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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05

the unexplained murder mysteries of
Alabama. When questioned at the time
the judge said: II had just and suffi-
Gent reasons for acting as I did"
Time and time has this case and its
strange denouemept come before my
.-,.''a, hare tried z: -c~-'.
solution which would be satisfactory
to myself and leave no suspicion upon
the memory of q member of the ju-
dietary whose character had always
been above reproach.
1t is all clear now. Judge Garrow
has passed to stand himself before q
Judge whose justice, it is to be hoped,
will be tempered with exceeding great
mercy for us all. / have before me this
statement, published in Monroe coun-
ty paper, and I give it here ns the
sequel to what have already recorded:
ITO Those Who May Be Living When I
Am Dead: believe II any shall desire to
look into my life history they will find
nothing that posterity shall be ashamed to
read upon my gravestone. Yet there is one
transaction Of my career as criminal Judge
which demands Of me an explanation. In
truth, l should have been ready to meet
that demand before passed away, but I
was 80 placed that my lips were sealed.
The wrong Of wrong did was in allowing
myself to be so hampered, but justice to an
innocent man weighed in the balance
against unjust suspicion toward myself.
This single act of mine for which may
have borne public condemnation was the
part took In securing a pardon for one An
drew Hastings, arraigned and convicted of
the murder of Amos Bivins at the fall term
of the circuit court In Monroe county. Ala,
October, 1867.
Without any attempt to criticise the mo-
tives of those who thought 1t wise amid
scenes OF desolation and lawlessness to hold
In check the passions of suddenly freed
slaves by an appeal to their superstitious
fears, /, with others of the judiciary, deter
mined that the time had come in the south
to restore law and order. With the deter
mination to make an example of the first
case that came under my Jurisdiction, re-
fused to interfere in the death sentence Of
Hastings. To this decision chung, although
daily importuned by Col George H.
Palmer. Hastings attorney. Never in my
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05
A LITTLE NONSENSE.


III don't like our DOCTOR" said Willie.
II went and caught cold bad enough
to keep me home from school for two
weeks, and the mean old doctor cured
me in less'n two days.
ueosge, wias 10 . pdi,;.
dictory?" Its the farewell address he
girl graduate reads to her weeping
classmates the night before she packs
her trunk to visit among them all sum.
mer."-Chicago Record.
"A Change of Heart.-"Thc minister
looked 80 feeble this morning when he
began to preach that / was afraid he
would break down." "Well?" "After
he began his sermon I was afraid he
wouldn't."-N. Y. Herald.
Don't you get awfully tired doing
nothing all the time?" asked the young
man who thought himself interested in
sociology. Mister" answered Peary
Pathetic. 81 git SO tired doin' nothin'
that 1 can't do nothin' else."-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
-Mistress-"Well, Bridget, how is
your husband ?" Washerwoman-"Sur
an he's all used up, num-" Mistress
"Why, what ails him." Washerwoman
-"Indade, thin, mum, last night he mad
SIGH bad dreams that he couldn't Shape
a wink all night, mum."-Harlem Life.
Miss Summit-"Mr. Travers just
sent me these lovely violets. He is so
generous, and 1 know he couldn't af-
ford it. The poor, dear boy, don't see
where he gets his money from" Dasha-
way (savagely)- know where he got
the money from in this case" Harlem
lite.
Dropped with Dull Thud.-"And
are you really the gentleman who writes
those funny things for the morning
paper?" asked the ingenious girl. Il
am" admitted the humcrist, with as
much modesty as he could command.
"There is one thing 1 would like to
know. What makes you put the name
of some other paper after the very fun
NEST ones "'-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The young man who is studying
medicine has fondness for that pursuit
which is not surpassed even by the devo-
ton to his bicycle. He found the tire
very much collapsed, and member of
his family remarked: "You had bet
ter pump it up right away" "Yes,"
was the reply, II shall Immediately pro-
ceed to give it a hypodermic injection
of atmosphere. "-Washington Star.
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experience on the bench had seen such
persistence and logged perseverance as
that lawyer displayed.
HE same to me one day-a week before
Hastings was to be executed-and said:
Judge Garrow, suppose / should give
you proof that another man killed Bivins,
would you recommend his pardon?
81 replied that If the proof was such as to
convince me of its reliability would GER
tainly feel called upon to interfere in the
condemned mans behalf.
but, judge he continued, you will
have to give me your solemn assurance not
to divulge what relate to YOU
II demurred to entering into any such
compact.
Remember he cried vehemently,
while you can wrong no man by your ST.
lence, yet If you do not listen to me you
will allow an innocent person to die upon
the gallows. l swear this before the living
God
His manner as much as anything else
overcame my scruples, and gave him my
promise so long as live not to reveal any
statement he might make to me. Then he
said:
Judge Garrow, the man Amos Bivins
met his death as an expiration for crime he
had himself committed. In Virginia just
before the close of the war, with squad of
marauding soldiers, he entered the home of
man who was bearing arms in defense of
the very fireside that was being ruthlessly
invaded and desecrated. Mother and chill
dren had to fee in the night. and she, the
mother, met her death from the exposure
and fright. This man Bivins was the only
one recognized, as he had sold goods about
the community from peddler's pack. The
hand which laid the blows upon his head
may not have intended to strike life away,
but reason lost its sway, and there was
naught to stay the avengers hand but
death
He paused a moment and letting his
hand fall heavily upon my shoulder. he ex-
claimed huskily:
Judge Garrow, / am the murderer!
HE brought to me the hickory stick, dark
In places with the stains of clotted blood.
reviewed his history, his conduct or the
case, how he had expended money and de-
voted his time with no hope of any re-
muneration; looked into his race. ana l
knew he had spoken the truth.
II believe If it had not been for what he
considered the justice OF his cause ana his
little children, he would have surrendered
at the first. 1t was undoubtedly his inten-
ton to have saved his client even II the
last resource should have been 10 take Inc
prisoners place upon the gallows.
There was nothing left for me to do but
to urge the pardon of Hastings, ana that
did. ]. g. Carlow,
Judge Munroe County Circuit"
It is not often desired to resurrect
unpleasant memories, but sometimes
justice to the living and to the dead de-
mand that the sepulchers OF the past be
invaded. So have given this bit of his.
tory, believing that am justified in do
ing SO, even if l had to drag from its
grave such CHASTITY skeleton as the
kulSlux klan.-Atlanta Constitution.
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back to me as wildly as at the time it &C.
Cured, now that startling revelation
has recently been mace, after the death
of the judge who sat upon the bench.
Although not more than boy, I wit
messed the trial of Andrew Hastings
with more absorbing interest than any
thing else in my life has since awakened.
I remember the gestures, the impas-
stoned face of Hastings attorney, Col.
George Harvey Palmer, and 1 can al
most repeat the very words he uttered
when addressing the jury. 1t was
wonderful defense he made-wonderfu
how he fought every inch of grouLd,
while a chain of strong circumstantial
evidence was Tightening the halter
about his clients neck. His cross-qucs-
tioning of the states witnesses was SO
exhaustive, his pleadings to the judge
and to the jury SO earnest as to arouse the
sympathy of many in the packed court
room. twas, as remember, the first i'm
portant case with which Col. Palmer
had been connected in Monroe county
courts. He had moved to Alabama from
Virginia and had been in his new home
but few months before the Hastings
murder case became the sensation of the
hour.
Last week Judge James C. Garrow
died in Monroe county, Ala, and among
his papers was found statement con-
corning the Hastings Casa statement
written to be made public after his
death. ] have read that statement, and
it, in connection with the trial Of An
drew Hastings, makes such a remarka-
BILE chapter of court history that have
written j: all down here.
It was in the days of the noted Eu-
klux khan, that organization which
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05
THREW GAMBLER OVERHEARD,
Sequel of a Poker Game in the Old Days
on the Mississippi.

Sequel of a Poker Game in the Old Days
on the Mississippi.
A stiff game of poker was going On
one night on Mississippi river steam
boat in the good old days of the Cos
Two men sat all night, but luck was
against one and toward the other from
the first. The lucky man was watched
closely by more than one in. the room.
who knew him for a professional gam
bier.
The other man was youngster. He
tried to keep from showing his excite.
ment, but couldn't hide it altogether.
He lost over 5000 before he came to the
end of his money, but after time he
called for show, putting $500 bill on
the table, aud saying: That's all
have"
The young fellow had played his last
stake, got up and turned to go. Pale as
he was he turned paler when he faced
the man who stood behind his chair.
This was stern-looking gentleman
of so.
"Why, father" exclaimed the younger
man; II didn't know you were on
board"
Don't go away" said the father stern.
~, taking the vacant chair with polite
question to the other players as to
whether he was welcome in the game.
The game went on, but lot in the old
way. The gambler was more cautious.
and yet he began TO lose. The play
grew higher when all the others had
dropped out except the gambler and the
stern old father. Suddenly the climax
came.
Don't move, Jim Baisley, or I'll blow
your brains out"
The gambler was pale to the teeth.
The elder man reached over with his left
hand and snatched the five cards the
gambler had dealt to himself. There
were three aces among them. With an
other quick motion he spread out the
pack and three more aces were shown.
Take that money, Harry"
The son did so, and every body waited
eathlessly. Just as the gambler made
a lurch at the older mans heart, the
latter caught his right hand with his
own left and seized him by the throat
with his right. There was short strug-
gle. but without shifting his hold the
planter lifted the gambler as if he were
a child. carried him out Of the saloon
and threw him over the low guardrail
into the river.
Nothing was ever done to the planter.
1t was fair fight, and they didn't
bother a gentleman for anything like
that in those days.-St. Louis Republic.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05
Candles for the Dinner Table.

The woman who does not appreciate
hc possibilities of candles misses an
effective means of making her din
aer table attractive. At a recent din
ner the centerpiece was of delicate-hued
orchids, the light cast upon the flow
ers coming from pale-green candles
screened by dainty green shades. In
the absence of candelabra, white cam
dlesticks are the wisest to invest in,
being suitable to any mode of decora-
tion,-Chicago Tribune
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05
Homeseekers' Excursions South.

On the 18th and 10th of June, also July O.
Z, % and 21st and several dates during Au-
& Eastern Illinois r. X. will sell first class
round trip tickets, good 81 days from date
of sale, for one fare plus 200 for the round
trip, to all points in Florida and the South.
Tracks, trains, time, all the best For fur
Their information address G w. Humphrey,
N. p A., st. Paul, MINI. City Ticket Office,
1s2 Clark St., or c. L. Stone, G. p. q I. A.,
Chicago
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05
A Sarcastic Girl.

accept my hand, Augusta" And the
maiden looked at the band, which was
something smaller than an average
sized salt-fish. hesitated moment, and
then said sweetly:
isn't there something off when you
take so large an order ?"-Texas Sitter.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05

FITS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use Of DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Res orer. Free 50 trial bottle
& treatise. DIR. KLINE, 933 Arch st. Phila Pa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05
THE JUDGES SECRET.

EVER before in the
history of the state
had an advocate at
the bar made such
a strenuous effort
to convince a jury
of the innocence of
the prisoner. Many
years ago it was
that the noted trial
took place, but the
III
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05
Might as Wei.

She-And will you buy me pony.
dearest, when we are married?
He Observation-Disclosures you rather
have schooner? - Detroit Free Press
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05

STRANGER-"Is there law in this town
against selling liquor on Sunday" Old
Resident-"Yes; but don't let that worry
you, my friend; there's no law against buy
ing it."-Roxbury Gazette.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05

"THE doctors seem always happy" ooh,
doctors don't take life seriously. detroit
Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05
Gladness Comes


w transient nature of the many phys
ical ills, which vanish before proper eff
forts-gentle efforts-pleasant Efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge, that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to constipated condi-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs. prompt
ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families, andis
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without facilitating the
organs on which it acts. 1t is therefore
all important, in order to get its bene-
fetal effects, to note when you pur-
chase, that you have the genuine arti-
Gle, which is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
all reputable druggists.
If in the enjoyment Of good health,
and the system is regular, laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. If
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative,
one should have the best, and with the
well-informed everywhere, Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05

III don't like our doctor" said Willie.
II went and caught a cold bad enough
to keep me home from school for two
weeks, and the mean old doctor cured
me in less'n two days."-Tit-Bits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05
EDUCATIONAL.

TNRANKLIN COLLEGE, New Athens. o. Tbtdf
cost, ell0 ". and way to earnit Catalog free.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-24

piece and each garment with the GER
tificate of an official inspector stating
the percentages of wool, cotton or shod-
dy there is in the cloth or the gar
ment Time was when buyers depend
ed on their own eyes and touch and
muscle to detect the quality of the
goods offered them; but that is now
deemed useless waste Of effort.
IL does not occur, perhaps, to these
saviors of effort that there is a COM
mercial test that is very much more
efflcacious than. would be the certifi-
cate OF any inspector, whom it is i'm
possible to endow with either the wis
dom or the honesty needed for the work
py the simple process Of appointment to
Office Shoddy is the waste product
utilized by our modern processes that
apply to manufactures the law of the
conservation of energy. 1t is an econ-
omy similar to that which has cheap
ened coal oil by the discovery and use
OF the by-products of petroleum. But
the the cloth made in whole or in part from
the rags that COST a couple of cents
pound can be made into garments
and sold at much. lower price than
can those made of wool, costing,
secured, a dollar a pound. So it comes
ABOUT, In a perfectly natural way, that
1t Is the price asked that tells the quail
lty lar more accurately than could the
ceftllcate OF any governmental in
spector. Sensible people know that ex-
ceiience of quality and increase of price
go together, and do not expect to get
something for nothing. Any one can
now buy the clothing his means permit,
put no one with common sense mag
ines that he can get clothing made from
wool at first hand at the price he can
IL mace from wool several degrees re-
moved from its first use in cloth.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-24

Of Ambassador Bayard, we assumed
that it was due to a sort of gushy
freshness and a mistaken idea that
mock heroics still formed good trading
stock for ambitious young politicians.
So, too, when he turned fiercely on that
South Caro1inian the other day and
proposed to censure him for some in
advertency of speech. in which he i'm
prudently declared that he was not
ashamed of having been a Confederate
soldier or something of that sort, we
wrongly attributed it to the same err
roneous idea of what cards are the
winning ones in the game of today.
But all these dark places are made
light by this Illuminating dispatch
from Boston. Bartlett has corns.
That is all that ails him and his some
times obstreperous colleagues in the
senate. They were damp days, prob
ably, when these outbreaks took place.
1t is physico-meteorologi fact that
on such days corns are peculiarly ram
pageous, and there was no Bostonian
chiropodist in Washington to allay the
aching excrescences. Hereafter one
may be able to diagnose these cases
more acorrat aIv
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-24
WITH INTENT TO ABUSE.

Apropos of Boomers. - Il don't object
Alice said the patient father Ito your try.
ing to make yourself look like a man All
OBJECT to Is the kind of man you succeed in
looking like. "-Cincinnau Enquirer
to marrying Mr.. Severance?
Mrs. Lakeside-A very serious ona tJa,s
paying big alimony already.-New York
Truth.
last evening? ~"
Willy Gndignantly)-What you are pleased
TO call tow Is usually spoken of by people
OF culture as blonde tresses.-Boston Globe
Mrs; Graves says her husband is the most
considerate of mortals. why" she says
II might wear bonnet for ten years and
he would never hurt my feelings by telling
me how shabby it looked. Boston Trans
cript.
Why did you countermand your order for
those fountain pens?
Jones-The agent took down my order
with lead pencil.-Puck.
From the Country, but She Knew.-EveIyn
, DID you Know, grandma, that cyclists
learn to ride in academies in New York?
Grandma Haytop-Did l know It? Well I
rather think 1 did L saw one of them
cycloramas the last time l was down to the
city.-Judge.
Arizona Editor-I see that the Eastern cult
still sticks to our new reporter.
Assistant-How's that?
Arizona Editor-In writing UP that tar
and-feather racket he mentions the victim
as being clothed in "a garb of some SOFT
clinging material"-Puck.
Men may come and men may go, but 1
go on forever"
Suddenly the brook stopped
DAM"
The one curse of long long life, which
had been going on forever, but which sud
denly came to full stop.-Pick-Me-Up.
Misunderstood tsaIiantly)-I couldn't
kiss any one but you, dear!
Shelf that's the case, you can't kiss me-
San Francisco Wave.
''All I demand for my client" shouted the
attorney, in the voice of a man who was
81 am very sorry l can't accommodate
you" replied the judge, but the law won't
allow me to give him than fourteen
years. "-Indianapolis Journal.
On Cross-Examination- What kind OF
meat did you have for breakfast"
Don't know
do you mean to say to the court that you
don't know what kind Of meat you had for
breakfast"
81 dot was sausage"
In a certain lunatic asylum the other day
a doctor was going his rounds, when he
was accosted by man who complained OF
suffering from a severe cold.
The doctor asked him If he knew how he
had caught it, and the reply was
Through drinking out of damp teacup""
The doctor smilingly advised him to see
that his cup perfectly dry in the future.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-24
MAKING ANOTHER CRUTcH.

The making of crutchess to save peo-
pie the trouble of depending on their
own legs for support and locomotion
goes merrily on. The ultimate end,
whether consciously aimed at or not.
is the elevation or depression of the
race to a condition where it will have
to do the least possible amount of
thinking, use the smallest quantity pos
sible- of self-reHance and have elm
mated to the farthest possible the OBJ
solete and absurd idea of seIf-de-
pendence. Eventually men are to be
dandled in the lap, tended by the
hand. and fed with the pap of that
benign, omniscient, tender, watchfuI
ideality, the Government Now the
senses of touch and. sight are to be
saved the trouble Of investigating the
cloths and garments offered for sale
to ascertain if they be really made
of the wool that grows on sheep or
that on Southern cotton fields; or
whether it be that sort of wool which
has made its several successive trans
migrations over the backs Of the sheep.
Of men and women and through the
shoddy mills back to the ready-nades
and the hand-me-downs.
The Ohio shepherds have at last dis
covered that shoddy is quite as dan
gerous a competitor as are, the focks
Of the Australias or, Buenos Ayres,
and that a process that utilizes wool
during five or six successive existences
in garments is equal to the multiplied
ton Of the foeks- the same number of
times And. assuming that no one
wishes to. wear shoddy who can get
..'all-wool,p6 or. at least, no one wish
ing to wear, aI-wool cares to get all
shoddy. they propose to save the good
people the use Of their eyes and fin
gers m discriminating. between wool
ems and shoddy by having. the State,
the Government, compel every manu-
facturer of woolens to label each
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-24
JAPAN7S CATHEDRAL
One of the Finest Structures tn II.
Found ia the Civilized World.

round in the Civilized World.
Chicago Chronicle.
When foreign architects visit Japan and
see the cathedral of Buddhism for the frsa
time they are generally astonished at tbA
Hasnlhcent structure. 1t is executed I'm nura
oriental style, and is richly ornamented with
carvings. ii. Ito, a famous builder of Nae1
oya CITY, designed it. The structure was
commenced in 1878 and was completed this
year. Inc cost has been estimated AT SIT
OOU'oOO. lt would greatly have exceeded this
amount had not numbers of Buddhists worked
wlthout any recompense AS the structure
Ieared completion the committee having tina
work III charge was much perplexed as to
hre insurance. They found that no companS
Wouia assume the risk on such a yaluabII
woouen structure. the danger of Destruction
Ny nre pelng very great. and thus thg
premiums would amount to an enormous
sum OF money. AT last the committee de-
cided on a design devised by Dr. Tanable
NUMBERS or powerful fountains were con-.
structed, both exterior and interior whicR
can be made to play all parts of tho
structure at the same time. Usually onIY
one great ornamental fountain is playin4
rising TO the great height of IT'S feet This
Is probably the largest artificial fountain in
existence, emitting 50, $50 gallons per hour,
In case of fire all this water pressure is djL
rected through fountains Thus every parb
OF the structure both inside and out could
soon be drenched, and any confiagration SOON
eXtinguShed.