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A FIEND'S WORK. Cincinnati's Mysterious iMur< do er Axain at Work o? MURDERING WOMEN. * After Attacking Thirteen Young Girls Within alYear, Killing [and Mutil?t log Four of Them, Ile Slay? a Poor Old Woman In a Fiendish Manner. A lotter from Cincinnati, Ohio, to tho New York American tells of thc deadly work of an unknown murderer in that oity. Tho letter says in tho year and a month whioh he has Riven to his work, as llendlsh as that which characterises "Jaok tho Hipper" of the London Whitechapel horrors, he has attacked thirteen young girls, killing and mutilating three of them In exactly the same manner. Whf a ever he was able to complete bisguast ly work all of his victims' front teeth wore torn cleanly from their jaws - this was thc distinguishing "mark of the beast." None of the ordinary bludgeons used by murderers would have left this mark without bruising thc lips more than waa dono. At last there ls light on the mystery. They have not cap tured tho mysterious monster who lies In walt behind a gravestone in a Oin clnnatl cemetery at tho foot of "Lov ers' Line" where girls keep tryst with their sweethearts, but they have found his atrungo weapon. It is just such a weapon- heavy, with well deli ned corners, yet with a slightly softened surface-as might have left that typical mark upon thc face of May MoDonal, Lulu Mueller and Alma Steiugeweg' a brick wrapped in a piece of carpet. One thing more has been learned about the monster. Ho ls also capable of murdering an old woman in her bcd. But she soreamod before she died, there was help near, and the murderer lied, leav ing his telltale weapon bobina him. This ls the latest of his exploits and the scene ls a hovel within a stone's throw of tho spot from which ho sprang upon thirteen girls within about a year, leaving three of them dead and mutilated. Only orea sinc% last November has "Lovers' Lain;" furnished Its victim to tho murderer who waited biddon In Grovelai d Cemetery. On the evening of March S he sprang upon a woman wno has inver been Identified, ?she was found dod the next morning with all his marks upon her, Including tho miss lng front teeth. But this victim was elderly and un attractive. In every previous Instance he had selected a girl under twenty years old, a pretty girl, tho girl In a humble station of life who would lind In "Lovers' Lane" the ideal romautle spot to meet her sweet hear', to wa k arm in arm with him under the treet-, while tho glistening white marble monuments in thc cemetery close at hand added a further touch of senti ment so well understood by vory young lovers, Rut since last November, when within three days be savagely t ire the life from AlmaStelngowog aud leaped from his hiding place upon threoother girls, whoso screams fortunately brought rescuers before he could com "plete his ghastly work-since thar, first week in November no young girl has dared to show herself after dark in the neighborhood of "Lovers' Lane." For four long mouths the murderous impulse remained unsated; then last March lt gained ?:o:>r sal ls faction upon a pDor old woman whom nobody knew. This murderous mani ic, whoever he ls, ar pears gifted with eons! or able camion. There are pretty young girls in large numbers all about the Buburba of Cincinnati; hut lt sro; is that nowhere eldo could the murderer iludan ambush so safe as among the tombstones in the shade of thc trees of "Lovers' Lane." So he had to he satisfied with old and unprotected wo men for his victims. But still he did not stray from his old hunting ground. In a little old hut a block away from thc cemetery, Mrs. Mary Reichert, eighty-seven years old, lived a hermit's exist? nee In the rear of thc two ro ?ms, while the front room was occupied by Kier Hlli, a carpenter. They saw each other seldom; all thc neighborhood knew of the old woman's desire to bo let alone. Peter Hill spread the alarm of thc old woman's murder, and was hold by tho police as a suspect. Tho police have become sensitive to criticism of of their Inability to lix tho responsi bility for so many murders and as saults SM evidently made bv the same man. Beter Hill says he was awak ened at 2 o'ch ck on tho morning of Juno 10 by a crashing sou id In Mr,. Belohert's room. Ile hurriedly gol Into part of his clothing and rushed around to the rear of tho hut in time to see a heavy set man running away. Through the door, which had a smashed in panel, he saw Mrs. [teich ert Sitting up In lier bed with blood llowing from her msc and mouth. She was recking back and forth and moaning: "Oh, Lord! Oh, my Codi" Hill ran for a doctor, and the wo man's only son, who lives near, lu half an hour thc son and Dr, O. VV. Dodd were back In thc hut with Hill. Mrr.. Reichert was doad. Tho mur deror had not had limo to complete his work. Ho had knocked out tho scattering front teeth of tho old wo man, struck nor on thc head and on the chest with some heavy weapon that had not broken thc skin, and lied. Mrs. Reichert had died from fright and shock. When the police came they instant ly saw tho "mark of the breast." And they foresaw more stringent ctltlch m In tho newspapers and from their own headquarters. So thoy looked up Peter fllll, Hut thoy marlo ono valu able and interesting discovery the brick wrapped ma bit of bloodstained carpet which lay beside tho bed of tho murdered woman. Why had the murdorer covered tho brick with carpeting? The ragged end? of the fabric, bled at one ond of the brick, served as a handle for thc weapon. With such a weapon a dead ly blow could bo struck with hardly a sound. It would smash Inward all the vlotim's front teeth without breaking the outer skin of the lip?<. Thin latter was the characteristic mark ou old Mrs. Reichert, on the un identified woman killed on tho night of Maroh 3, on May McDonald, killed v 1, 1904', ou Lula Mueller, killed Ootobor l;on Alma Stelngeweg, killed November 3-the same mark on five killed out of thirteen attaokod. It was not until the mutilated body of preUy Alma Stoingeweg was found In a vaoaut lob near uLovers' Lane" that these murders were recognized fully ?\S !>cing tho work of one man a degenerate of the most ruthless aud bloodthirsty character-whoso pecu liar passion was not satisfied until he had torn out thc front tooth of his victims. Miss Stelngeweg was a tele phone exohango operator, onlysovon teen years old. She had gone to the fatal neighborhood in a trolley oar, which she left at tho oemetory. That was tho last seen of her alive. All about whore tho body lay tho turf was torn up. The girl had struggled desperately. Her olotbing was in rib bons. Her skull was smashed In. Not satisUcd with knocking out her teeth tu his usual manner, tho murderer had torn open her throat, as though with claws Uko an animal's. It seems strango that although eight girls who were similarly at tacked got away with their lives, not Oiic of them could glvo an intelligent description of lier assailant. AU of thorr wero so paralyzed with fright thal they retained only the memory of ai unspeakable horror. Only three day: after tho murder of Alma Stelngeweg after dark, Edith (Jlaussing, a vcrj prutty girl seventeen years old, wai walting for a trolley oar near the otu of "Lovers' Lane." After lying lu J stupor for two days sho rememberec that there was no car in sight. Sh stood near tho cemetery fence, jus back of which was a high tombstone She heard a slight noiso and saw Un litfuro of a man leaping upon her frou Hie top of the fonco. After that sin only remembered being boroo to tin ground. Two laborers were approaching, am this fact saved her life. They fount her on tho ground, unconscious, am carried lier to .thc nearest shelter saloon, whither Dr. ll. II. Whalloi was summoned. Tho doctor fount that her luxuriant hair had saved ho from a fractured skull. Her moutl was tilled with blood, and several up por and lower front teeth were mis.1 lng. Sho did not recover conscious ness for twenty-four hours, liysteri followed for nearly two days durin which the poor girl kept her hand before her eyes and begged for merci (hie ts able to picture the maniac rage of the murderer at having bee driven from his uncompleted worl for on that same night lie attaoke throe other girls. Latein the evet lng Minnie Rodie, Lizzie Weimar an Manilo Weimar were passing along tl cemetery fence when "a wild mau, as they afterwards described bin leaped upon them. He seemed 1 liavo enormous muscular strengtl lie seized all three of them at ont and bore them to thc ground. Mo by accident than design, ouc of bl VVeima sisters dug her lingers in the man's oyes. This appears to 1 all that saved them. With a howl pain the man jumped up aud lied. lt was t arel y a week later that Mr Harry C. Winnes, a pretty young m bron of that neighborhood, v.as a backed. Thc murderer was bo enough to follow her to within a doz yards of her own back door. Herc 1 seized her from behind, bent her bot back over his knee and was liftli something in his hand as though striker lier lu tho face when s screamed so loudly that her husbai appeared in thc door with his nun his hands. In thc light t hat stream toronga the door thc murderer st that the rescuer was armed. He has ly dropped his victim and disappearc The other girls who c c.iped so nt ro>vly t;re equally vague in their r soription of thoir assailant. They ; agree that his ferocity was i nor ed ll In a lui man being -''a wild man" seemed to all of them. There seei little hopo that the discovery of tl murder.T'S characteristic weapon the brick wrapped lo carpeting - w lead to thc Identification of the m who hus wielded lt against thirte girls and women in one year. It li not been traced to thc possession Peter Hill-though such a disoove would bo a source of great relief tho Oinoinnat I polico. Mut Peter Hill ls not yet freed fr( su: picton, Mary Walcrow, a worn living In a shanty boat on the riv uot far from the cemetery, bells sbrango story of Hill's behaviour thc evening bafore the night on whl aged Mrs. RJchert was murden Leaving the river and coming up t street she saw Hill sibtlngon thc eui t'.iic. Ho rose, she says, and said her: "You're looking like a ninete( year-old tonight." She made some bantering rep when, she says, Hill picked up a bri and sah.1 : "1 feel just Uko braining you, Ht would you like to be hit on the he with this?" "Go ahead and do lt. I dare you she says was her reply. Wheroup Hill mumbled something moros< and resumed his seat on tho ctn stone. Melle Wood, a young woman liv! near the Reichorb hut, told Chief Detcotives Crawford of meeting ll that night going for a bucket of bet sue declares that Hill called out her: "You had bcottor watch out I the old woman tonight." li ?th those Inoldents Hill dent He has been arrested twice before the charge of drunkenness. 1 mother, who lives near ttic scene all tho murders and attacks, says tl ho has periodical attacks of violon which sho attributes to his havl been hurt in the head whon a chi During these attacks he had bhrei stied to kill her and shoot his fath On this account he has lived aw from the rest of thc family for a lo time. That ts all Miete ls to lend force the suspicion that Meter Hill ist mysterious murderer of "Lovt Mano." Students of such crimes not hoi.eve. they are ever commit! hy a person of Hill's description. 1 actual murderer ls ton persis tout, I pu ...al t) young ?iris for victims, C Mittons for one who ia simply tho \ tim of periodical mania resulting fr an old injury to his head. Tito weapon ti found the brick its wrapping of carpet. Who rh vt hat weapon? Who has us d it SUCH a consistently peculiar mann All th?tCincinnati suburb ls exerel i vor these questions- and "LOVi Mane" ls deserted after nightfall. A Hut tUflht. The German garrison at Karr berg, German Southwest Africa, engaged In alight with tho Ilot! tots for fourteen hours. The natl under Marengo surprised thc garrl which was taken at a great dlsadv tage, (fourteen officers and otk'i five mon of tho garrison were killet IN MEMORIAM. Hov. Wm Caper?, D. First Bishop of the M. B. Church South. A Mkotoh of tho Lifo ot This Good MAU That Will bo Hoad With Groat Iiitoroat. To the Editor of The News and Courier: We lind oursolves iu great good fortune, lu the unexpected pos session of most aooeptable Information of our late distinguished Chu roh oiti z.on, William Capers, D. D., the early and eloquent evangelist of the Metho dist church lu South Carolina. First, we hwve an acceptable por trait of this wonderful pulpit orator and ohurchman, which we are de lighted to have you reproduoo for your many thousand readers. Second, a copy of tho funeral ser mon pronounced in Nashville soon after his burial, In 1856, by the elo quent and scholarly Iiishop Pierce, of Georgia, in tho Central Methodist Church at Nashville, Tenn. Third, thc report that reaches us that the mural tablet, orected in 'Washington Street Church at our Capital City, causelessly destroyed, with thc church, by vandals, in 1805, is to be soon restored I Our dearly beloved Bishop passed away half a century ago, hut there survives some who have heard his eloquent sermons and his enthusiast lo leading in hymn singing and in thousands of homes there romain those who love and rev erence the memory of the great and eloquent Bishop, as a family history and possession I Bishop William Capers was born lu St Thomas Parish, twenty miles from Charleston, .January 20, 1790, and died near Anderson, S. C., January '29, 1855. Ile was educated at the South Carolina Collego and was near his graduation when the call reached him - to preach thc Gospel- giving up a promising and brilliant civic career, willi social position and means for a future of prominence iu his native State, he responded to that mystic and silent call of duty and became a circuit rider and preacher in thc then humble and uninviting Methodist Church. Wc do not feel equal to writing of such a lifo, or even referring to his brilliant career, and publish instead Bishop Pierce's funeral sermon, which has so fortunately come to us at this tibi? pronounced half a century ago, it recalls at once our great and elo quent prelate, as he was venerated and beloved half a century ago l We feel sure lt will bc read eagerly in thc present generation by all who recog nize tho spirit of self-sacritlce, raro talent, pulpit oratory and devotion to God's service. Bishop Oapers's family was origi nally English, and from a memoran dum kindly furnished us by Mr. Sal Icy, the erudite and painstaking sec retary of our historical commission, we have this item: "1092, October 20-Mrs. Honoria Lawson, Johnathan Amory and Rich ard Capers gave bond to Governor Ludnell for Mrs Lawson's proper ad ministration upon the estate of An thony Lawson. (Record of the Court of Ordinary of thc Pro vi noe of South Carolina, Book 1, pp 1-3 )" This ls tho earliest mention of the family name in South Carolina, and as this Mr. Capers was likely to have been In Chark8 Town before this signing, and the colony that founded Charles Town liad landed on the Ashley in 1070, .;tily twenty two years before, this Richard Capers In residence mest liki?ly d.Ues hack to very near tho tirst colony, and his descendants ap pear i ri success! ve residence through more than two centuries since. By marriage they were connected with ?ho Huguenot refugees fr'im France. Bishop Fieros, of Georgia, was the associate and Intimate friend of tho lamented Capers, and In foi vent and eloquent language he pays his noble tri'./Ut.e to his friend "gone be fore:" lt, ls only in order here to make somd closing remarks on the great Carolinian who was so potent an in lluence for goodin South Carolina in tho last century. As the news of thc Bishop's death sped over the State, cities, towns and churches claimed his bm'.al place and to calm this rivalry thf' Capital Oily w.?s wisely soi coted and his remains l|o In the cemetery of the Washington Street Methodist Chureh which he dedicated in 1831. In that sacred cd I lice was erected a mural tablet bearing this inscrip tion: The R iv William Capers, I). D. This Monument Is Erooted hy the Congregation of this Church In memory of The Hov William Capers, I). I). One of tho Bishops of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Who was horn in St Thomas' Parish, S. C., January 20til, 1790. And died near Anderson C. H., S. O , J muary 29?li, 18;">f>, Having served his own generation by tho Will of God, In the Christian Ministry forty six years His mortal remains repose near this chu rch, The comer-stone of which he laid During his ministry In this town In 1831, Ile was thc Kuti ml cr of tho Missions to the slavos On thc plantations of tho Southern States. To shining abilities Which renderod him universally Popular as a Preacher, He united great simplicity and Purity of character. "Thc righteous shall be In everlast ing Remembrance." When Gen Sherman's army enter ed Columbia, in February, 1806, there was nO garrison in the city, thou overcrowded with women, children and old men, refugees from all quar ters of tho State; the munlolpal au tborltlos surrendered the city to the United S Lates army, as Is well known, with thc end of tho war in full vlow; beautiful Columbia was deliberately destroyed by lire, and ono of thc first buildings given t > thc Hames was thc Methodist Church, containing the mural tablet of tho asco? dod Capers An act of disgraceful vandalism, dene In vengeance, on wro. 'informa tion and presenting a case which, if laid before Congress, would certainly procure restitution for the great and causeless wrong done, lt would be an act of tardy justice, but Congress should take such action. Bishop Oapers'R gravo ls west of thc church, in the limited space between the church and Marlon street, and ls a notable object from the street. It scemB not to havo boon damaged by tho burning ohuroh. t J ..Over his grave ts au oblong struo turo of granite, covered bv a wb!f* aittble slab, ia tho coutte ol whtoh rests a pedestal supporting an obelisk of Italian marble; this momorlal is about ten feet high." On the west side la inscribed: William Oapers, Born In St. Thomas Parish, So. Ga, On the 20th January? H90. A nd died at Anderson, So. Ga, On the 29th January, 1855. On the east side: Tho founder of Mission? to the Slaves In South Oarollna. On the uorth side: Erected to tho memory of the de ceased by tile South Carolina <infer ence. On the south side: One of the Bishops of Tho Methodist Episcopal Ohuroh South. -^-x GRAFT m ARKANSAS. Dieoovories that Would JElnvo Boon SurprlBlitK ? Few Your? /?.?;?>. If it were not for che recent history of Missouri this indictment of four stato .Senators and two representa tlvPo in Arkansas for bribery would bo a surprise. The orlmes of the Stubb have never been oriracs of money, but or i mes of passion. There are regions in tho South still where devout oltizsns who lead prayermeot lugs do not consider lt a sin to shoot at tho fust hint, of danger, and BOHO of tho men Involved in the family feuds that havo made tho Blue Ridge country famous wero of the most fer vid piety. Government In their eyes exists to protect a man from his for eign foes; lt is his business to oaro for his personal enemies himself. That point of view is a dlreot inheritance from English ancestors of the Six teenth and Seventeenth oanturles, and it exists along with a most srupu lons honesty as well as a highly emo tional typo of religion. Thc fact that graft IR spreading In to that country indicates that thc people arc boo ming Americanized; up Iodate. Htlbery and corruption are no such new story in northern legisla tures as they aro in tho South. The campaign necessary to catch these Arkansas offenders, too, Indloatos that the offense ls not regarded with the same equanimity there as here. The prosecuting attorney employed a de tective who had been trained under Governor Folk in his St. Louis cam paign. One of them represented him self as the agent of an eastern baking powder tirm interested in a pure food bill. Other detectives got employ ment as bell boys and oarrled Ice water and other supplies to the rooms in hotels where deals concerning legis lation were In progress. Imagine what revelations o^uld bo secured at Albany during a campaign for a gas biil or a Niagara, power bill by such methods and i ou will have a measure of thc elementary stage or, Arkansas corruption when only six (men were caught there. Money ls Charged to have been used to favor tl\o passage of six bills. The grand juify has re sumed session and ls expected to com plete Its report soon. There is no polities in the present move. Tho proseouting attorney ii a democrat, all of the men Indicted aru (democrats and so are the members of I the grand jury that indicted th ii| It is a straight house deaning r 'oho gene ral health of thc stato. -i. ?4??j*a Ea gle. _J BLOWN TO ATOM Niuo Mon Killed ?nd Flfteewlnjtired In HI JV F.xplOBion. ?.? r At Emporium, Pa., nine men were killed and from 12 to 15 others were Injured byan explosion of (dynamite Wednesday at the plant of1 thc Em porium Powder company. With one exception all the vlcUms~irVecl In Em porium. Although some of tho In jured were seriously hurt all aro ex peccted to recoverer. About one tun of dynamite exploded from sumo unknown cause, and wrecked the mixing plant, thc pack ing house and several other buildings belonging to tho company. The ex plosion was terrille, and was felt for miles around. There have been sev eral serious accidents of similar nature in this vicinity and when tho people heard thc report they Instantly knew what had happened. ThouBaudS of persons hurried to the place, but were afraid to venture close to the burning buildings, as there were 7,000 pounds of dynamite packed In boxes In a storehouse nearby. After the buildings had burned and it was deemed safe to approach the company's proporty a search for the dead was instituted. Three charred huelles were found under the ruins of the box factory In which they were employed. Thc other six men were blown to pieces. Drowned Wiitin Hat hing. Three obi id ron cf Thomas Suarez, living near Bayou Chico, Fla., were drowned Tuesday afternoon. The old est was a girl of 14, the youngest a boy of six and the other a girl slightly older than the hoy. They wont to tho bayou late Tuesday afternoon to go in bathing. When thoy did not return svhen expected, their mother went In search of them. .She found their cloth es on the bank. Neighbors wore nott Hod and a search was begun and about U o'olock, In dragging the bayou they found ibo body of tho oldest girl. Searching parties aro still dragging the bayou for the other two bodies. Will Pity Dp. The Columbia Record says arrange ments arc hoing mado for tho collec tion of about ?2,400 on the bond of H. F. Bozard, the county dlsponsor who was short In his accounts at Fort Motte. Wednesday representatives of tho American Surety cornyany and attorneys for Boz&rd called upon Com missioner Tatum and arranged for making good tho shortage. Tho bond ing company, while perfectly willing to pay, wishes to postpone a settle ment until arrangements aro made for a suit against Bozard. It is not known yet whether this will be agreed to._ Alditlo Hlow. The Springfield Republican says lt is being noted that Prosldont Roose velt has not recognized the indepen dence of Norway as qulokly as that of Panama. A fortnight has passed and Norway ls not recognized yot. It took some 24 hours to set Panama on its leg? OS an Independent stato. We shall see how differently our govern ment Interprets international law in the caso of Norway. Oyolono KUIod Hix. Six persons woro killed and twonty Injured, sixteen seriously, in a storm that struck in tho vicinity of Phillips burg, Kansas, Wednesday night. The destruction to property and crops will run far into tho thousands. FAST AS A BIRD. \ Mau Who Slides Three Miles a Minute Through Space FO? HIS HEALTH The Astonishing Performances of a Uni versity Professor Who Finds Pleas- v ure in Plying Across Precipices and Valleys Astride a Slender Steel Wire. To Dr, Alfred Chapuis, professor Of zoology In tho University of Geneva, belongs the orcdlt for inventing tho most thrilling and hair-raiping form of reoreation over heard of. Compared with it suoh attractions as the loop the loop appeal very mild. Professor Chapuis finds that lt ls ls very beneficial to lils health and nerves to ride for a milo at the tre mendous rate of three milos a minute down a slender steel cable eztonding from the top of one of thu highest peaks In thc Salove mountain, Swit zarla?d, cross chasms, precipices, val leys and streams to the very bottom of tho Salevc valley. If thc wiro broke, or Professor Ohapuls lo3t his balanco and fell, ho would be dashed to pieces. Remarkable as it may seem tu rxo.it of us, who would not oaro to make a trip down the wiro, no matter how high the Inducement, Professor Chap uls declares that his health has im proved vastly siuce he first ventured out into space astride the slender ca ble. Ills twentieth trip was made early one Sunday morning last month. "I prefer to make my trips very early in the morniog when there are very few people to watch mo coming down," ho explained. "I am doing this for my health, not for show purposes, and consequently I have serious ob jections to giving public exhibitions. Uesldes it would not be consistent with tho dignity of a professor of zo ology to make a public spectacle of him self Hying through the clouds on a slack wire." Professor Chapuis ls one of the most diligent workers In tho University of Geneva, where he hus occupied the chair of zoology, for live years. Close application to his labors threatened to undermine his health, when he sought for a strenuous form of recrea tion to counteract the wear and tear on his ncivou8 system. Mountain climbing and othor vigorous forms of exercise were not strenuous enough They did not seem to do him any good. One morning while climbing Salevc mountain the Idea of sliding down from the top on a wire occurred to him. The mountain ls a vast double peaked muss of limestone, lying to the southeast of the city cf Gone va, and forms a very favorite Summer resort. The mountain ls full of quarks, es peoially at Veyrler, about three and one-half miles from the city, and at tho foot of tho mountain. Years ago the big blocks of stone were blasted from tho quarries close at hand by the villagers, but in recent years since thc introduction a aerial ropewavs, local proprietors have attaoked the mountain top Itself with succe.s, and made lt yield up its valuables at all levels. Anyone may soo for himself the huge blosks of llmestono tiavel?jng. apparently of their own volution, down tho steel cable hundreds of feet above the valley, lt was the sight of these stone blocks travelling from high up on the mountain down into the valley that suggested the Idea to Professor Chapuis. Tncro seemed no reason why he should not also slide down from the mountain to the village. It seemed to him that lt was exactly the form of re creation he had been seeking. "I had not tho slightest Idea of at tabling any notoriety," said thc doctor of zoology, "or of performing any dare devil trick with that object. I said nothing to my friends when I made my final decision, but arranged all the details with the manager of the ca ble, who most strenuously opposed my plan. " 'You will certainly fall,. he de clared 'and I shall be responsible for your doath.' " It was madness -utter madness, he urged. Even supposing the cable would stand lt, tho young scientist would surely lose his grip on the wire and slide with fatal rapid ity to the bottom. The steel wiro ca ble, by tho way, is about three quar ters of an Inch thick, and its total length is over a mile. Atone dizzy point there l3 a loose swinging strand of nearly a thousand feet between two supports, and the height at thia point ls about 380 feet above the dreadful Jagged rocks. "The gradient, too," M. Chapuis continued, is extremely steep, varying from forty to fifty degrees, so strong nerves and a firm hold were absolute ly necessary to thc slider. I assured the manager I should take every pre caution and that in any oventno blame should attach to him. All the same, he was In a pitiful state of apprehen sion thc day he saw me prepare for a first, descent ''1 throw my legs on either side of thc thin wiro, much as I would across at horse, my face toward the summit and my hands firmly gripping the wiro. Just as I swung mysolf clear of tho rock the manager turned away, trembling with terror. 1 was wearing some extra heavy trousors I had pre pared, and, of course, the stoutest gloves obtainable, but when I reached thebottuu they were not only torn to ribbons but, my hands and body had suffered severely from the friction and great heat generated by the swiftness of my desoant. "Hofore making a second trip I had a kind of breeches-saddle made, of Htout leather and this, willi a pair of soft, plablo loather gloves, has proved a very successful outfit. 1 hardly know what my sensations were during the first trip. It all happened so quick ly that my sole Instinct lay In holding on tight with hands and feet. The air of my descent roarod and boomed in my ears like the nolan of a train as I tore along and lashed my faco Uko a wi lip- eui. "You seo, I had not yet learned properly to regulate my speed. And al thouR . somewhat hotter prepared for tho seoond descent, it was during that trip I had my worst experience. When I roached tho most perilous point of tho nerlai ropoway I suddenly lost oon trol of myself, and lu a twinkling had turned completely upside down ?til! descending at high speed, even In that serious condition. It was a miracle that I ever regained my balance -a matter calling for Immense muacular effort, "I HU ecce dc a In liol DR this, but In what manner I cannot explain. It was quito a desperate moment, ?nd in a struggle for Hie ot that kind a man works automatically. As a general rule, you may say my sensation !s ose of great exhilaration; and during de* scents at present I am able to admire the superb view over our historio lake, the lovoly valley, and even as far a tiWd as the Lake of Anneoy, in the High Savoy. Of danger I never think any longer. "Oddly enough, as I climb Mont Salove to the starting point-a tre mendous pinnacle of rcok-I of tn grow giddy, but the moment 1 swing off these feelings leave me and exhilara tion takes their place. I make the descent in all wcatbors. I have come down in the teeth of a strong 'bise,' with tho rope rooking and swinging like some tremendous oradle-violent ly enough in faot, to cause me slight sea-sickness. "But, after all, this was at the be ginning of my practico on the line, and now I have so trained my limbs that with extra muscular pressure on the cable I can diminish speed at once, and even remain stationary for aa ap preciable length ht time. I loooked forward with very great pleasure to each trip, which never seems to lose its novelty. "My llnest point of view, perhaps ii above and beyond Monnetier, whero from tbe great swaying span I look out upon tho Potlt-Salove and the Grand Sale vc, tho wooded slopes and ivy-mantled chateau- ; tho caves and pretty villages, and above all the ma jestic grandeur of tho Mont Blanc obaln, tho Lake of Genova, the moun tains of Jura, the Gantons of Vaud and Geneva, and part of Franco. "I fancy I am the only wire-rope traveller in the world who makes trips sololy for bis health. I try not to announoe my descents beforehand, but somehow there are always plenty of spectators on haud, obit 11/ people from tho country round about, who like to liing me gay salutations as 1 skim past thom high up in the air like a Hying bird. My friends have timed mo for over half a mlle at tho highest speed I dar ed travel. They found I travelled at the rate of one mile in twenty seconds. Seated baokivard on the wire and de scending at au angle of forty five de grees I was able to breathe without discomfort. Although it is the most exhilarating exercise 1 ever took I would not recommended lt to every body."-New York American. WEATHER AND CROPS. Cotton HuITorln/i I?CBS From Drouj-Tit Thun Other Crops. Tho following is a report of crop conditions as complied by Section Di rector Bauer: The temperature during tho week ending 8 a. m., June 20'.h, averaged four degrees per day abovo normal. The extremes were a mannum of 100 degrees at Florence on thc 23 :d, and a minimum of OU degrees at Greenville on the 22nd. There was more than an average amount uf bright sunshine. Although there wero no destruolive wind storms, yet there were fresh to brisk winds eaoh day which, being hot and dry, had a withering ef?eofc on all vegetation, and caused the ground to dry out very fast. There were soattered showers on several days during the middle of the week, most numerous In the extreme wrsteren and northwestern border counties, and widely seperated in oth er parts. By far the larger portion of the state had no rain. The showers were heavy in parts of Ojonee, Barn well and Florence counties and were generally light elsewhere. There is urgent need of a general rain in all parts of the state, though the drought ls most severe in the cintrai counties, where the deficiency since the first of Juno amounts to from two to over three Inches, there having occurred no bcnellcial rain during this month. In many plac? s the ground has become baked and hard and unworkable. Farm work mule rapid progress dur ing the wt ok where the soil was tit for cultivation, and practically all Heids have been rid of grass and weeds and are In better condition than at any time this season. Cotton is suffering less from the drought that other crops, and made a general inprovement, although the plants continue small and aro growing slowly. Cotton bas now a healthier color, and ls fruiting normally with a marked increase In tho area from which blooming ls reportod. The Im provement ls con li nod to cotton on heavy soils, while on sandy lands tho crop continues poor and unpromising and In many places lousy, and the plants have a sickly appearance and in a few sections are shedding their low er leaves. Sea island cotton is in good condition, but has begun to wilt in places. Corn ls suffering for rain, and early corn is very poor; later plantings are batter, but will soon deteriorate un less it rains. Most of the March plan Ings have been laid by. Worms con tinue destructivo In tho western coun ties. Toboccoleaves are ripening and. some of tho lower ones have been stripped, cured and marketed. Wheat and oats harvest ls now finished. Tide water rice ls doing well; June plant ings in the Georg town district are coming up to fairly good stands. Gar dens doing poorly. Shipments of peaches are heavy from tho Ridge section. Cantaloupe shipments havo begun, and watermelons will bo mar keted next week. Pastures aro fall ing. lt has been to dry to plant peas on stubble lands. A Uood lOxampIo, A dispatch from Kershaw to Tho State says "an enterprise of no small Import ls the dalry farm, one milo rro.u town, owned by Mr. John R, Baker, Ile is at present milking 18 head of Jersey cows that bc values at from $50 to $75, while his entire herd numbers 43 head, lie usos im proved machinery; that Ss, uream sep arators, otc, shipping most Of his pro ducts to tho large hotels at Camdon, lie also runs an elgbt-horso farm with mules worth $200 a boid. Last year he planted 31 acres In cotton from which ho gathered 42 bales. This vcar he only h?s 20 acres in cotton. He never sells any cotton seed, is a large grain planter and uses a lot of maohiuery on his farm, and white labor exoluslvoly." Tho significant part of tho above dispatch is that Mr. Baker has wblto labor exclusively. Sooner or lator most of our farmers will have to follow Mr. Baker's ex ample In this respect. Yotiiifc M nu Orowitotl. Berry Cooper, aged 14, son of Mr. Joseph Cooper cf Youngs township Laurons County, was drownod in Knoreo river, near Van Patton shoals Sunday afternoon. ? Free Medical Advice from ali Ex pert Specialist. Dr. Hathaway ?ffur? to Commet and ?tiviso Every Person Freo of Cliargo On any Disease. Twenty-fivo Yon rs of Remarkable Success in His Record WRITE HIM AND SAVE YOUR DOCTOR'S BILL 'No extra ohargo for moilioInon," ..No inlsloadluff statement or ?tooep> tlve propositions ?1? lowed tn my advise? monts." DH. J. NKWTON HATHAWAY, W h ono Knowlodgo ls f?Oo to tlio Slok. If yon are fooling 111, and d'? not knoiv Just wi mt, ia tho matter with yon, do not iriako tito mistakes of calline on your ional doctor for consultation but just ?.imply writo to Ur. J. Nowton Hathaway, BS [ninan Hldg, Atlanta, Oa" iiiBt how you huffer, amt ho will coun sel and adv iso you for nothing, wlillo your homo doctor wi tl chargo you anywhore from fl to $10, for tho sumo sorvieo, and again, Dr. lathaway's advico iu worth Um times moro to you, for ids wide oxporieneo in tho treatment >f tlioso diseases (25 years), enables li i m to nt oiico understand tho oxact naturo of your trouble. Ile will also sond you a Solf-Exami nation lllaiik and a valnahlo hook on your disease, of which ho is tho author, froo of chargo. Dr. llatliaways Bpocialty is diseases of a chronic or lingering nature, and tlioso ho has successfully treated for ovor twenty-five years. Tho BUCCOsa ho lias mot with is some thing remarkable. Ito hau reached tho head of his profession and Iiis title of "tho recog nized authority on Chronic Diseases" justly belongs to iii m. Ti ot only has he cured thous and of sufferers who cull athis oflleo for treat ment, but nearly every Stato in tho Union ls represented on ids list of cured patients whom ho was ablo to euro by his method of homo treatment. Ile has had special success in cur - "ng cases of long standing and of a complicat ed naturo, after several doctors had givon thom up as incumbi?, but whether your caso is of long stauding or not, you should at onco seek tho advice of this great specialist. It will ho of great boneflt to you, oven if you do not tako treatment. Hohns a positive and pormnnont euro for disoases of men and women suth as LOKI' MANHOOD, STRICTUKK, VARICO'KI.U, NKRVOUSOEniWTY.KNl.ARGliL) PROS TATE, RlfHUMATISM, SPEOIPil 11LOOD POISON, KIDNEY AND OLADDKHTROU BLE, HEART DIHHASIC, STOMACH AND. HOWELL TROUBLE, DIABETES. BRIGHTS DISEASE, URINARY TROU* PLE, ENLARGED PROSTATE, PEMALt? TROUBLE, WOMB TROUBLE, OVARIAN TROUBLE. LEUCORRHEA, ETC., and if you aro allllclcd with any of these diseasos, you should loso no timo in consulting this famous j specialist. Iiis treatment for those disensos Is bssqd on ovor a quarter contury of closo study, and when ho once discharges you ns cured, you neod havo no fear that you will over be trou bled with your disease again -his euros aro per manent.. Dr. Ho thu way is tho author of eight valuable medical books which should bo in tho hands of evory ono nilliotod, or every hoad of a family, and he will send H ny ono of tlioso hooks to yon on receipt of your name and ad dress. 1, dis asos of tho throat and lungs; 2, kidneys and urinary tract; 3, diseases of women; 1, skin, rectal, rheumatism; 5, blood poison; 0, nervous debility and vital weakness; 7, stricture, B, varicocolo. Mis book for mon entitled ".Manliness, Vigor and Health," should bo- in the hands of evorv man. Writo for it, it is free. If you do not suffer yourself send him the narho of somo ono that does. 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Tlie Southern Hallway will sell round trip tickets to the following points, for special occasion: Tuskagre, Ala.-Commencement exercises of Normal and Industrial In stitute May 21-25,1905. Rate one and one-third fa:e pius 25 cents for tho round trip from all points. Niagara Falls, N. Y .-Ancient Arabio Order of Mystic Shrine, Imperial Council June 20-23, 1905. Rate one fare plus $1 00 - for round trip from all points. Toronto, Or t.-Account International Sunday School Association, Juno 20-27, 1905. Rate on certificate plan. not Springs, Va.-Annual Convention Southern Hardware Jobbers Asso ciation and American Hardware Mfg. Aassoci J? t ion. .lune 0-9, l!>05, rate ono first class fare plus 25 els. for rom d trip fron: all poins. Calhoun, S. C., south Carolina State Summer School, .lune 21st, July 29th, 1905. Rate one first class fare p'us 25 cents for round trip from all points.in Som li Carolina. A th' ns, Ga.-Summer School, June 27th-July 28th, 1905. Rate one first class faie plus 25 cents for round trip. Knoxville. Tenn.-Summer School, June 20th-.Iuly 28th, 1905, rate ono fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Nashville, Tenn.-P. abody Summer School. Vanderhuilt Biblical School June Mth-August 9th, 1005. Rate one fare pins 25 cents for round trip Asheville, N. C.-Arnual Conference Y. M. C. A. a d Y. VV, C1 A., Juno 9th-25th, 2905, rate one faie plus 25 cents for round trip. hshevlllo. N. C.-Conference of Young Peoples Missionary Association, June 25th-Jul- 2nd, 1905 Rate ou? fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Denver, Col.- Account International Epworth League Convention, rate very low, and will be given on application. Asbury Park, N. J.--Account National Association, July 3-7. Ra*o very low and given on applicaton. Baltimore, Md.-Accunt United Society Christian tional Convention, July 5th-10th. Rate one first class round trip. Buffalo, N. Y.-Annual meeting Gran j Lodge B. P. O. Elks, Rate one first-class fare plus $1.00 for round trip. Toronto, Ont.-Ace tint International Sunday School Convention 20th 27th, 1905. Rate one fare plus 50c for round trip from all points in S Carolina. Tickets On sale Juno 19. 20, 22, 23d final limit Juno 30th. Ex lon of final limit can be obtained by depositing ticket with joint agent pjn payment of fcc of $1.00 Southern Rs ll wa v can oller manyother attractive rates matJon consult any ticket agent, or, Endetvoi fare pl Interna $1.00 for For full lnf;r R. W. HUN r, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, s. c. A Proposition of Interest To all readers of this paper, who call or write for treatment within thc next 30 days 1 will cure them of the following diseases for ONE-HALF my usual charge: LOST MANHOOD, SYPHILIS (blood poison), GONO RHE, GLEET, STRICTURE, VARI COCIOLE, RUPTURE, CATA RBI? and all CHRONIC DISEASES, of both sexes. Diseases of womer, cured wttnout operation. 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