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THE FORT MILL TIMES.
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16TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1908 NO. 40
WILL RIDE CHEAPER.
The Southern Railway Will Reduce
Its Passenger Rates.
lfakcs This Concession of Its Own
Volition and in Appreciation of
South Carolina's Kindness.
South Carolina will tret the bene,
fit, so far as the Southern Railway is
concerned, of the reduction in rates
made by Legislative enactment in
other States of the South, but without
the turmoil of Legislative agitation
and without the expense of prolonged
litigation.
The Columbia corresponded of the
N ews and Courier says President W,
W. Finley. of the Southern Railway,
at a conference in the Governor's office
Friday stated that on April 1,
1908, the Southern Railway would
put into effect in South Carolina the
following rates.
For straight tickets, 2 1-2 cents
per mile.
For family mileage books, 2 1-4
cents per mile.
For 1,000-mile and 2,000-mile mileage
books, 2 cents per mile.
The conference was attended by
Governor Ansel, Attorney General
Lyon, Chairman Caughman. of the
railroad commission, and Commissioners
Sullivan and Earle on the part
of the State, and by President Finley,
Vice President Culp, General Counsel
Thorn and Division Counsel Abney
on the part of the Southern Railway.
The conference was held in the
office of the Governor and was open,
being attended by the newspaper
men.
Mr. Finley, in a conversational
way, put the proposition of the
Southern before the Governor, explaining
as he went along the reasons
for the different rates and the
reasons governing the railroad in
making this proposition. He explained
that the Southern on account
of the fairness with which
South Carolina had treated the railroads
had a disposition to give the
State the benefit of the reduced
rates, and consequently the Southern
intends, without compulsion, to
put into effect the rates which it
has proposed as a compromise in
North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
He felt assured that the
agreement entered into would be
made effective in these States, and
perhaps in Virginia also. The same
treatment promised South Carolina
would be given Tennessee, which
has also been liberal in the matter of
legislation.
The 2 1-2 cents rate will apply to
?U PI.i. i?
an niici-oittu; iKuweuger uusiness
on straight fares. The 2 1-4 cents
rate for family mileage books, which
contain the name of the head of the
family will cover books for 500 miles,
entailing a minimum expenditure of
$11.25
The 2-cent rate for mileage books
of 1,000 and 2,000 miles relates to
individual mileage books and also to
what are termed mercantile books,
good for members of a firm or business
concern up to five individuals,
the names of each of whom shall
appear in the book.
i ski> iwkis <;iu:.->\
Highly Kwpertcd Farmer of Aiken
Commits Suicide
Mr. Samuel Bonnett, one of the
most highly respected farmers of
Montmorenci, committed suicide
Thursday by taking paris green.
Mr. Bonnett's mind is thought to
have been weak, symptoms of such
a state having been in evidence for
some time. Thursday morning he
got up and, it is said, acted rather
strangely. Soon after he took a
large quantity of paris green, evidently
with a suicidal intent,
A physician was summoned by telegraph,
but before his arrival the
drug had taken such effect that little
could be done to save him.
though antidotes were administered
in large quantities. He died Thurs
day afternoon.
Mr: Bonnett was a good man and j
no cause other than that stated can
can be assigned for the act. He was
a good farmer, a quiet unassuming
man and a leader in church work.
He is survived by a widow and sevchildren.
White Miin limited.
A dispatch from Lake Charles, La.,
says L. H.Coleman, white, was hanged
there Friday for the murder of
I^eputy Sheriff William Shoemaker,
at Dequincy, La., on October 24.
1906. Coleman killed Shoemaker
when the deputy attempted to arrest
him on a minor charge.
Four Persons Murdered*
A A 1 1 *
?. repori nas reacnea me coroner
at Pittsburg, Pa., that four members
of a family living at Grays Mills
near there, have been found murdered.
No details accompanied the
report The coroner has started an
investigation.
Aged Couple Killed.
William B. Dick, aged 82. and hi*
sister, Einily Hortage, aged 76 were
killed Thursday by an express train
on the Reading railroad near Camden,
N. J., while crossing the tracks
m a carriage,
DIRE CALAMITY
Predicted by a So-called Prophet
In Pennslyvanla.
S?yi lli? World Will Com* to u'
End la tli? Latter Part of December
Next*
A York, Pa., prophet, at least one
who claims to be a prophet and
whose prophecies have attracted the
attention of people who care for
that sort of thing, has issued his
1908 bulletin. It is his habit and
his livlihood, of course, but this one
is more startling than some of those
previously issued. The following is
his last bulletin:
TU~ 1 al 1 J ? - 1
i at* fiui ui niu worm, ine ena oi
this world will come to an end in
winter, in the end of the month of
December on a Sunday, in the year
1908. Heaven and earth will pass
away. Nineteen hundred and eight
will be a year of trouble, such as
was never known before, Nation
shall rise against nation. Kingdomshall
rise against kingdom. There,
shall be famines and pestilences and
earthquakes.
Rivers will dry up.
The fish of the sea will die.
The sea will boil up with a great
noise.
The cities of the nation will fall.
Mountains will not be found.
Islands will pass away.
The city of Boston will sink.
New York will go up in smoke.
People will flee to the mountains.
The land v/ill dry up to get ready
for fire.
The crops will fail and prosperity
will be cut off.
The banks will keep on failing.
This can not be stopped.
Roosevelt will get rid of all his
money.
The treasury will go dry.
People will carry their money in
their pockets and hide it in their
homes.
Families will steal it from one another.
This is the gold that is piled
up for the last days. This gold will
rust in your pockets. It will give
you more trouble than good.
Labor organizations will come under
one head and rule the land.
There will be great wrath among
tne people, rtatrea, Killing one an- j
other, hanging themselves and child- j
ren will rise against their parents:
two against three, and three against
two; mother-in-law against daughter
in-law. All plagues that are writ-1
ten in the Bible will be brought
forth.
The land be full of lice, frogs,
and crickets and locusts. Whosoever
be stung of the locust will die.
There will be signs in tha sun, in
the moon and in tne stars. In the
end of time the sun will be black, |
and the land will be in distress. The
moon will be as blood, the stars will
fall and the heavens will be
shaken. This coming summer and
fall the elect, the saints, will be
gathered together. 4"For unto Jesus
shall the gathering be."
The bride is getting ready to meet
Jesas, the bridegroom, and we will
be changed in thefltwinkling of an eye
and meet the Lord in the air.
IjABOII TltOt'IJIjRS.
Strikebreakers Stoned and Beaten in
Munrie.
Rioting occurred on the streets of
Muncie, Ind., between striking employes
of the Indiana Union Traction
company and strikebrakers. Shots
were fired and stones and other miss
les were thrown.
Nine persons were injured, those
hurt the most seriously being: Morris
Maley, who received a bullet wound
in the groin, and Harry Gardner,
who was badly beaten. Others wen
hit with stones.
Cars were started Friday withou'
interruption, each protected by from
seven to nine strikebreakers. A crowd
soon gathered at tne interruption
station and in 30 minutes 2,000 persons
surrounded the building. Cars
I were stoned as they started out.
At other Darts of the city cars
were stopped and the strikebreakers
were driven off. Two cars collided
on account of the inexperience of
the motormen and several people had
narrow escapes.
gt'EKR ACOPKNT.
Blow from h Stove Lifter Caused
an Explosion.
Mrs. Josephine Cominsky, 18 years
old, of No. II Pearsall street, Long
Island City, became angry Thurs
(lay night with Caster Gussus, who
boards with her, and and struck him
on the side with an iron stove lifter.
Immediately there was a loud report
and Guasus fell to the floor sci e. m
ing with pain.
Mrs. Cominsky called an ambulance
from St. Johns hospital. The
surgeon found that'Mrs. Cominsky's
blow had exploded a cartridge that
Gussus had carried in his pocket,
and the bullet, striking against a
twenty-five cent piece, had driven
the coin partly in his side.
The hospital doctors cut out the
coin and Gussus will recover. The
coin undoubedtly saved the man's
life. Mrs. Cominsky was not arrested,
as Gussus corroborated her story
of the accident.
At
BRYAN POPULAR j
As a Lecturer and Makes Fifty
Thousand a Year.
CROWDS HEAR HIM.
He Won't S|tf?k on Sundays or foi
the Benefit of {dividual*, and I*
Moat Liberal in 1IL< Treatment ot
Locul Management*. lie Always
Make* Hi* Own Terms With L?
cure nurcmis.
W. E. Curtis writes in The Chicago
Record-Herald: According to the
report of his agents, William Jennings
Bryan is making about $50,000
a year from his lectures. Charles L.
Wagner, secretary of the Slayton
Lyceum Bureau, which manages his
lecture tours, tells me that he has
filled 175 dates during the year 1907
and that his receipts for the season
have averaged more than $300 for
each appearance. Mr. Bryan stands
at the head of the list of platform
speakers today for the size of his
audience, for the receipts at the box
office and for the demands for his
appearance.
"Mr. Bryan's regular charge at
Chautauquas," said Mr. Wagner,
"is the first $250 taken at the gate
and half of all the receipts over $500,
not including season tickets. He is
the only man who can make such a
liberal contract. For evening lectures
in a course he charges $200
cash as a guarantee and half of all
the receipts at the door. For single
evening lectures not in a regular
course he asks half the gross receipts.
"His average for the season under
these terms has been more than $H00
a lecture, and he has probably filled
175 dates under our management
without including his political speeches.
He started out on the Gth of Jan
uary last and spoke almost every day
until September 10, frequently twice
a day, and once during the summer
three times, morning, afternoon and
evening, in three different towns in
Isvn.n I- ~ ,1:?: ? _ *1 I- - ?
iuna. in auumuii iu mese nc ims
made a large number of political
speeches during the year; he has
spoken at conventions, banquets,
college commencements, Y. M. C. A.
and church meetings, and on other
occasions without a fee, of which 1
have kept no record.
"Mr. Bryan uses a special form of
contract prepared by himself, which
differs in terms from the contracts
of all other lecturers. The chief features
of his contracts are the stipulation
that the general admission to
his lectures shall not exceed fifty
cents; that he will not lecture under
individual management or where the
profits go to individuals. The contract
reads: 'It is further expressively
understood and agreed that this
engagement is given under the ausDices
of some church, lecture course,
literary, educational, fraternal or
charitable institution, and all profits
realized from this lecture shall be
used for the benefit of said auspices
under which said lecture is given. It
is further understood that should
this lecture be given under the auspices
of a lecture course there shall
oe not less tnan two other lectures
advertised to appear on said course
of entertainment.'
'Mr. Bryan never spoke for money
on Sunday except at Chautauquas
where an admission fee is charged.
He prefers to speak to free audiences
on that day and nearly every Sunday
during the last summer he spoke
at least once, and usually twice, for
some church, some Y. M. C. A., or
some college. He always likes to
visit small colleges and helD them. I
do not know what he charges for political
speeches or what arrangements
he makes. I have never had
anything to do with them.
"We advertise three lectures for
him 'The Prince of Peace' he likes
the best himself, and it is the most
popular with the people. It is a eulogy
of Jesus Christ and His teachings,
and his description of the crucifiction
is one of the most eloquent
word-paintings ever heard bynuman
ears. He has delivered that lecture
' at least 60<) times and never varies a
word in delivery. His memory is so
accurate that he never makes a mis
take. 'The Value of an Ideal' is an
older lecture, and although it is not
delivered so often these days it has
probabiy been heard quite as many
times as the other. 'The Old World
and its Ways' is his new lecture and
is the result of his recent tour around
the world. He delivered that at
many Chautauquas last summer and
probably 150 times altogether during
the past yei r,
"The greatest indoor audience
Mr. Bryan ever had was at Seattle
last January, where he delivered
' The Prince of Peace' to about 8,0(H)
people, and his receipts were
over $2,000. The greatest audience
he ever a dressed at a Chautauqua
was a Carthage. Mo., where 12,000
people gathered to hear him.
"H ?c osed h s tour for 1007 on the
10th of September with the exception
of a few political engagements
in the Sou h. 1 wanted him to give
mj one lecture in Chicago, but he
declined because it would be a violation
of his ru'e not to speak for the
profit of individuals."
"Did Mr. Bryan deliver any lectures
abroad?"
^ "When he started on his tour
around the world he asked me to
have our London representative arrange
a few dates for him in England.
The latter replied he feared
it would be impossible. He explained
iliat Mr. Bryan vcas not popular i
in England and he did not think the
public would pay to hear him speak.
The British people did not take anv
interest in American politico MiU 1
not have much respect for American
politicians, while Mr. Bryan personally
was practically known in England
because of his sympathy for the
Boers during the South African war
The writer closes his letter by saying
that he did not think Mr. Bryan
would draw three shillings in Lon- ]
don. I sent this letter to Mr. Bryan .
and he read it at Franklin, Ohio, im- ,
i? * ... II
meuiaieiy aiier me lecture tnat
brought him the largest receipts of 1
that summer. It appealed to his
sense of honor and he replied that it
came just in time to keep him from
getting 'chesty. He said that he intended
to frame it as a reminder. A
month later, while he was in our office
in Chicago, I handed him a letter
from our agent in London statinor
that he had an offer of five
pounds for one lecture from Bryan
in that city and asked me to cable the ,
reply. Mr. Bryan read the letter and
then remarked. 'That isn't a bad increase;
he has raised the quotations 1
for my lectures from three shillings
to five pounds in three weeks. Just!
watch the market and when the bids
reach a reasonable figure take a few
dates.'
"Mr. Bryan did not lecture in London
for money," said Mr. Wagner.
He spoke for the American Society
on the Fourth of July and at the international
peace congress, where ho
made a great sensation.
"Mr. Bryan has a standing offer
from Winnipeg for two nights for
$1,000 a night." The managers of the
lecture course there explained that
they could not accommodate all who
want to hear him at a single lecture.1
and insist that he shall give them two
nights, but he has not accepted. We :
have on file more than twelve hundred
applications for the present
winter and for next summer, but
have been compelled to refuse Ihem j
because Mr. Bryan has decided not
to appear upon the lecture platform
again until after the Presidential
campaisrn. He could i?et an eno-Ho-o
ment for every night in the year on (
his regular terms of $200 a night and .
half the gate money. He is in great- !
er demand than ever, and I think his
popularity has increased instead of ]
diminished, judging from the anxiety
of the lecture managers through- *
out the United States to secure him.
We nave been acting as his agent for 1
four years and have booked him for j
an average of 150 lectures a year
during that time. He has never al- 1
lowed us to book him in Nebraska. (
He has never lectured for money in (
that State and has declined to do so 1
repeatedly. In his settlements with 1
committees he has been more gener- 1
ous and considerate than any lectur- .
er I have ever handled. If his audience
is kept away by rain or by any
accident he never insists upon his '
full price. He alw&ys gives the managers
the benefit of all doubts. He
has never had a dispute of any sort, !
although I have known on several '
occasions when he has been very badly
treated. Nor will he allow us to 1
engage in a dispute over receipts and
settlemeuts on his account."
VKTKKAX OI'KllATOIt1>KA1>
1
Joseph \V. Kates, Who Served the ]
Confederacy Well.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va.,
says Joseph W. Kates, for many
years the most prominent telegraph
operator in Virginia and perhaps in
the entire South, passeaaway Thursday
night at Manchester. He was at
one time superintendent of the Southem
district of the Western ITni'en
company at Richmond and later general
superintendent of the Postal
Telegraph-Cable company, with
headquarters in this city.
Mr. Kates was in charge of the office
at Manassas, Va., during the
battles of Blackburn's Ford and Manassas
and for several weeks did the
work of the office by himself. It was
he that transmitted the famous message
from President Jefferson Davis
to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Winchester,
ordering that officer to make
a junction with Gen. Beauregard at
Manassas.
In the fall of 1861 he was again
transferred to Richmond and in the
spring of 1862 to Columbus, Ky..
where he was operator at the headquarters
of Gens. Polk and Beauregard.
TWO MKX KILLED
A Fatal Explosion Occurs in n Steel j
Plant.
i wo men were tuned and thirteen
injured as a result of an explosion in
converter No. 3, of the Egar-Thompson
plant of the Unittd States Steel
corporation at North Brad dock, Pa.,
Thursday. Six of the injured were
Americans and the others Slavs.
No official statement as to the I
cause of the explosion has been made
but the old converter men say, the
cause can hardly be other than by
some molten metal shifting through
the soapstone lining of the converter
and coming in contact with the
steel sheathing which perhaps was
damp.
When the explosion occurred the
bottom of the converter dropped
Out, throwing fifteen tons of molten
metal into a pit where fifteen men
were working at ladels. The force
of the e cplosion blew a sheet iron
rocf off the converter a mile and
caused t vo walls to collapse.
THE LIEN LaW
And the Negro ds Seen by a
N'.diern Man
Who IIuh Been a Kftidrnt of the
County of Orangeburg for Near*
ly Oue Year.
The following letter written by
Mr. Beers, of Bristol, Conn., to the
Connecticut Valley Advertiser, will 1
:>e read with interest. Mr. Beers is i
at the head of a huge lumber comp- i
my located near Rowesville, and has 1
3een living in South Carolina a little
ess than one year. He seems to be j
i close observer. Here is his letter: i
This is the time of the year when J
;he collector is abroad in this land <
ind when the negroes are in hiding ]
n the woods to avoid meeting him. (
rhey have the lien law in force and I
system of chattel mortgages that j
neans that the negro and the poor ]
vhite too can and does mortgage not
>nly what he has on hand in the shape 1
)f property, but he mortgages the <
"uture crop which is not yet plant- j
id. <
Already negroes are coming into ]
;he stores and buying fertilizers to i
nake the next year's crop. When the 1
:rops turn out well it is a good year j
"or the business men, as they make i
i practice of selling under the liens <
it an exorbitant profit, but when the !
fear is bad and that year is followed
ly another bad year, then the mer-!
ihant is liable to find himself in a lole
and with a lot of nearly worth-!
ess live stock on hand.
Under the lien law the man gives !
i note and mortgage on the crop that j
le is going to grow, and it is his busness
to take the first bale of cotton ! |
>r the first sack of rice or the first of ' ]
lis corn crop and turn it over to his
ireditoi. This he must do before he '
riarkets any of the crop to an outsider.
As cotton is about the only l
;rop that is grown in this State for j
.he market it is the first bale or v
:wles of cotton that he should turn :'
iver, and the negro has more than (
ine way to get out of doing this. |
As every negro who grows cotton i.
s well known to the ginners and to ,
.he merchants as well, he does this ,
vay to get around his obligation,
instead of taking his cotton to the
ginnery he takes it in small quantifies
to a well-to-do negro who maniges
to keep out of debt and this ne- J
?ro has it ginned as thouvrh it was 1
lis own and gives them a part of the 1
aroceeds. Each ginnery keeps a rec- 1
ird of all men for whom they gin 1
:otton and thus there is no reeord ; J
igainst the negro who has disposed j
if his cotton without first settling , 3
with his creditor. t
One fairly well-to-do negro who j 1
ives a little distance out of Rowes-;!
/ille and who had about eight acres 11
if cotton this year which should have <
furnished him with about four bales,
lave already ginned 13 bales. The i
legro whc thus disposes of his cot- i
ton leaves it at the home of the man
who is to have it ginned before day- i
light and he is not seen by the man i
who lives there and if he is question- i
sd he can say that he did not see any- i
body leave it there.
For the last two weeks there have
been riding about the country around '
Rowesville at least 12 collectors for 1
as many different concerns. They
bave been taking in live stock thati i
was sold last spring and in many cas- ;
as have nailed up the doors of corn
bouses to hold the contents against
the owners. One collector for a coneern
in Bamberg, 18 miles away,
which sells horses and mules has already
driven off at least 20 head that
were sold last spring to negroes.
In some cases the negro will give a
mortgage on an ox, a horse or a mule ,
that he does not own. Of course this I
is perjury and when the collector
comes around and finds out what has
been done then is the time for the
negro to take to the woods and re-1
main there for the next two or three !
months until the collector has got
tired of looking for him.
Last spring a negro living near
town mortgaged an ox to a concern
in part payment of a mule and the ;
collector started to drive away the ox
a few days ago. The negro told him !
that he nad better drive the ox
through the streets of Rowesville
and then he took to the woods. When
the ox was in front of the store of J.
F. Boone the latter went out and
asked the man where he was going
with his ox.
Mr. Boone rented the ox, a cabin
and 40 acres of land to the negro
four years ago for an annual rental
of one bale of cotton. Plenty of
men in town knew of the circum-;
stances and they satisfied the collector
at once that he had no claim on
the ox and it was turned into the
vard har?k r?f \fr Ronno'u otnfo
One negro, who is in hiding at the
present time because he can not meet
a claim of $83 for which he made a
fradulent mortgage, sent in by a
friend a night or two since 30 cents
to be tendered the collector in part
payment.
Two negroes, who are well known
to the writter bought a wagon last
spring and made a small payment
and gave lien on the wagon for the
balance of the payment. One of
the men paid up his portion during1
the year, but the other paid n>thing.
When it was time for tne collector
to put in an appearance the man
who had paid up took a front and a
rear wheel and the thills and the
wagon seat to his home and s ^creted
it and left the other part to be lev- j
'ied on. J
BHOOTS HIS WIFE am
Anil Mother-in-law and Then S boots
Himself.
Just at the expiration of the
twelve months' pledge he had given
the court not to molest his wife,
Major H. G. Coates Phillips, one of
the heroes of Spion Kop, rushed into
the home of his wife in the village
of Crookham, England, Thursday,
and. wounding two visitors and
leaving his beautifu1 wife in the belief
that he had murdered her, ended
his life with two revolver balls
fired at close range. His death
took place in the presence of his
twelve-year-old daughter.
It was the wife's good fortune to
faint at the first shot fire at her,
which just grazed her head. Her
fainting saved her life. The wounded
visitors are Mrs. Phillips' mother,
Mrs. Lucena. who was visiting her
daughter a London solicitor, who
had hurried to the village to give
nis wife legal advice. Mrs. Lneprm
probably will die of her wound.
Mrs. Phillips divorced her husband
in 190G od the ground of misjonduct
while in South Africa, and
in the course of the hearing of the
;ase last December, Major
Major Phillips entered her home and
attempted suicide with gas. Afterward
on the last day of 1907, he
?ave his pledge to the court not to
molest his wife for a year, his brother
being his surety.
DllEAKS 1-ONtl FAST.
load lSats, Hie* First .Meal iu Thousand
Years.
A dispatch from New York says
Pythagoras, the toad.tooa his first
meal in one thousand years at the
Bronx Zoo. Four flies and an earthworm
constituted the meal of the
little black creature that had been
puried for so many centuries in
imestone rock, 590 feet down in the
silver mine at Butte, Mont. <
The ancient toad is slowly recovering
his eyesight and the use of
Pis limbs, and is gradually turning
?reen again, as he was in the midile
ages. He has already emitted
several feeble sounds, but the croak
had not come back.
As the collector was about 20 miles
from home a wagon in the condition
that he found that was of no use to
Pirn and the parts were left. Later .
they will be assembled and then the
pegroes will have a wagon for i
another year.
For weeks past sewing machine (
agents have been scouring the coun- ]
try around Rowesville and there
have been as many as 20 machines
shipped to Branchville and Orangeburg,
the nearest large towns on (
either side. The negro accepts this
taking away of what might be considered
his property with absolute
stoicism. (
The writer on a ride a day or two
since saw the collector with the
mule that had been used all the summer
hitched to the buggy to be taken
away and then he went into a field
wnere cne oniy cow 01 tne ramily
vas staked out and drove that away.
The negro woman and half a dozen
children were on the porch of the
little cabin to see them driven away
and there was no apparent feeling
of regret.
There need be none, as they had
paid only a small part of the purchase
price and they had had the
use of the animals all through the
summer. In this case the man of
the family had been at work for the
J. H. Blake Lumber company all
summer and earned $6 a week and
there was no reason why he should
not have paid for the animals, except
the lack of thrift and calculation
that marks the entire race.
Last winier there was a call for a
repeal of the lien and chattel mortgage
laws of South Corolina and
the matter is sure to come up again
in the next session of the legislature.
Last winter it was the question of
the doing away with the old State
dispensary that occupied the time of
the legislature, which must by law,
adjourn at a given time.
All the low country of South Carolina
where the negrovo are thickest
has become disgusted with the working
of the law and are solid for the
repeal, while the up country, where
merchants have to deal with that
noor white class demands that if hn
left on the statute books.
Of the seven merchants doing business
in Rowesviile all but two have
ceased to sell goods under a chattel
mortgage or the lien law and the
time is not far distant when the negro
will have to pay cash for what
he buys. It will be better for both
races when this state of affairs is
brought about. There is labor for
everv colored man in the State who
will work, but he will not work as
he can get credit. He lives in and
for the present alone.
A merchant saw a negro beating
a horse and told him that if he did
not stop the devil would get him.
His answer was, "You can not scare
a nigger that way by telling him of
something away off in the future,"
Promise him something will happen
at once if you want to scare him.
Another nigger was caught in the
act of stealing a pig and was told
that he would have to settle for it in
the judgment day. His answer
was: "That was a long term of credit,
and he guessed he would go back
and get another." The negro is
. here to stay and he is needed.
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SLAIN BY BURGLAR.
Another Burglar Slain While
Breaking in a Store.
George H. Fisher, Newark's Tenement
Inspwior, Is bhot Learning
from Wludow.
A burglar shot and killed George
H. Fisher, Newark's tenement house
inspector, Thursday morning at the
Fisher home, No. 110 Congress street,
Newark, N.J, At the time of his
death Mr. Fisher was leaning out of
a window shouting for the police.
At the same hour in Williamsburg,
David JafTe, a bird dealer at No. 14G
Messerole street, shot and killed a
burglar who had forced an entrance
t? his home.
Mr. Fisher, with his wife and their
young son and daughter had watched
the old year out and the new year
in. Soon after 3 o'clock in the morning
Mrs. Fisher was awakened by the
sound of breaking glass. She aroused
her husband, and they looked out
of the window. They saw two men
in the rear of Feindt's store, adjoining
their home, trying to open a window.
Mr. Fisher went to the window,
raised it and shouted "Police: ' Instantly
one of the men below the
window fired the bullet going through
Mr. Fisher's head. He fell across
the window sill his head and shoulders
outside.
Mrs. Fisher screamed, and the shot
awakened the two children who ran
into the room. The mother, son and
daughter drew the body back into
the room and laid it on the floor. Dr.
Frank Devlin, who was called, said
that death had been instantaneous.
The only clue that the police have
was given by a woman who lives
about a block away from the Fisher
house. She said she was with her sick
child when she heard the shot and
screams. She looked out of the window
and saw the men running along
Congress street toward Jefferson.
They turned the corner and disap- ?
peared.
The man shot by Mr, JafTe in Williamsburg
has not yet been identified,
but the police are holding a man
whom they believe to have been implicated
in the attempted burglarly.
Mr. JafTe and his brother, Morris,
weic asleep in the store and were
awaKenea Dy someone trying to open
the door. Several times attempts
have been made to rob the store, and
Mr. JafFe was certain this was anothca.
He drew a revolver from under
his pillow and lired just as the door
swung open.
The bullet struck the intruder in
the forehead and he fell dead. Another
man who was with him ran towards
Graham avenue. Patrolman
Dahler of the Stagg street station,
turning into Meserole street from
Graham avenue, saw a man running
and arrested him. The man said he
was running for a car, but the policeman
took him to the station.
There he said he was Thomas Bayne.
of No. 141 Leonard street, but
refused any other information. He
was held without bail on a charge of
burglarv. ponding an investigation.
Dr. Constantine, of St. Catherine's
Hospital, who saw the body of the
dead man, said he had been killed
instantly.
Mr. Jaft'e was charged with homicide
and was released on parole.
FARMKU\S KKillT WITH HTV.VN*.
Flock of llirds Attacks Japanese and
His Horse.
A Japanese farmer, one of the
many who have leased much land
around Russellville, Ore., on the
Base line road, had a most thrillincr
adventure with a flock of white
swans last week. He was out plowing
in his field, so E. N. Emery
says, when suddenly several hundred
swans made their appearance.
At first he paid no attention, but
they soon began circling close down
on him. Then they made a sudden
sweep and nearly knocked him
down.
The swans renewed their attack
on the Japanese with more vigor
than ever. They dashed at him
and struck him in passing from all
directions. He sought to drive
them off by swinging his hat but this
had no effect. He then ran to the
nearest fence, followed by part of
the flock, and seizing a rail, defended
himself; but still the swans attacked
him until he had knocked
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uuwii acvt'i ?i.
The horse which the Japanese
had left hitched to the plow was also
attacked by more than a score of
the angry birds. The animal did
the best he could to defend himself
with his heels and teeth while his
owner was wielding the rail at his
assailants. Suddenly the whole
flock by an impulse took flight,
leaving the Japanese master of the
battlefield
"It was the most remarkable and
comical flght I ever witnessed," remarked
M?. Emery. "The Japanese
certain'y had his hands full. Part
of the time he was half-covered by
the swans. He fought with the
same determination that his comrades
fought the Russians. The
ground around where the fight took
[place was strewn with feathers."
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