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Oldest Paper in Sou'h Carolina. EDGEFIELD. S. O Way is a housefly, anyhow? The merciful man ls now very mer ciful to his.beast We know of some cats that never tail io come back, ?The Moros seem to be less dan serons than ice cream cones. There are 130,000 foreign walters tn London, all with palms extended. How aeronauts have cities at their mercy in mimic warfare is becoming ' ?mazing. With a new record every day it seems there is no limit to the powers of aa-aeroplane. The Chicago woman whose ear was bitten off by her husband, probably didn't feed him enough. There is a very bad $2 bill in circu lation. Insist on getting your change in twenties and fifties. A Kansas judge rules that lt Is the duty of F-?est?ians to dodge automo , biles. Also the necessity. Few horses are wearing bonnets this season, probably because bonnets are absolutely out of style. If you can't swim stay near the shore. If you can swim be satisfied to tell your friends about it. Two Fhiladelphians have lost their lives running for trains. Such unusual baste was sure to be fatal in Philadel phia. Just bottle up your weather grouch and strike a temperature average for the,year on the Slst day of next De cember. It may soon be possible to telephone to England from the United States. Very well, but how about getting mon ey that way? Still there ls an abiding of optimis ' tic faith that it will prove easier to dodge an aeroplane than an automo bile or motorcycle. It would seem that more people are giving their lives to the perfection of tbe aeroplane than to any former scientific achievement In twenty-seven years the Kimber ley diamond mines haye yielded $420, 000,000 worth of diamonds. Still our western cornfields do a lot better than that The man who is earning bis own liv ing in these days, however mildly he may be going about it, is truly enough earning bis bread by tbe sweat of bis brow. j timorous males who are frightened at the . way women are invading men's occupations should take heart at the success some achieve in trimming Stats. Going down to the sea in ships was the ancient idea of peril. But it was common place safety beside going up in the air in the most modern style of ships. Ten or fifteen deaths among the comparatively few aeronauts and avia tors in the last few months are not only depleting their ranks but showing vp air flights as mighty dangerous pas ti ming. In'printing the new passenger tick ets to be used on airship lines care should be taken to have it specified that stop-over privileges may be had when necessary without the signature of tho conductor, ' Counterfeit buttermilk ls being sold ?in some of the drug stores in the east, and the health authorities say 'it is very dangerous. Will it never be pos sible to get a good thing that the coun terfeiters can't counterfeit? Farmers after experiment report that the cows yiel4 their milk better when the phonograph is kept going in tbe barn at milking time. This seems to offer a grand scheme of relief in the form of moving all. the phono graphs to all the cow barns. The oil-burning torpedo boat de stroyer Roe reached a speed of 31 knots an hour in a test off the Dela ware breakwater, although the con tract requirement was only 28 knots, and is now acknowledged to be the fastest* exclusively oil-burning torpedo boat destroyer in the United States navy. The American shipbuilder has the reputation of cultivating a margin of safety,, and turning out boats which exceed the maximum requirements of contracts. When the automobile collides with the locomotive it is seldom that the' latter has to go to the repair shop. The work of a contributing editor ls sometimes made difficult by the friends who insist on coming around during office hours to talk politics and tell bunting stories. Having all the news about tbe bot spell that was fit to print and some that was not news, lt seems that we might have a litio cool weather for variety in tbe news columns. After planning your Christmas shop ping better figure on bow sanely yon are going to spend the next fourth. The prize cow at the Missouri agri cultural college produces 110 pounds of milk a day. But with our cook on the job, there wouldn't be a half ounce of cream in it If tbe analysis of koky-poky is cor rect we are unable to understand how tbe files that gather upon the cones manage to stay so long without seem* Ins to be overcome. TALKS lil NEGROES Cot. Roosevelt Addresses the Negro National League. y -* ONLY BUSINESS ORGANIZATION. . 'The White Man of the South the Ne gro's Friend and Helper"-North ern Whites Should Not Meddle. New York, Special.-Colonel Roose velt, former President of the United States, speaking before 1,100 dele gates to the National Negro Business League, who cheered him and pledg ed him the support of the negro electorate for a possible third term, counseled his hearers to . make the most of their opportunities. "The white man of the South." said Mr. Roosevelt, "is the vital man to have sympthy with the negro; When your neighbor likes and re spects you, you have won your battle. The white man of the North does his worst work in interceding between the two peoples of the South and his best work when he improves their relations. "I would not slur over the injustice which good colored men are treated, but I feel that the really substantial way of conquering injustice is to train your people so that the white man will, willy nilly, recognize in his colored neighbor a desirable' neigh bor. Every down-at-the-heel, ram shakle negro cabin is not only bad for the people who live in it, but is a reflection on the race. "The man who lives a ne'er-do-well life of idleness in doing not only ill to himself but to his people. I be lieve in this League. As I wrote five years ago, when I was President, I be lieve in it because it is out of politics. You also stimulate among your peo ple principles of business enterprises. That is well. You recognize that you should build a firm foundation before you can erect your superstructure. "In Mombasa we were shown muchi courtesy hy an American colored man who was serving there as a doc tor. At a government experiment sta tion, I found a Jamaican negro in charge. An abyss of nearly 10,000 years seemed to separate these two men from the naked savages I had seen-yet the abyss was( not more than two hundred years. In your advance there have been haltings and shortcomings, shortcomings on the part of the whites a's well as on your part. Nevertheless, there has been progress. "It takes some time to make a re former think that an outlook is not or e of unalloyed gloom. You some times see a reformer who thinks if he will be set down as a hopeless reac tionary. "You colored men and women must set your faces like flint against those who would preach to you only the gospel of hate, envy and bitterness. Realize that the only) way to help your race is not by preaching vindict iveness and hatred, but hy leading your people up to prosperity through good citizenship." -?-: R. F. D. Carriers Notaries Public. Washington, D. C., Special-The creation of an army of 40,000 notar ies publie is authorized by the Post office Department, in accordance with the legislation enacted during the past session of Congress. All car riers of the rural delivery mails ser vice are now required by the Depart ment to execute vouchers for United States pensioners, residing on their routes, for which service they are to receive 25c. for each voucher ex ecuted. The establishment of the rural free delivery service resulted in the discontinuance of 23,550 fourth class post offices, the postmasters of which had been authorized to exeeu cute pension vouchers. Senate Passes $6,500,000 Measure, j Baton Rouge, La., Special.-The Senate has passed the special tax and bond issue providing $6,500,000 for the Panama Exposition Company of New Orleans. The bill now goes to the Louse where assurances have been given of its passage next Fri day. With popular subscriptions in New Orleans this will give the pro moters of the expos1 lon considerably more than the $7,500,000 recommend ed by Congress. ^ Terrible and Revolting Death. . Lancaster, Pa., Spacial.-Scott Ha maker, snprsintendent of the Sus q?ehana Iron & Steel Co., met a horrible death in the mill at Columbia Thursday. The protruding key of a knuckle on a belt caught -the tail of his coat and he was drawn into the belt and whirled around a shaft which was making 1,200 revolutions a minute. Three feet away was an iron trough and with every revolu tion his legs struck it,.both members being hammered off piece by piece up to the hips. His National Convention of Negroes. Washington, Special.-For the pur pose of co-operating with the Repub lican National congressional and State committees in the work of or ganizing the negro voters in close States and congressional districts, the ' administration Republican Club has called a national convention of ne- , groes to meet in this city on Sep- i tomber 19 and 20. Eight States and i the District of Columbia joined in the I call. j Southern Flyer Wrecked. Columbia, S. C., Special.-Fifteen persons were hurt, none seriously, in a wreck Wednesday night of the Southern Railway's fast Washington train No. 30 northbound, near Rock ton, S. C. Four coaches and the tender were upset and thrown to one side of the track. Three sleepers left the track but did not turn over. The engine remained oh the rails. The cause "of the accident is be lieved to oe spreading rails J. A. Blanton, the conductor. Jake Thompson, mail clerk were injured. LAND OF DIXIE IS GREAT Sentiment of Roosevelt, Greatest American of Modern Times New York," Special.-In response to an invitation to address the South ern Commercial Congress, at Atlanta, in the spring of 1911, Theodore Roosevelt has sent a letter to Mr. Charles Hall Davis, chairman of the congress, at Petersburg, Va., in part as follows: "August 16, 1910. "My Dear Sir: "It is not possible as yet for me to answer definitely; but I believe that, on my trip to California next March, I shall pass through the Southern States; and I hope that it can be arranged that the Southern Commercial Congress then hold its meeting in 'one of the cities through which I am able to pass. "Morev ami more, the former mis understanding about the South is tending te disappear; and you and your associates have set in moticfi a force that will have much to do with the complete dissipation of this mis understanding. You are working for a stronger South; and you show your wisdom and foresightedness in the way you realize that this movement for a stronger South, to he en active, must really mean a stronger national cohesion; for tie other South of yes terday is being 'changed into the Young America of today. Every good American must hope to see a real solid South, in the sense bf solid busi ness prosperity in the South ; for all good Americans now realize that the prosperity of any part pf the country helps the prosperity of the whole and the prosperity of the whole will grow faster and stand on 'the most durable foundations only when we effectively realize that the words 'South,' 'North,' 'East' and 'West' have only a geographical significance. I earnestly hope that the young men of the South will never forget the past glories of the South, because I earnestly 'hope that the voung men all over America today will keep ever in mind -these glorious . memories of every section of our common country;' and that the men of the North and of the -West will remember the South's past with -the same pride that the South itself does; for the un dying glorj' won by the men who so valiantly arid with such sincerity fought for .their convictions whether they wore the blue or the grey, is now a common heritage of all of us. "The statute of General Lee in Confederate uniform stands in the halls of Congress today and his mem ory is honored no more by the South then it is by the North and in the North as in the South alike, I think we are now learning to apply abso lutely in good faith the great words of Grant. 'Let us have peace.' "The part played by the South in the constructive statesmanship of our nation during all our earlier years was of incalculable weight' and . val ue. I firmlv believe that the time has now come when the South's influence will again be felt, \not only in con structive statesmanship,' but -in the enormous field of constructive busi ness endeavor. "You need more people, but. like the rest of the countrv. you need thal those people should be of the' right sort. Feeling this way, I naturally sympathize most cordially with every purpose of the Southern Commercial Congress in its efforts to make both the South and the nation realize that a greater nation will be developed from the development of a greatei country. In your membership no political lines are drawn, your effort is to strive for the advancement of American citizenship; and all broad minded men throughout the nation sympathize with you in what you are doing, both to develop and increase the power of .the South and at the same time to arouse therein a keener national sense. "With hearty good wishes, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Stole $500 Worth of Diamonds. Asheville, N. C., Special.-A clever thief succeeded in getting away with a silver purse containing $500 worth of diamonds, three railroad tickets to New Orleans and about $15 in cur rency, the property of Mrs. J. Murna Jorey, wife of a prominent lumber man of New Orleans, and has not been captured. The couple were staying at a local hotel. Mrs. Jorcey left her purse on a table and, while on the porch, the thief grabbed ii Collected the Debt All Right. Washington, Special.-The Presi dent has commuted to three years, with allowances, the five year sen tence of George D. Harris, charged with misapplying the funds of the Hot Springs (South Dak.) National Bank an? ,with faisifvina. accounts. Harris already has served two years. Harris was an employe in a bank, one of whose depositors was in debt to him for about $2,000. When the depositor mane a heavy deposit. Har ris subtracted the amount of the in debtedness. Paroled to Claim Fortune. Laporte, Ind.. Special.-Paroled from the Indiana State Prison so thal he might go to England to claim an estate valued at $100,000, Charles Adams, of this city, who was sen tenced to five years' imprisonment on conviction of forgery has sailed from New Yrrk for London. Attorneys jad established Adams' flaim to the fortune to the satisfac tion of the Indiaua prison authori ties, and Adams promised the officials that he would return to this State to report. U. C. V. to Little Rock 1911. New Orleans, Special.-Official an nouncement that the 21st reunion of the United Confederate Veterans will be held May 16, 17 and 18 of next year at Little Rock, Ark., was made Monday by Gen. Wm. E. Mickle. $8,000,000 More From Tobacco. Washington, Special.-It- is estimat ed that Government internal revenues for the present fiscal year will be increased about $8,000,000 in con sequence of the increased taxes' on tobacco and cigarettes Longworth, Roosevelt's Son in-Law, Opposes Re-Election. SPEAKER WILL NOT WITHDRAW Congressman Longworth Says Re election of- Sneaker an Issue in Campaign-"AU of Us" Speak Up 1 Beverly, Mass., Special.-In a statement declaring opposition to the re-election of Mr. Cannon as Speaker of the House, Representative Longworth said here Thursday: "In view of Mr.'.Cannon's unequi vocal declaration. that he' intends to be a candidate for Speaker of the next House I think it is incumbent upon those of us who are candidates for membership in the next House, who havema?e up our minds upon our- course of action . and have positive views upon the sub ject to ?tate our position publicly. Had Mr.* Cannon not made this an nouncement and had it remained doubtful whether he would, be a can didate or not, it was my .intention not to commit myself before election as to whom I should or should not support for Speaker. But since Mr. Cannon .himeslf ? in, his speeches so far in the campaign and in his re cent declaration has' made his can didacy for the speakership an issue, I for one don't propose to dodge that issue. "I shall oppose-Mr. Cannon's elec tion as' Speaker and I shall do so in. the manner that I consider proper and effectual in the settlement of controversies in my party-namely in th? Republican * caucus?" I made up my mind before the adjournment of the last session of Congress that Mr. Cannon could not be re-elected Speaker and my opinion has been strengthened since through corres pondence and, talk with my col leagues." Mr. Longworth'said that he had a genuine ^affection for Mr. Cannon and respected his splendid fighting quali ties, but he continued: "I am absolutely convinced, if there is a full attendance at the Re publican caucus, that Mr. Cannon eannon be again elected Speaker. I want it understood that I shall op pose the re-election of Mr. Camion to the speakership and that I am firmly of the opinion that his re-elec tion is impossible. I want it espec ially understood that I say this sole ly on my own responsibility and up on the suggestion of no one else." Woman. Pose3 Five Years as Man. New York, Special.-For five years Mrs. Elena B. Smith, of Boston, who is now stopping at the Hotel Bre voort, masqu^ffded in New York as a man, worked in nearly- a dozen dif ferent places ,and had "young women try to win her' affection as a mar riageable, "man" without anybody ever doubting her sex. Men, she said, believing she was a man, confided their love affairs to her, invited her to dine, bought her cigars and even took her for strolls on Broadway. She said it was a fascinating life, but that she will hereafter he herself. While she was masquerading as a man, Mrs. Smith said, she was known I as Albert C. Martinez, from Argen- 1 tina. Only two persons knew her secret-a physician in Boston and Miss Edna Turgenson, a compani . ' To make good her wager with the '? Boston physician, who bet $2,000 she ] couldn't carry off the deception, she ! had come here with her friend, Miss < Tunrenson, traveling under the name 1 of Mr.' and Mrs.. Martinez. I Southern Flyer Wrecked. Columbia, S. C., Special.-Fifteen persons were hurt, none seriously, in , a wreck Wednesday night of the | Southern Railway's fast Washington ] train No. 30 northbound, near Rock- ? ton. S. C. Four coaches and the '; tender were upset and thrown to one side of the track. Three sleepers left the track but did not turn over. The engine remained on the rails. < The cause of the accident is be- j lieved to be spreading rails i J. A. Blanton^ the conductor, Jake j Thompson, mail clerk were injured. I Rockefeller Reunion. Cleveland, Ohio, Special.-A re union of the Rockefellers has been j planned for September 9, at New- ? burgh, N. Y., and it is expected that | John D. Rockefeller will attend. '<? The invitations have been sent out and John D. Rockefeller has received 1 one, but he cannot say positively < whether he would be among those present. Those invited to the reunion < are lineal descendants of Johann 1 Peter Rockefeller, who came to < America in 1723. Trees at Appalachian Exposition. Washington, D. C., Special.-An exhibit showing the types of trees 1 and explaining the problems and < questions connected with the wood- \ lands will be made by the forest ser- t vice at the Appalachian Exposition ? to be held at Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. f 12 to Oct. 12. Don Carlos Ellis, of ( the forest service, is in,Knoxville toll arrange and take charge of the ex hibit which will relate Iargelv to the forests in the Appalachian region. The forest service also will parti pate in the Kansas State Fail i Trees at Appalachian Exposition. Washington, D. C., Special-An exhibit showing the types of trees I and explaining the problems and ( questions connected with the wood- l lands will be made by/the forest ser- t vice at the Appalachian Exposition ? to be held at Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. ? 12 to Oct. 12. Don parios Ellis, of c the forest service, is ;in Knoxville to 1 arrange and take charge of the ex hibit which will relate largely to the ? forests in the Appalachian region. ( The forest service ?Iso will parti- t pate in the Kansas ?State Fail 1 "IN SUNNY TENNESSEE." Dminous Political Clouds Darken the Great, State's Serenity. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-Capt. Bcniani?n W. Hooper, of Newport, Cockc county, was Tuesday nominat ed for Governor of Tennessee by the Republican Sta?e 1 convention. The name of Alfred A. Taylor, of Wash ington county, was the only other Dne presented to the convention and immediatelv following the announce met of the result of the first ballot the namination was made unanimous. The ballot stood, Hooper 382, 9-14} Taylor 201, 5-14. The convention also endorsed the candidacy of B. A. Enloe, independent man, for Rail road Commissioner from west Ten nessee. The independent State-wide prohi bition Democrats who have fought Governor M. R. Patterson every step af his official career are expected tc support the ticket nominated, as against the regular Democratic nomi nees, which includes Patterson for re-election, and the coming can> paign promises to be one of vigor an<J bitterness. - The' ulatform adopted declares for no backward step in the prohibition laws which were passed over the veto of Governor Patterson and asserts that as regards congressional, judicial and legislative districts. It says that the present system of districting is nothing less than "larceny of the elective franchise." The platform also favors continuance of " liberal Federal appropriations for Federal soldiers, also for Confederate soldiers. Captain Hooper was the chief lead sr of the independent State-wide prohibition factions of the Demo cratic party which recently elected their candidates for State judiciary offices. It is said that the same com bination will be in effect in the com ing gubernatorial campaign and that the independent State-widers were deeply interested in Tuesday's pro ceedings. Hooper was also the final selection of the Sanders-Evans Sharpe element cf the Republicans. Captain Hooper is 39 years old and i native of Cocke county. He was graduated from Carson and Newman College with first honors and served two terms in the State Legislature. He was assistant United States at torney of the east Tennessee district and served as captain in the Fourth Tennessee Regiment during the war , with Spain. He has been successful in financial affairs and is said to be i man of large means. Hoodoo Numbers for Autos. Atlanta. Ga.. Special.-The rabbit foot numbers for Georgia automobile* are 7, ll, 23 and 13. This is demon strated according to the Secretary oi State by the demands-made for these particular figures in the few day? since a State law was passed requir ing new registration of ail automo biles. Road Uncovers Big Fraud. Omaha, Neb., Special.-A gigantic system of fraud by which the Burl ington Railway is said to h3ve. been looted of thousands of dollars has been discovered by officials of that company. Wholesale discharges ol ?mployes are expected. Five con ductors and a train agent on the Oralia division of the system were discharged for alleged connection with trv scheme. Tlv an was for a station to sell tic1" notify the conductor of thc f'. who would take up the ticke! return it to the issainsr office .chout punching. The agent would then divide with the conductor anc sell the ticker, time and again. Foi nonths Pinkerton detectives have as sisted the secret service department >f the road in searching out the frauds and a wholesale cleanout of the alleged grafters will result. U. C. V. to Little Rock 1911. New Orleans, Special.-Official an nouncement that the 21st reunion ol the United Confederate Veterans wili be held Mav 16. 17 and IS of next year at Little Rock, Ark., was made Monday by Gen. Wm. E. Mickle. $8,000,000 More From Tobacco. Washington, Special.-It is estimat ed that Government internal revenues for the present fiscal year will be increased about $S.000,000 in con sequence of the increased taxes on ?obacco and cigarettes From $700 to Millionaires. Bridgeport. Conn., Special.-Fifty years afro a Connecticut farmer call ed his four sons together, gave them ?700 each and sent them ont into ;he world. Thursday the four held i reunion at Bridgeport. Each is a multi-millionaire, each ocated in a different city in a differ ent line of business. One of ?hem is Nathan G. Miller >f New York, ex-president of the fron Steamboat Company, former iwnpr of the Nickel Plate Railway ind President of the Eagle Lock Co. An Honest Woman. Newark, N. J., Special.-Mrs. Peter jaw son, wife of the missing cashier >f the Eagle Manufacturing Com pany, bf Newark, who disappeared wo weeks ago, it h cr.arged, with $4, 568 of the firm's money, found $2, 135 in cash in the pocket of an old :oat of her husband which was tanging in a closet in their home. When she discovered the money Hrs. Lawson fainted. When she re tovered she went to police headquar ers and turned the money over to Detective Sergeant Tuite. An Honest Woman. Newark, N. J., Special.-Mrs. Peter jawson, wife of the missing cashier >f the Eagle Manufacturing Com pany, of Newark, who disappeared wo weeks ago, it is charged, with $4, 168 of the firm's motrey. found ,$2, 535 in cash in the pocket of an old ?oat of her husband which was tanging in a closet in their home. When she discovered the money Hrs. Lawson fainted. When she re lovered she went to police headquar ers and turned the money over to Detective Sergeant Tuite., Destroying Property and Many human Lives. ALL OVER GREAT NORTHWEST. Fire Beyond Control-Battles Against the Red Hot Destroyer Without Victorious Results-People Flee. Missoula, Mont.. Special.-Mer cilessly and relentlessly the forest fires in western Montana and Idaho are sweeping over a vast era, driv ing hundreds .of fuitives before them info -dismal se'tilements and wiping out of existence millions of dollars worth of property. Thirteen lives .have been lost eA Walla oe, Mont., property tess one million; fire sitill slireates?ing. Elsewhere ia tbs fire zone the situation has gone from bad to worse. The most serious incident is reported from hhs St. Jo-j c entry, where 180 men engaged in the for estry service are missing and ct i= feared they 'have bean burned. When the fire approached the camp where there were 200 men, two of the fighters took a horse and liding the animal to deatih, reached another camp and ordered a rescue party, w?ic? penetrated the fire # at Bird Creek. Eighteen of the men were found in tibe water, where they hud gone for safety and they ware unharmed. Of the remaining ISO no word has been received. The forestry srviee ?has organized a relief train well equipped with pack animals, carrying prousions and hospital supplies, and will endeavor to get through the fire. About a thousand refugees have been brought into Missoula. There is much distress arnon? them. Their wants are beiing supplied by Missoula people trad they have been given tem porary homes. Local hospitals ar? caring for the sick. Another train with 500 persons cn board came over the Chicago, Milwau kee & Puget Sound Raiway. A dense pall of smoke hangs al! over eastern Montana. In Missoula it iras as dark as midnight at 5 o'clock, the dense smoke giving a lurid hue which had all the semblance of the glow of fire but which was probably'due to the sun. The town of Taft, near the Idaho line, was destroyed by fire before daylight Sunday morning. S?ltese, below Taft Ina'? been abandoned bv its inhabitants and D?borda is threaten ed and one man is missing. At Sa. Reg's tih.3 fire has crossed the river and threatened outlying buildings. Vaughan is reported to be deserted. The area covered is roughly esti mated at a hundred miles square. There is a probability that there .hos bean serious loss of life ns 'tihere ore camping parties and lumbermen all through thc mountains and thc fire may have come upon them while . they slept, or they may have been awakened this morning to find them selves cut off. Curtis and Sherman Innocent. Sulphur, Okla., Special.-The se lect committee appointed by the House of Representatives to investi gate Indian land affairs and the so called McMunray contracts and which also has been investigating the Gore bribcv charges has issued the following statement: "Tho committee has heard ani carefully considered all of the testi mony submitted and' is unanimous in the opinion that there is and was no warrant for any person to use the names of vice-President Sherman and Senator Charles S. Curtis in con nection with any improper relation with any Indian contract whatever." Lone Woman Beats Fiftten Lawyers. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-?Mrs. W. M. Pelton, the aged widow of a once dis tinguished Georgia congressman, won her fight against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, to compel the re building of a side track at Feltonia, a small station on her plantation near CartersvilLe. Mrs. Felton, opposed by fifteen railroad attorneys, acgued her com plaint before the Georgia railroad commission and the commission, made its decision, ordering that the side track on 'her property bc restored. Funds for Southern States. Washington. D. C., Special-The following is the allotraent of fund?, appropriated by Congress for the milii.'a of the several States, as . announced by the War Department ? for the South: Alabama. $43.034.61; j Florida. $19.501.10; Georgia, $50,- I 859.03; North Carolina. $43.946.S5; 1 South Carolina, $35.120.14: tenn es- ? see. $46.940.85; Virginia, $4(>.?4(>.S5 ; ; Mississippi, $39.122.37; Kentucky, I $50,859.0$; Louisiana, $35,210.14; ! Maryland, $31,297.90; Texas, $70.-j 420.27. Little Girl Saves Drowning Man. Culver, Ind., Special.-By saving the life cf F. Thompson, of Atlanta, Ga., while both were swimming in Lake Maxinknskee, Isabel Fultler, aged 12, daughter of E. P. Faller, of Richmond, Va., became *he heroine of the cottagers of the summer re sort. Thompson is an expert swimmer, but he was seized with cramps. The little girl, also an adept, was near him. When she saw he was sinking she quickly swam to Mm and supported him until relief came. Lone Woma) Beats Fiftten Lawyers. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Mrs. W. M. Felton, the aged widow of a once dis tinguished Giorgia congressman, won her fight against thc Louisville and Nashville Railroad, to compel, the re building of a side track at Feltonia, a small station on her plantation near Cartersville. Mrs. Felton, opposed by fifteen railroad attorneys, argued her com plaint before the Georgia railroad commission and the commission made its decision, ordering that the side track cn her property bo restored. MYOWN. MY_NATIVE LAND N. Y. Com. Turns Down Roosevelt Wait Till September. New York, Special.- Theodore Roosevelt matched strength with the '* old gdard" of the Republican party in New York State Tuesday and met decisive defeat. The Republican State committee, in session here, by a vote of 20 to 15, refused to recom mend him for temporary chairman of the State convention which meets at Saratoga on September 27. In stead Vice President James S. Sher man was selected. This is Colouel Roosevet's second defeat at the hands of the "old guard, " the first having been the Legislature's refusal to pass the Cobb direct primary bill, although Mr. Roosevelt especially endorsed it. With his set-back Tuesday plans for harmony within the party in the State received a severe set-back; and as soon as Colonel Roosevelt heard the news he issued a statement in which 'he enrolled himself as a pro gressive, so far as the New York situation goes. The statement fol lows : "To the various persons who asked me whether I would accept the posi tion of temporary chairman of the State convention I said that I would dovso only if they were sure after knowing my attitude that they desired me, becanse my speech would be of such a character that it might help if the convention nominated the right kind of a man, on a clear cut, pro gressive platform ; but that it would hurt , if neither the right kind of a man were nominated nor the right kind of a platform adopted." Although repudiated Tuesday, it does not necessarily mean that Col onel Roosevelt will not be temporary chairman, after all. The convention delegates themselves will decide who is to open the meeting and deliver the "keynote speech." In the interval between now and September 27 it is expected that the struggle between thc organization and Roosevelt-Hughes forces will be carried into every corner of the State and that the chief issue will be at - the primaries for the election of Roosevelt or anti-Roosevelt delegates to the convention. . Whether Mr. Sherman.lent his sup port to the movement which resulted in.Colonel Roosevelt's defeat has not been established defiritelv. . Infantile Paralysis Infective Disease. Trenton. N. J.. Special-The New jersey State Board of Health is greatly alarmed over a spread of in fantile paralysis throughout New Jersey and is planning a campaign to prevent it. According to reports received, there has been an'alarming increase in this disease within the past few years. Physicians declare that the snread of the disease in New Jersey is due to the ignorance of par ents, who believe the malady is non contagious. In this city alone there have been 15 deaths from the dis ease within two, weeks. Dr. Bruce S. Keater, secretary of the State Board of Health, who has been actively conducting a preven tive campaign since the first "signs of the spreading of the disease, has. is sued r statement advising: parents to isolate children sufferine from this malady. Dr. Keator said thal; a care ful study of this disease was being made in nearly every civilized coun try, and that most physicians had ar rived at the conclusion that it is an infective disease. Mills Reopening. Providence, R. I., Special.-Mill " conditions in the Olneyville section of this city which a week ago seem ed so hopeless than many operatives left the city, shows a great improve ment. The Riverside Worsted mill reopened after three weeks of idle ness and the National Providence mills have started up a number of additional looms. $3,000,000 More For Censui. The appropriation of $12,000,000 made by Congress to meet the cost of the thirteenth decennial census will be too small by about $3,000.000. Of the $12,000,000 only $5,111,617.18 was balance on hand July 1, and much of that has since been paid out. Approximately 5,000 of the 70,000 enumerators employed are yet to be paid. Congress will be called upon to supply the deficit. Where "Yellow Purps" Thrive. Washington, Special.-In a state ment issued by the surgeon general . of the -7>blic lieal?h and marine hos pital semJe it is shown that during the last two years a total of 908 treatments of virus for mad dog bites have been sent to different parts of the Un'ted S tates. Alabama leads with 326, North Carolina 2S5 and South Carolina 122. Tennesee Negrees Form Party. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-A meet ing was held here Wednesday attend-, ed by about 30 prominent negro lead ers of the S?3to at which it was de cided to form an independent negro party for the assertion of their rights. The negroes are greatly disgruntled over what they term the cold-deal re cently given them by the white repub lican leaders. $500,000,000 Freight Increase. Washiugton, Special.-Increases in freight rates aggregating, according to estimates made by the interstate commerce commission, $500,000,000 annually-in that part of the country north of the Ohio and Potomac and cast of thc Mississippi river-were considered at a hearing Monday in the custom house at New York. The formal hearing of the evidence in thc case, the most important to the people thc interstate commerce commission has yet undertaken, will, be postponed until September 7.