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DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH British Ambassador Predicts Rapid Growth of This Section. PROGRESSIVE SPISif SHOWN On His Visit to This Section James Bryco Was Struck by Signs of Activity In all Lines. Washington, D. C. —Expressing the conviction that a great future is about to dawn upon the south, James Bryce, the British ambassador, received a no table reception from the delegates in attendance upon the Southern Com mercial Congress, following a speech, in which he declareed that he is a well-wisher of the south. The ambassador was the center of attraction, although his visit was un expected. Mr. Bryce came into the hall simply as a spectator, but the audience soon noted his presence, and immediately shouts of “Speech,” "Speech,” filled the air, and he was compelled to yield to the desire of the congress. “Since 1 came here eighteen months ago,” said Mr. Bryce, “I have twice visited the south. I can hardly ex press to you the contrast between what I personally witnessed twenty seven years ago and the present con ditions, Wherever I have been in the south I have been struck by the signs of activity,' progress and devel opment. I see the land being brought more and more into cultivation, more and more being done for agricultural methods. I saw the resources of your toil, of coal and iron, being brought to light, and I saw anew spirit in the south, which desires to make educa tional progress commensurate with material development.” The ambassador pointed out the enormous difficulties with which the south has had to contend since the civil war. “Now, however,” he con tinued, “there is a great door open before you, and as one of the well wishers of the south, who believes in its greatness as a flourishing and im portant part of the country, I venture to congratulate you on what is being done, and to say that still greater prospects are before you.” The session was presided over by Judge George Hillyer, a member of the Georgia state railroad commission, who, in a brief address, reviewed the work of that body in dealing with transportation companies. The principal speakers were Wil liam J. Oliver of Knoxville, Tenn.; Clarence H. Poe, editor of The Pro gressive Farmers, Raleigh, N. C.; and Dr. J. A. Bonsteel, of the United States bureau of soils. Mr. Bonsteel reviewed the work which has been done by the bureau of soils in the way of investigations In the south. The speaker declared the south is a region of almost bound less agricultural opportunity, and ex pressed the belief that the brains and enterprise of these fifteen southern states will not neglect so great an opportunity. He predicted that the next census will show that the annual value of the farm products of the south will double what it now is— which will exceed $2,000,000,000. Preliminary to the convening of the session, Governor Dawe, secretary of the Commercial Club of Montgomery, Ala., called attention to the wrong im pression which has gained consider able headway in foreign countries, no tably in Europe, regarding the health conditions in the southern states, de claring that in northeastern Europe and the British isles, the immigrant maps have black and yellow splotch es over what are called the southern states, the idea being that certain southern states are infected with yel low fever, and therefore unfitted for a place of residence. Mr. Dawe said this impression is unjust to the south, lie, therefore, advocated the carrying on of an active propaganda in foreign countries to make the south better understood in this respect. NEW LGUNTERFEIT FOUND. ss' Silver Certificate, Indian Head, is Very Deceptive. Washington, D. C. —Anew counter feit $5 silver certificate, Indian head, has been discovered by the secret ser vice officials, who declare that it is a dangerous and deceptive counterfeit. It is said to be particularly deceptive .by reason of the fact that it is print ed on genuine paper, which has been obtained by bleaching a note of small er denomination, probably a $1 bill. In bleaching the note the color has been taken out of some of the distributed silk fiber lying close to the surface, but the deeply imbedded fiber is still visible in the paper, though the bluue has been changed to a purple and the red has been somewhat lightened. The back of the note is deceptive, but is a blue green and darker than the gen uine. PROHiBmON lawlFbe kept. Alabama Brewers Have No Intention of Defying Measure. “Mobile, Ala.—Representatives of the Mobile and Bienville Breweries in this city met and officially announced that it 'had been determined some months ago that the Alabama prohibi tion laws will be rigidly observed by them. This action, it_was announc ed, was taken, of the indig nation among the directors of the breweries by the reports cir culated abroad that this city propos ed to ignore the state law in its en tirety. President Hart of Savannah, Ga., of the Mobile Brewery, was in attendance and gave out the details after the meeting. DEFICIT OF $58,0 70,201. United States Treasurer Treat So States in Annual Report. Washington, D. €. Charles H. Treat, treasurer of the United States, in his annual report, calls attention to the fact that owing to the disturb ed relations between the income and outgo of the government there was a deficiency last year of $58,070,201 as against surplus for the preceding year of $84,236,086, and points out that the total revenues for 190(8 exceeded any preceding fiscal year except 1907 CLRiER IN WHEAT. 20.030,000 Busheis, Biggest Deal on Record, May Bring $1.40. Chicago, 111. —James A. Patten, the corn king, with his partner, now con trols 20,000,000 bushels cf wheat more wheat than any one crowd of men ever held in Chicago, the scene of the world’s biggest corn deals, and $1.40 wheat is looked for on the board of trade as a result of the co lossal deal. With Mr. Patten in the big ring are William li. Bartlett, George W. Pat ten and Frank B. Frazer. It is big ger than the Joe Leiter deal when that young plunger lost $9,000,000 just after the world's fair. It is bigger than the John W. Gates corner, in which millions were lost by the cor nerer four years ago And yet it is not a corner. It is merely a colossal deal. The Bartlett- Patten bull ring is not endeavoring to buy all the grain in the market and create an artificial condition, as “Old Hutch” did when he forced wheat up to $2. Its purpose is merely to use to advantage what is believed to be a world-wide condition, and to have a large amount of wheat to sell when the price soars. VEGETATION IS DESTROYED By the Fumes of Copper—Farmers Enter Complaint. Washington, D. C. —After a hearing at the white house, at which the rep representatives of the Anaconda Cop per Company presented their side of the controversy over the destruction of the forests and vegetation at Ana conda, against which the farmers had complained to him, President Roose velt declared that the only patience he would exercise in restiaining the department of justice from proceeding with an injunction suit against the copper company would be to make an investigation to ascertain whether a practical method is possible for the extraction from the fumes of the smel ters of the poisonous substances The president will send an expert to Ducktown, Tenn., to investigate sev eral smelters there, on wTiich, it is claimed, appliances have been placed which extract the sulphur and arsenic from the fumes at a profit. If this investigation proves the practicabil ity of the appliances the president will order the department of justice to proceed with an injunction suit. h L ECTI tf N E K ALUSIN LfilLAliO. Outrageous Repeating and Ballot Box Stuffing Charged by Grand Jury. Chicago, 111. The ballots of men long residents of other cities, the bal lots of temporary absentees, the bal lots of the insane and even of the dead were cast in the primary elec tion of last August in Chicago. “Re peaters” voted in platoons, with the connivance of willingly unseeing judges and clerks of election, and traud, rampant to an extent hitherto unknown in a city never famous for the purity of its political atmosphere, rendered the resultant party nomina tions morally worthless. These and other startling allega tions are made in the report of the special grand jury, which, after sev eral weeks of delving into charges growing out of Chicago’s first prima ries and returning sixty-one indict ments against two-score or more of politicians and others, adjourned. PROFIT OF $55,000,000. Made by Standard Oil Company in Seven Years. New York City.—Figures showing some of the profits of the Standard Oil Company became part of the court record in the federal suit to dissolve the Standard, when John D. Arch bcld resumed the stand for a brief examination, and Henry Tilford, pres ident of the Standard Oil Company of California, testified at some length as a witness for the defense. The gov ernment inquisitors, on figures submit ted, showed that the Continental Oil Company, a Standard subsidiary in the middle west, made profits of 115 per cent on its capitalization of $300,- 000, and that the Standard Oil Com pany of Indiana, on a capitalization of SI,OO-0,000, earned about $55,000,000 between 1£99 and 1906. DARING BANK RUBBERY. $16,500 Taken from Bank of Portland by Three Masked Men. Portland, Oregon.—The East Side Bank at East Washington street and Grand avenue was robbed by three masked men of $16,500. The president of the bank, Henry H. Newhall and his son, Roger, were just about to leave the bank for home when two men armed with pistols en tered. President Newhall and his son were ordered to hold up their hands, and while they were thus under the cover of one robber’s revolver, tht? other man crawled through the cash ier’s window, passed out the money and crawled back into the foyer. Eleven Killed in Dynamite ExpitL.on. Calcutta, India. —An explosion in the magazine at the military station here resulted in the killing of eleven men and the wounding of twenty-six oth. ers. The men were engaged in con verting ball cartridges into blank car tridges. $25,000 Shaft For Carmack. Nashville, Tenn. —At a meeting of the committee on a memorial for ex- Senator Carmack, appointed at the re cent memorial mass meeting, it was decided to erect a $25,000 monument, the money to be raised by popular subscription and the monument to be placed on Capitol Hill. Butch En Venezuela. Willemstad. —News of a naval dem onstration off the coast of Venezuela was received here. Three Dutch war ships, the Jacob Van Meimswerck and the cruisers Friesand and Golderland, steamed from Puerto Cortez to Cura cao at a distance of 300 yards from the shore. The cruisers have depart ed for Marxboro, where they will make a similar demonstration. It is feared the demonstration will have a disastrous diplomatic effect. TO BREAK SOLID SOUTH President-elect Discusses South’s Political Isolation at Banquet. VOTE US THEIR CONVICTIONS Mr. Taft Urged That Voters of the South Break Away From Tradition of Past Political Affiliations. New York City—President-elect "Tlllam 11. Taft, who came to New a ork to addre3 the North Carolina So ciety Gf this city, was given a tumul tuous reception by the members of Ihe organization and by prominent men from all parts of the south, at York to address the North Carolina So clinions at the Hotel Astor. Five hundred members and guests of the society filled the brilliantly decorated banquet hall, which was redolent of the pines of the Tar Heel State, the cones and branches of the resinous trees forming the background for more fragrant blooms, which were scattered everywhere over snowy lin en and flag-draped walls. Intertwined ensigns of the state and nation were conspicuous in the decorations of the banquet hall, and larger flags were displayed in front of the hotel through out the day and evening. Mr. Taft, in'the course of an ad dress, "which was confined entirely to the south and its problems, urged again that the voters of the south should break away from the outlived sentiment and tradition of their past political affiliations, and cast their ballots in accordance rather with their economic and real political beliefs. Mr. Taft declared that nothing would give him greater pride during his com ing term in the chief executive office than to so direct the policy of the national government with respect to the southern states, as to convince the intelligent ctiizens of the south of the desire of his administration to aid them in working out satisfactorily the serious problems before them, and of bringing them and their north ern fellow citizens closer and closer in sympathy and point of view. At the conclusion of practically ev ery one of his pointed sentences, Mr. Taft was interrupted by applause and cheering. Mr. Taft declared that the north yearns for a closer association of the south, and quoted statistics to show that the industries of the south had grown and prospered more during the past decade than any other section of the country. PANAMA BONDS SOLID. Average Price of $102.4368 Obtained for Canal Securities. Washington, D. C. —Secretary Cor celyou has announced that the Pan ama Canal bonds had been sold at an average of $102,4368. The lowest ac cepted bid was at $102.2778. There were 159 accepted bids, amounting to $30,000,000. Six hundred and seventy two bids were rejected, amounting to $72,808,800. The toltal number of reg ular bids, therefore, was 831, subscri bing for $102,808,800. The bona fide character of the bids is shown by the fact that of the 834 received all but three were accompa nied by certified checks or cash for 2 per cent of the face value of the bonds applid for. The following are the names of the successful bidders for $1,000,000 and over, together with the price offered; Fisk & Robinson, New York City, five bids, $2,000,000 each at .prices ranging from $102,283 to $102,783 ; Chase National Bank, New York City, three bids, $1,000,000 each, at prices laiiging Horn $1u2.3005 to $102.5005; the National City Bank of New York City, $10,242,760 at $102.2778. The highest bid was by J. F. House man of Bradshaw, Neb., for SIOO at. $lO5. CHICAGO'S MINERAL TRUST. Alleged That the Undertakers Are Charging Outrageous Prices. Chicago, 111. —That Chicago is at the mercy of a “funeral trust” is the al legation of P. J. Hurson, an embalmer, who, in display advertisements in the daily papers, has been stirring up his brother undertakers. He says, in part “There are so many undertakers in Chicago, that many of them bury but fifteen or twenty bodies a year. The result is that for a funeral which should cost but, say, S2OO, these un dertakers invariably charge as high as SSOO. Caskets which should be sold at about SSO at good profit, they sell for S2OO and $250. “When death comes, the relatives in the stress of preparation and grief call the nearest undertaker. They se lect as of their love the flnest casfafrw ithin their means. They pay S2OO that should cost but SSO or s6o.’’^^^ ADMIRAL COGHLAN DEAD. Commanded Cruiser Raleigh at the Battle of Manila Bay. New Rochelle, N. Y. —Just on the eve of his removal to his new home, where he had hoped to spend his de clining years in quiet, after a life time of arduous service in the navy, Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, re tired, died suddenly, aged 64. Rear Admiral Coghlan was born at Frank fort, Ky., and his service in the navy began in 1863. From that time until his retirement, in December, 1906, he was almost constantly in the. service. He participated in the battle of Ma nila bay during the Spanish war, where he commanded the cruiser Raleigh. NO LIQUOR IN OKLAHOMA. State Dispensary System Abolished by Vote of the People. Guthrie, Okla. —Governor Haskell has issued a proclamation declaring that the state dispensary system had been abolished by the vote at the re cent election, which leaves the citi zens of Oklahoma without Any lawful means to purchase inside the state liquor for medicinal purposes. This situation will continue until the leg islature provides for the sale of liquor for medicinal purposes. PRESIDENT ON SUFFRAGE Roosevelt Thinks Women Should Vote. Is not Enthusiastic. New York City.—The attitude of President Roosevelt and of Secretary oi date Eliliu Root on the subject of woman suffrage was disclosed at a meeting under the auspices of the National League for the Civic Educa tion of Women. The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook, in the course of an address in opposition to granting the lights to vote for women, read the fol lowing letter from President Roose velt, which he said he read with the president’s permission, although it was not “written for publication, “Personally, I believe in woman’s suffrage,” says Mr. Roosevelt, at the outset of the letter, which is dated No vember 10, 1908, “but I am mot an en thusiastic advocate of it because I do not regard it as a very important mat ter. I am unable to see that there has been any special improvement in the position of women in those states in the west that have adopted woman suffrage as compared with those states adjoining them that have not adopted it. I do not think that giving the women suffrage will produce any marked improvement in the condition of women. I do not believe that it. will produce any of the evils feared, and I am very certain that when wom en, as a whole, take any special in terest in the matter they will have the suffrage if they desire it. “But at present I think most of them are lukewarm; I find some activity for it, and some activity against it. I am, for the reasons above given, rath er what you would regard as luke warm or tepid in my support of it be cause, while I believe in it, I do not regard it as of very much import ance. “I believe that man and woman should stand on an equality of right, but I do not believe that equality of right means identity of function; and I am more and more convinced that the great field, the indispensable field, for the usefulness of women is as the mother of the family. “It is her work in the household, in the home, her work in bearing and rearing the children, which is more important than any man’s work, and it is that work which should be nor mally the woman’s special work, just as normally the man’s work should be that of the breadwinner, the sup porter of the home, and, if necessary, the soldier who will fight for the home. “There are exceptions as regards both man and woman; but the full and perfect life, the life of highest happi ness and of highest usefulness to the state, is the life of the man and wom an who are husband and wife, who live in the partnership of love and duty, the one earning enough to keep the home, the other managing the home and the children. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” MILKS FOR GILGED RICH. Cows Arc Washed and Wiped With Linen Napkins. Chicago, 111. —Loton Horton, one of the biggest retailers of milk in New York state, regaled the annual meet ing of the International Milk Dealers’ Association, held here in connection with the dairy show at the Coliseum, with a moving narrative of how he charged 20 cents a quart for milk, .Avoiding to Mr. Horton the milk is proofed by the owner of a farm at Newburg, N. Y., and “costs as much to produce and is as good to drink as the best California wine.” Cleanliness is insisted on to an extent almost un believable, he declares; the ccvi n•-*' washed and wiped with linen napkins and when the milk is obtained it is handled as though it were so much champagne. The milk is sold to “the gilded rich” in New York, the owner is said to make about 2 per cent on his invest ment, and Mr. Horton says that he himself loses money. ‘Tm keeping up the experiment,” said he, “first, be cause I believe the making of pure milk ought to be encouraged, and, sec ond, in the belief that some day the demand will be sufficiently steady to make it pay.” LIQUOR TO DRY TERRITORY. Common Carriers Must Accept Ship ments Tendered. Richmond, Va. —The supreme court of appeals affirmed the decision of the state corporation commission in the case of the Portlier Brewing Company against the Southern Express Compa ny. The effect of the decision is that while common carriers must receive shipments for delivery to parties in “dry territory,” wholesalers, brewers, distillers and manufacturers cannot avail themselves of that right, for by so doing it could be made possible for violators of the law compell com mon carriers to aid and abet violations on account of the consignees receiving the liquor when shipped in large quan tities and then selling it Inland Waterway Route. New Orleans, La. —Between two and three hundred delegates gathered here in attendance upon the fourth annual convention of the Interstate Waterways League, which has for its object the construction of an inland waterway from the Rio Grande to the Mississippi. It is planned to connect and dredge to sufficient length all of the rivers and bodies of water lying just inside the Louisiana and Texas coasts, the route extending from Brownsville, Texas, to Donaldsonville, La. A gov ernment appropriation has resulted in a portion of the work being completed already, and a further appropriation will be asked of congress. Shippers of the South. Louisville, Ky.—Discussion behind closed doors about an interstate com merce commission ruling on the sub stitution of commodities was partici pated in here by a large body of rep resentative shippers from many parts of the south. None of the conferees would di vulge the nature of the proceedings, but it was definitely stated by a prom inent railroad authority that a plan of battle was arranged against the commission’s order. 60th CONGRESS MEETS Opening Session of Both Branch es Was Brief. TO SPEND ITOOO,OOO,OOO Republican Leaders Will Try to Confine the Work of the Short Session to Passage of the Money Bills. Washington, D. C. —Both houses of congress convened for the beginning of the second session of the sixtieth congress. Practically no business was transacted in either house. In the senate, ex-Governor Cummins of lowa took the oath of office, as the success of Senator Allison, as did Car roll S. Page of Vermont as the suc cessor of Senator Stewart. In the house the seven members who were elected in November to succeed mem bers who have resigned were sworn in. They are Henry A. Barnhart, dem ocrat, who succeeds the late Mr. Brick, republican, from the thirteenth Indiana district; Albert Estopinal, democrat, who succeeds the late Mr. Meyer, from the first Louisiana dis trict; Otto G. Foelker, republican, suc cessor to Mr. Dunwell, republican, in the third New York district; Frank E. Gurnsey, republican, successor to Mr. Powers, republican, from the fourth Maine district; Eben M. Masters, re publican, successor to Mr. Parker, re publican from South Dakota at large; O. C. Wilty, democrat, successor to his brother, A. A. Wiley, democrat, from the second Alabama district, and John P. Swasey, republican, successor to Mr. Littlefield, who resigned dur ing the last session from the second Maine district. The two houses appointed commit tees each to notify the other house and the president, that the two bodies are organized and prepared to go for ward with the business of the ses sion. The senate then adjourned for the day, out of respect to the mem ory of Senator Allison, who died dur ing the recess. The house terminated its brief session with resolutions com memorative of the lives of Messrs. Packer, Wiley, Dunwell and Powers, who have died since adjournment last May. Tuesday, after the completion of preliminary routine business the president’s message was read in both houses, adjournment was then taken until noon Wednesday. An emergency volunteer army meas ure was advocated Tuesday by Pres ident Roosevelt in a special message sent to congress, and the draft of the bill accompanying the message was introduced in the senate by Mr. Cul lom. The president says the bill is intended to repiace the present law, which was placed on the statute books “piecemeal and hurriedly, partly on the eve of the war with Spain and partly after hostilities had actually commenced.” After declaring that the present law is faulty and wholly inadequate to a speedy and proper organization of a volunteer force, the prosident says the bill proposed,which .vas ciiawn under the supervision of the chief of staff of the army, has the hearty approval of the war depari ment. The proposed bill is elastic; un der its provisions a force of 2,000,000 men could be raised, as well as one Work of Congress Outlined. If republican leaders retain their present- views, the legislation of the session will include very little except the appropriation bills. These bills will carry in the aggregate about sl,- 000,000,00(1, and the general opinion is that in the time tnat will be al lowed the two houses will find that they can best serve the country by giving proper attention to these ap propriations. There will be a general effort to hold the appropriations down to the lowest possible limit. It is generally understood that there will be a bill for the improvement of rivers and harbors, to carry not less than $25,- 000,000 or $30,000,000. Provision must be made this year for the census of 1910, and this will require not less than $10,000,000. There will be other exceptional demands, so that as it now looks, congress will do well ifit. suc ceeds in holding the appreciations for the second session of w sixtieth congress to the dimensions of those of the first session. The house com mittee on appropriations alredy has begun its work on the sundry bills. The fact that the managers desire to restrict legislation will not prevent other members of the senate and house from exerting their efforts in behalf of favorite measures. The first effort in this direction will be made in the senate, by Mr. Foraker, who will renew his attempt to have passed the bill authorizing the re-enlistment of the negro soldiers discharged with out honor on account of the Browns ville riot. This measure will be the special order for December 16. The president will recommend leg islation looking to the supervision of telegraph and telephone lines. Bills will be offered bringing them within the jurisdiction of the interstate com merce commission. Ship subsidy also will receive attention, but the proba bility of action is remote. There will be much discussion of the tariff in the cloak rooms, and the ways and means committee of the house will continue its efforts to a bill, but no measure will receive attention on the floor of either house until after March 4, when the propos ed special session will concentrate its efforts upon this one subject. It is even probable that action looking to a change in the print paper and wood pulp schedules will be postponed un til the special session. Both houses will receive recommen dations from the congressional mon etary commission looking to changes in the laws regulating the supervis ion of national banks, and the pres ent indications are that some time leg islation for that purpose will be en acted. It is quite certain that the recent agreement between the United States and Japan will receive early consid eration in the senate. Already a num ber of senators have privately ex pressed disapproval of the fact that the compact was entered into without consulting* the senate. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. Three men, armed with r held up a Third avenue surJr ***• Vew York City and robbo i^ Car b ductor. One highwayman ! he Co *- motorman to keep th*' * ° rced tb * at the point of a pistol, whdl ,? ovin ? er two seized the <% ed him to turn over his , , ar ‘ a fc h. then escaped. ‘ none L They A wireless station in * co reports having o'-erwTi an "k --last fortnight ln the are believed to have been7ert? ich some station in Japan. tI 1 fr °* the local company’s belief ti- on^ri n sages have come, the Japan and S es ‘ olulu wireless station is c a ; <r , f 0r " heard the same message n ba? “ enese station is over 6,non / ai " this city, and should the h originated in Japan it brc-rrs th “ a ' v less record by over three thl* lre * miles. - j °usan<t A. S Trade, a millionaire attnr* and “skyscraper" owner. Chicago soon for a se-en r> ' Robinson Crusoe existence on ° ntlls ’ inhabited island. He will , it ch an Ur on Mattagorda island, in iheVM®* Mexico, south of the mainl-mi of Texas. The island is merely a ° f bar, devoid of vegetal ion p' w aEfl er been inhabited and nobody oh ownership of it except the* • ment and he has obtained ap2 from the authorities to iiv e Ul i I ’ his tent from December 10 to j u j v r W. C. Brown, known in the iittu town of Dallas, Ore., as “Uncle R entertained seventv-six widows at banquet. The number included n the widows in his town and the diate vicinity. It was strictly an i, vitation affair and if aiiv were'nnT ted it was by advertence Billy” is a widower and is looking f, a w ife. He is 84 years old and cele brated the event by invitin* whom he thought possible candidate for that position. The oldest of his guests was 91 and the youngest 2;' Experiments that have been goinJ on at Berlin, Germany, for some time have shown that it. is almost impos sible for dirigible balloons to escape from the fire of field pieces and rifiis on the ground by going to high alti tudes. The greatest height the air ships can attain with safety will leave them in range of special cannon with which the experiments are being made. It is the opinion of experts that dirigible balloons will have to rely solely upon own speed to escape the fire cf a properly equipped enemy. B. H. Hardaway of Columbus, Ga, has been awarded the contract by the Southern Power company of Char lotte, N. C., to build a dam ninety feet high on the Broad river near Blacks burg, S. C. The dam will be oj? thousand one hundred feet long and its construction, and the building of the power house, which contract was also awarded to Mr. Hardaway, will represent an expenditure o f about $1,000,000. The dam will develop 2; 001) horsepower, which will be used by South Carolina and North Carolina industries. Mr. Hardaway recently received a contract to build a $500,- 000 lock for the United States govern ment on the Black Warrior river in Alabama. President Roosevelt has crdwA his hunting shoes. They really are boots reaching almost to the knee and the measurements bv which they are to be made are the most complete that have ever ben made. Several weeks ago, at the request cf the pres ident, a Brockton, Mass., firm sen' one of its most expert men to Wash ington to take the measurements of the president’s feet. Orders were giv en for four pairs of t)3ots. Each of the president’s feet was carefully measured. In all nearly fifty meas urements were taken. From them plaster casts will be made of the president’s feet and legs and th® boots will be built on them. The shoes will have an extra-double sole into which the upper will be seven with waterproof stitches. Washington The monthly statement of the direc tor of the mints shows that during November, 1908, the coinage at he mints of the United States amour. ■ to $8,817,210 as follows: Gold, W 993,740; silver, $820,000; minor coin* $3,470. There were also coined 3,4.3.* 000 pieces for the Philippine island It was announced at the ters of the Southern railway that in new uniform bill of lading ap? r by the interstate commerce com sion would be put into use on / aD J * 1 next. Notice to this effect has ie sent out to all agents of the i° a - gether with the information T ; _ effort is being made by interests _ resenting the water and rail . to bring about some modification the terms of the commission - y necessary to ftgpj tu and rail local conditions. ' n ‘ 7 Secretary Wilson lias state * his department was gaining con ‘ the foot and mouth cattle of Maryland. New \ or *’ gan and Pennsylvania. A jj department would permi T no the quarantine against . until the disease had "t-.-n “ More than a thousand cattk, had already been slain. . Herbert L. Satterlee of >-' e * * who was offered the position u tant secretary of the navy to r * Mr. Newberry, who has been to be head of the depat ' . 'j c cef notified the presided <■ '• 1 ye* tance of the appointment -.. Bte s berry was sworn in and i a - in the cabinet meeting. !1 \ , . jjr, companied to the white P ( ! - Metcalf, his predecessoi In a decision rendered ■'> sioner Lane, in the ;n ’ merce commission, in ! ' ca M. Kehoe & Cos., again:- ville, Chattanooga and tU- *; wap company and 0,1 ‘ .U 1 dared that the commit-- not impose on a carri* ■■ jQ yfl telegraphing to the coll y lr ’ flice d 4 event that the shipment u- no ,jf the consignee or the latter <*** J found. The present pracn.- ■ carriers in regard to ■ : ijous I held to be reasonably ex,*