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educationInsouih Conference of Educators Discuss Southern Industrial Education. SOIIITION flFRAf.F PRftRI FM President Taft Says Dixie's Prosperity Will Solve Problems Which South Mast Face. Thomas Nelson Page Presides. Washington, D. C.?In the prosperity of the south lies the solution of the race problem, in tiio opinion of President Tuft, who purtieiputeil in u ii. . ui < iiuuaiuin uuu iiniiiiutliropically disposed moil and women of Washington OIl < diu aUqu in the south, at the residence of Ali.,s .Mabel T. Hoard man. "Them are two thitiKs working toward the solution of the negro problem," tfaid the president. "One is the development of interest among the better cIush of southerners in ihe education of the negro, and a consu iousness of tue fact, that nothing will so II1UUI1 UClp [IK; SOIlltl as KllCil edllcation. The other important feature is the increase of the wealth of the south. "Tho south, xiiit.il the last decade, hud a dreadfully hard time to support the government of nor states without education, but now the aouth is Kef ting richer. 1 atu delighted i<> have 15 cent cotton, whether it hi; hiKii <>r not, because it means the prosperity of tho south, the development of her uuucHuoiiai Hysitun, ami tli< v i-klm; out of tlio njost difficult probl; m ever presented to a people." Thomas Nelson i'ugo pr<\ d< d :ti conference. Among tue other speakers were .lames* H. I>lllar?l of New <>r loans president of tli>* .leaue. fund; W. \\*. Fillley, president of lh<- Southern Railway, and Dr. II. H. Krisscll, president of Hampton Institute. James 11. Dillard, in his address, deebm?d that Hie while iw<>>Ui> miia? blanio tIn iiif-w-lvps lor conditions provailing in I'm* south, ;ind ?1<-scribed a natural s. ;<renation of tin- rail's that is dim f ping with tin: development of indu.-urial education. Industrial oil ucation he urged for the bonellet ot the negro and the jiuor white people as well. "The first thing we can do," he said, "for the negroes' good is to refrain from ill feeling and to bo willing that the race should be hopeful of prog rcss ami improvement, in other word* we should have the attitude of good will, and not Hip altitude of ill will. "The second thing we rati do is to assist in the education of the negro, and by education, I moan a real education, an education for living, an education that leads to the knowledge of how to do tilings hotter and how to live better." TILLMAN NEAR DEATH. &smi + u r - x' 1 ?wm>m v?' uiiiin ownctiui is in <? very Serious Condition. Wachirfgt^n, D. C. Uen.iainiu Uyati v ' Tllljcnnn. >nior senator from South Carolina, and one of Qje must. pir tur?K<|iu' character# in <:uii>;itss. is critically ill hore. His condition is extremely grave. i lit) senator's rinlit side is utmost wholly paralyzed and aphasia has developed as a result, of a cerebral hem orrhage on the left side of tlx' brain. Ho lias nearly lost tlio power of articulation, and tills is regarded by the doctor as the most serious symptom of the South Carolinian's illness, lie may recover from the paralysis, but in all likelihood, it is said, he will never regain the complete use of speech, the senator's dearest and most cherished weapon in his public serv ;< e as n national legislator, and tint keen edge of whicii lias enlivened many debates of union-wide interest in congress. This is Hie second stroke of paralysis to seize the .southern senator, the first having occurred nearly two years ago, when ho suffered u nervous brea kdown. Dr. William A. White, .superintend out of lIn; government, hospital for the insane, was called into lonsuita* tion with 1 >r. Pirkford. While it wits asserted that the senators mind wan fairly alert, and that ii<> w.n conBcious of the happenings of his en vironnu-nt, Ui\ W hite, a a specialist on ilironh is of 111 < hriiin, Lite ..-at <> Air. 'Ionian's illness vi' asked to maky an e\iiijiinaU'<m I he v : <i. t of flu physicians allot tin ion ilia .'on w.in that. Ihf V'liatoid cumin ion was rioiiK in the < \irunn ; thai II.< oiilcdini! whs doulHiul Columbia, S. C. I'iio si.iic ? ji:11< | unanimously ad< pt< d ;i ros> i ;i <n d< jjhiiing the ill.i' '.s ol Si uat r i .1! man. Tin* i< olution, which v..i, unaniicoii! ly adopted, < < lc IvglvtH of ili< rti iiiii.- at t:n .111 tor's illm s a ail I lit! !:? ;<< t hat mw ill In- speedily ri'sini' - I in health. To Fight Boll Woev !. Washington, D. C. s<naior Foster ol l.oi' i:m;i lift made a move iu ilm Boiiiii" ii hnvi' tli'- ai>i? <i?riutioti for fight ill/ the boll Weevil UK roil! from l ti.oijo, a! which limine it. was ]>121 < i| by I In I Ol !< ,)!< .? ? i tiv< to ' Uniform Charters for Flori'b, Cities. Tampa, Fin. Willi tlx* intuition of. Bt'cnirinv; uniform elutr t-; ami la for tlin tfnv rnim-nt of name ip;ii: tluTi by Uoiijg away villi Mi' flood of local hill.' that < . ill !;il < it < card Iftliv s-"fRioii. ill-' Florida \ 'latimi of Municipsilit iok. wiii? or?siiii/<'d m this < i(v. I'rn< ti<ally ovi-ry i ity ai town it) Florida in r<'|?r? cnleil ,n t aHHociai ion To Prove High Cost of Living. Washington, D. C. V i< I * i dd*Mit Sherman appo ml I :i the "!< < ( mlttec to in vimt i?ato llif*. > n < . < 1 I cont of living. Si naioiH liOtlK*', rlmi: man; (JullitiKor, M< ('wrnher. H111601. Crawford, Simmons an 11 t'lark. Largest Shipment Sen Island Cotton. Statesboro, G?i. I'rohably |ho larr eni s11i11111o11f of : ?< ;? i land cotton tsvor made lelt Ii r? f >i . .ivannah A apodal train of twenty two ears \va lifted. Th Hhipment i;-; worth $ 100. 000. Revenue Officers Raid Many Stills. Dalton, Ga. ? IfcvOhuc.* Officers Camp and Spence i i in fd to DmIIoii i aftor having made I In ino an . e fill raid oi lhe year for M ih t< rrit?r> ; Two large stills wi iv destroyed n Murray county, bringing tiio total for the past two weeks up In nine Ship Strikes Iceberg. Junoau, Alaaka. Tin- stearnsl ip Yucatan of tin* Alaska Steamship (Jo., formerly a yacht owned l:y (leorgo j W. i'nrkiuB, bound from Vn 111 * /. to Seattle, with Hixty-flvo paengera, ; BtruCk an leeborg in Ivy Strait and! snnk. There was no loss o? life. k.,. fci 'l.JJL 1 1 1 . ' | WRIGHTS COMING SOUTH, j Aviators Are Looking For a Suitable Field in j the Southland. Montgomery, Ala.? Wilbur Wright, pioneer in liying machine invention, mtrprised tho i>tUe?r? of *he Commercial Club by dropping iu casually and IluUIno !( Vw? ~ I I--- u,.n..lla.l - (suitable grounds for experiments with ; some now machlues which he hopes to try out before spring. No one know lie was here, nor huu thero been uuy intimation of his coming. "1 heard that you lmtl many largo level plains, and could take cure of us," he said, here 1 am." Mr. \\ rigut said the mauutacture of their aeroplanes being consigned to .New York corporations, ho ana his brother are loomug after experiments. Titers are many things yet to bo developed before airntnps are a success in a practical way. it will t.Mi^ many years for tho living ship ('> take auything away lloin the railroads or the boat lines," 111 mo lutiuif 01 uie mey must Ite uaed for special service, quick dispatck and tain#* ol this character. we are getting uIouk rapidly, but there is yet much to learn." I TAFT LIKES CKiTiCISMS. Says All Presid?nt? fcxcspt Roosevelt Were Hammerad. Waohington, D. c. -Formor J'resiI dent ltoo8?v<jlt, according to an opln1 ion expressed by President Taft, in an address to I i rand Army Veterans of the Department of the l'otomae, I '"seems to havu been hii exception to j every rule.'' Thin declaration was 'made by Mr. Taft, in speaking of i t'itu i'jnw lw???n in certain quarters as to his administration. Me said he would fuel worse for !hese criticisms were it. not for the | fact that in every administration,"with tli'- possible exception," lii! added, "of ; i.it of hiy 1111111<diatf predecessor, who seems to have l>i en an exception 10 every rule, "President l-ineoln had radicals and insurgents to deal with, and lie had tlie deuco of a time," said the president. "Hut I would be ashamed to think of comparing the easy year I liavo just been through with some of tne years of darkness he hud to suffer. I am Kind to have been hammered this first year, because (lie ! next three years will be pleasant, no I matter what the newspapers say TUG NINA LOST. Navy Doat With J2 Hands Lost at Se?. Washington, D. C.? I lope of solv ; j ink tho fnt.o of the little tun Nina I practically Iihh been abandoned by the j ! i ailed stales navy, and tii" problem ' \> 111 likely k<> Uown in history among I lho untold stories of the hoi. In I ho opinion oi the navy departnil-ill she foundered, currying down her entiie crew of tl!irl.v-lw<> men, at .some point between Hog Inland, where I sue was last reported, and Winter (Quarter Shoal:1 linht vessel, off tho oust of Pelawaro, on February t> or 7 nil IV* !. f. .? I. .11 V.v.. lolk on Iht fateful voyage. Statements | to that effect wft'i' made by Assistant I Secretary of tin* Navy \\ inthrop in roaponsf to hum ral inquiries l>y tole;rrapli from friends of the unfortunate crew. Tim commandant of the Now York navy yard tcli graph< rt the navy department tliat tin- \<sst*l sippitod <?IT Montauk Point, Long Island, last Sun day by the whalclm, k steamer I'.ay \ ii \\, wan the nnval Iuk ApaHm. Tlio Kearch has been abandoned. urnTCirrv rc \\nncirrr\r I WW MiUUlj t M W l.MOIlLi A Tnft's Decision Has Been Formulated In 3et of Resolutions. Washington, D. C. President. Taft's j decision in the Iirjoor controversy I that "whisky is whisky, whether it ii<* blended or straight.'' has been formulated in a set of regulations prepared by I he hoard of food and drums inspection of ilie department of agriculture. Tue regulations were completed and approved, as required by i.he pure food law. hy Secretary Wilson hi the department of agriculture. Secretary MacVeagh of the treasury department and Secretary N'agel of j the department of commerce ami labor. In brief the regulations declare ; that all unmixed spirits distilled from grain, prepared in tlio customary ways i are entitled to the name whisky" I without rjtiu'ifli at ion lilenih-d whi l<y ' must be labeled as such. I 'I'lie term "utii'iUv Iiou'i-vi.i i t ; hi rictcd to distillates irimi Kt'aiti and ill*- rt'Kuliii it hi . dist llai-'s from otii?T substances. if labeled ' whi ley are niirtbranded and the person guilty of ntiHiiiaifdiiiK uiiiy 1 ? pro.set uted. Put Gold in Glass Jar. CircKiivillt, Ky. ItcrsuiMo William '"ori">, eight;. r?i \?Mi, an aged farm Ii\ i11noar this city, lad no faith hi hank-; Ik- coiivi rled his funds into II and hid i'm'Iii in glas.i i|tiatt ai WliGU In- \s < !>I in look at his , t.">! ui ". he round Hk* jar. hut his [ .avMift. Of yonr! disappcarod. Large Cargo oI Salmon. Charleston, S C. Tin Sail Mateo, i law liiji 1 c-.in S< at 11* , is In ! pin t u it li ii < rfii <1 S .i uuii i ; J, j of iilicoili 1.1m m?- nd It k cai'fro n'rriv d li< i-i? 1 hi" in ft i!: ,t riiiui: ?n T.ltn ' .U K ' v. a (iii I;i:Mli I'd and thirty thotiftai.d ' Earthquake in Crete. Athens, Greece. \ t :tili? larllii i!ikr nhook \ villii.i' wn ?1 - -1 royi'd ai ciit i-iliK in a<|v>< i i ( < i>d hon\ and tin* |><>| ilatton of tin- i land i-t in panic 'I a i:i r th?; In ;.-i of 1 if< il not Iciov. n. tail lii'lii veil to liavr In ' n In ;u i disturliiiiif's are pcrvadm) t* i* ii ir<? Ironf; i of tin' Mcdit'M liii m Ricts in Germany. Berlin, Ojrrrany. ? I land fo haiul tiiuc lx-1'at i'ii t.l)?* social d? mci u . ii Mi#j pulii > nt Krnnkloi i on tl I iin marked tit?- ri d Ihar raRod In ;i? litii(l . I patches roc. Ivc<| i !.m > i In riuin >> oi hiInrod a.t !< : 1 Ix-tail- <>' ill'- lifhfiiiK at Frank I 1! s.iow ill' h'i wan 111 nn> ! I hi and scrliii of all t lia I liavo 1 "ii 1 rom !>< < !< - mini question I u" police wen ialde to ciipf Willi II nail had to call n the troops for Kings Give Presents to Hospital. New Orleans, La. In addition to Hip mamiilli' lit H. vres vase pie .onted to the Kye, Kai. Nos<* and t hroat Hospital hy the i I' li'li Kovf'rnincnt in n coRnit ion of tin' ft 1 vice >;ivcn the injur 01 inn r re n roiony in .N'tw Orli ariH, tlit* Ixm; J has rocolvod gift* from Mir'-o n iwned heads of I'lmopf. 'I n" ;tr^ ft handsome ! ndltion dr In ,c of n tiook on the ro*'?oration of tin* aiuieiit mallei* of Max ony, Bent l?y Kmixrnr William of <)?i many; a largo China vhmw from th? czar of Kii.skIu and len cosily ngravingf from King AIioiiho flf Spain I "NIGHT RIDERS" HELD 12 Kentuckiaiis Indicted By tlie Ca A svv/fcl f* +1 Yum* t CUCKU utouu amy. STATEMENT BY GOVERNMENT Alleged That Indicted Mcu Forcibly Prevented a Grower From Shipping His Tobacco. Action Is Against Individuals Only. Cincinnati, Ohio.?Thy flrBl blow Btruek by the United States against alleged "night riders" wus delivered | when a federal grand jury at CovingI ton, Ky., returned indictments j j against iwcivo men or ury mage, i Ky., tor conspiracy in restraint ol trade. One ol" the men indicted is John rt. Steers, a member of tlie state legislature. The indictments charge that the defendants conspired to prevent \V. T. Osborne from nhipping four hogsheads of tobucco from Dry Kid*?; to Cincinnati on November 2<?, J!>o7. They are charged with having intimidated by threats of violence ; both Osborne and the station agent | at Dry Ridge Tile men indicted are John S. , Steers, a member of the Kentucky legislature; I'errv Simpson , A. C. ! Webb, Jerry S. Carter, llnph Dec i Conrad, Fred O. Conrad, H. I>ec Con* [ rad, John W. Cullender, John Caid-1 i well, William Mulligan, Marion Hen mitt., and Isaac Newton Conrud. All I ur<? residents ol' (Irani county. The ! federal government v.ill prosecute the cases as arising midt r interstate comI mere?. The offense on which these | indictments arc based in characterized as oue of the most literal examples of restraint in trade that has over come t<? the attention of the deI parltn?rit. An independent tobacco grower ha<l taken io the str.tion a, snipmeut destined for a Cincinnati warehouse, Hid. IcKvinir it ivilli th#> nepnt rn. ceiyed u hill of hiding. The night rid tM'S, hunting fit it, sought to diRBuade hotii llir shipper and (ho agent from sending the tobacco, hut being unsuccessful, compelled the owner to give up his hill of lading. They then went to the agent and got the tobacco. Wnfihington, D. C. -The following si atement was made by the depart mont < f justice in regard to the indictments: "It developed at a recent hearing of tiir officers and representatives of the Hurley Tobacco Society in Wash ingtoii tti at tin- chief grievance auxins the society or any of its members. were those acts of violence I piedation such forcible opposition to the shipment of tobacco to points outside ot (In' state by independent growers who refused to join inc soeii'ty. The oMcers of the society disavow any resyponsiliility for tin- acts of these night riders, and the government is determined to select what seemed to be a clear case of the physical prevention of 'interstate shipments of tobacco and to prosecute, under the criminal sections of the Sherman net, the individual perpetrators. It is hoped that if this prosecution succeeds it will put an end to tiiese acts of lawlessness ami intimidation. The action taken by tlx government is not aguinst the Hurley Society Itself as an organization mi restraint of trtule." CHERRY MINE BOSS SHOT. Miner Shoots Man Superintending the Removal of Bodies. Cherry, III. An attempt to assassinate; one e| the St. Paul Coal Company's bosses ad(l<(l t(i the tragedy of Cherry mine's disaster. A dismissed employee, stepping up behind Charbs A i ii * i i 11ij , knuWU the top boss, nhipped out. a revolver and crying "to pay you back,'' Jlred three shots. Atherton fell, j>robably filljillv Tli.- shooting occurred in t)>?* midst j of tin- work of recovering the 177 bodies, "wIticli have been entombed in the mine since tin1 fatal tlr? of No-j vember Kleven bodies have boon brouglit. up. RUSSIA TAXES COTTON. The jmpost ic. Frtvorcd by the 0c11or? Growers Themselves. St. Petersburg, Rusr>ia. Tin- proposed law, imposing a tax of seventi'iilti; (>t a <' lit per pound on all cottoil grown in Itussln and ii central! \ in .O.I.. M.O.I,..;. - i I.'I - " ' .i ?" IMI I ? .1 II IIM I III'. | lilll'H liiivr been approved ii\ t lir 1 ciji.iM tl ol ministers ami Mtbmilted , in parliament for action. Tin1 nirav | urc is demanded by tin- cotton grow-1 <?rv tin inselv"s ;ind supported by t)t?>! boiir/" coin in it t -< of Khownii and .Voticow, i i-; pet t i\ i c< liters of cotton growing and mamifaci uriiiK, which foresee a light tor existence between1 t he industry and the locust plague during t.ie coming years. Never H.'id a Doctor. Knoxvillc, fenn.?Mr#. Margaret l( j Witlker, aged nint t> eight, died after a HI H I IIIIK'JSM miriiiK HIT long nil flhe n<'ver n?- ?i <l tlie hitvICOH <>I a physician, and tin on*- 01 Hod afl.(:r waB hiru-U 11 did not arrive in t i11> ' In adiniiM li-r in Iter. She died in (In) saini' house in wliii-h she went as ;i l?rid? in IX2K. $10 Hog Expected. Chicago, III. I dp price:! for live J 111?j? at the .-ioi k jiirdH advanced to ?!? 17 I '1 a hundred pounds, and 1 ix- ( cd h 11 u re< ord sin< (i l-SVu, w 11< 11 tlit*. animals sold lor $Jn. The advance < umed troiiKii predictions thai tlie .J 1 hoy would soon appear in (ill*! iniirkets. Smallpox On Battleship Tennessee. Washington, D. C. A dispatch in tii navy <l?*f>urtarinounrcs tli; ( (in) I tilled SI il t >' s I tU t I I" <ll ip I clllH'S* ! now al I'm I lowiisend, Wash., has .t'V? ral cases of smallpox on hoard. TIhto Iihk bt'on oiif ilealh. Cnbfi in Depot for Babies. New Orleans, L.a.- Cribs for rent I infants in the several pa. . i n^er depot s oi New Orleans constitute a rather novf I feature of I lie woik of lie Xfw Orleans J Tavelers' Aid society. Tallahassee Veggmen Buried. Tallahassee, Fla. ? "Tenno.HHoe Dutch" and Ins accomplice, whose re ? < nt attempt to rob Mm Tallahassee poslomco was thwarted by young I'at 11 H a 111 h who shot and killed boTIi tho crook*, were buried, both in one Pliave l hi> younger of l lie two yi-KK iii<-it wiis never identified. No Publicity of Corporation T.ix. Waehintgon, D. C. There will he no publicity of corporation lax re turns iinlesH c'ongreaH providen the money to dlKplay tiio returns, and it In not believed thai an appropriation will 1)0 iriado. 7* HOPE TO CORE CANCER. N?j7 York Doctors Try System ol Inoculation or Vaccination. Albany, N. Y?A strong liopo ot curing cancer, or at least greatly ameliorating the condition ol' cancer patients by means of inoculation, is held out in the report of llarvey K. Uaylord, director ot the Cancer Lab(irntni'v rwf tlm /i........i..? health at lUihulo. This hope lb basuil on extended experimentation during tiie past year in the inoculation or vacciuution of various animals, mainly rats, with tho cancer virus. "It appears," says tho report, "that where ttie resistance of the animal Is not (sufficiently awakened by one inoculation of tho tumor, this resistance can be heightened by repeated dotes and, in h considerable proportion of easeu, immunity can be raised to a point which will bring about a cure. "It in needless to point out' that this process of repeated vaccination, which has cured in the proportion of 25 to 40 111 rats, migut well be apI plied to those cases of late cancer I in huuian beings in which surgery has | nothing to oiler and the outlook Is hopeless. "As we strongly urged the legislature in previous reports, the time has come when we should begin experimentation with human beings. Funds sufficient to enable us to maintain ttn patients, is the least amount which can be of value if this work is to be undertaken." Statistics are given to snow that cancer continues to increase. The reports says that in tho United States it bus increased from 9 per 10u,uuu population ill lhf>0 to 42 in J5M)0, an live rug e of about CG in 19U1, ana an average of more than 70 in 11)015." WANT PEARFS PROOFS. Congress Must Be Shown Before Giving Him Medal. Washintgon, D. C?Members of the house may demand that Robert' 1*J. Peary exhibit his proofs to tli?' world before voting him a Keld medal and the (hanks of congress. It. was learned that the naval committee was not entirely lllianilliims on Hie tirmmui. lion of beutowiUK honor on ino uiw covervr of tu? pole. One of the leaders of the house, who declined to allow the use of bin name, said that he was opposed to accepting the proofs of Mr. Peary that he discovered the polo, merely because the National (leo^raphic so elety had accepted them. lie charged a preconceived prejudice in favor of Peary on the part of tin; society, and said that, before congress took this step, the verdict of this socle.y should be confirmed J \ otlu r xrinti. titic bodies of the world. Several members have expressed opposition to the proposed J Vary honors, and one or two have threatened to discuss vigorously the matter on tliti floor If it is brought up. CASE PUZZLES PHYSICIANS. Woman in Fine Health After Ten Years of Coma. Detroit, Mich.?Alter ten years of unbroken melancholia, Mrs. Alexander Tanneiiholz, aged fifty, has awakened in perfect health. ll?*r ease llir/?.les lib VKii-iunK mill 'JYn yours ago Mrs. Tannenholz was active in the social 1 if? of the city. Suddenly a pall It'll over her mind. She lost interest in everything ami experts said her case whs hopeless. At times she did not oven recognize members of her household. Two weeks ago she entered the kitchen, where her daiiKhter was preparing a meal. With no signs of strangeness ^he took up the task of preparing tho dinner as she had done (< n years ago, before her illness. Her mind is completely recovered. Living is Cheaper in Alaska. Seattle, Wash. Interior Alaska naiiKK, ii is; reported here, have reduced interest <>it loans from 'A to 1 per cent per month. Seattle bankers attribute the cut to reduced cost of livtiiK and operating expenses in the north. Newsy Paragraphs. Jicalizinic lie was about to die and that Ins two cats, bis constant companions, and only solace, mi^ht niiuvc, rjiiyuor, !i met y-eight .years old, of H' Lou::', crawled more ihull a niii?- lo Peg a noighhor lo cantor Hum 11 expired muttering plaintiv? I> : "1'i #mI my eats." Mayor K A. Itin;*e of Chicago hafi appoiui d a ( ominittee of nineteen men lo lay plans lor tiie lirst nation al < (iiut'iiiion oi c ii> officials and on>- ,iin ? i - for ti.> purpose of standard 111K i'?n Olfe, JM'cifii'Hl iolis. TIlO COII\?ntioli is io |ji! held in Chicago February u i tu I'rohahly forty cities will he p'prs-Miicd ai Ihe gathering, among I hem i>eiiiK Pittsburg, Kail l..iko CH.v, Milwaukee, Wilmington, I ? )., Minneapolis, Si. I'aul, New OrU'ai , lvansa Clly, l)ayton, Den Mi .,n?:s. sow ark. X i ami .vnoi vi!l?> I'lie .M< xli mii political refuge*;, Inez Unit*, alt r holng held for eighty days in ,la(l hi San Antonia, Tex., was frei d for t Li u hccoihi t i mo liy ('(iiiiniissiuin I- Scott, wlio said Mexico h.nl ailn iit' i Kin/ to In? u. political prisoner. .-\ ti t og ra pliH, I < * I tori and other docui. ? nts in i!i liandwi itin^s of John Adam. , John Qninej Adantn. Klhridgo tliir> and other of revolutionary lllllll have ,:. I |n i|| llif (lOM'll of in ItOHtoii at a . ale of effecttl from the estate ol the Ke\ Joseph Willard. v. no \\a. pr? lideni of Harvard shortly after the revolution An autograph htlel- uril 1.1*11 I>v lleneilii t Arnold in M;ijor lii-iKMal ?1 ?tt -?, in tli< course of mid oi i in- < ;iui|>aiKfi8 of Uiu rov olullon, brtiuglu $1-1 lu ran.<<! tii<- (altlo hot.wucn the Mugdal<-n islands mid Capo North in broken and will not I. i-paired until warm t li inhabitants of tin? island liiivc reported (d iho ancient w ay of transmitting message* and mail. A lieav) l?arr? I, containing betvwen i weni> and forty letters pealed in ( tins, w.v-. picUnd up on t.h? Capo Mreton oaxt by percoiiH living neur 111< whore. 'I'lie l?Mte|f. wcro recelv?<j by ine po-toll'iee autlioritirR and duly sri.i to iIim respective ail<1 r(:s.4?H. The t kick had carried tin- barrel mxt.v miles across the kuIi of j<i Lawrence in ten <lays. A narrow wage railway Ik to b( const met u<| to the slle of th& Harden of Mden, which Sh- V\illltiiu WUIcookn, British advisor lo the TuiklHh minis ter of public work*, thinku he has located T.ie spot is ail otiflls rtltuat ed in Hie center of a vast donolHtv plain traversed by four arms of the Mil ph rates. It Is located about t\v?. hundred and llfty kilometers nort of f'.axdud Mnjoying ills usual vigorous health, Henry WntterHon, editor ??f the Com ier-Journal, has just celebrated his seventieth birthday at Naples on-th< ku if, Fla., where ho is spending lite winter with Mrs. Watternon. I ' r i Jv?>v>;\..M? , , . .. v.'Wfi* *> -r\v TAFT WANTS RESULTS Hurry Orders Given By President to Congress. TO HEM PARTY MS President Taft Tells Republicans That He Will Send a Special Messege to Congress Unless They Push Measures Promised by Platform. Washington, D. C.?In effect President Taft said to Home of tho senate leaders whom ho called to the white house: "Why don't you push measures to redeom platform pledges while the bouse is dealing with appropriation hills. You are moving too slowly.*' It 1 o .... i.l I,,, I. i Ki. .,,4 ...L. I?? patience with the degree of progress made thus far toward the enactment Oi "Taft policy" bills. The president will continue his personal interviews with individual leadera of the houso and senate and if thin course does not avail to promote apeedy action in congress on the measures referred to. it is entirely possible that he may feel called upon to send a special message to congress placing the responsibility where it belongs. as a result 01 me interview senators said tho following program liKd been decided upon: The almost hopeless tangle in which the Root and Smoot amendments have ensured the postal savings hank bill will receive attention at a conference to be held in the rooms ol' tho ilnance committee, of which Senator Aldrich is chairman. When whipped into shape, the postal savings banks bill isi to displace the Alaska legislative council bill as the unfinished business, the latter to be laid aside with the nrohlems that cannot be solved nt tho present session. Tho administratton railroad bill is to be reported from the committee on interstate commerce dnring the next week and force put behind it to pans it without material amendment. The several conservation bills are to be perfected by a special committee of western senators, appointed by Chairman Nelson from the membtrship of the committee 011 public lands ami these measures are to be reported to the senate as rapidly as completed. i in* ami injunction mil is to inconsiderud by the Judiciary committec at i(s meeting next Monday. Statohood legislation, which already has been reported from the committor on territories, is not to be permitted to lag and probably will receive attention as soon hs the postal savings bunk bill is out of the way. This program includes neither the federal incorporation bill nor ship subsidy legislation, although the latter is likely to pass the senate without much debate. It will meet dilHcult hurdles in the house. Senators Carter, Month and Heyerrarrii'ri In the caoitol l'rcuidant I Tart's views ot the (Inlays encountered | by tho bills contained in his program, i They report that there could be no mistaking the president's temper. The postal savings hank bill gave him the most concern, it was said, because the opposition that had developed to such legislation did not appear to him to be based on :*ound principles. PARAFFIN-COATED EGGS, Nearly a Million of the Eggs Wer? imported From Europe. New York City. ? Paraffin-coated e^ps from Kurope, nearly a milliou of which were imported this week, were placed on sale by hundreds of New York retailers at 3 cents ,to S cents a dozen less than the price of American cold storage eggs. At th<> same time there came the announcement from market men that i American heef exported by way of j New York to London is selling there I at. ;{ cents to "i ofnlK lo?? limn ili*> | price asked here. Tiio wholesale i beef prices, according; to this state| nient, wen* as follows: London-American fro/on beef, per I pound, X Ml (o ! cents. I New York-American frozen beef, per pound, 11 12 to 14 cents. U. S. and Mexico Boundary Dispute. Austin, Texas. As a result ol a vi^it from II. II Ward, attorney for the city <if 101 I'aso, (lovernor ('ampbell addressed ii letter to President Tail calling his aitention to the no if<-to?n.y 1(11 ;i sei l H'llirni <>1 IIH' DOlin dary lino <1 i.spnl?> between the I'nited States and Mexico affecting a portion ! of Kl I'aso. Tho territory in dispute lias a population of about ">.'>'??>, with taxable values ol -f .oou.uoo, and lias be? ii invaded by squatters claimitiK property under M'\icaii authority, i wiio threaten the uso of arms to hold tin* lands Five Past Century Mark. Now York City. There are throe women and two nun who huvu all pas.s< (I the century mark in the homo ot the Daughters of Jacob, an Kast Hide, institution for the aged. Mrs. ICsther Davis, the oldest inmate, is 116 years old. The others aro Men Jel Diamond, 108; .1 Kirvin, 10!{; Mrs. Itessio Kalmanson, lou, and Mr*. I Kftcliol .Marcus, 101. National Park on Kcnnesnw. Wauhington, D. C. Senator ('lay lias Introduced a bill providing foi iik> ?.'8lnhlishment of a national military park on KwiiH'HRW mountain, in Cobb county, (ieorpfla, ami appropriating the sum of |2n.noo to acquire one hun tired and sixty acres on l.ho mountain. Racing Cost Col. Chinn $200,000. Jacksonville, Fla. facing al Mon* oriel was completely overshadowed by the announcement of 1', T. chinn of Lexington, Ky., to tin; effect that lie would sell his entire string of I IMM IMI^UIll I'llH IHT1! .WIU'CII ill |)i|t) lie auciioii. Colonel I'hinn, in KpeakiiiK of liis intended disposal, stated tliul lie and ills connections were ovT $200,000 loser to the mooting, witli little hopes of |?etliiiK it. back, and also owing to the chaotic condi tion of tlio American turf, lie has decided to cast his lot in Prance. Steamer Burned. Dnrien, Ga. The steamer John ('. Mallonec, owned t>y Captain Winn and others, was destroyed by Ore at the Dnrien dock. Tho loss Is $8,G00. Abolish Credit System. Jackson, Miss.--AKriculLural rerolu tlon for Mississippi is advocated l>\ tjovcriior Noel In a apocial message m>-nt to the legislature urging the en actinont of a law prohibiting th? k'v in* of mortgages on growing cropn. Tli 1? custom is at prt>Hont the bantu of the agricultural system, and the law, If enacted, will practically abolIan the credit ayHtein in the rural \ : " - - '.TT^T - t ' '\ , i LATE NEWS NOTES. General. The heaviest ice crop of the last thirty years la being harvested in Chicago, and by the timo the season la closed, a week or ten day* honoe, 2,500,000 tona will have been stored in the ice houses that supply Chicago. There will be no decline in price, however, to tho small consumer. Governor Shaforth nud Chief Justice Bteele of Colorado have issued a signed statement to contradict the assertion made by Kev. Dt\ Underhill of Denver before th,e City club of New York. Reverend underhill said that he indorsed from observation an articlo by an unnamed woman aiming to show that suffrage had demoralized the women of Colorado and "that ten thousand women of tbe underworld controlled the elections in the city of Denver." The governor and the judgu say these statements are ? untrue nml iho wmnon "* ? ? ratio are the ogual of any In refinement, oducatiou and feminine graces, none of which qualities hare bean damaged by their fifteen years of participation in public affairs, while the government has immeasurably improved by sucu participation. They suy also that out of the thirty thousand women who voted iu Denver last fall not more than four hundred were in auy wise connected with the underworld. Owing to a disagreement about the conditions imposed by William C. l'roctor of Cincinnati on his offer of 1500,000 for 'a graduate school at Princeton, that xift has now been loet, and with it nearly as much more which had been raised for a similar purpose. President Wilson had insisted upon maintaining the right of tae university to carry on the grade work in anv wav tli.-it micht h<>uit> best to himself mul the trustees, and in thin attitude the hoard wustuined hin\. "We are not getting hold of th? college men," stud Professor Hhaler Mathews of the University of Chicago, in an address bei'ore tb? Chicago Methodist preachers' meeting in ta? First Methodist Church, in too many cases the college man has an idea that his education lias raised him I ahove tho conceptions of the religious mind. "1 don't believe the natural man likes Jesus Christ." 1 don't believe he goes to Christ naturally, I but rather to l'llate. Let uh not only i send missionaries to China, but alsu to the modern man." Washington. A delegation or Crow Indiana name here to see President Talt. One of the bravea had a war shirt mad? by a squaw on the Montana reaervatioa which he intended to present to toe president. lie failed to uink? the j presentation when lie found that Uiu shirt wan ontlrly too ainall for l'realdeut Taft. rremuent rait conrerred with Seni ators iieveridge, Borah and Carter at the white bouse and told them to ?axpedi&te tiie administraiion U-giulative I program. The president wanUs kieuator iieveridge to get the Arizona-New Mexico statehood bill through the senate, and Senator Carter to push along the postal savings bank propo* | sition. | In a message to congress the pre?ident askod that provision be made lor recompensing those employe* of the government working 011 the l'an. uina canal. A story going the rounds in Wnsh! iugton that, anti-administration repubi licans liave dispatched Gilson Gard n?r, a well known newspaper writer, to meet Colonel Roosevelt when he j comes out of the African jungle and lay before him the entire political ' situation as it has developed during J his absence. .Mr. Gardner is very ' riusc uj iuv lormei |iieisiu?'iil. rie It'ft Washington quietly about two i w^eks ago, and it was learned that he had gone to Kgypt, and would meet th? former president in Cairo when he comes down thu Nile. Senator Tillman's "pitchfork" Ho- ! quence in condemnation of former President Roosevelt ? appointment of a negro solicitor of customs at Charleston, S. C., which has lain in the i senate clouet for e*eciittvo f?ecretn i for more than two years, will be glv- I I en to the public. The senate ordered j I the injunction of the secrecy removed from all of its records in the case | of Dr. William Cruin. Former President Xelaya intends to publish a hook defending nis Administration in Nicaragua, criticising Secretary Knox and the Htttt?- depart ' mini and charriiiK that intrigues set 1 afoot ami maintained through Central , AiiKtiira ami in Washington by a I largo mining company were tlx- cause j of his downfall J tint before sailing lor ICuropo from Vera Cruz, Zelaya | confiding to a friend, according to J private advices which have found j their way to Washington charged the HutterKCarthwaite mining Interests I ii f Sin 1 v:nli ii" uilli lu'iiip riiKiinvwililA I for nis reverses. Seventeen out of eighteen pension ag< ucles scattered throughout various J portions of tin*, country are abolished ; under the terms of Die pension appro- i print ion bill reported to t ht* housr, j when* in no appropriation i.s recom | mended for tiio offices. The one remaining otllce in locatVd in Washing- J ton and the usual appropriation for < its maintenance i.s made. Tne pen- j slon bill carries $ I.ri{i, 174,001), which is > a decrease of Sf>.000.000 from Inst. ! ! your. Tin; seventeen agencies (tins rut off an- liiiatI'd in Augusta, Me.; i Huston, lluffalo, Chicago, ('olumbuB, ; O ; Comord, N. II ; f)('K Moines, l)e ; troil, Indianapolis, Knoxvillo, I?ul?ville, Milwaukee, New York City, Philadelphia, I'lttsburg, San Francisco and Topeka, Kan. '1 lie anii;>uii( oinont that (lie Inked States will grant Its mininiiiiu tariff rates to Japan which was cowin^ind! rd to tho foreign ofllce at Tokyo by i Ambassador O'Mrien and published in | all .lapanesi! newspapers, has been rereived by tho couiinercial interest!! of [ the I'inpire with the greatest satisfaction and created an exrellent iiiiprvsJ sion generally It was stated at the : foreign office that the .lapam so goveminent never had doubted that the | j United States would tlnis reciprocate I tii-jivine t/i I hi* w/trld Hilif A in?rU>n I desired tho best of trade relation* with this country. Not only are the farmers of the country not to recoive any additional rural free delivery ronton until July I, hut after that date the extension of routes will he curtailed to u greater extent than hau be?n the practice since the origiu of the service. '17ie report from tho postolllce committee Ik In tliM ftffnr't flint tl)4? fniniii i 11 Mia i? going to allow h paltry three hundred ! thounanri dollara for Lno cxt.ei)Hl?u of rural free dolivory. For several yearn the rural froo delivery service has been getting $1,230,000. This In cut threo-fourtha hy the poatofllce cornmitteo. Economy la the reason p.bnigned. ' 7 pMrnrarETEws Saluda, 8. C.?Thefc6rn contest for Saluda county rccewy put on foot is attracting attontfn and numbers of tho farmers in tio county aro internum? to enter, 'liie plan is a siml?lo one,' it being Uib: Every one entering tho contest >s required to deposit a dullur to ^ common fun&, and tiie winner to ^ot as many dol mrs us mero lire c*itcfttants. Those 9ntering are to mcL hero 011 or before the 1st day oil April and formulate rules governtnAtli6 conteat -and adopt tlio plan by wiich to dctermlno who the winner 'may bo. Each one entering 1h at liberty to plant any kind of <j>rn he Bees lit, prepare hits acre as ll; chooses, cultivate and frrtili/e as hfs Judgment may dictate. The Held Is open to all. To i ?e onw iiwiKiuK most corn on one aero of land In the county for 1910 tho prize goes. One of the stipulations is that each contestant shall kwep an accurate statement showing how and when he plants, with what atul how much fertilizer heauHCK and his plan of cutlivation. The one winning will bo asked to furnish this information for publication in the state and county press. Washington, D. C.?Tho following were the amounts for South Carolina in the rivers and harbors bill, presented in the house: Winyah Hay $150,000; Charleston harbor $?50,000; Little. Pee Deo liver, $20,000; Great l'ee De river, $30,000 Sant.ee, Wateree and Congnree rivers and KathervilleMinlni Cr?ek Canal, $05,000. Rock Hill, 8. C.?The Practice Homo has been enjoying spinach, radishes and lettuce raised In tholr own garden by the students who aro making a f>tudy of elementary agriculture. Washington, D. C. ? Congressman Patterson of Barnwell, who was taken ill here a few days ago, hat? lx>cn moved from his apartments at the Falcon to CJeoige Washington University Hospital, thin city. The physicians in attendance stata that lie was somewhat improved, but as yet it cannot be said just what the result of his illness will he. The heart is affected and entire cessation from business of all kinds will bo necessary. Greenville, 8. C.?A charter was isbv th?! seeretarv of state to I ho Spartanburg and Greenville Railway Company,with a capital stock of $100,000. The company proposes to operate tin el?ctrical railway between the city of Greenville and tho city of Spartanbun. The principal place of business of the company is to lie at Greenville. The officers of the company are Oh as. W. Kills, president; 11. H. Price, vice president, and C. H. Yates, secretary and treasurer. The road In to be 31 miles in length, commcncing at the city of Greenville, tiie road will pass through the townships of Butler and Chick Springs, in Greenvilcl county, and Spartanburg, in Spartanburg county. The road will haul freight, passengers and mail. ? C.?Tlii> Onnwl C^nm mandery, Knights Templar, of South Carolina, held its annual conclave In the city. Officers for 1910 were elected, an' Charleston was voted as the place to hold the next conclave. The officers elected were: Right Kminent Commander, George T. Hryan, Greenvilfe; V. E. Deputy Grand Commander, Newton E. Walker, Spartanburg; 10. Grand Generalissimo, W. W. Lumpkin; iC. Grand Captain General, George S. Mower, Newberry; K. Grand Senior Warden, Zeb Davidson, Chester; K. Grand Junior Warden, W. 1'. Miller, ltennetlnvllle; Grand Treasure, Alex I,indst roin. Charieston : Grand He corder J. \1. Diven, Charleston. Camden, S. C?The doeding of children l>y their parents may yet become popular. A deed of two children in tliis county was a few days ago tiled with the clerk of court, in this case the mother wan making the deed. Mrs. A,igeline Rollins executed a deed of her two children, Thomas Rollins, aged i 1 years, and (Jertrudo Rollins, aged three years, to Mr. Reuben llinson, tin- deed reciting that she i.s unable to provide for said children a proper support and maintenance, and that their father is away and refuses 10 I.<.! , I,. fur Greenville, S. C.- It was announced that $f>2,tM)<> had been raised for a V. M I!. A. building in lireeuvllle. Til is in the result of a nine-days' campaign, which was vigorously prosecuted by two active committees of men and a (.elf-constituted committee of women. STATE CAPITAL NOTES. ....It is announced that i'rot. \V. K. Tate df Charleston will be added to the department of education 111 tins state in tin position ol supervisor ot oleinentari rural schools. The position is made possible by the money appropriated tor this purpose by the l'eabody board and the southern education board. ....The Carlisle bill defining the duty of probata courts with relation to minors passed the sonate with minor amendments. Senator Carlisle, the author, urged the passage of tae bill, explaining that it 1h needed legislation. and 1'ivini' a 1111111Iti i* of <>vumnloit where youthful violators of the law, bill not yet criminals have been hope h'Kslv lost its possible good and useful citizens by being sunt to prison and being necesnurlly asociated wim hardened criminals. ....Without precedent iu tlio states history Ik a parole granted by Governor Aiim 1 to Charles May, the Kock Hill embezzler, who was sentenced to serve three years in prison. Young May was paroled for six months, and lie will be brought to Columbia to be treated in the tuberculosis hospital at the state penitentiary. It will be recalled that .May was tried oniy h lew months ago ut Kock Hill, ajul, al though his shortage was mado'good, ho was convicted on the charge 01 embezzlement.. ....The house Dually decided to give only 43 schoalrshlpfl for the University that is one from each county In (he Htate. The ways and mean' hill provided for 8C. ....The weak schools of the state are to receive the sum of $60,000, according to the house hill thai has hepu passed and will no douht get hy the Henate. The sum of $20,000 was givtfu lust year. Vrhe hill is hy Representative Garris and It was passed on account of the most excellent showing mado with tho $20,000 lunt year. ....Warren H. llra/oll, who kllleifl IiIh youngest brother, Melton llrazell, in tho country about 14 months ago, waf pardoned by (Jov. Ansel.