The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-01-22

if you need moro. Poor, poor WON
an"
An hour later and tho clergy man
reentered Mr.. Armour's Office.
"Well, how is sno?' was tho eager
inquiry.
Tho Clergyman, pulling out the
identical roll Of bills that had been
thrust in his hands short time be-
fore, replied:
"Mr Armour, | have brought you
back your money. cannot use It,.
Tho womon is qnito unworthy Of
your charity"
"Why?' demanded MIR. Armour
"Wcll, sir" as sanetimonious
look came into tho mans face, "no
wedding ring has over been on her
finger. Tho child is a child of sin"
But the women is without food"
"She is"
"Sho has no fire, no nurse, no
medcino?'
"None."
"Sho is in this dreadful plight and
you Il follower Of Christ. lefuso to
aid her?''
"Mr. Armour, I griovo to say,
cannot. Hor sin has found her out"
Thon the great packer, his face
pale with anger, pointed to tho door.
Sect ont! Get out! Thank tho
Lord they're not all like you!"
MIR. Armour tclcphoned to his wife
to get in her carriage and meet him
at the wretched abode Of tho sick
woman. He asked her to "pile in"
everything sho could think Of in tho
way Of delicacies and nccessaries to
supply tho immediate wants Of a
young mother and child. Ho thcn
telephoned his own physician, or
dered him to bring nurse and 20
with all haste to the help Of the sick
woman. Not satisfied with that, he
left his great business, and, jumping
into n cab, hurried to tho sick room.
THIS story illustrates the ~sympu-
thetic nature Of the man.
One of the Armour "poisoning
cases. had a serio comic side, al
though it had enough seriousness
from ono point of view 1t was in
1904 that Il poisoned bottle of wine
was sent to Mr. Armour and this is
the story connected with it. Two
discredited newspaper men who had
been kicked out of every Office IN
Chicago put their heads together to
produce fake" story that would
"sell' throughout the country.
They went 10 the city editor Of tho
Herald and told this story.
"Last night wo slept at q hotel on
tho North Side. We overheard two
men in tho next room conspiring to
send Philip d. Armour bottle of
poisoned wine. They declared they
would send it tho next night by
messenger boy from tho Palmer
house and would also send letter
signed Potter Palmer We desired
to lay for that messenger BOY. We
went up to Mr.. Armour's house just
at dark tonight and watched. Sure
enough about 8 o'clock mp comes the
boy with tho package under his arm.
Just rs he reached the Armour door
MIR. Armour came in from neigh
boris house and asked tho boy what
ho wanted. The lad gave him tho
package. Just then the door opened
and Mr. Armour signed the ticket,
gave the boy com, and then tho
door WAS shut. We rushed over,
rang the bell and after some little
time were admitted. We asked Mr..
Armour if he had received bottle
Of wine from Mr.. Palmer. He asked
'Why% Because it's poisoned,' I
said. He turned pale and rushed up
stairs. He was gono long time.
Then he came down and asked for
our story. We told him just as wo
have You. He gave us. $5 apiece
and took our address.
"You can verify this story. We
want 500 for the exclusive story in
Chicago and the right to schedule it
to outside papers, referring to you
as city editor to show it's straight"
"YOur warn is pretty thin.u soi1