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"*^war*.: Tbs Abbeville Press and Banner. PUBLISHED weekly ABBEVILLE, S, C. Circumstances and lawyers alter cases. Anyway, the unwritten law seems to bave a lot written about It. We are a good deal happier because Of a lot of things we don't know. Without the shedding of hlood there teems to be no way of conquering the air. Brag about a girl to her female friends if you would discover her faults. The Seine seems to have acquired the Ohio river habit in getting over banks. If you can't get what you want why Bon't you quit wanting it? It is merely a state of mind. f When the doctor tells a man to diet, the patient proceeds to refuse all the uuugs ne aisunes. A regular feature of the Monday tQornlng papers Is the list of dead and Injured among Sunday autoists. Laura Jean Llbbey, who advocates the kissless courtship, Is pushing the nost unpopular propaganda on record. It Is alleged as proof of a New York nan's Insanity that he was no good at bridge whist. This is very Gotham sque. Our idea of a strong minded woman is one who insists that she would father have her clothes comfortable than fashionable. A new card game popular In Eng land is called "Dabblt." It should be explained that many Englishmen have uu uuiv; wiuo. A boy committed suicide because he ras compelled to give up school. It Is not feared that there will be many tases of this sort Don't blame the faithful hen for pots, spots, leaks or specks. Her part af the work was all right. The storage companies did the rest A scientist who recently tried to hypnotize a dog -was bitten by the inlmal. He should have begun by making the dog believe it had no teeth. Doctor Wiley advises against cold rtorage turkey. That Is very well, kut he should first break that hand lome bird of Indulging In the cold itorage habit An English peer is to marry an East Indian princess. This precedent nee established, may introduce dan gerous competition in the matrimonial title market for American heiresses. A Chicago woman refuses to pay for photographs which she recently had taken, because she thinks they make ker look too old. The photographer bould hasten to get a new retoucher. A tree trimmer who had to look up ill the time in his work has gone in ane. That ought to be a warning to those enthusiastic persons who spend most of their time on the aviation BeJ4. With a string of aviators touring the country like a circus, possibly it won't be long before we see the sky fenced off with canvas and young hopefuls climbing in under the clouds to see the show. A man says that he is going to itart a paper in New York that will be hree from the faults of the other Jour nals there. It ought not to be hard to itart one, but keeping it going is apt to be uphill work. People ought to clean house oft ener. Now here's a New York man had an old trunk kicking about the house for five years before he opened tt and found that somebody had care loa?lv lt>ft ? norsnn in it_ English lords who object to the use of American dollars In the British campaign will have the full sympathy #f French counts and German barons, who think American dollars should be levoted- to the securing of personal pleasure only. News from different portions of the Meutian region indicates that there luire been great volcanic activity and k&rthquake shocks In that quarter, fhe disturbances continued for four lays. This- information affords fresh svldence that the scientists are cor rect in regarding the neighborhood of Maska as a center of remarkable lelsmic activity. A big mackerel jumped aboard a ichooner in Massachusetts waters and provided a good breakfast for the crew. The rivalry of the Ananias Club has apparently not hurt the vi tality of the familiar fish-story tellers. The suggestion is made that a good *ay to conserve the forests would be to use cement and steel to build with Instead of lumber. This might con serve the forests, but it would not conserve either the iron ore and coal supplies or the builders' bank ac counts. The dispatches explain that Presi flent Taft went all over the Gatun flam and then add: "His visit has dis pelled any fears as to the stability of the dam base." Thus we see the ^ralue of having a chief executive of Borne real weight. A woman in Cincinnati is suing a car company for damages because an Injury to her shoulder in one of the company's cars has disabled her from arranging her puffs and her pompa dour. And yet what mere damages could pay for suffering like this? SENATE LUXURIES fastidious Taste of the Ameri can Senators. COST TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Automobile and Incidentals For tne Vice President ? Telegrams and Newspapers For Members?Furnish ings Senate Rooms and Restaurant. Washington,?The United States Senate has learned officially the cost of maintaining itself in the past fiscal year. Its price as an institution to the American people was $2,012,874.62 for salaries, milage and incidental ex penses. This does not include the expense of printing and of the Congs 5 1 "r? ????/? ins\y rmtlnv for iesfcuuiia.1 ACWIU, J1U1 vux, VKM-J items under other appropriations. About one-third of the total was on account of salaries and mileage. The second third went in the shape of pay for the officers, clerks and mes sengers. The tidy little sum of $137, 211.22 was voted right out of the Treasury as one month's extra pay to these same officers and clerks , and the rest went for contingent expenses, the cost of the vice-president's auto mobile, newspapers for Senators from their home towns and the price of tel egrams Bent to all parts of the coun try by Senators at the expense of the Govermnment, the use of the tele graph frank having been abolished to ward the end of last session. Some items: For La Follette's Magatine, fur nishing Hon. W. J. Stone from December 22, 19100, to Decem ber 21, 1910 $1.00 For the Morning Reveille, furnish ed Hon. S. H. Piles from Janu 1 Tnna 1Q1rt M.Ofl tMAJ A WW VV, For the Daily Bellingham Herald, furnished Hon. S. M. Piles. For the Daily and Sunday Denver Post, furnished Hon. Simon Gug genheim January 1 to December 31, 1910 $7.80 For the Weekly London Times, furnished Hon. Thomas P. Goer, January 15 to June 30, 1910. 2.50 For Moody's Magazine, furnished Hon. R. M. La Follette from March 1, 1910, to February 28, 1911 3.00 A detailed statement of the cost of the Ballinger-Pinchot Select Com mittee so far as the Senate was con cerned, is included. The sum of $20, 000 was drawn for this investigation and the cost of it to the Senate was $13,844.77. J " Exactly 111 lockers were Installed a year ago In the Republican and Democratic cloakrooms of the Senate. They have ventilated . doors, bronze umbrella pans and are of mahogany, with whitewood backs. They-^cost the Senate $2,960. fAt the same time "eight mahogany easy chairs" were bought for the cloakrooms at $70 apiece, totalling $560." There are also 12 mahogany armchairs for the cloak rooms which cost $32 each, or $384 for the lot. Two double mirrors at $125 each were bought for the cloak rooms, total $250. For their restaurant the Senators bought three gold-frame mirrors at $64 each. Then there are dozens of "velour soft pillows," bought for the rooms of Senators in the new office building. These cost $3.50 a pillow. A carpet rug for the Senate Com mittee on Military Affairs made and laid to order, cost $93. Two carpet rugs for Senator Scott's committee room, the Committee on Public Build a J r% *019 TV. a. Jll&S auu uiuuuua, woi. x uv^ Committee on the Judiciary did not like carpet rugs, but got 162 yards of Wilton carpet, costing $388.80. Young Man's Sad Downfall. Roanoke, Va.?Postoffice inspectors arrested Henry Willis, aged 22, a rail way mail clerk running between Pu laski, Va., and Roanoke, charging him with rifling the mails and taking money from letters addressed to Roan oke merchants. Willis was caught with a decoy letter containing marked bills. He is a native of Culpepper, Va., and has only been in the mail service a short time. He was lodged in jail. Pity That All Wives Haven't. Kansas City, Mo.?In a petition for divorce filed here, Marvin Minnear, a book-keeper, alleged he had been hounded by his wife's spirit and It was more than he could stand. The wife, Anna Minnear, says the petition, de clares she possesses power to separ ate her spirit from her body. Minnear alleges she accused him of inconsistency, basing her charges on her power to have her spirit shadow him and make report to her of all his UU111&B. I Heart Sewed Up and Lives. New York.?With a knife wound in his heart three-quarters of an inch in length, neatly stitched up by the sur geons, Samuel Herman, a waiter, has gone back to work. His case is said to be the seventh succcessful opera tion of the kind known to the pro fession. Herman was stabbed in a brawl with a customer. He was taken to Gouverneur hospital and Dr. John P. Erdinan used twelve stitches to draw the lips of the wound in the heart to gether. Census Cotton Ginning Report. Washington?The census bureau's report on cotton ginned shows 10,698, 482 bales, counting round bales as half bales were ginned from the growth of 1910 to December 13, com pared with 9,358,085 for 1909; 11,904, 2(19 for 1908, and 9.2S4.070 for 1907. > The percentage of the last three crops ginned to December 13 was 92.9 for 1900; 91.0 for 190S, and 84.0 for 1907. Pea Island cotton for 1910 is 75, 170 compared with 18,177 for 1909; 80,136. for 1908 and C5.268 for 1907. + " if ' * I ' SENATOR GORE'S MEMORY Blind Senator From Oklahoma Sees Through the Eyes of His Wife? An Episode in Mississippi. Washinton,?Senator Thomas P. Gore, of Oklahoma, is believed to have the most narvelous memory in the Senate. He is entirely Diina, ana has to depend upon his memory for quotations in his speeches. Never theless, he is one of the moat eloquent men in Congress, never at . a loss for a word, and the way he quotes the Congressional Record by the yard and makes citations from memory is a marvel to all his colleagues. "The Blind Senator" is without sight, but is clear of vision. His eyes are Mrs. Thomas P. Gore. Around the Capital she is known as "the little brown woman who is the sightless Senator's eyes." She does all the Senator's reading to him. He knows what goes ir. the Record and what is contained in all reports or bills worth while around the Senate. His wife readB the meat of them to him when they are together under the student lamp at night. At the age of 18 Senator Gore was a candidate for the Legislature in Mississippi. In that and other cam paigns in Mississippi before Gore settled in Oklahoma his marvelous memory stood well the test. This same memory was once responsible for the defeat of Senator Money, who was formerly a jnember of the House. Representative Money had an engage ment to speak in a town in the Gore district, and young Gore wanted to divide the time on the stump with him. "I'll speak as long as I please, and you may ao me same, Bugeiioieu Money. Money talked three hours; Gore spoke four hours, quoting page after page of the Congressional Record and ridiculing Money unmercifully. Money, whose courage never failed him, ex claimed: "If you were not blind, I would debate another way with you." "Blindfold yourself and march out side, Congressman, retorted Gore. The challenge was never accepted. To Safeguard Fraternal Insurance. New York.?A practicable plan for safeguarding the $7,000,000,000 of fra ternal insurance now outstanding in Via irorlnna fl+atoa nf the TTnlnn has at last been fortned, and will shortly be presented to all State Legislatures, with the approval of various State de partments of insurance. The an nouncement was "-made here following a conference of the National Associa tion of Insurance Commissioners. SOUTHERN WINS SUIT. South Carolina Sought. to Dissolve Mergerl of Railroads. Columbia, S. C.?After a trial last ing more than thre^, weeks, a jury in the county ,court returned a verdict in favor of the Southern Railway in the suit in which the State of South Caro lina sought to dissolve the merger of the Southern and several State roads, the Asheville & Spartanburg jRailroad, the South Carolina & Georgia, the South Carolina & Georgia Extension, and the Carolina Midland. In his charge Judge Shipp held that AH%MnA^U?/\n ao "oa/1 in fVio nnncfitn. WliipCUllUU} do uacu 111 LUV WUMvavM tional prohibition of a merger of com peting or parallel lines, applies to lines that compete substantially and legally. Competition on business handled by connections with other lines, at junction points or on short stretches of parallel line, the court held, could not be considered within the prohibitive clause. Worthy School Teacher Gets Fortune. Atlanta, Ga.?Miss Anna Stanley, an orphan and a teacher in the pub lic schools of this city, has become the possessor of a fortune of $100,000 by the terms of the will of Mrs. Jose phine^ Abbott, her great-aunt. Mrs. Abbott, who was regarded as one of the wealthiest women in the state, left an estate worth $750,000. Of this amount her husband, Col. B. F. addoh, reteiveu ?ov,vuu. .n. migo amount also was distributed to re ligious and charitable institutions. Will Buy 5,000 Cats. Sharon, Pa.?Square S. S. Gilbert, of this place, has received a request from the State of Washington for 1,000 cats. The request is made in a letter from Albert J. Randall, former ly of Sharon, but now a resident o! Okanogan cotinty. Mr. Randall has associated with him a number of property owners de termined to rid Okanogan county c' gophers that destroy gardens am farm lands in that section of th State. Five thousand cats are to b< shipped to Washington by April 1. Tt> Have Clean Mouths in Gotham. Albany, N. Y.?By the appointmei: of Dr. H. L. Wheeler, of New Yorl city and Dr. W. A. White, of Phelps as dental consultant and special lec turers on oral hygiene of the New York State board of health, Commis sioner Eugene H. Porter has earned the distinction of being the first State commissioner of health in the United States to take an active part in the crusade for clean mouths and to en list the assistance of members of the dental profession on behalf of the health of the community. Talk About This in August. Washington?Men will . freeze to death on the equator millions of years hence, according to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who forsook the subject of germs in food addressing the secular league here and discussed the ques tion, "Is Man to Ultimately Starve or Freeze?" Dr. Wiley said he believed the earth was slowly cooling and that the peo ple of the distant future must freeze, though he declared for a- "million years at least," humaniti^^nil^no^ from lack of food^HBflBHfl Jam SHOCKING TRAGEDY Three People Murdered and Burned at Durham, N. C. THE DEAD MAN'S WIFE ESCAPED Negro Charged With Three Capital Offenses?Bloody Butcher Knife and Charred Bones Tell Shocking Story ?Taken to Penitentiary. Durham, N. C.?The charred bodies of three persons, known to be those of Miss Mattie Sanders, her father, J. L. Sanders, and his grand-daughter, Irene Overton, are the gruesome evidence of a triple tragedy with complete proof of three capital elements in it Nathan Montague, a negro, is charg ed with the crime. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that Miss Mattie Sanders was as saulted and murdered, that her father was killed and the child of 4 years murdered, all three being burned with the house. The alleged murderer has yet to do his first intelligent thing. He dropped near the well, where four sides are gummed with blood and hair, his knife with which he is believed to have cut the girl's throat. The mo ment it was found it was recognized as the weapon that the brute had the same day when the Overtons were killing hogs. Both the white girl and the negro were there. Mr. Sanders had asked him to come rnursaay ana neip mm 10 juii uuga. The bodies were burned beyond recog nition and the poor girl has only whit ened bones to publish the story of her last fight for her life. In the yard about twenty-five feet from the house stands a rickety well house, open and easy to see, on all sides are hair and blood and on the ground nearby are the footprints of a struggle. Sheriff Wheeler rushed Montague to Raleligh, where he is now in the pen itentiary. . Robbery was perhaps added to a crime of three distinctly capital feat ures. Sanders was moderately com fortable in circumstances, owned his lands and cultivated tobacco. Mrs. Sanders accidental absence saved her life and her grand-daughter of 4 years coming to their home caus ed the loss of hers. There was some quarreling with Sher iff Wheeler for his protection of the prisoner, his indication of direction in traveling having had the effect of dis concerting the mob. Granville court meets in January, when Montague will be tried. TO FURTHER PROTECT FOOD. Representative Mann's Substitute Bill to be Uniform With States. Washington?As a result of a con ference with a delegation of New York and Chicago business men, Rep resentative Mann, of Illinois, chair man of the house committee on in terstate commerce, haB introduced a substitute for his bill amending the pure food law, relating to the brand ing of packages of food, drugs, medi cines and liquors. The substitute, which is designed to serve as a model for uniformity of legislation by the States on the subject, provides that if the net quantity of the contents of the package are not plainly and con spicuously marked on the outside in terms or weigni, measure or numeri cal count, the article will be deemed misbranded. The bill is intended to take effect immediately on passage, but no pen alty will be enforced for any violation as to products prepared prior to 18 months after its passage. Burley Tobacco of 1911 Pooled. Lexington, Ky.?Burley tobacco growers of Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, I diana and Missouri, adopted an agrc ment to pool their 1911 crops. Conventions will be called in each of the States for the purpose of electing delegates to a general meeting here on January 5. More than 100,000 growers, producing in excess of 300,000,000, pounds of tobacco annually, are af fected. The agreement adopted pro vides that no tobacco shall be raised in 1912. Rockfeller Gives College $10,000,000. Chicago.?John D. Rockefeller has completed the task he set for himself In the founding of the University of Chicago. Public announcement has been made of a "single and final gift" of $10,000,000, which includes all the contributions tnat Mr. nocKeieiier naa planned to make to the university. The sum, which is to be paid in ten annual instalments beginning January 1, will make a total of approximately $35,000t000 that Mr. Rockefeller has donated to the university. Is Navy Extravagant? Washington.?The government could save $1,5000,000 if it could have the battleship New York built in a private yard instead of at the New York navy yard, according to testimony of Chief Constructor Watt of the navy, before the House committee on naval affairs. He declared the saving could be used to great advantage in the navy and that there would be a material saving to the government if it would build all its vessels by contract. This is a ser ious charge. Baltimore Segregates Races. Baltimore.?Henceforth no white person may move into a block in Balti more where the majority of the resi dents of that block are negroes, nor a negro move into a block where the majority of the residents are white. This is the mandate laid down in the so-called E. H. West race segregation ordinance, which has been signed by Mayor Mahool. It is expected that the act will be taken to the courts to test its constitutionality. TOTAL AMERICAN CROPS., Final Estimates of Farm Crops of 1910 ( ?Total Farm Value?Corn Takes the Lead. Washington,?Final estimates of t*>e important crops of the country for 1910 announced by the crop re porting hoard of the Department of Agriculture is as follows: Corn, 3,125,713,000 bushels, of weight, from 114,002,000 acres; total farm value $1,523,968,000, or 48.8 cents per bushel. Winter wheat, 464,044,000 bushels, of weight, from 29,427,000 acres; total farm value, $413,375,000, or 89.1 cents per bushel. Spring wheat 231,399,000 bushels of weight, from 19,778,000 acres; total farm value, $207,868,000, or 89.8 cents per bushel. All wheat, 695,443,000 bushels of weight from 49,205,000 acres: total farm value, $621,443,000, or 89.4 cents per bushel. Oats, 1,126,765,000 bushels of weight, from 35,288,000 acres: total farm value, $384,716,000, or 34.1 cents per bushel. Tobacco, 984,349,000 pounds from 1,233,800 acres: total farm value, $91,459,000, or 9.3 cents per pound. Rye, 24,510,000 bushels of weight equivalent to 5,930,000 bags of 186 pounds, from 722,800 acres: total farm value, $16,624,000, or 67.8 cents per bushel. Barley, 162,227,000 . busbels of weight from 7,357,000 acres: total farm value, $93,785,000, or 58.8 cents per bushel. Rice, 33,039,000 bushels In weight from 2,028,000 acres, total farm value, , $23,840,000, or 72.2 cents per bushel. > Buckwheat, 17,239,000 bushels in weight ffom 826,000 acres; total farm value, $11,321,000 or 65.7 cents per bushel. Flax Seed, 14,116,000 bushels in weight, from 2,916,000 acres; total farm value, $32,554,000, or 2.306 cents per bushel. Potatoes, 338,811,000 bushels in weight, from 3,591,000 acres; total farm value, $187,985,000, or 55.5 cents per bushel. Hay, 60,978,000 tons from 45,691, 000 acres; total farm value, $747,796 000, or $12.26 per ton. The total value of crops above speci fied on December 1, was $3,735v464,* 000, against $3,971,426,000. on Decem ber, 1st last year. The average of price was about 8.5 per cent lower on December 1st this year than last year. ' What One Mule Made. Tuscumbia, Ala.?A very striking illustration of what can be done in the farming line in Colbert county, during a "short crop" year with one mule, is shown by L. A. Ford. Seven bales of cotton, weighing 502 pounds each, at 14 cents, $496.96; 7, 000 pounds of cotton seed at $1.25 per hundred, $87.50; a remnant of seed cotton, $37.14; two tons of pea vine hay; $36; 32 gallons of sorghum, $16; 350 bushels of corn at 75 cents, $262.50. Total, $929.60. Hired labor in this croD. S1.50. Net profit, $928.10. "Informers" are Multiplying. Washington?The reward of $100, 000 to Richard Parr for disclosing the frauds practiced on the customs ser vice by the American Sugar Refining Company at its New York docks has so stimulated activities "in the in forming line" that the Treasury De partment has been compelled to ask for a large appropriation for this purpose. In asking for a deficiency appropriation of $90,000 Assistant Secretary Curtis of the Treasury De partment said that it was needed for this purpose.. Pullman Berths Cheaper. Washington.?Tentative approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission has been given to the fixed charge for upper berths in pullman cars at 80 per cent of the charge now paid for lower berths. The new charge is to become ef fective throughout the United States on or before January 20, 1911. Commissioner Lane has announced that the Pullman company had accept ed the conclusions of the commission But who uses Pullman berths. Wanted to Eat $1,000 Chicken. New Orleans.?Unable to resist the temptation to have a high class chicken dinner, a negro who wander ed in where the prize chickens were exhibited in the poultry show just closed here, stole '"Queen Fisheldote," the $1,000 fowl belonging to Julius Fishel. "Ah jist couldn't git away from dat longing to hab dat hen for Christmas dinnah," was the explanation made by the negro for his act. The fancy fowl was delivered to its owner. Young Girl Gets Fortune. Philadelphia.?Through the terms of the will of the late Robert Buist, the wealthy seedsman of this city, Rober ta B. DeJanon, his grandchild, who disappeared from this city with a hotel waiter last December and was found in Chicago, is given in trust tne DU1K 01 nis esiait;, wuiuu its vtuucu at about $500,000. In the event that Miss De Janon shall die without issue the estate is to be turned over to Robert Buist Company. Miss De Janon's mother is dead. Veteran and Newsboy Dead. Norfolk, Va.?William Ashby, known to almost every man, woman and child in Norfolk as "Uncle Billie," a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars and probably the oldest newsboy in Ameri ca, is dead. "Uncle Billie" was more than 85 years of age. Ashby served in a North Carolina regiment during the civil war and for the last 65 years he has been selling papers on the streets of NorffiUL He is known all over the tSTans. He reunions. Ml CLAIMS 300. Second English Mine Wrcck This Year. FIRE BLOCKS ESCAPE OF MEN/ Colliers Die Like Rats in a Trap Crowds of Relatives Gather Around Mouth of Tomb?No Chance of Rescue Seems Possible. Bolton, England.?More thaa three hundred colliers lost thetr lives In an explosion In the little Hulton col liery of the Hulton Colliery Company, T*rV*4/?V? 4a fl Hftlfi difltAIlCe Hilt* I side this city.. The explosion occurred early in the morning, soon after the miners had entered the pit to begin work. Its force was terrific and later investiga tion showed that the lower passages had been blocked. Heroic efforts were made by rescue parties all day long, but a fierce fire which followed the explosion prevented the rescuers from penetrating beyond four hun dred yards into the workings. Inspector Gerrard issued a report after making a descent into the pit, in which he stated that it was impos sible that any of the miners are still alive. He added that nothing could be done except to bring up twenty bodies found lying near the shaft. This report was communicated to the anxious crowds around the pit mouth, atter which the bishop of Manchester conducted a touching service in the open air and the people slowly dis persed. No explanation is given as to the cause of the explosion which com pletely wrecked the mine. This is the second great mine dis aster in England this year, an explo sion having occurred in the Welling ton colliery at White Haven, Cumber land, on May 12, in which 136 miners were killed. The explosion resulted in the temporary disablement of the machinery which operated the cages "RAILROADS PRICKED BY LAW." President Lovett's Testimony Before Railroad Securities Commission. < New York.?Robert S. Lovett, suc cessor to Edward H. Harriman as president of the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific railroads, told the railroad securities commission thai he was heartily in favor of FederaJ supervision of rates both intrastate and interstate, but that personally h? questioned the wisdom or the nece& sity for Federal laws to govern the is sue of railroad securties. As a rail road executive he did not oppose gov ernment regulation of stock issues, but he did insist that if regulation is to come, the authorities charged to enact be vested with full power to en force it. The present status of the railroads, pricked on all sides by a thicket ol conflicting State laws, and had, he said, been a further conflict of State laws and the Federal laws, is a possi bility from which he hoped to be de livered. ( Rates and capitalization, their re lation to each other, and the relation of the public to both of them, were the gist of Judge Lovett's testimony. If it is proposed to make a physi cal valuation of th~ railroads as a basis for limiting rates, he could only say any scheme of appraising prop erty by an attempt to estimate the cost of its production" was exceeding ly mischievous and utterly impracti cable. Counsel Untermeyer, for the Kansas Southern Railway and for the receiv ers of the Seaboard Air Line, recom mended that no railroad be permitted to acquire control of another except by lease or outright purchase. The Standard Oil Case. Raleigh, N. C.?In the hearing in which the Standard Oil company is charged with violating the State anti trust law with lowering prices so as to raise them when competition is de stroyed, the only material evidence was that there is no difference in the value to the consumers of the two dif ferent brands of oil sold at different prices by the Standard Oil company. The Standard Oil declined to put on witnesses. Argument was deferred until December 28. Brave Firemen Die at Post Philadelphia. ? Four firemen are known to be dead, twenty were buried in the ruins, and twelve others are in hospitals as the result of a tire in the leather factory of Freelander & Co., 1116 to 1120 North Bodine street. While the firemen were fighting the flames from the roofs of adjoining dwelling houses the south wall of the big building crashed down on them. At the time there was at least thirty five firemen on these buildings and all were carried down. Fires Work in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, O.?Fire destroyed a block of Cincinnati's manufacturing district. Recapitulation of the loss in life and property shows the' disaster to be larger than any of the estimates placed during the progress olj the con flagration. ' The fiscal count shows tljat three men lost their lives, six wera injured, one perhaps fatally, while tjhe prop erty loss is more than $2,000*000, cov ered by insurance to the qxtent of $1,4000,000. Strange Find in Cold Storage. Montreal, Que.?The findin body of an elderly man pac barrel at a cold storage w here, has furnished. a The body clothed only suit of cotton underwear an g of the ted in a irehouse mystery. in a 1 a pair of woolen socks, evidently Had been placed in the barrel not lolig aft<;r death ; nd before rigor mortis set in. There were no outward njarks of violence and until the body tluws out, which will take 48 hours, the physi cian will he unable to determine . cause of death. KILLED 25 FUN. * V Falling Walls Bury the $rave Fighters. w* FIRE IN STOCK YARDS PLANT. Explosion of Cold Air in Cold Storage Beef Warehouse Causes Walts to Collapse?Fourteen Are Killed at Philadelphia. < : . ^ ' Chicago?Fire Chief James Horan, Assistant William J. Burroughs and twenty-two men were killed under falling walls in a million-dollar fire at the stock yards plant of Morris & Company. Fifteen firemen were seriously in jured, including two captains who may die. Mayor Busse spent ten hours personally directing the search for the body of Chief Horan, who had been a lifelong friend. Insurance men said that the killing of the chief and his men was not due to an ammonia tank explosion as first supposed, but to the expansion of cold air in the beef warehouse due to the heat from the fire. This, it is said, forced the four-story wall to give, way and collapse. The force behind the wall was as strong as though an explosion had occurred. An overhanging wooden canopy fell from the beef house of Morris. & Co., where the fire started, carrying with it tons of red-hot bricks and debris upon two companies of fire men and the chief, crushing them to death and encasing their bodies & a veritable furnace into which comrades were unable to dig for erkl hours. Nearly all those who were not killed outright when the walls fell were roasted to death -? On top of the canopy another group of firemen still played streams of water. Suddenly Lieutenant Jos eph Mackey, leader of the brave band there, felt the wall going and shouted a warning to those beneath. He jumped with his. crew and escaped UCU.U1, UUL LUC IUCU UC1U rr tuc KtauMyj were walled in by the collapsing" bricks. TRAGEDY IN PHILADELPHIA. Walls of Old Factory Fall?Heroism of Firemen. Philadelphia?Fourteen firemen and policemen are known to be dead a&d! more than forty are in hospitals suf fering from injuries from which some will not recover, as the result of the collapse of the walls of the burning five-story factory of David Friedland er, dealer in leather remnants, 'at 1116-1820 Bodine Street. The mass of debris is frozen solid and it may be several days before any" bodies are taken from the ruins. The records of the police and fire department show that 100 firemen,* 60 policemen and 10 police surgeons were engaged in the work of rescu- i ing William Glazier. It took 60 gal- 7 Ions of oxygen, 2 quarts of Jamaica ginger, 3 pints of whiskey, strych nine and other drugs, rubber smoke, 2 rubber tubes, a suction pump, mnnv nirks shovels, axes. SaWS. CrOW bars and other tools and 12 hours of time to bring him out alive. The es cape from instant death of^Qlazier was truly remarkable. He was ginned down by machinery and a heavy beam falling across his fe^t. Coroner Ford, who was early on. the scene, paid an impressive tribute to the courage and devotion to duty of the firemen. "Consider how in tense was the cold," he said, "and yet these men stuck to their posts and worked like heroes to rescue their companions caught in the ruins, j I have never seen a finer thing and never expect to." DRINK PLENTY OF WATER It Flushes the System, Carrying out Impurities and Leaving What Is Beneficial, To say that drinking at least three pints of water a day would make a girl beautiful would be grossest exag geration, but it is perfectly true that such an amount of fluid, taken judi ciously every day, will be a wonderful aid In acquiring or increasing good ^ looks, and it is such a cheap way of improving one's appearance that to ig nore it is a pity. Water, properly taken, flushes the system as a pipe is cleaned by putting down it a large quantity of pure cleans ing liquid at once. And, as with the pipe, impurities are carried out, leav ing only that which is beneficial. In order that the good effect Bhall be gained, two facts are lrnjartant: One is that the liquid shall* not be taken with meals, and the other that * it shall not be of l'cy temperatures. In the former case It dilutes the gastric juices, sometimes causing indigestion, and certainly neutralizing some of the nourishing properties of food; In the latter It stays digestion, and may be ! the cause of severe pain. Many dietitians now agree tnat wa ter should not be taken with meals, and that many cases of Indigestion may be traced directly to the fact that this theory is unheeded. To derive benefit a glassful should be taken at a time, sipping it slowly and not gulp ing in large quantities. Ten minutes for each glass is none too long. The temperature may be cool, but not suffi ciently so to chill the stomach. The first drink is not to be taken sooner than half an hour after a meal, and water Is not to be put into ihe 6tomach later than half an hour before i a meal. Gold is coined in Philadelphia and San Francisco. Not enough of it comes into the Mint at New Orleans to make the coinage cf it there worth while. All three minis make every denomination of silver pieces. The minor coins of base metal, cents ar.d nickels, are all minted in Pi'iiade'phia where nearly 100.000,000 pennies ar6 turned out annually. i Coinage at Various Mints. - Vi'*\