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NEW DESIGNS PLANNED
American Money Will Be Uni
form in Appearance.
PORTRAITS WILL BE USED
One Dollar Note Will Carry Likeness of
Washington, Two Dollar That of
Lincoln; Ten Dollar, Cleveland.
Washington, D. C.—Assistant Secre
tary of the Treasury Coolidge has ap
proved a plan for systematizing de
signs for United States notes and
coin certificates, thus carrying into ef
feet a scheme of uniformity in por
trait and general design for notes of
the same denomination of each class.
The plan will embody the ideas of
the treasury > department, bankers,
business men and treasury experts,
it is expected the new notes when
put in circulation will be welcomed
by the public on account of their siui
plicity and readiness with which each
denomination may be fixed in mind.
At present there are 19 different de
uigns for United States notes and
coin certificates of various denomina
tion, leading to confusion and uncer
tainty. Under the new plan there
will be but nine and the possibility
of confusion will be reduced to a
minimum while the artistic quality ot
the notes will be greatly enhanced.
Under the plan adopted, all classes
of notes of each denomination will
carry the same portrait and no por
trait will appear on the notes of more
than one denomination, nor will any
portrait be used which will not be im
mediately recognizable by every per
son who handles money. The one dol
lar silver certificate will carry the
l>ortrait of Washington; the two dol
lar note whether silver certif
icate or greenback will carry
the portrait of Lincoln; the ten
dollar gold and silver certificate and
United States that of Cleveland; the
twenty dollar that of Jackson; the
fifty dollar that of Grant; the one
hundred dollar that of Franklin; the
five hundred dollar that of Salmon P.
Chase; the one thousand dollar that
of Alexander Hamilton.
GENERAL EVANS APMIINIS STAFF.
Brigadier Thomas G. Jones of Mont
gomery Made Inspector General.
New Orleans, La.—By command of
General Clement A. Evans of Atlanta,
commander-in-chief, Adjutant General
Mickel of the United Confederate
Veterans, issued from the headquar
ters in New Orleans the following list
of appointments:
Brigadier General Thomas G. Jones,
Montgomery, Ala., Inspector general.
Brigadier General J. P. Shipp, Chat
tanooga, Tenn,, quartermaster gen-,
eral.
Brigadier General Thomas E. Da
vis, New Orleans, commissary gen
eral.
Brigadier General E. M. Hudson,
New Orleans, judge advocate general.
Brigadier General C. H. Tebault, M.
D., of New Orleans, surgeon gen
eral.
Brigadier General Bennett H.
Young, Louisville, Ky., chief of ord
nance.
brigadier General H. A. Newman,!
Huntsville, Mo., assistant adjutant
general.
Brigadier General D. R. Gurley,
T qco, Texas, assistant adjutant gen
eral.
Brigadier General H. W. Graber,
Dallas, Texas, assistant adjutant gen
eral.
Brigadier General E. G. Williams,
Waynesville, Mo., assistant adjutant
general.
Brigadier General Charles H. Hook
er, Jackson, Miss., assistant adjutant
general.
Brigadier General E. D. Willett,
Long Beach, Miss., assistant quarter
master general.
Colonel It. E. Park, Atlanta, Ga.,
assistant inspector general.
Colonel J. Thompson Brown, Rich
mond, Va., assistant quartermaster
general.
Colonel R. P. Lake, Memphis,Tenn.,
assistant inspector general.
Colonel Henry Meyers, Memphis,
Tenn., assistant .quartermaster gen«v
eral.
Colonel B. F. Jonas, New Orleans,
assistant judge advocate general.
The list of aides-de-camps includes
United States Senator John W. Dan
iel of Virginia, United States Senator
elect John Sharp Williams of Missis
sippi, Colonel W. J. Crawford of Mem
phis, Tenn.; f
TO DISSOLVE STANDARD OIL.
Government Files Suit in United
States Court at St. Louis.
St. Louis, Mo.—Special Assistant to
the United States Attorney General
Frank B. Kellogg filed his brief of 1,-
40') pages with the clerk of the Unit
ed States circuit court of this city
and commenced his argument after
two years of evidence taking in the
government’s suit to dissolve the
Standard Oil corporation of New Jer
sey for alleged violation of the Sher
man act.
YEMEN DYNAMITUAIL
“Tennessee Dutch” and Geo. Barton
Escape from Greenville Prison.
Greenville, S. C. —Garber Moore,
alias “Tennessee Dutch,” and George
Barton, alleged yeggmen, who were
arrested in Birmingham, Ala., and
who were brought here by postoffice
inspectors on March 20th on a charge
of having committed numerous post
office robberies in this state, escaped
from the countv jail by dynamiting
the floor of the cell. They drilled
holes in the rock floor of the jail
with a drill made of an umbrella han
dle. It is believed they had outside
help. Indications are that the drill
ing was done from a cellar under
the prisoner’s cell.
ARMY MONEY FOR SOUTH.
Large Sums to Be Spent on Improve
ments and New Works.
Washington, D. C. —While It has
not yet been decided by the war de
partment, owing to the short time
which has passed since congress ap
propriated the money, how all of the
military appropriations for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1910, will be,
spent, it is believed that the south
will receive a goodly share of thd
money.
ui the more than $4,000,000 asked
for to be used for barracks and quar
ters, $3,500,000 was granted. The cut
in the amount asked for will mean, of
course, that some of the construction
work which the department had plan
ned to do during the next fiscal year
must be deferred.
For roads, walks, wharves and
drainage, the sum of $1,367,000 was
asked for, of which $1,100,000 was
granted. This means that mo6t of
the work planned by the department
in this line can be carried out. ft
was desired to spent at Fort Pickens,
Florida, $7,413; at Fort Morgan, Ala
bama, about $14,000; at Fort Sam
Houston, Texas, about $37,000; at St.
Thomas, Ky., a little more than $15,-
000; at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., about
s4j>oo; at Key West Banks, Fla., $785;
at Fort Monroe, Va., $3,000, and at
Fort Barrancas, Fla., SIO,OOO, all of
the above being for road construction
and repair. At Fort Taylor, Fla.,
SS,OOO was asked for to construct a
wharf, which, It was stated, “will be
an expensive structure owing to its
great length and the character of the
bottom on which it Is placed. This
is indepndent of the project for sea
wall and fill.”
For grading and improving the
land at the following points appropri
ations, included in that for walks,
roads and so forth were asked for:
Fort Morgan, Ala., about $3,600; Fort
Barrancas, Fla., $10,000; Fort Scre
ven, Ga., $51,500; Fort St. Philip, La.,
$28,000; Fort Pickens, Fla., $20,500,
and Fort DeSoto, Fla., $10,650. For
deeping the channel to the wharft at
Fort Moultrie, Ga., $44,875 was asked
for.
In the matter of specific appropria
tions for fortifications and other
works of defense under the engineer
department of the army almost a
million dollars is allotted for Pensa
cola harbor and Galveston, to be
spent during 1910. For Pensacola
there Is appropriated $507,000 to com
plete the sea walls for the protection
of the sites of the fortifications and
other necessary post buildings at
Forts Pickens and McKee, while $440,-
OJO is appropriated for the construc
tion of a sea wall and fill for the pro
tection of the militatry reservation at
Fort Travis.
PAYIMt TARIFF BILL FAULTY.
If Passed Would Be Shy $45,000,000
Making Ends Meet.
Washington, D. C. Discovery of a
seeming error in estimating the rev
enues to be derived under the rates
of the Payne bill make that measure
apparently utterly inadequate to meet
the running expenses of the govern
ment. The error is alleged to foot
up a total of $45,000,000.
The error is thus explained. In
laying his bill before the house, Chair
man Payne explained that each year
there is an average of from two to
eight per cent of appropriations that
are not expended; in other words,
that from $20,000,000 to $80,000,000
of the total sums portioned out by
congress each year is never expended
and therefore can be accounted as ad
ditional revenue for the succedenig
year.
To strike a fair average Chairman
Payne estimated the annual unex
pended appropriations at 5 per cent,
which, on $900,000,000, furnished him
with the $45,000,000 reserve or a “vel
vet.”
Estimating further that he would
secure $70,000,000 from a tax on tea
the chairman of the ways and means
committee presented an array of fig
ures that just about seemed to show
that his* bill would furnish plenty of
revenue to carry the government
through.
But now comes the discovery that
Instead of unexpended appropriations
being turned back into the treasury
at the close of each year, all appro
priations are available for three years
after the close of the fiscal year for
which they are made, in order that
payments on continuing contracts
may be met. In some cases such as
for fortifications, rivers and harbors,
etc., the appropriations are available
indefinitely.
NEWSY PARAURAPHS,
Archdeacon Emery, who for almost
a decade has presided over the mis
sionary field of California jurisdic
tion, has resigned. The notoriety
coming at this time through the mar
riage of his daughter, Helen Gladys
Emery, to Gunjiro Aoki has been a
source of great worry to the clergy
man, and, because of the criticism it
has caused, he thought it best to re
sign.
Buried six feet deep in a wagon
load of cotton seed, the dead body
of an unknown white man. badly de
| composed, was found at Clinton, S. C.,
j by a negro, who was driving the team
from the ginnery of the Clinton oil
mill. A pistol and over S2OO were
found on his person and a shotgun
was by his side.
The bill to repeal the Sturgis law
for the better enforcement of the pro
hibitory liquor law was passed with
out debate in the Maine house of rep
resentatives, despite the fact that the
bill had been defeated in the senate.
The Sturgis law has bad much to
do with Maine politics the past four
years, but will not change that law
unless the senate recedes from its
position.
THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. CURTIS LEE LAWS.
Theme; Backsliding.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—ln the Greene
Avenue Baptist Church, Sunday, the
pastor, the Rev. Dr. Curtis Lee Laws,
preached a strong sermon on “Back
sliding.” The text was from Proverbs
14:14: “The backslider in heart
shall be filled with his own ways.”
Dr. Laws said:
Do you recall your early experi
ences in the service of the Lord? Do
you remember the day and hour
when the burden of sin rolled off
your heart, and when you could look
up for the first time into the face of
your heavenly Father, rejoicing in
His presence and in His love? Do
you not recall how the whole world
suddenly became mure beautiful and
how your heart yearned over your
friends and enemies as never before?
There was on old man converted to
Christ down in Washington some
time ago He was a rugged old fel
low, his esthetic nature had not been
much cultivated, and he did not have
an artist’s eye. The mon ing after
his conversion, when his wife came
down to breakfast, he was standing
at the dining room window looking
out at the desolate winter scenery.
He turned and said: “Wife, come
here and look, come here and look;
the very trees are clapping their
hands in praise to God!” Ah, in the
days gone by there has been many an
echo of those words in many a heart
here.
To me after I found God, the whole
world was more beautiful; the sky
was bluer, the grass was greener, the
breezes were softer, the sun was
warmer and all mankind were dearer
to me.
What is the meaning of all this?
It means that I had found that which
was the complement of my whole be
ing. As Augustine said: “O Lord,
Thou hast made us for Thyself, and
we are restless till we rest in Thee.”
It means that in God I had fuund the
satisfaction which this world had
never afforded me, for as the ocean
only can fill the ocean’s bed, so God
alone can satisfy the mind of man*
Blessed is the man who has been rec
onciled to his heavenly Father, who
has returned like the prodigal to his
Father’s love.
I turn now to the dark side of the
picture. How few of us have kept
this early joy, and have continued in
this blessed peace? Of course you
know the story of the lost chord? A
woman, in the shadows of the twi
light, when her heart was sad, gently
touched the keys of a glorious organ.
She did not know or care what she
was playing; her fingers lingered idly
but caressingly upon the keys. Sud
denly she struck a chord, and its won
drous melody as It filled the room
was uplifting and transforming and
heavenly.
It flooded the crimson twilight.
Like the close of an angel’s psalm,
And it lay on her fevered spirit
With the touch of infinite calm
> \
It quieted pain and sorrow.
Like love overcoming strife;
It seemed the harmonious echo 1
From our discordant life.
It linked all perplexed meanings
Into one perfect peace,
And trembled away in silence,
As if it were loth to cease.
Something disturbed this woman
and called her from the organ. As
soon as possible she hurried back and
began to play, but this divine chord
was gone, and though she kept on
playing she could not bring it back
again.
How similar to our experience as
the children of God and yet how op
posite! Many of us have lost our
peace, our joy, our rapture, but bless
God, we can all have this heavenly
music in our souls again, if we are
willing, for God is willing to heal our
backsliding. Backsliding is so com
mon among Christians as to be almost
universal. Of course, there are dif
ferent degrees of backsliding. Some
have gone only a little way, while
other's have gone so far that the re
turn will be difficult, but thank God,
nc.t impossible.
First of all, let us consider how
men become backsliders. The word
Itself is significant. To go forward
requires effort, to go backward re
quires no effort at all. In the Chris
tian life, if you cease to go forward
you will inevitably go backward.
This backsliding always begins in the
heart. We may go on for a time in
the outward performance of duty, in
the ceaseless round of Christian ac
tivities, while in our hearts these
things are growing more and more
distasteful. The heart may therefore
be in wrong relation to a given thing,
while our actions may be perfectly ex
emplary. But God knows that that
man is a backslider, and he knows it
himself. Whether others know it
matters very little. But after a time
all men will know it. for the back
slider In heart generally becomes the
backslider in life. It is very hard for
men to continue long in hypocrisy.
Ordinarily a man’s outward life is the
expression of his inner life. A man’s
character may be better than his rep
utation, or a man’s reputation may be
better than his character, but ordi
narily reputation and character agree.
We call the uncouth and uncivil “dia
monds in the rough.”
We constantly say of the man who
sins with his tongue, ‘‘Well, you
know, he is very hasty and impetuous,
and often says things which he does
not mean.” But God says these
things have their origin in the heart,
and from the heart flow outward.
When our conduct becomes bad, it is
because we have already been back
sliders in our hearts. Then bad leads
to worse. Like Peter, we begin “to
follow the Lord afar off,” and this in
evitably leads to the denial of our
Master. You remember that when
the Master was taken captive He was
immediately forsaken by His apostles.
Then began the procession from Geth
semane to the judgment hall. The
Master walked alone His weary way.
He trod the wine-press alone. The
shadow of the cross had already
fallen athwart His pathway. But
after a little while two of the apostles
summon up courage and follow the
company. One of these was John,
and he walked as close to Jesus as he
possibly could. But Peter did not
have the courage to do that, so he
lagged behind, or, as the record savs,
“he followed afar off.” When the
company reached the judgment hall,
John went in with Jesus, but Peter,
straggling in late, dared not go there,
but with shamefacedness sat out in
the court and warmed himself by the
fire. Step by step he had led to his
own undoing. The servants jeered
him and taunted him, until he grew
profane and blasphemous, and de
clared that he never knew Jesus of
Nazareth. Had he followed close to
the Master, the presence of Jesus
would have sustained and strength
ened him, in the companionship of
John he would have found courage,
and he would have been saved from
the influence of the evil company
which proved his ruin. Is not this
the proper diagnosis of many sin-sick
souls among us? Is not this the
exact history of your backsliding?
You began by sheer neglect. You did
not commit outward positive sins,
but you neglected the means of grace.
You were startled when you recog
nized the growing indifference in your
heart. Bible reading became irk
some, and you no longer delighted in
private prayer. In the meantime
your devotion to business or pleasure
caused you to give up the prayer
meeting. Then you became irregular
on Sunday evenings, and gradually
you dropped out of all church attend
ance. In the meantime you were
not sustained and cheered by the
conscious presence of your Lord nor
strengthened by the companionship of
your fellow Christians. Then you
drifted out among unbelievers, and
perhaps they have taunted you Into
denying your Master in ways which
ten years ago you would not have
dreamed of! Of course you did not
start out to make shipwreck of your
faith. You were hoodwinked by the
devil. Even a fool would shun the
first steps toward evil if he could
see the end from the beginning. In
our city there are tens of thousands
of men and women who have drifted
Into sin and drifted out of the
church. My heart yearns over these
people, for they belong to God. They
have been redeemed by the blood of
God’s Son. They ought to be eating
at their Father’s table, but instead of
this they are spending their all in
riotous living, or It may be that the
devil has already put them to feeding
swine.
Now let us consider the result of
this backsliding. I do not mean the
influence of backsliding upon others,
though this is far-reaching and bane
ful, but the curse of backsliding to
the backslider himself. My text says
that the.“backslider in heart shall be
filled with his own ways.” “What
soever a man soweth that shall he
also reap.” The law of the harvest
is a universal and unalterable law.
but a considerable time generally
elapses before a man eats the bread
of his own sowing. Ido not envy the
backslider. By experience I know
something of the bitterness of the
agony which he now suffers or which
the future holds in store for him.
Now let us consider God’s attitude
to the backslider. He yearns over
His wayward and wandering children,
and longs for their return. The pic
ture of the father in the parable of
the prodigal son is the best descrip
tion of God in the whole Bible. And
is not the picture of the prodigal son
the best description of the backslider
that you know of? In the heart of
God there is an abundant welcome for
every returning backslider, and the
church of God ought not to be lesa
hospitable than the heart of God.
If again I may use the Apostle
Peter as an illustration, we may sure
ly learn from his restoration that
unworthy Christians may become
worthy Christians, that weak Chris
tians may become strong Christians,
and that our very failings may be
come stepping stones to success.
After his experience, Peter was too
humble a man to praise himself; but
all of us know that the Master took
him back to His heart and immedi
ately intrusted him with the interest*
of His Kingdom. This weak and
halting and backsliding man was des
tined to become the leader of the
apostles in devotion and suffering and
success. It thrills my heart to watch
the humble and chastened and re
stored backslider. lam glad it was
Peter who preached the wonderful
sermon at Pentecost, for it proves to
me that God can take the weakest of
us and make us strong and powerful,
if we will only give ourselves to Him.
I close with these words of invita
tion from my Master. My first word
is to the Christians within the
church who have grown cold and
neglectful: Our Master is anxious to
forgive us and to have us start afresh.
Let us be done with indolence and
indifference, and serve the Lord with
joy and and enthusiasm. My second
word is to the Christians who have
fallen into sin and drifted out of the
church: Your Lord stands with open
arms and pleads with you to come
back to Him, and the church wants
you back. If you will forsake your
sins, no one will remember them
against you. Come, and you shall
have the gold ring and the best robe,
and we will kill the fatted calf in our
rejoicing, and in most of our churches
there will not be a single Pharisaical
elder brother to begrudge you the
welcome you are receiving.
My last word is to the men and
women who have never yielded thair
hearts to the love of God, nor sur
rendered their wills to the will of
God: The Father has a royal wel
come for you. It was for your sake
that God sent His Son into the world.
John 3:16 is the Master’s message
to you. If you do not remember
the beautiful words, hunt them up in
your long-neglected Bibles, and then
come, come, come.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Mr. Roosevelt gave his African
freight a characteristic touch by hav
ing all his boxes painted red.
Thomas F. Ryan has practically
succeeded in his efforts to rid himself
of his enormous corporate burden.
Thomas F. Ryan has practically
succeeded in his efforts to rid himself
of his enormous corporate burden.
Secretary of State. Philander Chase
Knox, was first a printer and then he
studied law, coming to the bar in
1875.
C. K. G. Billings, of New York
City, has arranged to send his trotting
horses to Europe for exhibition pur
poses.
Prince Henry of Prussia delivered
a lecture, illustrated with moving
pictures, on his voyage in the Zeppe
lin airship.
Professor Hanns Oertel has been
chosen Yale University delegate to
the 500th anniversary of the Univer
sity of Leipsic.
Raisuli, who became famous as a
bandit, has been appointed Governor
of the Province of Djebala by the Sul
tan of Morocco.
Colonel Peter F. Ross, of Waco,
who was twice shot as he was at the
head of the Sixth Texas Regiment at
Corinth. Miss,, died in Houston. Tex.
Secretary of War, J. M. Dickinson,
is a Tennessee lawyer who has served
on the supreme bench of his State.
He served one year in the Confeder
ate army.
W. C. Brown, the president of the
Ne\y York Central Railroad, began
his railroad career as a wood corder
on a Milwaukee and St. Paul locomo
tive, in 1569, when sixteen years old.
King Alfonso is, perhaps, the
youngest monarch who was ever se
lected to arbitrate on an international
dispute, which in the present case is
the difference between England and
Germany with regard to the Walfisch
Bay territory.
l NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The great strike in France was
called off.
Demand for leather of ail kinds is
increasing rapidly in Japan, also cot
tonseed oil jnd condensed milk.
If France adopts the proposed new
tariff textiles will pay a duty of from
forty to 140 per cent, ad valorem.
The Czar of Russia surprised dip
lomats by going outside their circle
in appointing a new Ambassador to
Rome.
In 1908 the Metropolitan (London)
District Railway carried 91,000,000
passengers, the largest number of
any year yet.
Foreign business firms in China in
creased by 75S in 1907. Of this num
ber 677 are Japanese, forty Germans
and thirty Spanish.
Speaker Cannon took a firm stand
against those members who absent
themselves from their duties at the
House without provocation.
The sale of the Pennsylvania Club
brought to light the fact that “Phil’'
Daly, generally believed to have died
years ago, was living in West End,
N. J.
Electric tramway competition re
duced the suburban traffic around
London of the Great Eastern Railway
by 3,292,817 passengers in the last
half of 1908.
Japan is a market for machinery
and tools used in mining, shipbuild
ing and repairing, sugar refining, rice
cleaning, cement making and spin
ning and weaving.
Charles J. Glidden announced that
the Aerial Navigation Company of
Massachusetts has leased several par
cels of ground in and near Boston
for airship stations, which are now
being built. The line will begin to
run, commercially, on May 1.
Learn to Use the Telephone.
“Only about one person in every
ten knows how properly to use the
telephone,” said a district manager
of one of the local companies. “Yes,
sir, I’ll stand by my guns on that
assertion; and I think I can prove
my point. Nine out of every ten per
sons talk entirely too loud over the
telephone. They actually shout and
make so much noise that they drown
out all semblance of clearness. Then
they can’t hear, and the first thing
you know there is a complaint about
poor connection and faulty service.
The correct way to talk over the tele
phone is to talk as you do in ordi
nary conversation, or even a trifle
lower. People can’t seem to realize
that the telephone will carry a whis
per even. No, they must talk loud
enough to be heard from Tenth and
Chestnut streets to Germantown, if
those be the connected points. Just
try yourself. Try the low. well-modu
lated voice, and see if you do not get
infinitely better service out of your
telephone in the future.” —Philadel-
phia Record.
Inferences.
She —-You don't act as if I were the
first girl you ever kissed.
He —if I am the first man who ever
kD c cd you. how do you know I don t?
—Lippincott’s.
