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SOLDItRS DESERTING
Many Enlisted Men Are Taking
“French Leave” of the Army.
STRENGTH OF ARMY 81,778
Abolition of Canteen, Increase of Work
Demanded and Prosperity Respon
sible for Desertions.
Washington, D. C. —Continued ex
tensive desertions In the United
States army during the last flscai
year forme the elading feature of the
annual report of Adjutant General
Ainsworth. After showing that 4,993
men deserted from the enlisted force
of the regular army, General Ains
worth concludes that only a strict en
forcement of severe penalties will d'-
minlsh materially the practice of ta
king ‘‘French leave” on the part of
the soldiers.
He regards as rather alarming the
fact that the number of desertions
during the last flscai year was greater
than in the preceding twelve months.
Of the whole number of enlistend men
4.97 per cent deserted during the last
fiscal year, while the desertions of
the preceding year amounted to 4.G0
per cent. General Ainsworth says the
abolition of the canteen, the monotony
of garrison life, the Increasing amount
of work and study demanded of a
soldier and the ease with which re
munerative employment can be ob
tained in civil life in these prosper
ous times are causes of the evils
mentioned.
The percentage of desertions among
the white troops is about ten times
greater than among the colortd men
in the service. Of the men who de
serted during the year 1,013 were ap
prehended and 315 surrendered.
On October 15 the actual strength
of the army, including the Philippine
scouts, was 81,778, while on the same
day one year previously the actual
strength was 78,166.
TELEPHONE-TELfcORAPH MERGER.
American Telephone Company Buys
Western Union.
New York City. The American
Telephone and Telegraph company
announced that It had secured a sub
stantial minority interest in the stock
of the Western Union Telegraph com
pany and that hereafter the two com
panies would work in close harmony.
The telephone trust has been buy
ing Western Union stock for several,
years. It is also largely interested in
the Mackay company. It is proposed
to consolidate offices of the Western
Union and the telephone trust.
The acquisition of the Western
Union and the recent absorption of
various Hell telephone companies in
various parts of the country indicates
a large increase In the present capi
talization of the present corripany, the
Ameerlcan Telephone and Telegraph
company.
The present capital stock of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company is $300,000,000 in stock and
$228,000,000 in bonds. The Western
Union has a capitalization of $125,-
000,000 in stock and $40,000,000 in
bonds.
Officials of the Postal Telegraph
fcompany declared that their company
would remain on an independent ba
sis.
MAY USE COTTON SEED OIL
Foreign Sardine Packers Will Use
Southern Product.
Washington, D. C. That cotton
seed oil may entirely displace olive
oil in the packing of sardines is the
declaration made by John M. Carson,
chief of the bureau of manufacturers.
The statement will be of great inter
est to the /iouth and cotton seed oil
iproducers, who within the last few
years have invested considerable
money in the business and bid fair
to reap a big reward.
Some time ago Chief Carson ap
pointed J. L. Brodie of Memphis as
special agent of the bureau, for the
purpose of going abroad and discuss
ing the subject with foreign trades-
men.
He reports to the department that
six of the leading firms in Norway
have decided to try cotton seed oil
in the packing of sardines. One of
these firms will shortly ship to the
United States one hundred thousand
cans of sardines in which cotton seed
ail will be used. The sardines will
toe taken by grocers throughout the
•country and placed on sale.
The declaration is made that cot
ton seed oil is the equal of olive oil
and that sardines so packed cannot be
told from the olive products. As cot
ton seed oil is considerably cheaper
than olive oil Major Carson believes
as a business proposition there is no
doubt that it will eventually go far
toward displacing olive oil in the
sardine trade.
CAST HP IS (TIMING.
Ex-Dictator Trusts in the Fairness of
American People.
Paris, France. —Ex-President Cas
tro of Venezuela, according to a spe
cial dsipatch from Madrid, says that
he will remain at Malaga until the
end of the year and that he will then
go to the United States to live confi
dent of the spirit of justice and the
fairness of the American people.
••When the American people know
the facts of the case,” he said, "they
will no longer believe that 1 have rev
olutionary ambitions, and they will
c-ee that great, damage has been in
flated on American interests in \en
ezuela by the American governments
attitude in helping Gomez.” .
NORTH HAS HOOK WORM
Hygiene Expert Hat Been Investigating
The Disease.
Nashville, Tenn —Miss Susan Law
rence Davis, a hygienic expert of New
York city, is here en route east from
a trip through the south, where sho
has been investigating the hook worm
disease, she is in position to speak
author at! vely concerning only certain
sections, but her investigations thus
tar tend toward the conclusion that
there are no more, if as many, hook
woi m victims in the south than else
where. siie declines to make a posi
tive assertion until she has carried
ber investigations further.
Miss Davis nas just spent two
months in Madison and adjoining
counties in Alabama investigating
hook worm conditions. Her observa
tions have covered the states of Tex
as, Missouri, Arkansas, 'iennessee,
Georgia, South Carolina, Ohio, New
York and the District of Columbia. In
these states she has found relatively
tewer sufferers from such parasites In
the southern than in the northern and
eastern states.
“My observations have shown,”
said Miss Davis, “fully ten times as
many sufferers from the parasites in
New York as in the factory district
of Alabama, which I have just left.
And 1 have examined several times as
many people in Alabama as in New
York. I do not find that the parasites
are confined to the poor and shiftless.
RICE AND WHEAT CBEIF FOODS.
One Half of World Feeds on Rice,
Other Half on Wheat.
Washington, D. C. Rice forms
the chief cereal food of about one-half
the world’s population and wheat the
chief cereal food of the other half.
Curiously enough the quantity of
these two cereals produced apparent
ly differs but little, the latest estimate
placing the world’s rice crop at about
175,000,000,000 and the wheat crpp at
about 190,000,000,000 pounds.
The above facts are presented in a
bulletin from the department of com
merce and labor dealing with the re
markable increase in rice production
in this country and with the markets
offered for this particular commodity,
especially in countries commercially
adjacent to the United States.
In the last decade the rice produc
tion in the United States has equalled
that of half century Immediately pre
ceding. Over 600,000,000 pounds were
produced in 1908, Louisiana and Tex
as together using more than 90 per
cent of the total. Even during the re
cent period of large domestic produc
tion importations have continued at
about the same rate as in former
years, while the exports, save in one
or two exceptional cases, have been
comparatively small, thus suggesting
a largely increased home consump
tion.
WAGES WAR UN BEETLE.
Department of Agriculture -Has
Started Campaign.
Washington, D. C —The department
of agriculture has begun a campaign
of extermination against a beetle that
is causing much damage to pine logs
in the South Atlantic states. This
beetle Is known as the Southern Pine
sawyer, and investigations made
show that in Massissippi alone, from
75 to 90 per cent of the trees blown
down by a recent storm were infested.
It is estimated that storms that
passed over the southern states in
1907 and 1908 blew down more than
two billion feet of lumber, and all of
it was damaged by the sawyer.
TRIED TO PROTECT “PAL”
“Honor Among Thieves” Did Not Pay
St. Louis Robber.
St. Louis, Mo. —His demonstration
that there is “honor among thieves”
cost T. W. Priest three years’ impris
onment in addition to the seven
years’ sentence he has received for
the postofflce robbery. Priest testified
that Edward Conn did not participate
in the robbery. Conn was convicted,
and Priest’s punishment was increas
ed because of his denial of his “pal’s”
guilt.
NATIONAL BANKS TAXABLE
Arkansas Given Right to Tax Its Na
tional Banks.
Little Rock, Ark.— The decision of
the supreme court in the case of the
First National Bank of Batesville,
Ark., is of importance in that it es
tablishes the principle that national
banks are as taxable as state banks.
The appellant in this case sought <o
evade taxation on the theory that the
amount of its capital stock was in
vested in government bonds.
Liabilities $12,000., Assets One Dog.
New York City.— William D. Adams,
a former heating contractor, who has
filed a petition in bankruptcy with
liabilities of $12,000, declares his only
nsset is one dog, value not given. Un
der the law this dog will be held or
uisposed of for the benefit of credit
ors.
Governor Haskell Must Stand Trial.
Chickasha, Okla. —Federal Judge J.
A. Marshall overruled the demurrer
filed by Governor Charles M. Has
kell and five other Oklahomans to
indictments charging them with fraud'
ulently securing from the government
title to a large number of town lots
in Muscgee, Okla. ,
Time Clock on Harriman’s Tomb.
Arden, N. Y.— A time clock has
been placed at the tomb of E. H. Har
riman, on which the night watchman
records each of his visits. The grave
has been closely watched since the
death of the railroad magnate, and
the time clock has been installed to
check the watchman.
CAPT.SHIPP SENTENCED
Ex-Sheriff of Chattanooga Gets
90 Days in Jail.
SUPREME COURT INCENSED
Deputies Also Sentenced—Charged that
No Effort Wai Made to Prevent
Lynching of Negro.
Washington, D. C —The supreme
court of the United States pronounc
ed sentence in the case of former
Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp, former Dep
uty Sheriff Jeremiah Gibson and Hen
ry Padgett, Luther Williams, Nick
Nolan and William Mays, all of Chat
tanooga, Tenn., charged with con
tempt of that court.
Shipp_ Williams and Nolan were
sentenced to ninety days and Gibson.
Mays and Padgett to sixty days in
the District of Columbia United
States jail.
Williams’ attorneys asked that they
be allowed to serve the sentence in
some southern jail because of his ill
heatlh. The application was denied.
Chief Justice Fuller in delivering
sentence said in part:
“You have been fully heard orally
and by printed brief and after further
consideration you have been found
guilty. You have also been permitted
severally to present petitions for re
hearinge and move that leave be
granted you to file them, which, after
sonslderation, have been denied. We
need nt dwell on the restrictive con
sequences of permitting the transac
tions complained of to pass into a pre
cedent for unpunished contempt.”
The contempt cases grew out of the
lynching of Ed Johnson, a negro, con
victed of assault on a young lady four
years ago. Attorneys for Johnson car
ried the case to the supreme court
and it wa3 while pending a hearing
on the appeal and Johnson was in
the county jail at Chattanooga in
care of Sheriff Shipp, that the prison
was stormed and the negro lynched.
The trial of Johnson was very dra
matic. The assaulted girl, who was
seriously injured, was the principal
witness and fainted several times
during tht trial. After the trial she
was taken to the home of relatives
in Indiana, where she died within a
short while.
Captain Shipp, who is an ex-confed
erate soldier, spent a small fortune
in defending his case, then friends
came to his assistance and it has
gone through all the courts.
The charge against the sheriff and
deputy was that they were in a con
spiracy to permit the lynching
Thanksgiving Proclamation
Issued by President Taft
Washington, D. C. —President Taft has issued his Thanksgiv
ing proclamation, naming Thursday, November 25, as the date
for the observance.
The proclamation says, in part:
“During this past year we have been highly iblessed. No
great calamities of flood or tempest or epidemic sickness have
befallen us. We have lived in quietness, undisturbed by wars
or rumors of wars. Peace and the plenty of bounteous crops and
of great industrial production animate a cheerful and resolute
people to all the renewed energies of beneficent industry and
material and moral progress. It is altogether fitting that we
should humbly and gratefully acknowledge the divine source of
these blessings.
“Therefore, I appoint Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of No
vember, as a day of general thanksgiving, and I call upon the
people on that day, laying aside their usual vocations, to repair
to their churches and unite in approriate services of praise and
thanks to Almighty God.
(Signed.) “WILLIAM H. TAFT.”
SEEKING HOMES IN SOUTH.
Influx of Steelers Predicted by Sec
retary Wilson.
Washington, Q. C —Secretary Wil
son, of the department of agriculture,
is not satisfied with the advancement
of the south agriculturally as com
pared with its gains in manufacture.
He has just returned from the annual
meeting of the National Farmers’
congress at Raleigh, N. C., and while
in that state he made an investigation
of its agricultural development. His
inquiry has not satisfied him.
While the manufacturers of that
section have wrested control of the
cotton and other mills from outsiders,
the farmers of North Carolina have
not been keeping up to the same stan
dard of enterprise. During his visit
to North Carolina, the scretary visit
ed Raleigh, Durham and Greensboro,
making excursions from those points
into the adjacent country.
Mr. Wilson declared that within
the near future there is certain to be
an influx of northern and western
farmers to North Carolina and other
southern agricultural states, the
northern and western lands can be
sold at a price per acre sufficient to
buy two acres in the south.
TO PHtVENTJUFFEKING.
One Brother Will Go to Jail While
Other Supports Family.
Boston, Mass. —Morris Weis will
support his own family and that of
his brother while his brother, Har
ris, is serving a 12-months’ sentence
in jail, and afterwards their positions
will be reversed if the court accepts
the suggestions of -United States Dis
trict Attorney French. The brothers
were convicted of concealing assets
in bankruptcy. When Harry W eis
was sentenced Mr. French suggested
that the sentence of Morris be sus
pended until Harris was free, in or
der that their families, which are
large and in straitened circumstances,
might be provided for.
100 PERSONS DROWNED.
j Steamer* Collide Near Singapore and
One Goe* Down.
Singapore, Strait Settlements —The
mall steamer La Seyne of the Mes
sageries Maritimes service, running
between Java and Singapore, and on
her way to this port, was in collision
with the steamer Onda, of the Brit
ish-India line, and sank within two
minutes.
Seven European passengers, includ
ing Baron and Baroness Benlczky, the
captain of La Seyne, five European
officers and eighty-eight others, com
prising native passengers and mem
oers of the crew, were drowned.
The rescue of sixty-five persons,
practically from the jaws of shoals
of sharks, formed a thrilling incident
of the wreck.
The accident occurred in a thick
haze. The vessels were steaming at
good speed and the Seyne was cut
almost in half. There was no time
for panic, nor for any attempt on the
part of officers of the foundering
steamer to get out the boats. The
majority of those on board were
caught in their berths and carried
down with the vessel.
The force of the collision brought
the Onda to almost a dead stop, and
her engines mere at once slowed and
boats lowered. The rescue work
proved thrilling, for not only was the
rescuing parties impeded by the dark,
but shoals of sharks were already at
tacking those clinging to pieces of
wreckage in the water.
Sixty-one persons from the Ill
fated ’steamer were finally dragged
Into the boats and brought by the
Onda to this port. Many of them had
been bitten by sharks, and several
were severely injured.
MILLIONIUHUHJ DISEASE
“Of the Sum of $700,000 Will Be Used
to Save Tubercular Children.
New York City.—For fighting dis
ease separate gifts totaling nearly a
million dollars were announced in
New York. Of this sum $700,000 is to
be used for the establishment of a
tuberculosis preventorium for chil
dren, while $150,000 was given by Mr.
and Mrs. William C. Sloane for a 7-
story addition to the Sloane Maternity
Hospital.
In connection with the tuberculosis
preventorium, which proposes to take
from New York tenments children
who have been afflicted with tubercu
losis and restore to normal health.
Principal contributions to the work
were made by Nathan Straus, Miss
Dorothy Whitney, Henry Phipps, Isaac
N. Seligman and Jacob H. Schiff. Mr.
Straus’ gift Includes a\ssoo,ooo cot
tage and estate at Lakewood, N. J..,
once occupied by the late Grover
Cleveland. There the new institution
will have its home. Miss Whitney
contributed SIOO,OOO endowment fund.
General Labor Strike Planned.
Philadelphia, Pa. —Plans for a gen
eral strike by wage-workers through
out the country for a period of two
weeks, beginning on the day the offi
cers of the American Federation of
Labor are imprisoned for contempt
of court, were inaugurated here at the
meeting of the Central Labor Union
representing a£>out seventy-five thous
and workers in this city.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Bernard J. Burke a New York cap
italist, was a judgment of
$552,000 against St. Clair county, Mis
souri, in the federal court at Kansas
City, because that county in 187f\
floated bonds for the Lebo and Nt
osho railway, which was never built.
‘‘Men will be no longer able to hide
under the excuse that the majority
of women do not want the ballot. If
the suffrage clubs of Chicago do what
is expected of them we will convince
all of the national figures that enough
women want the ballot to make ft a
live issue for any campaign.” Thus
spoke Dr. Anna Howard Sraw, presi
dent of the National Women's Suf
frage assbciation at a luncheon.
•‘What we need is a little more gusto
and display.”
That oral betting does not consti
tute bookmaking within the meaning
of the so-called anti-race track gamb
ling laws of New York, is in effect,
the decision of the court of appeals in
Albany, N. Y., affirming an order of
the lower courts for the discharge
from custody of Orlando Jones and
Sol Lichenstein, who were indicted on
a charge of bookmaking.
Panay, an island of the Visayas
group, Philippines, was crossed by a
typoon. The storm was especially se
vere in Capiz province, where many
homes were destroyed. Five thousand
persons are homeless, and much prop
erty and crops were destroyed. The
wind, which was of hurricane force,
was accompanied by heavy rains, and
much of the country is flooded.
The
Sunday=School
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR NOVEMBER 21.
Subject: Paul’s Story of HA Life, 2
Cor. 11:21-12:10 —Golden Text:
2 Cor. 12:9 —Commit Verses 24,
25—Commentary on the Lesson.
TIME.—A. D. 57.
PLACE.—Ephesus.
EXPOSITION. —I. What Paul
Suffered For Christ, 22-28. How
small the hardships we suffer com
pared with these. Yet Paul earlier
in this same epistle speaks of them as
“our light affliction” (cf. 4:17; Rom.
8:18). The stoning is recorded in
Acts 14:19. The three shipwrecks
mentioned were prior to the one de
scribed in Acts 27, “a night and a
day” was spent in the deep, swimming
or clinging to a spar, or in an open
boat. “The journeyings often” were
not with the comforts of modern trav
ing, but with very great hardships
and peril. “The perils of rivers”
were the perils of swollen streams
where many lost their lives, and even
to this present day many lose their
lives this way in the countries
through which Paul traveled. Paul
labored with toil and pain (v. 27),
not only with brain and heart and
lips, but with his hands also (Acts
18:3, 4). He spent whole nights in
vigils of prayer and watching against
perils of one kind or another. He
knew often what it meant to go with
out food or drink (cf. Phil. 4:12), to
have insufficient clothing and to suf
fer from cold; and all this time he
was a man suffering from physical in
firmity (th. 12:7-10; Gal. 4:13, 14).
11. I take pleasure in infirmities,
in reproaches, in necessities, in perse
cutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake,
1-10. It might not seem expedient
for Paul to glory, but his heart was
so full he just “must.” There is a
difference between a “vision” and a
“revelation.” A “vision” is some
thing seen, a “revelation” is an un
veiling of truth (it might be through
something seen or something heard,
or in some other way; cf. 1 Sam. 9;
15, R. V., and margin). In visions
their meaning might or might not be
explained at the time. In revelations
there was always an unveiling or dis
closing of the truth. The man to
whom Paul refers in verse 2 was him
self. This is evident from verse 7.
In verse 5- he distinguishes between
this man and himself, for there was
a wide difference between Paul as he
was himself in his weakness and the
rapt and glorified individual he be
came in this wondrous experience.
He was not exalted by it as many of
us would be, but humbled by it. The
etperience occurred fourteen years
before, perhaps at the time lie was
stoned at Lystra and supposed to be
dead (Acts 14:19). At that time his
spirit may actually have left the body
and been taken up into paradise. It
may have been at the time of his sec
ond visit to Jerusalem (cf. Acts 22r 1
17). Paul himself did not know
whether he was in the body or out of
the body at the time (vs. 2, 3). Paul
evidently believed in the possibility
of conscious existence of the spirit
“out of the body” and “apart from
the body” (v. 3, R. V.). At that time
he was caught up even to “the third
heaven” “Into paradise.” The dayb of
Christ’s crucifixion He went into par
adise- (Luke 23:43), which was then
“In the heart of the earth” fMatt.
12:40), but at His ascension Christ
emptied the subterranean paradise
and took it up into heaven with Him
self (Eph. 4:8-10). Paradise, the
abode of the blessed dead, is now with
Christ in heaven (cf. Phil. 1:23; 2
Cor. 5:8, R. V.). Into this paradise
Paul was caught up either in the body
(cf. Acts 8:39) or “apart from the
body.” He heard there words which
it was not lawful to utter to others.
They were intended for hia own edifi
cation and comfort alone. God shows
us some things that He would have
us tell others; some things that He
would have us keep to ourselves. Paul
apparently did not mention this won
derful experience to any one else for
fourteen years, and even now tries to
put himself out of sight as the sub
ject of this remarkable experience
(v. 5).* And he forbore to glory lest
some man might account of him
above that which he saw him to be or
heard from him. What the “thorn in
the flesh” was we are not told. The
words translated “weakness” and “in
firmity” ate the usual words for sick
ness. The thorn in the flesh is also
spoken of as “a messenger of Satan.”
This would be an appropriate descrip
tion of physical infirmity (Luke 13:i
16; Job 2:7; Acts 10:38; Heb. 2:
14; Gal. 4:13, 14). Though this
thorn in the flesh was Satan’s messen
ger, it was “given” by God. God per
mits Satan to buffet His servants and
brings to them . blessing out of this
buffeting. Even Satan's hate and buf
feting brings blessing to the child of
God. Three times Paul prayed about
it and the first two times God gave
him no answer. Seemingly the thorn
was not removed, but Christ’s power
was continually ministered to Paul
and gave him strength in his own nat
ural weakness. This teaches a num
ber of important lessons about pray
er: (1) To pray to Christ; (2) to ask
again and again for the same thing
until we obtain it or the Lord reveals
to us that it is not His will to give it
(3) to go to Christ with our physical
infirmities, but knowing that there
are times when Christ will not re
move our physical infirmities, but
will give us strength in Himself; (4)
that the probability is He will remove
them, and we ought to ask Him to do
so until He clearly makes known to
us that it is not His will to do go.
