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? ?d ?f S!s Cage, fearing ftp-'"'-' Stats Jap Tcrrer. mmss OF TBE efiaEce, n '2?oo . Big Beast Was Being From His Lair to bo an Aeriean Menage-do, Scaped ?a<3 Finally Ju tThe perils of bringing ft n^ lairi la Idia to New H<? made a part of a menage] : . :^rtb by the thrilling expe^nce of ? ike erey of:.a German freigl the' .Berkenfals, commt ^feAtein^edfleh, which reac <?tf ?ft^^ilontta^view^ ft wsa^whtle th^'Vesser wd Fart He Into fge lion jork, to s. Is set ^ti^ for'Bermuda that the tro :jpaL *Ffercey winds,* almost ?eo?ugfe to <be dignified "as ease, rocked the'steamer .", i M. side;g; This r^lHng: frfghteij ?tflSe land female, of the big '3|f and'" tho former :\ exhibit 4S?ee'OF throwing' his body #? woollen bora which' aeid ?jgrtMty.; TheInterludes ^tott traa devoted to roaj v':: -j**Bs*ld make the stoutest bei T?e lion did not like to be ?aoand . in his cell landing 4k?tttd this minute and on -mj-rt and with a regsla all the bravado out Bound to get out and see "tawuble. wa3 Mr. Lion mad {tttexao effort and pushed . tjg-fen, and'-then started to e It was just as night wail give aw?y to day and ??wie. too distinct An E; 9iiilor was spied splicing a -,' "Sefore he could stir the Hol *?aj*t of him tearing him. w pieces-1 SJeath must have1 been inetdRaneous | s&om shock. While the 1? -stood | ,; Jawing, into the face of tifidead a :J ".fjtonp of seaman saw him Sid fled. y-\'.-r\.!fbo first, second and thin ofllcers " .v>i to their rooms and proSring re &?ft&mn sought out the best, sehsl-| i'-MlW getting a deck above, tfairln the j "Staterest of safety. Three ^ilnBd which v did . little d ?'^??de thei;\?on? g&*rt- all ""?peiat wild! T2t6n the \ the rigging "sad, reload "X&o'second ofllee?waa:l|e:>&r?t>to] cn^htt steam by) that I agb. ia# be aHarrT [-side the' im* his liSSt j iween j that] mail: >wn; his the /hieb 'him; the BU bars ulng were idian and -OBI were; age and more. ifr-omV ffv-ehets went Thf .:':.iem?w the fusillade. ' -itio beast In the belly, throwlag him ?t? his knees when he ralled>over ; ;; 'OB8 lay kicking for a f?S seconds. ; ISasalalag his feet the animal ran 3&8> length of the de?i. tumbled- over igSSfl rolled- in the- soap per?: ? uj^-ags-in I. iajftd eaek toward, the deck U> which y-?ks?l?cerehnd returned. ISndiag ha couM not leap, upon ^Seco, he Jumped lato*-* well and rah' f. * tnjs 'a companion way. ?whtfr? the offl ??tier? otood firiar. -fa' th? meantime ."tfca latter once more- sought the rig . igSttg. ^-Tho audacious Quadruped .?PtBaed^ revenge, .end' soon .*? shot In "?e?'?head sent him'-stumbling along tus&adf legs.' , f&e?'he ran up to the deck, 'where ?safeguards do not. run along the - <<aBge, roared mightily, peeped into the ./raea, affdV straightened himself out, , ?Jumped overboard. I He'undoubtedly ^ flftade a good meal for the eharks fol ;'..I?wlng-the vesseL -J; t^e ^loness never"v"|eft her open ?' 4age> and a brave ship earpenter ven ^?^ansd hear it and natlecl up the brok -cm bare which let touft her foolish . ?te. W?BIM DAILYi TRAIN. Attotte Coast Lia* Satan? in addition to the n ew eervte? ui>. ^snnced by-the Southern, the ?B>.' . attxneeihent now com^s from Hr. W.} -7. Crafg, Oeaeral PtasBenger jajeai <tf the Atlantic Ooesj > Line, tlntl tie <3co2t has com pleted aTra&^o -meats -ior putting oa a double daily passengeriservice bet ween New ?ars md A?Vusta,'"tne 'aei r service ta ije* '?Btae effestiva JaniLtry 9. aM fesj ?isontiaaed through thai winter' satooiiti; :Jr. -Craig says tbA servk? and -^affaipnient will bo tb a best the n?d j lied ever operated l or a travel 'Co j ? rrj3iich'; it particu^r 1^ caters. A*! important feature o f-the scbefiaSel -arrangement, which: is a factor fa< tbe handling, of :wlat? ?r travel, is tbfl-i 'Tednctfon in time cor turned in TijuS 5&ii the trip by an h Dur and a ftalf TSa schedules are as fcfollows: Leave New York CWty at <10:19 ? .-an., arrive *n AugttstsK:2S a. m. Ihf ?ti^ltfwlns day. .ThoH train, retun r/ftir, leaves Augusta Bt'2": 90 P orirlTihg in New'Torfflat-1-50 p. bb lOtiseryation cars, andPbroileT servie* ? "Wty be'operated on t?iis1 schedule The'second daily *s|fervioe, which U .t* fast train, leaves>N<8w York at 3: 31 &. m., arriving'in7 Alugusta at 3:1? p. * m. Returning, lejaves Augusta 4, p. tm., arriving in i?ew York Citj ?xt 2.31 p. m.' Full [dining car ser ?fee will be malnt&infla on this, train aC the way thron^ls >Iaa-Found An unknowr. mal 'Sound 'Sunday momii "tfee 'Southern railwaj Sbaw ^Plains: Tenn. * f Cpocket^waa found1 a ci ?addresB1''Julian *Ft tSea, S. C, 22 Ash ton! DeadL j, ? 's ' body was lying beeide ,y ? trajcks near In bW vest; ird bearing the [Durne/ 'Charles-* street." . 1 EMES: A WEEK. PLACED OK WHEELS AND HAUL ED ACROSS PRAIRIE. ?' ? ? - ? ?? With Bask Open, Meals Served In Hotel und Clerks Working in Courthouse. Lamro, S.. D., has been put on I wheels and 'moved. to Winner, where, aa the result of . a bitter county aeut war and agreement lietween the ? two towns, It has consolidated with Win* ner and as ls town ceased wholly to exist ? Large store, buildings with their valuable contents were moved Intact. Banks/, with their cash lit the vaults, were put on; wheels and made the trip across the prairie while the clerks continued to. work and money was received and paid out ot" cus tomers.. ';; Without disturbing the offlcials'the county court house was hitched to two ' of the largest "tr?etlon ""engines ever built, and it was dragged from Larmo to Winner. I where ft was plac ed On a fouada'ttbn. i;>evlcusly prepqfr ed 'for 'it' The Larmo hotel,' drawn by: 72 teams' Of 'horses, made the trip, without so much as ceasing business a'single meaL . \ 1 Tha bourtvhoDse, a big twoetory frame building, waij the first to be moved,' sinco It was necessary that the big house be pet In place before smeller houses blocked the way. The big traction engines were hitched to It, and across tbo prairie It went,-the. big engines >u?a$ and ?nortln; like' Mogul locomotive*. Tat? distance was three tifllea; and, thlls was covered In just two tours. 1 So evehly was the "job" carried on that clerks,, writing a' their desks were undisturbed. After the court houBeand'jail were moved resideacea "went over In reg ular flocks. When nightfall overtook a house which watt >*lne moved the structure wui left by" the roadside for the night and (.bo* family nr>eupl ed It Is usual. Then the movers began on the business houses, and store after *tere was taken to ' Winner . without being Interfered with., Ba nka were removed without the money belvtr looked'up, and deposits were receiv ed and checks paid without a halt. tiThe big school house was taken ovec-for fite" day, only half, a day be ing; lost by Btudents. Although the^men tn'Vharge of th^rtnginesi .riiTexed ' to. drtn-ah'dvallf tbeVauthorlfJes' 313 not car*r tO'riak we collapse of the bulfd ing when It was occupied by so many children. ' ,lSs9^?ef^(?t * ofRoving-: varied - from ^50 for ^S^M^^^j^^??^^, iStore filled with goods. It cost near ly $1,000 to take the court house toi the new towr and . put it ia the position It now occupies. * .? .m ??;<?" .. ' 74 "VEfeS?LS ' LOSS ' Aad Fifty-three People Out of 1,463 . ' lest. Last Tew. Out of a total of 6,361 persons In volved In 1,463 disaster* to vessels of all classes within the aeoge of the United State? life saving service, on ly fifty-threa were lost, and about seventy-four vessels were completely destroyed, according to- the annual report of S. L. Kimball, general" su perintendent, of the service, for the fiscal year, which ended June 30 last. The next expenditures for main taining' the service for the year were $2,249.375.65. The enactment of the', bill passed at the last session of Congress by the Senate providing for retirement pay for members of the life saving seiwiee und others of the field service and others of the field service incapacitated for duty Is 'urged In the report. - Of the 1.648 vessels of all kinds which""met with accidents, the' life savors rendered service to 1.047, val ued with their cargoes at $10,179, 280. Other succor rendered' by the life saving service Included the res cue-of 137-person* from, drowning, surgical aid to 60 persons suffering 'from gunshot wounds; broken limbs or bruises and the recovery of l&o bodies of pereons who had met death through los or in other"ways. Nlae of this number were euleldea. ? : PREACHER ACTS AS FLAGMAN. Grabs Keadfcercfatef and Warns Tri An of Wreck. ....-- ?-. ? .......... . - ? >?? ? The moment he emerged from the day coach where ho was riding at Mafrsot, Tenn., late 'Friday after noon, ivev. J. A. Baylor.-pastor of the State ' Street Methodist Church, South, of Bristol, and formerly of Chottanooga. Instantly grabbed a handkerchief and ran a half mile up .the track to flag any oUier trains that might be coming. Mr. Baylor, who is one of the most prominent ministers In the Holston conference, wa3 forweriy a locomotive engineer and .this was his first impulse. He was injured In a passenger wreck some years -ago while railroading and before entering the ministry. * \ Chewed Up Money. After a vain Bearch for a wallet containing $i29, which M< bad been carrying In his hip pocket, Frank Hoover, "a butcher of-Bellovista, Pa., declced as a forlorn hope to staught er>a hog w^th'whkh had been wok *lng before missing the/money. In-1 ' side the. stomach of, the animal" he !discovered 'his, roll, of- hills, chewed-" : Into a mass with the leather of the 'wollet- ' . ;* **: OBANGBBXJBG; CHEAP COTTON GOODS MAKES THE SITUATION UNSAT ISFACTORY TO THE MILLS. H ? ? % ' Mannfeetuers Claic That With Price of Cotton so High Goods Can Not be Mode Profitably. A New York . dispatch says ' the year closed 'with the cotton goodb market steady but quiet Prices ap pear to be firm, but they offer mills ho margin/for proflton many of the staples, while cotton rules high. In manufacturing circles curtailment of production is -being urged and in mercantile houses it is felt that pro duction is running ahead of demand for the time being. The volume of export trade. with China in the last weeks of the year reached at least 10,000 bales and the market is firm oh a basis of 6 1-4 cents for four-yard E"S by 60s. The demand for', 'ginghams and- fancy "wash fabrics1 of- cheor j const:uctlou holds good:' " " % Staple-prints have ' sold well and are being delivered1 .freely -for the spring trade: -Blea^el?rV^eesQAgs'' are hel^ firm on a basis of 9 cents for frQltxf-the-loom, but the'demand, is of a hand-to-mouth charoeter. i Colored cottons -have- been sold fairly well on the low grades.' but mill agents complain of a lack of profit at present prices. The demand for plain constuctlona of fine cloths is lighter and in fancy goods, silks and cottons sell rather better than other lines. Th e cotton yarn market contin ues-quiet ? with values held fairly steady. Of the 1,75,000 pieces ot print cloths sold in the last week of the year at Fall River about 75, 000 c- listed of 27 In 56 by 52s for substitute count print. The mills in that city are carrying comparatively small stocks and are discussing;' the need of curtailment when January contracts begin to ex pire. EXTEND OVER FIFTEEN YEARS. rostormi Official Makes Statement About: New Orleans Saigar Fradd. "When'the grand jury now inves tigating the sampling of sugar at New Orleans finishes'Its work, it-will be; found that the frauds against the ^f^^nS^t^n^l^^m^ going" on "or at? least fifteen yej?." VliI? statement' was mcK -Friday by an official of the customs service, who . declared all the suspected frauds, would be found in the samp ling of sugar and in the tests which determine' the-saccharine -contents upon which the importer^ pays duty. An investigation of alleged; "draw back"fraus at San Francisco is al so imminent- In fact, it is-known th^fit a preliminary investigation has furnished evidence which leads treas ury officials to believe that the frauds at San Francisco will' eclipse those-?ttsNew York, which the Amer ican. &igar Refining^ Compaj-jr recent ly ordered to se$fo tor 9700,000. Bvidienee solledtsd by the customs service Is said to show the 'Govern ment hoe for years zeen paying "drawhack" on Philllplne sugar, vhich came into the United States duty free, was used In the preserva tion ol' California fruit and later ex ported as sugar Imported from, Java on which duty had been paid. One of the officials of the treasury department Friday said: "The troubles of the sugar Importers have only begun. The disooveries of the fraudsi havo only" started." ' ? PEACEMAKER THE VICTIM. AsheriQe Citizen Receives Periu&a ? Fatol Wounds. WH:h a knife blade, stuck in his right lung to a depth of four inches, and 8tiH protruding from the wound, John Davis, a well-known eitidfe of West* AshevlUe, staggered -into his home early Friday morning and in formed his wife that he had-been eut The Injured man: did not know the knife was still' embedded in hid lung until it was pulled out by his horrified'Wife. The stabbing result ed from aa affray between the young son- of Davis'and h young man sawed MWMahon, In which the father was endeavoring to act as* peacemaker. After the cutting, which is alleged to have been done by McSiahon, the lat ter made his -escape, - but later was captured and returned to Aaheville. DskVrs's condition is critical.''' ?? Was Playing With Gun. Having ju6t returned from a hunt, aud while pointing the gun at each other in a playful manner, the gun In the hands.o_f Ales Dona boo was ac cidentally discharged and 0. B. Lynch was Instantly killed The en tire load took effect in'the top of his head, which was "literally blown off. Both boys are about 17 years of age and sons of well 'known and prosper ous farmers. The accident occurred Just over the North Carolina line, and the coroner of Polk County held an inquest ? j . Find Rody of Rnby. While .searching for the body of Cornelius Corbelt, who was drown ed in an heroic attempt to save tho life of a young woman who had fal len -from ?a -ferry boat crossing the j Chattahoochee. ?River,! ? searchers found the'body'of a baby.-' The body was lying tn a* shallotf pool of water and was^ weighted down. S. C, TUESDAY, JANT TWO AiORE DIE VerM fienewn?! Aviators Meet Death Instantly by FaJfing MISJUDGED CURRENTS ?'i- ',' ? ? Molsant, at Novr Orleans, Falls Hun dreds of Feet and Has His Neck Broken?Horney, at Los Angeles, is Dashed to. Earth in Aeroplane and Crushed by the Machine, John B. Mpliiant and Arch Hoxsey, aviators extraordinary, were killed Saturday. Both fell , out of the treacherous air; currents frith their machines?neither from a vast height?and -? Moisant'e remaining minutes \ of Ufa. were so ifew as to count as naught;. Hoxsey - was killed instantly. ?'? '? 1 '? Molsant met his death at 9-66 a. m:. attempting to alight in a'field a few mlled from New Orleans, La:-' Hoxsey, -who went- Into the air-early in the afternoon' at Los Angeles, Cal., lay at 2:12 p. m. a crushed,' life less mass in view of the thousands who were watching the aviation tournament. ?'? Thus the last day of 1910, in bringing the total number of deaths of aviators if) thirty, capped the list with' two of the most illustrious of those airmen who have b?*n writing the history of aviation is. the skies of two continents. Molsant, a Chlcagoan by birth, af ter an adventurous life in Central America, became interested in avia tion in France less than a year ago. After soaring into public -recognition by bis plucky bight from Baris acrosB the English Channel to London, with ; a passenger, Molsant's fearlessness! and resourcefulness were exhibited' frequently. Finding himself without' a machine, he purchased one from a friend for $10,000 and within ten minutes, starting on his winning flight from Belmont Park, N. Y., around the Statue of Liberty, win ning a prize of $10;000. Today a Budden puff of wind caught him within 600 feet of the earth, turned his machine over and a broken neck, terminated his ca reer. Arch^ HOTserWafterJa' year of unk form Bucce&wlth the Wright aero planes, hacV'sa'lned a name for dar ing and. competence In the air. Only within the week he had set a new world's altitude record of 11,474 feet, and then to show bis contempt., for the earth, had sailed majestically more than 4,000 feet above Mount Wilson. Today he ran afoul of the same kind of boiling, treacherous wind when some 500 feet from the earth, and i?> minute later a horrified crowd; aroused from its shock, was rushing madly to where a broken mats of humanity lay beneath a 'ton* bit of canvas and some broken spare. Both met. death In almost the sam<? manner. EJach machine was head oil for Uio earth md suddenly seemed to otop, borer in the air, then "tun* over on to Its nose," and dive heaa long to tho earth?and to destrac* tion. Moisant'u aeroplane was a Bier let monoplane, and In addition to the heavy engine In front of the main planes, he had fastened a tank hold ing 35 gallons of gasoline. Aviation experts believe a sudden puff of wind stopped hi 3 machine Head In the air and the heavy weight ahead dragged the light ?ramework behind it, flip ping the then useless rear elevator. From hiB utiitlon partly back of the ma'ln planer, Molsant was dipped out, clear of the machine, and struck the ground on his head, breaking hi* neck. He died on a 3at car upon wh'ich be was being n a hoi to New Orleans. Horsey, likewise ' woe returning from a journey Into the clouds. He was within five hundrtd feet of the earth and cheers were going up to meet the conqueror 'of' the :hlghej air, when his machine seemed 'o atop, shudder and whirl over and over to the ground. As la the morning's tragedy,' the rear elevittor, rendered useless' when ' the momentum was gone, flipped around, helpless to t.id the fated ?? machine. Hoxsey vainly endeavored to right his craft by warping- the main planes and by use of the rudder. Vain attempts, these, for before sufficient momentum was gamed the frail structure was crura pled upon the earth, the heavy en gine being torn loose. Only a few fanners and aids saw Molsant. hurled to his death, but Hoxsey's end ci?& before the horri fied gaze of th?4faands who had come out In the pleasant afternoon to watch the blrdmen darting here and there through the air. The day's pleasure ended when an announcer, sadly lifting his mega- j phone, droned out the message: ? : ? "Arch Hoxsey has been killed. There will be no more flying today." Mrs. C. M. HoxHey, of Pasadena, Cal., mit-sed by a mere accident see ing her .':on meet his death. She bad arranged! to tako her first areopinnt ride with her son today. Some do tall of Importance In .her household detained her and word of tho acci dent was taken to her by Roy Kn.i benshne and Thomas Jackson, of the Wright Company. Cold Ware Coming. The weather bureau at Columbia reports that a sudden change for colder weather is to be expected. 'ABY; 3, 1911. TOLL OF THE MOBS FIFTY- SEVEN PEOPLE WERE LYNCHED THE YEAR PAST. Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas Led in This Class of Vi olent Deaths. Only 57 lynchings were recorded in the United States in 1910, a much smaller number than in almost any previous year in the last 16. In 1909 the total w?b 70 and in 1908 it was 65. All but five of the 57 cases of lynching in 1910 were of negroes, and ten of these cases were those In which the charge against the' victim was assault on white women or girls, I In 11 of the remaining number the charge was attempted criminal as sault In the five cases of white men; four were for murder and the othey for aiding and abetting in a loll delivery. Several of the cases in which negroes were lynched were based upon the murder, or alleged murder of white women in which, the question"1 of assault is implied. ' _ As la previous yeawaseariy all'tbe lynching* were in 'Southern states, Florida add Georgia having ten each,' Alabama and Arkansas eight each, Texas six. ' The only lynching In the North ^occurred in Ohio, the victim being Carl Etherington, and agent of the Ohio Anti-Saloon league, who met death at the hands of a sob la Newark following als Imprisonment la Jail on q charge of Berief murder ed q salbenkee])er while making ? raid en an alleged blind User. One man has been convicted of having paticipated in this lynching and givtn a 20 years prison sentence. Following is the record for 1910 by states: Alabama, eight negroes: Arkansas, eight negroes; Florida, eight negroes and two whites; Geor gia, ten negroes; Louisiana, one white man; Mississippi, five negroes; Missouri, three negroes; North Caro lina, one negro; Ohio, one white man; Oklahoma,. one negro; 3c nth Carolina, one negro; .Tennessee, two negroes; Texas, four negroes and two whites. Of the five whites lynched, two were Italians, who were lynched in Florida. They were charged with murder and with inciting the'slots during the strike of cigarmakers in Tampa. Another of the white vlltiw's was a Mexican ( who j was shot and burned at the stake near the Texas border* ;foUowing-hlB confession that he had murdered a white woman. Of the.,62 negro victims, two were wo men.* ' In many of the cases the lynchings followed-the arrest or conviction of the victims on the charges made against them. In other eases the victims met death while endeavoring to escape from pursuing posses. In. two i eases the negro victims were lynched by mobs composed of mem bers of their own race. In almost every cote <(he victim, was summarily hanged or. shot without burning at the stake, sfeh as accompanied these acts of summary vengeance in for mer years. ? NEffBS SOME HELP. Awfal Treatment of ia Colored Girl by a Fiend. The Columbia Record says a small negro girl, who Is twelve years of age, lies In a critical condition at the hospital of Dr. W: C. Rhodes, corner of Washington and Park St. Her left leg is shattered from the knee to the ankle as the result of a load of shot fired, so she says, by a negro boy, Elijah WLUiaxne. The shooting oceuVfed at the Spigner place about eight miles dis tant from the city, on Friday. Ac cording to her version of the affair she was shot because she refused to obey the- boy whom she met. In a dense wood as she and a female rela tive were returning home from a neighbor's She says after he hid shot her he directed his demands toward the other girl; who through fear of the consequeuoe? so forcefully illustrat ed before bei eyes, yielded. The girl tells a startling story, but her ac count of the shooting and the other crime was related in a coherant man ner. She repeats the story every now and then to the attendant at the hospital. The jail ireeord of prisoners does no show that "Blljah Williams" has beea arrested. It was reported sev eral days j'go that an arrest had been made, but if such was the case the boy gare the ooastable a name oth er than the one by which he was known In the neighborhood. Such a fiend as Williams should be Introduc ed to some hemp as quickly as possi ble. Smuggle Chinese Sixteen Chinamen, concealed In a box car, were arrested at Ysleta, Tex. this week, and two Americans, charged with attempting to smuggle them into the United States, were al so taken into custody. Tho car had beei- lined around the sides vrith bal ed hay, lonvinz a space in the center of the car in which the. foreigners: were conw*ai*?d * Beats Off Negro. At Chicago Miss Ellen K. Miller stroin, a nlnoteen-year-old girl, re sisted a nego who attacked her last evening in North Fiftieth avaaue. After a struggle In which the young woman returned the negro's blows, scratching and kicking him, be knocked her down, ran through an alley and escaped. TOLL OF AIR SHIPS ^ WHAT THE SOEBNCEI OP A VIA TI ON HAS COST IN LIVES. Every Country Represented in, the List of Those Who Died in Efforts to Advance the Science. They hove pulled the aviation bal ance sheet for the season just end ed. One side is bordered with' gold. tSixty-nlne heroes of the air have won medals and thousands of dol lars in. cash. The other side is pip ed with black. Twenty-nine have paid the final price of the hero busi ness. On the wide-stretched wigs of mot or-pushed, man-built birds, intrepid flyers have hung the. gay emblem" of achievement 11,000 feet up in cloud land. Others, reaching; out for the ! stars,'have'ridden aloft to the music : of waving kerchiefs' and to a fata, I which has the fooeral wreath for Its .finality. ' 1 /' .?//! ?Everywhere there has been fetrlv-1 ingjtsucceedihg and striving, and dyi i 3ns -until the side of the aviation sheet'which 1b piped with black bears these ? harness I -;Lefel>o>e/7erber,'Bossi, Hauyetti-! ! M ich el In,' Rob?, ? Speyer, Haas; Rolls, Daniel Kin et. Nicholas Knet; Maaer dydk, Polllot. Madlot, Kaghltti, John stone, Fernandez,' Del a grange, Lo ?Bk>n, Joaely,: W?chter, Plochwan, I Matiewltch; Waldern, Fa?ca, Vivaldi, [Von Pitter. Hamilton, Chavia,. Blan chard, Hehtel ? Every country has offered its man [?some two or three; you may tell by the names. Some have died leaving a word or two- an maybe a figure In i the record by wbch they may be re membered when the list has grown lai-er. Some have died as from a tumble from a houBetop?-a mean taking off when you consider that the setting Is bounded only by track less space. I Chavez died thus?hear the earth, after he had marched over the Alps. And some have died with department orders signed and countersigned thrust In their belts, as men who serve the guns cr skirmish fatWbrhs deep under the sea In steel bottles' calhfed submarines have done before; j'now:. - ? .'' ;v Fifteen months ago the' season for flying and dying asa double attrac tion bad Its formal introduction at RheImB;,iheancientelty^f-the-plains ! where the Kings-of France were wont I to go to fit themselves witfc crowns. The affair of Rheims was called a' meet, a word taken from the vocah* ualry of the foxhunt and .bicycle riding. 'In territory the Hat is both brood and long. Meets, with their cash prizes and their life prizes,-became popular. In the two lists to which the names of aviators may be added; the average la one dead to every three living. The greatest amount of money any aviator has won, the fig ures being taken from his published acrannin, is 582,000. Paulhan got that, .duly-2 V have won more than 810,000. ? PXiAJJTHRS StrPFER GKBATF1V. Rix Million Dollars is the Annual Damages to Peach Growers. The fearful ravages of pests on ag riculture, entailing many millions of dollars' losftt arc outlined in a state ment which Acting Chief Powell, of the bureau, of plant Industry, has submitted to the House committee on agriculture .in connect ion with the agricultural bill which the commttee reported Monday::: * Mr. Powell says that through the use of a sulphur spray, the Bap tern peach business has been made stable for the first time. He says that the estimated loss -annually from brown rot on peaehes is 3^,000,000 and from peach scab 81,000,000. virtual ly all of which loss might be saved by proper spraylngof orchards. ? Blister rust on white-pine is esti mated-to cause losses.of 81,008,000 annually and other -plants show be* vy losses from diseases and Inafe.-iS. Investigation of the cotton indus try In Egypt has AadJcated that the mixing of Hindu cotton with ? the Egptlan cotton has entailed a Joss of 810,000,000 a year and that-strains of the Egyptian cotton ean be bred In the Egyptian cotton can be bred in the United States which will not show, th 3 conditions that cause these enormous losses in Egypt. ? High Living at Low Cost. The Newberry Observer says: "Mr. B. F. Mills butchered two hogs on Thnreday that weighed 610 and 520 pounds. They were the Poland China breed and were 18 months old. He raised them from pigs, and they did not cost him half as much as if he had boug^ them from Tennessee. The solution of the high cost of liv ing Is that farmers raise their own hog and hominy, and enough besides to sell to their neighbors, the town people. More and more of them are doing this v?ar fov y*?ar. ? Dynamite Explosion. An explosion of dynamite at the engine house of No. 13 mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, near Easley, Ala., Friday afternoon killed Joe Oswcll, engi neer, and Will Hunter, fireman, and an unknown negro. A second ne gro was badly injured. The negro killed bad brought some frozen dyna mite from the mine tunnel to thaw It out in the engine house. ?WO CESTTS PEH COPY T0OK_POM New York Banker Charged With Crte Tries 'to; Kill Bimself WHSLE GOING 70 COURT Charged With Wrecking the Nort2s era Bank of New York, the Prfs oner Collapses Before Reaching the Conrt Room Where he Wot? ?> Have Been Arraigned. . Joseph G. Robin, who wrecked 6u9 Northern Bank of, N?3r Yo r k w h 1 l.e at its h attempted to kill himself agafe? : on Friday. - With head erect, shonlS-.* ere; and eyes levelled at the bteerj of cameras trained, on him, Josejjfe 0. Robin*- the,indicted banker,* 8te?K ed from hie eis tor's home to face ar raignment, calm in the kaowia$ga-- - that'he had swallowed a dozen lets of hyoscin, the subtle and doaffijr alkaloid, with,whlch,Dr: Cripptrtk^Sh,'?<.? ed his i wife, Belle. El more. H* cSJr - lapsed before he could be taken.tot? Court, with the exclamation:. I*n o dead man; I've taken poison 99k lets.". The ease was postponed In ?? greatest excitement, a stomach p-ec&jr was hurriedly brought into play ?3BS the sick man was carried first to ??? prison hospital, adjacent, and later'fea Bellevuo, where he lies In the prisss? ward. No charge of attempted s?i clde is entered againit him, and tt I* thought, he will recover, although the action of hyoscin is slow, azD much will depend on'hia vitality. The time at which Robin took, to* drug is approxiately fixed by the tes timony of Dr. Austin Flint, retains? for Robin by William Travers Jer ome, his counsel; Dr. Louise RoM* ovitch, his sister, and two deteotfvsB^' . from the district attorney's offioci who rode with him from his sistejSs house to the Criminal Court bufidfifts; Dr. Flint told the Court that as nato^ ly as he could Judge from the eysHa tome, the poison had been in Robt? . system about three-quarters ? on 'Baa hour when he collapsed. ' The two detectives, were posWte their prisoner BwaSowed' nothing tea the' way to Court. Dr. RobinovtSEh* said her.brojherwa^ioi the habit 6? taking hyoscin in' small' doses. t? counteract the effects "of inorphSstBw which hie used to deaden the sta$b- . ing pafss by which {$#1 'stones mai? . themselves known. She kept the dn?:. j . in her house and she thought her brother swallowed twelve tablets. Et Bellevue the ."Examining surgeons {es timated that Robin had taken abo&x one^-tenth of a grain. Robin seemed in good health. Sat urday morning, 'better than at fStXf time since his troubles commenitfL,. Th0 Qrst sigh of illness was when &? staggered, on stepping from hie Stir tomeblle to the Criminal Court bu22?- ; Ing. : In the elevator hie weakened %? rapldby that the 'detentives hod Jb> > lift Mm to a couch. There he'sa?hc I?o unconsciousness and was not. *& ylv?d -nntil ' the sttfrnaoh piuap 1eb3 been worked vigordusty. Its praam* nse undoubtedly saved hie life. Oetslde the corridors of the Qft mlnal Court building fairly hummed with excitement, but in the Court tif General Sessions itself Judge Crata - was ' transacting business as usual , when Wm. T. Jerome stepped rapld&r down the- aisle. "Your Honor," he began, hurrfafc ly, "I am here in the Robin case. It appears that the defendant has ta&te* a drug. He cannot be stimulated. An ambulance has been called onX surgeons are now pumping out Sfia Bio mach. The circumstances ore ia avoldable." On Information that the prtsayer could not possibly be arraigned, ?jc< case was postponed until the reccfrjfe of further advices to Robin's oantft tion. '? ?-'? < "? \ . 1 Hyoscin is described in the text, books as an alkaloid of henbane and In its" action a cerebral and spinal sen dative." Cases ore recorded Sa which a dozen tablets of 1-2 5th gatau applies' i the membranes of the cysa have ,. ouced several general taste symptoms. hi Robin's frustrated attempt tetfies the question of his insanity stlD 2jp en. ? There was no farther developxasttr in connection with either the Kotfc ern Bank of New York or the Wash ington Bavinrh Bank, both of whHh are In the hands of the State banking department, but the State dep&it me&t;'Of insurance took over the af fairs of the Title and Guaranie? Company, of Rochester, N. Y., and "& large force of accountants are ax work on the ledgers of the many T? tewoven concerns whieh Robin pt&" mo ted. >. Cleaned Fp Family. At Baltimore, Md., as a climax to> a series of bitter quarrels between1 Wm. C. Strickles and his wife, tSa former Friday shot and killed th& latter and his 19-year-oW stepdaoghi er, Eula Kile. Strickles, who was employed as a fireman at a power house, then fired a bullet Info hia own teiPn'e > Kills Small Child. At Bristol, Tenn., Mathew Tlinn, aged 8 years, was fatally shot Frhfjjjr : night by Robert Hill, an old \nUQfc' whom be had been persistently teas ing. The ball lodged hear tho ohH?Ja? heart and he died Saturday. HUE was arrested. * ^