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Oldest Paper in South Carolina. EDGEfTELD, S. C. After ali, sighs ta* Ccmrannsiy 9 usually rains in good tfnti _ i Wild geese fly in the shape of a V ?ven on the restaurant menu, laments the New York Times, i . _____ In order to interest others in your jouarrels, warns the Boston Post, you ernst get busy and fight. <t Says the Baltimore American: The ?rrestment of Nicaragua would have tor its precedent the investment of Criba, without the condition of a de clared purpose to get out at an early date and to haul down the flag. The United States does not want Nicar agua and does not want even tempor. RriQy to take charge of Its affairs, but it wants and will have peace in Cen tral America. lt is a very noticeable fact that nearly every" Denver person who has been abroad has a favorable word to Bay In regard to the proposed Denver j civic centre, declares Denver Muni- j cipa! Facts. The reason is quite evi . -tant. One of the most impressive Kif hts of nearly all the large Euro-, pearn cities is the many beauty, spots in the very heart of the business dis tricts devoted to artistic ornamenta tion. Monuments, fountains, floral de signs, safety stations, etc., and all are maintained in the highest degree of artistic skill. This is especially notice able in Berlin, Paris, London, Venice, Borne, Naples and one might mention every large city in Europe where Jarid values are computed by the square foot instead of front foot, whole blocks are given over for civic beauty. In London, said io be < he most congested city in the world, where land in the busiest business centres bas inestimable value, you will find in numerable small parks affording a breathing place for the thousands of tho middle and poorer classes, who for many hours are cooped up on stuf fy tenements or factories, find refresh ing relief and rest in one of these civ ic centre spots. Very sensible and appealing is the platform put forth by the New York wemen in -their first "political conven tion." Very sensible, too, and even more appealing, comments the Chica go Post, were Mrs. Clarence Mackays . efforts to interpret the woman suf frage movement She made it quite -clear that the New York suffragists ?re very far from agreeing with their Iowa sisters as to the wisdom of mili tant tactics. They believe In conver sion in New York, not in "violence or antagonism." We fancy that Mrs. Mac lay's speech will not escape a certain amount of silent criticism within the woman suffrage movement. There are suffragists who have followed much longer than Mrs. Mackay who would find it hard to put their faith in such dispassionate objective terms. For business women and for working wo men, it is a fight for rights, and Mrs. Kackay's serene philosophy will hard ly suit these hard-pressed campaign ers. But for all that the Now York convention has probably taken the Tery hest possible position for a New "York campaign, and Mrs. Mackay's ad 1 dress, with its emphasis upon the humanitarian rather than the militant aspect of the suffrage movement, will doubtless be widely and effectively circulated. ' A writer in Success Magazine says: Hie bull fight of Spain is doomed. It is not proposed to abolish it by law because such au enactment might canse a revolution, but restrictions aro being Imposed, and a new law tor ' lads introducing into the ring for the second time a bull which has once Ulled or injured a matador. Bull fighting has come to be a dangerous trade, and since it is manifestly im possible to prescribe rules of etiquette for a bull while he is being slaught cre?, it is evident that the "noble apcrf has reached the beginning of tb* rind. Anyway, if we are to believe a irriter who describes the sport in a Paris magazine, bull fighting is not what, it was in the good old days. The -profession of sticking rapiers into ?wild bulls is sadly degenerating, the Hue traditions of the past are vanish ing. Formerly bull fighters had a pride in their work; they were mir acles of dexterity, they were "Napo- J leons of tauromachy." Now every vil lage lad thinks he is a mute, inglori ous todeador and the lal alines are becoming more numerous than on ?the Spanish railways. We' suggest to our Spanish neighbors, if they must have bull fights, that the animal have his front legs tied together and his horns covered with plush, while the mata dor be armed with a gatling gun and ? ruse of nitro-glycerine. With proper precaution bull I guting may be made .? safe and pleasant diversion for .coring and old. Considering the recent torrid nre_?her and fierce winds it became a problem to the Philadelphia Ledger, ?wacher the comet's tail was melted ?2 or blown away. IN OLD SOUTH CAROLINA Cream of the News Gathered From AU Sections of the Commonwealth For Our Many Readers. Results Fattening Beef Cattle. What can be done in this State or in the Southern States generally on the raising of stock is shown by the actual results obtained last year on the Taylor farm, near Columbia. The results were explained by Mr. B. F. Taylor at the recent session of the South Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers' Association, at Wrights ville Beach, N. C. "During the past reason," said Mr. Taylor,' "we purchased 363 head of first and second grade steers from Western North Carolina and fattened them. The results were: Cattle purchased, 363 head $11,280.62 Feed used 147.5 tons meal. 512.6 tons ibuils.. .... 6.000.40 Total cost...$17,291.11 Cattle sold, 362 head.. ..$18,557.50; Hide sold.... 19.61 Total selling price .. ..$18,577.11 .. ' ' The net profit was, therefore, $1, 295, or $3.58 per head. One cattle died. The weight of the eartle when purchased was 293.532. and the sell ing weight was 337,845 pounds." Mr. Taylor continued: "From these cattle we get 2,252 tons of manure, which is worth by the Clemson an alysis $3.54 per ton. The average weight of these castle at times pur chased was 808 pounds. The aver age weight of the cattle when sold during the season was 933 pounds." A Question of Boundary. There is considerable discussion at Aiken of the shooting of Arthur Grubbs on the North Augusta bridge Wednesday afternoon by a policeman.' It appears that it is not entirely clear as to whether the shooting oc curred on the Georgia or the South Carolina side. If the shooting was on the Caro lina side it would offer considerable complications, as a Georgia officer would have no authority to come into Carolina to make an arrest. While Georgia has usually claim i ed her boundary as extending to the Carolina edge of the river,,th? South Carolina statutes define the boundary as being the middle of the stream. As high and low water make several feet difference in the centre of the stream, it is likely that some ques tion may arise as to the boundary. It is contended that the affair occur red, a few feet on the Georgia side. Lady's Sad Tragedy. Mrs. Emmie Lillian Jennings, aged 37 years, the wife of Marion B. Jennings, a prominent lawyer of Spartanburg, committed suicide Thursday morning by shooting herself through the head with a .38 calibre pistol. [ Mrs. Jennings fired two shots. The first took effect in the ceiling; the , second entered he" head, an inch above the right eur, causing instant death. Ill health is assigned as the cause of the act. Mi's. Jennings, before her second marriage, was Mrs. Beard, widow of the late E. B. Beard of Torkville. Mr. Jennings, the husband of the deceased, is a son of the State treas urer, R. H. Jennings. Woman Fell From Window. Mrs. Mims, mother of Mrs. D. N. Barrow, fell from the second story window of Prof. Barrow's residence Thursday at Clemson College and was seriously hurt. Mrs. Mims' home is near Fort Worth, Texas. Knights Going to Chicago. South Carolina Commandcry, No. 1, Knights Templar, will be repre sented in common with the several other comraanderies of the State at the triennial conclave of the order at Chicago on August 8 and 13, which promises to be one of the largest attended and most successful of these gatherings in the history of the or der. Discuss Inland Waterways. Before a goodly number of George town's representative business men. Congressmen Moore, cf Pennsylvania, and Small, of North Carolina, dis cussed forcefully and ably the great project of the opening up of tbe in land system of waterways, which it is feasible to do from Maine to the lower coast of Florida, if a. strone united effort is made by the people of the Atlantic States to secure this great advantage for the coastwise trade whereby millions upon millions of dollars would be saved to com merce freon the destruction and Jim ijers of the outside passage. C. and N. Shops Destroyed at Chester. PVre that started from an un known origin at 3 o'clock Friday morning totally destroyed the shops, of the Carolina & Northwestern Railway, located at Chester, S. C. Besides the buildings and contents two engines and a passenger coach thai were practically ready for the Hoad were burned up. The loss is estimated to reach more' than $100.000 and the insur ance will but partially cover the loss. National Bank Organized. A national bank for Waltorboro has been organized, officers elected ard plans made lor the building. While the organization is only a tentative orie, vending the formal peimissicn from thc secretary of the trc xsury, this will be forthcoming in a diy or two, when the tentative or ganization will be made per nanent. The caciial stock of tli2.new bank is . $25,000, -md it will oe styled the j First National bank c f Waltorboro. INTERESTING STATE NEWS Column of Curren!; Events Caught in Every County From Coast to Mountain Cap. j Candidate for Governor is Sued. A suit to recover $99.50, -which he alleges is due him for services, has been brought against John T. Dun can, publisher of The Reporter, Col umbia, by S. L. Fedder, at one time business manager of that paper. S. L. Fedder, in his affidavit, al leges that the sum of $105.20, less a credit of $5.50, is due him for three weeks' service as manager of The Reporter from June 9 to June .29, inclusive. A portion o? the affidavit reads as follows: "Said contract for services was fradulent, contracted with de ponent, by said John T. Duncan, in that deponent was in the city of Oil City, Pa., and the said John T. Duncan represented to him that he owned $100,000 worth of porperty and was fully able to pay him for said services, and, upon said misrep resentation, deponent was put to a lot of expense in coming to Columbia to render said service." The affidavit continues that the plaintiff, S. L. Fedder, is afraid that he will lase all chance of recovering the alleged debt for services if he waits 21 days before trial, as requir ed by Vvw when a suit is brought |for j an amount over $25, since he has been .informed that the defendant, John T. Duncan, intends to dispose of his property. He therefore asks that the suit be tried five days, after the sum mons and complaint is, served on the defendant. Southern Begins Motor Car Service. Electric motor ear service without the use of trolley wires or the third rail attachment is now being given on the line of the Southern railway and the Blue Ridge railyaw between Greenville and Anderson the inter mediate territory being perhaps the most thickly ^settled milling section in the south, including the important points, Piedmont, Pfizer, Willamston, and Belton. Only one motor car is now operated and two round trips a day are made. Though a large number of stops are made the car has no trouble in making the schedule. .The car is run by electricity g?n ?r?t? d by a gasoline engine. The powerful machinery is compactly placed in the forward end. It is easily manipulated and thc* car is handled with perfect ease. The greatest interest is felt throughout this section in the motor car and it is crowded every trip. The first day it was greeted by great crowds at every station. At one place a citizen was so anxious to get a view that he left the barber's chair, running to the station with his face covered with lather. The new service is in addition to the steam trains run between Green ville and Anderson and is expected to prove a great convenience. The operation of these cars, the first of their kind in the South, will be. watched with great interest. Fanners' Meeting in Upcountry. Farmers throughout the upper section of the State are preparing for a three-days' gathering at Chick Spiings, in Greenvill? county, during the last few days of August or the ' first of September, the date not hav ing been definitely decided so far.. Plans are being brought to maturity which will make the meeting a most interresting one from the farmers' standpoint, and a number of well known speakers and workers in the agricultural line will bc on hand to make addresses. 1 "Gun License Tax" Wanted. The education eoininitee of the State Farmers' Union commended the work of the Audubon Society and advocated a "gun license tax." Big Fire Loss of ' a Farmer Five mules, one mare and two cews, together with a large quanity of oats, corn, cotton seed meal and hulls, we:-e burned in a fire which destroyed the large barn and stables of Hemy Z. Adams, a progressive and sue cessful planter living seventeen miles from Lexington court house at 3 a. ra. Saturday. _ Tile Drainage the Thin?. One of the questions most dis cussed in the State, especially iii the coast counties, is that of tile drainage. The indications now a::e that several tile factories will he erected in the State during the next several months. The idea of tile drainage is being enthusiastically supported by the farmers and business n:c>n of the coast counties and plans are being per fected whereby many acres will he drained during the coming year. A. G. Smith of the United States office of farm management who is, stationed in this State, is an expert on tile drainage. Aiken Colored Men Want Fair. The colored people of Aiken county are trying to organize a col ored fair asociation, for the purpose of holding an annual fair in Aiken each fall. A meeting of the colored people of the county has been call ed for August S. at which it is ex pected the associa!ion will be fo^r.cid and sufficient capital raised. The white fair association has con sented to thc use of their grounds for a fair. Farmers' Union Progressive. Resolutions indorsing various lines of work for the betterment of the agricultural class of the State were pressed at the session of the Sta:e Farmers' Union. The Stale union placed itself c-n record as favoring thc drainage of the lowland of thc State, che erection of cot!on warehouses, the Torrens sys tem pf land registration, the Audubon society, the restriction of undesirable immigrants, the corn expostion and the placing of standard grades of cotton at tie various county seats of the State. TO Scheme to Keep in Ware houses Until Needed. SELL ALL THROUGH THE YEAR. Farmers Would Not be Forced to Sell All in the Fall-Plan of Daniel J. Sully and Others. Boston, Special.-Having for its purpose revolutionizinng the cotton industry of the United States, a con ference was held Friday at the home of J. H. Hammond at Glouces ter, at which there were present besides Mr. Hammond, Daniel J. Sul ly, the New York cotton operator and Scott Dalgleish of Cario, Egypt, the representative of the Hirsch syndicate of London. Briefly the idea is to establish warehouses in all parts of tho cotton producing districts of this country as well as in the manufacturing centers for storing the cotton crop, so that instead of selling it from hand-to mouth as has been the practice here tofore, it will be marketed through the entire year when desirable. It is believed that economics will be effected in the marketing pf cotton which will result in a saving of not less than fifty million dollars an nually. Natural Wealth Must he Known. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-A new pjan for advancing the development of the South's resources was originat ed by the executive officers of the Southern Commercial Congress, who met here Friday. On October 7 next over 150 of the representative business men of 16 Southern States will meet here to devise means of advertising the natural wealth of the South and of disseminating among business men, farmers and merchant.-? of "this section data on the best methods of developing the South's resources. Sentences Drunkards to Liquor Cure. ' Columbia, Special,-The first batch of those who may be able to "go forth and sin no more" was given tre?tment at the city's liquor cure establishment Saturday. It is said that a man may graduate in a week from this school for inebriates. The men starting on this unique treatment have been up in the Re corder's Court on the charge of drunkenness several times each and are desiring to climb up on the water wagon. Before entering upon this treatment thc men were given a talk by Mayor Gibbes and the doctor in charge. The ' experiment now being made (by Columbia, -is watched wifh interest througbt the country. How Old is Earth?. Washington, D. C., Special-Old Mother Earth, like feminity, through all time, but with far greater suc cess than most of her sex, has defied man to learn her age. Scientists still admit their defeat. Their latest esti mate credits her with "not above 70,000,000 years or below 55,000,000 years." Baby Born as in Primitive Days. Alameda, Cal., Special.-Carrying out her principles to their utmost extent, Mrs. Boynton, exponent of the near to nature life, seeker of tho aesthetic, advocate of Isadora Dun can, the dancer, and who is well known by her espousal of the cause of'open-air schools, gave birth to a son in a sunlit-, leafy arbor Satur day, the latest arrival being the sixth addition to the family. . The arbor had been prepared for the occasion. The babv's eves opened first on trees and sunshine. The first sound to strike its ears was the sing ing* of the birds. $125,000 For Mrs. Longworth. Boston, Special.-An inventory of the estate of George Cabot Lee, of Newton, who died March 21, shows it to be valued at $1,062,821. of which $L569,821 is personal and $93,000 real. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who is a gran da ugh ter of Mr. Lee, receives one-twelfth of the property. National Cotton Ginners* Report. Memphis, Tenn., Special.-The re port of the National Ginners' Asso ciation issued here Friday, indicates a condition of 72.8 per cent for cot ton up to July 25th. This, the report says, with an aver age weather condition, would seem to indicate a yield . from 11,000,000 to 11,500,000, bales. j The report by States follows: Alabama, 67; Arkansas, 70; Flor ida, 72; Georgia, G7; Louisiana, f)4.: Mississippi, GS; North Carolina, 73; Oklahoma, S3; South Carolina, 68; Tennessee, 75; Texas, 78; Average, 72.9._ Two Wagon Loads of Money. Chicago, Special.-Twenty-five mil lion dollars of gold, si'J.'cr and green backs, as Well as if!J3.000,0'J() in secu rities, will be moved Saturday from Continental bank to the Commercial national. The transfer will necessi tate the use of scores of policemen and private guards. Two wagons will be used to haul t'ie money. The two banks have Leen merged and on Au gust 1, tlie new Continental and Com mercial National bank will begin bus iness. Boy Bandits S irca.I Terror. New York, Sp?cial.-Two bandits., the elder 14 ye;.rs old and thu young est 12 years dd, wen caught by detectives Sunday, their pockets bulg ing with revolvers, skeleton lci-ys and burglars' tols. ar (lr mouth of a caye in Yan Courtlandt . 'ark, which they had stuffed with he plunder of the neighborhood. O-e. of the houses robbed wns that of-John Gui teau, a brother of the assassin of? President Garfield. Thf- boys are the s( ns of responsible men of substance. DR. CRIPPENJS CAUGHT, Ethel Loneave, His Stenographer, Dressed in Boy's Clothes. Father Point, Que., Special.-Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen and Ethel Clare Leneve, his stenographer, who fled from London after the disap paarance of Belle Elmore, the doc tor's wife, were arrested herc Sunday aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Montrose at the command of Inspec tor Dew of Scotland Yard. The identification of the long sought fugitives on board the fog shrouded steamer by the English de tective, who had raced across the Atlantic ahead of the Montrose, marked the culmination of one of the most sensational flight in recent criminal annals. Crippen broken, in spirit, but mentally relieved by the relaxed tension; the girl, garbed in boys clothes, sobbing hysterically. They were not long the Rev. John Robinson and son as. booked from Antwerp on July,20. Crippen is charged with the murder of an unknown woman, believed to have been his acress wife. The girl is held as au accessory. In charge of Inspector Dew they will be taken back to England for trial on the Roy al line steamship Royal George, leav ing Queoec on Thursday next. Alma Kellner's Murderer Caught. San Francisco, Cal., Special.-Jos eph Wendling, wanted in Louisville, Ky., in connection with the murder of eight-year-old Alma Kellner, was taken into custody Saturday. He has admitted his identity. Wendling was captured in a Third Street lodging house by Detectives Ryan and Burke, of the local depart ment. He made no resistance and ad mitted to the officers on the way to the city prison that he was Wendling. Wendling denied any connection svith th/e murder of the girl in his talk with the district attorney and police. He described his wanderings since leaving Louisville, saying he went to New Orleans, thence to Texas, and finally to Vallejo, where Carney found his trail. The capture was due to a tip given the detectives by a note from, some unknown per son. The note stated that Wendling would bo found at 341 Third Street. Adjoining this was a lodging house it 345 Third Street. A watch was maintained about tlie place, however, md the d?crives determined to search the house. Wendling was found bid ing under thc sink in the kitchen. He lenied that he was the man, but the nark of the bullet wound in the hand, received while he was in the French army, was discovered, and investiga tions disclosed the ship tattooed on iis body. When the officers spoke of these Wendling broke down and ad mitted his identity._ Surrendered to White Woman. Eatonton, Ga., Special.-Foiled in m attempt to s?t free all the pris >ners in Putnam county jail here, {Viii Ingram, negro, alleged to be a jurglar, Saturday overpowered Dep lty Sheriff Ingram Phillips, broke 'brough-a cordon of citizens, receiv ;d bullet in his arm and fled with several hundred persons behind him liing shotguns and pistols. He was pursued into a residence ;ection of the city and fearing cap ;ure and possible death, surrendered o a white woman, throwing his pis ol. which he had taken from the leputy sheriff, at her feet. TJie wo nan stood in front of him as the :rowd of pursuers advanced and beg red for thc negroc's life so effec ;nally that he was returned to jail vithout further harm._ "Oh, You Horrid Men." Concord. X. H., Special.-Attorney Jeneral Eastman has advised the secretary of stale that thc latter has io l?sai right to place thc nam.' of Vrrs. Martilla M. Richer of Dover, iud Washington. I). C.', upon the >fficial ballot to bc used at the pri nary election in this State September 5, as candidate for the Republican ?omination for governor. Monument to Southern Slaves. New Orleans, La., Special.-An ap ical to erect a monument to the 'ormcr slaves of the South has been ssued here from the headquarters >f the United Confederate veterans ;y Gen. George W. Gordon, command :r-in-chief of the veterans. The appeal is in the form of a gen ial order. $500,000 Robber Arrestad. New York, N. Y.T Special. Y frail little man with errev cheeks md hollow eyes in whose manner and iresence there was nothing to stie rest that single-handed he had coolly if ted $500,000- in bonds and stocks :rom the strong box in a bank, was irrested Friday in a down-town res aurant, not five minutes' walk from he bank he had robbed. He was irwin Wider, the?missing cashier of he Russo-Chinosa bank. In the court )f general sessions his lawyer, Leon ?insberg, said that he would plead ruilty and he was commit!ed to the iombs in default of $25,000 bail. Love Rules. New York, Special.-Having mar ried a show girl. Bessie Yan Ness, of ':e "'Beauly Spot." against the vishes of his millionaire father, fecrge Mulligan, Jr., has finally irokcn with his father, his sister and in inheritance of $2,000,000. He has rone to Detroit ti? work in an auto nobile factory and to demonstrate liai "1 am quito capable of supperi ng ruy own wife," and that, al hough "money is desirable, love ? the only tiling which I want." 2,150,000.000 Bacteria in One Egg. Pittsburg,,Pa., Special.-A Federal bod inspector maced with legal lapcrs and a clothespin clapped (?vcr lis nose Saturday i:'i:.cd 125 cans of icbrnska eggs which were marked 'canned taney mixed and frozen)''' md yet "guaranteed pur" and fresh." \n analysis by chemists of th J De part nenl of Agriculture in Washiriff on is declared to have disclosed ibont 2,l?0,000t000 bacteria in a ingle ounce of the canned product. ?0,000,000 of which were of gas iroducing species. , LEE MM STANDS President of United States De clares Virginia's Right. SOUTH'S HEROIN HALL OF FAME. General Robert E. Lse, the Immortal Leader of the Confederate Soldiers, Will Be Forever Honored. Beverly, Mass., Special.-President Taft bas approved without comment au opinion by Attorney General Wickersbam tu the effect that there is no provision of law by which tie statue of General Robert E. Lee, in Confederate uniform can be removed from Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington. In addition to deciding the ques tion on a purely legal basis Mr. Wick ersbam argues the matter from an ethical point of view, declaring that Lee has come to be regarded as typifying all that was best in the cause to which he gave his services and the most loyal and unmurmuring acceptance of the complete overthrow of that cause. That the^ State of Virginia should designate him for a p!n?.ce in Statuary Hall as one illus trious for distinguished military ser vice, the Attorney General declares, io but natural and warranted under the reading of the law. Mr. Wiskersham's opinion was call ed forth by protests to the President from the Department of New York, Grand Army of the Republic. \ Bloody Race Riot in Texas. Houston, Special.-Special din patches from Palestine Saturday re port serious raes riots at Slocum, An derson county, a town fifteen miks south of Palestine. Saturday nigh;. Latest advices state that twenty negroes were killed and three/ white i?r;n badly wounded. The trouble seems to have been precipitated in a controversy over a note a man named Alford had indor sed for a negro. The negro, when questioned aa to the reason why he had not paid the note, cursed Alford, and said no white man could "do him." Fighting between them began at once, and others being drawn into the affair, . the troble continued throughout Friday night. Troops have been ordered to the scene. Spain and the Vatican Quarreling. Rome, By Cable.-Notwithstanding the extremely drained relations be tween thc Vactican and the Spanish government, the recall of Marquis de Ojcda; the Spanish ambassador to the Vatican, has prodaiced a grez.t sensation in Rome. The Vatican, in, a semi-official communication, says that the recall of the r.mbassador proves that the program of Premier Canalejas was not arranged with the hope of accord, but with a desire for fight and, the communication adds, he will have it. Since the negotiations with the Holy See with reference to religious congregations began, thejiremier has taken the following steps antagon istic to the Vatican. The hope of the Vatican is that Ebn Jaime, tho .Carlist prtender, who has threatened a revolution, will raise the Carlist flag and vindi cate Roman Catholicism. First, the issuance of an uncon stitutional decrees, favoring non Catholic creeds, thus violating th2 Concordat with the Holy See; sec ond, the reproduction of thc deere? of 1902 against the congregations, iwhich was never in forr-c; third, tho preparation of the speech from the throne, which contained hostile and threatening expressions against tho Church; fourth, the projected bill prohibiting the institution of relig ious houses. Dead Bodies in Depot for Year. Italy, Tex., Special.-A large square box which was unloaded here by mistake more than a year ago. and had been stored ever since ir.' the freight house, was opened by thc station agent Saturday and found to contain the mummified bodies of i. women and child. It is thought that they may be the victims in a murder mystery. No More Telegraph Franks. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Woe begone expressions adorn the countenances of many Atlantans and .these ex pressions plainly read "victims of re form." The downcast army is com posed of those citizens who have for years enjoyed the privilege of "dead heading" their telegraph message; to relatives and friends and the cause of their woe was a brief no tice from thc telegraph companies to the effect that Uncle Sam. under the amendment to the Hepburn Act. would bury telegraph franks in the same grave with the "late" raU road free pases. Train Leaps Tbrmr.?h Burned Tr^tle. August, Ga., Special.-Passenger train No. 2. cn ?he Spartanburs; di vision of the Charleston and West er:: Carolina, due lo arrive in Augus to from Spartanburg ;>t 0:15 p. m.. ran iuto a burning trestle Sunda') a'?oul a mile and a half from Wood lawn, resulting in rlie total destruc tion of thc rtain, Mic death of Engi neer Hank Taylor and Fireman Dun bar, colored, ci'Ans: ?sta. and slight injury of si vt cen passengers. Pinchot Fossibie Candidate. Nev.- York. Special.-Gifford i'in .ii?t. former chii L* forester under The odore Roosevelt, l as taken a place on rho list of possible candidates for the Republican nomination for-Gover nor ol' New Ynrk an 1 Theodore Roosevelt was asked to snpnort his candidacy. Although the ex-president is care fully suppressing everything which in any way resembles an outspoken declaration in favor of any candidate, he showed great interest in this latest boom, and it is believed that he docs not look, unkindly on it. THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLE The Heart of Happenings Carvoc From the Whole Country. A bill appropriating $10,00 for th/ eradication of black rot in cotton, was passed by the Georgia House oi Representatives. It is the purpose of the government to establish postal savings banks ai various points throughout the cou? try on October 1. Chicago is now connected with St. Louis and other Mississippi river ports by a continuous water course, deep enough for barges. County Supt. 'Charles E. Telkiaa ton says that^race suicide is respon sible for the closing of four schools io Bartholomew County, Ind. Julius Neuman, a Brooklyn inveiv tor, was arrested in New York by Anthony Comstock for sending scur rilous post cards to Commissioner of Patents Edward B. Moore. The quarterly statement of the United fitstes "Steel Corporation foi "the three months ending June 30 last, shows total earnings of $40,170,960. With an agreement that the men shall do a& the cooking' and house hold work, the wives of a number of ministers of Wilkesbarre, PK , went into camp with ?them at 'Harveys Lake. Henry Male, of Davis, W. Va., who entered the employ of the pulp mill at Davis in 1892, receiving $1.30 a day, has been appointed superinten dent of the plant, effective August 1, and is to' receive $5,000 a year. He has been filling the position of assistant superintendent. A bill recently approved by Gover nor Hughes is discouraging mashers. Two 3'oung men charged with follow ing Mrs. Alice Tackaherry from a subway station to her home in Har lem and annoying her were sent to the workhouse for 30 days each by Magistrate Appleton. Under the nov law they were not given the alterna tive of a fine, and will have to serve the time on Blackwell's Island. At Nashville, Tenn., Lillie Sawyer, colored, was stabbed in the heart by another colored woman, and seven stitches were takeu in that organ She was doini well until pneumonia set in in her lungs. She died. Mrs. Russell Sage has developed into an aeroplane enthusiast. She has no intention of making a flight herself, but she is anxious to do all in her power to help the develop ment of aviation and she wants par ticularly to see that women has a' part in the work. Property on Michigan boulevard, Chicago, sold for $14,000 a front foot Saturday. The lot, 82 by 171 feet, at 189 to 192.Michigan boulevard, was sold by the Leander J. McCormick estate for $1,148,000, a profit of ' $698,000 in seven years. . Laura Jean Libbey, the .pro??f?e writer of love stories, announces that she will appear on the stage in a little ? play written by herself. If it suc ceeds she will star. After eating a cone of ice cream bought from a street peddler Katie Kaviack, 3 yeais old, of Passaic, N.-, J., was seized with cramps and died' within an hour at the hospital. Aprora, Ul., residents are ordered by the health department to take a bath'-once a week. The order is con tained in a Hst of rules and resrula tions issued by the health officer. . Commissioner Driscoll, of the New York bureau of weights and. measures, startled the bankers and grocers of the city by announcing that under the new ordinance governing the sale of food commodities in New Yorfc, eggs and bread will have to be sold by weight. Oklahoma City, to which Governor Haskell moved the capital of Okla homa from Guthrie without Federal authority, has had the remarkable growth cf almost 5i0 per cent, in ten years, according to figures enu merated in the thirteenth census.) Henry noofen. a prominent drug girt of Rochester, N. Y., who was in the last stages of tuberculosis a year ago. and who has been treating him self with rattlesnake venom, bas been pronounced cured by the same phy sician who examined him two vcaps ago and told him that he could net ?live. Hoof en has suffered 21 severe - hemorrhages and was weak 'and eraanciated. 1/ Declaring that there is truth in thc ? assertion that the drinking habit of some husbands was due in a large measure to the poor cooking of theil wives, Ella A. Poole, Ph. D., of New York, suggests as a remedy the in- * dustrial training of young girls in the public schools. Having driven a team of Angora goats a distance of more than 4.000 miles as the result of a wager, Capt. ^ V. Edwards, a ranch owner of San Diego. Cal., has arrived at Washing ton. D. C.. from San Diego. With Captain Edwards are six young men and a pack team of three Mexican burros, hitched to a canvas-covered wagon. East Clevela. I appraisers have ap plied a valuation of $1,060,000 on John D. Rockefeller's Forest Hill es tate. This is ^an increase of 300 per cent over the last appraisal when the valuation was fixed at $250.000. Notwithstanding that . between 300 and 400 ears of peaches rotted cn the growers' hands because of the , lack of a sufficient supply of re frigerator cars, Georgia's crop of peaches this year exceeds the record crop of 1908 by .about 300 cars. Last year 6,000 cars were marketed. . Relatives of Mrs. Ida A. Flagler, former wife of Henry- M. Flagler, have applied to Supreme Court Jus tice Bischoff, cf New York, for an in crease in the $4.500 allowance mkde to th rm several years ago by order of the Court. Mr<. Fla?lcr, who is in au insane asylum, ?as an estate of more thou $2.000,000. lier income w constantly increasing, and as is her need, tho relatives assert. Flagler divorced his wile after the Florida Legislature passed an act making in curable insanity a cause for divorce. After his divorce Mr. Flagler re married.