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n. THE WILMINGTON MESSEGE TUESDAY f MARCH .29. 1004 5 nnRnnoi5 is the same good, old-fashioned medicine that has saveJ the lives of little children for the past 6o years. It is a med icine made to cure. It has never been known to fail. If your child is sick get a tot tie of TREY'S VERZSIFUGE FK1E TONIC FOR CHILDREN Do not take a substitute. If your druggist does not keep it. send twenty-five cents in stamps to QaiUmore, 31 cl. and a bottle will be mailed you. Sensation Sprung in the Trial of Finch.! (Continued front Firxt Pace.) books, and added that the law was the only species of gambling: left which was not indictable. There is abundant authority for the appointment of a re ceiver. This suit was for the purpose of effecting a lease, of this road. The road Is not insolvent, no one is. lie submitted that the case against Finch should be dismissed. Chief Justice Clark asked if there was any furthe, testimony and wa3 told none. f He then said: "After attentively listening to the evidence and the able argument of .counsel, the court is of the opinion that there is probable cause established, which requires the defendant shall give bond for his ap pearance at the next term of Wake Superior Court, to answer the charge set out In the warrant. The court cannot let pass unmentloned the inti mations which have been made in the evidence and in the argument that there, has been private arrangement. by which if the defendant is bound over to court the solicitor is not to send In a bill and this case is to be allowed to die .upon the docket. If there be any truth in any such state ment, this proceedings would be a sham and a make-believe to deceive the public. This court hasjno knowl edge upon this subject and has not Veen and could not possibly be a par ty to it. if there were such arrange ment. The court cannot but believe that the solicitor will do his duty when the case reaches his jurisdic tion and if he does not. he Is respon sible to the people whose servant he Is and not to this court. This court at least will do its duty." Judge Clark asked the attorney general what bond he would ask. At torney general said $2,000. the same as lie Bee's. Judge Clark then held Finch In a $2,090 justified bond, to appear at the Wake Superior Court. At this point Solicitor Armistead Jones asked leave to make a state ment, and he said there was no ar rangement about this case with any body, so far os he was concerned. At 6 o'clock the hearing ended and Finch went out to get his ball. He gave Chief Clark Moody, of the state treas ury, as his bondsman. ELECTION IX ARKANSAS. Results of Irimarics Claimed by Both s Parties. Little Rock, Ark., March 2C. Re turns have been coming in slowly to night nd the result of the Demo cratic primary election today for state officers and Congressmen cannot be conclusively announced yet. At the headquarters of both candidates for Governor, confident, claims are made On the early returns from the lirst Congressional district. Representative R. ti. Macon leads his opponent, Eu gene Parrish. Robert L. Rogers xs ahead in the race for attorney general and early indications point to his nomination. The race for chief justice of the Supreme Court is close and Drobably will have to be settled by the demo cratic State convention. . The Louisiana Purchase exposition is now ready for exhibits. The man agers ask exhibitors to hurry forward their goods, especially those of a do mestic nature. Hi Name Witcn Hazel. The name Witch Hazel is much abused. E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, are the inventors of the original and only genuine Witch Hazel Salve. A certain cure for Cuts, Burns. Bruises, Eczema, Tetter, Piles, etc. There are maay counterfeits of this salve, sorat of which are dangerous, while they are all worthless. In buying Witch Hazel Salve see that the name F C. DeWitt & Co.. Chicag, is on the box and a cure is certain. Sold by R. R. Bellamy. TRINITY COMMENCEMENT. Program for the Week Announced t List of Speakers. (Special to The Messenger.) Trinity College. Durham. N. C. March 24. The commencement programme has ; been completed, and. is today given to j the urublic. j The commencement sermon will be preached Sunday morning. June 5th. 1 by President William DeWitt Hyde.; Dowxioin college. Brunswick. Maine. j The baccalaureate address will be de livered Tuesday morning, 11 o'clock, try Dr. Frank C. Woodward, Richmond. Virginia. Mr. Goodwin Davis Ells-' worth 'SO. Washington, D. C, will make the annual address before the adumni association Tuesday evening representatives of the 6enior class will speak. Wednesday commencement ex ercises will "occur and the commence-, ment address will be given. The speak- er for this hour -will be Professor vard university. Cambridge. Mass. Wednesday evening & reception will! be given in honor of the graaaaung fass. "This is no time for mirth or laughter, 'Tls the cold grey dawn of the morn ing after." There will be no "morning after," if you will carry a box of i CAUr FORNIA PRUNE WAFERS, and take a few before going to bed. They will fix you all right and tone you up be fore breakfast. . v 100 Wafers 25 Cents. For sale by Robt RL Bellamy, WH mingtoir, N. C. THE SOUTHERN Its Brilliant Frontisniece On to Bethel.-Back from Annomattoz. The Confederate soldier, in the . Spring and early Summer of 1SG1, marched with exultant steps to th2 ' battleplains of Virginia and the North. waving his slouched hat in his hand, a light la his eye and a cheer on hi? . lips even a the blue-eyed, tawny- : haired, but terrible gladiator. Jeb j Stuart, went singing, with his banjo j on his sadddleJbow to his death at Yel- j low Tavern; even as the magnificent I household troops of Louis XIV. rode on with flashing sword in hand to the J carnage of the field of Stelnkirk, with J a laugh and a Jest on the tongue... ' Those who, in wild enthusiasm, feast- cdthelr eyes on the first pictures of me great civil war glowing with col or, thrilling with life, vibrant with hope could hardly realize the same material emerging from the smoke of conflict with the fall of the curtain at Appomattox, locked in the grip of the last struggle, the grim figures of the supreme tragedy. But the soldier was there still. One could hardly forbear the apostrophe: " "Shrine of the mighty, can it be. That this is all remains of thee?" Doubtless even in these first throes of the fearful struggle, there were as tute politicians and wise statesmen in the South such men as George Davis, of Wilmington, and Warren Winslow. of Fayetteville who. smiled paternally at the war meetings, where the crowds sang "Dixie," and the women's socie ties, where they made harelocks and moulded bullets, and then in the sol itude of their offices bent their heads, sighed and whispered. "God help them." By such men the earthquake shock3 and the volcanic fires under the sit uation had long been felt and they had counted the cost. But to the masses of the Southern people these first days of a beautiful summer where the flowers budded and bloomed as if their seed3 were never to spring into life again on dead men's graves; where the birds sang as if they were riot soon to be whirled along on the : lowering smoke-filled clouds of bloody fields like leaves tossed in a storm were but the fair days of holiday in war. only the more interesting and piquant that back of it all was the shine of the gun-barrel and the glitter of the bayonet. No people entered on this first act of the great drama of four years, with steps so springy, cheeks so flushed, and hearts so aglow, as the people of Fay etteville; and I have thought I might interest the readers of the Sunday Mes senger by my recollections of the de parture of the two Infantry companies of this city for the front, with a nar ration of a few incidents of their six months' service on the Yorktown Pe ninsula. There was great rivalry between the Independent and LaFayette Light In fantry companies, the former com manded by the late Major Wright Huske, and the latter by Captain J. B. Starr, afterwards Colonel command ing light artillery and today a hale and honored Confederate veteran. The first mm then was scarred with the service of sixty-eight years; the second was a military fledgeling of five or six years. But youth is ambitious, and new blood dared attack even old age in its stand off dignity so that by the time the two commands had been accepted for service and were ready to depart, they were as large as the regiments of 1SS4. and were so superbly equipped that one who remembers it all cannot fail to enjoy the caustic remark of Colonel, afterwards General, D. H. Hill, as they marched into the Ra leigh camp of instruction: "Why. upon my soul, yonder comes a battalMon of brigadier generals." The LaFayette company had a splendid cornet band, which became the band of the Bethel regiment at Yorktown, and it got ofT first by steamer to Wilmington, es corted to the landing by the Indepen dent company, Strange's cavalry, mag nificently mounted and pretty much the whole town. There on the wharves, while the whistles snorted and the smokestacks puffed and the gangways were crowded with the bus tle of storing baggage and camp equip age, the wives and sweetheartspre sented a touching picture of beauty in tears, but it was "beauty unadorned." for the plumes and ribbons of their Sunday bonnets and dresses were adorning the proud crests and stal wart warriors, whom the captain of the steamer was already sternly warn ing to "come aboard." The Independent Light Infantry took Its departure very shortly afterwards, and the two corps became companies F and H in the famous First regiment, which had not ten hut twelve full com panies, and was first commanded by D. H. Hill, who was succeeded by Charles C. Lee. I doubt if from 1861 to 1S65. anything In all the armies sur passed the appearance of this regi ment on evening dress parade at York town, with the lower camp forming the background, and the crash of mar tial music stirring the picture with life as the brilliantly uniformed Li Favette band took the line from right to left, and back again. The men had their trunks and their body servants, and their fine linen and some of them even their citizens' clothes, though even a rather lax dis cipline would seldom permit them to wear them. The business and profession al men of Fayetteville. and farmers of Cumberland, came in crowds to visit the "soldier boys." as they eophomor ically called them, and the boxes of good eating which they carried with them make a man's lips smack even to this day. The first box which I got from home would have filled out a bill-of-fare for Delmonico's; the last, which was smuggled to me some way. I never knew how, about the time of the battle of Bentonsville. contained a thin side of North Carolina bacon, a small bag of cow peas, and two pods of red pepper to give them zest. In my old age that last box still bears a palm over the rich store of meats and dainties first received at Yorktown. It was on the Peninsula that I re ceived, at the age of eighteen years, the great shock of my life, filling me with amazement intensified by insulted dignity. A boy mountaineer sergeant of Avery's company, if I recollect aright4 who-did not care who I was, or who my grandfather was. If I had any, put me in a squad for clean ing up the camps on account of remiss ness in guard duty the night before, and when,; in my rage and petulance. I slighted my work, he clapped me into the guardhouse for six - hours. "Well," I thought, "the world is ..corn In to an end a little sooner than the scientists have been calculating ta&t'd I CONFEDERACY all." I believed, with Sir Leicester Dedlock. in Dickens "Bleak Houe."' that the "very floodgates of society were being upturned." Then the "last hair broke the camel's back" when o i going to Captain Starr with my griev ance, he laughed grimly and said that sergeant had done exactly rlerht. The war taught many a lesson of thl kind, and the Confederate veteran is , probably all the better man for them today. The Louisiana Louaves were part of the forces under Magruder on the Pe ninsula, arriving. If my memory serves me. on the day after the battle of Bethel. Sharper contrasts were nev er presented than were seen In the per sonnel of this North Carolina regi ment and this Louisiana command. In the first the men were as good as the officers and felt themselves to be so; many of them were better educat ed (Bob Sandford. of Fayetteville, al ways carried his Euripides and Jour nal in his pocket to relieve the tedijin of camp duty,) and not a few took a deeper view of the gravity of war sit uation. In social standing there was not a shade of difference between rank and file. The enlisted Zouaves were, it seemed to me. the vefy scum of the earth gallows birds and prison con victs of New Orleans and other South ern cities. A broad gulf of social dis tinction and discipline was fixed be tween them and their officers, who were handsome, faultlessly groomed young fellows of the best families of New Orleans and the plantations of. Louisiana. The Zouaves, too. received their les son at Yorktown. Only a 'few days after their coming, impatient -at the delay in the serving of rations from the commissary department, they went out, guns in hand, to make a commis sary for themselves, and dejiberately set to work, killing the cattle of the farmers in the neighborhood. But they did not know their commander. Gen eral Magruder mounted his horse at the historic Nelson house, surrounded the mutineers with his infantry and artillery, and made them a short, very vigorous speech, to the effect that on the second such serious violation of discipline, he would shoot them down without any mercy. But these cut throats with their faultless drawn corps, their French caps and vivid blue and red, uniforms, made a strik ing picture on the drill. Their gun manual and evolutions were perfect, and their march, entirely from that of the ordinary regiment, was an easy graceful swing on perfect time. And they would fight. If I do not greatly mistake, it is part of the history of the war, that when they met , Ellsworth'.? New York Zouaves on the field, it ws a case of extermination, and that very few were left living of either com mand when the engagement was over. It became evident when the govern ment officers canvassed the different companies at the close of their six months' term of enlistment, that very few men of the First North Carolina regiment intended to reenllst at least, not just then. A few were heartily tired of the service, others had ror even yet realized the vastness of th3 struggle in which the South was en gaged;but the large majority were good soldiers, saw that they had got Into no childs' play, had no idea of desert ing their country, but they were de termined to spend a short while at home before taking the field a second time. The regiment returned home by Richmond in two battallions of six companies each, and I well remember the difference of bearing of the people of that city and ..Petersburg toward3 us, compared with the fervor and en thusiasm with which they greeted the regiment when it marched through their streets on the way to the scene of war. There was nothing sullen or discourteous about their bearing, but there was an air of melancholy and forebqding in "the attitude of the peo ple on the streets as the companies filed by in all the masterly precision of six months training. The truth 13 Petersburg and Richmond were al ready hearing and feeling the groan ing and rumble of the earthquake, the volcanic fires were under their feet; and it impossible to he so close to an already sore beset government with out being appraised of the truth. Even in that November homing of the two companies I was impressed, boy as I was, with the changes that had taken, place. The welcome given to the returning soldiers was, of course, -fervent, even tumultuous; but I won dered why peoples heads had turned gray so fast, why the roses had with ered from so many cheeks, and my heart was striken at the number of crippled and wounded, for it was now five months since the battle of Bethel, and many a fierce, bloody blow had since been struck. It will be seen that no attempt has been made in the above article to take the part of an historian; the design has simply bee to set forth the pic turesqeness of the first days of the -civil war. J- H. M. Fayetteville. March. 23. Tiis Irishman Had His Doubt As is well known, the Rev. Robert Collyer, of New York city, was a black smith In Germantown. Pennsylvania, before he became a preacher. Once when there was little work at hand, he asked xa builder in his neighborhood for something to do The latter re plied that all that he could give Llm would be a job carrying a hod. "I'm your man," replied the black smith, promptly. Years afterwards, while an imposing edifice was being erected in Chicago for Dr. Collyer. he was standing among the beams, watching the progress of the work, when an Irishman came along with a hod of bricks. Dr. Coll yer spoke to him and he paused. This is har-rd rw?rk, solr," said the Irishman. "I know that well' answered Dr. Collyer; "in my day I have carried the hod myself." 1 .'.. The irishman stared at meiin in stant," said Dr. Collyer. in relating the incident, "and then went on his way numblin something that sounded sus piciously like 'I wouldn't 'a beleaved th' parson was such a liar" Ex change. In the south of Ireland, near Inchi geeiath, is the "Cats' Well." the wa ters of which are supposed to extert marvellous remedial efiects upon . all ailing tabbies. James Selby. who -has just com pleted 50 years, service with the Northeastern Railway company as a driver, estimates that . he traveled 2.000,000 miles on his engine. RUE TIE MOST DANQEROU! " OF " Pe-ru-na is a Blessing to Those Troubled With Catarrh," Says United States Senator Corbin. . JfFjfi "v? ' Gentlemen"The use of Pe- &fi?T SstLJicr' runa aas been a blessing to i P!wLt!s1 thoss troubled with catarrh. jtrfl rOrjtJ,iy ! many of my acquaintances vFSi 1 nave bcn cured and benefited y by its use that its curative ? "f ff mi Jmm I ' Qualities should be generally 0 " JimW I known I do not hesitate to fflVvv ' ! recommend it the best rem' 1 tts ! edyyet discovered for that dls- Cclds Not Promptly Cured Arc Sure to Cause Catarrh. Catarrh Improperly Treated is Sure to Make Life Short and Miserable. lany Wonderful Cures Are Made by Pe-ru-na. TlATAIiriH spares no or;jan or func s tiou of the body. It is ccpable of j?vroying. sight, taste, smell, hearing. - "stior. secretion. a.s!r.''-'on and THE SOUTH, THEN AND NOW. The followiag Is as extract iroia a speech made in the house of repre sentatives on last Monday by Mr. Patterson of Tennessee: Mr. Chairman, taking advantage of the latitude permitted for discussion. I want to say something on the political conditions as they formerly existed and now exist in the Southern States. The position of the South in the po.i ticai history of the republic has been a peculiar and an anomalous one. Previous to the civil war there was no part of the country where political questions were rn6re thoroughly stud ied, where parties were more evenly divided, and statesmanship unfettered by sectionalism seemed to have reach ed its fullest fruition and to produce its richest results. Of the thirteen original states form ing the Union, the four Southern States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia held a commanding place in the great work of government building. At the beginning of the year 18S1 there were thirty-two states which constituted the American union, of which there were eleven se ceding Southern states, and two Mary land and Kentucky which did not leave the union, but sympathized with the southern cause. From 1789 to 1861. seventy-two years of the life of the republic, fifteen presi dents had been chosen, nine of whom Washington, Jefferson. 'Madison, Mon roe, Jackson. William II. Harrison. Ty ler, Polk and Taylor came from the Southern States oi Virginia and Ten nessee, the length of whose combined service was forty-nine years, while the elder and younger Adams came from Massachusetts, Van Buren from New York. Fillmore from New York. PJerce from New Hampshire, and Buchanan from Pennsylvania, with a combined service of twenty-three yeara During this period there were four teen vice presidents of the United States, six of whom were from South ern States. We also find that of the thirty-six justices of the supreme court appointed during this time twenty-one were southern men, and of the four chief jus tices, three were from the south. There were twenty secretaries of state from 1789 to 1SS1. tweive of whom were from the south. There were twenty-three secretaries of the treasury, eight of whom were from the south. Of the thirty-two secretaries of war, sixteen were southern men. . The first secretary of the Interior was appointed by Taylor in . 1849. From that time to 1S61 there had been six secretaries appointed, three of whom were from the south. There were twenty-five secretaries of the navy, thirteen of whom were from the south. The office of secretary cf atrricultu-e was not created until 18S9. and the firet appointment was made by President Cleveland in that year. Of the nineteen postmasters-general, six were from the south. There were twenty-seven attorneys general, and fifteen were from the Southern states. There 'were twenty-seven speakers ofthe house, twelve qf whom wer southern men.- Of the. twenty-four diplomatic repre sentatives and charge d'affaires ' Great Britain, six were from the south. Of the thirty-three representative ALL CHRONIC DISEASES, j ease. u. r. uorDin, vio uii- excretion. It pervades every part of the human body. Peruna also cures bronchitis, coughs, and consumption in tho first stages with unfailing certainty. non. D. Y. Corbin, Is ex-United States Senator, and cousin of Adjutant General Corbin of the United States Army. Judge Corbin is ono of the best known lawyers in Chicago and stands high pro fessionally and socially. Tho above endorsement coming from-6u?h a man to France, eighteen -were from th south. Of the nine representatives to Aus tria, three were from the south. Of the twenty representatives to Rus sia, eight were southern men. There were no ministers to Germany previous to 1871. at wihch time the first was appointed by President Grant. There were no ministers to Italy pre vious to 1SG1. when the first was ap pointed by President Lincoln. There were twenty representatives to the Spanish court, of which twelve were from the Southern States. . The first half of the period from 1789 to 1861 was one of momentous events, in which the experiment of self-government was tried ;great states were admitted Into the Union, and the ; principles of republican liberty fixed on the American continent. In these fruitful and eventful years the influence of the southern man on the history of hi country can not be overestimated. Washington, a Vir ginian, is described by the English his torian Green aa the "grandest figure who ever stood in the front of a na tion's life." Then there was Jefferson, the au thor of the Declaration of Independ ence and the first statutes for religious liberty passed In this country and the reach of whose broad statesmanship has been the wonder and admiration of all mankind. Jam ex Madison waa called the "Father of the Constitution." and John Marshall, the greatest Judge who ever adorned the bench of any land, was for thirty-four years the expound er of Its principles and fixed forever its vigor and soul on the Jurisprudence of his country. All down the line in statesmanship, diplomacy, and military achievement the names of southern men were thick on the roll of honor. (Applause.) It was during the administration of southern men as presidents that vast territorial domain was acquired, out of which states and territories have been erected and constitutional gov ernment ordained for the people. In a speech made in the senate of the United States in 1850 by Salmon P. Chase, then a Senator from Ohio and afterwards chief Justice of the Snprem court of the United States, the following colloquy occurred: Mr- Chase: Mr. President, I do not know that any monument has been erected over the grave of Jefferson in Mason: There is a granite obelisk. Mr. Chase: I am glad to hear it. No monumental marble bears a nobler name. Mr. Steward: The Inscription is: "Here wan burled Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Ameri can Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Relhsiiras Freedom, -and Father of the University of Virginia." Mr. Chase: It Is an appropriate in scription and worthily commemor ates dirtlmm!shed services. But. Mr. President, if a stranger from some foreign land should ask me for the monument cf Jefferson. I wonld not take him to Virginia and bid hixn look on a granite obelisk, however admira ble in its proportions or Its inscrip tions. I would ask him to accompany me beyond the Alleghenies, Into the midst of, the broad northwest, and would Bay to him: Si monumentum quaeris clrcum-splcel- Behold on every side his monument. These thronged" cities; these flour cannot help bat add wcl-ht asd import ance to the thousands of tcUnon!a!j from the humbler walks of life. ' Catarrh ii the cau? of at least rr half of th IIU to which the hnntaa family I subject. I thcr? no iray to escape from it? There Is. rerun a never falls to cure a coIJ. Pe ru n a ccrer fail to curt atarrh in f !i first stage. Pcrurla care catarrh to t0 second tagc, nine cases out of t-n. Ti rana cures catarrh in its last ai.J w-r.-t stages lnxthe majority of cac, r.nl never fail to benefit every ca., how ever bad. " A book on the curt of throat and I'-nir discc?es, and catarrh la all rtr.e end varieties, tent freo to any s'lrc by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columhu-. O. "My L!fc Hun by a Merc Thread. Pe-ru-na Cored Mc" Mrs. Sarah Smart, 276 Ilaywanl SU, Brooklyn, N.Y writes: 44 1 can't tell In words how low I wan. My life hung by a mcro thre ad. I vu waiting for months to die. 44 My trouble was consumption or bronchitis. I suffered no pain when I was low, but coughing And brcaJhlns kept sapping what little strength I had. I could not eat, sleep or even lean back on a chair. I was a mere skeleton, t said to my husband, 'I can't last much longer. My neighbors say they do not know how I ever recovered. It was al most a miracle. 44 1 took your medicine ' but three months, when I could do my housework and washing, and have been doing it ever since. Now I am able to do any thing. Yon would never think I had been troubled with such a serious ill ness. I shall always keep your medicine in my house. Mrs. Sarah Smart. Despaired of Recovery. Mrs. R. L. Aullch, Vice Presidtnt American Genealogical Association, 001 II street, N. W., Washington, D. C, writes: 44 1 know whereof I speak when I say that rerun a is a wonderful remedy for colds and catarrhal trouble. Last fall I was very much debilitated from tho effect of a cold contracted early in tho summer and which I neglected. I knew that my system was in need of medicine and rest, but to find the right thing waa the problem. Happily I gave Peruna a trial first and have no reason to com plain of the results. Within a month I had entirely recovered my strength and good health and really felt better and stronger than before. Mrs. R. L. Aulich. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. ilartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad vice gratis. , Address Dr. Ilartman, President of The Harf-mpn Sanitarium. Cnlnmhnt.a ishing villages; these cultivated fields; these million happy homes of prosper ous' freemen; these churches; these asylums for the unfortunate and the helpless; these institutions of educa tion, religion, and humanity; these great states, great in their present re energles by which the resources of the future are to be developed: tht-se, thc?e are the monument of Jeffer son. (Applause.) Mr. Chairman, I have caliea atten tion to some of the achivements of southern men before the civil war, when both north and south were di vided upon national, not sectional, questions; when the forum was one of free discussion, .and before the black pall of universal negro suffrage had settled upon the soffth. paralyzing her energies and bafiling the aspirations of her people. Since(the war all thi glo rious record has been reversed, and the south for forty years has been a political pariah. A blight has fallen upon the fair tree which before had flowered and fruited in such magnificent luxudl ance. Since the civil war there has been neither a president nor vice president elected or nominated by either politi cal party from the southern states. Of the fourteen secretaries of state appointed since 18G5, none have been from the south. Of the nineteen necretarles of war, none were from the south. Of the sixteen secretaries of the in terior, two were from the south. Of the twelve secretaries' of the navy, two were from the iouth. Of the four secretaries of agricul ture, none were from the south. Of the twenty postmasters general, five were from the south. Of the eighteen attorney generals, three were from the south. Of the eleven speaker of the house, two were from the south. Of the twenty members of the su preme court, five were from the south. Of the thirteen a rn.ba.tsa do r. min isters, and charge de affaires to Great Britain not one was from a southern state. "Of the ten to France, only two were from the south. Of the nineteen to Austria-Hungary, three only were from the south. Of the twenty to Rn.da. three only were from the south. Of the sixteen to Germany, one were from the south- Of the Ixhteen t Italy, none were 'from the south. And of the sixteen to byuln, iwo were from the south. Today there is not one cabinet of ficer or head of department and not one ambassador to any European court from any southern state, Henry Morris, an Englishman who has given much attention to the sub ject of cancer, recently called attention to the pernicious Influence of the clay pipe and the decayed tooth In caus ing cancerous growths. Grapes are irrown for table fruit and for wine in every state except Tasmania, Victoria leading with 28, 592 acres, followed by South Austra lia, with 20.860 acres. The total number of acres In grapes In all Aus tralia is 3.733 acres, producing 5. 196.212 gallons of wine and a consid erable quantity of raisins. In Russia altogether there are about 82.000 elementary, schools, th total cost of their maintenance belmr 60.000.000 roubles, or 'about S27.0IO, 000. - .