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r< . JpVP WHEN I GET RICH. * m, * k;/ When I get rich. oh. many things I'll do; :r For all poor rolks whose lives are full of jjfti-'1 care, Their days, now d:car, I'll mane so street and fair, They'll know no grief, no sorrow, no deEr"'*' * fpair . Wlien I get rich! When I get ricn the friends I love so dear Shall know no more those weary, toilsome hours; .I'll lignt their skies with sunshine, and j the showers Will scatter on their pathway fairest j 5- flowers, " J. When I get rich! yS- When you gee rich! Those n'iends you ^lr;'1.. loved so weli W.w v? V... Un*>n n?f r,*? iKn iua> nvt uc uwt, uui xu; vt; v?iu i"v skies, And never know the hidden love that lies Within your heart?ah 1 foolish, vain sur?& t > mise? jS-ix. ', When you tret rich! | ; Wait not till rich, but haste to do it now! ?$'?' Yes, scatter st "shine?dry the falling m-r." tearLight up with h.pe the u.rKenel heart Bp.*! * and drear, ^ .? That may be near you?oh, never mind jpN the year When ju get rich! ?The Rev. P. H. MeCauley, in Freeman's |||?> ? Journal. . 4 I* I MRS. I I BROWN'S |p I HUSBANDS. Bp- I By MAX ADELEfi. R. MILLS, the minister, j&.' V ^ "WW )r was a stranger in the O {y| O town, and lie was just )& called upon to visit Mrs. Sr?*T Brown. who had lost her husband, and to console her, he went around to see Deacon Wilt, so that he life could post himself about the situation. "I understand you to say," said Mr. S.v Mills "that Mrs. Brown has been mar 4 rled three times? or was it four?" "I say/' replied the deacon, "that ' she was Mr. Brown's third wife, while he was her fifth husband. But she was the fourth wife of her second hus... .band, and the second wife of her first, plp^ so that she " "Let me see." said the parson, "the * second wife of her first and the?well, then, three and five are eight, and four ' are twelve, and two are fourteen?if I get the hang of the thing. Mrs. Brown has been married fourteen times, and ' ESpj* Mr. Brown was her " "No, you don't understand. Brown .was only her fifth husband." "Oh, her fifth. But you said she was the fourth wife of her second husband, ; and- she had three more, so that?four and three are seven?she must have ! P V v had seven husbands, and where are the ; B&T other two?" ferV . "Why, don't you see? Her second . husband was married three times be- ( fore he met her. She had been married . jjfc once " "How could she be married only ( once when he was her second husband?" "Only once before she met him, and when she married him she was his fourth wife, so that whi".. he had had four wives, she had had only " "Is this Brown you are speaking ??* ?r ? |4Va Pi-Atrn xroc? K TTn . IV/. JLflV/nU UUO U1CU. ?JL\. ] had been married twice before." Ilk "Her second Brown had?" "I mean Brown, of course. Lot me Kbjk. explain. Mrs. Brown, say. married v John, Thomas, Jacob, William and Henry. Thomas married Lulu, Mary. Hannah and Susan " l|gE "Before he married Mrs. Brown or after?" "Before. Well, then, Brow:: married Emma and Matilda, and John married ^ Agnes. Agnes died, and John married ^ Mrs. Brown. Then John died and . Lnlu, Mary, Hannah and Susan died. pi. and then Thomas married Mrs. Brown. Then Thomas died, Jacob's wife died and William's wife died, and William annexed Mrs. Brown. When William died. Emma and Matilda died, and |p V then Brown married Mrs. Brown. Everybody crnie to Mrs. Brown, you see!"' "I see," said Mr. Mills. "I think I grasp the facts. I'll go right around to see her." v Mrs. Brown was at home. And after :1: f. alluding to the weather and one or two - other topics, Mr. Mills said: . "I am deeply grieved, Mrs. Brown, ? t? hear of your bereavement. It must be very, very terrible, even for a person who is so used to it." "So used to it. What do you mean, Sir?" "Why, I merely meant to suggest <> that experience cannot reconcile us to these Afflictions. But there is this consolation, dear madam?time duils the edge cf our bitterest grief. You wept for John as if you could not be i comforted; but you see you?" "John! I do not understand you, j sir." ' V.-,,, n'/vrif f.-vi, linf rPlirt?\irtc< I ? iuu ?a \j~ .jv/xixi, uui came. When Thomas was taken you thought yourself utterly inconsolable: but there vas Jacob?he brought new joy. When Jacob was wafted to a better land your heart was nearly broken, but William healed its wounds; and when William drifted off into the unknown. Henry assuaged your grief. Perhaps there are other Ilenrys. Williams and Thomases to whom this blessed duty wili fall again. Pcrhaps '' "Y<ta are talking very strangely, sir," said Mrs. Brown. - "Oh, no: I merely say that now that John, and "JLhomas. and Jacob, and William and Henry have been called away to join Susan, and Hannah, and Agnes, and Matilda, and Emma, and Lulu, and Mary, and the rest, there is some hope that?that?Why, Mrs. Brown, what cn earth is the matter?" j b - |fe I Mrs. Brown flew out of the room without replying, and Mr. Mills, tilled with amazement, went around to ask Deaeon Wilt to explain the mystery. "I was merely telling her," he said, "that Brown had followed John, Thomas and Matilda, and the others into a bettor world. when she " "Good gracious!" shrieked the deacon: "you didn't allude to her dead husbands and their wives by those names, did you:'' "Of course, you said that " "Oh. thurdor. man! Why those were only imaginary names, that I used by way of illustration. Brown's lirst name was Alcibadies. No wonder she was mad." Mr. Mills groaned avd went home in dismay. And now Mrs. Brown has left his church, ami gone over to the Episcopalians. She is to be married soon, they say.?New York Weekly. GUNS IN THE WAR OF 1812. Two Classes of Naval Cannon?American and British Preferences. There were in those days two principal classes of naval c-aunon ? long guns, often simply called "guns." and earronades, says a writer on the War of 1S12 in Scribner's. The gains had long range, with light weight of shot fired; the earronades had short range and heavy shot. Now in long guns the Americans wore four times as strong as the British, while in earronades the British were twice as strong a; the Americans. It follows that the American commodore should prefer long range to begin with, whereas the British would be careful not to approach within long range, unless with such a breeze as would carry him rapidly down to where his earronades would come into play. There was another very decisive rea. son why si-ch short range favored the British against the Americans. The schooners of the latter not being built for war, carried their guns on a deck unprotected by bulwarks. The men, be. ing exposed from the feet up, could be swept away by canister which if a quantity of small iron balls packed, in a case and fired from a cannon. When discharged these separate and spread like buckshot, striking many ir a group. They can maim or kill a man, but their range is short and penetra-^ tive power small. A bulwarked vessel was, so to say, armored againsl canister; for it makes no diffesencf whether the protection is six inches of wood or ten of iron, provided it keeps out the projectile. The American schooners were in this respect wholly vulnerable. Over-insistence upon details of advantage or disadvantage is ofjen wearisome. and may be pushed to petti forcing, but these quoted are general aud fundamental. To mention them is not to chaffer over details, but te state principles. There? is one other that should be noted, although its value may be differently estimated. Of the great long-gun superiority of the Americans considerably more than me-half "was in the unprotected schooners, distributed, that is, among several vessels not built for war and not capable of acting well together, so as to concentrate their fire. There is no equality between ten guns in five such vessels and the same ten concentrated on one deck under one captain. Just For Show. An Easterner on his way to California was delayed by the floods in Kansas, and was obliged to spend th# night in a humble hotel?the best in the town. The bill of fare at dinner time was not very elaborate, but the traveler noticed with joy that at the bottom of the card, printed with pen and ink, was a startling variety of pies. He liked pies, and here were custard, lemon, squash, rhubarb, Washington, chocolate, mince, apple and berry pies, and several other varieties. He called the waitress to him. "Please get me some rhubarb pie," said he. IIT< si -t... i ui uiiuiu ?tr uui u qui iiiubarb pie," she drawled. H<? took another glance at the list. "Well, get me some squash pie, please." "We haven't got that, it her." "Berry pie?" "Xo." "Lemon pie?" "Xo." "Chocolate pie?" "I'm sorry, we " "Well, what on earth are they all written down here for? On to-day's bill of fare, too!" "Well, I'll tell you." said the girl, apologetically. "That list is always written down there for show when we have mince pie. because when we have mince pie 110 one asks for anything else." Rotunania. The census of the population of Iiou mania on January 1, 1900, has been published. In view of uncertainty on the point, it is now officially established that at that date the population amounted to 5.910,010 souls, of whom there were 1.4S9.29G Roumanians. 202.3 IS Jews and 20.1.010 foreigners. Of the Jews, only 5S50 enjoyed the protection of foreign States. The town population comprised 1.119.7SC, of whom 7OS.0S1 wore Roumanians 209. 177 Jews and 142.200 foreigners. In the rural communes there were 4.721.241 Roumanian inhabitants. 12.934 Tows n,ii 02 71.1 foreigners. As is well known, however, there has been a very strong Jewish emigration' from lloumania during the last few years. According to the statistics of the Chamber of Commerce of Bucharest, the number of artisans inscribed in tile guilds of the capital is 18.(5-14, of whom -1029 are masters and 13.715 workm'-n: OC.OS are Roumanians, 3190 Jews and ihe rest of various States ?(NJCSMVS CNMMfVJrNJCSjS i 2 SOUTH CAROLINA I | $ STATE NEWS ITEMS. ^ | rsMNJCsiCNj?>JCNairv2rsJv New Agent at Newberry. i James U Sheely has been appointed i agent of ihe Southern at Newberry i to succeed S. H. McLean, who was transferred to Union. I Mr. Sheely has been in the service of the Southern for a period of 15 ! vpnrc hnvinsr sprved as ticket agent ' at Xewbeny for the past four years. I if * * Condemns Bishop Potter's Saloon. ! The Re". Albert G. Wardlaw, pasI tor of the First Presbyterian Church. ! of Union, preached a sermon last Sun. day nigh'' in which he severely con. demned the "Potter saloon" in New i York. Mr. Wardlaw has just returned ; from New York, where, with a friend, he personally visited the place. He 1 takes the ground that temptations to excessive drinking are already too ; great and he scores the act of the I bishop to a degree in lending the influence / the church to the whiskey i traffic. ; * * * I Woffcrd Scon to Cpen. Wofford College will open for the term of 3 904-05 on toe 21st day ot September, and the outlook is eneourj aging for a large attendance at the opening occasion. Dr. Coleman Wal i ler, who was elected to tne cnair or | biology and chemistry and who was ! subsequently granted a year's leave of | absence ;n order to pursue further study at .lohns Hopkins University at Baltimore, will.assume his new duties j r.s professor when the college opens, succeeding Professor Williamson, who has occupied the chair only temporarily. * * * Held for Woman's Murder. Butler Holt, who was arrested at , Newberry, has been identified by Beri tha Medlin, of ColumNa, as the man l , who is supposed to have murdered ! Maud Allan in Columbia two weeks ! ago. ! The woman was found dead in a j house which she had been ocvupying j with a man whose description was the j only clew the police had. Holt some j time ago married a young woman of ! Newberry known as Lula Allen, and j with her left the Monday before thf i body was found in Columbia. He was I arrested and the Medlin woman, who nad testified at the coroner's inquest, i was summoned from Columbia. I "Blue Gums" Not Poisonous. j Ever sir.ee the negro has been a j known quantitiy in the south, a merai ber of the race having "blue gums," J has been an object of much curiosity and fear. The fear is so pronounced, | however, that there are a great many people who would as willingly run the ! risk of being bitten by a rattlesnake | as by a "blue gum" negro, his bite bei ina considered extremely poisonous. This listinguishing mark in some 1 members of the race is easily notice* J able, the dark blue, almost black, gums j being in striking contrast t<* the shinj ing white teeth. I One' of the most foremost physicians , of South Carolina, when questioned on the rubject, stated that the bite ! of a "blue gum" negro is no more 1 dangerous than that of a negro having j red gums. It is only a fable which I has been handed down for generations, | and apparently cannot be forgotten. * * Negro Kills White Boy. Allen Porter Heathington, eighteen years old, son of M. J. Heathington. i was shot and killed a day or two ago i by a negro named Sam Brown in the ' Tcogoodoo neighborhood, Colleton ! county. j Young Heathington was remonstratI ing with Erown about some work,when j the negro drew a pistol and shot him in the head. The killing has caused intense excitement and the whole ! county is being scoured by posses. BlocMhourds were secured from the city of Charleston and put on the trail. : When informed of the affair, Governor Heyvard at once telegraphed the sheriff of Colleton county, offering him ' troops and anything he desired to prevent a lynching. { The governor also telegraphed prom; inent citizens of the county asking their co-operation to prevent any violence being done the negro should he i . de caugm. ! Tried to Kill His Wife. ' W. P. Leaphart, a well known young farmer of Laurens county, has been arrested on a very serious charge. The crime with which the young man is charged it assault and battery with intent to 1:511, upon his wife, serious re_salts ensuing because of Mrs. Leapheart's delicate condition at the time of the assault. The warant for Leaphart's arrest was sworn out by D. S. Conwell. the father of Mrs. Leaphart. Leaphart was released on a bond of $500 for his appearance at the preliminary trial which was set to be held at Prosperity. The preliminary, howi j \ % ever, wa> afterwards waived by his attorney. When Sheriff Buford drove up to ! Leaphart's house to make the arrest, I I Mrs. Lea],hart, strenuously denied the j charges against her husband, he also pretesting his innocence. * * * A Complicated Affair. A Columbia dispatch says: The appearance of a woman calling herse.l "Mrs. Dougall" in Blacksburg. has been followed by the arrest of W. J. Dangell and Mrs. Hattie P. Rice on a grave charge and incidentally a sensation. About three years ago Dangell and Mrs. Rice took up their abode in Blacksburg and being apparently highly respectable people were well received. They stated that they were brother and sister ana Mrs. Rice claimed to be a widow. When Mrs. Dougu'.i I arrived ? short time ago the couple ! was not at home and Mrs. Dougad, j it seems, gained entrance to their I house and awaited their return. She j claimed to be Eangell's wife and when J the coupl? arrived she caused warrants to be issued for their arrest, whicn followed. The Blacitsburg magistrate i held them in bonds of $500 each to ap! pear before the court of sessions in Cherokee county. It is stated that Mrs. Rice has had three former husbands, and is drawing a thousand dollars alimony from the i last, which ceases in the event of her j remarriage. Mrs. Dougall hails from ! New York. Attorneys for Dangell and . the Rite woman made efforts to have ! the bail rtduced. * * * Mistook Wife for Burglar. In Brunson, Hampton county, last Monday night J. B. Bennett shot and killed his wife. He was awakened by a noise he supposed to be rats and looking toward a window in their bedroom saw some one whom he supposed to be a burglar. Drawing a pistol from under his pilI low, he shot what proved to be his wife through the heart. She died instantly. Mr. Bennett was implicated in a murder in 1895 and was pardoned on condition that he should never return to the state. His wife has been living near Brunson this year, and .it j seems that Bennett has made frequent visits to her and some of them quite prolonged. THEY'RE AFTER NICHOLAS. Both England and United Statea Aroused Over Contraband Matter. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: The United States and Great Britain have formally raised the question of food stuffs aa contraband of war except when directly proved that they are destined for belligerent armies or navies. While acting on parallel lines, the United States and Great Britain are proceeding independently. The American case was presented through Ambassador McConnick Wednesday. MAN YMEN TO LOSE JOBS. Carnegie Steel Company *to Turn Off 25 000 of Its Employees. The Carnegie Steel Company, at Sharon, Pa., has served notices on all the clerics in the South Shdron office that fcfter S<ptember 1 their- services would not be required. The reason given is that the blast furnace construction is completed and no other department of the big works will be operated. This will.mean the closing of the open hearth steel department, which employs 2,500 men when running full time. MISSING CRIUSERS SHOW UP. Rosftli and Gromoboi Reach Vladivostok Badly Camaged. It is learned from official sources by the Associated Press at St. PetersI burg that the cruisers Gromoboi and Rossia have reached Vladivostok af ter the battle with Admiral Uriu's squadron off Tsu island. Both ships were considerably damaged. ' A later official dispatch from Viadi: vostok shows that every officer on the I two vessels were cither killed or Y/ounded. i ROOT WILL NOT RUN. I Refuses to Be Republican Candidate for Governor of New York. Senator Piatt, of New Yosk, states that he has received a letter from Elij hu Root, declining to be the republican nominee for governor. ' "I received Mr. Root's letter twe 1 days ago," said Senator t'lau. "as iar as I am concerned it settles the question. I don't believe that his being the nominee of the party is in th range of possibility now." FIERCE RIOT IN CHICAGO. : Bloody Heads are Given Strikers in Outbreak at Stock Yards. The fiiercest riot of the stock yards | strike at Chicago occurred Thursday j evening when hungry dwellers of the j packing house district sought to cap| ture and kill eight steers which had escaped from the yards. The mob j numbered four thousand persons and i the streets were cleaicd only after 120 i policemen, in five squads, had charged j the rioters on four sides. Shots were j fired and scores of rioters were club< bed. 'INTO SHANGHAI HARBOR! i * Jsps Send a V. srship After the Disabled Askcld end Torpedo Boat Destroyer?Serious Situation. Shanghai was thrown into a fever of excitement Sunday afternoon by the arrival cf a Japanese torpedo boat which was sighted coming in lrom the south at hail-past 4 o'clock. She passed Woosung at full speed and started , up the river Ju tor saangnai. The United States torpeuo boat destroyer Chauncey, at Woosung, slipped her cable and followed the Japanese destroyer. The Japanese boat was cleared for action. She anchored on' the Cosmo- j poiitan dock, where the Russian cruiser Askold is undergoing repairs. The Chauncey came to anchor practically ' between the dock and the Japanese 1 destroyer. j There are at present no Chinese 1 men-of-war in Shanghai port, but the |< Taotai has telegraphed that a Chinese I cruiser be sent immediately. The Rus- i sion consul general flatly refuses to i disarm the Askold and the Russian 1 torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi, or to order them to leave the harbor. The taotai has notified American ; Consul Goodnow, who is dean of the consular body, that China cannot pro- i tect the foreign settlements. He con- < tends that Russia ignores the orders ] issued by rhina and that China has ; not the r -ins of making her obey ; them. Consul Goodnow has called a meet- i ing of the consular body to take joint i action for the protection of foreign inhabitants. The Askold has docked adjacent to the warehouse of the Stand- ] - ard Oil Company, which are valued at j over $1,000,000. The Standard Oil < Company has demanded protection for its property from Consul Goodnow. i The dock where the Askold lies is 1 owned by British interests. On one j side of this dock is German and Dutch < property, and on the other side Ameri- i can property. There are eight American, one Ger- i man, two British and four Frenc" war i ships at Shanghai. : NOVIK SUNK BY JAPS. < " ] III-Fated Russian Cruiser Chased, Rid- j died and Sent to the Bottom. ] A special from Tokio says: After a severe engagement with the protect- 1 ed cruisers Chitose and Tushima, the ] greyhounds of the Japanese navy, the. -i fleet Russian cruiser Novik has been < vanquished. The fight occurred Sunday. After it the Novik, in a sinking 1 condition, was run ashore in Korsa- ] hovsk harbor on the island of Sak- ] haline. 1 The full details of the attack on the 1 Mnvik have been received by the Jap- ' anese legation at Washington as follows: "The protected cruiser Chitose reports that the Chitose and the protected cruiser Tsushima attacked the Russian cruiser at Karsakhovsk, Sakhaline Island, on the morning of the 20th. On the morning of the 21st the Novik, which had been heavily damaged, was stranded and partly sunk. The Tsushima was hit once in the coal bunker, but the damage has already been repaired. There was no other damage, nor was there a single casualty on either of the Japanese vessels." SAYS TRUST RUINED HIM. Ohio Man Brings Suit Against Standard Oil Company. George Rice, of Marietta, Ohio, commenced suit in the United States circuit court at Trenton, N. J., Friday, for $3,000,000 damages against the Standard Oil Company for the alleged ruining of his oil business by the defendant company. Rice charges that the Standard Oil Company compelled railroads to charge his customers exorbitant freight rates; that the company opened grocery stores to break down his competition, and in other ways succeeded in taking away from him four thousand customers, an oil refining plant worth $750,000 and a business I ^ worth $50,000 a year. , t MONUMENT TO WHITNEY. Movement Inaugurated to Honor Memory of Cotton Gin Inventor. A movement has been started in Biston to erect a monument to EH Whitney, the inventor of the cotton < gin, the product of whose genius made t possible the development of cotton j ? -A it-.i SA I ! raising into tne great inausiry mat u i j. is in the south today. An association will be formed te raise funds for the monument and the C cotton growing states will be asked tc I take a prominent part in the move v ment p COLLIERIES ARE SHUT DOWN. 1 Aggregate of Sixty Thousand Miners Idle In the Schuylkill Region. A special from Pottstvilie, Pa., says: "I The shut-down at the collieries in the Schuylkill region Monday was complete with the exception of the I.e i high Coal and Navigaubn company. <] which continued to opeiate its collier t ies in the Panther Creek valley. n It is conservatively estimated thai p there are about 60^)00 idle men J* c Ue county. E " .V ????^ MADE BOGUS BILLS 4 Gang of Counterfeiters in Atlanta Caught Red-Handed. I 1 FIVE BROUGHT TO GRIEF "Queer" Ten-Dollar Bills Were Being * 'i Manufactured by Wholesale on Presses of a Job Printing Office. i ? > i A gang of counterfeiters with headquarters in Atlanta and operating in a printing office in the very heart of the business section of the j city, have been run to cover and four arrests made by United States Inspector J. M. Wright, assisted by city officers. The counterfeiters arrested have made a full confession, and the story they tell is one of the most sensational in many respects that has ever come to the notice of the United > States officers. The men under arrest are: Oec&r L. McMichael, a pressman for the LaFlatte Printing Company, and who rerides at No. 30 Gresham street; Clarence W. Rebb, a pressman and job printer for the LaHatte Printing Company, and who resides at No. 79 McDaniel street; J. N. Little, a roofer, who lives at South Bend, near Atlanta: P. S. Coffey, an ex-Dostmaster and an owwr of a flour and grist mill in Upson county. This gang has flooded the money $ market with $30,000 of bogus $10 greenback bills, and some of the money has been passed in Atlanta. The counterfeit bills were printed at | ' the dead of night, in the job office of the LaHatte Printing Company, and Mr. LaHatte knew absolutely nothing of the matter until he was notified by the officers, Rebb stated that some three months ago he saw McMichael with two plates and McMichael told him they were for making counterfeit money. > During the last county primary, according to Rebb's story, the LaHatte printing office was kept open nearly all night, and after 12 o'clock the plates for the counterfeit money were put on the presses and several thousands of dollars of the bogus money printed. This was later repeated three \ times, until about $30,000 were run Dfr. - . ; ' * x * When Rebb confessed, McMichael was found in Mr. LaHatte's office and placed under arrest about 8 o'clock Friday night. He also confessed, and !a?e in the night Little was found at v South Bend and brought to the city. * rhe three men were taken to the po ice barracks about 4 o'clock Saturday morning and docketed "suspicion." Inspector Wright left on the. first '?n'n TTnoon rmintv 'nn'.-l rfifjim- i ,iaiU 1U1 WMU%^ MMvt MW ? p ;d Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock vith Coffey. The four men were brought face to face and they all made a full confes-^ ' 4 sion. J] Fifth Man Caught. The fifth man of the gang was arrested in St. Louis Sunday, and he is , ^ SVilliam L. Wynne, a young man who ias lived all his life in Atlanta, and vho went to St. Louis last May. Wynne has made a full confession, * filing the officers that he had made he plates from which the counterfeit v noney was printed and sold them to wo men in Atlanta. From the confessions of the pris>ners it seems that Wynne made the > )l3tes in Atlanta and sold them to 3offey and Little for $500. Little and Coffey placed them in the eands of^ dcMiehael, who took Rebb into his ;onfidence. and the counterfeit money vas printed in the LaHatte job office it night, !n the presence of CofTey and Little. . > * At least $30,000 of the bogus money "'as printed. It was all in $10 notes if the Buffalo exposition Issue. The ounterfeit was not very good,, but nspector Wright believes most of it 'ould have been passed after it had ieen doctored with a strong solution if tea. d : l WELL KNOWN NOVELIST DEAD. Jot. Prentiss lugnaham Passes Away at Beauvoir, Miss., Aged Sixty. Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, of Chi . - ? .V . .1 ' 4 sago, said 10 oe me aumur ui mum han 1,000 novels, is dead at Beaiivoir, diss... aged 60 years. Colonel Ingratam vas born at Natchez, Miss. As a young man he served in the ,'onfederat? army as colonel and after he war began writing stories which vere published in various weekly pa- , ers, and in book form. Later he urned out a novel every few weeks. * t WHELMED EY DYNAMITE: Two Pecpie Killed snd Depot'Wrecked by Explosives at Mindcn, Mo. t Two prrsons were killed and three, njured. two perhaps fatally, at Minen. Missouri, Saturday afternoon by he explosion of fifteen C3?es of dynssite p'le.1 on the Missouri Pacific de- ' J oi platform being struck by a freight The depot was completely de- ^ aolishcd. % M