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Tbs Abbeville Press and Banner. PUBLISHED WEEKLY ? AT ? ABBEVILLE, S. C. Don't abuse the weather man. Farewell, a long farewell to the Ice man Fine weather brings out fine birds on fine hats. Some men make good money, but loighty little of it. A throne upheld by bayonets Is sure to fall sooner or later. Aviators are pulling down some rich prizes from the upper air. From women down to census re turns we are against padding. However, the undertakers have not yet begun subsidizing football. a Juggernaut the aeroplane is running the automobile a mighty close race. A western farmer extinguished a blaze In his kitchen with milk. Enough said. We've come to the conclusion that utumn has spring beaten forty ways from the jack. In an aeroplane race there seems to be no such possibility as betting on a sure thing. Here is where the foolhardy man begins a dangerous Intimacy with the pneumonia germ. The age of aviation calls for a race of spectators with eyes on the tops of their heads. i Japan exported nearly 1,000,000 pounds of human hair last year. Do you buy your wife her share? With forty bankers in the Leaven worth prison that Institution is be coming too aristocratic for plain fol&a. If you chew your food -with suffi cient care you will live a long time? In fact, you will have to live*a long time. i Cheer up! Soon the big chrysan themums will be competing for the "world's championship at the flower how. ^ Strictly fresh eggs are said to be few, but that does not discourage the cheerful Bign painter at the corner grocery. So many automobile accidents at railroad grade crossings teach the necessity of care on the part of drivers. There are lovely bits of coloring to be observed about sunrise these crisp Biornlngs, not including that on the aarly pedestrian's nose. Chicago university professors have Quit making sensational statements. One of 'em tells us as bit of news that "Woman has ruled man J.'or cen tarles.' A Virginia father with 56 children is a convict, but under the clroumstances be deserves some sympathy. Think of aopportlng such a family on the aver age salary! There Is a man in New Zealand who lays claim to $167,000,000 worth of property in New York city. He would bave a better chance if the New York * "* ? *+ + 9T8 XIaa QUI beau it uisk In one Respect the colleges are not up to date. They Issue no life and accident insurance policies to the young men who go out on the football field to battle for alma mater. When a man rents a flat all he can do about the place is to sit around and look out of the window. But when be occupies a humble cottage he has many things to keep his mind off his other troubles. The Connecticut tobacco crop and the New Jersey cranberry crop are big ??ui? ?aom tV?on thov Vinv** hoan fnr gui luia ;cai vu?m m?.w wwm long, long time. Unfortunately few of ub can live on cranberries and Con necticut tobacco. A man whose automobile broke down the other day offered $1,000 for a new and vigorous profane oath. A man who wants to swear and doesn't know how may not be good, but sim ply lacking in imagination. American returning tourists will now not only have tc pay the duty on what 's in their trunks, but also on the trunks themselves. And about the onlv way of smuggling left now is to bring trunk and contents over in an airship. It has been pointed out that that New York judge who decidcd that a man is not obliged to support his mother-in-law is a bachelor. ."Where Ignorance is bliss" and the rest of it. Tne naCK in uie lanu muvemeni gets another boost in the tuberculosis statistics supplied by the ceusus bu reau. From these figures it appears that the occupation most favorable to iealtb and to freedom from consump tion is farming. In other words, out door life and activity near to nature's beart conduce to longevity. Paris is reported to be in darkness. * What will the tourist sightseers do row? The Haitiar gunboat that went to the bottom with ten generals on board, worked greater havoc among the big titles than the flare-bac.lp on tho ves sels of the bigger naval powers. But considering the ease with which the titles can be reproduced, it is a ques tion whether the destruction of a half-score seamen at a blow on the bat tleships is not the more costly way to keeping the peace. WHATDOESHEWANE I Cook Declares He Was Crazy When He Fabricated. MIGHT NOT HAVE FOUND POLE In a Story Written For a Magazine WW- Wfcl _ _ _i _ w*? C* i 1 ~.wl \Tiw* ne 1'iraus rur sj mpuuiy uuu wm dication?Coming Back to America With Family?And Then? New York?Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the Brooklyn explorer, in an article which will be publihed in a maga zine, confesses that he does not know whether he reached the North Pole .or not. Dr. Cook, who has been in hiding for over a year, has informed the editors of the maga zine publishing his story that he will return to the United States with his wife and children December 22 in order to spend Christmas here. Dr. Cook, in his story, deals with the psychology of his adventure and says: "Did I get to the' North Pole? Perhaps I made a mistake in think ing that I did. Perhaps I did not make a mistake After mature thought I confess I don't know abso lutely whether I reached the Pole or not. This may come as an amazing statement, but I am willing to startle the world if, by so doing, I can get the opportunity to present my case. By may case I mean, not my case as a geographical discoverer, but my case as a man. Much as the attain ment of the North Pole once meant to me, the sympathy and confidence of my fellow men mean more. "If, after reading my story you say 'Cook is sincere and honest; half crazed by months of isolation and hunger, he believed he reached the Pole; he is not a fakir;' then I shall be satisfied. Dr. Cook tells the story of his life and pictures what he call the over powering ambition of exploration that beset him until he finally cul minated in his effort to reach the Pole. Dr. Cook declares that at the, time he convinced himself he had discovered the Pole, he was half mad. He spent two years in his quest and during that time endured hunger with privation that, he says, would unbalance any mind. The explorer states that it would be impossible for any one to de monstrate beyond question that he ha been to the North Pole. He characterizes the region as a region of insanity, where one cannot be lieve the evidences gathered by one's own eyes. He says that he had always look ed upon the discoverey of the Pole as an achievement for his own personal satisfaction of a craving and desire that was greater than any other factor in his life. When he found how tremendous a sensation his statement that he had attained the Pole created, he was overcome with bewilderment Railroad Bonds Popular. Washington?Railroad bonds lead the list of the securities held by banks of the United States, accord ing to figures which were prepared and made public by Comptroller of the Currency Murray, ihe total holdings of bonds, stocks and other securities held by all the banks in the United States are $4,723,300,000 and according to Mr. Murray's cal culations more than one-fourth. $1,455,100,000, are railroad bonds. The State banks hold all hut $300,- i 000,000 of that total amount. South's Corn Worth $100,000,000. Baton Rogue, La.?That the South has been enriched to the amount of $100,000,000 by its increased corn yield was the statement made hero by Prof. V. K. Roy, who has charge of the boys demonstration work of the United States department ol agriculture and also of the agri cultural extension courses of the Louisiana State University. Tin work of the boys corn club* in Louisiana has been productive of thoucnnHo r\ f hnoholo nf /?r\r?n tuvuoaiiuo Vi UUOU^JO \JX LVl 11. Standard Oil Suit in N. C. Raleigh, N. C.?Keenest interest is taken here in the hearing before Police Justice Stronach in the city court in which the Standard Oil Company is the defendant chargod with a violation of the North Caro lina anti-trust law in undertaking to stamp out competition in Raleigh by Idian Oil Company. The Standard Oil Company is chargod with cut ting prices in January on kerosene gradually from J 1M> cents finally down to 7% cents a gallon to destroy the competition. This is How It Happened. Washington.?An investigation of (he fatal accident at Indian Head. Md.. on November 19. resulting from a proving lest of a new 5-inch gun. which cost Hie lives of i men, has established the fact that the design of the breech mechanism of the gun is faulty. The pattern is now V.Ai'no. W r I 11 U. The premature discharge of tlio cartridge case, which blow out the breech plug, the investigating board finds, was due to a projecting firing pin. "Rag Time \\ orsc Titan Drugs." Macon, Ga.?In an address to the students of the conservatory of Wesleyan College, Dr. Dingley Brown, director of music, declared that "rag-time" music causes a large percentage of the crime com mitted in this country, more in fact, than is attributed to liquor drink ing. "Ragtime" music is the great est. curse of our country, and the most serious menace of the young er generation in our homes." he said. "It is debasing and instills a criminal tendency into minds." FINANCES OF THE NATION Million Dollar Surplus?October De ficit of $5,000,000?534,000,000 on Hand?$86,000,000 Gen. Fund. Washington.?November was a highly favorable month for the fi iianecs of the United States Treas ury. It produced a surplus on all accounts of nearly $1,000,000, where October had produced a deficit of more than $5,000,000. The working conditions of the na tion's cash drawer shows a corres ponding improvement for the month. December opened with a working balance of $34,000,000 on hand and ?80,000,000 in the general fund, an improvement of a round 52,000.000 in (he cash available for immediate operations. This con dition would seem to justify Secre lary MacVeagh's confidence in the Treasury's ability to maintain itself for the present without financing. As compared with this date last year receipts are $14,000,000 higher and expenditures are $5,000,000 low er. The result of all this is that the total deficit for this fiscal year to date is $20,000,000 as against $44, 000,000 this time last year. The general condition of the Treasury's finances seems to augu? against any issue of securities in the immediate future. PRESIDENT EIGHTH TIME. Diaz Again Inaugurated Chief Mag istrate of Mexico. Mexico City.?"It is very gratify ing to me to say that my heart is full of faith in the progress of a people who, like the Mexican, has known how to conquer by its own efforts a place among the lovers of toil, after having proved its valor in war in patriotic defense of its country, and that never as today could I dcclare that Mexico belongs definitely to the group of nations of assured stability, because against the firm guarantee of peace which we possess, no influence tending to wards its dissolution can now or ever shall be able to prevail. "As to the relations between Mexi co and the United States and other friendly nations, never have they heen more cordial, as was indicated in a convincing manner during the celebration of the centennial of Mexico's independence." The above was the authoribed message of President Diaz to all na tions on the eve of his inaugura tion for the eighth time as Chief Executive of the Mexican nation, given expression through medium of the Associated Press. A feature of the inauguration pro sram was the distribution among ' -r-v r-v?-? /-? !* K/MifNnnrl:< rl /"\ 11 O r? C i ui; j;uui ui uivusauus uuuaio worth of food aYid blankets by the circle of friends of President Diaz. FIFTY YEARS ON $467 ANNUALLY. r Methodist Ministers Did This Su ccessfully and Comfortably. Sardis, Miss.?That for 50 years he has been in the service of the Methodist Episcopal Church South he has never earned more than $467 vearly and that he has never left a debt behind, has lived comfortably and has lived to see the third gen eration of his descendants grow al most to maturity, was the statement of Rev. Dr. G. Eachman. of this city, before a meeting of the Historical Society of the North Mississippi Conference. The Doctor accentuated his re-, marks by admonishing a large class of young ministers .just ordained hat the business of young minis irra uuwauii>o was tiic siaivaiiuii ui Tion. nof the struggle for church position and persona'. popularity. Ho deplored (he /art that, the r?rpy seems to have lost sight of II.is fact, in recent years. Monster of 3.000,000 Years Afjo. New York?The American Muse inn of Natural History* here an nounces that it has just come into possession of a practically complete skeleton of a trachadon, a monster which lived on the earth not less Mian 3,000.000 years ago. It was found in the Hell creek region of the Had Lands of Montana, where for eight years the museum has been carrying 011 extensive explorations. The expendifions have been led by Barnum Brown, Tell It From Hill Tops. Washington.?The executive com miltee of (lie Southern Commercial congress mot hero (o decide, on I lie dale for Hie great commercial rally lo be held in Atlanta in the spring of 191 i. The week of March l.'i was section. The executive committee meet in this city again December 7 to complete the details. It is planned to have the commercial rally serve to emphasize to the na tion and to the world the present progressive conditions of the South Firemen Brave and True. Gary, Tnd.?Fire in Hie nilrator building of the Aelna Powder Com pany's dynamite and nitroglycer ine mill near here destroyed 2.UU0 pounds of nilroglycerine and for a lime threatened the entire town of Aetna. The lire started when the chemicals used in making nitrogly cerin*1 were inived in wrong propor tions. In tin- face of possible death practically every man in Aelna re sponded when the alarm of fire was turned in and confined I he llames to I ho ono building. Methodist Churehes Consider Union. I.altimore,?Measures regarded by nersons well informed on !he sub jeet as leading ullimatelv to or ganic union of I lie three great branches of American Methodism will be ronsidered at tlie meeting here of the joint commission on Federation, composed of delegates from the Methodist Episcopal Church. Melhodis! Episcopal rhurch. South, and the Methodist Protestant Church. The commissioners, 27 in number, are among the leading churchmen of the denominations. THE AMOUNT MP Estimates of Appropriations for River and Harbor Work. FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES. Chief Engineer Estimates $22,000, 000 Needed For Maintenance and Unfinished Projects?The Share For N. C., S. C., and Ga. Washington. ? Appropriations oeeded for river and harbor work for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, aggregate $30,095,698, according to estimates made public by Secre lary of War Dickson in the form of a report made to him by Brig. Gen. W. H. Bircby, chief of engineers of the United States army. Included in the total of $22,627,361, which the chief of engineers be lieves to be necessary for expendi tures during fhe year ending June 30, 1912, is a lump sum of $400,000 for examinat.ons, surveys and con tingencies foi which there may be no special appropriation. Virginia?Plilford Haven harbor, $2,500; Norfolk harbor, for mainte nance, including western branch of Elizabeth river, $5,000, and ap proaches and channels to Newport News and up the southern branch of Elizabeth river, $*25,000; James riv er, $150,000; Nansemond river, $3, 000; Nomini creek, $8,000; Upper Machodoc creek, $13,200; Urbana creek, $10,000; Mattaporii and Pam unkey rivers, $10,000. North Carolina?Improvement of inland water route from Norfolk, Va., to Albemarle sound, $2,000; Beaufort1 harbor, $5,000; Cape Fear river, at and below Wilmington, ?100,000; Contentnia creek, $1,000: Neuse and Trent rivers, $5,000; New river and waterways to Beaufort, $5,000; Northeast, Black and Cape Fear rivers, $3,500; Pamlico and Tar rivers. $5,000. South Carolina?Mingo creek, $1, 000; inlanc waterways between Charleston ar 1 Alligator creek. $41, 000; Santee, Wateree and Congaree rivers, $47,000; Charleston harbor, for a 20-foot depth, $100,000. Georgia?Brunswisk harbor, $35, 000; Sapelo harbor, $11,000; Savan nah harbor, $400,000; Altamaha, Oco nee and Ocmulgee rivers, $30,000; Flint river, $7,500; Savannah river, below Augusta, $100,000; Chattahoo chee river, $75,000; Coosa river, locks and dams near Rome, Ga.r $121,039: and continuing construction of lock No. 4 and dam No. 5, $150,000; im proving waterway between Savan nah and Fernandina, Fla., $30,000. SEND SOUTH'^ FIGURES. Population of Distant Cities and States Given. i 'i Washington.?The population oi the state of New York is 9,113,270, ftnnAn^ino" 4 r* afdfieH/?c nf flip aLl/UI Uilig tw OIUI.IOHVO V- W. v. -WW.. census made public by Director Du rand. This is an increase of I,8i4, 985, or 25.4 per cent, over 7,268,984 in 1900, The increase from 1890 to 1900 was 1,265,257, of 21.1 per cent. On the present basis of apportion ment, New York stale will gain eight or nine representatives in the lower house of congress. Population of the Stale of Kansas is 1.690,949. This is an increase of 220,454 or 15.0 per cent over 1,470,495 in 1900. The increase during the previous decade from 1890 to 1900 wsfts 41 ,,373 or 2.9. Portland, Ore., 207.214 an increase of 116,788 or 129.2 per ccnt over 90.426, in 1900. The population of tho Stale of Ok lahoma is 1,657.155. This is an in* crease of 242,978, or 17.2 per cent over 1,414,177 in 1907. Only One Chance More. Columbia, S. C?By the abandon ment of the appeal to the State Su preme Court in the case of Pink Franklin, convicted of murder, the last resort hv which can bo stayed further the resentencing and hanping of the accused, in .this noted ease?barring of course, flic extension at Hie last of executive rlemency?was exhausted and Franklin will in all liklihood be hanged at Orangeburg before the year is out. The Governor will be appealed to for clemency. I Indictments Against Gallafjhcr. New York.?James J. Gallagher, who shot Mayor Gaynor last Aug ust has been indicted by a grand jury in Hudson county. New Jersey, charged with assault with intent to kill on the Mayor and William Ed wards. street cleaning commission er. Another charge placed against Gallagher was that of carrying con cealed weapons. Gallagher has been held in jail since his attack on the- Mayor, awaiting the' result of injuries which he inflicted. A Woman Wireless Operator. New York.?On the Clyde liner Mohawk, sailing between Charleston and Jacksonville, the first woman wireless tolepragh operator who ever bore the responsibility of this position on an ocean liner, will have charge of (he wireless room. She i? Miss Granella Packer of Jackson ville. Miss Packer is twenty-two years old and has had two years ex perience as manager of a telegraph office at Sanford, Fla. A nimrrl limicp Atlanta.?East Point, an incor porated suburb of this city, has gained the distinction of being the most accommodating little city in this section. Besides having all the conveniences of modern cities. East Point has provided the law breaking element with i jail on wheels and instead of dragging an obstreperous "drunk" to prison, the town constable hitches a couple of mules to the prison, drives over and loads up. On trial day the load of malefactors is lowed the ''ourl. I . mark twain HONOrST" Men of Letters, Wealth and Official Position Eulogize Lamented Samuel N. Clemens. New York.?The intellect, the power and the wealth of the land gathered at Carnegie hall to pay tribute to the memory of Mark Twain, whom the world loved be cause he made it hugh. William Dean Howells presided, Joe Cannon, the Speaker of the House of Representatives that is, and Champ Clark, the Speaker that may be, spoke from the same plat form. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, Henry Watterson, George \V. Cable, Booth Tarkington, J. Pier pont Morgan, John Luther Long and many uuiers were amuug muse in vited. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Academy of Arts an^ Letters. bpeaker Cannon said he knew Mark Twain personally, and he de scribed how Clemens came to Washington in the interest, of the copyright law. "Finally," said Cannon, "he tried to persuade me to. allow him to lobby on the very floor of Congress and wrote me a letter and brought it to me in the Speaker's room." As read by Mr. Cannon the letter read: "'Dear Uncle Joseph: " Please get me the thanks of Con gress, not next week, but right away. It is very necessary. Do accomplish this at once by persuasion if you can, but by violence if you must, for it is absolutely necessary that I get on the floor for two or three hours and talk to the Congressmen man by man. I have arguments with me. Also a barrel with liquid in it. I have stayed away from Congress apd let it alone for 71 years and I am entitled to its thanks* Congress knows this well and it never hn* publicly acknowledged its apprec' ion. Send me a reply at once and with an order on the ser geant-at-arms. With love and bene diction. . MARK TWAIN.'" PRICES OF PULLMAN BERTHS. Reduction is Opposed by Railroads? Greater Reduction Wanted. Chicago.?An offer of the Pullman Company to reduce the rates charg ed for upper berths in sleeping cars 20 per cent, wh?re lower berths were priced more than $1.50, to make I he price of uppers St,25 as a minimum and reduce some lower berth rates, was opposed before the l litersl it it* ifuimiierue uuiiiiiiiaoivii here by Attorneys General of four slates and by two railroads. The , Pullman Company's offer left un changed Pullman seat rates, and was to become effective upon approval and acceptance by the commission. The opposition to the plan was of fered on tho part of the railroads on the allegations that they would have to stand a part of the brunt of the, lessoned prices, and by Attor neys General on the claim that the reduction was not sufficient. Red Cross Christmas Seals. Washington. ? Headquarters of the American National Red Cross announces (hat Christmas seals are being printed at the rate of a million a day and that already 60,000,000 have been given out to agents throughout the United States. At the same time attention is called to fhe ruling of the PnstofTlce Depart ment that these stickers must be olaced on the back of letters and 1 J fn,. r-v /-?n nucivcigi'S ciiiu are iit'l guuu iui ^uo I age. If, is added that the outlook is bright for selling I00.0n0.000 seals, thereby maVinsr eoori the slogan of the campaign, "a million for tuber culosis." Wealthy Man Lost. . Bristol, Tenn.?Relatives of John C. Keys, a wealthy young farmer who sold his farm at Dickenson, North Dakota, for $12,000 and left more than two weeks ago for Bris tol, believe he has been murdered. His trunk arrived on schedule time, but since Saturday nothing has been heard of Keys. His wife is deeply distressed and telegrams are being sonl to try to locate him. His route was via Chicago and Louis ville. He carried a large sum of money. Noted Criminal Hunter Ilesifjns. London.?Chief Inspector Dew, of Scotland Yard, the man who direct ed the eaplure of Dr. Hawlev Har cov Ci>inru>n nnH *\vhnse namft has boon connected wilii many, other important criminal cases, has ten dered his resignation and will retire in about, a month. Inspector Dmv first came into prominence at the time of the "Jack the Ripper" crime. Kor his services in relation to those ' ases he was promoted to the rank ',>f defective-sergeant. Women's Clubs Worth While. New York.?Women's club? are superior to men's clubs, thinks Rev. Dr. Charles F. AI;od, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church. "A man's club is for personal ease, good cooking and good company," lie said. "The women's clubs of this country, so slriking a feature in our national life, are organized for work. It may lie for education op propaganda, or eharjty, or phil anthropy. Our churches are gener allv manned by women. Alabama Gives Soldiers SI,000,000. .Montgomery, Ala. ? Alabama's pension disbursements to old sol diers are increasing so rapidly, it is said, thai a bill will be introduc ed at the approaching legislature for the purpose of raising a Slate pension commission charged with Hie duly of examining closely into the eligibility of the present pen sioners and fu!ure noplicanls. Ala bama pays on! I his year almost one million dollars In nv:re than IS.000 pensioners. Other Shies could be. as liberal. A.C.L.&S. A.L. INDICTED Charged With Violations of Sher ' Anti-Trust Law.?Grain Carried j at Illegal Rates. Savannah, Ga.?After hearing tes timony lor several days the Federal grand jury of the United States court for southern district of Geor gia has handed down indictments charging infringement of the anti trust laws on the part of three large corporations and two individ uals. The Atlantic Coast Lino railway and Seaboard Air Line Railway were each jointly indicted with the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company for spe cific violations of the Sherman anti trust and Elkins laws, wtyle Harvie Miller and Morris Miller, grain mer chants and members of the firm of L. F. Miller & Sons of Philadelphia. The Merchants and Miners Trans portation Company was indicted three times, once as a sole offen der, and twice in connection with the Seaboard Air Line and the At lantic Coast Line railways. Morris F. Miller and Harvie C. Milter, of Philadelphia, were immediately ar rested and placed under bonds of $25,000 each. The indictments are lengthy, covering in one instance 75 pages. In each indictment specific allega tions are made of the acts which constituted the alleged infractions of the trust laws. v Dates are given when the de icuuaiHs are auegeu tu iiiive niHutj shipments over the lines named at rates less than those on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Miller brothers put them selves in the jurisdiction of the Uni ted States court for the southern district o* Georgia' through their shipments into this district over the lines of the three corporations indicted. The beginning of the investiga tion against the defendants arose from complaints registered with the Interstate Commerce Commission during the summer, to the effect that the Miller firm had effectively destroyed competition in grain shipments over an enormous terri tory embracing points along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and in the South Atlantic States. The first connection of the rail roads and the Millers arose during the hearing before Commissioner Clements at Philadelphia in which it developed that the Pennsylvania system had sold its Philadelphia ehwator to the Keystone Elevator Company. L. F. Miller & -Sons con trolled this latter company and were responsible for shipments to the South over both the railroads indicted and upon vessels of the steamship company at rates much less than those on file 'with the commission. In addition to this infraction of the law, it was found that grain shipped from Western to Eastern points enjoyed the export rates in stead of domestic, and a saving of from one to three cents on each hundred pounds was effected by the Philadelphia-firm. Tillmrtn'r Gnn Ciin/1 hv WJ Ifp Columbia, S. C?Mrrs. Lucy Dugas Tillman has begun proceedings in the Edgefield county court to re cover from her husband, B. R. Till man, Jr., Senator Tillman's son, S13.730.08 which she alleges the de fondant owes her from the income from her property. The suit is an outgrowth of the sensational habeas corpus proceedings which Mrrs. Lucy Dugas Tillman brought against Senator Tillman and his wife for the recoverv of her two children, whom her hmhand had deeded to the Senator. The. action resulted in a victory for young Mrs. Tillman. End of Denominational Schools? Fitzgerald. Ga.?That within ten years there would be little use for the denominational seminaries and colleges scattered through I he States, as their places would be filled by the modern high schools, and that only the higher institu tions of learning would be kept up by the Churches was the statement macJp here by Dean Walter A snow of I he Chattanooga University as he spoke before the Georgia Confer ence of tho Methodist Episcopal Church, in session here. Church Union Committees Action. Baltimore?The joint commission of twenty seven, representing the Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist Protestant afid the Southern Methodist Churches appointed a committee of nine to further con sider the matter of union or closer relations of the churches and re port to another meeting of the whole commission which will be held at, Chattanooga, Tenn.. next spring. The committee was in ses cinn horn three davs. Calhoun Family Contest a Will. Washington?Members of the Qal houn family that John C. Calhoun made famous came before the Su preme Court nt' the United States in an endeavor to regain possession of the "Calhoun plantation" in Green wood county, South Carolina. The arguments were made in the Su preme Court Chamber, formerly !hf> Senate chamber, the very room in which John C. Calhoun so often triumphed in debate. The planta tion was owned by Downs Calhoun when lie died in 1850. School Marin's New Method. Asheville. N. C.?There is one school teacher in the public schools of Buncombe who believes more education is necessary than that gleaned from books. Miss Josephine Rundy has induced the boys in her school to grow corn: she has taught them the science of corn growing and with the aid of experienced farmers has made a success of the venture. The boys of her school have grown eoni this year on va cant lots and earl.v this monlli a corn show will lie held at the school UNKIND JOLT FROM ADAM A? If Eve Hadn't Sorrow. Enough, Her Partner Had to Add to the Affliction. Adam had just received his notice of ejectment He stared at It a long time In silence, while Eve, crouched In a dusky corner, softly whimpered. Presently the father of mankind looked around. As Eve caught his angry eye her whimper changed to a gulping sob. well," ne sternly said, "you ve cer tainly put us In a fine mess with your silly curiosity! And yet when I refused to have anything to do withp your apple scheme you called me a poor fool. Do you remember that you called me a poor fool?" "Ye-es," sobbed Eve. "Well, there's just one question I want to ask you?" said Adam. "What is it?" gasped the first mother. "Who's looney now?" he harshly demanded. Then he turned away abruptly and started to pack up the family gourds and the tent poles.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. She Covered Her Head. Scene, a country church of Episco? copallan denomination in process of being decorated for the Christmas . season. The rector, who has a strong leaning towards forms of all kinds. Is fastening a festoon of evergreen about the baptismal font, when, eu ter Miss Dymple, who unceremoni ously flings her hat upon the seat of a pew and comes to his assistance. The rector suddenly observes that she is hatless and remarks severely: "Miss Dymple, it is particularly for bidden that women shall come into the church with uncovered heads." , "Oh, bother, I forgot!" responded the young lady irreverently. "WeH," grabbing up the rector's derby and setting it jauntily on her pert littl? head, "will this do?" The Lawyeri Won. Askit?Old Skinnerd left quite a large estat,e, did he not? Noitt?Yes; but some of.his rela^ tives contested Ms will. Askltt?Was there much left after It got through the courts? Noltt?Nothing but the heirs. There is not a vice which more ef? fectually contracts and deadens tho feelings than the desire Ing possessions.?Mant HAD TO BE His Friend?I t'ought you wus goln* to commit suicide, James? T wiiol Knf nrhan T JL MC IVCJC^WU X TTUO. UUb TTUVU * got to do river I remembered I'd for got me Bwlmmln' tights. END STOMACH TROUBLE NOW Dyspepsia, Gas, Sourness or Indiges tion Go Five Minutes After Taking a Little Diapepsin. If year meals don't fit comfortably, Dr you feel bloated after eating, and pou believe it is the food which fills you; if what little you eat lies like lead on your stomach; if there is dif ficulty in breathing, eructations of _? sour, undigested food and acid, heart burn, brash or a belching of gas, you ' :an make up your mind that you need something to stop food fermentation and cure Indigestion. A large case of Pape's Diapepsin costs only fifty cents at any drug store here in town, and will convince * my stomach sufferer five minutes after taking a single dose that Fermenta tion and Sour Stomach is causing thd misery of Indigestion. . No matter if you call your trouble Catarrh of the Stomach, Dyspepsia, Nervousness or Gastritis, or by any Dther name?always remember that a certain cure is waiting ait your drug store the moment you decide to begin Its use. Pape's Diapepsin will regulate any out-of-order Stomach within five min utes, and digest promptly, without any fuss or discomfort, all of any kind of food you eat. These large 50-cent cases contain more than sufficient to thoroughly cure any chronic case of Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Gastritis or any "other Stomach trouble. Should you at this moment be suf fering from Indigestion, Gas, Sour ess or auj' siumutu uu-wuvi, ~- ?? surely get relief within five minutes. A Sure Cure. Mother?I'm afraid Gwendoline is setting her heart on that young Pen niless. Father?You think so? Mother?I am almost sure of it. Father?Well, he is not a fit person for her to marry. He is as poor as a rat and has no prospects. Something must be done to set her against him. Mother?I have thought of that and have hit upon what I think is an excel nut | i<i11. Father?Yes? Wha: Is It? Mother?We must tell her that we want her to marry him. He Never Shaved Again. Marmaduke?What do you suppose that wretched barber said when he shaved me? Bertie?1 don't know. Marmaduke?He said it reminded him of d game he used to play when a boy called "Hunt the Hare." Different. "That man wouldn't touch a cent that didn't belong to him." "I know." replied Mr. Dustin Stax. "Hut liow about giving him a cbanc* at $10.00U?"