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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-07
RAILROAD Notes

The unSubstauciated rumor n
railroad circles Friday to the effec,
that c. G.. Smith, tralnmaster Of
the Erie had been transferred to
the Mahoning division was given
little thought by Local. railroaders
The Gallon Inquirer, however, is in
position to know and in it's is
sue OF Friday evening says.
&C. G. Smith, trainmaster on thi
division of the Erie, has been
transferred to the Mahoning divi-
sion with headquarters in Clevo.
land, his new duties to take effec;
next Monday. No word has been
received here as 70 who shall be
Mr.. Smiths successor or wha.
changes his leaving will brir ;
about in the local Offices
Mr.. Smith about a year ago SUI
ceeded Patrick ONeil now assist
ant superintendent of the Cincin.
na.i division. His new position is IN
the nature of an advancement.
which his friends are pleased TO
see him receive.
"It is che intention of Mr..
Smiths family to remain here un'
til spring when they will move
20 Cleveland"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-07

Two new switches have been
placed in service at the junction
Of the Big Four, Erie and Penn
sylvania roads at the Union station
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-07

Dancing lessons in private or in
small club by Sdhwinger II
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-07

The Buster Brown company came
to this city this morning over the
Hooking Valley from Columbus.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-07

Just made some splendid bIscutszzool,
Medal Flour. BHTTS
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-07

"Meet me At Karers candy Shop"
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list. Louis. - The Simmons Hard
ware Company. the Ferguson Mckiti-
fisy Dry Goods Company and the Ely
Walker Dry Goods Company are
among the manufacturing and job
btng companies which decided to re-
employ several thousand idle work.
men on June /. The National Enan.
cling Company and the Helmholz
Furnace Company have also decided
to- Join the advance guard In the re-
employment movement, as the Ma
tional Prosperity Association was ad-
ViSed that these companies had al
ready begun putting Q percentage or
their idle employees back to work.
The corporations mentioned will re.
engage 1000 to 5000 men in their fac
tories and shops.
The Executive Committee of the
National Prosperity Association at its
last meeting fixed June l as re-employ-
msnt day. 1t concluded to call on all
the manufacturing, mercantile and
financial corporations of st. Louis to
give work to as many idle men as
possible, and even to recall more men
than are needed right away. The
plan has taken definite shape in St.
Louis, and the committee expects to
haze a comparatively large list of
companies which have acceded to the
request.
The committee also approved forms
of4letters to manufacturers, mer-
chants and fnanciers of st. Louis and
other cities regarding unemployment
day Railroad officials are also in
.cluded. Officers of large concerns in
all parts of the country are requested
to notify the association as to the
number Of workmen and clerks who
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Iilley Not Warranted.

Washington, Special.-The conclu-
sion of the special committee which
has been investigating the charges of
Representative Lilley, of Connecti-
cut, that members of the House had
been improperly Influenced in con-
nection with submarine torpedo boat
legislation, that Mr.. Lilley had violat-
ed his obligations as member and
had acted in bad faith with the COM
mittee and in contempt Of the House
were sustained by the House by a
vote of PSF to SO. Five hours Of
the session were devoted to the case.
four Of which were consumed in
reading the report. The Connecticut
members Joined in voting against the
resolution by which the House adopt
ed the conclusions of the committee
Us its own.
Mr.. Williams, of Mississippi, de-
nounced Mr.. Lilley as being guilty of
treason for which, he said, he should
be expelled. He presumed that the
reason the committee did net carry
It's report to q recommendation to
that end was because Mr.. Lilley was
at his home ill and unable to be pres
ent to defend himself in such a pro-
cecding.
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.L|BERIANS APPEAL
Desire Uncle Sam to Assist in
Strengthening Their Nation
BRIEF HISTORY OF The REPUBLIC
Secretary Root Will Receive Dele.
CATION From the West Coast Of At.
rica Which Comes to Ask Counsel
and Aid in the Many Troubles
Which Have Beset the Coloniza.
tion of Freed Slaves.

Washington, Special. 49, Secretary
Root has made an appointment to
receive Tuesday delegation repre-
senting the Republic of Liberia, which
has come from the west coasts of Af-
rica to ask counsel and aid in the
many troubles which have continue
Dusly beset the effort to colonize the
freed slaves of America which began
tho latter part of the eighteenth GEN.
!ury. 1t is admitted officially that
Liberia is, from the standpoint Of
nations, in practically hopeless and
helpless condition. Her latest tribu-
ation is in effect an ultimatum from
England to maintain better govern.
ment.
Although the United States is vir-
tually responsible for The existence of
Liberia, diplomatic history shows
that this government has hesitated
10 stand sponsor for the little repub-
lie before the world.
Story of Liberia.
Thomas Jefferson s name first ap-
pears in the story of Liberia. In
l7S1 he advocated the abolition of
slavery and the colonization of the
freed slaves. In 1900 the governor
Of Virginia directed by the Legisla-
ture of his State, took up the ques-
tion with The President by correspon-
dence. Africa was selected as an ap-
propriate site and i'll 1916 Maryland
joined Virginia in the undertaking
to colonize. In 1918 the slave trade
was made statutory piracy in this
country, and the following year it
was provided by law that negroes
from captured slavers should be
safely "removed beyond the limits
of the United States" To carry out
this act, the government chartered
the ship Elizabeth and made provis-
ion for conveying and settling III
Africa on site selected by agents
sent by President Monroe, three hun.
dred liberated slave trade victims.
The offer of transportation was ex-
tended to all free blacks, but the Eli
zabeth sailed with only Sc, on Feb
ruary 9th, 1920.
On reaching the African coast the
natives refused to sell the land they
had agreed to and the two agents anc
a third of the colonists died with fe
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durable. He summed up the result
of his experiments in these two dec
larations: That paresis undoubtedly
is a germ disease and that the germ
has been discovered; that, while in
the experimental stage, sufficient tests
have been made to show that paresis
is durable, ard that he has specific
cases to point to as definite results.
DR.. O'Brien does not believe 1t
would be proper to make public the
names of the patients whom he as
serts the treatment has cured, but
he gives the specific cases as a news
paper man of Washington D. c., who
was treated for paresis and is again
at work, cured; a civil engineer of
prominence in Nashville, Tenn, who
Is cured and at work, besides a num-
Der of people in Ohio who were
brought to the hospital with acute
forms of the disease and cured. 9th
ers who are now at the hospital still
under treatment are showing marked
progress toward recovery.
DR.. O'Brien has at hand, in addi-
ton to his own statements and re-
ports from hospital authorities in re-
gard to the successful treatment OF
paresis, patients photographs which
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Yarn Min Has Resumed Operations

Yorkville, Specialize Nicely Yarn
hill at this place resumed operations
Monday, after having been closed
down for one week. The two other
mills, the York and the Tavora, have
been closed down for several weeks
and it is not known when either will
resume. The mill at Clover has also
resumed on full time.
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theory of diphtheria and tuberculosis
was advocated. We feel warranted.
from the number Of cases treated and
from the satisfactory results Of the
experiments made, in stating without
qualification that paresis is germ
disease. We also feel that, from the
work done, we have found the bacil-
lus. We have cured patients, are
helping many now and expect to go
forward with the work"
DR.. O'Brien has confined his work
to living subjects; no pathological in
vestigation has been done On post
mortem subjects. He now has germs
in cultures. He says that. like a
farmer, he is seeking to find the best
culture in which to grow bacilli from
serum extracted from patients, and
to that end is doing considerable ez-
perimenting.
DR.. O'Brien began his experiments
by taking serum from the spinal col
umns of living patients. With this
he treated dogs, rabbits and rats, with
results which proved to him that the
animals inoculated contracted we'll
developed forms Of paresis. He then
used the treatment on human pa
tients.
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Democratic State Convention:

Columbia, Special.-The Demo
cratic State convention was held here
Wednesday. The two most important
matters before the convention were
the instruction of the delegates to
the National convention and the elec-
tion of these delegates. United
States Senator Benz. R. Tillman was
elected by reclamation and made
chairman of the South Carolina del
egation, Notwithstanding the fact
he is now on the high seas en- route
to Europe and will not return to
America until long after the Denver
convention. United States Senator
Frank B. Gary of A5oeville was $50
elected by acclamation The other
two members of the "big four" are
Col. H. H. Watkins of Anedson and
Gen. Willie Jones of Columbia. The
four alternates al. large are: Hon. W.
F. Stevenson of Cherdw DR.. R. F.
Smith, of Pickens, John P. Grace of
Charleston and Col. T. B. Crews of
Laurens. By resolution of the con-
vention, Hon. W. F. Stevenson, hav-
ing received the highest number of
votes cast for any candidate for al
ternate at large will fill the vacancy
on the delegation caused by the abb
sence of Senator Tillman. By 9e-
cisive vote the delegation was in
structed to vote solidly for the nomi-
nation of Bryan for presidential can
didate of the Democratic party.
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forth for the reclamation Of the arid
! lands Of the West and the use of irri-
CATION in the development Of the
!. country, and upon the same princl-
Pile we also favor the reclamation Of
swamp lands. We favor the preser-
vation of the forces still remaining
and the replanting of the denuded
districts in all our mountain ranges,
as we'll as the forestation OF the west
eln pains.
We urge liberal appropriations for
the improvement and deveopmens of
the interior waterways, believing that
such expenditures will return large
divided in lessened cost of transpor-
tation.
We favor the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people, and regard this reform the
gateway to other national reforms.
We favor federal law compelling
the fullest publicity in the matter OF
contributions to the national CAM
paign funds of all the parties and we
would call the attention of the ma
ton to the failure of the Republican
party to enact such legislation as
proof of the correctness Of t."
charges made on the eve Of the las
election by the Democratic nominee
for president that the Republican,
raIty had received. assistance from
corporations desiring to control The
policies of the national government
in their own interest.
We welcome Oklahoma to the SIS
terhood Of States and heartily con-
s,atulatc her upon the auspicious be-
ginning of great career. We favor
sancrate statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico md demand for the pc y
pie of Puerto Rico the full enjoy
ment of the rights and privileges OF
territorial form of government.
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COTTON MEN MEET.
Leading Southern Manufactur.
ers Gather in Richmond, Va.
MANY PROBLEMS TO CONSIDER
Twelfth Annual Convention of the
American Manufact.rers' Associa-.
tion Meets in Richmond With Over
Four Hundred Delegates in Atten-
dance.

Richmond, Va, Specialize
American Cotton Manufacturers As
ISOLATION, with an attendance Of 45O
delegates, begun its twelfth annual
convention here Wednesday with two
sessions, the evening being devoted to
social features.
Aside from the consideration of
questions affecting the integrity of
contracts between buyer and seller, a
matter regarded as the most impor-
tant that will come before the asso-
citation, the feature at tile opening
session was the address of Mayor
Carlton Mccarthy the trend of whose
remarks was to the general effect that
the highest type of manhood is to be
found in the South to-day. Made
before representative spinners from
New England as well as from the
South, the utterance brought ali an
swering denial from the former pres
ident of the association and from
Congressman John H. Small, Of
North Carolina.
The contract in two forms came
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5 Late Wesvs
; In Brief *
$ MINOR MATTERS OF IHIEREs1

Throngs again visited the Guinness
death farm at Laporte, Ind.
Archbishop Peter Bourade, Of San
ia Fe, died in Chicago of heart fall
nre.
Clarence Darrow says Mayor Brand
Whitlock, of Toledo, Ohio, will 5s
Bryan's running mate.
The Massachusetts Legislature will
be asked for an appropriation OF
100000 to fight the gypsy nothsapd
other pests.
I Arrests in Pittsburg followed: the
alleged discovery that an organized
band had been formed to rob tele.
phone slot boxes all over the coup-
Try.
The French steamer Breiz Hues,
which broke its rudder at sea and
ran short Of coal, was towed into
New York.
A stirring appeal for money for
missions was made by Rev. DR.. R. j.
Willingham before the Soashern Bap.
tist Convention.
The Atlantic fleet of battleships
will sail for Seattle this week.
Cars were bs;ng operated in Cleve-
land without any serious outbreak on
the part Of the strikers.
King Manuel of Portugal is said to
have upset plans to marry him TO
cn,,,n niinihln nrincess bv declaring
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June / KNOWN AS REINFORCEMENT DAY
National Prosperity Association Helps Restore Work to 5000
Men---Eyidences FROM PItsburS That Good
Times Have Come A8ain.

will be re-employed and the date
when the men will be taken back.
Two large dry goods concerns told
the committee that they decided to
celebrate Employment Day" by put
ting back some 1000 employees.
Similar assurances have been made
by other concerns, and the committee
believes that June will mark in q
large degree the return OF prosperity.
Pittsburg.-That q return to pros
perity has come was evidenced mere
when it was announced that many OF
the Carnegie Steel Company's mills
had been started up again.
The Carnegies started their TWen-
ty-nihth and Thirty-third street mills
here, also two more Of the Home
stead sroup. The Singer Nimick
Mills, making hoops and bands, were
started full after an idleness OF sew
eral months. The Carter Iron Works,
outside Pittsburg, were also started,
and the National Tube Company,
which has been repairing mills at
McKeesport, announces that it will
ask for an additional appropriation
Immediately for more repairs.
Evidence of returning prosperity is
furnished by the announcement that
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad
has ordered the Standard Steel Car
Company to begin construction OF
1000 all-steel cars for that road. The
new cars will be used to handle the
tonnage between the coal and coke
regions and the lakes. The order
calls for 1000 specially designed all.
steel coke cars, and 1000 all-steel
gondolas. The contract was origin
ally awarded last summer but held
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TO CUT MEMBERSHIP
Bill Passes House to Reduce
Soulh's Representation
SOUTHERN MEMBERS PROTEST
By a Strict Party Vote, After Live.
ly Debate. the House Passes the
Crumpacker Bill Provides For .
Reduction in Representation In the
States Having Disfranchisement
Laws,

Washington, Special.-A campaign
contribution publicity bill, embodying
an amendment by Mr. Crumpacker,
of Indiana, providing for reduction
in the representation in the House Of
Representatives in those States hav-
ing disfrachisement laws, was pas
ed by the House by a vote of 100
to 1925, following a lively debate.
The measure was brought up under
suspension of the rifles and but forty
minutes were allowed in which to
discuss it. The Southern members
in particular were bitter in their de-
nunciation of the apportionment pro-
vision of the bill. Mr.. Williams the
minority leader, was especially vigor-
Gus in his attack characterizing the
bill as being an attempt to revive the
conditions of reconstruction days.
On account of the Crumpacker
amendment the Democrats voted
against the bill in its entirety.
In brief, the provision regarding
publicity of campaign contributions
is made applicable to the national
committee of all political parties and
the national congressional campaign
committees of all political parties and
all committees, associations or or
ganizations which shall, in two or
more States, influence the result of
Or attempt 10 influence the result of
an election at which Representatives
in Congress are to be elected.
The Crumpacker amendment pro-
yides For the re-enactment Of certain
sections of the old Federal election
law, except that the idea Of the force
bill authorizing the use of troops at
the polls is eliminated. 1t also pro-
vides that the director of the Gen.
sus shall submit to Congress report
on population showing the number OF
male citizens, white and black, in
each State and the number disfran-
chised, for the purpose of enabling
Congress to ascertain the apportion-
ment in representation to which such
States must be entitled.
Mr.. Crumpacker explained his
amendment by saying they were de-
signed against fraud and intimida-
ton in elections. He undertook to
say, he declared, that no member of
the House would object to law
whose only purpose was to secure
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To Borrow Full Limit.

Columbia, special.-The State
Treasurer's Office expects to be forced
to borrow the full limit of half mil
lion dollars allowed by law this year,
owing to the heavy appropriations
and the fact that the amounts bor-
rowed last year, $35O,O00 had to be
paid in January, making big hole
in the winter tax receipts. So far
already 100000 has been borrowed,
on notes payable next January, and
within sixty days it will likely be
necessary to borrow from $15O,0Oo TO
$25O,0OO according to the demands
that may be made upon the Office be-
tween now and the 1st of July. The
amount Of next borrowing will de-
r-----I- lsEnelN- -upon- how Winthrop, the
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An unusual Court Order.

Columbia, Speeial.-In the case of
Will Foster, under sentence of death
at Spartanburg for the murder of a
white man named John Young, the
Supreme Court filed an unusual order,
granting suspension of the appeal in
the case in order to allow Fosters at,
torneys to move for q new trial In
the Circuit Court, on the ground that
one of the jurors, Jesse Mahaffey.
said before the trial that he would
convict the negro regardless Of the
testimony. There were several affi-
davits from persons who heard him
make this statement, although Ma,
haffey declares that he was only Jest,
ing. Mahaffey is a former member
of the legislature and q Methodist
preacher.
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ton exchanges, IN the interest vl Il
contract which will he equitably sat
isfactory, and which will insure the
delivery of cotton of spinnable
grades. One session was held, Cap
tain Sinyth announcing in the after
noon that formal report will be
submitted later.
The uniform sale contract, of
greater Importance, relates to the
manufacture and buyer, or commits
sion agent, and on the integrity of it
depends the success of all. Chair
man Lewis ". Parker, of South Car
olina, whose committee had been
dealing with the subject sent in a
report containing the recommends
tion that larger committee be au-
thorized to take up this matter dur
ing the year and to employ legal
counsel with the hope of preparing
form of contract which will be sat
isfactory to buyer and seller alike
and which will stand the test of the
courts
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want.
'sIt is horse play" remarked Mr..
Hardwick, of Georgia.
Mr.. Williams declared that If the
publicity feature of the bill should
become law, "it will damn your Re-
publican party and be worse for you
than the force bill which defeated
Harrison: "Like children you are
paying with fire in powder maga-
zine" He closed by asking the Re-
publicans if they were fools enough
to believe that the South woald ever
again submit to the policies to which
she submitted when she was weak
and helpless. ;,
Mr.. Dalzell, Of Pennsylvania, said
no greater evil than that gentlemen
should be sent as representatives to
the House, "not by virture Of the
votes of their fellow citizens, but
by virture of the suppression OF
votes"
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French Budget Shows
Deficit of Ss,sOO,ooo.

paris.-M. Caillaux. the Minister
of FINANCE. announces that the bud
pct for 1909 shows an estimated de-
6cit of sS,SOO,OOO, the revenue being
estimated ct S7S5,SO0,00o anu the
expenditures at S794,6O0,OOO..
in order 10 make up the shortage
it has been decided not to issue snort
term bonds, but to reform the collec-
lion of dues on stock and bond trans
rers. and strictly to enforce the exist.
ing regulations against evasions OF
duties
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To Prevent Dissertation of Flags.


Washington, Specia.-Thc Senate
passed bill to prevent the desc.
Grafton of tie flag of the United
States with an amendment providing
that its restrictions shall not apply to
banners or flags carried sy military
or patriotic organizations authorized
by law. THIS amendment was to
meet objections by Senator Bacon. Of
Georgia, who had previously explain
ed that in MS State Confederate SOL
dier organizations had blended the
Union and Confedei flags, Il prae-
ticc which he feared would not be
permitted under the proposed law.
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Hailstorm in Society Hill.

Society Hill, special.-A terrific
hailsto1m swept over Society Hill and
continued nearly an hour. The hail
stones covered the ground like snow
and drifted into heaps several inches
deep. 1t was the largest that has
ever been witnessed here. Some of
the stones were as large as hickory
nuts. The. damage to corn, cotton,
gardens, vines, shrubbery and trees is
great. The extent of damage can not
at this time be estimated with accu-
racy.
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Legal Execution.

Bennettsville, Special.-Jim NAL
Iory Friday, just at noon, paid with
his life for the brutal murder of his
wife over one year ago. The trap
..was sprung at 11:39 and at 1906
Drs. Carmichael and Kinney pro-
.o.2ced him dead as result of
est, angulation. His body was cut
down and taken nway and buried in
ths oot.er's field, his family refusing
to AXE charge Of the remains. The
ex ,,ioa was orderly and only few
W. ..s:scc;;i it.
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Attempted Suicide. !.

Gaffney, special.-Leia Morrow, a
young woman who has passed through
much trouble in her short lifetime,
attempted suicide here last week by
throwing herself into the lake. He-'
actions attracted the attention Of !
gentleman who watched her and drew
her out of the water in time to save
her life.