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FREAKS! i oer Gases Revealed by j he Umsus Bureau. CAGO IS CENTRE. Ving?? Freaks of Domestic Infelicity llrotight to Light by tho Divorce Courts. Tho Windy City Holds the Record of 132 to Every J 00, niio InhubituntH Increasing in Ku ral DiMtl'lctN. Thc divorce courts of Chicago and other cities of the United States re veal strange motives of the martial infelicity. It has remained for tho United States census hureau to col lect the particulars of these frank divorces and compile them into a government report. For two years 120 agents of tho census bureau have searched tho court records of the country for odd and unusual featur es to divorce suits. Tho results of those two years' labor arc soon to he presented in official form. With them will he preserved thc usual statistics revealing tb J growth of the divorce evil in the United States. Chicago, as the reputed "divorce center" of the nation, will continue to hold her unenviable record, with 132 divorces granted for every 100, 000 of population for the last twenty years. As an indicat ion of how many ap plications for divorce have been hied and not granted, the second ten-year period for Chicago will show 43,058 applications as against 31,785 de crees. COMPARISON WITH OTHER CITIES. To appreciate the proportion of Chicago divorces from other cities may he compared. Boston promises 63 divorces in the 100,000 of popula tion; Philadelphia 63, and New York 50 divorces. In these llgurcs, how ever, one may not read the story of the comparative marital unhappiness in these cities. The New York law, for one, is such as to show smaller proportion of divorces to the amount of domestic infelicity. It is only where virtue is conceded simply be cause a man and his wife live togeth er the cat and dog life that others refuse to tolerate, that these com parative figures have a show at sug gesting community morality. Although divorces are on thc in crease in the cities, they show a greater ratio of increase in the coun try districts, almost without excep tion. Why this situation without exists has been accounted for by thc possibility that the life in country districts-in closer relation with thc lifo of the cities.-has caused the farmers' wives to rebel more strong ly and effectively against the hard ships and monotony of tho farm. In spite of thc increase of the num ber ol divorces, Judge Robert Tay lor, of the federl court of Ohio, re cently called attention to the fact that never before in the history ol the country bad it been easier for ii man to have a plurality of wives witli less risk to his liberty. Under thc judge's observations this might be ii condition tending to lessen thc ap plication for divorce, only that in thc divorce records now being canvassed it is shown that of the applicants for legalized separation the proportion is two women to one man. The hus band hy all odds is more content with marital union. In the opinion of .Judge Taylor the best "routing" of a divorce tour at thc present time should begin in South Carolina, where divorces are not recognized at all. The new husband should romain with his bride in that state long enough to acquire citizenship, do ing to some get-a-divorce-easy state, the husband would Ide suit for a di vorce on thc ground of desertion. These papers would be sent to the sheriff of some other county in South Carolina than that in which tho bride resided. Naturally, they would he served upon his wife, and returned unserved, the letter of the state law would be carried out, and the divorce granted without thc wife's knowing anything about it. LEGALLY DEAD AFTER FIVE YEARS. Chicago is another likely place if thc divorced man seeks another ven ture. When he tires of this second venture, thc judge advises bis going to Arkansas, which has a system of automatic divorce accomplished hy desertion, In Ibis slate the absence of wife or husband for (ive years makes the absentee member of the family legally dead. In Arkansas the inan married in Chicago anil leaving bis bride there may sue for divorce on thc ground of desertion, filing the summons to thc defendant, in some obscure corner of an obscure weekly paper. Thereafter this man on the mar riage route may go from state to state, acquiring matrimonial bonds here and divesting himself of t hem there, finally after five years return ing to Arkanses. There, if thc first wife bc living, and without thc pro cess of divorce court he is privileged to marry two sexes. Is man so much more thc part of this first helpmeet, Why tho wife should be doubly dis posed over ber husband to SOCK di vorce is a question open to settle ment from thc two points ot' view of thc two sexes. Is man so much more the intolerable bruie thal where all is serene to him thc finer sensibilities of the wife suiter the agonies of tho lost? Or is the woiiuin so "uncer tain, coy and bard to please" that the poor creature of coarser fiber bul greater loyally to his vows must be dragged by thc heels into thc dis grace <d" i ho courts? Porhap ? ?mc of tho stories of do mos tic inti hoi ty upon which divorce decrees liavi boon granted, and which enter into tho returns of this forth coming divorce bullid in, may shed material light upon the question of ti whole. Mendy because a man bas literal cold feet when crawling into bed scarcely seems provocation to inspire divorce proceedings on tho part of a wife. Rut the literal icy foot, scarce ly less than tue "fugitive ice mitt," has served to break up many fami lies. It is different in tin? case of the man who .shows that on the morning after their marriage his wife came into-the room where he was still sleeping1, blacking both his eyes with the heels of her shoes. FLIRTATION ON WEDDING TRIP. Another plan of a Wife that for UM A BOLD FIEND. Attacks a Young sin in New York City Whllo Kiding lu au Klov?tor-?lot Away Hut Was Caught and Locked Up. Accused of attacking a seventeen year-old Australian girl in an eleva tor in New York. Benjamin Wil liams, a young West Indian negro, was arrested at 229 East Seventy fifth street by Detectives McAvoy and Stewart and locked up at police headquarters. The victim is Sadie Schaffer, who lives with her Bister Minnie in a small apartment at 323 East Houston street. She has been in this country only nine months. She had started out to seek employment. Entering an elevator, she told the negro attendant to stop at the fourth floor. She was the only passenger. Instead of stopping at tue fourth floor, she says, the negro ran the ele vator to the eighth floor, which is vacant. Without a word, the girl declares, he seized her in his arms, and jamming his fist into her face to stille her cries, threw her to the floor. Fortunately before she fainted, the girl screamed several times. Hearing the girl's screams, men from all the floors of the building rushed to the elevator, but their sig nals met with no response. Running the elevator from the top to the bot tom floor at full speed, the negro threw the door open and dashed past half a dozen men who did not know what had happened. Thc girl was found on the floor of the elevator unconscious. Her face and neck were bruised as though an attempt had been made to strangle her. She was taken to an upper floor and restoratives were administered. It was more than an hour before she recovered consciousness. Two policeman hurried over from the West Twentieth street station in answer to the alarm, but were too late to catch the negro. When the girl recovered somewhat, she was taken home and left in the care of ber sister, ber only relative, in thc country. With tears streaming down ber cheeks, she described her exper ience, "He did not say a word to me, but just threw out his arms and grabbed . me," she said. "I tried to scream, ' but be struck me hard over the mouth and told me be would kill me if I did not kee]) quiet. 1 thought he really meant to kill me, and begged for mercy. He did not pay any attention to what 1 said and threw me on the Moor. Then 1 managed to scream once or twice. I beard a lol of bells ' ringing and that's thc last thing I remember until 1 woke up with , somebody standing over mc and , pouring something into my mouth." "Have they caught him?" was thc first question bf the girl's sister. "It's awful over here in your Amer ica, livery day you read of girls who have been assaulted, and almost never of the capture of the brutes who attack them. In my country ; such a thing might happen once in a hundred years, perhaps, but they , would bang him, and over here the , most you do to such a man is to send t him to prison for a few years. "If I had him I'd pour kerosene , over him until he was thoroughly soaked and then set him on lire, or , I'd do something that woidd keep . him suffering for a year, and then kill him, Oh, if you could only know how 1 feel about it. My little sister doesn't realize bow awful it is." The police caught thc negro after an all-day search. He isa heavily built mulato who shows plainly that mach of his blood is white. months at a time her husband would not speak to her, scarcely stacks up with the case of the poor husband, who, on the bridal trip from New York watched his bride fall in love with a German fellow passenger. "She sat on the mat seat with the German, cnfwmed in his arms and kissing him," says the divorce peti tion. "The plaintiff remonstrated, but to no effect, thc conduct of the wife causing the husband untold men tal suffering." In another case a brutal husband came home one night, and, with a big knife in His band, forced the wife to sit up in bed until (lawn, threat ening to cut her heart out if she moved from the position. Rut on thc other hand, an angered wife threw a pot of scalding tea in hubby's face blinding him in one eye for life. One husband, who chronically fail ed to work on the six days recom mended by the Ten Commandments, would put on his old (dollies carly Sunday mornings, and work like a beaver till the cows came homo. Rut that other case of the wife who re fused to cook for ber husband, not only for six days, but on Sunday, too, seems to have been a greater p'rovoc tion. NOT ALLOWED TO HUN TO FIRE. There is the story of the husband who refused to let thc children go to church, at thc same time tho case is on record where the wife absolutely refused to let her husband got up at night and run to a lovely fire down thc street. If he went she insisted On staying awake the res! of the night quarreling about the little out ing and rendering him unfit for work tho next ' -v. This wife, too, never had sowi .button on for bim, and he brought a witness to provo that often tho witness bad seen the plain tiff going around with only one but - ton on bis waistcoat. It. looked bad for a husband to pinch his wife's nose until il becomes so chronically red that neither face bleach nor powder will serve to hide ber mort ideal ion. But in one con trasting case a wife pulled her hub by out of bed bv bis whiskers, while in another ease I he poor husband pro duced as "exhibit l>" in proof or his allegations a large tuft of hair which tho wife bad abstracted from his cranial roof. There is thc story of the husband who one night threw a bool at bis better half, missing her by half a bard. Rut surely of greater signifi cance tire those other (tases in which the 190-pound wife struck tho poor man with a stove lid, breaking a rib and taler knocking him down with a ( bair; where "in the last year the plaintiff with pokers, Hat irons, and other hard substances," even that case in which the wife struck her otherwise lifo partner with a wire bust. form. It's a wiso Bon that knows ho known loss than his own fathor. KIM,? THHHH WITH AX. Instelo lfutbrr CommUn XT??I? ?fHg- T ?itV I,, l\|..l..x1li...l ?* . ., ... ............... iKltulIVTi A frightful murder In which a crazed man killed three of his o ./n * family with an ax and then was him- ii self shot and killed by a neighbor, ' Jj recently took place in Nunica, Mich, j Henry Scutcheon, aged about 50, t went mad, and committed the terri- t hie de? d with an ax which he had a been using to split wood. > The Scutcheon farmhouse had al- 1 ways seemed a happy home, except j for the cloud which the invalidism of j tho only son cast over it. Then carno j the day when, without any warning 3 at all. the father seized tho ax and j buried it in his son's head. He then i attacked his wife, and the poor wo- l man ran screaming before him. But l the insane man soon caught up to her J and felled her by the roadside. Then 1 Scutcheon rushed to the house and murdered his foster father-in-law. j Next he tried to destroy himself j by gashing his throat and wrist with J a razor and by taking some poison. ? Hut his wounds did not weaken him nor the poison take effect, so, seizing his ax, he rushed to the slaughter i again. He returned to the road, < where he discovered that his wife had been removed to the house of j Henry McClellan, nearby. When he | discovered that his wife was alive and j in a neighbor's house he smashed a i I window and, leaping in, brained her with one blow. He then left thc i imu.se only to be confronted on the 1 threshold by its owner, McClellan, who was armed with a shotgun. "I want you, too," cried the madman. But now the last act had come, and McClellan threatened to shoot. Not heeding the warning Scutcheon rush ed upon him, but McClellan fired, and so thc grim tragedy ended. A J mwlc-ss Count ry. As a people wc delight in parading our greatness before the world, but really we have some things that need reforming badly. In a paper recent ly published and sanctioned by the American Academy of Political Science, Prof. James W. Garner, of the University of Illinois, declares that "the people of the United States stand before tho civilized nations as the most lawless in the world." Prof. Garner produces a table showing that homicides are now raging around 9,000 a year, with only 115) legal ex ecutions for 1904. thc latter year in cluded in his statistics. The United Slates have 112 homi cides to each million population as against (ive in Germany, ten in lang land and Wales, twelve in Canada and 12 in France. Chicago, with a third the population of London, has eight times as many murders. Of our host of manslaycrs we only managed to execute 116 in 1901, scoring prac tically no advance upon twelve years ago, when killings were but one-fifth as many. As is notorious, though, Prof. Garner seems to have no statis tics on this point, nothing is ever done to the vast majority of slayers. As the Charlotte Observer says "murderers are acquitted and lioniz ed upon pleas which would not he tol erated for a moment in the courts of any other civilized country. Lynch ings increased at a great rate. The country is more lawless each year than it has ever been before. Prof. Garner spoke simple truth when he assigned us our had eminence, ls it not time that thc American people, if only from a sense of shame, were opening their eyes to this evil?" The Observer is right but the prob lem is to find a remedy and apply it. Our laws are all framed for the bene fit of law breakers, and in conse quence it is thc hardest work in the world to convict a man of crime, and harder still to keep him convicted. The enforcement of our laws is in the hands of the juries, the judges and the lawyers, and the showing this country makes in bringing criminals to justice does not reflect any credit on them. This lax administration of the law is the sole cause of lynch law. People are afraid to trust the courts, and often when they get hold of a criminal they lynch him and the good name of the State is injured thereby. Against Coca Coln. What men of practical judgment have been looking for is slowly com ing to pass. Por a long time the best people of this country have been talk ing and working against coca-cola. Two years ago there was an attempt, to place the matter before the legis lature of this state, hut we are then told by the state chemist that there was "nothing in it." Following the issuance hy the United States war department of a formal order, the sale of coca-cola has been forbidden in all the army posts of the Atlantic division. Why? Col. II. 13, Robinson adjutant general of the department of the gulf, made the following state ment to the Atlanta .Journal: "Do you remember what, these recommendations were?" was the question put to the Colonel. "No not in detail; but the claim was that the soldiers formed a craving for the beverage. I don't know what effects were commented on in the report, only that the surgeon general said that coca-cola contained certain in gredients that formed a habit. The report also said that the formula had been changed at various times." In commenting on the above the Greenville Mountaineer says "It does not take the surgeon general of the anny nor the slate chemist to tell that coca-cola contain ingredients Unit form ti habit. Coco-cola contains ingredients that work upon the ner ves of men and women. This state ment will be horne out hy a hundred people in this city. They will tell you that they were forced to stop it, that they got so they couldn't, sleep at night. Yet thc state chemist of Sout h Carolina says "there is nothing in it." Other people have had the same experience of (bose mentioned by the Mountaineer. mi.rT s.\ A KI.; AT ?,.\??<;?-;. Tills Incredible Story Comes l<Yoiii Valley, Nebraska. A dispatch from Valley, Nob., Bay? a monslor snake, for I y fool long, and willi a head like II bushel basket, ls causing terror to the farmors casi of tills town, when' ?I has 1)0011 seen several limes,, and where il picked (lp Joseph Anderson, a farmer, and throw him twenty feet, broaklng two of Anderson's r|bs in doing so. Tho farmers have organized a grand snake hunt for next week, and OVOry man for miles around will tttke part in il. l'or twonty-flve years reports have boen circulated about n big snake which matte its headquarters' near A gee's I,uko, and which occasionally swallowed a pl? or a enif. Twleo thin year the Snake ha? boon seen. KAILKOAD AGGI D' ho Ntn?i.T^ of P?s?i?i?? Killed mu? Wo?iiuixl i? Largo, Tho rocont acoldont on tho I'oro Inrquotto rnllroau in Michigan, by 'hick 38 persons woro killed and 60 riurod. calis to mind tho fact that cdlroad disasters aro Increasing in lils country. Tho rocord for tho last 6 years presents moro emphatically lum Written statements Just what lil? lncronso haB hoon. Tho rocord ls s follows: roar. Killed. Injured. 800. 6,33fr'. 29,027 Sill. 7,029 33,881 892. 7,147 36,652 893 . 7,346 40,393 894. 6,447 31.889 .895.G,136 33,74 8 896. 6,448 38,687 897. 6,437 36,731 898. 6,859 40,882 899. 7,123 44,620 900. 7,865 50,320 901. 8,465 53,339 902. 8,588 64,662 L903 . 9,840 76,553 1904 . 10,046 84,155 1905 . 9,703 86,008 ?1906. 1,034 67,770 ?1906 (last 6 mos) . . 721 30,073 * Unofficial; train accidents only. In studying tho statistics ono ls 1m ircssed with tho fact that a varloty )f cansos and not a single causo must te atlrlhuted; and this is important in view of tho statement recently nado that dofectlvo rails were largo y responsible. They may have hoon in recent years, hut cannot have heon throughout tho whole 1 (5 years. Defective rails no doubt aro re sponsible to a certain extent, hut there are some causes Immediately Bhargoablo to the rall road companies themselves, and lt woro well that lome laws on our statute hooks were more strenuously enforced than they apparently are. 8KGT SI IOS TOWN. Holy .lumpers Want Damages De cause They Were Ducked. Jumping up and down In wild ex citement., clapping their hands and throwing hymn hooks at ono anoth er In their frenzy, 17 members of tho sect known ns "Holy Jumpers" wore arrested at Waukesha, Wis., some time ago. The people of that placo aro in dignant, at the presence of the crazy sect, among them and say they have ruined tho place ns a fashionable Bummer resort. The "Jumpers" were conducting n meeting on a street corner and disturbing a sick woman 111 a nearby house when ar rested. All the way to the station house they kept on jumping and shouting the words: "Cry aloud; spare not; raise your voice like a trumpet." When placed lu jail they continued I heir noisy demonstrations long into the night and il ls said that the sheriff turned the hose on them. The result was six $5,000 suits for damages against. tho village. The "Holy Jumpers" are posing as martyrs and say tlutt the more they are persecuted the harder they pray. They have lit tle sympathy In Waukesha. T11I0 IIIOAKT THINKS. Says The Drain Is Morely an Organ For Heating. That tho brain is merely a vital organ for beating the body has been asserted by D. Joseph Sims, the fam ous physician, who recently, returned to his home lu New York after a tour around the world. Dr. Sims says that years of obser vation and study have convinced him that man does not think with his brain, hut wjth his heart; 1} -]t.Jho brain ls a vitnl organ maintained for tho purpose of heatng the body. As tending lo strengthen his theory he says ho has found that groat men. as a rule, hnvo small brains nnd large hearts, while those below nor mal and imbeciles have large brains and small hearts. As bearing out his theory that the brain heats the body ho says that. In the frigid /.ones tho people have large brains, while in tho torrid zones their brains are small. TOOK A LOXti TIM 10. A Let tor on Its Way Nearly Thirty Two Years. A prosperous Norwegian citizen of Stanley, Wis., has just received a let ter which was on its way to him for \\2 years. Tho letter was malled from Norway to a port in Mexico, where he had been stationed as a youth on board a vessel. When the loller reached Mexico ho had gone to South Autorice. The communica tion was soul to South America, but the man had returned to Norway, rho lotter went back lo Mexico and remained in the post ellice. Alter re na ining lhere for many years lt was sent back to Norway, and from there o this country and reached the ad Ircssec al Stanley, not long ago. TUM .MOD WAS ITKIOIS. ?oiigth to Avenge .Many Murders in New York. Following the repeated murders, issassinations and fiendish attacks on cirls and children in New York a mob vas crazy Friday night when a man lashed UK? face of John Blackman, a nolorman, who was repairing a car. Thc crowd pursued a slasher, who. errlfled at tho cries of "lynch him," limped off a pier of lOast river and iras drowned. Only tho arrival of he police reserves prevented the rowd from storming (he jail on Sta el! Island for the purpose of wroak ng vengance on Joseph Nopwyak, i Tty-four years old, charged with sstiultlllg a live year-old girl. HOKKIDMO STATIOM IO XT lot hors Saw Theil? Little Children Killey Before Them. Maj. Lemah', tho Belgian officer .ho was formerly in tho BCI'VlCO of ho Congo Indopotidenl slato, and .ho bas lately published sensational laloments regarding revolting con ilions in the Congo, issued al Hins els, last week, another installment of ls story. Hi1 produces statements rom six native women who were pub oded to lll-treatmenf and thon sohl i Niltluga pool and who then baw heir oh I ld ron killed hefore their yes. 11 AD DISGItAl TOD HI~011 ind Angry Wife Would Kill Her Brutal Husband. A jury In Paris, Franco, last wpok Olidemncd to deal h a man named oleillant for the murder of a lillie iii under atrocious circumstances. .Uer subjecting the Child to ill reatthont, Solcillnnl plunged a knife ito her heart and then completed ls horrible work by wrapping up the ody in an old sack and carrying it ) a nearby railroad station, whore 0 checked it. in tho cloakroom. Tho risoner S wife asked to be allowed 1 kill her husband, as ho had dls raoed her. if you would lin prove WO ur tirno, ?ike lt to a watchmaker. \ i ( KILLED A GIRL. Sensational Shooting in New York City Wednesday, Dhus. Warner KU Iinji M IAH Norilup In a Store and Wounding John Wilson. A sensational shooting in which a young woman lost her life, a man was critically injured and the lives of severa! other persons were cn dan , gered, occurred in New York Wed- < nesday Charles Warner, a former ' merchant, whom the police believed to be insane, shot down and almost instantly killed Miss Esther Norling, ? a young woman without seeming cause, in a store on West 42 street and then with a smoking revolver in his hand fled through the crowded thoroughfare and under the cover of a fusilade which he discharged at his pursuers, made his escape through the building of the Spaulding Sport ing Goods firm to West 43rd street, where he eluded the pursuing police for nearly three hours, only to sud denly appear in the store o? John C. Wilson, a friend on upper Broadway, where he shot Wilson twice after making a request for a small loan. Wilson was turning to get the mon ey when the bullet struck him down. Warner pushed aside the employes and ran into the street, where his flight was ended by a blow on the head from u truckman. Warner was taken into custody by the police. Wilson was taken to the hospital, where it was said Wednesday after noon that his condition was critical. Business troubles are believed to have disordered Warner's mind, u Miss Norling had frequently com plained that thc attentions of War ner, who was a former employer were annoying and that she feared his mind was affected by his financial reverses. Warner is about GO years old. Warner made a desperate ef fort to free himself from the truck man, who grappled with him. War ner fired one shot which rebounded from the pavement and the truck mann, to save his own life, brought his h .ok down on Warner's head with such force that he laid the scab) open and dropped Warner to the sidewalk unconscious. Thc police hurried Warner to the hospital, where it was stated that there was little chance for him to survive his injuries. Miss Norling was a young woman of excellent character and a musician of ability. Her mother died several years ago and her father remarried, since which time she has not lived with him. Her friends say Warner wished her to go in business with him, she having saved up some mon ey, and his frequent visits to her are said to have been with this motive in view. TILLMAN LIKES TAFT. The Senator Says llryuu Could Hon! Most. Any Kepublcnn. "If we must have another rep ll bli eau president l am In favor of Wil liam H. Tall," said Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman of South Carolina says a dispatch from Cincinnati!. "Taft is honest, capable, and is of larne enough menial calibro to administer the job. I like him personally and believe he would make an excellent presiden! for a republican. "Ho hus ;i much Stronger individu ality than has appeared so far, and should he occupy the Chair ho would bo sure enough!, president. My iten erary covers a wide territory, and to every place 1 KO I lind a distinct, sentiment favorable to his candidacy. "But William J. Bryan may be the democratic nominee again, and the fact that ho ls quito as honest, capa ble and intellectual as Mr. Taft should not. he lost sight of by the conn!ry. Bryan will give any repub lican standard bearer a fierce battle und 1 think he would beat several of them; particularly If tho republicans named Fairbanks, 1 would look for Bryan to KO in with a sweep." PYTHON LOOSI'l IN SHH?, Suspected of Having Swallowed Ape, Chickens mid Chinese Boy. A New Yoik dispatch says thc British steamship Montrose, ground ed off tho Bullery on Monday, has a python loose in her hold, and tho longshoremen unloading her have boon warned to look out. The python, according lo rumor in Soul h street, ls anywhere in length from twenty two to forty-four feet, it recently took aboard a Hock of chickens. A young orang-outang and a Chi nos! boy, originally on tho manifest of the ship, are missing, and il is said thal tho elght-olgh! foot python may have surrounded I hem. Karly morning gossip in South street hint ed thal tilt! 174-foolol" had been dis covered coiled along tho garboard Strako, making an effort to digest the boy and orang. Still hitor (bert? were doubts whether Ibo python was in be ship or the ship in tho python. SI I lOKHW COMMITS SI K IMO. Driven to Act By Memory of Mun He Recently Hanged, Because the hanging ol* a negro in ibo line of his official duty preyed on his nerves, Sheriff Joseph B. Bennet!, of Starke, county, I'la., blew out his brains. Tho deed was committed at his homo in lite presence of his wife. About two weeks ago Ibo sherill adjusted tho IIOOSO and sprung lite ilea) li trap lor a negro who had booti convicted ttl' murder. Although ll brave? man , Sherill' Bennett could never bear (he slghl ol' suffering timi he could not titi himself ol' the mem ory of the man dangling at the rope's end. ile became unable lt) go to sloop and tobi friends ho would never again have peace of mind. Aller a sleepless night, he arose, secured his pistol, ami shot himself Iht'OUgh the hoad while bis WlfO was still in bed. Mrs. Bennet! awoke just as her husband's hotly fell HCt'OSi tho bed. SI IOS BA lt MAID Kor Bealing Him Out of a Largo Sum of Money. Miss Kinma Hanson, a pretty bar maid, ol' SI. Louis, Mo., ls. being sued for $lN,|un, by Charles Lindeninann. a lumberman, of Salem. Idaho. The money, he says, he gave to the girl to invest for him anti thal she nave ll lo her sister lo build (I row of houses and ll80(1 it for other snell purposes. On her putt Miss Hanson declines that Lindern ann spent the money in her father's saloon, some timos spending a? much as $f?0 a night. THE BAGGING QUESTION, inino run tient Considerations For I Thoso Who Mulgo Cotton. Farmers, ilo you know you aro mying an enormous tribute every 'eur for tho shabby "scarecrow" vt?y you pack your cotton? How nany times will you havo to bo told his to make you think and act? How ong will lt take you to And that you itand In your own way? If you are joing to be a sonsible "buslnes?" nan this coming your, you have tho >pporttinity to start out on tho right omi. Aro you going to mako an iffort? We aro faco to faco with tho so mllod "bugging trust" and lt is up LO you to pay or light. Whleh will you lo? If wo put light bagging on cot ton, tho Union standard, and you will havo a halo small onough that you can handlo with somo conven ience and will allow you to use uny kind of old bagging, even to common shooting, because you will not havo to uso hooks in handling. You can have your glnnor do this at practi cally no expenso, for ull ho need to do is to lino his press box at each ond to 3(5 luchos botweou with 2x8 plunk; cut off tho follow block so lt will pass up botwoen, and you nood not disturb tho framework of tho press at all or tho inachiuory. Four ties will bo sulllelont for this halo, and you will bo able to got 400 pounds of lint in without any trouble Fivo to ton dollars will covor thc ox penso at the gin and lt will save thousands of dollars that is wasted now. Havo the glnnor brand tho exact, weight of the bagging and Hos used on tho bale and tho Farmers' Cotton Union will seo that you get paid for tho difference in weight holow tho 25 pounds allowed on coarse bagging. I recommend this to you as tho solu tion of the difficulty In weights and In getting a practical package. Tho bagging should be lined un derneath with clean paper so that every ounce of colton in tho bale would open au clean and neat as a now dross. You will got netter pay for your work when you do lt better, and you should handlo a halo of cotton with HU? same care and clean liness you would something you in tend to eat. There in as much busi ness sonso in leaving your furniture out In the rain as cotton. he protected from every drop of rain and kept clean. Yours fraternally, W. C. MOOUIC, State Business Agent, South Carolina Fanner's Union. NEW TYPHOID CUKE. Blood Pumped From ti cabby Persons into Artery of Patient. New heroic treatment for typhoid fever was given to Hr. Carl ll. Stone; of Chicago, when a few hours beloit! his deatli tin; blood of four persons, including his wife anti brother, H. (). stone, was transfused to tho patient. Tin; eleventh hour attempt to stive Hr. Stone's life came in the form of one of tin; most remarkable opera lions known to medical science and failed only because of the patient's extremo weakness. He had suffered three weeks with the fever. More than a quart of blood was pumped from Hie bodies of Mrs. stone, her brother-in-law, an attache at. the Michael Unese hospital, where the operation was performed, and two neighbors, all of whom volun teered to yield their lift; (luid to the mtin who lay itt tho point, of death. 'Phe infusion was made by means ol' it silver tube placed in ii small Incision over tho artery of the wrist of each of Hmso who vol ll teer edi and tho tillie was connected In ii like manner to Dr. Stone's right wrist. Then, with the altl of ii small air pUlnp, Dr. Ko ll n forced tho blood lulo Hie patient's body, after first ad ministering un enaesthotic to the one from whom tho blood Wits being drawn. The volunteers were taken to the bedside one at a time, placed on ii chair anti put under an anaesthetic. Although the loss of blood anti the ordeal of the operation was a severe strain on Mrs. Stone, she withstood it at tho time. After her husband's death, ii few hours later, she collap sed. DIED OF UDO KEN HEART, Wife Insisted tm Leaving Farm foe the City. Arthur Gladden, 68, it prosperous fariner of Dinioudnle, Mich., is dead of a broken heart. Owing to the am bition ol' his wife to move to tho city. Gladden had sohl his farm for $8, ono ?ind purchased a house In Lan sing. When tin? time came to give pos session of the beautiful cottage anti broad acres which had been his homo so hing, Gladden wandered from debi to Held, from stable to stable, taking last looks al all of which he thought so much, ('limbing into the haymow, he covored himself in the fragrant clover, Hit! strings til' his heart snap ped and he died without it word or a cry. When fourni hts cheeks wore still wei with the tears which lind coursed steadily down his cheeks for tho lasl week, lt waa found timi the day be fore bis death Farmer Gladden had offered to buy back ibo farm for $ I, OOO more than ho hail received, but H?u offer was refused. BUTCHERS ASSAULTED By Customers Beenii.se Price of Meat Was liaised. The .lowish quarter in Philadel phia Was the scene of wibi disorder when women o? i be quarter made de monstrations against all of the Kosh er butchers as a protest against tho Increase in the price ol' beef. Shops were invaded by angry wo men, prospective customers driven out. windows broken and kerosene in number of Instances poured over all meat in sight. A number Of ?u resis were made by police, and reserves td' throe police districts were kept busy dispersing women ami sympathizers. Demonstrations were against two police station houses in which sev eral of (be women were held prison ers and pol leo were compeled lo use considerable force In dispel sing t lu cro wd. ??OHK OF A FIEND. Yoting (?Irl In New York ls Shame fully Treated. A dispatch from New York says tho sixteen yoar old Virginia Barish is a raving maniac ns the result of a lloiidisll nt lack made upon hm- by nine men who dragged her Into the woods neiir North Beach ami toro ev erv si itch of clothing from her body. Tho attack Wits made Wednesday, bul the facts became known whim she was Identified at a hospital. Tho girl said the mon dragged her lalo (he woutis ?md nearly killed her. Her hotly ls covered with bruises. Tho police nit! seekng the fiends through? mil the whole section. Occasionally a man and woman fall In lovo and get married the fall out.--Chicago Nows. DH. JICKYLL AND MK. HY DH. ?octor lu the Day end Bur<?!*y Night. Having for more than a year led a ' ' )r. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde existence, tcaling by night and p?ae?eing a? in occulist by day, Dr. Benjamin lolbrook, of West Brandywine town hip, has confessed many small bur glaries and is now in Westchester ail. As the occulist is.well connected ind seems to be truly penitent, and is he has made a clean breast of his nisdoings, the Pennsylvania railroad letectives who succeeded in drawing he mask from the man have decided ;o ask for a light sentence. The doc ,or will appear before next Quarter lessions, admit his many faults and ris strange double life and throw limself upon the mercy of the court. It is said that Holbrook, while os tensibly living a most respectable life is a struggling young practitioner, is known to have committed at least right burglaries. It may be that he has been guilty of moro offenses than this, but he says not, and has convinced the arresting officers that he tells the truth. Holbrook kept his own horse and bnggy in order to respond when call ed in eye cases. At night he drove long distances from home, tied his rig in the woods and then went forth as a burglar. The particular thefts that proved his undoing were at Wyehrook, on the Downington and New Holland railroad, and at Buck run, a small station on the Pomeroy branch of the Pennsylvania. In each of these small places Dr Holbrook broke into the railroad sta tion in the dead of night, stealing all thc mileage and other railroad tickets, the change out of the cash drawer and even such heavier articles as a typewriter and a copying press. Dr, Holbrook used one of the stol en mileage tickets for two months after it was missed by the railroad. It was not taken up, but finally when he tried to use a second mileage tick et from the stolen package it was littet: ana :icr?t in tu mc- imuoau offices at Broad street station and in vestigation ended in his arrest. Tho Dossing of ('orra. The New York American thinks that the days of Corea as an inde pendent nation are numbered, and the glory of Yi-Hyeung, Lord of the Elephant and King of the Four Re gions of Heaven, has departed. The unhappy Emp?rer of the Her mit people, having been told by his Premier that his abdication was de sired, and the bouffe code of the empire being that a delicate hint of this sort must be accepted as a com mand, he has dutifully stepped down and out. It is true the comedy has been played of installing a new Emperor in the person of Grown Prince, but he is an incompetent and a puppet pulled by silken strings of Japanese make. It is the fact that by treaty the United States undertook to maintaiu the territorial integrity of Corea, and it is history that Japan, in 1904, guaranteed Corea her national inde pendence. But treaties and guaran tees count little when aggression is a commercial necessitp and when a pledge of sentiment is diplomatically laughed aside. There was not even an expression of real regret when, in 1906, the Co rean Legation in Washington closed its doors and gave the keys to the Japanese Embassy. It was acklowledged at thc State Department that the disappearance of the black flower-pot hats would mean the loss of a picturesque ele ment of costume; but that was all And there will be no protest when the sun Hag of the Island Empire is set up in the high place of the pen insula. Yi-Hyeung is the thirty fourth Emperor of his dynasty, and though there may bo the fare of an other Lord of thc Elephant, etc., the dynasty is closed, says the New York American. TnK Standard Oil Company offers as a reason why it should not he pun ished for taking rebates the fact that other people accepted them also. On this linc of reasoning, says the New York American, no criminal could be sent to jail if he could prove that there are any other criminals. Sl'LlMll'K BATHS AT HOMIO. They Heal tho Skin and Take Away Ds Impurities. Sulphur baths heal Skin Diseases, and give tho body a wholesome glow. Now you don't have to go off to high-priced resort, to get them. 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Thirty poop] o aro dead and more han 70 injured, many of thom sor uusly, us the result of a hoad-end ollision Saturday morning noar Ply nouth, Mich,, when a Pero Marquette xcursion train bound from Ionia to )otriot crnshod into a westbound leight in a cut located at a sharp ii rye about a mile east of Saloin. Tlie passenger train of ll cars, tarrying tho Poro Marquette shop unploycs of Ionia and tholr families o tho Michigan metropolis for tholr mnual excursion, was running nt ilgh speed, probably GO miles un lour, down a stoop grade. It struck o lighter locomotive of tho freight train with such torridlc force us to turn tho freight engine- completely uound. The wrecked locomotives lay sido by side, both headed eastward. Only a fow of tho freight cars wore dam aged and it was only a few hours' work to remove all truces of thom from tho scene. But behind tho two wrecked locomotives six cars of tho passenger train lay piled in a hope- j*ri loss wreck. Four pf tho passenger coaches re-' mnined on tho track undamaged and wore used to convey tho dead and in jured to ionia; ono couch was en tirely undamaged with only its for ward trucks oft tho mils. These wero the rear five cara. Tho two coaches next ahead of those wero tel escoped. Tho next car forward stood nliuost on ond after tho wreck, Us forward end resting on tho roadbed and tho rear end high in the air upon tho 'two telescoped coaches that had been following lt. Two coaches were thrown cross wise of tho track and lay suspended-, from bank to bank of thc out five'or six feet above the railroad. Of tho baggage coach nothing was left to show where it had been tossed. Por tions of the baggage car and of tho locomotive lender and freight cars were piled in au indescribable mass of debris. The 28 doad bodies first t akon from tho wreck were shipped to Ionia, and the injured wore placed on two trains, ono of which headed for Dotriot and tho other for Ionia. Thero wore about 3 5 injured people on oach train. Later in the day tho body of Ed Corwnn, the head brakeman of tho passenger train, was taken out of the wreck. Fireman Knowles died on tho re lief train enroule to Dotriot, bringing tho list of dead to 3 0, with a possl-^ bility that more bodies might bo' found in the wreckage and that sov eral of the injured may die. Responsibility is plnaced squarely up to the crow of tho freight train by officers ol' the road. Officials who ar rived at the scene of tho wreck soon after tho accident, seemed from tho freight the orders under which lt. was running and which clearly showed tbs position of tho poison gor excur si?n train, and that the freight had encroached upon tho other train's running Hine. The special train was due at Salem at 9:10 a. m., and at. Plymouth at 9:30 a. m. It passed Salem on time. 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