p.ih coumy Wewo PLAH TO REFLOAT I life's disappointments I GENTRAL BUREAU rill PERSONS IT European war clouds do not always presage a storm. v a Keep your vacation within the Ilia its of your purse. The auto and the aeroplane contin ue to be deadly rivals. It not too late for yon to send a kiddle or two to the country. The way to keep boys on the farm Is to make farm life more attractive. Chicago Is to have a "soul hospital." The patients, of course, will come from outside. Among the other exciting events of up-to-date civilisation the modern fish story is now due. The New York woman who has a 125,000; anklet ' evidenUy believes In saving something for a rainy day. A new metal 40 per cent lighter than aluminum will make airships safer, but not so safe as walking. If the breach of promise Industry continues to increase, the art of letter writing will-soon be a thing of the past , . , , A tazlcab driver , who has inherited 111,000 is going to stick to his job. He may have a meter of his own to dilate the legacy. . .;" " ; The soda fountain clerk may not bt an important personage, but he 'generally' manages to cause a splash in the world. A million patents on rubber tires have been issued. Why doesn't some inventor get a patent on broken glass that will not puncture 7 The old theory that there's no fool like an old fool is demonstrated by the 70 year old Massachusetts couple who eloped and were married. ' A German baron has been sentenced to two years for killing an opponent in a duel Only safe and sane duel ing is countenanced in Germany. . Some of our aviators have adopted the habit of landing in haystacks. Enterprising farmers will rent their available haystacks to aero clubs. A Texas town has passed an ordi nance allowing only legless men to sell peanuts on the streets. Evidently the town is controlled by surgeons. In the past six months the plague killed 650,000 people : in India and nothing remarkable is considered to have occurred. The world Is not shocked. A Bostonese person went craxy with the heat and tried to give away money.. The fact that "he failed leads us to suspect that the money was counterfeit - A practical Joker in Iowa Is being sued by a victim whom he presented with - a loaded cigar. We hope his acute sense of humor will enable him to see the Joke. A Missouri Judge rules that a man Is at liberty to spank his wife. Like wise a man is at liberty to wallop a lioness on the nose if he feels that way. v . ' Dentists say that a good brush and water are all that are necessary for the care of the teeth. This will not itop pretty actresses from giving milling testimonials for powders, how ever. . The first woman aviator has been licensed in America. Though woman has long been declared by American gallantry to be an angel, this is the Brst time she has been allowed offi cially to fly. - . It is too bad that' the enthusiasm of the souvenir hunters who dug up with their hands the first earth turned for New York's new subway could not save been continued until the tunnel was completed. The British admiralty reports the discovery of a new way of making armor plate that will be from 15 to 20 per cent tougher. This, if true, puts an onus on the projectile makers to produce one that will pierce that much tougher armor. Electric cars in Los Angeles will have mirrors placed in their end to in duce women to -step oft the cars "front face." The company mar think this a brilliant idea until the lady pas- sengers wrecu the time schedules see ing if their hats are on straight and too much powder isn't showing on their noses. Criminal tactics keep pace with scientific thief-taking and sometimes gallop ahead. Blue-ribbon exnerta in a recent robbery of a Jeweler's safe wore kid glqves so no incriminating auger-prims coma ce ieit behind. A Connecticut town refused a tfan of money tor the town hnii -ause the donor ' Stipulated there inould oe no aancmg or other amuse ment in the hall, which Was to ho ubaV is a town building. The blue-laws Ipirit of New England In that legality. it least, perceimuiy on tne wane. sPAtiisH. ships i CHECKING BILLS SPECULATION A3 TO THE VALUE OF THE HULKS OF SPANISH WAR VESSELS BURNED. ARE GOOD OHLV'AS JUNK Secretary Knox . Declares;' Spanish Wrecks In Santiago Harbor Be long to United States. . ' Santiago de Cuba.-fPresldent Taft's recent message " to congress asking that it be determined whether the Spanish men-of-war sunk in the bat tle of Santiago : thirteen years ago should be given? away and Secretary Knox's opinion that the wrecks belong to the United - States, have revived speculation here as to the possibility of refloating 'the ships. Engtfieers who have studied the location of the three battleships and two torpedo boats are of the opinion that their salvage is practicable and would warrant the ex pense of saving the hulks. ' Seven . miles west of the narrow mouth of Santiago harbor Ilea the first of Cervera's battleships, the Al mirante Oquendo. She is beached, in the breakers of Juan Gonzales, with about one-third of the hulk visible. Long ago she was stripped, of every portable article by wreckers who braved a watery grave for the prizes she was reputed to have held. They took everything they could pry loose, including, report has it mary thou sands of golden coins from the ship's safe. Recent inspection has shown that the Almlrante Oquendo was sack ed even of the rivets which held her fixtures in place. , Admiral Cervera's battleship, the Vizcaya, lies 8 miles further down the rocky coast as much a victim to the depredations of ocean Junkmen as the Oquendo. A third of her form breaks he land line, and. it is 'believed there would be comparatively little diffi culty in recovering her, although she would be worthless, it is thought as a vessel of war. At Rio Torquino, 48 miles from this city, is the Cristobal Colon. The Colon has been preserved from the hand of the vandal by four, fathoms of water above her. Locked in her safe there s saldto be a large amount or mon ey; aboard her nothing has been dis turbed since she was silenced by the American guns and run ashore to pre vent her capture. The water is com paratively deep at the point where she ies submerged, and the land rises ab ruptly from the sea, a sheer precipice of considerable proportions. Her sal vage would probably be, the most dif ficult of the three, engineers assert The history of the fourth vessel, of the fleet the Infanta Maria Teresa, s well known. She was floated by Lieut Richmond P. Hobson of MerVi mac fame, and lost In tow of an Amer- can war, vessel when on her -way. to an American port during a squall joff Cat Island in the West Indies. Engl neers have decreed her unworthy of a second attempt at salvage. The two secondary vessels of Ad miral Cervera's fleet the torpedo boats Furor and Pluton, lie submerged not far from the harbor entrance. The safe of the Pluton and easily portable articles from her deck and cabins have been recovered. The Furor is still undisturbed. Both lie in compar atively shallow water. Southern Lawyers Angry. Boston, Mass. Southern members of the American Bar association are threatening to secede unless William H. Lewis, tha negro United States dis trict 'attorney at Boston, ceases to be a member of the organization. Lewis has been told of the attitude of the Southern members, but he has no in dention of resigning, he declares. Col. Alexander Troy of Montgomery, Ala., who thinks Lewis should be put out of the association, said: "I feel so deeply on the subject that I cannot trust myself to be quoted, exoept to say that the proposition before the American Bar association looks to me to be that if they keep its negro it will lose a thousand members throughout the South. Farmer Killed in Race Riot Durant, Okla. Horace , Gibbs, a white farmer, was killed inja. battle between five white men and five ne groes near Caddo. The white men declare they were' fired upon while passsing the home of a negro'named Daniels, while the negroes say" .that the whites threw a stick of dynamite at the hut and commenced firing. Feel ing against the negroes is bitter and further race trouble Is feared. A stick of dynamite With' the fuse part ly burned was found near the nut. Treaty-Making Pcwer Attacked. Washington. One of the most seri ous attacks ever made upon the treaty making power' of the United States will mark the opening of the cominng term of the ' Supreme court of the United States next month. The Ital ian government, through Its consul general On the Pacific coast, will ar gue that the United States possesses broad enough" treaty-making-power to deal with, the settlement of estates of foreigners who die in this country without leaving wills. ' . - . " - .'1. - - fc. T - m m ' (CopyrishUUlLl UNION SAYS HOLD COTTON Scuth Should Be- Abundantly Able to Finance and Handle Its Own "' ' Crop. - ' . Union City, Ga. National President Charles S. Barrett of the Farmers union made his first official expression regarding the attitude of that big or ganization In the battle that is com ing this fall to maintain the price of cotton at a proper leveL "The Farmers' union," says Presi dent Barrett, "issues an invitation to the entire South - to co-operate with it In saving to this section many million dollars on the cotton crop of 1911-12. It is the banker, the smallest citizen, no less 'than the farmer, to figure the difference between 8 or 9-cent cotton and 13 or 14-cent cotton. The fight we are going to win is not alone in behalf of the farmer. It is waged in the interest of the Southern business world, as a whole. To that degree, it Is not only the duty, but the indi vidual profit of every element In the Southern states to Join hands with the Farmers' union, - to - the end that the powerful machinery of this organiza tion may.be brought to bear with coo plete success upon the present situa tion. C "To the farmer, whether or not a member of the Farmers' union, my im perative advice is 'hold your cotton!' It is worth Infinitely more than the price now quoted. You shouldfirst go to hold. Your own banker knows you debt, and borrow sufficient , money, with cojton as collateral, to enable you to hold. Your own banker knows you best, and it is to his Interest to aid you in the fight Should he fall you and I don't think he will you an de pend on us for assistance. "The Farmers' union . does not In tend that a clique of bear gamblers or domestic and foreign spinners shall combine to dictate the price of our product, or to rob the section of a tre mendous sum of money. It is for the South v we are working. Now is the time for every Southerner to prove his business insight, and it is not the time for hypocritical pretensions. It Is a cold matter of dollars and cents. If the fanner suffers, the business man, every business interest, suffers along with him. "The South ought to be abundantly able to finance and hold its own prin- should be a matter of pride, as well as of common sense. Practical men realize that the cotton crop of the opening season will not be nearly so large as it has been reported. We, who have investigated, know that there will be a demand, at a fair price, for every pound of the staple produced. The main thing is for the . fanner, large or small, organized and unorgan ized, to get together and. resolve that he will not be cheated out of the re sult of his! toil. L $5,000,000 School for Alabama. Nashville; Tenn.Ragland, Ala., will get the five million dollar industrial school for white children which is to be' established by the Southern bu reau of education with' funds to be given, It Is said, by Rockefeller, the Russell Sage foundation, Mrs. E. W. Harrlman and others. This was de cided at a meeting in Nashville of the board of directors of the bureau. Rag land offered a five thousand acre site, Champ Clark Roasts Taft. Quincy, 111. Champ Clark, speaker of the national house of representa tives, . replied to President Taft's speech delivered at Hamilton, Mass. The speaker accused the president of not stating facts. He said he did not reply for the Insurgent Republicans, who. "no doubt, will take up the cud gels In their own behalf." He declar ed that if the tariff board is to be used as a pretext for delaying tariff revision downward, the Democrats will cut eft its supplies. . . To Consider Cotton Bills. New Orleans. A meeting of South ern bankers, cotton brokers and oth ers interested in the handling of cot ton was called by the bills of lading committee of the New Orleans cotton exchange, to be held in New Orleans, September 15, to consider the Liver pool plan for the validation of bills of lading. Practically all the cotton exchanges have expressed disapproval of , the Liverpool plan of establishing a central bureau of validation in New York. Cotton crop shows loss PROP OF SLIGHTLY OVER 14 POINTS SHOWN DURING I MONTH OF AUGUST. Severe Droughts, Hot Winds and r Worms. Responsible for the I' Heavy Drop. tr: - : New York. According to 1,900 re plies of special correspondents of the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin bearing ' an average mall $ate of August 23,-24 percentage con dition of cotton' was on that date 72,6, as compared with 86.9 a month ago. This compares with 70.7 per cent test year, 66 per cent in 1909, 78.1 per cent in 1908 and 73.9 in 1907. The ten year average is 73.9 per cent, and the loss of 14.8 points during the month of - August is the greatest in that month in the past ten years. The most important declines occurred in Texas and Oklahoma, respectively, 21.4 points and 19.1, where severe droughts and hot winds and worms caused heavy shedding. . jjWell Informed and conservative cor respondents incline to the belief that the ' deterioration shown in this inonth's crop, reports has been un duly . exaggerated,-consciously or un consciously, by the active agitation in the cotton belt against large crop es timates. These returns must there fore, be accepted accordingly; and due allowance made for popular lies. (Since the date of these mail advices general rains have greatly relieved conditions and considerably improve ment is expected. Other heavy losses occurred in Georgia, 10.9 points; Ala bama, 12.8 points; Mississippi, 12.3 points; Louisiana, 14.8 points, and Ar kansas, 15.6 -points. THE CENTER OF POPULATION Bloomingtonlndiana, Is Exact Center 'fH of Population. : Washington. The center of popula tion of the United States was an nounced by Director of the Census Durahd to be in the western part of Bloomington, Monroe county, Indiana. This is eight miles further west than the, location announced July 17, when Director Durand placed It 4 1-4 miles south of Unionville, in the same county. grhe exact longitude of the center4 of'.population Is 86 degrees 32 minutes and 20 seconds west, a difference of 9 seconds, or 8 miles, from the pre vious announcement Publicity Law Defective. ijyashington. Primary election ex penses statesments from Senators Martin and Swanson of Virginia, the first to be filed under the new public ity! law that went Into effect August 19,f reached the office of Secretary Bennett of the senate. In the ab sence of Secretary Bennett officials of his office declined to make them public. Following this declination a careful examination of the new pub licity law resulted In the startling disclosure that in the act presumed to he most drastic, there is no re quirement for publicity of the indi vidual statements filed by candidates fori the senate or the house .i-, I , Two New Battleships. Washington. The two new battle ships authorized by the, last naval act! probably will be of 8,500 tons dis placement, or the biggest war ves sels in the world. The largest ships so j far designed for the American navy are the New York and Texas, with a displacement of 27,000 tons each, "and it became known only that thejnavy department contemplated ex ceeding thteir size. The new ships will have heavier armor than ever be fore, put on a battleship. Madero Named by Acclamation? , Mexico City. With no t dissenting voice Francisco L Madero received the nomination of the Progressive par ty for president but Dr. Francisco Vasquez, his old running mate and erstwhile agent of the Revolution at Washington, was grilled by partisans of three other candidates for the vice presidency. ' When the convention ad journed no other man for the ' vice presidency than Vasquez Gomez had been c6nsidered. Madero's was the only name presented. . - . - AGREEMENT INTENDED TO SAFE- . GUARD -COTTON . SHIPPING . DOCUMENTS EFFECTIVE. THE RAILROADS ADOPT PLAN Liverpool Bill of Lading Validation Scheme Oppoosed by Southern Exchanges. New York. The new agreement in tended to safeguard cotton shipping documents went into effect, and . the central bureau provided for in that agreement began its activities with the backing of practically all the cotton-carrying railroads, it was announc ed here by the Liverpool cotton bills of lading conference committee in a statement which explained the plan adopted, and answered various criti cisms. The committee says it issued the statement "in order to . clear up any misapprehension that may have arisen from recent newspaper com ment especially in the South, and to make clear the ends to which the committee has been working. The statement refers to the safeguarding previously of ocean bills of lading. New Orleans, La. Not until the New Orleans conference of represen tatives of Southern exchanges, com mercial organizations, bankers and others v interested in the handling oi cotton takes place, September 18, un der the auspices of -.the New Orleans cotton exchange, is any action expect ed concerning the Liverpool bills oi lading validation scheme which ' hag just become effective. The central bureau plan has been vigorously opposed by every South ern exchange in strong resolutions, and although this plan became effect ive, members of the local exchange and exporters declare that they will continue to transact business with their foreign connections ..under th same 'conditions prevaiHngimce the inauguration of cotton trading with Europe. LAWYERS DRAW COLOR LINE Baristers Oppose Admittance of Ne gro Lewis to Bar Association. Boston. When a considerable num ber of members in the American Bai association learned that in admitting William H. Lewis of Boston to mem bership, they had admitted a negro, there , came a storm of protest and several threats to resign were made unless tLe wis drops out voluntarily oi otherwise. . The-Boston negro was. proposed foi membership by the local branch ol the association and elected 4n due course. It was not then known by the Southern members that he was a negro. Lewis was recently appointed assist ant United States attorney general by President Taft Gen. Peter W. " Meldrim of Savan nah, speaking for himself and others of his territory, said: "I think that Lewis-Is a respectable man but he is not the person a man and his wife fvould receive In their homes. I don't think Lewis the kind of man who would thrust himself upon any per son. I know that some of my New England friends feel the same way about the situation as I do." Boston. William H. Lewis, the as sistant attorney general of the United States, declared that he would not re sign his membership in the American Bar association, to which he was elect ed, notwithstanding certain Sotfthern members of the society expressed themselves strongly against the ad misssion of the Boston negro No Recognition for Federation. Chicago. C. H. Markham. president of the Illinois Central railroad, took a hand in the conference with union representatives; in which the men seek to induce the road to recognize the newly-organized federation. He apparently was unwilling to .recede from the road's previous stand of treating only with the representatives of the unions involved. The labor men here let it be known that their future action will depend upon , the instruc tions they receive from Hheir presi dents. I Peace Coming, Says Taft Boston, Mass. "Arbitration of dis putes between nations is coming slow ly but surely coming," said President Taft in his address before the Amer ican Bar association. The president briefly reviewed the proposed general arbitration treaties with Great Brit ain and France, and made it plain that in his opinion the objections made to the , treaties were invalid. 4 President Taft declared emphatically that there is room for improvement In procedure ' In the Federal courts. Mack Presents Name of Dlx. ' ' Buffalo, N. Y. Chairman Norman E. Mack of the Democratic national com mittee presents Gov. John A. Dix of New York, as a JPemocratlc presiden tial possibility. Governor Dix is the fifth prominent Democrat to be brought forward by Chairman Mack in a series of articles on v Democratic presidential possibilities. The others are: Governor Harmon of Ohio, Gov ernor Wilson of New Jersey, Gover nor aMrsnall of Indiana and Governor Foss of 'Massachusetts, KILLED III St THERE WERE FORTY OTHgo . ""ED N ERIE, pENN5Y VANIA COLLISION. ENGINEER LOSES HIS Two Passengers Killed, a Hobo Number Iniurer i a.... and, - cuaent That Was Caused by Collision of Fpelft and Passenger Train. Erie, Pa. Four are dead least forty injured, as the rett the wreck of the Erie & P- 01 passenger train No. 201 The occurred at Dock Junction, 4 IT west of this city, and came a suit of a collision between the !" Pittsburg train and a Lake 2k freiarht that hvi cno to allow the passenger train to 1 through. The wreck occurred the passenger train was runnin thi minutes behind its schedule y The dead are: John S. Jcnes ensri neer, of West Tenth street, Erie'- Firt -man, name unknown; Tramp, 'r. on train; Unknown passenger il smoker. A telephone message was received here for every available ambulant and physiciansr A relief train waj also hurried to the scene of the dig. aster and by this time the entire train was a mass of flames. The four dead had been pinned under the wreckage and at last report their bodies had not been recovered. Nineteen injured have been receiy. ed at the city hospitals up to last re port and more are yet to come from the wreck. According to reports in railroad circles Engineer Jones, who was in charge of the passenger, disregarded a red light and this was the cause of the collision. He was running thirty minutes behind bis schedule and waj endeavoring to make up some of the lost time when the accident occurred. The smoking car was turned half over and the injured crawled through the broken windows. Those of the passengers who had escaped uninjur-: ed rushed to the assistance of those less fortunate. The fire on the cars was extinguished before they were completely burned. 6 Kills Sweetheart and Himself. Quoque, N. Y. Miss KatherineFaj Wyck, 19 years old, a niece of forma Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck, an4 ol Supreme Court Justice Augustus Van Wyck, while walking on the seashore was shot and killed by William A. Childs, Jr., the son of a wealthy re tired dealer in electrical supplies After killing the young woman Childs shot and killed himself. Childs had been attentive to Miss Van Wyck. Both were walking on the beach when Childs suddenly drew a revolver and began - shooting. It is supposed Miss Van Wyck failed to reciprocate Childs' attentions. Before bystanders could reach the couple, Miss Van Wyck was dead and ' Childs was dying. The young woman's family, which is prom inent in Brooklyn, has a cottage here. Winners of State Tournament Shoot Lynchburg, Va. At the twelfth an nual tournament of the Virginia Trap shooters Association here a Lyncbburf team consisting of Fox, Daniel, Win free, Fisher and Dennis won the State team championship, breaking 225 out of 250 targets. Lester German of Aberdeen, Md., made the best score for the professional shooters, breaking 145 out of 150, and Dr. Richards of Roanoke led the amateurs with a re cord of 140 out of 150 targets. Th shot in near future, state individual championship will M Refuse to Meet Representatives. Chicago. President Markham oi the Illinois Central Railroad ended hopes of an immediate settlement or the labor difficulties of the road W directing a letter to . F. Kramer, sec retary of the International BlacK smith's Union, refusing to meet tn represeentatives of the Federate" Shop Employes as had been requested- Labor Day Was a Failure. New York. Despite ideal weather Labor Day failed to draw the expects number of marchers into the proce sion. Conservative estimates of w number in line were 40,000 of whom perhaps '1,000 were women. The Namara case was prominently rei ed to. A majority of all banners an transparencies of the parade were praise of J. J. McNamara, who is der arrest for alleged connection w the wrecking of the plant f tn Angeles Times. Detective W. J- u came in for candemnation. u m-... v-l- athletics Win- ' . no MCT .Baltimore. The senior eight". shell race proved to be the pre event; of the Middle states rega .which was decided over the one-m Spring Gardens course here. New York Athletic Club, rwinBVeS. superb form, won the race, wit a per Boa Club of Philadelphia Rowing Club of Baltimore and Aru Boat Club of Baltimore ""Lrf the order named. The New Yor clock-like stroke carried them uu lead at the quarter-mile.