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COFFEE DRINKING
A Doctor Says 1t Weakens tho Heart.

"In my OPINION says a we'll
known German physician, mo one
can truthfully say that coffee agrees
with him, as it has long since been
proven that caffeine, contained in
coffee, is an injurious, poisonous
substance which weakens and de-
generates the heart muscles.
For tbs reason the regular use
Of coffee, soon or late, causes a con-
dition of undcrnourishment, which
leads to various kinds Of organic dis
ease.
Convinced o. this fact, I have
often sought for some healthful bev-
crage to use instead Of coffee. At
last I found the thing desired in
Postum. Having had occasion to for
bid people using coffee, whose hearts
we're affected, l have recommended
Postum as a beverage, since it is free
from all injurious or exciting sub
stances. I know this from results
in my own family, and among pa
tients.
Hundreds OF persons who now
use Postum in place of coffee are
greatly benefited thereby" "There's
a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road tt
Wellville." IN pkgs.
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RIOT IN JAPANESE HOUSE.
An Exciting Debate Precedes the Pas
sage Of the Budget.

Toxic, Japan.-After an exciting
debate, which developed into a riot
on the floor of the House Of Repre-
sentatives, the budget was passed by
a majority of 102. In the course of
the rioting speakers howled at the
Chair and charged favoritism, the op-
posing members demanding an apol-
ogy. The Chair suspended the ses-
sion for half an hour, and upon re-
Stunning apologized handsomely to the
Opposition.
Several of those who took part in
the debate called attention to the
fact that more than half of the budget
was devoted to ornaments. 1t was
also pointed out that the financial
measures Of the Government did not
contain provisions to prevent an out.
flow Of gold while the balance or
trade had a tendency against Japan.
: Upon the side Of the Ministry the
principal speaker argued that it was
unwise and dangerous to discuss pub
licly the nations finances from a pes
simistic standpoint. thereby creating
unnecessary alarm abroad. .
He called attention to the natural
resources Of Japan. which, he said,
were only awaiting development by
cheap capital.
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COUNTRY MERCHANTS FLOCK TO NEW YORK
WITH NEWS THAT EVERY SECTION IS PROSPEROUS
Ten Thousand Buyers From South and West With 100000
900 to Spend Tell East to "Cheer Up."

New York City. - Ten thousand
business men and women from the
West and Southwest are in town
spending, it is estimated, 100000
300. They have driven pessimism
from the great downtown jobbing
district with stories Of assured pros
2erity and are spreading JOY and cash
among the hotels, theatres and other
amusement places.
This is the annual buying period
for the spring trade and reduced
rates on the railroads are bringing
merchants here from the small towns
in far away Texas as we'll as from
Chicago, st. Louis and the big cen
tres. The registration at the Mer-
chants Association is within a hun
bred odd of the phenomenal registra-
ton last spring, when prosperity was
at it's height. Nearly 1000 buyers or
their representatives, about one-half
Of whom are women, have registered.
They are coming at the rate of nearly
200 a day. AS only a portion take
advantage Of the special railroad
rates it is estimated that the total
number of buyers at present here is
about 10000.
Hotels Are Crowded.
Every. hotel that caters to the out
of-town custom is crowded., the big
hotels have all they can handle and
the family hotels are turning hun
dreds of people away. The buyers
are being entertained at clubs, din
ner parties, theatres and with auto
mobile trips by the merchants who
are receiving the benefit of their
trade.
8. C. Mead, secretary of the Mer-
chants Association, said of the influx
Of buyers:
"It means that the country Is all
right. The men who are coming to
New York now to lay in their spring
stocks are mainly from the West and
Southwest. I have not heard n Of
them talk about hard times. They
laugh at the idea, and tell you their
optimism is having a big effect here
in New York. Our merchants rather
had the idea that trade was going to
be dull this spring, but they have
changed their opinion in the past few
days. Buyers have registered here
from towns of not ove 1000 popula-
ton in Texas, the new State Of Okla
homa and the entire Southwest as
we'll as from Chicago, st. Louis, In
dianapolis, Detroit and the other big
cities.
1.-THE most encouraging reports are
brought from Texas, Oklahoma and
Arkansas, where the crops have been
good. / have been surprised at the
number of new faces and have been
told that scores of new business
houses are springing up"
In the shops of the H. B. Clafin
Company, Tefft, Weller & Co., G. B.
Rouss, the Chelsea Trading Company
and others extra employees have been
hired to take care Of the increased
trade. There has also been a boom
in the mail order business, while re-
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ports from commercial travellers are
to the effect that conditions are as
good as they were this time last year.
Alexander Bombard, representing
one of the largest houses in Calves
ton, Texas, said:
ave have had splendid crops down
in our State, and we have no patience
with hard-time talk. | am here to
purchase one of the largest orders for
expensive dry goods that u house
has ever put in. Texans have money
to spend and they are going to spend
it this spring. My advice to New
Workers is to cheer up"
A. S. Semmes, of Detroit, said:
II guess 1 wouldn't be buying $780,
900 worth of clothing, mostly expen-
sive, too, If we were rusning bread
lines in Detroit. The outlook in our
section is very bright, and I am sure
it is going to be a good business
year"
Business was never better in my
State" said Chester l.. Walbridge, OF
Baton Rouge, La. I'VE anticipate a
big spring trade, and I am going to
take South with me the biggest stock
Of goods that I yer purchased. Not
even the coming Presidential election
has scared us
Similar statements were made by
business men from Chicago, st. Louis,
Louisville and other cities.
H. C. Fisher, Of Buffalo, said the
merchants there are preparing for a
great rush Of trade.
New York Alone is Nervous.
1--WE are not worrying anything
like the New York merchants seem to
be-" said Mr.. Fisher. 1T appears
that New York is the most nervous
town in the country. Further a1eld
you find more confidence to the block
than there is here to the acre."
Mr.. and Mrs. Abraham Newman,
representing several departments Of
a large Chicago store, spoke for the
Middle West.
1--WE expect to do a banner bust
ness this year" said Mr.. Newman.
panic or no panic. There is no fear
of overstocking in Chicago, and be-
! lieve the same is true of the Middle
West towns. I expect to purchase
more goods On my present trip than
ever before, and I've been a buyer
for a good many years."
Representatives of firms in Column
bus, Cincinnati and Youngstown, O.,
had the same thing to say.
Irwin Hochstein, of Atlanta, Ca,
declared that Southern city to be Just
as prosperous as the big towns fur
Their north.
Cheer Up! Moneys Plenty.
New Workers should cheer up" he
said. There's plenty of money
around, and people are spending all
the more freely for the temporary
stringency."
Albert Fresch, Of a Memphis firm,
said he understood that the planters
expected a good year, and added that
as the planters Jared, so Jared the
| South.
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Deafness Cannot Be Cured

DISQUALIFICATION as t%heycannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by consti.
t~uttonal remedies. Deafness is caused byan
famedyouhave a rumbling sound OF imper.
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafnessis the result, and unless the indam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to it's normal condition, hearing viii
be destroyed forever. Nire cases out Of ten
arecaused bycatarrh, which is nothingbutan
infamed condition OF the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case ofDeafness Caused bycatarrh) thatcan.
not be curedbyHa HALLS Catarrh Cure. Sendfor
circulars free. FL .CHENEY & Co., Toledo.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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AFFIRM GILLETTE CONVICTION.
Court of Appeals Sustains Judgment
Of First Degree Murder.

Albany, N. Y.-The Court of APP
peals affirmed the judgment of convic-
ton of murder in the first degree in
the case of Chester Gillette, who
killed Grace Brown at Big Moose
Lake in the Adirondacks. Judge His
cock wrote the opinion and all the
judges concurred.
Gillette was convicted in the fall of
1905 of the murder of Grace Brown,
which occurred on July IL Of the
same year. The sentence of execu-
ton, which was placed for January,
1907, was stayed by an appeal which
has been pending in the Court of APP
peals ever since that time. The
crime, as shown by the evidence be-
fore the Supreme Court in Herkimer,
N. Y, was one of the most brutal in
the criminal history of recent years.
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The Labor World.

Cabinetmakers' Union, of st. Paul,
and Minneapolis. Mimi, have formed
O district council.
Over 1000 workmen, idle since NO
vember and December, have resumed
work around Wheeling, w. Va.
About 500 union plumbers at st.
Louis went on strike against a wage
reduction of seventy cents a day.
Champ Clark asserted in Congress
that If Speaker Cannon would con-
sent the Democrats would help the
Republicans pass q new Employers
Liability bill ain thirty minutes by
The town clock"
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Prominent People.

DR.. Felix Adler praised Governor
Hughes anti-race track betting rec
ommendation.
William ). Rolfe, the Shakespeare
scholar and critic, passed his eish-
tieth anniversary In Cambridge, Mass.
The recent break down of Henry
Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister
Of England, was undoubtedly due to
oyerwork and the strain on his vital
ity.
Brand Whitlock, of Toledo. Ohio,
MAYOR and novelist, is afraid of germs
on old paper money and insists that
his salary be paid him in crisp new
bills.
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Reports

New York City.-Astonished that
the recent panic affected the South so
little, Wilbur T. Wakeman. treasurer
and general secretary Of the Ameri-
can Protective Tariff League, re
turned from the cotton belt. He said
only one Southern bank crashed in
the course of the disturbance. Sew
eral banks carried from fifty-five to
>seventy-fve per cent. of their depos-
its in cash from October 1. One sold
100000 Of currency here early In
December.
THE possibilities of the South
Wakeman continued, "are scarcely
yet fully understood by industrials.
Up the Savannah River there is 2OO,-
900 horse power going to waste every
day. That covers the region above
Augusta, Ga. Of virgin soil there are
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The World of Sport.

Old Rip Van Haltren says he in
tends to play ball ten years.
Count Czernin, an Austrian, won
the Grand PriX shoot at Monte Carlo.
There is wide interest in the COM
ing ace between the crews of Har'
ward and the Navy.
John Hancon, n of the greatest
oarsmen Of his time back in the sos
and sos, died at Cornwall, N. Y,
recently, aged seventy-two years.
Sayeth Connie Mack, the Quaker
sage of baseball: "A player Of good
ability and good habits should last In
fast company until he is past forty
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-03-11
CKAS. N. MORSE ARRESTED
Taken From Steamer Arriving at
New York From Europe.
Wall Street Operator and Ice Truss
Nrgnate Gives Bail to Keep
Out of Jail.

New York City.-Charles w.
Morse, promoter, whose command OF
capital in juggling ice stock Or
ganizing a monopoly OF coastWise
steamship lines, in addition to con-
trolling a chain OF banks, made him
one Of the most striking figures in
Wall Street, has returned from
Europe. Scarcely had he come within
the State limits when he was ar
rested by detectives on a bench war
rant charging grand larceny. treated
like a criminal who might attempt TO
escape, Morse vas kept constantly IN
sight from the moment the steam
shin passed up from Quarantine until
he had given bail Of $4,000 on two
indictments in the home of Supreme
Court Justice Bowling.
Great was the fall of the fnancier
who a veal ago Vas respected as one
of the most astute financiers in Wall
Street, and who, though small of
stature, was considered a giant in
schemes OF finance. Morse was seized
the instant he was within State juris-
diction and held.
District Attorney Jerome would
not yield a point to Morse's counsel,
and the indicted man vas compelled
to go through the regular routine OF
the person charged with a crime. Ar
rested on the steamship, he was taken
through streets in his own automo-
bile and had to give bail before he
had the privilege Of meeting his son
and his wife in privacy. Greater hu-
initiation, except Imprisonment, hard
ly could be imagined for a man whose
wealth a year ago was estimated at
100000 300, and who is now consid-
cred hardly able to pay his debts.
The arrest was a severe blow upon
Morse, a gambler in stocks, a man
ready for any daring in a business
venture. Though he knew he had
been indicted by the Federal Grand
Jury twice on different phases OF the
same transaction, he had not expected
to be arrested. His counsel had tried
hard to obtain the consent OF Jerome
to present their client in court and
thus permit him to land in peace and
without notoriety, but Jerome had
replied that the public interests de-
manded that Morse be arrested.
Though Morse had schooled himself
to take every success and every fail
ure without a culver, the unexpected.
ness Of his arrest for a few moments
unnerved him. He fumbled the war
rant that Lieutenant Berry put in his
hand. 1T seemed he would be taken
from the ship before it reached its
dock. Freed Of that doubt he began
to regain his assurance and his old
air of sternness.
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Ex-GOy. VOORHEES, INDICTED
Charge of Perjury Based on Bankers
Life Report.

New York City.-Foster NJ. Voor-
bees, Ex-Governor of New Jersey, and
Frank G. Combes were indicted by
the special Grand Jury which has
been investigating banking cases.
Mr.. Voorhees, was president of the
Bankers Life Insurance Company,
which got into trouble two years or so
ago. and Mr.. Combes was secretary.
Both were indicted for perjury in
submitting a false report to the State
Superintendent of Insurance. The In
vestigation was taken up on the re-
port of Superintendent of the Depart.
ment of Insurance Kelsey, who called
the attention of the District Attorney
to the affairs of the company.
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A New Belgian Airship.

According to a contemporary, a
Belgian military engineer, Comman-
dant lie Clement de CANT Marco, has
invented a new airship, which will be
tried shortly. The inventor is a we'll
known authority on this subject, and
while the plans on which the airship
is built are withheld, 1t is said that
almost a revolutionary departure has
been made from all that has been
created hitherto in the line of steer
able Acknowledgment
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C. FOR SICK WOMEN.
A Drink to Match.

Professor Brander Matthews, In a
lecture on Theatrical conventions,
told the following story:
"A little girl had dramatized a sofa
pillow into a horse, and had ridden
on it to her mothers knee. 'Horsy
is thirsty, mamma she said. The
mother brought a glass of water, but
the little one carefully emptied 1t into
a jardiniere before offering the glass
to her pillow. "A pretended horse
ought to drink pretended water
she remarked, gravely. "-Harper's
Weekly.
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Number Of Men Out of Employ
meut Alarming, Says Shaw


Kansas City, Mo. - In a signed
statement given out here Hon. Leslie
NJ. Shaw, ex-Secretary CT the Treas
ury, said:
1.-The number Of men out of m
ployment and the number soon to be
dismissed is to me alarming. The in
erests of these men and the effect OF
their enforced idlensss upon business
generally far transcends any candi-
dates ambition.
II wish that ~factionalism might
cease, and that a convention of broad
minded, patriotic, unselflsh and I'M
ambitious men, uninstructed and I'M
pledged, might gather in June and in
the light of conditions as they Their
exist, select a man whose election will
best conserve the moral and Indus
trial interests of the country
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Farmers Buy Michigan Prisons
Output of Binder Twinc.

Jackson, Mich.-The State Prison
Board has just sold the output of the
binder Irvine plant in the State prison,
estimated at 100000 pounds, for
the next year, to the Order of the
Cleaners, an organization of farmers.
Representatives of the International
Harvester Company and other dealers
also bid for the output. The Clean
ers will pay eight and one-ifth cents
q pound and the twine will be sold to
farmers at this price with only the
cost of handling added.
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Newsy Paragraphs.

The Irish Parliamentary party az
ter seventeen years of schism is now
united.
A letter just received at the New
ark postofice was mailed at New Or
leans in 1854.
Joseph Duveen suggests that a SIM
pie cleansing process with soap and
water would greatly improve the
paintings in the Louvre and other
museums in France.
Wholesale forgeries Of princely IT,
ties were discovered by the College
of Heraldry Of Georgia, T~ranscauca-
STA.
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WEALTHY MAN A BURGLAR.
Admits RobbiDg at Alton. ILL.,,
Through a Desire to Steal.

Admits RobbiDg at Alton. ILL.,,
Through a Desire to Steal.
Alton, Ill.-Pacing his cell in the
city jail building, Henry Schuelle, a
wealthy and respected building cor
tractor, in custody on a charge of
burglary, confessed that for years he
had been robbing the stores of his
neighbors at night. He knew he was
doing wrong, but had been unable to
overcome the desire to steal.
The dual life of Schuelle was re-
vealed by jeremiah Kennedy, owner
of a dairy and cigar store, a friend
and neighbor of Schuelle, who caught
Schuelle in the store at night.
Schuelle said he would gloat over
the stolen goods for a day or two and
would then burn them or throw them
away.
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PUBLIC SERVICE LAW UPHELD,
Constitutionality Decided by Court of
Appeals in Saratoga Gas Case.

Albany, N. Y.-The Court Of APP
peals in the Saratoga gas case upheld
the constitutionality of the Public
Service Commission law.
The constitutionality Of the act is
upheld and the act is condemned only
as to that part that provides for a re-
adjustment in three years in not CIV
ing to the companies an equal right
with the consumers to complain.
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Only One of Its Banks Failed
as a Result.

hundreds of thousands of acres. Fer.
tilizers are in great demand. and
when it was pointed out to me there
were millions OF tons Of natural fer
tilizer accessible by stripping the land
of five feet Of surface I thought Noah
must have left the balance OF the
world in the neighborhood Of Georgia
and South Carolina.
There is general enthusiasm
throughout the South regarding the
betterment of waterways. which nat
urally will have an important effect
on transportation Of freights." He
intimated %convivial Georgians were
not suffering from prohibition, as he
understood each colonel had laid in a
household supply so laYishly as to
cause a temporary local financial
stringency.
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Feminine Notes.

The late "Ouida" made $250,00O
with her pen.
According to Chinese law a woman
who is too talkative may be divorced.
The Countess Of Warwick, the So
cialist peerless, is writing her m-n-
oirs.
S~uffragettes met with defeat at the
convention of the Federation OF
Women's Clubs.
Twenty women, mothers of school
girls, took the first ste.Fs to suppress
q secret Greek letter society OF New
York school girls whose Initiation
was denounced as cruel.
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MIsUsED HIS CosIPANY's FUNDS.
Telephone Co. Says Its Treasurer Got
Loans on $4,000 of Stock.

New York City.-Henry Sanger
Snow resigned as treasurer of the
New York and New Jersey Telephone
Company because Of alleged irregu-
larities committed by him in the con-
duct of his Office. The amount in.
volved is about S150,O00. The IT.
Irregularities consisted in tn use by
Mr.. Snow of stocks and bonds belong
ing to the company. He used the Sc.
curities, it is alleged, as collateral
for loans with which to carry on stock
operations. The market went against
him and he was unable to take VI
the loans and release the securities.
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Meme Of Cuba's Sugar Mills
Grinding Near It's Capacity

Havana. - The Agrarian League
has appointed a committee TO memoir
ialize Governor Magoon and urge him
to use the 100000 the last Cuban
Congress voted to promote immigra-
ton.
The league bases its action on the
present scarcity of ~canecutters, which
is due to roadbuilding and other pub
lie works.
None Of the sugar mills is grinding
more than three-Quarters OF its ca
pacity.
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All Railroads Centering in
Atlanta Cut Wages.

Atlanta, Ga.-Notice of a reduction
of ten per cent. in the salaries Of all
employees receiving more thar $50
PEE month has been received IN At
lanta by the officials of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis and West
ern and Atlantic Railroads. This re-
duction affects the officials, clerks and
mechanics of the roads named.
Major J. T. McCollum, superin-
tendent of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, which is operated and
leased by the N, C. and st. L., in dis
cussing the cut in salaries, said:
THE reduction is only temporary.
We have simply adopted the scale of
wages and salaries which the roads
paid in December, 1906. During 1907
these salaries and wages were in
creased ten per cent. This is a dull
season for the railroads and the re-
duction will continue in force until
business picks up"
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Must Cut Pay on 40 Roads
Proposed Reduction For 10000.

Chicago.-A cut in the wages of
moret than 100000 employees Of forty
nine railroads west of Chicago Kings
upon the outcome of a conference in
st. Paul between the general manager
of the Chicago Great Western Rail-
way and the officials of the five big
labor organizations in train service.
If the company carries its point and
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Professor Moore RetireS.

Professor John BaSsett Moore. for
merly Assistant Secretary Of State,
has been compelled to give up his
duties as professor of International
law at Columbia University o"ing to
failing eyesight.
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cuts the wages similar action is to be
taken by every other line west Of Chi
cago.
All employees Of the Gould system
have been notified that a reduction in
wages will be made.
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One of Booths Captors Dead.

Colonel Andrew Wendell, who was
a member of the band of soldiers that
captured j. Wilkes Booth after the
assassination Of President Lircol2.
died at Chicago.