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?. RECENT PARDON. How Tardy Ju?tice At last Came to a Negro Convict. A WHITE MAN'S CONFESSION. A Remarkable Case Revealing Very Peculiar Conditions With tho Scene Laid on tho Public Square at Barnwell. The State says further facts were obtained Tuesday from Mr. G. Dun can Bellinger, who had just returned from attending court at his old home In Barnwell, in reference to the death bed confession of Town Marshal Dun can Owens. This confession resulted a few days ago in the unconditional pardon of Anderson Nix, who hud served nearly seven years of a life term in the penitentiary for a killing which the town marshal had done. The story reveals a strange and almost incomprehensible condition of con science on the part of the white man, and an almost equally curious sense of justice on the part of live or six lead ing white men of Barnwell. It was over three years between the confession and the granting of the pardon. There was only one witness to the confession, and he a negro, sworn to secrecy. That tardy justice ever came to the negro Nix was solely due to the fact that the gist of the secret leaked out and some of the white men who had seen Owens lire the fatal shot corroborated the truth of it. Owens' confession portrays a curious condition of conscience of Ids part, which was sensitive enough "never to have know a moment's peace on ac count of the killing," but which was too proud and selfish to yield a bit of inexpensive justice to a fellow man who was suffering punishment for a crime he himself had committed. Rather than reflect upon the fact that after lie had been laid In his grave his neighbors would know that it was he that had fired the fatal shot and that he had allowed the innocent negro to go to the penitentiary for his crime, this town marshall, dying of consumption, sought to solvo his out raged conscience by making a confes sion but at the same Lime by swear ing his confessor to secrecy attempted to bottle up the last avenue through which justice might come to the negro. The while witnesses to thc killing, who remained silent at the trial which resulted in Nix's conviction, which near costing him his iieek instead of his liberty for life, did not volunteer what they knew until years after the town marshall's death. Even after the secret of the confession leaked out and several white men of Influence and reputation had corroborated it. one white witness refused to give an affidavit unless he was paid $;>o for it. Mr. Bellinger, who declines to give the name of this man, on learning this fact told the friends of the negro who were seeking the pardon that an affidavit from this man would have no weight whether paid for or voluntary, and there is no affidavit from him among the papers submitted with the petition for pardon. "Nix is not altogether a martyr," said Mr. Bellinger, who was thesolici . t/ir.that' conducted the prosecution. "There is no shadow of a doubt even now but that he was engaged in riot ous conduct, and conviction of this would have resulted in his getting about six or seven years. Ile admitt ed firing his weapon In the riot which occurred on tho public square when it was full of negroes who had come to town on an excursion. With a smok ing revolver he ran into the arms ol the negro Felix Thurman-to whom Owens afterward confessed and who was at the time acting tis assistant town marshall with Owens. The friends of the negro have for several years been trying to obtain a pardon, but it has not been my custom to en dorse pardon petitions: still wheo the news of this confession came to me recently I unhesitatingly consented todo all in my power to secure the pardon, provided these alleged white witnesses would corroborate Thur man's slaloment so as to remove all possibility of the governor's being imposed upon. Thurman had been an employe of the town council down there for a number of years, and 1 knew him to be a reliable man, and I therefore thought, the account he gave of the confession was very likely. "Green could hardly complain of the fate that overtook him. At the time lie was fleeing through that gate he was turning back as he ran and tiring into the crowd on the square. How he failed to miss all those negroes is a mystery that will never be explained." Those from whom affidavits wore submitted with tho petition for par don are: Mayor C. F. Calhoun, E. \V. Bellinger, E. F. Woodward and and the negro Felix Thurman. Inhis affidavit Mayor C. F. Calhoun says: "Deponent was .standing at what is known as 'Ryon's corner,' on Main street, talking to Duncan Owens. When the tiring began in the publicsquarein full view of depon ent and Owens, t he latter started into the public square by the gate leading from the square to the Hank of Barn well, with deponent following him. Just before Owens reached the gate Jennings Green ran out of it from t he square, and as he passed Owens deponent saw Owens shoot him, and at the tiring of the pistol deponent saw Green draw himself up as though he had been hit, and after running a few steps further, fell dying almost instantly." Felix Thurman's affidavit says: ''I knew Duncan Owens intimately, hav ing frequently been on the police force of Barnwell with him; that about three years ago said Owens died of eon sumption. The evening before lie died Owens had a talk wit h mo about tho killing of Jennings Green. Ile said Nix was suffering for the killing of Green, but. was innocent; that he (Owens) did the killing, and was suffering as much JUS Nix could; that his life was a pro longed agony because of his having shot Green." Thc affidavits of Messrs. Hell inger and Woodward are similar to that of Mr. Calhoun. They were both near Owens at the time and saw him lire thc shot. Following is Mr. G. I). Bellinger's endorsement of the petition for par don: "This is a peculiar ease of t he pun ishment of a mari for a crime he did not commit because the real murderer was a white man who kept secret his offense until on his deathbed, when other white men of position and un doubted veracity came forward and cor? oho rated the statement of the guilty man, now dead. "At the time of tho conviction 1 had no doubt of the guilt of the de fendant, Anderson Nix, a negro, who wen certainly engagecLat the time of the killing In reckless tiring on the streets. Now, however, knowing well the character of the men making affidavits for the pardon aud hearing talk by othes who saw the town mar I shall, lire the fatal shot, I am con vinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that Nh was nob responsible for the death of tbe slain, and inasmuch ?is he and Owens, the self-confessed mur derer, wero not acting in concert, Nix is guilty neither In law nor mor als. 1 therefore earnestly urge _the immediate pardon of defendant."" DREAMS TEAT CAME TRUE. Scientists Telia of Premonitory Visions That Como to Pasn. Premonitory dreams are scoffed at by the sceptic of matters psychic, but nevertheless some of the visions of this kiad are related as truth by met? of science and research. Camille Flammarion, the noted astronomer, in his book, "The Unknown," tells the following: "'During a certain summer one of my sisters had gone with her husband and liar children to live in the little town of Nogent (llaute-Marne:) my father had accompanied them and my mother remained in Paris. All the children were in good health and no one felt any uneasiness in regard to them. My mother dreamed that she received a letter from my father in which she read this sentence: T am the hearer of a sad piece of news; lit tle Henri has just died In convulsions, with hardly any previous illness.' My mother, on awakening, said to herself: 'It is not hing but a dream; it is all Imagination and deception.' A week afterwards a letter from ray father contained precisely this very phrase. My poor sister had just lost her young est child in consequence of convul sions. "My oldest brother, Emile Zi pel ins, an artist, died on September IG, Wi"), 25 years of age, lie was drowned while bathing in the Moselle, lie lived in Paris, but he was then visiting his parents at Pompey, near Nancy. My mother had dreamed twice, of wide intervals, that this son would be drowned. "When tho person charged to bear the terrible news to bis parents came to inform them my mother, feeling sure that he came to announce some misfortune, lirst asked could it be anything about an absent daughter, from whom she had no news for sev eral days. When he told her t hat il was nothing about her daughter, she said; 'Don't tell, mer then. I know what it is. -My son is drowned.' We bad a letter from him thal same day, so that nothing could have led us to foresee such a catastrophe. "My brother himself had said to his concierge a short time before: 'If any night 1 do not come home go the next day to the morgue and look for mc. 1 have a presentiment that 1 shall die in the water. "My parents livid in thc small town nf Montigny le-Rui (flaute Marne.) 1 bad begun my studies at Langres, and they bad decided to leave the country for the capital, ac tuated, above all, by the desire t<> open to their children the most prom ising career. A fortnight before their departure my mother dreamed that she had arrived in Paris and she had crossed to wide streets and reached a canal, across which there was an ele vated bridge. Some little time after ber actual arrival in Paris she went to pay a visit; to one of her relatives who lived In the Rue Fontaine-au-Rol, i IT ttie Faubourg du Temple, and, upon reaching the canal, she was much surprised to recognize the bridge, the qjay, the whole appearance of the neighborhood, of which it was impos sible that she could have any knowl edge either by means of pictures or in any other way. "This dream is very difficult to ex plain. lt would seem to prove that the mind is able to see at a distance, and during the night, details which conform by day to the image remain ing in the brain. This, however, is hard to believe."_ An Importun! Decision. Three opinions were Hied In the su preme court Tuesday by .lustice Mu gene ll. Gary, but only one was ol public Interest. This was the case of Lockwood vs. Lockwood. William ll. Lockwood was for many years pro prietor of the Hank of Beaufort, a private institution. Fie died July 2:t. 1!R>2, being testate and solvent. There were many claims against his bank and among these were the claims of IL O. Adams, county treasurer ($4, 18".ail,) and George Gage, clerk and treasurer of the city of Beaufort ($1, :?">1.77). These two depositors claimed perference over other creditors saying that the moneys they wished tn recov er were public funds. They were sus tained in this contention by the cir cuit judge. Appeal was made, the tidy ipicstion raised being whether or not tho judge was right jn sustaining this claim. The appellants maintain td that the sums deposited were in Lhe names of Adams and Lage, as treasurers, and this fact should give them nu preference. Judge Gary sus nins thc lower court, giving several luthoritics and also citing section ?358 of the code of laws. The fund.-. ?ere not the actual properties of these treasurers, lu-says, and they could not lave drawn upon them in their Indi vidual capacity, some recognition of heir official status being necessary. I'u bl ic funds have preference in cases >f this kind, _ < hniiKod Her Biory. At Chicago on Wednesday a -lind's testimony reversed saved live men rom the gallows. The result was a ?triking parallel to the case In which i striking fortnight ago Millionaire I'eter Van Vlissingen practically de monstrated that under the police pres sure ahoy named Wilt rax had given false testimony leading to thc convic tion of the boy's father for murder. This instance of youthful unreliabili ty under oath was in tho case of Wm. McCarthy, and four Polish young men JU trial for murder, the witness being i little girl, Appollonia Tarpsta, who gave first direct straighforward eye witness testimony apparently estab lishment beyond question the guilt nf the men. and then repudiated her swum evidence. In explanation of thc remarkable change of front, the child declared that she had been In structed how to testify by the widow nf the man. Charges against the pris oners were withdrawn on t he spot by the Slate's attorney, the live men im mediately walking out, free by the court._ Dropped Dead. Hen Wi Ilia ins, a well-to-do colored man of Anderson county, (14 yeats of ige, died Tuesday under distressing drctimstances. His daughter, aged -4, bad died of consumption. On tho ?vay tuber funeral thc father chopped lead ofhoaif disease. COTTON FUTURES. Is it Gambling for a Person to Seal ia Them? OLD COTTON DEALER'S OPINION. Tho Difference- Between Speculation and Actual I ii vom men t. There Liles tho Moral ol' tho Whole Question. To the Editor of The Suuday News: Together with many other Christian ministers, 1 have been perplexed about "Cotton futures." I have, therefore, sought the opinion of a brother clergy man, who was for many years In the cotton business, both at home and abroad. With the hope that many Christians may appreciate the impor tance of the subject, I append his re I'ply. Clergyman. I am not surprised at a great many being perplexed over the "Futures" situation and a great deal of harm has been done by men talking of busi ness problems who do not know any thing of the subject aud will listen to no argument from those who do know, sucli as one or two wiiom 1 know and could name. Even with the number of years experience 1 have had in the cotton business 1 feel it a subject that requires great caution in its treat ment. As I believe there is good and bad in it I have treated it as looking upon it from both sides in an impar tial manner, lt would be a splendid Hiing if a law could be passed and enforced prohibiting ejnployces from giving speculative orders without the written conseut of their employers, but as wc do not live in tlie millen nium such could never be done. I ara hand in glove with any sensible plan that will stop gambling amongst young men. Your first question: Is dealing in cotton futures any worse than dealing in corn, wheat or meat futures? Answer: I have never dealt in any thing except cotton and do not know enough about these other articles than to express a mere opinion. No, lt is not. Second question: ls it gambling? Answer: As a hedge, (explained in j my paper,) no, but as a bet with the i bucket shop as to whether the market I will go up or down, yes. Also, if the ? article is below the cost of production und you demand thc cotton you have bought on future contract, no. lt is then an investment Third question: What is thc dis tinction between gambling and legit; mate speculation? is fully covered by my paper. Tlie subject of dealing in cotton futures is one that can call for a con siderable amount of controversy both pro and eon, and it is with no contro versial desire that this article is pen ded, but, instead, to try and show bow in certain aspects dealing in "cot ton "futures" is just and legitimate,* whilst, from another stand poi nt it can I.e made nothing more nor less than gambling of de worst form and now adays more so than a few years past, when Hie cotton market did not en gage the attention to the same extent of those whu were prominent in the ii na ne i al world, and who can to a greater extent "put up" sulllclent margins tn cover tflieir "paper con tracts," either on the "bear" (thogg, who sell what they have uot got) or'! the "bull" side (those who buy what they do njt want) and in both cases have no idea of receiving any actual cotton on their contracts or vice versa tendering .ny at the due time. First of all then let us look at "cot ton futures" from the "gambling" end. A man goes into either the "bucket shop" or thc exchange and, alter looking over the quotations OD the blackboard, gives his order to buy or sell a certain position on the board (the diirereht months are called posi tions) which he thinks a good one to l rade in, he may be an outsider, un able to tell a bale of low middling from one of strict good middling, has never owned an ounce of cotton (ex cept possibly some absorbent cotton) in his life nor does ever intend to own any. With this sale or purchase, as the case may be, he puts up. or rather, did put up lo within tlie last year or two, ene dollar per bale margin and, as you are unable to make a future contract through a respectable house for less than one hundred bales, thal makes to all intents and purposes a bet of one hundred dollars that the market, if he has bought one hun dred bales, will go up or, if lie bas sold, that it will go down so many points from which he hopes to take In a profit plus the amount of margin [int up, and more often than not these hopes are doomed lo ne shatte'red and the margin wiped out and in these days of rapid fluctuations at times considerably more gone besides. With some genuine "hucket shops" it is also almost entirely a brace game, as no mercy is shown tn the lambs wdio are so easily shorn. Look at this pure and simple gambling from an other standpoint. In the bucket shop or even legitimate house that furn ishes free on the blackboard to all who come in the quotations, you seca number of young fellows, clerks in nlllccs or stores, giving on the quiet their orders to the manager. They limy have saved up the requisite mar gin for commencing tc "trade" and for the li rsl two or three deals lia ve taken down prolils; and here let me say that this is the greatest curse that can happen to any young man, much heller that he .should lose at Hie otitset, when 'the gambling fever nan bc checked, but with Lie laking in of his prolits the fever, the gamb ling fever, Increases, rises to top notch und he does not see that it cannot ?tlways go his way. Ile gels on the wrong side of the market and grad ually the profits he has made vanish and then the beginning of the end nomes. If bc is a married man his family begins lo sutler, Iiis own life is a worry and burden to bira. Lo you think the company through which he has been gambling, I don't call il trading, has any compassion on him? No! On thc contrary, by threats nf exposure tn his employers the young man ts led to obtain the necessary money tu close up, t< 0 often by dis honorable mens, thus bringing dis grace upon bis family and himself, liefore passing on i would like to ask anyone who may sneer at what 1 have written the question: "If you are an employer of labor, would you know ingly have a gambler in cotton fu tures tilling a position of trust in your employ?" I know what your answer would be -and not only thal, but you would not care to transact any business willi a young man whom you thought toxbe dabbling in futures. It was just thc other day that the president of one of our leading mills told a young broker, willi whom he had transacted a good business that if he thought he was speculating In any j I way it would cause their mutually pleasant business relations to cease. Young man, keep your hands off gambling in futures, cotton, grain, stock, meat, in any other form. Now let us look at what I have termed the legitimate use of "cotton futures," and which almost everyone wbo handles actual cotton is obliged to deal !?. Years ago, when there were neither cables nor telegraphs, futures had no place in trade, (by fu tures, I mean what is now known and dealt in as "future contracts, ") there were not many dally tl actuations as at present. Instead of selling from this side to merchants in Liverpool, Lon don, Bremen, Havre aud other well known markets, cotton would be con signed and a commission paid to the broker in the port to which the cot ton went to sell lt at certain prices, or to sell "at best" on arrival; there was no communication with this side except thc mail and that by sailing vessels, so you will readily see there was not the extreme uncertainty that nowadays exists. Business was qot conducted in the harum-scarum way it is done al present, life was'li ved at a slower rate. "Rooseveltian strenu ousness" did not exist, but with the coming on the scene of cable and tele graph until today, when tluctuatlons in Liverpool or other cotton centres are recorded within a minute or two after occurrence, some means bad to be found to protect both the buyer au seller, and that means today is found in "cotton futures." Suppose A. at ? o'clock a. m., re ceives an order from Liverpool, say, to buy live hundred bales of cotton, say middling, at such a price; if he can buy at that price he immediately cables Liverpool in cipher, "ITave boughti at such a price so many bales," and the house iu Liverpool at once sells an equal number of bales of cotton in futures to protect them selves in case of fluctuations between tile time the cotton is bought and arrives in Liverpool; and as the cot ton is sold either in small or large lots to spinners, the buyer for every hun dred bales of the live hundred he sells buys in one hundred futures until the whole live hundred are closed out,, thus mini mixing the risk; the same applies to thc Southern merchant or exporter and to some extent to the mills also, and I am firmly of opinion that where "cotton futures" are used to such an end it is entirely legiti mate and without them I do not see how tile export business any way could be worked and, instead of add ing to the speculative feature, con siderably reduces it." TO MAKE A TOWN GROW. A Set of Ten Huies Whose Kllicacy In Guaranteed. Mr. S. A. Fisbburn, secretary of tlie Commercial club, of Dallas, Tex., bas prepared a set of rules for making a town grow. He guarantees their ullicacy. Here they are: 1. .loin no organizations looking to tlie upbuilding of your town. This will prove an encouragement to those wbo give their time and money to sustain such organizations. 2. Impugn the motives of those who join and charge them with a desire to advertise themselves. This inspires patriotic men to work all the harder for Hie public good. 3. Pour cold water on every naw home enterprise, predict its early failure, and contribute to that end fcy patronizing its rivals In .?/ifer towns. This will encourage others to put their nionoy in home enter prises. 4. When a committee calls on you for a contribution to any good cause, act like a sore-headed bear, and yield up what you do give as begrudgingly tis possible. This lightens tlie" bur dens of the committeemen and sends them on their way rejoicing ip their work of love. ?. When strangers visit your town let them wunder around alone and en lighten themselves by reading the signs and pumping the professional loafer. They will carry away a de lightful remembrance of their visit iud advertise the town wherever they io. ti. "Cuss out" your public officials to their backs, of course) and accuse [hem of everything from petty larceny Lo high treason, no matter whether roncan substantiate your charges or not. This will pro.'e a keen incen tive to tlie complete ftiltillment of Lbeir official obligations. 7. Whenever your town papers iltler in the slightest with your ideas if public policy, declare that it bas leen bought up and promptly cut olf your patronage. The editor will turn be other cheek and redouble his ; Horts in behalf of the town and its "good people." 8. Oppose any enterprise which is lot in exact accordance with your jwn ideas. This will be conductive ;o that spirit of concession and unity .vhieh is necessary to progress. Si. (live sparingly, if at all, to move nents for the gneral good of tlie town ?ven if you are the largest, property iwner in it. This will spur on to neater exertions the public spirited ntizens your town now bas and induce the coining of others. 10. Observe these rules closely and here can be no doubt about tlie now tb of your town. Jt will grow md continue to grow-up in weeds - mt il it shall ultimately become a lit labitation alone for bats and owls. We believe that some of our people llready understand and employ the principles here formulated but they ire not enough to make the system !Otnpletely effective. A wider em doyment of the rules will accomplish iomulliing definite. Now ls the time o organize. Sunday School (Convention. The twenty-seventh annual State (invent inn of the State Sunday School Vssociation will bo held in Columbia, day 2-4, in the Washington Street dethodist church. The program of be meeting will be announced later. \ number of distinguished speakers vho have given much thought to the vork and risen high In this branch of ?burch work will deliver addresses at he convention, and all preachers, Sunday school superintendents and cachets are urged to be present. \inong those who will attend the con ?ut ion will be B. W. Spitman of s'ort.h Carolina, who is recognized ?verywhere as one of thc brightest ind ablest Sunday school experts. The railroads will grant the usual ro luced fares, and the members who it tend will bo tlie guests of the Capi al City. Wm. E. Pelham of New icrry, chairman of the State execu ive committee, is anxious that all .teachers and superintendents will ?ring tho convention to the attention f tlie members of their respective linday schools, in order that the at endance may be as large as possible nd a creditable recognition of the reat work being done by the asso iation. AN EXTRAORDINARY O?SE. A Lady Recovera Damages for H?ing Insulted In a Train. A letter from Greenville to The State says the court of common pleas has been engaged for three days in hearing a most extraordinary case, In which the Southern railway is asked to pay $50,000 damages to Mrs. Susan L. Franklin of Newberry for an al leged insult to her by a passenger while on a train between Greenville and Atlanta about a year ago. The Jury brought in a verdict Friday af ternoon for $25,000 in the plaintiff's favor. Mrs. Franklin is a comely woman, unusually self-possessed on the witness stand, with readiness and intelligence in giving testimony that is surprising and uncommon, and appreciating the bearing of evidence upon the casa in hand. Her testimony revealed the fact that she was married when only sixteen years old, and has been the mother of three children, one of whom is dead. Her husband Is a policeman in Newberry and her occupation is dress making. Mrs. Franklin gave a connected account of the trip from Newberry to Atlanta, stating that on reaching Greenville she and her little child went aboard tho afternoon train for Atlanta, and that there were only two other passengers in the car, both of whom were men. Soon after tlte train left Greenville one of these meu engaged her io conversation, taking a seat by her side, making indeceut pro posals, putting his arm around Mer waist and using familiarities against her protest, though site endured the unpleasant treatment for a quarter of an hour or more. Tito men wete drinking and behaving unseemly but only one of them made approaches to her. On the cross examination Mrs. Franklin said that the conductor was in the car the most of the time when the man was annoying and lnoulting her and made no effort to stop Iiis un ruly behavior until she appealed to him for protection, when the conduc tor told the man he must desist or he would put him oil thc train. The man claimed that he was a detective, but the conductor said he must behave or else he could not ride any further on his train, which put a quietus to the m<m except that they continued to drink and use Indecent language, but the conductor had removed her to the centre of the car, where he had bei n seated for some time. On arriving at Atlanta she was taken ill and the cause was due to the fright occasion ed by the conduct of this unknown man, resulting in serious consequences owing to her delicate condition at the time. Conductor Roseborough, who was in charge of the train when allege! In dignities were heaped upon Mrs. Franklin, stated that he bad observed the man on the seat with Mrs. Frank lin and holding her little daughter on his knee, and he was not aware that the woman was being annoyed by his presence as she made no complaint against him, and seemingly they were engaged in an ordinary conversation. Mr. Roseborough assumed that they were at least acquaintances and lt was not his duty to interfere, but he denied that he was in the car for any length of time and did not observe that Mrs. Frankliu wits at all annoyed until he went through the train again, when as he entered tho coach he saw that she was in the act of leaving the seat. Immediately he upproched and asked if she desired to change her seat, when her reply was that the man had been an annoyance to her, which caused her to make the change. The conducto? escorted Mrs. Franklin to the rear of the car and then went back for the child, who was taken to her mother. He told tue man not to repeat his conduct and if he spoke to Mrs. Franklin again he would he put off the train and left "in the ditch.'* The man asserted that he had uot done anything wrong, but was willing to make an apology if Mrs. Franklin was offended and then went into an other coach. Mr. Rosenborough as sisted the mother and child otT the train on reaching Atlanta and the in cident on the train was not mentioned again. The testimony of other witnesses had little bearing upon the facts relat ing to the allged insults, and much time occupied in efforts to exclude im proper evidence from the case. Con ductor Roseborough was supported in the main by the flagman, who saw and heard a portion of what took place. The conductor is known as one of the most careful officials in the service of the Southern and he has been on the "Air Line" for upwards of 20 years. The arguments in the case began on Thursday afternoon. .) limpet! to MO. Death. Sydney Johnson Hayden of the Hotel Holley, New York, Friday jumped to the street from the top door of the 21-story skyscraper at Broadway and New street. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. Hayden went into one of the unoc cupied offices on thc top lluor of the New street side, raised a window, laid and umbrella lie carried on the ledge and at once crawled out and jumped. His body made one full turn back ward and struck the pavement with fearful force. Most of the persons who were passing in thc street ran away in horror._ A Pitt if ul Story. A woman, who tifteeii years ago was a society belle In New York and the niece of a former secretary of the treasury of the United Stales, has been sent to prison for two months for intoxication. She v. as found by the police lying upon the street, tho centre of a gaping crowd. That was lier tirst public offense. The story ls pitt ifni, pitiful. < In the same day another woman who had moved in good society in New York was for the 45th time sentenced to prison for drunkenness._ A Very Crooked Uiver. There are man) crooked streams in Missouri and. the Osage Riveris one of the crookedest . There is a farmer in Camden County who can float six miles down the Osage, to the town of Linn Creek and then six miles further down lt back to his home. The river runs on two sides of Ids farm, and on ono side it U coming from Linn Creek and on the other going to lt. All the labor the mau has to do to make the round trip is to carry his boat across his farm. Four Were Killed. By the premature explosion of a !>last at t he Sol bern Quarry company it Fabcrs, Va., Thursday, four men were blown tl) atoms and two were injured. Tho dead are: F. F. Jones )f Alexandria, superintendent of tho liiarry; Otis Brent of Tye River. Va., issistant superintendent; Geo. Maw /er of Fabers, Va., and Ben Bart, :oloted, of Fabers, Va., helper. \ Men and I CAI DR. HATHAWAY Recognized as the Leading and r Most Successful Specialist in t His line In thc United States. 1 f?. ? ? My pure for thia dlseasn-l? ?sTrinTlirfi noeuttinnordaniierons ? sJ?S lUlUl \J uni attention, ami trent li non ami soreness 1* allayed uml tlie canal heal >l ? I This dlsoaso ls the enid VnritinC?l? ihevltalUy. It weaken Wul I?UUU1U form certainty just as qi nnv other disease, and their streni<tn ls belliK < rd, ami learn ttie cause of your trouble, demi m j n ?_ . This horrible eliseo Rinnn r oison know ju?t what n>? UIUUU I Ul ou ii bone?; Jailing hair, I ?-III tell you frankly whether or not you are ilrURS.ln as quick, if not quicker, lime than an; will ba eradicated from the system forever. St Diseases of Women ^ lo health thousands ni suffering women. Scn> Chronic Diseases IS is equipped with thc most approved X-Kay am Home Treatment S% countries. Correspondence confidential. J. NEW ^^^Lirruin^r^ Naval Offleer Killt* Himself. Lieut. Commander Edar Townsend Warburton, chief engineer of the battleship Maine, now at Pensoeala, Ela , suicided in bis cabin on board that vessel Thursday. A bullet frum a ."{8-calibre revolver was scut crash ing through the brain and death re sulted within 40 minutes afterwards. The executive officer of the ship was passing the door of Commander Warburton's cabin when he was startled by the report of a revolver within. Thc bullet after passing through thc brain came through the door and struck the rail of tlie ship, barely missing the executive olllcer. The latter nott li ed the officers and thc door of the commander's cabin was forced open. Ile was lying on the floor in a pool of blood and the revolver, dyed red, was grasped lu his right hand. The surgeon of the ship was hastily summond and endeavored to stop the flow of blood without result. The llagship was signalled and the licet surgeon responded but the commander expired shortly after bis arrival. Thc bullet entered just above the right temple and passed out over tlie left ear. No cause is known for the officer committing the rash act. He appeared to be in the best of health and spirits and within a few weeks would have been assigned to shore liberty. Many of the officers ex prosed the belief that death was the result of an accident and that the commander did not suicide. Com mander Warburton had been chief engineer of the Maine. He was ft r merly on the Indiana. The body will be shipped to Philadelphia, where bis wife resid? Friday. l-Mvc Iiivct, Lost. Five lives have been lost and prob ably upwards of $?"?,000,000 worth of damage to property has been done by the flood which has devastad manyi parts of Michigan during the past five days. Wednesday night the indica tions are t hat the end is in sight al though conditions are still very bad at Grand Rapids and also along the course of the Saginaw river. At Grand Rapids the water has fallen t wo feet Wednesday and at Saginaw and Bay City, while no such marked improvement is to be noted the fact that much of the ice that blocked the mouth of the Saginaw river at Hay City has gone out is taken as a very favorable indication. Wednesday night] the ice gorge went out and the river j began hilling. MuHt Pay for Polly. At New York a sherill's jury took testimony Wednesday upon which to! determine bow much of 975,000 de manded by Eleanor L. Anderson from .lames N. Abeel be can alford to and I ought to pay lier for engaging to marry her under the name of .1. Ogden' Goelet. Misses Anderson sued him) for $7"),000 for breach of promise of marriage. Testimony was given to show that Abeel natl a contingent in terest in a large estate left by Iiis grandfather and a prospective Inter est in the estate of his father, who is wealthy. The jury assessed the de fendant for the full amount claimed. I.OHOS thc KchnturH.'iip. Senator Tillman has notified Super intendent of Education Marlin that lie will appoint Mr. Gibbes Lykesas a cadet to West Point, and that the al ternates will be George C. Lowen and VY. ll. Price In thc order named. Mr. Robert Stephenson Simmons, of Charleston, really won the li ist place in the competitive examination, but for good reasons to hims If he signed his papers ''Robert Stephenson" and did not sign them with his proper name, ''Simmons." THE Memphis Scemeter says let not our Northern philantbaoplsts fret their souls over tlie fate of the negro ravishers. Judge Lynch seldom makes a mistake. Hut let them take note of the victim of the negroe's brutality, ard let them teach the well-disposed I of the black race that the ravisher deserves death. A GOOD IMANO? Good Materials, Skill, Knowledge, ('are and a lot of little things you don't see, all cost money-pay tis lunch as you can. 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For more than twenty years I have de oted myself exclusively to thc study and treatment of theso diseases, and the fact that physl lans recommend me to their patients is an evidence ot my skill and ability in my s poo lal Un?. I :lve special counsel to physicians with obstinate and obscure cases. 1 have, devoted particular attention to chronic diseases of men and women, and no other lass nf disease requires moro intelligent mid expert treatment. It ls a fact that a majority of nen owe 'ho seriousness of their condition to improper treatment, and a failure to realize the mporiance of placing their case In thc hands of a skilled and expert specialist. Unniimirt lentil I ?ta* Overindulgence, indiscretions and excesses are not the only wUUo LJcUllllV causes of un impairment of sexual streneth. Such a derange J ment frequently comes from worry, overwork, mental strain, to., which gradually weakens and Injures the system before the unfortunate victim realizes he true nature of his trouble. Nervousness, weak bock, dizziness, loss of memory, spots before he eyes, despondency, eic. often are the llrst symptoms of an impairment of manly vigor, and If legleeted serious results ?re sure to follow. I want to talk to every man who Das any ot these ymptomsnf weakening of his manly functions, lean promptly correct all Irregularities, and inder mv ?kill I ul treatment you will have restored all of the strength and glory ot your man mod. Whether you consult me or not. do not jeopardize your health by experimenting with eady-niade medicines, freo samples, so-called quick cures, etc., as the most delicate oreansof he body are involved, mid only on expert should Le entrusted with your case, ?end fur free looklet," Nervous Debility and its family of Ills." 1 gentle and i.ainless. and often causes no detention from business or other dutloM. It involves u rc len I operation. I inproper treatment will result lu serious Injury. 1 give each case Individ s every requirement. Every obstruction is removed, and alt discharge soon' ceases, lnllamma 1 up promptly and permanently. Send for free book on Stricture. irgcment of veins of the scrotum, which fill with Magnant blood, oaislng a constant drain upon s the entire system mid saps away all sexual strength. 1 cure this disease with tho same unl iilek inconsistent with medical sulence. Probably moro men are afflicted with Varicocele than trained away without their knowing tho cause. Come to mo at once If you think you arc aflllct for free booklet on Varicocele. .se la no longer Incurable, and when I soy that I can cure the most severo coso I do so because I y treatment has accomplished. If you have sores, pimples, blotches, Bore throat, pains in tho ; or any symptoms which you do not understand, lt ls important that you consult me at once, and an unfortunate victim. I will guarantee tocuro you without the use ot strong and injurious ir known treatment. My cure is a permanent one, and ls not mere patchwork, and the disease ?nd for my free booklet, "The Poison King." mon who suffer from thc ailments peculiar to their FOX am cured by my gentle and painless I h od of treatment, which avoids all necessity for surgical operations. If you suffer from bearlng ni pains, backache, irregularities, leuehorrhea, otc, write me about your case. 1 have restored il for my free booklet un Women's hlsca.ies. illy also includes all other chronic diseases, suchas Ulioumntlsm, Catarrh, Diabetes, Bright " t.imach, Liver and Kidney Diseases, Piles, Fistula, Rupture, Paralysis, Locomotor Ataxia, 3. ce, etc.. and all who want skillful, expert treutmcnt should write me about their case. My oillco I electrical apparatus, so that my patients get thu benefit of the latest discoveries of science. eryone to consult me without charge, and villi refund railroad fare one way to all who take If you cannot s<-c inc lu person write for symptom blanks and full Information about my suo i of home treatment by which I have cured patients lu every State lu the Union aud In loreign TON HATHAWAY, M. D. Street. Atlanta, (la. Five Physicians had don? their beat to cure Janas Wilkes, of Didos. 8. C., who had one of the most terrlbt* cases of RHEUMATISM SB record. They oil foiled until oas dacier prescribed IT CURED HELPLESS CRIPPLE. Mr. Wilkel wrhtt in thc counc ol ? lone letter, dated Auguit 18, 1902: Mr legt were drawn bick until Dr lee! touched my h ipi. I wu ai helpleit ai a biby far nearly 12 raonthi. Tho rouiclei of mr arra! and let* were hard and ihrWeled ap, I tancred death man? time! or cr. Was treated ti? ti' different phyiiclani in McColl. 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Send us your I?, ll liAOHIOHOTTB & CO, Jewelers, H_>1 Main St., Collin " Repai ui'ing. watch, imbin, S. C. All i Drug and Tobacco Habits. Whiskey I Morphine I Cigarette Habit, I Habit | Habit a*?*,.?.. Cured by Keeley Inst itute, of C 1320 Lady St. (or P. ?. Box 76) Columbia, S. C. Confidential correspond ence solicited. I^inie ceinent, X*l?if-?tor, Terra Cotta Pipe, Rooting Paper, Car lots, small lots, write, Carolina, Portland Cement Co., Charleston, b. G. Killed Ii i H Hon in haw. Walter MeNeal was shot and killed Tuesday morning near Pearson, Oa., I by Henry Cook, his father-in-law. ! Tho killing was thc finale of a quarrel that had been nursed by the two men for some Lime. Cook met MeNeal ind ordered him out of his buggy. MeNeal complied, whereupon Cook ? :lrew his revolver and Hrod three i iimes, all of the shots taking effect. Cook then spurned McNeal's body with his foot. Ct ok left the ficenp going in the direction of Douglass, presumably to surrender to the au thorities. QKN. Stephen D. Lee, commander, has issued orders for the reunion of Confederate Veterans at Nashville, Tenn., the 14th, loth and Ultu of June.