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t iiiiiiMiiiiiiiimnnin IIHWHWIHHf TA. TEH Tub lubidinth County I The Medium f JTHrMgh which jroa nth the t X ft ay car in Advance! . Jak FHaifa tmrnpUf mm! Nnfly DM MHIIIIIIHIHIttmiHH 1 AOYEHTISmG RATESON APPLICATION 4iiMiiiiiiiiuiiiiiniuiI POMTICAMfRM.ANllQf RAL yPBtUfUDIfQ OF. MADISON-COUNTY. 'VOL XL 31 ARSH'AIi'IJfNi .V FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1909. .'v- NO. 36, J - " - - I DOTH POLE IS FOUND Dr. Frederick Cook, of Brooklyn, Wins the Coal ' Reaches Role April 21, 1908Land at tho - Point Where With One Step You Pass From side to Side of the Earth. : . New York, Special. ''Successful. Well. Address Copenhagen. "FEED." C Fnll of meaning, if "successful''' were interpreted to indicate that; he had reached the North Pole, the f ore- .,, going -cable message, exasperating in . its briefness, was received in New . York Wednesday from Dr. Frederick A. Cook, 'the American explorer, whom the latest cable advices credit with having accomplished what no - man ever did. It was, intended for Mrs. Cook, who was not at home. Wednesday '8 message' - from Dr. Cook to his wife was dated at Ler wick, Shetland islands, the first avail j able point of transit in the regular steamship course between Greenland ' ports and Copenhagen, whither be is bound. Because of its briefness the assumption is that the message was sent primarily to assure his wife of his Baf ety. and not to - apprise the world of i his discovery. The following seems a second bit of information: Brussels, Sept. 1. The observatory here received the' following telegram dated Lerwick, Shetland islands "Reached North Pole April 21, 1008. Discovered land far north. Re turn to Copenhagen by steamer Hans Lgede. (Signed) "FREDERICK COOK." The American officials at the ob servatory state the dispatch is surely authentic and that the North Pole has been reached font he first time by an American. The Paris edition of The New York Herald Thursday morning publishes a signed statement from Dr. Fred erick A., Cook, which is dated "Haris Egede, Lerwick, Wednesday," on his experiences in the. Arotie regions. V After ft prolonged, fight, with famine and frost," says Dr. Cook, "we have at lost suecc.ded in Teach ing the North Pole. A new highway, - with an interoating atrip of animated 'nature, has been explored and big . game haunts' located, which will de- light sportsmen and extend the Eski mo horizon. , "Land has been .discovered on' which rests the earth's northernmost rooks. A triangle of 30,000 square miles has been cut out of . the ter restial unknown. The , expedition was the outcome of a summer, cruise in .the Arctic . seas on the schooner Bradley, which arrived at the limits of navigation in Smith" sound late in August, 1907. Here conditions, were ' found to launch a. venture to the pole. : J, B. Bradley liberally supplied from Tiis- vessel suitable provisions for lo cal' use My own , equipment for emergencies . served well . for every purpose in the Arctic. ' .' On Feb. 10, 1908, the main expedi tion embarked on its voyage to the - pole. It consisted of 11 men and 103 '.' dogs drawing, eleven heavily .laden - sledges.; The expedition left the ' Greenland shore and pushed west ward over -the troubled ice of Smith " sound... The gloom of the long night wag relieved only by a few; hours of daylight. The emu of the winter was felt at- its worst. As we crossed the ; heights of Eltesmere sound td the Pacific slope the temperature sank to -minus 83 centigrade. f Several Slogs were frozen and the men suffered severely but we soon found thegaibe trails along which the way was easy. .We forced through Nansen sound to Lands End In this ' ' march we- secured 101 musk . oxen, aeven bears and 335 hares. "We pushed out into Polar sea from the southern point of Herbert . Island on March 18, Six Eskimos v returnde from here. With four men '" and 46 dogs moving supplies for 80 "-' ' days, the crossing of the eireunv , polar pa ok -was begun. Three days later two' other Eskimos, lorming mo last Supporting party, returned and the' trials had now been reduced by the survival of the fittest. - J "Thertf before ns in an unknown line of 460 miles' lay our goaL The " first- days' provided long marches and V ye made encouraging vkip ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION . 3opeiiliagen,y "Cable.Dr;Fred- erick Ai Cook's credit : standi ao high with Danish polar experts that Che first message announcing bis suc cess id reaching the '.-North Pole, meagre asyit was, ; was accepted as 'I conclusive. Commodore Hovgard said Thursday : ", I believe the message is true 'because Dr. Cook is most trust worth v 'and opposed i to alt exaggera tions. - : ' -. C. A. Danielson, an officiat if the Greenland administration depart ment, who is well acquainted with jm bg lead, which separated the land front the ice of the central pack, wae crossed with ' little delay.. The low temperature was persistent and the winds made life a torture. ; But coop ed up in our . snow houses, eating dried beef tallow and drinking hot tea, there was some animal comforts oocoeionally to be gained. "For Beveral days after the sight of known land was lost, the overcast sky prevented an accurate determine tion of our position. On March 30 the horizon was partly eleared and new land was . discovered. Our ob servations gave our position as lati tude 84.47, longitude 86.36. There was urgent, need of rapid advance. Our main mission did not permit'.'-A detour for the purpose of exploring the coast. Here were seen the last signs of solid earth;, beyond there was nothing stable to be seen,' ''We advanced steadily .over the monotony of moving sea-iee -and- now found ourselves beyond tjhs range of all life neither footprints of bears nor the blow-holes of seals were de tected. Even the microscopic creat ures of the deep were no longer under us. The maddening influence of the shifting desert of frost became al most unendurable in the daily rou tine. The surface of the pack offer ed less and less trouble and the weather improved, but there still re mained the life-sapping- wind which drove desair to 'its lowest recess. The extreme cold compelled ' action. Thus day after day our weary legs spread over big distances; Incidents and positions were recorded, but adven ture was promtly forgotten in the next day's efforts. "The nght of April 7 was made notable by the swinging of the sun at midnight over the northern ice. Sun burns and frost, bites were now .ft eorded on the same day, but . he double day's glitter infused quite an incentive into one's life of shiverr ; "Oub;-observation April 6 plfteed ' the eamp in latitude 86.36, longtitudo 94.2. In spite' of what seemed long marches we advanced but little oyer a hundred miles. Muh of our wof k was lost in eireuitous twists, around troublesome pressure lines and high, irregular fields. A very old ice drift, too. was driving eastward with suffi cient-force to give' some anxiety, .' ''t I "Although still equal to about fifty miles dally, the J extended marches and the long hours for traveling $rith which fortune favored. us earlier were no longer possible. We were BOW about 200 miles ; from the; pole And sledge loads, were reduced,' One dog after another went into the' stomachs of the hungry survivors until the teams -were considerably diminished in number, but there seemed to re main a sufficient balanoe .for man and brute to push along into the heart of the mystery to which we had set our selves.' ' .' - "On April 21 we had reached 89 degrees 59 minuter 45 seconds The pole was in sight, . We . covered ' the remaining fourteen seconds and made a few final' observations. I rld Etukishook and Ahwelsh (the accom panying Eskimos) thakwe ld 'reach ed the "great nail.' Everywhere we turned was south. .With a single step we could pass from one aide ofjthe earth to the otber; from midday to midnight. At last the fiat ' floatedTto the breeze at the pole. It was April 21, 1908.- The temperature was minus 88 centigrade,; barometer 2983, lati tude 90,; .a, for the longitude it Jwas nothing, as it was but a word, 'y . "Although crazy ; , with joy our spirits began to undergo a feeling of weariness. Next day after taking all our observations, a sentiment of .in tense solitude penetrated ns while - we looked at the horizon. War it pos sible that this desolate region,' with out a patch of earth, had aroused the ambition of so many men for to many centuries t There was , no ground, only aa immensity of dazzling white snow, no living bejng, no point to break the frightful monotony. "On April 23 we started on our re turn." ! .. , '. .' '.. , . IS PLANNED FOR Dfc COOX in Greenland, 'said : '' '.When -Dr.' Cook says that he reached the North Pole there can be no doubt about it His seientifie discoveries will prove that." ' A committee under the presidency of ' the minisftr of 'commerce has been formed to arrange a fitting re ception to the intrepid explorer on his arrival at Copenhagen. ., Dr. Maurice Fi, Egau,; the American minister was aboard, a special steamer that was sent out by the Royal Georgraphical Society Fridsy to meet Dr. Cook, who is on -is way here on the- steamer Hans Egede. ' - . DR. (JOOITIS INTERVIEWED Eeaphed Pole at i. Oock. intha Morning Hii success Dae to Old . Methods, Isotiimoe" and 'Dogti " -;: Skagw, Denmark, -' By r Cable.VA. newspaper eolrrespondent who. weaj. on board the( Hap,s (Egede .from , the pilot steamer off here was able to ob-i taii a few words-with' Dr. Frederick' A. Cook. AiThe explorer ascribed his success to fthe . fact .tbahe nade use of the old melhods) namely, Eskimos snd' dogs,' and thit 'he'" lived like an Eskimo himself. The doctor then; tt.ve( a hurried sketch, of ,hia expedW ,tion in which he said : . , . , ' "Going northward t st'ruok' first a Westerly course fnjm-Greenland -and then mowed nprtqward. y (i i "J arrived at the . Nprth, Pole Apriji 21, ' 1908, as already 'announced, ac companied 'by nlj two Eskimos. V oMWe reached the, Pole at 7-o'eleck n, the morning. ' "I took daily observations for' a whole fortnight before arriving at' the Pole. . . . ,, ! . - "Returning 'we were .forced to take a more weasterly route and the first ten days I t'dok observations ' daily and recorded them. ' I was unable-to measure the depth pi the seas as I had not the necessary instruments. "The lowest temperature was -813 degrees centigrade below aero. ." I. have; ample, proof $haf I reach !ed the North Pole in the observation' I took, which afford a cert alii' iineans of checking the truth of my state ments., '. j . , "Alttooffi I arip proiid" of 'my achievement 4tj?fJa'aJingth'e American flag on the North Pole, I look with much greater pride to the fact that I traveled "krAund- mare "thai ' 1 thirty thousand spare iniles of' hitherto un known ground,, and .pjpened up an en tirely fresh field for exploration.'' The Hans'' Egede was mel in'the North aea. hy "the pilot! steamer" Polar Bear, .aboard wbichi was Captain Am drupr he well-known polar, explorer,' who'was rieiit as' a special' repre6enta tl.. fit "t.ha 'Tlanfcftli tfrwanimabf :' welcome Dr.Cflok, As, the, vessels -sp I prpachd. eac?fl otter, .Captain,. Am-; drup led the cheers for be Ame'ncan explorer: r-r ' Will America tiiaim the' foil. '." Washington, Special Tne' ques tion orffytoiigue' in Washington sJtofe-TaaomceiBent.,.of-t4;he dis- Cook'lmerican; h(ls 1?een "Will the-Cnitea"' State tlaim th .'north po) bjK right-of disevery.'.'..f iUTeState .Departrnqnt refuses, to answer, the question, claiming that it las no offirfal report of the discdVert and therefore cannot discnea-the sub ject. Those who are informed how ever state that when Dr. Cook re turns to thiV country and establishes the fact that he has discovered' the pole, and describes, the nature pf the place, the United States 7w5ll, un doubtedly" chum the pole as a pos session." . " '' '.!'- -,: f 'I- "' '; There i miich, however tbe de termined before this can be done for it must be established that there' is land at the pole separate and dis tinct, from other-landii contiguous to it. , If 4. is proe; that fj pole is on a continent or island, the United States Can, by right' "of discovery, claim- possession. But it may turn out to be but a part of Greenland or of some land contiguous to it. The boundaries of British America do not extend as far north as the pole, but there may be mainland, such as Greenland which is Danish pro perty, near enough for,it;-to belong to -that country.' s . It is understood - here that there must be land at' or near the pole which is disconnected from' and "not contiguous to territories belonging to other! nations in order for the United States to assert a valid claim to sov ereignity. . '"v.: ,): V':; ' '.- A,vast ice field, may create a doubt as to-the existence of ..such land, and if this ice field 'overlies a part of the Artie Ocean, the region, would doubt less ee classed with the high seas and thus be international rather than na tional' property. ''': : 1,1 '- ' .So many unknown quantities' enter into the Case that . the question of sovereignty cannot be settled unless Dr. Cook, when he returns,' can give deflniU and detailed information con cerning the region. : : Inasmuch as the frozen area is appapntly of,rno value' commercially, it is ,not.. con sidered likely 'that serious .i inter national complications . wiLj Arise. '': 5 Library Burns. i " .Toronto, . Special.- Fanned ,'hy', a high wind, fire Wednesday afternoon swept the west wing of the parlia ment buildings ' in Queens Park,- to tally destroying the librarjvwith its collection , of 100,000 books and do ing damage which is 'conservatively estimated at $200,000. The blaze started on the'' first floor of the west wing and made its way rapidly to the roof, where the flames "mushroomed" and threatened ! for a time to destroy the housekeeper's quarters in the northwestern corner and the executive, chamber. . v : DR. COOKUONIZED 5k 8t.ory Folly . .Credited and He b Showered With .. Honor King : ' Frederick: Has Him to Dinner and ' Seati Him on His Bight Hand. - Copenhagen, 3y Cable. "Once is enough for any' man. I will never re turn to the North Pole. A single ex perience J. have just, passed through will suffice.fpr a life time." . ' This was practically the ..first answer of Dr. Frederick Cook, the discoverer of the North Pole, to a vol ' ley of .questions fired at him by a reg iment of newspaper men who boarded 'the. Hans Egede as she steamed into the harbor it 9:30 o'clock Saturday miming. ' ' Dr. Cook admits that the nature' of the moving; ice covereing the sSe of the pole will probably remove the evi dences he left there April 21 and 22, 1908, but he' states that his records of observations when presented to seientifie men will wipe out all scepticism. He says he first planted a staff on the site of the pole and then raised the American flag. "There, on that God forsaken spot realized as, never before the'm'e'ahi'ng of patriotism and. the love 'of ther flag.'' Seeing that the flag would 'be''' whipped to shreds by the wind he took it down and plac ed it in a brass cylinder whieh be placed on the staff. . i Dr. Cook said he spent practically all of two days taking observations. He had a' sextant, pocket watch, three chronometers, 'and "more modern in struments than were ever used by an explorer in the extreme North. I Verified all observations carefully and am confident that accuracy and com pleteness of the record will satisfy the scientific world." .. ' The entire population of the city feeemed to 'be at the pier with thous ands who, journeyed from -all over Europe. For. 15 minutes the crowd cheered wildly. '' 1 Dr. Cook was overcome by embi tiong j tears welled in' his eyes. UI never expected such - a - demonstra tion" he said. "It seems .too much foSr what I have done." King Frederick asked for a' call from him. To the reply tuat he had po clothing, suitable; for the Kings presence the King asked him to call in his hunting garb which lie did. ' The banquet Saturday evening was held in the magnificent municipal building. Four hundred - persons, many of them ladies, attended. President Taft -congratulated Dr. Cook most fittingly 'vtk, .cablegram. . . A Copunhagan dispatch of Sundav .pays Dr. Frederick A. Cook dined Saturday evening with King Freder ick at the summer palace a few miles outside of Copenhagen. ... ' .... The King invited him to meet him only, after having the government make the closest possible investiga tion into the merits of hisrstory, - AH the1 Danish 'explofers"wer&' asked to give their opinions of Dr. Cook 's claims before the audience was grant ed and their verdict was unanimous ly 1 his favor. .".- The dinner was entirely the result of the King' personal opinion re garding the explorer, who had the seat 'On the 'King's . right, an honor wmcn Wanes cannot remember having been, accorded another private person. In answering the many questions put io mm ne said : "You ask my impression on reach' mg the Pole. Let me confess I was disappointed. Man is. a child dream ing of prodigies. I had reached the Pole and now at a moment when I should have been thrilled with pride and ioyvl.wes invaded wh a sud den fear of .the dangers and suffer ings of the return. t ' ' ' . ; On approaching the Pole he .smd the icy plain took on animated mo tion' as "if ' rotating "on' a invisible Divot.'. '. "A great ifissiti'e ' fn"en opened "up behind," he added, "and it .seemed as if we were-isolated from the worldi My two Eskimos threwthemselves at my feet and bursting into tears, re fused to continue either one 'way or another, so paralyzed were they with fear. ; Nevertheless I calmed ' them and we resumedkour jo.urney j - Lofty Observatory on Mount' Whitney Nearly -Beady Tor Use;"; :. Washington, Special. Scientists soon wili Jhave placeeVattheir dis posal for. use the highest meteorolo gical and astronomical observatory on the American continent, t It is situ ated onthe oD"pf( 'Mount Whitney, California, 14,006 feet above the sea leveL Realizing, the value for effec tive and progressive ' astronomical en.4 meteorological- work of an obser vatory far above the clouds and free from the dust and smoke' near great cities, the Smithonian Institute de cided to build a suitable laboratory on Mount Whitney. . , PEARY AT POLE TOO Dispatches Flash Ovec the ..- Wires Monday . REACHES GOAL APRIL 6, 1909 Several Messages Sent Including One to Mrs. Peary Leave 'No Doubt vf Their Meaning Did Not Know df Dr. Cook's Discovery. - '. New York, Special: From out the Aretic darkness there were flashed Monday the. messages r whieh. stun ned the scientific world and thrilled the heart of every,, layman.' '.'From the bleak coast of , Labrador. -Peary gave to the world .the news that he had attained his goal in the. far north, while at the same moment in far off Denmaik Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn, ' was being dined and lionized by royalty for the same achievement. ' " " Undeniably Yankee grit has con quered the frozen north and there has been created a coincidence such as the world will never see again.' The Americans have planted' the flag of their ..countryj.in.Jie and of ice which ' man ha&: sought to' pene trate for four centuries and- each, ignorant of the other's conquest, has flashed within a, period., five; days a laconic message 01 success to tne waiting world; , . " 1 . The following telegrams'" fell" the fact thaf there' is a ''story ''coining; New York, SpeciaL-Peary" has succeeded.' " ' '' J' "Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray,'N. F September 6. - t-7, : : . ' "To Associated Press, Nejir Tfork. "Stars and Stripes, nfiiied ;to, North Pole.,.. . (SignedAfj;-. -. , fl . .'REARYJ' . "Indiaa.Harbor, via Cape Ray,. N.;T'., September 6. ', "Herhert L. -Bridgeihanv Br6oklyn, N. Y. - " ' "Pole reached. RooMvelt safe. . ' ' " (Signed) ' "' "PEAEY." . "Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray, N. F-, "I have the pole April 6.- Expect arrive' Chealeau' bay September ' 7. Secure control wire for me there and arrange to expedite transmission of big story. ' (Signed). ? . ' .-' ."PEARY-'i'P: April 6, 1909-rthe date that .Peary1 Dlanted the flae at 'the Pole and. April 2l,r 1908, 'the day fliat Dt: GookJ unfurled the stars' and stripes year, before,.,. qonsequently. becom&thecai-' dinal dates upon which, expjoatum of the far North will res'reafteit. Though separated l'xtesrfljRX'ear, the earne feat-t was aoeoqipiUbed- by two Americans, peither.-ojf whpin was aware of the movements, of thepther. Cook Bays that he f bund' n& traces : of Peary in the moving- ice and" ac-:' cording to word Thich was received here through Capt. Robert Bartlait, of Fearys snip, the Koosevelt, . late Monday, night, Peary likewise found no signs of- hi3- reputed ' predecessor. However, ' ttiis phase of "Peary's ex perience will hot be thoroughly, clear ed up until''' a statement is obtained from his own hps. 1( ' A IVasbington dispatch sayV:- Commander Robert E. Peary, al most three years 'Vgo prophetically outlinod his view of the' value and in terest attached (o -the achievement he announced in -the dispatches Mon day. The penetration of the .frozen heart of ' the Arctic cirtle the news of Peary's feat following close upon the, heels, of Dr. Cook's plantiug of the American flag .Tat the same. spot, evoked enthusiastic'1 plaudits in -Washington.' 'Every wherl '' amdrig '. jarm and navy officers and scientists and official .Washington, geperaUy only words of praise were spoken. Dr. Cook 'was' intensely' interested at the cablegrams and said: "That is good naw.s. j l hope Peary-did get to the Pole. His observations ad reports on that; regioh 'will 'confirm mine." -'A',-' V.'' ' Asked if theisanypTOBability of .Peary'a.haviagifomid the tube con taining his records, Drl.Cook replied: "I hope so, WthaT'ia doubtful on account of the drift..'! He added:-. i , ''-'v' ' ' Commander Peary . would . have reached the Pole' this year. . Probably' While I was in the Arctie region last year his .route was several hundred miles east ofTmine. :We are -rivals, of course, but the pple is good enough for two. -.v. -;,-.;;' ,':''y :- iV-' v ." That ' two men got , to- the Pole along different' paths," continued the explorer, ''should furnish large ad? ditions to scientific knowledge, rrob ably other parties will reach it in .the nexf. tfln years, since 'every explorer is helped by the experience, of his predeeessorsj-just-as SverdrtirV's ob servations and reports were of . im measurable help to me. I can . say nothing more, without knowing fur ther details, than that I am glad of it.". ' , . DIES OfPEiLAGRA - WHmiagten Man Succumbs to New Disease Upsets Mouldy Com Theory. . . , -W.i'.'ajngton N. C, SpeciaL J. E. Heath, 27 years old, a leading young busiaee man of -Waxhaw, Union county, died in a hospital here Friday night, bf pellagra. , Mr. Heath had been ill for a vear or miin nnH ha1 consulted eminent specialists a num ber oi times, traveling extensively for the benefit of his health without improvement.- - Recently; hisi case .was diagnosed as that of pellegra and. he was brought to the hospital here for .treatment by Dr. Edward Jenner'Wood, who has made aa exhaustive study of the dis ease which manifested itself in the ease of the young man by discolora tions of the skin, soreness of the mouth and -. accompanying nervous derangements. He was in the advanc ed stages of the disease upon his; ar rival here and little hope was held out from the first. Mr. Heath had never used corn breadstuffs in' any form" and it is claimed that the case strengthens the theory that the disease is not trace able to that source unless corn is need as an adulterant of wheat 'flour. Pellagra in Maryland. Baltimore;; Md., Speeial.-Blood of victims of pellegra,' the1 dread disease which, until several months ago, was comparatively unknown to the layman,-is to be sent to the Johns: Hop kins Hospital, where an analysis,. will be made. . Physicians at the hospital who have studied the disease say the malady in its incipiency is difficult tpt distinguish ( Jt is now until the patient becomes thoroughly inoculat ed 'fhat the liat'tire of the disease is known. Careful- analyses will be made by the expprts. at-the hospital in an endeavor' to find out the origin of the .germs -of pellagra, and a cure for the. disease. According to the opin ion and observation of members of the State board of health, the disease is making inroads in this State. Several cases .of, the malady , have been reported in: Charles County, and Dr. "Marshall 'L.-Price, secretary of the board, ;wiir visit that county , this week to ascertain whether the reports are true. Especially rampant has the disease' become -in' North Caro lina, according to dispatches. . .".' . -n - - - Allowed Men to ' Smoke. . Key s West, Fla.,' -Special-The .orpije,r's jury which intf es.tigated tha dj?imite explosion of last week at i6ca'ehica"6n the Florida' East Coast Railroad,; which "resulted in the -death of twelve men and the wounding' of nine others, has rendered a verdict holding that, after a full aj)d com plete investigation;' U -evidence had beenadduced, whieh wou, warrant the Jury in attributing- tne Explosion to afiy "criminal or culpable negli gence as defined by our statutes. ' Foreman Ilitt,. who was in charge of the ' workmen, testified that he al Ipwed the "men to smoke, having re ceived no7 orders against it, and not thinking it was, dangerous nowith standihg the men were working with- in' a few feet of a thotfsarid pqrtfads of dynamite. .-. ;'.. ; The jury decided that.,a matph,was . thrown in' a box of dynamite 'by some one of the Workmen.- '' '-'' ' ' Ministers Protest. Cumberland, Md., Special. The Cumberland Ministerial" Association has filed with, the Director of the Census in ' Washington, " a protest againgt the' proposed "appointment of foha ,J. Stumpv of Cumberland, as supendsor of the census for i tha Sixth Congressional district of Mary land, embracing the counties of Gar rett, Allegany, ;-Washington, Fred eick and ..Montgomeiyi . The association met this week and passed a.-protest which was carried to Washington by 'one of the mem bers," and; filed last week. : Cabell 'Sworn In. Royal E: Cabeli; who has oeen post master at Richmond, Va., was Wed nesday formally sworn in by the Act ing Secretary of the Treasury as eom-. mis8ioner of internal . revenue, suc ceeding . John G. Capers, of South Carolina,- who relinquished the office Tuesday. J, 5 J ; ' 'X: . Blow For Publishers. ; " ' v Quebec, ,' SpeciaL A deputation, all of -the pulp and paper manufac turers and all of the Canadian own ers of rights to cut (imber on crown" lands in the province of Quebec, have called upon Sir . Lomer Gouin, tha Premier,' and asked the government to prohibit the export of pulp wood to the United. States. The Americans, having the Tight to J cut timber on crown lands, did not join. The matter, ia to be Submitted to the cabinet and the indications, are. that the expor tation of pi;' ,i wood will be prohibited throaghout tlie Dominion. - .