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Mw One of the Saddest Chap? ters in Human History Prof. IV. I. Thomas, of the University of Chicago 8< NDER our individualistic and competitive industrial system .......o V.' il; I men are no longer able to keep their women or even their U? children, at home. Doth Mr. Booth and Mr. Rountree es I t?mate that out of a population of 40,000,000 in Great Britain, ? 12,000,000 are either under or on the poverty line. The wo ' men and even the children are "forced to work, because the present organization of society is no longer able to feed them. And just here transpires one of the saddest chapters in human history.. The machine which man invented to relieve him of labor and to produce, value more rapidly has led to the factory system of Industry, and the womeu and children are forced to follow the work td the factory. The machine is a wonderful expression of man's ingenuity, ?I-.his effort to create an artiflolal workman, to whom no wages have to be paid, but it falls just short of human intelligence:. It has no discriminative judgment, no" control of the work as a whole. It can only finish the work handed out to it, but it does this with superhuman energy. The manufac turer has, then, to purchase enough intelligence to supplement the machine, ?id he secures as low a grade of this as the nature of the machine will per mit. The child, the immigrant and the woman are frequently adequate to furnish that oversight and judgment necessary to supplement the activity of the machine, and the more ignorant and necessitous the human being the more the profit to the industry. But now comes the ironical and pitiful part. The machine which was invented to save human energy, and which ls so great a boon when the individual controls it, is a terrible thing when it controls the individual. Power-driven, it has almost no limit to its spoed, and no limit whatever to its endurance, and it has" no nerves. When, therefore, un der the pressure of business competition the machine is speeded up and the girl operating it Is speeded up to its pace, we have finally a situation in which the machine destroys the worker.-?From The Americaa Magazine. Moving O?d Landmarks ? Jh Plea for the Preservation of Familiar Faces Curtis. 5 .? * * .... I * ? + .* .> Ey David Ji. S it a fair question to ask a man why he did it, when, after he has reached middle age; or passed, he shaves off the mustache which has been a prominent feature of his face for many years? This is by no means the idle query it may seem to be. The most careless observer of humanity must have noticed that within the last ten or twelve years the fashion of wear ing the beard in any form has failed to appeal to the rising generation. No longer does the callow youth rejoice when the distinctive mark of masculinity begins its growth on his lip, chin, or cheek. The joy his father felt when dawning manhood appeared in visible form, marking the passage of adolescence, does not appeal to him. Rather does he bewail (or secretly exult in) the necessity for frequent shaving, ajid seek to avoid that which mankind has for ages regarded as a dignity and an ornament to the person. With this choice, perhaps, no reasonable iault can be found. If it seems beater to a man to be b?ardless? he can doubtless urge many reasonable ar guments in favor of his choice. But, sir, I submit that it is a vastly different matter with him who has worn his face, so to speak, in one way for a life time, and then chooses to change it, suddenly and violently. Of late elderly men have in great numbers discarded the mustache. ? As a matter of appearance merely, they are, of course, only to be pitied. The recent publication of a frightful photograph from Africa is enough .to warn any one who may delude himself with the thought that shaving will improve his appearance against yielding to the Impulse. The betrayal of physiognom ical weaknesses and worse is almost without exception a lamentable thing; and if the mirror does not tell the tale, your nearest friends will do it with unkind emphasis. But this is not the_ real grievance of the act Is it, notji foolish and a graceless thing'for a man who has wor?? one face'.for-a'ilie-time to call on his tri ends suddenly to recognize another? It is at least a suspicious thing a man to change his name. He must justify it by, good reasons, or incur ticism. Does the same rule hold, or does it not, when he changes his face? jm m. .rn w ^ A^?. it. A Jl .t. tt it iffiiltlA ?. V *W ^rv V V V V w wv vvw wv wv wv V Who Is My Brother? 1 By Ray Stannard Baker NE Sunday morning, the six?, of last December, I went to one of the famous downtown churches in New York. It was'about half filled with a fine appearing audience; the sermon was a good sermon, a poetic sermon; the minister was an able man; the music was excellent. It was all very Hrespectable and admirable-and dead. Nothing happened; I no one expected or wanted anything to happen. People had - 1 come to see their neighbors of the same limited class and to ... be seen by them, and to enjoy a half hour of intellectual stimulant. In the afternoon of that same Sunday I went to see the tuberculosis ex hibit in the American Museum of Natural History. It was thronged with peo ple; on that day 43,713 persons visited the exhibit-more people, perhaps, than attended^all the Protestant churches on Manhattan Island put together. And as I circulated among those throngs-Protestants, Catholics, Jews, rich and poor-and talked with many people-I seemed to feel a great surge of faith In the possibilities cf a newer, finer, sweeter life in New York city. With out creed, or doctrine, or church edifice, I felt that here, indeed, was the true spirit of religion. . It-may have been blind, but it was big, big; and later its blindness will pass away. It was a symbol of a new way of visiting the far therless and the widows in their affliction. One of the test questions of any true religion Is this:, "Who is my brother?" and here among a score of elbow ing races and nationalities of rich and poor, I caught the grandest of grand answers.-American Magazine. f the Magicians Gift ? By Marion Mob ley Durham HEN the Earth was young, the first tree that sprang from WI! her bosom made plaint to the magician who tended lt. "Every day, Oh, Mister, when I see you coming and going I whisper to myself; "Would that I, too, could go hither and thither, but alas! I must stay in one spot through the long day and the weary night. All things else move from place to place. The great sun rises and sets, the stars move across .the heavens, the winds come and go, the . .. . i . stream .laughs as it runs to the sea,.birds fly everywhere singing their songs, that seem to say happiness is movement^ nothing Is con tent to stand stHl.' Ob, Master, hearken to the moaning of my branches that shade you, and let me, too, go here and there over the beautiful Earth." .The magician was moved by the prayer of the tree, whose leafy crown shielded him from the sun. He blessed the tres, giving it blossoms, whose perfume should be to it as another life-a soul t hat could wander abroad on the breeze. And when the bloom Si ould fade and drop, it would leave silky pods full of seed that, bursting their sheath when ripe, should float joyously on the winds to find lodgment in the <*arth and produce yet other trees. Thus the tree lived everywhere and was happy. It gave of its honeyed hloom tc bets and butterflies and winds, thus showing more gratitude for its -fragrant soul than mortals show for the great gift of immortality.-Uncle Remus's Heme Magazine. Respectable Word. "Adventurer" is' ? word, once highly respectable, that has degenerated with the lapse of time. It was once a com pliment to call a gentleman an adven turer, and the- Merchant Venturers of Bristol. Enelandv are still . respected. The* Hudson Bay Company dates hactf'froid,May <Z,.1?10? Ip the royal barter lt was described as the "Gov ernor and Company of Adventurers .of Eaglaiid Trading in Hudson's Bay." Discouraging Computations. "Your future son-in-law has been telling me about his vast estates," said the iriind of the family. "Yes." answered Mr. Cumrox. "I wish he'd quit reminding me of them," "I should think you would be pleased1." ( "Not at all. The vaster the estates the bigger the mortgages."-Washing ton Star. TOURISTS jNJHARLOTTE End the First Week With Increasing ly Enthusiastic Receptions-Speed Excels Schedule Time-North Caro lina Wild With Joy. Charlotte, N. C., Special.-With the Stars and Stripes afloat on ceaseless breezes, emblem of the common nat ionality of the North and the South which their tour is destined to bind with closer and more enduring ties; 37 automobiles of modern make ending a six-days' journay of more than 600 miles from the metropolis of the nation somewhat weary and worn stopped Saturday evening in the me tropolis of North Carolina. The cheers of thousands of watching peo ple and the glad hand of hundreds more bade the participants in Tho New York Herald-Atlanta Journal good roads tour, en route from New York to Atlanta, welcome to Char lotte and to Dixie. In the language of Mr. W. T. Wa ters of the staff of The Atlanta Jour nal'in the story which he Sunday night wired his paper: ".If the good roads tour of The At lanta Journal and The New York Herald has been met with ovations growing more enthusiastic with each mile of southward progress until Sat urday, the receptions which were ac corded it on Saturday defy descrip tion. Nothing even half so cordial had been anticipated. Its movement on Saturday from Winston-Salem to Charlotte, 138 miles, has stirred thc whole western half of North Carolina. Its progress has been attended by such widespread and intense welcome that it seems as if nothing could equal it. Yet so it seemed on Friday. On Thursday it looked as though the high-water mark of enthusiasm had been reached. "Winston-Salem bade the tourists a rousing farewell, and passed them on through Greensboro to High Point, where all business was supended while the whole- city did honor to the dusty visitors. Thomasville indus tries and chair manufacturies gave ail their employes holiday while the tour ists were passing. Lexington feasted them upon barbecue and flattered them with an ovation that represent ed not only the city itself but the whole county of Davidson. Automo biles from Winston-Salera, thirty-two in number, met them again in Lexing ton. Other automobiles gathered at Lexington from . High Point and Greensboro. The /way of the tour to Salisbury was preceded and followed by a flying squadron of automobile escorts, and still on through Salis bury to Charlotte, where many of the unofficial visitors are remaining over Saturday night. Salisbury begged thc tour to stop a few moments and.par take of refreshments and finally com promised by putting th" . in the cars. Salisbur. ! extended the courtesies bridge over the Yadkh tourists, every official c ed with a cheer by tht China Grovel Landis, Concord and -Newell sus thing to give rousing a . passing tourists. Chai out as never before and j roads army ro}'al welcome." To the Maxwell Toy Tonneau of Marietta', Ga., belongs* the "distinction ' of achieving the best speed of the day Saturday. ; It accomplished the allot ted distance in 6 hours and 33 minu?s, j or in 1 hour and 37 minutes less than the time in which it was scheduled to cover it. A close second was fur nished by Mr. Jacques Futrelle. the well-known writer of Scituate, Mas*?., who is driving his own car and is accompanied by his wife and two children. He made the distance in 6 hours and 46 minutes-a differ ence of 16 minutes. Refreshed by the first day's rest afforded hy their lons: itinerary and, judging from their freely expressed comments? entirely delighted willi Charlotte and the entertainment of forded them here, approximately 150 automobilists journeying in 37 cars form the nation's New York to the New York of Dixie early Monday morning glided out across several leagues of the finest roads they have experienced since they left the vallev .jf the Shenandoah. For more than 36 hours they have been in a very real and manifest sense the guests of the city of Charlotte and for not one single moment has that fact been al lowed to slip from their minds. Two Dead in Duel Following a "Wed ding Frolic. i Gonzales, Tex., Special.-In a duel following a wedding frolic in the Mex ican quarter on the Henry Cardwell farm two miles north of Wrightsboro, two men met death early Sunday. There were no witnesses to the quar rel nor to thc fight. The men went about twenty steps from, the building, in which the dance was held and be gan firing at each other. Erroyo was instantly killed and his body fell across Mor?ale's. The latter lived for ' about an hour. Mine Explosion Sills Twelve. johnstown, Pa., Special.-Twelve men were killed in thc Cambria Steel Company's coal minc 2 miles from here Sunday night, as the result of what is supposed to have been a dyna mite explosion. All the dead are for eigners. Three men escaped with their lives by a,perilous climb on life ladders through' poisonous mino gas and falling slate up the walls of thc main shaft._ Death Checks Foot Ball.. West Point, N. Y., Special.-Bo- , cause of thc death cf .Eugene A. ; Byrne, of Buffalo, N. Y.f no more , football will be played by thc West , Point eleven .this year. This state ment was made hy Cel. Hugh L. Scott, superintendent of thc United ( States Military Academy, late Sunday , night, after a consultation with the . athletic authorities of thc academy on the death of young Bvrae, who cxpir- , ed Sunday morning as? a result of in juries sustained in thc Harvard game 1 Saturday. SNAPPY AND. BRIEF Items Gathered and Told While You Hold Your Breath. SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar nered From the Fields of Action at Home and Abroad. J. B.Cleveland, 33 years old, was killed at Atlanta Monday by stepping off the track of a" freight train on to the track of an unobserved approach ing passenger "train. President- Diaz expresses himself as very much pleased at meeting Pres ident Taft. He iormed a favorable impression of him ..personally and thinks the meeting- will have good political and^industrial effects. Dr. Cook is making up his party to scale Mt. McKinley next spring to show to the' world thfit.it can be done and thereby.to Offset the sworn tesi mony that he did not do it as ho claims to have done. Six persons are known to have per ished and it is believed that many others were killed in the havoc wrought by, the 'terrible wind storm that passed over the island Luzon, Philipine Islands, last week. Senator Ben Tillman refused to pay ten dollars for a plate at the Colum bia banquet to President Taft. He says if Columbia, frants the" honor of banqueting the President it should not charge up the hill to others. Six persons were killed in a recent cullission on the Pan Handle division of the Pennsylvania railroad near Collinsville, 0. . The ashes of Mrs.- Hayes, the last member of the Jefferson Davis fam ily were shipped Monday from the home cemetery in Colorado to be plac ed in the Richmond cemetery with the other members of the Davis fam ily. Mrs. Hayes' body had been cre mated when she diecu A fine fat "possum" in one side of an orange crate .whose other side was filled with taters" was put aboard the President's train at Hemp stead, Texas, for; the Sunday dinner, but unaccountably all disappeared. However another; ' ' 'possum ': ready dressed was put on'at Longwood and the "'possum" Hiring president had his feast. It is said that the British and the Boers are living) harmoniously in South Africa asj if there had never been hostilities Jbetween thoT mi - _ -~ vue xexas guards. It seems he was in front and was push ed by the press when the guard seem ed recklessly hasty in thrusting "him through the breast-"with" the modern sword bayonet. The guard was -ar rested. On account of the failure of ves sels to keep up with the Oleander, President Taft's flag ship, his sche dule was greatly broken into. The steamer Gray Eagle, of the presidential fleet, went aground near Helena Wednesday, and her cargo of officials and delegates were transfer red to the steamer Illinois. In a special election held last Tues day in Duv?ll county, Fla., the $1, 000,000 bond issue was carried. This money is to bc used in building good roads to thc county lines, connecting with roads from other counties. At Sun Dance, "Wyoming, last Sun day, Mrs. Lent Henderson was in the yard with her small child. Hearing shrieks from her two children in the house she rushed in and found them bitten by a rattle snake. While do ing for them she h?ard a faint cry from the younger child and rushed out in time to see is fall into the well where it drowned. Coming back to the two she found them ip the throes of death from the snake poison, thus losing three children in one day. The sickness among the girls thai caused the temporary closing .of the Athens, Ga., Female College, has been diagnosed as ptomaine poison from eating fish. Mrs. John Kunselman, living near Punxsutawney, Pa., could keep thu sceret no longer, though threatened with death if she divulged the secret, had her" father arrested Tuesda .or killing her mother a year agr Gen. 0. O. Howard, the ' oi the Union commanders-in th *ft war. died at his home near burlington, Vermont, Tuesday. At Denton, Md'., Mr. David Stewart found in an antiquated desk a cheek bv George Washington for $1,317. Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Mil ler at McRae, Ga., Thursday told on the stand in the trial of her father. W. A. Miller, for the murder of her sweetheart, W. Thomas Poole, the story of the killing and admitted as she wept bitterly that her relations with the young man were improper and that she was in fault of the tragedy. The organization of Georgia cotton mill men have resolved to curtail pro duction 25 per cent. Sufferagetts in London on Thurs day in resentment for not being al lowed to vote, broke bottles of acids over ballot boxes, intending to de stroy the ballots. Japan is deeply grieved over Hie assassination of Prince Ito. His rlt-nth, however, will emphasize his policies which will continue in the interests of Corea. The steamer Hestia stranded in the Eay of Fundy Monday, and six of :?er crew were picked up later barely dive. It is believed all others have perished, probably 36 persons. MR. TAFT IN NEW ORLEANS Spends Saturday and Sunday in Strenuous Program and is Tired Ont at Seeing the Sights and En joying His Glad Reception. New Orleans, Special.-President Taft arrived in New Orleans Satur day to renew old acquaintances and I to enjoy two days of the hospitality which he declared a few days ago he both 'longed for and feared." From the moment of his arrival at 12:30 p. m., on the lighthouse tender Olean der, which led a long trailing fleet of I river packets into port, the President was kept on the go until past mid night Saturday night. He ended his river trip with an ad dress before the waterways conven tion in the afternoon in which he re iterated what he said before, that he favors the issuance of bonds to carry forward every deep waterway pro ject which shalf be approved hy a competent board of engineers as prac ticable and can be shown to be neces sary to take care of the growing com merce of the sections. This address concluded, the Presi dent became the guest cf the city. He lunched with Archbishop Blenk at the latter's palace, attended two foot * ball games, had a dinner given in his honor at the Pickwick Club Saturday night and went direct from there to a gala performance of "Les Hugenots" at the French opera house. A little supper at a famous French restau rant after the opera brought the Chief Executive's busy day to a close. He thoroughly enjoyed his four and a half nights and five days on the Mississippi river. And, although he has learned much of the difficulty that must be encountered in attempting to control that powerful waterway, he seemed Saturday to be just as enthu siastic as ever in the belief that the Mississippi can be made to recognize a channel deep enough to handle all of the commerce that can be assigned to it. President Taft went to bed on his train Sunday night a thoroughly tired man. His New Orleans friends kept him on the go nearly all day long. He made two speeches during the after noon, visited the naval station and Jackson barracks, rode through the interesting old French quarter of the city and attended a sacred concert on the campus of . Tulane University. This day of. strenuousness, following the ?ctivities and entertainments of Saturday, which did not end un"til 31 o'clock Sunday morning when supper) after the opera was_concluded rain' left n, Miss., ?day. ed when 6 o'clock lined all had the nts with a as a ine drive ihro gh the old French ? section- of the city was immensely interesting to the President and he vetoed any suggestion of its curtail ; ment. The ride followed the President's attendance at the morning services ol the Unitarian church, where he heard a sermon on "Thc Interpretation of Life," by Rev. H. Elmer Gilchrist. The President was accompanied through the quarter by Prof. Alee? Fortier of thc Louisiana Historical Society, who pointed out the succeed ing places of interest. The route was first through the old Rue Royal and thence to Jackson square, which for merly was the place d'Armes and is surrounded by some fina old types of French architecture. From Jackson square the party went to thc old slave mart, to the did St, Louis Catholic cathedral and then began a journey through Esplanzade avenue and en virons. Here the President's interest was centered for a time, upon the ruins of the old Spanish barracks. It was at this point of the journey that Professor Fortier suggested that the committee had not allowed time enough to go further and the Presi dent said he did not care how long the ride required, for his interest in old New Orleans was greater than in any other feature of the day and he di i not wish to hurry. ' NEWS? GLEANINGS. The rebels An Santo Domingo cap-' lured Villa Lbbo after hard fighting. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria met the Crown Prince of Servia at Krushe vatz. Eighteen inches of rain Ceil in nine hours in the recent typhoon in Luzon, P. I. The new battleship Del?ware made a speed of 21.OS knots on her stand ardization trials. - Twenty-five persons were killed and a score injured in earthquakes at Bellput, Eelnchistan. The State Dbpartmont announce that those,who wish to ship goods to the closed ports of Nicaragua must do so at their own risk. Health Officer Doty, of New York nty, and two assistants in 510'lril? **ies vaccinated .1 045 passengers on ,ce Greek steamship Themistocles. \'resident Taft, in an address to the Interstate Inland Ways League, at Corpus Christi, Tex., declared him self in favor of a system of improv ing waterways. As President Tafe was leaving the Dallas (Texas) fair grounds Peter Richenstein, p. spectator, was fatally wounded by a bayonet wielded by a ; National Guardsman. Emperor Nicholas crossed Germany on his way io meet thc King of Italy at-Rtrcconici and was welcomed by a representative of President Fallieres cn th* French frontier. Philis Music?, of New York City, admitted that he had conspired to cheat tho Government:, hut dallied that his father knew of the frauds. He named Deputy CoilecLor Vail in his testimony. g Tho s:cretary of tho New York Ptate Beard ci Charities announced that, the gift of S 1,000.000 by a philanthropist, whose namn ls with held, will he devoted to establishing a he??a for thc aged. ? Kg Southern Colleges Crippl Probably in 6 ?c Atlanta, Ga., ' Spcial.-With one Southern college closed, the student body of another all but depleted and the work of a third seriously impair ed by the simultaneous appearance in these institutions of a strange mal ' ady apparently of an epidemic nature which for a time baffled physician's, but which is now-in two of these schools, at least-declared to be pto maine poisoning, due to the eating of impure Western meats, a serious sit uation has developed.for the consider ation of the Federal and State pure food authorities. This announcement was made here in connection with the illness of more than forty cadets at the Georgia Mili tary Academy, at College Park, eight mile from Atlanta, the majority of whom were rushed to Atlanta hospi tals, seriously ill. The other schools affected are Lagrange Female College, Lagrance, Ga., with two hundred stu dents, and the Athens Female College, Athens, Ala., with one hundred stu dents, which closed early in the week. The eating of boiled "boneless ham by the cadets of the Georgia Military Academy is believed to be directly re sponsible for the development of pto maine poisoning in that institution.' As Atlanta is the distributing center of a large section of the South, it is suggested by an official of the military school that the diseased meats found their way from Atlanta to the other A MILLION GIVEN BY ROCKfE New York, Special.-A gift of $1, 000,000 by John D. Rockefeller to fight the "hook worm disease" wa3 announced at the c.V.ce ci the stand ard Oil Company here late Thursday. A dozen well-known educators and scientists, selected in large part from institutions of learning in the South where the parasite is prevalent, were called in conference with Mr. Rocke feller's representatives at the Stand I ard Oil Company's,offices at 26 Broad I way last Tuesday, and at that meet I ing Mr. Rockefeller's desire to or ganize a commission to carry on a I campaign against the malady was dis I cussed. As a result of this discussion I of the situation the "Rockefeller Commission For the Eradication o? the Hook Worm Disease" was or ganized. The members of this commission, as selected by Mr. Rockefeller, are: Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins Universi ty; president of the American Medi cal"*Assoeiation. Dr. Simon Flexner, director of ^FFRAGETTES TRY TO DES London, By Cable.-With the evi dent intention of destroying ballots in a box at the Bermondsey by-elec tion Thursday, as a pretest against the exclusion of women from . the right of franchise, Mrs. Chapin, a suffragette, smashed a bottle contain ing corrosive acid upon the ballot box. What she accomplished was' the painful burning of some of the elec tion officers and the assurance of her own arrest. Slipping into one of he booths where perhaps a thousand ballots had Veen deposited, Mrs. Chapin drew from under her cloak a bottle in which ink had been mixed with cor-7 GOMEZ ADMINISTRATION Hanvana, By Cable.-A meeting of the national committee of Conserva tives Vas held Friday with the pur pose of deciding preparatory to the opening of Congress November 1 what the future course of the party shall be. All the speakers agreed that the administration of President Gomez wes a failure and that it was the duty of the Conservatives to aban don the policy of sustaining the gov EVIDENCE ACCUMULATES i New York, Special.-Extracts from letters written by officials of the American Ice company to agents and customers were read in court Wed nesday as evidence that, the company was guilty of illegal monopoly in its dealings with independent producers and retailers. "Our opponents arc steadily weak ening and are very much worried," wrote Presideut Otar to R. F. Hop kins of the Boston Icc company in June, 1904. according to one letter "Thc icemen here arc sick unto death and fuH of anxiousness." was an ex WHITE SL?V?RYTS SAID T< New York, Special.-Jeremiah W." Jenks, professor of political economy al. Cornell, gave out. a statement here in which he says that "white sla-i very" docs exist in New York as j charged by a recent anti-Taramanv magazine article bu!, he does not hold any political organization responsibe for the traffic. Prof essor .1 inks, who was a member of the commission ap pointed by Congress to investigate OIL COMPANIES ?R?"c?MIN Austin, Tex.. Special.---Judge Cal iioiui of. the district court hero Wed nesday entered an order assessing thc Security Oil company with penalties of $50, a day from July 23, 1A03, to November 6. 1907, when an injune-, tion was issued, stopping an alleged violation of the antitrust laws. Thc line a^regatcs $75,000. Thc charier was canceled and thc company per petually enjoined from doing busiuessj In thc State. The Navarro Ecfiubg company wasj ? cd by Ptomaine Poison, oneless Ham. institutions affected. "It is an alarm ing situation, " he added, "and calls for a vigorous investigation by the ?authorities who have supervision over the food supplies which are shipped into Atlanta from the packing, cen ters." At the Georgia Military Academy a number of the cadets ate heartily of the boiled ham Saturday and Sunday. Two sons of President Woodward were the first taken ill, and a score or more were complaining Monday morning. Tuesday forty-three ?were violently ill, necessitating the remov al of most of them to Atlanta hos pitals, after-the college infirmary was filled to capacity. The afflicted boys were first stricken "with chills, follow-, ed by vomiting with pulse low and temperature sub-normaL This con dition continued, with severe head aches and pains in the muscles and limbs developing on the third day. Five of the boys have recovered sufficiently to go to their homes, while twenty-five are still in local hospitals and eight in the college infirmary. Several others are confined to their rooms. The student roll at the military academy shows an attendance of 165. The school will not close down, the authorities believing that the present situation is well in hand and are not apprehensive of the development of further cases of the illness. The temperature of the patients in the. local hospitals is stated to range between 100 and 104 , although the condition'Of no one of them is con sidered serious. LLER TO FIGHT HOOK WORM Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re search. Dr. Charles W. Stiles, chief of the division of zoology, United States public heahh -and marine hospital service, and discoverer of the Ameri can species of hook worm, and tho prevalence of the disease in America. Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia. Dr. David E. Houston, Chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis,. Mo. - Prof. P. P. Claxton, professor of education in the University of Tennes see. Mr. J. Y. Joyner, State Superin tendent of Education in North Caro lina, and president of the National Educational Association. Mr. Walter H. Page, editor of The World's Work. Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal Hamp ton Institute. Mr. Frederick T. Gates, one of Mr. Rockefeller's business managers. Mr. Starr J. Murphy, Mr. Rocke? feller's counsel in benevolent matters.. Mr. John D. Rockefeller. Jr. TR.OY BALLOTS WITH ACID1 rosive acid, and before she could be stopped hurled the bottle upon tho* box. It broke into many pieces and the acid splashed upon the election officers. A number of these were so severely injured as to require medical atten tion. About the same time a similar out rage was attempted at another boot!?: by a young girl who wore the suf fragette colors. In the latter instance little damage was done beyond thc burning of the finger tips of the elec tion officials who removed the bits of broken glass. So far as could be as certained not much acid reached thc hallots in either dfce._ IS ADJUDGED ? FAILURE ernment which hitherto they had fol lowed for the purpose of giving it a fair trial and to begin an active anti administration campaign in Congress and the press. A resolution to this effect was unanimously adopted. It is rumored that President Gomez probably will attempt to placate the Conservatives by offering them posi tions in the Cabinet in which already there are two vacan ri cs._ AGAINST THE ICE TRUST tract read from another letter sent hack Mr. Olar to Walter Lee, man ager of the company's Pennsylvania branch, three months later. "I think wc are in a position to expect our ad vice to be heeded and our directions followed," the same letter continued. The State's attorneys began presen tation of evidence to show that the American Ice company, in order to enforce famine prices, "put the knife* into the Maine ic? industry, keeping the crop down to a minimum and al lowing most of its ice houses in Maine to rot and fall down."_ 3 EXIST IN NEW YORK CITY immigration conditions, says in par' r "I have no knowledge as to wheth er the traffic is greater in New York? than in Paris. However, I believe it is greater in New York than else where in the United States. Because,, first, New York is the largest city; second, because it is the chief port of entry. Women imported for immoral purposes for Chicago and Searle* largely come through New Ycrk antZ many of the dealers are here. ._/_ G TO JUDGMENT IN TEXAS penalized -$50 daily from October 12R 1907. to November 6, 1907, amounting to $1,300.' This charter was also cauV celed and the company ousted. Guy Collett of Austin, was appoint-r received for both companies with* instructions to advertise the proper ties fer sale on December 7. A judg ment for $60,00' against thc Standard Oil compauy of Indiana will be en forced in garnishment proceedings* against the" Gulf, Colorado & Santa FA railroad.