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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. j!CLABBinED A DVERTIBEMENTE } = lADT AW EXT* W AXTtI). WANTED— Lady agents in all parts of th United States to advertise and sell "Black Crow Stockens” to wearers. Good com mission. Address. „ . „ _ Black Cbow Stock** Cos., Newton, N. C. 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. Tetterlne cures Eczema, Tetter, Ring Worm, Ground Itch, Itching Plies, In fant's Sore Head, Pimples, Bolls, Hough Scaly Patches on the Face, Old Itching Sores, Dajidruff, cankered Scalp, Bun ions, Corns, Chilblains and every form of Skin .Disease. Tetterlne 50c; Tetterlne Soap 26c. Your drugget, or by mall from the manufacturer, Tue Shuptrlne Cos., Savannah, Ga. 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. |Por HEADACHE —Hicks’ CAPUDIkB Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or Nervous Troubles. Capudine will relieve you. It’s liquid—pleasant to take-acU Immedi ately. Try It. 10c.. 25c. and 60c. at drug stores. Berlin has adopted luminous street signs. Time is the best test. For over fifty years Hamlins Wizard Oil has been the most popular remedy in the United states for the cure of Rheumatism, Neuralgia and all pain and inflammation. A statesman is a politician who gets re-elected. Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford'a Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists. Laugh—and the world wonders who the joke’s on. Here’s Belief. If we must be afflicted with weak, sore and inflamed eyes. It is consoling to know there Is such a ready relief within our reach as Doctor Mitchell Eye Salve. One bottle usually effect* complete cure. Have you ever tried this wonderful remedy? All stores. Price 25 cents. When in doubt —wait; the other man may tell' the truth. Udlai Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen’s Foot- Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bumons. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25c. Don’t ac cept any substitute. Trial package Fbee by mail. AddressAllenS.Olmsted. Leßoy,N. Y. The man wiio hesitates is some times when for a wise guy. A Domestic Eye Remedy Compounded by Experienced Physicians. Conforms to Pure Food and Drugs Laws. Wins Friends Wherever Used. Ask Drug gists for Murine Eye Remedy. Try Murine. Any man who has work in his sys tem will hare system In his work. 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 cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Cos., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the lost 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. Waldino. Kinnax & Mabvin, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and raucuoussur faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price. 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. 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. PERUNA Tor Catarrh of the Throat of Two Years’ Standing. ••I was afflicted for two years with catarrh of the throat. At first it waa very slight, but every cold I took made it worse. “I followed your directions and in a very short time I began to improve. I took one bottle and am now taking my second. I can safely say that my throat and head are cleared from ca tarrh at the present time, but I still continue to take my usual dose fora spring tonic, and I find there is noth ing better.”—Mrs. W. Pray, 260 Twelfth Bt., Brooklyn, N. Y. __ h , a IF YOU’VE —n NEVER WORN J^MJCKER \ K\\k \ you’ve yet ll v ' \l */to learn ttie bodily w’ *V' x\ comfort it gives in \V \ b the wettest weather I r i 1 MADE FOR —- I VOnA \l hAßpfl£ -^ IV/l VI V* 1 1 GUARANTEED MJ|l 11 I I l WATERPROOF jPJI 322 CJ If 1 1 AT ALL GOOD STORES CATALOG FREE AJ.TOWfB ca *OSTON.U.S>. toa v TOWth CAHAWAW C& UHfTtP, TQgQMTfrCA* 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 SlvJt IXKTTOK Proper Food Put Him Right. The food experience of a physician In his own case when worn and weak from sickness and when needing nourishment the worst way Is valu able: “An attack of grip, so severe it came near making an end of me, left my stomach in such condition I could not retain any ordinary food. I knew of course that I must have food nour ishment or I could never recover. “I began to take four teaspoonfuls of Grape-Nuts and cream three times a day and for 2 weeks this was al most my only food; It tasted so de licious that I enjoyed it immensely and my stomach handled it perfectly from the first mouthful. It was so nourishing I was quickly built back to normal health and strength. “Grape-Nuts Is of great value as food to sustain life during serious attacks In which the' stomach is so de ranged it cannot digest and assimi late other foods. “I am convinced that were Grape- Nuts more widely used by physicians, it would save many lives that are otherwise lost from lack of nourish ment.” Absolutely the most perfect food In the world. Trial of Grape-Nuts 10 days proves. “There's a Reason." Look fn pkg. tor the little book. “'e Road to Wellvllle.” Ever read the above letter? Anew one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest.