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. ■ , Described by a Reformed Yegg- man in His Testimony * AGAINST HIS .PALS. He Says that South Caroliaa U aa Easy Proposition for Professional Bar- liars. Says Crackiaf Safes ia this State Is Jast Like Finding Money. ' s“ ;Y‘ "Soath Carolina’s the easiest State to operate In,” saH John McCarthy, alias John O. Dandrell, the reformed yeg?man, who has been given a short respite from the Vermont State peni tentiary to come to Charleston as a State's witness to testify in the safe blowirg and post-office robbery cases last week in the Doited States circuit court, the remark being made in pre facing a description of the manner in which the yrggoaen do their work. During the past three or four years there have been made robberies of safes and vaults in posiofflcts and banks in South Carolina, and McCar thy was probably telling the truth, whan he made the plain and candid statement, the corroboration of the many witnesses to his testimony in the robbery cases, during the past week, having shown that the reform ed yeggman can tell the truth and really seems desirous of making a clean breast of his past and starting life anew. McCarthy has operated in many States in the Union, including the distant California, Mexico, Art tons, as well is the States along the Atlantic seaboard, South Gar jllnan North Carolina, Virginia, Massachu setts, Rhode Island and Vermont, hfs robbery of a bank at Neafane, in the last named State a few months ago, resulting in his conviction and a sen tenoe of a term of seven years in the pentiary at Windsor. His testimony on this point is certainly competent and it might be better classed as “ex- pert” testimony. The statement that South Carolina is an easy mark—“It’s just like find ing money,” as McCarthy went on to explain—is not through any lack of efficiency in the care of post-offices and bank vaults in this State, but became of the sparsely settled condition com paratlvely speaking, and the “open ebaraoter of the country," which en ables the yegg men to easily make their escape, after a “job,” as the op eratlon of breaklr g and robbing safes is termed. In the more thickly set tled communities of the North and West, the robbers r on greeter chances of erreste, and whan they find an easy mark they naturally work it, and this is why there have been so many safes blown and robbed In South Carolina during the past few yeara, and it fur ther accounts for eleven man now *terving terms in the Federal priaon at Atlanta, sent up by PoAtofflce Inspec tor Gregory and the other lynx-eyed detectives of the Postoffioe Depirt- meotr with the oertslnty that tbs number will be Inoreesed by severs! more convicts, af a result of the pres ent term of the circuit Court. "Tbs first thing we do when we reach our base of operations," sail McCarthy, “ia to secure a Cram’ map, giving the names and location of banka in our vicinity, for we always try to proceed Intelligently In our work, and the banks are more invlt Ing than posteffloes. A job is usually dona by four men, although some times there may be three, but four at least la almost necessary for a success fui operation. When we secure the map, we study the railroad time ta bn t. and the general topograptoal fea tures of the Immediate section. We select the bank and one t>r more or the gang will go 'scouting' to see that the job can be safely pulled off. The police protection of the town is loves ligated, and attention is given to the movements of trains and general ave nues of esgai&^^es Wall ss a place where we may safely meet before be ginning work. A man will go into the bank or post* fflee to have a bil lAhaVhe might survey the lo cation of things ana as the 'scouting Is a most Important part of the j ib, It Is always carefully attended to soma times two or three days being devoted to tbls work. The scout re turns to the tsse, and acquaints the party of his InysstigatloD, and if his report is favorable, a time is then fixed for the job and arrangements made accordingly. “The preparations of the nitro glycerine is a matter of the first con oern, of course, and let me say r ght here, it makes a mab awfully sick to handle it, even carrying it in a grip The fumes will turn s man's stomach and acme times make him sick for two or three days. On account of its dangerous nature, we can’t buy it, and we are forced to extract it from dynamite, which we usually steal from a quarry or magaxlne, near the base of opeeratlons. We never start out on a jab with less than a pint of the explosive, for we need s least a quar tar or a half pint for a job. We take about ten sticks, six inches long and , a half Inch in diameter, orambls it in a piece of doth, and then place it bus- penoeo In a can of warm water. We keep constantly renew the warm wa- :* tor. which gives the operation the , name of 'cooking the soup.’ : As the glycerine comes out of the dynamite, - it being heavier than the water, it drops to the bottom of the can, and ~ when we have sufficiently extracted the glycerine, we draw off the water from above the expletive by. means of a syringe. The glycerine is then (trained for we have to get out all perttolee of dust, In order to mftke it - safer in and also Tor better results, when we use on s “One man will carry the bottle of ^ glycerine and the tools, which consist of a few cakes of soap, drills and 1m- but generally speaking, we > not laden ouxaelvee with tools, iw hammer and a few oblseli os crow bars to prise the outside docs of the bank or posteffloe and then to operate with on the bank or vault. “In going to the place we all do not go together. One or two will n some other plaint nearby, that the ptolona of the conductor and train crew-may not be exalted. We drop off the train se near together, bow ever, as we poo snd then we make the point of randesvoue, generally in the woods at some point already agreed upon. Much of our success depends upon eluding the railroad people and town authorities and this is not easy, when a train la in charge of such a man as Conductor Blanchard, to whom is more due than any other person that tne bank at St. George was not robbed, as was testified in court a few days ago. A wide awake conductor will come near to putting off our job at any time. “The time of operating is between midnight and t o'oluok in the morn rg. We time ourselves to begin work about 12 o'clock. Well, the first thing we do, upon coming from under cover —and by tha way, we don’t bother to dlguise ourselves with false beards and all that sort of thing, usually held in tbs public mind—is to take a stroll through the streets shout toe bank or postoffioe. We look carefully. It may be necessary to catch a watchman, gag him and tie him up, but wa chmau ike to sleep when everything gets quiet, and things are quiet Id the aver age country town at midnight We get the tools, and if our keys do not fit the locks we then break open the door and resell the safe or vault. Two men stay on the outside ta watch, while the other two, with an electric flash light, or dark lantern, get to work on the safe. The importance of the men on the onttide is shown by the break ers waiting on their signal for the blowing of the safe.. When toe holes have been drilled and prepared for blowing it is the men on the outside who give the signol for the sot, on toe principal that if any su* plclous movement of an officer or neighbor has'been noted, the noise of the explosion may be deferred until things again became quiet. The report of glycerine is sharp and quick noise which especially commends its use, for hardly does It take place than it la all over and if it should be beard by anybody in the neighborhood, they soon turn over in their beds and go back to sleep, believing that they dreamt Of toe report. ~ — - 1 “A safe Is a ‘pete’ in the parlance of yeggman. The two men on the In of blowing and robbing aafM, the book oeght to take wall In Booth Carolina. e tens o( aeveo yeemlem good k»c while to spend behind walla of its, hot McCarthy seen signed to hie fits. He to be abetter man in toe future, and having broken off with his a—otiates he is certain to amount to some thing In his remaining days. He is a strong, wall built men of twenty-live years of age, and 2m will leave the prison at aa age when hie faculties ought to be well developed, and ready to en gage In en honest and honorable vo cation, as his whole purpose shows it self now. Hts first robbery was at Norfolk, in July, 1898, and his last has been committed. McCarthy is a native of Philadel phia. The names by which he is known are his hobo names. He can not say now where he will finally start life anew, but he ia bent upon d< log batter, and he has no fears or doubt* that be will succeed in his purpose He fears no assault by toe men upon whom be has voluntarily turned State's evidence, and in this be prob ably oounte upon the government putting his former accomplices be iind the prison walls, and trusting that they too might make e similar deter mination to lead a bettor life and be come asefnl citizens upon being again given their liberty.—Charleston Post. TH1 S ADO 1ST WORDS. I perfectfym- The Sooth’s Golden Opportunity ^ ^ vault* la determined „ . — :— 3:—j: ' ; we always find a blacksmith’s shop, ora railroad sectionhoqfg at tome ide get down on their knees before it and begin work. They thoroughly soap toe crevices of the outside door, and then begin to drill the bole for the cotton, saturated with the glycerine. Tue hole is drilled between toe com- bination and the handle, dose to the combination, first with a quarter-inch drill, then, with a fl /e-eight and next with a half-inch drill. Into this hole, is placed the saturated cotton, con nected with a cap and fuse, which are held in place with soap which also deadens the sound. Then, everything is ready for the signal from the out side. It is given and the explosion takes place in the lock box on the in side, breaking the lock and sometimes forcing the door off the hinges. Tbs operation of blowing the safe requires just a certain amount, for a too beav ler charge of glycerine might knock of the handle and Jam the door and give trouble. Onoe the outside door Is off then the yeggman turn their at tention to the inside sheet door, which is called the ’kelater’ in the language of the safe blowers. This is the hard est^door to open, and the blawers art some times at their wits ends to get on the inside. A bole is drilled and the explosive is inserted. Another ex plosion takes place, and probably only one sheet of metal comes off. A bolt Is loosened or knocked out of place and into this opening another charge of glycerine Is inserted, and this op eratlon is continued until tbs dor is finally down and the cash drawer Ia riffl.d. “The work of blowing a safe re quires about an hour and a half, and Immediately at its conclusion the gang makes off ss soon as possible. Wt ‘strike across country’ unless s venient freight train passes, never, however, dividing the booty until da> light on toe next morning Somttlmet- we have to bury toe treasure, or part of it, and the tools having to b- hidden some times, too. When we take the train we never ride more than abouttwenty five mile*, when we then strike across country, putting further distance between uaaad on pursuers. In hurrying toe t«d bag Of treasure, we always carefully select the place, making it easy of finding upon our return. “Dodging bloodhounds is done by attaching a small pleoa of doth, sat urated with the oil of mustard to the heels of our shoes. We used to use vaseline with iodoform, but the trouble about this drug Is that we oould not get the smell off our clothes when we wanted to do so, so the oil of mustard Is now us d to advantage. In dodging officers we have a merry time of it some times being often forced to face the musia It til depends upon the ebaraoter of the man or men at the head of the pome. 1 ’ McCarthy oould not help but smile as he thought of some town marshals who have stood Id doorways whan fired upon, and unon the yegg men gate- ting out of the way of harm, tbafr firing their guns in the sir, making great profession of earnestness and vigilance to hold their jobs. MoCar- -toy can tell soma interesting toings of what town officers have failed to do, but this is not his business, or In clination at tola time. There are many other interesting toings that McCarthy can tell and did tall to a reporter of Tbs Even'ng Poet, which would make good newspaper stories, but he is now trying to live down his past and toe stoivof his adventures in many States, with their thrilling episodes and such sidelights as he can cast upon them, are left un reported at this time. McCarthy has reformed. He has hopes of making a useful citizen out of himself one of these days. He has been assigned to toe shoe manufactory department of his priaon, a trade which he-may fol low when be bids farewell to toe prla fbirwaUs.-' ---■•*.• McCarthy will spend a part of his time In priaon, writing a story of hia Rev. Dr. HtlH*’ Opinion of Remarks ol Young Rockefeller. In the course of his sermon in Ply mouth church, Brooklyn^ recently, the Bev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillls referred to the gift of 8100,000 made by John D. R >ckefeller to the Ameri can Board of Foreign Missions, and to Mr. Rockefeller's son. He said in part: “The saddest words that have been written iu this generation-ware spoken before Brown university by a young man who is to inherit one of the sresteet fortunes in this country They were spoken in defense of toe trusts. Listen to them: ‘The Ameri can Beauty rose can be produced In al its splendor only by sacrificing tbs early buds that grow up around it. The rose has 1,000 buds and in order to produce the American Beauty the gardener goes around it with a knife and snips 999 in order that all the strength of toe beauty may be forced Into one bloom. In hia economic argument this young man tells the working classes brutally that 99< small business men must be snuffed out. of existence in order that his American beauty, tha trust, may be produced. Listen to Christ: 'Let the strong bear tha burdens of the weak; and again: ’Give and It shall be given unto you.’ , s. ‘These words In defense of the trusts are the moat heartbreaking tblnga in the literature to those who know what is going to come in the future. Can you wonder that after that, when a man gives gifts, we have no gratitude to return?” Retleetiona Of A Bachelor. A girl never underestimates toe importance to the world of tltlee, matinees and bonbons. When a man retires from business to take Ufa easy, be baa to get up al toe earlier to pull his son out of bed. There is something shout a wo man’s bat that makes a man feel sym pathy for the inventor of flying ms chines. - You can always Convince a woman that It la more besoming for her to wear her hair the way she does than it would be for anytoiy else. When you hear a man praising bis neighbors it's doughnuts to fudge’ he wants to sell his bouse. Nothing gives a woman’s religion such a jolt a« the suggestion that she got the husband heaven really intend fd for her. - Now the summ a r girl will soon be gin to freeze on to the reckless youth *bo has a mania for squander log his con- coin for ice c earn. — Kilted the dheriff Sheriff J. M P<>ag of Tate county. Miss., was shot sod killed Wednesday by eight masked men, names unknown who entered the jail and made an In effec’ual attempt to llnerate Jamet> White, a white prisoner who is to be placed on trial on a charge of murder One of the invaders was wounded They gained an entrance to the jail bef -re Sheriff Poag was aware of it Po*g ordered them to leave; when they refused to do so he fired, wound ing one-man. The ethers fired on the sheriff, two bulleti taking effect, oae passing the left lung. Tne men then left, taking their wounded o -m panion with them. Sheriff Poag died an hour later. Four of the men ware arrestee later. Died While Speaking. At Atlanta, Ga., Washington Deasau of Macon, one of the most pro mlnent members of the Georgia bar, died Wednesday while addressing the supreme oourt of the State. The cause of the death" was apoplexy, which re suited fatally within 10 minutes after he ms attacked. Mr. Deasau was born in Macon In July, 1852. He was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1870 and began at once tha study of his profession. He was presi dent of the Georgia Bar association In 1892, a member of the electoral collection In 1883, and was a delegate as large from Georgia to the'national Democratic convention in 1888. A Birdlime Tree. There is in New Zealand a tree which proves faftti to birds in an al together singular way. The seed vmscIs give off w sticky fluid, and many a fly finds itself imprisoned in toe gummy staff. Tbege flies in their turn attract until birds. and,tbey also get so covered with toe fluid that they are unable to flutter. The fruit, too, la an object of desire, and birds come, as it were, glued to the ripe clusters which they proposed to eat. SOU SUICIDE. Neglected Sayi a Michigander. WEDDED TO COTTON. He Cells AUeatloe te Oar Adrsatsfes for Stack Raislog ss Ceaipared With Westers Farmers Who Mast Feed With • Fork Six Moaths fa the Year ORANGEBURG BANKS Save Millions of Delian ©a Deposit WE A FOR ’ COLUMBIA co Whisks The Oowatv Has Ten Banks. All ol Morphine Habit AH Tobacco John Dow, a negro, shot and killed his wife and her father-in-law gad mother-in-law and another negro wo- bmb at Sulphur Rock, Ark., on Tues day. The trouble began beokuss his wife refused to go home with him. We reproduce below from the Pro grossive Farmer and Cotton Plant, an exosllent agricultural journal pub lished at Raleigh, N. 0. r a highly suggestive letter from a Michigan farmer on the golden opportunity for stock raising in the South..' Our peo ple have really “had cotton pulled over their eyes,” as be says, or they would not have oeen so blind ta the opportunities about them. “Soil sui cide” is s good word that, he gives^us to describe any system of farming which leaves out stock raising. Read the letter, which follows: Prof. B. W. Kilgore, Raleigh, N. C. Dear Sir:—I find The Progressive Farmer very interesting. So many toings are vastly different from our mothods. It Kerns as though you ari greatly favored. To day (March 12th) the sun is shining on fields glis tening with snow. Here and there the earth breaks through and looks appealingly upward to the sun. Not two hundred fast away are drifts all of four feet deep. There atm a few bare spots in the roads, but runner vechicles are all in use still, and this is the seventy-seventh day of oontln uous, unbroken sleighing. There were a few days of sleighing previous to that, but there wes au interval of bare ground. For seventy-seven days the snow has not boon wholly melted fram my house roof. Do the planters sell their cotton seed to oil mills and buy back the fe* tillxer meal? isn’t this meal of more value to feed farm animals than far fertilizer? Certainly with your her muds and crab grasses and vast store of cottonseed it does seem ss though you might ruin toe beef trust by grow Ing hooves and mutton for the greet city trade of our Ess tern markets. Feeding lambs ia followed to some extent here; farmers with 80 to 160 sbres of land feed twenty to fifty lambs, where so situated as to pasture the ewes, profitably. Tha industry is at a low ebb this seoson as to number fed, and the price to farmers is close to 8 per cent (live weight) all this winter. You may be assured there is good profit in that. Tbs United States consumed 461,' 000,. pounds of wool in 1903; three- sights of it foreign grown—jay 90, 000 tons. What alls the South with its wide-spread hills and mountain lands clad in perennial grass—ideal home for sheep—to go on making cot ton and tobacco, all hard work and soll-suioide, when sheep are soil con aervators, easily tended, and pay large profit as mutton, quite independent of wool? You are nearer New York than is lows, and I just read in an Iowa farm paper ot one farmer who is feedln); 12,000 sheep, s mere handful to whst he usually feeds. The b ef trust dia oour&gei him and he sold largely of his o-rn crop, rather than feed beeves and sheep as he has heretofore done But you see he is at the mercy of the beet an i railroad trusts, white you people are a mere stop to the seaboard and thence to market, independent of the trusts. "If I were physically well I’d like to try the Soutn. It does seam as though your blessings are it finite as compar ed with us, feeding farm animals with a fork six mouths in a year. _~. I’he South appears to be iu thtp grasp of the tobacco trust and cotton sharks. Still, Its people go on 1m poverishlng toeir soils growing these crops; still trying to keep up fertility with pnosphate rook and imported ferttitx TH to the exnaustioD of their pocket hooka, while a vast market for ftod stuffs, meat particularly, liesTn the hMlow of her head—unheeded! Argentina and Australasia sold us about 225 000,000 pounds of wool in ten years. M'«t of the time the South lay face down across toe knees of the trusts squalling under the merited blows of the trusts’ price slipper. Think of Argentina, 10,000 mllea awaV at the sooth end of creation, sell ing us wool at seven cents, and the South, with all the blessing of a ro bust wool tariff, burning cotton to keep np toe prloel If that isn’t spectacle for gods and men! With Illimitable resources In the best posture on earth, vast stores of cottonseed, inexhaustible possibilities in com, oowpeas, alfalfa, rape, pea □uts, cane and sorghum syrups, the South should have mlllous of head of muttons and beeves, thousands Of packing houses and fleets of ocean linen bearing refrigerator meats to other lands. If New Z island can ship loads of frozen rabbitai to England, what alls your people? Must they al ways hold a pound df cotton so near their eyes they can’t see a dolls? leas than arm’s length away ?" Perennial swine plague will pork groiittfiroo extensive scale dif ficult in- the South, but what Is wrong with mutton growing? Tie a clean er meat and healthy always. The sheep isn’t a scavenger. North daro- ilna oould wall afford to grant a bounty on every well-bred sheep im ported for breeding into the State; on every pound of wool grown and every sheep carcass exported form too State in ten years. To aid sheep breeders, England law onoe compelled all her deed to be buried in woolen shrouds—and ssa what an immenos oommaros In wool aha built up and holds to this day. But the South—oh, she has the cot ton pulled over her eyes and sesa not! H. Genesis Oo., Mtotof" ~ : j Which Arc Doing' Well and Making Money. The quarterly statesmenta of the various banks of the 9i$J and county of Orang* burg foi^ the quarter ending March 31, showfiag the quarter of business on that day. gives an inter Mting insight into the financial condi tion of OiAQgeburg County. There are (our banks in the city o’ Orangeburg as follows: Bank of Or aogsbarg, Ell-*to Savings Bank, Pso lie’s Baok and Farmers’ and Mer chants’ bank. Thet-e four backs have a combined capital of 9210,000, and a combined surplus of net earnings of about 1125,000 additional, which may be classed as a part of the capital These four banks bad on deposit on March 31, in r^nnd figures, three- quarters of a million dollars. To- ?ether the combined capital surplus and deposits of the banks of the city aggregate considerably mure than a million dollars. — There are six other banks in the smaller towns of the county, ten banks in all in Orangeburg County, and independent of oapiisl and sur plus there was about a quarter of a million dollars on deposit in these outside banks of the county on the date of the statement. The aggre ’rta.ii h* FCeelev Intetitxrte, of &. 2%$ at lor P. a 8. O. CfcnBAMUtI < dtiO The Guinard Brick Works, 1 C'OHvlTMBlA.. €1- ©. , - w Rri<.k Fire Proof Terra Cotta Building Blocks, for SSt TO* to Ul ord«. lor tboouri. ; or millions. K1LFYBE! kufyreh ULPYREHI la, aFtre Killer. Os n)h«ratioa every r its fire fighting qualities. Saw Mill. Ginnery and any one owning For saleby*^ _ 00.. The machinery Supply house of the State That is exactly what 1 Brain it day at the State Fair ahowli Every Fanner, Oil Mill, property should have them. Columbia., CARR TOR MOT ERR. Boys Oirls, In Her Old Age, Don’t Neglect Her. What can possibly be sadder a mother neglected lo her old than age ? To think of all the pain, sorrow, trouble and anxiety she endured for . hr her many sleepiest nights and gate amount on deposit in the various dayt when she held In her ten banks of Orangeburg County now | the m ' 1# feTerU h, fretful body foots up very close to a million dol lars. All of the banks of tlie county show a steady Increase in amount of de posits,'earnings and volume of bus! The greater number of tl banks have been organized within past few years, and all are prosperous and sucoessful. In business circles it is recognized that the business and conditions of the banks of s communi ty retlect toe general welfare and business conditions of that communi ty. The showing above 1a taken at a season of the year when there is gen erally a minimum rather than a maxi mum amount of money in the c aunty. The beet showing financially, sails wellRnown, can be mads during tbs fail and winter months. Tan years ago or even five years ago nothing like the above showing oould be made from toe statements of the tanks of tbeioouhty. . , - The business growth of Orangeburg city, as well as its growth in buildings and population, during recant years have been enormous, and the busi ness conditions of the city, which is the county seat and business centre of this large and fertile county, nil eta. a general advancement and prosperi ty for the entire county that is noth ing less than remarkable. Orange burg County has had little outside capital to? come in to build up its towns and communities is the work of the native cltlzma and home capital almost entirely. Orangeburg County is almost ex clusively an agricultural section and the towns are almost entirely depen dent upon agriculture fur their sup porta This fact is worthy of consld oration, and there are few large man ufaoturing establishments in the county to accomplish big things or handle large sums of money. It is true that there are a few successful factories in the c mnty, two success fill cotton mills in the city, but the number is exc edlngly small for s oiuty of the size and wealth of Or augeburg County. This county is a fair illustration of what is being done all over the South, and the North and Suit may well keep their eyes on t> e South for the next decade. Greater things are yet lo the m iking all over the Suuth, and there is no finer field In the entire Southern country for the Investment of capital and launching of business enterprises than the county of Orange ;.»urg and the city of Onngeburg, -i_ Vle<ii»aOf Vainiiy. Woman’s v,niy has proved a fertile tering his vlct’ms with the belief ihat they are social leaders, has swindled many women in Chisago re cently. Levine pleaded guilty In Judge Tuthill’s court to the marge of oper ating a confidence game, and was sent to jail pending an Investigation of his operations In Eastern cities. “I have been Mail to you because you are one of the leading society women of the city,” Levine said to his victim, “and you have been Klee ted to share in the distribution of prizes by my firm for advertising purposes.” He then pro duoed a package of envelops and de clared each envelope contained money, The envelops he sold at prices ranging from 81 to-115 each, with the stlpula tion that they should not be opened until he had been gone half an hour. The envelopes contained only blank P*P«r. Food Supply In Waters. The waters are almost as prolific in furnishing a food supply to mankind as the land. The ocean teems with fish over areas that have scarcely been touched in the drafta that have hither to been made. An illustrating in stance is the French fishing attempt in toe deep waters off the west coast c! Africa The first and experiment al attempt at taking fish with trawls was successful beyond all axpectation. resulting In a catch of more than 7,- 000 pounds, in the catch being many enormous soles and codfish weighing teem 50 to 80 pounds each. There will never be a famine on land if only the seas can be made to yield their fall food tribute. — Tha King and the Uirl. It Is reported tost the young king of Spain declared to his ministers concerning his marriage that he did not want a stupid European princess, but would prefer « bright Amer ican girl' with plenty 6f life and ’money. While it Is not at all likely that toe young king ever made the remark attributed to bite, it Is certain that he might do much worse, though It is equally certain that the bright Amerhan girl might do much better. - - who would allow no one else to hold it to relieve her own weariness! Then when, health again returned it wts still a continual cry for “mama I mama!” the livelong day ! And then to think that as the years pass the growing children will depend less and Isas on “mother’’ till finally they cease altogether to go to her for her counsel and care, and think because she is growing old, faded and wrinkled that she does not care for love and tenderness ss all other human beings do. They neglect to show her the small courtesies we feel due our younger friends, “bsceuas she will not notice them” or * h ® *• “ t0 ° old ' fsahloasd to understand” the up- to- date politeness. To us at least it is a heart-breaking fpeotacle to behold, for as “mother” grows older- we should give her more instead of leK of our love and tender care, and should honor her years and expe rianbe by asking her advice even on trivial subjects, for she will then feel that she Is still necessary to us and have a share In our dally trials MEN-WRITE TO <0 •_ • • : DR. HATHAWAY ABOUT YOUR CONDITION. He has been Treating Diseases of Men for Twenty five Years. His Reputation is, Firmly Established. A VALUABL1 BOOK Fill. DR. HATHAWAY, Whose Kaowledge UFreTite tt Sick. can and joys as of yore, when she In all to us. Take my withered bands In yours, Children of my soul. Mother’s heart is craving love, Mother’s growing old. >. See the snows of many years— Crown my furrowed brow. ——7- As I’ve loved and pet ed you, Love and pet me now. ^ * Lay your hands upon my head, Smooth my whitened hair, I’ve been growing old the while You’ve been growing fair. I have toiled and prayed for you— Ask not why or bow — As I’ve loved ana petted yqu, Love and pet me now. Take my withered hands in yours. Children of my heart, Mother’s growing old, your love Makes of life sweet part.' Touch with loye my faded cheek, ' Kite my anxious brow. As I’ve loved and petted you. Love and pet me now. Take my withered hands In yours, Hold them close and strong. Cheer me with a fond caress, "Twill not be for long. Youth immortal scon will crown With Its wreath my brow. As I loved and petted you, Love a'nd pet me. uowv Take my withered handsJn yours, This your heart will prove; »* ,-^J If you owt^ne anything, Pay the aebt in love. Pre-s me in your strong young arms, Brexthe a loving vow That as I loved and petted jou You’ll love and pet me now. MeLaarin Bit Hard. In the United States Circuit Oourt St Charleston on Wednesday a verdict for 141,639.28 was Senator John L. McLzurln In the suit of the International Trust company of Baltlmoreron a promissory note, toe verdict .being found by the jury upon the instructions of the court. The suit grows out of the industrial ventures in which the ex-senator engaged, upon the'termination of nis career in congress. As presldeni of the Brunswick and Birmingham rail road and vice president of the Bruns wick and Western Construction com pany, Mr. McLaurln gave his personal notes to the trust oompany, being In dorsed, however, by Trank A. Um- stedt, who appears to have been one of the promoters of the project, in which toe ex-senator waMconnected The industrial concerns reem to have been more on paper than in fact, but the notes of Mr. McLaurln were valid, even if the industrial projects were failure. - Ttkowsanda Dead. A dispatch from London aars word received from Lord Curt on confirms the reports of the loss of life in the recent earthquake. The viceroy’s mas sage says that three thousand persons perished in Palmampura Valley and ten thousand lost their Uvea in toe Kangra Valley. fOtiW———ri—Mf-l Dr. J. Newton Hathawey, of AtlanU, vrgg gll the g'eat epecialiat in Um treatment <>( disease* of men, wants to hear from every mm who reads this announcement, who ia ef-. dieted with any private diaeese, and let hi a er plain to them hia new syatem of oaring Ui a class of diaeaae, whish ouraa in half the Una required by the old method. Dr. Hathaway. ha* been testing disease* of men for atore tL.u* a quarter century, and he ia continual y .*insling and perfecting new methods i.y which he tan cure the afflicted. He baa our -d patients scattered all over this oetmtry, wh<. u he has never seen, whose diseases he was al le to cure by a system which ha has for oari.ig the afflicted at a distance, and if you are suf fering from any disease peculiar to your act, or any other disease of a chronic or llngeri tg nature, such aa Stricture, Varioooela, lie v- oua De ility, Loss or Manhood, Blood Pois (Syphilis), Kidney and Bladder Complain a. Rheumatism, Diseases ef-Ahe Heart, Btomn h and Liver, etq>, you ahouH immediately write this great specialist, and let him explain to y>>u just what is the nature of tout trouMe and just what to do for relisf. Ha mill oo n- sel andadvise you for nothing—advioe that ia baaed oo years of actual experience. A f orest many men make the mistake of th tr ives by placing their caeee with their lo, d physician, for the average practitioner no matter how competent he may be, has not I ad the experience neceeeary to enooeealolly treat such delicate diseases. What you need, . mid what you will be compelled to reeort to if y»a ever get cured, is skillful, scientific treatm, it, administered by an expert specialist whom know ia competent o treat yon. Dr. Ha ha way has been established in Atlanta*' or fiaa y li years, and his reputation is known to nil. He has built up the largest practice in tl.i^. country by dealing honesUy with the peon:A You take no risk whatever in dealing with h|l£ —you can always feel aaoured of a “squ ifw -gmm> — . ■ 1 —■— ».— — <— You cannot expect to go through life affli jt- ed with a disease that you know will eventual- I T lead you to a possible death, no write Dr. Hathaway a letter right now, telling him juht how you auKer, and he will immediately sctid •ou his opinion of your cate, accompanied hr 1 valuable-hook on your disease, all of wi.iun is absolutely free. Have no hesitancy in writing him. The permanent tlMramda ^ J-NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D„ 88 Inman Bldg, Atlanta Oa. teSuS^tiMt 1 ^ -A Preposition ol interest To all readers of this paper. w!io call or write for treatment within me next 30 days I will cure them of the following oiseases for ONE-HALF my usual charge: LOST MANHOOD, SYPHILIS (blood poison), GONO- RHE, GLEET, STRICTURE, VAitl- COCELE. RUPTURE, CATARliH and all CHRONIC DISEASES, of both sexes. Diseases of women cured without operation. PILES cured under guarantee without the knife or any tying or burning operation. * Consultations, Examination, Ad trice Free. T. S. HOI LEYMAN, M.1X7 THE SPECIALIST. Rooms 421 and 422 Leonard Building, Augusta, Ga. N. B. Catarrh of worst form oured quickly at home. rSMSHE The Canning Business. MUSIC When mind make dp you la not home en you mi that home without a Piano or an Organ, come ben, or write us, and we will Mil-yon the right sort of an instrument: Lv Easy tanas, and fmB volrne. Addreaa. MALONE’S MUSK HOUSE, COLUMBIA. S. & PIANOS AND ORGANS. 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