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FIGHT THE FLIES AS YOU WOULD THRE MOST DAN GEI4LUS 1)lSEASE. Ai Rouses could be Screened So As to Keep the Filthy Little Vests Out. Flies are so filthyand so dtetrilnen tal to health. to say nothing of the an:oyance they cause. that all resi-'s d-rces should be screened. says the Progressive Farmer. If the expense of wire screens is too great, the cloth mosquito netting. may be tack ed over all witdows at very little cost. but frames will have to be made for streething the netting over doors. There are many schemes for killing the little pests.. There is also the old scheme of putting up roosting brushes for tht flies. which may be made of pape: cut hi strips ana hung on the ceiling. When the flies get on the brushes at night. a sack may be slipped over the roosts. s:) that the flies may be killed with little trouble. It may I C necessary to repeat the work fror time to time as more flies get intc house. Sticky fly paper is anothe: remedy often used, but the paper is tnpleasant to have about. Pape; may be pasted or pinned into th< form of the large part of a funnel with a. half- inch hole where tht point of the funnel would be if there were no hole. Place this funnel it the mouthof a large fruit jar an( haxe soapsuds in the jar. A l!]h syrup may be put on a cork t-ht floats in the' suds. the syrup being e draw the flies inito the jar. Once in they will not have the sense to ge out and the i1m-s +rom the suds wil kill them. Set the jar at a we' lighted window. as the flies will con gregate there. The jar will have tc be cleaned out well every two o three cays. or it wili smell had f-om the decayina flies. This trap is a. goe I as it is cheap. Modern science shows that insect: are largely responsible for disease ii. the human family, and perhaps th< common housefly is leader among insects in giving persons disease They breed in filth, develop in filth feed in filth. and carry filth %vhere ever they go. From their small siz( it might be supposed that they could not carry enough filth to make theil presence dangerous, but diseast germs are so extremely small that great number of them may be carries on anything as small as the tip o: a pin point. One germ can as easily start a colony of germs as a bit o IUrpa:da sod cau start a hunch o Surmuda. So, it is erroneous t< suppose that a fly is too small to bt a carrier of disease. Many epidem ics of the hot season have been trac ed to the fly. It is more dangerou: for man' under modern condition: than wild beast were to man whe! he lived in the open, without a dwel ling for protection. Some years ag< when cholera was killing from twr to four convicts a day in a Manih prison, the disease was stampecr out promptly by screening all open ing and trapping what f nw file accidentally entered. The fly is re sponsible for the death of many chil dren through polluted milk. The flb likes milk; and when it can get it this food, it plants bacteria. whicl breed rapidly and make milk dan gerous. We are told that ninety-nine o. every hundred flies that infest house: belong to the family which breeds iz stable filth. One female lays a: average of one hundred and twent2 eggs n a season, the egg hatches ir; eight hours, hatches into a maggo: that eats ravenously and grows fas for five days; the maggot turns int< a pupa and sleeps nearly five days then fh about ten days from the lay ing of the egg the fly emerges fron the pupa state with wings-an adult fly to traved about and spread th< disease whereever it finds an oppor tunity. Each of the young female ~flies is soon ready to take up tht work of multiplying their kind. Eacl fly is capable of visiting a garbakt heap and carrying thence germs o such disease as typhoid fe-ver or dip) theria. Some of our soldiers whilt in camp during the Spanish wat were infected with tr'ihoid !eve" U flies that had access to sew.. dumps. A farmer who keeps his ow: place clean may be made sick b) flies that come from a garbage pile o some sick neighbor.. We are told that if there were n< filthy barnyards or stables t her< would be no flies, since they woul< have no place to grow: and we art also told that they grow in any ani mal or fowl excrement. A firm com post heap free from maggots. as the feamale flies ;:Trate such heaps t( lay eggs. A hen working in a heal of manure will destroy mnany yount flies. The hen also makes the sur face too dry for hatching the fly eggs' All this shows that each person should keep his own premises cleat and have his house screened. so that fies may not come from a neighbor's where there is sickness and thus car ry the disease. It has been stateC that one female lays an average o one hundred and twenty eggs min season: and supposing that half tha: many fies develop figure up what the number of her offspring is af er three or four generations. Do not be content with keeping tlv premises clean outdoors and sce:en ing the h'buse. D') not leavre food! uncovered and keep the floors and the tables clean. It is an error' to :- ep a room dark continually to k eelr < qies. Flies do not like a room; n'there is no moisture or melid. Le "e sunlight and maket the rcomu leasant for- them.: Whelre there is -- sunlight they will fin I conditiors '"-* like, even though they gather - windows where lig:1t comes in. Il-: screen doors~ hung to swing outwad en files wmi move freom the house ae * '"- I; "' LAD BREAKS ii: NE~CK. By Falling From Stair Railing While Sliding D~own. While sliding down a stairway railing in the cotton mill at Tucnpu in Spartanburg County. Friday Clary-ice Prince, aged 9 years. fell te the floor and broke his neck. He died instantly. The accident h:appen el shortly after 12. as the iboy was returning home after havingg carccii d'inne-C to his father. lHe st'-dcdlei the railing atthe stairway and start ~ed to slide down when he lost hia balance and fell. The coroner was notified, an inqtuest was held and verdict of death by accident was re TUE DIVIN!NG IOD. No MyrVIious Virtues hidden 1b the D)owser's Waid. In exerime:titg with a dining rod as -used for discovering under grot'nd :-+:ppiies of water one ot the geo'ogists of the irdted States Geo 10 ival :Grvey found that at points it turn-Ii do'nwxard independently of his 'vill. but more complete tests showed -hat the downward turning resulted from slight and-until watche-.l for---unconscious changes in the ine:iration of his body. the ef febts of which wre communicated throg'r -h:e ar ar- wrist to thC red. No mov, ment of the rod from causes o.:tside the hody could be de tected,. antd it soon became obvious that the view he:d by other men of scien--e i- correct---that the opera tion of A: -divining rod" is general. ;y due to :nconscious movements of the bodiy or of the muscles of the hani The cxperiments .nade show a t t"-=e movefments happen most :~req::er:tvi at places where the opera or's ex; oriene his led him to oe :eve th-- '.ater may be found. T'-- uu -essnSs of the divining rod s indicated by the facts that the rod be worked at will by the opera r. that he fails to detect strong urrvis of water running in tunnels :d other channels that afford no sur ,ce ids.ations of water, and that his atono it. limest. e regions where ate: fows in weil defined channels :-e rarely more s:cessful than those -edert on mer- guesses. In fact 2-era tors are successful only in io:s c: which -round water occurs a ieraite sheet in porous materiel, - i- n: re or less clayey deposits. eh as tie pebly clay or till. in hich. e!rhtouh a few failures occur, i; wo-i id get water anywhere. Gr u::'! wter oc--urs under certain efin ie conditions. and as in humid .'iosu. a: stream may be predicted herev r valiey is known. so one imiliar w dh rocits and ground water nditicrs may predict places where :-oend water can he found. No ap -innue .ither electrical or mechani ii. ha- yet been successfully used 'r detectirng wzter in places where ai: comr:o: sense or good guessing ould not have shown its.presenee :st as well. The only advantage f en;pl;ying a "water witch." as the iera:or of the divining rod is some imes e-! . Is that skilled services re o:>taine-l, mist men so employed keener and l;etter observers of he occorrence and movements of round uater than the average per -n. Seie;:tifc American. Symbol of the Marble Gallows. You wili read in."The Cloister and :ie Eear-ii" of the gallows of white :arbie and tine workmanship that ood over against the dukes palace -x Venice. It was there as an ever resent warning to the people's chief :rva:it th:t if he wns faithless to his - st he womuld be hanged. We ar- pleased to consider that :.er period of the middle ages as ude and sim;le. In its familiarity :,al1 for:::s of coldly administered :::h it wc:ill justify this unthought I estimat-. Yet evern-in that sinis r ::arbie arimonition of vengeance .*re is' a certain symbol of good th. of hi::ht ideals of public service ~-: how-s strong in any civilization itih all our justly cherished pro -r:we :ui.:ht wish for as fine a e f honor in our public steward. Let 'is claim at once that the basih Swic-h our public service rests ih ~r b.-tter than it was in even the li-: elvie republics. There is nol e eastte of 'irth: there Is not nos e fa:alistic classificationl of rank, ai nat r olitically-and while there wat the period of the Renaissance xvard for eniture, learning, and arte d craftsmanship. saill, today, we -ye a fairer field which many more a enter. But when that claim it ade and allowed there was a cer :n romethting in the old noblesse lge which has not yet permeatec emoc racy as it can and must some ty pr-rvade it. A burgomtaster in a free Dutch ol erman city. --duke or magistrate it -1 oligarchical Italian repubiic. ever feudal lord in any country. exempli -d a respect for the obligations im. 'sed by his posiftion thiat our experi. :ce ha: shcwn us is not so prevaleni aw. i..et us acknowledge that mudl a 3.,stem of government, a frame ork ot society, which is happily lef1 :hinad. Let us admire the civic vir o' those Venetians who "let nc . .o e-.en their sovevreign. bs jove the common weal." And i se realize that. even in the great ad. anc- in the social and political orde1 e have made since that fifteent'r *-nur v of "The Cloister and the 'earth" there is stil! lacking the re ee for the place of trust, the fine -vere:ice for the common weal whict entr ally will be the perfect flow s ot popular government.-Kansa! ity Sitar. The Mercenary Thunderbolt. A p:arty of American tourists whe re comfortably established in otel in Germany. discovered a niew )xir bution to "English as she ia .o.:e." only this time they found il n the written word. The building ad be en recently wired for electric -y and- unde. the bulhs in each roor irecti-~ts were postedJ In Freneb errn ui and English. The Frenet as ir:eproae table. the German ne'ar Sso. .The English read as follows: 'To open and shut the lightening etrcal on. is requested to turn tc he ri;~ht haned. On going to bed it ust be closet Otherwise the light ~ng must be paid."-Boston Her Mormons in Mexico. The wonderful success of the Mor mon colonies in the northwes.:ern part of Chihuahua ard in northeast era Sonora is little appreciated in Mexico. where they alone of all for eigners have accomplished their aim -coloization. They now numnber fully -40t0 souls, 2,500 in Chihuahua and 5(i) in Sonora. They are pro perous to a high degree, have beauti ful homes splendid schtool rooms and an ed icational system. good farms and otr:hards, good cattle, horses and hogs, and in every way their settle ments would pass muster with the thrifty farming settlements in the westernt part of the United States and are an objiect lesson in Mexico. The Mrmons in Aexico are an example of the beat in a quiet, law-abiding peo pie. Ix is exceedingly seldom that the authorities have any trouble with Mormons, and they pay their taxes for the support of the government better than t1 e Mexicans themselves do. For thrift and industry they are proving what can be done in building up the country materially, and are thereby an example to all with whom they are THE SOLi)IER BU'SINESS. ! A Mtodern Army Should he Organ!z ed So As To Attract Good Men. In the old days of chivalry the soldier did not receive direct pay in the exact sense that he does to-day i.ut for his services rewards wer due, and necessarily so. to preserve in him proper subordination. His keep and his weapons were furnish ed him by his "over-lord." and with them food and raiment, and certain privileges pertaining to his art. now known and included in the modern term "let." The rule .as passed down the a e, that a fighting man must needs fight tor something more substantial than pri.ncipie. and more satisfying than patriotism, so that even in the Rev olution, the obscure pages of history found this momentous question o: pay, and right troubling as it was al that time. In the War of 1812, a better regu lation had come into effect and thN allowances for rations and clothing and pay were saner and more satis fjing, as indeed was true in the later war with Mexico, and in the great Rebellion of 1360. The side von which had the money behind it: the armies which were fed and cloth ,d ani paid, were maintained al ifective strength during the terri tle later days' struggles, while the less fortunate opponents found their lighting strength dwindling away, true perhaps. owing to physical ex haustion, but nevertheless equally true. indeed, owing to an uncertain supply of the essential eements for soldiers; and not the least of these was pay. Parallel with this ques-ion arises the fact that a soldier's profession is a trade in exactly the same sense that :ari;entry, masonry or mechanics ire a source of livelihood, and to maintain an effective, disciplined ar my, the renumeration must be com petitive with the price paid in civilar life. 2o in the War of the Rebellion, after the supply of volunteer enlist uents iaad been practically exhaust .:d, the authorities did not appeal to the partiotism of the nation, "ut o the pockets, in the shape of s jounty. and this certainly did meet he situation for the time being. The days of going to church with rifle over the shoulder have been orgotten, the, menace of the Indian of the West has passed, there is uni ersal security practically from one snd of the country to the other, and .he soldier's weapon, once so necess ary for sef-preservation, is used 'n y as a diversion in the few remain ng game centers, and in the target I .alleri.:s. With this has passed. the fellow eeling for the man who must face ..ysical annihilation at the call of 1 )riuciple and the order of his su ,erior. So that the first question sked by a prospective recruit is the omientous question of pay, and his ,rut nentai action is a comparison .,et wee a the soldier pay and that of is former occupation. The attrac .ive recruiting posters do not state Sauch about the actual advantages o* a soldi-er's lite from a patriotic point t view; they dwell upon the pny nd the allowances, and somewhat of :urse upon the change or life In coved. So the great fallacy that each and very American is a soldier by in -.tinct and race if a rifle is but piac d in his hand, is pathetically appar nt to-day. This was indeed true to certain extent when the edge of the forest might harbor the savage indian. but that has long passed, and the performances of our citizen sol diery, such as at Bladensburg and at Queenstownl, and later in the earl ir days of the Civil War, does not efect any great amount of credit on An:erica. A niodernl army to-day must be rganized upon a business basis 1f ;t must compete for men with the :n dustrial world; the soldier must re :'eive adequate -pay and allowances to be contented, disciplined affd eqi cent, so that the present scale ol pay. existing since 1870, both fot officers and enlisted men, is totally inadquate to warrant making the army a career for the best men -of he nation, and the American Army should be of the best the country 'an furnish-From Army and Navy Life. IAilmost Human intelligence. Something new and interesting about arits was recently learned by a florist. For a week or so he na-d been Lothered - by ants that got into boxes of' seeds, which rested on a shelf. To get rid of the ants he put into execution an old plan, which was tc place a meaty bone close by, which the ants soon covered, deserting the boxes of seeds. As soon as the bone vecame thick ly Inhabited by the little creepe-s the florist tossed it into a tub 01 water, The ants having been wash d of. the bone was again put ir use as a trap. The florist bethought himself that he would save trouble by placing the bone In the center of a sheet of fly paper, believing that the ants would get caughit on the sticky fly-paper while trying to reach the food. But the florist was surprised to find that the ants, upon discovering the nature of the paper trap. formed a working force and built a path on the papei lear to the hone. ~The material for the work was sand, secured from a little pile near by. For hours the ants worked and w hen the path was completed they made their way over its dry sur face In couples, as in a march, to the bne.-Nature. 16 KOREANS ARE CREMATED. Jhpanee Fire House in Which Rebel Leaders are Hiding. It is reported from Korea that on Tursday the Japanese expeditionary frc t Sonjuin in the course of -fight with the rebels. sturround e the Koreans' house, in which one; o the rehel leaders was entrenched, h .lapanese fired the house. bui'nn sixteen Koreans to death. iapn has emb~larked upon a cam-I pg against the reb~els in six prov ices of Korea for this purpose.* Mlet Hiorrible I eath. * I n reds of f'amilies have- met teir d'ah hy heing swallowed up in fssure which suddenly opened in the sde of the mountain Mac'h e ere engulfed in the huge crack which has been caused, it is rhougnr. b~ an earthquake. As yet explorat ion ,nti- hav'e been unable to get wirh iinrnear distance of the scene of th-e disaster and dctails of the calamity MOENsER INDUISTRY 0 New Methods Have Changed o the Work of Gathering. C Iti PEARLER WELL EQUIPPEE r '3 With a Suit of India Rubber, Coppei T Breastplates, and Leaden Weights b He Descends to the Bottom of the p Sea-Spends From Six to Eight U Hours There. a The Servilia pearl given by Julius . Caesar to Brutus' mother was said tc 1i have been worth $175,000, says Lou- ti don Tit-Bits. For a pearl an inct ij In diameter a Persian shah of the seventeenth century is said to have paid $320,000. The pearl market is somewhat lower nowadays, but price t are still high enough to make diving e profitable. c The era of naked divers exposed t to peril from sharks has passed away. Modern progress equips the pearler with a suit of india rubber. copper breastplate, with leaden a weights back and front; helmet, glass 5 panelled and with telephonic attach ments; air pipes, life lines and a submarine searchlight. Thus equip- S ped the pearl diver may spend six of C eight hours at the bottom of the sea, I whereas in olden times three minutes F made a record. Although pearls are found in near ly all mollusks and even in univalves like the A ustralian haliotis, a kind a of barnacle, true pearls are produced j: only by the pearl oyster or mother of pearl shell. The latter is really the diver's bread a.nd butter. The shells are as big as dinner plates and weigh two pounds when cleaned I They fetch fro.a 4500 to $750 a ton The ancient fisheries were chiefly in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gull but nowadays the best pearls come from Ceylon and from Australia, t waters, especially Torres Straits. C Pearl fishing in Ceylon is a govern ment monopoly. In March the fleet starts for the pearling grounds, each vessel with twenty or thirty divers and their assistants. But the head- 1 quarters of pearling are to be fornd t in the desolate country extending from Exmouth Gulf to King Sound. n Western Australia. A glistening white coast line is this, whose iuonotony is broken only i b3 mango iringed salt water creeks and scorching deserts of spinifex and sand. Long before inland gold was dreamed of roving natives fished these seas for pearls, and they paid .many visits to Roebuck Bay and I what Is now the pearl town of ] Bruome. Chinese and Malays as well as tribes of native black fellows ar there to-day, but the old nude div ers, the reign of terror and piracy when a large haul was made-these ] and similar conditions have passed aw ay, giving place to fleets and lug gers carrying modern diving outfits and representatives of the inevitable capitalist in the person of the masteri pearlers. Here are six hundred miles of coast line, with perhaps five thousand hardy adventurers engeg ed in the pearl trade. There are some thousands of Jap anese, Manilanmen, Malays and men of other races acting chiefly as crews for the vessels. The vessels are schooner rigged and from seven to founteen tons burden. Each carries1 a master diver and a crew of four, one of whom is the diver's assistant and works the air pumps. Another nolds the life line and pays attention to signals; another is catching fish or peeling potatoes for dinner, and] it may be a third has gone off in the dingey for fresh mater and fire-wood The shells are found on ledges about ninety feet down in the sers. but they are far more plentiful at greater depth. Fortune awaits the inventor of a diving apparatus which will enable the pearler to work in comfort one hundred fathoms down. The logger has a low freeboard tc allow the diver with his heavy di-ess and gear to be casily' hauled on board. He carries a net holding the shells with him, and when this is full he has it hauled up so that 'i himself may run no risk of entang ling life line or air pipe. When the pearler works at, say twenty fathoms he moves easily, not withstanding his forty--pound boots, amid groves of coral trees, interlac ed with fluttering. fern-like plants, among whose brar.ches swim gorge ous tropical fish a~nd sinister water snakes, which seem to resent the in truion of so strange a monster. A good day's work is arvthing more than two hundred pairs of shells. Tne business is absolutely speculative. One diver may gather1 ton after ton of shells without se curing anything of greater value than a few seed pearls, while an other may take a fortune out in a days gather-ing. The most famous pearl discover ed in A ustralia of late years is kno'vn as the Southern Cross. It consisti d a cluster of nine pearls in the snape of a cross. This freak of n ture was picked tip at low water on1 the Lacipede Island by a beachcomb e named Clark. who, after burying It for some time for superstitious reasons, sold It for $50; later, i1 brought $50.000. The pearl diver of to-day, protect ed as he is by every device known to modern submarine engineering, is exposed to many perils. He may losc I his life by the tearing of his dress I up. the sharp coral rocks. THNKS BRlOTHER~ WAS SHOT. War hrigMre Sworn ] Out After D~rowninlg. t Thre was a sensational develop maent Friday in the matter- of the eath of Tucker- A. Davidson, the young man who perished in the CChttahoochee River, several miles norib Uof Columbia, when E. L. TDavidson. hrother of the ii mi2 r-:n, se ' 're our wva rrants againr ~ 1Cnf lod.lJohn Boggs. Uud Phillips. . Lee phillips. Judge Lloyd and Mon roe Lloyd. c-harginlg themi with mur- i de-" The six defendants composed e the caminig party of which David rn was a nmember. Jlohn Boggs. Bd Phillips and Lee Philip4 s-y that they wo in a boat wnhi Dav:i: sn and tl-e boat overt drred in the I r pids- and he was drowned. Thesed three defendants are in jail nad theI others ar-e out under bond. Shots wee- heard from the direction of the river about the time thec young man met hs deah. *t Fixing Up Things. I ti Taft's friends being in a majority o: i the National Republican Execu- ti ve Committee have things their o: vn way, and what they say goes. ti he committee has been in session in o hicago for several days arranging ti e contested delegations, which are id costly from the South. From near- si every Southern State there is a s aft and an anti-Taft delegation, a t this does not worry the Taft k: ople much. They proceed to fix c p things easy for Taft by putting w ie names of those delegates who, T re favorable to him on the list. t he opposition is full of rage, but : rageth in vain.C As the Charles- b >n Post says "all is Taft that comes it ito the hopper of the national com- b itte, or rather all is Taft that comes V t of the mill. Evidently it is in nded that no chance shall be tak n. The convention is to be most y arefully constituted so that it will urn out no other result than a Taft omination, and the national com iittee is on the job. Taft agents nd exponents hold proxies for eats on the committee, his em- F loyees swarm about the scene, and s teadily the grind goes on that is to onvert the opposition into support. f a vain do the "allies" shriek to eaven that they are undone by this igh handed proceeding; that is that the Taft machine is for, made nd guaranteed for just such undo ag work and its operators are quite ccustomed and are entirely indif erent to the shrieks of the victims. he order has gone out of the White louse to nominate Taft and that vill be done, in spite of the conse [uences. The full brutality of the oosevelt policy is being illustrated o the eminent gentlemen who are andidates against the favorite. ,hey may be Republicans in good tanding but they might just as well >e Democrats for all the considera ion they are going to receive in his business of Mr. Roosevelt's. "Maybe it is a winning game. but naybe, too, it will be carried to far. ['he Republican convention this year s to be a political massacre, and' ;he shedding of so much Republican lood must leave some sorrow and ;ome hatred behind. Will Mr. Fair )anks and Mr. Hughes and Mr. Can ion and Mr. Knox and Mr. La Fol ette feel like whooping it up for ~r. Taft after the convention has iammed him at the head of the tick ;t over their mangled corpses? Of :ourse they will whoop, all right, >ut will they feel comfortable and mnthusiastic? Not very much so. And :here will be a good many thousands ho will know their feeling and will ake it out at the polls. The Bepubli :ans are a well disciplined political :rowd but they have their limit of mdurance and the allies may have 'eached it this time. "They certainly should have, for :here never was seen before---no, 2t even when Hanna was framing p the nomination of McKinley such wanton disregard of the rights md interests of all save the favorite, is has been in the preliminaries of :he Chicago convention. It was retty bad in 1896 and the effect of it would have shown in the election :oo, except that every thing was Eorgotten in the face of the free sil rer menace of the Democrats. There will be no cloud of that sort this iear to obscure the enmities of the ~epublicans, nor under the cover of w'hich they may make truce, and :he raw spots the convention is go ng to make on the party will not easily be healed. The Republican onvention is being run in a way :hat promises some comfort to the emocrats. From the point of rew of a Democrat the performance s distinctly entertaining." Bryan Will Beat Taff . Taft is certain to recieve the Re ,ublican nomination for President it Chicago this month, and he is qually cert--in +o be defeated at ;he olls in ' ember by Bryan, vho will be nor inated by acclama ion at Denver as the Democratic 'residential candidate. As the ~ational Food Magazine puts it 'the politicians have agreed under ;he will of Mr. Roosevelt and Taft ufuence, that the 350-pounder hall be nominated by the Republi an party but the people do not rant Taft." The Magazine goes on o say that "the people have two dols; they will be satisfied with ei her. Their preference, however, vould be for the one who has been red and found honest, courageous Ld just. Therefore the people vould rather vote for Theodore loosevelt than for William Jennings 3ryan. But they believe in Mr. 3ryan---they know that many of the >olicies called Roosevelt policies to lay were the Bryan policiesj of welve years ago. executed by a man i taying the courage of his convic- 1 ions. They know now, from the xposures of recent years. that Mr. ryan was defeated for the presi ncy in both his campigns by a de uge of money coming from the cof-i ers of the 'twilight zone' marau- t enrs. They believe that William ennings Bryan knows the difference ietweeen right and wrong and has he courage to protect the people's aterest. They love Theodore Roose elt for the good he has occomplish d they love William Jennings Bry n for the good they kncow he can cmplish. The republican party nll either nominate Theodore toosevelt or go to defeat if thel( emocratic party nominates William ennings Bryan. The National Food.1 fagazine has nio interest in poli- I ies, as such, but is interested in the t lectin of men who will strive for I Le passage of good laws and insist their execution. For thirty years te United States was in sore need T a food law that would prohibit e swindling adulterator from pois iing the people. but it was not un- t t 1 Theodore Roosevelt became pres- k lent that such a law was made pos- a ble. The "interests" were too a ;rong until the man of courage rrived at the White House. We now what he accomplished for the a use this magazine represents and i ,e would therefore prefer that C heodore Roosevelt be retained as e president of the United States, ut. if this cannot be done, our pre rence is for a man who believes i the same principles and who. we elieve, has equal courage in action Villiam Jennings Bryan. t The Old Veterans. Again the United Confederate veterans, grizzled heroes who ought on many bloody battlefields or a loosing cause, are assembled a annual reunion at Birmingham, Ala. Death has thinned the ranks isibly since the general reunion in tichmond last year, and a hush of adness has fallen upon the remnants f the vanishing hosts of the Con ederacy because of the recent death n Vicksburg of General Stephen D. .e. commander-in- chief of the Jnited Confederate Veterans. The onclave, which began Tuesday in he Magic City will be a time for -ecounting past victories and defeats rom which all the old sectional bit ;erness has departed; and for last ,reetings and partings between nany of the aged veterans who -re tlize that on this occasion they may answer to -their last roll call on arth. Manyfederal veterans were )resent and fraternizing with boys n gray the enmity between "Yanks" mad "Rebs", forgotten. The gray ine grows thinner.and thinner, and ;oon the last Old -Confederate Vet gran will cross over the .river to est under the shade of the' trees with Lee, Jackson and the host of >thers who ma~de the name of the southern soldier immortal, by. their alor and heroism. Of Interest to Democrats. The National Democratic Con ressional Campaign Committee has begun active operations at its head quarters at Washington, D. C. In addition to its regular work, it is now preparing a campaign hand book which it hopes to have ready For distribution by July 1-two or three months earlier than hereto Fore. The Committee is charged with the duty of assisting, in every way possible, the election of a Demo ratic Congress. We wish the ac ive co-operation of evey voter in the United States who believes, with s., that the election of a Democrat ic Congress would greatly benefit the country. We must rely upon the people to - sustain our worfk by giving information as to local con ditions, and suggestions for our guidance. Each indivi ual can at least aid us by making a contribution. Will he not do so and interest others in help ing us, too? We wish our campaign hand book distributed as gener-ally as possible, and we will furnish a copy, as soon as published, to e'very one who con tributes to our committee. Send remittances to me at Wash ingon D.C.James'T. Lloyd, Chairman. TFE Taft interests have started a Vice-Presidential boom for Cortelyno~ who is said to have been Wall Street's hoice for the Presidential nomina ion. He is to act as a buffer be tween Taft and Wall Street in ex tracting funds from the trust mag nates to finance the carapaign. It is said this brilliant stroke originated with President Roosevelt, the great md only trust "buster." ONE of Taft's plitical managers says "from the way things are now oing, no name but Taft's will be presented to the convention." Sure. What would be the use, after the. raft committee gets through "fix og" the delegates as they have been loing at Chicago for some days. The raft managers have found it cheap er to count out the Foraker "nig: gers" than it is-to buy them, and so hey have counted them out. Surpus~ Lab~or Causing Trouble. A number of young men overturn d a wagon loaded with Japanese aborers at El Centre. Cai.. on Thurs lay, and a party of Japanese was toned at the railroad station. Ser al arrests have b)een made. At rawley a number of Japanese were aken froml a wagon and threatened. he trouibbie is due to the surpius of abors seeking work in the canta oupe field. Virginia Has Graft. Workmen empl)oyed on the Virginia rate capitol building, at Richmond, .e making some startling discover es. The building was completed wo yers ago bnd is already in ha nd iion. owing to poor workmanship nd graft. * Fioods in Missouri. The Kaw valley flood at Topeka. can.. and farther west has passed he resit and is now subsiding. Most fthe railroads have been inundai d and much danmage has been done.* WHEN a trust owned newspaper ike the New York V. orld is corner d it splutt..rs out brazen lies *gainst the real trust fighters, like tryan and others, which are taken ip and re-echoed all over the coun , by a lo of little "me too" news r!BAYSMIT SIGHT API'PRATUS. elautophote Will Bring Distant Points to View. In 3redulous minds will probably be sere!sed over an announcement o: se invention of an instrument. nlown as the telautophote, which I. ppa"entiy designed to bring all re ote parts of the earth into closer mch by rendering distant and per aps now invis.ble objects to view. The new mechanism, by electrical id. it is said. would erable a New or'-er telephoning his wife in Chi ago. to return home to stufy her xpressions during the conversation. t would make a San Francisco prize igt or a Denver convention some .ay as visible from the Flatiron Wilding as a Fifth Avenue stage. presert. however, the telauto dhot9 will serve only as an attach ent to the :elephone. and its inven or, Mr. Sidney Rothschild, of No. 77 E!ghth Avenue. New York, states' hat in this connection it will give omplete satisfaction. After two years of arduous work. pen(ing hours every night at work mn his invention. Mr. Rothschild, who s but twenty-six years old, proved is invention a theoretical success. 3e sent it to Washington. where it vas approved and patented. and he s now working with models, to dem )nstrate the practicability of, the de rce. While Dr. Art: ur Korn, of Mun :hen, succeeded by the transmission )f a photographic record, in convey ng a distant likeness to view, it ras not an instantaneous process like :ht of the telautophote. Ir. Rothschild claims that his '.-l ?phone method of transmission is nuclh simpler than the negative pot ng method employed by Dr. Korn t is founded upon the well known :ruth that when selenium is struck by tight its electoral resistance 3hanges in relation to the amount of light which shines upon it. The instrumcnts employed in the sending and receipt of the electrical Influenc' are of wonderfully simple workmanship. The transmitting consists of a selenium coated cell. upon which any Image may be focussed by a camera Icr.s through a transverse slot in a travelling steel belt. The belt moes perpendicularly across the ace of the cell, which is made up of atercate copper and mica plates. in :ulated from each other, but con -ected along the edges at one side )y a selenium coating. The inten :ity of the light reflected upon the :ell will vary as the slot, travelling across the cell. exposes the coating o' the lights and shades of the im age. The main cel- 'a controlled by what s cailes a - control selenium cell. moving in portion so much faster than the -n cell that every point on the su. t.'ce of the main cell is overed. - controlling cell tnus rans.orm- .very point of light into n electrical impulse and sends it by wire to a distant receiving sta 'ion. At the receiving station is a belt. ith perpendict.'ar slots, rotating so that a pulley with horizontal slots passing It causes points of light to ippear as one smot meets another. The ligh- comes from a vacuum tube with .the belt. and it varies in accord wi toe intensity o' the electrical :urrent from the sending station Bota receiving and sending apparatu: w-r synchronously b3 regulated mo The light which appears at the sots varied at each point to the s me~ degree with the light at the transmittinlg btation,. throws the fig ire seen at the transmitting station through a lens apon a ground glass screen. As the ;denomonon of continuation of v'is o~ occurs in the moving picture, the Jaryng figures on the screen, which .ipper as lighted by a single flash present every~ moveet of the ob ect discernedl. Mr. Rotchschild was born in New ? rk anud was a grad.:at: of its pub ie s u0ols. IIe early undertook thz' study c1 electricity, building motors. iplngs Day Off. Literary enthusiasts are somewhat ikely to forget that authors are not alwas like their works-at least. n ipe rance-and in this connec non an amusing story is told of ? yong indy who bad for years bee'. an ardent admirer. of the "'Jungh Books," and "'Plain Talk from the J ill'' Fr lons she had been eager to see :. idol in tne tlesh, and one day. to her great joy, she was Introduced But when she met Mr. Kipling face to ace. the young lady's countenance fell .somew hat, for sh9 realized that he was not. aftei- all, the exact coun terpart of the Apollo she had pic tured him. "Are you .Rudyard Kipling?"~ she cried, staririg at the author in dis Mr. Kipling naturally felt some wht embarrassed, and murmured "Yes" meekly. 'But I thought." explained the .lady, who could not cover her disap pointment. "I thought-I thought you were quite different!" " am-oh, I am, madam!" Mr Kipling hastened to assure her ii ofiden ISi tones. "'I am indeed: Only, you see, this is my day'off!"' Answers. Barley Cured iner1-Berl. Some time ago. the rice supply be ing short. prikoners in Japanese jal were fed largely on barley. The re sult was/~the immediate cessation o, hew bei-beri cases. Fewer Births in France. The condition of France might be put in a nutshell: "More marriages. more divorces and fewer births.'" No one can call this a healthy condition of affairs. it means that. if the paes nt movements were continued over a sufficiently long period of time, they are bound no end In the disappearance of the French population.-Country Petroleum Through, the Suez Canal. The prohibition against carrying pe troleui through the Suez Caug wich has been in force several years. has been removed. This concession means much to European consumers, as about 250,u00 -tons are annually brought from Borneo and Sumatra. Generous Queen. Queen Elizabeth *of Rumania, is very much intE: ested in the establish ment of an asylum for thc blind and announces that to anyone who will send her a donation, large or small, she will send a letter of thanks sign rd h herelf. THE FMiST VICTIM :augit in the -ndertow and Drown ed at Tybee. The treacherous tides of Tybee 3each have claimed their first vic ini early this season. Fritz Sch :alh, a yot'n man a.bout 19 years f agc. was (:wned there :Mudav ternoon .'e enjoying a sa - nib. Ie and a companion went into the surf late in the afternoon when the tide was going .,it at. a great rate of speed. The young man got into the undertow and before he realized his langer he was being carried out to sea. When he sound that he was in danger of drowning he grabbed his companion by his bathing suit and clung to him with desperation writ ten up. his - Mr. John Seigers. who was with the victim of the sup:, came near be ing carried down with him and 'only wrenched himmif from the grasp of the drowning :unn by the greatest effort. His clay pes were partly torn from his backi :>efore he -succeeded in breaking the young man's hold. After that he did all he could to save him, but w:'s unsuccessful. There were several people in bath ing at the time and there were large crowds on the bach, but the drown ing did not create a great deal of ex citement in any part of the island ex cept in the irumediate vicinity in which it occurred. The body of the young man was carried out to sea. CHAINED TRAIN TO TRACK. Florida Officer indicted for -'elaying United States Mail. Chaining a passenger train of the Valdosta Southern. Railroad to the track and standing guard over it with a shotgun. Deputy Sheriff I. C. Hunter, of Ponetta, Fla, ran amuck with the postal laws of the United States by delaying the mails, accord ing to an indctment returned by the Federal grand jury. Hunter was arrested an dbrought before - Com missioner Locke, being, held under bond for his appearance in the Dec ember term of the Court. * A Smooth Article. Sporting Life says through, some nisunderstanding the Bostons had a funny experience it New York with Roy Evans formerly a National Lea gue pitcher. who enters . the club house last Thursday, donned a Bos ton uniform, and had been at practice half an hour before Dovey and Kelley iscovered him and aske'd him whohe was . There was almost a fight with Kelley when Fvans announced with a smile that he liked the Bostons and would stick with them. Evans was thrown out of the uniform, and later President Dovey schreeched murder when he found Evans: had registered at the hotel as one of the Boston ball players and had been there all week. Evans tried to join the Orangeburg team last season. Dollar Stepped the- Bullet. Brice McLeod owes his life to .e fact that he carried a silver dollar in the watch pocket of' his trousers. While in Paragouild, Ark., 'recently a negro fired at hil'n but the ball flat tened against the silver and stopped there. The negro escaped. Elephant Kills Horse. Seizing a horse wit~n its trunk, an .mraged elephant iin a circus which et New Alban.. Ind., Tuesday dash d the animal against the ground mtiil it had pounded the animal's iran out. The show men were load ing the animals on the train when the eleiphant ventured too near a horse that kicked it. No Foraker "nigger" need apply for admission to the Republican con ventin. None but Taft "niggers" will be admitted by the Taft com mittee, who are in charge. THE man in-the White Housewith the big stick has determinied on the nomination of Taft by the Republi .ns for President. it remains, to be seen if he can make the people llect him. THE recount of the mayorality tote in New York is showing that there was just'about as mhuch fraud on one side as on the other, and not as much.on either side as Hearst claimed there was. SOME of these easily deluded Dem ocratie papers that bailed Roosevelt as a great trust "buster" will no doubt be convinced of their mistake when they see the trusts lining up for Teddy's man. Taft. THE "fat frying" of the big cor porations in the interest of Taft has already begun. The Republicans will have an immense campaign fund as asual, but we de not believe they can buy the people this time. TH E Johnson Bureau at Washing ton like his presidential boom, seems to have petered out. At least we do not get any more literature from it. THE New York Herald, in its es timate of the standing of delegates elected to Denver on the presidien tial nomination, says Bryan now has over seven hundred delegates and that no other name will be pre sented to the convention. THE several gentlemen who thought they were candidates for tePresidency before the Republi can Convention don't like the way Taft is "fixing" the delegates for himself, but they will all submit and pull for the tickAt be~u. they know they would do the same. thing for themselves if they were in Taft's I- makes no difference what Taft and his managers may do about kicking out anti-Taft delegates from the Republican convention there will be no bolt. The Republican party is organized and run in the iterests of the trusts, and the Re publican leaders, who are th.' Litive aents of the trust s. know the crest way of gming resulia fo'r their trust master is to stick to the machine. So ther-will stick. TH E Washng onl Post thinks that the large number of operations for appendicitis throughout the country is one of the unmistakeable signs of rrtrnin prosperity.