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tho ty> 11tt?OTnr -n-oo cittin C in a. dark
cell in the deepest cellar of the great
prison. Three times he had attacked
the wardens. For the first two offenses
he had been whipped, after the
third he was placed in chains and
from thr aay he grew more sullen
and despe .te than ever.
Then the old director of the prison
died and a new man came to take his
place. The news of this spread
among the prisoners and hope and
fear took possession of their minds.
One day footsteps were heard outside
the murderer's cell, the door was
opened, the warden remained outside
while another man entered. He was
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blinded by the darkness and at first
he saw nothing, but the murderer
saw him plainly enough. He stood up
and glared at the intruder; a young
pale man with almost transparent
features. His eyes were blue and
dreamy, his hair blonde as was also
his curly beard.
"The director," the rough voice of
the warden outside announced. The
murderer straightened himself a little
more and the director stepped
closer. His eyes had now adjusted
themselves to the darkness and it
was an unpleasant impression upon
him, but his voice was calm and
gentle.
"You are convict number seven?"
| "Yes, sir."
"You have been whipped twice for
a very serious offense."
"Yes," the prisoner replied, sullenly.
"You have been put in chains?"
The prisoner did not reply, but rattled
his chains defiantly.
"I am the new director. You must
. not consider me your enemy, but
rather your teacher."
"Teacher," the prisoner repeated
with a scornful laugh.
"Yes, teacher."
An impatient movement was heard
outside.
"I want to treat you with kindness
if possible. I consider that treatment
I more useful than whippings."
"Yes, sir," replied the prisoner
mechancially, without understanding
the director's words.
The Life Prisoner.
"To-day is the first of October. I
shall return on New Year's day. If
you have behaved well during the
three months, I will give you something
no prisoner has ever had before.
Now try to improve."
The director placed his small,
white hand on the convict's shoulder
and the unfamiliar touch of a kind
hand made the prisoner's knees tremMe.
The director left, the door was
locked, the sound of his steps died
t away in the hall.
The prisoner's first thought was a
touch of emotion, the second of
hatred because here was a man he
felt would prove stronger than himself;
the third and last was the question:
''What did the director mean
when he said he would give me something,
no other prisoner ever had
before?"
He tried to find an answer to this
question for days, weeks and months.
He thought of all things not to be
found in a prison. A looking glass?
He had not seen his own image for
years; hut prison life had made him
lose every trace of vanity.
A flower? There had been a time
when his highest wish had been to
get a flower in a pot that he might
take care of it and watch it growing?but
now he cared no longer for
such a thing.
At last he thought that there was
nothing in particular that he was
longing for, and he was from now on
only curious to see what the director
might give him.
With his finger nail he scratched a
mark on his bench for every day
that passed, and one day he discovered
it was New Year's day. He had
been as quiet as posible since the
first day of October and bis mma
had been entirely occupied with speculations
as to what he was to get.
He trembled at the thought that
there might be something to be said
against him, that he should never
know what the director had planned
to give him.
At noon he heard steps on the
stairs and steps were as words to
him, so acute had his sense of hearing
become. He plainly recognized
the steps of the warden and the director,
but there was another sound
he did not understand, a kind of
light tripping which filled his heart
with strange forebodings. Long before
the steps reached his door he
was already at attention. The blood
was hammering at his temples and
his heart beat violently. Would they
pass his door? His excitement was
SONER
ED BY KINDNESS
>og Helps to Make Conrable.?The
Result
[Yeatriient.
! almost more than he could bear.
No, they stopped outside. The
I door slowly opened screechingly on
its hinges and the director entered.
"Have you behaved well during
the three months since I was here
last?" he asked.
"Yes," he answered in a voice that
trembled a little.
"You remember I promised you a
reward?"
j He had barely strength to answer.
If he remembered? He who had
j thought of nothing else for three
i months.
! "Now you are to have it."
| The murderer trembled all over.
! The director whistled and a small
| black poodle came in, slowly, cautiously,
as if it feared a trap.
"That is for you," the director
said.
The murderer looked at the director,
and there was a gleam of suspicion
in his eyes as he asked: "How
long am I to keep it?"
"As long as you treat it well and
behave well."
The director saw the light of a
great joy in the convict's eyes, but
he said nothing.
The door was barred again and
the prisoner was alone with his new
comrade.
For a long time they stared at
each other. He was afraid to call
the dog because he had a feeling it
would not obey him, but at last he
tried. The poodle came slowly and
at last stood quite close to him. He
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got courage to yat xta ut^tu. xze
nearly tumbled over from the shock,
but he recovered and patted the dog
with both hands. The dog jumped
| on his lap and licked his forehead
i and eyes until the murderer burst
lout crying.
From that day there were no
more complaints about convict No. 7,
though he sat in his cell for six years
i longer.
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j When he died the dog was set free
; but it cared for nobody. It laid down
j on the murderer's grave and refused
| to eat and drink. It died rather than
i live without the only friend it had
i known since it was a small puppy.? I
Wellington Hope.
Don'ts for Wives.
j "Put these up on your wife's mir!
ror, where she can see them every I
: morning," said the Rev. W. W.
; Bustard, pastor of the Euclid Bap|
tist church, Cleveland, Ohio, in introj
ducing "Ten Dont's for Wives." His
I "dont's" are as follows:
1. Don't marry a man for a living,
but for love. Manhood without money
is better than money without manhood.
2. Don't overdress nor underdress;
common sense is sometimes better
than style.
3. A wife with a hobble skirt and
; a husband with patched trousers
! make a poor pair. A woman can
j throw more out of a kitchen window
| with a spoon than a man can put inj
to the cellar with a shovel.
4. Don't think that the way to
run a house is to run away from it.
Tt is wrone: to so around lecturing
other women on how to bring up
children while you are neglecting
your own.
5. Don't tell your troubles to your
neighbors. They have enough of their
own. Fight it out with your husband
if it takes all summer.
6. Don't nag. The saloonkeeper is
always glad to welcome your husband
with a smile.
7. Don't try to get more out of a
looking-glass than you put into it.
Nature's sunshine is better for woman's
beauty than man's powder and
paints.
8. Don't make gamblers and
drunkards out of your children by
running whist parties for prizes and
serving punch with a stick in it.
9. Don't forget to tell the truth,
especially to the conductor about the
age of your child; honesty is worth
more to you and him than a nickel.
A boy who is eight years old at home
and six on the cars will soon learn
other things that are not so.
10. Don't forget that home is a
woman's kingdom, where she reigns
as queen. To be the mother of a
Lincoln, a Garfield or a McKinley is
to be the mother of a prince.
A Clerical Error.
"And how is your mother?" inquired
the parson, who was making
a parochial call at the home of one
of his wealthy parishioners.
"She is in her room, upstairs.
She is very ill," replied his hostess.
"You don't say so!" exclaimed the
clergyman, whose tact was not always
reliable. "Well, I sincerely
hope that she will soon be down and
,,OUt."
NOT TOO SICK TO KICK.
Dr. Tom Hogg Injured by Invalid
Animal.
Kline, June 14.?Dr. Tom Hogg, of
this place, while treating a sick mule
yesterday, was kicked in the face by
the mule with both feet, striking him
to the ground. On getting up and
examining himself, he found a deep
cut on his forehead about three
inches long, the bridge of his nose
slightly fractured and bruised about
the shoulders. He took the first
train to Barnwell, where he received
treatment from a physician.
OPPOSED TO SPECIAL TERM.
Solicitor Bonham's Attitude in Case
Against T. U. Vaughn.
Greenville, June 15.?In a public
statement issued to-day, Solicitor
Proctor A. Bonham said that he did
not favor the calling of a special
term of court to try T. U. Vaughn,
erstwhile superintendent of the
South Carolina Odd Fellows' Orphan
Home, who is in jail, charged with
the triple offence of rape, living in
adultery and bringing about an abortion,
the alleged deponent being a
voune srirl under his care at the time
he was in charge of the institution.
The solicitor said he was in favor
of a special term of court only where
it was necessary to the preservation
of the public peace. He also stated
that a special term could not now be
called in less than six weeks, whereas,
the next regular term of the sessions
court begins the first Monday
in September.
TASTE WINE FOR A LIV ING.
Women Who Have Been Successful
in Peculiar Occupation.
Of the list of strange callings followed
by women, that of wine tasting
is one of the most curious and
lucrative. As a matter of fact, Mile.
Collinere, whose services are in great
demand in France, Germany, and Italy
as a wine taster, is said to make
an income of about 5,000 pounds a
year, many firms employing her for
regular work and frequently for
special duty.
Only half a dozen wine tasters
have been known to history, the most
renowned of these being the wife of
a famous London wine merchant,
Mme. Pommery, who died in Paris
twelve years ago, and Signora Sousa,
who has a great reputation in Spain
on account of her judgment, and
knowledge of wine.
Wine tasters, it appears, are born,
not made, and must possess the gift
of a rare and delicate palate. To
this, of course, must be added a
knowledge of wines. Mile. Collinere's
taste is so fine and her knowledge
of wines such that she can discern
from the first taste of a wine
just where the grapes grew from
which it was made, whether they
were raised in California or in the
vineyards of France, Germany or
elsewhere.
She can easily detect adulteration
of any sort, or if there is a blend
and of which wines, and can tell the
age of a wine almost to a day. As a.
matter of fact there are no secrets,
that a bottle of wine can withhold
from this remarkable Frenchwoman
once she has had a spoonful of it in
her mouth.
She does not swrallow the wine. In
fact, she is a teetotaller, and if she
were to drink wine would lose ner
subtle magic of taste. Furthermore,
she is obliged to take the greatest
care of her health. She must be well
in order to do her work, for her
! sense loses its cunning when she gets
! out of health. n.
Training Firemen in Sedalia.
"A number of years ago," said an
ex-Sedalian, "a substantial GermanAmerican
citizen was elected to the
council in Sedalia, Mo. His sound
business ideas soon made him easily
the strongest member of the body!
in point of influence, but there were
times when his ideas bcame tangled.
"About the time the alderman in
question was completing his first
term there arose a somewnat general
and severe criticism of the town's
fire protection. After the matter had
been thoroughly discussed the alderman
came to the conclusion that the
trouble was due to inefficiency on the j
part of the firemen.
" 'Haf it all fixed oop,' the alderman
confided to his; colleagues at I
one of the meetings. 'You vaste no
more dime in dalk. You choost vote
for mine ordinance.'
"The aldermen had sufficient faith
in their associate's ability to cope
with the municipal problems to wait
for the ordinance, which was to be
introduced and passed under a suspension
of the rules. They expected
a satisfactory explanation when the
measure should be introduced. It
came.
" 'Mistur Bresident,' saic'l the author
of the measure, 'der troubles
mit dis town iss dat der fire department
don't bractiss enough yet. It
says dat der department shall bractiss
for two days before efery fire.'"
?Kansas City Journal.
WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN.
Drops to Trestle, But Too Late tc
Stop Engine.
Macon, Ga., June 15.?Just as
Southern freight train No. 54 steamed
up to the Spring street bridge
overhanging a riverside railroad trestle,
Engineer Lentz saw the body oi
a woman drop to the trestle in fronl
of his engine. Before the train could
be stopped six cars had passed ovei
her body. When they rescued hei
she was still alive, her insensible
form lying clear parallel with the
rails. It was the wife of R. J. Harlan,
division superintendent of the
Central of Georgia. She died in the
hospital to-night at 10 o'clock.
How she came to fall from the
bridge will never be known, in al]
probability. There were no eye-witnesses.
She had been in ill health
for years and this morning left the
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accident occurred two hours later.
FORTUNE AWAITS HER.
Woman Arrested for Vagrancy an
Heir to Money and Land.
Milwaukee, Wis., June 3.?A legacy
of IL 0,0 00 and an interest in
three plantations in Louisiana is
said to be awaiting Mrs. Courteney
Weathersby, ^aged 28, formerly ol
New Orleans, who was in police court
to-day charged with vagrancy.
Mrs. Weathersby is said to have
married against her parents' wishes.
Her marital life was of short duration,
it being alleged her husband deserted
her. She was employed as a
nurse at the Soldiers' Home but lost
her position and being in desperate
straits it is alleged purloined several
small articles from the counter
of a West Allis drug store which resulted
in her arrest.
When the court was informed by
her attorney that a fortune awaited
her and that money was being sent
her to return to New Orleans sentence
was suspended.
Where was the Hat?
Three friends who had all been
operated on for appendicitis about
the same period, met for the first
time since their sufferings and began
comparing notes.
"Yes," said No. 1: "I had beastly
luck! The doctor had to operate
again, because he found he had left
a sponge inside the first time."
No. 2 promptly capped this.
"That's nothing," he said. "My
doctor left a pair of forceps inside
me!"
No. 3 rose to his feet. He was
palid and trembling as he rushed toward
the door in frantic haste.
"What's wrong?" asked his
friends.
"N-n-nothing," he stammered;
"only I have just remembered that
as I came round my doctor said
something about having mislaid his
hat!"?Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Heart Made to Beat Again.
After her heart had stoppea beating
and respiration had ceased, following
an operation for gall stones,
Miss Annie Lobenstein, a well known
young woman of Schenectady, N. Y.,
is alive and practically out of danger.
Miss Lobenstein owes her life
to the quick thought of the operating
surgeon, Dr. Charles G. McMullen.
Dr. McMullep had successfully
performed the operation at a local
hospital, and had just finished suturing
the incision in the abdomen,
when the attending nurse told him
that the patient was pulseless. Hurriedly
he removed the stitches he had
just taken, and inserting his hand,
reached up to the stilled heart. He
gently grasped the human life pump,
his hand opening and closing gently.
The auricle and ventricle under the
pressure began forcing the life fluid
into the arteries to have it returned
an instant later.
The physician continued the manipulation
with nurses and internes
bending over the patient. For more
than two minutes this was kept up,
when suddenly a faint tingle was noticed
in the patient's face. The doctor
continued the manipulation for
perhaps another minute, and then
withdrew his hand. The heart of its
own accord took up its work of
pumping and in less than five minutes
the patient wz?s breathing prop
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eny. cue was yiaceu m <x ucu, emu.
in an hour or two was pronounced
out of danger.
The shock of the operation together
with unconscious physical antipathy
to anaesthetics, is believed
to have caused the heart to stop.
A community torn by dissensions,
rent assunder by strife and contention
?the people ready always to fiy at
each other's throats on account of rivalry
and petty jealousies?can never
hope to succeed. The universal broth
erhood of man is constantly deferred
and the en dof time will appear before
this great desideratum can be
brought about, unles man shall be
brought to the realization of this, his
dominant weakness. Let his inquire,
"Who is my neighbor?"?Georgetown
Times.
CHARLIE JONES SHOT.
> Assassinated While at Home of Mrs.
Crosby.
Walterboro, June 13.?Monday
night Charlie Jones was shot by an
unknown party at the home of Mrs;.
Martha Crosby, near Smoaks. It
seems that Mrs. Crosby had some
men running her crop for her, but, on
I account of some disagreement, had
stopped work. Mr. Jones was at her
home Monday afternoon making ar!
rangements with her about taking
> chflrco nf hpr prnn Tt hpine1, lftt.A in
or two daj'S prior to tne snooung tnai
. it would be well for him to "get up
| and get" with whatever he had. Up
to 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon no in.
quest had been held, and the body
of the dead man lay where it fell.
The coroner of Colleton could not be
reached, and a magistrate was inaci
cessible.
L
; 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any
' case of Chills & Fever; it acts on the
liver better than Calomel, and does
not gripe or sicken. 25c.
JWHICH* BANK
(ft* Is yonr money hid away in ai
where the burglar is likely
J" locked up tight in our van
massive steel safe, but by
3 well? You do not perhaps
TT your money is in when kep
day the newspapers tell of
3, this habit. If you would sic
* edge that your money is pei
i once and open an account w:
m no chances.
2 EHRHARDT BAN
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Helps the Fa
THE FARMER was
reports. Cotton was
a certain figure he {
before it had almost re
would it bring today?
The farmer needed first-h
stepped to his Bell Telephone,
with the buyer in a distant ciq
reached the top figure, and he sol
The Universal Bell System
rural districts to keep in touch
die necessity of leaving home.
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M We have just received a nice
Windows, Flower Pots, Jardiniei
Summer Prices.
We give S. & H. Green Tradii
and for all bills paid on or before
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H THE HARDWARE MAN.
l=xE==ono<
the afternoon, Mrs. Crosby went into
s the kitchen to prepare supper, and
t Mr. Jones went outside to feed the
hogs for her. On comipg back to
i the house, Mr. Jones was on the
I piazza talking to Mrs. Ci&by when
two shots were fired fromil doublel
barreled gun, a few shots striking
( him in the hand and the rest in the
s body. One barrel of the gun was
loaded with buck and small shot.
Mr. Jones went into the kitchen and
said to Mrs. Crosby, *'1 am shot." He
t then went back to the piazza and
said, "I am killed," and fell to the
floor and died almost instantly. Mrs.
Crosby gave the alarm immediately
L to her nearest neighbors, and the
, coroner was notified, but failed to get
| there. The deputy sheriff being in
f the neighborhood, was also notified,
. and while a few miles away, was met
and told that it was done by an un>
known party. He then returned to
Walterboro.
Certain parties in the community
are said to have advised Jones one j
SUICIDE, SAYS CORONER'S JURY.
Laurie Crosby's Body Found Near
Home?Killed Charlie Jones?
Walterboro, June 15,?A second
killing this week has been reported
from the Little Swamp section, in
the upper part of this county. The
first was that of Charlie Jones, who
was assassinated Monday night from
ambush while visiting at the home of
Mrs. M. L. Crosby, the second being
that of Laurie Crosby, a young white
man, "son of Mrs. M. L. Crosby, who,
it seems, committed suicide near his
home Thursday morning. The coro\
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ner's jury returned a verdict in the
case of Jones that he came to his
death from gunshot wounds at the
hands of unknown person or persons;
the verdict in the case of Crosby Is
that he came to his death from gunshot
wounds at his own hand.
The supposition in the community
is that Crosby killed Jones. It appears
that Crosby had been drinking V
heavily for several days and his wife
stated that he came home Thursday
morning desiring to get something to
drink. She had some wine in the
smoke house, a small outbuilding, but
told him that she had lost the key.
Without saying anything to her, he
took his gun and going a short distance
from the house, it is presumed,
placed the muzzle,of the gun against
his temple, blowing the top of his
head off, killing himself instantly. %
When found, his body was lying
across his gun.
Coroner Rhode and Sheriff Fox
were immediately notified and held
the inquest over his remains Thursday
night, the verdict being as above.
The supposition being so' strong and
circumstances pointing to it, indicating
so clearly that Crosby was the
slayer of Jones that the sheriff has
accepted this theory and no arrests
have followed.
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style to please you. F. G. MERTINS, ^
Augusta, Ga.
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ample bursar insurance as Mm
i realize what great danger t
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losses sustained because of A|
ep soundly, with the knowlrfectly
secure, bring it in at r
ith us. You are then taking Mm
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arising. When it reached
>roposed to selL The day
ached his price. What >; |
and information it once. Hi *
The Long Distance connection
r informed him that cotton had
Id his crop at a handsome profit
enables the producer in remoti
with market conditions without
tave yon a Bell Telephone? . *
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