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Who Gains Most By ? Marriage? m tty Harold Owen J S to the comparative tribulations of the married state, does the man -who marries gives no hostages to fortune beyond those provided by his collaborator? ls it for his own selfish creature corni orts that he bolts his breakfast, rushes for the : morning train; and stews in the city-ail to earn an income of which he personally spends only a fifth or a tithe? Are dressmakers' bills merely part of his unholy, selfish, joy? Once a man becomes a husband, has he nothing to bear and forbear? Has the compound word "henpecked" crept use lessly Into our language? Has no man's "individuality" been sapped or over whelmed by an overpowering personality in petticoats? Though it bo true that a wife has no "wages," is a husband allowed to husband his? Though a wife may be "a slave to her hasband," has the converse phrase no sanction from experience? And though a. mother be "a slave to her children," has a father no parental cares? Are there no households in which a father has to ?ink his "Individuality" and preferences and wishes-allow uis meals to be fixed, where he shall live, when and where he shall take his holidays, and even how long he shall remain In harness- "fer the sake of the children?" Is a ''de Toted husband" meTely a contradiction in terms? Is marriage always Deer and skittles for the husband, and never cakes and ale for the wife? And as to the comparative losses and gains of entering the marriage state, does the nian standing at the altar surrender nothing and incur no resposibi::ties rrom which he^would otherwise be free, and does the woman acquire nothing but the burden of fresh duties and a gold ring of asomewhat monotonous pattern? I apologize for the elementary and homely character of these interroga tories. But the fact that they trise out of a current controversy shows where that controversy is taking ns. And so I put the question, as a matter for timely discussion. Who gains most by marriage, man or woman? And that question cannot be answered without answering t?e deeper question: "In the Interest of which sex (apart altogether from the institution of home and the entity of family) is it most neojssary that the institution ot marriage should be preserved?" \p # *P & Put Your Heart in Your 1 J5? Work J?? Zy Jerome Flieshman J HE man who succeeds in any line of endeavor Is he who has worked whole-heartedly, whole-souledly, whole-selfedly for success. For this tkng called Success is simply the realization of ideals we have ?ermed, and striven to materialize. Don't 'have a "grouch" against the firm that supplies your bread and butter. Better work for ten dolors a week and work then be employed at twenty-five dollars a week and shirk. Coming down to the office ic the morning wita a desire to make the day pass as quickly as possible, and with the little real "York performed is abso lutely necessary, ls a dead sure vay to oblivion. There's no exhilaration that can equal the feeling a man sensates after a particularly hard job has been get out of the way, and got out of the way by being done right. The difference between enthusiasm and half-heartedness is the difference hetw?en a big, fat envelop on pay-day and a salary that gets smaller in tlie eyes of the man who ls always looking for, but never working for a raise. Enthusiasm! 'That's the thing that builds bridges and tunnels through mountains. One enthusiastic employe in an organization is worth an army of wishers for six o'clock and Saturday afternoon. And there can be no enthusiasm unless you are heart, head, and hand in 1 igue with your work. ? The man who views his dally work as part of his daily self is the man who.accomplishes things. The man who performs his duties in a spirit of lefs-get-rld-of-these-pesky-matters is the man you never hear of as making -progress. Pot your heart into your work.-Profitable Advertising. * * * * * wurt? ? T wi ?12 in brewery shares. The only stock that has gone down badly-there has been a great slump in dukes. They used stand rather well in the market, especially the Tory mar ket; but the Tory press has discovered that they are not .00?>X real value- They have been making speeches. Recently one specially expensive duke made a speech and all the Tory press said: "Weld, now, really, is that the sort of thing we are spending ?250,000 a year upon?" Because a fully equipped duke costs as much to keep^up as a couple of Dreadnoughts and they are just as great a terror, and they last longer.. So long as they were contented to be mere idols on their pedestals, pre serving that kind of stately silence which becomes their rank and intelligence, all went well, and the average British citizen rather looked up to them and ?aid to himself, "Well, if the wonrt comes to the worst for this old country, -we (have always got the dukes to fill back Upon." But then came the budget, and they stepped off their perch. They have been scolding like omnibus driv ers purely because the budget cart has knocked a little of the gilt off their stage-coach. The Dream Book o/^^ Modern Science $ Ey H. Addington Bruce. ^ ODERN science is writing a dream book of its own to take the place of the unauthorized and mischievous manual in vogue among th? superstitious. When completed it will be a remarkable production, wonderfully interesting and thoroughly practical and helpful. Science, of course, does not assert that all dreams aro significant. A good many dreams-and especially the com moner dreams of failing, Hying, and the various forms of nightmare-merely testify to some trifling disturbance or the physical organism of the dreamer. This has long been recognized, and the text-books.aro full of anecdotes showing how dreams may be made to order, so to speak. One experimenter, by tickling a sleeper's nose, caused him to dream that tar was being plastered over his face and then violently pulled off, causing Agonizing pain; uncovering his knees gave him a dream of traveling in a stage-coach in the dead of winter and suffering frightfully from the c?W ; put ting a hot-water hettie to his feet made him dream that he was walking over the lava of an active volcano. But while appreciating the inconsequential character of dreams Induced hy finch means, as also by indulgence in late suppers, the cramping of a muscle through lying too long in one position, or the slipping off of the bed clothes, science insists that there 'are times when even the most trivial of dreams may be profoundly portentous. A Practical Affair, "Anything romantic about their wed ding?" "Not a thing. She caa cook, and he feas a job."-Louisville Oourior-Jc ar xtaL A New York woman has patented a corm ter feit note detector on the prin cipie of the old style stereoscope, a frame to hold the note passing In front of a strang magnifying lens. What Will lt Teach? What is this proposed Massachusetts college which, if the Boston Globe is rightly informed, "will have neither a baseball nor a football team?" Pray, what will it teach, and how does it ex pect to make a living?-New York Sun. Professor Wassermann of succeeded in finding a serum cums ptomaine poisoning. Berlin, which MESSAGE ON CONSERVATION Taft Urges issuance of $30, OCO,000 in Bonds. SOME NOTEWORTHY REFORMS Importance of Conserving Water ways, Forests, Public Lands Set Forth By President Taft. Washington, D. C., Special.-Presi dent Taft last Friday sent to Con gress a special message on Conserva tion of our t National Resources/ which, in part, is as follows: To the Senate and House of Rep resentatives : In my annual message I reserved the subject of the conservation of our national resources for discussion in a special message, as 'follows : In several departments there is presented the necessity for legisla tion looking to the further conserva tion of our national resources, and the subject is ono of such importance as to require a more detailed and ex tended discussion than can be en tered upon in this communication. For that reason I shall take an early opportunity to send a special mes sage to Congress on the subject of the improvement of our waterways; upon the reclamation and irrigation of arid, semi-arid and swamp lands; upon the preservation of our forests and the re-foresting of suitable areas; upon the" re-classification of the public domain with a view of separating from agricultural settle ment mineral, coal, and phosphato lands and sites belonging to the gov ernment bordering on streams suit able for the utilization of water power. In 1860 we had a public domain of 1,055,911,283 acres. We have now 731,354,081 acres, confined largely to the mountain ranges and the arid and semi-arid plains. We have, in addition, 368,035,975 acres of land in Alaska. Noteworthy Reforms. Among the most noteworthy re forms initiated by my distinguished predecessor were the vigorous prose cution of land frauds and the bring ing of public attention of the neces sity for preserving the remaining public domain from further spolia tion, or the maintenance and exten sion of our forest resources, and for the enactment of laws amending the obsolute statutes so as to retain gov ernmental control over that part of the public domain in which there are valuable deposits of coal, of oil, and of phosphate, and. ;n addition there to, preserve control, under conditions favorable to the public, of the lands along the streams in which the fall of water can be made to generate power to be transmitted in the form of electricity many miles to the point of its use, known as "water power" sites. Land Frauds. The investigations into violations of the public land laws and the prosecution of land frauds have been vigorously ? continued under my ad covered hjr the withdrawals made prior to that date. Should Meet Conditions. The present statutes, except so far as they dispose of the precious met als and the purely agricultural lands, M*e not adapted to cary out the ?nodern view of the best disposition *>f public lands to private owner ship, under conditions offering on the one hand sufficient inducement LO private capital to take them over for proper development, with restrictive conditions on the other which shall secure to the public that character of control which will prevent a mon opoly or mis-use of the lands or^heir products. The power of the Secre tary of the Interior to withdraw from the operation of existing sta tutes tracts of land, the disposition of which under such statutes would be detrimental to the public interest, is not clear or satisfactory. This power has been exercis^l in the in terest of the public with the hope that Congress might affirm the ac tion of the Executive by laws adapt ed to the new conditions. Unfor tunately, Congress has not tims far fully acted on the recommendations of the Executive, and' the question as to what the Executive is to do is, under the circumstances, full of' difficulty. It Beems to me that it is the duty of Congress now, by a statute, to validate thc withdrawals which-have ueen ma*^1 . 'he Secvc tary of the Inte-ioi a"' I." !''-.> den;:, and to authorise th* Secretary of the Interior temporarily to with draw lands pending submission to Congress of recommed?tions as to legislation to meet conditions or emergencies as they arise. With respect to the public land which lies along the streams offering opportunity to convert water-power into transmissible electricity, anoth er important phase of the public-land question is presented. There are valuable water-power sites through all the public land States. The opin ion is held that the transfer of sov ereignty from the Federal govern ment to the territorial governments as they become States, included the water-power in the rivers except so far as that owned by riparian pro prietors. I do not think it necessary to go into a discussion of this some what mooted question of law. It seems to me sufficient to say that the man who owns and controls the land along the stream from which the power is to be converted and trans mitted, owns land which is indispen sable to the conversion and use of that power. I cannot conceive how the power in streams flowing through public lands can be made ,-.-:--r available at all except by using the land itself as tbe site for the con struction of the plant by; -which the power is generated and converted and securing a right-of-way there over for tr?- mission lines. Under these cordtions, if the government owns the adjacent land-indeed, if the government is the riparian own er-it may control' the use of the water-power by imposing proper con ditions on the disposition of the land necessary in the creation and utili zation of the water-power. To Thwart Monopoly. The development in electrical ap pliances for the conversion of the water-power into electricity to be transmitted, long distances has pro gressed so far that it is ?no longer problematical, but it is a certain in ference that in the future the power of the water falling in the streams to a large extent will take the place of natural fuels. In the disposition of the domain already granted, many water-power sites have come under absolute ownership, and may drift in to one ownership, so that all the water-power under private ownership shall be a monopoly^ If, however, the water-power sites now owned by the government-and there are enough of them-shall be disposed of to private persons for the investment cf their capital in such a way as to pre vent their union for purposes of mon opoly with other water-power sites, and under conditions that shail limit the right of use to not exceeding thirty years with renewal privileges and some equitable means for fixing terms of rental and with proper means for determining a reasonable graduated rental, it would seem en tirely possible to prevent the absorp tion of these most useful lands by a power monopoly. As long as the government retains control .and can, prevent their improver union with other plants, competition must be maintained, and prices kept reason able. Drainage of Swamp Lands. A work of the utmost importance to inform an dinstruct the public on this chief branch of the conservation of our rpsources is being carried on successfully in the Department of Agriculture; but it ought not to escape public* attention that State action in addition ic that of the De partment of Agriculture (as for in stance in the drainage of swamp lands) is essential to the best treat ment of the soils in the matter above named. Dry Farming. The act by which in semi-arid parts of the public domain the area of the homestead, has been enlarged from 160 to 320 acres has resulted most beneficially in the extension of "dry farming," and in the demon stration which has been made of the possibility, through a variation in the character and mode of culture, of raising substantial crops without the presence-of. such . a supply of water has been heretofore thought to be necessary for agriculture. But theer are millions of acres of completely arid lands in the public domain which, by the establishment of reservoirs for the storing of water and the irrigation of the lands, may be made much more fruitful and pro ductive than the best lands in a cli mate where the moisture oomes from the clouds. Congress recognizes the importance of this method of artifi cial distribution of water on the arid lands by the passage of the recla mation act. The rjror.fifl?'s nf tlio miK ._e,-- ... .vo cuiyivy, io con? struct the works. Recommends $30,000,00 in Bonds. One of the difficulties which has arisen is that too many projects in view of the'available funds have been set on foot. The funds available un der the reclamation statute are in adequate to complete these projects within a reasonable time. And yet the projects have been begun; set tlers have been invited to take up and, in many instances, have taken up, the public land within the pro jects, relying upon their prompt completion. The failure to complete the projects for their benefit is, in effect, a breach of faith and leaves them in a most distressed condition. I urge that the nation ought to afford the means to lift them out of the very desperate condition in which they now are. This condition does not indicate any' excessive waste or "any corruption on the part of the Reclamation Service. It only indi cates an over-zealous desire to ex tend the benefit of reclamation to as many acres and as many States as possible. I recommend, therefore, that authority be given to issue, not exceeding $30,000,000, of bonds from time to time, as-the Secretary of the Interior shall find it necessary, the proceeds to be dpplied to the com pletion of the projects already be gun rind their proper extension, and the bonds runnin0 ten years or more to b* Laken up by the proceeds of returns to the . reclamation fund, which returns, as the years go on, will increase rapidly in amount. There is no doubt at all that if these bonds were to be allowed to run ten years, the ?proceeds from the public lands, together with the ren tals for water furnished through the completed enterprises, would quickly create a sinking f ur?d large enough to retire the bonds within the time specified. I hope that, while the stat ute shall provide that these bonds are to be paid out of the reclamation fund, it will be drawn in such a way as to secure interest at the lowest rate, and that the credit of the Unit ed States will be pledged for their redemption. I urge consideration of the recom mendations of the Secretary of the Interior in his annual report for amendments of the reclamation act, proposing ether relief for settlers on these projects. The President here devotes much space to inland waterway improve ment to the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers. Our Forests. The forest reserves of the United States, some 190,000,000 acres in ex-' tent are under the control of the De partment of Agriculture, hvith au thority adequate to preserve them and to extend their growth so far as that may he practicable. The impor tance of the maintenance of our for ests cannot be exaggerated. The pos sibility of a scientific., treatment of forests so that they shall be made to yield a large return in timber with out really reducing the supply has been demonstrated in other countries, and we should work toward the standard set by them an far as their methods are applicable to our condi tions. Upwards of 400,000,00 acres of Corest land in this country are in private ownership, but only 3 per cent, of it is being treated scientifi cally and with a view to the main tenance of the forests. The part played by the forests in the equaliza tion of the supply of water on water sheds is a matter of discussion and dispute, but the general benefit to be 'derived by the public from the extension of forest lands on water sheds and the promotion of thc growth of trees in places that are now denuded'and that once had great nourishing forests, goes without say ing. The control to be exercised over private owners in their treat ment of the forests which they own is a matter for State and not na tional regulation, because the:;c is nothing in the constitution that au thorizes the Federal government to exercise any control over forests within a State, unless the forests are owned in a proprietary way by thc Federal, government. For reasons which it is not neces sary' here to state, Congress has seen fit tor order an investigation into the Interior Department and the Forest ^Service of the Agricultural Depart ment. Thc results of that investiga tion are not needed to determine the value of, and the necessity for, the new legislation which I have recom mended in respect to thc publie lands and in respect to reclamation. I earnestly urge that the measures rec ommended bc taken up and disposed of promptly, without awaiting the investigation which has been deter mined upon. '. WILLIAM H. TAFT. To Aid of Cotton Growers. London, Special.-The. British ! government came to the aid of the cotton growers -when Lord Creme, the Colonial Secretary, announced that the government would grant I $50,000 annually for three years to the British Cotton Growing Associa j tion in aid in increasing production. Aged Tar Heel Dead. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.-Rev. Daniel Glass, 101 years old, died here. He was a Baptist minister, and a native of Yancey county, North Carolina. Calhoun Statue March 12. Washington, Special.-The House agreed to a resolution offered by Representative Finley of South Caro lina, fixing March 12 as the date of the ceremonies for the formal ac ceptance by Congress of the statue of John C. Calhoun. / Say Early is "Probable Leper." New York, Special.-John R. Early upon whose case medical men have been divided is in a reality leper, according to a decision rendered by a special committee of the Society o? Medical Jurisprudence. Boston Y. M. C. A. Building Burns. . Boston, Special.-The Boston ?bung Men's Christian Association ?uilding. at the corner of Boylston nd Berkley streets in the Back Bay istrict, has been destroyed by fira f unknown origin, entailing a loss of more than $200,000. An advance in westbound trans Atlantic rates to the United States has been agreed upon. Leader of Ku Klux Dead. Montgomery, Ala., Special.-Judge John Calvin Reed, of Atlanta, Ga. noted as a lawyer, author and scholar, died here, aged.73. He was active leader in the Ku Klux Clan. Creditors Will Get Part. Brussels, By Cable.-The Princess Louise's share of King Leopold's fortune is $1,200,000, of which credi tors will get $800,000. KETVS? GLEANINGS. Pr?sidant Tatt declared war on the Tnsurgents in Congress who oppose his policies. An insurance company announced Its readiness to assume liability for all risk to aviators. The British Parliament was dis solved a-d a nsw OTK ,vas summoned to meet February 15. Secretary Dickinson, of ihe War Department, called nr. President Gomez, in Havana. Cuba. The Nev.' York Zoological Society started to rajs* a fund or st.OOO.OOO as a permanent endowment. T3jr*illift'oTs at the International Au tbtnohlle Show reported heavydetail and derlors' orders for new models. Mr. Cnlzpr ofTfred in tah House, at TVa-hinrtnri, a ;!oin'. resolution lo rec oin Ize Estrada as President of, Nicar agua. The onfttifnr of the tax honks for 1910 showed that Mrs. John's. Ken nedy was New York City's richest T.-oman. Meal er rn1 [Ernest H. RhsckMon announced that he had decided to mn>p another trip to the Antarctic regions. * Governor Noel, of Mlssissinn'. has rained as unrollItutional a hill pro viding for judicial nominations at primaries. Theiaywen's missionary movement held a campaign in Manhattan to in terest business nrm in the project of world evangelization. "Annulment cases ar? upcoming so frequent they resemble trial mar v'airps," said Justice Dowling, of New York, grating the application of a couple still under age. Mayor Gaynor, of New York, in structed his new Tax Board to pive I juslicp to pll in makin?: asspssments, j to find real value?, to avoid favorit ism, to ignon* politics and to dismiss any deputy doing wrong. - I The man who has no piety to spare, remanks the Chicago Tribune, has none to save. RURAL MAIL DELIVERY Amount of Mail Matter Has Increas ed Rapidly. ^ Washington, Special.-An increase of 96 per cent, in the amount of mail handled on rural free delivery routes during the fiscal year ended June 30 last, over the fiscal year of 1905, is shown in the annual repvirt of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General P. V. DeGraw, which was trans mitted to the Postmaster-General. Commenting upon this fact, Mr. De Graw says: "This remarkable increase is con clusive evidence that the institution of rural delivery has enlarged the amount of the maiLi handled and therefore increased the revenues. This is true, although 45 per cent, of the bulk of the mail on rural routes is second class matter, as the increase applies to all 'lasses of mat ter, especially to letters and postal cards, the latter due to. the enormous use of souvenir or picture post cards. ' ' . The total expenditure for rural free delivery was $35;6o"L.034, an in crease of $1,259,095. Good roads havp been promoted by the Postoffice Department in many ways. The report says: "There has been unprecedented improvement of the condition of roads traversed by rural carriers, due to the intelligent and well-directed interest of .qoost masters and carriers." At the dead' letter division the re ceipts of mail matter for the year aggregated 11,997,325 pieces, a de crease of 1,147,947 from the pre ceding 12 months. Of this matter 1,674,788 pieces were of foreign origin and 591,604 pieces were ad dressed to foreign countries and re turned as unclaimed. Of the total number of letters and parcels re ceived 7,535,044, or 62 per cent. I were returned or forwarded.. It w."s necessary to open 9,950,507 letters and parcels to ascertain a clue to the sender. The revenue derived from the dead mail matter for the year amounted to $29,234. Fine and Imprisonment. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Superinten dent D. M. Vining and Guard Peter Cornet, of the city stockade, who were found guilty by a jury of in humanly beating a negro prisoner, have been sent up for contempt of court, and fined. Vining's sentence was $150 fine .or six months' im prisonment and Cornet's $100 or six months. The council committee which has been investigatiug the charges of cruelty and abuses at the city stockade reported to the council) that many of the assertions were substantiated. Sweping charges were recommended. Taft on Cost of Living. Washington, Special.-President Taft expressed to Senator Elkins, of West Virginia, his hearty approval and support of the proposed investi gation into the high cost of living authorized by a resolution Senator Elkins has presented in the Senate. Secretary Nagel of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor has promised lo. consider the creation of a bureau for the investigation of the conditions of workingmen and work ing women in the United States. Big Fire at Elk Park. Bristol, Tenn., Special.-Elk Park, a town of 1,200, in Mitchell county, North Carolina, was swept by a de structive fire Thursday. Twenty buildings in the center of the town are in ashes, with an estimated loss of $75,000. Very little insurance on the property. The town is without fire protection. Work Stopped; Many Idle. Tampa, Fla., Special.-A special from Key West states that work on the Florida East Coast extension from Miami has ceasr-d, and that city is overrun with idle workmen, most of them ignorant foreigners and that some of them are practical ly penniless. Messages of Former Presidents. Washington, Special.-The House has decided to destroy about ten tons of old and worthless documents, con sisting of old President's messages, etc., which are found useless to keep. Fortification Appropriation Bill. Washington, Special.-The House has passed the fortification bill, car rying $5.617.200. Statue of Gen. Lew Wallace Unveiled. Washington, D. C., Special.-In the presence of a distinguished gathering the statue of Gen. Lew Wallace, famous soldier, diplomat and author, and a favorite son of Indiana, was unveiled in Statnarv Hall at the Capitol. Plan to Raise $2,000,000 Fund. Washington, Special.-A plan was launched at the meeting of ;:he hoard of directors of Geor^o Washington University recently to raise $2.000, 000 as an endowment fund within three years. Prices of Shoes Will Soon Go Up. New York, Special.-Trade con ditions demand increase in the rela tive price of shoes. Retailers prob ably will increase their prices from 10 to 12 per cent, before the close of the present year. This in effect is what President John H. Hanan said as he addressed the sixth annual convention of the National Associa tion of Boot and Shoe Manufac turers. Mrs. Morse Begins Figkt. New York, Special.-Lying on a counter next to the register at the Hotel St. Regis is a petition to the President ?sking for the relea?e of Charles W. Morse, the banker, from the Federal prison at Atlanta. Many have signed it. $60,000 Cotton Burned. New Orleans, La., Special.-Eigh teen hundred bales of cotton, valued at $60,000 was destroyed in a fire in a compress here. m IN CONGRESS insurgents Expected' te Keep up Hostilities.. UNREST EXTENDS TO SENATE. Fate of Several Administration BiL?s. One of tlie Livest Topics With Nat ional Law-Makers/ Washington, Special.-No. matter how satisfactory an arrangement is made for the selection of the joint committee to investigate the Bal linger-Pinchot controversy, the'insur gent fight promises to occupy a prom inent place in the congressional situ ation during the week. Dissentions between the insurgents- , and regulars in the House have oc cupied the center of the stage for a fortnight. The bickerings have even spread" to the Senate wing of the Capitol and legislation there has been at standstill. That there will be a lull in bostili ' ties in the House as soon as the Bal linger-Pinchot committee is appoint ed is concealed, but those who are anxious that legislation may proceed, without delay or not, over sanguine of their efforts to keep the insurgent row in dieek. They look for renew ed outbieaks whenever any question affecting the Cannon rulers is inter jected into the -?roceedings. Seeon 6L interest to the discussion of" the battle between the Republican or goniza'ion and the insurgents in the House is the gossip in both brancheis. of Congress as to what wil be the fate of the several administration bills to put into force what are known as Taft policies as differentiated from Roosevelt policies. These embrace the program for the amendment of" thc interstate commerce laws, the Sherman anti-trust law, and, carrying' into effect measures for the conser vation of natural resources.' Little opposition has been heard to? the administration measures for the strengthening of the interstate com merce act. On all sides it seems to be conceded that some such measure as is proposed by Mr. Taft will be enacted. Several hearings of more than or dinary interest are scheduled to take place, or at least begin, during the week. There will be the consid eration of ibo interstate commerce bills at both ends of the Capitol, the Mann canal bill before the Senate committee on interoceanic canals, and the meat inspection question beforo the House committee on agriculture. Another interesting situation will be raised in the House committee on ex penditures in the Interior Depart ment by Representative Hitchcock of Nebraska, who will endeavor to sub stantiate the charges made by him in'the House of extravagance in the* conduct of land offices. GARLINGTON GUILTY? Former Oincsr of Seminole slffj | Company Sentenced to HarB || Columbia, S. C., Special.^H pj| Prince Saturday sentenced JOHBBM Garlington and James Stobo Y|BjfflB secretary and treasurer for |9D defunct Seminole ' Securities who were tried in five counts for con- , spiracy and fraud in connection with their manipulation of $55.000 of the assets of the company with fraudulent itnent; the former to three years and the latter to one yenr on the. chain gang or State penitentiary. Bail has been granted pending appeal, at $5, 000 each. Shoe and Lsather Men Meet. Boston, Special.-Saturday more than 200 men representing the Shoe Wholesalers' Association, met here to consider whether the trade is real-y ly confronted with a radical advance in leather and shoe prices. President' J. Iv. On? of Atlanta, Ga., presided. Smallpox Close3 Theatres. High Point, N. C.-A Special says the health authorities of this city have ordered that all places of wor ship and theatres, motion picture shows be closed from the 15th to the 24tb, to prevent the spread of small pox. Twelve cases reported, but the situation is well in hand. No crowds will be allowed to congregate at the depot or on street corners. Day schools will not be closed. The Hookworm Conference. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-With three members of the Rockfeller commis sion for the study of the hookworm disease in attendance, more than two hundred prominent physicians, life insurance officials and representatives of civic and commercial organizations gathered in Atlanta Tuesday for thc opening session of the first national confeemce called fer the study of the hookworm. The conference was in session two days and a permanent organization, to be knowu as :<The Southern Health Conference" was perfected. Notable Meeting This Week. Washingt on, Special.-Representa tvics of every phase of the complex citizenship of the Uuited States as sembled in conference Tuesday and Wednesday, under auspices of the National Civic Federation, at the Ba lasco theater for the purpose of de vising ways and means to bring about uniform laws relating to marriage and divorce, child labor and pure food and drugs. Snowfall 14y2 Inches. New York. Special-Nine lives were lost and six persons injured in one of the worst storms that ever visit ed New York City. Thc total snow fnll at 10 o'clock Saturday morning was 14 1-2 inches, second only to the blizzards of 1S99, when 15 1-2 inches fell, and of 18S8. in which ' Senator Roscoe Conklin lost his life, when 20.9 inches fell. Eighteen thousand men have been put to work clearing thc streets, and it is estimated that the cost of removal will exceed $800,000.