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3? EXCURSION FARES TO Bl Central of Ceoi Account National Dental Assoc tickets will be on sale March 29, 30 ham before 1 p. m. of March 31, 1999. ham returning up to and including, bit For further information in regar service, etc., apply to nearest tick Silliman Coll ^LrirN 1 Ul> , An endowed school for girls, under Presbytei Handsome, roomy buildings, beautiful, well-sl necessary equipment. Scientific and Classical Music, Art, Expression, Physical Culture. Bo atndents for $146.00. Next session begins Sept For catalogues and information, address tl I ToCAUFC I from Ne One Way Coloni: March I to Apri SOUTHER THROUGH OIL BURNING LOCOMOTIVES PULLMAN TOURIST SLEEPEI Rate Per Berth in Tourist Sleepei Ask Your Agent for Inform D. ASBURY, Div. Pass. Agt., Lake Charles. JAMES H. AI' HJEATING, GAS AN! Box 2 Contractors' & Dealer Tel. Main 3880. rHE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU' 1RMINGHAM, ALA., AND RETURN VI/! rgia Railway Mornk "51 o it\i\n ? mmm^uuiui Ji'niJiu l, jtfua. excursion and for trains scheduled to reach BirmingTickets will be good to leave Birmingt not later than midnight of April 4, 1909. d to total rates, schedules, sleeping car et. agent. fl^H Hn^BD^^MHbv9 egiate Institute LOUISIANA -Ian control. Healthful location In the hill country, haded grounds. Electric lights. Steam Heat. All courses lending to degrees. Special advantages la ard and tuition for entire session given twenty-flva ember 16, 1908. he President. U. H. BROWNLEE, Clinton, Louisiana. IRNIA,'30.SO I >ut/ Or/panc i mm v i i v M Ilk/ sts Tickets on Sale 1 30, 1909, inclusive VIA /V PACIFIC TRAIN DAILY CHAIR CARS AND COACHES *S LIBERAL STOPOVERS New Orleans to San Francisco, $5.75 lation and Literature, or Write J. H. R. PARSONS, Gen. Pass. Agt., New Orleans. ri/ p |k| PLUMBING, SEWERAGE I lYE-rl^l, DRAINING HHH k > ELECTRIC FIXTURES. V Exchange, New Orleans. La. 615 Carondelet St., near Poydras. ril. Ma^ch 3, 1909. Secular News DOMESTIC A New Trust in Chicago: Indictments, charging the existence of a powerful trust, directed against all of the packing house interests in Chicago, are now nssnrofl Althmicrh tnilO hille Ofrt nnf expected for at last a month, it has become known that the federal grand jury has suddenly come upon the evidence that convinced it of the existence of the most powerful combination the government has ever uncovered here. Evidence has been presented secretly before the grand jury which has included the following packing houses in the combination, which is to be alleged in the indictments: Armour & Co., Armour Packing Company, Swift & Co., National Packing Company, Cudahy Packing Company, Morris & Co. and Schwarzchlld & Sulzberger Packing Co. With a view to forming an AmericanJppanese Society for the promotion of a better understanding between the races, as wen as tor educational purposes, about eighty-five Americans and Japanese gathered last week in the banquet room of the Y. M. C. A., of Los Angeles, Cal. After dinner a number of speeches were made . The company included Japanese women as well as men. The President's Summer Home: A movement has taken shape to secure for Annapolis or vicinity the location of the summer residence of the president of the United States, which it is proposed by the bill introduced by Representative Dalzell to construct. The original proposition was to erect the building, MfhUh < 3 I/X AAoi *Orn AAA xxr i. u uiuu 10 iu wol <pi>jv,vuv, at vvcai I'uiiii. An effort will be made to secure its loca tion within a short distance of Annapolis, and it will be urged that Annapolis possesses all the advantages of healthfulness, society and scenery that are claimed for the Hudson river. It also has the advantage of proximity to Washington and comparative quietness. Against Palmistry in Michigan: *The house of representatives passed, by a vote of sixty-four to twenty-five, the Stephenson bill, wliich prohibits the practice of palmistry, clairvoyancy, astrology or fortune-telling by cards or other devices for money or gain. Representative Gray, of Lansing, offered an amendment, excluding spiritualists fronl the provisions of the bill. The amendment was promptly killed. The Arkansas Anti-trust Law Valid: Arkansas' anti-trust law of 1905, providing a penalty of $200 to $500 for each offense and forfeiture of the right to do business In the state, has been upheld in the United States Supreme Court in an opinion by Justice White. A test case was made by the Hammond Packing Company, ot Chicago, charged with combining with other packers to fix the price of meat In Arkansas. The packing . uuuijmiiy was nnea *iu,uuu li\ tne Arkansas court. The defense was set up that the law Impaired the obligation of a contract, and, further, that inasmuch as the packing company is an outside corporation, its offense, if it had committed any, was committed outside of the