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3? THE
Secular News
The Confederate Re-union at Memphis:
With more than a score of special trains
in already, and every regular train on
every road carrying all the passengers
possible, railroad oilicials declared that
Memphis had 100,000 visitors at the nineteenth
annual re-union of the United
Confederate Veteran. Hotels and boarding
houses were crowded to their capacity,
the Shelby county court house
and all the public and private schools
were converted into monster barracks,
and the streets were packed and jammed
with people. The largest cotton warehouse
in Memphis, covering more than
a .city square, was converted into a
giant mess hall.
Mrs. Sage's Large Gifts: In less than
three years Mrs. Russell Sage has spent
more than $25,000,000 for public purposes
for the benefit of mankind. The recent
establishment of a fund for the benefit
of working men's insurance and the establishment
of a gigantic employment bureau
call attention anew to her prolific
bounty. It took Russell Sage fifty years
to get $65,000,000. Mrs. Sage is now
giving away the fortune at the rate of
$25,000 a day.
The Effects of the Sun's Rays: Prof.
C. G. Abbott, director of the Smithsonian
astrophysical observatory, has left
Washington for Mount Wilson, Cal., to
continue there during the summer and
fall observations in progress for a number
of years as to the intensity of the
sun's rays and the effect of any variation
in them on the earth.
Another Kentucky Feud: Crockettsville,
in "Bloody Breathitt" county, where
Ed Callahan, the long dreaded feud
leader, lies dying from an assassin's bullet,
paralyzed from the waist down, now
presents the appearance of an armed
camp as the grim mountaineer feudists,
each with his Winchester and Colt revolver,
pass along its main street. Wilson
Callahan, son of the dying leader
and heir to his feud with the Deatons,
lias assumed leadership of the men who
are preparing to avenge the shooting
of their chief.
Millions Less for the War Department:
Secretary Dickinson says that in accordance
with instructions from President
Taftt estimates for the military department
for the next fiscal year would" be
$20,000,000 less than the appropriations
foi this year. This will be confined
almost entirely to public works.
oiuoents Make a Rug for the White
House: President William Howard Taft's
only visit to the Georgia state institution
was last January, when he was making
his memorable trip in this section, but'
he caught enough of the Tech spirit
to decorate the White House with Tech
colors, and the characteristic "T", which
will be in the shape of a rug woven
in Tech colors, old gold and white, with
the "T" in the center, which has just
been completed by the senior class of
Tech at the president's request.
A Costly Talk: The administration has
figured on the speeches delivered by Assemblyman
Charles Ingram, leader of the
opposition in the iower house, and esti
ma'.es that ho has talked thirty days of
the seas on, which has lasted over five
y
PRESBYTJLRIAM OF TMM BOUT]
months. They plaee this estimate on the
average number of minutes he has talked
on every bill in the- assembly, and louring
the cost of the legislature at |500 a
day. place his cost to the state at $15,000.
Ingram's friends say his oratory has been
worth many times that much to the state
in saving useless expenditure in pending
legislation.
An Exposition Far Our Oldest City:
That there Is a stroug probability of
Florida having a great national exposi
tion in 1918 is shown by the adoption of
Senator Sims' memorial to congress, asking
action to secure recognition of tho
hundredth anniversary of the landing of
Ponce DeLeon in America, 1512, It was
stated that St. Augnstine was the only
city in America that conld celebrate its
four hundredth anniversary, and that
that city was working hard for this
movement.
Studying Conditions in China: Prof.
T. C. Chamberlain, Ed Chamberlain and
E. T. Burton, of the University of Chicago,
have returned to Pekin, China, after
extensive investigations oi the material
resources and Intellectual conditions
of China. Professor Burton, who 1s a
member of the faculty of the divinity
school, in the last year has traveled over
15,000 miles, through fourteen of the
Chinese provinces and has made the first
comprehensive examination of state education
in China and the capacities of the
people for further education.
England Stirred Over A New Dreadnaught:
The fact that Count Zeppelin's
dirigible balloon sailed 850 miles, before
meeting with an accident; that the
accident in no wise affects the airship's
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t? - w? huiiivj uuucuTcr ami
staying powers aloft, and that it carried
nine men, has stirred all England. The
Zebbelin is called the Dreadnaugbt of the
air and Englishmen are asking if thtre
is not some probability that this giant
German airship might not sail orer England
and what possible safeguard there
is against such a visit.
Russia?Red Cross Money Taksn: The
Port Arthur Benevolent Society has held
a meeting and found a deficit of $7,500 in
the accounts of the society under the
presidency of Madame Stoessel. It was
decided to lay the matter before the
crown prosecutor. Madame Stoessel is
the wife of General Stoessel, who was
in command of the Russian forces at Port
Arthur at tho time of the capitulation
of the Jaoanese It wnu thij
period that the deficit occurred. While
the siege was in progress stories were
sent over the world for her charity and
kindness to the wounded and sick. Later
there were whispers of mercenary motives
that prompted this charity, but no
direct charge was made until the accusation
involved her in the robbery of the
Red Cross.
Systematic Robbery: The mystery surrounding
the systematic robbing of the
Moscow and Tiflis railroad for two years
past, during which booty aggregating
$12,000,000 has been stolen, has been
SoIvpH flftnr n lnnc invonHnroHAn
two high officials of tue railroad and" 153
other employes are under arrest as the
thieves. Another organization which extended
the entire length of the line an:l
comprised employes high and lew in all
branches of the service was uncovered
by the police.
I. June 16, 1909.
Turkey?An Attempted Abduction of
the ex-Sultan: A dispatch from Constantinople
says that an unsuccessful attempt
is reported to hare been made by the
re-actionarles to kidnap Abdul Hamid,
the deposed sultan of Turkev. from the
bouse where he* is residing in Saloniki.
A CHEVALIER OF THE ROCKING
HORSE.
y Nancy Byrd Turner.
Booted and spurred, we saw him mount.
Just as the light was dying,
He flung to his place with an easy grace
And sent his good steed flying;
Flutter of mane and click of spur,
Into the shadows faring:
Some urgent need, some gallant deed, >
Had called for such swift daring.
He must have finished the mystic quest
And come back weary-hearted,
Jor, bedtime near, we found him there
In the place from which he started?
The horse beneath his burden still
n 1SIUUUI Ilgll IV?X|IIIIg i
And, arms out-thrown, Face downward,
prone.
The small knight-errant, sleeping!
?In Llppinoott's Magazine.
PRESSED HARD
Coffee's Weight on Old Age.
When prominent men realize the injurious
effects of coffee and the change
in health that Postum can bring, they are
glad to lend their testimony fur the bene
fit of others.
A superintendent of public schools in
one of the southern states says:
"My mother, since her early childhood,
was an inveterate cotfee drinker, had
been troubled with her heart for a number
of years and complained of that
'weak all over' feeling and sick stomach.
"Some lime ago I was making ,an
official visit to a distant part of the conntry
and took dinner with one of the
merchants of the place. I noticed a somewhat
peculiar flavour of the coffee, and
Kt?eu iiiin concerning it. He replied tnat
it was Postum.
"I was so pleased with it, that after t.h :
meal was orer, I bought a package to
carry home with me, and had wife prepare
some for the next meal. The whole
family were so well pleased with it, that
we discontinued coffee und used Postuni
entirely.
"I had really been* at times very anxious
concerning my mother's condition,
but we noticed that after using Postum
for a short time, she felt so much better
than she did prior to its use, and had
Utile trouble with her heart and no sick
stomach; that the headaches were not
so frequent, and her general condition
much improved. This continued until
she was as well and hearty as the vest
of us.
"T IfliAUf Pnohim
.i ? woiuui nao uciicmcu mysiMi
and the other members of the family,
but not in so marked a degree as in the
case of my mother, as she was a victim
of long standing." Read "The Itoad to
Wellville," in pkgs. "There's & Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appear* from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.