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BEHNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1908
As a Lecturer and Makes Fifty
Thousand a Year.
CROWDS HEAR HIM.
He Won't Sponk on Sundays or for
tho Benefit of I div ld na lu, and ls
Most -Llhorn! in IUJ Treatment of
- Local Manngomcnt?. Ile Altray?
Make? His Own Terms Willi Leo
ture Ilurenns?
W. E. Curtis writes in The Chica
go Record-Herald: According to the
report of his agents, William Jen
K'ngs Bryan is making about $50,000
year from his lectures. Charles L.
agner, secretary of the Slayton
Lyceum Bureau, which manages his
lecture tours, tells me that he has
filled 175 dates during the year 1907
and that his receipts for the season
have averaged more than $300 for
each appearance. Mr. Bryan stands
at the head of the list of platform
speakers today for tho size of his
-Rtldie.nce, for the receipts at the box
office and for the demands for his
appearance.
"Mr. Bryan's regular charge at
Chautauquas," said Mr. Wagner,
"is the first $250 taken at the gate
and half of all the receipts over $500,
not including season tickets. He is
the july mun who can make such a
liberal contract. For evening lec
tures in a course he charges $200
cash as a guarantee and half of all
the receipts at the door. For single
evening lectures not in a regular
course he asks half the gross re
ceipts.
MH:s average for the season under
these terms has been more than $800
a lecture, and he has probably filled
175 dates under our management
without including his political speech
es. He started out on the 0th of Jan
uary last and y poke almost every day
until September 10, frequently twice
.teiif day, and once during the summer
^nrqe times, morning, afternoon and
ovoriihg, jn three different towns in
Iowa. In addition to these he has
made a large number of political
speeches during the year; he has
spoken at conventions, banquets,
college commencements, Y. M. C. A.
and church meetings, and on other
occasions without a fee, of which I
have kept no record.
"Mr. Bryan uses a special form of
contract prepared by hirnse!?, which
A ?cv-- . :~ t *\.^v
of all other lecturers. The chief fea
tures of his contracts are the stipu
lation that the general admission to
Ins lectures shall not exceed fifty
cents; that he will not lecture under
individual management or where the
profits go to individuals. The con
tract reads: 'It is further expressive
ly understood and agreed that this
engagement is given under the aus
nicesof some church, lecture course,
literary, educational, fraternal or
charitable institu? ion, and all profita
realized from this lecture shall be
used for the benefit of said auspices
under which said lecture is given. It
is further understood that should
this lecture be given under the aus
pices of. a lecture course there shall
be not less than two other lectures
advertised to appear on said course
of entertainment.'
"Mr. Bryan never spoke for mon
ey on Sunday except at Chautauquns
where an admission fee is charged.
He prefers to speak to free audienc
es on that day and nearly every Sun
day during thc last summer he spoke
at least once, and usually twice, for
some church, some V. M. C. A., or
some college. He always likes to
visit small colleges and help them. I
do not know what lu; charges for po
litical speeches or what arrange
ments he makes. 1 have never had
anything to do with them.
"We advertise three lectures for
Wm "rho Prince of Peace' he likes
the best himself, and it is the most
popular with the people. It. is a eu
logy of Jesus Christ and His teach
ings, and his description of tho cru
cinction is one of tho most eloquent
word-paintings ever heard by human
ears. He bas delivered that lecture
at least 60Q times and never varies a
word in .delivery. His memory is so
accurate that ho never makes a nus
?ok?. "The Value of an Ideal'is an
older lecture, and although it is not
delivered so often the.se days it. hat
probably been heard quite as many
times as the other. ' rho Old World
and its Ways' is hts new lecture and
is I be result of Iii:- recent lour around
the world. He delivered that at
ninny Chaut ampias last summer and
probably 150 times altogether dur
ing the past year.
"The greatest indoor audience
Mr. Bryan ever had was at Seattle
last .January, where he delivered
' The Prince ol* l^ace' to about 8,
000 people, and his receipts were
over $2,000. The greatest audience
he ever addressed at a Chautauqua
was a Carthage. Mo., where 12,000
people gathered to hear him.
"He closed his tour for 1907 on the
lOLb of September with the excep
tion of a few political engagements
In tho Sou h. I wanted him to give
me one lecture in Chicago, but he.
declined because il would OJ a viola
tion of his rule not to speak for the
profit of individu?is."
"Did Mr. Bryan deliver any lec
tures abroad."'
"When he st ar led on his tour
around tho world he asked me to
have our London representative ar
range a few dates for him in Eng
land. The lat 1er replied be feared
it v.'ouK' be impossible, He explain
ed that Mr. Bryan was not popular
in England and he did not think the
public wot.ld pay to hear him speak.
The British people did not take any
interest in American politics and did
not hi ;e much respect for American
politicians, while Mir. Bryan person
ally was practically known in Eng
land because of ma sympathy for thc
Boers during thc> South African war.
The writer closes his letter by say
I DIRE CALAMITY
Predicted by a So-called Proph
et In Pennslyvania.
Slay* th? World Wi? Coin* tV an
lin? in tk? Latter Part ?f Deoeiu
hov Next.
A York, Pu., prophet, at least one
who claims to be a prophet and
whose prophecies have attracted the
attention of people who care for
that sort of thing, has issued his
1908 bulletin. It is his habit and
his livlihood, of course, but this one
is more startling than some of those
.previously issued. The following is
his last bulletin:
The end of the world. Tho end of
this world will come to an end in
winter, in the end of the month of
December on a Sunday, in tho year
1908. Heaven and earth will pass
away. Nineteen hundred and eight
will be a year of trouble, such as
was never known before, Nation
shall rise against nation. Kingdom
shall rise against kingdom, There
shall be famines and pestilences and
earthquakes.
Rivers will dry up.
The fish of the sea will die.
The sea will boil up with a great
noise.
The cities of the nation will fall.
Mountains will not be found.
Islands will pass away.
The city of Boston will sink.
New York will go up in smoke.
People will flee to the mountains.
The land will dry up to got ready
for fire.
The crops will fail and prosperity
will be cut oft'.
The banks will keep on failing.
This can not be stopped.
Roosevelt will get rid of all his
money.
The treasury will go dry.
People will carry their money in
their pockets and hide it in their
homes.
Families will steal it from one an
other. This is the gold that ia piled
up for the last days. This gold will
rust in your pockets, lt will give
you more trouble than good.
Labor organizations will come un
der one head and rule the land.
There will be great wrath among
the people. Hatred, killing one an
other, hanging themselves and child
ren will rise against their parents:
two against three, and three against
two; mother-in-law against daughter
in-law. All plagues that ai\e?writ
ten in thc Bible will be brought
j?.,* kt_. . .
The land be full of lice, frogs,
and crickets and locusts. Whoso
ever be stung of the locust will die.
There will be signs in tba sun, in
the moon and in the stars. In the
end of time the sun will be black,
and the land will be in distress. The
moon will be us blood, the stars will
fall and the heavons will be
shaken. This coming summer and
fall the elect, the saints, will be
gathered together. ''For unto Je
sus shall the gathering be."
Tho bride is getting ready to meet
Jesus, the bridegroom, and we will
be changed in the|twinkling of an eye
and meet the Lord in the air.
ing that he did not think Mr. Bryan
would draw three shillings in Lon
don. I sent this letter to Mr. Bryan
and he read it at Franklin, Ohio, im
mediately after the lecture that
brought him the largest receipts of
that summer. It appealed to his
sense of honor and he replied that it
came just in time to keep him from
getting 'chesty. He said that he in
tended te frame it as a reminder. A
month later, while he was in our of
fice in Chicago, I handed him a let
ter from our agent in London stat
ine that he had an offer of five
pounds for one lecture from Bryan
in that city and asked me to cable the
reply. Mr. Bryan read thc letter and
then remarked. 'That isn't a bad in
crease; he has raised the quotations
for my lectures from three shillings
to five pounds in three weeks. Just
watch the market and when the bids
reach a reasonable figure take a few
dates.'
"Mr. Bryan did not lecture in Lon?
don for money," said Mr. Wagner.
He spoke for the American .Society
on the Fourth of Jv ;/ und at the in
ternational peace congress, where he
made a great sensation.
"Mr. Bryan has a standing ofter
from Winnipeg for two nights for I
.SI,OOO a night. The managers of the j
lecture course there explained that
they could not accommodate all who
want to hear him at a single lecture,
and insist that he shall give them two
nights, but he has not accepted. We
have on file more than twelve bun
dred applications for the present
Winter and for next summer, but
have been compelled to refuse them
because Mr. Bryan bas decided not
to appear upon the lecture platform
again until after the Presiden tia!
campaign. Ile could get an engage
ment for every night, in tho year on
bis regular terms of $200 a night and
half the gate; money. Ile is in great
er demand than ever, and I think his
popularity has increased instead of
diminished, judging from the anxie
ty of the lecture managers through
out thc United States to secure bim.
We have been acting as his agent for
four years and have booked bim for
an average of 150 lectures a year
during that time. He has never al
lowed us to book him in Nebraska.
He hits never lectured for money in
that State and has declined to do so
repeatedly. In his settlements with
committees he has been more gener
ous and considerate than any lectur
er I have ever handled. If his audi
ence is kent away by rain or by any
accident ne never insists upon his
full price. He always gives the man
agers the benefit of all doubts. Ile
bas never had a dispute ol' any sort,
although I have known on several
occasions when he has been very bad
ly treated. Nor will he allow us to
engage in a dispute over receipts and
settlements on his account."
WILL RIDE CHEAPER.
The Southern Railway Will Reduce
its. passenger Rates. ,
Makes This' CohcVseJon of "?t? Onu
Volition and in Appr?ci?t iou ol'
Vi?' >>??i.
fiend Carolina's Kindness.
South Carolina/will trot tho bene
fit, so far as the Southern Railway is
concerned, of the reduction in rates
made by Legislative enactment in
other States of the South, but with
out the turmoil of Legislative .agita
tion and without theexpetiso of pro
longed litigation.
The Colombia correspondent of the
News and Courier says President W,
W. Finley, of the Southern Railway, j
at a conference in the Governor's of- '
fice Friday stated that on April 1, ?
1908, the Southern Railway would 1
put into effect.ittrSouth Carolina-the
following rates. ' ,
... For straight tickets, 2 .1-2 cents i
per mile. <
For family mileagO books, 2 1-4
cents per mile. 1
For 1,000-mile and 2,000-mile mile- i
age books, 2 cents per mile. <
The conference was attended by i
Governor Ansel, Attorney Genoral ?
Lyon, Chairman Caughman, of the i
railroad commission, and Cominis- :
sioners Sullivan and Earle on the part I
of the State, and by President Finley, (
Vice President Culp. General Coun- 1
sel Thom and Division Counsel Ab- 1
ney on the part of the Southern Rail
way. The conference was held in the i
office of the Governor and was open, I
being attended by thc newspaper i
men. <
Mr. Finley, in a conversational I
way, put the proposition of the c
Southern before the Governor,, ex- i
plaining as he went along the' rea- t
sons for the. different rates and the c
reasons -governing tho railroad in t
making this proposition. He ex- I
plained- that the Southern on ac- c
count of the fairness with which c
South Carolina had treated the rail
roads had a disposition to give the i
State x the benefit of the reduced t
rates; and consequently the South- \
ern intends, without compulsion, to I
put into effect the rates which it f
has proposed as a compromise in t
North Carolina,; Georgia and Ala- i
bama. He felt assured that the %
agreement entered into would be I
made elVective in these States, and \
perhaps in Virginia also. The same (
treatment- promised South Carolina c
would t5o given'Tennessee? which i
has . ' en liberal in the matter of t
*rfljj?????v?t . .. - . ; ?
The 2 b 2 cents rate win -Tippiy "ix>
all Inter-State passenger business 1
on straight fares. Tho 2 l-l cents >
rate for family mileage books, which <.
contain the name of the head of the i
family will cover books for 500 miles. 1
entailing a minimum expenditure of i
$11.25 . . I
.The 2-cent rate for mileage books \
of 1,000 and 2,000 miles relates to 1
individual mileage books and also to \
what are termed mercantile books, <
good for members of a firm or bus- ? I
?ness concern up to five individuals,
the names of each of whom shall I
appear in the book. 1
VETERAN OPERATOR DEAD \
Joseph AV. Kates, Who Served <hr
Con federn ey Well. \ ~ '
. 1
A dispatch from Richmond, Va., <
says Joseph W. Kates, for many 1
years tho most prominent telegraph \
operator in'Virginia and perhaps' in
the entire South, passed away Thurs- i
day night at' Manchester. Ho.was ai \
ono time superintendent; of the South? '
ern district of the Western Union j
company at Richmond and later gen- '
eral superintendent, of the Postal 1
Telegraph-Cable company,, with 1
headquarters in this eily.
Mr. Kates was in charge of the of
fice at Ma?assas, Va.,' during tin4
bat tles of BlacKburn'.s Ford and Mam ?
assas and for several weeks did the ?
work of the office by himself, lt was 1
he that transmitted the famous mes- '<
sage from President Jefferson Davis
to Gen. Joseph LC. Johnston at Win
chester, ordering thal officer lo make
a junction with Gen. Beauregard at
Manassas.
In the fall of 1801 he was again
transferred to Richmond and in tho
spring of 18G2 to Columbus, Ky.,
where he was operator at the head
quarters of Gens. Polk and Beaure
gard.. ; -__
LAIM) lt THOU U LM?.
St H kehrt Ak em Sinned and Itojtto? In
M inicie.
Rioting occurred on the streets of
Muncie, Ind., between striking em
ployes of the Indiana Union Traction
company and st rikobt akers. Shots
were fired and stones and other miss
ies were I brown.
Nine persons were injured, those
hurt the most seriously being Morris
Maley, who received a bullet wound
in the groin, and Marry Gardner,
who was badly beaten. Others were
hit with stones.
Cars were started Friday without
; interruption, each protected by from
seven to nine strikebreakers. A crowd
soon gathered at. tue interruption
stat ion and in 30 minutes 2,000 per
sons surrounded tho building. Cars
were stoned as they started out.
At other uart.; of the city ears
were stopped and the strikebreakers
were driven off. Two cars collided
on account of the inexperience of
i the motormen and several people had
j narrow escape.-..
l-'onr Persons Murdered,
A report has reached the coroner
af Pittsburg, Pa,, that four mem
bers of a family living al Grays Mills
near there, have been found mur
dered. No details accompanied thc
i report. The corontr has started an
I investigation.
>
THE L?EN LAW
And the Negro as Seen by a
Northern Man
Who Has Been M Resident of tho
County of Oi-ungeburg for Near,
ly One Year.
The following letter written by
Mr. Beers, of Bristol, Conn., to the
Connecticut Valley Advertiser, will
be read with interest. Mr. Beers is
at the head of a huge lumber comp
any located near Rowesville, and has
been living in South Carolina a little
less than one year. He seems to be
a close observer. Here is his letter:
This is the time of the year when
the collector is abroad in this land
and when the negroes are in hiding
in the woods to avoid meeting him.
They have the lien law in force and
system of chattel mortgages that
means that thenegro and the poor
white too can and does mortgage not
mly what he has on hand in the shape
)f property, but he mortgages the
future crop which is not yet plant
ed.
Already negroes are coming into
;he stores and buying fertilizers to
nuke the next year's crop. When the
:rops turn out well it is a good year
for the business men, as they make
i practice of selling under the liens
it an exorbitant profit, but when the
/car is bad and that year is followed
ry another bad year, then the mer
chant is liable to find himself in a
mle and with a lot of nearly worth
ess live stock on hand.
Under the lien law the man gives
i note and mortgage on the crop that
ie is going to grow, and it is his bus
ness to take the first baie or cotton
>r the first sack of rice or the first of
lis corn crop and turn it over to his
:reditor. This he must do before he
narkets any of the crop to an out
lider. . As cotton is about the only
?rop that is grown in this State for
he market it is tho first bale or
jales of cotton that he should turn
>ver, and the negro has more than
me way to get out of doing this.
As every negro who grows cotton
s well known to the ginners and to
he merchants as well, he does this
vay to get around his obligation,
nstcad of taking his cotton to the
{pinery he takes it in small quanti
les to a well-to-do negro who man
iges to keep out of debt and this ne
rro has it ginned as though it was
lis own and gives them a part of the
iroceeds. Each ginnery keeps a rec
>rd of all men for whom they gin
cotton and thus there is no record
igainst the negro who has disposed
>f his cotton without first settling
One fair?y well-to-do negro who
ives a little distance out of Rowes
dlle and who had about eight acres
)f cotton this year which should have
furnished him with about four bales,
lave already ginned Iii bales. The
?egro who thus disposes of his cot
.on leaves it at thc home of the man
vho is to have it ginned before day
ight and he is not seen by the man
vho Iivc3 there and if he is question
?d he can say that he did not sec any
body leave it there.
For the last two weeks there have
)eep riding about the country around
iowesville at least 12 collectors foi
ls many different concerns. They
lave been taking in live stock that
.vassold last spring and in many CUS
?S have nailed up the doors of corn
louses' to hold the contents against
?.he owners. One collector for a con
cern in Bamberg, 18 miles away,
?vhieh sells horses and mules has al
ready driven off at least 20 head that
vere sold last spring to negroes.
1 In, some cases the negro will give a
mortgage on an ox, a horse or amule
.hat he does not own. Of course this
s perjury and when the collector
comes around aud linds out what has
been done then is the time for the
r?egr? to t?kt? to the woods and re
main there for the next two or'three
months until the collector has got
tired of .looking for him.
. Last spring a negro living near
town mortgaged an ox to a concern
in part payment of a mule and the
wi lector started to drive away the ox
a few days agc). The negro told him
that he nad better drive the ox
through the streets of Rowesville
and then he took to the woods. When
the ox was in front of the store of J.
F. Boone the latter went out and
asked the man where he was going
with his ox.
Mr. Boone rem ted the ox, a cabin
and 40 acres of land to the negro
four years ago for an annual rental
of one bale of cotton. Plenty of
men in town knew of the circum
stances and they satisfied the collec
tor at once that he had no claim on
the ox and it was turned Into the
yard back of Mr. Boone's store.
One negro, who is in hiding at thc
present time because he can not. meet
a claim of $83 for which he made a
f rad iden t mortgage, sent in by a
friend1 a night or two si nco 80 cents
to bo tendered the collector in pm t
payment.
Two negroes, who are well known
to the writt?r bought a wagon last
spring and made a small payment
and gave lien on the wagon for the
balance* of the payment. One of
the men paid up bis portion during
tho year, but the other paid nothing.
When it was time for tue collector
to but in an appearance the man
who had paid up took a front and a
rear wheel nnd the thills and the
wagon seat to his home and secreted
it and left the other part to be lev
ied on.
As the collector was about 20 miles
from home a wagon in the condition
that he found that was of no use to
bim and the parts were left. Later
they will be assembled and then the
negroes will have a wagon for
another year.
For weeks past sewing machine
agents have been scouring the coun
try around Rowesville and there
have been as many as 20 machines
shipped to Branchville and Orange
burg, the nearest huge towns on
either side. The negro accepts this
taking away of what might be con
sidered his property with absoluto
SHOOTS HIB WIFB, ,
-
And MotItjn-.i?-law and Hktm Shoots
Himself.
Just at tho expiration of the
twelve months' pledge ho had given
the court! not to molest his wife,
Major H. ii. Coates Phillips, ono of
the heroes': Of Spion Kop, rushed in
to tho hoft e of his wife in the vil
lage of Cr? okham, England, Thurs
day, and. mounding two visitors and
leaving rm beautiful wife in tho be
lief that h? had murdered her, end
?d his life with two revolver balls
fired at vclose range. His death
took place:' in tho presence of his
twelve-yeav-oid daughter.
It was the wife's good fortune to
faint at th? first shot fire at her,
which jus; grazed her head. Her
fainting st. ed her life. The wound
ed visitors are Mrs. Phillipa' mother,
Mrs. Lucelia, who waa visiting her
daughter ty. London solicitor, who
had hurried to the village to give
his wife legal advice. Mrs. Luccna
probably will die of her wound.
Mrs. Phillips divorced her hus
band in 190? od the ground of mis
conduct while in South Africa, and
in the course of the hearing of the
case last December, Major
Major Phi)Mp3 entered her home and
attempted suicide with gas. After
ward on the last day of 1907, he
gave his pledge to the court not to
molest his wife for a year, his broth
er being his surety.
T\vO MBN KILLED
A Vat ?I Explosion Occwvs I? ? Steel
Plant.
Two men were killed and thirteen
injured asa result of an explosion in
converter No. 3, of the Egar-Thomp
son plant of the United States Steel 1
corporation at North Braddock, Pa.,
Thursday. Six of the injured were
Americans and thc others Slavs.
No official statement as to the
cause of the explosion has been made
but the old converter men say the
cause can hardly be other than by
some molten metal shifting through
the soapstone lining of the convert- !
er and coining in contact with the ,
steel sheathing which perhaps was
damp.
When the explosion occurred the
bottom of the converter dropped
out, throwing fifteen tons of molten
metal into a pit where rifteen men 1
tfere working at ladels. The force
of the explosion blew a sheet iron
coof off the converter a mile and 1
arusod two walls to collapse.
IHUSAKJ9. LON Cl Ii AST.
loan ?, ,.e .. .. i n..v . . j
and Years. j
A dispatch from New York says ]
Pythagoras, the toad,took his first ?
meal in one thousand years at the j
Bronx Zoo. Four flies and an earth- j
worm constituted the meal of the ?
little black creature that had been '
buried for so many centuries in
limestone rock, 590 feet down in thc ?
silver mine at Butte, Mont.
The ancient toad is slowly recov
ering his eyesight and the use of
his limbs, and is gradually turning (
green again, a3 he was in the mid
dle ages. He has already emitted
several feeble sounds, but the croak
had not come back.
stoicism.
The writer on a ride a day ui two
since saw the collector with the
mule that had been used all the sum
mer hitched to the buggy to be tak
en away and then he went into a field
where the only cow of the family
A-as staked out and drove that away.
The negro woman and half a dozen
children were on the porch of the
little cabin to seo them driven away
and there was no apparent feeling
of regret.
There need be none, aa they had
paid only a small part of thc pur
chase price and they had had the
use of the animals all through the
summer. In this case the man of
the family had been at work for the
J. H. Blake Lumber company all
summer and earned $0 a week and
there was no reason why he should
not have paid for the animals, ex
cept the lack of thrift and calcula
tion that marks the entire race.
Last winier there was a call for a
repeal of the lien and chattel mort
gage laws of Sout h Corolina and
the matter is sure to come up again
in the next session of the legislature.
Last winter it was the question of
the doing away with the old State
dispensary that occupied the time of
the legislature, which must by law,
adjourn at a given time.
All thc low country of South Car
olina where the negroes are thickest
has become disgusted with the work
ing of the law and are solid for the
repealj while the up country, where
I merchants have to deal with that
poor white elass, demands that it be
left on the statute books.
Of tho seven merchants doing bus
iness in Rowesville all but two have
ceased to sell goods under a chattel
mortgage or the lien law and the
time is not far distant when the ne
gro will have to pay cash for what
he buys, lt will be better for both
races when thia state of affairs is
brought about. There is labor for
every colored man in the State who
will work, but he will not work as
he can get credit. He lives in and
for the present alone.
A merchant saw a negro beating
a horse and told him that if he did
not stop the devil would get him.
His answer was, "You can not scare
a nigger that way by telling him of
something away oil in the future,"
Promise him something will happen
at once if you want to scare him.
Another nigger was caught in the
act of stealing a pig and was told
that, he would have to settle for it in
the judgment day. His answer
was: "That was a long term of cred
it, and he guessed he would go back
and get another." Tho negro is
here to stay and he is needed.
MANY MAD WOLVES.
They Are Rapidly Increasing in
the State of Texas
Efforts Being Mode to Protect Stock
and People Who Aro in Exposed
Pluces.
The ranchmen of this section, says
a staff correspondent of The St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, are making a
desperate effort to eradicate the
wolves which infest their pastures.
Notwithstanding the fight which has
been waged against them for many
years their numbers show an annual
increase. They srem to thrive with
the settling up of the country. Thoy
are not only a menace to the live
stock, but of late years rabies has
spread among them to an extent
that is alarming.
Many instances are known of the
victim of one of these animals dying
of hydrophobia. Since the estab
lishment of a state hydrophobia in
stitute at Austin three years ago
more than a hundred persons have
gone there for treatment of m^d
wolfe bites.
The wolves are of the coyote spe
cies. They skulk around at night
and kill young calves and make
away with lambs and kids. The last
Legislature passed a scalp bounty
law which carried an appropriation
of $100,000 to pay for the scalps of
coyotes and other wild animals,
which cause serious losses to the
stockman. jGov. Campbell vetoed
the measure.
Many of the ranchmen have hun
ters constantly employed to kill the
wolves' wildcat and other depreda
ting wild animals. This method of
eradication is slow and very expen
sive.
A few years ago Clement Bonter
ant, an Englishman, purchased a
ranch west of here. He soon found
that the coyotes were carrying off
most of his calves and lambs. He
employed Mexicans to capture half
a dozen coyotes alive. He placed a
sheep bell upon each of these coy
otes and turned them loose
upon his ranch, lt was Mr. Bon
terant's theory that the belled coy
otes would frighten away all the
other coyotes of the place. Instead
the belled coyotes attracted other
coyotes to them and in a few days
each belled coyote had a big Hock of
followers and these hordes of ani
mals were playing worse havoc than
ever before.
After many efforts the belled coy
otes were recaptured and the bells
romo ved from their necks..
Mr. Bonterant then tried the- ex
r....w mT of ?-?tching coyotes alive
mo placing UM? -?,; V. '.^.u..
?y dogs which he had brought from
3an Antonio for that special pur
pose. The coyotes soon contracted
Lhe mange and were turned loose.
That experiment worked with bet
ter success than the one which be
lirst tried. Nearly every coyote in
southwest Texas is now afllicted
with the mange.
Mad wolves are such a menace to
this section tbnt many ranchmen
have built corrals around their
homes as a means of protection for
their wives and children against
attack by the animals. When afllict
ed a coyote does not hesitate
to enter tho open door of a house oi
go boldly into a camp where men
are sleeping and attack whomsoever
it happen to run across.
A few days ago a party of deer
hunters were sitting around a camp
tire over on the Nueces river, The
night was dark and the air chilly.
The men were enjoying the comforts
of camp life when they suddenly
heard the growl of a coyote and be
fore any one could grab up a gun
the animal walked into the circle of
light and nassed squarely through
the flames and coals of the fire. It
then turned and started toward one
of the bunters. Before the mad an
imal could get to him tho man man
aged to get hold of his gun and kill
it.
lhe coyote when suffering from
an attack of hydrophobia will attack
and bite full grown cattle. The bite
produces rabies in the cattle and the
losses of livestock from this cause
are considerable, lt is very dan
gerous to enter a pasture where
shore are cattle which are suffering
from hydrophobia. The animals
charge everything in sight.
Tom Hubbard had a gang of Mex
icans at work constructing a water
hole, or "tank," as they are called,
on a ranch near there recently. The
laborers lived in an open camp and
had taken no precaution to prevent
attacks from mad wolves,
One night they were lying asleep
upon the ground around the camp
fire when one of the mad wolves
made its appearance among
them. Two of them were sent to
thc State Hydrophobia Institute,
where they were treated. The
other ?Mexican refused io take the
treatment and on the ninth day after
being bitten died.
QUEER ACCIDENT.
Rion fi-om u Stove Utter Caused
an Explosion.
Mrs. Josephine Cominsky, IS years
old, of No. Il Pearsall street, Long
Island City, became angry Thurs
day night, with Caster Gussus, who
boards with her, and and struck him
on the side with an iron stove lifter.
Immediately there was a loud report
and Gussus fell to the floor sci earn
ing with pain.
Mrs. Cominsky caliod an ambu
lance from St. Johns hospital. The
surgeon found that'Mrs. Cominsky's
blow had exploded a cartridge that
Gussus had carried in his pocket,
and the bullet, striking against a
twenty-five cent piece, had driven
the coin partly in his side.
The hospital doctors cut out the
coin and Gussus will recover. The
coin undoubedtly saved tho man's
lifo. Mrs. Cominsky was not arrest
ed, as Gussus corroborated her story
of the accident.
SLAIN BY BURGLAR.
Another Burglar Slain While
Breaking In a Store.
Georg? H, Fisher, Newark's To??
?mont Inspector, Is Shot Leaning
from Window. . i ..
A burglar shot and killed George
H. Fisher, Newark's tenement house
inspector, Thursday morning at the
Fisher home, No. 110 Congress street,
Newark, N. J, At the time of, his
death Mr. Fisher was leaning out Of
a window shouting for the: police.
At the same hour in Williamsburg, j
David Jaffe, a bird dealer at No. 146
Messerole street, shot and killed a
burglar who. had forced an entrance
t* his home.
Mr. Fisher, with his wife and their
young son and daughter had watch
ed the old year out and the new year
in. Soon after 3 o'clock in the morn
ing Mrs. Fisher was awakened by tho
sound of breaking glass. She arous
ed her husband, and they looked out
of the window. They saw two men
in the rear of Feind t's store, adjoin
ing their home, trying to open a win
dow.
Mr. Fisher went to the window,
raised it and shouted "Police!" In
stantly one of the men below the
window fired the bullet going through
Mr. Fisher's head. He fell across
the window sill his head and should
ers outside.
Mrs. Fisher screamed, and the shot
awakened thc two children who ran
into the room. The mother, son and
daughter drew the body back into
the room and laid it on the floor. Dr.
Frank Devlin, who was called, said
that death had been instantaneous.
The only clue that the police have
was given by a woman who lives
about a block away from the Fisher
bouse. She said she was with her sick
child when she heard the shot and
screams. She looked out of the win
dow and saw the men running along
Congress street toward Jefferson.
They turned the corner and disap
peared.
The man shot by Mr, Jaffe in Wil
liamsburg has not yet been identifi
ed, but thc police are holding a man
whor-i they believe to have been im
plicated in the attempted burglarly.
Mr. Jaffe and his brother, Morris,
were asleep in tho store and were
awakened byvsomeone trying to open
the door. Several times attempts
have been mad/.! to rob thc store, and
Mr. Jaffe was pertain this was anoth-.
ea. Ho drew! a revolver from under
his pillow aiuV fired just as the door
swun?r opclf. .\
the forehead and he fell dead. Anoth
er man who iwas with him ran to
wards Graham avenue. Patrolman
Dahler of the\Stagg street station,
turning into Meserole street from
Graham avenue, saw a man running
and arrested him. The man said he
was running for a car, but thc po
liceman took him to the station.
There he said he was Thomas Pay
ne, of No. 141 Leonard street, but
refused any other information. He
was held without bail on a charge of
burglary, pending an investigation.
Dr. Constantine, of St. Catherine's
Hospital, who saw the body of the
dead man, said he had been killed
instantly.
Mr. Jaffe was charged with homi
cide and was released on parole.
FAHMMICS l-KJllT WilliSWAN'S.
Flock of Birds Attacks .ltipniio.se and
11 IK Horse.
A Japanese farmer, one of the
many who have leased much land
around Russellville, Ore., on the
Base line road, had a most thrilling
adventure with a flock of white
swans last week. He was out plow
ing in his field, so E. N. Emery
says, when suddenly several hun
dred swam made their appearance.
At first he paid no attention, but
they soon began circling close down
on him. Then they made a sudden
sweep and nearly knocked him
down.
The swans renewed their attack
on the Japanese with more vigor
than ever. They dashed at him
and struck him in passing' from all
directions, He sought to drive
them off by swinging his hat but this
bad no effect. He then ran to the
nearest fence, followed by part of
the flock, and seizing a rail, defend
ed himself; but still the swans at
tacked him until he bad knocked
down several.
The horse which the Japanese
had left hitched to the plow was al
so attacked by more than a score of
the angry birds. The animal did
the best he could to defend himself
with his heels and teeth while his
owner was wielding the rail at his
assailants. Suddenly the whole
Hock by an impulse took Hight,
leaving the Japanese naster of the
battlefield
"It was tho most re -'orkabie and
comical light I ever wit nessed," re
marked Mr. Emery. "The Japanese
certainly had his hands full. Part
of the time he was half-covered by
the swans. He fought with the
same determination that his com
rades fought the Russians. The
ground around where the fight took
place was strewn with feathers."
White Man Hanged,
A dispatch from Lake Charles, La.,
says L. H.Coleman, white, was hang
ed there Friday for the murder of
Deputy Sheriff William Shoemaker,
at Dequincy, La., on October 24,
1000. Coleman killed Shoemaker
when the deputy attempted to arrest
him on a minor charge.
Train Wrecked.
A Pennsylvania railroad expies?
which left B?llalo Thursday night,
which was due in Philadelphia at 7.32
a. m., was wrecked at Montandon,
j Pa., early Thursday and more than ti
, dozen passengers injured.
M ?r cfc H _K o m-m> mm a-.
KNU?KtU
. -?SM?'
And Robbed in His St
Negro Tiiief.
WILL PROVE FA
A Spnrtnnbnrg Merchant ls M
. ously Assaulted and Ilia
'Drawer. Hobbed by a Hobbes*,
i to.'Seen f in tho: Store by
Woman And Child, but Ho M
III? Escape and ia at Large.
Th? Sparenburg Herald of Wet!
nesday tells of tho murdoroua na
sault on Mr. Henderson, a morelma
of that city, on Tuesday night of;
last week ..- Tho Horald says a ne
gr? robber- tho money drawer
and tho proprietor lying on th?
floor of a back room in an uncon
scious condition, with soveral
hatchet 'wounds' in tho hoad waa
what Mrs. Cora 'Lawrence saw when
she entered tko , store of Mr. B. F.
Henderson," on North Liberty street,
with her little spn on tho evoniug
ahovcrmontloned.V She spread tho
alarm, hut' tho.ro.bbor made Iiis os
capo. ' * py? a..
All that is known of tho robbery
and assault is tho story told by Mrs.
Lawrence. Sho - wont to tho storo
about 8 o'clock to get' Air. Homler
son to read a lotter for hor. Sho
carried a small ?boy along with hor.
To her surprise .sho found a pogro
behind tho counter. JJVH? had .thej
money drawer out. and/j^elhirig ninia
solf to, tho- -looao eljVor.
She asked the negro where Mr.
Henderson was. Ho replied that'
ho had stopped out and lott him' in
chnrgo till ho carno back. Mrs.
Lawrence tlion statod that she would
walt*'until "ho returned. The rob
b?r replied that it- was no use to
do that, because it might be some
time hoforo Mr -Henderson returned.
Mrs. Lnwrcnco heard somo ono
struggling in tho room to tho roar
of tho storo room. Sho looked
back and saw Mr. Henderson lying
on tho floor. Sho said that sae
would go back to him, and that all
tho powers of heaven and earth
could not koop her from- doing so.
As shtV4, "figed Into th? back room
tho negro helmed .out of, (.lie fro ? t
?tit? '?? <" - '?'" ""' H?nde y.
blood, -.vii a : \\ u Uf.m--nr--Tr^;
head and tho hatchet- lying near
him. . Ho . was in an unconscious
condition. Sho set' up-'tfn alarm
and it was not long bo for ? a crowd
gathered. ?*.?:'?..?>
Mrs. Lawrence says that ?lvo would
know tho nogro. if aho ' saw him
again. Ho was a tall follow witli
long mustached .'.He c^rr:ied a
heavy stick which was ' lrajVging on
his arm while ho-;wna "taking tho
money from tho drawer. .H???-.-band
trembled as if ho wc.ro anticked .witil
rheumatism. ' Ho was ii 'granger.
Mr. Henderson,, keeps Btot?. on
North Liberty street, .near-.th?r-over
head bridge. Ho lives alorietln, tho
rear of tho store. Ho Is- a niau of
about fifty years of age. 1 ly hr not
known how much money waa\iiy tho
drawer. . . . , .
The pol iceman went to work on
the case at once..' A Miegro p;fc tho
name of Wallace Williams, who fit
ted tho description 'f the robber
gfven by Mrs. Lawrence,- Waa" ! ar
rested and taken before her; but
sho said that ho was ?pt tho one,
and ho was then released. .Wil
liams ia tho negro who was tried for
tho murder of Doc Westfield, color
ed, sevornl years ago and . came
clear. ;
Mr. Henderson's skull is fractured
in three places ns ii result of th?
blows inflicted hy tho robber. .'Tho
hatchet with whirl tho work waa;
done was found beside him. It waa
covered with blood. A report from
the hospital at an early hour Thurs
day morning says that Mr. Honder
ion's condition ia critical.
USED PAMS OlfBflN
Highly Respected Fanner of Aiken,.
Commits Suicido
Mr. Samuel Ronnett, one of the
most highly respected farmers of
Montmorency committed suicide
Thursday by taking paris green.
Mr. Bonnett's mind is thought td
have been weak, symptoms of such' ?
a state having been in evidence for
some time. Thursday morning he
got up and, it is said, acted rather
strangely. Soon after he took a
large quantity of paris green, evi
dently with a suicidal intent,
A physician was summoned by tel
egraph, but before his arrival the
drug had taken such effect that lit
tle could be done to save him,
though antidotes were administered
in large quantities. He died Thurs
day afternoon.
Mr: Honnett was a good man and
no cause other than that stated can
can be assigned for the act. He was
a good farmer, a quiet unassuming
man and a leader in church work.
Ho is survived by a widow and sev
children._
Aged Couple Killed.
William B. Dick, aged 82, and hit
I sister, Emily Mortage, aged 76 we_
i killed Thursday by an express tri
on the Reading railroad near
|den, N. J., while crossing the
in a carriage.
Two Tramps Killed^
Two tramps were reporj
Friday in a wreck on tho "
tain Railroad at Swarsy
cars of a freight train ff
trestljj bridgo over a la
