The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 04, 1908, Image 6
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.