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WEEK'S BENTSi • « e . o * • Latest News of Interest • % Boiled Down for the j a Busy Man. • o • aatlOKltltltllllOtllOlKl PERSONAL. Dr. James H. Carlisle, president emeritus of Wofford college and one south's best-known educators' died at his home in Spartanburg, X. He was 84 years old. Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale univer sity says the normal span of human life is 150 years, and declares the longevity of man increases as science and medicine make advances. Mrs. Josephine Floyd Jones, who was a member of one of the oldest families on Long Island, in her will left, SIO,OOO and her personal wardrobe to her faithful servant, Hannah Dav enport, who is to have a grave in the family burial plot. Bernhard Dernburg, German colonial secretary, who is at Kansas City, de rides the suggestion of war between Germany and England. Miss May Clayton, 25 years old. daughter of a wholesale liquor mer chant. and Peary S. Tsujl, a Japanese restaurant keeper, were married at Seattle, Wash. It was a romance of the Seattle fair, the couple having met at the "Pay Streak." Rudolph Gluck, 19 yen's old. will sail for Russia from Xew York in a few days to serve three years in the Russian army, and so save his moth er s property at Kaprin, near Warsaw, from confiscation Lieut. Foulois of the American army has arrived in New York after attend ing the International Aeronautical con gress in Paris. He says France is crazy over flying machines, and this class of craft is bound to supplanr dirigible balloons King Manuel of Portugal is con fined to his bed with an intestinal trouble accompanied with a light fever. William I. Buchanan, former Ameri can minister to the Argentine republic and Panama, died on the street in London Irotn supposed heart disease. Gonzalo de Quesada, formerly Cuban minister to the United States and now a member of the permanent court at The Hague by appointment of the Re public of Cuba, has been selected by this government as an arbitrator in the case of the Orinoco Steamship Company against Venezuela. GENERAL NOTES. "Gipsy" Smith, the English evangel ist, headed a procession ol 20,000 en thusiastic Christian people that marched through Chicago's South side "Tenderloin" district. Most of the resorts closed their doors and there was practically no disorder. The Xational Woman's Christian Temperance union met in annual con vention at Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, the president, deliv ered her annual address. The one hundred and fortieth anni versary of the discovery of San Fran cisco bay by Gaspar De Portola is be ing celebrated in San Fraucisco and the regenerated city Is entertaining guests from all parts of the world. The National Purity congress Is holding its annual meeting at Burling ton, la., and is attended by hundreds of earnest, practical men and women devoted to the uplifting of their fellow Americans. F. E. Hanscome, cashier of the wrecked • Mineral Point (Wis.) First National batik, killed himself at the grave of his mother. Worry over the bank's affairs was the cause. Mrs. John Gray, his aged mother in-law, fell dead upon seeing his body. Cleveland (O.) police are Invest! gating the cause of illness of 14 per sons who were taken sick after eating chocolate candy purchased at an East side confectionery store. Mrs Richard McMartin of Thompson vllle, Mich., visiting at Ashland, Wis., walked out of the house while asleep during the night and off the bridge over the Bay City creek, falling on the rocks and breaking both legs. A diamond ring worth $l,lOO, the property of Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, was found on the mountain side near the Edison estate in New Jersey. It was lost six years ago. Robert Mc- Carthy, the finder, was rewarded with SIOO. Fire destroyed the computing scale works and other buildings in Dayton, 0.. causing a loss estimated at $750,- 000. The International Banking Corpora tion. an American concern with main offices in Peking, has opened a branch bank at Hankow. Jack Johnson still retains the title of Heavy-weight chamuion of the world, because he knocked Stanley Ketchel out in the twelfth round in their fistic battle at Colma arena, San Francisco. The fight was furious and bloody. The colored man was too heavy and strong tor his lighter opponent. The seventy-seventh annual meet ing of the Illinois State Young Men's Christian association was held in the new building of the University of Illi nois association at Urbana. Members of the Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky library associations held a joint conference in Louisville. The Spanish cabinet, headed by Premier Maura, resigned and is super ceded br (me lormed by Se:jor ; Moret, former premier. This change resulted lrom the outcry over Revolutionist Ferrer's execution. The American Ice Company of New York is on trial in the criminal court on the charge of violating the state law preventing monopoly. The con cern is charged with creating an arti ficial ice famine. A dam at Lake Derkos, which sup plies Constantinople with water, burst and 25 persons were drowned. Calcutta dispatches to London say 10,000 people have perished in a ter ritlc storm which swept the plains in the delta of the Ganges and Brahma putra, in Bengal, India. According to a report from United States Consul General Griffiths, at London, the army of unemployed in Great Britain has grown steadily and has now reached proportions that are causing the government great uneasi ness. The grand jury at Chicago has caused a stir by joining State's Attor ney VVayman in his demand that the judges of Cook county courts clean out the county jury commission in such a drastic manner as will prevent any opportunity for jury tampering in the future. A copy of a book written in 1810 by Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, and entitled, "Torpedo War and Submarine Explosions," has been sold at auction in New York for SOO. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Whitlock of East Orange, N. J., were so affected at the prospect of ''losing" their two daughters by marriage that they went to their country home to escape being present at the double wedding. They ■are said to he well pleased, never theless, with their sons-in-law. A fund to be known as the Charles Eliot Norton memorial fund has been endowed to the Archaeological Insti tute of America in Washington by James Loeb, a retired banker of New York city. Army officers to the number of .15 started from Fort Meyer, Va., under the lead of Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, presi dent of the war college, for a 90-mile endurance test. It is reported in Lisbon. Portugal, that King Alfonso's mind is in a serious condition because of fear of an upris ing in Spain and of his own assassina tion. King Edward of England is much exercised over the socialistic demon strations in connection with Ferrer's execution and is laboring hard to pre vent a general election on the budget, fearing that owing to the highly fever ish condition of public opinion the house of lords would be imperiled and possibly abolished. A typhoon of unusual severity swept over the island of Luzon, washing out railroad beds, cutting off telegraphic communication and doing much other damage. President Taft had the time of his life on his brother's ranch in lexas. lie rode a balky cayuse, saw wild steers roped by cowboys and wit nessed the rounding up of a herd of cattle, together with many other in teresting things connected with ranch life. The Minocqua ( Wis.) bank was rob bed of several thousand dollars by five men who, after being rounded up at a small station near there by a sheriff's posse, turned on the latter with rifles and made their escape. The American Antiquarian society laid the corner-stone of its new build ing in Worcester, Mass., in connection with the opening of the organiza tion's annual convention. Miss Eleanor Lorraine Beattie, who was recently extradited from London on a charge of grand larceny and who is now under bonds for trial, has ad vertised in New York for a position as chauffeur. She is willing to wear a uniform and pilot a taxicab. William Fason, a blind negro, who killed two men in a Paterson (N. J.) saloon, when he was denied a drink, was sentenced to 40 years in prison. W. R. Hearst won a "strike" in the New York political campaign Saturday night when he threatened to retire from the race for mayor and to leave the fusion ticket to its fate unless his fellow nominees appeared on the stage with him. Two schooners, with 11 persons aboard, are missing off the Newfound land coast and are believed to have foundered in the gale last week. The annual convention of the Na tional Woman's Christian Temperance union opened in Omaha with about 500 delegates in attendance. National President Lillian M. N. Stevens deliv ared her yearly address. Illinois cities and towns celebrated the second arbor and bird day of the year with exercises in the public schools. The United States supreme court has issued an order staying proceed ings in the northern Illinois circuit court in the matter of the application of Capt. M. Carter for the allowance of further counsel fees in the govern ment's suit against him for the restor ation of the funds alleged to have been procured by him through defal cation. Attorney General Stead has ren dered an opinion to the effect thai the one hundred and twenty-second article of war does not give officers of the marine corps authority to com mand in the army unless detached for service by order of the president. Ministers and laymen from all parts of the country met in Detroit to at tend the general convention of the Universallst church. Abraham G. Munn, retired manufac turer and philanthropist of Louisville, died there, aged 91. He attributed his long life to temperance in all thinss. WAS IN NO HURHY TO LEAVE Prisoner Put Coming Gastronomic Joy Ahead of a Brief Period of Liberty. A colored man from Georgia had lived in Washington but a few years when he was arrested for some slight violation of the city ordinances. Upon hearing that the negro was in jail, the secretary of the colored Y. M. C. A. secured the services of a minister to go with him and sign the prisoner's bail bond. They reached the jail shortly before noon, and told the negro the object of their visit. In re sponse to the proffered kindness he said: "Mistah Johnsing, I sho is glad you all is gwine to git me out. but 1 wants you-all to fix it so I can't git out till late dis evenln'." Of course the two Samaritans were somewhat taken aback by this unus ual request. But a moment later they lost their breath when, in answer to the secretary's question, the Georgia negro replied in a whisper: "Well, sah, dey's a-gittin' dinnah ready, an' dey's cookin' greens; an' 1 sho would like to git some o' dem greens befo' I leabes dis place!"—Lip pincott's. THE CLEVER GIRL. "Your father ordered some wood from me this morning, miss. Do you know whether he wants hard or soft?" "Oh—er—not too hard." A Frencch Scholar. As William bent over he!' fair face he whispered: "Darling, if 1 should ask you in French if I might kiss you, what would you answer?" She, calling up her scanty knowl edge of the French language, ex claimed, "Billet doux." —Tit-Bits. Why Not? Aunt Spinsterly—l hope that your opinions uphold the dignity of your sex, Mamie, and that you believe that every woman should have a vote. Mamie—l don't go quite so far as that, aunty; but I believe that every woman should have a voter. —Sketch. Cause of Discord. She —So they do live happily togeth er, you say? He —No. It's the eternal struggle be tween religion and society. He is as straight-backed as she is straight front. —Life. SiVvvx^Kds awi EW 4 Swwva acts y