Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f DIVORCE FREAKS i Some Queer Cases Revealed by the Census Bureau. 1 s a CHICAGO IS CENTRE. J ___ . J Strange Freaks of Domestic Infelicity 8 e Brought to Right by the Divorce r Courts. The Windy City Holds | the Record of 132 to Every lOO,- t (MM) Inhabitants Inrrm-sinn in ltural Dlstrlrts. The divorce courts of Chicago and other cities of the United States reveal strange motives of the martial infelicity. It has remained for the United State? census bureau to collect the particulars of these frank divorces and compile them into a government report. For two years 120 agents of the census bureau have ] searched the court records of the < country for odd and unusual fcatur- ] es to aivorce suits. The results of these two years' labor are soon to be \ presented in official form With them will be presented the usual statistics revealing the growth of the divorce evil in the United States. Chicago, as the repnted "divorce center" of the nation, will continue to hold her unenviable record, with 132 divorces granted for every 100,000 of population for the last twenty years. As an indication of how many applications for divorce have been filed and not granted, the second ten-year period for Chicago will show 43,658 applications as against 31,785 decrees. COMPARISON WITH OTHER CITIES. To appreciate the proportion of Chicago divorces from other cities may be compared. Boston promises 63 divoT^s in the 1(K).000 of uonula tion; Philadelphia 63, and New York 50 divorces. In these figures, however, one may not read the story of the comparative marital unhappiness in these cities. The New York law, for one, is such as to show smaller L proportion of divorces to the amount of domestic infelicity. It is only I where virtue is conceded simply because a man and his wife live together the cat and dog life that others refuse to tolerate, that these comparative figures have a show at suggesting community morality. Although divorces are on the increase in the cities, they show a greater ratio of increase in the country districts, almost without exception. Why this situation without exists has been accounted for by the possibility that the life in country districts?in closer relation with the life of the cities.?has caused the * farmers' wives to rebel more strongly and effectively against the hardships and monotony of the farm. In spite of the increase of the number of divorces, Judge Robert Taylor, of the federl court of Ohio, recently called attention to the fact that never before in the history of the country had it been easier for a man to have a plurality of wives with less risk to his liberty. Under the judge's observations this might be a condition tending to lessen the application for divorce, only that in the divorce records now being canvassed it is shown that of t'.ie applicants for ; legalized separation the proportion is I - two women to one man. The husL band by all odds is more content ; with marital union. ! In the opinion of Judge Taylor the j best "routing" of a divorce tour at j B the present time should begin in 1 South Carolina, where divorces are not recognized at all. j The new husband should remain wnn nis oriae in inai suite long enough to acquire citizenship. Going to some get-a-divorce-easy state, I the husband would file suit for a divorce on the ground of desertion. These papers would be sent to the i sheriff of some other county in I South Carolina than that in which the bride resided. Naturally, they I would be served upon his wife, and returned unserved, the letter of the i Kstate law would be carried out, and the divorce granted without the wife's knowing anything about it. LEGALLY DEAD AFTER FIVF. YEARS. Chicago is another likely place if I the divorced man seeks another vengr I ture. When he tires of this second E venture, the judge advises his going j| to Arkansas, which has a system of H automatic divorce accomplished by I desertion, In this state the absence of wife or husband for five years jeewp., ikes the absentee member of the family legally dead. In Arkansas u the man married in Chicago and %, -aving his bride there may sue for ^divorce on the ground of desertion, > filing the summons to the defendant somp nhsu-Mlff* f-nrnpr nf tin nhcnnrn MjKuy weekly paper. Thereafter this man on the mar^^fee route may go from state to H Ef-state, acquiring matrimonial bonds B ^Bere and divesting himself of them ag latere, finally after five years return|$ J ing to Arkanses. There, if the first |f gpwife be living, and without the pro?mH???Css of divorce court he is privileged Bpfto marry two sexes. Is man so much HShore the part of this first helpmeet, p Why the wife should be doubly uisBEposed over her husband to seek dif4? a Question opo<? to settle^Hvit from the two points of view of l|||MB)e two sexes. Is man so much more intolerable brute that where all HBfl^Rperene to him the finer sensibilities wife suffer the agonies of the Or is the woman so "uncerHnflnjH coy and hard to please" that UU^Ng^koor creature of coarser fiber SBHHnHreater loyalty to his vows must HH^HKagged by the heels into the dism Bof the courts? HhHm^BB1ar>s some of the stories of doWSS&BSSSBt' infelicity upon which divorce HnHt's have been granted, and < enter into the returns of this 1 ^HSBH-coming divorce bulletin, may light upon the question Hun _Jy: fr.vai* DR. JEKYLIj AND MR. HYDE. toctor In the Day and Burglar at Night. Having for more than a year led a )r. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde existence, tealing by night and practicing as in occulist by day, Dr. Benjamin iolbrook, of West Brandywine townhip, has confessed many small burglaries and is now in Westchester ail. As the occulist is well connected md seems to be truly penitent, and is he has made a clean breast of his nisdoings, the Pennsylvania railroad letectives who succeeded in drawing hp music frnm fhp man houo itoniilaf) x> ask for a light sentence. The doc?r will appear before next quarter sessions, admit his many faults and lis strange double life and throw limself upon the mercy of the court. It is said that Holbrook, while ostensibly living a most respectable life is a struggling young practitioner, s known to have committed at least sight burglaries. It may be that he las been guilty of more offenses than this, but he says not, and has :onvinced the arresting officers that ne tells the truth. Holbrook kept his own horse and onggy in order to respond when callsd in eye cases. At night he drove long distances from home, tied his rig in the woods and then went forth as a burglar. The particular thefts that proved his undoing were at Wyebrook, on the Downington and New Holland railroad, and at Buckrun, a small station on the Pomeroy branch of the Pennsylvania. In each of these small places Dr. Holbrook broke into the railroad station in the dead of night, stealing all the mileage and other railroad tickets, the change out of the cash drawer and even such heavier articles as a typewriter and a copying press. Dr. Holbrook used one of the stolen mileage tickets for two months after it was missed by the railroad. It was not taken up, but finally when he tried to use a second mileage ticket from the stolen package it was "lifted" and sent in to the railroad offices at Broad street station and investigation ended in his arrest. Merely because a man has literal cold feet when crawling into bed scarcely seems provocation to inspire divorce proceedings on the part of a wife. But the literal icy foot, scarcely less than tno "fugitive ice mitt," has served to break up many families. It is different in the case of the mon ohn??o fUft* ? ? iiiuu nuu ouuno mat uii uiu iiiurillllg after their marriage his wife came into the room where he was still sleeping, blacking both his eyes with the ne<Ms of her shoes. FLIRTATION ON WEDDING TRIP. Another plan of a wife that for months at a time her husband would not speak to her, scarcely stacks up with the case of the poor husband, who, on the bridal trip from New York watched his bride fall in love with a German fellow passenger. "She sat on the mat seat with the German, entwined in his arms and kissing him," says the divorce petition. "The plaintiff remonstrated, but to no effect, the conduct of the wife causing the husband untold mental suffering." In another case a brutal husband came home one night, and, with a big knife in his hand, forced the wife to sit up in bed until dawn, threatening to cut her heart out if she moved from the position. But on the other hand, an angered wife threw a pot of scalding tea in hubby's face blinding him in one eye for life. One husband, who chronically failed to work on the six days recommended by the Ten Commandments, would put on his old clothes early Sunday mornings, and work like a beaver till the cows came home. But that other case of the wife who refused to cook for her husband, not 1 tf V ? O.. ? -J -i? - uinj iui niA ua.vo, uui on ounuay, too, seems to have been a greater provoction, NOT ALLOWED TO RUN TO FIRE. There is the story of the husband who refused to let the children go to church, at the same time the case is on record where the wife absolutely refused to let her husband get up at night and run to a lovely fire down the street. If he went she insisted on staying awake the rest of the night quarreling about the little outing and rendering him unfit for work the next day. This wife, too. never had sown a button on for him. and he brought a witness to prove that often the witness had seen the plaintiff" going around with only one button on his waistcoat. It looked bad for a husband to pinch his wife's nose until it becomes so chronically red that neither face bleach nor powder will serve to hide her mortification. But in one contrasting case a wife pulled her hubby out of bed by his whiskers, while in another case the poor husband nroduced as "exhibit B" in proof of his allegations a large tuft.of hair which the v/ife had abstructed from his cranial roof. There is the storv of the husband who one night threw a boot at his better half, missing her by half a hard. But surely of greater significance are those other cases in which the 190-pound wife struck the poor man with a stove lid, breaking a rib and later knocking him down with a chair; where "in the last year the plaintiff with pokers, flatirons, and other hard substances," even that case in which the wife struck her otherwise life partner with a wire bust form. Water nymphs and sirens must go. They might have made a hit in Greece in the old days of high art, when they froliced in babbling fountains, sounding flute-like a nagelot or the pipe of Fan, but as far as Jersey Shore and Pine Creek, Pa., are concerned, they are doomed. The authorities there have given orders that the custom some men and women had of bathing there without sven the scant bathing suits must be broken up. Many a deaf person has soundi jptnlons. . . J 'JjBT ' - ' i TTgly charges. Alleged That Hammet Secured ^ Affidavits rongly ABOUT DISPENSARY. * Statements by Attorneys, Messrs. ^ Stevenson and Matheson, Who Are tc Outspoken in Their l>oclaration to lil the Courts, Reflects Very Serious- ^ ly on the Kx-Chlef Constable of the at State Constabulary. "The affidavits were obtained by a method of legerdemain, which in sr most instances smacks of fraud, and st men like Mr. Tate of Eutawvile were oi tricked by their former chum, Mr. oi Hammet, into signing ignorantly what was not true," is the positive n( characterization of the arts of U. B. ? iiammet, deputy collector of internal U revenue for South Carolina and former chief dispensary constable for South Carolina, contained in the VI brief of Messrs. Stevenson & Mathe- Vi son, attorneys for the State dispen- d< sary commission in the matter of the ^ assessments of Internal revenue taxes gf against the State of South Carolina, p> On the strength of affidavits alleged to havo boon secured from various dispensers throughout the State by Mr. Hammet and other revenue " officers serving under him and now on n file in the office of MaJ. Micah Jen- m kins, collector of internal revenue for tl the district of South Carolina, demand was made upon the dispensary commission on May 7, for $32,527 for l license fees claimed to be due the United States government as a result w Of the fact, as alleged, that dispensers had sold beer in greater quanti- tl ties than 4 7-8 galons in single sales, ai making them liable to the wholesale a liquor dealers license: $4,a27 of this h amount covered a period of fifteen a months prior to the date when the i| demand was made upon the commission for settlement; the other $28,000 being charged up for the . period beyond that date. " The dispensary commission paid a the first named amount, $4,527, un- If der protest and on July 2 W. F. g Stevenson anneared before the eom. missioner of internal revenue, John G. Capers, at Washington, and argued for the refunding of the amount, / his grounds being: (1) That there . was no proof that sales were made M in wholesale quantities; (2) that, if the proof were convincing that die- J' pensers had made sales in greater tt quantities than 4 7-8 gallons, the b State would not be liable insomuch a as any such action would be clearly n in violation of the statute law of the n State and of instructions given to the dispensers from time to time by " those in authority. Jj Mr. Stephenson submitted nuraer- ? ous affidavits to the commissioner of 0 internal revenue from dispensers r throughout the State, and, according rt to those affidavits, Mr. Hammet had g, resorted to most questionable means ? to secure the affidavits which, it is said, are on file at the office of MaJ. ~ Jenkins. Several of the affidavits sub- ,, mitted by Mr. Stephenson contain . charges against Mr. Hammet of a it serious nature. It is alleged that v, Hammet secured the affidavits in- a n fraudulent manner, and, not only that, but that he made interlinea- s, tions after the affidavits were signed ^ ?Columbia State. HUGiO SNAKK AT LARGE. " h This Incredible Story Comes From O Valley, Nebraska. S< I1 A dispatch from Valley, Neb., says ^ a monster snake, forty feet long, and j. with a head like a bushel banket, is h causing terror to the farmers east of J this town, where it has been seen several times,, and where it picked up a Joseph Anderson, a farmer, and i threw him twenty feet, breaking two of Anderson's ribs in doing so. 11 The farmers have organized a grand snake hunt for next week, and every man for miles around will take part in it. T For twenty-five years rei>ort8 have been circulated about a big snake which made its headquarters near Agee's Lake, and which occasionally CJ swallowed a pig or a calf. Twice this ^ year the snake has been seen. Against Coca Cola. What men of practical judgment ei have been looking for is slowly com- ti ing to pass. For a long time the best l* people of this country have been talk- P> ing and working against coca-cola. Two years ago there was an attempt a to place the matter before the legis- ^ lature of this state, but we are then told by the state chemist that there was "nothing in it." Following the s< issuance by the United States war department of a formal order, the d< sale of coca-colr. has been forbidden in all the army posts of the Atlantic division. Why? Col. H. E. Robinson Kl adjutant general of the department of the gulf, made the following state- }ll ment to the Atlanta Journal: "Do you remember what these ni recommendations were?" was the b question put to the Colonel. "No not in detail; but the claim was that the soldiers formed a craving for the beverage. 1 don't know what effects Si were commented on in the report, only that the surgeon general said that coca-cola contained certain ingredients that formed a habit. The b report also said that the formula had e( been changed at various times." In commenting on the above the Greenville Mountaineer says "It does i,< not take the surgeon general of the h; army nor the state chemist to tell is that coca-cola contain ingredients ti that form a habit. Coco-cola contains tc ingredients that work upon the nerves of men and women. This statement will be.borne out by a hundred 's'f people in this city. They will tell you that they were forced to stop it, thaLL they got so they couldn't sleep flKlj night. Yet the state chemist of SouHn Carolina says "there is nothing lHH it." Other people have had the sa^^H experience of those mentioned^HD9 the Mountaineer. The weather has been dfr. anytVattr but to Ml A BOLD FIEND. ttacKS a Young 6lrl in Now York City till? Riding in an Elevator?Got Away But Was Caught and Locke*J trp. Accused of attacking a seventeen ear-old Australian girl in an eleva>r in New- York. Benjamin Wil UT18, a young West Indian negro, as arrested at 229 East Seventyfth street by Detectives McAvoy id Stewart and locked up at police ;adquarters. The victim is Sadie Schaffer, who /es with her sister Minnie in a nail apartment at 323 Blast Houston reet. She has been in this country ily nine months. She had started it to seek employment. Entering an elevator, she told the ?gro attendant to stop at the fourth lor. She was the only passenger, istead of stopping at tne fourth x>r, she says, the negro ran the elector to the eighth floor, which is Eurant. Without a word, the girl eclares, he seized her in his arms, id jamming his fist into her face to ;ifle her cries, threw her to the floor, ortunately before she fainted, the irl screamed several times. Hearing the girl's scret us, men om all the floors of the building ished to the elevator, but their sigals met with no response. Running le elevator from the top to the botim floor at full speed, the negro irew the door open and dashed past alf a dozen men who did not know hat had happened. The girl was found on the floor of le elevator unconscious. Her face nd neck were bruised as though an ttempt had been made to strangle er. She was taken to an upper floor nd restoratives were administered, t was more than an hour before she ecovered consciousness. Two policeman hurried over from L? tif A. m * i? * - iu vYwsi lwenuetn street station in nswer to the alarm, but were too ite to catch the negro. When the irl recovered somewhat, she was iken home and left in the care of er sister, her only relative, in the ountry. With tears streaming down er cheeks, she described her expermce, "Hedid not say a word to me, but ust threw out his arms and grabbed le," she said. "I tried to scream, ut he struck me hard over the mouth nd told me he would kill me if I did ot keep quiet. I thought he really leant to kill me, and begged for lercy. He did not pay any attention a what I said and threw me on the oor. Then I managed to scream nee or twice. I heard a lot of bells inging and that's the last thing 1 emember until I woke up with omebody standing over me and ouring something into my mouth." "Have they caught him?" was the rst question of the girl's sister. It's awful over here in your Amer!a. Every day you read of girls 'ho have been assaulted, and almost ever of the capture of the brutes 'ho attack them. In my country uch a thing might happen once in a undred years, perhaps, but they rould hang him, and over here the lost you do to such a man is to send im to prison for a few years. "If I had him I'd pour kerosene ver him until he was thoroughly laked and then set him on fire, or d do something that would keep im suffering for a year, and then ill him. Oh, if you could only know ow I feel about it. My little sister oesn'r realise how awful it is." The police caught the negro after n all-day search. He is a heavily uilt mulato who shows plainly that luch of his blood is white. TILLMAN LIKES TAFT. lie Senator Says Bryan Could Ileal Most Any Ilcpublcnn. "If we must have another republl?n president I am in favor of Wilam H. Taft," said Senator Benjamin .van Tillman of South Carolina says dispatch from Cincinnatti. "Taft is onest, capable, and is of large tiough mental calibre to administer te job. I like him personally and elleve he would make an excellent resident for a republican. "He has a much stronger indivldulity than has appeared so far, and lould he occupy the chair he would b sure enought president. My itenrary covers a wide territory, and to tery place I go I find a distinct, mtiment favorable to his candidacy. "But William J. Bryan may be the Binocratic nominee again, and the ict that he is quite as honest, capale and intellectual as Mr. Taft lould not be lost sight of by the Mintry. Bryan will give any repubcan standard bearer a fierce battle ad I think he would beat several of lem; particularly if the republicans aincd Fairbanks, I would look for ryan to go in with a sweep." PYTHON Ii<)<>SE IN Hill P. IISIMM-ted of llavlnff Swulloived Aw. Cliirkciis and Chinese I toy. A New York dispatch says the ritish steamship Montrose, ground1 off the Rattery on Monday, has a pthon loose in her hold, and the mgshoremen unloading her have sen warned to look out. The python, ^cording to rumor in South street. anywhere in length from twentyvo to forty-four feet. It recently >ok aboard a flock of chickens. A young otang-outang and a Chisst boy, originally on the manifest r the ship, are missing, and it is lid that the eight-eight foot python lay have surrounded them. Early jirning gossip in South street hinthad been disthe garboarddoubts fall ^Bthc fall .time. CANT USE MAIL A Fraud Order Issued Against a Philadelphia Negro. TO RAISE MILLIONS Bj a Scheme Which the I'ostolHce Ijawyers Claim is a Ba.se Fraud. The Negro Claimed to Have Been Itelcgatcd by Cod to Uplift the Negit) Race, but Failed to Convince Uncle Sam. Justus J. Evans, the Philadelphia negro grocery man. who is individually "Archbishop of the Glorious Light of the World Union." and collectively "The Holy union Royal Trust Company," was declared a fraud Thursday by Postmaster General Meyer, and denied future use of the mails. Evans is said to be operating a gigantic scheme to raise money, and, according to the postoffice inspectors who investigated the "bishop," it is not known how many thousands of dollars he has secured from the confiding negroes. The aim of the "bishop," who proclaims that he is the chosen man of God to save the negroes, is to enlist an army of 700,000 negroes, and from them collect in five yearly payments the sum of $05 each. The revenue derived, which will equal $45,500,000, he is to spend as he sees fit, according to his announcement. The protest to the postoffice department made by the "bishop" against the issuance of a fraud order is characteristic of the negro with a smattering of Biblical lore. It is a remarkable protest, and it is a certainty that the prophet, while he claims to have been given knowledge and power above all men of the earth, was overlooked when the English language was handed around. The fanaticism with which the "bishop" attempts to surround himself is blasted by the cold-blooded wav the law officers of the Dostoffiee department have handled his case: "A negro by the name of Justus J. Evans, without standing or reputation, who conducts a small grocery shop," the decision reads, "is engaged in sending through the mails printed literature soliciting members of the negro race to deposit their savings at the rate of 25 cents a week or $1 a month with a trust company styled the Holy United Royal Trust company. "It is provided that, as evidence of their savings deposited, they will be furnished with certain so-called bond in the amount of the deposit and it also pretended that interest at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum will be paid on such dep isits. "Evans represents that the funds will be devoted to the uplifting of the negro race," continues the decision. "There is no such institution or trust company. His pretence as to religious work seems to be but a guise for obtaining money in a fraudulent scheme. "Evans, when asked to what use he was putting the money he collected and what security he gave for its proper handling, answered that he was responsible to no one but God. This answer would be strongly indicative of the unbalanced mind if its assumption of fervor were not a cloak for a cunning scheme to defraud the negro race," concludes the department's order. In answering the charge, the "bishop" did not appear in person before the department. His rejoinder begins with the announcement, which he claims is indisputable, that every man is his own judge, no matter what he does, no one has a right to say it is not an honest action. He declares that God appeared to him out of a burning bush in the same way as he appeared to Moses, took him South and showed him the negro and said to him: "1 hav-? delivered these people from bondage at a cost of $6,000,000,000 and the lives of 2.000,000 men, and now you see they are cowed down by other nationalities of this country." Evans says he was commanded to raise them up. He says he complained of his weakness, hut that he was found to be fit and had been promised that he would be saved if he did his work, even if the whole world gets lost. The "bishop" told of gathering his army. Of the negroes he says that some wisely accepted his offer to get in the band wagon of salvation, while there were others of the negro leaders who refused to this, and who are now running to the white people and proclaiming that he is an imposter. "No honest man believes me a fraud," he declared. Evidently of the oninion that, i through such a declaration, he would have weight with the i>ostofiice authorities, he told of having written to President Roosevelt just previous to the last presidential campaign, telling how he would make the negroes vote for him and saying that he would expect a contribution to his cause when the election was over. He failed howpver, to say whether or not the president sent the contribution. He concludes with this: "You permit me to ask you gentlemen what am I?" The order prohibiting the use of the mails to the "bishop" was issued immediately after the reading of his answer had been accomplished. VKHY 8A1> CASK. A Demented Woman Hang Six Children and Herself. Grief-stricken by the receipt of a notification that her services would not be required after the end of the month. Mrs. Neiison, a hoousekeeper for a land-owner named Ullkjaer. of Jutland, Holland. Wednesda^^^^. three of licr employa^^BmfiEi9? m ~ A LONG RACE. Eight Men Started on a Spin ! Around the World. Tlie Race is Nearing Comliielioti, 4 but Only Two of the Racers Are Left. Hale and tanned, but marked by scars made by cruel fetters in a Rus- . sian prison, Henri Mosse has come from the Far East on the French 1 steamer Admiral Juareguiberry. en ( route to Paris, striving to win a i strange race. > The steamer reached San Francisco Saturday night, was held inquarantine until Friday morning on ac- ' count of the presence on board of a large number of Japanese steerage ; passengers, who are bound for Van- < couver, B. C. It was late this morn- j ing when the Admiral J uareguiberry j went to berth at China Basin wharf, i Mosse and an Englishman now in i India are the sole surviving competi- ] tors in a race around the world and both are nearing the end of the long journey. One or the other will win a price of 50,000 francs by arriving first in Paris. ( Mosse was chauffeur in the French capital, when the Sportsmen's club of London suggested to the Touring club of Paris that each organization should furnish four men and send . them out on a competitive tour of the world, without funds, except two francs each, the men to travel in pairs, an Englishman with a Frenchman. The four pairs were to go over different routes. After all preliminaries had been arranged the start was made on June 14, 1904, and the limit for the world tour was fixed for June 14, 1906. Two of the men started by the way of Africa, two by the way of America, two by way of England, and the remaining couple by way of Asia Minor. Mose and his English companion took the Asia Minor route and got along well together until Constantinople was reached, in July 1904, when the Englishman, George Moss. The Frenchman, Mosse. came on alone, and has had many hairbreadth escapes. At Odessa, on the Black Sea, he was suspected of being a Japanese spy, and for twenty-five days , was kept in chains in a foul prison. His ankles still bear the scars of the irons. Upon being released he pass l * i l ?. 1??:_ 1 cu uii aiuui nuu uy iu mum. iinu still later to China. In the district of Bing Sam, in the interior of China, Mosse was captured by highwaymen and robbed of $20, all the money he had. But he was well treated by the bandits, who offered him a Chinese wife if he should care to remain awhile with them. Mosse chose to keep moving, and he tramped along until he reached the coast, where he took ship for Japan. At Yokohama he joined the Admiral Juareguiberry and worked his way thence to this city. He must leave the vessel here, for it is a condition 1 of the contest that he shall travel over land whenever it is possible. Mosse has been kept posted by the French club as to his competitors. Letters he has received at different points along his strange course have informed him that the couple going by the African route were murdered by treacherous Abyssinians on the desert, who cut off the heads of the Frenchman and Englishman. The two men who went by way of Australia both took sick and died in the same hospital of a fever. The Frenchman who went by way of America was lost in China, his companion proceeding to India, where he was at last accounts plodding along. The victory in the long race rests between Mosse and the Englishman in India, the only survivors of the contest. The winner will receive a prize of 50.000 francs, and there is no second prize. That Mosse has visited all the strange places he has talked about is proven by the autographs and seals of officials in countless out-of-the way places all the way from Paris Yokohama. sulphur haths at home. They Ileal the Skin and Take Away Its Impurities. Sulphur baths heal Skin Diseases, and Rive the body a wholesome glow. Now yon don't have to go off to a high-priced resort to get them. Put a few sjtoonfuls of Haneoek's Liquid Sulphur in the hot water, and you get a perfect Sulphur hath right in your own home. Apply Hancock's Liquid Sulphur to the affected parts, and Eczema and other stubborn skin troubles are quickly cured. Dr. R. H. Thom:is, of Valdosta, Ga., was cured of a painful skin trouble, and he praises it in the highest terms. Your druggist sells it. Hancock's Liquid Snlphur Ointment is the best cure for Sores, Pirnr.1oo lil../?b Ua.wI.. ?ll ? ? H A i 111 *~r?, uia< nu^aua ami an n litt 111 ?il iuu | Gives a soft, velvety skin. Welsh Neck ] HARTMV1L The 1 llli session will I Literary. Music, Art, Expression an< graduates of our leading colleges and phasized In every department. Healtl with electric lights, hot. and cold bal naces. Best Christian influences. Mil logue. Hobf. w. Durrett, LIMESTONE COLLEGE FOR Points of Excellence:?High Standi struction. University methods. Fin? cellent laboratories. Beautiful site. I system. Full literary, scientific, musi A. B. and B. M. Winnie Davis School tember 18th, 1907. Send for catalogm D.. President to any of our 'or ft* ask in Mumunk or hard< bnsiness. an? flBiMcatalogiie whig1 .y*11 ^ Tl Mm on anything Une' gpmj J KILLED A GIRL. Sensational Shooting in New York AfA-_ tia - _ urcy weanesaay. "Ims. Warner Killing MIs.h Norling In a Store and Wounding John Wilson. A sensational shooting in which a foung woman lost her life, a man vas critically injured and the lives ){ several other persons were endangered, occurred in New York Wednesday Charles Warner, a former merchant, whom the police believed to be insane, shot down and almost instantly killed Miss Esther Norling, a young woman without seeming :ause, in a store on West 42 street and then with a smoking revolver in his hand fled through the crowded thoroughfare and under the cover of a fusilade which he discharged at his pursuers, made his escape through the building of the Spaulding Sporting Goods firm to West 43rd street, where he eluded the pursuing police for nearly three hours, only to suddenly appear in the store of John C. Wilson, a friend on upper Broadway, where he shot Wilson twice after making a request for a small loan. Wilson was turning to get the money when the bullet struck him down. Warner pushed aside the employes and ran into the street, where his flight was ended by a blow on the head from a truckman. Warner was taken into custody by the police. Wilson was taken to the hospital, where it was said Wednesday afternoon that his condition was critical. Business troubles arc believed to have disordered Warner's mind. _;Miss Norling had frequently com, u.. t * L? _n?i; ? ijiaiiivu wat luc ttiiennuns 01 warner, who was a former employerwere annoying and that she feared his mind was affected by his financial reverses. Warner is about <>0 years old. Warner made a desperate effort to free himself from the truckman, who grappled with him. Warner fired one shot which rebounded from ihe pavement and the truckmann, to save his own life, brought his hook down on Warner's head with such force that he laid the scalp open and dropped Warner to the sidewalk unconscious. 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