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.11 NT \ POMTICAl, 1M>1>GF. Kra?x l>oftl> Chanu tcrUe* .lingo Talk In Favor of Ship Subsidy and Larg? er Army. Washington. Lfth. 24.?"There !s not the slightest likelihood of any trouble with Japan any more than with any >ther country with which we have ex"ellent relations of friendship." This vns the statement today by ?ecrftary Knox to a representative of the Associated Press when shown copies of the press dispatches from Tokyo Indicating some considerable diseussslon of reported utterances of Mr. Shaw, former secretsry of the treasury, and of Gen. Belt and refer? ring to an alleged antl-"apanese ex? pression In San Francisco. The sec? retary of state expressed great sur? prise that notice should be taken of such trifles. Secretary Knox said also. "Mr. Shaw's speech was obviously nothing but an argument for ship subsidy and what Qen. Bell said made no reference It trouble in the Far ?ggf and was quite evidently an or? dinary argument for increased appro? priations for the army. As for the San Francisco report. everybody knows that our immigration arrange? ment with Japan is working entirely satisfactorily. If. In spite of this, agi? tators will talk, no serious minded persons should be disturbed." \\ \iiK l\( Kl \SF HI IT SI.D. Southern Knilrond* I nanimously Re DemumN of Employees. Cleveland. Ohio. Feb. 24.?The re? plies of the Southern railroads to the wag- demand of the l'rotlu rh.1 of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors were opened here today. The refusal of the roads to meet the men's terms were unanimous. This places the Southern railroad sit? uation in practically the same state as that In the territory north of the Chesapeake and Ohio and east of the Mississippi. It is n >u tertgJg that any sctlon taken by the men to press their demands will be simultaneously In the East and South. The rosult of the str'ke vote of the Baltimore and Ohio men will be known to President W. Q. Lee, of the Trainmen, and Grand Master Garretson. of the Conductors, early next week. If the decision Is to call a strik- , as It Is expected to be. the executive councils of the cwo Orders, which will meet here later, are expected to sub? mit to the men on all the railroads the question whether a general strike shall be called. The strike vote on the Baltimore and Ohio and at large will not be im? mediately effective. It Is understood that at the Brotherhood headquarters hare that the votes will be held In re? serve a* ammunition by the chiefs of the two Orders, to be used only In the event of a final refusal by the roads to concede the wage adjustment ask? ed. In any event affairs will not reach a crisis, It Is now expected, for two months st least. No Murder There. Merrill E. Gut-*, secretary of the Board of fndttg ('ommlssloners. was describing In Washington the splendid work that hi- I <> ivd is doing to wipe out the tuberculosis scourage which at one time threatened to make the Am r'can Indian exti:. t "But the Indian." said Mr. Gates, "needs to be educated In sanitation. He Is sho< klng'.y Unorant there. In fact, he 1.4 as ignorant as an old far? mer I used to kiu>vv in Warsaw. "A friend dropp >d In on this old farmer as h? was frying a bit of ba? con. " 'Grand SSM ?n. that." said the friend, snltllrir affably. ?* ''.rani hgOOffll IToU, I ? uess it Is grand 1 SCOS ' -aid the old man. turn? ing the slices !:i the pan. 'And It's nori" >>? yer munhr.'d stuff, neither, That pig died i natural death.' H? Savannah Morning \> ws. MOW s Till* We offer One Hundred Dollars Re? ward f T any ones of Catarrh thai cannot be cur??d by Hall's Catarrh Cure. ? i CHSXIY ?fr CO.. Toledo, o. We. the underpinned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him p.-rf.etly honorable in g|1 business transactions and financially, able to carry out nny Obligations niad?> by hi* llrm WAUHNO. K INN AN A MARVIN, Wholesale luu-rgists. Toledo. i>. Hall's Catarrh Cure In taken Inter? nally, acting directly Upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent fie. prtcg TlCOUtl per I ottle Sold by all DrtiKKist*. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti? pation. 2 Mm. c.re^k proverb. A fav.?r becomes eld aacssef th in any other thing. *s*o!ey's Kidney Remedy Is a s.if. and cortala remedy for all kidney end bladder diseases, whether aeute . i ? br ude. It Is a splendid tonic for middle aired and elderly people and a sure eure for all annoyances nnd irr. kculnrltles of tho kidneys and bl ol? der. Slbert's Drug StOTS REMEMBERED IX SUMTER. VYhidbcc ?>r Seminole Securities Fame In l r<mii>le in North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 24?A case of very general interest, decided in a bateh of opinions delivered this even? ing by the State Supreme Court, was that of the State vs. Whidbee from sentence of two year's imprisonment for false pretense in effecting the sale of stock In the Seminole Securities Company, fraudulent developments In which stirred North and South Caro? lina, especially. The Supreme Court sustains the appeal on ground of defective indict? ment and orders an arrest of judg? ment, thereby requiring new trial. In the trial below it was said that VVhld bee fraudulently induced W. C. Heath to invest 1750 in the stock of the Seminole Company in representation that Wylie Jones and W. A. Clark, bankers In Columbia, were personally the head of the Seminole corporation; that n<> securities were paid to the of? ficers of the company; that Whldbee was receiving nothing in excess of 6 per cent, on his sales of stock; that sales of stock were being made sole? ly for organizing an accident Insur? ance company to be known as Sterl? ing Casualty Company; that 50 per cent, premium at which ho was sell? ing Seminole stock was solely to cre? ate rarpUM fund for operating Sterl? ing Casualty Company, for safeguard? ing !t04 kholdcrs, In which $100,000 was to be deposited with the insur i e commission of North Carolina. \\ hldbee, the Seminole stock seller referred to above, operated in Sumter and succeeded in unloading several ' locks of stock on confiding capital I t< lie made identically the same statements here that he is charged with having made in Raleigh, and for which he was prosecuted. If he can be sent to the penitentiary in North Carolina for making these fraudulent statements it seems that his dupes in Sumter could prosecute him here when the North Carolina authorities get through with him. Must the (. Id Standard Go? Dr. J. P. Norton, professor of poli ttoal economy at Yale, comes forward with a propositin to discontinue the use of the single gold standard as a monetary basis. This matdfesto of war against the yellow metal sounds like an echo of the famous campaign of 1896, when the silver-tongued orator from Ne? braska stepped for the first time into the national lime light. But the Yale professor is not an apostle of discontent. He approaches the subject from the scientific angle. And after bestowing much thought upon the Increased cost of living, he Is Inclined to think that the present era of high prices in the United States Is due measurably at least to the fact that gold has become decidedly un? stable as a standard of valuation. Just as one commodity after an? other has been rejected as a mone? tary basis beca jsc of fluctuation In the market price at which it Is quot? ed, so it will become necessary, olalmi i>r. Norton, to abandon the use of i?old for the same reason. The large Increase in the produc? tion of fold in recant yean hi at? tribute! to tin- program In engineer? ing che Istry, by virtue of which n method nai been devlaed for extract? ing gold from low-grade ores. It is not the idea of Dr. Norton to substitute any one commodity for gold as I monetary basis, still lots to Inaugurate ? regime <>f fiat money, but to base the currency upon the combined valuation of ail the stan? dard products. He suggests that the unit of meas? urement be called the "dill." And in discussing tie- value Of this proponed unit he r? commends th it it bi made to equal the purchasing power of a gold dollar at th time the new syst m is put into effect If this method be adopted it is th? <?j?inion of i>r. Norton that an end will be witnessed to the countless troubles which arise from instability of character In the medium by which values are d< lermtned,?Ttlanta < b oru'ian. Mrs, Frederick i*. Douglas, of Ma i ii. On., recently attracted attention by tiie unusual features of s connu? bial contract < 'Istlng bet we n her and her husband. She promised to live within her husband's allowance, and not to wanl an automobiles she tareeri to restrict lor Muht reading to two nov< i; a week; sb?- gave her word to pursue serious duty und- r her husband's direction; sin- consented ii i| to v;;mI and shop about every day in th?- u'<-k; not to play bridge more th.mi threi tines in seven days; not t ? : tu11:? t ?? actresses in attire or man? ner, and not to threaten i > u'o home i ? mainins more than once a month. flreenvllle News, *.\r?> you frequently hoarse? i"> you have that annoying tickling In your thront? Does your cough annoy yon ;it night, and do you raise mucus in the morning 1 Do you want ? ' ef? if so, t;ii<?- Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and you win be pleased, Sold by w. W. Hlbert. TEN FEET VIA 200 MILES. Postal Curiosity Revealed by Recent Discussion Over ltut?*-. President Taft's recent recommen? dation that postage rates be revised In BUCh B way as to impose a higher Charge for the transmission of maga? zines has resulted In bringing to light i several curious extravagances of the postal department in connection with the more serious arguments the mag? azine publishers are advocating, says the Providence Journal. Perhaps the most remarkable of any of these is the situation revealed on the Vermont-Canadian border, where the department's red tape ne? cessitated the sending of a letter in? tended for a destination not more than ten feet from the point of mail? ing by a circuitous route covering ap? proximately 290 miles. This is the situation In the International post office at Beebe Plain, Vt., and Beebe Plain, Quebec. The village is on the boundary line, which runs squarely through the, building used by the two governments , for their postofilces. There is a cen? tral corridor, with the American post ofllce on one side and the Canadian office on the other. From the point where the patron from the Americun Bide drops his letter to the box used by the patrons on the Canadian side ll a distance of hardly a dozen feet. A letter mailed 1 y a resident of Beebe Plain, Vt., to a friend In Beel)? Plain. Canada, could easily be tossed from one postmaster to another. In? deed, it is declared that when a pat? ron of the office by mistake mails his letter in the wrong box, the postmas? ters accommodate him by corect Ing his error. But when the sending of a proper? ly mailed letter is involved, the regu? lations of the department, through some unusually fancy red tape which the layman might find it difficult to_ understand, compel an entirely differ? ent form of procedure. Suppose the letter is mailed on the American side for a Canadian, who will within a few hours call for it in person. It is put in a south-bound pouch and started on its way to White River Junction, 110 miles south. There it is transfered to a north-bound pouch di? rected to Bherbrooke, Canada, pass? ing through Beebe Plain on the way. At Bherbrooke it is transferred a sec find time, arriving in the Canadian office at Beebe Plain In the course of a day or so. after covering a round trip of nearly 300 miles. Beebe Plain is chiefly a Canadian village only about 100 of its 700 resi? dents living on the American side. The latter, when they wish to convey a messsago to a Canadian neighbor, find it infinitely quicker to carry it in person than to commit it to the vag? aries of the postofTlce department at that point. Like One Man. "I suppose the peoplo in that con? vention stood up for you like one man," said the cheery friend. "It looked just about that way," re? plied Senator Sorghum, "when they came to count the votes in my favor." ?Washington Star. Some N>w Commandments. A woman in Cario, 111., recently thr< itened to apply for a divorce Her husband promised to be good. He signed the following ten com mandmenti of his wife's making, and which wer? filed with a notary public: i am thy love, thy wife; thou shall have no other love but me. Ticu shall not tube unl > your heart any stenographer, or any other love pirate. Thou shall not promise to love ne? in vain. Remember, thou shall come home on the Sabbath, six days mayest thou wander, bui not at nights; nop the seventh day. which is the day of thy ertfe, Honor ihy mother-In law, tliui thy days may be long in the land ol love, Thou shall not enrrj a la 11 Ii k- : . Th ?u shalt not rettt'tl to I by happy home o'chx hi I he morn i*,g. The doors will be bolted If lh> ll itst Thou sliali not grumble a I >Si) lot. Thou s 1?:i It nol ohjeel to hut'.oiling my gowns, nay even they b< 200 button drcs 1 Thou shall nol rovel the sweet lumper of ihy neighbor'*.! v. 11??. \Ut\\ ti*nti[ \i o Spn-.id . *"l iin ?0 year old und travel nest ..i ih, llnie," vi i lt< h It. I?\ Tol Son, of Klixilhetlitowtl ls\ l\\<r\ w ben- I "., I 11 i oiiiim ud l .i'-' i Ui III! - ters, becausi I u\Vi 1113 < x eel lent health and \ it.11 1 >. to 111 >-111. They ef feel a ruie every lime." Tin y never fall to tone 1 he Mom o-h, regulate 1 he kidneys and bnwela, illmiilute tin liver, luvlgorati tin- in 1 ? ; nud purif) the blomitl. They work wonders f?r weak, tun down men and women, re storing strength, vigor mid health that's 11 daily Joj 1 1 .\ them. Only fiOc. Satisfaction Is positively guar a ntet d 0\ HIIm i t's I ?i ne. Store Paris guides base real ruins t' ?hon ths curious visitor now. Our Public Coal Land?. An Investigation uncovering evi? dence of extensive frauds led to the withdrawal by President Roosevelt of over 66,000,000 aerts of supposed coal lands pending geologic examin? ation and classification. At the same time the coal-land law was brought down from the shelf, dusted off, and examined by the lawyers of ! the Interior Department. It was found that it provided that public i coal land could be sold for not less than |20 an acre, if within 15 miles of a railroad, and $10 an acre, if outside such limit. These had been the prices previously charged for all . coal lands, regardless of values. Sec? retary Garfleld construed the law to the effect that the figures named were, clearely minimum prices, and that the lands were subject to classifica? tion and valuation. The Geological j Survey, whose enabling act charged it with the classification of the pub? lic lands, was to put to work at once measuring and computing the coal beds, estimating their tonage, and placing a valuation on each 40-acro tract. As fast as this was done the land was restored to entry and sale. The maximum valuation was placed at $100 an acre, and considerable coal land was thereafter sold at $75, $50, $40, and $30 an acre, as well as some at the minimum price. At the same time coal land frauds werS stopped forthwith. This was a long step toward re curing an equitable pi ice for public coal land, but Secretary Ballinger has made another logical advance and his inaugurated a scheme of valuation based on tonnage a.s well as one grade of coal. Under the pre? sent plan a maximum price is 5300 an acre. Further than this, however, S c retary Baliinger has ruled that in de? veloped coal-fields where the extent and character of the deposits are Well known there is no limit to the vnlue may be fixed on the Government coal lands. That is, in cases where such lands lie adjacent to private coal lands now being mim d, so that the purchaser knows exactly what he Is netting, the price is fixed on the exact tonnage basis and in s me cases this exceeds the $300 pr acre limit by many hundrd of dollars The price per acre of the coal land* is thus definitely determined at a coal \ price, iu-.d while high as compared with the give-away minimum price, the amounts seldom exceed a quart? er of the royalties paid in the same districts among private interests. Prices fixed by the survey vary with the quality of the coal from 1-2 cent a ton for low-grade bituminous coals. The tonnage is always calculated In the interest of the purchaser. For instance, in a 10-foot coal bed the actual tonnage under an acre is IT, 000 tons. Private engineers estimate that In such a bed from 12,000 to 14,000 tons would be actually mined; the balance would be necessarily wasted. The Government, however, values such a bed on the basis of only 10,000 tons, so that actual re? covery should in every case exceed the tonnage on which the valuation actually mined. This would bring to lands and exact a royalty for the c al the Government to lease Its coal course, be for Congress to empower Is based. The best p'an would, of the Government an absolutely equit? able reurn, and would at the same time allow for adequate regulation. A lasting system is advocated by the Secrets?y of the Interior in his 1909 annual report. Various bills have also been Introduced In this Congrr ss separating the surface rights from title to the coal under? neath, a step in the rlnht direction.? Guy Ellltt Mitchell. in R. vi w of Reviews. is the Ministry Declining? In the decade from 1898 to 1908 in \ tin- Sonthern Presbyterian church there was a 12 per cent. Incr ase in lie number of clergymen al work. Th< ordinations in 1st?* were seventy, In 1908 lud forty-two, a decrease >f !" per rent. In the Rnptist Church during tiie same p rlod there was an lucrcHMi of i" per cent, in the num? ber of churches, 20 per cent, in the i.unib r r?f incmbi rs, and i i per cent, io Ilm number of ordinations, in the Congregational Church there was a '.> per ecu'. Increase in the numbei oi minist rs in thai time, as against a per reut. Iuereuse in members. In Congregational theological seminaries in 1 >s I i bet e was dir senior ! i every looo rhurch members, or one i ? ev? ery 2000 church families, in 1908 there was one senior to everj 8,000 church members, or one to everj . families. The PresbyL rum Church reports in i in years fl i In crease of 22 per cent, in membership, 211 per cent. in the nuini>< r of ( hurehes, with a 25 per oent. Increasi I In tin number of ministers, In 1898 i there wore 290 ordinations In 1908 hut isl'. a decrease <o* 42 p< cent. Cyrus Townsend Brudy in Review if i:< \ lews, If this meal boycott conti run i, M will result in the formation of m nt "looker" clubs. 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