Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-09-29
GAINESVILLE FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 1909

history of the disease. Judged 10y it,
spread the doctors are not at all sure
about it, treatment. even il they be-
l.eye they have identified the cause.
The Public Service Commission
calls attention to he fact that traction
companies retain traCkage OF NOR"
than 90 miles in New York through
running riCkcty horse car over the
lines once a day. merely To hold the
franchise. Citizens OF other cities
would be- indignant. but New Yorkers
are used TO standing almost anything
from street car companies.
There are to be no more l3-cent
stamps and instead the PostoffiCe DE.
partment will issue a l2-ccnt stamp
The former Was devised tn cover the
cost Of the scent registry fee and the
scent international postage rate
The lJ-cent stamp will serve this pur-
pose when the registry fee Is increas
I'd from y To- ~ cents November
cover the cost of the new I0-cent
registry fee and the 2-cent postage
stamp rate In the United States and
for England and Germany.
The appointment the past week OF
two prominent Yale professors to
Government positions under President
Taft has caused some OF the alumni
to sit up and take notice. and Incl.
dentally to observe that President
Taft is apparently going to remember
his Yale friends when the right job
IL waiting for the right man. Both
Of the men belong to the department
Of political economy at Yale, a depart.
ment that furnished President Hadley
and Yale's famous economist. William
G. Sumner.
The pioneer aviators are making
money while there are still compare.
lively few of them sure of being abb,
TO fly. Curtiss gets $500 a day DE
lagrange. Paulhan and Demanest
asked two weeks ago 5000 a day for
a 3O-day engagement. and the man
who was seeking their services signed
the contract without hesitation. Far.
man and Bleriot ask $500 for a weeks
display. and both can make more
money by staying az home and filling
orders than by dying. Farman's price
for one OF his aeroplanes is now
$500.
Before the first OF next year sew.
eral new GOLFERS will have beep. put
in service by the navy. The Vulcan
built by the Maryland Steel Company.
Sparrows Point. Md. is now com
plotting her trials before acceptance
by the Government. Her sister ship,
the Mars" has already been deliver
cred and another collier on the same
plans and constructed by the same
company soon will be- ready for trial
The collier "Vestal." built at the New
York Navy Yard. will be- placed In
commission about October I. and her
sister ship. the "Promethcus." built
at the Mare Island Navy Yard. will
be- commissioned about January |.
MuCkrackcrs who seem to be- pre-
pairing TO assail IN" churches. will
find little material aud less inspl.
ration ia the religious census recent.
~ completed by the Census Bureau
The report brings it, statistic 10 the
close OF l'"i. the l2s; prcyiou census
of the same kind having been made
in 1890 During the sixteen years the
population Of the continental United
State iucr,a I'D 33.S per cent, Int in
the number Of communicates or
church members there Vas an b. rcase
OF 6ul per cent; In the number OF
church "di9ccs. an increase Of 3j.3
per cent. and in IN" yalu" at church
property an increase Of S5l pr cent.
IN 1890 the repOrte ed church member.
ship represented 32.7 per cent Of the
total population; in 1906. 39.l per
cent The proportion Of ministers 10
churches Is larger now than In 1880.
indicating that churches are more
adequately served than they formerly
were. and suggests that the ministry
Is by no means a decadent calling.
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