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The Marlboro VOL. XX\ "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, 1?TSPIRS OUR S0UI,5 AND MAKJS OUR LiVS^K THY POSSEC3IOK HAPPY OK OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS ItT THY CAUSE.' BENNETTSVILLE, S, C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1905. NO CUT TO PIECES Will This Gruesome Tragedy Stop Crazy College Hazing. BEACHED THE LIMIT Wheo They Blindfolded Little Prieson and Tied Him lo (he Railroad Track, Where a Special Train Cut Him iuto Mince Meat. "I Bwear by all my hopes cn earth to keep this pledge with tho brethren of our order. May my life be accur sed; my death bc loathsome ; my heart be out out and cast Into tho dust; my flesh rot from my bonef, my bones crumble away-if I ever reveal any of the seorets of our beloved order or betray my brethren." This is thc grim vow under the aw ful lnlluenoes of which the young uni verslty student, fresh from tho gen tlo influence of his home, with his youthful Ideals of honor cud loyality as yet unsullied by contact with the world, has braved tho terrors of luz lng, and faced death a hundred times. li was tho vow that led S "uart Lathrop Pierson, tho freshman of the little college of Kenyon, Ohio, to sub mit, as part of his initiation Into the fraternity of the Delta Kappa Ep stlon, and without sign or word I I murmur, to the awful ordeal of bell., tied to tho railroad tracks of th Cleveland. Akron & Ohio Railroad, there to bo left until a train oamc along and ground to pieces. For in its elTect upon the mind ol an improrsionablo boy this vow is in vested with more of aw?u' p rtent and more of solemnity than lou i nths Of the Molly Maguires, the Wei. c , t or of tho Suioidc Club, pictured b; Hobt. Louis Stevenson In the "Nov Arabian Nights." Given tivo thousand members o' the alumni of a college fraternity In possession of the secrets of this order, and not one, throughout a long life, shall ever betray them. Stuart Pier son, lying bound to tho traok on thc railroad river bridge at Gambier, hearing the distant rumplr of the ap proaching train and realizing in that supreme moment*of horror the awful mistake of his fellow nt \J lents that doomed him, on tho very threshold Of bis young life, to death under the wheels was true In spirit to his fol towp. Could he, lu that moment lave escaped by some mirarle, bl? lips must have been forever sealed. Bring him back fi om the grave now and he shall not utter a word of de nunolation: Strong lu thc heart of bis -father himself an alumnus of the college and member of the fraternity of the DKIC -ls the spirit of the oath an;; <. f lind, unreasonable loyality. For in f c. ol cumulative proof, sufficient Lo con vince every other man in tho country that the son was, with a ? ild-bloodeo oruelty worthy of the fiends, tied tc tho railroad tracks and left there. Mr. Pierson, hurrying tho mutilator remains of his son out of s i-ht, of tin coroner and the police, ?ereely oppos esjovery^stagc of Investigation, blind ly insisting that "his boy" was not tied to the tracks, but that ho fel asleep at his post and was thus rui down by the train. And of him Coro nor Scarborough and the cit/ ins of Gambier, loyally seek lr g the wholi truth of this barboroin slaughter, havo said that the honor of his college is dearer to him than the life of his Child. In pro( ? of their assertions they havo produced evidence that, IL tho very moment that his son lay on the traoks, watching the lights of the*train bearing ?own upon him,and enduring in these few moments the Agonies of a hundred deaths, he a businessman of mature years, v.'a> engaged with another party of stu 1 ents in the work of "initiating anoth er victim." Put tho accident cf the advent of a speolal train where, according to the schedule of thc initiating committee, no train should have been, has lcd tc a gigantic revulsion of every college in the country, i uch as will put ai end forever to barbarism in the prac tice of initiating c. r hazing. For the wholo State of Obie, al?ame with anger over his wanton slaughter, demandB that thc students who bound and gagged Pierson, and leo him to the tracks, shall be discovered and heavily punished. And, standing alpne against thc power and might of of tho State, is Dr. Pierce, the pn si dont of the college, declaring in the faco of al) tho evidence, that his pup Us apo guiltless of wrong. The senti ment of the Ohio people, however, has spread over the cuintry, for in this oase the apex of boyish cruelty, has been reached. And while one-half the o >untry watches >n anger and ar.xlcty the de volopment of thc story c f thc death of Stuart L. Plesson, comes evldeLce that woman has <j u lek ly adopted the lessons. The "fraternity" girls of thc Kvan soon ji?gh School havo 'uranded tho arms of their sisters with the sigh cf the Phi Delta Sigma, and here the story ls told of how another Pierson Muriel--who, however, is not in tin remotest degree related to the victim of the Gumblor outrage was led blindfolded into a room, ai d there crying for moroy and half fainting' held down while the Ineignla of thc society in Greek was burnt into her arms with nitric acid. Then two of her comrade?, Majorle Cox and Allco {lams, suffered thc same ordeal. Vet no murmer of oom plaint eRcap ?d the !!"Mi of tho bray? damsels (tittil ft scream, evoked by accidental col liston of tho inflamed arm with hard substance, !?.d to hqutry, examina tion, and fcioorm which has sot all Evanston ragiri" with an agition for the prohibition oHheso priotlcos. , Incrder to appreciate tho ex'ont <to,which tho practice ha? Jnorcased jln'tiolenoo during tho last jive years /one must look at tho circumstance ht the ease of Pier A n. ? Ono week before his death ho had been mada to craw 1 through the town of Gambier on his hands and knees while his companions beat him with stones and olubs. D?ep absesscs had formed on his legs so that ho was un able to walk His assailants waited until he was Just able to orawl out of his bed be fore-with tbeoonsentof his father proceeding to the aot of taking him to tho railroad bridge, tying him to the track, and there leaving him. And, even thc ugh iu the first ovar whelming discovery o' the mutilated body, as they went to the brldgo to release him before tho regular train oame along, they suoceedtd, with the aid of his father, in smuggling the body to Giuuiuattl, tho ropo marks on tho wrists and legs and the dtsoov ery of the coll of rope on the bridge near the spot whose he had lain, told the Coroner and the polloe all that they needed to know. Paul Harber, a Z ita Alpha fresh man, telling In ,au a<e ss of anger how ho, two hours before Pierson's death, had been tied to the rails in a similar way and then roleased, com pleted the moral proof on which every member of tho Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity will ba brought before the Grand Jury. Contrast this with the "Initiation" or hazing customs of years ago. lu those times the acme of punishment ] was reached when a freshmen was made to stand on a bridge in full evening dress and a silk hat, in a heavy January snowstorm, and but ton hole every passer by with a long quotation from Aeschylus; or parade down the High Street in thc eharac tor cf a chimney sweep on blayd.ty. Only In the last fow years did the spirit of ruffianism insidiously or?ep lu under the cloak of tho "csplrit dc corps." . Stuart Pierson will not have died In vain If the enquiry whloh maj ?ring several of his oolloga matos to che criminal bu to answer a oharg( of homicide, leads to a return of the restraints whloh in other days gov erned thc association of gentlemen. CAUGHT IU GEORGIA. Murphy Who AaBaaatniUed TrcABur* or Copes Now In J*U. The police department of Augusta believes it has spotted Murphy, who while serving a life sentence for the murder of Treasurer Copes, esoaped from prison. Accordiug to tho lettei received Just by the Governor from the chief of police of Augusta, he thinks D C. Murphy, a life prlsioner, who escaped from tho penitentiary ?ionic years ago, is in Jail at Swains ourg, Ga., on the charge of horse iteallng, and the Augusta effljor wants to know if this State desired tc put a olaim for him at once. Murphy, killed Treasurer Oope%a4lkl Orangeburg County in 18B7 aird w?T* sentenced to har g. Governor JO 1er be commuted thia to life imprison mont, and shortly af terwards tho man '?soaped. A ort time apo au interview with a. fermer Penitentiary guard was prii.iod in which lt was said that Murphy l ad gone to the Philippines, if tue ie Ur O? the Augusta c def of police ia correot, however, Murphy is -n a Georgia J ill, and there ls litt.lt 1( ubt but that he will make a strong effort to keep out of thc clutches of the Sout h Carolina authorities. The case ls one of the most inter esting ones Qf the criminal history of i-lie State, and Murphy has no doub ted an eventful lifo since his escape .'rom the Penitentiary here. At tin dme of his escape every effort wai made to recapture Murphy, hut ll was said he had gone to South Amer ica. The Augmta polloc who writ? appear to be famllar with the case, ind think that the Swain?-burg horst thief is the real Murphy. Several men who have proven tobe tho wronj.' men have been arrested as Murphy. Fiend 'Foiled, In Atlanta an unknown negro went to tho home cf W. A Hook, a wei known white harbor,about |i;:t? o'clock Wednesday night and made an attaok on his wife. Hook's homo ?B located ?it Lakewood Heights, some dlbtance from the city and where the houses are not as close together as they art In town. Mrs. Hook mansged to get inBldo tho door and slammed lt in tho negro's face when he put his shoulder against lt and was about to break it down. The orles of Mrs. Hook and her daughter had hy this time attrac ted attentljn, aud the negro made his escape. Tho neighborhood was much aroused over the mattor that a posse made up of ol tizona of that sec don secured bljodbounds and scoured the woods all night for the prlmjnal. rhe seaioh Is still going on, but up to jthe present time no arrest has been made._ Hull Fighters lujurod. A dispatch from M^ico (lity says the inorcasieg number of accidents tc bull fighters in thc ring is used as an argument by the loo?! society for the prevention of cruelty to animals to urge tho abolition of thc sport. Par rao, the noted bull Ijghter, who was seriously gored about'three weeks ago, is recovering from his 11 J aries. To day Cocherito de Bilbao was tossed on a bulls horns and thrown into the ai' ?soaping with relatively slight injury. Ooohcrlto recently arrived from ?pain. Football does not commend ltsolf tc tho public as a substitute for bull lighting. __ A Uaeo Blander. Dr, Erich Zxpfel-Q ?ellenstoln, the German counsel at A tlanta said that ho felt a great lr justice had been done the South In M?o cablegram sent out from Now York to tho effect that immigrants to this section are made to work at tho point of tho pistol. The cablegram in question was pub llshed In Qorrnany as <> warning. Dr, ft jeppfel says ho intends to write the emperor at once that this report ls entirely unfounded, and that tills scotion Is one of tho best in the en tire country for emigrants from Germany and other European states. A rm on 1 n. n H Mi kv 'Jwr tor *?. It ls reported that In tho co vorn mont of JO-lvan 700 Armclans irjm a number of villages, attaoked tho Tar* tor village of G, ors, killed 400 of the villagers and plundered and buracd |VU P*opei $y. A BAD FIRE. Nineteen finely Trained H?rne? an? Other Property Barned, Tho Wild Wont Show ltulnod. Fir? WAS Sot und Sovnral Suspects Will ba Arrested. Tho Augusta Chronicle says what was probably tho most disastrous ,lire of rec Mit years occured Wednesday morning wheo two stables, two barns, ono hundred and fifty tons of hay and many valuable farming implements, tho whole being the property of Mr W. H. Buford and nineteen fine trained Texas horses, tho property ol Capt. C. W. Biggs, were destroyed, totaling a loss of about 928.000. Toe tire ouourod on thc E.lorado Farm, and is supposed to have boon of incen diary or gin. The lire was discovered Wednes day morning about 3 o'clock by ne groes residing on the Eldorado Farra. When the alarm was given th? two oig turin wero a mass of fUmea. Within a few mom nts tho two ad Johiln.r st,-nie;-, in whioh twenty hor ses were occupying stall Ignited, and before tho horses could bo reoued the stables abo wero in Hames. hy that time Mr. Buford, the ow ner of tho Eldorado Farm, Capt. BlggB, tile proprietor of the wild wes* sbow which is wintering on the farm together with all their employes had gathered ou the scene and made nu ver ai attempts to check the progress of the lira. Their efforts on Mild I nes, howover, proved inc Ifaobual. Fort unately a wind kept the ll* mos from reaching thc resido co buildings and the tents of (Japt. Biggs, which were but a few yards distano. Those who witnessed tho fire say that their exporlenco was a horrible one. Four big buildings were bia/, lng fiercely, lu ono was confined twenty horses who wore being slowly ourned to death. Tnoir snorts and squeals of terror and pain brought tears to the eyes of the spectators, who were powerless to aid them, Oje horse escaped from tho building, but so badly burned that it will not live. (Japt. Biggs' loss will amount to absut SH,OOO. Tao horses wore of unusually Hine breed, and bosldcs, were trained for circus purposes. Many of them-the more intelligent ones-held a high placo in his afleo tlous, and he fee's their loss In other than a pecuuiary way. Ho himself declares that ho ls heartbroken. Mr. Bufords loses aggregate $ 18,000 at tho lo west estimate. The barns and stables were the largest and pos sibly tho best equipped in or near the oily. Besides he lost many threshing im.c. lines ot great yaluo, hundreds of arm Implement , and about one hun drtd and fifty tons of hay. Tho prop erty was not insured. Those who aro In a position to know declare that "he Ure was of inoondiary origin. It waa even stated that certain persons were sui-picted of having committed uhc malicious act, and that their ar mrest would shortly follow. The Chronicle says a touching in cident, and one that was a rare ex ample of thc devotion that Kimo ani mais bear fur i hoir masters and mis oresfcs, was witnessed Wednesday norning by a few who had driven out to the Eliorado Firm to view the .cene of the terribie Ure, when little Miss Higgs, the daughter of Capt. C. W. Higgs, who wai the owner of tho oorses, succeeded In getting '"Buby," ,he moy horse of tv\enty that eseap ?d fpm thc Hirnes, to rl'^o from the gre ii ad, after many hail striven In vain to induce the burned and sutler mg boast to stir from the position In which lt had fallen. The horse's hide, where it had not been bumed e If completely, resembled leather; its eyes were burned out, and .ts head and face terribly blistered. After escaping from the burning sta ole tho llorac had been led to water mg trough beside whioh lt had fallon. Several men had boen ondcayorlng for a nurabor of hour?, to Induce thc beast to stand ci Ita legs. But their coaxing and threats had been in vain. Miss Binga approaohod within a few feet of the liorso which had onoo oecn her opt, ' Huby,'1 she soitly called; ."Huby, please get up." For a moment the horso lay still; then it made one supreme effort and staggered to ltd feeft uuidofl by hoi voice "Huby" walked forward a fow steps on weak, shaking legs. Just as Miss Higgs patted its forehead the legs collapsed and tho horse fell to tho ground; And despite tho further efforts of Wnlp poor-will, Capt. Higgs' Chero kee Indian associate, lb refused to budgo. iVoblUr Aooldent. A dispatch from Union I J tho State says an unusual and possibly fatal ac cldent happenod to a woll known farmer living near Jonesville regetltly, Mr. Tooma? \Yrtghb' was chasing a runaway horse aorcwi a field and a orlstly cocklebur How up Into his mouth and was Instanbly drawn dpwn his windpipe All efforts hy lOOAl phy sic.lam to dislodge lb proved futile, and tho man, suffering horrible tor ture has boen taken to a hospital in Spartanburg to bo operated, upon. tjtftiHl (Jn'itapund, At "Wich I to, Kanaav, ninety men attending thc Southorn Kansas Scot tish LUte convocation, wore thrown into a tieap by Mie breaking qf a ftoaf fold op whjfih they ?t??a to'hayo thoir picture's taken Wednesday afternoon. Many were injured. S. ll. Tnomas, commandant of tho Soldier's Home at Dodge City, was among tl\o ihjurod, having si ll ;red a sprained ankle Hov only il ye. others sustained bruise?, but no ono was sorlously hurt. !*ostm?Htor ItoniOTod? postmaster Horton pf iioitpn will bp removed to wa^ke place for W, Carroll Brown, a brother-in-law ol Sonator Latlmor and for several ycart post ;itlce inspector. Mr. Herbon gavi satisfaction und was the choice of thc patrons; but Jilstrtot Attorney Capen feootpmonncd theohange-whioh wll bo mado at onoo. Sonator I A tl mor ir an interview, says he did all he coule to keep Mr. Horton In otllce, A GREAT NEED The State Ought To Provide For Public High Schools. MR MARTIN REVIEWS A Work that has been Accompllshet1 la the Western States and Urges the Passage of a Good High School I.nw in South Car olina. State Superintendent of Eduoition Martin ls vory muoh interested In tho subject of high schools. Ho baa taken the matter up In his forthcoming an nual report to tho General Assembly and he has theao interesting surges tiona to uiiku on that topic. The absence of hlghsohools ranken a weak placo in tho educational ty i tem of South Carolina. Tbo timo bas como when this want should be sup plied. One of tho most phenomenal growths In any eduoitlonal lino is hbo great growth of State universities in the mtddlo and far Weat. Thia growth ls largely acoountod for by tho provision on tho part ot the Liglsla tures of those States for bigb schools. Aa a rule, those State universities eu roli more than three thousand stu dents. This occurs in Staten whose population does not exoeed that of this Stato. Such university growth is imposslblo withe\\\ good prepara tory and high school facilities. It is poor educational policy tor a Stato to spend approximately a quarter of a million dollars on four colleges, and then make absolutoly DO pr. vinion for high sohools to ba feodora for these colleges. Tho statistics from tho Stat?? above referred to show that tho high eohool not only serves as a , feeder for the university, but that thousandu of boys and girls aro pre pared for life's duties in these high sohools. In faot, it isoustomary to offer two courses, one for students who expeot to go to college or to tho uni versity, and ono for those who do not. In tbis connection X wish to quote from tho reports of a few Stato s?per 'ntendents, where there ts provision for the public high school. Tho Hon. J. W. Olsen, of Minneso ta, says: "I do nob hesitate to ?tate that in my Judgment the Stato is amply repaid lu results for tho en couragement thus given to thia class of educational institutions. These schools, coming under tho supervision of the Stato high towool board, must comply with tho rules of the board, and wo employ impactors to soo that these rules are compiled with. This, results in better buildings, well light' ed, heated and ventilated, in good working libraries, as well as] physical and chemical laboratories, etc Thc aim is to induce communities gotting this aid to do more for thomselves. This aid from the S.ate enables the oounty and many a small town to maintain a high Behool that otherwise could not afford to do so, which, in turn, draws In a vast number of its best, young people for high ic'iool in struction, who would not and could not receive lt If lt were not placed within their Immediate vlohiage. " Superintendent T. J. Kirk, of Cali fornia: "Rapid strides have been oaken In thc interest of secondary od uoatlon within the past two years. Thc Constitution has been amended by popular vote so as to incorporate high kChools In tho Stato school sytttem, and in pursuance of such &u^3ndoaent the Legislature of lw)8 enao;ed a law oreatlng a fund fur tho bencllt and support of high schools. An ad vajor em rate of ono and 0,11c-h alf tv nt? on I uno hundred dollars of all assessed property In tho State is annually lev lod for the purpose * * * 1 think it is safe to say that no ??phpol'law of recent years tyaa been more highly ap preciated than this, lt has helped struggling country hlghsohools where some of tho very best secondary sohools work is dono. * * * T^he tefmB of this Aot in reference to revenue art ulmdla? to'tho Aoii creating a fund for the benetlt and supporbof tho Uulver slty of California." Tho high school idea haft passed the experimental stagb, m? has beeti worked out very fully In Wisconsin Superintendent C. p, Cary, of Wis cousin, Bay?: "Toe sum appropriated to Stato a'.d for high school^ it(' obie, ty thousand. doUaft. Toi? ls appor (doned among tho high schools of tho Stato In proportion to thc amount paid out for Instructions In the high schools. Each school re col ves half tho amount paid fo^r in struction |n vhe pigh'iohob) providing tho *HO,UO,0 will hold out to pay them all that much, if not lt ls apportion, ed on that basis Superintendent^ Y{- Iii Htoekweii, of r?orth ivvUdbat' "Tho law providing for a Stato high school board and for inspection and classification of high schools ls now nearly tan fears old. 1 wish to oday thftt ht my Judgment noth ing has had a more deolded influonoo upon the ??ho!* scnemo of education in this State than has this oiakalt,loa tlon inspection and aiding hlghsohools. It has had the tendency to build up good, strong, effluent high schools In overy part of our Stato, and I think tho iLfluenoe of a good high school Is felt tim tiebout thc entire commun ity in whlod that high sohoolii looa , ted, boo*u> nf tho fjwtj that many of tho rural school teachers aro drawn from among tho graduate/, of our high i schools. Tho North Dakota h\a\\ school law la a very al mph) pm I quote the loading 'featuresi "Tho high snbonl 1 board shall receive applications from such sohools for aid ai hereinafter : provided, which applications shall be i rooolvod and acted typuf} In tho ordor > of their receipt, Tho said board shall J apportion ?0 each of Raid sohools i which shall have fully compiled with I tho provisions of tills Act, and whoso i applications shall hays boon anproved 1 by the board, the following sums tc wit: Four hundred dollars each yeai to each to joel nianbainlrg four yt art high Behool '0 )urso and doing iou ycarB high Kjphool svoik: tho sum of throo hutclr?d dollars, each sohool having a taree years high school course and doing three years high soho il work jj-the s una of two huud red dollars e&oh year to caoh sohoi 1 having a tvib years h'gh school cours* and d' 1 ag two years high ichool work Provided that money BO appoprlatee to any highffiohool shall be used t( inoreaso th? ? moloney of the high sohool: Provided further, that the total araouqb of the apportionment and expensan under this Aot shall not c xoeed ten Jjp u and dd ai s tn es cb ear." ?Sc mo of ?be States provide only om high soho lt to tho o uity. Some pro vide for asrpnany as seven lu one coun ty, and so$e provide for tho organ! /.itlon of adi.'gh Behool In any terri tory large* thau a township. Of oourse I nhould not favor Stato aid io any high : .'.?mol unless tho commuai ty, township or oounty should bo vs ll ling to admit boys and girls free of tuition from the county in which the sohool is located. In order to encour age looa^ej?ort and Initiative, I think the law srfould provide State aid to any territory as great or greater than ' the township whiob would make a speolal levy tor high sohool purposes. This levy; heed not bo largo, l i BOOK couutieswhioh would gladly take ad vantage o' a law of this fckind a half mill wcUlU be amply sutllolcnt; and 1 do not believe that any county wi u'd 1 need more, than ono mill for this pur pose, The vigorous and successful t ff jrts of? several enterprising com munities in this Stato to raise funds to get the Presbyterian C liege, now ! located alt Clinton, dearly shows that 1 suoh oltlvp and towns are ready and 1 tipo for 'the building of tl rs t class high schools v, 1th looal and boarding ' patronage. 1 As intimated already, the high sohool Iltja recolved very great enoour- ' agemenfcin the middlo and far West. 1 The nest few years will witness great 5 development in this line in the South. ( I shouldjlike very much to see the 1 South Carolina Legislature take the lead in developing a first class system 1 of hlgbf schools. Georgia will soon * makoamovoiu this direction. Tue Georgia^ University has already ac 1 oepted the offer of the general eduoa- J tlou board to pay half of tho salary of the ofll&er who will devote half of his 1 timo to the inspection and olassilica ? tlon of such high school work as ls al 1 ready being dono in that State, prof. 1 Joseph S. Stewart has already visited 1 every seotiou of Georgia as an Inspec ' tor of th's work. Ho has prepared I an excellent pamphlet which clearly 1 shows the conditions and plainly re I vealB the need of the development of 1 a high' sohool system. I have no 1 douhi the Georgia Legislature will 1 rise io the emergency. As is shown 1 by th? TSorth Dakota law, this work 1 oan be Started on a comparatively 1 small . jr^uriatlon, A mijority of 1 tho highi schools would have a three years course of study. Under the law c they get three hundred dollars aid. 8 South Carolina gives nearly twice as 1 muoh to feed, ?lothe fthd ed?cate six. ( ty eight hoys with scholarships in a s State Callege, as North Dakota does f to encourage a system of high schools I which prepares several thousand beys 1 and girls for college. \t seems to me ' to be rank folly fin'the Stato to give 1 one thousand dollars to feed and 1 clothe one noy aud give him .a col lego education, when that thousand 1 ' dollars might be used to encourage the establishment ot a high school ? which w,onUl prepare a hundred bojs I for college In the same length of time. If you will give a boy such pre?ara/ ? tory abvantages as will get bli? ready ' for college, in nm*, ouscs'out of ton he ( will \vor? to iced and oloth.o himself 1 while In college; nor should we forget ' the vast amount of work a, loo g BOieu tllic, commorcia\ and industrial lines, 1 whlph can b& dono in those high .ohools to prepare hoys who do uot get to go to ollege fo?; Uio. ? know ot no posslblo '^glsH?on that would bc mbie far-reaching with Its good liitkisnces upon cur educational sys tem th itt tho enactment nf, ,., good high Bohool low. ?lb; Ootton Pire. At Columbus, Ga., more than 2 000 bales of cotton were destroyed, anent 1,000 bales soorohc^, and several hun drod damaged by Uro whloh started in grounds used Jointly by tho Cen tral of Georgia railway and the At lantic Compress c >mpany Wednesday. The Uro started, f cairn a *park from a iwitoli onglhc'about 12 30 that after noon amt was still burning although under control at 7 o'clock that. ey?ni: 1 lng. The total loss is p^aend vi uJt less than ?lf??,fy?&' fully Insured, The cotton was In the open space near j thc round house of tho Central of I Georgia railway and thc tire, which started from some dried grass set by a looomotlve spark, quickly so-read -, to thc cotton. A stilT, gale o^ Wind made the wyrie oi the Ure department espetdalTy dlffloult, but tho depart mont succeeded In prcyeritlng tho spread of tho lire to between 10,000 and 17,0,0ft, hales wh c i were on the ground nearby. Terrible Aooi<Uu\t A dispatch fro'^ Lancaster to The State says, willie Mrs. Hinsou, wife of Mr. John H bison, of Flat lt-ck Township, was standing by thc tiro in her roora, a few mornings ago, hold ing hor baby In her arms, she sodden ly minted and tell ou the burning fa gets, tho child falling into the dames with her. The orles of thc infant attracted tho attention of Mr. ^bi son and his drothor-ln \aw, Mr. Rich ard Saarnos, wha wore in another part o.f tho house. They rushed to tho rescue of tho unfortunate woman and her child as quickly as possible, but not hi thuo to ?ave tilcha f rom sorious, lt not fa^al Injury. Both woro irtevdj horribly burned, and lt ls c*tror?c?y doubl ful that either will re cover. J, \\ \ In 1) ?Bl I mt lo?, A cablegram from Klshlneil, describ ing, the misery ni that section of Russia was rcoetved today by tho state bink here. It read: "Colassal distress, out side o? Klshineff hundreds of vil - lage jews mined. In tho town of Kalarasoh, with largo commirclal In , t?rosts, near Ktahlncff, :t00 houses ! burned down, (h)0 famlles reduced to i poverty, three million roubles loss. > I Help absolutely necessary, A QUEER CRANK Dies Trying to Found an Eyeless Eden in Australia. MADE HIS CONVERTS Go Entirely Naked, and Matrimony Was Prohibited and tils Follower* Were Re stricted to a Pr ult Diet. Only liad Two Recruit to His Views. By ibo death of Anglehardt, news of which has just beon received here, ttj'o world has lost its queerest crank. Ile was tiie last survivor of tho little u?ot of naked, fruit-eating sun-wor shipers, whioh ho established on a tropical island. He souuht to regen erate mankind by starting an Eveloss Eleu, sans ii,; leaves. He and his two mit guided followers possessed tho cour age of their convictions and perished rather than abandon their experi ment. IOogiehardt was no ordinary man. He was a native of Bavaria, a univer sity graduate, and an author of con siderable merit. Ile might havo made something of a mark in tho world if oe. 1 oui not sickened cf civilization and its ways. It is sad that thc failure of i woman to reciprocate hist fiction was tho c use of it, but this is more jonjecture, and duo to tho fact that the fair sex was excluded from his scheme for restoring mankind to an ?arthly paradise. He believed that where woman came, the devil wat? ure to follow, and ho didn't intend t< un any risk of getting into the sam urt of trouble that Adam did. lo was his opinion that tho humai aco originated in tho "sun-blessec tropics," and only there cculd it ob .alu a fresh start on tho right track Ln lOOIi ho went to New Hritlan li learoh of a sultat le place for the es- ( ahllshment of a community which he bndly hoped would form the llrst link n a chain of similar soul emeu ts that j would eventually gird the earth. Hr < jurchased the little island of Kab.v t cou, situated in tho duke of York , troup, and about 15 mtjca, from Her- j lertshoe, the seat of ?he German ad- ( nlnistratlon in New Guinea. It ii t ??<> acres in and cocoanut trees Hour sh there in abundance. He believer; ( ?hat living in the primitive fashloi j cquired of those who j Mned the order, ^ t would sutllce to maintain 1.50, men i "I have proclaimed Rab'alion an , ?pen fru.lt garden and sun grove," he , aid In a letter settinur fourth hit: , deas, "'for the purpose of reclaiming , legenerato mankind to tbebf wr\i | itate of existence. T w\li yettie lt wlt? , rult-?atipQ suuwgr??lpers to rea jrcat, pure," true, same men by giving ta members natural c mentions of lif^ [ will send out as missionaries mom .ors of the sun order who have beei rkd and found to bo tr\\c, natural Ivlng men. ^u thW way, 1 shaU es v*bhsh similar colonies ruund the whole equator. The more pi opie j ?oin me and the greaten mean placed at my d\8p($a), tho quicker will tl)p?.c ,<oioui:vs be formed." ^peeling a rush of applicants, he ? aid down very stringent rules cs ti conditions on wftloh' candidates for earthly pezcoll?n and human regen nation should bc taken Into hl^lbtand paradise. Among the<\\ were the fol lowing: "I. only men of noble and exsel lent character will be admitted. "2. K ;ch applicant mint be recom mended by two respect i able credible persons, approved of by the leader ol thc (Sun o.der. ";h A payment of $250 for such i as cnn ii?;rd that amciut^ tor lesb wealthy persons a sum. corresponding to their moajis, and for the poor sui. wo;shipp?rs nothing at all." N Aked man comes into thc world ' and naked he goeB out of lt4 and nak ed he shcu'd atilde \?,\ h, according to thc high prient of tho sun worship p^.rs, He insisted that his followers should never under any circumstances wear a vestige of clothing, Ho held that clothes poiqo.n,eu tho system, and that hy \ntetccpt lng the rays of the Buu'ntbe souroo of all life, of all mind and all strength," they preven tod the attainment of a perfect humanity. Marriage ho also regarded as an aboin Inatlon and strict celibacy was en ? du id. Fruit which ripened. Iii the sun was alone to bo $ateh. Houses wer-; forbidden- He would tolerate nothing that intelfered with living close to Niturc all tho time. By going around stark naked, bathing constantly In thc sun and oating nothing hut fruit, lie di dared his follov/ora Would even tually be able to subsist without food or di'JAk of any sort and gain the I power of transporting themselves at will to any part of thc world without having to patronize railways or steam ships. On taking possession of his island, l'lnglchardt stripped himself to the bi-?, and armed wi til a palm leaf to keep ell liles, feas and mosquitoes, confidently awaited a host of regener ating recruits. A lot of folk in Ger many hadslgnltled their intention of j lining him when ho got his paradise started, but when it carno to the scratch all but two backed out. Some pleaded for tho privilege of at loaat being flowed to wear skirts; others clamored for concessions in tho shape of beef steak, and some bjftS? back sliders declared they would .?ot taokle thc paradise job nulosa permitted to bring their best girls with them. Hut ICuglQhard'b was adamant to all these appeals. Ho wculd admit no ono tc luuiiiuOiShip in the Sun ?bdui, win; was not willing to acibero to all the rules and regulations which ho had iald down, for its guidance, and whloli hs faithfully observed himself. Thc two mon who joined him on these torms were Max putzow. a mnslolan, who conducted an orchestra in thuin that boro hts namo, and Heinrich Vin l.nnn ~ ?tttHvA fS * I I ..fl ...,.,->....' ... ll.., c% ll).Ul. I. WI ? t l-l I < IHII> I , ..IUI ll.... sottlcd In tho samo city. They con signed their clothing to tho sea OL landing on Kibakon and settled down to a course of BUD worship bnd fruit diet. But the sudden chango to an equa torial climate, exposed to the fierce heat of the sun all day and sleeping on the sand at night, with no bodily nourishment but cocoanut, noon re due ul Eukens to a condition of extreme physloal weakness. In that state he was smitten with malaria. In ac oordance with tho rules of the ortfer. he took no remedies, but lay In the di rect ra vt! of the 6 un and lasted for throe days. Oil the fourth day he succum bed to tho "hunger oure." But lib fate did not weaken tho faith of thr other two men. Sceptics might, sneer, but they idt certain that they wert -?m the right traok, and through tneno tho human race would untimatoly bc regenerated. Stark naked, and wltl their skins tanned to the color ol leather, they wondered ah.nit tho ls land and seomrd quite happy and on tented with their primitive life and frugal fare. The natives regarded then: with superstitious reverenoe bad set tiers who visited thom occasional^ looked upon thom as harmless luna atics. At tho beginning of the year Lut zow waa carried out to sea in th< Methodist mlbslon outter, willoh hac drifted away owing to adverse cur rents, and when the boat was recover ed som ?. considerable time afterward* lt contained the corpse of tho deludec' musician. 'Illa loss was a sad blow U Englehardt, but he still refused tc leave his beloved sun grove, and stu continued to conform striotly to th rules which he had drawn up for thi seot. He subsisted ontirely on cocoa nuts. At last he was stricken with f severo Illness. Learning of his oondi tion, tho Gorman authorities Beni their medical launch to the h Und, and, despite his protests, insisted ot conveying him to the hospital. Ai Englehardt's request, he was placer' in such a positiou on tho little craf bl mt he oould gena upon the island ai lt receded in thc distanoe. He sui ?ke nn word to any one. and by signs re looted the nourishment that was of 'ered him. When at length the IsUnc vanished from hts sight he olosod nh y ja In death. Terrible Typhoon, Mall advices from tho Philippine! diow how Inadequacy the devasta ?lon caused by tho typhoon was deB u i hud in thc cable reports last month lt ls stated that at least flfteer f\merlcans and 20ft natives lost thel i ves and th'vt: tho damage will exceed 53 OOO, OOO gold In tho province ol \lbal alone. In the proviroa of Sor logan, the damage lg placed at 92,000. )00. In these two prc vinces eighty ier cent, of the buildings woro des rfoyod. As a result of the storm am irought of early surru?er only flfteei percent, of the usual rtedpta fron dio cropa will be obtained. In Sor i 'gan all munlolpal buildings, and ichool houses, with two exception) vere destroyed. .U wild be elghteei nonths before, a *iow orop of hem); viii be. available for market, so that i-uoh destitution among the native? is invltable. The typhoon almos vlped out the rice crop, PralHlnic the, HoMth. President Samuel Spencor, of th? Southern ttailway, accompanied by t large party of railroad oftlolals at.d i?astern business men, were th? guests of tho Manufacturers and Prc rt nee YB.' Association of Kuox ville Tenn., Wednesday night. Presiden Sponcer mado a abort speech and otho members ot tho party mado apoeche lu a happy vein. The olosing tal! .vas one made by t?Uo Hon. James A Bokels, comptroller of tho currone under President Cleveland. Ho cor trratulatcd the South on its tuturi and remarked that In a few years 1 would have Pennsylvania's iron an steel industry and the looms of Nb' longland would be moved to Sotuner States. Ila maintained that such step would he best for all; that Na IO jgland and Pennsylvania would lin other industries as profitable, ar that the South would be mado eve moro prosperous than she ls nov President Spencer's party returns thc Eist Thursday, MUCH for Wiro. Will A. Lowry, a prominent you) man of Macon Ga , will Ale applic tlon for writ of habeas corpus In t city court tomorrow on oomplali I that) blB wife formerly Miss Itu H?ge was being detained by her I ther, J. T. H?ge a prominent ra road man. Tho application for t writ divulges a secret which the t young people havo kept. Lowry in ho and Miss H?ge woro married october and ho puts a marriage oeuae a\id the name of the e'.ergyu ?performing the oeremony in ovlden Alii'KOtl Iiy unite., ii, A special to The Register, fr Hattieaburg, Miss., says that D. Holmes. \\. IL Holmes, A. T. Itc and Albert F, James, prc win white men wcro today arrested indlotmont rotumed hy tho gri j ary charging the ru willi oompiic in the lynohlna C< Kid George i K1 Brock, negroes. The roen w not placed in j?all, but are held uu guard at tue Holmes resldei Habeas corpus proceedings for tl release will bo beguu tomorrow bel tho chancellor._ Fut?? AoohioiAt, A dlspatoh frew Bowman to Nows and Cot tier says a tree that hoing out hv M*. Wm, H. Wast ft day afternoon of last week aooldor ly toll on a little son of his, kil him Instantly. The, aittlo fellow about eight or nine years old. father did not know that tho boy anywhere around uatU tho tree ( monee d to fall, when the poor 1 fellow ran right under lt, In trylK mako lils esoape. Drunk Muoh lloo*o. Columbia ls not worrying a , other parts of tho Btate voting ou , dispensary, but it ls eon tin uto , drink dispensary whlskoy In Ino I lng quantities. Tho dispensary , In tue ol ty last month brone all ordg 1 j nrnfl *-.a ?\nria fchn <JQ , trea&uror last month received '?0-which ia to bo equally divide j twocu the county and the town. lt should not ba forgotten that . fair w?ok sales whloU were s double any previous fair week, ai j bo counted In this months recorc Twelve Persons Blown to Plec es and Five Burned (o Death. KNEELED IN PB AYER While They Raested. Five PersoB* Perish Jd New York Tenement Fire. A Fearful Tragedy In the Bras nell Coal Companys NiW Shaft at Monogonela, Pennsylvania. A dispatch from Monongohela, Pa.? says undoubtedly killed and probably - blown to pieoes, seven men are lying In tho depths of the new shaft of the) Brasnell Coal Company, on the out iklrts of Bentleysvllle, while another outside tho mine is dead, as the ro* mit of the gas explosion Wednesday. The Brasnoll Coal Company has boen duking tho new shift slnoe last sum mer. Two weeks ago lt was learned Ghat a pocket of gas bad been formed IQ tho bottom of the mine, wbloh la L85 feet deep. Orders were given for til the mon to work with safety amps and this had been done. Turee <hlfls of men woio employed by Con tractor and General Superintendent 3uz?o. Lato Wednesday Boss Farragut and ils six mon, without thought of dan cer, stepped into the cage and de ?ended Into the mine. Taey were mlldlng a conoroto water ring, or li tell, fifty feet down the shaft, in -i cier to catch dripping water- About Ive minutes after the men deoeuded , terri fl? explosion occured whlob dew huge pieces ot timber out of the nine, Uko sky rockets, as high as 150 eot in tho air. The tipple and all he mine rigging wore torn down ,nd debris scattered in heaps all .round. A shovel wt lah lay at the op of the shaft was hurled with such io'once that it sank four inches into i plank. It is believed the mon were Instant' y killed and foll to tho bottom of the ?aft. John McCatey, on the outside /as killed by tho falling tipple and tbers were seriously though not fatal y hurt. Mino Inspector Loute gave t as his opinion that the explosion tras oausod by lire damp. But as it voukl have been practically impoli tic for safety lamps in working order o ignite thu gas, there must have leensome kind of open light used. Vu ordinary minor's torch badly bat or cd, which was found near the ec uoh of the sbaft, tends to Indioate nat som<) one disobeyed orders and ui icd a lighted torch into the shaft. F1VK UUrtNED TO DEATH.. At New York at least live persona vero burned lo death in an Italian enomcnt house at 221 cast Seventy hird street early Wednesday. The louse was six doors high and tba i.ooplng tenants on the five upper loora were ma lo prisionera by ll imo *lth the ground iloor a roaring fur ?ace beneath them. Three of those .vim lost their lives were kneeling In grayer wheu tho Ure reached them. The police believe that the fire was ?tarted by an lnoendlary. lt began m a heap of rubbish at tho bottom ot m air shaft, and spread through the nterior of a grocery Btore on the u ound fijor. A policeman was tba irst person to seo tho fire, Just as it tad begun to orecp up the air shaft. Ile um..IM.o thc building, pounding on the hall doors all the way up to he sixth fijor to waken the tenants. Po. tire followed him so swiftly that when he reached the top floor he waa obliged to send the tonants there out fio the fire escape to save them from .suffocation. When tho lire department arrived ?Ith Its ladders nearly every ono on tho fire escapes was kneellrg in pray er. Adding to the pathos of the scene was tho action of the mon who stood with "their arms full of personal pos assions while their wives fought un aided to protect the ohildren from be ing trampled by the crowd or suffo cated by smoke. Kvory ono on the tire escapes was saved by the fireman. Tho lessco of thc house told the po lice today that the "Blaok Hand" so ciety had reoontly sent him letters demanding 92,000. Although the de mands did not state what tho penalty would ho for refusing to pay the mon ey tito polio have begun an investi gation on tue billet that the fire waa started by the writors of tho leeters. A Word to Girl e. Mothers aro often very roady to savo their daughters trouble. No matter how tired tim mother may ba she savs nothing about it. Her deft hands make tho dainty frocks her daughters wear, her willing hands of ten iron the shirtwaists and the stocks, and even mend the gloves and sew huttor s on the shoes of the young trlris who go cub looking BO trim and ll)word!ko in bheir sweetness and bheir beauty. Lot me tell you, girls, there uuy Oomaa day when you will sadly miss ai' the mother lova and the mobber potting, when you will wish, perhaps too lat?, that you had been moro considerate and lesa solf-absorbod. Four Alon Hung. AtCar8on, Nov., J. P. Sovenor, tfrod ttohorts. Al Lindeman aud T. S, Gorman wore hanged Friday for tho murder of Jaok Woloh, in Hum bolt c ainly, in August, 1003. Tba exeoublon cook placo in the shoe shop of tho stato prison. Roberts and Gorman wero hanged In the afternoon whtie wevenor and Lindeman wero hanged in the forenoon. Many lille, A dispatch ??o?? Tokio, Japan, says tho number ( f u lompljyod, foi? lowing tho r?ttiru of the troops from tho tl dd, is estimated at 100,000? and is causing uneasiness in view of tho Industrial depronon now pro* Tilling, and lu* unlit ?hood of a re? vlval of butiaess in the neut future?