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4 The Semi-Weekly Journal. |T - Watered at the Atlanta Poatofflce Mail ter of the Second Class f* JAMES R.GRAY. Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. L Twelve mot, tbs BbA* v* h Three moa tbs TW Semi Weekly Journal to “ B. Taeeuay and Friday, and to mailed by tte ebort I", eat awtea for early delivery • It contains ««• from all over the k brought by special leaned "’«• ‘ nto It tea a staff of dtotingutobed contritetora. s"' with strong departments of special value to U»« K terne and the farm. “ Agents wanted at every poatofflee. Literal Muiauui al towed- Outfit free. R The aaty traveltnc reprMentatlvea we teye ■» are 1. A. Bryau B. F. Bolton. C. 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Bailey, of Texas, believes in taxing J wealth What Bailey is this? » Bt. Louis is going after a million pop | ulation. They all fear Atlanta. / Nobody seems to want the Servian w throne Too near Turkey, probably. • - » Mr. Taft still remains silent. All offi- L- rial statements now come from Africa. The African fable has It that the Mon fcgame out. saw Teddy’s shadow and ducked again. *' There is one consolation about prohibi ts tion Nothing on earth can drive a man » to drink now. -- “Savanna). pmhis plan to light.” And ft there are prohibitionists In Savannah, a minister adds. The first woman s club was formed 600 •j years B. C. There is nothing new, not g evep the New Woman. K One hundred Chicago girls admit they v want husbands. Chicago girls are per ■ Sectly trank about it. The father of fourteen who killed him | self, was quite willing to give his wife R credit fOr their posterity. p Texas collected a 12.000.000 fine from £ the Waters-Pierce OH company. The ought to employ Texas. A New York man is getting on quite j nicely without a liver. He doubtless is cheered by a prospect that is not bilious. With tuat automobile tour between Atlanta and New York, the latter's B caance of being annexed grows brighter. '' The census director is in a ticklish posi- L tion. So many cities will be offended when g he tells them they're not as big as At- HFjonta. Mr. Roosevelt will probably discover fthat the African sleeping sickness Is no V worse than that tired feeling we have •’ over here. | For downright devilishness, gossiping women beats ’em all. says a deacon la |py Massachusetts Sisters are evidently on I to you, deacon. Tipping has been put under the ban In i. the state of Washington. That won't lift B the ban that waiters will put on observ ers of the law, however. The Wisconsin legislature is about to pass a bill giving transactions between an t employer and his stenographer the same i legal exemptions as those between priest K. and communicant, doctor and patient. But you can't exempt a strand of hair. A ,„ . -to——— STOP THE GAMBLING IN FARM PRODUCTS Fftosr Jeumal: Why does congress permit F* gamblers to sell or buy millions more of all term products than are made? It destroys the *• "suppty and demand’' governing the pric*. and esvses viol«wt fluctuations In prices In a ju- few hours or minutes. By offering large p quantities of those products for sale at low i rates they can reduce the price as low as I they desire. By buying large quantities at M high rates they can raise the price as high ft as they please All of thio to done without lx maktac or buying any agricultural product. ■ The paper on which the amounts are written and the margin between the price of spot I and future or imaginary sales. is all that Is * Beaded. The same parties can raise or re duee the pricee as they desire. L-et congress forbid the use of the malla E telegraphs, telephones and all public convey- F antes for these sales, and by suitable penal t ties force all sellers to deliver the actual gooda instead of margins This to the worst E form of gambling and is none the less Immor al by dignifying It with the word exchange.” K* BnUocbvine Ga. A. J. BNELSON SLAVE SEEKS WHEREABOUTS OF OLD MASTER Editor Journal- As I am an old Confederate •lave and want to see my young mistresw Her first name waa Miss Ann Samuell. then Ei she married a man by the name of Mr Kemp My mot her was named Kall nt Samuell and te , longed to a man called Col. Archie Samueli. < and I was bom near Richmond. Va. I had a | young master named Phil Samuel and Arthur ' Samuel and Mrs Elim George and one young mistress named Mrs. Martha Sutton. When i was sold I was nursing the youngest ch Ila K eel led Julia Saumel. Please put this In youi E paper and oblige. Tour friend. JANE SAMI'ELL. SB Broad St . Thomasville. Ga At the Inquest W* Coroner: And was your husband in | good spirits just before he left the house ? The Widow: Sure. He d just had a •pat that would have done your heart good. Some Harper's Basar. SEM. Gillett—So there Is a tablet in your transep* to her memory. Did she do anything to bring people into the church? B Mrs. Perry—Well. I guess: She wore a new hat every Sunday tor three years. Hestess: I hope you will like this punch. Mr bestead wade it himself—worked all afternoon i over it. Guest Fine. We most congratelate him Where to be? Hesieas Why, I'm sorry, but he's just goo* « * bte. THE CLIMAX OF GOOD ROADS ‘PROJECTS. “The Alps? There shall be no Alps!” said Napoleon, when the mountain barrier opposed his plans, and he built the marvelous Simplon pass. . Under the plans which have been formulated by The Atlanta Journal and the New York Herald there shall be no barrier of distance between the north and south. The Intervening miles along a smooth, inviting highway will be more of a bond than a boundary, and a trip between the metropolis of the Empire State of the North and the capital of the Empire State of the South will be as frequent in the early future as neighborhood calls once were in the days of slower travel. Simultaneous announcement In The Atlanta Journal and the New York Herald on last Sunday of the proposed good roads movement and efficiency contest, under the auspices of these two newspapers and the National Automobile association, caught the attention of the country more completely than anything that has been presented to the public in years, and today it Is an absorbing topic of enthusiastic comment not only In automobile circles, not only along the tentative routes which have been selected for the contest, but wherever progressive citizens, stirred with twentieth century impulse, are looking forward to the development of improved transportation facilities and the upbuilding of their respective communities. The details of this announcement are now familiar to our readers. Under the auspices mentioned, and with the hearty co-operation of the automobile manufacturers and owners of the country, this efficiency contest will begin at Herald square In New York and will end at The Journal office in Atlanta two days before the opening of the first automobile show of the season next November. Tempting prizes of money or plate will be offered for the best stretch of road between New York and some point in Virginia and duplicate prizes for the best stretch of public highway between the given point In Virginia and The Journal office. The urban counties will probably be excluded. At any rate the central idea will be to encourage the rural counties between Atlanta and New York to begin the construction of the best roadways that money and skill can devise, with a view to establishing a continuous arterial highway between north and south, such as will link the two sections closer together, facilitate general travel, invite long distance automobild contests, and Incidentally enhance the value of the lands which lie in all those counties through which this great thoroughfare extends. It is to be the great Appian way along which the tide of trade and travel will pass, with all the advantages that such Intercommunication will naturally develop—the impressive climax of good road-bulldlng, reflecting a common glory and a common benefit on the two sections thus knit together more intimately than ever before, and an inspiration to the new era in road-building for which this country has watted so long. The plan Itself has been greeted as nothing short of an Inspiration. It has elicited mingled wonder and admiration. It has aroused an enthusiasm which surpasses the dreams of its projectors. It will be the occasion for one of the most important road contests ever Inaugurated in the history of automobile development. Sinuous speedways where speed alone Is the center of public interest are springing up all over the country, and around their restricted area a limited number of spectators assemble. But speed alone is not the measure of efficiency in a machine. The reliability and endurance of the automobile claims the greater interest and attention, and the forthcoming contest is devised with that fact distinctly in view. It will have nine states of the Atlantic seaboard as a theatre for its presentation and, literally, myriads of spectators to watch the progress of this unique undertaking. Automobile manufacturers have been quick to realize the special adaptability of such a contest for the best test and display of their various machines, and they have approved it by acclamation. “The biggest thing ever promoted in the automobile business,” Is the way it is aptiy characterized by one of the largest of the automobile manufac turers. He expresses a sentiment which has found prompt acceptance wherever the plan has become known. It will appeal to the pride, the patriotism and the practical common sense of the people of every state and every country through which It passes. It finally supplies an Impetus for that co-operation and system in the building of a great highway, and in the stimulation of the good roads movement, which are the ctying needs of the country. It has converted automobile enthusiasm Into a dynamic power, as a waterfall is converted into electric voltage, and set to do the practical work of man. It is an alluring prospect which unfolds before the people of this country when the states of the Atlantic seaboard shall have begun to reap the rewards of this epoch-making movement. The. automobile itself has been developed to a high state of perfection. Its usefulness is limited only by the thoroughfares over which it must pass. When this trunk line for private vehicles is opened up it will become an ordinary outing to take a spin to New York in one’s own private car. It will become a four days’, a three days’, perhaps a two days’ trip, threading at ease the moat beautiful scenery east of the Rocky Mountains, with “stop-overs” at every point that fancy may suggest. For an automo blllst in any given state to traverse his own commonwealth from one boundary to the other will be an afternoon's diversion. “DlstanceT” as Napoleon might have said. “There shall be no distance! ” The Atlanta Journal and the New York Herald have undertaken this great enterprise In the confident hope of enlisting the interest not only of automoblllsts, but of the various county authorities, and when the establishment of the proposed highway has been set on foot the federal government may be Invited to lend the service of its engineers—perhaps to take charge of it and keep it up as a national military and post road, to be maintained always In the pink of condition. It offers a nucleus for the scattered energies of road-building and concentrates the attention of the various states upon a definite plan. It is expected that, inspired by a generous rivalry, every county will seek the distinction of having the most perfect section of roadway between the metropolis of the north and the metropolis of the south. From this main stem will naturally radiate, in time to come, still other roadways connecting the seaboard and the interior, until a net work of good roads has been built up. If the cost of marketing American farm products alone could be cut in half there would be, according to reliable estimates, a saving of flfty-two million dollars a year. Considering the unnecessary Investment in horses, mules and vehicles, and the value of lands which might easily be enhanced, it is estimated that bad roads cost the people of this country one billion one hundred millions of dollars every year. The proportion which falls to the states through which this highway is to run amounts to millions of dollars—not speculatively, but as the coldest and most immediate fact with which the people have to deal. To say that the proposed highway will have enriched the states through which it passes by a billion dollars in a few years is at once startling and conservative. Such are the proportions of this great movement—the most timely, the most ambitious and yet the most feasible project that has been suggested in years. The wave of enthusiasm which has been set in motion by the announcement of this plan will roll with cumulative force from now until the day when the cars leave Herald square, headed for The Journal office, next tall. It has sent a thrill of exuberance and emulation all along the line of counties through which the route Is to extend, and within a short time every county will be shaping its efforts towards producing the best stretch of roadway between New York and Atlanta It has kindled the keenest possible Interest in the automobile world. What the lens of Galileo was to astronomy, this project is to the geography of the Atlantic states. New York will be nearer to Atlanta than Augusta was to the pioneers who settled at Savannah. The Atlanta Journal and the New York Herald have launched the enterprise. It remains for the various counties alone the route to carry the project to success by their co-operation and the permanent improvement of their highways. fHE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 30. 1003. NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS AND GOSSIP WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 2«-Geoi.s gia will have eleven supervisors of the census, and about 1,800 enumerators. The number of supervisors is certain, but the number of enumerators is approximated. The census bureau believes the figures given to be correct. The supervisors will be appointed by the president, on recommendation of the directors of the census. The appoint ments will be made as soon as the cen sus bill is passed, which will be in a few days. The enumerators will be named by the director of the census on the re commendation of the supervisors. The compensation of supervisors will be $1,500 for the two or three months’ work required of him, and, in addition, they will receive one dollar per thousand of population enumerated. In some cases the compensation will run up pretty high, in the borough of Manhattan, New York, for instance, there will be but one super visor. In the state of Massachusetts there will be but a single supervisor, due to the fact that the Bay State takes a census midway between federal censuses, and keeps a census bureau open all the time. The supervisor w’ill be an attache of the state census bureau, the machin ery of which w-ill be largely employed In ■ taking the federal census. There will be a total of 328 supervisors in the country. About Enumerators It Is estimated that the total number of enumerators will reach 66,000. No ex amination will be required of the enu merators, but they will be compelled to fill out a schedule'of questions designed to develop their qualifications for the | work. As stated, recommendations will be made by the supervisors and appoint-; ments made by the director. Enumerators will be compensated at the; rate of from two to four cents per name. ! In towns of less han five thousand, the | rate will be rather above that figure, the j highest paid being in sparsely settled see tlons of the country. It Is planned to I have one enumerator for every voting j district. One supervisor will be appoint- , ed for each congressional district. ! Enumerators will be given from the 15th of April, 1910, to the 15th of May, 1910, one month in which to complete the work of numbering the Inhabitants of their dis tricts. The supervisors will be In office much longer. All reports will be made to them by enumerators, and there will j then be forwarded to Washington. Will Send Out Instructors It is intention of the census bureau to bring to Washington the supervisors from Virginia, Maryland and other nearby states, and instruct them in the methods to be followed In doing their work. These men will then be sent Into various sec tions of the country to Instruct supervls °Desplte the enormous proportions of the task involved, and despite that the com plete results of the census will not be known for two or three years, the numbering of the people will but one Bhort month. The real work of digesting and tabulating the figures which will be turned in by the tors through the supervisors, will be done by the large, trained force In the census bureau in this city. Many additional clerks will be required in the Washington office, and these will be apportioned among the several states of the union In proportion to population. Under the provisions of the bill, however, these clerks will be required to stand civil service examinations. About Appointments While the supervisors will be appointed by the president on the recommendation: of the census director, and the appoint ments will be subject to confirmation by the senate, the director of the census will consult with representatives In congress In making the appointments. President Taft has instructed Director North not to regard party lines in nominating super visors, but to pick the best suited men for the places, which means that the di rector will be guided in part by the repre sentatives and senators. In so far as Georgia is concerned, the supervisors will be named by the repre sentatives. The senators propose to hands off In the matter, and allow the congress men to control this patronage. If it Is given them by the president. Tom Felder Here Thomas S. Felder, of Macon, was in Washington last week, attending the su preme court and sightseeing. He spent some time at the capltol watching the tariff fight in the senate and sizing up | the statesmen from various parts of the country. Mr. Felder, who has a large part in reforming the convict system of Georgia, is confident that the new system will prove satisfactory, and he expresses the belief that never again will a convict be leased by the state. He is sure Governor Smith will not countenance apythlng re sembling a lease, and he does not be lieve that the exegencies will evet demand the leasing of any felons. He holds to the view that the state will be amply able to care for any “overs” not taken by the counties. Mr. Felder Quoted The Washington Post, the other morn ing, carried the following Interesting In terview with Mr. Felder: “Although the Georgia law does not provide for the unconditional abolition of the system, not another convict will ever be leased In that state, in my judg ment,” declared Thomas S. Felder, of Macon, Ga., at the Raleigh last night. Mr. Felder has led the fight in the Geor gia legislature -for many years against the lease system, and in the state senate last summer he was the leading anti lease advocate. “The lease system, w-hich has been In vogue in Georgia for many, many years, terminated on April 1, when all of the > convicts were put on the public roads.” continued Mr. Felder, “and I am quite certain that Governor Hoke Smith will never countenance anything looking like a lease so long as his term of office con tinues. I do not believe his succeessor will permit the leasing of convicts. More over, I do not believe the exigencies will ever be such that the state will have an excuse to return to the iniquitous system. "There are more than 2,000 felony con victs in Georgia, and under the old sys tem most of these were leased to private Interests. They were worked in lumber camps, coal mines, and brick plants. The 1 leases expired on April 1, and these un fortunates were taken from the mines, the sawmills, and the brick yards and placed upon the public roads, being ap portioned among the counties In propor tion to population. "I am confident the system now in op eration will prove a success. The roads of Georgia furnish abundant work for the convicts, and in time these highways will compare w-ith the best in the country. Most of the counties were eager to get the men, and already many of them are at work upon a comprehensive system of road improvement and road building. "There can be little question that the road system is an improvement over the old plan of leasing the men. It is better for the state and better for the men. The people, too, approve the plan. They were opposed to the lease system, but It was no easy matter to break it up.” WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 27-Sena tor Bailey expresses confidence that an *ncome tax will be enacted at the extra By Ralph Smith session of congress. He states frankly that enough Republicans will join the Democrats to pass the bill through the senate, and he apprehends little trouble for such a measure in the house. Senator Aldrich, the Republican boss, entertains a decidedly different view about the Income tax, it is known, but he is not so frank or free with his ex pression as is the Texan. Evidently, he realizes the formidable proportions the agitation has assumed, but has not and will not concede the possibility of its passing the senate. It Is stated that Aldrich counts upon six Democratic votes, if they are needed, to defeat the income tax bill, regardless of its shape. This rumor has been whis pered around for several days, and there is considerable speculation as to the iden tity of the Democrats Aldrich relies upon in the emergency, if the rumor is well founded. Neither of the Georgia senators will vote against the income tax. Both Sen ators Bacon and Clay are heartily in fa vor of such a measure, and they will welcome the opportunity of voting for it. It is possible that the rumor that Aid rich counts on six Democrats, if the emergency arises, comes from the uncom plimentary assumption among certain people that the Republican party can safely count on assistance from a certain class of Democrats at any time. It has been stated time and again that the Re publican machine counts as one of its as sets Its ability to get Democratic assist ance in a pinch. Indeed, it he » bee» asserted that had the house machine been short a few votes in the speakership election, owing to the insurgent move ment, enough Democrats could have been | prevailed upon to support Cannon to hav? 1 insured his re-election. . And it is established that when the | house machine was threatened with de : feat on the rules proposition enough Dem •ocrats did join with the Republicans to I save the day. 1 Would Touch Pocketbooks. ■ The enactment of an income tax law, < such as has been proposed, would touch | the pocketbooks of every senator and j representative and many government offi cials. including the president ana the members of his cabinet. In this respect the law would in effect amount to a slight reduction of the salaries of all government officials. The Bailey amendment and the amend : ment offered by Cummins provides that I Incomes in excess of $5,000 shall be sub ject to taxation, the scale being gradut ed in proportion to the income. To the extent of $2,500, at least, every senator and representative would have his Income taxed, for all of them receive salaries of $7,500 per annum. There are many members of the senate and a number of representatives who would be taxed into the thousands by such a law. Some of them would nay thousands and thousands of dollars Into the federal treasury, annually. Senator Guggenheim, of Colorado, whose Income amounts to $6,000,000 annu ally, would, under the Cummins law, pay ; $360,000 annually—and Guggenheim, strange as it may seem, favors an in come tax. Other senators who would be hit for large taxes are: Stephenson. Wisconsin. SIOO,OOO. Elkins, West Virginia, $90,000. Aldrich, Rhode Island. $45,000. Kean, New Jersey, $36,000. du Pont, Delaware, $25,000. Bourne, Newlands, Depew, Wetmorei each, $15,000. , There are seventeen other senators in the ffiillionaire class, who would be touched in like proportion, but the exact figures cannot be estimated because no one knows what their annual income ; amounts to. Speaker Cannon, Representatives Mc- Kinley, of Illinois; Huff, of Pennsylvania: Olmsted, of Pennsylvania; Lowden, of Il linois; Hayes, of California; Madden, of Illinois; Weeks, of Massachusetts; Har rison, of New York, and a dozen or two others are among the number who would be taxed heavily on their incomes. J. P. Wood, Hustler. • J. P. Wood, of Augusta, has been here for several days trying to induce con gress to consider a bill authorizing the dammingof the Savannah river eight miles above Augusta. He Is a hustler from way back, and has hopes of getting the de sired legislation at the extra session, unusual as such a procedure would be. He is handicapped by the fact that the standing committees of the house have not been appointed, but may obviate this by getting a petition from the former members of the interstate foreign I commerce committee to the speaker, ask ing that the bill be considered by a sus pension of the rules. Wood is at the head of the Georgia- Carolina Power company, which proposes to furnish the city of Augusta and sur rounding territory with electric power, generated by a plant on the Savannah river. ' Where Ignorance is Dense. What are cotton ties? There are few men, women or children in Georgia, or in Dixie land who don’t know the correct answer to the question, but, peculiar though it may appear, there are many members of congress—senators and representatives—who are completely in the dark as to what they are. The question has been asked more than once in debates in the house and senate. The average new member from New Eng land, the middle west or the northwest has labored, and many of them still labor, under the (mis)apprehenslon that cotton ties are cotton ties—neckties made of cotton, and they have been in the dark to know how a duty on cotton ties affected the farmer of the south. But when these hidebound protectionists learn that cotton ties are made of steel and are the bands that go round a bale of cotton, they wake up. not to the Injus tice being done the southern farmer, but to the injustice that might be done the manufacturing industry if the duty were lowered, or the ties placed on the free list. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 28.-"lt> a lie out of the whole cloth, so far as I know,” declared Champ Clark, minority leader of the house, when, shown a clip ping from the Chattanooga Times, say ing that he (Clark) admits privately that the Fitzgerald rules, for which the 23 Democratic bolters voted, are the real thing for the people and the Democratic party. Mr. Clark was clearly surprised when he read the clipping, which is being reproduced in Georgia newspapers by J apologists for the bolters. When asked if he cared to dictate a de nial, the Democratic leader said the re port was such a palpable lie that it did not warrant a formal denial. Here is what the Chattanooga Times says: “It is being whispered about the cor ridors at Washington that Congress man Champ Clark is privately admit ting that so far as practical results are concerneu for the good of both the people and the Democratic party, the Fitzgerald resolution was the thing. The mistake was made when Mr. Clark attempted to force a con dition under the very identical kind of a rule he was seeking to change. The vindication of the so-called Dem ocratic insurgents’ is at hand.” A Possibility—That's All It has been asserted—and it may be true—that Wail street hopes every lion in Africa may be peeved and will do his duty when Col. Theodore Roosevelt en ters the jungle, but the possibilities of NOTS' 1 /EATING w.R.auftfßh rt.a Written Expressly for The Journal By W. R. C. Latson, M. D., Editor Health Culture Magazine, Author “Food Values of Meat,” “Common Disorders." Etc. WHAT SHALL WE EAT? People all over the country are anx iously asking: ”What shall I eat In order to be well, strong and active, in order to live long and attain the fullest measure of ‘the joy of living?’ ” To answer the question to the better ment and satisfaction of the questioner is at times a rather difficult matter. But to get him or her to act upon the advice given is often a still more difficult matter. The reason for this is, I believe, not any lack of intelligence or of docility on the part of the inquirer. The mere fact of his applying for advice is proof of his sincere desire to learn the law and to apply it. The failure to follow directions is, I think, mainly because some of us who profess expert knowledge along these lines are all too prone to give advice without making the individual so advised realize that for every one of these re strictions there is, or at least there should be, a perfectly clear and easily under stood reason. For Instance I may say to a patient: “Avoid taking much sugar with your ce real and cream; and always take a bit of bread with a spoonful of the cereal. ’ Now, if I give no reason for such ad vice, he is very likely to think my rule unreasonable and arbitrary. When, however, I explain to him that the presence of cane sugar in a starchy mixture prevents the complete conversion of that starch into matter capable of feeding the body when I remind him that. Very Poor Work, The Making of The Human Body, Says This Professor RICHMOND. Va.—William H. Taylor, M. D., professor of chemistry and medi cal jurisprudence at the Medical College of Virginia, philosopher, scientist, lectur er. author and coroner of the city of Richmond for fifty years, startled the community by delivering before his class a lecture on "The Dead Body,” in which he denied many popular beliefs regarding the human body. Dr. Taylor said that man might as well look upon his descent from the dog or th« ass as the ape, adding, facetiously, that his audience might take their choice, with much satisfaction, when they came to realize what a horde of scoundrels their Immediate ancestors of northern and cen tral Europe really were. The ape, says this septuagenarian, behaves as well as his code demands, but the precoursers of the Anglo-Saxon race, despite the fact that they knew better, were a set of as arrant knaves as the world has ever known. Dr. Taylor declared that the human body is not the exalted mechanism it is vaunted to be, especially by pious people. Critical examination of man, he said, shows carelessness and bad workmanship from head to foot. Many machines and mechanisms constructed by man are bet ter made and better attain the objecta sought in their construction. He took as an example the human eye, an organ up on which much admiration has been lav ished, and quoted the statement of a learned investigator to the effect that any maker of optical instruments who sent out such a piece of work would certainly have it thrown back on 1 his hands. Speaking of the widespread dread of premature burial. Dr. Taylor said that tn his experience of 50 years as a coroner he this forlorn hope are nothing as com pared to the happiness—in Wall street— that would be created should the ex-pres ident fall into the hands of Moslem fa natics in the Sudan, a la Rasullli-Pendl carls. And such a story- It would be! Roosevelt the captive of a band of fool ish fanatics, being held for ransom, or. more likely, as a curiosity. The Rasuilll incident would pale into insignificance, and a Hon feast, with Colonel Roosevelt supplying the food, would be as noth ing. Colonel Roosevelt is due in the Moslem territory a year hence, just about the time the fuzzy wuzzles of that land find out there has been trouble in Constanti nople. The colonel weighs about 190 pounds, and undoubtedly would furnish a delightful feast for a Hon, but he would be a fatter morsel for a Soudanese tribes man chief speculating on how to make money. Rasuilli. the Moroccan chief, grabbed Perdtcarls and held him for ransom, and there was a big to do over it all-over Perdicaris, a comparatively unimportant personage. One Theodore Roosevelt, for the purpose of ransom, would be worth a couple of dozen regiments of Perdlca rlses. ‘ Will Be Out of Reach In theory, the British government has good control over the land through which Roosevelt will travel. The Somalis and Soudanese are supposed to be at profound peace with the white king and all his sub jects. And yet It is testified by Sir Henry Johnstone that for months and weeks Roosevelt will be out of touch with the IN AFRICA i * NEWS ITEM—Mr. Roosevelt rode on the cowcatcher and was delighted /jf / // </I \ If you think for a moment He won’t be in front, Just see what the wires have flashed, sir— He rode on the cowcatcher for 79 miles, and all records for riding he’s smashed, sir. , Henry C. Wagstaff ♦ AUTHOR’S FOREWORD ♦ I I ♦ “In these articles I shall try to ♦ ■ -* give you plain and practical direc- ♦ ■; tions as to what to eat, how to eat, ♦ I when to eat and how to use food so ♦ i i as to get from it the greatest possl- ♦ ! ♦ bie amount of health, strength and ♦ ; ♦ pow’er of both body and mind. -• i; ♦ “I have no ‘fads’ or iconoclastic ♦ ; ♦ ideas to present—just plain common ♦ !■ ♦ sense. I shall no doubt say some ♦ ( l e- things with which you will not ♦ agree. Am I right or wrong? ♦ [ Here’s the test: Follow my sug- ♦ > gestions for a fortnight and see.”— ♦ > W. R. Latson. ♦ i ♦ t ! by taking a bit of bread with every spoon ful of cereal, he is therefore quite cer tain to masticate it thoroughly, and ac tually digest at least a part of it in the . mouth. When I have taken the trouble to do this he appreciates that there is a reason for the advice; and, if a reasonable man, he gets his money’s worth by obeying di rections. (In his next article. Dr. Latson points i out the danger in the frying pan’s prq ’ ducts, in corned and salt meats, and tells why meat Is denied rheumatics.—Editor.) =■ > »; A. - PROF. WM. H. TAYLOR had been called upon to visit the bodies of thousands of people presumed to be dead, and that not one of them has ever falsified the presumption. Certainly, he says, when the present day undertaker finishes his manipulations with his em balming fluids, reanimation In this world is utterly out of the question. British government, if he follows the path laid out for himself. Sir Henry thought it would be all right, because when he himself passed through the coun try, he was received only with kindness. However, Sir Henry was only a governor. He was hardly worth stealing for a ran som. Not so with Colonel Roosevelt. Alone he is worth many thousands of poundj sterling to the chief who will take him and hold him until Secretary Knox, acting under the direction of President Taft, di rects a message to be sent to the nomi nal ruler of the land: "Roosevelt alive, or his captor dead.” The late John Hay, when secretary of state, sent somewhat similar message to the sultan of Morocco concerning Perdicaris, and President Roosevelt sent a copy of the Hay mes sage to the. Chicago convention. Os course, no one expects Colonel Roose velt to fail Into the hands of bandits, but if he should— Fame Glasxow News. Scotland lias a great reputation for laamlng In the Tnited States, and a lady who came over from Boaton recently expected to find the proverbial shepherd quoting Virgil and the laborer who had Burnaby heart she was disillusioned in Edinburgh. Accoatßtf a po liceman.. she inquired as to the whereabouts of Carlyle's house. "Which Carlyle?” he salted. ‘■Thomas Carlyle.” said the lady. "What doea he do?” “He was a writer—but he’s dead,” she fal tered. • Well, madam.” the big Scot informed her. "if the man is dead over five years there’s little chance of finding out anything about him In a big city like this."
