The plaintiffs claim to be descendants of slaves who worked in cotton fields of the Southern States, and they hold that they are entitled to money their ancestors earned and which is now in the treasury, listed under the title of “internal revenue tax on raw cotton.” This money, the complaint says, amounts to $68,072,388.99, acquired from the seizure of cotton gathered by plaintiffs’ ancestors. The plaintiffs contend it should be paid to the descendants of those by whose labor the cotton-yielding revenue was produced. The bill asks that the court appoint an examiner to collect evidence; that Secretary McAdoo be ordered to disclose the amount and source of money now in the treasury under the listing of “Internal revenue tax on raw cotton,” and that he be ordered to state any reasons he may believe the plaintiffs are not entitled to the money. The petition was filed by a Washington attorney representing Cornelius J. Jones, of Muskogee, Okla. Jones, who is said to have prepared the bill of complaint, is a negro lawyer. Dies Close to Time He Set. Peter White, an aged negro residing near Washington, N. C., died at twelve-thirty p. m., just thirty minutes later than the hour he had appointed. In April, White told friends that he would “give up the ghost” at the stroke of twelve. About this time Jerry Langley, colored, was giving the police of Washington trouble. Langley had set the hour for his demise. He postponed it several times, each time disappointing a great crowd of blacks gathered for the dramatic exit of Langley. Finally, when he said the thing was final, the crowd blocked the street and the police would not wait for Jerry to die. They hustled him off to the county home. He is still living. White, the authorities say, may have been prompted by Langley’s example. He had visions of himself being trolleyed aloft in a golden chariot. Old age claimed him, doctors say. Year’s Pickles in the United States. If all the pickles manufactured in the United States were equally divided among the inhabitants, every man, woman, and child would receive about twenty-four, according to the statement of Frank A. Brown, secretary and treasurer of the National Pickle Packers’ Association, which held a business meeting at the Palmer House, Chicago. “There are three million bushels of pickles raised in this country every year,” he said, “and as there are about eight hundred pickles to a bushel, every person in the United States would get about twenty-four. “People often ask: ‘What good are pickles?’ They are one of the most beneficial foods in the world, because there is just enough acid in them to properly care for the teeth, and indirectly this improves the health of the whole body.” New Electric Fly Swatter.