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'U CAVE IT AWAY. low Mr. and Mrs. Bry an Dis tributed the Bennett Fund. The South Caro&.a Cliige GBt Four Hundred DAllars oth Fund. Other Collges in the South Were Also Gincn a Share of the Fund, N w at thCinntt estatLeis finally s el r.Brya subm its the following U- et -e.; to e public: In tie sp-i *- 100 M. PaiLI S. Bennett, living as New Baean, Conn., aud engage d :. - r:.tie business in~ the ciyo N YrYk, visited N brask. and a'ivi Mr. Beyan to assisz him iU prei.aric certaLi paragraPCs of his Will li ie Ot-.r pr-visirs be ing copied fraz. a Sormer wi.) The paragrapbs rearmd [: wn Erst, for a library at Se 1 t pruvId ed for a beqiuest- o 1 to whdch Mr. Bryan was to a . ) Secod $10.000 to es ',bih a - ,d at twenty five colleges, be seicted by Mr. .Br; an, the an-uai pr, c b.di 1c be used for a priza to CoUeuaZ.e a study of the principles of f;e goVernmeat. Third, 810,000 to bes ributed among col lege, to be sclcoted by Mr. Bryan, the annual inco e to be used to aid poor boys to obtain an education. Fourth, $10,000 to be ditributed among colleges, to be suol cted by Mrs. Bryani, the annu. ii 7-c ms to be use, to assist poor girls and obtain an edu cation. Fifth. $5000 to Mrs. Be3n nett, in trust for a purpcse set forth in a sealed letter deposited with the will. Tnis sualed le-ter directed Mrs. Bennett to pay the amunt to Mr. Bryan (Mr. Bennett proposi.d it as a direct beqest but at the request of Mr. Bryan it was given to Mrs. Ben nett in trust, because its a.cptance was conditional.) The sealed letter directed Mr. Ber an to distribute the $50,000 among eucianal ad charit able institu:iens in ca.se he refused to accept it far hime.if and family. The residuary legates cantested the three $10,000 items and tLe $50,000 item. The court condzmed the $10,000 items but on tecaical grounds held that the $50,000 bequest was inoperative. The readers of The Commoner have already been informed of the main facts, namely, that the widow and other relatives were bountifully pro vided for; that the testator'i intention was never questioned and that the charge of uadue iniEaence was with draw&:; and that Mr. Bryan announc ed in the beginning that he would not accept the bcquest withous the con sent of the wiciow, but that he felt in honor bound to insist upon the dis tribution of the $50, 000 as directed by Mr. B-ennett. Mr. Bryan was thus drawn into a contest in which he had but a remote and contingens pecuniary interest, if in fact he had any a-t all, but which he could not in con-.cience abandon. The contest cost him a little more than fifteen hundred dollars for attor ney's fees and court costs, besides travelin~g expenses andi loss of time. In submitting his report as execu tor he claimed tne customary fee $2, 500, explaining that tne amount would not be-used by him for himself, but would be spent in completing the plans made by Mr. Bernett. The fee was allowed.-by the prooate court and was used as follows: Fourteen hundred and eighty-Dine dollars and forty~-three cents was Lsed to pay that part of the inheritancetax which was not covered by interest, so that the 81,500 library tund, and the three $10,C00 funds might be used in full. Three bundred and tiity dollars was given to the city of Sale~m as an endownment for the library (Mr. Bry an besides giving $1,500 to the Salem library gives the site, worth consider ably more than $350 ) T wo hundred dollars has been deposited with Mr. Sloan, Mr. Bennet's surviving partner. to pay for a bust of Mr. Bennett for the Salem library. The balance, 8460, 57 less the cost of ri:ing reports, will be paid to Rev. Alexandier Ir'ine. Mr. Bennett' passer, to be used by him in the education of nis sons. ' The three $10,000 funds have been distributed as Collows: BENSETT PRIiZE FUND. Four hundred dollars each to the following colleger.: Deiaware College, Newnrk ,Del. Bowdoin College. Brunswick Me. A. and M. Coliege of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. Harvard Un.iversity, Cambridge, Dartmcuth C~ilege, Hanrovor, N. H. UniversIty of Tennessee, Knoxville T.enn. St. John's Cilcge, Armnapolis, Md. University cf I:aio, Moscoow, Idaho. University of Montana, Missoula; Mont. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, University of Washington, Seattle, Univeinsity of South Dr~kota, Ver University cf Cn:-ifornia, Berkeley, Cal. Nevada State University, Reno Nev. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. Scuth Carolina College, Columbia, S. C. Cornell University. L~hacn, N. Y. University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. University of Orcgcn, Eugene, Ore. Yale Unitersity, New Haven, Conn. Brown University, Providence, R, University of~ 2rth Dakota, Grand Forks, N. D. University of PKnsylvania, Phila delphia, PK. Princeton U:teity, Princeton, N. J. Etch colg is :cinvest the am~ount received an sem :-nnusl income for a pri-af r bh est essay d:scuss ing the prin'e~pe of free g avernment. Mr. Bry::n had niheady esta.blished similar pr ze in nieen srsates and the twienty.i:l: celage:, selected for' the Benne-tt priza werne selected rrom other stat e s-, tuac ev:ery state but' one now oo'ntains a codLge 4:ving such a prze. The un~d fo: tbs a~id o; por boys deslrirg 3.clage eduation~ was dis tribute i by Mr. Bryan as fullow: One thousa.nd dollars to Ilni olege, Jacksonville, Ill., and $50 ach to Park College, Parkvile, Mo., Lnd College of William & Mary, Wil iamsburg, Va. Also $500 to each )f the following colleges: Deane Cohege, Crete, Neb. Howard College, East Lake, (Near Birmingham, Ala) Hendrix College, Conway, Ark Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, Tuskegee, Ala. Kenyon College, Gambier, O Muskingun College, New Concord, Ohio. St.. O'af College, Northfield, Minn. Hillsdale College, Conway, Ark. Uviveriity of the South, Sewanee Tenu. Trnity University, Waxahachie, Texas. Ripon College, Ripon, Wis. Nazareth College, Muskogee, I. T. 11pe Ccllege, Holland, Mich. Butler College, Indianapolis, Ind. Sutherland College, Sutherland,Fla. MES. BRYAN'S FUTND FOR GIRLS. The fund for the aid of poor girls desiring to obtain a college education was distributed by Mrs. Bryan as fol lows: $500 to each of the following colleges: Georgia Normal and Industrial Col lege, Milledgeville, Ga. Eureka College, Eureka, Ill. Hastings Colhege, Hastings, Neb. Wesleyan University, Buchannon, W. Va. Henry Kendall College, Muskogee, I. T. Williamsburg Institute, Williams burg, Ky. Wesleyan University, University Place, Neb. Baylor University, Waco, Tex. Iowa College, Grinnell, Ia. Tulane University of Louisana, New Orleans, Lt. State Normal and Industrial Col lege, Greenstori, N. C. Hiram CollEge, Hiram, 0. Kingfisher College Kingfisher,0. T. Academy of the Visitation, Dubu que, Ia. Williams Industrial College, Little Rock, Ark. Ewing College, Ewing, Ill. Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan. University cf ArizonaTuson,Ariz. University of New Mexico, Albu querque, N. M. The Mississippi Industrial Institute and College, Columbus, Miss. As the boys who are helped by the fund are to return the money to the college as soon after leaving college as they can conviently do so and as the money when so returned is to be advanced to others the aid extended will corstantly increase. The girls alded are asked to do the same, but it not required of them. In distributing the prize fund pre ference wa; given to state universities except where the state contained some college of grcater importance. In distributing the funds for the ad of poor boys and girls preference was generally given to the smaller colleges-the same amount of money going father among these colleges. All the principal denominations were recognized in the distribution a little partiality being shown the Congregational colleges because Mr. Bennett attended the Congregational church. T wo colored schools were included and one of the other colleges has a considerable number of Indians en. rolled among its students. The var ious funds were so distributed that in at least one college in every state and territory between the two cceans a permanent Bennett fund will i.erpet uate the name and recall the gene rosity of Philo Sherman Bennett. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan of course re ceived no compe nssatI n for distribu ting these furds i ut they are richly rewarded for the little tl-cy have been able to do by th~e consciousness that they have aided a friend to make a valuable contribution to his own and subsequent generations. The Bennett case has given Mr. Bryan a great deal of annoyance and some of the republican papers have malicious ly misrepresented the facts but it is over and the money secured for educa tional purposes will prove a continu ing blessing to thousands of boys and girls, while the annoyance will Boon be forgotten. . FATAITIXS ON THE RAILROAD. More Km~ied and Injared this Year Than last Year. Accident bulletin No. 16, which has just been issued by the interstate commerce commission, giving the number of rail-road accidents in the United States for the months of April May and June, 1905, shows that dur in, that quarter there were 41 pass engers and 221 employee killed arnd 1253 passengers and 1,511 employes injured in train accidents. Other ac cidents to passengers and employee not the result of collisions or derail ments bring the total number of cas ualties up to 14.669 (886 killed and 13,783 injured). This bulletin completes the publica tion of the record of accidents for the year ended June 30, 1905, which in the total number shows an increase of 11 killed and 4,123 injured among passengers and employes as compared with the number reported for the year ended June 30, 1904. The increase in the number killed is wholly among passengers, there being a decrease of 106 In the number of employes killed. An ir crease of 117 in the number of passengers killed makes aa increase of 11 In the total killed of both passengers and employ es as above stated. Of the Increased number injured 1,963 were passengers1 and 2,160 were emnploycs. In coupling accdents, which occur wholly to em ployes, the total number of deaths, 243 is 35 less than for the year preced ig. and the number of injuries 3,441 is 331 less. An advance complation made from annual rep~rts of railroad companies, which however, is not complete, indi cates that the number of men employ ed on railroads on June 30, 1905, was about 9 per cent. greater than on June 30, 1904. Bryan Meets Togo. At Tokio William J. Bryan was presented at a reception In honor of Admiral Togo. The mayor introduc ed Mr. Bryan to the Admiral. An exchange of cordial sentiments follow ed. The Admiral was delighted at the unexpected presence of Mr. Bryan It trnspired that Togo did not an chor even once in five months from the time of the big naval battle of August 10, 1904, till the Russian bat teshp Sevastopol was torpedoed in the last days of December. A Fezt in Wireless.3 The Cape Henry naval wireless sta tion established a record Thursday nght in taking a message from the steamship Grown Prince, 450 miles from the cape. The ship was off Boone [sland ~n the coast of Maine when the essage was sent. The operator at Fort Henry could hear distinctly every END OF TOUR. The President Visits New Or. leans and Sails for Home. A CROWD SO LARGE Gathers in Front of the City Hall That it was Impossible for the Military and Civic Parade to Pass in Review of the President. President Raosevelt, accompanied by Secretary Loeb and Surgeon Gen eral Rixey, arrived at New Orleans by special train from Memphis at nine o'clock Thursday morning. A reception committee, headed by May or Martin Behrman, received the president at the station. An enor mous crowd was assembled in front of the station when the president ar rived and received him with enthusi astic cheers, which continued until the carriages, bearing the president and other members of the party as well as the members of the reception committee, had vanished from sight down Canal street. Detachments of mounted state troops formed the military escort of the. president. At the end of nine strenous hours of varied entertainment in New Or leans, closing a pleasant trip through the South, President Roosevelt at 6:30 Thursday night boarded the light house tender Magnolia and began his return journey to Washington. No newspaper representative ac companied the President on the boat and he will be out of touch with the world throughout the night, by day light tomorrow is expected to bring news of his successaul tranfer to the armored cruiser West Virginia, which lies at anchor off the mouth of the Mississippi River to rcceive him and carry him on towards the Capital. For four days the President will be off Amerizan soil, but by wireless telegraphy it is promised he will be in communication with the shore. Tae President's stay in New Or leans was made a testimonial of popu lar esteem and of grateful recognition for the service which he rendered the city in its struggle against yellow fever. The dens.ly crowded streets, the elaborate decorations, the wild ap plause that greeted the President along the route of the parade, the en thusiasm with which his address to the mulitude in Lifayette Square was eceived and the remarkable demore stration in his honor at the luncheon, made the day replete with cordial welcome to tne nations Chief Execu tive. The President was compelled to abandone one public address before he had gotten well started on it. It was comtemplated that the military and civic parade should pass in review before the President at the City Hall, but the crowd which gathered at this point was so tremendrous that neith er the police nor the troops were able to move it, and the President, fore. seeing a possible p~imic, finally gave up the attempt to speak and left the platform. The crowd jammed Char les street all the way from Poydras street to Ninth street, and it spread over Lafayette Square almost from St. Charles street to Camp street. Probably 50,003 persons were gather ed in and around the stand from which the President was to have de livered the address. When the Presi dent decided to abandon his E ffort, he shouted to the throng to go home and be good citizens and disappered into the mayor's parlors well nigh ex hasted. He said that the reception was the greatest that he had since he had started on his trip. The demonstration at the lurcheon was scarcely less exuberant. When the President entered the superbly decorated dining hail the 625 ban queters rose and gave way to frantic cheers. Every reference of Gover:nor Blanchard, Mayor Behrman and P;esi dent Sanders, of the Progressive Union, to the guest brought forth a perfecL storm of cheering, and when the Piesident rose he had great diffi culty in speaking. Every thought he uttered was the signal for an extra ordinary exhibition of enthusiasm, rand as his speech dealt almost entire ly'with local subjects, and bad special reference to the fight against yellow fever, the banquet developed into un ceasing laudation of the President while he was on his feet. An immense crowd packed Gravier and St. Charles streets as the dinner ended, and the apperance of the President on the way to the river, provoked thunderous applause. As the Magnolia left the landing a Presi dential salute was fired, while the din of hundreds of steam whistles mngled with the lusty cheering of acres of people who had collected on the wharf. From the moment of his arrival, early in the forenoon, until he said farewell from the deck of the Mag nolia at night, the President was con stantly in the limelight. The crowd ed programme gave him no opportu nity for rest, but he exgressed keen enjoyment of his visit. Nowhere did the President see the slightest evi dence of the existance of yellow fever, but he sa-w on every hand immense gatherings of cordial and contented people. Drunken Zonductor. At Savannah Ga.., E. A. Moore, a street car conductor Thursday after noon in an altercation with a passen ger, drew a heavy revolver and fired three shots. the first shot went wild the second struck and kil'ed Mrs. F. F. Wheeler, and third went through the thigh of C. R. Seckinger, the passener involved in the altercation. Mrs. Wheeler was sitting on her front steps. The bullet severed her jugu lar vein. Mrs. Jane E. Fairchilds jumped from the car, as did the other passengers when the shooting began. Mrs. Fa~irchilds sustained a broken shoulder from her fall. Moore was arrested. It is alleged he was drink A Dead Town. Wadsworth, Nev., was once a lively railroad town with about 4,000 inhab Itants, but now It Is only a collection of deserted shacks. These houses are verrun with wild cats, for when the bown was deserted about 400 cats 1 were left behind, and they have in- t rea~sed rapicly and heeded the call of ' the wild I FA.(M1RS RE lHMO. rhe Partridge restroyes Many Noxi ous Weeds and Insects. rhey Sbould Be Protected by the Farmers, as They Destroy Many :hings Irjurk'us to Crops. The dep.rtment of Agriculture has issued an interesting bulletin on the qualls of the United States that tends to correct some popular errors regard !ng "Bob White," and is a strong plei for his preservation as an alley of the farmer. There are half a dozen vari eties of quail in the United States, the handsomest being those of the Southwest and the Pacific slope, where they are slate blue in color and hand somely crested. But the principal in terest in this best known of all game birds is that it is a valuable asset of the farmer and helpful rather than destructive to the growing crops. A thorough study of the bird has been made by the department without finding any evidence that it is harm ful to crops. It eats principally nox ious weed seeds and bugs injurious to the crops. It does not trouble either the sprouting grain, as do the crows and blachbirds, and does not feed on the standing crops or forage among the stacks. When it does eat grain it is only what is gleaus from the har vested fields. It prefers weeds and does not eat wheat and corn if it can get sumach, ragweed and bay berries. A close c3lculation was made by the department of the number of Bob Whites in Virginia and North Carc lina, the total approximating 354,820. It is known from a long series of ex periments that the craw of the bird holds about half an ounce, of which fully 50 per cent is weed seed. At this rate from September I to April 30 in Virginia and North Carolina alone, the birds eat 3,341 tons of weed seeds. Amor.g the rsects on which the birds hatituially fead are the Rock Mountain Lcust, in Colorado potato tug, the boll-weevil, the cut worm, the army worm and two sorts of cot ton worms. The chicks are even more Mighly insectivorous than the old bids. The department urges all land own ers to realize the value of the Bob White. It says that with proper man agement some farms of 500 to 1,000 acres would yield more revenue from Bob Whites than from poultry. It is estimated that between 300,000 and 400,000 sportsmen go out from the cit ies every fall to hunt the Bob White, and this, of course, means a big reve nue, most of which goes to the farai ers. Paradoxical as it may seem, sports men exercise a powerful influence in protecting the birds. Many big pre serves are maintained where the quail are used only for field trials for dogs and are either not shot at all or shot under very close restrictions. Some clubs maintain preserves of 20,000 to 50,000 acres, and many sportsmen bavE their own preserves exclusively for dog trials. The demand for live quail for this purpose is steadily increasing, and there would be a good revenue if the Bob White could be bred in captivity on any extensive scale. This has been tried ar d has proved difficult, but the birds can be protected frcm their na tural enemies, snakes, skunks, owls, hawks and cats, and they can be fed. Eyery fews years, on the recurrence of unusually severe winters with heavy snows which cover the food supply, great numbers of Bob Whites perish, and sometimes in the uorthern part of its range the bird becomes almost ex inct. This unnecessary loss of life could be largely prevented if lard own ers and others interested would scat ~er a little grain In suitable places. This is done in some localities, as at Sandy Spring, Md., where H. H. Mill er drives over the snow covered coun try scattering grain for the starving quail. The practice is worthy of gen ral adoption. It is necessary orily while the ground is snow-bound and especially after sleet storm. The game laws in the several States very greatly, and in some States vary from county to county; but the de partment advises all States to limit their open season to one month. The Department of Agriculture ob tained three pairs of Bob Whites from Kansas, which after five month's cap tivity are almost as wild as when first aged, and show no signs of mating. Experiments in the domestication ol B ab Whites are well worth trying, however, because of the demand from clubs and individuals for live birds to restock their grounds. So great has become the demand in recent years that it is estimated that 200,000 birds would be required annually to fill it. During the spring of 1903 the demand far exceeded the supply, even at $5 a d zen, and sometimes at twice that fgure. The bulletin gives an interesting table of the birds' food made from the average of many analyses- It shows that the chief part of the Bob Whites' diet is animal and vegetable matter of which the farmer is glad to be rid, while the damage that can be traced to him is absolutely negligible. Trolley Accident. A dispatch from New York says a runaway street car on the new Wil lamburg suspension bridge across the Est river Thursday caused Injury to twenty-five persons, two probably fa tally. For a thousand feet down the incline on the Manhattan approach of the bridge a Christopher street car ran with brakes out of order until it hit and demolished a standing Fourteenth street car, in which were seventy-five passengers. In the latter car most of the injuries occurred. It was ten min utes before the broked roof, sides and door of this car could be taken off from the last passnger, who was buried under the wreckage. John Holden, motorman of the Christopher street cr, and George Bryld, an employee of the Western Electric Company, suff ered fractured skulls and are not ex pected to live. Fireman Killed. Seeking to escape death from scald ng steam pouring from a bursted a~rch pipe, Frank Dix, a negro fire man on engine No.212, jumped or fell from the cab Thursday morning at 3:20 a. m. about fourteen miles out of Oharleston on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, and was dashed to his death t the side of the track. The chest f the fireman was crushed and his dbs smashed by the impact of his bo ly striking the ditch bottom from he flying engine. Engineer Meyers ;aved himself from Injury by leaping hrough a window of the cab onto the >oler of the engine. Will Visit Us. Secretary of War Bonaparte has romised to visit Charleston some ie in November or December, on he cmzasion of the presentation of a iver service to the cruiser "Charles CAMPAIGN AGAINST IUSSAC By the Kitcbings Mill L-w and Or der L -ague. The IKitchings Mil L .w and Order League has started upon its campaign against the makers of and dealers in "russac" whiskey in that locality. At the first meeting at Burkaloo academy on Saturday, Oct. 14, a com mittee was appointed to admonish those who were known to be engaged in the illegal business. Tuis com mittee went to work immeciately and it is understocd that, so far, the re 6ults of their efforts are thoroughly satisfactory. Tae second meeting was held on Saturday last and it was decided to extend the work throughout the Shaws Fork section, about 10 miles below Aiken. It has been said that there are not more than three white men in that vicinity who are not en gaged, eicher directly or indirectly in the making and selling of "tussac." And most of these people own fine farms and comfortable homes. O course this estimate may be slightly in error, and there may be more citizens of the Shaws Fork sec tion who are not engaged in the "Aus sac" business than that section Is credited with having. At any rate, the Kitchings Mill league is g ing to find out who's who. The movement is of course arousing scme resentment but very little open hostilitity. The mt mbers of the league have resolve d to disregard all ties and to use their best efforts tosuppress the evil. The committee appointed at the first meeting to drafb resolutions pre sented the following, which were un animously adopted by the meeting of Saturday: "The object of this organization is to stamp out lawlessness of all forms and especially the illicit manufacture and sale of wbiskey. "Whereas it is commonly reported that whiskey is being manufactured and sold in this community contrary to law, and this body condems this as one of the worst forms of lawless ness and liable to bring shame and disgrace upon many of our most pro mising young men; therefore be it re solved: "First, That we enter our protest against this evil and work for its sup pression In an active way. "Second, That we earnestly admon ish all persons engaged in this unlaw ful business to discontinue same at once and save this club the necessity of proceeding against them. "Third, That all persons who do not heed the admonition of this club will be dealt with according to law. "Fourtb, That we pledge ourselves regardless of ties of friendship or other ties to use our best eff arts to sup press the evil at d promise officers of the law our most cordial support and assistance in the discharge of their duties. "Fifth, That we instruct the secre tary to send copy of these resolutions to any one who is repored to this club as being engaged in the illegal manufs cture or sale of whiskey. "Sixth, That we ask the county pa pers to publish and other papers to please copy." Daily and Weekly Newspapers. The Commoner says few avocations offer a larger field for usefulness than journalism and few are more .broad ening. Like the lawyer the journal 1st is constantly engaged in intellect ual combats arnd his wits are sharp ened by thekeenness of his adversary. The journalist deals with every ques tion that affects humanity and Is trained to look upon all sides of a subject. The business side of j jur nalism offers large rewards for recog nized capacity: the reportod~ai side is furnishing mental discipline as well as remuneration to an army of young men and the editorial department is still more fascinating where the edi tor is permitted to write what he thinks. But nothing is more pitable than to see a strong mind grinding out editorials which offend against the conscience of the writer. No one should consent to write against his conviction. Tne greatest trcuble with the large dailies is that they are huge business enterprises and the policy of such papers on political questionas is too often controlled by the counting room. As nearly all the great dailies are published by cor porations, the public is often ignor ant of the real owner and sometimes those who desire to exploit the pub lic take advantage of this fact and secure control of papers for the pur pose of advancing their enterprises. The weeklies require lese expensive plants, and a much larger proportion of them are edited by the owners. For the reason that it speaks the con victions of one who can be indeuti fled, and has back of it a character and a conscience the weekly exerts far greater political influence, in pro portion to its circulation, than the Impersonal daily. It is likely that the daily will become more and more exclusively a newspaper, leaving the the editorial discussion of political discussion of political questions to the weeklies which are edited by their owners. Miss Alice's Gifts. If the president's daughter desires to keep all the costly presents present ted to her trip abroad she will likely have to have the help of congress. In no other way will she be able to get them in duty free, unless she will do nate them to some national Institu tion. The law makes no exceptions in favor of the president or members of his family; consequently when Miss Roosevelt arrives at San Fran cisco she will have to the custom offi cials the value of all the articles she brings with her. If they are really worth as much as reported, $400,000, Miss Roosevelt could not afford to pay the duty, which amcunt to as mnuch as her fathers salary for one year. A Dynamite Outrage. A charge of dynamite, explcdsd in the doorway of the grocery store of Antonio Garbalvo, at 13 Stanton street, on the Eaist Side, New York, early Wednesday morning, wrecked the lower half of the front of the buil ding, shattered windows in the tene ments above and threw Into a panic hundreds of tenants in the neighbor hood. No one was seriously injured. The outrage is believed to have been directed againsa Garbalvo, who with his two sisters. occupies living rooms at the rear of the store. Garbalvo a week ago received a Black Hand let ter demanding $1,000. Guests Left. The appearence of a negro football player at a table mn a Chicago hotel caused the hotel to lose eight fami ies who were boarding there. The management of the hotel exercised he right of choosing their guests and. the boarders evercised the right of: ,hooing their asaite A LICK TRICK Said to Have Been Worked on a Farmer in Union. A dispatch from Union to the Char leston Past says is current here about a well known farmer of Burnt Facto ry, a remote section of this country, now having 1,086 more acces of land on his bands than he wants, and for which he paid a fancy pric,, all cu account of a slick talk!ng man, who said he represented the Standard Oil Company, of Chicago. The story is that the stranger came to Union the first of the month, when financiers and mill men were meeting here, and registored at the Hotel Union. He was a man of rather nice appearance, clean shaven and about twenty-fi. e years old. In s-me way he became acquainted with the farm er, who is about fifty years of age and all his lfe has been a hard working and frugal farmer, having now ac quired considerable means. The strarger told the farmer he was in search of mineral lands for hi company, and after going over the farmer's land, said he wanted the ad joining place also. He asked the farmer to find out If this could be bought and at what price, though not to mention him in it, as the owner might wish too much, if he thought an outside man wanted it. Some days afterward, as the story continues, the farmer claims to have reported to his client that he could get all the land at 810.50 an acre, which is considerably more than it ih worth, though he did not say so. The price seemed satisfactory to the stranger and he told the farmer to gc ahead and buy the place, pay for it, and he would take the two propertieE off his hands, making payment foi both at one time. It seems that the farmer then weni to Spartanburg, where he had some hard earned savings amounting to, with Interest, over $2,000. This ht drew out, ard, it is said, arrangec w, tb a bank for the balance, mortgag &. his property to secare it. He ther paio, 6o it is alleged, his neighbor toi the land, got the title and came t( Union to turn it over to the Chicago an, but he failed to find his man After two days he returned. Thi Chicagoan was still absent. Agan last Friday he came, but his would-bi representative of the Standard 0 Company had entirely disappeared. Now the farmer is anxiously lookinj and waiting for news of him, and ix the meantime is the possessor of $11, 403 worth of land that he does no1 want. As to the Chicagoan, it i carrently believed that he got a goo( rake off for making the sale, and wil never be heard of again, as a telegran to a local newspaper, from the Stand ard Oil Company, of Chicago, sayi that he is neither now nor has been ii their employ. Some Sarcastic Comment. At a recent diocesan convention Ii the neighborhood of New York Rev John Marshall Chew of Nswburgh of fered the following resolution: "Tba no talentifor high finance no useful service to the community, no benefac ion to the church or to objects o philanthropy can excuse or atone fo: dereliction in trust, contempt for thi rights of others, or disregard of th rules of common honesty." Bishoj Potter opposed the resolution and ad vised Rev. M. Chew that It was uin timely, and remarked to the effec that we should not pass judgment il a final verdict has bien rendered b' those who are investigating. T ae New York Evening Post, with cbarmlnj sarcasm anent Bishop Potter's view that "the church will get into no eni of trouble If it meddles with morals especially those of the rich." Thea the Post mildly remarks that Rev Chew "wculd certai-nly not presumi to set up mere morality instead of las as a test of condu~t." If this sarcasn has no effect let them refer to the lit tle biblical Incident of the fable 3oth am related to &bimelech concernin5 the trees that would bgve a king ti rule over them. It would seem tha Bishop Potter is seeking shade beneati some very thin financial timber. A Monstrons Doctrine. Referring to contributions to cam paign funds, the Chicago Chronicli says: "They are good or bad, accord ing to the mo~ive with which they are given and the use to which they arn pub." And then referring particular ly to Insurance contributions to thi republican campaign fund, the Chron Icle adds: "The money used to defeal William J. Bryan and the democratii party was b briously put to good use.' Then, we presume, says The Common er, it Is of no importance that thes& particular contributions were stoler from the policyholders. A great man3 desperate efforts have been made t< support "the end justitles the means' doctrine; but newspapers of characte: are not as a rule bold enough to sup port that doctrine as blumt1y as the Chicago Chronicle does. Carried to It! logical conclusion the Chronicle's doc. trine would mean that a Chicago pick pocket could purge himself of sin b3 contributing a portion of his Ill gotter gains to the Salvation Army, or, tc draw a more complete parallel witi the instance under discussion, by ex pending a portion of his stealings It the effort to secure the appointment of a chief of police who would permit hium to continue his bad practices. Hanging in Florida. At Tampa, Fla., Edward Lamb, white, who shot and killed Christo pher D. Kennedy, also white, In Man atee county, two years ago, 2:. hang ed Friday at the county jail at Braia. entown in the presence of 100 wIt. nesses. Lamb insisted on having his photograph taken be f.re going to the gallows and was perfectly cool though out. At the foot of the gallows he affectionately said good by to his son. sister and brother-in-law, kissing each of them and asking them to meet him in heaven. Five Deer Found Deed Sportsmen about Charleston are concerned over the number of dead deer found In the woods, five being discoved in the past week lying dead apparently without any reason for their deaths. Some of the hunters sa that paris green used on cotton plants to kill caterpillers is responsi ble for the killing of the deer, which have eaten the poison anjd died from its effects. None of the deer had "black tongue." Big Suit. Ex-Gov. yames S. Hogg of Texas as brought suit against the Interna lonal and Great Northern railroad :or one million dollars for injuries rE ~elved on the road last January. He ays these injuries are the cause of his >resent Illness, which is likely to re ut in h is death._ VULTURES OF MEXICO HOW THESE EmIDS HAUNT THE ARID ALKALI PLAINS. The Whirring Mlack Cone of Enger Desert Scayengers and the Way In Which the Cireling Maus Descends Upon Its Carrion Prey. At night the moon looks down upon a desolate, arid plain, stretching away to the great Sierra Madre mountain cbain, deep, shadowy blue, against the we.stern sky. The air is chill. and a leak wind searches out every fold In our blankets-we might almost bc spending a night on the tundras. With scarce a moment of dawn the sun duods everything, a most welcome warmth for awhile, soon to make one I gasp in its breathless heat. Long be fore the rainy season actually begins vegetation seems to feel a quickening in the air; the plants scent the coming moisture freeks beforehand; the rush ing streams, swollen with the melting snows from the lower mountain tops, bring life to the lands through which they flow; spring is awakening every where-except on the alkali plain. Where a thin rind of red brown grass roots partly covers the white dust, parched mesquite bushes find root, and strange, uncouth organ cacti rear their colunus, like mammoth can delabra. Here wild eyed cattle roam uneasily, nibbling occasionally at the bitter grass stems. Farther out in the desert, where even the mesquite and cacti fail, we ride slowly across the parched surface, wondering if a single living thing can endure the bitterness of the earth. In the distance move the whirlwinds of dust, tall, thin columns with perfectly distinct outlines. undulating slowly here and there, both life and death In their silent movement. Most remarkable it seems to us when a stray great blue heron now and then files silently up from the desert (what can possibly attract these birds to such a place of death as this, distant even from the bitter pools?) and flaps slowly out of sight Twice a great ebony raven sails through the dusty air over our heads-the same bird repassing. No other life is visible save the bal anced black specks high against the blue, as invariably a part of a Mexican day as are stars of the night Herons, vultures, raven-all move slowly, seem ing less alive than the distant dust columns. But we feel the real spirit of the eternal desert when, as we turn to re trace our steps, we spy a something white, different fLvm the surrounding earth, and the spell of past agesfalls upon us. The bitter water is ever dry ing up, the whirlwinds carry the dust from place to place, the birds come and go as they please, but this relic of an elephant of the olden time brings I past and present into close touch. What scenes has the desert looked upon since this mammoth staggered dying into the quagmire which proved Its tomb? Our eyes smart from the dust as we reluctantly turn our horses' beads on the back trail, for we should I like to stay ~and search out these fos. sils-more fascinating in a way than the living beasts and birds which peo pe the tropics beyond. One of the most wonderful of the exhibitions of bird life vouchsafed to us in Mexico comes as we leave the alkali plain and ride away among the mesquite scrub. A confused mass of black appears in the air, which soon re solves itself into hundreds of indivld al specks. The atmosphere is so des ceving that what at first seems to be a vast cloud of gnats close at hand is soon seen to be a multitude of birds blackbirds, perhaps, until we approach and think them ravens and, finally, when a quarter of a mile away, we know that they are vultures. Three burros lie dead upon the plain. This we knew yesterday, and here are the scavengers. Never have we seen vul tures so numerous or in such order. A careful scrutiny through the glass. es shows many score of black and tur key buzzards walking about and feed. mg upon the carcases of the animals. From this point there extends upward into the air a vast inverted cone of birds, all circling i the same direction. From where we sit upon our horses there seems not a single one out of place, the outline of the cone being as smooth and distinct as though the birds were limited in their flight to this par ticular area. It is a rare sight, the sun lighting up every bird on the farther side and shadowing black as night those nearest us. Through one's partly closed eyes the whole mass appears as a myriad of slowly revolving wheels, Intersect ing and crosing each other's orbIts, but never breaking their circular out line. The thousands of soaring forms hold us spellbound for 'minutes before we rode closer. Now a change takes place, as gradual but as sure as the shifting clouds of a sunset Until this moment there had been a tendency to concentrate at the base of the cone1 that portion becoming blacker and blacker, until It seemed a solid mass of rapidly revolving forms. But at our near approach, this concentration Iceases and there Is perfect equilibrium for a time. Then, as we ride up a gen tle slope into clearer view, a wonder ful ascent begins. Slowly the creeping spiral wings upward; the gigantic In verted cone, still perfeet in shape, lifts clear of the ground and drifts away; the summit rises in a curve, which, lit. te by little, frays out into ragged lines, all drifting in the same direction, and before our very eyes the thousands of birds merge into a shapeless, undu lating cloud, which rises and rises, spreading out more and more until the eye can no longer distinguish the birds, which from vultures dwindle to mere motes floating and lost among the clouds.-C. William Beebe in New York Post Big Cannal Projected. President John S. Shaw and the board of directors of the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Company, accompanied by a number of engineers and other advisors, started from Pitts burg, Pa., Friday on a two days' trip to examine the two routes proposed for a ship canal connecting the Brie Lake with the Ohio river. At Ashta bula, Ohio, the Pittsburg party will be joined by the officers of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Ship canal Comp any, of which Joseph H. Cassidy, of Cleveland, Is president, and the two organiztons will continue the trip to. ether. One of the two routes Is from Ahtabula, Ohio, to Pittsburg, the other from Erie to Pittsburg. Each route Is about 105- miles long, and the cost of either would be about $30,000, 000. President Shaw is of the opinion that the work could be completed and the canal opened to tratfle in the sum mer f 1911. Children Killed. A ti near Indianapolis, Ind., on Sunday struck a wagon load of nut pikers returning from the country, and killed two children and Injured eight the persnst CARPENTERS IN INDIA They Are Careless About Measur1e ments, 'ools and Time. The chief faults of the Indian car pentor are his ue-rlect of accurate measurement. his carelessness with re gard to the elliciecuy of his tools and his lack of perception of the value of time as a factor in the execution of Work. He has also to be taught to oc cupy his mind with the work in hand and as much as possible to exclude other subjects. For example, the making of a Jack plane involves the choice of the wood, considerations as to size, the angle of the blade and its cutting edge, the Widge and its holding power, the han dl and finally the operation of plan Ing. All these operations are capable of very simple explanation, and this exercise provokes an emulation among students while exercising their reason Ing powers. No Indian workman buys a plane. He buys the blade and makes' the rest, but he rarely makes it well. He buys a saw blade and makes the handle, and, generally speaking, he spends the smallest possible sum on his outfit in spite of the extra labor the economy involves. He must therefore be taught to make as many labor sav ing tools as possible and to make them well. He has to be ta-liht the use and repair of a grindstone and how to mount It in wood without metal fit tings. The hard, tough woods so com mon in India make this an easy mat ter. The Indian has yet to be taught that grinding and whetting are two distinct operations, the first removing 99.9 per cent of the metal and the sec ond producing the cutting edge in a few strokes. His saw is in such bad order that he cuts tenons, as a rule, with a mallet and chisel, and his Igno rance of gauges renders him unable to make even twenty articles exactly alike. He rarely knows what size of nail or screw to use on a given job, His screw is always too smalL-Ca sler's Magazine. APHORISMS. Nothing ages like laziness.-Bulwer. The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow.-Cowper. We can do nothing well without joy and a good conscience,- which Is the ground of Joy.-Dibbes. - He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one. All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.-Young. A word or nod from the good has more weight than the eloquent speeches of others.-Plutarch. Kind words prevent a good deal of that perversedness which rough and Imperious usage often produces in gen erous minds.-Locke. An inquisitive man is a creature nat urally very vacant of thought itself and therefore forced to apply to for eign assistance.-Steele. The only way to make the mass of mankind see the beauty of justice is by showing them in pretty plain terms the consequence of inJustice.-SydneY Smith. The Young Writei. No young writer in whom the liter ary aspiration is a passion need or really will be cowed by the array of mighty and expert antagonists in the arena whose names sound and resound so gloriously from the herald's trumpet In full volume re-enforced by past ti umphs. Though a true and becoming modesty may well temper his ambition, it should in no degree suppress his- ar dent longing. These veterans, young aspirant, are Indeed masters, but as such your exemplars. They also had their beginnings, hidden Indeed, as used to be the sources of the-Nile, "not permitted to be seen small," because they mastered their art before they exhibited as artists.-Ha.rper's Maga sine. Thief cleverness. A magistrate's clerk has been known to have his tie pin stolen while .in court, and one in Birmtingham a few years ago lost his coat in the same way, but a more remarkable example perhaps of a thief's cleverness unde? the very eyes of the polic, was that of -- the burglar at Clerkenwell who man aged to conceal two diamond rings, while the police were searching him ' and passed one of them to his wife in the cell while the police were looking on. The rings were under his tongue, and one of them passed from hissmouth to his wife's when he was kissing her goodby.-London Answers. A Lasting Lessen. "Didn't I tell you not to propose to me again?" "You said something of the kind, but of course It made no Impression on me." "Oh, it didn't! Well, I'll give you a lesson now that you won't forget. You'll never propose to me again." "What are you going to do?" "I'm going to accept yOu."-CIeT' land Plain Dealer. Dundam.n Mrs. Dumm-I see a piece in -the pa per about some society people bein' Ina terested in Buddhism. What's that? -- Mrs. Dumber-Why, I guess that must be the doin's of these young socd ety people that's called "buds."-Phila delpha Ledger. The sarest. Sharpe - Yes, Parker invented th. safest air ship ever heard of. Whealton^ But It refused to fly. You couldn't gel up on It. - "That's wtiy I say it was the safest.R success. She-And what would you call a suoa. cesful poet? He-One who leaves money enough to bury him.-Judge. A straight line Is shortest In morali as well as In geometry.-RaheL., Work of a Friend. Mrs. G. W. Moore, wife of a well known and prosperous mechant on Peachtree road, near Atlanta, was as saulted by a negro Thursday morning. Th track hounds have been following the negro all day, but at a late hour Thursday night he had not been cap tured. The county police continue the search and a large posse and all mem bers of the county police force will take up the hunt. There Is consider- - able excitement in the community, where the crime occurred, and It is feared the negro will be lynched if caught. Mr. Moore has offered $200 reward for the capture cf the negro. Mince pie has separated Charles and Margaret Lager. The work be gun by the pie was completed In the divorce court, before Judge Mack Saturday. The Lagers were married in 1900 In Buffalo. Tae bride was 18 years old. I could bake good pies, too declared the wife, but once I fail ed- just once. I made a mince pla a d forgot some Ingredients. Charles tasted it, and began an awful sputter ing. Then he swore' I talked back and he jumped -up and struck me in h fae 'Te cout ae her a dlv. .