University of South Carolina Libraries
STRANGE THINGS In Real Life That Make Truth stranger Than Fiction. QUEER HAPPENINGS. That Have Taken Place In All rart of the United States and Other Parts of the Civilized Globe-Will Be Read With Much Interest by th Young and Old Readers of Thi: Paper. Wagers have sometimes taken grim form. It is credibly recorde( that in the eighteenth century wager was laid for one of a party o gay revelers to enter Westminste Abbey at the hour of midnight. H( was -o enter one of the vaults be neath the abbey, and in proof of hi having been there he was to stick a fork into a coffin which had recently been deposited there. He accom. plished his object and was returnimg in triumph when he felt himself sud. denly caught, and was so overcOm< with terror that he fell in a swoon His companions. not being able t< account for his long absence, found him in this condition. The fork whici he had fastened into the coffin ha< caught his long cloak, and so occas ioned a fit of terror which nearl: proved fatal. People are sometimes killed foi decidedly trivial causes. Stanley Davis, of Cincinnati. Ohio stabbed Herman Burns to death in saloon because the latter blew snuf across the bar and made his nostril tingle. Because his wife refused to fee< the chickens at his command Thom as Doehert, at Richmond, Ky., kill ed her with a monkey wrench whic1 he threw at her, burying it in th back of her head. Because his two children had bee playing with a negro child John Ze mue, Wilmington, Del., became s incensed he shot both as they lay i bed and then killed himself. Bettie Francis, an aged negress sai. to be 100 years old, was walkinj aloag in Wickliffe, Ballard county Ky., when one of her legs snappe off and flew up and struct her in-th back. When she discovered wha had happened she picked up the lim and crawled home. The old lady fo several years had been graduall drying up. What is known as senil gangrene set -in and withered th leg. Still she hobbled about on i and when she started on the streN she felt something give way. Sh explained that it felt as if someor had struck her in the back. The blo wasaccompanied by apoppingsoun< and when she found that she coul not support herself as before s stumbled and fell. She saw the poi tion of her leg, from a few incht below the knee lying near by an realized that her leg had broken of The injured member does not pai her. In fact, she declared that "felt good." The case is possibi without parallel. Another case-a decided puzzle physicians and surgeons-is that < one Bert A. Sterner, eight years ol< who lived three years with a broke back, his death occurring only a fea weeks ago at Pettsville, Pa. He ws sitting on a fence when a baseba struck him and caused him to fal several of the vertabrae being fra< tured. Again a strange story is reporte from Tchliaminsk, Russia, which ha caused a great deal of commenti medical circles. A trial was in pr< gress and- a man was summoned a a witness who had been an invali for twenty years. Because of somn strange notion he had placed himsel in a coffin twenty years ago and ha not been out of it since. He declare that he could not leave the coffi without bringing on a violent attace of vertigo, and his physician uphel' him. The court, however refused t excuse him, and he was brought int the courtroom in his coffin and gav his testimony while lying in the grev some box. By a decision handed down by Su preme Court Justice Tompkina White Plains, N. Y., Willett Spring steel, who is in Sing Sing prison fo life, is declared legally dead an< cannot share in the large esta' e lef by his brother, whom he murdered Springsteel, while temporarily in sane from drink, shot through door and killed his brother in thei: home in Pleasantville. The murder ed man left considerable property and the life convict had a third in terest in it. The declaration of "le gaily dead" was made so that hi: sisters could inherit the entire es tate equally between them. Two thieves stole two horses frorn Sheriff F. S. Carter's barn in Ham mond, Ind., recently. They drovi the team to Crown Point, the count: seat, and sold them to Liverymal Philenus Williams for $200. in fron of the Crown Point jail, where Sher iff Carter lives with his family, an< under whose very eyes the span o: horses, valued at $500, was dispose< of. The thieves went to the Panhan die depot and got out of town safe Prasthe queerest city in th< world is that of Nang Harm, th< home of the royal family of Siam The city's peculiarity lies in the fac that it is composed of women an< children alone. It is the center o: Gangkok, has high walls around it and in its population of 9,000 ther< is not a single man, though the king occasionally pays it a visit. There art shops. markets. temples, theaters streets and avenues, parks, lakes trees and flower gardens; a hall oj justice, executioner, police, generali and soldiers; all the prmitions, officia and otherwise being filed by women Tve only man in all Siam who car enter this strange city is thie king. Here is an eagle who defended het nest, bit a rope in two, and droppec Frank Seribner 600 feet down a cliff. Although wounded in a hundred places he was not killed. When found he was clutching a young eagle which he had taken froi its nest, and which had tried to escape from him when he reached the bottom. Its compnmon had been killed by the fall, and on the ledge near the top of the cliff the mother bird lay dead. It does not take a great stretch of imagination to infer that people at all times die from odd and queer causes. For instance, "I could die eating cucumbers!'' was the expres-. sibn of a woman named Mrs. Stark, of Denver. Coo. as she paid for a SOME FAKIRS Who Should Be Locked Up for the Public Safety. Negrgo Prachers Who Claim to Raise the Dead Create te itement Anuiong Colore'd l'eople. The Anderson Mail says for sever al weeks past a meeting has been it progress at West Union conducted by Jim Knox and Peter Majors, both colored, which has had a tendencY to cause many negroes to act in a way that has been annoying to the citizens adjacent to the church. These leaders claim to belong to the sect regarded as "The Unknown Tongue." They jabber and chatter and holler and whoop and act i-a many other fool ways, and the judg ment of some who have attended the meeting is that the whole push have gone crazy. They have gone so far in their teaching as to leave the impressior upon the minds of these ignoran1 creatures that they can raise th< dead to life, claiming that they have been ordered by the Lord to do so. Jim Knox gave out the announce ment last week that on Wednesday night at nine o'clock he would by di vine authority raise the body of Silai Wright from the grave. where it ha lain for the past seven or eight years Consequently much excitemen and interests was manifested by th< negroes and long before the appoint ed hour a large number of thos< who have been attending the meet ing, and also a few white people wh< were anxious to see what would b( done, met at the grave yard, At nine o'clock, Jim Knox was a the grave of Silas Wright, where h< began his maneuvres. He began b: shaking two handkerchiefs over th< grave, back and forth, then walke< off a few steps, saying. "The Lord i not ready for him to rise yet." H( then returned to the grave and ad monished his rollowers never t doubt that he would accomplish hi work. He then began tearing down th head and foot stones that had bee p aced there to mark the last restin; place of Silas Wright, when Charli e Wright, brother of the dead mab t appeared on the scene and put a sto o to all the proceedings. r Warrants have been issued fo several of the negroes who were cor e nected with the affair, and they wil e have to answer to Magistrate A. I Crisp on a charge of destroying tom stones in a grave yard. This proceeding closed the meetin e and the citizens of West Union ar now enjoying that peaceful slumbe of which they have for several weet been deprived. e Nine of the negroes for whom wai rants had been issued charging ther with mutilating tomb stones wer tried before Magistrate Crisp Thurs day, but the prosecution failed t produce sufficient evidence to cor vict and the case against them dit missed. Mahaley Wright, wife c Silas Wright, the dead man who we Sto have been resurrezted, testifie that she plac~d the tombstones at tb grave, they were hers, and that sh was in favor of what was done there Iden of Mrs. Ella Brophy. The latte advised that the former had bette not eat them; this advice was die regarded, and, later in the day, Mrs IStark ate two of them and died. He sbody was found by A. G. Cox, fo whom she was housekeeper. She wa sitting in a chair with a cucumberi sher hand. He notified the coronex SMrs. Stark was thirty-eight year eold and married. Her husband is fgunner on the battleship Ohio. SA most horrible form of death wa Sreported from Brooklyn recently SJohn Boland, aged thirty years, wa Sboiled to death at the plant of th Barber Asphalt company while mix mg asphalt. Boland was on the "nigh fshift" and about three hours afte midnight his associates missed him -The first intimation that Boland' fellow workmen had that he ha< -slipped into the vat was when somi one saw his legs protruding from th< boiling tar. With the help of stick and ropes his body was pulled out jOf course, naturally, it was impos sible to prepare Boland's body fo: burial, for the suit of working cloth es was completely covered with taj and inseparably attached to the boil ed fiesh. The body, it is stated, ha< the appearance of an ebony statue and showed signs of a terriffic dying struggle. When John Jordan, a St. Paul roa< engineer, was passing a restaurani at Ladd, Mo., the proprietor cam< out to announce that a fish suppe> was ready, and beat on a gas drunr to attract attention. The drum explo ded with a report heard five mile away. Jordan was blown ten feet One leg was nearly torn off, and wil have to be amputated. The fronts oj three store fronts were destroyed by Ithe force of the explosion. The res taurant man escaped with slight in. juries. Speaking about fish: Like Poly. crates, a local magnate of the VosgeE has recovered his property from the inside of a fish. He has not. however, thrown it away to propitiate the gods, and is quite content to have it -back ag'ain. [A fisherman on the lake of Gar ardmer caught a fine pike weighing thirty-two pounds. He sold it to the chief hotel of the place. In the kit chen the fish being cleaned. was found to contain a small purse, in which was 835 in gold. The cook no tified the hotel proprietor, who re membered the local magnate in ques tion, who had been in the house only a week before, had ac~'ia~tally drop. ped his burse while on the lake for a row. The property thus recovered has been returned to the owner, who identified the purse. "Did you get the sassafras?" was Harvey Harper's first question when he met Horace Bond after a separa tion of forty-eight years. When Bond was twelve years old he was sent by his aunt from Prairie Ronde to Law ton, both in Michigan, for some sass afras. Instead of returning at once he stayed with Harper a week, and then wa afraid to go back. So he ran away after leaving Bond's, went to Georgia, and finally shipped on an ocean boat as a cabin boy. Since then the greater portion of his life has been spent on the water, but he has now returned. Both men served in the Union army in the Civil war, but neither krew of the other's where VO RE TROUSERS. Girl Put on Trousers to Make Elope ment. At Pensecola, Fla., somewhat of a scnsation was sprung Lhursday when a man giving his name as W. H. Hill and a wcman dressed in a man's clothing were arrested by the police after they had boarded the steamer Tarpon for Mobile. The parties ar rived in the city Sunday morning. They went direct to a hotel and (lid not, appear again tintil late Thurs day in the afternoon, when they ,tarte(d for the rarpon wharf. On their way there they passed a deputy sheriff. who was attracted by the pecuiliar walk and appearance of the one who appeared to be a 17-year-old boy. The deputy immediately followed the couple, and when he secured an opportunity to look at the faces 01 the strangers he saw that the one who he had thought was a boy was without doubt a woman. He return ed to the city and reported the mat ter to the day Captain of police. Ar investigation was mmediately com menced. resulting in the arrest cf both the man and woman. The latter stoutly denied that she was , female, and claimed to be the son of Hill. She finally admitted hei sex. and gave as an excuse for beini dressed in boy's clothing that sh4 w'as afraid that the man who had raised her would learn that she had married Hill and would kill both o them if they were found. Hill claim he said he was going to Mobile t< make that place his home. He als< claims to have married the girl. whi he states was formerly a Miss Grad: Letters, checks and notes entere in a pocket diary shows that he ha traveled through Georgia. Alabaia lississippi and Florida. evidently he ing engaged either in painting o naval stores business. Cancele( checks. drawn on banks in Georgia show that at one time he possese considerable money. The couple i being held pending a futrher investi gation at the hands of the police. JAPAN'S KOREAN POL1CY May Be a Serious Blow to South' Cotton Trade. The government of Japan is goin to close the open door in the Fa East; intends to monpolize tb trade of Korea and is operating dii ectly against the cotton and cotto goods trade of the United States. Such is a summary of the statt ments made at Atlanta last week 1.: Prof. H. B. Hulbert. known all ove r the country as the "Yankee Schoc .Master." and who has for a numbe I of years been located in Korea, an who is acknowledged to be an at b thority on Korean affairs. Prof. Hulbert was in consultatio with Harvey Jordan, president of t1 e Southern Cotton Growers' Associa r tion. relative to the situation in t1 S 14ar East. and made the statener that the execution of the Japanes plans in Korea will be a terrific blo to the trade from the southern se tion of the United States. Prof. Hulbert is the editor of t1 'Korean Review." largely quotedl i this country, and elsewhere, as a mi: ror of the true situation in that cou1 ftry. He goes to Birmingham an from there to New Orleans. In eac place he will confer with the miox prominent cotton interests relative I the Korean situation. BIG MAIL ROBBERY. Thr'ee Registered Sacks Stolen Froi r Fast Mail Train. .Tl:ree registered mail sacks, cor taning about a quarter of millio dollars, dissapeared from the Bur ington train between Denver and 03 ford. Neb.. last Sunday night, and th 1ostofhice officials have just made th theft public. The train left Denve with seven sacks and but four rt mained when it reached Oxford. De tetives and postoffice officials are a work on the case. SSuperintendent J. M. Butler of th sixth division of railway mail clerk believes the robbery took place jus west of the Nebraska line. Both ma: clerks were asleep while the trai was passing over long stretches a track with few stations. Butler be~ lieves some one slipped into the ma: car arnd threw three sacks out of th window. He has ascertained tha the valuables were all in two of th sacks, one being empty. The sacks were destined for Chic ago and were supposed to be place< on the Clhicago train at Oxford, Nel: Postofce oflicials have all beet warned to be cautious about giving out information concerning the rob hery. INCREASED) COST. Te Expense of Putblishiing Newspa perks Greatly Increased. Like everything else. says the Low ll, Mass.. Telegram, the cost of mak ing a newspaper has increased. A dozen or so 'ears ago the getting ou of a paper was comparatively inext ~ensive. Help was cheap, pape stock was low, and less reading mat ter was required. Today printers ge 0 per cent more in wages than they got twelve years ago and ano thei increase is to go into effect Sept. 1 The price of paper has risen fully third and is still rising. The introduction of the linotype into niewspaper offices was felt to h( the downfall of compositors, but tim( has shown that there are more mer and women at work today on news paers than ever before. The reasor is that newspapers give more for thc money than formerly: give mor( eading and a larger and better pa1 e- in every way than was the cas( in former y-eatrs. There is nothing on the mnarke: that people get so much for theil moey as they do in newspaper-s at the present time. It is rich in news. full of entertainment. indeed, a nec essity for the counting room. thc store and the home. With this in crease in the cost of pr-eparintg and getting out papers will certainly come increased rates of sub Iscription and adver-tising, for there is nothing else for the paper's to do. THE Republicans of Ohio are hav ing a monkey and parrot time. Sena tor Foraker accuses Secretary Taft of having the lockjaw on public ques tions, and calls upon the Secretary to declare himself. CLEVELAND, when President, had the same chance to bring th-e trusts to justice that Roosevelt has, but in stead of doing so, he did all he could to build them up and allowed them to rob the public with impunity. IT is gradually dawnmng on the trusts that they will have to obey the lanjst as common folks have to TO PROTECT GAME. Good Work of the Audubon So ciety and Its Needs. An Appea3 That Should Meet With a Hearty icsponse From All True Sportsmen. To the Editor of The State. The Audubon work has reached a stage when appeal must be made to the sympathies of the larger public. In about four months of active field work I have been painfully impressed with the destruction of game and fish, going on in every part of South Carolina; painfully impressed witl the indifference of mnany educated people; with widespread ignorance as to the facts of the si';uation, and fi nally encouraged by a sympathy and encouragement met with In every quarter cf South Carolina, except the city of Sumter. where not a singlE member was enrolled. What the trouble with Sumter is I do not know, and the hope is stil entertained that her sporting blood and love of law will be aroused. Foi some reason a five days' appeal di( iot stir them. Spartanburg. Green ville, Orangeburg. Beaufort. Charles ton, Rock Hill, Gaffney, Barnwell Ramberg, Uniou. Columbia and othe places have responded to the call more or less, with Spartanburg an< Charleston leading. Other place are yet to be visited where hell) wil be had and an accident prevented a thorough canvass of Lancaster, wher( the cause has friends. So mudl for the general situataion fron this point of view. The Auduhon society. chartered b ihe last legislature, and organized im mediately afterward by the electioi of officers and the adoption of th act creating it as a constitution, ha begun work in earnest and the result accomplished are flattering. A nunm her of wardens have been appointe and put to work. More appointment are to follow. Cases have been mad out against violators and more wi: he made. The game laws of Sout Carolina can be enforced. This ha been learned. There is not the slighi est doubt about it. A healthy publi sentiment is in evidence. The game laws. especially the fis laws. are being shamelessly violated The best game fish in South Carolin are being slaughtered by thousand by the use of dynamite, traps an nets-all in violation of law. A party came into a low-countr town (name omitted for various rea sons) some time ago with 468 strin. y of redbreast as his part of a night work. This was over $100 worth c fish. r It is obvious that game fish at d 'loomed to speedy extinction by suc methods. In many counties partridge (quail) are shot in September an n the names of prominent club men, i e Columbia and elsewhere. have bee - furnished me as persistent violator c of this law. A Now, these gentlemen are all ni personal friends, but it will affor me genuine pleasure to have eac and every one of them fined if th facts can be )roved. No pains wi be spared to prove them. eA gentleman ought to set, an 3 these particular gentlemen must s< -a better example. - Now to the p)oint: d -The legislature provided no func h for the work. The national Audube e society is waiting to see whether ti Srepresentative cntizens of South Ca olna want their law enforced. The ft for Audubon membership is $5 an the annual dues are $1. So that $ pays the membership fee and tl first year's dues. The Audubon society needs many $6 memberships as it can g< and needs them now. One thousand memberships at $ -will make the society a success frot n the start and introduce a reign< .. law and order that will he a fine 01 -ject lesson. Such enforcenment< law will inculcate respect for all lat eThe opportunity is a grand one. rThe society and the laws have th good will of the press. They both al peal for an active exercise of the good will. Well wishers to the caut t should send in their membership fet to the treasurer. Mr. Alibert R. Hel eward. Columbia. S. C. The Audubo Ssociety of South Carolina has no ret Sulations but the laws of South Carc lina. It appeals to the sportman. ui: humanitarian, the lover of natiur and the advocate of law and ord-e On its rolls today are South Carc lina's most honored names ani ii Smost distinguished supporter is .Jai H. Carlisle of Wofford, whose advc cacy of any cause hallows 't. The fight is on. The cauise prIoceede Conflict is in the air. hut when th smoke lifts there will be a victory. The Audubon society appeals to it friends, to the daily and weeki: press, and to every friend of law an order in South Carolina to come ti the rescue, to save the birds, myve th fish, save the game. Any contribution will be welconme Wit~h a liberal response the worn will go on without a setback and b: I'all. when the non-resident license :lre collected, there ought to be abun dant funds on hand. This license is $10, exacted of ev erv non-resident hunter, and ther< are several thousand that come init< South Carolina annually. The society will appreciate the pub hication of this letter by any Soutl Carolina newspapers and w.ill thani them for doing so. Being in the felh I have no means of making copiet and trust that necessity may excust apparent lack of courtesy. Every contribution spreads th< cause. Every $6~ paid now has th( force of dynamite. Do urge a response. Nothing is required of memibers but their moral support. They do no1 have to report anybody. The society attends to that. Every comm unity and eanch individ ual that desire euforcement of thu b:ws should take action and~ get re suits. .rTames Hlenry Rice. JTr.. Allendalo. Aug. 13. Secretary. Mis.souri's Public~ Lad. Missouri is the only state in the Union in which public land may be purchased outright without the for mitofsettlement and cultivation. Some of it can be purchased as low as 81.2.5 per acre, and it may as well be stated at this time much of it prob ably isn't worth any more than that. Whnyubuy Missouri land from the gvernentit is a strict_ spot cash transaction, and there is no clause in the bill of sale whiich pro vides for the return of your money if not satisfied with the goods. How ever, there is a lot of this govern ment land that is certainly worth the price asked for it: particularly that in the Ozark mountain region, where it is covered with fine timber. Some da.y this territory will be opened, up by a railroad and then the claims will prove their worth. Missouri pub lie land can also be obtained in the manner prevailing in other states, by settling upon the claims for a certain period and making the usual improve ments. jlb RILLS FA'HER r inding Lost Son to Much for Lov ing Aged Irishman. Joy upon finding his son, who had been missing for the past 30 years. killed Nicholas Dunn, an aged re tired business man of Belfast, Ire land, when the pair met recently in an Alaskan mining cam?. James D. Dunn is the man for whom the fath er searched for 30 years. He ran away from his home in Ireland at 14 years of age, on account of a trifling quarrel with his father and since that time has had no communication with and member of his family. For 30 years the old man prosecut ed his search. He first visited ail the important cities in Ireland, Eng land and Scotland. and finding trace of the missing one, he went over the continent of Europe, and in continuance of his search traveled through the United States and South Am erca. '1 ne search on this side of the wa ter consumed more than a year. At its conclusion he returned to his home in Ireland. He remained there less than a year, and again set out on a secand tour of Europe and this country. In the course of a few years he spent all his own -fortune. and then his relatives supplied him with money. He came again to the United States a year ago determined to confine hi search to the Western Mining States. In Montana he picked up a clue which took him to Alaska and to the son in a search for whom he had spent 30 I years and had sacrificed a fortune He died in his son's arms before ex pressing his joy, except in the lool on his face. YOUNG JEAN VALJEAX. Inm ana Youth Suffers For His Bai Reputation. Another Jean Valjean has been dis i covered in Carl Hunt, recently ar S rested in Kokoma, Ind., where he wa: ? employed by the Kokomo Steel 4 Wire company anu has been living S model life for more than a year. Hun - had escaped from the Indian Schoo c for Boys, at I iainsfield. His recor< snows tuat his life at Kokomo ha Ibeen exemplary, that he nas spent al his time at work and study, at a tended Sunday school, saved hi s money, and been promoted man; times since he entered the employ o the company. It is probable he woul have risen to a place of great trus s under the company, had not some on learned of his past and informed o: f him to the authorities. Hunt mad no resistance to going back to th institution from which he had escai b ed, but he stated he was deeply di. rppointed at the necessity for i. d Hunt was sent to Plainsfield fror Bringhurst, as an incorrigible at nin years of age. He won enough credit s in a year to be granted a parole. Soo after his return home a grocery stor in his town was roibed. Suspicio d pointed to him as the culprit, thoug trial revealed he had nothing to d e with the robbery. He was not relea. ed but sent to the school at Plain dfield again. He was a "trusty" ther until a year ago, when he manage to escape. Save the Negroes. nA colored man by the name ( eRaymond Jackson is detained at th epolice station in Columbia to awai the result of an investigation int 6the death of a negro woman. Th~ prisoner was committed by the corc ner, who thinks he has discovered tcriminal of most dangerous possibi: ities. Jackson, it is suspected, ha Sbeen doing a flourishing business ~buying cocaine in wholesale quanti Sties and selling it at retail to th Shundreds of negro cocaine fiends i: Columbia. The Record says "there is nothina in the conditions of life among th poor colored people of the city whic1 tso fosters and develops criminal ten dencies as the cocaine habit. If th< Sgeneral public had the knowledg< which the police possess regardmn, the prevalence of this habit, al good citizens would stand ighast There is a stringent statute regulat ing the sale of the drug, but viola tors are shielded by their customer; and detection is very difficult- If case can be made out against Jack~ son, his punishment will be severe. What is true of Columbia is trut of the balance of the State. Th< drug and cocaine habit is indulge< in by a large number of the negroe all over the south, if the report made by the census bureau is cor rect. The negroes, not knowing th danger attending the use of thes< drugs, fall easy victims to the habit of taking them to excess. It is said that they learn the habit at first b: taking so-called medicine that is solc by fakirs, and which contains large quantities of morphine or other nar cotics. Any one caught selling thi: hellish stuff to negroes should be severely punished. He is not much better than a murderer and should be punished accordingly. Oldest Towvn in Anmerica. Taos, the ancient Indian villege of New Mexico, is probably the oddest town in America. There are two great pyramid houses, one five and the other seven stories high, occu pied by the entire tribe, numbering about 400 persons. These buildings are considered the most perfect ex amples of early Indian architecture in existence, for, while they were build considerable more than 500 years ago, and have been continuous ly occupied, there is not the slight est sign of decay. Indeed, they are in a state of perfect preservation. The Indians who have lived in this quaint village for so many genera tions are simple, quiet and peaceable. They are mostly tillers of the soil. The governor of the village is elect ed fo'r a year at a time, and the meth od of making a choice is exceedingly odd. The occupants of each house choose a runner to represent them in a foot race. The occupants 'of the house whose sprinter has won the Irace chooses the governor. The Taos girls are considered among the most graceful in the world. THE big corporations and the Re publican party thoroughly under stand one another. The courts will fine trusts, as in the case of the Stan dard Oil Company, but the fines will never be paid. This is only a new dodge on the part of the Republican party to fool the people. IN the course of time the United States Supreme Court will review the decision of Judge Landis, and the public will be much surprised if it shall reverse the finding of the jury that the Standard Oil company ha3 violated the Elkins law not once but BIG CORN CROP. A Noted Expert Reports on The Contest Acre. Grown by Mr. A. J. Tindal, of Clar endon County, Which Beat all Competitors. Commissioner Watson ha. received from Prof. Thos. Shaw, the crcp and grain expert, a report of the national corn contest in which this State took part, resulting in one of the princi pal prizes being won by A. J. Tindal of Clarendon county. The report is a valuable one inasmuch as it advises South Carolina extensively, coming as it does from an expert and also gives much valuable information to those who desire to follow Mr. Tin dal's methods in planting corn to ob tain the best results. Commissioner Watson said that he was particularly gratified at Mr. Tindal winnng the prize because he was a graduate o: Clemson college and it proved to the world that this State had an institu tion teaching scientific farming. Th< report in full is as follows: "The acre of corn grown by Mr Tindal produced a remarkable yield It made him the winner of a $10C prize (not including State prizes) The corn was grown on land posess ed of a cash value of $30 per acre The soil, rather low and naturall; wet, was humous in its composition at least, to a considerable extent chocolate in color and was underlaie at a depth of about two feet by mix ed gravel and pipe clay of a non-re ceptive character. "The soil was naturally enriche by washing from the surrounding soi and had also been highly fertilize during the three previous years. I had in it open and some branc - drains that were covered. In 190 - 600 pounds of guano- with a compc sition of 8.-8.-4., gave a return of 1, 827 pounds of seed cotton. In 1904 600 pounds of 4.-8.-4. guano and 6 pounds of nitrate of soda gave 13 bushels of corn and 9 bushels of cow I peas. In 1905, 600 pounds of guano 100 pounds of nitrate of soda and 3 pounds of nitrate of potash gave yield of 3,912 pounds of seed cottor "On April 5. 1906, the ground-wa - plowed to the depth of 14 inches an the same day was cross-plowed an subsoiled to the depth of 20 inche: f using a ten-inch turning plow, an the sub-soil plow run in every furro t was home-made. Immediately afte the same day, a spring-tooth harro was run over the acre to the depth c three inches and also a smoothin harrow. On April 1 6 it was similarl e harrowed and the harrow was a once followed by smoothing harrov On May 7 it was harrowed in precisc ly the same way as on April 16. "The fertilizer applied was as fo e lows: 600 pounds of complete specis guano containing 4 per cent. ammol ia. 8 per cent. phosphoric acid and e per cent. potash; 500 pounds of co ton seed meal with a composition c 7.1 1-2 and 1; 500 pounds of Peri h vian guano with a composition < S. S. 5. and 2.; and 400 pounds < nitrate of soda with 18 per cent. ammonia. The first three fertilize: were applied in a furrow on May at the time of the planting of ti corn, and the fourth was giv~en as top dressing on June 15. One ma: with mule and plow, opened the fu rows and three men applied ti dressing by hand. The cost of ti fertilizers before application wa $32.45 for the acre. ".t he variety planted was the Miar boro Prolific, grown by the owne who in 1900 introduced the varie into the neighborhood. The set was planted in rows that were mat with the shovel. The kernels we: buried three inches deep in a we prepared soil and one inch apart: ,the line of the row. The rows we: - 33 inches distant and 28 quarts seed wcre used, the germination which was considered perfect. Ti weather was dry until June 10 an was then overwet. "Expenditures were: Interest on land at 6 noi ent$ 1.S Cost of plowing .. . .. .. 5.0 Cost of harrowing. . . . . . 1.0 Other labor in preparing land. . 1.0 Cost of fertilizers.. .......32.4 Cost of applying fertilizers .. 1.0 Cost of seed .. .... .......5 Cost of cultivating... .. .. .. 2.5 Cost of other work... .. .. .. 1.5 Cost of harvesting.... .. .. .. 9.8 STotal cost.. .. .... $56.6 S"Receipts were -182 bushels corn at $2 .. ..$364.0 3 tons stover at $6.... ......18.0 S4,100 pounds fodder at $20 per ton.... .... .......41.0 Total receipts .. .. .. ...$423.0 -Net profits.. .... .....$366.4 "On May 16 a weeder was run os -er the corn to the depth of two in ches. It was cultivated, May 22 an June 2, with 3 6-inch sweeps runnin, to the depth of about one inch. O: May 30o the crop) wa~s thinned ~b, hand to the distance of four to si inches between the plants and wveed were removed. One day with thre men was occupied in the hand work "On August 2'7 the tops were cu off and the fodder stripped from th ear down. On November 30 the cro) was harvested by plucking the ears The same day the stubs of the stalk were cut by hand and shredded. Th< yield of the corn was 182 bushels giving an average of 86 per cent corn to cob. "The profit of $336.45 seems large indeed, from one acre of land, but i will be noticed that in reachingi the entire crop is valued at $2 pe: bushel on the assumption that i' will all make good seed. For tha purose 48 bushels had been sokc when the manual was filed out in th< autumn of 1 906. The fodder, which I understand. means the tops and leaves, is valued at $20 per ton. "To a Northern man this seems a very large valuation. But suppose the entire crop is valued at 50 centi por bushel for' feeding and the strais aun fodder together at $5 per ton These would 1)e worth the figures named in any part of the United States: the net profit from the acre would still he $44.43. or consider ably more than the land is worth. In my judgment, the State of Soutl: Carolina should give Mr. Tindal a ulmdal for what he has done. His eh ieement is simply wonderful and he lessons from it are many. They incude the following: "1HI has brought into bold relief he wisdom of keeping land in a high state of fertilization, as in 1903,1904 ad 19'05 he got good returns from high fertilization. "He has shown that a farmner must not be0 afraid to put on a little hard labor when growing crops will be benfitted by it. "e has made it clear that to ob i maximum yields of corn the tand must not be thin or irregular. His cop) was grown more closely than is usully grown. but, of couirse, ca omC soils it may be necessary to patsomewhat~ more dstant. -He has shown that in the South a f~rmer' may apply fortilizer that rost him more than his land is worth. and yet make a good return f fr te i e t e t S outhern farioer' m:ay make enor mo rfis ?fom growing seed corn. A WHITE BRUTE. Attempts to Commit an Assault on Wife's Sister. A dispatch to The State from Sal uda says Mike H. Mitchell. a white man about 55 years old, was lodged in jail Sunday night, charged with attempting to commit criminal as sault upon his wife's younger sister at his home Saturday afternoon. In the evening an urgent 'phone mes sage was sent to the sheriff asking him to come to the home of Mrs. Mary Witt, the mother of the young lady, as soon as possible. All efforts to ascertain the nature of the trou ble were unavailing until Sheriff Sample returned sunday night with Mitchell and placed him in jail. The story of the affair as related to the sheriff is as follows: Mitchell went to the home of his mother-in-law and stated that hi wife was preparing to go out for the afternoon and wanted to see her sis ter before going. On reaching her sister's home the young lady went in and as soon as she entered 'Mitchell followed, closing the door behind him and locking it. Mitchell's wife and children had at - ready gone away and this was tb. method employed by him to get th young lady to his home. Failing in his foul purpose he unlocked the door and the young lady went home an reported the affair. It is stateu #.aat Mitchell followed her part of the, way, begging her not to tell it and threatening to kill her if she did. - As soon as the affair becam known armed men appeared an' trouble of a seriolis nature was fe'. ed and it is probable ..t they wousd have taken the law in their ownhands - if Mitchell had been found. The sheriff found him near his father , home and took him into custody. Mit chell denies the whole affair. t The young lady is held in the high est esteem by the people in that com munity. Mitchell is a son of Mr. - John P. Mitchell, one of the most - substantial as well as one of the most highly esteemed men in that county. The social standing of the two fam - iles involved makes the whole affair a most deplorable one. PROTECT DOVES. I President of Audubon Society Ap a peals to the Farmers. Mr. B. F. Taylor, president of the r South Carolina Audubon society, makes a personal appeal to the farm' ers of the State to protect the doves Writing -from Hendersoville, N'rt t Carolina, he says: "Complaints are coming to mt from all parts of the State by gart wardens advising that certain hunt L era, being aware that our legislaturt L- in repealing an old law concernint game birds and enacting another failed to specify doves among thos _ protected during the close season if and are now shooting them. - "The dove is one of the most val f uable birds on the farm. In a re cent pamphlet published by our so ciety it was illustrated that the stom each of one dove by actual count con taned 10,000 weed and grass seed ,Think how much hoeing that repi e "sents on a farm! "I would therefore appeal to th e farmers to allow no one to shoo 3 the doves on their farms until thi regular hunting season opens. An -" if the hunters have the least sparn - of sportsmanship in them trey wil ' refrain from taking advantage of technicality, I am sure no one think! efor a moment the legislature intend e ed to remove the protection from th< 1 dove alone of all our birds. fl "This society has spent during thi e past spring and summer somethini If over $400 in fish and bird protectio: f and in' pamphlets for distributioi telling the people of the value o birds. We want the co-operation o: all the people and hunters especially for by our enforcing the law the hun 0ter profits largely in having morf birds to shoot. 0"We hope this class will help us 2 in our predicament and make a lau Sfor the doves without the assistane 0of the legislature. Public opinionl i: stronger than any law. I) STICKiS TO BOOZE. Baberg County Refused to Vote Out The Disp'ensary. Bamberg County voted on the dis pensary on Tuesday. The dispen sary won by a small majority. 'Ine vote was very light. THE fact that a big trust can be -forced into court and fined for- its misdoings shows that the seed sowed by Bryan in his campaigns for the Presidency is bearing fruit. It'-s easy to fool a man who has no faith in human nature. "Finally, he has shown that i. these United States we are only in the A B C of possible production of grains."' Value of Fodder. Prof. Shaw in a seperate article has the following to say. "No feature of the reports of the contestants for prizes in the grain' grower's contest has surprised me more than the high value put upon corn fodder by contestants living in the South. Mr. A. J. Tindal, for in stance, of Manning. S. C., has his corn cut down to the ears and the fodder stripped off. The weight thus obtained from an acre, presum ably cured, was 4,100 pounds. This he valued in his report at $20 per ton. The corn fodder, presumably the lower part of the stalk, was shredded. Three tons were obtained and this was valued at $6 per ton., These facts speak loudly as to the great difference in the estmate of the value put upon corn t'odder inx the South and in the corn belt, where miillions of acres go b2':k every year to earth ungathered. It would seem~ scarcely possible that such a differ nce could exist in the ramte country. "That millions and millions of cres of this produce s'iould go to waste every year in the United States must appear strange to the foreigner. That so miuch should be wasted is indeed a stigma upon our a:;r'iculturie, ut it is a stigma that :yields its round very slowly. On" acre of cr stover properly cured and fedi is worth as much on the av'erage as one acre of timothy hay. The food thus grown on 1.00)0,000 acres cf corn in the stover is worth as mutch as the food grown on 1,000.000 ares of timothy hay. The' wat of 1.000,000 acres of corn fodder is therefore. equal to the~ w;'ste of 1. 000.000 acres of ti.uo! hy hay. "t may he an::were'd that hjive stock get some of the fodder wh* a grazing in the field:s. The do. more of it they do uct get. and all of what they get is i-npa:ired ir: gual This record is more r~xteworthy han Drake's, for it has always been understood that Capt. Drake expend ed more in obtaininer hik yield than UNIQUE HONEY MOON Instead of Fun, Pennsylvania Cou ple Sought Health. "Roughing It" in the Open Air With Many Exciting Encounters Cures Hopeless Case of Tuberculosis. A two-year honeymoon and battle with ill health has just been finished in triumph by Mr. and Mrs. E. P6r ter Dickinson, of Ridgway, Pa..That period immediately succeeding mar riage, which most couples pass in luxurious transit through the famous s'how places of the world on the fin est Pullman trains an( floating pal aces, this pair speit in most heroic "roughing it.'' They went through the wildest country of the North. American continent with an outfit as primitive is those which carried the pioneers of the early days through the primeval West they transversed stretches of country where day afte day passed without one living person being encountered, they risked hun ger and thirst going over little-mown routesthey battled with wolves and other wld animals and suffered from the extremes of cold and heat. It was in search of health that they went on this most unusual honey-, moon. To-day Mr. and Mrs. Dick inson boast the most perfect physi cal condition, the direct result of - having cut away from the big cities and breaking out in the open; next to nature, where the open air con verts invalids into healthy beings, and effects cures far beyond the ken of the most talented specialist. When'. the Dicknsons were wedin Ridg way, Pa., inthe fall of 1905, the pros'. pect was not all rosy. Ill health had the groom inits clutch. A man of big business interests, he had neg- - - leeted symptoms which the cautious would have recognized as signs of lung trouble. First the pair went to Amarilla, Mexico. This trip.was made-by rail in the quickest possible way, so that Mr. Dickinson could rest-there for a time, and get strength for the stren uous experiences which faced him. Then when the groom had gathered vigor, husband and wife set out on their trip. With an outfit wagon and. fine team they crossed the-famods "Staked . Plains." Entirely, alone, save for a guide, the pair rode for days without meeting a hUman be Ing. In the midst of this long trip many curious, some dangerous, expenene es came to them. One night as they slept in the shadow of the dying em bers of their campfire, Mr.-Dicri son was startled byasoundnetto him, butwhich it is said that even the novice recognizesatfirsthearing. It was the howling of wolves. Rifle in hand, Mr. Dickinson sat in.- the front of the wagon. occasionally fii' ing when -a too venturesome, wolf came into the open. Seveial times a howl of pain told of a.bullet thathad hit its-mark. Mrs. Dickinson used a -pistol. In the darkness there was no .way to tell how many- wolves had -been in the pack,. but Mr. Dickison estimates the number as not less than. 50, His shots dunng the beleagured night killed four of them, and prob ably wounded several others, for trails of blood led in several direc tions from the woods nearby. On Nov. 2, the Dickinsons pulled into Roswell, NM., in a rainstorm -and mud hubs deep. From this point they moved on to the North Spring river. This place they found',o near-' ly ideal that they camped. there, spending the entire wintershnanting and fishing. Under this'kind of treatment the husband whohad been scant-.of breath, weak in appetite and all nerves at the outset of the trip, found himself putting on weight, eating like a horse and sleep ing as though he had never known that such things asiervous troubles existed. The lungsthat had been a cause of fear, ggmhed in soundness,. and no exposurese med to have the least ill effect. The trip ended at Fort Collins, some 40 miles from Denver, Col. Al togter it took. about 20 months, adin this time Mr. Dickinson esti mates that he slept in the open air away from the shelter of even an awning on all the nights save about three months of the time. When he came East his obi friends hardly rec ognized him, though from; time to" time his letters, which he never er mitted to be answered, told of prog ress to the best of all possessions health. Mrs. Dickinson also profited greately, and the pair are now pre pared tosart amarried life with a splendid supply of hsalth and ener gy. AFKAID OF HUSEAlND. Woman Stole Money and Wa Afraid To Meet Him. - - Leaving a note saying that she would rather face death than meet her husban.'s wrath when he learn ed that she had misappropriated $600 which was in her keeping as treasur er of the Sunday school of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mrs. Andrew Goetz left her home in West New York on Friday and has not been heard from since by her family. ~Most of the money in the woman's charge collected by the Sunday school children for i' new church which the trustees planned to build. Mrs. Goetz's husband is a shipping clerk, employed in/New York. The couple have been married for 25 years. A Rule for Man and Beast. A few daiys ago a horse was brought to the door ready for a long tri1p. The advice of the owner to the driver was. "Go slow; that is, jog him the first mile, then trot some the next mile, then go it." In due time the driver teiephoned back that they had made the rrip easily: and that t!1e horse was good for as much more. We asked the owner if he did not think that such advice as that which...... enabled a horse to make a long trip comfortably w:', good for men and women as well? "Sure." he said. "If yoa want to :1 a hig day's work, begin slow!,s. "n't :io much of anything before reld:-. uet littlC rhings. Eat slowly. r. ''. .* ." . " n' r full - hedway '.r . . .l :-r that you can go to work just as hard as you may. Some people are never satisfied un !ss they can butt into the limelight. A fool will rush in where a grafter is atisfied with a look in. When we refuse to meet an emer