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PRESBYTHRIAN U\iO\. Injunction Applied for, and Courts May Prevent Action. Dm Moine*. lowa. May It (Special). -When the jenrral assemblies of the Presbyterian and the Caa-bcriand Presbyterian churches meet on Thurs day of tWs meek, the former In this city and •he lattsr in I>*catur. 111 . the officers and members of the CaaOsriar.4 Assembly may be enjoined from cwtinu'.nc their efforts to unite the two bodies. >r BppSeaUon has teen made before Judge Johns I, Decatsr. for an injunction, the petition claiming that the Cumberland Assembly has no right t|» de clare a union or die Cumberland <*hur.-h with an ot.W «par*t» and distinct organisation and pro vide tor a transfer of the property. TV., prayer of the petitioner, Is that th* OeiMn] Assembly be trained from voting on this union. Whether or not the courts Interfere with the proposed union, it is probable that there will be an exchange of vis itors by the two assemblies. The members of the joint committee- hay« become well acquainted in their nnmcroiis conferences, but there Is still a good .lee! of suspicion on the part of some of those mho Jiave act met their brethren from the other body Several able ecclesiastical lawyers upon th» com mittee of union and others called in for conference declare that every constitutional requirement has been met by both assemblies, and they ere of the opinion that no judge will issue an Injunction which would prevent the bodies from continuing their conferences and their voting if it shall be decided fry thfm that a vote at this session is necessary. The complainant* are members of the Cumberland Church, who are strenuously opposed to union, and, tni'.r)C that they cannot stem the stream of prog P.OMXXKXX hcures ix THE PRE SBY TERIAN C E ERAL assembly which meets | DES moines, I0WA ; THURSDAY k^ The H*t. T>r. JCoble, permanent clerk. Th« Rev. C. I*. Thompson, secretary Home Board. re» In the ecclesiastical courts, they have, like Paul of old. appealed to Caesar. The union of these churches has been strongly opposed, upon loth doctrinal and constitutional grounds. A repetition Of the legal controversy In the Presbyterian Church c* Scotland is fear* by some. Other Branches of th* Presbyterian Church are considering closer re lations, mm favoring federation and others cor porate union. The question of the federation of all evangelical churches Is also to be taken up at the meetings of the several assemblies this year. Next In importance to the . Cumberland Union question Is that of the new prayer book to 'be pre sented to the coming assembly by a committee of ■Weft] Dr. Henry van Dyke is chairman. When Dr. van Dyke was accused, a year ago, at the Wteons Assembly, of forcing a. liturgy upon the Church, he said: '"If I had to commit suicide I would d-> it in pom© ether way than by trying to impose a liturgy on the Presbyterian Church." The report submitted at that tim«! was discussed both long and earnestly, and at times with a good deal _»; wa#£Si". After PICTURE OF THE FIRST TEACHERS' CONVENTION OF THE CANAL ZONE SCHOOL SYSTEM EVER HELD ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. These are teachers of the Canal Zone educational system. In charge of the Supervisor of Public Instruction, Tom If. Cooke. ".pr-d discussion It was referred back to the committee, and is to be one of the "burning" ques tions this year. an Dyke pleads for liberty in Presbyterian ;•. <if rearing that there Is room in the Pres byterian Church for different types of worship. "The man with no form at all." he says, "Is all debt, end also the man with a new form for every week, and also the man who prefers an orderly form of service. As It Is now, a bewildering variety prevails in the arrangement In the different parts of the service. It 1b evidently difficult to a stranger within the gates of one of these Presbyterian churches to knew when to rise up and when to sit CHEAP. £rr=SCI7VE. PALATABLE. HUNGARIAN NATURAL APERIENT WATER. The Analysis shows that the richness of Apenta Water in natural saline aperient* renders it the safest and most remedial lax«i*e and purgative. READ THE LABEL. A WINEGLASSFUL A DOSE. ALSO SPARKLING APENTA (NATURAL APENTA CARBONATED), IN SPLITS ONLY. a letaMfc and Pleasant Aperient for Morning Use. Sole Exporters: THE APOLLINARIS CO., Ltd., London. down. To meet this difficulty the orders of ser vice are usually printed from week to week in the form of a time table and distributed in the pe*s on Sunday.** For the first time since the Southern branch sf the Church was formed, owing to the action of the assembly in supporting the administration, the color question threatens to cause a rift in the lute of perfect harmony. A year ago. at the de mand of the Cumberland oranch of the Church whose strength is mainly in the South and West' the presbyteries decided to allow the formation of separate presbyteries and synods, but they drew the line at the assembly; bo far they would yield, but beyond this was the "dead line." The negroes must get out of the presbyteries and synods, or the white people would form new ones, but within the four walls of the assembly all men are broth ers—theoretically. The hotel proprietor* of this city have declared that they will not entertain a colored man. even though he bo a commissioner to the assembly. Several of the colored commis sioners are highly educated, and no speakers are heard with greater Interest and accorded more marked attention than they. As the committees hold their meetings in thn hotels, and as much of the pleasure connected with the assembly centres around these informal conferences and still more Informal after dinner conversations, from which the negroes will be excluded by this hotel order, it may be that the more refined and sensitive colored members will stay away from the assembly rattier than Buffer the humiliation of being shut away from their white brethren. In connection with every meeting of the assem bly for the last five years special stress has been laid upon the evangelistic work carried on by the committee of which John H. Converse, of Philadel phia, is chairman and Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman sec retary. The success this last year has been marked. Judging from the reports received from New Jersey. New York, Connecticut, Texas. Ala bama and other states where Or. Chapman and The Rev. Dr. Chapman, secretary Evangelistic Com mittee. Th« Hew Dr. Moffat, retiring Moderator. his associates have held revival services. r>r. Chapman will speak at one of the popular meet ings, besides speaking at one or more of the busi ness session? of the assembly. "The Interior." one of the leading weekly papers of the denomination, in an editorial entitled "Pres ent State of Evangelism," suggests that the com mittee should begin to prepare the Church and itself for the ultimate withdrawal of the stimulus which it has applied. Certain abuses, it is claimed, have developed since the evangelistic activity was begun, five, years ago. These are: (1) the exagge rated claims of success that have been put for ward; (2) the boastfulnes6 with which the activities of the Church have been gloried in: (3) the exalta tion which has been Riven to the professional itin erant evangelists above the settled pastors; i4> the suspicion of avarice which some, evangelists have allowed to follow them; (i>) the songbook folly. The Rev. Charles Stelzle, whose university train- Inp was obtained in the Hoe Printing Pre&s Works in New York, and whose mother, he says, often went to bed supperless that his four sisters and himself might have dry rolls to eat. will arrange a popular meeting In the interests of laboring men. Mr. Stelzlo Is at the head of the Church and Labor Department of the Board of Home Missions, and as a labor union man he has secured the Indorse ment of his work by the American Federation of Labor. He has recently conducted shop campaigns in Chicago and Buffalo which have won the ap proval of pastors and 6hop owners, as well as of the worklngmen. Mr. Stnlsle speaks fearlessly to the representa tives of both classses— the Church and labor. In XEW-YOKK TVvTLY TRIBT'Nh;. zmo.npaV. may 14. i:nw> referring to the ' proper attitude recently of the Church toward socialism, he said: First-It must recognize the fact that there are some good things in socialism, for which socialism should be given credit. Second— lt must recognize the right of every man to be a socialist If he. Is convinced that socialism in morally and econom ically sound. Third— lt must Insist upon the fact that the Church does not stand for the present so cial system: It stands for no particular social sys tem. It accepts only bo much of the present system as is In accordance with the principles laid down by Jesus Christ. It Insists that the?** principles shall be applied to society In all its ramifications, but It believes that others besides socialists have both the brain and the heart to interpret these principles. Fourth— lt must prove that it is not of fering the Gospel to workmen as a mere sop. nor because it is afraid that some day they will bring on a revolution. It is offering the same Gospel, with all its privileges as well «s all of Its obliga tions, to their employers. The Presbytery of Cleveland and the Synod of Ohio will present to the Assembly an overture re questing the appointment of a committee to con sider the question of a consolidation of the boards of the Church. Since the foreign board «xerclscs withfn itself and for Its work functions pertaining to several other boards. it Is suggested that the eight boards be reduced to three— missions, foreign missions and ministerial Indemnity. This subject will meet with strong opposition In the as sembly and among the members and friends of the boards which it is proposed to absorb. Mormonism and temperance, like the poet's brook, will flow on again and will give the commissioners a refreshing hour when they come up for discus sion. A new feature of work has been undertaken this year, through the committee on work among seamen; Its members have been to Washington to BM the government officials in regard to more naval chaplains, and if new ones are appointed an effort will be made to get one or two more to keep the one Presbyterian chaplain in the corps com pany. The assembly will be- opened on Thursday morn ing in the auditorium, when the Rev. Dr. James H»* n*r. I>r. van Dyke, chairman of the Committee on the New Prayerbaok. D. Moffat. president of Washington and Jefferson College, will preach; in the afternoon his successor will be chosen. Among: the more prominent candi dates for the place are Hunter Corbett, c. veteran missionary in China; Dr. James M. Barkley. of Detroit; Dr. John F. Handy, of Jefferson City, -Mo., and Dr. Albert B. Marshall, of Minneapolis. In discussing the work of the Presbyterian Church last week the Rev. Murdoch McLeod, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, of this el:y, who is active In preparing for the coming assembly, em phasized its popular form of government He said: This Is illustrated by the. constituency and char acter j ln( j work of the General Assembly, -which meets in our city in a few days. It is a delegated body of seven hundred members, composed of on-i ministerial and one lay delegate for every twenty four ministers or major fraction of that number. It is tho purest form of popular government known to-day. There are no appointments by ;:ny one man or set of men. The people in each particular church are governed .-ui<l ministered to by officers «nd pas tors of thfir own choosing. The congregation elects its own ministers and elders, the old»;-s elect th«'ir own delegates to the Presbytery and the Prexby tery elects its commissioners to the General Assem bly. The Presbyterian Church is a Christian re public, in which each individual member has a sovereign right of franchise and appeal, and there fore has his own share of responsibility and priv ilege in the administration of all the affairs of tne Church, legislative and judicial - It la the work of the General Assembly to hear reports and pass resolutions in all the various de partments of the Church life. It enacts, repeals, modifies laws, hears appeals, complaints, references from Inferior courts, reviews all the records de cides all controversies respecting doctrine or dis cipline, and has general supervision of the entiro Church. In all this work of the assembly each member has equal rights and equal privileges, equal voice and vote. Reports show that the assembly ■which meets here will be composed of commission ers from every walk of life and every grade of society, from the full blooded Choctaw Indian to judges of the supreme courts, merchants and and mechanics, authors and Jurists, ministers and farmers. They will come from all parts of the country and distant parts of the earth; and all will nave equal rights as members of that body and representatives of their people. The Presbyterian system recognizes that a man Is a man, though he may be following the plough or tending sheep, and can so chosen and found worthy to be an elder in the Cnurchrand a commissioner to the assembly. ITALIAN LABORERS MAY STRIKE. • Through an Italian newspaper in Newark yes terday a committee representing about fifteen hun dred laborers on the Lackawanna Railroad be tween New York and Buffalo announced that there would be a strike this morning If the company failed to make good a promise, said to have been made some time ago, of an Increase In wages. Ths laborers want U6O a day instead of $1 SO, which they get now. The committee issued a statement, which was sent broadcast through the Italian colonies In Newark and Hobokcn. and It has aroused consid erable feeling among the foreigners. The rail road company, the committee claims, about a year ago. In order. to avert a strike, made certain promises which It appears now to have forgotten. The committee in appealing to all laborers to stana by them in the strike, wants the public to know that the controversy will be fought In a peaceful manner ami that there will be no attempt at vio loac* PANAMA PEDAGOGUES. American School System in Isthmian Canal Zone. [F"roin Th« Tribune Bureau.] Washington. May 13.— Tho teachers of the Pan ama Canal Zone have Just completed their first J. H. Converse, chairman Evangelistic Com mittee. Justice John V. Harlan institute, which Is reported to have been success ful, the teachers being much encouraged at tit* prospects for their work. It will probably prove a surprise to many people to learn that there are I.«K children of school age in the canal zone, of Which number 140 are white. 1,036 black and 760 brown. There are forty-two schools In operation "r in process of construction, and these will be ad ministered by the twenty teachers now on the zone, under the direction of the Supervisor of Public Instruction, Tom M. Cooke. Tills school system Is entirely distinct and separate from that of the neighboring Panaman Republic. Of the school children in the zone 883 can r«a« and write. 935 cannot read or writ**, and the re maining number can road but not write. Gov ernor Mngoon takes a personal interest In the schools. In addition to th<4 supervision which he would naturally give to then:, frr.ni the fact that Supervise]- <".K,ke is under the Governor's juris diction, and Jlr. Magnon appears to have imparted much of liis personal enthusiasm to the teachers' who are conducting their work with the greatest energy and fervor. Institutes or conventions w1!l be held In the zone biennially <nt least ;rom now on. and It is be lieved that these experience meetings will do much to further the efficiency of the school work. The organization is similar to that which was begun by Secretary Taft in th* Philippines. REAL CANAL DICKERS. Great Shovels in the Culebra Cut at Panama. IF"r«m The Tribune Bureau J Washington. May 18.— The Isthmian Canal «'om misslon has purchased sixty-three great steam shovels, one-ihird of which number nre already on the isthmus and one of which. No. 203, is shown in th* accompanying illustration. This is what is known as a ninety-five-ton shovel, and Its great "dipper" will bite owl and transfer to a waiting car five cubic yards ct earth and soft rock or simi lar material at one scoop. When all the condi tions are right, the earth naturally soft or artifi cially loosened and the supply of cars which carry the material sufficient, this great shovel can exca vate at the rate of four hundred or five hundred cubic yards an hour, although it is difficult to operate at that rate, not because of lack of capac ity of the shovel, but on account of the difficulty of carrying away the material as fast as *xra vated. This is accomplished by constructing a railway track alongside of that on which the Shovel is. Long trains of flat cars are then placed STEAM SHOVEL 203 IN CULEBRA CUT ON SUNDAY. The French dredgers never found such loads as this. These are the wives of two American engineers working at Culebra Cut. on the siding and filled as rapidly as they can be brought forward to receive their respective loads. When all are full the train is hauled away toward the dumping (round, while another train of empties takes Its place. In addition to the ninety -five- ton »hove>. the Canal Commission has purchased a dumber nt sev enty-ton shovels, which- can remove three cubic yards of material at a scoop, and a few forty-ton shovels, mere babies, which gouge out only on» and a quarter yards at a scoop. For a time great difficulty was experienced In getting the larger shovels to the Isthmus. It is customary in this country to put these shovels to gether on their own oars, and then haul them from the factory to the purchaser on their own wheels. This was Impossible In the case of shovels con signed to the Isthmus, as no vessel going there was large enough to take on board the complete shovel. In fact, no vessel could take on board even the whole platform on which a shovel Is mounted until the comparatively recent purchase by the govern ment of the two new steamships which now run between New York and Colon. Even now. how ever. it is necessary to set up these shovels* at the factory, run them on their own wheels to New York, dismount them there, take apart their cars and store them, piece by piece. In the ships, al though the platforms of the cars can now be car ried without taking them apart When the shovels reach Colon they have to be set up again, no In considerable task, and one that would be entirely obviated were the work being done In the United -State* - I THE GENITO3 Natural Alkaline Water Imported only in bottle* like this C5T* A certain cure for all disorders arising from Impaired Digestion Dyspepsia Coat ■ Rbf.CTallsn Avoid Imitations ! Analysis made bjrFraser6Co. : sthAve^N.Y, shows Syphon Vicftytobconly Croton water l charged with gas. 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We know tiey will interest you. ARNHEIM, Broadway & Ninth Street. DENIES IT IS A TRUST. General Asphalt Cam pan?/ Attacks Older Concerns. A statement was issued yesterday by the Gen eral Asphalt Company, which has headquarters in Philadelphia and Is commonly knoTvn as the Asphalt Trust, in which the company says that the "old asphalt trusts wrre the embodiment of fraud and financial rottenness." The statement says that the Genr-rnl Asphalt Company la not a trust at all. and contains a scorching criticism of the methods used In the promotion of the original asphalt companies by Amzl Lorenzo Barber and General Francis V. Greene. That part of the statement denying that the company is a trust, as it has been heretofore desig nated, follows: The General Asphalt Company Is not a trust, and does not seek to create a monopoly It be lieves that the best business policy is that of fair dealing with the public, and. acting upon this be lief, has en-led the era of collusive bidding for city contracts and consistently refused to enter com b.nations to limit bidding and raise prices The present company is in no way responsible for the misdeeds and misfortunes of the asphalt trusts which failed five years ago, and th» existing organization entirely repudiates the business and financial methods which wrecked the old companies and brought them into disgrace. The statement goes on to say that the so-called trust was Invited but refused to Join the Inde pendent Asphalt Association, formed in February last on the initiative of Mr. Barber for the pur pose of raising the price of asphalt paving. Con tinuing, the statement says: The General Asphalt Company was formed in 1908. and is in no way responsible for the mis fortunes and misdeeds of the two asphalt "com bines" it succeeded. The men who wrecked the asphalt companies in 1901 are not now connected with the General As phalt Company. Some of these men. particularly A. I*. Barber, are now in business only as com petitors of the General company, having succeeded by an alliance with President Castro of Venezuela in getting control of the product of the Bermudez Asphalt Lake. The companies which failed In ISM were the Asphalt Company of America and the National Asphalt Company. The General Asphalt Company bought the assets of both concerns in 1963. two years after the failures which ended their disas trous careers. This change of management of the asphalt busi ness was accompanied by a change of financial business policy which has had two important re sults-- » TUNT QUAUTJT CARPET CLEANSING By CMBpiess*d Alt. gsr.. a* our works or at your ~ut* by VAOTJ 'U '2V3C O-CLIEtS. Pl 4P 14 - lsca - Send far ttreslw, <£^~™ ff 326 718 AY. CHELSEA 5/ Sear atttl St. T. M. STEWART First— upbuilding of an Institution ssssMssßy sound. Second— great reduction in the cost of pstvsss; to the cities of the United States. The General Asphalt Company then VMS !■*• the alleged secret history of the Asphalt CooBBSBT of America and National Asphalt Company, tn which A. It. Barber figures prominently. The alleged methods of the promoters sssj ex plained In detail. A typical transaction says ii» statement "was the purchase of four snail com panies by A. 1* Barber, General P. V. Qreesw end associates for ms.ooo. These properties) war« th'a turned Into the Asphalt Company of Amorta* far 8.579.000 of collateral gold certificate*. On tote on» deal the promoters made, according- to the reesJXv'a estimate. t2.555.560. First of all tarn reorganisation squeezed out the water which had engulfed th* old company. 'High finance' and the attempt to crsstu a monopoly strong enough to 'hold up' ~""rn*T~*r? ties on their paving contracts were exclusively iSa policies of the two asphalt combines) which ■»«,; out of existence in 1901." Of the second combination th* General .• oh*.'; Company says: In December. 1801. owing- largely to owvtcsjsjs. talixation and the enormous promoters' profits of Barber and others, the Asphalt Company of Amer ica and the National Company, with bonds) and Stocks aggregating $53,000,000. went into the hands of receivers. The holding company was short about 5.500,(tt0 of its sinking fund and interest chars i«- Th« company declares that it was not responsi ble for the two older corporations; and says Cist it has a clean slate. Also It calls attention to tn* fact that A. I* Barber, who is dotes; bustr--* *.» the A. I* Barber Asphalt Company, Is in no war connected with It. and that the latter company is not the same, as the Barber Asphalt Parma; Com pany, a subsidiary company of th* General fjrjlWTtl Company. FUNERAL OP THE BEY OP TUNIS. Turds. May 13.-The funeral of Sldl Mahomet B HadJ. Bey of Tunis, took place this afternoon bs fore an enormous gathering of natives and Enro peans and th* French military and civil authorities. The crowds chanted dirges, and many of th* srslwi touched the garments of the dead Bey with ts* expectation of obtaining pardon for condemned relatives. VESUVIUS NOT YET QUIET. Naples. 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