from St. Louis, will be of interest to the cotton grow ors of thefSoutb: To meet the constantly growing de mand for greater economy of labor in harvesting cotton, the Arrerican Cot ton Separator Co , of St. Louis, Mo., L. D. Kingaland president, through its general manager, Mr. W. A. Pat terson, has invented, secured patente and built machines upon the principle of saving of the cotton crop on the same basis as wheat and other cereals have been saved for years. All grain, as everybody, knows, is separated from its natural hull by wheat or corn separators, and the itquiry first start ed in Mr. Patterson's mind was, Why not separate cotton from its hull by a similar method? From this idea has been developed a cotton separator and the Americab Cotton Separator Co.,-of St. Louis, Mo., is now prepar ed to give to the planter or the ginner a machine that will accomplih this work. This method of srcuring the c tton crop from the time the boll first opens until the last boll of half unripe open cd cotton after frost has struck it is to gather or snap from the stalk the' boll, deliver it into a wagon, or car, take it to the cot.on separator, which sucks the cotton from the %agon or car and passes it through the machine and separates the boll from the lint. In the process practically demonstrat ed by the cotton separator not only effective work has been done, but it is especially effective after the frost has struck it, as it raises the qualtity of this cotton at least one grade, and in s- me instanc-s has raised in two grades. It is belie : ed that it will be admitted by all cotton-raisars that a man, woman or child can gather or t-ap the bills fr m the stem two or Gree timas as much weight during a day as can be picked in the ordinary way. It is also a well known fact that it rt quires nimble fingers to pick c tton rapidly and successfully, and even then more or less cotton is left in the boll. By the new method an .ld man or woman, as well as a child of 12 or 14. years old, can pluck the roll and cotton frem the stem. The South, like all the world, is be ginning to be seriously affected with labor troubles, and during the cotton picking season often it is dificult to secure a suffiient number of bancs to properly and quickly take care of the deve oped crop. E ven though a plant er has been fortunate enoug r to ob tain a requisite number of hands for his crop, be is more or less annoyed by their failure to constantly attend to the duty he has employed them or. This is not only d z.isp-rating, but is detrimental in the ex reme to the savinhg of the prolluot of his yeaT's e ffrt in the planting and d"yeloping of his c op. It is cl.ied that it re q iires three men to pick the cotton raised by one. With the new method it is claimed that the man that r lees =he -op can niuc: or gatner it, and that the separator will put his cotrton in a bettor condition for ginning than is nowv done by the ordinary way of picking. It is estimated that at least 2,000, 300 bales of caton are lost thrtugh out the S uth every year, known as fr:.stbitten cotton and scattered cot ton left In thefiddi ur picked by the pioker. With the America:1 Cotton Separator all oi' this cotton can be saved, It is claimed, thereby giving the planter the full fruit of his labor and to the South millions of ddllars that otherwise would be lost. It is an acknowkdged fact tbat the cotton boll possesses a nutritious character smiar to that possessed by the seed. This can be util zed after having pass ed through the separator by grinding It up and feeding to cattle, which is an additional great saving claimed by the American Cotton Separator. This cotton separator uses a series of saws operated by a pneumatic system DAMAGI]NG HAIL STORM. Crops Ruined on the Lose Falle Beavily and Owners. A dispatch from Epworth to The State says Wednesday morning about 9 o'clock this community was com pletely swept by a terrible hailstorm, nothing at all being left on the land. Even the trees were robbed of most of the foliage and all fruits and vegeta bles are gone. Today the fields are, as clean and barren as the public road. One can not conceive of any thing so terrIble. It can not be de scribed. The hail stricken district is about four miles long and from one to one and one-half to two miles across. There are many people left in very, very destitute circumstances, without any prcv slons, no work to do and nothing for the horses and cat. tIe. The loss Is estimated at $20,000. Many of these families need help and need It now. Any one wishing to contribute to the storm sufferers will kindly send contributions to the E. - worth Supply company and it will be given to the most needy ones. Ep worth is in Greenwood County. The State says Gcov. Heyward has had a call for help made upon him. and although his sympathies have been very much touched he has no contingent fund wirth which to help the sufferers. Enter prising citizens of the State have started hail storm in surance companies, two of them be ing operated successfully and they have paid out a lot of money this year to people who have suffered. The letter which Gov. Heyward re ceived is in part as follows: "On Wednesday last our communi ty was visited by an awful hail storm that ruined everything. The crops are totally destroyed. I have heard old men say they have never seen anythirg like It. The crops of cot ton, corn, peas-in fact everything are completely wiped away. Our people need help badly. There is a d'iference between this and most climates. In most cases the loss is at least partly covered by Insurance, but in this instance there Is nothing to be recovered. The sufferers are with ot anything to convert into money, with which to pay off their year's supplies, or to buy anything to live on until they begin another crop. " The crops of about 40 plows have been destroyed and many outlying flds have been laid waste. I con ider 8400 to the plow a conservative satimate of the lossi on cotton alone, hich makes 816,000 for this small rea." _________ __ Boy of 14 a Saicide. Because his mother s::olded him, Jo eph Mcdntre, of Baton, N.. M. aged 'ourteen, committ ed suicid , by clrimai THE COTTON CROP. AUGUST REPORT OF THE JOUR NAL OF COMMERCE [idicates That the Two Carolinas, Georgia and Florida ?as Had Too Much Rain. The August report of the New York Journal of Commerce, which was published in that journal yester day, shows conditions to be 81.7 com pared with 82 7 for the previous month, a decline of one point against a 5 8 point decline last year. Fir the cor responding month in 1905 the condi tion was 75 4; in 1904 it was 84 4, and in 1903 it was 77. The present report is based upon 1,350 replies, bearing an average date of July 24. Ge-rgia and Florida show radical declines, being 7 and 5 5 points, respectively, while N .rth and South Carolina, Alabaa and Arkansas show comparatively slight deterioration. To offset these declines Mississippi Improved 1.7 points; Louisianna, 1.8 points; Texas, 1 3 ,oint; Tennesse, 1.05; Indian Territory, 4 9, and Okla homa 3 6 points. Practically the whole cause for deterioration has been Insignificant. North Carolina Is now 78.4. against 80 on January 1; South Carolina is 72 4, against 76 2; Georgia, 75.3, against 82 3; Fjrida, 71 4, against 77; Alabama, 81, against 81 6: Mississippi, 87 1, against 8 i'3; Louis canna, 88 6, against 84 8; Texas, 85 2 against 83 8; Arkansas, 84, aga'nst 94 7; Tennessee, 84.9. against 80; in dian Territory, 85 9, against 82; Okla homa, 82 6, against 86. With the exception of the Caro linas, Georgia and Florida, weather conditions have been generally very favorable. The excessive and wide spread rain in those States has pre Tented ploughirg, allowing grass to grow heavy and f-rceing growth of stalk at the expense of fruitage. L iw lands have suffered most, and especi ally where poorly drained, but clear weather, if not too late, will greatly repair this setback. All other States, with few exceptions, have about held their own, and some have shown im provement, notably Texas, the Terri iories, L 'isiana and Tennessee. In tne other States copious rains have been beneficial rather than harmful and the prospects are gener ally very bright. The plant, though small, is strong and healthy, and fruiting well. Insects have done little or no damage in the entire belt, bu. fear cf 7r jury by the boll weevils is getting somewhat common in Texas and L )isiana. Since the averag= date f these repopts rains have not done any serious damage and temper atures have not been high, which many correspondents' feared after so much rain. Many districts report a late season. Tae crop is very largely laid by and August 1.t to the 15:b will probably see the end. Complaints of scarcity of labor are comparatively few. RSCUS ABAINDONJD BABES. Soelety In Columbia to - Care for Helpless Infants. The News and Courier of Fridaj prints a special from Columbia whict says: Thanks to recent revelationi by the Salvation Army as to the pres' ence among negroes here of many white chiluren abandoned by thel parents, there was a meeting in the parlors of the Columbia Hotel Thurs day evening for t'.~e purpose of organ z ug a society whose object shall be one res~me of those needy white child ren who cannot now for one reason or another, be' received in the regular or phanages. All mnterested in saving such child ren to useful manhood and woman, hood were asked to be present. Mr. W. B. Sr,reeter, a representative of he National Children's Home So ciety, or which Dr. Charles Hender son, of the University of Chicago, met those interested at this gathering and explained- in detail the plan of opera tion. How great Is the need for such an organzation, not only in the city, but in the country districts few people outside of police and orphanage cir cles real'za. Ta.e regular orphanages may receive only the children of re apectable parents; yet among the ne groes and the "red light" element of every city, as recent investigations by the Salvation Army here have shown, there are dozens of children, cspable of development into useful men and women, born in shame and cast off as impediments bj their unnatural pa rents. The society is non-sectarian and is supported solely by vcluntary gifts. It seeks the co-operation of all good citizens. Its child-~plaoi-ng depar 2ment, per haps the most important, certainly the department most needed for Co lumbia's present conditions, operates somewhat as follows: It receives homeless children, after careful con sideraion of each case; selects homes on recommendation of the local au thorities, afl~er a visit by an experi enced agent; supervises children, af ter placement, by correspondence and by yist from cffizers of the society; em ploys a State superintendent,. to be friend, receive, place and visit chil dren, also collectors; transfers chil dren from the homes firat selected, If necessary. The society goes about its work ina practical ways. IR fi.ctions of a Bachelor. Is the experience you have acquired worth what it cost? Even a man who is color blind knows when he is feeling blue. Ne-tenths of a man's so called dignity-is nothing but blvl. Faling in love is easy, but climb ing out again--aye there's the rub. Oce in a great while the voters get careless and elect an honest A patent medicine terstimonial oe casionaly thrusts greatness on a small What a man would call "enthusi asm," as applied to himself he dubs "gush" in others. Oar whiskey Tax. To prove that the dispensary bad decreased the consumption of lIquor 3n Suth Carolina, Mr. Weston, can didate for the Senate In Richland County, quoted from. the figures of the last Uaited States census, which showed that the average annual drink bill of the people of the entire Unitd States was $17.33 per capita, while for South Carolina it was only Buind -ilgers. The Mayor of N wherry had four oegroes up before him Wednesday for running blind tigers. They plead guilty and they were fined from $25 :o 100 each. If this is kept up Newbmrywi gem-t rid of her blind s-J DXMANDS THE PROOF. Gen. Wilie Jones Calls Col. J.,hn C. Haskell Down. Oat on the Richland county stump Thursday in the battle between can didates for the state senate, John C. Haskell and F. H. Weston the latter got to twitting the former in the argument over the solvency of the state dispensary with the fact than Gen. - Wilie Jones, president of the Palmetto Bank, brigadier general of the State militia. chairman of the state democracy, had endorsed the financial statement recently issued b3 Commissioner Tatum to show the solvency of the institution. Col. .Haskell retorted that G n. Jones was no God Almighty running the atirs of RBchland and that the general' own brother-in-law had started the report that the recent remodelling of Gen. Jones' handsome residence was paid for by Sam Lanahan. Thursday Gen. Jones gave out the following as a c:py of a letter sent Colonel Haskelil: Col. John C. Haskell: Columbia, S. C. S!r: In your speech of August 1st, at Sligh's The State q :otes you as using the following language in reply to a question from ycur opponent for senator from R!chland county: "Th r. have been rummors by his brother-in law that Lanahan repaired his house.' In which you had rt ference to me. ] have four brothers-in-law, one c1 them is dead. I demand that yot give me the name of the brother-in, law referred to. As to the rumer, ] pronounce it absolutely false. Respectfully, Wille Jones. In reply to this Col. H :skell Friday morning sent the following to Gen Jones: Wilie Jones, E3q., Palmetto Bank. Dear Sir: Yours of this inst. jus1 received. I did use the languagi you q cote, but it was in reply tog lirect question put to me (:uost un justifiab.:) by Mr. Weston who firs named ycn. I sa!d what you quote but added that while I knew notning you had been distinctly charged b1 Mrs. Jones' brother, Willie Caldwell with having had a large amountspen on repairs' and alterations of you house paid by Lanal.ar. 1 hid hiar of this charge -repeatedly and hears him make.-it openly on Main stree just in front of Miot's drug stor while I was passing by. I forget wh he was talking to but heard him sa; it openly to his comyanions, of whom there were several. I greatly regre having had to make the statement. did; as I said, I had no knowledge o she facts, but Mr. Weston's very im proper question forced me to it. went on to say that I go to you fo guidance in neither politics nor mot als. I greutly regret the whole occur rence as I always idislike personalitie but I feel that I am not responsibl bat that Mr. Weston is. Truly yours, (Signer) John C. H .skell. Friday night Gan, Jones sent th following reply: Col. John C. Haskell, Columbia, S C Dear SI.r: - Your favor of this dat to hand, in which you say that yo heard my brother-in law, William E Caldwell of Calif ..rnia, niake the state inent that Lanahan paid for the re pairs on my house. William H. Calrlell left Coluwbi about the 20th f D cember, 189( for Texas, and has never bet.n east c the Mississipp1 river since. H now a resident of California. M bouse was repaired t wo years after h left Columbia, by W. J. May, cola tractor, and he will swear thbat whe he repa red the house William B Cald well had left for the West. Now, Oolo'iel, how it is possib' for William H. Cald well to have m'.d the statement to you when he has no been in this ct ty for 10 yean? h matters not who said that Lsa han paid for the re pairs on my house it Is an absolute falsehood. R:spectfu'ly, Wille Jones. Killed by Stray Shot. At Che Foo, China, Lieutenan Clarence England, navigating cfflae of the United States cruiser Chatta noega, was wcunded at about nooi Friday by a rnfe ballet fired by member of the crew of the Frencd armored cruiser Dapetit Thouars and died at 6 a'cleck Saturday even ing. The* Chattanooga, with Liut enant Eigland on the bridge, wai roceeding from the harbor to thi target range, just outside, and was passing the French Equadrcn, whici was anchored near* the Amerleat squadron and was engaged in small arms practice. The Chattancoga after several bullets had struck or the ship, signalled to the French men to case firing, but before this was accomplished L'eutenant Eng land was struck in the back, at thi base of the spine, prcbably by a rico chet bullet, which left his body wnde: the arm.________ (lot ic Mixed. It wasn't a Missouri editor but a printer's devil who was going tbrougt his first experience in "making up' forms. The paper was late and the boy got the galleys mixed. The first part of an obituary notice of a penu rious citizrn had been dumped in the forms, and the next handfuall of type came ofi' a galley describing a recent fire. It read like this: "The pall bearers lowered the body to the grave and as it was consigned to the flames there were few if any regrets. For the old wreck had been an eyesore to the town for years. Of course there was individual loss, but that was ful ly covered by insurance." The widow thinks the editor wrote the obituary that way because the lamented part ner of her joys and sorrows owed him five years' subscription. A N..w Postal Law. Complaint is made to the Depart meti that rural carriers, at the re quest of patrons of their routes, call at express oifles for packages of mail able matter and deliver samie outside of the mails to the patrons and .recive small fees for the service, and the following prohibitory order has been issued: "Pastmasters at rural de livery cfiees are directed to inform rural carriers that they mnust not carry, as express matter, for hire or as a favor, any article weighing four pounds or under, which is mailable, and carriers will inform their patrons that such packages can only be de livered by them after the required postage has been ailied to such packages." Tuos. IE. Miller, president of the State Colored college at Orangeburg, denies the report that he has been making political speechies in behalf f Henri Clay Evans, who is the Republican candidate for governor CLAI =M THIE Bl.I.E OF HIS YOUEr A: TER FORTY )E ARS SE EAR .TION. A War Story That Reads Like it Was Tak-n Out of a Etory Book. A special from Atlanta to ihe Augusta Chronicle says people at the terminal station Thursday noticed ao :.ged man, feeble in body, gray, besi tatirg in walk and manner, leave a north G orgia train. H. passed through the city, staring at the busy streets and tall skyscrapers in perfect won:erment. H: seemed afraid, am: z ri, cut of place, mystified. On it q'ilry it was found that the aged passenger had but a few days ago came from a living death. He bad just emplett d a term of thirty nine years' service in a northern penten tiary. He was on his way to Carters ville, where he .went to find the wife he it f over forty years ago, to go and fight for his country; a wife who had taken him to be dead, and had mar ried again and considered herself now a second widow. The aged man was Anderson Put man, formerly of Habersham county, this State. In 1863 then a young man, he kissed his young, wife good bye, and, j -ining a local company, went away to fight the battles of the South. For months regular letter reached the young' woman from hey fond husband: Finally, one day, they ceased to arrive. The battle of Chickamauga had been fought a few days, before, and Pittman's regiment had been cue against which Sherman had thrown his brigades. Many brave Southern ers were left on the field. But tha is history. Pittman's wife believee that he had died with others. Bal she waited, and grieved and. longed Her ,vldow's weeds were doomed ft sadness, and the years rolled by. Tt husband came not nor wrote. One day a neighbor wooed and wor her. Surely Anderson was dead, sh thought, and married again. Shb lived happily several years and .ono day her new husband, a man by th name of Whitton, was killed by . man who accused him.of informing the authorities of his illicit distilling operations. But Anderson was not dead. H, was among those taken prisoner b: the northern hordes, and was seni L sway to a northern hell house of con finement. One day near the timi when he should have been exchange( he resented the mistreatment of ; prison cffiler and killed him. He was taken away into civil cour and tried. Little wonder is ther when the prejudices of the time ar considered that he ever escaped wit] * his life. But life confinement. wa his portion. To a penitentiary b was sent to serve his sentence. Th right of communication with love, ones and friends was denied. Thirty-nine long years he spent be hind prison bars, knowing nothing C e the mighty progress his section hal Smade in the meantime. Onae day like the Feahrt of .the Marshelsea c old, his release came, and he foun himself out in a cold, strange world with most of his life behind him. aHis thoughts turned homeward and back to the "Hills of HEsbershar and to the Valleys of Hall" he came~ S He arrived there a few days ago, th modern type of Bip V.gn Winkle startling all Dhe native., few of whoz remembered him. H-f:.uad that hl 2wife was in Cartersville, and an oli 'friend of his former captain asiste< him ini reaching' that place. There, it is stated, he found hi e wife connected with the family .c SGeneral Granger. She 'didn't knol him, though he called her by tb name of old, but In tone softened b: 'the entorced-lisp of prison life. Hoiw ever, she recognized him by a wart 01 she forehad, and the two who hai parted In the halcyon days of .youti met in the autumn of old age, ani b will spend the remainder of thel lives as God first intended they should rman and wife. And here let us drai the curtain. 'Wfill Cure the Evil. The Florence Times says: 'Q nite novel sight greeted the eyes of Flor ntines this morning as they behek several negro women under guard hoe ing the streets and clearing the side walks of grass. We believe its Is thi first time anything like .this methot has ever been attempted, certainly ii South Carolina. Mayor Brown sayi shat itis the only way to stop vag rancy and cuime among these Immora women. Heretofore they have beer fined and fed by the city and did no' mind it but froni the sound of thel muttered curses this mornin'g, 11 wculd appear that there is a strenoun obj :etion to the new method. Sever al more were up before the mayor to day arnd were given a similar sen tence." Boy Drowned. While bathing, with a launch parts n the North River, off Dyckman street Wednesday Fritz Holsten, sixteer years old, of No. 500 Eat Oae Hun dred andi Fortyfirst street, New Yorb dived i f the boat In twelve feet of water and did not come up. It Is sup posed that he struck the bottom was stunned and drowned. His body was not recovered. More Than Ever. The Newberry Observer in report g Mr. T. .T. Harmon's spoeech who Is a candidate for the legislature, says he "1announced himself in favor of the dispensary. Said more liquor is being drunk now in Newberry county from -blind tigers than was drunk in the days of barrooms o1 the dispen sary; that every express offce has be come a barrom, and the express com pany is. getting rich. -TuE people of the North will soon er or later learn much, very much, about the negro, but they must not class all of them with the fiend who murdered that family near Catmnons bury, Pa. That is the kind of a ne gro that gets lynched in the South, and there are plenty of good negroes here who are always ready to help get him out of the way, as he is just as much an enemy of the good negro as he is of the white man. IT is now explained that Secretary Taft was sent to North Carolhna, be. cause those "Blackburn people" had been endorsing at some of their coun ty conventions Vice-President Fair banks as successor to President Roose velt. The question is has Taft stopped the revolt. W. R. HEARST will be the next governor of New York, and he will make a annol nne too. OY J C c LESONS . GRE iT SPE LKERi Day ' 'FA 31IU11B COMPARiSONS. Man 's Pleased to Learn by 'ompara sons 'hs Parables of Christ Prove This fac. The successfu: public speakers of ,he world have been men who lived close to nature and knew how to draw t: eir imagery therefrom. H :rein lay the wonderful power of L'na3ln. Born in a log cabinr accustomad to the scenes of farm and wood, deep versed In the vernacular of those arour.d him, he was irresistablebatore a rural audience. Imagine how that audience -f K :ntucky stock breeders were convuLsed when they heard Hen ry Clay describe a mule as "that use ful animal which has neither pride of atcestry nor hope of posterity." J hn Randolvh, the great rival of the im mortal K-ntuckian, was equally hap py before his constituents, nearly all .f whom were slaveholding farmers. Be illustrated his arguments by alius ions to the unfaithful overdeer, and in one of his famous campaigns descr!bad 'As opponent as having been imported into the district, like a stallion, to run against him. Audienc3s are al ways fi tered when they hear allus tons to the calling with which they are familiar, and he is the.wise upeak -r who comprehends this tru:h. Tae greatest of all the t-achers, he "who spake as never man spake," drew nearly all of his imagery and storels from farm life. He was reared on a farm and knew all about the simple agriculture of that people and period,. which consisted largely of grape grow-ng, interspersed with a few cereals and small herds- of goats and sheep. Thus we find the parables and notable savings colored with allu sions to the shepherd, the vineyard, the lost sheep, the hu.tandmafn. the fl Hers aid trees peculiar to Piles ) sue. O.i: day a great audience was assembied on a 'hill overlooking Lake Gennessaret. They were simple folk, rode, dull of understanding, perbaps not one of them able to read or write. To reach them the teacher must talk in language that they could under siand. Childhood wants its teach ings in story form. Everybody likes to have the facts with which he as familiar interpreted afresh to hin. The weaver does not care for illustra tions drawn from the Graeco Roman gamer; but he will prick up his ears when the preacher talks plainly about the work of the loom. All of us like to have the life we kmow used to make vivid the great truths which we are wittingly- or unwittingly, trying to comprehend. It was to the multitu e on tlie hill side from a boat that had been pushed 1 cf the shore that -the celebrated.par 3 able of the sower was delivared. Prob B ably ai he talked a firmer was sowing e the grain in full sight of the speaker and the people. How natural, there. fore,'to lift forth a hand toward him and say: "Behold, asower went,forbh to sow." Simply, easily and natural. Sly, the thoughts of the hearers were "led up from what was commonplace fand everyday to what waa. new and Seternal. .Tesus recogniz:d that all of. life is a parable. Wnen we consider the marvel( us application made of the siropie peasant life of Galilee, we Sare constrained to wonder what teach Irgs he would draw from the complx Scivilzntion of today. How electrIcity, wlreless telegraphy, steam and the Sm ,dern city, with its wonderful build Sings,'wculd be made elcquent with Shis teachings of the higher thing. of Sthe spirit. Icis the offlieof the par1 able to invest the material with the Sspiritu il meaning, but no Imagery is t o suitable for this piurpose as that 'drawn from rural senes and the sur Broundings of farm.lifle. The fate of Vthe sown grain teaches an agricultai ral as well as a inoral lesson. That L which fell on the trampled wayside was lost. So also the portions which fell on stony ground and that whicha Swas choked' by the thorn bushes. rOnly the grain which fell on fruitful soil yielded results, and this produced Smany fold. Tae good farmer under stands that if he 'would have good crops he-must use only pure seed and Splantit in the right place. Tne great literature of the world likewise owes Its chief charm to Im agery drawn from nature. Homer de s~ribes U ysses, returning .home after his long wanderings, as fnding his wife, Penelope, "spinning among her handmaids." Poor old Macdtrff. heart broken over the murder of his wife anid children, uses the illustration most familiar to his life in the excla msation: "They have killed the hen and all her brood~t one fell swoop:" Gray's Immortal elegy, in almost every starnza, draws on rural- scenery to p:;nt his moral and adorn his tale. It Is "the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea," or "drowsy tinklngs lull the distant fold," and innumerable other metaphors drawn from the'fields that lend beauty to this incomparable product of genius. Take the farm and what It teaches out of our poetry andI great would be the loss thereof. On the contrary, but the poetry sug gested by those things which he deals into the heart of the f armer, and great would be the addition to the charms of his existence. Unless we are able to appreciate the natural beauties around us, to extract senti ment from leaf and grass and fi wer, we are reduced to the level of the dumb beasts who know no use for such things except to devour them. A Marrying Girl. s Not yet 17 years old,-but a bride for the third time, was the record which Clara Miner Duezer Ciogg, of ChOarlestown, rd , made Thursday when she became the wife of H. Coley, of Louisville, Ky. Tae girl, who Is wealthy, obtained a divorce from William Clogg several days ago and her friends were surprised when they learned that she and Coley were married. Mrs. Coley was 14 years old wuhen she- married Charles Dutzer in Jr fersonvlle, Ind.,a On November 17 10,seobtained adivorce from her husband and a week later she became the wife of Ologg. The couple lived together for about a year, when they separated. Mrs. Clogg sued her hus for divorce and several days ago a de cree in her favor was issued. Tixen she marled Coley. Mrs H. A Lsaptrot was shot and Instantly kilked and her husband probably fatally wounded Thursday night while sitting on the porch of their residence near Cherry Valley, Ark. The sh..ot:ng was done by three mounted men who fired from the front gate. ~The five Woolbright brothers were arrested on the charge of complicity. Two years ago Leapt rot killed a member of the Woolbright family