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m Abbeville Press and Banner. PUBLISHED WEEKLY ? AT ? ABBEVILLE, S. C. A mustache can come back. J The frost Is ou the Sunday school iplcnic. Lit "will take a snow storm to do ray with straw hats. UOutside the slight chill of thiJ iather, can you beat u: ' The best of aviators often come idown when they least expect to. ' While the aeroplane is still in its ttofancy, it is a very husky infant Guess they will discard the hobble kkirt now. Fashion says It's passe. ) In the matter of joy-riding it Is be coming harder than ever to tell a steal Irom a borrow. Aeroplane flights and balloon races fcre fascinating, but think how gocd the walking Is! If the world Is going Insane, some ^Snodern music must be consciously written for the future. 1 If your digestion is bad It's because you lack "sand." A spoonful with each meal, says the doctor. Boys in Chicago public schools are to take up sewing. Why assume bachelorhood for them so early in the vday? , Not all men are poets, says a reviewer of current verse. Now, if we couia oniy convince mew ui mat. truth. . Baden-Powell has landed In New York. If your boy asks for a khaki Suit and a scout hat don't be surprised. Why Is it everybody has a bottle of carbolic setting around the house somewhere to be taken in mistake for medicine? Japanese children are to be taught to write with both hands. The paper trust may be encouraging the movement. Speaking of menu French, it is a ^ fttct that English is expressive enough to designate all that the ordinary man wants to eat. v An attempt is being made to Americanize hotel menus. "Pork And," "White Wings," "One in the Dark" and "Ham on Rye." When song writing has been Introduced In the schools will the pupils take their arithmetic lessons home and try them on the piano? -< ' j Now th?.t New York has abandoned the horse cars we may entertain hopes of her one day being a real upto-date and enterprising village. If one had one's choice of deaths that by the administration of hot ciince pie over a period of about seventy-five years would seem as desirable as any. A hen that sings has been discovered in South Carolina. Owing to the stiff price of eggs, she will not be likely to cast much of a shadow over the hen that lays. Any man who is inclined to feel haughty should stop and consider that according to the census he is just about 1-90,000,000th part of the population of thiB country. What has become of the old-fashloned youth who grew long hair for every football season, even though he never got any closer to the game than the grand stand? Our leading ladj smugglers may console themselves with the thought that Collector Loeb will have no such perfected system of search when the ocean-gums aerupiaue is in commission. The mint officials have Just discovered that the citizens of the United States don't seem to be able to keep any of the $11,000,000 coined annually in gold. So they are going to stop coining it. From the depths of the sea a new Island has a'ded itself to the Aleutian group. Uncle Sam should hurry up ^with a more definite government for Alaska. which is twice as large as Texas and still growing. A court h:is dcclded (hat platoric affection tor a married woman does not Justify rii's of s-ilk hose and lingerie? not even in these ultra-modern times. ' ?r* f?i*n tv ninrr nml *?ccavo * *4 v O voou; o U1I friendship, and the lady will be safe In a divorce suit. A very young n'rgnzfne writer insists that giris of the present ape do not know how to kiss. It is hoped that he will, wi'h more experience, have cause to revise his opinion. The fact that i!'.p oyster season is open is notified by the news item that a Pennsylvania woman found a 5200 ? -1 \r\ on n\"2tPr 'A'h'ph sho tvoc? o c I^e-aii ?? * ?- wo* 6iroilating n New York. This is calculated to increase the feminine demand tor oysters, and may entail the further drain on the family purse of trips to New Yo:v. According to an eastern writer, woman is reipons.ble for all America's woes. V. omen should now cut the hobble and char her skirts. Tbe tide of immigration is swelling, but the vigilance against undesirables is also increasing Ofiicial reports ehow that a much larger number than usual faiiod :o i^iss the test during the last few months. There is r.o intention to keep out the worthy, the industrious, and the law-abiding, but the government is < xcrcising commendable care to exclude the other sorts. I GREAT BUSINESS P. 0. Department Reduces Deficit to $6,100,000. BETTERMENT OF THE SERVICE1,500 New Postofliccs Established? 515 New Rural Routes?3,100 Additional Employes?Increased Salaries, $2,000,000?Fine Showing. Washington.?Figures, the compilation of which has been completed at the Postoffice Department show that the exact reduction oi the postal deficit during the fiscal year ended June 30, last, was $11,500,000. The deficit of the previous ficc.il vp.ip was si7f?nnnno: so Ihnt in one year the deficit was brought down to $0,100,000. In commenting upon fho saving of $11,500,000 last year, Postmaster General IlitchI cock said: "This tremendous saving was made without the curtailment of the postal facilities in any direction. On the contrary, during the year there were many important extensions of such facilities. In eliminating wasteful expenditures, the department has been exceedingly careful not to hamper in any way the constant development of the postal service required to meet the increasing business needs of the country. ? "In a word, the department's policy is to extend the service as rapidly as is warranted by .^.reasing population of postal facilities by handling in a more systematic and businesslike manner the constantly expanding volume of the mails. The tables prepared indicate that, in the furtherance of this policy, more than 1,500 new postofTices were established during the last fiscal year. Great, extensions were made in the rural delivery system, 515 new routes with a total mileage of 12,235 miles being put into operation. There were appointed from the pliffihlct lists of the civil service commission over 1,800 postoflice clerks to enlarge the working forces of city postoflices and more than 1.000 additional letter carriersi The railway mail service was strengthened by the appointment of about 750 new employes. The aggregate salaries of the new employes appointed during the year from the civil service lists exceed $2,000,000. . Services of postoflice clerks were advanced in the aggregate $1,750,000, while the aggregate salaries of letter carriers were increased $1,226,000. Railway mail clerks received increases of salary amounting to almost $250,000. Mr. Hitchcock predicted a selfsustaining postal service and onecent letter postage. Lookout Federal'License Holders. Knoxville, Tenn.?Quite a panic resulted among the proprietors' of soft drink stands in Knoxville as a result of supreme court decisions which held that the holding of federal license was prima facie evidence in Tennessee of the illegal sale of liquor. Attorney General Minatt stated that no less than 40 proprietors had surrendered the license and that 40 others had notified him that they would do so. Crippen to be Hanged Nov. 8. London.?Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, convicted of the murder of his wife, Belle Elmore, the actress, will he hanged on November 8. The date originally announced was November 15, but the sheriff advanced the day one weeR. Colored Man Gets High Office. Washington.?President Taft has decided upon the appointment of William II. Lewis, a negro, at present assistant district attorney at Boston, to be an Assistant Attorney General of the United States. Lewis was born in Portsmouth, Ya. His father was a respected colored minister. Young Lewis was ambitious and worked as a waiter to earn his college expenses. His sister is the wife of Dr. France, a negro physician of Portsmouth. Man's Conscience Stings Him. Denver, Col.?By the terms of the will of Rufus Clark, known as "Potato" Clark, which was admitted to probate here, the United Stales government is bequeathed $3,500 because. according to the will, in 1803, Clark knew of the defrauding of the government of an equal amount by a man whntn lie does not name. "The feet was never reported by me." Clark declared in his will, "and now I feel in honor-bound to "make restitution." liinjl of Siani is Dead. Bangkok, Siam?The death of Kins Chulalongkorn, was due to uracmir poisoning. The King had suffered for years from nephritis. Uraemia developed on Saturday and the Kins lapsed into unconsciousness, dying n few hours later. The crown prince i.nowia .Maiia \ajtravudn, was immediately proclaimed King. Ho was born January I, 1H80, and was proclaimed crown prince January 17 1890. Ships Suffer in Awful Hurricane .Mobile, Ala.?C. 11. Costello, out of the best informed men on I In coastwise vessels plying to Cuba Central America and Porto Hio from points along Hie Alabama aiu i Mississippi i; s 111' coast in tin* Soul I says that there are at least seveni teen vessels t ? be accounted for and there is no telling the fxti-ii of tin: damage the hurricane ha: | done. After the hurricane Ihe lis was greater than experti-d of vessels l<ist. Tii?' winu velocity wa: the strongest, ever known. < VERY PRECIOUS STAPLE. I Census Report of Bales Ginned i Creates Sensation in Market ?$2.50 Bale. New York?The census burcax report, showing only 5,410,9GO bales - of cotton ginned to October 1* . this year, against 5,530,00 bales last season, started a fresh buying movement in the cotton market anc prices, which had recently inclined over one cent a pound, sliol up in a sensational manner on ? revival of bull support and heavj outside demand. December contracts showed an advance of about $2.50 per bale The trade had been looking for ginning figures of nearly 0,000,000 bales in line with recent increased estimates of the crop, and the figures actually published correctly revived the small estimates of a total crop of 11,000,000 bales or , ever] Iiivbc wiiifh wopfi r.irr.nlal.ine carlv i in the season. Big Negro Bank in Bad. Richmond, Va.?The savings bank , of the Grand Fountain of the Order of True Reformers, the largest negro industrial and social organization in the country, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. Bank examiners say they cannot tell what are its assets or liabilities. Mark Twain's Estate. Redding, Conn?The inventory of the estate of the late Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) filed in the probate court here shows the valuation as made by the appraisers, Alfred Bigelow Paine, Mr. Clements' literary secretary, and Harry Lounsbery, superintendent of the estate, to be $011,130. American Company Wins Suit. The 'Hague?The international court of arbitration has rendered its decision in the Orinoco claims case. The barge award is declared null on four points and the American Company is awarded $10,867 with 3 per cent, interest since June 16, 1903, and .$7,000 costs. The Girl is Set Free, London?Alter a trial lasting only a few hours in the New Bailey criminal court, a jury found Ethel Clare Leneve not guilty as an accessory after the fact in the murder of Cora Belle Crippen. $15,000,000 in Lumber Lost. Washington?Six billion board feet of lumber valued at about $15,000,000 were destroyed in the recent forest fires on the national forests in Montana and northern Idaho. The total area burned over in this one district was put at 1,250,000 acres. Toothache Caused Boy's Death. New York.?Frank Zablotsky, 7 years old, died on the East Side from the effects of a toothache, from which he had suffered continuously for 35 hours. $500 for Attempt to Kiss. Birmingham, Ala.?A jury in the Circuit Court has awarded Mrs. Rose Drummond $500 damages from E. J. Goldsmith. The allegation was that the defendant had tried t( Iciss her. VVardlaw Trial! November 28. Newark, N. J.?Judge Teneyck set November 28 as the dale for the trial of the Wardlaw sisters, charged with the murder of Ocey Sneed The inquiry into the mental condition of Mrs. Caroline B. Martin, one of the accused sisters, will be opened November 2. Five Years For Bank President. Greenville, S. C?Five years in the Atlanta penitentiary is the sentence imposed on Milton A. Carlisle, the aged former president of 'he Newberry National bank, who was convicted on five counts of an indictment alleging misapplication of the funds of the institution. The sentence was passed by Judge Brawlev, the motion for a new trial having been argued and refused. It is possible that the case may be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. And Garment Makers Strike. Chicago?Willi 15,000 garment workers on a strike the police force about all the shops effected has been materially strengthened. Thomas A. Rickert, international president of the United Garment Workers of America lias arrived in the city to direct the plans for a walkout of 30,000 more unless a settlement of the controversy is brought about before thai time. The strike will affect the price and trade of wearing apparel. Express Drivers on Strike. New York?A riolous demon?Iralion in which Iwo strike-breakers were badly injured marked I he I third day of the strike of drivers and helpers of the United Slates , Express Company at Hoboken, N. J. Eight wagons, guarded by private 1 detectives and manned by slrike? breakers, were assailed by a crowd of strikers and their sympathizers, > and stone.* and other missiles were hurled al the wagon crews and , detectives. A detail of policemen I'll ?i > 11 lllr? HI'ftU'H Cuban General Shot By Assassin. > Havana.?Tin? attempted assassi' nailon in front of the Presidential . palace of Major General Pino vlnor1 ra. I lie commander-in-chief of tlie 1 regular army, has caused a proi found impression and greal exrite nienl. II has heen I he only lopit . of eonversalion in Hi" chilis aw I cafes. I lie great belief being Ihftl * the crime was of a political cliart acler. The precise motive, how ever, is not revealed. Gen. (iuerr; s is now in the military hospital al Camp Columbia, lii.s thigh is broken / "PAID!I PENALTY.1 1 Floridian's Avenge Triple ( Murder by Shooting. , KILLED TWO MEN AND WOMAN. 5 t $ The Giant Miss Ellen Smith, of the jj ' Everglades, Was One of Those I > J I Murdered ? Prominent Farmer j Said to Have Laid Plot. ?-? ? 1 Fort Myers, Fla ?E. J. Watson, a t well-known farmer, and Leslie Cox, a r an escaped convict under life sen- J 1 tence for murder, were riddled with a ' bullets by a posse which went to l' . Chatham Bend to capture the slay- r ers of Miss Ellen Smith, A. Waller a j and "Dutchy" Reynolds several I days ago. News of the killing was c I brought to Fort Myers by Sheriffs ! Tippms of Lee and Jacocks of Mon- r roe counties. c T11""1(ho T>nm lint inn 1 V> aidUU, YYliU liau UI* V/ k vj# ***** of being a desperate character, re- r ported the killing of the three per- [ sons at Fort Myers. He claimed c ! that he had captured Cox, and pro- f duced the latter's coat and gun as i evidence. He was asked to produce c the corpse and toTind this a pos*e ? accompanied him to Chatham Bend. c Ariving. there, Watson joined Cox who was still alive and put up a i desperate resistance before both f were riddled with bullets. The murder of the two men and 1 the woman was committed by Cox I and a negro who is now in jail here. s He confessed to the crime, describ- v ing how the bodies- had been cut c open and weighted so that when * thrown into water they would sink. He declared that the murder was done at the instance of Watson, who J owed the three victims money. Miss Smith, one of the victims, ^ ttas a unique character, being of masculine proportions and living by j herself on the edge of the ever- 1 glades. She hunted and trapped and was called "Big Squaw'" by the Tndians. ( BACON HIGH IN CHICAGO. 1 Corn and Hons Cheaper But Meat is \ 35 Cents a Pound. <j Chicago.?In the face of steady e decline in the price of hogs and t corn on which they are fed, Chica- t. goans who desire to eat bacon have 3 I discovered that they were comnell- c fid to pay the highest*price ever ob- c tainfid for the salt meat in times of f peace?35 cents a pound sliccd. If 1 the housewife was willing to cut it c up herself she might have reduced t this figure to three pounds for $1, but* that was the best she could^do. c It is up, and to all appearances, will c stay at this record-smashing figure t for some months. The sole reason p for this situation, according to C. c W .Foster, the Vetfran provision s dealer, lips in the shortage of bacon r producing hogs. ? 2 No matter what the facts might seem to indicate, said he, the difil- p culty lies in the inability of the 2 packers to buy the porkers. a : ' i: 3,500 Geese in One Flock. s Mayesville, Ky?An unusual spectacle?a parade of 3,500 geesewas witnessed here. The fowls, which came from the mountains of 1 eastern Kentucky, were lured a through the streets by a man drop- i ping corn. The geese were unload- y ed from a car in the Louisville and / Nashville railroad yards after mak- e ing the night hideous with their i rmiso Thpv wppp fnknn fn n fnrm n six miles from this city to be fat- i tened /or tho Eastern markets. Be- a fore railroads geese were marchcd r many miles often. v Lost Balloonists Found. New York?Alan R. Hawley and August Post, the aeronauts of the J balloon America II, for whom f search had been prosecuted in the c Canadian wilds, are safe and have t established a new world's record for t sustained flight. They traveled ap- s proximately 1,350 miles and came i to earth in Chicoutimi county, Que- L bee. The balloonists started from r St. Louis with nine other contes- i fants in the international race on C Monday, October 17. s Dynamite Corn Crop. Spartanburg, S. C.?"The Dynamite Corn Crop" which was culii- t vated on land ploughed by the use a of this powerful explosive has been t measured hnf. the owner has refusod 1 flatly to give out the amount of corn I that, was produced. v This crop is to be entered in the J several contests. What J. H. Cald- t well, the originator of the idea, in- \ tends to do with it is a profound P secret and every one in the city is d wondering how much crop was r gathered. a Drives Tacks in Head. Atlanta?William Williams, a negro, is in jail here charged with [ swindling on account of tho pecu- / liar cure for blindness which he t devised. His remedy consisted in I | driving a tack into tlie back por- h tion of a blind negro's skull and r i charging 82.50 for the operation, f < i ii a I^I,I ?u*. : IlUiJl. 1 L wain, LI 1" \ II UIII, UMU 111* 1 police court judge flial. the lack c I process was not veVy painful but I; , that Williams' manner of taking the v $2.50 "hurt considerably." n Convicted of Wife Murder. Norfolk, Ya.?John J. Smythe, I who shot and killed his wife, a Bridget, and their 13-year-old C , daughter, Rita, on September 1, i lasl. was found guilty. Alcoholic l insanity was the defense. 'J'he n . principal witness for the Slate was i I the prisoner's 7-year-old child, \ I William Henry Smythe, the only a eye-witness to the Iragedy. who n told how his .sister, standing in I , front to protect their mother, was .f I shot down whiic begging the father v not to shoot. li 3ANKS IN SMALL CITIES, >\vinc| to Small Appropriation Postal Banks Cannot Be Established in Larjje Cities. Washington,?The board of trusses of the postal savings bank lystem has appointed at last 4J iccond class post offices, at which he plan will he given its first trial L'he list includes one ofiice for each 5tate and territory. The trustees are Postmaster General Hitchcock, Secretary of tin L'reasury Wickersham. The lisl hey formally approved was selectec ifter careful investigation by the )ostal officials with a view tc naking the first test of the servic( is thorough as possible under the imited appropriation of $100,00( irovided by Congress which include: ill the expenses of equipment, anc H'int.ine of forms, certificates bonds stc.. clerical assistance, etc. Owing.to the smallness of this ap)ropriation it has been impossible tc istablish postal savings banks durng the first year in the large citj >ost offices of the country. Comnunities were chosen in which conlitions were exceptionally favorable or the development of a postal savngs business mostly industria icnters where wage?earners wil le especially benefited by the kint >f banking facilities afforded. The Department work or rurnishng the necessary equipment to the >ostoffices salected and having the ostrnasters and their assistant: hroughly instructed in the operaions of the system will probly conume several weeks, but every offori vill be made to have the designatec iffices ready to receive deposits at he earliest feasible date. Among the offices designated are Bessemer, Ala.; Etuttgart. Ark. Cey West, Fla.; New Iberia. La. Jilfport, Miss.; Salisbury, N. C. Juyman, Okla.; Newberry, S. 0. ohnson City, Tenn.; Port Arthur Pex.; Clifton Forge, Ya., and Grafon, W. Ya. HOW AMERICANS DIE. Census Bureau Furnishes Statistiej That Arc Surprising. Washington.?Tuberculosis of the ungs, heart disease and acciderita violence, in the census bureau's ' ^ Jam nnr>n f\ f- fVl A TTni'f. ii'ciiii refciauuuuw ciiciv ui mo d States, which represents mort han 55 per cent of the estimatec otal population, caused more thar ;7 per cent of the deaths from al ;auses in 1909 among certain classes. These classes are those "gainully employed or occupied males.' The same causes led to 39 per ceni if the deaths from all causes among he occupied females. The census bureau in a bulletir in mortality statistics says thai >f a total of 210,507 deaths amonj hese gainfully employed males tyihoid claimed 2.2 per cent;,tuberulosis 5.5; appoplexy and paralyis 7.3; heart disease 11.9; pneunonia 8; brights disease 8.5; suicide !.6, and accident 10.5. Among the occupied women thf icr centage included tuberculosis :i; tphoid 2.8; cancer 8.1; appoplcxj ,nd paralysis 5.9; heart disease 10.3 meumonia 7; brights disease 7.3 uicido 1.6; accident'3.2. Governor Candler Dead. Atlanta, Ga.?Allen Daniel Candor, twice Governor of Georgia, diet .t his home here after an extendec Ilness. Governor Candler was 7( ears old. His earliest ancpstor ir America was Daniel Candler, whe migrated from Ireland and servec n the revolutionary war as a colmel irt the American army. Ir 861 he entered the Confederate .rmy as a private and rose to thf ank of colonel. He was twice rounded, losing one eye. Old $1 Note Coming Back. Washington. ? The old Unitet llafo SM nnfo whir>h rH<3.inr>pnrpr rom circulation in 1881 is to b( sailed into service again. Secreary MacVeagh has decided thai he enormous demand for bills 01 mailer denomination warrants ar ssue, which was authorized in 190" >ut until now has never seemec rally neccssary. The notes will b( ssued at about the rale of 81,200,100 a day until the demand foi mailer bills is met. Doctor Will Hang For Murder. Savannah?Dr. W. J. McNaughon, who is under sentence lo ban? it Sylvania November 19, wa* >rought here for safe keeping There was no outward demons! raion against the physician, whe vas convicted of murdering Free 'landers tn get his wife nmj money mt. Sheriff Fields transferred I he irisoner as a precaution. Mcs'aughton was brought here immcliatelv after the crime was coinnil led. when there was danger ol l lynching. For Benefit Hice Growers. Beaumont, Tex.?At a meeting ol ice growers from every section ol ,ouisiana. Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas here it was finally agreed o organize a central selling agency hrotigh which every producer will ie pledged and bound to sell his ice. The object is lo make a uni orm price for rough rice and elimnate I ho middleman or broker. Ail xecutivc conimillce is now forinuating tlie cooperation plan and if rill be completed before the comnilloo leaves Beaumont. 7,800 Initiated in One Day. Louisville, Kv.,?Seven thousand .nd eight hundred men, among them lovernor Wilson of Kentucky, coning from seven Slates?Indiana, )hio, Illinois, .Missouri, West Yirgilia. Tennessee and Kenlucky?were nilialed into llie Woodmen of the VorM in one day. Twenty Ihous,nd Woodmen witnessed the cereumies. The degree team from Daynil, ().. conducted the inilialion. ohn T. Yates and Dr. A. I). Floyd, fere among the national- ollicers i resent. TENN. SALOONS WIN ? Federal Judge Dissolves Tem- | porary Injunction. ^ . HE REFERS TO GRAND JURIES. ?" | Declines to Assume Jurisdiction and So Upholds Principle of "'Slate's ')a i coi Rijjhts"?Jurist Suggest Impeach- coi Ex } ineiit Proceedings For Oflicers. j)(, L fei i ^\fr ' Memphis, Tenn.?Declining to as- ? J sume jurisdiction and upholding the y1( ? principle of "Sale's rights," Federal ga ' Judge John E. McCall ordered dis- 1 } solved a temporary injunction, re- thi j straining the continuance in business of 114 saloon keeprs of Mem- wj phis. Notwithstanding the declara- ha tion of the Law Enforcement Lea- J ) gue of Memphis, who,-through fifr teen of its members, appeared ?ts . complaints, that their appeals to hi] State and local authorities for re- ea dress had been unheeded, Judge ?ir hp j McCall held that prosecution ( I through grand jury indictments wj 1 was the proper recourse and was m; still open. In answer to the allega- wi ' tion that the constituted authori- jjj1 > ties of the State wore not in sym- ^ j 5 pathy with the prohibition laws as Va 1?i nAfnc.A/1 fn oni rvn fai L/'UUL'IUU UllU 11 tl U Id uotu tv/ ?AVV v. ' information furnished, he cited im- fQ| j peachment proceedings as a method [ through which their removal from n-f D/Tice might be accomplished. ca : The opinion denied that the 55, \ plantiflfs had established the fact ^ ! that their constitutional rights ! within the meaning of the four- ^ ' teenth amendment to the Federal ' jonstilution, on which the litigation had turned, had been violated and gw ienoted that without this fact be- pa ing fully proved, conlroversies be- ^ Iween citizens of a State properly ' belonged in the State courts. If jur- ex isdiction was taken in the present ^.j ; issue, it is pointed out the Federal jjr ' courts might be appealed to to en- ^ 5 force any and all of the criminal RV laws of a Stale, which would be in ,jr 5 direct, contravention to the United ' States constitution. 1 "Taking every allegation of the ?a ' Dill as true," the prosecution insists pj( "in substance the court is asked to oa - pnfnrrr? the laws of-Tennessee be Iween citizens of the Stale, not- f0] t withstanding that article 4 of Sec- gn ? tion 4 of the Constitution of the United Stales guarantees to every pj, 1 State a republican form of govern- pr t ment." . in, ' An appeal to the Federal circuit So court will be made. bo ce WOMAN HAS 518 DESCENDANTS. an * Is 8G Years Old and Lives in Moun- ex tains of Kentucky. qu j Louisville?The greatest mother i in the world, perhaps, is Mrs. Jane Jll< co ; Morris, 8G years old. residing in an ; Jackson county, near the foothills m. of the Cumberland Mountains, in pr Kentucky. Ca Mrs. Morris was born and reared 8'1 I in the mountains, has little educ i tion and until a few years ago, had wj 5 never beeen outside of her immedi- ] i ate vicinity, there being up to that (0 > time no railroads in Jackson ]0? I county. do Mrs. Morris' claim to greatness ev i lies in the fact that she can boast pi, ) of a tolal of 518 descendants, near- |j,i ; ly all of whom are living and none in ? of whom ever has been accused of (;0 crime. Court Handed Out Lemon Decision. ? i St. Paul, Minn.?Judges Vande- se] 1 venter, Sanborn and Adams in the an 5 United States circuit court handed ho - down as order restraining the in- ! t terstate commerce commission from ab f putting into effect a reduced rate \vl i on lemons from Southern California lo\ 1 to the Atlantic seaboard. The cit 1 opinion further states that the case j > is one which will shortly go to the p0 newly created commerce court, mi which must render the final deci- oh sion in the case. ] Train Load of Whiskey. '?l' "t>! Birmingham?Representatives of | the 'Frisco system announced that . a full train load of liquor had been up ' made up lo be shipped out of the on | State over their line. The scramble &0( of local dealers to get rid of slocks !j,? ' on hand is the result of the sensa- a j tional campaign now under way j here to secure enforcement of the fj,?| prohibition laws. The destination |h, i of the train which left here is said i;|t to be Memphis. < Living at Home. ?' Wilmington. N. C.?Mr. S. E. I Memory, a leading merchant, says I he saw while at the Raleigh Slate Fair an offer of ?150 cash for the [|,j I eighteen ears of corn that had ]aL i taken the first prize. Mr. J. L. at I ? m.. ,>r iVIPIIlOry * I ?"L< i .HUM im , \n ujjj Scotland county, X. C.. this year i i made thirty bales of cotton on ton pr< acres of land. Mr. Pender says a sor farmer in Marlboro county, South jm Carolina, made 233 bushels of corn nic on an acre. No .More Chance for Panics. . "J* I Washington?With those nation- lie i al currency associations already ha: formed and those in process of for- on< rnalion. officials of the treasury de- of pari merit believe the financial cen- I>r< (res of the country are amply protected against financial stringency. Or Eleven cities already have formed air associations and with four more al about to da so the principal re- sh< serve banking cilies of the United f?' Stales will be equipped to issue a va total of $300,000,000 in temporary eoi J currency at a moment's notice, po 1 ? SOUTH CAROLINA j RI-STATE CORN EXPOSITION. i December 5 at Columbia Farmers Will Make History. ~~ rhe fanners of North Carolina, uth Carolina and Georgia will ve the greatest opportunity to mpete for prizes for the best ' rn at the South Atlantic cm I :position held in Columbia on cember 5 that has ever been Of- 1 *od to any people south of the ison and Dixon line. The cwrn position management, during a past summer, has been busy thering prizes for this event' [t has been previously announced it the aggregate value of the izes will reach $8,000, but now the DSjjfULS aeuiii iu iiiuicuu; mat it 11 bo more than' that, and perps as much as .$10,000 in money. Espcial emphasis has been laid on the ten ear exhibits. Prizes e offered for the first, second, ird and fourth best ten ear exaits of corn of any variety for ch county in the State. Also uilar prizes are offered for the st ten ear exhibits in each con- , essional district. Three classes 11 be opened to any man or wo m, boy or girl, in the States who shes to compete. The winners 6f ese classes will come together in e sweepstakes classes in the State r the best ten ears of single1 ear riety pf white corn; for the best i ears of prolific white corn, and r the best ten ears of .yellow rn. The exhibitor showing 'V the st ten ears of corn of any vb ?ty will be awarded the Amerin agricultural 'cup, valued at ,000. The winners of the ten ear isses will come together again in e grand sweepstakes classes for } >rth Carolina, South Carolina and . >orgia, and the winners of the and sweepstakes classes will be gible for the grand champion reepstakes classes for the best ten rs of corn exhibited from anv of e three Slates. Should a South rolina man, woman, boy or girl hibit the best ten cars of corr], lite or yellow, from North Carota, South Carolina and Georgia, e aggregate of his prizes in mon- . , machinery and cups will ap- 4 oximate $825. Also liberal prizes are offered for . 0 best 50 oars of corn > in South rolina and for the grand cham3n sweepstakes for the best 50 rs of corn in any of the three ales. Likewise prizes are offered : the best single ear in the conessional district class, in the ate class and irf the grand cham3n sweepstakes class: Liberal izes are also offered for the best dividual display. 'The one from? uth Carolina who makes the st individual display will -reive as his reward $225 in cash. riie secogd prize for this is $150, d the third prize $100.- In this hibit the exhibitor will be reired to show at least ten bushels corn, and the display will be ilged 70 per cent, for the best rn and 30 for the best decoration d display. The corn exposition magement also offers ^liberal izes similar to those of South rolina for (he best corn in Geor- [ 1 and North Carolina, which in i3. grand champion sweepstakes II come into competition with III that in South Carolina. Every farmer is especially urged select corn for exhibition. At ist live judges will be required to I he judging and these will score ery exhibit, attaching a com?le score to every exhibit, so at the exhibitor can see wherehe is strong or weak with his rn. Summary. The planterrs in York refuse to ' 1 at present low prices of cotton, d are storing it away in wareuses. Spartanburg is thought to be out the only town in the world lere newspaper men are not alved to hear what transpires in y council chamber. *cv. W. T. Capers has been apinled In a position on the general ssionary board of the Episcopal nrch. kJ. c. uranam, an inuuenuai coii mill man, of Greenville, says: ince 1907 I have been a 'bear' on ids and have sold my stock ver refusing a bid and am sold to March, but from this time 1 am a 'bull.' There are no ids in the Greenville territory on nds. Goods are being vyorl&d off. e tide lias turned and I look for tetter trade from now on." Jillon county had its first jail livery when four prisoners sawed ?ir way to liberty with a cheap Commissioner Watson says that lowing i conference between Dr. Fred Williams, Slate health ofii\ and himself, the analysis of iff seized in the open market un-? t !?.? Dnnn l/n/til on* I I^piio inf rvf Ill* 1 111*. L "uu ?ki m i/i up . ?u/ii v* s Stale, would be made at. the loratory lhal has boon fitted up the old Stale dispensary build). \V. Daniel, of Clemson college, *sident. ol' the Plate Teachers' asdation. has called a meeting of port an I organization for Friday iniing, November i, in Columbia. ^ petition for the formation ol isper" county out of parts1 of aufort and Hampton counties s been tiled with Gov. Ansel by e-lhird <d' the qualified electors I tie districts out of which it is iposed to fnrrn the new county. I'he total taxable property in angelmrg county for 1910 lounts to $8,398,01)0, against a totlax of 87.273,490 for last year, wing an increase of 81.124.(500 this year in the total property luation, 8(500,000 of this increase ttiing to this county through the rlion of Berkley county annexed.