Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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% ' ' ■ if.i': Ss-rajp^-JiK Smft '' , . >1” •\rM, v3*' .. IHD’S WORK. OM TAlQ- Ctedsoatrs Mysterious Mur derer Afaiu at Work of ip,, FVtor Hilt-Bat ther able end iatemlteir brick wreppcd in e bit of Mood-eteinert carpet which laj beside tbe bed of the murdered wovaa. Why had ttye murderer cowered the brick with carpeting? The ragged elide of the fabric, tied at one end of the brick, eereed u a handle for the weapon. With inch a weapon a dead ly blow could be itruok with hardly a sound. It would amaah Inward all ^■tbe Tictlm'e front teeth without MURDERING WOMEN/ breaking the outer skin of thellpa. nuJhirnn.iiwvr "This latter wu the obaracterlatie mark on old Mn. Botohert, on the un Identified woman killed on the night of March 3, on May McDonald, killed Ye«fi Oirle May 1,1904; on Lulu Mueller, killed October 1; on Alma Stelngeweg, killed November 3—the same mark ob' five killed out of thirteen attacked. It was not Until the mutilated,body of pretty Aims Stelngeweg was found in a vacant lot near “Lovera’ Lane” that these murders were recognised fully as being the work of one man— After Attacking Within a Year, KUilsg and Mntllat- He Slays OM Wc in a Readlsk A letter from Cincinnati, Ohio, to the New York American tells olrthe deadly work of an unknown murderer in that dty. The letter says In the year and a month which he has given to his work, as fiendish as that which liar passion had torn a degenerate of the moat ruthless and bloodthirsty character—wboae peon- ' n was not satisfied until he out the front teeth of his Mias Stelngeweg wu a tele- victims. Mias Stelngeweg phone exchange operator, only seven- characterises 14 Jack the Ripper” of I# the London Whitechapel horrors, ha hu attacked thirteen young girls, - ~ mting and mutilating three of them In exactly tha same manner. When ever he wu able to complete bis ghut- ly work all of his victims’ front teeth were torn cleanly from their Jaws— this wu the distinguishing “mark of the beast.” Sane of the ordinary bludgeons used by murderers would have left this mark without bruising the llpe more than wu done, on the mystery. Thty have not cap tured the mysterious monster who lies in wait behind a gravestone in a Oln cinnatl cemetery at the foot of “Lov era’ Lane” where girlakeep tryst with their sweetheart#, but they have found his stranga weapon. It is Just such a weapon—heavy, — - with well defined corner*, yet with a slightly softened surface—u might have left that typical mark upon the face of May MoDonal, Lulu Mueller and Alma Stelngeweg a brick wrapped in apieos of carpat. One thing more hu bean learned about the monster. He la also capable of murdering an old woman In her bed. But the screamed before she died, there wu help near, and the murderer fled, leav log his telltale weapon behlm him. This Is the latest of his ex plot ts-- and the eoene is a hovel within i ■tone’s throw of the Spot from which heQsprang upon thirteen girls within about a y«Lr, leaving three of them dead and mutilated. Only once sines . lut November hu “Lovers’ Lane furnished lie victim to the murderer who waited hidden In Croveland Cemetery. On the evening of March 3 he sprang upon a woman who has never been identified. She wu found dead the next morning with all hie marks upon her, including the miss ing front teeth. But this victim wu elderly and un- atteaotlve. In every previous inetanoe he had selected a girl under twenty yean old, a pretty girl, the girl In a bumble station of life who would find In “Lovers’ Lane” the ideal romantic ■pot to meet her sweetheart, to wa k arm In arm with him under the trees, while the glistening white marble monuments In the cemetery dose at hand added a further touch of lend meat so well understood by very young lovers. But since lut November, when within three daye be savagely tore the life from Alma Stelngeweg and leaped from his hiding place upon three other —yiria, whose screams fortunately brought rescuers before he could com plete bis gbutiy work—since that lint week In November no young girl hu dared to show herself after dark In tbe neighborhood of “Lovers Lane.” For four long months the murderous Impulse remained unsated; then lut March it gained poorutis faction upon a p x>r old woman whom* nobody knew. This murderous maniac, whoever he is, arpears glfUd with consider able caution. There are pretty young girls In large number* aih about the suburb* of Cincinnati; but It seem# that nowhere else could the murderer find an ambush so safe u among the tombstones in the shade of tbe trees pf “Lovers’ Lane.” So he had to be satisfied with old and unprotected wo men for his viotima. But still he did not stray from his old hunting ground. In a little old hut a block away from the cemetery, Mrs. Mary Reichert, eighty aeveo yean old, lived a hermit’s existence in tbe rear of tbe two rooms, while tbe front room wu occupied by Peter ^JfJll, a carpenter. They saw each other seldom; all the neighborhood - knew of the old woman’s desire to be let alone. Peter Hill spread the alarm of the old woman’! murder, and wu held by tbe polloe u a.auapcot. The police have become eensitlve to criticism of •f their inability to fix the reeponsl bllity for eo many murders and u units so evidently made by the same man. Peter Hill says he wuawsk ened at 2 o’oltok on the morning of Jane 10 by a crashing aound in Mn. Reichert's room. He hurriedly got into part of hla clothing and rushed Stoofid to the rear of the hut Id time to see a heavy aet man running away. Through the door, which had a smashed in panel, he uw Mrs. Reich ert sitting up in her bed with blood flowing from her nose and mouth. She wu recking back and forth and moaning: “Oh, Lord! ,.Ob, mv God!” Hill ran for a doctor, and tha wo-, man's only eon, who lives near. In half an hoar the son and Dr. G. W. Dodd were back in the hut with Hill. Mia. Reichert wu dead. The mur derer bad not bad tiooe to complete He lutf tamked our the front teeth of the old wo- her on the head on with some heavy weapon not broken the akin, and Reichert had died from fright and shook. When the police came they instant ly uw Ibo “markottbefcruaL” And criticism own teen years old. She bad gone to the fatal neighborhood In a trolley oar, which she left at the cemetery. That wu the lut aeon of her alive. A1 about where the body lay the tun wu torn up. Tbe girl had struggled Oa this account be hu lived away from thereat of the family tor a long That is all there la to lend force to thesuanioton that Peter Hill lathe mysterious murderer of “Lovers’ Lana.” Students of snob crimes do not believe they are ever committed by a person of Hill’s description. The aotnal murderer is toe persistent, too paitiaTto young girls for viottms, too cautious tor one who is simply tha vic tim of periodical mania nsulting from an <rid injury to hla head, \ The weapon la found—the brick in Its wrapping of carpet. Who devised that weapon? Who hu us-d it in such a consistently peculiar manner? All that Cincinnati suburb it exercised over these questions—and “Lovers’ Lane” la deserted after nightfall/ I'Minnte Through Space .4 GRAFT nr AUAWlAf. of my descent toared and boomed in m> Sara like tha poise of a train u I tore along and lashed my face like **! whip cat. * “Ton eee, I had not yet learned A Man Who Slides three Mile. tbe second descent, it wu during that trip I had my worst experience. When r reached tbe moat perilous point of the urlal ropeway I suddenly lost con trol of myself, and In a twinkling hid tuned completely upside down still descending at Ugh speed, even in that serious condition. It wu a miracle that 1 ever regained my balance—a matter calling tor immense muscular •f ■ Del- effort./ “I succeeded in doing this, bat in what manner I cannot explain. It was quite a desperate moment, and in a struggle tor life of that kind a man wori^automatioaHy. As a general FOR HIS HEAI/FH TW AltMilktef Pttf< Free Medical Advice from \ WRITE HIM Dr. Hathaway Offers to Counsel and Advise Every Person Free of Charge On any Disease. Twenty-five Tears of Remarkable > V Success in His Record SAVE YOUR DOCTOR’S BILL varsity Professor Who Finds Pleas* are ia Flyiag Across Precipices aad Valleys Aatrids a Dleeeverlee that Would Have Been Snrprtslnjr a Few Yean A*o, Sieader Steel Wire. rule, you may ahy my sensation u one ; and durli de- desperately. Her clothing wu In rib that have made the Blue Ridge bona. Her skull wu imaahed In. Not- famous were of the moat tor a 1 satisfied with knocking out her teeth in hie usual manner, the murderer had tom open her throat, u though with claws like an animal’s. It sums strange that although eight girls who were similarly at tacked got away with their lives, no i one of them could give an intelligent Afrlaat there Is light description of her assailant All of them were sc paralyzed with fright that they retained only the memory of an unspeakable horror. Only three days after the murder of Alma Stelngeweg after dark, Edith Olausslng, a very pretty girl seventeen years old, wu waiting for a trolley car near the end of “Lovers’ Lane.” After lying in a stupor for two days she remain be red that there wu no oar in eight. She stood near the cemetery fence, Jus! back of which was a high tombstone, Sbe heard a slight noise and saw the figure of a man leaping upon her from the top of the fence. After that she only remembered being borne to the ground. Two laborer* were approaching, anc this fact saved her life. They founc her on the ground, unconscious, and carried her to the nearest shelter saloon, whither Dr. R H. Wballon wu summoned The doctor found that her luxuriant hair had saved her from a fractured skull. Her mouth »u filled with blood, and several up per and lower front teeth were miss ing. Sbe did not recover conscious- nesi for twenty-four hours. Hysteria followed for nearly two days during which tbe poor girl kept her hands before her eyes and begged for jneray Oae Is able to picture the maniacal rage of the murderer at having been driven from hie uncompleted work, for on that eame night he attackec three other girls. Late la the even Ing Minnie Rodie, Lizzie Weimar and Mamie Weimar were psaeing along tbe cemetery fence when “a wild man, u they afterwards described him, leaped upon ’them. He seemed to have enormous muscular strength. He seized all three of them at once and bore them to tbe ground. More by accident than design, one of tbe Welma sisters dug her fingers Into the man’s eyes. This appean to be all that saved them. With a howl of pain the man Jumped up and fled. It wu barely a week later that Mr*. Harry 0. Wlnnes, a pretty young ma tron of that neighborhood, was at tacked. The' murderer wu 6ok enough to follow her to within a dozen yards of her own bsok door. Here he seized her from behind, bent her body back over his knee and wu lifting something in his hand u though to striker her In the face when ehe screamed so loudly that her husband appeared In the door with his gun In his hand* In the light that streamed through the door the murderer uw that the rescuer wu armed. He huti- ly droppedhis victim and diuppeared. The other girls Irho escaped so nar rowly are equally vague In their de scription of their assailant. They all agree the* bis Id a human being- ferocity wu inoredlt^* ilng—“a wild man” he If it were nol for she recent history of Missouri this indictment of forif ■tele senators and two repreaenta. tivesln Arkansas for bribery would be a surprise. The Crimea of the Bcuth have never been crimes of money, but crimes of passion. There are regions In the South ■till where devout citizens who lead prayermeet- ings do not consider it a sin to shoot at the first hint of danger, and some of the men Involved in the family country vld piety. Government In their eyes exists to protect a man from his for eign foes; it ia bis busineu to care tor hla personal enemies himself. That point of view la a direct Inherltange from English ancestors of the" Six teenth and Seventeenth croturles, and it exists along with a most srupu lous honesty u well u a highly emo tional type of religion. The fact that graft ia spreading In to that country Indicates that tbe people are baojmlng Americanized; up to date. Bribery and corruption are no such new story Ip northern legisla tures u they are In the South. Tbe campaign necessary to catch Arkansu offenders, too, indicates that the offense ia not regarded with tbe same equanimity there u here. Tbe prosecuting attorney employed a de tective who had been trained under Governor Folk in hla St. Louis cam paign. One of them represented him self u the agent of an eastern baking powder firm Interested In a pure food bill. Other detectives got employ ment u bell boys and carried ice water and other supplies to the rooms In hotels where deals concerning legis latlon were In progress. Imagine what revelations could be secured at Albany during a campaign for a gu bill or a Niagara power bill by such methods and you will jmve a measure of tbe elementary stage of Arkansu corruption when only six men were caught there. Money ia charged to have been used to' favor .the passage of six bills. Tbe grand Jury bu re sumed session and la expected to com plete its report soon. There le no polltioe in the present move. Tbe prosecuting attorney la a democrat, all of tbe men Indicted are democrate and so are tbe members of the grand jury that Indicted them. It Is a straight bouse cleaning for the gene ral health of the state.—Brooklyn Ea gle. • * v -- To Dr. Alfred Chapuia, professor of zoology in the Uolvertity of Geneva, belongs the credit for inventing the moat thrilling and hair-raising form of recreation ever heard of. Compared with it such attractions as the loop- tbe-loop appeal very mild. Professor Ohapult finds that it is is very beneficial to hla health and nerves to ride for a mile at the tre mendous rate of three miles a minute down a slender steel cable extending from the top of one of the highest peaks In the Saleve mountain, Swlt Zetland, cross chaams,,p reel pices, val leys and streams to the very bottom of the Saleve valley. If the wire brake, or Professor Ohspuis lost hie balance and fell, he would be dashed to pieces. Remarkable u It may seem to mo it of us, who would not care to make trip down the wire, no matter how high the inducement, Professor Chap ala declares that his health hu 1m proved vastly since he first ventured out Into apace astride tbe slender ca ble. Hla twentieth trip wu made early one Sunday morning lut month- “I prefer to make my trips very early In the morning when there are very few people to watch me coming down,” he explained. “I am doing this for my health, not for show purposes, and consequently I have serious ob jections to giving public exhibitions. Besides it would not be consistent with the dignity of a professor of zo ology to make a public spectacle of him- self flying through the clouds on slack wire.” Professor Cbapuls Is one of the most diligent workere in the University of j Geneva, where he hu occupied the chair of zoology, for five veers. Clou application to hla labors threatened to undermine bis health, when he sought for a strenuous form of recrea tlon to counteract the wear and tear on hla nervous system. Mountain climbing and other vigorous forms of exercise were not strenuous enough They did not seem to da him any good. One morningwblleclimbing Saleve mountain tbe Idea of sliding down from tbe top on a- wlre occurred to him. Tbe mountain la a vut double- BLOW* TO ATOMS. Nine Hen Killed and Fifteen Injured In Biff Explosion. At Emporium, Pa., nine men were killed and from 12 to 16 others were Injured by so explosion of dynamite Wednesday *t the plant of the Em porium Powder oompany. With one exception all the victims lived In Em porium. Although some of the in Jured were seriously hurt all are ex- peocted to reooverer._ About one ton of dynamite exploded from some unknown cause, and wrecked the mixing plant, the puk ing house and several other buildings belonging to the company. The ex piation was terrific, and was felt for miles around. There have been sev eral serious accidents of similar nature In this vicinity and when the people heard the report they instantly knew what had happened. Thousands of persons hurried to the place, but were afraid to venture clou to tbe Miming buildings, as there were 7,000 pounds of dynamite puked In boxea^insS storehouse nearby After the buildings had burm peaked man of limestone, lying to the southeast of the city of Geneva, and forms a very favorite Summer resort. The mountain ia full of quarks, es pecially at Yayrler, about three and one-holf miles from the city, and at tbe foot of the mountain. Tears ago the big blocks of atone were blasted from the quarries clou at hand by the villagers, but In recent years since the Introduction a aerial ropewavs, local proprietors have attacked tbe mountain top itself with success, and made it yield up Its valuables at all levels. *" Anyone may see for himself the huge blocks of limestone travelling, apparently of their own volution, down the steel csble hundreds of feet above the valley. It wu the eight of these stone blocks travelling from high up on the mountain down into the valley that suggested the idea to Professor Cbapuls. There seemed no reason why be should not also slide down from the mountain to the village. It seemed.to him that It wu exactly the form of re creation be had been seeking “ T had not the slightest idea of at- tbe dead was instituted. Three charred bodies were found under the ruins of the box factory in which they were employed. The other six men were blown to pieoes. seemed to all of them. There Seems little hope that the dlscoveiV of this murderer’s characteristic weapon— „ , , . the brick wrapped in osrpetmr-wlll ^ uto to approach lead to the Identliioatlon of the m»« , the C0 “* > V l, s pr6 P* r ^ »s**rch for who hu wielded it against thirteeh girls and women In one year. It hu not been traced to tbe possession of Peter Hill—though such a discover^ would be a source of great relief to tbe Cincinnati polios. But Peter Hill is not yet freed from suspicion. Mery Wtldrow, a woman living in a shanty boat on the river not far from the cemetery, tells a strange story cf Hill’s behaviour on tbe evening before tbe night on which aged Mrs. Reichert wu murdered. Leaving the river and coming up the street ebe uw Hill sitting on the curb stone. He rose, she uys, and said to her: “You’re looking like a nineteen year-old tonight.” She made some bantering reply, when, she uys, Hill picked up a brick and uid: 1 feel just like braining you. How would you like to be hit oo the head with this?” “Go ahead and do it. I dare you,” she uys wu her reply. Whereupon Hill - mumbled something morosely and resumed hla seat on the curb stone. Bella Wood, a young woman living near tbe Reichert but, told Chief of Detect Ives Crawford of meeting Hill that night going for a bucket of beer. She declares that Hill called out to her: “You had beetter watoh out" for the old woman tonight. ” Both these Incidents Hill denies. He has been arretted twice before on tbe charge of drunkenness. His mother, who Uvea nur the aoene of all tbe murders and attacks, uys that' he bu periodieaT attacks of violence, which ah* attributes to hia having been hurt in the he%d when a child. During tbcae attacks he bad threat •nad to kill her aad shoot his father. tain log any notoriety,” uid tbe doctor pf zoology, “or of performing any dare- devil trlok with that object. I said nothing to my friends when I made my final decision, but arranged all the details with tbe manager of tbe c%- ble, who most strenuously opposed my plan. ’You will certainly fill,’ he de clared ‘and I shall be responsible for your death.’ it It was madmaa—utter madness, he urged. Even supposing tbe cable would stand It, the young ild Drowned While Bnthlnff. Three children of Tbomu Suarez, living near Bayou Chico, Fla., were drowned Tuesday afternoon. Tbe old- est wu a girl of 14, the youngest a boy of six and the other a girl slightly older than the boy. They went to the bayou late Tuesday afternoon to go in bathing. When they did not return when expected, their mother went in aearob of them. She found their cloth- on the bank. Neighbors were notl fled and a search wu begun and about o’clock, In dragging the bayou they found tbe body of the oldest girl. Searching parties are^ still dragging tbe bayou for the other two bodies. Will Pay Up. The Columbia Record uys arrange ments are being made for tbe collec tion of abou 12,400 on the bond 6f H. F. Retard, the county dispenser who wu short In his sooounts at Fort Motto. Wednesday representative of the American Surety oomyany and attorneys for Bozard called upon Com- missioner Tatum and arranged for making good the shortage. The bond- ng oompany, while perfectly willing JtiL pay, wiabttUo postpone a settle. ”ww» tit ment until arrangements are made wneredaeve for a suit against Bcxard. It is not known yet whether this Will he agreed descant* to. Cyclone Killed Six. Six parsons were killed and twentj njured, sixteen seriously, in a storm •hat struck id the vkdnity of Phillips- burg, Kansas, Wednesday night. The destruction to property and crops will run far into the tbonsanda. scientist would surely lose his grip on the wire and slide with fatal rapid ity to the bottom. Tbe steel wire ca ble, by tbe way, is about three quar tors of an inch thick, and its total length is over a mile. At one dizzy point there is a loose swinging strand of nearly a tbouund feet between two supports, and the height at this point is about 380 feet above tbe dreadful jagged rocks. Tbe gradient, too,” M. Cbapuls continued, is extremely steep, varying from forty to fifty degrees, so strong nerves and a Arm bold were absolute ly necessary to the slider. I u>ured tbs manager I should take every pre caution and that in any event no blam e shOaUtatteoh to him. All th» same, he wu in a pitiful state of apprehen sion the day he uw me prepare for a fln<t descent. ■» “I threw my legs on either side of tbe thin wire, much u I would scrou at horse, my face toward the summit and my bands firmly gripping the wire. Just u I swung myself clur of the rock tbe manager turned away, trembling with terror. I wu wearing some extra heavy trousers I had pre pared, and, of course, the stoutest gloves obtalnablSTMit When I reached the bottom they were not only tom to ribbons but my hands and body had feral? from the friction and generated by the swlftoeu great hut Before making a second trip I had a kind of breechea-saddla made, of stout leather and this, with a pair of soft, ’plable leather gloves, hu proved a very successful outfit. I hardly know what my sensations were during the first trip. It aRttappenetf so quicx- ly that ay sole instinct lay in holding oo tight with hands and tost. Tbe air of great exhilaration; sente at preant I am able to tbe superb view over our historic lake, the lovely valley, and even u far a- field u the Lake of Annecy, in the High Savoy. Of danger I never think any longer. “Oddly enough, ul climb Mont Saleve to the starting point—a tre mendous pinnacle of rock—I ofcn grow giddy, but the moment 1 swing eff these feelings leave me nd exhilara tion takes.their place. I make the descent In all weathers. I have come down in tha teeth of a strong ‘blse,’ with the n>i>e rooking and swinging like some tremendous cradle—violent ly enough In fact, to cause me slight “But, after all, this wu at the be ginning Of my practice on the line, end now I haveao’Hfelned my limbs that with extra, muscular pressure on the cable I can diminish speed at once, and even remain stationary for an ap prectable length t>f time. I. loooked forward with very great pieuure to each trip, which never seems +0 lose its novelty. “My finest point of view, perhaps ii above and beyond Monnetier, where from the great swaying span I look out upon the Petit-Saleve and tbe Grand Saleve; the wooded slopes and ivy-mantled chateau ; the caves and pretty villages, and above all the ma jestic grandeur of the Mont Blanc chain, the Lake of Genets, the moun tains of Jura, the Cantons of Yaud and Geneva, and part of France. *1 fancy I am tbe onl traveller In tbe world who makes trips solely for his health. I try not to announce my descents beforehand, but somehow there are always plenty of spectators on hand, obiefty people from the country round ab6ut. who like to fling me gay salutations u I sktm put them high up in the air like a flying bird. ^ ‘ Mv friends have timed me far over half a mile at the highest speed I dar ed travel. They found I travelled at the rate of one mile in twenty seconds. Seated backward on the wire and de scending at an angle of forty five de grees I wu able to breathe without discomfort. Although It is the moat exhilarating exercise I ever took I would not recommended It to every body.”—New York American. WEATHER AMD CROPS. Cotton HnfT-rlnff Lieu From Drought Then Other Grope. The following Is a report of crop conditions u complied by Section Di rector Bauer: The temperature during the week ending 8 a. m., June 26th, averaged four degrees per day above normal. T.ie extremes were a maxmum of 100 degrees at Florence on tbe 23 d, and a minimum of 66 degrees at Greenville on tbe 22ud. There wu more than an average amount of bright sunsblne;- Although there were no destructive wind storms, yet there were fresh to brisk winds each day wbicb, being hot and dry, had a withering effect on all vegetation, and caused the ground to dry out very fut. , There were scattered - showers on several days during tbe middle of tbe week, most numerous to the extreme border “No extra eharge for medicine*.” “No mtsteedloff statement or deeep tlve propoeitieaa al lowed in my advise- DA. J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, Whose Knowledge Is free td the Sick. If you are feeling ill, and d■» not know just what ia the matter with you, do not make the mistake of calling on your lo»al doctor for consultation but just simply write to Dr. J. Newton Hathaway, SI Inmen Bldg, Atlanta, Gan just how you suffer, and he will coun eel and advise you for nothing, while your home doctor will charge you; anywhere from SI to $10, for the mme service, and again. Dr. Hathaway’s advice ia worth ton times more to you, for his wide experience in the treatment of these diseaeea (25 years), enables him to at once understand the exact nature of your trouble. He will also aand you a Self-Exami nation Blank and a valuable book on your disease, of which he ia the author, free of charge. \ Dr. Hathaway’s specialty is diseases of a chronic or lingering, nature, and them he has successfully treated for over twenty-five years. The success be has met with is some thing remarkable. .He has reached the bead of hu profession and his title of “the recog- “ ' I] He has a positive and permanent cure for diseases of men and women such as LOST MANHOOD, STRICTURE, VARICOCELE, NERVOUS.DEBII.ITV-ENLARGED PROS TATE, RHEUMATISM, SPRCIPC JJLOOD POISON, KIDNEY AND BLADDER TROU BLE, HEART DISEASE, STOMACH AND BOWELL TROUBLE, DIABETES, BRIGHT’S DISEASE, URINARY TROU- PLB. ENLARGED PROSTATE, FEMALE TROUBLE, WOMB TROUBLE, OVARIAN TROUBLE, LEUCORRHEA, ETC: , and if you are afflicted with 'any of these diseases, yon in consulting this famous recoi nixed authority on Chronic Diseases” justly belongs to him. Not only has he cured thous and of sufferers who call at his office for treat ment, but nearly every State in the Union is represented on hit list of cured patients whom he was able to cure by his method of home treatment. He has had special success in cur ing cases of long standing and of a complicat ed nature, after several doctors had given them up as incurable, but whether your case is of long standing or not, you should at once seek Wire-rope the advice of this great specialist. It will ha of great benefit to you, even if you do not take treatment. should lose no time specialist. His treatment for them diseases is based on over s quarter century of close study, and when he once discharges you as cured, you need have no fear that you will ever be trou bled with your disease again—his cures areper- Dr. Hathaway is the author of eight ■mnnf valuable medical books which should be, in the hands of every one afflicted, or every head of a family, and he will send any one of these book^to you on receipt of your name and. ad dress.' 1, dis ases of the throat- and lungs; 2, kidneys and urinary tract; 3, diseases of women; 4, skin, rectal, rheumatism; 5, blood poison; S, nervous debility and vital weakness; 7, stricture; 8, varicocele. His book for men entitled ‘’Manliness, Vigor and Health,’* should be in thehands of every ' man. Write for it, it is free. If you do not suffer yourself send him the name of some one that doe*. Do not forget the address.— J. Newton Hathaway, M. D, H8 Inman Bldg., Atlanta. Oa. \ • ♦ Machinery Supply House for the State. WE SELL EVERYBODY. — Headquarters tor EVERYTHING In MACHINFRY SUPPLIES. ♦All kinds of Injectors, Lubricators, Pipe, Valves, Fittings. Supplies for Saw Mills, Oil Mills and any one in Machinery business. Large stock of Well Pumps and Cylinders. Get our price. COLUMBIA SUPPLY 00,. Columbia., 8. C The machinery Supply honse of the State s The Guinard Brick Works, f o. Manufacturers Brick. Fire Proof Terra Uotta Building Block ,for Flue linings and Drain Tile. Prepared to fill orders for tbou an da or millions. x - AU Drug and Tobadoo Whisks I, Morphine | Cigaret I All Drug an Habit, | Habit |. Habit | Habits. Cured by iteeley institute, of C. ISSd Lady St. (or P. O. Bos 76) Ooluuabla, S. O. Confidential correspond wjsteren and northwestern bordei oCtahtlss, and widely seperated In oth er parte. By far the larger portiotPof tbe state had no rain. Tbe showers were heavy in parts of Oconee, Barn well and Florence counties and were generally light elsewhere. Tnere ia urgent need of a general rain In all parte of tbe state, though the drought la moat severe in the central counties, where febe deficiency utnee the first of j peraturT June amounts to from two to over * three inches, there having occurred no beneficial rain during this month. In many places the ground baa become baked and hard and unworkable. Farm work mads rapid pngreaadur Ing the week where tbe soil was fit for cultivation, and practically all field** have been rid of grass and weeds and are In better condition than at any time this season. . Cotton la suffering less from the drought that other crops, and made a general inprovement, although the plants continue small and are growing slowly. Cotton has now a healthier oolor, and is fruiting normally with a marked increase in the area from which blooming Is reported. The im provement is confined to cotton on heavy soils, while on sandy lands tbe crop continues poor and unpromising and in many places lousy, and the plants have a sickly appearance and in few sections are shedding their low er leaves. Sea Island ootton is In gtod condition, but has begun to wilt in places. Corn is suffering for rain, and early corn is vary poor; later plantings are better, but will soon -deteriorate un* ess It rains. Most of the March plan- ings have been laid by. Worms oon- linue destructive In the western coun ties. Toboccoleaves are ripening and some of the lower ones have been stripped, cured and marketed Wheat and oa Bihar vest is. now finished. Tide water rice is doing well; June plant- ngs In tbe Georgtown district are coming np to fairly good stands. Gar dena doing poorly. Shipments of peaches are heavy from the Ridge inaction. Cantaloupe shipments have xgun, and watermelons will be mar- reted next week. Pastures are fall ing. It has been to dry to plant on stubble lands. thx wiATHim nr july. What tbs Columbia Bureau's R- o- ords Show for fiiffhteeu Year*. Wanted. A GOOD COUNTRY PRINTER who can set advertisements, arid take charge of the type setting depart ment of a well-stocked country office,.: Should be able to make up forms. To ,* such a printer a steady job with good wages is open. Apply, with refer- The following data, oovaxing a pe-, ence8 ’ m t0 _ f®* Tuk Times and Democrat, riod of 18 years, have been compiled / from the weather turgan of records et Orangeburg. S, C. Columbia. They are issued to show the conditions that have prevailed, during the-month-in question, for tbe above period of yean, but must not be opnatrued as a forecast of the weather conditions tor the coming month; Tempezat! A Proposition of Interest To all readers of this paper, whe 81 degrees; the warmest month was that of 1893, with an aver age of 83 degress; tbe coldest month was that of 1861, with an average of 77 degreas; tbe highest temperature was 106 degrees on July 16, 1899; the lowest temperature was 54 degrees on July 8,1892; the earliest datepn which first "killing” frost occurred in au tumn, October 19, 1896r*verage date on which first ’’killing” frost occurred in autumn, Nov. 8; average date on which last “killing” frost occurred in aprlqg, Man h 23; tbe latest d*te in spring, April 17, 1905. Precipitation—Average for the month, 5 60 Inches; Average number of days with .01 of an inch or more, 14; tbs greatest monthly precipitation was 12 17 inobes in 1898; the least monthly precipitation was 2 68 inches in 1901; the greatest amount of pre cipitation recorded in any 24 consecu tive hours was 4.16 inobes on July 5, 1898; the greatest amount of snowfall recorded In any 24 consecutive hours was none. Clouds and Weather—Average num ber of clear days, 8; partly doudv days, 16; cloudy days 8. Wind—The prevailing winds have been from the southwest, the average hourly velocity of the wind ia aaven mile* per hour; the highest velocity of the wind wu 40 miles from the weston July 711^ J904. ■ paper, call or write for treatment within the next 30 days I will cure them of the following diseases for ONE-HALF my usual charge: LOST MANHOOD, SYPHILIS (blood ridtson), •GONOi -" RHE,GLEET, STRICTURE, VARI- .' ./ :! 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