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corners that he has two left legs and therefore he is obliged to have two left boots and two left legs to his trousers. Another old gentleman thinks he is the Pope and that he could fly to heaven; only for the moment he is too fat; his landlord seems to wish to help him to make start in flying from the window ot the second story but he reminds him that he might fall and break his neck there upon the pope" decides to put off his flight until after tea"
 Then there Is a young man who is al- ways Joking for a hatchet; he thinks he has suddenly become so strong that he must hew away the doorway in order that he may be able to go in and out. Another case is that of a man who, with tears in his eyes, begs the stranger to protect him and eat his brains. Another man thinks he is a seed of corn, and he VIII ask stranger to put him in his pocket, so that the wind may not blow him away.
 Recently one of the patients was ter ribly frightened by the idea that he was mustard seed, and that the birds might eat him. His host quieted him by say ing, Have not told you that you are quite safe for the birds eat only hemp seed?" Then there is "Queen of {Iol- land" who holds her court with all the pomp imaginables with great state she pretends to receive her visitors and re- grets that her soldiers have not been able to receive them, and then she sings in a shrill voice airs from the best known operas. When her visitor leaves her presence she goes to the window, gives orders for an imaginary chamberlain. and points to the phantom regiments, which, to her fancy, are filing past her win dow. She is the daughter of leading Dutch statesman.
 The landlords of the inns of Gheel are very courteous and respectful to the in- sane; they humor all their widest whims. Altogether it Is wonderful sight. and the entire absence of any restraint would astonish the most modern student who has specialized on the treatment of the insane.
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NO OWNERSHIP
 BY GOVERNMENT

Washington, July 17.-(Special.) )-"Vir- ginia will not accept either MT. Bryans pd.cies of government ownership of rail- roads or the initiative and referendum" declared Senator Martin of Virginia. Ours is a representative government, and those proposed policies are not fea- lures of representative government"
 He added that if MT Bryan should be nominated Virginia in the convention would vote against a plank in the plat form providing either for government ownership or the initiative and referen- endum.
 What Is this new suggestion made to President Roosevelt that the government should acquire stock in railroads?" said he. What would that be but govern ment ownership? If the government did not own the controlling interest in the stock there would be no advantage in having representatives on the board of directors and if it did own the majority then it would be government ownership
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NEW EQUIPMENT ORDERED.
Southern Railway WIT Strengthen Its
 Passenger Service.

Washington, July T-(Special)-lt is announced that the Southern Railway company will at once purchase fifty new locomotives, seventy-five passenger coaches, four dining cars, six combina- tion mail and baggage cars, six combln- ation passenger and baggage cars and 200 cabooses.
 The general purpose in view in order ing this new equipment is the strengthen ing of the passenger and freight service of the railway. The new coaches are to be of the most approved modern type It Is the purpose of the company In ordering these coaches not only to supply immedi- ate needs but in a measure to anticipate future needs.
 The fifty locomotives will be of the lighter type, and for service on lines not now requiring the type of engines now in use on some of the main lines.
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ELKS TO PROTECT
 EMBLEM OF ORDER

Philadelphia, July 1.-The complete and official returns of the election in the grand lodge of Elks held yesterday in this city were announced today, as fol- lows:
 Grand exalter ruler, John K. Lener of Charleroi. Pa-; grand treasurer, Edward Leach, New York; grand esteemed royal knight, John D. Shea, Hartford, Conn; grand esteemed lecturing knight, Bayord Gray, Frankfort, Ind; grand secretary, F. C. Robinson, Dubuque, It.; grand trus- tees, Thomas B. Mills, Superior, Wis, T. F. McNulty, Baltimore, and Mayor c. c. Schmitz, Wheeling, W. Va.
 Grand Tyler James Foley and Grand h. ner Guard A. M. Taylor.
 During the sessions of the grand lidge it was decided to establish & flag day for Elks on July IA A resolution was adopted calling for the appointment of a commission to devise ways and means to prosecute outsiders who use the Elks emblem. subsequent resolution calls for the appointment of a committee to confer with congress to find means to pre- vent the use of the emblem.
 The Memphis lodge was authorized to prosecute the negro Elks of that city. In this connection resolution was passed reprimanding the Newark, N. J., lodge for electing a man said to be negro. A further measure instructs the grand ruler to order the Newark lodge to investigate the mans antecedents and if 1t is found that he Is of negro extraction, to expunge his name from the rolls.
 The spectacular features of the days events were the massive band parade in which the numerous musical organizations played under one leader as they marched through the court of honor and the com petitive drills by march clubs of different organizations. The Toledo, Ohio, Cherry Piclxers and the Detroit Turkish Zouaves were the stars in this event. The big pa- rade will take place tomorrow morning.
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MT. Hartman is Defiant

The Hartman inquiry discloses no angry feeling. There is a vein of sorrow running through it that such things should be-that one man lshould have been permitted In the last six ruthless years to gobble up every railroad reaching the Pacific between Portland and Mexico, save the Santa Fe, including connecting steamship lines. He has also gathered 1n the Illinois Central, the Baltimore aLd Ohio, and he is believed to be reaching out to secure the New York Central He Is aggressive and defiant, even when the story of his manipula- tions of Alton securities stands in of ficial type.
 The interstate commerce commits sion make no recommendations. They are content to lay before the Presi- dent anG the department of justice the facts as to what Hartman has done. He has watered the securities of well-estabished railroads, and he has used the Union Pacific as a means with which to control other railroads. Is there to be no regulation of such methods?
 
 The entire problem is now put be- fore the President and Attorney Gep.
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|. Pertaining Cotton BoIIs

Further trustworthy information from Coushatta, Louisiana, confirms the earlier reports as to the value of turpentine fumes in driving the Mex ican pests from a cotton field. One application of turpentine up and down the cotton rows lasts ten days, and but one gallon of turpentine is used to every four acres. A. gallon of tur- pentine is worth at the farm about SO cents. Four applications of the
 pungent fluid would, thereore, cost but 50 cents an acre, and there Is no planter who would hesitate to save
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eyen a part of a crop at that expense.

even a part of a crop at that expense.
 The solution used at Coushatta con sists of three parts of water and one of turpentine. This compound is placed in a tub and it is applied in the cotton rows by means of an oat sack, which is dipped in the tub and then placed upon a pole, suspended from the plowhandles near the beam. No expense attends the distribution of the fluid other than the cost of the turpentine, for the blow that keeps down grass distributes the drip ping turpentine.
 Paul Lisso, president of the First National bank of Alexandria, Is inter- ested in planting In Coushatta, and he has direct information from a brother in Coushatta to the effect that all the plantations near that town have been treated to an application of turpentine in the last fifteen days, and that all the weevils have de- parted from the neighborhood, leav- ing the bolls intact. Their sensitive nostrils were offended, and they de- clined to dine amid fumes of high grade penetrative power.
 Coushatta may have won fame by the discovery of a simple and easily applied remedy for overcoming the insects that came to Us from the tropics. All eyes are on Coushatta, and the farmers of that neighborhood propose to give the odiferous oatbag strenuous test this season.
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Common Sense and Politics

The effort to induce the south to Insist on the nomination of a south sern man for President by the demo- cratic national convention of 1908 has Sts source in Wall street. Its i'm ipulse and push and spirit come from the various Wall streets, big and lit tile, of the country. In short and to come to the point directly, they de- sire to defeat MT. Bryan and they hope to prevent him from securing the democratic nomination next year.
 The New Orleans Picayune talks plainly back at a nameless writer in the current number of the North American Review who demands the nomination of a southern man. After referring to the titanic civil struggle and the bitterness of sectional feel dng that followed 1t, the Picayune goes ion to say: This feeling has softened and subsided to great degree through the lapse of years, but that is because the southern section has been more or less in a state of sub jection up to the present time. The ssouthern states are powerless to dis fturb the solidarity and secure status of the republic, and they are therefore not feared but let it be announced that the south is claiming the right and manifesting the intention of re- moving the struggle for political con trol by putting forward one of it's sons for the chief executive office of the republic, and there would at once be raised the outcry that the south was again in the saddle and would soon be marching on Washington in an effort to regain supremacy.
 This is the reason why a southern man should not be put up at next lyears election for the presidency. lThe great body of the northern dem ocrats would not vote for such can didate, even if some should refuse to vote against him. When the entire generation that participated in or had direct knowledge of the war of 1861-65 and of the ten years of despotism and infamy that characterized the Re reconstruction" period, which followed fthe war, shall have passed away, 1t fwill be entirely proper to talk about a southern man as President, but not until then.
 'In the meantime let the south Estand firm with the democratic party and exert itself to secure the nomina- ltion of the best northern democrat to Ge found to lead the party and vote Hts entire strength to have him elect cd. In the years that are close at hand and are rapidly coming upon us, the south will so grow in population and political powers that it will have some reason to believe that 1t can control affairs and dominate the gov ernment. But until then It's people should possess themselves in pa- 1ience."
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Thompson's Promotion.

J. S. B. Thompson of Atlanta, who has just been promoted from the position of general agent of the Southern to that of assistant to President w. w. Finley, is one of the best equipped and ablest rall- road men in the south," said a promi- nent shipper. He had fine training on the old Virginia Midland under his uncle the late United States Senator J. s. Bar bour, who was president of that line. He was assistant general freight agent of the Virginia Midland before he was twen- ty-eight years of age. He was afterwardS division superintendent of the Southern at Richmond and there proved himself a first class transportation official.
 MT. Thompson was promoted to as- sistant general superintendent but for a number of years has been agent. In the latter position he had great deal of authority and now as assistant to the president he will have a large share in the executive work of the Southern rail- way system.
 MT. Thompson. in addition to his gen. eral knowledge of railroading. is a gem tleman of insight. judgment and singular tact. He is exceptional popular fin the Birmingham district and no one knows this section better than he"
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EDITORS IN CONTEMPT.
Two are Fined Heavily But Jal Sen
 tence Is Suspended.

Hot Springs, July 17.-Editors ". T. Amis and R. o. Schaefer of the Bulletin, were again adjudged guilty of contempt of court by County Judge o. H. Sumpter this morning, and were each fined $50 and sentenced to ten days in jail. The Jail sentence was suspended subject to their good be- havior.
 The contempt consisted of the pub lication of certain editorials, follow ing the imprisonment of the two edi- tors for few hours last week, on their refusal to pay fines assessed against them on previous conviction for contempt of the same tribunal.
 MT. Amis is pastor of the First Bap- tist church and has taken a leading part in the reform movement.
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Another Side to the Question.

T read with much indignation what "A Bachelor had to say about children that misbehave In public" said a fond mother.
 Now, as a bachelor has never been married and is. therefore, neither father or mother, he is of course. uninformed of some things relating to domesticity and children In particular. Sometimes a child has been very delicate from Its very birth and indulgent parents are forced to be more lenient with such an one. When a fond parent has nursed a child through a painful and protracted illness 1t often results in sparing the rod for a time at least and the work of securing control is one of patience and tact. which Bachelor would do well to acquire when talking about the conduct of little ones.
 T wish to call attention to one proposi- ton advanced by Bachelor Usually man doesn't marry because the girl wouldn't have him or for some of the other mutations of the tender passion. but 1t remained for Bachelor to discount Cupid far in advance and decline to mar ry on account of some folks having in- corrigible children. How does he know :? Well, I've said enough"
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HUMOR INSANE WHIMS.
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
 IVY sane can be studied under very
 novel conditions at the little Bel gian town of Geel or Gheel, tweny-six miles east of southeast of Antwerp. Gheel is really town of the insane. One meets them everywhere; they roam about the streets; they take their refreshments in the cafes, and they go through their daily labors often with more sense than does many an ordinary citizen who is believed to be sound In mind and body.
 There are about 150O out patients, and they are taken as boarders by the towns people. Of course these are harmless cases. and the dangerous insane are looked after either in the local asylum or in remote villages. The inhabitants charge ZIP to G12O year, according to the way in which the patient wishes to live; yet, no matter how little he pays, he is all ways treated with wonderful kindness by the family with whom he is boarding. The good people of Gheel seem to have splendid faculty for being able to treat fAe insane SucCeSSlullyi anu many hihi - velous cases of recovery are on record. This is the result of heredity, for the ex- perience gained has been handed down from father to son for centuries.
 The patient is really the guest of the households; the armchair is allotted to him, he has the best place at the table, and he receives the most attention. Thus he learns gradually the value of the ie- spect which is his due, and therefore he strives to master his afflictlon so that he shall not lose his privileges. The little children of Gheel have learned how to handle these curious visitors; they play with them fearlessly and walk and talk with them. Sometimes the patient may be seen tending the baby.
 Naturally enough, Gheel Is filled with "emperors, "queens," kings" million airs" "popes,", "archbishops and other magnificent people; yet all such cases are treated most kindly and respectfully by the inhabitants of Gheel. There Is one case of a king who tells all new
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ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Old Men are Retained by Blue and
 Gray Association.


 Norfolk, Va, July 17.-At today's session of the National Association of the Blue and the Gray. at the Jamestown exposition, the old officers, including Julian s. Carr of Durham, N. C., were reelected with on excep- tion. Rev. Henry Byron of Connecti- cut declined to serve again as chap lain. Tn his place was elected the Rev. Dr. Calvin s. Blackwell of Norfolk.
 The features of today's session were an address by the Rev. Dr. Blackwell, one of the leaders of the Southern Baptist convention, and adoption of resolutions.
 The association accepted an invita- tion from Principal H. B. Frizzell of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural institute to visit that school.
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IN THE LAND OF LITTLE CARE

From the Chicago Record-Herald. In the Land of Little Care
 Gossips have no tongues at all; Not spirit fingers there
 That is either mean or small: Greed was banished long ago
 From the fair and favored land, And the only inn they know
 They have called "The Helping Hand" In the Land of Little Care
 Envy never rears it's head; Worth is never from the fair
 Highways into darkness led; Long ago they buried spite,
 Long ago they raised stone That is tall and slim and white
 Where Revenge's grave is shown. In the Land of Little Care
 Each is left to do his best; This is their one statute there;
 Bring no evil on the rest" No man scorns anothers creed
 And the women all are fair. For no bruised hearts ever bleed
 In the Land Of Little Care,
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A House of Detention.

''1 see that the board of revenue is planning to make certain needed alter ations in the jail," said a taxpayer.
 T want to suggest a house. detention to be established at some convenient point near the city by the county, where all persons charged with mlsdemeanors shall be first sent until convicted, at least. This house of detention to be maintained by the county, and those confined there to be fed by the county.
 Aside from cutting down the feed bills charged against the state there Is the question of fair treatment in not con fining those in jail charged with minor of lenses along with those guilty of high crimes-felonies."
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The Jail Question.

"I noticed last week In the press that the Meridian jail was empty" said a student of human nature.
 Ut appears that when court convened there were only three prisoners in Jail and that these cases were promptly disposed of. thus cleaning out the prison of h. mates entirely. This In town of 3O,O00 popula ton, and a large number of ne- groes. Don't that put one to thinking when contrasted with Birmingham? Do the negroes dwell together in sweet con- cord down In Mississippi? Don't they shoot craps or fall out about a oman?
 "The only light we have at this distance Is that Meridian is a prohibition town with big jug tfade.'
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Trial of Judue Harqis.

Sandy Hook, Ky, July 17.-The jury commission today presented its list of thirty-six special veniremen for the trial of Judge Hargis for the murder of Dr. D. B. Cox. Prosecutor Waugh says that all are fairly good citizens. Two of the men were In the panel that was discharged on Monday. Sheriff Moberly and deputies left this afternoon to summon the jurors to appear Thursday.
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ASSAIlANT OF FALLIERES
Is Declared by Investigators to be
 Unbalanced.

Paris, July 17.-An investigation into the life history of Leon Maille, the naval reservist who fired two re- volver shots at President Fallieres on the streets of Paris last Sunday. leaves no doubt that the man is un- balanced mentally. Furthermore, he has been a victim of alcoholism for years. He is possessed of the mania of persecution and fancies that the state should restore to him his iden- tity of which he was robbed at ms hirth
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of St Louis, is spending week here and is meeting with a cordial reception. He has not lost his love for this city and will probably return here to live before another year rolls around.
 The Rev. Father Matthew, D. s. B., left yesterday for Huntsville, where he will remain a day or two and then pro- ceed to Chattanooga, where he will spend the rest of the summer
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Robert Hyde Killed.

Nashville, July 17-A Tuscumbia, Ala. dispatch to the Banner says Robert Hyde, a we'll known citizen of that place, was run down and killed by a Southern switch engine last night. His body was discovered lying across the track, his head having been completely severed from his body and both feet cut of.
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Duchess Wants Divorce.

Berlin, July 17.-At the court of Sake Coburg, there Is talk of the probability of divorce between Grand Duke Cyril. eldest son of Grand Duke Vladimir, of Russia and his duchess, who was di- vorced from Ernst Ludwig, grand duke of Herz, six years ago. The couple have ben married less than two years and have one daughter It Is said their diff faculties began almost immediately after the wedding.
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Minimum Duty on Coffee.

Paris, July 17.-Laurence V. Benet, president of the American chamber of commerce In Paris, appeared to- day at the head of delegation from the chamber before Minister of Con- Doumergue and argued in fa- vor of the continuation by France of the minimum duty on Porto Rican coffee
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR From

The reason the Lord didn't make all women pretty Is so all men wouldn't be fools about them.
 The most profitable business to go into for pretty girl who has to earn her own living is marriage.
 The fun about living in a boarding house is the way your wife doesn't get mad when You find fault with the meals.
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Plain Bob Wynne, our consul gen. eral at London, finds himself victim of caste very much as Mrs. Ayers and Colonel Ayres at West Point have. Let them fight the battle out in the name of democracy.
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On the golf links the mild-mannered Rockefeller may consider his ball the head of the federal judge that pes tered him.
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A war with Japan might upset many a scheme in politics, and it might carry Secretary Metcalfe or an admiral into the White House on the crest of popular wave.
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Empires and catchers are well pro- tected against everything except coca cola bottles and cushions that did not get softer the longer they were sat on.
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Governor Hughes declines to tail-up any mans ticket. MT. Taft will have to look elsewhere
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E. H. Hartman has dismissed the report of the interstate commerce commission In his case by declaring 1t political. That settles 1t in his mind.
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The chorus ladies should marry mil lionaires as rapidly as circumstances will permit, else In a few weeks they may be summoned to rehearsals.
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The trusts do not take kindly to Attorney 4eneral Bonaparte's scheme for the appointment of receivers to wind them up. Texas, by the way, set the fashion,
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Hartman does not see why he should be prevented from going on to perfect his merger of the earth.
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The champion amateur golfer lives in New Jersey. This cannot be John D. Rockefeller, for he is no longer fin the amateur class.
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The jury at Boise may tell Orchard he did not commit all those crimes. It looks that way.
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It is not Governor Hughes who Is to be retired in New York, but some of her undesirable citizens whom he Is combating.