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A SAD STORY. The First Aatb.en.tio Account of How Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., DIED ALONE IN THE ARTIC WILDB How Giant, Skeleton-luke Mon Kept Death Away bj* Mating Thouin and .Hones They Picked Up. Here is tho first authentic story of the pitiful death by starvation of Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., in tho wilds of Labrador. It-comes in a letter re ceived "Wednesday from Dillon Wal lace, a survivor of tb* exploring ex pedition, though written months ago. Its intensely graphic feature is the extract from tho dying Hubbard's diary: Northwest River, Labrador, ) December 3, ' o.t. ? Before this reaches you my tele gram, thao 1 will send forward by the mail ca:lier to be t ransmitted to you by cable from Chateau Hay. the near est telegraph otlice, will have been re ceived by you, and you will know of Mr. Hubbard's sad death, but not, until you receive this, the details. On .inly 15, we left Northwest Uiver, and on August 1 were practi cally out of provisions. On August 3 we killed four geese: on August 12 a big stag caribou; from that forward we lived on the caribou meat, which we had dried, but which was soon gone, and at long intervals .succeeded in killing a goose or duck or grouse, with our lilies and pistols. Karly in September the weather grew too cold for tish to bite. Our salt and sugar were gone early and wo ate every thing boiled an 1 drank the waler our food was hobed in. Hirds were eaten whol ly, heads, feet and everything but the feathers. At length, about thc middle of September, or a little earlier, wc reached some large lake away in the interior. From a high, barren hill the great lake we had been aiming for could be seen-Lake Michaknraah. Then thc time for the caribou migra tion was past and reluctantly we turned homeward over our old t rail in land, not having seen an Indian or any human being' since leaving North west River. Winter was upon us and before September was gone the tem perature dropped to li? degrees above /.ero. Then we broke our thermome ter and could gel tn? record. On October li we reached t he camp where we had kiilud the caribou ami got together thc dried bones we had left and boild them for soup. We scraped the skin from the head and boiled timi ate that. We scraped up what was left of the stoma h and ate that. The horns wc scorched in the lire and ate them. Hefore wc began our ret reat from the big lake 1 had lost thirteen inches in waist measure. Our bones were slick ing through the skin. I know the others looked, especially Hubbard, like walkieg skeletons. Wewereso weak at. length that we could not sit clown without fall ng. At. length one day Hubbard would not carry his little pack and 1 made him follow without any load. The next day, October 1", was the same. He could go no further. We pitched the tent, made him lie down and George and 1 got together wood for a * -Jire_. We ive re eighty miles from Northwest River, hut at the head of Grand Lake, forty miles away, we hoped to lind some trappers and food. On the way up. some twelve miles below where ll uliban! gave out, we had left a hag with some remnants of wet Hour in it, audit was decided that we should leave our caribou bom s and some pieces of Hour bag 1 found (thrown away on the way upi, for Hubbard, and that George and I gu on the next morning to the Hour bag we had abandoned, hoping to lind some flour in it. The next morning, after getting some wood and wrapping Hubbard in my blankets. George and 1 started. Hefore going 1 read Chapter XIV, ol' .lohn, and athis request, my favorite. Chapter Nil. of First Corinthians. I some how felt, that I would never see him ali ve again, and it was very bani togo. His entry in his diary will tell you of our parting', and 1 quote: "October 18, IU?3. A lone in camp. For two days past we have, travelled down our old trail with light packs. On Thursday I "busted.' Friday and Saturday it. was the saine. I saw it was hopeless for nie lo try lo go further with t he boys. "They will try to reach the Hour tomorrow. Then Wallace will come back lo me. George will go on lo Gland Lake if he can. and semi or lead help to us. Our past two days have been Irving ones. I have not written my diary because so very weak. "yesterday al an old camp we found the end we bad cut from a Hour bag lt bad a bit of Hour sticking to lt. We boiled it with our old caribou boues and it thickened the broth a little. We also found a can of mustard we had thrown away. 1 sat. and held it in my hand a long time, thinking how it came from home. Then 1 toidi a bite ol' it and it was very good. We mixed some in our bone soup and it seemed to .stimulate us. We had a hit ol' caribou skin in thal, .same spot, lt swelled up thiel: and was very good. "Last night 1 fell asleep while the boys were reading to me. This morn ing 1 was very, very sleepy. After the boys left tiley left me Li a, the cari bou bones and another end of Hour sack found here and some yeast cakes -1 drank a cup of strong tea and some bone brid li. 1 also ate some of the reilly delicious rawhide (boiled with banes) and it made me stronger -strong to write this. Our paning was most i fleeting. George said: 'The Lord help US Hubbard; with His help i'll -.ave. you if 1 can gel out.' Then he cried: so did Wallace Wallace stooped and kissed my cheeks with Iiis poor, sunken, heired lips several times: I kissed his. George did the same, and I kissed his cheek. Then they went away. God bless and help them. "My tent is pitched in open-Lent style, in front ol'a r ick. Tin.' rock rclLcts thc lire, but now it is going out because id' thc rain. I shall let it go out and close thc tent till Hie rain ii over, thus keep-out wind and sav i ig wood. To-night or to-morrow, per haps, the weather will improve so I can build a Hie, eat the rest of my moccasins and a pair of cowhide mit tens. Tiley ought Lo help some. "I am not sn Ile ring. Thc acute pangs of hunger have given way to indiirercnce. 1 am sleepy. 1 L11 i ri tc death from starvation is not so b id. Hut let no one suppose 1 expect it: 1 am prepared, that is all. i think thc boys will be able, with the Lord's help, to save mc." On the m ?ming of October is, when George and I left camp, a drizzling cold rain was falling. At dusk on tbc '?Otb we reached the flour oag. lt contained only some lumps of mouldy green stuff. The next morning George, with the greater part, of this to help him in his loug lourney to Grand Lake, and I, with what clung to the bag and a few lumps of the stu iv, parted, and I began my return march toward Hub bard and camp. Before noon the snow was half way to my kuees. The spruce and Ur tree branches were bending low with their weight of snow; the river was partially frozen, and the winde appearance of the country was chang ed. The snow had obliterated all land marks, and after walking up and down several times where 1 thought thc camp must be, 1 was at length com pelled to give up the'search, and bead ed toward Grand Lake. My intellect was numbed through weakuess, and 1 walked in a half dream. And so it was, day after day, night after night, until 1 lost all r?cord of thc time I had been away from camp and did not know the day of thc week or even what month ft was. Then 1 beard some men shout, very near me, and almost immediately four dark-faced men on snowshoes, with big packs on their backs, came over the bank. Then 1 remembered George was to try summon to Donald Blake from Grand Lake. 1 knew Donald and I recognized him as one of the men. I spoke his name. "Hominid Blake," and then he took my band in his, and my senses returned with the touch of human tlesh. Ina moment they had a roaring tire and some hot tea, and gave me a slice of bread anti and butter. I atc it and it made mo sick, but did me good. Everything I atc for two weeks made me sick. My rcscurers were Allen G randy, a part blood Indian, and Donald I flake, Gil bert Blake and Duncan MacLane, part blood Esquimaux, all trappers. 1 sent Allen Gandy and D maid Blake rlgl on to look for Hubbard. They fouud him in a sleeping posture dead, and bc had evidently gone to sleep after making the entry quoted above on the 18th, and never woke up. Ceorge and I leached |N. AV. Uiver November 0. Mr. Mackenzie, the man ager, w>ok me to his home, called his man from the company house to cut my hair and shave me (.1 had not had a hair cut since leaving New York, or a shave since .Inly 15), a tub of water fora warm balli, a suit of nightcloth es and a good soft, bed, and made a tire in my room. Ile rubbed my legs and put me to bed after ,-aipper. His little housekeeper cried over our troubles, and did everything she could for nie. They have been very kind, and here 1 am making my home while here. Mr. Hubbard's collin came to day. Mr. Mackenzie had the lumber people make it. They brought it from Kena rn ?sh by dour train. With lots of love, Your Kllectionale B other, Di L.t.? i.V. - A ?UEEE TALE In a Vision a Husband Came to a Som el i mo W i le. A letter to Ti ie S ale from Creen wood says an interesting and curious case is that of Cha iles I lobe rt soi i, a well-to-do negro, a nat ve of this sec tion, who appears before a former wife in a vision, sn she declares, caus ing lier to leave lier then husband The Robertson negro soon after died and now this wife No. 1 is about to die. The dead negro's relatives are squabbling over the property left by him and a great suit is on to decide the case. The negroes are greatly In terested in it. The story is this: About lt) years ago Charles Robertson was a negro rai pent er here in Greenwood and (lo in;: well. Discovering that another negro had alienated his wife's affec tions lie left Greenwood for Atlanta. lil At lama ?ie began business as a I rack man an 1 at the time ol' his death be owned three hacks and was con sidered prosperous for a negro. In the course ol' time he married an Atlanta negro who survives bim. Meanwhile the wife he had lt fl in fi cecilwood also married again. This husband having died she married a third lime. This hubsbanrl, George Davis by name, and herself were liv ing amicably together until about two months ago. ()ne morning she announced lo him that she had had a vision the night before in which she saw her former and tirst husband surrounded by a group of angels and heard a voice tel ling her lo change 1e r life and pre pare to meet her Cud. She was so Im pressed willi the "vision" that she drove Davis from the bea riband home and iias liol lived with mm since. lier lirst husband's death occurring shortly tilter in Atlanta and her own serious illness have created a deep Im pression among other negroes that the vision is a''divinely inspired" one. Wilt; No. i! issuing for what the Rob ertson negro left as arc also the rela tives of Wile No. I, uht) is still able to be interested in that, and also thc sisters of the dead negro, who wish both wives deprived ul any part ill his estate. The cast: will be tried at the next term of court. Doini; Mis linty. A dispatch from New York says Mayor McClellan is making a record for himself. Those who were to think at first that Ins attitude against the gambling and criminal elements ol' the city al the beginning of his ad ministration was merely a bluff and noi destined to last long, aro becom ing convinced that they were mis taken. The iri?yor has not changed his al t it ude in t he least. in spit e of ?ill temptation and notwithstanding the fact that a large majority of the Tam many billowing is by no means in sympathy with his efforts to suppress gambling in Ibis city. I'ol ice Com missioner Me A doo, who seems lt? be in complete harmony with the mayor io this iiiiti-gaiubliiig caiiipiign, evident ly recognizes I he fact dat Mayor Mc Clellan means business and is deter mined to keep the lid down tight, even if sonic of the Tammany follow ers should gel pinched in Hie process. Assistant Commissioner of Police HaggerU made the latal mistake lo believe that Hie order to keep the lid down In Greater New York was liol incant seriously and encouraged the police olllcials in Brooklyn in their attitude of passive resistance to the orders from headquarters. Ile paid for his Crror Of judgment by losing bis ? head. He was requested lo resign and when he. refused lo do so, he was deposed without ceremony. His re moval has han a decidedly salutary effect upon t he 11 rook 1J li pol ice depart - ment and resulted in a number of raids upon gambling houses and pool rooms. The liny Crop. The Stale says hay does not figure largely in the calculations of thc southern farmer, yet the value of the hay crop in the United States is from $50,000,000 to * 100,000,000 greater than that of cotton. > A TALE OP HORROR. ? Mormon Bishop Married Five Girls of One Family. SISTER MARRIAGES A CUSTOM. UI<1 Brigham Young Was Among tho First to Set thc Example? timi it HUH Been Ucllgiously Tolerated. When Andrew Jansen, of Salt Lake, the historian of the Mormon Church, was recently called to testify before thc- Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections in the Smoot trial, a resident of Utah who was in the com mittee room said: "Now you'll hear a startling story. Jansen bas three wives. Ile married two sisters, and he was later 'sealed for eternity' to their mother.*' This was promptly verilicd .by Jun sen. He said that he had married two young girls who were sisters, and that both these girls were then liviug with him in one house in Utah. Investigation dlsohsis that these "sister marriages" are now, aud have heen, customary among the Mormons. Brigham Young was among thc tirst to pet the example. In tth early part of his matrimonial careel he made thc acquaintance of two beautiful girls in Utah. Soon after be met them he received adivine "revelation" admon ishing him to endow them with all his worldly gooda--that is, all that had not been distributed among the wives he already had. These girls were twins, and it was di 111 cult even for members of their family to distinguish one from the other. Brigham Young determined to wed one of them. TWIN* TA K KS ItlUDE'S PLACE, On the day of the ceremony, how ever, the chosen sister's heart failed her, and she persuaded the other one to take her place at thc altar. Brig ham Voung did not discover the de ception for several days. When he learned thc faets he sent the "bride into exile-forbidding her all com pany for a number of years. Soon afterward he wedded the other sister. ll is fashionable for high dignlta rics of the Mormon Church to entei these "sister marriages.'' Among the wives of the late president of thc Church, Lorenzo Snow, were two sis ters. Joseph K. Smith, president of the church, wedded the two Lamson (girls, Mist Julia and later Edna. Francis Marion Lyman, au apostle of the Church has plural wives. Among I them arc the Oal'ister girls-Clan: and SUSHI, of Kilmore, Crab. George Teasdale, another apostle, wedder! Mary Loretta Pix ton and her sister, of Kophi, Utah. Angus M. Cannon, S'ate President at Bluff bile, Utah, numbers among his wives two sisters wlio.se "maiden name'' was Muuslcy. One ceremony was sufficient tor both reddings. Til lt KU SISTKlt WIVES IN O NIC HOUSE. The ?ate Bishop Johnson, of Spring ville. Utah, wedded live sisters. Ste phen Moat, of American Fork, Utah, wed let! three sisters, ail of whom, with their score or more of chilrlrcn, live in one bouse at American Fori;. Lons Newman, of Monroe, Utah, varied the monotony of his matrimo nial life by marrying two buxom I tali women-the tirst of whom is thc mother of the second. Joseph Atkins, of Preston, Idaho, followed Newman's example. William Parkinson, of Franklin, Idaho, wedded a woman whom "the cruelty of fate" placed in his hands. In I8;Y7 a company of pioneers mak ing their way to California, was at tacked by Mormons, seeking wives. All were ma>sacred except the wo men and seventeen children from one to eight years of age. These seven teen children were reared by the Mor mons who had slaughtered their fa thers. One of them, when she grew up to womanhood, became the plural wi fe of Parkinson. lllSIIOr HOLDS TUE UKI OKI). William Maughan, thc Bishop of j Millisville, Utah, holds the record for "sister marriages." Among his wives, are three pails of sisters. Ile "went through the temple" three times, and each time he carried two sisters on his artus. Thc late Ueurge ?,?. Cannon, one of the apostles, wedded the Tully sis leis. Emanuel Baloy, of Oakly. Idaho, mai ried three sisters-Charlotte, Lot tie and Hulda. Another Mormon who wedded three sisters is George Stanger, of Wann Creek, Idaho. VI ma Merrill, son of Apostle Mer rill, wedded Che two Hendricks girls. They live at Itlclimond, Ulah. tile Berg, of Bich Held, Ulah, has two wives. They are sislcrs and their names are Brighamina and Jcsaphina. Mariah Smart and her sister, Char lotte, arc. the wives of S. ll. Parkin son, of Preston, Idaho. I ly rum Watson's case may litly close the list. Hyrum wedded two sisters on the same day. Less than a year after wife No. I had twin boys. Four days later wife No. 2 had twin girls. MOUMONS WHO MAUKIBD SISTEItS. Brigham Young, two sister-. Andrew Jansen, ('?lurch Historian, two sisters. Lorenz > Snow, late president, two sisiers. Joseph F. Smith, president of church, I vvo sisters. Francis Mai ion Lyman, apostle, two sisters. George Teasdale, apostle, two .sis ters. Angus M. Cannon, Slate President, two sisters at one time. I.air Bishop Johnson, live sisters. Stephen Moat, three sisters. ?Villiam Maughan, three pairs id' .lisi?is. George Stranger, three sisters. Alma MeiriH, son cd' apostle, two s' ste rs. t tic Herg, two sisters. S. lt, Parkinson, two sisters. My mm Watson, two sisters, who each bore him twins a year later. Big Dittlingen. The Charleston Posl says Hf ten thousand two hundred dollars was the amount of (lainages awarded hy the jill'} in Hie. case of William G. Smith VS. thc Atlantic. C?tlSt Line, which was tried in the court of common pleas Wednesday. The verdict is one of the heaviest for damages ever ren dered by a Charleston jury. Mr. P. ll. Gadsden, attorney for the railroad, said that he would make a motion for a new trial. The plaint ill' brought suit against, the road for injuries receive.1 lasl October, while in the employ of the company as brakeman lind switch man. The accident occurred in the railroad yards. Smith went in be tween two cars to inspect some brakes that were defect i ve when the train moved, passing over both his legs, in juring both members to such an ex tent that amputation was necessary. SOMETHING BEHIND DOOR Wouldn't Como Out, so a Revolver Was Emptied ln& it. Joseph Kreig, a farmer of Sand Creek Indiana, township, Bartholo mew County, was entertaining friends a night or two ago. Late In the even ing, after one of thc youugp'* guests had told a number of h? :alslng stories about hold-ups o West, whence he had recently letumed, Miss Fredia Kreig had occasion to go to an adjoining roorri. She pushed .the door open and lt Hew back, hitting her In the face. She opened lt again and again the doorclosod on her us though some one sv.as pushing from the other side. She ran Into the room where the guests were assembled, and told her father that some one vVas In the room and held the door against her. Mr. Kreig went to thc door and met with the same experience that his daugh ter had encountered. He then rush ed violently against the door and was hurled back Into the rcom, the door opening but oart of the way, and ap parently being thrown back by some one on the opposite side. Mr. Krelg1 told his daughter to bring his shot gun, but it was in the room where thc suppose burglar held the door. A re volver was substituted. George Kreig forced his head through the opening and attempted to peer behind the door,-but it, was forced back against him so that lt caught his neck, and bc was glad to pull his head back without getting a look at the intruder. Then two of the guests were sent outside tft guard the windows, and the elder Kreig armed himself with a stick of stove wood and a lamp, lld! Wilbur, one of the gaests, had a lire shovel, and another .guest the revol ver. Tho intruder was again called and told lo ci me out or sutler, thc consequences, but he evidently chose to sulTer, for no resp msc came t . the command. Young Kreig then put his arm through the opening, turned the re volver toward whatever was behind the door and li rod one shot, The women screamed and the excitement became intense. Another deman l was made on the Intruder. Ile failed to respond and shot after shot was li red from the pis tol in tiic hand through the opening. Still these was no movement from within. Then the two ITrelgs, Wil bur and Lay rushed again*t the dom and broke it fr m its hinges. .lust behind was the ironing board, which had fallen from irs re..ting place and too! ?n Lodged against thc doo; that it operated as a spring to force it shut whenever the door was pressed back against it. There were futir bul let holes in the board, and all agreed that if it had been a man lie would have been killed by that ii ret shot, but If that had not been fatal, the second would certainly have finished him._ TO MINE PHOSPHATE. Central Company .Asks tor Exclusive Kielli to Work Marsh Lands. The Slate phosphate commission was iii session Thursday and a matter of more than usual interest to the State was discussed. Mr. E. O. Hughes, au attorney of Charleston, appeared before the board represent ing the Cent ntl Phosphate company, which owns a plant of Stoic: O'* value. Mr. Hughes sut?"it ' ' yoarri two propositions, one of wb fi was re jected, the other granted. It is well known than in recent years South Carolina's once tpparenl ly inexhaustible supply of phosphate rock has dwindled lo almost absurd proportions in comparison with the outlook. The cost of mining Mm rock is said to be less in Tennessee., Florida and in Algeria, three, favorite sources of supply*. Suthee to say that while a few years ago Sont li Carolina derived $200,000 from revenue in thc indus try,?last year she received but a pal try $25,000. The cost ol mining is said to be in excels of the prices obtained for Hie natural fertilizer in view of the com petition now existing. Mr. Hughes said yesterday that his clients had been opera! ing at a loss for some t Imc and that it was possible that the plant might ha vi to be shill down. Ile asked that the State reduced t he royalty which is now 25 cents oil each ton. Aller consideration, 1 be board declined to make the change The tax was formerly $1 |au-ton and the lax is now pledged to ibe bond holders of the Si al e. In case ?f a rise in the price of the rock a rate less than 25 cents per toil would be out of proport ion. The second proposit ion was an in terest ing one and may help the in dustry materially. The Cent ral com pany asked exclusive right to mine '{,000 acres of marsh kind owned by the Statt; and containing phosphate rock. This marsh is covered with water at high tide, but Hie milling may be done on the ebb. The board granted this privilege with the proviso thal the work must be conducted under the supervision ol' State ecologist Karie Sloan. The tax paid will be f> cents per lon for Ibo lirst year. I fi cents for the second year and 25 cents for tho third year, the grant being for tbree years. The experiment bas never been tried before and will therefore be Watched with considerable interest. Parisian capital owns thc Central company. The. Stale. Tho lliulils Of Trauips. Tlie supreme court ol' h wa insists that the tramp has rights which must be respected, lt.says in cll'ect that when a nomadic individual ls uncere moniously tossed from a moving rail way train by ah inconsiderate conduc tor and injured thereby he may re cover damages from the railway cor poration, lt appear-, that one Joseph Josnson, a gentleman ol' leisure and ol peripatetic habit, was forcibly ejected from a moving train for insisting upon riding wilb an paying his fare. Ile sustained injuries and bi ought suit against the. road for damages. The tower court of Put tawat t amie county held that a tramp ha l no rights and that tlie trainman was justifiable in throwing him from the train, no mal ler what t he result might ne. A new trial was granted and a favorable de cision rendered, and up ai taking the case to the supreme this last decision was sustained, giving the tramp com plainant judgment tor injuries sustain ed. lt has been popularly supposed that the tramp has no rights which any one is bound to respect, but thc Iowa decision puts another phase on the matter, lt ls a term admonition that the tramp must be handled gent ly. If YO" t"ss '''in from a moving train you must do it in such a way as not to Injure him. Ii' he c. ?mes to the back door to make inroads upon {.be family larder the bulldog must bo tightly chained. The decision opens up a great field for sagacious tramps. DOOMED TO OBLIVION. Such Is (ho Fate That Awaits ITs at Death's Door. Senator Hanna has been dead how long? To most of us his death seen s rather a distant event; and yet lt was but nineteen days ago. February 16, the day after, the country talked of nothing else aud all the newspapers were full of Hanna. Then came the funeral and we had columns of de scription and of apprc late reminis cence. Then we turned away from the grave of the most prominent mau on the continent, and one of the strongest, aod began to think of some thing else; and today we may search the daily newspapers from end to end without linding in them the natue of Hanna, which occurred in some con nection in almost every bsue of every paper of the country from 189(5 to H)04-ten yeaars the foremost man of thc dominant political party, a leader of thought and action, applauded and denounced, pictured until his face be came more familiar to us than that of our nearest friend, attended by crowds X'agcr to see one so famous, pointed out everywhere he went: and in ten days almost forgot. We who live may learn what our fates must be. No matter how successful our lives, how Important we may think our selves to be, we are doomed to oblivion and dumb [ forgetfulness along with our humble and obscured brothers and sisters who are unknown even to their next door neighbors. Nobody ls cs smtial. Everybody's plat--, can be tilled, little as we may think it. We loom large in our spheres and may learn to believe and may make tithers believe that we are thc potent and necessary forces. Hut we die, our success irs are cht sen and installed, the world goes on its way and even thc special machinery we thougt we wore driving continues to run smooth ly without a jar or a break ?md giving no evidence that we have been or are not. Tuc presence once familiar and pervaisc is present no more; the voice that was heard add was waited for, respected, feared, which gave thc plans and thc signals for action, is .bushed, to remain hushed forever; but there is no vacancy au I no stop ping. Our fate is a matter of knowledge, nut of supposition. From the begin ning of the world important men. strong men, ruling men, kings, em perors, generals, leaders a id masters in all human endeavor have died and humanity and all the a (fairs of the world have moved right on, and pres on tl y they have been forgotten. Even ot the very greatest little remains but their nam s and records. The men themselves are lost. Nobody living today knows the actual personality of George Washington or could form an accurate mental picture of bim We know in a general way how nc stood and looked when he was posing for a picture or ia statue, and his height and weight and the color of his eyes and hair, hui tins: are but details In the mysterious thing we call person ality and which neither pictures nor statues can represent. Wc are doom ed to be forgotten, it is pathetic in one point of view and comforting in another, lt is saddening to think that the memory ol all our lives, so vivid and intense to us, in which we are engrossed, that all our activities, all our triumphs and disappoint ments, large or-small, shall pass away with us. Our friends may cut otu names In stone, but two generations hence the idle young people walking through the cemetery will read those names without recognition and with no knowledge of who we are of any thing that we have done. Yet, if we slopped to mourn our dead, motion would bc wasted in lamentation It is a wisc and merciful decree that we shall forget. The world's work must bj done, and humanity may not huger by tts gras es. If this world and this life are all. if our living here is not preparation for living somewhere and somehow else, if death is Hie end, all of us may realize how empty and idle and futile it i.s. We cannot make any thing that will endure permanently or keep the memory of us or even our names alive. The builders of the pyramids are for go! ten. Nat ions which combined t bei r powers to establish great cl Hes have vanished, and HiGir cities w ith them, ff there is no life hut this, our lives have but little more dignity, meaning or purpose than those of the epheme ra, born with the sunshine and old, decayed and elead at nightfall. Il is han! to understand Hie philosophy which teaches thal man with mem ory, inventive faculties, soul, purpose and emotions, is made for nothing more or better than this. Consider ing life as a period t>f preparation or as part of a process of evolution ami development, il is logical, just ami bas meaning and design. Consider ing il as a thing beginning when we tire I dru Into the world and li Dished when we are buried out of the world, it is empty, blank and purposeless and nothing remains worth striving for but the gra tl Heat ion of the appe tites and needs we share with the animals. The memory of any human life tades as the waning day clouds to twi light and to night. Uliman grief vanishes as thc darkness gives way little by little to the coming of thc morning. None of us can hope to bc re me m bc red long lo ha.'e our names or our doings endure many years, lt should be a comfort to us to know, as WC do know that the grief for us even among tlio.se nearest and dar est to us, will be mitigated presently .is time goes by, and will give way Indore thc actual work and the active concerns of the busy life of which wc shall cease to be part. Yet, If there is nothing more to come, the doom of oblivion is bittei ness and wc can not hut feel that all our striving, labor, sorrow, pain have been wasted. If we are destined to live on in the Beyond, if weare privileged to know that the good wc do and say shall remain not only in this world after we have left lt, but in a world to come where we shall meet it, the doom is Comforting and the (bought of it must soothe the pangs of departing. Thc above is from the pen eif Mr. A. B, Williams, Editor of the Rich mond News. Itobboel tho (.allows. Al Tuskagec, Ala., on Thursday Ralph Armstrong, under sentenco of death for tho murder of his cousin, Miss Alice Armstoiig, committed sui cide in his cell. He killed the young woman because she refused to marry bim. Armstrong was a son of the late Col. I!. Clay Armstrong, consul to Rio Janeiro under President Cleve land, and was a member of one of the mosl prominent families in thc State. SKNATOII Tillman is at bis home nt Trenton recuperating. His throat is about well again. JUDGE PARKER COMMENDED. Ex'Guv. D. H. Ohnmberl'an Writes or tho Now York Jurist. To the Editor of the State: It lias seemed to me a singular faot that the name- and personality of Judge Alton B. Parker of "New York should have met with the treatment which one sees on many nanos. Tho most persistent and universal remark has been that he ls an "unknown quantity." Now, it is true that Judge Parker bas not been for many years a pratlclpant in more partisan politics. I suppose he has never in his life man ipulated primaries or packed caucuses. He has held judicial olllce s'nee he was ?IO years of age, and he is now the chief judge of the court of appeals of tlie State of New York, an ofliee which in dignity, power, and importance is second to but one other judicial olllce in our country, lie lias respected and honored his position by observing at all times a judicial demeanor and by carefully avoiding participation in the feudB and scrambles of factions and of partisan political warfare. Does this make him an uukuown quantity? Tile truth is, he has been known on all hands during his whole life as a strict and unreserved Democrat. 1 don't believe there is a mau it the State of New York who ls known everywhere as a more unequivocal, ingrained Dem ocrat In his principles, his sympathies and his conduct. Has the word Dem ocrat, has thc name Democratic, no such significance, no such fixed value, that a great public character of 30 years' standing must come before the people, in the incipiency of his candi dacy for a political olllce willi a d?fini tion of these terms, and with fresh verbal vouchers of his political stand ing and view?? lt seems to me that Judge Parker has followed and is now following the only course which self respect, person al and official decorum, and due re gard for public propriety dcfrmlt. He is no more an unknown quantity than Grover Cleveland or Richard Olney. He la no more called upon to issue a political pronunclamento than is any ' other great Democrat who has lived as such in the public eye for more than a quarter of a century. It sim Dly argues one's own ignorance to speak of Judge Parki r as unknown. Not only is he the peer in intellect of any man in bis party, he has behind him a record of lifelong, unflinching, and devoted adherence to his party, in point, loo, of personal character, habit and associations, he%will bear compar asen willi any living man. Ile has no occasion to attest by fresh words his party fealty. lie has attested it by a life of un vary lng, open and un questioned loyalty to his party and his political faith. He has carried the State of New York, too, when every other candidate of his party was o ve r w h e 1 m i n gl y d e f ea ted. For one, 1 trust Judg? Parker will hold his ptesjnt way until events shall make it proper for him to lav aciclo his judicial character and accept political leude i sh i p. By such a coins? he will best commend himse lf to the confidence of his party and of the country. In my judgment he is quite certainly to be before long adjudged the one available Democrat who can with reasonable certainty carry the Slate of New York In the next presi dential election: and the man who will then carry New York will proba bly be our next president. Cleve land has withdrawn himself pen rup torlly and finally, and it seems the sti iking felicity of the hour thatl??T great pivotal State can present anoth er candidate second to no man in our winde country in ability, in character, in devotion to the principle s-of his party as they will undoubtedly bc ex pressed by the coming Democratic ha th nal convention, and in general fit ness for the high oilice of our chief executive; and quite unequaled in his probable capacity to win success in tile State and States where the real tesS and decisive conflict will lie. D. H. CllAMIUfiltLAIN. Columbia, March 21, 1004. A NEW TRIAL ORDERED lu tho Case ol'McDaniel Who Killed a Town Mur.-hal. The now famous case of the Sl ate vs. lt. W. MeDiuiel has been remand eel to the circuit court of Lexington county for a new trial. The case has now become very well known in South Carolina and the opinion ot the su preme court is quite interesting in this connection. McDaniel killed Lee Neecc, the town marshal of Swan sea, Christmas eve, 1 '.>0i?, and was Mied for his life in January, 1903, be t?re Judge Klugll. The jury found McDaniel'guilty of murder wini how ever, a recommendation to mercy. The sentence Imposed was life I rn pris ju ment. The defendant appealed to the supreme court and pending the appeal applied to the supreme court for leave to move in the circuit court for a new trial on the ground of after-discovered evidence. This application failed by reation of au equal division of opinion among the four justice-? of the su preme court though no formal opin ion was delivered so as to show how the justices stood on the question. Tue Slate says the appeal was then heard in the supreme court ar.d the sentence was affirmed- Mr. Justice Jones delivering the opinion and all the other justices concurring. Judge. Kniest. Gary sat in place ol Justice Ktigenc Gary, who was il! at thc time. There upon Hie prisoner through, his counsel moved for a rehearing in thc supreme court, on the ground thal Ibo court had overlooked an important principal of Hie law, to thc defend ant's disadvantage. After due de liberation the court, granted the re hearing. The case came up again at thc last November term Of lli>- supreme court, and was thc fully argued with the result that the judgment of thc cir cuit court is set aside and a new trial granter!. Justice Jones says in his opinion of Thurs lay : "It was error, therefore, to instruct the jury to dis regard the plea of accidental homic ide, if the defendant failed lo estab lish it by the preponderance' ol the evidence." The opinion in effect bolds that thc plea Of homicide hy misadven ture does not constitute- an affirma tive defense, which the defendant must establish hy a preponderance of the evidence." The opinion further states that there was error "in charging that the burden of proof has shifted to Hie de fendant at all on thequestl ni whether the killing was accidental.'' "For this material error In an other-wise clear and able charge," says Justice Jones, "the judgment must be reversed." There was a large array of counsel for McDaniel, Gen. LeRoy F. Youmans of this city being employed in the processes in the supreme court. McDaniel had entered upon his ser vice at the State prison before the ef forts or Gen. Youmans secured for him a new trial. ?? FR?Cl ? 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