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WHAT DID HESPI? lilis Is the Question Being Ask ed About Prof. lien ich. PROBABLY mk SrUL Ot tbe Wife He Had Just Murdered, it thc Solemn Reply of Science Af ter a Serle? of Remarks* ble Scientific Ex periments. Adolph Bsrrlob, a gaunt, emaoiatcd maniac, was captured by the sheriff and a posse last month on tho prarie, nine miles from Col orado Springs, Gul. To the physlolan at tho (J .utily Jail, where ho was first taken, ho iramo> dlately beoame an obj -ot of Intense Interest by revealing himself as ai student of advanced phyBlcs and chem istry. Fragmentary utteratoes iudio&ted further that toe now inmate had fl d from Boston, Mass.; that ho was Prof. Adolph Beniah, and tOat he hr>d killed his own wife in tho Inter .eats of science. In a ranbling way lie has dose, lhed au experiment wita a fluorescent noreen, ultra violet rays and other apparatus, and a human soul floating away. Berrioh's statements were so re markablo that a MU rob was made o the cave in which he had b.jen lead ing a hermitti life for years, in the hope thkt something moro tangible might be found of the soul s ekh g apparatus to whloh ho refer? ed bo ct ten. The searchers found nothing rf Im* pottanoo but a very lengthy manu ?ciipt, very Illegible at times. Though the doouoient is unsigned its aumin ls in all probability Professor Berrioh, for it relftties In slightly Ics3 fr A gm: t\ t&ry form tito details of the ghast seJeutlfio experiment ou whloh th? mind of tho maniac ls foi over dwell ing. Considered alone AB ah unsubstan tiated document., the manuscript of Professor Bon ich is of little apparent value, and may bo dismlhf-od at toe irresponsible ravings of a lunatic Bu? it beoomes of tremen 1' u i importance when oousldored In cour;eo>'ion whh the experiments wtiich bav:? Just been completed by Professer Bimi r G *t?.s tho Washirgtou scientist. By the u^i of ultr i vi alee ray^ a fli >r ?scope aud other appara tts which Bn-rloh iamb llngly d'boribts over and ovjr a?gain day after day, Professor Gates cuiras to have dupi oa.ed the soul-sootog ex periment of tue mad Professe! Bio: rloh. Housed a diing rat In tin final and most buecossful test, am. detested, lt ls ddc'.ared, a shadow wbion passed over tho specially pr> pared ic:ee:i and faded a*ay as toe litt e ani bal dh d. Barr loo. asserts th?t he eaw tho soul ot his own wife lu his ex peri ment. The discovery by tue Wash lngton ? c i o iii fit indicati s that it vs as not lmposusblo for him to have done ?o. TUB AMA1ZNQ CONFK38ION. "So it bee med io UIJ t.iat what would be mus - wort h knowh g ou ihn earth wouid be woollier tbera is 01 not any hereafter. My training In tho tolences naturally pnompted mt to 80ientiflo invest Ration but for year pty results wore tb3 lutely negative. "Ten years ago I vas convinced that sob1 no hao no way of solving the sui J c.-and indeed, lt hadn't a1 that time. I left, the United Stati ti and Bpont several years In other ccu ?. tries. Into all those ri lies of t-.uper stitlon known as the black rats 1 del ted. "After seven years I fell In love In Paris and married a beautiful lui vain girl muoh younger than myst If. 1 resolved and promis- d to give up my ort %/ Ideas and live only for tin present, as all animals and most peo pie do. "We were quito happy for six months which we (?pent in Europe, Then my old desire crept b^ok upoi me. "B7ery night my wife knelt by thc bedside and prayed, At first; shs prayed out loud for lier dead parents and for herself anti for me. It v/"<> no uso io argue with her that there aro no trustworthy . vidences of a. o d and that the hereafter is a ms th in vented for slii plo minds. She ha:l to admit the strength of my arguments, offered nene in return but kept on with her prayers. "An boen as tl e prayer was ov r she dropped quickly to sb op. I ho *. ever wat? doomed to follow ont nil thc small hour?? the Chain of doubt i and blows engendered by her pr?.s er. Several lin's are pat Hally obliter ated by tho wouoer at this point, but the sense is ev.dmr. frew the remain* lug words. "Fjt.m tim1' ec oro ont I wan portia ed by an idea. A fix ft? Ides, psycho!? ogiete call lt. I rec >;r.\z dit, fCUtfbt ?gains?; lt, crit ic bed K-and tho lo sane do not erhielte tboir Ideab-so I was not insane. Yet the Idea grew upon me each night boat if I ci uki kid a human tiing in tbe right Wa.y and be all prepared 1 might sui toe human soul. "If 1 could hut catch a glimpse of the suiil as lt? ft is ?ok ..ho dead body my doubts and mis* ry woo d all bn st an end. I fell that my :ifo would bo ptaceful ever after and that I vcu d atone for the murde r by Spread!ug he truth of immortality to all tho wo ld. That would surely to worth un life. W*ary of wi at he had or dined Iii Old World travels, lids narrator of a revolting crime, turned homr-vvatd, "but b itter ba I drawn lessons fr ?OJ the legends of Vandard oked, ein. Flying Dutchman," be says "ni AhsNueiuri, tue VV&tidorlng do v, < ur sod with perpetual youth t od tvor seekini; anebx.ref dea h. Mto my sieopi. ss nlgnts tho temp tation was terrible to slay th ^ - oma who lay bri ai li ng sib inly bo- ide m . She with her prjiy. rs, was haif tin oauso of my mist rv. "At last 1 saw that I must even tually yield to my obcasion, and de termined to preparo for it> Solei c; had progressed mightily in thc eight years sinon I had relinquished it Great di civories woro mado wit ii th( wide r-vig : of il^iit rays oo Mit InvU ible side of violet From tho ll it 1 octave of light visible t ? tho eye the, run up and up like monotes of a p a ro, only to Infinitely higher pitch Wimms ? . 1 I bad ldng boon anxious to exp ?i I ment Wtvb tho .c? new ra/?. On our roturn to Boston I Qttod qut house up with many Instruments.', "M? wife, a sweob ?buv unlntellcot u?l and vila p ?won, shu vod an an? tl pat hy to my work. Sba retuned to enter my lab oratory, a xl see ned to s mvider a<? my harmless nujrosoope and I'ght bu'bs. ' Ono night my fixed iiea rose in i^s gradually acquired might and to~>k co n maud of me My wife had lust returned irorn a fashionable bail. "She complained of a torrlble head ache and aojeptvod my oflhr to relieve it. I gave her a hvpodermio o? mor phia. ' I deliberately gave her an over dose, but not a fatal one. Tue cflVots ot the drug oa:no on instantly, the headache pass d, she thanked me drowi-dly and was soon Inservible, ly lng in nor ball guwn breathing Ju av Hy, With elaborate eire I brought In my instruments from the laboratory and arranged thom. My heart b -a' as lr, never beat before. It was not ? palpitation, but a Htrong surging boa' which sent tho blood tD my brain lin sttaiior, stronger stream than utual My ?aculUos seemed except! on all: ticute, as well they might be, for '. felt that I w as the first scientist an? perbap3 Uta first) man to seo a humai aoul "At last tho instruments were ar rangerl, tested and found to be work lng pftrfcotiy. behind mo were th tubes emitting she ultra-violet light I They wero placed bebind me bromus I believed ttm^. I c mid s o tlio soul l r?'fl^e:,od light ait tb really looks, au uot a mero shadow as lt would appoa between mo a:.d the light. My fluoi esoent soroen hfrd a loon attnohmen for focusing an ?migo which I bellev was an en Lil ol y new idea. "1 ( pened a secret drawer in m recretary ant took Un re from th most deadly of all silent death, a bj poder mio syringe fl'led with ey an I ?old, two or'pi of which Inj o.ei ti t.) the veins prcduoea Instaut doatl leaving no puipl? UolciKS or traces< any klrd. "At. fl rat cu Indistinguishable Phi low seemed to be gathering Just ebo\ ci.u bo;;?, rapidly assuming tho ou lines oC r.be human form, ai d mot per foot in Un symmetry. The fea uren bor.i tho 1 koncss of the dea' ?.nd wero beautiful beyond desorl pfc loi Tho delloito, olear and oSheroa) heh floated ia tho aimo^phere with e.\< closed until tho process of natuj deemed completo, wheu Uoy cp:n and a smell mo I itellig' no-? p.v seu ovi tho face, lt il ated tt>r ugb the a . mmoont, and then, us if .muelied t some attr&otii u, move* Ilk* a vap-i ma s toward a naif open wlt.diw, pi .sed out and was gone forever in,ni a dght. ' " fbe eyes He^m^d to look to va nc, a". Insvant. The expression chao ed. Not. anger, nor r-proaob, ta ukber am z i.e.it w<;.sd jplcled on tb tilmy oeuutenauo) as it drifted out rang? of my son cn. ' For scmo. t ime I st.ODd Uko o ? trlcken dumb. Tho onormity of t crime I had committed came like ivjila? o io Upon my brain. Again a igjwin 1 ea.Iud my wi .'e's name a .>nly the coho of her walling vi answer d mo. "1 destroyed all evidence of i (?ullt and ll d from tho city of Host iway to tlie mountains of the We j Hire for two years I luve liv.d in elusion, many times .meditating ovil life, bub always hoing deals from my purple b oa.u.e I wan flrst to provo what I havo all t tim s been trying to s.ilvo: "I i di a-'di but the bev taning of li "Mv mind is wea!.' ai.J fogged 8 pyrite tots, and wv m uory both me. lam probably gol og Insane, am n> >t air- a-Hy so, "Well, KO bi io. I am gbid to parlance Insanity, to< ; lu fact;-1 1 i ir < ff death at d see what lt ls ilk (Tue strange manuscript ends tins point. T.,ore if no signature, it. ls thought there may possibly h been moro ) Hoal?tHl to 1> aili Little Alexander, the two year ?on of Mr. and Mrs. DM No who live et tim Gannie Maxwell phansgo in Greenwood, met a rr a-atli ?atun a . afternoon. Tho ll ; io v foll back v. re's Info a ca belling bot water which lind J pl nw \ on tho fl or of the r-:.m para orv to (.cooring the fl-or. v.'.-.s playing in the room and in m v.iy f il backwards In'o the rat bot water, (te WHS fearfully B3?1 but man .ged bu cxfcrloute i hr ? rom th ca ., but. bits i j tries re; d .ti death. 'J he fu . r.;l i xe? were held ni tJ.e O.tbauogo ? du .*if .. rt oon. Ti o l ural will I ?-i o-> In Charleston, thc former li 'it Mr ?nd Mr.,. N x i today. Nixon bas oh argo ol tim Orphai furn. _ Tlio fl* oe?. S.o.. ty. Tho State M (bo d ,S o'e'.y mr Co'um rda liwSb week. Tin ro Wi largo a.Lteijdaoco of m ?obors ci ucl ,.?:.jiot ii /. ere harmonious and p1 a t. The ri'gu.ar annual elect u i uhi d i.> fo ;b rn: President,! 1; VYbal?y, bf Chariest or 5 VM P dints, V/ P. Ti . merman, of E ' eld, Henry Ho lb ck, of Co?u ; M. G ia b j, (;f () ?mi < b .r ; K. .ary W !' ! 0 v.i OA, ?if S.,;v rc ni; r, O P. Al mar, of Charles V G. Ore fr, i f A k *n, ard B\ II. L'sodj of Fibienco weiro re?-bec >t)e coi 11.cl ?. l h?' <. h. rli mon Shel ko, It is no\r!y twenty years since great cart q lake which wr ugiit. b .v Cit. Ci,.u n tOU. TlV?t d s uri.: ( c >:rr d ( u I, H i Ighi ( f /-.ugii.st 1880 s nr.'. Jic il.nt tJ:o;;k last? d a forty seconds. Toe tot*! I si of \ e.vr.y fr ) n u o ?art! (in.-k.i wwi est ted Kt fl c o inion ?'ollaia and the of life attributed to tho d:stu:b includh g Ui i e who died of ix;n. ?.s wi ll a? f?r?? killed outrigho ti> falling of bulli 1, gil leached to ot ui ly a i u 'f'r. o (tenon*. A l> Oior'? A.iv.oo. A* N rf ik V i , Df. H obard RJ'.not, o( W..s i tug ton, read a rem bio paper btfote l?s Houtbeas Virginia ph>Sid's U), taking t?>t> s , >ai. i he time l ad c?,m i when (bx ihould st 'p ?tdmirdAtdrtug io b )id mi dioloo in thfdr treatmsu ii Mo m smerism and Oui-.KUI ;iioo I) . (J.ibot sa'd far h .tier luttb would bi n COD mp Kin d if ,.?iv done. Ubi papei made a m -so /rabie im >r. n '1 Wi? l>CA<!) Tl . I ni. fiVnm a thre?-stiiry lodging b . b'ift i a? d Minna streots. .San b !0>, which cn?hp od W dnc norning, mee than 76 b) les ikon ut friday. There are 60 < . ad b d Ort In 8 gilt ll1 tho I Ul US. xntdluK vas one of thoiir.stto r? on Fif h stroi t. Afc har 100 o r. w i- ki 1 d In tho Gusmcpu u Fourth aorcet. The Mystery As to These Noto rious People Revived. SKVJKB4L YEARS AGO They Cruised a Black Chapter In the History of The State of Kansas. Their Tavern and Inn was The Scene of Many Ci ucl Murders. Tho q^stlonas to what became of tho notorious Bender family has bnen revlvod, says a dh*pa*oh from Topeka, Kansas. M . SJ propio for years have believer] that tho Benders escapee from Kansas ?nd aro still living some* where. Bub Dr. James A. D* Moss, of Thayer, declares that the Bonders aro ali laid to rost In unmarked grav es near Thayer, and that ho knows tho exact sp.it. "I h ive in my possession," said he "tho names ot eight living person? who can tell tho pu bl lo, If they would, where tho Bonders aro hurled and who Inden M tied theil bod'e* he foro their burial. They cm point out Ibo graves ot that wicked family. To establish a historio f.iot ftod tir tho purpose of removing any doubt about the rn?1 ter, tho bjdle3 Bhoul 1 b i exhumed, If v rn?, ene w:M aid mo I s*i?.ll under Uko tho task.'1 TU1? BENDKNS IN KANSAS. Kansas h .s ind m my re vol ting orimos committed within her borders, tur. nono ever cqtlttlid tho Boeder od mes, oxeo ps ps ilbly tho packing of L*?w renou. Tho Benders lived on the main traveled road, about bair way between Ttiayer and Oborrj vale. That waa In tho carly 70's There woro four In the family. Old m n B ?udor an.l his ?rifo and sou and hts wife. Tho son's wife claimed to b-1. t> medium aiul hadgr<>st Influence ovrr he members of the f m?iv They s 11 refreshments and fed travolors who happened sioux about meal timo i'r.oir h ?use ha-.t two ico ns, and thc partition cmststod of a oaliop curtain. In tho carly spdng ot '73 pa plo Ix. . an suddenly te disappear arouad that soo ?don of the country. 'J hoy would start out on tho T iayer (Jiierryvale road, un i tnt would ba tho last so.m of them. They wou-d drep complete ly out; of slght. WHO T11K VICTIMS WKKE Io Maroh of that yi ar William York, >\ brother of Sona>.or Y irk, who play ed an In p maali role in tho Pomeroy senatorial scandal, started from Forr, .Sc ibti tu Independence. Ho droppod mt of Blgiit. Slimly afterward thc Bender family disappeared. Thc first ilma tiny wcro ndased vas when a neighbor iou dd a calf lied io a tree dead In the yard. Tao o alf had died Of rilarVAtlOii. Tli? pC?plo Iben u&??fiiO ourtous and biyan a.i Investigation. L'ne.y found a trap door in the house and lt. upo ?ed to a pit ab ut six foet lo diamater. Tao ground tloor wis soaked with blood. Lt smelled bf dc cayed human ll sh Ou / in the gorden u'mo sunken holes were discovered A neighbor though ho wruld dig down and see waat he could turn up. Ho soon struck a corpse. Wnen re moved it was Inden tl tied as that rf William Ynk. The Investigation c >n blnued and seven moro bodies were dug up. Tnoy vi-oro all Identified bul one.. TIK.S- identified were: George W. Langoor and daughter, Ihres months old. Langoor had 1?>KI ills wife and wan taking his Utily giri baek to Iowa to llvo. G JO? ge Bro ".ii of Oiierryvalo. William MjOrothy of Hj ard coun ty who ban left homo v. un *2,000 In cash. Ii. T. McKtrzlo of Indiana, who had o -me Wed) with a little mouoy tc loo* tc. M. R B yiocf Montgomery county and au unknown man. IN THU ?UNDICH HOUSE. lt af'.or WA vd vf as brwuguc out that ftp of ihfse per.pie wt re kill d in Mu header house as cl tf *r.-n\i '.limn, with one exception of Laug cor and hi? daughter. T cv CHU W< uld siop foi ?. meal. Ho Wv ubi be seat ed al thc f..t.bl ) with hil b '.ck near too cale curtain. Then ono of the Bat/id?/f m uld slip up and blt him cn thc bead vltll a hi;rn nor. OfUBlnng his i.ku'l ills ho ly would bi domp-d through rho trapdoor Into tho pit ad then io m iki (turo of nl*de\tha Bender woUld GU J his ihr. at fiona cj.r to rar Every victim watt tAirc.i In the mme fash ion. Theil hesta tvt ro all ern bed tn ?tod their throats out. Ia duo tim tho body would bo taken co the gat den AOd ti' cd. o April 7, 1873, the four Be nd OTK drovo away. Ta y left their team a beut a mlle from Tmyer sad took the tr<'.itt lu ila . bolot. Ar, least toat ls tho story. They have i.ev :r beei ( ..lc-. Apse wai after tbem .-.bear.- that tim.*, After Dkirmlddui, MI tu u, for a few ttays the raomher.* o? the po- ? returned to their hou ot . yb g 1 a . i icy had given up th? They dro?:p d the subject quickly. Tao whereabouts' ot Hu .> n .. rs rover wm d io bother them after that. B it other pt opie were curious and aro still curious to thl* d*V; Tho posse oe Vor peach od. But r-tfH.** th y goo rid of the Bondi rs has always bo ti Mtpicl ned by many And che fact that Dr, Do Moss, cf Pbayer, now (ff rs io tum up the bones of the Bone ors tends to confirm Hie suspicion il AO I) Nil U u. The State M (heal Socloty at its annual muetlng at Columbia last. we?k uno ni mously adopted a res lo tion nit-red by Dr. A. S. Hydride f O angeburg, c Ming upon toe next heg s'ait r: lo 6 tallish a homo fo iitCbtiAU'Q t'.t.d ViCiliis or itu; flrtlK bablt. Such an Institution ls badly ne^dedf . Mix Wi ru Killed. A special fr m U m field, W. Va., Nay;'. .lunn Wilson wa^ killi d and four iliK r mon were fatally injured by a poi mat ure r-xoloslon of dynamite at Bois IO lt ive, on the P< OMionbaa rall oud ut w u ider oonstruotlon. The nam ., of tho ?our Injured mon aro not ?tven. hw i> il) \ To .'ii ado. A spcoial to The Statesman from Bor ram, Tex.. s\vs: Tho town of Briggs, about 18 miles nortti of this , In lids o urn y, w.is sw- pt by a tornado about 5 o'clock Thursday iftO??oou and .dmoat oomplo ? ly de itroyod. Two persons aro reported lilied and 30 injured. TUKEY ?Lim. ? THEORIES ON WAYS TO ?MT RID OP THE NUISANCE Porno Foots 'Dut Will Bs of Interest Kverywhoro and to Xv^rybody, ? recent pamphlet of the agricul tural department at Washington lin p;u ts the Interesting Information that tho common house ll y may be driven out of a o mmmlty by proper sanita tion In tho stables, that liles breed al most exclu .iv. ly in stables and that ohlortdo of lime will exterminate them there. ?oting on thia theory un Asheville sotentlst has gotten started a well deUned movement thero to have every stable thoroughly treat er.' every titree d&ya under the super vision of tho health department. The Intormatlon lu that tho eggs require len days in whioh tu hatch, and that stabler OMI bo cut off as breeding places by being treated frequently. This, lt ls pointed out, will tu time wipu out typhoid fever aud et?use My sortais and ily paper to KO out of cum mission. B.HJ Weather S lotion Dtreo tor H .vier, who ku?;v/s all about these sort ot things, i-a>s that the time to ll,;ht flies ls In tho v/lnter, when the death ot ouo My roeaus ab hast a mil le. n Uii-, Mles the following summer. "The spring My cop clots not origi nate from tho e^gs," sain Mr. Bauer. "Tho Mles themselves hibernate through tho winter, ac any well ?.iel tetad p'aoo, suou as under strips of weatherboarding, or similar crevices, whare they oau got together. 1 havi found tiiem this way, o-.ked together, nearly a hundred to tue n\' raro inch, tu the Onad of winter and brought them io lifo by warming plank the) had adhered to. Nov it li calculated t:iat a female Hy v. til breed not less tuan a milaoa every thirty days, and this is kept up from tho Mrnb warm .lays lu tho spring until tho e >.d weather sals In in tho fall, whsn t hose ablo to euoapo neath go to sleep fur the winter, though tho average lifo is only thirty days lu su muer. "Tuero ls nu duubi? but that stables are tue chief breediug plab&S for liles ?.nd that If ttieae places were properly crea1 ed and often enough tim My pop ulation weultl bei.o Kioatly reduced as io almost du away with the neoejtdty for screens. Still lt ocours to ma that, a campaign against fl<e* should begin in tho fall and last through the winter." It 1B su?gostod tnat the clvio leagues of the s&ato take hold of Ute subj .;ob and Institute a vlgorou.. campatga against too Mles through tho health departments. House flies dj not bite. Their I mouths aro nut built for tearing ( ff c milks of human flesh, and they luve ;i rioadly terror of ohlorldd of lime. Hurs:s are their best frlcud*, for sia m?s are their ouitf bn:edlDg plao:s. As toon as yuu and mo and all tuc rest uf us auopu automubllcaau? Dob bin goes tu his lung sleep with thc dodo, thc Ichthyosaurus and the other extinct oreaaires, tao house My will disappear aud scroens and stloitp^per will bo no loi ger needed. Tueao, In nriof, aro the conclusions reaihed by thc argli ? lui. ral department <,.< poi I in wi loll class Mr. Btuer b longs ano ls. A very interesting pamp **b has Just been issued on tho Huh' 'tth a view to Informing tho on the best known methods .or minaiing tba ^est. "A single stable inwhloha horse Is kept," says the pimp, lot, "will supply house flits for an eXbendeo neighborhood. People living iu agri cultural communities will probably never bo rio of the post, but lu thc cities, with batter methods of dlspus ing of garbage and with the lessening ut tho number of horses oonsrqvn nt up"ii the electric streetcars, bicycles ?md automobiles, the timo may como, and before v.-ry long, when window ncreenti may bs discarded. The prompt H'M hering of horse manure would greatly abate the My nuisance.'1 Ac ceding to the estimates mado by tuc experts 200 fly papparia are frequent ly found io tho iq .aro Inch of stable manure. One female My will lay 120 eggs, which will ha; ch and como eu complete maturity wi chin ton days. BITTEN HY MAD 1KG. Thcljlttlo Four Your Old Son ol Mr li. il. Oauthon. N 'wu oo m es from Port M .tto that H/driotc Oau then, t ie 4-year-old son of Oashler ll. H Oauthen, of the Bank cf Fort M tie, waj> seriously bitten by A mad ('cg on Thurso! y evening. The )ittio lad was walking ? l\.n his mother in tno streets when the dog BU I deni y dashed upon him severely mangling tho right hand ano arm. Di*. W. W. Wolfe was imrar-dlato'y u m moued and iit:<\?r<(\ every assist ai oe possible, Communication wa> bad lmroeihiiely by long dlstauc Uh photo wilki tao Pattern Iuhtltute, iu Bal timon , where the experts w. re informed o'. Dr. Wolfe's treatment. They apptovtd of what bad b?e d no and recommended further tm a: di atc treatment. Mea while Mr. Elliott Darby ha pur.md tho m*d don into the swamp and ki?id it; Two hours after the o Mid was ViiM.cn he was on tho north b um tr tn, ace mpa dod by mother an . fafhor, en route for tho Pasteur Ins iluto, in Bil ti more The pe rt y alsu cirricd tho head of V o mad di g for examination hy tlr Pasteur experts. Io is said that thc e< g had bitten live or s-x other dugs ?im uno cat, and that thc oat died of ral)'es, Wc hipe the trip to Baltimore will bo entirely suooesnful, and that th lUtlo fellow will bo saved from tho horrors of hydrophobia. In th meantime we would advise the killing J? > vrv dog ur oat that was bitten by the dog that bit the little buy, or (.mo other children may bc bitten. Times and Dcmoorat. Terrible Acouirnt. During QfIr:^- pr&otlce in the Carib bean sea on Frlduy there was an ex plosion in the turret of tho battleship K^wsarKO Dlcutcnants Hudglnu and G reamo and iivc Railers woro Jnnant. ly klllorl and an tier seaman was fa 'ally inj ired. 'lh > acoldi nb was t. m liar tu that wide i ocourrod oi tn Missouri two VRfr ago, with about tho samo ea?ui"> j i ', lt In t.tiMrloMtoi). Charleston l\-st a\yn lt was said Wednesday that asllxht eartbquaki IbOOk v.as felt In that city lato Tues lay afternoon, thought nu dcllnlte r p'>rtsof tho oceurronoa oould be had. 3omo people olin? bed to have folk a liSl lnoti vi ora l. n J i-.t b fore dark tuesday evening bub thoshiki must lave been very slight as it seems to lave paused without any general no doo. i ixon Sccs Tmp3udiug Monaco to tho | Country iu Pollution cf Racial Lifo. Themas Dixon, Jr., author of "The Clansman," sends to Tho Columbia R-?Oord BOmo clippings from New Yoik pnpera giving various details of ' blie Spriggs ci1 o aud that of M rr. '? Oliverio Wow York. Tao first is a i negro who was reoontlv convicted of tioldlug whlto women In slavery for i Immoral purposes. The second ca^e < wao? that of a white woman w' o was < alnppod in the face on a street car hy i a negro. Slnoo that time, as press i | dispatches havo shown, Mrs. Oliver j has hoon subbvetod to ad sorts of In sulting and threatening letters writ , ken by negro men and wumon. Mr. ; Dixon's lotter ? dlows: Elltor Tlie R.cord: Permit mo to edi your attention to the enclosed clippings from this week's New York P&WC1H. The time has come for the South to boldly demand the repeal of all laws pormltiiny tho marriage of negroes to whites. Maloo and Nib ra?, ka have placed ibo twelves in line with S utb> ern sentiment oa this issuo Too incroiSb g corruption of our race In tho North by tba phys c;d cintact of more than a million ne gro^, is something appalling. The revelation ot tho Spriggs case is the foulest bloo on tho civil zillou of tliec.ntury. Too real dei all?! of? this trial v/ere never printed. T ie i-alf whimpered bsttmony of those trembling, broken girls oiusel tho Judge an i Jury tig^ln aud again to burst Into teais. This negro was bbs keeper of four prison houses into >hioh young white girls wero kidnap* rod and lund for yours In slavery for b'acic beasts to viol ibo. Ila will sirvo but eleven years for those ld le us erl ne i and will thou return ;o lils whlto wiro and his old Ufo. Beyond a doubt this systeo of secret white :.lavery io negro bestiality IN un luv.-.rsal in too gr?at N trthern cb leo Trio luoreaslng pol iu l ion of our rac ial Ufo is early flxd wht-ro lt bakings. Tire open and shameless practica of so c;al cq lallty with negroes hy some of our urea! educational lov.lors, tho pandering to negro vows, and tho dis gusting propaganda of shallow theor ists ate produoh g ihrse fruit?. A big buok n>gro is colleocor of in beru fd revenue in New Y irk. His em ploy mont of a white giri stino-rraohcr ls a. daily obj ct, lesso.i lo tits ra<:o. In Oiiioag'?, reo uily, a public recep tion wa; Iv 1 1 for negroes only who had married w.dto women. Seventy il ve of theso mei g.el families w^ro present. Tho rt flex^< notion of negro Insolence and crlu.o In the North s q uckly felt In the south, L it ora tell tho story and Inflame tho mindi of S /Uth?rn bb.ck mon. Will you nob uso your power In moulding the opinion of the nation in ilia vital issu ? Liifi you may think, as ha? bien f lohshlysaid ny my em mles, that rev >Cfk is only for personal gain, allow mo to say that ovory dollar oft'ned bj toe S utiiom Amusement company In presenting "Too Clansman" In the South hos been promptly reinvested In tb-? Northern production. Asa Southern writer and dramatist ? have given and am giving tue heat nerglea of my lifo to preservo the purity of our rare and avoid a slowly approaching hut inevitable ooo fl lot. "And I hope to have the continued inpport of my p opie South of tho MA 3on and Dixon Uno, SHIO" ely, 'I HOM AH DIXON Jit , Rink.i UIXKI fcYiV. H , Tho ?urmeio women mint make au 9 x eel lent wife. A Singaporo paper ?av? tbat her highest nmbltlon Is to na-int a:u her 1 m baud In lordly idle* ness and to supply l im with abun* laut funds for cock fighting, bullOOk eart racing and gamb lng. And m inj yf tlie Dunne.e w. mon do b'g (ba's in timber, buying up In advance the "poddy" crops of a whole (hstro, Und ?j t?n, on a ?oale that r. quire b'g tloanciiv_ ii y m? lio i t. Thursday,afternoon Q.B, Calvin : n ral mane ger of bho Sout hern P nil at San Frauolsoo, wired Suporta n ?ant l igram at b)i Angeles to Cot a special train, buy flvo osrlons if goods, and send them to San fi*ran ilsco at b looarll sb posible moment. Jalvln paid conditions in tho stricke? nty aro so apivlliiig as to bo beyond ?'.Hoi or oompieheusloa. "THERE'S A G Not the mere tem not the little he ABSOLUTE Rheumacide uric acid in tl a strong and the blood of J ural methods SWEEPS E. WSBgSESSS? Different tatest scient Cl/?1^3 Ar For IC years I Iv Rhcumcliem. 1 wo au i; : i but pot no rei of ever Hei; g well M .| RHEUMACIDE, I I havo taken two b wonderful medicine gotten a " now loas ?jjnj J| ol tho disease has be< MUS. LAU! 13< Sample bottlo and bo* A If you send live cents f THH?E MklM LYNCHED. niiasourl Mob '?'?koa tho ti?w Into Th' ir Own Uanda, At Spring ll ld, Mo., on Saturday Dight a m b of 6 ooo porsons tore down the J iii and took Huraco. Dun can and James Copi land, negroes, hanged tb em to an electric tower In the oentre of the publlo .?q iare and built a tire under the suspended men. The ne^roea. both unt?ei 2t ytarscf Fige, were In J Ul, oharged with ai>ault Ing Mabel Edmondson, a white girl, Friday night. Tho mob used telophoro pules and sledge hairme.T to tear the j ill to picots. It ls a milo from the I iii to thc square and tho mob ma^ch 3d down euri of the principal btreets, ihoutlog and dring pistols. Friday night while Miss E'mond ?ou and a vuung man named Cooper wero out ridlrg in a buggy they were ?topp.d by two negroes, who beat ? JO por loto unconsciousness and drag god Miss B ' m mdt on Int) tho woods by tho roads!Io and assaulted her. Duno??n awl Copeland were arrentct! on suspicion hub tuero was no evidence against them. Will Alien, a negro chai ged with the mordor of O. M. Lt mark last Jan uary was taken from Jill hy the mob that lyrchod Duncan and Oooolanf beforo mtdntft-hfei-?A41eu. wa&_hanged in the publlo fqiura to tho same tower that had served as a sea Hold'for tbe two negroes murdered carder in tho evening. Allen was ctlm ant colleoiod as he Jumped from the tower, up whloh oe bad beon oom* polled to ase- nd. Too ropo about his necic broke a< his we'ghi? fill on lt. and i e droppi d Into r.he pjfe contain ing the charred bodies nf his former companions In . rlson, Du004n and Copelaod, Allen was taken up thc tower again and compelled to jump. Tais time hts oaptors were more sue cessful In their ?otk. "I swear that lam not guilty of killing Rjuark," were his last words A 1) ic min )**ny. Thc Republican party has brought the country to a shocking slate of af fairs and lhere is no end to thc scan dals and exposures that .are constantly being brought to light. The keen ob server of allah's, the New York Post, which h"s always supported the Re publican party, says: "The t resent is a pe iud of havoc and upheaval. The gale of reform that rages over the land lays bare most hideous condil ions. A dollarlzcd society, insensible to all but pricking selfishness, made possi ble con option high and low. Bribe, graft, knavery, exploitation, Investi gation, disclosure, confusion, shanie, In the avenues of activity thc public ferret Is at work- rJ his is a period of iconoclasm. Idol alter idol crumbles in thc tierce gi i re of revelat ion. An agc whose mighty achievements are grounded on confidence linds itself at the apex ( f ils triumph preoccupied in revealing vast bet rayais of trust. And the bewildered soul shocked into un certainty snatclu s defporatcly after fragments of that primal faith which binds society tOgcthor, fearful le-^t thc slow fruits of an ?igelong altruism bc lo.->t to Ibis univcr al exploitai ion " This pict ure painted hy tho Post ls not overdrawn. Our people have been shocked by thc revelations cf graft that have been brought out In the dispensary Investigation. That ls not hing compared to tho stealing and rascality that is now rampant all over Lhls country, In public and private af fairs. A? halt most be called or as ti ia!.ion wo arc doomed. H-'imiui' llalli >'n Triumph. Speeches on political subjects doliv jreo in tho United States Senate are said t- bot seldom change the votes Of Senators. Thc forensic ability of Son* Itor Balley and his unanswerable ar gument that Congress lins tho power o prohibit the inferior federal courts iom issuing tem; urary injunctions gainst tho enforcement of orders of -he International Com me reo Commis* ion. proved one of tho exceptions' Senator Halo, a political opponent, icknowlodged that ho and other tte mblicans had beon convinced by Sen ior Bailey's arguments that tho pow r to lest riot the courts was inherent n Congress. No Senator of thc pies nt day has such a record to boast of, ,nd it is a personal and political ri.-mph that lifts Senator Hailey to he. pinnacle of fame as a Democratic rator, debater and Constitutional twycr. Wc ?nc glad to know that Sen iors Hailey and Til.man arc in borough accord and will pull togelh r. Wc have heard it &aid that ?Sena 01* Tillman regards Senator Hailey as he ubiusb mau Itt tim Senate? URE FOR RHEUI porary relief that the old lp that the doctor's presci AND COMPLETO CURB, does. Rheumatism is caug ie blood, lt is an internal d I vigorous internal remedy ill its germs and yet act 1 5 that it builds up the em 5 ALL P0?S0N3 S from any otEtef remedy? i?ic discoveries. At the s Rheuma TE?3 16 YEARS. O? the b Ballimore, Deo. loth, ..rt ave suffered terribly with Ul> s treated hy leading phy and ClU'C ief, Long eiuco I despaired again. But hearing of stlpatlOl decided to give it atrial? I a. ottles, and. thanks to this ?"(1 t^V i, 1 now fee) that I havo if ?g.*, o on lifo." Every vestige cn driven from my system. Rlood P RA. D, GARDNER, ?-??wv* )1 James St., Baltimore. YOUR St2S BOBBITT CHEMICAL I Wc Have I One 25 horso power Tal bott, second h ly been overhauled. Thia Pingine ii a great bargain for anyono who is in Wo aro headquarter a for anything i prompt at ontion will bo given to all i raro. Write ua when you aro in tho to get our prices before your orders cl Columbia Supply Co.. - - ? .?.?.????????????????MO?? S THE GUINARD X Manufacturera Brick. Fire Proof ? Flue linings and Drain Tile. Prc ? or millions. Til A Y MU iii HANO. Pica of the lt iwiin/:" KefUBO?I by Su V?rouio Oourt. The ofts^ of J G., Milton, Leonard and Josse Rawlings was ou Monday icctded by the Supreme crurb of tho United States agxinsb boom, tho opin ion being rendered by Justice II limes. This was avorlnalnal proceeding against the fdfir men, ail ot them members of-, eire finally residing In Lowndes county, Qa., on a charge of murd ?ring two members of a family uamck Carter, with whkh family tho Bawllngi.es had a feud. It ls charged ?hat they employed a nogro. named Mooro, to murder the entire Carter family, and that soruo of tho members of the Rawlings family aooompanied him to tho Uarbor residence on tho night of tho tragedy, lit making a noise they attracted a b >y aud his slater outside the house and then shot them down. O.her members of the family rt fused to come out and, there fore escaped. On tho trial all of the members c f the Rawlings family, whoso names aro given, except Leonard, were found guilty of murder, and he reoolvjd a sonterco of Ufo imprisonment. The Supreme court of Georgia affirmed bue verdict of the trial oourt, and the case was brought to tho federal su preme court on tho allegation of dis crimination In soleoting tho trial Jury, In that all professional men were ex cluded. The court held that thc men had not been doprlved of any consti tutional right and sustained the de clslon of the state court. A Centre Hhot. Tho Columbia Evonlng Record quotes "a leading business man" as lenouncing the attempt of tho police omml-slou to enforoa thc Sunday law. Ile says: "This town is too big for that sort of t >.lng, an t lt oan'b af ford tobe held down In this way." Phe Newberry Observer says in reply Columbia ls a pretty big town; bub lt Isn't a big as Sodom yet; and Sodom ias been hold down pretty effectively for tho past several yoars. BiK It ibo try. J. D Hand, a prominent saw mill operator of Bay Mlunott, Ala., was robbed tn Montgomery Friday night f ' eeurltles estimated to he worth $500 ooo His satchel containing tho *eou ri ties was taken from tho home of the r alflenee cf hin a'.tornay. A YOUNO g ri cannot be loo careful cf her conduct. Tho tattlers are ever ousy, and it's justas well to give them no material for conversation. You will do well to follow the advice of your mol her, even if it does seem pru dish and old-thuey. produce heads weighing four at will ii i ill wi)ito and tonde ARB YOU GOING TO PAINT? If So, Write Us, For Coler Card and Trice Lint of Ready Mixod l>AIFTS, VARNISHES, ALABASTINES, otc The Murray Drug Company, Wholesale Druggists! Columbia, B. 0. I .'remedies" gave, rlptions give; but That is what sed by an excess of isease and requires r that will cleanse through such nat? tire system. >UT >F THE BLOOD. CURED. The result of the ame time it cures tism it sweeps out lood the germs of \t blood diseases, ;s Indigestion, Con rj, Catarrh, Kidney ver Troubles, La and Contagious olsons. DRUGGIST SELLS IT. ?0., PrQP's. BALTIMORE, WP, Por Sale nod engine in stock which has reconV 3 in lirst-elass condition and will bo tho market for ouch a size ongine. n tho way of machinery supplies, and nquiries and orders entrusted to our market for anything, and bo sure sowlioro. - - Columbia. S. C. mi ?iawiieii .?.?.???.??==:???<}. , BRICK WORKS, IA, O. riera Jjtb\ BuUil u 31 >ak o< ?pared to fill ordora tor thou ands OOO! Do You Need a Doctor? If You Aro Sick You Should Gon nu KJiny tm. Expert. Do Not Allow Yourself to Be Treated by Just any Doctor, ufou can Consult tho ?outh fi Mest Export Spec ialist About Your Disoaso Freo. flavo you ri disease nl>ont wbloh you would Uko to consult ii dootor-ad^otor in whom yoa cnn piuco tho utmost oonfldonoo to give yon not only oxport, but honest advice find treat* mont? If you hnvo, sit down ?nd writ? to Dr. J. Nowtou ll.vhaway, of Atlanta, Oa,, explain just how yu i'uffor and he will give you hts oxport opinion of your caso, counsel and advise you- bused on an oxporionooof 25 years e*CfV will not chargo you ono cont for the eorvloV mid you do nul obligate yourself to Uiko treat* mont. Ur. Hathaway ia without doubt tho moat ex pert, reliable mid successful spooinlist in th* South to-day. Ho hus been oetabllshcd longer than any other specialist and luis built up a prac ice larger than that of any specialist In tho United States in his lino ot treatment. Not only is ho an oxpert, hut an honest, oom* Boientious physician. Ho ha? nlwnys oonduot*, , od his practice in an honest, upright manner an ' ^ you can consult bini with porfeot confidence J DISEASES US CURBS. 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