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INCIDENT OF GAJLLMAN CASE. Manslayer's Brother Offered Votes for Pardon. k The Columbia State, of Last Fri day says: Last August or September, after the first State primary and before the second, a man who supported Mr. Featherstone for governor told a member of the staff of The State that a man named Gallman had come to Columbia that day bearing a letter of introduction from a resident of Union. Mr. Featherstone was not in Columbia and Gallman called to see one of the men active in his campaign, presenting the letter to him. The letter said among other things, that Gallman, the bearer had a brother in the penitentiary and that the bearer of the letter had large political influence in Union, Spartanburg and Greenville counties. The bearer of the letter desired to know if Mr. Featherstone could be depended upon to pardon his brother in case of his election, provided the influence of the bearer were exerted for Mr. Featherstone's election. Mr. Featherstone's friend promptly told the bearer of the letter that no pledges or promises would be made./ The Union man thereupon begged that the matter be taken under consideration, and left, showing some anxiety to catch a train. Of course the matter ended there, so far as Mr. Featherstone and his friends were concerned. The man who told The State man about the visit remarked at the time that in any event he expected to keep an eye on developments in the Gallman case. Yesterday the announcement was published that the governor had paroled James W. Gallman, a prisoner in the State penitentiary, convicted in" 1907 of manslaughter and serving a sentence of 15 years, during good behavior. James W. Gallman was convicted in Union county in 1907 for killing Sims Gilmore at Jonesville, in Union county. He was sentenced to 15 years in the State penitentiary. The parole was announced by Gov. Blease following a conference with Senator Townsend, of Union. THE TALLEST SOLDIER. Six Feet Eight and a Quarter and E : Still Growing. Private H. Barter, who has just joiijed the First Batalion Grendadier guards, is only 18 years of age, but - stands six feet, eight inches in his stockings, and is still growing. He is said to be the tallest soldier in the British army. "My father, who is a Devonshire !iarmer, is," ne says, "six ieex, nve inches, and my mother is five feet, 10 inches, so I think it must be hereditary. I have lived nearly all my life in the country, and I was persuaded to join the army by an exguardsman. I am doing two hours a day in the gymnasium, and about three hours' drill, so that in a month or two I ought to reach six feet, nine and a half inches. I have smoked since I was 14, or I do not know how tall I should have been. I hope that I shall be with the regiment in London at the coronation." Formerly Major Oswald Ames of the Second Life guards, who is six feet, 7 and half inches, was said to be the tallest soldier in the army.? London Daily Mail. DEATH OF GIPSY' LEE. Fortune Teller Who Iiead the Queen's Hand. Gipsy Lee, the famous fortune teller of the Devil's Dyke, near Brighton, died yesterday at the county borough asylum, Haywards Heath, at the age of 70. She was declared insane by the Brighton authorities some three years ago, and had been in the institution ever since. Gipsy Lee for many years was a notable figure at the Dyke, and from far and near visitors came to consult the wrinkled old woman, with her gaudy scarlet cloak, yellow handkerchief and abundant jewelry. She was a typical gipsy, comommg excessive shrewdness with lavish generosity, so that a considerable part of the ample income she made was given recklessly to others. *; > She claimed to have told the for tune of hundreds of people who afterward became famous, and her proudest boast was that she read the hand of the queen, when Princess jr.-;- May of Teck, ajjid predicted that she would be engaged to two heirs to the British throne. She earned 25 pounds one day by declaring to Sir Joseph Hawfey that he would own two Derby winners, and Lord Henry Gordon Lennox was infnrmed hv her that hp would marrv a wealthy untitled lady. Some years ago, after a dispute with an hotel proprietor, which resulted in a legal action, the Brighton corporation put a stop to her fortune-telling. The old woman was very upset at the time, and never recovered from the shock.?London Express. S t , r . DWARFS WHO WERE FAMOUS. Many of These Little People Accomplished Big Things. Bert Leslie, president of the Vaudeville Comedy club, and something of a giant in stature, being over six feet in his silk socks, was tremendously interested recently in the dispatches from Belfast, Me., to the purport that "Admiral" Don O. Robbins, a dwarf living with the family of City Marshal Knowlton, had arrested a full-grown man-about-town, and unaided had turned the key of the lockup upon the unruly person, says the New York Telegraph. "As I understand it," said Mr. Leslie, "the charge was a trivial one, but the achievement was immense. This boy Don is said to be only 40 inches tall and weighs only 49 pounds, but he is 50 years old and a regular genius with a toy pistol. "The episode has given m$ an idea for a great lecture on the subject of 'Dwarfs That Have Made Good.' I shall start in with Maj. Doyle of the Metropole and carry my audience back to the days of dwarfs that were clever enough to do anything. "Look at these notes I have put down already. Of course, I haven't had time as yet to round out the incidents in their lives, but I've got a good start on the sketch, and I think I can get away with it. Some of these fellows were so surprisingly small you would have had to carry a pocket magnifying glass to realize they were really worth a casual inspection. "Even our own Gen. Tom Thumb was only two feet one inch in height and weighed only 25 pounds at the age of 25. His right name was Charles S. Straiton and he was born at Bridgeport, Conn. He was first exhibited in London in 1884. In 1863 he married Lavina Warren, whose stage name was Betsy Bump. "There was another Tom Thumb, a Dutch dwarf, who was only two feet four inches at the age of 18. "After the death of Tom Thumb, I Lavinia Warren married Count Pri mo Mabri, who towered over her by at least an inch and a half. "The head of the son of Mrs. Charles Tracy, of Kingsbridge, N. Y., was not bigger than a horse chestnut, and the mouth would hardly grasp a goose quill. The mother's wedding ring would slip easily up his legs to the thighs. "Richard Gibson, a good portrait painter, whose praises were sung by Waller during the reign of Charles I, was three feet 10 inches in height. He married Anne Shepherd, who was about the same in stature. "Caroline Crachami, who was born at Palermo, was only one foot and eight inches. She was exhibited in Bond street, London, in 1824, when about. 10 years of age. The Fairy Queen, as she was called, was exhibited in Regent street, London, in 1850, and her feet were less than two inches. That was another one. "Lots of these little guys were the most distinguished citizens of their time. Philetas was a poet contemporary with Hippocrates and the classics tell us that 'Phil' was so thin 'that he wore leaden shoes lest the wind should blow him away.' 'Phil' died B. C. 280. "But there is another good one? A. L. Sawyer, editor of The Democrat, a paper of considerable repute somewhere in Florida in 1883, was only two feet 6^ inches, weighed 39 pounds, but his paper had an awfully big circulation." Plumber. Mulligan, the contractor, put up a church building. Dunn was building inspector then, and when he saw the church he said, "Pat, it isn't plumb." fhot morlo Mr Miilli<rnri nrottv X I 1XAWV4V iu* . vvv^ mad. He climbed right up and began to take measurements. Having squinted down the plumb line in a dozen different places, he was ready to report.* There was a ring of triumph in his voice. "Mr. Dunn," he aaid, "come and look at it y'rself. Plumb, eh? by th' piper that played before Moses, it's more than plumb!"?Cleveland Plain Dealer. 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. 1886. (Seal.) A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken interj nally, an dacts directly on the blood | and mucous surfaces of the system. I Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toleda, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for conI stipation. If this newspaper carried as much | advertising as the Greenwood Index | we'd buy a perfecting press. It carries twice as much advertising as any weekly in the State, and it deserves all it gets. STAKED HIS LIFE. A True Poker Story With a Real Thrill. John F. Monohan, who died the other day in a dilapidated rookery in Magdalena, N. M.t was buried in potter's field. To the casual reader there may be nothing interesting Oir out of the ordinary in this bare statement; and should I even add a limited biographical sketch telling you where he was born and when he came West or what a good man he was there are tens of thousands of persons in California, Oregon and other Western States where he lived would not even bat an eye in perusing it. It is too bad that such men as he must die and their erood deeds be buried with them?in potter's field. But the announcement of the death of John F. Monohan is misleading. For the benefit of the gray haired pioneers of the golden West tottering on the verge of the grave and yet living fondly in the memory of other days?the days when the Indian and the cowboy, the miner and the gambler, the stage driver and the desperado held stern dominion over the scattered settlements and lonely highways of the plain and caDon?I feel that I should be more explicit: so I ^ill say instead: "Three-Fingered Jack Monohan of Florence Diggin's has cashed in his last chips." The pioneers understand me. I fancy now that in the eyes of some of them there will glisten a few tears ?perhaps many of them?for his memory. "Three-Fingered Jack!" What eventful epochs the mention of that name recalls to the sturdy trail blazers and prospectors of early days. Obscure, alone, forgotten, moneyless, Jack Monohan breathed his last a month ago among strangers and in a strange land?in the one State in the West wherein his name is not entwined with the earliest history and traditions of its settlement. And he was the last of the old school of his profession. Jack Monohan was a gambler. I feel that I owe it to the world to pay him this trifling tribute, for the world ought to know something about that now extinct "species" of sport?that pioneer school of far Western gamblers whose habits, morals and characters were so strangely different from the gamblers of the East and of other lands. - Three-Fingered Jack was the last of them. When I say that Jack Monohan was a gambler I do not mean to imply that he was at all related to the type so commonly condemned, for Jack Monohan was a gentleman. He could never be classed with the present day school of sharks, grafters and "tin horns." He denounced them as vigorously in his day as any man. , He was a card sharp perhaps, but not a card shark. There is a great difference. Jack Monohan also was a miner, a prospector, a cowboy, a stage driver, an Indian fighter, a scout, a trail blazer. When his luck turned against him in faro bank he worked in. logging camps or in, quartz or placer nottlfl ponora Man. llilllCiS U1 Cil Hit tUik.lt lu.U()k/. 1I1VU tion his name to any of the old timers in Siskiyou, Shasta, Trinity or Tehama counties in northern California and they will tell you that Jack Monohan was one of "the bravest and most generous gentlemen that ever crossed the Rockies." They will tell you also that he had a true religion; that he abided by his faith in God and in humanity; that he never robbed a man or a woman in all the world out of a ten-cent piece if he bnow it anH with nil that he was one of the most dangerous men in the West if he happened to be right and the other fellow was wrong and Jack knew he was?and the other fellow defied him! I "Three-Fingered Jack" came to California in 1847. He was considered the best card player in the j West. He dealt faro games in practically every notorious gambling house in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Faro was his favorite game. He preferred to let the other fellow do the gambling, to make the bets, and that is why he devoted most of his time, when following his profession, to the game of faro. And he never cheated. He was regarded as the "luckiest" man in the West. He injected the first "moral ethics" into Western gambling?the first code of honesty carried across the Rockies. Hanging on the walls above all of his gambling tables were "mottoes" that dumbfounded some of the "sports" of California?mottoes that are still remembered and discussed by the old time miners and cattlemen. Such motj toes as: I "Don't be a sucker. Hold back enough money for the grub stake." "If you use poor judgment don't say your luck is poor." "Gambling may win, but science or system never." "We don't want the wages of married men." "Drunkards never gamble; they only think they do." "Long shots are the shortest route to poverty." "Keep your money if you need it worse than I do. I've got some." "It's going to be a long cold winter. Play carefully." "Be a sport, but don't be a damned idiot." "Faro never was no cinch." "Chub, don't cheat." Jack Monohan dealt his last game more than twleve years ago, when he had charge of the faro tables in the old "Log Cabin" saloon at Baker City, Ore. He "dropped" $30,000 during a "bad run" in that place and retired from the business penniless. If he had not been an honest gambler he would not have lost it. It was his farewell deal, and as he ex plained afterward, "a clever fellow from Chicago got the best of him." "Fairly, too," he added reminiscently, for Three-Fingered Jack always made it known that he would not cheat and that there was no man in the business foxy enough to cheat him. There were, or there should have been, ffve notches on the barrel of Monohan's sixshooter. Five times in his career it became necessary for Jack to beat the other fellow to it, and in each instance the other fellow was carried out of the room to an undertaker. Jack worried about killing a man as much as could any person, but fate was unkind in that so often she compelled him to kill or wound to save his own life. Jack was always justified. On one occasion when the sheriff of Los Angeles county, California, was summoned to arrest him and was informed that Jack had shot a man through the heart during a game of poker the sheriff exclaimed: "I don't know the other fellow, but, by gad, I know Jack, and Jack knows the law as well as I do! I'll bet six bits to a doughnut he had to kill him." And the sheriff was right. He arrested Monohan, however, and the latter was acquitted after the jury had been out only five minutes. It was a clear case of justifiable homicide. Jack Monohan was truly a gambler of the pioneer Western type of California and Oregon. He never took a cent from a drunken'man or from any one whom he knew really needed it, although he always won honestly. It was in Yerka, Cal., in 1858 that Jack Monohan staked his life on the turn of a card. Undoubtedly it was a foolish risk to take, but the gamblers of that time and place held human life at a low value. Jack Monohan was not an exception. The incident occurred near the close of a poker game. In lifting his cards from the table?the first deal from a new deck?one of them slipped suddenly from Jack's hand and fell to the floor, face downward, on the sawdust. It so happened that one of the men at the table, a vicious prospector who had been losing heavily and was but just recovering from an imaginative "jag," observed the card as it fell and immediately suspected that it had come from Jack's sleeve. This suspicion was strengthened by the coincidence that there was a misdeal, so that Monohan still held five cards. As Monohan stooped over to pick up the card the prospector covered him suddenly with a sixshooter, an ugly .44-calibre Colt's that would ] look formidable to any one. But Jack was as cool as the proverbial cucumber. "Drop that card!" exclaimed the prospector hoarsely, "or by gad I'll blow your head off." Monohan knew that he meant business, so he laid his cards down care?11" 4 V* 4>rvU1/v ort nn rO iuiij uu kuc lauic, late up, auu implied pleasantly: "You see, I hope that I have only one ace, a deuce, a king, the seven of spades and a five spot. There's a misdeal, that's all." "And you sluffed the wrong card!" exclaimed the prospector. "You were trying to sneak in another ace. By gad, I've a nation to shoot you anyway!" Monohan did not know whether it was an ace or a deuce on the floor, for the card had dropped before he could look at it, but he knew that if the card on the floor- "paired" with any in his hand, especially the ace, it would look bad for him. Jack Monohan was honest. He had not been to blame for .the presence of the sixth card, and he would not have dropped it, he explained afterward, "if the card had had any business in his hand." Monohan felt certain that the card on the floor was not an important one. He felt sure of this, he told the boys a few hours later, because his reputation for the time seemed almost to be at stake, and he did not ?... ..... .. consider it possiDie tnat iate coma be so unkind as to allow the sixth card to be an ace or even a king. So, still smiling, Monohan replied quietly: "I'll bet you a thousand dollars, Jim, that the card on the floor is not an ace or even a high card." "Don't come no excuses on me!" retorted the prospector unreasonably. "It's an ace, I tell you!" "All right; but won't you bet with * v-* .' .* /. * r-1 *.>* ' ... /. K*. "/ Vt ' CROWDS HUNT NEGRO BRUTE. Prominent White Woman Assaulted Near Due West. Anderson, March 15.?An unknown negro attempted to assault a prominent woman, near her home, at Due West late this afternoon, and tonight that town is crowded with indignant persons who are making a thorough search to catch the brute. Attack from Behind. The negro suddenly attacked the woman from behind, snatching her shawl from her shoulders and throwing it over her head. The woman snreamod and the necrro became frightened and fled. Some people were in a nearby field and they were attracted to the scene, but not before the negro had disappeared. He tore the shawl and part of the garments of the victim. Because of the suddenness of the attack and because it came from behind her, the woman did not get a good look at the negro. Great Excitement. ? She has furnished a meagre description, and the towns in the neighborhood have been notified to look out for the man. The assault was made near the creek about one-half mile from the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church. Sheriff Lyon and his deputies are on the scene and great excitement prevails. His Trouble Was Double. A story is going the rounds of one of the young organization men who is frequently absent from his home on "politics." His wife has known for a long time that he was very busy with "politics," and that the present campaign kept him still more occupied. The other day she came down-town with him, and while they were riding on a street car a strange woman came in and stared at the young politician. She passed and went to the front of the car still staring. When she took hei seat she fastened her eyes on the young man with a most astonished expression. "John, look at that woman staring at you," said the politician's wife. "Who is she?" c John did not answer. "Who is that?" repeated his wife. "Explain to me who she is." "You keep still," said John. "I'll have enough trouble explaining who you are to her."?Philadelphia Times. me?" ' "You've got most of my money now," replied" the prospector. "If that card's an ace or a king, Monohan, mark me, you're a dead gambler!" He thrust his gun a little nearer to Jack's head. "Very well," said Monohan. "I don't know whether that card's an ace or a deuce, but I'll bet my life against $100, if you will that it's not a high card. Now, if you're a sport, you put up your $100 and I'll give my gun to one of the* boys here. If the card's a high one you can shoot me as you would a rattlesnake." Tli" nnlv Wt V? 4 a lina 1 UC piuopcv/tui UUiJ Uib UiO but after reflecting for a moment reached into his pocket with his left hand and drew forth $100 in $10 gold pieces, which he spread out on the table half way between them. Then he motioned for Jack's six-shooter. One of the men next to Monohan lifted the gun from Jack's holster and laid it carefully on- the table over the gold pieces. Without a word, but still covering Monohan with his gun, the prospector stepped around to the opposite side of the table next to him. Deliberately pressing the gun squarely against Monohan's -breast, above his heart, he stooped down and lifted up the card?slowly, uncertainly. All eyes were riveted upon it as he turned the card over awkwardly. It was the six of clubs. v For a moment there was silence. Then somebody laughed boisterously and the whole crowd joined in. Monohan placed his gun back in his holster, raked in the $100 and rang for a tray of drinks. The prospector left the room without drinking. There are many old time Westerners who still remember Jack Monohan when he was dealing faro in the "Devil's Den" saloon at Florence Diggings, Idaho, and in the "Whoop 'Em Up" at Rocky Bar. Monohan cleaned up $300,000 in one winter in those flourishing camps. He also "ran" profitable games at the "Chicken Coop" saloon in Warrens, the ' ' ^ ? ? f ? A i.1 M AVI/1 i "JtJiaCK .Barrel in Atlanta, auu xii one "All Night Palace" at Lewiston, three of the most notorious gambling houses in Idaho. He was a well known character in Pendleton, Umatilla, Jacksonville, Baker City, Portland, Red Bluff, Siskiyou, Yreka and San Francisco. His occupation in Colorado and Utah was stage driving, and it was while he was carrying mails to Kelso that he killed the "Jackson Hole" bandits, Frank and Sam Holton, who attempted to hold up his stage coach.?San Francisco Call. COMFORTING WORDS. Many a Bamberg Household Will Find Them So. . To have the pains and aches of a bad back removed; to be entirely tree from annoying, dangerous uriA- i ary disorders is enough to make any kidney sufferer grateful. To tell how this great change can be brought about will prove comforting words to hundreds of Bamberg readers. N. B. Adams, Main St., -Bamberg,' S. C., says: "For more than a year I suffered from attacks of backache and I also had pains through my loins. The kidney secretions were bothersome, being too frequent in passage and sometimes I noticed that they looked unnatural. Finally I got : a supply of Doan's Kidney PiUa from the People's Drug Co., and a few weeks after I began their use, I ^ was entirely relieved. 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