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W" kPI Kl44*WW+mH4UmUUUU I T& ' l^ffde lAforld 0^erBv J. O. R. fiaitiikki i a t 1 1 i I I 1 I I l 1 ? I J I I I I I ? TTTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTT1TTTTTTTTTTTT 'J,: . jfgn .ra " TTAS recuperating on a 1=1 lai Xew Mexican hacienda. | At the death of my father ? ?| I had been left quite a comx Hi fortable little sum, and I iiuu at once started out to see the world, being at last able to satisfy my craving for travel to its full extent and having no parental ties to hold me to any one particular spot of the V world's circumference. But I had somewhat overdone the thing, not being possessed of a constic \ tution that would stand much of a strain. So I had settled down at Las * .Vegas to take things quietly for a xrhilo hofnr^ fmn<T further "? ~ =>?= It was on the evening of October 12. 1806, that the news was circulated in the town that there had been an aw-' ful wreck on the Santa Fe just below tWatrous. A special was rapidly made tip of an engine and two coaches, and b&y f"; the call made for volunteers to assist M in any way that their services could fe- be of value. I made one of the numKC ber thaj: promptly responded, and hastily clambering aboard, we started for the scene. i ; I shall never forget that distressing Bight, as, reaching the spot, we leaped to the ground almost before the train had slackened speed sufficiently to make it safe to human life and limb to alight. There lay a tangled mass of P*"- wood and iron piled in heaps, from which came moans and cries from the imprisoned passengers and crews. One of the forward coaches, together with the mail and express car, was in flames. While part of the improj&, * .vised wrecking crews gave their atten^v. tion to helping the poor unfortunates gH in the passenger coaches, others of us started in to save what part of the mail and express car's valuable con I tents still remained out of the reach of the tongues of the flames rapidly drawing nearer the end of the car farthest from the engine. I was one of those who started to work on this car, and lustily I began to pull out the 6acks of mail and what merchandise could be reached through the tremendous heat from the burning end of the "car. The last sack of mail was not snatched away in time to prevent half its length being burned away entire. I had hold of the leather handles and gave a fearful tug, for the heat was . _ now unbearable. For a minute tho bag held to some object that weighted it down, then gave suddenly, landing me backwards, while a shower of letters and small packages completely covered me. After we had done all we could to save the contents of the car, and taken the last man from the twisted coaches, we started back to Las Vegas with our mangled, suffering human freight. It was after one o'clock when we arrived, and had tenderly carried the sufferers to the nearest point where they could receive medical and surgical attention, and, being quite fatigued with my unusual exertion, I crawled into i. bed and slept soundly until the sun p;.; - bad arisen high in the heavens the ghj next day. Being nearly dressed. I reached for my vest, wjien something fluttered to j&' the floor. Picking it up I was sur|*, * prised to find a half burned photograph. Evidently it had been caught in my clothing in some way when the |c - mail bag scattered its contents over me as I lay upon the ground, and, when I arose to my feet, had slipped K ^ between my vest and shirt. I said it was a half burned photograph, but that does not tell much. It was the photograph of a beautiful young-lady, perhaps eighteen years of age. Beau?tiful? The most beautiful, I think, I ?v had ever seen. 5;. v I sat down in my half dressed state W * and stared at it for many long minjjr ? . -utes. And before I had finished star1 ing at that beautiful image I had to confess to myself that I was helplessly in love with the pretty, rounded face, with its smiling eyes looking up so confidently into mine, that rhapoly, tempting mouth with its saucy, curling lips, that wealth of tastily arranged hair thrown back over the high forehead. w. -i?o r ? iu. sr ? ? ? ? ? no was sue: 1 curseu iuy u?ujcs that had totally eaten away the part of the card that might have given some clue as to whom the photographer had been, or in what place the photograph had been taken. If I could only know what town or city it would be enough. I would go at once to the place and search every artist's establishment until I had found some trace of my ideal. Up to this time I- had bothered but little about women. But here was a dear little girl whose eyes looked up into mine so smilingly, so confidingly, so pleadingly., that my heart ached to have them something more tliau images on paper, to have those lips open and speak to me. to have those dainty little ears capable of listening while I poured my story of complete slavery into them: ah. I was hopelessly in love, and I did not know with whom! With a photograph! A photograph, tossed at my very feet, coming to me by such a strange channel, to tease me, to agonize me. to craze me! And then the thought came to me that to every photograph there must necessarily be two sides. Perhaps the reverse side would tell me something; a new hope! I held the photograph, and my fingers trembled and my heart beat furiously, fearing to turn it that tfe Ilk'- -W.\.? ; I might be disappointed. At last my shaking fingers moved of their own volition. Writing! Feminine writing, in a neat, small hand. And then iny first love dream received its rude shock of awakening?a mighty death-blow. A sickening sensation overcame me, I turned sick, and my eyes blurred as I read the words which had evidently preceded a signature, of which the flames had removed all trace. "Yours, the wide world over.'* Mine? Perhaps by right of the possession of this bit of cardboard: but my heart, had I that? Had I even the right to the bit of pasteboard, seared and crumpled by "the devouring flames? "Yours"?another's! T rl MAr>r\rt/l -flirv r\f/\rr T?O Till f/% "fllA fl OHT* X uiuppcu IUU pUVCV^ia^JU IV I.?V ? and, short though my little love affair had lived, its death hurt me much, and with teaful eyes I sadly gazed across the spreading plains lying before my window and felt for the first time all the emptiness and barrenness of a loveless world. ******* Ten years have passed. I am no longer a reckless scapegrace of a fellow. The passing years have somewhat sobered me into a recognition of the fact that the world requires more of a man than simply looking to his own pleasures and chasing after mirages that but lead him a merry dance and leave him worn out and disappointed at the first point his maturing mind shows him the uselessness and folly of his course. However, much of the credit for my change of nature should be given to another party, a sweet, charming little woman whom I met here at Versailles and who had quite captured my heart. And to-night, as we sat close together under the flowering trees, with a fair moon casting pale shadows about us, I felt how happy I was in having won such a prize, for we were soon to wed. There came a little lull in our conversation and my mind was running back to my previous nine love uuair, the remembrance of which incident had never quite left me. Then I made a resolution. Turning to my fair companion, I said: "Vera, I must confess to a little deception practiced upon you. Oh, don't j start, it was quite harmless. You remember the other evening you asked me if I had ever loved before? A woman's natural question, and such a foolish one. And I answered, as most wicked men will, and as the question justly deserves, perhaps, that I never had. I have thought upon it since, and feel that truth is best, whatever be the consequences. I have loved be- I fore." Vera gave her breath a little inward hiss and turned her flashing eyes upon me in surprise, but said nothing. She apparently awaited my further confession. "Some ten years ago I came by the photograph of a young lady in a peculiar way. It was such a dear little face that, I frankly confess now. I fell in lnt-fk -with if "Rut mv lnvo rlfd not ! live long, for a few words on the reverue side of the card told me much. She loved another. I have carried this card with me until now. and to-night, after having confessed to you, I shall properly destroy it."' I drew the card from my inner pocket where I had carefully guarded it ever since the night I so strangely came by it. and not without some slight feeling of the old passion, placed my fingers in position to rend it asunder. Then Vera asked to see it. I promptly handed it to her. She gave a cry of surprise, and turning to me, asked hastily? "Where did you get that?" "I found the photograph in a railroad wreck in New Mexico. The flames from the burning mail car had removed all trace of the name of the phorographer. or I should have?eh, j that is, I " "Or you should have gone in search of your ideal. Am I not right?" "I?I?think so; but?but you see I had not met you then," I stammered in my confusion. "It seems we are old friends. You would have gone in search of your ideal! how long it has taken you to find her!" And, to my utter amazement, instead of being angry, as I had supposed, Vera burst into a hearty laugh. "Ah, but Vera, you know as the time goes on our ideal changes." "Oh," pettishly, "does it? That is too bad. I referred to the particular ideal of ten years ago, not only the one of to-day." Her words mystified me. She saw my wonderment, and again broke into a hearty laugh. "You foolish dunce! Yet how strange. Have the passing footprints of time stamped out all semblance and erased the beauty in the original, the substance, that you admired in the shadow? That is a photograph I had taken twelve years ago in San Francisco." At this revelation of the strange workings of destiny, I could only sit and stare like a man bereft of his senses. Then I remembered the rude shock I had received upon turning the ppv<1 Acnin tormpnts hprrnn to rack my soul. "And Vera, the?the wording on the back?" "You foolish, jealous boy! I had mailed this very card to my mother, then in New Y'ork City, and that scrawl was only for her. I had often wondered why she failed to receive it." "And now. darling, you are mine truly, 'the wide world over'?" For answer she nestled closer to me. ?Waverley Magazine. Manganese Mining. The mining of manganese is becoming an important industry, $64. ."(>0,000 worth being produced during 1003. f NEVER SAW A CHILD, I Az. Island "Coy of Fourteen Who Had Only Seen Grown-Ups. ''Dul you ever hear of a child or ever know of one yourself that had never seen a child V' asked a man who takes an interest in the oddities to a representative of the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "Well. I have, and the case is not a thousand miles from New Orleans, either. The child in this instance had rounded into its fifteenth hofnvn it hnd over inid eves on an other child. It had never heard the musical prattle of companions other than the father and mother. The parents settled across the lake a few years ago. after a long residence on a small island of the sea. Where the child was born and where it spent fourteen years of its life there were no children. The little fellow knew no associates but the j father and mother. I have often won| dered since learning of this peculiar case what must have been the impression of the youngster when he gazed for the first time on a member of the human family smaller than he was. Did he think he had come upon a race of dwarfs? Or had his parents given him an idea of the existence of children? I do uot know the family and therefore cannot answer these questions. But I would like to know just how the little fellow felt when he first beheld a child. It is the only case of the kind which has come to my knowledge. He had never had an opportunity to play the little games which most of us knew in the days cf our childhood. He had never gone through any of the things which made young life sweet to all of us fellows, . and while not knowing but there may be compensating advantages in a life of this sort, I have always felt a bit sorry for the youngster. Come to think of it, tnougn, ne inisseu a iew imugs one would like to forget, for I suppose most of us liave felt the rap of the maternal slipper because of disobedience due directly to one's companions. At any rate, we have always cherished the the idea that our companions were in a measure responsible for many of the raps we got. The child who never knew a child could not be led astray in this way. So we do not know but that the lack of companionship may have something to commend it." A I?over of Funerals. A quaint character on^ the lower West Side is a young man who apparently takes charge of the outside arrangements at funerals. Standing in front of the house he signs for the carriages to come ahead, gives whispered instructions to the drivers, is ahead of the procession at crossings and holds back teams with uplifted hand. He has a word with the policeman on the beat, and escorts the old folks and professional mourners to a n d ^ place or vantage 11 ine ueuu was a popular personage. He lias a mania for attending funerals. "He's not exactly right, you see," an 1 undertaker said. "Imagines he's a relative. I've instructed my drivers to respect his orders when need be, and we've never had any trouble with him. He's pretty well known and the families seldom object to him. The queerest thing about him is that he seems to have some intuition when a funeral is to take place, going from one neighborhood to another on the same day. But I have never seen him in a house. I believe he has an aversion to a corpse."?New York Sun. Return of the Tan Shoe. An odd feature of the return of the tan shoe to popular favor is that the demand finds the manufacturers unprepared to meet it. With the coming of the crocus the brown shoe reappeared on feminine feet on Fifth avenue sporadically, as the botanist would say, after long disuse. Almost immediately orders poured in on the dealers in such volume that in the words of one "the manufacturers were fairly swamped." * The prospect seems good for the full restoration of the tan shoe to that place in sutorial esteem and usefulness which it should never have lost. Whoever the social arbiter is who has rehabilitated it, or whether it blooms anew in response to a simultaneous general re-recognition of its merits, its return to fashionable vogue will be welcomed. The elements of the comfortable and the ornamental are in no other form of summer footgear so happily combined as in the tan Ghoe. Witness the testimony of any ueatly shod foot on any suburban lawn.?New York World. Making American Citizen*. In that useful little weekly paper called Charities, which very few New York people ever see, there appeared recently about twenty articles describing the progress that has been made by the Italians in New York City. There are nearly 400,000 Italians in New York. Fifty thousand of them I nvo linv! nnri firls in til#*' nublic schools. There are 115 doctors, sixty-three druggists, twenty-one lawyers, fifteen school teachers, nine architects and seven mechanical engineers. Nearly all of the Italians in America come from three provinces in Italy, j At home they were farm laborers, j earning from thirty to forty cents a I day, and living in little stone cabins, j Some of the immigrants had small j farms of their own, but the land is poor and the Italians have nothing to [ work it with except spades. Their life i was a hand to hand struggle against j starvation and debt.?-New York JourI ml. Korean House* Screened Every Korean hides his house from the public gaze by a number of screens. The poor man employs hedges and fences; the rich man has many high walls. Eetween the walls are many gorgeous flowers; lotus ponds are also to be found there ... - ' '."Y-*'"- '> ->T' * ".?' "VXV2?*v. 2 SOUTH CAROLINA 2 i STATE NEWS ITEMS, i L i* ! LfNjCNjrjrocNjCNjtfs^vJ; Caaers i:s Slain by Bissilieu. Joe Capers was shot and killed by James Bissilieu in a quarrel over a pistol near Wialterboro. Bissilieu escaped, but John Small and "Walter Graham, charged with being accessories, have been committed to jail. * * * Clay Company Suffers Fire Loss. The 22-room hotel and several outbuildings at the kaolin mines of the Pope Clay Product Company, two miles from Aiken, were burned at an early hour of the morning recently. The loss is $5,000, partially insured. * * * Courts Will Convene. The summer term of the court of - ? "? ?l/\nnA o f T oiir/ini? will PAT1. | CUlililiUIl JJlcooc at i^aui\;uo n*** wu vene Monday, July 11th, with Judge George W. Gage presiding. The jury venires are now being served. The court of general sessions will meet two weeks later, July 25th. * * * Boll Worms Discovered. The pest which has been threatening the cot:on crop of the section around Newberry has been characterized by J. W. Bauer, of Columbia, as the boll worm. It is said, however, by those who profess to know that there is no great danger in this insect, certainly not i enough to occasion any alarm among the farmers. * u Lowe Commits Suicide. At Spartanburg William H. Lowe, 48 years old, night watchman at the Whitney cotton # mills, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart with a 38-calibre pistol. No < cause is known for Lowe's act. He , had just entered his home and gone upstairs when the report of a pistol was heard by members of his family , downstairs. No attention was paid to ; this, his wife thinking that he was cleaning a gun. A few minutes later i a negro called to see him, and when his wife went to his room she found his lifeless body on a bed and a pistol nearby. * * * Negro Woman Arrested ffr Arson. A story of an attempt at arson and wholesale murder, which occurred in Saluda county, near the Newberry line, has been received. The attempt was most cowardly and had it succeeded would have resulted in the destruction of a dwelling and its three inmates. All the parties concerned are negroes. The attempt was made on the place of Mr. John Long at an early hour of the morning. It is charged that Corrie Green, a negress, went to the dwelling on Mr. Long's plantation, and after saturating the doorsteps and side of the house with kerosene and placing sacks of shavings upon the steps, she set fire to the rubbish. Within the house, asleep, were a blind woman and her two children. These were awakened just in time to escape the flames. Corrie Green was arrested at her heme and lodged in the Saluda county jail. ...: * * Senator Tillman Favors Gray. Before the assembling of the democratic convention in St. Louis, the following news item was sent out to the press: "Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, declares in favor of Judge George Gray, whom he considers the strongest possible nominee. At the time of the South Carolina convention Senator Tillman declared that with the lights then before him he favored the nomination of Judge Parker, but he was careful to qualify his support of the New Yorker by that statement 'with the lights then before him.' Now he says he is confident that conditions I point to the wisdom of nominating I Gray, who, he thinks, would be strong| er even in New York than Judge Par ker. Senator Tillman declares, However, that he speaks solely for himself and not for the delegation from ^his state. Some of these ?.r*. not nere at present and the delegation will not determine where it stands until tomorrow. It has been counted solidly for the Parker column." * * * Taken from Guards and Lynched. Cairo Williams, the negro who k-'lled Thurston O. McGee, white, at Scranton, in Williamsburg county, last February, was taken from the Atlantic j Coast Line train at Scranton a day i or two ago and lynched. Williams nari rowly escaped lynching immediately j after the killing, and was spirited off to the penitentiary in Columbia for safe keeping, and the mob was greatly enraged thereat. Last Monday Williams was carried from Columbia I to Kingstree, the county seat, for trial. The result was a mistrial, and the sheriff thought it safe to send j him back to Columbia for safe keeping, i As the train approached Scranton a mob of lynchers with blackened faces and wearing masks flagged it down with a red flag and searched the train for the negro, to the great terror of the passengers. Finally tney found Williams and ordered the sheriffs deputies to deliver him up. This was refused, and a scuffle ensued in which the deputies were much bruised. The mob then took the negro away,* saying that he would be dead in five minutes, and that was his fate. After being swung up his body wa* literally riddled with bullet. About 150 men participated in the lynching . BURTON CASE APPEALED. High Court Will Pass Upon the Sentence of Kansas Senator. In the United States circuit court at St. Louis Judge Adams has granted Senator Joseph Burton, of Kansas. J convicted of accepting money from a company under the investigation o? the postoffice department, an appeal to the supreme court of the United States. The around upon which this appeal was granted is that the defendant is accused of an infamous offense and the supreme court is the only tribunal having sole jurisdiction. The defendant urges that the checking, amounting to $2,000, were cashed at Washington, and that if any offense was done it was done at Washington and not at St. Louis. Senatpr Burton, who was present in court, was fined $2,500 and sentenced to the "Iron County" (Missouri) jail for six months. He appeale | to the United States circuit court o? appeals, but Saturday's action takes the case direct to the supreme court of the United States. An appeal bond of $10,000 was immediately furnished by Senator Bur ton. WANTS MAIDEN NAME. Mrs. Onie Tanner Makes Unusual Ap. peal to Courts. Through her attorneys, Mrs. Onie Tanner, of Clinchem district, Hall i county, Ga., has filed her petition to the superior court of the county ask ing that her maiden name, unie nuncan, be restored. She sets- forth as j sufficient cause for the petition that shortly after her marriage to Wiley Tanner his death occurred under un-1 usual circumstances and that the father and ether relatives of her late husband prosecuted her bitterly on a charge of murdering him. On account of this relentless prosecution she does not wish to bear the name of Tanner, hut desires the court to allowed her to resume her father's name. The case is an unusual one. Frequently divorced wives are given their maiden names back after final legal separation. Very rarely persons have their names changed by the court or by special act of the legislature. But' the petition of a widow for the restoration of her maiden name is of very infrequent occurrence. MAXWELL CHOSEN PRESIDENT. i National Educational Association Elect's Officers for the Next Year. . The National Educational Association, in siesffion at St. Louis, elected the following officers: President?W. H. Maxwell, superintendent of instruction, New York city. Vice Presidents?John W. Cook, Illinois; C. P. Cary, Wisconsin; George C. rrook. Arkansas: J. N. Stude, In diana; J. M. H. Frederick, Ohio; Alice Robertson, Indian Territory; E. H. Marks, Kentucky; H. H. Swayne, Montana; B. H. Matthews, Arizona; J. D. Oaldwell, Louisiana; A. B. Holland, New Jersey; Charles D. Mclver, North Carolina. Treasurer?A. W. Crabtree, Nebraska. Secretary?Irwin Sheppard, of Winona, Minn., is employed from year to year and continues in office. RUSSIANS MUTILATE WOUNDED Jap Scouting Party Slain and Their Bocfies Almost Dismembered. The Japanese legation at "Washington, Sunday, received the following dispatch from Tokio: "On the 15th of June a petty officer and other soldiers, six in all, belonging to the eighteenth infantry regiment, encountered while scouting -' * Dufolari trn/ins at Chen:? ilUOUt UllCCii liuociuu va fc, Tsu Shin, and were killed after handto-hand fighting. On the death Or these men the Russians thrust their bayonets into their mouths and cut open their lungs and took away tho contents of their pockets." IS "PARAMOUNT ISSUE." Acting Alabama Governor So Dubs Negro Plank in Republican Platform. A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says: When asked his opinion of the negro plank in the platform of the republicans adopted at Chicago last week, Lieutenant and Acting Governor Cunningham replied: "To ray mind this is the paramount issue, and the democrats should provide a means of meeting it. We ought to put out the man who is most likely to win, be it Cleveland cr some other The great question now is to defeat the republicans and forever set the seal of our disfavor upon all such ut terances." .. . v. , O 'AN OCEAN HORROR 1 ^ A Seven Kundred Emigrants Find Watery Grave. VESSEL BREAKS TO PIECES Passenger Steamer Norge, of the Scandinavian American Line, Rune Upon Rocks and Goes Quickly to the Bottom. t A London special says: Over seven j hundred Danish and Norwegian emigrants, bound for New York, are believed to have been drowned in the ! North Atlantic on June 2S. Out of nearly S00 souls on board the Danish 4 steamer Norge, which left Copenhagen June 22, only twenty-seven are known to be alive, and for the rest no m hope is held out. Wlhen last seen the Norge was sinking where she struck on the islet of Rockall, whose isolated peak raises itself from a deadly Atlantic reef 200 miles off the west coast of Scotland. Early on the morning of Tuesday, June 28 the Norge, which was out of her course in heavy weather, ran on the Rockall reef, which is in the dis| tance and looks like a ship under full | sail. The Norge was quickly hacked off, but the heavy seas poured in through a rent in her bow. x The emigrants, who were then awaiting breakfast below, ran on deck. The hatchways were scarcely built for the hundreds of souls and became clogged. The ship began quickly to go down by the head. Eight boats were lowered and into these the women and ' children were hurriedly put Six of these boats smashed against the side * t of the Norge and their helpless inmates were caught up by the heavy seas-. NTwo boat loads got safely away from the side of the sinking ship and j many of the emigrants who were left > j on board, seizing the life belts, threw themselves into the sea and were drowned. The Norge foundered suddenly and some 600 terrified emigrants were thrown into the water or drawn down with the sinking ship. Those who could swim tried to reach the boats, *Jbut these were already too full and their occupants beat off the drowning wretches with oars. The boats kept together for some . ; hours. Practically all of their occupants were passengers and were not used to handling such craft. The boat occupied by the survivors landed at Grimsby was a life boat. One account' says that three boats were successfully launched, the other two holding about ten persons each. The life boat made faster progress and fell in with the Salvia. What became of the other boats is not yet known. The rescue of those on the life boat A . i took place at 8 o'clock on the morning j of June 29, the survivors consisting of j twenty men, one of them a seaman, six women and a girl. > _____# JACK BONE UNDER ARREST. Murderer of Hall in Floyd County, Ga., . Captured in Atlanta. * Jack T. Bone, the young white man who shot and killed Z. T. Hali, In Floyd county on June 9th, and who was said to be in hiding in the mountains near the scene of his crime, was arrested at the home of his parents in Atlanta Saturday. < After being locked up Bone was seen by a reporter and admitted freely that he killed Hall. He said: "He wrecked my life and sent me to prison by getting witnesses to swear falsely against me. This was 4 why I killed him. I did not 'boast that I would never be taken alive for the killing, but I wanted to see my family before I was taken and that is why I did not give up before. I was- reasonably certain that I would be taken sooner or later and did not expect to * get away." PASSENGERS FIGHT FOR NICKELObjected to Paying Two Fares for One Continuous Ride. \ A New York dispatch says: Defying the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company ', to collect a second fare between Brook lyn and Coney Island, nearly 1,000 passengers were ejected during Sunday 4 when the cars reached Neck Road, where the second nickel is taken. A number of fights occurred. A recent court decision bearing on the question was to the effect that passengers jvere entitled to ride all the way for five cents ; CARNEGIE BUST UNVEILED. Library at Atlanta Now Graced With Likeness of Philanthropist The bust of Andrew Carnegie was unveiled and presented to the library trustees in Atlanta, Ga., Monday morning in the presence of a large audience, who not only took a deep Interest in the exercises, 'but participated in the patriotic songs which were sung. *