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Night Sessions for Congress: In the
effort to pass the tariff bill and enable
Congress to adjourn on June 20, as President
Taft has predicted, the senate will
begin night sessions this week. The Republican
leaders are dissatisfied with
the slow progress being made with the
nicaauie anu are aeternnnea to enforce
night sessions. As the Chautauqua lecture
season approaches there are members
on both sides who are anxious to
get away from Washington as they have
made engagements to spend portions of
the recess upon the rostrum.
A Silver Service tor the Battleship
Florida: An appropriation of $5,000 has
been voted by the house of representatives
of Florida for the purchase of a
silver service for the dreadnaught battleship
now under construction named
for Florida. An additional $5,000 has
been promised by public subscription,
thus giving this ship a $i0,000 silver service.
Cuba Buying Arms: Much interest""is
evinced in a recent contract made by the
Cuban government for the purchase of
15,000 rifles in Germany and a large num
oer 01 coasi aetense and field guns in
1? ranee. Certain American firms went
after the business, but failed to get it,
tne Cubans having closed a contract
abroad without open competition. Persons
here interested in Cuba fear that
such action on the part of the Cuban
government may cause the American
Congress, or at least many members of it,
to voice serious opposition to Cuban reciprocity
or tariff concessions in favor of
Cuban sugar or tobacco.
J. Pierpont Morgan Controlling the
Steel Trust: J. P. Morgan, Jr., was elected
to succeed the late H. H. Rogers in the
directorate of the United States Steel
Corporation last week. The selection is
regarded in Wall street as significant of
further entrenchment of tne Morgan interests
in the steel corporation, giving
the Morgan banking house four of its own
members in the directorate?J. P. Morgan
himself, his son, George W. Perkins and
Charles Steel.
Rogers Estate Partially Divided Before
nis u?mn: rienry m. itogers, the Standard
Oil millionaire, gave away $16,000,000
in bonds securities and cash, five weeks
before his sudden death. The vast shin
of money, comprising almost half of his
total wealth, was divided equally among
his four children. Each received $4,000,000.
The money went to his daughters
and his son, Henry H. Rogers, Jr. This
sum will not be subject to the inheritance
tax of one per cent for direct heirs and
five per cent for collateral. V* nether or
not Mr. Rogers had this in mind when he
gave away these great fortunes is problematical.
Henry H. Rogers left an estate of over*
$100,000,000 an evening paper today says,
declaring that it bases its assertion on
the word of a great financier who was one
of the late Standard Oil manager's most
intimate business associates. Mr. Rogers
confided the information as to the huge
size of his fortune to this man annnrHinw
to the statement, during a talk with him
over the final disposition of his millions.
Harriman Obtans Another Railroad:
That E. H. Harriman and his associates
will assume control of Rogers' Virginian
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PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOUTI
railroad, built at more than $40,000,000
cost, is reported in local railroad circles.
The line is to be extended to a point near
Point Pleasant on the Ohio river, where
direct connection is to be made with the
road built by Joseph Ramsey, Jr., former
president of the Wabash, giving an entirely
new line from the lakes through
Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia to Lhe
Atlantic seaboard. It is known that engineers
for some time past have been working
on plans to connect the Ramsey road
with the Virginian.
The Record Fleece of Wool: R. A. Jackson,
representative in the state legisla
ture rrom Columbia county, who Is called
the "sheep king of Tukanon," claims the
world's record for the largest single fleece
of wool, which weighs 67 pounds and 5
ounces. He also has three clips of an
aggregate weight of 142 pounds. The
fleece was clipped from Rambouillet
sheep, which swept the boards at the
St. Liouis exposition and the national live
stock show at Chicago.
To ' ry Lynchers: With not a single
precedent in tne history of the supreme
dourt of the United States to guide, the
marshal of that tribunal has made service
of the writs of attachments against
Sheriff Shipp, Deputy Sheriff Gibson, and
Messrs. Williams, Nolan, Padgett and
May, whom the highest court in the land
found guilty of contempt in conspiring to
lynch the Chattanooga negro, Ed Johuson,
in 1905, after his execution had been
stayed by Justice Harlan. Within the
last quarter of a century the history
of the court does not record a case in
which the defendant has actually appeared
before that tribunal.
Liquor Expressed to Dry Territory Legally:
Holding that the Federal government
alone has power to regulate interstate
liquor shipments,' the supreme court
has decided in favor of the Adams Express
Company in the suit brought by the
State of Kentucky against it for violation,
by an interstate shipment of the state
statute prohibiting railroads from delivering
liquor to known inebriates.
Turks to Avenge Massacres: Mehmed
V. gavq orders last week for wholesale
executions as a result of the investigation
of the royal commission into the massacres
at Adana and adjacent communities
*rhe sultan has already signed thirty-five
death warrants and others are in the
course of preparation. While punishment
is being meted out to the ring leaders in
the recent slaughter of Armenians, the
conditions about Adana are becoming appalling.
With the oncoming of warm
weather there is increasing danger that
a terrible plague will descend upon the
community, destroying by disease thousands
who escape the sword.
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Woman: A Columbian Joan of Arc has
appeared. A woman in white, carrying a
sword, leads a band of reoels who are
using Panama as a base in an attempt to
overthrow President Reyes, of Columbia.
'a ..e Columbian generals, Lucas, Caballa,.
Clodimiro and Castillo, landing secretly at
Colon, made their way to Santa de Vergua
inland and one hundred miles southwestward
of Panama, and thence to Bocas
del Toro at one of the three months of the
bay of Chmqul, on the Atlantic side of
the isthmus. The generals are recruiting
men to attack Reyes. The recruits with
the woman in white at their head are
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now at Chiriqui. The plan is to get arms
by seizing rifles belonging to the Panaman
police and to capture a coasTwise
steamer in which to effect a lai/ling
on the Pacific coast side of Columbia.
Japan Controls Manchurian Railways:
The intention of Japan to control the
railways of Manchuria as completely as
those in Japan itself is indicated in the
dispatches which Former Ambassador
Luke E. Wright sent to the state department
in 1906, and which were made
public recently. The Japanese government
subscribed to one-half of the stock
of the southern Manchurian Railway
company. The remaining half was
divided among Japanese subjects and the
government and subjects of China, thus
insuring a preponderating portion, of the
stock in Japanese hands. Mr. Wright
pointed out that the Japanese claimed
that the restriction of the sale of shares
to the two nationalities was insisted upon
by China.
When the light begins within himself,
a man's worth something.?Browning.
There we shall rest and see, see and
love, love and praise. This is what shall
be in the end without end.?Augustine.
Ldfe is learning, suffering, loving; and
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MAKING SUNSHINE.
It is Often Found in Pure Food.
The improper selection of food drives
many a healthy person into the depths of
despairing illness. Indeed, most sickness
comes from wrong food and' just so
surely as that is the case right food
will make the sun shine once more.
An old veteran of Newburyport. Mass.,
says: "In October, I was taken sick
and went to bed, losing 47 pounds in
about 60 days. I had doctor after doctor.
food hurt me and I had to live almost
entirely on magnesia and soda. All
solid food distressed me so that water
would run out of my mouth in little
streams.
"I had terrible night sweats and my
doctor finally said I had consumption
and must. die. My good wife gave up all
hope. We were at Old Orchard, Me., at
that time and my wife saw Grape-Nuts
in <i grocery there. She bought some'and
persuaded me to try it.
"I had no faith in it but took it to
please her. To my surprise it did not
distress me as all other food had done
and before I had taken the fifth package
I was well on the mend. The pains left
my head, my mind became clearer anil
I gained weight rapidly.
"I went back to my work again and
now after six weeks' UBe of lue food T
am better and stronger than ever before
In my life. Grape-Nuts surely saved
my life and made mo a strong hearty
man, 15 pounds heavier than before I
was taken sick.
"Roth my good wife and 1 are willing
to make affidavit to the truth of t.hl3.'*
Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
"There's a Reason."
Ever read the above - letter?. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full of human
interest.