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| Great Scheme for Train
(cultural Laborers.?
Joke of Col
"Yes, I noticed that little story
from Georgia about a prospect to
fhave monkeys do all the cotton picking,"
said Col. Robt. Jasper, of Bir-j
mingham, Ala., as he settled himself
comfortably in an easy chair in the
lobby of the Marlborough.
* "Great idea, isn't it?" he continued j
with a chuckle. "Reminds me of one
iof my old friend Musgrave's practical
jokes. Musgrave was one of the
sharpest business men I ever knew,
but always he had time for a pVacti-;
cal joke. He made his great pile in
' . the old real estate boom days in j
Birmingham, and it was at that time,
that he played the joke I have in!
mind.
"In those days things were wild j
in Birmingham. Men made money in
B' everything and would take stock in
^ anything. That was exactly what
?made it possible for Musgrave to
carry out his ridiculous joke. Just,
p when things were at their wildest a:
sprightly young fellow feme to
Birmingham from some place in Mississippi.
He had accumulated about
$15,000 and he looked for a chance'
to double it in about two months.
k"One of the first men he went to
was Musgrave, for Musgrave was
i* known all over the South for his remarkable
financial success. Jackson
?that was the young fellow's name
: ^ as I recall?just dogged the life out
of Musgrave begging him to invest,
his money for him. Musgrave kept |
putting him off till he finally got
tired of the man's importunities and
resolved to have some fun out of
him. So Musgrave went to several j
| of his friends, Col. Ralph Armstrong,;
Col. Bankhead and myseLf included,!
I and told us about the young manj
J and instructed us if he came to any j
of us to tell him that Musgrave had ;
some great scheme under way and
that there might be a chance for him
to get in if he was persistent enough,
j I "Sure enough, Jackson dropped in
on Col. Bankhead in a couple of
days, and the colonel told him of
j Musgrave's great secret scheme.
\ Jackson went wild at once, hunted
- up Musgrave and almost went down
on his knees begging him to take his
$15,000 and put it into the scheme,
\ no matter what it was. Musgrave
rv hemmed and hawed and offered
many objections, but finally said
there was just $15,000 worth of
stock not yet sold, which he had
been holding for his brother. But as
long as Jackson was so anxious he
would let him have it and not tell
his brother anything about it.
I , "Jackson was, of course, delighted.
He quickly turned his money over
I % to Musgrave, and promised to be on
i hand at the first meeting of the
* stockholders, the next day. MusF.
grave sent us all word and we gathered
the next day in his office, all
eager to learn what this wonderful
I but mysterious project was.
? "First off, Musgrave nominated
^ Jackson for president, and then one
| of us nominated Musgrave for treasurer.
But * having been elected
unanimously Jackson called the
meeting to order, appointed me temporary
secretary and suggested that!
the time was ripe for Musgrave to;
I enlighten the stockholders as to the!
pf~ nature of his project. Musgrave rose'
jt v promptly, and unrolling a big roll of!
papers, heavy with seals and ribbons!
and covered with sprawling and il-j
legible signatures, proceeded to ex-1
x plain that the capital of the company j
was $100,000, fully paid; that the;
V company's headquarters would be in;
Birmingham, but that its chief fields;
i of operation would be a plantation
25 miles from Birmingham and the
wilds of South America and Africa.
^ "Then Musgrave paused and ap
, parently was about to take bis seat;
withoilt saying anything more. Jack- !
jjjv- son was on pins and needles.
"But what is the business we arej
|Jj going into, Col. Musgrave?" he ask
ed, in tones that revealed his anxiePT
ty.
" 'Oh, yes,' said Musgrave. 'I almost
forgot that. Why, we are go-i
ing to buy, sell, raise and train mon'*
keys as farm laborers. They are now
being used on the great plantations
? in South America and are found ca-i
pable of doing all the work in the:
fields better than it can be done by!
EfcV. human hands, and their first cost is !
the greatest expense. They do not;
demand wages, and half a dozen}
fc' monkeys eat less than one man, while:
4^ they require no housing whatever,}
sleeping in the trees. They don't j
need any clothes, and they work
% from sun up to sun set, without any:
time off for dinner, and work wheth-'
er it rains or shines. We can get all j
the monkeys we want at $50 a head, !
p train them for $50 more and sell;
L - them for $1,000 apiece. They will
revolutionize the farming industry,
Jr and we ought to make $1,000,000
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MONKEY TRUST.
ing the Simians as AgriLudicrous
Practical.
. Musgrave
clear of all expenses the very first
year.' i
"Then he sat down with a silence <
you could cut with a knife. None of <
us moved or said a word. We all
waited on Jackson. He looked at
Musgrave a minute as if he thought (
the colonel was crazy and then looked j
at us to see what we were going to (
do about it. At last one of us?I
think it was Col. Bankh^ad?arose
and began to denounce Musgrave as (
a fraud and demanded his money
back.
"But Musgrave was adamant. The ,
money had been paid him in good ,
faith; he had accepted it in the same
way and he had already expended the (
greater part of it for monkeys, which '
were then on board ship hound for
America. If anybody was dissatisfied
he could take his money in monkeys,
but in no other way.
"At this stage of the proceedings
Jackson began to show signs of hav- '
ing a fit. T want my money back!'
he fairly shrieked. 'I don't want any '
monkey farm business. This is all a
fraud. You're a robber! I'll have
you arrested. Give me my money,'
and so on. 1
"Musgrave pretended to be highly
offended and got up and left the
room, and the rest of us, who knew
it was a joke, followed, with Jackson
trailing and still denouncing
Musgrave.
"The next day Musgrave sent for
Jackson ana toia mm ne wuuiu give
him his money back; that he didn't
want to be connected in business
with such a squealer, that the day
would come when Jackson would beg
him to sell him some stock in his
monkey company, but that he would
never let him have a cent of it.
"Jackson was almost ready then
to let Musgrave^ keep his money, and
in order to end the matter Musgrave
told him the whole thing was
a joke and gave him back his check.
Jackson turned on his heel and
walked away and didn't speak to
Musgrave again for a year. But
Jackson finally did make some good
investments and is now a retired
banker in Birmingham. He and
Musgrave are good friends, but they
never talk abbut monkeys when they
meet."?New York Herald.
First Arrest Made.
Augusta, Gh., Aug. 9.?A warrant
was secured to-day by private detectives
and J. H. Cunningham committed
to jail on a charge of murder in
connection with the mysterious death
of J. C. Shirer on the night of August
1. Absolute mystery surrounds
the arrest of. Cunningham, the authorities
refusing to discuss it, and
no one being allowed to see the prisoner.
It is ascertained that two more
warrants are to be served to-morrow,
and at that time, "the woman in the
case" will be developed. ;
Shirer's body was found floating
in the Savannah river, at the foot of
Washington street, his neck being
broken and there being a wound on
the back of his head. Shirer's roommates
testified at the inquest that
he left home at 12:30 Monday night,
the 31st, but investigation developed
the fact that he did not go to his announced
destination. Money he was
known to have had with him was
not found on the body.
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Columbus Spradley Weds.
Augusta, August 8.?Columbus
Spradley, the young man who was
forced by the Holsteins to leave Monetta,
S. C., after they had threatened
and abused him at the point of
pistols, because of his engagement to
Miss Gussie May Holstein, was married
to her here this afternoon.
Spradley announced several days ago
that he would marry the young woman
in spite of the violent opposition
of her father, brothers and cousins.
He slipped to Monetta, got the girl
and brought her to this city, and they
were quietly married by Rev. A. D.
Echols.
Unfavorable Report.
Washington, Aug. 9.?The senate
finance committee to-day decided to
report adversely the house cotton
tariff provision bill.
The bill will go to the senate tomorrow.
Senator Cummins of Iowa will offer
an amendment to the cotton bill
when it comes before the senate,
providing for the revision of the
Payne-Aldrich law.
This complication, coming on top
of the threatened veto by the president
on the statehood bill and deadlock
on the wool bill apparently has
thrown all hope of early adjournment
in the air.
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MISFORTUNE FROM RING.
Interesting Story Centers About the
Finger Circlet. 4
Among the many curiosities left
by- the late Lady Meux is an Egyptian
mummy which is said to have
brought iil luck to every one who
handled it, says Pearson's Weekly.
Now, whether it is possible that a
cursed pronounced in the dim past
can by any means work harm through
the ages is a matter of opinion. But
such stories and the strange facts
connected with them are too numerous
to be altogether neglected.
We may instance the case of the
painted Egyptian coffin lid numbered
22,542, which stands in the British
Museum, and the remarkable tale
of misfortune and death which has
been associated with this pictured
face of the priestess of the College
Df Amen-Ra.
The story is fairly well known, for
two years ago all the daily papers
were full of it. It is sufficient to say
that from the time of the discovery
of the coffin in 1889 the priestess
seemed to bring misfortune on every
pne who had anything to do with her
coffin.
All five of the original finders came
to grief, and even the carrier who
took the case to the museum, the
photographer, who photographed it
and the well known writer who described
the ev'ent connected with it
all died shortly afterward.
Then there was the case of Mr.
George Alexander, who having discovered
a mummy too large to conveniently
carry away, deliberately
beheaded it and brought the head
back to Europe in a bonnet box.
Then everything went wrong with
him. Misfortune piled upon misfortune.
One day he chanced to meet
a medium. The latter at once told him
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that he could see a ngure wun mgu
cliffs behind it, and clouds of dust
about it. The figure, he .said, was
headless.
As it happened Mr. Alexander had
at the time forgotten all about the
mummy head. Now he -remembered
it and, much startled, consulted another
medium. Prom her he heard
precisely the same story. This was
enough. He sent the head back at
once to its original resting place. .
The late Shah of Persia owned a
dagger which is said to make its possessor
invincible. But as the superstition
is that he who uses it shall
inevitably perish by it, it is kept securely
locked in a sandalwood box.
A nurirmc narallol tn this Persian
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dagger is vouched by C. W. Leadbeater.
A certain English family
owns a stiletto which inspires-every
one who holds it with a horrible and
almost irresistable desire to kill some
woman.
This weapon belonged to an ancestor
whose wife deceived him and
drove him mad. He swore revenge
against the whole sex, and with the
dagger killed his wife, his wife's sister
and another woman before he was
disarmed and secured.
In the summer of 1906 M. Andreef,
a well known business man of St.
Petersburg, bougtft at auction for
2,000 pounds a beautiful old necklace
madekabout 120 years ago by a
famous Parisian jeweler for the illfated
Louis XVI.
Nearly all the members of the
French royal family lost their lives
in the revolution, but the necklace
was taken by a survivor to Brussels
and there sold. Over and over again
ft changed hands and every one who
owned It was uniucay. r many a
Russian prince bought it for 4,000
pounds, and gave it to the dancer
Tzukki.
Tzukki's health failed, she was reduced
to abject poverty and died.
The necklace wag" sold to M. Linevitch,
the collectof. He died suddenly
at Monte Carlo and it passed to
a relative, who lost all his money and
was only saved from beggary by selling
the piece of jewelry.
Andreef bought it, and almost the
first time that his wife wore it he
fell into a fit of senseless jealousy
and cut her down with a sword.
Such instances may be multiplied.
Count Zborowski when killed in a
fearful motor accident at Nice in
1903 was wearing the fatal ring
which had belonged to his family for
four genc.at-jns, every head of which
had met a violent death.
Still more amazing is a story told
by the late head of the Paris morgue.
Five times within his experience dead
bodies brought to the morgue were
found to be wearing a certain ring
easily distinguishable by its strange
design.
It bore in Eastern characters this
legend: "May whosoever wears this
ring die a miserable death." M.
Mace, late chief of the Paris police,
vouches for the truth of this.
Not on Her Side.
A little boy who was very much
puzzled over the theory of evolution,
questioned his mother thus:
"Mamma, am I descended from a
monkey?"
"I don't know," the mother replied,
"I never knew any of your
father's people."
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AWFUL CHINESE TORTURES.
Blood-Curdling Cruelties Practiced
by Celestials on Prisoners.
Chinese military discipline is
something fierce, according to Dr. A.
L. Shelton, of Anthony, Kan., who
has just returned as a missionary
from the land^ of the pigtail. The
doctor tells this blood-curdling story
of the cruelty practiced upon a good
friend of his who was major in the
Chinese army.
"Three companies of Chinese soldiers
under the major's command,
but stationed in a distant city, rebelled
and deserted, taking their
arms and ammunition. As the Chinese
army is in the main made up
of men who accept the service in
place of a penal sentence, the most
rigid rules are enforced heartlessly (
to get a minimum of service and discipline.
They are paid the^equivalent
of $2.40 a month on which they
must subsist. To them starvation
is always imminent and a dead dog
or mule or other animal, even when
dead of disease, is greedily cooked
and eaten.
"The major was held responsible
for his rebellious troops, and only
the intercession of the commanding
general oi the district, who got down
on his knees and begged for the life
of his subordinate to the civil govgovernor,
saved his head.
"The punishment was modified to
dismissal from the army and 2,000
light blows from a small paddle. The
paddle used is from one to one and
a half inches wide, eighteen inches
long and probably the eighth of an
inch thick. In administering it the
thighs are bared, and light, even
blows are struck on ^the thick flesh
between the hip and the knee, the
victim lying prostrate on his face.
The. paddle is used -with a sort of
flip and for some time makes no im
prcssion; 500 Diows maxes rne nesu
red and puffy, 1,500 brings the flesh
to a jelly-like consistency, and 2,000
mark the limit of torture, a strong
man may endure and live.
"Often gangrene sets in and the
victim dies; with the best of treatment
it is months before the man
paddled can use.his legs naturally.
In the case of the major the flesh
sloughed off his thigh an inch and a
half deep, five inches broad and seventy
inches long. He expected to get
well, but his legs would always -be
crippled. The rebellious troops wore
pursued, 200 of them were killed in
action and the balance brought to
camp for beheading. Eighteen of
the soldiers wer? given swords and
required to cut gashes in the flesh
of their captain who was unable to
prevent their rebellion, then they
were beheaded before the captain.
"To stimulate other officers to
greater zeal in handling their men
the captain was then taken in hand
by the official executioner who had
bound him to a big stake for the men
to gash with swords. With a keen
knife the lips of the captain were
sliced off, then his nose, later his
eye lids were cut off and his eyeballs
were exposed to the pitiless
sun. After a few hours the skin of
the forehead was cut away and allowed
to drop over the blinded eyes,
hanging by the corner edges. Then
later the breasts were cut off, all but
the skin at the lower edge, and allowed
to hang; if the victim survived
that, and the captain did, then
the flesh covering the bowels was
cut away and allowed to hang apron
fashion while the wind and sun dried
and the flies and vermin fed upon
the blood and cut flesh. In this case
the cantain loner unconscious, died
with disembowling; in cases where
a man survives that, then a knife is
plunged in his heart at the end of
the day of horrible torture."?Kansas
Journal.
He Wasn't Spiteful.
A man had for years employed a
steady German workman. One day
Jake came to him and asked to be
excused from work the next day.
"Certainly, Jake," beamed the employer.
"What are you going to
do?" "Veil," said Jake, slowly, "I
tink I must go by mein wife's funeral.
She dies yesterday." After the
lapse of a few weeks Jake again approached
his boss for a day off. "All
right, Jake, but what are you going
to do this time?" "Aber," said
Tnlra "T cm +r\ mate TTIP. TTlit mein
?j a.n.v_, JL {-,w tv uiuuv ?
fraulein, a wedding." "What? So
soon? Why, it's only three weeks
since you buried your wife!" "Ach,"
replied Jake, "I don't hold spite
long!"
1 Police Suspect Foul Play.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 9.?Suspecting
foul play in the disappearance of
I Mrs. Lyra May Bishop, 16 ypars old,
the police to-day arrested her husband,
E. S. Bishop, a solicitor for a
telephone company. Mrs. Bishop has
! been missing from the home of her
mother, Mrs. Pierce, near Decatur,
Ga., for more than two weeks. She
was last seen in Atlanta July 22.
The Pierce home is three miles
from Decatur and a thorough search
is being made about the lonely neighborhood
for some trace of the girlj
wife.
YOUNG MAN IN TROUBLE.
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South Carolinian Charged With Forgery
at Hendersonville.
Hendersonville, N. C., August 9.?
Charged with forging his father's
name to two checks, E. A. Fairey.
said to be a son of a prominent business
man of Denmark, S. C., was
placed under arrest in the office of
the Wanteska Trust and Banking
Company, while preparing to offer a
third'check for payment. Pending
advices from his father, who is expected
to straighten out his financial
difficulties, the young man is in the
custody of the police, but has not
been placed in jail. Fairey, it seems,
had already secured $115 uponi
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of his father. The warrant was:
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sworn out by Cashier J. Mack
Rhodes, of the First National Bank.
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lecture:
"But our slums are much cfeaner
that the old, old slums of Europe.
Our slum denizens are cleaner, too.
Among us it is unusual to sew up
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