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THE VALUE OF A REPUTATION.
\ Law Breakers Find a Bad One the Worst
Asset They Can Have.
When the New York gunmen
found.there was no hope for a pro- 1
longed life they began sending forth (
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messages to tne peuyie, urging mum to
be virtuous, in which case they ^
would be happy. Most criminals act 1
that way when they have reached 1
the end of their tether. In the old 1
days the gallows was a poular forum. 1
People who never had a chance to ?
make speeches anywhere else were 1
granted the precious boon when they *
appeared upon the scaffold, and nine- 1
ty-one such speeches out of a hun- 1
dred were devoted to moral issues 1
and wise counsel. ^
It happened many a time that 1
murderers, of whose guilt there was *
absolutely no question, would pro- 1
claim their innocence to the last, t
ortsi of o oq m c\ Hmo nrp'P thlPT ^
??U WW wuv C??JUiV ViUiV V% - 0 w V?.w.
hearers to be good and truthful and 1
law-abiding. 2
The New York gunman who was J
' most eloquent in his appeals to the 1
people said that he was to die for a ?
crime he never committed. His 2
death had been decreed merely be- *
cause he had a bad reputation. It 1
would be unkind and useless now to 1
dispute his claim of innocence, but it .
certainly is a dangerous thing for a
criminal to have. Every gunman
and murderer should keep his renown j
, like that of Caesar's wife, or he is
pretty sure to get into trouble. Of j
course, that is a hard thing to do, j
but it has been done by various mas- ters
of crime. Ambitious young men 1
who intend to make murder their i
| life work should study their careers. 1
f That a bad reputation is a serious I
handicap was demonstrated to Wil- f
liam Habron, a young man who lived \
near Manchester, England, in the <3
year 1875. While no serious crime
had ever been charged against him, I
he had been arrested several times, I
and was known to have a violent c
and quarrelsome temper. This made 1
him unpopular, and his neighbors \
all hoped that he would get into a
serious trouble before long. t
In the year mentioned he was ar- a
rested for some trifling misdemeanor, s
and at his trial constable cock was c
the chief witness against him. Ha- e
bron was acquitted, but instead of r
Ulnging and dancing and telling him- x
self to cheer up, he left the court- \
room in a great rage. As he went a
out he came upon the constable, and, a
in the presence of several witnesses, c
shook his fist under that able officer's c
nose and exclaimed: t
"I'll .'get even with you!" <3
The constable smiled genially and g
advised him to go to some convenient
place and soak his head. \
That night Constable Cock was a
found dying on his beat with & pistol i
bullet in hi6 body. He was too far \
gone to talk, and, if he knew who his s
murderer was, carried his secret to c
his grave. Naturally the first thought t
of the police had to do with William c
Habron. They rounded him up and c
were so satisfied with his guilt that c
they made no further inquiries. In s
due season he was brought to trial a
and the case against him was flimsy, s
It ie true that his boots fitted into c
tracks found where the constable c
was shot, but those tracks were not 1
necessarily made by the murdererer.
It was also true that he had bought a
cartridges at a hardware store several a
days before, but that was before his t
' Quarrel with Cock. There wasn't a t
' .
bit of evidence against him that
couldn't easily have been explained
away; but stronger than any evi '
dence was his evil reputation. That
^ was his Nemesis. He was quarrelM
some and revengeful, so of course,
W he must have killed the constable.
T He protested that he knew nothing
of the crime, but they all do that. It
is probable that the jury had some
lingering doubt as to his guilt, for
bis punishment was assessed at penal
servitude for life, although the crime
was one that called for gallows treatment.
So William went to a loathsome
prison to wear his life away,
and life in a British prison is no joke.
Let us leave him there for three or
four years and pay some attention
to a merry old gentleman who illustrates
the theory that one may be a
successful robber and murderer and
still preserve a spotless reputation.
This merry old gentleman was the
ugliest man in England, and his name
was Charles Peace. He has been described
as the master criminal of the
nineteenth century, and he earned
that distinction. He was five feet
high and skinny and slender, yet he
had the strength of a giant in his
, muscles. He had a crippled hand
and a crippled leg vet was as active s
?? an arrnhat artri rmilri rmtrnn a a
professional sprinter. He had a face r
so ugly that people who saw it once i
usually saw it often in their night- c
maree. He was absolutely pitiless C
and without a shred of honor, yet )
he was an artist and musician and an s
inventor of surprising talent. t
It must be admitted that in his own I
proper person his reputation was bad,
but it is an easy matter to assume a s
new name and a garb of respectabil- >
ity. The police of the whole world 1
were looking for Peace, because a s
EXCITING MAX HUNTS ENDS.
\"e<rro Wanted in Pickens County
Taken to Columbia.
Greenville, July 3.?A man hunt
hat began at Pickens Monday night
:ame-to an end near Franklin, X. C.,
esterday morning when Sheriff
ioark, of Pickens, and the chief of
>olice of that place captured the
legro, Floyd McCullom, charged
vith the murder of James Hendrix,
i white farmer, of Pickens, and
mother foul crime in the same neigh)or
hood. The negro was rushed
o Columbia in order to avert a lynchng,
it having been learned that peo)le
of Easley and Pickens were highy
excited over the trouble. The ne;ro
was chased over mountains and
;hrough swamps and, during that
;ime, the posse only slept 5 hours
md ate three meals from the time
hey left on Monday until last night.
V reward of $230 was offered by
he Governor ior me uegiu s v.-ayiu?c
tnd Sheriff Roark offered $50 more,
jfew particulars of the murder are
cnown. It yas learned through the
sheriff that Hendrix was killed with
l club behind his barn and that later
he negro, McCullom, was alleged to
lave added another crime to that of
nurder.
Bawled Out.
"How hoarse you are this mornng."
"Yes, my husband got home very
ate last night."?St. Louis Post-Dis>atch.
leavy price was on his head for the
nurder of a Mr. Dyson. Peace fell in
ove with Mrs. Dyson, and pestered
ter so much that the husband interered,
whereupon the passionate
rooer produced a gun and shot him
lead at his home.
When this crime was committed
>eace wore a venerable gray beard,
mmediately after the murder he cut
iff his alfalfa and called himself Mr.
Thompson. He also equipped himself
rith a false arm, having an iron hook
it the end. Mr. Thompson, with
lis clean-shaven face and his false '
.rm, took up his abode in a London
uburb, and it never occurred to any- 1
tody that he was other than he seem:d.
He was highly popular in the
leighborhood when once people got 1
ised to his atrocious face. He always
had good cigars in his pocket, '
ind wasn't stingy with them; and in
mother pocket he carried a supply of
andy, and when he met school chilIren
he treated them and begged
hem to obey their parents and Sunlay
school teacher, that they might
;row up to be good men and women.
By day Mr. Thompson worked over
arious inventions. One of them was
k fireman's helmet, which was used
n London for many years. Another
ras a devise for raising sunken vesels.
In after years admiralty officials
inspected it and pronounced it
he work of a man of genius. Among
ither things Mr. Thompson invented
l folding ladder, so small that it
could be carried in a hip pocket; yet
iO strong that a man could lean it
igainst a house and enter a secondary
window by it. That ladder tolay
is one of the most admired curi>sities
in the Black Museum of Scotand
Yard.
In the evening Mr. Thompson usu
Lily nitcnea up ms iai pouy auu iuun.
l long drive into the country. He was
roubled with insomnia, he sair* and
he doctor had recommended such a
:ourse. The months went by and
iome famous burglaries occurred.
Various immense hauls were made
ind the police could not find a clew.
They believed the work was done by
tn expert who worked alone and that
vas as far as they could get it.
One night Mr. Thompson didn't
:ome back from his drive and the
norning papers announced that a
mrglar had been caught in the act
>f robbing a residence, by Constable
tobinson. The constable was shot
luring the scuffle, but he hung onto
lis prisoner. For two weeks that
irisoner refused to say a word, and
lobody could guess who he was. Had
le stuck to that course he might
lever have been identified, but finally
le talked too much. The police .
veighed his remarks carefully and
>ut two and two together and con:luded
that they had the much wantid
Charles Peace in custody. It was
he happiest day they had experienc
!u in a. tuvu s asc.
He was tried for the murder of
dr. Dyson and found guilty without
he least bit of trouble, and sent;nced
to death. Immediately after
lis sentence he became extremely
lious and sent out the usual messages
to the young. When within
i day or two of execution and he
ealized there was no hope of a relieve
he called in a minister and
onfessed that he was the slayer of :
Nonstable Cock, for whose murder
William Habron was serving a life
;eatence. Habron was pardoned and
he government gave him $4,000 and
le lived happy ever after.
If this story shows anything, it
rtiows that a bad reputation Is the
vorst asset a criminal can have and
awbreakers should govern them;elves
accordingly.
BLIND MAN OPERATOR.
Lineman Attends to AH Work an<
Repairs.
Several private telephone exchang
es in the eastern part of Oklahomi
are operated by blind men, who per
form the work as rapidly and uner
ringly as men with perfect vision
and MeCurtain has a telephone ex
change that is operated by a blin<
man who also attends to all the othe
work of the exchange.
T. M. Warrell, 35 years old, wh<
has been blind since he was tw<
years old, is a half-owner of the Mc
Curtain exchange and attends to al
of the outside work of the exchange
says a MeCurtain (Okla.) dispatch ii
the New York world. He is a relie
and night operator of the system
He keeps his own books, using th<
New York point system, which h(
learned in the school for the hnn<
in Little Rock, Ark., where he spen
eight years of his boyhood.
In addition to keeping the book:
and acting as telephone operator
.Mr. Warrell installs his own tele
phones, strings the wires, clear
trouble on the lines and instrument
and does all of the work ordinaril;
done by linemen with perfect vision
If the lines are crossed from th<
outside Mr. Warrell enlists the serv
ices of a small boy. True to smal
boy nature, there is always somi
youngster willing and ready to hel]
the blind man and trace the troubh
until the youngster sees where" th<
wires are crossed. Mr. Warrell thei
puts on lineman's belt and spurs
climbs the pole and quickly clear
the trouble.
18-HOUR FLIGHT TO EUROPE.
Inventor of Telephone Believes Air
craft Will Cross Atlantic.
Washington, July 2.?That it wil
soon be possible to fly across th<
Atlantic Ocean in a heavier-than-ai:
machine in thirteen hours is the as
sertion of Dr. Alexander Grahan
Bell, inventor of the telephone, in i
communication to the National Geog
raphic Society, of which he was form
erly president.
"The distance from Newfoundlant
to Ireland is less than 2,000 miles,'
said Dr. Bell. "This means that i
you go at 100 miles an hour you wil
cross the Atlantic in twenty hours
less than a day,
"We have flying machines that g<
at a greater speed than that. We al
ready have machines that could cros:
the ocean if their engines could kec]
going twenty hours.
"At an elevation of two miles in th<
air there is a constant wind blowinj
in the general direction of Europe
having a velocity of 25 to 50 miles ai
hour. Besides the air is rarer a
that Height and a machine can fl;
faster.
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''Our oest macmnes slouiu ub aun
to cross the Atlantic in thirteci
Hours."
FOX RAISING IN GREENLAND.
Copenhagen Merchant Breeds Ani
mals in Captivity for Pelts.
A fur merchant of Copenhagen ha:
been experimenting in Greenlan<
with breeding foxes in captivity t<
obtain skins for the market. He wen
to Greenland in 1911 to initiate th<
enterprise and to assist in selectinj
a suitable '^cation. After visitinj
some 12 islands 'off the southen
coast of Greenland, he chose th<
small group of four Ikarrisat island:
in Good Hope bay. These islands ar<
surrounded by strong currents tha
prevent freezing of the sea durinj
winter. The land is covered witl
bowlders suitable for constructing
breeding holes. There is plenty o
fresh water and fish can be easily ob
tained to feed the animals.
The merchant who started the ex
periment is now in Copenhagen, bu
will leave in May with his family foi
the seat of his operations. Foxes wil
be caught in Greenland and trans
ported to their new quarters. Th<
cost of starting the enterprise will b<
borne by the Greenland governmen'
administration and the primary out
lay is estimated at $1,800 to $2,00(
yearly. No returns are expected be
fore four or five years.
The animals to be raised are th<
blue and white fox s. Greenland foxes
are all born blue, but about 40 pei
cent, turn white as they grow older
Dealers in fox skins pay good prices
for the blue variety. At the fur auc
tions last held in Copenhagen ?
Greenland blue fox sold for SSO.?
Daily Consular and Trade Reports.
Willed $40,000, Must Wait .">0 Years
San Diego, July 4.?Miss Lucretu
Dupree, 17, daughter of Frank B
Duriree. No. 1427 Fern street, Sar
Diego, is bequeathed property ir
Greeley, Colo., valued at $30,000 anc
$10,000 in cash by her grandfather
Miss Dupree's father is made exec
utor, and under the terms of the wil
she can not have contrci of the prop
erty for 50 years.
Miss Dupree, therefore, will be 6'
years of age when she will be able t(
command her property entirely.
I
NEGROES TO TEST CITY LAW.
;1 Pledge Fund to Try Segregation
Louisville Ordinance.
Louisville, Ky., July 5.?Financial
1 support in testing the constitution
ality of an ordinance segregating ne
groes in Louisville, was pledged by
several hundred negroes at a mass
- meeting here late to-day.
i The segregation ordinance became
r effective last May. It prohibits negrbes
from moving into city squares
^ in which most of the residents are
^ white. The same prohibition applies
- to white people. It was stated that
1 the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People would
1 assist in the legal fight against the
f law.
5 RENTS HOME IN ASHEYILLE.
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1 Serretary of State to Spend Part of
t Summer in N. r.
5 Asheville, X. C., July 3.?Secretary
'? of State W. J. Bryan has leased a
home in this city for the summer
5 months and with his family will
s spend as much time here as his
^ official duties at Washington will &1
low. Mrs. Bryan, accompanied by
e her daughter and grandson, will arrive
here the latter part of next
1 week and will remain until the early
e part of September.
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5 Cost of a Failure,
e
i In Russia a man, intending to kill
? himself, got in front of a railway
s train, but was pulled aside.
Then the authorities took him in
charge. They fined him for disorderly
rnndnrt irrmrisoned him for im
periling human life and gave him
" solitary confinement for interrupting
travel. It seems to be painfully difficult
to leave Russia by any route.?
1 Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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r South Carolina and Income Tax.
j Washington, July 3.?Receipts
l from corporations and individuals un-der
the income tax law for the fiscal
year ended June 30, made public today
by Commissioner Osborn, show
j that $102,126.32 was collected in
. South Carolina for corporation exf
cise and tax and $25,816,08 from inj
dividual incomes."
; DEPRESSED SPIRITS
? Everyone Has it Within
3 His Power to be Happy
Y
' A celebrated French physician has
said that "a man's liver is the baromt
eter of his disposition."
j Every man and every woman
knows that the cheerful smile is a
big factor in one's success.
Everyone should know that the dis1
ordered liver is cause of ninety per
cent of human ills. Lazy overworked
livers are the prime causes of
headaches, indigestion, constipation
and dozens of other ills.
But the inactive liver always warns
by coated tongue, sour stomach, dull
eye and even laziness. Heed your
warning and you insure happiness
to yourself and reflect it upon your
5 associates. Calomel used to do. Mod1
ern day science has found a better
j way in CARS WELL'S LIVER-AID
t which is a pure vegetable remedy on !
sale under guarantee or money re5
fund at 50 cents for large bottle. Ask
J at Mack's Drug Store about it.
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1 Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly
3 The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out
3 Malaria.enriche* the blood .and bnilds up the sys?
tem. A true tonic. For adults and children. 50c
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We have just received a large stock
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WEEK-END AND SUMMER I I
Excursion Rates j
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To The Seashore Via 1 he |
Atlantic Coast Line f|
The Standard Railroad of the South.
ROUND TRIP RATES
From Denmark to Washington, D. C $21.20
From Denmark to Baltimore, Md $21.20
From Denmark to New York City $30.20 \|
From Denmark to Boston, Mass $34.75
Tickets on sale every day until September 30th,
via Norfolk and Steamer, with final return
limit October 31st, 1914. .
From Denmark to Wilmington, N. C $6.40
Tickets on sale for all trains each Saturday and for
forenoon trains each Sunday until September
13th, 1914, limited returning to midnight of
Tuesday next following date of sale.
For Summer Excursion Rates to many Mountain, { %
Lake and Pleasure Resorts, and for any
information, reservations, etc., call on
J. B. LILES, Ticket Agent, Denmark, S. C.
Or Address
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W MAY WAI l/rn How To Glve O^ne To Children.
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nronimvr a r improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleashnhmuUri)
o. v. ant to take and does not disturb the stomach.
__ Children take it and never know it is Quinine.
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Plies Cared 111 6 to 14 UflvS aiio eipecimy aaapicu ??? -
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