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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
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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
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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
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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. ]
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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
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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
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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~
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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.
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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.
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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
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night.
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