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CASTROFORCEDTOMOVE
Ex-Dictator Expelled From Mar
tinique by France.
WAS CARRIED ABOARD SHIP
France Hai No Objection to Hi* Return
to That Country, But He Muat
Live Peaceably.
Fort de France, Martinique.—Cipri
ana Castro, ox-president of Venezuela,
was lgnomlniously expelled from the
Island of Martinique .by the French
government. He protested to the last
against his expulsion, but his protests
were in vain. He is now on board
the French line steamship Versailles,
bound for St. Nazaire.
The removal of the former presi
dent of Venezuela from the hotel to
the steamer was not without its piti
ful aspects. Immediately on the an
nouncement by the medical commis
sion, who made a lengthy physical ex
amination of Castro, that he was en
tirely capable of making the voyage,
the commissary of police, with an es
core of gendarmes, invaded the hotel
and proceeded to his chamber. They
found the ex-president lying in bed,
and, although he still protested that
he could not move, they carried him
down stairs in a mattress, the pa
tient all the while moaning dismally,
and placed him on a stretcher. Offi
cers from the United States cruiser
North Carolina, in civilian dress, help
ed to make him as comfortable as
possible, and then the stretcher was
picked up by four negroes and taken
to the steamer dock. The ex-presi
dent was furiously indignant; and,
prior to being taken aboard the steam
er Versailles for deportation to
France, prepared a written protest
against the acMon of the French gov
ernment, which has been submitted
to the authorities here.
It reads as follows: "I hereby pro
test against the action of the French
authorities of Martinique In having
me put by force on board an outgoing
vessel. First, because I was ill at
the time, and because the act imper
iled my life; second, because I have
committed no offense against the gov
ernment of France and the authori
ties of Martinique during the time
that I was permitted to remain on
that island, and, finally, because the
decree of expulsion which orders my
deportation out of French territory
compels me to take passage aboard
a vessel which will again land me on
French territory.
“Moreover, those conditions aside,
the case constitutes a breach of inter
national laws and a denial of the
rights of individuals. That such a
thing should have come to pass in
the land which saw the birth of Jo
sephine, and from which came the
inspiration and presage of liberty,
and at the hands of a people who
shed their blood by torrents hardly
a century ago to maintain unimpaired
the rights and prerogatives of man,
is inconceivable."
Paris, France. —The return of Cas
tro is not regarded here as of great
importance, the principal object of the
French government being to prevent
the use of French territory as the
headquarters for a revolutionary
movement, and a campaign by Cas
tro to recapture his lost power in
Venezuela. There will be no oppo
sition made to his landing, or even
to his remaining in France, provided
he lives peaceably. It is regarded,
however, as more likely that Castro
will disembark at Santander, where
he will try to charter -a ship.
Copenhagen, Denmark.—The gov
ernment has instructed the governor
of the Danish West Indies, under no
circumstances to permit ex-President
Castro to land in that territory. These
instructions were issued in response
to a cablegram from the colonial of
ficials inquiring as to what measures
they should take in the event of Cas
tro’s attempting to take up his resi
dence at any of these ports.
SOUTHS MEMBERS PLEASED.
Tariff Fight Was Won for the South
by Representatives.
Washington, D. C. —Southern repre
sentatives in cougress expressed un
bounded delight at the successful out
come of the fight to put on the free
list articles entering into the manu
facture of commercial fertilizers.
Since the southern cotton farmers
are the country’s largest users of fer
tilizers, they would have been harder
hit than any others by the original
provision in the Payne tariff bill put
ting a 20 per cent ad valorem duty
on imports of sulphate of potash and
muriate of potash.
But luckily for the south, this pro
vision was stricken from the bill, and
these commodities will continue to be
imported free of duty. The same thing
is true of kainit. This action of the
house will relieve the manufacturers
of fertilizers from any necessity or
reasonable excuse for an advance In
the cost of price of fertilizers.
PROMINENT MEN DECLINE PLACES.
President Taft Having Trouble To
Fill Positions.
Washington, D. C.—lt was stated
that the mission to China tendered by
president Taft to former Senator Ful
ton of Oregon had previously been of
fered to former Senator Hemenway,
of Indiana. Former Representative
Watson has declined four different
places Tn the federal service ofTered
to him by the president; former Vice
President Fairbanks has announced
that he will not enter the federal ser
vice, and former Senator Hemenway
of Indiana has also declined an oflSce.
All three of these gentlemen have an
nounced they will continue in politics
in Indiana.
“MOONSHINE” m BUSY.
Big Increase in the Illicit Distillation of
Liquors Reported.
Washington ,D. C. —Officials of the
internal revenue and treasury depart
ment are of the opinion that the tem
perance movement which Las taken
such a strong hold of certain sections
of the country, particularly in the
south, has resulted in Increasing the
number of violations of the internal
revenue laws in the distillation of il
licit whiskey.
Kecent reports indicate that in
many southern states, especially Ala-
I bama, Georgia and North Carolina,
there has been greater activity on the
. part of the lawless mountain element,
wno always have been troublesome
to the revenue agents, than in many
j years. These three states now have
laws prohibiting distilleries from op
erating within their borders.
In Alabama the law went into ef
fect on July 1, 1908; in Georgia on
January 1, 1908, and in North Caro
lwina, January 1, 1909. Many legiti
mate distilleries nave moved to Flor
ida and other states where the inhi
bition does not exist. Whiskey be
ing more difficult to obtain in a legit
imate way, has greatly increased the
profits of illicit distilling, with the
result tiiat the activities of the in
ternal revenue bureau at this time
is largely directed towards the moun
tain sections of these three states.
In 1908 there were 1,130 illicit stills
destroyed; in 1907 there were 1,139,
and in 1906 there were 1,376, but the
returns for the nine months of the
present fiscal year show a decided
Increase in the number destroyed, the
number so far reported this year being
1,017, with the probability that by
July Ist, that the number will have
been increased approximately 1,300.
The section of the south where
there is the most activity among the
so-calleld “moonshiners’’ embraces
the Atlanta district, where it is re
ported 120 stillls were Beized and de
stroyed in December last. The Ashe
ville, N. C., district is another sec
tion that has to be constantly looked
after, as do those of Columbia, S.
C., and Louisville, Ky.
At Atlanta the collector has 17 dep
uties; at Asheville 15 and at Colum
bia 28, most of them constantly em
ployed In raiding work.
In addition nearly eight hundred
possemen have been employed from
time to time in the last few months,
with a number of guides.
Elephant Killed Keeper.
Des Moines, lowa. —"Tom,” ap ele
phant in the winter quarters of the
“Yankee” Robinson circus here, sud
denly ran amuck and seizing his
keeper, Charles Bellew, hurled him
high into the air and then trampled
him to death. The infuriated beast
then ran through the animal park,
uprooting small trees, destroyed three
circus wagons and demolished a
bridge across a lagoon. Forty bullets
were fired into the beast before it
was subdued. Bellew was 44 years
old,
Six Lives Lost in Steamer Fire.
New Orleans, La. —Captain Frank
Hansen, of the United Fruit company
steamer Ellis, jußt in from British
Honduras, reported the loss of six
lives as a result of an explosion on
the Hamburg-American steamer Sa
rina, at Port Limon. Five negro la
borers and a sailor on the Sarina
were burned to death in the hold. The
flames were subdued before a great
deal of damage bad been done to the
Steamer, but a large portion of the
cargo, principally cotton, was thrown
overboard and much of it lost.
Dug Up Treasure.
Lexington, Ky.—While making a
post hole in an abandoned lot, work
men discovered a brass kettle con
taining $8,500 In gold and silver that
apparently had been buried for half
a century.
The lot formerly belonged to J. C.
Dewitt, an aged pensioner, who died
several years ago, and it is the suppo
sition that he buried the money.
The lot was sold at a commis
sioner’s sale recently for sll6.
Emma Goldman’s Citizenship Cancelled
Buffalo, N. Y. —Judge Hazel in the
United States circuit court, granted
an order cancelling the citizenship
papers of Jacob A. Kerner. Througu
this order all rights of citizenship
also are taken from Kerner’s wife,
who is Emma Goldman, the socialis
tic leader.
Crime to Kiss Child.
Boston, Mass. —“A mother who al
lows a stranger to kiss her child is
just as much a criminal as the wom
an who places her child in the path
of a runaway animal in order that it
may be killed,” declared Mrs. Mar
gur.et Grant, formerly an English hos
pital nurse. Allowing strangers to
kiss one’s child is even more repre
hensible than those who kiss and
fondle dogs.
Girl’s Joke Almost Fatal.
Winchester, Va. W. F. Shippe, a
Frederick county school teacher, waa
the victim of a joke that came near
ending his life. He accepted a drug
ged apple from a girl in his school
and was poisoned. The girl had drug
ged the apple with the intention of
making the teacher sleepy, but gave
him an overdose.
To End Kidnaping.
Albany, N. W. —The senate passed
a bill increasing the penalty for
kidnapping to fifty years and anoth
er increasing to twenty-five years the
maximum penalty of blackmail, ex
tortion and Black Hand practices.
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HOW HE KNEW.
Earlie: “Come in; sister’s excep
in’ you.”
■Mr. De Latesteyer: "How do you
know she is?”
Earlie: “She’s been sleepln’ all the
afternoon.” —Brooklyn Eagle.
A Severe Case of Eczema.
Garland, N. C.
Mr. J. T. Shuptrlne. Savannah. Ga.
Dear Sir:—Last, winter my mother had
eczema all over her. Could not rest day
or night for the stinging, turning, Itch
ing. She tried various kinds of salves
and ointments but they did her no good
at all. She happened to see Tetterlne
advertised. We ordered one box and tried
it on tier arm. It did her so much good
we showed It to our doctor. He imme
diately ordered one-half dozen. She used
It as directed twice a day. It did her
so much good we ordered one dozen
more. After using It soveral weeks she
was completely cured. I can certainly
recommend Tetterlne as It Is a sure cure
for eczema. 1 really believe It saved my
mother’s life. Yours truly.
Miss Minnie Cromartle.
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DEFINITE.
“Did that young couple Just mar
ried take a flat?”
“I don’t know about the couple; I
know the bride did.” —Baltimore
American.
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Time is the best test. For over fifty
years Hamlins Wizard Oil has been the
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for the cure of Rheumatism, Neuralgia and
all pain and inflammation.
A statesman is a politician who
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Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford'a
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Laugh—and the world wonders who
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If we must be afflicted with weak,
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When in doubt —wait; the other
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FXCUK<IOX KATES
To LnnlsvUU, Ky , and Keturn, for South
ern Hai>tUt Convention, May 13-20, 1909,
Via Atlanta, Birmingham A Atlantic By.
Tickets will be sold May 10th to 13th in
clusive with return limit May 22nd, 1909.
Ciose connections at Atlanta and Birming
ham with all lines for Louisville. See
ticket agent.
Experience will teach a man a lot
if it doesn’t worry him to death.
Dealers & Ginners save money. Order
Bagging, Bag-cloth, Cotton Ties direct from
Factory. Brokers wanted everywhere.
Margoiius Company, New Orleans, La.,
also Norfolk. Va.
The American people don’t “love to
be fooled.” They want to be “shown.”
For COLDS and GRIP.
Hick’s Cafbik is the best remedy—
relieves the selling and feverishness-cures
the Cold and restores normal conditions. Its
liquid—effects immediately. 10c.. 25c. and
Me.. At drug stores
The comforting thing about how
uncomfortable you can be traveling
abroad, to the New York Press, is
how many other fools are doing the
same thing.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
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F. J. Cheney & Cos., Toledo, O.
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him perfectly honorable in all business
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Waldino. Kinnax & Mabvin, Whole
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Hall’s Catarrh Cure taken internally, act
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Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
VERY DOUBTFUL.
“I don’t think they would be happy
If married.”
“Who?”
"That Henry James heroine and
that Marie Corelli haro.”—Kansaa
City Journal.
Sunbau-ScHooF
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR APRIL 18.
Subject: The Conversion of Saul, Acts
9:1-30—Golden Text: Acts, 9:4
—Commit Verses 15, 16—Com
mentary on the Lesson.
TIME.—A. D. 37 (?) PLACE.—
Jerusalem, Damascus.
EXPOSITION.—I. Saul the Mur
derous Enemy of Jesus, 1, 2. Saul’s
intense anger against Jesus and His
disciples was not a matter of a single
hour or day. The extent to which
he carried his hatred in action we
see in ch. 22:19; 26:10, 11. In this
Saul had persuaded himself that he
was doing right (ch. 26:9). It is a
striking illustration of how a man
who intends to be conscientious can
be thoroughly and awfully wrong.
11. Saul the Humbled Penitent, 3-
9. The Lord allowed Saul to go a
long way in his mad career. But at
the proper moment He put forth His
hand and saved the little flocks in
Damascus. Probably Ananias had
prayed, though he could hardly be
lieve when he heard. The Lord often
acts “suddenly.” The “light out of
heaven” that shone around Saul was
the light of Christ’s resurrection
glory (v. 17; 1 Cor. 15:8). It was
“about noon” (ch. 22:6), and the
glare of the eastern noon is exceed
ingly bright, but the glory of this
was “above the brightness of the
sun” (ch. 26:13). Our Jesus is ex
ceeding glorious. The stout-hearted
persecutor is thoroughly humbled (v.
4). There are many to-day who
speak great, swelling words against
our Lord, who, if they should get one
look at Him as He Is, would “fall to
the earth” before Him (Phil. 2:10,
11). Evidently, for all his zeal in
persecuting the church, Saul had
many a goading thought that he
might be wrong, and Jesus indeed
the Lord (26:14, R. V.). A start
ling question (v. 4). He puts it to
every one to-day who is persecuting
His people. Note how tenderly Jesus
Identifies Himself with His disciples
(v. 5; comp. Matt. 25:35-40, 42-45;
Eph. 5:30). What an awful mo
ment It must have been in Saul’s life
when it fully broke upon him that
the glorious One who stood before
him was indeed Jesus, whom he had
so bitterly hated and so relentlessly
persecuted. What an awful moment
It will be for many now living when
they see Jesus in the glory, and real
ize that it is He whom they have
spurned and persecuted. The light
Saul saw was no mere subjective vis
ion or effect of sunstroke; the others
saw it, too (ch. 22:9), and heard the
voice. When we look at the original
the apparent contradiction between
v 7 and ch. 22:9 entirely disappears.
In this passage “the voice” is in the
genitive case, which with the verb
translated “hearing” Indicates the
person (or thing) heard speaking the
message. In Acts 22:9 “the voice” is
in the accusative case, which indi
cates the message which is heard.
There was no hurrying of Saul into
the light. It is not a bad thing for a
man to have time to think and to re
view the enormity of his sin.
111. Ananias, the Obedient Disci
ple, 10-16. Ananias was simply “a
certain disciple.” This, destroys the
doctrine of the Mormon church (and
of many others) that the laying on of
an apostle’s hands was necessary to
receiving the Holy Spirit. Ananias
was a ready instrument to the Lord’s
call. But when the definite direc
tions came Ananias was staggered.
He quite overlooked what Jesus had
just told him about the change that
had been wrought in Saul. Saul, the
terrible, fills his whole vision and he
protests. Jesus enters into no dis
cussion with Ananias. “Go thy way,”
He says, and then He tells what Saul
of Tarsus really was—“a chosen ves
sel unto Me.” How wonderful are
God’s ways,, to transform the bitter
enemy Into “the chosen vessel.” But
this former persecutor must himseif
suffer for the sake of that name he
once hated. This, too, a gracious act
on Jesus’ part to permit Saul to suf
fer for Him, and to-day the suffer
ings that Saul once inflicted upon
Christ are quite forgotten in the suf
gerings he endured for Christ.
IV. Saul, the Bold Witness For
Jesus, 17-19. Ananias protests no
longer. Readily and promptly and
heartily he obeys. The moment he
sees Saul he tenderly lays his hands
upon him and exclaims, “Brother
Saul.” There were no men on earth
that Saul had hated as he did disci
ples of the Lord; There was no man
on earth that Ananias had dreaded as
he did Saul, But this was all
changed. Faith in one Lord had
made them brothers. “And be filled
with the Holy Ghost.” The Lord
had said nothing about that to Ana
nias (v. 12). But the Lord had said
“he Is a chosen vessel to carry My
name before the Gentiles,” etc., and
Ananias knew he could not do that
properly unless he was endued with
power from on high (Luke 24:49;
Acts 1:4, 5; ch. 10:38). Saul did
just what every man ought to do as
soon as he Is saved and Spirit-filled
(v. 20). There Is no indication that
Saul at this time received miraculous
gifts through being filled with the
Holy Spirit. He took God’s word for
It that he was so filled, and went
ahead, and the filling with the Spirit
manifested Itself in the power with
wlich he preached (v. 22).
The Good Grows.
How Indestructibly the good grows
and propagates itself, even among
the weedy entanglements of evil!
Carlyle.
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Tor Catarrh of the Throat of Two
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ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS.
Countries to Avoid and Lands Where
Opportunities Are Offered.
The Emigrants’ Information Office
In Dublin has Issued a statement tell
ing intending emigrants some places
to avoid. During the last year, the
statement says, work has been un
usually hard to obtain in Canada and
wages In many cases have been
lower than In 1907.
New South Wales, Victorta, Queens
land and Western Australia are cited
as reporting good opportunities for
farm laborers and female servants
but poor chances for mechanics or
miners. In Queensland and Western
Australia farms of 160 acres f land
are offered free to approved settlers.
New Zealand holds out offers for
farmers, farm laborers and female
servants end to this country reduced
rates of passage are offered.
The statement warns men against
Cape Colony and the .Transvaal, say
ing that the demand tor work in those
colonies already is greater than the
supply. There is an ocoasional chance
for female servants. The statement
concludes with this about the United
States:
"Emigrants from the United King
dom should not go to the United States
to the hope of finding work for some
time to come, and not then unless
theie has been a marked and sus
tained recovery from the depression.”
One Way He Could Help.
An eastern college graduate
applied for work in a Mich
igan lumber camp. He was
told to get busy on one end of a
cross-saw. the other end being in
charge of an old and experienced lum
berman. At first uil went well, but
at the end of the second day tiho
young man’s strength began to wane.
Suddenly the old man stopped the
saw and spat.
“Bonny,” he said, not unkindly, "I
don’t mind yer ridin’ on this saw, but
If It’s Jest the same to you I wish
you’d keep yer feet off the ground.”
.—jlNeryb'-'V-’s
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