WORK or BAPTISTS
AGreatYear -$1,654,055.84
Above Church Expense
NEK BROADER MISSION FIELD
Want to Barer "With All Interdcnom
taatton Movem en ta Except Laymen's
Movement—Sunday School Lessons
Criticised—Justice for Negro.
Baltimore, Md., Special.— The great
ovent in the history of the five mil
lien Baptists in the Southland is the
annual convention. This year is the
sixty-fifth in its history and the fifty
ftfth session. Two thousand dele
gates and fully as many visitors arc
in attendance upon the two great
meetings.
It has been a great year for the
Baptists. The totals are: Foreign
Missions, $501,580.84. Home Mis
•ions, $329,475. Sunday Schools,
$235,000. Southern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary, $488,000, making a
grand total exclusive of all local
•hurch expense of $1,654,055.84.
Indications are that the church is
preparing to sever its connections
with all interdenomination move
ments, except the laymen's missionary
movement.
A committee was requested to out
line a new system of Sunday-school
boobs to replace the interdenomina
tional ones, which were criticised in a
report placed before the convention.
Rev. Georgo W. McDaniel, of Rich
mond, in an address, said the Baptists
lacked organization and an adequate
mission policy and expressed the
hope that Mr. John D. Rockefeller
will work out a plan for them which
would make them a* strong spiritually
as the Standard Oil Company is
commercially.
The plans of committees now con
sidering various projects tend to ad
vise, it is said, that the Southern
Baptists seek the broader field of the
nation.
The New Mexico situation commit
tee will advise going into that ter
ritory, which bus previously been
under Northern Baptist jurisdiction.
It is understood that $400,000 will
be approved by the committee for
home mission work.
The great movement in favor of
the additional endowment for the
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nan' was made the special order
Bunday morning and the convention
pledged $ .'IO,OOO for the endowment
fund in fifteen minutes. Dr. Mullins
reported that almost $. r )00,000 has al
ready been secured during the year
for the endowment and that the re
maining $200,000 would be raised
very soon.
The following figures show the work
of the Home Mission Hoard in three
of the States:
North Carolina—Eight schools in
which are employed 50 teachers and
enrolled 1,442 students; .'l4 minis
terial students. Expended for im
provements this year $15,425.
Virginia—One school in which are
employed six teachers, enrolled 414
atndents; one ministerial student.
Expended for improvements this year
-$4,800.
South Carolina—Two schools in
which are employed eight teachers
and enrolled 221 students, eight min
isterial students. Exnended for im
provements this year $2,104.
The problem of the negro came
before Uie t convention in the report
read By Dr.'G. W. MeDaniel, of Rich
mond. Dr. B. D. Gray, of Atlantn,
spoke to the report and ho did not
prove » disappointing. As the negro
■wan the question for discussion, he
•eemed to voice the sentiment of all
present when he said: "We have got
to treai ine negro ngnt; we have
got to get rid of our inherent mean-
Jiess and give them their just deal.
■"The host thing to do for the
negro is to sot him a good example.
There are 10,000,000 in our land, and
not the hundreds of millions in Af
rica of this or any other race con
cern us as much as those in our
midst."
A Dr. MeDaniel in his address on the
negro problem, said he hoped to see
the day como when the negro would
be given justice in the courts. "I
blush," he said, "when 1 think of
the negro given the limit of the law
for a petty rrim/c and the white
man set free for the same crime
merely because his skin is white and
he has the influence. Negroes are
not Baptists because they know so
little, but because they read with un
biased minds the Word of God. When
we think of them and how they were
Ibe guards of our women when the
men of the S*nth were off to war—l
•ay we need to do the negroes of
the South justice."
Next year's Southern Baptist Con
vention will be held in Jacksonville,
i t "
Widows of Mine Victims Paid.
Chicago, Special.—Widows of the
victims of the Cherry mine disaster at
Cherry, 111., November 13 last, are re
ceiving an agerage settlement from
the St. Paul Coal Company of $1,473
for each life lost in the ill-fated mine.
Fifty are expected to be settled next
week. At this rate settlement of
4tttk claims by the eoal company will
mmm m e*tlaf mt $441,000.
CITIZENS SHOOT SOLDIERS
Privates Out Colored Man and Later
Residents Retaliate.
Beaufort, 8. C., Special. —Major
Prank O. Mauldin of the coaat artil
lery Sunday forwarded to the War
Department a report of the investi
gation which he has conducted into
the serious clash of last week be
tween soldiers stationed at Fort Fre
gion t and negro residents of the ad
joining sections whieh resulted in the
thooting of six privates by two negro
brothers named Potter.
Some of the comrades of the
wounded soldiers are decidedly rest
less and some have openly made
threats againts the lives of the Pot
ter negroes. However, there has not
been the slightest manifestation of
race feeling in this community.
The cutting of the negro Isaiah
Potter by Private MoOhan occurred
on the reservation ten days ago at
night and after Potter had been or
dered by a corporal to leave the res
ervation. McOhan says he used his
pen knife on the negro when he dis
covered him trying to steal money
from his (McOhau's) pockets.
Dr. Hyde is Guilty,
Kansas City, Mo., Special.—Dr. B.
C. Hyde was found guilty Monday of
murdering Colonel Thomas H. Swope.
His punishment was fixed at life im
prisonment.
The law allows the defense four
days in which to file a motion for
a new trial and Dr. Hyde's counsel
announce that a new trial will be
requested.
"Treat that prisoner the same a*
any other," Judge Lutahaw ordered
County Marshal Joel D. Mayes. "Give
him few privileges! and no luxuries."
An hour after the verdict was re
ported Mrs. Hyde was able to go to
her home.
When news of the conviction was
forwarded by telephone to Mrs. Swop#
in Independence, she tiwieked and
dropped the receiver.
Court attaches believe the supreme
court will bo unable to reach Dr.
Hyde's case for at least a year, on
account of the crowded The
law of Missouri prohibits the courts
from admitting a convicted murderer
to hail.
Dr. B. C. Hyde was charged during
his trial with a series of startling
poisonings, having for their object
the gaining of control of the fortune
of Col. Thomas H. Swope, The mil
lionaire philanthropist.
Colonel Swope died on October 3
last after a severe convulsion. It
was charged that this convulsion fol
lowed the taking of f capsule pre
scribed by I)r, Hyde • and that the
capsule contained cyanide of |>otas
situii, a deadly poison. Dr. Ilyde said
the capsule was a digestive tablet.
On January 11 Colonel Swope's
body was removed from it* tomb for
chemical analysis of the internal or
gans, which disclosed, according to
chemists' report 52-titi of a grain of
strychnine. . v
Two days before Colonel Swope'b
death Moss Ilunton, his cousin, and
business adviser, died at the Swope
hoitse of apoplexy. It was charged
at the trial that Dr. Ilyde bled Mr.
HuntQn too profusely after the apo
pletie attack.
Early in December a typhoid fevei
epidemic broke out in the Swop*
household, attacking ten of the mem
bers of. the family and causing the
death of Chrisman Swope, a brother
of Dr. Hyde's wife. Shortly befor*
Chrisman 's death he vac given a cap
sule by I)r. Hyde and suffered a con
vulsion similar to that preceding
Colonel Swope'b death.
Margaret Swope, Chrisman 's sister,
who also had a convulsion after tak
ing a capsule while under Dr. Hyde's
treatment, was given an emetic at
once by Dr. Twyman and recovered.
Dr. Twyman, who was expected to
be a valuable witness, died of appen
dicitis just before the trial began.
Colored Girl Poisoned Children.
Demopolis, Ala., Special.—Becaust
her mother refused to allow her to
go to Birmingham, a 10-year-old
colored girl employed by Davis Col
lins, a wealthy planter, as a nurss
for his two small children, gave dog
poison to them. The youngest, aged
three months, died in agony and her
water's eondition is serious. The girl
was arrested and seams unconcerned
over the matter.
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Dispute Meaning Latin Phraee
Washington, Special.—Over the
translation of a Latin phrase in the
Maryland charter of lt»20 has airisen
ft controversy between Maryland and
West Virginia as to the boundary
line between the two States. This
phrase is:
"Deinde verendo versus meridiem
nd ulteriorem dic-ti'fluminis ripam et
earn sequendo qua plajra." Maryland
contends that the boundary is at the
hi?h water mark on the south bank
of the l'otomae, while West Virginia
claims that it is at the low water
mark.
Better Let Well Enough Alone.
Ch ieago, , Special.—Captain Ober
lin M. Carter announced here Mon
day that be had filed with the su
preme court of the United States a
petition for rohf>nriti£ in the case
in which he was held guilty of de
frauding the government. He al
leges that the supreme eourt waa
misled "by perjured toatiasofty.
GIFT TO HOME MISSIONS
Firmer Slagle, of Macon County, H.
0., Gives 600 Acres of Land.
Asheville, N. C., Special.—The
identity of the donor of six hundred
acres of valuable farm lands to the
Presbyterian home missions board
I was made known Sunday when it was
announced that Thomas M. Slagle, a
farmer of Macon county, N. C., had
given half of his life's earnings for
the erection of a boys industrial
school at Franklin, N. C. The offer
was made to the Asheville Presbytery
in session at Montreal last month
and was accepted.
Progress In Ditch Digging.
Washington, Special. —On May 3,
the sixth year of American construc
tion of the Panama canal ended and
the canal record has presented an in
teresting review of what has been ac
complished. Altogether 105,888,072
cubic yards of earth and rock have
been removed. That leaves to be
t nken out of the water approaches to
the canal 29.232,052 cubic yards o 1
material, while the steftm shovels
have to dig ou*. 38,827,017 yardt of
solid earth and rock.
Ex-Governor and Family Arrested.
New York, Special. —Frank W,
Rollins, former governor of New
Hampshire, and now a banker with
Boston offices, his wifo Oatherline, and
his son, Douglas, were charged Sat
urday in the sworn complaint of a
custom's inspector "with conspiring
to smuggle into the United Statei
wearing apparel and jewelry and
souvenirs without paying or account
ing for the duties legally due there
on."
Would Suppress Prize Fights.
Washington, Speoial. —Representa-
tive Smith, of lowa, bulged out in the
House Saturday with a bill to sup
press prize fighting. It provides that
no pictures, nor any discription of a
prize fight or pugilistic encounter
may be sent through the mails or
otherwise sent from one State or
Territory to another, including tlx
District of Columbia, or imported
into the United States.
California Wants Panama Exposition.
New York, Special.—San Francisco
will raise $10,000,000 to secure the
•Panama Canal Fair. Gov. James N
Gillett of California declared Mon
day in expiating on the advantage ol
his State for the Panama-Pacific In
ternational Exposition of 1915 to
celebrate the opening of the great
waterway, San Franciscans, he said,
already had subscribed $5,000,000 to
wards the exposition.
Louisiana Negroea Form Colony.
Poplarville, Miss., Special.—Foi
the purpose of forming a colony of
negroes to engage in farming, mer
chandising and manufacturing, 120,-
000 acres of land pear Poplarville
have been bought by members of
that race, incorporated under the
name of tho Colored Realty Company,
Refuse Request of Congress.
Washington, Special.—Because a
grand jury already is investigating
the alleged pool in cotton, Attorney
General Wickershani Saturday re
fused to furnish the house with the
facts in the possession of the de
partment of justice on which tbe in
vestigation was based.
Comrades to Welcome Rough Rider.
New York, Special.—lt will be to
the strains of "There'll Be a Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight," the
■ong that is said to have inspired the
American troops in their charge up
San Juan bill, that Col. Theodore
Roosevelt will be welcomed hack to
New York on June 18. That welcome
will come too, from the men who
heard it played with him on the
battlefield, the Roosevelt Rough
Riders.
Pittsburg Grafters Get Punishment.
Pittsburg, Special.—Sentence wai
imposed today in criminal court on
six of the men who pleaded no de
fense to charges of graft in connec
tion with pittsburg municipal affairs.
One banker and five former council
men faced four judges and learned
their fate. The sentences ranged
in length from four to eight monthi
in jail. In addition to the jail sen
tences fines are also imposed.
Hotel Waiter Kidnapper Free
Philadelphia, Special.—The last
echo of a sensational escapade was
heard here Saturday when the grand
jury ignored a bill of indictment
charging Ferdinand Cohen, the hotel
waiter with kidnapping Roberta B.
Do Janon, the 18-year-old heiress,
couple, after being missing a week,
were found in Chicaeo.
Robert Buist, the millionaire grand
father of the girl, engaged private
counsel when the runaways were
found to press the charge made
against Cohen, but it is understood
the action of the grand jury it
agreeable to counsel for Mr. Buist.
Beven Bishops For Colored Churches.
Augusta, Ga., Special.—"He that
ruleth over men must be just, ruling
in the fear of God," was the text o 1
the ordination sermon preached by
Bishop Charles H. Phillips Sunday at
the consecration of the newly elected
bishops. With the deviation of Bish
ops M. F. Jamison and C. W. Stew
art, the colored Methodist Episcopal
Church now has seven bishops on tht
bench. The conference will adjourn
Wednesdav or Thursday.
SEVEN BISHOPS ELECTED
Dr. John C. Kilgo, President of Trin
ity College, One of the Members.
Asheville, N. C., Special. —The mem
bers of the General Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, are delighted with the choice
of men so far elected to the Epis
copacy. It baa been conceded since
the opening of the conference that
Drs. Collins Denny snd J. C. Kilgo
would be elected on the first ballot.
Dr. Denny received the largest ma
jority ever voted on the first ballot
in the history of the Southern Metho
dist church. The election of Rev. W.
B. Murrah, D. D., L.L. D., was never
in doubt. Dr. Collins Denny is pro
fessor at Vanderbilt University, Nash
ville, Tenn., Dr. Kilgo is president of
Trinity College, Durham, N. C., and
Dr. Murrah is president of Milsapn
Collage, Jackson, Miss.
Rev. W. R. Lambuth of Tennessee
Rev. E. D. Mouseon of Texas, and
Rev. R. G. Waterhouse of Virginia,
were elected bishops on the fourth
ballot.
The fifth ballot showed no election,
bui on the sixth ballot, Rev. J. H.
McCoy, of Birmingham, Ala., was
elected as the seventh bishop, filling
the college of bishops to full quota.
The committee on Episcopacy re
ported the passage of Bishop H. C.
Morrison's character and recommend
ed that he be continued on the effect
ive list but be given light work. The
committee found that the complaints
against his administration were sus
tained but recommended itinerancy
because Bishop Morrison promised to
correct the matters complained of in
his official administration.
Wanted Lutheran Pastor to Remain
Columbia, S. C., Special.—As a re
sult of the resignation of the Rev. J.
H. Wilson as pastor of the Lutheran
Church of the Ascension at Savanpfch,
(la., on May 9th, and the attack on
him by two women members of the
congregation, officials of the Lutheran
denomination Monday issued the fol
lowing statement of facts covering
the action of Dr. Wilson.
"1. Conditions involving the wel
fare of the congregation, at Dr. Wil
son's request, were reviewed by the
church council on April 14th, with the
result that the church council re
quested-' Dr. Wilson to remain as
pastpr.
"2. Perceiving a faction in the
congregation, on May 7th, Dr, Wilson
as a matter of expediency, presented
his resignation in writing to the sec
retary of the council and asked to
have it accepted at a meeting of the
council to be held Monday- night,
May 9th. This was done.
"3. The assault on Dr. W T ilson
Monday rooming, May 9th, had no
part in the bringing about of Dr.
Wilson's resignation. Neither w;?3
Dr. Wilson in any way cennected with
the affidavits involved, except that
he alleged that he had been told that
they existed,' and when requested he
gave the name of his informant."
Woman's Union Adjourns.
Baltimore, Special.—With a grpat
missionary massmeeting the conven
tion of the Baptist Woman's Mis
sionary Union, which began last Wed
nesday, adjourned Monday afternoon.
There were 320 delegates and 700
visitors in attendance, .making the
convention the largest in the organ
ization 's history.
The women planned to raise $244,-
000 for missions during the coming
year, besides $35,000 for, enlarging
the training school for women mis
sionaries at Louisville, Ky.
A resolntion was- passed urging
Congress to Appropriate $250,000 for
a detention house for immigrants at
Locust Point.
Next year the convention will meet
at Jacksonville, Fla.
What a Pityf
Washington, Special.—By the lack
of one vote the House Monday de
clined to accord the necessary two
thirds vote to submit to the several
States of the Union,' the question of
changing the dafe of the inaugura
tion of President and Vice-President
from March 4 to the last Thursday
in April. : A
Greatest Convention Ever Held.
Washington, Special.—The World's
Sunday School convention will be
held in Washington, May 19-24. It
will he attended by official delegates,
from every state in the Union, .from
every province in Canada, and from
more than 50 countries—the most
cosmopolitan gathering ever held on
this continent. The -roster of Ameri
can delegates was long ago full, and
the visitors will outnumber the dele
gates. There will be more than 200
meetings in connection with the
convention. Previous World's Sunday
School conventions hare been held in
London, St. Loais, Jerusalem and
Rome.
Thirty-Six Convicts Meet Death.
Centerville, Ala., Special.—Thirty
six negro convicts lost their lives
early Tuesday when the stockade of
the Red Feather Coal Company, at
Lucile mines, Bibb ( county, about
fifteen miles north of Centerville, was
destroyed by fira which was set by
one of the prisoners in an effort to
escape. Thirty-five of the convicts
were burned to death and another
was shot to death by guards while
trying to escape.
EVENTS TOLD TERSELY.
News From Everywhere Printed ii
Short Paragraphs.
A postage stamp, with a philatelic
value of SSOO, has been received by
Postmaster-General Hitchcock from
the Internationl Postal Union head
quarters at Berne, Switzerland. The
itamp bears the profile of the late
King Edward VII. It was issued for
the Straits Settlement and has the
highest face value of any postage
stamp, ever issued. It is printed in
light orange and lilac. It will be
placed in the Postal Museum.
Noah T. Shaw, inventor in 1875 of
% cooling board and known to under
takers throughout the United States
lied at his home in Columbus, G., of
the infirmities of old age. He wa?
90 years old. While serving it* the
embalming department of the army
in 1865 he assisted Dr. Holmes in
embalming the body of President Lin
coln. «
Rich and poor, high and low, young
and old—every French woman has i'
pocket in her petticoat, and not a bit
af a false modesty is there about hei
when she lifts her skirt, whether in
street or in a public conveyance,
ind exposes to the public gaze a
petticoat of silk, moreen or unpre
tentious colored cotton.
C. W. Post, the millionaire food
manufacturer of Battle Creek, Mich.,
who has made war for years in
favor of the open shop, brought suit
at Indianapolis against the Typo
graphical Journal for $50,000, charg
ing libel. He avers that the Journal
printed an article charging that the
products of the firm are adulterated.
The Oklahoma supreme court in
structed the secretary of state to re
ceive and file a petition signed by
59,000 names submitted by the Sons
jf Washington, a secret society,
whose object is to restore licensed
saloons and to initiate a movement
looking to the enactment of an amend
ment to'the state constitution provid
ing for high license and local option.
C. D. Lightsey, a well known citi
zen of Plant City, Fla., was Sunday
shot and killed by Arizona Jackson,
a colored woman, in the latter's home.
There were no witnesses but the
woman claims Lightsey was attempt
ing to strike her with a pitcher.
Lightsey leaves a wife and daughter.
By a great majority, the Odelsting.
Norway, has voted to £rant universal
municipal "suffrage to women over
twenty-five years of age. The new
legislation will become effective at
the next election," and will increase
the present number of women voters
from 278,000 to 500,000.
A telegram from President Taft to
General and Mrs. Balfington Booth,
congratulating them on.the celebra
tion of the fourteenth anniversary
of the founding of the Volunteers of
America, was read in New York, at
the national headquarters of the
Volunteers.
After sleeping for seven days, Mrs.
Bert Ikert, at Signal, Columbiana
county, Ohio, awakened naturally.
Previous to her long sleep she had
been awake for 45 days, and at the
conclusion of writing a story of her
life fell intfr a trance.
Charlie D. Tillman, Jr., only son
of Evangelist Charlie D. Tillmao, of
Atlanta, the well known song writer,
died at the family rseidence, Till
man's crossing, in Oakland City, Fri
day evening, following a six days'
illness with bronchial-pneumonia. *
The trial of the three Wardlaw
sisters, accused of conspiracy in the
death of Mrs. Ocey Snead, "the East
Orange bathtub victim, has been post
poned until August 29, on the ground
that there had not been sufficient
time to prepare the defense.
Without a word of debate the Sen
ate killed the House resolution plac
ing Massachusetts on record in favor
of the election of United States Sen
ators by direct vote.
Manuel L. Quezon, one of the com
missioners in Congress from the
Philippine Islands, addressed the
House for the first time in his service
there, to advocate the independence
of the Filipinos.
What is said to have been the most
valuable dog in the world. Champion
Chichan Young Jack, an English bull,
died at the Long Island kennels of
his owner, J. Cooper Mott, who re
cently imported him for $5,200.
The statute of Kentucky passed
March 28, 1906, levying a license tax
on liquors is declared to be consti
tutional by the supreme court of the
1' nited States. The court also up
held the law applicable to "double
stamped spirits."
Chief of Police Steward, of Chicago,
ordered that, the Court Theatre, a
standard playhouse, devoted to musi
cal comedy, be closed and thereafter
until a dance which he considers ob
jectionable is eliminated. v
Raymond Hayes, 14 years old, shot
and killed his invalid sister, Helen.
9 years of age, at Chicago, while
entertaining her with an exhibition of
Indian fighting.
Thirty-one thousand Union soldiers
died last year and they are now
passing away at the rate of one every
twelve minutes. There are now, ap
proximately, 500,000 actual veterans
on the rolls.
The world's high jump record for
women is claimed for Miss Rachel
Ilardwitfk of Quincy, Mass., who
feet six inches.
rTSeginning with 1905. the Standard
Oil dividend for the current quarter
of each year has been $9 a share.
CAPITAL FACTS.
Interesting News Gathered in
the District of Columbia.
THE AMERICA* CONGRESS.
Personal Incidents and Important
Happenings of National Import
Published for tk« Pleasure and In
formation of Newspaper Readers.
Uncle Sam's Popular Cook Book.
Uncle Sam's cot>k book, which has
been in preparation for several years
under the direction of Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson, has become a
mighty popular publication among;
Congressmen who are encountering op
position to their return to Congress.
The House authorized the publica
tion of 1,000,000 copies of the cook
book, but the Senate does not put
such a high estimate on the value
of the publication.
The authorization for the publica
tion of 1,000,000 copies of the cook
ing manual was cut down from 1,-
000,000 to 300,000 copies in a bill that
passed the Senate.
Less Beer and Mora Work.
Brewers in Washington have con- >
ceded to their employes an eight
hour day. In return the employes
have agreed to take not more than
two drinks of beer during the eight
hours.
No wave of temperance reform on
the part of the breweries management
however, is responsible, but a wish
to get a full measure of work out
of the employes. Before and after
working hours it is agreed employes
can drink all the beer they want.
Kemp's Prison Term Ending. d
J. Arthur Kemp, former chief
clerk of the police department, who
was sentenced to the U'.iited States
penitentiary at Moundsville, W. Va.,
for two years for embezzling several
thousand dollars froin the funds of
the Police Protective Association, will
be released on May 29.
Famous Educator Will Retire.
After 52 years of service, Dr. E.
M. ("jllaudet, one of the best known
of educators in the country, and pres
ident of the Gallaudet College for the
Deaf and Dumb, announces his in
tention of retiring. He is 73 years
old.
Cadets Going on Long Cruise.
The revenue cutter service cadet
practice ship Itasca, will leave Arun
del Cove, Md., on the annual prac
tice cruise, with the graduating class,
on Juno 6. Visits will be made to
England, France and the Azqre Is
lands. The Itasca will return to Bal
timore August 12.
Doctor Wins His License.
The action of the District Medical
Board in refusing Dr. Lewis B.
Thompson, a Maryland physician, a
medical license to practice in Wash
ington, is held Uv the District Court
of Appeals, in a decision just ren
dered, to have been arbitrary, and
the license will be issued by direction
of the court.
An Inventor's Dream.
Rapid transit beyond the dreams
of other men has been offered to the
Department by an Effing
ham (111.) inventor. The Illinois
man had a scheme to run a railroad
train at the rate of 80 miles an hour
for 500 miles without stopping. He
would unload passengers, mail and
baggage while the train was in mo
tion. His device would whirl the
most delicate passenger out of the car
and into the station without lessen
ing the speed of the train or injuring
the passenger. It would do the same
with mails, he says. On the grounds
that Congress gave to the Postoffice
Department no authority to buy rail
road equipment the invention has
been declined.
White House "Home Coming Week."
The White House will be open to
the thousands of visitors who are ex
pected to be in Washington for home
coming week in October.
President Taft notified Isaac Gans,
chairman of the committee which is
arranging tor the fall celebration,
that he would be glad to have {he
White House visited every day of
home-coming week.
Patent Office Mnst be Enlarged.
In estimates submitted to the Sen
ate $220,000 is asked for the enlarge
ment of the Patent Office and $2,n00
for steel stacks for the scientific
library of the department. Other es
timates were for SBO,OOO for the en
largement of the heating plant of
Howard University and Freedmen's
Hospital.
Officials of the Interior Department
in their- report declare the Patent
Office lacks sufficient space. It is
proposed to erect a four-story stone
structure over the entire interior
court. The addition will contain
thirty-two rooms for the accommoda
tion of 300 employes.
Want Soldiers' Homes Investigated.
A* a result of a speech made in the
House by Representative Cox, of
Ohio, a special committee may be
created to inquire into the conduct of
the government soldiers' homes. Rep
resentative Cox charged that the na
tional soldiers homes were grossly
mismanaged. He said that the rations
at such institutions were inadequate,
that discipline was severe, and he
cited instances of cruelty.