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DETERMINED TO DIE. Failing in Seven Attempts Man Kills Himself on Eighth. Paris, July 30.?A telegram from Rheims announces the death in the municipal hospital of an Alsatian tailor named Wiess, aged forty-four, who had achieved a remarkable notnriotv rhirirtir tha last twn wppks hv his repeated attempts to end his life. Though not in absolute want, "Weiss had become neurasthenic, and three months ago he announced that he meant to put an end to his existence. His first attempt was two months ago. He threw himself into the canal some distance outside the town, but was saved by a gardener who was working near and heard the splash. His second attempt a week later also failed. The rope which he had bought to hang himself with was not strong enough. When it broke he fell unconscious, and his neighbors, attracted by the noise, were able to revive him. But soon afterwards Weiss bought a revolver, and twice attempted to blow out his brains. He only succeeded in inflicting severe facial wounds. He then made a third attempt, this time with a revolver on the main platform of the railway station. The shots caused considerable alarm, as the platform was crowded on account of the arrival at that minute of the Paris express. Weiss fell, with his face covered with blood, but was hastily taken to the hospital, where he regained consciousness. Half an hour later he spoke to the nurse. "I have failed again," he said; "but I still have time before I leave the hospital. Although terribly weakened, he managed to reach a pocket knife, and stabbed himself in the abdomen. His doctor immediately performed the operation of laparotomy. Two hours later Weiss was again as resolute as ever. He seized a drinking tumbler, broke it, and made a big gash in his neck with one of r XI.? ? ? ? ? ? _ TTa tt. a r. n/vnin tilt? pitt'tS. nc h ao dgaiu uauuagw up, and he was then so weak that both doctor and nurse considered his condition hopeless. At 6 o'clock next morning, however, the nurse was surprised to hear him choking. He had torn the bandage from his throat and had stuffed it in his . mouth, and so was suffocating himself. This time the doctor's aid came too late, and Weiss succumbed to his eighth attempt on his life. Selling Cotton at Unusual Prices. Washington, August 5.?The department of agriculture is engaged in selling cbtton. It is neither a bull nor a bear, however, and fixes its own price, and if buyers don't want to give it, they needn't. Besides it is about the highest price ever heard of for plain cotton. Thirty-five dollars for a few pounds is much better than the farmer can do. But the cotton offered for sale by the department is put up in sample boxes, and its object in selling the cotton in this shape is the standardization. Each box contains a sample of white American cotton, and there f are nine such samples. The differatbetween the nine erades is ex tremely slight, but the actual business of cotton-buying not only recognizes these grades, but 15 more. In other words, the trade recognizes a grade between each two grades of the department's standards, and three grades below and three above the scale. The department of agriculture is considerably pleased over the fact that it has succeeded in fixing a cotton standard which will not deteriorate or change color for a year. The samples put up by tne government , have been so treated that they will be absolutely safe for that length of time. There has never before in the v ? -** ~c /n*?1 /I Knar? o normo. ills I. VI v UI I11C VtUlJIU utcu a yviiuu nent cotton standard sample, because of the impossibility of preventing * deterioration. The differences in grades are microscopic, but when it is remembered that the value of the cotton crop last year was $850,000,000, and that a very slight difference in the price per pound means a great difference in the total value, it is plain that P the standard sample is of much importance. The men who established the cotton standards included Lewis W. Parker, of South Carolina, Joseph A. Airy, of John M. Parker & Co., New 1 Orleans,; James AUers, of Inman, Akers & Inman, Atlanta; F. M. Crump, of F. M. Crump & Co., Mem'/ nhic- C P. Baker, of the Lawrence r*--"? - - Manufacturing company, Boston; , John Martin, of Texas; Nathaniel Thayer, of Barry, Thayer & Co., Boston, and several other big cotton men. , After these had selected the stand- , ard samples, with the assistance of cotton experts of years' experience, the samples were placed in big glass , tubes, the air expelled, and the tubes sealed, after the fashion of making , an incandescent light. This part of , the work was done by an electric globe plant, and it is this feature of the work which has resulted in the j securing of the world's first satisfac- j tory cotton standard samples. ] A* PERSONAL USE EXEMPT. Attorney General Lyon Says Liquor Cannot be Seized. Columbia. August 3.?Attorney General Lyon has given an opinion in which he holds that whiskey for private or personal use cannot be seized by any officer. This opinion is directly opposite to the ruling by Judge Memminger, given in his | charge to the jury in Sumter county. wnen ne aeciarea tnat wmsKey ior personal use was liable to be seized. The ruling by the attorney general was given on request of J. L. Gillis, a magistrate of Rembert, in Sumter county, and several questions were asked concerning the seizure of whiskies. The Letter Received. The following is the letter addressed to J. L. Gillis, magistrate at Rembert, by Attorney General Lyon: "Your letter of the 1st inst. is at hand. You ask that you be advised upon the following question: " '1. Is it my duty under the law as a magistrate to have whiskey seized from any and all persons as soon as same is delivered to them by the express company or other carrier, where I have no reason to believe that it is for any purpose other than personal use?' "Assuming, though you have not so stated, that such whiskey is shipped under the protection of the interstate commerce law, I answer this question, No. When to Seize. " 42. Where whiskey is delivered to one by an express company or other carrier, and I have reason or information to believe that it is to be sold, am I authorized under the law in seizing it as soon as delivered, and it is my duty to do so?' "Assuming, though you have not so stated, that the liquor in question is not shipped to a county dispensary or to a druggist lawfully authorized to sell the same, I answer this question, Yes. "In answering the above questions I assume that you have used the word whiskey as including pure alcohol and wine." All for Their Job. Since Franklin MacVeagh has taken hold as secretary of the treasury there has been a great deal of speculation concerning possible changes in the personnel of his force. While he has made several appointments. he has not asked about the political faith of his subordinates. Possibly he doesn't think it worth while. This revives a story when Charles Foster, or unio, Decame a member of the cabinet. When Secretary Foster came to take charge of the treasury department in Washington he said to John G. Carlisle, the retiring chief: "How does your department stand politically?" "What do you mean?" was the response. "I mean about how many Republicans and about how many Democrats have you here?" Carlisle gave a queer smile and putting his arm on the shoulder of his friend said: "Foster, you will find that the men here are unanimously in favor of the administration?whether it is Democratic or Republican." Caught on Thestle. Asheville, N. C., August 4.? Caught on a high trestle just beyond the Burgin tunnel on the Southern railway, between here and Old Fort, Miss Nellie Smith, of Rutherford, this State, threw herself on the rails in front of passenger train No. 36 this morning and miraculously escaped death when the engineer brought his train to a standstill over the prostrate body. When the excited train crew and passengers gathered to pick up what they expected to be the vniirtp' u-nnian's marie-lpd hndv thev ^ v?-0 " ? ?? ? o ? ?, were told by a muffled voice from beneath the engine that she was unhurt. The train was backed into the tunnel and there was revealed to the astonished gaze of the passengers and crew the figure of a woman covered with cinders and drenched with water but otherwise unharmed. WILL RUN FOR CONGRESS. T. G. Croft Announces His Candidacy for 1912. Aiken, August 5.?In a statement in a local paper this morning T. G. Croft announces definitely that he will enter the race for congress from the second district in 1912. He was expected by many of his friends to enter the race this year, but states now that he did not do so because be desires to complete his term as senator from Aiken. His term ex pires in 1912, and at that time, he says, he will be in the race for congress from the second district. We do not want the earth. A small part of It will satisfy us. Try us for i "square deal." C. H. MILHOUS, Manager Denmark Realty Co. BAREFOOT BOY A BURGLAR. Locked in Prison Cries For Hi* Mother. Newark, X. J.. July 31.?A barefoot boy of nine years, crying continuously for his mother, is in prison here since yesterday charged witl committing burglaries at the homes of many wealthy persons in Esses Falls, N. J. The police say he has confessed to thefts of more thac |1,500 worth of jewels and othei valuables. Fondness for candy led to the arrest of the child, John Comrah, a berry picker, whose parents live at Roseland. Thursday evening he went to the home of W. J. Lock wood, iri TT!?G<iv TT-allc tr> dpIivPT SOTTlt black berries. The occupants were out and the boy entered the house. Two hours later, when the family returned, the loss of a number of pieces of jewelry, a child's bank containing $15. and a box of bon bons, was reported to the police. Patrolman John F. Eyesoldt then remembered that he had seen the Comrah boy sitting on the front steps of the house, eating candy at the time the Lockwoods said they were away. Questioned, the child confessed. He said his mouth was watering for the candy and that although he knew it was dangerous to tarry, he risked being captured and stopped to eat. The nnlire sav he also admitted taking $1,000 worth of gems from the home of Walter R. Shute; and also say he took valuables from the homes of George C. Werner, Henry Becker and others. The boy asserted he gave most of the jewels to his companions, some of them were sold for almost nothing. He disposed of a watch to a hackman, taking twenty cents for an article valued at more than $100. "It was dead easy," said the child, sobbing. "I would go to the basement with my berries and sometimes, there was no one at home and all I had to do was help myself. If the people came upon me suddenly I would show them my berries and they never thought I was a robber.'" FREAK OF LIGHTNING. Woman Shocked by Stroke of Lightning and Remains "Charged." A nnnict' ? Fliirintr the CP VJUI1UC, .lUfeUOl V. WU11UB mv WW vere electrical storm last week Mrs. Susie 0. Holmes was severely shocked by lightning, which struck a tree near the residence. The lightning passed over the lawn, scorching the grass, passing through the house and charging a pair of steelyards. Mrs. Holmes received the shock by coming in contact with the steelyards. A strange feature of the case is that she seems to have a fresh charge of electricity and has to be submerged in cold water every time a cloud passes and to relieve the shock it is necessary to change the water every few minutes This is one of the strangest freaks of lightning ever known in this community. The Farmer's Life. Farmers' institute and farm journals have long deplored the fact that the young man leave the farm for the city just at the age they begin to be of some use and value on the farm. Why do the farm boys rush to the city? Isn't the real cause the early training or erroneous training of the children of the farm. What are the youth of the farm taught? What is held up before them as the desirable arm of life? Is it contentment' and happiness, or riches and social or other position? Isn't it pretty much a matter of ambition?^ And ambition is very largely a matter of early training. On the farm the young man can have good food, an essential to good I health, good clothes, remunerative work, independence and much better society than he is likely to strike elsewhere. Ninety-five out a hundred farmer boys find in the city impure food, wages that cost of city living reduce to less than they could demand on the farm, bossism more or less brutal, aad most Inferior social surroundings. Still they give up the manhood-building life of the farm and flock to .he excitement and possible luxuries of the city. They are not taught the difference between the substantials of life and the luxuries. Their ambition, if cultured at all, is not directed toward the real substantials. State of Ohio. City of Toledo, Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, county and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December. A. D. 1SS6. (SEAL.) A. W. GLEASOX. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pillls for constipation. HOW MR. FAIREY DIED. > Lost His Life by Suffocating in the Line of Duty. A dispatch from Provincetown. - Mass., near where the sad accident - happened, says thirty fathoms deep l in the waters of Cape Cod in search of a sunden torpeda, George William Fairey, a gunner's mate on the battleship Connecticut, whose home was i at Orangeburg, S. C., lost his life Tuesday, according to word brought ashore from the fleet. The Connec. ticut was engaged in torpedo pracl tice when one of the missiles was lost and Fairey was sent out with a boat's crew and diving apparatus to recover it. On his way to the bottom of the bay he signaled "o. k." There was a pause for a moment when he reached bottom and then came a faint signal of danger. His comrades pull~ J 4-1 J : 4. _ 4.U A ? 4* ? : 4%lr eu iiit; uiver iu uie suiiaie as 41111:11, lv as possible. Hurriedly opening the armor they found him uncon scious. but still breathing. All ef forts to resuscitate him failed. The cause of the accident is not i known, but it is presumed there must have been trouble in the transmission of air. The body was shipped Wednesday to Fairey's sister, Mrs. E. R. Paulling, of Orangeburg. South Carolina. Some of Brain is Taken Away. Atlanta. August 6.?With a thimblefull or so of his brain removed on account of a bullet passing through it. Otis Beaty, of Alto, Ga., left here for his home yesterday with no apparent diminution of his mental capacity. DVcLiy, WLIU lb iwcui?-uue >cais uiu, was accidentally shot through the head by a friend on May 12, this year, but it is stated he did not lose consciousness, and suffered very little from the wound. He was brought to an Atlanta hospital where the bullet and a portion of the brain was removed. Rev. Sam Danner is conducting a big tent meeting at Providence. He is an able preacher and it is hoped that much good will come from his meetings. We are expecting him to bring his tent meeting to Bowman, where he has many friends and admirers.?Bowman cor. Orangeburg Sun. h7m7grah AM Attorney-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. Practices in all Courts of this State. Offices in The Herald Building* WHY SUFFER FROM ECZEMA? A Georgia Man Tells His Experience. I was afflicted with a vei*y had case of Eczema for twenty-five years, which was in my feet, legs and hips. Through all this time I tried different remedies and Doctors' prescriptions, obtaining no relief until I used your HUNT'S CURE. One box (50c) cured me entirely, and though two years have elapsed I have had 110 return of the trouble. Naturally I regard it as the greatest remedy in the world. Yours, J. P. PERKINS, Atlanta, Ga. Manufactured and guaranteed by A. B. RICHARDS MEDICINE CO., Sherman, Texas. Sold by Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg. t J. F. Carter B. D. Carter Y CARTER & CARTER X Attorneys-at-Law * J Bamberg, S. C. 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B P' 3| lOTTi ?tC I Thirty-First Annual Mountain Excursion ' Via Southern Railway WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17th, 1910 LOW ROUND TRIP RAXES gj fggjM Tickets will be sold for all trains August 17th, 1910, good returning to reach original starting point on any regular train up to and in* eluding but not later than midnight September 1st, 1910.*. For detailed Information, tickets, etc., ->J apply to tscket agents or address. , J. L. MEEK, W. E. McGEE, j N{?|8H L Asst. Gen. Pass, Agt., Division Pass. Agt., S ? Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, S. C. j Buggies & Wagons j|| ? Full Stock in Our Line ll Ion hand at ail times. j | ||jj| See us before you buy. j A few Fancy Driving | Horses on Hand.*.*.*.*.*.*. | jffilj JONES BROS., I BAMBERG, S. C. j [ gg WEEK-END AND SUNDAY EXCURSION RATES I ?TO? CHARLESTON AND ISLE OF PALMS, S C. 1 ?via? SOUTHERN RAILWAY Effective Sunday, May 29th, and continuing during the summer season, Southern Railway will have on sale regular summer excursion tickets to Charleston and Isle of Palms, S. C., with final limit October 31st, 1910, also week-end tickets to be sold on Saturdays, and for Sunday morning trains, beginning Saturday, May 28th, final limit to leave destination before midnight the following Tuesday. Also cheap Sunday excursion tickets sold only for Sunday morning trains, good returning on last train leaving Charleston 8:15 p. m. Sunday night. For further information, rates, etc., apply to Southern Railway ticket - - X- Jl agents or address, J. L. MEEK, W. E. McGEE, Asst. Gen'l. Passenger Agent, Division Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, S. C. : '.,ym el