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3o TH1 Secular News 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 y '* 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 WllO P-noHi In 4 ".v.: ' u rn?* ?A .. 9wv iu uiv tuj ? n.cii v^iiriM nam gone. 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 r ?" * a*?* * ' * * *" * 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 *>? ? ? J v.-VVMV Mil UUV HIU 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.