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TAFT AND SHE ELECTED Republican Candids fice by a Grea ?/ Electoral HUGHES WINS OYER S;r Some Western States Vote Foi Short of Roosevelt'" s Electa Ohio Man 216,398 Majorit ticut Are Proportionately ! Republican Lead and Brya raska?All the Southern St Washington, D. C. ? William H. I Taft will be the twenty-seventn president of the United States, the Republican ticket headed by Taft and Sherman having swept the country by a vote which will give him 317 ballots in the Electoral College against Mr. Bryan's 166, or only 19 less than Mr. Roosevelt had in 1904. His majority will be 151. William J. Bryan suffered his third and most crushing defeat in his twelve-year run for President of the United States. To enforce his policies President Taft will have an overwhelmingly Republican Congress, the Senate being as strongly Republican as before, wnd the House increasing its Republican majority from 57 to 65. About every so-called doubtful State went Republican. It was noticeable that the majorities in the East were greater than those in the West. In New York, for instance, Taft beat the great Roosevelt majority of 1904, getting 185,796 majority, as against Roosevelt's 175,000. The greatest surprise of the election was the Republican victory in New York City, where Taft's majority was 7748. Never before this has this city gone Republican in a Presidential election except in 1900, when it voted for McKinley as against Bryan: Chanler's plurality in the city was 67,000. Taft's plurality on the popular vote is estimated at 1,087,750, as against Roosevelt's plurality of 2,545,515 over Parker. Undoubtedly the great surprise of the national election was in New York State. The' ablest Republican leaders north of the Harlem did not look for any such overwhelming vote for the Republican candidate. There was a still greater surprise below the Harlem River. Taft carried the city of New York by more than 9000 plurality over Bryan. He obtained all of this in the Borough of Brooklyn. \ There, where Chanler received 35,000 plurality two years ago, he was defeated by more than 21,000. It was a stunning surprise to both Republican and Democratic politicians. The old city of New York, now ealled Manhattan and the Bronx, gave Bryan less than 10,000 plurality over , Taft.* Queens gave him less than 1500, and Richmond, on the revised figures, gave the Nebraskan 695; so while Bryan carried New York, Queens and Richmond counties, he was overwhelmed in Pat McCarren's - ?-? * ?i- 4- ur^irZw* bamwicK. ana so neaviij* i.uai iuwuuley's majority of less than 4000 in 1900 looks very .small in comparison. The great Taft vote in Brooklyn carried through all the Republican members of Congress whose Feats were represented in the last House of Representatives by members of that party, and all the Senate seats in the State Legislature now held by Republicans were also won. Joseph G. Cannon was re-elected to Congress from the Eighteenth Illinois District by a plurality above the normal. Returns are still incomplete, but enough figures have been obtained to show that he will probably have a plurality of at least 10,500. President Taft will have with him an increased majority in the House. In the Sixtieth Congress Mr. Roosevelt had fifty-seven majority; in the Sixty-first, which Mr. Taft had promised to call in extra session next spring, he will have sixty-five. Morris Hilquitt, the Socialist candidate for Congress in the Ninth New maa dpfpatpd hv Re publican votes which were cast for his opponent, Judge Goldfogle. A noticeable feature of the election was the increase of the Republican vote in the Southern States. In Florida, for example, it increased so much that early in the evening there was a report that the State had gone Republican. Everywhere in the Southern States along the Atlantic coast there was this unusual Republican vote. lu Illinois, which Bryan's managers had claimed, there was a smashing vote against him. Cook County, where Roger Sullivan is supreme, went against him by 50,000. The majority in the State is estimated at 170.000. Maryland, which was claimed by the Democrats and almost conceded by the Republicans?actually conceded, in fact, by President Roosevelt? has gone Republican by a majority of about 5000. Kentucky is for Bryan by about 15,000. The biggest surprise was in Sena-1 ASYLUM BUILDING BURNS. $125,000 Fire in State Institution at Rome, N. Y. Rome, N. Y.?Ward Building B of the State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women here has been burned. There were about 150 patients in the building, about thirty of whom were confined to beds. All the sick and helpless were safely removed. It will cost $100,000 to replace the burned building and $25,000 to furnish it. Notes From Across Sea3. - i:-A' -- Kw f a mnn?A?_ CliaUSUCS puuuaucu ujr UC 1UUUIV1pal poor relief fund show that the j cost of living in Paris, France, has increased eighteen per cent, since 1905. Greece has a beet sugar factory turning out twenty tons a day. Sugar retails in Greece at eleven cents a pound. The import duty is five cents a pound. Pauperism in London, England, continues to increase. The number of paupers on September 6 last was 118,954, against 114,577 on the same day in J907 MAN J BY LANDSLIDE I s \ a P ites Swept Into Of-' it Popular and Majority. \ CHANLER BY 70,000 f a I G t: r Bryan?Taft Falls Only 19 :al Vote?New York Gives the y and New Jersey and Connec- I Liberal?Ohio Gives Reduced ? ,n Captures Missouri and Neb- c ates Go Democratic. tor La Follette's State of Wisconsin, f, wnere Kninng or tne ncKei was lreeu xpredicted even, by Republican observers, and where nobody looked to-see c Taft do more than squeeze through. ^ He has bettered Roosevelt's 1904 majority there, and the La Follette men j* have apparently played fair. -t Connecticut's majority is as usual, ,, and Representative Lilley has been elected Governor by 1*5,000. . Taft carried his own State, Ohio, . by 100,000? 2 New Jersey went Republican by over 57,000. NEW YORK. ? New York City.?Governor Charles n E. Hughes, the central figure in one E of the bitterest political fights ever J waged in New York State, is elected c by an increased majority over two syears ago. His plurality will prob- 11 ably reach 79,000. With the Gov- a ernor the entire Republican State ticket is elected by pluralities in excess of that given the head of the ticket. a The State officers-elect are: j P. Governor, Charles E. Hughes. ! t] Lieutenant - Governor, Horace ^ White. ' t Secretary o! State, Samuel S. d Koenig. Comptroller, Charles H. Gaus. Treasurer, Thomas B. Dunn. Attorney-General, Edw. R. O'Mal- _ ley. * ' State Engineer, Frank M. Will- ? iams. In bringing aljout the sweeping victory for Governor Hughes the upState counties and Long Island gave the Governor more than 125,000, o while New York City fell far behind fi the estimated plurality for Chanler, o giving him only about 58,000. is Kings County gave Chanler the v narrow margin of less than 5000. ti Hughes ran far behind President- c elect Taft in nearly all of the counties c above the Harlem, but the name per- L centage of loss was not maintained below the bridge. In Queens there was only 5000 plurality against hin^ and little more than 1500 in Rich- ^ mond. ^ If Hughes had to depend on the j .State above t^ie Harlem River, and -j normal Democratic majorities had g Deen given in tnis cuy, u wouia nave been a close fit. In Albany County Hughes was cut more than 2000. In Erie, where Taft received more than 6000 majority, the Governor tl lost the county. It was the same in n at relative sense in Rensselaer, Onon- E daga, Oneida, Jefferson. Oswego, St. 1j Lawrence, Steuben, Ulster, Clinton, ti Chemung and Ontario. In no county above the Harlem did the Governor keep up with Judge Taft's vote, and in the great majority of counties he ^ was more than fifteen per cent, behind. 1 j He was badly cut in Schenectady, M Montgomery and Saratoga. In every 0 county his associates on the State j ticket ran far ahead of him. The * lowest man on the ticket outside of p Hughes will probably have 100,000 ' v plurality. NEW JERSEY.Trenton, N. J.?Revised returns in- g dicate that Taft's plurality in New 1 n Jersey will be 90,000 at the least. The Republicans elected seven of J the ten Representatives and the Democrats two, the Sixth District; which is now represented by a Democrat, William Hughes, being very close. The Democrats elected their Congress ? candidate, Kinkead, in the Ninth Dis- j. trict, and Hamill in the Tenth. T,hos. i; Foxhall is the Republican candidate c in the doubtful district. t The Republicans have re-elected i Louderislager in the First; Gardiner in the Second, Howell in the Third, Wood in the Fourth, Fowler in the Fifth, Parker in the Seventh, and have elected Representative Wylie in p the Eighth, which now is represented I by a Democrat, Pratt. c Both houses of the Legislature will t bs strongly Republican. c ILLINOIS. (1 Chicago, 111.?The Republican Na- ^ tional and State tickets gained a complete victory in Illinois. Taft has carried the State by approximately 170,000 votes. The Socialist vote showed f a falling off from that of four years S ago. Debs in 1904 received 69,225 0 votes. From the returns so far ob- e tained it seems probable that he will ft ! not receive over 40,000. C NOT TO WED MISS MALONEY. I London Paper Announces That Engagement to Clarkson is Broken. London.?An announcement that 0 the engagement of Samuel B. Clark- c son and Miss Helen Maloney, of New v Jersey, has been broken off is pub- a HchoH in Tho Mnrnino' Pnct whirh U iiOU^U AiJL A UV iUUi UIUQ A vuk| ft ? ?* requires that such notices be guar- x i anteed by one of the principals. It | is understood the communication was 1 received from Mr. Clarkson's solicitors. s The World of Sport. It is probable that the New York , jockey clubs will not offer any stakes for next year. West Point seems to base about fifty per cent, of her reliance to ^.n football games on Dean. j. August Belmont sent Octagon, Ethelbert and some mares to France 1 to entitle their produce to compete in 1 French races. c The Automobile Club of America , has organized a motor boat division, which will take charge of the sport * ! and place it on a sound and broad j I basis in this country. ' CONNECTICUT. Hartford. Conn. ? Taft carries lartford by 3860 and Lilley, for Govrnor, by,242. New Britain goes for 'aft by 1784 and gives Lilley a pluality of 1246. New Haven Connty ;ives Lilley 363. The county was exacted to give a plurality for Roberton. Lillev's oDDonent for Governor. Vaterbury, Lilley's home, gives him . plurality of 1300. Practically compete returns give Taft a plurality in hio State of more than 38,000. PENNSYLVANIA. Philadelphia. Pa. ? Republican eaders claim Pennsylvania for Taft y more than 300,000 plurality. The legislature, they claim, will be overwhelmingly Republican. MASSACHUSETTS. Boston, Mass.?With seven cities nd no towns missing out of 354 citjs and towns, William H. Taft's pluality in the State is estimated at bout 70,000, and that of Eben S. Jraper, Republican candidate for rovernor, at about 50,000. The enIre State ticket was successful. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Concord. N. H. ? The indications re that Taft carried the State by bout 20.000 plurality. The Legisiture will be strongly Republican in oth houses, and the two Republican longressmen were re-elected. s MISSOURI. St. Louis, Mo.?Incomplete returns rom Missouri's 114 counties indicate bat Attorney-General Herbert s. ladley, Republican candidate for kivernor, has carried the State over V. S. Cowherd, Democrat. The Reublican State ticket, although Tuning several thousand votes behind ladley, will be elected, and if Repub[can gains keep up Taft will carry he State by about 8000. The Legisiture will be Democratic by four on Dint ballot. LOUISIANA. .New Orleans, La.?Bryan swept .ouisiana, the returns indicating a lajority of 40,000. Provesty, a emocrat. was elected Supreme Court ustice, and Shelby Taylor, Demorat, was elected Railroad Commisloner. The Constitutional amendlent exempting 'mortgages from taxtion is believed to have passed. NORTH CAROLINA. Raleigh, N. C.?There will probbly be a reduction from the Demoratic majority of two years ago in lie State. The majority probably rill be about 40,000. Eighth and enth Congressional Districts give inications for Republican victory. FLORIDA. Jacksonville, Fla.?The election in 'lorida resulted in the usual Demoratic majority of from 18,000 to 0,000. RHODE ISLAND. Providence, R. I.?With two-thirds f the 161 precincts heard from, the gures indicated a probable plurality f 16,000 for Taft in the State. This ! about the plurality given Rooseelt in 1904. The Republican State Icket. headed by Abraip J. Pothier, andidate for Governor, has been rucessful by a smaller marein. The >egislature will be Republican. UTAH. Salt Lake City.?Returns Indicate hat Taft has carried the State of rtah by 25,000 and that the entire Leoublican State ticket is elected, 'his means the re-election of Senator moot. TENNESSEE. Nashville, Tenn.?Bryan will carry he State' by the usual Democratic lajority. about 25,000. The State (emocratic ticket is also elected by a irge vote. The Congress reprcscntaion will be unchanged. WEST VIRGINIA. Wheeling-, W. Va.?Senator N. B. cott says that Taft has carried WeBt 'irginia by 25.000. The Wheeling ntelligencer (Republican; says Tain rill carry the State by 15.000 to 18.00. Returns were retarded, but W. J. Glasscock, the Republican candiate for Governor, seemed to have oiled nearly the full Republican ote, and to have a safe margin. SOUTH CAROLINA. Columbia, S. C. ? South Carolina ives Bryan about 50.000 to 60.000 aajority. while the State and Oonress tickets are overwhelmingly Jemocratic. MARYLAND. Tlaltimorp, Md?Rpnuhlicans and )emocrats claim the State of Maryind for the national ticket, but the ate returns indicate that Taft has arried the State by 2000. In Balimore 125 precincts out of 221 give 'aft a majority of 1125. NEBRASKA. Lincoln, Neb.?Twelve country recincts outside of Lancaster and )ouglas Counties show a net Demoratic gain of four to the precinct. If his gain is maintained feryan has arried the State by a small plurality, iut returns are too scattering to inic^te anything conclusive. Comarisons are made with 1900. SOUTH DAKOTA. Sioux Falls, S. D.?Reports thus ar indicate that Taft has carried the Itate by not less than 15,000 or 20,00, that the Republicans have e'ectd their complete State ticket and lartin and Burke, their nominees for Congress. SAILORS ASHORE IN AMOY. 'reventcd by Cholera and Plague From Leaving Reception Grounds. Amoy, China.?Two thousand men f the second squadron of the Amerian fleet were permitted to land and yere served at the reception grounds , European luncheon and a Chinese linner. The presence of cholera rented parade. Old Minstrel Dead. "Bert" Haverly, the veteran mintrel, dropped dead in San Francisco. Newsy Gleanings. The Formosan Railway, 334 miles ong, was formally opened. The bubonic plague is reported to )e increasing at Terceira, Azores. Attorney-General Jackson, of New fork, has brought suit against the ?oal Trust. President Hyde, of Bowdoin Col ege, denounced the corporation laws >f Maine. The Health Department of New Fork reported a large increase in :he number of deaths from heart iisease as the result of the late fase)al! unpleasantness. _ . i F OKLAHOMA. Oklahoma City, Okla.?Bryan car, ried the State of Oklahoma by a reduced plurality over that of last year. The Legislature will be Democratic. Oklahoma will return to Congress Bird McGuire, of the First District; B. L. Fulton, of the Second District; James S. Davenport, of the Third District; Charles D. Carter, of the TTonrth Tiistrlr.t. and Scott Ferris, of j the Fifth District. The only Republican is McGuire. The Legislature I will be ninety per cent. Democratic, thus assuring the re-election of United States Senator Gore. MICHIGAN. Lansing, Mich.?Returns are coming in unsually' slow, but the indications are that Taft will carry Michigan by 100,000. The Republicans elect all twelve Congressmen. Hemans, Democrat, for Governor, has made large gains. Chairman Diekema claims the election of Governor Warner by a plurality of from 15,000 to 25,000. COLORADO. Denver, Col.?Indications are that Colorado has gone Democratic by a plurality of from 3000 to 5000. and that the Democrats will control the Legislature and elect Senator Teller's successor. Bonynge, Congressman, First District, is re-elected, as Is Haggott in the Second District. Burger, at large, is in doubt. NORTH DAKOTA. Fargo, XV. V.?L/aie maicauuua jil t.hi9 State are that Taft has carried it by 30,000. In 1904 Roosevelt's plurality was 50,000. At a late hour it seemed likely that Burke, Democratic candidate for Governor, had beaten Johnson by 5000. KANSAS. j Topeka, Kan.?Scattering returns partially counted from forty Kansas precincts indicate that Taft carried Kansas by 35,000, and that the "Republicans have elected a solid Congress delegation. The Republicans have also probably elected their entire State ticket. The heaviest vote in the State's history was polled. IDAHO. Boise. Idaho.?Meagre reports indicate Taft'a plurality here at 20,000. The entire State Republican ticket is probably elected. Grady for Governor should have 8000 plurality on the basis of present returns. VERMONT. Burlington, Vt.?The Republican nlurality fell off . 2688 from that for Roosevelt four years ago. Taft's plurality is 27,994. He has 39,488 and Bryan 11,494. MAINE. Augusta. Me.?The returns indicate that Taft carries Maine by about 30,000. against 38,191 four years ago. All Congressmen Republican. ORGEON. j Portland, Ore.?Early returns indicate that Taft and Sherman have carried Oregon by close to 30,000 votes. Complete returns from seventeen preciilcts give Taft 1422, Bryan 720. Incomplete returns, from twenty precincts outside of Multnomah County give Taft 689. Bryan 547. > OHIO. Cincinnati, Ohio.?rTaft has more than a normal Republican plurality of close to 50.000, while Harris, Republican, for Governor, was defeated. The figures at that hour were for the election of Harmon, Democrat* by 15,000. IOWA. Des Moines, Iowa.?Incomplete returns indicate that Taft has carried Iowa/ by a nlurality from 40,000 to 50,000. This is a falltnp oft from the Roosevelt plurality of 58,000 of four years a?o. The entire Republican State ticket is elected. The indications are that the# entire delegation in Congress will 'be Republican, a ! gain of one over two years ago. MINNESOTA. Sf. Paul, Minn.?Taft has carried this State by something like 100,000. John A. Johnson has been elected Governor of Minnesota on the Democratic ticket for the third consecutive time over the Republican candidate, Jacob Jacobson! INDIANA. Indianapolis, Ind.?Returns indicate that WllHam H. Taft carried the State by from 5000 to 15,000 plurality. Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic candidate for Governor, leads his Republican opponent, James E. Watson, by about 8000 votes. WASHINGTON. Seattle, Wash.?Scattered returns from every part of Washington indidicate a plurality of at least 4 0,000 for Taft and the State Republican ticket. The Legislature will );c almost wholly Republican. DELAWARE. Wilmington, Del. ? Chairman Du Pont, of the Republican State Committee, claims Delaware for Taft by 2500, and Herald, Renublican, for Congress by about the same vote. VIRGINIA. Richmond, Va. ? The Republican State Committee concedes the State j to Bryan by 15,000, but claims one Congressman. The Democratic majority in the State will probably be smaller than anticipated, probably not more than 20,000. The returns are slow. Nine out of ten Democratic Congress candidates have been elected. | JULIA A. CARNEY, POET, DEAD. She Was the Author of "Little Drops of Water" and Other Poems. Galesburg, 111.?Mrs. Julia A. Carney, author of "Little Drops of Water," translated in many languages, and "Think Gently of the Erring," found in many church hymnals, died here, eighty-five years old. She was I horn In Lancaster, Mass., on April 6, 1823, and spent her girlhood there. She taught school in Boston and Philadelphia. As a child she wrote poetry, and her first poems were published when she was fourteen. Feminine Notes. Women lypewrnura jetcno mwc than $200,000,000 ;i year in wages. Mrs.' William Thaw and her daughter, formerly the Countess of Yarmouth, rented a house in New Rochelle, N. Y. According to Human Life the Princess Andress of Greece has recently been publicly declared to be the most beautiful princess in the world. ? Miss Mary E. Cheek, of Toboso, Ohio, is the only regularly appointed woman rural mailcarrierin the State. | She has served in tbis capacity for , six years. i . ? . i WYOMING. Cheyenne, Wyo.?Complete returns from eight of the thirteen counties In Wyoming give Taft a plurality of 2760. Democratic State Chairman Stickney concedes the State to Taft by 5000. WISCONSIN. Milwaukee, Wis.?Taft and Sher* man have carried Wisconsin with a plurality estimated at 75,000, and Governor Davidson, Republican, has been re-elected by a plurality close to Taft's. Republicans have elected nine out of eleven Congressmen, the Democrats one, with the Fourth District still in doubt. The Legislature will be overwhelmingly Republican. In 105 precincts out of 164 in Milwaukee County, the vote was: Taft, 19,722; Bryan, 18,761. - The Democratic candidate for Governor carried the icounty by about 3000, whileTaft's plurality in this county is estimated at 2000. MISSISSIPPI. Jackson, Miss.?The returns indicate that Bryan carried Mississippi by a majority of over 54,000. All of the eight Democratic nominees for Congress were elected. The vote for Taft showed a slight increase over the Republican vote in the last Presl dential election. _____ t MONTANA. Helena, Mont;.?Taft carried Mon? tana by about 3000 plurality. Both branches of the Legislature will be Republican. TEXAS. Austin,Texas.?It is estimated that the total* vote cast in Texas did not* exceed 300,000. Bryan has- carried the State by probably 180,000 over Taft. The most surprising feature of the election is the phenomenal vote cast for John N. Simpson, Republican candidate for Governor. . KENTUCKY. Louisville, Ky.?Twelve counties In Kentucky outside of JefTersoc County give Bryan, 5367 plurality. The same counties in 1904 gave Parker 4314 plurality. Indications are that Bryan has carried Kentucky by a plurality of 10,000. ALABAMA. Birmingham, Ala.?The 'Democva* tic managers claim a largely increased plurality for Bryan. ARKANSAS. Little Rock. Ark.?Bryan's nlural* ity in thp St?.te will be about 25,000. Debs will poll about 10,000 votes in the State, while the other minoi: candidates will poll about 2000 each. The Republican vote has been largely increased because of the large number of nqgro voters. I / CALIFORNIA. 1 San Francisco. Cal.?The Republicans claim the State by 45,000. The State is undoubtedly safe for Taft. There was an unusually heavy vote over the entire' State. In Los Angeles Congressman James McLaughlin (Republican) is re-elected by a greatly reduced yote. GEORGIA. Atlanta, Ga.?Georgia has gone for Bryan by tbe usual Democratic majority of between 30.000 and 40,000. Thomas E. Watson, the Populist nominee, who was canvassing the State against Bryan, seems to have developed very little strength. The Indications are that Bryan will receive over 400,000 votes, while Taft, Watson, Hisgen and Chafln combined will not get over 70,000. Practically no showing was made by Hisgen and Graves, the Independence candidates. It is doubtful if they get 4000 votes in the State. NEVADA. ' , Reno, Nev.?Indications are that Bryan carried Nevada Dy a suostantial majority. NEW LADING BILL IN FORCE. Uniform Form Goes Into Effect on 416 Railroads. Chicago.?The new uniform bill of lading, approved by the Int^r-State Commerce Commission, has gone into effect on 416 railroads in the official classification territory. Hereafter every shipment of freight in the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio must be made up on the basis of the new form, unless a shipper objecting to the terms, agrees to ray ten per cent, more than the regular freight rates. JAPANESE LEAVE KOREA. Army on Dnty Since Hostilities Began Embarking For Home. Seoul, Korea.?The Thirteenth Division of the Japanese Army, after having been on duty here since the outbreak of hostilities with the Koreans, is embarking for Japan. This action is taken as significant of the termination of the trouble, although a number of irreconcilables j - - ? A ? A? /li'pi^unKonrtrtfl {n I CUIillUUt? IU UICdLC UIOIUI uauwco iu. various parts of the country. PIONEER LUMBER MAN DEAD. Delos A. Blodgett, Eighty-fonr Years j Old, Dies at Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids, Mich.?Delos A. Blodgett, for sixty years closely identified with the lumber industry of the country, di<d at his home, in his eighty-fourth year. He founded the villages of Hersey, Evart and Baldwin, Mich., and was one of the first to demonstrate the value of Northern Michigan land for agricultural purposes. UPSET LAMP CAUSES FIRE. Mrs. Mary Seip and Daughter Fatally Burned in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa.?Ethel Seip, aged . i lour yeara, retcucu uuma >tuiuii caused her death, and her mother, Mary Seip, was fatally burned In a fire which was started in their home here by the overturning of a lamp. Edward Seip, the husband and father, was watching a parade of masqueraders, and when he heard the fire engines he followed them, to find his own nome on nre. Dr. Davis Drops Dead Hunting. A telegram was received at Lancaster, Pa., announcing the death of Dr. Samuel T. Davis, a prolific writer, on October 23, In the mountain district of Mexico, while on a gunning expedition. Dr. Davis died from heart failure near Colonia-Patiico, Mexico. Servian Hostility Maintained. M. Pachitch, the Servian Premier while at St. Petersburg, Russia, with Crown Prince George, said that Servla still maintained hostility toward Austria, and if Russia refused aid would take steps to obtain her de- 1 maniia r I v [ THANKSGIVING DAY SET FOR NOVEMBER 26 President Says Life Is Wasted Which 1$ Spent Piling Up Money Heap Upon Heap. Washington, D. C.?The President issued the annual Thanksgiving proclamation in which he pointed out the ateady growth of the nation in strength, worldly power, wealth and population, and that our average of individual comfort and -well-being la higher that that of any other country in the world. For this, he declares, Americans owe it to the Almighty to show equal progress in moral and spiritual things. The proclamation follows: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. Once again the season is at hand, when, according to the ancient" custom of our people, it becomes the duty of the President to appoint a day of prayer and of thanksgiving to God. Year by year this nation grows in strength and worldly power. During the century and a quarter that has elapsed since our entry into the circle of independent peoples, we have grown and prospered in material things to a degree never known before, and not now known in any other country. The thirteen colonies which struggled along the ssa coast of the Atlantic and were hemmed in but a few miles west of tidewater by the. Indian-haunted wilderness, have been transformed into the mightiest republic which the world has ever seen. Its domains stretch across the con-" tinent from one to the other of the two greatest'oceans, and it exercises dominion alike in the Arctic and tropic realms. The growth in wealth and population has surpassed even the growth in territory. Nowhere else in the world is the average of individual comfort and material wellbeing as high as in our fortunate land.For the very reason that in material well being we have thus abounded, we owe it to the Almighty to show equal progress in moral and spiritual things. With a nation, as with individuals who make up a nation, material well being is an indispensable foundation. But the foundation avails nothing by itself. That life is wasted, worse than wasted, which is spent in piling, heap upon heap, those things which minister merely to the pleasure of the body and to the powe" that rests only upon wealth. Upon material well being as a foundation must be raised the structure of the lofty life of the spirit if this nation is properly to fulfil its great mission and to accomplish all that we so ardently hope and desire. The things of the body are good; .the things of the intellect better; but best of all are the things of the soul; for, in the nation as in the individual, in the long run, it is character that counts. Let us, therefore, as a people, set our faces resolutely against evil, and with broad charity, with kindliness and good will toward all men, bat with unflinching determination to smite down wrong, strive with all the strength that Is given us for righteousness in public and in private life. Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the 26th day of November next, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer; and on the day I recommend that the people shall cease from their daily work, and, in their homes or in their churches, , meet devoutedly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have received in the past, and to pray that they may be given strength so to order their lives as to deserve a continuation of these blessings in the future. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of .the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, tnis tnirty-nrat aay 01 ucioDer m me ; year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and .thirty-third. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The proclamation ends: "By the President Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secretary of State." KILLS TWO WHILE DYIXG. Sheriff, After Getting Mortal Wound, Fires Fatal Shots at Two Brothers. Lafayette, Ga. ? Brought to his | knees by a mortal wound Sheriff ; John Carlock continued his pistol fight with two brothers, John and Charles Henderson, and killed them hnth The Henderson brothers operated i a coal mine near here and Sheriff 1 Carlock went to the mine to serve j warrants on them for some trivial offense. When the brothers learned of the Sheriff':* mission they opened fire on him and he fell to his kness. The Sheriff drew his revolver and opened fire. John Henderson fell shot through the heart and Charles Henderson was shot twice and died in a short time. When assistance came the Henderson brothers were dead and Sheriff Carlock was dying a few feet from the men he had killed. Autoist Sentenced to Jail. i * Worcester, Mass.?Barry C. Orndorff, a son of the late T. C. Orndorff, f , of this city, who was a wealthy man- , ufacturer, was sentenced in Brighton Court to six months in the house of J correction on the charge of reckless | driving and thirty days in the house of correction on the charge of drunk- 1 enness. i ? i Old Man Killed by Auto. Frank M. Heaton, seventy-four < years old. a land claim agent, was i struck and instantly killed by the automobile of James Phillips just after ( he had stepped from a street car at Chevy Chase, Washington, D. C. | American Killed in France. Attendants on a train arriving at ' Paris from Havre reported that an 1 American, James Lowske, twenty-sis j ; years old, of New York, fell off the i train during the run and was instant- j ly killed. I .< About Nor?1 People. ! , Israel Ludlow, of New York City, j < declared spherical balloon racing un- , ] profitable. I | Captain Pritchard, of the Maure- ; , tania, will succeed Watt, of the Lusi- { tania, as commodore of the Cunard fleet. I . The will of Bishop Potter, which divided his estate among his five : children, was filed for probate in New York City. President Castro of Venezuela I threatened that, in the event of a j revolution, those captured would he < shot as traitors. i | 9 V" v- c '--v . $$ ' ; v ^ - --> <J ^yrup^ffigs ^LlixirfSenna | Cleanses the System Effectually Dispels Colasanduead*; oches due to Constipation^ v , Acts naturally, acts truly as /a Laxative. Bestj forMenVomeu an ackiii ren -^bun gcmd Old. ;HetjiOe^ficiQlE}fect? Alwovs buv ine ueaume vvrucu has Tne jiill name of the Corns pany CALIFORNIA J?o Syrup Co, ro it is manufactured.printed on Ifi3$ ji front of every package. SOLD ferALL LEADING DRUGGIST* one size only, regular price 50* pw-Dottle.> ' v'VI ^LOOKING MW" AHEAD? Hhffi If so, take advantage ^droSgjPy|^ti of today's oppor&ttEsaaxBBfn _^C*3tunltle? far the gnr^BlilgK merchant, farmer, . ' 1 V|mTNJar fruit grower ana I basin ess man along wXUmam]' the pacific Ooutv BhW extension of the Oh I'" cam. UllwaukM] I& at. Paul BaJIway. DesalpttYeBootaFre*! A W. 8. HOWELL, Q. E. A? Hew York. \ :(t-d ?#%P^ForSalet22i?? 0 *L-iJuVaiQ u Sates. Stroart mam LftMJaLM. .I&ttJ moth illustrated catalog of bar- j T^SBKvnins with State maps mailed frt*; we (ray *.?. {are. E. A. STROUT COWork's Larprt Fan? P?l?rs. 150 Mmm Sl .WwIwL Globes of Air. Galien renounced the use of wingSv which had been recommended by previous would-be aeronauts, and re- ' placed them by "globes of strbng doubled cloth, well waxed or tarred, covered with skin, and strengthened at intervals with strong cords wheiei necessary." He proposed to All these "globes" with a certain gas, lighter > that atmospheric air. Unfortunately, sound as uanen3 meury was tu prw ciple, he does not appear to have put it into practice.?Philadelphia Record. r His First Case. A young advocate was engaged in j his first case. Before he had pro- ... 11 ceeded ten minutes, with full forensic force, the Judge had decided the case in his favor and had told him bo. Despite this the^ young man would not stop. Finally the judge leaned forward,and, In the politest of tones, , said: "Mr. , notwithstanding yoqr arguments, the court has concluded to decide this case In your favor!"?Philadelphia Inquirer. ~ r Raising Tobacco in Maine. It has apparently remained for Pope GIbbs to demonstrate in his own garden, situated about a mile, L^'fl from the Soldiers' Heme, In Togus, that tobacco can be successfully " grown in Mains. Last yoar Mr. '**>% Gibbs raised about eighty pounds of tobacco from seventy-nine plants. This year he raised very nearly the same amount from only thirty-five plants, the season being much more favorable for the growth of the plant Mr. Gibbs had no difficulty In dfs- ' posing of the tobacco which he raised last year and which was generally conceded to be of excellent quality. He cured It in "his barn, which has a ventilator and where by opening the doors he was able to get v the current of air necessary for the best results, the conditions being f quite as favorable as In the best tobacco curing plants of the South. The opinion was very generally expressed last season that while Mr. GIbbs was successful in raising to- ' bacco in this State it would not be possible to mature the seed here. This year he has disproved this idea by maturing a tobacco stalk more than seven feet high with an excep- { tionally well developed cluster of seeds.?-Kennebec Journal. Called Up and*CalIed J)ovrn. Physician (answering the tele- , \ phone at 2 a. m.)?"Well?" Phoner ? "Thunderation, no! Think I'd be calling you up at this unearthly hour if I was well."?Eoston Transcript. PUZZLE SOLVED Coffee at Bottom of Trouble. It takes some people a long time to find out that coffee is hurting them. But when once the fact is clear, most people try to keep away from the thing which is followed by fiver increasing detriment to the heart, stomach and nerves. "Until two years ago I was a heavy coffee drinker," writes au 111. stockman, /"and had been all my life. I am now 56 years old. "About three years ago I began to have nervous spells and could not sleep nights, was bothered by indi-^ gestion, bloating and gas on stomach afTected my heart. "I spent lots of money doctoring? one doctor told me 1 had chronic car ^ tarrh of the stomach; another that I had heart disease and was liable to die at any time. They all dieted ine until I was nearly starved, but I seemed to get worse Instead of better. "Having heard of the good Postum had done for nervous people I discarded coffee altogether and began to use Postum regularly. I soon got better and now, after nearly two years, I can truthfully say I am sound and well. "I sleep well at night, do not have the nervous spells and am not bothered with indigestion or palpitation. I weigh 32 pounds more than when I jegan Postum, and am better every way than 1 ever was while drinking coffee. I can't say too much In praise )f Postum, as I am sure it saved my ife." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle >eek, Mich. Read "The Road to tVellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to tlm*. rhey are genuine, true, and fuir. of human interest.