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As Abberille Press and Banner. PUBLISHED WEEKLY ? AT ? ABBEVILLE, S. C. The fish is the real father of lies. There will continue to be more weather than aeroplanes in the higher altitudes. Now we are told that flat life will cause us to round out existence in a lunatic asylum. ___________ Cincinnati surgeons are going to amputate a citizen's six-inch nose, but not by keeping it on the grindstone. For some time to come, however, the popular way of crossing the Alps will be by means of the tunnel under them. Good old authority says that it's Impossible to tell all the stars, but Uncle Sam's experts have catalogued them. It is reported from New Jersey that a cow wrecked an aeroplane. It must have been the same cow that jumped over the moon. Sometimes it does seem that everybody in the world is calling everybody elso a liar, and nobody knows whom to believe. The average driver of a sprinkling cart, as perhaps you have observed, always becomes fiendishly active just before a heavy rainstorm. And if you do find baseball In heaven, and if the umpires manage to get there, too, how do you expect to express your opinion of them? "American women make poor wives." says an English writer. Yes, a foreign husband can make an American wife poor, in short order. It may be old fashioned, but nevertheless we cling to the notion that a revolver is something that no man carries for any good purpose. Occasionally, when the weather man predicts "partly cloudy," he is breaking it to you gently that a rainfall of an inch or more impends. A Wyoming girl recently killed a coyote by beating it with a riding whip. If you meet a Wyoming girl with a riding whip be polite to her. New York chews more gum than any other city, we are told. If it's really true, New York must know how to chew and talk at the same time. Somebody suggests that the United States should go into the business of coining half pennies. They might come In handy to put into children's banks. We have read the new football rules and have arrived joyfully at the conclusion that the grand old game will still be the antithesis of a pink tea. A New Jersey rag picker in one. week found $1,800 worth of jewelry In old clothes. Moral?sift your old clothing before sending it to the rag picker. A Pennsylvania woman found a $200 pearl in an oyster she was eating in a hotel dinner. From which it is to be Inferred that the pearl-fishery season Is fairly opened. Having discovered and excoriated the meanest man, fthat shall be said of the woman who is charged with appropriating and pawning her neighbor's false teeth? ("I? fhp hntfpst rlsv nf thp VMr Npw York authorities received bids for the removal of snow. If it had been put to a vote of the sweltering citizens, they would have unanimously resolved, if only snow would come just then, to let it stay. Uncle Sam Is going to build a barbwire fence 1,000 miles long on his southern border. For a respectable lady smuggler such a device would be even harder to beat than a pier full of custom house inspectors. A woman in New York cut off her husband's ear because he annoyed her by talking too much. That shows the illogical and inconsequent nature of woman. If a man had been in her place, he would have cut off the offending tongue. The new postal savings bank system will soon be in partial operation at least. The government has on hand 5.000,000 of the stamps which can be sold at ten ccnts each, with the cards to which they are to be attached. The cards also cost ten cents fiwli so when a card has nine stamns affixed the whole may be turned in to represent a deposit of one dollar. . ' Such an arrangement encourages smuli savings, the aggregate of which may become very large. .-V New York lunacy commission is Btumped by the question: Is a man insane because h? reads his paper upside down. Well?or?was it a New York paper? France is to equip its army with a new rifle at a trifling cost of $120,000,000. Meanwhile the military authorities are carrying on experiments with u.*hir)i nr.- pxnTtpd tn nlnv an important part in war hereafter, if battles are to be fought high in air of what practical value will be the costly new firearm? Movirg pictures of the respective finishes of the man who rocks the boat, the man who speeds his auto, and the other who drives across the railroad without slopping to look and listen might have a life-saving influence. A united effort is to be made by London waiters to oust the foreigners who are l>oldiug the lucrative waiting jobs in the fashionable hotels and restaurants of the Kritish metropolis. We expect later to hear the war cry: "English tips for the Knglish." SOUTH CAROLINA j INSURANCE CONCERN BARRED. Injunction Papers Sought Against \ Commissioner to Prevent Arrest. Lik&icd to the Seminole operations in North Carolina, a companyhas been refused a license by the Insurance Commissioner. Insurance Commissioner McMaster by refusing to license the Home Equitable Company of Aiken, has brought about injunction proceedings against himself in his oflicial capacity, in the Supreme Court, and incidentally revived a discussion of the kind of company that "promises much yet gives little" to prospective home-seekers. Commissioner McMaster has put his foot firmly down on the company and after numerous conferences between the officers of the concern and the commissioner, the matter has reached a legal controversy. The proceedings at present, are injunction papers against the nAm?vu'r'C'iAn/iP In nnox-onf him frnm buiiniiiciniuuvi iv pi vui mui aiv/uj prosecuting any of the officers of the company under sections of the revised insurance laws of South Carolina. The return for the State is being prepared by Assistant Attorney General DeBruhl, who believes that he will be able to break the contract that the company puts* its faith in. THORXYVELL ORPHANAGE. Established 1875 and Managed by Dr. Jacobs 35 Years. The Thornwell orphanage at Clinton was founded by Rev. Dr. W. P. Jacobs, the incumbent president, in 1871. It was opened the first of October in that year with eight children and one building. Dr. Jacobs has been indefatigable in his efforts in building up the orphanage and it has how grown to be a big institution, tlwo being on ?he campus 275 pupils, 35 officers anu""23 | buildings. The orphanage is owned and controlled b* the Presbyterian synods of South Carolina, Georgia and ; Florida. It takes children from i any church and from any State in the union. There were about 295 pupils enronea lasi year ana mey came from the Baptist, Methodist, i Presbyterian, Associate Reformed, : Jewish and Catholic churches; from states between North Dakota and : Florida and between New York and i Texas. ! Sumter Clubs Win Cases. i After a trial lasting- but a few i hours, and being out but a few min- i utes, the jury at Sumter, found for the defendant in the case of State ' vs. Calk. This was the Elks club ] case. Last spring the grand jury ] asked that an investigation of the ' methods of the Elks club and the < Eagles club be ordered. This was 1 done. Chief of Police Bradford i being made a special constable for 1 the work. After he reported, a true 1 bill was made out against James 1 Calk of . the Elks fdr illicit liquor \ traffic, and against Fred Wise of the i Eagles on the same charge. The 1 case against Calk came up today re- < suiting in an acquital. After losing f this case Solicitor Stoll ordered a nol press in the State vs. Wise. Boy Scouts of America. I Secretary Foster, of .the mill * Young Men's Christian Association, ' of Columbia, has organized the first ' patrol in this State of the Boy ( Scouts of America. One patrol of 1 boys betwen li and 18 years of age 1 is now "doing service" and within ( a few days one will be recruited for * boys of 12 to 14. 1 Summary. * Each military company in the State will receive from the General i Assembly for this year $220, which f is larger than ever before. j At Bishopville the house of (he s Palmetto Oil Company was burned, i entailing a loss of $15,000. The increased production of corn f in South Carolina means that sev- J eral million dollars will be saved to ( farmers in the Slate and that the t corn cribs of the West will be moved ' nearer home. * Greenville will add in the near future to her list of industries an automobile factory. A plantation consisting ol 300 acres s situated about two miles from ] Hartsville, was sold for $18,000. Sculptor Wellington Rucksluhl is , modelling the statue for the Women of the Confederacy in Paris. ^ The $30,000 raised for the monu- men I is in banks drawing interest, t .Mrs. Josie Pressly, wife of Prof. * John K. Pressly, of the Erskine Col- 1 lege faculty, died after three weeks' ' illness, from typhoid fever. ' John Ware, a well-known white man of Warrenvillc, has been placed in the Aiken jail, on the ' 1 charge of arson, the officer's charg- ' iug him with burning of the com- ' pany's store. at Warrenville some ' months ago. 1 The delegates from the various 1 United daughters of the Confed- 1 cracy chapters throughout South [ Carolina will lie interested in know- 1 injr thai reduced rales have been 1 granted hy the railroads to the Lit- ? ! lie Rock convention which will meet 1 ; on November 8. 1 Should the Democrals have a rnaJ joritv* in Congress, al least two of j the South Carolina delegation, j Messrs. Finlcy and Johnson will be ' in line for chairmanships, while < I hf remaining members will receive ' iniporlani committee .assignments. Mrs. Mary W. Farmer, widow of I the lale Constable Farmer, who was killed by Wade Hampton Sellers, ' al Sellers' house in Columbia, while j ' the oflicer was trying to enter and |_ seoreh Hie dwelling was given by a | Richland Common Pleas jury dam- ' ages against Sellers in the sum of $.-,,000. GREAT UNITY OF CHURCH Triennial Convention of Episcopal Church Initiates Movement? Morgan Gives $100,000. Cincinnati.?A gift of $100,000 to ] the campaign fund for the world's conference on church unity, made by J. P. Morgan, served as a fitting ' climax at the close of the triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal church. Mr. Morgan was named as treasurer of the movement to raise the funds required to bring about what is hoped will be the greatest world's conference of Christian ; churches thoughout the universe. / The joint commission created to t call a world conference on Christian > faith and order was organized and i is preparing to take immediate action. The Right Rev. Charles Anderson, D. D., bishop of Chicago, was chosen president; J. Pierpont Morgan, treasurer, and Robert H. Gardiner, Me., secretary. A com- " mittee on place and scope, consisting of the Rev. W. T. Manning of New York, Bishop Anderson of Chicago. Bishop Brent of the Philip- s pines, Bishop Kinsman of Delaware, " the Rev. P. M. Rhinolander of Cam- ? bridge, Mass., Francis Lynde Stef,- ^ son of New York and Ft. H. Gardiner, were appointed with instructions to prepare a statement as to the objects and methods of procedure. * DAVID B. HILL IS DEAD. J Became Famous as a Political Lead- ? . cr With Cleveland. Albany, N. Y.?David Bennett Hill : died at his country home, Wolfert's 1 Roost. He had been ill nearly three a weeks with a cold and a bilious at- T. tack but his condition had not been considered serious. He was sitting . up in bed to take a drink of water when he was seized with an acute ? diliation of (he heart. Death quickly ? followed with no one but a nurse at his bedside. ? Mr. Hill had long been a sufferer J from Bright's disease, which primarily brought upon him the condition that ended in his death. r Governor White issued a procla- ^ ? ? 1: a.i i u ^ n t mauon requesting uiai uitj nags upon all the public buildings of the State be displayed at half-mas-t until P sundown on the day of Senator 11 Hill's funeral and that the citizens j? of the State unite in appropriate ^ marks of respect to his meffnory. "It is with sincere sorrow that I c announce the death of David Bennett Hill, former Governor of the n Slate of Now York," said Governor ? White. "This sad event marks the j' close of a remarkable career. For more than thirty years David Ben- v nett Hill was a prominent figure in ? the public life of the State. ... Hie force of his personality im- j7 pressed itself not only upon the j1 people of New York but upon the whole country, and at the expiration s; 3f his final term as Governor he a became the candidate of his party in the Slate of New York for the ~~j ?1:^1 ~ ~ iu. [jresiuuuMHi iluiii11IHLIUI 1 ueiure me Democratic national convention. As United States Senator from 1891 to 1897. he found an ample opportun- ^ ity for the exercise of his skill as a ^ parliamentarian, his brilliant pow- gl ?rs as an orator and his uncommon ^ ?ifts as a leader of men." . Q Elephant Kills Keeper. t New York.?Queen, a trick ele- p Dhanf, became enraged at Robert, e] Shields, a new keeper, who tried to shackle her in her winter quarters ^ n Jersey City arid crushed him to leath. She seized him around the ,vaist with her trunk, slammed' lim to the floor and then trampled )n his l'ace, knelt on his body and , lnally gored him.' The body was ,, inrecognizable when recovered. q Strike on Missouri Pacific. St. Louis.?Approximately 2,500 Tien employed in th? mechanical ^ rades on the Missouri Pacific-Iron fountain system walked out in sympathy with the striking machin- ^ sts. kl The order to quit work was tele- F* graphed to the boiler makers, blacksmiths and nino men hv fhf> heads P' if their international unions, after . ho machinists had failod to settle heir trouble with General Manager , Sullivan, of the Missouri Pacific. I)r Wilson Leaves Princeton. Princeton, N. J.?Wood row Wil;on. who was nominated by the Democrats for Governor of New ge rersey, resigned the presidency of Princeton University and his place l vill be temporarily tilled by John b( Stewart, of New York, the senior th rustee of the institution. The day Ui ifter Dr. Wilson's nomination he udieated that he would resign as ^ lie head of Princeton and the ac- ^ ion taken is, therefore no surprise. e? Vicim of Niflht Hitlers Dead. Paducah, Ky:?Hcnrv Kenned, formerly a prosperous fanner of Dyckusburg, Kv., died at Metropolis, j? 111., from complications believed to J" lave resulted from a whipping ad-' J?] ninistered by night riders in Feb- ' Miary. 190S. At that time Mr. Benie|| was lashed with thorn switches uid numerous small thorns were mbedded in his body. Mr. Tienlett entered suit fur $T>0,000 dam- vj iges in the Federal Court against ^ he alleged niphl riders, which has lot vet been decided. A; A Coumerfeit $10 Bill Abroad. .. Washington?A new counterfeit FIU Dill, scries ol IW!, lias fieen discovered by I lie Treasury Departnent. ;\iu! warnings have been is*ued by John E. Wilkie, Chief of I' lie Secret Service Division. The cerlilir:xle Jn-ar.s (lie check K lei I * r "H" and contains Ihe signa- !?,' lire of J. \V. Lyons. Hegisler of Ihe Freasury, and Charles- II. Treal. !' I'reasurer of I lie I'niled Slates, and ' I lie purl rails of Lewis and Clark. The bill is poorly printed and its n.' number is A 2725778. L>? . / V , 1 . 1 . V LONG. SHORT HAUL.j Section 4 of Interstate Com- 1 merce to be Enforced. NO CHANGE UNTIL FEB. 11, 1911. Carriers May File Higher Rates Pro- | Aided They Do Not Discriminate 1 Against Intermediate Points Higher Than on August 17,1910. < Washington.?In a formal order 1 ssued the Interstate Commerce j Commission announces its intention i ,o administer strictly Section 4 (the j ong and short-haul provision) of . ,he recently amended interstate sommerce act. The order was the ' mtgrowlh of a hearing held by the j sommission many days ago on the naffop nf fhp nnnlinatinn of infer itate carriers generally for relief mder the long and ^short-haul pro- * vision. By the terms of the order there J vill be no change in the existing ? itatus or in the present reports of J sarriers until February 17, 1911. 1 They may file with the commsision > iuch changes in rates and tariffs as * >rdinarily would be filed in the I jourse of their business under the y >resent rate basis or adjustments. ( This accords to the transportation :ompanies the right to file higher ates or fares to intermediate points md through rates or fares higher 1 han the combinations of the internediate rates or fares, provided that n so doing the discrimination f .gainst intermediate points is not ^ nade greater than in existence on I august 17, 1910. * The commission says that through v his permission, it does not neces- \ arily approve any rates or fares -i hat may be filed, all of them rfeing teld subject to complaint, investi- J ation and, if necessary to correc- d ion if they be found in conflict with f he law. r It is ordered that the commission a eaffirm its previously expressed f iew that a thorough rate or fare C hat to V*irrhnr? Ihan fhn nnmhinafinn f the interstate rates or fares is c riraa facie unreasonable and will J nsist upon the application of that v rinciple at the earli.est possible 11 ate in every instance except pos- ^ ible extreme and very unusual 8 ases." ^ c This is understood by the com- s u'ssion to mean that only in extra- b rdinary conditions will it exercise i' :s authority conferred by Congress c d permit in its discretion technical 1< iolations of the long and short-haul rovision. , o The order provides that such cariers as may desire to be relieved of tie requirements of Section 4 of fie act shall file with the commis- S ion on or before February 17, 1911, pplications as provided by the law. HINGES ON A SCA& * S ientification of Body Found in v Ci'ippen's Home. b London.?A morning paper finds a s ramatic revelation in the line of s\r*ne\ in nor?l nf llio mrirlonno i ? JC unciioo ill jpa.1t V/1 tuv ? 1UVIIW jj Libmitted in the Crippen trial. To- t,i 'ards the close of a long cross-ex- a mination of Professor Pepper by j u hief Counsel Tobin, representing j le defendant, the counsel obtained ' ? epper's admission that the pres- j n ace of a sebaceous gland on the, t,( lleged scar on a portion of the dis- 1 s lembered body would prove that (j was not a scar, c Killed in Prize Fight. (^ Enid, Okla. ? A prize fighter g nown as Kid Fisher was killed in r le tenth round of a fight at Reno, p kla., near here. v "Unknown Tongue" Kampant. Goldsboro, N. C.?Several days ago iree preachers pitched a small p snt near the post office in this city !id have been preaching a doctrine si now as the "unknown tongue" E ?ligion, in which they babble in a p mguage that words cannot inter- e; ret, and as a result of their preach- d ig three women who have been at- w tnding the meeting were pronounc- a J crazy. Othors have danced and < n louted at the meeting until thqy | jr tinted. | b Long Tail Hons Wanted. Baton Rouge, La.?Large hogs ith long tails are scarce in this >ction according to Dr. E. P. Flow- p( f secretary of the Slate Sanitary like Stork Board. Dr. Flower has ?en advertising without result for ai te long-tailed variety of swine for ol se in hog cholera experiments, e< le blood from which serum is c( ade being taken from the tail of le hog, and the longer the tail y< tho bog, the more serum can be y< c traded s? 717,300 Acres in Hire. Wilmington.?A preliminary estiate of the area planted to rice in ic United Stales this year is made jn the department of agriculture as rt 7.300 acres, 67.3 per cent. 0( Drth Carolina 1.200 ^ )utli Carolina 17.300 Kj /. nnn I - i-wifcm lorida 9i>0 labama 1,000 cf ississippi 3,000 ?j misiana 371.300 a| xns 20'1.800 |>> rkansas 53.3'J0 0I est motive Hurricane Sweeps Fla. Jacksonville, Fla?What undoubtlly will prove to bo the most do- jj motive storm in I lie history of w le southeastern extremity of the p| nited Slalos, swopt Hie on I ire Florla peninsula, doing damage estiiali?d at several million dollars. |1( orly thousand square miles of tectnry south of Jacksonville has m on with oiiI means of conimuni- 0i it ion with the outside world. The m ango crop and vast I rucking in- \\ lis try in that territory wen' re- f| 31'led probably ruined. ;i 1 1 FREE POSTAGE BLOCKEDHitchcock Will Supply Special Stamps Instead of Franks and Save Millions. I Washington.?Convinced that one )f the greatest sources of loss to ,he Postoflice Department lies in .he existing method oL franking government mail matter without iheck, Postmaster General Hitchjock has taken the first step toward remedying ,the condition. He approved the issuance of a special stamp and stamped envelopes for ise instead of franks in the transnission of official mail, resulting Tom the business of the new postal savings system. Eventually Mr. iitchcock hopes to extend the re "orm to all branches of the governnent service. In the past the transmission of government and official mail under 'ranks has cost the government milions of dollars a year. Astounding ibuses of the privilege have been loted from time to time. The re'orm is part of the general plan by vhich Mr. Hitchcock expects even,ually to place the Postoftlce De)artment on a self-sustaining basis, viping out an annual deficit of several million dollars. A DANGEROUS ANARCHIST. Rearrested When Leaving Federal Prison For .Making Threats. Atlanta. ? Charged with having )lanned to blow up the Norfolk & Vestern Railroad at unprotected joints unless he was paid $45,000. ^bram C. Eby alias Adam Smith, vas rearrested as he was leaving he Federal prison, where he had ust finished a term of one year. Ebv was eiven a hearing before udge Newman of the United States listrict court, who issued an order or the prisoner's removal to Richnond, Va., to' answer trial for his .lleged declaration against the Norolk & Western and President McIree, of the Pennsylvania lines. The .threats made by Eby were ontained in a letter addressed to 'resident. McCrea and a copy of yhich was included in the indictnent found against him last April. Vhile he expressed no particular rievance in the letter, he sets forth learly how he will go about the deduction of the railroad property y dynamite and concludes by sayng that "every anarchist in the ountry with nerve will follow his sad." Eby was sent to the Atlanta prisn from Philadelphia. BIG CORRUPTION FUND. Sensational Testimony Gh'en in New York Before Committee. New York.?Representative Otto 'oelkner, the man who was carried rom his sick bed into the State ienate chamber to cast the deciding ote for the anti-rading bills urged y Governor Hughes, took the land as a sworn witness and told lie ftierntt joint legislative comlittee the details of an alleged at8mpt in 1908 by former State Senior Frank J. Gardner, wlio is now nder arrest, to buy his vote. The narrative created a sensation, triefly, ,it told of a dinner at Dellonico's, of prominent men friendly 3 the race tracks, of $500,00 subcribed to a corruption fund, of the istribution of this fund to politiians and to well-known political orrespondents at Albany of the New ork newspapers and of the secret rievance of the late Senator Patick McCarren that worked for the assage of the bill against his own fishes and his own associates. The Wicked Foreign Element. New Yorkw?When some one droped a powerful dynamite bomb lto a sewer excavation on Prince treet, in the heart of New York's last Side Italian district the ex losion which followed shook the arth for a radius of several hunred yards. Two hundred windows rere broken, and damage estimated t $4,000 was done and all the tenelent dwellers in two nearby buildlgs were thrown from their beds, at no one was seriously injured. Hifjh Salary For R. R. President. New York?President James T. arahan, of the IJlinois Central, )nfirmed the reports of his prosecutive retirement, naming January I, 1911, as the dale. "It is true," he said, "that Janu*y 12 I shall have reached the age f seventy years and will be retiri automatically as president, acmling to rules of our pension His average salary for the last ten ?ars is about $30,000; for four ?ars he. hat? been credited with a ilary of $i0.000 a year. Padded Census Returns. Washington. ? Census Director urand gave out a statement chargig a gross effort to pad the census turns of Tacoma, Wash., and her cities including Seattle and berdeen. Wash.; Portland, Ore.; r?/-iior> Iilsilin nrirl TVnrf nith. Ark. In giving out I ho figures for Tamia, Dime lor Durand issued a atement to the effect llial originiy t lie enumerators pacified lo I he ;I?mU of 33.291 names, and a secid enumeration was necessary. Julia Ward Ilowe Passes. Midolletown, R. 1?Julia Ward owe is dead. Bowed under the eight of her 91 years, the noted liilanthropist and author suceumbI lo an attack of pneumonia. All hough perhaps best known on i?r literary side as the author of tallle Hymn of the Republic." is. Howe was Ihe. author of many her poems. Sin- was one of the last prolilic eojilribulors to The ." man's Journal. Ihe woman suf aue publication, of which she was founder. ? ' HISTORY OF 400 YE RECALL! Wellman and Crew as Daring as Columbus. STORY OF THE HISTORIC TRIP. With a Kitten For a Mascot Six Brave Men in a Big Airship Between Sky and Sea Attempted a Dangerous Trip. New York.?Walter Wellman and his Ave companions were landed here by the steamship Trent, which picked them up at sea after thej had abandoned their dirigible balloon America and failed in the flrsl attempt ever made to cross the Atlantic through the air. A bruisec right hand which Wellman carriec in a sling was the only physical injury that resulted from their long voyage of approximately 900 miles and a rescue the like of which is unknown to all history. The America was abandonee where the rescue occurred in latitude 35.43, longitude 68.18. Thit brings to a climax one of the mosl remarkable flights by an airship ever undertaken. That the climaa was not accompanied by a tragedj is considered a matter of exceptionally good fortune. None of the aeronauts expressed regret for the loss of the America They agreed that it had served its purpose and taught its lesson. All stand ready to renew the attempl as soon as Wellman and his engineers find a way to conquer the difficulties that brought their first trip to its thrilling end 400 miles southeast of Sandy Hook. Standing on the deck of the Trent Wellman made this statement: "We thought we could not gel along without the equilibrator. Now we find we could not get along with it. Our plans for the future are indefinite until we find something that will do what we thought the equilibrator would do." The "equlibrator," to which Wellman attributes the failure of his voyage, was the scries of tanks containing gasoline, which floated- in the water, attached to the airship by a long rope. The direct cause for abandoning the America was the exhaustion t)! the supply of gasoline, which had to be thrown out to save the ship. When the crew abandoned the ship, only enough was left to last about 24 hours. The other members of the America's crev; said they felt as well as ever, and they looked it. They are: Melvin Vaniman, the engineer; J. Murray Simons, the navigator; J. K. Irwin, the wireless operator, and Albert T. Loud and John Auburt, the air sailors. There was also the gray kitten, which was taken in chargp after the flight by Mr. Yaniman and christened Trent. The Trent was forced to anchor off Sandy Hook and there she re mainea until tne log intea to make it safe for her to come up the barbor. Meanwhile a party of those nearest and dearest to the shipwrecked aeronauts had taken a tug and gone as far as the quarantine station to meet them. In "this party were Mrs. Wellman, Mrs. Vaniman, Mrs. Leroy Chamberlain, Wellman's married daughter, and his two unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Sarah Loud, mother of Mrs. Vaniman and of Albert L. Loud. With tears in her eyes Mrs. Wellman embraced her husband and kissed him on both cheeks. The aged Mrs. Loud stood weeping, with one arm around the neck of her son and the other about her son-in-law, while Mrs. Vaniman, also in tears of joy: hung on her husband's arm. It was the Morse lamp winking its message through the darkness that just preceded the dawn of Tuesday morning and not the wireless that first attracted the attention of those on board the Royal Mail steamer Tuent to the distressed airship. StanTy Cobb Champion Batsman. Chicago.?Tyrus Cobb, by official verdict of President jonnson is tno leading batsman of the American League during the last season, with a winning percentage over Larry Lajoie of Cleveland of.0000860. President Johnson's announcement means that Cobb is the champion hitter of the country. The automobile, over which trophy there has been so much excitement and not a little criticism, goes, to the Detroit or, but the Cleveland captain, will get one too. Looking For Economy in Government Washington?The appointment by Postmaster General Hitchcock of a committee to co-operate with Dr. Frederick A. Cleveland, of New York, who was recently appointed by President Taft to devise some plan by which the business of the nww>ii?iv<? lii'nni'f mr>nf<5 could hft coil ducted with greater efficiency and economy will serve to determine whether* or not Senator Aldrich was bluffing when he said he could save the government $300,000,000. Cotton Operator Collapses. New York.?On the exchange no-I tice has been posted that by order of the supervisory committee of the exchange the failure of Solomon Cone of Greensboro, N. C., to meet his obligations has been announced. Cone was formerly a number of I lie linn of Cone & Hedgepeth of Greensboro. He has been operating independently since July 1. He is now in a Greensboro hospll.il as a n-sull of an attempt to commit suieid" over a week ago. ARS AGO :0 IN AIR VOYAGE! ley Angel, an ordinary seaman of 16 years, and George Sangster, an able seaman, had the early iroiniiig watch. Angel saw ahead of hun, high up in the northeast, a faint light. "At first," said the boy in ( narrating h.s experience, "I thought it was the morning star. Tlteu I sa?v ; two faint red lights beside the white one and next made out a dark bluiw against the sky. The whito lights' ! kept n-whking and then I knew that it was a signal ana reponeu it G. J. Fitzgerald, the fourth officer, charge of the watch." > Fitzgerald notified W. H. Lanison, ^ the chief offiecr. By this time the I outline of the airship had been made i out against the sky and J^anteon r called Captain Down out of his berth. "When I came on deck," said ^ Captain Down, "the airship was plainly visible. In the light of the I full moon she looked enormous. I hanging low in the northeast and c!i:s'; al hand. In reply to our sig' uals slic told U3 her name anl ' sh'.- \\'?* in distress and asu-d as to 5 sl:n d by." 5 J l:- n the win less was calhd into . us', ant! between louis M. Giiisn *rg, 1 tperalor on th? Trent, and JVk K. Irwiu, ihe operafo: in th^ iitVbral juspenctd below th- gas chamber i;f ^ the Atrii'iica, passed a series of uio?~ ' i>ages t/ at will st.'iLd in histroy a* : the first wireless communication between a ship at sea and a ship in ' the air. "At this time," said Captain Down 1 of the Trent, "we were in speaking ; distance of the America. She was | only 12 feet above our forestays and [ moving about 12 knots an hour. We ' kept beneath her with great diffl' culty, for she swung to and fro-in ' the air currents and sometimes we 1 were forced to go full speed astern so as not to lose her. "Then," continued Captain Down, ' "the crew of the airship began trail- B ing wire ropes. Lanison, our chief S officer, grabbed one and held on tin- H til the skin was rubbed off his ffl 1 hands and he was lifted from his H ; feet and nearly dragged overboard. H ' After half an hour of this we de- H 1 cided that this method of rescue was H hopeless and much too risky. So H Wellman asked us to keep .;lo&e while he and his crew let down their lifeboat, saying he trusted to- B us to pick them up. We 301 two Hj boats ready and stationed men along HE the sides with lifebuoys. I signalled H ' 'all ready," and Wellman lowered H his airship until the lifeboat sus- w pended underneath was within 6 nj feet of the water. The trailer, H composed of tanks of gasoline and H weighing thirty hundredweight, was <,'<^9 the great danger and^after the boat H was launched this struck hef and H stove a hole in the side about 6 inches in diameter but above the water line. "When Wellman dropped his 'iff-- Hj boat it struck the sea broadside but \ flfl quickly righted itself. I went full Hj speed ahead and had considerable difficulty in picking up the- boat. W * r _ n 7 _ 1 1 * ! 3 l:. !.?. ivu\ vveuinaii injureu 111s nanu hi n trying to catch one of our ropes. "The last I saw of the airship she was |5 or 20 miles away with one H end m the water. Her vitives haJ |B been opened and she undoubtedly sank soon, dragged down by her gfi| heavy machinery. Hi "Wellman and his crew canie 89 aboard and after baths, dry clothes H and a good breakfast appeared none mB the worse for their experience." H . The Trent carried 111- first cabin passengers, most of whom had been EH making a pleasure trip to Burmuda. A majority of them, clad in night [Bj clothes over which overcoats and kimonas had been hastily thrown watched the rescue. SB Jack Irwin, the wireless operator, HH figures that the Amer'^an sailed 370 BH miles?from Atlantic City to a point off Nantucket 275 miles, from Nan- B9 tucket northeast 140 miles until the Dm storm caught her and carried her H|^ southeast to the point of rescue, a distance of 455 miles. SB "ill thrrme-h thp trin " cmiH Trwin we were happly as little gods. No- BH body felt any fear at any time. When HH we quit it was because we were run- ^H ning out of gasoline." *8H Balloon Faster Than Express. 9gB| London.?Another chapter was added to the history of aviation when the French dirigible balloon HH Clement-Bayard made the voyage from Compiegne to London in the remarkable time of 6 hours, a MSB journey requiring 7 houte by the ^H| fastest express trains arNfc boats. HH Compeigne is 45 miles northeast of PWM Paris and about 195 miles by air HH route to London. This also is the ^9| first occasion on which a dirigible ^H| balloon has crossed the English HB Channel. 9H Famous Faces on Postal Bonds. Washington.?Presidents Wash- HH ington. Lincoln and Cleveland have been chosen as the subjects of the BMfl portraits for the first postal sav ings- bank bonds, the $20, ?100 and SijOO respectively. This decision Bfltt has been readied by acting Secre- HU lary of Treasury A. Piatt Andrew. BMB 'J'hey will pay Iwo and one-half per BSXl cent interest while the deposits BBB which arc to be exchangeable for the BBS! bonds will pay only two per cent flat. HrH Cotton Samples For &io. Washington.?The department ofHfln agriculture has announced that it is|99| prepared to supply the nine official HH grades of white American cotton re-HB| eeatly promulgated by the secretaryHflfl of agriculture. The grades will beHj^B furnished at $35 a set, the cost of^BH their preparation, as required by BBS law. The sale is begun in accord-^HS ani*e with the recommendation ofH^H the rommittee of cotton experts,DB upon whose advice the grade?H|ffl were established, that they be is-^HK I sued for general use BH