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CHAPTER XII. 15
Fact That the President Seems Satis
fied to Regard Himself as a
Proxy Has Disturbed Credit
and Confidence.
Continued,
it'.ier know the
wilderness
;-ogr was slow; but "they
steadily- forward till tho dis
, aied to lengthen intermin
n .Jacqueline spoke,
wo are both lost now,"
"1 think we fire walking
I, t us rail again to Vic."
vii: raised a shout, which
1 by Vic in person. At
ihe girl came through
1 screeched at sight ol
; :nc! You here, sir? I'v
. high and low for Miss
-;h; she'd got skairt and
rk. Coin? along It's the
1 can st?e it from the edge ol
i
rio emerged from the island
s and stood on the level cH
igneous rock above Philip
!, -i nii'.age. There the calam
night was fully revealed to
'no house, gutted and black
, - still spurting jets of flame
n roof and rafter; but tje
, i'.s j mained firm a grim
d. like the nest of a sea
:i: hunters had harried. The
ty drew near to it in silence,
ly round fer the dispos
: 's. Not a vestige of life
u here visible. The snapping
. the falling of the debris,
of waves on the neighbor
- wi re the only sounds that
ir ears. Vic's keen eye
: the pier. The sloop was
1 seaward. St. George
:-,!-lir.e looked, and saw a sail
: mthward, like a great bird.
.! rising wind, it dipped into
distance, and seemed to
wirii the line of far leaden
t'--y go!" shouted Vic.
1 i' ir hopes of a fortune,
ii.- dear! They're all left.
: ! hurned the house and
. ;n- Ives off by the light of
n 's eyes followed the van
a i '. . and tilled with bitter
'.V
y
f
Vt
rrown,
are relieved,
not at ail,
1 ri'iof (.
' Philip Trevor is the
adopt this heroic meas-
r
t
f
I
I
J:
. W
i..
! to St. George,
"i you and of Miss Hatton is
"t'i in of the whole business!"
I knew last, night he was
;' 'T anything. Say, I'll wager
.1 Joe Rain- is sailing that
I.- t's go to liis hut! "
' ip.ty silence St. George
after the two girls. He was
- with rage. His enemy had
;f. 1 defeated him.
: I's-i .y neared the skipper's
Vy saw that the door stood
Raby's s a chest and various
its had vanished from the
but in their place sat a
cV aning and rocking herself
It was the Portuguese cook.
' -; gracious, Juana!" cried
'. ' lunced into the hut, 'why
:i i.iake off with the others?
'he i. jiis on fire? And why
y ail go, and" leave you be-
Tain 1 1.
or.ian's swarthy face lighted
0. ' the former house maid.
i'.y burned about the arms
and was nursing her hurts
.s and lamentations. She
' Vic in a patoi3 that St.
' 1 Jacqueline did not under
.' they saw Vic's expressive
v llack with dismay.
My s'juf!" she cried, In hor-
turned t her companions,
s that Raby has gone alone
;. Mr. Trevor and his wife
in the stone house! "
1. n dared not even glance
fieorge." Her limbs began
rider her. Constant asso
i h .1 nana ftad made Vic fa
. h her broken speech. She
trroaning woman with ques-
1 interpreted her replies to
The cook was gesticulat
v.ith her burned hands.
s," quoth Vic, "that very
iit Mr. Trevor was talking
one outside the house
I. 'twas me! When he came
nt to his wife's room, and
ad high words. Juana woke
';, and heard them quarrel-
l:it Mrs. Trevor has been
d"r lo' k and key. Cook heard
thrown down violently tn
s chamber she thinks
Tn". in a tew minutes the
ablaze. She says Mr. Tre--ht
his wife 'out of her room
u-. and then ran to his
'" cure papers or money
built th:;re in the wall. He
' ti again. Cook found
vor, wrapped in a white
uciwn, standing at a window,
looking out on the sea,
implored her to leave the
1 Mike haste. She even
1 tried to (truer her bv force.
Tr vor sisted stoutly, and
1 i onk to let her alone. 'I
to li.'e,' she said; 'I will
Juana staed till she was
rr'ned herself, as you can see;
lied for her life, and Mrs.
wts smothered In the smoke."
groans and gesticulations
" woman and Vic continued
: nl tale:
-ays f.he roused Peter, and
: ' 'ly out of the house, but
: 'ia i. be satisfied with that.
'' wife, be had to turn back.
' whero Trevor keeps his
.' I"' said to cook. 'Plenty of
T-ii to make you and me rich
11" went into the house
by a rear door, and he hasn't
out jet! As for Raby. the hub-
"bub woke "him, ol course; Taut Tie
didn't wait to help any one. He just
got the sloop under weigh, flung his
traps aboard, and sailed off in the
early morning."
Vic and Jacqueline fell to bandag
ing the Portuguese woman's burns.
When this was done they found that
St. George had left the hut. They
looked out and saw him standing on
the pier, with his face turned sea
ward. Jasqueline could guess the bit
ter thoughts that noW possessed him.
Presently the sun arose gloriously
from the sea and all the lonely island
blushed with joy. The night of horror
was over. Wan spirals of smoke still
curled about the ruins, but the fire
was fast dying out. Having made
Juana comfortable, Vic and Miss Hat
ton set about preparing breakfast in
Joe Raby's hut. Tea was made and
the larder rifled of such remnants as
remained in it. Then Vic said:
"Won't you go and speak to Mr.
St. George, miss? He must be awful
ly shaken with all that's happened,
and he not half well yet!"
Jacqueline went softly down to the
pier to the silent, stony figure
standing there alone in the joyful
morning. She called his name, and
ner strong, sweet voice"went through
him like an electric shock. Here was
one. who summoned him out of his
gloom into a new life, where hope and
happiness were again possible. He
turned, with a sudden renewal of
strength, to see her descending the
rocks, with the blithe sun on her face
and the rich, disordered hair blowing
out in the wind.
"Both you and I have suffered
much from Philip Trevor," he said,
"but he has managed to escape us
after all."
"Still, we have been terribly
avenged!" shuddered Jacqueline.
"Pray come back to the hut. I have
made you a cup of tea. Do you mean
to bring to naught all my nursing at
the cave? You need strength to-day.
The old question is still staring us
in the face how are we to leave the
island?"
"What! Has that infernal skipper
taken boats as well as sloop?"
"Vic has found the Victory, with
a big hole stove in her bottom, but
Raby's skiff has disappeared."
Jacqueline and St. George returned
to the hut. She poured him a cup of
tea, and he drank it absently, while
they discussed the situation.
"Two things we must do," said
Vic; "hoist a signal of distress, to at
tract passing fishermen, and plug the
hole in the Victory. I hope Joe Raby
left some tools here. Can you mend
a boat, sir?" to St. George."
"I can try," he answered, with a
grim smile, "though I never Teamed
the trade."
"You see, help must be got some
how to make a search for the the
bodies"
"Halloo, the Island!"
Strong and loud the hail came from
seaward. The party rushed" out of
the hut. A cat boat was dancing over
the water straight toward the pier.
Lt held two men.
"Halloo, the boat!" shouted Vic,
at the top of her lungs. One" of the
men waved his sou'wester. " "Jim!"
screamed Vic, and ran down to the
pier, leaving the others to follow
more leisurely. Jim Bumpus brought
the boat to the stair, made it fast
and saluted his sweetheart first and
St. George afterward.
"So here you are, sir?" he said.
"You're not drowned, then? I began
to think you and the Victory had
gone down together. You've made a
longer stay at Deadman's than's per
mitted to most people. Gosh! what's
happened to the house?" Fire? You
don't say! I've brought over a gen
tleman that's looking for Mr. Trevor.
He reached Watchhaven last night,
and nothing would do but he must
start early. Seems to me a curus
tide of travel has set this way lately.
I'll have to raise the price of boats."
The gentleman mentioned stepped
ashore. Lt was now Jacqueline's
turn to start. He extended his hand.
"Mr. Craven," she said, half-angri-ly,
"this is a great surprise! What
brings you to Deadman's Island?"
"Several things," replied Teddy, In
a meek, apologetic voice, "but the
principal one is yourself. I came
to 0 1 you, Miss Hatton."
(To be continued.)
Boston Schools Less Democratic.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, the able
woman who revised the system of the
Chicago public schools during her one
year as superintendent, and -who- wts
In Boston recently, was asked what
she thought of the public schools of
the Hub, and, after a pause in which
she seemed to weigh treT "answer care
fully, she replied: "The Chicago
schools are more democratic than
those in Boston." She said she re
garded this as an advantage, but she
Would not go into details concerning
the Boston system. She pointed out,
however, that many school systems
were tending to make a great ma
chine out of the schools, and that thus
the individuality of the pupils was
lost sight of. "I believe, said she,
"that the minimum salary of any
school teacher should be $1,500 a year,
and at that salary I am confident that
we should have a class of women who
could cope intelligently with the ques
tion of individuality." She said she
would pay teachers of cooking that
salary.
Mr. Roosevelt. apparently, wants an
other panic; but does Mr. Taft want
one? This is a question that the presi--dent
will soon have to answer.
Mr Roosevelt's western speeches
have been more dangerous to credit
and confidence than to the constitu
tion. Even his attacks upon thei SuV
preme court cannot weaken the legal
powers of that great tribunal.
But credit and confidence have al
ready begun to suffer. The Roosevelt
speeches have sent a shiver of appre
hension through the world of I com
merce and industry, not merely be
cause the former president is preach
ing Socialism, Populism and demagogy,
but because of the general opinion
that he is again a candidate for presi
dent and that Mr. Taft is contented
with the role of proxy.
If Mr. Taft had made it plain that
he regarded himself as president of
the United States in his own right,
that he was no mere stopgap for any
body, there would be little cause for
anxiety, no matter what Mr. Roosevelt
might say or do. But Mr. Taft has en
couraged the belief that he looked
upon himself as a proxy and that he
considered Mr. Roosevelt his political
superior
The meekness and humility that the
president has shown since the Rough
Rider's return have deepened this im
pression. The fear that he has. dis
played of wounding the the Roosevelt
vanity or of crossing the Roosevelt
will is properly construed as evidence
of abdication. Nowhere is there a
strong popular belief that the presi
dent would fight to save his prestige
or that he would resent any political
insult that Mr. Roosevelt might offer
to him. Indeed, the common opinion
is that if Mr. Roosevelt decides to
take the Republican national conven
tion away from. Mr. Taft in 1912 . ie
president either will not resist or that
he will wait until the battle is lost.
In consequence, all these wild popu
listic and socialistic schemes and poli
cies that Mr. Roosevelt has presented
on his western tour are regarded as
probable issues in the next presi
dential campaign. Commerce and in
dustry are confronting another reign
of terror such as brought on the panic
of 1907, which threw 2,000-,000 men
out of work and cost the country hun
dreds of millions of dollars. They be
lieve themselves threatened with an
other period of government by dema
gogy and denunciation, all because
Mr. Taft has been a proxy.
Mr. Taft is doing nothing to quiet I
uie aiarm. uoes ne want a panic? Is-
I that another of My Policies to which
his administration is pledged?
The general principle of protection
is beautiful, but it is the practical out
working of it that commands an ad
miration too great for adequate ex
pression. As for example:
A St. Louis man desired to obtain a
little WeBt .Indian chocolate for house
hold use. ' He wrote to a friend in the
Island Of Trinidad, who sent him four
pounds by mail, -oh which he paid
duty at 'the port of-St. Louis.
- The chocolate, is worth in Trinidad
from. 15 to 18 cents a pound. The'tar
iff tax is 5j0 per icent. ad valorem- This
should have made the chocolate cost,
at the most, .27 cents a "poun. in -St.
Louis, exclusive of postage..
But the appraisers value'd the choco
late at 50 cents a pound. This made
the duty 25 cents. A 50 per cent, duty
was by this rational and beautiful
process made to amount to more than
the value of the article. The cost of
the chocolate to the consumer, to be
precise, was 38 per cent, more than
twice its purchase price in Trinidad,
after it had paid 50 per cent, duty a
la mode.
This method is worth dwelling on.
How was. the price of .50 cents per
pound determined? Well, 18 cents
original price, plus nine cents duty,
plus eight cents postage makes 35
cents. Then there is the profit of the
retailer, had there been a retailer.
True, there wasn't in this case, but
why should the government suffer be
cause of an omission like that?
The aim of a hig tariff should not
be wholly forgotten in this connection.
It is to protect American industries.
And the American chocolate industry
is of equal importance with the Green
land banana trade.
DEMOCRAT CHOSEN
To Fight For Governorship of
New York.
GENTLEMEN GRAFTERS
Combination of Prominent Men Swin
dled the Illinois Central Railroad in
Cold and Heartless Manner,
THE YELL0W PERIL
Trouble Threatened Similar to
Boxer War.
SWINDLERS ARRESTED
PTE "TV" in rt a n niv tut B 11
OlAlL LnAIKmAN UIA int MAN Chirasro. A. C. Goodrich. con-
fe 5sed ijo-bet ween , and Hen rv C,
After Promise of all Other Candi- Oste rmann, fomerlv president of the
dates to Support Him Dix Accepted I Jstermann Manufacturing Company
nomination iatetcn ot Life. oth.r before MnnininT .T,w Hn,,r.
1 " " "J. T
jrenmeyer in stripping bare the series
of the alleged combination w"hiHi is
charged with swindling the Illinois
Central Railroad Company by car
repair fraud.
Goodrich described in detail rr.eth
onls which he said Illinois Central
otlicers used to conceal their identity
as stockholders in the Ostermann re
pair concern. In testifying Uiter
ruann said that certain payments to
the railroad otlicers were made by
checks to Goodrich.
Photographs of $33,000 worth of
checks. i::ieil by F. II. Niles. presi
dent of tlic' Blue Island Car & Equip
ment Company, were then introduced
by Attorney Fisher for the prosecu
tion. Goodrich identified the endorse
ments on them as having been made
bv him. Xiles went on t-hc stand sev-
aro and testified that pay
WARSHIPS ARE IN READINESS.
HOW "PROTECTED" MEN LIVE
Its Beneficiaries Surely Have Reason
to Rejoice That They Exist in
Its Shadow.
. New York. John A. Dix of Wash
ington county, chairman of the Slate
committee, was chosen as candidate
for Governor on the Democratic' ticket
of New York Democratic convention.
Mrs. Dix, who had been opposed to
her husband's accepting the nomina
tion, said :
"I'm glad and I'm sorry. I did not
want it because I thought John had
enough to do already, but of course
I'm gl?d he has been honored and
of course"! shall be with him."
'"He has shown himself a bic:
man." was the comment of Edward
M. Shepard when told of the selection.
Mr. Shepard was the first of the
candidates for the nomination to
abandon his own claims in favor of
Dix. Earlier in the dav Mr. Dix had i .1.' ....
Not So Much Opposition to Chris
tianity as Foreigners in General
National Spirit Growing. .
Office of Seven New Yorker KaiiUd
by Government Agents Uaing the
Mails to Defrand.
made it a condition of his acceptance
that all the other candidates should
promise him their support. From
how many he received this pledge
could not be ascertained.
The platform adopted pledged the
part-y first to the preservation of the
"old nationalism." It condemned
all attacks upon the Supreme Court of
the United Sattes." It declared
for sovereign St etarghtis HR HDDL
for sovereign State rights, "for the
largest possible measure of home
rule for all cities of the States.''
Point Not to Be Forgotten.
Tn the mighty uprising of the peo
ple against the oppressions and in
iquities of the'Payne-Aldrich .tariff the
"question of reducing the wasteful ex
penditures of successive Republican
-congresses and administrations is al
most forgotten. During the seven
years of Roosevelt's administration,
when expenditures were annually piled
up to exorbitant heights, the very
word "economy" was taboo both in the
White House and in the halls of con
gress. YetJiow important is an issue
which the Republican campaign text
book almost ignores is indicated by
the public declaration of Senator Aid
rich that by the application of good
business methods the expenditures of
national administration could be re
duced by the enormous sum of $300,
000,000 a year, or more than the total
net ordinary cost of government but
three decades ago. But in the disposi
tion of the public mind to dispose of
one issue at a time, and this the' re
lief from intolerable tariff burdens,
the necessity of retrenchment in gov
ernment expenditures is almost lost
from view. Philadelphia Record.
Two-thirds of the steelworkers re
ceive a wage not greater than $12 a
week; only one-fifth receive more than
$15. Let us see what a wage of $12
will do in Pittsburg. Fortunately we
are able, to draw upon Miss Byington's
careful study, of the. budgets of 90
Homestead families. Tlurty-two of
these had less than $12 a wee.k. Their
average weekly expenditures were
$9.18 or at the rate of $477,3G a year.
How do the families fare. who spend
from. $12 to $15 a week? Miss.Bying
tort gives us the items for 1G families
in this wage group, with an average
total expenditure of $13.32, or a scant
$700- a year. These families pay about
$10 a month rent, but ten of them live
with more than two persons to a room
and only five have city water in the
house. They pay on the average 24
cents ; per man per day for food, but
four of the sixteen spend less than 22
cents. Clothing they buy at the rate
of $81.04 a ypar. Fifty cents a week
for insurance provides only for burial,
should death occur. The only item
that looks- hopeful is the margin of
$2.83 for all other expenditures. But
the- families "In this goup were not
self-indulgent; 20 cents paid the week
ly bfH for Htjuor and 'tobacco, 47 cents
went for medical service. 42 cents for
furnishings and minor household ex
penses, leaving only $1.23 for car fare,
papers, recreation, education and mis
cellaneous expenditures.
It is no wonder that some of these
1G families reported but three cents a
week for recreation. Survey.
John A. Dix is 50 years old. hav
ing been born in Glen Falls, N. Y.,
in I860. He received his early edu
cation in home schools and was grad
uated from Cornell University in
1882. His business career Heaan as
a member of the firm of Renolds &
Dix, marble dealers, and later he was
associated with a lumber firom. In
1889 he married Miss Gertrude Thom
son. In politics Mr. Dix first became
prominent as the chairman of the
Democratic county committee of
Washington county, a position which
indirectly led to his forming a county
chairnians' organization in which he
strove for more power for the chair
men as against the State committee
men. Two years aro with Lewis Stuy
vesant Chanler as the head of the
ticket, Mr. Dix was the Democratic
nominee for Lieutenant (Jovernor.
meeting. dcleat. At the Hultalo con
vention in lflOd, at which the Demo
crats nominated Hearst for Governor.
Dix himself received 17 votes for Gov
ernor. He refused to sanction Hearst
and bolted the convention.
In-June last Mr. Dix succeeded Wil
liam J. Conners of Buffalo as chair
man of .the Democratic State commit
tee. In 187'J John A. Dix, a cousin of
the present nominee's father, was
Governor of JCew York.
Too Much Ghost Dance.
Roosevelt's tour was largely a series
of Apache dances and songs of defi
ance against the bosses of the Repub
lican party in New York. His speeches
have been more like ululations than
rational discourses. "I am for honest
politics. I am for clean politics.
am for straight politics," he shouts
"I will crush mobs. I will crush cor
rupt corporations," he adds "If they
wish a fight I'll give it to them."
What means all this? Why should
this little man be so hot? Is Vice-
President Sherman unclean? Is Chair
man Woodruff dishonest? Is Mr
Barnes crooked? What corporation is
he going to crush? Where is the mob
Who's hunting a fight?
Time was when the angry man was
a close associate of the accused trio
and shared the spoils of politics with
them. There is no call to do a ghost
dance now. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Heart and Brain.
Don't let us be afraid of enthusiasm.
There is oftener a lack of heart than
brain. The world is not starving for
need of education half as much as for
warm, earnest interest of soul to soul.
We agree with the Indian who, when
talked to about having too much zeal,
said: "I think it Is better for the pot
to boil over than not to boil at all."
Republican Party False to Duty.
And this is the consummation aftei
years of patient and submissive en
durance. The American people were
promised relief from the extortions
and exactions of monopoly. The par
ty (hat had promised relief was the
party tnat imposed tne burden. It
contracted to take off the galling yoke.
Its candidate for president confirmed
and ratified, repeated and reiterated
the promise. It was reverberated
from every Republican platform. It
was heralded and proclaimed through
every revolting Republican state o)
the Mississippi valley and elsewhere
The people credulously confided in the
promises and gave the Republican par
ty another lease of power. The Re
publican party has proved recreant to
its trust and false to its duty.
President Talks of Prisons.
Washington. District of Columbia.
Tn receiving t he delegates to the In
ternational Prison congress, President
Taft cautioned them against making
prisons so comfortable as to furnish
a motive' fW violating the law. The
president said, that sometimes when
he had visited the prisons of this
government he had thought they were
stronger in theory than in practice.
He expressed the hope, however, tan!
this sjovernment now had prisons
which illustrate at least some of the
improvements the prison congress recommended.
ments for Harriman were made to
Goodrich.
The name of Ira G. Rawn, late
president of the Monou Railroad and
formerly vice president of the Illinois
Central Railroad, was airain brought
into t he proceedings when Goodrich
testified that on December 18. 1!M)9,
he wrote a check for $10,000 to Ira
G. Rawn. The $10,000 check hp said
was in return for two $5,000 checks
which were sont to Goodrich on De
cember 13 and were signed by Niles.
In connection with the formation of
the Memohis Car Company, Oster
mann told how stock was issued and
to whom. Two new names, those of
H. H. McCourt. general superinten
dent of the Illinois Central lines south
of the Ohio river, and W. S. King
general superintendent of the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley Railroad, were
mentioned by Ostcrmann in t h s con
nect ion.
"Slock was issued in certificates of
161 shares ei.ch in the Memphis Car
Repair Company," said Ostcrmann.
"This stock was divided among Ira
ti. H.nvn. F. 15. Harrimann, Joseph P.
Buker. W. S. King. H. H. McCourt.
William Benshaw. .1. M. Taylor and
Secretary Ward of the Memphis com
pany. At the suggestion of Mr.
Buker I hid all the stock made out
in my own name. I know that Rawn,
Harrimann and Tavlor got their
shares and I suppose the others did.
too.
The witness then went into a detail
ed liistorv of the organization of the
Memphis Car Repair Company. Iater
on Ostcrmann said he was told to is
sue stock to Mr. Rawn and Mr. Har
rimann. Ostcrmann then declared that car
re(air companies vaid Illinois Central
ollu ials a bonus as high as $25 a car I
-for each one vent to them for repairs
and made "presents" of varying sizes
to all grades - employes for vigilance
in detect int; and reportinn "bad or
der" car. He declared that
amount charged on each car by t lie
repair .companies was regulated di
rectlv by the Illinois Central officeT-a
interested in the alleged grafting.
ashington. China is declared to
be on the verge of another upheaval,
similar to the Boxer uprising and the
lives of foreigners are in jeopardy.
Advices received here recently from
government officials in China express
the belief that an outbreak at any
time would Dot surpr.se them. The
State Department has instrjeted its
diplomatic and consular officials to
maintain a close watch on the internal
conditions.
All through the summer months
there have been mutterings of discon
tent in some of the Chinese pro
vinces, due to the rice famine, dynas
tic difficulties and dissatisfaction
over acts uf the I'ekin government as
to foreign investments in China. Good
harvests mitigated to some extent the
gravity of the situation, but tiiere is
still a general feeling of unrest ac
cording to personal letters received
here from men on dutv in that quar
ter. The armv ami the navy are pre
pared for any emergency, but their
Ne-w York. FoHowyyt one of the
moft sensational raid -ever tnde by
Fed era4-a -.rt bonnes in this city, direc
ted against the firm of B. H. Seb-fU4
& Co.. broker? in Broad-si reet. v
members of tiie company, including .
B. H. Scheftel, its president, were
held in heavy bail by United SUtea
Commissioner Sineds tor bearing on.
charge of uslivg the mails lo defraud.
According logenia of the Depart
ment of .l as: i e tie Scheftel coifrpiiy
has been cngired in protDoUmt ffcc .
sale of mining acunte of doubtful
alue in- all parts of the country.
Estimates of the firm" deahrqri are -placed
as high as $5,000,000.
Anolher cnarge against the com
pany by George Scarborough, the
government inspector who made the
complaints, i that it had resorted t
J what he called a crx.okcd bucket
i shop scheme." He declared the con
I rem had charged customers 6 per
; cent on margins and had collected
i commissions without rendenuK 7
i service in return. The difference be
tween the actual prices of stock on'
j tiie curb market and fictitious qnota
: tKms eiven customers. Scarborough
a.so ailegs, was converted io me
company 's use.
The raid vis made while the
curb market was in full swing and
attracted much attention. Thouaasda
rushed U tiie scene and police re-
r
readiness is solely a precautionary I serves had to be called out to cl
measure, it is said, and should not be ! a nath for the uartrol wairons.
take.i as an indication of immediate
danger.
Authentic advices from those
charged with keeping in touch with
conditions indicate that the onlv thing
lacking to parallel the situation with
that preceding the Boxer troubles.
which drew into China the American
forces as well a- those of other na
tions, is the matter of organization
and that it onlv needs a leader to
effect that.
Every vessel in the Asiatic fleet, a
well as the militarv forces at Manila
is prepared for almtrst instant action
in the event the trouble breaks.
Revolutionary uprisings are of
greater or less frequency throughout
China and it is recognized bv Wash
ington autnoril'.cs tnat trouble is li
able to occur at any time in some of
the provinces.
Got. Hacked s Case Stopped.
McAlister. Okla The trial of Gov
ernor Haskell of Oklahoma in tbe
Muskogee town lot cases came to a
sudden end when the government an
nounced that under the restricliont
laid down by the court it would be
unable to make out a case ajrainrt
Haskell or anv of his eo-defendanti.
Governor Ha keli and three other de
fendants were charged in an indict
ment returned bv a Federal gTand
jury with conspiracy to defraud the
trovemmcnt 'n the disposal of town
lot sites at Mihskogec, Okla.
Boston. No reports of unrest in
China have been received recently at
the headquarters here of the Ameri
can board of commissioners for r
eign missions.
The unrcs' in China in the belief
of the American board officials is the
result of a newly awakened national
feeting among the Chinese people.
The slogan of an ever increasing ele
ment, "China for the Chinese." has
been heard throughout the empire
and the anti-foreign feeling i not
directed against tiie missionaries as
Christians, but rather because they
are foreigners.
The American board's mission sta
tions in China re divdied among
three districts. Foo Chow, South
China and North China.
" Pittsburg's Big Land Ebow."
Pittsburg. - The agricultural re
sources of tiie South and the many ad
vantage which that section offers to
the homesee-ker are going to be made
a distinct feature of the NXional
Ind and Irrigation Exposition pop
ularly known as "Pittsburg's Big
Iand Show." to be held in Pittsburg
October 17th to 29th. through the ex
hibit which the Southern Railway
Company has arranged to make
through its Iand and Indus-trial De
partment .
In addition t the exhibit by the
Southern Railway the Pittsburg mow
is endeavoring to secure a number of
exhibits from charriliers of eommeTeV,
boards of trade, and olber orgarua
t lions in the S0''11. interested, in J,hq
I development of that section.
70.000,000 Bacteria Found in-Catoupi.
IxMiisville, Kv. Basing their action
' rtn I hi rei,.rl . . ' trtvrntnMl( rilT1l.
No New Quarters and Halves.
Washington. There will be no sup
ply of bright, new quarters and half
dollars for shopkeepers to hand over
t.eir counters at holiday lime this
year.
Requests for lf10 coins of that de
nomination r.re already eoimr.j!
through the banks to the Treasury
Department. The banks say their
large customers demand the new coins
j at holiday time for advertising.
Richmond's Rapid Growth.
Washington. Census figures for
Richmond. Ya.. gives out by the bu
reau give that city a population o! .
127.028. This is an increase of 42.- j
578 or 50.1 per cent since 1900. when
the city's population was 85.050.
Some Explanation Needed.
There has been a great change in
the attitude of many of the Republican
leaders toward the tariff. We hear
little, to take one instance, from Sen
ator Lodge about the beauties of the
Aldrich-Payne masterpiece. Yet he
helped make it and, after it was
he pronounced it good. When
the people began to show their teeth
Lodge declared that the ultimate con
sumer was "a myth." But now Re
publicans of all complexions are talk
ing about a commission which shall
patch up a tariff only a little over a
year old, which was supposed to be
the sum of all human wisdom. Even
those, who praise it admit that it will
not do as it is.
Mountain Sliding on Railroad.
Spartanburg. S. C. The officials of
the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio rail
road are having a serious time with a
slide ten miles north of Marion, N.
C, at Honcvcut mountain. On ac
count of the slide the line has been
closed to freight trallic for several
days. A line has been built around
the slide.
The whole side of the mountain is
said to be moving down on the track
and the present plan in to let tiie slide
take its course and tunnel through it.
Gar Men Get a Raise.
Atlanta. Ga. Nine hundred motor
rr.en and conductors of the Ceop.ua
RailWav & Electric Co.. o-jieratmg the
Atlanta city and suburban lines h.e
been of an advance in wares of one
cent an hour, effective (Moler 1.
The action of the company was
voluntary.
ist that a submitted sm;de eonllin
ed 70.000.000 bacrena 1o one centi
metre, federal authorities here "Cit
ed a large quantity of tomo catsup.
P:ie condiment was found in a ware
house consitrned to a prominent Vocal
firm and came from a faclofT in
Wheeling. V. Ya.
Birmingham Growing Some.
Washington.- The population of
Birmingham. Ala., is 1 32.685. an in
' ere asc of 94.270. or 245.4 per cent,
lover 38.215 in 1900.
The population of Worcester. M .--
is 145.980). an increase of 27M5, or
23.3 per cent, over 11.642 in 1900.
Is It Worth While?
For seven years the man of words
held the presidency. The things that
he now promises he then failed in. To
excuse himself or to delude others, he
now holds that if he can have scores
of new .laws, if he can command the
courts, if he can reconstruct society,
industry and government, he may be
able in another seven or eight years
to accomplish something.
Is It worth while? In particular, is
It worth while when we have before
our eyes in New York and in Ohio
men who have achieved notable re
forms while other men have talked?
Roosevelt's Words and Deeds.
While I will do my best to get hold
of the thief of the opposite party, I
will try, if possible, a little harder to
get hold of the thief of my own party.
Theodore Roosevelt.
An excellent sentiment! - Has Mr.
Roosevelt always acted on it? How
about the sugar thieves? At any rate,
it is a sentiment that should not be
acluslve with Mr. Roosevelt, and we
know that in this generation it is a
long way from being exclusive with
him.
The Man Behind the Grin.
As he read the reports of Colonel
Roosevelt's triumphal tour through
the west several vivid truths must
have been impressed upon the fat in
tellect of William Howard Taft.
The first one, no doubt, was that the
west has, not been deceived by the Al-drlch-Taft
tariff law. The west knows
that law is all for trusts and nothing
for the people.
The second great truth that Is now
clear to Mr. Taft is that the country
at large has not been won by his cor
pulent grin.
The famous Taft smile has lost its
power to charm.
The man behind the grin has been
found to be an Aldrdeh in disguise.
Four-Toed Horse Skeleton.
New York. Tiie skeleton of a
horse -whieb must have been about tbe
size of a modern fox terrier and had
four toes, has been found in Wyo
ming by an exploring party sent by
the American museum of natural liis
torv. The skeleton represents the oldest
ancestor of the horse of today ever
. . .' i TI.
iouiKl on t.'ie .American comment, ne
was about 1 1-2 feet tall and resem
bled a hippipotamus and tapir as
much as it did a horse.
But Aldrich Is Brazen.
By raising tne ruDDer tariff in
deed, by not removing or greatly re
ducing it, as his party in effect had
promised Aldrich poured millions in
to the coffers of the sole customer of
his own raw rubber company. A sen
sitive man, caught robbing the people
so wantonly, would resign. World's
Work.
Prize Winning War Vessels.
Washington. The battleship Ne
braska is announced as tho trophy
winner and the Montana. California
and Mississippi as star ships which at
tained ninety-five per cent of the mul
tiple of the trophy winner in a state
ment given out by the Navy Depart
ment on the results.of the engineering
competition 1009-1910 for the battle
ship trophy. The Colorado stood low
est in the list. .
The Preble won the destroyer tro
phy. Destructive Typhoon in Phillipines.
. Manila. A typhoon of unusual
severity swept over the valley of the
Cavagan river in the provinces of
Gayagan and Isabella, northern Lu
zon, on September '24.
Four towns including llagan, the
capital of Isabella province, were
practically demolished.
A thousand persons are still home
less and destitute, but the dispatches
so far received indicate that there
were no casualties.
The tobacco crop was seriously
damaged.
Civil Service Warning.
Washington. The usual before
campaign warning to Government em
ployes against indulging in political
activity has been sent out by the
Civil Service Commission. All the
executive departments and indepen
dent branches are instructed to in
form employes that they must obey
this order.
Particular attention was directed to
the exhibition of illegal collection or
payment of political assessments.
Planter Mysteriously Shot.
Rome. Ga. D. J. Miller, a well
known planter of Everett Springs,
this county, was brought 'to a sani
tarium here suffering with a wound
in the abdomen believed to have been
inflicted by a charge from a shotgun.
He is not expected to live, and re
fuses to tell how or why he was in
jured
New Postal Bank Plans.
Washington. Postmaster General
Hitchcock has presented for the con
sideration of t!;e President and the
Cabinet the complete plans for the
new postal savings bank system.
The plans were accepted by the
Board of Trustees. The entire
scheme is presented in the mot mi
nute detail.
No bank books are to be used. Re
ceipts for the deposits will be made in
two ways, by stamps and by certificates.
$1,347,713,686 in Banks.
Washing-ton. National banks of
the Cnited States have retried re
sources of $9,826. 181.452 and reserves
of $1,347,713.(586 in answer to the call
for their condition which was issued
on Septcml er 1.
"The showing of the national banks
is not only satisfactory, but reassur
ing." said Lawrence O. Murray.
Comptroller of the Currency, when he
made the returns public. "The re
serves are more than 21 per cent
greater than required bv the law."
Increased Pay for R. R. Men.
Houston. Texas. After conference
extending over several weeks, officials
of the Southern Pacific railroads and
representatives of the dissatisfied
employes of the car-repairing depart
ment of the road have announced an
agreement providing for an increase
in wages of 2 cents an hour and cer
tain shop rules demanded by the car
men.
The increase in wages will not applv
to those employes who have already
been granted a voluntary raise in
pay-
Blind From Practical Joke.
Newark. N. J. Miss Lucy Burton,
a young society woman of Dover, will
probably be blind for life as the re
sult of the practical joke of a youth,
the son of a neighbor.
Miss Burton was ascending in an
elevator at a local dry goods store
when the practical joker blew a tube
full of red pepper into her face. With
a scream she sank to the floor of the
! elevator. Sue has been unable to see
since the occurrence and oeruiists hold
out little hope that sight can be restored.
Children Play Doctor.
Covington. Ky. While playing doc
tor a son and a daughter of Thomas
Cobb swallowed carbolic acid and died
soon afterwards. They were 5 and 7
years old.
Trie children were playing in tbe
kitchen of their uo.m- during the
absence of their mother. They found
a bottle of oarUii-.r acid.
IvC. "s p'.av doctor." one suggested.
They obtained two sons and two
glasses, divided the acid into two
IKirtions, which they swallowed.
Another Monument at Gettysburg.
Gettysburg. In the presence of an
assemblage numbering many thusands,
the memorial of tbe Pennsylvania
soldiers who fought at Gettysburg
Juiv 1, 2 and 3, 1863. waj dedicated.
Among the number were nearly ve
thousand veterans of the. Civil War
from this State, all of wboaa njne
appear on the brunza.'tablej. ,ar.
rounding the facade of. fjie' me'moViaJ.
Tjie memorial waa erected at a coat
of $140,000. ? ;
Buried in His Native Land.
New York. In fulfillment of his
dying wish, expressed more than
thirty years ago, the body of Lieu-tenant-General
Francisco Vicente
Aguller, hero of the ten-year-war in
Cuba, will be disinterred from its
resting place in Calvary Cemetery
here and sent to his native land.
"When mv country is free and takes
It is said that Miller and his wife 1 her place among the nations of the
Murderous Strikers.
Irwin, Pa. Over a hundred re
volver and rifle shots were fired into
the 1 omes of Superintendent Ieevi-
good and Foreman John Olscn of the
Pennsylvania Gas and Coal company's
mines at Oaridgp. The two families
each of which includes a half dozen
children, escaped injury by lying flat
on the floors of their bedrooms while
Commissioner For Marking Grave.
Washington. It is expected that
the President will soon appoint a com
missioner for marking the gravea of
Confederate soldiers and sailors who
died in Northern prisons during the
civil war.
That office has been vacant since
the death of Col. William C. Oatea of
Alabama a few years ago. Tbe work
of marking these graves has been in
progress for several years, in accor
dance with tbe Foraker act making
provision for it.
have been separated for some time. earth, then, and not till then, let my j bu.nets spattered their windows
mat, tney mer ana a quarrei ensueu txiav ne tawen to v uoa ioi uuuiu,
resulting in Miller being shot by his
son. No arrests have been made.
was the praver of Aguiler on the day
of his death, February 22, 1877.
and mirrors and brought down the
plaster. The attack was made by a
largo gang of men.
BaDtlsts Object to Present
Nasbrilie. Tenn leading men of
tbe Baptist denomination, represent
ing practically every Southern State,
met here to decide a matter whieh
will interest the entire religions
world. These men constitute a les
son committee, appointed at the
Southern Baptist Convention recently
in session at Baltimore nd their
action will doubtless mean tbe first
breaking away from the international
Sundav school lessons in use prac
tically all of the leading denomina
tions since 1872.