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SOBS AS SHE HEARS SENTENCE. Woman, Guilty of Slaying Neighbor, Gets Twenty Years. Waycross, Ga., Dec. 13.?Sobbing piteously, Mrs. R. L. Robbins was sentenced to serve twenty years in the penitentiary by Judge Parker, in superior court here to-day for the murder of her neighbor, Miss Belle Smith. After the evidence was in and before arguments begun, counsel for the woman offered for her a plea of guilty to a charge of voluntary manslaughter. Neighborhood quar '1 CIS cauacu IUC Mlimg, nunu uttui . red last July. TWO SUSPECTS NABBED. Prisoners Fill Description of A. C. L. Robbers. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 15.?Almost on the very spot wher the Atlantic Coast Line passenger train, No. 80, was held up and robbed of registered mail, valued at $5,000, at Hardeeville, S. C., last Tuesday morning, George H. Hill and Henry Eichorn, white men, were arrested by postoffice inspectors this afternoon and brought to Savannah to night and locKea m tne unainam county jail. These men, one rather tall and the other shorter and heavily built, had been at Hardeeville for several weeks preceding the robbery. They state they can prove an alibi and that their home is in Baltimore. They have been under suspicion since the jf> day of the robbery. The bandits were described as being, one tall, the other short and heavy. Arrested in Grocery Store. ; / The arrests were made in a grocery store at Hardeeville, the men ; being seized by Special Agent G. S. Godbold, of the Atlantic Coast Line, ' and Deputy Sheriff L. K. Meldrim, of ! Savannah. Postoffice Inspectors R. ! E. Barry, of Atlanta, and A. J. ] Knight, of Savannah, who had sworn out a warrant for the men, were in ' i charge of the force of officers. The room occupied by the men at 1 Hardeeville was searched and two pistols, corresponding to those used fho VkQnriitci Troro ffllinri ' UJ 1VUUU* WW 9 Vf v* v Members of the crew of the train that was held up saw the two men and declare they fill the description of the bandits. HIS PREDICAMENT AWAKARD. Humoring Lunatic, Soldier Spends ? Two Hours in Guard House. Fort Riley, Kansas, Dec. 16.? Marched to the guard house and confined on the charge of murder by an insane man whom he had been ordered to arrest, was the experience of Sergt. Gep. Land, 13th cavalry, to-day. Land remained in the guard house two hours before the mistake was discovered. Sergt. P. C. Souder had been irrational for several days, and to-day Sergt. Land was ordered to arrest and take him to the hospital. On his way Souder wanted Land to march in front 9* him, and the guard complied. ''Column right," said Souder, as t they approached the guard house. ^ stArjrt TAnd. wishing: to humor his prisoner, obeyed. Souder then I" 11 J[ marched Land into the guard house, qomipitted feiiQ to the sergeant of I" " <44 j " V the guard and had him locked up on a murder charge. Two hours later Land was released from his plight ^ by his commanding officer; j tflSGRO CONFESSES ?0 CRIME. c ??.. i bay Before His Execution Admits 1 Assassinating White Man. 1 "" t Jackson, Ga., Dec. 13.?Will Turn- i er, the negro who assassinated Jesse 1 Singley, a white man, at Indian i Springs last summer when a race riot t almost was precipitated, to-day con- 1 fessed to the crime. His execution i will take place here to-morrow. The 1 murder was the culmination of a row 'between two bell boys at one of the i springs hotels. Singley and several < companions had gone to the hotel af- ; ter supper to offer their assistance ] in quelling any disorder, and on his ] return to his home Singley was fired ] onxfrom ambush. Three sons of the ] negro Turner are also held in the Atlanta jail on the same charge. Withstood Temptation. A well-known Scottish architect wa9 traveling in Palestine recently when news reached him of an addition to his family circle. The happy father immediately provided himself with some water from the Jordan to carry home for the christening of the infant, and returned to Scotland. On the Sunday appointed for the ceremony he duly presented himself at the church and sought out the beadle in order to hand over the precious water to his care. He pulled the flask from his pocket, but the beadle held up a warning hand and came nearer to whisper: "No the noo, sir; no the noo! Maybe after the kirk's out!"?Exchange. Xmas cards at Herald Book Store. 5 NAPOLEON'S FALL. The Modern Attila Crushed by His I Streak of Insanity. Were readers of history asked today what three human characters r have been most prominent in making n the history of the world there could f probably be great diversity of opinion S as to two of such personages, but as F to the third, the general- agreement t: could probably point to Napoleon t Boneparte. T. P. O'Connor, who for d many years has made a study of the a modern Attila, as he was called by his a contemporaries, presents in his London magazine an article entitled "The n Insanity of Napoleon's Genius-," in t which he shows him to be a victim of b megalomania, that form of mental s alienation in which the patient is pos- e sessed of grandiose hallucinations. t] Mr. O'Connor discards the idea that Napoleon because of his gigantic s< - - - 1 A power for work naa a periect pnys- u ique and invulnerable health. He a Suffered as a child from extreme ner- b vousness, later from facial neuralgia, b He had a nervous twitching at. the v mouth and the right shoulder. After p Toulon he long suffered from a pain- w ful and wasting cutaneous disease, o and at times he had fits of an epilep- ci tic character. As he was about to a leave Strassburg in 1805 on the way o to the Inighty victory over General h Mack at Ulm he had one of these spasms. After dinner on the day he d was leaving, says Talleyrand in his ei memories, the emperor had called him into his room. There Talleyrand found him gasping for breath. "I tore off his cravat, for he seemed like to choke. He did not vomit, but sighed and foamed. M. de Remusat, first gentleman in waiting, who had -1__ ^ - IV. V,iT? J.ISSU CUULltJ 1ULU tilt? iuujlu, nauucu aim ^ water, and I sprinkled him with eau de cologne. He was suffering from seme sort of cramp, which passed off D in a quarter of an hour. We laid him A in an armchair. He began to speak, put his dress right, commanded us to observe the strictest secrecy, and Y half an hour later he was on his way to Carlsruhe." Another sign of the abnormal in tr \~apoleon was his intense irritability, md often there came a nervous breakdown that reduced him to the H condition of a hysterical woman. This irritability sometimes took the form of fits of weeping. He would fly into a passion on the slightest provoca- p] tion. In his impatience he tore many la i garment to pieces because it in- ^ 2onvenienced him in some trifling m way. He had an inner melancholy :hat never left him. Wliile he talked of death, Napoleon never had any r 3erious intention of taking his own r life. He never lost his grasp of life. fo While a man of dreams he was a man t0 )f action. Success did not make the Ireamer more cheerful. He had pi strange moments of bitterness and latred and a desire to inflict pain. er For instance he would say to a lady ifter asking her name, "Dear me, I ivas told you were pretty!" or to an ilderly. gentleman, "you have not nuch longer to live." t0 It was comparatively early in his areer that his insane desire to rule ni lot France, not eyen Europe, but all re he world took possession of him. ^ rhe real reason for his crushing Cr iownfall is to be found in this megaomania. He himself caused his i.1. lownfall. Napoleon alone could have 111 jonquered Napoleon, and it was this fo negaldinania that undid him. There whs hU dream of the control If >f liufope, ''There will," he said to lis intimates while he was still first :cnsul, "be no peace in Europe till it D s under the command of a single a* eader, under one emperor, with th tings for his officers, who will disribute kingdoms to his generals, gl naking one king of Bavaria, one andman of Switzerland, another stadtholder of Holland, and giving b? ;hem all official posts in the imperial w lousehold, such as grand cupbearer, " ?rand chamberlain, grand master of S1 :he hounds, etc." Napoleon did place kings in sever- of 11 countries and controlled the policy >f nearly every country of Europe? at a wonderful achievement for the ^ poverty-stricken charity boy who got bis education at Brienne at the ex- ^ pense of his sovereign. He might _ bave remained the king of kings in Europe had he been satisfied with gI that awful height. But he was not satisfied. He never was satisfied. After Europe there was Asia. On the day he was crowned emQ' peror, in December, 1804, he said to his minister of marine: "I grant you my career has been brilliant and I j have risen high. But what a dif- ^ ference from ancient times! Look at Alexander the Great! After he had ^ conquered Asia he declared himself j the son of Jupiter, and, except his ^ own mother, Olympias, Aristotle and a few Athenian pedants, the east be- ^ lieved him. Nowadays, if I were to 1 e ~ ~ /vf +1-10 17ver. declare myseii cue wi mv v. j lasting Father there isn't a fishwife but would hiss me! The nations are si much too enlightened now, and noth- ? ing great is left to do." = "And France," says Mr. O'Con- n nor, in conclusion, "sacrificed a mil- t< lion lives to the monomania of a p FARMER AND WIFE SLAIN. >astardly Deed Done for Robbery in i North Carolina. I Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 13.?News eaching here early to-day tells of the , aurder of John Dixon, a prominent armer of Cleveland county, this Itate, and his wife late last night, lobbery is said to have been the moive of the crime. Two men are said 1 0 have gone to the home of the mur- , ered man last night and asked for ssistance in releasing a team from ditch in which it had fallen. The farmer went to the aid of the 1 aen and was killed. The two men 1 hen returned to Dixon's house and ( eat the wife until it was thought , he was dead. She survived, howver, and was able to relate the affair his morning. She died later. The farmer is said to have sold ' ome cotton a day or two ago in Shel- 1 on. twelve miles from his home, , nd the men are thought to have een in search of money believed to e in the home. A child 1 year old ' as found in the home of its slain 1 arents unharmed, but bespattered < ith blood about its clothing. Posses < f men and boys are scouring the ( juntry near the scene of the crime, nd it is believed that a lynching will ccur if the guilty men are appre- < ended. * Two negroes were arrested late to- i ay, but their identity has not been ( stablished. Pushed by the Government. i Washington, Dec. 13.?A vigorous , rosecution of all connected with the ; lleged dynamite conspiracy is the 1 mphatic injunction from the depart- \ lent of justice directed to District ttorney Miller under which he will mduct the federal grand jury be- 1 inning at Indianapolis to-morrow, istrict Attorney McCormack, of Los ngeles, who has been here several eeks conferring with officials of the , epartment, left to-night for New x. 3 Jll. J orK on a mission connected wim le government's investigation. Offials, however, decline to discuss the ip in detail. Attorney General Wickersham, irough Assistant Attorney General arr, is personally directing the govrnment's course. The inquiry is ised on two federal statutes, and if ^cumulation of offenses can be roved under one or both of these ,ws against those responsible for ie crimes, long terms of imprisonient can be imposed upon the guilr v The law by which it is hoped to iach all who have inspired and dieted the outrages makes it a crime ir two or more persons to conspire break a federal law. This imposes maximum penalty of two years' im isonment and $10,000 fine. One or )th of the laws would apply to evy illegal shipment of explosives. Forty Negroes Dine. Washington, Dec. 16.?The Arlingn Hotel, once the most exclusive >stelry in this city, entertained last j ght forty negroes at dinner. Rep- a sentative Oscar W. Underwood of a iabama, leader of the house Demo- c ats, lives at the Arlington. t The directors of the Jeans School nd, a colored organization, held s eir annual meeting in this city and c Rowing it they held a banquet, t joker T. Washington is one of the t ading members of the organization, f )n. r The banquet was held in the an- t ix of the hotel. The management ^ tempted to conceal the fact that i ey were entertaining negroes and i e attendants were ordered not to ^ ve out any inforamtion. g Peter Taylor, Jr., manager of the )tel, told a correspondent that the c mquet was a mistake. He said that i hen Lewis made arangements for ie spread he gave him the impres- < on that there were to be only a w colored men and the remainder ,r the guests were to be white* J. Pierpont Morgan always stays t ; the Arlington when hfe c'Omes to 1 Washington. Among the guests at < ie hotel last night were Charles A. i eabody, of New York, Cyrus Mc- * ormick, president of the Internaonal Harvester Company, and Con- i ressm'an Sulzer, of New York. i ^i He was Helping. ^ A Baltimore man whose son is a i :udent at Princeton, has had fre- ] uent occasion to remonstrate with < is boy touching his extravagance; i ut the father invariably "comes to ; ie front," when the request is made < )r further funds. In his last letter to his son the , ither, after the usual recital, stated 1 lat he was forwarding a check for ; 50, and he wound up with: "My son, your studies are costing le a great deal." To which the hopeful, in his next ?tter, replied: "I know it, father, and I don't 1 tudy very hard, either."?Christian Vork. legalomaniac. What tragedy in his3ry is so gigantic, so appalling, so itiful, in a sense so ironic?" it? *?? ftuyi ittift jfi if?i jf? A ? ? tj? fA? U" * "1? ! *4* "i" * ?i* *4" '1' Can~Y <> ? < > t? < i* 5? why people w jjjf ing something :: pie, not prett; ;; both useful ai ;; sities. If you ? your interest 8 ? sent it, for yo : * but staple goo Si: incr but what V ? jft you give som ; always rest a v look our stocl |A| : * mence to nan :: mother, fathe in heart, or some ( I* s s do is to come ijj that we can se 3? i ?< i* ? ?i * | c. c The Hardware and Furniture 1 f| ? ? ?| ift ? * ift ;ft ?? .'t'-'V-'f; " j? 71? "i" "a" % "1" %? POSTOFFICE IN TREE STUMP. Unusual Feature of Mail Service in Oregon County. "In the stump of a huge yellow fir ?~ ~ ?* Til o ?lr Prtrtlr in tho PPT1 1 LI CC <11 i/iava xvv/^xx, AU wuv W**..*. part of Polk county, Ore.," said Hugh J. Benton, of Sheridan, Ore., it the Releigh, "perhaps the most mique postoffice in .the United States Is located. F. J. Holman is the postmaster ofv this hole in the log, says The Washington Post. In addition :o supplying his community, with Jtamps and letters, Mr. Holman likewise operates the central exchange )f the telephone company. The stump pf the tree over which Postmaster general Hitchcock has supervision, s some twenty-five feet in diameter, md the government appropriates iach year a sufficient amount for Its maintenance. When arranging his luarters in the old trunk Postmaster Holman encountered an obstructing ;entacle, which by a little planning md sawing he converted into a serviceable desk. "In the place of the greenery that 'ormerly drooped from the branches >f the forest monarch may now be ieen an empty mail sack or perhaps i full one that is to be taken by an mtgoing train. The telephone wires ;onnecting the homes and business daces of the citizens of Black Rock md vicinity likewise lead to the tree, ind Postmaster Holman is perhaps >ne of the busiest little officials in he service of Uncle Sam. "Mr. Holman has held his job for ome time, although there have been ?thers who are jealous of the reputaion which he has enjoyed in being he only man in the country who has bund it profitable to increase the evenues of the government from a runk of a tree and at the pame time vork the 'hello' wires without any nterruption to business. Postmaster lolman is contemplating a trip to Washington to visit the postmaster general and when he reaches here he vill no doubt have some rather interring tales to recount about his office n the hole in the tree." Sirls Offer Kisses for a New Railroad Station. Twenty of Perry's (Okla.) pretiest girls offered kisses to C. W. ?ouns, general manager of the Eastern lines of the Atchison, Topeka ind Santa Fe .Railway system, in ?xchange for a new station at Perry. When Mr. Kouns, with other oficials of the Santa Fe who are on in inspection trip, arrived at Perry aearlv all of the city's inhabitants visited the special train. Among the visitors were twenty of the city's handsome young ladies. They ask3d for the officer who had to do with :he construction of new depots. When M.r. Kouns was introduced the young women promptly made their offer. Mr. Kouns, blushing to the roots 3f his hair, refsued to enter into the trade, but it is understood that word has gone to headquarters recommending a new station for Perry. Orders Sale for Taxes. Columbia, Dec. 16.?An order signed here by Judge Wilson directs that so much of the property of the Richland Distilling Company, now in the hands of a receiver, as necessary be sold to pay the taxes on same. Mr. A. M. Lumpkin is receiver for the company. ;I; ft iljili ft ft ft ft {J? ft ft ft ou Understand'! a f ' ill persist, when selecting a present, in buy- i ? ; that is not useful, and to a good many peo- j J p.? The gifts that we have in our store are f* w id ornamental, and most of them are neces- j j . have any presents to purchase it will be to <} as well as to the one to whom you will pre- i i f] u to pay our store a visit. We have nothing i ds in our store, no cheap, shoddy stuff, noth- * | anyone would be pleased to revive. When ] * lething that is needed in a home you can ssured that it is appreciated. Gome in and . if ' k over, we have too many articles to com- i ? le them all, but we have gifts suitable for r, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, baby, sweet- z sbody else's sweetheart. All we want you to ? and see what we have and we are satisfied 3j ill you. S ' i) i j >. SIMMONS I Man. Bamberg, S. C. %1 : rmm-ftrmm I Decisive Influence I ' 1 * ) -Jk ' 'V. ffo~fhe Public : , ? Every mas of Integrity and. thrift in this community required, satisfactory hanking connections. It does not make so muoh differ* enoe to the officers of this hank , how much money a man has in our ? hank - we want his name on our > hooks. His influenoe and friend* ship are often worth'sven more to r the hank than his money. ; She strength of our institutions and the standing of its offioers are such that we have no hesitancy in presenting our advantages to the largest or smallest depositor. ? Our ways of satisfactorily serving you are many and we invite your I account. I * Tours very truly, I FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANE ft f 4 per ct. Paid Quarterly on Savings Accounts. Ehrhardt, S. C. M P When you start out to buy a Buggy Horse i ? 11 you always, just as in everything else you j I > |1 purchase, want the best to be had for the i || money. We want you to come and see si 1 i this last load of stock that we have just |* 11 received. We have some fancy drivers as | I| well as work horses in the lot, also some [ ?| mighty good mules. Come and look at 5 A our stock before buying. We also have a It } II large line of Buggies, Wagons, Harness < g JONES BROS., || BAMBERG, ~^ i ^T^ofour prominent citizens met in deadly combat on our g * SI streets this morning. Blood flowed and profane language was f I &? freely scattered around for the rising generation to absorb. This 2 | 31 disgraceful encounter would never have occurred but for a (lis- g * / || puted account. You don't have disputed accounts when you pay f 2 || by bank check. Deposit your money with us and pay all your 2 | ?| accounts by check and you will keep all your business associates g k ?. |g your friends. Deposit with us and save trouble.,, gg We pay 4 per cent, interest, compounded quarterly, in our | | g5* savings department. ? ? = $L I f - -.... W v^,-. ? /^. ' '.