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f' ' "t!?s ' A POOR MAN'S PRAYER. [ Protect me. Lord, from those. Thy saints, < The sanctimonious few: O, save me from their clutches When my mortgages come due. O. lead me not into their hands, > These brethren, long and nale. ; Who call this earth "A Yale of Tears," . ( (And promptly seize the "Yale."J ^ O. put me not into their power, ' These too uncommon good. Who teach us what we shouldn't do ^ And preach us what- we should. These saints who squeeze a shilling twice. And wear cheap aureoles: : Who take our children's bread and then Attempt to save our souls, dive me instead a human man. \VitV? cnmp few human stains I v. *v? - j That show he has the common blcod Of manhood in his veins. : . And heart that overflows sometimes To overthrow constraints: gpv But in my need, protect me. Lord, j . From these. Thv hungrv saints. ?Emanuel Elzas, in The Argonaut. ! , i' m i! p : S toe : Shllffl CABLE. fcS/e?*\B?o*?o?90t?oe?oo?oo KO* By Albert w' Tolman. 1 "Look sharp!" j "It was 5 o'clock in the morning. } : > Captain Ben Treat stood in dripping oilskins by the windlass of the Glou- t j >' cester schooner Emeline, riding out ! ^ |||'' ^the wild February gale that had , ? roared down all night over Georges, j H * As he heard this warning shout from I Sam Lombard, who was holding by 1 j the throat-halyards on the fore-gaff ; ten feet above deck, he hugged his j left arm tightly round the bitts, and j < ^ strengthened his grasp on the ax that 1 j |K lay over his right shoulder. ! ? ||* A huge green roller reared its crest * ||>r \ in front of the bowsprit. The schooner i || rose abruptly, and surged back from ! ( |p the assault of the sea. The nine- \ s ? v. luva luamia l v? an^cu nn.^ a ; violin-string, and in the lantern-light j ^ from the 'ore-rigging dwindled a ! g*- third under the tremendous strain. ' pv. The windlass shrieked as the leather shield ground into the whelps. Over the bow burst a foaming deluge. Captain Ben, buried deep, H hung on for dear life, while the tor- 1 rent swep? sternward and out: ggjftf through the shattered bulwarks. J tJ:1- Then he pulled himself together and -0- relaxed his hold. It was perhaps his IT hundredth experience of the sort in the last seven hours. ? ifi-: t '"Light on the starboard bow!" ' p' Although he was only ten feet J^away, Lombard's hoarse voice sound- j & ed faintly in the roaring gale. The ' captain glanced to the right with eyes aching and sleet-dimmed. A gray un- * substantial wraith, the smothered I',% star between Tier fere peak-halyards f 5; ^dipily revealing rope and spar, flitted IE/ by at a ten-knot gait, and was lost in ?&:rv, the gioom astern. Thirty such spec-; ters, some running before the wind 3?_. ? ?c c*A c?~ IUC pCitb. \JL JX (.Ut CC'l CC1CU 1UIC "sail, some scudding under bare poles, j ' had", passed to port and starboard ' j since . 3 o'clock, their cables parted s ?' by stress of storm or cut in fear of i collision, strewing the sea bottom 1 r j|trr, with .thousands of dollars in good hemp and anchors. 1 p ijp" ? At sunset one hundred and twenty f Bp sail -tad lain moored on the Banks ' t in a. five-mile circle. The Emeline 1 s ??. was near the southern circumference, 1 s A so that, when the northeast gale burst ^ . at 9 o'clock, the greater part of the fleet lay to windward of lier. She . ^ |p Vas directly in the path of drifting or ' H&| running vessels. I As the violence of wind and sea ' j steadily increased, the captain set a c 111 idouble watch, and stationed himself ! t p; .by the windlass with a sharp ax, 11 S?vready to cut his cable at short no- i *J'; tice. There he had stood for hours, : c I His face stung by level sleet, hearing [ f the blast whistling through the s shrouds and the halyards slapping the t masts, while the schooner plunged i heavily from cre9t to trough and 1 ^ labored up from trough to crest. The ' l breaking seas drenched him with : t brine; again and again the cable- j t ??nub almost threw him off his feet. 4 in the morning it was blowing ] a hurricane; the vescels to windward 2 . that had held on all night began to \ "part and cut their c?b1es and drift j ^ dQIj'n on the Emeline. t "A schooner, broadside on, a little .to port!" ^ Captain Ben strained his eyes t * through the smother, and grasped his ( U r\ n o n nr?_ !<l.\ A-LLL7I C ncav^u vu uu aux- j ^ mense billow and blowing down ] upon him, he saw another Eanker. J ] The stranger was coming at a six- ] knot rate, absolutely helpless. The j crew lined her rail. To cut would ] mean that he must lose several hun- ; dred dollars in cable and anchor, be ] blown miles to leeward off the lish- ; s~; ing-grounds, and run to Gloucester j to refit. If he did not cut and a col- i. lisiou resulted, thirty lives and more ; than twenty thousand dollars would ;: t J be sacrificed. In such a disaster both . vessels generally go down with every ||?y, man on board. The captain hesitated, weighing - the chances. Nearer drifted the schooner. Now she was only thirty feet from the end of liis bowsprit. A great waves lifted her so that he - 1 * 1 >. 3 U/M> i CUUIU cilLUUbl IUU& U11UC1 UCl RCCi. "Cat, cap'n, cut!" shouted Lombard, in alarm. But still the captain . waited. His experienced eye saw , _ that the drifting hull would not touch his vessel. But the long main-boom, : extending twenty feet beyond the ' other's stern, was almost sure to rake . his rigging. It was a question which ; would yield first?spruce or hemp. j The craft were now close together. ' He swung the ax above his head. One ' blow, and the humming cable would spring asunder. "Cut! Cut!" yelled Lombard again. But Captain Ben had ddfcided to match his foreshrouds against the dancing spar. Down past the Emeline's bowsprit swept the newcomer, her boom-tip 1.. six gyrating v.*ildly. The captain held his breath, almost regretting his decision. Four feet from the end the boom struck against the shrouds. The stout ropes buckled, but held. With i sharp cracking the stick broke short off in the slings about twenty feet from its tip, dropped down and swung against the stranger's quarter, suspended by the topping-lift and swashing sail. A moment later she was swallowed by the darkness. Captain Ben had little time to congratulate himself on his escape. As he and Lombard peered after the vanishing schooner, a big roUer, sweeping down unperceived, broke over the bow. The captain turned just in time to see it hanging over his bead. Dropping the ax, he clutched :tt the bitts with bcth hands; cut the briny deluge struck him in the breast, and rolled him over and over down the passage between the "gurry-kids" and the starboard rail. He brought up against the break, in the "slaughter-house," as it is termed by fishermen. After some scrambling, he managed to seize the main part of the fore-sheet, which bung coiled over the bitts of the fiferail round the mainmast. The water streamed oft through the spliutered bulwarks. The captain caught his breath and rubbed his eyes clear. A lioarse yell came from the lookout: "Schooner dead ahead!" Out of the blackness beyond the bowsprit lurched another Georgesman. The instant Treat set eyes on tier he knew that the crisis had come. She was drifting broadside on, with ao possibility of passing to port or starboard. The cable must be cut at >nce. Every second was precious. Letting go the fore-sheet, he startid to run forward. Again a monster sea was upon him before he realized t. He made one vain grab at the ail. The next second his legs were crocked from under him, md he was swept down a second time into the slaughter-house. In a moment he had regained his eet. His head was whirling from a violent thump upon the deck; but he vas fully alive to the situation. He nust recover his ax and cut the cable mmediately. As the sea rolled off, le staggered forward along the slip)ery planks. The Emeline pitched into the rough. It was an easy matter for lim to dart down the sloping deck to he windlass. To his horror the ax lad vanished from the spot where he lad dropped it. He shot a quick jlance about; it was nowhere to be leen. The sea had washed it down he deck, and possibly overboard! The schooner rose to meet the comng billow." As it struck the bow, the aut cable dwindled and sang out. 3eyond its curling crest rose the bare >oles of the stranger. The next wave rould hurl her on top of the Emeline. From the fore-gaff Lombard had Lelplessly watched his commander earching for the ax. He was too ixperienced a Georgesman not to ealize the catastrophe that impend:d. Painfully he scanned the wet danks which sparkled in the dim lanern-light. Half-way down to the ireak his eye detected the glitter of teel. It was the ax, lying close to a tanchion, and all but swept overloard by the last sea. The lookout's cry rose above the empest. "There, cap, there!" he screamed. T-> ?? tVl Q LciyiitiU OCU B C.>C3 lununtu HIV jointing hand. In less than five sec>nds his fingers were locked round he helve. He turned, and darted oward the windlass. The Emeline was tugging at her ;able in the trough, headed straight or the drifting schooner, which eemed to the captain's horrified gaze o be hanging right over him. The sea hurled the stranger forvard. The bowsprit of the Emeline ose. Its tip was not ten feet from he other hull. A moment more, and he crash would cam?; and both yould go down together. Just then the captain swung the ix aloft. Down hurtled the keen >l?.de through the hempen strands, vhere they ground on the whelps of he windlass! The cable parted. Its short end vhihped the deck; the other whisked hrough the hawse-pipe quicker than jve could follow. The vessel, freed it last from the bond at which she 3?td tugged all night, shot back a full Hundred feet as the heavy sea struck her bow, flinging Captain Ben on his face, while the stranger settled harmlessly into the plac^ she had left! After her first wild leap the Emeline swung broadside to the gale, and as she was more lightly loaded than rho nther. arraduallv drifted out of sight of her. The .crew, who all night in forecastle and cabin had been ready for a sudden call, soon hoisted a two-reefed foresail, in a few minutes they got steerage way, scudded thirty miles off the Banks, and hove to. The next day, when the storm abated, they ran for Gloucester to refit.?Youth's Companion. Hatred of Cats. Napoleon Bonaparte showed a jr.crbid horror of cats. The night before the Battle of Waterloo a black cat passed near him, and at the sight the great warrior was completely unnerved. He saw an omen of defeat. Henry III. of France swooned whenever he saw a cat, and one of the Ferdinands of Germany would tremble in his boots if a harmless tabby got in the line of his vision. Among the Romans the cat was a symbol of liberty. The Egyptians held the animal in veneration unael the name of Aelrus, a deity with e human body and a cat's head. Whoever killed a cat, even by accident, was put to death. Diana assumed the form of a cat and excited the fury oi the giants.?London Mirror. *0 1 ^ S^'- " C ' wlliftX pi7\r ^ ' .'i_.-.- ' V? >. Ji '<s, . ? A iN (j'rlml the Dry Jloue. The .a seen cut. bone sliouiti always be preferred, but the hard. dry bones should be .around and utilized also. The bone should no: be too flue? about tin* si::e of peas is correct? and may bo placed in a box and "loft for ?h? for/is to eat at will. If the pieces are too sharp they v.-ill serve as grit, besides providing lime for i the shells, because they are animal food, and digestible, their action being mechanical.?Farmers* Home Journal. Cement For Hams. A prominent Iowa farmer was ready to build a big barn this spring, but the estimates 011 the lumber scared him out. The other day he figured with a man owning concrete j mixer and a cement block machine [ and found that the barn could actually be built of'concrete blocks for less than of lumber. And. besides, it would be almost entirely fireproof, aside from the roof. A sand aud gravel pit is only a mile distant, and the plan is to have the mixer and block machine brought to the farm and the blocks made there. Root Crops For Cows. Roots can form to advantage a nart of manv rations, particularly where silage is not available. They contain too much water to form the entire ration. Potatoes contain the largest amount of digestible matter, but are not readily eaten unless cooked. Mangels are the heaviest yielders, but contain so large a percentage of water that they are rather expensive to handle. Sugar beets contain much less water, but are j more difficult to grow, and do not I produce so heavy a yield. Artichokes j often make a profitable hog. feed. | where the hogs are permitted to do the harvesting. . Vtff To Cure Scaly Leg. , Scaly leg is a filth disease, if it can be called a disease, it being caused by a tiny mite which burrows j under the scales of the legs and toes. I It lives and breeds there. The remedy is very simple and easy. It is only necessary to grease the legs with any kind of grease. Au j ointment of a third kerosene oil and | two-thirds lard is easily applied, and if well rubbed on and in half a dozen times, a couple of days apart, should kill the mites, and the scales will { come off. Don't pull off the scales j that have become large. That hurts j the birds, something as pulling off | your finger nails would hurt you.? J Poultry and Pets. Fats as Milk Feeds. ' It was formerly believed that the fat in the food was the main sourer i of the fat in the milk. A good cow, j however, will produce in a year a much larger amount of fat in the milk than she consumes in the food, j showing /that the fa'.-, are in parti produced from other nutrimenis. Investigations that have been made show that it is not possible to increase either the percentage or the total amount of f?t in the milk for any appreciable time by the feeding , of fats or oils. Where fats have been fed to cows, even at the rate of two pounds or more per day of tallow, cotton-seed oil, or other fats, the fat content of the milk was not permanently increased. ? American Cultivator. .t How to Feed a Dairy Cow. A practical dairyman writes the Jersey Bulletin on feeding his cows. He says: "Our herd numbers in all fifteen head. Our cows are grained the year 'round, have the run of pasture in summer, and are well housed in winter. Our summer ration for I a dairy cow is barley chop, about four pounds per diem. In winter we use shredded fodder for roughage; grain ration, eight pounds per day per cow of a miiture of cornmeal, barley meal, malt sprouts and cotton-seed meal, mixed in the required proportions to produce a feed which would analyze one part of protein to six of carbohydrates. Our cows are not allowed to stand alongside a straw stack for shelter when the thermometer shows something a little less than zero, but are kept in the stable and even watered there." Doubling the Product. Secretary Wilson certainly takes/t hopeful view of what may be done in the way of increasing the productive capacity of land by more scientific farming. "No miracle would be required," he says, "to double or even treble the production of cotton per acre. The corn crop can be increased by one-half per acre within the fourth of a century, and yet without reaching the limit, and the same may be said of wheat and other crops. One-fourth of the dairy cows of the country do not pay for their feed, and more than one-half of them pay 110 profit. The egg production per hen will be increased by at least a dozen a year within a generation, while some poultrymen foretell double that increase. If the hens of this year had each laid a dozen " eggs more than they did, the in f- ~ i Y1 >*"t y'' ^ "' ,*,^ / v^ji i?A??/! v? /&,* t . cve.ised value of this prodnciion would have possibly asgrega.frd fifty j millions of dolfavs." The Winter Calf. 1 Calves chopped in the fail ere more ; easily raised and pushed. Spring j cuives do not receive much benefit | from grass the first season, because ; for some time after birth the rumij nating s-.omach is undeveloped, not j to mention the effect of flies and the summer heat. When getting a good start, winter and dry food come, and the growth is checked. In the fail there is more time to be given calves. Fed mostly on milk, they j are easily managed in barn or shed. I When spring comes the fall calf is j large enough to make good use of J the pasture, and so of the dry food when the next winter arrives. Take the calves away from the cows when thej* are two or three days old. At first give them warm, fresh milk. Afterwards feed them sweet skimmilk, to which may be added a little boiled linseed oil cake. Keep before them a little bright, sweet clover hay until grass comes. Disease and no end of germs lurk in the feed bucket. Look there if your calves are not doing well. They should be washed and scalded every day.?Boston Cultivator. Gapes in Chickens. There are many theories among poultry raisers as to the cause of the gape worm getting into the chicken's throat. Some claim that the chicken louse causes gapes, but this iheory is not a reasonable one, since chicken lice and gape worms are two entirely different species of pests which trouble the poultryman. The gener- , ally accepted theory of late years.is that gape worms after they get a start on a farm or in a poultry yard li e over winter as a parasite of the angle worm and that the chickens get them from eating the worms or else pick up the eggs from the soil. The best plan of fighting the gape worm is to put the chickens on newground each year, but this is often ] not practical, and a liberal applica- ] tion of quicklime to the poultry yard will greatly aid in destroying the gape worm. If the chickens are kept ( from the earth which is infested vwith ( the gape worm until they are large enough to escape the gapes, they may be avoided in this way: It is generally thought that old chip yards give the chicks the gapes, but I have ' one of the oldest chip yards in this part of the country, and the chicks run over it, but do not take the gapes, so it is not in the chip yard unless the yard is infested with the gape worm. Not all angle worms are breeders of the gape worm, as the gape worm is a parasite, and , unless they get a start in the poultry yards the angle worms are as free from them in that soil as the chicks are. Likely the old theory that lice are responsible for gape worms had ' its origin in the noticeable fact that ' lousy chicks are more likely/to sue- : cumb to the gapes thaa ones that are not lousy. Lice and gapes working together will kill any young chicken, and either alone is bad enough.?A. J. Legg, Albion, W. Va. Age Limit of Dairy Cows. , A bulletin from the Wisconsin station states that a cotf is at her best during her fifth and sixth years, up to which time the production of milk and butter fat by cows in normal condition increases each year. The length of time the cow will maintain her maximum production depends on her constitution, strength and the 1 care with which she is fed and managed: A good dairy cow should not show- any marked falling off until after ten years of age. Many excellent records have been made by cows older than this. The quality of the milk produced by heifers is somewhat better than that of older cows, for a decrease has been noted of oDe-tenth to two-tenths of one per cent, ii^ the average fat content for each year until the cows have reached the full age. This is caused by the increase in the weight of the cows with advancing age. At any rate, there seems to be a parallelisn between the two sets of figures fcr ' rhp same cows. Young animals use a portion of their food for the fo> | mation of body tissue, and it is ;o be expected, therefore, that heifers, will require a larger portion of nutriments for the production of milk or butter fat than do other cows. After a certain age has been reached, on the average seven years of age, the food required for the production of a unit of milk or butter fat again increases, both as regards dry matter and the digestible components of the food. A good milk cow of excep- ! tional strength, kept under favorable ' conditions, whose digestive system has not been impaired by overfeeding or crowding for high results, should continue to be a profitable producer until her twelfth year, although the economy of her production is apt to be somewhat reduced before this age is reached.?Baltimore San. , i m I I There are more than 4000 different ! editions of the Bible in the Eritisb i iluseum. I / > .. v' A ; ' - V * . i- .y-. -/ ^ ; . . s V - ' . -' ' -xf A ' Tf v ? - - ,v: - : : ?%, $ 1 L : Palmetto Stale fasj vvv Belgians in Greenville. A party of Belgians arrived in Greenville a l'ew days ago.* They have just landed in this country and are for the most part textile workers. They go in the Mouaghan mills. * * To Prohibit Sunday Freights. The Spartanburg city council has decided to prohibit the running of freight trains and the operation cf shifting engines through Spartanburg on Sunday. This action has been j taken on tne petition 01 me spar-1 tanburg Ministerial Union. * * * Abductec! Girl Returns. Grace Glenn, whom it was claimed < war. abducted a week ago from her : home near Greenville, has returned, 1 but will not say where she has been. < Police and county authorities are i still on the lookout for the where- i abouts of the young man, Wrav, whom ; it is claimed enticed the girl away ! front heme. .* ? * Dago Vessel Gets Award. i In the United States district court, 1 iu admiralty, at Charleston, \Judge ] Brawley awarded 50 per cent of net 1 proceeds in . sale of two derelict > schooners, Flora Rogers and J. W. Be- 1 lane, last September and they were 1 later sold under decree of court, < bringing a total for vessels and car- ' goes of about $14,000. ' i * ; Next Meeting in Anderson. 1 The r.ext annual state convention ol' the T. P. A's will be held at. An- 11 derson, which city was selected at a J meeting of the directors held in Spar- I tanburg. The Chamber of Commerce J of Anderson has appropriated a sum ^ of money for the entertainment of the s drummeis, and the convention will be s one of the most successful ever* held in the state. 1 1 * * * j Negro's Execution Stayed. John Shelton, colored convicted of killing his father-in-law, who was to have leeu hanged at Spartanburg ' last Friday, was granted a reprieve it the last moment, until the meeting of the supreme court, in April, by < Governor Ansel. The ordcn staying c the execution was received not an J hour too sqcn, for all arrangements 1 had beer, made by the sheriff to exe- A mite the condemned man. ' 1 * * * * \ Disaster Demoralized. Labor. The steamboat Marion disaster on Wadmal.iv/ Sound has demoralized inbor on the faims. This is. due tp the recovery of drowned bodies, and the Tttendarce of negroes at the funerals of the -victims. The supervising inspector has announced that an investigation of the sinking and burning of the steamboat will be made. The Seath list now number's twenty-four, and may go to thirty. All the victims were negroes. * Alumni is Organized. University of the South alumni of South Carolina was organized at Charleston the past week, writh the following officers: President, H. S. Whaler, of Edisto Island; first vice president, P. P. XelS"n, of Columbia; second vice president, George Croft, of Aiken; third vice president, Rev. A. R. Mitchell, of Gieenville; secretary. A. R. Young, of Charleston; treasurer, Xathaniei Heywnrd. of Oak lev. ( * * * Harris Sentenced to Hang. The jury at Gaffney in the case ^ of Tom Harris, alias Tom Childress, 1 the Xo?th Carolinian who confessed to the murder of Mrs. Hortensia Mor- , ga:i, after deliberating less than an ' hour, rendered a yerdict 0f guilty of , murder without recommendation to j the mercy of the couit. Judge Aid- ( rich at once sentenced him to be ( hanged on March 29. If there is no interfeier.ee with this sentence it will , be the first hanging that has ever , occurred in Cherokee county. \ , I Three Years for Zimmerman. Daniel Zimmerman, former bond i clerk and bookkeeper of the office of the state treasurer, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. o/-inl^cepri tn sfealinsr $12. /.iiilUiCimuii w T_ , OOO from the state, the stealings coveting a period ol' about ten years. Counsel for Zimmerman immediately gave notice of an appeal to the supreme court. Zimmerman was released on a bond'of .$4,000. In the case of T. J. Gibson, a bond broker, charged with conspiracy in disposing of the bonds, a sealed sentence was returned pending the court's decision on a motion for a ( new trial. . Gibson, who is 74 years old, is confined to his bed by illness, and was unable to appear in court. Zimmerman is about 65 years old, and was regardedd as one of the most trust . V. K . ? ' * 'x* worthy citizens of Columbia. Zimmerman and his family stood well in the community, and moved in the best society. Zimmerman was the star witness a in the case against Gibson, and testified that Gibson had begged him for more than a year to enter a conspiracy to defraud the state, before he finally yielded. He said Gibson v.ouhb sell the bonds, and turn all the monev over to him, keeping out his commissions. Zimmerman said he gave Gibson five, ten and twenty dollars occasionally, not as hush money, but he so regarded it. ROBBERS IN CHARGE OF TRAIN* . y, iNcgro rasscngcr vvno ncsisira is Killed?Small Bcoty Secured. A Missouri Pacific passenger train, which left Pittsburg, Kansas, at 7:2o o'clock Monday morning, was held up by two men in disguise, and Lou Jeff, a negro miner employed at Camp 3i, of the Central Coal' and Coke .. Company, was killed because he' pro- x tested, and W. L. Westlake, of Toledo, Ohio, who, with his wife and two children, had been risking relatives ' in Kansas, was shot through the hand by a stray shot that had been tired at the negro. There - were few passengers on the train, and the robbers secured but little cash, and a few watciies. The men were disguised only with false mustaches ana goatees. They thri t ro i of fVn* ctotlAII *71 ^uai u^u tuv u am aw iuc rwawivit .??. Piitsburg, and began worklqg the train as it passed the Kansas Cit$* Southern shops. They commenced with the smoking car and one walker* thead with a 44-caliber revolver in ?ach hand, and quietly asked the ?)assengers to "shell out'' .to the man. ' ^ lehind, who was closely , following. v They were not far behind the train : iudifor, and followed him into the vomen's coach. When they came to Jeff, in the ^ vomen's coach, he pulled his revolver,. . pi ind took a shot at the foremost robjer, who shot twice at him. The irst shot went wild and struck Westake, but the second struck the ne- ; r|| ;ro in the head, and killed him in- 4 .tantly. They then quietly made the au$- j \ or stand and deliver, and hurriedly y.<-& eft the train as it entered the yards it Cornell. . PENROSE CONVICTS NEGROES. ^ Major Convinced That His Coiored -/Jjjj Troops "Shot Up" Brownsville. "* ^ "Were it not for the damaging V" evidence of the empty shells and used /|p| dips, I should be oi the firm beuet hat none <fi my men were in anyx vay connected with ilie crime, bet ?1111 L111SS itlCl ?U pr.ibiuiij urivic wv,; am not only convinced it -was per jetrateJ by men of this command, but ; ^ ;hat it was carefully planned before- , v.\>| land." The above is an extract of a . leter written by Major Penrose, of the ,t ; i rwenty-fifth Infantry , to the military lecretary of the department of Texfw, 'M >n August 15, 1JKHJ, and introduced . ^J us evidence by Judge Advocate 1 lav it San Antonio Thursday in/the Pen- . ose courtmartial proceedings grow-. ng ouc cf the "shooting up"' of the . " ^ own of Brownsville, Texas, in A a- 4 fast, lust. v Continuing the letter reads: v "I believe from seven to ten men - j||| vere imprieated in this matter. Some . >ne of them must have had a key -/t o the gun rack, and after a cheek. oil call was taken?for all were re- * present at 11 d. m.. roll call? < bey stepped out of the quarters, did he shooting, returning while the com- .?% ?anies were forming, and at, soiae '1 iiue during the early morning hours :ieaned their guns." LIVINGSTON'S ANNUAL'KICK. Sails Republicans to Task for Record* Breaking Extravagance. Before adjournment of congress Monday, as ranking Democrat on :he appropriations committee, it was the duty of Representative Livingston, faf Georgia, to point out the extrava- .,f. ?ances of the administration during y / the session. He addressed the house at considerable length and detailed. expenditures, showing that an unprecedented total had been reached. In conclusion, he said: "The highest estimates placed- on - i the probable revenues of government t'rnm all sources during the coming fiscal year indicates that they will, be at least one hundred million dollars >; below the appropriations and author- ?. ^ ^ izations for expenditures chargeable to the session of congress just closing." *S4 RICH FARMER RUNS AMUCK. ^ - -i/ ' - 1 / Accused of Criminal Assault, He Kills _ _ - , t. 'till * Four People. Thomas Baldwin, a. rich faiiner and. f&mer merchant, of <!olfax. 111. Thurs<shot and killed (Charles Kenned/ ? and wife and Mrs. Sim Eisman and ' t daughter. Cora. Baldwin was arrested. "! Baldwin, who is 68. years of age.. .. . . and a widower, is under bond cfcarg* ,Z~Z ed with criminal assault en Cora Eis- - , : man, who was but 14 years oi age. ' He had settled with thi girl's father for a sum of money, but was subse- ; ; quently arrested, and blamed the! Kennedys and Mrs. Eisman for the v; j arosecution. ' ( .'T-'/fZ/.