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Ipv ? TOWN AND COUNTRY. Cid made the un liseeroing earth. The earth it brought forth trees; Gob aI>o made discerning man, And man made factories; And so the factory and the tree Are purls of nature's plan: Roth loan-made miil and earth-made tree Should i.lease the God-made man. The bobolink's song and the niotorman's geng Are pans of one refrain; And so is the crash < f the cataract, And the rattle of tiie rain. The cattled hills and the towered town, The wood path and the alley, The world-thronged streets whose-streams are men, _And the rivulet-threaded '.alley? These all are ti:e equal nome 01 xne nan Who loves the human brood; The home of the man who loves the world And calls the whole world good. The robin's strain in the baakwood bane To this man's car is sweet; And so is the rhythmical pulse of the pave With its tread of a thousand feet. fHe loves to see the nine tree grow Aud see the warehouse loom, And see the steamboats throng the wharves And see the buckwheat bloom, For towns grow up beside the streams As oaks grow on the hills, And mills spring up like growing corn, And homes like daffodils. The breath of the fields its worship yields, i Like nraver it rises high; And the smoke from a thousand chimr :y tops Is incense to the sky. - ?Sam Walter Foss. ?? v v ' 4*?5 0 ossss ifli i@i 6 ess ? ac ? as e es 0 ? ess 0 ss ? s? ? ?? 0 I I 1 ROMANCE OF I f I PHEESIOIOG*. 1 p 6 - i By PAUL PASTKOR. ???0?S5?J580S2S35SE0CaC<SJS?a? SSB Itss Q&D9 9 0S3 It is a curious fact that I never in my life heard the subject of phrenology broached without a laugh being raised at its expense, which very naturally annoys the supporters of this theory, and brings on a warm argument. It was a discussion of this kind in the dining room of Baron Eitzel that first made me acquainted with Professor Seidell, than whom a warmer enthusiast in the doctrine of r - Spurzheim never existed. It appears that, to please the company, Selden had examined their heads, and with many wise looks pressed the humps which he declared to be unerring indications of the propensities of men. Some unfortunate wight in the company, however, had evidently shocked the examiner by a demonstration of wicked propensities, for be strenuously refused, on this occasion, to pronounce upon the several organs of this person, declaring "he might give offense," he "might be wrong," etc. A laugh went up from the little circle, which flushed the cheek of Spldpn. hnt hp said nothing. The conversation now drifted into a different channel. A dreadful murder had been committed in the neighborhood of the Black Forest." A young girl had eloped from her parents some weeks before. The companion of her flight was supposed to be a young man who had been staying in the neighborhood; he had disappeared about the same time. She had just been found, savagely murdered, while the supposed partner of her guilt had reappeared, and declared that he had with difficulty escaped from the hands of banditti, who h^d, without any apparent motive, seized and imprisoned him. To prove this he showed several severe wounds, which he had received in the struggle. This story, however, appeared so improbable that no belief was attached to it, and the young man was hurried to prison, there to abide his trial. This story was repeated, with painful minuteness, to the company in Baron Eitzel's dining room by one Charles Hoffman, a handsome young fellow who had latelv r.rrived in Baden, and was already a general favorite in society. No one was more pleased with him than the old baron. It was even rumored that he had pftjposed to, and was actually accepted by Minna Eitzei, with the full sanction of her father. As a narrator few could excel him. Kis vivid description lent life to his stories, and when he chose, as on the present occasion, he could harrow the nerves of even the most apathetic on depicting horrors in their most appalling colors. "I'll go to see his execution myself; I could enjoy the death tortures of such a wretch!" indignantly exclaimed the Prince of Insbruch, a young nobleman, as he took a pinch of snuff, and handed to his next neighbor his splendid box, which dazzled the eye bj the richness of the diamonds encircling it. "If such a wretch existed on my estates, I'd have him racked." "And well would he deserve it," rhimo'l in nnnfl-cr nf tVio fnmnam' "May he be punished in the world to come!*' fervently ejaculated Charles. "Xay, naj*," cried the baron; "that is saying too much. Ii is true the man deserves an earthly punishment; but you are allowing your anger against a crime, my dear boy, to carry you too far." Thus various subjects were discussed and argued, but during the whole evening Seiden spoke not another word. At last the hour for breaking up arrived, and, according to etiquette, the prince moved first. Just ere doing so, however, ho requested the return of his snuffbox*. The person to whom he had handed it declared that he had passed it to the next, who. in his turn, denied any knowledge of its whereabouts, as did tb9 rest of the company. Every one had seen it, every one had handled it but none could now produce it. The servants had not even entered the apartment; the door had not beer unclosed, none had stirred from the table. The affair began to wear a serious aspect. The old baron felt his honor wounded, but still hoped that il flight prove to be an ill-timed pleasantry. Under this impression, lit rose and said: "Gentlemen, some person among you has doubtless concealed the box intending thereby to give our illustrious friend a fright, and, in good faith, he deserves it, for thus carelessly forgetting to look after a | trinket said to be v.*ortli 50,00(1 j florins; but as he seems really uneas> j about it, I must beg the person whc f has'taken it to instantly return it j and confess the joke." J And the noble affected to laugh, j None, however, responded, and Eitzel | saw, with increasing uneasiness, that j he must now take up the matter niort seriously. "My* friends, you cannot feel offended when I offer myself as the first person to undergo an ordeal which, I almost blush to say, we mus! , all submit, to. We must be searched! None but the guilty can feel annoyed at this proposal." /"*!-? -r?i Af c f o vf o rl n T> y^HCLL ICO 11VU luua occ** vwv* "By heavens! I'd sooner die!" Another was on the same opinion and objected to undergoing an operation, which, at the very least, implied a doubt. Poor Eitzel grew very pale He glanced appealing!}* toward Selden, who now rose. "Let the door be lacked," he said in a grave voice; "let it be well secured." It was done. "Now, gentlemen, you must either acknowledge the correctness of the measure I adopt, or I, the disciple oi a 'juggling science,' perish!" and he drew from his pocket a small pistol, "Nay, start not, my friends; against myself alone I mean to use this weapon, and that only in case 1 wrongfully accuse an individual n<i?v present. You may remember, before dinner I phrenologically. examined you all. There was little to say about you generally; but there was one among you in whom I could not be mistaken?one whom I wished not to have named?whose presence ever since has made me shudder. I see the gentleman to whom I allude alj ready turns pale. Nay, attempt not i to smile. I am either a villain for | allowing a false theory to mislead me, or you, Charles Hoffman, are both a robber and a murderer!" A thunderbolt would have caused less consternation. The baron started up in rage and agony. The prince thought that Selden had suddenly gone mad,xwhile the others looked with searching glances alternately at Selden and Charles. The former had now resumed his chair, the latter sat, pale, immovable. What would it all come to? Baron Ei-tzel was about to speak in no gentle terms to the man who had thus insulted his future son-inlaw, when Selden, waving his hand, quietly said: "Search him " rr-l. - l 1- : 4 ? J ? i ne uarun, in 111s eaoci iicss iu ucfend his protege from any one who should attempt to do so, sprang forward; but Hoffman, mistaking his purpose, let fall the snuffbox on the table. The worthy old man sank, overwhelmed, into a chair. For a few moments there was a deathlike pause, The company seemed petrified, while the trembling Charles struggled fiercely to subdue his emotions. At length, as if overcome by the torments of conscience, he staggered up; and incoherently cried: "The hand of God is on me! 1 would, but I cannot escape His judgment.* Professor Selden speaks the truth. I am a robber and a murderer! Under the name of Gratz ] wooed and won the lovely maid oi whom we spoke just now. In madness I espoused her. Tired, however, in a few days, of being tied for life to one uneducated and lowborn, hearing 'that Minna Eitzel possessed unbounded wealth, and knowung that my rustic wife alone presented ar obstacle to my marrying this fail heiress, I slew her, yea, cruelly slew her, and caused her innocent lover tc be seized. As for the robbery, I car only say, I have long headed a bold band, whom even now I'll not betray Oh, that cursed box was too brilliant Somp snpll lurked in it which drew | me with a force I could not resist and lured me to my ruin. But 1 laugh at fate?I am prepared!" Before any one could prevent hiir he had swallowed the contents of a vial of prussic acid, and fell back ir the agonies of death. Three months afterward Selder and Minna Eitzel were married.? New York Weekly. The Trapper's Deduction. The professor had complained thai the world in general still looks or science in a slighting way, and thai reminded one of his companions of a story of a Western trapper. The trapper, noticing a place where roots had been dug up, examined the spot carefully. Then, as he rose and brushed the earth from his knees, he j said, with calm conviction: "Tli 13 tcsi rlnrjp Pifhfr In* n wild | hog or by a botanist."?Washington ! Siar. "Wisdom Tabloid. The retort to censure is often like th sparks that fly from redhot ire*.; j w'ton the blacksmith smites it. Tht I aparks I!y harm 'ess and are gone, bill ; the shaping mark remains in the iron j ?Life. : Palmetto State News! v f V W # V V f V f ^ Head Was Cut Off. News reached Greenville Saturdaj morning of the accidental death of L B. Coxie of the accidental death of L bound from Greenville to Canton, N. C While on the train he looked out of i t car window and had his head cut of dv some ODstrucuon. L ; ) Spartanburg's New Playhouse. The Harris theatre. Spartanburg'! new* playhouse, which has been in th< course of erection for more than ; I year, has been completed and wra: ' opened last Monday, October 7th, wit) "The Red Feather.'' The theater was I built by J. T. Harris at a cost of $50, ; 000. I * Acquitted of Mabus Murder. 1 The Fallow brothers and Isaac Tay lor, charged with having murderet George \Y. Mabus, near Batesburg, ii June last, was acquitted in court a . Aiken. I Mabus was assassinated and, owin; . to a former difficulty with the Fal lows, the latter were charged with th' crime. I lit if * Charelston Dairies Must Move. There is consternation among sever ) : al dairies situated in the city limit ' ' of Charleston because the health ol 5 ficer has issued orders that they mus ' move beyond the city limits. Seven ' | teen dairies have been compelled t< J purify themselves or be transferrei - beyond Charleston limits. t* * Slayer cf Bailiff Arrested. Sheriff Brown of Gwinnett count} 1 Georgia, reached Greenville Sur.daj and took possession of Matthew How , ell, a negro, wanted for the murde , of Deputy Sheriff J. B. Rainey, whicl ; J occurred several days ago. It is said the negro was jailed a Gainesville, Ga., by the sheriff for fea ! of lynching at Lawreuceville. s) * jjt 1 - : Wrvfa! Pare , I njuntuuni vi.us6 >?kk> ww.. w. \Y. li. West, dispensary auditor, wa: in Charleston the past week with tem porary injunctions against the Argyl< Hotel and Charleston Hotel bars, an< the German Rifle Club, and his pros ence has caused a big excitement ii town. , Attorney General Lyon is about t.' close every liquor establishment in tin i city by injunction proceedings. Thi action takes the enforcement of th< liquor law from the city as the re*ul of a perpetual injunction recently pro cured against the isle of Palms, i It is said that three hundred injunc i tions are to be served in an, covermj every alleged blind tiger in the move . meat recently initiated by Governo ' Ansel to reach violators under the in junctions proceedings of commoil lav; 1 i I * 1 * # Charleston Schools Booming. The schools and colleges in Charles ton are now in full swing, with goo< [ attendance generally. About 4,801 school children are enrolled, of whicl ! 2,100 are negroes. The higher insti ' tions of learning have the following I number so far enrolled: Porter's Mili | tary Academy, 150; Memminger Xor mal School (girls), 355; Charlestoi i High School (boys), 200; Con federal ' Home College, 60; College of Charles ton, 85; Medical College of South Car ' olina, 185; South Carolina Militar; [ Academy, 180. r * ? * * t i Boosting Annexation Scheme. [ The people of Adam's Run township . Colleton county, near Charleston, gavi a monster barbecue a few days age r at which sentiment was worked tij ^ among the voters of the township fo annexation with Charleston county, i t petition has already been presented ti i Governor Ansel from voters of Adam' l Run for annexation with Charlestoi: The territory in question comprise 1 over a hundred square miles of rid farming lands. * * * ^ I -* l|/ ^onsidoicb cu biuvi cc uavii t It is rumored that Governor Anse t will send a force of constables t< ; Charleston to enforce more vigorousl; i. the dispensary law. The announce inent coming 011 top of the service 0 1 a number of injunctions, restrainin; J alleged violators of the law from cor , tinuing the declared nuisance, and th< statement that additional injunction I Many people not in sympathy witl 1 ! the law are asking why similar dras I ? .> T-n nrit nilf in force i] I1C I11^(15U1CD U,IO iivt v? v ... other sections of the state, and th< answer of the state authorities is tha ? In a short time the whole state, fror * sea coast to the mountains, will b 3 blanketed with injunctions and con vie t tions and imprisonment for the viols ' tion of the dispensary law will be s* cured under the common law proceec I- ings more effectively man coma De j , done under the dispensary act itself. > * * * Soon Tired of Her Hubby. I A handsome young woman was arrested at the Jerome hotel in Columbia and taken to the station house. , The arrest was made on request of the chief of police of Florence, asking that the young woman be detained until her husband arrived in the city. t The husband arrived about noon from f Florence and went to the station house to see his wife. He gave his name as C. W. Miller and said he was a telegraph operator. He spent the j time trying to induce his wife to re turn home, she having told the police 3 a that she would refuse to do so. It is ~ stated that Mr. and Mrs. Miller were ? married only about three months ago 1 and that before her marriage she was Miss Bradley of Barnwell. * * ? Work of Train Wreckers. Southern Railway passenger train Xo. 13, from Spartanburg to Columbia, .. was wrecked near Lockhart Junction I Saturday afternoon. 1 Engineer McCoy of Columbia and a t colorfed fireman were slightly injured. None of the passengers were hurt. ? The accident was caused by the plac[. ing of a steel rail across the track 2 by unknown persons. " PILOT GETS INTO TROUBLE. License of Boat Following President's Party Suspended for Six Months. TVio stpflmhnat. Fred Hartweg. the > license of whose pilot the president t personally ordered suspended, accomt panied the presidential party froju 3 Cairo, 111., to Memphis, and carried a ] party from Pittsburg. From the first the boat insisted upon maintaining a position near the head of the procession, crowding the other vessels out of the places assigned to them and hugging the Mississippi, -, which carried the president. At one point it ran up alongside the r president's boat, and for a distance i maintained a very close position. This is believed to be the conduct of which t the president complained. The vessel r also at times kept up an almost incessant shrieking of whistles. Captain Waltz, inspector of hulls, - "" ^ " suspended me license ui jtuul .mwuuw for six months, s The president had requested that his license be suspended for only three 3 months, but Captain Waltz, after hear1 ing the evidence, decided to make the penalty six months. . i A REPUBLICAN "SLUMP." 3 3 Floor Gave Way and Two Hundred s Men Were Dumped Into Cellar. 3 By the collapse of the floor in the t North End Athletic club building at ?- Waterburv, Conn., during a republican rally 200 men were precipitated into - the the cellar of the building. ? The building caught fire from an overturned lamp. In a mad struggle r to get out of the cellar, many of the - men were trampled under, and they became panic-stricken at the sight oi the fire. Doubtless many would have been killed had not those who escaped shouted to those in the cellar that >- there was no danger. They were res1 cued by the police and firemen. ) " 1 PRE8IDENT IS IN CAMP. > I Reaches Region of Bruin and Goes into Retirement. After a safe trip from Memphis to 3 ,Lake Providence, La, where he Sate urday morning addressed several thousand residents of East Carroll parish, President Roosevelt continued on his Y journey to Stamboul station, 15 miles below Lake Providence, where his special train was sidetracked. Advices from Stamboul late Saturday stated that the president and his '? party had reached their camp on the - Tensas river, about 12 miles from Stamboul. P The president spent Sunday quietly r in his camp with the intention of ^ beginning his hunt early Monday morn3 inc. s L CUBANS APPEAL TO ROOT. s rj Colony in Mexico Want to Know Where They are At. A committee of forty Cubans, representing the Cuban colony in Mexico City, presented a petition to Secretary I Root, asking him to make a statement 3 on the status of Cuba and appealing to y- him to dispel the distrust that will ?. be felt by Latin-America should the f United States adopt one policy for Cuba and another for the stronger naL. tions. e ?? s TO CONSERVE OUR RESOURCES. b Roosevelt WW Call Convention to Be 3 Held In Washington in January. e President Roosevelt, in his speech I at Memphis Friday announced that he Q would call a convention to be held in e Washington, January 3 next, to advo?. cate the preservation and conserva ' * ~ L. tion Of tne national resources ui me >. country, including ooal, water power, [. oil, etc. ' - ' - - * :1 ' *... v.*' '? BiSroSaSSv-vrv-'.:.-r. .i-r.l* r J : L'' "ANYBODY WANT^TO ?Week's cleverest cartoon by Rogers, in the Xew York Herald. - *UJ|| "BLACK HAND" WILL MEET FATE OF MOLLY MAGUISES Organized in Italy For Noble Purposes, It Eas Been Frosumie<| in This Country to Ignoble Purposes?Aims of Information Bureau of Immigration. -||| Washington, D. C.?"The Black Hand Society, now operating in New ; vf I York and elsewhere, will soon run its course and its leaders vail be-brought to the bar of justice," said Terence V. Powderly, formerly Graud Master of *?$? the Knights of Labor and Commissioner-General of Immigration and now W Chief of the Division of Information in th'e Bureau of Immigration. "In the meantime," he said, "we should not be harsh in our criticisms of the Italians as a race. Most of them are sober, law abiding, industrious *- ? j +v.? rtnnnti-v in Ttplinn i m m i erration people, mere is no muie umi^ci 1*12^ VO UiXti J AAA A WV...V... - n- - ^ ^ than there was in the immigration of certain others races a comparatively .^j|| few years ago.'' These statements were made by Mr. Powderly in a discussion of th? work of the Division of Information, which was established by Congress. ' with a view to diverting to the agricultural sections of the country, notably rhe South, a part of the constantly growing stream of aliens now pouring -'i into the large cities of the East and Middle West. . -'v^l "Years ago," continued Mr. Powderly, "a number of counties in Penn- 4'^i, sylvania were terrorized by a society known as the Molly Maguires. I was '-r^ born of Irish parents in the region of that State where the Molly Maguires were active. The members of this society were a bad lot, but it would be unjust to say that they were typical of the average in the Irish race. "The Molly Maguire Society was imported from the Emerald Isle. Its native sod it worked for freedom and was a decent, patriotic organization. As known in this country it was nothing more or less than an organ- v;-;2p ization of marauding cutthroats. It was crushed to earth in Pennsylvania. when its leaders were hanged. . ."The Black Hand Society will meet the fate that befell the Molly -*}# .Maguires. Last summer I spent some t'me in Italy and took occasion to inquire into the origin of the Black Hand. I found that on its native lieath. the Black Hand was organized"" for good?in fact, for the protection of: women and young girls. An Italian who wrongs a woman and fails to right the wrong is practically driven from among his fellows. The black hand or Ijsh - ostracism is raised against him. The Black Hand in this country, as in the case of the Molly Maguires, brought into being for noble purposes across the sea, was prostituted and converted to ignoble purposes when trans- ' planted in the United States. Eut it will scon pass into history as did the ; Molly Maguires." If Chief Powderly executes as he has planned Uncle Sam will soon running the biggest intelligence office on earth. All forms of labor, from. ||8 household servants to skilled artisans, will be supplied on short notice. Mr. " Powderly did not say so directly, hut he intimated that the Division of v Information will solve the servant girl problem in the United States. ' THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION ! i-4no.ooo Aliens Admitted in the Last Fiscal Year?Frank P. Sargent Says He. go -J""7 Doesn't Believe Undesirable Ones Come From Particular Localities. - ^ Washington, D. C.?Commissioner-General of Immigration Frank P. Sargent does not agree with the statement made by Representative John h. - '\ Burnett, of Alabama, a member of the Congress Immigration Commission, 4 that undesirable immigrants come from particular localities. Judge Bur- 2|||| nett specified Italy, Syria and Asia Minor. * Commissioner-General Sargent's report for the fiscal year which ended -J? Tnnft so. 1907. shows that the total number of aliens admitted for that >j| * 1 j AAA J S? period was something more than 1,400,000, or in tne neignDumuuu 000 more than came during the year preceding. Concerning Judge Barnctt's statement Mr. Sargent said: - y i f "I do not believe it true that undesirable immigrants come wholly from' | any one country. We do not want people from other countries who are ^ criminals. Neither do we want people who because of political beliefs want fj to let as much blood as they can, and we do not want people who are shiftless or diseased and who have no ambition to become good citizens. But 1 these classes do not come from any particular society, and it is because we have labor that we are compelled to put up with a certain per cent, of bad & timber. " "Industrial prosperity in this country is directly reflected in Europe. f An immense amount of labor is needed in the United States. We've got to have labor, and we must take Italian labor. We cannot very well exclude all % the Hunchakists and Black Hand people that come In with the labor. Every. sji Italian is not a Black Hand any more than every Armenian as a Hunchakist, % but we must have laws that will exclude such persons from the United States. Italians, Sicilians and all others who are honest, who want to own <? homes of their own and till the soil, give their children that which they had 1 not, an education, and who wish to become good citizens, should be given every opportunity to come into the country, no matter what their raceyy-jji may be." i In reply to a question as to the diversion of the tide of immigration, Mr, ' ^ Sargent said that it was impossible to divert the growing influx into such a Jj place as New York in a day or a year. "New York and the large cities are better known abroad than any other yjj localities," he said. "When a family from a certain State in Europe settles in North Carolina or Texas and becomes satisfied its members write to the people back home, and eventually that part of the State becomes colonized ~ji with people of the same race and from the same common home in Europe. ^ >1 Gardually the tide is turning to the South, the Southwest and the Northwest, +v.? twpivf months, according to the reports we have had, the ^ ?.i ill LUD JUdf immigration into New Orleans and Galveston increased greatlj\ During me year the greatest number of aliens came from Italy, Austria, Hungary and ?| Russia. Those who went to Galveston were mostly Russian Jews, and this 'J is an indication that the agricultural fields are offering more inducements to 1 such people. All through the South the number of foreign settlers is grow- il ing as it becomes.known in Europe that those parts of this country offer ,3 good fields to bona fide settlers. i "It is only a question of time when foreigners find out they can do bet- |fl ter in smaller places than in the big cities, but it is going to require a great-* f| many years for that fact to become general knowledge throughout Europe. M "If we have continued prosperity in this country immigration will con- "jg tlnue to increase, but just the minute there is a letup in the progession of in* *[ dustrial affairs, as is predicted in some quarters, the tide of immigration S will shrink. This has been the history of immigration. The fact that the" JH tTnited States pays higher wages than any country on earth brings imml- Ju grants here." ACCUSED OF KILLING BRIDE. DEFIANCE TO U. S. COURT. I St. Paul, Minn.?Attorney-Genera! ijpl Philadelphia.?A Coroner's jury . Young appeared before Judge isunn, am here decided that Mary E. Eichen- j in the Ramsey County District Court, 9fl laub, a bride of only a few months, j and asked for a writ of mandamus ?? was killed by her husband and his against the Northern Pacific Railroad Wi mother. ^ Company to compel that road to put Swearing to kill a druggist who ; into effect the commodity rate law ga*e testimony against him and a j recently declared illegal " oy iudge ?1 Coroner's detective who worked up Lochren, of the United States District^ tisj the case, G. Russell Eichenlaub, the : Court. $1 waa w ont of court. | Judge Bunn issued the writ, whick -?i UUSuauu) ?i uv The testimony led the jury to he-1 js made returnabje October 5, and the '& ?i lieve that both the mother and son : papers were served on the railroad 1 procured cyanide of potassium. ! offlcials.