The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 11, 1895, Image 4
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to Ke
iofsUr iftid dew,
itnrolod throogh
To greet thk boar!
After thy winter'* sleep
I know,bow tboa didst weep
Up etelrwey* dork »t steep
i meet the spring.
I know feow tboa didst go
Throagb sodden leeres end snow
tboa didst not know
* \
I’m sNrful i
A way tboa didst
* Unquestioning.
I too beTe atmbed end crept,
Up ragged petbs here stnpt.
And on stone pillows slept—
Many e night;
Like thee, from eled to olod
Blindfolded, I here trod,
Often Slone, sere God—
. Seeking me light
Brief too, like thine, my hoar,
Poor amethystine flower!
For see! thy petals shower
The sunset air.
1 too shell fade, end then
My soai shell bloom again;
Bat flower, I know not when—
1 know not where.
A PATCHWORK QUILT.
t a-here, Tillie,” said Rob,
waylaying his sister at tbw-fnte ns she
was setting out for the festal gather
ing, ‘ ‘yon give this here note to Char
ity, but not till you And her alone.
You heart’'
“I hear,” said Tillie, securing the
note in her blue-bordered handker
chief, which she tucked through her
belt, "and all right I”
I Charity, in morning costume of pink
gingham, and several other
ladies were on their knees on the sit
ting-room carpet, spreading layers of
rhite cotton upon the lining of the
an upon u
quilt when Tillie arrived.
"It’t a scandal I didn’t have it all
ready,” apologized Charity. ‘’There’s
been such piles to do. We’re all ready
now for the top. Tillie. we’ll get you
to help us spread it on.
"It’s awful hot,’’ said TUlie, pulling
out her handkerchief, forget hi for
the moment of its contents, and wip-
her round face, which her walk
heated.
Charity brought forth the gorgeous-
hued patch-work of her quilt.
"How pretty that basket pattern is!”
said Tillie. "I’m a-making the mouse-
chase pattern.”
Ana then the top was spreapon, and
no one saw anything in the cotton
that did not belong there.
But an hour after, when Tillie
found Chanty alone, and prepared to
fulfill her brother’s behest, site found
no note in her handkerchief, and no
ideas in her head as to what Could have
become of it Hunting for it was in
vain. i
“Oh,, dear!” sobbed Tillie, "Rob’ll
be so mad. I daren’t tell him I lost
it”
Tillie Redwood was one of that nu
merous, class of feminine cowards who
will stoop to deceit, subterfuge, or
even lies, rather than encounter the
just wrath of any dark-browed lord of
creation for any sin or blunder com
mitted against him.
"Anyhow.” she quieted her con
science with, "if it was so awful im
portant he can cotne over and tell her
nimaelf. And if he finds out she didn’t
get it I’ll go home with Jenny Hicks
and stay tul they’ve fixed
and by that time he won’t care, ”
And
ingl
had
Hlgginsviltewas verv sure that Rob
Redwood and Charity Meadows would
make a match of it if they could keep
from falling out with each other long
enough at a time.
, But Charity was pretty and liked to
flirt—at least Bob thought she did—
and Bob was jealous, especially, of
Jake Hargood.
"I don’t care for him, Bob,” Chari
ty said once,
up at him, with
aoft depreciation, from under her
j, glancing
nation, fr
curled brown lashes.
"Then tell him ao,” said blunt Rob.
"What a big silly you are, Rob!”
she answered. “He might say I better
wait till he aaked me to care. The
time to refuse anything is when it is
offered.”
But Rob shook his head, and failed
to see the logic of this.
"Better let him know before he does
ask,” he said, sagely.
Notwithstanding this good advice,
Miss Charity ver^ reprehensively went
bui
Ji
her hat
of blue eyes, corn-silk curls and baby
pinkness in the looking glass, the
thought of Rob did come up and
trouble her peace and her conscience.
"He’s a dear boy,” said she, "and
it’s too bad to be treacherous to him;
but it shall be the last time. After
this evening I’ll reform right straiglit.”
But the ‘last time”often proves the
fatal one time too many.
Rob saw them as he was driving up
the cows from pasture, went home in
a rage, and did not go near Charity
that week. -
"Reckon you’re abotit to loee yer
beau, Charity.” said Aunt Hulda
Pitcher, who dropped in one day to
borrow a yeast cake. "I hear tell
how Rob Redwood is going off to the
Injiee or some sich furrin place, to
stay with a uncle.”
"Lawsy!”said good Mrs. Meadows,
concernedly. "I hope not. That’s
awful hot land. He’ll get pi
scorched up yaller!”
"Oh, I reckon he won’t stand no
chance of that,” replied Aunt Hulda,
cheerfully. "Betwixt the wild ani-
fore he gits saorched?
Anything at all "furrin” neaessarily
embraced cannibals and wild beasts in
Aunt Hulda’s mind.
"I don’t believe itl” said Charity,
to heraelf. "I don’t think Rob would
make up his mind to go off there with
out letting me know about it.”
But the next day Rob’s mother was
over..
saw her from a window
of patchwork to-
of pink and white
in put
gather
muslin for a quilt.
She was going to have a quilting
the next day, and had not quite
finished her own work on it; so she
did not go down sCairs now, but she
could hear the conversation on the
porch below.
“This here they’re a-tellin about
Rob a goin’ off to the Iniies ain’t true,
is it?” Mrs. Meadows asked, as she set
out the big cushioned rocker for her
visitor.
"Yes, shouldn’t wonder if it was,”
returned Mrs. Redwood, shaking her
black sunbonnet dolefully. “His Un
cle ’LUah, he got rich out there, and
wants aim to come mighty bad, and
he ain’t plum made up his, mind,
but he’s a-studyin’ about it considera
ble.”
"Shucks! I hate to see him a-goin’
off there. He’ll get baked to a crisp.
I ’low to tell him so. I s’pose him
and Tillie’ll be over to Charity’s party
to-morrow?”
"THllie will,” replied Mrs. Redwood.
"I do’no whether Rob will or not.
He says maybe he might and maybe
he mightn’t. It’d depend on circum
stances.”
"Now, that’s too bad of Rob," said
Charity* dropping her head on the
windowsill and brushing away a sud
den tear with a square of patchwork,
"when he’s went and stared away so
long already. He’s just right cruel to
me! But if he don’t want to come to
he needn't, and I’ll dance
Hargood till I drop on the
m
th J
floor.”
According to the Higginsville eti
quette regulating quiltings, the ladies
usually assemble in the morning, and
on the principle gf duty before pleas
ure, devote themselves wholly to the
task of getting the quilt done.
By the time that is accomplished,
the young men begin to drop in, and
so continue to do until dark, when
"the fiddler” arrives, and the grand
fun of the occasion commences.
The morning of the quilting while
Mias Tillie Redwood was embellishing
her charms as befitted the occasion,
her brother Rob sought the privacy
of the smoke-houise, there to address
himself to the business of writing a
note to Charity.
After an liour’s hard work he wiped
his perspiring brow and surveyed the
following: • '*■
"Dean Charity: I want every
thing to be settled tonight for good
mi alL If you care for me more than
oome to tout
don’t
too happy to live,
know how good Hove
'rt ondecided-like and
to Jake, don’t send ao
forme. Ill go to the
'tkeeriM search and
[die.
- <-,
could bear the sight of this
quilt I wanted to get rid of it—Look
e-hero, Tillie, how do you reckon i
letter got inside of lit Why, it’s
sealed, and it’s for me, an-Oh, Tillie,
it's from Rob, assure is you live 1”
Charity tore it open with breathless
eagerness, while Tillie looked on, scar
let and apprehensive.
‘Chanty,” said she, "it must ’a fell
out of my handkerchief that day
when we was putting on the top of
the quilt Rob did give it to me for
ou, but I lost it, and didn’t want to
all you nor him; and I didn’t s’poee
it would make a sight of difference.”
"It’s kept Rob and me apart fora
whole year,” said Charity, almost
breaking into a sob.
“Oh, said Tillie, remorsfully, "I
never ’sposed 'twas that! I-^I thought
'twas your flirting with Jake Hargood
did the harm, amdancin’-fcohard with
him that night Rob was there, and
right,
so Rob waited in vain fop-
iv Til
chore boy—whose tow head and freck
les he would have hailed as a welcome
vision that day. He cherished a feeble
hope until after dark.
"It’s just possible,” he said, loth to
resign himself to his doom, "that Til
lie forgot to give her the note, or
something, ru step in there ftp- a
minute, and I’ll know mighty quick
by the looks how things air.”
So Rob stepped in, and ran against
Tillie in the passage way, on her way
to the kitchen.
He dTuthed her by the arm.
"Tillie,” said he* "did you give it
to her?"
And Tillie laid up future worry for
herself bv telling a fiat fib, as the onlv
way of dodging an immediate scold
ing.
"Bid she say anything?” queried
Rob, anxiously.
"No! Let go, Rob!” said Tillie,
twisting her arm away and darting
off.
The door of the dancing room swung
>en, and Rob could see in. A quad-
lie waa in progress v in which Charity
—having concluded that he waa qpt
coming—waaJdancing spiritedly with
i of young fellows arriving ing the naval forCea
at that moment swept Rob into the
room, and the swinging door concealed
him.
Jake and Charity were not far away,
but had their backs toward him.
“They say Rob Redwood’s goin’ off
to furrin parts,” said some one in the
pause of the dance. "Is that so,
Charity?”
"I suppose it is,” replied Charity,
coolly. -1 . ‘ .
ROD llippea from the shadow of the
door and walked out unobserved.
‘Rob Redwood's gone to the In
dies,” was the news Charity heard two
days later. It was Aunt Hulda Pitcher
who brought it "For a whole year,”
she added. "His uncle made him
promise to stay that long, if he come
at all, an’ I reckon he will.”
"A year—a whole year?” went echo
ing through Charitya head.
low would the world seem without
ear—
and
any Rob Redwood for a whole y
twelve' mouths—three hundred
sixty-five days?
e went into a brown study oyer
the matter, while her mother and
Aunt Hulda talked on indifferently
about the fall soap making, preserv-
ng quilt-pieceing, etc.
"I v got a awful nice new pattern
of a quilt,” Aunt Hulda was say fag.
"Hita called the Calendar—takes
three hundred and sixty-five squares
to make it.. Better sen’ an’ git Uie
pattern, Cbaritv.'’ 1
"Maybe I will,” answered Charity.
"Rob don’t care for me—not a bit,
said Charity, that night. “He woldn’t
have gone off this way if he did. And
I’ll be a fool if I don’t marry Jake
Hargood if he asks me^ But then,”
she added, lialf ruefully, "I always
was a fool?”
In proof of which she flatly refused
Jake Hargood when he did ask her.
And she borrowed Aunt Hulda’s quilt
pattern, and straightway set to work
pieceing her "Calendar.”.quilt, making
only one square a day, and remarking
to herself as she finished each one:
"One day less to wait Not,” she
dismally,
when the
up. if he didn’t care for me
then, he*won’t now. But it'll be a
comfort to know it when he’s home
again.”
There were several squares yet to be
pieced before the quilt would be fin
ished, when word came to the Red
woods that Rob would be home in
three days.
."Just the day of that quilting last
r,” said Charity, all in a nervous
utter. "I’ll hurry and finish this
right off and have a quilting the very
same time; and maybe Rob’ll come to
this one.”
She got out her invitations in a tre
mendous hurry, pressed Aunt Hulda
into immediate service to get the re-
uisite amount of cooking done for
e occasion, and devoted herself to
the finishing of her quilt
"Rob’U be home to-morrow morn
ing, sure,” said Tillie, who had run
over the day before the quilting to
render Charity what assistance she
might. «"We had a telegram. Un
cles coming, too, to start an estab
lishment here and take Rob intopart-
narship. He'll be awful rich—Why,
Charity Meadows, what are you rip-
tip that lovely basket quilt for?"
fra to,” answered Charity, **
cotton for my new quilt The
E
tat ingtit. nob waa mere, a
seen it; but he sayed afterward I
shouldn’t tell he was there. An’ I
J ust ’lowed all along ’twas Jake made
lim get mad an’go off. I s’pose,”
added Tillie, faintly, as Charity retul
her note again, witn dewy eyes and
flushed, dimpled checks, “that Rob’s
got to know all about it now.”
“I reckon he has!” said Charity, in
tone that left no room for doubt.
And so, the next afternoon, Rob . „ ,
Redwood, smoking his pipe on the m mat period
porch of his ancestral halls, > was
startled by the vision he had looked so
eagerly and so vainly that day a year
ago—of Jimmy Tibbs, freckled and
tow-headed as of yore, scramblin
over the fence and making towan
him. flourishing a note.
‘Uobd land!’ 7 quoth Mrs. Rod wood,
as she looked out of the window,
shortly afterward, “Whatever’s the
matter with Rob? He’s a-dancin’
round there on the porch like as if he
was a plum idi’t.”
Charity’s quilting was a brilliant
success this time, as far as she and
Rob were-concerned; and they never
fell out again—at least not before they
were married. And of all her house
keeping outfit, Charity most prizes her
Calendar quilt.—Saturday Night
> 'WITH GREAT GUNS.
Correni>oii(lence Between Secretary Her
bert and Adjutant General Watte,
Columbia, S. C. t July 2.—The
State naval militia, that long neglected
arm of local defense, seems to be in
great demand and favor just now. It
was recently inspected by the Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy, and now it
will have a chance to practice target
shooting with big naval guns.
The following correspondence will
explain itself and give all the neces
sary information in the matter:
Navy Department,
Washington, D. C., June 28th.
His Excellency, Governor John Gary
Evans, Columbia, S. C.
Sir: The department intends if pos
sible to send a war vessel to ’ Charles
ton, 8. C., for the purpose of affording
the naval militia of your State an op
portunity for target practice with
great guns. In order that the depart
ment may be able to carry out this in
tention if the ships should be available
it is necessary to know definitely the
most convenient time for the State
forces to drill on board the ship for
two or three days. The dates should
be stated accurately. When this in
formation is received instructions will
be sent to the rear admiral com:
IMPROVEMENT.
WHAT THE STATE OBSERVER SAY#
OF ALL THE CROPS.
Th* W**kly BwlUtln of th* State Westhsr
•ad Crop 8orrloo~A Word as to the To
bacco Crop of Sooth Carolina.
Columbia, July 4.—The following
weekly bulletin of the condition of the
weather and the crops of the State is
sued yesterday by State Observer
Bauer is of general interest:
The past week opened with crops
needing rain over a considerable por
tion of the State, but particularly in
Spartanburg, Greenville, Pickens,
Union, Laurens, Newberry, Anderson,
Abbeville and Aiken counties. There
were also dry districts in other por
tions of the State where the need of
rain was not quite so uggent. During
the week showers were numerous but
very partial, some farms, or even fields,
having all the rain needed, while ad
joining farms or fields hwl little or
none. Beginning with the 29th (Satur
day) and continuing through to July
1st (Monday), the rains were more
evenly distributed, and no portion of
the State but that received some rain
lantic station to confer with the State
authorities, and, if possible, carry out
the plans for the instructions of the
naval mititia. It being impossible to
temporarily transfer to a receiving
ship any of the regular crpw of the ves
sel the naval militia will be taken on
x>ard for drill during the day only
and landed at nightfall.
In this connection the department
wishes to repeat that the forces will be j-^ 6
expected to furnish their own mess
gear. Rashiqps will be issued if de-
uired at the usual eost, not to exceed
thirty cents per day per man. An im
mediate reply is requested.
\ ery respectfully,
H. A. Herbert,
Secretary.
Hon. II. A. Herbert, Secretary of
1st.
e 28th
o Governor Evans has just been be-
erred to,this office. In reply, I will
state that from 22nd to 27th of July,
inclusive, will be time most suitable
for the naval militia to go on board
ship. Hoping you will be able to give
us these dates, I am very respectfully,
your obedient servant.
J. Gary Watts,
Aand I. G.
1... . . A Strange Cnee.
Indianapolis. Ind., June 30.—The
death of Brice Carter, a wealthy and
irominent contractor of this city early
his morning, was the culmination of
a strange case which has attracted at-
ention for the last seven years. That
ong ago Mrs. Carter complained to
the police that a servant girl whom
she had just discharged was slowly
xnsoning her husband but detectives
vho investigated reported that Mrs.
barter had no grounds for her accusa-
ions. Several months later Mrs. Carter
repeated her accusations and appealed
to the police, but no attention was
paid. She told her story to the grand
Mr. Carter was called and said
xe believed his wife was insane. At
intervals of a few months Mrs. Carter,
who appeared to be sane on all other
matters, has repeated her act. Early
this morning she was aroused by Mr.
Carter, who was suffering from
stomach pains, and before a doctor ar
rived he was dead. An autopsy re
vealed no poison, but the stomach will
>e analyzed to clear the mystery Af
lis death.
An Uuljr Case.'
Atlanta, July 1.—Sheriff Jones of
Twiggs county, arrested a negro man
and two negro women today as acces
sories to the^nurder of William Nobles.
Vlrs. Nobles and her daughter are still
in jail, with the negro man and wo
man who were arrestedjast week. Mrs.
^obles’denies having taken an active
hand in the murder. She admits that
she paid $10 to have it done. Judge
Smith has called a special term of
court for July 9, to try the case.
Unlucky Navel Cadets.
vVashington, July 1.—Naval cadets
who have finished their six years’
course are assigned to duty in service
to-day and commissioned as ensigns,
with the exceptions of three men for
whom, though they had successfully
passed their examination, there were
no vacancies in the line, and who were
neligible for the engineer corps, to
hien they might have been transfer
red had they not been deficient
on that branch.
During the week there were washing
rains in Kefshaw county, where fields
are becoming grassy, being too wet to
work. There was also an excess of
rains in portions of Florence and Barn
well counties, hindering cultivation.
There were local high winds doing
damage*oye^ limited areas, to trees, to
cottort and corn in Chesterfield, Ker
shaw and Williamsburg counties.
The sunshine during the week was
less than the normal, averaging only
about 58 per cent, for the entire State,
and ranging from 49 at Statesburg,
Sumter county, to 92 at McCall, Marl
boro. county, but it was generally suffi
cient for the needs of the crops.
On the 25th there was a hail storm
in Marlboro county, but it did little or
no damage; on the 26th there was a
hail storm in Chesterfield county that
did some damage to crops.
The temperature was quite even dur
ing the whole week, and on no day did
the departure from the normal exceed
three degrees. It was slightly above
on four days and below, or normal, on
three, making the average for the
week as nearly seasonable as it is pos
sible to determine.
The highest temperature reported was
100 on the 25th at Blackville, and on
the 26th and 27th at Loopers; the low
est reported was 62 on the 29th at Bates
burg.
The mean temperature of the week
for the State was about 80, and the
normal for the same period is approx
imately 80.
The only existing unfavorable con
dition is the continued deficiency in
rainfall in portions of the State. There
were showers every day during the
past week in some section or other, but
they were generally light, with mark
ed exceptions. The rams of the latter
portion of the week fell after many
correspondents had mailed their re
ports, and so do not appear in this
week’s summary but will appear in the
figures of the next bulletin. The
heaviest rainfall for the week i£ report
ed from Charleston with a fall of 2.84
inches; there were ten other places
with amounts from 1 to 2 inches. The
of 40 rainfall reports is 0.90,
and the normal for the same period is
approximately 1.29.
a result of the generally favora
ble conditions, as shown by the above
weather review, there continues to be
a marked improvement in all crops,
and fanners are well up ' with their
work, the fields being, with a few ex
ceptions, clean and well cultivated.
The staple crops, cotton and corn,
small but growing well The
Tormer being noted as the smallest for
many years at this season. It is vigor
ous and has a good color, and is put
ting on squares freely; first blooms
were generally reported during the
last week of June, which is considera
bly later than usual. In Anderson
and some other of the Western
group of counties its worth has hither
to been greatly retarded by nie dry
weather, but now looks promising.
Sea Island cotton growing fairly well.
Old corn is being laid by all over the
State, as the weather permits. It is in
the silk and tassel, and, although its
stalk is short, yet its color is good and
promising generally. Bottom land
corn is said to be in excellent condi
tion everywhere and making rapid
growth. Some corn being planted on
oats stubble, but peas are receiving the
preference in many places for planting
stubble. 5 ~ r ~ ^
Wheat thrUshing is nearing comple
tion with generally satisfactory yields,
but nothing extraordinary. Late oats
are a good crop in Sumter, Fairfield
and Horry counties, and possibly gen
erally so.
The tobacco crop was greatly im-
f roved by the rains of the past week,
n Williamsburg county some has al
ready been cut, and it will soon be fit
to cut in portions of Florence and
Darlington, counties.
_Peas are growing well lately, and a
large crop is being planted on oats
stubble. The showers have enabled 1
peas to germinate quickly.
Mejons have made decided improve
ment and are promising a large crop,
but are so late that it is feared they
will not ripen in time to find a remu
nerative market.
Advantage was taken of the showery
weather to plant sweet potato slips,
and the crop now promises better than
at any time this year.
Gardens suffered most from the dry
weather, and in portions of the State
are practically ruined. However, it is
said they cah be replanted, and with
favorable weather yield large crops of
fall vegetables. ’ — : ~” s
Peaches are scarce and of poor qual
ity in Horry county, but peaches, as
well as many other varieties of fruits
and berries, are generally quite plenti
ful. The quality of the fruit varies in
different sections, but is generally very
fair. Apples are plentiful, and,
though small, are of excellent flavor.
The State is remarkably free from
insect pests, none having been reported
the past week; the weather conditions
are generally favorable, and with the
crons in a satisfactory condition, the
d-summer outlook is most encour-
mn
summer
aging for farmers.
* Laughed at the Laah.
Jacksonville, Fla., July 1.—Bessie
Seymour, aged 20 was cruelly whipped
by her father yesterday because she re
fused to renounce her lover, Mr.
Wheatley. Last night she fled
to her lover’s home ana marriage will
follftw as soon as the girl recovers
from the whipping. - ■
SOLO BREAK OF BURGLARS.
Dacian Keeape of Federal
Ladlow Street Jail.
New Yore, July 4.—Three desperate
postoffice burglars, Joe. Killoran Chas.
Allen and Harry Russell, prisoners oif
the United States government, held up
Keepers Edward A. Schneer and Chas.
Schoen at the muzzle of three shining
revolvers in Ludlow street jaU, seized
the keys that opened the three doors
between them' and liberty and made
good their escape. All this occurred
in broad daylight, just at 8 o’clock
this morning. The streets were crowd
ed, as they always are in that neigh
borhood, the escaping prisoners went
down Ludlow street to Broome, where
the men separated and were soon lost
in the most crowded section of the
streets of New York.
The story of the escape of these men
was told'by Schoen and Schneer as
well as by a civil prisoner who hap-
G ned in the office at the time and was
> excited to make even an outcry.
“Iliad just entered the jail,” said
Schneer, “to relieve Schoen, who was
the night keeper. The three prisoners
took their exercise in the inner court
of the jail between the hours of 8 and
9 o’clock every morning. They are sent
hack to their cells when the other pris
oners take exercise between 9 ana 10.
Just as I entered the door, the three
prisoners pulled out their revolvers
and covered Schoen and myself. They
are big men and very fierce looking.
‘Hold up your hands,’ they shouted at
us, ‘or we’ll blow your Dutch heads
off.’ At the same time, they yanked
the bunch of keys to the three outer
doors out my-hands. I was frightened
badly as I looked into the barrels of
three loaded revolvers, but shouted as
loudly as I could. Allen started to
unloch the door leading from the hall
where the hold-up took place, while
his comrades still menaced us with
their revolvers. A crowd, however,
began to gather in Ludlow street as
they heard the unusal noise in the jail,
and Allen could not open the door
quick enough. He then, with an oath,
smashed the big plate glass and reached
through and opened the latch. This
let him into the office, with three
heavily barred iron doors between him
and liberty. We kept on shouting all
the time, as the three desperadoes rat
tled the big keys in the heavy doors.
As they opened the doors,'they locked
them behind them, leaving us power
less to follow in pursuit. The outer
of the three doors they left open and
left the bunch of keys in the lock as
they had no time to do anything else.
The crowd had reached great propor
tions by this time. A number of
policemep came running up and the
E risoners had to make lively tracks up
udlow street, the crowd and the po
lice right on their heels.”
At Broome street, one block north of
the Ludlow street door from vyhich
they escaped, the men separated. Rus
sell keeping on, Allen going east on
Broome street and Killoran taking the
westerly direction.
At Broome and Clinton streets a
young man, Louis B. Os!ran, was fast
catching tip with Allen, when the fugi
tive turned upon his pursuer: “Now
sneak, or I’ll pat an air hole through
your heart,” he said. Ostran then
S ve up the chase and Allen was soon
it in the crowd.
Sheriff Tamsen’s warden. Henry F.
Raabe, was greatly annoyed when he
was asked about the escape.
“It was all because I lay down and
took a nap after giving the keys to the
keeper this morning,’ 7 he said snap-
Jeffersoitville, Ind., July L—A|
horrifying sight met the eyes of Mrs.
John Gan ole at 10 o’clock this morn
ing when she visited the Bennett fami-
ly at 278 Maple street In a room on
the ground floor she found the lifeless
form of Ella Bennett ag«d W; Omer, 1
aged 5 and their mother, side by side,
the latter gasping for breath and un-
conscious. Mrs. Bennett had made
full preparations to kill her children
and herself. She carefully dressed
herself and chrildren in spotless linen
for their burial. The mother lay in
a comatose state, while the bodies of
the chrildren with distorted feat
ures were by her side. No motive |
is asigned for the deed, and what poi
son she administered is not.known.
Mrs. Bennett was the wife of Benson
Bennett, a locomotive engineer, who
committed suicide at Indianapolis a
few month ago.
He Upeet the Boat.
Pittsburo, June 30.—Molly Mfeson I
and Isaac Adrian were drowned in the
Alleghaney river near Brilliant station
last night. Harry Mason, the hus
band of the woman, is locked up in jail
charged with murder for upsetting the
boat causing his wife ana Adrian to
fall out of and lose their lives. The
three persons mentioned, and a young
man named Barber, were crossing the
river on their return from a picnic.
Mason and his wife, who had been |
drinking and quarreling during the I
day, kept H up on the skiff. The boat
was stopped and Barber threatened to
hit Mason with an oar if he didn’t sit I
down. In taking his seat, Mason threw [
his leg over the boat and upset it. Mrs.
Mason and Adrian were drowned.
The other two swam ashore.
* A General Slaughter. *
Hopkinsville. Ky., July 1,—It was I
learned today tnat in Trigg county]
Saturday night, Frank Closton, a des
perate character, shot and severelv
wounded a neighbor farmer named |
John Rhodes, auer a quarrel Another
farmer named Hammond, attempted
to assist his friend, Rhodes, and was
killed by Closton. Several hours after-J
wards Colston went to the house of an- ]
other farmer in company jrith a wo
man and was ordered to leave the pre-1
mises. They refused and attacked the |
'aimer, who killed them.
I have notified Under Sheriff
Harry Sherman by telegraph; that's
all. I have sent no word to the United
States authorities.”
“Have you any idea how the men
secured their revolvers?” was asked.
“No, I haven't,” he replied.
“They were known to be desperate
characters and I' supposed you had
them searched every oay?”
“Oh, yes. That is they were searched
last when they were sent down to the
postoffice building on Friday for
amination. '
“Have <you any idea when they se
cured the pistols?’’
“No, I haven’t. No one has visited
them since that day, so far as 1 know.”
The men were dressed in very unob
trusive citizens' clothes when they es
caped. The men are famous criminals
and since one of Tamsen's men shaved
them in the prison they have had the
appearance of ordinary citizens. The
prisoners were regarded by the United
States secret service men as a most im
portant capture when they weft ar
rested on Amsterdam avenue on the
first of last June. Their bail had been
fixed at $10,000 and they were to have
come up for another examination on
Tuesday next. The police have sent
out a general alarm.
A Desperedo Killed.
Hopkinsville, July 4.—News has
just reached here of a terrible tragedy
in Trigg county late Saturday evening.
Frank Colston, a desperado residing in
in
5
that county, had a difficulty with and
shot and severely wounded John H.
ligh
farmer, named Hammond,
present and who was a friend
Rhodes, a farmer of his neighborhood.
Another
who waii
of Rhodes, attempted to assist Rhodes.
Colston then shot and instantly killed
Hammond before he could render any
assistance to his wounded friend.
For some reason Colston, after
wounding Rhodes, did not shoot him
again, probably thinking him dead.
ilston did not attempt to escape nor
did any one attempt to arrest him, but
he went on where ne was going when
the difficulty was begun. A few hours
later Colston, in company with a
prostitute, went to the house of anoth
er farmer. The farmer ordered the
desperado and the woman to leave his
place. They refused to do so and at
tacked the farmer, who, securin
weapon, succeeded in killmg both
ston and the woman.
'Sot-
ig of a policeman named McDonald,
when a speedy inshoot struck him on
the head felling him unconscious to
the ground. He was ti
pital, where he died today of hemor
rhage of the brain caused by the blow
from the ball.
SATE MONEY
By writing me for Catalogue
and prloee—Highest Grade
BICrCLBB,
BUGGIES,
HARNESS,
SEWING
- ^ MACHINES,
DESK AND OFFICE FITTINGS
v
at wholesale prices to consumers. This
means exactly whet.lt says—I went yoa
end I went year trade. Remember, High
est Grade at loweet prices. Do not fell to
take advantage of thls offer. 1 act square
and honest, and expect to “keep everlast
ingly at It,” and If It does not bring success
IwlU be badly FOOLED.
I will bay anything for yoa here and
give yoa the advantage of the Chicago
Market. Write me for what yoa want,
and I will send yoa prices.
BENJ. BEALE,
TT0 WARREN AVE.,
CHICAGO, ILTu
ORGANS
* ,
Special Sale.
Special Prices.
Special Term*.
GREAT CLEARING SALE.
Three Hundred Ferior
and Church Orffane, from neted
makers, at Prime Coat to reduce
stock.
Hast bo sold. Floors brooking
down. Can't carry them through
dull summer. Got too many,
Price no object. Profit not con
sidered. Mast unload.
ist possfMc
Only •!.OO,
y. Ohe-hai
terms tor pay-
ei.ao, as, os,
half saved by bnji
Killed at the Bat.
Philadelphia, June 30.—William
C. Dewes, a young paper hanger, was
one of a party of men who were play
ing a scrub game of ball yesterday.
Dewes was at the bat facing thepiten-
of a policeman named McDonald,
Easiest
meat. 0
monthly,
Ing now.
Bargain Sheets Bendy. Write
tor them.
. Mention this advertisement and
Paper.
RIDDEN 4 BATES,
SmDnib, Gt
MOTHERS READ THIS.
THE BEST
REMEDY.
For Flatulent Colic, Diarrhoea, Dys
entery, Nausea, Coughs, Cnolen.
Infantum, Teething Children.
Cholera Morbus, Unnatural
Drains from the Bowels, Fains,
Griping and all diseases of; the
Biotnaoa and Bowels
FITTS’ CARMINATIVE *
Is the standard. It carries children
over the critical period of teething,
and is recommended by physicians
as the friend of Mothers, Adults
uid Children. It is pleasant to
the taste, and never falls to give
. satisfaction. A few doeea will
demonstrate its superlative v(rtuea.
Friee Mots, per bottle. For sale
by druggists, and by .-
In the South** J
to do ao in the qnlokMt time have
concluded to make eome very liberal
offers in bedroom salts to seeave at
least one customer at every poet of.
flee In the next sixty days. Please
read tola advertisement carefully
and send at once for one of oar spef
rial offers.
OurgreatofferNo.l consists of one
Solid oak Bedroom Salt with larga
dresser with 30x34 bevel mirror, one
large washstand with ease, one « ft
• bedstead fall width. This salt of
furniture la worth in say furniture
store not less than $35.00. Do not
think for once that it is a little cheap
suit for we assure yoa it is not, hat a
large fall else salt eqaal to anything
on the market *
In order to start the sale of these
suites and to keep oar men busy and
introduce our business In your neigh- *
borhood, we agree to ship one suite
only to each shipping point in the
South fer $15.00 when the cash comes
with the order. 'Phis advertisement
will poariblv appear twice in this pa
per, therefore if you are Interested
cut this out and send with $15.00 and
the suite will be shipped to yoa. If
it is not just as represented yoa mar
return the suite at oar expense and
your $15.00 will be refunded to yoa..
Oar catalogue containing many ulas-
tratlons of rare bargains and boose
furnishing goods will be sent to yoa
upon application.
The suite above described is a spe- |
rial bargain and does not appear In
the catalogue, therefore It u useless
to write for Illustrations of this suite,
and while you are delaying writing
someone else is getting the bargain.
We assure you that we will not
ship but one suite in your neighbor,
hood at this price. Atter one suite
has been shipped In the neighbor*
hood the price will go to at least
$30.00.
Mj, F. PADGETT,
846 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA.
MACHINERY
AT
FACTORY
PRICES.
- Every Ginnery should be equipped with
the Thomas Elevstlag and Dlstribating
Machinery for handling, cleaning, ginning
and packing cotton.
One single continuous lint flue sad con
denser tor a battery of two or more gins.
Revolving double box steam prees, self-
I packing. No hands employed except to
| put ties on bale. No belts. No pulllee
No screws to give trouble. Saves labot
and Insurance, improves grade of cotton
and makes money. We offer also an ex-
tensive line of cotton gins, presses, eane
| mills, corn mills and saw mills.
Also Talbott, Llddel, and Watertown
| engines.
Our Bice Huller, which prepares rice
I ready for the table or market should be at
{every mill.
V. C. Badfiam,
• GENERAL AGENT,
COLUMBIA, M. C. —
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[Strawberry Plants
And in fact all kinds of plants can be
SET OUT
tT
by using the ^
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transplan teb.
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Killed In a Church.
Cprdova, Md., June SO.—Lightning
struck the Baptist Church here today
while the morning service was in
progrees. Arvali Randall, a young
farmer, who had just arrived, was in
stantly killed by the shock, as were
also a pair of horses standing near by.
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after
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| five acrao of plants In a day, and
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WATERED J
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rain. Set out yoor plants when they are
| ready.
Get a machine and plant' for your
I neighbors. You can earn enough in one
I season topsy for the machine. Easy terms.
Send for circulars, prices and testimonials.
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- Mention this paper.
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regulator, acts directly On the kidneys.
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