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WOMEN PRISONERS TORTURED GIRL TKI.1.S REVOLTING STORY OP ATLANTA STOCKADE. Wttne** Before City < ?nun 11 Add* to List of Horror* Pra<lleed on Help? less* Female Inmate*. Atlanta. Oa,. Dec. 30.?That white women were hung up on the wall of s cell room, with extended arms, as though crucified, that at least one attempt was made to whip a woman, and that prisoners were used to do work for private cltlxens were some of the things testified to today In the city council tnveetlgatlon of the city prison, known as its stockade. Charges* that the city prison, to which men and women convicted of misdemeanors and unable to pay a money tine were committed Is a filthy pldee. unworthy of holding even ani? mals, that there has been graft and that barbarous cruelties are practic? ed there have been made. The grand jurors recently Indicted Superintend? ent Vlnclng and two guards for cruelty and made public a scattering report which resulted In this in? vestigation. Ruby Galther. a country girl, who ?aid she was 19 years old, wss the star witness of the day. After the grand Jurors had described the pris? on as the dirtiest place on earth, dirtier than any pig pen," the girl was csMe*. She told hoe. she was sent to the stockade after her mother remarried because she fought with her step? brothers, and how one day she was ?frock by another woman prleoner, she struck back, and fearing to be punished, went to Superintendent Vlnclng and reported her Infraction of rules. "Mr. Vlnclng grabbed me," /she said, "and snapped a handcuff around my tight wrist. He end another guard dragged me to the wall In the* cell room and hooked my to a ring in the wall. The ring so high that I could not stand on my feet, but had to stand on my tip-toes. I told Vlnclng that I was III and suffering, but he paid no at* tentlon to me. I wae hung there for nearly an hour In agony before I fainted. I do not know how long I was hanging, but I was down and the doctor was attending to me when I recovered consciousness." g> The witness told of seeing another girl, also white, hanging by both eniets. A third girl waa hung up, but her handa were ao email that ehe ?tipped through the handcuffs. This same girl, the witness swore, was pot in the whipping machine, a big wooden chair Invented by Vlnclng. in which the victim la placed, fast owed end then turned over for the application of the laah. The lash is a heavy leather atrap with large metal rlveta atudded In .ts aurface. Th'.s girl. Pearl Ryan, waa ao ?mal' however, that she slipped through the chair and the guards gave up the attempt to beat her. The superintendent and the guards are indicted for cruelty?beating a negro. Another negro died a few days ago from blood poisoning caus? ed by shackles rusting on his legs and cutting Into the flesh. When prison? ers arrived at the stockade ahackles were riveted on over their clothing and no matter how long they were held they could not remove their clothing, Only lye soap was fur? nished the prisoners and they got no towels. The Investigation will continue to* morrow and over 100 witnesses have been summoned. WENT TO PRISON VOLUNTARILY. - Pmaon Has Abandoned Appeal and Begun to Serve Sentence. Laurena. Dec. 29.?Official papers committing young Wade / Cothran Plnson to the State Penitentiary for a term of two years were mailed to Superintendent Griffith today by Mr. John F. Bolt, clerk of Court In Laur? en* county: and thus upon his own request and of his own volution in abandoning hi* appeal to the Su? preme Court, young Plnson begins paying the penalty Imposed for the killing of Thornwell Boyce on the night of November t Of last year. Plnson Wrote to his attorneys here requesting tin- committment papers, doing this after he had already re? ported at the Penitentiary. HI* attorneys knew nothing of their client's Intention of abandon" Ina hin appeal It la now claimed that the ratth anake bits will eure lubereulosaa Long ago It was known that corn whiskey are for r it tie* ennke bite. if Dr. Eiiiot actually wanca to ben* et.t humankind, let him puldlsh a flve-fo >t shopping list KOW York ?*??_. *nmmi'< 'Hain** Cough Remedy never disappoints those who use It for obstinate coughs, soldi and Ir? ritation* the throat and tonga it stands unrivalled as a fejgaedy for all throat and lung diseases. Sohl by W. W. Slbert. LOST KSKIMO TIUBKS. A Scholar'** Account of a People Seen by White Men But Once. An account of the lost Esklm ? trtbes of the east coast of Greenland was printed recently In the Meddel eleer om Gr?nland, the organ of the Danish Ethnological Society. The author Is Dr. \V. Thalbltzer. In W23 Captain Claverlng was conducting a sledge expedition alon? the southwest side of the Island now bearing his name, which Is situated on the northeastern coast of Green? land off what Is now known as Koe lng Wilhelm Land. There his ex? pedition encountered a party of 12 Eskimos. The natives who were with Claver? lng tried to talk to the strangers and to gain their confidence, but failed in any degree to make themselves un? derstood. After the 12 had camped near Claverlng's party for three days they disappeared and no further trace of them was found. That was the first time and the last that any white many has seen tribesmen of the now extinct race of east Green? land Eskimos. Perhaps those 12 were the only surviving members of a race that has been obliterated in the swing of the centuries up in the froien lands. Ten years ago Lieut. O. Amdrup. of the Danish Navy, heading the Carlsberg expedition to east Green? wich, made an exhaustive ethnologi? cal survey of the little known Green? land coast from Ammassalik, at lat? itude 65 degrees 30 seconds, to Sa? bine Island, 74 degrees 30 seconds. The fruits of this expedition com? prised facts about the present-day Eskimos of the southermost Am? massalik district and the relics of the lost tribes who inhabited the coast over a stretch of 300 miles from the great fiord of Kangerdug suak to Cape Brewster at the en? trance to Scoresby Sound. The ethnological objects which he brought back with him lay unstud? ied until at the beginning of this year Dr. W. Thalbltr.er undertook to classify the collection brought back by Amdrup. The harpoon heads, needle cases, women's combs and children's toys represent an age in the life of the trtbes long antedating the first con? tract between the Europeans of me? diaeval Iceland and the Eskimo of the lower Greenland tip. Great anti? quity, how great the scientist cannot determine, marks the life of these peoples. "By the countless manifestations of originality in their work.' says the author, "the objects of the collection testify that this northeasterly group of Eskimos, after having been isola? ted from the rest of mankind, passed through a vigorous development of Its own. Finally, in the implements from this corner of Greenland we meet with certain features which point to a special continuity between the northern and southern culture of the coast, an ancient connection long since broken off between the Northerners and the inhabitants of the South, L e., the population of the Hermtllk and Ammassalik fiords. The highly developed culture of tlv.s Intensely isolated group occupies a position apart in the Eskimo world. "A number of the types of imple? ments, ornaments and traditions, which in their main features they have in common with all other Es? kimos, have been individual':*-?} and transformed by them in accordance with their own personal lasts and requirements, so that their culture has thereby received a stamp of its own which distinguishes It from all others. As It can not possibly have been influenced from without It :s with all Its peculiarity genuinely Es? kimo." The southerly Eskimos, who are now living and whose tribal continu? ity has been preserved, intact, pos? sess a very dim recollection of the peoples of the north coat, whose de? serted houses and ancient burying places have y'elded the only clues to their existence. It is by tradition on? ly that knowledge of these lost tribes has been preserved among the more enduring folk about the southern fiord. In their isolation the people about BoOJTSSby and Franz Joseph's fiord dwindled Into decay and dis? appeared. The scientist does not make any attempt to specify the origin of these lost northern tribes and their south? ern kinsmen. Not enough is known of the archaeology ?f the Greenland dwellers and those who ||vs on the bridge of islands between Greenland and North Alaska |o throw definite llubt on the be-in dio's of the race. ??n this BUbjsel Dr. ThalbitSSr says: "The two cultures both Inv their St it high up In the Arctic rsgioni atld MVS been SVOlvsd under the same natural conditions for assum? ing any ipsclal ri lAtlonstllp between the point Marlow (Alaska? and the Greenland trlbss or a direct immi? gration In olden tinns Of the Point Barrow Bsklmo to east Grssnland. I*urtharmors, our knowledge of the past culture of the lOskiino races whtah dwelt between these two re? mote reruns Is far too slight to war COLO WAVE IN THE SOUTH. HIT TEMPF.KATUHE WILE BE? GIN TO RISE TODAY. Wot nor is tiio coldest Ibr the South OH Record?Mercury Ganged Yes? terday from Two Degrees Above Zero at Asheville to 32 Above at El Paso, Texas?Ice in tlie Clint tahiXH'hce River. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 30.?A terrific cold wave gripped the entire South today, not even the orange belt of far Southern Florida being exempt? ed from the freezing temperature. This morning the mercury ranged from 2 degrees above zero at Ashe vllle, N. C.i to 3 2 degrees at El Paso Texas, with 20 above registered at Jacksonville, Fla., and 28 at Tampa. A few Texas points and the extreme southern portion of the Florida pe? ninsula alone escaped the freezing blast. This, according to the local weath? er bureau, was the coldest day of the coldest December the South has ever experienced. At 8 o'clock this morning the thermometer register? ed 10 degrees above in Atlanta, and for twenty days past freezing "veath er has been experienced hei The long duration of cold has prevailed over thfe greater portion of the South, and there has been much suffering among the poor people, especially the negroes in cities, where coal is used as fuel. At Birmingham, Ala., where the minimum was 12 degrees above zero this morning, two negroes were frozen to death, and near De catur, Ala., with the thermometer hovering around 5 above zero, a family of six were rescued alive with one of the children expected to die as a result of exposure to the cold. For the first time since 1886 there was ice today in the Catahoochee River at Atlanta, similar conditions prevailing in the rivers of Tennessee, North Alabama and the western part of North Carolina. While it is believed that no seri? ous damage has been done the Flori? da orange crop, Fernandlna reports that oranges were frozen in that section, and from other parts of Florida come reports that fires in the groves were resorted to last night to protect the trees. Cotton planters of the far South" west hail with delight the severe cold, believing that millions of the boll weevil have been destroyed and a further spread of this insect to new territory retarded. Freezing temperatures will con? tinue tonight over most of the South? ern States, according to the local frecaster, followed by warmer weath? er tomorrow. The present cold has been accom? panied by little snow in the South, and yesterday and today there was practically no rainfall reported from any of the Southern States. The wind, however, has been strong. THE PELLAGRA GERM. Has Been Isolated by North Carolina Physicians. Durham, N. C, Dec. 30?Through inoculation of guinea pigs, which in turn infected other pigs, the pella? gra germ has been isolated by two physicians. The pigs, poisoned with serum transmitted from other pigs, died. A direct transmission to pigs of a germ from a patient afflicted with pellagra will be watched in hopes of determining the cause of the plague. SAVE THE FUEL BILL. Supervisor Miles Orders Heating Plant be Closed. In order to save the fuel bill of the county, Supervisor D. M. Miles has Issued orders not to fire up the heating plant and the officials have to depend entirely upon grate fires to keep warm. The furnace at the court house eats up coal like a fur? nace In a steamship, and the super? visor decided not to use the furnace except when court is in session.? Spartanburg Journal. Fire in La mar. Lamar, Dec. 30.?Fire at 4.30 this morning destroyed the McSween IferoantUi company's store, with its contents, and wrecked tin? building owned by the Hank of Lamar. Toe McSween company loss is about $36, 000, with 120,.) insurance, while the loss t>> the Bank of 1 .a mar is about 12*500, partly covered by In BUrs nee. rant sued) an assumption. "Ther ? exists no connected ac? count of the material OUlture of thl great group Of ESsklmoi dwelling at about the same latitude around the mouth of ths Mackensle river, still more meager is our knowledge of that extinct ECsklmo culture of whi< h the sole witnesses IN the ruins in the islands in the north Canadian archipelago; these islands form th< most northerly bridge between tin; western Eskimo and Greenland." COLI) WAVE PASSING. Rising Pressure Area is Moving East? ward PrOtn MlTtlllppj Valley Rriv ing Jack Fiott Boforo it Washington, Dec. 30.?The ex? treme cold which has been sweeping over the eastern portion of the coun? try from the tip of Maine to the keys of Florida is being dissipat?c before a rising pressure area that is moving rapidly eastward from the M'ssissippi Valley? The first modera' tion will be evidenced tomorrow morning in the Plain States and the temperature will rise as the areE moves towards the Atlantic. Great concern wag felt in Florida for fear that, the fruit farms migh suffer another destructive freeze such as the one of 1895 when the mercury dropped to five below zero but the lowest temperature recorded at Tampa was 28 degrees above. The temperature reported at Norfolk to? day was the lowest recorded there since 1904 and all through the South, reports of intense cold poured in. NO CHARGE FOR MEALS. Guests May Eat All They Want and Pay Whatever They Want to. The United Society of Practical Christianity, founded in Kansas Clt> 20 years ago by Charles Flllmore, and which has grown in membership until now there are branch societies throughout the world, maintains ai Its headquarters here a unique hotel. So popular has this hostelry become that it is planned to double its ca? pacity. Vegetarian Inn, as the place is known, serves no meats of any kind, nor any butter and cream. Persons used to meat come to test the diet and remain as boarders. All seem satisfied and many grow fleshy. For three years a diet of delicious artificial meats has been faithfully followed by the boarders. There is no charge for meals. Any one who wishes may eat and leave In a dish on the table the amount he consid? ers the meal worth. CORPORATIONS' INCOME. International Revenue Officer An? swers Inquiries on the Subject. Washington Dec. 31.?"Where a corporation through Its books or otherwise can ascertain its income sufficiently for the officers to make oath to the return as true, this will be regarded as equivalent to an in? ventory and a physical Inventory need not be taken. "It is relied, however, that in the casea of many corporations the in? come for the calendar year can not be ascertained wthout taking a phy? sical inventory at the end of the cal? endar year, and the law being ex? plicit both as to the period and the income, where such Income can not be ascertained without a physical inventory, this will have to be ta? ken." This is the veiw expressed by the internal revenue office In response to Inquiries from corporations who are finding themselves embarrassed In making returns In cases where their fiscal year is not Identical with the calendar year. It is especially important to those concerns where the question of tak? ing o# a physical Inventory of mer? chandise, supplies or other materials is at stake. The law provides expli city that the returns on which the one per cent, tax is to be paid arc to be made as of the end of the cal? endar year. The rulling made by the office, it is said, is to apply only to the returns from the current year. Sumter should have another rail? road before the end of 1910, and the way is open to the attainment of this greatly to be desired trade outlet, if the people of the community will but work together and be public spirited in deed as well as in words. The semi-annual clearance sale of the D. J. Chandler Clothing Com? pany began Saturday. The sale in? cludes all suits, overcoats and trou? sers, and the sale price will be actual c??st, as usual. Those who nerd clothing will obtain bargains at Chandler'a during this sale. I.t-t us hope that Alderman Ligon, chairman of the police committee, by virtue of tie- authority granted him by City Council, will be able to put ;| twist in tin- tails of the blind tigere. The man who will deny that whlakey is being Bold in Sumter by numerous and sundry persons, is willfully ignoring a generally ad? mitted fart. Mr. Ligon cannot re? sort to too severe measures to phase the law abiding and law reapectlng citizens of Sumter, it is Impoaalble yto make a prohibitory law absolutely eff< ctlve, but the open and flagrant violations of tin." law can be Sup? pressed, and the city authorities owe it to the good nanu- of the city to spare no expense to make tin- blind tigers keep under cover. DEMAND FOR COTTON. KEPT UP COTTON PRICES DES? PITE PROFIT TAKING. General l ist Cloeed Throe Point* Higher to Six Points Dowcr--South ern News Bullish. New York. Dec. 31.?The cotton market was comparatively quiet to? day and after the first hour business was chiefly local, but while specula? tive longs appeared to be taking profits over the holiday tomorow and the week end there was demand from spot people which sustained prices, with January contracts making a new high record for the season and with the general list closing steadi? ly net 3 points higher to 6 points lower. The market opened steady at * decline of 1 point to an advance of 4 points, near positions being a shade lower under January notices and disappointing cables, while the spring months were higher on cov? ering. It was estimated that notices representing about 25,000 bales of cotton were issued against January contracts and during the first half hour there was considerable selling of later months by commission men who were evidently liquidating long cotton for over two days' adjourn? ment. Prices eased off to a net de? cline of about 4 to 6 points in con? sequence, but as soon as the offer? ings of long cotton diminished, and It was seen that notices were being stopped, in some cases by the same people who had issued them, the market developed a firmer tone on covering by local shorts and a con? tinued demand from spot people and foreign houses. The spot people were supposed to be covering cotton "called" by mills, while the foreign houses were assumed to be buying In the short end of straddles, and It was believed that the chief support received by the market during the day came from these sources; as at no time was there evidence of ag? gressive buying by the bull leaders. The market sold up to 15.88 for Jan? uary and to 16.42 for May, during the afternoon, but eased off from the best in the late trading under realiz? ing, with January closing at 15.80 and May at 16.37. Southern spot news continued very bullish, while the week-end figures made a strong showing with the visi? ble supply for American increasing only 14,000 bales for the week, against an increase of over 140,000 bales Last year. Receipts at the ports today 26,527 bales against 39,404 last week, and 20,845 last year . For the week 175, 000 bales, against 223,582 last week, and 286,777 last year. Today's re? ceipts at New Orleans 4,508 bales against 2,4 68 last year, and at Hous? ton 1,941 bales against 6,6 53 last year. Cotton spot closed quiet, 5 points lower; middling uplands 16.10 mid? dling gulf 16.36; sales 3.36; sales 3. 935 bales. Futures opened staedy and closed steady. It is reported on what appears to be reliable authority that Kress & Co., of New York, will begin work on their building at the corner of South Main and Caldwell streets within the next thirty days. The same authority states that the plans are for a two story and basement building, 72 x 125 feet. The mater? ial to be used is reinforced concrete. Pneumonia Follows a Cold, ?but never follows the use of Foley's Honey and Tar, which stops the cough, heals the lungs and expels the cold from your system. Take at first sign of a cold and avoid a dan? gerous illness. Sibert's Drug Store. At any rate Speaker Cannon's at? titude makes it tolerably clear that where the insurgents are concerned he is in no danger of a rear-end col? lision.?Providence Evening Tri? bune. Rev. I. W. Williams Testifies. ?Rev. I. \V. Williams. Huntington? W Va.. writes us as follows: "This Is to certify that I used Foley's Kid? ney Remedy for nervous exhaustion and kidney trouble and am free to ?ay that Foley's Kidney Remedy will do all that you claim for it." Sibert's Drug Store. Foley's Honey and Tair Will cure a cough or cold no matter how severe and prevent pneumonia and consumption. A Guarantee. This is to certify that all druggists are authorized to re? fund your money if Foley's Honey and Tar fails to cure your cough or cold. Contains ! no opiates. The genuine is in a yellow package. REFUSE SUBSTITUTE* i SIEBERTS DRUG STORE. The Mailt After Christina?*, (With Apologies.) TWII the nicht after Chriamaa and all through the house Pandemonium broke loose?no room for a mouse. Many pekets were empty; the man? tle was hare; i Nick had skedaddled?nobody knew where 'he children didn't hanker for heir snug little beds, or sugar plums were dancing and not in their heads. The din of tin horns, the rattle of wheeis he thump of the drum, the crack? er's loud peals; They bring to the sufferer but one consolation: year must elapse ere another vis? itation. Who could settle his brain for any kind of nap, With the children all crazed by this meddlesome Chapl! We welcome the clatter of his rein? deer's hoof ut it's the clatter that carries him away from our roof. Away, St. Nicholas! Away to your pole! Take Cook and Peary with you and crawl in your hole. -7 Amusement was created at the treasury department recently by the receipt of a letter from a French awyer, at Pau, France, inclosing a 500 Confederate bond and a $10i Confederate bill, asking that they be redeemed, as they are "assets" of an estate he is settling. The bond and bill will be returned to the ?ender. with the Information that the Civil war is over, and, anyhow, the bond and bill are decidedly worthiest*. *F<">r indigestion and all stomach troubles take Foley's Orlno Laxative. It Is the natural remedy for Indiges? tion, dyspepsia, heartburn, bad . breath, sick headache, torpid liver, biliousness and habitual constipa? tion. Foley's Orino Laxative sweet? ens the stomach and breath, and tones up the entire alimentary sys? tem. Sibert's Drug Store. There is a stronger demand for the repeal of the lien law now than ever before, and we look for the leg? islature to wipe out the mortgage clause, which if done practically de? stroys the crop advancing business, and puts the credit system in the hands of the banks and other money lenders.?Manning Times. Making Life Safer. Everywhere life is being made more safe through the work of Dr. King's New Life Pills in Constipation. Bil? iousness, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Liv? er troubles, Kidney Diseases; and Bowel Disorders. They're eaf-.y, but sure, and perfectly build up the health. 25c at Sibert's Drug Store. The Presidential definition of "whiskey" is simply the old-ftshion ed "splrltus frumentl" of the pres? criptions, and its common-sense ac? curacy is beyond dispute. Of course, there is whiskey and whiskey, but it Is all whiskey.?New York Tribune* Simple Remedy for LaGrippe. ?LaGrippe coughs are dangerous, as they frequently develop into pneu* monia. Foley's Honey and Tar not only stops the cough, but heals and strengthens the lungs so that no se? rious results need be feared. The genuine Foley's Honey and Tar con? tains no harmful drugs and is in a yellow package. Sibert's Drug Store. KILLTHE& 3UGH andCUREukLUNGS] iltflMG'S COUCHS CJ5 bo*a*t.oo >0LE*? I' TRIAL60TT1IPRC! AMAIUHROATAND LUNG TROUBLES GUAGANreeo satisfactory OR MONEY REFUNOE?. PATENTS PROCURED AND DEFENDED. 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