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2 TELE WILMINGTON MESSENGER TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Il08. SHIPS SAIL European Squadron Or dered to Proceed to Beirut SWIFT ACTION Order Were Sent to Admiral Cotton to Go to Beirut to Support any De mand Made by the United State on Turkey In til Farther Informa tion in Received o More Decided Action Will he Taken Reported Attempt to Born the EuphrateN College IluildinK. Oyster Bay. X. Y.. August 27. Presi dent -Roosevelt tonight issued orders that the European squadron under command of Admiral Cotton proceed immediately to Beirut Syria, to be in readiness to suppor any demand made by the United State- on Turkey on ac count of the assassination of William C Magelssen. United States vice consul at Beirut. For several days President Roosevelt lias been following closely the develop ments of the situation in Turkey. With a view to considering the subject the more carefully the president and Sec retary of State Hay had arranged for a conference tomorrow at Sagamore Hill. The secretary is now en route to Oyster Bay. At the conference tomor row the president and Secreary Hay will consider the Turkish situation. In the absence of definite informa tion concerning the -sslnation ot Vice Consul Magelssen. the president will take no decided action bevond that already taken in ordering the European pquadron to Beirut. Washington. August 27. Prompt and vigorous action is being taken by the TJnited States government to secure the punishment of those persons implicated in the assassination of United States Vice Consul William C Magelssen at Beirut. Syria. Sunday last. Minister Irishman at Constantinople, who re ported the fact to the state department, has been instructed by the state de partment to demand a thorough inves tigation of the affair and the punish ment of those involved in the crime and the European squadron, consisting of three warship?, has been ordered to proceed immediately to Beirut to sup port the demands f the United States minister should this be found necessary. This latter measure was determined on as a result of conference which have been held over the telegraph and telephone wires, between the officials here during the day and the evening and the president at Oyster Bay The latter felt that no time should be lost 5n dispatching Admiral Cotton's squad ron to Turkish waters and he gave in structions to Acting Secretary Darling that immediate orders be given Ad miral Cotton to proceed at once. The president's determination to lose no time In getting the squadron to Beirut was also due in part to information re ceived by Acting Secreary Loomis of the state department tonight from the sklent of th"e Xinerican board of missions at Boston indicating that an attempt had been made to burn the Euphrates college buildings at Har poot. This dispatch said: "Information just received that an attempt has been made to burn the Euphrates College building . Conditions increasingly alarminsr. Great anxiety felt for the safetv of American citizens there." Acting Secretary Loomis tonight ca bled to Minister Leisham at Constnti nople to make immediate demands on the porte take adequate measures for the protection of all Americans at Beirut and to prevent any attack on the college buildings Admiral Cotton who was directed to day to hold his squadron in readiness to proceed at a moment's notice to Beirut .cabled the navy department as follows under date of Nice. France: "Cable just received. Machias at Genoa for coal. Brooklyn has seven days. San Francisco six and a half days coal at ten knots. C""inot ex ceed that speed win Machias. If squadron going west should coal at Marseilles. If east at Genoa. tSigned) "COTTON." Admiral Cotton's Instructions are to sail at once. It is estimated that the Brooklyn going full speed can reach Beirut within six days. Acting Secretary Loomis received a rather remarkable cablegram from Minister Leisham tonigtit irr which the latter stated that he had called at the Turkish foreign office at Constantinople this evening to inquire about the assas sination of the United States vice con sul and that the minister of foregn af fairs emphatically denied any knowl edge of th report. He also attempted to discredit it. The cablegram gave no other information. Acting under the instruction of the president that Admiral Cotton's squad ron be directed to nroeeed immediately to Beirut Mr. Darling cabled the ad miral to this effect at Nice, directing him to go to Beirut at once. The presi dent's instructions on this point will be carried out to the letter. Vardainan Will Probably he Nomi nated. Memphis. Term.. August 27. Returns received up to midnight continue to in dicate the nomination of James K. Vardaman for governor in the Missis sippi primaries. The majority as indi cated by the returns so far received, will be close. Critz men are admitting that the race will be close, bui are not admitting defeat yet. The vote will probably be somewhat lighter than in the first primary. Extorter Parks Taken to Sins Sin;?. New York. Ausrust 27. Samuel Parks. '-legata of tte housesmiths and bridgemens union, convicted of ex tortion, was taken todi to Sing" Sing prison. It was said at the district at- ; torney's office today that, as a result I an investigate n ini tne iaDor trou ble at least three employers will be prosecuted on p. charge of extoritlon. It was said that these men had aided and abetted Parks in extorting money from other contractors. EHCAMftlENT SUCCESSFUL GOVENOR RETURNS FROM RE VIEW AT ASIIEVILLE. Superintendent Joyner Still Speak ingSupreme Court Meet Next Week Deposit of Building Stone in the State. Messenger Bureau, Raleigh. N. C. August 27. Governor Aycock returned this morn ing from Asheville. He expressed him self as delighted with the encampment of the First regiment there. He says the people are very kind to the troops and that the latter e-oyed the en campment immensely. He spoke of the good behavior ns regards property, saying that on the boundry line of the camp was a tree full of red apples and that this had not been molested. State Superintendent of Public In struction Joyner will not return here from his speaking tour until the mid dle of next week. The educational campaign will not end this month, but will be ca-iAd on until frost. Prof. E. C. Brooks says it will be prosecuted with unabated vigor during the au tumn. He is now makin out a list of appointments of speakers for Septem ber. In this great educational cam paign, which began with the summer, over 500 speeches have been made. It is an even greater campaign than that last year. The supreme court meets next week. The dockets are not heavy. First dis trict cases will be called .Tuesday. There is no state case .from that docket. A very singular accident, and one which narrowly missed being fatal, oc curred yesterday afternoon in SwTift Creek township, near this city. A preacher rode up to the house of Mr. George Fort and left his horse un hitched in . the yard. The horse went to the well, one of the kind having two buckets and a milley. On the edge of the curb was a bucket full of water. This the horse shoved back into the well. Mrs. Ford was standing near the well and as the hurifo fell, sprang forward and seized chain, to. stop the bucket. In a second she was drawn hearforemost into the well, which is 25 feet deep and in which there is 10 feet of water, the walls beinf of rough stone. Her husband and the preacher hurried to her rescue. She was con scious and when they let some lines down to her. seized them and was drawn u Her head was cut and bruised by the ston- The examination of the deposits of building stones in this state by Messrs. Watson and La nay, the experts, will be continued. The examination of the deposits of marble is about completed. The quality of the building stones in this state is found to be high from a commercial point of view. Much is being done in this way of granite ship ments, from well known beds, but some new ones have been discovered. The best deposits of building stone are luckily located either immediately upon railway lines or very near them. It does not oear that any com plaints of increased assessments of real estate and building have been made at -Ints other than Raleigh. Here it seems that the complaint will be eliminated by the reducf-- of the tax rate, which it seems is now prac ticable. The citv will reduce its rate, it is stated, and the effort now being mrcie is to induce the county to also make a reduction. The first of the warrants for money for public school houses, lent by the state board of education, under the v law was sent out todr- The loans already approved aggregate about $45,000. Later others are to be ap proved. The number ' anplications for ad mission into the Central Hospital for the insane here increases almost daily. It is one of the questions which the legislature will have to face, as more room is an imperative necessity. Eat all Yon Want. Persons troubled wilh indigestion or Dyspepsia tan eat all they want if thev will take Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. This remedy prepares the stomach for the reception, retention, digestion and assimilation of all of the wholesome food that may be eaten, and enables the digestive organs to transform the same into the kind of blood that gives health and strength. Sold by R. R. Bellamy. WIXS TE2VMS CHAMPIONSHIP. II. L.. Doherty, of England, Defeats W. A. Lamed, of Ner Jersey. Newport, R. I., August 27. H. L. Do herty, of England, today defeated W. A. Larned, of New Jersey, and to his title as champion of England, added that of champion of the United States. The score was 6-0; 6-3 10-S in favor of Doherty and although in the last set the American player made a heroic stand, he was worn out by the British expert and failed to hold him on the ISth game. By defeating Larned today Doherty completed the clean sweep which he and his brother have made in this coun try this season. Between them they hold both the singles and the doubles championships of the United States and England, as well as having won the Davis international trophy without the assistance of any other player. IEALTH ASSURANCE The man who insure his life h. wise for his family. The man who insures his health Is wise both for his family and himself. You may insure health by guard ing it. It is worth guarding. At the first attack of disease, which generally approaches through the LIVER and mani fests itself in innumerable way? TAKE And save your health Mi H RACE A FLUKE Rival Yachts Fail to Cover Course Within Time Limit RELIANCE LEADS From the Start the American Cup Defender Pulled Away from the Challenger and Her Victory, Though Not an Official One, Was Very Decisive The Reliance Proved the Better Boat in all Con ditions and the American Sailors ! Handled Things With Great Skill. The .Next Race Will he Sailed Sat urday. New York, August 27. With Reliance less than a mile from the finish and Shamrock III, hull down on the hori zon, fully two miles astern of the gal lant defender, the fourth race of the present series for the America's Cup today was declared off, because of the expiration of the time limit of five and one-half huours, as happened on Thurs day last. Although, officially, it was no ' race, the defeat administered to the challenger was so ignominious that whatever lingering hope remained in the breasts of the friends of Sir Thomas' boat, vanished into thin air. Reliance's victory was in every way more decisive than that of last Satur- : dav. Out-sailed. out-oointed a:id i ! out-footed, it was a procession from start to finish. j The Herreshoff wonder beat the ! Shamrock hopelessly in the fifteen miles j of windward work, rounding the outer I mark 12 minutes and 30 seconds ahead ! of her, a gain in actual time of 11 min utes and 29 seconds, and down the wind She steadily increased her lead. The I real race of the day was not against j Shamrock, but it was seen in the excit- ing struggle of Reliance in the last half hour to reach the finish line before the regatta committee fired the gun which should announce the expiration of the time limit. Had the wind fresh ened twenty minutes earlier than it did the cup series would have ended to day with three straight wons for the defender, and Fife's famous light weather boat would have sailed back to Albions shores, one of the most dis astrously worsted challengers in the history of the cup contests. Fully as discouraging as the sailing qualities displayed by the challenger was the atrocious manner in which she was handled. The yankee skipper not only out-manoeuvred his rival in the ! spectacular battle for position at the start, as he has done every time they have met, but worst still for the down- ! hearted supporters of Shamrock. Cap : tain Wringe repeated his blunder of ; Tuesday. He crossed the line in the ; wake of Reliance, with a handicap of I sixty-one of the precious seconds for which Fife had sacrificed so much in sail spread for time allowance. Both boats, it is true, went over after the handicap gun, but where both are han- the excursion fleet. Even in the light air it was astonishing how the defen der slipped through the placid seas. With the gentle breeze distending the surface of her pure white sails and her stern crowded with tars to hold her head up, she moved along as serenely and peacefully as if in a dreamless sleep. Yet the gap between her and the challenger steadily widened until two miles separated them. Half an hour from home, when the spectators had abandoned any idea that the finish line could be reached in time, the wind sud denly freshened and Reliance came howjing down at a merry clip. But the wind had come too late and when still a few hundred yards from home, the gun on the tug Navigator boomed across the water. The excursion boats held on until she crossed the line to give her a rousing welcome and then scampered for New York. Sir Thomas who, heretofore, has always followed his champion into the hook, sent his steam yacht, the Erin ahead at full speed, as if to drown out the memory of the inglorious licking ;-. got today. The next race, which will be like the one attempted today, 15 miles to lee ward and return, will be sailed on Sat urday. New York, August 27 When the preparatory gun sounded at 10:45, the racers were sailing parallel to the start ing line and to windward of it, with Reliance to windward, where Barr wanted her. At the end of the line. Shamrock III, luffed and tried to force Barr about, but the Yankee would not yield and Wringe had to give it up and fill away again. They crossed to the opposite end of the line outside of the line, Shamrock III, dropping back and luffing to wind ward of Reliance on the way. That was the only time Barr was caught to leeward. Luffiing hard he sailed a cir cle around the challenger, blanketing her as the starting gun sounded, bore off around under the stern of the light Ship and luffed across the line, with a handicap of forty-one seconds. Shamrock III. followed, handicapped by one minute and forty-two second, one minute and one second of which was dead loss. The official starting time for both boats was 11:02 but their actual start as timed by the regatta committee was as follows: Reliance 11:02:41. Shamrock 11:03:42. Captain Wringe had lost the best part of his time allowance. The Re liance was leading by about three hun dred yards. Twenty-five minutes after the start, Shamrock had lost ground and as they lay about the same course, Eczema How it reddens the skin, itches, oozes, dries and scales ! Some people call it tetter, milk crust or salt rheum. The suffering from it is sometimes in tense; local applications are resorted to they mitigate, but cannot cure. It proceeds from humors inherited or ac quired and persists until these have been removed. Hood's Sarsaparilla positively removes them, has radically and permanently cured the worst cases, and is without an equal for all cutaneous eruptions. Hool's hiLXS are the bent cathartic. Price 25 cent. was a quarter of a mile astern of the American craft. At 1:02- when the turning mark was rising above the horizon' five miles away, Reliance appeared to be a good mile ahead of Shamrock and gaining. As she went about the mark, Shamrock was yet a mile distance and coming at a slow pace in a very soft wind. Reliance 1:55:10. Shamrock 2:07:40. Once heading homeward balloon-jib-topsails were broken out and spinnakers set to port on both. They dawdled along in exasperating fashion while an hour slipped away. Reliance was losing her race against time. A freshening breeze revived hope but Reliance was still a quarter of a mile from the line when the race was de clared off. Name Start. Turn. Fnish. Reliance L 11:02 1:55:10 4:38:45 Shamrock 111.11:02 2:07:40 (No finish SIR THOMAS STILL HAS HOPE. Sandy Hook, August 27. Sir Thomas Lipton speaking of today's affair, said: "I am willing to repeat what I said this morning. I still have hope, slight thought it is. Let us hope for a spank ing good breeze Saturday. I called my friends around me this afternoon and was about to express my regret at my failure when I happened to look at my watch. Then I reserved decision and I may never have to make that speech." FULL INVESTIGATION IXTO IRREGULARITIES IX INDIAN TERRITORY. Ordered by Secretary Hitchcock in IteHponNe to Request from the Dawer Comuiiion. Washington, August 27. Secretary Hitchcock of the interior department today announced his intention of hav ing a thorough investigation made into irregularities in Indian Territory by some one not connected with the de partment. This announcement was made in response to a request from the Dawes commission, as follows: Wide spread and continued newspa per criticism of most serious character involving integrity of our work and our fidelity; to duty inpels us to request that an immediate and searching in vestigation be instituted and that the president be informed of this desire We urge that there be assigned to the work of investigation on; whose repu tation for honesty, ability and "fearless ness is well established and whose find ings will be universally accepted." The secretary replied to the telegraph saying that as soon as the proper man could be secured he would toe sent to the territory with instructions to make a complete and impartial inquiry into conditions there. OBSERVE LABOR DAY GOVERNOR AYCOCK ISSUES A PROCLAMATION. Wants all People of the State to Show Their Appreciation of Those Who Toil. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C, August 27. Governor Aycock this afternoon issued a procla mation requesting all the citizens of North Carolina to observe Monday, September 7th "Labor Day" as a holi day, in recognition of the legislative act and with a view to the continuance and strengthening of the good will which exists between all the people of this state; and that in every way possible employers shall co-operate with the employes in a worthy recognition of the dignity of Labor and in the becoming observance of Labor Day. He requests that there be as far as possible cessation of all business, that places of business be closed so that employes may enjoy a day of rest and thanksgiving. The day ought to be one that is observed by all the people in expression of their appreciation of those who toil, for upon them rests the prog ress, prosperity, success and happiness of the state. SOUTH POTOMAC SQUADRON. Country Breathes Easier Says Sec retary Darling to Newspaper Men. Washington, August 27. From the newspaper correspondents at Widewa- ter, Va., who are watching Professor Langley's airship, Acting Secretary of the Navy Darling received this tele gram today: "The South Potomac composed of dispatch boats seeking to prevent the escape of Professor Langley's airship. extends hearty congratulations on the notable victory achieved today at Port land, Me., by our comrades who have gloriously upheld the cheerished tradi tions of the navy. In what a sad plight would our country be with only the army to defend it." In reply Mr. Darling dictated this unofficial dispatch, addressing it to th "Commander-in-chief of the South Potomac squadron. Care the Postmas ter. Widewater, Va, "With the support of the South Poto mac squadron, the country breathes easier. (Signed.) "DARLING." THE TRUST QUESTION MODERN IXDVSTR"- COMBINA TIONS SHOULD BE STAYED. Report of Committee on Commercial Law to American Bar AsMociat ion Address by Judge Colt Hot Springs. Va. August 27. At the morning session of the American Bar Asssociatlon today the annual address was delivered bv Labaron B. Colt, of Rhode Island. .United States judge from the first circuit. Judge Colt's subject was "Reason ablesness of the Law." "The common law is nothing but reason," was an opening sentence which was the key note of the pa per. Walter S. Logan, of New York, made a verbal report from the committee on commercial law. He commended the national bankrupt law and then dis cussed the trust question. He said it would have to be settled by the lawyers; if they did not. the dama gogues would. If combinations con tine, competition will cease, and com mercial jurisprudence will eventually be entirely changed. The committee, he said, had reached the unanimous conclusion that modern "(industrial combinations should be staved. Hon. Charles F. Manderson. of Ne braska, said the report of the com mittee had filled him with amazement, surprise and indication. He said tne report was calculated to rend the as sociation asunder and he resented the attempt to turn the body into a politi cal hustings. He sked that the re port be read. There was opposition to the motion and considerable contus ion. The convention agreed to hear the report at once and it was read by Chairman Loi and was very fully discussed. On the subject of trusts the report says this is the important question now before the American bar. The report adds: The modern com binations primary object is to control trade and commerce in plain articles of production and substitute a more or less perfect monoply in ths place of a more or less free competition. It changes entirely the basic principle of commercial relations between man and man, and if they are to continue to grow and develop in the future as in the past will render necessary most important changes in the principles of our commercial laws. Combination as an economic force is fast coming to take the place of competition. We are now having combinations of combina tions. The United States Steel Corpor ation is a combination of a dozen here tofore competing producers who them selves were combinations of still other producers, and these in turn often combinations of still others. It is estimated that the Standard Oil Company has taken, by contract or by force, the business of ten thoiisand corporations and merchants in all parts of the Union. The few pre3ent great railroad lines of the country have been made up by the combination of hun dreds of smaller lines, some extension of one another and others competing lines. The ambition of the shipping trust, perhaps the pet project of the great American combine, has been to con trol all the ships that sail the ocean. A hundred years ago there were hard ly two ships owned by the same indi vidual or corporation, and even fiftv years ago here was scarcely a ship owner, individual or corporation, that owned a half dozen ships. No one knows but that within the next ten years a greater man than J. Pierpont Morgan will arise who will combine into one organization all the industries of the land, so that the workman who works for wages can find but one pos sible employer and the purchaser of wares but one possible seller. The steps toward the formation of one in dustrial corporation which shall crowd out all other corporations and assumes to itself all the industries of the land have been already more than half taken. It is not so far to go from now to that end as we had to go to reach present industrial condition?. A monopoly is economically desira ble; that is for the monopolist. The United States Steel Corporation can produce no matter what it sells them for, its goods cheaper than the ele ment out of which the combination is composed ever produced them. The Standard Oil company is economically holy for it pays 40 per cent dividends. The sugar trust is economically correct for whereas the individual sugar re finers lost money on small capitaliza tions, the sugar trust pays big divi dends on a large capitalization. The railroad combinations are economical ly impregnable for they pay. If Mr. Morgan's shipping trust and Mr. Schwab's shipbuilding trust are failures, they are exceptions to the rule. We cannot, therefore rely on natural forces, on the laws cf supply and demand or on economic considera tions to limit the growth of modern combinations. If they are undesirable if the people of the American nation would be better off without them or with limitations put upon them, they must put these limitations on by the action of their legislatures, their con gress and their courts. The American bar must act and the Amercan Bar Association must take the lead. If the Northern Securities Corporation had been allowed to go on, the next thing to follow would naturally have been a United States Securities company, which would hold the majority of the stock of every railroad where the American flag flies. The report proposed the following remedes: 1. We can tax them to death; or if that is too radical a remedy we can tax them until their growth and en largement is impeded. There are con stitutional provisions requiring direct taxations to be uniform and in view of their provisions it is jwobably impossi ble to discriminate in the matter of di rect taxation against corporations holding large amounts of taxable property. There is, however, a fran chise tax imposed by most of the 6tates upon corporations at the time ol their, incorporation and annually there after. This franchise tax is in almost all states in some way graded so as to tax the small corporations at a higher rate than the large one. The first million pays a higher rate thai subsequent millions. In our judgment the gradations should be continued. but it should be a grading up instead ; of down. We would leave, perhaps, the first hundred thousand free and the first million cheap and raise the rate with each succeeding million. The United States Steel corporation now has a capitallzatiin of something over one thousand millions. The graduation stages might be slow and easy enough to please the most conservative and yet result in a taxation of ten per cent, upon the last hundred millions. How long would the United States Steel Corporation continue under that system of taxation? 2. We can compel them to render better and cheaper service. If the combination of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern railroads Js -j a great enough public disaster to have j warranted the attentnion which it has auraciea, it could have bee prevented much easier than by a hundred Sher man anti-trust laws by a single United States statute that required any corporation engaged in inter-state commerce to reduce its rates fifty per cent, to and from every point where competition has been prevented by combination, merger, common control or agreement. Congress can enact that any corporation or individual who en gages in inter-state commerce must . furnish its services or supply jts goods at lower rates wherever by any com bination, competition is prevented than where competition is left free. 3. If necessary, the state itself can enter the industrial field as a pro ducer and restore the force of com petition to its former supremacy by becoming itself a competitor of tht great trusts." The report is signed by all the members of the committee, consisting of Walter S. Logan, Henry Budd, Gardiner Lathrop, George Whitelock and John Morris, Jr. There was applause when Judge Logan concluded the reading of the report. Judge Ketcham, of Indiana re quested that Judge Hammond of Geor gia, be asked to speak. A resolution was offered by Mr. Busbee of North Carolina, providing, that the report be received and filed, accompanied by a note that it did pot express the views of the association. Judge Hammond spoke briefly endors ing the report, saying that it was a most encouraging thing that a body like the commerce committee had seen, fit to grapple with such a great ques tion as industrial combinations. William L. Royall, of Richmmond, Va., offered as a substitute for the re port a paper, the essential ideas of which wer that the injury done th public by trusts was through unreal competition that is, the giving away of goods to destroy weak rivals, or by selling goods below cost for the same purpose. Stop this, he said, and the trusts power for evil is ended. His remedy was that congress pass a law, establishing a corporation commission in each state or territory, on complaint of any person that his rival is trading dishonestly by giving away his goods, or selling them below cost, for the purpose of destroying the complainant, to fine the offending corporation to such an extent as will make it offer its goods for sale, in fact, instead of in pretense If it choses to tnter into trade. He found authority for this act in the commerce clause, and the four teenth amendment, but he recommend ed an amendment to the constitution giving congress power by appropriate legislation to suppress and prevent dis honest competition in trade. There was a very warm discussion over a motion to- table the report. There was great excitement on the floor and finally it was agreed the re port should be taken up at the night session. Dysentery Cured Without the Aid of a. Doctor. "I am just up from a hard spell of the flux" (dysentery) says Mr. T. A. Pinner, a well known merchant of Druramond. Tenn. "I used one small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and was cured without having a doctor. I consider it the best cholera medicine in the world." There is no need of employ ing a doctor when this remedy is used, for no doctor can prescribe a better medicine for bowel complaint in any form either for children or adults. It never fails and is pleasant to take. For sale by all druggists WASHINGTON PORCH PARTY. Enjoyable Entertainment Compli mentary to Miss Hill. (Special to The Messenger.) Clinton. N. C, August 27 The Wash ington porch party at Elliott las night given by Miss India Bumgardner. com plimentary to her guest. Miss Wini ford B. Hill, of Halifax. N. C was a perfect success and quite eclipsed any social event of the season. At 9 o'clock scores of voung eople assembled at the elegant home, those from Clinton having chartered a special train. Upon ascending the broad walk which leads through a spacious grove of stately oaks which were brilliantly illuminated by red, white and blue lanterns, the Visitors seemed to have reached a, fairy land. At the door Mrs. Mariort Butler.Miss Bumgardner and Miss H:1I received the guests, who were soon seated on the porch or on rustic seats or in hammocks in the yard. In the porch near ono end was erect ed a small cherry tree laden with cher ries. Each one present was siven one minute, after being blind folded in which to rwov- their three clip at the cherries. With the varied success of each the dinning went the mirthful round, Miss Mary Lane proving' the most successful cherry reaper, follow ed next by Mr. Jno. A. Ferrell. To those two were awarded the prizes, the former securing a" handsome box of crystalized cherries, the latter a beau tiful hatchet modeled after n George Washington.: hatchet. A souvenir flag was then drawn for by each one; numbers each bearing the name of a -resident were drawn for by the gentlemen a corresponding number each being the name of a president's wife were drawn for by the ladies. The couples were soon matched and marched from the porch through the reception hall to the re freshment room, which was decorated in the r - white "" blue ribbons. The elegant supper consisted of chicken salad, lamb croquets, ham. salmon salad, beaten bjscults, olives, sandwiches, cheese, wafers. saltineter and salted nuts, conserves, hot chocolate. Fruit punch was served in the reception hall by Miss Rena Lee. At 12 o'clock the young people left for their homes each believing he had enjoyed the evening more than any one else. To say that Miss Bum gardner is an admirable entertainer means only to translate Into words the sentiments '-'"h could b seen mir rored in the face of all r .Suicide Prevented. The startling announcement that a preventive of suicide had been discov ered will interest many. A run down system, or despondency invariably precede suicide and something has been found that will prevent that con dition which makes suicide likely. At the first thought of self destruction, take Electric Bitters. It being a great tonic and nervine will strengthen the nerves and build up the system. 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