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n ?? CUT THROUGH PRISON BARS Bessemer Steel Yields to Saw Made From a Federal Convict's Sock. 1 YIRN, SAND AND DUST USED Remarkable Feat of an Inmate of Leaven* , ~ worth Penitentiary Which Surprised Keepers and Scientists-^irst Case on Record. Vav Out of pieces of woolen yarn unraveled from a sdck and twisted together a prisoner in the new federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., constructed an instrument which he used to saw through' the top and bottom of a three inch ? steel bar. This information was given to the St Eouis police by Mark A. Shipley, special agent of the Fidelity and Casualty company, who resides at iff GUARD NOTICED HIM WORKING HIS HANDS BACK AND FORTH. x 4636A Cook avenue, when he returned from Leavenworth. A photograph of the sawed bars showing the opening made yas given to Mr. Shipley by the warden. Shipley was one of the men 1 +Ka man MfuniniHum i m jcuuiug luc uiau w prison. That a common piece of yarn could be made to cut the strongest steel bars . teeted with acids and resisting steel saws is a discovery that not only surprises police and keepers of jails and penitentiaries, btft scientists as well. It is the first case of the kind on record ^ as far as can be learned, and the prisx oner who used It in the Leavenworth penitentiary is the originator. \ The prisoner was confined in one of the isolation cells. A guard standing on a tier above noticed him working his hands back and forth around the bars and notified the guards on the 1 lower floor. They investigated and found that the top had been sawed through. The bottom was about half 1 through. The prisoner readily con* feased and showed the warden how he had accomplished the feat ^ The ravelings of his woolen sock be } had twisted together as a tailor would pieces of thread. He had made them compact by frequent wettings. Dust I and sand picked up in the quarry were kneaded into the string. When finished ! it was almost as hard as a piece of j emery stone. It required two days, he I said, to saw through' the bar with the string, several new strings having to be made, as they wore out quickly. The warden doubted the statement at first. The prisoner offered to show him and made one of the Instruments ??A. Qmnll ninAAa r\f VQV U1 iiMimimi i,rr iuc. uuian yivvvo v*. a broomstick were used as handles. With this the warden had the prisoner * finish sawing through the bottom of the bar. , When plans for the new penitentiary were made it was decided to use bessemer steel for the window gratings, it being deemed harder and nearer saw jroof than the iron which had been l- ^ ased. The bars at his window were the ones sawed. The opening made was large enough for a man to have crawled through. 'The fact that bessemer steel bars have been successfully sawed without using steel makes it more and more t necessary that guards be constantly on the watch out," said Mr. Shipley. 'Prisoners have made saws of tin cans and the like, but never before of common yarn." Killed hy a Tight Collar. The Inquest into the death of Alex- p ^ ander Alcorn, forty years old. who was found dead in Philadelphia sitting in a obalr< revealed that Alcorn had been strangled to death by a tight cellu'oid collar which he wore. The coroner's physician who made the postmortem examination testified that he had found a ring mark about Alcorn's neck made by the collar and that the man had ac^ ddentally strangled himself to death while sitting asleep. "The man was in a weak physical condition," added ttie physician, "and the pressure of the light collar on his neck was sufficient to produce strangulation." PLAN TO STUDY THE SOUL. Fund of 925,000 Contributed to Maintain Scientific Research Institute. Endowment long deferred has at last come to the American Institute For Scientilic Research, which has actively begun work under the direction of Professor James II. Hyslop. says the New York Herald. Six well known'New York men, whose contributions were made on the condition that for the present their names should be withheld from publication, have given $2o.000, which will pay expenses for two or three years. The institute has taken over what remains of the American branch of the Society For Psychical Research, which went to pieces after the death of Professor Hodgson. Professor Hyslop now has charge of roforda /-if invf?s:t'ipratnT*'? and delvers into psychic lore. He has surrounded himself with a large library, filing cabinets and banks of card indices, and he and a stenographer are busily at work getting the newly endowed society into running order. The Institute has the help and the co-operation of the British Society For Psychical Research, although it has no official connection with it. It will extend its labors to the field of investigation which has l-een entered by the Institute General Psychologique in France, which has recently been subsidized by the French government. Its principal work for the present-will be the examination of phenomena connected with abnormal and supernormal psychology. The institute, which is at present at 519 West One Hundred and Fortyninth street, New York, will be moved in a few weeks to a suit of offices In the lower part of the city. "We do not intend," said Professor Hyslop, "to investigate the claims of professional mediums and to examine into their materializations. Our time will be given to the Inquiries into the experience of those whose names will | not be made public. We do not intend to waste time with those who make claims to mediumship. At some later date the institute will take up the application of hypnotism as an agent in healing, and if the funds be forthcoming will open a hospital where the effects of mental states upon the body may be studied. Within six months we hope to obtain a large permanent endowment fund." COMMANDMENTS ALL BAD. So Says Bernard Shaw, Who Deems Them Very Unsafe Rnles of l>ife. George Bernard Shaw, the critic and dramatist, lecturing at Manchester on the subject "The Ten Commandments," said, according to a London cable dispatch to the New York Sun, that he had been thinking them over and was surprised to find that instead of being safe rules of conduct they were extremely dangerous and undesirable. " 'Thou shalt not swear.' That," said Mr. Shaw, "is too painful a sub - -1 11 T?_l ? f. jeci ior me xo awen on. rwiug au Irishman, I have sworn more than most Englishmen. Englishmen eat their words more than Irishmen do, and that is probably because they obey the Second Commandment Swearing Is a safety valve. Do not swear too much,'but when you feel that you must do something violent, swear. " 'Thou- shalt not kill.' Why not? My own opinion is that we don't want to kill people enough. We confine our killing too much to foreigners. There are large classes of people in the community who ought to be killed. Every citizen ought every few years to be brought before a public board and asked if he could justify his existence. If he could not make it clear that he did as much for the community, as the community did for him he should be sent to a lethal chamber." Mr. Shaw described the marriage contract "for better or worse" as completely immoral, for all contracts ought to be for better and nothing else. He objected strongly to the commandment "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." They were told In another part of the same volume that they were not to worship Mammon. He himself was a tremendous worshiper of Mammon. Money was the most important thing in the world, and all the evils we had to struggle against were due to the fact that children were not' taught that from their earliest years. Sort of Scene Shifting at Home. There's a new order of interior decoration in the house of a New York matron who has a well established reputation for good taste, says a correspondent of the New York Press. Adopting a custom of old Japan, her rare collections no longer are crowded together. They are separated, and once a month they take their turn in the artistic composition of the rooms. Of course this calls for a big storeroom or several of them, in which paintings, bric-a-brac and all the art treasures not actually in use may be put away until they get their little day in the public eye. This departure, it is said, tends to increase the collector's appre- \ elation of her possessions, as they are i not seen so often as to become tho fa-j miliar. ' . Moose For the Adirondack*. The forest, fish and game commis- I, sioner/ Mr. Whipple, has made ar- i rangements with the management of i the Yellowstone park whereby he has obtained a,herd of seventy-five moose for distribution in the Adirondacks, says an Ogdensburg (N. Y.) special dispatch to the New York Herald. The j moose will be shipped this winter and will be placed in charge of the Brown's tract guides. A few of the animals will be allotted to each county in the j Adirondacks region. The moose cost { the state nothing except the expense of bringing them east and distributing tb?*n. i , ' > I o ?O Borrowing a Bear By C. B. LEWIS Copyright, LUG, by P. C. Eastmeut 6 G Joe Whitman, cowboy, rode up to the Circle ranch house one day to see old Colonel Meecham about some lost cattle, and ten minutes later he had lost his heart to Miss Rose, the colo nel's daughter, who was then a girl of nineteen and her father's housekeeper. Circle ranch had been a great ranch in its day, but the colonel had met with all sorts of bad luck and couldn't pay his debts. He had a few cattle and one cowboy left, while a ^colored woman assisted Rose about the housework. Rose Meecham had not been educated in the' east. She had been born in the ranch house and sent to a school not a hundred miles away, and her environments had been of the plainest. As the adoring father said of her more than once after his wife died: "Rosie is good looking and honest hearted and will make some man a good wife. There's nothing of the coquette or flirt about her. She doesn't know what a flirtation means. She's Just a plain girl, with her heart set on doing all she can for her old daddy." That was the colonel's way of putting It, and it simply shows how little the average father knows of the average daughter. Miss Rose was good looking and honest hearted, but she would flirt with a cross eyed cowboy. Any other girl in her situation would have done the same thing. There wasn't another girl for fifteen miles around, while there were about fifty cowboys within that distance, and, besides there was the fort only five miles away and soldiers passing on the road every day. Trta whitman mav have been above the average cowboy in looks and education. Miss Rose had decided within five minutes- that she liked him. Within another five she was smiling so sweetly and talking so nicely that she had Joe stammering out his words. That was the beginning of things. He had driven home a bunch of the colonel's cattle that he had cut out of }iis herd, and though he wanted to linger at the ranch and talk about the price of beef on the hoof, the drop In hides and the dry summer, he wasn't equal to the occasion and was almost bucked off his pony in taking his leave. Joe rallied when he got back to his cattle and began to lay plans, and from that day on it was a cold day when he did not bring in some of the colonel's stray stock. v It was a puzzle to the old gentleman why his cattle should wander six or seven miles after pasture when they had better at home, but It was no mystery to Miss Rose. Every time a bunch of the missing cattle came back Joe had to stop to explain and to call for a drink of water and to hang around for a good half hour and that girl, who didn't know what a flirtation meant, laughed to herself after he had departed. Jim Taylor,'the lone cowboy in the colonel's employ, was past forty, had a wife somewhere in the east and was out of the running, but he was no wooden head. When those lost cattle were driven up he would go to the Ayvi/v?t/vl **rwl AaaIqyr\ of o/\rnnhnriXT TTQa W1UUC1 auu u^viai C luul ktvauvwwj ft ?* # driving them off that he might have the privilege of driving them back again, and that if Miss Rose were his daughter he wouJd put his foot down. Then the colonel would look up in an innocent way aid exclaim: "Lord love us, but you don't think Rosa drives off our cattle and then drives them back again!" "No, I don't, colonel, but don't It strike you that Joe Whitman Is coming here mighty often?" "Is he? Well, he has to bring back the strays, you know, and it is very kind of him indeed. I don't always see him, but I hope that Rosa returns my thanks In a proper way." Joe was working the cattle business for all It was worth and calling at the Circle ranch between times with oranges and boxes of candy sent to him from Denver, when a rival suddenly entered the field. Sergeant Smith, from the fort, came along one day with a squad of men and stopped at the house t*> make some inquiries. The sergeant was a good looking man. He had-a taking way with him. A flirtation was started almost at once, and when he took up his line of march again he promised himself the pleasure of another call. Three days later he rode out to the ranch and began to make love In earnest. He had served Uncle Sam for twelve years, saved up $200 and was looking for a wife. While he continued to be a soldier she could have a place as one of the laundresses in Company G. Before the sergeant got away Joe Whitman came riding up. The two men instinctively recognized each other as rivals and glared and muttered, but there was no bloodshed. When the son of Mars had gone, there was a quarrel between the two left. Joe's jealousy made it, although when asked what rights he had he could not define them. He hinted that he would bring back no more lost cattle and was told not to put himself out in future, and he called Miss Rose a heartless flirt and rode away with his broncho's heels in the air. It is Just as easy for a man to make ;i fool of himself on the plains of the vest as at Newport or Saratoga. When J ve had cooled down he admitted that I he was in the wrong, but it require?! more moral courage than he posses- ju' to ride over and make a confession. Iu this emergency lie haunted the spring until he found out from Martha, the colored woman, that on a certain day and date Miss Rose and the sergeant were to take a two mile walk to a certain limestone cave on the banks of the river. Every man has a friend somewhere if he will only hunt him up. After thinking things over Joe decided to go to old man Barnes, who kept a saloon, eating house and a sort of menagerie in town, and when his case had been Btated the old man replied: "Easiest thing in the world, my boy. You want to run that sergeant off the ranch and make a hero of yourself at I the same time." "But he don't look like a feller who could be run," was protested. "Make no mistake, my boy. You can run his coat tails out straight if only you go about it right." "But how can I make a hero of myself?" "That's a part of the game. Now listen to me." Three days later the sergeant rode up to the ranch with his chest puffed out and a complacent look on his face. He felt that he was a winner. He was going to honor the ranchman's daughter by taking her into Uncle Sam's service. His welcome wasn't quite as genial as it might have been, as Miss Rose was beginning to feel conscience stricken about Joe Whitman. She had found on mature consideration that she liked Joe very much, and when a girl will admit that and be sorry that she flirted with another man at the same time she is very near the point of loving. The horse was left at the stables, and the pair started for the cave on foot. On the way the sergeant got ready to propose, but a rattlesnake created a J - --- J? JM diversion, tie maae reauy a seuuuu time, but a stray steer had to be clubbed away, and so the river was reached without a recruit being added to the army. The cave contained three rooms and was accounted a wonder. A torch that had been prepared was lighted, and the couple entered the dark mouth, but had hardly reached the center of the first room when they were saluted by such a growling and clawing and roaring as held them' spellbdund for a moment. Then as a monster bear came rushing at them from one of the inner rooms the doughty sergeant broke for daylight and fled at his best pace. The calls of the girl were unheeded. Hfe hadn't served twelve years in the army to become bear's meat. He wanted a wife, and Company G wanted a second laundress, but he would try to find the woman in town. He covered the mile to the house without a break and then mounted his gallant steed and set off for the fort. He even forgot to leave best wishes behind. ; Meanwhile Miss Bose had stumbled and fallen and fainted away. It was as good a chance as a bear ever had, but this particular animal failed to take advantage of the occasion. In the first place, he was muzzled, or?/* 5n fho nart Trws Whitman was hanging on to the end of a long rope fastened to his collar. When he had fulfilled his mission he was tied up, and Joe went out and shouldered the still unconscious girl and had borne her nearly home when she revived. As she opened her eyes and wondered how she had tasted to th$ bear Joe pointed out the sergeant riding away. He also displayed his bloody huntiug knife. "Oh, Joe, but the bear?the bear!" gasped the girl on his arm. "I came along just in time to kill it Thank heaven, you are not hurt. Here you are at home. I am glad I was of service to you, but I can't come in. After what was said the other day"? "You will come in, of course. There may be another bear around." There wasn't, but during the next hour Joe had a talk with the colonel and both of them shook hands at the end of it and said they were. glad. That night when Joe led the bear back to the town' and his cake the owner gruffly queried: "Well, did it work?" "Beautifully." "Then hand over the ten. When you want a second wife come to me and we will put up some other job to get her." Does the Horse Lore His Master f The horse does not love man nor does he delight to labor in his interest. If you think yours does, take him out neveral miles from home, turn him loose In the road and see whether he will I follow .you, but do not try this unless fond of pedestrian exercise. True, you may train him by the use of certain appliances to follow you through field, flood and fire, but he will do this not because he adores you, but because you have successfully deceived him Into thinking that he cannot help himself, and that one idea dominates hifia. Do you imagine that it is personal regard for Cinders & Co. which impels those splendid draft horses to toil and strain at that five ton load, or that It is adoration which lands Mr. Spenders' roadster in front in a brush on the speedway? Not in the least. They believe they cannot do otherwise, and attempts , at rebellion have always proved fruit- i laoc Ao TTQll QTTVQdf nlrl Mnrlcp tft hflr- I AVO " \*ll V V<Vk ?w ness herself to' the runabout and to come to the door to take you for a drive because she thought you were looking pale.?F. M. Ware in Outing Magazine. Great Time Saver. Silas?So Zeke has done away with his old dairy wagon and takes his milk to town in one of these new automobiles? Cyrus?Ye-as, by heck! Zeke says the automobile shakes so much the milk is churned to butter by the time he reaches town.?Chicago News. <& t* FOR CHRISTMAS ?? *; \ * i >. ??????????? ?> Ty < > 1 ! ^ ^ ' >> 8 50 rolls China and Jap l\ >*1 H Mattings, latest designs, I? i 8 from 20c to j?oc yard. , 1 ? Bed Room Suites from \\ iM | $15.00 to $50.00. \\ | 1 Sideboards, Chiffoneirs, :? vjj ? Safes, Dining Chairs, Rock= p |J I ers, Writing Desks, Tables !: :gl ? and Furniture of all kinds p m g at rock bottom prices. " J jg A lot of fine Pictures in jg ? frames. Don't let your \\ M jg neighbor get first pick. jj S Trunks, Dress Suit Cases j \ |9 ? and Satchels in endless \\ if I variety. . . ' 1 Ladies Furs$ito$i5 each j 1 jg Heavy Lap Robes, beau- I $ tiful designs, ranging from i ^ IJ $1.00 to $10.00. 1 I |jj H Silk Handkerchiefs of all 1 S A l^inHc hbc fn $i pflf h. i^l M. A J W M Jm VWOll? ^ ?.. ?i Oneo'f our nice Umbrellas would ||' ''' fm. 9 make a nice Christmas present* N i I.'; B prices range from 50c to $6.00. B - .Jf ? - |s Call and look through our stock. is 4 || You can save money by so doing. 1 s * mi "*?* * ^ H A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All a I b / -'M 1H. C. FOLK! ?J Bamberg, . - - South Carolina j | :I--I- I I ;Ir ;!: ?!: il:- -:i.; ;!: =!: ;!: ;!: -I--T- ill :* -I? -1*5 !B Nfcw Lis i ur ?-" W (Farms for Sale ? ON EASY AND REASONABLE TERMS ? One tract containing 442 acres, more or less; 150 acres cleared and abont m * 250 in hardwood timber; 4 room dwelling, bam and stables and other ITj outbuildings. This property lies about one mile North of the town of M Midway, on the Southern Railway. Price $10.00 per acre. Kf v One tract containing 214 acres, 140 to 150 open lands, balance in mar- m . C gins of timbers, one tenant house, lafids in good state of cultivation and HI will be sold at the low figure of $20 per acre to a quick buyer. Ml; . - One tract containing 650 acres, 500 finely timbered with hardwoods, a fine M mill site with sufficient water power to drive saw, grain mill, ginnery or LL cotton mill, has strong dam with some fixtures on the spot. This property & N M **es near a of ?ne timber and about five miles from Atlantic Coast ft y Line Railroad. Price only $4,000. y One tract containing 50 acres, more or less, about two-thirds of which rn o is covered with pecan trees just coming into profitable bearing. Only 8 those who have noted the increasing growth of the business can venture jW ?& to forecast its future. This grove is located five miles from Denmark, Ml Sk S. C., a railroad center. Will go a.t a bargain to a auick buyer. * Ks X / Price on Application $9 | One tract containing 910 acres; abont 400 acres cleared, more can be Mm o easily reclaimed. About 300 acres of this tract is well timbered with Kj H hardwoods. No buildings. This property lies Northeast of Midwav on SB fv! the Snnthprn Railroad, and a portion lies withiiTfew hundred yards of Qq IV the depot. Few places its equal for farming and stock. Will go at the DY - I y low price of $10 per acre. gt J One tract containing 260 acres. About 100 acres cleared; 4 room dwell* ffi ing, barn and stables and other outbuildings. A good-portion of this ffl property is well timbered with hardwood. About two mileaNorth of the jjji ^ town of Bamberg, S. C., on Southern Railway. ?rice $20 per acre. Ml One tract containing 150 acres. About 75 acres cleared, balance in hardwood timber; no buildings; lies about one mile North-east of Midway JM jB. C., on the Southern Railroad. Price $10 per acre. afi One tract in Three Mile Township, containing 500 acres, more or less; SO 300 open and in high state of cultivation, 200 acres clear of stumps and ids about 300 acres under wire fence; clay subsoil, mostly level; about 100 ffl acres in timbers, with dwelling containing 5 rooms 20x20 and 8 rooms ?u 16x16 feet; .6 tenant houses, large barn and stables, all in good repair. Bj Such properties are seldom put on the market. Call quick if you wish a Q bargain. Prices and terms on Application. IT '** One tract containing 180 acres, more or less, 100 acres cleared, balance in g timbers; 2 tenant houses with 4 rooms each, barn and stables, good W water, lands in good state of cultivation. Price $3,000.00. M TOWN PROPERTY ~ K One brick store, single story, 25 x 75 fe?et on the East side of Main jX 82 street, in first-class order and in business center; also a 6 room dwelling Ml jx with necessary outbuildings, barn and stables, all in first-class condition Ml M and an ideal opening for a boarding house, can be enlarged to any reas- . M onable capacity; a large lot with fruit and shade trees and garden, All hrt under fence; lies contiguous to the store property and within 150 feet of K fpj Main street. A bargain for some one. Price and terms on application. jZ One dwelling, with 6 rooms and bath, on Second street, good water piped flj through house, kitchen and stables. This lot contains If acres with garden PR 5* fruit, nut, and shade trees, under fence and all in first-class order and a * 4 ? bargain at $3,000, but will be sold for $2,800. ' i1 | Sj One 8 room dwelling fronting Church street; one servant house two ' 1 Sfi bams and stable; half interest in flowing well piped to house and' over ! 9 ?j premises; cemented walk and flower pit?lot contains one acre more or J less?under fence and all in first-class condition. Price on application. 1 S3 6 lots in town of Denmark measuring 25x100 feet on Palmetto and ? * JH other prominent streets and near railroad. Price on application. S 5 i? One 4 room house and lot in town of Midway. Will go at a bargain. J 5 Two large open lots in town of Midway. Can be had at a bargain figure. ! | SfT O'lVFA I Real Estate Agent, j sHJ. 1 . KJ HC/iL,, Bamberg, S. C. !! SBEEBBEBBBEEBBEBEBeeEeEEBa |