The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 07, 1905, Image 4
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HID SLAIN WIFE :
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Whom He] ad Beaten to Death,
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in a Big Trunk, x
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AND THEN KANAWAY. s
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The Brute of a Husband, Who Took
Two Thousand Dollars of His Vic- (
tlms Money, Tells His Wife's j
Mother That Fight Start- (
ed About Whiskey.
Through confession of his own
mother, and uncle and brother-in-law
John Hammond now stands tcmsed
of the murder of his wife, whose body
was'found squec zed into a trunk in
the fireplace of their hoire on South
Ferry street, Albany, N. Y. The police
learned Tuesday r ight that 11ammoi
d was in Mcntrt al and his arrest is <
imminent.
Although Hammond showed extra 1
hrHinoro fnvotif lr? * v
viuiuai; iwirni^uv in \> I ? Y CIl III I IK U"tJ '
evidences of his alleged crime from at- 1
trading attentior, he could not, bc >
aordlng to bis relatives, hear the bur- 1
di n of his guilt alone. Before going *
to Montreal on November 14, ho told i
his mother and brother-in law that
he had killed his wife and concealed J
her body in a trunk. I
.lames Manglnl, Hammond's broth- ?
er-in law, was arreBted Tuesday in ?
Cohoes and brought to Albany. He c
told the police that on the night of ?
November 14 Hammond called on him r
and induced him to accompany him to
Rouse's Point. On the way there both
men took a number of drinks, and
Hammond linaily told Manginl that *
on Sunday before he and his wife had v
quarrelled. 1
According to Manglni's Htory, both *
Hammond and his wife had been f
drinking. Hammond wanted another 1
drink and his wife would not let him e
have It. In a tit of rage he picked up
an empty bottle and lilt her on the 1
head. He left her lyiug on the lloor 1
and went into the next room for more (
liquor. When he came back she was
dead. v
Then Hammond, according to Man- ^
glnrs8tory, roped her body and put it 1
In the trunk, taking paitis to stop up }
the doors and windows and to sprinkle 1
chloride of lime oyer the bedy and the c
room. 1
Manglni savs that on Hie train 1
Hammond showed him a roh contain- s
ing 8-,000 in bills. It was learned (
Tuesuay that shortly before the crime 1
wasommitted Hammond induced ills J
wife to draw large sums from several *
banks. On Monday, the day follow- I
ing the murder, he bought a 8200 fur
overcoat.
, Hammond's story cf the crime, as ,
told by Mangini, docs not agree with
the conclusions readied by the physi- '
clans who examined Mrs. Hammond's (
body and who found unmistable marks \
of strangulation and many bruises.
Mangini left his brother-in-law at 1
Rouse's Point, where Hammond told (
him he was going into Canada. The
police are searching in Montreal and *
the vicinity. The Hammonds are aCan- '
adlau-French family and itis thought \
that the husband of the murdered
woman may bo hiding with one of his (
Canadian relatives. The Cohocs police J
late Tuesday night declared that they
bad definite information that Ham- 1
mond is in or near Montreal. *
Mangini sajs that Hammond was 1
on the verge cf nervous collapse on 1
the trip toward Canada. At Rouse's 1
Point they went together to visit an *
uncle of Hammond to whem the fugi- 1
tive also coi f jsstd that he had killed
his wife.
The autopsy upon the woman's body
has shown that she was strangled with J
great violence, and that before death ,
she was brutally beaton or kicked.
The straugler gripped her so tightly
that the hyoid bone at the base of
the tongue was fractured. The body
has many bruises ou the face, chest
and hips.
There seems to be little doubt that
the murder was committed on the
afternoon of Sunday, November 12,
for neighbors ou that day heard the
piano plaied as she often played it,
for she was a musician of considerable
ability. The neighbors say that the
playing stopped abruptly, and that
after that no sound was heard frtm
the Hammond apartment, though
? ? J iiau ciaun nhnnt. Oia
nammomi uiiuncn ?w~ wwUU v?.n,
house later that day.
Hammond told a woman living on
the tirst iloor of the he use, which was
owned by Mrs. Hammond, that his
wife had none down the river to buy j
a farm, and would be absent several <
days. j
lo was learned Tuesday that on No- t
vember 10 Mrs. Hammond drew up- ]
ward of *800 from the havings r
bank, at tlrst receiving a New Yoik
draft, but mxt day exchanging it for j
cash. ^
luipoitant In this connection is theT(
fact th8ii on Monday, November 13, t
a man declared to be Hammond or- t
doitd from a leading clothing house ]
an expensive fur overcoat. They could c
not lit him, and atktd for a deposit t
on the cr.,er. He left what was sup- e
posed to bo two ten-dollar bills, but i
when the oleik examined them, after
Hammond bad g< ne, he fouud the
bii.s were $100 each. At another t
place the same man bought other t
clothing and left his name and ad- '
dress. t
When the house was searched Men- t
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lay morning a new pocketbook was
ound behind the piano. It had a
mall look, but had been out to pieces,
t is believed that this contained the
noney drawn from the bank by Mm.
I&mmond.
The house where the murder cccured
was formerly used as a police sta
don, and at U>ast three suicides and
levelal fires are said to have occurred
^here. The farn lies now living there
tre re8Deotable folk.
A funeral in the upper storv of the
South Kerry street house Tuesday led
t?o the discovery of the murder. A
arge gathering of people was drawn
ro the house to attend the funeral,
roe doors of the Hammond rooms
were found locked. The policj were
called in and the body was found.
'"The autopsy just performed by
Coroner's Physician Rooney shows
jhat Mrs. Hammond was strangled to
ieath two weeks ago," Chief of P ?Ice
Hyatt said Tuesday night. "It
may develop later that poison was
<iven her also. This mnst be determined
by the police Investigation and
tihe chemical analysis.
"1 have obtained a photograph of
the woman's youthful husband and
have had copies of his p'cture sent
broadcast over the country. He was
last seen on Nov. 11 as he went from
the apartments. The autopsy shows
t/hat the woman met death about this
Lime. Her jewels?and she had many
3f them?are missing."
Mrs. Hammond conducted a millinery
business, by which she manag ed
to make a snug little fortune. Sue
was a widow fifty years old when she
married Hammond two years ago. She
was exceedingly j ralous ol hlra, and
h/w>n t /\ aU.. b 1 tv. mil it t\ ?*
iuuu uc^aii lu unaikg uiui vvii.ii nnung
with young gi/ls. lie denied it.
To koep him from temptation, Mrs.
Hammond had him give up ids em
doyment-asa carpenter and remain
it home. She paid him a stated sum
i week for complying with her wishis.
She gradually out down his allow
mce. lie demanded more, and quar
els were ccmmon with them.
to liOAVe.
At Dublin, Ga., If. C. Crlstian, a
jarber, and Will B thea, a laborer,
vero severely win oped Wednesday
light by citiz ms of Dublin and run
rom the ccuuty. The negroes con
eased to beiog members of a "Black
iaLtl" society which had sent threatnlng
letters to chief of 1* dice J. L.
Jowart. They also confessid to havug
sent a very insultiDg and obscene
etter to G. W. Williams, a mt mber
?f the legislature, from Laurens.
L'his letter was sent to Atlanta, and
vas mailed there. They implicated
iVill Ansley and Cisco Wilson, two
ugro barbers. Ansley is in jail but
Anson made his escape. It is not
lelieve that there will be auy seriius
trouble. The barbers have
leretofore borne good reputations,
ind there is great surprise that they
ihould lie guilty of such conduct.
Ihicf no rived two of the letters, oue
ifter Ouristian had been whipped.
Ln the letters all of the policeman
ind Alderman N. M. Muore were
ihreatened.
Wotxl Alcohol Fmitl.
At. Richford, Vt., Wallace W.
White, a druggist, his son Almon and
nis daughter 10 va were arrusied, charged
with manslaughter in causing the
leath by poisoning of three persons.
White and his son are oharged with
causing the death of Mary Legrondiur,
of St. Armand, Quebec. Another
warrant charges the rather, son and
laughter with causing the death of
Marshall S. Smith, and a third warrant
alleges manslaughter against
Wnite and his f-on in causing the
leath of Nelson Royeson. It has been
illoged by the police that ttie deaths
were caused by wood alcohol, which
was solo, it was charged, by White
ind his children, who aoted as clerks
n the pharmacy. The alcohol was
purchased last week as regular alcohol
ind Smith annd R lyesoii died Friday,
i few nours after drlnging the liq lids.
Mr. Legrondeur succumbed Saturday.
In BIk Intck.
George Starford, who had been a
polloaman ln Jersey City for the last
two years at a salary of $83 33 a month
eft Thursday for Los Angeles. Oal ,
ifter having resigned his position on
the police force. Over night, so to say,
tie nas btcome a rich man, and one of
the prospective heirs to a fortune estimated
at about $50,000,000. Stratf
rd's uncle, an Englishman named
Pnomas Crltchlow, made an enormrun
fortune by some important h vmtlons
in railroad appliances and. old
ind a batchelor, made an effort to ti id
iome of his poor relatives, to letttiem
JDjoy part of his wealth, for which he
:iad no use. Georne Stratford Is one
if the nephews of the old n an and
when his rich uncle Invited blm to
some to him, did not hesitate to pull
jp stakes in the East to drop into a
well feathered nest.
FIkIuIiik iu Cuba.
The first shots between the rural
juards and Insurrectionists were exchanged
recently near the center of
[lavana province. A telegram has
jccii icucivuu iiuiu bim uupiiliu Ul Lilt)
uraf guards saying that his detachueut
discovered a party of twenty inlurrectionistsltd
by Marino Iiobau and
Ltafacl Castillo, who organized the
)riginal band from Salud. The party,
;he telegram says, after an exchange
)f shots, lied, some towards the mountains
and others across th'e fields..
Sobtdy was hurt, with the exception
>f a sergeant of the guards, wiio was
.hrown from his horse. It is report
id that Hobau is wounded, but this
s not conlirmod.
Gov- ITeyward has deoldtd to keep
-he State constables In all the counties
that has voted out the dlspensay
until the legislature meet, and
>hen let that body decide the question.
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Damage In France Averted by Bombarding
Them.
An interesting report cornea Ifrora
France In regard to the use of cannon
as a defence againut hail in the agricultural
districta. There are actually
in active operation twenty-eight cannon
firing societies, and they put into
use last year 402 cannon?with what
ia claimed a very marked success in
dispersing or diminishing the force
of the storm. And, indeed, the statistics
bear out the claim of the cannon's
effectiveness. During the fifteen
years before the cannon were brought
into use, the Government reimbursed
the poor grape growers in sixteen
communes $2.572,:!IG for damagj suffered
through hail, and an additional
half million dollars of damage is conceded
to have been done. Opposed to
this is the report that during the live
years in which the cannon have la.en
in u?? me losses irom nail nave aggregated
only $159,412.
The facts are all sot forth In a report
Issued by tho president of two
agricultural societies and a "hail con
non" society, the report being based
on the statements received after "uch
storm from the president of the agricultural
society of the district. In regard
to tho conclusions, the writer
of the report says: "Wo base our
confidence In the efllcacy of the firing
on the fact that tho thunder and lightning
ceased, the wintl abated and the
clouds disappeared under tho firing of
the cannon, and a mild fall of rain
and soft snow succeeded. These foots
are undeniable." While these results
were accomplished by cannon firing,
the statement is vouched for that "the
commune not defended by cannon suf
fered enormously."
Apparently the efficacy of tho cannon
is in proportion to the violence of
the storm, for it is conceded that a
certain great hurricane in duly of 1904
caused incalculable damage m twenty-nine
communes an.l that the usual
six or eight cannon In a commune
were powerless before tho force of it.
At tho outset some effect was no*
ticed after the firing, softer hailstones
and less thunder and lightning, but as
the storm increased tho tiring had no
influence. However, taking the year
through, wo got two such constrastlng
reports as those; "in
known us Abresle there were but few
cannon in use and (he destruction '
from bail was widespread and disas- 1
trous." "The great Beaujolais wine
growing district fairly bristled with
cannon, and while there wore many
storms the losses from had red wind
and rain wee infinitesimal. '
The National Government ?s sufllciently
interested to supply the power
to (lie wine growers at cost; anil the
Bureau of Agriculture concedes that those
districts buying least powder
report greatest damage. But even
while the farmers are organizing this
winter to curry on a. more general ]
campaign in the coming season, the j
secretary of tho Bureau of Agriculture
says the Government is not yet ready '
to agree that it is fully established
that tho cannon firing does protect
the vineyards from hail.
Cannon firing to cause rain has
been made the subject of more or loss
experimentation in this country, with
so slight results that the subject is
rarely heard mentioned in these days.
But if the farmers of France have
kept at their firing to disperse storms
for live years and still have such faith
in its efllcacy that they put more cannon
into use each year, it is fair
enough to say that the experiments
are worth pursuing.?Now Bedford
Standard.
Sunday Overeating.
If it Is desired to begin tho week
refreshed and ready for labor, rested
in mind and body, tho eating customs
of Sunday will have to be re-adjusted.
Have a later breakfast, if desired, hut
have then a very light one, even if
you are hungry. Or if it must be
heart v tlinn /Ir\ tunoni ??
, v.i^.i .iu uut utiai;i .YUUl Ulgca* I
tive habits any more than may be
avoided and have but two meals on ,
that day, and eat no other. It would |
be far better to have three light meals ]
lighter than usual, if that can be ar- 1
ranged to tit with the other household ,
arrangements. The custom of noon
dinner on that day arises from the |
usual absence of cook or maid at the i
later one ,and this may bo unavoid* <
able. Very well, then; treat this as a ,
rest day for tw>ok and digestive apparatus
as well as from other labors; ]
have a light breakfast, a light dinner,
and a chafing-dish supper as near the
ordinary hours of meals as possible,
and remember as you are going to .
take less exercise than usual yoi demand
a lesser amount of more easily ,
digested food.?Good Housekeeping.
Our Growing Cuban Trade.
Figures of the trade of the United ,
States with Cuba under the reciproc- |
ity treaty are published by the Department
of (^ommorce and Labor
through its Bureau of Statistics. ,
The figures of tho "United States ,
government showing its total imports j
form and exports to each country J
of tho world show that tho Imports '
from Cuba in tho calendar year 1904
under tho reciprocity treaty were
$7-4,950,992 in value, against $57,228,291
in 1903. This indicates an increase
of practically $18,000,000, or 31
per cent.
Turning to tho export side, the
11 gu res of tho United States government
show total exports to Cuba In
the calendar year 1904 valued at $32,
ih-I,?<! >, against $23,504,417 in 1903, an
increase of $9,139,928, or 38.9 per
cent.?an increase of practically 40
per cent.?Harper's Weekly. '
Somo of tlio German health insurance
companies have found it a paying
investment to establish sanatoria
for the cart) of their consumptive policy
holders* v
POIfcOSBD BIB WIFE.
Sensational Charitev Against a l'hjrslolan
of Ore* n? boro.
Dr. J. B. Mathews, a well known
physician, was arrested at Qreensboro,
N. C., Friday on a warrant charging
him with the murder of bis wife, who
died Friday night after suffering excruciating
agony for more tl an 12
hours. The warrant was Usuid by
Major Murpby. Her dealb, according
to Dr. J. P. Turner, the coroner, who
was called to her bedside, resulted
Ircm a dose of strjcbnlce followed by
a potic n of morphine which Coroner
Turner alleges was acmlnlsteied to
the woman ty her husband.
Dr. Mathews was arrested at mid
nigbt. He maintains that wbile he
prescribed for bis wife fe did so in <
the boje cf allevlatirg 1 er pain. C( r- i
oner jiujuer, wuofwore oui ire war <
ra nt sgair st Dr. MathewR, makes sen- i
satlcnal charges against Dr Mathews i
In ccnr ectien wiih the scenes In the i
dyirg woman's rot no.
I)r. Turner alleges that after si tiering
for hours t he ti y iDg wt man direct
ed her 10-year old son to seek another
physician, her husband, accordir g to
the ceicnei's ftorv, having relured to <
summon one. Dr Turner, who was the i
tirst to reach the stricken woman's i
bedside, diagroied tlie case as one of
pensioning and at or ce admlnisiered
antidotes, which failed to have the
desired e fleet. As the end approach
ed, Dr. Turner alleged, the husband
entered the wife's btdrcom and asktd
Dr. Tun er If he might kneel at the ]
bedside and pray with his wife, re- ]
questing Dr. Turrer meantime to ]
leave the roe m, which Dr. Turner re
fused to do. (
Dr. Mathews knelt at his wife's e
bedside ar d clajpir g e ne of he r hands ]
in his prajed in a voice plainly ai di- ]
b)e thrcughcut the roe m. Continuing, <
Dr. Turner says he disci vend his j
patient was writhing in pain, ai d ap <
prcachirg the led, be threw la*'k the i
C()Vering and charges that he discov i
ed a hype dermic syricge had been 1
plunged Into the weman's leg. lie
says he seized the syringe and orderrd
Mathews from the room Mrs. Mathews
died a few moments later and the cor*
nher's Jury was. notified. Both Dr. a
Mathevs and his wife aTe well known J
here. Matbtws was leckcd up she rt- a
ly after midnight, stoutly insisting a
that he had no intcLticn of taking '
his wife's nfe
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Nlkij mjt J>? edilMa'itD. j
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As They 81 hie hereti on Board a l'ujl '
float. J
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A dispatch frcm Mobile, Ala., says c
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nine persons, whose names are not yet ^
known, oieapyirga '"pull" boat on
Middle river, which runs between the
Tensas and All ama rivers, wereburnBd
to death Friday in a lire which de- J
stroyed the boat. Sidney Wheat, the 1
uegro stewaid, was the only survivor 1
of the 1 ) men who lived on the craft. c
Wheat escaped death by bfcirg awake a
Liwir g to illnesB. c
The crackling of burning timbers *
warnr d him In time. He jumped into c
the river and sscaped just as the boat c
collapsed. Stewart aLd Butt of Mo- c
bile, who owned to boat, say there e
bad been no steam cn her lor tbree '
3a)s. They were at a less to account f
for the burning of the vessel. f
According to Wheat's story the nine
men were c urrped into a roaring furnace
while some of them were, asleep.
They were roasted alive. The beat
was used by men who were engaged in ,
jetting logs out of narrow places for
raftirg purposes. It was constructed
j( mewhat similar to a dredge boat J
ind had a stiuoture for sheltt ring the
machinery and apartments in which
the crew and employes lived. 0
In this case those on the vessel oc?upicd
the second story of the struc- ,
ture. The fire bad evidently been
burnlrg for some time when Wheat J
was awakened. He says he rushed in :
md yelled to the others to get out as
fast as they could as the beat was 1
burning. He does not know wheather 1
&ny of the men heard him. He leaped
from the vessel into the river and a
gnoment later the vessel collapsed, c
pr^cipitat Jrg the otter men Into the \
blazlr g hull.
'Woman Kills Wt.man. v
A dispatch from Chester to The r
News and Courier sajs In a light 8
that occurred at the county farm
Thursday between two colored women t
Amy Osborne and Margaret Attles, 1
Inmates c f the heme, the former re 1
reived Injuries frcm whioh she died i
3atu; day evenli g. The two old women f
Lccupicu the seme cabin and had al <
ways gotten alcrg pleasantly, but I
Thursday there was a quarrel resulting
In the tragedy. The Attles wo .
man struck her antagonist with a
heavy stick on the front part of the ]
kuil, the (tV-'ets of which prtduced
death. Coroner Lcckie held an in- .
iiuest and committed Margaret Attlis .
to jail on the charge cf murder. A
peculiar fact in connection with
uue uora ciae is me fircai age (I l
the weirei). Margaret. Attics is said 1
to be 75 years old, while the dead |
woman is reported by reliable perrons >
to have teen 97. I
Gorniino Veteran.
The dispatches tell us that, an in |
diana veteran has Just refused $15,. ,
000 back pension. Urdoobtedly the ,
man Is a genuine veteran and wants
to keep his name on the roll of honor
as a lighter and not as a grafter.
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The simplest mother is wiser than '
the brightest chlldlers woman, be- 1
cause experience Is the only sort of
wisdom worth having.
COTTON BY COUNTIES.
What the I'ubliH Ulna of Houth Caro
Una Have l>one.
The cersus bureau has just Issued
its Orst statement by counties sbowlrg
ex ctly bow many bales of cotton
have been t/lnned In each to November
14, 1105. This is the flr9t time
this has e^er bf en done and will prove
exceedingly Interesting to growers In
the state and others Interested In the
cotton industry. The following figures
show what haNteen ginned In the
year 1904 and 1906, to November 14:
1905. 1904
Abbeville 27,7:43 25 717
Aiken 30.131 30,224
Anderaon 45 Ml 49 480
Ham berg 20 089 20 995
Barnwell 37 587 38,116
Beaufort 5 011 4,728
Berkeley 13 058 13 016
Charleston 6,292 7 344
Cher< kee 11 009 11,988
Chrs'er 29 891 18 982
Chest er Held 12,059 12,108
Clarendon 24,370 20,232
Colleton 12 787 11 980
DarllDgton 24 255 27 588
Dorchester 7,504 8 850
Edgefield 24 092 23.107
Fairfield 21,985 20.512
Florence 23,905 22 962
Georgetown 2 004 1 493
Greenville.. 29 439 31 800
Greenwood 20,923 22,707
Hampton 20,923 22,787
"orry 10 080 15 280
Kershaw 6 525 0 737
Lancaster 16 066 J 5,806
Laurens 17,419 10,817
Lee 23 329 29,593
Lexington 10,284 10.296
Marion 30 962 36 201
Marlboro 38 606 33 852
Newberry 31,722 31,125
)com e 10.924 11 807
jrartger urg 61,674 7 1 991
Pickers 10 949 11.050
Richland 10.530 14.077
>aluda 17 7.'10 16 931
Ipartani urg 40 356 45 896
>umter 26 736 30,717
J-ion 14 367 14 304
Willi} msburg 20.936 19 632
fork 29 806 28 271
lioen Much liooti.
Miss Helen Gruld, with the iptelli i
jeni as>istance of Miss L zzie Alt man,
Lunualv disburses 1500,000 in charity.
Probably Miss Gould supports directly
md indirte-ly more charities than
iny person living. While it dois nol
rean that she gives a vay such sums
is are n corded of the Rockefeller and
Jarnr gie charities, on the best author
ty her donations annualv res c'l 500
ir more benelicjarics. Miss Altman
s a Yassar graduate and lirst met her
^resent employer some teyrn years
igo, when Miss Gould was visiting the
:oUege. Since then she has been an
icMve agent in giving away nearly $4,>00.000.
Kfjit Cori>He lor Year*.
Following the death of Mrs. L'ore
ThornpsoD, au aged and eccentric wonan
a search of her cottage on Boyle
Ieights at San Francisco, Cal., oi-rdosed
lu a storeroom covered with dust
B / . V IVt i Aft 1 1 ft < A?? l/ii-l V. / *. * l? -
b iici iucl ii>a 11 y ecaicu ui a cu iftiuilig 11 if i
orpse of her daughter, who died
wonty-seven years *go. The body i
>f the }oung woman bad tein dismembered.
When the box vas opend
a dlhlnieiment certificate, slgnid
F. It. Ilou'elle, undertaker, Amicaist,
Mass., Novenb r 7, 1881, was
ound. The body had been snipped
re m the Eist.
Two Many Wives.
W. S. Franklin, a prominent rran,
beaded guilty at Birmingham, Ala.,
n Saturday to the charge of bigamy,
nd was given f( ur years In the pententiary.
lie had a wife In Newiort,
Ky., another Toddvlile Ala.,
nd had just married a third.
A. E. MKiosa newspaper manpgrr
if Detroit, fiaysj "The tri e tare ireer
of business Is the ci untiy editor.
When he is prosperous every b( dy
slse must be. The country editor Is
he last to get his dues. This jenr
le is doing a good tuslnrss, which
neans that the entire ccuntjy is unusually
prosperous."
"1 do not believe In sandwiching
jourfcship with religion," said the sec
etary of the Y. M. C. A. In New
,r 1. a., _ > 1 -?-t
i urK rt*crni)ty. ino man can noid a
lymn b< ok with a charming young
v( man and pay attention to what the
nlnlster la saying." He advocates
leperate churohes for the two sexes.
It requires a gord deal of courage
is well as ii'Orey for yartntsto md
heir sons to some of the colleges of
^he present, day. By the brutal sava
rery of the so called hazing the health
ts well as the life of students are en
Img'rrd. Hazing should ba stopped
n the colleges. It is brutal.
TiiKcIt-v of Washington, the capital
of the United States, has a colored
population of ninety thousand, more
tian any other Htv hi the worid, and
New York city follow* with seventy
thousand, and Chicago third "with
thirty ti ve thousand.
During the Civil War many pro
pie hired men to light in tl e war In
tbelr stead. Some are row asking the
pension commissioner to pay them
he money they spent for this pur
pose. They will get nothing.
At a recent political mretirg in
New York a candidate yellec; "What
r'the ore tblrg that we oMhls ccmnunlty
are si tT rlrg most from at
(his time?"' There was a silence and
hen a man with a big deep voice said
'bed bugs "
The king of Spain is a sk Uful and
fearless rlo r, a keen motorist, a
ieadly shot with cither rllle or revolver,
a splendid fencer and an exceptionally
clover boxer.
CHESS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Woman Champion Explains Its Efr,
ciency.
Fads and frills iu the school course
are outdone! Miss Kosa Bradford
ferson, the latest advocate of au adjj,
tiou to the curriculum, would have
every child taught to play chess as part
of the education given it by the staie,
But Miss Jefferson is no faddist. 'ihd
gospel she preaches is one impressed 1
by years of practice and result, tor she
is herself a "chess child," und it i3
from the height of her position as the
champion woman chess player of the
world that she is pa ging upon educators
a list of reasons why chess should
be an essential of a practical public
school training.
All my family were chess players
and I suppose a bent in that direction
came to me naturally. When i was six
I already understood the game, and by
the time I was eight I had defeated
some of the leading experts ol Mississippi.
"Except for the first few moves, I rely
on no set method. Everything depends,
on my antagonist. '1 here is no such
thing as chance In chess. It is all a
matter of calculation. It is to the mind
what physical culture is to the body,
what manual training is to the hands.
t is tx ay it- mi iu iiiiiuiriJiHUCUl discipline.
It develops a reasoning mind. It
Inculcates accuracy, and sharpens observation
to a point that makes it photographic.
Memory becomes a seriesof
pictures. The Germans are introducing
it into their schools. Why should
not we do likewise?
"My knowledge of chess lias made
everything easier for me. it helped me
in music to understand the principles
of harmony. It is a help in arithmetic.
It is a help in spelling. Just consider
the intricacies of chess," continued the
enthusiast. "The iirst move on either
side can be made in twenty different
ways, and the possible combinations
after that are practically beyond computation.
Success depends not upon
luck, but upon brain. The attack, the
: defense and the capture are made be- *
fore the eye of the enemy."?New York
World.
Strange Foods.
A Chinaman conducts in Now York
what is probably th^qneerest shop In
the world. The sign on the door says:
"Strange Foods?Exotics."
And here tire sold eatables from all
parts of the world.
Chow-chow is one' of the dealers*
commodities. This is not the chowchow
that everybody eats, a cheap
! pickle; it is the real Chinese chowchow,
a compound of bruised vegetables,
very odd and bitter in taste, and
very costly?$1.50 a pint.
Ant-cakes are small biscuit of a grayish
color that cost $2.50 apiece. They
are made of the dried and compressed,
bodies of African white ants. Men who
live a while in Africa grow fond of antcakes,
as they who live a while iu Japan
grow fond of Japanese raw iish.
The dealer sells, he says, about a hundred
of thdse cakes every month.
tttuuie snails lie sells in great quanties
to French families. Filled with
the green butter that gives them succulence?escargot
butter?they cost ten
cents apiece.
Tho mau sells betel nut, which in the
east is chewed like tobacco. A box of
ground betel weighing a half pound
costs a dollar. Half a teaspoonful of
tlie powdered nut is wrapped in a leaf
and chewed with a pinch of lime.
Though it darkens the enamel, it is said
to preserve the teeth.
Genuine Russian caviar is one of the
dealer's most costly commodities. A
tablespoonful of it costs $12. Twice aa
much ordinary caviar can be bought
! elsewhere for .a quarter, but those who
have once tasted the real thing never
again return to the substitute?sturgeon
roe; lor Russian caviar is as different
from sturgeon roe as liver is
from crow.
Teaches History with Dolls.
A novel idea has btfli realized In
Paris by M. l.eo Clareti*^ who, besides
being an eminent educationist, Is an
ardent advocate of rendering education
attractive. His system of the history
of France in dressed dolls is to be
placed on public exhibition, as an objoct
lesson in its capabilities. Even tbe>
prehistoric periods, whose life can only
be known on the testimony of the
rocks, are represented.
Within the pale of history every age
is represented by its leading figures, as
Gaul, pre-Iioman, Roman and Franklsh.
Then come tho Crusades, the English
wars, the middle ages, the early
modern period, and so 011 to the third;
republic.
,
Hay and Lincoln.
As with Lincoln, so w*fth Hay, thorough
edges of untoward events and
impertinent individual isms were mad?
smooth by a sense of humor and a parrying
and ameliorating wit. The gifts
wero different but analogous. Likewise,
while it may be said that Nicolay
bad something of Lincoln's gravity of
mind and explicitness of statement.
Hay had something of Lincoln's senti
uicui, uicvujr, uuiunco oi siyio ana imaginative
grasp, while both shared thev
mighty President's love of country and
devotion to its service.?-Century Magazine.
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There aro neither distilleries, brewerics
nor saloons in Persia, and the only
beverage of an Intoxicating sort is a
wine which, to the stranger, tastes too
much like medicine to be indulged in
lit quantity.
An English judgo recently altered a
sentence from eighteen mcftiths of hard
labor to flvo years' penal Servitude borause
tho prisoner threw a bottle at
him.
There is a village in Wales whicb
bears Lite name of Nowhere ..