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The Irish standard., 1909-05-01

ton of Abdul Hamid, has been made
public. It embraces the questions put
by parliament to the Sheik-ul.Islam
and his answer thereto.
Text Of the Decision.
The text follows:
What becomes of an Imam tthe
title of the sultan of Turkey as head
of the orthodox faith) who has de-
stroyed certain holy writings; who
has seized property in contravention
to the Sheri laws; who has commit
ted cruelties in ordering the assas
sination and Imprisonment of exiles
without any justification under the
public money; who, having sworn to
govern according to the Sheriat, has
violated his oath; who, by gifts Of
money, has provoked internecine blood
shed and civil war, and who no longer
is recognized in the provinces?"
To this the Shiek-ul-Islam replied:
"He must abdicate or be deposed."
No Good Word for Abdul.
Not one Of the Constantinople news
papers has good word for Abdul
Hamid, whose life and reign are be-
ing held up to universal execration.
On the other hand the accession of
Mehmed v. is regarded as the dawn
Of a new era.
In order to enable the public to in
dulge in rejoicings there was ordered
temporary suspension of the state Of
siege until ten o'clock at night. The
city was Illuminated, but fireworks
were prohibited.
United States Is Notified.
Washington, Apr. 29.-The Turkish
ambassador, Hussein Kiazim Rey, yes
terday formally notified the state de-
partment of the succession to the
throne of Mehemmed Reschad Effendi
as sultan of Turkey under the title of
Mehmed v.
Similar advices came from Ambas-
sador Leishman. at Constantinople.
KAHN Bey, himself a member Of the
Young Turks party, with every evil
dence Of satisfaction and of delight on
his countenance, appeared early at the
state department with the information
he had received from the ministry Of
foreign affairs, which he communicat.
ed to Assistant Secretary Huntington
Wilson. He remained with Mr.. vii.
son some time, which gave the am.
bassador an opportunity to supply the
secretary with some interesting facts
regarding the new sultan, and to i'm.
part some Of his views touching the
policies which. in his opinion. would
be adopted in the administration Of af.
fairs. The ambassador declined to
make any comments on the situation,
as he came from Mr.. Wilson's ONCE.
A dispatch was sent to Ambassador
Leishman at Constantinople. which in
effect contained formal recognition
by the American government Of the
assumption OF ONCE of the new sultan
Following the receipt Of this dispatch
II IL probable that Mr.. Leishman viii,
make call at the Yildiz Kiosk, to
pay his respects to the sultan. i.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
STOLEN BOY is RESTORED.
Father Of James cabanne ~. Starts
for st. Louis with Son Taken
by Novelist.

San Francisco. Apr. 29.-Iames q.
Cabanne H., who was smuggled ont
Of ST. Louis by his stepfather,
Broughton Brandenburg, was yester.
day taken from the detention home
and given to his father, James Shep-
pard Cabanne Of st. Louis. Mr.. Ca.
banne started home with his son last
evening.
Mr.. Cabanne did not anticipate that
his departure would be delayed by
habeas corpus proceedings, of which
there had been some talk previous to
his arrival here.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
JOSEPH W. BABC0CK DEAD.
Former Wisconsin Congressman suo'
cunbs to Long lllnese-His Body
VIII Be Cromated.

Washington, Apr. 2s.-Former Rep
Preventative Joseph w. Baboock Of Wis.
consin, for IA years a member OF the
lower house Of congress-, and for many
years chairman of the national Repub.
lican congressional committee, died at
his home here at 9:45 yesterday. He
was 80 years old.
He had been Ill for some weeks
with a complication of liver and KID
ney troubles.
The funeral will be held on Friday
at the Baboock residence, and tho
services will be conducted by Rev.
Henry Couden, chaplain Of the house
of representatives. The honorary pail
bearers selected from the ranks of Mr..
Babcock's friends, are: Vice-PresN
dent Sherman, Representative Hull Of
Iowa, former Representative Watson
Of Indiana, Stewart Of Wisconsin and
Hazelton Of Washington; W. A. Jones,
former commissioner Of Indian Affairs;
Henry Casson, sergeant-at-arms Of the
house, and H. s. Reside, banker.
After the funeral. in accordance
with Mr.. Babcock's request. the body
will be cremated.
Mr.. Babcock was personally very
popular with his colleagues in the
house, where his defeat having been
brought about by a combination be-
tween the LaFollette faction Of the
Republican party and the Democrats
In Wisconsin, resulted in the election
TO the Sixtieth congress Of Represen.
tative Murphy, Democrat. He was q
native Of Swanton, Vt.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
Lewis, Brother Is Dead.

Scranton. Pa, Apr. 29.-National
President r. L. Lewis of the United
Mine Workers. who was here presid.
ing over the tri-district convention OF
yesterday that his brother. William r.
Lewis, state labor commissioner OF
Ohio, had died at Columbus. He was
greatly affected and Immediately de-
cided to go west. He left here for Co.
nmbus.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
"DRYs" WIN AT! MUNcIE.
Indiana Liquor Forces Get Hardest
Blow Of All with Defeat In Del.
aware County.

Muncie, Ind, Apr. 2o.-Delaware coun:
ty Tuesday voted "dry" in county
option election by a majority esti.
mated at $500. Muncie, the county
seat, gave the "drys" a majority Of
213:
The result Of the election in this
county was awaited with great inter
est, as Muncie is so far the largest
city to vote on the saloon question.
Eighty-two saloons will be closed.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
CALLED SLAIN MAN
WOMAN DECLARES j. c. MAYBRAN
Is LORD" sARRIhoToN's
VICTIM.
ST. LOUIS TRAGEDY RECALLED
Prisoner In Dos Moines jail Charged
with swIndIlng Identified by Mrs.
Lillian Gates az J. J. McCann Long
Believed Dead. 49,.

Des Motnes, Ia, Apr. 26.-J.. G.
Maybray. the accused swindler who
has been declared by Mrs. Lillian
Gates of st. Louis to be the murdered
J. j. Mccain, Lord" Barringtons sup
posed victim. has barred the hitherto
carefully covered history Of his life to
newspaper men to show that he and
Mccain are not the same. =.
Maybray declared that he was born
in Mississippi. went west when young
and rode It's plains as cowboy with
Mayor Jim Dahlman Of Omaha. He
told Of running rooming house In
Omaha during the exposition and OF
his removal to Kansas City about
1900. where he says. is his home.
Maybray Produces Aisbl.
McCann was slain in st. Louis ooun-
tt. Missouri, ten miles from st. Louisl
in June. 1908. Maybray declares he
was in Chicago in the May preceding
that month and returned to Kansas
City the entire month Of June, he
says. and his wife who was beside
him during tho narrative cos5obosated
the statement. In July. he says, he
went to Denver, where he was taken
Ill and for weeks Was near death.
He returned to Kansas City late IN
the summer and declares all he knows
of the Darlington case is what he re-
calls from the newspaper accounts al
that time.
MRS. Gates is insane" said May.
bray. when she came mp here,
begged her to look me over and be-
csuse Of the notoriety that I have 40
quired heretofore, to spare me and my
vito any further humiliation. She told
me that would have to change my
eyes before she would ever say that ]
am not McCann. Her story that I have
scars on my thumbs Ia false"
says Che Failed onoe.
Maybray talked for an hour. de.
clared that Mrs. Gates and a post Of
noe inspector named Swenson are
working I'm the attempt to make him
out the murdered MoCann. and said
they tried 1t at Little Rock. and there
identified IN altogether different man.
"lf Lord harrington is innocent. !
am willing to help hi mget his liberty
II I can. I have no wish to see him
suffer whoever he is," said Maybray.
Maybray points out that while J. l..
Rollings, the sailor from the battle
ship Wisconsin. identified him the
sailor boy shook as II he were scared
to death.
He was lying" says Maybray.
Mrs. Lillian Gates is firm in ner be.
lief that Maybray Is Mccain. She
says she is not in the employ OF the
British government but that her IA
Their and Lord" Darlington Seymour,
father Of the Missouri convict, were
old neighbors and that she and Lord"
harrington we're childhood friends In
England. She says the corpse which
was found and identified as Mccain
was In reality the decayed trunk OF
q tree.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
MOT TO. FIX RATES
JUDGE. MCPHERSON REFUSES TO
REcEDE FROM POSITION IN
MISSOURI CASE.
ROADS MUST PAY THE COSTS
Court Rules That Railways Are to
Stand $4,000 Expense-MiIease
Should Be Graduated According to
=. Needs Of. Companies, He Declares.

Kansas City, Mo, Apr. ga sup
Elementary decision in the rate cases.
involving the IS Missouri railroad COM
panies operating in Missouri, was filed
In the federal court here yesterday by
Judge Smith Mcpherson of Red Oak,
Ia. .
Judge Mcpherson declines to re-
cede from his first opinion, rendered
on March 8, last, either in the mat
ter Of the division of the costs of the
proceedings or to change his original
holding that the court cannot fix rates.
In effect. the, decision means that the
railways and the state must each pay
one-ha1f of the costs, which aggre-
gate $4,000, and that the court re-
fuses the railways petition which
asked it to specifically state what pas
senger rates they should charge. AS
ITO ths contention that the court was
in error in its original opinion. in that
the penalties Of the statutes render
them void. Judge Mcpherson now
holds that this section of the state
statutes imposing penalties is void.
Would Graduate Rate.
= On the point of fixing the rates
Judge MCPHERSON says in part:
Complaint is made because of the
recital in my opinion that it being a
legislative act and not a judicial one,
this court cannot fix rates. If It
could, two and one-half cent passenger
rates would be fixed for the stronger
roads, and three for the others. But
that is for the legislature acting it.
self with experts such as the state
employed in these cases, or through
a commission with like assistance.
my statement that 1t being leg
islative act, and not a. judicial one,
this court cannot fix rates. is not con.
troverted by any one. This being so,
as of course, what l said as above is
.obiter dictum. But because it is die.
tum,. is no reason whatever for not
saying it, and still less a reason for
now eliminating It from my opinion.
Favors Weaker Railways.
:, Fl believe 1t proper to say that the
strong roads should have two and one
half cents per passenger per mile, and
the weaker roads three cents, I
could have fairly stated that the
st. Louis & Hannibal, and the Kansas
City, Clinton and Springfield railroads
should have four cents or more per
passenger per mile.
II still adhere to those views, and
entertaining them, know of no rea.
son for not stating them with reasons
for believing 1t was my duty to state
them. Passengers, like consumers
have rights. One of these rights is
ito have fares fixed reasonably low
but the term reasonable is compar.
|ative one. 1t must be in proportion
ito what 1t. .is worth and the better
the service. the more it is worth. And
the public is entitled to have, with the
right to demand, efficient service, pro.
vided, always, such is paid for"
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
TAFT 10 census Arb,ter

Washington. Apr. 27.-Whether Or.
g. N. ID. North shall remain as d.
rector OF the census bureau 10 in the
hands of President Taft. DR.. North
has made every promise that he will
work az willing subordinate to the
secretary Of commerce and labor, and
with that promise Mr.. Nagel will be
satisfied II the president decides to
retain DR.. North.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
Returning from Canal Trip.

New York, Apr. ga party Of
United States congressman and their
wives, who have been inspecting the
work on the Panama canal, left Colon
yesterday on the steamship Panama
for New York, according to cable ad-
vices received In this city.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
Storm Wrecks okIahom. Town.

Storm Wrecks Oklahoma Town.
Oklahoma City, Okla, Apr. 27.--Six-
teen persons we're injured. one per-
haps fatally, in tornado which de-
stroyed large part Of the town Of
Centrahoma yesterday. Not a build
ing in the town remained wholly in
tact after the storm. Twelve build
ings, including the Methodist, Baptist
and Presbyterian churches. were total
~ wrecked.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
French President at Nice.

Monte Carlo, Apr. 2S.-President
Fallieres of France and the members
of his party arrived here in automo.
biles today for Nice and were given
a hearty welcome and entertained at
luncheon by the prince of Monaco.
The Gordon Of st. Charles has been
conferred upon M. Fallieres by the
prince.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
HUNTING PARTY AFTER LIONS
Ex-PresIdent Roosevelt Ready for
First Real Expeditlon-coes to
Pease Ranch.

Nairobi British East Africa, Apr. -.
The members Of the Roosevelt par
ty started to-day from the ranch Of
Sir Alfred Pease. on their first hunt.
ing expedition after lions.
The remainder Of the Roosevelt
camp was moved yesterday from
Kapiti Plains to the Pease ranch.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
South Dakota Bishop Resigns.

Lead, s. D.. Apr. 29.-Bishop John
stariha, who for the last seven years
has been bishop Of the diocese Of
South Dakota, Of the Roman Catholic
church, has resigned because Of fail
Ing health.
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
Eno,neer Gets Carnegie Medal.

Evansville, Ind Apr 27.-For say.
ing the life OF a negro boy who was
playing on the railroad track, Ray
mond l.. May, a fireman on the Louis
Vile. Henderson g. st. Louis railroad
near here, was awarded a Carnegie
modal
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
SUNDAY to Conduct Revival.

Danville, ILL.,. Apr. 27.-Arrange-
ments were completed here whereby
Billy Sunday, the famous baseball
evangelist. will start a series Of meet
iugs In this city on November 10 next
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
Australia to Try Balloons.

London, Apr. 2s.-The Australian
government has ordered in Europe six
dirigible balloons and six aeroplanea
for purposes of experiment
The Irish standard., 1909-05-01
wou,d.Re Assavlter Lynehed.

Barlow, Fla, Apr 29.-Charles Scar.
borough, the negro who attempted to
assault Mrs. Taylor Frierson of Fort
Meyer, here. was captured and
lynched yesterday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-06-02
The Cannon Roared.

While campaigning In his home
State, Speaker Cannon was once in
yeigled into visiting the public schools
of a town where he was billed to
speak. \
In one Of the lower grades an am
bilious teacher called upon a youth
full Demosthenes to entertain the dis
tinguished visitor with an exhibition
of amateur oratory. The selection at
tempted was Byron's Battle of wat
erloo," and just as the boy reached
The end of the first paragraph Speak
er Cannon Suddenly gave vent to a
violent sneeze.
But hush! hark!" detained the
youngster, "a deep sound strikes like
a rising knell! Did ye hear that"
The visitors smiled and a moment
later the second sneeze-which the
speaker was vainly trying to hold
back-came with increased violence.
But bark" bawled the boy, that
heavy sound breaks in once more,
and nearer, clearer, deadlier than be-
fore! Arm! arm! it is the cannon's
opening roar."
This was too much, and the laugh
that broke from the party swelled
louder still, when Speaker Cannon
chuckled. Put up your weapons,
children; l won't shoot any MORE
Judge.
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The Valley Walk.

The walk is not in the valley, but
through the valley. All! then it must
be a straight and plain path, and n
that leads somewhere. 1t must be a
direct journey to a. distinct destina-
ton. Yes, 1 am assured that it is,
and that the destination Is nothing
less delightful than heaven itself.
How, then, can I fear when once by
faith I have connected the valley with
the heaven to which it leads. This
going must be like the fight OF a
bird through some dark cloud, n
then out into the full light OF the sun.
It must be like some traveller jour-
neying through a deep Swallowed an
yon between the mountains, and then
coming out into the broad and smil-
ing country, where the sun is shining
in its glory, and where every green
herb and beautiful flower is %springing
up to bless. Surely, If it is only a
quiet walk through the sheltered val
lev. and the valley itself opens out
full and broad into the shining fields
of heaven, why, indeed, should /
fear?-G. B. F. Hallock, D. D.
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The French Sunday.
Ito be continued

1t Is really remarkable to find the
French Chamber adopting an obliga-
tory Sunday rest for the working
classes by a majority of SIS to l..
Probably the one considered that this
salutary proposal was a trucking to
religion, which, Of course, is not to
be contemplated for a moment, and 1t
is rather astonishing that not more
than one Deputy did so. The demand
for one days rest in seven, in France
as in England, comes really quite
as much from those who have no wish
that any Of the leisure SO gained shall
be spent in church as from the re-
ligious; and, with the provision Of
shifts for the special cases Of res
t~aurants, museums, bakeries and the
like, Sunday is obviously the most
convenient holiday for the community
in general. While the British Sum-
day is becoming much less British
than it was, it is very noticeable that
the Continental Sunday is gradually
Notwithstanding itself. - London
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-06-02
CHAPTER VI.
Your Child.

Enid had not reckoned without her
host when she had thought of max
ing her home beneath the humble
roof of Mrs. Lawson, laundress and
shirt ironer.
"Well, to be sure! And you're a
sight for sore eyes, that you are,
miss! Come in, come I'M" and Mrs.
Lawson hastily busted a chair with
her spotless apron, and turned her
back on her hot iron and the many
iounced petticoat that she had been
working at.
Enid felt a lump rise in her throat
and tears spring to her eyes as she
beheld the once familiar face and the
misery that had been On her when
last she had seer it, but she success
fully choked down her emotion and
busted herself with helping her carry
her trunk up to the tiny room, having
come to a speedy and satisfactory ar
rangement with Mrs. Lawson.
And it's me that is glad to have
you back again, Miss Leslie, that's
| what it u.s." she declared, land I'll
make you as comfortable as l can.
I'm only sorry, miss, that yer can't
have yer old room, but it's let by the
year to a gentleman who attends to
planners, and so, you see"
But l would much rather have the
! small one. I don't want large rooms,
I am alone now" Enid returned, with
| a faint smile.
Then began a curious life for the
| girl. and by no means a pleasant one.
August in London is synonymous
with discomfort, ven to those dwell
ing in palaces; how much more so,
then, to the poor whose homes are in
| dingy, squalid courts and lanes. Mrs.
Lawson's tiny. ill-ventilated house
was in a turning off one of the side
! streets in Oxford street. and Enid up
in her attic suffered both in body and
mind.
Each morning she was up by dawn
and hard at work, placing her easel
beneath the skylight to get all the
benefit of the window she could, but
her hopes and am billions were soon
depressed, for she had spent her first
day in town in trailing YEARLY
through the hot streets, with a few
| paintings held carefully beneath her
| arm, to every color shop and artists
emporium she could find round about,
and in one and all she had been re-
| ceived the same-the pictures were
viewed in a misconceptions, half
plying manner, and she was told
there was 70 opening for such things,
that no one bought paintings nova
days, and that the market was over
stocked. With a disheartened shiver
of fatigue Enid had wended her way
, home, and put the small paintings
in their corner again. 1t was the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-06-02
Temperance Notes.

The saloon is in politics; the OIL!
way to get it out is through the trap
door.
The Dutch land all others are
safer when they put up the dikes
against Holland gin.
Since the dawn of history this mon
ster. Booze, has been derouring men
both body and soul, destroying their
self-respect: scorching them with
shame and remorse and filling b
world with misery; yet we cherlsn II
tenderly and protect it with laws.
About 5000 persons attended the
opening of a temperance restaurant
sn Malmoe, Sweden. The institution
was a success from the start.
Mrs. Alice Hewitt, of Camden, n.
J., has brought suit against a saloon
keeper for $4,000. She warned the
dealer not to sell liquor to her nus
band. He did, and when she -emon,
strated the saloon keeper dragged
her out into the street by her hair.
The temperance question cannon all
ways be kept out of the general MIND.
The class is large and permanent to
which it appeals, and it is always liza
BILE to emerge when there is no other
great issue, and always liable to be
crowded back when there is.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-06-02
OVERRIDING 1t.

A young Englishnan, after he had
been in DEVILS Valley for a couple OF
months, began to grow thin. Wyom-
ing cooking did not appeal to him.
Besides his squeamish appetite there
was another thing that the natives
held against him-his outlandish Gus
tom of taking a bath every morning.
One day his landlady was discussing
him with a friend.
Il tell ye what, SAL" said the Wis
itor, hes jest wastin' away a-grieV-
in for ONE gal back East thar"
"Nothin' O. the kind said the
landlady contemptuously. you mark
my words now-that young Teller
he's jest a~-washin' hisself away
Everybody's Magazine.
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Roosevelt's Scarfpin.

One of the recent pictures Of the
President showed him with a stick
pin in his black four-in-hand cravat.
Lese majestic! or I'm a fakir. When
he last sat to a portrait painter in the
White House he posed himself in his
own style and offered numerous sug-
gestions. After a week or two Of
these sittings, as the artist was leav-
ing the Executive Mansion, the Presi-
dent rushed to the door and shaking
his fist at the %retreating form,
shouted: Hey! Hey Don't you dare
to paint me with a stickpin! Do you
hear? No scarfpin! l never wore
one!"-New York Press.