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What the Engagement Ring Means BY Beatrice Fairfax. 0 49900 SN'T it wonderful the amount of ecstacy that a tiny golden circlet can encompass? The engagement ring is even more wonderful in the CYCs of its happy wearer than its follower, the wedding ring, fo.r the engagement ring comes first, and there is such a world 0 0 0 of tender sentiment entwined in it. There is not a girl in the land who does not in imag ination see that magic token gleaming on the third finger of her left hand. All her rosy girlhood dreams are centred around it, for it means the happiest moment of her life. The origin of the betrothal ring dates back many hundred years. In the beginning it was a gift from the groom to the bride to denote that he admitted to her the privilige of. sharing his belongings. It practically had the significance of the present day wedding ring; but in those days long engagements were not customary, so the betrothal and wedding rings were really one and the same thing. But always, in every country where it has been used, it has meant the plighting of love vows between man and woman. In many countries the man as well as the woman wears an engagement ring. It is a beautiful custom, and yet it is not necessary that an engaged girl should have a ring. Very often I receive plaintive little letters from girls who tell Me that they are engaged, but have no ring. They seem to think that all the joy of their engagement is spoiled by the fact that the ring does not adorn their left hand. There is no doubt that it is very nice to have the ring-every girl real izes that; but, if a girl really loves her fiance the ring cannot make much difference. Custom has made the engagement ring rather an expensive piece of jewelry. If the young man has his way to make in the world, it is far more sen sible to put the money in the bank than to spend it on a ting. You see, girls, the money spent on the ring would buy the dining room furniture or pay a month's rent. If your sweetheart can afford a ring, by all means have one; but don't be unhappy if you have to go without it. Do not plight your troth to any man without being ,very sure that you cannot live happily without him. Some girls make and break engagements of marriage as casually as they would an engagement to go to the theatre. They think it fine to be engaged to two men at the same time. It isn't fine, girls: it's contemptible, and hurts a girl immeasurably. Do not lead a man on to propose merely for the satisfaction of conquest. .Human hearts are not made to juggle with. After you have accepted a man's love try and realize the responsibilit. that rests upon you. You must train yourself to be a good wife. Learn the housewifely arts that will teach you how to make a happy home. Try and bring out all that is best in your fiance; let him see that you love and respect him and admire his fine qualities. Encourage him to be upright and industrious. Help him to save by not demanding extravagant gifts and treats from him. Don't look on him as merely thie man who can help you to have a good time; look on him as your future husband, the man you love and honor. That all sounds like a very large contract, dear girls; but that is what you are responsible for when you accept a man's love. And whether the acceptance is symbolized by a ring o1 not, the obliga tion is there just the same.-San Francisco Examiner. SCan the Human Race AvertExtinction? By C. W.2 Saleeby, FR. S. HE only conceivable way in which the human intelligence Scan ever succeedi in averting the "procession of the great year" is not by postponing the issue. but by reversing the process. The question is this: Whilst energy is being dis sipated in accordance with the natural law, can we so man iuaethings as to accumulate energy, making the unavail able avial-owtsadn the fact that cosmic processes seem to be essentially irreversible? Now, there is assuredly no inherent reason why we should not accom plish this. It is true that hitherto all the atomic evolution that has been ob served is atomic disintegration. We may speak now, indeed, of the analysis of the elements. But so it was, we may remember, that the older chem istry began, and yet analytic chemistry was the precursor- of synthetic chem istry. We began by breaking up compounds. but now we can make them can, indeed, make compounds hitherto unknown in nature. Similarly, it is more than probable that we shall ere long learn to achieve the synthesis of the elements as well as their analysis. No energy is ever lost. Even when the radium atom, itself the child of the uranium atom, breaks down and dis sipates its energy, ending, it is supposed, as the dull atom of lead, the orig inal energies are not destroyed. Why should they not be gathered up again an thus again become available? Are matter' and energy to go on their -wilya ultimately destroying the human race? For myself I incline to the view that victory will rest at last *with "man's unconquerable mind."-Harper's 31agazine. . The STraining of Children & If By Marianna Wheeler. OMETIMES children acquire undesirable traits or habits from companions. The habit of imitation is not only strong in children, but is a very strong element in all hu man nature. If the child's companions are particularly dis agreeable or harmful, it is well to keep them apart, but un der ordinary circumstances the best po0licy' to pursue is to point out to the child that this or that particular fault -which he is acquiring is unpleasant, or if necessary enter into mild argument with the child. I have found most children amenable to reason if it is put in a clear, simple, logical nrner to them. While one would not advocate associates of a questionable character for a child, still it is not altogether a bad thing for a child t0 engounter some of the faults or peculiar'ities of other chiidr'en. If there is a temptation to acquire undesir able qualities, the reasoning of an older a-id wiser head usually has its ef. fect- this teaches the child to think out little problems for himself, and to reason intelligently. It also culltivates in the child powers of discrimination. It is well to have these little gifts take root early; they strengthen with time and help the child later tc. resist many of the temptations he is s to meet.-Harper's Bazar. Choice of Evils. jA Prize. Smiley-I hope you won't mit d if I "hti ortpwie' pe? bring a friend home to dinnir to- "e pe? night. dear?"YsAtwaraedeshwie? Mrs. Smiley'-Oh. no: that is het- "elIs-ldaytterte0 ter than being brouiht home by a sm 0msae iue"Lus friend after dinner.-Chicago News. ville Courier-Journal. Those Girls. Co'ncise Description. Jack-I can read Mable's face like {Stella-What was her bathing sun a book.lie Stella-Yes, but you couldn't read it IBella-It was heard but not seen. In the orlinal.-New York Sun. INew Y-u-k Sun. MRS. DAVIS DEAD Widow of Confederate Presi dent Passes Away DIED SUDDENLY IN NEW YORK Relict of the Confederacy's President Passes Away in Her Apartments in a New York Hotel, Attended by Close Relatives and Her Physicians. New York, Special.-Mrs. Jefferson Davis,. widow of the President of the Confederacy. who had been ill for a week at the 110tel Majestie. in this city, died at 10:25 o'clock Tuesday night. Death vas due to pneumonia induced by a severe cold which Mrs. Davis contracted upon her return from the Adiriondavs. where she had spent the summer months. Al though gravc fears were felt from the first. Mrs. Davis' wonderful vitality, which brought her safely throulI a similar attack a year ago, gave hopes of ultimate re(overy l until Monday night, when a deceided change for the worse was evident and the attend ing physicians annouinced that the end was near. DEAD BY THOUSANDS. As Result of Terrific Typhoon Which Visited Hong Kong Sept. 20th and Lasted Two Hours, 10,000 Lives were Blotted Out Entirely-Steamer Which Escaped Brings Fearful Story of Unprecedented Disaster. Tictoria. B. C.. By Cable-Ten thousand lives were blotted out. 17 steamers and sailing vessels were wrecked or badlly (lanaged, over 1.000 junks swamped, turned over or hat tered to pieces agaiist the stone walls of the Praya, SO per cent of lighters, launehes, yachts. houseboats and small crafts were entirely destroyed. muany wharves wrecked and many danmage.d, as the -result of the typhoon lasting but two hours at Honk Kong on Sept. 18. according to advice brought by the steamer Empress of Japan. )I(! o the few vessels to (eape the disastei, which arrived Monday. The Kowloon sustailled the heaviest loss, bnt all sections of the H1ong Kong an1d Hinterland suffered. There were 24 Europeans am1on-'I tle killed. The other-,; were Chine. mostly and junk population. Oin the approach of the typhoon the junkmen skurried for shelter. col l idinig wli th each it her. cut t ing down yachts. h ouseboats, etc.. striving through the dlrivinlg rain to reachl ICauseway Bay. Thousands soon1 w(ere thIIrowir illto the sea, lashed to a1 fury. with tile waves 20 and 30 feet high. The wind blew die junks arhiund and sent them swirling and twistinlg to be dashed to pieces againist the Praya; whlere hundreds of junks and sampan s were da shed to mat chwvood and the mangled bodies of the crowds battered againlst the stone walls wit h in sight of those on sho~re powerless to lend them aid. The storm eased as qjuickly as it began. The sun shone then on the scenies of unparalleled destruction on Honk Kong. Thlis typhoon exeeded all others experienced there in its severity. Five Men Killed Chyenne. Wyo.. Special.-Five men were killed in a hlead-on freight col lision on the Union Pacific railroad at Ridge, near Laramnie, Wyo. The collision was caused by a mi'sunder standing of orders. By Wire and Cable. The Navy Department of the Y. M. C. A. is to receive the gift oi' a build ing at the navy yard at Norfolk, Va.. from John D. Rlockefeller, similar to that erected at the Brooklyn yard. by Miss Helen Gould, at a cost of $300.000. The battleship Dreadnoughlt on her trial trip steamed 2'2 1-4 knots an hour. The great scarcity of missionaries was brought out at the centennial meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 'West Virginia was allajwed to pre. sent a demurrer to the suit of Tir-. ginia in regard to the division of the State debt. Owing to the appearanee of yellow. fever at Cinf'uegos the immediate re moval of the American marinesha been ordered. Chairman Shouts announced that the contract for constructing the en tire Panama canal would he let to a single bidder an a percentage basis. A Protest Adopted. New Orleans, La., Special.--A pro test against the decision of the Pan ama Canal Commission for half rates for canal supplies exclusively fronm New York and San Fr'ancisco, was ad opted Tuesday by the directors of the New Orleans Progressiv-e Union, which protests vigor'ously ngainst such, as being dIescriminatory and ser iously detrimental to the interests of the Port of New Orleans and t& whole Mississippi valley. Four More Bcdies Found on Coas1 Near Mobile. Mobile, Ala., Special-Reports fron the South coast the scene of disastel during the tropical hurricane of Sep tember 27. tell of tihe finding of thi dead bodie's of the following: Willit Talland, captain of the Never Tell Charles Witt. Wim. A. Styi'on. W. RB Steiner. The bodies were so badly de composed that they were only r'eco gfnized by the clothing. fUN[RAL Of MRS. DAVIS First Lady of the Confederacy" Lovingly Laid to Rest Beside Her Distinguished Husband. Richmond. Va.. Special.-Ofn Fri day the remains of Mrs. Jefferson Davis were laid to rest here by the side of her husband. The ceremony was simple and impressive. The tributes of flowers were rich and vari ed. The number present was small. Church Services Simple. At 3 o'clock the casket was taken into the body of the church, which owas packed with people, and the funeral service was begun. This was conducted by Rev. Robert Forsythe, rector of the church, assisted by Rev. Dr. J. William Jones. ehaplain gener al of the Confederate veterans:; Rev. Dr. James Power Smith. who was Stonewl;l .lckson's claplain; Rabbi Galisch. of Be-thahaba syiagogue, Richmond : Rev. Dr. Loudon R. Ma son, Rev. Dr. W. V. Tudor. and Rev. Dr. N. A. Seanle. ThIe service was of a simple eharneter. tih hymn be in- .Just as 1. A.ni.' How Firm a Fonudation.' Abide With -Ale" and "Asleep in Jesus.' - Must Provide Bulletins. Raleigh, N. C.. Special.-An order effective Nov. I has just been made by the Corporation Commission with a view to eliminatin.- the much com plained of evil of indefinitely and un explained late trains by requiring bulletined explanations of conditions and causes. The order is to the effect that all railroads shall provide bul ietin boards on which shall be posted the arrival and departure of trains thirty minutes ?efore they are due. If a train is late the board shall show as nearly as possible when it is expected. If indefinitely late the cause of the delay shall also be bulletined and also announced to the passengers on board of the trains together with statement of possible duration of delay. Funeral of Rev. Sam Jones. Cartersville, Ga., Special.-In the presence of a lage congregation im pressive funeral services were held Thursday afternoon over the remains of the Rev. Sam P. Jones, the evange list. in the Sam Jones Tabernacle here. Bishop C. M. Galloway, of Mis sissippi, presided and was assisted by many prominent ministers. The body will be taken to Atlanta, where it will lie in state in the State capitol until afternoon, when it will be placed in a receiving vault to await the comple tion of the Jones family vault here. Pythian Supreme Lodge Elects Offi cers. New Orleans. Specia.-The Supre me Lodge, Knights of Pythias, elected the following ofleers: Supreme chan cellor, Charles A. Barnes, Jackson ville, Ill.; Supreme vice chancellor, Henry P. Brown, Cleburn. Tex.; Su preme prelate, Leo A. Caro. Grand Rapids, Mich.: supreme keeper of re cords and seals, R. L. White, Nash ville. Tenn.; supreme master of ex chequer. Thomas M. Mares. Wilnming ton, N. C. Revenue From Telephones. Nashville, Special.-In its report to the comptroller the Cumberland Telegraph and Telephone company, reports 30.135 instruments in the state on which the privilege tax at 40 cents each is $S.S73.40. Of this number 6,92S are in D~avidson countyv and 6,436 in Shelby county. The East Tennessee comipany repo.rts S.970 in strumnents. the tax being $3,213. Hama ilton county hrs~ 4,1:37 of these and Knox 2.968. Ten Men Burned To Death. Birmingham, Ala.. Special.-Ten men were burnred to death, two others perhaps fatally injured and a third slightly hurt in the fire which destroy ed the bo'arding house of Mrs. E. E. Wattley, on Third avenue, between 2 ani .3 o'clock Friday morning. Nashville Sallonist Arrested. Nashville. Special.-Sol Cohen a well known local saloon keeper was arrested by a mUted States deputy marshal, having been indicted by the federal granld juryW on the charge of refiliing bot tIes on which the stamps had not been dastroyed. Taft Homeward Bound. Norfolk. Vn.. Special.-The Battle ship Louisiana, bearing Secretary Taft and party homeward bound from Ha vana, Cuba, passed in the Virginia Capes accomp~anied by the battleships Virginia and New Jersey. At Hamp ton Roads the party will board the Dolphin and proceed to Washington. IFlemings to South Carolina. Brussels. By Cable.--Two hundred anifty-eight skilled Flemish weav ewihtheir families, left Ghent for Breman from whence they will sail on a steamer of the North German Lloyd Line airect for Charleston, S. C. They form the first installment of a considerabje immigration move momt arranged under the auspices of the government of Belgium and the authlorities of South Carolina. Funeral in Richmond Friday. Richmond, Va., Special.-At a con ference of State and city officials, in luding Governor Swanson, Lieuten ant Governor Ellyson and Adjutant General Anderson, it was arranged that the funeral of Mrs. Jefferson Davis shall take place ini St. Paul's church, this eity, at 3 p. in.. Friday next. General Stephen D. Lee, of Mississippi, commander-in-chief of the 'United Confederate Veterans, has been asked to act as chief marshal, a has accented the honor. TH[ LIf[E Of MRS. DAVISI Was a Notable Figure in the Days of The Old South. Varina 11owell Jefferson (M'. Jef ferson Davis) was born in Nachez, Miss., May 7th, 1826. She was the granddaughter ol Governor Richard Howell of Niew Jersey and daughter of William Burr anud, Mnraret (Keinpe) Howell. She was educated at Madame Gre land 's school, Philadelphia, and by private teachers at home. She was married February 25th, 1845, to Jef ferson Davis. of Warren County, Miss. Ile was elected to Congress t MaLS. VANINA ROWELL JI.:FERSON DAVIS. November, 1S45, and resigned June, 1846, to go to the Mexican war, from which he returned severely wounded and they returned to live at his Brierfield plantation, Davis Bend, in Warren county, Miss. She was with her husband in Washington where he was United States Senator 1S47 to 1852: Secretary of War 1853 to 1857; United States Senator 1857 to 1S61 and in Richmond during the time he was president of the Confederate States 1861 to 1865. Mrs. Davis' old home was -Beau voir House, post office. Harrison County. Miss., although for reasons of health she has resided in New York for a number of years. "The First Lady of the Confederacy" Mrs. Varina Jefferson Davis, who passed away recently, held a tender place in the regard of the Southern people, both for her personal qualities as a noble. high-minded woman, and as the devoted wife of the distinguish ed soldier and statesman. the lHon. Jefferson Davis, President of the Con federate States of America. Daugh ter of William Burr Howell, of Natchez, Miss., and granddaughter of Gov. Richard Howell, of New Jersey, she was born May 7, 1826, and on Feb ruary 25.. 1845, married Jefferson Jefferson~Davis. than a planter of Warren county, Mississippi, being his second wife. Soon after her marriage her husband was elected to Congress, and in 1846 he resigned to go to the Mexican War, in which he was re verely wounded. He became Senator in 1847-52, Secretary of War in 1853 57 and again Senator in 1857-61, dur ing which successive periods Mrs. Davis resided in Washington and enjoyed the distinction obtained by her husband as a weighty speaker, statesman and head of an important department of the Government. Dur ing the years 1861-653 she was "First Lady'' of the South, her husband be ing the first and only Executive of the Confederate States, and sustained with grace her yosition as leader ir. the aristocratic society of the Confed erate capita]. With the fall of the Confederate Government- in 1865 be gan a chapter of sorrow. and suffering of which she had her full part along with her husband, sharing his im prisonment at Fortress Monroe when permitted to do so. Her conduct at this time endeared her to the South ern heart, the tragedy of her life ap pealing to a people who were them selves at that time in thousands of desolate homes enduring similar pri Tations and indiznities. After the release from Fortress Monroe the ex-President and his wife resided in England (1867-78). They returned later to Memphis. Tenn., where the e~i-President was in busi ness (1870-78), after which, in 1879, he retired to his estate at Biloxi. on the Mississippi Coast. for the r - mainder of his days. Here Mrs. Davis aided him in the production of the historical work, "The Degline and Fall of the Confederate Government."'' After her husband's death. in 1889, .Mrs. Davis obtained a needed increase of income by her writings, retaining her property in Mississippi. but resid mgc. for reasons of health, in New York. Among her books is ".Te1hr son Davis: A Memoir. By.. His Wife.'' Of her six children---rour. Sons and two daughters-but one, Mrs. I. A. Hayes, of Colorado Springs, Col., survives her. One of her sons, it is of interest to note, was educated at Belair, Md. Her death removes one of the most prominent personages of the period of the Civil War. It may be observed that ex-President Davis long survived President Lin coln, General Grant and most of I-is other principal apponents, and Mrs. Davis outlived about all the rest. Funeral in Richmond Friday. Richmond, Va., Special.-At a con ference of State and city officials, in cluding Governor Swanson, Lieuten ant Governor Ellyson and Adjutant General Anderson, it was arranged that the funeral of Mrs. .Jetierson Davis shall take place in St. Paul's church, this city, at 3 p. in., Friday next. General Stephen D. Lee, oIf Mississippi, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans. has benakd to act as chief marshal. and ha accenitedthe hono.J jOUONCONDITIONS ~rop is Much Shorter Than i Was Thought to Be 3ADLY DAMAGED BY STORMS Ir. E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, After a Tour of Cotton Growing States, Holds to Opinion That Cot ton Crop of This Year will Not Exceed if Equal That of Last Year-Storms, Rains, Frost and Boll Weavil Responsible. Columbia, Special-Mr. E. D. Smith >resident of the South Carolina Cot on Association and field agent of the ,eneral cotton association, returned rom a trip over the cotton belt and rave out an interesting statement of is observations. Mr. Smith says: "Since September 25th I have isited every cotton State, winding ip at Orangeburg, S. C., Monday, )etober 8th. My trip, therefore, overed a period in which the Gulf torm that covered eastern Louisiana, 11 of Mississippi, Arkansas and Ala iama occurred. The conditions, as found them previous to the storm, lid not warrant the expectation of yield very greatly in excess of last ear. The effect of the storm can iever be fully estimated until the .ial yield of athe crop is known. Nhere certainly has never been a more lisasterous storm in its effect upon -otton in the history of cotton grow ng. In the States where it raged vorst at least 60 per cent of the en ire .matured crop was open; the fields vere white from Alabama to Texas. n the low lands the cotton was beaten [own, and over large territory water rom three to five inches deep cover d the ground and a great amount of otton not yet open was submerged nd all the open cotton that was )eaten out was runined. The continu d wet weather, subsequent to the torm, caused a great deal to sprout n the boll and rotting of the plant vas greatly impaired by the force >f the wind and the effects of the ain. Since then the unprecedented old wave, accompanied with killing rost, has practically covered the en ire eastern half of the cotton belt. "In Texas and the Territories, t-here neither storm nor frost have ,et been, we found that the yield )romised to be in excess of last year, )ut even in ibis section the final out ook- is problematical, for the reason hat boll worm, t-aterpillar and boll veevil have covered a greater terri ;ory than ever in the history of Dexas. The entire Brasos Val!ey of ientral and eastern Texas; in fact, he entire cotton producing part of ['exas has not made any cotton since he 1.5th of Septmeber, nor will it nake any m->re, on account of the boll weevil. Therefore a frost in rexas would have practically no ef feet, on the ultimate yield of her !ror~ The boll weevil has extended :his year over the entire Red River al4, in Texas and into western Ind southern Arkansas and into Ok ahoma and Indian Territory, and is iow within twent y miles of the Mis issippi, probably having crossed this -iver this month. Therefore, in my >pinion, the yield of this erpwill iot very greatly exceed, if it does cx ~eed at all, the yield of last year. To sum thie whole matter up, the ~onditions are these: The weevil aas made a top crop in Texas im >ossible; any citizen of that State will tell you that no more' cotton il, be made in the cotton growing ietion of Texas this season. East of the Mississippi the storm damage, and then in addition to that. the ~rost, has cut off any possibility of my further maturing and the de struction of that that was partially natured. The crop was conceded by ill to be from two to three weeks ate; the frost is from three to four weeks early. Therofre, taking these ~onditione all together, the outturn >f this erop must be exceedingly ;mall in comparison with what was sxpected a few weeks ago. "The headlines in one of the South Carolina newspapers a few days ago were a little misleading, in that they nade it appear that I advised the Earmers to sell their cotton at ten rents a pound. What I said then I repeat now: That the association Bxed the line, in their judgment be ow which no one should sell a pound >f cotton, at ten- cents. I advised ;he farmers that from this figure up, iccording to the market, if they were under obligations and had debts to neet, to sell sufficient cotton to mneet their obligations and to use their judgment, based upon the informa tion that we could give them as t the conditions as to what they would Jo with the balance. Cheap at 12 1-2 Cents. "I also said that cotton was cheap nL twelve and one-half cents per pound, from the present outlook. I thnk every'conservative ecctton mall, lboth buyer, grower and spinner, will :oncede this to be true. It will cer tainly have to bring that price if the >bligations of the South, incurre"' in iaaking this crop, are met. If ever Lhere was a time when prospects favored higher prices, this is the time. And if the farmers will but mark-et their crops conservatively; aot rush it to market, in my judg ment, they will be richly rewarded for so doing."' To Be Buried at Richmond. New York, N. Y., Special.-It was announced that the body of Mrs. Jef ferson Davis would be taken to Rich mond Thursday night, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. .J. Addison Hayes, Jef ferson Hayes Davis and Dr. Webb, all of the immediate family. The guard of hlonor of the Confederate veterans, in charge of Major Edward Owen: commander of the Confederate vet. erani camp of New York. wsill cacom pny the body to Richmond. LateJet In 'Brief A MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Eraperor William attended the chureh wedding of Miss Barbara Krupp and Lieut. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbergat Essen. Two hundred and fifty miners were entombed in the Wingate colliery at Durham, Eng., by an explosion of fire damp, but only 25 were brought up dead. President Castro of Venezuela. is reported to be dying at Caracas, and the news of his death will be the sig nal for a revolution. Prince Alexander von Hohenlohe, whose publication of his father's "Recollections," called forth Emper or William's censure, resigned as Dis trict Governor of Alsace-Lorraine. No comprbmise is expected in the Castellane divorce case,. which gtves to the Paris courts for decision. The French populace showed mark ed coolness toward the Lord Mayor of London and his suite in Paris. An order issued by the War De partment by direction of the Presi dent designates the American military forces in Cuba the "Army of Pacii cation." The Interstate Commerce Commis sion made important rulings on the question of free passes. Sheriff Shipp, of Hamilton county, Tennessee, appeared in the United States Supreme Court and filed answ er to the charge of contempt made by the Supreme Court in connection with the lynching of a negro at Chat tanooga. The United States Supreme Court refused a rehearing to former Sena tor Burton, of Kansas, who is under sentece of imprisonment. Three men were killed by dynamite in Botetourt county. John Armstrong Chanler, who es caped from Bloomingdale Asylum, makes sensational charges and dis cusses lunaey laws. Dr. McBryde, president of the Vir ginia Polytechnic Institute, has been appointed on the Carnegie founda tion. Democrats of Berkeley county nom inated their ticket. Speaker Cannon spoke at Wythe ville and Bristol, Va. Rev. Sam Jones, the noted evange ist, died on a sleeping car in Okla homa, while on the way home to a family reunion. The trial of the Standard Oil Com pany at Finlay, Ohio, on the charge of violating the Anti-Trust law, was brought near' a conclusion by a ruling that the prdsecution must show that an agent who gave rebates acted un der orders. General Manager McGill, of the wrecked Ontario Bank, in Toronto,. admits a shortage of $1,250,000, most of the money having been lost through speculation. A marble shaft and founatain, erect ed by the Order ,of Elks in memory of Meade D. Detwiler, of Harris burg, tw'ice Grand Exalted Ruler, was nveiled.' The Knights of Pythias began their encampment and convention in New Orleans. Congressman Grosvenor, in a mag azine article, defends the third-term idea. John Sharp Williams, in a speeh at Greensboro, Miss., replied to the arguments made lby Secretary of the, Treasury Shaw. Testimony tending to indicate the existence of a grain trust with rail road allies was given before the In terstate Comeree Commission in Clhi cag. The case of the Commissioners of Wiomico County (Maryland) vs. Samuel Baneroft, Jr., involving the .right of the county to tax the Balti more, Chesapeake and Atlantie Rail road, was argued in the United States Supreme Court. The American Bankers' Essocia tion in St. Louis. The annual encampment of the Odd Fellows of Pennsvlvania begain in York. The New York Central and Hud son River Railroad was placed on trial in New York, charged with two if its oflicers, with giving rebaies to the American Sugar Refining Com Spanish War veterans paraded up Pennsylvania a venue, Washington. through lines of cheering thousands. Heavy snow is reported in the Alle hany Mountains. The president of the Union 01 theC Russian People at Odessa advocated extermination of the Jews. Commissioners investigating the. Sveaborg and Cronstadt majtinies have reported, blaming the officers. Miss Mary Shepard, a school teh er in a Cleveland suburb, was called to the schoolroom door by her re~jeect ed suitor, Harry Smith, who shot and killed her. Later Smith 'committed 'suicide. Dorithy Russell Einstein, a dughter f Lillian Russell, the actress, sued for absolute divorce. Cimmissioner Garfield praises labor leaders as patriots and hight-minded eitizens. The defense in the case of the 1Standard Oil Company on trial at Findlay, Ohio. objected to the admis ion of evidence as going outside the ease, but was overruled. Governor Magoon arrived at Ha ana. Mr. Taft will issue his Cubanx ;enra1 -mn-e pnoclamation.