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Makes Hom Royal Baking Powder produce at home, qui fine and tasty cake, the frosted layer cake crusts and mnffins, : wholesome, with whi< found at the shop or pare. Royal is the gre ROYAL COOK BOO] Send Name ROYM.AINC P THE SLUSH FUND W. H. Coak, Minesota Lumbermal Swears He Heard Edward Hies BARGAIN FOR LORIMER On the Stand, at Bribe: y Enquiry, Declares He Listened While Hines Told Some One in Springfield te Spare No Expense to Get Lorimer Elected Senator. At Springfield, Ill., C. F. Wiche brothers-in-law of Edward Hines, o Chicago, a lumberman Tuesday ad mitted before the senate bribery- in. restigation committeeThat Hines seni him on a midnight mission to the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago in at effort to have W. H. Cook and Wil liam O'Brien, Minnesota lumbermen evade Cook county process servers at the time the charges that bribery was used in the election of William Lor iner to the United States senate were first published in May. 1910. Wiehe's statement followed the tes tiniony of Wilto Cook of Duluth who, it was brought out, had writtena threatening letter to Hines. Wiehe corroborated some -of Cook's state ments, but denied the pungent part of his charge. Cook declared that he was in a room at the Grand Paicific hotel, May 26, 1909, with William O'Brier an~d Edward Hines when Hines tele graphed to some one called "Go" -. ernor" at Springfield. During this telephone conversation by Hines Cook said that Hines declared that he was ready to take the next traii: to'Springfield with all the money nee essary to effect William Lorimer's election to the senate. Lorimer's election occurred later that same day M1. B. Coan, investigator for the committee testified that he inter viewed William O'Brien in Duluth within the last week and that O'Brier told about the same story as Cook only differing that O'Brien got the impression that Former Gov. Richard Yates was on the Springfield end o: the telephone. Following the recital of Cook be fore the investigating committee Gov. Chas. S. Deneen issued a statement in which he declared that 'he had neve at anytime held such a con versation with Hines. Former Gov. Hines also denied that he ever had any such conversation with Hines as that related by Cook. Wiehe stated to the committee that he, although not in the room whet Hines got the Springfield call, believ ed that Hines talked to William Lor imer. Wiehe testified that on May 26, 1909. Hines set out for Chicago from Washin-gton to 8:30 a. mn. - Hine! said he had~ "put in"* several tele phone calls to Springfield on thai day but did not know whom Hines was calling. Hines at a previous Hearing testified that he talked with G'ov. Deneen on that morning fron the Continental and Commercial Na tional bank. Cook declared that he answered the telephone in his room at the Grand Pacific when the call came for Hines. "I understood the central girl tC say, 'Here's Governor' or 'The gov ernor 'of Springfield for Hines.'" H then related the conversation as he remembered it as follows: "Hines took down the receiver out of my hand and he spoke in the phone. He asked: 'Hello, hello, hel lo. is this you, governor? Well. I just left President Taft and Senator Al drich last night in Washington. Non they tell me that under no considera tion shall Hopk-ins be returned to the s'enate. Now, I will be down on the next train. Don't leave anything un done. I will be down en the nex1 train prepared to furnish all the mon ey required. Now, don't stop at any thing: don't leave anything undone: I will be down on the next train. Oi words to that effect, repeated ovei three or four times." Cook was specific regarding thle matter of money being mentioned and on cross examination repeated this part of the conversation. On this point of the Grand Pacific hotel conversation by Hines Wiehe testi fled: "Why, the conversation was sub stantially or practically as foll-ows: 'I have just talked with the governor in the long distance telephone and he assures me he will do what you: ask. You know what the administra tion wants. Now, leave no stone un turned to be elected. I will get 'down to Springfield if necessary in the morning.' WR 1414 Bain Easy helps the housewife to - ckly and economically, hot biscuit, puddings, crisp cookies, crullers, fresh, dean, tasty and :h the ready-made food grocery does not com atest of bake-day helps. K-800 RECEITS-FEE and Address. THE TYPHOlD FLY. The Pesky Mosquito and How to Destroy Him Entirely. An interesting and instructive bulletin issued by the state board of health deals with the mosquito and the house fly or the "Typhoid Fly." In the bulletin is it pointed out that the mosquito needs no introduction in South Carolina. "A human fiend." saysthe bulle tin. "who would enter our stroes and markets by night and after gorging himself, leave poiscn in all the re maining food to spread suffering, dis ease and death throughout the com munity would be execrated. pursued and torn to pieces by an outraged populace-yet a 1,seless insect, the fly, playing his role to perfection is living among us constantly and is regarded merely as a mild source of innoyance often as a subject of jest." It is pointed out in the bulletin that it is not beyond the bounds of possibility to abolish the mosquito entirely the prime prerequisites to such an undertaking being the par ticipation of every man, woman and child in the campaign. "The thief important fact." says the paper, about mosquitoes is this: without the existence of standing water their breeding is impossible." Greatest Political Machine. "The postoffice department is the greatest political machine ever con structed in this or any other country and 'it is openly administered* as a political organization." This was the chremade on the floor of the house of representatives by Mr. Cullop, of Indiana. who referred to Postmaster General Hitchcock as being the crea tor and presiding genius of this or 1anization.* I Brings Big Price. The first book ever printed from movable type Monday night brought the highest price ever paid for any book. The prize was the "Gutten berg Bible," the purchaser Henry E. Huntington. of Los Angeles, and the price was $50,000.' It was sold in New York at the Hoe library sale. Five to Hang. At Oklahoma City five negroes were sentenced to hang -from the same scaffold on June 21, for the mredr of W. H. Archie, who was robbed and killed March 9. he turned to the people in the room and said: "'I have just been talking tpo "Senator" Lorimer.' " Weihe stated that he. O'Brien. Cook. Isaac Baker and Hines were present at the time. Weihe asked to be allowed to ques [tion Cook and was allowed to do so. He charged Cook with trying to blackmail Hines and the Weyhauser lumber interest. Cook admitted that he had sent a letter to F. E. Wyerhauser and also to Wiehe in which he threatened to tell what he knew of the Lorimier matter unless they agreed to settle a fight among the stockholders of the Virginia and Rainey Lake Lumber company. These letters were pro duced by Cook, who also testified that Edward Hines Lumber coisiany held $130.000 of Cook's notes and mortgages. Cook also testified that he and Hen' Turrishi of Duluth met Mr. Hines going thi-ough rhe hotel looby 1in May, 1909, shortly before the election of Lorimer. "Mr. Turrish asked him," said Cook. "how he was getting on down in Washington. 'Oh,' he said, 'I am having a hell of a old Stephenson. After I elected him, old Spethenson. After I elected him. he has gone down to Washington and tarted working thcere for free lum er. I had a terrible time ge~tting 'mr lined up." Then he went on and told about what a time he had with the Southern Democrats. lHe said he would have them nil fixed up today and tomorrow they wvould flop and he would have to go and flx .them all over again. "Mr. Turrish asked him how they were getting along with the sonator ial deadlock. 'Well.' he said. 'it is all fixed. I will tell you confidential ly Lorimer will be the next Senator. We had Boutell fixod for the sena torship. He had promised to work to keep the S2 tariff on lumber. but. when the lumber schedule came up before the house ways and means committee. he wvas wor1.ing for free lumber. I immnediat'ely took it up with Senator .\]irich. and so decided 1that we had to have another man. a Iman whom w'o venuid deend on. It was decided thiat I shm:!d have a talk with Lorinmer I did. Lorimer has agreed to stand pai. HI" will listen to reason. I have go' it all fixprd: he will be the ne'xt senator from Illinois. "That was the substanco~ of the conversation." Cook said he "inferred it was Ste phenson from Wineonsin." to whom AGREE ON PEACE England and United States Will Arbitrate AH Derences. ADVOCATES OF PEACE Most Significant Meeting Held in the Venerable Guild Hall in London. -Resolutions Adopted Pledging Support to Complete Anglo-Amer ican Arbitration. What Premier Asquith described as "this venerable Guild Hall," with out whose seal of approval no popu lar movement in London, England, is launched, witnessed Friday a meet ing for the adoption of resolutions pled~ging the city to the support of Anglo-American complete arbitra tion. The lord mayor of London in his scarlet robes and with the mace in front of him, held the center of a temporary stage. On his right was the prime minister, at his left form er Premier Balfour, leader of the opposition in the House of Commons, while grouped about the mayor were the Archbishop of Canterburg, the Archbishop of Westminster, Lord Loreburn, the lord high chancellor: Lord Strathcona, high commissioner of Canada: Sir Joseph G.. Ward, premier of New Zealand, and other notables. Over their heads the Un ion Jack and Stars and Stripes were entwined. Mr. Asquith and Mr. Balfour spoke eloquently of the treaty first propos ed by President Taft, declaring that it would mark a new era in civiliza tion., but both pointedly disclaimed that a peace pact between Great Brit ain and the United States providing for the submission of all differences to arbitration would mean an alli ance between the two countries. Mr. Balfour warned his hearers, than whom, he said, none in the world felt more the burden of preparing for war, that the treaty would not mean the immediate reduction of arma ments. The meeting represented the Dem ocracy of England rather than the aristocracy. Among 'those on the platform were the Bishop of Here ford, the Earl of Aberdeen, lord lieu tenant of Ireland; Sir Geo. H. Reid, high commissiener of Australia; agents of .all the other British col onies, along with representatives of the banks, the railways and the steamship companies of England. Premier Asquith spoke in part: "The unique situation which we have met to recognize and welcome has not been organized or engineered by the apparatus of diplomacy. - The seed which the president of the Unit ed States sowed fell on ground unpre pared to receive it. That which a few years ago, even a few months ago, might have been regarded a,. the dream* of idealists, has not only passed into the domain of practical statesmanship, but has become the settled purpose of two great democ racies. "Thie profound significance of j~he new departure is that- between Great Britain and the United States what ever the gravity of the issue and the magnitude of the interests involved; whatever poignancy of feeling may be aroused of war as a liossible salu tion, and the substitution of argu ment for force: and the supersession by judicial methods of the old ordeal of battle." After declaring that their propos ed agreement im-plied no menace to the rest of mankind and did not pro vide for an Anglo-American alliance aggressive or defensive, the premier continued: ".But we may hope and believe that other things will follow. It is not for us to distate or to preach to oth er nations, but if the 'United States and Great -Britain renounce a war a step will be taken nf immeasurable and incomparable significanse in the onward progress of humanity." Mr. Asquith then moved the fol lowing resolution: "That this meeting of citizens of London assembled in Guild Hall cor dially welcomes the proposal of the United States in favor of a general treaty of arbitration between that country and the British empire and pledges its support to the prinicples of such a tr.eaty as serving the high est interests of the two nations and as tending to promote the peace oi the world." The resolution was received with tremendous applause, which continu ed until Mr. Balfour rose to second it. The opposition leader said that Anglo-American arbitration was nearer fruition at this moment than ever before in history. Some, he said, regarding it as an idealistic dream and believed that when the clash of conflicting interests came all paper barriers would be swept away, and he continued: "It is true that t is folly to make international law go far in advance of public opinion. I cannot imagine a more bitter blow to civilization than if, or I will rather say, when such a treaty was made either party should break it. But as far as I can read opinion on both sides of the Atlantic I cannot endorse these pessimistic views. I believe that the great mass of diplomats can embody this feeling in a treaty. I do not believe that when the stress of internationatl dif ficulties comes it will be broken. "Some ask if public opinion is thus.. why a treaty is necessary. I do not believe that these logical di lemmas represent what actually hap pens. I grant that paper formulab are useless in themselves, but if they represent the settled convictions ot the people they are valuable." International agreements with no more power of enforcement had made warfare more civilized in the past. the speaker said.* A Fifty-Cent Word. A little boy had got into the habit of saying "Darn," of which his moth er naturally did not approve. "Dear." she said to the little boy, "here is 'ten cents: it is yours if you promise me not to say 'Darn' again." "All right. mother." he said, as he took the money. "I promise." As he lovingly fingered the money a hopeful look came into his eyes, and he said: "Say. mother, I know a word thee wnrth fifty cents.' WOMAN IS BOBBED "BUILDING INSPECTOR" BADGES F WORN AS BLIND. As Her Boy Cowers Under Death -: Threat Robbers Flee with $2,000 They Find. Two men in the uniforms of build ing inspectors and wearing the gold n badges issued by the Building De- b partment knocked at the door of An gelo Mayo's flat on the second floor e of No. 307 East Eleventh street, New d York City Tuesday afternoon. When t Mrs. Mayo opened the door the men e said they wanted to inspect the place. a To questions Mrs. vayo replied that the seven rooms were occupied 1, by herself, her husband and their eight children. The men looked closely at the fire escapes, even test* ing its strength. "Now, how about the sink?" ask a ed one of the men. She took the men to the sink. One crawled under the examined it carefully. Then they went to the bedrooms. Mrs. Mayo explained that two of the rooms were occupied by r her four daughters, two others by her four sons and another by her self and husband. Besides there was a parlor, dinini' room and kitchen. When 'Mrs. Mayo was showing the d men about the rooms, her son Roc co, aged nine years old, came home n from school. He followed his moth- e ed for a time and then went into a front. room. - 1) "What do you keep in this bu- d reau?" one of the men asked Mrs. a Mayo as he shook a big chiffonier. p "That contains the clothes of my children, niy husband and myself," a was the answer. Just then one of the fellows seized I her by the -throat and bore her Lo t the floor, choking her so that she v could not breathe. Both drew re volvers. The second man wet a sponge with chloroform and pressed t it against Mrs. Mayo's nose, holding P it there until she was only half con- 0 scious. Then he produced a vial containing a white fluid and tried to force the stuff down her throat. But she s clenched her teeth and the liquid t poured over her dress. Again the b chloroform sponge was applied, and t when Mrs. Mayo became uncdnscious 1 the intruders got strips of cloth and s twine from the bureau and tied har hands and feet. When they were at this Rocco came to look for his mother. A re volver was thrust into his face and he was told he would be killed if he cried out. By that time both men j had masks over their faces. While one of them held the boy at revolver's point the other began a search of the flat. First he procured e all the clothing from the wardrobe, tying it up in furniture coverings which he tore from chairs and sofas. Then he searched drawers. For ten years Mrs. Mayo has been secretly saving money given to he~ic by her husband for household expen-e ses. She wanted to give him a pleas- 1 ant surprise in the near future. In a bottom bureau drawer was a stock which contained $2,000 in bills rang ing in denomination from $1 to $10.a Mrs. Mayo was positive no one knew of the presence of this money.t - The robber drew out the drawer. turned it upside down and the old stocking fell out. He began to stuff bills in his pockets. So great was his ~ excitement ti-at whew $125 dropped on the floor he did not stop to g~irab '9 it up. His companion pulled a $500 c pair of earrings from the unconscious d woman's ears. Then the men turned e to the boy and told higi he would be ~ killed if he made an outcry. They walked out and, it is believ ed, ran to the roof and escaped by way of the adjoining building. C Mrs. Teresa Massaro, a neighbor, was the first to reach Mrs. Mayo. She untied the victim's hands and removed the chloroform sponge. Then the police and doctors were called. Mrs. Mayo said one of her assail- b ants seemed'to be about 35 years old, .F weighed 200 pounds, had dark hair slightly flecked with gray and appar-b ently was a German. He was ad dressed as "Bill" by his companion, who was about 30, with light hair$ and eyes and with an Irish brogue. REPAYS DEBT TO "PETE~." t Son of Former Slave Hero Acquitted a of Murder.h At New York James W. Osborne, former assistant district attorney, a whose life was saved by "Pete," a c; slave in his father's family in Char- w lotte, N. C., when he was a boy, re paid the debt Monday afternoon by winning for "Pete's" son a verdict of acquittal on a murder charge. The jury was out less than fifteen min uts, following an earnest plea of Mr. Osborne. The defendant was Edward Osborne, "Pete" having adopted the name of his former inns- S ter. who was charged with killing S another negro during a quarrel.. He pleaded self-defence. 3 I I New View of the Fly. The "busy, curious, thirsty fly" has at last found a defender. He is Prof. S. A. Forbes, Illinois State en- b tomologist, who has experimentedd with the "fly problem" in Chicago for two years. t "Don't swat the fly: swat the per- tI son who gives it opportunity to dob deadly work as a disease carrier." said Prof. Forbes. "The fly, instead f being evil, is an agent for good. "The presence of the fly points to h n unsanitary condition-that the y householder is not taking proper care h f his garbage or is careless with W is table scraps. Take warning of N the fly. It will save doctors' bills. fC Fly carried disease is the punishment e~ for not heeding sanitary laws and Y4 the fly's warning." di Fifteen D~row~ned. The steamer Charles Pzat. operat ing between Manila and Corregigor, foundered in a typhoon Sunday. It tc is estimated that fifteen persons were h drowned. Fishermen rescued a C' umber of the crew and passengers. te One American is missing. D~ragged by Train. Tuesday night Mr. S. H. George. f Augusta. was painfully injured at \ontmorenci by fa!iing from a train. cc While his injuries :' e very painful ,ol they are not thor:ght to be of a w serious nature. His body was drag- se ged for sonme isance.' . Ih MINERS KILLED Explosion in Coal Mine Brings Death to Underground Workers TWENTY THREE IN MINE Disaster Occurs at Elk Garden, W. Va., and Cause so Far Unascer tained.-Rescuers Begin Work at Once with no Hope of Finding Any of the Victims Alive. At Elk Garden, W. Va., twenty three miners are entombed in Ott mine, No. 20, of the Davis Coal and Coke Company, as the result of of debris that has thus far deterred the progress of the resouers. It can not be learned yet whether the explo sion was caused by dust or gas. Of ficials of the company say they have never known their mines to he gas eous. As soon as the accident became known, Superintendent Robert Grant organized a rescue corps of the min ers off duty, and these attempted to enter the mine after notifying the of ficials of the coal company at Cum berland, Md. The rescue parties had not adv.anc ed for into the workings before they discovered it would take several days to dig through the heaps of roof coal and slate that had been loosened by the explosion. It was'then decided to effect an entrance nearer the prob ably point of the explosion.by cutting through the wall of an adjoining mine owned by the same company. Late Manday afternoon the rescu ers had penetrated to No. 20 mine, at a point about 4,000 form the out sfde entry. They still remained about the same distance to go before reach ing the miners. The.Ott mine, No. 30, is almost directly under the town of Elk Garden. which is on a hill. The mouth of the mine is about half a mile from the town. In striking contrast to the usual mine explosions, the victims in this case, with one exception are Ameri cans. The mine, usually employs 200 men on the day shift, and about the same number at night. , A tem porary suspension of work, however, required fewer men in the mines, else the casualities might have been greater. After penetrating about a mile down the main entry, the rescuers found the body of a man not yet identified. It was crushed beneath a fall of slate, as though the roof had crumbled as he was running out of the mine. The discovery of this body leads the rescue party to believe that none of the -others are alive. Several yards beyond, the passage was completely blocked by the col lapse of the roof. Behind and under this fall, it is belfeved, the bodies of the miners lay. Havoc which was wrought in the mine would indi cate that, the explosion was terrific. For a square mile or more the slate and coal was slit and props were splintered, letting the roof fall in large portions. SUN~ ECLIPSE ON FRIDAY. Interesting Pheno'menon Will Be Ob served During Afternoon. A total eclipse of the sun will take place Friday afternoon which will prove an interesting phenomenon oc curring at an hour when with fair weather 1conditions, it will be gener ally 'seen. Occurring as it does just before sundown, the whole progress of the eclipse can not be watched from this section of the United State, because of the setting of the sun before the dladow passes off; but there will b -mple time to see the effect of the total shutting off of the sun's light. There will be a greater degre'e of darkness probabli. than at any other time of the day because of the near ness of the sun to the horizon, and the consequent- lessening of the sun's rays in the air. The refraction will not be so great, and it will be night time in the day. The chickens will go to roost early and .they will have a long night. The eclipse will be visible in a large portion of the United States. The sun will set eclipsed east of a line drawn from Pittsburg to Mata gorda Bay, Texas. Washingbon is at he northern Atlantic boundary of the area of visibility. The eclipse will be invisible north of a line drawn from Portland, Ore., through Mil waukee and Pittsburg to Washington. The eclipse will be very small in the Western and Middle States. At San Diego less than one-half of the sun's face will be obscured, while at Chica go less than one-sixteenth will be eclipsed. "CAESAR HEAD" TURNED. Famous Peak of Blue Ridge Suf -fers from Earthquake. A dispatch from Asheville. N. C., says belated reports from the moun tain section of Transylvania County state that "Caesar's Head," a famous peak of the Blue Ridge, about twenty niles from Brevard, had been over urned by the earthquake shocks which is said to have been felt in arious sections of Western North Carolina Friday night. "Caesar's Eead" has been one of the show places of Western North Carolina since this country was first developed. nd it woield be greatly missed by 'isitors if the earthquake has really estroyed it. Pullman Car Burned. The Pullman car Yucca, attached :o the Palmetto Lixrited, of the At antic Coast Line, was destroyed by re Thursday morning, while the :rain was standing at the station at Rocky Mount, N. C., and M. 3. Prob ;tein. a traveling salesman, of New lork, was suffocated, and Flagman I'. C. Russ and Mail Transfer Clerk (V. F. Ireland were badly burned. las from a leaking tank under the ul~man was ignited by the flagman's antern. Ten passengers were asleep n the car. -four of them ladies. Ehey saved only a part of their be ongings. Probstein was a young nan and had only been married four BOXERS MAD AGAIN EVOLUTION STARTS IN THE CHINESE EMPIRE. narchy is Rife Among the Soldiers. -Revolutionaries Well Armed and Fight Desperately. Dispatches from Hong Kong, Chi a, says only official messages are eing received today from Canton, here a revolutionar outbreak oc irred Friday night. These are of a isquieting character. The revolu onists have obtained a quantity of cplosives and the government has ked the steamship companies ply ig to that city to suspend tjheir rvice lest arms be smuggled into e disturbers, who are still at large. [any of the leaders have been im risoned. The fighting between the troops nd the rioters Friday began wh-n ie soldiers arrested a revolutionary ader and his followers who, carry ig revolvers and wearing badges, oldly proclaimed their purpose, sur yunded the viceroy's palace and set afire, and'after starting the fifire iterfered with the efforts of others extinguish the flames. The revolutionaries were aimed -ith riflles and bombs and fought esperately. Several were killed and any arrested. The troops were )mmanded by. Admiral Li and they aiffered considerably, a colonel be ig among those wounded. The sol iers finally got control of the situ tion and energetic measures to revent another outbreak were taken. he gates of the city were closed d a search made in suspected uarters for arms and ammunition. he fire at the palace burned for ;vo hours, doing great damage. The iceroy escaped harm. A strict censorship has been estab shed and 6nly official exchanges be ween Hong Kong and Canton are ossible. Thousands of residents f Canton are fleeing to this city. 'hose who have arrived say anarchy rife among the soldiers at Canton. [any of the troops completed their ervice today and these men.are par cularly feared. Anarchists have een furthering their propaganda in ie army, where there was already iuch discontent owing to the recent ppression of gambling. The Brit ;h consul at Canton reported to the overnor of Hong Kong that the sit ation is serious. LAST QUARTER FOR POISON. .dminister Drug to Their Children and Themselves. Fear of impending starvation caus I a -father and mother to administer ychnine to themselves and their wn children, both under four years f age, in Chicago, Ill. The mother, [rs. Honore Dziurgot, and the older iild, Joseph, are dead and the fath r and baby are in a hospital, where is said both will recover. Dziurgot in the hospital told of ie poverty which followed his long ness, and then related the desper te agreement with his wife that the y'o should poison themselves and ieir babies. "With my last 25 cents," he says, I bought the poison at a drug store. took it home and my wife and I ixed it in the little milk we had left. he milk was the only food we had the house. Some was given to the ildren, my wife drank some and I rank the remainder. There was not ough for me or I could have died ith my wife and boy." * FARD BATT~LE WITH PIRATES. hinese Bandits Captured Steamship After Long Struggle. A long battle with pirates follow the wreck near Shanghai, China, ie week of the steamship Asia, und from Honk Kong for San rancisco. Warships will probably sent to dislod~ie the pirates, who nally captured the ship after the 64 pasesngers had been rescued he vessel carries a cargo valued at 500,000, made up chiefly of silk. he ship is a total loss. For hours the officers and crew of ie Asia, with rifies, shotguns and ivolvers, and finally with rude clubs id winches, fought off the pirates, ho swarmed up her sides with the ape of looting her valuable cargo. A. E. Cozen, engineer of the Asia, ~id R. Arundel, a water tender, were tptured by the pirates, but after ard wvere ransomaed for $300. * ONLY "YES" AND "NO." iys That Her Husband Will Not Talk to Her. After four years Mrs. Caroline E. thmidt, tired of hearing Louis ~hmidt, treasurer of the Blanke 'enneker Candy Co., of St. Louis, o., answer her only in "yves" and 20."' and giving his taciturnity as a use, has sued to divorce hin. Mr. id Mrs. Schmidt were married 40 sars a'2o and separated last Octo tr. They have three sons and three iughters. Sometimes Schmidt, has ife said, would not even speak at all ir periods of ten days and during e four years he never said a word at "yes" and "no." I. I The Worm Turns. Alleging that his wife has treated m with continuous cruelty for many tars, even to the extent of making m cook his own meals and then ash the dishes he used, John S. ance, of Atlanta, on Friday applied r a divorce. Nance is a railroad igineer, and has been married 34 'ars. He also charges that his wife ove him from home at the point a pistol. Made a Baby Drunk. Because Mrs. Peter Hobak refused take a drink of hard cider with m, John Bostich. of Greenwich, >nn., took her four-year-old daugh r to his home and got her draink ith eider. He was arrested and held r Superior court under $5,000. * Hills Self in Old Hole. Frank Reeser, aged 60 years, ,mmitted suicide this week in the d swinming hole near York. Pa., here he swam when a youth. For veral 'months he complained of OUTLOOK FOR COTTON FORTY-TWO MILLION BALES RE QUIRED TO CLOTHE All the People of the World When They Become Civilized and Wear Clothes.. "To clothe the whole of humanity would require 42,000,000 bales of cotton each year." This statement was made by President Hobbs of the National Association of Cotton 1:au ufacturers, at Its recent annual meet ing in Boston. Mr. Hobbs said that, of the 1,500,000,000 Inhabitants of the world only 500,000,000 are com- d -pletely -lothed, while 750,000,000 c are only partially clothed and 250,- c 000,000 are practically not ;iothed d at all. r As civilization advance, the propor- 0 tion of the partially clotlied and the 0 unclothed will decrease, and this 14 with the -increase of the popula- ti tion in civilized countries, will call tor an Increased tupply of cottoi. v The cotton belt of the United States t now furnishes fully two-thirds of the 0 world supply of cotton, and, as the demand increases will be be called upon greatly to increase its annual production. e In speaking of the cotton situation f' President Hobbs says: "From the a present acreage the production could e be doubled if proper methods were u used." There' must be improved methods of cultivation, a better 1 method of pcking a "general im- 1 provement in every step and process c between the planting of the seed an& I the delivery of the cotton to the .t mill." "We have drifted too long;" 9 he said, and "the time is now ripe for concerted and determined sction if we are to maintain our command- d ing position." While the rest of the world is "actively trying to find means to in- C crease the production of cotton," we "continue in the old ways of pro.duc- t ing and handling," and little Im- f provement has been made in many years. It is estimated that only e about one-third of the available area c is cultivated, and if scientific know ledge were applied to natural con ditions of soil and climate, "we can well raise 50,000,000 bales" of cot ton a year and clothe all mankind. b It is a clear understanding of this 9 condition that has led the Southern Railway company to organize a Cot- A ton Culture Department to work in co-operation with -the United States agricultural deps.rtment and the agri cultural authorities of the Southern P states, to keep the cotton production 8 of the South abreast of the demand I by bringing about the daption of those cultural methods which will re- 9 sult in larger average yields per acre, thus increasing the profitableness of l cotton growing #nd leaving surplus t lands to be devoted to other crops and the growing of live stock. It is clearly more profitable to a farmer to produce fifty bales of cot ton on fifty, acres than to produce r the same amount on one hundred a acres, for he will receive the same f amount for his cotton and will have a fifty acres for other uses. Under ii ordinary circumstances,- every in- f crease yield of cotton per acre re duces the cost of production per t pound and yields the farmer a larg er margin of profit between the cost of growing his crop and the selling il price. d N'EGROES BOYCOTT WHITES. p Women Driven Off for Washing for b White People. e Spartanburg letter to 'i'he State t: says according to a .story told Magis- S trate R. J. Gan'tt certain negroes in the county, angered because they de- u clare Gary Gist's crime of attempted a criminal assault was not sufficiently a heinous to warrant thie death penalty, a and because they think sufficient et- f: fort has not been made to appre hend Sam Davis, a white man, ac cused of having assaulted a little negro girl, have organized themsel ves into a society to prevent the nie gro women from laboring in white famtilies. The story was told by a negro woman, who claims she was driven from .her home, near Glen- s dale, because she washed for white t1 people. She gave the names of the il negro men who threatened her, and e three of the six, she said, were in il the mob, were arrested and lodged a in jail. Dead in Woods. -ii Turner a pretty brunette of middle i age, was found murdered in the f woods behind a studio building oni 0 Fulton street, Friday afternoon. The s womaf's face had been beaten in by E a big club, which lay nearby, stain- t ed with blood. The body was found a; by Arnold Turner, a nephew, who ti was searching for his aunt. who had h been missing since Wednesday, when il she left her home to deliver some t dresses to women inmates of a lodal r sanitarium. .* ci Wants Everybody Pardoned. Following the unusual number of pardons, paroles and commutations, the governor of South Carolina has received a letter, written in an un educated tone asking that he pardon all of the convicts in the State peni- cl tentiary next Thanksgiving Day. The h letter has been taken under co'nsid- el edation by the chief executi':. Over tr 100 prisoners have been liberated by o0 the present governor in three ti months. *' * a Offered Him a Bribe. 0 Out of Tennessee's political legis- Si lative deadlock Friday afternoon PD came a development bordering on the sensational by the publication of 'ad dispatch from 'Birmingham, Ala., de- u caring that a bribe of $1,E00 had ai been offered to Representative J. G. icDonald of Overton county, Tenn., to bind himself to vote with the so called "regulars" Democrats on all m questions coming before the legisa- fl ture. w ____ ____ ___at When Man May Slap Wife. si A man is justified in slapping his ai wife for going through his pockets, P. is the opinion of Justice M. C. Lee, v f the Superior Court, of New Jer sey. Judge Lee made this ruling in a divorce suit brought by Elizabeth ic !ngland against her husband, John j 0 E. Enland IAS FORCED WAR iat Is What The United States Has Done Sais Ramsa Corral. TAFT ISSUES A REPLY mbassador Wilson Directed to In quire of Mexican Government Whether Statements of Vice Presi dent Reflecting on United -tates , Policy are Authentic. :In an official statement Issued Fri ly the state department takes d'e ded exception to an interview ic 'edited to Ramon Corraol, vice presi ent of Mexico, and published in the lario of Mexico City, in which that ncial charges that the Mexican rev ution is being formented by Amer ans with a view to forcing interven on. "The department of state finds it ery difficult to credit the authentici r of such an interview purporting to )me from a high official of the Mexi in government," the statement says, because the efforts made to enforce ie neutrality laws and the disinter sted friendship of the United States >r Mexico and Mexican people are s well known to the Mexican gov rnment as they are fully, understood i the United States. "The department of state has iade every effort to prevent any armful misunderstanding and 'there in be no doubt that the Mexican )reign office will take prompt steps ) repudiate and prevent the promul ation of any such statements calucu tted so seriously to. disturb the mu lal confidence and friendly good un erstanding between the two i.eo les." The reported declaration of Ramon orral, Vice President of Mexico, -at Americans were fermenting ,ouble in his country in order tq 3rce intervention, has earned the isfavor of the United States Gov rnment. The State department has alled the matter to the attention of rexico in order to, establish official r whether the interview with the 'ice President, in which the state lent excepted -to are reported to ave been made, were authentic as blished in. Mexico City. The question was taken up--by Am assador Wilson, at Mexico City, to 'hom the department telegraphed -a opy of an afficial statement, whica -had issued, unequivocally disay roving the alleged utterance. .The atement expresses the confident be ef of the department that the Mex an foreign office will promptly "re udiate and prevent the promulg4 on of any such statements, calcn ited so seriously to distrub the mu ial confidence and friendly good un erstanding between the two peo. les." A dispatch from Mexico City says the statement attributed to Mr. Cor a are so at variance with the facts nd so inconcievable as originating . om a person occupying the high nid representative ofice of Vice Preb lent of a great nation, holding iendly relations with the United tates, that comment of a critical ature should be feserved." In this manner Ambassador Wil .n commented to-night upon .the iterview with Vice President Corral, hich is printed in El Perial. In iplomatic end official circles-the. dis ositon to discredit the interview rere general. "I am sure this view' Is not shared y other officials of the Mexican Goev nment," continued Ambassador ilson. "It is, perhaps, true that ie neutrality laws of~ the United tates need amplification and amend ent, but, as they exist on the stat te books, they have been enforced d even strained to meet the repre mtation of the :Mexican Govern Lent relattig to conditions ,on the ontier." * ANOTHER WHITE SLAVE. iomen Accused of Leading Young Girl Astray. - A Knoxville dispatch to The State tys that four women were arrested iere on Friday charged with decoy tg Effie Hydrick of Spartanburg, ag I about 18 years, Into a house of I fame. The fouir women arrested r-e Nellie' Gray Pearl Minnick and :att-e Wilson of Asheville and Pearl layness of Knoxville. They arrived tKnoxville Thursday night with the 'ydridk girl and took her to the use of Pauline Jones, a house of I repute, '-here they were found by icers Friday. The Hydrick girl id she went to Asheville to visit ellie Gray, and stopped at a hotel ere. One night, she said, a carr e came for her and she was told at the Gray woman had sent for er. She was driven to a house of ' I fame and kept there until brought -Knoxville. The women will be ar Lfned before the United States >mmssioner at Knoxville. * OUTHERN YOUTH NEGLECTED. hile the Heathen Children Age Be ing Looked After. Americansare doing more for the Iidren of Guam and the Phillpine lands than for those in the South -n mountain districts of this coun y, declared Miiss Martha S. Gielow Washington, D. C., repregenting e Southern Industrial Educational sociatott, at the International-Con ess of Child Welfare in that city IFriday. She sa'id children in the - uthern mountains often were comn ~ledto walk seven miles to school. ore than 4,000.000 American chil en, she said, were being brought >without educational facilities of Ly sort. Cause df Disaster. That the death of twenty-three en was caused by a blow out shot 'ed by James Pritchard or his son, as the -finding of the coroner's jury the inquest into Monday's explo m in Ott Mine of the Davis coal Ld coke company,. W. Va. Both" itchard and his son were tmong the dis. The Lumber Trust buncoes the sumers of lumber out of $59, 0,000 per year, and not $5,000,000