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. i v ifc M - lis - vr THE ASHEV1LLE;G 8 l . " 1 '"". r"t""7 ".-7 ' " - - T- -" , V ;" ' ,1 I W4f ' prison; Story of the LJfe of. WilHari, M5?;As IT READS LIKE "A ROMANCE A Model Youth Whose First Offense xca the unaing or Wiclcels," But W.HM Si"- MMM the -VVor, with hs uoiu .ana' Audacious Swindling Schemes, jjast week, in a cll;.in.tihe;Tom(bi ,in jlew York, cursang t'h Judge .and the jury 'fbalt sent him thete, BaAJWiUiaaTa Wood'wiard. A dispc'imNw.Toilc teiis an interesting story,;; It . is as-fol- bws: - - - ' i " " v - W'liriam C. vvoowara,' jyMias 'Big Haw-ley, wmo last week -was r convicted of atttmpted DracKmairron Samuel W. Bridehain, was seatenced, today to five yters' impo-isonimenlt. "Big,- Hawley" Tjas known princttpallyvTl'nder the1 alias "Hon. Lionel Musgriave.. He, has been unfavorably known to almost-ev- ery country of the 'earitli; and probably is the most actuite card sharper living." Down in Memphis,: Tenn.;. where the jarae oi wotwara useu ito oe an Hon ored one, noibody would believe the story of his life. His family ,-are re spected. otvj., ;4&;'Z .. Of course it isn't Under: this n&ine that 'the scion of oaDe of tjhe proudesit fcmilies in the south ' is ' known to vthe police of four TOiilt'Iinen,- , ''Big : Ho-w-ley" the American police caU him; "HonoraJbJe Lionel Muegrave" .is his ti tle in Europe; "Bill, the Slick," is his name ip Asia; "Woodward,, 'the Am eri oan," is his sobriquet jnlAuraJu FoT gambler, card-sharp, t forger," 'f sneak- tM, aJl-around crook.':; and convicted swindler is William . Carroll Wood'ward, fenitleman. His life reads like a ro- mamce. ' . . '- '-A I WHAT'S BREAD IN THE. BONE. The shadow of comin'War were fall ing across nortth and south alike when William Ciarrodl Woodward . was born rty-seven years ago in Memphis". The ipu'th was 'the Woodtwards 'home. They Fere southerners. ' T'hir child's babyhood was -passed during the stirring scenes of--., the re bellion. He grew- to boyhood. wild, .im petuous, u nrestrained. 1 He Inherited his tastes. The craslx came when his 'faitti er, eouipty truisteenda, ma.nof .laine kas life and TeDUUution iiiiti&fLkd le ocuntry. . '. , ', - . "Embezzlement read the indictment found against him, ... . ...-....- J Wodiward, sr. .jhad . gone, to - Mexico end had taken refuge . with an . Indian tribe. Poor Mrs. Woodward! , It nearly killed her. . Herself, one. of. a family of the south known for. .the. spotless lives of Its menmbefrs, she was .bowd.'Wl'tti her grief. The one hope; was in . her son, wfeom she was brlngih up to wipe out fte blot Ms. f aitiher had put on -the fam 3' escutcheon, ,:. "1 will make my Widliam a prince mong men, spotless for his integrity i God-feairing man," she said.; u Her husband came back from' Mexico. He stood trial. He was acquitted- -.Influence did it. Then he died. Tlhe wid or'i heairt wenit.-ouit to her son. The boy Was stt'owly growing 'Up : He to hiamcteome as a picture, cJefan limlb'edL and slender, with - a high fore lad, piercing eyes and) a mouth like a teby's. Other mothiers sighed' .and ".shed their boys like ' young :Wootl- ird. He neither smoked no-r drank. Oirds were his abihorTence.vivHejas a big busin)ess house, rapidly ad vancing. He gave hisi earnings to his motti-er. ... " Think of his downfall! He was ar- lsted. He had been caufiM red-handed to a scheme to gild new nickels; t -" from thiait day, to this he, has never n known to do an honest day's work. And he gilorties in jt Toaing.. Woodward handcuffed .and. put on: ,a train to taken to St. Louis." He managed .to himself from his slhackles and es- fape. Then he drifted to "New YOTk ILL OOMIE3 OUT IN.THB5 FLESll.' "Ha, ha ! " laughed Woodward; : as - he at in the Tombs and recounted his eX ftots. "I was a reporter like -the rest sen! One of Americans most fa- g mous physicians M-yst'Sdrof- i ulais external consumption; Scrofulous children are often g beautiful children,butClHeY nerve forcestron g bones, stout muscles ' and power, to", g rist disease.- For delicate children there is no remedy, alto .t .-;'i 8 Scott's Emulsion g i - o Cod-liver OH with' Hypo-'H Phosphites of Lime.and Soda.' V U fills mi 4-U mUt f. i . 9xA(1 t. ri tl l food flesh beneath iV. Itmakes? i no mm I m At 1 tw:.mAWI,' vaeefcs red by making: rich i i J100 It creates an5appetite I or fod and gives the tody ,H -r enough to digest it. 15e "v fou get IXJJ 11 Hmui- t 5oc and $i.oo ; li'drnggJst. SCOTT BOWKE, Chemists, New York. 32 " & 1. W D J Mi c. Woodward, a Memphi Big Hawley . , of you, and did eome of, the most brill iant work in town.. Bu-t I couldn't stick to it.t Instead I met crooks, . and soon i was making more money than any re porter makes.'! " - , ? i -, He was nlght. - in : dn,P tiimr x. York poli'ce befran to realize that there n in t; so sJharp and' so bniliUant rhat th m lairly dazed by his boldness,- Original ity -was -his strong point. . He swindled people in new ways. . He, was William Carroll Woodward, gentleman and swindler. - ' : - . In those days everybody hadn't heard of 'green good" or of Parmalee-Jones the prince of bunco, meni He met'Wood-rd- Ttoey joined issues. By this time the scion of the proud souitherh family had been arrested and was known to t&$ police, but never had they succeeded in convicting him. . ; v ; 'i.--'":'- ":: : .And then Mrs. Woodward, the moth erk died of a broken bjert. ; ri ' "Tell him,f 'she gasped. on her death bed, "not to be like his father." ; Woodward, was broken hearted when he heard of his mothers' death.' "Crime had not killed : love. And to his two pretty sisters, in the' south, and his brother, to whom he was deeply at tached, he sent messages of sympathy and love. But . fie kept on selling pack ages of green tissue paper f or bills. He was arrested the day bis mother was buried. He goftree as Usual. ; . "You can't dp me" he laughed, turn ing to lJbe dJsccmifited police. "Listen and I'll tell you why. I make a 'plant' in a bank before I do a job. Then when you clever gentlemen catch me I've got money in the bank to pay my expenses. "r.make. plants other ways," laughted Woodward td the reporter. Vlfs easy. Wtoy;' a few years ago a young British er came to town and stopped at the Rossmore hotel, ; Where I was. He was a good fonow and so we became good friends. Soon he told me all about him self. There was 'trouble in the family and a law suit - '' -" ': : , . ; "Well, you know the rest. I tipped the family. They wouldn't , send him money. .The gang 'plucked him of the little he had left. He was crazed with despair. He didn't have enough mon ey to pay his hotel bill or his. passage home. He came, to me. - " Why, oldVman,' said "I," 'how much do you want ? Ill lendfit to you.' t '!Het watJrha the worMenlnaned mon. ey. He, swore eternal friendship', x "Well, tha:ohW " est,ven6rmoua tereajfIas going abroad; r,neededtonbbyrover there to use. It , was the easiest thing; in the world to 'do'; Mm nicely,' and then lend ; hini back his own money. Well 1 used him." .. . . Woodward stayed in New York after that just-long enough to fleece the late W. W. Op-rcoran, of Washington, out of consideraible money on a "salted" silver niine, to cheat a Staten Island man out of $600 at cards, ,to dupe a Roman Cath olic bishop to the , tune of $2,000, and to borrow $500 in a house of ill-fame by passing himself off as' one of the young Tiff any s.. ' He . induced a woman of wealth and position tq ; marry-, hJm: ' She7 was the mother "of thre ..beautiful daughters. On day she caught him writing letters in a. feminine iiandi,VHe ing for &: hueibandi, a;'njany a country? swain, believing the story the advertise ment told of the furtune awaiting her, sent on from' $100 to $200 for; expenses. , ''Why, yes," sneered HaWley, "I told her she hadn't married . a gentleman, out a crook. She got a divorce'' . v New York knew "Big - Hawley" no more. ' . . " : ' 'rft IN IiANDS AFAR. ' 1 "All London heard of me next," he laughed,' leaning back - in . his , chair in the celL ; "I. was the' Honorable Lionel Muegrave. Frank Tarbo was my chum. I made a sensational appearance in the West End. : I took a house there in 1894 in . the Kensington quarter, 1 had car riages, and horses and liveried servants. Frank Tarbo was my: secretary, , Every body ; came to ; our parties-the young dukes and lords with more money than brain. -' ', i "It 'was be'tter than bunco and richer than - green goods: Why; many a young fellow'' dropped' ; his ; 10,000 pounds play ing1 a quiet game at t the mansion in Kensington.. We had to get but though, w(hm' the Brit'islh Txubbies' '- found a joHiihig man on our doorstep unconscious. We bad thrown him' out on his head af ter' 'doing him fout 'of $300,000 at cards." swain; believing. the story ; of the adver The" young man pressed the charge. They were arrested',, though they offered him $5,000 .to keep quiet. Then, victim after victim became known. The "Hon oraftife Lionel" had fleeced half of London.-- Samuel Lew-Is, the famous money lender; was one of .the. -.victims.! ; . ' - The precious pairgot . bail; ..they promptly Jumped it. A man who fol lowed them- to ' Gravesend to -, collect, a bill for a guitar that the "Honorable Lionel".-had bought was soundly whip- "India and the east was . our next working ground," continued Woodward. "We lived like princes and mode other people pay. We had a yacht." We went to Colombo,- Ceylon. There wegotoff Sth a box of rutoies worth $1M,(X)0. , The ikiw's name was Abrams. It was reg-i-, Tods'stvle:'but they didn't know it in Ceylon, so we had no trou- Kle and skipped away-as KStoKe on the yachts,' i its tie on j - ... ' , , TTvaA a 1 trim around . the -.world. - Wefound a: victim every minute Some Hmes it was cards,,', sometimes it- was SSS mettmes just plain- talking ;I yIT wonderful luck J in the. Hawaiian Tc?andlI St aJVthe money lying-about MelboSne. Ha, ha! Why I rmle to swear' I was, a. high-minded, le gentleman.;.! was honorably discharged, - All - the world's & v- bunco gajne, - and 'we're, .either come-ons or op erators.' Ha, ha!" - - : ; TV.T-HOME,: AGAIN AND -THE 2SND." , It: was a grand, trip 'and a -successful onei ' Woodward, for all .the world look ing ;like ,a . globe-trotter, sitepped'off -1 he steamer j in Slan ."Francfisco something more than a year ago:" He came right to New - York. Monday he was con victed for his attempt to blackmail Samuel W. Bridgeham, 5 son-in-law Tof W. C. S'chernierhorn, the millionaire. The World has given the details. . "My bluff didn't work ' before the jury," he said, '"when I frankly ; told them the story 'of my life that my bus iness was swindling. Why' did I db it? Why shouldn't I? I played my cards to win a stake and lost, that's all.- " - - . ','Buit.wait till Monday. I'll present in court the man who wrote that black mailing Tetter,- He sat in court listening to the evidence.'" This man 1 will come forward and admit he wrote the letter. Willi .'anv ludere' dlare sentence me in a thousand years? ? , v-"- - ."Why, I wouldnt do any clumsy bus inss like blackmailing.? I'd go a thou sand miles . to' skin a man, ' but take chance In5 this sort of a game-f udge! Too little in it!"- "They call me the 'Last of thle Mohi cans' now. You see, in 1880, forty swin dlers the best men at their tra'de in the worldmet here in New YOrkf ' We swore elternal friendship. When one gotinito trouible he was to have fundd and; the brains of "the others. I alone am left. Who cares? "I'm tihtoty-saven years odd; I've been arrested tharty-seven timles. I've never done time. .'There seems to have been a fatality in my life. I haive been arrested time afidf again," always being mistaken for" somieibody else. A year ago ! I was ar rested by a Philadelphia jeweller for stealing a tray, of diamonds. The m'iii came on and positively identified me Ad the i thief. Oh, yes, certainly I was the crook. There was no possiibie mistake about it, ha, hk!". Here this remarkaMe prisoner threw back his head and burst into derisive laughter. "By George!" he cried, 'Slo.you know it w&s proved beyond a doubt that the day the diamonds were stolen in Phila delphia I was in jail in another city. And yet I was positively identified; Pos itively identified," , he repeated in sneer ing, mimicking tones. "Is it true that you won so much money abroad at gambling?" "Perfectly true," he said nonchaTently. "I never deny that I am a gambler. My business in life is to skin suckers. I like nothing better than to deal four aces to a dude." "And what do you deal to yourself?" "A straight flush every time," re plied Woodward with the utmost sang froid. , - "Where are your headquarters in New York?" "I have no headquarters in New York. I -liave been doing the trains lately," said he, carelessly. "Doing the trains?" "Yes, gambling oh trains,V , ""What hav you done -with ail the money you have wo3fc?'V, .,;- "Given away the most of it' said the ktrangie. man. "I never said 'No .to any one. I never refused to' help any one' the week. Weakness Was quite pro who was in trouble. What I did not nounced and a very material reduction give away I used in going pleasuring, I m prices took place. The range of May I did not care for money for money's I was between- 93 and 891-8, yesterday's sake, not I. And that's another point I J Closing price, ' 89 7-8, being 3-4c lower want to emphasize right here. I can thn.h a week aero. 4 December ranged make a half million in six monitns at cards. Why should I attempt to black mail a man when I can win money at cards?. ; 'ph, no, I am not a balckhiailer. That's not in my line. I can ge,t money easier than that. But let me tell ' you that although I have been arrested so many times, . I have never yet been cou- J victed until this week, and I shall not go to State prison, all the . country judges, with No. .2 hats and No. 12 shoes, ahd the horde of ragged, impe cunious, Cheap'-Jbhn hlahd writing ex perts notwithstanding. "Why didn't they have banking ex perts on the triail instead of thlat mothy, worm-eating-, trembling old crew they brought into court ? Experts? Bah !" and 'Bi'g Ha.wley' snapped his fingers with infinite diisdaiin. "They " are like the apothecary in 'Romieo- dhd Juliet.' You remerniber, they sold gold to Romeo when it was poison! . "That's, the way with these experts. They are willing to swear to anytthing if paid for it. And the judge preju diced the jury: against me by telling them these tin-htoom;- tin-headed experts were the best in New York." . .' . "Butt," he -concluded, his eyes spark ling' fiercely and' bringing down. his fist with a bang on -the iron .railing, "I shaii not go to prison. There will be a surprise for toWat learned ; justice next Monday morning, and don't you forget it." Nevertheless, .WillBani Carroll ; Wood waird," alias ' "Big Hawley," was sen tenced to Sing Sing prison on Monday. YELLOW JACK PREVENTATIVE. ; Guard against Yellow Jack by keep- ing the y stem perfectly clean and free from germ breeding matter.. Cascarets Candy Cathartic will cleanse the sys tem and kill all, contagious disease 4 : Tneatrical flotes. -: ( : . - M.' B. Curtis is playingV'Sam'l of Po- sen" through Kansas. Stuart Robson ,wlirprolbably revive The Comedy of Errors." ' - " - - - The little child ' of J." R. Hays, , living near Colquitt, Ga., overturned a pot of boiling - water sGcaldlng itself so se verely that the skin came off its' breast and limbs. The distressed parents went to Mr. Bush; a merchant of Colquitt, for a remedy, and'he promptly forward ed Charnberlaih'3 Pain Balm. The child was suffering : intensely, but . was re lieved hy a single application of the Pain Balm, Another application or two made it sound and well., .For sale by by Dr. T. C Smith; druggist.'; - .-.'v-' -i . - Lewfts Morrison- has made genuine hltfwlthf ''A Master of i C?remohiesl:i- ' WiHard" Spencer's ; opera, "Miss Phil-adeiphia;"-will soon.be sent .on;, tour.; x- , S- "1,-1 .;; Vrhe Mason-Manola company is : play ritr to fine audiences through Maine and its-work seems to, "give ehtlre-saUsfacf STOCKS Ml WHEAT 11 QONpiTIONiOF NEWXORK'aND ' - CHICAGO; MARKETS.5- w : STOCKS MANIPULATED BY POW. ERFUL' COMBINES. Chicago Wheat Market for Past Week Similar to That of ' the Week ' Be fore. -' - ' - New York, Dec. 4. The stock market has shown evidence . during1 the week of affective manipulation by '.-powerful .'cost: -bined interests; The operations of this eiemenlt'were apparenly encouraged oy the long resistance of the marketrto re actionary efforts. But the : bull clique has shown- some apprehension about the capacity of .the" market .of ;a; sustaining rise and has , twice t&ken. 'profits' during the week. The consequence is that" th" :one of tihe market ends in dullness and 'the early , promise, off renewal of anama ioh has failed.' . T.he manipulative rises have invited some outside interest ". in the market, but the reactions on profit taking have nipped, this interest in th bud Not all of the rise has been wiped out on the reactions and net changes- show ah" advance "of nearly a point on an average. The "first' realizing move ment was on Monday and was designed to take advantage of the commission house touyjng iirette day and-aiturdayof iast week. The re covery set-In on 'Tuesday- and culmi nated on Thursda,y, i when the second heavy sealing- movement to realize wiped -mt niu'ch of the previous gal;.s. The rise was stimulated by the impend ing decision of the treasury department applying countervailing aujues ti im pojited duties sugars, by the October railway. statements, notably Burlington and Pennsylvania aid ; by :. the ; perfect ing ..of., the . . Rock. 1 Island refunding scheme and .the', salefof m Jarge block of the new bonds . Offerings to save losses became, very, heavy, late oh Thursday and prices showed great weakness. Fri day . showed . dullness . and . steadiness. Sugar, and the grangers led in activity. On enngs .to. save. losses, became very heavy late on Ttouriay. and prices showed great . weaknes. Friday "showed dullness-and steadiness. Sugar and the' grangers, led in activity. Sugar rose over 6 points at one time and Rock Island, .-Pennsylvania, Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific and some-other stocks over 2 points. .The bond market has (been extraordinarily active and strong all weeK, ana gains are general tnrougn the bond list. WHE1AT IN CHICAGO Chicago, Dec. . 4. The wheat market for .the pjusrt-.weejsjias ; .tfeenv in many ways eteilar to that of the .week before. There" has y been tiesame" ' dullness' of tiding, " amounting attlmes almost.ijo stagnation, though businessi showed some improvement toward the end of between 99 1-2 and 94 and closed yester day at 95, or a loss for the week of 41-2c. - During the early part of the week prices suffered the most.. The continued good demand from millers and from abroad ;was. apparently lost sight of in the accumulated -.' evidence of, big-stocks, as shown by the world's shipments, - and' continued heavy re ceipts at the northwest receiving points. .Heaviness of Russian shipments, was a disagreeable surprise to holders' and caused considerable unloading. A pe culiar feature was the entire absence of deliveries of wheat on December con tracts on delivery day, .This was .some thing that never happened before in. the history of the board and it was the gen erally expressed opinion that there will be no deliveries until the close of navi gation. The market was helped later in 'the week by the record-breaking clear ances, but tbeiglit"uStaes-gatowd were lost on reports of heavy forthcom ing shipments from .Minneapolis to Chi cago" and. on figures showing a - very large amount of wheat yet in farmers' hiandsv ."' --i : New York, Dec. 4. One thousand shares of Manhattan were thrown upon the market at the opening of the Stock Exchange and sold at 104 down to 103 simultaneously. Last night's clos ing price was 104. Running sales of 1,000 shares of. Chicago Great Western meantime brought from 15 to 15 agiinsf 14 ..last night. The .general mafrket was a good deal mixed in . the chinges shown, which were, however, of ''small proportions. 11 aCi ro. Supporting orders soon ap peared in Manhattan and worked a full recovery in that stock. f- . v Noon Money on call nominal; 12 per cent. . v Prime -mercantile' paper 34 per cent. .- 1 . . - Sterling exchange firm, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.85 4.85' for demand;' and; $4.834.83 for THE DOUBLE STAN DARD Acme W ine c ' Where they make a speciajtyiof firetlass whfe m. either quality or price. i And' I. still claim-td have the largest stoclc;oi hrst-class goods ot any house in the iBtate.: IHs -useless forme to try to name the different brands of gooj3 I keep ia stock, ' A ; nnsit-to' mv vrilaft "roill vftonvinrft von that r have the- onlv fira p v.-.Beecbbttled fresh every day and delivered i to any part o the city.';- Orders from a,7 .distance; solicited. v iJoxinrj and packing tree. .... "y unity, UDt yuanuiy" IX UJf L10TIO. ' q ' ; ; v Phono 130. F. O. Bos 372. 60: daysj posted; rates ' $4. 84(4.87; ; com mercial bills S4.824.82. s ; Sliver, certifie'afes, 5960c.i, t . - : Bar 'silver 59c. . - . -' - 'Mexican dollars"46c ' vi.f;tat rbonds dulL- '. - , Railroad' bonds, firm. ":- U - Government Tjonds firm. -; -. " United. States' new 4's registered and coupons 128 ; 4's registered 112; cou pons 114; 2's registered, . 99 r -5s reg istered and coupons-114; Pacific-6's of '98, '99c' ' - ' 1 V' - ' ' ' ' '.The tptal -sales of stocks were ; 90,860 shares. I . ' . . , . Bonds were moderately active and steady, ' 1 i; - - r PRObuCE. ' c New York, Dec. 4. Butter steady; western creamery 1423c; Elgins 23c factory 1114c; , Cheese QUiet; light skims, 66c; part skims 46c; full skims, 34c ' Eggs Quiet; state and Pennsylvania, 2125c; western, 20g)23c. Sugar Raw, firm; fair refining, 3c; centrifugal 96- test, 3c; refined, firm; granulated 5c. -. Coffee Steady; No. 7. 6c. GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. r Chicago, Dec. 4.-Wheat was . weak a-t the opening today, at - prices about ,c . under yesterday's closing. - Liver pool s cables -showed that market to be off d. This was a disappointment 'and caused quite free selling. The Liv erpool . weakness was due it was said, to. selling . by. r Chicago . operators of March and May wheat in that market. Undoubtedly the clearances from Amer ica, 6,699,000 bushels, which were the largest of the season, had no small in fluence. . Total world's shipments of close to 10,000,000 bushels, were looked for 'Monday. Northwestern receipts were; 860 cars, against. 927 last week, and 469 a year ago. Chicago receipts were 140 cars. Oats showed strength, though open ing ower m ; common with wheat and cornl Receipts were 738 cars. Provisions opened steady at about yesterday's closing prices. (Tankesley & Fry's Private Wire.) Chicago, Dec. 4. The grain and pro vision markets today ranged as follows: Opening, Wheat- High. Low Close. December May ' Corn December May Oats. December May .Pork December January . Lard December January . Ribs December January . 94 89 24 28 20 21 95 89 25 '28 20 . 22 7 27' 8 30 94 89 24 28 20 21 95 89 25 28 20 22 7 27 8 27 ..7 25 ,. 8 15 7 25 8 15 4 22 4 25 4 22 4 25 4 17 4 17 4 17 4 17 4 22 417 4 17 4 22 Barley Cash, No. 3, 2542c. Rye Cash, December and January, 46c; May 49c. Flax Cash,' December and January, $1.05; May $1.09; northwestern, cash, $1.12. Timothy Cash, December and Jan uary $2.65; March $2.80, . Cincinnati, Dec." 4. The flour mar ket quiet but steady.- -; Wheat-aMrket easier at -92c;: Corn Easy; 2727c. Oats Market steady at 23c Rye Market quiet at 46c. Provisions Steady. ' Lard, $4.10; bulk meats, $4.30; bacon $4.65. : Whisky Quiet at $1.19, LIVE STOCK. Cincinnati, Dec, 4. Hosts The mar ket .was active. ? . Select . shiDDefs and butchers. $3.373.40; fair to good packers, $3.25 3.40; good light, $3.203.35; common and rough, $21253.20. Cattle Steady; fair to Rood shippers, $3.904.60; good to choice butchers, $3i854.40; fair to medium butchers, $3.153.75; common $2.253. . , Sheep Dull and lower; $2.254.35.. Lambs Dull and lower; $3;505.35. COTTON MARKETS New. York, Dec. 4.---Cotton futures opened steady, with sales of 5,400 bales; colsed barely steady, with sales of 72,800 bales. Open. Close. January 5 71 5 71 February 5 75 5 76 March 5 80 5 80 April .- 5 85 5 85 May .....5 91 5 90 June ... 5 94 5 95 July. 6 00 5 99 August 6 03 6 03 September 6 04 1 6 05 October .. ..t.;..... 6 00 6 07 November.... ,. December 5 68 5 68 , Spot cotton opened steady; middling uplands 5 13-16c: gulf, 6 l-16c -" Spot cotton closed steady; middling uplands 5c; middling gulf, 6c. . Sales, 20-bales. - , . . YEYLLOW FEVER GERMS -Breed in the bowels.' Kill them and you are safe from the' awful disease. Cascarete destroy the germs throughout the system, and make: it impossible for new ones to .form. Cascarets- are 'the only reliable safeguard for woung and old against Yellow Jack. 10c, 25c, 50c, all druggists. 53 end IS TSnE! aLiouOT House '"mm? m m m . i- - " 1 "Vi m ' m 5 - I Con LIMC1LIU1I Causes fauy half the. sickness In Che world., It retains the digested food too long in tbe bowels and , produces ' blliaas&ess, toryM T jtttt .TlndJ. a gesuon, bad. taste, eoated tongne,slck headache, . in-.: samnia, etc Hood's Tills core constipation and all its 4 results, easily and ttoroagluy. S3e. AH druggists. irrepared by C L Hood ft Co Lowell,, Mass.' Tbe only hus to take with Hood's SarsaparUla, r. s. smith, ; Airchitect. FaragQa Balldlns 3Pnoae 2&X. ill THE VOICE. "Many a person Iras wrecked a life by a tone, of votoeV said Miss Thompson, sententlousty. . "A 'yes or 'no' has often changed a whole career. A spontaneous sigh burst from her feminine hearers. Miss Thompson was talking; on "The Psychology of the ' Voice" alt No. 56 West Sixtieth street, says tlhe - New York World, and . had struck a fcendterty reminiscent vein. "Psyohofogy is the soul of ' the voice. We are an bom with three natures the mental,; what the French call the moral, and the -vitals We must represent-sometimes the one and sometimes the other," MdBs Thompson explained. But the soul she described with impressive v vaguew ness as "the all-remaining something. She ilustriaited the effect of the differ-, ent temperaments on the" voice. The '"hardfer and thinner" tone of the purely inilectual voice made everybody tin'' comfortable, Each one -cast an appeal ing glance at her neighbor as Who who , should say, "Mine is not like'' that, is it, dear?" . mtl ( mm LX It, , ' l U ''a t ' x lie Lii.eviuvmeu vuace, wixn lis uan- gerously soft and caressing inflections, was almost, as bad. A suggestion of saccharine sweetness was here. "The vital voice is best hnnnn in fth'm orange vendter" and) Miss Thompson ' burst into a "Here's your fine oranges!" ItU t nn'U in rrrWll4. mtlmm mJm. J Liieub mixafmuc kxic ncn&iu xiiiq ouu tilt; fcvUtX iemce shudder. "But you are liable to hear It in any class among Americans." This was a stab that rankled. - "Among the French, now," she went oh, "such looseness of vocal muscle woudd be im possible In the beau mohde." - The women sat erect in stiff displeasure. The Anierican voice might be bad', but this was too much! "But then our voices do not express us at all. , TnY point of fact" Mis Thompson , was - making magnificent amends "the Americans . would - hlave more esprit than any people in the world--tWibe as much as the French" : smiling approval greeted this remark "if it were . not for the brick of English criticism upon our " heads. Our. English step-mother ;.has .been abominably hard on us." .;i.dmi'r.i ,.- The iWloaieihtwjea welll .tent to let their British cousins take the blame and ttee'-sraalser: "went on : .- . ...... .. "It is much a matiter of iaoe.With the Latin orr, pagan,; bejauty come first. They faTlhlertt the siiblicme quality of ex pression. ; The Gewnanic race has another element mysticism. This gives a reluctance to express. The deification of pain, 1th OhriStiian .religion brought alboult this repression' she decl Miss Thompson dwelt upon the emo tions and tihteir play upon the voice. " She used the chaoiaicJier of Othello .arid his passionate nature to point her. moral. She gave ample indication of how the "usual tone":, dan effectually destroy sentiment, and, eotfdied up with a lesson in intensity; wQi a Browning back ground, that sent her audience into a series of thtrtlls. Mme. Albert! was also heard on "Tone Deafness" and the training of the ear. -. It often happens that the doctor Is ot of town when most needed. The'2-year old daughter of J. Y. Schenck, of Caddo, ' Ind. Ter.. wastthreatened with croup., he writes. "MywtfeS insisted that I go for a doctor at.once; but as he was out of town, I purchased a bottle of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy, which relieved the child immediately." A bottle of this remedy in the house will of ten save the expense of a doctor's bill, besides the anxiety always occasioned by serious sickness. When it is given as soon as the croupy cough appears, it will pre vent the attack. .Thousands of mothers always keep it in theirs homes. The 25 and 50 cent bottles for. sale by Dr. T. C. Smith, druggist. - . Camille D'Arville will reappear in Peg Woffington; at he Garden theater, New York, on December 27. J From the Lone Star State comes the following letter, written by W F. Gass, editor of the Mt. Vernon (Tex.) ilerald:; "I nave used Chamberla,In's Colic, Chol era and' Diarrhoea Remedy in my .fam ily, for the past .year,, and. find It j the best remedy for colic and diarrhoea.fhat I have ever tried. Its effects-.are in stantaneous and satisfactory, and;. -1 cheerfullyrecommehd It, especially, fori cramp colic and diarrhoea, "indeed, we. shall try to keep, a bottle , of it on - pur. medicine shelf as long' asi wekeep " house." For sale by Dr. T. C. Smiths druggist. . , v - " . j - 58 Couth Ilcia Ctrc k 1 i. m w r m mm w -- : i- x tion
The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.)
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