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Reprinted from an article by Theodo arrangement with The Outlook, of whl Editdr. Copyright. 1910. by The Outlot Gen. Leonard Wood has Just re turned from South America to take up his duties aa chief of the general staff of the United States army, the highest military position which the service af fords. Nearly 12 years ago, when Leonard "Wood was acting as governor of Santi ago, I wrote in the Outlook about what he had already achieved, and what he could be trusted to achieve. During the intervening 12 years he has played a very conspicuous part among the men who have rendered signal service to the country by the way in.r?hi?b they have enabled lt tb grapple with the duties and responsibilities- in curred by the Spanish war. What has been accomplished in the Philippines,' In Cuba, in Porto Rico, in Panama, and in San Domingo during these 12 years represents a sum of achieve ment of which this nation has a right to be extremely proud. !n each locall ?> ty the problem has been different, in each locality lt has been solved with: signal success. Of course there have been mistakes and'shortcomings, but on the whole it would be difficult to find anywhere a finer record of suc cessful accomplishment This record is primarily due to the admirable qual ity of the men put at the head of af fairs In the different places. Messrs. Taft. Luke Wright, Smith and Forbes. Messrs, Hunt. Winthrop. Post and Col ton. Governor Magoon. Colonel Goeth . als-to these and their colleagues and subordinates the' country owes a heavy debi of obligation. Most of those I have mentioned are civilians. Colonel Goethals. ' under jtfhoih the gigantic work of the Pana 'ma.canal Is being accomplished, with literally astounding rapidity and suc cess, is a representative of the army. The share of the army in the ' honor . roll ls very large. The importance of work like that of General Bell in the Philippines, of General Barry In Cuba, can hardly be overestimated: but, as a whole, of all the work of the army officers, the greatest in amount, .ind the greatest in variety of achieve ment, must be credited to General Wood. And.^ moreover, he has at I times combined with singular success the functions of civil administrator and military commandant The part played b,y the United States In Cuba ha? been one of the most honorable ever played by any nation in dealing, with a weaker powe'rj pne of the most <ratisfactory. In all respects; aud to General Wood more than to any other one man la due the credit of starting thlB work and conducting-it to a suc cessful conclusion during the earliest and most difficult years. Like almost ali of the men mentioned, as wejl.as . their colleagues, General Wood of course Incurred the violent hatred of many dishonest schemers and un scrupulous adventurers, and of a few ts TOO MUCH HANDSHAKING? Other Ways of Greeting Friends That Are* Much Preferable, Accord ing to Writer/ [ Although a few have' suffered the unpleasant experience of the man In the case recently reported, the bones of whose bands were forced out of . place by the vise-like grasp of a too vigorous and unduly demonstrative friend, most people will be inspired by their personal recollections to sympa thize with this victim of a misdirect . ed ardor. Everyone knows people who seek lo express the sincerity pnd ear nestness of their good-will by squeez ing the hand they take as though they were trying to break every one of the score or so o' bones which the human hand comprises, and every one on such occasions must have wished that some other form of salutation than the one most in vogue had been de vised and ?were generally practiced. Shaking) hands ia a relic of barbar ism anyhow. It became tbe custom In the days when every one carried a dagger In his belt and when one friend meeting another thought it necessary to attest the peacefulness of his in? tentions by extending an open palm: Then the other man 'could do no less ' than make a similarly reassuring dem' ons trat Ion and the grasp of these two extended hands naturally followed. Subsequently, by a logical process of evolution the handshake grew to be the conventional form of greeting and the refusal of a proffered hand was regarded as one of those insults whpse dishonor can only be. wiped out; with blood. Now the custom is ton firmly and widely established for its abandonment to be 'conceivable, and ' : Bird'? Powerful Voice, , . There.-is a bird known as the naked throated bell bird, that bas such a powerful voice that it can he beard three miles away. It is loud and piercing and baa been likened to the aound produced by ft blacksmith ftrffrfaft-an anvil... Gastronomic Prix? Medalist The man who Invents a noiseless method of eating corn on the cob, and points out bow one can partake of watermelon without betting bis ear? wet. will 2* a true benefactor. . . A Warning. Love's young dream appears to have met with an interruption somewhere, Judging from the following pathetic warning "ad.** in the Auckland Herald of a recent date: "O. D.-No; father's borne-V, R."-New Zealand Free Lance. paper Belting an Improvement Paper belting, Instead of leather, ls ? made in England, the claim for lt be ling that it ls stronger than leather. .C7?M not stretch and it lesa subject to climatic changes. .eonard Woud re Roosevelt In The Outlook, by special ch Theodore 'Roosevelt le. Contributing >lc Company. All Rights Reserved. more or less well-meaning persona who were misled by these schemers and adventurers: but it is astounding to any one acquainted with Hi facts to realize, not merely what, he accom plished, but how he succeeded in gain ing the goodwill of the enormous ma jority of the men whose good will could be won only in honorable fash? ion. Spaniards and Cubans. Christian Filipinos and Moros. Catholic eccle siastics and Protestant missionaries in each^ case the 'great majority of those whose opinion was best worth having-grew to regard General Wood as their special champion and ablest friend, as the man who more than any others understood and sympathized with their peculiar needs and was anxious and able to render them the help they most .needed. ) His administration was as signally successful in the Moro country as in Cuba. In each case alike lt brought In Its train peace, an Increase in material prosperity, and a rigid adherence'to honesty as the only policy tolerated among officials. His opportunity for military service has not been great, either in the Philippines or while he was the governor of Cuba. Still, on several occasions he was obliged to carry on operations against hostile tribes of Moros, and In each case be did his work with skill, energy, and efficiency: and. once It was done, he showed as much humanity In dealing with the vanquished as he had shown capacity to vanquish them. In our country ther? are some kinds of suc cess which receive an altogether dis proportionate financial reward; .but in no other country is the financial re ward so small for the kind of service done by Leonard Wood zn? by the 'other men whose names I have given above. General Wood is an army offi cer with nothing but an army officer's pay, and we accept it as a matter of course that he should have received practically no pecuniary reward for those services which he rendered in positions not such as an army officer usually occupies. There ls not- an other big country in the .world where he would not have received a sub stantial reward such as here no one even thinks of his receiving. Yet. aft er all. the rpward for which he most cares Is the opportunity to7 render service, and this o? ortuntty has been given him once and again. He now stands as chlef-of-staff of the 'Ameri can army, tte army In which he was serving Tn a subordinate position as surgeon 13 7?ars ago; His Tise bas been astonishing, and it has been due purely to bl3 own striking qualifica tion and striking achievements. Again and again be has rendered great serv ice to the American people; and ho will continue to render such service In the position he now holds. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. yet there an*various things about.lt which render it unsatisfactory. . Rather surprisingly it has thus far escaped the denunciations of the doc tors, who have spared no little else, aa a possible occasion for the communi cation of. Injurious microbes, but one does not have to be a President of the United States, nor even a popular poli tician engaged In a canvass for votes, not sometimes to have wishel that the handshaking habit had never been contracted. There are so many ways of shaking hands that are objection able and there are so many different kinds of hands whose touch communi cates a sensation.not exactly pleasant. Hands that are too hot or too cold, too moist or too dry, or whose inert ness communicates an uncomplimen tary sense of indifference 06 the part of their possessors. Every one Is familiar with the hand shake in which all the shaking haa to be done by the party of the first part. In which the hand one grasps lies limp and lifeless In one's own, to be taken or left, to be squeezed or let drop, as one pleases, while the atti tude of the owner suggests an ab-o lute lack of interest in the proceed ings. Behold, that also is van ty-end vexation of spirit So is the question which recurrently arises, and which lt may be suspected is the source of mv-ch secret embarrassment, the ques tion of to shake or not to shake. Etiquette has its rules for this, but no rules etiquette can formulate will cover every case that may arise, and to determine the right thing may not always be easy. It will be seen that the Chinese plan has its advantages. The China man you meet does not shake your hand. He bows and shakes.his own.-. Philadelphl?. Inquirer. . Peculiar Trick of; Lightning. Lightning, played a i curious trick with a'funeral procession near Limo ges, recently. It struck the church and burned the altar cloth. Outside the church a girl wai killed and four bear ers of the coffin were knocked down. Wonderful Flight of Dragon Ply. The dragon fly can speed through the air at the rate of 60 miles an hour and more wonderful still, can stop instantaneously In Its flight or move backward or sideways without changing the position of Its body. Some Blast. Something like a blast took plaee at Bonawo quarries the other day when upward of 400,000 tons of gran ite was displaced. The face of the rock was 300 feet high and the pow der was located 80 feet from the quar ry floor. Cedar for Lead Pencils. Seven hundred thousand tons ot American cedar are used annually by the lead pencil manufacturers of Nu remberg. Germany, says our consul there. IN OLD SOUTH CAROLINA Cream of the News Gathered From All Sections of the Commonwealth For Our Many Readers. The River ?nd Harbor Projects. The United S'fcatcs engineers de partment ait Charleston is a busy I place these days with the prelimi nary work for the various river and ihiarbor projects which were provi ded for at the last session of the Congress and- in which there is much general interest over the Statee and whose" successful prosecution is now an issue in the election of some of 'the congressmen with the drafts men, printers and clerks busy, there will be even busier times when the preliminary examinations will have been held which are generally fixed for August 30 and towards this end the engineer's department is now addressing circular letters to various persons who may be thought to be in a position to furnish infor mation regarding thesa projects and desired by the government for the final determination of the question oi their prosecution. V. 1 "Hundreds of: these circulars were mailed to various -places,. covering work on the following proposed pro jects: 1. Charleston harbor, with view of securing a depth of 30 feet. 2. Waterways from Orangeburg to Charleston, including cut-off or ca nal from the Edisto river to the Ashley river, with a view to provide a more direct route between said cities than that orded by existing channels. 3. W*terw.. . rom Columbia and Camden to Charleston, including cut off or canal from the Stantee river by anv existing or proposed route to the Cooper river or Wando river and any of their tributaries between said c?bles than tha t - afforded by existing waterways. 4. -South Fork Edisto river to Guiignard's 'landing. 5. Great Pee Dee river at Gibson, with a view to aid navigation. 6. Salkechntchie river i.o Morris crossing. 7. Archer's crcek. The circular letters in every eas*, invite ? full prese??ation of views for the proposed projects, to be. giv en hi Avniting on or before Aug. 30. President Will Sail From Charleston It seems to be settled that thc r.wsident will sail from Charkston in November on his trip to Panama. It is likely the President will sail on one of the armored cruisers of the Atlantic fleet and perhaps a second crui?er will be sent alon? as a convoy and for use in case of emergency. South Carolina Summer Capital. For the next three weeks Green ville will be the summer capital of South Carolina. Governor Ansel is there for his vacation and State af fairs will be directed from the Har ris residence on Pendleton street. . Reduction on Lumber Rates. The rate on lumber over the prin cipal railroad lines of the State was. reduced by 10 per cent for all haul3 as a result of a circular issued by the Railroad Qnamission. There is a much greater reduction for short hauls. This means a saving of many thousands of dollars annually for the lumber dealers of the State. The rate is applicable on the Southern railway, Blue .Ridge, Atlantic Caro lina, Seaboard Air Line, Columbia, Newberry & Laurens road and the Chesterfield & Lancaster. These roads operate about 80 per cent of the mileage of the State. The new rate is on car-load lots of 24.000 pounds and the rate breaks every five miles, up toi00 miles. The new rate becomes effective Sept. 30 of this year. Railroad, Telephone and Telegraph At the meeting of the State Board of Assessors ' at Columbia Tuesday they will consider assessments on rail road property, telegraph and tele phone companies, palace cars and street railways. The board consists of the following: The Comptroller General, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the State Treas urer and the chairman of the Rail road Commission of this State. Shrinors Preparing for Big Time. The Shriners say 1,000 'of their nobles will attend the presentation of Ben Hur on a spectacular scale, which is bein? arranged .by the Shri ners at the Columbia theatre Nov. 24 as the big feature of the Shriner's convention Nov. 21-24. A committee consisting of C. B. Simmons, of Columbia, on behalf of the Shriners; Manager Fitz Hugh Lee Brown, of vhe Columbia theatre and Secretary A. McP. Hamby, of thc Columbia chamber of commerce, is at work to secure from the rail roads a flat rate for the occasion like that which is extended for the State fair. Passed Old R. R. Ticket for $5. Hubba-d Burns, colored, is in jail at Anderson in default of bond for his appearance to answer to a charge of obtaining money bv false pretense. He is charged with passing an old C., C. 'and G Railroad ticket, bearing date 1873, on another negro, for a $5 bill, getting change in silver. The new owner of the note tried to pay for a luach at a restaurant with the "paper" and this fact led to Burn's arrest. Burns has the appearance of being a pretty shrewd negro Mr. James Henry Rice Promoted. James Henry Rice, Jr., the secre tary of the South Cnroflina Audubon Society, has been appointed field agent of the National Audubon So ciety. The official notice of his op pointinent was received from T. Gil bert Pearson, secretary of thc na tional association. The appointment is for five months and may be re newed at the end of the year. The new work will not interfere with the duties of Mr. Rice 06 S?tale secre tary. INTERESTING STATE NEWS Column of Current Events Caught In Every County Front Coast to . Mountain.. Cap. Fut Hampton in '.'Hall of Fame." "The fondest hope oz my' life."? said Col. U. Ri F>rooks, clerk cf the supreme cc-urt and a distinguished veteran, "is to sea the statue of Wade Hampton placed in the hall of fume in Washington. John C. Cal houn represents the civic side of South Carolina and Gen. Hampton represents the military side." Col. Brooks thinks the statue should be .placed by the State legis lature through an appropriation. In speaking of the statue Col. Brooks said: "Let me say a word re garding rhe greatest \of later day Carolinians. I want to see his statue in the hall of fame at Washington. While the State has; already dis charged, in part, her debt of grati tude to him by building a monument on the State house grounds, there is yet something more to be done. In the hall of Fame at Washington each State is entitled to'place statues-to two Of its most "distinguished dead. One of the two niches assigned to South Carolina has been filled with the statue of 'her greatest statesman. John C. Calhoun. New, I would sug gest, and urge it upon the legislature of the State that the other niche be given to Wade Hampton, South Car olina's most distinguished soldier. His ?-tatu?, more than that of any other, is entitled -to the place. His effigy would be a fit compauion piece to that of * Virginia's, peerless sol dier, the immortal Lee." Colored Boy's Sister Roba Him. John Taylor, a ten-year-old negro boy from Anderson, who was ar rested in Atlanta Wednesday morn ing on charge of appropriating a bicycle, secured the sympathy of the court by a marvelous; tale of lost wealth. John declares that he came from Anderson to Atlanta on last Thurs day. He was accompanied by his sis ter -and they had with them nearly $1,500, which they had found in a trunk in their home several months ago on the death of their father. John says that both:.his father and mother worked" all,-their lives and saved their money. When the money was found;- so he claims, his sister gave him $500, but on their arrival, there, she told 'him to.turn the money'" over to her so that she might put it in the bank. The sister went to the "bank" and never returned-since'that time John has been sleeping in wagon yards and vacant lots. Recorder Pro Tem Preston ordered the boy to the Carrie Steel Orphan home, while Probation Officer Gleer investigated his story. 3,000,000 Pounds Less Tobacco Sold. As a result of the heavy rains which caused a late season in the Pee Dee section of the State, .over 3,000, 000 pounds represents Jhif decrease in sales for the first month of the to bacco market, according to a report issued for July by'the State Depart ment of Agriculture." The total sales for July on the floors of 26 ware houses in 13 markets were 2,344,780 pounds, which was sold for $119, 639.89. The total sales for July of last year were 5,337,474, which was valued at $237,876.95. There are 26 warehouses in the State, located at Conway, Darling ton, Dillon, Florence, Kdnstroe, Lake City, Latta, Loris, Manning, Manion, Mullins, f Nichols, Timmonsville. There was a decrease of two in the number of warehouses. The largest number of pounds to be sold was at Lake City, there being 511,290 pounds placed on the market for $23,124.60. Although there were nearly 100,000 more pounds sold at Lake City than at Timmonsville, the value of the Timmonsville sales were over $2,000 greater. An Interesting Discussion. In view pf recent. arrests on the authority of the Act of the General Assembly, passed at the 1910 session of-the- General Assembly, making it a misdemeanor to issue a check With no funds in the bank, there has arisen some interesting discussion among the. legal talent with regard to the con struction of the Act. Some seem to think that a man has thirty days to make the oheck good Colored Man Meets Unusual Death. A negro sawyer, Joe Singleton, was killedi in -aj? unusual and horri ble manner at a saw mill in Sumter on Monday morning. He was running what is known as a "rip-saw" and while in the act of sawing off the edge of a board, the strip was thrown back, striking Singleton ??: in - the eye. penetrating into his head, and coming out on the side. Singleton was' hurried to the Sum ter Hospital where an operation was performed in the hopes of saving his life, but he" died within a few minutes after the operation. Miss Tillman Goes Abroad. Miss Ix>na Tillman, daughter of Senator Ben Tillman, left on the Lapland of the Red Star Line, Satur day to join friends in Munich and spend several months abroad. "My father is greatly ^improved, " Miss Tillman said, "and, although he is not as strong as we would like to see him, he is able to walk and to work on the farm from daylight till dark. He has gone in for farming and is crazy about it, and would lots rather farm than play polities"" Earl's Death of Concern in S. 0. Augustus Arthur Percival, eighth earl of Egmont, died ?last week in London. He was born in 1856. Before succeeding to the title of the Earl of Egmont, he was *in such financial straits that for several years he corned his living as a mem ber of a London fire brigade. He was the caretaker of the Chelseatown hall, when the death of a distant cousin gave him the earldom. In 1881 he married Kate, the daughter of Warwick Howell, of South Caro lina, i THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD The Heart of Happenings Carved From the Whole Country. For annoying a womah in a New Fork subway train, John Clancey, a telegrapher, was committed to tihe workhouse for six months by Magis trate Breen, in Mis West Side Court. ApipMcamion of the ."grandfather clause" was made for the first time in a gas franchise election a;t West ville, Okla., and it .proved to be hard on tb? negroes. Only three of 100 negroes passed the educational test w-hioh the clause requires, the elec tion judges reported. The tax returns for Georgia when complete will show a gain of $40, 000.000 for the year. . Under on agreement of attorneys the Porter Charlton case has been po.stpoc_ed until September 20. Turner Browning, aged 115, accord ing to most authentic records, died ai Durham, N. C. The Alabama divisi?n of'the Na tior "led Cross bas been .organized w?... ^ov. B. B. Comer as presi dent. Tyrus Cobb, the base ball idol,' is valued at $50,000 by the managers of the-Detroit team, with which he plays under the usual contract. Advices from Costa R,ica say there was a severe fliurricane Last week on the Atlantic Coast, destroying a million banana trees, worth more than $1,000,000 and belonging principally to tihe United Fruit Company, j Robert Tii'it Payne, president of the American Peace Society and widely known as a philanthropist, died at his home at Waltham, Mass. AU franks and half-rate certificates have been called in by the Postad and West om Union Telegraph Companies. Governor Patterson, of Tennessee, has commuted the sentence of Mar cellus Reinhart, the Montgomery county Night Rider, to life imprison ment. Rednhart was convicted of the murder of Rufos Hunter and sen tenced to death. About 15 additional day schools have been established in various parts of the country since July 1 a/nd half a dozen more will be organized before the fall term begins. State and county officials are being urged to open tihe white schools to the In dian children. Children in play poured water down the throat of Ralph, the 4-year-olc son of J. A. Juan, of Calmar, Iowa, and the little fellow only lived an hour. The water went into his lung? and he was drowned. Duriug the month of July 52,727 citizens of foreign lands entered the port of New York and of this number the Ellis Island records class 12, 985 os illiterate. The number bar red was 1,127. The imndgranfe brought $1,537,794 in money. Material reductions are made in the freight rates on cottonseed from points on the Central of Georgia Railroad, and Jacksonville, Fla,, bj order of the Inter-State commerce Commission in connection with a de cision handed down in the case ol the Florida Cotton Oil Company against the Central of Georgia Rail road and other carriers. Only 30 generals of the Confederate forces, one lieutenant geenrol, foui major generals and 25 brigadier gen erals now survive, according to e statement by Gen. Marcus J. Wright, who has been an agent for the wai department in the collection of mili tary records since 1872. . Further competition with the Vir ginia-Carolina Chemical Company in Columbia, S. C.', territory is promised tihrough the commissioning of tho Congaree Fertilizer Company with an initial capitalization of $100,000 to build a large mill at Columbia. Mrs. John Hanan, a well-known society woman, of New York, frankly admits that she was in the Narra gansett Club on the occasion 'of \the anti-gambling raid Sunday, and she is1 the only person yet found who hos admitted os much. For the first four months of the fiscal year Canada's revenue shows an increase of $5,600,000 over th? same period 'last year. Cavalieri, as she remained on the stage, an Italiau, and of lowly origin, is declared the most beautiful of present day singers. Only 12 years ago she worked for a small pittance folding papers in a printing office in the city of Rome. S'he married mil lionaire Chanler of New York. The Allegheny County, Maryland, Commissioners made the first .".ward under the new Miners' Relief law. which originated with former State Senator David J. Lewis, to Mrs. Eliz abeth Hosken, widow of James Hos ken, who was killed in Mine No. 7 of the Consolidation Coal Company, Maj 13 last. She received $1,500. Expert engineers have recommend ed to the Italian Government tihat the famous loaning tower of Pisa be torn down and re-erected on a bette* foundation. The tower was built in 1154. It is of white marble, 188 feet in height. The inclination from the top to tihe base is 16 feet. Joe Gant, better known as Jo? Gans, ?he retired fighter who was' once chaimipion light-weight pugilist of the world, died at Baltimore of tuberculosis at the home of his foster parents. The old master of the bat tling game went gamely to his fate. G?ns was conscious until naif an hour before he died. The ex champdon spoke his last words to Kid North, the California fighter, who ?helped condition him for most of his championship battles. Mr. F. E. Varnedoe. a prominent planter residing near Cordell, Ga?, is exhibiting several ears of corn that measure 17 inches in length, and are fully matured. The man who, in 1860, stampeded the National Republican convention for Abraham Lincoln bv bolting the caucus after the New York delega tion 'had pledged to cast its vote foi William H. Seward, is dead. John B. Allen passed away at the ?home of this daughter, Mrs. J. H. Travers, Mount "Vernon, Tuesday, at the age of 96. ; FAMILY DIE AT AGE OF 29. Strange Coincidence That Followed Tenth Georgia Victim. Atlanta, Ga., 'Special.-Frederick W. Cooper died here Friday, his death being remarkable been use 'it occurred in his twenty-ninth year. That was the. age at which hi3 father anni eight of his father's broth ers all died. Illness, and not acci dents, were the cause of these dearths. Cooper became uneasy as Iiis 'twenty-ninth year approached ?ts half way mai'k, a presentment seem ed to come to him and he said. ?A-ea? ing of/his thiriieth birthday next January: "If I con oo'.v live until then, why, I'll live lc be a thousand " A ?hort 'time ago when Cooper was taken sick with typhoid, the inevi table brooding over the fate of his father -and his uncles 'hastened the progress of the disease. He died wihile his near relatives were too far away -to be summoned to his bedside. His mother, Mrs. M. J. Cooper, has returned from Europe on the steamer St. Paul, landing in New York, and his sitser, Miss Katherine Cooper, is in Paris. Cooper was prominent ?here, a member cf the Capitol City Club and connected with a large cotton firm. He was born in New York. Saloons For Bluefields. Bluefield, W. Va., Special.-By a vote of 3 to 2 the State supreme oe wi at Charleston decided that Bluefield shall have saloons. The case went up on appeal from the county court which refused to grant saloon licenses although the city authorities had granted them. Criticises Northern Negro. Washington, Special. - "Thirty cents" is what W. E. Stewart, a negro financial agent of the Arkan sas- Baptist College, at Little Rock, Ark., said he had gotten from an appeal to the Colored Preachers' Alli ance of Washington, for assistance for lus college. Stewart came to Washington, it is said, to attend the memorial services for Rev. George W. Lee, pastor of a Vermont avtnue church, and duning a meeting of ne gro preachers was asked to make a speech. He told of tho condition of the negro race in the South and said the negro 'had many white friends there, as in the North. He protested against 'negroes condemning Southern white people because of sporadic in cidents like the recent lynchings at Palestine, Texas. He concluded with bis, appeai for funds for his college. "My appeal resulted in a donation of 30 cents," Stewart said. "If this is a measure of the sympathy felt by the negroes of the North for the negroes of the South, I say they had better attend to their own business instead of sending telegrams to Gov ernors and sheriffs of the Southern States expressing their indignation at the lynching of negroes. Their reso lutions of sympathy are meaningless to us." IV . Railroad Employees as Talkers. Chicago, Special.-Passengers trav eling over many of the leading rail road systems soon may be entertain ed en route by dissertations from the conductors and other train employes on the advantages to be derived from allowing the roads to advance freight rates, if the advice of prominent rail way executives to their employes is followed. . A pamphlet is circulating now among the 40,000 employes of the Illinois Central to study the railroad qufstion and disouss among them selves until they are thoroughly con versant with the actual conditions .from the financial viewpoint. Hav ing done this each employe is urged to try to convert during the course of a year three or four men wi o are now opposed to the railroads. Rate Advance on Stock Suspended. Washington, Special.-Proposed advances in the freight rate ol! live stock of 21-4 cents a hundred pounds between Missouri river and Missis sippi river points which wer?: to have become effective August 15, will be suspended pending an inquiry by the interstate commerce commission into the reasonableness of the in creases. Collar Stay Causes Big Fire. Portland, Ore., Special.-The little device utilized by women to hold up their lace collars-ra piece of cellu loid about two inches long, and a quarter of an inch wide, worth five cents the half dozen-cost the Unit ed States Laundry Company a fire loss here of $90,000 and imperiled 200 laundry workers. The collar stay had been left un noticed in a woman's waist, which, with hundreds of similar garments, had been placed in the dryroom in the basement. The waist was hung! close to the super-heated pipes that lined the room. Suddenly the celluloid ex ploded and the room was in flams, Immigrants Pouring Into America. Washington, Special.-Commission er-General of Immigration Keefe has made public a statement of the immi grant aliens admitted into the United States during the fiscal year er-ded Junfc 30 las*? arranged according to racial characteristics. The largest number from any one country were natives.of the south of Italy, of whom 192,673 were admit ted, in addition to 30,780 from North ern Italy. Population of a Few Cities. Washington, Special.-Camden, N. J., has a population of 94,538, ac cording to figures issued by the Census Bureau. . This is an increase of 18,603, or 24.5 per cent, over 1900. Evansville, Ind., has a population of 69,647, an increase of 10,640, or 18 per cent, over 1900. The 'population of Akron, Ohio, is 69,067, an increase of 26,339, or. 61.6 per cent, over 1900. Colorado Springs, Col., bas a popu lation of 29,078, an increase of 7,- ? 993, or 37.9 per cent, over 1900. J CAPITAL FACTS. Interesting News Gathered ?a the District of ?oiumbia. THE AMERICAN CONGRESS. Personal Incidents and Important Happenings of National Import Published for the Pleasure and In formation of Newspaper Beaders. Child Labor Law a Success. v The successful operation of the District's Child Labor law is indi carte d dn a report made by Girarles C. Estes, a police officer, who was de tailed to supervise the enforcement' of the law. . He say? that, there ba? been very little trouble resulting from the law, and that under its pro visions advancement has been made* 130 business firms having disoontiira 3d -the employment of children under 16 years of age. Records quoted sn the report show 377 places of busi ness employing 510 children under 16 during the year ending July 1. Newsboys ' badges were issued to ly . 987 lads, and onily 18 boys were'ar rested for selling things on the 'street after 10 o'clock P. M., in violation, of the law. "We had little or no trouble wi?h> the boys selling papers" on the street after 10 o'clock at night," Mr, Estes reported, ? ''and no trouble at ail with r ''6 coming and going into saloons.''; Union Members Request Union LabeL Central Labor Union members i are making a canvass of Washington\ for the purpose of inducing, merchants to carry in stock goods and merchandise bearing the union label. The work is said to be preliminary to plans to be followed by a committee, which will be appwnted later. First Postal Bank in Washington. The first postal savings bank wiB 1 probably be established in Washing ton, where ii will have the close su pervision of the Board of Trustees of the Postal Savings Banks System, composed of the Posfeaster-GeneraL Attorney-General and Secretary of the Treasury. ; . I Successful Battle Against .Boll Werfl. Washington, Special.-The efforts of 'the department of agriculture ai-. Washington, supplemented by thee* of the State departments, in the line of destroying the boll-weevil, have be-^ gun to bear substantial fruit, accord ing to the census reports of the cot ton crop. . "Especially favorable condition? have existed during the last three years in Georgia and the two Caro liirjas," says the census report. The crop of 1909 in the entire country was 24.1 less than that of 1908,; while the dec:-ease'in the three States named was only 6.3 per cent. Carlisle's Estate Worth $90,000. Washington, Special.-The will of John G. Carlisle, former secretary of the treasury, was filed here for pro bate. To his grandchildren, John (J. Carlisle, Jr., and Jane Carlisle Al len, of New York city, and Laura Carlisle Pitkin, of New Haven, Conn., is left his real and personal property to be divided share and share alike. The estaiteVs valued at approximately $90,000. India Can't Grow Fine Cotton. Washington, Special.-Difficulty is experienced by cotton growers in Li dia with both staple and yield. Many experiments have been made with the object of improving both, reports Consul E. Baldemon Dennison, of Bombay, but thus far with indiffer ent success. Egyptian and other ex otic varieties have been introduced from time ' 'to time, but the results have not been 'encouraging. The Size of a Loaf of Bread. The size of the loaf of bread the baker in Chicago bakes is to be pass- . ed upon by the Supreme Court of the United States. A case involving ?the question of the validity iof a Chicago city ordinance regulating the size and weight of a loaf of bread offered for sale in Chicago 'has been docketed in the Supreme Court. It will come up for consid?ration in the course of a year and a half World-Wide Movement Dead. Former President Roosevelt's pro position to make conservation a world-wi de movement by a confer ence of nations is pronounced official ly by the State Department to be dead. Of the 49 governments reported diplomatically in Washington which were invited just before the former President went oui r? office to join the movement, only 19 have repKed. The answers of some of the govern ments were of suoh a disinterested character that it was officially de cided to carry the proposals no fur ther. $3,500,000 for Land. Tenders hove been opened at the Capitol for the purchase by the Gov ernment of the land lying between the Capitol and the Union Station for which the Government has al ready appropriated $500,000 as tile first year's payment and for which it expects to pay about $3,500,000 altogether. From $2 to $5 a square foot has been asked. The New Safety Appliance Law. Af ter July 1, 1911, it shall be un lawful for any common carrier en gaged in inter-state'commerce to al low to be hauled over its lines any car not equipped with the appliances urovided for in thc new law. All cars must be equipped with secure sill steps and efficient hand brakes. All oars requiring secure ladders and secure running boards must be equipped with secure ?iandrails tar grabirous on their roofs at the tops of the ladders,''