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r m v DUEL UNDER WATER, Swede With Bale Hook Fights and Wounds Rescuer. RESULT OF TOO MUCH RUM. Submarine Scrap Stirs Surface of New York Bay?Peacemaker Finds Combatants In Deadly Embrace on Bottom of Aqueous Arena. A Armed with a bale hook and ten feet under water Alexander Anderson, a powerful longshoreman, put up a fight against saving his life which makes Victor Hugo's famous submarine duel in the "Toilers of the Sea" lose a lot of its glare as a thriller. Anderson was rescued despite his struggle to die, but he sent his captor to the hospital, fend Anderson himself may succumb to the blows he received as he and his rescuer occasionally arose to the surface. % ? * i- i.UA T?n o f t?i trAr me auei took pmce iu iuc off the foot of Hamilton street, Brooklyn. Anderson, who had just arrived fp?m Sweden and who is thirty-eight i ^ """ i - ^ tma H3B HOOK SAVAGKLY DOTXWUB. h years old and built like a man of iron, became suddenly crazed as a result of too mucb rum. Darting out of his ? lodging house, GO Summit place, be ran a >' almost to the water's edge, shooting at the top of his voiced ; Near the foot of Hamilton street he seized a bale hook and stood his ground, mumbling and shrieking in his ^ Swedish dialect and brandishing his weapon. Robert Stevens, thirty-five years old, living at 435 Columbia street, was the first to get near him. % Anderson knew of Stevens' prowess ? - and evidently did not relish a combat with his powerful frame. He had $1 enough sense left to know that he'd :: have a better, chance in the water with Stevens, who is six feet tail and muscaiar, so Anderson Jumped In the river ^ carrying his hook with him. Stevens followed. He dived directly where Anderson's form was last seen. ' No one knows Just what happened under the water. Several persons who gathered on the pier say that every few seconds an arm or a leg would appear above, and once Stevens' face t r *arose, showing a great gash down the right side. Once Anderson reached thb' surface and swung his hook sav. agely downward. A stillness followed, j V and only bubbles showed that life remained below the water. In a few seconds Stevens came up and feebly cried for help. I Charles Walsh, who had arrived dur" * on/1 Wflfi VflinlV f-pv \ Ug U1C ou Ujjfeiv. KUW - 7' lag to learn the cause of the excitement; jumped in. He found one of 7- Stevens' hands clutching the Swede by 1 tbejgaeck. Anderson was unconscious, and Stevens was fast losing the little 7* strength that remained. Walsh tied a rope about Anderson's body, and he v" was bulled ashore. Several men jumped irfto the river and dragged Stevens / to safety. % Stevens' face and head were a mass of cuts and bruises. Blood poured profusely from a deep cut in his face, and his arms and shoulders were bared of their clothing. Anderson showed effects, too, of the fearful contest under water. His face was battered and bruised, and both his eyes were closed. An ambulance of the Long Island hospital was called, and both men were given medical attention. Dr. Doyle said that Anderson may die as a result of his injuries, y Stevens told the police that the man bit and gouged him with the hook and that several times he was about to give up. He says he overcame Anderson only by wrenching the hook from his hands. Anderson without the weapon was no match for him. V Hunt Deer In Automobiles. .Hunting deer and bringing in the game in automobiles is the latest in Sullivan and Orange counties, N. Y. Dr. Leroy Culver of Jersey City, with his National, and Dr. W. B. Kelley of Port Jervis in his Ford machine went . , to Cahoonzie, seven miles from Port Jervis and got two deer. They started with the carcasses for Port Jervis to be % first in with their game, but Dr. Culver's machine balked and was towed up the grade by Dr. Kelley's Ford, Dr. Culver and a friend pushing from be& hind. ?fc I Jl Humor and Philosophy By DUNCAN M. SMITH THE ANNUAL NIGHTMARE. The Christmas present problem Looms largely just ahead When winter is approaching And summer days have lied. A man must spend like water His coin for that and this. As though it were a pleasure He really wouldn't miss. A fellow wouldn't guess it Until he stops to jot The names of all- the nieces And nephews he has got And sort of takes a census. That no one may be missed, To see how many children Are on the present list. There's nothing in his family To bring on it disgrace That savors just a trifle Of suicide of race. For little olive branches Are lying everywhere When there are signs suggestive Of Christmas in the air. It's up to him to Scurry Where toyshops lie in wait And load himself with knickknacks And other kinds of freight, A rubber doll, a watch charm, A book and china cup, For Christmas is approaching. And he must loosen up. r%! uibiipfjuai my* "That young man appears to be pretty popular, and he is going some too." "Yes, but I prefer the other kind." "What kind?' "The coming man." Could Accommodate a Few. "Whafs ail the fuss about in the pa-, pers?" asked the lion as the Jungle J News came in. "The people of England are wondering where they can find openings for their young men," replied Mrs. Lion, who was the reader of the family. "Why don't they send them to me?' asked the king of the forest as he yawned lazily! opening his jaws to their fullest capacity. Helpful Hint. "Just persevere, that's all." "You think one will eventually sue I ceear' "Sure to." 'Thank you for those cheering words." ''What's your line?" 'Trying to live without work." Always the Little One. We look before and after And sigh for what is not Because the biggest grafter Ib very seldom caught. Not City Broke. "I knew you were from the country." "On account of my green and gawky ways. 1 presume." "No; from the way you shied at the lady with a train on her dress two feet long." t Probably. "He is honest as the day is long." "Then I presume that he is like the nights to long days." "How is that?" "Short." Thought It Explained Itself. "What are you drinking now?" "Nofblncr but water." "Why add the Ia?t two words?" Though banks / ^ may break I and stocks I And fortunes go \ / It doesn't bother Who never had PERT PARAGRAPHS. Lots of people don't mind borrowing, but do so hate the paying back feature of It. The man who never made a mistake made it when he lfet It be known. ' ? _ For an explanation that doesn't explain ask the self made man. Trouble is mighty familiar on short acquaintance and never waits for an introduction. When explaining his conduct keeps a man busy an investigating committee of cold blooded disinteresteders would not come amiss. ^ : ? " n'ltK foc+lro uue CUU ClttXHl u tillug niui ikaui V gayety, but having to prove it is most rtupid and boresome. When marriage becomes self adjusting it will cease to be a failure. One reason for some men being in politics is because they are out of jail. A threadbare story has at least the prestige of a past popularity. Being a matter of temperament is usually associated with the supposed ability to pay for it. A GOOD IDEA. Attorney-General Lyon to Hake Innovation in Engrossing Department. Columbia, Dec. 12.-Attorney-General Lyon is arranging to have at least some of the work in the engrossing department this year done by typewriters. He finds that there is nothing in the law to require the old way of copying by hand every bill and resolution that is introduced, and while he does not propose to make any radical innovations, he thinks it will be well to give the legislators an object lesson, so he will secure several typewriters and competent girls to manipulate the machines and have the joint resolutions and other measures of a temporary character copied in that way. The members of the general assembly can then see how the plan works and if they desire they can have all the copying and engrossing done in that way. Mr. Lyon also finds that there is no warrant in law for the large sheets of paper which are used for engrossing bills and he will endeavor to secure more convenient forms prepared for the purpose. There are several reasons urged for retaining the old system in the engrossing department, which may be stated as follows: 1. It has always been done that way. .The legislator who advances this reason ought to come to the ses-' sion on horse back, no matter how far his home is. 2. It is formality which should be preserved. The legislator who advances this argument should wear his hair long and powdered. ; 3. It gives employment to worthy girls and matrons. The answer to this is that worthy girls and matrons would still be found useful and necessary if the system of typewriting the bills were adopted, because worthy girls and matrons are the stenographers in the great majority of offices. A bill introduced last year provided that the court stenographers should come here each year and do the work of the engrossing clerks, but this is manifestly impractical, since the court stenographers have more than they can do promptly now. If Mr. Lyon will institute a more business like system in the engrossing department,he will greatly facilitate the work of the general assem bly and will injure no one. A Washington educator * tells an anfusing story of his college days in New England, says The Washington Star. One of the institution's most eminent professors was lecturing. His class was for some reason restless, and after figeting for a time a number of the studerfts took no pains to conceal their weariness. The professor remained a while in apparent unconsciousness of their attitude, ^ut suddenly he stopped. After an instant's pause he leaned forward, his face taking on a charming and characteristically quizzical expression, and said. "Gentlemen, I must ask that yon be patient and bear with me a few moments longer. I still have a few more pearls to cast." Duel in Mississippi Town. Laurel, Miss., Dec. 16.?A deliberately planned and sensational duel occurred in the main street of Laurel today, in which Edward Bragg was killed and B. W. Sharborough, former State senator, was wounded. The two had a quarrel over a business matter, during which Bragg is said to have advised Sharborough to ? V"'t? mm QViarLnrrmcrVi jJU tum gCl lllO ft, UU, W11IU wvtvug.. went to a nearby store and purchased a shotgun and shells, while Bragg waited. When Bragg opened fire, I hitting his man three times without dangerously wounding him, Sharborough, in spite of the bullets, advanced until so close that Bragg seized the muzzle of the shotgun. After a tussle for possession of?this weapon Sharborough fired, ending the duel by mortally woundingBragg. Asmall boy spectator was slightiy wounded. Gen. Oates Selected. Washington, Dec. 13.?President Roosevelt today appointed Gen. Wm. C. Oates to succeed Col. Elliott as a commissioner to mark Confederate graves. Gen. Oates was a former governor of the State of Alabama, a colonel in the Confederate army, a brigadier-general in the SpanishAmerican war and also a former member of the house of representatives. Two little South American boys were excluded from the schools in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, last week because they looked a little too much like mulattoes. This is strange, particularly in a community where there is supposed to be no discrimination on account of color and among a people who are said to be inclined to miscegenation as the radical solution of the race question. ? News and Courier. UftI I IQTFR'Q Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brines Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific for Constipation. Indigestion, Liver and Kidney troubles. Pimples. Eczema. Impure Blood. Bad Breath. Sluggish Bowels. Headache and BacKache. Its Rocky Mountain Tea in tablet form. 35 cents a box. Genuine made by Hoixister Drug Com pant. Madison, Wis. tOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLJ JOHN F. FOLK ....AGENT FOR.... Ford Automobiles The Car That Goes A Sucker i< r I ^ * ^ 4- i r mis sutiemeiit ic for we know nott to supplying the Dry Goods, Shoi at prices cheaper are not fishing fc for every dollar s only a few month earmed the repu that is we sell g guarantee every j we will make in _ HI j. n .! n e u cui rntes i You have been h< are going to sur before we take s but will simply sa in and let us sho^ offering. Try ai especially, and th i McGowan' Near Peoples Drug Company President Praised. Washington, Dec. 12.?Represen- , - ^ A A 1.1 J. 1 tative uiayton, 01 Aiaoama, mtreduced the following resolution in the I house: "Resolved, that the country is to be congratulated on recent dec- i larations of the president of the United States, affirming the wisdom of f the custom which limits a president to two terms, which declaration 5 demonstrates that he, in common J with all other patriotic Americans, , recognizes that the precedent established by Washington and other presidents of the United States in retiring from the presidental office , after their second term has become, j by universal concurrence, a part of 1 the Republican system of government and that any departure from < this time honored custom would be J unwise, unpatriotic and fraught s with peril to our free institutions." j Another Move in Saluda Case. 1 In the supreme court last Friday j afternoon a motion was made to sus- j pend the appeal in the case against j Alfred Free and W. I. Henderson, in order that a motion for a new trial might be made. Free and Henderson were tried for the killing of M. M. Morse, in Saluda county, Free get- , ting a sentence of 10 years and Hen- j derson 12 years in the penitentiary, j The case attracted considerable at- i tention in Saluda county, and there ^ were two mistrials before the ver- ^ KvniicrVit in Thp case haS c U1V.U9 "WV, .... ^ alsQ been before the supreme court ? on the ground that the presiding cir- | cuit judge erred in his charges and that Free was fully 200 yards distant from the scene of the shooting and that Morse opened fire on Henderson in the affray that followed. Beer' Account Compromised. 1 ( Charleston, Dec. 13?At a special i meeting of city council tonight a res- 1 olution was adopted, asking the State 1 dispensary board to settle the beer i account with the city and county of i Charleston on a basis of a cash settlement by J. S. Farnum for the sum of ] $12,000 for the period between Jan- 1 uary, 1902, and October, 1905, the i city and county having agreed in con- i ference with interested attorneys and J representatives of the American i Audit company to take this sum. j The claim as made out against > TTarnnm fnr nnnaid rovalties and al- \ lowances of rebates by the State dis- t pensary commissioners aggregates i $29,897.55. Of this amount the claim t for unpaid royalty, amounting to ( $9,615.14, was practically admitted i by Farnum, but the other claims i were contested. ( Corporation Counsel Moffet ex- 1 pressed the opinion that the action t of the commissioners was illegal, as they had no right to allow Farnum t rebates and then make the city and a county pay the cost. However, to 1 enforce a settlement in full meant a s lawsuit and the city and county de- c cided to accept the compromise. I i Born Evei i made, with how much truth ling about them, for our attei i people of this section wi i es, Dress (ioods than they have ever bought ? >r suckers and we give full v< pent with us. Although we h is McGowan's Cheap Cash Sto tation of the cheapest store : oods way below the prices otl article we sell, and the trading good every assertion and i to Pieces Before / taring about McGowan's cheap prise the natives on everythn ;tock. No need to quote price ,y that you can buy cheaper tha v you some of the great bar ound everywhere else, at tl len see how much cheaper we s Cheap G KILLING IN MARION. Mian Named Shooter Shoots Down Joseph Harrellson. Marion, Dec. 19.?There was a ^ rilling near Page's Mill, in the sounty, on Tuesday evening. From ;he reports which have reached here t seems that Messrs. Joseph Harrellson and Foster Smith went to the esidence of Frank Shooter; that ;hey had been drinking before they vent and all parties continued to Irink after that. Finally a difficulty arose and Smith md Harrellson left, one of them ;hreatening to return with his Winchester. Later Harrellson did return, and he was shot down by Shooter as he was entering Shooter's ioor?Shooter using a double-barrel d shotgun. All the parties to this unfortunate affair are white, respectable and well connected. . Mr. Shooter came in to-day and si ?ave himself up to the sheriff, and y t is understood that he will im- ^ nediately apply for bail. k " ti A Terrible Mistake. c, Pittsburg, Dec. 19.?Mrs. Woods, a iged 70 years, the mother of William p ~ i --.Ul tt. woods, a weaiuiy unui, waa ?u-i nost instantly killed early yesterday F norning by her son when he emptied s< ;he contents of a shotgun at her in :he darkness about his chicked coop. ^ She had come down before day to get _ i pullet to cook for breakfast. Her * jyes were almost obliterated. Pardon Asked. J [ l J Gov. Ansel has received a petition < > for the pardon of Clarence Thrailkill J \ )f Saluda county. Thrailkill is now <> serving a sentence of three years on J \ ;he chaingang in that county, and ;he petition recalls the history of a loted criminal case, which has been | n the courts several times. Clarence Thrailkill and his father, Morgan Thrailkill, were tried for ;he killing of Ben Burton near Moletta on April 27, 1904. Clarence vas convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three years and his father was sent up for life and is now serving sentence. After the trial it vas charged that Clarence Thrailkill vas not made to serve sentence on she chaingang, but was allowed the freedom of the community and that she law was not therefore carried >ut. In the meantime an appeal was _ nade to the supreme court for a lew trial, but this was refused and o jov. Heyward ordered that the sen- < [ sence of the court be carried out to < she letter. J The petition to Gov. Ansel states + shat Thrailkill was but 17 years old J [ vhen the crime was committed; that < le has served a greater part of the J [ sentence and that the people of the < jommunity feel that he has been junished sufficiently. * * 4 VV.'S : VlSj _________ ,j Minute y - -i% 'M- ~ f V'si p we can't say, ition is given ith high-class , Clothing Etc. J hem. No, we. *Jii alue and more ave been open re has already in Bamberg? tiers ask. We , * ItfsM I public know every price. : Taking Stock prices, but we lg in the store 3 on anything, / '. ../ ,i|B ,n ever. Come gains we are - tese cost sales j%W will sell you. ash Store Bamberg, South Caroliaa r|| AGE NO BAR Everybody in South Carolina is / 3'||| Eligible. Old people stooped with suffering, Middle age, courageously fighting, Youth protesting impatiently; - ' Children, unable to explain; All in misery from their kidneys. % ^ Only a little backache first. Comes when you catch a cold. Or when you strain the back. 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