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OR HERO ied Lieut. Richardson to iesert His Fiance HE HOLY ALTAR? ft Craven Hearted On Ills Part lo lionvo Iiis mveeihenrt So That She Might' Ito Freo to Marry a Hotter Man, Or Did It Take Tre IMCIKIOIIS Courage to Do What Ho Did Do. JJlt lier And Kill Himself, Is it possible fo rsuicide to be a deed of heroism? Is modern civiliz ation justified in accepting "suicide" and "cowardice" as synonymous terms? Just now this much-argued theory gains a most interesting illustration -one way or the other-in the case of the late Lieut. Mack Richardson, U. S. A., who killed himself after being forced out of the army because he had deserted, almost at the altar, the girl whom he was engaged to marry. Since his death some of his brother officers---the samo ones who held him in tho greatest contempt for his con duct toward his betrothed bride have declared that he died a brave man, owing to conditions that no one hut himself knew about until after he was dead. Tlie whole story is told here, and in connection with it are printed the crucial scenes in Guy de Maupas sant's tale entitled, "A Coward" probably the host psychological study uf suicide ever written. Lieutenant Richardson was attach ed to the Twenty-sixth Infantry which up to a few months ugo was stationed at Brownsville, Texas. He was captain of a Missouri regiment that served in the Spanish-American war, and gave so good an account of himself that, wron the war wa:-, over, he was commissioned a first lieuten ant in thc regular army. Ile was a widower, thirty-seven years Old. His brother officers liked and esteemed him, and society at Brownsville found him a genuine ac quisition. In Brownsville thc family of Cap tain William Kelley, president ol' the Kirst National Bank of that city, were socially of much importance, and beautiful Anna Kelley was a re cognized belle. Lieutenant Richard? son paid her much attention. llewen hov love. About eight months age their engagement was announced. The date for their wedding was set for Tuesday evening, May ld. This was the dale ol' the anniver sary of the marriage of Miss Kelley's liaren ts. lt was planned that the combined wedding and anniversary should be a great social event for thc whole of Texas. Lieutenant Rich ardson's brother officers rallied 'round him. overwhelmed him with congratulations and were eager te shed military glory upon thc mar riage scene. Following the negro regiment dis turbance at Brownsville Lieutenant Richardson's regiment was transfer red to Pori Sam Houston. That made no difference in thc officer's enthusi asm ever the forth-coming wedding;; it was known that there would be distinguished guests from all over the State. Last November Lieutenant Rich ardson fell ill. Ile recovered, but bis convalescence progressed slowly. He lacked his old carelessness. There were times when he did not appear himself at all. When asked about, it, he replied evasively, or said that he had not yoi shaken off the effects of his illness. Lieutenant Richardson correspond ed regularly with his fiancee, lt was arranged that he and his brother of ficers should arrive in Brownsville on May Bi. the day before that set for the wedding. .Accompanied by several officers, the lieutenant went to thc station to take the train to Brownsville. As the train rolled in-he had appeared the gayest member of the party-ho suddenly slapped his thigh and said: "By Jove; I've forgotten the ring; I'll follow on a later train." So thc oilier officers boarded the train, ene of them chocking Lieuten ant Richardson's trunk on his ticket. Arriving in Brownsville, the of ficers explained tho bridegroom could not arrive lill tho coming of the next train. Thc hour for the ceremony arrived. Still no bridegroom. Captain Kelley's residence was beautifully decorated. Tho bridal Slipper was spread. The wedding presents were displayed, the house was filled with guests, including many of Lieutenant Ric' "dson's Colnrades. Then entered a messenger with this telegram for thc bride; "Am too sick to come." She bore up bravely. To the guests an announcement was made that thc wedding was postponed, and why. With forced gaye ty Captain Kelley and bis daughter and wife invited the guesss to remain to supper in celebration of his wedding anniver sary. Lieutenant. Richardson's broth er officers were the only guests who seemed especially disturbed. On the following day Captain Kel ley started a quiet investigation. He learned that, at the hour sol for the wedding Lieutenant Richardson was driving about San Antonio in an auto lobile. When the officers of the wedding party I" (urned lo their post;; not one would : ' 'ak to, or recognize Lieu tenant Ki< " dson, except in-connec tion with Ileo essary orders. The re creant bridegroom found himself completely ostracised. He volunteer od no explanation, but when pressure Was brough' ' ?boar to force bim to resign from tho army, he exclaim ed: "You'll know tho trudi some day, and you won't blame me." On May ?I-a week too late-Lieu tenant Richardson went to Browns ville, and from his hotel tried to get into communication with Captain Kelley. The result was a message from tho banker lo this offccf : Miss Kelley will n?t lis?enlo any explanation Lieutenant Richardson may have to oller. Mr. Kelley and Miss Ridley will leave for Washing ton to-morrow, and it will be well for Lieutenant Richardson not to at tempt to return to Fort Sam lieus Pine Beach at the ExsosltiOn Destroyed by Fire Buildings inside (ho (?rounds \Vore Threatened.-Shift of Winds Sav ed Somo Structures. Ono whole block of the Pine Beach section immediatcdly adjoining the Jamestown exposition grounds was swept Wednesday by tire. The Ar cade Hotel, the Berkeley Hotel, the Outside Inn, the Powhattan Hotel, the Carolina Hotel and several other smaller hotels and a large part of the outside Warpath were destroy ed. The loss may aggregate $300, 000. The Inside Inn and Kentucky State building on the Western side of the exposition grounds and the negro building were threatened but the fire reached nothing inside thc exposition grounds. The Arcade, Royal Pine, Hampton Roads, Wash ington House. Outside Inn, Powhat tan, Carolina and Berkeley hotels were among the largest buildings de stroyed. The Powhattan Guards, under Capt, (/arpenter, and the exposition (ire department, did valiant work preventing the Hames from spread ing further. The twenty-third infan try was orderedout and the entire dis triol west of the exposition grounds is now under martial law. Between forty and fifty structures were entirely consumed. Ten were destroyed in Maryland avenue and on 102d Street il. is estimated that about twenty .structures were burn ed. Probably 1,000 people are homeless. Capt. Carpenter with the Powhat tan his force are doing their utmost to relieve distress, lt was reported that two lives were lost hut this was not confirmed. Thc lire originated in the Berkely Hotel. The cause is unknown. The flames spread rapidly and in a short time the block in which thc Berkeley was located was a mass of (lames. All of the buildings there were of timber. The Arcade was the largest and costliest representing an invest ment of $80,000. The Powhattan Guards were on the ground early, Capt. Carpenter having ordered out every man who could be spared. When if was seen that the entire block was to go thc fireman divided forces and (urned their attention to the exposition grounds. IL looked at one time as though the buildings immediately inside of the Maryland avenue fence would catch lire. ;2,ooo,ooo,ooo 'ritmos. Mighty Forests Will lie Dallied to ' Cheek Spring Floods. Two billion trees will be planted to relieve Western Pennsylvania of theannual inundations which destroy ] millions of dollars worth of pr >perty r in Pittsburg and other cities. The ? plan to plant the trees is hacket! hy the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, I which is soliciting aid from the state i and national governments. The De I partment of Agriculture has already . secured an appropriation of $25,000 to begin thc project. Tho plan of the Chamber of Com merce is to plant trees on thc water sheds at the headwaters of the Mon ongahela and Allegheny rivers, which will appropriate large quantities of water and prevent, sudden thaws of vast extents of snow. The combined basins of the two rivers comprehend 20,000square miles in Western Penn sylvania, West Virginia, Western New York and Maryland. Kxperts declare that little relief would he re ceived from the extensive forests be fore 15 years. Kach year the damage to manufac turing plants and cities in Western Pennsylvania amounts to between $15,000,OOO and $20,ooo,ooo. It is es timated that the forest would pay for itself within about ton years after it began to prevent Hoods. The loss to working people is not estimated in thc above amount. ton on thc same train with them." Two days later the Lieutenant re turned to his post-where he knew he no longer had a friend. Captain Kelley had gone to Wash ington to testify about the Browns ville raid He made no complaint against. Lieutenant Richardson; but the matter had been brought by oth ers to the attention of thc War De partment, and Lieutenant Richard son shortly received a hint thal it would bc best for him to leave the service. Accordingly he placed his resignation in thc hands of Colonel Brown, his superior oflicor, who for warded it to Washington, whore it went straight to President Roose velt's hands, who promptly accepted it. On tho day after he knew that he was out of thc army and forever dis graced Lieutenant Richardson's body was found in a hotel in Kori Sam houston. He had taken his own life with large doses of both prussic acid and morphine. He left a note which read: "To whom it may concern: Tins act lins been inevitable sincelast No vember." What did he mean? Solely this easily discoverable with thc man dead: Lieutenant Richardson, follow ing his illness last Kail, be bad be come a confirmed victim of the mor phine habit. Ile bad tried repeated ly tn shake ell* thc bonds of the drug and had failed. Knowing (bal he was doomed, he would iud make miser able the life of another, i[e could not bring himself to thc point of coule: . lng to hisadianced bride, but ho could fail to appear af thc wedding. "Richardson came very near being a hero," said one of the officers who bad held bim most in contempt. In the light, of revelations made after his death one can Imagine Lieutenant Richardson standing be fore a mirror-like de Maupassant's "Coward"-choosing between tho poison draught in one hand and thc wedding ring in thc other. Did Lieutenant Richardson prove himself a coward, as de Maupassant's sorry hero did? Was ?I cowardice to refuse to live disgraced? Having vol untarily disgraced himself in order not to involve another's happiness, would he not have been braver to have lived on in disgrace t o fight and vanquish bis secret enemy? But, outside of religion's promis es, is there any sufficient reward for such a struggle? TRAGIC CAREER Of a Rich Young Woman Whose t.Father Dropped Dead. KILLED HER MOTHER. Tried (o Kill Herself, lier Brother Killed Himself, Sho Took Poison, Was Tiled for Murder, Spent Six Yours in n Mad House, Kscaped, Foll in Love, Worked at a Servant, and Died in a Hospital. The tortured brain and heart of Hertha Beilstein at last are at rest, and her death in a hospital in Los Angeles Cal., has cleared up the trag ic mystery surrounding the last ten year of her life. She died a wanderer and in pover ty, yc?.her death percipitates a con test for property valued at more than $100,000, says the New York Ameri can. Before her mind's eye during all those years was thc picture of her motlier stricken dead by her hand; of lier frantic efforts with the same we?p?n to end her own life; of her brother dying a suicide on his mur dered mother's gave. nuring the last two years of her wanderings she also lived over again six years of close confinement in a madhouse, which bad ended with her escape through the conniv?ince of thc man who loved her and of friends she had made. In spite of tragedies she had .wrought, she had always been able to retain friends-and she held fast the love of a man to the hour of her death. But she never dared lo marry, and there seemed to be no one spot on the earth's surface where she could rest while life remained inlier. Ten years ago Bertha Bcilstein was twenty anda really beautiful .girl, with a charming and intelligent face crowned with heavy masses of au burn hair, which, when unconfined, swept to her knees. She lived with her parents and her elder Brother, Edward in a comfortable home in Pittsburg, ber father being a wealthy business man of that city. One evening Bertha's father sud denly straightened up in bis chair at. thc supper table, then fell to the Hoer dead. This was a terrible shock to all the family. Bertha in particular showed the strain. Sometimes she spoke of seeing spirits. On October 2, 1898. a few months after her husband's death. Mrs. Beil stein was awakened by the sound of some one moving about her room. "Who's there?" she called out. There was the sound of a match struck. A gas.jet blazed up and Mrs. Beilstein saw that the intruder was her daughter. "Why. Bertha, what is the mat ter?" she asked, sitting up in bcd. Her daughter was aiming a revol ver at IHT. "Mother, 1 am going to kill you," said Bootha. Almost the next instant Mrs. Bcil stein was dead. Bertha bad bred twice, and either shot would have been enough. Then she turned the weapon on herself, pouring four of the remaining bullets into own body. One of these bullets penetrated the right temple crashing into her brain. Another entered her body just beneath the lungs. These the doc tors believed to he mortal wounds, flu? two others being mere Mesh wounds. She was taken to a hospital, and although more than two ounces of brain matter had escaped from the wound in Bertha's head on the third day she regained consciousness. In I wo weeks she was able to go home, where she was arrested and placed under guard, charged with the mur der of her mother. Soon she learned that while she lay at thc hospital her brother Rd ward had been found dead on ber mother's grave. Ile had shot himself. Hearing this, Bertha made this enigmatical remark: ''Then it is soon finished." When it was discovered that she had procured and swallowed nearly an ounce of laudanum, the remark was understood. But the doctors were abb' to stive her, and in a few weeks she was placed on trial. In her testimony in lier own defense she told of her mother's death as here related. "But why did you kill your moth er?" she was asked. "Spirits visited me and compelled me to do so," she answered. She was quite calm and entirely rational in manner and speech as she continued: "1 loved my mother. I did not want lo doit. But ever since my father's death-I loved bim dearly spirits bad visited nie at night. telling me that, father longed for his dear ones to join him. They urged inc lo kill my motlier and myself, so thal we Would be united again. I fought against (heir influence, but they per sisted. "On the night thal I killel my mother I si rove with the spirits until nearly daWll. Then, in despair I h ied ; to drink poison. But my arms still"- ; cned so that I could not reach my ' mouth. Then I look the revolver and wenl into my mother's room and did < tis I have told you. I "When 1 came out of the hospital < and learned that my brother had joined father and motlier, I was, of | course, more anxious than ever to I die." ? Bertha was heir to ber mother's ' property, The prosecution tried lo i show that lo have been a sufficient i mol ive for the girl's crime ol' mal i i- j side, but failed. The determined ef forts to kill herself made such rea- i toning fallacious. I Tho jury found that Bertha Beil cin, "being insane," was not guilty i if murder. Accordingly she was sent > to i he Pennsylvania Slate asylum for i Hie insane at Dixmont, near Bills- i tune;. There Bertha remained for six i /ears and most ol' the time she was n good health, seemed quito ration il. and by ber beauly and engaging v nannersgaincd gradually t he friend- \ mil) and synipalny of the nurses. A lock of her luxuriant hair usual y concealed the great scar on hm- j right temple. But the nurses saw it ' iftcn; also they knew ol' the scars of t bree ol her bullet wounds. I Brier to the great tragedy in her t ?fe Beilba Boilstein's most intimate | rirl chum had been a pretty girl of < Vlleghcny City-Olga Miller. They vero perfectly foils to each other in . ?very respect, except tho vivacity ( ?ommon to both. Olga Miller was t ilightand dark while Bertha was tall (t md stately and of the blonde type. j( When Bertha was sent to the nsy-.1 hmm Oigo was inconsolable. She wrote to her chum frequently, and her letters were answered. This cor respondence seemed to have tho ef fect of making pretty Olga quite reckless. She plunged mto pleasures and dissipations, and one day her body was found in her room where she had lived for some months after running away from home. She had drank carbolic acid. When Bertha had nearly complet ed her sixth year in the Oixmont asy lum-during which period she had repeatedly written coherent letters to the authorities declaring herself sane and asked to be discharged she effected her sensational escape. A key was mysteriously obtained and a man in an automobile had stopped near the institution and sounded his horn: then shortly, an automobile whirled swiftly away with a passen ger beside the driver-these were practically all the details of the es cape to become generally known. After that-until the first week in the present month-Bertha Beilstein seemed to have disappeared from the surface of this earth. One day in thc last week in May the authorities of a hospital in Los Angeles, Cal., suddenly came to the conclusion that they had a case of murder on their hands. A young wo man patient who had entered the hos pital two weeks before, giving the name of Olga Miller, had died after drinking a glass of milk given to her by rt man visitor who had been so per sistent in his efforts to see the pa tient that he had finally been admit ted. This man, who was young and good looking, and well dressed, had given the name of Richard Hardy. After talking with the patient for a few minutes he asked the nurse for a glass of milk. The nurse brought, the milk and gave if to thc visitor, who put it to the lips of the patient. She choked while drinking it. Nurses came hurriedly from other parts of the ward, whereupon Hardy jumped up and ran away. The next morning Olga Miller was dead. During the night Hardy had called up the hospital anxiously ask mg arter ene patient. ?? nen uu: girl was dead the hospital authori ties, believing that Olgar Miller's visitor had given her a dose of co caine in the milk, had him arrested on the charge of murder. But when the autopsy showed no trace of poi son, showing instead thal death had been caused by a tumor on thc brain, which had been gradually developing for years,* the prisoner was released. This was after Olga Miller had been buried. The fact now came tc light thal Olga Miller also had been living at the Royal Hotel while work ing asa waitress in Los Angeles for $35 a month. She was supposed tc be gelling ready to marry Richard Hardy, who sohl books of a poetical nature, lie seemed to be very muck in love with the girl. Presently there was a startling dc velopmant. Frederick Beilstein, i\ cousin of Bertha Heilslein, had tele graphed from Chicago that the dead "Olga Miller" had been none other than Hertha Beilstein. He ordered her grave to be guarded until bc could arrive and take charge of the body. How could Frederick Beilslein, in Chicago be so certain that Olga Mil le, dead in Los Angeles, was Berths Beilstein. No one had reason tc doubt that the hospital patient wah other than the Olga Miller.she claim ed to be, and, therefore, no descrip tion of the dead woman had beor circulated. For answer to this question the scene changes to Chi cago. A few days prior lo the death of the Los Angeles hospital patient Hu mum! W. Wandel-, in Chicago, re ceived the following telegram from Richard Hardy, in Los Angeles: "Olga Miller is dying in hospital. Send $.r)() al Once." Mr. Wander lost no time in see ing his friend, Frederick Heilstein. Bertha is dying in a hospital in Los Angeles," ho said, and showed the telegram containing the intelli gence about Olga Miller." ? There was no need of any descrip tion of "Olga Miller." Both men knew that Bertha Beilstein had as sumed the nanto of ber dead girl chum, fearing recapture, during her wanderings af ter escaping from tho asylum. HAD VISITED IN CHICAGO. When Mr. Wander was a boy, liv ing in Allegheny City, l'a., his peo ple had been intimate friends of the Beilsteins. Ile had gone to Chicago and married. Frederick Bcilstein, Bertha's cousin lived there. Dur ing the visit of Bertha and hermoth to the Chicago world's fair they had stopped with both families. The Wanders and the Chicago Bcilstcins heard of Hertha's escape from the Dixmont asylum, andanx iously awaited further news. In a few days il caine, brought by Ber tha herself. She was exhausted and almost in rags. Having insufficient money for her journey, Rho bad been forced to tramp the last stages. She was in great fear of recapture and anxious to gel further West. So. after she was rested and pro vided lier wit h proper clothing, the Wandersand Bcilstcins provided her with money and a ticket to Los An iveles, giving the Pullman porter a generous fee to look after her on Hie journey. They had advised her to take another name, and she had chosen that of her dead chum. Olga, because of her blond bair and gen eral Twedish appearence, Her Chicago friends heard from lier often. She wrote to them about Richard Hardy, whom she loved, and iskcd their advice about marrying. They advised her to wail a year-un til thc sensation caused by ber es .ape from the asylum had been for got len. The news thal Olga M ?Ilea was really Hertha Bielstein was easily re lited in the hospital when Ber na's description was received. Thc mi ses had noticed thc great, deep lear On her right temple. Resides, iiichard I lardy now admit led that he oiew she was Berthe Bcilstein. So, beyond much doubt , thc Iragie nysfery is explained, IN his admirable speech before thc Hato Press Associa Mon at tho Isle of 'alms recently Mr, A. B. Williams >atd a glowing tribute to tho young nen of South Carolina for their fidel' ty to principle. In tho d irk days when ,lie old State lay must,rate under tho iee! of thc oppressor. They refused >o he corrupted hy tho allurement of llgh Olli oe and fat, omolumcnts, anti ItOOd t ruc. Thc same tiny he said of ,hom today. Kxcopllng .J C. Capers tild a few o'lu is who have fallon, all >f our young mon nave remained true o our grand ol? mai her. The apos< ?ates can be counted on ihc lingers of mc hand- All honor to our young neu. COTTON PICKER. A Mississippi Machine That Real ly Picks the Cotton. At Least Timi I? What Its Inventors Claim For lt.-Will Pick tho Next Crop. Several capitalists of Greenville, Miss., are engaged in the manufac ture and, it is hoped, the sale of a machine that really picks cotton at the rate of about 5,000 pounds per day, carrying live rows at a time, and getting each and every boll that is open. It is to be hoped that the Mississ ippi Cotton Harvester company will prove a monster success. If one thing is needed in the South more than another, it is a cotton nicker. The old-fashioned machine, the ne gro, is worn out, and he will be pick ed if he can. He must be supplanted on the cot ton platform, regardless of the cost. He has become lazy, trilling and im pudent, and will not listen to the ad vice of his employer, lie quits the field whenever he gels ready. Ile wants a dollar and a half a day for four-bits worth of work, and the farmer cannot alford to pay it. Thousands of dollars arc lost annual ly to the farmers of the state because of inability to get their cotton picked at the proper time. The towns and the dice tables have great attractions for the negro at cotton picking time. Especially is that thc eas?.? when they have suc ceeded in gelling in debt to the land owner or the store keeper, and real ize thal they will not be able to gath er enough colton to pay out and have a few dollars to splurge on during Christmas. The Greenville machine has been tested thoroughly and has been found lo do tho work its inventor, George H. Zempter, claims for it. The manufacturers, therefore, have a bonanza-a veritable gold mine. The machine is composed of a light platform 5x14 feet, made of 1-Ixd-in ch channel bar steel, and mounted on four broad tired steel agricultural wheels, which are fitted on arched : axels to enable the machine to be driven astride the colton rows with out injury to the unmatered part of the crop. The machine is self-propelling, and ? is guided by tho operator with a i storing device similar to that of an automobile. On the platform is mounted to 25 horse power Opposed ? cylinder gasoline engine, which, be sides driving the machine, operates double exhaust of suction fan at a i high rate of speed, producing a very strong suction, which is applied to . the open cotton by means of four flex I ible double suction hose, two on each side of thc machine. Each hose requires one man to op erate the nozzle, which is held near I the open cotton boll. The suction ! speedily removes the colton from thc plant, drawing it through the hose fans, and a large discharge Hue into i screen receptacle on the rear end of the machine, from which it can be i readily removed by means of a door. 1 OLD MU AC POSTS. Those Around neston Among Amer? ira's Interest luis Holies. Among the most interesting relics of colonial days arc the old stone mile posts on the various highways leading into thc city of Hosten. They were placed in position at a period when the country surrounding Hos ton was a great wilderness, and were a real and appreciated convenience to pedestrians as well as the traveler on horseback and those who went, about in the more stately style of tho family coach. The Bostonians and the country people who visited the hub were enable to toll just how near they were to thc end of their dest i n?t; >n. The markers sort of blazed the path along otherwise lonesome and unknown country roads. Just now the people of Heston are partic ularly interested in preserving these relics of an early period of thc city and vicinity. Many have already been destroyed by thoughtless persons, and of course some have been broken down by thc unavoidable accidents which are sure to occur on much traveled highways. That those re maining may have many years more of existance if not usefulness they will be protected both from the weather and possible accident by strongly built roofed shelters. Several of these ancient mile posts arc shown in Un? accompaning pic located at points which are now part of thc city, but at tho 'one they were erected were out i? thc wilderness. Three of them are on the long thoroughfare lead ing to Milton. One bears the date of 1722, and says it is "7 miles to H," which means Hosten. Another, on the opposite side of the road says it is "8 miles to H Townhouse the low er way." A third mile stone near (be Cedar Grove cemetary, is embed ed in a stone wall, which gives it the effect of being an entrance to a tomb. The inscription says "7 miles to Boston Town house." The stone also contains the initial "II." which doubtless stands for tho surname of tho man who caused it to be erected. John McLean, born in Boston in 1761, also erected a number of mile stones on the highways leading to Boston. All now standing bear his name and tho date of his death. There is a post on tho Roxbury high way, which bears tho date of 1728. ll was erected by .Judge Bani Dudley, and is one of many that were built hy Mr, Dudley. The word "Boston" is almost obliterated from tho slab by tho ravages of time. Another one o i another Boston road bears this inscription, "13 miles to Boston. 17H(>, .lohn Sparc," There must, have been a large number of these guide posts in tho early days. Evidently the public spirited Boston men were determined that thc visitors should not lose their way to the city for the want of suitable marks. All of those who creeled tho posts wore more or less prominently identified with tho business interests of tin* city, and the mile post bearing the name of the man wdio erected it. doubtless proved to be a good advertisement for him. Certainly they have proved to be en during monuments. There is an old law in Massachu setts which pr?vidos for tho erection and maintenance of guido posts at suitable places along tho public hlfch ways, and the road commissioners are supposed to make an annual re port of all the places in which guide posts have been elected and maintain ed. ABOUT THE SCHOOLS. ! A Thousand Schoolhouses Built Since C ampalgn Started. An Mducntlonni Rovjow and Outlook Slided in nu Address issued by tlio <'.inund;Committee. A vory Interesting address has boen prepared by tho educational eanipatgn eoniniitteo of South Caro lina, showing what has boen accom plished In this State since tho cam paign started and what is yot to bo dono. This committee consists of Gov. M. F, Ansel, chairnian; Supt. O. li. Mar tin, Pros. D. B. Johnson, LL. D.; Pres. H. N. Snyder, LL. 1)., and Prof. W. II. Hand. Tho flold work has boon dono largely by Superintendent Martin, assisted by Mr. Hand, al-1 though tho other members aro dllli gont, tiroless and enthusiastic work ers for education. Tho address which they havo Is sued is as follows: On April ll, 1903, a conference was hold In tho senate chamber of South Carolina's capitol. This con ference was composed of OT) earnest men who have devoted much of their time and lives to educational endeav or. It was declared that better schools in the rural districts are of "supremo Importance lo the commonwealth." A committee was appointed to con duct a campaign to arouse popular Interest. In education, and certain lines of work were Indicated. This conference has boon enlarged, and lt. now asks tho interest, and co-opera tion of the people in order that, thc work already begun may lie pushed with grouter vigor, and also that ef fective efforts may bo made in now fields. The objects outlined tn 1903 wore: moro local taxation, hotter training and payment, of teachers, expert, sup ervision, longer school (onus, better courses of study, consolidation of schools and tho improvement of schoolhouses and grounds. While there is much to ho (lone, yet we have some cause for gratification because of what has been accomplished thus far. At that limo about 2:*,0 districts levied local tax; now tho number ap proaches BOO, which Ifl nearly one third of tho districts in the State. Tho average annual salary of white teachers has increased from $20;{ to $253, a gain of $f>0. Our colleges, summer schools, reading circles and touchers' associations have done hutch to make our teachers more elll clent. The average salary of county sup erintendents has increased from $674,40? to $684.40. Several county superintendents bad their salaries raised in recognition of their earnest ness and efficiency in their work. Tlie average length of tho school terni has increased nearly a month. Consolidation of schools bas been tried with excellent results in many parts of tho State. Nearly one thousand schoolhouses have been built during the past four years. Many of these houses are very valuable. At least half a mil lion dollars have been spent in this way. This does not take Into account tho hundreds of improvements which have boon made in repairs, equip ment, Ibraries, pictui'08 and other es sentials of bettor school houses. lt is worthy of note, also, that nient. Libarles, pictures and other es tablished In rural schools during tho past four years. This moans at least 100,000 well selected books tn places where few opportunities existed be fore. There has also been a library movement in frhe cities and towns. One of tho most helpful agencies fe r South Carolina's good ls the School improvement association. This is an organization, mainly of women, which has as its object, thc beautify lng of school houses and grounds. This is a noble work, and it is being well done, There are more than one thousand members and the associa tion is growing. Many schools are more attractive; because of the labors of these devoted WO ni Oil, and yet their work is but fairly begun. This committee rejoices in the im provenionts which our people have made, and it also desires to make fl few suggestions lu regard to tho con tinuation and enlargement of this en tire work. There are yet more than a thousand school dist rids whore a local tax would mean bet tm- school facilities and more Interest on thc pari of thc people. Thoro are many districts in which it is impossible t< maintain good schools willi only tin constitutional it-ill ill tax. Such dis tricts must be coulent with Inad? quate schools or supplement thc school fund with individual subscrip tion generally an unfair sharing of expense. Again, we oughl lo establish r?ou libarlos a year for the next few years, one way to make people Intelligent h to train them to road; thc surest way to make a reading people is lo train (beni while young. Some entire coun ties have done very little in voting local taxes or establishing school li brni'ios. Lol us arouse these counties for the sake of the children there. County High Schools. Wo OUghl to establish al least one good high school lu each county ill tho State within the nexl twelve months, and before another lout years shall have passed, there shoilh) ho a high school within reach Ol every ambitious boy and girl in South Carolina. Scores of townships ill the State are wit bout a single high school within reach of tho pupils there Those who go to colleges Slid ly need better preperal ion Hum they are nov. getting. lt ls poor economy to send ott a hoy to do on some college cam pus tho work ho ought lo do al bonn in the II?KII school. Il cost from four lo six times as much to have this work done away from home as to have il done al homo. We have a great task also to adapt the courses if study In tho high schools to the economic needs Of OUI' people. Those Who do not go to eollegO stand even in greater need of hi.uh school advan tages. They are to go out directly Into business Ufo and lo become cit izens of the Stale. If we expect them o competo successfully with their fortunato brothers, wc- must offer hem hot tor high school opportuni t?s, is it fair or reasonable to ask ICO ros of young men and women to JO OUl from tho Common schools to crve tho Stale as successfully as the 'OW who can take the COllogO and un yorslty training. Helter Salaries Needed. The time bas come when we must nake a supremo effort to provide letter salaries for our teachers ami luporilltoildeilts. Too many of our test teachers are leaving Hie school oom to euler other lines of work, tot because they do not wish lo teach mt because Ihey cannot alford to each for tin- salaries offorod. There s such fl demand In the business and U'OfOSslonal world Of today for train id men and women thal we can aol lope to k?Op efllelenl teachers in the CtlOOls unless we pay bettor salaries, t. ls folly to expect to secure the pick if a College graduating class to teach il $.".o a month, when ho can get $7fi n almo;.t any other kind of position. ,OW salarios will secure to the schools only Cheap teachers. ?, is a natter of business competition. While the-- has hoon oniO hu .jrovomont in tho salaries ot county Her Parents Suspects Tramps of Kidnapping Her. riicy Aro alums! Convinced That tho Missing Child I? In tho Hand ol Vagrants. A dispatch from West Chester, Pa., says the authorities are now convinced that Mary Newlin five years old, who mysteriously disap peared on Sunday from lier home, near Auburn, Franklin township, has been kidnapped by tramps, j Searching parties composed of de tectives and many farmers of Ches ter countyf arc now directing their investigations with this view. The missing child is a daughter by a former husband of Mrs. Erwin Lewis, and on the day of her disap pearance had been visiting the home of her grandfather, John Ix?win, a prosperous farmer, about three quarters of a mlle distant. She was last seen by residents of the vicinity on her return journey to her moth er's home. In support of the theory that tramps have carried off the child is the fact that a gang of vagrants which had occupied for several days a deserted cottage near the point where the little one was last seen suddenly disappeared on Sunday afternoon. On the night previous vagrants also robbed tho 1x2 wis home and carried away all of the eatables. The child had been sent to thc grandfather's on the follow ing morning to notify them of the robbery and to obtain bread. She was escorted partly on her re turn by her aunt, Nellie Newlin, thirteen years old. Near the home of Miller Plumley thechildreh part ed and from this point all trace of the missing child is ?bst. When she did not return Mrs. Lewis was not worried, taking it for granted that her daughter would spend the night at her grandfather's home. The next afternoon, howev er, she wondered at Mary's protrac ted absence, and went to John New lin's farm to fetch her. Arrived there, she learned of the departure of the little one on Sunday after noon. . The county ollicials were notified at once, and George Tymannus, a constable from Avondale, began a search. There are no streams of sufficient size in the neighborhood to warrant his assumption that the child had fallen into one and bsd been drowned. He thereupon noti fied the county district attorney, W. W. MacElree, who joined the con stables and has been on the scene ever since. It was at firs! believed that Mrs. Lewis's former husband might have been concerned in the abduction, but this theory has been abandoned. The police are also looking for a strange man of middle age, rather heavily built, and having small squint eyes and a red nose, who had been seen lingering about the neigh borhood for two days looking for work. He had seen tho child's mother at her home and asked for a job, saying he would be willing to stay there and live and w.?rk about the lawn for $5 a month. He had also been at Mrs. Lewis' fathers's and other places in the neighborhood, being last seen at the ionic of James Reburn on Friday morning last, where he was given !iis breakfast. This man said he had been in a hospital. He wore a little soft hat, a corducoy vest, light pan taloons and carried a suitcase. TIIK export edition recently pub lished hy thc Columbia State was Ulfa most elaborate affair of tho kind ever undertaken hy a South Carol ic a pa por and reflects credit on thc State. Lt contained much valuable informa tion that the people in and ont of the State should know. Such publications eilis the attention of the world to South Carolina and her resources and c innot fail to he of great benefit to the whole State. Besides Uli?, it gives Charleston the best advertising he old city has had for many a day. lupcrlnlonrionts, these officers do ?ot ol gel enough to enable them lo dve their undivided Hmo and hough! to their work. The duties if a county superintendent are sonic hin>; more than signing pay war ants and appointing district trustees le is looked to as the energizing 'orce in the schools Of tho whole tounty; to him tho young struggling: teacher (urns for help; on his shoal-' lets tito people place Hie I'CSponsi lility for tho success or the fa Itu 1*0 of he schools of the county. Six hun Ired and eighty-four dollars a year viii ?ol secure anti hohl snell a man. it. is strange thal a town of 5,000 leopie linds it economy to pay n own superintendent from" $1,200 to ?2,000 to supervise two Ot' three dionis with from 20 to 30 leat hers, tvhllo tho country, Incl liding tho ?ame ?own. oilers hut $400 to $800 o the county superintendent to sup ervise I'Hl schools anti moro than 100 teachers. Our neighboring Stales in tho South are waking up In this ualter. We must have belter super vision ii* our schools are to ho oifl elont, Anyone with a genuine desire to lo service lo his Slate does not have O travel far to see a school lioil.<0 which is a mulo appeal for help. Of . <> hud conditions which cry out for comedy. There has never boon n Imo in the history of our stale when lhere was n groator nood for tho tarnosl /eal and faithful service of hose woo love her welfare C.veiy mom her of every community can lind lomothitig useful to do. Tho future it* South Carolina depends in a very 'argo measure upon how wo mool our responsibilities now. I WANTED OLD $ j I PIANOS & ORGANS { ? for which wo will allow tho I , highest prices toward now lu- ? I BtriimontS. No Club Hates to J V offer, but we pledge better In-J {\ sti'umeuts for the same or Ies8<| . money (lian those at dcb rn te j1 ;f Offers. Write Malones Music J[ il House, Columbia, S. C., for BpO- < \ jj eial prices anti terms, {.?.?.?.?.?..??...?.?.?.?i A. 0?x~t?*lo] to any of our customers for the ask ptumbng or hardware business, mu inge catalogue which will bo found \ prices on anything in (he supply line. COLUMBIA ^UPPJL/Y A Highly Pespected Young Man of Batesbuig Assassinated* ALONE IN THE WOODS Whoii Hy \y*p si-,- SitmM hy iho Assassins.-So vom I Young Moa of Hntucsbuvg Community Aro Char ged With tho Crime.-Tho Troublo Commenced About a Young Lady of tho Community. Mr. Coo. W. Maims, a highly re spected young white mau ,of Hates burg was shot to death on Saturday about four miles from that town, as ho wus returning homo from a mill by some ono in ambush. Throe shots woro fired by tho assassins. Dr. L. M. Mitchell, who was visit ing a patient near tho scone of tho assassination, heard the shots and was the first ono to find young Ma bus, his mulo and tho buggy contain ing his almost lifoloss body only a short dist ?i nee from tho scene of the shooting. Malms' condition was such that he could not tell anything of tho circum stances of the shooting beyond that he had been ambushed. Ho died vory shortly after Dr. Mitcholl roachod bim. Of Hie three shots which woro fir ed, two were in rapid succession, fol lowed by a third after an interval. lOight of the buckshot entered the right side of Malms' head and one took effect in his throat. Some weeks since young Mahus was Involved in a cutting scrapo with Lei! Fal law, a young whlto man and ja neighbor of Mahus, on tho streots I of Hulcsburg, and beyond the cnlmcB made as a result of this fight, was not known to have any. lt ls said also that both of tho young white men wero lu lovo with a young lady of tho neighborhood and that, the real cause of tho trage dy was jealousy. The young man who ls suspected of having commltt >d tin; ni m iler was seen Friday morn- ?? lng going in the direction of tho place where Mahus was shot. The coroner's jury after being out tho ut three minutes Sunday return id a una ti i mons verdict, charging Loe Fal law and Clifford Fallaw, two brothers with murder, ns principals, and Clinton Fallow and Isaac Taylor, as accessories, the former -before the fact and tho latter after tho fact. The evidence adduced before the jury showed that Leo and Clifford Ka Haw were seen leaving tho placo where the shooting occurred Imme diately niter the shots were fired, armed with shotguns. It. waa also brought, out (hat Clinton Fallow was seen near the roadside just before the killing. Isaac Taylor, a farm hand in tho employ of the Fallaws, lt is shown had walked In their tracks In order to obliterate them and cast suspicion upon others. Much other circumstan tial evidence was adduced and tho State luis a strong caso against tho Fallaws, who have loft for partB un known. This cowardly assasination has stirred tho people of the community very much and the oxcltoment is still unabated. It is not thought, how ever, lynching will bo roBortod to-in the event, of a capturo of Loo and Clifford Fallaw. The motivo for this awful crime I? supposed to bo duo to feud between the Fallows and tho Mabuses. Some weeks sineo young Malms and Lee Fallaw beeaino in volved in a difficulty in Hatesburg, with the result that both of thom were badly cut. This served to accontuato tho hat red already existing botwoon tho families. The immediate cause of tho difficulty on the streets of Hates burg. it is sahl, was due to Jealousy over a young lady to whom both men were paving court. All the parties directly connected with this horrible affair arc young men highly respected in the commun ity. Young Malms was only 22 years of ago. SU LP ll Ult Hltl NOS HEALTH. Purifies the Blood and Clears up tho Complexion. All of us need to take Sulphur at this season. Nothing Uko it to puri fy tho blood, clear up Hie complexion and remove "that tired feeling." 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