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VOL. xX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1905- NO.8. CUT TO PIECES. Will This Gruesome Tragedy Stop Crazy College Hazing. REACHED THE MM" When They Blindfolded Little Prieson and Tied Him to the Railroad Track. Where a Special Train Cut Him into Mince Meat. "I swear by all my hopes on earth to keep this pledge with the brethren of our order. May my life be accur sed; my death be loathsome; my heart be cut cut and cast into the dust: my flesh rot from my bones; my bones crumble away-if I ever reveal any of the secrets of our beloved order or betray my brethren." This is the grim vow under the aw ful influencis of which the young uni versity student, fresh from the gen tle influence of his home, with his youthiul ideals of honor aud loyality as yet unsullied by contact with the worlds has braved the terrors of hLz ing, and face d death a hundred times. it was the vow that led Stuart Lathrop Piern-on, the f ebman of the little college of Kenyon, OIio, to sub mit, as part of his initlaiio i into the fraternity of the Delta K ;ppa Ep stlon, and withcut sign or word or murmur, to the awful ordeal L-f being tied to the railroad tracks uf the Cleveland. Akron & Ohio Railroad, there to be left until a train came along and ground to pieces. For in its effect upon the mind of an imprersionable boy this vow Is in vested with mcre Lf awful portent and more of solemnity un the oatns of the Molly Maguires, tht W itt c-ips or of the Suicide Club, pictured by Bobt. Louis Stevenson in the "New Arabian Ntghts." -Given five thousand members of the alumni of a college fraternity in possession of the st crets of this order, and not one, throughout a long l11e, shall ever betray them. Stuart Pier son, lying tound to the track on the railroad river bridge at Gamble?, hearing the distant rumple of the ap proaching train and realzing ia that supreme moment of horror the awful mistake of his fellow students that doomed him, on the very threshold of his young life, to death under the wheels was true in spirit to his fel lows. Could he, in that mcment have escaped by some miracle, his lips must have been forever sealed. Bring him back fr om the grave now and he shall not utter a word of de nunciation: Strong in the heart of hi- father himself an alnr-nus Lf the c.,llege FL-d member of the frrat rnity of the DKE -Is ithe spirit or the uoath and or rl.1, unreasonable loyality. For in f ic., ci cumulative proof. sn~fcient to con vince every other man in the country that the son was, with a c~ld-blooded cruelty worthy of the fiends, tied to the railroad tracks and left there, Mr. Pierson, hu-rying the mutilated remains of his son out of s-ght of the coroner and the police, fiercely oppos easeverybstage of investigation, blind ly insisting that "his boy" a as not, tied to the tracks, but that he fefl asleep at his post and was thus run down by the train. And of him Coro ner Scarborough and the citzens of Gambier, loyally seeklrg the whole truth of this bar-corous slaughter, have said that the hccnor of his college ls dearer to him than the life of his child. In pro - of their assertions they have produced evidence that, in the very moment that his son lay on the tracks, watching the lights of the-trainbearing down up~on him,and enduring in t-hose few moments the agoniessof a hundred deaths, he a business man of mature years, was engaged with another party of stud ents in the work of "initiating anoth er victim." But the accident c f the advent cf a special train where, according to the schedule of the initiating committee, no train s'tculd have been, has led to a gigantic revulsion of every college In the country, uch as will -put an end forever to barbarism in the prac tice of initiating c r hazing. For the whole S:ate of Ohic', aflame with anger over his wanton slaughter, demands that the students who bound and gagged Pierson, and lea him to the tracks, shall be discovered and heavily pualished. And, standing alone against the power and might of of the State, is Dr. Pierce, the presi dent of the college, declaring in the face cf all the evidence, that his pup ils are guiltless of wrong. The senti ment of the Ohio people, however, has spread over the ccuntry, for in this case the spex of boyish cruelty, has been. reached. And while one-haf the c untry watches in anger and anxiety the de velopment of the story of the death of Stuart L. Piesson, comes ev~den ce that woman has quickly adopted the lessons. The "fraternity" girls of the Evan ston High School have branded thie arms of their sisters with the sigh c f the Phi Delta Sigma, and here the story is told of how another Pierscn Muriel-who, however, is not in the remotest degree related to the victim of the Gumbier outrage-Was led blindfolded into a room. arnd there crying for mercy and half fainting' held down while the insignia of the society in Greek was burnt Into her arms with nitric acid. Then two of her comradeF, Majorle Cox and Alice Barns, suffered the same ordeal. Yet no murmer of complaint escap ed the lips of th~e brave damsels until a scream, evoked by accidental col lision of the inflhmed arm with hard substance, led to ii quairy, examina tion, and a storm which has set all Evanston raging with an agition for the prohibition of these practices. In crder to appreciate the extent to which the practice has increased in violence during the last five. yearn one must look at the circumstances of the case of Piersn. One week before bis death he hau been mada to crawl through the town of Gambler on his hands and knees while his companions beat him with stones and clubs. Deep absesses had formed on his legs so that he was un able to walk. His assailants waited until he was just able to crawl out of his bed be fore-with the consent of his father proceeding to the act of taking him to the railroad bridge, tying him to the track, and there leaving him. And, even thLugh in the first over whelming discovery of the mutilated body, as they went to the bridge to release him before the regular train came along, they succeeded, with the aid of his father, in smuggling the body to Cincinatti, the rope marks on the wrists and legs and the discov ery of the coil of rope on the bridge near the spot whese he had lain, told the Coroner and the police all that they needed to know. Paul Barber, a Z.%ta Alpha fresh man, telling in ,an sa(c:ss of anger how he, two hours before Pierson's death, had been tied to the rails in a similar way and then released, com pleted the moral proof on which every memoer of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity will be brcught before the Grand Jury. Contrast this with the "initiation" or hazing customs of years ago. In those times the acme of punishment was reached when a freshmen was made to stand on a bridge in full evening dress and a silk hat, in a heavy January snowstorm, and but ton hole every passer by with a long quotation from Aeschylus; or paradc down the High Street in the charac ter Cf a chimney sweep on Ms d sy Only in the last few years did thE spirit of ruffl nism insidiously .creep in under the cloak of the "espirit 'de corps." Stuart Pierson will not have died in vain if the enquiry which may bring several of his college mates to the criminal bir to answer a charge of homicide, leads to a return of the restraints which in other days gov erned the association of gentlemen. CAUGHT IN GEORGIA. Murphy Who Assassinated Treasur er Copes Now in Jail. The police department of Augusta believes it has spotted Murphy, who while serving a life sentence for the murder of Treasurer Copes, escaped fiom prison. According to the letter received just by the Governor from the chief of police of Augusta, he thinks D. C. Murphy, a life prisioner, who escaped from the penitentiary some years ago, is in jail at Swains burg, Ga., on the charge of horse stealing, and the Augusta ct1::er wants to know If this State desired to put a claim for him at once. Murphy killed Treasurer Copes, in Orangeburg County in 1897 and was sentenced to har g. Governor E ler be commuted this to life imprison ment, %nd shortly afterwards the min escap d. A btort time ago an interview with 3..former Penitentiary guard was pnnted, in which it was said that i4g'py had gone to the Phailippines. if the ietter of the Augusta caief of police is correct, however, Murphy is In a Georgia jil, and there is little kubt but that he will make a str~.ng ffort to keep out of the clutches of the South Carolina authorities. The case is one of the most inter esting ones of the criminal history of the State, and Murphy has no doubt Led an eventful life since his escape from the Pernitentiary here. At the time of his eseape every effort was made to recapture Murphy, but it was said he had gone to South Amer ica. Tne Augusta police who write appear to be familar with the case, and think that the Swainsburg horse thief is the real Murphy. Several men who have proven to be the wrong men have been arrested as Murphy. Flend 'Foiled. In Atlanta an unknown negro went to the home cf W. A. Hook, a well known white barber,abcut 6;30 o'clock Wednesday night and made an attack on his wife. Hook's home is located at Lakewood Heights, acme distance from the city and where the houses are not as close together as they are in town. Mrs. Hcok managed to get inside the door and slammed it In the negro's face when he put his shoulder against it and was about to break it down. The cries of Mrs. Hook and her daughter had by this time attrac ted attention, and the negro made his escape. The neighborhood was much aroused over the matter that a posse made up of cit'z ns of that sec tion secured blaodhounds and scoured the woods all night for the criminal.] The search is still going on, but up to the present time no arrest has bee made. Ball Fighters Ir i ared. A dispatch from Muexico City says the increasieg number of accidents to bull fighters in the ring is used as an argument by the local society for the prevention of cruelty to animals to urge the abolition of the sport. Par rao, the noted bull fighter, who was seriously gored about three weeks ago, is recovering from his irj juries. To. day Cocherito de Bilbao was tossed on a bulls horns and thrown into the air escaping with relatively slight injury. Cocherito recently arrived from Spain. Football does not comrmend itself tc the public as a substitute for tull fighting. A Base Slander. Dr, Erich Zoepfel-Q 2ellenstein, the German counsel at Atlanta said that he felt a great injustice had been done the South in the cablegram sent out from New York to the effect that immigrants to this section are made to work at the point of the pistol. The cablegram in question was pub lished in Germany as a warning. Dr. Z eppfel says he intends to write the emperor at once that this report is entirely unfounded, and that this section is one of the best in the en tire country for emigrants from Germany an o~thr Enreean states. Arrnenians CIay 'arcersl. It is reported that in the govern ment of E-ivan 70l0 Armeilans from a number of villages, attacked the Tar ter village of G.rs, killed 400 of the vllagers and plundered and bur r d jall ropety. A BAD FIRE. Nineteen finely Trained Horses and Other Property Burned. The Wild West Show Ruined. Fire Was Set and Several Suspects Will ba Arrested. The Augusta Chronicle says what was probably the most disastrous ifire of rEcint years occured Wednesday morning when two stables, two barns, one hundred and fifty tons of.hay and many valuable farming implements, the whole being tbe property of Mr. W. H. Buford and nineteen fine trained Texas horses, the property of Capt. C. W. Riggs, were destroyed, totaling a loss of about $28,000. The fire occured on the Edorado Farm, and is supposed to have been of ineen diary or gin. The fire was discovered Wednes day morning about 3 o'clock by no groes residing on the Eldorado Farm. When the alarm was given the two oig barns were a mass of l.mes. Wiphin a few mom nts the two ad joining stablev, in which twenty hor ses were occupying stall ignited, and before the horses could be recued the stables also were in flames. By that time Mr. Buford, the ow ner of the Eldorado Farm, Capt. Riggs, the pzoprietor of the whd west snow which is wintering on the farm together with all their employes had gathered on the scene and made sever al attempts to check the progress of the fire. Their efforts on this lines, however, proved ineffactual. Fort unatzly a wind kept the flames from reaching the residence buildings and the tents of Capt. Riggs, which were 1 but a few yards distano. Those who witnessed the fire say 1 that their experience was a horrible one. Four big buildings were blaz I Ing fiercely. In one was confned twenty horses who were being slowly burned to death. Their snorts and squeals of terror and pain brought c tears to the eyes of the spectators, who were powerless to aid them, O.e I horse escaped from the building, but f so badly burned that It will not live. t Capt. Riggs' loss will amount to absut $8,000. Tae horses were of a nusually fine breed, and besides, c were trained for circus purposes. e Many of them-the more intelligent 5 ones-held a hlgh place in his affec tions, and he fee!s their loss in other f than a pecuniary way. He himself i declares that he is heartbroken. f Mr. Buforcis loses aggregate $18.000 at the lowest estimate. The barns a and stables were the largest and pos- t sibly the best Equipped in or near the a city. Besides he lust many threshing 0 m c iines of great value, hundreds of 0 farm implement , and about one hun- 9 dred and fifty tons of hay. Tne prop- 0 erty was not insured. Those who are c in a position to know declare that a the fire was of incendiary origin. Is t was even stated tnat certain persons r were suspected of having committed e he ma licious act, and that their ar aes would shortly follow- a The Chronicle says a touching in- a cdent, and one that was a rare ex mple of the devotion that some ani- -J nas bear for their masters and mis- c resses, was witnessed Wednesday a norning by a few who had driven out c o the Ellorado Arm to view the a cene of the terrible fire, when little b iss Riggs, the daughter of Capt. C. g i. Riggs, who was the owner of the a orses, succeeded In getting "Ruby," , he onmy horse of twenty that escap d fram the flames, to rizat from the f, rcund, after many had striven in t ain to induce the burned and suffer- a ing beast to stir from the posItion in C which it had fallen. The horse's hide, where it had-not , een burneci caf completely, resembled t eather; Its eyes were burned out, and I ts head and face terribly blistered- o After escaping from the burning sta- g Die the horse nad been kd to water e ing trough beside which Is had fallen. e Several men had been endeavoring ~ for a number of hours to Induce the i, east to stand on its legs. But their y oaxmng and threats had becn in vain. r Miss Riggs approached within a few feet of tone horse which had once s >een her pet. "-Ruby," she softly called; ."Ruby, , please get up." For n moment the horse lay stilt; . hen it made one supreme effort and 't staggered to Its feet. Guided by her * voice "Ruby" walked forward a few steps on weak, shaking legs. Just s Miss Riggs patted its forehead the legs collapsed and the horse fell to the ground.< And despite the further efforts oft Wip poor-will, Capt. Riggs' Chero- 1 kee Indian associate, it refused to budge.c Peculiar Accident. A dispatch from U'nion to the State says an unusual and possibly fatal ac ident happened to a well known1 farmer living near Joneaville recently. Mr. Tnomas Wright 'sas chasing a runaway horse across a field and a bristly cocklebur flew up into his mouth an-1 was Instantly drawn down his windpipe All efforts by local phy sicians to dislodge It proved futile, and the man, suffering horrible tor ture has been taken to a l2spital in Spartanburg to be operated upon. Stand Collapsed. At Wichite, Kansas, ninety men attending the Southern Kansns Scot tish Rite convocation, were thrown into a heap by the breaking of a scaf fold on which they stood to have their pictures taken Wednesday afternoon. Many were Injured. S. H. Tnomas, commandant of the Soldier's Home at Dodge City, was among the injured, having seflred a sprained ankle. Sev enty-fiye others sustained bruises, but no one was seriously hurt. Postmaster R~oocd. Postmaster Horton of Belton will be removed to make place tor W. Caroll Brown, a brother-In-law of Senator Latimer and for several years posttfice inspector. Mr. He rton gave satisfaction and was the choice of the patrons; but District Attorney Capers recommenned the change--which will be made at once. Senator Latimer In an interview, says he did all he could tn keepn Mr. Horton in office. A GREAT NEED. The State Ought To Provide Foi Public High Schools. MR MARTIN REVIEWS 4, Work that has been Accomplished in the Western States and Urges the Passage of a Good High School Law in South Car olina. State Superintendent of Education artin is very much interested in the iubject of high schools. He has taken he =a&ter up in his forthcoming an unal report to the General Assembly Lnd he has thess interesting sugges. Jions to make on that topic. The absence of high schools makes , weak place in the educational Eys em of South Carolina. The time has ome when this want should be sup lied. One of the most pheaomenal rowths iZ any educational line is he great growth of State universities n the middle and far West. Tnis prowth is largely accounted for by the roviion on the part of the Ligiala ures of those States for high schools. Ls a rule, these State universities en oll more than three thousand stu lents. This occurs in States whose opulation does not exceed that of his State. Such uriversity growth s Impossible withcut good prepara ory and high school facilities. It is *or educational policy for a State to pond approximately a quarter of a nillion dollars on four colleges, and hen make absolutely no prcvision for ugh schools to be feeders for these olleges. The statistics from the tates above referred to show that he high school not only serves as a eeder for the university, bat that housands of boys and girls are pre ared for lIfe's duties in these high dhools. In fact, it is customary to fer two courses, one for students who xpect to go to college or to the uni ersity, and one for those who do not n this connection I wish to quote rom the reports of a few State super 2tendents, where there is provision Dr the public high school. The Hon. J. W. Olsen, of Minneso , says: "I do not hesitate to state hat in my judgmant the State is mply repaid In results for the enD ouragement thus given to this class f educational institutions. These shools, coming under the supervision f the State high Ec'iool board. must 6mply with the rules of the board, ad we employ inspeetors to see that ese rules are comp'ied with. This mults in better bLildings, *ell light 1, heated and ventilated, in good orking libraries, as well as physical ud chemical laboratories, etc. The im is to induce communities getting is aid to do more for themselves. 'his aid from the S ate enables the unty and many a small town to aintain a high school that other wise uld not afford to do so, which, in arn, draws in a vast number of its est young people for high ec'iool in ruction, who would not and could ot receive it if it were not placed Ithin their immediate vicinage." Superintendent T. 3. Kirk. of Call rnia: "Rapid strides have been sken in the interest of secondary ed cation within the past two years. The onstiution has been amended by opular vote so as to incorporate high 'hoos In the State school system, and i pursuance of such amendment the ,egislature of 190l3 enacted a law reating a fund for the benefit and pport of high schools. An ad valor c rate of one and one-half cents on ne hundred dollars of all assessed roperty in the State is annually 1ev d for the pups * * * 1 think Sis safe to say that no school law of scnt years has been more highly ap reciated than this. It has helped bruggling country high schools where ame of the very best secondary schoola york Is done. * * * The terms of his Act in reference to revenue are milar to the Act creating a fund for he benefit and support of the Univer Ity of California." The high school Idea has passed the xerimental stage, and has been orked out very fully in Wisconsin luperintendent C. P. Cary, of Wis onsin, says: "Tae sum appropriated o State aid for high schools in nine y thousand dollars. Tols Is appor loned among the high schools f the State In proportion to the mount paid out for instructions n the high schools. Each school re elves half the amcuht paid for in truction In the high school providing he $90,000 will hold out to pay them l that much, If not it is apportbin. id on that basis Superintendent W. L, Stockwell, of orth Dakota: "The law providing or a State high school board and for npection and classificatlon of higli chools is now nearly ten years old. I wish to say that in my judgment noth g has had a more decided influence ipon the whole scneme of education n this State than has this classifica ,ion inspectilon and aiding high schools. [t has had the tendency to build up rood, strong, efficient high schools it very part of our State, and I think he irnfluence of a good high school a felt thrcughout the entire commun ty in whica that high school is loca d, becau e of the fact that many of he rural school teachers are drawn !rom among the graduates of our high ~chools. The North Dakoto high school law is a very simple one. I quote the eading features: "The high school board shall receive applications from such schools for aid as hereinafter provided, which applications shall be received and acted upon in the order of their receipt. The said board shall apportion to each of said schools which shall have fully complied with the provisions of this Act, and whose applications shall have been approved oy the board, the following sums to wit Four hundred dollars each yeax to each Echocl mantainirg four years high school course and doing fou years h'gh school work: the Sum of three huLdred dollars, each school having a three years high school course and doing three years high schodl work; the sum of two hund red dollars each year to each schotl having a two years h'gh school course and d< i-g two years high school work Provided that money so appopriated to any high school shall be used to increase the etliciency of the high school: Provided further, that the total amount of the apportionment a -.d expenses under this Act shallnt t exceed ten th u and dd.a2s in each year." Scme of the States prcvide only onc high school to the c.u'ity. Same pro vide for as many as seven in one coun ty, and some provide for the organi zation of a high school in any terri tory larger than a township. Of course I should not favor State aid to any high school unless the commu-1 ty, township or county should be wil. ling to admit boys and girls free of tuttion from the county in which the school Is located. In order to encour age local effort and initiative, I think the law should provide State aid to any territory as great or greater than the township which would make a special levy for high school purposes. Thislevy need not be large. I-1 some counties which ,ould gladly take ad vantage of a law of this Ikind a half mill w, uld be amply sufficient; and I do not believe that any county wcu'd need more than one mill for this pur pose, The vigorous and successful : ff arts of several enterprising com munities in this State to raise funds to get the Presbyterian C.llege, now located at Clinton, clearly shows that such citis s and towns are ready and ripe for the building of first c'ass high schools with local and boarding patronage. As intimated already, the high school has received very great encour agement in the middle and far West. The next few years wll witness great development In this line in the South. I should like very much to see the South Carolina Legislature take the lead in developing a first class system of high schools. Georgia will soon make a move in this direction. The Georgia University has already ac cepted the offer of the general educa tion board to pay half of the salary of the offl3er who will devote half of his time to the Inspection and classifica tion of such high school work as is al ready being done in that State. Prof. Joseph S. Stewart has already visited every section of Georgia as an inspec tor of this work. He has prepared an excellent pamphlet which clearly shows the conditions and plainly re veals the need of the develcpment of a high school system. I have no dcubs the Georgia Legislature will rise to the er.Lergency. As is shown by the North Dakota law, this work can be started on a cmparatively small appropriation. A m j rity of the high schools would have a three years course of stu:ly. Under the law they get three bundred dollars aid. South Carolina gives nearly twice as much to feed, clothe and educate six. ty-eight boys with scholarships in a State Callege, as North Dakota does to encourage a system of high schools which prepares several thousat d boys and girls for college. It seems to me to be rank folly for the State to give one thousand dollars to feed and clothe one coy and give him a col lege education, when that thousand dollars might be used to encourage the establishment of a high school which would prepare a hundred boys for college in the same length of time. If you will give a boy such prepara tory abvantages as will get him ready for college. in nmne cases out of ten he will work to feed and elothe himself while In college; nor should we forget the vast amount of work along scien tific, commercial and industrial lines, which can be done in these high schools to prepare boys who dio not get to go to college for life. I know of no possible legislation that would be mbre far-reacaing with its good influances upon our educational sys tem that the enactment of a good high school low. Big Cotton Fire. At Columbus, Ga., more than 2.000 bales of cotton were destroyed, about 1,000 hales scorche d and several hun dred damaged by lire which started in grounds used j>intly by the C2en ral of Georgia railway and the At iantic Compress company Wednesday. The fire started from a spark from a ;witch engine about 12 30 that after noon and was still burning although under control at 7 o'clock that even ing. The total loss is placed at wt less than $150,004, fully insured. The cotton was in the open space rear the round house of the Central of Georgia railway and the fire, which started from some dried grass set by a locomotive spark, 4-lickly spread to the cotton. A stig gale, of wind made the work of the fire department especially dimcult, but the depart ment stoceeded in preventing the spread of the fire to between 16,000 and 17.000 bales wh c'i were on the ground near by. Terrible Aecident. A dispatch from Lancaster to The State says, while Mrs. Hinson, wife of Mr. John Hinson, of Flat ?Ock Township, was standing by the fire in her room, a few mornings ago, hold ing her baby in her arms, she sudden ly fainted and fell on tio hnirning fa gots, the child falling into the flames with her. The cries of tbe infant attracted the attention of Mr. Hin son and his drother-In law, Mr. Rich ard Saarnes, who were in another part of the house. They rushed to the rescue of tbc unfortunate woman and her child as quickly as possible, but not in time to save -them from serious, if not fatal injury. Both were most horrib~y burned, and it is extremely doubtf al that either will re cover. Je ws in Destitution. A cablegram from2 Klshineff, describ ing the misery in thatsection of Russia v.as receiven tcday by tr'e state bank here. It read: "Cokssal distress. Out side of Kishineif hundreds of vil lage Jews ruined. In the town of Kalarasch, with large conmmercial in terests, near Kishineif, 300 houses burned down, 600 familes reduced to poverty, three million roubles loss. Hlabsoutently necessary. A QUEER CRANK Dies Trying to Found an Eveless Eden in Australia. MADE HIS CONVERTS Go Entirely Naked, and Matrimony Was Prohibited and His Followers Were Restricted to a Fruit Diet. Only Had Two Recruit to His Views. By the death of Anglehardt, news of which has ju3t been received here, the world has lost its queerest crank. He was the last survivor of the little sect of naked, fruit-eating sun-wor shipers, which he established on a tropical island. He sought to regen erate mankind by starting an Eveless Elen, sans fig leaves. He and his two mic guided followers possessed the cour age of their convictions and perished rather than abandon their experi ment. Englehardt was no ordinary man. He was a nat-ive of Bavaria, a univer sity graduate, and an author of con siderable merit. He might have made something of a mark in the world If he had not sickened cf civil'zation and its ways. It is sad that the failure of a woman to reciprccate his r ff ction was the c use of it, but this is mere conjecture, and due to the fact that the fair sex was excluded from his scheme for restoring mankind to an eaxthly paradise,. He believed that where woman came, the devil was sure to follow, and he didn't intend to run any risk of getting into the same I srt of trouble that Adam d ii It was his opinion that the human race originated in the "sun blessed tropics," and only there could it ob tain a fresh start on the right track. a In 1901, he went to New Britian in t search of a suitatle place for the es- e tablishment of a community which he I fondly hoped would form the first link a in a chain of similar settlements thatre would eventually gird the earth. He * purchased the little islapd of Kaba- A kon, situated in the duke of York & group, and about 15 miles from Her- 0 ertshoe, the seat of the German ad mninitration in New Gilinea. It is t 165 acres in and egooanut trees flour- d sh there in abundance. He believed tbat living in the primitive fashion t required of those who j ined the order, q it wculd suttee to maintain 150 meo. I "I have proclaimed Kbaaog an p open fruit garden and enn grove," he a said in a letter getting fourth his w deas, "for the purpose of reclaiming a degenerate mankind to their trua g state of existence. I will settle it with , fruit-eating sunworshipers to rear great, pure, true, same men by giving its members natural canditions of life. Iwill send out as missionaries mem S ers of the sun order who have been le ried and found to bs true, natural- 2 iving men. In this way, I shall es- g ablish similar colonies round the d whole equator. Tile mnore people who i'l oin me and the greater the means S laced at my disposal, the quicker ii will these coloni::s be formed." 11i Expecting a rush of applicants, he 'y aid down very stringent rules as to I cnditions on which candidates for u arthly perfection and human regen- g ration should be taken into his island a aradise. Among them were the fol- 9 owing: s "I. Only men of noble and eg3el. I ent cbaracter will be aamitted, s "2. Each applicant mruat be recoin- a nded by tw~o respectiable credible I ersons, approved of by the leader of a he Sun 0.der. "3. A payment of @50 for such n s can a ffrd that amcnit; for less I wealthy persgjns a sum corresponding i o their means; and for the pcor sun worshippers no'thing at all." Naked man comes into the world nd naked ..e goes cut of it and nak- ~ d he shoud abide in it, according to he high priegt of the sun worship- C pers. Ee insisted that his followers should never under any circumstances wear a vestige of clothing. He held t that clothes poispned the system, and ' that b}) intergeptinlg the rays of the ~ sua "thle source of all life, of all mind 3 ad all strength," they prevented the ~ ttainment of a perfect humanity. Marriage he also regarded as aan abou C ination and strict celibacy was enjoin- I ed. Fruit which ripened In the sun was alone to be eaten. Houses were forbidden. He would tolerate nothing that interfered with living close to Nature all the time. By going around stark naked, bathing constantiv In the sun and eating nothing but fruit, he de clared his followers would even tally be able to subsist withcut food ~ or drink of any sort and gain the power of transporting themselves at will to any part~ of the world without haing to patronisge railways or steam shis. On taking possession of his Island, Englehardt stripped himgself to the btf, and armed with a palm leaf to keep off fies,. teas and mosquitoes, confidently awaited a host of regener ating recruits. A lot of folk in Gaer-i many had signified their intention of jining him when he got his paradise I started, but when it came to the I scratch all but two backed out. Some pleaded for the privilege of at least being allowed to wear skirts; others clamored for concessions in the shapei of beef steak, and some base back sliders declared they would not tackle the paradise job unless permitted to bring their best girls with them. But Englehardit was adamant to all these appeals. He would admit no one to membership in the Sun Order who was not willing to adhere to all the rules and regulations which he had laid down for its guidance, and which he faithfully observed himself. The two men who joined him on these terms were Max Duiziw, a musician, who conducted an orchestra in Berlin that bore his name, and Hleinrich Eu kens, a native of Helgeland, who had Isettled in the same city. They con signed their clothing to the sea on landing on Kibakon and settled down to a course of sun worship bnd fiult diet. But the sudden change to an equa torial climate, exposed to the fierce heat of the sun all day and sleeping on the sand at night, with no bodily nourishment but cocoanut, soon re duetd Eukens toa condition of extreme physical weakness. In that state he was smitten with malaria. In. ac cordance with the rules of the order, he took no remedies, but lay In the di rect rays of the sun and lasted for three days. Ga the fourth day he succum bed to the "hunger cure." But his fate did not weaken the faith of the other two men. Sceptics might sneer, but they felt certain that they were on the right track, and through them the human kace would untimately be regenerated. Stark naked, ard with their skins tanned to the color of leather, ;hey wondered ab:>ut the Is land at d seemed quite happy and can Dented with their primitive life and rrugal fare. The natives regarded them with superstitious reverence had set tlers who visited them occasionally Looked upon them as harmless luna. tics. At the beginning of the year Lut ow was carried out to sea in the Eethodist mission cutter, which had Irifted away owing to adverse cur. 'ents, and when the boat was recover )d some considerable time afterwards I contained the corpse of the deluded nusician. His loss was a sad blow to Englehardt, but he still refused to eave his beloved sun grove, and still ,ontinued to conform strictly to the ules which he had drawn up for the lect. He subsisted entirely on cocoa iuts. At last he was stricken with a ievere Illness. Learning of his condi ion, the German authorities sent iheir medical launch to the hland, mnd, despite his protests, insisted on onveying him to the hospital. At Englehadt's request, he was placed n such a position on the little craft hat he could gzze upon the island as t reccded in the distance. He spoke to word to any one. and by signs re ected the nourishment that was of ared him. When at length the Island anished from his sight he closed his yes in death. Terrible Typhoon. Mail advices from the Philippines how how inadequatly the devasta ton caused by the typhoon was des ribed in the cable reports last month. t is stated that at least fifteen jnericans and 200 natives lost their qes and that the damage will exceed 3.000,000 gold in the province of dbai alone. In the province of Sor Jgan, the damage is placed at $2,000, 00. In these two prcvinces eighty er cent. of the buildings were des royed. As a result of the storm ani rought of early summer only fiftuen er cent. of the usual r(c.pts from le crops will be obtained. In Sor- 1 agan all municipal buildings and shool houses, with two exceptions *re destroyed. It will be eighteen tonths before a 'iew crop of hemp 1 ill be available for market, so that Luch destitution among tIle natives I invftable. The typhoon almost C Iped oub the rice crop. Praising the SoiUth. President Samuel Spencer, of the outhern Railway, accompanied by a rge party of railroad officials atd lastern business men, were the ulests of the Manufacturers and Pro ucers' Association of Knoxville, 'enn., Wednesday night. President peneer made a short speech and other ~embers of the party made speeches a happy vein. The closing talk1 as one made by the Hon. James A. eckels, comptroller of the currency cnder President Cleveland. ,He con ratulate d the South 'n its future, nid remarked that in a few years It rould have Pennsylvania's iron and Leel industry and the looms of New agland would be moved t~o Southern tates. He maintained that such a lep would be best for all; that Neaw lagland and Pannsylvania would find ther industries as profitable, ar d bat the South world be made. even iore prosperous than she is now. 'resident Speacer's party returns to be E~t Thursday. Sues fo Wile, Will A. Lowry, a prominent young aan of Macon Ga , will file applica ion for writ of habeas corpus in the ity court tomorrow on complaint hat his wife formnerly Miss R-1th loge was being detained by her fa her, J. T. Hoge a prominent rail oad man. The application for the rrit divulges a secret which the two oung people have kept. Lowry says te and Miss Hoge were married in >atober and he puts a marriage 11 ense and the name of the cergyman ierforming the ceremony in evidence. Alleged Lynchers. A special to The Register, from lattiesburg, Miss., says that D. B. Times, R. H. Holmes1 A. T. Rowe ,nd A1.bert F. James, prcminent vhite men were today arrested on ndictmeut returned by the grand ary charging them with complicity ni the lynching of Kid George and 01 Brock, negroes. The men were Lot placed in Jail, but are held under ;uard at the Holmes residence. Jabeas corpus proceedings for their elease will be begun tomorrow, before he chancellor. Fatali Accident. A dispatch frcm Bowman to The fews and Corrier says a tree that was 4eing cut by Mr. Win. H. Rest Mon Lay afternoon of last week accidental y fell on a little son of his, imirg urm instantly. The little fellow w .s ,bcut eight 'r nine yea.s old. Tiie ather d.d not know that the boy was .nywbere around until the tree cum nenced to fall, when the poor litt'e ellow ran right under it, in trying to nake his escape. DraL much Booze. Columbia is not worrying about )ther parts of the state voting cut the iispensary, but it Is continuing to lrink dispensary whiskey in increas ng gaantities. Tfle dispensary sales, n tne city last month broze all rec rds. In profits alone the county ~ressurer last month received 38 092. 30-which Is to be equally divided be sween the county and the town. But t should not be forgotten that the air week sales, which were about louble any previous fair week, are to ~e cunterl in thisn months record. TWO HORRORS. Twelve Persons Blown to Pego es and Five Burned to Death. KNEELED IN PRAYER While Thev Roasted. Five Persons Perish in New York Tenement Fire. A Fearful Tragedy in the Bras n1 Coal Companys New Shaft at Monogohela, Pennsylvania.. A dispatch from Monongobela, Pa. says undoubtedly killed and probably blown to pieces, seven men are lying in the depths of the new shaft of the Brasnell Coal Company, on the out skirts of Bentleysville, while another outside the mine is dead, as the re sult of the gas explosion Wednesday. The Brainell Coal Company has been sinking the new shaf t since last sum mer. Two weeks ago it was. learned that a pocket of gas had been formed in the bottom of tbe mine, which Is 185 feet deep. Orders were given for all the men to work with Safety lamps and this had been done. Taree shifts of men weie employed by Con tractor and General Superintendent Buzzo. Late Wednesday Boss Farragut and bas six men, without thoaght of dan ger, stepped into the care and di eended into the mine. Taey were building a concrete water ring, or ditch, fifty feet down the shaft, in rder to catch dripping water- About live minutes af ter the men deceAded a terrifi: explosion occured which blew huge pieces of timber out of the mine, like sky rockets, as high as 150 feet in the air. The tipple and all he mine rigging were torn down ind debris scattered in heaps all vround. A shovel which lay at 'the op of the shaft was hurled with such vio'ence that it sank four Inches into a plank. It is believedsthe men were instant. y killed and fell to the bottom of the shaft. John McCatey, on the outside was killed by the falling tipple and >thers were seriously though not fata y hurt. Mine Inspector Loute gave ,t as his opinion that the explosion was caused by fire damp. But as it ould have been practically impossi ale for safety lamps in working'order ,o ignite the gas, there must have )een some kind 'of open light used. an ordinary miner's torch badly bat iered, which was found near the nouth of the shaft, tends to indicate ihat some one disobeyed orders and :rried a lighted torch into the shaft. FIVE BURNED TO DEATH. At New York at least five persons yere nturned to death in an ITimilan enement house at 221 east Seventy bird street early Wednesday. The ouse was s'x floors high and the leeping tenants on the ive upper loors were male prisioners by flame with the ground floor a roaring fur iace beneath them. Three of these rho lost their lives were keeling In >rayer when the lire reached them. The police believe that the fire was - tarted by an incendiary. It began n aheap of rubbish at the bottom of an air shaft, and spread through the nterior of a grocery store on the ~round floor. A policeman was the irst person tosesethefire, just -as It iad begun to creep up the air shaft. 3e ranlinto the building, ponding n the hall doors -all the way up to .he sixsh floor to waken the tenants. L'o;; fire followed him so swiftly that when tie reached'the top floor he was >bliged to send the oenants there ont 1o the fire escape to saye them from inffocation. ~When the fire department arrived with its ladders nearly every one on the fire escapes was kneelirg In pray sr. Adding to the pathos of the scene was the action of the men who stood with their arm~s full of personal pos essions while their wives fought un aided to proteca the children from be ing trampled by the crowd or suffy sated by smoke. Evsry one on the dre escapes was saved by the fireman. The lessee of the house told the po lice today that the "Biack Hand" so siety had recently sent him letters :lemanding $2,000. Although the de mnands dici not state what the penalty W(.uld be for refusing to pay the mon sy the polica have beguni an lnvesti gation on tine belief thiat the fire was started by the wrters of the letters. A Word to Girls. Mothers are often very ready to save their daughters trouble. No0 matter how tired the mother may be she says nothing about it. Her -deft tiands make the dainty frocks her daughters wear, her willing hands of ten iron the shirtwaists and the stocks, and even mend the gloves and sew buttors on the shoes of the young girls who go cut looking so trim and xl wer-like in their sweetness a~nd tnelr beauty. Let me tell you, girls, there may come a day when you will sadily miss all the mother love and the mother petting, when you will wish, perhaps too lat-, that you nad been more considerate and less self-absorbed. Pour Men Hung. At Carson, Nev., J. P. Sevener, Fred Roberts. Al Lindeman and T. S. Gorman were hanged Friday for the murder of Jack Welch, in Hum Dolt counity, in August, 1903. The execusion took place in the shoe shop of tine state prison. Roberts and Gormian were hanged. in the afternoon waie Sevener and Lindeman were nanged in tne forenoon. Many Idle. A dispabch from Toklo, Japan, says the numnbar cf uaiempl~yed, foi iowing the returu of the troops from the xiad, is estimated at 700,000, and is causing uneasiness In view of the industrial depression now pre vAiling, andl th.. unlikehood of a re. vival of budaess in the near future,