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OFFICIAL WHIPPING.
How Boy Criminals Are Punished ~
ThYashing In England.

How hoy CrfmfnaIe Are Punished ~
Thrashing In England.
Boys who are found guilty Of minor
offenses In England are sentenced by the
judges to a sound thrashing ut the hands
Of the policeman. Here is o description
Of II taken from an English paper:
The birch is Q very different instru-
ment Of torture from the cat. The for
mer is made up Of q number Of long
birch twigs, while the latter is really q
whip with nine knotted small cord
lashes. When the cat Ia administered,
the prison doctor must be present, but
when the birch il put on IL 10 only nee
essary for tho inspector or superintend-
emit Of police 70 witness II, although tho
parents or neal relatives Of q boy sem
fenced to be fiogged may be present at
the castigation. When q dose Of the cat
b dealt out, none but those connected
with the prison are allowed to be there.
Like the cat the birch may be made .
very severe punishment or . compare
lively trivial affair, not merely accord
ing to the number Of strokes, but from
the instructions given the constable who
10 told OF to do the flogging. I have
seem o boy after six strokes resemble
nothing so much a. . piece Of raw beef
and bleeding fearfully, while I have
also seen o boy after six strokes merely
Q tribe red.
Some policemen dread the duty Of
nogging, and after the irst two strokes
got o sharp order to '.hit the boy and
not play with him." Other constables
delight in the work and boast Of their
ability 10 draw blood at the first stroke.
Various modes Of administering the
punishment obtain in different parts Of
the country. In some places boys are
placed face downward on o form. One
constable holds his arms and head firm
y. while another does him the same
service with his legs, aud the third I'd.
ministers the punishment.
In other prisons the oulprit 10 placed
on . oonstable's back, and a. he sits
there with his arms around the officers
neck, awaiting 1.-THE event." his attitude
strtkes q spectator more al n Of affec-
tion thin discomfort. Another way IL to
compel q boy to lean over q chair Of II
hs were praying, then run o strap right
around his legs and the legs Of the chair.
. constable holding his head and arms
from the other ds.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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Notice 10

Notice 10 hereby given that l will
examine ell persons who may desire
to offer themselves as candidates Cor
teachers ofthe public schools Of this
county, at Red Cloud on tho third
Saturday Of each month.
Special examinations will be held
on the Friday preceding the Sd Sat.
urday Of each month.
The standing desired for I'd and
Sd grade certificates 10 tho same--no
grade below 20 per cent, average 80
per cent; for 6rst grade esrtiacats-
no grade below 80 per cent, average
30 per cent. in oil branches required
BY Law.
D. M. HuNrsR. County Supt.
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A Trick Of the Huntsmsn.


During q visit to Montana q promi-
nent Chicago gentleman went with q
party Just starting for o grand "hunt
for big game in the Yellowstone re-
gion." he remarked to the leader,
"You cannot hunt in Yellowstone
park" "Oh, no." said the leader. 1--WE
% outside the limits Of the park, and II
the game won't come to use we know
how to manage to make 1t come" Such
excursions are not uncommon. and IL
Will not be strange II hungry Indians
should occasionally initiate their white
brethren. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Tee Dense Fer Him.
Stage Villain-Ahai The plot thiok-
sna.
Disgusted Auditor-Then I'm OF
Can't make head or tail Of IL now. and
III never - through IL Y II gets an1
thlekw.-lpnAn Tlt.Disl
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sons amendment. This was lost by q

sons amendment. This was lost by
division vote of Al to So.
Senator Tillman exclaimed that they
would never stop lynching unless they
made the people pay for it.
Mr.. George Johnstore arose to "say
only q word" amid general laughter.
He said that unless they put a large
amount in as the penalty they were
merely playing with the matter.
Mr.. w. D. Evans said they were not
going to stop lynching until they
stopped something else in the country.
He went on to speak on the same line
for some time.
MIR. Stanyarne Wilson called the
previous question on The whole article.
1t was not voted on, however.
Mr.. Bellinger moved to amend by
adding after the wold 'shall" the
words without regard to the conduct
of the officer"
ADOPTED.
Mr.. Patterson's amendment was
then put on straight vote and the
roll being demanded by Senator Till
man, the vote stood: yeas IS, nays 4S.
Mr.. Gilland asked some questions as
to the matter and then Mr.. Howell
wanted to know if it applied only to
the sheriffs. He was informed that it
applied to any officer having the pris-
oner in custody.
Mr.. Bellinger offered this amend
ment:
To insert the words, 'In cases of
lynchings the county shall"
Mr.. Wilson raised the point that the
previous question had been called.
The president stated that the previ-
Gus question had not been called. The
vote had not been put.
The matter was getting in such a
tangle, and it being the third reading
of the section, Senator Tillman rose
and calling attention to this fact, said
it was too Important a matter to fool
with lightly. He therefore moved
that it be allowed to 60 over.
Mr.. Glenn said that this matter was
more personal matter with the chair
man of the committee, and that gen.
tleman would be forced to be absent
after the morning session indefinitely.
He thought they had better finish it.
Then the section was continued. SEN
ator Tillman's amendment as amended
was left as follows:
provided also in all cases of lynch
ing the county where such iynchings
takes place shall without regard to
the conduct of the officer be liable in
exemplary damages not less than
81, 900 to the person so injured or to
the legal representatives of the
killed."
Mr.. W. D. Evans then sent in an
amendnent-the section and all
amendments being ordered printed in
the journal.
Mr.. Geo. Johnstone then renewed
his amendment-which provides that
the offending sheriff shall be tried in
the circuit of which his county forms
a part.
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uOWn.
Yhe Lee amendment was then adopt
ed and then the whole section was
adopted as follows:
Section 8. All railroads, express,
canal and other corporations engaged
| in transportation for hire, and all tele-
graph and other corporations engaged
in the business of transmitting intelli-
gence for hire, are common carriers in
their relative lines of business, and
are subject to liability and taxation as
such. 1t shall be unlawful for any
such corporation to make any contract
relieving it of its common law liabili-
| ty or limiting the same.
| SECTION FOUR AGAIN.
Section 4 was taken up, and passed
as follows:
Section 4. Every other than religi-
Gus, educational, or benevolent associa-
tions, corporation organized or doing
business in this State shall have and
maintain at least one agent in this
State upon whom process may be serv-
led, and at least one public office for
| the transaction of its business: Pro-
vided. That nothing contained in
this section shall be construed to por-
hibit the general assembly from pro
viding for the service of process on
any agent of railroad corporation
so as to bind such corporation: Pro.
vided further, That this section shall
not apply to mercantile corporations. u
i AS TO STREET RAILWAYS.
Mr.. J. K. P. Bryan moved to recur
to section 6 and offered the following
amendment, which was agreed to after
some discussion:
| Add to section E. ''All street rail,
way corporations having rights of way
or acquiring rights of way through the
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Elopes With Three.

FoLKEsToN, GA., November 12.-
The arrest of Adolphus Snowden near
here yc sterday is the sequel to re-
markable elopement Ten days
ago Snowden eloped from
Inverness, Fla, with Mrs. Mary
Burelson, Mrs. Salley Snowden and
Mrs. Alice Snowden, the two latter
being the lothario's sisters-in-law.
Snowden is 10 years old and insignif-
cant looking, while the women g e
aged about 80 and handsome. Each
of the women, besides husband, left
several children and a comfortable
home. Sunday the elopers were 10.
Gated near this place, where Snowden
was living in Mormon style with the
women. One of the women he rep
resented as wife, another as sister and
the third as aunt. Yesterday the de-
serted husbands came here and caus-
ed young Snowden's arrest. While
the women were In the boys presence
they were completely dominated by
him, but when the officers removed
him they broke down, and, weeping,
begged their husbands to take them
back. They claimed Snowden exer'
cised some strange influence over
they that they were powerless to re-
sist, and said he compelled them
against their wills to flee with him.
Snowden's doctor says the boy is an
unconscious hypnotist, and by this
power led the women astray. The
husbands have not decided what to
do with their erring wives.-Atlanta
Journal.
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Something Worth Knowing.

Prof. William Jones, of Harvard,
in his text book on Psychology, says:
"Could the young but realize how
soon they will become mere walking
bundles of habits they would give
more heed to their conduct while in
the plastic state. Every smallest
stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its
scar. The drunken Rip Van Wrinkle
in Jeferson's play excuses himself for
every fresh dereliction by saying: 81
won't count this time" Well, he
may not connt it, and kind Heav-
en- may not count it, but it is being
counted none the less. Down among
the nerve cells and fibers the mole
cules are counting it, registering and
storing it up, to be used against hin
when the next temptation comes.
Nothing we ever do is, in strict scien-
tific literalness, wiped out. Ofcourse.
this has its good side as well as its bad
one. As we become permanent
drunkards by SO many separate drinks,
so we become saints in the moral, and
authorities and experts in the practi-
cal and scientific spheres by so many
separate acts aud hours of work"
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The Cntton CroD.

The firm of Latham, Alexander G.
Co., of New York, is recognized as one
of the most reliable authorities on cot
ton estimates. The firm has an army
of correspondents all over the cotton
region, and its circulars contain valu-
able information.
On the 26th of October, they sent
out $500 letters of inquiry to ''select-
ed, reliable correspondents. To these
letters 2, 632 replies were received, and
they should form the basis of pretty
accurate estimate of the present cotton
crop. These replies are tabulated as
follows:
Average of 295 letters makes Alaba.
ma 33 per cent. decrease or $4,000
bales.
Average of PA letters makes Arkan-
sas 33 per cent. decrease or 10000
bales.
Average of So letters makes Florida
Is per cent. decrease or 81, 900 bales.
Average of 454 letters makes Geor-
gia 81 per cent. decrease or $4,000
bales.
Average of 153 letters makes Louisi-
ana 81 per cent. decrease or 378, 900
bales.
Average of 365 letters makes Missis-
sippi % per cent. decrease or 1854, 600
bales.
Average of 211 letters makes North
Carolina "a per cent. decrease or 3O7, 900
bales.
Average of 222 letters makes South
Carolina 26 per cent. decrease or 5s2,-
900 bales.
Average Of 162 letters makes Ten
nessee, ETC., % per cent. decrease or
252, 900 bales.
Average of 474 letters makes Texas,
etc., As per cent. decrease or 1,SO2,O 600
bales.
Average 1882; estimated total crop
of United States G, 6,435, 600.
The weight of bales this season is
10 to 10 pounds lighter than it was
last year.
Latham, Alexander & Co. have re-
ceived 2,418 letters giving estimates
of the crop from every State in the
cotton region. The average of them
all is $3.50, 900, which is considerably
larger than the firms estimate, based
on its latest information. Few of the
firms correspondents report any dis
position on the part of the planters to
hold back their cotton. 1t now seems
probable that the crop will not exceed
$500, 900 bales.
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same street or parts OF the same streets
of any town or city in this State shalt
use in common the same tracks in said
streets or parts of said streets, said
tracks so used in common shall be
built constructed and maintained at
the joint expense of such street rail-
way corporations.
The whole article was then sent to a
third reading.
THE NEW COUNTY MATTER.
Mr.. OTIS called up the section as to
new counties. Several amendments
were offered. On motion of Mr.. Nc.
Gowan the further consideration of
the matter was made the special order
for Thursday at noon.
TO SAVE TIME.
Mr.. Sheppard, from the committee
on rules submitted the following re-
solutions, which were laid over for
consideration TO morrow:
Resolved first, That when an article
or resolution is presented for consider
atom, the consideration thereof shall
not be interrupted save by recess or ad-
journment, until the same shall be dis
posed of.
Second. That the previous ques-
ton" is hereby abolished. That in
lieu thereof it shall be competent for
the convention to fix time at which
vote upon a pending question
shall be taken. The time intervening
between the date of the order
and the time fixed to be equally divid-
ed between the mover of the question
and the chairman of the committee, the
chairman of the committee, being en-
titled to a reply. The motion to fix
the time to be decided without debate.
Third. The motion to fix the time
for voting to take t e place Of the
"previous question" in the order of bust
ness as provided by rule Is.
Fourth. That no, member shall
speak more than 10 minutes without
the permission of the convention.
The convention at 10 40 adjourned.
COLUMBIA, Nov. 13.--Immediately af-
ter the reading of the journal this morn
ing, the resolution, offered by Mr..
Sheppard, on behalf of the committee
on rules, intended to expedite business,
were adopted without debate and with
out objection.
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What Smoking Does for Boys.

A certain doctor, struck with the
large number of boys under Is years
of age he observed smoking, was led
to inqnire into the effect the habit had
upon the general health. He took for
his purpose 3o, aged from 9 to Is, and
carefully examined them. In 81 he
discovered injurious traces of the
habit. In 80 there were various dis
orders of the circulation and diges-
ton, palpatation of the heart, and a
more or less taste for strong drink. In
10 there were frequent bleedings OF the
nose, 10 had disturbed sleep, and IL
had slight liberation of the mucous
membrane of the mouth, which disap-
peared on ceasing the use OF tobacco
for some days. The doctor treated
them all for weakness, but with little
effect until the smoking was discon-
tinued, when health and strength We're
soon restored. Now this is no "old
wife's tale." as these facts. are given
under. the authority of The Medical
Monthly.
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W$S$HBY $S$HBY 5S$H$Y

What do we want? We want every no.
tel, Restaurant, College and private house
in the South to send US their worn Silver.
ware to replate In triple silver. Old
spoons, forks. &C., can be made equal to
new. We plate anything In gold. silver,
nickel or copper. We plate pistols,
watches, chains, rings. badges and swords,
scabbards and other military accoutre'
ments cleaned and plated equal to new.
3uggie Rails and Trimmings, Harness
Trimmings, &c, plated in nickel or silver.
All kinds tarnished brass such as tenders,
shovel and tongs lamps, chandeliers, &C.,
Iefnished equal to new. Rusted stone
rails, trimmings, &C., re.nicke!ed. Surgicai
instruments Of all kinds polished and
plated.
WE WANT all bicycle owners to send
us their old wheel to repair. We can re-
finish in nickel and baked enamel equal to
new. We have latest improved Electro.
Plating Plant, with com plete polishing,
buffing and engine lathes and guarantee
work to be first class.
Correspondence solicited. Address,
CAROLINA ELECTRO
PLATING WORKS,
W. M. GARv1N. Manager, Blackvllle, s. o.
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ClfncinC to the Rigging.

LONDON, Nov. ia large bark is
ashore at Wembury Bay, Plymouth.
The crew has taken to the rigging.
There is a tremendous gale on and a
lifeboat and tug have been vainly try
ing for hours to reach the vessel. It
is feared that all on board will perish.
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A RritIsh Naval Disaster.

LONDON, Nov. 15.-The Admiralty
has received a dispatch from Shanghai
saying that the steam launch of the
British cruiser Edgar had been sunk,
with loss of forty-eight lives. The
disaster occurred off Nagasaki.
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Fifteen Were Drowned.

LONDON, Nov. 15.-The British
steamer Leo, from Odessa for Copen-
hagen, has foundered off the coast OF
Denmark. Fifteen out of twenty-five
persons on board were drowned.
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QU66r WagerS of
S6ueral G6ntUri8S
100000 BET ON THE sHAPELI-
NESS OF A LEG.
An English Knights Vanity.
Some Notable Plunges of
the Present Day.

The betting and gambling worlds were
amazed to read the other day of $4,000
loss that race-horse starter James F Cald-
well sustained at the Arkansas Club Of
Hot Springs, Ark. 1t was alleged that
Caldwell refused to make good" The
amount involved was large enough to
make the most inveterate faro fieuds talk,
but as Cald well has always rated as being
worth from $500 900 to $500, 900, and
classed as a thoroughbred sport, his friends
could not understand his failure to settle
This bet will go down In history as a
great wager, as y-thousaud-doilar
loss over the gren table in single night
is not an everyday affair. 1t has set the
sporting world to talking of other big
wagers that have been won and lost in
recent years, aud recalling with charming
gusto the nerve OF so and so in stapiing to
lose SO many tens of thousands of dollars
One bet that will always stick in the
heads OF racing men was that made by
Mike ID wyer in the summer OF 1891, when
"0ld Bones" Raceiand ran a mile and a
sixteenth against Tristan. 1t was the
first race of the season for the latter
horse, aud for weeks previous Raceland
had been running true to the highest kind
Of form and was regarded as sure win
ner. He was held at prohibitive rate
iu the books, TO IL being the best price
obtainable. The public and nearly all
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of muscle on his shapely anatomy. He
wears Roman girdle with medals strung
upon ii like the scalps and trophies adorn-
ing an Indian warrior. and bis chiefest en-
thusiasnls are those of the natural teacher
who forgets self in the progress of the one
whose care of physical development he in
this case has in charge.
He suspended instruction of his at pres
ent most promising pupil, young woman
OF eighteen years, with whom he expects
to startle the world across the footlights
next year, to talk about what his method
of physician culture Will do in general for
women.
II can make Of the human frame any
thing you wish said he enthusiastically.
Where a woman is too gesby a certain
plan of exercise will reduce her, and where
she requires developing / can also develop
her l have ladies coming to me daily
saying, wish to be reduced about the
hips, ;, or L wish to have abdominal reduc-
tious,' or my bust needs developing, or
my arms or legs are much too thin,' and
have set of exercises especially adapted
to their individual wants.
This young lady and here the pro-
fessor referred to bis pupil, who expects
to make her debut as professional strong
woman, ''has been under my care about
six weeks. aud SO rapidly has she devel-
oped muscle that she can now lift one
hundred pound weight with as much ease
as a man. ! say as man, because we
have been led to believe that the female
constitution would not lend itself as read
lily to physical development as the male.
IN point of fact, my women pupils
are far more ambitious, aud, therefore,
more satisfactory TO train. Perhaps
ouly one woman out of a hundred will be
as susceptible of muscular improvement
as a man, whereas ninety men out OF every
hundred think they would like to take
physical culture, yet that one woman will
walk way ahead of the whole ninety men.
"Theu you think womanis not the weaker
sex?''
"Certainly the Creator never intended
her to be the weaker said the professor,
with a laugh Has she not the greater
need of defending herself on account of her
being q woman? 1t is all nonsense that
she cannot fight; she should be taught to
hit out from the shoulder, the same as a
man does for she can do 1T.
'.See what history tells us, that the
women of Budapest saved the city from the
Turks by taking theirsta on the ramparts
and throwing stones down at the Turkish
army until they retreated- l believe In
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randa The dealer was told to trust
him to $4,000, but not a cent more
One night the Prince called early, ac-
cording to the story that was told at
the time, and after half an hours play
was ST 900 winner. He left the club aud
returned about midnight for another
bout with the tiger. He lost steadily,
and at olocck in the morning was
$4,000 to the bad. He wanted to keep
on playing, but the dealer refused. Mr..
Spencer, then proprietor of the club,
was hunted up, and he said not to go
beyond the SO 900 limit. Then the Prince
got mad, and it is said picked up chair
and smashed the delicately balanced
roulette wheel into small bits
WANTED EVERYONE TO WIN.
Pat Sheedy is credited with having
broken more banks than any man in the
country. One of his most famous coups
took place in John Daly's Twenty-nintb
street game, when it was running some
years ago. Sheedy is believer in "bull-
ing your luck" when winning, and he had
q winning streak on that night He in
duced the house to take the bridIe off,
half an hour stood $28 900 ahead. Every
play he made brought him more money,
his luck being truly miraculous. Pat was
In mighty fine humor, and whenever he
made bet he would say to the players
about him, NOW, boys, all get aboard
and wen copper the ace" Men who were