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CENSUS SUPERVISORS
President Taft Confirms List of
330 Appointments.
PATRONAGE DIVIDED IN SOUTH
In Nine Southern State* Supervisors
Will Be Divided Between Repuli
publicant and Democrats.
Beverly, Mays.—At an extended
■conference with Secretary Nagel of
the department of commerce and la
bor, Postmaster General Hitchcock
and E. D. Durand, director of the
census, President Taft approved the
appointment of 330 supervisors of the
thirteenth census. The list had been
prepared at Washington for thfe pres
ident and the qualifications of every
man Inquired Into.
There has been marked discontent
among some southern republicans
over the decision of the president to
divido the census patronage in the
states of the ‘‘solid south.”
When it its considered that each
census supervisor will have a tremen
dous force of enumerators under him,
the census patronage may be readily
realized.
The slates where the. supervisors
are. divided between the dem
ocrats and republicans are Virginia,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisia
na and Texas.
Director Durand said that he hoped
to have the supervisors actively at
work by Iho middle of October. Pres
ident Taft, It is said, laid down the
rules, especially lri states where a di
vision has been made between dem
ocrats and republicans, that super
visors shall not be active partisans,
and that no attempt should be made
to build up political machines out of
the census patronage.
The far southern appointments an
nounced are as follows:
New Mexico, Paul A. F. Waler.
Arizona, Franklin F. Towle.
Florida, first district, Henry W.
Bishop, republican; second district,
Leaner Gulden, republican; third dis
trict, Thomas David White, democrat.
Alabama, first district, Lawrence W.
Locklin, democrat; fourth district,
George W. Parson, democrat; fifth
district, William P. Cobb, democrat;
sixth district, Simeon T. Wright, re
publican; seventh district, Janies J.
Curtis, republican; eighth district,
Thomas P. Wood, republican; ninth
district, John T. McEniry, republican.
Tennessee, first district, Samuel
Thompson; second district, Alfred
Jefferson Agee; third district, John H.
Earlev; fourth district. Reese Q. Lil
lard;' fifth district, John B. Strong;
sixth district, Harry A. Luck; seventh
district, Marion Richardson; eighth
district, Sidney E. Murray; ninth dis
trict, Vincent Atkins Biggs; tenth dis
trict, John William Farley, Memphis.
Georgia—First District, Francis Xa
vier; second, Eugene Leigh Rainey;
third, George Ernest Rickey; fifth,
Alonzo M. Brand; sixth, Charles Aker
man; seventh, Louis Hanley Craw
ford; eighth, Willis Beauregard Ad
ams; ninth, T. R. Allen; tenth, Jo
seph N. Lee; eleventh, Alexander P.
Perham, Sr.
Louisiana—First district, John A.
VVogan; second, Walter Y. Kemper;
third, Raymond Thurston Clark;
fouth, George T. Reilly; fifth. Chas.
Henry Trousdale; sixth, Orin Medicus
Grisham.
Mississippi—First district, Samuel
B. Chamberlain; third, William A.
Shelby; fourth, James N. Landrum;
sixh, Nathan A. Boduie; eighth, Ja3.
B. Ycllowly.
N'l/jth Carolina —'First district, Jo
siall C. Meekins, Sr.; second, .las. M.
Newborn; third, H. Frank Brown;
fourth, William Claudius Pearson:
sixth, Irvin B. Tucker; seventh, A.
Turner Grant, Jr.; ninth, ,T. Yates
Killin. . .
South Carolina —First district, Vn
liam .1 Stcren; second George Water
house: third, William Walker Rus
sell; fifth, Robert Leroy Douglas.
mi IN SEA ISAAND COTTON.
Caterpillars Invade Fields, Destroying
Young Plants.
Charleston, S. C.— Caterpillars are
invading the fields of the sea island
cotton in the Charleston territory to
n considerable extent, and the dam
age done by ihe pests is causing se
rious concern.
Energetic measures are being tak
en by the planters to stamp out the
caterpillars.
The planters are feeling much con
cern over the invasion of the cater
pillar, as the pest increases rapidly
and has been known to do great dam
age to other crops in other sections
of the couatry. Some fear that rav
ages of the pest on the sea island
cotton may reach the magnitude of
the invasions of the army worm in
the west, where broad tracts of grass
and small grain have been destroyed
in a brief time.
ONE SALOON IN TENNESSEE.
Bar in Cumberland Mountains Doing
Rushing Business.
Chaitnnocga, Tenn. —There is one
saloon in Tennessee now being oper
ated without'apparent violation of the
state-wkl prohibition law. It is the
famous Conger saloon in the Cumber
land mountains, near Mc.Minuville,
and is the only spot in the state
where the Malle limit does not apply.
\Y R. Hamilton of the State Anu-
Saloon League will at once begin a
campaign to oust it.
The property on which the saloon
is operated is owned by Colonel A. M.
Shook and was leased for grazing
purposes only. He is said to have
authorized ejectment proceedings.
THAW STILL INSANE.
Judge Says That it Would Be Dangerous
to Allow Him Liberty.
White Plains, N. Y. —Harry K.
Thaw's latest attempt to gain his
liberty met with complete defeat
when Supreme Court Justice Isaac N.
Mills dismissed the writ of habeas
corpus and declared that ‘‘the re
lease of the petitioner would be dan
gerous to the public peace and safe
ty.”
There is i:o crumb of comfort for
Thaw in the 7,000-word opinion hand
ed down by Justice Mills. All the
contentious of his old adversary, Dis
trict Attorney Jerome, are support-
I ed, and it is declared that Thaw is
still insane, still buffering from per
sistent delusions, and stin as raucu a
paranoiac as on the day he snot
White.
Thaw, waiting in the White Plains
jail, at the rear of the court house
where the decision was filed, receiv
ed the news with an outward clam
neas, which appeared, however, more
forced than real.
The members of his falmly and his
attorney seemed stunned by the thor
oughness of their defeat. Thaw de
clined to give out any extended state
ment, contenting himself with the as
sertion that he was not disheartened,
•‘My next efforts,” he said, "will be
centered upon the court of appeals,
through which 1 expect to secure a
hearing before a jury in my effort to
have my commitment to Matteawan
set aside.”
SEMINOLES UN WARPATH.
Fierce Battle Fought With Whites in
Everglades.
Miami, Fla. —For the first time in
forty years the Seminole Indians on
the reservation are on the warpath.
A runner brought out of the swamp
meager details of a fight which took
place between the Seminoles and a
party of white men who were hunting
in the Everglades. It is indicated
that the entire Seminole tribe
has taken to arms and the gravest
fear-3 are entertained for the safety
of the white men who may be hunting
or prospecting in the big swamp.
It is not thought likely that the
Seminoles v/ill attack the settlers
on the edge of the swamp. The tribe
is net strong enough now to carry
on an offensive warfare. Oil the
other hand the Seminoles are the
only people in the world who have
even a faint idea of the intricacies
of the paths through the Everglades.
It would be quite possible for them
to retire to the recesses of the big
swamp and live on there indefinitely,
while it would be practically impossi
ble for a punitive force of soldiers
to reach them.
More than 100 white men are known
to be inside the outer rim of the
swamp now and their lives may all
be endangered.
CANADIAN SIDIKE IliOT.
Twenty-Four Men Shot at Ft. Wil
liam, Ontario.
Fort William, Gilt.—Fort William
is under martial law. A thousand
dock laborers, principally Greeks,
Hungarians and Italians, who have
been on strike for a week, enraged by
special Canadian Pacific police from
Winnipeg, were incited to riot, and
three hundred of them engaged in a
battle with the police around the Ca
nadian Pacific frieght sheds. Two doz
en men were injured, three at least
fatally, including Chief Ball, of the
railway's local force, and two Greeks.
The Ninety-Sixth regiment of militia
was called out.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw declared that
there was no truth in the story that
she would bring suit for $500,000
against her husband, Harry K. Thaw,
or against any member of the Thaw
family. She said, however, uiat her
usual monthly remittance ot S4BO
from her husband had not been re
ceived this month; that she was prac
tically penniless and did not know
where her next dollar was coming
from. “I do not leally know what I
can or will do in my present plight,”
said Mrs. Thaw. “It seems that I am
up against it.”
investigation by the authorities into
the appearance on the curb market
of twenty thousand shares of Davis-
Daly and Ohio Cooper company stock,
after M. M. Joyce, a broker, frequent
ly acting for F. Augustus lieinze, had
pledged it as collateral security for a
loan of SB,OOO led to the arrest at Don
aid F. Persch, a noted broker. Persch
is accused of grand larceny. His ar
rest was ordered on the statement of
John Shervood, another note broker,
who said that he had secured the loan
on the suggestion of Persch.
The Porte has sent Greece an ur
gent note asking that Greece express
and emphasize strong disapproval of
the agitation in Crete for annexation
to Greece and to make public the an
nouncement that Greece has no am
bition regarding the island. Unless
some such action be taken within a
few days the Turkish minister will
leave Athens and all diplomatic rela
tions will be severed.
Herman, son of John Lynch, aged
17, was drowned at Steamer Fer
rv landing, Alabama, in the Coosa
river. ’ The boy deliberately drove his
horse* into the liver as the ferry boat
approached, less than forty feet away.
It thought the boy was asleep. He
had been to singing school with a
lady friend.
His sixteenth successful flight with
the Curtiss aeroplane was made at
Mlneola. N. Y., by tf. Foster Willard.
Flying close to the ground, Mr. Wil
lard essayed to make a circle about
a mile and a half in .circumference,
but was not able to complete the cir
cuit owing to elevations of tlie ground
aud trees, for which he had not cal
culated. He made five long, curve
I flights, however, at high speed.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Washington Park, a summer resort
ctn the Delaware river, was totally de
stroyed by Are. The lons will be at
least $200,000.
Samuel R. Van Sant of Minnesota,
was elected commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic at the
reunion held in Salt Lake City, .Utah.
Alonzo J. Church, former librarian
of the United States senate, died at
the home of his son in Newark, N. J.
He was eighty-one years Old. Mr.
Church was a graduate of the Univer
sity of Georgia, and was for many
years general counsel for the Chicago
and Alton railway.
The will of Theodore Harris, a
Louisville, Ky., banker, directs that a
gift of $60,000 to the Baptist Theolog
ical seminary be completed, that SIOO,-
000 be given to a university in Luals
ville under Baptist, control, provided
$900,000 more is raised within five
years, and directs that after the pay
ment of the bequests the remainder
of the estate go to the Kentucky Bap
tist association for a fund to aid needy
churches. It is estimated that $200,-
000 will be available for this purpose.
At Cincinnati, while on his way to
the Chautauqua meeting at Kankakee,
111., W. J. Bryan denied a persistent
report to the effect that he was about
to transfer his legal residence from
Nebraska to Texas.
The steamer Jeanie, in command of
Captain Samuel W. Bartlett, sailed
from St. John, N. F., for Etah, on the
northern frontier of Greenland, laden
with supplies for Lieut. Robert E.
Peary, which will enable the explorer
to spend another winter is the far
north if necessary to demonstrate his
plans for reaching the pole.
The death of an 18-year-old girl in
Cincinanti, after an operation for
what was supposed to be appendicitis,
has attracted general attention be
cause of the unanimous opinion cf the
attending doctors that her death was
caused by the wearing of tight cor
sets and dresses in the height of the
style. The victims of fashion was
Miss Elsie Gasser.
Ten thousand pumpkin pies were
consumed at Longmont, Col., in the
observance of Longmont’s annual
pumpkin festival. For weeks wagons
filled with pumpkins have come in
from the surrounding country, which
is famous for its pumpkins, and every
oven in town has been running to its
capacity in baking the golden discs
of spicy pie. The pies were served
free to everybody and excursions were
run from Denver and other cities.
William A. Rublee of Milwaukee,
the retiring American consul general
in Vienna, Austria, who was operat
ed 041 last month for stomach trouble,
has left the sanitarium cured. Mr.
Rublee will stay in Vienna for a few
weeks so as to fully regain his
strength before proceeding for Hong
Kong, where he has been appointed
American consul.
The Southern Soft-Yarn Spinners’
association, which assembled in Ashe
ville, X. C., in called meeting, gave
out a partial statement of the results
accomplished. The statement is very
meagre and about the only thing indi
cated by it is the -fact that there is
to be a material curtailment in the
output of soft yarns within the next
month.
Washington.
The three soldiers at Fort Omaha ;
who were inoculated with the new ty- i
phoid serum have ben pronounced im-1
mune by the garrison doctors. The j
men developed the fever in a mild
form in seves days. When fully re
covered from this they were vacci
nated again, but no typhoid symptoms
appeared. Then they drank freely
from water into which millions of the
typhoid germs had been placed, but
so far with no evil results.
Secretary MacVeagh of the treas
ury department said that no determi
nation had been reached as to the
time of the issuance or amount of the
S per cent one-year certificates re
ferred to in announcement by the
treasury department recently. The is
suance of the certificates will depend
entirely upon the receipts of the treas
ury from customs, internal revenue
and miscellaneous sources. No more
of the certificates will be issued than
may be necessary to maintain a com
fortable cash balance in the treasury.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist
of the agricultural department and
guardian of the pure food lav/s, has
started a crusade against embalmed
cucumbers and ghernins inoculated
with alum. He asserts that withered
and half-spoiled cucumbers are give
generous hypodermics of alum atm
under its magic influence the once
soft, soggy and generally disreputable
pickle of commerce is plumped out,
rejuvenated and becomes so pleasing
to the eye that few persons can resist
its alluring attractiveness. Although
the board of food and drug inspection
has had the question of the use of
alum as a preservative under consid
eration for several weeks,' no decis
ion has yet been given out.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
appointed Jesse L. Suter, Washington
correspondent of the Nashville Ten
nessean. as a member of his confiden
tial staff in the postoffice department.
Mr. Suter is a well known Washing
ton newspaper man and was connect
ed with the publicity bureau of the re
publican national committee during
the last national campaign.
Robert Bacon, who was assistant
secretary of state under the former
President Roosevelt, and whose home
is in New York, will be appointed by
President Taft ambasasdor to France
duriucr tne coming fall, and relieving
Ar ba.-sador Henry White, who has
1, on ambassador to France tinder
both the late president William Mc-
Kinley and former President Roose
velt.
Story Tellers of Japan.
Though the Japanese are a nation
cf readers, says a traveller, they love,
also, to listen to the tales of the
professional stcry teller, who U quite
an artist in his way. The lower sort
of story teller may be seen seated at
the street corner with a circle of
gaping coolies around him. The high
er class form guilds, who cwn special
houses of entertainment called
“yose,” and may also be engaged by
the hour to amuse private parties.
Some story telling is rather in the
nature of a sixpenny magazine. The
man sits with an open bock before
IhCm and expounds it and and lates upon
it—the story of the ‘Forty-seven
Ronin,” perhaps, or the Chinese novel
of the "Three Kingdoms,” or an ac
count of the Satsurr.a rebellion, or
one of the old wars of the Taira and
Minamoto families in the Middle
Ages. When he comes to some par
ticularly good point he emphasizes it
by a ran with his fan or with a little
slab of wood kept by him for that
purpose.
The Japanese professional story
teller also Invents and recites. If he
doesn’t earn his living bv story tell
ing, he may not be admitted to the
guild of “yose.” The story teller
proper deals in love tale anecdotes
and imaginary incidents. The enter
tainment afforded in a ‘‘yose" is gen
erally mixed. There will be war
stories, love tales, recitations to the
accompaniment of the banjo —the
same entertainm°nt be : ng mostly ad
hered to for a fortnigh* and a change
made on the Ist of the month. As
the number of such hous:s in every
large city is considerable, hearers
may, nevertheless, have something
new every night to listen to, and
the higher class of story tellers them
selves may realize what, for Japan
is a- very fair income.
These paid professional story tell
ers drive about from cne house of
entertainment to another, stopping
only a quarter of an hour at each,
just time enough to tell one story pnd
earn a dollar or two by the recital.
Some foreign students of the Japanese
language have found the “yose ’ the:r
best school for study.—Tit-Bits.
King Edward as Metronome.
Avery wise decision h3s been ar
rived at by King Edward with regard
to the national anthem. He has
now expressed his desire that a stan
dard of tempo should be adopted so
that whenever it is played it will al
ways be taken at exactly the same
time. This matter, trivial as it may
seem, has long occupied the mind of
the Duke or Connaught, by whom it
was brought before the King, and for
the change that he has thus brought
about the publio no less than his own
family owe him much thanks.
Hitherto It has been at the discre
tion of every bandmaster or oondtfcctor
cf an orchestra to take the national
anthem fast or slow, and generally
speaking it has been dragged rather
than hastened with somewhat dirge
like effect. Henceforth it is to be
sung briskly and joyfully, and we
shall always know the moment the
first note iis heard exactly how we are
to sing it. That it is in a sense a
prater does not necessitate a funereal
tempo.—Lady’s Pictorial.
The birth of a son to the youthful
Duke and Duchess of Sudermania
gives to royal Europe what it has
not had for more than ten years,
namely, a great-great-grandmother.
The Pacific ocean is the deepest.
Ready
Cooked®
The crisp, brown flakes of
Toasties
Come to the breakfast table right, and exactly right from
the package —no bother; no delay.
They have body too; these Post Toasties are firm enough
to give you a delicious substantial mouthful before they melt
away. “The Taste Lingers,”
Sold by Grocers.
Made by POSTUM CEREAL CO., LIMITED,
BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN.
A BOYS’ SUMMER CAMP.
Called the State of Columbia and
Governed by Boy Citizens.
The Columbia Park Boys Club of
San Francisco has hit upon a unique
plan by which a number of city boys
get. besides the privileges of a va
cation outing, the training of citizen
ship under the discipline of a self
governing community.
The “State of Columbia,” as its
camp is called has a government al
most as complex as the great State
of California: but there are no police
men, says Recreation, no secret ser
vfte men, no courts, no ward heelers.
Besides a score of other secretaries
and commissioners the State of Col
umbia can boast of a secretary of
recreation, who makes general plans
for the sports, entertainments and
camp fire programmes. The daily
life in this picturesque state is simi
lar to the routine of a military camp.
The reveille is blown at 5:15, after
which the “citizens” assemble for the
flag raising exercises and physical
drill.
Breakfast over, work is carried on
in most of the classes until 10:45.
During the morning it is often nec
essary to hold various rehearsals.
Citizens are excised for these by
written order from the recreation de
partment. Rand practice is held for
an hour each morning. At 12:15 the
boys assemble and march up to the
tables for lunch, after which there is
no werk except in the kitchen de
partment, and at 2 everyone leaves
to participate in whatever games the
recreation deportment has planned.
Marching cross country is often in
order and sometimes a neighboring
town is favored with a minstrel
show. Dress call for the evening
meal is blown at 5:15. The evening
is spent in play and military exer
cises.
The president writes: “We have
no court trials, as this would bring
the criminal idea too prominently
before the boys. I have asked all of
them to be policemen themselves as
far as the observance of the law is
concerned, and it is remarkable what
a strong spirit n favor of keeping
the laws has been developed. This
spirit dees not take the form of idle
tattling, but of a genuine desire to
uphold good order in the camp.
Law 27 reads as follows: “Citizens
not helning the cooks shall stay out
of the kitchen, except by special per
mission.” If the State of Columbia
boys can learn to obey this rule, and
the president says they can and do,
there is nothing in the Constitution
or laws of the United States that will
ever bother them when they are men.
A MEAN MAN’S OPINION.
“Suppose all the women should
meet in convention.”
“Yes.”
“And agree to consider if fashion
able to wear a hat itwo years.”
“Why not?”
“It could be done, but it wouldn’t
work.”
“Because every woman would then
rush out and buy anew hat, just to
make the others look like back-num
bers.” —Louisville Courier-Journal.
WHY HE REPENTED.
Teddy—l wish I hadn’t fought Jim
my Brown this morning.
Mamma —You see now how wrong
it was, dorv’t you dear?
Teddy—Yes ’cause T didn’t know
till this afternoon that he was going
to give a party.—Kansas City Journal.