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Secretary of Treasury MacVeagh Has Surrounded Himself With Men Famous in the College Game. ALL OF THEM AGREE IT IS USEFUL SPORT Say It Is a Game That Has Made, and Will Continue to Make, Leaders in Business qnd Politics. (By Sidney Espey) Washington, March 12. Succeeding the "tennis cabinet'" of the Roosevelt administration, Secretary of the Treasury. Franklin MacVeagh, has selected for his advisers a body of men, who have been facetiously termed in local financial circles, the "football squad." They are not only young men, capable of a great deal of hustle, but men who have each scored success in the business world as they did during their college careers on the gridiron. It happens that each one of the under secretaries of the treasury as well as the treasurer of the United States, has been a mmber of some star football team, and several of them have been leading figures in the greatest games that have been played on the gridiron. Although the members of the secretary's cabinet term as history the grueluiiK mills that thev have been through as football players, they nevertheless ; heartily approve of the strenuous game ; and count it as one of the "studies" i that have made, and will make leaders in the business world. McClung Yale Stars. Foremost in athletic stunts among the treasury officials is Lee McClung, treasurer of the United States, who started out in the world i years ago in Knoxville, Tenn. After receiving a common school education he matriculated in Yale university. His gridiron career in 1!S!H and '!! is still remembered as one which brought renown to his college. He was half back and captain for two years of the team as well as captain of the baseball team. After he. left college he entered the employ of the bt. raul, Duluth railroad at St. Paul, Minn., anJ in a few years became oavmaster of the road. He later joined Southern Railroad at j Nashville, Tenn., afterwards coming to I Washington as an assistant to Presi- J dent Finley. In I'.k'H' he went to Louisville, Ky., as freight traffic manager and two years later was appointed treasurer' of Yale college. The next I year he came to Washington, having, been appointed treasurer of the United States. His Duties Exacting. Mr. McClung's duties are manifold and exacting. lie has charge of all the monies in the treasury building at ! Washington and in the various sub- i treasuries, mints, and assay offices of j the country they are held in his name, amounting to about $:Uiu.(ii!U,iM.H). He Is only bonded for $1".WHM, which is the same bond as was required of the first treasurer of the United States, Michael Hilligas, in 178!, when the treasury was practically empty and government credit was extremely low. During the course of the day his bureau handles millions of dollars. Redemptions of United States notes often total ?',!) ,hh a day; redemption of national bank notes reaches the total of .?-2r.O,W)0. The bonds held by the treasurer to secure national bank circulation, together with government deposits kept in the treasury, equals $7, "W.lHSO. To secure general circulation. $0,SOO,Kio is kept on hand and security for public deposits amounts to SsriO.tMHUW. From the Bureau of En graving and Printing. $2,:ao,om is j brought to the treasurer's office daily j where it is stored. Each bank note brought from the bureau bears his j name. Curtiss Harvard Star. The second college man in the "squad," is James F. Curtiss. thirty-two j years old. who comes from Boston. He j Fpent three strenuous years in Harvard j on the football field and as a ball play- j er and a golf champion. He arranged j

the first inter-collegiate golf match and helped his team to victory over Yale a number of times. After his college career he, spent his time with a law firm, then as assistant district attorney-general at Boston and three yjfirs as district attorney of Suffolk county, Mass.. and now as assistant secretary . of the treasury. Mr. MacVeagh assigned him to look after the customs. During the course of the year his office nets the United States government a little over ?1.000,xx a day. He has to pass upon every case of disputed claims that come to the treasury department, requiring him to sign his name as an endorsement, over 500 times a day. Morton Player at Amherst. The premier of the treasury "cabinet" is Charles M. Norton, of Oshkosh. Wisconsin, who is thirty-nine years eld. He is the financial man of the treasury. He entered the business world through an insurance company when quite a boy. but afterward attended Amherst College, graduating in 1S03. He was a star football player in his junior year and was a member of the base ball team which established a record on the diamond. After leaving college he engaged in literary work, but gave that up to accept a position as general agent of the insurance company with which he had been previously identified. Last April he was appointed Secretary Mc-Veagh"s "right hand man." His office deals with, the comptroller i, ot Abe currency, the - register of the

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treasury, the bureau of engraving and printing, the mint, loans, appointments, secret service, public monies, stationery and disbursements. In his office about .$1,km,mmxm is handled annually. Disbursements for the army, navy and civil employees of the government is approved and passed on by Mr. Norton. He necessarily depends upon a large clerical duties require him to sign his name to about 1,hio papers a day. Hillis a Fair Player. Charles D. Hillis. forty years old, still another member of the "squad" is from Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. During his career in a high school in Belmont county, Ohio and at Oxford College. Maryland, he earned a reputation as an executive in the management of the foot ball team. He was a player of no little merit, usually occupying the position of right end. In 1!)2 after serving for a number of years as a professor in various colleges, he was elected president of the Children's Village at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. He designed the buildings that compose the village, numbering about IV), and representing an expenditure of 1,."i,hm. The' institution was founded by Peter Cooper, and is maintained to take care of the waifs of the streets of New York and educate them. In April. 1'.m, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the treasury. About a month ago President Taft offered him the position of surveyor of the port of New York, which he declined. He Has Many Duties. As assistant secretary of the treasury he has charge of the internal revenue, the office of supervising architect, general management of the construction of public buildings, the Life Saving Service, Revenue Cutter service and the public health and marine hospital service. The real work of the "squad," as accomplished under direct supervision of Secretary MacVeagh. to whom everything is brought for final approval. As this entails a great deal of work on the secretary, a scheme has been devised to proportion the work among the other secretaries. The secretary each Monday and Thursday holds a general business consultation ith these officers. Suggestions are -,4fl j in . vie , and the general work of the treasury considered. With the new methods put into vogue by the new officials since their advent into office, sweeping changes have been made in the treasury routine business methods have succeeded old style ideas while official "red tape" has been greatly reduced. HIT THE $11 Hogs That Were Formerly Considered Poor Reach $10.80 Point. SUPPLY WAY BELOW PAR (American Xews Service) Chicago, March 12. The ?11 hog ushered itself in on the Chicago market today. Receipts fell away to 3,000, and of these two car loads brought the top price. Eastern demand was unabated with utter impossibility to meet itHogs that in past years would have been considered decidedly poor quality sold at $10.S. Shippers to the east were apparently willing to pay almost any price for pork of any sort. Further diminution in supply with another rise is looked for Monday. Packers assert that "shilling pork" is only a few days distant. They look for $12.30 by the end of the week. 100 acres fine land that is black, 14 miles south of Minot at $1S.00 per acre on time, with a small payment down, - C. O. Richards, Miuot, N. Dakota. G-13

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BIG SHORTAGE STIRS FRANCE Paris, March 12. Revelations following the arrest of M. Duez, judicial trustee of the Tribunal of the Seine, and formerly liquidator of the properties of dispossessed religious organizations, who is charged with the embezzlement of .!1,0K),kx have caused a great sensation in France. It is predicted that they will have a disastrous effect on the government's chances in the coming elections. There is indignation in many quarters that the property wrested from the religious bodies, which in many cases was devoted to relieving the necessities of the sick and poor, should have been allowed, as is charged, to be frittered away in speculation and dissipation. According to the newspapers Duez's defalcations now prove to be nearer $2. : m M.H.H , than $l,"HM.noo. It is said the money was in nowise all lost in bourse transactions. Some of it was invested in real estate by Duez for his own benefit, it is alleged. Say Woman Got Large Sums. It is declared also that he lavished immense sums on Mile. Peirie. a notorious and beautiful demi-mondaine. Many invoices of jewelry were found among his papers. These and other gifts to Mile. Peirie in the last few months are said to have amounted to $12,000. Duez also maintained a villa on the Riviera. The details of his alleged treatment of the church property make amazing reading. There is much talk of other arrests. It seems, according to the al legations, Duez shared his plunder

with unscrupulous lawyers and others, j cule, the coup de grace is giveu by The Republican press finds no words certain special microbes, which conof excuse for the disgraced official and , vert these later compounds into still lay much of the responsibility for the simpler combinations namely, amniocondition of affairs upon the immense ! nia and nitrates, which are fairly sta-

'MU iuutui . n- kjvaih- vi pers accord the government praise for exposing the scandal on the eve of the general elections. Opposition Press Gleeful. The Catholic and Royalist opposition press manifests glee over the exposure, which, they declare, confirms the suspicions long entertained that the property of the churches, monasteries, and convents ex-appropriated by the state, instead of furnishing $200,000,OtiO for old age pensions and other social reforms, had disappeared into the pockets of politicians. The L' Acton Francaise remarks cynically: "Duez, being charged by the government to steal the church's property can hardly be blamed for taking a part of the booty for himself." The cabinet considered the affair today and decided to detail auditors from the ministry of finance to inspect all of the accounts, and to place efa inspector from the ministry at the disposition of the court which is in investigating Duez. The latter's house has been searched and his safe deposit box at his bank placed under seals. The Twilight Of Life. The muscles of the stoomcb In old aire are no as strong or active as in youth and it, consequence old people are very subject to constipation and indigestion. Many seldom faave a bowel movement without artificial aid. Many, also, have capleasant eructations of gas from the stomach after eating:. Ail this can be avoided by the use of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which permanently regulates the bowels so tha. passages come naturally, and so strengthens the stomach that food is digested without discomfort. Druggists sell it at 50 cents or Si a large bottle.

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Detroit Woman Says Her; Mother Did This to Be Revenged on Her. GIVEN A DIVORCE DECREE SHE WAS WARNED THAT HER PARENT HAD DESIGNS ON HER MATE, BUT DID NOT HEED THE COMMON GOSSIP. (American News Service) Detroit, Mich.. March 12. Mrs. Geo. ! Wardell, the beautiful young woman j who created a sensation in the divorce court last month by stating that her husband had eloped with her mother. ' got a decree today. She told on the witness stand how her mother long' ago, had vowed vengeance upon her ' for siding with her father in family : disputes and how the revenge was taken by stealing her husband's love. j "When Raymond was born." she i said, "she came to our house and no s one knew enough to send her away, j That's when she got George in her! clutches, and she never let go. , Friends of mine would tell me that I'd ; better keep my eyes open, but I re-i fused to believe gossip. My mother had the nerve to lecture me about not being strict enough with George. Nights when they had been out tojgether, as I learned later, she would tell me that if George were her hus band there wouldn't be such things going on. The night of June 21 he stayed out, until 2 in the morning. He toid me' he had been bowling down town. A friend of mine told me to look in his pockets. I found two notes, one making a date with my mother for the night before and the other telling of their plans to run away together. I went up stairs and asked again. "Where did you say you were last night?" "Bowling," he said. "Then I showed him the notes. They fled the same day. 1 got one letter from George, dated at Chicago the day after he went away." THE MICROBES. But For Them All Green Plants Would Vanish From the Earth. Few persons can realize at first what an immense number and variety of microbes there are not only around ps in the air nnd dust and water, but aiso in us and on ua and in and on every living thins. The work, the huge system of chemical change acd the circulation of the elements carbou. oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulphur which they carry on is incessant, varied and complex. Those five elements are the main and essential constituents of all living things. Supposing there were no microbes, there would be no putrefaction, no breaking down of the dead bodies of animals and plants which were once alive into gas and substances soluble in water. They by a series of steps in which different kind? of bacteria or microbes are successively concerned convert the proteids and the fats and sugars of dead plants and animals into less elaborate bodies, organic acids, aromatic bodies and other compounds (some highly poisonous to man), and at last, when what were highly com plex combinations of hundreds of atoms in each molecule have been reduced by the action of first one and then of another kind of microbe into comparatively simple substances of i twenty or thirty atoms to the mole- . . f b . . .. . . . . i hours or days after death is broken , e - - ' down until it reaches the stable "ruin eral" condition, practically carbonate and nitrate of ammonia smelling salts. If there were no microbes this would never occur. The earth would be cumbered with the dead bodies of past generations of animals and plants undecomposed. And very soon all the organic elements, all the carbon and nitrogen, if not all the hydrogen and oxygen, on the face of the earth would be fixed in these corpses, and the green plants would perish from the whole world for want of sustenance. for it is the green plants which fed on and absolutely must have as their food the carbonic acid, ammonia and nitrates into which the microbes r solve ail living things when dead It j is the gretMi plants which from those ; simple compounds build up again the more complex molecules, the sugars. ! fats, albumens and proteids and pro- j vide for the nourishment and increase , olj the most complex of all the living matter hidden in protoplasm. Sir llay , Lankester in London Telegraph. r;;;iir,i..ic. "What a pessimist Brown is! "What's the matter now?" "lie even bewails the fact that he can't live to collect his life insurance." Detroit Free Press. Some men can't even find fault without acting as though they had discovered something to be croud of.

HOPPE WANTS ALL TITLES. I ! Young Cue Artist Will Go After 13.1 ! and 1&2 Ba!k Line Titles. j Willie Hoppe. the youthful billiard ' expert, who plays George Sutton for j the balk line title in Chicago i March 16, intends to get all the cham- j pionships within the uext few mouths! if he can. ! If Hoppe defeats Sutton in their TAX point match the fount: expert will is- j sue a challenge at iue to the holder ct that time of the ls2 title, an honor j for which Cline mul Outier are to play j on the Paciiic coast. In addition to ihar. Hoppe will re- ; new his cfi'er to play any man. living at thrre cushions, the red ball anJ ui.y other ?;iae on the billiard table. He will offer to wager $3,000 against $4.uoo with any man living on the balk line game, any style, of six nights' duration. Iloppe's tour has been successful to a hisli degree. Willie has Ora Mt-rn-insrstar as a playing partner, and as both men are in grand condition they are putting up excellent billiards in nii

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E MURDERS A WOMAN Ex-convict Slays the Wife of the Man Whom He Bore Grudge Against. CRIME WAS TERRIBLE OiiE KITCHEN WAS BESMEARED WITH J ELCOD AND THE UPTURNED j CHAIRS INDICATED A TERRIBLE j CONTEST. - lAmonoan News Porvieel j Alton, 1!!.. March 12. Mrs. Cora Croft on, auod thirty, wife of Peter Crotton. w.o fatally wounJed Saturday nooa by Oliis NioklsX asoJ twenty-five, cousin of her husbaud's first wife. Motive was revenge. Streaming with blood s-he appeared at the back door of ln r neighbor. Mrs. lif.yvtte and fell fainting. Mor throat was cut from ear to ear with a butcher knife. She was able to gasp only ' ol!is Xickish." The story of the assault was gleaned by asking Questions and permitting her to nod her head. Xickish served several terms In the routine reformatory for stealing jewelry from Crofton. who raised him when his first wife was living and while in the reformatory ho swore to be revenged. When he returmM a year ago, Crofton ordered him off the place and he was not seen again until today. Ezra Pierce, a neighbor, saw Xickish enter the house as Mrs. Crofton went into the back yard. The kitchen was besmeared with blood and upturned chairs indicated a terrific struggle. Mrs. Crofton's waist was torn off her body and she bore many bruises. After the attack Mrs. Crofton jumped out of the kitchen window and crawled to her neighbors, who say her larynx is severed and she cannot live. Xickish is being sought by Deputy Sheriff Crowe and a posse. Before leaving he looted a dresser drawer and took two gold watches and three dollars. MASONIC CALENDAR. Monday, March 14 Richmond Commandery. Xo. S. K. T. Work in Red Cross degree. Tuesday. March ir Richmond Lodge ! Xo. R V A. M. Work in Fellow! Craft degree. ' j Wednesday. March 15 Webb Lodge.' Xo. 1M. F. V A. M. Stated meeting. ! Saturday, March 1! Loyal Chapter,' Xo. 4!, O. E. S. Stated Meeting. GOLD COIN flour ends your baking troubles. Ask your Grocer.

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