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Taft Wants a Constitutional Amendment:
The message of President Taft
on the subject of taxing incomes of
corporations was received in the senate
and read. It is partly as follows: "I,
therefore, recommend to the congress,
that both houses, by a two-thirds
vote, shall propose an amendment to
the Constitution conferring the power to
levy an income tax upon the national
COVPrn nipnt withnnt onnnrt ionmon
among the States in proportion to population.
This course is much to be preferred
to the one proposed of re-enacting
a law once judicially declared to be unconstitutional.
For the congress to assume
that the court will reverse itself
and to enact legislation on such an
assumption will not strengthen popular
confidence in the stability of judicial
construction of the Constitution. It is
much wiser policy to accept the decision
and remove the defect by amendment
and in due and regular course
The Central of Georgia Railroad Transferred:
It is understood that the Central
of Georgia Railroad lias been secured by
the Illinois Central Railroad. President
Harahan of tne Illinois Central, has just
left for the West to arrange for the
uhvsiral transfpr ?f thp nrnnortv Tnc
Central of Georgia's control was secured
in November, 1907, by E. H. Harriman,
and it has been understood that it was
his intention ultimately to transfer it
to the Illinois Central.
Bishop Candler to Help Settle Strike:
At a conference between former secretary
of the Navy Herbert and Representative
Ilardwick, of Georgia, arbitrators for, the
settlement of the Georgia railway strike,
the third arbitrator, Bishop Warren
Candler, of Atlanta, was chosen. Later
advices say he nas declined tue appointment.
A New Mail Route to Panama: The
establishment of a mail route between
Charleston and Colon, Isthmus of Panama,
is daily expected, as the government
postoffice authorities have found that
considerable time may be saved by send
ing mail for the isthmus to Charleston
and then by sea to Panama. This will
mean the establishment of a steamship
connection between Charleston and Panama
that will develop the trade of the
port greatly with South and Central
America.
Two Filibustering Vessels Caught:
Arms, said to be for the steamer Nanticoke,
said to be a filibuster, were discovered
last week at Franklin, Va., on
the Blackwater River, which leads by
way of Chowan River into Albemarle
Sound, where the Nanticoke still lay.
The arms were packed in piano boxes
and are said to have been billed for
transportation as x>ianos. The vessel
anchored in the Blackwater, where also
was the tug Dispatch, for which also the
Government is on the lookout. Both vessels
were blockaded in the river by the
revenue cutter Pamlico. It was said at
Franklin that the Nanticoke would go
to sea accompanied by the Dispatch as
soon as a certain Mr. Ely arrived tnere.
It is improbable that either vessel could
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E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU1
slip by the Pamlico even in the darkness.
Government vessels may seize them.
Wants to Free Disabled Convicts: With
a view to relieving the State of the
necessity of caring for convicts who are
invalid or disabled and unable to work,
Governor Smith, in his message to the
legislature, will recommend the inauguration
of a system of reports from each
county convict camp which will keep the
prison commission and the governor constantly
informed as to the physical condition
of any inmate of the penitentiary.
ine governor Deneves tnat a convict
who has been rendered helpless either
by accident or old age is removed beyond
the possibility of committing crime, that
his freedom would no longer constitute
a menace to the public and that the State
would gain nothing by continuing to punish
him with confinement.
To Investigate St. Louis Packing
Houses: Although facing the possibility
of a scandal that may oversnadow the
one attending the exposure of conditions
in the Chicago packing houses, Secretary
Wilson has issued orders to investigate
fully and thoroughly the charges made
by former Inspector J. F. Harms, who
declared the inspection in the Bast St.
Louis packing establishments to be a
farce. As a result of tue secretary's
orders, the two inspectors who went
secretly from Washington to East St.
l.ouis last weeK bare been reinforced by
three department officials who will take
personal charge of the inqirisition.
Foreign Criminals Can Not be Deported:
It was announced at the office of the
commissioner of immigration last week
that the plan of the New York State
prison authorities to deport 319 aliens
convicted of .crimes and now confined
in prisons in that State, can not be realized
because the immigration laws make
no provision for tne deportation of aliens,
whether convicted cf crime or not, after
they have once passed inspection and
been admitted to the United States. The
convict aliens now confined in New
York, convicted of felonies, will therefore
have to serve their sentences in
New York State.
England?A Warship Fired cn by Russia:
A British steamer which approached
close to a Russian warship guarding the
vicinity of Bjorkoe, Finland, for the meeting
of the czar and kaiser last week, was
shelled by the Russian ship, according
to a report. The incident may result in
international complications. It has occasioned
great excitement. Twenty-six
shots were fired, but none of them too<c
effect. The. steamer fled beyond range
and the Russian did not pursue. Punapas
Bay will be more or less of a Russian
maritime center during the summer and
Russian warships, gunboats and torpedo
boats will be commonly seen there.
The Longest Long-Oistance Telephone:
An invention of the Swedish Engineers
Ogner and Holmstroem for increasing the
distinctness of sound in long-distance
telephony has been attracting attention
for some time. Experimental conversations
between Paris and Sundsval, three
hundred miles north of Stockholm via
Herlin, seem to have been heard with
remarkable clearness. The distance is
1,800 miles in a bee line, but the Berlin
route is considerably longer. It is said
tnat this is the distance record.
?H. June 23, 1909.
FOR CLEANING WALL PAPER.
To clean wall paper use the following
recipe: Ten cents' worth of liquid ammonia,
ten cents' worth oil of sassafras,
one teaspoonful (even full) of soda, two
teaspoonfuls (even full) of salt and one
quart of cold water. Mix the cold water
with the ingredients, then add white
flour until it is thick enough to drop from
a spoon. Put in a covered pail, set in
a kettle of boiling water, and cook until
done, stirring often. If it does not stick
to the hands when cool, it is done. Remove
from the pall and divide into
' loaves," working each piece awhile in
the hand. Take out only what is needed,
leaving the rest covered in tne pail, to
prevent the ammonia from evaporating.
Rub the wall with a loaf, working the
dirt into the dough. When very dirty,
exchange for a clean loaf. This removes
dirt and grease magically and leaves old
paper as good as new when used carefully.?Woman's
Home Companion for June.
If a man deserves praise, be sure that
you give it him.?Ruskin
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Is much more sure to meet with Him
than one
That travelc-th byways.
?George Herbert.
WON'T MIX.
Bad Food and Good Health Won't Mix.
The human stomach stands much
abuse but it won't return good health
if you give it bad food.
, If you feed right you will feel right,
for proper food and a good mind is the
sure road to health.
"A year ago I became much alarmed
about my health for I began to sufft!*
after each meal no matter bow little 1
ate," says a Denver woman.
"I lost my appetite and the very
thought of food grew distasteful, with
the result that I was not nourished and
got weak and thin.
"My home cares were very heavy, for
beside a large family of my own I have
also to look out for an aged mother.
There was no one to shoulder my household
burdens, and come what might I
must bear them, and this thought nearly
drove me frantic when f realized ihat
my health was breaking down.
"I read an article in the paper about
some one with trouble just like mine being
cured on Grape-Nuts food and acting
on this suggestion I gave Grape-Nuts a
trial. The first dish of this delicious
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iwu proved mat i nau struca ine right
thing.
"My uncomfortable feelings in stomach
and brain disappeared as if by magic
and In an Incredibly short space of time
1 was again myself. Since then I have
gained 12 pounds in weight through a
summer of hard work and realize I am
a Vftrv /? i Pforonf ti-nmon oil /1?ia *>? ?
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splendid food, Grape-Nuts."
1,There's a Reason." Trial* will prove
Read the famous little book, "The Road
to Wellville," In pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.