FORT MILL TIMES.
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VOL. IX. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 8.1900. NO. 21.
ARP TAKING A REST
Bill Will Not Lecture Until Victuals
Ae Exhausted,
TALKS ABOUT CHINA MUDDLE
Arn 11' 1*1. TL. ?
r ^ ...putmora * itil I lie li.'lXCrSi j
Who, He Says, Are Fightiug for ,
Their Monies. 1
'Tis home where (he heart is. and the
Jnost of mine is here. The epicure
tilled his stomach with choicest food
and exclaimed, "Fate cannot harm me,
1 have dined to-day," and so 1 have
tilled ?iy heart with the sweets and
comforts of home, and feel defiant of
human misery. Fate cannot harm me,
for my home is my castle where, as !
Blackstone says, "the king of Eng- \
land dare not enter uninvited." Hut
an old man did enter not long ago and !
s2li(l hn rnmn tr* eta ? ?* . :? **
_ - - ? v * v? kj cii j <i i' I i il V i II 1 L> |
was convenient. I Saw his baggage on |
the iron seat in the verandah, lie
said, "I travel free and lodge tree and
mix with none but the best people, and
so I have come to abide with you for
n few days. 1 hope it is convenient."
Well, it wasent convenient, for my
.wife wa? at Rome and my daughters
away, and I had never heard of him,
and so I told him it was not convenient.
He seemed surprised and askect
me if 1 was a Virginian. 1 told him
no, I was a Georgian, and he said that
Virginians seemed to be scarce in this
region and he feared that old Virginia
hospitality had not reached here: that
Hishop Nelson had entertained him in
Atlanta, and he had found a welcome
:imnni> 11 \r; l...... um,...
? ...w*?0 <? ! t ii ^iiiiauo. IIUI an? you
going to do with me?" he asked. "I
am In mo and can't walk; 1 was told
yon had a carriage and would drivo
me anywhere 1 wished to go." "No.
sir. 1 have neither carriage nor buggy,
but 1 will go down town and get a vehicle
and take you anywhere you wish
to go." Then he said Brother Healer
told hint that if I would not take him,
there was a poor widow across town
who would, and he would speak to her.
So t took him dure and left him, and
will pay his bill of Brother Healer
ilidcnt. There are religious tar nips as
well as sinner tramps, and they are
hoi angeis unawares. I was down in
I ho wiregrass region for nearly two
weeks, and have most pleasant mcrn?rics,of
my new found friends, but the
last day was the best, for 1 was on my
journey home and counted the milestones
iw we speeded along. llappy
fares and loving kisses greeted me
when 1 eanie, and here I am going to
rest until the larder gets low and my
wife insists that 1 had better make
another venture. And now let the
procession proceed. Let the war go
on. it is none of ray begetting; it
might have stopped at Santiago, hut
our yankee brethren seem to love the
nigger afar off and have bought 8,000,uoo
at two dollars and a half a head,
which was cheap enough if Spain
eould have delivered the goods. Hut
they have eoat ten times that now and
are still iu the woods. We used to advertise
our mnav.ays and say "Ten
voiinrs reward ilunuway front thi
subscriber my boy Dick, 2."? years old,
f? feet 10 inehrs high, black complexion
an 1 very Hat nose. The above reward
will be paid on his delivery to me or
bis lodgment in the nearest Jail." Why
not try that on Agrvlnaldo and the
other runaways? Hut if they catch
them 1 don't know what they are going
to do with them; they wouldent i
let Aguinaldo set up a barber shop in
Manila no move than they would in
Hoston cr Chicago. 1'iofessor Council,
who is president of the colored agricultural
college in Alabama, understands
this, lie is the smartest and |
best leader ol his race, and when he
speaks or writes to the public always
Savs the liL'lit ihiiur i lmvn
spect for him.
but this awful muddle with China
which was precipitated by our ag;resbion
upon the Philippines, seems to
have no end in right. Uev. I)r. Haiderman.
oLNew York, who is said to be a
very learned man. says that he demon,
strated a year ago from scriptural
prophecy that the present year would
lind all the nation., at war, and there
would he a mighty struggle between
Russia and China, and that Russia
would eventually gain the supremacy;
but that for a time the hordes from
China will break in an awful avallanche
upon ttic western nations and1
the greed, the rapacity, the Christ less, j
Godle.-s selfishness of European nations
will get it3 reward, and there
will he a terrible balance sheet against
those Christian nations who have ;
poisoned China with opium and made I
them look upon ail Christians as rapa- 1
cious foreign devils.
He cavs that tho Chinese are fighting
for th< ir homes and institutions,
and know that the Chri-tan natons
Hie seeking to rob them, and that their
missionaries are harked by guns and
twords and Godless soldiers ready to
kill and slay. 'I his infuriates them,
and they look upon any white man as
a devil who should he slain. He says
that while this impending and destructive
war is ordained of God and (
foretold by His prophets, yet the sin of
it lifs at the doors of Christian tia- j
tlon-. Offenses niu-t needs conic, but j
woe unto those by whom they come.
The love of money is still the root of
all evil. "Trade will lollow the Hag '
is the shlbolcth of commerce, and if
the flag has to ho stained with blood
it does not matter."
These are my convictions, and hence
I can't work up any enthusiasm nor
any revenge. In 1841 England took
Hong Kong. In 18^8 England made
China pay $20,000,000 because she destroyed
20,000 chests of opium that
had been stored there by English merchants.
In 18o8 Russia grabbed all
the Amoor country, containing 000.000
square miles, and when the United
States grabbed the Philippines the suspicious
Chinaman said. "The Christians
uro coining; they want more."
No, it Is none of my war. The blood
of it is on somebody's hands.
1 see that General Gordon is going
up yonder on another mission of peace
?trying to mix up the blue and the
gray and make a compromise color
that will satisfy luifti Ki<Ir.y 11..
<lo it. but maybe he enjoys the fun of
trying. Here and there you will find
a good-hearted, clever federal pensioner.
but most of the clever oiks
conic down here and stay. The malig!
nnnt ones don't come; they are afraid
to come. That is all right; let them
stay there; we had rathet live with
the negroes than mean Yankees. Here
is an Ohio paper (The Monroe Chronicle)
that was sent me last week?a
marked copy?that is mad because our
people talk about building a Confederate
memorial at Richmond, and say
it ought not to be allowed, and that
our loyalty to the union is all a pretense.
and that Hill Arp. a noted rebel
and writer, shows no love for a restored
union, lie says that such a
memorial is an insult to the nation
ami makes treason honorable and
loyalty odious; every Confederate
monument is a bloody ?hirt. and the
Republican party ought to die. and die
eternally, if it ever allows the return
of those rebel flags which arc an insult
to the union dead and to our disabled
vet era us. lie denounces our
rebel songs and rebel tributes to treason;
and there is a lot more of such
stuff, and it is in keeping with (Ionoral
Shaw's utterances in. Atlanta
about what we shall teach our children.
Old as I am. I can lick that
fellow in three minutes by the clock,
and as he has singled me out, it would
do me good to maul some grace into
his malignant soul. I am afraid we
will have to whip them again. Hut 1
am not going to let every fool up
there make me mad?I havtnt got
time?I'd rather work in the garden or
ploy with the grandchildren; they
keep me amused, and 1 can love them
without a strain. Last night 1 had to
play Trlmbletop with them, and had to
he the elephant and let them rule
home on my back. How far away
sounds?"Catches his liens and puts
them in pens; some lays eggs and
some lays none; wire, briar, lumber
lock, three goeso in the llock," etc.
One of these little girls, not yet four
VPflU'R rilil flicithovi il Itnr ntnihac one
terday and was promised a whipping.
"Mary Lou. this is I lie second time
you have opened the ice chest and
turned over tlie cream. 1 told you that
if you did it again I would whip you.
Now come along in I lie other room."
She is a good child, loving and smart,
hut willful. "Mamma, peas don't vlp
me hard." Her older sister, Carolina,
had followed along out of sympathy.
Mary Hon saw her and said, "Now,
Talline, you go back; me don vant you
to see mamma vip nie and hear nie
quy. It's none of your pisness; it's
just my pisness. You go hack. Talline."
and she laid herself across her
mother's lap ready for her bisiness.
The mother eouhlent stand that: she
relented and kissed lirr child, and the
little thing promised again.
And so it goes on in every loving
family?promising and repenting?
from childhood to old age. we .sin in
haste and repent at leisure. May the
Lord forgive us all and bless the chll- '
dren. is my prayer.?Bill Arp in Atlanta
Constitution.
RAW'S HORN BLASTS.
rrv,E lovo nf hoav"
" I <in,y things makes
I a light heart.
v?v|^lightcousr. - withnit
resistance.
/ IrSkW The will without
JUjI vJftrjrffiV the work cannot
i ' 4 \ YmvV') make the way.
04&1 u T h e present
k'^nl \\v \ A builds tlie palace or
the hut of the futore.
Sometimes when
w- 1 .'av for bread God gives us seed,
i It is fooli h laying a n;ud foundation
for a stone house.
The heart may he pierced by a hatpin
as truly as by a sword.
The political campaign is either
Clod's enmpr 'gn or the devil's.
Some of ns moot have much care or
m 1 <>e . ? f ri\n\ ?*ef? v.ni
n r : nan it ? .-?- nwiii I'im.hi.
VietcticB must lie won in the will
before th^y P"r won in the world.
The pursuit of pleasure is like prospering
for lead with gold spado-.
Crooked living makes the erose
Christian.
Clod will he served by sor. - and not
hy eerfr..
At the Summer Resort.
Mat tie "Yes, a mnii has route here;
but lie is only a hired mail."
Minnie "of course. \0 utitit would
be likely to eome bete if lie wasn't
I id red."?Huston Transcript
VETERANS REUNION.
Tliey Were Elegantly Entertained al
Greenwood.
FEATURES GF THE OCCASION.
Heroes of the Lust Cause (lather and
Have a (i>od Time?fleet Next In
Columbia.
Greenwood. Special.?The veterans'
convention was opened Wednesday
morning in the court house, Senator C.
A. Waller presented the Rev. J. S.
Jordan of Phoenix, who opened tho
meeting with a most appropriate appeal
to tho God of Rattles. Then came
a very interesting* address of welcome
on behalf of the town of Greenwood
by Mayor RtiPre. who paid high tribute
to tile soldiers of the Confederacy
and extended the survivors a warm
welcome on behalf of this thriving lit-;
tie rity. Mr. David Aiken, commander
of Camp .Tames M. Perrin, Sons of
Veterans, welcomed the visitor? in tho
name of h'-s organization and Senator
Waller in behalf of Camp 1). Wyatt
Aiken. U. C. v.
Gen. C. Irvine Walker the state
commander, then responded for tho
veterans in one of the happiest speeches
he lias ever made on any occasion.
After these preliminary exerelsra
there was read the annual memorial
tribute to the comrades who have died
since the last reunion and to the women
r.f the Confederacy.
CHKFUS FOR HAMPTON.
A telegram was read from Wade
Hampton, expve-slng liis regret, at being
unable to come. The mention of
the in.:ne of Hampton set the old soldiers
wild and they cheered to tho
echo. On motion, it was ordered that
a response be sent to Gen I lampion
telling him that lie still occupies tlio
tlrst place in the hearts of his roniradrs.
A letter was read from Cnpi. George
Lake, now living in Louisville, exprcsting
his regrets and a suitable rej
spon-o was ordered sent to Capt. Lake
j who is a prime favorite wii . his comi
rades.
Next eame the roll call of ramps, a
duty performed by Col. Jus. G. Holmes,
division adjutant, in his usual graceful
style. '
Dir. D. 11. Teaguo presented the re'
port of tho committee on the Confcdj
crate abbey, which showed that the
offer of Charles Broa I way Rouss lias
l>oon met and the $100,000 for the abbey
Is now available.
On motion of Col. Iredell Jones, a
committee of three was ordered appointed
to memorialize the legislature
for the oreation of the office of commles-iioner
of pensions.
A committee of the same number
was appointed to report on the subject
of text books, and Just at this point
Hon. (). L. ?rhumpert of Newberry
; tnade a ringing speech In support of
' t)>n nlA? /?
I iuv tA. n ?I" I <111" I1181GT1PS.
After this tho convention adjourned
and the veterans wandered off In
1 search of something to eat. The hotels
J here are small, and most of the visl1
tors were quartered at private homes.
J The holism ar. l stores are decorated
i with flags and hunting, hut northern
1 extremists could not. take exception to
| the decorations, for the Star Spangled
Banner and the red. white and blue
I are a great deal more in evidence than
j tho Stars and Bars and the red, white
and Blue.
TUB SONS OF VETERANS.
At 4 o'clock In the afternoon theconvention
of Sons of Veterans met in the
court house, where a large crowd of
ladies ar.i.l veterans had gathered with
the Sons. The commander of the local
camp?Camp James M. Perrin?Mr.
| David Aiken, called the assembly to
order, and after prayer by Rev. R. (?.
McLecs Mr. Aiken introduced Mr. F. B.
fl-rier of Camp Perrin. who extended a
welcome on behalf of liis camp. Mr.
Grler's speech was eloquent ;uid patriotic,
and he was frequently interrupted
by apjileu.-e. He Iniulrd >><. i
era to soldi* r and his drods and aroused
the einotions of his h< arers tTfa pitch.
At the conclusion of Mr. Grier's
speech Mr. Aik*.n introduced Mr,
i rancis II. Weston, division conmiiincler
of the Sons of V* terans for South
Carolina, who responded very gracefully
to the words of welcome and
went 011 to make an earnest, sol /, argument
for the truthful perpetuation
of history.
At the conclusion of Mr. Western's
<-poech Gen. M. L. Hen ham was called
for and responded in one of his happy
little talks, full of fervent patriotism.
There were then calls or Mr. Geo.
E. Prince, who respondrd very neatly,
touching upon the matter of partisan
histories, which is the question most
prominentfy before both the veterans
and the Sons.
At night the sponsors were presented
to the veterans at tl?A rnn-t ? ? ~
. . ..... uwi rtj, 11113
Sons acting as escort.
It Is estimated that there were at
I least 8,000 or 10.000 vl?ltcrs 'In town
Wednesday, he ;idcs nian,y from the
surrounding country. Over 1,000 veterans
w? re registerc 1, Jind It s therefore
likely that there were more than
1,200 here. There are the same number
of Sons. though not all are connected
with the organization. The
number of oponsorj wan estimated nt
front 800 to 500, the flow* r of South
Carolina womanhood.
THE PENSION REPORT.
Tho report of the committer on
I ' 1 I I
stons, pros* nte<l by Col. Iredell Jones,
is as follows:
Yi. 'r committee. consisting of W. D. i
Sta ling, J. i?. Wilder. J. \V. Floyd.
Iredell Jones, James A. Hoyt, \V. I).
Knox, R. H. Jennings, Wm. Jeffries.
Charles Iv.gleshy. \V. E. James, E. H. ,
Gasquo and J. F. Entzminger, appointed
by the South Carolina division
United Confederate Veterans' Association,
held at Chester in July. 1S99. to
prepare and submit to the general ns- I
semply of ^outh Carolina a bill to
j meml and revise all the laws on tho
subject of pensions for disabled Confederate
soldiers and sailors and their
widows, beg leave to submit the following
report:
"In obedience to the call of the
cnairmau. tiio committee held its meeting
to consider all matters relating to
amendments and changes in the pension
laws of Si..ith Carolina in December,
1S0H, at Columbia. At that meeting
a quo; urn was present and after
full t ( sick-rat ion and discussion the (
following g' tural features were re-i 1
commc ndrd t?> he ineorporated into tli? i
pension laws of the State, viz:
1. Repeal tiio provision of tlie pen- i
siou laws providing for township
2. Elect in each township one rxCoufc.lt'rate
soliVer, not an applicant
for pensions, to represent said township
In the formation of the county
pcr?von boards.
it. Elect,ica annually of three cxConredorates,
not applicants for pen- 1
s-ionq by the South Carolina division
! U. 0. V. association to serve as mem- i
j hers of the Slate hoard of pensions.
4. (Jive to the State hoard the right ;
j to approve or disapprove the rerotn- |
inendai cms of tin conntv honed- Imt >
I withdraw the right of the State hoard
to grant a pcrunon. unless the applicant
is regularly approved by the
county board.
ltcquiiing that each applicant for
pensions shall have been a resident of
| the State of South Carolina for the ,
j period of two years prior to tlit? date |
| of his application.
G. That all laws on the subject of
pensions shall be comprehended and i
embraced in one act. for the bettor understanding
and enforcement of the
laws.
The above, in general, were the
changes which your committee recom
mended to he made, and we are
plen.sed to ri port that all the sugg< ? ;
| ttons above set forth have been
I adopt* d in the law passed at the recent
session of the general assembly. (
Your committee diet not deem it propei
* to invade the prerogatives of the gen;
oral assembly by entering too minutely
or extensively into the matter of ;
suggesting a law. We only called attention
to such changes as in our
| opinion were vital to the proper administration
of the law. The bill
| which your committee introduced,
which practically has now horn incorporated
Into the laws of the State, may
not be perfect, but in the judgment of
your committee a fair trial will show
an improvement on the old laws on
the subject of pensions, and will prove j
more favorable to our needy comradis.
from being more impartial In
its administration and more exacting
j in its duties.
'I he practical carrying out of the
work of your committee, after a general
outcome was adopted, was entrrsh
d to a sub-committee composed
* i .1. I). Starling. .1. \V. Floyd and Iredell
Jones This sub-committee gave
to the dut Ys assigned their mn'imot
j and intelligint attention, ami their
work is approved, with thanks for
j their services. There was a general
gcntinunt among the members o. iae
legislature to acquiesce in the sugges- |
tions of your committee, and mere |
were sevt ral members in each house
to whom your committee feel indebted
for a special interest in the measure.
We have deemed it unnecessary, how- !
ever, to call particular attention to
th< r annus, as the individuals have j
been sufficiently designated through i
! the public journals of tho State, and
| in the official records of the general
assembly. I tut we cannot refrain
fioin calling to your notice the eminent
services of the late Hon. H. C.
Patton, the talented member from
Richmond. who wrote the present law
lit the request of the sub-committee
end ast-is?ed in its passage as one of
the last tuts of his brief but brilliant
i areer.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
W. I). STARLING.
"Chairman Committee."
The committee on school books ap00
ill ted to d:iv vvhieli will
morrow consists of Col. Asbury Cowr,-d.
Col. Wade Hampton Manning and
MuJ. -I. D. White.
The Hag of the Third South Carolina
regiment, tattered and torn, is
fiere in the custody of Camp Gariingtcn
of I.aureus, Commander T. I).
Cn Col. Todd was its last bearer.
It was never captured.
Tlie tlag of the Palmetto Sharps
hootct . representing the upper countits
of South arolina. This flag was
tarried through the Seven Days' flght,
(he battle c.f Frazier's farm, the second
liatth i f Mr.n?-sns, at Antietam. and
v.; , shot through at Hoonesbuirg. It
, surrendered at Appomattox and
brought home. It is now in the custodv
c.f th ? i :imn nt W??1 11 o
The lit >:t meeting will be held in Co- |
hinibfn, that rity having been seleeted |
by a large majority. All pre/sen' were j
lead 'n ilieir praises of Greenwood's j
hn indke.s hospitality in entertaining
the gathering of the oi I soldierH, repre- i
tentative-. of a lost, but cherished ,
caio-'e.
???
nee may be golden, but golden '
):.:!r Is usually loud. 1
TOBACCO IN SOUTH CAROLINA..
What the Weed Has Done for One Section
of the State.
Mr. N. L. Willet writes as follows to
the Augusta Chronicle:
I was anxious to look into that portion
of South Carolina that has in the
pust several years gone into tobacco
growing atul has thereby prospered bo
greatly. I was glad therefore to stop
a day at Darlington, S. (J., with my
frleuds, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hewitt,
who own one of the flne-t homes in
this tlirivinir hiwn <<f t "inn i \
ling ton sells now 3.000.000 pounds of
tobac~:c leaf, Tinimonsville over 4,000.000
pouiul> and Florence equally as
much. This leaf s'lis for from 0 to 7
cents per pound to 28 and 40 cents.
This difference in price obtaining principally
from differences in soil and
curing of leaf. The proporti n is this:
Ten (10) acres in lobar o is the equivalent
of 100 acro3 in cotton returning
say $30 an acre and the tobacco $">0
to $150.
The tobacco industry ha; brought a
large number of tohaccn raisers into
this county; and land that live years
ago was of only nominal value today
brings ready s.le at greatly enhanced
values. Mr. Hewitt told me of one
man who, for example, had bom cotlon
farming for sixteen years and was
bankrupt who in four years had under
tobacco raising now owned the place having
paid out nearly $7,00'i. These
people have found, too. that the best,
tobacco lands aie the light, worn-out
cotton lands.
The season for t' bv co growfh Is
much bss than cotton. Tobacco planted.
say in April, is already coming (o
market. July and August, in place of
being dead months, are live business
months in Darlington. Fiotu July to
December are tobacco market months.
The care of the tobacco plant is a matter
of t;."? to 7-. days. Now compare this
time with tli-? s'x or seven months
To grow tobnc?o at a profit require*
more brain than to grow < itton. It
requires, too, experience. It requires,
too. a certain outfit, that ?osts some
money to ihe grower. Then enough
must he grown in a county to warrant
I lie putting up of warehouses costing
each about $5,000?in the nearby town.
The drying houses to !? > put up on ti c
plantation are of logs and mud. The
town warehouse is a wooden long onestory
affair with big windows in the
roof.
The acreage of tobacco is so small?
10 to 100 of cotton?that the c.itton
acreage of a county need not he largely
decreased because of tobacco growing.
Tobacco might bo largely the surplus
crop. The railroads running o .t of
Darlington have about as much cotton
as ever and yet now added to till- have
5.000,000 pounds of tobacco leaf. I b lievo
it would ha a good l?le i for the
various railroads out of Augusta to
'ook into till* tobae o busine s. The
ipcning of this new culture in a new
tounty must come. I feel, largely
Mi rough the railroads. Primary soil
j.\ i ?-1 i mem -> must iip mane, a low intnceo
culturists imported. farmers' cooperation
secured, etc. The railroads
can do this; and if tlie experiment sucf.
nils they will he repaid U'O fold. Tho
Atlantic Coast Dine a few years ago
nl audoned the u e of wood on its engines
between Wilniingt ?n and Wilson.
N. O.. and substituted coal. To keep
'.hese poor piney woods choppers from
itarvntion almost the railroads look?d
up strawberry culture far thrm. Tiie
i and inaugurated the business successfully.
The poor wood selle s are today
far better off than ever and the road
hauled this past season 000 cars of
strawberries (a new species of freight
tj them) out of the territory.
The advent of tobacco in and al>out
Darlington lias raised the county. I
might say, almost out of poverty into
affluence. All lilies of business are
good. After I oking over the town fill
I of $8,000 and $10,000 residences and
all well kept I .'aid to Friend Hewitt
(hat I did not believe there was a poor
man in the town. 11" told me that iu
one day he had count* d 100 country
wagons in town.
The advent of tobac o in the county
had done for the wealth of the county
just what the artesian wells have done
for its health. Tills used to he a very
unhealthy district. Chills and fever
cmo with each s immer ami fall. The
artesian well has banished this. Darlington
has nine or ten wells?all overflowing
wells. Their depth is about.
32.r? feet. The water is quite void and
has just enough of sulphur and magnt
sia in it to he of constant medicinal
help to all low rountry dwellers. The
town has a good water system from one
of the wells. The last well bored by
the town only ro t $100? an amount
that many an up-country well costs.
Those* of us who 'tvo outside o," the
artesian well district know nothing
comparatively of the value of these
vells to town and county.
Darlington is famous for her live
oaks, known as "Darlington Oaks."
They are found only In and about the
town and are different in type from
the roast live oak. They .are ns large
t.s our lower Hroad street oaks, hut are
more spreading I am familiar with
coast live oak forest? but Darlington
surpasses them all. The tree is an
fverpreen and this tree Is a thing of
beauty all the year. Darlington is
distant from the cca^t about the same
numbrr of mile- as is Augusta and
has the rame latitude. I em convinced
that Augusta eould add thes-* oaks ff
she would try to her tree system. 1
have arranged it so that the city or
any of her citizens onn get this next
fall a supply of these Darlington <>akB
for experimental planting?If they so
wish It.
DYING LAD'S WILD RIDE. '
He Went For a Doctor to Save tho
Whole Family From Death.
HAD EATEN TOADSTOOLS AT MEAL
(.title Thomas'* Tlullliiif ltl.li> rrmn
Harvey to llnincwoiHl, 111 , i* IMntmico
of Tilled Miles?lie TV a* Half Clad
iiinl Almost ('rntdil \V i 111 I'aln ?
Hoy IHcil In tho I'll jrnlclan'a House.
II.IIV..V ill .v . M l-'-n...
( 1MI *\,i, All. uil>. "IIP*. m lllli
Norris. Maud Norris and Thomas Norris
are dead. the result of eating toadstools.
wlileli tliey mistook for mushrooms.
Others poisoned i.rc J. A.
Norris. Kvn Norrls Kdith Norris nud
Uohert Smith. Thomas Norris. thirteen
years old. undoubtedly saved
till those yet alive. Half eltui and
suffering with pain he road hnrobtn It
to llnmewood. three miles aunv and
fell exhausted as he reached the house
of ji physician. Tie died soon after,
but the doctor rem lied the Norris
homo iu time to save four of the seven
who ate tin' deadly toadstool-'.
The Norrlses are well kp ?wr if iTnrvey.
There wore seven In fie fain|
ily, and they were so well acquainted
with the tilings that grow In the field
that ir seems strange they rdiottld
have mist ikon tnndstmdM fi i
moms. Hot thoy did. nml soon after
tlioir inoal nil were writhing In pnln.
I Tlioy were deut'ily sick: they were
inilos from telegraph ollice anil there
; was 110 telephone that could be
roai'lnnl. If tlioy all \v< iv not to die
and must l>o calioil, t>nt it seemed 1 it)possildo
that any ono of tlto sufferers
could undertake tin* trip.
Hut little Tommy volunteered. He
had a vigorous young appetite and had
partaken uiispairiugly of the deadly
toadstools, and so it was that lie was
suffering more than any other of the
family. Hut that was as nothing to
him: lie knew lie must go, and he did.
willingly, only hoping that he would
reach lioinewood. which was three
miles away, and the home of the nearest
doctor, before the pain wopkl
cause ldm to fall front the horse.
The lad was only half clad, hut he
did not wait to dress; no more did
he waste precious moments in putting
e saddle on the horse. It was Willi
the greatest dWIictilty that he mounted;
by the hi Iter he hung on while he
spurred the horse to his swiftest over
lli.i 1*4 k 11 < r 11 I'iiltnti'f t'ortilu
I The exertion for which ho was so
lliitltcoupled witli Ids airoiiizitiK
illness, (old s<? upon I he hoy that lust
! us lie reached the dour of the doctor's
house, lie yelled as he dropped, and
this b"oui;ht the physician to the
door.
The lad was carried into tie house
and the doctor was about to treat him
when the brave little fellow gasped
out.
"Han't mind me. doctor; please no to
( the house, for papa and mamma and
the others art* worse than I am."
There was no doubting the truth of
what he said, and the doctor. giving
haslv directions for his treatment, left
for the Norris home. The six others
in the family were so ill that the doetor
could do uothiun for two of them
and they died before the Ititfht pnssed,
hut four were brought around by the
liberal use of antidotes.
Hut wl.en the physician returned to
his home it was to tlntl the brave little
fellow had passed away.
Woman'* Drive to Snve II imbnntl'a I.lfo
S Terre 1 Iii III.I. t Special i.?Mm.
Frederick I'rey drove ten miles to
West Telle Ilnttte ill breakneck speed
ivitli her tineoliseintis liiish.'ind nt her
side, in the hope of reaching n doctor
I in time to save her husband from
bleeding to death. Frey severed an
; artery in his ankle while felling a tree.
Her husband is not expected to recov*
I IT.
KILLED HEN BROTHER.
Worcester tVninan F?e? 11 Kevolvor ill
llereii.liiii; Her Slater From mii Altnok.
Worcester. Mass. (Speeiall. ? Dovkl
.Mc.N.iiuiini wiis shot and killed by bis
sister. Mr>. .Norn 1*. Phillips, in the MeXnmnrit
homestead. Jibottf two mib s
from I.eieestor. Mrs. Phillips was on
her way to Worcester with her sister.
Miss <'arrle MeXaimira. when ltavhl
rushed fronrthe house and struck Carrie.
Mrs. Phillips interfered, and David.
sei/.ini; a piece of rock. trle?l to
strike her with it. She pulled a revolver
from a handbag and shot bint
over the heart.
The body lay where it had fallen for
more than seven hours. Mrs. Phillips,
alter washing the blood front Iter
hands, changed her clothing and canto
, to Worcester. She walked Into the
oflice of Chief of Police Stotie and told
her story, she will be charged with
manslaughter.
T.hE NECRO JACKSON NOT KILLED
Man Shot With tli? I>?n|>rrn<lo Cliarl?i
Win Itiirlril t'nilcr 'I lint Nam?.
| New Orleans, I.a. (Special). Burke
1 l ll. l.-w..l. .1 i... .1 -
... VII, " ? " I U|'l\ M ! lit* I <IU||| 1 LI
1 the Jackson house where the negro
desperado Charles was killed, was
Wrought here from Magnolia, Miss.
The negro who was killed at the tiino
t of Charles's death was supposed to Wo
Kui'kp Ja< xson. and was hurled uuder
that name. The police have not tho
slightest idea who the dead negro
was. llurkc Jackson lied from the city
tlw day of the riot, hut was captured
a' his old home, Magnolia, lie can
tell all that went on In the house, aud
whether there was really a conspiracy
of negroes, as the (iraiul Jury believes,
for it has indicted theui all for uiucder.