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NOT YET READY TO QUIT FIGHT President Small Offends the Stak ing Telegraphers, ORDERED OFF CONTEST Asked Locals to Vote on Question of Re turning to Work and Raised a Howl. Is Suspended for His Action. A New York special says: The strike of Commercial Telegraphers . which Has been in progress throughout the -country since tlie first of August took an extraordinary turn Saturday night National President Small of the Tel egraphers Union sent a message to all •the cities of the country, asking the locals to vote at once upon the propo sition of calling off the strike. When this became known to the lo cal leaders in New York they raised a storm of protest, declaring that they would continue the fight to the end In spite of the national president. Mr. Small’s telegram went out on the wires at the end of a conference with Commissioner of Labor O’Neill, The ■commissioner came on from Washing ton to make a final effort to induce the Western Union and Postal com panies to arbitrate at least some of the strikers’ demands. When the mission failed, Commis sioner Neill assured President Small that the position of the companies re mained absolutely unchanged and that there was no hope In that direction. The message that followed from Mr Small read: “Prominent New Yorkers have ap pealed to me to call the strike off. All efforts at negotiations are exhausted and the companies say they will fight to a finish. The treasury Is depleted and there, are no more funds availa ble. Requests for relief from all sides are heavy and urgent. The strike Having been ordered without the pres ident's sanction, I recommend that the locals vote upon the proposition.’’ Apparently this telegram was dis patched without either the knowledge or consent of the local strike leaders, for all of them at headquarters de nied that there was the slightest in tention of calling off the strike. Notwithstanding President Small’s opinion that the strike is hopeless, the New York Telegraphers’ Union, at a meeting Sunday, vot?d unanimously to continue the strike against the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies. The meeting was characterized by bitter exchanges between President Small and the other speakers. The latter charged the national leader with Inconsistency in first claiming that the strike would be successfully financed and admitting that the general as sembly was without funds, and with having conducted the fight in a half hearted dilatory way. Small tried to ■explain his position, but was frequently interrupted by hisses. When he suddenly left the hall in the midst of the speech-making, cries ol “resign” followed him. Sunday night Small issued a statement, in which he said he was willing to continue the strike if the men insisted. Small’s suggestion that a vote be ta kn on the question of calling off the strike were repudiated by members of the Chicago local union at a meeting Sunday afternoon. A resolution that the strike be continued was unani mously adopted. The meeting was followed by a demonstration of strength by the striking, operators be fore the offices of the telegraph com panies. The men marched in double file in the streets shouting “S-ti-c-k!” and otherwise voiced their opposition v to, the suggestion of surrender. The striking telegraph operators held a meeting in Baltimore, at which it was voted to continue the strike nine weeks more if necessary. The Commercial Telegraphers at New Orleans also voted to continue the strike. Montgomery, Ala., local of the Tel egraphers’ Union, at a meeting, held Bundav evening, voted unanimously to ■ continue the strike. Small is Suspended. The following message was sent to President Small by the executive com mittee at Chicago Sunday night: “Under article 15, section 7, of the constitution of the Commercial Teleg raphers' Union of America, you are hereby suspended from the office of president, to take effect immediately. “S. J. KOXENKAMP, “Acting Chairman.” BOOZE AND RELIGION Mixed at Meetings Caused Race Clash in Which White and Black Men Receive Injuries. Two badiv injured negroes lodged In jail at Toecoa, Ga., uud r felony charg es, three white men slightly wounded, one pitched battle with guns, among the negroes, and numerous fights, have been the results of blind tiger corn liquor sold at the negro Lula Baptist Association, which has been iu sessiou at Two-Mile Church, near Toe* coa, for several days. The association is composed of the negro churches throughout northeast Georgia and part of eastern South Carolina, and thousands are iu attend ance. Sunday afternoon the shooting and fighting around the church grew so general and dangerous that white peo ple living near complained to Sheriff Stow. The latter, with Chief of Po lice Mize, went to the church just at night, quollc-d the riotous conduct with some difficulty and arrested Rich liarber of Walhalla, S. C„ who started the shooting. The sheriff started to the city with the negro, but before reaching the cor porate limits, the prisoner showed fight, and sprang from the buggy with the. intention of running, but Sheriff Stow caught him and a terrible fight ensued. After several minutes Har ber was beaten into submission and landed In jail. John Cape, a white man, lives about one mile from the church. During Saturday night, a drunken negro, Thos. Browner, who lives near Lavonla.went to the home of Cope, and demanded possession of th’e house. After some words, Cope secured his shotgun and fired at the negro, but failed to hit him. Having no more shells, Cope took his wife and children to the home of a neighbor. Returning to his house immediately wdth several white friends, they found Browner in bed asleep. The negro re fused to surrender and a general fight ensued. After several shots were fired, entrance to the house was ob tained, and the negro wag beaten into submission. In the fight C. C. Wal ters and two other white men received painful injuries. ' ’• ■ ’ The excitement near the church was at a high pitch and some of the white people armed themselves in anticipa tion of further trouble. THIRD TERM FOR ROOSEVELT Boosted by General Helm, of Mississippi, in Open Letter. Brigadier General George M. Helm, commanding the Second brigade, Mis sissippi division, United Confederate Veterans, one of the wealthiest plant era of the delta and a lifelong demo crat, has created much surprise ic political circles and among confeder ate veterans, by an open letter iE which he strongly advocates the elec tion of President Roosevelt for a tliirc term. General Helm waives the question of republicanism aside as to trivia for discussion, and urges that part} lines be dropped in order that the business iut.Tests. of the south ma> be benefited by the retention of Mr. Roosevelt in office, the chief reason, he urges, being the construction o' the d:ep water channel from the lakes to the gulf. ALLEGED EMBEZZLER ON TRIAL. Percy Fonville Arraigned on Charge of Looting Charlotte Bank. The sensational case against Per cy Fonville of Alabama, formerly en gaged in the bucket shop business in Charlotte and in South Carolina, who is charged with complicity in embez-, zling the funds of the Charlotte Na tional bank, to the extent of about $70,000 in which bank Cashier Frank Jones, now serving sentence in the Atlanta prison, got the money and ran away, came up Friday morning in Greensboro, N. C. HIS SWEETHEART REMAINED TROE Convict Leaves Prison to Wed Woman With Big Eank Account. Miss Clara Leach, a wealthy woman of Worcester, Mass., has just been wedded to John W. Mahr. a former convict. The romance behind the wedding involves the unwavering de votion of a woman for a business mar. she loved despite the disgrace follow ing his arrest, for larceny and forgery, and consequent conviction and incar ceration for nearly four years in jail- He Was Sitting Down. The late James A. Bailey, famous as the successor of P. T. Barnum, once accepted an invitation to a din ncr tendered to a bride and groom among the "freaks" of his circus. lie was late in arriving and found the company politely awaiting him. There were living skeletons, dwarfs, Cir cassians, snake charmers, the "girl that spoke seven languages and had two heads which made fourteen lang uages in all," the “dog-faced boy” and others. Beaming upon them with paternal air, the happy manager ac knowledged the genial "Hello, pop, that went around the festal board. “I am sorry I kept you waiting.” he. said, taking his place at the table. “I believe there are several new ad ditions to the company. Is this the groom ?” “No," replied a deep voice from the full beard addressed. “I am the bride.” “I beg your pardon,” said Mr. Bal ley, “I did not recognize the beard ed lady. But, tell me, which Is the groom?” “I am,” proclaimed a very thin voice. In astonishment Mr. Bailey glanced up at the figure towering near his elbow. “I congratulate you. mv man." said the manager. “Sit down, let us on with the beast —sit down." The guest addressed at once began to ascend seemingly until his head was In the neighborhood of the can vas roof, from which height he look ed down and said: “I was slttln’-down, pop—l was sit tin’ down!” —Success Magazine. During 1906 immigrants to the num ber of 1,221 arrived in Chile against 293 for 1905 and 4,000 for the first four months of 1907. “800-MOO” •’ i • Shouts a Spanked Baby* A Doctor of Divinity, now Editor of a well-known Religious paper, has written regarding the controversy be tween Collier’s WeeKly and the Re ligious Press of the Country and oth ers, Including ourßelves. Also re garding suits for libel brought by Collier’s against us for commenting upon Its methods. These are his sentiments, with some very emphatic words left out. “The religious Press owoh you a debt of gratitude for your courage in showing up Collier’s Weekly as the “Yell-Oh Man.” Would you care to use the inclosed article on the “800 Hoo Baby” as the “Yell-Oh Mans” successor ? ” "A contemporary remarks that Col lier’s has finally run against a solid hickory “Post” and been damaged in its own estimation to the tune of $750,000.00.” “Here is a publication which has, in utmost disregard of the facts, spread broadcast damaging state ments about the Religious Press and others and has suffered those false statements to go uncontradicted, un til, not satisfied after finding the Re ligions Press too qnlet, and peaceful, to resent the Insults, It makes the mistake of wandering into a fresh field and butts Its rattled head against this Post and all the World laughs. Even Christians smile, as the Post suddenly turns and gives it back a dose of Its own medicine.” “It Is a mistake to say all the World laughs. No cheery laugh comes from Collier’s, but It cries and boo boos like a spanked baby and wants $750,000.00 to soothe Its ten der, lacerated feelings.” “Thank Heaven it has at last struck a man with “back bone” enongb to call a spade a “spado” and who believes in telling the whole truth without fear or favor.” Perhaps Collier’s with its “utmost disregard for the facts,” may say no such letter exists. Nevertheless it is on file in our office and Is only one of a mass of letters and other data, newspaper comments, etc., denounc ing the “yellow" methods of Collier’s. This volume Is so large that a man could not well go thru it under half a day’s steady work. The letters come from various parts of America. Usually a private controversy is not. interesting to the public, but this Is a public controversy. Collier's lias been using the “yel low” methods to attract attention to Itself, but, Jumping in the air, crack ing heels together and yelling “Hook at me” wouldn’t suffice, so it started ont on a “Holier Than Thou” attack on the Religious Press and on medi cines. We leave It to the public now, as we did when we first resented Col lier’s attacks, to say whether, in a craving for sensation and circulation, its attacks do not amount to a sys tematic mercenary hounding. We likewise leave It to the public to say whether Collier’s, by Its own policy and methods, has not mads luelf How to Kill the Varmints. As for Bill, he seemed to regard the act of killing a skunk as a pleas ant detail of the business. With the extra burlap bag spread acrcsß his left arm as his sole protection against skunk-ammunition, he would walk calriily into the melee. It would be a short fight. The skunk depends almost entirely upon its “spraying liquid” for Its defense against an enemy, and seems to lose its nerve when attacked at close quarters. It will bite at the grass and-apparently go mad with rage, but these parox ysms ar£ but harmless evidences of fright. At least, Bill seemed to care nothing for them. If the animal was “shooting-mad," Bill would shelter his face behind the burlap bag. and watt until the eruption was finished. If not, so much the better for Bill. He would wait patiently for the right moment, and then —crack! —down fell the heavy club on the skunk’s back bone. and Jones would have another addition to his game-sack.—From "A Night with a .tersev Skunker." bv W. H. Kltchell in The Outing Maga- One Gleam of Sunshine. Ills play Is a rank failure. It is a frost and a fizzle —and he knows it. The dramatist bows his head upon his hands and refuses to be comfort ed, for It is his first flunk. One by one, his friends try to say something that will console him, hut to no avail. Finally his trusting wife finds one sunny gleam in the clouds. “Anyway," she says, "you didn't have to go through the ordeal of making a speech before the curtain and you know you always said you would be thankful beyond w'ords If you could escape thut.” —From Suc cess Magazine. more ridiculous than any comment of ours could make It. Does Collier’s expect to regain any self-inflicted loss of prestige by dem onstrating thru suits for damages, that it can be more artful In evading liability for libels than the humble but resentful victims of lta defama tion. or does It hope by starting a campaign of libel bußs to silence the popular Indignation, reproach and re sentment which it has aroused. Collier’s can not dodge this public controversy by private law suits. It can not postpone the public Judg ment against it. That great Jury, the Public, will h-trdly blame us for not waiting until we get a petit Jury In a court room, before denouncing this prodigal detractor of Institutions founded and fostered either by indi viduals or by the public. Itself. No announcements during our en tire business career were ever made claiming “medicinaleffects” for either Postum or Grape-Nuts. Medicinal effects are results obtalnod from the use of medicines. Thousands of visitors go thru our entire works each month and see for themuelves that Grapo-Nuts contains absolutely nothing but wheat, barley and a little salt; Postum absolutely nothing but and about ten percent of Now Orleans molasses. The art of preparing these simple ele ments in a scientific manner to ob tain the best food value and flavour, required some work and experience to acquire. Now, when any publication goes far enough out of Its way to attack* us because oilr'advertising Is “med ical,” It simply offers a remarkable exhibition of Ignorance, or worse. We do not claim physiological or bodily results of favorable character following the adoption of our sug gestions regarding the discontinuance of coffee and foods Which may not be keeping the individual In good health. We have no advice to offer the per fectly healthful person. His or her health is evidence In itself that the beverages and foods used exactly' fit that person. Therefore, why change? But to the man or woman who Is ailing, we have something to say as a result of an unusually wide experi ence In food and the result of proper feeding. In the palpably ignorant attack on us In Collier’s, appeared this state ment, —“One widely circulated para graph labors to Induce the impression that Grape-Nuts will obviate the ne cessity of an operation in appendi citis. This is lying and potentially deadly lying.” jn reply to this exhibition of well let the reader name It, the Pos tum Cos., says: Let It be understood that appendi citis results from long continued dis turbance In the intestines, caused pri marily by undigested starchy food, i such as white bread, potatoes, rlco, I partly cooked cereals and such. Starchy food is not digested In the upper stomach but passes on Into the Cuban Proverb*. There are beautiful flowers, which* if worn in the hair, wilP smear a belle with sticky juice. Give me a sinner trying to be good. Keep, yourself, for all I care, the idla saint. He who has been wise enough to get plenty of salve will be too wise to have much need for it. Constant scratching will change the itch Into an abscess. So beans, so children. Becoming ripe they forget their pods with speed. Kicked by the bare foot of a pauper one is more hurt than If kicked by the king in golden sandals, and more resentful, and hard and sharp edged Jewels on the hand that pats giro comfort and not bruises to the patted head. I force my mule to walk, to trot, to run; yet ho weighs thrice as much as I. I cannot force my new-born babo to smile, yet I could crush him with one hand. Could we see through a man’s shirt, how often would wo refuse to glvo him friendship. The back of a machete would cut as well as the front If enough time wore Bpent In sharpening It. Locked in Cabanas one does not shout because the day is fine. Sailors. In calm, pray for another ship so that they may visit; In storm they pray for solitude, that they may avoid collision. And O, remember that storms rise quickly out of calm* THE LACK. Knicker—There are plenty of books telling how to save life while waiting for tho doctor. Bocker —Yes. What we need la one telling the young doctor how to sava life while waiting for the patient.— Harper’s Bazar. doudonum, or lower stomach and \n~ testines, where, lu a healthy Indi vidual, the transformation of the starch into a form of sugar Is com pleted and then the food absorbed the blood. But If the powers of digestion arw weakened, a part of the slarehy food will lie In the warmth and moisture of the body and decay, generating gases anil Irritating the mucous faces until under such conditions the whole lower part of the alimentary canal, including the colon and *.b appendix, becomes Involved. Dlseasw sets up and at times takes the form known as appendicitis. When the symptoms of the troublw make their appearance, would It not b® good, practical, common sense, to discontinue the starchy food which la causing the trouble and take a food in which the starch has been trans formed Into a form of sugar in tho process of manufacture? This Is Identically the same form of sugar found In the human body after starch has been perfectly di gested. Now, human food Is made up very largely of starch and Is required by the body for energy and warmth. Naturally, therefore, Its use should be,continued, If possible, and for tho reasons given above It is made possi ble In the manufacture of Grape- Nut*. v In connection with this change of foock toj brlfig relief from physical disturbances, , we .have suggested washing out the intestines to get rid of the immediate cause of the dl*-“ turbance. Naturally, there are cases where the disease has lalft dormant and the abuse continued ’ too lohg, until ap parently only the knife will aValt. But It rs a well-established fact among the best physicians who'are acquainted with tbe detalls above Ve clted, that preventative measure* ar* far and away the best. Are we to be condemned for sug gesting a way to prevent disease by following natural- methods and for perfecting a food that contalni no “medicine” and produces no “medic inal effects” but which has guided lit erally thousands of persons from sickness to health? We have received during the years past upwards of 2*,- 000 letters from people who havo been either helped or made entirely well by following our suggestions, and they are simple. If coffee disagrees and causes any of the aliments common to some coffee users quit It and take oa Postum. If white bread, potatoes, rice and other starch foods make trouble, quit and use Grape-Nuts food which is largely predigested and will digest, nourish and strengthen, when other forms of food do not. It’s just plain, old common sense. “There’s a Reason” for Postum and Grape-Nuts. Postum Cereal Cos., Ltd.