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PEABODY FUND DIVIDED It Will Be Apportioned Among States of the South. FID TOTALS $2,500,000 Peabody Normal School at Nashville Wiil Be the Chief Beneficiary, Receiving $1,000,000. New York City. —The trustees of the Peabody education fund at their fifty-first annual meeting-, decided to make final distribution of the main fund, aggregating $2,500,000. Further more, it was decided to give the entire sum to educational institutions of the south, with the Peabody normal col lege at Nashville as the chief bene ficiary. This institution will receive $1,000,000 upon the proviso that the state of Tennessee, Nashville and the county in which the college is located raise a similar sum. As the terms of this agreement have been practical ly lived up to, little doubt remains in the minds of the trustees that the terms will be carried out. The remainder of the fund will be apportioned throughout the south, the bulk of it in all probability going to Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky, since none of these states has benefit ed from the fund up to the present time. The fund was founded in 1567 by George Peabody of Massachusetts, and heretofore the income has only been used. COUNTRY LIFE COMMISSION. Work for Improvement of Conditions in Rural Districts. Washington, D. CThe work of the country life commission, appointed by the president last August, is fairly un der way. The president intends to send a special message to congress on the necessity for improvement in the conditions of rural life and he has re quested the commission to report its findings to him before the end of De cember in order that he may have time to study them before sending in his recommendations for legislation. As soon as President Roosevelt's letter creating the commission was made public, the farmers began writ ing to him and to the commission, giv ing their views as to the features of farm life that needed remedying. The schedule the commission will send out is practically a request for a con census of opinion as to the correct ness of its findings. HOME VOYAGE OF THE FLEET. Returning Itinerary of the Battleships is Announced. Washington, D. C. —The itinerary of the return home from Manila of the battleship fleet has been announced at the navy department. The fleet will leave Manila on December 1, arrive at Colombo December 14, stay there six days and then depart for Suez, which it is scheduled to reach on January fifth. The ship will pass through the ca nal and coal at Port Said as expedi tiously as possible. They are to spend the month of January and a few days early in February in the Mediterra nean, two or three vessels going each to Ville Franc-lie, Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn, Malta, Algiers, Athens, Na ples, Negro bay and Gibraltar, the whole fleet leaving the latter place February 6, being scheduled to ar rive in the United States February 22nd. SOCIETY UF EQUITY. Organization cf Farmers in Convention at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wis.—The American So ciety of Equity, having a membership of 100,000, and represented by a large number of delegates, is holding its an nual convention here. The society is made up of farmers, and its object is to regulate the price of farm produce. It is a part of the program to estab lish elevators and warehouses in dif ferent parts of the country, and, by keeping grain and other produce in store and placing upon the market as there is a demand for it, it is hoped to regulate prices. SMUGGLERS ARRESTED. Five Men Are Charged With Having Smuggled Jewelry Into U. S. New York City. —News has leaked out of the seizure by customs house officers in this city of more than $20.- 000 worth of costly cameos and coral jewelrv, and this news led to the dis closure of a gigantic smuggling plot involving more than $20,000. Already five men have been captur ed in connection with these disclos ures. Three of them are now under bail for trial. These men, however, are evidently tools of the big men acting behind the scenes. PEACEMAKER KILLED IN DUEL. Tried to Separate Wrestlers —Was Stabbed to Death. Coldawter, Miss. —In a duel with knives at Wakefield, Miss., Manning Jamison, aged 30 years, was killed and* his brother, Edwin Jamison, aged years, was dangerously wounded. Ed win Jamison and Will Kountz, accord ing to information received here, were engaged in a wrestling bout and a light was about to start, when Man niim Jamison interfered, acting as peacemaker.. This angered Edwin Ja mison and he drew a knife. Manning whipped out his knife and the two fought until both dropped to the ground. Manning died in a few min utes. BUWALO HUiIJ DYING. Texas Fever Attacks Animals in Wichita Reserve. Lawton, Okla. —Texas fever Has de veloped in the herd of eighteen buf lalo 1 in Wichita national reserve. These animals were a gift of the New York City Zoological garden and were sent here two years ago. After a post mortem examination on a young buf fa!o one of the herd, the authorities announced that the animal had died from the dread disease. The officials have taken every precaution to pie yent the spread of the disease. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. Advices from Arvonia, Virginia, the eerier of the slate mining region, sev enty-five miles west from Richmond, Va. f indicate that the citizens of the comunity are aroused to a state of dread and panic over recent acts and threats of lawlessness in the commu nity. The receipt by several citizens of annoymous letters threatening mur der and arson, and the shooting from ambush of W. M. Gregory, a substan tiol land owner, have intensified the feeling and fear. Mrs. Mary Dougherty, aged 30, of New York City, accidentally shut her 2-year-old baby, Rose, up in a folding bed. Avery similar accident occur red in Chicago when Edward Koz lowski, ten months old, was accident ally smothered to death in a folding bed. The child was placed in the bed and covered with a blanket. A short Ifjne later his mother entered the room and found that the bed had been closed. She opened it, to find her child smothered to death. Will Vails, a farmer who lives near Ruleville, Miss., shot and instantly killed Dr. J. M. Taylor, one of the most prominent men of Ruleville. Edward Moot or Weathersfield, Ver mont, proved himself the world’s champion wood chopper when in the presence of railroad magnates, lumber kings and millionaire New Yorkers he chopped down five cords of wood that had been standing trees, split them into stove lengths and piled them into regular piles, betw r een sun rise and sunset and with an hour and a half t@ spare. At the end of the unprecedented feat several thousand dollars was paid Maxell Everts, who had backed Moot’s powers with the ax. After a quarter of a century of vol untary exile in the South seas, Thom as Fleming, the original of Steven son’s character, “The Wild Scotch man,” arrived in San Francisco, Cal., on the schooner Aerolus, and arrayed in garments of a fashion scarcely ever seen before, has proceeded to get ac quainted with electric cars and other evidences of an advancing civiliza tion. Fleming is a trading agent at Arne island, one of the Marshall group, located one hundred and fifty miles from the nearest white neigh borhood. He made the acquaintance of Robert Louis Stevenson, years ago when the author visited the island. Fleming has announced his determina tion to return when he shall have tired of sightseeing, saying: “Perhaps the life out there is lonely, but some how it gets into a man’s blood and he stays there.’' Wrapped in the tantacles of a giant devil fish, Martin Lund, a diver, fought, for his life in the hold of the wrecked steamer Pomona, which lies in thirty feet of water in Fort Ross Cove, off the California coast. The devil fish had evidently entered the vessel’s hold during the night, and Lund w T as at work some time before he became aware of its appearance. A giant tentacle, four inches in diam eter, first gripped one leg. Before Lund could realize what had happen ed, another squirmed out of the dark ness, and twined about his neck. Plunging suddenly toward it, he drove the knife with all his force into the head, repeating the blows until he had slashed it into sections. Lund then cut himself free, and was brought to the surface in a fainting condition. Mere than three thousand Indians of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and affiliated tribes assembled at the foot of Mount Scott, near Lawton, Olda., for a , great inter-tribal council and for the annual payment of lease mon ey to those Indians who have their lands leased for farming. The Indians received from $1,300 to SIOO each ac cording to the amount of land leased. The supreme court declared uncon stitutional the Wisconsin eight-hour railroad telegraphers’ law, which was enacted at thfe 1907 session of the leg islature. The la wis declared uncon stitutional on the theory that:, it is in conflict with the provisions of the fed eral constitution. Four men were arrested in Cleve land, 0., for converting horse flesh into sausages and selling the product for free lunch counters. Society in Atlanta, Ga., is greatly aroused over the elopement of Silvey Speer, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Speer, and heir to a fortune of about $750,000, with Russell J. Thomas, her father's chauffeur. The couple were married and started im mediately for the east. At Charlotte, N. C., they were arrested, and brought back to Atlanta. The Speers are now attempting to have the marriage an nuled, and say that a reconciliation is impossible. The young bride is beauti ful and talented and is well known in the younger society set. Thomas is said to be a young man of unusual popularity among his friends, many of whom express surprise that the Speers should object to the match. Thomas had been in the employ If the Speer family for two years. Washington. It is confidently expected at the war department that unless some unfor seen contingency develops the yellow fever quarantine maintained by th,e marine hospital service against sev eral provinces in Cuba will be raised in a short time. Besides meeting with determined opposition from the Cu bans, the quarantine has proved vex atious to the American army now in Cuba. Letters to England, Ireland, Scot land and Wales now need only two I cent postage stamps instead of 5 [ cents. This rate has been agreed upon ! between the governments as the best means of promoting commercial | friendly relations between the United i States and Great Britain. Ten little patients at the children's hospital ;n Washington, D. C., have been inoculated in the interest of sci ence and humanity with the deadly germs of both human and bovine tu berculosis. The experiment is being watched with the keenest interest by the delegates to the Tuberculosis con gress. The children, all charity pa tients, were already affected with in cipient tuberculosis, so the experi ment, say doctors, can in no sense he sonsidered inhuman. A delegation of half a dozen of the most distinguished delegates will pass upon the results of the experiment. EUROPE’SJEWEST CZAR Ferdinand of Bulgaria Proclaims Independence of His Country. MAY MEAN WASFITH TURKEY Congress of the Powers Will Be Called * to Consider Violation of the Treaty of Berlin. London, England.—ln the ancient capital of Tirnovo the independence of Bulgaria has been proclaimed with the czar of the Bulgarians as a ruler. The czar of the Bulgarians is recog nized to mean more than czar of Bul garia, because it is a distinct intima tion that he regards his country as having sovereignty over all the peo ple of that blood in the near east. The question which has been stir ring the whole of Europe more deeply than any similar question within the memory of the present generation is, does it mean war? From all the cap itals come reports indicating that it means, first of all, another European congress of the signers of the treaty of Berlin to consider the situation and probably to revise the treaty. From the British standpoint the whole affair has been a surprise, be cause, for the first time in years, the government felt itself w T ith apparently an understanding with France and Russia and friendship with Italy, to be in a position where it dominated European politics, reserv ing, out of this consideration, the al most open enmity between itself and Germany. Probably never in the history of Eu rope has politics taken such amazing ly kaleidoscopic revolutions as during the past week. An entangling situa tion will come when the signatories of the Berlin treaty meet to consider what action shall be taken regarding the violation of the treaty. Great Britain has served notice that it dees not recognize the right of the parties to this treaty to violate its provisions without consulting the oth ers, but English diplomats know that the conference will resolve itself into a scramble among the powers to get what is termed in* European politics “compensating advantages” which Austria, backed by Germany, has al ready obtained. The chances of war between Bul garia and Turkey are being minimized by Great Britain and France, who are working together and who have ad vised Turkey against it. Turkey, how ever, is apparently disposed to follow this advice, and it is believed that if hastv action on and part of Turkey can be prevented, Bulgaria will have difficulty in finding an excuse to be gin war. The action of Prince Ferdinand in proclaiming the independence of Bul garia is condemned alike by the gov ernments and press of Europe, but in some quarters this is considered a matter of minor importance, so long as it does not eventually end in war as compared with the threatened an nexation of the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary. Reports from Belgrade indicate that Servia has been aroused to the dan ger point, bands of Servians marching the streets of Belgrade and shouting for war with Austria rather than an nexation. Turkey refuses to recog nize Bulgaria’s independence. CENSUS BUREAU COTTON REPORT. Number cf Bales Ginned to Septem ber 25, Was 2,5E.2,63£. Washington, D. C.—The census bu reau report on cotton ginning shows 2,582,688 bales, counting round as half bales, ginned from ihe growth of 1908 to September 25, compared with 1,- 532,602 for 1907; 2,057,283 for 1906 and 2,355,716 for 1905. Number of ac tive ginneries this year is 23,600, com pared with 18,121 l'or 1907; 20,416 for 1906 and 2.1,389 for 1905, Round bales, including this year, are 55,018, com pared with 43,367 for 1907; 66,502 foi 1906 and 74,816 for 1905. Sea island 11,275 for 1908; 4,259 for 1907, 2,684 for 1906 and 11,963 l'or 1905. By states the number of bales (counting round as half bales, and ac tive ginneries respectively for 1908 follows: Alabama, 307,508 bales and 2,911 ginneries'; Arkansas, 85,827 bales and 1,490 ginneries; Florida, 510,290 bales and 3,875 ginneries; Kentucky, 117 bales and 1 ginnery; Louisiana, 81,207 bales and 1,252 gin neries; Missouri, 4,131 bales and 47 ginneries; Mississippi, 198, 433 bales and 2,638 ginneries; North Carolina, 89,198 bales and 1,812 ginneries; North Carolina, 89,198 bales and 1,812 ginneries; South Carolina, 288,92 < bales and 4,699 ginneries; Tennessee, 28,d28 bales ahd 419 ginneries-; Texas, 961,835 bales and 3,764 ginneries. The distribution of Sea island cot ton for 1908 by states is: Florida, 5,- 092; Georgia, 5,813; South Carolina, 370.’ All Records Broken. Brighton Beach Race Track.—All automobile records were smashed to atoms in the 24-hour race at Brighton Beach, when a 50-liorse power Sim plex car covered the astonishing dis tance of 1,177 miles, beating the pre vious record 70 miles. The Lozier car and the Thomas car had a desper ate battle for second place, the Lo zier car winning out, covering 1,125 miles to the Thomas car’s 1,115 miles. Three Miners Hilled. Birmingham, Ala.—A gas explosion in mine B, at Blossburg, in Jefferson county, resulted in the deaths of three miners. The coal mine belongs to the Tennessee Coal Company. Wright Breaks Own Record. Lemans, France. —Wilburn Wright, the American aeroplanist, who holds the world’s record for an aeroplane flight, has established another world’s record for time and distance with a passenger. With a French journalist by his side, he remained in the air for 55 minutes and 37 seconds, circling the field twenty-four times and cov ering a distance estimated at 58 kilo meters, or about 36 miles. His best previous flight with a pas senger was 11 minutes 35 2-5 seconds. FLEET IN MANILA AAY. Pride of America is Greeted By Cheer* ing Thousands. Manila, P. I. —With the brilliant tropical sunlight pouring down on their polished guns and gleaming paint and a swift land breeze whip ping their many flags out straight from the staffs and stirring the bunt ing that covered the half hundred launches and excursion steamers that, crowded with cheering thousands, es corted the big ships up the bay, the Atlantic battleship fleet steamed slow ly into Manila bay, and, sailing majes tically across the bay where* Dewey and his men fought their historic fight with the Spanish fleet ten years ago, dropped anchor off the city. The fleet steamed up the center of the bay, while dozens of launches and steamers, sailing proudly along be side the monsters of the navy, sound ed a discordant welcome with whis tles, cheers and every other noise making device that could be contriv ed. The ships presented a magnifi cent appearance as they moved slow ly along, and the sight of the long line evoked the wlidest enthusiasm and the admiration of thousands that crowded every point of vantage. As the Connecticut led the line past Cor regidor, the garrison there fired the admiral’s salute. The progress through the channel was made in sin gle column, but, as soon as the last ship of the long line was safely pass ed, signals were hoisted for the dou ble column formation, and in this manner the ships steamed up the bay, The anchorage was reached and all along the shore line the crowds con tinued to increase, even after the last vessel had come to rest. As the ships anchored, General W T eston, military commander in this city, sent a wire less message conveying the greetings of himself, his officers and the men of the army to Admiral Sperry and his men. Governor General Smith witnessed the arrival of the fleet from his launch, where he entertained a large party of officials. Later he paid his official visit to the Connecticut, and the Manilans welcomed the sailors in the form of a great water parade, as the men of the fleet were not allowed to come ashore on account of the many cases of cholera in the city. GOVERNMENT BUYS SILVER. Will Amount to 125,000 Ounces a Week —Demand for Coin. Washington, D’. C. —Director of the Mint Leach has announced that he would resume immediately the pur chase of fine silver for subsidary coinage. He states that he expects to purchase about 125,000 ounces each week for an indeflaite period. Director Leach said he was confi dent purchases would be made as long as there was an active demand for the coin. The mint now has on hand only about five million ounces c-f fine silver and this supply would soon be exhausted at the present rate of demand. For several months prior to the late financial stringency the demand for subsidary coins was so active as to necessitate the operation of the mints to their full capacity, but the demand fell off until there was an accumulation in the treasury in April last of about $27,000,000 in standard dollars and $26,000,000 in coins Early in the summer the call dollars became more the supply was practically exliam|bd. Attention was then directed to and other subsidary coins with that now there is only able, notwithstanding the in September $634,000 in darv was Coined and added stock on hand. Mr. Leach expects m still stronger demand when the cot ton crop begins to move and the de cision to purchase more silver is in anticipation of this demand. SEEKING SUNKEN TREASURE. Harvard Students Will Have to Mod ify Their Plans. Kingston, Jamacia. —The expedition composed of Harvard students which started recently on the steamer May flower from New York in search of sunken treasure in these waters, will likely have to modify the original plans. The treasure seekers intend ed to search a Spanish galleon which sank many years ago, but the Ameri can expedition has been anticipated by a Jamaican syndicate which char tered a schooner and after an inef fectual search returned to Montego The Jamaicans occupied several weeks in their gold hunting trip and had exciting experiences with hurri canes. The galleon was not found but her position on the ocean bed was located, the wreck having broken to pieces years ago. Divers were sent, down and a number of Spanish goid coins were recovered, but nothing of great value. The leader of the expe dition was the son of Sir Henry Ai thur Blake, who was governor of Ja maica 1889-97. BEAR CHARGES CROWD. Breaks From Cage in Pleasure Park Kills Baby. Tuscon, Ariz. —A tragedy was enact ed near here, when an immense black bear escaped from a cage and charg ed upon a throng of visitors. The animal, which had been raised in cap tivity, had been in the habit of being given soda pop at the bar, and when it escaped, it went there. \\ hen it was driven out by the attendants, the an imal charged the crowd. The bear snatched the year-old infant of Mrs. Bush Lair from a go-cart and crushed it to death before its mother’s eyes. The bystanders opened a fusilade and killed the bear with a score of bullets. KILLS BOLL WEEVIL. Texas Negro Invents Machine to De stroy the Pest. Houston, Texas. —Charles Lee, a he gro, has perfected a machine which, he claims, will destroy boll weevils. The machine is a simple box consist ing primarily of a round box made of metal and having four protruding tubes. Within the outer receptacle is an other which contains chemicals capa ble of ignition and which give off deadly fumes. TUBERCULOSIS WILL END When Every Social Unit Begins to Fight Dr. Flick. IS NO INHERITED INFECTION Philadelphia Expert Says That Wage Earners are Specially Menaced By Dread Disease. Washington, D. C. —"If every unit of our society is willing to do that which they can do, I feel confident that the day is not far distant when we will have wiped the dread disease, tuberculosis, off the face of the earth.’’ This was the message of hope given by Dr. Lawrence Flick of Philadel phia, one of the most eminent medi cal men of the country, at the New National Museum, where the tubercu losis exposition is being held in con nection with the International Con gress of Tuberculosis. The meeting was in the interest of labor, and was one of a series to be given. The speakers were Dr. Flick, John Mitch ell, former president of the United Mine Workers of America; Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and others. "Tuberculosis is peculiarly a dis ease of the wage-earner,” said Dr. Flick, "and this is so for the very good reason that one of the strongest predisposing causes of the disease is overwork. It is an exceedingly fatal and prevalent disease among wage earners.” Dr. Flick pointed out that the rea son why the wage-earner is so likely to contract tuberculosis is because in many instances he is overworked, he toilsTMn unsanitary workshops and of tentimes he is underfed, which causes his powers of resistance to be less able to throw off an implantation of the tubercle bacilli. If the wage-earn er gets the implantation, Dr. Flick said, it is almost certain to result fa tally. . He refuted the theory of infection from inheritance, saying that unless the tuberculosis micro-organism is ad mitted into our bodies it is not possi ble for one lo become infected. The need of the establishment of hospitals and sanatoriums for the care of con tagious and non-contagious consump tives was emphasized. John Mitchell, who presided, enum erated some of the obstacles to great er progress in the promotion of health and the eradication of disease, and said it was due to the attitude of many employers of labor whom, he de clared, resisted the enactment of laws for the prevention of accidents and the promotion of health Samuel Gompers paid a tribute to Dr. Robert Koch, the German scien tist. He declared that Dr. Koch will live in the memory of man when those who fail to appreciate bis discovery of the tubercle bacillus, or those who fail to follow his precepts, are forgot ten. He declared that the union work ing man was less susceptible to tuber culosis infection than the non-union man, because the union shops are su perior in sanitary appliances to other shops. The death rate from consump tion among non-union men is 100 per cent greater than among union men, he said. , . „ , Statistics were presented by 1 red erick L. Hoffman, showing that the number of deaths from consumption among the 32.000.000 wage earners in this country is 77,000. WILD RUMOR AT AMOY. ,i t was That the American Fleet Would Seize That Port. bno' t: China.—Local agitators have beSgarflfc:fating a report to the effect that battleship fleet which this port the end ° f October, pi**X; v to seize Amoy as a base of i n a forthcoming war against JapaiusfA-ke people became alarmed and began stW n S the city Then, to prevent a exodus Oi. the population, the municipal author ities issued a proclamation foroidding people going into the interior to take heavv baggage with them. Two of the agitators were arrested and given 1,500 blows each. QUARANTINE IS RAISED. Texas Now Open to Traffic With Cu ban Ports. Austin, Texas.—The state health de partment, through Acting State Health Officer ,T. H. Florence, has raised the yellow fever quarantine which has been in effect against Havana and other points in Cuba for some time past, and passengers from Havana and other Cuban ports will be allow ed to leave Cuba and come here with out detention. This action was based on a message received from the sur geon general of the marine hospital service conveying the information that the government had raised the em bargo existing at Havana. Cotton Crop Report. Washington, D. C —The cotton crop report issued by the department of agriculture shows that the average condition of the cotton crop on Sep tember 25 was 69.7 per cent of a nor mal against 76.1 per cent on August 25 last; 67.7 on September 25, 1907; 71.6 on September 25, 1906. * The condition and tea year average on September 25 respectively by states follows: Virginia 78 and 69.6; North Carolina, 69. and 71; South Carolina, 68 and 70; Georgia, 71 and 71; Flor ida, 72 apd 70; Alabama, 70 and 6S; Mississippi, 70 and 68; Louisiana, 55 and 68; Texas, 71 and 64; Arkansas, 70 and 68; Tennessee, 78 and 74 ; Missouri, 70 and 76; Oklahoma, 70 and 70. Cleveland's Office Aboiisiieu. New York City.—As a consequence of the recent death of Grover Cleve land, its chairman and counsel, the Association of Life Insurance Presi dents voted to amend its constitution by abolishing the office of chairman, which has been held by Mr. Cleveland since its organization in December, 1906, and also file position of secre tary, held by Robert L. Cox. Anew office of general counsel and manager was created and Mr. Cos. was chosen to fill it. OF POLITICAL INTEREST The private office of r h Hitchcock, of the renublu-n airraatl headquarters at the Tower in New York cit v and many papers carried' iZ °“tw and memoranda are also ' >'*s Just what the envelopes 'contv' 88 the way of contributions or il, “ e<l * known only to the thLf letter B-is Hitchcock. ef and Mr. Ex-Senator Pettigrew told a* an that lie had been offered s ' the republican campaign man ! °°.° b - v make ten speeches and that h ‘V° reason to believe that thp ? had cans are financing Tom * Wat PUbli ' populist campaign, in r <nu ° n Watson telegraphed that if \i ever offered Senator PettknW'’* ( ! r ‘ e 000 for ten speeches on am [JZ suoject that person was mo- . 7. 1,1 ly supplied with money than s. n^ 1 ' Judge Tafts game of golf and wh he personally thinks of it . a , a ‘ man’s exercise was stated a v S. D., by the candidate, who . airp' had received an intimation !< ought to come to South D: ' a j' convince the people that h< as n an aristocrat, or was above t-. le tZ pie. He said that his friends certain that if he would go , 0 Sou-n Dakota and show the people of ;i state what kind of a man he was P appearance that they would get over the impression that then Was am thing about him that resembled *' a dude. Mr. Taft, when asked the question said he believed tariff revision should generally be downward, but up wap as to pottery. In his Dakota speech es he dealt with the various issues except guaranty of bank deposits William J. Bryan has offered the mascot mule (presented him bv the Agricultural Society of Minnesota as a prize to the county showing the largest percentage of increase In the vote for the democratic electors over the average vote for electors in the last three campaigns. Chairman Hitchcock of the republi can committee refused to alter fir-, ures on Taft pluralities in western states, but said they were very con servative. He declared every eastern state would go for Taft. Chairman Mack of the democratic committee claims practically the same thing, while Mr. Hearst of the independence party claims New York and Georgia for his candidates and Thomas Wat son, populist candidate for president, also claims Georgia. Observing at Mitchell, South Dak ta, that the windows and stores and houses were placarded with litho graphs of himself, Mr. Bryan, in the course of his remarks there, urged the people to remove them and hang up in their stead pictures of Mr. Taft, who was to speak in that town the next day, and thus "show him the same courtesy that you have shown me.” He said he took it for granted that the compliment paid him was not a personal one, but that it was due to the fact that he was a candidate for the highest office in the gift of the people. "Mr. Taft is a candidate for the same office,” he said, "and one of us will be elected. As no one can tell yet. with certainty, which will be elected, you had better tack up both alike if you would be on the safe side.” John W. Kern, democratic candi date for vice president, and James S. Sherman, republican candidate c ■ vice president, met in Chicago. Mr. Kern was standing in the lobby oi t he auditorium annex when a bystander rushed up and asked to shake hands with “the next vice president "< er tainly, with pleasure,” said Mr. Bern. “But, to make sure, you would better shake hands with that man over there—that one with the side whiskers. That’s Mr. Sherman. The stranger did as suggested, and then Mr. Sherman and Mr. Kern hezan moving toward each other, and P ' ently the long, sinewy hand of the second man on the democratic tr r was grasped in the plump one of ns republican opponent. Thev sm 1 • genially, exchanged felicitations • the drop in the temperature and <> m commonplaces, and then depaited catch their trains. Mr. Bryan, replying to Presideit Roosevelt’s recent letter said he '' j willing to make public his 189 b • of less than SIOO,OOO if the preside® would make public Mark Ham fund of that year. Governor Haskell of Oklahoma 1 another letter to President Roo.eu accuses him of enlarging °n 1 Ujj zine article while attaching and challenged him to publish.the i terior department record to r ate his claim that he did notfauj the Standard Oil company Ha also appeals to Oklahoma! - to fight corporate oppression. Both political parties have conjP ed plans for a tremendous bat 1 New York before the close campaign. Democratic State Chairman C nors of New York has ■ names and figures purporting, that Governor Hughes was vgar ; tt.e use of tainted mone; r w rr nan ago. Republican State <■ gert . Woodruff replied with h- > . , fil ing that of the democratic-mdd^ dence league campaign funds, ing to $313,020.11, W. R. Heara ° over $255,000. Mr. Taft was well re^eive “. p w{t h nesota, speaking in good overcoat collar turned 1 | ru iorse: snow. When an aged "or n * Jv ~ one of his statements he gab , f ferred to her as probably tne > a family of sturdy sons. Law . convinced him that he wa;; u: until he was told the * oma - married. President Roosevelt ha ® L the controversy with Mi. > • ... It is said that the facts h'- M ,.,. er been published William Jennings Bryan - expim became Mrs. Bryan— was om ( ed from school on accoim T k a carriage ride With Md atlfl , future Mrs. Bryan a ■ Jacksonville Presbyterian Illinois. It was while - • i3 , i ; a student at WtapM sonville. She was ‘ 0 f her and became valedictonai as did Mr. Bryan of ms.