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2 SEARCH LIGHT SWINGS TOWARD CENTRAL PRISON * : - j} t (Continued From First Page.) never did.” “Didn't the Castle Hayne men arrive at your place in bad condition?” “They did. They came January 24th.” “When did the big snow occur?” “1 believe it was on February 11th.” 1118 MEN AEE BAD ONES. He didn't remember whether he over whipped Andrew Farrar or not. He was crippled and he made allowance for him. “You haven’t done a great deal of whipping this year, have you?” “No.” “Not as much as last year have you?” t “Haven't had as bad men.” “What per cent of your men do you •whip.” I “About half.” “Do you think it necessary to whip 50 per cent of your men to maintain discipline?” “Oh yes. sir. The men sent to me are worse than those sent to the other camps.” “1 ask you why?” “I don’t know. I just know it’s done. Mewborne did it and ohl Smith, too." "How many times did you strike Joe Mazon over the head with the butt end of your strap?” “Twice.” “Then did Russel! whip him?” 1 “Yes.” “And Sater, too?” “Yes.” ' “What then was Joe’s condition?” “He had a pretty good whipping.” “Will you give this committee your views on what constitutes a good whip ping?” “About forty lashes.” “So Joe had forty. The penitentiary rules hold you down to twenty, don’t they ?” “I’ve never seen such a rule.” On re-direct examination he said Dix on and McCaskie couldn’t manage the had men, long term fellows, and they had to be sent to him. lie objected to Joe Mazon’s coming. “Do you say positively you’ve never whipped a man so that you left the flesh raw?” 4 T wouldn't swear to that.” On further cross examination by Mr. Gattis Summered said if a man was struck with the edge of his strap it would draw the blood, but that two blows on the same spot with it flat would not necessarily draw the blood. THE KILLING OF LOWE. Colonel Thos. W. Mason, who lives about three miles from the Northampton fann, gave Summered a good charac ter, and said he had never heard him called a cruel man until Jim Lowe died. He was there, he said,'a few days after Lowe died and! that Summered told him the matter was giving him much ■trouble, as Sears had no authority and ought not to have Whipped Lowe. “This was the first I ever heard of cruelty on the part of Summered. This was August 31st, 1898, and the begin ning of reports of cruelty. It might have been going on there before ami I might not have heard of it.” Mr. George P. Burgwyn, recalled, re lated the Mazon whipping as told to him sometime ago by Summered. It did not vary materially from the story as told--en the stand by Sater and Summered himself. “Mr. Burgwyn, do you inflict corporal punishment on your ha mis?” “I’d rather you wouldn’t ask me that question, Mr. Brown. It wouldn’t do you any good and it might do me harm.” The next witness was J. N. Hamlet, overseer on the Caledonia farm. He said .Toe Mazon had a bad character as a convict. lie announced himself as a staunch believer in corporal punishment, but couldn't tell what per cent, of prisoners were whipped on an average. The record, he said, was kept at the central prison. MANY PERSONS FROST BITTEN. Dr. 11. W. Lewis, of Jackson, North ampton county, knew of several people in his section that were frost bitten dur ing the big snow—all negroes. He had ten or fifteen cases of this kind. “Will the condition of a man’s health J.PAwJr / / V / T HEADACHE is only a symptom—not a disease. So are Backache, Nervousness, Dizziness and the Blues. They all come from an unhealthy state of the men strual organs. 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He pronounced Suinmered’s the less harmful of the two. “The amount of harm that can be done by either one depends only on the amount of force behind it.” Ou cross examination the witness said a man would find out he was frost hit ten almost immediately, certainly within twenty-four hours. “Even by an unprofessional person it would be detected very quickly.” HOW GABE ELLIOTT DIED. Sam Howell, an overseer on North ampton farm, had never known Sum merell to inflict cruel and unnecessary punishment on a convict. He looked after their comfort and welfare better than he had ever seen. On cross examination the witness said when Gabe Elliott came from Castle Hayne farm he was in very poor health and badly clothed. He took Gabe out to work when he (Gabe) was so weak he had to stop at the end of the rows. He stopped there about three hours. It was a very cold day. He said Gabe had worked two pieces of days before this, but never again after this. “Are you in the habit of taking sick men to the field to work?” “No.” “Did you have the men in your squad that were frost bitten?” “Some of them. One named Richard son.” “Did you have a fire that day to go to?” . i.-v- ~ * i es. “Did Richardson go to the fire?” “All of them went—at the same time.” “Was it very cold that day?” “Yes. Pretty cold.” “How often has punishment been in flicted on that farm?” “I don't know. When it’s necessary.” The witness said he saw Summerell whip Joe Bogan. “Have you ever seen Summerell or any one of his overseers whip a man severely?” • “Not too severely.” “What is your idea of ‘too severely?’ ” “Well, .a man ought to be whipped till lie's conquered, oughtn't he?” “Mr. llowell. did you ever sign a pa per stating that Summerell was not a cruel man?” “I signed a aper saying that Mr. Sum merell had given orders to overseers not to whip men without orders.” “What was done with that paper?” “It was given to Mr. Clark, a member of the penitentiary board.” This witness, by liis demeanor on the stand, made a very bad impression on the committee. “A KIND, HUMANE MAN.” Another overseer on Summeroll's farm, J. M. Floyd, was the next witness. He had never "in all his life” known Sum merell to cruelly punish a convict. On cross examination he said he had often known Summerell to punish the convicts, but he considered him a kind, humane mau. He thought lthem the same. "NO MORE SO THAN OTHERS.” A third overseer, George A. Pittman, had never known a single act of cruelty on the part of Summerell. Ou cross examination he said he had been with Summerell only about nine months, and wasn't there when Joe Mazon and George Mitehener were pun ished. “Mclver was a good supervisor, wasn’t he?” "Yes, sir, but no more so than others.” “Summerell is a strict man, isn’t he?” “Yes, but no more so than others.” “Very mild mannered man, isn’t he?” “Yes, sir, he is." "Any more so than others?” “Don’t know.” Good characters were proved for Pitt man and Summerell by Mr. M. 11. Clark. Summerell, recalled, said his overseers did not know until this morning that they would be summoned, and he had had no conversation with them. This completed the testimony for Sum merell. Capt. Peebles, SumniereH’s at torney, ‘announced that he would later submit to the committee a written argu ment on this and the other evidence against his client. WASTE UNDER FUSION RULE. Two witnesses were then examined touching the condition and management of the Halifax and Caledonia farms. They were 11. L. Tillery and M. W. Tillery, both farmers living on the Til lery farm. ' Mr. H. L. Tillery said that the man agement of the farms unlder Fusion rule was generally very i>oor. There was u great deal of waste on the Tillery fatm under Ferrell, 100 to 150 bales-of cotton being wasted. It was caused by a short age of labor. He knew nothing of Si ]K*rvisors Dixon and MeOaskie, but Me Iver, he said, had the reputation of be ing a very fine manager. Mr. M. W. Tillery testified that the general coaiilStioai of the Caledonia farm was not kept up under Dixon; that there was much waste of crops. He spoke very highly of Mclver. He didn't think any improvement s bad been, made ou Caledonia farm since Leazar’s term of office expired. HUGHES’ COON HUNTERS. Att Weldon tonight Mr. W. A. Pierce, a large merchant and cotton buyer, was examined, lie testified t hint hi* knew Peter Hughes, formerly supervisor at the Halifax farm, and that he bought from hi ns at various times seven bales of ; cotton. He paid 'Hughes in cash sot it. and usually Hughes bought goods after getting the money. Most of it was gre et ow. though Ihe sometimes bought some dry goods. "l>id you give Hughes a bill or account for the sale of this cotton?” “Once or twice I did.” “Did Hughes ever sell you anything else besides cotton?” "Yes, butter, lie generally traded that out.” “Do you know anything about his management of the farms?” “Seemed to me to be pretty bad. He sent convicts here in squads without anybody with them. Then I went down to the farm one day. I got, there very early and I found a dozen or so convicts out skinning coons and o'possums. I’ve heard fihwt Hughes told 'em they could go ’possum hunting any time they waul ed to so they were baek next morning.’’ “Did you do any business with stipe.- visors under Leader?” “Yes, but 1 did it in a business like way and an account was always ren dered! for it. This account was scut to THE NEWS AND OBSERVER. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1899. the Central Prison. In Hughes’ ease this was not done. “Whale Loazar wns in charge they were always se'lli,nig something, but under the Fuslonists just the reverse was true. They wen* always buying and often' they bought in Richmond at it higlii"- price than they could have gotten it here.” SUMMERELL’S WITNLSSES. Under the Fire of Cross-Examination Their Strength Withers. Halifax, N. C., Sept. 1. —(Special.)— The first of SummereU's witnesses yes terday wns Robert Ransom, who has a farm near tin* Northampton farm. He had known Summerell somne 30 years, he said, and he thought his character good. Prior to this time he has never heart! him charged with cruelty. “He makes his men work hut I don't 'think he treats them cruelly.” “Is his general reputation not that of a cruel man?” "No, I don’t tMnlk so,” On cross examination the witness said he knew by sight most of the guards and overseers oni the farm. Some of them, he thought exceedingly competent and of some he bad not so high an opinion. He did not care to call names. But taken all in all he considered the em ployes on the farm about ns capable and efficient as could lx* obtained, consider ing the unhealthy location and the sala ries paid. THE COLDEST DAY. He passed the farm, he said, on tin* day the convicts are said to have been frost bitten. It was the coldest day of the winter. The convicts were at work. “Did you have your hands at work?” “Only getting wood —and at that they wouldn't work regularly.” “Anv work at all going on with free latter?” "Nothing except getting wood and feeding stock. This was the coldest day during the cold sited. Don’t remember ever to have seen a longer cold sijte'i. It was the day the big snow com menced.” “Wasn’t it too cold to work?” “I didn’t think so.” “You were not having any done, were you?” “No, Iteeause 1 couldn’t got anybody to work. There was no work being done in the county at the time.” DIDN’T SEE FROST BITTEN MEN. “Were any of the convicts from Cas tle Hayne at work that day?” “Don’t know whether there were any in the squad at work or not.” “Did you see these convicts when they were brought to Northampton farm?” “Yes. I crossed the ferry with them. They looked poor and emaciated. I don't know whether any of them wore frost-bitten or not. I was at Garys burg also when they were sent to Ral eigh, but I didn’t see them.” NOTE SHAVING. A professional note-shaver, W. A. Wil cox was the next witness. He “reckon ed” Dave 8. Russell's character was bad. Asked why he saiid he had bought lilis time for $59. Then he found he had sold S3O worth of it to a man named Liles. “I took up Liles’ claim and sent to Russell for the $10.” “Did lie pay it?” “He sent it next day by Dr. Furge son.” “And that is why you say his character is land?” “Yes. When a man sells his time to two men I think that had.” “Have you ever talked with Itussell about it?” “No. Rut I wrote him a sharp letter.” “Did he reply promptly?” “He sent the money at once.” “What is his reputation for truth?” ‘‘Don’t know.” “Does he drink?” “Don’t know.” “Did you ever know any one to buy lus time and lose anything by it?" “No.” TOOK OFF 5 PER CENT. “Do you make a business of going around discounting an employe’s time:’’ “I do.” “Is that customary?” “It is here.” “How long ldvs it lieen a custom?” “A long time.” “How much discount do you take?” “Five Tier cent, usually.” W-nen did you discount Russell’s time?” “After the Legislature passed a bill to pay off the indebtedness of the peni tentiary.” f “Did you ever discount time Hinder Leazar?” “No. Don’t remember that it was done.” SUMMERELL’S STRAP. At tills point Summerell, on request of his attorney, brought in the strap In* had lieen using to punish convicts. Also one said to have been used by Capt. Rhein. These have already been described in these column®. They were identified by the next witness, W. A. Sater, one of 'Summiicrell’s overseers. Mr. Sater had l never known Summerell to be cruel. Nor did he reniemil>er any of the convicts that testified at the An son farm, except George White. Tie had known him whipped several time, but never cruelly. He remembered when Joe Bogan wns 'wbli'pped, but hi* didn't .see the flogging. MAZON DREW HIB KNIFE. “1 was present when the convict Mazon was punished. lie was a Very desperate character, and drew a knife ou SnmmeroH. He had just come to the farm—had lieen thebe only a few hours. He was ordered to take off his coat and get into line with his hoe. It was a hot July day. Mazon refused to take off his coat, and was m!ow about getting into line. Summerell sent for his strap. The negro started to draw ibis knife, and I grabbed bis hoe. Summer ell struck him in the face. When they went to whip him he gave Ms money and his knife to Mr. Bussell to keep for him. 1 didn’t see the knife till then, but I saw him put his hand in the pock et, as if to draw it. Mr. Summerell gave the strap to Mr. Russell. He struck him several licks and then gave it to me. I whipped him. We struck him about twenty dashes. Then he promised' to work, but when he got up lie an-oped and Mr. iSummerell took this (SummerellV) strap and struck him over the head with the butt end of it.” The witness said he knew Mazon tit the central prison in Raleigh, and lie was a very bad man; that he led a riot there at otic time and tried to kill the witness. COULD KILL MAN WITH STRAP. “I think Sumtaerell has discharged his duty well. He has made better crops and clothed and fed the convicts as well as I over saw. He gets more work out of them than any one else, and his punishment, is no severer than is us ual at such places.” On cross-examination Sater said he thought Rhein’s sltrnp the worse of the two, but that you could Ml a man with either. “You say Summerell is no more severe than some other supervisors, do you know any others who are severe?” “No.” “What do you comisikler cruel punish ment?” WILL YOU TAKE OFF FLESH? “When you have conquered a man you ought to quit.” “Even it you have to take off all the flesh to conquer him ?” "I wouldn't do it all at once.” “You’d take it off piece at a time?” "I’d keep whipping him till I conquer ed ham.” “How often ought a convict to he whipped?” “I whip one or two a month, maybe three or four.” “What is the average number of whip pings «» the entire farm?” “About 7. 8 or 10 a month.” “Have you ever known any one to whip a convict too cruelly?” “I have not.” STAYED IN THE STTOCKADE. “Did you ever know one to remain in the stockade three or four days after the whipping as a result of it?” “Yes, Joe Mazon did. He told Capt, Summerell that I struck him on the bead with a hoc. 1 did no such thing.” "You say you whipped him. Bussed whipped him and then Smmnerelil struck him over the head with the butt end of the whip?” “Yes.” “How badly was he whipped?” “The skin was broken on him in sev eral places by the lash.” On re-diirect examination Ivy Capt. Peebles the witness said Mazon was now anxious, he had heard, to come back to the farm. iMr. Gattis: “Well we’d like to have such a curiosity exhibited before t'h* committee.” TWO CONVICTS SHOT. Sater said he had wen two convicts shot for refusal to obey and work. Shot guns, loaded with No. 6 shot were used. They were shot in the legs. This was done by Supervisor Melver. Also a negro was shot under similar circum stances at Oastic Hayne farm by Simon Hayes. The shot is in the negro now.” "Who was physician on Caledonia farm when these negroes were shot?” “Dr. Furgeson.” “How long did they stay in the hospit al?” “Two or three months.” SUMMERELL A MODEL. Summerell's steward, C. C. Bryant, was the next witness. He naturally considered 'his superior officer a model. 'Certainly, he said, he was no worst* than Mclver and M diver was considered the best supervisor in the State. 'He remembered the men being sent from Castle Hayne. He saw them. They were weak and sickly. “llow long did SuTiimerell keep them in the hospital 'before he put them to work?” “They went to work next day.” “In that bitter cold weather?” “Yes.” * Did any of them get frost bitten?” “I don’t know whether it was here or at Castle Hayne.” “How long had they been here before you discovered they were frost bitten?” “About a month.” “Did you ever see a convict whipped?” “Yes.” Cruelly?” “No.” WHAT IS CRUEI/FY ? “Would you consider it cruel to hit a man with the butt end of a whip?” "Depends on what he was doing.” “Isn’t treatment that is cruel to nn ordinary man also cruel to a convict?” “I reckon so.” A good character was proven for Sum merell by Mr. George I*. Burgwyn. He had beard mo charges of cruelty until recently. Also lie said C. R. Blake was very highly regarded in his section nml that C. J. Rhein bud a good character. James S. Grant, SumnioreU’s brother in-law, thought his character left nothing Sacrificed to Blood Poison. Those who have never had Blood Poi* ion can not know what a desperate con dition it can produce. This terribß disease which the doctors are totallj unable to cure, is communicated from one generation to another, inflicting iti taint upon countless innocent ones. Some years ago I was Inoculated with poison by a nurse who infected my babe with blood taint. The little one was unequal to the struggle, and its life was yielded up to the fearful poison. For six long years I suf fered untold misery. I was covered with sores and ulcers from head to foot, and no language can express my feelings of woe during those long years. I had the best medical treatment. Sev eral physicians succes J sively treated me, but all to no purpose. The mer- cury and potash seemed to add fuel to th« Lwful flame which was devouring me. I wai advised by friends who had seen wonderful cures made by it, to try Swift’s Specific. Wt got two bottles, and I felt hope again revive i1 my breast—hope for health and happines. again. I improved from the start, and a com plete and perfect cure was the result. S. S. S is the only blood remedy which reaches des perate cases. Mbs. T. W. Lick, Montgomery, Ala. Os the many blood remedies, S. S. S is the only one which can reach deep seated, violent cases. It never fails tc cure perfectly and permanently the most desperate cases which are beyond the reach of other remedies. SS.S.’rL Blood is PURELY vegetable, and is the only blood remedy guaranteed to contain rw mercury, potash, or other mineral. books mailed free by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia. to desire. Also he said the people in this section didn’t pay ninth attention to the whipping of an ordinary negro. J. N. Branham. .Summerell’s corjiond of the guard, told the eonimiittec in a sleepy, listless way that he bad been in the penitentiary service for ten yeais anil he bad never seen any cruelty. “Ever known a man to lx* shot for dls otiedSence or refusal to work?” “Yes. He ought to he shot if they can't manage him any other way.” I >U. FITR< \ ESON ’S TEST! MONY. The last witness for Summerell was Dr. H. B. Furgeson. He was asked bis opinion of the whips in possession of the committee. "Rhein’s is the most dangerous weapon of the two,” he said. “It would not re quire much force to raise a blister and then the next blow would break it." He said Pat Singleton and Logan Meadows had lieen shot at Cali* lonia farm, No. 2. They wore shot in th<* legs yjth buckshot, lie said, and were in the hospital two weeks. He said he made a special report to Supt. Mewborne about Jliim Lowe. NEVER SAW HUGHES SOBER. Robt. J. Day, in bis testimony about the conduct of the Halifax farm by Peter Hughes, said he had heard some charges as to Hughes’ method of dis posing of bis crops. He had seen him taking cotton to Weldon, a few hales at the time, and selling it. “Wes Peter Hughes sober?” “He said he never drank, but if I ever saw him sober I didn’t know it. “Were his farming methods good?” “The poorest I ever saw.” “Did he make his convicts work?” “No, and he had no discipline. His em ployes were incompetent and he had many escapes.” BAD M A NLVGEM ENT. “Did he have good crops?” “Yes, but they were raised by Capt. Bradshaw.” “Were the crops well housed?” “No. The corn was throw® on the ground and allowed to rot. None •>< 't was lit for use. At least 1,000 or 1,200 carrels of corn were thus destroyed. “Did be have plenty of convicts?” “Yes. I attributed the bad manage ment to incompetent men. 1 don’t think John It. Smith was competent or Mew bome either. Both were failures/’ DR. FURGUSON’S RECORD. His Statements Under Oath Are Corroborated by Other Witnesses. Halifax, X. C., Sept. 21.—(Speda I.) Dr. Furgeson, the attendant physician to the Northampton State farm, felt that his| professional reputation had been called into question by some of the evidence by certain newspaper charges in this matter and so he had asked the committee to be allowed to put in cer tain evidence in regard to his ability as a physician and the faithfulness with which he discharged his duty. First lie took the stand iu his own behalf. Touching the convict Jim Lowe, who is said to have been beaten to death in the field by Overseer Jim Sears, Dr. Furgeson said he had* reported Lowe’s weak condition to Summerell before the whipping—as unable to do hard physical labor. “He had lieen in the hospital a week or ten days, working about the yard. I told Mr. Summerell he was unable to keep up with the other men nnd not to force him, as lie had heart disease. He had only a functional trouble of the heart, though, no organic trouble.” I)r. Furgeson produced the health rec ord of the farms and said the mortality on the Caledonia farm prior to his taking charge as physician was 20 per cent. During the four years he has been at tending the sick the death rate has been decreased to 4 per cent. “To what do you attribute this?” “Better medical attention, better nurs ing. better hospitals and better water.” This “better medical attention” coming from him made everybody smile. “Any of it due to better sanitary con ditions—better drainage and the like?” "Yes, but I don’t think the convicts had proper medical attention before.” “Who were your predecessors?” “Dr. Gherkin and Dr. Loftin —both morphine eaters. They were here under Colonel Faison’s administration. Gherk in was from Elizabeth City and Loftin from Wilmington. Both were thorough ly incompetent. Loftin was an improve ment on Gherkin, though.” In 1896, the ’ year before Furgeson took charge, he said 6 died out of 250. During the past three years only 6 have died, the population being the same as in ’96. "On the Halifax farm there has not been a death in the three years. I have plenty of medicines and I always have suitable fowl for the sick provided.” Dr. Furgeson denied that he was ever called to attend Joe Mazon, the negro so terribly whipped that he was "laid up” for several days. “He was not in the hospital and I make it a rule to visit only those in the hospital, unless specially called ou to do so.” “Were you called ou to attend Mazon?” “I was not.” I)r. Furgeson declared lie had always lieen attentive to the sick in camp, going out regularly every day, and he had al ways treated the convicts kindly. OVERSEER SATER’S TESTIMONY. In this statement he was borne out by the other witnesses. The first of these was W. A. Sater. overseer on Sunimerell’s farm. He spoke in high terms of Furgeson’s pro fessional ability, and had never seen him mistreat a convict in his life. Hi* had always thought him rather lenient, never sending a man out to work if there was any doubt about his being well. Hi* acknowh*dged on cross examination that Mazon had been confined for 3 or 4 days in the stockade by reason of liis severe whipping. “Did the convict Mitehener also have to be sent to the hospital on account of a. whipping?” “No. He was working with me at the time—threshing wheat and he dedn’it lose a day. as I recollect it.’’ “Was Dr. Furgeson called on to pre scribe for Mazon?" “I think not.” “Never brought to Dr. Furgeson*s at tention?” “1 think not.” “Furgeson then didn’t go nrouud the camp and look up cases?" “No. That is not his business. He »r\ - j* looks only after cases brought to his attention.” “Do you consider John It. Smith a competent superintendent ?” “I do not.” GUARD WHITEHEAD TESTIFIES. Guard W. B. Whitehead, of Halifax farm, professed great fondness for Fur geson, nnd said he was an excellent physician—the best he had ever seen. Nobody hail died on that farm since he had been attending the sick there. On cross examination the witness gave everybody, except John R. Smith, a good official character. 110 said Capt. Rhem, the ex-supervisor, made an “ele gant” official—humane and competent; that he was a good disciplinarian and made good crops. Shearin, supervisor of the Halifax farm, he said, was very kind to convicts and economical in his administration. But Bradshaw he con sidered the best manager, altogether, In? had ever seen. “Why was he removed?” “On account of politics.” “Was Superintendent Leazar a good manager?” “Yes, but John R. Smith was a poor manager and extravagant.” “Did Bradshaw have to whip con victs?” “Yes, very frequently.” “What did he whip them with?” “A leather strap.” “Did ho draw the blood?” “Never heard of it.” “How often docs Shearin whip?” “About once a week. He has 36 men and 23 women on his farm.” “Does he remove their clothing first?” “I saw two or three women whipped. He made one of them take off one skirt; she had on several.” “How about the men?” “They all take off their clothing.” THE WHIPPING OF WOMEN. This witness was followed by Elijah C. Shearin, supervisor of the Halifax farm since February 6th, 1899, who said Dr. Furgeson couldn’t attend to his business better; that he had never known him to neglect anyone. Mr. Shearin said certain charges had lieen brought against him in the Raleigh Post —that he had stripped and whipped women —and he wanted to make a state ment in regard to it, and have the com mittee thoroughly investigate it. Chairman Brown said the committee had no power to go into this matter, the charges having arisen since March 6th, the time of the ratification of the law miller which the committee was acting. He would, however, allow Mr. Shearin's request for an investigation go on the record. MR. SUMMERELL TESTIFIES. Supervisor E. 1.. Summerell, of the Northampton farm, thought Dr. Furge son’s record as a physician just as good as it could he; that he attended to his duty and made no difference in his treat ment of convicts and others. MR. TRAVIS GIVES EVIDENCE. Mr. E. L. Travis, attorney, testifil'd to the good professional record of Dr. Furgeson. He knew nothing of the manner in which he discharged his duty, but his health record was very fine. NO COMPLAINT AGAINST THE DOCTOR. John W. Branhan, corporal of the guard on Summercll’s farm, had never heard any complaint against Furgeson. REM A UK ABLE SUCCESS. Geo. P. Burgwyn said Dr. Furgeson had met with remarkable success iu treatment of malarial diseases. This completed the evidence Dr. Fur geson desired to introduce. FRED L. MERRITT. A WORD TO MOTHERS. Mothers of children affected with croup or a servere cold need not hesitate to administer Chamberlain’s Cough Reme dy. ‘lt contains no opiate nor narcotic in any form and may be given as con fidently to the babe as to an adult. The great success that has attended its use in the treatment of colds and croup has won for it the approval and praise it has received throughout the United States and in many foreign lands. For sale everywhere. Bobbitt-Wynne Drug Co., and 11. T. Hicks, Druggists, Ral eigh. The husband ceases to talk shop when his wife begins to talk shopping. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is a scientific compound having the endorsement of eminent physicians and th(e medical press. "It digests what you eat” and positively cures dyspepsia. 51. A. Ke tron. Bloomingdale, Tenn., says it cured him of indigestion of ten years’ •standing. Robbitt-Wynne Drug Co., W. H. King & Co., Adams & Moye, Wm. Simpson. It’s surprising how easy it is to get something you don’t want. Hood's Piits Are prepared from Na ture’s mild laxatives, and while gentle are reliable and efficient. They Rouse the Liver Cure Sick Headache, Bil iousness, Sour Stomach, and Constipation. Sold everywhere, 25c. per box. Prepared by C.l.Hood & Co..Lowell,Mass. t qjjiNa ■MBOCHE ■ Endorsed by the Medical Profession of K J Ihe World as the Best Tonic for Cottva- B 1 teseeuts from Yellow Fever, Tvphoid B ■ Fever nnd All Malarial Troubles'; it in- B m creases the Appetite, si lengthens the B 2 Nerves and builds up the entire System. B Paris: 22 Rue Drouot 1 New York; E. Fouqcra&Co. ,26-30 N.WilliamSt. K | GRAND NATIONAL PRIZE OF , > 16,600 francs at Paris. ' L — - —l 9WI DENTAI COLLEGE oatiHt*!! of its kind in tin* Soma.
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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