The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 16, 1906, Image 3
RIOT AHD_FICHT. I
Having Strenuous Times in The j
County of Cherokee. <
1 RED HOT MEETINO. J
The Great Wonder is that Only One Shot
Was Fired and that No One Got
Seriously Hurt. The Trouble
Caused by Blind (Tiger I
Whiskey. <
A dispatch from Gatlney to The '
"News and Courier says tbe oounty
campaign In Cherokee Is waxing
warm. The meeting at Mabry's Mill
Saturday broke up in riot. was almost
& mlraclei that hdv^i' people
were not killed. Tbe meeting was
called in the morning, and Mr. W. S. (
Ilall. candidate for the Senate, was
announced as the first speaker, where- 1
as it was scheduled that the candidates
for the Senate should speak next 1
to last. OwIdr to this agreement Mr.
Otis, wno is opposing Mr. Ilall, was
absent. The meeting went on quietly
till dinner. A barbecue was served
and whiskey is said to have been distributed
freely by some parties, who,
to all appearances, were preparing for
a fuss.
Tne first speaker in the af(cfAoon
was Mr. Outs. When he tinisberr oneWill
Blackwood, a magiKrate'a con- (
stable, who had, it is claimed, been 4
drinking, a- k-'.d him a purely personal |
question, wh.ci brought on words.
Blackwood then applied an oath to Mr >
Otts, and his friends took it up and
went between tiie two. Blackwood's
friends rushed up and begun to make
a fight. Mr. Oits was the coolest man
in tne whole crowd and stood his ground .
well. The whiskey that hud been dls r
tributed got in its work, however, aad
the orowa, or a large party of it, got
in a fighting humor. Every man seem
ed to want to tight soxeoedy it mat
teied not who.
Directly tilings got quieted down
somewhat, and Mr. Otts mounted the
wagon &ud made a statement that he
Lad expected the row; that he expected
It on Friday, but toe crowd got
drunk too soou, and began ligntihg
among themselves; that he had been
warned before he left town, and after
reaching the grounds one of his frlenda
took hlai aside and told him that the
crowd that Is lighting him?not Mr.
JI all, but his enemies, who are following
the campaign to give him trouble
?nad arranged to raise a row when
ho got up to speak. lie furthermore
said that Btaok vood was not the real
one who was trying to make trouble
for him, hut that ne was the mouthpieoe
for another.
Biaekwood came up to the wagon
and started to get in, when Mr. Ott*
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IUIU lillil uub t>' iu nn. 11V
then wanted t IT and vfttH talking from
a distance. vVoeu Mr. Oils got out
of the wagon there were differentgroups
trying to kei p the mou of dillere/it
faQ?l0 '<4 apart. Sheriff Tnomas
was on toe fcC3iio aod was doing all lie
col1 Id to quiet tilings, when a tight
occurred between two men, who began
Knocking cacn other about. It was
ao tills juuctuie that one, whose name
was said to be James Fowler, said to
be from Union, drew his revolver and
started lo suoot. bystanders knocked
his hand up and the shot went off In
the air. Tne crow.! scattered ana nld
behind trees, wagons and anything
that w&i lian.iy. There were at one
time at least a hundred knives opened
and ready for use, ana the laot tiiat
only one shot was tired was remarkable.
MAYOR IIGE'IB IOLICEMAN.
Another Ihvely frtciliinuago in Strenuous
Cherok?o County.
Another dispatch to The News and
Courier from G.OTiiey Days the spirit
of mars v<p.s lcise in Cherokee County
on Saturday. The county campaign
meeting broke up in a riot, and tnat
was thought bad enough, but that was
not all the excitement for in OjlT.iey.
Saturday night auouttcn o'clock there
was a report of a llgnt on the streets,
und aa inveetigvtion showed that
Miyor J. Q Little and Onlef of Police
Tom L n 1< .art were tigbting.
Soon Mr. Worth Li trie, a brother of
the mayor, and Mr. Dever Little, a
son, Joined in, as did ()dicers Cap Demons
and Lloyd Autoll. The lighting
was brisk for so re minutes. The wonder
is that no snooting irons were not
used. There were several knocked
down in tide moiee, but none was seriously
1 urfc.
After everything had quieted down
Mayor Little stood in the middle of
Limestone streot and made aa address
to the bystanders, telllog them that
the trouble was brought on by Chief
Lockharc and the other two cilljers
engaged in the difficulty neglecting
their duty to electioneer for Sheriff
Thorjj^s for re-election, and his havWe
never hear somebody talking
j p.bdhS belonging to the "cream of so
ciety" but what we are reminded that
cream rises to the top. Then we think
of the old days when we "gugared-off"
In the camp and spent a lot of time
skimming off the skum that rose to
the top of the boiling sap.
ing to put another man, J. M. Hampton,
on the police force to help them
So their duty.
It might be said here that Mayor
Little and Sheriff Thomas are not on
;ood terms and two of the aldermen
ire candidates, one for sheriff and one
tor clerk of Court. Mayor Little took
DOoasion to make a political address,
taring that no ?tlicer should hold of*
tlce too long, aud advising the people
lo put out everv man holding cffloe in
the Court House. Before saying that
lie said that the polioemeu had no
business engaging In politics.
The correspondent says the occurrence
of Saturday and Saturday night
was the talk of Gaffney on Sunday. It
Is the concensus of opinion that the
3hief, who is a nephew of the mayor,
toted In self-defence and In the dlsoharge
of his duty as did the other
policemen who were acting as peace
:ftloers. There Is no town the size of
Ur*ffney with a more obliging set of
polioe officers.
SEVERAL ARRJKSfKD
For Throwing It all road 8pik< h at an
Exourslon Train.
The Florenoe Times says the Augusta
excursion train which parsed
Orangeburg about two o'clock Tuesday
morning reached Florenoe about
live o'clock that morning. The Tlmo*
says "tlilu excursion was not as bad as
some of the past Augusta excursions
for lighting and drinking yet there
was some mischief done to the traiu
by outside miscreants.
"Directive 0. E Wheeler and Chief
K lopmaii brought two negro youths
xod one white boy in for throwing
spikob at the train. The negroes are
Willie and Luther Anderson who were
arrested for throwing railroad spikes
at the train at Crestou. Toe white
man, Il3n Gartman wis taken up at.
Oiangeburg for the same mischief.
Thene parties will bo taken back to
their native oountles and dealt with
according to law.
"At Barnwell on the second section
of theexcurslon Fiagm&o MUlenaghau
was found in an unconscious condition
with a severe gash over his eye, and
it was not known how long he had
been In this condition. When the
train reached Denmark his wounds
were dressed by a doctor aud a special
fmr u/*u to 1/on V-vw ? 1?'
wm* (vuj oiju wuiiuuoci man
until he reached Florence where I>jctor
Gregg met the train and went to
work on the wounded man.
"MaClenaghan is supposed to have
been hit by some misoreant throwing
rocks at the train. The excursion
was very orderly going and coming,
very little whiskey was in eviaeuoe
and a good crowd went."
White I'riHonorn Muriiurml.
II. II. Trawiok and Sam Chandler,
white men, confined iu the Angelina
oouuty jail, T.*xas, were found dead
in their c*ll, Thursday morning, the
skulls of both men being crushed, and
John Wilson, held on a minor charge
and who was confined In the same cell
is held charged with having murdered
his cell mates. While denying that
he committed the crime Wilson hab
made a number of colII etlng statements
concerning the tragedy. He
declares that at o ie time during the
night he discovered the men lighting
ana separated taem. An eartheru
cuspidor found In the cell was evidently
the weapon used. It is believed
the men were killad woiip t.Viov
slept. _
In l'eril /Vt Niagara.
The falls of Niagara came near
claiming two men, six women and a
baby as vlot ms to its floods Wednes
day night. Too party was out boating
on the upper (iver in a launch
when the propeller was Injured by
striking a rock. When this occurred
the launch drifted swiftly toward the.
falls. Those aboard the boat threw
out an anchor and it caught as thev
were passing through the Devil's Half
Acre. Then they displayed white garments
as signals of distress. Other
boa's put out from shore and rescued
them.
Ho ItoHOiila It.
MA'y a man would be proud to resemD*:
John D Rockefeller as closely
as dees Dr. James H. Jackson, of
Rockford. 111., but the Doctor doesn't
like to be reminded in tills way that
he Isn't a millionaire. Hi appeared
in police court to-day against Josepn
Leonard' Reynold B an and Lee Brollngcr,
charging that they "humllated"
him by calling him "John D" on
ijijo street*, wnere everybody could
hear. The culprits were lined moderately.
Fought la iit.orgiA 11*11.
Representative Whitley, of Douglass
county, and Solicitor 11(11, of the
criminal court of Avon county, fought
Wednesday on the door of the House.
They wertf separated by friends before
either was seriously hurt. The tight
1h Kali to hav3 grown out of remarks
made by Wnitley in the House Tuesday.
The lie was passed between the
men and blows followed.
Utmrcfi Struck. ^
Lightning struck the Walnut Grove
Cnuroh Sunday a<*d Suuday School
was dismissed. Carl Sutton was
fatally burned. Kirl Emerson's tinker
and Earl Byers' toe were burned otf.
Ruth Diss was burned about the faoe
and head. Half a dozen others were
sc^Tched.
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When a man dots not walk a little
faster as he turns the oorner near hit
home, there is something wrong witfc
either the man or the home.
Some people are so afraid of committing
a sin that they omit doing
anything.
I DiVOKCK KKCOK1).
A MILLION BHOKKN MAHKIAGG8
IN TWENTY YEAH8.
Ceti8U8 Pepartment Piligently Gathering
Statistics Which President
Boosevelt Will Employ.
One million divorces, at least, were
granted by the courts of this country
during the past twenty years. This
Is an estimate bv the census bureau,
and it is so startling that It probably 1
will result In further Important discussion
of the question of enacting a
uniform divorce law In the various
States.
President Roosevelt, who has dls
cussed In his messages and other public
utterances the general subject of
legislation bearing upon marriage and
dlvoroe and has expresed himself
strongly In favor of a uniform divorce i
law, directed seme time ago that the (
census bureau institute an inquiry ,
luto the subject of divorce No In
vcsti^atiou into a sooial or economic '
question made in many years is re- ?
warded as more important to the peo- (
pie of tho country personally than |
this one, now just fairly bejcim by
Director North and his corps of assls- 1
tauts. It is expected by the Fresi '
denttlmt the statistics tfaihered by 1
the census bureau, tOKether with the ,
legitimate deductions from them, will
demonstrate conclusively the necessity
of uniform divorce laws, and he '
expects to use the titfures to brln^ 1
ab-.ut- such a result.
The question haB been considered
by the President with the ablest law- 1
yers of the Seriate and House of Lie 1
pres^ntatlves. They have concluded
practically that, at present, the Congress
lacks the constitutional power
to enact a divorce law which would be
applicable In the States. The Presla?ut
hopts, therefore, to create a
sentiment in favor of uniform letflsla
tlon on the subject try the Legislatures
of the various States or to obtain
from the people, through the Legislatures.,
approval of a constitutional
amendment conferin^ upon the Con
Kress authority to regulate by law the
Keneral matter of marriage and
divorce.
The statistics to he collected and
compiled by the census bureau will
co*er the twenty-year per.od from
1887 to 190(5, Inclusive. A similar 1lv
'.eiiKaUun was made in 188(3, coverinK
a twenty year period, and the
inures of the two periods are expected
to prove valuable for Comparison. In
I t h A irn&vi />/! / ?/ * ?? 1 - - i. ?
gnu yoi iuu ul iwtlili.y J OATb j'.jsli ptc"
oedlUK 1880, 484,083 applications for
divoro* were mane to the courts and
328,710 of them subsequently were
Krauted. Figures already in the
hands of Director North, of the cen
hus bureau, warrant the statement
that, In the past twenty years, the
applications for divorce atftfreKated
nearly a million and a half while t.he
divorce actually granted numbered
more than a million. Of course,
even this alarming total docs not Include
all cases of the Infelicity of marriage,
but only those which reached
the oourts In spite of t.ho apprehen
slon of the parties of public scandal.
Tbe inquiry will be oonduoted alon^
such lines as will mac**, the resultant
ll^urcs and deductions valuable In the
preparation of laws for tbe reflation
of marriage and divorce. An effort
will be made to collect the statistics
practically simultaneously, as In the
case of the taking of the population
of the country. Special agents will
be appointed In all parts of country
to examine the records of the divorce*
courts. In the United States there
are nearly 3 000 counties, all of which
probably have records In their courts
of divorce applications. All details
concerning each case will be collected
? a 4 ? p. , 1 - a - j . ? i - ?
auu b?uuiai*iii wiuu stucnous care.
Particular reference will be made to
the number of children affected by
the divorce cases and now they were
affected, a.s these facta, It la believed,
will be potent In determining the ac
tlon of the Legislatures in the passage
of lawn.
When the investigation shall have
been concluded and the iigurea studied
carefully with a view to presenting
In concrete form the result of the inquiry,
the President will transmit
the report to the Congress, probably
accompanied by a npeolal mesf?ag. In
tbat utterance to his views on the subject
of the action to be taken to correct
what is regarded by sociologists a*
one of the greatest evils of our time.
Aged Couple SuioldcH.
William M. Methnor, aged 03, and
wife, aged 53, sought death Wednesday
morning by Inhaling gas at their
home In New York Neighbors, attracted
by the smell of gas broke down
the doors in time to save their lives.
Theouple, who are now under arrest,
charged with attempted suicide, ad
mltted that they had entered into a
death compact. They said they wanted
nu uio uuKUbiit)! luriiuiifi naa reoeni
ly frowned upon them and they wanted
to escape the poor house.
Killed Himaeir.
At Chicago Frank Kowalski, paying
teller of the Milwaukee Avenue State
bank, of which Paul Stensland wax
president, shot and killed himself Friday
evening at his home, 340 North
Carpenter street. No oharges had
been brDught against him in connection
with the failure of the bank.
i When a man Btarta after something
i be usually finds it! oomlng to meet
l him. If he waits for it he usually
ssesit fading away.
Gasised at is always ainping along
behind worked out and begging for
help.
1
INSIDE STORY
Told of the Corey Divorce Case
Recently Decided.
ITS A VERY SAD ONE.
Mrs. Corey Knew Nothing of Her Hunband's
Intentions to Desert Her
Until He Told Her at a Dinner
to Which He Had Invited
Her.
There has perhaps never been a life
frith greater contrast on two sides
md perhaps none more Bad in seme
espects, than the lives of William
Wills Corey, president of the United
States Steel Corporation, and his wife,
)r former wife, which culminated at
Lteno, Nevada, on Monday, July 21),
frhen Mrs. Corey was granted an
ibsolute divorce from the millionaire
lusband, who had tired of her, ann
jlven the custody of her minor son.
Mrs. Corey is a woman not only of
ittraotlve appearance, but modest of
manner and somewhat magnetic
During the trial of her case, which
was in no wise contested by Corey,
snd absolutely devoid of any effort at
defense, she was sad. Whm the. fact
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QUUOUIIUUU IIHH NUU MifcU K*l UIMl
what she a.ked?freedom from the
man who wanted to be free of her?
she cried. She stated that she had
been married to Corey, a man then of
far le*s r ill icnoe than now, in Pittsburg,
on December 1, 1883, aud they
11 red happily nearly 2u years. Ills
Indifference, with accumulation of
wealth, developed and he tinally deserted
her. Aftor several weeks of
Inattention and then desertion,
(Jorey took her to dinner, as he would
nave taken any other womau acquaintance
and calmly told her she
would nave to i?o; that he was tired
of her and would not live with her
longer. He was emphatic; his mind
was made up and he was not to be
shaken. She presents a different
picture.
After sufforintf his Inattention and
desertion, boeln^ him the llrst time
for weeks at the dinner table in a
restaurant, she bei^ed him to no
riome with her and "talk it over."
Indifferently he raised his hat as he
put her in a cab and, turning, left
her forever. That inoldent, according
to Mrs. Corey's testimony, was on
May 5, 11)05, and since that time she
lias never seen him. Corey's manner
of disposing of her was discussed with
his attorneys, and the statement was
made at the trial that there would be
no question of alimony, since that
had been arranged between Mrs.
Corey and his attorney.
Perhaps one of the most significant
features of the trial, and one which
sheds thought on what proceded it,
la the evidence quoted from Mis*
Addle Corey, hia bister. Asked by
counsel if she thought her brother a
tit person to have custody of young
Allan Corey, she replied: "lid is not
a proper person for his son to associate
with. Ills associates and companions
are not iir, companions for a
you ok man of Allan's age. 1 don't
think any N :w York man of wealth
Is tit to have charge of a boy of his
at e."
The cool deliberation of William
Eilis Corey in his determination to
rid himself of the ties of matrimony
is depicted In the evidence cf his
little son, who said in court, referring
to a conversation with his father on
the subject of the divorce. "'He
said that my mother was a good wo
man and that my place was at her
side. He told me I was too young to
understand the rea.->ous for fchu separation."
Another feature of the case
was tue connection of certain pboto
graphs with Core/'slife in New York,
one of which was Miss Oilman, an ac
tress, another or M ins Oilman reclining
oq a sofa In her room, showing
Corey's llfeslzd photograph ou an easel
nearby.
Whatever may have been behind
the life curtain, or may not have
been, deductions are being drawn fur
and wide, and the case is bolrg point
ed to as an Incident 01 too much
money and the desire for guy life and
tiring of the ties of homo and wife.
Core/ uas never uttered, so fir as is
known, a single word relative to his
wife which could he construed other
than an extolling her good points, in
a sense, his son's evidence pictures
that: "She Is a good woman."
Since the granting of the divorce
the story of how Mrs. Corey llrar,
found out that she was to be cast cir
has come to light. It was not used
in the trial of the case. After some
juonl/ti f\t nnulanK / lA?nti 1*1.. ? 1
ii wnu v? vrtiis/ ra&nu 111 n who
to dine with him at a fashionable
restaurant, and she eagerly acc?pteci
the invitation. The meal was appar
ently enjoyed by both of them, and
Mrs. Corey especially seemed buoyant
and bright. The various courses had
been served and the dinner all but
ended. Over the cups of ootToe the
two sat oaattlng when Corey sudder
Life Is not measured by length o
days. Metbufelab lived nearly i
thousand years dut bo aooompltshec
very little.
The eoelest tning in th6 world t(
make is a good resolution.
ly leaned across the table, looked his
wife Fquarely In the face, and said.
"This Is to be our last dinner. 1 am
going to leave you tonight. 1 am
tired of you and I want you to get a
divorce from ae."
Mrs Corey was entirely unprepared
I for the Information. Though she
was startled, she maintained her selfcontrol,
hut the only reply she could
or did make, was:
"You don't L uow what you are saying."
Corey then became hurt.
"Yes 1 do, 1 have fully made up
my mind, and nothing can change it.
1 will not live with you any longer
and 1 want you to got a divoroe. 1
will give you everything to enable
you to live luxuriously?everything
you need to be comfortable."
Mtb. Corey could contain herself no
longer, and, showing agitation, said.
"We will discuss the matter when
we get home, Will. Come "
Corey Imo a cab summoned and
left the restaurant together. He
went to the curbing with her, assisted
her to the cab, but did not get In.
He politely lifted his hat, half smiling,
and said:
"This Is our good bye. And re
member, 1 will not be responsible for
your debts until you are willing to
make this separation tin&l by a divorce
decree. Good-bye."
And, without waiting to hear more
from her, he turned and walked
awny. There Is no evidence to that
etTcct, bu? Mrs. Corey's money supply j
tt-su nut /-IT a. u. i ?
i.u ftuu in f iiH way Hno was i
prsctloallv forced Into submission.
After she tiled suit for divorce her
husband paid her bills.
HOtttUitljtt bb Afll.
scaij)i:i) in \ Ki;in,i:oi boiij1N<J
OIllbHlUAIiS.
Caused by the Carelessness of Turning
on Caustic Before tho Boy
Could Remove.
The Augusta Herald says an accident
so horrible that It beggers all
description happened Thursday afternoon
at 1 .'tO o'c 1 >ok at the Clearwater
Hleachery, In which Jack J. Widener,
the 14 year-old son of Mr. W. II.
Wldener, met a horrible death from
'scald ng. At the bloachery thero are
a numb jr of large kettles known as
j kears with a capacity of thousands of
j yards of cloth. Into these kettles the
| cloth runs in a methodical manner
and gees through a chemical process,
by having steam and chemicals turned
on It through Iron pipes, at stated In
tervals.
To prevent the cloth from piling
up and tilling the kettles before the
capacity bad been reached, a boy Is
kept in each kettle to keep the c.oth
y.wy-i'/ wumm uu u mecaanicai apparatus
especially prepared for It. When
the l>oy has taxed the capacity
of the kettle he comes out and the
caustic la turned on. For a Ion#
while the little son of Mr. W. II.
Wldener has tilled this position very
creditably. Day after day he has
taken his place in tho various kettles
and worked faithfully at his work,
never dreaming of any danger. Friday
afternoon at 4:.'{(J the boy was in
one of the kettles working assiduously,
possibly in anticipation of the hour
when the whistles of the blcachery
would release him from his work.
Little did the boy know that as'
the hands of the clock were moving
toward the time when the chemical
process should be turned on that he
was to ho the victim of a horrible accident.
The kettle next to the one
In which J*c?c Wldener was working
was tilled with cloth, and Jerry Middleton,
the man whose butineas It
was to do this work, with tne Intention
of turning the hot steam Into it,
made a mistake and sent the hissing
caustic Into tne kettle where the boy
was working.
For four minutes tho boy was In
the kettle and when William Vernon,
an employe, dragged him out of the
awful place, otmervers say that his
body from his face down was baked
almost to a crisp. Physicians were
CiUioklv Hummnnwl mH o???oKhin?
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possible was done for the sulferlnK
boy; his pain was alleviated by the
use of anesthetic*, but death was inevitable.
Tne child died at H o'clock Friday
Qlj(bt, j l^t tnree hours and a half
after too accident. Tne sulT^rlny
boy was perfectly conscious up to his
d(-aih, aod Hfcj.ted that wane lie #twi
in the kelti'4, he real zed that he was
dylntf and th it his body would be horribly
disfigured, but to save his face
be burled It hi tne cloth. The accident
Is one of the first to happeu at
tne bieachery and It Is tfreacly deplored
by the oiliolais of the company.
The parents of tne deceased boy are
highly regarded at Clearwater and
tbey have been the recipients of much
vsy m paiby.
Newspaper dispatches announce
thatSeoretary of War Tart and Speaker
Cannon will go 10 Mime to take
the Htunap In favor of the re eleotlon
of Representative Llttletield against
whom the American Federation of
Labor In making a vigorous tight.
Taft and Cannon will speak for Llttletield
on the labor quesii n, but who
will tp aK for Taft and Cannon?
f Men who have followed the beatei
t track usually end up without acoom
1 pllshlng muci that is worth while'
A very short fall will plunge a mai
} so deep in trouble that he oan,t climl
out with a fifty-toot ladder.
A CLOSE CALL.
A (iirl Preacher Makes Her Escape
from Cannibals.
WARSHIP SAVED HER.
The Young Missionary Saw Eleven Sailors
Killed and Eaten. She Tells
Her Thrilllug Story of Adventure
at an Illinois Camp
Meeting.
Miss Houlah \j >gan Tuthlll, a pretty
woman, thirty years of age, a Methodist
missionary whose ancestors wero
missionaries before her, startled the
big Methodist camp meeting on the
I).>s Plainos Ulver, near Chicago, 111.,
by telling the story of how she saw
eleven persons killed and devnorml h?
?
cannibals.
Miss Tuth111 Is the only woman In
the world who has lived to tell such a
tale. Sho was taken to the Caroline
Islands when she was six years of ago
and bewail her missionary work when
she was seveteen. In luou her
parents left the Carolines and went to
Sidney. Australia. Sue remalnod
011 the island for soveral months afterwar
i. Then she took passage on the
steamer Aragul for Sidney. A terrltlc
storm swept the vessel near the
Island of New Ireland, two hundred
miles nortneast of Australia. Miss
Tuthill was swept overboard. She
was an expert s wimmer and was picked
up by some Christian Malays. They
wero subsequently shipwrecked on a
sandbar on which a schooner was going
to pieces. This bar was two
miles olT the cannibal Isle. Hho said:
"As the tide began to rlso to free
us, the horror began. One of our
lookouts gave an exclamation of
terror Wo looked and there on the
shore we saw a horde of savages coming
down the beach?fully 200 of
them?In full panoply, armed with
shields and spears and heavy clubs
with which they wero accustomed to
dash out their enemies' brains.
"They stole down upon the schooner
and then attacked It wltn a rush.
The sailors ma le n) resistance. They
had concealed themselves In the hope
of escaping) hut one by one, men In
all, they were found, draped out and
killed with a blow on the back of the
head with a ureal w&r club.
"Then they dragged the bodies
ashore and prepared for the feast.
They boat 011 tomtoms a.-d strange
drums. Toe victims wero laid In a
circle on the ground while the savages
brought brushwood and great logs for
the tiro.
"Then a strange thing came. They
seemed actually to make a sort of religious
ceremony out of this horrible
atfair. They beat their tomtoms and
pulled their hair and uttered tneir
weired, gutter*! cries.
"The rest Is too horrible, how thej
cooked their human food, how they
1 danced about their victims, how at
last that company tore the smoking
human tiesh to pieces with their nails
and teeth In a mad orgy.
The Chief ate llrst, and after dano
ing ho allowtd ills followers to partake.
Then, at last, when It seemed
to me that 1 sursly Could stand It no
longer, the savages formed In line
and started to march away. The
tide had ll iwed In and we were free.
"Frantic to escape, the frightened
sailors who had rescued me, made
haste to null away. Hut now w?
were seen. The savages broke tbelr
line and rushed to the oeach. A score
or more of them entered a canoe and
pursued us. We had a lead of several
hundred fathoms, but their canoe,
driven by a score of savage arms,
fairly leaped through the water.
"They gained on us, fast, faster. I
turned sick at heart, 1 hardly had
strength to pray.
"Now, this Island 1b a German
p ss ;sslon, though inhabited ohlefly
jy ovnnlbals. Three miles away,
across one u'?y, tuofe was a German
ta .lou, and for tola we nea led. Ta.-.y
gained on u* more am more. We
couid hear uieir savage cries, but
thank G jd, there was a Germau gunooat
In sight. They saw our predicament.
Glancing toward the warship
I saw a little pu(T of smoke curl out
from its bow and a four Inch shell
came ricocheting across tae water toward
the cannibal canoe. It missed.
Tuen another came, and this tin.? It
tilt squareiy and explod?d and dealt
death and destruction. 1 could see
the survivors jumping into the water
and swimming (or the shore.
"Too Q :rmaus welcomed us, and I
oould not thank them surtleHutly."
Fatal Fight,
At Cold Springs, Texas, in an election
tight Friday, ?1. B. Adams, Dam"
ocratio nominee (or tax assessor, was
instantly klllod. Sam Adams, his
brother, fatally shot in the bead, and
. u uvutsr mau wounded.
i If you are bo abBorbcd In your bust.
ne8H that you would never think of a
day in the woods, it Is a sign that *ou
are a money worshiper and guilty ot
b the gr lesest form of idolatry.
Flrmnesft is not uunneaaedness.