Show HID THAT IS WHAT UNCLE 8AM LIKELY SOON TO SAY TO IMMIGRANTS BILL NOW IS IN IS CONFERENCE President Taft Probably Will Sign Measure That Is Designed to From 8ome Parts People of Southern and other appointments to high government offices Today there is not a Democratic leader in congress apparently who can say that be knows one man who is certain to be appointed to high office by the incoming Democratlo president Ever since Mr Wilson came back from Bermuda the Democratlo leaders have with him been conferring and The trains between Washington Trenton have been heavy laden with passengers of national prominence goto ing to the source of knowledge come back again with very little knowledge about the things of greatest personal Interest Mr Wilson the returning Democratic leaders admit is not of a mind to commit himself in any way definitely upon the subject of the composition of his cabinet until he is certain that he has weighed all the recommendations and all the oband has found out to the jections nlpety of a fraction all that he wants to know about the men whom he in would like to Invite to membership his official family It must not be understood from this that Mr Wilson has declined to talk freely with the Democratlo leaders He has had and is having conferences lasting for several hours with the men of greater prominence In his in It Is known definitely party however that Washington at the of the time consumed conference is given over to the discussion of policies rather than men Mr Wilson is anxious to learn from the men of his party of long experience in congress just what chance legislation which he may propose has of being enacted into law In 8enate Expects Antagonism The president-elec- t has a keen apof the fact that the Dempreciation ocratic membership in the senate is an uncertain quantity in certain matters of party policy He knows that there are Democrats in the senate whom their more or radical if you will progressive brethren go' so far as to call Republicans with a little veneer of DemocIt is known from what the leadracy ers say that Mr WilBon fears that some of his policies upon which he will make strongly progressive recommendations are not o the liking in their outlined form of some of the Democrats in the senate So it la tbat Mr Wilson is anxious to learn In advance from the members of his party Just how much antagonism he may expect in the senate and what If anything he must concede in order t" Insure united Democratlo support of such legislation as he may propose There Is some fear it is known on Mr Wilson’s part that the Democrats in the senate will decline to sanction tariff revision in the form of some of the provisions which will be put into the bill by the house of representatives which under the constitution must initiate all tariff legislation Must Travel Old Road Representative Oscar W Under wood chairman and his fellow members of the ways and means com mittee are about to begin the hear lngs which always come as a prelude to the passage of new tariff legislation The road which stretches before the chairman and his fellows Is a much traveled one The ways and means com- appointments KEEP OUT Europe By GEORGE CLINTON senate the Washington— Recently of the United States passed an immigration restriction bill and sent It over to the house for approval The representatives changed the form of the bill passed It and sent It to conference It Is believed that an agreement upon the provisions of the measure will be reached by the two houses and that soon congress will pass It and send It to the president for his signature or his veto It is understood that Mr Taft does not entirely agree with the provisions of the measure in the form in which It seems certain it finally will be approved The law by congress will contain a provision shutting out from America all Immigrants above the age of sixteen years who are to read unless it can be proved that the aliens are fleeing from religious persecution While the president Is said not to be entirely sympathetic with the bill it Is believed that In the near future Immigrants will be subjected to the reading test before they can admitted to this country The test will be In the language which the immigrants speak When the measure passed the senate there was a five to one vote In favor of a provision which would have subjected Immigrants to both reading and writing tests The house knocked out the writing provision and sent the bill to conference Taft Will Sign It It Is the opinion of congressmen who have made Inquiry Into the matter that the change of the form of the Illiteracy test will not make much difference It Is held that about 99 out of every 100 persons who know how to read also know now to write It seems finally to be assured that a rewill measure strictive immigration find a place on the statute books in the immediate future for while President Taft Is known to have some doubts in the matter the general belief is that he will sign the bill There Is no use to try to gloss over the real reason why congress was willing to put the reading test Into the new Immigration The desire is law to keep out Immigrants whomt experience it Is said has proved to be undesirable as a class and this means of of the south exclusion certain the Italians ‘certain of the Jews certain of the Poles and men and women of other races among whom the percentage of illiteracy Is high The steamship companies always have been against laws" The reason for their opposiUnder the tion needs no explanation law rejected aliens will be proposed mittee went over it at the extra sessent back to their native lands at the sion called by Mr Taft in 1909 A expense of the steamship companies and ways The supposiwhich bring them over means committee went over it in tion is that the companies will on their own behalf see to it that no one part when reciprocity was under conIs allowed on board who cannot go sideration then the same commutes a paragraph of went over it again at the last session through unstumbllngly of congress and now the ways and bis school reader means members stand at the taps For years attempts have been made tn congress to get through an lmml ready for the signal to begin thS march once more gratlon bill with an Illiteracy test Cynical laymen In Washington say In clause as one of its provisions Cleveland was Jhat If the committee hears anything Grover 1897 when new on the tariff question during ths president a bill very much like the patient or Impapresent one or like the form in which coming weeks of tient attention to the arguments ol It has been sanctioned by the house was passed by congress Mr Cleveland importers and manufacturers it will one be of miracles of chance the vetoed It and it has been said that' afterward he regretted his act There The printed public reports of the tar Iff hearings during the last four to been opposition has strong always volumes make many Every would which years a of measure the passage exclude immigrants because of ina- subject from acetanelld to sine has been all was In It that for exploited bility to read and write to bolster up the cause of either Question Really of Geography or downward revision If congress could have done It It standpatlsm Cuts May Not Be Very Deep from the Illitwould have exempted It seems to be the belief of most eracy test immigrants from the northern European countries but' of course students of legislation and of the it could not do this The Issue so political trend as it will affect legisrestriction” is lation that the tariff bills which will far as "geographical controlled be passed by a congress concerned always has been avoided but when a thing Is perfectly plain by the Democrats and signed by a Democratic president will not repredenials and evasion are of no service Certain kinds of Immigrants are not sent "a cut to the bone policy” It seems likely that the measures wanted and It Is supposed that the which finally will come out of conliteracy clause will keep them out a above to the Illiteracy gress will be considerably The opposition leaders have trst has come during the years not free basis Democratlo Americans who said tbat they do not want to do anyonly from naturalized as will or which business homeland see to their like upset not do thing kindred debarred from admission but some of them put it which will give business a chance "to upset Itself” from men and women of prominence In the work of the world and who are The ways and means committee will revision tariff bills who report downward descended from "Immigrants” In sevenJust how deep the cuts will go the but to country this came must depend entirely upon the results teenth and eighteenth centuries The provision of the bill which al- of the conference between leaders of of Democratlo schools to enter the different lows illiterate immigrants the country if they are trying to get thought on tariff matters A new ways and means committee away from religious persecution opens soon as the new In as of certain will be appointed proof up the question countries the Jews are persecuted off congress gets together but nearly all end on Will an Immigrant be allowed the Democrats in the present committo enter because he Is In fear of per- tee are certain of reappointment secution a fear based on “past per- Because of the Increased Democratlo formance?" In other words must the membership in the next house one or persecution be open and active and two additional members of the party must a man be actually fleeing from it will be put on the ways and means committee but there Is not even the In order to be admitted to this country without being asked to read his way remotest possibility that any change of the committee from one DemoInto It? Wilson Silent on Cabinet cratic school of thought to another Never within the memory of the can occur The Influence of the presoldest In serv- ent committee therefore will extend of congress members been so "self Into the next ‘congress and In a large j ice has a preBlJent-elec- t constrained" as Is Woodrow Wilson measure its personnel will be the on the Bubiect of prospective cabinet same the subject pool We CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK January 13 1863 The United States gunboat Major under the command of Lieutenant Van Dorn surrendered to party of Confederate partisans at Shoals on the Cumberland river without firing a ‘shot and exposed to capture three transports laden with wounded Union soldiers The wounded soldiers were all placed on one of the transports and the three other vessels destroyed General Banks gave the following notice to the people of New Orleans "Offensive personal demonstrations by language or conduct of any character by persons of any class whatever with the intention of giving personal affront or tending to disturb the public peace are forbidden and will be punished with relentless severity Parents will be held responsible for the respectful conduct of their children and prompt steps will be taken to fasten on the proper parties any act of this character All persons who may be witnesses of such conduct are directed as a measure of to give information public peace l or at thereof to the these headquarters” The steamer Hampton was captured in Dividing creek Virginia by the United States steamer Currituck Peace resolutions were introduced in the legislature of New Jersey Slidell before the people January 18 January 19 January 17 1863 With Sound Health 1863 The Chattanooga Rebel after how the birthday of Washington would be celebrated in the loyal state said: "Here in the South we shall pay a different tribute to the day We shall honor it by silent homage It is said that the president will issue his proclamation of ‘faBtlng and prayer’ as a fit commemoration of the trials sacrifices and glories of WashThey are types of our own ington heroes and martyrs and whilst we remember and do reverence to the deeds and beauties of character which have consecrated the name of the father and country we shall bear also in mind those Spartan virtues of manhood and those Southern virtues of womanhood which adorn our pages and ennoble our day” Federals take Duval’s Bluff and Des Arc Ark suffering only a trifling loss The Confederates lost 150 prisoners 1863 President Lincoln addressed a letter to the workingmen of Manchester in reply England to resolutions adopted by them In a meeting thanking them for their of expressions esteem and confidence and assuring them of the continued friendliness of the two nations The Third battalion of the Fifth Pennsylvania on a cavalry In the direction of Barnesvllle Va had two exciting encounters with a body of Confederates losing a number by capture In the first and recovering them in the second The Brig Estelle was captured and burned at sea by the Confederate privateer Oreto formerly the Florida under command of Capt J N Mafflt In a debate in the Confederate house on President Davis's proposition to execute Federal officers in retaliation for the Emancipation Proclamation Mr Foote of Mississippi announced an Intention of bringing forward resolutions looking to the establishment of peace his Idea being to throw the responsibility for further bloodshed on the National government The house went into secret session to discuss further the plan of retaliation (Copyright by W O Chapman) January 14 1863 ram J The Confederate A Cotton was destroyed in Bayou Teche La after a long and stubborn contest against four Federal gunboats that attacked her under command of Commodore Buchanan and a force of Union soldiers The ram was supported by a small body of troops among them some sharpshooters one of whom killed Commodore Buchanan with a mlnnle ball The steamer Forest Queen was captured and destroyed by Confederate irregulars at Commerce Miss The National gunboat Queen of the West was captured in the Red river Arkansas Proceeding on a reconnois-sancshe was fired on near Gordon’s BEST TO EMPLOY LEFT HAND Landing by a Confederate battery of four guns that proved too much for Persons to Whom This Is Natural 8hould Not Be Forced to Use her The Queen of the West was In command of Col Charles E Ellet in the Right command of the ram fleet In westerh waters Of every minion persons born at least 30000 probably more are naturJanuary 15 1863 so that in the United ally Mound City Ark was burned by a States there are nearly 3000000 and The In the world more than 45000000 thus detachment of Union troops handicapped of famous a was haunt place partisan Dr G M Gould writing in the fighters The bill authorizing the issue of one Medical Record says that an indehundred million dollars in legal tender finite number of these have been notes of the United States was signed "doubly cursed by the efforts of the foolish parent or teacher to make and became a law them Dr Gould says A detachment of the efforts are due to the associaWisconsin carrying dispatches from these Helena to Clarendon Ark fell in with tion of the word "right” which a body of Confederate Irregulars and should cnly mean dextral or with good moral advisable lost seventeen of their number by capwhile "left" or slnlstral has come ture to mean sinister awkward unlucky Columbia The Union gunboat stranded in Masonborough Inlet N C to be avoided both person and thing and "dextrousness" prowas burned by the Confederates “Dexterity" perly meaning only “dextrality" have become synonymous with expertness January 16 1863 proficiency whereas Gen James G Blunt of the Federal and exceptional knows that the army ordered the arrest of all at- everybody person If purely so Is as cunning of torneys and claim agents who might hand as the be believed to be Inciting disaffection In the brain the center for writing and insubordination among soldiers Is 'in normal persons situated on the in the Union army left side of the head In Commander Couthouy and the offon the right persons It Is situated icers of the United States steamer Colchild The effort to teach a which umbia at grounded Inlet N C the day before to write with its right hand is the surrendered themselves to the Confed- cause Dr Gould believes of many cases of stuttering stupidity and erates the effort having cripThe naval expedition up the White backwardness center and Imriver Arkansas under command of pled the developed the artificial John G Walker landed at Duval’s perfectly Bluff and captured two eight inch center The right side of the body Is nortwo hundred stands of arms rifles An engineer and three platform Cars on which the mally the dominant Confederates were attempting to carry stands on the right side of his cab because he can look ahead with his off the guns dominant eye and without The English sloop Brave from Nas- right or sticking his whole head out sau was captured by the gunboat Octorora A Union meeting was held at New were in which resolutions Orleans adopted urging an earnest and prosecution of the war The transport ship Planter with men and material belonging to the National army was wrecked near Stranger's Key Bahama The Confederate steamer Oreto ran the blockading’ fleet and through escaped from Mobile harbor Alabama Start Your Baby of Liver- of families that had Numbers removed from Charleston apprehensive of an attack from the Federal forces returned to their homes Consolidating the Schools One of the problems that should receive the attention of every rural this winter is the matter community of rural school consolidation While it is not practical for every community to consolidate at this time the advantages and possibilities of consolidation should be known and considIs ered by everyone Consolidation one of the great modern movements that will tend to Interest boys and In life the value Increase country girls of farm property and better the conditions of life In the country— Ex- Maj Gen Joseph E Johnson of the Confederate army issued an order pro- change mising full pardon to absentee officers O Temporal la the Departments of the West if 0 Mores! “I want you and your wife to come they should return to their proper commands by the twelfth of February and have dinner with us next ThursDes Arc Ark was taken possession day evening” said Mrs WammBleigh of by Captain Walker of the gunboat "We are going to have some friends DeKalb and a regiment of National Jrom Cincinnati In” was no resistance There "Thank you It will be a pleasure Infantry A skirmish took place at to meet your friends I’m sure What N C resulting in the defeat of time will you expect us?” the Confederates and the occupation "Oh about half past 6 And please of the town by the Union forces None of us are going to” don’t dress an At Llverpoool England conference took place in Question of Dress Mr which a Southern "Our cause is just and must triSpence sympathizer attempted to revive the umph” concluded the Buffragette la accents “And now If sny lady that slavery could be argument ringing on scriptrual ground but he cares to ask a question I shall be vas refused a hearing A resolution pleased to answer It” ‘How do you get that smooth efin favor of the National government was carried by a large majority and fect over the hips?” ssked a lady is a committee was appointed to bring the rear of the halt Regular Bowel Movement from Childhood on Forestalls Future Serious Diseases We cannot all start life with the advantages of money but every child is born entitled to the heritage of good health Through unfortunate Ignorance or carelessness in the feeding of a baby Its tiny stomach may become deranged The disorder spreads to the bowels and before the mother realizes it the two chief organs on which the infant’s comfort and health depend are causing it great suffering If the condition Is allowed to continue grave ailments often result There Is however no occasion for alarm and the sensible thing to do — DIXIES ASKEW DUDLEY but it should be done Instantly — is to liver trouble Indigestion biliousness give the baby a small dose of a mild headaches and 'the various other disIn the opinion of a orders of the stomach liver and bowlaxative tonio great many people among them such els nothing is more suitable than this Dr Caldwell's persons as the parents of mild Ark Dixie the Syrup Pepsin Dudley Magnolia Two generations of people are using proper remedy le Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin Mrs Earl Dudley writes: “Dr It today and thousands of families Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is the best keep it constantly in the house for I ever used It cured my every member of the family can use It medicine baby of flatulency colic when the doc- It can be obtained of any druggist at failed tors it cured my husband of fifty cents or one dollar a bottle the My home shall never latter being the size bought by famiconstipation be without Syrup Pepsin” It is a lies who already know Its value Relaxative which every sults are always guaranteed or money will be refunded person likes It iq mild If no member of your family has and contains that most excellent of all ever used Syrup Pepsin and you would digestants pepsin This remedy le especially intended like to make a personal trial of it for Infants children women old peo- before buying it in the regular—way of ple and all others to whom harsh a druggist send your address a poscathartics salt waters pills etc are tal will do— to W B Caldwell 417 and a distressing In fact In the common Washington St Monticello disorders of life such as constipation free sample bottle will be mailed you DIDN’T NEED TO READ JUST LINES TRUST Amateur Palmist Had Other Lines of Information Which Aided Her In Revelatlona The fair amateur palmist looked at the left hand of the sweet girl long and earnestly Breathlessly she waited for the palmist’s next words “Ah! I see by your hand that you are engaged to be married” said the palmist' “And” continued the reader of the future and the past in a more cutting tone “I see that you are engaged to Mr Mooney” “Oh! It’s perfectly extraordinary” “How burst out the blushing girl can you know that?” "By my long ctudy of the science" was the reply "But surely the lines on my hand — cannot tell you the na— ” “Who said anything about lines?” replied the prophetic one with wither“You are wearing the ening scorn gagement ring I returned to him three weeks ago” Familiar to "Mike" A negro clairvoyant who for some time masqueraded as a Hindoo was recently vlBlted by a collector Mike O’Conner “ze “Ah” smiled the clairvoyant genzelman wantz ze palm read?” “No” said Mike "ze genzelman has ze bill for you” When the bill was produced the palm reader forgot his Hindoo ancestors and a stream of perfect English swear words poured from his lips “Ah” said Mike smiling ”ze genzelman sounds more like ze Indiana avenue zan ze Hindoo” — Indianapolis News "What age?" shall we say of Senator Aver- "Just say he was always faithful to his trust” "And shall we mention the name of the Trust?" TESTIMONY A CLERGYMAN’S The Rev Edmund Heslop of Wig ton Pa suffered from Dropsy for a year His limbs and feet were swollen and puffed He had heart flutterwas dizzy ing and exhausted at least exer Hands and feet were cold and he had such a dragging sensation across the loins that It was difficult to move After using S of Dodd the tion Rev E Heslop Kidney Pills the swelling disappearQueer Sex "Yes” said the man at the end of ed and he felt himself again He says the bar as he ordered his second he has been benefited and blessed by Sevuse of Dodds the Pills Kidney drink "women sure are queer creaI came home tures and eral months later he wrote: I have tonight thought my wife looked a little down not changed my faith in your remedy In the mouth So I said: ’After sup- since the above statement was authorper let’s go to the theater’ And she ized Correspond with Rev E about this wonderful burst into tears and said: ‘Me busy remedy Dodds Kidney PIIIb 50c per box at all day doing up preserves and you come home and ask me to go to the your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co theater’ She was still crying when I Buffalo N Y Write for Household came out It beats all doesn’t it? Hints also music of National Anthem Bartender I think I’ll take just one (English and German words) and recipes for dainty dishes All 3 sent free more” Adr Extremes ’ Cleverness Required "Why Is Alexander so cut up?” “In these days of living” his salary has just been said "Because Representative De Forest the cut down” bill of for the sponsor pensioning ex“we hear of many queer presidents Some A GOOD BREAKFAST Persons Never Know What It Meant A good breakfast a good appetite and good digestion mean everything to the man woman or child who has anything to do and wants to get a good start toward doing It A Mo man tella of his wife’s “good breakfast” and also supper made out of and cream He says: "I should like to tell you how much has done for my wife good After being in poor health for the last 18 years during part' of the time scarcely anything would stay on her stomach long enough to nourish her finally at the suggestion of a friend she tried “Now after about four weeks on this delicious and nutritious food she has picked up most wonderfully and seems as well as anyone can be "Every morning she makes a good s eaten just as breakfast on It comes from the package with cream or milk added and then again the same at supper and the change In her Is wonderful "We can’t speak too highly of as a food after our reName given markable experience" by Postum Co Battle Creek Mich— Read the little book "The Road to "There’s a Rear In Wellvllle" pkgB son" on or h ibnrr from tlmo npponr prrnulitr true and Adv Rm Md Interval Mini to time fall of n They huus economics “On a street car the other day at the end of a discussion on saving and retrenchment a lady said decisively: ‘“Oh any woman can cut her husband’s hair but believe me it takes a clever one to cut it bo that other women’s husbands will suspect noth- ing’” Analyzing the Philosopher Finley Peter Dunne was sympathizing at a New York club with a playwright whose play had failed “Brace up!” he cried ‘Take It like a philosopher!” Then Mr Dunn smiled the whimsical Dooley smile and added: ‘A philosopher Is one who has trained himself to bear with perfect serenity the misfortunes of others" The Height of Absurdity Is foolish” “Your scheme “Foolish?” “Yes sir absolutely foolish foolish as— well as foolish as libretto of a grand opera” As the Taste “Which has the best taste you or your wife?” "I am sure my wife has" "That Is very generous of you” “I could not well deny it in view of the person each of us married" A The seeker detective may be an earnest but he doesn't always find |