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[ Tbe Abbeville Press and Banner. PUBLISHED WEEKLY ? AT ? ABBEVILLE, S. C. Have you taken 15 minutes off to learn Esperanto? Dear, dear, when an asbestos plant towns, where does safety lie? In time to come man may evolve a Wunderproof, wrecklesa railroad. Paris has thoughtfully relegated the Jiobble skirt to the museum of horrors. In the agreement between Korea and Japan the latter did the agreeing for both. A Long island milkman mistook a mule for a cow. Moral: One cannot be too careful. A determination to practise what ^re preach keeps us from doing too much preaching. "Kondamnlgughin," the cuss word in Esperanto, is ornamental, but too *uug iur pracucui use. There ought to be a greater difference between civilization and the merely complicated life. Men may beat the birds flying, but the birds don't have much trouble with their propeller blades. "A woman-hater has been captured by cookies." More than one manhater has been won by dough. Europe cannot expect to experience A cholera epidemic and an epidemic of / American tourists at the same time. In the coming sham battle of areoplanes is the ^contest to see which crowd of aviators hurt themselves least? Washington has displaced the eagle and has made the woodpecker the state bird. This will make Old Baldy red-headed. ______ Occasional showers are useful, but the weather man should not go away on his vacation and forget to turn them off. It has been decided that a divorced woman Is the widow of her former husband. This classes husbands with the dead ones. Marr'ed m?n, according to statistics, are subject to fewer accidents than mre single men. Somebody is keeping tab on their hours. ' An Illinois man has patented a safety pin with two points. However, wearers of the gallus are still waiting Jot the two-headed nail. _________________________ , It may be marvelous, but it Is human that Susie, the pet ape, should refuse chewing gum simply because her teacher tells her to? The Philadelphia man who was choked to death by a high collar died m death that ought to turn Harry Lehr and Berry Wall green with envy. Half a million in counterfeit coin has been recovered by the United Btates in the past year. Has any one heard of any real money being recovered? . Correspondents are arguing that a Be is occasionally justifiable and a Brooklyn Judge decides that "dam" I# not profane. Belug good is becoming easier. In Paris filet of beef is worth 50 cents a pound and only cheap cuts of horse meat are as low as 20 cents. No wonder they! call It "that dear Paris." The language of the North American Indian and the Japanese contain no cuss words. What a handicap when mn aborigine hit his finger with a prehistoric ax! ? Canada has discovered that it has $39,000,000,000 worth of peat bogs and Jt Is wondering how it can Induce its YlAnnlA tn 11GO nont at n 1/^tu nnct In jweference to coal at high cost. The uncle of the King of Portugal, "who saw a man killed in a street fight among ruffians in New York, is now In a position to go home and write a book about American civilization. Esperanto will never offend against the pure-food laws, unless Its advocates, being merely human, revolt against its limited expressions for emotional relief. Its vocabulary does not contain a single swear word. England is now figuring on a gasiriven battleship to render obsolete all vessels of the Dreadnought type. People over there must sit up nights thinking of new ways to spend public money. A Poughkeepsie man who went to | California to accumulate a fortune rapidly has just returned after an absence of 51 years. The old gentleman will probably put in the rest of his days reading all the get-rich-quick literature he can find and giving it the ha ha. In the presence of all this wonderful aviation on the other side of the ocean It would seem to be high time lor Americans to do a few stunts; or 1s It to be said that an aeroplane is to have no bcnor in its own country? Army experts who claim that it is hard to hit an airship with a rifle ball "will merely whet the aspiration of the prize imbecile who thinks it a joke to &hoot at a passing aviator. Smuggling diamonds through the the scteerage is a dodge which failed to work with the alert New York customs authorities lately. The smuggler argued that the authorities would not think of looking in the steerage for valuables, and the authorities argued the steerage nuglit think just thrt way. IN OLD SOUTH CAROLINA | Cream of the News Gathered From P All Sections of the Commonwealth For Oar Many Readers. Spartanburg Boy Corn Growers. j 0 There are 3,000 boy farmers of the State who are members of the boy's g corn clubs. The organization of these clubs has aroused much enthusiasm and there will be at least $10,000 in prizes to be given for the best results shown. Curtis V. Bishop, who is 12 years c or age, William Broadus Bishop, who ^ is 14 years of age, have produced a ^ remarkable acre of corn in Spartanburg county and the indications are ^ that at least 100 bushels will be ob- . tained by the two boys from the acre. They have done all K>f the work c by themselves and have kept a record s giving all of the details as to how t the great yield was secured. Greenville Dirt Like Gold. * The biggest .price yet paid for a piece of Greenville real estate was I paid by the American Home Fire I Insurance Company to the American I Pi rip fV>mnanv. The T>rw>e agreed upon for the structure "which is on Main street, is $35,000, being exactly T $1,250 per front foot. t It may be interesting to note in this j. connection that the building -which 1 changes hands at $35,000 was sold ten years ago for $12,000. Tlhis will i give an idea of the remarkable in- c crease in property values of Green- 3 ville in the past decade. . a . a Rock Hill, S. C.?H. R. Mills, Methodist pastor in this city, has asked to I be dismissed from the pastorate of t the church. ( This decision grew out of a de- fc claration some time ago by the min- x ister that he and his wife could not S live together. In his statement Mr. x Mills said there was absolutely no blame to be attached to any one: t that it was simply a case of incom- i patibility of temper and that under the circumstances he did not feel as I he could continue work in the ministry t ? ri i x* 1 ?' x ^ i-L ~ mr. mills ana iamiiy c-ame iv mc Rock Hill church from Kentucky and t he has been, pastor of the St. Johns I Methodist church here for the past a two years. The presiding elder had no authority to release him. An investigating committee was appointed and they J found no charges, reporting that a trial of the minister before the South Carolina conference in December 1 would be necessary. c i 1 J Five Cars Sawdust AlcohoL v Three hundred and fifty barrels of t ethyl alcohol were shipped from t Georgetown by the Wood Waste'Pro- t duets Company, via the Baltimore and Carolina Steamship Company's steam- t er Theodore Weems, to Baltimore, a The shipment will make up five cars \ of alcohol and is consigned to the In- s ternational Powder Company at a I point in New Jersey. This shipment e is the first that has been made from F this plant, which is producing thif valuable liquid from refuse lumber t and sawdust by a method heretofore ? unknown. 1 The peculiar alchol thus produced i Urt 4-i 1 iAvf^incnroiv in +Via I a will UC WAK&uoxrvtj manufacture of explosives. ? l? * \ High Grade Lexington Cotton. ( According to TV. P. Roof, of Lex- . ington, the "well known cotton mill president, the staple this year is the best it has been in a long while.' The p lint is exceedingly long, and it makes li the manufactured product very much I better than the cotton of former years, f This fact is due largely to the improv- t ed farni methods, the better fertiliza- s tion of the crop and to the improved e ainnerv systems. a Whisper of Palmetto Leaves. The Lexington Manufacturing com- ? pany, which has been shut down for c three months, is again running on full i time. e Greenville will probably be the first r city in South Carolina in which the s postal savings bank will be put in i operation. t The managers of the Chester county r fair are actively at work .pushing along perparations for the occasion, t which is to be held on the 26th and 1 27th of October. ' F When the city building is completed this winter Greenville will have the distinction of having no less than t seven Y. M. C. A. organizations. i W. B. Gruber, of Walterboro, has i decided to be a candidate for associate \ justice of the State supreme court, if t the proposed amendment to the State I constitution is adopted. i The Spartanburg County Fair, at i Spartanburg, has been posponed from i 9S.OR in VnvpmVior 8-11 on i account of Hie prospective appearance i in Spartanburg on Otcober 26 of a 1 circus. < The dates fixed for the County Fair are the 9th and 10th of November. This being Kershaw's first County Fair Camden citizens are working i hard to make at a success. > Chairman Earle of the railroad commission will attend the national convention of railroad oommissiyners ; which will convene in Washington on November 15. The Tri-county fair of Batesbunr, the dates for which are set for Oc tober IT, IS, l!J, uu, jl <0,110 n, promises to he larger and better than * ever this year. The law of South Carolina provides a license of .$2,000 to solicit laborers to leave the State and lie who solicits them without a license is liablp to a fine of $1,000 or sentence to hard labor from four months to two years. Amlerson Farmer's Union warehouse stock will be increased from .*20.000 to $40,000. At present t ie warehouse holds about 1.20!) bales. There is excellent work on Highways beimr done i:i York county. Dot T.ivlur. t!?:? neuro convicted of i i i iran>Iau.!\;t er 121 court, was <riveil t-!:irtv vrars. * % i ?w york mm dominated by Republicans for Governor of New York. AWYER HENRY LEWIS STIMSON >ld Guard Overwhelmed?Ex-President Will Stump the State For Ticket?Nominee's Record. Saratoga, N. Y.?The Republican It-ate convention nominated Henry L. Jtimson of New York City as its candidate for Governor. The nomination f Mr. Stimson was one. more victory or Colonel Roosevelt, who personally ed the fight for the nomination of his andidate, completing the unbroken eries of triumphs from the moment he convention was called to order unil its final adjournment. The vote or Governor stood as follows: Henry L. Stirapson, 684; William S. Jennet of New York, 242; Thomas B. )unn of Rochester, 38; James B. McJwau, of Albany, 28; scattering, 23. Henry Lewis Stimson first came >rominently into the public eye as Jnited States district attorney for he southern district of New York, a >ost to which he was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in January, 1906. In bis three years and two .months n office Mr. Stimson prosecuted soalled suga^ trust and the New fork Central Railroad for rebating md secured the imposition of fines aggregating nearly $400,000. The proceeding to compel the late Cdward H. Harriman to answer tjuesions put to bim by the Interstate Commerce Commission was also won ' -?* J 1 _j. >y Mr. onmson ana ms ne.\i< cuuti, ictory was against the American >ugar Refining Company for fraud in reighing imported sugar. This case resulted in the governae.nt recovering more than $2,000,000 n duties from the trust. Mr. Stimson is 43 years old, having leen born in New York City Sepember 21, 1867. He graduated from Yale in 1888, hen studied law at Harvard and in sTew York City. He is married and is i member of a number of clubs. OPINION ON BIGAMY. Fudge Decides Marriage Meaningless txrv? ATI Cannnr? tAlift* TTnAWO nf Pi rot. II iiCU M&V/VUU (T AAV MM V TI kj V* * Spartanburg, S. C.?When Paul Xvlor was being tried here on a barge of bigamy, Judge Robert A. Udrich ruled that one cannot be conieted of this offense if\ the woman hat he marries the second or any ime after is aware of the fact that he man already has one living wife. It was clearly evident that Taylor cas guilty and all expected a verdict iccordingly by the jury. However, rhen his second wife was put on the tand she tokl the court that she :ne,w Taylor was already married and iven in the face of this accepted bis >roposel. Judge Aldrich took the view that his did not constitute bigamy and Solicitor Otts disagreed with him. The judge said that the second cereoony in the face of the evidence was i mere meaningless form. Notice was riven by the solicitor that the case, rould be carried to the Supreme ?ourt. Pour Fish Weigh 4,000. Long Branch, N. J.?One of the biggest catches of the fishing season lere is credited to Ca;pt. Hiram jockwood and the little crew of his ishing smack Dinah. Jhe boat >rought in four fish which tipped the calesjat an average of 1,000 pounds a eh. The catch included three sMrts md a horse mackerel. Increased Pay for R. R. Men. Houston, Texas.?After conference xtending over several weeks, officials if the Southern Pacific railroads and epresentatives .of the dissatisfied smployes of the car-repairing department of the road have announced an ijrreement providing for an increase n wages of 2 cents an hour and cerain shop rules demanded by -the car nen. The increase in wages will not apply o those employes who have already >een granted a voluntary raise in >av. Capt. Hains to be Dropped. Washington.?It is probale that he President will recommend to the lext session of Congress the enactnent of some legislation that will insquivocally permit dropping Capain Peter C. Hains, Jr., from the irmy. Captain Hains is now confined n the penitentiary under a sentence :"or killin? William E. Ann is' in a it of jealousy and the law governing such a ease is so complicated that an intendment is deemed necessary to lermit dropping array officers convictid of a felony from the army roll. Blind From Practical Joke. Newark, X. J.?MLss Lucy Burton, i young society woman of Dover, wii> n rob ably be blind for life the result of the practical joke of a youth, the son of a neighbor. Miss Burton was ascending in an elevator at a local dry goods store when the practical joker blew a tube full of red pepper into her face. With a screen she sank to the floor of the elevator. She has been unable to see since tbe occurrence and oeculists hold out little hope that sight can be restored. Gov. Haskell's Case Stopped. McA lister. Ok la.?The trial of Governor Haskell of Oklahoma in the Muskogee town lot cases came to a sudden end when the government announced that under the restrictions laid down by the court it would he unable to make out a case against Haskell or nnv of his co-defendants. Governor llriskell and three other defendants were charged in an indictment returned by a Federal grand jury with conspiracy to defraud the government in the disposal of town lot sites at .Muskogee, Okla. A CROOKED BUCKET SHOP Office of Seven New Yorkers Raided by Government Agents?Using the Mails to Defraud. New York.?Following one of the most sensational raids ever made by Federal authorities in this city, directed against the firm of B. H. Scheftel & Co., brokers in Broad street, seven members of the company, including B. H. Scheftel, its president, were held in 'heavy bail by United States Commissioner Shieds for 'hearing on a charge of using the mails to defraud.. Aocording tfo agents of the Department of Justice the Scheftel company has been engaged in promoting the sale of mining securities of doubtful value in all parts of the country. Estimates of the firm's dealings are placed as high as $5,000,000. A +llA /)Am_ AllOUier Oliaxgc ojaura I/U^ vvr^A pany by George Scarborough, the government inspector who made- the complaints, is that it had resorted to what he called a "crooked bucket shop scheme." He declared the concern had charged customers 6 per cent on margins and had collected commissions without rendering any service in return. The difference between the actual prices of stocks on the curb market and fictitious quotations given customers, Scarborough also allegs, was converted to the company's use. The raid was made while the curb market was in full swing and attracted much attention. Thousands rushed to the scene and .police reserves had to be called out to clear a path for the partrol wagons. GROW RICE. Production Less Than Consumption? The CroD of 1909. Washington.?The cultivation of lice, which forms the principal food of one-half the population of the earth and which when combined with legumes (beans, peas, etc.) is a much cheaper complete food ration than wheat and meat, has a bright future in the South Atlantic and gulf States, according to A. Knapp of the Department of Agriculture. While the production of rice in the United States is generally slightly less than the consumption, Mr. Knapp says there is no satisfactory reason why this country should not grow and mill all the rice it needs and become an exporter. The total production of the rice-growing States? North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas?in 1909 was equivalent to about 688,901,600 pounds of cleaned rice. The annual average imports of cleaned rice are about 120,648,311 pounds and the imports of broken rice, flour and meal, 62,806,603 pounds, the whole having an average value of $3,200,011. Thus the rice production in this^ country can be considerably increased before the home market will be supplied. "Pittsburg's Big Land Show." Pittsburg.?The agricultural resources of the South and the many advances which that section offers to the homeseeker are going'to be made a distinct \ feature of the National Land and ^irrigation Exposition, popularly known as "Pittsburg's Big Land Show," to be held in Pittsburg October 17th to 29th, through the exhibit which the Southern Railway Company has arranged to make through its Land and Industrial Department. In addition to the exhibit by the Southern Railway the Pittsburg show is endeavoring to secure a number of exhibits from chambers of commerce, boards of trade, and other organizations in the South, interested in the development of that section. Children Play Doctor. Covington, Ky.?While playing doctor a son and a daughter of Thomas Cobb swallowed carbolic acid and died soon afterwards. They were 5 and 7 years old. The children were playing in the kitchen of their heme during the ' absence of their mother. They found ? r\P />orKn.U/? nroil (I ISVl/l/lV; \J J. VUA UV.iV MVAM. "Lett's play doctor," one suggested. They obtained two spoons and two glasses, divided the acid into two portions, which they swallowed. Another Monument at Gettysburg. Gettysburg.?In the presence of an assemblage numbering many thusands, the memorial of the Pennsylvania soldiers who fought at Gettysburg July 1, 2 and 3, 1863, was dedicated. Among the number were nearly five thousandveterans of the Civil War from this State, all of whose names appear' on the bronze tablets surrounding the facade of the memorial. The memorial was erected at a cost of $140,000. Commissioner For Marking Graves. Washington.?It is expected that the President will soon appoint a commissioner for marking t"he graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors who died in Northern prisons during the civil war. That office has been vacant since the death of Col. William C. Oates of Alabama a few years ago. The work of marking niese graves nas ul-uh iu progress for several years, in accordance with the Foraker act making provision for it. Baptists Object to Present Lesson. Nashville, Tenn.?Leading men of tlve Baptist denomination, representing practically every Southern State, met here to decide a matter which will interest the entire religious world. These men constitute a lesson committee, appointed at the Southern Baptist Convention recently in session at Baltimore wild their action will doubtless mean the first breaking away from the international Sitndav school lessons in use practically all of t! :> lending denominaj tions since 1872. y- " ' ' ' " ,\- V V. . FEAR YELLOW MEN.1 Trouble Threatened Similar to Boxer War. WARSHIPS ARE IN READINESS. i Not So Much Opposition to Chris- ( tianity as Foreigners in General? National Spirit Growing. ( c t Washington.?China is declared to ( be on the verge of another upheaval, J rimilar to the Boxer uprising and the 3 lives of foreigners are in jeopardy. Advices received here recently from < government officials in China express { the belief that an outbreak at any j time -would not surprise them. The J State Department has instructed its , diplomatic and consular officials to maintain a close watch on the internal conditions. All through' the summer months there have been mutterirtgs of discontent in some of the Chinese provinces, due to the rice famine, dynastic difficulties and dissatisfaction "rsf Polrin o-nvflrnm^nt, RS U>C1 ftVl/O V/JL vug A VttlU . w*. % .., _ to foreign investments in China. Good harvests mitigated to some extent the gravity of the situation, but there is still a general feeling of unrest according to personal letters reecived here from men on dirty in that quarter. The army and the navy are prepared for any emergency, but their readiness is solely a precautionary measure, it is said, and should not be take.i es an indication of .immediate danger. Authentic advices frdra those charged with keeping in touch with conditions indicate that the only thing lacking to parallel the situation with that preceding the Boxer troubles; which drew into China the American forces as welbas those of other nations, is the matter of organization and that it only needs a leader to effect that. Every vessel in the Asiatic fleet, as " -i - _;i:i e ? ^t. \fon41o well as tne military ivrtcs at iu?uu? is prepared for almost instant action in the event the trouble breaks. Revolutionary uprisings are of greater or less frequency throughout China and it is recognized by Washington authorities that trouble is liable to occur at any time in some of the provinces. Boston.?No reports of unrest in China have been received recently at the headquarters here of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. The unrest in China in the belief of the American board officials is the result of a newly awakened national feeling among the Chinese people. The slogan of an ever increasing element, "China for the Chinese," has been heard throughout the empire and the anti-foreign feeling is not directed against the missionaries as Christians, but rather because they are foreigners. The American board's mission sta^ tions in China are divdied among three districts, Foo Chow, South China and North China. Richmond's Rapid Growth. Washington.?Censu^ figures for Richmond, Yd.., gives out by the bureau give that city a population of ? n ac% 127,628. Tins is an increase 01 578 or 50.1 per cent since 1900, when the city's population was 85.050. Gar Men Get a Raise. v Atlanta, Ga.?Nine 'hundred motormen and conductors of the Georgia Railway & Electric Co., operating the Atlanta city and suburban lines have been of an advance in wages of one cent an hour, effective October 1. The action of the company was voluntary. $1,347,713,686 in Banks. Washington. ? National banks of the United States have reported resources of $9,826,181,452 and reserves of $1,347,713,686 in answer to the frail for their condition which was issued on September 1. "'Tko otinivi'nor nf thn national banks is not only satisfactory, but reassuring," v said Lawrence 0. Murray, Comptroller of the Currency, when he made the returns public. "The reserves are more than 21 per cent greater than required by tjie law." Woman's Murderous Revenge. Anderson, S. C.?To get even with her husband who, she said,has mistreated her, a negro woman living on the plantation of Mr. J. J. Smith, near Starr, S. C.. placed her two children. aged 1 and 5 years respectively, in a barrel of water beneath a drain at 'her home, and then fired the house. The younger child was drowned, but the other managed to climb out of the barrel and told the neighbors of the act. She was arrested and has confessed. Preacher's Automobile Trouble. I Roanoke, Va.?The trial of the Rev. | S. C. Caldwell, a Presbyterian minister of Newborn, N. C., on a charge of scaring a team of mules with his automobile near Rooky Mount, Va., has been set for October 6 at Rocky Mount. Mr. Caldwell is visiting relatives of his wife near Roarjoke. He .11-^1 finrr liovn .mil was UtHiUllCU UJJUI1 Hill'..., later released by the Roanoke police upon bond guaranteed by a Roanoke divine and was not locked up. Murderous Strikers. Irwin, Pa.?Over a hundred revolver and rifle shots were fired into the 'homes of Superintendent Leevigood and Fore-man .John Olsen of the Pennsylvania (!as and Coal company's I mines at Claridjre. The two families, I each of which includes a half dozen ' children, escaped injury by lying flat! on tTic floors of their bedrooms while tiii' bullets spattered their windows' and mirrors and hronirht down the | piaster. The attack was made by a j large gang of men. { ' ' ' ' - . r" , ' ' -i"'v > ' " [HE WORST OF GRAFTERS [ Combination of Prominent Men Swir.dled the Illinois Central Railroad in ^ Cold and Heartless Manner. ? n n - - j_* _u ? C" V/fllCEgO.?A. V. UWUHUU, a wu- ^ :essed go-between, and Henry C. )stermann, fomerly president of the ^ )stermann Manufacturing Company .'or the prosecution, vied with each >ther before Municipal Judge Brugjenmeyer in stripping bare the series )f the alleged combination which is :harged with swindling the Illinois Central Railroad Company by car in repair frauds. cc Goodrich described in detail meth- fc )rds which be said Illinois Central oi >fficers used to conceal their identity ' is stockholders in the Ostermann re- h< pair concern. In testifying Oster- ti mann said that certain payments to uhe railroad officers were isade by w checks to Goodrich. er Photographs of $35,000 worth of I1 checks, signed1 by F. H. Nilcs, presi- oi dent of the Blue Island Car & Equipment Company, were 'then inttoduced m j?y Attorney Fisher for the prosecu- W tion. Goodrich identified the endorse- M ments on them as having been made ci by him. Niles went on the stand sev- al eral days 'ago and testified that pay* D menits for Harriman were made to m Goodrich. fll The name of Ira G. Rawn, late p: president of the Monon Railroad and hi formerly vice president of the Illinois c< Central Railroad, was again brought into the proceedings when Goodrich p: testified that on December 18, lyuy, " he wrote a check for $10,000 to Ira a] G. Rawn.' The $10,000 check he said tl was in return for two $5,000 checks f< which were sent to Goodrich on De- ?< cember 13 and were signed by Niles. 1^ In connection with the formation of ri the Mejnohis Car Company, Ostermann told how stock was issued and to whom. Two new names, those of u H. H. McCourt, general superinten- ir dent of the Illinois Central lines south ci of the Ohio river, and W. S. King u< general superintendent of the Yazoo 1! & Mississippi Valley Railroad, were a mentioned by Ostermann in this con- E nection. ' a "Stock was issued in certificates of l! 161 shares ej^ch in the Memphis Car s< Repair Company," said Ostermann. .j "This stock was divided among Ira p G. Rawn, F. B. Harrimann, Joseph B. E Buker, W. S. King, H. H. McCourt, V "William Benshaw, J. M. T<aylor and ir Secretary Ward of the Memphis com- c pany. At the suggestion of Mr. s) Buker I had all the stock made out n in my own name. I know thai Rawn, n Harrimann and Taylor got their shares and I suppose the others did, v too." . ; fci The witness then went into a detail- n ed 'history of the organization of the n Memphis Oar Repair Company. Later v on Ostermann said he was told to is- e sue stock to Mr. Rawn and Mr. Har- I rimann. c Ostermann then declared that ca# a repair companies paid Illinois Central officials a bonus as high as $25 a car li for each one sent to them for repairs n and made "presents" of varying sizes fc to all grades .f employes for vigilance in detecting and reporting "bad or- t der" cars. He declared that the C amount charged on each car by the repair companies was regulated directly by the Illinois' Central officers interested in the alleged grafting. I t No New Quarters and Halves. j Washington.?There will be no sup- p ply of bright, new quarters and half a dollars for shopkeepers to hand over p their counters at holiday time this '{ year. o Requests for 1910 coins of that de- s nomination are already" coming I through the banks to the Treasury t Department. The banks say their \ laTge customers demand the new coins i at 'holiday time for advertising. c Mountain Sliding on Railroad. Spartanburg, S. C.?The officials of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio rail- 1 road are having a serious time with a s slide ten miles north of Marion, N. j C? at Honeycut mountain. On ac- i count of -the slide the line has been t closed to freight traffic for several t days. A line has been built around1 the slide. f The whole side of the mountain is f said to be moving down on the track \ and the present plan in to let the slide \ take its course and tunnel through it. i Prize Winning War Vessels. Washington.?The battleship Nebraska is announced as the trophy c winner and the Montana, California j and Mississippi as star ships which at- ? tained ninety-five per cent of the mul- . tipls of the 'trophy winner in a statement given out by the' Navy Depart mcnt on the results of the engineering c competition 1909-1910 for the battle- i ship'trophy. The Colorado stood low- t est in the list. The Preble won the destroyer tro- t phy. i New Postal Bank Plans. ^ Washington.?Postmaster General Hitchcock has presented for the con- ( ' o tho I r Slcleration 01 ine r i-owcm v Cabinet the complete plans for the 2 new-postal savings bank system. The plans were accepted by the c Board of Trustees. The entire j scheme is presented in the most minute detail. 1 No bank books are to be used. Re- g ceipts l'or the deposits will be made in \ two ways, by stamps and by certificates. c Buried in His Native Land. New York.?In fulfillment of his dying wish, expressed more than I thirty years ago, tlie body of Lieu- t tenant-General Francisco Vicente t Asuller. hero of the tcn-year-war in i Cuba, will be disinterred from its i I resting place in Calvary Cemetery I here and sent to his native land, f 'When my country is free and takes j Iior niace among the nations of the earth, Mien. and not till then, let my ] lji:dv l?o taken to Cuba for burial.'* t was I.-! 11* prayer <>!' Avrniler on the day 1 of his death, February 'J'J, 1877. ? ?v-*.' y - ' "< ? ' WRAT CHOSEN o Fight Tor Governorship of New York. 9 rATE CHAIRMAN DIX THE MAN . - : . . ' h ' fter Promise of all Other Candidates to Support Him Dix Accepted Nomination?Sketch of Life. / ' i New York.?John A. Dix of "Washgton county, chairman of the State >mmittee, was chosen as candidate r Governor on the Democratic Jicktt : New York Democratic convention. Mrs. Dix, who had be?n opposed to ir husband's accepting the nominaon, said: "T! 1~ J J T>? T 1 III ^LiSAA anu 1 HI SUii j? x uiu uvv ant it because I thought John had lough to do already, but* of course m glad he "has been honored and ? course I shall be with him." "He has shown himself a big an," was the comment of Edward [. 'She<pard when told of the selection, [r. Shepard was the first of the indidates for the nomination to jandon his own claims in favor of ix. Earlier in the day Mr. Dix had ade it a condition of 'his acceptance ia't all the other candidates should romise him their support. From dw many he received -this pledge ' mid not be ascertained. The platform adopted pledged the arty first to the preservation of the old nationalism." It condemned II aMacks upon the Supreme Court of le United Sattes." It declared >r sovereign St efcarghtis HR RDDL >r sovereign State rights, "for the irgest possible measure of home lie for all cities' of the States.'' John A. Dix is 50 years old, havlg been born in frlen Falls, N. Y., l 1860. He received Jus early eduition in home schools and was gradated from Cornell University in B82. His business career began as member of the firm of Renolds & ix, marble dealers, and later he was ssociated with a lumber firom. In , 389 he married Miss Gertrude Thom'n. . In politics Mr. Dix first became rominent as the chairman of the emocratic county committee. of Washington county, >a position which idirectly led to his forming a county baii-mans' organization in which tie trove for more power for the chairlen as against the State committeelen. ' Two years ago with Lewis Stuyesant Chanler as the head of the icket, Mr. Dix wias the Democratic ominee for Lieutenant Governor, leeting defeat. At ibe Buffalo conention in 1906, at which the Demorats nominated Hearst for Governor, )ix himself received 17 votes for Govrnor. He refused to sarfction HearsJ nd bolted the convention: In June last Mr. Dix succeeded Wil- < jj iam J. Conners of Buffalo as chair- j ran of the Democratic State commit- I ee. In 1872 John A. Dix, a cousin of he present nominee's father, was rovernor of New York. President Talks of PrisonsT Washington, District of Columbia.? n receiving the delegates to the Inernational Prison congress, President jaft fvutioned them against making >risons so comfort a trie as to iurnisn i motive for violating the law. The (resident said that sometimes when, te 'had visited the prisons of this rovernment 'he had thought they were tronger in theory than in practice, le expressed the hope, however, that bis government now had prisons rhich illustrate at least some of the mprovements the prison congress reommended. , Four-Toed Horse Skeleton. ftew York.?The skeleton of a lorse which must have been about the ;ize of a modern fox terrier and had 'our toes, has been found in Wyoning by an exploring party sent by he Amerjcan museum of natural hisorv. The skeleton represents the oldest mcestor of the horse of today ever ound on the American continent. He ras about 1 1-2 feet tall and resem>led a hippipotamus and tapdr as nuch as it did a horse. Civil Service Warning. Washington.?The usual beforeianmaien warning to Government em )loyes against indulging in political ictivity has been sent out by the ?ivil 'Service Commission. the executive departments and incepenlent branches are instructed to inform employes that they must obey his order. Particular attention was directed to -he exhibition of illegal collection or >ayment of political assessments. Destructive Typhoon in Phillipines. Manila.?A typhoon of unusual everity swept over the valley of the Xyagan river in tlu provinces of ?ayagan and Isabelia, northern Lu?n, on September 24. Four towns including Ilagan, the apital of Isabella province, were >racticallv demolished. A thousand persons are still homeess and destitute, but the dispatches 10 far received indicate that there I'oi'ft nn f'usimlties. The tobacco crop was seriously lamaged. Planter Mysteriously Shot. Rome, Ga.?D. J. Miller, a well :nown planter of Everett Springs, his county, was brought to a samarium here suffering with a wound n the abdomen believed to have been nflicted by a charge from a shotgun, ie is not expected to live, and reuses to tell how or wihy he was inured. It is said that Miller and his wife iave been separated for some time, hat they met and a quarrel ensued esultiinr in Milter being shot by his on. No arrests have been made. -