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WAS NOTED YEGG
Reward tor th*; Capture of "Tennessee
Dutch" Has Not Beeu Claimed.
HIS CAREER RECALLED
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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
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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?
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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.
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WAYLAID 11Y FOOTPADS.
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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.
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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. ]
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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. '
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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.
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...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.
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