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THRILLING EXPER LATED BY t Man's Hair Turns Gray in Three Hundred F& Dead Man Wil Many young men are seen with j ly gray hair before their time, ard some of them can tell interesting experi-: th ences that caused their hair to change m; < color. Here is the story, tol?J by an of old miner now retired and living in fir Chicago of how his hair turned from w; a deep brown to almost white in a ; th night. It happened when he was a | et young man and working in a silver j shaft: i ed ''Barney Dovle and I worked the j ar two shifts of the small holding of the I 0E company down in Western Mexico," j Wi the narrative begins, "Barney being iin foreman of one and I of the other, j Neither of us had ever been in the jin shift worked by the other, and we j were unfamiliar with the workings jaf except for what we would tell each j 0'( other as the days passed and we drill- jte ed deeper and deeper into the ground, j i hs "One evening, just about time for! us to quit work, Doyle fell from the a > mouth of the crater he had worked, j 300 feet to the bottom. I had just | * come to the surface when the acci- j dent happened. There was a crowd of; peons at the mouth of the pit and j f they were gesticulating wildly and! shouting at one another as though , , iv the whole pack had suddenly gone : * prr * crazy and deaf. I thought then and . SK still do that one of those greasers had ^ flopped Doyle into the hole, for none of us was any too popular with ihem, j but they all insisted that the poor; fellow \ad simply fallen in. | "None of my men or of Barney's: 3.E t either would attempt to go down the j shaft in the bucket arrangement we 1 had, for they were the most super- g 3D ^ stitious lot of men I ever have heard of. They have the southern States m negro beaten to a frazzle. h "Finally the manager of the company, having heard the yumpus, came 0 to the pit and he and I agreed to de- er scend into the pit after Barney's re- ? mains. ( * "The 'boss' saw to it that the lift t0 . was manned by men we could trust ^ and we were slowly settled down into j the black, black depths. The buckets ; were of the trap bottom type, so we j halted the cage just before we reach- j V( ed the bottom, and, slipping the catch ! on the bucket, dropped to the floor. | We had to depend for light in the , mines then on candles and we used them in connection with the queer, A] sticky clay that is found in that sort of mine. We could take a handful Bl of the mass, slap it on the wall or a girder and stick -a candle into it. "We lit up and found Barney dead. Mi We started back to the lift, but ? found that the engine would not car-1Ai ry more than two men. I insisted | that the 'boss' go up first with the; body and send the cage down laterj for me. I helped him into the cage "with what was left of the miner ana helped to close the trap. A minute y( later, at the rope signal, the men at the top began hoisting the cage. b, "Except for the four candles we had stuck on the walls and girders p( immediately under the shaft there was no light, and even those four g, ^ lights shone with the most ghostly glimmer I ever had seen. With Barney falling into the pit, the extreme darkness and all, it was no wonder Bi I began to be afraid, and as I could hear the bucket scrape along the sides of the shaft as it ascended high- ^( er and higher my fear did not abate. _ r>l "Then, to make matters worse, one ? of the candles fell from the wall with a soft 'plop.' Then another, and soon all four of them dropped into the blackness. I was entirely alone without light and without a match or . the means to make light. In addition, I did not dare to wander off m v from where I was for fear of falling into another side working, for I was entirely unfamiliar with the ground there. i y ''About time for the cage to reach J. the top I heard a shout, much muf-! Kir iho dictanno anH T ilist 2TOt ! . X1<CU KfJ CX1V U4WVMUVV w - w | jjj away from below the mouth of the I. . j ^ pit when a heavy object dropped: close to me. I guessed the bottom of j i the bucket had proved insecure, and j I since learned I guessed right, and had let one of the occupants drop, i Whether it was the dead man had j fallen or the superintendent I had no I ai means of learning. I was afraid to j te go near the object to determine. j ri "I waited and waited, with the | o' fear gradually taking firmer hold of i bi me, and the bucket did not come' fr back. The more I thought of the io affair the more frightened I became. * I imagined all sorts of things, think- in ing the peons had overpowered the cr superintendent, thrown him down sc the pit and stuck the lift so that I j cl would die at the bottom. I could j ti see no lights moving at the bottom, j n as there would have been had the! B mouth of the well been open, for a j L * huge lamp always swung immediate- ! c? * I | j JENCE REK PROSPECTOR. One Night?In a Hole et Deep With a thout Light. over the pit. "I pulled out my watch, smashed e crystal and felt for the time with y fingers. This was the only means telling the progress of time. The st time I felt of the timepiece it as 9 o'clock. I had been there only ree hours, and yet it seemed an ernity. "I could hear, or at least I imagin1 I could hear, strange sounds all ound me, and with that dead body tly a matter of inches from me it as small wonder that I wandered my mind. "Whether I went to sleep or was a delirium I do not know to this ly, but the next thing I remember ter last feeling for the time after 9 clock is awaking in the hospital nt of the company with the worst >adache I ever had. My hair, which id been a deep brown, had turned most white. "The superintendent was there and i smiled much like a live person hen he saw my eyes open and he Id me of affairs following the dropng of the body for the second time to the pit. Almost at the top the icket had caught and turned slightsideways, so that it would neither > up nor down. In catching on the ie of the shaft the lever controlling e drop bottom had caught and reased the catches. The 'boss' barely issed going back into the pit. As it as he held on there until the men the top learned his predicament id pulled him out with a rope. "When they found they could not it to me Dy going aown uuyie s aft the superintendent went into y shaft, and working in the direc>n he knew Doyle had been coming, > had little difficulty in running inthe shaft in which I was a prison. He had to work only seven feet join the two holes, and neither Dyle nor I knew we were so close gether. "The digging in my pit accounted r the noises that had set me off my ?ad."?Chicago News. Oh, to Be a Farmer! si, ve plows 'em in de vinter, Hopes to plant 'em in de spring, it dere coomes so mooch bad vedder Dat ve plants not anyt'ing; l've knows it's for our keeping, An've hates so to complain? it it's to be a farmer Ven dere's sooch a lot o' rain! aybe 'bout venspring ees over, Coomes de soonshine in de sky, 1' ve steps into de furrow Mit our hopes a runnin' high; it before ve gits 'em finished, Ve are forced to stop again? it it's to be a farmer doro'e cnni^h q 1r?t r?* rnin! T UWi V 0 wvvvu v? v v 3l, soomehow ve gits 'em planted, First de corn an' cotton seeds, it before ve gits 'em growing Dey vas hid mit grass an' veeds, ir de clouds, again descending, Vet de earth from hill to plain? it it's to be a farmer Ven dere's sooch a lot o' rain! it ve live to see de autumn, An' ve makes a fair goot crop, it before ve gits 'em gaddered Ve again are forced to stop, ir dem clouds haf coome upon us, An' dey vets us up again? it it's to be a farmer Ven dere's sooch a lot o' rain! ?Harry R. Hughes. Reflections of a Bachelor. We get in cents, but have to spend dollars. Life is mostly a series of comproises, except with wives. The first time a man is a hero he ay deserve it, but hardly afterward. Xo matter how hard he tries, a >litician never seems to be able to eak into jail. Just the kind of beautiful stockgs a girl wants depends on just the nd of contents she has for them. AUTOMOBILE TURNS TURTLE. lackville Physicians Have Narrow Escape from Serious Injury. Blackville, July 4.?Drs. Bonner id R. A. Gyles, and Ronald, the latr's young son, narrowly escaped seous injury last night about 9:30 clock, when Dr. Bonner's automole in which they were returning om Denmark, turned turtle, pinning the occupants under the car. ^ "u ~ ^ UX1 meir way iiume, aiiu wane gu.g at a lively clip, just as thev were ossing the old Beaverdam ditch, in >me unaccountable manner the marine suddenly left the road and irned over. Dr. Gyles and his son iceived slight bruises, while Dr. onner miraculously escaped unhurt, ittle damage was sustained by the ir. AMATEUR COWBOY WAS STUN Had Good Time Until He Found 1 Was Up Against the Real Thing. Ernest L. Lucas came to the soui west from New York several mont ago to be a cowboy long enough recuperate. After a visit to Texas located in Osage county, Oklahon chiefly because he had an acquai: ance there and because it is in t cattle grazing section. The real, old-fashioned cowboy l disappeared from Oklahoma, but I cas didn't know it and he had p: vided himself with all the convt tional cowboy paraphernalia, inch ing jingling spurs. He engaged or cattle grazing ranch near Pawhusl and the next day after his arrival put on his cowboy outfit and re over the ranch. Cattle from Texas are brought to Osage county to be grazed bef< they are marketed, but very few cc boys are required to herd them. Ti are turned into big pastures inclos by barbed wire fences. The m drive them out to the grass in t morning'and bring them home night. This was the work that f to Lucas. Wearing a broad bri med sombrero and with a revolt dangling in his belt, he looked t part all right, and in the course a few weeks became a fairly gc rider. Being with the cattle so much a with the other cattlemen, Lucas : sorbed cowboy stories as a spor takes up water, and before ma weeks he became saturated w them and acted more and more li a cowboy. Occasionally the men cn the rar went to Pawhuska, the nearest to\ and took a few drinks. Lucas w< along with them and experienced their joys and sorrows, including 1 drinks in the "bootlegger" saloo One of the residents of the town Pete Jenkins, who used to be a r cowboy, but is now the half owi of a livery stable. He is small stature and bow-legged and his i pearance is not imposing. Lucas and the other men from 1 ranch were in one of the "bootl ger" places when Jenkins came Lucas had just called for a round drinks and he invited Jenkins to ji them. Jenkins politely declined, knew the other boys and winked them. Lucas insisted, and when i stranger again declined he drew big revolver and ordered him up the bar. Little Jenkins's eyes grew lai and round and he took the dri without further protest. < Then 1 cas ordered him .to dance, and af a few bullets had whizzed close his feet Jenkins obligingly compli Lucas had fun with him for nea half an hour, and then permitted b to depart. Jenkins went back to the liv< I stable and, raising the lid of a 1 ! in the corner, took out his old cowl clothes and hat, shook the oats < of them and put them on. Then got out the revolvers he had carr when he rode the Oklahoma and T as ranges and oiled them and hr them in his belt, and also put on 1 old spurs. He was transformed fr a livery stable keeper into the cc boy he had been years ago. He w< over to the "bootlegger's" and fou Lucas and his friends still there. Lucas 1 -.cognized him, and his tonishment was great, for he reali: now that he was face to face witl real cowboy. Jenkins ordered 1 drinks and they all lined up. Then ordered Lucas to get down on hands and knees. Lucas compli and Jenkins sat on his back a spurred him. He rode Lucas arou the room, down the dust-covei stairway and out into the street. Lucas galloped down the street all fours Jenkins took out his * * O J - it. voivers ana ior a iew Becuuus lit was a stream of fire from their m zles. A crowd gathered to witn the disgrace of Lucas, and the ot] men from the ranch laughed i roariously. Jenkins finally dismounted a went back to the livery barn a changed his clothes. But Lui couldn't face those who had witne ed his downfall, and he never w< back to the ranch, but took a tr; back to New York.?Oklahoma C correspondence of the New Y< World. Will Hear T. B. Felder. Spartanburg, July 6.?Sena Howard B. Carlisle* chairman of i dispensary investigating committ has fixed Friday, July 12, as the ti for taking the testimony of Thon B. Felder, the Atlanta attorney, Augusta. This hearing will be h at 10 o'clock in the morning in 1 county court house. It is expec ' - - * 1 ~f + mat. a targe uumuei m ovum ou linians will be present. There \ also be a meeting of the commit at 11 o'clock Wednesday morni July 10, in Columbia. Mr. Carli said that a good many of those nan as the men "higher up" in the leged grafting at - Charleston 1 been summoned as witnesses. G. MIXER RELATES EXPERIENCES. He Famous Train Robber in Georgia h Tells About His Flight. th- Toomsboro, Ga., July 4.?A har;hs rowing tale of exposure to modca- M to sins and rattlesnkes was told by S he "Old Bill" Miner, who was taken e; ia, back to Milledgeville and the State n ut- farm. le he Miner was captured this morning s: at 3 o'clock in the northwestern su- tl las burbs of Toomsboro, by Marshal J. r< E. Meadows, Jr., Wiggins was cap- p ro_ tured by Mr. McDonald, of Milledge- b ?n_ ville, a few hours later, within 100 n 1(j_ or 200 yards of the place. Miner h j a was captured asleep in the thicket. * ia> McDonald carried Wiggins and Miner o he by automobile back to the prison s' ,de farm this morning. f< Old Bill's Story. * Here is Miner's story: ^ )re 4<I escaped last Thursday night, aciw companied by William Wiggins and *' ley Widencamp. We made our way to Tl >ed the banks of the Oconee river and ten went down stream in search of a ? ;he boat upon which we were to embark. at My intentions were to reach the coast , t< ell and escape to a foreign country. m- "We had only one pole, and the rer river was very swift, the water over;he flowing the banks and making it of very difficult to steer. Saturday ?od night at 1 o'clock one of the many snags capsized our boat throwing us nd adrift in a strong current, with float- ? ^ ing debris, none large enough to hold lge our weight. Widencamp, not being ,ny able to swim, sank to a watery grave. ith Wiggins and myself eventually reachike ed the bank, after the worst struggle ^ with water I have ever experienced. lch "If suffering is atonement for a person's sins, we certainly ought to vn, v . be forgiven for all we ever commit all ted- 1 b "Imagine our horror, when we ' reached the banks to find a swamp ns. q .g thick with cane, briars and covered ^ j with water. We struggled through ' the best we could, more often swimler e ^ ming than walking coming somea times back to the same place we started from. What land we found | uncovered was occupied by moccaeg_ sins, and often we could hear the 0 . buzzing of the deadly rattlesnake, in. 3 of "The pangs of hunger were fierce, and the only food we could find was m p Ke blackberries, upon which we lived at from Saturday night at 12 o'clock ? .he until Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, hiG when we reached the hills, found a t0 negro house and purchased food, j' pledging him to keep our secret. "I suppose he gave us away, and [nk I hope he will some time get lost in _ that same swamp and experience the jU- g ter agony we suffered, to "Am an Old Man." ed. "I am an old man, 70 years of s rly age, harmless, and cannot stand the f dm strenuous life. Consequently, I am g to-day on the inside looking out, and s ery I had rather be here than in the t )ox Oconee swamps. )oy . "I will not say where we secured 3ut help to escape. They will look after -- - -- T ^ ne me SO ClOSe J. UU UUl see airy v^aiivc ied for further escape. No one can deex scribe the pangs of hunger. As I ing sit here eating, it seems they cannot 1 the be satisfied. This glass of milk de- t om serves a toast. Here's to the first 1 >w- beverage I ever drank, and I hope it * snt will be the last. md "Some people think I am a rich f man. That is not true. I have ^ as- handled lots of money, but gave it * sed away to poor people. t 1 a This is the vestige of life. I s the will go back and take it as I found t he it. I wish you all well. Good-bye." his ? ed, Men of Colleton Not Enthused. f md ?? * ^ V/alterboro, July 6.?B. B. Evans's t red attack on Attorney General Lyon \ As was the feature of that part of the <j on meeting here prior to the contest for t re_ governor. Lyon missed his train in l ere Charleston and did not get to the uz_ meeting here. Evans repeated many egs charges of the past and said the aer winding up comisssion with which ] T.vnn wnc nRcnoiatpd had "robbed up- ? your school children." Lnd Later he said he did "not believe Lnd Lyon is an honest man or a gentle- 8 cas man." Evans referred to the par- a ,ss_ don of John Black and said he e 3nt thought it an honorable act of the s ain governor. He characterized Black 8 lity as a persecuted man. There were F )rk many cheers for Lyon during Ev- ^ ans's speech. When Judge Jones was introduced _ b there was much cheering. (3 Judge Jones's speech was similar tor to those of past days and he was v the heard attentively. When he referred r ee, to the pardon of John Black there c me was an outburst of applause for ias Blease. Judge Jones sat down amid ? in small applause. ^ eld Gov. Blease was introduced amid v the small applause also. The crowd was ted less demonstrative than many yet ~ ro- faced by the candidates. vill Blease's speech was similar to past tee utterances. The crowd here was not ng, very demonstrative, but it seemed sle that the sentiment was equally diled vided between Jones and Blease. S al- Gov. Blease's efforts did not bring F lad forth the applause that they have in J the past. i STOREKEEPER SHOOTS NEGRO. ails Intruder Who Tries to Enter Rear Window. Summerville, July 5.?George [itchell, a negro, well known about ummerville, was shot and killed arly this morning by Mr. A. J. Pittlan. According to what can be jarned, Mr. Pittman, who runs a mall store in Berkeley county, on ae edge of Summerville, had been abbed several times, and had reeatedly tried to catch the robbers, ut had never succeeded. Early this i lorning before daylight he went to is store to obtain something, and 1 rhile there he heard a noise at one 1 f the back windows. He got his ' hotgun and waited, and as a man's 1 arm appeared trying to enter the i undow he fired, and the man fell 1 ack on the ground. i Investigation showed that it was ] litchell, and he had been struck in < tie middle of the forehead, about fteen buckshot entering his head nd killing him instantly. Mitchell t one time was porter for Mr. Pitti?n Wnrri was i m mediate! v sent 3 Magistrate Carns, of Berkeley ounty, but up to a late hour this < fternoon the inquest had not been eld. Collision on Southern. Greensboro, N. C., July 6?Enineer Thomas C. Beach, of Alexanria, Va., was fatally injured, dying iter ii^a hospital, and more than 50 assengers more or less seriouslyurt when the Southern Railway limted train No. 36, Atlanta to WashQgton collided head-on with a reight engine in the local yards at 1:40 o'clock this afternoon. The /recked train carried between 350 nd 400 passengers and is said to ave been going at a great speed /hen Engineer Beach applied the mergency brakes, 150 yards before he crash. Beach and his fireman both jumpd from the engine. The fireman fas not seriously mjuicu. Among the injured were J. B. iong, of Atlanta, and E. D. Brooks, >f Greenville, S. C. E. T. Lippinott, the Philadelphia publisher, was , passenger. The wreck was caused by the en;ine of train No. 36 taking an open witch, throwing it from the northiound track onto the southbound, 'he freight engine was less than 200 ards from the open switch, and the mpact was terrific. The operator delares that Engineer Beach disregardid a danger signal. Officials state hat the accident was due to an open witch, the responsibility for which las not been determined. Engineer Beach had been in the ervice 32 years, and to-day's was his irst wreck. He was the oldest engineer of this -division in point of ervice and among the veterans of he system. MADE "OFFICIAL FLOGGER." Ihief Marshal of Moultrie Empowered to Wield Whip. Moultrie, Ga., July 6.?The chief narshal of Moultrie was vested with he title of "official flogger" at a neeting of the board of aldermen lere last night. This action is attributed to the act that State convicts now are forking on the local streets and the >oard passed a resolution putting he city workhouse gang under the ame regulations as those governing he convicts. The ''chief flogger" wili be allowid to whip the convicts for any ofense warranting such punishment, tut he is cautioned not to flog memiers of the chain gang "in an over'iolent manner and only to enforce [iscipline." The legality of the ?oard's action is questioned by some ocal authorities. 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