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"police graft In Now York Amounts to a Million of Dollars In N HARD CASH PiR YEAR General Bin^htun, Police Coiiunlasiouer of New York, Says That He Could Have Made ut IA'ast Six Hundred Thousand Dollars iu His Kirst Twelve Months iu Oflice, "1 am asked to estimate the money value of Kraft and blackmail in New York each year. No one can make such an estimate with accuracy, but my belief is that the total is not less than $ 100,000,000. During my first year at the head of the police department it would have been an easy matter for me to have made $000,000 in bribe money, and $1,000,0 0 0 would not have been an excessive figure at all." ? * ' - i rn\ ,x Thus writes u-enerai jneuuort Bingham iu an article to be published in the September number of the Hampton's magazine. It is the first public statement made by General Bingham since his removal by Mayor AlcClellan from the oflice of Police Commissioner. He writes: "The power of Tammany Hall rests, and lias rested for forty years upon its ability to control the po< lice, by fair means or foul. A strong honest, fearless Police Commission er, supported by Police Magistrates of ability and integrity and a niayoi big enough to conduct his ol'.ici without fear or favor, can sap and utterly destroy Tammany inlluencc in ten years or even less, provided he is empowered to dismiss and transfer his subordinates for cause without recourse to the courts. "I do not believe I am unfair in estimating that from fifteen hundred to two thousand mem tiers ol tiie force are unscrupulous grafters whose hands are always out for easy money." That this is known by the head of the depart mem unci app.u euu\ ignored is because the commissionei is only nominal head of the force he states, while a policeman has of lice for life. Discipline and tlu / question of vested interests shoulc be kept separate, he declares. Graf is hidden in most city ordinances, h< says and were enacted to be brok en so that some one could maki money from them. lie continues: "One day, shortly after my ar rival at Police headquarters an ac quaintance dropped into my otlice. "Commissioner," he said. "Ther is a house at No. West Thirty third street, run very quietly. I will be worth $10,000 a month t you"?but the sentence was neve finished to my knowledge. . "As a matter of fact, the plac had never been opened, and the ma had been used as an agent to fee out the department. "A few months later I was o fered $5,000 in cash and $500 month merely to be seen shakin hands with the proprietor of an uj per Broadway cafe." General Itngham states as his hi lief that gambling cannot be elim natcd, hut that a reasonable la\ imposing heavy licenses and ironcla restrictions can be enforced. Coi v coming the Rogues' Gallery, tl controversy over which proved h stumbling block, bo states that it necessary to photograph criminal but adds that it should be settle . by a law not drawn in the intere of criminals. WOMAN FINDS SNAKK IN HI0I> Was Awakened by Keptilo Crawlii Over Her Face. Mrs. John McKnight of Shartle ville, Fa., had an experience with black snake which she is not like to forget for some time. The fair ly retired as usual and when Mi McKnight had been in bed but short time she heard a peculi nn i vto t?nck of her nillew. Thinking it was an insect of sor kind she thought no more of t matter and wont to sleep. She h just fallen into a doze when s felt a peculiar sensation on her fa< 4 Reaching up to her forehead s was horrified to find a snake crav ing over her face. Grabbing it, with a shriek s ' hurled the reptile across the roo a i>suiitir m1h> found the snake 1 y 1 in ?'i corner of the room and kill it. with a cane. The snake moasi ed three feet, four inches length. Shoots Young I-ndy. At. Portsmouth, Ohio, enraged 1 cause he had been jilted, Ilai Jiliss, 18 years old, Tuesday si and fatally wounded Miss Min i Clarke, 17 years old, at a crowf street corner. When Miss Clai refused to return a ring, Bliss dr a revolver and shot her through back, the bullet penetrating the ri lung. Illlss was arrested. After all, the light Polo may he what you'd call polite. GOES OVER FALLS XIAGRA RAPIDS SWALLOW UP ONE MORE VICTIM. Young Man's Bravo Efforts Prove Useless, Giant Waves Finally Overcoming, Driving Him Under. Niagara rapids claims ono one more victim. A dispatch from there says August Sparer, an eighteenyear-old boy, a resident of Niagara Falls, wont to his death Monday in the whirlpool rapids after a gallant battle with the giant waves between the lower bridges and the pool. With three companions Sporer went for a swim in the river, lie struck about at once for the middle of the jlro'iin ;iml thnn turn ml tnwnrrl the bridges. His companions called to him to turn l>a<'k, for the current is very swift at that point, but ho kept on down stream and was ca?ught in the great sweep, the llrst break from the smoother -waters to the rapids. The boy struggled for a time against the current but to no avail. Then, realizing that he was beyond human help and was to be carried through the rapid which took the ' life of Capt. Webb, and which have 1 resisted every unaided human effort at passage, lie deliberately turned down stream and began a grim fight for life. Not in all the history of the river ' has such a brave effort been witnessed. Although but a frail boy, he ' went into the rapids swimming strongly and hold his own until he struck the giant wave which curls up opposite the Old Mattery elevator. Then he wont under and for a second was lost to sight of the score of people who stood on the lower arch bridge. Again and again he disappeared only to reappear, each time fighting desperately against the terrible current. Then when within 300 yards of the whirlpool his strength gave out and he sank and was lost to view. Even then he had swum perhaps 100 yards farther than did the great English swimmer, Capt. Webb. * THEY WKKE SENT MACK. I'nolo Sain Detains ft Runaway Coii|>le From Fragile. At New York the immigration officials have shattered the romance of 3 nineteen-year-old Meat rice Mayer, who left her husband of a few months and eloped to this country with her tirst sweetheart, Adolph Grohman, a youth of twenty-three. G The young couple who have a plentiful supply of money, and whose re1 flnemont apparently verifies theii ? claims to kinship with prominent I families at Prague, arrived in New York on Monday. Mrs. Mayer was ? accompanied by her maid and al II of them had first cabin passage. They would not have been disturb ed in their desire to land had not i cauiegram preeeueu uieir arrival. i was from Mrs. Mayer's husband, am asked that tlioy be detained at Nov )_ Yorn. A special board of inquir; lias decided that the man and Mrs ' " Mayer and her maid must be deport 1_ ed. Before the board, Mrs. Maye N' made an impassioned plea to be al lowed to land. "Adolph was my school compar 1 ion, and we have loved each ot.be for years," she said. "We wante to marry, but my folks objected ' I resisted as long as I could, bit >(^ in the end they forced me into thi objectionable marriage. I never lo\ ed my husbatid, but I do love Adolpl After four months of marital trouble 1 decided that the only way to avoi a life of trouble and unhappines ijr was to run away with Adolph." ti1 V I fc i \ II I 1.^ It' / k I > t Ik V ' I I ? is a According to (lie "lloly Ghost an ,y , ^ jj. i s Society. The Holy Ghost and Us Soclel a , . ar whose principal base or operatloi is at Shiloh, Me., has received a< n0 vices that the end of the wolrd is I pe come at 10:20 a. in., VVednesda nd September 1. p0 The Itev. Frank Sandford, wl ,e originated the sect and calls hin j10 so If "Elijah," says that this w1 vl_ happen. The Holy Ghost and I society at Shlloh is making prepar hG tions to don the pure white robe m pass to the housetops of their vi lagee, and there await the dread in ed nient. ir- When it comes they expect to s jn the sky fall, and the earth, moo and sun disappear, and they thei selves transplanted into the reali of eternal bliss, while all others pa , ^ into dest met ion. berry -jot Young Lady Drowns. nle Miss Caroline Middleton, the s led teen-year-old daughter of Mr. Jam rke S. Middleton, of 610 Piedmont a' ew nue, Atlanta, Ga., was drowned the East Lake at the Country Club ght the Atlanta Athletic Club Frid morning about 11 o'clock, while bathing with a number of young In not friends. The family went to Atlai from Charleston. 1 KIND LITTLE WORDS COUKTKSY IS THE CHEAPEST > THING IN THIS LIFE, And it Should Ik? Practiced by All < of Us in Our Intercourse With Each Other. T ! 4 ? I 1 .. I .4 l.ln.ltiAM. - .>?t, ljillit' WUIU9 ill tv i nil iir??-o r^unvu, A motion or a tear, May oft relieve a heart that's broken, J i Or make a friend sincere. Courtesy is tHe cheapest thing | there is in this world. Because it ( is so cheap is perhaps the reason that it is so infrequently used. it ( costs absolutely nothing, therefore one would think it would be by the desk or at the hand of every man and woman in the world. Yet the fact remains that there , are very few really courteous men. So few are there that when one does meet such an one he is surprised and refers to him "as a gentleman of the old school." Because a person does not happen to fancy a man is no reason that he should bo discourteous with him. Outward adornments, facial expression. peculiar mannerisms do not destroy manhood. "A man's a man for all that." Sometimes we say that a man's real strength is shown in tho manner in which ho expends his energy; that his real benevolences are manifest in the way he dispenses his charities. Yet if you would know what Jt m;?n really ; n<i truly is you must study him ;is he deals courteously or discourteously with his brother man. The man who is discourteous to the man under him and servilely cringes before his superior with obsequious courtesy may be ;i great worker, a splendid result-getter, but he is not a gentleman. A true gentleman will, if compelled to dismiss a man from his presence, do it with such grace and courtesy that the sting of the dismissal is largely removed and kindly remembrances established in tho mind of the dismissed man. True courtesy gives of its substance as freely sis the sweet-scented violet gives of its odor, thinking not of return, simply conscious of doiny its duty. Courtesy opens many doors of opportunity where rough and ragged manners would stand knocking vainly demanding entrance. Courtesy is oil upon the troubled sea of life and saves many a good s.Vp of manh )od from going to pieces on the barren shores of failure and bankruptcy. Courtesy lias won more battles in the world than bullets. Courtesy uses nn ennnun tn force it? nif>!isiiva? yet courtesy wins a thousand times whore cannon and mortars w1.: once. In the hurry and rush of life wo need to think more of the graces of courtesy than we do. It would he a ' good thing if in every public school, academy and college of the land, i there might be established what 1 should be known as a chair of cour1 tesy. In this chair the truest and 1 most noble-hearted should teach boys v and girls, young men and young woy men, the value of true courtesy. I'he ' courtesy that plants a smd of selfrespect in the underling, and which 1 makes the superior feel that tie is in the presence of a man. Of a great man of the olden time it is said "his presence made bad 1 men good and good men bettor " '* Underlying this sweet influence of ' the* man's life was good, honest cour'* tesy. A courtesy that rose superior IS to till environments of hate, worry, vulgarity and trouble, jind noured ' itself in gentle libations into every ' man's heart, purifying and making (' it sweeter and cleaner because of its influence. Happy, indeed, is that man to whom courtesy is a blersed birthright. iIe shall find that his path In life is smoothed before his feet 1(j and that difficulties lie has dreaded melt, at his approach. Happy, indeed, is that man who learns courtesy in the school of life, y who turns from ungentlemanly manlH ners and habits to way of concillation and refinement. That man slmll to find friends waiting to do his bidy. ding and the wheels of purpose turning at his command. 10 Unhappy, thrice unhappy, is the n- man who goes through life without 1! the grace of courtesy, born or acIs quired, in his heart. His way shall a he the way of a saw through an s, oak hoard. He will mar, jar and il- cut, leaving behind in his trail only o- the reinein lira nee vof n hnrd tn^k master who was determined to have oo his way at nil hazards, ii, Cultivate courtesy as one of thr n- duo art* of life. She will make thy us path rich and thy ways full of picas,ss uros and peace, for courtesy rnakotl friends for everybody who holdetl her to his heart. JOHN A. JAYNR. ix10S Drowns In Swolcn Stream. ir0- News was received Monday of tin In drown In#? near Shafter, Tex., Satur of day of United States Deputy Colloc lay tor of Customs John Donaldson an In Immigration Inspector Robert Huidt tdy Tho carriage in which they wer ata crossing a swollon stream was ovei turned. RESCUED SAILORS SKV1CN SNATOI1K1) FKOM 1)10 ATI I J 1IY THK lJFK SAVEKS. Captain of Schooner l>rivt?8 His Vea- y sol on Shore Thinking Hotel LI are A\'jw Iiiiier'o Light. Long Island lifo savers, after a dx hours' battle, added another vie- t ory against the tea to their long list I >f remarkable rescues Tuesday, when hey brought safely to land the cap- | ain and crew ?seven souls in all? t rom the three-masted schooner Ar- ( ington, of Boston, which went t i - li i 11'i? n:i i'l i' T 111 v!i 1 !i v 11111 ? 11 i 11 ir iii I h . . . * ,tv m v' vm. ij . ... ntwi limn vitv. i lriving rain and fog off Long Hcai h, t >11 the South shore of Long Island. < The eighth member of the crew, i Madden l'ierson, a Swede, put off from the schooner on a raft a line, , but was swept out to sea and lost | sight of. It is believed that he per- < ished. The rescue from the schooner . was witnessed by cheering guests of the Nassau Hotel at Long lieaeh and by hundreds of cottagers. The hotel was indirectly responsible for the vessel's plight, for Capt. Ira Smith, after having lost his hearings, mistook the glimmering lights in. the l?t ?' 11 r? i n i*a for f kin 131 \ /if n 1 i ti /11* t it 111 i < i OI i IIVI u i i: IWI i Iivmv: w i ii iiii\ i tit 111 l v l ocean, and thus misled ran aground. The schooner, heavily laden with Authentic, hound from New York for Mayport, K)a . struck a sand bar. Pounded by a heavy sea while a terrific easterly gale was blowing, she began to yield immodiat dy. '1 he captain and crow climbed out on the bowsprit. The life stivers reached the scene soon after daylight. They worked frantically, but in vain trying to shoot a line to tin1 wreck. The high wind and seas made made this mpossible, but alter six futile attempts they succeeded in getting a surf boat through the breakers to the lee of the wreck ami the rescue of the imperilled sailors followed. Aside from a broken ankle sustained by the cabin boy and the snffoi'inir i n ri 111 >11 f tn r>v tins-u rn which all sustained, no one was seriously injured.' The Arlington will be a total loss. HULK'S OF TKACJHHY. Fifteen Skeletons Are Found in Fvcavation. Tn Washington fifteen skeletons lying together in such a position as to indicate hasty burial and three Knglish copper coins bearing the date 1720, found with them during the excavating for the United States Medical School Hospital near the banks of the Potomac, brings to limn, u is neneved, some Indian or piratical tragedy of early American days. As authentic history sheds no illuminating ray 011 the case, the finger of suspicion wavers in its pointing looking first toward the rem man, who stole silently along the wooded Potomac hanks a century and a half ago, then to a mythical pirate crew which is believed to have made its rendezvous in the upper Potomac, and lastly to a mutiny-infested cave trading vessel. Put the bopvj? may remain forever as silent as when they were in their grave. * SLAiM'ioi) IIKIC r.vor,. I'cnnisc lie Saul Slie Sent lliin I nNeenly Post Cards. As an expense for slapping his wife's face, William Schonck, of Cincinnati, O, said that he was the victim of "postal card mania," and that his wife had sent the cards to him. Judge Hoffman, of the Police court, dismissed t ho case and told the wife not to send her husband any more postal cards. The; husband presented several cards to the court. On one was written, "All in, down and out;" another showed a handsome young woman, with outstretchml (i I'tnu n n /I nn/lornon t h t iw? * ??t. ' ?? ui mo, (i mi 11 111 i v i n * en ii i in; )?i?ture, was printed the words, "I don't care it' he never comes hack." Another had written on if, "Come in; the water is fine." Mow it Hurt... One of the private cables received by a New York cotton dealer from Liverpool on Monday said that "the South was an anxious seller of spot cotton at present prices and that daily offerings were large." This was given as a reason why prices ! would he lower as soon as the contracts sold by the farmers were due. The fact that cotton advances in price in the face of these outstanding contracts shows how strong it is 1 If it was not for these contracts th? 1 demand for spot cotton would hi much greater, and there is no telling where the price would go. Hut thos< outstanding contracts, which man; farmers have sold, will keep buyer c off the market, unless they can bu; - cotton at a lower figure than thi sold in those contracts. They hop d in the meantime that cotton wll ). decline in price. e p- When a fellow is a regular haj seed, It sooms bound to crop out. I , TALKS HARD SLNSE gENATOIt TILLMAN SHOWS l l? 1 TAI'T'S DLSKiN ON I S. Say* Ho is Trying to Ochuiuh the I'lDpIo of (tic South With Fair j I'rtmiiws uiul Offices. S? tiiilnt Tilltnt.u spoke to nearly t hree thousand puoplo at Fountain Inn, tireonvlllo county, on Inst rhurvday His audience was comKistil largely of farmers, and gave he Senator close attention ami frojuent applause. lie seems, to be in inc health and spoke with his o!.! iitie eloi|uence and power. He rupured I tie crowd, as he usu all\ does, I kVith Ins hard sense and outspoken . ut teranees. The Senator diseussed compulsory , >d uc.ition and other live topic, or, as he put it after arriving at (Ireenville, "took a kind of general sub- ( Jeet." and said just what he felt like j saying Among other things Senator Tillman expressed his opinion on the result ot the recent dispensary ebe tion throughout the Slat** and sail that he was giud to see that the State was going "dry" and hoped that the remaining counties which now are wet would soon vote cut Lite dispensary. The State an 1 News and Courier had educated the people of the State to such a heigh*, he said, that they are now ready to vote the dispensary out in nearly all tIte counties. "Let all-dt ink water out of the same gourd." said Senator rillman "01 whiskey out of the same hottie," ami he added, laughingly. "It doesn't matter which " In speaking of the illations (f President Ta ft with Southern people. Senator Tillman said that I'r?evident Tiit't was trying to dehiiueli the people of the South with fair prom ises and oflices. lie read over to the gathering the Republican patty's platform or planks of it, and said that Taft's purpose was to seduce enough white men in the South to organize a respectable Uepubli can party, bringing the negroes in as a balance of power. Missouri and Kentucky were already in tlic doutdful column and West Virginia was gone. All that was necessary to monopolize the negro in South Carol in si was to have enough white men bought off and to register the negroes that aro capable of being registered. "Therefore," Senator Tillman said, "anything along the line of increasing the number of negroes who can read and write and who could, therefore, ho'eligible to register was the height ot folly in his judgment." If the white children conid be sent to school by st compulsory law without the colored children going also, Tillman said, he would favor such an enactment, but the 15th amendment expressly prohibits any! citizen on account of race, color, etc. The negroes would benefit by the compulsory law and the white man would have to pay the taxes for tb#' negro's education. Senator Tillman arrived in flreenville i nthe afternoon and wont immediately to the house of his niece, Mrs. Kasor, on Kuncombo street, where he spent the night. He left I early the following morning for I Richland. in the neighborhood of I Seneca, where he attended a big basI ket pienie and made an address to ! t he gat tiering t here. DOING \ GOOD WORK. j The State Laboratory t'opnlar With the Doctors. The Columbia Record says numbers o! physicians from all parts of j ?he State, are beginning to lake ad [vantage of the recently-opened state bacteriological lalmratory. I>r. F. \. (toward, the physician in charge, is kept busy making examinations. I Two hundred and fifty specimens of sputum, blood and fetal matter have been examined since the llrst of July. Two suspected eases of rallies are now undergoing treatment., and I two patients have been but recently i dismissed. Six animals have been examined for rabies. On some days Dr. Coward makes as many as I (? bacteriological examination*-, which is a hard day's work for one man. The latest addition to the laboratory apparatus is a cool biological i incubator, which lowers the temperature to 20 degrees Centrigrade. It |is used in making gelatine cultures of germs. Oelatine makes a splendid mi nit' iiit-diuin ior hut, or ' account of I lie fad that It melts at a r' low temperature, it must he kepi very cold. The germs thrive as wel at a low temporal lire as they do at f higher. The cold makes no differ once to them. Killed Near Willislon. V I M | Dan (iaiuo8 was shot ami Instant); Y killed by another negro, named Pet t or Green. near Willlston Saturda night. The men were playing, who II Green pulled out a pistol, saying, " believe I will shoot you." Gallic said, "Well shoot," lie did so, wit | deadly effect. Ft seems that it Wi> an unprovokod murder. TRAGIC AFFAIR Young Afouan Shiots a Yaung Man Who She Says rftAD RUINEO HER LFE I'ho shooting Took IMnco in tlio A^t'nCs Oiliro of tlio Out nil oY (jeorgiu Ituilroiul in Augusta, tin , \\ Iiere tin* Voting Man W as Km* ployed. I). Richard Watson, cashier in the igent's oHlce or the Central of Onr sl,i railroad, at Augusia, Ca., was shot and duiiMvously wounded at I 1:30 o Hock Wednesday l?y Miss Clvira Todd, a young v.ouian twonlynne years of age, for whom Watson is said to have foimerly had an altachment. Watson was removed t?> tho City Hospital, suffering from a wound in the left chest just below the collar bone, a flesh wound in tl*v*? throat and a broken leg between the hip and the knee, all of the wounds being intlicleJ with a 3 2-calibre revolver. In describing the tragic affair the Augusta Chronicle says tragic and thrilling as the scene enacted at the olllee of the agent of the Coniral railroad at the corner of Washington and Calhoun streets, when a (all, dark-haired and youthful looking woman, dnesod in deep black, entered the placo hurriedly. She had a handbag suspended from her waist while in her right hand wa? an umbrella. As she reached the i."tiding of tlte steps she threw down her umbrella without closing it vol c .?.red the loll. Watson workel In the first office to the right of the doer and calmly, yet wtih wondoful iWiftnoss which took all of the occupant s completely by surprise, the woman swept into the mom. V/.;;j.oii was standing behind u railing and was waiting on a customer and his face was towards the door that Miss Todd entered. The first shot went wild and likevise did the next two. L. \V. liar. oweu m iwl II \1 / C. 1. -l. - i v? <iim ii. m. v.din-ii, wii<? wore in the office with Watson, ran out through a small Kate while Walso") tried to hide behind the door of an lion safe in the office. Seeing tlio Kate thrown open, the frenzied woman took advantage of lrer chance to get on the Inside and she rushed in. While Watson was lying hehind the Iron safe door the woman wtood above him and fired three shots, all of which took effect. She tried to shoot again, hut was prevented by Detective Hall, who lioaiing the shooting and was close by ran to the place. As Miss To<M i stepped upon the ground, after being arrested by the detective, she is quoted as saying, "I did my duty. i (tin giao i nave none 11 and l woud do it all over again if TieoesBary. ' Detective Hall says that the woman had been around the Central Railroad office for several days ami that two days ago she stayed no;it tho place from r? o'clock In the ;*f~ ternoon until 8:30 at night, ituill says that on this occasion Watfeoo knew she was trying to s"0. him and he jumped out of a window am! ran home. Detective Hall says alsr* that Tuesday she was at the office and wlnm Watson jumped out of ;? window, trying to elude her she gave chase tint was unable to catch him.' *>n another occasion, according to the difoclve, Miss Todd called Watson to the window of his office and brandishing a long knife declared that she intended to have him I n,any lor and < nr <i him ... . II . III. I llll I says that tin* woman told him Watson had boon faithless, after ruining hor life and that after repeated promises had refused to marry hoi. Mi.-s Todd claims to have ruofc Watson seven years ago at an entertainment. She chlims also thai at the time she formed an attach' ment for him which has continued ever since; that she was assured by Watson time and time again that i I ho loved her and would marry hor when his financial c'lrcuras>tano<>9 would permit of it; that he had ruin ea ncr character and continued for : years to protest his devotion, yet | he would never consent to marry tier, lain' v i ?. n finally he is said to h wo I ir'ornn..t her that he lid not co.rr , to go with her longer, she was h | I 1 crazed woman ami shot hini. From his cot in the City Hospital Watsou Hated most eraphaticelf" that i ho did not ruin Miss Todd and that I 1 he hoped the public would withhold i opinion until he was completely rer i i covered when ho won hi make n l I statement for himself. j i Heat Kills Weevils. Reports from many sections of Texsas indicate that the extreme heat of the past few clays had not njured cotton in the southern portion y of the state, hut has practically exI terminated the boll weevil so that y ' the late c rop will be Improved rather n than injured. Meat has caused the I | weevil to fall off on the fcromul by s thousands. ' ,' h | ts I One-sided people seldom side with a ob?