Twice-a-week telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1899-19??, January 01, 1907, Image 2

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3 THE TTTICE-WlYEEK TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1907. and 70 Wounded Tmi" Were Killed ! M s$ u HESTER’S WEEKLY MEiJLEO VOLUME HUE OF PROPERTY OF T80BE FOR FOSS III SSUTHERR STAFFS Committee Appointed By Mass Meeting Reports on September Riots ATLANTA, Dec. 28.—The committee appointed by a mass meeting of citizens at the time of the September riots In this city, to Investigate the facts con nected with the troubles at that time, made Its report today. The report shows that twelve persons were killed and seventy wounded. Of the dead, two were whites and 0 ADDRESS FARMERS ATLANTA. Dec. 28.—President Charles S. Barrett. of the Farmers’ Union, has returned to the city, and upon his arrival made the Important announcement that Hon. Tom Watson NEW ORLEANS. La., Deo. 28.—Sec retary Hester’s weekly New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement issued be fore the close of business today shows eighth century. In the excavation of the ruins of Pompeii a soap boiler’s- shop was uncovered, with a soap in it, show ing that the making of it was known in the first Christian oentury. Pliny, who wrote of the eruption of Vesuvius, which destroyed the two Roman cities in 79 A. D., stated that soap was made from tallow and ashes and that the BUILDING IN THE SOLID ON IMMENSE INCREAS NEW YORK. Dec. 28.—Bradstreet’s tomorrow will say: ■ With an unparalleled volume of busi ness for 1906, crowned by a record hol- BALTIMORE. JId., Dee. 2S.—In its ' German soap was the best. Galen also issue this week the Manufacturers’ Record says: "The true value of property in the referred to the use of soap. With the modern amenities of civil ization the use of soap has grown to enormous proportions. The manu- would deliver an address in the halls ; an Increase in- the movement into sight tdav trade and a heavier volume of fourteen Southern States in 1906 may : facture has been carried to such per- - - ‘ ' be conservatively estimated at $19.- fection that both excellent Quality and 377.804.710. This estimate is based cheapness of cost have been secured, upon figures of assessed values of the In the earlier part of the last century of the House of Representatives Jan- . compared with the seven days ending uary 22. to the national and State , this j a t e last year j n round figures, officers of the organizations wno mee. j .... ... , tu davs here on that day. President Barrett ; an ‘"=nase over t..e same aajs Is of the opinion that Mr. Watson will j year before last of 76.000. For the have an audience of 2,000 farmers to j twenty-eight days of December the hear him. _ 1 totals show an increase over mst year future orders booked than ever before, the commercial and industrial inter ests of the country look forward with confidence to the developments of 1907. Holiday suspensions in iron, steel, tex tile and various other industrial lines were of short duration, owing to the year compiled by the Manufacturers' Record from official sources, some of the practice was common in all the rural regions of this country for farrn- The presidents ! of 643.000. an increase over the same mills being so well sold ahend. Cur- twelve State organizations have been , . , . , - Invited to come to the conference, and I period year before last of 392,000. I-or most of them will be here. The five the 119 days of the season that have members of the national board of direc- J eiapsed the aggregate is ahead of the ten colored: two were females and ten tors will also be present. They are: ; m ( , avs of )ast 8S3.000. ahead of males. Of the wounded, ten were !«- * ”—<- o-.m—«i<» • r>_ I - - — whites and sixty negroes. The com mlttee. for relief of the wounded and ■ ,<-r, (opens, j\.uh., . o. uKi, nast for the families of the dead, expended — - * '* Mur 1 $5,363, of which the city contributed 31,000. The report says: The crimes of the mob included rob them coming directly' from State ex- j * rs ’ wives to make their own soft soap, executive in telegrams, and comparison a ‘ sometimes the hard soap. For this . . . 3 * _ . 1 nnrnitcp enn n pronca tvo «2 cqvod with the figures of 1905 is made in I ..... .tv~ - ; j j;t nays ni last year sss.vuv. aneao oi | '' • A. Morris. Sulligent. Ala.. Camp- j salne days year before last 2,000. The * " 11 5 UM f ’ Russell. I. T.: James But- ; anioun ; brought into sight during the d j]er, Topeka, Kan.; ,. S. Mi.ler, Lake . ., ast week Infs been 448.658 bales. hery as well as murder. In a number of cases the property of the Innocent and unoffending people was taken. Furniture was destroyed, small shops were looted, windows were smashed, money was taken from small hoards. In the commission of crime men and women alike were treated with un speakable brutality.” As a result of the riots, the report continues, good citizens have been driven away. Concluding the report says: ”As twelve persons were killed and seventy were murderously assaulted, and as by all accounts, a number took part in each assault, it is clear that several hundred murderers, or Svouid he murderers, are at large in this com munity.” The committee in concluding Its re port sums up the following facts. “1. Among the victims of the mob there was not a single vagrant. "2. They were earning wages in Use ful work up to the time of the riot. "3. They were supporting themselves and their families or dependent rela tives. "4. Most of the dead left small chil dren and widows, mothers or sisters, with practically no means and very small earning capacity. "o. The wounded lost from one to eight weeks’ time, at 50 cents to $4.00 a day each. "6. About seventy persons were wounded, and among these there was an immense amount of suffering. In some cases it was prolonged and excruciating pain. "7. Many of the wounded are dis figured and several are permanently disabled. "8. Most of them were In humble circumstances, but they were honest, industrious and law abiding citizens and useful members of society. "!>. Those statements are true of both white and colored. "10. Of the wounded ten are white and sixty are colored. Of the dead, two are white and ten are colored, two females and ten males. This includes three killed at Brownsville. “11. Wild rumors of a larger number killed have no foundation that we can discover. As the city was paying the funeral expenses of victims and relief was given their families, they had every motive to make known their ions. In one case relatives of a man killed in a broil made fruitless efforts to secure relief. "12. Two persons reported as vic tims of the riot had no connection with it. One. a negro man. was killed in a broil over a crap game, and another, a negro woman, was killed by her paramour. Both homicides oc curred nt some distance from the scene of the riot. "13. As twelve persons were killed and seventy were murderously assault ed. and ns, by all accounts, a number took part In each assault, it is clear that several hundred murderers' or would-be murderers are at large In this community. ”14. Although less than three months have passed since the riot, events have already demonstrated that the slaugh ter of the innocent does not deter the criminal class from committing more crime. Rape and robbery have been committed in the city and suburbs dur ing that time. "15. The slaughter of the innocent does drive away good citizens. From one small neighborhood twenty-five families have gone. A great many of them were buying homes on the in stallment plan. "16. The crimes of the mob include robbery as well as murder. In a num ber ot' eases the property of innocent and unoffending people was taken. Furniture was destroyed, small shops were looted, windows were smashed, trunks were burst open, money was taken from the small hoard, and arti cles of value were appropriated. In the commission of these crimes the victims, both men and women, were treated with unspeakable brutality, "17. As th>' result of four days of lawlessness ‘here are in this glad Christmas time widows of both races mourning for their husbands and hus bands of both races mourning for their wives: there are orphan children of Ih races who cry out in vain for Creek. Tex.; L N. MeCollister. Many, La. National Secretary R. H. McCul lough, of Beebe. Ark., will be here. The Farmers' Union Press Associa rent jobbing of the filling-in order character, and while a cold snap early in the week, helped retail trade in seasonable goods, the weather on the whole has been too mild for the fullest developments. Money continues firm and active, hut easier conditions are looked for after | against 312,196 for the seven days end- { the turn of the new year. Car short- ' ing this date last year, 373.186 year : ages still prevail, though the situation Miss. 1 before last, and for the twenty-eight • j s somewhat better. * " One of the most significant features days of December it has been 2.123.528. | . - . „ ,11 * / -v, _ i vaca.vo va i/cvviiiovi '• UUtJ U1 U1C IllGbl PigimAbaut, icaiutv don. consisting of the ^dUors or the j a&a i nst 1.4S0.463 last year, 1,731.247 year i n the entire situation are that con union papers and of which Ben. L. j h pfnre init GrifTIn. of Conway, Ark., is president, will attend the meeting. In addition sumers are apparently convinced of The movement since September 1 i the permanency of present high prices, shows receipts at all United States 1 an( j as shown by advance orders, are to these officials, county officers m j ports r,.so2.17$. against 5,012.334 last j disposed to order ahead with liberality large numbers will be on hand, .-us well , year 5 .soo.977 year before last. Over- i and confidence. as prominent members and workers )and across the Mississippi. Ohio and J Buving of nig iron for delivery in in the ranks from ail parts of the South. Prior to the big conference here on January 22 the county organizations everywhere will hold meetings and ral lies. The meeting here will be one of the most important in the history of the organization. President Barrett says the union has enjoyed a year of wonderful growth and prosperity during 1906. and is now- in the million class in membership. At the meeting hero plans for the new year will he discussecf and a more vigorous campaign than ever for the advancement of the farmer'waged. TOLD OF RIOTOUS ACTS AT BROWNSVILLE Potomac rivers to Northern mills and Canada 533.258. against 425.521 last year, 517.134 year before last. Inte rior stocks in excess of those held at the close of the commercial year 561.- 493. against 607.011 last year, and 665.654 year before last. Southern mills takings 96S.OOO. against 937,011 last year. 878.716 year before last. These make the total movements for the 119 days of the season from Sep tember 1 to date 7.864.929, against 6.981.877 last year, and 7,862.481 year ________ before last. Foreign exports for the j (SOpoints) without sales. Cuban pro week have been 267.690. against 125,- j duction is very large, foreshadow ing a 609 last year, making the total thus : record crop despite scarcity of labor, far for the season 3.971,027, against : Beet sugar production this year ex- 3.359,838 last year, an increase of 611.- I ceeded that of Louisiana cane. States. 1905. 1906. Alabama .. $344,224,271 $378,468,462 Arkansas ... . 290.576.1P8 321.700.000- Florida .... . 131.436.393 143,200,000 Georgia ... . 577.967.938 624.465.472 Kentucky . . 705.771.834 80S.041.91S Louisiana . . 396.821.157 459.271,270 Maryland . . 705.561.456 733.700.000 Miss . 2S4.343.137 366.799.080 N. Carolina . 461.520.66S 479.900,000 S. Carolina . 220,224,505 249.534.422 Tennessee ’. . 445.832.036 474.500.000 - Texas .1.139.022,730 1.221.159,869 i Virginia ... . 554.188.687 629.641,533 j \Y. Virginia . 332.94S.331 837.S39.858 1 Total ..$6,680,439,421 $7,743,221,884 “Where round numbers are used, the ' figures are estimates, it is believed. the second half of 1907 is incrc in volume. A significant feature is below rather than above the figures the fact that buyers, appear disposed that will appear when officiallv avail- to accept the present high level of prices, the feeling in this respect be ing in sharp contra played early in the sum purpose soap grease was saved during the winter, and wood ashes were col lected from the fires in kitchen stoves and fireplaces. The ashes were kept as clean as possible and placed in a leachtub, which was specially made for the purpose of securing lye to make soap. The lye was the strong alkaline solution secured by soaking the ashes with water and allowing it to drip from the bottom of the tub. The form of vessel found most convenient for this was a tall tub, larger at the top than at the bottom, and supplied with a spigot from which the lye ran. The supply of water w-as frequently re newed by pouring a pailful on top of the ashes. When the stap making was to be done on a warm spring day a fire was kindled out of doors and a huge pot or kettle, filled with the tallow and suet saved for the purpose, and the lye poured over the grease, was suspend- able The comparison shows that there ed over the fire, and the boiling and first time in seven years. But the to tal increase in the year is only $351,- 062.914 less than the total increase, SI,41.3,845,377. between 1900 and 1905, 189. Northern mills takings and Can- | The ada during the past seven days show I several an increase of 32.491 as compared with j ness is seasonably quiet, but whisky the corresponding period last year and ! distillers are busy on orders, and Ken- i their total takings since September I i tucky distilleries" never had so much 1 have decreased 49,705. The total tak- j business. liotior^ dfstilfimr & trade reports I '"which p^iodthe average annua In* features'“inters* Net?TuT- was only $282,769,075. The in- reatu.es . i interest, xsew pus ereasp between ions ions crease between 1905 and 1906 was $307,113,656 greater than the increase, $755.66S,807, between 1S90 and 1900. In some of the States have been 2,135.383. against 2.154,405 BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Dec. 2S.— last year. These include 1,155.839 by George W. Randall, a retired business ' Northern spinners against 1.205,544. man. and his wife testified in the ! Stocks at the seaboard and the twen- Purdy investigation as to the riotous ! tv-nine leading Southern interior cen- acts alleged to have been committed j ters have increased during the week by members of the Twenty-fifth In- j 21,712 bales, against an increase dur- fantry, negroes, being conducted by j ing the corresponding period last sea- ings of American mills. North, South } Business failures for the week ending Y alues represent only a third of the and Canada, thus far for the season ; December 27. in the United States nttm- tru ® Y -t 8 ’ an “ m others from 40 per ber 161. against 227 last week. i Yf nt *° °® " cr ,? ent , of the true value. Weeky Bank Clearings. . that basis the true value of prop- NEW YORK. Dec. 28.—Tile total bank ae . South today approaches clearings in the United States for the $19,400,000,000. In 1860 the true value Assistant United States Attorney Gen eral Purdy, at the instance of Presi dent Roosevelt here today. The Rendalls live in the second story of a building just across the street from Fort 'Brown and say that they saw the soldiers shooting from the in side of the garrison wall on the night of the outrage, the soldiers afterward jumping over the wall and invading the town. Mrs. Kate Leahy corroborated this evidence and counted sixteen negro soldiers participating in the shooting. Herbert Elkins was with Mrs. Leahy son of 65,598. Including stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far from the new crop, the supply to date is 8,162,- 699, against 7,426.408 for the same pe riod last year. World’s Visible Supply. NEW ORLEANS. La.. Dec. 28.—Sec retary Hester’s statement of the world’s visible supply shows:: Total visible 5,173,646, against 4,880,956 last week. 5,307,977 last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 4,124,646. against 3,937,956 last week, and 4.153.977 last arid corroborated her testimony. In : year, and of all other kinds, including ail twenty citizens testified today prac- | Egypt, Brazil. India, etc., 1,049,000. tic-ally to the same effect. j against 943,000 last week, 1,154,000 last Photographs of places fired into , J’ ear - were taken and bullet holes counted. I A new Springfield army bullet of im- I cotton as above shows an increase proved pattern was found imbedded i compared with last week of 292,690. behind a bod room mirror and will be i a decrease compared with last year of taken to Washington. The inquiry i 13 *; 331 , Deposits ., Circulation Legal tenders. Specie Reserve Reserve required.:. The total world’s visible supply of i Surplus week were $2.814.057.Sll; outside of New of property in the whole countrv. in York City, $990,106,311: increas. 7.6 r.er eluding the South, was only $16,160. 000.000. The increase in - real wealth . in the South during the year approxi- I mates $2,656,956,158, which means an : increase at the rate of about $7,280,000 U day, including Sundays and holi days. ! "Marked addition to Southern wealth cent. Richmond ....$5.244.190.. Inc. ..21.0 Doc. Savannah .... 3,731.088.. .. 24.0 Atlanta ........ .... 5.086.654.. ..29.1 — Norfolk .... 2.446.290.. ..27.5 — Augusta .... 1.637.865.. ..10.9 — Charleston .... .... 1.154.243.. .. 6.3 Knoxville .... 1,500,214.. ..15.7 — Jacksonville .. .... 1,151.472.. ..14.8 — Macon .... 843.723.. ..11.6 — reduced the price that the use of the homemade product has practically ceased, even in the regions most re mote from market. That any substitute for soap will be evolved in the chemistry of the future, of course, remains to be seen, but nothing has yet been found that serves the same purpose, although the soap- assessed i berry of nature has in its pulp a pow erful detergent which is much stronger than ordinary soap. The fruit of the soapwort has soap qualities, and in some parts of the world is used as nat ural soap. Soapstone although it has a greasy or soapy feeling, has no de tersive power, but is sometimes ground up for toilet powders. Its other name, steatite, is from the Greek word for tallow. There are many words of which soap is one of the constituents. Soap bub bles have formed the innocent amuse ment of children of all ages, with the ease of making them, their iridescence during the year has been in the shape and the brief period for which thev of railroad construction that has last. Hawthorne, in “The House of the brought the total mileage of that sec- Seven Gables,” describes ..now a man tion up to 64.000. A careful review of had an irresistible desire to blow soap this construction shows 3,055 miles bubbles, and scattered the airy spheres Weekly bank Statement. NEW YORK. Dec. 29.—The statement of the clearing-house banks for the week (five business days), shows that the banks requirements! "a'i 0 increase of' ssloss.'s^o completed and 4.200 miles construction I abroad from a window to the' street. -1 Ih.1. 1- . no . *. rvlannrt/1 for T’So ooEiMnfon 1-t. • _ ^ t. . a as compared with last week. The state ment follows: Inerease. Loans $1,032,973,000 $5,789,700 will be completed tomorrow. PRES. CASSATT DEAD One of Foremost Railroad Men and Financiers of Country PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28.—Alexan der Johnstone Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and one of the foremost railroad men and finan ciers in the country, died suddenly at his residence in this city today. Mr. Cassatt, who was a little more than 67 years of age, was stricken with heart disease shortly before 1 o’clock and died before assistance could be given him. He was a victim of an acute heart attack, known professionally as "the Stokes-Adams syncope." Aside from being the head of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr. Cassatt was president of six other companies and a director in twenty-three con cerns, principally transportation com panies, bank and trust companies. His wealth is estimated at between $50.- 000 and $75,000,000. Mr. Cassatt was born in Pittsburg in 1S39: was educated in Germany and at the New York Polytechnic Institute. He entered the service of the Perin- sylvania in 1S61 as a rodman. In 1S67 he became superintendent of motive power and machinery, and in 1878 be came general superintendent of the Pennsylvania System. From this time his rise was rapid and in 1SS0. he Of the world’s visible supply of cot ton as above there is now afloat and held in Great Britain and Continent 2.402,000, against 2,575,000 last year; in Egypt 238,000, against 191,000 last year: Ex-U. S. deposits.,. 9Sl.3oi.ioo 53.070.800 71.371.500 179 323.000 2.6951400 250.694.500 4.501.400 245.325.27i 5,369,22 9,501.47 9.652.300 145.200 1.806,000 2.413.075 2.088.325 planned for 1907. The _ estimates for i A soap crutch is a crotched stick 1907 do not, as a rule, include figures used for stirring the softsoap in a for new corporations that have not be- kettle. A soapfish has a soapy skin, gun construction, but in a very few whence its name. The soapnut is the instances, where the work is practically fruit of an East Indian shrub. A soap- assured. they are taken note of. More- lock is a term used in this country in over, in some cases old companies will undoubteedly build more line next year, for instance, the Southern Rnil- THE SUSPICIOUS MAN. 0' 1-0-5 j wav. but they are not ready to an nounce. their plans, and, consequently, their projected work cannot be noted. reference to a lock of hair which was formerlj’ frequently worn on the temple and kept smoothly in place, by being soaped, and the term has come to mean any lock of hair brushed apart from the rest and kept carefully in its place. St. Louis Republic, Everybody’s good to me— Just now: Just as good as they can be— JUst now: in India 452,000. against 613.000, and 1 Wife is gentle, kind and sweet. had become first vice-president; in 1S82 thev will see no more: there are he resigned, hnd did not again hold an L-i-ow 1 men of both races disabled fer official position in the company until lifr. md .11 ibis sorrow has ci»me to he was elected to the presidency of iwr.ple who are r,b?olutely innocent of tho company, 1889. Mr.- Cassatt began anv wrong doing. " I his railroad career in the engineering "In conclusion we call attention to i department and never lost his inter- the fact that up to this time Atlanta ost ,n that branch, and the planning 1. i.l been a law abiding cltv and crimi- and Parting of the Great New York ir's of ill kinds, with a single excep- ' cilv Tunnel System for the company tlon. had been punished bv legal " a * due to hint. Mr. Cassatt had methods. Ropotnedlv. in view of hun- res, ded In Philadelphia for many years in the' United States 2,082,000, against 1,929,000 last year. Liverpool Cotton Statistics. LIVERPOOL. Dec. 2S.—Following are the weekly cotton statistics: Bales. Total sales of all kinds • 20,000 Total sales of American 18,000 English spinners' takings 66,000 Total export .1 14.000 Imports of all kinds 208.000 Imports of American 171.000 Stoek of all kinds 790.000 Stock of American 629.000 Quantity alioat. all kinds.. 39S.00G Quantity afloat of American 321,000 Total sales on speculation 1,000 Total sales to exporters 1,000 Weekly Interior Cotton Towns. NEW YORK. Dec. 2S.—The following is the movement of spot cotton at the leading interior cotton towns for the week ending Friday. December 28: and his family har’ been very promi nent socially in this city.. dreds of men. th'e Sheriff has con- du(-:e:l along the public highways, prisoners charged with the most odious . rimes, and those prisoners have bad legal trials, which resulted in the pun- i =hment of the guilty and the’acqulttal of the innocent. I'onsiderlng this record of a law a haling c immunity it is amazing that tho things we have recited could have happ- nod in Atlanta and that the sir -11 minority which constitutes the lough element was allowed to crucify this community in the eyes of the ... „„ tvi ""''rid. a ' shock the moral sense of dent of the Young Men's College 1 here. PROF. JOHN E. BAKER DIES AT TH0MASVILLE THOMASVTLLE, Ga.. Dec. 2S.—Prof. John E- Baker died at 10:80 o’clock this morning after an illness of several months. He was a captain In the Confed- ; crate army. He was for 30 years presi- our own people. "W. G. COOPER. "GEORGE MUSE.” VIRGINIA TO SELL SLICE OF LAND and after the establishment of the pub lic schools was president of the High School. Failing health hns prevented him from work for two years past. He leaves a wife and one son. Tom Baker, and live daughters. Mrs. Britton. Mrs. Draper. I Mrs.'Glenn and Misses Sallie and Willie Baker, who were at his bedside at the hour of death. WASHINGTON. Dec. 28.—The Secre tary of War li.-.s in'ormod the House committee on fortifications :ha: legal 0 f>- staeles to the acquirement by the Govern ment of title to l.c.ul under water at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay. -necessary | as a site for the creation of an -.rtilleiai island and fortress, hnve been removed The Government Of Virginia has been credited with an authority to transfer tiie land to the United States Govern ment. and if Congress makes the nec essary appropriation of $1.3S5,>'90 for the purchase of sites and erection of fortifica tion already Included in the estimates submitted by Secretary Taft, the pork will spe, dtly begin and an island of 50 acres area will he created at the entrance of the bay. notic^tcTsubscribers. Examine label on your pa per. It tells bow you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. THE WICKED TEMPLE, By R. A. Wade. ’Twas oure, God made it pure, the human heart. And Eden was its home with God to dwell; But Satan came with temptings and his dart And struck the brightest hopes to black est hell! An atA- God. the fall, the ruiit wrought. A gWnning World with thorns, where fruits had been. A fear, forebodings, and a refuge sought. In thunder tones proclaimed the wage of sin. But Jesus came that temple to rebuild. The bending heavens all amaze to• see; And with His spirit all the chambers filled. To glorify Him in eternity. And *t shall stand, and Eden, still its homo. The flaming swords removed, will open v, ido Tlir gut s of pearl, and .ill w.:o will mav conie. And in that sweet Forevermore abide. TOWNS— •3 3 5 C. O O Ci crT S © E c. 53 Sales. O r n Albany .... 5071 34S 4441 Athens . . . . 1273! 1119 224G3 Atlanta . . . . io 2130! 34)4 15514 Brenham . .. . 60! 63 2580 Charlotte . . . 9% 90; 90 Columbia . . . 1284’ 684 15500 Columbus. Ga. 9'i 6XSi 315 315 21722 Colum., Miss.. 766! 863 11129 Dallas .... 1205212266 4S4S Eufauln . . . . 337 324 5733 Greenville . . . 2230 2037 18024 Greenwood . . 186| 161 5120 Helena .... 2992' 2365 17730 Little Rock.... 9 9-16'1393 2249 51389 Macon . . . • . 10% 366 159 9522 Meridian . . . 2876 2574 9342 Montgomery . 3-% 3S533260 3260 30057 Nashville . . . 10 Vi SOo 771 605 Natchez . . . 3001i276S!166S 14211 Newberry . . 97 87 .... 1700 Raleigh . . . . iovt 193 225 .... 1205 Rome . . . . 500 656 .... 4853 Selma .... 222913595!.... 8513 Shreveport . . 6513I5751 600 22550 Vicksburg . . . 3533 26061.... 31854 Yazoo City 1959 216S 15S14 Gets just what I want to eat. Murmurs things I won’t repeat— Just now. Office boy is most polite— Just now: Wants to stay and work at night— Just now; Postman has a cheery hail When he comes in with the mail. Brings each package without fail— Just now. Cook is meeting every wish— Just now: Always get each longed-for dish— Just now: Children never make - noise— ‘‘Quiet papa mod enjoys!” They are splendid girls and boys— Just now. Friends are dropping in to call— Just now: Mighty pleasant, one and all— Just- now: Telling me it’s fine to see j The amount of electric railway built The use of the word "snap” for money i is small, being about nnlv 100 miles for secretly used for political purposes has 1 1900,- although there are several pro- ' found a Place the slang of cam ! jects of note in prospect for 1907, and term "softsoap.” in this variety of construction record is made only of track that will be ! . used for both passenger and freight ! service, street railways not being in- j eluded. “A peculiarity of railroad construc- ! tion during 1906 is that Texas and i Louisiana are far ahead of the other j States in the record' of line built, but | Arkansas is close behind them. Texas : is away in the lead with a total of Sio j miles (she bad only about 300 miles in j __ __ i 1905). Louisiana second with 471 miles, j n jh e - "Christening of Miss Ivilmans | Arkansas third with 282 miles. Mis- j e^-g.” where the poet savs: j sissippi fourth with 232 miles. Georgia The Manufacturers’ Record timore says that reports from a ber cif cities throughout 'the Soutlf Southwest show that building or tions are steadily increasing, both to the number of structures and as to their cost. At Gulfport, Miss., work under way includes a $16,000 opera house with a capacity for 1,200 per sons. to be completed by January 1; a 30-room brick hotel to cost $22,000; a 26-room brick and stone hotel to cost $23,000, and several residences, rang ing in price from $4,000 to $7,000. A $25,000- cannery and a $6,000 cement plant are planned for the near future, j It is announced that a big warehouse is to be erected in connection with the last of five new piers at Galveston, Tex., and a contract providing for an increase of 5,000 spindles and 20 looms In the equipment of a cotton mill at Waxahachle, involves the erection of a building 100 by 200 feet, ono story high, of red brick and cement stone and 15 operatives’ cottages. • In Knoxville, Tenn., the value of buildings, for which ’ permits were issued last month, is estimated at $104,4S0, an increase of $24,730 over November, 1905, and of $25,255 over November. 1904. Among the important permits of the month were those for the erection of a $30,000 store, a $15.- 000 apartment house and a $10,000 store. In Atlanta, Ga., there has been a notable increase in building activities, the estimated value of structures for which permits were issued in the first 11 months of the year being $4.St3.S79 as compared with $3,312,931 for the en tire year of 1905. It is calculated that $450,000 will have, been expended was | It'S this year at Macon, G - - most prominent buildings. Sol™ 000 hotel and store. In .Mobile, the value ef building operations in first 10 months of the year was 143, which is slightly less than th-wp. tal value ef .-til buildings ei-ecfoco -vi the 12 months of 1905, and it is ex pected that the figures for 1906 will show an increase of about $300,000 over those of last year. During November, building opera tions in iRirmingnam. Ala., totaled $153,280, of which $111,250 represents building-- begun during the month, and $18,520 repairs and alterations': Per mits granted in Memphis. Tenn.. $7,326 in excess of those for Novem| ber. 1905. Tu Jacksonville, Fla., we issued in November permits for frame buildings and six brick Since May 3. 1901. a total of 6,1 j buildings lias been the record of Jack- I sonvllie. To the recent announcement S of a $100,000 fertilizer plant at> Au gusta. Ga., to have an annual output of $50,000. is now added tile announce ment of work to begirt about the mid dle of January upon a $50,000 modern apartment hou c e built in double stylo. At Joplin, Mo., building of nil kinds is being unshod, notwithstanding the winter weather, and no'less than 500 dwelling houses ore now in course of construction, while a number of fac tories and other plants are soon to fo under way. The new $500,000 hotel now under way has the steel construc tional work completed to the eighth story and It is confidently believed that it will be completed by next July. A new gas company in that city has laid the foundations of its building and a steel company there which has recently added a now building to its plant has planned for a grottn of buildings itp which electricity will be used for; power. term “softsoap,” for smooth words of flattery. - has been added to the English language, so that it is used in “Torn Rrcwn at Oxford.” The designation of Castile soap, from the province of Spain, where it was first made from soda and olive oil, came in time to be corrupted in Eng land to castle soap bs r those in ignor- j Western hemisphere ance of its derivation. It is also known as Spanish soap. There is .a green soap especially made to treat cutane ous diseases. A poetical allusion to soap is found FACTS ABOUT SOUTH AMERICA! From an Interview with Tion. Jolu| Barrett. Minister to Colombia, in Joseph News-Press. South America Is a continent of greal surprises, and worthy of our clnsesj study. For instance.’its largest <itv; Buenos Ayres, caphol of Argentina, h U now a population of over 1,000.000. ar is growing faster than any-.citron the' av« N*' York Just now. i Elevator boy wears smiles— Just now: Waiters plv their deepest wiles— Just now: ; Grocer does the best he can. . Butcher’s boy and laundry man [ For my comfort seem to plan— Just notv. | Oh, how fine it is to live— Just now, | I’ve all the joys that life can give— Just now: But, you see Cotton Receipts. NEW TORK. Dec. 28.—The following are the total net receipts of cotton at all ports since September 1: Bales. Galveston 2.211.747 New Orleans 1,270.380 Mobile 570.194 Just now! THE NEW COLOSSUS. Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Baltimore New York Boston - Newport News Philadelphia San Francisco Brunswick Port Townsend Pensacola ' Port Arthur and Sabine Pass. Jacksonville. Fla Laredo. Texas This sonnet stands engraved on the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. It embodies the spirit of the fathers of the republic. Shall we of a later ..l,051>.25 ! to it? fifth with 226 miles. West Virginia | sixth wilh 215 miles. Virginia seventh I with 162 miles. Florida eighth with | 154 miles, and Alabama ninth with 102 I miles. Construction in Oklahoma and ! Indian Territory has slacked off con siderably in the last year or two. but it has developed rapidly in both Lou isiana and Texas, each of which prom ises to make a high record next year. In fact the outlook for 1907 indicates that very active work will be done. The States projecting over 100 miles of line are Texas. 834 miles: Florida, 503 miles: Mississippi, 426 miles: Georgia. 411 miles; Louisiana. 408 miles: Virginia, 322 miles: Arkansas, 263 miles; Alabama, 226 miles: North Carolina. 207 miles: West Vigrinia, 160 miles; Tennessee, 151 miles; Kentucky, 132 miles: Indian Territory, 128 miles; South Carolina. 113 miles.” USE AND MAKING OF SOAP. egg.” where the poet “Seemed washing his bands with in visible soap In imperceptible water." and Chicago. It is more henutifW than any city in the United States, even excepting Washington, and truth fully is c-UIed the Paris of South Amer ica. It has citths, operahouses. hotels and public buildings as fine-as those of New 'York anti London, . The total foreign trade of our sister republics on the Western hemisphere, of which there are nineteen, amo.unted last year to nearly $2,000,000,000. an enormous total which shows its great value, but of this nearly 75 per cent was with European countries. The United States sold to South America last year more than $160.nco.000 worth . of exports, but purchased from South j America more than $300,000,000- of ! products, making a balance of trade ■ ^ against us of more than $149,000,000. PROVIDENCE, R. L, Dec. _9. nhe ; pf course, is not a satisfactory final sessions today of the several con- j arrangement We ought at least to sell ventions which have been held at ; as much as we buy. The reason we Brown University during the past week j haven’t sold more is because we held Saturday. At the conventions, wmen, m a measure, were merged into one, a wide variety of subjects were discussed. Perhaps the most important inci dental feature of the closing session was the action taken by the American Historical Association, which placed it- haven’t gone after the business as bavft the commercial interests of .Europe. Colombia, where I now have the horJ or to be Minister, is a land of ntaj vels and possibilities and is close neighbor of the United States.-i' its nearest port on the Caribbean is only 950 miles from Tampa, Fir seif on record in honoring James Bryce, \ Colombia has an area, as large as Ger One of the indispensable require- the newly-named ambassador to this many :l nd France combined, and douhl- ments of modern living is soap. When country from England. It elected him ; that of Texas, but is in the infancy of one thinks of man without soap the to an honorary membership and he development. Although located, accord- mind instantly reverts to a primitive will be formally advised of the action j n „ to t he map. entirely in the tropics, and prehistoric age, when the arboreal immediately after his arrival at Wash- j jt has large sections where the climate ancestor of the human race cared as ington. i t3 a j c obl and invigorating all the little for cleanliness as he did for i This association elected J. Franklin comfort. • Jameson, of Washington, president; A. A scientist has traced the sensation H. Clark, of Washington, secretary; of falling from a great height, which Chas. H. Haskins, of Cambridge, Mass., is so common a characteristic of night- corresponding secretary, and Clarence mares, to the feelings experienced by W. Brown, of New York, treasurer, the primitive men who slept in trees | The next annual meeting will be held in order to escape enemies lurking on ; at the University of Wisconsin the the ground, and who must have had , latter part of December, 1907. constant fear of falling. i The other organizations which have The fact that cats and some allied I been In session here will meet at the . y orj£ ctty _' ui v.e tuuI.c JM : creatures lick their paws and cleanse same place aud time, and in the fol- Brazil has equal surprises. Fev'-V- generation give’the lie ' their faces "! Uh thenl - and the pro- lowing year will join the econmnic asso- , e in th e United States realize Hf,at 6 b ; pensity that bovine animals have for ciation in its convention at Richmond. 3 raz ii is larger in area than the riij- _ . ‘ ltckimr one another's heads mav have Va. The economic association elect- i... . ^ year around as that of the United States in October. Few people compre hend the size and importance of this city. Although situated in the heart of the Andes. 700 miles from sea. it has a population of 150,00 n , one oS tjie-finest libraries in the world, a great urifPer- sity, with 2000 students, and an opera house that would be a credit to j-Iew 113:438 ! Not" Like the brazen giant of Greek I !ickln S one another’s heads may have Va. The economic association elect- te<1 Stat es proper, and aireafiy h; •>75 noS I - L,IKe lne Drazen giant oi Greets ; t .. , .a — «» w - - - - - Total 5,802,178 Comparative Cotton Statement. NEW YORK. Dec. 28.—'The follnwing Is the comparative statement of cotton for the week ending Friday. December 28: 1906. 1905. Net port receipts 316.418 201.552 Rects. since Sept. 1 5.S02.17S 5,049.633 Exports for week 262.412 125.074 Exports since Sept. 1.. .3.949.0.8.8 3.360.S12 Stock all U. S. rerts... .1.384.410 1.158.293 Stock all interior towns. 695.4 49 762.551 Stock at Liverpool 102.200 Antn. afloat for G. B.... 311.000 24G.099 : fame 049 ?47 1 1hUIC» ’ i With conquering limbs, astride from "run j >and to land; 18.810 j Here at our sea-washed sunset-gates 9.899 j shall stand 9-765 i a mighty woman, with a torch whose 94 924 I flarn< * 3o!534 j Is the imprisoned lightning, and her 71,849 j name 69.273 ! Mother of Exiles; from her beacon- 4-223 | hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command . The air-bridged harbor, that twin cities frame. New York Cotton Exchanqe Statistics. NEW YORK. Deo.. 28.—The following statistics on the movement of cotton for the week ending Friday. Dee*-mber 28. were compiled by the New York Cotton Exchange: V/eekiy Movement This yea r. Port receipts ....'. 311.761 To mills.and Canada 64.670 Sou. mill takings, est 73,006 Stock gain int. towns 9.507 “Keep ancient lands your storied pomp.” cries she With silent lips, “give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore: Send these, the homeless, tempest- tossed to me; I leave my lamp beside the golden door!” —Emma Lazarus. put the idea of cleanliness into the j minds of the- first men. At any rate, j when their hands and feet became j smeared with mud or blood they learn ed the cleansing qualities of water, i and therewith doubtless foun* that j some form of clay and ashes had the ! power of proving an assistance in the I removal of foreign substances from | the skin. i But the demulcent and detergent propeties of soap were not discovered until men Had made many advances in civilization. There is an account given by Homer in the "Odyssey” of Nausicaa and her attendant maidens cleaning clothes by treading on them with their bare feet in pits of water, but no mention is made of the use of soap in that connection. In the Books of Job and Jeremiah, j in the Bible, the- word “soap” appears j in the English version, but it is a ren- I dering of the Hebrew word "borith,” j which is only a general term for 1 cleansing substances, and probably re- j ed as its president Prof. Jeremiah V\. population of nearly 25.000,000. The of < 2 f ’ rr io 1 niversity. and Prof, capital, Rio Janeiro, is fast becoming \\ inthrop M. Daniels, of I rmceton, as onG t jj e m0 st beautiful cities of the secretary-treasurer i world. It has just reached the million The American Political Science Asso- j mark in population, ciation enjoyed the most prosperous . chi , e on the we8t coast of Somh convention in its history, there being : Anlerica< is a s large as California, Ore- ..o more members on the rolls this j, on< Washington and Nevada combin- year than a year ago. This association ed anfl js Just as fu „ n f natural re elected h roderiek N. Jutson. of St. .> , ’ - sources as those States, and lias jijst elected Frederick N. Jutson. of St. iv. tlie * PJ' e ^ lden 4- and W. W. j ag fin(? a c ]j IT , a to. The capital, Santi Willoughby, of Johns Hopkins bm- j a j, 0 , is a handsome metropolis of 300.- flilO people. In foreign trade Chile ha versly, as secretary and treasurer. "Some effects of outlying depend- > increased 200 per cent, in the last 10 encies .upon the people of the United years The Chilean Governmentjs ex- States xvas the subject handled by ; p en <jj n g $25,000,000 in harbor Improve- Henry C. Morris, of Chicago. ment at Valparaiso, its chief port. Mrs. Anna H. Abel, of Baltimore A great London financial paper has Women’s College, was awarded the Jus- i Just mad(1 an c . st ,' mate . after •careful tin Winson prize of $100, offered by the American Historical Association, for the best historical essay. PLANS FOR HOSPITAL AT SOLDIERS’ HOME Into sight for week 458.941 Last 1 ATLANTA. Dec. 28.—Plans are now year, i being prepared for the hospital at the Soldiers’ Home and it is believed that work on the building will commence parly in February. The board of trus tees of the home meet on January 17, at which time the plans will be ae BLACKBURN WILL CONTEST HACKETT’S ELECTION WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.—Repre investigation, that South America will require during the next 10 years, for the development of its resources and industries, $2,500,000,000. especially to carry on rai’road building, the building of street railway plants, eletric "iight- ing plants, and to be used in the open-, fers to nothing like the modern soap. I sentative E. Speffeer Blackburn, of inarof mines and the general improvo- for it does not appear to have been ! North Carolina, today announced that ment of agricultural and industrial kno"-n until much later. . ! he would contest the election of Rich- conditions. Piiny speaks of the invention of soap ard N. Hackett, as a member of the , South America looks to us more th m by the Gauls, who, however, used it Sixtieth Congress from the Eighth to Europe to assist it, but if we're not only as a sort of pomade or hairdress- Congressional District of that State, j careful. Europe will so'ze the on; cl ing. He also refers to the use of Congressman Blackburn has written | tunity before we do. WJien (he Panu- both hard soap and soft soap by the ; a letter to his opponent at Wiiksboro, ; rra canal is -opened, trade will grow bv Total Crop Movement Port receipts 5.811.145 5.665.556 To miils and Canada.... 523.731 396.829 [Sou. ni li takings. c°t 96n.fi(»i au.oon j Int. .-Pk ex. S' Pt. 1.... 348.84*. 5—' w. Into sight for season... .7.S43.721 6,955,514 sauce and other good things. cepted. The hospital wilt be located at : manufacture of soap in London Is said the southern end of the main build- to have been in 1524. and previously ing. Dr. Fox. the purchasing agent 1 'Bristol had supplied it for use in the of the home, gave the inmates a fine English cities. According to the his- Christmas dinner, at which there was ! torian Sismondi, a soapmaker was in- an abundance of turkey, cranberry eluded in the retinue of Charlemagne, sanco nod other irond things. King of the Franks, at the end of the Germans. The use of fuller’s earth, i N. C.. notifying him of the action he which has saponaceous qualities, for 1 has taken. . cleansing purposes, was known to the i In this letter Mr. Blackburn says Romans. The French word for soap— j that although the election returns show savon—comes from Savona, France, ' that his opponent was given a ma- where it was manufactured. The first ! jority of 1,066 votes, he was not law- leaps and bounds, as the canal bring this part of the United States close touch with the west coast South America, which has vast pos bilities. litdAs fully elected. Mr. Blackburn charges j Reward for Burner of Gini that gross irregularities, illegality, ; FORSYTH, Ga., Dec 29 -G we.-rorc frauds and bribery were committed by i Terrell offers a reward of $?50. for the' partisans of Mr. Hackett, and,that the ' arrest and conviction of the uhkn \ 1 conduct of the election officers at the parties who burned the ginhotisc of Mr. voting precincts was unjust, wrongful j E. Rumble, of Coggins, or. the n -pit and unlawful. ®f December 5.