K'? o I I Tramp Has a Real Value ^ u ^ Ty Jack London. ^ F the tramp were suddenly to pass awa> from the United ? | StateB, widespread misery for many families would follow. L V The tramp enableB thousands of men to earn honest livings, " J UV educate their children and bring them up God-fearing and I 1| industrious. I know. w p At one time my father was a constable and hunted I tramps for a living. The community paid him so much per head for all the tramps he could catch, and also, I believe, ti he got mileage fees. Ways and means were always a press- m lng problem in our household, and the amount of meat on the table, the new la pair of shoes, the day's outing cr the testbook for school was dependent upon rj my father's luck in the chase. Well I remember the suppressed eagerness X and the suspense with which I waited to learn each morning what the results tl of the past night's toll had been; how many tramps he had gathered In and tl what the chances were of convicting them. m But it's all in the game. The hobo defies society and society's watchdogs | mane a living out of him. Some hoboes like to be caught by the watchdogs? especially In winter time. Of course, such hobos select communities where w the jails are "good," where no work Is performed and the food Is substantial. Also there have been and most probably still are constables who divide their fees with the hobos they arrest. Such a constable does not have to hunt. r< He whistles and the game comes right up to his hand. ?j It is surprising the amount of money that Is made out of stone-broke c tramps. All through the South are convict camps and plantations where the time of convicted hobos is bought by the farmers and where hobos simply have to work. Then there are places like the quarries of Rutland, Vt., where the hobo Is exploited, the unearned energy in his body, which he has accumulated by slamming gates, being extracted for the benefit of that particular ^ community. I. Tramps pass the word along, and I first heard of those nuarrles when T m was in Indiana. By the time I got into New Hampshire I was pretty well 1c keyed up ever those quarries' and I fought shy of railroad cops, "bulls" and I constables aB I never had before.?Chicago Tribune. ir r< ? ? ? ?" * us ? ' tl P i | Husbands Slandered | ?i I They Jire Wot to Blame for Wives in I > Jisylums and Graves J ? i 1 ' ^ By Ccbrielle Stewart Mulliner ^ si g AM extremely sorry to notice the tenor of the reports from ^ 1 * the International Council of Women in Toronto. I do not T W think that the report of the speeches is representative of X A the thought of the majority of the women in attendance or " represented by delegates. The statement made, aB reported, ^ by Mrs- Symes Thompson, that half the women in asylums J ?lT?TT?t?' and PrllVP.. worn thoi-o hanni.oo Krtl w K...V>n?Jo "'"1" ? ! ?? ? gives a wrong impressing of the attitude of the International Council of Women toward life. Of course the vast majority r of women are happily married, and devotedly attached to their husbands, and content with the lot in which they find themselves, no matter whether it be rich or poor. 01 Women are going- to their graves from bad health, because the entire civl- j"' Illation needs to learn better the laws of life. It is not men alone, but all ^ persons, who are responsible for conditions under which women live. They go to asylums not because of their husbands, but because they themselves do not know how to attune themselves to life. They must learn not to be self- ? centred, but to make of their lives a mosaic, arfd have many interests, so that lf they can be well balanced, and keep an interest in life even if one interest fl proves disappointing. But are there no men in asylums, or do the death not- fi ices contain no names of men? , C There is vice, there are bad habits, there is inattention, and there is " cruelty, against which women have to battle. But we are all human beings,. ; C only a few of us are angels, and plenty of us are more or less whitewashed j devils. But It takes two to make a divorce action, and three to carry a case {?< through New York courts, so I for one resent the insinuation that all women tl are suffering unhappiness because some of them dot. m Let those of us who are happily married come to the rescue of the hua cc bands who are proving themselves nature's nobleme T a s a ct ass ki BO O r\' "V < stand with the modern young woman out for a good time? J | IB I Her ideal is the sporty spendthrift who lavishes his hard- w i > < > earned dollars upon her caprices. She has no earthly use m ' ttlMill > for the economical, home-loving species. She scoffs at him I > i and appends such epithets as "stingy miser" to his name. y< < illlllll > A &??d many women do not use discretion in the choice of a life-companion. Mere appearances are usually victorious. Q Physical beauty, stylish apparel, distinguished deportment, a knowledge of ni the arts of (lattery and dancing are the only keys that will open society's door. l)( The plain, sincere, home-loving young man usually lacks these keys. Cf Then too, with but few exceptions, tn^ modern woman is unfit to assume Uj domestic and maternal responsibilities. Too much time is wasted in study- a: Ing the art of external adornment. Of what use Is a smattering of music or fl, French to the practical young man who prefers a digestible meal? j,( Give us some more girls with a knowledge of domestic economy in lieu of lawn tennis and basket-ball, and "E. D." will have no cause for bemoaning .. the waning of marriages. si a s M Im * m E _ c p ...Gas as a Motor... ^5 ? ^ By yo? Mitchell Chappie ^ ' CCORDINO to expert government reports on fuel, the gas ^ I JT 1 engine is capable of generating from two and a half to three , S t,?^ I t,mes as much power from a given amount of ooal as the jj. f 9^ I steam engine. It economises In another way also by mak- n> m ing It possible to obtain power with a low-grade coal value1 y 1 less under steam boilers. Fuel with so high a percentage A of Impurity that it could not hitherto be used in factories K. can now be made to generate sufficient power, by means of gas engine, to do the game work that otherwise would re- is iin, last winter. The mansion of Former Governor rilliam Sprague at Narraganset, H. , was destroyed by fire Monday lorning. Many art treasures were st. Tlie total loss will be $600,000. The Chicago police have furnished 1 advance to police of cities in th# jute of President Taft the picture* f noted pickpockets and it is hoped lat most of the band following tb? resident will be earning a living hen he gets back to Washington. Ion Hammer, director of the Swedih Export Association, was a viem of a Socialist bomb last Sundav. t was sent by mail and as he was iking off wrappers it exploded, tcarlg off his thumb and forefinger and ashing his face somewhat. His inlries are not fatal. An autoist going at a good speed truck a baby carriage in New York unday, knocking baby and carriage 0 feet but the baby escaped unhurt. According to statistics from Washlgton, the Indians in the United tates are not being exterminated ut on the contrary are increasing at normal rate. The Law and Order League of ensacola, Fla., caused the Sunday iw of fifty years standing to be enarced last Sunday when not a cigar auld b?* bought. Those who neglectd to lay in their meat and bread for unday had to take meals at the rosluranta. Prof. P. Q. Caldwell of the chair f Latin and French at Erskine Col'ge, Due West, S. C., died Sunday fternoon after suffering two weeks rom a stroke of apoplexy. Prof, nldwell had won the appellation of The Friend of the Boys." South arolina ereatlv mnnms tiim Robbers, surprised, bound and gaged the chief clerk and assistant in le Seattle Express office Tuesday orning and robbed the office getting msiderable booty. At Waters Creek near McNeal, exas, Wednesday an engine and two irs plunged into a burning bridge, illing one and injuring eight perms. Prof. L. L. Dyke, head of the deirtment of natural history in the niversity of Kansas who made seval trips north savs: "Commander eary's statement just published, to y mind, is absolutely incredible. It based on the testimony of ignorant skimos, who were incapable of un?rstanding a country to which they id never been before well enough i outline such a map as that pubshed and credited by Mr. Peary to icir explanation. Only intelligent hite men with instruments could ake their way to such a country and ? able to report in detail upon it a ?ar after the trip was made." Uillisses Wise, near Lincolnton, N. ., in a fit of insanity, Wednesday ight, frightened his family from )me, His wife's father answered a ill and came to the rescue wherepon Wise cut his head off with an re, went into the house, set it on re and burned to a crisp with the ouse. Killing frosts are reported on the 3th as far south as Alabama and low as far south as Maryland. Dr. Cook expresses astonishment at dward Barrill, who was with Dr. ook on Mt. McKinley, but now says nder oath that neither of them ever (ached the summit. Dr. Cook savs ! any expedition will follow the >ute he took, they will find the (cords deposited by him at the sumit ?U_ i-: ??. ui iuc uiuumain. Miss Carrie Hunter, of Wadesboro, iving lost her health, took an inine impulse to commit suicide and lunged into a well on Wednesday ight, accomplishing her design. The mayor of Key West calls for merican citizens to help the destiite of that storm stricken city. Prof. Francisco Ferrer, the Spanh educator and eonvited revolutiont, was shot Wednesday at Barcema, Spain. The execution was dono t the fortress of Montjuich, whero le prisoner had been confined since is condemnation my conrt martial, be doomed man faced the firing |uad without flinching and fell dead I the first volley. bank rober in Chicago was about ? be captured Wednesday whereupI he deliberately shot himself dead. : had only gotten *0*. m TTi^j ' *' T^TJP - ' ml fWASBINGTON NOTES ii A substantial increase is shown iu the gross income of the Southern Railway Company during the year ending June 30 last, according to tl'o fifteenth annual report of President W. W. Finley. The report says the return of business from the low level of panic conditions of 1907 was slow but substantial during the past year. The total gross income for the year was $17,737,699, an increase over 1908 of $3,890,733. While the operating expenses show a decrease of $753,610, compared with the year 1908, it is stated that this is due to the fact that the Tennessee Central Railroad and the Southern Railway of Mississippi were operated separately this year. However, comparing like for like, this year shows an increase in the operating revenues of $606,766. At a meeting of the Southern Commercial congress Tuesday, plans for building to be erected in this city were accepted. The structure will be built from contributions made by the various commercial organizations throughout the South, and John M. Parker, President of the congress, will leave soon on a speaking tour in that section. He goes first to Greenville, S. C.. then to Atlanta. Ga., and Brimingham, Ala. The complete itinerary has not been completed yet. The work of organising and canvassing the 16 states which will be called upon to contribute to the congress will, it is figured, ocupy more than a year. Record target practice scores of the vessels of the American navy for 1909 made public at the Navy Department Thursday, show that the Wash ington is a trophy winner in the battleship class, the Charleston a trophy winner in the gunboat class, the Tingey the trophy winner in vessels competing for the torpedo trophy. The Pacific fleet, under Admiral Swinburne, leads the fleet in target practice with a record of 42. A trip to various coast points on the Atlantic ocean to participate in local celebrations has been arranged for the torpedo hoats Stringham, Dupcr.t, Biddle and ShubricL of the Atlantic torpedo flotilla. From Charleston, S. C., they are to go to Savannah, from November 1 to 7, to take part in a carnival. The next day' they go to Wilmington, N. C., to be there during the President's) visit. Later in the month, from November 22 to 27, the boats are to be at Jacksonville, where a carnival is to be held. After these boats get back to Charleston, they will be placed in reserve. The other boats of the Atlantic flotilla, eight in all, are to bo placed in reserve at Charleston upon their arrival there, which is expected to be early in November. The Supreme Court Tuesday fixed December 13 for hearing arguments in the case of the government against the American Tobacco Company. The cases were instituted by the government to obtain the dissolution of the alleged trust. Their hearing was originally fixed for Tuesday, but the postponement was made to allow Attorney-General Wickershain to partipinoto in ormimanlo Oorders were issued at the NavyDepartment Monday for a division of the Atlantic torpedo flotilla to be present at Yorktown to participate in the celebration in commemoration of the anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. The vessels, which have been cruising up th Hudson river as far as Albany and Troy in collection with the recent Hudson-1 Fulton celebration, will sail from New York within the next two or three days for Hampton Roads and thence to Yorktown. After a recess of more than four i months, and with only Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Harlan, Brewer, White, Holmes, McKenna and Day present, the Supreme Court of the United States Monday began the regular term for the next twelve months. Justices Peckham and Moody were absent on account of illness, reducing the court to unusually small proportions. The question whether the ordinary insurance policy insures a man against death by legal hanging is raised in the case of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, vs. J. William McCue and others, which was presented Monday to the Supreme Court of the United States. McCue is one of the children of the late J. Samuel McCue, who while serving a term as mayor of the city of Charlottesville. I Va., was found guilty of murdering I his wife and hanged for the offense in 1905. About a year previous to the crime McCue took out an insurance policy of $15,000 in the Mutual Life. I The commissions of several additional supervisors of the next cen- j | sus have been signed by President isrt and forwarded by Director of I the Census Durand to the appointees. | Among them are Livingston, F. McClellan, Stone Mountain, for the fifth district, and Harry Burns, Maeon, for the sixth distriet of Georgia; James L. Michie, Darlington, for the sixth distriet and Ernest M. Dopre, Columbia, for the seventh distriet, 8outh Carolina. I ANOTHER SOU Death List 37, With <=>c Sweeps Southeast Alabama and Memphis. Tenn., Special.?With the known death list already reaching a total of thirty-seven human lives and with thirteen others reported dead, with scores seriously injured and mauy others painfully bruised, and with the property damage running to n million or more dollars, the toll of the havoc and destruction of the storm which swept middle and West Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and portions of Arkansas, and South Carolina, late Thursday afternoon mi j? ? - uiu xuursaay mgni, prows Hourly as reports are received form remote districts and as wire communication is gradually restored to a normal condition. The storm was the worst that has visited this section of the South in years, being intense in its destroying fury and widespread in its area. Whole sections of counties were laid in waste, towns destroyed and plantations greatly damaged. The list of dead reported is: Denmark. Tenn., Albert Barnes; Mulberry. Tenn, Thomas Helm; Stantonville, Tenn, Thirteen people reported i.:n i /? " ? viutru ^unconnrmetl) ; fittsburg Landing, Tenn.. Mrs. West MeDaniel. Otis Littlefield. Luther Littlfiel.i. Marshall Jordan, Kubv Jordan. I. W. Lemons; Xear Stantonville, Tenn.. Cliarles. wife and infant, Terry Wilbank, Mrs. Wilbank and their two children, Mrs. Sissom; Xear Cartersville, Ga., Miss Pritchard; Scottsboro, Ala., Miss Houston Skelton, Milas M. Sudor, a child of Jim "!al; Wyeth Cove, Ala., Eight people Killed; Near Scottsboro, Ala.. Mrs. S. H. Skelton; Stunton, Tenn., Andy Johnson, u negro; Nixon, Tenn., live people killed; Near Marmaduko, Ark., Arthur Liggett. Apparently the storm broke in all its fury over middle and West Tennessee and proceeded in a southeasterly direction across the State into Alabama and Georgia, assuming the proportions of a hurricane. It came practically without warning and in some places the wind atPRESIDENT TAFT ACCEPT * Washington, Special.?All doubts as to what action the President would take with respect to the resignation of Charles R. Crane, minister designate to China, was dispelled by the receipt of a dispatch from President Taft addressed to his secretary, ,Mr. Carpenter directing him to convey to Mr. Crane announcement of the fact that the resignation had been accepted. The telegram was dated Prescott. Ariz., October 13, and reads as follows: "Convey to Mr. Crane following communication: 'I concur in the letter under date of October 12, which the Secretary of State has addressed to you and 1 greatly regret that the circumstances found to exist by him make it necessary for mo to accept our resignation.' "TAFT." Later Mr. Crane issued this statement: "I am greatly relieved by the President's decision. There has been no minute since I learned the attitude of the Department of State when I have KILLS FATHER-IN-LAW AN1 Lincolnton, X. C., Special.?About 3 o'clock Thursday morning, near Bethpage church, 6 miles west of Lincolnton, Mr. W. S. Wise killed his father-in-law, Joe Iiallman, with an axe, then ran in his own home, barred the door, undressed himself, fired his home and was incinerated. Mr. Hallman's head was entirely severed FATHERlSKILLEir TRYU Gastonia, N. C., Special.?Col. Robert L. Abcrnothy, owner of Open View farm in River Bend township, Gaston county, eccentric stockman, farmer and politician, was shot and almost instantly killed at his home near Mount Holly at 7 o'clock Thursday morning after having fired three wild shots at his son, Reuben, aged 18, and in the course of a flrece handto-hand struggle with, the latter who was endeavoring to disarm him. One bullet entered the right temple anl the other struck iiim full in the forePRESIDENT DIAZ SPEEDS WA El Paso, Tex., Special.?Gen. Porfi i>?:J?- * ?> . m irniucnl ui ine nepuDiie of Mexico, reached Cludad Juarez, opoaite El Paso, at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon and waa greeted by salute* from the Mexican artillery and cheers of the populace. After receiving committees fram El Paso and the city oi Juarez, General Diaz laid the cornerstone for the Juares monument, in memory of his IB >ssibilities of IncreaseThrough Tennessee, South Carolina. tained a velocity of 90 miles an hour. While only one death occurred at Denmark, Tenn., the horrors of the storm were greatly heightened by the fire which followed the wrecking of that town. The fierce flames rapidly * consumed what few dwellings and store houses were left standing and at night a scene of utter desolation is presented. Two hundred people were rendered homeless and have appealed to neighboring towus and cities for immediate aid. n A e r? - i\fpons 01 nve deaths and heavy damage come from McNairy county. Homes and stores were leveled to the ground and great trees uprooted. Many handsome and imposing State monuments in the Shiloh national park were torn from their pedestals and the superintendent's lodge and other buildings were destroyed. The property damage in this section is estimated at $100,000. n nc wuiiiiuiucaiion wun r>ianionville, where thirteen lives are reported to have been lost, has not yet been re-established. At Russellville, Ala., twenty-seven people were seriously, several fatally injured. A property damage of at least $10,000 is estimated at Cartersville, Ga., while that at Atlanta will run between $80,000 and $100,000. One life was lost at the former place. Rome, Ga., Gadsden, Ala., Iiuntsville, Ala., Decatur, Ala., and other smaller towns in the path of the storm ropert heavy property damages. At Gadsden, Alabama, hail the size of hen's eggs did much damage, losses about $25,000. At Atlanta one woman was probably fatally hurt and two children were also injured. # At Cartersville, Ga., one woman is dead, another rejiorted beneath the wreck of her home, and $50,000 damage to property. At Aiken, S. C., report say the path i of the storm was several miles wide and probably 50 miles long. Great damage was done to the cotton crop. ?g 'S CRANE'S RESIGNATION L not contemplated the possibility of a continuance of my official relations with the deepest repugnance. Nevertheless, I have felt that my obligation to the President was to permit Mk him to decide the issue. Mh "I accepted the Chinense mission at his request and solely because of assurance that I could be and would be permitted to be of service to the country in constructive work of the K greatest importance to it and of the