THOMASVILLE. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8,1008.
MAGAZINE SECTION;
THE PUBLIC LAND FRAUDS.
PRESIDENT'S -PUBLIC LAND COMMISSION RECOM
MENDS RADICAL CHANGES IN LAWS.
Mr. Kramer Is a Washington florist
with large experience In the flower
the risk of travel ought to bo nil.
Many Tunnels to be Dug.
It having been proved practicable
to tunnel beneath the Hudson river.
line, many new and Interesting nov
elties having originated In hia green
houses. Among the popular'garden
roses which he produced are the
“Climbing Meteor," a climbing varie
ty with large bed blooms; “Cbampion
of the World," “Robert E. Lee," “F.
H. Kramer." and many other sorts
which bare been sold to cataloguS
houses and named by them. He bns
lust originated the “Climbing Ameri
can Beauty" wblcb will probably be
listed by flower-sellers next spring. He
recently exhibited In Washington the
“F. H. Kramer” carnation—a deep
pink sort—which many well-known
florists hare declared to be the equal
of either the “Lawson” or “Fiancee.”
-He states that -no plants of the
“Queen Beatrice" rose will be ready
for distribution before the spring of
1007 during which time a large sum
of money will be expended In the
erection of hothouses and the cultiva
tion and growing of hundreds of
thousands of young planta The es
timate la made that probably f160,000
take place of bridges is cos.
SECTISG SEW JERSEY ASD
SEW YORK.
A WONDERFUL SEW VARIETY
WHICH BRINGS THIRTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
the Pennsylvania Railroad undertak
ing will be pushed rapidly, and it may
be expected that In course of time ev
ery trunk line coming Into Jersey City
will have Its. own tunnel. The East
riyer piercings do not present much
of a problem. In less than live years
trains ought to be running from Phil-
f No nation has ever been so reckless
or has been so mercilessly robbed of Its
public land resources as has the United
Btates. Since the early history of
tlie-republlc, land In vast tracts has.
been granted to Individuals and cor
poraUona; and In spite of the public
attention which of lata years has been
directed to the matter, the absorption
goes on at an alarming rate. It
seems dlfllcult for the man who has
lived In the west for years to realize
that there Is any good reason why be
should not debauch and buy out hun
dreds of others who are willing to eel!
their birthright ns American citizens,
thus enabling him to acquire a do
main which, would have been princely
in the days of'feudalism.
The three men above cited count
their holdings to-day by the hundreds
of thousands of acres, but there are
western corporations and Individuals
whose figures-mount up even Into mil
lions of acres. One can ride or drivo
all day through their territory, the
Three men went out west to seek
their fortunes. One located in the
Middle West—not the Middle West,
perhaps, as it Is generally known,
la a Ravishing Pink and Crimson Tea
-One to Two Hundred ThousanJ
DollarsExpected Profit—Other Huge
Figures-for t lowerq.
A .Washington gardener has'origi
nated what Is believed by expert flor
ists to be the finest rose ever grown—
tliie Queen Beatrice. It Is a tea of a
peculiar shade of pink, with a touch,
in the bud, of light crimson. Its par
ticular merit lies probably In the fact
that none of the beauty of Its coloring
is destroyed either In natural or arti
ficial light - Added to this It has a
fragrance equal to, If not superior to
that of the American Beauty. The
rose grows on straight and stur
dy stems from two to three feet long;
Its parents are the two well-known va-
Completlon of Borings Under Hudson
River-One of Greatest of Engineer*
ing Feats-
After half a century of speculation
on the practicability of tunneling the
Hudson river from New Jersey to the
island of Manhattan, It is now possi
ble to walk dry-shod from Jersey to
New York. The twin bores have been
completed; that is, they have been cut
through and-cased in, though of course
some finishing touches are yet to be
put upon them. It was a few days
ago that in the presence of the engi
neers, the directors and a dozen re
porters, W. G. Oakman, president of
the Hudson Companies, split an old
brick bulkhead with a hydraulic lack
and completed the first Manhattan-
Jersey tunnel system. There was a
six-inch gap in the wall. A gang of
"ground hogs" rammed the breach a
little wider, and the party crawled
through Into New York city.
The old wall that was out through
was seven feet thick. It is the relic
of a former failure to tunnel the
Hudson. Twenty-three yean ago the
engineers of the old Hudson Company,
after cutting a considerable distance
under the river, abandoned the enter
prise and walled In the unfinished
work with this brick bulkhead.
Two tube-tunnela run parallel be
neath the Hudson river, the work of
boring them tying done under direc
tion ofthe New York and New Jer
sey Railroad Company, but this com
pany entrusted the actual performance
.of the work to the Hudson Companies.
The present tube has been two
years In the course of construction.
Tho tubes will cost when completed
about 913,000,000, and the entire work
will cost about 130,000,000.
Fifteen Feet In Diameter.
The tubes are 3,700 feet long, IBM
feet in diameter and are intended for
one track each, with a sidewalk for
workmen. Two tubes have been start
ed on the New Jersey shore, to run
under the river to Cortlandt and
Church streets. These tubes will be
1014 feet In diameter. The tubes lust
completed will connect on the New
Jersey shore with "the Pennsylvania
and the Lackawanna terminals. In
Manhattan one branch will connect
with the subway under Fourth ave
nue at Astor Place. Another branch
will run to Sixth avenue 'and Thirty-
third street A trip through the entire
length of the tunnel from the subway
to Hoboken will cost only five cents.
About six hundred men have been em
ployed In the tunnels.
Cars.will be running through these
tube-tunnels in eighteen months. The
safety of transportation in the tunnel
needs no demonstration, for trains will
run in a steel tube the strength of
which to resist pressure has been care
fully worked out Being laid from
fifteen to fifty feet below the river
bed,, it cannot be affected by the ac-
but the central section of the west
ern half of the United States—In the
desert country. He started his suc
cessful career by taking up a govern
ment claim under the desert-land act
He was In the cattle country—the
adelphta to Boston with no water to
be crossed, ' r|
It is believed that within ten' yean
electric trains will make the trip from
Philadelphia to New York in one hour.
SO TURKEY STUFFING t
Christmas Dinner incomplete With
out This Ol d-Faahloned Addition.
The latest and most obnoxious
crank In th gastronomic line is that
deluded epicure -who asserts tbat
Christmas turkey must be served
without "stuffing.” He says It is an
;overnment timber claim. He located
n a land where lumbering was done.
And these three men became great
and Incidentally landlords; and their
operations while widely different
were singularly similar. They .died on
their government claims and at the
earliest possible moment each man
"proved up and sold out” for cash to
larger land grabbers. And so they
learned the mode and got their start
learned the mode and
toward land grabbing
The desert entrymnn
under the law to lire at least three
years on his 820 acres and to-expend
during that period I960 In construct
ing Irrigation ditches and other im
provements, and make it his home.
This was what was promised for the
but of the deep recesses of the royal
bird in great crumbly masses tbat fill
the room with rich aroma and the
heart of min, woman and child with
Joy unconflncd.
It Is the soul of the turkey, is stuff
ing. With the bird Itself one Is al
ways bothered, about wbat part be
will have—whether white meat or
dark; whether a wing, a thigh, or a
drumstick; whether the wish-bone,
the liver, or "the part that went over
the fence last;” but for the stuffing.
Congress. As a matter of -fact, this
man spent a day with a team making
HON. W. A. RICHARDS.
ObAlrman Public f
only signs of civilisation being barbed
wire fences and roaming herds, where
should be hundreds and thousands of
prosperous farm homes.
When President Roosevelt came in
to office he found government aid to
irrigation a question of growing popu
larity. He recommended Its consider
ation by Congress. A national Irri
gation law was enacted. In bis fol
lowing message, he officially recog
nized the basic fraud of land laws
and the menace which they afforded
to the homemaking irrigation law
and the next year he appointed a Pub
lic Land Commission composed of
three eminent public men, well quali
fied to investigate the land conditions
the fence last;” but for the stuffing,
American sentiment is universal.
The only question Is:-How much does
one dare to eat? And then tbat en
trancing. sagey. odor, from the mys
terious “yarbs” that enter Into the mak
ing—as sweet as the summer breezes
over new mown hay—as delicate as
the fragrance of orange blossoms on
a wedding day. And perchance. In
addition, we shall catch the sublime
suggestion of an onion, wafted Into
our quivering nostrils, and recalling
some dedr departed maternal spirit
wbo ministered to our boyish wants
in days of yore.
Turkey straight, without stuffing?
Not white Uwro U. touslh to s—nrtrii
protest It Is tbs mission of’civiliza
tion to- mix with naked nature the
toothsome miscellany of tradition; to
blend the work of nature and man;
to sweeten with our best endeavor
the plain blessings of an all-wise
ITovldonoc. That’s what gave us
"stuffing;” and until the heart of man
grows cold,—until the race loses Its
teeth and lives on pills and tablets
and predlgestsd pap, Its multitudes
will Insist on turkey as mother served
It Down with theories Give us
These otnclals were W. A. Rlchnrds,
Commissioner of the General Land Of
fice; Gifford Plnchot, Chief of the
Bureau of Forestry, and Frederick H.
Newell, Chief Engineer of the Nation
al Irrigation or Tleclamatlon Service.
And this commission after a year
and a half of field Investigation mads
a short official report to Congress,
THE NSW QUEEN BEATRICE ROSE.
rletles. Liberty and Madam Chatenay,
the former, one of the most popular
crimson varieties, but uncertain in the
production of perfect blooms. Queen
Beatrice has none of the faults of Its
parents and combines all of their good
qualities; it is -resistant to insect and
mildew attacks, and capable of forc
ing on the hothouse bench.
Grown at Gardiner Hubbard Mansion
(It whs originated by Peter BIssett,
and will be put on the market by
Florist F. H. Kramer, of Washington.
tlon of tidewater. The tube is a steel- — .
lined hole in the earth, and except for stuffing or take the turkey back.
the best tlmo to no
cltlicr just before <
tbe plant comes Ir
One Wasblngtoi
nntod tbe “Ivory”
white flower, and
Gate”—was unwlsi
flowers, thereby ei
sen to propagate
The Washington
cently awarded tbi
HOMESTEAD ENTRY IN EASTERN OREGON OF JOHN J. MURPHY.
Made to Secure Voluble Timber lands.—Entijman is cook. In an adjoining Lumber Cemp
which was published as Senate Docu
ment 1W, 5Sth Congress, 3d Session.
It Is herewith published In part,
showing as It does tho necessity for
energetic,action by Congress on one of
the most vital questions of the day.
namely, the correction Of tho national
nbifte which Is taking away from the
American homesoeker the opportunity
rice” rose a certlfl
first of the kind
club. The new 11
arid beautiful that
tbe club consented
such claims and then went looking for
further speculation.
Typical Cases of Fraud.
These three cases are cited simply
because they are typical of thousands
and hundreds of thousands of Instan
ces which could be related of tbe
great west where the government
still owns half a billion acres of land,
although another half billion have
passed into private ownership nndcr
the various loose and really fraudu
lent land laws with which the statute
Comfort on
to acquire n piece of land and rear
thereon n home for himself and his
family. This subject will be further
considered In next week's Issue, which
will Include an additional section of
this report
“Cupid Is one
officers that Unde
one of the serges:
recruiting headqn
noarty every cnlli
woman In the cast
chase a lot of line
Ice. Yonr romantl
to the recruiting ol
PUBLIC LANDS COMMISSION
break with hla swe
as a duck takes t
to him tbe most fli
to sacrifice himself
dream Is apparent
down In his heart
of making bit ci
sad. and It’s tbe a
the possibility of i
him. Again, other
Is recruited by tt
fellows to sport a t
girls. In sneb ca
MESSAGE
blooms. It attracted the attention of
Thomas Fields, a Washington florist.
Nothing was known by him of the
forcing qualities of this rose in. the
greenhouse, hot as he rather liked Its
color and general appearance, one af
ternoon while her husband was ab
sent, be purchased tbe single plant
from Mrs. Ready for five dollars.
Ready,-when he rotund and was told
of the sale, believed tbat his wife bad
asked too much, for the flower. Fields
experimented with the plant and fonnd
tbat It exceeded even his fondest
hopes. He named It the "American
Beauty" and probably cleared 825.000
on tbla one deal. To-day Ready la
atm a gardener, doing odd jobs for peo
ple around town—spading up gardens,
supplying rich earth and planting
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE UNCONVENTIONAL SARAH.
It was Thomas Carlyle who raid
that all genius was akin to savagery.
Sarah Bernhardt exemplifies this (a
the buodotr of bee chateau in Paris.
Mme. Bernhardt Is a perfect berbarUri
In licr defiance, of all the convention-
THE SECOND PARTIAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC LANDS COM
MISSION, APPOINTED OCTOBER 32, X903, TO REPORT UPON
THE CONDITION, OPERATION, AND EFFECT OF THE PRESENT
LAND LAWS.
To tbe Senate and House of RepreaentaUtes; jfcaaaS
recruiting through 1
ways ha manages
in the ranks of Up
I submit herewith the second partied report of tbe Public Lands Com-
islon, appointed by me October 22, 1008, to report upon the condition.
:ration, and effect of tbe present land laws and to recommend such
inges as aw needed to effect the largest practical disposition of the pnb-
panlon a large and ugly baboon, whose
ears bare been pierced so tbat they
may cany bnge rings of solid gold.
Bernhardt Is said to look ai young as
she did twenty yean ago. Her face
la without wrinkles, and her step to aa
spry and her manner as yiracloris as
when she first electrified her native
city aa an actress.
altttes regarding color schemes. Her
sleeping room to hnng In royal purple,
decorated with peacock plumes. Over
her Louis XVI. bed is a canopy made
of unspun silk taken directly from tbe
silkworm cocoon. A great splash of
crimson satis, in Hie form of a shield,
adorns the center. Tbe walls are hnng
In old tapestries, and In the Interstices
lie lands to actual settlers who will build homos upon them and to secure
have concluded to submit this second partial report bearing upon some of
In permanence the fullest and most effective use of the resources of the
labile tends. The subject Is one of such magnitude and Importance that I
be larger features which reqnlre Immediate attention without waiting for
