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436,88,694S STOLEN Sugar Trust Has Underweighed for Twenty-Five 1Years. iIRVFNMENT PROSE1UTIN Alleged That Trust Corrupted Customs Offi-la and Stle 5 to 10 Per Cent Oa Ztery- Cargo. New . York City. -~ New facts brought to light diclose the fact that the American - Sugar Reiuning com pany, Detter known as the sugar trust, has stolen the enormous sum of $30, 00050 from the United States treas "rywithin the past twenty years ;throughi under-weighing of importa tionis ad under-payment of customs duties.',As *a repuit more federal in dictments have been drawn up. The facts reveal. the trust's, whole sale' corruption of customs officials and its covert bribery of politicians to accomplish its ends. The customs j.ficials 2der-weighed the importa S. the politicians kept them in jobs. It apptars that the trust has been stealing from five to ten per cent du ties on- every cargo of sugar brought lato the United States for the past -twenty years. The prosecution of the sugar. trust It is understood, is taking cognizance of these facts. The methods revealeg have -given the United States authori ties cause for considerable thought and much planning. The accusation is made that the to bacco trust has- been importing the product in .bales listed as liller, which pays a certain duty, when the bales also contained wrapper tobacco. The latter should pay a considerably hign er duty. The government authorities have under lpvestigation the sugar importation of the Arbuckle brothers. t is claimed -that there is a discrep - lncy-' between the original invoices of the sugar and the weighters' re turns. It is this on which the claim for reiyment of back duties will bb nade.> In the- recent developments of the -ght on the trust the corporation has been forced to give up more than $2, 00,000. ,The exact showing is: Pines for rebating, which at the time' imposed were four times as large as any precedent, $168,000. Punishment for cheating the gov ernment. with false scales, $135,000. Back 'duties paid when the trust Was convicted of defrauding the gov erment with fradulent scales, $2, 000,000. Total, -$2,303,000. The federal grand jury handed down an indictment against Oliver Stitzer. Thomas Kehoe. Gene Vala ker, Edward A. Boyle, John R. Volye arid Patrick J, Hennessy, employes of the American Suga'r Refining com pany, on the Havemeyer and Elders Piedsons .Williamsburg -plant. BOY BANDIT KILLS BANK OfFIERS. Robber Entered indianra .Bank n Began Shooting. Laouisviile, Ky.-In an attempt at bank robbery, a young man who has been identified as Thomas Jefferson Hall of Louisville, son of a dealer In furniture, entered the Merchants' National bank at 'New Albany, Ind., and killed J. Hangary Fawcett, cash ier of the- bank; seriously wounded John K; Woodward, president of the bank, and wounded James R. Tucker, a negro chauffeur, probably fe~tally. (When Hall entered the bank he carried a pistol in each hand. Alter commanding everyone to throw up his hands and "get into the vault," Hall. begam shooting. Following the shooting, the murder er rushed from the bank and tried to escape in an automobile. After the shooting at the bank, the chauffeur was paralyzed with terror and appar entely incapable of action, sat still When the robber jumped into the car ad ordered him to speed up the ma chine. The robber then Jumped out o flihe automobile, sihot the negro in te back and ran to tile Ohio river. He seized a skiff and started to the Louilsville side of the river but was captured iby a fast motor boat. 1'he bandit was jaken to the New Albany ,jail. A few moments later he~ was' removed to the Southern In dijana reformatory at Jeffersonville, to escape thle mob which had formed to lynch him. TUIOIUGiT lE WAS IN EDEN. But it Was Only Auditorium of Pres byterian Seminary. Louisville, Ky.-Thle services oi four policemen were necessary to re move Michael Maz, a Cincinnati tail or, from the auditorium of the South eien Presbyterian. Theological Semi nnary In' this city. Maz, stark naked and loudly praying, said that he was in the Garden of' Eden and that it was too-good a place to leave. WILL REORGjANIZE NAV. Meyer's Plans Have Been Sanctioned By President Taft. Washington, D. C.-Secretary May ers' plans for reorganization of the, navy have received presidential sanc-j tion. The secretary went to Rich mond. When the "Taft Day" was ended and the members of the pres Idential party were comfortably fix ed in their cars Secretary Meyer went to the president, according to a pre' vious arrangement, and outlined .to bim ,his scheme for Improving ~the efficiency of the navy. The president approved of Mr. Meyer's plans and this will form the basis for the report of the secretary of the navy to the coming session of congress. HURRICANE IN HAYT. Much Damage and Numerous Fatali ties Reported on Island. Cape Haytien, Hayti.--Although Hayti has experienced one of the most violent storms in its history, there were no signs or reports of an eartilquake in. tis vicinity. Much damage is reported, and numerous fa talities have occurred. -'Cape Haptien is cut off from Its customary food supplies by the floods,I and the people are suffering svrl in consequence.serly FINDS CANCER CURE. New Form! of Serum Found by Colum bia Professor. New York City--According to a report >publisiled here a poitive cure; for cancer -has been discovered byl the pathological department of Co bia university. In eight cases, It . d, the ne~w Cure, a form ofi .has proved successful. Thej s-:.,, rer :ls withheld, ~ e Rockefeller In1 100 PERSONS D.Ii Steamers Collide Near. Singapore anmd One Goes Down. Singapore, Strait Settlements.-The mail steamer La Seyne of the Mes sageides Maritimes service, running between Java and Singapore, and on her way to this port, was in collision with the steamer Onda, of the Brit ish-India line, and sank within two minutes. Seven European passengers, includ- H ing Baron and Baroness Beniczky, the captain of La Seyne, five European offcers - and eighty-eight others, com prising native passengers and mem bers of the crew, were drowned. The rescue of sixty-five persons, practically from the jaws of shoals hu of sharks, formed a thrxilling incident nc of the' wreck. The accidtnt occurred in a thick ce haze. The vessels were steaming at ai good speed and the Seyne was cut fe almost in half. There was no time th for panic, nor for any attempt on 'the to part of officers of the foundering steamer to get out the boats. The w majority of those on board were an caught in their berths and carried D( down with the .vessel. an The force of the collision broughf ho the Onda to almost a dead stop, and sn her engines mere at once slowed and boats lowered. The rescue work ril proved thrilling, for not only was the by rescuing parties impeded by the dark, hi, but shoals of sharks were already at- de tacking those clinging to pieces of mj wreckage in the water. pa Sixty-one persons from the ill- ha fated steamer, were finally dragged to into the boats and brought by the Onda to this port. Many of them. had co been bitten iby- sharks, and several cc were severely injured. 3S W( EDEN A MYTH. it Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah Called in Muck-Rakers. be Lawrence, Kas.-The prophets ha Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah were in lasted as muck-rakers and many of ad the stories of the old testament were p termed myths by Dr. Charles Foster ha Kent of the Yale divinity school, in a lecture before students of the 1niver- ic" ity of Kansas here. re "The prophets of Israel' were the so- th cial reformers of their times," he said, ei "They were muck-rakers,. to use a or present-day term. They were sensa- la tional in their methods, notable Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. wl While Professor Kent believes that bli many of the stories in the old testa- of ment are myths, he sees good in thenr. ed He says the prophets were ,teaching to a simple people and were forced to i use extraordinary means to drive th home the points. h In discussing the story 'of the Gar- hi den of Eden, the speaker said he be- th lieved it to be a legend that served a good purpose, being well fitted to he the child-like minds of the people to whom it was first related. cu MILLION TO FIlGHT DISEASE. b Of the Sum of $700,000 Will Be Used a to Save Tubercular Children. t New York City.-For fighting dis- t ase separate gifts totaling nearly a s illion dollars were announced in de ew York. Of this sum $700,000 is to sh e used for the establishment of a sa uberculosis preventorium for chil ~ren, while $150,000 was given by Mr.m nd Mrs. William C. Sloane for a 7- i tory addition to the Sloane Maternity tal ospital. In connection with the taberculosis un preventoriumn, which proposes to take from New York tenments children de ho have been afflicted with tubercu'-p losis and restore to normal health, -of Principal contributions to the work ere made by Nathan Straus, Miss orothy Whitney, Henry Phip'ps, Isaae . Seligman and Jacob H. Schiff. Mr. Ct ~traus' gift includes a $500,000 cot lage and estate at Lakewood, N. J.., nce occupied by the late Grover leveland. There the new institution ill have its home. Miss Whitney ontributed $100,000 endowment fund. i SKELETON OF PRIITIVE MAN. rehistoric Burying Ground is Discov ered in Ohio. Ashtabula, Ohio.-Prehistoric bury- 1 fl grounds, which may rival the fa lOus' Great Serpent Mound near Cim-e lnnati, were discovered at Point t Park Hill, near here, when workmen nearthed the complete skeleton of a c primeval man. du The femur is curved like that of the ape, the tibia is fiat at the joint and ~umerus has a perforation no longer t ound. The skull slopes back and the ower jaw prortudes. Newsy Paragraphi;. ,W The late Edward H. Harriman was never known to swear and was, in- St ense and fervent in his religious be- of iefs, according to Alexander Millar, Ai eretary of the Union Pacific Rail- an ay company, and for twenty years private secretary to Mr. Harriman, in sti n address before the Mens club of pri Plaineld, N. J., Congregationalju That oral betting does not consti. dt tute bookmaking within the meaning of the so-called anti-race track gamb ing laws of New York, is in effect, pC the decision of the court of appeals in bany, N. Y., affirming an order of the lower courts for Ge discharge HC from custody of Orkado Jones and a Sol Lichenstein, who were indicted on dr a charge of abookmaking. i Panay, an island of the Vlsayas pe yroup, Philippines, was crossed by a tyoon. The storm was epecially se- thi vere in Caplz province, where many sea homes were destroyed. Five thousand Col persons are homelesg, and much prop- sa: erty and crops were destroyed. The Pr wind, which was of hurricane force, He was accompanied by heavy rains, and .na much of the country is flooded. Isti Major Thomas H. Hays, formerly: w nspector general of the- confederae army, at one time second vice prS e ent of the Pullman Palace Car corn- Bi pany, died at his home in Louisville, y., aged seventy-two. He wad .wide Ly known in Kentucky politic- so King Edward celebrat'-1 )his sixty- thi eighth birthday at Sandringhara plact, fel surrounded by most of th>e members la< of his family and a fwintimate pra friends. Telegrams of dangratulation tha were received -by his mjiesty from all ou parts of the worli rils health is con- in terably, improved. he Because his a'rt izs on the right' side of his bod ~afi-nos Contsocas Las was deport- GreeC. On un lergoing the r a ei.r ination at ai Island, the ux:1e f .s discovered Di hat there was n .a: . eat on the , eft side of the .body a id a search evealed the presence of the vital or- h an under the right lung: This was( cil onsdered de..rimental to Lhis health im id he has been denied 'mission .y w Mels Jensen, his wife anflve' chl- Je Iren of Warroad, Minn., were burned v~ death when a can of ke osene St i Jensen used to start a fir in a t enIV exonloded. Gasoline ha~ been flC UAL NINE TR EIIY [early 400 Miners Killed in Dis aster at Cherry, Ill. ARELESSNESS CAUSED fIRE &y in the Mine Stab'e Ca2ght: Fire and Before It Could Be Exinguished Ignited the Coal Vein. herry, i1.-Nearly four hundred :man beings, men and boys, it is w believed, are dead in the St. Paul Ine here, though expcrts, who suc eded in penetrating the smoke-filled shaft to a depth of three hundred t, returned with a ray of hope for e grief-stricken relatives of the en bed victims. That the fire has been extinguished ts the conclusion of mining experts d inspectors sent here by Governor een to investigate the calamity d Its causes. For more than thirty urs the prisoners were subjected to oke-filled veins. That life could exist under the ter le conditioLs apparent is doubted many, but because no trace of :h. temperature was found in the pths of the mine, friends of the 1ners and even officials of the com ny, have hope that the victims may e found safety in some recess of e mine. The list of the missing men was mpiled in the offices of the mining pany, and it reached the total of 5, including the dead whose bodies re taken from the burning cages is thought that this list might bo reased. One hundred and seventy n who entered the mines hav-I en accounted for. The company d scores of tracers at work round up the employes and the officials mitted that the number of men im soned was greater than they first d believed to be possible. Among the missing are many Amer ns, who' have lived for years and .red families in Illinois. Though majority of the miners are for ners, yet all had their homes here, in the surrounding towns and vil The story of the thirteen heroes o went down to their death in the zing shaft of the Cherry mine, and the one man who came back, seat by fire and blackened by smoke, 'tell the tale, is being related here all its details and forms, one of e most enthralling narratives in the tory of mining in this country. Standing out above all the others is story of Dr. L. B. Lowe, the "man 0o came back," the only one of the roic fourteen who survives to etll at happened. Seven times before the other res ers began to go down into the rning shaft, he went down alone in at, and each time he brought to - surface his quota of saved. Twen five miners owe their lives to him. His hands are badly burned,, but he ows no other scars. When asked to scribe his experiences, he merely rugged- his broad shoulders, and 'I couldn't have done anything re than I did. It is not worth talk about. Besides, I am too busy to e disaster brought to light many named heroes. . M. Taylor, general superinten nt of mines of the St. Paul com ny, is a pathetic figure at the scene the catastrophe. ANOTHER VICTIM OF FOOTBALL ristian, of University of Virginia, Dies of Hurts Received in Game, Vashington, D. C-Football has timd another victim in Archer ristan, the eighteen-year-Old left if back of the University of Virgin team, whose injury in the game th Georgetown university was for 'ed by his death at the hospital. &n autopsy disclosed that .death as due to cerebral hemorrhage, fol ilng concussion.. The death of Christian hasi put an d to all football playing by George n and Virginia for this season. rofundly stirred by the fatality, adistrict coroner has sworn a spe' i jury of prominent citizens, whose vty lbwill be to suggest, if possible, me modification of the rougher fea res of the game. ME. STEINH EILACtU1TTED. aman Accused of Murdering Hus band -and Step-Mother Freed. Paris, France.-Mme. Margherita ainhall was acquitted by a jury the murder of her husband, olphe Steinheil, a noted painter, d her Step-mother, Mine Japy. ro ome degree sentiment and a iffy, crowded courtroom favored the soner. With the appearance of the y an instinctive .feeling of acquit flashed through the courtroom. A mmatic scene follomed. ARMED WOMAN SEEKINGl TAFT. lice Arrest Woman Who Was Lookirig for the President. Vshington, D. C.-When Mrs. imes of Wauwatosa, Wis., arrived U~nion station with her two chil n, she acted suspiciously and Po eman Sears, who was watching her ular conduct, arrested her. hen Mrs. Holmes was taken to station she was asked by the geant if there was anythizig he id do for her. She denounced him, ing that she had come to warn esident Taft against the Black d, which was planning to assasi t him. On being searched at the ion it was discovered that she LS armed. EACHERS TALKAGAINST CHURCH. hop Morrison Declares That There Is a Lack of Orthodoxy. Newport News, Va.-Bishop Morri nmade a notable deliverance to V irginia Methodist Episcopal con ence here on the subject of the k of orthordoxy on the part oZ ahers. He said some men go into Sministry and feed their families tf the proceeds thereof, but stand1 he pupit and poison the minds or people against the teachings of 8church. I TUREY APPENDICITIS. rner Surgeons Say Fowls Are Not Built That Way. Dever, Col.--The announcement t ppendicitis is causing a scar Sof~ turkeys produced uncontrolled riiment among Denver surgeons oo were intervic wved upon the sub t. They announced that those Han drdscientists who had spread the ryy are art ists in composing fairy es. Turkeys, they declared, can a have appendiciais, for their inter -I CAUSE OF j NJERSONVILLE DEATHS. Dr. Kerr, Surgeon at Prison, Says It Was Pellagra. New Orleans, La.-That hundreds of deaths which occurred at the con federate pri-son at Andersonville, Ga., during the summer of 1864 were not due to typhoid fevr, as then suppcs ed, out were caused by pellagra was the opinion expressed betore the Southern Medical Convention 1.ore by Dr. J. W. Kerr cf Corsicaaa, Texas. Dr. Kerr, who was surgeon at the Andei wonville prison, described the symptoms of tte disease which -at tacked the inmates so zatialy at that time, and in nearly every particula. they were recognized as being cnar acteristic of pellagra. - 'Ihis vicw was iurther strengtheneni, Dr. Kerr said, by the fact that musty or spoiled corn, generally accredited by the medical fraternity as being perhaps the cause of pellagra, consti Luted the main diet of the prisoners, because of inability to furnish them other supplies. The concensus of opinion among the physicians who presented -papers on the subject was tnat peilagra was at tributable to spoiled corn. HARD TIM IN ENGLAND. Labor Conditions Going From Bad to Worse. Washington, D. C. - Labor condi tions in Great Britain are going from bad to worse, judging from the re poit of John L. Grititlis, consul gen ei al at London, to the department of commerce and labor. Wages are being lowered and- the hours of work are decreasing, while an alarmingly Lrge increase in the number of tncse who are registerea as unemployed is giving grave con cern. Last year, during the entire twelve months, the wages of 464,000 persons were reduced .because of the oad times. In the six months ot 1909, from January to June, or just half the time, 1,0081,275 were com pelled to submit to red~ctions in their earnings. The gravity of the situation is vivid ly. seteforth by the statistics of the unemployed, prepared and compiled by the British government. These show t-hat in the first three days of regis tration in London last ionth 2,500 persons applied for work than in the corresponding three day's of October, 1908. There is at present a bill before parliament, drawn by- the trades boards, which, if it becomes a law, will -authorize the board of trade to establish a minimum rate of wage in all trades where there is satisfactory proof that the scale of wages paid is unusually low or unfair to the work ers. LET TARIFF ALONE. Manufacturers Want No Further Agitation. New York City.-The country should let well enough alone, as regards the tariff, says the National Association of anufacturers, in a statement dis crediting certain announcements that have been sent out of late, indicating that the association was keeping up agitation on the subject. "Some one has been '.issuing circu lars in our name,". says the state ment, "saying that we are planning a crusade of agitation for further tariff revision. This is untrue. We feel that the tariff question has been dis posed of by congress, and that any attempt to revive the subject will hamper business and retard the return of prosperity. "Our reports from all parts of the country indicate a healthy and decid ed increase in business, and there is very proof that we are at the begin-L ning of an extended period of national - prosperity. "The country has had enough of tar if agitation for the present, and the people at large insist that the t'arfif act .be given a fair trial before in augurating any further agitation." QEEN JOINS MTERS. Helena of Italy to Wcrk for Welfare of Children. Atlantic' City, N. J.--Queen Helena of Italy is to. become a member of the Internatloohal Congress of Mo'Oh ers, according to letters received from the Italian embassy at Washingtor, by the board of managers of the Na tional Congress of Mothers at their session here. In expressing a desire to join in the work for the welfare of children of the world, Queen Hel ena declared her intentiop of sending a special envoy to. the meeting of the organized mothers of the land to be held at Denver next year. It is ex pected that other European sovereigns will follow suit. Time (lock on Harriman's Tomb. Arden, N. Y.-A time clock has been placed at the tomb of E. a. Har riman, on which the night watchman i-ecords each of his visits. The grave has been closely watched since the death of the railroad magnate, and the time clock -has been installed to check the watchman. General Labor Strike Planned. Philadelphia, Pa-Plans for a gen eral strike by wage-workers t-hrough out the country for a period of two weeks, beginning on the day the ofB cers of the American Federation of Labor are imprisoned for contempt of court, were Inaugurated here at the meeting of the Central Labor Union representing about seventy-five thous \and workers in this city. $500,OOO From Tips. New York City-Tips and his say ings were so wisely invested by Ja4. Thielman, waiter at a restaurant. that when he died recently he left an estate valued at half a million dot State Receives "Conscience Money." Columbia, S. C.-The dispensary commission has recovered $9,508 more in conscience money from two w'iskey concerns, one $9,000 and the other $500. The money is in the bank, but the names of the firms are' not given out yet. This makes $47,000 altogether re ceived in this manner. Attorney Felder says more is coming, and he will bring the total up to a quarter of a million dollars ibefore the inves tigation closes. Hypnotist aives ilemenstration. New York City.--The possibilities of a hypnotist in jail have been re vealed by Arthur Everton, the mes nerist, who Is being detined at the jail at Somerville. N. J., in connec tion with the death of Robert Simp son, a professional "subject," who died while in a cataleptic state before a theater audience. To demonstrate what he could do. Everton easily hypnotized the jail keeper, James P. Major. in his 'cell. Iand the latter declares 'that Everton ~ud hae tiaen his keys and freed NORTH.HAS HOOK WORM Hygiene Expert Has Been In. vestigating the Disease. NOT ONFINED TO POOf Observations Have Shown Ten Times a Many Sufferers in New York as in Southern Factory Districts. Nashville, Tenn.-Miss Susan Lavi rence Davis, a hygienic expert of NeN York city, is here en route east fror a trip through the south, where sh has been insestigating the hoop wort Uisease. She is in position to spea authciatively concerning only certai secuus, but her invetigations tau lar tCLU toward the conclusion thia there are no more, if as many, hoo worn victinms in the south than elst wfrze. 6ne declines to make a pos Live assertion until she nas carrie her investi-gations ?urtLher. Miss Davis nas just spent tw months in Madison and adjoinin counties in Alabama investigatlu hooi worm conditions. Her oiyservi tions have covered the states of Te: as, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennesse< Georgia, South Carolina, Ohio, Ne, York and the District of Columbia. I these states she has found relativel fewer sufferers from such parasites i the southern than in the northern an eastern states. "My observations have shown, said Miss Davis, "fully ten times a many sufferers Irom the parasites i New York as in the factory distric of Alabama, which I have just let And I have examined several times a many people in Alabama as in Nei York. I do not find that the parasite are confined to the pobr and shittles: I have found many victims among th wealthier classes in the best res dence uistricts of New York city." NO fREE ROSIN. Protests of Southern Naval Store Men Given Heed. Washington, D. C.-After a delug of representations from the navE stores people in the south, the soa manufacturers and other interests i various parts of the country, th question of classification of gum rosi is being given a "try-out" at Failade phia, wnere the collector has been n( tified by the. treasury departmen that he can go ahead assessing a dut of 20 per cent on such importation as an article of manufacture no enumerated in the tariff law. Southern rosin interests claime that wrong classification in the lai has been admitting gum rosin, or ro! in from abroad, free of duty to th serious loss of the southern trad( The collector at Philadelphia asses! ed gums and gum rosin, natural an, uncompunaed, bat advanced in va: ue or condition, by any process a treatment beyond that necessary to th proper packing of the drugs and th preventidn of decay or deterioratio] pending manufacture, one-fourth c one per cent per pound, and in add tion ten per cent ad valorem. The manufacturing interests usin rosin sought free admission unde section 559 of the free list, which ii cluded gum rosin when natural ani uncompounided and in the crude stat and not advanced in value by an; treatment beyond that necessary fo preservation -pending manufacture. The department. would not direct: re-classification, but advised the col lector that his assessment of ad vI orem duty would stand for the pre! ent, at least. ,"SQUIRRELHUNTERS" PAID. Forty-Seven Years After They Serve Soldiers Get Wages. Cincinnati, Orlo-Forty-seven year after they served as volunteer so' iers to protect Cincinnati from : threatened raid by confederate troops the "Sqisrrel Hunters" of Cincinnat have received their pay. In the mai received by a n~imber of Cincinnation were checks for $13, a month's pa: for a private soldier In the Unite' States army. In 1862 General Kirby Smith's. raid ers made a dash through Kent'ucky and it was feared that they planne< an attack on Cincinnati. Governo Todd of Ohio called for sixty thotu and volunteers to mobolize at onc in Cincinnati, and men and boys wit] squirrel rifles and the old famil: owling pieces trekked to the city 1: large numbers, awaiting the approac] f the expected foe. The confeder ates got within a few miles of Coy ngton, but turned aside, giving Cit cinnati a wide berth. Efforts were made a number o: times to secure payment, but noth ing was done until at the recent ses sion of congress an appropriation was made giving each "squirrel hunter' month's pay. .CANAL HALF COMPLETED. All the Work Will Be Finished in th< Next Four Years. Washington, D. C.-The cut at Cu lebra, the backbone of'the Isthmus , Panma, was half completed on Oc ober 23, accordhrg to reports frog the canal zone. At that time, 39,0i,2, 2.99 cubic yards had been excavate( and a like amount of digging remain ed to be done. This gigantic cut will be nine mile! long, and will have a width of thre4 undred feet at the bottom which wil e forty feet above the sea level, the ormal level of the water being fixes at eighty-five feet above the sea. It! :omplton is said to be assured with n four years. ELIOT'S RElIGION WORN OUT. Bishop Gailor Doesn't Approve oj New Religious Ideas. Montgomery, Ala.-In a discussiox f thie. church work in -the variou! ~loceses of the department of Se anee, Bishop Thomas Gailor, of the Bpiscopal church of Tennessee, ad ~-anced the theory that education is Ihe solution of all church problems. He deplored the new religion whici a championed by ex-President Elliot1 f Harvard os the ground that "it is ld and worn out" REMARKABLEREQUEST IN WEL Banker Desired His Ashees We to the Flowers. New York City.-The wii' of Wal :on Townsend, a retired i :.i.ker, wh< was identified with the earlyl develop ent cf San Fr-ancisco, cont ins thi: request: "I direct that my re ains b4 ~remated in the Fresh Pond crema :ory on Long Island, and ask - hat m.3 shes be fed to the flowers.'t 'ate of about a quarter of millior lolars, hetween two grands ns whri LUTE NEWS NOTES. GeneraL Edward William Bedford, the Cana dian who 'was :arrested in London, England, charged, on his own confes sion, with the mnrder of Ethel Kin rade at Hamilton, Ont., has now ad mitted that there was no truth in his story. On being brought up in the Bow street police court, how:ver, he was again remanded in order to allow the police to make mOre complete in quiries. Joshua Strange of Indiana waS elected president of the Farmers' Na tional congreks at the closing session of the meeting in Raleigh, N. C. The other officers ch-osen were as folows: Charles Sanford of Ohio, first vice president; 0. P. JJewett of Kansas, 3 second vice president; W. L. Amos Of. 2 Wisconsin, treasurer: George Whitta ker, of Massachusetts, secretary; a John Kimball of Maryland; R. M. s Surles, of Nebraska; and 0. D. Hull, t of West Virginia, assistant- secretar ies. A. C. Fuller of Iowz. the retiring member of the executive committee, - was re-elected. J. M. Stahl of Chi cago, was chosen legislative agent. Following the publication of the D centennial editon, July 12, 1908, of the St. Louis Republic, that newspar D per took an active part In the forma tion of a century club of American newspapers composed of weekly and dail yjournals that are one hundred V years old or older. A booklet just a published by the Republic describes y the eighty-two papers that are mem bers of the club. There are fifty-five dailies and twenty-seven weeklies, twenty-two of which are published in New England, thirty-eight in the mid dle Atlantic states, nine in Ohio, one a in Indiana, eleven south of Mason and Dixon's line, and one west of the Mississippi river. Mrs. -Sarah T. Rorer, the famous s culinary expert. has shocked the Mothers' club of New York city by declaring that no men ,should have anything to do with the bringing up of his son, other than providing food and clothing for him. In discussing the subject, "How to Mould the Boy's Character," Mrs. Rorer said: "Men s are not fit to bring up children. They are too irritable and cross to assume e any control of their children, largely ,l because of their worrie? in the pres P ent condition of the commercial world.' Men are not sufficiently gift ed with patience to teach children." I An explanation of what was believ - ed to have been a boiler explosion on a Lake Michigan steamer was furn L ished with the discovery of a huge meteor on a farm five miles south of 5 Manistee, Mich. The meteor was still t warm and ten feet of it projects above the ground. The spot whee it I fell is about half a mile from Lake r Michigan. Judge. Thomas G. Jones, of the fed eral court in Montgomery, Ala., has affixed his signature to an order for the sale of the properties belonging to J. A. Prestwood of Covington county, Alabama. Several chapters have been added to the Prestwocd case, the first three being made up of allegations by Svarious cotton merchants that the Splante~r had failed to deliver future cotton which had been contracted for. The merchants allege the loss, be cause of such treatment, of about $30,000. -The name of Cyrus Hail McCor mick will be the iirst. admitted to the Illinois FarmeIs' Hall of Fame at the University of Illinois. Exercises at tending the admission will be held at the university December 15. McCor ~mick's name is honored by virtue of his invention of the -reaper, which has revolutionized agric'ulture. The General Grand Council of Roy al and Select Masons in -session in Savannah, Ga., has elected officers as follows: Graff M. Acklin, Toledo, Ohio, general grand master; John Al 2bert Blake, Boston, general grand deputy master; Edward W. Welling Ston, Ellsworth, Kas., general grand principal conductor; Thomas E. SShears, Denver, Cal., general .igrand treasurer; Henry W. Mordburst, Fort Wayne, Ind., general grand recorder; mGeorge A. Newell, Medina, N. Y., gen Seral grand captain of guards; Fay SHempstead, ILittle Rock, Ark., general grand marshal; Joseph C. Greenfield, Atlanta, Ga., general grand steward.1 Charlters were granted to the follow ing councils: Black Hills councIl, head, South Dakota; Tyrean council, SMissoula, Mont.; Adoniram council, -Washington, D. C. Washington. "Humane laws for children under Ieighteen years and for animals." 1That is the caption over an executive -order of President Taft as printed in -the Canal Record, th2 official -paper of -the isthmian canal commission, just I received in Washington. Offenses against children and 'against animals are made misdemeanors. Any agent -of a regularly organized humane so-I ciety in the canal zone may be cam-I missioned as a special policeman to enforce this order. It remained for the isthmian canal commission to give the latest exempli fi cation of the old saying, "The Bet-1 ter the Day the Better the Deed." Ac- I; -cording to an official report just re ceived in Washington, "the greatest 9 -amount of concrete laid in a single I t day was placed on Sundsay, October C -24. when 1,304 cubic yards were ad- ~ ded to the 33,248 cubic yards that had c been placed up to the close of work. . October 23." The largest number of jo employes at work on the canal and t Panama railroad has just been report- 1: ed to Washington. The force number- I'I ed 33,210. A decrease in the number t< of skilled American employes. was ex-" plained as indicating a tendency tO- og ward a reduction in the number of li supervisory positions.9 The state department has received , a report from Vice Consul General-.t Risdorff at Frankfort. Germany, stat- S ing: that a German publication has ~ caused a sensation in military circles s by describing a new appliance for a c gun to enable the soldier to take aim c at great distances in complete dark- r ness. The inventor is an engineer of t Dortmund named Izel. A telescopic c searchlight, containing a small elec- j.. tric lamp. is fixed to the barrel her- a 1l"ow stock. Military_ authoities1C aid to have~ made sucgessful 3 -::.1is and all sho.1ookeff~dt. -I . he nOrth pole, whichever way a man look-c. completely around the a man looks, completely around the cir rghic office- in replying to inquiries from curious persons. "As a man leaves the pole,'' says this official pronunciamento. "he would be going soiuth because there would be no oth er direction at the pole in which he could go. As north is the directionf toward the north pole and south is the opposite direction, any step taken C by a1 man at the pole would be away from the pole, and consequently to, the .south. The compass, however,; points In nl- one -of the directions, Washington, D. . ortant changes n South Carolirn iere. These changes affec lass postmasters and rural -arriers.. The announcemen ollows: At Claremont Sumt y, Henry B. Trierson takes f E. A. Jackson, removed, naster; at McConnellsvill =unty, James M. Williams lace of R. R. Clinton, resig >arlor, Orangeburg county, L Felder succeeds W. G. Ha emoved; at Bucol, Horry Co eph H. Cooper succeeds .T. in, resigned; at Long Creek, ounty, Thomas J. Hulsey s V. N. Moore, resigned; at Ca exington county, John L. Davi eeds J. T. Thornton, resigned 3andy Run, Calhoun county, Jo duller succeeds H. J. Seibels igned; at Baldoc, Richard C. s appointed a rural carrier with rid C. King as substitute; at Selle allace D. Sellers and Ernest Page, ts substitutes; at Loris,. Edward K kipper succeeds Andrew F. Prince;$ Lt. Bamberg, Henry W. Adams re-" eves Judson N. Steedly, and at DarY ingtol, John F. Sparrow is appoint-e d a carrier with Robert L. Odom., ubstitute. Columbia, S. C. - The executive' ommittee of the State Teachers' As ;ociation met in Columbia. The fo]- 'i owing members were present: W. K. ate, president of the State Teachers' tsociation, Charleston; L. W. Dick, kbbeville; E. C. McCants, Anderson; laude V. Neuffer, Columbia, and W 1. Jones, Columbia. It was decided to hold the next an tual meeting of the State Teachers' I.ssociation and affiliated bodies in |olumbia, December 30, 31 and Jan iary 1. A tentative program was greed upon and other important busi iess transacted. A number of prom nent educators from this and other ;outhern states will have a place on he program and full announcement will be made later by President W. K. -'ate, in whose hands the completion I the program was left. A committee on arrangement was ppointed. Professor A. R. Banks was made chairman, and with oties. Ls follows: Miss Alice Selby, Miss 4elen McMaster, Mrs. Detyens, Pro essor L. T. Baker, these to co-oner .te with the local members of the xecutive committee, Messrs. Neuffer nd Jones. Spartanburg, S-. C.. splendid 11* wrary of their father, Dr. -H. Car sle, consisting of some three-_h and choice and rare books, has bi "e. resented to Wofford College by J. i. and Miss Saie Carlisle. 'In addi ion to giving the books, Miss Car isle and her brother gave -several leces of Dr. -Carlfsle's library fur-, iiture, which is. familiar to many old tudents of Wofford. The library will be ke- .i . special room in the 1 ag of the college krill 1 d the tables, chair, des Ihelves will be so arrant reproduction of the li- :.. iome. Columbia, S. C. - President Tat as seated In an historic chir at e banquet. The chair used by the olonal governors of South Carolina ras lent .to the state for the occe> on. This chair, now- the property f the university of South Carolina. a many years ago a part of the tate furniture, and in it the governor In 1856 the chair was presented to e South Carolina Colelge by Hon. Vliam C. Preston, one of the col ege's most Illustrious sons. The chair ras placed in.the college library. A w years ago when the time-wor ilece of furniture commenced to tea t the sides of the seating It was or Lered repaired. In the college l ymany visitors pause to admire u~it and artistic design of t hair. The letter of prese Ined by Wimana Preston, is ena Lbove the chair so .?hatX the students d visitors may know that it is an dstorc exhibit. This chair was lent the state by he university, and seated in it Presi ent T[aft partook of the hospitality f Columbia and the - state. STATE CAPITAL NOTES. . .The field crop department of the ir; attracted much attention. There 'ere a large number ofgentries -andj he competition was very keen forA he various prizes. Several prize ~ ilnners were announced by the comn aittee. Clemson Colege some time go consented to aid the society ini aking this department representa [ye of the agricultural resources oft he stabe, and Professor J. N. Harper irector of the experimental statin, gether with the associate profes- ~ ors, devoted their energies In ar~j ag the exhibits in a systemt ducational manner. ..Citizens of Sumter c nty have etitioned for a pardo1 r George W. urray. the c~olo ex-congressmanl, vho skipped after his trial, and who. now in Chie~go, pending negotla Ions for his extradition to this state. he petition asks for a pardon on .. Lie condition that Murray remain out f the state. The paper has a large umber of signatures. Murray was ovicted of forgery in Sumter in 1904 ..The senior senator of South Car sa, Hon. B. R. Tillman, did not ke part in the Taft Day exercises. nmedlately upon the arrival of the aft special from Charleston, Sena rr Timan went to the fair ground o see his friends." He paid .his sy in ,too. He did not attend the ncheon. Thus culminated the $10) late affair. ..Anther evid : te epart of the *: ' ,te was seen ir t the state fair r. .' election of seed - citivation of thi - ina is now gettig :. t the growing of corn. There were wo interesting exhibits as a result f the boy's demOnstration work. Le- ' oy Townsend of Bennettsville has n exhibit from the 95 3-4 bushel cro~p fcorn he raised on an acro, and ~ [aster A. B. Usher of Gibsoni has ' art of his 132 1-2 bushel yield On xhlbitio. .Govenor Anal has appointed eegates :onal Civic. Feder ionc co11ieh will be held i Washi' nuary 5, 6 and 7. he folIc those appointed. A. W aoJ rse vo o ..C hpado d gefield, nso ouba . M. Mc . aestnL.W a rker of ~ .~ adr fSparta . ontn ew wberry. .srO u tr . * . McDorinbro ..g [edersoian .H.Wl on, r.,ai on, The coaser ..t C. Shepar of