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HAiSER PLEASED BRITISH
Friction Between Germany and
Engisni Soothed.
ftlHU 0
DEATH
RESPONSIBLE
Siscs tU; Kaiser's Visit EagUsi Pco?lo Are
C:cv:a:Jd That G2nn.iny Has Ko
Pegcs Against England.
Lcndcn, EnglandKing Edward
vas the peacemaker even in hie
death. The incidents of the splendid
pageant which marked the passage
of Ms tody from Westminster to the
grave and the deep feeling and tact
which v.-ere shown by Kaiser Wilhelm
during his visit here did more to
soothes the friction between Germany
ami Kngland than could have been
acron" pushed by the wisest statesman-ship-
i ne Gorman Kaiser exhibited a new
phase of his many-sided character
by his manifestations of keen human
sympathy not only with the grief of
the royal family but with the grti
mass of the English people. There are
those who declare that the Kaiser
acted the rele of grief and sympathy
for a purpose and these point to the
fact that there was always a feeling
of veiled antagonism between the
Kaiser and his uncle, the late King.
If his sympathy was acting for ii.
purpose of winning the public, it was
perfect, and it accomplished its pur
pose. It will take more than political
speeches in the future to convince the
English people that Germany has de
signs against the English nation. Thu,
the iniiuence of Edward ' dead has
been greater than the . influence c
Edward living in bringing about bet
ter feeling between tne greatest u.
val power and the greatest military
power in the world, who have been
aln est cn the verge of an open bread,
more than ones since the late King
ascended the throne.
WOMEN PKE5ENT STATISTICS
High Ccct of Living Told by Chicago
Women.
Chicago, III. Submitting their fan
i!y account tocks in an effort to es
tablish their contention "that it is im
possible -to make both ends meet,"
wives of enginemen here toid oi tue
'high cost of living" 4bef ore the arbi
trat.cn heard which is settling the
wage dispute between 27,000 employes
and 49 railroads west of Chicago.
Mrs. Marion Oliver of Chic?go
placed the following comparison ot
prices new with these or three years
ago before the members of the board:
Per pound. Now. 3 Years Ago.
Sugar 06 .05
Round steak. . . .14 ,10
Liver . . . . . -.Oi .03
Bacon . . . . .25 ' .20
Ham . 25 .15,
Lard ...... .19 .12
Butter " . .33 .25 -
Prunes. .10 .08
".Meat is too expensive to eat, cab
bage is neariy a .luxury .and we can't
afford to buy anything but the cheap
est of clothing," Mrs. Oliver said.
TO RETURN CAPTURED BONDS
Lpuisjana Wjll Get Securities Taken
by the Federai Troops,
Washington, D, C. rThe, senate coni
piittpe on military affairs ordered a
; favorable report on a resolution pro
. Tiding lor the return to the state ot
Louisiana ancl tne city of New Or
leans c: certain bonus captured by
union forces at Shpeveport during
the civil war.
The face value pf tne bonds, cap
tured was ?4,476,9SQ, The securities
were transmitted to the United
States treasury. All except $545,4
were returned by order of the secre
tary of war in 1866, but the statute
of limitations has run against the re
mainder and it 13 held that they arc
not returnable, although they have
no money value without the sanction
of congress. -
Thfire is now on the senate calen
dar a measure providing for. the re
turn to the state of Louisiana cf its
original articles of secession, but, ow
ing to the objections made by Sena
tro Keyburn, no action has been ta
ken upon it.
Fred Carpenter Resigns,
Washington, D. ' C Fred . W. . Car
penter resigned his post as secretary
to the president, and President Taft
Bent his name to the senate for ap
pcinucent as ministers to Morocco.. It
was announced at the white that the
change was made "at Mr.-Carpenter's
request, because of the: condition, of
his health. The diplomatic position to
whica he succeeds carries a salary of
510,000. His salary as secretary to
the president was $6,500-
CLAIMS ENGLISH THRONE.
Brooklyn Man Says Ke is Rightful
Heir to English-Throne.
New Ycrk Cuy. John R. De
Gu ; :pii of Brooklyn, who claims to be
a son of the late Edward VII of Eng
te.:;, sent a- message to both houses
0! ; 'niament, demanding the Briti.
erf-. a. . -- .
- i er expressing sorrow at the
death of the king, the writer says that
he, John George Edward Rex of Grea
Britain and Ireland, -the legitimate
and lawful issue of the marriage of
his late Majesty, King Edward VII and
the first princess consort was unjust
ly and unlawfully deprived oT his
birthright as the first born son of the
rijtf ul sovereign."-
$700,099 FOR SCHOOLS;
Ceneral Educational Board Endows Many Ii
stitntions of Learning.
New York City Appropriations' of
more than ?700,000 were made by thq
General Education Board for the eu.
dowment of work of various colleges,
and ior work in thevsouth. Among the
appropriations to colleges are;
Central University, Danville, Ky,
?7o,000; Transylvania UniYersityr Lex
ington, Ky., $50,000. - '
In addition to the sum appropriated
for Central University a like amount
was subscribed at the last meeting of
the board.
In addition to these sums, $113,000
was appropriated for demonstration
work in agiculture in the south, under
the supervision of Dr. Seaman A.
Knapp of the United States depart
ment of agriculture. This is designed
to supplement the work of the de
partment, especially in states outside
the teritory affected by the boll wee
vil, to which the department does not
extend this work.
Another appropriation made was
$31,450 for professors of secondary ed
ucation in the south. They are" mem
bers of the faculties of various state
universities, who under salary from
i-he board,, establish high schools as
feeders for the universities. Under
their election 703 public high schools
have been established in the south
within the last few years and 516 new
buildings have been erected -at a cost
of $5,875,780. ,- ,
The general education board has
contributed in all to seventy colleges
gifts totaling $5,177,500. Twenty-nme
applications for endowments were con
sidered at the meeting.
PANAMA CANAL PROGRESS.
Rain Causes Much Trouble to Canal
.Diggers.
Washington, D. C. The canal dig
gers on the isthmus are having . trou
ble, principally owing to the unprece
dented rainfall, which - has loosened
the soil and interfering with engineer
ing operations. At one place, about
a mile north of Empire, an old canal
dug by the French, broke through the
banks into the new cut, flooding seven
steam shovels and raising the water
55 feet above sea level.. It became
necessary to construct a giant flume
of timber to divert the water of the
old canal, before operations could be
rseumed.
In another case what are known as
the "toes" of the west section of Ga
tun dam have been sliding in and
washed away the trestles, and not
withstanding the greatest efforts on
the part of the engineers, 10,000 to
15,0GO cubic yards of material disap
peared almost Instantaneously into a
great hole that had been washed un
uer the corners of the dam. However,
pile drivers were set to work at once
and the gap was closed within a week,
so that there has been no serious in
terruption in the work.
Great progress is being made in the
construction of the mammoth locks at
Gatun, according to the Canal Rec
ord, and 16.7 per cent of the concrete
has been placed.
SOUTHERN RATES CUT. u
Redaction of Railroad Rates Ordered
by Interstate Commission."
Washington, D. C. Material reduc
tions upon the . numbered classes of
freight between Cincinnati, Ohio, and
Chattanooga, Tenn., were prdered.by
the interstate commerce commission,
The present rates," which haye been
in effect many years, were held to
be unreasonable, eveq In prevailing
conditions of cpst of railway opera
tion. The reductions will become ef
fective July 15, nextr
Th . reductions ordered by the com
missies on each cf the six classes of
freight between Cincinnati and Chat
tanooga are as follows la cents pe
hundred pounds: .
First, 76 to 70; second, 65 to 60;
third, 57 to 53; fourth. 47 to 44; fifth,
40 to 38, and sixth, 30 to 29. These
rate by order , of the commission,
must remain in effect, beginning on
July. 15, for at least two years.
It is not only reasonably certain
that the roads will contest the com
mission's order, but also that if the
rates should continue in effect, their
operation" will result in a reduction
cf the sea and rail' rates' from AtlJ1
tic ports to points of destination in
the interior of the south.
DOCK DEWEY SINKS. '
Government Floating Dock Sinks in
Philippines.
Manila, P. I. Divers began an in
vestigation of the sinking tof the float
ing dry dock Dewey, which was tow
ed to the Philippines from the Atlan
tic Coast. One report circulated here
is that her valves were opened mali
ciously - while she was preparing to
receive a vessel. It is believed, how
ever, that raising her from the. 70
feet of water where she went down
will be easy. The naval investigation
is'-expected to develop sensations. .-
THE PRESIDENT DEFENDS
SOIITHMS
Taft Regrets Acrimoiiions Criti
cism in House Debate,
APPRECIATES S00$ RECEPTIONS
President Deplores Reflection on tits SaaG
Brought Oat in Debate Over Bis
t iaveUng Expenses,
Washington, D. C In a letter to
Chairman Tawney of the appropria
tion committee, which he made pub
lic, and in conversation with Con
gressman Bartlett, President Taft re
pudiated the reflection upon southern
hospitality, which cropped out in the
Louse debata over the president's
traveling expenses. Among other
thiDgs he says in his letter to Mr.
Tawney: '"The feature of the discus
sion wmch was especially distressing
to me was a suggested reflection on
southern hospitality. The intimation
tnat somewnere in the south board
was charged has no foundation in lctct
and 1 never Leard it intimated until
I read tne morning paper. In all m
experience, ana I have enjoyed the
hospitality of many sections ana
countries of the world, I have never
had a more cordial, generous, open
and lavish welcome than I had in the
southern states aunng my trip, and
the siigatest hint that puts me in tne
attituae of a critic of tnat hospitality
gives me pain."
Congressmen Bartlett and ' Haru
wics were the central figures in the
heated . debate ' in the house, which
i drew from tne president ms letter to
Mr. Tawney. Tawney named Hard
; wick ana liartiett as two democrats
who "had accepted the president s
hospitality on ms southern trip, and
' wiio are now opposing an apropria
; tion for hi3 traveling expenses, ii-t
, assertion got a rise out of the Geor
gians, beta of whom stated. that they
i paid tneir railroad fare wnile aboard
the president's special train. "
Because the president exceeded his
traveling expense allowance of $25,0tk
voted by congress for the present
fiscal year, ana the committee on ap
propriations sought to meet the ut
ficiency by making the appropriation
for next ' year 'immediately avail-
j able,." xLe house was thrown into live-
; ly debate. Ciiairman Tawney offenu
1 ed several democrats by suggesting
, that the president had made his ex-
tended western and southern trip
! largely upon the urgent solicitation oi
i democrats of the house, whom Mr.
(Tawney denounced 'for opposing the
.effort to provide an . irnmeaiate fund.
This statement called forth angry
I retorts from Representatives Bartlett'
and Hardwick of Georgia and others
who ' criticised the . white house for
furnishing to the chairman of the ap
propriation committee the names of
democrats who had figured in the
. president s" trip.' ? '
I The point of order, made by Mr. Ma
con against the words "immediately
available" was sustained " and these
' words were, stricken from the bill eo
, that- the appropriation cannot be used
until atter J my ist.
HEAT THEORIES DISPELLED,
Colored Underwear Dees Net Repel
.the Heat, -Wsehlngtonr
D, C Fantastic theo
ries regarding the use of colore un.
derciothing to repel thg heat in the
tropics have been dispelled by ft re
nort made bv the army board for the
study of the tropical diseases in the
Philippines. About JS months ago o,
000 suits of orange red underclothing
And a r.orresnondlns number of orange
red hat bands were sent -to the Phi)-
oippines. These were distributed so
that one-half of a company should be
clad ' in the new garments and the
other In the ordinary white under
clothes. The. army surgeons kept close
watch 'upon the men, but they failed
to find that- the colored underclothes
brought any relief from the tropical
heat, although British army officers in
India had reported that such clothing
was much more comfortable in hot
weather than white. ;
The medical board found that the
colored underclothing which, -by the
way, was unpopular, added material
ly to the burden of heat upon the sys
tem which is a great cause of tropical
deterioration It .is admitted that the
"orange red is a protective against the
chemical rays of the sun, but the
same result is secured by the khaki
and the tan-colored campaign hat of
the American : soldier, i The experi
ments were conducted with the great
est care, frequent records being made
of blood pressure, of loss ofweight
and of general conditions.
Hunter Found Guilty.
Savannah, Ga. Guilty -of the "atro
cious murder of his wife, Mrs. Maggie
Hunter, and aged Mrs. Eliza,. Gnoble
and her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlean
ter, was the verdict the jury return
ed against J. C. Hunter in Chatham
county superior court., "
ith the court room silence broken
criiv. by .-the sound of te voice of
Ju:U;e Charlton, the sentence of . death"
'iK pronounced, and unless saved by
lei formalities the ased. -prisoner
en tat gallows Juna ito .,
Wireless Station on Pikes Peak.
Denver, Colo. According to infor:
Tnntirvn.resP!ived here. ."Marconi will es
tablish a wireless station on Pike's
Peak, to be used as the midway trans
mitting and receiving point in an ei-
fnrt tn send messages from the At
lantic to the. Pacific coast. The sta
tion will be similar to the one used
by .Marconi at Glace Bay, Canada. "
Not an American Vessel.
war.hinntnn. D. C. If the schooner
Esf uerzo, which was searched by the
Nicaraguan gunboat Venus, was fly
ing the United States flag at the time
she was overnauiea, .as nas ueeu im
ported, she Was carrying the Stars
and Stripes without authority, accord
ing to advices received here.
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War Is Inevitable. .
Lima, Peru-Despite assurances
from Washington that Peru and Ecuar
dor have accepted the arbitration or
the United States, Brazil and Argen
tina in their boundary dispute, the
opinion is that war is Inevitable. .
Louisville Children Need Toothbrushes
Louisville, -Ky. That one-half oi
the children in the public schools of
Louisville do not andV never havd used
a ' tootabrush, is" the deduction made
by Pr. Grant after an inspection - of
uu t&Uflrtttg mutbi :
CYCLONE IN MISS0URL -
People Rushed to Cyclone Cellars and
Were Saved. -Pierce
City, Mo-A tornado which
formed northwest of here, struck the
western edge of town, destroying, ten
dwellings and several barns and then
owent Rmitiiward. No one was -killed.
Cyclone cellars saved many f amilies.-
In .each instance tne tornaao-swept
the houses from above the cellars
where men, women and children were
huddled together.
That many persons were not killed
is due to the fact that the twister was
seen' to form by - those endangered,
and" thus they "had an opportunity to
seek refuge. The cyclone swet a
path 300 feet' wide.
: Unique Confederate Flag.
Columbus, Ga.- Lizzie Rutherford
Chapter, United Daughters- of the
Confederacy has just received a
unique gift in the form. of . a confed
erate flag beaded on a buckskin the
work of a Sioux Indian woman in far
off South Dakota. The flag is the gitv
of "James A. George, a confederate
veteran of Deadwood, S. D., who . was
awarded;" the confederate cross of hon
or by the Columbus chapter and who
war the recipient of other eourteiies
M -ltl naadsr ;v ;-. :
INSPECTING SOUTH'S ROADS.
Government Superintendent of Roads Finds
Improvenwat.in South, :
Athens, Ga. Mr. D. H Winslow,
United States superintendent of roads
construction, is . engaged in inspect
ing the roads of Clarke county for
the government, as provided-by the
department,- . -
Mr, Winslow coines to Clarke di
rectly from a campaign . in Alabama,
where he has been inspecting the
roads in Butler county arid has" help
ed to stir up the agitation for goou
roads which resulted in the issuance
of $100,000 of bonds for road im
provement, and has just returned
from a campaign through Florida
where several counties decided to i&
sue $1,800,000 ot bonds for the road
work in four counties, while in Ala
bama, four counties have decided to
issue bonds for the amount of $550,
uoo to te aevoted to the furtherance
of road improvement in their section.
Good roads are the" slogan- of ta.
south nowadays, and Superintendent
Winslow is greatly pleased with the
development of the roads and hi
ways of Clarke county and the city.
He completed the inspection of
Clarke county roads and will leave
at once for Marion, S. C, where he
vill direct the expenditure of $200,
000, which has been devoted for road
improvement.
Superintendent Winslow is well
known throughout the south and i
favorably impressed with the future
of the southern states, if the people
will awaken to tne necessity of im
proving their highways, " and develop
ing intensive farming and quicken
ing communication. -
x FERTILIZER BULLETIN.
Fertilizers Are of Many Grades, Says
. . Government Bulletin.
-Waciiington, D. C. The depart
ment of agriculture has issued a bul
letin of tne bureau of soils, entitled
"The Composition of Commercial Fer
tilizers," by Professor Milton Whit
ney, cnief of the bureau of soils, in
wLich the professor deals with th
subject of commercial fertilizers from
the time of their first use.
In dealing with the subject he says
that the only method by which the
Lest information about the composi
tion of the different brands of fertil
izers on tne market could be reliably
placed before the purchaser would be
-a factory inspection in which the
kind and quantity of material used in
tLe mixture would be certified on the
package and vouched for by the im
partial inspecter."
The bulletin treats specifically ot
the class of fertilizers sold in Alabama
and Georgia. The object of the chief
of the bureau of soils is to show the
composition of the different classes of
fertilizers on the market. The bulle
tin shows that 279 different brands of
fertilizers were sold in 1907 in Con
necticut and 317 in Massachusetts.
In MaAne there were 209 brands placed
on tne market in 190S; in Nortn Car
olina in 1908 there were 1,805 brands
registered for sale; in Alabama in
1908 there were 364 brands sold-with
a revenue from the sale of fertilizer
tags, of over $93,000. In Georgia there
were in 1908 1,822 brands inspected
and analyzed by the state department
of agriculture and marketed for sale.
In- summing up Professor Whitney
says: "There is no rational system
pf fertilization in general use in this
country, and in this respect the Unit
ed States appears to be far behind
gome of the European countries."
Newsy Paragraphs.
The Michigan . Central railway
claims a worlds record for long dib
tance fast running. Two trains of
twelve coaches each, filled with rail
way men, were run from Detroit to
Niagara Falls, Ont., without stop, the
first train making the two hundred
and twenty-four miles in two hundred
and twenty-four minutes And the second-in
two hundred and seventeen
minutes.
That a man has a legal and moral
right to avenge an insult-to . his wife
to the point of taking life appears to
be. the opinion of the Georgia court
of appeals in a decision handed down
at Atlanta, The case was that of one,
Rossi, who had killed one, Harris, for
having made an improper proposal to
the wife of Rossi Rossi was conyicte
ed and sentenced to twenty years Jn
prison, but the higher coufrt gives a
new' trial, because the lower court
told the jury he had no right to take
the law into his own hands. r
John S. Smith, a poultry farmer on
Placer creek, in the heart of the
Coeur d'Alene mining district in
northern Idaho,- Jhas stationed several
talking parrots as policemen on his
ranch to drive -f off 'Jaawks and moun
tain rats,-and-raidson his pens .are
now things of the past. The parrot3
take kindly to the workand by their
screeching they have forced the birds
of prey and rodents to give the ranch
a wide berth. Farmers in other parts
of the district say they will try tho
plan. .
The Standard Oil Company is the
latest vlarge corporation to" join the
higher-wage procession. The report
comes from its New York headquar
ters that all employes receiving less
than $300 : a month, and this means
about sixty thousand workers, win
get an increase of from .9 to 10 per
cent. . '. , '. ': .-. ;
In the University of . Wisconsin ' a
partial answer to- the question, do
co-eds marry? has been given in the
form of statistics covering the period
from 1876 to 1900. Of the six hundred
and seventy-five women " graduates,
three hundred and forty-nine married,
and of those three hundred andforty
nine, one hundred and forty-four mar
ried men graduates of the same uni
versity. . Dr. Max Baff cf Clark-College Wor
cester, makes the statement that from
a psychological standpoint' woman is
no better than the savage of old. He
says: "She emulates -them by her
love of birds feathers, hanging orna
ments to her" ears, wearing braceltes,
rings and . necklaces and " affecting
gaudy colors. She-arranges her hair
in fantastic shapes by artificial meth
ods and is partial to a dhub from the
powder or paint pot. Like , savages,
she is color blind, prone to religious
hysteria and impressionable." ." Man,
he says, baa. put these fads ana fan
im MBina Biii Wii; .:-;.;:-
ROCKEFELLER CRUSADE
J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., Finds Purg
ing of New York City a Big Job,
SPENDING ONEY FREELY
Son of Oil Hagnite Says the Fight on White
Slavery Has Only Begun Satisfactory
. Results .Being Obtained.
New York City- The Rockefeller
family is used to big undertakings, but
the task of purging New York city,
which young Mr. John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., has taken upon himself, is .one
which' has taxed and discouraged re
formers of great variety for many
years. , -.
The results of Mr. Rockefeller's
efforts so far are:
Belle M-oore, a white slave dealer,
is in jail awaiting sentence.
Two others, charged with being
white slave dealers, are under indict
ment.
Six Raines law hotels of shady rep
utations in. the tenderloin have fallen
under police ban and Mayor Gaynor
will ask that their licenses be re
voked. And Mr. Rockefeller declares that
he has not yet begun to fight. Already
his expenditures are said to be above
$30,000 in his crusade against vice ir
New York. With the practical mind
of a trained business man- he has
gone after crime with businessli 'e
methods. Setting aside a sum of $,t),
000,. which- will be replaced with a.
other $50,000 and many other sums of
the same size if needed, he employed
private agents to investigate and re
port everything found to District At
torney Whitman. Then Mr. Rocke
feller called upon the district attor
ney in person and followed this up
he told both officials that he was anx
ious, as a good citizen, to use hi
wealth and influence to stamp out the
vice which has been shown to exist
here.
Mr. Rockefeller was so horrified
with' the revelations made before th
special grand jury, of which he was
foreman, that he is determined to
consummate his aims. Being a very
earnest young man with a square jav
and plenty of money, he is making it
hotter now for the tenderloin dwellers
than' any other crusader who ever ai
tempted to purge New York.
Mr. Rockefeller is reticent- about
the work he is doing. He will not
even admit that he is trying to reform
New York by whiping out the stains
of the vicious hotels and white clav
ery. .
"I am doing just' what every goou
citizen ought to do, and if I happen
to have money that is good fortune
for it means I can do more work with
it," says the ' scion of the house of
Rockefeller and the son of the world's
richest man.
'WETS,,JVGGR5SSiyE.
Wholesale Liquor Dealers to Fight
Prohibition.
Cincinnati, Ohio. An aggressive
campaign against sumptuary laws was
planned by- the National Wholesale
liquor Dealers' Association at a con
ference of state presidents of the, gr
ganization. :
Previously, delegates tp the aftnual
cpnverition of the body had listened to
addresses in which it was agreeu
that the association members had re
mained top lone on the defense and
that a firm stand should be taken for
the enactment arid enforcement of
regulatory statutes by which disrepu
table saloons might be eliminated,
"Whiskey bas no friend in public,
po enemies in private," wai quoted by
Emi! Nathan, St. LoUiS( as a "condi
tion, npt a theory,"
. He added: "No greater harm .can
be done to society than by the non
enforcement of any law on the statute
book. To educate the people as to
the scope and danger of impending
fanatical legislation, this organization
must call to its aid, openly and witht
out fear, the best elements of our
mercantile,: commercial and profes
sional population."
A bitter attack was made upon the
Anti-Saloon iLeague by Henry C.
Mains of Rochester, N. Y.
"The league has organized a gigan
tic system of robbery," Tie declared.
"To carry it out crowds surround ana
threaten legislatures and parade the
streets, demanding the destruction oi.
property and the stifling of commerce.
The judges sitting in cases involving
the general rapine, are threatened
with defeat at the polls if they stand
for the rights of property." . '
The conference " was - behind closed
dcors, but Morris Westheimer, pres
ident of the association, said that the
meeting would plan united 1 national
action against the prohibition move
ment. ."
PLOT KINGS' DEATHS.
Manual of Portugal - and Alfonso of
Spain Are Marked Men.
v Madrid, Spain. Secret warnings
have beensent to the government. ot
ficials at Lisbon that an attempt upon
the life of King Manuel is likely to
be made soon The Spanish police,
in tracing the details of-the anarch
ist plot, for a campaign of terrorism,
have-found that not only are King
Alfonso and King Manuel of - Portugal
marked for death, but members ot
their . governments as well. It is be
lieved that -the conspiracy extends no
farther than the Iberian. - peninsula,
.but secret service officials of, other
governments are "co-operating in the
work of ferreting out the conspiracy.
Pastor Arraigns Taft.
progress or union city. I fRQM COUNTY TO COUNTY
. Dickson, . Tenn. Delegates to ' the
general assembly of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church are discussing
the fundamental arraignment of Pres- j
ident Taft by Rev. J. F. Gill of Cali
fornia, made ' before . the assembly.
"Though he turned down his giass,
he danced all night with a mayor's
wife,", the California preacher declar
ed 4b- the course of a speech in oppo
sition to' church federation. , He citetrr
President Taft as one of these ke
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Modern Telephone System Installed Members
. Can Reach Officials By Long
Distance Telephone.
Atlanta, Ga Union City, the tiead
quarters of the Farmers' union, is now
equipped with a 'modern telephone
exchange and the officers of the, union
can now communicate by long dis
tance telephone with officials, and
members in all sections of the south.
The telephone plant in Union- City
is a minature of the modern exchang
es operated by the Southern Bell
Telephone . company In large cities.
The exchange was opened last week
and was quite an event, removing, as
it does, the isolation surrounding this
enterprising community. . .
The enterprise of Union City is In
line , with the activity of its members
throughout the south. More than
one thousand telephones are installed
in the homes of farmers in the south
every ' month. Bach of these tele
phones is a long distance station so
that- farmers may communicate, by
telephone, with Union. City or any
other point, without leaving their
homes.
The telephone development among
farmers is one of the Interesting
events in the evolution of country life
in the south. The farmer is rapidly
placing himself on the same basis
with the business men in the city.
The contributing agencies which are
turning the trade from the city back
to the farm are the telephones, good
roads and rural mail. The encour
agement which, the enterprise of
Union City gives to the farmer means
increased activity in this great move
ment LATE NEWS NOTES. .
Dispatches from Russia indicate
that another attack on the Jews is
impending. The czar's officers at
Kiev, who have been investigating
the status of the Jews in that city,
have decided that one hundred and
seventy families and possibly two
hundred will be allowed to remain
there. The others will be expelled at
once by Russian troops "and will be
driven, in destitution, to other Rus
sian cities, which will probably be
closed to them.
Randolph county, North Carolina,
boasts of ' a family which for length
of. life is said to surpass any other
family in the world. To W. M. Low
dermilk and Youthy Cole, who were
married in the early part of the nine
teenth century, -were born sixteen
children. One died in infancy, two in
young womanhood and thirteen reach
ed ages of from sixty-seven to ninety
years, as follows: Stephen, 78; Allie,
fcO; Annie, 79; Adeline, 70; Reuben,
72; .Israel, 72; Wincy, 81; Emsley,
SO; Kisey, 88; Alfred, 85; Ransom,
84; Z. H., 71, and Malvina, 67.
By the latest count, sixty-nine Amer
ican cities have adopted or" voted to
adopt the Galveston or Des Moines
form of government by commission.
The movement is progressing so rap
idly that any enumeration is likely to
become obsolete as soon almost as it
is made. Twelve states have enacted
permissive laws enabling municipal
ities of certainnn classes to vote on
the question of making the experi
ment. The new syllabus for New York
state schools proposes to cut off two
years of the' grammar "school work
and put pupils so much earlier in the
high" schools, This would mean the
completion of the grammar course in
six years, and entrance in he high
school at about twelve years of age.
One of the objects pf the change "is,
to give more time to vocational train
ing. The shortening of the course
will bo optional, at least for the pres
pnt, .-
Wasbtagtoa News.
One vote was lacking to make the
necessary two-thirds In the house for
the adoption of the Henry resolution
to fix the date of presidential inaug
urations on the last Thursday in
April.
As the result of a decision announc
ed by Secretary Dickerson, there will
be a substantial increase in the corps
of cadets at the West Point military
academy. The decision in substance
is that after March 2 next , year ca.
dets will be admitted to the acad
emy as successors not ' only of the
class graduating in 1911, but also of
the 1912 class, making a total in
crease of eighty-eight original ap
pointments over the usual number of
admissions.
The aggregate number of 32,936,445
communicants or members of all re
ligious ' denominations In continental
United States was reported for 1906,
according to the United States cen
sus of religious bodies for the same
year, as detailed in part I of the Unit
ed States census bureau's special re
port on the subject,, now in press.. Of
this grand total the various-Protestant
todies reported 20,287,742 and
the Roman Catholic Church, 12,679,
142. ,
Mrs. Taft made her first public ap
pearance since she was taken ill about
a year ago at one of the sessionns
of the world's" Sunday School asso
ciation, whithershe accompanied the
president. Mr. Taft introduced her
as the real president of -the United
States. " After the president had fin
ished his speech, Rev. Dr. F. B. Mey
er, who was in the - chair, mentioned
Mrs. Taft's presence, whereupon the
nation's chief executive took her by
the hand and led her ,up into the
speaker's stand. . Loud applause greet
ed her appearance.- Except for an
occasional visit to the theaters and
one or two gatherings at which only
her -intimate friends were present,
Mrs. Taft has mot been seen in pub
lic for a twelvemonth. ,
The bureau of railway men's news
and statistics reports that with the
year, ending June S0r 1909, seventeen
American railroad companies com
pleted a six-year term without a pas
senger killed, ninety-five companies u
five-year term, one hundred and seventy-seven
companies a four-year pe
riod, two hundred and twenty-eight
companies three years, two hundred
and eighty-seven companies two years,
and three hundred and forty-seven
rnmnanies nut of three . hundred and
sixty-eight reporting, . one-year immu
nitv' Tha ramrt doea not deal with
AeetttBtJi or status of tspleycii
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North Carolina News Prepared and
Published For the Qui Perusal oi
Our Patrens.
State ' to Tinancial Dilemma.
The second bids for the $3,430,000
refunding forty-year 4 per cent bonds
to take up bonds, falling due July X
were opened by the State Treausrer
at Raleigh Saturday in the. presence
of the Governor and. members of the
r M A O A - i. .3 A l...rrA AAimnilTIV
UOUncu OI oiaic auu u iu wr""
of its interested citizens in the office
of State Treasurer and it was found
that there were bids for only $1,195,
000 of the issue as compared with
$1,765,000 that were bid for cri the
first date' for the bond sale May 18
when all bids were rejjeted. -
This time the bids ranged in batch
es from $1,000 to $200,000, whereas
there was one $500,000; bid at the
first effort to sell the issued The $500,
000 bid was by the New York Lif e
Insurance Company and was not re
newed. The Council of State was in
executive session all afternoon, con
sidering the situation, a number of
the prominent bankers and other bu
siness men being with them in confi
dential conference. Late thiseven
ing announcement was made , that
the bids opened today are accepted
and that additional bids are on hand
runninjr up the sale to $1,218,850.
The bids in hand today leave
211,500 of the issue to be taken caro
of in some extraordinary way. Sev
eral methods of extracting the ad
ministration from the embarrassing
dilemma are being suggested al
though the Governor and Council of
StaterBre not talking. One is the
calling of the General 4.sseEQbiy in .
extra session to either increase the
rate of interest above the 4 per cent
provided so as to effect the sale in
the ordinary way, empower the Treas-
niii in a-roViarttra nam linnrls fflT til A
old, or authorize some other means
of tiding the State over the difficulty
until there can be permanent adjust
ment at the next regular session in
January. Another is to sell all the
bonds that are not bid for or for
which bids can be secured before -July
1 to redeem those bonds that
are presented for collection and to
borrow money to take care of the rest
until the regular session of the As
sembly. This 'is believed to be the
policy decided on by the council.
There is a suggestion that the
State could-get money on railroad
bonds the State owns as security or
effect other financial arrangements
that would save the State the $25,
000 or more expenses of an extra ses- .
sion of the Legislature. t
Big Law Suit at Marion. :
The most hotly conteited and long
drawn out lawsuit in the history of
McDowel county was terminated at
Marion 'Friday. The plaintiff, D. J.
McDonald, a sub-contractor was suing
MacArthur Bros. Company for $50,
000. A special term of court was .
called for the trial of this case and
all except one day of the two weeks'
term was consumed in the trial of
same. Every inch of ground was
hotly contested by the most brilliant
array of counsel ever seen at that
i mi.. ' i' f a
Dar. ine jury, aiier remaining oup
two hours, returned a verdict of $27,
528.47 in favor of the plaintiff. Both
sides have taken an appeal to the
Supreme Court,
Representative Page Economizes,
Representative Page saved Uncle
Sam $250,000 Saturday by offering
an amednment- to the sundry civil
bill. .The bill provided $750,000 for
the protection ci public lands and he
cut a third of it off. In advocating
minutes. . .
Killed By Train.
"W. L. Henry, of Statesville. was
killed by an accidental fall Irom a
railroad train at Cisco, Cal.
Mr. Thomas cn Gen. Greene.
Friday beinz the anniversary of the
birth of Gen. Nathaniel Green, Repre
sentative Thomas called the attention
of the House to a pending bill for the
erection of a statue to Greene on the
battleground Of Guilford Courthousf,
near Greensboro. No action was
taken by the House. Mr. Thomas,
characterized General Greene as next
to Washington, the mos;t potent force
in the struggle for independence.
Child Killed by Whiskey.
The six-year-old child of Mr. James
Smith, of Stokes county, died from
the effects of a large drink of whis
key. Mr.' Smith went to the field to
work, carrying along a bottle of whis
key, from which he drank freely,
and then lay down and fell asleep.
The little boy came along some
time later, finding his father asleep
and by his side the bottle of liquor.
The child drank a good deal from the
bottle and was immediately taken se
riously ill from the violent effects cf
the intoxicant. After, suffering sev
eral hours death came to his relief. .
No'.th Carolina Nuggets.
James Johnson, colored, 17 years
old, entered an-apartment at the Car
olina, at Wilmington, and stole a
lady's gold watch, valued at $90,
which he later sold to a colored de
livery wagon driver for $2.
The Corporation Commission has.
elected A. J, Maxwell, of Dover, sec-j
retary of the commission to succeed
H. C." Brown, appointed by the Gov
ernor as Commissioner to succeed the
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