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LOVING JURY CONDEMNED.
Virginia Papers Advocate Incorpor-
atiup 'Unwritten Law" in Statutes.

Richmond, Va.-Virginla newspa-
pers almost unanimously condemn
the Halifax County jury for acquit-
ting William G.. Loving Of the muir
der of Theodore Estes and Judge
Barksdale for not admitting testi-
mony to show that no assault had
been committed upon Miss Loving.
The Newport News Press says it IS
q shame to Virginia that a jury has
been found within its limits which by
q unanimous vote has freed a man
without even a reprimand who had
killed a fellow-mortal in the coolest
kind of way and in the most deliber-
ate manner.
The majority Of the papers are
again grayely discussing the advisa-
bility Of incorporating in the statutes
the so-called ''unwritten law" there
by specifying under precisely what
circumstances a man will be justified
in taking a human life.
The Roanoke World says that If
the 'unwritten law" is to have so
strong a place in Virginia jurispru-
dence it is high time that the rights
claimed under it are specifically de-
fined.
The Danville Register says that If
the jury had been allowed to view
the evidence which vas declared In
admissible by the court they would
have seen the case in an entirely diff
ferent light.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-31
COFFEE COMPLEXION
Many Ladies Have Poor Complex.
ions From Coffee.

Coffee caused dark colored
blotches on my face and body. I
had been drinking it for a long while
and these blotches gradually ap-
peared, until finally they became per-
manent and were about as dark as
coffee itself.
81 formerly had as fine a complex
ion as one could ask for.
when I became convinced that
coffee was the cause of my trouble,
I changed and took to using Postum
Food Coffee, and as I made it well,
according to directions. I liked it
very much, and have since that time
used it in place of coffee.
II am thankful to say I am not
nervous any more, as l was when
vas drinking coffee, and my COM
plexion is now as fair and good as
1t was years ago. 1t IS very plain
that coffee caused the trouble"
Most bad compilations are caused
by some disturbance of the stomach
and coffee is the greatest disturber
of digestion known. Almost any wo-
man can have 4 fair complexion if
she will leave off coffee and use Pos
tum Food Coffee and nutritious,
healthy food in proper quantity.
Postum furnishes certain elements
from the natural grains from the
field that Nature uses to rebuild the
nervous system and when that is in
good condition, one can depend upon
a good complexion as we'll as a good
healthy body. There's a Reason
Read The Road to Wellville.' II
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JUDGE LOVING NOT
GUILTY Of MURDER
Verdict of Jury at Houston, Va,
UphoIds the UnWritten Law.
0FFENSE JUSTiFIES THE KILLING
Jurymen Admit That the Plea Of
Emotional Insanity Did Not At
feet Their Decision - The De-
PENDANT Congratulated.

Houston, Va.-After being in the
Jury room one hour the jury re-
turned a verdict of mot guilty" in
the case of former Judge William G..
Loving, Of Nelson County, the mana
ger of the Virginia estate of Thomas
F. Ryan. who was placed on trial
here before the Circuit Court of Hall
fax County, for the murder Of Theo-
Hore Estes, the son of Sheriff M. K.
Estes, of Nelson County. Judge Low
Ing shot and killed young Estes on
the afternoon Of April % at Oak
ridge, following a buggy ride that
Estes had taken with the judges
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Loving,
who told her father that her escort
had drugged and assaulted her.
The verdict is a complete vindica-
ton of Virginia's "unwritten" or
higher law. Members of the jury
admit that the plea of emotional in
sanity had nothing to do with the
verdict they rendered.
Judge Loving did just what any
Virginian would have done under
similar circumstances" one member
of the jury said. 1--WE rendered the
verdict we did because we in, Vir-
gipia believe in preserving the sane
tity of our homes and the honor Of
our women"
Scores rushed up to congratulate
Judge Loving and Miss Loving as
they withdrew from the court room,
but when they walked to the hotel
none Of the curious sought to follow
them. The Estes faction is dis
tressed over the verdict, not so much
because they are vindictive as be-
aus the verdict casts an imputation
Of guilt on the dead mar.
Collateral evidence touching his
culpability was excluded, and It was
this ruling which scored the victory
for Judge Loving. Friends Of the
dead nan still adhere to the belief
that he in no way wronged the girl.
Counsel for Judge Loving upon be-
ing interviewed in this connection
said: "The conclusion of the jury to
the effect that nc assault was COM
mitted was absolutely correct"
Miss Loving will leave for a visit
to friends in a distant State in order
to escape notoriety.
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The American Honey Gatherer.

One hundred and sixty million
pounds of honey seems like a good
deal for bugs the size Of bees to COL
lect every year, and yet this Is credi-
tably reported to the Department Of
Commerce and Labor by Vice Con-
sui Charles Karminskl, of Seville, to
be the regular annual supply of the
world. Germany, he says, leads the
nations with 10000 tons a year, fol-
lowed by Spain with 10000. Aus
tria is a good third, with $4,000. and
France brings up the rea Of the
principals with 10000 tons per an.
mum. Several other European
tries are credited with a few thou.
sand tons, but the United States Is
not even mentioned In the list. So
far as the reader might gather there
might be no bees in this country at
all. AS a matter Of fact, however.
the American bee is quite busy, SO
say Government figures, for accord.
ing to the census OF 1900. the bees
Of 1889 produced $4,000 tons OF
sweet stuff.
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8 KILLED, MANY INJURED,
AS FLYER HITS FREIGHT
Buffalo Express on Pennsylvania
Road Wrecked Near Sunbury, Pa.
BEND HID VIEW Of FREIGHT CARS
Baggage and Express Cars Smashed
Dining Car and Two Coaches
Damaged-Engineer Stuck to
His Post and Was Hurt.

Sunbury, Pa.-Three persons were
killed and many injured when the
Buffalo express, eastbound, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, crashed into
a freight train which was taking the
siding two miles from this city.
The accident occurred at a sharp
bend in the road. The express,
which was a few minutes late, was
going at full speed in order to make
up lost time. Because Of the bend
the engineer was unable to see the
freight engine, which was backing a
freight from the main track. Seeing
that a crash was inevitable, Ulmer,
the engineer, called to his fireman to
jump, while he stuck to his post and
applied the air.
The express struck the freight en-
CINE, crushing it to scrap iron and
wrecking many of the freight cars.
The baggage and express cars, which
were Immediately behind the express
engine, were broken to pieces. The
dining car and two coaches were bad
ly damaged. Trunks were broken
open and their contents, together
with the mail, were scattered along
the tracks.
The seriously injured were brought
to a hospital in this city, while those
only slightly hurt were attended at
the scene of the wreck by physicians.
The dead: Frank j. McEVilla, Will
Transport, fireman Of the express;
Harry Eyer, Williamsport, express
messenger; F. P. Hunter, Harrisburg,
assistant baggagemaster. The injured:
William Ulmer, engineer Of the ex-
press, internal injuries; Edwin Strin.
ger, brakeman of express, internal
injuries; A. S. Ringier, Lancaster,
Pa, head cut; Miss Minnie Tiechy,
Baltimore, hands %lacerated; Joshua
SAKE, Heating Summit, Pa, suffering
from shock; Mrs. w. G. Irving, Me-
dina, N. Y, internal injuries; Mrs.
H. NJ. Bennett, Washington, internal
injuries; Miss Louise Snyder, Phila-
delphia, Pa, nose broken; Mrs. Irons,
Bodine, N. Y. nose broken, inter
nally injured; Lidia M. Johnson,
Lockport, N. Y; Mrs. j. F. Hazen,
Harrisburg; Mrs. E. B. Merrill,
Dents Run, Pa; F. E. Wilcox, Me-
ch%anicsburg, Pa; j. R. Nesbit, Mil
ton, Pa; A. B. Hitchcock, Knoxville,
Pa, and Mrs. C. X. Sample, Of Col
umbia, Pa, were also slightly in
jured.
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TOOK SPECIAL TRAIN
TO Be BUNCO VICTIM
Ohio Banker Lost $4,000 at Faro
in New York City.
BIGGEST SUCKER EVER BORN"
Millionaire DavisSays Other Wealthy
Men Were Swindled Of ST, OOO,-
900 and Two Financially Ruined
Loser Appeals to the Courts.

Pittsburgh. C. Davis, million
aire banker and oil operator, Of Ma
retta. Ohio. lost $4,000 in a clever
little bunco game in New York some
time ago, and in Alderman Toole's
court he told the story of how he was
victimized into not only losing his
money, but, after $4,000 had been
dropped, how he chartered a special
train to go back to Marietta after
$4,000 more.
During the hearing Davis, who is
a director in the German National
Bank of Marietta, stated that he
knew it to be a fact that many Pitts
burgers have been swindled by the
same scheme. He gave it as his opin-
ion that the trio Of alleged confidence
men whom he accuses have cleaned
up more than $1,000 900 in the past
two years. At least two men are
by the scheme.
Davis told his story at the hear
ings of w. j. (Jake) Adams and
Frank B. Ranger, Of Pittsburg, and
Frank. Thompson, of New York.
These are the men who Davis alleges
defrauded him of the $4,000. At
the conclusion of the hearing Alder
man Toole stated that while he
would reserve his decision for a week
he would no doubt dismiss the COM
plants because of lack OF jurisd1c-
ton.
Former Mayor w. E. Sykes, of Ma
rietta, counsel for Davis, was arrest
ed at the conclusion Of the hearing
on a warrant sworn out by Ranger,
charging him with conspiracy to in
dict. He at onc gave bail.
Davis said that he was first ap-
preached by Ranger and John E.
Curry, of Marietta, last September.
They told him that Thompson was
the dealer in a faro game In New
York, and wanted to get even with
the syndicate which employed him..
Davis was induced to take $4,000 to
New York, and was to play in the
game with the money. Thompson, it
was agreed, would deal the cards so
that Davis would win 100000.
After arriving in New York Davis
was taken to the Imperial Hotel, and
from there to a house just off Column
bus avenue, three blocks from the
Majestic Hotel. The first night Da-
Wis lost his $4,000 the gamblers ex-
planned that a mistake had been
made, and on October 20 Davis went
against the game again with S26,OO0
and lost the money.
The next morning he chartered a
train from New York to Marietta
and, securing $4,000 more, hustled
back to New York, determined to win
at any cost. Again he lost. Curry,
the witness testified, then took pity
on him and told him that he was be-
ing swindled. Unable to get his
money back, Davis sued the trio.
When Davis had finished, Curry
was placed on the stand and corrob-
grated his testimony. Curry declared
that Ranger and Thompson had told
him that Davis was the biggest
sucker" ever born.
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New York City. - The Rev. Dr..
Charles F. Aked, the high salaried
pastor brought from England by
John D. Rockefeller, preached his
last sermon for the summer at the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, and
advised the members of his congre-
cation to get out Of town, rest, for
get troubles, debts. newspapers, tele-
phones and business. City life Of to-
day, especially in such cities as New
York, is almost enough to drive men
crazy, said DR.. Aked, and the only
medicine that will rest the body and
clear the brain is to be found in the
quiet places of the country.
There has been no day in the his
tory of the world when such counsel
was more needed than to-day" he
said. There are no people on the
face Of the whole earth who have
more cause to heed it and profit by it
than we. Our cities are too vast and
too crowded.
Man, like the other animals, was
meant for the fresh air and the open
fields, for the storms, the SHOWS and
the sunshine. But he claps a stone
box down oyer his head, sets it in the
midst Of a hundred thousand other
stone boxes as ugly as his own,
stretching away in b~ewildering
squares and parallelograms, shutting
out Gods air and light, until he is
ready to faint on a warm day and
freeze on a cold one, and die of pneu-
monia-or terror-if the east wind
blows upon him.
'"This crowded, rushing, pushing,
crushing city life gets on u nerves.
We live too fast. We live faster than
men ever lived before. We live more
than twenty-four hours in the day
and more than seven days in the
week. We burn the candle at both
ends, and then, for fear that our
neighbor will get ahead Of us, we
light it in the middle, too. We are
consumed by the fever of living. We
exhaust our vital energies in unend-
ing stress and strain.
W. have no time to think. 1t is
as much as we can be expected to do
if we earn bread and cheese and lay
by a pound or two against a rainy
day. The great majority of us are
just as capable of flying as we are OF
thinking. Leisure for quiet contem-
plation of the world which we live in
is denied US. There is no grass be-
meath our feet, no blue sky over our
head. The world of trees and flow
ers and singing birds is not for us.
Art and poetry and gentle culture ex-
list only in a world of dreams. While
If we once gave ourselves pause to
mediate upon the deep things of
God and the soul, on time and its
meaning, life and it's mysteries, heav-
en- and the glories which we thrust
away why-we might miss the next
car!
1.-The Injunction which insults me
every time I travel in the subway IS:
Step lively, now! Hurry up, there!'
Hurry by all means, for We could not
live if we did not kill ourselves to
get somewhere else
Dr.. Aked repeated Lewis Morris
"Evensong," and said: There is
consideration which we cannot es-
cape. What Of the myriads OF our
brethren pent up in mean streets,
prisoners of the counting house n
the shops, slaves of the mill and the
mine, of the poor and heavy laden OF
every nameless class, to whom these
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The Old Subscriber.

We sometimes wonder if newspa-
per men generally appreciate the old
subscriber at his true value, says the
Lansing (Iowa) Mirror. We mean
the old standby who takes the home
paper year after year, through evil
as we'll a. through good report, and
pays his subscription regularly just
the same as ne would any other hon.
est debt. AS a general thing the old
subscriber Is patient and slow to
wrath. He will overlook many little
sights from the editor, sights which
the mar who borrows his reading
would not stand for a minute.
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PITTSBURG MOTHERS BLAMED.
Bureau Of Health Tells Why Infants
Fail to Survive First Year.

Pittsburg.-That fifty per cent. OF
the babies born in Pittsburg die be-
fore reaching the age Of one year
was startling information thrown at
the head of Pittsburg mothers by the
Bureau of Health.
What seemed still more to the
point, the chief cause for this whole
sale slaughter of the innocents is
said by the Bureau Of Health to be
charged to the mothers themselves.
through ignorance of how a child
should be fed and clothed.
The bureau has set out to distrib-
ute circulars printed in four Ian
guages showing how babies should be
taken care of, particularly in the very
hot weather.
It is set forth that over-feeding or
the ignorant use Of improper foods
and the wrong SOFT of clothing is re-
sponsible for the increasing death
rate of the children Of Pittsburg.
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The Caressing Irish Voice.

There Is no voice in the world
which 1 think so soft-with so much
or a coo and caress in it-as the Irish
voice. I am not going to be guilty
Of the folly Of trying to make out
that my countrymen are angels; no,
I know they have plenty of faults;
but in the ordinary intercourse Of
life there is no people who have
pleasanter, more courtly and more
engaging manners.-T. P. O'Connor,
IN P. T. o.
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Women in the Days News.

The American walk" is reported
to be popular in English society.
American women are taking the
lead in State and social functions in
London.
From two-tnirds to three-fourths
of the exports of Japan are produced
by female labor.
Nine. Schumann-Heink thinks it
will be impossible to establish an
American Bayreuth.
Letter writers have been asking
Miss Gould for everything from false
teeth and bicycles to bridal trous-
seauX and houses and lots.
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The Field of Sport.

Emperor William sailed his
schooner Meteor at Kiel. and again
defeated the schooner Hamburg.
Matthews. the colored athlete of
Harvard, will be athletic coach at the
Dorchester, Mass, High School next
fall. =.
Arnaud Massey. the French golf
champion, won the British open
championship with a score Of 3l2 at
Hoylake.
The French cup at Kiel was won
by the challenger, Ar Men; the I'M
perial Yacht Club gave it's annual
dinner for Emperor William.
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Madame de Stael and Suffrage.

Madame de Stael IS responsible Tor
= contribution to the woman suffrage
question which may interest those
who have done and suffered for the
cause of late. Il have no TASTE"
said Napoleon. in talking to her, "for
women who NEEDLE with politics..
"You may perhaps be right" replied
Madame de Stael, "but since people
have taken the freedom to cut on
their heads on account Of politics,
they ought at least to be allowed to
understand why."-Westminster Ga
zette.
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The National Came.

Pittsburg has reason to regret let
ting Flaherty go.
George Stone is slowly rounding
into his true form at the bat.
Roy Hartzell is playing a splendid
game at second for St. Louis.
The Cleveland team drew tremen.
dously on its first Eastern trip.
The best spit" ball artists in the
American League are Walsh and Dy-
CERT.
From all indications the return of
Pitcher Reulbach to form is perma-
nent.
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WOMEN SAVE BIG DAM.
Work Till Daylight Stopping Leak at
Denver, Col.

Denver, Col.-Mrs. M. J. Reed and
the Misses Knight, Reed and McGill
prevented the breaking of the dam Of
the great Wheatland Reservoir.
which holds the largest artificial body
of water in the State. The women
discovered an alarming leak and tel
ephoned for men, then took a team.
and went to the dam.
While two hauled hay two others
packed it into the crevasse and SHOW
eled dirt upon it. After throwing in
eleven loads of hay and working like
beavers until daylight they were re-
lieved by men, who finished the re-
pairs and averted what would prob
ably have been a disaster.
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In the Hives of Industry,

San Francisco retail grocery clerks
met recently and formed a union.
A new Sheet Metal Workers Union
organized recently in Red Wing,
Mimi.
The labor council of Stirling, ILL.,,
has started a fund to be used in erect
ing a city hospital.
The Kansas City (Mo.) Labor Tenn
pie Association has decided to COM
mence work on it's building.
All the drug stores of Butte, Mont,
were closed on June 1 by a strike OF
the clerks for an increase in pay from
500 to $125.
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Stub Ends Of News.

Kansas farmers are forming a
union.
Governor Hughes, of New York,
has signed the tornado insurance bill,
New York Central Railroad is said
to be gaining control of trolley trunk
lines in New York State.
New York Police Headquarters
has been swamped with complaints
of thefts by pickpockets.
The building of ships along the
Pacific coast is an important lumber
factor at the present time, as most
of the vessels are built OF Pacific
States fir.
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Francis Murphy Dead.

Francis Murphy, the temperance
lecturer, died at Los Angeles, Cal.
following a long illness and general
collapse. Francis Murphy was born
in Wexford, Ireland, on April "a,
1886, and received a common school
education. He came to this country
while a youth, and was married in
his twentieth year to Elizabeth ].
CHM, Of New York City.
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Yale Graduate Kills Woman.

Mrs. George E. Russell, of Park
street, was knocked down and fatally
hurt by a bicycle ridden by w. A.
Perry, a Yale senior, at New Haven,
Conn. In an opinion filed by Medical
Examiner Bartlett the death is at
tributed to accident. Perry comes
from Tarboro, N. c., and was grad
uated on the day of the accident.
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DRESSED AS BOY HANGED SELF
Arrested For Offering Bad Check,
Pearl Silence Committed Suicide.

Aurora, Mo.-Miss Pearl Silence.
sixteen years old, committed suicide
near Aurora by hanging herself after
an attempt to cash a worthless check:
Dressed in boys clothing, the girl
appeared in the Citizens Bank in
Ava and presented a check for $40,
%purporting to have been signed by
P. A. Johnson. The cashier tele-
phoned to Mr.. Johnson, who declared
the check a forgery. Miss Silence
was arrested and released on bond.
furnished by her grandfather.
On the way to the girls home Miss
Silence, who was riding horseback,
disappeared. Her grandfather was
walking and she rode ahead and was
lost to sight. Her body was found
next morning hanging from an oak
tree.
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TWO PROFESSORS DROWNED.
Mount Hermon Instructors Fall Into
Water From Upset Canoe.

East Mortified, Mass.-Philip 4.
Green, instructor of English and
mathematics, and Professor David A:
Durward, assistant in the agricultural
department at the Mount Hernon
School for Boys, were drowned while
canoeing in the Connecticut River
by the upsetting Of their craft.
Both men chung to the canoe FOR
some time, but before assistance
could reach them they were drawn
under the water by a strong under
current and did not again rise to the
surface.
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NO RELIEF FOR IS YEARS.
All Sorts of Remedies FailcI 20 Cure
Eczema-Sufferer Tried Cuticura
and Is Entirely Cured.

81 have had eczema for over fifteen
years, and have tried all sorts of remedies
to relieve me, but without avail. | stated
my case to one of my friends and he
recommended the Cuticura Remedies.
bought them with the thought that they
would be unsuccessful, as with the others.
But after using them for a few weeks |
noticed to my surprise that the irritation
and peeling of the skin gradually de-
creased, and finally, after using FIVE cakes
of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuti-
cura Ointment it disappeared entirely. |
feel now like a new man, and l would
gladly recommend these remedies to all
who are afflicted with skin diseases. David
Blum. Box A, Bedford Station, n. Y,
Nov. 6, 1906"
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dered. I was a ervou wreck and
there seemed 10 hope. Doan's Kid
ney Pills brought my first relief and
six boxes have so thoroughly cured
my kidneys that there has been no
return Of my old trouble"
Sold by all dealers. so cents :: box.
Foster-Milhurn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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OFFICIAL KILLS ANOTHER.
Treasurer Slabs Commissioner tt
Death With a Penknife.

Charlotte, N. CA special from
B~akersville, Mitchell County, gives
news of a fatal encounter near there
when County Treasurer ]. c. Ran
dolph stabbed County Commissioner
Anderson Burleson to death with a
pocketknife.
The killing followed a dispute
over tax returns. Randolph was af-
terward badly beaten by brothers of
B~urleson, one of whom is a State
Senator. Randolph surrendered.