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The Abtoille Press and Banner, PUBLISHED WEEKLY ? AT ? ABBEVILLE, S. C. "" i So far there are no fat aeronauts. By the way. Is It possible to play fcotf is Esperanto? ! An American had the latest word Regarding the best aviator. ( It takes a pretty clever man to get ?head of a meter of any kind. ' Aa yet the English language is not Tib? least bit Jealous of Esperanto. "Wireless has proven that it can create Jnst as much excitement as an meroplane. Wlien an automobile strikes a rail Toad train, the victims are those in the machine. Another way to attain greatness is to bo made president of a hay-fever sufferers' society. Paris is losing her cab horses, but Bo noticeable decrease In the price of meats is reported. It is easier to muzzle the canines than it is to keep firearms out of the Stands of possible assassins. Dont think it's by accident that a woiran hits the object directly behind ker. She merely finesses her aim. Keeping cool would be easier If the fellows who have advice to give on the subject would keep quiet A seismograph Is a very useful instrument It seems to keep all earthQuakes at least 2,000 miles away. Boston now attains notice as a port vt entry for smuggled Chinamen. You simply cannot keep a good town down. Another sleepwalker has walked out nf a third-story window. Slumber pedestrians should 3leep in the basement Boston boasts that it has the oldest shop girl in the world. She should t>e ready presently for musical comedy chorus work. These New Yorkers who spend $6,000 a year on dress must be big TDen in order to find room to hang all the garments. "Powder and cream are a necessity to protection for girls who fear suntam," says a headline. We suggest Bving in the cellar. "Princess Mary of England has learned how to run a typewriter. Now JT some of the dukes and lords would -only take up honest toil! And now the peace advocates will \ Jlnd that the new gun which shoots 10,000 times a minute, is the thing that 1b really going to stop warfare. The university professor who thinks , mathematics and poetry are alike has , probably never tried mathematics on ?t romantic girl in the moonlight A Maine man tells a story of a ^Tightened deer jumping into his lap 'while he was out driving in a buggy. Is the gentleman sure that his spelling Is correct? According to a learned professor, the typewriter is the poetry of motion. XTesumably he intended to add that the motion must be supplied by the Tight young woman operator. An English woman is preparing to *y across the English channel and back. Her manager should see to it that on the French side she does not go as far as the shops in Paris. That new gun will be but an additional argument for the agitators for a universal peace, also a weapon in the hands of some poor nation that <!oes not believe In that order of "things. "While the airship is still in its experimental stage and ambitious aeronauts are meeting with accidents repeatedly, it is still evident that aerial navigation has become a permanent | feature of travel, in murope preparations continue to be made for regular traveling schedules in airships, notwithstanding the disasters that have happened to some of these craft. A New Jersey man has discovered That mosquitoes eat plants. This is an Important natural discovery. It | kss hitherto been supposed, and with ! o jjood deal of circumstantial evidence to support the supposition, that the ! jnosquito was strictly carnivorous in | Its diet and exclusively nocturnal In ! its ireal hours. Any hope to the con ; tnvry will be thankfully received by i a bitten, angry and sleepy world of i Ivmans. Push-rart peddlers have formed a j aiationa! organization. Perhaps they j Iraxe discovered that the banana is : one cf the necessities of life and are ! ^.->ing to do the regulation thing to j celebrate the discovery. A man found senseless on the *treet with his pockets turned inside j ?prt was locked up by the Philadelphia I Totice as a witness.! It is difficult to I 1magfne the injury to the inflexible purse of justice if this person should escape from the duty of testifying j that he did not know what hit him. Now someone thinks he is about to i fnTent a noiseless cannon. What will j the fun of wnunr war stories if | !n the future we are not permitted to i speak of the deafening roar of cannon *sd the rattle of musketry? A woman in Pennsylvania shot at a pet dog and hit her husband. Ho ??soejievea rer account ui nit? turret i intended and had her arrested, but tbere was everything in the circumstantial evidence to sustain her. If j sfce had shot at her husband, she : irwi'd probably have hit the pet dc/t j 1 SOUTH CAROLINA I ^ ?> BIG INCREASE IN LAND VALUE. Marked Decrease in Value of Personal Property For 1910. Keports received by Comptroller General Jones from several of the county auditors of the State showthat while there has been marked increases shown in real estate values for taxatiop that there has been jjreat decreases in the value of personal property for taxation. The total value of all property in Greenville county as assessed for this year was $13,721,610; 1909, $13,115.420. This an increase of $606,420 in one year. The total value of real estate in the county of Greenville was $4,064,493; 1909, $3,805,950, or an increase of $253,545. The total value of all property in Charleston county shows an increase of $912,160 over last year, the total values beins?: 1910, $23,229,750; 1909, $22,317,160. The value of real estate in the county was $2,262,915; 1909, $2,028,920. Thero was a decrease of $720,467 in the value of personal property for Anderson county. The assessed value of nersonal property for this year is $6,843,348. The value in 1909 was $7,563,815. The total value of all assessed property in Anderson county was $12,859,621 for this year, and $13,257.621 for last year. This shows a decrease of $397,648. The value of real estate in Anderson county was $3,023,403; 1909, $3,469,774, or an increase of $153,629. $35,000 for Corn Growers. A conservative estimate of tlte amount to be given in prizes for corn growing in South Carolina this years is over $35,000. These prizes will be given by the federal and State government, bankers, business firms, commercial bodies, the department of agriculture and private citizens. The farmers have come to realize the importance of com production and when the statistics a?re announced it is expected that South Carolina will lead all Southeifi States with a record produetion.-of 50,000,000 bushels. Work of Pardon Board. The State board of pardons making r&port to Governor Ansel recommend~ ,1? 4.^ TVNllro CU a 'fjaiUUil Lis (Minv serving a sentence of two years from Greenville on the charge of manslaughter. Walter E. Sandifer, serving, a sentence of 15 years from Bamberg county on the charge of arson. Robert Laury serving a sentence of 3 years from Richland county on the chanre of statutory burglary. The board refused' to recommend a pardon for Ben G. Turner who was convicted of manslaughter in Aiken county. The case of Russell Kimbo who was convicted in Greenville county and sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of murder was continued. Innsrance Dept. Collects $140,000. The insurance department has reported to the State treasurer the amount of funds derived from what is called "additional license fees." which is to be paid to each of the county treasurers in the State. The total amount of this fund for the last six months is $55,150.09. In May the insurance department accounted to the Slate treasurer for $54,419.38 UIJ at'CUUIIL 1U Ull? LU11U, UiclMU^ ' t.1 total of $109,569.47. This does not include other sources of revenue of the insurance department, the aggregate collections from all sources being .$140,472.93 to date. 5,400,000 Postal Cards. A steamer from Baltimore arrived in Charleston with a consignment of 5,400.000 postal cards from the postofTice headquarters dn "Washington. The Charleston Postoffice is the supply station for the district comprising South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and a portion of North Carolina. The shipment of postals t received will all be distributed throughout these four States within the next next three months. The Soughing of Palmetto Tress. The annual tournament of the South Carolina Trapshooters' association will be held October 19-20, under the auspices of the Columbia Gun Club. The corn fair to lie held in Oranjreburj* at the court house on October 19 is to be a big* success anil preparations are beinsr made to make it a rerl letter day. For tlie first time in many months there is not a while prisoner in the Andersen county jail. As an evidence of the rapid increase in real estate values in Lancaster county, the reeent sals of a plantation of 42S acres, five miles from town, for more than twice its cost less than two years asro. A larsre Stale flair lias i; 1 placed on t!ie dome of the Stats .wise as reciuired by an act of t lie general assembly. The Abbeville countv fair will be held on the 18, 19 and 'JO of October, and promises to be the event or the autumn in the Piedmont section. - - _ Live stock raisin? will he the next | step l?e taken by the farmers of j this State in the great scheme of improving the conditions of t lie rural j districts. All hotels throughout the State not j complying with tlie provisions >!' t!i" I act relative t< lir;* escapes will be | prosecuted by the insurance department. Kdjrefield farmers will liavc excel- [ lent roller in Ml at which t<> have their ; wheat rolled. Aarcn 1'. I'riolean. colored, noiri- ! siaLcJ for (''injr.'v: by the liep.ib- j licans in the first district. ? MOM BUSIED. I' * \ Revolutionists in Charge of Portuguese Gcvernment. KING AND FAMILY HAVE FLED. a Insurgents, Together With Some of a the Former Subjects, Engage in ^ Bat'.le With Government?Flags E and Emblems Torn Down & . t! Lisbon.?The capital is now com- ^ pletely in the hands of the Republicans, who have formed a provisional government with Theophile Braga as President. A new national flag of red g| ind green is' flying over all the public 3uildings, including the town hall. King Manuel, with the Queen Moth- a A vmol l a cinrl liij (rran/lmot'liei*. the 2ueen Dowager Marie Pia, has taken w refuge at Mafra, 23 miles from LisDon. Already the Spanish minister, in 0 full uniform, has called to pay his re- d jpects to the Republican leaders. o It is impossible to estimate the C( lumber of those killed or wounded in .j the fighting, but it is expected to reach several hundred. The city has P been considerably damaged by the n bombardment of the insurgent warships. The buildings occupied by the t( ministries around the Praca do Com- si nercio and the Xecessades palace is tvere the particular targets of shells ei from the warships, and show the ef- Ii I fects by broken walls and turrets, o: The tower of the church attached to t-1 I the palace was demolished. tl The artillery and rifle fire was in- P . essant, and towards dawn it incroas- st id in intensity. Insurgents, encamped on the heights of Avenida da Lib- tl ?rado, tried to force their way to the tl center of the city, but were driven g" back by the loyal troops. As the rl J AL- 1 1 f +U? li :mier passeu me uanaws uj- me mov ? artillery, they discovered that it was cl in the hands of rebel civilians. They charged upon the civilians and dis- ?1 lodged them with considerable losss to the rebels. * The night firing was carried on in cl complete darkness, the electric lights S having failed. The insurgents were ^ led by the retired admiral, Carlos ^ R?is. Their forces were greatly augnented by* desertions from among the H Monarchists and they succeeded 11 3ventually in getting control of the ?ity. The Inhabtiants are paradng the streets, most of them witr rifles in their hands, singing the Portuguese Mareellaise, which has now become the national anthem., Red Cross ambulances and parties, police and men ^ from the fire brigade are patrolling ^ the streets and removing the dead 1 and wounded. ^ The revolutionists raided all build- w ings which flew the old flag and tore si down the emblems of monarch}*. The ^ warships greeted the hoisting of the Republican flag with salvos of ar- * tillerv. V1 Eusebio Leao, the Republican lead- Y ot maflo n cnpo/'li frnm fhe balcOnV -Pi of the town hall, saying that he en trusted the policing of the city and the maintenance of order to the care eJ of the citizens. "Respect all public C and private property," he exclaimed, in :'and the life of all persons, whoever S< they may be. The republic is gen- ti erous and magnanimous." The huge crowd that had gathered m aroun'd the building cheered the tc speaker frantically. h; Notwithstanding the thrilling tl events, the people are showing com- pi posure and i* seems likely that order vj in the citv of Lisbon will be main- n< tained. It is rumored that General a Gor.i'as, who commanded the defend- g] ing forces, committed suicide when cl he saw that the fall of the palace was ai inevitably. oi Pellagra Spreads in Tennessee. Nashville. Tenn.?In his report to the State board of health which was ra in session here, Secretary Albright e< savs that during the months of May, sc Turip. Julv and Aaruust there were one vi hundred and five eases of pellagra re- tc ported to the board oi: which 35 were w fatal. The jrreatest mortality -was r< aironsr negroes. In liir> report seere- w tarv Albright says: "From personal a< investigation and reports I find that 1< this disease is on the increase-." ai Foremost latin Scholar Dismissed. I New York.?Dr. Harry Thurston Peck, one of the foremost Latin schol- di ars of the world, named as defandant c< in -i +100.000 breach of promise suit (i brought by Esther Qninn of Boston, ai has been dismissed its Ant lion profes- o sor of I.atin language by the trustees v of Columbia University. The disnis- is sal grow directly out of Miss Quina'sj v ?iit and subsequent dovelopmp.its t! which involved Dr. Peck in a contrc-! t( versv with President Hutlcr of the I Uuiversit.v. J w Jacksonville's Population 5^.699. Washington. ? Population statistics as enumerated in the thirteent' cen- r sns are made public for the fonowing b cities: I: Jacksonville. Fla., .")7.(;99 an increase V of 29.270 or lO.'i per cent over 28.429 d 'II IQOfl G! Topeka. Kansas, 48.(18-1. an increase of l(i.l)78 or .50 per cent over (508 I? in 189-1. > Council Kln(Ts, Iowa, '20,'J02, an in- h crease of ur l.'l.o per cent. a Wlieelinsr. W. Va., 41.(541, an in- s crease of 2.7(>.'?. or 7.1 per cent. a Hoke Smith Georgia's Next Governor. Atlanta.? Hoke Smith has been elected to serve a second term as Gov- ' ernor of (icoruia. (iov. Joseph M. I.. drown. who was ilclcated lor the S gubernatorial nomination i >i the An-jo srnsl Democratic primary and whose ' v name was placed before the voters as Lan independent Democratic candidate, h probably received a majority of the ' a vutes ?-ast i'i - of the !l> counties of 'I the Si ate. All of tiie reirul.ir Demo-> t rr.iiie nominees for Slate and county ! s I uiliccs were electe.l. j t I PLURALITY OF WIVES. Ionian Doctor Says Better Than the Present Moral Rottennens?One Standard for Both Soxes. Washington.?"I advocate polgrny as a national institution?open ml recognized?if the identical tandard of morality is impossible for oth men and women." This is the deliberate opinion of >r. Katlierine Davis, Ph. D., Univerity of Chicago, superintendent of lie New York State Women's Reformatory, and the holder of half dozen egrees from foreign universities. "I say emphatically," said Dr. 'avis in an interview, "if it is imossible for men to live bv the same tandards which civilization requires f its women, then let us establish n open system of polygamy. "Let a man be married to as many ives as he can support. Let the omen who err with men b<s not the utcasts of society, and let their chil ren be given the love and care, and pportunity that every human being | >ming into the world deserves. Would lis not be infinitely better than our resent system and its moral rotteness? "The oause of the crimes commit?d b" the great majority of women," ie continued, "is the fact that there i one set of morals for men and an itirely different standard for women, i the New York State Reformatory, f which I have charge, and in which lere axe between 300 and 400 women, iere are few who are not the victims rimarily or solely, of this double ;andard. "By it men escape unscatched with ie complete tolerance, if not with ie approval of society, while women 3 to a ruin from which they can irely be reclaimed, and our foundng asylums are filled with defective lildren. I repeat that better than lis would be the establishment of an pen system of polygamy." Miss Davis, who is a graduate of assar, and for several years in Tar<re of the Philadelphia College ettlement, has been in charge of the ew York State Women's Reforma>ry for 10 years. She has acqured mfovnofinnol i*onnfotiAn On fl prim. lologist, and is famed for her work i the reformation of women. SIX THROUGH TRAINS. 'ew York Greatly Interested in Territory Traversed by Southern R. R. New York.?The South . will be nought closer than ever before to ew York City about the middle of ovember when the Southern Railay will begin the operation of its x through passenger trains between ew York and the South into its [anhattan terminals, the Pennsylinia Railroad's magnificent New ork station reached bv the wondern tunnels under the Hudson River ist completed, the use of which will iminate the ferry trip from Jersey ity to New York which has been an icident of railrod travel from the outh "to New York sinee the first ains were run. The completion of this new terinal. enabling the Southern Railway > run its trains directly to Manattan Island, means a great deal to le Southern, which iz the most isiortant conncction of the Penn?ylinii Railr/vjr) ah Vpw Vnrk hnsi sss. The Southern Railway covers territory in which New York is reatly interested and which is more osely allied to it by ties of business id sentiment than any other part I: the country. Wait and Watch Cotton Ris*. New York.?Although the governent report on the condition of the jtton crop did not fully bear out >me of the extremely bullish priite estimates, it was bullish enough ) start ?.n atcive buying movement, hicli advanced prices to a new high jc-ord for the season. While there as tremendous realizing the market Ivanced to 14.13 for December and 1.31 for March before there was ly reaction of consequence. Georgia's Cotton and Corn Crop. Atlanta.?Two hundred millions of ollars is the value placed on the itton and corn crops produced in eorgia during the past year, is the nnual report of the Commissioner f Agriculture. The cotton crop was alued at nearly $150,000,000, which ; approximately one-fifti of the alue of the entire crop produced in le eleven States comprising the cot>n belt. It is expccted that the 1910 crop ill exceed these figures. Two Fought Duel to Death. Corhin, Ivy.?With both of their evolvers emptied and each mail's odv literally riddled by bullets, lenrv Lee, a constable, and James Williams, a private policeman, fell end in each other's arms at the nd of a shooting affray in this city. The men met and before cither ad spoken a word began firing, 'either man missed a shot, Williams' oily being pierced by six bullets nd Lee's bv four. Lee hid shot and ..n.nnniloil \V i 1 ] i <1 mii ' f.lt'lPr PI IWIITJI* ? WUIUIWVI II WUMI.iu ml brother several weeks ago. A White Republican Party. "Washington.?A call Ins been isncrl here by John 0. Capers, former uinmissinner of internal revenue, n?l national committeeman from lonth Carolina, to the Republicans f 1 lie Stat'? calling them into con1'iilion at Columbia October -7. ll % the purpose of Mr. Capers, aidei! v niiier Republicans, to inaugurate bran new 0. 0. 1\ in (he State. '!u*v expect to line up not only all | lie lemlimr men in that p.irty but als'ij uch I JoMioi-rats as may In* opposed J lie new State a<lmini.-lratii n. I FAMOUSBOBIAYLOR' Nominated by The Regular Democrats of Tennessee. WILL STUMP STATE FOR GOV. . i Cenvention Rejects Proposition to s Refer Prohibition Question to Peo- ' pie?Taylor Only Name Presented > For the Nomination. . ] Nashville, Tenn.?United States \ Senator Robert L. Taylor has been ] nominated for Governor by the regu- < lar Democratic convention, although J his senatorial term does not expire j until 1912. No 'other name was pre- . sented to the convention, the demand b'ing for Taylor and no one else. Senator Taylor appeared in the convention hall and after an ovation ( accepted the nomination. In the State affairs. Senator Taylor will ] take the stump. < 1 STANDARD CUTS OIL PRICES. I Reductions Made in Campaign to In- i crease Use of Kerosene. ( New York.?J. I, C. Clarke, t through whom the Standard Oil 1 company makes its official announce- j ments to the public, has issued a c statement to the effect that the com- t pany has entered on a thoroughly r mapped out campaign to increase the i consumption of kerosene in Euro- r pean countries and the lands of the 5 Orient. The first move in this cam- r paign is the reduction of the prices of oil in those' countries, Mr. t Clarke's announcement says in part: t "The Standard Oil company has f inaugurated a campaign to increase c the world's consumption of refined j oil. The level of prices for refined t oil today in the United States is I> lower than at any-time during recent 1 years, and as a direct result' of e these prices the consumption of re- t fined oil in this country is increas- t ' * T ing. ine same poncy is now oem^ i actively pursued abroad." I As indicated by this statement, 1 the Standard company began trying out the policy of lower prices in the 1 Uirited States, though without an- p nouncing that it had in view a cam- i paign that would cover the world. In ! a August the price of refined oil in , t tanks was reduced from 6 1-2 to 51-2 1 cents a gallon, and the price of re- c fined oil in barrels at the refinery was i cut 1 cent, from 9 3-4 to 8 3-4 cents c a gallon. 1 Weak Banks Must Strengthen. Washington. ? National banks which are shaky and give no promise 1 of improvement are being steadily } forced out of business. During the i twelve months ending on October 1, \ 113 national banking institutions 1 went into liquidation. Of that num- j ber 4 no longer desired to continue t business, 4 failed and went into re- i eeiverships and the other 10 went i into dissolution because they wera practically forced to do so. t Every weak bank will be forced 1 out of the field. i The Seven Largest Cities. Washington.?According to the 1910 census figures, thev are: New York, 4,766,881; Chicago. 2,185,283; ^ 1 run fins- St Louis. f 687,029; Boston, 670.585; Cleveland, 1 560,663; Baltimore, 558,485. t New Mexico's Population. Washington.?Population of the t?r- 1 ritorv of New Mexico is 327,396, as y enumerated in the 13t'i census, ac- 1 cording to announcement of Census ? Dire."tor Durand. This is an increase ( of 132,0S6, or 67.6 per cent < Vessels Built in September. Washington.?The bureau of navigation has reported that 125 sail and < steam vessels of 42.745 gross tons i were built in the United States during ' the month of September, 1910. The ( largest steam vessel erected in that t period was the Cyclops. 10.044 tons, a t navy collier built in Philadelphia. For i the quarter ending September 31, 1910 ( there were erected and officially num- i bered in the United Stares 347 ves- t sols of 48,914 gross tons. \ /" /* ?, rri/?fc. r.srnufi *5Jf)5 RQ7 Montgomery .Ala.?A record was broken when J. Craijr Smith, president' i of the State convict bureau, paid into | the State treasurer the sum ot' $402,- 1 ( 97.04. quarterly payment for the 1 hire of convicts \ Burglars Steal $700 Worth of Teeth, j c Auvnsta. fia.?A special from c Chariest oil, S. says burglars enter-j t ed f-he ollice of Dr. AI mil r Smith and, 1 stole ?700 worth < (' teeth. It is the firs-: robbery of the kind ever record-! ! n! here. [ t main the convention, which was largely attended, was harmonious throughout, though there was a little breeze when Senator Tolott endeav ored to have the piatiorm amended as to the liquor question. The Tolett amendment provided for a reference , of the liquor question to a vote of the people, but the amendment was finaly voted down, the original platform being adopted, the temperance plank reading as follows: "The Democratic party has at all ( timss been the consistent friend of temperance reform in Tennesee and other Southern States. i "We, therefore, declare that the temperance question should not be an issue in a gubernatorial campaign. ] [ "The great controlling issue in this i campaign is whether Tennesee shall be turned over to a boss-rulsd Re- j publican machine in a bargain by | which the public offices of this State i are sought to be treated as mer- ] chandise for barter and sale between j 1 politicians and party bosses. The Repudiation of this humiliating attempt i to barter away the honor of the State j is the first duty of every patriotic < Tennessean." i The nlafcfnrm is mainlv devoted to [and drainage or reclamation is a subject of preat interest, vast poten;ialitv for individual profit and nation-wide benefit." "In Florida the State is reclaiming in area nearly as large as the State )f Maryland.' It is estimated that ;he 50,000,000 acres of reclaimable and in the South, worth at the outside not more than $500,000,000 tolay and, in reality, not an asset but i liability, because it retards developnent, will be worth when drained nore than $5,000,000,000 and become iot onlv one of the s;reat assets of the South but one of the greatest of the lation's assets. "The entire corn crop of the Unitk! States, which will this year be ibout 3,000,000,000 bushels, could be >roduced upon the reclaimable lands >f the South not now in cultivation, ust as soon as they are fully drainid; and the work of drainage in lorth Carolina. Mississippi, Louisiana, Pexas and Arkansas is being pushid with 2reat vigor, in some cases by he State, in some by drainage disricts, and in some, especially in Louisiana, by individual enterprises of lome people and of large "Western and operators and corn growers. tl 4 1 _!> TTT_i. "A numoer 01 western iucu v?im lave for years been leaders in corngrowing in the West are becoming ndividuallv interested in corn. They ire enthusiastic about the possibiliies of corn-arrowing here, for drained ands will yield from 80 to 100 bushels if corn to the acre, producing a net evenue that vould give them a value if $300 an acre, if computed as are and values in Iowa and Illinois." Heaviest Rainfall in Forty Years. Louisville, Ky.?Deluded by the leaviest continuous rainfall in forty rears, a wide strip of country extendng from eastern Texas, northwestvard across the northern portions of Louisiana and Mississippi and over wrts of Arkansas, Tennesee, Ken;ueky, southern Indiana and Ohio, ilirost to Pittsburg, is in spots an nland sea. Only two lives are known to have jeen lost. Mrs. A. J. Burchfield and ier grandson were drowned in a rapdlv rising stream at Dyerburg, Tehn. 1 I Old Woman Kills Dog Murderer. Nashville, Tenn.?Near Cokeville, lenn., rayne nurgess was sum <uiu ,'atallv wounded by Mrs. Emaline Soman, aged 72. The ball passed hrough his body. The trouble grew >ut of an attempt of Burgess to kill i dog belonging to Mrs. Homan. Five ears airo Burgess was sent to prison 'or killing an aged man at Cookeville md was pardoned this summer by Governor Patterson. Although very )ld her aim was true. Judge Upholds Unwritten Law. Pittsburg.?Katherine Bettie, a girl >f 13 years, who slew her godftaher villi ail axe and red-hot poker in ivenging his theft of her honor, was ileared of criminal charges here on he around that the homicide was jusifiable. Judire John M. Swearingen, 11 charging the jurors, after a two lavs' recital of testimony, upheld the mwritten law. The ffirl had faced the rial with confidence that her act was varranted. Seventy-Five Hives of Bees Loose. Hrusli. Colo.?Seventy-five hives of :ifuriated bees played an important >art in delaying tarflic on (he Kurinjrton Itailroad following a colision between two l'reiirlit trains in vhieli twenty freight cars were de t roved and a large quantitv of merhandise damaged. The bees were in nr of household goods. They kept he wrecking crew at bay for several lours before thi'v were smoked out. S. I >. Nelson was severelv stung leforc he could m.i'\o his way out of ( he car. , NAPPY TIMES IN DIXIE. ] Recent Census Returns Draw Atten- j tion of the World to Prosperous and Wonderful Southland. Baltimore.?"Everybody will listen J to stories about the South today," sakl Albert Phenis, staff correspon- 1 lent of the Manufacturers' Record, tvho is just in from a trip through ;he South, extending to the coast of Texas. "Since the census returns bave begun to come in, and the country has begun to see what a marvelous increase in population and business the South has shown in recent years, people all over the country ire curious to learn of conditions in the South and are eager for information on which they can rely. Any tftan from the South or who knows the South will accumulate evidence of this fact whenever he takes a ride on a train anywhere in the country. " This is going to be a factor in the contest between New Orleans and San Francisco as the site for an exposition in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. California has been advertised so long and so well?thanks to a liberality on the part of the railroads and the communities there hardly parralleled on earth?that it is no novelty. 'The South is terre incognito to a vast number of otherwise well-informed people of the North. I am certain that the aroused interest in the South H rpflin f!rtn<?TflS3. and the I desire of large numbers of people to visit this section will be one of the deciding considerations that will give Congressional approval to New Orleansi" "The whole South will be enormouslv benefited by the increased acquaintance the country in general will have of it by the time the exposition is over, and as 'the development of the South means the enrichment pf the nation,' the selection of New Orleans becomes a matter of national importance. "Not the least significant among the benefits to be derived will be the .nevitable development of the millions }f acres of wet lands?miscalled swamps?which the South contains. "The entire matter of Southern wet [QBOOSTTHESOUTH Platform of The Great South- , ern Commercial Congress. \ MIGHTY FORCE FOR DIXIE rhi3 Great Southern Organization Makes Plans For a Greater Growth of South?Possibilities of Dixie's Resources Awakening the World. T Atlanta.?In sober business phrases nearly four score delegates, appointed by sixteen Southern Governors, foretold an immense growth, in wealth and population, for the South within the next ten years. Representing the agricultral and business interests of eyery section of Dixie, these delegates gathered to assist the executive committee of the Southern Commercial Congress work out a nonpolitical and disinterested plan for pruuiuuug iLie ueveiupim:ii(f \>l I/UO South's millions of unoccupied aeres, and its vast unused waterpo-wers, the > enlargement of its business and in- ^ dustrv both by its own inhabitants and through judicious advertising of its resources throughout America and Europe. As an ai& to these objects the delegates drew up a new constitution for the commercial congress, which w?s adopted by the executive committee, Its salient features follow. To promote and develop the interests of the following sixteen States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, /Tennessee. Texas, Virginia, West Virginia. To collect and disseminate information regarding the resources and advantages offered in these States for the safe and profitable investment r of capital; the South's attractions for .homeseeker, artisan and laborer, and to urge on the national government proper legislation, for conservation. river and harbor improvement end transportation facilities. To promote the development of the South's resources with its own capital. To obtain the establishment of commercial, manufacturing and other enterprises, and foster those already, existing. To encourage patriotic and national sentiments throughout the South and elsewhere in the nation, and particularly to promote the desire for a greater Nation through a greater South. To promtote development! of na-, tional resources. . * To promote and develop proper immigration and foster the establishment of such organizations as may develop a desirable immigration into the South. To encourage good roads and extension of railroad and trolley transportation. . To promote the improvement of wWfltional and other conditions which tend to develop the material resources and happiness of residents of the South. A board of thirty-two Govefcftors is created, consitine of the president, first and second vice presidents and twenty-nine qthers, elected at /annual meetings. G. Grosvenor Dawe of Montgomery, Ala., now managing director of the congress, with headquarters at Wash-, ington, predicted that literallv Trillions of people would come t? the South within the next dac-ade aai. a half. "We don't want the Anslo-Saxon spirit submerged by that influx," he; said. Los Angeles.?F. 0. Watts, presLos Aangeles.?F. 0. Watts, president of the First National Bank of JNaslinlle, uenn., was eiecteu president of'the American Bankers' Association. William Livingston, president of the Dimes Savings bank of Detroit, was elected first vice president. Invitations for the convention in 1911 were presented ^from New Orleans, Atlantic City, San Antonio, Richmond. Va.. Niagara Falls and St. Louis. The executive council will select place next May. Sonth's Warm Welcome to Roosevelt. Knoxville, Tenn.?The South gave Theodore Roosevelt a welcome which he described as "great, by George." Throughout the first day of his Southern trip which took him across Virginia and a part of Tennessee, he received all the honors whiSh the South can pay. His throat is not yet in good condition. Bat wherever he went a crowd was waiting for him. Each crowd was out to cheer and did ' cheer until he made a speech. \ Reciprocity With Canada. Beverly, -Mas?.?Henry M. Hoyt, counsellor of the State Department, and Charles M. Pepper, commercial adviser, come to Beverly from Valley Forge, Pa., where they conferred with Secretary Knox to report to the Prasident and receive 'instructions regarding Canadian reciprocity. It is understood that th^ negotia-' tions which were 'run last spring will be resumed son.Jime during the present month, probably at Ottawa. Aviator Falls 1,640 Feet. St. Petersburg.?Captain Macievich ili* Russian military aviator, was killed in a fall from a Voison biplane Trie accident occir " daring an altitude competition which was won bv Lieutenant Matyevieh, "which reached a height of '2,937 feet. Machievich (had risen 3.930 feet l>nt decidcil to descend. When at a height <>f l.G-JO feet -his machine sudlenly upset and the avia'or was 1 thrown Kvcry bone in his body i\as broken except an arm.