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(* 4* VOL.11. NO. 44. CAMDEN, S. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1905. S1.5Q Per Year LITTLE MAKE-BELIEVE ? . 4 / A CHILD OF THE SLUMS. - :::::: by b. l. farjeon. CHAPTER X. Sow Thomas Dexter Made His Money. IS a go vr as flfty-sevea; liers "even and a half. His name was Thomas Dexter; hers Little Make-Believe. He was a crooked, ugly. pock-marked little man; she a crooked, ugly, pock -inn rked little girl. He was a general dealer; so was she. His shop was situated in the heart of Clare Market, which sotue people with fastidious notions call Lincoln's Inn Fields. The persons thus fastidiously in clined aud who thus, metaphorically, turn up their noses at Clare Market, are dwellers therein, and being gen teelly Inclined to wish to disguise the fact, resembllug in this .respect other persons higher in the social scale who reside in tfayswater and call it Hyde Park, to the confusion of the simole tninded cabmen (If any such exist) and unsuspicious friends from the country. Thomas Dexter gave himself no such ?Irs. Clare Market was good enough for him, and his ambition, in a residen tial way, did not extend beyond it. Thirty-three years had passed over liis head since, with his own hands, he painted on his shop windows the ?words, "Dexter, General Dealer," there not being room for "Thomas." Time and dust had eaten into this ?ign and quite obliterated it, as in due course they would eat into Thomas Dexter and quite obliterate him. When the painted letters of the le gend on his shop windows were fresh and bright Thomas Dexter, also fresh and bright, commenced business with exactly ?14 in gold, which he found, on the evening of his father's funeral, tied up in an old nightcap, in a hard lump close to the tassel. He had come home sad of face and at heart from the churchyard in which bis old friend and relative lay buried. He was not given to sentiment, but be and hi* father had been comrades ' for many a long year, and it was nat ural that lie should feel melancholy in bis loneliness. There was another reason for sad beartedncss; he had speut his last shil ling on his father's funeral. "Tom," his father had said to him in bis dying moments, "there's something Weighing on my mind." "Out with it, father," said Thomas Dexter, "If it'll ease yer." "I was horn iu this here neighbor hood," continued the old man,, "and so j was you, my boy. Lord, don't I re member the night you come into the world! And now I'm a-going out of it It was a Saturday night, and I was two mile away with my barrer in Totten ham Court road, where I had a pitch. The old woman w%s with me, looking arter the tin, and she Bed to me about 10 o'clock: 'Father,' sed she, 'I feel a bit queerish; I think I'd best go home.' ?All right, old girl,' sed I, 'trot off; I'll manage without yer.' 'Don't worry abent me,' she sed, smiling at me as she walked away; 'It's only a spasm.' That was you, Tom? you was the ?pasm. It was past 12 afore I got tome, and I no sooner put my head in at the door than I knew I was a father In real earnest, for you salooted me with a squall which you kept up, on and off, for a matter of three month9, I should say. You and tbaeld woman Was laying on this ve**y bed, in this very room. It's rum to think an, ain't it? It was sharp work, but your mother was sharp at anythink she set ber mind on. She'd hardly time to throw herself on the bed afore you was born. The room was dark, too? almost as dark as it is ndw." "Why, father," said Thomas Dexter, "it's broad daylight and the sun's a-sbining right into the winder!" "You'll allow me to know," mur mured the old man, with a fretful sigh. "I can see when it's dark and when It's light. I ain'Kdead yer, my boy. Tom, I've a sort of notion that I'm wander ing. Wbere was I, my boy?" "In this room, where mother wa? confined." "No? afore that! Where was I afore I come home that night?" "In Tottenham Court road, with t>? bnrrer."' "No, no, no! Afore that! Give a cove n leg up. What was I saying fust of all?" "Tbat you was born in this here neighborhood." "That's it? that's what's weighing on my mind! I wns born In Clare Mar ket, and there ain't a man, woman or child hereabouts as don't know me, and as wou't know presently tbat I'm a dead 'un. Tom, I shouldn't like to be taken out of the workshop In a shabby ?ort of way. Don't shove me under the turf as if I was a paniw. I)o It in style, old pal, and bury mo with feat hew!" The thing wns done. The old man was burled with feathers, and Thomas Dexter experienced a solemn satisfac tion as ho gazed at the sable plumes, (emblems of trumphnnt woe, which nodded at him In approval of his duti ful regard to his father's last wish. In the evening he looked over the old man's clothes to decide which to keep for personal wear and which to dis pose of for a new start in life. TJndec the mattress was his father's nightcap. Which, ?? he moved the bed, fall with ? ?poa the floor. Plefctof it up fluidity and loosening the l^not with his teeth, fourteen pieces of bright gold come Into view; also & paper, upon wlileh was Avritten: "For my l>oy, Tom. If he's burled me with feathers, they'll bring him luck." Delirious) j delighted at the discov ery of the treasure. Thomas Dexter clapped the old-fashioned nightcap on his head and danced about the room to a tune of his own composing, the ?uslc being the jingling of the sover eigns in the hollowed palms of his hands. The next monlog, being in a mora composed frame or mind, he took the shop down stairs, which happened to be het, and set up as his own master. He attended auctions and bought odds and ends. Nothing In the regular way at reguinr prices. He knew a trick worth two of that He had a craze for the antique. Any thing in that line? chipped and cracked china, never mind how chipped and cracked; rickety old furniture, never mind how rickety; miscellaneous lots, the more miscellaneous the better? i these were his hobby. And some kind of good luck or good judgment, or both combined, stood always at his elbow, invisibly guarding his interests. These ugly, crooked, pock-marked little men generally prosper, especially if they live on bread and salt butter, or bread and no butter, with an occa sional herring ,and an Ample suppty of potatoes, with perhaps, at long inter vals, a little bit of meat, wisely sel?ct> ed, and bought on the political economy principle. And what finer spot in all the wide world for living economically is there than Clare Market, where the cheap ening process goes on unceasingly the whole year through, from early in the morning till late in the night, when the grease and tar lamps are flaring in the wind ? Little Make-Believe could have* told you something about that. She was intimately acquainted with all tne entanglements and tortuous windings of Clare Market, and, young aa she was, had grown in the habit of lingering by the side of pale-faced women who stood before the butcher's board striving to coax th# man In the blue flannel apron to take a halfpenny a pound Ieit?, or at least to cut ofT' a little of the superfluous fat with which the meat was fringed? efforts which were very rarely successful. When Little Make-Believe witnessed the conclusion of such a bargain she would run to some convenient window sill, where with a r imaginary knife she would cut away ail the imaginary fat from an imaginary piece of meat, and hand it to an imaginary poor wom an, saying, with the air of a trader who is doing a splendid stroke of busi ness: ??There! Will that suit yer at tup pence a pound? Never mind the money. Pay me when jvr like!" At tlio end of thirty-three years vou might have multiplied by fourteen the fourteen sovereigns Thomas Dexter found in liis father's old-fashioned nightcap, and have inultipled that again by fourteen, and you would still have fallen short of the extent of his riches. Not that he had any Idea how much he was worth. That ho had no dlspo sitlon to count and gloat over his money and possessions was a sufficient proof that the grain of his nature was not mercenary. He was simply a man engrossed In his business, and he attended to It' patiently and shrewdly until his shop became crowded with the strangest collection of odds and ends that were ever gatherel under one roof. He took premises at the bnck of his shop, and almost before he could look around they became crowded also. Old armor, old brasses, old carvings, old lace, old enamels, old furniture, filled every nook and corner, and when a certain erratic taste for anything an cient and hideous came into vogue it was as good as a HtVJe fortune to hlra. Prosperity did not change him in the least. Frrxi a crooked, ugly, pock marked young man, he grew into a crooked, ugly, pock-marked middle aged roan, and further on into a crooked, ugly, pock-marked om man. Despising everything new, he never from the day he set up as his own master wore a new coat, a new hat, or a new pair of boots. Anything second hand in the way of clothing suited him If It was large enough, and as it was not the slightest consequence If it were many sizes too large, his appearance generally was that of a clumsllv done up bundle. As for the money he accumulated, he kept It anywhere except in a bank-In corners of his shop not accessible to customers, under the flooring, In th?? broken celling, In the wallK, in old fiddles, in cobwebbed crevices, tied up In bits of old calico and canvas aud chamois leather bags. Rome of these packages looked like diminutive legs of mutton; some like fingers and thumbs with large bread poultices on them. He had the greatest difficulty In squeer.kng himself of a night into the little room at the back of his shop in which he slept, so packed was It wit* ?*]???)? oddments. l t Bmpeided over his bead, In the shape ?( a net, by mean* of piece* of string tied to the bare rafters of the celling, was his father's nightcap, the tassel, as yon looked np, being the first part of It that met your eyes. A man of imagination might hare 'conjured np the outlines of old Dexter's ghost standing on his head In his night cap in reversal of the laws of nature, with his legs sticking upward through the roof. Into this nightcap Thomas Dexter for msnj years had been in the habit of throwing an odd piece of gold or silver upon every occasion of his making a good bargain, and it was now so heav ily weighted that, as he lay abed gaz ing at it, there was really a danger of the strings giving way and of its fall ing upon his crocked nose and making it crookeder. But he did not sttempt to remove this constant source of danger. He re garded his father's nightcap with su perstitious reverence, and he had a fear that if he shifted its position, even by a hair's breadth, it might change his luck. He lived all alone, without chick or child. He washed and cooked and did everything for himself. If Guuid had possessed a rusty antiquated arrow, fie might have sent It in the direction of Dexter's shop; but Cupid's arrows are always new and brightly polished, and such shining articles would have been completely wasted upon this dealer In odds and ends. One arrow, indeed, had found its way to Thomas Dexter's heart, but that was many years ago. and he was now fast growing Jo be an old man, without a soul In the world to love or take care of him. As for an occasional kiss from or upon a pair of fresh young lips, he had forgotten the taste of such a thing? assuming, of course, that he ever had enjoyed It. Kissing, indeed! What time did any person suppose Thomas Dexter had fcr kissing! CHAPTER II. Thomas Dexter's Romance*. The Blight reference to the arrow which many years ago had found Its way to Thomas Dexter's heart fur? nlshes materia! for detail? which shall be brief as woman's love. Yes, Thomas Dexter had had his ro mance. The scene was Clare Market, the time twelve years ago. He was treating himself to a cheap stroll through the busy thoroughfares when, stopping for a moment at a vegetable stall, his eyes suddenly met the ey^s of JPolly Cleaver. She was no stranger to him, being a native of the locality. He must have seen her thousands of times, and he had never given her a thought; cer tainly it never entered his mind to pay her the slightest attention. Rut his time had now arrived? and the woman. A magnetic spark flashed rrom Polly's eyes into his. Thomas Dexter's heart was lost, and Polly Cleaver was the winner. Love Is blind; but to be blind Is not necessarily to be foolish. Mortals deprived of sight are, as a rule, shrewd enough, gome are cun ning; some nre cruel; few are thor oughly simple. Love is an exception, however, being frequently foolish ns well as blind. Of course it was Saturday night. If any prince In disguise wished to seek for adventure In London street, let him select Saturday night for the enter prise. Then come out the toilers and moll ers, the pleasure-seekers, tho nain reapers. Girls who have been at work all the week flit about like butterflies, and en Joy blissful moments, meeting their lovers, and helping to All the theatres and music halls. The streets and public houses are thronged; the sky is lurid with the re flection of myriad gas jets. From tho garrets and the cellars creep strange tigures into the light-tho old, the decrepit, the solitary drinker, the stranger among millions, the man whom nobody knows, the child whom nobody owns, the wretch in hiding, the undiscovered murderer. It Is the holt, day hour of the week. Polly Cleaver was not alone. Her father was by her side, with a glass or two, or more correctly speaking, tho contents of a pewter pot or two in him. In which respect Polly war, his match, and therefore, prudence might have suggested, no match for Thomas Dex ter. Rut when was love prudent? 1 he girl was not even pretty, and she and her family were certainly not re spcctabK All son's of fp^er stories of i *v 8 ?ol,,K? on" were current. rhoinas Cleaver did not think of this when he went home on that Saturday night with the image of Tolly Cleaver in his mind s eye. ? P?l,y C,eavcr? Polly Cleaver! He Cleaver k ?f not,,ln,; but Po,,y What eyes she had! What a com plexlon. What a laughing mouth, what large white teeth. Ho Idealized every feature in her face, every move ment of her body. The nan was pos sessed. 1 Ho passed n bad nlgjd. and l\e might w.vJ\hn?. VcJ?r l,a<1 1,0 not foun<l >>'< way to Polly Cleaver's lodgings on tho or <1 Jl 'J* d,,v' "hMt the natural order of time wan Sunday. Mr. Cleaver, who had been all his life \ carpenter out of work, met Thomas Dexler on the stairs, as that love-lorn mortal was mounting to the second Bl7?l ^ TTh,Ch tb? C,p"vpr? 'o Hallo!" cried Mr. Cleaver. "What brings you here?" What could Thomas Dexter reply to In h V?.rU!,t "I've como to see how Polly g." (To be Continued.) *tni I KILLED: 5 (INJURED j ? Result of Collision on Pennsyl vania Raflroad 25 FREIGHT CARS DEMOLISHED Two .tfest-Boiwd Freights Were Wrecked on Pennsylvania. Railroad Near Harrisburg, by Rear End Col lision. Harrisburg, Pa., Special. ? One mnn killed, five injured and twenty-live freight cars, two postal cars, one bag gaffe car and one Pullman car totally wrecked as the result of a rear end collision of two west bound freights, and the subsequent collision of a pas senger train into a wi*eck on the Pennsylvania liailroad at Thompson; town. 1). (J. Huntsbee, brakeinau of Harrisburg, is the man who was killed Branch Died From Blows. Annapolis, Md.. Special ? The pro secution used its heavy artillery in the line of medical testimony during Thursday's session of the court mar tial which is trying Midshipman Mer iwether for manslaughter iti connec tion with the death of .Midshipman Branch. Important witnesses being I)r. .1. M. T. Finney, chief surgeon of the .John's Hopkins University, of Baltimore; Dr. Henry M. Thomas, neurologist of the same institution and .1. C. Byrnes, the chief medical ofticer attached to the Naval Acade my. The operation upon Midshipman Branch, consisting of lifting and fold' intr over a jxntion of the skid I in order to remove such blood clots as might be formed, was performed by Dr. Fin ney, and Dr. Thomas, the specialist in that line, came to Annapolis at Dr. Finney's request in ord:?r to locate from the symptoms the proper place for the operation. Dr. Bryues was called in consultation with Dr. Stone shortly after Branch had been broueht to the hospital. Much evidence of a deeply interest ing, though sometimes technical char acter, was given by the medical men. One point of interest brought, ont in explanation of the fact tint the skul! was opened on the right side, that the nerves controlling one yide of 1he body , cross from the opposite of the brain, while the nerves controlling the facial musics do not. It was further brought out that the injury, though on the ri?*ht side, was occasioned by the successive fist blows on the left side of the head. The injury was of the na ture blows to the skull 011 one side of the bead having the effect of fo re in u: the brains against the walls of the skull and causing compression in that way. All the medical ollicers gave it as their very positive conviction that {{ranch died from the effect of the medically known as "eontrc cop,'* the blows he had received in his fight with Meriwether. Big Fire in Cotton. Augusta, (in.. Special. ? Augusta was visited by a lire which destroyed or damaged one thousand bales of cotton, and also damaged the ware house in which the staple yras stored. There is no j>ossihle explanation of the cause of the fire, as the compart ment in which is originated had not been opened for two days, and there were no signs of lire before the bla/.e burst forth. The warehouse is owned by Nixon and Danjforth and the building n:id contents were fully cov ered by insurance. The loss is esti mated to be in the neighborhood of $40,000. The firo is now under con trol. Big Lumber Deal. Nashville, Special. ? A Bristol, Tonn., dispatch says: J. W Wilkin son of Bristol has closccl a deal for 17,000,000 feet of lumber and timber in North Carolina. The land lies along the Southern railroad near Ashevillo. Tlio amount reported to be involved in tlio deal is alialf mil lion dollars. Firo at Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Ind., Special ? Fire caused damage to the stock of the I'ndger Furniture Company to 1he n mount of J?7.r?,000 and injured 1 lie two seven-story buildings on Wash ington street occupied bv tbe company to the extent of $10,000. Tbe Colum bia National Hank which occupied an adjoining building was damaged by water. During the progress of tlio (ire securities to th* amount of $000,000 were removed from the brink for safely. Tragedy Follows Marriage Annislon, Ala., Special ? ??. K. Phillips, a well known farmer, was shot and instantlv killed near llills by Creek bridge, a few miles from Obel postofllce, by Will (Mine, nn ? ?tliei* farmer. Tbe son of Phillips >ritn^sse<l the shooting, ('line made hin escape. Phillips' son ray away i recently with the daughter of Cline ; and they were married here. WILL PRESERVE FORESTS X Mauun to be Introduced at the Oomins Seuion of the General As sembly. Major Lewis W. Haskell, aNneuilier of the Richland delegation in tl?e bouse of representatives, will intro duce a bill at the approaching session of the legislature which will provide for a study of the forest conditions in this State by tbe agricultural experi ment station at Clemson college in co operation with tbe United States de partment of agriculture. Tbis is a step that is of the greatest | importance to tbe State, as is attested by tbe opinion of all who have bad oc- i cusion or opportunity to investigate these conditions and learn of the de pleted condition of our forests. The time for this action seems propitious, ns the department of agriculture is of fering to appropriate for the purpose an amount equal to any appropriation tbe State may make, and in addition to that it will detail a forestry expert ?to devote his time and attention to the work of reclaiming the South Carolina trees. In a letter to Major Haskell on the subject, Mr. Gilford Pinchot, the gov ernment forester, says: 44 1 am glad to see that you are taking an active 111 terest in* the welfare of your State forests as well as the prosperity of the other business interests within your State which must be affected by the forest conditions. The forest service has always ad vised a study of forest conditions pre paratory to the introduction ot a State forest law. believing that condi tions in the various States require a modification of the fundamental ideas necessarv to such a law. 1 uisuaut to this idea, several of the States have already asked the forest service to eo operate with them in such an investi gation. It has luen the custom of tins bureau to accept such invitations and to expend in the necessary study an amount equal to that appropriated by the State." . ,, . The important section in Majoi Haskel's proposed bill will provide that it shall be the duty <?f the agri cultural experiment station of Clem son College to conduct investigation? in the several sections ot the State m order to discover the variety of vah* able trees best suited to grow on toe various kind* of land in the State; jfl determine the cost and the best meth ods of propagating, planting, cultivat ing and managing wood lots and plan tations on various kinds ot sou; to de termine by investigation the average growth of the various kinds of trees, and the relative value of the various kinds of timber for commercial pur poses; to conduct experiments in th? treatment on the various kinds or woods for the purpose of increasing durability, and to determine by ex periment and investigation the kind ot trees and shrubs best suited to va rious situations for windbreaks and ?lieitcr, and for decorative planting and managing the same, and to issue bulletins or publications from time to time containing useful information and recommendations upon subjects specified, and to make a full and com plete report to the government ot woik done, experiments made, information obtained, etc., prior to the convening of the legislature in .January, l ?'?<? and every year thereafter.? Colombia State. ' Greenville Anxious to Keep Consta bles. (1 reenville, Special .?Word t Vat Governor llcyward will remote the constables from this county was rece ived with regret by many citizens a there is a strong sentiment here in 1. - vor of retaining the constabulary and putftng on the half mill tax. It is said 00 per oent of the txpayeis an in favor of paying the tax to have 1 constables remain and the cit> and county officers without exeep ion a c in favor of retaining the const uibu lary. Saved From Death By His Son. Laurens. Special. ? Thomas Fuller, a mill operative at the Laurens cotton mills, was struck and very seriously injured by an incoming freight on the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad, receiving a number of ugly and dangerous cuts about his face and on the head. The accident happened in a cut just beyond the Laurens mill it. ".re and but for the presence of mind of his ten-year-old son who was -?iUi him Fuller, iu all probability would have been killed outright by the train. Four Hundrod Cattle Driven From Tennessee. Rock Hill, Special. ? Four hundred rattle have just arrived here, having been driven all tlicv way from east Tennessee to Hock Hill through the country. The cattle have all been de horned. Not one ol' them weighs less than 700 pounds while the maximum weight is 1,000. The steers arrived in fine condition and presented a sight that is seldom seen in this sec tion. FelF Into Well. Rock Hill, Special. ? The little son of Mr. Clem Gordon, aged about one year and n halt', while playing in the yard at its home on Mack street Fri day morning, fell about fifteen or twenty feet into a well and into water at least fifteen feet deep. Marvelous to state he was rescued alive and seem ingly unhurt, although unconscious and very cold. ? PALMETTO AFFAIRS Occurrence of Interest From AN Over South Carolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover inf a Wide Range ? What is Going On in Onr State. Colombia Cotton Market. The cotton market limn. Ix>w middling 10' K Low middling,^ I ""*? m Strict low middling lO"^ Middling U (Jood ii! itKl I i i iic lP'H General Cotton Market. Atlanta, tirin 11 3-10 (iutilvcston, linn 11 1-2 New Orleans, linn 110-10 Mobile, linu 11 1-2 Savannah, steady 11 0-10 Charleston, tirnt 111-4 Wilmington, steady 11 1 - 1 ti The Railroads Are Prospering. Some interesting figures have been compiled- by Secretary Duncan of the rairoad commission from the annual re|M?rts tiled by the railroads doing! business in this State. The figures show the enonnous growth of ?ross and net business in this State and em phasize the prosperous condition ?>t South Carolina. They are as follows: (ieneral exhibit of total incomc all sources, rail mails in South Carolina, for the fiscal year ending June 30th. 1!K).">, with comparison with figures for fiscal year ending' June 30th, 1004. Total income all sources, 1005, $14, 830,400.77; 1004. $13,811,700.07. All operating expenses, 1005, $0. 708.035.7 4 : 1004, $0,534,720.24. Income less expenses, $5,087,834. 03: 1004, $1,330,083.00. Taxes. 1005, *404, 023.(50 ; 1004, $482,058.05. Net income less expenses and taxes 1005, $4,503, V 0.37 ; 1004, $3,824,023. 71. Tonntvre (tons)^ 1003, 8,400,5:10: 1004, 8,070,153. The Berkeley vail road has deficit of $003.25; taxes, $200.10. The Carolina and Western railroad has deficit of $2,202.25; taxes, $205.13. The Seveirn and Knoxvillc railroad has deficit of $8,057.75; taxes, $8,. 057.73. The Pickens railroad lias deficit ol $402.52; taxes. $321.40. Increase earning of 1005 over 1004. $750,875.08. As to Removing I, he Constables. (lovernor I ley ward's attention hav ing heen called to the controversy i:i (Jreenville papers relative to the keep ing of constables in that county af ter the dispensary has been removed, lie stated that he would observe the custom which he had set in the Chero kee case at the beginning of this epi demic of voting out the dispensary, lie will remove the constahles if he thinks that the people of a eoy.nty in the exercise of their intention to keep goe:l faith will enforce the dis pensary law and maintain prohibi tion. I in t if it should appear t hat these people of honest intention can nof enforce the law through the ef forts of the regularly appointed peace oHicers, he will, after consulting with leading county and municipal olliccrs and citizens ? restore the constables to a county which is unable otherwise to cope with the blind tigers. With reference to (Ireeuville and Spartan burg particularly, he said that the result of the elections had no! been declared and he would not act until then .although he is keeping advised of the arguments which are being made pro and con. The Farmers' Union. Anderson, Spcciul.--Thc State < ??m vention of the Farmers' Kducational and Co-Operative union nu t. lien-. The deliberations of the body are sccrH and nothing has been given out for puhlientiou. There are more than 100 delegates in attendance, most ol tlieni being from the neighborly nj: counties. Columbian as Corporator. A charter ha* been issued bv t 1m. secretary ol" State of North Carolina for an i?e plant maun fact m ini* as sociation, being a combination ol plauls in several States. The capita) Hlock is $10,000. The company will deal in ice plant, machinery, manu facture ice, lease or nub-lease or it: any way acquire property. The i n?'? ? i porntoi* iur : William K. Worth, Wil mington, N. ; George I-. linker, Co lutnbia ; A. Kllis, Augusta, (in.; W. .1 Husliton nnd W. ?.1. Thompson, l'ir miughuni, A In. Small Boy Killed With Parlor Rifle, Mamberp, Special. ? A very deplor able affair oeourred in the factory por tion of town last Saturday afternoon which affords another illustration of criminal carelessness of parents in al lowing children to handle firearms Sevcrv small boys were playing with a parlor rifle an 1 ore I'Mlr Mlow. l'? years of age, shot and instantly killc.i another boy of 8, the bullet entering the heart. MORE LIVES LOST Another Fatal Railway Wreck Leaves Death in its Wake 15 DIE IN CRASH OR BY FIRE Massachusetts' Worst Train Disaster in Many Years Occurs When Sun day Night Express ?'ron Boston on Bostcn & Maine Crashes Into Rear cf a Local Lincoln, Mi-.ss., Special.-- The must disastrous railroad wreck in tl,:s Statc for many years occurred at S:l!> o'clock Sunday night :it Kukri;** Bridal* Nation, a mil;.* an i a hah' west ol Lincoln, tut the main 1?:k* of t tic* Fit ?-hhurg division of i ho Huston A. Maine Kaiiroad. Tin.' retrular Suiduy i'X|Hrss, which left Huston at 7 uVIdik for .Montreal \i- t !i?* Kutlami system, crashed into tin* roar of a lo eal train which stalled from Huston at 7.1~? for points on t!ie mai l lino am'. the Marllioro hramii. At lea<t !."? iwrsons killed out right In. i tied to death or sutYocatcd, and 110 or mo if were seriousU injured M:.uy passengers sustained minorcuts, bruises and Inirns The wreck was primarily di.e to thick weather, which apparently o1. scured signals set by the forward t rain.* which, at the time of the dis aster. was standing in front of Bak er's Hridge station. Tin* Montricu train, drawn hy two locomotives ami consisting also of nine cars crashc?t into the rear of the Marlboro hiaucfo local, demolishing the two rear cars. All of the passengers killed ami seriously injured were in these. Tlif passengers lived in Concord. West Ac ton, Ma.Miard, Hudson. M.irliroro mid: several smaller towns in the Asabrt Valley. None of the passengers oiu the Montreal train were seriously hurt hut the engineer and fireman of the leading locomotive were kill* il. The wreckage caught lire and some* of the passengers were incarcerated Few persons live in the vicinity Baker's Bridge station :;ml no fire dA- ( partment was available, so that ther' jinnies practically burned themselves out. Uninjured passengers and an um ber of train hands, assisted by villag ers. went to the aid of the injured.' and many persons were rescued. A special train with doctors wan sent from Boston at 0.;i."> o'clock, aint ? reached here in half an hour. Many doctors from Walt ham and other places in this section were sent to the seme in carriage and by other train**.. Eank Clearings for the Week. New York, Speeial.--Tlie following table, compiled by Hradsheet, shows the bank clearings at a number of the principal cities for the week ended Nov. 24. with the percentage of in crease and decrease as compared \vitf? the corresponding week last. year. Seventy-two other cities are included in ihc iotals: New York $2,024.7S7.1 7!l, increase. 1 Cliigcao $2IS.710.400, increase '{.'{..'5; Itostou $1." 000, S00. increase 21.0: Philadelphia $1 ~>0,0S0,000, hi erease .'Mi. 7 ; New Orleans $20.M(l,fMU, increase 117.7: Louisville $ I2..V?0,200. increase III .0 ; Memphis +7,S.'5S,7'lL\ in crease 2.">.."?; Hiehinoml 12.!l"?">, de crease .">.7; Atlanta -:;l. fi.YT.IOI, iu crease IMi.O; Nashville $!?,0M| ..'(70. in crease .'5S.;5 ; Norfolk $2,4f?7,420. in ercose 20.5; Augusta, tea., .i2.~?H<).(i22.. increase 71.0; Kuoxville $1.42 LSI!, increase 20.0; Charleston, S. C.. $|. 702,1; 50. increase 40.7; ( 'hat lituoogj*. $1 ..'11 "i.S0.~?. increase 75.1; .lacl ^on ville, Fla., $1 .'207, 0Sj), increase 70.7: XI :i con $047,4411, increase 72.5; Sav vannah $7,0~?0,0.'50, increase 07. 1. Total I'nited States .*11,00 1,0;)S,74?? increase 20.5; outside New York -i t 0t50,K5 1 ,508, iuciTflse 150.0. Heresy Trial of Dr. Bradley. N? wtj-iri. (J. i., S|i<MMnl. 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