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' BALL CLUB SOKE. Peculiar and Unfortunate Disagreement at Furman. Greenville. April 2z.?The ball game scheduled for this afternoon between Furman and Trinity was not played on account of Furman's having become piqued at the laculty in its action over the Furman boys go-! ing to Spartanburg Wednesday on * ?- ? : J i the early morning iraiu msiectu ui, waiting tor the 2 o'clock train as ordered. In consequence of their disobedience all members of the Furman team were penalized in their monthly marks, and the resignation of manager asked for. Concerning the trouble Prof. B. E. Geer this afternoon said: 'The members of the ball team had been notified that they must attend classes Wednesday morning and IK permission had been given for the boys to go to Spartanburg on the 2 o'clock train. Instead the team left at 9 o'clock contrary to instructions and when they came back the resignation of the manager of the team was asked for. by the faculty and each offending student penalized 10 -?1 ? XVI.. ?? points on an muuwi> iuai&.o. Prof. Geer further stated that all members of the faculty urged the ?boys to play Trinity this afternoon, but the team appeared to be obdur[ ate, refusing point blank to enter the game. Instead of playing the university boys raised the $100 forfeit, ';y which naturally went to Trinity. It | is not known whether Furman will jjjJ . play any more games this season or not. !/ ' Empress Eugenie's Wedding Day. Ife - Even on her wedding day, the Emprbss Eugenie received a sign of ill '/-y. omen, according to Clara Morris in p.- the Woman's Home Companion for May. The market women of Paris --presented her with a mountain of W0I61S on cne day oi ner mamagc to Louis Napoleon. Miss Morris if'88781 -v \ "And those market women?they ^V. ioiled over! They yelled and push. ed and crowded into the palace gar|kV / <lens." They screeched and screamed for the empress, until at last a window opened, and Eugenie stepped out W-X: on the balcony, and ever eager to fe" . please, she held in her hands a great ll^/'mass of the violets the market wohad sent her. "Then suddenly one old fish wife shrieked out at those of the commit.tee, 'Pigs! Idiots! It is the flower sorrow you have sent to her!' 11 r * 11 ~ ^ ?i An f 'Tf ia auutuci 1ATCU WWV, IV M.O ||?f the color of mourning that you send ?* .> bride of the emperor! Violets, ^^pBEKple violets to a bride! Pigs, Idiots! Devils! It is an omen?a te'ftfgn of evil!' VAnd then the fight began! Oh, \Vr?on Dieu! They are terrible! They tear one another like wild beasts! - J The gendarmes try hard to make orll^Vder, when a voice up above us say out clear and gentle, 'Oh, soldiers, Ht:S don't hurt them!' And the idea that |p^?ny Boldier on earth could hurt a ?>: dame des Halles was so funny that ?NI everybody stopped fighting to laugh. ^ "^ 'And they laugh and laugh, and wipe Bfe off the blood, and slap the gendarmes ,aad say, 'Don't hurt us, messieurs? And they dance and shout, and the beautiful empress stand now 88: ?hjt the emperor, and bow, and throw Quiets to the crowd, and all below 'Vive l'lmperatrice!' And she ian^le.and smile, and so retire. But * that old witch was right! Yes, ll^i madame, though the violet was the p;;-' floorer of the Bonaparte, it is the !%& flnwPT nf sorrow, not fit to send a 1M bride! It was an omen, and given g?.rr at-the Tuileries, it pointed to Chiselhurst!" Brains. f- .i. Thomas L. Masson, in Lippincott's 0! Magazine, thus '' wittily discourses , upon a fruitful theme: ' ' TBrains are common to all parts of thO; country, and traces of them have P? y even been discovered in summer at Lenox, Bar Harbor and Newport. g&\ "TThey are originally used to obtain ' money, but when money is obtained j|&by them It usually takes their place. 'The quality of brains varies in I' different. localities. Mixed with ginj||^; ger, they become very valuable, i' A ' With a spiiie they are a necessity in every household. 0?;i \ *At one time they influenced literature, but the discovery was made ^ ; that literature could do without Rinr>P tbon thpv Viava Wn nl most exclusively devoted to advertis"Brains are employed in various p enterprises. T^ey make bridges, railroads and other systems of transportation. They also create capital, and are used extensively in evading the law. They mix with water and gasoline, but are r absorbed by alcohol. "Brains are bought and sold in the open market. They may be traded in on the exchange in. Washington and Albany or in other political centers. The best quality, however, are not traded in. Indeed, oftentimes they are not even heard of until long after they have passed away." (iv- '. .. |fc.si | I . THE GHOSTS GIVE TIPS. TELL TAR HEELS WHERE ' BURIED TREASURE LIES. And Now North Carolina Farmers Are Dicing Up the Wiiole Face of the Earth. High Shoals, N. C., April 21.? They've been hearing more strange noises in the thin woods on the right bank of the CataAvba, northwest of here, and if you drive out that way you will see a lot of fresh holes in the eround. Tliev were made by search ers for hidden gold, for men live hereabouts who think there are spirits that tell where money, bushels of it, has been buried. The new holes tell of the interpretation of those imaginary messages. Digging was resumed a little way back from the river about two months ago and has been going on spasmodically ever since. Mr. Kale, superintendent of the cotton mill ' here, was the first townsman to no! tice it. * A couple of weeks ago he drove out to see some property the mill company owns some distance up the stream. His horse shied at something at the side of what for convenience may be called the road, though it was not much like one. Kale, looking that way, saw a mound of earth heaped up beside a deep hole. About twenty rods further on he came across another hole just like the first. On the other side of the road was a third hole. Then Kale knew what he had encountered, for he had seen the same thing in these parts seven or eight years ago. He told about it when he got back $o town?though not within the hearing of the mill hands, for he didn't want any such exodus as might follow the rekindling of the superstitions of these people?and two college boys, who had stopped here while tramping across the State from Chapel Hill, decided that they'd like to see the workings of a spirit so powerful as to make the very Indolent farmer folk work hard at digging. The Chapel Hill hoys saw what they wanted; and they don't want to see it again. "Ever see a -man struggle and sweat and pray for something you know he can't possibly get?" one of them asked the next day. "Well, you don't want to. First it seems awfully funny; then it gets pathetic. "Larry and I had the luck to strike the scene of one of those gold hunt?rvn?nfJnTio Wa nliTYiKod O trOP 1U5 upci auv/uo. fl V UtUiVVu M V* vv so as to be out of sight and waited. "We thought they'd never show up. It must have been 10 o'clock before they did. First there were three men; it was dark and we couldn't see them, for they had no lights, but we could hear 'em talking. They made so much noise at first that we couldn't make out what they said. Then we caught: " 'You'all bettah set down there now and stay still.' "When they had got settled it was awfully still. We didn't dare move. I guess it must have been half an hour without a stir from those fellows under the tree, and then Larry reached over to feel as if I was there. I wasn't expecting it, and my nerves were so taut that I started and came near losing my balance. "A small branch .broke and tumbled down. Larry said, 'Damn!' in a sort of whisper, and I thought sure we were in for trouble, for the ?? iv - i. j a J men unaer me iree jumyeu uy auu one of them shouted, 'Did you heah?' " 'Yes,' another said in a low tone. 'It said "dam," just as plain as could be.' " 'Well,' said the first speaker, 'that means towards the dam, I reckon. Light the lantern, Sales, and we'll see if there's some other thing around here to go by.'^ "The lantern was lighted and the three men began to scruntinze the ground, one of them on his knees. " 'Here's the pointer!' shouted the kneeling man, and they gathered around the lantern tilted so the light shone on the ground. 'This was sent to show us the way; I heard it fall?didn't you all?' "They said they did. One of them stretched out his hand toward it. "Don't you dare to touch that!' exclaimed the man who held the lantern. 'We all got to go by that. .LooKi it's pointed straignt to tne dam, and that's what the spirit said, "dam.'" "Sales placed his heel carefully at the tip end of the branch I had knocked down and marched off, counting his steps, 'One-two-threefour-five,' and stopped. 44 'Give us your stick,' he said, and the other man handed him something which he stuck in the ground. "You never saw a North Carolina farmer work so fast in your life as those fellows did then. They dug and dug and dug, all three of them trying to get into the hole when it was about two feet deep, and every once in a while we could hear them cussing each other for being in the way. I ?- f ' ,> , i. . *\>. *'V- ~ 4 '/ . ' y?- ... 4-*"; ' U. V- *-. "I learned later that a legend in those parts was that a farmer having followed a mysterious message he received one night in the woods dug up a kettleful of gold coin of an anj cient mintage and that he struck it, drew it out and skipped away with it be:ore his companion got back with anotlier shovel for which he had I Vif.cr cant Cn it ivacn't n n V WfllldPl" these fellows didn't want to take any chances with each other. "A few minutes later we heard I somebody running through the I woods. The newcomer was a woman. ! She stopped at the edge of the hole land screamed: " 'You all's made a mistake. Stop! Stop!' | "The men looked up with expressions of surprise and asked her what she meant. [ " 'Job Sales,' she shouted, 'I knowed you'd make a fool of yer1 self if you didn't let me come along and I tol' you so, didn't I? > Well,? she was out of breath and spoke with difficulty?'well, the spirit tol' me in a dream you was in wrong place, an' then it woke me up so I could come an' stop you. The spirit knocked six times on th' floor, and that to me six was right. Did you count six steps?" " 'No, he counted five,' volunteered one of them. 'That's right, too.' "Yer jest as big a fool as Job Sales, every bit,' scoffed the woman. Don' you know it's long after midnight and this is th' sixth of the month?' "Damn you, Sales,' shouted the other man. 'You ain't got no sense.' " 'You saw me count five,' retorted Sales with great heat 'It's as much your fault as mine.' " 'Here, Job,' interrupted the woman authoritatively, 'stop that rowing, and you, too, Birch. You all ain't goin' to get nothin' by fightin.' If you all got the message clear tonight get to work right. What did the spirit tell you ail?' "The three men, who had climbed out of the hole, all tried to explain at once about Larry's 'damn' and the falling branch pointing toward the river dam, and Mrs. Sales was sure that it was an unusually good spirit to be so specific, and then to tell her about the mistake her fool husband' had made so she could correct it before it was too late?for no message of one night is good for the next. So going back to the branch with the lantern and counting off six paces in a slightly different direction, for Mrs. Sales showed them that they hadn't read the pointing of the branch correctly either, the men got to work digging again. "They dug faster than before for they were sdrer now that they were over the right spot, and Mrs. Sales stayed there urging them on. Once she fell onto her knees beside the lantern and prayed loud and long, beseeching the Lord's guidance of the shovels and especially Job Sales'. That selfish plea made the others mad and there would have been a fight if Sales hadn't obeyed their orders and compelled his old woman as they called her, to amend her supplication by recanting her special appeal for her man. "Pretty soon we heard a rooster crow, and we were mighty glad, I can tell you. It was getting tiresome watching those men shoveling and sweating and praying and quarreling. It was touching, too, for they were so much in earnest. "Daylight was just beginning to show when they gave up the Job, climbed out of the second deep hole and concealed the shovels in the brush near our tree. They were a sad faced lot as they walked off, but they didn't look ashamed over their performance. They seemed to think they had had done something very proper and probably felt just as Mrs. Sales did when she said: " 'If you-all hadn't made that mistake you'd a' found it all right.' That moo loof fhincr itTA hoapH "When they were out of sight we got down and looked into the holes. Larry jumped down into the second one dug. He could just reach the upper edge of it when he stood on the bottom. "No, there wasn't anything in it but dirt and some stones?just like any other hole, like all the six or seven holes in that neighborhood. Like as not they all were dug under similar circumstances, though what signals and messages were found or heard in the other cases I don't know. They probably had less basis than the one we provided unintentionally." Plan to Drain Everglades. Washington, April 23.?Maj. Jas. B. Cavanaugh, corps of engineers, c A- A1 UUC Ul LUC aSSlBLdULB U1 LUC LU1C1 Ui engineers at the war department, left here to-day for Jacksonville, Fla., to consult with George Spalding, corps of engineers, and the representatives of the State of Florida, with regard, to the plans for the drainage of the Everglades of Florida, especially with reference to the effect of the proposed work on Lake Okeechobee and other navigable waters in the State. I I PAYS GREAT FIXE. Nearly Two Million Given Up by Waters-Pierce Concern. Austin. Texas. April 24.?The final chapter in ti<- Oration of the State against the ; : :rs-I ierce Oil Company. the p:. :..iriit of probably the largest fine o'er assessed against a corporation, nearly $2,000,000, was enacted in a spectacular manner this afternoon. From the American National bank one-half the amount was delivered in two automobiles at the State treasury. Then, at breakneck speed, the cars were driven to the Austin National bank and a similar burden of currency taken on, and similarly disposed of. In telescope valises those in charge of the payments carried bills of different denominations up the capitol steps. wnen tne nne-Dearers reacnea me treasury department doors were locked and Attorney Davidson and other officials were sent for, and the money counted. The fine, $1,808,753.95, was paid with 718 $1,000 bills, 160 $10 bills and the remainder in smaller currency. Of the total amount the State is enriched by $1,718,266.30, and Prosecuting Attorney Beady will receive the balance of his fee. ALABAMA MOB HANGS NEGRO. Confessed Rapist is Lynched Near Bessemer. Birmingham, Ala., April 25.? John Thomas, a negro, was quietly lynched by a small crowd of men about one mile below Bessemer to night at 9 o'clock. The negro was being taken to jail in Bessemer when he was overtaken by citizens, who made short work of the prisoner by hanging him to a tree in the woods. After the hanging the crowd quietly went back to their homes. Thomas committed criminal assault upon a lady near Parkwood, about noon to-day. The news spread rapidly and the citizens began the pursuit. The negro was found near the scene of the crime late this afternoon, at the home of a farmer for whom he worked. He was taken before the justic^ of the peace and a warrant was sworn out for him. The citizens, numbering probably not more than a dozen, took the negro before his victim, who positively identified him. Her two children also identified the negro. There had, up to this time, been no open evidences of violence, and a well known farmer named Andy Roy, started with the negro for Bessemer. All went well until Roy and his prisoner got within about a mile of Bessemer. Here they were* overtaken by the citizens. Thomas finally confessed to the crime, and said he did not mind going to Jail, where he had served several years, and that he did not mind going back.' He only asked them to spare his life. The response was a rope, and he was swinging to a tree the next moment. The body is still swinging in the high wind at midnihgt, and the coroner states that he will make an investigation to-morrow. C. & K. MAT For $8.00 and $3.50 and a Florsheim Shoe For $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 C. B. BRABflAM'S SONS BAMBERG, S. C. A THRIFTY COMPANY ... .of and for.... 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