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F V If. WAS NOTED YEGG Reward tor th*; Capture of "Tennessee Dutch" Has Not Beeu Claimed. HIS CAREER RECALLED * ? ? Famous Safe-Cracker Was Kill nl in Florida aud his Uody Would Have to bo Delivered to United States Marshal Adams in Charleston in Oninr tit i;?'t iiu> t2()l) Reward. Some slight apprehension is felt In the United States Marshal's office, says the News and Courier, by reason of the fact that Garber Moore, alias "Tennessee Dutoh," the noted yegg, has been killed in Florida, and Bhould the young man who brought down the yegg desire the reward of |200 ofTered for Moore, ho would have to bring the body to Charleston and deliver it to the United States marshal or his deputy. The officials are, of course, glad that "Tennessee Dutch" Is dead, and Marshal Adams would like to pay the reward, but he does not desire to have the body deposited in his office. Moore and a pal were killed some time ago in Tallahassee, and the bodies were embalmed and kept for identification by postoffice inspectors. "Tennessee Dutch" had an interesting career from the time he became a yeggman, and had he lived to write a story of his life, the book would have had a ready sale. Hut one of the most interesting escapades of his life probably was when lie escaped from the jail at Greenville last March. "Dutch" and a pal. George Horton, were captured after one of their raids in this State and locked up ir. the jail at Greenville to await trial at the United States Court on the charge of safe-cracking. The pair were locked up apart from the other prisoners and could not be seen, but could converse together. They had friends on the outside, and it was noticed afterwards that at frequent intervals a bag of fruit would bo brought to the jail and handed to the prisoners. They consumed the fruit, but each time carefully put the bag away for future reference. They were supplied, In some way, with uitro-glycerine or some other high explosive, and they planned to plow through the cement floor of their cell. Their manner of working ^ was novel In the extreme. Everytlnie that Horton was about to set ofT the explosive "Dutch" would stand by with a paper bag in his hand, blawn up, and simultaneously with the explosion he would burst the bag, and throwing the pieces out of his cell into the passage, would remark In loud tones: "That was a good one," or "that one made a big noise, fellows." The noise from the explosion of the nltro-glycerine was supposed to have been the noise of the popping of the bag. So Horton and Moore worked along uninterruptedly until they had enough of the floor blown away to enable them to escape, and one morning In March the pair were missing. Immediately the alarm was given and officers were notified of tho escape. One of the means of identifying Horton was that a part of his left arm was missing, and this fact was made known. "Dutch" and Ilor ton sped away. Rot safely across th~ line and continued their onward mnrch Into North Carolina, leaving Greenville farther behind at the setting of each day's sun. The pair went along until they reached a station about six miles from Asheville. Here a deputy marshal by tho name of Rodgers, who was 011 the alert noticed the pair and went after them. He did not shoot, for the reason thnt ho wanted to be sure before he tired, and he was looking for a man with one arm. But Horton was carrying his overcoat on the stump of his left arm, and Rodgers came close to them before he called to them to surrender. Immediately "Dutch" and Horton grabbed the ofllcer, and while Horton was bus ily chewing off a part of his ear, "Dutch" got posessloa of the officer's ! pistol and decamped, leaving his pal to his fate. Some railroad men In the vicinity, hearing the call for help, went to the rescue. They succeeded In overpowering Horton and subsequently he was landed safely in the Jail at Greenville, llorton was later |/ tried and convicted and is now serving time in the penitentiary at Atlanta. After th<> affair near Ashevllle, "Tennessee Dutch" was lost sight of for a time, but Postoftlce Inspector Gregory still workc 1 to get news of the missing yeggman. His efforts ^ - were rewarded, and last fall he locat^ ed "Dutch" in New York State. Thither the Inspector hied, and got on the trail of "Dutch", but just at the time ho thought he would land his man, he learned that "Dutch" had bought a railroad ticket and left on a train for the South. Landing again on his native heath, "Dutch" formed copartnership with another yeggman, evldontly a new man in the business, however, and together they planned to rob the ACCUSE EACH OTHER PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF 1 STATE FAIR SOCIETY Make Charges Against Each Other I of a Serious Nature and the Ratter Resigns. A dispatch from Columbia to The News and Courier says following the I sensational charges made at a meet- s ing of the Fair Society after mid- c night Wednesday night, and the res- 5 ignations of Secretary Lore of the 1 State Fair Society Thursday after- ' noon, Mr. Love has preferred charges a against Mr. John G. Mobley, presl- ^ dent of the Bociety. The principal charge is that President Mobley is S receiving double pay, aud that he re- a celves mileage aud per diem from the State, being a member of the Penitentiary board of directors, and also c has his expenses and per diem paid by the Fair Society. The State Agricultural and Mechanical Society met again Thursday ^ morning, after haying been in session late Wednesday night and into the morning hours, and heard the remainder of the report of the in- t vestigating committee. The report , was finished about two o'clock aftei which a motion was made that the ^ report of the committee be accepted in so far as it asked for the resignation of Secretary Love. ^ There was some discussion of the motion, after which it was carried with two dissenting votes. Imme- ( diately ufter the carrying of the mo- j tion the matter of receiving and acting on the resignation and electing t a new secretary was discussed . ( The discussion was interrupted by Col. Ijove, father of the ex-secretary, j who expressed himself at some length concerning the action of the Society in demanding the resignation of th<? secretary. His remarks were bitter, j especially in reference to Mr. John G. Mobley, president of the Society. Mr. Love resigning at the meeting Thursday, the Hon. D. F. Eflrd was a elected secretary. Succeeding Mr. j Eflrd as general superintendent, J. D. W. Watts of Laurens was elected. c ? g MADE A I1IG HOW. Because His Wife Warms Her Feet on 11 is llac-k. p Are cold feet a ground for divorce? Reeause a wife is afflicted with frigid pedal extremities and persists in ( warming them upon the small of her husband's back, is he justified in putting her out of the room and making ? her go asleep in the servant's quarters? 1 These and kindred questions came { up before Recorder Broyles in Atlan- f ta in connection with the trial of K. ^ T. Gibbs, a prominent coal contractor, charged with disorderly conduct ^ and cruel treatment of Mrs. Gibbs. In addition to declaring his wife's feet were so frosty that he spent his nights envying Cook nnd Peary in- ^ stead of sleeping, Gibbs said his wife was abdicted to cigarette smoking and reading French novels. The ' charges against Gibbs were dismiss- * ed. ... ( WAYLAID 11Y FOOTPADS. * ( Jeweler Rohltcd by Three Bandits < i Who .Make Their Escape. Three bad men are somewhere in 1 the mountains of West Virginia with ( j $3,000 in money and diarnons worth 1 #iu,vuu, wiucn iney cook by Torce ' from C. C. T^Bterman, a Jeweler, of Matewan, W. Va., while he was returning home from his shop. The men were masked when they waylaid the jeweler, bound and gagged him, and after relieving him of all that he had, they escaped to the woods. Bloodhounds were put on their trail, but were unable to track them on account of the heavy rainfall. Testerman says that he secured the diamonds from a Cincinnattl firm and was to have sold them on com mission. Only a Joke. A dispatch from Paris says It is understood there that Walter Wellman, who sailed from New York for Europe on Saturday, is arranging a balloon flight across the Atlantic 1 from New York to England or to ' France in his Artie snip. i postofllce at Tallahassee, Florida. One night in December the two appeared at the hack door of the postoffice, and called to the young man inside that they had found tw > mail pounches that had been dropped out of a wagon and wanted to deliver them. The door was opened by the son of the watchman, and in the fight that ensued the young man ' killed both of the safe crackers. Inspector Gregory has lately made ' a trip to Tallahassee and positively ' identified one of the bodies as that ' of Qarber Moore, alias "Tennessee 1 Dutch." He was unable to identify 1 the other man. After the escape of Moore from Greenville, United Scales Marshal Adams, pursuant to instructions from the postofllce depa-cmcm , at Washington, offered a reward of < $200 for the delivery of Moore to him 1 or his deputy, but the reward iics < i not been claimed. ] j WHY GARFIELD LOST THE REASON JAS. R. GARFIELD IS NOT NOW IN Resident Taft's Cabinet is Because He Antagonized Friends of Rallinger's in the Alaska Deal. In testifying before the Ballinger 'inchot investigating committee on 'londay Lewis R. (J la vis told of a unversation he had with a Judge ifcKenzie. in which the latter said he reason James R. Garfield was not n President's Taft's cabinet was his .ntagonism to the coal claimants in llaska. "Did he tell any other reasons why At. Garfield was not in the cabinet?" .sked Mr. Olmsted amid laughter. "No, sir." Senator Root here entered vigormsly into the examination. "Who did McKenzie make this tatement to?" he asked. "T. Special Agent Jones and myelf. We made an atlldavit to that fleet." "Why did you make an affidavit?" "I thought it would be worth re nemberiag in tlie further investigaion of these cases if we had to call dcKenzie as a witness." "When did you make the affidavit?" "In September, 1909." "After you had seen President raft?" "Yes, sir." "Now, again, why was it you made hat affidavit?" inquired Senator toot. "I thought it might be of interest o President Taft if I had another jpportunity to see him." "Did you intend to 6end it to 'resident Taft?" "I had that in mind." vDid you send it?" "No, I thought I would show it to lim when he came to Seattle." "And you did send it where?" "To the forest service." Glavis added that he thought the iffldavit would also he of interest to dr. Garfield. "You did not do it with the idea f attacking President Taft?" asked lenator Root. "No." "You swear you did Dot?" "I swear." "Did you think it would aid the resident ?" "I didn't know; I don't think it rould injure him." "Who is this man McKenzie?" askd Representative Madison. "Ha is interested in the Dalton ;roup of claims in Alaska and is novn among the agents as a lakbyst here in Washington." Glavis was questioned closely as o why the statement as to Mr. Garield made such an impression upon dm. "Because I thnn?h? ? A V Y1 i\ a 11 111*, te replied. "Did you regard McKenzie as a nan of prominehce cnougn to speak cnowingly of such matters?" asked senator Hoot. "I knew he had been mighty successful in getting things through congress." "Was McKenzie a friend of Presilent Taft?" "No. sir." Representative Dendy questioned jlavis further about making an aflilavit of a statement which he said reflected ui>on President Taft. Glavis said the impression McKentie left was that influential people opposed to Secretary Garfield had urged the president not to retain Mr. Garfield, for various reasons. He did not say the president had not retained Garfield because of his opposition to the coal claimants. "You thought it was a boast by he McKenzie?" suggested Representative Madison. "1 remarked to Jones that if he tiad strength to get rid of Garfield tie could also get rid of us, too." - * * umvia bhki ne (lid not think McKenzle's statement was intended in iny way as a reflection upon Presilent Tnft. On motion of Senator Root, the 'orestry service was requested to prolure the affidavit which had caused rnch a flurry in the committee. I.?ofit lloth Regs. A serious accident befell Gua Henlett, while enroute to his work in \sheville. Hennett was walking ilong the tracts of the Southern railway when an engine came long. He ?ot off the tract to allow the engine o pass but as he stepped from oue rack onto another he was struck by \ shifting engine and both legs so >adly mangled that amputation was lecessary. Insurgents Surrender. The unanimous decision to support he administration's programme of legislation was reached at a conference of the "insurgents" of the House Tuesday night. Representa:ive Gardner, of Masschusetts, and Itepresentative Hays, of California, were authorized to inform President Taft to ttint effect. mm* A Cherry .Mine Victim. The body of one miner and the mrcasses of f>4 mules were found 3f>0 feet deep in the St. Paul mine at Cherry, 111., by relay parties of repairers and explorers. 1 ORIGIN OF A POEM THAT THRILLS ALL WITH ITS PATHOS AND BEAUTY. Found on the "Person of a Young Woman Who Hud Been Picked Up On the Streets of Gincinnatti. The origin of'The Beautiful Snow" is not definitely known, but according to pretty good authority it was written by an unfortunate young woman. Mr?. J. P. Marrow says that during the early part of the war, one dark Saturday night in midwinter, there died in the Commercial Hospital in Cincinnatti a young woman, over whose head only two and twenty summers had passed. She had once been posessed of an enviable share of beauty, ~nd had been, as she herself said "flattered and Bought for the charms of her face," but alas upon her fair brow was written that terrible word?"prostitute." Once the pride of respectable parents, her first false step was the small begin ning or tne "same old story over again," which has been the only life history of thousands. Highly educated and of accomplished manners, she might have shone in the best of society, but the evil hour that proved her ruin was at the door from childhood, and having spent a young life in disgrace and shame, the poor, friendless one died the melancholy death of a broken-hearted outcast. Among her personal effects was found in manuscript, "The Beautiful Snow," which was immediately carried to Enos B. Reed, a gentleman of culture and literary tastes, who was at that time editor of. the National Union. In the columns of that paper on the morning of the day following the girl's death, the poem appeared in print. When the paper containing the poem came out on Sunday morning the body of the victim had not yet received burial. The attention of Thomas Buchanan Reed, one of the first American poets, was so taken by their stiring pathos, that he imedmiately followed the corpse to its final resting place. Such are the plain facts concerning her whose "Beautiful Snow" shall long be remembered as one of the brightest gems in American literature. Oh. the snow, the beautiful snow! Killing the sky and earth below; Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet, Dancing, flirting, skipping along, Beautiful snow, it can do no wrom? Flying to kiss a fair lady's cheek. Clinging to llpB in frolicsome freak, Beautiful snow from the heavens above, Pure as an angel, gentle as love! Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow! How the Hakes gather and laugh as they go! Whirling about in their maddening fun; It plays in its glee with everyone-Chasing, laughing, hurrying by; It lights on the face and it sparkles the eye; And playful dogs, with a bark and a bound. Snap at the crystals that eddy around; The town is alive and its hearts is aglow, To welcome the coming of the beautiful snow. How wildly the crowd goes swaying I along, Hailing each other with humor and song! j How gay the sleighs like meteors flash by. Bright for the moment, then lost to tho eye! Ringing, swinging, dashing they go Over the crust of the beautiful snow. Snow as pure, when it falls from the sky. As to make one retrot *?? ?? To be trampled and tracked by the thousand feet Till It blends with the filth in the horrible street. Once I was as pure as the snow, but I fell? Fell like the snowflakes from heaven , to hel i; Fell to be trampled like filth in the ! street; Fell to be scoffed at, to be spit on and beat; Pleading, cursing, dreading to die, Selling my soul to whoever would buy; Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread, Hating the living and fearing the dead. Merciful (rod, have I fallen so low? anu yet I was once like the beautiful snow! Gnce I was fair as the beautiful snow, With an eye like its crystals and a heart like its Blow; Once I was loved for my innocent grace. Flattered and sought for the charms of the face, Father, mother, sister, all, Ood and myself, I have lost by my fall! The veriest wretch that goes rhiverinK by, Will make a wide sweep lest 1 wan- j der too nigh. For all there is on or above me, 1 know, There's nothing as pure as the beau ! PASSED THE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES WANT STATE WIRE PROHIBITION. Adopt the Measure Which Was Killed by the Senate a Few Rays Ago by Small Majority. On Wednesday the House passed th< Richards Statewide prohibition bill. It now goes to the Senate. The Senate has already killed a duplicate of the bill. The idea seems to have beeu simply to pass a bill to show that such could be done by the House. It was passed in ridiculous shape, for it provides, as adopted, that the State shall have State-wide prohibition in January, 1910?purely a fiction. The Senate has expressed itself so decisively against Statewide DrohihltInn th!it r.,, .lirr..?.... ? m vumv 1IU UIIICIClll I t*~ suit is uow expected, and the status existing January %., 1910, will be maintained, at b ast for another year as far as the liqeor situatiou is concerned. The following members voted for prohibition: Joshua \V. Ashley, Bodie. Bowman, Bowers, Boyd, Brice, B. H. Brown, \V. D. Bryan, Bunch. Cantrell. Carey, Carrigan, Carter. Celey, .Clary, Coker, Daniel, Isaac Edwards, Fraser, Fultz, W. J. Gibson, Greer, Hall, llanier, Hines, llorger, Hydrlck, Irby, Kibler, Lawson, Lee. McEachern, McKeown, Mann, Moble.v, Nicholson, Nunnery, Patterson, Richards. Ridgell, G. M. Hiley, \V. L. Riley, Robertson, Itoessler, Scarborough. II. A. Shuler, Chas. A. Smith, D. L. Smith, M. L. Smith. Spears, Stanley, Stubhs, Jared D. Sullivan, Utsey, Way, What ley, Wingo, Wyche?60. The following voted against prohibition: It. S. Whalcv, Speaker, Melvin J. Ashley, Ayer, T. P. Brown, F. M. Uryhn, Carwile, Cosgrove, Coth ran. Doar, Duvall, Foster, Garris. Glassock, Graham, Wade C. Harrison, Jackson, Lane. Leland, Lengnick, McMahan, Mars, Paulling, Rucker, Sanders, Sawyer, Seibels. Simkins, Singleton, Tobias, Vander Horst, Wade, Wells, Williams, W. B. Wilson. Jr., Wright.?3 6. SERVED THEM RIGHT. Japanese Killed and Burned by Oppressed Natives. Retaliation on pillaging Japanese natives of the Shantar IslnnHa noo brought about a pitched battle in which several Japanese were killed and their bodies burned. A Russian commission sent from Vladivostok to investigate the attack of the Jnpanese made ghastly discoveries. The commission found corpses of Japanese partly cremated. The Japanese, it was learned, late last year landed from a boat.-pillaged the native camps and burned tents and houses. The natives assembled a large party of warriors to take revenge and the fight came as a result. flood Place to Idve. Junction City, Kv., the town second in size in Boyd county,, cites as | an unusual record that during th" last twelve months there was not a single police court case. Policeman Clem, who preserves the law in that community of 1,100 residents has announced his intention of cultivating a tobacco crop this year as a diversion. Meets Horrible Death. Tom Ashley met a horrible death at Waxhaw on Tuesday. While attending to his duties about the ginnery, Ashley, in some manner, was caught in a belt and hurled around the shafting. His head was crushed, one arm torn from his socket and the body was otherwise horribly Hi angled. tiful snow! How strange it should be that this beautiful snow, Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go! How strange it should be, when night comes again, If the snow and ice struck my desperate braia! Fainting, freezing, dying, alone, Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan To be heard In the streets of the crazy town. Gone mad In the joy of the snow coming down; To bo and to die in my terrible woe. With a bed and a shroud of the beautiful snow. Helpless and foul as the trampled I onnm* Sinner, despair not?C irist atoopeth low. To tescue the aonl that is lost in its sin, And raise it to life and enjoyment again. i Groaning, bleeding, dyin? for thee. I The Crucified hung on the accursed tree; III is accents of mercy fell oft on thine ear; Is there mercy for me? Will He heed my prayer? Oh, God, In the streams that for sinners flow. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. ' \ ? SCORED NEWMAN State Judge Criticises Federal Judge fur Usurping the RIGHTS OF THE STATE Snys liltod States Commissioner of ? Internal Revenue Can't Run Georgia?Crtirises Federal Judge for Going Bark on 1'rineiplcs Which He Fought for as a Confederate. Deciding to personally look after the State's interest in his fight to close the Curator distillery at Rising Fawn, which has resulted in clashes with the Federal authorities and the arrest of two government officials, Judge A. W. Kite of the Superior Court arrived at Trenton, Ga., on Wednesday. 1... ?5-1' " "" ...wu.ynuicu U.> OOI IL'l lUT 1. <J. I\111 ? er, he convened court for the prelim, inary hearing of United States a:orekceper and Ganger Ben C. Thompson arrested at the distillery on t'to charge of resisting State ollicers. Thompson was hound over in the sum of $f>00. for his appearance at the next term of the Dade County Court. The court took the stand that from tlie evidence Thompson pleaded guilty of violating the prohibition laws >f the State, which prohibit the manufacture of whiskey and that Collector of Internal Revenue ltuckcr and every other person aiding in the manufacture of whiskey is guilty of the same offense. "1 cannot anticipate what action the Federal court will take in this case." said Judge Kite," but 1 intend to see that my court is protected to the last stand." Commenting on United States Judge Newman's attitude in the dispute over State and Federal jurisdiction in the Curcton Distillery case, Judge Kite said: "I do not wish to criticise Judge Newman harshly, but 1 will say that 1 consider his decission in the Stegall case as folly, usurpation an i tyranny. He is an excellent gentleman and an able judge and is generally levelheaded, but in a whiskey case involving questions of States' rights and Federal aggressions he goes to the Yankees ar.d tries to scratch out with his pen that which he once gallantly defended with his sword. "In the first place the States never have delegated to the general government power to regulate their internal affairs or to confrol their courts in administering their laws im conflict with the Federal consu.ution. If Congress had such power it could not delegate it to an ofllcial, nor in my opinion has any otticial ever meant or attempted to exercise such power, though some judges seem U> think so and use this for federal aggrandisement. "It is true there are some regulations prohibiting officials from divulging the kinds of apparatus, methods and the like, but these do not and cannot ai>nlv ings, either State or Federal. "All legitimate manufacturers of whiskey advertise their business aid the brands and kinds of whiskey manufactured and Cureton did bo until he went into the government wild cat business and there is no law in reason or common sense to prevent an official from telling it, either in I court or out of it. For a court to j hold to the contrary, 1 repeat, is f lj ly, usurpation and tyranny. "Think of a litle commissioner of internal revenue in \Vn liug.ou tssu| ing rules having the same force an enactment itself and thus controlling the courts of a soverign state. Tt is enough to make Johi Marshall turn over in his grave, and the founder of this republic to rise from tlicir graves in rage and mutiny." The Month to Marry In. Marry when the year is new? always loving, kind and true. When February's birds do mate, you may wed, nor dread your fate. If you wed When March winds blow, joy and sorrow both you'll know. Marry In Agril when you can?Joy for maiden ami for man1 Marry in the month of May, you will surely rue the day! Marry when June roses Mow, over laiul and sea you'll go. Those who in July do wed, must always labor for their hread! Whoever wed in August b , many a change will surely see. Marry in September's shine, your living will be rieh ant fine. If In October you do marry, love will rotne, but riches tarry! If you wed i* bleak November, oaly joy will come remember. When December's snows falls fast marry and true love will last! Two Mules Drowned. Monday afternoon ?hcn TIenrr Howard, driving a team of two mules and a horse from Harium Springs to Colnmbin, attempted to pass Fishing Creek at a ford near Mills' mill, in Chester county, driver, wagon and team were swept down by the raging waters. The mules were drowned; the wagon was recovered and the driver narrowly escaped. .