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The South's Wonderful Growth.
! rom Les,ie's.


The south no longer carries all its eggs
In one basket. Corn. rice and fruits of
the various sorts are being raised there
to an extent undreamed of half Il dozen
years ago. Beside the cotton plantation
the cotton mill is being erected Although
Massachusetts still eXcels in the manu-
facture of the finer grades of cotton fab
RIGS, the entire mill consumption of cot
ton now is as great in the south as it is
In the north Immigrants from Europe
are at last beginning to turn toward the
south. Northern settlers and capital are,
more and more every year. drifting to-
ward the states below the Potomac and
the Ohio The current of farmers seek
ing cheap lands, which has been cross ing
into Canada in large volume in the past
few years, is moving toward Oklahoma,
Texas, Louisiana and the more casterly
states along the gulf coast now. DeBew
the south's statistician and publicist of
long ago. who predicted an immene cx-
pansion for his region as a result of the
removal of the slavery incubus. ought to
have lived half century later. Some
choice prizes-industrial, social and pO-
Iitical-are TO be won by the south in the
coming time
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Where the Pennies Go.
From the New York World


More than 10000. 900 pennies are coined
annually In the Philadelphia mint Only
small percentage of them are ever &C
counted for after they leave the coming
machines. Only a cent; let 1t go: catch
the car. Only small percentage Of the
pennies lost in the thoroughfares are
ever found. They lack luster and fail to
catch the eye as would a silver coin. They
are swept up with rubbish in the streets.
carried to sea and dumped overboa d,
thousands Of them every year. When
the new Lincoln cents were first placed
in circulation thousands were used as
souvenirs, never again to be placed in
general circulation. Hundreds were gold
plated and silvered, to be used as cuff
links and stickpins.
County fairs and expositionS of all
kinds and descriptions mu ilate thousands
of pennies yearly. In almost every fair
ground is to be found a machine which
will fatten a cent and at the same time
emboss a souvenir view of the fair. Hun
dreds of thousands of pennies are carried
out of the country by tourists, who leave
them abroad. 1t is not long since 100000
were shipped to Cuban bankers and
placed in circulation among the labor n z
classes In Cuba. Anyhow. from 49, OOO, O01
to zoe, O0O, 900 copper cents are turned out
every year at the Philadelphia mint. They
are placed in circulation almost as fast
as they are coined The American COP
per cent runs close second to the pin.
of which millions are lost every year.
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CHAPTER VI.-C6ntinued.

He dismissed them with jerk of the
head. My wits struggled with his ex-
PLANTATION 1t Is my way to wish to re-
duce Information to plain terms.
Are these gentlemen. then. your rivals
for the hand Of Miss Cecilia Hollister?
If SO, they are a solemn band Of suitors,
must confess"
You have hit it, Ames. They are suit
ors, assembled from all parts of the
world
''Nice-looking fellows, except the chap
with the monoclc, who has just ordered
rather more liquor than gentleman
should drink at this hour.
THAT is Lord Arrowood. l have feared
at times that Miss Octavia favored him. -
Possibly. but not likely. But how long
Is this thing going to last? If you fell
lows are going to hang on here until
Miss Cecilia HOLSTER has chosen one of
you for her husband 1 shudder for your
gentlemen Is likely to begin shooting
across his plate at any minute. Such d
situation would become intolerable very
quickly If I were in the game and forced
to lodge here
Il hope replied Virgins with heat,
that you don't imagine these fellows can
crowd me out! I've paid for month $
lodging in advance. and if ye will stand
by me I'm going to win
Spoken like d man, my dear Virgins!
You may count on me to the sweet or
bitter end, even if I pull down all the
superb chmneys with which Pepperton
adorned that house up yonder.''
He silently clasped my hand. A little
later l telephoned from the inn 10 my
office explaining my absence and instruct
ing my assistant to visit several pressing
clients: and 1 instructed the valet at
the Hare and Tortoise to send me a
weeks supply of linen and an odd suit
or two.
At about ; o'clock I left Virgins in
first-rate spirits and set out on my re-
turn to Hopefield Manor. / felt the eyes
of the eight other suitors. who were
scattered at intervals. along the veran-
da. glued to my back as 1 drove out of
the inn yard.
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AMERICAN WOMEN
IN ENGLISH CAMPAIGN

A MEXICAN dollars and American
~ women have taken their places
in the seats of the mighty in
England.
Uncle Sans daughters are teaching
John Bulls sons the game of politics.
The sudden precipitation of a second
general election within Il period of a
few months in England has thrown
many American women who have mar
ried Englishmen into the vortex of 4
campaign for votes, and throughout the
British Isles they have been actively
supporting candidates by canvassing
electors, attending meetings and sup
plying money.
Among these feminine politicians
whose number now spells legion may
be counted the Duchess of Marlborough,
Lady Acheson, Lady Maidstone. formerly
Miss Margaretta Drcxel Of Philadelphia;
Lady Donoughmore. Miss Grace be-
fore her marriage: Lady Marlborough.
who was a Miss Carr; the Duchess of
Roxborghe. born Goelet: Lady Cheyles-
more, a Miss French; Lady Deerhurst,
a Miss Bradley-Martin; Mrs. Beatty.
formerly Mrs. Marshall Field; Lady
Greville. formerly Mrs. Henry Keer;
the Hon. Mrs. Coventry, formerly Mrs.
McCreery, and Lady Batcman, formerly
These have been working on the
unionist side.
In the much smaller list working for
the liberals the names of the Countess
Lewis Harcourt. formerly Burns: the
Hon. Mrs. Fred Guest. who was a Miss
Phipps; the Hon. Mrs. Hubert Beau
mont. nee Grace: Mrs. George Corn
and mother of Home Secretary Winston
Churchill.
TIE Duchess of Marlborough, although
she does not advocate militant tactics,
is Il firm believer in woman'S suffrage,
and has persistently voiced the suf-
fragette cry at semi-public gatherings
ana in private.
On the other hand. Lady Acheson fire.
quently attends anti-suffragette meet
ings, besides working quietly but stead
lily for the conservative interests.
= =
Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, who was Miss
Burns, and who is the wife of the
colonial secretary. owing to her hus-
bands illness bore the brunt Of his
election work, what time she could spare
vassing Rosendale.
Mrs. Waldorf-Astor, formerly Mamie
Langhorn Of Virginia, and later Mrs.
idol of the conservatives. This Is not
only on account OF the great beauty. which
made her one Of the models OF the
famous Gibson girl, but because Of
her mastery work as the politician in
getting her husband elected to the
| British house of commons by q
| majority OF 1900. in district which
defeated him at the previous election
| by a majority Of more than 800. The
tories knew that when Mr. Aston was
defeaied last January he would have
given up politics but for her. His wife
refusing to listen to his retiring from
the field, vowed that she would OBJ. air
dis election the next time. All through
| the year both have assiduously nursec
their constituency. They leased resi-
dence in Plymouth and occupied it fol
long spells at a time, giving lavishly fol
charities and other public objects. Mrs
Astor was an invaluable aid in the open
| ing Of fairs and baZaars.
| Mrs. Aston worked necessarily through
| out the campaign, especially when heI
husband was laid up with chills and lum-
| bago. She and the money OF William
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TURKS AND ARABS.
The Hostility Of the Latter to the
Former Undiminished.

Letter OF British On1cer'' in the Spectator.
Sir: Having just returned from eight
months travelling under the Crescent and
the Star in Turkish Arabia and Syria,
perhaps the following remarks of mine on
the above subject may be Of some inter-
est to students of Turkish affairs.
To put the matter shortly the Arabs
hate the Turks. This Of course is moth
ing new and has always been the case;
but it might be thought that the new ESQ.,
called) constitutional government might
have in some way changed this state OF
affairs for the better. But far from 1t !;
and the enmity which the Arabs bear to-
ward the present government is just as
bitter as that which they bore toward
the old regime, ii not more so. And the
reasons for this are not far to seek Both
in Bagdad and Damascus I talked with
many Arabs of position and respecta-
bility-who had indeed actively helped to
bring about the constitution-and the tale
was always the same: sooner or later We
came round to their grievance against
the government. OF course many opin-
ions were expressed of varying bitter
ness, and many complaints were aired,
but the chief grounds for discomfort SEEM
ed to be the following: % The Arabs are
inadequately represented in the parlia-
ment at Constantinople. CD Almost ali
the local posts of any value and infiu-
ence are filled by Turks who do not un-
derstand a word of Arabic. 90 The Turks
are making great efforts to kill the
Arabic language by refusing to allow 1t
being extensively taught in schools and
by making Turkish the official language
Of the courts of justice.
As far as could ascertain locally these
grievances were perfectly Well grounded.
Both in the districts of Bagdad and Da-
mascus, particularly the latter, almost all
the posts of any importance were held by
Turks who knew not a word of Arabic
and had absolutely no intention Of trying
to learn. All the business transacted in
the courts of these officials has of course
to be conducted fn Turkish, and as but
an infinitesimal fraction of the lower
classes Of Arabs know Turkish the de-
a. mis- of ms.
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tice NAV be imagisaed. Those via have
business in the courts and do not KNOW
Turkish have ef course to get their De
titions written and their causes PLEADED
by those who do: and these the hall
educated hangers on of the courts natui-
ally make IL their business to fleece their
patrons to the best of their ability. More
over once the case is started the unfor-
tunate ltigantS have no means of fol-
lowing the proceedings except through
the medium Of q third party. AS can be
imagined the whole system lays itself
open to the encouragement OF a multi
tude Of abuses great and small
The attempt to kill the Arabic Ian
guage by substituting Turkish for IL I'm
tn. primary schools IS particularly sore
point among the Arabs. There is no peo-
pie which has a more sensitive national
feeling or which is more justly proud OF
its beautiful language than the Arab;
and to see their children forced TO SUBJ
stitute for IL an inferior production Ike
Turkish, which owes whatever merits IL
may possess to its parent Arabic, Is gall
and NORWOOD to the descendants of tn"
prophet. And this mention of the prophet
brings In the crux of the language ques-
ton. Arabic is, of course, as every one
knows, the sacred language of Islam. IL
is the medium in winch the Koran Is
written the language chosen by God Ill
which to communicate His will to Mo-
manned, the language in which all pray
ers are offered UP by good Mohammedans
all over the Worlo, Whatever may ne ,uen
mother tongue. The greatest asset which
the Turks themselves have as means
of binding their vast overgrown empire
together is the intense living belief which
so many millions of their subjects, of
whatever nationality, have in Islam. Yet
here they are endeayoring to stamp II
out Kill Arabic and you kill Mollamme-
danism Already there Is large and
growing party headed by reactionaries.
religious and political. which says that the
present constitution is against the reli-
gtous law, and of course their hands will
be materially strengthened by being able
to point to the threatened destruction Of
the holy language. The Bedouins of the
desert have always been inveterate foes
Of the Turkish government and II tho
new regime by its high-handed tactics.
military despotism is going TO ALLEVIATE
In addition the Arabs of the towns the
outlook for Turkish Arabian policy is not
very bright, to say the least of il.
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DARKNESS AS A SUBSTANCE"
Kind That the Presence of Light
Fails to Affect.
From The Atlantic

y
I had known darkness before--the dark
ness of the mine, darkness that meant d
complete absence of light-but here was
IN opaque darkness. a darkness that the
presence of light failed to affect. At my
feet a board stretched out into the smoke
and disappeared. STOPPING clumsily to
my knees under the weight of the helmet
and peering forward through the bulls
eye in the dim rays of the electric lights,
I saw that the board passed over three
feet OF blackness into the box which hung
In the middle of the shaft. One side of
the box, fastened by heavy hinges, had
becn lowered down like u draworidSe
and from this open SIDE 10 my feet eN-
Tended the frail gangpank that we must
pass over. Out before me, i'll the smoke
ani blackness. the box swung dim.y, It's
nearest angle half lost, like the bow of u
ship in dense fog.
One by one we crawied on our hands
and knees over the swayins board and
reached the box, but so dense was the
smoke and blackncss that. holding my
electric torch at arms length, try as
might I could distinguish nothing but
faint yellow smudge of light at distance
that / knew TO be but the length of my
arm. The last man over, the watcher in
his helmet ON the brink. pulled back the
board and, cropping clumsily, and ham,
pered in the darkness, We pulled up the
swinging side of the box and laSled IL
INTO place. Then, clear and vibrant, came
the tn. &C strokes from DelmerS hammer
I'll the saw blade Far away VIC heard
the bell transmitting our signal in the
engine house; and then, impercep-ibly.
without jolt or sound, the faint smudge
Of tawny yellow of the three electric
lights on the edge of the shaft seemed
to rise above us an6 standing sil-nt IN
The box. we sank mo blackness unut-
terable. Instantly sense of direction was
gone. There was nothing To see. We
could not even SIC through the bull s-eyeS
of olI' helmets the walls of the shaft
almost within arms reach. Once L heid
my light pointed close against the bulIS-
rye of my helmet and found q sudden
relief in its yellow glare
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Hanged the Clever Forger.
from the Pail Mali Gazette.

From the Pail Mali Gazette.
OF curious petitions against the death
penalty being enforced. one recalls the
eighteenth century case Of William Ry-
land who was sentenced for forging "A
bill for eliza on the East India House.
The forgery was a work Of art. No less
than thirty signatures were initiated. and
at the trial not one OF the victims could
swear that the signature was not his
own. However. with the help of the
paper manufacturers. Ryland's guilt was
brought home. Then came the petition
of his friends. So clever q. man ought
never to be hanged, they pleaded: his
craftsmanship should save him. 1t gained
him a reepite; he was allowed to finish
a fine engraving he had begun. but moth
ing more. Though the engraver was a
favorite Of George III, hat king quite
failed to see how a forgery could be ex-
cused on the ground that 1t was q clever
forgery.
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Mechanical Music as Educator.
From T. P.'s Weekly,

From I. P.'S weekly.
1t is not altogether, then, as substitute
for the human being that the mechanical
player will be powerful and significant as
an educative inf1ueAce. Its importance
lies not in the beauty and veracity of it's
interpretations. but in the power it pos
sesses of bringing the individual into di-
rect touch with the vast stores of mu-
steal compositions that have been written
during the last four centuries. What
the printing press Is to literature the
mechanical player is to music The an
alogy is not quite perfect, but it is suffi-
GENTLY near the truth to illustrate one's
meaning,
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Heartles$ Husband.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Want to go to the theater tonight? ''
II have nothing to wear said the
wife pointedly.
Then we'll so to one OF those NOV
ing picture shows where it's dark"
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1HILE affirming that condi-
tons the last year have inn
M proved steadily in every
w branch of the organization,
and expressing confidence
that such Improvement will continue
the next year. officers of the National
Guard feel that a greater degree of
consideration from civil employers Of
members of the guard would work
much good
National Guard service, said one
officer, in summing up the years work,
is volunteer service, and makes heavy
demands on the time, energy, enthusi-
asm and money of the officers and men
In the guard. People who have never
been in the guard do not appreciate
this. No guard can be efficient unless
1t has the active support and sympathy
Of the community in which it exists.
1.-THE National Guard of the District
Of Columbia has done good work. is
doing good work, and asks the intelli-
gent support Of the District. especially
Of the employers Of the District, in
order to become more efficient.
MANY men claim that it is impossi-
BILE to obtain leave of absence from
their employment to spend the two
days of ordered practice on the target
range 1t is hoped that during the
coming year EMPLOYERS will be more
liberal in granting permission to their
employees who belong to the guard to
go to the target range for the two days
of ordered practice in May and June
to perfect themselves in this most i'm
portant part of soldiers training"
4 4
Col Charles II. Ourand has issued a
nol fnr n drill "a II nf
the Center Market Armory at S:15
o'clock next Thursday evening of the
entire membership of the 1st Infantry.
The object Of the meeting is to discuss
the welfare and the general betterment
OF the regiment. There will be no drill
nor military assembly of any sort, the
gathering being one for business
solely.
Two promotions the National Guard
has been expecting for several weeks
were announced from headquarters yes
terday. They are those of Capt. Charles
james Fox, LIST Battery, Field Artillery,
to be head of the ordnance department.
with rank of major. and First Lieut..
Frank III. Holt, ordnance department, to
be captain. Both officers have been in
have risen from the ranks.
Maj. Fox enlisted in the guard in
1908 as a private in the 1st' Battery.
June %. 1904. he received his commission
as a second lieutenant, and June Is. 1a05,
was commissioned captain of the LIST Bat
terry. He passed his examination for
promotion and was nominated major
ordnance department December II last.
He accepted December %, with rank
from December 90
Capt. Holt enlisted in the Engineer
Corps of the District Militia more than
twenty years ago. In March, 1891, he
was appointed acting first lieutenant and
adjutant of the Engineer Corps. jan
uary %. 1896, he was appointed captain
of Company B, I'd Separate Battalion.
He resigned his commission with the
Separate Battalion in 1899 and was APP
pointed first lieutenant and quartermastcr
of the ordnance department. His COM
mission as captain dates from December
20, 1910.
First Lieut.. ]. Harry Shannon will
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succeed Maj. Fox as captain Of the Is
Battery, Field Artillery.

Battery, Field Artillery.
Paragraph 81, general order No 20. pre-
scIibes that an officer of the organized
militia attending garrison school must
provide himself. at his own expense, with
the required text books.
-
The issue of fur caps to the regular
army has been discontinued and the arti-
cles cannot, therefore, be furnished for
the use of tie organized militia. Winter
caps are not standard articles Of issue,
but are supplied. only to troops OF the
regular army stationed in extreme north
err ATTITUDES.
The field service regulations Of 1910
prescribe the war organization of the
United States Army, which does not con-
form to its present authorized organiza-
ton. So far as the regulations prescribe
additional grades of rank not now author
lied by law, they are not required to be
followed, out if these additional grades
are adopted by state. they will not be
considered as constituting n condition Of
non-conformity with the organization Of
the army. Grades in the regular service
in the same manner in the organized
militia.
While the appointment of non-commis-
stoned officers and other enlisted men not
covered by lawful organization or author
lied detail, cannot be prohibited by the
War Department, it is a practice which
does not meet with the approval OF the
department. If such unauthorized APP
that they are not entitled to any pay or
allowance from United States funds and
cannot be considered by the department
either as a part of the organized strength
allotment of funds under the act Of May
=, 1908.
The War Department notes with regret
the loss by fire of the armory of Com
pany NJ. 4th Infantry, organized militia
Of Virginia. stationed at Emporia. Va.
with nearly all Of the public property
pertaining thereto.
The grooming of officers horses of the
regular army is not a proper charge
against the appropriation for the sup
port of the army. inasmuch as the or
ganized militia is required to take part in
field service under the same conditions
as obtain I'm the regular army. the depart
ment does not consider that the hiring of
grooms is a necessary item of expense
connected with the participation of mill
tia in camps of instruction. and the cost
thereof cannot be paid from the allot-
ment to a state.
Whenever any repairs are needed to
public property issued to state, such
prODerty should ne examined by a. diSir-
terested surveying officer of the organized
militia appointed by the governor of the
state or by his authority. Should the
surveying officer find that the property
is worth repairing and recomn end that
the repairs be made. and this recon-
mendation is approved by the Secretary
of War the repairs may be made from
funds in the hands Of tho United States
disbursinS officer.
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It matters little what II is that you
want-whether q situation or q servant
"a want ad in The Star will reach tho
person who will ill your need.
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A Bad Habit.

From the Atchison Globe
Most people put off until tomorrow
that which they should have done yes
terday.