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President Taft Confirms List of
330 Appointments. |
In Nine Southern States Supervisors
Will Be Divided Between Repuli
publicans and Democrats. 1
Beverly, Mass~—At an extended
conference with Secretary Nagel of
the department of commerce and la.
bor, Postmaster General Hitcheock
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 the pres
ident and the qualitications of every
man inquired into,
There has been marked discontent
among some southern republicans
over the decision of the president 10
divide the census patronage in the
states of the “solid south.”
When it is considered that each
census supervisor will have a tremen
dous force of enumerators under him,
the census patronage may be readily
realized.
The- states where the supervisors
are divided equally 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 the middle of October. Pres
ident Taft, it is said, laid down tae
rules, especially in 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
ncunced are as follows:
New Mexico, Paul A, F. Waler,
Arizona, Franklin F. Towle,
Flerida, first district, Hemry W.
Bishop, republican; second district,
Lesuer Galden, republican; third dis
trict, Thomas David White, democrat.
Alabama, first district, Lawrence W.
Locklin, democrat; fourth distriet,
George W. Parson, democrat; fifth
district, William P. Cobb, democrat;
sixth district, Simeon T. Wright, re
publican: seventh district, James J.
Curtis, republican; eighth district,
Thomas P. Woed, republican; ninth
district, John T. McEniry, republican.
Tennessee, first district, Samuel
Thompson; second district, Alfred
Jeffgrson Agee; third distrvict, John H.
Earley: fourth district, Reese Q. Lil
lard; fifth district, John B. Strong;
sixth district, Harry A. Luck; seventh
district, Marion Richardscn; eighth
district,- Sidney E. Murray; ninth dis
trict, Vineent Atkins Biggs; tenth dis
trict, John William Farley, Memphis.
Georgia—First District, Francis Xa
vier: second, Bugene 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: cleventh, Alexander P.
Perham, Sr. -
" JLouisiana—First district, Jochn A,
_‘Wogan; second, Walier Y. Kemper;
third, Raymond Thurston Clark;
south, George T. Reilly; fifth: Chas.
.Henry Trousdale; sixth, Orin Medicus
Grisham.
Mississippi—First distriet,s Samuel
D. Chamberlain; third, William A,
Shelby: fourth, James N. Lendrum;
gixh, Nathan A. Bcddie; eighth, Jas.
B. Yellowly.
North Carolina—Tirst district, Jo
giah C. Meeckins, Sr.; second, Jas, M.
Newbcern; third, H. Frank Brown;
fourth, Williamn Claudius Pearson:
sixth, Irvin B. Tucker; seventh, A.
‘Turner Grant, Jr.; ninth, J. Yates
Killin.
South Carelina—First district, Wil
liam J. Storen; second George Water
house: third, William Walker Rus
sell; fifth, Robert Leroy Douglas.
PEST IN SEA ISAAND COTTON.
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Caterpillars Invade Fields, Destroying
P Young Plants.
Charleston, 8. C.—Caterpiliars are
jnvading the fields of the sea island
cotton in the Charleston territory to
a considerable extent, and the dam
age done by the 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 sectiong
of the country. Some fear that rav
ages of the pest on the sea izlard
cotton may reach the magnitude of
the invasions of the army worm in
the west, where broad tracts of grass
apd small grain have been destroyed
llr a brief time.
~ ONE SALGON IN TENNESSEE.
Bar in Cumberland Mountains Doing
Rushing Business. ;
Chattanooga, Tenn.—There is one
gsaloon in Tennessee now heing oper
ated without apparent violation of the
gtate-wide prohibition law. It is the
famous Counger saloon in the Cumber
land mountains, near McMinnville,
and is the only spot in the state
where the 4-mile limit dces not apply.
W. R.,Hamilton of the:Stiate Anti
‘Salgen League will at once begin a
cempaign to oust it, 4 i
""‘W"‘fiw which the saloon
is aperat 'fi:‘_ yned by Cofonel A. M.
Shoolt; and was' leased for grazing
\purpoges only. ~He is said to “have
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jzed ejJeCiidtiiL ¥i #k_“'sf',w,
THAW STILL INSANE. '
'J“" 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 dlsmissed the writ of habeas
corpus and declared that “the re
lease of the petitioner would be dan
gerous to the public peace and sale-
Ly,
There is o crumb of comfort for
Thaw in the 7,000-word opinion hand
ed down by Justice Mills. All the
contentions of his old adversary, Dis
triet Atworney Jercme, are sapport
ed, and 1t is deciared that Thaw Is
still insene, stil suiering from per
sistent delueions, and stil as much a
paranoiac 8s on tné day he shot
‘ytanford White, s
Thaw, waiting in the White Plains
jail, at tke rear of the court house
‘where the decision was filed, recelv
ed the news with an outward clam
‘ness, which appeared, however, more
‘rorced than real,
IThe members of his falmly and his
‘atwrney seemed stunned by the chor
oughness of tneir defeat, Thaw de
‘cllned to give out any extended state
ment, contenting himself with the as
gertion 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 ON WARPATH. |
Fierce Battle Fought With Whites in
Everglades.
Miami, Fla.—kor 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 KEverglades. 1t is indicated
‘that the entire Seminole tribe
has taken to arms and the gravest
fears.are entertained tor the safety
of the white men who may be hunting
or prospecting in the big swamp.
It is not_ thought lilte{ly that the
.Seminoles will attack the settlers
on the edge of the swamp. The tribe
is not =trong enough now to cdrry
on an offensive warfare. On the
cther 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 wouid be quite possible for them
to retire to the recesses of the big
swamp and live on there “indefinitely,
while it weuld be practically impossi
ble for a punitive force of soldlers
to reach them. .
More than 100 whité men are known
to be inside the outer rim of ‘the
swamp now and their lives may all
be endangered. i
CANADIAN STRIKE RIOT.
Twenty-Four Men Shot at Ft. Wil
liam, Ontario,
Fort William, Ont—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, thrce 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 Dbring suit for $500,000
against her husband, Harry K. Thaw,
or against any member of the Thaw
family. She said, however, that her
usual monthly remittance of S4BO
from her husband had not been re
ceived this month; that she was prac
tically penniless and did not Kkncw
where her next dollar was coming
from. “I do not ileally 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 Davls-
Daly and Ohio Cooper company stock,
after M. M. Joyce, a broker,’frequent
ly acting for F. Augustus Heinze, had
pledged it as collateral security for‘a
loan of SB,OOO led to the arrest o't 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. i
Tke Porte has sent Greece an wr
gent note asking that Greece expross
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
ry larding, Aldbama, in the- Coosa
river. The bey deliberately drove his
horse into the river as the ferry boat
approached, less than forty feet away.
It i 3 thought the boy was asleep. He
had been to. singing school with a
lady friend. ,
His eixteenth successful flight.with.
the Curiiss aeroplane was made at
Mineola, N. Y., by C. Foster Willard.
Flying close .to- thesgreund, Mr. * Wil
lard essayed to make a circle a%out
a mile and a half ip circumference,
but was not able to -csmx}xm:;m@:mr
‘cuit owing to elevations of the gréund
and trees, for which he had not cal
culated, He -mad efi am;,,::mm - curye
atohtlhowever. at high speed, .
fighnism nNOoweveld, m 4 R i
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Washington Park, a summer resort
on the Delaware river, was totally de
stroyed by fire, The loss will be at
least $200,000.
Samuel R, Van Samt of Minnesota,
was eleeted commander-inchief of the
Grand Army of the Republic at the
reunion held in Salt Lake City, Utah,
Alowzo J, Church, former librarian
of the United States senate, died at
the home of his #on 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 coupeel for the Chicago
and Alton rallwa{
The will of Theodore Harris, a
Louisville, Ky., banker, difects that a
gift of $60,000 to the Baptist Theolog
fcal seminary be ccmpleted, 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 bequesfs the remainder
of the estate go to the Kentucky Bap
tist association for.a fund to ald 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 & 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 frantier 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-ycar-old girl in
Cincinanti, after an operation for
what was supposed to be appendicitis,
has attracted general attention be
cause of the unanimous opinion of the
attending doctors that her death was
caused by the wearing of tight cor
#ets amd dresses in the height of the
style. The victims of fashion was
Miss Elsie Gasser.
Ten thousand pumpkin pies were
consumad 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 everybedy and excursions were
run from Denver and other cities.
William A. Rublee of Milwaukee,
the retiring American consul general
in Vienna, Austfi'ia, who was operat
ed on last monthA 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 procceding for Hong
Kong, where he has been appointed
American consul.
The Southern Soft-Yarn Spinners’
association, which assembled in Ashe
ville, N. 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 ihere is
to be a material curtailment in the
output of soft yarns within the next
month. :
Washington. -
~ The three soldiers at Fert Omaha
who were inoculated with the new ty
phoid serum have ben pronounced im
mune by the garrison doctors, The
mwen 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
appearcd, 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
3 per cent omne-year certificates re
ferred to in announcement by the
treasury department recently, The is
suance of the certifieates will depend
entirely upon the receipts of the treas
ury from customs, internal revenue
and miscellanecus 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 laws, has
started a crusade against embalmed
cucumbers and ghernins inoculated
with alum. He asserts that withered
and half-spoiled cucumbers are give»
generous hypedermics of alum anu
under ity 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 naticnal committee during
the last national campaign,
Robert Bacon, who was assistant
secretary of state under the former
President Roosevelt, and whose home
s in New York, will be appointed by
President Taft ambasasdor to France
during the coming fall, and relieving
Ar bassador Henry White, who hag
heen -ambagsador to France under
iOt t .:ilt:he‘ ‘ht‘e p:esulem .‘\inllia Mc
‘Kinley and former President ;Roose-
T.- R v
Story Tellers of Japan,
Though the Japanese are a natlon
of readers, says a traveller, they love,
also, to listen to the tales of the
professional story teller, who is quite
an artist in his way. The lower sort
of story teller may be seen seated at
the street cormer with a circle of
gaping coolies around him. The high.
er class form guilds, who own specia.
.houm of en'ertainment called
‘vyose,” 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
upn sits with an open beook before
Olm and expounds it and d!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 Satsuma rebellion, er
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 rap with hig fan or with a little
slab of wood kept by h'm for that
purpose,
The Japanese professional story
teller also invents and recites. If he
doesn't earn his living by story tell
ing, he may not be admi‘ted to the
guild of “yose.”” The story teller
proper deals in love tale anecdotes
and imaginary incidents. The enter
tainment afforded in a “yecse’” is gen
erally mixed. There will ~be war
stories, love tales, recitations to the
accompaniment of the banjo—the
same entertainment be'ng mostly ad
hered to for a fortnight and a change
made on the st of the month. As
the nember of such housss in every
large city is considerable, hearars
may, nevertheless, have scomething
new every night to listen to, and
tke higher olass of stery tellers them
selves mmy realize what, for Japan
is a 2 very fair ircome.
These paid professional story tell
erg drive about from cne house of
entertainmen: to ano'her, stopping
only a quarter of an hour at each,
just time enough to tell one story and
earn a dollar or two by the recital
Scme foreign students of the Japanese
langpage have found the “vese” their
best school for study.-—Tit-Bits.
King Edward as Metronome.
A very wise decision has bheen 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 thre same
time. This matter, trivial as it may
seem, has long occupied the mind ot
the Duke of Connaught, by whom it
was brought before the King, and for |
the change that he has thus broughfl
about the public no less than his own
family owe him much thanks. |
Hitherto it ha2s been at the discre-l’
tion of every banimaster or conductor
of an orchestra to take the nationa: |
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 is heard exactly how we are_;
to sing it. That it is in a sense ai
prater does no‘ necessitate a funereal
tempo.—-I.ady’s Pictorial. l
The birth of a son to the youthful
Duke and Duchess of Sudermania
gives to royal Europe what it has
not bad for mcre than ten years, |
namely, a great-great-grandmaother. I
The Pacific ocean is the deepest. I
Cooked.
The crisp, brown flakes of
Toasties
Come to the breakfast table right, and exactly right frcm
the package—no bother; no delay. '
They have body too; these Post Toasties are firm enougli
to give you a delicious substantial mouthful before they melt
away. “The Taste Lingers.”
Sold by Grocers. i
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 tralning of citizen.
ship under the discipline of a sell.
governing community,
The “State of Columbla,” as its
camp Iy called has a government al
mos: ag complex as the great State
of California; but there are no police
men, says Recreation, no secret ser
vice men, no courts, no ward heelers,
Besides a score cf other secretaries
and commissioners the State of Cols
umbia can boast of a secretary of
recreation, who makes general plans
for the sports, enter‘ainments and
camp fire programmes. The dalily
life In this pfeturesque state is siml.
lar te the routine of a mlilitary camp.
The revgille is blown at 5:15, after
which the “citizens” assemble for the
flag raising exercises and physical
drill,
Preakfast over, work is ocarried on
in most of the classes until 10:45.
During the morning it is often nec
essary to hold various rehearsals.
Citizens are excused for these by
written order from the recreation de
partment. Band practice is held for
an hour each morning. At 12:15 the
boys assemble aud march up to the
tables for lunch, after which there is
no werk except in the kitchen de
partment, and at 2 evervone leaves
to participate in whatever games the
recreation department has plannad.
Marching cross country is often in
order and snmetimes} a neighboring
town is favored with a minstrel
show. Dress call for the evening
meal is blown at 5:15. ) The eveni
is epent in play and majlitawy ex
cises.
The president writes: “We ha
no court trials. as this would bring
the criminal idea too prominently
before the boys. I have asked 2all 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 dces 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 helping 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
aever bother them when they are men,
A MEAN MAN'S OPINION.
“Suppcse all the women should
meet in convention.” !
"“Yes"
“And agree to consider if fashion~
able to wear a hat two years.”
“Why not?”
‘it could be dcne, but it wouldn’t
work.”
“Because every woman would then
rush out and buy a new hat, just to
make the others look like back-nume
bers.”—Lcuisville Courier-Journal.
WHY HE REPENTED.
Teddv—l wish I hadn’t fought Jim
my Brown this morning.
Mamma—You see now how wrong
it was, don't you dear?
Teddy—Yes ’cause T didn't know
till ¢his afterncon that he was going
to give a party.—Kansas City Journal.