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AS IT SHOULD BE. A White Man Hanged for Murder ing His Own Wife. SAID HE WAS INSANE. The Crime Was an Atrocious One, But Much Sympathy Was Worked Up for the Murderer by a Lot of Women Who Visited Him in Jail, But Governor Smith Stood Firm, and Declined to Interfere. A special dispatch from Savannah, Ga., to The News and Courier says Willie Rogers, at 1:15 o'clock Tues day afternoon paid the penalty on the gallows for the murder of his wife, committed about eighteen month ago, on West Broad street, in an eating house, the woman had en tered In search of food. She held a baby in her arms when Rogers fired the fatal shot. The execution of Rogers. the first white man ever legally executed in Chatham County, came after the ex haustion of every possible legal move that might have been taken to save his life. Many appeals to the Governor in his behalf were made, and these re sulted in two respites. but finally the Governor proved obdurate to the claims that were made by physicians and others that Rogers was insane, and unable to comprehend the dif ference between right and wrong. Preferring the opinion of the two physicians, Dr. W. F. Bruner and Dr. T. J. Charlton, whom he himself had named, and who reported the con trary, Gov. Smith declined to inter fere further with the execution. Never had there been known ir Savannah such a marked interest in the fate of a murderer. This inter est permeated church circles, that ele ment having been aroused largely through Rogers' daily reading of the Bible, his professions of Christianity and his interest in the prayers that were offered by good women upon the occasion of their visits to the jail. A dozen or more physicians, too, became concerned and offered their testimony relative of Rogers' mentality. Rogers was the first man ever exe cuted In the Chatham jail on a day other than Friday. Moreover, he was the thirteenth man to be execut ed there. That it was not on a Friday he was hanged was due tc Judge Seabrook having an aversion to sentencing men to be hanged on that day. Seeing no reason why Fri day should be stigmatized as hang man's day, he sentenced Rogers to be hanged on another day of the week. Giving a rspite of ten days, Gov ernor Smith seemed in a fair way to defeat this intention of the Court, for that threw the date to a Friday. But then came greater activity on Rogers' behalf and a further respite of ten days, which again avoided a Friday and fixed the execution for a Tuesday. LOOTED BY ROBBERS. Tied Members of the Family While Robbery Went On. Two robbers took posession of the home of Irwin Brooks, aged 65 years. a farmer living in Wayandotte coun ty, Kansas, Tuesday night while the members of the family were bound and kept prisoners in bed. When Brooks resisted, the robbers shot him in the hand. They then tied his hands and feet and placed him in bed. Mrs. Brooks and two daughters. Emma, aged 22, and Eva. aged 1-7, were similarly treated. The robbers ransacked the house and secured $30 They prepared a meal and ate leis urely. They released the oldest Brooks girl for a time while she quieted her baby, which had begun to cry. After the robbers left the girls succeeded in releasing them -selves and their parents. States is Positionl. In response to a question asked by a representative of the Philadel phia Telegraph, Mr. Bryan said: "If the voters of the dem->eratic party want another than myself nominated at Denver they ought to instruct their delegates to that ef feet. If they want me nominated they ought to instruct their delegates for me. it is not a matter to be de cided by me or by any small faction -of the democratic voters. It is for the majority of voters to determine. In November last, to stop the misrepresentations that were going about as to what I might or might not do, and as to the conditions un der which I might or might not be a candidate, I stated that I would not ask for a nomination, but that I would be a candidate if it was the desire of the democratic party that I should be. Believing that in par ties, as in popular government. au thority comes up to the offieial from the people. I believe that voters as they gather in their communities should express themselves on party principles and candidates and then select delegates in harmony with their ideas. Instructions are demn o -ratic because the delegate has no a tm:ority except as he receives in s- . irns from the voters; and the de-gate ought to say that which the vut a want said." This is a frank op-' tatement from Mr. Bry an as to h.. p..ition in reference to the presidenunl nomination. It cer tainly shows that he is not trying to dictate to the party but is willing to accept any candidate a majority of the party sees fit to name. A female burglar ha s been cap tured in Dallas. Tex. She would have escaped if she had not stopped to primp her hair before leaving the house that she burglarized. WADE Hampton Sellers has had a long career of crime, but we hope he has rerched the end of his list of crimes at last. If a few fellows like Sellers were allowed to dance from the end of a hope occassional 1y the Stoa woul be better off. TO HX ON DANTE'S BIRTHPLACS The Question Undecided at the Pres ent Moment. H igh and low. rich and poor. have now but one thought. that of locating the houses of the Alighieri. This ha been attempted on various occasions and some time ago it was established to the satisfaction of the time, that Dante was born in a certain house even the room being pointed out. Tc thi almost the whole traveling public has come in pilgrimage: but alas! a doubt has arisen. and it is now said that Dante did iot i le there at all. The documents which should estab lish the right of the matter are few, but sufficiently plain to show that. i! not just there. the Afighieri could not have been far off. One states that in 1.18 the family were li ing in the parish of San Martino. and near the church. as there wat a heated ques tion about a fig * ree which Dante's an cestors had planted and which they were obliged to root up. In 1277. after Dante's birth. they were again in trouble. this time wiTh the abbot of the Church of the Badia. so that they were evidently still in the same nei;.:hborhood. and. in fact. there is another document wvhich seems to say that Dante's father lived among the people of San Martino. while others show that after the poet's death they wer- still there. Thus the neighbor hood is established, but the house is r more difficult matter. Several build ings have blen demolished. huT thf only thing which has come to ligh: is a wall with a coat of arms. the samtc as that found on several ether house' of the dittrict and on the Church of the Badia. But that proves nothing for or against. as they may have been added later when the property changed hands. There are documents. they say. tracing the dtf-erent ownertizlp. of the houses from 1:1'12. at which time they were owned by an uncle of Dar.te's. to 1S69. Thus the question stands at the present moment.-Pal" Mall Gazette. Million Dollar Caterpillars. A few years ago a scientific person in Massachusettt imported some cater pillars that interested him. and kept them in- a bottle. But one day the bottle tipped over and some of the caterpillars escaped into the scien tist's garden and presently stocked it with gypsy moths. To catch them and their descendants the Bay State has since spent about a million dol lars of public money. They have cost it many million dollar, besides in damages. The old method of fight ing them was to find and destroy the cocoons. The State finally gave that up. much to the regret of many of its citizens. The bugs have since in creased very much and carried de struction into the woods. It is now proposed to fight these pe ts in the latest fashion by breeding parasite.s which will attack them. That method is recommended by Mr. Kroebele. of Alameda. Cal., who tried it success fully in that State for white scale. The Massachusetts Fore-try Associa tion favors the experiment, which will not cost much. and Mr. Koebele will I doubtless be invited to bring his para sites to Massachusetts and sick them or.. The whole country is concerned in this experiment, because a Miassa chusetts Congressman. hat invited Congress to declare the gypsy moth a national enemy and to appropriate $250."00 to fight him. The parasite cure is a modern wonder and has bee-n effective in cases of great moment. Mr. Koebele says it will not wipe out the gypty moths. but will keep them du-vn. The boll weevil may presently be restrained lby the same methods. Harper's Weekly. The Pace. "There can be no question about one thing." said a man who does not take kindly to the hurry-up, strenuous ten dency of the time. "and that is the fact that we hurry our children along the highway of life at a too rapid pace. In your day and mine children were not so wihe. They did not push them so much at school. As you know, they did not begin the serious studies of life so soon. But now well, the idea is aptly put in a bit of verse which I found recently in a South African paper. Here is the way it runs: "Hurry the baby as fast as you can. Hurry him, worry him, make him a man; Off with his baby clothes, get him in pants. Feed him on brain foods and make him advance: Hustle him. soon as he's able to walk. Into a grammar school, cram him with talk: Fill his poor head full of figures and facts, cracks." --New Orleans Times-Democrat. Fair Titled Americans. Forty years ago Lord Palmerston predicted that "before the century is over these clever and pretty women from the States will pull the strings in half the chancellerie; of Europe." A review of the world to-day bears witness to the truth of the prophecy Lady Cur.:on, in India: Mrs. Chamn berlain. in England: Mine. Jusserand Baroness Moncheur. the Baroness vo: Stenberg. wives respectively of th' French Ambassador. the Belgian Am bassador and the German Ambhas-ador to the United States, are all of Amer ican descent or birth. Lady Herbert. widow of Sir Micaihel Henry Herbert. formerly Br".ain's Ambassador, was sn Amerman. an( to-day some of the most influential houses on the other sidie io-tk to their American wives to maintain their prestige. TEN WERE INJURED When Railway Engine and Electric Traini Met at Cr-ossing. Ten lpersons were injured. non( fatally, in a colision between a Sou thern railway engine and a tr-ain of the Washington and Alexandria Elec tric railway Friday night at Alexan da. Va. The engine was hacking from the r-oundhouse and crashed in to the motor car of the electric train. It is asserted by passengers on the trolley cars that the accident was aused by failur-e to observe that the cars should have been brought to ti full stop befor-e crossing the steam railway's tracks. Big Guns Shipped. Twvelve six-inch guns. each weigh ing twelve tons and intended gy the United States government for coasi ~defenses in the Philippines. started on their journey Friday on the Brit ist steamer Inveresk. which sailed from her pier- at the Bush stores. ADVERTISE THE TOWN PubliCy Man Suggests Method of Booming a Town. Advrtisenent Telling the Local His tory, Development and Opportuni ties Should be Mailed Out. How can a town advertise itself to the outside world to get the best re suits for the least expenditure? This question was asked recently of a man who has had many years' ex perience in promoting publicity for ex positions, 'heatrical companies. cities and summer resoris. He replied with out hesitation: "Carry a half page or a page or two pages of well written and illustrated boom matter in the local newspapers. Run it regularly, just as if it were a part of the necessary makeup of the paper, like the date line. You will find that that sort of advertising for a town is about the best that can be de vised. It brings the best results for the smallest expenditure of funds." This same authority went on to say that the founder of one of the big east ern summer resorts used to run a standing advertisement of the town in each of the local papers. usually a full page. This advertising was continued for years until it became almost a joke locally, many of the residents being able to quote whole paragraphs from the descriptive matter without refer ring to the paper. But whenever a copy of any paper published in the town was wrapped up and mailed away by a subscriber or a visitor it carried with It as a matter of course that town advertisement. It did not matter whether or not the person mailing the paper intended to advertise the resort. The ad. went along "whether or no." "What was told In this ad.?" the publicity man was asked. "The history of the resort, when and how it came to be established, the price of lots when the town site was first put on the market, the value of property at the time of advertising, the kind of people who preferred that resort to all others, why they preferred it, the cost and quality of houses in the town and the advantages of the place from A to Izzard. The result was that thousands of new visitors and summer settlers were attracted to 'the place by seeing a copy of one of the local papers which told the story of the resort in entertaining style." I Of course every town cannot be ad vertised to exactly the extent of the one mentioned, that place being a re sort visited by many strangers' who are inclined to send away a marked copy of a local newspaper containing a personal item about their arrival or their attendance at some social func tion. But the average town which is ambitious to get above the average can accomplish much by exploiting it I self through the columns of its local press. Every town has an interesting history if only somebody who knows will get under the surface of things and unearth the facts. Every town has some peculiar advantages, some at tractionS, n ot to be found elsewhere. The business of the exploiter is to set forth these attractions as invitingly as possible. Of course no town is go ing to boom itself. It must be boomed by some of its people. Some sort of organization is necessary to raise funds and map out the plan of campaignL. The board of trade or business men's organization can attend to this. Suppose that a local business man or professional man or any plain citi zen received from some quarter a re quest for information concerning the town. The citizen may be too busy to write out the desired information in full, but if he has a copy of the town paper on his desk containing just the Idata called for he is more than likely to wrap it up and mail it to the In quirer. "-Marke-d Copy." In every town there are many citi zens who have paid no particular at tention to watters of local history. -A well written article running from day to day or from week to week in the paper the people read will serve to get them interested In .the town in which they liv-e and will be the means of add ing them to thei booming element. En thusiasm is said to be contagious, and by frequent contact with some of the enthusiasm poured out in printer's ink by one who knows his subject and be iees in it the contagiton is sure to be caught and passed along. What advantages has the town over its neighboring towns? What interest ing facts in its history or development are there whIch will make interesting reading and caiuse outsiders to want to know more about the place? What iportant improvements have been made lately or may be made in the near future?2 What op)portunities are there for settlement, investment, the opening of new lines of business? All these things combined would make an Interesting article, and if run as a standing advecrtisement it would begin to show results in a short time. As eternal vigilance Is the price of liberty, so is keeping everlastingly at it the price of success In booming a town. To Check Street Litter. In order to minimize the nuisance of waste paper left in the streets the city council of Par-is, France, ordered that wire baskets to which is attach ed a notice requesting the public to place waste paper therein be placed in squares and on the grand boule vards, says a Paris special dispatch to the New York Herald. They are to be attached to fences and railings. How to Clean Bronzes. It is not a good plan to clean bronzes. as the polish is v-ery easily spoiled, but if necessary nothing is better tha cleaning them with water and a monia, using a stiff brush like a nail-I brush. Dr-y car-efully after rinsin. thoroughly. They should be carefully dusted every day with a soft cloth andI a feather brush, and a little sweet oil may be rubbed on occasionally. To re move stains from bronze wake the article very bot by dipping it in boiling water. Then rub it with a piece of lannel dipped in suds made from yel low soap, rubbing clean with soft linen cloths. Another white man has been hung over in Georgia in the last few weeks for murder. Keep this up a little while and Georgia will have fewer murders. Hanged in Geor-gia. Lee Holmes, colored, slayer of I~r . A. Sands, was hanged in the .jail yard at Der-ien, Ga.. at noon Friday He was brou.ght from Savannah the night before. Holmes said nothin at the gallows except to piray aloud Will Be Hard to Beat. Many of the Republican papers at the North frankly admit that their party will find Mr. Bryan a more formidable candidate than many of their leaders pretend to think he is. The New York evening Post says: "That Mr. Bryan will be the Democratic candidate for the presidency this year, if he chooses to be, may now be set down as among the political certainties. And thow republican managers are living in a fools paradise who think it will be a holiday task to beat him. The forces which make Mr. Bryan's candidacy formidable are not hid den. He has a vast and idolizing personal following. Its vote can be transferred to no other, As a cam paigner, he has inexhaustible physi cal energy. and resources of sg'ta tion. An,' on what willing rars his appeals v nulk fall in -resent cir cumstances! Are the Repnblicans not aware how, he could retort all their own favorite arguments upon them with terriffic force? The re publican platform of 1896 could be read as an indictment of the re publican party of 1908. All the dire consequences of misgovern ment therein set forth are now swarming home to condemn repub lican poliles. A panic has come under republican rule. Business has suffered deep hurt; mills have shut down; thousands of men'are out of work; the unemployed throng the cities; the resources of charity are strained to provide for those in want by no fault of their own. Does any republican leader in his senses doubt that Mr. Bryan could make great play with these undeniable facts? Bearing in mind his extraordinary gifts as an agita tor, and remembering how invaria bly the party in power loses popular support when depression over takes industry and cripples enter prise, no one but a republican drunk with complacency could deny that the coming campaign will test his party to the utmost." This is an honest confession of Mr. .Bryan's eat strength as a candidate. Grand Army Wiped Out. The Pittsburg Gazette-Times says one of the greatest of American ar mies has been wiped out, annihllat od, swept away. It numbered more than a million, and was engaged in defensive and offensive warfare against aud enemy more inaidious than the Japaness. Although none of this host, not even the leaders, had been trained at West Point, their strategy and tactics were un surpassed by the most efficient reg ular troops. Now this splendid fighting force has been uterly de stroyed. Less than 50,000 were killed at Waterloo and 80,000 at Leipsic so that those famous battles can not be compared with the destruction of this splendid American army. One million robins are a military unit of great fighting pbwer, able to com bat and overcome vast hordes of in sect en.emies. Now this magnificent corps of our nation's defenders is routed by ruthless pothunters, and our fields are left unprotected, ex sposed to the ravages of pests that fly and crawl. South Carolina fines any one who kills a member of this grand army five dollars. This fact should be remembered by all sports men as well as pot hunters. Why is the Ocean Salt. The Creator made the ocean salt to save the land from putrefaction. The winds blow everything offen sive and postilential (as far as we al low them to do the work of boards of health) out to sea, where all hum ors are absorbed by the hungry was ers. Salt is a purifying agent. The ocean is a great manufacturer. It converts every thing foul Into health making ozone and hands it back to us without charge. No government label is necessary. Stand on the prow of a ship for three hours a day, deep breathing like an athlete, and y our lungs will be cleaned of everything poisonous, your blood will leap through veins and arteries, your heart will be obliged to thump with renewed force. The tide is the ocean's tongue. It comes in twice a day to lick up the foul things of the earth and convey them to the ocean's stomach, where these are di gested salted down, cured and ren dered pure again. NEAR~LY every county in the State has out a favoritte son for United States Senator. THE crack of the ever ready pistol is still heard in South Carolina. We need a few hangings in this State. A Washington newspaper corres pondent says the Taft hoom has lit tle support except that given it from the white house. MAKE the lien law an issue'in the campaign this Summer and give the people a chance to say what they waut done with it. ALL honor to Gov. Hoke Smith, of Georgia. In allowing the law to take its course in two noted mnrder cases resulting in the hanging of two white men, he has set an example that should be followed by all gov ernors. IN the opinion of The Washington Star "South Carolina should send a good raan in Mr. Latimner's place;" "shouMd be r ble to give Mr. Tillman a colleague with something of his gin ger and a like amount of his indus try." Many Are Dead. F*ollowing anl explosion of gas in mrine No. .~of the Cia Carbon de Sabinas mines, at Rosita, Mexico. nothinig has been heard from the two FRANCE AND EGYPT. Almost as Many French as English in Egypt. In view of the new Anglo-French agreement, it may not be out of place to note the extent of French interests In the valley of the Nile. These are enumerated in the Paris Temps, by M. Villiers, who maincains that, until now, France has preserved all her privileges, those she holds from the capitulations as well as those secured by the conventions of 1876 and 1873, viz., personal liberty, inviolability of domicile, exemption from taxation ex cept custom dues, house tax, and the municipal tax at Alexandria, and a special jurisdiction. As to the more recent interests of the French they are, says M. Villiers, guaranteed by the Caisse re la Dette, and the agree ment which created the mixed tribun als. There are In Egypt, according to the census of 1897. no fewer than 14.15! Frfench suh.ant. as e 1V,50(, Eughsh, of whom 7,000 are sol diers ard - .51 :.I&I.cs. ezkhn ' ian. C1 t.ie 2,340,&0,*.-JU frauc of the Egyptian Dette. 1,5S0,000,0-0 francs are held by Frenchmen. The majority of the shareholders and bondholders of the Credit Fone"' r Egypr.ien are French. The trade of France with Egypt amounts to be tween 60,000,000 and 70.000,000 francs. Thera are 108 French commercial es tablishments, and the landed property belor.ging to Frenchmen amounts in value to about 53.000.000 francs. Three-fifths of the directors of the Suez canal are French. French mis sianaries have 15,000 pupils speaking French in their schools. The French law school at Cairo, the French hos pitals, and the French clubs continue to exist, while the French department for the study of Egyptian antiquities. upholds, says M. Villiers, "the tra-1i tious of our science in the road opened up fer It by Bonaparte in 1798." ChInese Worship of Stone Animals. Francis H. Nichols In his journey through the Chinese province of Shonui saw a temple where stone ani mals were worshipped. He says: "In rews of heavily barred brick cages are stone images of animals. They are all life-size and are remarkably well executed. Among them are ele phants, tigers, and monkeys, whose sculptors must have secured their models a long distance from Shensi, where the originals are not found. The stone animals stand for the Buddh.ist idea of reincarnation. They are worshipped as sacred and are supposed, In a vague way to be en dowed with life. It is to prevent them from escaping and running away from their worshippers that the cages have wooden bars in front of them. Between the two temples was a pond where fish were fonged, or set at lib erty. In its workings the system of longing animals has very much the effect of a ,humane society on the western side of the world. On the theory that any of the brute creation may be the dwelling place of the soul of a former human being. lame and sick animals become the care of the priests; in some of the larger tem ples special provision is made for caring for the sck cats and dogs. To fong an animal of any kind is considered an act ct suprenre vi-tue. To obtain good luck a p>,us China man will sometimes purchase a live fish and have a priest fong it. This is dor:.e by placing it in the pond r-e served for the purpose near the tom pie." London, New York, Berlin. ''I agree," writes a correspondent, "that your contributor was justified in saying in yesterday's Chronicle that there Is nothing majestic about Berlin. On the other hand, it is cer tainly handsome and impcjsing. It is the only modern city I know of th at has managed to escape looking artifi cial. The labor of building Greater Berlin has been most dexterously hid den. There is very little of the deadly uniformity, the Euclidian lines the prosaic precision one notices in New York. Berlin is something conside~ra bly better than a mere chessboard of brick and stone and mortar. The streets have a curved and enticing spaciousness; they are shaded with avenues of trees, faultlessly asphalter and clean with a cleanliness surp-ss ing that of Paris. The architecture Is rather too fiorid for English tartes: but for all that decidedly effective. and a drive from Unter der Linden to Charlottenburg will take one past a finer succession of houses than either London or New York can show. And even the official architecture, in spite of the Kaiser's directing patron age, has its points. There are no statues in the Siegesallee quite so un forgiveable as those in Central Park and the streets of London."-London Chronicle. Man LUves in a Glass House. Tonopah,. Nev., enjoys the unique distinctIon of numbering among its in habitants a man who lives in a g12s house. In consequence of the scar city and high prices of building mate rial, William F. Peck, a miner, con structed of empty bottles a house la~ fe.at by 20 feet, with ceIling S feet high, containing two rooms. The 'n side walls are plastered with mortar. Polygamous Monarchs. No less than six foreign monarchs with whom the Unilted States and other great Christian powers mnainta' diplomatIc relations, accrediting inin isters plenipotentiary to their cou'-ts. practice polygamy. They are th Moslem Sultan of Turkey and Si' of Persia, the Buddhist King of * the Shintoist Mikado, the C Emperor of China and the ' of C~or - ..-. . THEODORE H. Price. one of the worst enemies the cotton planter ever had, issued a very bullish cir cular on cotton after the New York exchange closed on Tuesday, in which he predicts much higher prices. We hope he is right. THE republican papers of the country are urging that a man from the South be put on the ticket this year. The Florence Times sug gest that Booker Washington be se lected as the Southern representative of the Republicans. SENATOR Hale shows that there has been expended in construction of the United States navy during the past thirty-seven years $1,200, 000,000, which he says has been money well invested. We do not think there is any doubt of the sena tor being right in that opinion. Infant hands can take a firm hold DEADLY AVALANCHE Demolishes Hotel Building andiln jures Thirty People. Little Children Lose Their Lives in Vainly Trying to Save the Lives of Others. An awful and deadly avalanche de scended Sunday near the village of Goppenstein in Switzerland. The enormous atmospheric pressure de niolished a hotel at the mouth of the Loetschenthal tunnel works, killing thirteen persons and injuring fifteen othu, s. The occupants of the hotel, num bering thirt':, .ver- s:rprih'd while seated at Lae table by sinister rum blings. Almost immediately two children rushed into the dining room and screamed: "An avalanche, an avalanche." There was a rush to escape, but the building, which was of a tempor ary nature,. collapsed, without warn ing. Both of the children were kill ed along with many of those they had sought to save. Among the -others killed was an American engineer named Mervart, who was installing American machin ery to be used for a tunnel. The hotel had been erected by the tunnel contractors for the conven ience of the engineers and others en gaged in construction work. There were no tourists there. The village postoffice and police station were seriously damaged by the air wave and were keeled over to a angle of 45 degrees, making oc cupancy impossible. The tunnel works were not damaged. Burglar s Notebook. "Here is an interesting find," said Lecoq the detective. "It is a bar glar's notebook. Instructions for the burglarious young. Listen and I'll read you some extracts." He opened the little yellow book and read: "To keep from sneezing close eyes and open mouth and press upper lip till desire vanishes. "Use turpeitine to drill iron if it is hard. "Put bard soap Into cut when saw ing off padlocks. "Black the face When doing job and, carry soap and piece of mirror to wash off with; also carry towel "Put rubber washer on bottom of ;ise to make soundless. "Carry vial of tincture of arnica kor cuts and bruises. "Try all chisels before using. "Use electric lamp, never the old fasbioned oil lantern. "To break window, cut with dia mond and then spread thick white lead on flannel and press from. -Hold lamp always at arm's leng th when lit. Then, if It Is shot at iou will not be hit. More Than .\erely Discreet. There is a Chicago lawyer who. his colleagues aver, has a positive genius for malapropos suggestion to his witnesses on the stand, says Harper's Weekly. Recently this lawyer wa's c .nsei in a suit for divorce, wher' ~ s examining a woman who i.,... taken the stand in behalf of the plaintif. "Now, madam," began the attor ney, who is always saying the wrong thing, "repeat the slanderous state ments made by the defendant an this occasion." "Oh, they are unfit for any re spectable person to hear!" gasped the witness. "Then, madam," said the attor ney, coaxingly, "suppose you just whisper them to his honor the judge." Measure for Measure. "And the name Is to be" asked the suave minister as he approached the font with the precious armful of fat and flounces. "Augustus Philip Ferdinand Cod rinton. Chesterfield Livingston! Snooks." "Dear, dear!" Turning to the sex ton: "A little more water, Mr. Per kins, If you please."--Londonl Tit Bits. Only Parrot Talk. Abrose Austin, an English musician. had a parrot. On one occasion the late duke of Edinburgh, son of Queer Victoria, spoke to It. Thereupon the parrot angrily said, "You're a snob:' to the horror of its loyal owner anc the delight of his royal highness. Threw a Bomb. At Buenas Ayres a dynamite bomb was thrown Friday against a car riage in which President Alcorta was driving but failed to explode. Four persons are arrested charged with complicity in the plot.* Burned to Death. According to a long distance tele phone message from Marshall, a small town in the western part of North Carolina, Miss Blazer, a girl 11 years old, was burned to death early Fri day in a fire that destroyed a tene ment house (cLcapiedl by two large families.* The unhappy womea n' rnet aM uar red to mean aen: many of ilke on happy women are not uaruled at al. Atchison Globe. THE Mobile Register says "if there is anything in signs and omens, it is worth noting that Ala bama, first in the call of States in the next Republican convention, has put an uudertaker, named Al len, also first in alphabetical order. on the Republican executive com mitte." SOME of these white and black law breakers who are so fond of shooting down officers of the law ent to arrest them should be made o stretch hemp. One ->r two stretchings would make the other law breakers more careful with their guns, THE Augusta Herald says "it is an old saying among the farmers that a bad winter i'- the forerunner of a good crop year. So we should bear philosophically the present dis rgreeable we'athm' whic'h after all ; o much better than our ir~ in ther sctieme having. Where the f cake, hot-br or puddings 9Zoyal is r Not only for ri or for special ti Royal is equally preparation of p every-da foo sions. It make tasty, nutritious 1 BAD NEGRO SHOT. At Florence by the Chief of Police in Self Defence. A Colored Undertaker Resists Arrest and Fires at Policeman, and Is Himself Mortally Wounded. At Florence W. P. Rogers, a well known negro undertaker and hack man of Florence, -was shot and prob ably mortally wounded by Policeman Joe Turbeville at an early hour Sun day morning. Policeman Turbeville had arrested Rogers, together with Charlie Barno, John Prince, Bill Wil son and John Serious, all charged with creating a disturbance at the corner of Evans and Ravenel streets in a negro restaurant. Turbeville being alone and unable to get asisstance, some of them es caped. Rogers, who lived nearby where the disturbance occurred, got away from the officer and went into his dwelling house. Tubeville follow ed him to his door and Rogers re appeared with a shot-gun in his hands, and told Turbeville he "would be d-d if he would be arrested by any d-n white man," and threw up the gun at the officer and pulled the trigger. Luckily for Policeman Turbeville the gun failed to fire, Turbeville then quickly drew his 38-calibre and be can shooting at Rogers, firing five shots at close range. Three of the shots took effect in Roger's body, one in the shoulder, another in the arm and the third in the thigh. The one taking effect in the arm, broke the arm and caused Rogers to drop the gun. Turbevill, however, did not know this, and for fear that Rogers would make a second effort to fire his shot-gun, proceeded to empty his pistol at Rogers. Dr. B. G. Gregg was hastily sum moned, but as yet it is not known whether Rogers will survive the ;hock or not. Rogers is a very large and powerful man and has hecy up before the mayor on several occa sions for being drunk and disorderly and creatng a disturbance. If he survives this last battle it will go pretty hard with him. * A Spanish Marriage Custom. In some parts of Spain the marriage ceremony has one feature peculiar to Itself-that of the velacione. During the mass said after the marriage cere mony the couple, with their godfather and godmother, kneel at the foot of the altar. A silken cord Is thrown around the neck of the bride, and the bride groom holds the ends of it. Then a long strip of silk cloth is thrown over the heads of the newly married pair. and four lighted wax candles are hand ed, one to the bride, one to the groom, one to the godfather and one to the godmother, who stand to the couple In much the same relation that best man and maid of honor do with us un der the same circumstances. Then the priest sprinkles all four with holy wa ter, blesses them, and the ceremony is over. A Spanish woman does not con sider herself thorougbly married with out a velacione. The Wrong Prescription. A well known physIcian was telling a friend of the .humnorous phases of the practice of medicine when he was reminded of the sad case of a patient who was suffering from bay fever. "Now, It Is a fact," saId the physi cian, "that in hay fever there is no absolutely Infallible treatment. Sending one patient to a certain climate may result in a cure which would not ma terialize in the case of another. As a rule, I advise the one afmicted to take a sea trip. In this connection I once encountered a great surprise. A large. fine looking fellow camne to me one day suffering from hay fever in Its most aggravated form. I made the usual suggestion that he take a trip at sea. "He gave me a look of disgust and prepared to depart- 'Doggode Id!' he exclaimed. T1b dee capdld of ad ocead lider. I lib ad sea!' "-New York Trib une. THREE M~EN KLED. In a frightful Rear End Crash of Two Trains. Two Trains. Three men were killed in a fright fuI rear-end crash between 2 freight trains on the New York, New Haven i and Hartford railroad's Harlem branch just south of the Bartow sta-I tion Wednesday. A heavily loaded 'reight got beyond control on a down grade and ran into the rear of anoth er freight just ahead. The conductor of the first freight train -was in the eM oose. and was instantly killed.1 The engine"r and fireman on the en-1 gine of the second freight were pin-1 ,ned inh wre..age ad killed. 1 eads, crusts are required. Ldspenlsable. : rPewder h or fine food mes or service. valuable in the lain, subtantial s, for all occa-j 3 the food more md wholesome. BOLTED PARTY, Fur Asltua pbsblcs Is Fet Democratic honluw. STABS THER PARTY. Deadlock ka Kncky Iei~slature Broken, four So-Caed Democrats Going Over to the Iep ican and Nlecting- Their Canmiaat for the United States Iasoship.--Iooks Very Mu ke a Sharp Bargain The deadlock of the Kentucky Leg islature has been broken at last. Former Governor-1. 0. Bradley, the Republican candidate, was elected on Friday to the United States Senate after an exeiting joint sitting of the General Assembly,. receiving 64 votes, four of which wore Democratic. The Republieans voted solidly for Bradley, the caucus nominee. It bad 'been held from the beginning of the contest (over six weeks ago) thatta majority of a quorum was sufficient for an election and with 126 mem bers present it required 64 votes to let The votes of the four Democrats who have steadily refused to vote for former Governor Beckham wore transferred to Bradley from the var ious Democratic opponents ofl Beck ham. Bradley reeIved 64 votes to -69 for Beckham, one for Allen and one for Blaekbdirn. The Democrats left the hail- in an attempt to break the Tote, but later returned and the vote was ratified. Senators McNutt and Charlton and Representative Muller, of Louisville, anid Representative Lill'ard, of Boyl, were the Democrats who voted with the Republicans for Bradley. A scene of~ wildest excitement pre vailed before the result was announc ed; after the Democrats demanded a recapitulation. Beckman came on the floor and released the Democrats from their primarynominationpledge. Many Democrats sought to change their votes, the majority going to Congressman James. A strong effort was made to induce the four recalcitrant Democrats -to leave Bradley and vote for some Dem ocrat. The many changes of votes made the capitulation slow and a. also .developed an additional vote, but the vote for Bradley remained unchanged, still being a -majority of all members present and voting. The Speaker finally announced that Brad ley had received a majority of the vote and was elected. The announement that Bradley had been elected Senator was made after nearly all the Democrats had chang ed their votes. The four who voted for Bradley resisted the strongest ap peals from the leaders of all their party factions, declaring it was toe late. In a speech accepting his eisetioa Bradley promised to use every ef fort as Senator to' procure the re peal of the 6-cent tax on tobacco. Representative Lillard was the only one of the four Democrats to explain his vote for Bradley He said he thought the time- had come to "throw off party shackles and to break up the machine," and, al though he did support the Democrat ic ticket for 40 years, he believed his vote for Bradley "was the best Dem ocratic vote he ever cast." Lynched in Texas. The body of Charles Scott, a negro, aged 18 years. was found hangmg~ to a tree at Conroe, Texas, Friday. The negroe's feet had a plasard attached to them bearing the words: "Warn ng to negroes found prowling in white folkB' louses." Seott had been rrested and plased under bond on a charge of attempting an assault up m a Miss A lley. Burned to Peath. By tha overturnig ,ia n'ot of >oiling ar early Wednesday morn ng at ':e home of Thomas Hardin, ear C eensboro, N. C., two of his ~hild o n, aged four and six, one of rijs I rother's children, aged seven were burned to death. The pot over urned, molten fluid enveloping hree enildren,causing instant death. j ain is a nrominent dairymsn.