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fbe Abbeville Press and Banner, PUBLISHED WEEKLY ? AT ? ABBEVILLE, S. C. i i The sky man is the man of th# cen. tury. Aviation is. after all. less dangerous than lootball. The freak hat is doomed, we are told Ah. but which freak hat? Don't keep your mjuth open when looking at airships. It is a bad habit. Ballooning is scmewhat '-ike tobogganing. but the walk back is more fatiguing. It is ju?t as fatal to be killed in a football came as in an aeroplane catastrophe Perhans the hobble skirt is the cause for the new fashion of large pedal extremities. The man-bird should not aUempt at <-.+oa#1 *v?rromck t nn many WHO Dl(j?,c \J I lilQ DUIUV shines in the air. When a man lives in a boarding louse he lets somebody else worry ibout the price of coal. Aerial wonders top one another until the general public is beginning to oe surprised by nothing. s- According to reports, the government will soon have to set aside resirvations to prevent the Yankees from becoming extinct. The Chinese may adopt a compromise. When they stop pinching the feet of th^ir girls they may put on them bobble skirts. A German banker spent eight months in America and did not marry. He is rich, so there must be iome other reason, i _ Dunning by postal card has been forbidden by the post office department. Hereafter the dunners must ise two-cent stamps. a Dtiaoion milHorv Via1 Innn TPPnt 11 Tl ?V lvuooiuu Uil ill Ui J ww*>vw? *??? -r >ver 20,000 feet the other day. Th?>t b enough to get out of range of an/ , tTC^iary Japanese fleet. ' We have grown as a people this rear 5,275,000,000 bushels of corp. Jats, wheat, barley and potatoes, and to one should go hungry. One woman of the "400" paid $11, 00 In duties on her gowns recently. The '400" has ceased to practise smugfling except at odd times. Everything seems to indicate that It will be several years yat before the iclence of aviating can oe considered intirely out of its infancy. One of Yale's professors is afraid JLmerica is soon to become a mon ircny. ne prooauiy has uuiuiug cwo afraid of. L-s? / \ A trick horse that had been stolen ihook hands with the' rightful owner, to the undoing of the thiaf. We defy i trick automobile to do that The prune supply at a New York hospital was short and boarding house guests will be surprised to hear there is quite a fuss about it \ The police have discovered a man leaning against a corner building who had been dead three hours. "All things come to ^bim who waits." As to the consequences, there does not seem to be much to choose between a woman auiomobilist turning thief and her machine turning turtle. People hooted at a woman in Columbus, Ga., because she wore a hobble ikirt in the streets. Can it be possible that the age of southern chivalry is past? " . Six billion cigarettes were consumed In the United States last year; yet there are in this country a good many foung men whose fingers are not stained. In Cranford, N. J., a thief stole a flOO gold watch from the pocket of a. police sergeant while that official dozed in the police station. What that policeman needs is a chaperon. The life of the city boy is indeed hard. No .more Fourth of July, no more liallowe'en and an increase in the number of vacation schools is only Hatched by a condemnation of moving picture shows. H Aviation is becoming extremely profltablt?If not tor the country, certainly tor the aviators. But the cash Inducements to risk life and limb cause the science of airship building to get a uiove on Wireless lighting is now announced by a Danish inventor. Nature's lighting has always been wireless, and here mere man on'y imitates. In St. Louis there is a robber who is known as "the candy kid." He probably got the name owing to his possession of siicky fingers. A western scientist claims to nave discovered a chemical which is death and destruction to germs. Is this century approaching the climax of a diseaseless world? Wars and revolutions "pecpleize" geography. We hope the ultra-modern educators will.not insist on such object lessons as a regular thing. Greece, according to the retiring premier, is "facing incredible dangere both external and internal." If thej are incredible why bother about them' There is such a thing as being toe uccessful in balloon races, when the winning score involves a descent ir the Irackless wilderness or the mid die of the deep blue eea. "" * t Twish of camics ? ' # Co : New Portugal Government is , Bitterly Denounced. URGE AMENDMENT POSTAL LAW , St( * ' I Condemn Government Discrimina- us tion Against Catholics?Sympathy for Organized Labor?Child La- Po RL bor and Divorce Deplored. en - , Ca So New Orleans, La.?Principal ^ among the resolutions adopted at a j the concluding session here of the of annual convention of the American Se Federation of Catholic Societies, *Jri was one of denunciation of the administrative ollicers of the new re public of Portugal and of comineu- thi dation of the State Department at in Washington for delaying recogni- in* tion of the new government. "A The National Educational Asso- in ciation was denounced "for at- ?rj tempting to set up in this country "K an educational trust as a menace to wl individual liberty and to the pri- atl mary rigms winuii ever} mncnian citizen enjoys of choosing the kind an of education which he may wish to stc give his children." ho Congress was urged to amend the he postal laws so as to inc'ude within te? the scope af prohibited literature 1 "books, papers, writings and prints an which outrage religious convictions th< and contain scurrilous and slander- wl ous attacks upon the faith." wc Discrimination against the em- pl< ployment of Catholics in the public in service because of their religion wa was 'condemned. The furtherance 5 of mission work among the Indians stc and negroes was urged. pr Resolutions were adopted express- j ing sympathy with every legitimate arc effort of organized labor for a iiv- da ing wage, reasonable hours, protec- fri tion of life and limb, workingmen's Gr compensation and decent and help- Ka fill rnnriifinns in the home. shop, as mine and factory. mj The evils uf child labor were dc- wa plored as was the "traffic'! in di- sei w>rce. im : Ru POPULATION OF CITIES.. th< thi Census Figures Sliow Rapid Growth hu in Dixie Land. pa Washington?With the census bu- arreau's announcement of the popu- C01 laiton of Memphis, Tenn., a com- er parison of the growth of the six principal cities of the South, for bo which figures thus far have been ^ made public, shows that Birmingham, Ala., leads in percentage of in- Ce creases by a wide margin. The chief Southern cities in the 1 order of their growth during the gr< last ten years are as follows: 1-4, Birmingham has a population of re] 132,C?5 as compared with 38,415 in coi 1900 or an increase of 245.4 per cent, pe Atlanta, Cia., has a population of 07' 154,839 as compared with 89,872 in wa 1900, or an increase of 72.3 per cent, of " Richmond, Va., has a population nu nf o! cnmnnr'fiH with fin OnO TlPi in 1900 or an increase of 50.1 per 891 cent. 46, The population of San Francisco. 18' is 416,912 according to the statistics Ca of the thirteenth census. This is 23' an increase of 74,130 of 21.6 por cent se( owr 312.782 in 1900. \ otl The population of the State of ) Indina is 2.700,876. This is an in- 91, crease of 184,414 or 7.3 per cent over 19( 2.516,462 in 1900. The increase from j I 1890 to 1900 was 324,058 or 14.8 per ,pa cent. in The population of the,. State of r Maine is 742,371. This is an increase tor from 1890 to 1900 was 33,390 or 5 ] per cent. So Quality and Not Quantity Counts. Ra Columbia?Qualify and nol quan- ] tity will be considered by the judges lea in awarding the prizes at the South Lu Atlantic States Corn exposition, tin which is to be held in Columbia tei from December 5 to 8. Every farm- b.*v er in the State of North Carolina. 1 South Carolina and Georgia is urged i sin to send in exhibits. The farmer j lni that produces only 60 bushels of lh< corn on one acre stands just as I ha pood a chance at winning a prize as, pr< Jerry Moore, the Florence counlv inj boy, who produced over 228 bushels, vo Editor Sent fo Prison. E St. Paul. Minn.?F. L). Warren, of > Girard, Kan., editor of the paper ha "Appeal to Reason" must serve a foi term of six months in th.e Federal Ur prison at Leavenworth, Kan., and tin pay a fine of S1.000 imposed by a "jury in the United States Court Warren was accused of sendinq 1 through the United States mails en- Tli velopes on outside of which was thi printed "$1,000 reward will be paid set to any person who kidnaps ex-Gov- No ernor Taylor and returns him to los the Kentcucky authorities." oil Uncle Sam's Foreign Trade. Washington.?Exports out of ttys country in October were larger than (.ai in any previous month in the his- $3' I Inmr Ihn T'fiitftrl Qffifoc' fnPi?inrn ' IUI * VI lll^ V/ Hi u k-iutvo iv/1 V I^>it . trade, while the imports were about pc about $1,000,000 h-ss I Man in ihecor- wl responding month last year. Total value of imports during tho past month was $123,8(i8.'ii8 and the exports $208,057,780. Of I lie iner- Co chandise imported. forlv-seven per of cent was dutiable and 53 per cent fo came in free of duty. l'o Legally Dead Man Back. Carlisle, Pa?George C. Best, a i former resident of Eastern Cumber- da land county, who was lately declar- ah ed legally dead at the settlement of ? ; his father's estate, has turned up in 1I< i Carlisle after 26 years absence from ( < ' home. cl< ! He said he had been working in .jo I the far West as a mason, arvl was ! V. ? not particular about l<!l"r wriling.. hi >! Ilis wife's estate was 1"I ly s?*t 11'-d Hi 1 on the premise of his d-;;!h. B.'sl's'oi brother Joseph will - he gets ; be over $1,000 otherwise d-'ilrfbuted. j hi i EASANT'S FRIEND GONE. ' unt Leo Tolstoi, Russia's ^Grandest ^ Man Passes After a Life Devoted To His Fellow-Men. \slapova, Russia.?Count Leo Tol- I )i has passed peacefully away. Count Lyof Nikolaivie Tolstoi, ually called Count Leo Tolstoi, ? volist and social reformer , was rn August 28, 1828, at Yasnaya liana, in the province of Tula, issia. When 23 years old Tolsti tered the army and served in flie ucasus and in the defence of bastapol against the Britsh and ench allied forces. He first made { 'eputatian in literature by a series i vivid sketches written from ^ bastapol and when he left the my soon after the Crimean war he ( voted himself entirely to litera- , re. : His "War and Peace," a ta!e of b invasion of Russia by Napoleon , 1812, is regarded in Russia as be- . x his masterpiece, though his , nna Karenina," which appeared 187G, and "The Cossacks" found j fater favor abroad, where his poiif7^r Snnofn " translations of , '? VMVUUi S/Vt.UVW) " - jr lich were published in 1890, also ..racted wide attention. Tolstoi wrote much on education d published a number of short , tries and reminiscences of child- . od and youth, but of recent years had devoted himself to religious iching. . [n January, 1905, Tolstoi published J open letter to the Czar regarding j: 3 internal conditions in Russia, )ich was printed throughout the ( irld, and some time later he com- , ?led his drama "Behind the Scenes ^ War," the production of which is prohibited in St. Petersburg. Several of the publishers of Tol- { )i's works have been sent to ison. N \lthough Tolstoi came of an , Istocratic family, being a descennt of Count Peter Tolstoi, the j end and comrade of Peter the eat, and received his education at ' zin University, entering the army a lieutenant of artillery and cominding a battery at Sebastapol, he j is at heart a peasant in the best ise of the word, devoted to the provement of the condition of the issian masses and eager to lead : em in the right path. He liv<ui ( 3 life of a peasant, in a peasant's 1 t on his estate at Yasnaya Poliana, 1 rlaking only of the simple peas- * t's food and wearing the peasant's i stume?rough blouse, broad leath- i belt, fur cap, long beard and wide 1 )users tucked into high cowhide 1 ols. t COTTON GINNED TO NOV. 15. nsus Bureau Reports Amount ' 8,765,153 Bales. ' 1 Washington?.Cotton of the 1 3wth of 1910 ginned to November ' according to the census bureau 1 iort amounts to 8,764,153 bales, ( anting round as half bales, or 80.5 r ce'nt. of tihe total crop of 10,i.732 bales, and in 190$ the ginning ( is 9,595,809 bales, or 73.3 per cent. J the total crop of 13.086,005. The J mber of bales for oach State gin- ! d to November 14 is: Alabama, 1 1,031; Arkansas, 474,422; Florida, 765; Georgia, 1.434,606; Lousiana, 1 i.058; Mississippi. 755.145; North ( rolina, 494,723; Oklahoma, 727,J; South Carolina, 883.309; Tennes192,213; Texas, 2,636,944; all ler stales 38370. ilound bales included this year are ^ 939 compared with 123,757 in ( )9; 173.908 in 1908. I Sea Island included is 52,585 comrod with 68,495 in 1909 and 56,701 ^ 1908. 1 rhe distribution of Sea Island cot- ( i for 1910 by states is: Florida, 19,669; Georgia, 28,032; 1 uth Carolina, 4,884. ' * ( ps Ministers For Usinfi Tobacco. Fork, Pa.?Rev. Albert Bell, a iding Lutheran minister of St. ikfi's Lutheran church here, at > fnll p.onforpnce eravp his minis- 1 ial brothers a rap for using tocco. So insisted that the ministers ould first set an example to the ty by not smoking and chewing mselses. In doing so they would ve a better effect with their colligation. Other ministers atfendr the synod were compelled to ice the sentiment of the speaker. x-Gov. Terrell Clay's Successor. \tlanta, Ga.,?Governor Brown s announced the appointment of mer Governor J. M. Terrell as lited States Senator to succeed 3 late Senator A. S.Clay. Traffic in Turkeys. Roanoke,- Va.?Eighteen thousand lanksgiving turkeys have passed rough Roanoke from East Tcnnes? and Southwest Virginia for rthern markets. Four solid carids were bandied by express; ie** shipments will follow. Pirwiiim rnvf Hin ci'inii' $37,000. Boston.?The successful campaign Eugene N. Foss. I lie Democratic ndidate for Governor, cost him 7.000, according to his return. I'll is is 8-0,(100 more than wasexnded liv Governor Ebon S. Draper 10 was defeated. Standard Oil Dividend. New York,?The Standard Oil ! mpany has declared a dividend | $10 a share, payable December 13, [ r the current quarter. The total j r the year is $i0 a share. Paid His Election Bet. Now York.?In tin- cold-gray \vn of I In* early morning?it was out tin* coldest morning this fall John Gear, who thought thai. >11 ry L. J>timsou would lie elected )vcnor of New York, took <>|T his llies. put 0:1 a bathiii;; suit and niped into l!i<' icy j'asl River, illi a ro\vli'*a< Following clese bend lie swam across I ho river to indaH's Island, thereby carrying it the provisions ??f an olection t. A crowd watched and ehcercd : s plucky performance. THE RASCALS RUN INI' Raiding Party Headed by P. M. / General Hitchcock. 3UBLIC FLEECED SI,000,000.000 ilining and Oil Stock Bascals and 1 'Wireless Telegraph and Telephone r Grafters Sold $50,000,000 or More Worthless Stock. New York.?In raids so imporant that Postmaster General ( Hitchcock took charge in person, his I nspectors fell on two concerns c vhich they charge with swindling r ,he public out of more than $-40,)00,000 by fraudulent use of the 1 nails. . t Sheldon H. Burr, president of i 3urr Bros.; Eugene H. Burr, secre- t ,ary and treasurer of the firm, and c ?rank H. Tobey, its vice president, t vere arrested in the first raid and ( leld in $20,000 bail each. The gov- i ;rntnent charged that the firm sold )etween $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 1 )f mining and oil stock worth little i >r nothing. s Charles L. Vaughan, a director of 1 ,he Continental .Wireless Telegram 1 k Telephone Co., incorporated in t Arizona, was taken in the second s aid and held in $10,000 bail. Inspectors say his company has sold i itock to the amount of at least $1,- 1 100,000 which has brought in no re- 1 iit?? In ho invojlnnc Vnntrhan is 1 <u1 ii iuu iuivwvv?w.. , ?v-0 ? reasurer of the Columbia Finance ( Company, which acts as fiscal agent 1 'or the Continental Wireless Tele- t jraph & Telephone Co., and had 1 ;harge of the Continental office In t .his city. c Postmaster General Hitchcock ?stimates that the public has been 1 leeced out of at least $100,000,000 by i jet-rich-quick concerns in the last I Ive years, but says their.fheyday has i jone. i ?f ; ? i A PLUCKY GIRL. 35f? * Defends Her Honor With a Pistol on White Man. ' Monongahela, P*.?Iva Bash,' 27 Fears old, a strikingly pretty telegraph operator at Baird Tower on j he Pennsylvania Railroaa near i lere, declared calmly that th^ shots < she fired at Harry F. Smith, a r>ail- | x>ad detective, were intentional and r lecessary to defend hrself. She is i icld in $2,000 bail while Smith who las a wife and two children, is in ( .he hospital with a painful bullet ] ;vound in the hip. 4 I During the night Smith went to ( ;he railroad tower and found Edwin j uloyd, a close friend of Miss Bush, 1 /isitin/? her. He arrested Lloyd, aking him to the office of Alderman R. Day, where he was told no ] ;harge could-be preferred, so Lloyd r ;vas released. After midnight as < Miss Bush returned by a freight ' rain io her home' in Monongahcla, | smith approached her. She' says < she fired twice to frighten him j iway, but he Seized her and as he ] leld her she shot him in the side. j Miss Bush supports a widowed 1 not her and a sister in Springfield, i [)., where she formerly lived. i i Only $8,000 a Year Allowed. < New York.?Miss Eugenie Laden- , Durg will not get the $17,000 a year < without which her mother told the < ;ourts last week no girl could be properly finished. Surrogate Jackson, of Hampstead, ' it. I., has ruled that $8,000 a yeaft- is < slenty for the education of any girl j )f 16 and refused to allow Mrs. Lad ;nburg more than that much out of i Jie income of $21,000 a year left her | iaughter by her father's will. i John Brown's Undertaker Dead. Charleslown, W. Va?The last of those who took part in the execution of John Brown died here at the age of 83. He was Louis P. Starry, the undertaker who made the coffin in which Brown's body was placed. Mr. Starry rode in the wagon with Brown from the jail to the scaffold and delivered the boc|y afterwards at Harper's Ferry to Mrs. Brown and Dr. McKim. Mr. Starry lived here all his life. All of the participants lived to an old age. For Great Hall of Peace. Philadelphia. ?Members of the Philadelphia brigade association, made up of companies that fought in the civil war, recommended the predion of a groat Hall of Peace on the battlefield of Gttysburg in a communication forwarded to President Taft. The memorial which was originally suggested by John Wannainaker, is proposed to be a duplicate of that at the Hague anW the President is asked to use his influence with Congress for immediate and favorable action. Railroad in Virginia Prospers. Richmond.?The reports of the president and'directors or the Mirnrnond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Co., for the fiscal year eliding June 30, 1910, show thai, nofwilhslanding the increased cost of operation, the economies which were practiced, with the increase in the volume of business enabled I lie company lo reduce flie ratio of expenses lo earnings from 01 per cent for the year anriing June 30, 1909. to 51 per cent for the year ending June 30, 1910. I Confederacy Had 'i25 Generals. Richmond?General Marcus J. Wright, who has been engaged in compiling records of I lie Confederacy, reports from his search' of Available records, thai President Davis appointed to the Confederate, 425 general otlicers of all grades, of whom one liru(cnnnl-;reucial, jour major-generals are living. A recent statement from 1'.revet Brigadier-General A. 15. .Villi Ion si \vs that. Pre?iid' lit Lincoln ;>ppoii?tcd 131 major-generals and 5-<9 brigadier-generals. )R. CRIPPEN EXECUTE! Lmerican Doctor Who Murdered B Actress Wife and Buried Her in Cellar Hanged in London. London?Only a small group >fllcial witnesses attended the han ng of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, ai fvery effort was made to preve norbid crowds from gathering he neighboriiood. The body was buried in quicklir n the prison yard. This is the cu om at Pentonville, although not ill English prisons. The hanging of Dr. Harvey Hawl >ippen for the murder of his wi: 3elle Elmore, is the last chapter me of the most brutai and dramal nurder cases. The cold-blooded manner in whi Dr. Crippen committed the de( he ingenious schemes he devis 'or covering up his tracks, and t drilling capture of himself and 1 :ompanion on the high seas throui he aid of wireless telegraphy, i jombined to make it a case witho jrecedent. It was in Philadelphia that I iawley Harvey Cripper a widow* net the prepossessing music hi linger Cora Makomeski, of Broo yn, N. Y., known to the public 3elle Eimore, and pressed his si .0 such advantage that they we ipeedily married. In 1905 the Doctor and his bri noved to England, where he took louse at No. 39 Hilldrop Crescei STorth London. They continued ive at the Hilldrop Cresccnt re; lence to all outward appearances, lappy and contented couple un ,he advent of Miss Ethel Clare ! V'eve, who was employed as the do ,or's stenographer early in the ye )f 1908. The doctor's friendship for M: Le Neve aroused the suspicion of t vife. Numerous quarrels are r )orted by the neighbors, increasi n frequency and violence until Fe 'uary, 1910, when Belle Elmc mysteriously disappeared. HOW THE HOUSE STANDS Roster of Congressmen Published Democratic .Majority of 63. Washington. ? The Democra *epiesentation iiy the next Hoi; ,vill be 227 as against 163 Repub ;ans and 1 Socialist, according ,he roster of the House publishi These figures give the Democrats majority of 63 and a purality of According to this Kansas is t mly State of size which has a so Republican delegation. A numb lowever, contain only one Dem >rat, among those thus included t ng Iowa, Minnesota, California a Wisconsin. All of the Southern States ha solid Democratic delegations excfc Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky a Tennessee, Maryland and Virgii ?ach has ' one Republican, wh Tennessee and Kentucky each h ,wo members of that party. Color io is the only Western State re 'esented entirely by Democrats, t [ndiana, possessing a much larg ^presentation, presses close , up ler heels with 12 Democrats out 13 members. Illinois has 11 Democrats in h nembership of 25, Massachusetts jut of 14; Michigan 2 out.of 12^ N Jersey 7 out of 10; New York 23 c Df 37; Ohio 16 out of 23 and Pen sylvania 9 out of 32. Missouri's delegation consists 13 Democrats and 3 Republica The Nebraska delegation is ever divided 3 and 3, as is Maine's 2 a I; Okklahoma has 2 Republicans a 5 Democrats; Washington is repr< 2nted by 3 Republicans. All of t Stales haying 1 Representative oi ire Republican, Robbed Doctor in Daytime. Norfolk, Va.?Dr. L. B. Firey, w was held up at the point of a pis in his office here, bound, gagged s then robbed by two young Strang* " ? , one of whom, ueorge Lunnmgrn was later caught, went to Weld N. C., to'identify a man under arr there as tho second of the pair u robbed him. The man at Weldor Bert Welman, alias John Mack, al George Lannigan. Cunningham 1 made a full confession. Bbtli n are from New York. Public Drinking Cups Barred. New Orleans?A ban has b< placed on the public drinking c in Louisiana. It will have to d appear from all railway trains s school houses in the State March 1, 1911, according to an on issued by the Louisiana Board Health at a meeting held in Rus! La. The order likewise provii for the appearance of cuspidr one for every third seat at least all passenger coaches. The sa regulation applies to school hous Parade of 5,000 Bible Students. Richmond, Va.?Over 5,000 n marched through the streets Richmond in the fifth annual par; of Bible class members. \ I !*(J 1111 >1 lilllU'IS lUI l>IJ) IIIII !(i:i > ' Richmond, Ya.?The prevalence "pink eye" at the Virginia .Milits Institute, Lexington. lias necessit cil I In- closing of the institution i lil January An order disband lhi> cadet corps and sending I students to their homes 011 furlot: for the period named was issued .Tail Sentence For Councilmen. Philadelphia?Two former coi rilmon of Piltshurg must go to . for accepting hrihes to intluei I heir votes as councilmen. 'I court sustained the conviclit aerainst M. F. Swift, Jr., and A. Simon in tin* Allegheny com court, I fir* former for rrcoiv *<>'.tO for his vlt" in favor r?f vnr ii tr a rity ?Iiti>! n:y! Ili^ latter ruvplinc,' a !i!<i* 'i:-!:* !' >' 1''.^ v n I tn? .-irci't f r? I * r ?? -'* -I !?-n lik \<*i! a m- <! *:- i t rrri iiu ban!;s a- j i.:.; ) P. 0. CLERKS if? Iis Atlanta Officials Guilty of Underweighing Mails. j ' ? SUPT. TERRELLS RANK REDUCED of g- * id Many Thousands of Dollars Lost? Prosecutions May Follow?Work Goiny on For Years?Postmaster ne s- General Ofter Incompetents. in r? ey Washington?Postmaster Generfe, al Hitchcock has ordered the removal from the postoflice service of *lc' Edward F. Blodgett, superintendent ch of stations, and of James F. Norman ?;d, and S. S. F. Giles, clerks, all in the ed Atlanta postoflice, as the result of h.e gross irregularities in the weighing 113 of newspaper mail. The order followed an investigaa1' tion of the Atlanta office into irregularities which the P.ostofllce Department declares covered a series )r' of years, and resulted in the loss of ST. mnnn llinilfnnrlc nf Hnllarc fn t hp ' lilting iiiuuouiiuo \j* UVHU4U vw v.? ^ department. The department ank" nounced in connection with this order that a general investigation of methods of weighing second class re mail throughout the country is now being conducted by inspectors with de the idea of detecting and bringing to a an end such irregularities as those ^ disclosed at'Atlanta. ,? Because of the inefficiency in the 51" discharge of his duties the superin1 a tendent of the railway mail service ll1 at Atlanta, L. M. Terrell, who failed to take the precautionary measures c~ required by the postal regulations ar to prevent certain of the irregularities, was transferred by the Post'^s master General's order from his 1IS position of responsibility to a minor place in the service. Superintendent G. W. Pepper, of ~ the railway mail division having ire headquarters at Cleveland, has been assigned to Atlanta to supersede Sueprintendent' Terrell. Clyde M. Reed, superintendent of the division . of railway adjustments in the Postoffice Department, was sent to Cleveland to take the place 01 sutic perintendent Terrell. Clyde M. lse position in the department has been li_ filled by the promotion of C. H. Mcto Bride, formerly assistant superin?d. tendent of the division of railway ; a adjustments. The evidence obtain64. ed in the investigation* at. Atlanta he bad been submitted by the Postlid master General to the Department er( of Justice and that department will !0- determine the question of prosecute. tion. nd / REVENUES OF STEAM ROADS. ,ve ;pt Earnings For August Reported by nd % Commerce Commission. iia Washington. ? The Interstate ilc Commerce Commission announced ias' that the net revenues of the steam, a- roads of the United States during p_ last August aggregated $90,028,751, ,ut or 377.49 per mile of line, against rer $9(V)98,283 or $380.10 per mile of line Op in August, 1909. The deduction of of one-twelfth annual taxes loft the operating income $81,163,009 or ier 8340.32, as against $83,000,690 or ( 4 $346.70 per mile of line in August, ew 1009. The ifiileage operated on, )Ut which this summary of the monthly m- reports of the railroads is based, was 238,493 as against 239,404 miles of last year. ns. The delailed figures show that for ily August, 1910 the total operating nd revenues were $254,0005.972 and (he nd total operating expenses $104,488. >g_ 899. the total net revenue already hp given, including outside operations, ily which yielded <1 net revenue of little over half a million dollars. War on Ladies' Ilat Pin. fiQ Berlin.?The police president of ;[0] Barlin has declared war on the danmd f?er?usly protruding hat pin. In a >rs, proclamation issued he calls the atim' tention of the women of the city to or,(' thn many recent reports of injuries fsl' inflicted hy hatpins ilha't projected ho be>"?nd the rims of women's hats. , js The president calls upon the wolas men either to cease using long pins las or 'urn "*e points so that they will len not he a constant menace to the traveling public. . Another Fatal Mine Explosion. Providence, Ky.?Eleven coal min?en { ers. two white men and nine negroes were entombed in mine No. 3 or tne ~ Providence Mining Company followl. t in a gas explosion and il is believed . y that ail are dead. The mine is a . new one. the shaft being but 100 0 feet, in depth with only a few enon V"' tries. The explosion was so vioj?s lent that lillle hope is entertained ".s' that the miners have escaped death. A mule blown out erf the shaft mt alighted 150 feet away, still alive. >es. Disorderly Women Punished. 1Pn London.?Twenty suffragettes who of were arrested for smashing windows tde i in the go\eminent nflices. were sen| teneed in |he How Street police court lo Iwo months imprisonment. In pronouncing sentence. Sir Alof i borl de Itnlzen. chief magistrate of iry I the Metropolitan police courts said: at- I "You disorderly women have been in- | treated with loo much leniency in ing j the pasl. II will he stopped or the j heavier s'T.lence given." The weigh I men six-wed no displeasure. No Parole For .Morse, i Atlanta. Ga.?The hundred and in- I Lwcnly-five applications for parole, jail ! aor.onipanioil by reams of record |(>p j 3hcrls, were phreil before Hie he ! members of Iboard of parole 3ns i wlicn lliey cnnvi-n' ! for llT'ir first V, j nKvlfnsr ;>l llf I'. 1 n<'iiileoliary nly I j,, : - 1%> :v oiliei.il re? iii^ i t|fi,.;i V>"a:.l; o V*\ I!. M'-v r deal i cj: j.- ! I ? -ill' > It \v :? for ; f,... ('i,, ri \ ! : ' :: .! ;-m.i; o!'> | Iv (!:.>! V \v . . i?j, !\V\v for i Y;..', r i" i:- ?.in! If,too, V.MS I! 'I M'.I?. ilMOib'T. - ^ SNAKES WERE HARD TO KILL Reptiles From Brazil Were Frozen. Stiff on Shipboard but Revived When Put in Warm Waters A naturalist once old bow, In 'a thicket on a mountainside he saw a man kill a rattlesnake. He heat the Ufe out of it with a club and continued the pounding until it was mangled beyond recognition. When the naturalist remonstrated the man said: "Boss, you can't kill a rattlesnake too dead." ,, On one occasion f at bound for the United States from Rio do Janeiro touched at Pernambuco, where the mate drove a bargain with a snakff dealer for a half-dozen reptiles of various sizes. The mate had them in a cage on deck, and charged a sailor with the duty of washing it out with sea water every evening. All went well as long? as the weather wds mild, but on the night before the gulf stream waa j ~ ~ A# Lruaaeu luo oauur iciw a (juauuv/ vi. water in the cage and, about 30 hours from port, a. biting gale struck the ship. All hands were busy with the storm, and the snakes were forgotten. When the mate thought of them and went to look after their condition, he found them frozen stiff, and apparently as dead as the proverbial doornaiL The dealer for whom the mate had brought them came on board the following day. He professed great die- > appointment over the loss of his in-' tended purchase, but offered to take the snakes away as a kindness to the mate. He gathered them in his arms like so much firewood and carried them home. But a rival dealer afterward told the officer that plenty of warm . water had resuscitated the snakes, and that they had been sold v to various museums not a bit-<tbe worse for their "death" by freezin#.? Harper's Weekly. At the One Horse. Jere L. Sullivan, the head of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance, said in Cincinnati, apropos of Labor day: "Our American hotels are better than they used \o be,(arid for this bet* * terment my organization deserves no little credit 'J"We have today no such hotels aa the One Horse of Tin Can, where, it you asked for a bath, they used to give you a shovel and tell you to go down to the holjow and d&m the creek. "An English earl once visited th? One Horse hotel. The landlord without ceremony led him outside, pointed to a window on the fifth floor, and said: " Thar's yer room!'" Note From Bastwood Bugle. Somebody took the rope off the bell In the fire engine house to use for a clothesline, and now, when there Is a fire, the constable has to 'climb up into the tower and ring the bell with a hammer. Somebody took the hammer the other day, and, when Hank / Purdy's corncrib ketcbed fire, the con1 stable had to hurry dovn to i Hilliker's store for to borry a1 hammer. 1 Hllliker had lent his hammer to Dea- v. con Renfrew, who lives four miles out I In the country, and by the time the constable had got there and hunted around in the barn for the hammer and got back to the engine house, the . angry elements had done their worst and Hank's corncrib was a mass of smoldering ruins.?Judge's Library. Schurz Was 8ure of Him. Carl Schurz was dining one night with a man who had written a book of poems, so called,' and who was pleased with himself. The pcfat was discoursing on tha time-worn topic of politics of the men who take office. "I consider politics and politicians tionoofh mv nnMr.A " hfl R&id. ' "I do not care for office. I wouldn't be a senator or cabinet officer, and I doubt if I could be tempted by the' offer of the presidency. For the matter of that, I would rather be known as a third-rate poet than a first-rate Btatea< > man. 1 ' "Well, aren't you?" Schurz shouted at him. Got Out of the Habit. "I see you have got a young man atenc?jrapher?" / "Yes." "Don't you think a pretty girl stenographer adds a great deal to th? attractiveness of an office?" x "I suppose she does, but' I can't dictate to a woman somehow. I s'pose it's because I have been married so Ion*." Precautionary. The Millionaire?Doctor, is it absolutely necessary to remove my appendix? "Not absolutely, but it is safer to begin with some simple operation Hlro fhnt " T.ifa. Somehow the average .^Bother I doesn't think she is doing her duty I unless she spoils her children. I HEALTH AND IN 10ME Both Kept Up on Scientific Food. Good sturdy health helps one'a lot :o make money. . With the loss of health one's income 1 is liable to shrink, if not entirely i dwindle away. When a young lady has to make her ! own living, gcod health is her best asset. "I am alone in the world," writes a' | Chicago girl, "depeMent on my own I efforts lor my living. I am a clerk, i and about two years ago through close 11 ? T.wir an.-* a hnnrdins' j UppilCiUluu iu " vi a. - o \ house diet, I became a nervous inj valid, and got so bad off it was almost ; impossible for me to stay in the office j a half day at a time. "A friend suggested to me the Idea j of trying Grape-Nuts food which I did, * making it a large part of at least two ! meals a day. I "Today, I am free from brain-tire, ' dyspepsia, and all the ills of an over- ^ i worked and improperly nourished braia and body. To Grape-Nuts I owe the recovery of my health, and the ability to retain my position and income. Read "The Road to Tv'cllville," in p!v.T:-i. "Tfc-ars's a Reason." r.-'ii! i*:? r.J?ovi? loOcr? A new :i:\t ' r:i I,nr.. <h-:f Xo lime. Tlicj rrv ?. ' l t.t.e, true, uad fail oX buiuatf