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SENATE INVESTIGATES
RACE TRACK GAMBLING
Zbe Chatham Recort.
RATES OF ADVERTISING;
One Square, one Insertion...... St.
One Square, two Inserfllons....
One Square, one month... a
For Larger Advertise
ments Liberal Contracts
will be made. ,
Gambler Tells National Solons
How to Stop Betting.
BETTOR HAS SMALL CHANCE
gig Delegation of Reformer Visit Sen
ate Judiciary Committee in Support
of Burkett Bill.
W3Shington, D. C With a support
er cast of reronners gaiore - Dotn
mle and female, Henry Brolaski, of
Monrovia. Cal., who professed to be
? ambler upon race tracks, was the
tia'f' feature of a hearing before the
scn ito judiciary committee in support
" ; e ' :i;ett bill to prohibit the
.vc-,!0!! ot race track bettin
odd's' over telegraph or telephone
lines.
Mr Krolaski cave details of the
ganiblor s life and "showed the. poor
ed wniek is given to the gambling
t,Hf Hp was one of the owners ot
2 Mexican track which was put out
0f business at tne instance 01 tne
department ot state tnrougn co-oper
,in with, the Mexican government
(1 L luw
e is now seeking to have tracks, in
wbich lie has no interest, aeajt wun
ir, iii.p manner.
Brolaski said he had worked in his
line in St. Louis, Cmcago, vvortn,
HoK, Atlanta, Charleston, S. C, New
Orleans, San Francisco, JLos Angeles,
litonia. Louisville and Bennings
trnpvs and had had twenty-one years
experience. He roughly estimated
that there were now m the Unitea
States between sixty and seventy pooi
rooms. He calculated that there were
in operation nearly 1,500,000 hand
books He said that in New York
city there were at least 100,000 hand
books and pool room players and that
the evil was growing daily.
Pointing out the poor chance given
hA hPttnr for a return of any part
of his wager, the witness said that
in a pooi room the percentage against
ho niavpr would run from 26 to 150
per cent and in a handbook the per
centage was trom o to 10 pc-r cent.
Common sense will tell you that
from 5 per cent up will eat up an
man's capital if taken out six times
a day," he declared.
There is only one means," said
Mr. Brolaski, "of putting this evi.
out of business effectually, and that
is by the United States government
enacting a law pronibiting the trans
mission of pool room and race track
information over telegraph cr tele
yAoue wires and prohibiting the use
oi tive mails to newspapers that pubr
lish race track prices or results."
mmm hoys rewarded.
Diplomas of Merit Awarded for Agri
cultural Proficiency.
Washington, D. C. Diplomas of
merit were presented by Secretary
Wilson in his office at the department
agriculture to Bascomb Usher of
South Carolina; DeWitt Lundy of
Mississippi; Elmer Halter of Arkan
sas and Ralph Bellwood of Virginia,
all under 18 years, for special profi
ciency in agricultural pursuits. The
recipients are among the 12,300 en
gaged in the boys' -demonstration
work in the scuth. Each planted one
acre of corn and cultivated it under
instructions from the department of
agriculture. Dr. C. G. Knapp, who
has charge of the park demonstration
work in the south, offered a trip to
Washington to the boy in Mississippi
who should obtain the best results.
The State Bankers' Association of Ar
kansas offered a similar reward in
that state, while citizens of Virginia
and South Carolina duplicated the of
fers in those states.
Thousands of dollars of prizes were
awarded this year throughout the
south, the basis of the awards being
the profits, written records, exhibits
of products and yield per acre.
All southern states are making ar
rangements to send the prize winners
to Washington next year.
In a brief address to the boys. Sec
retary Wilson declared that they and
toe boys engaged in like work are
"the only hope we have for the con
tinued greatness and prosperity of the
country."
He pointed out that the south now,
in agriculture and .manufacture, was
prosperous as never before, because
the men and women of the south had
put into the work their own energy
and ability, and, in no sense, were de
pendent upon the capital or the in
dustry of the people from other parts
of the country.
"These diplomas," he continued'are
unique. No boys ever have received
a similar recognition of their merit
Nothing 1 have done since I have been
secretary of agriculture has given me
more pleasure than to present them to
you. You have earned them. You
have begun right. ' '
EVIL TRAFFIC PROBED.
Report Made On "White Slave" Trade
By Commission.
Washington, D. C All but incredi
bly revolting are the disclosures of
an international system of traffic in
women, containing in the report ort
the so-called "white slave trade" sub
mitted to congress by the United
States immigration commission.
When the report was presented lu
the house of representatives by Con
gressnian Bennet of New York, Champ
Clark, the minority leader, objected
to its being printed as a house doc
ument,, but later withdrew his objec
tion. It was promptly renewed by
Mr. Sabbath of Illinois. Mr.: Fitzger
ald oi New York wanted to "Know u
the report contained sensational mat
ter like he implied was contained
in the report of the Roosevelt homes
commission, upon which Mr. Bennet
evoked laughter by the tart reply:
"All matter calculated to appeal to
your mind has been eliminated."
'I he report begins with an intro
duction explaining the nature of the
"white slave" traffic, and concludes
with a series of recommendations,
mostly of an administrative cnarac
ter. -
The commission says that tho effect
of the importation of immoral women
into this country is one of increased
degradation and death for the women
and of contamination and corruption
by means of the spread of disease to
others.
The importations came from all
countries, France leading, and the
Chinese and Japanese maKing up tne
majority of these coming ia by way
of the Pacific coast. Most , of uu
procurers are of foreign birth. Tho
"market" price varies from $300 to
$1,000 for each alien woman. Some
times they are not sold outright, out
their procurers continue to live from
their earnings after their arrival here.
The commission recommends that
efforts be made through government
agents abroad and on board steam
ships to prevent the importation 01
women to this country; that more as
siduous eflorts be made in the United
States to arrest women known to be
engaged in immoral practices affd tc
deport ail possible; that the limit ot
three years after landing within which
such persons may be successfully
prosecuted be removed; that any ue
ported persons returning to this coun
try be Imprisoned; that the keepers
of immoral houses in which alien
women are found be subject to de
portation, and that the state and mu
nicipal governments be urged to co
operate for the stamping out or the
evil.
is appointed.
Tennesssesn Nominated for Supreme
Court Judge.
Washington, D. C The president
nominated Horace H. Lurton of Ten
nessee to be an associate justice ot
t ' S' suPreme court,
and Lurtoa is a Tennessee mall,
"Q was appointed judge of the sixth
wrcuit by president Cleveland March
lb&3. He was a democrat in poi
lt! at that time.
of fhS,(if'nt Taft was nimself a judge
wa xth circuit at the time he
,-,s Pointed governor of tho Phit
WHies in 1S98. and it was his asso
w.on with judge Lurton that gave
'',.f,wh a high opinion of the legal
sanitations of the Tennessee jurist.
DYNAMITE STOPPED A "STORY."
Man Used Explosives to Stop News
paper Ex, osure.
tt.s.t' Louis, Mo. 'it the explosion
nich wrecked the office of a news
Paper here were intended to stop a
story" not yet published, was the
meory adopted by the police,
ueorge c. Dyer, proprietor of the
eekiy, gave to the police the name
1 a man whose marital affairs were
ntten up some time ago and declar
ed8 elief that tllis Per3on was
cognizant of the explosions.
Methodist Minister Expelled.
New Orleans, La. Both expulsion
from .the ministry and from member
ship in the church follow the decis
ion by the South Mississippi Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, in the case of Rev. J.
W. Crisler. He was found guilty of
a charge of gross immorality.
Newsy Paragraphs.
An electric curling iron heater. In
which a circuit is made with a resis
tance coil when a coin is dropped in
a slot, is a recent invention tor use
in hotels and other public places.
Captain Thomas Franklin, United
States army, accused of embezzling
$5,000 from the cadets' mess fund of
the West Point Military academy, ot
which Franklin was treasurer, plead
ed guilty in the United States circurc
court. A question of jurisdiction will
take the case to the supreme court
Patrick Francis Sheedy, who for
the last two years has owned an art
store in New York city, but who for
years before was prominent in sport
ing circles of all kinds under the sim
ple name of "Pat" Sheedy, died in
his rooms over his are galleries. He
succumbed to heart disease.
A movement is on foot in Rich
mond, Va., looking to the removal ot
the body of Patrick Henry from its
restine nlace at Red . Hill, Charlotte
county, Va., to the burying ground
around old St. John's church, in Rich
mond, in which the Virginia patriot
made his famous "Give me liberty or
give me death ' speech, and to erect
suitable monument over tne Kea
Hill erave. It is thought probable
that the legislature will take the mat
ter up at its next session.
Miss Annie Morgan, daughter of J.
P. Morgan, is a recent applicant for
membership in the woman s rraae
Union league of New York city, ana
when her name has been passed upon
she will become a regular member,
paying $1 a year, which is tne lee.
This is the leasrue to which the strik
ing shirtwaist makers belong.
The will of Charles N. Crittendon,
name of his daughter, Florence Crit-
Untnn in fniirtfn cities Of this
t,c;ubsu, . " ,
country, and in Shanghai, Mexico
City and other toreign cities, niea ior
probate in New York city, leaves half
his estate, estimated at between $3,-
000.000 and $5,000,000, to the National
Florence - Crittenton misison.
Entombed Miners' Bodies Recovered.
Madisonville, Ky. A rescuing party
found the bodies of the seven negro
rhinersr entombed in the Baker mine
of the West Kentucky Coal Company
and all were removed from the mine.
The men died from black damp. They
had been, entombed, since . Saturday
afternoon. ". 7"
Clay Not To Leave Senate.
Washington, D. C. Senator Alexan-.
der S. Clay emphaticaly denied a re
port from Georgia which said ' the
senator is about to resign his seat
and run for governor of ,: the . state
"Outrageously false; never heard of
such a thing " said the senator, when
told of it. ' ;
The cost of living in New Jersey
has gone up 37 per cent in the past
ten years according to Chief W; C.
Garrison of the state bureau of statis
tics. His figures, moreover, do not
take any luxuries into acount, but are
based merely in the prices .of actual
necessities. '
A wonderful torpedo which picks
up sounds and' tracks it down is re
ported to be in the hands of ' the
British admiralty, by whom it will be
snhiftptpd verv snnn to exsaustive
trials. The principle of the micro-j
phone is utilized.' I
GIRLS TO SAVE BILLION
Domestic Science Proves What
Farmers' Daughters Can Do.
TEACH COOKINGAND SEWiNO
Housekeepers on the Farm Are to Be
Trained In the Art of Saving.
"Short Course Planned."
Omaha, Neb. One billion dollars
is the amount which girls on Amer
ican farms will be aole to save the
nation every year whenthey are
trained in domestic science and art
as the young men of the farms are
being trained in scientific agriculture,
according to Jessica E. Besack of Co
lumbia University, director of the do
inestic science department of the Na
tion Corn Exposition.
The United States produces yearly
practically $7,500,000,000 worth of
plant and animal products. One bil
lion of this is credited to agricultural
science. - Such authorities as Willett
M. Hays, assistant secretary of agri
culture, say that science will maKe
the new wealth produced on the farm
$10,000,000,000 annualy without in
creasing agricultural acreage.
Now come the women of the agri
cultural colleges, who have made the
departments of domestic science a
success, and say that another billion
can be made, because it can be saved
by the housekeepers of the farms
when they learn to eliminate waste,
prepare foods from cheaper materials,
substitute the inexpensive for- the
high in price and buy clothing as the
experts buy it.
Thus, while the young men learn
to quadruple the crops, the girls are
learning to reduce the cost of living
one-half. .In the fields and orchards
the farmer creates new cereals and
trees; in the kitchen the women will
create new and nutritious foods with
out the use of eggs, butter and high
priced meats.
As the young men eliminate gullied
hillsides by systematic tree-planting,
the young women wil cut out waste
by systematic buying to build up
their wardrobes one season at a time.
Instructors in colleges and women
thinkers who have realized for years
that the housewives demanded a
training school have been puzzled as
to just how to get the information
they have gathered disseminattd.
They have demonstrated, that they
have mastered the problems of living,
and speculated as to why the initial
scheme of Vassar Colege had fallen
through; why Wrellesley found it hard
to live up to the plan,
"The colleges did not reach and do
not reach the masses," they said."The
young women will never save one bil
lion if they must first get a training
in the colleges."
The "Short Course" Planned.
So the "short course" was planned
and these short courses, given in con
nection and farmers' institutes anc
school district meetings, are taking
the knowledge to thousands of girls
who will manage the homes on the
farms of the future.
Another plan has been inaugurated.
The American Beef ' Producers' Asso
ciation has calmly given notice that
unleso the people of the nation learn
to use the cheaper cuts of meat, 'the
average family will not be able to
afford meat in the future! The asso
ciation offered an illustrated lecture
and a demonstration.
A little party of college women gath
ered around Miss Jessica Besack and
opened at the National Corn Exposi
tion, which was held in Omaha, De
cember 6 to 18, a great laboratory
where a thousand girls took a short
course in domestic science and art.
Every day these girls cooked, sew
ed and shopped. For the best dishes
the exposition management offered
prizes. A girl won $100 for ten corn
muffins; a good price for muffins
Here's a meal which the girls pre
pared. It looks good, and four per
sons may have it at a total cost for
the four of exactly 77 cents.
A 77-Cent Dinner.
Celery Soup (5 cents)
Hot Potato Salad (16 cents)
Garden Peas (20 cents)
Cornbread (12 cents) Butter (8 cents)
Berry Shortcake' (16 cents)
The potato salad is the secret of
this meal. It is a hot German salad
and contains bacon. It utilizes both
the bacon and tbe drippings, and costs
less than it would to serve the pota
toes to four persons.
To sew on buttons so that the thread
and not the cloth will bear the strain
will result in a saving that 1 the de
partment proposes to teach the girls
how to do such little things. To
square darn, to make- square-end but
tonholes, to make clothing for kitch
en wear and many other such things
are counted as those which if gener
ally known, will help the young wom
en .save their billion. 1
KNIFE RELIEVES KIM LEOPOLD.
Successful Operation on Aged Belgian
Ruler.
Brussels, Belgium. King Leopold
underwent a most serious operation
for obstruction of the intestines, and
astounded science by the manner in
which he withstood it. His. romarka
ble recuperative powers manifested
themselves directly he regained con
sciousness, and the optimistic spirit
which he has shown througnout . his
illness returned to him. He express,ed
satisfaction when informed of the de
tails of the operation.
The king is making a plucky fight
for life.' He was even strong enougn
to- sign the new military law, just
passed by the senate.
v NEW 10 MET DISCOVERED.
Discovered' by . the Protege of Harry
Thaw's Mother.'
' Princeton, N. J. Fifty-six million
miles from the earth, 146,000,000' miles
from the sun and more than three
times as-large as the earth in diam
eter the-3e are' the . facts determined
by Zaccoheus Daniel, graduate ot
Princeton, about the comet he recent
ly discovered. Mr. Daniel holds the
Thaw fellowship in astronomy, the
annual income of a $10,000 gilt by
Mrs. William Thaw of Pittsburg.
BILLS OF INTEREST TO SOUTH.
Clark of Florida Has Introduced Many
j Measures Affecting This Section.
I Washington, D. C A large numbei
1 of bills, all of which are of consider
! able interest to the southern states,
j have been introduced in the house
jby Representative Clark of- Florida
I Among the most important of these
are the following:
; To prohibit the receipt of money
I in payment of special . taxes as deal
ers in intoxicating liquors by inter
nal revenue officials of the United
; States, except in certain cases, and
'to provide punishment for its viola
tion. Mr. Clark would 'have any per
son or firm produce evidence that the
.city or town where it is proposed to
carry cn the liquor trade has given
authority to do so. Such person must
first procure a license An the place
where it is proposed to carry on tfee
business.
To credit and pay to the several
states and territories all monies col
lected under the direct tax levied by
act Cf congress of July 1, 1862, ano
at later dates.
' To extend to the veterans of the
several Seminole Indian wars and to
the widows of veterans of those wars
the benefits of the act of congress
passed February 6, 1907.
To amend an act to provide for the
collection of abandoned property and
the prevention of frauds in insurrec
tionary districts vithin the United
States.
To levy an import duty on Egyp
tian cotton and other long staple cot
ton imported into the Unitea States
from foreign countries. He proposes
that after September 1. 1910, there
shall be levied apon all Egyptian and
other long staple cotton brought into
the United States from foreign coun
tries, in the lint, an import duty of
6 cents per pound, and upon all such
cotton imported into the United
States, from foreign countries, in the
seed, an import duty at the rate of 2
cents per pound.
These bills have been referred to
their proper committees, and will
probably be acted upon immediately
after the holidays.
TAFT A HAKU WORKER.
President Puts in More Hours Than
Did Roosevelt.
Washington, D. C. President Taft
is proving to be one of the hard
working presidents, according to
those who closely observe the habits
of great men. While he does not
work so intensely nor as fast as did
his immediate predecessor, he puts in
more hours each day than did Mr.
Roosevelt.
Mr. Taft's working day begins at
9:30 a. m. and lasts until 5 p. m. Be
fore he goes to the executive offices
he takes his morning exercise and
has a bit of breakfast. As a rule the
president takes little time for lunch
eon. President Roosevelt did little work
after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, es
pecially when it was a good day for
tennis or a fine drizzly time for
wayking through Rock Creek Park.
Mr. Taft differs in that he usually
does much work after luncheon, fre
quently returning to the executive of
fices for special conferences with
cabinet members or transacting bus
iness in the executive mansion.
Mr. Taft has formed a habit ot
working at the mansion after dinner.
On several occasions during the prog
ress of the annual message the pres
ident remained up till very late dic
tating and revising his first big state
document. Notwithstanding all the
time he revotes to work, he still
takes some exercise. He never miss
es the morning cafisthenics, and,
whenever possible, takes a walk or
ride, however short it may be.
TEXAS FARMERS TO LEAVE UNION.
Secession From National Farmars'
Union is Planned.
Houston, Texas. That the seces
sion of the Texas Farmers' Union
from the Farmers' Educational and
Co-Operative Union or America is
planned is indicated in circulars sent
out by officers of the Texas branch.
After asserting that alleged exorbi
tant salaries for the national officers
Have been proposed and that the con
stitution of the organization has been
misconstrued, it is urged that char
ters be returned and applications be
made for new charters under the
name of the "Farmers' Union of
Texas." .
Objection is voiced to tne recem.
action of the national convention at
Birmingham, Ala,, in September, pro
posing an increase in' the dues of 8
to 16 cents per annum, an advance in
the salary of the president of. the
national union from $600 to $3,000 per
annum, an increasfiitin the salary of
the national secretary from $1,200 to
$1,800 and other expenditures,
7 Dead In Tenement Fire.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Seven persons
are dead and several others injured
as a resutl of a tenement fire at Syc
amore and Third streets in this
city. ' - ;
After being put out of business for
several months, the lottery men of
Charleston, S. C, have combined forc
es and resources, hired attorneys ' and
are now operating in defiance of the
authorities. As fast as eir ticket
sellers are arrested the men are
promptly bailed out of the police sta
tion ahl a jury trial demanded. This:
lottery business is done on a five
and ten-cent scale, but involves hun
dreds of dollars at each -daily draw
ing. The highest recorded price for hogs
was exceeded at the National Stock
yards in St. Louis when a buyer gave
$8.65 a hundred pounds for some fine
specimens. Nothing approaching this
price has been known in the open,
market here since 1893.
Crew of Schooner Drowned.
Charleston, S. C That the five
masted schooner Governor Ames,
bound from Brunswick, Ga., to New
York, with a large cargo ot crossties,
grounded and went to pieces off Wim
ble Shoals, 25 miles north of Cape
Hatteras, the captain, his 1 wife and
the crew of 12 men all being killed
or drowned, is the story told by Jo
siah Spearing, the sole survivor of
the- wreck, who was brought here by
the steamship Shawmut of the South
ern Steamship Company.
' 'mmm- ltWAW
ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS FOR 1910.
Beir.g the Second After Bissextile, or Leap -Year; and Until July 4th, tho
- 134th Year of the Independence of the United States.
ECLIPSES FOR THE YEAR 1910. .
In the year 1910 there will be four eclipses, two of the Sun and two
of the Moon.
I. A total eclipse of the Sun, May S-9, visible in Taosmania as total and
in Australia as a partial eclipse.
II. A total eclipse of the Moon, May 23-24.. visible in United States.
Moon enters total shadow, May 23, 10 h 46 m. P.M. Middle of eclipse, May
24, 0 h. 34 m. A. M. Moon leaves total shadow, May 24, 2 h. 22 m. A. M.
Magnitude of the eclipse, 1.10 of the Moon's diameter.
Ill: A partial eclipse of the Sun, November 1. Visible in Siberia, Japan
and Korea.
IV. A total eclipse of the Moon, November 16, visible in the United States.
Moon enters total shadow. November 16, 5 h. 44 m. P. M. Middle of eclipse,
.November 16, 7 h. 21 m. P. M. Moon leaves total shadow, November 16, 8 h,
5S m.-P. M. Magnitude of eclipse, 1.13 of the Moon's diameter.
REIGNING PLANET.
Jupiter is the reigning planet this year.
CARDINAL POINTS.
Vernal Equinox, entrance of the Sun into Aries, March 21, at 7 o'clock in
the morning.
Summer Solstice, entrance of the Sun into Cancer, June 22, at 3 o'clock in
the morning.
Autumnal Equinox, entrance of the Sun into Libra, September 23, at 6
o'clock in the afternoon.
Winter Solstice, entrance of the Sun into Capricorn, December 22, at 12
o'clock 15 m. at noon.
EVENING AND MORNING STARS.
Venus will be evening star (setting after the Sun) until February 12,
then morning star (rising before the Sun) until December 5, then evening
star until the end of the year. .
Mars will be evening star until September 22, then morning star until
the end of the year.
Jupiter will be morning star until April 1, then evening star until Oc
tober 15, then morning star until the end of the year.
Saturn will be evening star until April 17, then morning star until Oc.
tober 24, then evening star until the end of the year.
THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASONS.
Winter Solstice, 1909, beginning of Winter, December 22, 6 h A. M. ,
Vernal Equinox, 1910, beginning of Spring, March 21, 7 h. A. M.
Summer Solstice, 1910. beginning of Summer, June 22, 3 h. A. M.
Autumnal Equinox, 1910. beginning of Autumn, September 23, 5 b. P. M,
Winter Solstice, 1910, beginning of Winter, December 22, 0 h. A. M.
DURATION OF THE SEASONS.
Sun in Winter Signs, 89 d. 1 h.
Sun in Spring Signs, 92 d. 20 h.
Sun in Summer Signs, 93 d. 14 h.
Sun in Autumn Signs, 89 d. 19 h.
Tropical Year, 265 d. 6 h.
Sun North Equator, 186 d. 10 h.
Sun South Equator, 178 d. 20 h.
Difference, 7 d. 14 h.
FIXED AND MOVABLE FEASTS OR CHURCH DAYS.
New Year's Day, January 1.
Conversion of St. Paul, January 25.
Septuagesima Sunday, January 23.
Sexagesima Sunday. January 30.
Purification B. V. M., February 2.
Quinquagesima Sunday, February 6.
Shrove Tuesday, February 8.
Ash Wednesday (Lent begins), Feb
ruary 9.
Quadragesima Sunday, February 13.
St. Valentine. February 14. ;
Mid-Lent Sunday, March 6.
St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
Palm Sunday, March 20.
Good Friday, March 25.
Easter Sunday, March 27.
Low Sunday, April 3.
St. George, April 23.
St. Mark, April 25.
Saints Philips and James, May 1.
Rogation Sunday, May 1.
Ascension (Holy) Thursday, May 5.
Whit Sunday (Pentecost), May 15.
Trinity Sunday, May 22.
Corpus Christi, May 26.
St. Barnabas, June 11.
St. John the Baptist, June 24.
Saints Peter tnd Paul, June 29.
St. James, July 25.
Transfiguration, August 6.
St. Bartholomew, August 24.
St. Matthew, September 21.
Michaelmas (St. John and Angels),
September 29.
St. Luke, October'18.
Saints Simon and Jude, October 28.
Thanksgiving Day, November 24.
Advent Sunday, November 27.
St. Andrew, November 30.
St. Thomas, December 21.
Christmas Day, December 25.
St. Stephen, December 25.
St. John the Evangelist, December 26.
Holy Innocents.December 28.
CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES FOR 1910.
Dominical Letter B
Golden Number ' 11
Epact (Moon's age, Jan. 1) . . . . 19
Solar Cycle IK
Age of the word
Julian Period 6623
Roman Indication 8
Year Jewish Era, Oct. 3. .,. . . . .5671
Mohammedan Era, Jan 13 1328
(Mosaic), 5903.
HALLEY'S COMET APPEARS.
It seems that Dr. Wolf, of Heidelberg, was the first astronomer to photo
graph the reappearance of. Hal-ley's Comet in 1909. His telegram stated that
he found it Sunday, September 12. just within the confines of the constella
tion Gemini, near the boundary of Orion; and that it was of the sixteenth
magnitude. By some this is believed to have been the "Star of Bethlehem.'.'
Its reappearings since the thirteenth century seem to have been coincident
with many disastrous events, which has tended to increase the superstitious
belief in the malign influence of comets. This comet should be an interesting
celestial abject well into 1910, rising at first before the Sun, on May 8, about
2 p. m. It will pass near Pollux in Gemini June 9, after its conjunction with.
th- Sun, when it ought to be at its greatest brilliancy as an evening star,
setting about 2 hours 30 minutes after the Sun, at about theelose of evening
twilight.
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A HAPPY NEW-YEAR,.
By Anna Tl. Prott-
from OveQpn kQ TcxatJram"
Florida'to Maine,
The pleajant New-ycarJ &r0
arejlymg, life the bir;
Atid if vc can remernber
AU meir meaning, Hit Vccember
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deed and loving,, thcvxV-
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LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Many spindles in Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Maine cotton
mills will be idle during the latter
part-of the month because of the cur
tailment policy enforced by the high
price of the raw material. Oni largo
plant will be shut down Tor tn days
and others will close lor a week.
Holding fast to a handbag iu which
were $12,000 worth of diamonds and
other jewelry, $2,000 in railroad and
industrial bonds and insurance poli
cies for $30,000 on property In Oak
land, a well dressed woman believed
to be Mrs. Ina L. Cummings, of St.
Louis, was found lying ill in tho
street at Monterey, Cal. The woman
could give little account of herself.
She said she had a daughter named
Mrs. Daniels, at Carel-by-the-Sea.
From papers found with the woman it
is presumed that her first husband
was W. P. Stewart of St. Loui3. Sh
is about fifty-five years old.
China is planning to spend seven
years in reorganizing its navy. The .
most striking items in its program
will be carried out from 1911 to 1916,
when the government will have built
eight first class battleships, -twenty
cruisers, ten gunboats and three flo
tillas of torpedo boats. China intends
to proceed immediately to develop
naval gases, expand the naval school
and enlarge the dockyards. She also
plans the creation of an admirality
board and the establishment of a new
naval academy and to recruit a force
of marines.
Washington.
Senator Depew introduced a bill
appropriating $250,000 in aid of the
American emancipation exposition,
which it is proposed to hold at Savan- '
nah, Ga., in 1913, in commemoration
of the fiftieth anniversary of the
signing of the emancipation procla
mation. t
The first break in President Taft's
cabinet probably will come with the
retirement of Secretary of War Ja
cpb M. Dickinson to enter the United
States senate as successor to Jame3
B. Frazier of Tennessee whose term
expires March 4, 1911. Mr. Dickin
son has practically decided - to enter
the contest, and there will be wit
nessed the unique spectacle of a
member of a republican president's
cabinet seeking election to tbe senate
as a democrajt. Moreover,, another
democrat, General Luke M. Wright,
one-time member of a president's cab
inet,, and the Immediate predecessor
of Secretary Dickinson in the Taft
cabinet, will direct the Dickinson
campaign.
Representative Hobson spoke In
the house on the "Philosophy of the
Naval Policy for the United States,"
and said in part: "I believe it is of .
great importance that the sixty-first
congress at this session should au
thorize the construction of at least .
four battleships of the first class."
Congressman William M. Howard
of the Eighth Georgia district was
re-appointed regent of the Smithson
ian institution. The appointment was
made by Speaker Cannon. The other
regents on the part of the house are
Daizell of Pennsylvania, and Mann of
Illinois.
What an important factor In the
commerce of the United States Is
furnished by paper and its kind is
shown by a bulletin just compiled by
the bureau of statistics of the depart
ment of commerce and labor. Imports
of paper and products have increased
from $3,000,000 in 1889 to $12,000,000
in 1909 and the exports have increas j
ed at a large rate also. During the
last ten years American manufactur
ers have sold in foreign markets pa
per and manufactures value al $80,
000,000, and during the same period
the United States has spent for the
same products of foreign manufacture
about $70,000,000.
Congressman Lee, of the Seventh
Georgia district, Introduced a bill for
the improvement of the Coosa river..
The measure carries $241,069 for a
lock and dam at Horse Leg shoals;
$2S2,000 for lock and dam No. 4, and.
$134,000 for a lock and dam No. 5.
All these are located on the Coosa riv
er below Rome. The congressman
has secured surveys of the river and
favorable recommendations for the
project, and if there is a river and
harbors ,.bill at this session of con
gress he hopes to get substantial ap
propriations for the work, which -means
so much to Rome.
A bill providing for a central na
tional bank of America to be estab
lished at Washington, D. C, with
branohes in various cities throughout
the country, was introduced in the
house by Representative Fornes. of
New York. The bank Is to have a
capital of $100,000,000, three-fifths of
which is to be subscribed for by tbe
United States trasury through an Is
sue of fifty-year gold bonds. The re
maining two-fifths is to be offered to
the various national banks of the
country. Branches are provided for
in New York, Chicago, New Orleans.
Boston, Denver, St. Louis, Atlanta,
San Francisco and Portland, Or.
Representative Hardwlck of Geor-
gia wants to know if it is true th2t
the navy department helped to search
for the yacht of Colonel John Jacob
Astor when it was reported lost re
cently in the West Indies, and if so.
why, and how much money was spent
by the department in the quest. He
introduced a resolution Indicating this
desire and requesting the secretary
of the navy, "if not incompatible with
public welfare," to inform the house
as to the facts in the case.
Major General Leonard Wood, now
in command of the department ot the
east, will be the next chief of staff of
the army, Secretary Dickinson an
nounced. General Wood will succeed
General J. Franklin Bell, whose term
expires next spring.
The abolition of beer halls at the
national soldiers' homes did not make
for sobriety and religious observance
among the veterans, according to the
report of the Inspector. This report
says that there were 1,026 more trials
for drunkenness in the various homes
in 1909 than there were in 1906, when
the beer halls prevailed.
Decided business improvement is
shown throughout the country in the
receipts at the fifty largest postoffices.
Every office reported an increase
varying from 6.08 per cent at Brook
lyn to 34.08 per cent at Seattle. Wash.
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