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M My Life # vjrt .on Ji. Mil as 5 .ect one's life may be Innumerable. The win along the pathway of life affect us for leave their lasting Impressions upon the C* 1 * lights inspire and elevate; the shadows and protect us. In the same way our pres? If ence affect the lives of others either for good superior and transcending all other Influences X.ne beneficent presence of those true and pure *<3 *o have accompanied me on this Journey of life. -A e soul of honor, whose integrity was as sacred as . the truest patriots I have ever known. He had the VlV one, frank and manly in expressing his opinions and affairs; as brave as a lion yet as kind hearted and tenWiJ oathed a hypocrite. Intrigue and deception were foreign jQVj ideas of truth and duty were inspiring and ennobling. A V | J nose blessed influence from the time she first taught me to S'jj s the true light and guide of my life. The tenderest affection, a .monition, the deepest love, the sweet melody of her sacred J forever impressed the better chords of heart and soul, Juence was ever present as a true inspiring and cherished memjplendid influence of a noble brother who was the highest type of I .n character and citizenship; also the refining Influence of two debaters who were the light and joy of a happy home. ^ast, but not least, and embodying all the good influences of those above .tloned, was the companion of my life, who made life with all its struggles. , conflicts, its adventures, and achievements as far as possible a romance .nd a success. To these influences I would attribute whatever there is of mv life that Is commendable and satisfactory.?The Circle Magazine. * * * * ? Are Tubercle Bacilli '' | Friends, A[ot Foes? i ^ By Charles ? Page. M. D. , T is about time, as it seems to me, for us to restore the peoX w Ple 10 thelr wits, from which the bacteriologists and germ X I x theorists have frightened them by means of scare tales # # concerning the alleged danger from "germs." When solx x dlers go Into battle It Is manifestly important for them to tftlllHH know friends from foes. Instances have been known In # which squads of the same army, in the dark or In the smoke ftllKlill of have fired Into each other, causing a bloody sacrifice and at risk even of utter rout by the enemy. That the 6ame sort of thing may occur?that it has, In fact, occurred?in war against disease is susceptible of proof; and I would cite the experience of three eminent physicians, after quoting the remarks of Professor Jacob! that "it may be possible that we can learn how to poison and exterminate the socalled germs, but In so doing we may kill the patient!" The experience of Drs. Babl. Perron and Glmeno (Lancet, April 30, 189S) la of great significance in bearing out Professor Jacobl's dictum: "When dealing with tuberculosis of the lungs, the microscope having revealed the presence of the Koch bacillus, but the patient is without fever, night sweats, or yellowish green sputa, the results from experiments with serum from donkeys were somewhat amazing as well as disastrous. Treated with the aerum, their general health seemed to Improve (poison stimulation, says the present writer), and the number of Koch bacilli decreased in notable proportions. In two cases the last sputa examined showed that the bacilli had entirely disappeared; but with the disappearance of the specific bacillus of tuberculosis hectic fever set in, and one patient died In eight days and the other in ten, with the symptoms of septic poisoning." * * * * Man Incomoetent I! S ' ^' | He Cannot Support His Daughters an ! } Forces Them to Work * | By Benjamin Macmahon * ?? < N my opinion it is adding insult to injury for women to be ? told, as by Bishop Doane, that they have "elbowed" their V way Into the Industrial world, and by obtaining work have ? 4 + deprived men of it. As truly might it be said that the 400 unfortunate Englishmen and women elbowed their way into ? ? the Black Hole at Calcutta. They were driven in; and the iltltltttt little girls (for statistics show that 92 percent of female ? ??? ?? workers start before attaining the age of 16) are equally driven from home and school into Industrial and commercial life. Par from being able to protect and support their females, men have unmistakably shown that they cannot protect themselves. They have allowed themselves to be robbed and despoiled of everything beyond a mere living. The report of the United States Bureau of Labor shows that the averse wage of odult male labor during 1907 (the latest fleures jLv?iinhi<?\ oo per week. No one who realizes how email is the purchasing power of this sum in the human necessities of shelter, food, and clothing can reasonably deny my contention that the average man has shown himself unable to protect himself as head of a family. He is therefore compelled to drive his children out at the earliest possible moment to make their own meagre living. And the worst of the whole matter Is he is satisfied with himself. Instead of realizing that he 1b economically (and spiritually, too) "poor and blind and miserable and naked" he is puffed up with a sense of his importance as a voter?an importance whidh he refuses to share with his women, kind. * + * * | The Senior Senator On f } Stilts I I CSenator Bradley, of Kentucky?From th+ j r Congressional Record) H OW, Mr. President,. I do not want to talk anybody to death. NI have tried to be as modest as I could. I know that a Junior Senator atanda mighty little chance in this body. When I came here one ot my old friends in the Senate came to me and said: "Be careful, Senator; remember you are noth# ing but a Junior. l?eep quiet. If you venture, these senior ^ Senators win take you in out of the wet." I have heard ray i?tmmm?mS mother talk about the-bogy man and all that sort of thing, bat I will tell you honestly that I have been alarmed ever Staee I have been la Washington, and what I stand In dread of is the presence ef the senior Senators in this body. ^ There are a great many dangerous things In this world. Automobiles are isisrnas things; they are liable to run over you and kill you. Electric cars are dan parous things; they are liable to run over yon and kill you. Bat there Is nothing est this earth that earn oompare la point of danger with a senior Senator whan ha stands properly est his stilts. Wf' ' THE NEWS IN BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Home and Abroad. A court of inquiry is in process at Anapolis to determine the cause of Lieut. Sutton's death. Once before the court decided it was suicide but it seems he had been greatly abused in a fight with another officer. The infant child of Sylvester Corter, of near Seven Pines, Va., was attacked by rats Wednesday and was so severely injured that it will be disfigured for life, even if it lives. The people of Northern Vermont flTP nil in nrmc ni?o? 1 * ... ?..u? u.ci iiic i|uanenn(( of tbe Tenth Cavalry (colored) at Fort Ethan Allen. The Employers' Liability act passed by Congress April 22, 1908, has been declared invalid by the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors. A singular and questionable feature of the Seattle Exposition is the setting apart of July 20 for the baptism of all babies bom in Washington State during the month of June. Babies were baptised bj' their own local pastors and each received a handsome loving cup. At Easley, Ala., last Sunday, a fire man's team got beyond the conrtol of the driver and dashed into church door severely injuring one lady and throwing' the congregation into a temporary panic. .1 F,1irnr Smith J * - ?. ?? k/uiitu iciumcu IU I11S home in Brunswick, Ga., Inst Sunday after an absence of a year. He had presents for all the family. He was showing a fine pistol bought for his father when it fired and killed his favorite sister. He believed it unloaded and the action that caused it to go off, he says, was purely accidental, not intended. Through money orders sent abroad, the United States now sustains a net lo6s of $60,000,000 a year. Wilmer Lane became violent and stabbed to death Emmet Hoe, a fellow patient at the Staunton, Va., Insane Asylum last Monday. Big new oil wells have been opened in the Shinston (W. Va.) field. Sixteen people were drowned in New York City last Sunday. Six of the victims, including five women, were lost by the capsizing of a boat. Most of the victims were swimmers. Oscar Maloney, 16 years old, fell overboard in the Schuylkill river at Philadelphia last Sunday and was quickly rescued, but could not be .vuuoviiUkvu. 1'utiun mum lit; wua soared to death. The new tunnel under the Hudson that places Jersey City within three minutes ride of Broadway, was opened Monday amid immense demonstrations of delight. C. Will Chappell, president of the National Casket Company, was killed accidentally near Canastota, New York, Sunday night. From New York to Jersey City in three minutes was the time made when the last McAdoo tunnel was opened. Mrs. N. C. Draner, of Zanesville, Ohio, saved her husband's life when both plunged into the river in their automobile last Monday. Mrs. A. P. Clark, of Freeland, N. J., got up to quiet her barking dog Sunday night and found her house on fire. A dozen boarders had barely time to escape. The dog's barking through its instictive sense of danger saved human lives. A cloudburst late Wednesday night caused heavy loss of all kinds of property in Northern Wisconsin. It was estimated the total loss will be $300,000. Foy W. Dulanev. the circiut court clerk of Washington county. Tenn., has left a shortage of ^20,000. He promises if left alone he will try to make good yet. He has a wife and children, but his stenographer left he dav before he did. All trains are running on time over the merered lines of Mexico and thus far the strike of the train dispatchers has had no effect on the operative condition. Washington News Notes. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee met in Washington Monday and elected James T. Lloyd, of Missouri, chairman. Chairman Tawney, of the Appropriations Committee, declared in the House Wednesday that Francis J. Heney, special counsel for the Department of Justice, received $23,000 from the Government for which he performed no service. The needs of the inland waterways system were outlined to President Taft in Part 2 of the report of Herbert Knox Smith, Commissioner of Corporations on last Monday. Foreign Affairs. Moors at Melilla, Africa, have surrounded a force of Spaniards and the feeling is so , intense as to threaten to involve the Spanish government in riot. The Chinese say they like Charles R. Crane and are glad to have him eome as minister. Theodore Roosevelt has laid down his gun for a while and is writing a book in his camp near Lake Naivaaha. STATUS OFJOTTON CROP As Viewed By President Harvey Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association. Atlanta, Oa., Special.?The following official bulletin was issued on Sunday by President Harvey Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Association: "The present outlook for anything like a normal production of cotton for the season of 1909-1910 is worse than any year since 1903. Reports which have come to me from all parts of the cotton belt from reliable sources, and the result of personal observation during the last thirty days, indicate a very serious condition of the cotton crop, especially in the territory of the southwestern states. The long, and as yet unbroken, drought in Texas, accompanied by unprecedented hot weater. coverinc the 1 nriroct , o ?- c??? K"~?v" iug counties of the State, make it impossible for the crop there to recover normal conditions, ev*n under the most favorable weather, hereafter. The same conditions have largely prevailed in Mississippi and Louisiana. In every State, except Texas, there has been a voluntas decrease in the cotton acreage by the farmers this year. "In all the states east of the Mississippi the fields are generally grassy, and many thousands of acres have been abandoned and the fields planted to corn and peas. Crab grass has sapped the vitality of the cotton plant, and absorved to a great extent the commercial fertilizers. Black root and boll worm in the eastern states and boll weevil in the southwest are contributing to make the sitation all the more critical. There is not a sufficient supply of old cotton in the South today to last the southern millo until *?* T ?...u muvu vv-iuuci urau X anticipate that the forthcoming; August condition report, by the bureau of cotton statistics, to be issued August the 2nd, will reflect the deterioration of the crop in July, by several points under the very low June condition report. In most sections of the belt the cotton-plant is small and grassy, and in other sections too' full of sap and weedy. These conditions forecast a small yield compared to that of one year ago. "The failure o* the peach crop always forecasts a .ortness in the production of the coiton crop, such as the case this year. With consumptions assuming enormous proportions, and the production of the cotton crop indicating an unusual shortness, it is impossible, at this time, to predict with any degree of accuracy where the maximum price of spot cotton will reach. That we are now entering upon an era of very high prices for the coming season, there is scarcely any question of doubt, and the slower spot cotton is marketed at the opening of the season, the asier it will be to maintain high prices." Storm Loss Increases. O 1 "' * ? uuuniuu, ici., opeciai?umer tnan to .add several hundred thousand to the monetary loss, Friday night's despatches from the storm-swept coast sections of Louisiana and Texas and into the interior for miles add but little to that already told of the hurricane of Wednesday which rivaled in intensity the storm of 1900. The number killed is conservatively estimated at 25, twice as many more or less seriously injured, and the property loss is estimated at approximately $1,000,000. While belated reports may add to the list of casualties and the property damage, other than to isolated points, communication has been restored. Late despatches add the towns ol Rock Isiand. Wharton and Weimer to those which suffered to an extent from the sweep of the wind. At Rock Island nine of the largest buildings were either razed or partially wrecked, the damage being estimated at $75,000. Fifty houses were blown down at Weimer and the property loss will approximate $100,000. Wharton suffered more than from the storm of 1900. I Rattlesnake's Bite Fatal. Hendersonville, N. C., Special.? Pinckney Stepp, the 14-year-old son of Mr. John Stepp, who lives about six miles from this city on the Polk county line, was bitten by a rattlesnake Thursday evening and diod Thursday night. Pinckney and his brother were getting tanb&rk near the edge of a field. When going near a large stump the i boy was suddenly struck on the outer side of the ankle by a monstrous rattlesuake. The brother succeeded in | killing the snake and hurried home , with Pinckney, who in the meantime ( became very sick. The neighbors j were called and all remedies known to ( the mountaineers were put in use. It was four miles to the nearest telephone, and required several hours before a doctor could reach the house. , When the physician arrived the young j fellow was in a sad state, and died , two hours later. This is the first person who has j been fatally bitten by a snakq this j season. 4 General News Items. ] President Taft went to a moving picture show Wednesday and saw himself in action on the canvas. W- - ? - mre. i att baa improved 1 since her arrival at Beverly and now ; there is harly any trace of her illnesc that caused the President so much woipry. A liberty pole 107 feet tall will be erected on Antietam battlefield by ij the Philadelphia Brigade Assoeia Tafia? Details of Terrible Ston End of The Gulf To Tl Desolated?Lower 1 Houston, Texas, Special.?Tl West Indian hurricane, which swe| from one end of the Texas Gulf coa to the other Wednesday, claimed toll of 12 human lives, fntnllv i juring four others and serious wounding 16, according to the detai of the storm, which began to arrii here late Thursday night. Who towns were devastated and the wre( and ruin to property will amount hundreds of thousands of dollars. Trains, from 12 to 15 hours lat crept into Houston Thursday ur freight trains are lost throughout tl stricken district. The territory around Bay Cil seems to have been the centre of tl storm, which moved southwest fro Galveston. For four hours there 70-mile wind swept across the coui try, carrying everything before it. About 50 per cent, of the businei section was damaged, including tl opera house, one bank, the cou house, the new high school buildir and the city jail. In the jail, tl pflirpc urnro ln4'l -1- 1 *' 0.? ten MiuHimi; ana me pri oners were exposed to view but wei safe. Velasco, a small town near Rs City, is reported demolished, but wit no loss of life and none injure Every building was unroofed or par ly demolished and the town Thursds was in four feet of water. People e eaped in boats from Colorado rive a mile away. The loss will total thousands < dollars and in some districts repor state that the storm was worse tha the disaster of 1900, which devastt Galveston. Eagle l^ake seems to have sufferc on a parity with Bay City, hut vei few houses escaping the fury of tl storm. Along the Brownsville rond fro THETWRIGHT TJROS. FLY 1 Washington, Special.?In two sho flights in the Wright aeroplane Wo nesday afternoon at Fort Myer, Vi Orville Wright closely approaclu the world's aroplane speed recor attaining an average velocity < 54 1-2 miles an hour as computed 1 Wilbui Wright, who held the stoi watch on the machine for half a do en rounds of the course. On the first flight the air craft r mained aloft only 1 minute and ? seconds, the aviator being forced 1 descend by losing a cog wheel on tl magneto after making his scnnr round of the course. On his seeor flight, after the cog hnd been replace FRXIGHT^TR.AIN GOESl Goldsboro, N. C., Special.?Consii erahle excitement was caused when it was learned that the Atlantic Coa! Line Railroad bridge over Neuse ri er between this city and Dudley ha given way under the weight of a pas ing freight train, and in a short whi sevepal hundred peonle had gathert upon the scene and were greatly r< lieved when it was learned that by miracle all the crew had escaped an nobody was killed or injured. The freight, which was compost of some 40 loaded cars, had one of il cars got safe across the river, bi was approaching the bridge, the coi sequence is that one of the worst mi terial wrecks ever seen in this terr tory is now piled up at the abo\ CLOUDBl R ;T CAUSES Dl Duluth, Mum., Special.?Followir the terrific rains of Tuesday, Wedne day night's cloudburst caused a seer of devastation in Duluth. The loi it is computed, will reach $1,500,00 Three lives were lost. Two chi dren were swept from their mother side in Ninth avenue, one body beir lost in a sewer, and another child wi i?o? v ? ? uoi in nccim b creeK at west Lh loth. PITCHED BATTLE BETWE1 New York, Special.?A pitched ba tie was fought in Brooklyn Thursda between immigration inspectors an a band of 24 gypsies who were bein deported to South America. TI trouble had its origin in the refusi of the gypsies to board the steam* Verdi, which was to take them t Buenos Ayres. In the heat of the melee seven ; i .i ? ?l. i- i .......mi ui me Dano were injured b reason of their parents using them ? shields. In several instances th parents pushed the bodies of cbildre against tha inspectors who were trj ing to drivo them from a tug to th PROTECTORATE TO BE ES Mexico City, Special.?That th Tnited States contemplates the foi mat ion of a protectorate over the r< publie of Honduras in the near futui is the statement brought to this eit by a secret agent of one of the Cei tral American republics. The agent, who would not perm' the use of his name, left Panama o the steamer Newport and arrived i the port of Conn to, Nicaragua, Jul SI HURRICANE. ,., 1 m Which Swept From One 4 he Other?Whole Towns * Coast Suffers Heavily. * i le Kingsville, in parts, the desolation * was nearly complete. Corn fields were swept to the ground and harvesting 8* will have to be done by a hay rake, a The cotton, however, withstood the n- storm well. jy At Elcampo, the electric light p?pnt *** . is wrecked, all elevators are badly 8 damaged and almost every church in fe town is either demolished or wrecked, le In the oil fields around Markham, k derricks were blown down and wells _ ?0 stripped of their machinery. ' x Six prisoners escaped from the jail at Richmond when the windows had <?? been blown in and while the guards m id were repairing the damage. ie At Palacios Mrs. Hogan and chil- A dren were injured under the falling brick walls of their home and were *J later extricated by workmen. Their *e injuries may prove fatal, m At Galveston Bay the situation ia a not as bad as at first reported. No ^ n_ part of the railroad bridge, which spans the arm of the bay between the island and Virginia Point, was washss ed away, but some 50 feet of the ^ le structure was thrown badly out of rt alignment by a huge barge and other 1<r small craft, which were washed from their moorings and pounded against ie the piling. s~ A special from Houston says while re the city suffered a property loss estimated at between $50,000 and $75,- ^ t,. 000 this entire section from a crop . standpoint has been benefitted in a 1 1 most marked degree by the storm, d- The cotton crop in central, south t- and north-middle Texas was in a disty tressing condition on account of the s- drought. Wednesday night's rain exr, tended from the Gulf to the lower j/f part of the Panhandle right through sf the cotton belt of central and middle- ^ ts east Texas, ntul formoro ?-? * f W..U Auktuvto U1C ciaicu in over the probability of pood yields. (d A New Orleans special says eighteen jjersons dead, and sixteen seri- id ously hurt and property damage ex y eeeding $1,000,000 is the grim record le resulting from the destructive sweep of the hurricane along the Louisiana m and Texas coasts. -s FIFTY-FOUR MILES AN HOUR s" rt the aeroplane swift 1- circled a dozen -j* d- times around the course, which is i., five-sixths of a mile in circumference. ;d Certain changes had been made in ' ^ d, the gearing of the motor and propel- + af lers to give the machine a higher >v speed. The Wright brothers had de- ^ n- cided to give this speed change only z- a 10-minute trial Wednesday, and the aviator brought the aeroplane to the e- earth after 11 minutes in the air. t 19 The Wrights signified that they to would he through with their work at le Fort Mver by next Wednesday, the id day that the time limit expires. They id do not anticinatc that any extension 4L ;d of time will he necessary. rHROUGH A. C L. TRESTLE < d- scene. The engine and some twelve it cars got safely across the river, but ^ S? the derailed car took to the river, off "S the high iron bridge, and 24 other v~ cars followed it, piling themselves one *'* l<i upon another over the bridge and into s- the river. ** le The scene is something appalling id to look upon. The steel bridge has ** e- given way under the fearful strain a and while no lives were lost the damid age will be heavy upon the railroad company. A (Treat number of the ul cars were loaded with lumber, which . ts is now piled up pell-mell in the river * it and vicinity. It will be weeks before i- the wreck can be cleared and in the ^ ?- meantime the passengers and other i- traffic will be transferred on a gaso e line launch. WASTATION IN MINNESOTA igl The entire hillside became prac s- tically one great waterfall. The sewle ers, already overflowing, were inade- ^ ss quate to carry off the rushing wa0. ter, and the streets and avenues 1- quickly turned into torrents of water ^ 's three feet deep. ig Twenty or more houses were wash- is ed away along small creeks in the i- city suburbs and several narrow es- ^ capes from drowning are reported. ?N INSPECTORS AND GYPSIES t- steamer. One little girl was uncon.y scions when the vessel sailed with d the gypsies. qg g The gypsies believed they were to le be returned to Russia, their home and il when they realized that they must go ;r back to South America, which coun- g| o try they had just left, their rage knew no hounds. 49 il The women fought with more fury y than the men. Onn a?? UUUI0 Ml is used an iron camp kettle whenever ? le she got within reach of a hostile head. J n When the Verdi sailed, her unwillr^. | r- ing passengers were huddled astern, || ie nursing their wounds. TABLISHED FOIL HONDURAS 1 ie 22. Traveling with hira as a fellow I r- passenger was Gen. Domingo Vas- 9 - quez, former President of Honduras, A e who was exiled through the maehina- "t y tions of President Zelays, of Niea- 1 i- ragua, in 1005. m The Newport was met at Corinto it by a United States gunboat and the M u officers of the warship accompanied J \t Vasqnes ashore to the offices of the . m y commander of the port. rt^ k i