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HI bt- au *r i ikas^ /^ THE doctor stood by the bedside; there was not a trace of sym- l pathy expressed in his seamed i face or in his brusque manner, yet there were people who declared s it was not lacking in his heart. "Well, what are you going to do i about it?" he inquired, briefly. 1 Mr. Sprague drew a long breath. "Doctor, you can't mean that it will ' be months " "Exactly what I do mean. It will ' be months before you can bear your s weight upon that foot. It's not a sprain. ' The ligaments are torn." 1 A boy stood beside the window, his back toward the bed. The sick man 1 glanced at him involuntarily while the physician was speaking. Now his < voice contained a sad attempt at cheer- ' fulness as he said, "Robert, do you i hear that? It means you're the head of i the house now." i Dr. Jarvis turned a pair of keen ] eyes on the boy. "Rather a big job I for one of your size, eh, Doc?" he ejaculated. grimly. He always referred to i Robert as "Doc," because of the pro- ' fession which the boy had in view. J Mrs. Sprague spoke quickly: "Burdens never seem so heavy to the will- 1 ins: and capable, Doctor Jarvis." The physician nodded^ picked up his ' medicine-chest, and walked out of the room abruptly. Robert followed and went into the barn, sat on the feed- < box, and tried hard not to think. ] "Robert!'* came a voice from the stable door, an unsteady voice. 1 "Yes, mother." He made a quick i pass at his eyes, and did not turn his i head. J Mrs. Sprague sat down beside him and laid her hand on his arm. For a < moment neither spoke. "I'm sorry, ' Robert," she began, finally, "and so is ' your father, but " * Robert swallowed hard. He knew what she meant. It was the subject ! he had been struggling to keep out of his thoughts.- Finally he said huskily, < "Well, mother, if I can't, why, I can't, ; that's all." "We have been talking it over, your ' father and I??" She . paused to gain * control of a faltering tongue. "It seems to us best for Clara to go. I can < _ get along without her help, and if she ] graduates this year,' she can teach J nprt. Rut vou. Robert?we shall have to depend on you for everything this Winter." The boy swallowed again, but made 3 no reply. "Your father says that Mr. Brown .will give you ten dollars a month for a couple of trips a day to the sawmill. : Of course you are strong enough to do 1 heavier work in the woods than driving the team, but that ten dollors will 1 mean much to us, Robert, just now." Robert slipped down from the feed* J box, saying with a brusqueness which 3 did not deceive his mother, "I've got. ' to let the cows out now." She watched him as he opened the i stanchions, this son of whom she was > so proud. He led his class in the ' graded school in the village. They had 1 his future already planned. He was : to graduate in May, and the. following ] September enter the college prepara- i tory school at Key brook, where a scholarship once in four years awaited the leader of the senior class in Swansea. This was the fourth year, and if he were not prepared for Keybrook this year he would lose the scholarship. The loss would be severe to the Spragues in their straitened financial circumstances. 1 Long after his mother had returned to the house Robert stood in the stable door, looking down the valley beyond the Swansea schoolhouse. The brother and sister had rented two rooms at ' Mrs. Brown's, where they had boarded the previous year. Now one of the rooms must be given up. A lump rose in Robert's throat. Doctor Jarvis' hlnnt words to his father had turned the world upside down. "Clara," he began at the suppertable, in a tone which he intended to be careless, "which of those rooms do you want to keep? I had tetter go down-town to-morrow and tell Mrs. Brown, or we may have to pay rent for both." Clara bent her head over her plate. v Her soft brown eyes filled with tears, but she knew better than to let Robert see them. She read the signs of repression in his face. "Ask Mrs. Brown to keep the cheaper one for me,' 'she returned, quietly. The following afternoon he drove to town to interview Mrs. Brown. On the way he met Dr. Jarvis. "Hello, Doc!" called the physician, drawing rein. "As head of the house, What are you going to do?" "Drive team for Mr. Brown," returned Robert, half-resenting the question. The doctor seemed to consider himself a privileged character as to questioning. "What do you get for it?" "Ten dollars a month." "Rent the room!" cried Mrs. Brown, l few moments later. "Why, Robert, I could rent both those rooms a dozen times over. Every vacant room in the place is taken by students, and dozens are turned away. I don't blame the girls and boys for wanting to come to the graded school. It's p. good school." When Robert left Mrs. Brown he carried with him a new idea, which grew with every mile of the homeward journey. Why not? There were the horses, the big. heavy spring wagon, and the long bob-sleigh. Why not? He could scarcely sleep that night \ \ >i ! ofujeijouse' ;ce Louise Lee. * "Come out to the barn," he whispered to Clara, after breakfast. "I've something to tell you." He unfolded his plan to her as they sat together on the feed-box. It met with an enthusiastic reception. Clara ?ave a joyful cry. and springing from the box, whirled round and round, rheu she seized Robert's shoulders and shook them. "And there's me!" she exclaimed. In ungrammatical triumph. "Don't you see? I. could give up the room, and with it the additional expense. Oh, ?ood for you!" Robert smiled genuinely for '.he first time in twenty-four hours. After due consultation they concluded they would ask their mother's advice, but not trouble their father until it was all arranged?if it could be arranged. They found their mother in the back kitchen, where, in loud whispers, both talking at once, they upfolded the plan. "And only think, mother, what it means to Rob!" sahl Clara, eagerly. "The graduation and the scholarship and " "But the work here, the chores," bs?an the mother, doubtfully. "There's nights, mornings and Saturdays," interrupted Robert. "And I'll help," said-Clara. That very afternoon the two stated aut to test the practicability of their plan. They talked all the way from Sprague's Hill to Swansea. "I'll land :he load at l" .e steps of the school building every morning at a quarter to nine, rain or shine, for one dollar apiece a month," said Robert. "I've been wondering how the chil3ren were going to get to school this winter, with me working in the woods," one father said. "Put me iown for two." "Going to start a kid wagon, are rou?" cried another, slapping his knee. 'Good .deal Why on -artL hasn't some one thought of it before? Well, I guess rou can count on my tnree." When the big horses rattled * p to the barn that night, Clara, all unmindful of the fact that her father knew nothing of the plan, dashed into the house, shouting, "Mother! Motler! We have twenty pledged! That means ten dollars more than Rob wou*d earn in the woods, with me at heme at night and Rob in school!" Then they went into Mr. Sprague's room, and Clara told the plan disjointedly. "It's Robert's idea, father, and isn't it fine? We can carry the horses' feed, and he will try to get stalls in Dr. Jarvis's barn, and?and, 0 my!" "Father, do you object?" asked Robert, from the doorway. "Object!" exclaimed his father, and his tone was all the assurance the boy needed. "Why, Robert, you're the head of the house now!" "So it's school and a 'kid wagon,' Is ItV InnnirArl riortor Jnrvis. with firrim bumor, when interviewed concerning the stables. "Yes, the barn is big enough, and there's'work enough lying round for a boy of your size to do to pay for its use, but when are you going to have time to do it?" "Noons," replied Robert. "We have from twelve to one-thirty, you know." "When will you eat" your dinner?" "Oh, that won't take me long." Robert's plans were working so well that he had little time to. consider so unimportant a matter as dinners. "Humph!" snorted the doctor, in a discouraging tone. "And the chores at home?" "Nights and mornings." The doctor cleared his throat and scowled. "Studying?" "In school and nights." Robert's hopefulness was not" dimmed by the old physician's pessimism. "And you expect to lead your classes?" "I must, for that means Keybrook and the Swansea scholarship nex: year." "Scholarship!" snorted the doctor. As one of the trustees at Keybrook he was interested in the scholarship. "When are you going to sleep?" This question Robert considered irrelevant. Monday morning, at quarter before nine, Doctor Jarvis sat beside the east window in his study to see the wagon pass. It was a sight worth seeing?a heavy wagon with a creaking break, a crude but effective cover of black oilcloth stretched over a rude frame. Along the sides of the wagon were rough but comfortable seats occupied by twenty jolly boys and girls. Robert sat on a seat which overhung the dashboard, and swung his feet back of the horses. His face was beaming, and he whistled gaily as he looked at the big red brick school building; but Doctor Jarvis shook his head. "All right in the run for the' scholar4-VIJ-V r\Virolm'on OcL'O/1 of fVlO UUl' ; luc JJliJ SK.1UU ?v tuv end of the first month. Robert handed over a ten-dollar bill proudly. It was part payment for attendance on his father. "Yes, sir," he replied, briskly. "I led the class this month, but my marks were not so high as I should like them to be." After he had gone, Dr. Jarvls laid the bill in his wallet as deliberately as if he needed it and Robert did not. "They will be lower this month," he said, musingly. He was right. To his own surprise, Robert fell slowly behind. He spent as many hours over his books, but they .were late hours, and the result was not1 the same. He did not quite understand why, but the docte: did. He was ?^ surprised when the boy said soberly at the end oi the second month: "Fred Smith is ahead of me now, but I must catch up." "Humph!" commented the doctor, unsympathetically, and drove away. He carried in his pocket a second tendollar bill. Then came the December cold, with drifts and ice, making additional work for Robert. There was shoveling to do, a path to break for the sheep from the barn to the spring, wood to be chopped, and after all these duties were done he nodded over the algebra problems which refused to be solved. Once during the morning session, after he had faced a keen north wind ??? il An V?a nelson Ka. tur iuui miics, uc uiupj'cu uoiwp uvside the stove and fell off his chair, to the uproarious amusement of the students and the vexation of Mr. Telfer. Robert bowed his head in shame over the principal's sharp words, and begged his sister not to mention the matter at home.. "I'm getting so stupid, Clara," he confessed. "I don't know what to make of myself." "No, you're not. Rob," she declared, loyally; but there was an anxiety in her voice she could not conceal. i "I stand third in the class," he told the doctor, briefly, at the end of January. "What are you going to do about it?" was the characteristic response. "Give up?" Robert mounted to his seat in the "bobs" and gathered up the lines. His tone was obstinate rather than hopeful: "No, sir. not until I have to." "That fellow," said the doctor, later, to Mr. Telfer, "has paid my bill down to the last cent. He has done their outdoor work at home and kept the family going financially all winter with that wagon of his. His father and mother depend entirely on him." "But, all the same," said Mr. Telfer, soberly, "he's dropping steadily behind in his studies, and I had counted on him at Keybrook to represent our school well." At home Robert, who had a long race with some snow-blinded sheep, was falling asleep over his Latin in the face of his despairing determination to keep awake. "But, father," he said, with hope renewed when the April report card showed his marks low in the eighties, "there are the final examinations this month. I'm reviewing for them every minute I can find. They count onethird on the term's work. I always keep pretty cool in the exams," and he went out to the barn whistling more cheerfully than he had in weeks before. "Hope to come up four places on the finals, do you, eh?" came the doctor's discouraging voice. The doctor had fallen into the habit of frequenting his barn in the morning at a quarter to nine, although he seldom had an encouraging word to offer. That morning he noticed how thin and pale Robert had become. "I shall do my level best, sir. I have been reviewing for weeks now." "When do the examinations begin?" "To-morrow," Robert responded. The following morning Poctor Jarvis was startled at the sight of the boy's face. It Lad a drawn, sleepless look. "See here, Doc, did you study all night?" Robert turned awav. . His tone was muffled. "No, sir, but I was up all night with a sick cow." "Nice preparation for final examinations !" the physician muttered, but this time he mercifully waited until Robert was out of hearing. It was a preparation which could hav% but one result. Robert's standings for the term were lowered almost to the passing mark. He could barely graduate, Mr. Telfer told him, and th? teacher's face expressed his regret. In heaviness of heart Robert announced at home the principal's decision. "I feel wicked, mother," cried Clara, "to stand higher than Rob after all he's done this winter!" All day the boy secretly longed for something to happen which would offer a reasonable excuse for his absence from the evening graduating exercises, but he longed in vain. Eight o'clock found him sitting, in humiliation of spirit, in the fifteenth place as the class of twenty were arranged on the platform in order of their rank. Even the students had not known before how low a position he would occupy, and many were the surprised stares which met his shamed face on every side. The hour spent on that platform was the keenest torture the boy had ever known, and it was with a feeling of relief that rose with the others to receive his diploma. When Mr. Telfer had passed fourteen rolls down the line, he paused a moment and pulled an envelope rropi ms pocKer. "Here is something which will interest you, Robert," he smiled, "and I congratulate you on your prospects. You deserve them." The letter was handed over with the fifteenth diploma, while the audience watched curiously, and whispered questions which no one could answer. Robert walked off the platform and down the aisle, staring stupidly at the envelope. It was postmarked "Keybrook." Sitting beside his father, he read the typewritten sheet within, and caught his breath. It was from the principal of the preparatory school. "Mr. Robert Sprague. Swansea, Pa.: "My Dear Sir?It becomes my pleases* infnrm vnii that Doctor aub uuij w w ? ~ ? Jarvis of our board of trustees has founded a second scholarship for Swansea with the understanding that it is to be at your service for four years, beginning with September next. The doctor has asked me to say this?that he considers it of greater importance to be the successful head of a house than of a class."?Youth's Companion. Maxim means the "Bitter One" in the Russian language. 1 I Palmetto State News! Alleged Slayer Out on Bond. C. E. Teague, who shot and killed a negro named Brown at East Spartanburg, has been released from jail on bond in the sum of $1,000. Stauyarne Wilson, Teague's attorney, made application oeiore juage rrmcy, holding court in Union. * * Rains Do Great Damage. From every section of South Carolina, from the low country as well as the upper portion of the state, come reports of recent excessive rains. All streams were swollen and many bridges have been washed away at various places. Bottom lands were covered with water and young cotton and grain have been damaged. * ? , * Jug of Liquor Causes Tragedy. Mont. D. Ihley is dead and John Henry Pope, Jr., is fatally wounded as a result of a row over a jug of liquor in a remote section of Hampton county, 'Saturday afternoon. Pope met Ihley, who had a jug of whiskey, and demanded that Ihley sell it to , him. A dispute ensued. Pope phot Ihley, but before the latter fell he fatally wounded Pope, shooting him three times. * * * Atlanta Carolinians to Banquet. The (South Carolina Society of Atlanta, Ga., will hold its second annual banquet on the evening of June 28. This will be made, the banner event of the society since its organization. Governor Heyward and other prominent South Carolinians will be guests at the banquet, to which all Caro linians otner than native born are invited upon their paying the sum which members of the society will be assessed for the occasion. Hon. John Temple Graves, president of the society, will preside at the banquet. * Major Black Explains. Major John Black, through his attorney. submitted a letter to Governor Hey ward in which he said that he regretted the language he had used toward Mr. Lyon. In accordance wi?h Major Balck's letter,?Gov^-nor Hoyward stated that he won'd rein??e Major Black from office. Mijor lilack stated in bis letter that lie had l:een misinformed as to the scope of the investigation, and he had thought his private life was being assailed. Under sudden heat and passion he ^assumed an attitued, and used language which he now knows was not justified. This does not agree with Major Black's statement the day of the occurrence, when he is said to have declared >10 hs/1 "hlrvlrpri thp pflmp r>f the committee" of which Mr. Lyon is a member. * * Escaped Murderer Recaptured. Chief of Police Taton of Lake City, Fla., was in Charleston a few days ago with Jesse Cain, colored, who had escaped from a Florida jail eleven years ago while under sentence of death. Cain was tried and convicted at Lake City for shooting a woman in the back as she was running away from him, and the jury had ordered a 'short rope. Seven days before the date set for his execution Cain escaped and came to this state, where he settled down quietly near Kingstree, opened a store, rented a fourhorse farm and proceeded to prosper. He had left a wife in Florida, but decided not to risk anything by sending for her, and married another woman after reaching this state, and three children are left in Rjngstree. The police recently heard that Cain was in Kingstree, and his arrest followed. He made stubborn resistance) but afterwards consented to go bach to Florida, and the waiting noose. * * * Tillman Opposed by Lumpkin. Colonel W. W. Lumpkin has forma 11 v entered the camDaiam for the United States senate against Sena: tor Tillman. He is a confederate soldie, with a distinguished career, is a nephew of a former chief justice, brother of a member of the present supreme court, and grandson of a former governor of Georgia. All pledges of candidates for state offices in the democratic primary have been filed. Dispensary is the main issue in the gubernatorial race, There, are two candidates for lieutenant governor, four for secretary of state, three for attorney general, two for comptroller, one for state treasurer, two for adjutant general for ^uriprin fen dent of pdiioatlon fire for railroad commissioner, and two for the United States senate. Congressmen Legare, Ellerbee and Lever have no opposition. Messrs Finley, Patterson, Aiken and Johnson will have opposition. The campaign started off in full blast Tuesday. * ? Gallows for Wife Slayer. William Marcus, formerly of th United States artillery, stationed a! Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, was convicted of murder on his trial ir Charleston, in having killed his wif? cn April 14 last, and was sentenced to be banged August 3. . The hanging will be the first execution of a white man in Charleston county since the civil war. The murder was a particularly brutal killing. The woman had separated from her husband, and was engaged as a domestic in the employ of Colonel Greenough, the post commander. She was well known by the islanders and universally well regarded. She was stabbed thirty-five times with an ice pick by her husband. Her character was assailed by Marcus after the killing, but the woman was so well known that the charges were not believed, but to make the matter clear, an examination of her person Ktf nVureimjnc rHcrtlrweoH +Vi Ci font that U? puj 01V/A0.XAO Uiovtvgvu JLMVV the charges were false. Marcus came near being lynched by the soldiers at the post at the time of the killing and was saved from such an execution by the prompt work of the authorities. * * * Arrested on Charge of Murder. The Atlanta Constitution of a recent issue contained the following: | A young white man, who gave his name as W. D. Smith, and who the j officers say is D. L. English, wanted I for a foul murder in ^Union county, South Carolina, was arrested and locked up at the police barracks. Captain Vickery of the Piedmont Detective Agency was looking for i English when the arrest was made by Sergeant Foster and Patrolman H. A. Thompson of the city police. After his arrest, the prisoner was searched; letters were found in his pockets addressed to D. L. English, and written from Union county, South Carolina. On June 5, an aged and harmless old negro named Mose Hughes was murdered by four white men in Union county, South Carolina, and his body weighted with stones and thrown into the Tiger river. It was washed ashore two days later. Suspicion pointed to D. L. English, his . brother and two other white men. It is said that the old negro baa been to see a relative who wa3 in ioll <~>n +>>/% /->V|orcra. orcftn A TtrhifP JCZll UU tuv V/UO.1 QV VM. I** A T( MkV v man's barn had been burned. When Hughes started D*ck home he was walking on the Seaboard Air Line trestle over the Tiger river. He was met by four men, one of whom owned the barn that had been burned. The old negro was asked to tell who burned the barn and when he replied that he did not know he was shot to death and his body thrown into the river. Captain Vickery says that English's brother is already under arrest and has made a partial confession. GOVERNOR PATTISON DEAD. ! Democratic Chief Executive of Ohio Called by Grim Reaper. John M. Pattison, governor of Ohio, died of bright's disease or chronic intestinal nephritis, at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon at his home at Milford, Ohio, 15 miles east of Cincinnati. His death came suddenly ana was unexpected even by his physicians and family and was caused by a relapse from prolonged disease. After the election in November, it was thought that he was suffering from an attack of malaria, from which a change of climate and rest from work would quickly restore him. However, when he returned from a sojourn of several weeks in the south, he was still weak, and under the advice of his physician his part of the * nroo ernnfi lUiiUgUIcUlUU CClcmuu; nao through with the utmost c^re. Several times he seemed" so far re covered that his speedy appearance at the executive offices was looked for at almost any time. John M. Pattison, boy soldier, lawyer, state legislator, member of congress and governor of Ohio, was a native of Claremont county, Ohio, the . same county in which he retained his home during his entire life. Born on June 13, 1847, he enlisted as a volunteer in the United States army when but '16 years of age, in 1864, and entered college immediately after being mustered out, graduating at . the Ohio Wesleyan university, witJb the class of 1869, having been a college mate of United States Senator James B. Foraker. His political career was a long and eventful one. ? ? a ro*rp>n j HOUSE MUINUKS Uuu. ucoicn, Passing of Georgia Congressman An nounced to Colleagues. A black draped desk in the hal of the house of representatives Mon | day told the story of the passing o1 , Rufus Lester, late a representative ir congress from the first Georgia dis j trict. Mr. Bartlett announced the deati of his late colleague, stating that he J had been a member of the house fo; nearly eighteen years. He offered the I usual resolution, which was agreed to and Speaker Cannon announced s | committee to attend the funeral. As - a 2.1 /> fiAsn/utt f Vl Q tinilOC S, iuruier uaiiv ui icspwt, w? uwu? adjourned until Tuesday. Work on Philippine Railways. A Manila dispatch says: PrelimlJ nary work on the 'Philippine railroads : will be begun at once. Forty engin5 eers and physicians who arrived at 1 Manila on June 9 and 10 left Fri* day for Iloilo to begin operation?. * CONGRESSMAN KILLED. Col. Lester, Georgia Representative^ Falls Through Skylight in | Washington and Mangled. A Washington special says: Crashlng through a skylight in the cupola 15 feet above the roof of the thirteenstory Cairo apartment house, on Q. street, about 9:30 o'clock Friday night Colonel R. EL Lester, representative in congress from Savannah, Ga., was- ' so badly injured that he died at 6:22. o'clock Saturday night. Although the physicians summoned when first Colonel Lester was found, -4 ?J nwMimin/icil Vila (ninrloo. UllCUUiiUUUS, yivuviutbvu 1MU M4>u*v>rfatal, he made a gallant fight for life. In a shower of breaking glass hisbody fell 30 feet to the 12th floor,, and his right leg was mangled, while his left leg and shoulder were fractured, and his head and body werecut and bruised. After climbing a ladder and squeesing his body through a hole barely large enough to admit a man, he crawled out upon the frail glass work in the darkness and it gave way under his weight ' The strange accident cannot be explained satisfactorily, although it label ieved by his relatives that he was searching for his two little grandchildren, Lester and Martha Randolph, and believed they were 'hiding from him in the garret. After dinner he was in his usual jovial spirit chatting with the guests of the apartments, where he had lived for more than eleven years during his seasons in Washington. About 9o'clock Friday night, Colonel J. j - * 3- '-i- r\ n tho .Lester maae ms jtvpcaiauvQ Wu portico of the Cairo, and asked about his grandchidren, who have been liv- & ing with their grandparents since the death of their mother. (He appeared- -0:3 to be disappointed because they were , r r not playing in their familiar way, and he sauntered into the house. The chtt- '4$ dren are six and eight years old, re* . ?& specllvely. Although it was only h few minutes after his appearance oo the portico that the accident occurred,. w Colonel Lester did not ride up on the fell elevator. It is regarded as odd that J he should climb the distance from the ' vjf ground to the top of the building; which would fatigue an ordinary man. No one saw him, however, after he 'V|i passed through the lobby of the apartments until he was picked up uncon-- 'Xjii scious, bleeding from half a dozea gashes. It Is the theory of some of .4 : v? his friends that he started out on the roof of the hotel to see if the lit- 3p| tie ones were not there looking for airship which made an ascent earlier x|||| in the day. Of the men now representing Georgia in the national congress, Colonel . Lester has had the longest service. He was elected as representative from ^ the first district for the fifty-first con- ^ gress, and has served continuously ? since?about seventeen years in all. . JURISDICTION OVER TROLLEYS. Taken by the Georgia State Railroad Commission. . ^|?H| ? -i-i- ?onmnilc. The Georgia suue mm sion called on the Atlanta Northern '* $ Railway company, which operates a ; trolley line between Atlanta and Marietta, a distance of twenty miles, to file with the commission a schedule . ^ of its rates, both passenger and, freight. This action marks somewhat of a ' new departure, as the commission haa . not heretofore assumed jurisdiction - over any trolley lines in Georgia. -i ' FIFTY HORSES INCINERATED. f ' ojgii ' Bad Blaze In 8t Louis ?ntails Loss , > of $105,ooo. > l Two early Sunday morning fires at St. Louis, Mo., did damage estimated - at $106,000 by completely gutting a five story office building and burning - a large livery and undertaking estab! lishment. (Fifty horses were burned i to death in the latter. Many Drown on Jap Transport a TftWn riiRnateh says: The Japan . es? transport Toytoni struck a mine, ' Thursday evening and sank immediately when twenty-four miles off Joeh1 in, Korea. Twelve of her crew were saved and fifty are missing. THREE MEN SHOT DEAD. Tried to Enter Woman's Apartmeni , 3 and Her Lover Used Pistol. A visit paid by a trio of men to * the apartment of a woman in Louisville, Ky., resulted Wednesday even- w Ing in the death of all three at the ' hands of Clarence Sturgeon, her lov- # % er. W. J. Bruner, 26 years old; W. " HI McMichael, 45, and an unidentified man about thirty ydars of age, all went down before the deadly aim. of [ Sturgeon, a young man of 21. 5 WAS BORN TO BE HANGED. ' |j i This Is Declaration of Negro Senteno5 ed to Die for Murder. Alcle Lewis, a negro murderer, upon whom the death sentence has been passed at Branton, Miss., refuses to allow his lawyers to take an appeal , to the supreme court, saying that he * is convinced that he was born to be V hanged. He made this statement when sentence was passed upon him. I.ewis killed a white man under whom he was working in a lumber camp. v