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Battle st Sea. t
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Battle Which Put Loser In Hottpltal ?
and Winner in Irons?Many Hows r
Aboard Ship. *
The fistic battle that took place on
board the Kaiserin Augusta Victor- a
ia, of the Hamburg-American ^ine, '
on her last eastward voyage and
which resulted in the c^viete dis- :
at. ? * one 01 the participants
the day before the liner reached Plymouth,
Friday morning, August j
16. was graphically described in a j
letter which was received in Brooklyn
from Dr. C. F. Bandel, the oste- ;
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upuLnic pnysician ana presiaent of (
the New York State Osteopathic so- .
ciety, Dr. and Mrs. Bandel left on :
the Kaiserin on August 8 for their !
annual tour abroad.
According to the story told by ,
Dr. Bandel, which corroborates the
meager cabled details of the affair j
received here on August 16, a fight ,
started in the smoking room of the (
Kaiserin Augusta a day or two after
the vessel left Sandy Hook behind
her. Notwithstanding all the precautions
of the Hamburg-American
line officials at this end to prevent
card sharps from bearding the liner
at Hoboken, a clique of men got
aboard, who, it is said, were prepar- (
ed to fleece such of the male passengers
as'they could get into a crooked
game. The clique had a woman accomplice,
whose special business it
was, it seems, to draw men of wealth
away from the deck and into the
smoking room or into a private state
room for the purpose of a game.
Several minor arguments and fistic
encounters occurred every day on
the second, third, fourth and fifth
days out of New York.
'On the afternoon of Thursday,
August 15, as I was sitting in my
deck chair," writes Dr. Bandel, "1
was startled by seeing two men rush
out of the smoking ? om in a state
, of great excitement. My chair ad{'oined
the smoking room entrance.
had been able to hear a pretty
strong argument that had been going
on for some time, but 1 was not !
prepared for what happened. ,
"As the two men rushed out on j
deck one of them, a Mr. Clarke, of
Manhattan, handed a Mr. Cassidy, j
also of Manhattan, a solar plexus
blow that took all of the fight out of
iho man wiiK fKo ?
?..w . o.v*? wnv taviiui uamu. i III* j
blow actually iarred the Kaiserin. |
Of course, we all jumped to our feet.
The two men were separated, but j
they vowed that they would 'get
even* at Plymouth where we were
due that same evening.
"Two hours later at 6 o'clock, the
two fellows went at it again. They
fought all oyer the deck. It seemed
that Clarke charged Cassidy with
cheating him at cards. There were .
many rounds of drinks following the
encounter in the afternoon, and
when the two met at 6 o'clock both
were well primed for trouble.
"The finale of the battle occurred
in the smoking room. Cassidy was
carried out of the smoking room
badly used up, and from the way
one of his legs appeared to be, it
looked as if had been fractured.
"1 saw Cassidy pounded practically
to a jelly and saw him carried out
of the smoking room. He was in a
bad way when he was landed at Plymouth.
Clarke, I understood, was
placed in irons by orders of the capta-'n.
But naturally the ship's offic
3i*8 wanted to keep thintrs as quiet
as they could, and therefore there i
was little friutful questioning to be
done. The greatest excitement was
on board. The continuous performance
of fights in which the gambling
clique figured during the voy- i
age kept the passengers agog with j
the details of the battles. The officers
of the Kaiserin deserve the
hicrhMf nroieo 4r\v flw. 1
r. uiuv. ivm uic sjroiciiianc aim
quiet manner in which they went
about trying to keep trouble from
l breaking out in the smoking room,
k After the Kaiserin landed her Plyk
mouth passengers the gambling cliwk
que subsided somewhat, and at Cher
bourg the last of them left the ship.
The captain was very much vexed
that the card sharps should have
crept by him at Hoboken, for I un|g4
I derstand the steamship company
makes special efforts to keep those
follows off their ships."
PltKlMlTS AMKRICA'S IHJOM
||?B?ut Was a Little Off un (he Pate
' of Knd.
country will he entirely deii*?:^':?pyed
on account of its wickedness
Mgsfe^^the last day of this month," said
Hj WlllhitO, a Baptist prearhoi
Arkansas, who arrived from
al New York recently.
^isSBMMjMllhtte was accompanied t>y his
^^Hwno 18 ai>out thirty-five year:
|P?IBisMpd two children, the elder nine
SH^n^^wnd the younger nix months.
preacher said thnt he and his
were compelled to flee from
because he prophesied that
would be destroyed.
flSffidQn^^Hiily 22." said Willhite, "1
in which 1 was told that
we should all he iinnlour
wickedness.
up my belongings, and
and children wo has"w
York and sailed for
August 3.
jH in London eight days
jjMMKraSffiwM^Lhct to work preaching in
wai) arrested twice aud
B ^edered deported."
HHflBQunHk KXI? LOOKS.
fl^S^^B^H^^H^Eed~Outrigh^ One (
jfi
HUOtgj^Eu^H^HRBc dead and afourth
Besult of a saw-mill t
l8H88Eti|j|B^SB^Et a lumber camp in <
H^^H^^Hn^nHn^^ker on the
of |
BHDB^^IBTho body
^H[hHmH8KH9H?mA -mill was hurled
fc AWAY MILLIONS.
owa Philanthropist Hits Upon Novel
Scheme to Spend Fortune.
Abraham Slimmer, millionaire and
he most noted philanthropist in Ioira,
is distributing his millions among
he poor and needy of the state in
trhicn he amassed his wealth. His
esidence is a mansion in Webster
'ity. He declares that after he has
elieved suffering in all parts of Iova,
he may continue his tour into
>ther states.
"I propose to spend the $5,000,KX)
which I have before I die," he
laid, "qnd I am going to spend it
nyself and on people I know need
t." No account is kept of his charties.
He personally investigates
very case that comes to his notice.
That he is distributing tens of thousands
of dollars about the state is certain.
Thp r?lH rnon tolfoc cnuninl I
v. V? ?!? VMUVVJ JJ7VV IUI UVlI^Ilb
n the novel method he has hit upon
,>f getting rid of his money. "I have
fiven little," says Mr. Slimmer, when
asked the significance of his rambles
about the state. "What does it matter
to a man who has 40 loaves, he
actually eat but half a loaf. He gives
way two or three. Tell me what credit
is he to have for giving? A dollar
given by a man who has but that one
dollar is 'more than a Rockefeller
million.
"I give because I love to give. I
have enough left to eat, enough to
wear, and enough to pay my traveling
expenses. What more do I want?
It is a relief to be relieved from a
weight of gold that imposes a consequent
care. 1 see others benefitted
while 1 am not deprived of what I
need."
lirynn S?mii<ls Warning.
In commenting on President Roosevelt's
speech at Province town last
week Bryan says Roosevelt has at
last disclosed his scheme for centralization,
at which he has hinted in
former speeches. In the speech referred
to by Bryan, Roosevelt proposes
the national incorporation of
railroads and other corporations engaged
in interstate commerce.
"Here is the secret," says Bryan.
"The States are annoying the corporations
and the corporations demand
federal protection from Stale
legislation. The president thinks
that action 'is most pressing as regards
these corporations which, because
they are common carriers, exercise
a quasi-public function.' The
States have been enacting 2-cent fare
laws and laws reducing freight rates
and the railroad managers demand
that they shall be relieved from further
fear of such legislation. The
president's Hamiltonian ideas make
kim an ~ -J b ? -
>> > an caoj vivliin ami lie vieius CO
the entreaties of the railroads. If it
is the public he sought to protect he
would recommend federal remedies
which would not interfere with State
remedies, but it is the railroad, not
the public, that demands the removal
of authority to Washington."
M r. Hrvan goes on to say that the
Democrats can be depended upon to
oppose with all their might this movement
toward centralization. If any
Democrat wavers his constituents
should look into his business relations
and see whether he is under obligations
to the railroads. A Hamiltonian
Republican like the president
may honestly think that the farther
the government is removed from the
people the better it will be, but a
Jeffersonian Democrat does not cherish
any such delusion. Even the
Hamiltonian Republican ought to
hesitate to trust congress with any
more power while the United States
senators are elected by legislatures.
"It is fortunate that the people
have had an object lesson so recently.
The federal law stopped rebates
and passes, but the railroads make
more money than they did before.
The States, on the other hand, gave
the people a reduction in rates and
those who are receiving the benefit
of these reductions will be slow to
surrender the advantage thus far
gained.
"It is doubtful whether the Republican
congressmen from the West
will dare to support the president's
proposition, but if an attempt is
made to put such a measure through
congress the Democrats will stand a
good chance of retiring every Western
Republican who votes for it."
Tillman on Itooscvclt.
Senator Tillman was interviewed
recently at Clarksburg, Ohio. He
talked freely on the matter of Republican
Presidential thnber. Senator
Tillman said: "I do not believe
that the fact that President Roosevelt
is, on the face of it, backing
the effort to nominate Secretary
Taft for the Presidency will serve in
any degree to strengthen the chance
of the Secretary's nomination. In my
opinion, Taft. will hurt his prosjiects
if he attempts to stand as a stool
pigeon and personal representative
of the President. If he stands as the
representative of Taft rather than of
Roosevelt he will be much stronger
before the people.
"Really, however, I think that the
President, is after ilio r.,,--.-.;??
vw. v??v iiv/iiiiiiai iwu
himself and this present maneuvering
is for the purpose of getting the
situation so tied up that a deadlock
will result at the Republican national
convention and that the President
hopes and expects that it will stampede
to him, nominate him by acclamation
and hand the nomination to
him on a silver platter with the assurance
that he is the only man who
can lead the Republican party and
the country out of the wilderness,
"The President did not tell me
cms, ior i, never called on him you
know, but this is what 1 think."
"Whom do I think the Republicans
will nominate for the Presidency?"
"Well, Gov. Hughes will surely get
the New York delegation to the convention.
He seems to have made
himself popular in his State, and his I
:hances of securing the nomination
ieem to be better than those of any
ather man now mentioned. With such
i State as New York back of him, he
will be a power in the convention from
the start.
Senator Tillman declined to ex-;
jress himself on the Democratic j
Presidential nomination further than i
:o say that he knew of no Democrat
n South Carolina seeking it.
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FOtU KILLED IN OUTO.
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A Trolley Car Hits the Machine at
a Crossing.
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An automobile run by Dr. George
Waldron, of Rochester, N- Y., was
struck by a Rochester and Eastern
trolley car at a crossing near Canandaigua
Wednesday arternoon and 4
persons, Dr. Waldron, Mrs. Willlaira
Scandling and Mrs. Jane Hobbs, of
Hopewell, and Mrs. Katherine Farnsworth,
of Rochester, were instantly
killed.
Dr. Waldron went to Hopewell that
momrning with his daughter to visit
at the home of William Scandling,
ana naa lUKen me tnree women, ail
of whom were more than 65 year*; of
age, for an automobile ride.
Witnesses of the accident say that
as the machine approached the trolley
tracks it was seen by the motorman.
According: to them the motorman
made a signal and Dr. Waldron
slowed up, hut started on again. The
bodies were frightfully crushed.
l*rlM>ncrn and Crime.
The Bureau of the Census has recently
published the results of an investigation
by Dr. Roland P. Falkner
of prisoners and juvenile delin?nents
in institutions. Some of thfe
acts and conclusions of the report
are of great interest and significance.
In a recent editorial The Columbia
State compiled from this report
the figures we present below.
Not including juvenile delinquents
in special institutions for that class,
and exclusive of persons imprisoned
for the nonpayment of fines. 81,772
sane persons at least five years of
age were serving sentences in civil
prisons in the estimated population
on June 30, 1904,1,004 were prisoners.
On June 1, 1890, the total
number of prisoners was only 60.803
but the number in each million of
the population was 1,067.
The investigator warns us, however,
not to accept these figures as
showing a diminished tendency
toward crime. There have been
changes in the treatment of young
offenders that remove, for the time,
a large number of them from the
records; and the report admits that
the figures do not indicate whether
or not crime has actually decreased.
There is an increase in crime
among the negroes, while there is
a marked decrease in criminality
among foreign-born whites. The
increase among the negroes is particularly
noticeable in the North Central
States, where it was nearly
fifty per cent. Following is the remarkable
conclusions drawn from
the figpires:
The foreign-born whites, unlike
the colored, appear to be of decreasing
importance among prisoners. In
1890 the immigrant class formed
28.3 per cent, of all white prisoners
of known nativity, but by 1904 this
percentage had decreased to 23.7.
The native whites, on the other
hand, show and increased proportion,
forming 76.3 per cent, of the
total number of white prisoners in
1904 and only 71.8 per cent, in 1890.
This change, moreover, is not confined
to any one section of the country
but is common to all. Even the
North Atlantic States, which have
absorbed most of the late immigration,
show a larger percentage of
native prisoners and a smaller percentage
of foreign than they did in
1890.
The number of prisoners in each
million of population varies very
widely in the diflfersnt States. In
1904 Nevada reported 5,386; California
5,234; Massachusetts, 4,823: New
Jersey, 4,199 ; and Connecticut, 4,143.
At.the other extreme are Oklahoma
with 333, District of Columbia
with 419, Arkansas with 552,
Alabama with 557, Georgia with 577,
and South Carolina with 586.
In the country as a whole 34.753
persons were sentenced for drunkenness,
28,339 for vagrancy, and 17,264
for disorderly conduct. In other
words, more than one-half of
the total number of prisoners committed
during the year were sentenced
for some of these three closely
allied offenses. No less than 25,098
prisoners, 16.8 per cent, for lar
ceny; 10,877, or 7.3 per cent., for
a*3aults: and 7,161 or 4.8 per cerlt.,
for burglary. Of the remaining offenses,
homicide showed the largest
number?2.444 or 1.6 per cent of the
total.
In discussing the relative proportion
of criminal among the white
and colored population, the report
has the following to say:
Among the 149,691 prisoners
committed during 1904, 125,093
were white and 24,598, colored of
whom 186 were Mongolians and 714
Indians. In other words 16.4 frer
cent, of the total nnmber of prisoners
committed during the year were
colored. Of the general poDulation
in 1900, the colored formed only 12.1
per cent. Since it can not be presumed
that the proportion of colored
in the population increased materially
between 1900 and 1904, it is
evident that the colored contribu1
ted to the prison class in excess of
their representation in the general
population. This condition is not
confined to any one section of the
country, for the figures show that it
obtained in every State andTerritory
except North Dakota and Arizona,
where the colored population
A:^i.. i-J:
in tuni[Ai!*:u Clllfliy ill uiumns.
The colored, moreover, formed a
larger percentage of the prisoners
convicted of the more serious crimes
than they did of those who had
been sentenced for the lesser offenses.
They formed 31.5 per cent,
of the major offenders and only 13
per cent, of the minor.
A particularly noteworthy portion
of the report^deals with the relation
of age to crime. Of the total number
of prisoners of known age, it states
60,2 per cent were between the ages
of 20 and 40 years. The negro prisoners,
however were very much
younger than the white, for of the
71.1 per cent, were under 30 years
of age as con"rasted with 39.9 per
cent, of the whites. Whether thtse
figures point to an earlier development
of criminalty in the negro race <
or rather indicate that among negroes
coming into maturity at the
time of this investigation the criminal
tendencies were greater than in
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SALARIES GRADED.
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An Increase Is Given To Each
Rural Mail Carrier.
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And' AU of Them Are Paid According
to the Length: of the Routes
Tliejr Horve.
There seems to be a general misunderstanding
among the postal emnloVPH
AH to tho otfwl of lha now ool.
ary schedule for rural carriers, which
was adopted July 1. In this State
there are several routes of less than
the stardard length?2 4 miles or upwards?and
the carriers thereon have
iu some instances gotten the impresssion
fhat they would be entitled to
the full raise?from $720 per annum
to $900?made by the new schedule.
In order to settle all questions on
the point, Congressman Lever early
this month wrote to the superintendent
of rural delivery. In Washington.
requesting a construction of the
law. The reply goes into the matter
at some length. It Is as follows:
Hon. A. F. Lever. Peak, S. C.
Dear Sir: The receipt Is acknowledged
of your letter of the 5th Instant,
addressed to tbe superintendent
of rural delivery, inquiring as
to the attitude of the department in
the matter of the salaries of those
rural letter carriers, who, up to July
the 1 st, 1907, were paid the maximum
salary, which under the law
could be HI lowed to rural carriers,
$7 20 per annum, although serving
routes of less than the standard
length on account of having been in
the service June the 3 0th, 1904, when
the mnximum salary was increased
the length of the standard route
raised from 20 to 4 0 miles.
In reply. I have to say that the
schedule of salaries adopted by the
department, effective the 1st of July,
contemplates the payment of the
maximum salary authorized by congress
to carriers serving routes of
2 4 or more miles, and a proportionate
increase to all carriers Bervlng routes
of less than that length. The arrangement
of the new schodule is the re
nun ui cnreiui uennerauon Dy experts,
and is undoubtedly the most
equitable adjustment ]>ossible, based
upon the intent of congress as shown
*by the records, namely, the allowance
of an adequate compensation foi
servce performed, as recommended b>
the department.
Under the recent adjustment of the
37,731 routes in operation, on June
30, 10 07, the carriers on 23,502
routes are receiving $900 per annum;
on 7,816 routes, $864 per annum; on
4,075 routes, $810j?er annum, and
on 1.2S4 routes, $720 per annum
leaving the carriers on but 1,000
routes below the grade of $720 per
annum.
The idea of the department has
been to make the readjustment conform
to the Intention of congress that
carriers shall be enabled to properly
maintain their equipments, and in
that view it Is manifestly essential
that carriers on routes of 24 or more
miles should be given greater compensation
than those serving routesof
less mileage, some of which it is
practicable to cover with one horse,
| while on all routes of 24 or more
miles two or more horses are necessary.
iteadjustment on a basis th&t
would give all carriers, who up tc
July 1, 1907, received $720, a salary
of $900 per annum, or a bonus for
having been in the service prior tc
July the 1st, 1904, would necessitate
a complete change in the basis of
adjustment, and according to the re
cords, would be contrary to the evi
dent intent of congress, and It would
then be necessary under the appropriation
available to pay many carriers
now serving routes of 24 or
more miles less than $900 per annum,
and those on shorter routes,
who have entered the service since
July 1, 1904, materially less than
the amount embodied in the newschedule.
For your information, there Is enclosed
herewith a copy of the schedules
governing the salaries of rural
letter carriers.
Very respectfully,
A. C. Conrad,
Acting Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General.
Schedule of Salaries.
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Following is the list of salaries effective
July 1 of this year:
Per Annum.
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- i iiincn mill iiYur J'.MMI
22 to 24 miles 864
20 to 22 miles 810
1 8 to 20 miles 720
16 to 18 miles 630
- 14 to 16 miles 540
12 to 14 miles 504
10 to 12 miles 4 68
8 to 1 0 miles 4 32
6 to 8 miles 306
A dispatch from Atlanta says "A
R. Lanier, of 379 Glenwood avenue
former employe of the Georgia rail
road, who has been ill from typhoid
fever for 11 weeks, was ejected from
his home by a bailiff on complaint of
W. P. Kelley & Co. Lanier, who is
just convalescent, was too ill to be
moved but all of his furniture and
belongings were thrown into the
streets while he was left alone in his
bed. The Associated Charities took
hold of the case, stored the furniture
and had Lanier sent to the hosKital."
Kelley & Co., must be a
ard harted concern.
the older generation of negroes,
must probably be left an open question.
.
The report also points a lesson upon
the question of illiteracy. Of the
total number of prisoneis, 18,880 or ,
12.6 per cent, were unable to read
and write. The maj >r offenders i
were more than the minor and the
colored were more illiterate than
the white. Among the colored 32.3 1
per cent, were illiterate, while
among the whites the corresponding
percentage was only 8.7.
DOZEN PLOTTERS CONVICTED.
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Three Russians Sentenced to be Hang
ed For Conspiracy. ^
The Courtmartial, which has been
trying the eighteen persons accused
of plotting against Emperor Nicholas
and the Russian Government last
May. has found three of them, Nikitenko.
Smisky, alias "Purkine," and 1
Naumoff, guilty of organizing a plot
nuu (rmcuceu iu??m iu ufuui uv Hanging.
Four others were found guilty of
organizing a plot to overthrow the
existing form of government. Three
of these were sentenced to eight years
Imprisonment and one to four years
penal servitude.
Five of the prisoners were con- i
vlcted of having "Supported a conspiracy,"
and were condemned to
banishment and the loss of civil
rights, while six persons. Including
M. FoedosslefT. a lawyer and his wife
were acquitted.
Want Southern Men.
. Civil Service Commissioner Mcllhenny
is anxious for Southern men
to enter the service of the government
in all branches. He has just
returned to Washington^from the
South, where he had been for the
purpose of interesting the people of
the South in the service. There are
throughout the South, he says, many
men of high literary attainments, of
learning and ability, the type of the
college professor, to whom the fierce
struggles of commercial life are reKugnant.
Men of this class would
e most valuable to the government
in many capacities and government
employment would be congenial to
them. The benefit would be mutual.
There are young men also of this
same type who could come to Washington
and serve the government
while studying in professional
schools.
He says among the greater part of
the Southerners the impression prevails
that the civil service is not for
them, that they can have no part in
the clerical administrative work of
the nation. It is not in the least difficult
to understand why this impression
persists. This belief was once
a fact and not so long ago. It is a
conviction based upon years of exrwirion/vi
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Kw.vuwi uuiniK y\iiiv,11 iv was evident
to everybody that a Southerner
was the last man who could hope to
get a federal position. Politics not
only entered this question, but permeated
it. There were Southerners,
of a sort, who held office under the
government, but these were not of
the class which I have been trying to
interest in the service. And it was
largely because persons of a character
of which little need be said?although
much could be said?succeeded
in obtaining and holding office
that desirable citizens came to the
conclusion all avenues were closed
against merit and respectability."
Mr. Mcllhenny says the Southerners
of the better class which he wished
to influence held aloof from such
things as civil service examinations,
feeling that civil service reform was
a farce. It was his endeavor to impress
upon the people that the condition
which they had come to regard
as unchangeable had changed forever;
than no longer were they without
the pale of the government; but
that they were part of it; that the
attitude of President Roosevelt had
put the civil service upon a plane
where performance equaled promise
and that this state of affairs had become
so firmly fixed during his administrations
that the country would
never allow another president to go ,
back to the abuses 01 the spoils sys
VC III*
Under the civil service rules each
of the Southern States is entitled to
its quota of government servants
and the people of the South must be
convinced that those positions belong
to them. Such posts must, of course,
be filled, and when Southerners do
not come forward to take them others
must be chosen." We wish to call
the attention of our young men especially
to what Mr. Mellhenney says
above. There would be no trouble
for scores of young men in this county
to prepare themselves, stand civil
service examinations and got good
positions in the government service
at Washington. The South is entitled
to many more positions than she has,
and we urge our young men to seek
these positions. The work is easy
and the pay is good.
No News in the l'ajier. .
The Nevada Mail says frepuently
you pick up one of the local papers,
and after glancing at the headlines
wearily, thrust it aside, remarking,
"Nothing in the paper today." Did
you ever stop to think what the
phrase?"nothing in the paper today?means?
It means that in the
day or week just passed that no misfortune
has' befallen any one in our
city, that no fire has wiped out a
neighbor's worldly goods; that the
grim angel of death has crossed no
threshold of a friend; that no man
driven by liquor, hatred or fear
has taken the life of a fellow-human;
that no |K>or devil, haunted by the
{>ast or the misdeeds of some other,
las crossed the great divide by his
own hand. So the next time you
Dick UD a lianpr that dno 1' ??
nounce a tragedy, givea little thanks
instead of grunting because there is
no news.
SI Iil'II I'll HAT US AT MOM K.
They Ileal the Skin and Take Aw?)
1(8 Impurities.
Sulphur baths heal Skin Diseases
and give the body a wholesome glow
Now you don't have to go off to a
high-priced resort to get them. Put
a few spoonfuls of Hancock's Liquid
Sulphur in the hot water, and you
get a perfect Sulphur bath right in i
your own home.
Apply Hancock's Liquid Sulphur <
to the affected parts, and Kczema and
other stubborn skin troubles are ?
quickly cured. Dr. R. H. Thomas,
of Valdosta, Ga., was cured of a pain
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Eusapia Puzzled the Scientist in
Italian City. ?
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She hn.s Never Been Luucatnl, but d
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Conveiws in Several Ijauguuges t|
While in a Trance. "
t;
Palladina, the well-known Neopo- Sl
litan medium, who was rather a failC1
ure when she appeared before the s
Physical Research societv in T-nnHnn
a few years ago, has just subjected ?
herself to a series of experiments v
held under the auspices of the Uni- f
versity of Naples, and participated 0
in by Profs. Bottazzl and Galeotti
and other yell-known scientists. Eu- v
sapia is an ignorant woman, and is N
known to have received no education j
whatever. Nevertheless, while in a j
trance she is able to converse in sev- |
eral modern languages, and writes p
in each of them in a script that is ,
like copper plate. j
At the University of Naples the t
Erofessors deliberately set traps for i
er, placing objects with which she t
could bring about effects within t
reach of her hand and fixing electric \
lights close by so as to throw instant ,
illumination upon them if she at- j
tempted to make use of them. A dish >
containing clay to receive possible i
moldings or marks was placed at a ,
considerable distance from the med- i
medium, and her hands were care- t
fully controlled by two persons. <
when she suddenly stretched out the i
three middle fingers of one hand, ]
and, rubbing the under part of her
fingers on the table in front of her, (
said: "How hard it is! What is it?" i
As there was nothing on the table <
she was asked to what she referred,
and she replied: i
"It is hard clay. 1 wish it taken i
away. I do not need it." <
Wht n the professors came to ex- :
amine the distant dish of clay it was i
found to have the marks of three I
fingers upon it, of which the move- <
ments corresponded exactly to those
which had been made ny the medium,
on the table, and it appeared as
t hough she were able in some way to
Iransmif tho uor?coii<mnl .>f
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hands to a distance.
In one of the experiments the
wrists of Eusapia were tied to two
iron rings fixed in the floor; the
cords that held her were knotted and
sealed, and yet under '.hese conditions
a bottle of water was carried
about, and a seat and large human
hands were seen to apper. Prof. Galeotti
declares that, while he was holding
Eusapia by the hands, he distinctly,
saw a double figure in her place,
with identical arms, which, however,
were held in different positions.
Prof. Bottazzi, the leader of the
experiments, once touched the fingers
of Eusapia, and an electric light,
the tap of which had been fixed inside
her cabinet, hut out of her
reach, was lighted four or five times,
and as many times extinguished.
Prof. Bottazzi also had a large and
apparently natural human hand laid
upon his neck, his head, and his arm.
Each time he was able to touch it,
and, when on his arm, to see it by
suddenly touching on the electric
lights, when it was not dragged away
but fadded out of sight and touch as
he held it.
In these and other similar experiments
the scienfific men present are
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the land should be put in oats, fol
lowed by corn, or iron cowpeas lor at
least two years. Yours truly.
"A. F. Woods,
"Acting Chief of li'iroau."
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and can only suggest thai Kusapia
Palladino's manifestations are
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upon the organism of the ni >dium,
who at will can double or increase
the range of her psychic personality,
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