THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1907.
NAVAL SQUADRON HAS
LONG DISTANCE PHONE
BOSTON. Dec. 30.—It ha.- been pos
sible for officer* 1 of the warship* at
present under repair at the navy yard
here to send holiday greotjr.g.- home
without even so much as bothering to
secure shore bytve to go to a tele
graph offi<e. for the arrangements
made by the Navy Department to pro
vide the squadron now at Charlestown
with long distance telephone facilities
have been completed and each of the
big men-of-war has its o,vn public pay
station for then se of the captain anti
the members of Jos staff
The pay station Is located aft. near
the officers' quarter.;, and aJl the lieu
tenant or tin- ensign need do is drop
Into the both and call up Central -
which in this case is the New England
Telephone and Telegraph Company's
exohang.- in Charlestown—and ask for
New York. Chicago or Ft. Louis, or
any other of the thousands of points in
the Bell system east of the Mississippi.
This arrangement Is purely for the
convenience of the visiting officers, as
they may he called, the officers at
tached to the ships stationed tempo
rarily at the yard, .and it goes to show
hew indispensable the telephone has
become even to men accustomed to
spend a very great share of their time
afloat.
In a way, this arrangement is the
result of the increasing business of the
yard. The scene at the mouth of th<*
Charles is particularly picturesque at
the present time. In addition to the
Impressive display of towering white
battlements and buff colored ernws'-
nests built to carry rapid fire guns,
there is an element of constant activ
ity. Truly there Is “something doing”
at the old yard, a good deal more than
has been doing (her. for many years
past. Every pier and dry dock has it;;
Imposing cruiser or battleship and
every shop is working under higli
pressure.
Five of the battleships now in com-
mission»arc at the yard, the Georgia,
Missouri, Indiana. Rhode Island and
Illinois, a powerful fleet by themselves
and typical of the "new navy.” Be
sides these there are the cruisers New
York, Nashville and Detroit, and the
torpedo training ship Vesuvius. These
last four arc out of commission for the
present.
Things are done faster, and probably
belter, than they were in the o!<] days.
Here Is an example of this. Until the
flood tide of business struck the
.Charlestown yard the telephone was
'look' .1 upon as a limited convenience,
while r.ffw it has -taken its place with
: the Indispensable things and become an
-almost unlimited convenience. There
.were plenty of telephones for yard use
formerly, about 150 altogether. hut
when the commandant or the head of
«, department wanted to call up Wash
ington or New York lie had to go lo
(One of the yard pay stations or else to
some station outside the yard alto-
igether.
"Finally these busy men realized that
«uch an arrangement would never meet
the requirements of (he press of busi
ness following the completion of (he
mammoth dry dock. It would be more
like the twentieth century to have
direct outside connection. ' they felt:
and with the approval of the Navy De
partment the New England Telephone
and Telegraph Company took out the
thirty-three telephones used by the
chief officers and department heads
and put in new telephones and an ex
tra switchboard with trunk lines run
ning to the Charlestown exchange.
Since then a call to Boston, across
the Charles, or to any other point out
side the yard, has gone through in
half the time it formerly took.
The operators at the navy yard Cen
tral are enlisted men chosen from the
Marine Corps. Two of them attend the
switchboards during the day and an
other is on call all night. They do
their work well, notwithstanding they
have not the advantage of training in
one of the Bell schools for operators.
"Number?" coming from them lacks
that sweet and encouraging quality
which has made the regular operator
noted througnoui the land, but It i*
efficient withal. It has all the brevity,
for one thing, of the response of other
Central!—the time-saving, business
like brevity that appeals to every crit
ical telephone user. “Number?” Is
naval-like in its shortness and expres
siveness. The naval officer, when on
duty at least, wastes no words. Nor
does Central. On this common ground
these two extremes, the bluff mar of
war and the sweet-voiced girl at the
telephone exchange, meet.
The New England company finish
ed the improvements at the navy yard
a short time ..go, and since then he
men in charge of the work of prepar
ing the ships for sea. have been able
to make better headway than ever,
owing, in part, to the time saved by
having at hand so many telephones
with outside connections through the
new switch board. It is shorter work,
and on the whole much more satisfac
tory, to telephone than to telegraph,
and as for letter writing, that is re
served for formal communications.
When an officer wants a thing done
in a hurry nowadays, whether on land
or on sea. he telephones.
,This is one of the things impressed
upon the visitor when he goes aboard
one of the new battleships in the yard,
for a point of Interest not to be missed
under any circumstances is the ship’s
telephone exchange, a medium of com
munication that serves not only ordi
nary uses but the exigencies of mimic
warfare, and would serve as well in
actual battle.
The telephone exchange on the bat
tleship Rhode Island, one of the first-
elass vessels put in commission within
the past year, is situated like other
vital spots well inside the most thickly
armoreji part of the craft, below the
water line, on what Is called the upper
platform deck, and directly under the
forward turret. The exchange occu
pies. quarters some six feet long and
three feet wide. At one end. fitting
nicely into the width of the room, is a
switchboard made by the Western
Electric Company, the manufacturing
branch of the Bell system.
The operator usually found at the
Central office on the warship is a
young bluejacket, but when the ship
is "in action,” performing manoeuvers
In company with other ships, the im
portance of the traffic passing through
the exchange requires the steady head
and hand of a more experienced man.
and the bluejacket's place is generally
taken by an electrician.
When the ship is playing at war on
th*> high seas, the exchange is a verit
able nerve center. Messages—every
one of them playing an important part
in .the marine drama being enacted
roundabout—come and go in a steady-
stream. Each division in the ship re
ports through Centra] when it is ready
for action. At the other end of the
little room, opposite the switchboard,
stands a yeoman ready to shout mes
sages through a mega phonic speaking
tube to the conning tower or to the
bridge when the din is at its height
and orders need to be repeated or con
firmed. Movements have to he made in
a jiffy and the telephone line carries
a message with lightning-like speed.
In the officers' apartments are Bell
telephones closely resembling the fa
miliar wall set. In exposed places and
wherever economy of space is neces
sary, the telephone ,is a combination
device, transmitter and receiver in one
piece, which tits Into a watertight box.
The lines that stretch all over the ship
are encased in watertight pipes, the
better to insure their steady- working
order.
Sometimes, in addition to the pay-
stations. telephone connections with
shore are made by running trunk lines
from the yard exchange to the switch
board on the ship. The switchboard
on the Rhode Island has accommoda
tions for three such trunk lines.
ATLANTA TO
IT
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 30.—The saloon
men of Atlanta are about to form a
trust, and if they succeed, commenc
ing with the new year all mixed drinks
and some brands of whisky will cost
twenty cents. There will be no more
NEW YORK,Dec.30.—But two classes
of labor in Pennsylvania are as highly-
paid as tl:e mine workers. This fact is
shown in tile report of the State Secre
tary of Internal Affairs. giving a
result of an investigation of the yearly-
earnings of all the principal classes of
labor. It appears front this report that
it is more profitable to work in anthracite
coal mines than in mills or factories, not
only because of the higher pay received,
but on ac«tount of the lower rents paid
fifteen-cent straigl
or two
for
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK
AT NATION’S CAPITAL
WASHINGTON. Dec. 30.—Every-
>dy is Indeed happy! At least every-
>dy In Washington is. or apparently
i. The Christmas spirit enshrouds
rerything ard everybody, and official
id unofficial Washington i3 wreathed
smiles—str lies and holly. The day
ss quietly spent by all. The White
ouse family passed the morning in
ie distribution of their gifts to each
her and to the small army of em-
syees. Following his usual custom,
jldent Roosevelt presented each
of the married employees, including
forty or more policemen who do
in and about the executive man-
with a fat turkey, while the pri-
exchequer of each of the bachelor
ees Wits enlarged by the addition
ve-dollar gold piece. As the
1 Christmas turkeys was sky-
•e in the Capital, the benedicts
j bachelors are not sure yet
[lass was the more fortunate,
•ho received the turkeys or
rho got the hard cash. In the
all of the Roosevelt family
took themselves to the home of Ad-
ral gBd Mrs. Cowles, where a splen-
lly decorated Christmas tree awaited
tm. In the evening the family and
«e personal friends sat down to their
ristmas dinner which was laid in
j state dining room. As is usually
> case, Mr. Roosevelt was the recip-
it of many rkre and valuable gifts
tm his admirers throughout the en-
e country. The majority of these
me from persons with whom the
esldent has not the slightest ac-
aintance. and. while appreciating the
Irlt of the donors, it has always
en bis custom to decline the gifts,
naming them to the senders "with
inks.” Early Thursday morning the
losevelt family left for Pine knot,
where they will remain over Mon-
y, returning in time, for the New
iar reception.
But the motive was not long withheld.
Soon a knock was heard at the back
doors and a smiling “brack gemmen,"
hat in hand, offered his Christmas
greeting, as follows:
"Times are hard and Christmas is
near:
The Poor Slop Man is around all the
year;
Money is scarce and Turkeys are fat:
So please drop something in the
Garbage Man's Hat."
Representative John Wesley Gaines,
known to Congressional fame as the
"Human Seltzer Bottle." because of his
ability to sizzle and gush at the slight
est provocation, was evidently very
much in earnest when he introduced a
bill, just before the holiday recess, to
“dock" the members of both houses
of Congress $13.70 for each day they
are absent from their seats without ex
cuse or on account of sickness. He
has been delving among the nation’s
. statute books during the adjournment
| and has found that as far back as I85G
a law was passed covering this very
J question. He is determined, he says,
j to effect the enforcement of this an-
I cient statute, for as a matter of fact
I a great number of Senators and Rep-
j resentatives who are interested in busi-
j ness enterprises frequently find it con
venient or necessary for them to ab
sent themselves for a day or two, and
) they make no bones about forsaking
i their posts while they run up to New
j York for a day or so on business or
1 down to Hot Springs, Va., only a
j night's ride from Washington, to take
j the famous mineral baths and rest up
I at the Homestead. Mr. Gaines, on the
| other hand, is seldom absent from his
■ seat and is one of the most attentive
; officials in the lower house. He savs he
| intends to see that his fellow mem
bers work or forfeit their pay for the
time they are absent.
Even the garbage man was so affect
ed by the gladsome spirit that per
vades all the nation during the holi
day season, that he dropped his horn
• and pail and took up a non. Wash-
jiigton is accustomed to tlte news
boy's Christmas card, the messenger
boy's printed appeal for a cash re
membrance and other numerous and
■Sundry avenues for getting rid of spare
change at the Yulotide and making
glad the hearts of those less fortu
nate in the world's battle, but the
sight of a neatly-printed card bearing
the season’s greeting from the kitchen
scavenger couched in “reel po'try." was
a thing that played on the risibilities
of the capital, and all Washington is
chuckling over the Homeric effort of
“de eullud gemmen dat eolleks de
slop." It was evidently accomplished
at the expense of much time and ef
fort. for Washington, never too well
supplied with the public scavenger
service, has of late suffered more and
more from the infrequency of the gar
bage man's visits. Just before Christ
mas, however, the city suddenly teemed
with the hustle of garbage men. their
horns and the rattle of their sheetiron
wagons were heard on every side. Old
residents looked askance at each oth
er. and Wondering what was behind
it all, called up the sanitary depart
ment and congratulated the offiicals.
W
If you are the nearest of kind of
Mrs. Lula B. Grover, who committed
suicide in New York, recently, and left
a will be de-e-lighted to turn over
to you some $700 in cash and a quan
tity of jewelry. Officers of the De
partment ol Justice are making stren
uous searc!i for Mrs. Grover's heir,
for the President will not accept the
legacy. In addition to the money and
jewels. Mrs. Grover left two beautiful
Angora cats, which were, shipped to
the White House and which have been
adopted by the President's family.
I Although the law officers at the Fres-
| idem's request have been searching dil-
j igently for over a week, no clue as to
the reason that prompted Mrs. Grover
| to make her strange gift of her goods
and chattels to the chief executive,
can be found, nor can any trace be
found of ar.y relatives, to whom the
President wishes to turn over every-
thing.
Ohioans here in Washington regret
to see the departure of former Attor
ney-General David K. Watson. Judge
Watson was appointed by President
McKinley in tv.*6 as chairman of the
committee appointed to codifv tlte laws
of the Fnited States. His work is
completed, after ten years of labor,
and the Ohio colony turned out in a
body the other day to give him a fare
well reception. Judge Watson returns
to Columbus to resume his private law
practice.
j quarter. Of course there will be a
I kick, but what can the average thirsty
I customer do? If he don’t like it he can
i walk out of one saloon and enter an-
| other, only to find the same prices pre-
: vailing everywhere.
! It looks like every kind of business
: is being merged into a trust from the
I Standard Oil combine to the washer
woman's trust, all with the same ob
ject, to advance prices.
Atlanta has her ice trust, her press
ing club trust, her boarding house
trust, her hotel trust, her barber trust,
her washwomen trust, and now the
liquor men wishing to get into the
swim, are about to organize a trust,
and raise the price of drinks. Why,,
even the Chinamen who operate laun
dries have formed a trust, and the
Greeks, who have driven the negro
boot blacks out of business, have rais
ed the price of a shine from five to ten
cents. The representatives of all of
these several classes of business give
their reasons for advancing prices, and
while they seem perfectly satisfied that
they are good, their customers have
some doubts upon the subject.
The saloon men. the last class of
citizens to go into the trust business,
say that the ingredients used in mak
ing mixed drinks have advanced in
price; and that in addition to this
rents have soared so high that they
feel like they are working till of their
time for their landlords. They argue
that all of the first class saloons of the
city are paying all the way from $300
to $500 a month rent, and that the
drawing in of the limits where the sxle
of whisky will be allowed, has the ef
fect of sending up the rent, in the
same way as would he the effect of
cutting down the number of saloons.
The more the territory is restricted
the higher the rent, and the fewer the
saloons the more valuable is the fran
chise to sell liquor.
And while upon this subject of or
ganizing trusts, it may-be sajd that
all of the furniture manufacturing
plants of the city, five in number,
have been merged into one big con
cern and will commence business Jan
uary 1st under one head.
Infernal Commerce
of the United States
Railroads Unable to Meet
Growing Demands for
TransporTation
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Water
way improvement enthusiasts are
overjoyed at the startling figures
brought to light in the report of the
Department of Commerce and Labor
on the November internal commerce
of the United States, which has just
been given out. These figures go to
show that while there has been a
stupendous increase in production in
all departments of agriculture and
manufacture during 1906, so great and
widespread has been the congestion of
the railroads of the country that there
has been a very heavy falling off in
the movement of these product®. For
instance, while the grain crops of the
country in 1906 were more than
1,300,000.000 bushels in excess of the
crops for 1905, there was a decrease,
of over 17,500,000 bushels in the 1906
shipments over those of 1905. There
was a similar falling off in cotton ship
ments during 1906 as compared with
those in 1905. notwithstanding the fact
that the estimated cotton crop for
1906 is somp 11,000,000 bales in ex
cess of the 1905 crop.
While such reports invariably are
conservative in all estimates and con
jectures as to cause and effect, it is
noted that the report in question,
without varying from this rule, points
commerce to the only effectual way of
avoiding the rocks of congested traffic
conditions, under the resultant depres
sion of which whole communities and
even States and sections even now are
suffering. In summarizing the gener
ally lessened movement of traffic,
especially in grain, live stock, meat
products and lumber and coal, during,
the month of Novembei, the report
says:
“While it is impossible to determine
to what extent inadequate transporta
tion facilities affected the movement
of such commodities, it can undoubted
ly be affirmed that they would have
been much heavier had the railroads
been fully able t'o meet the demand
for ears.”
This statement, coming from one of
the most conservative departments of
the whole executive branch of the
Government, has won over not a few
to the side of comprehensive water
ways improvements throughout the
country. According to the railroad
king. James J. Hill, the railroads of
the United States never again will be
in a position to properly serve the
commerce of the nation. The day of
the railroads’ supremacy is past, and
it is imperative that the waterways
and harbors of the country be develop
ed. under Government supervision, to
such a high state of usefulness as that
they may relieve the railroads of the
carriage of all the bulkier classes of
merchandise. Mr. Hill is on record as
saying several times that the general
and continued Improvement of the
country's rivers and harbors is the
only way in which future repetitions
of the nresent freight congestion can
be avoided.
Practically all of the influential men
in public life, regardless of party creed,
have been aligned on the side of the
movement for such development work,
and it is undoubted that. Congress
will amply provide for the launching
of the general scheme of improvements
during the coming year by the appro
priation of at least $50,090.000. Tlje
Fifty-ninth Congress, however, can
only provide for the present year and
cannot pledge the action of its suc
cessors. so that the_ men who are be
hind the movement must have the
united support of the country at large
if the star: which undoubtedly will be
made at this session is kept up. so that
the growth of commerce may not ex
ceed the growth of the nation's trans
portation systems.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Examine label on your pa
per. It tells how you stand on
the books. Due from date on
the label. Send in dues and
also renew for the year 1907.
by miners.
Last year the hard coal miners received,
on an avenge; $690.3! each. The average
annual wages of the skilled and unskilled
employes cf $4 manufacturing industries,
representing 710 establishments, were
tabulated; in only two of them.the tool
steel and steel pump industries, did the
wages of' the employees exceed those of
the anthracite miners, although they are
popularly supposed to be. underpaid.
In S2 oul of the S4 industries cited the
average earnings of the workers fell con
siderably— below those of the anthracite
miners, and 42 pay their employees at
least ?2t'0 less a year than the coal
companies pay the miners.
The Department of Internal Affairs also
learned the average annual rent paid by
the employees of manufacturing industries
in the State. Tito statistics show that
from this larger income the miner does
not pay out as much in rent as the man
ufacturing employee. The average rent
Paid by anthracite miners last year was
Of 73 industries investigated, the
$7S.
workers in only three of them paid less.
Those employed in the other 70 paid from
$90 to $204 a year. Most of them paid as
much as $140.
The difference in the rent paid by the
miner and that paid by the manufacturing
employee is explained by the fact that the
latter usually lives in a city. The miner,
generally speaking, lives where good
houses can be had for less money, and
the smaller rent does not indicate inferior
accommodations.
News in Paragraphs
NEW EXPERIMENTS
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jl I I I I I IM i • I I * “ * WTTTTTT ^ I ar , shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor, and on conviction the
Caught on
the Wing
WASHINGTON. Dec. 30— Ever since
the Forest Service introduced the cup
and gutter system of turpentining,
which lessens the injury done the
trees in the process of bleeding, ex
periments have been carried on toward
still further reducing the wound in
flicted in harvesting turpentine crops.
The common practice in chipping the
trees is still to cut tthe trunks so
deeply to form the "face.” from which
t-iie resin exudes, and to cut so many
faces on each tree, that the life of trees
is shortened unnecessarily and waste
results. After a study of this practice
it was found by experiment that the
resin ducts within a quarter of an inch
of the surface of the wood are larger,
more numerous, and more free-flowing
than those lying deeper. Two ques
tions then suggest themselves: First,
whether shallower clipping might not
secure at least an equal crop, and at
the same time prolong the productive
life of the trees: and, second, whether
more profit would not be found in
cropping only the maturer trees.
To answer these questions experi
ments have been begun near Jackson
ville, Fla., on 40.000 trees, or five crops
of S.000 trees each. Including all sizes
from six inches in diameter upward.
One crop has worked in the ordinary
way, both, as to height and depth of
the faces cut upon each tree. This
served as a standard by which to
pleasure results obtained from the
novel methods tried in the four others.
With the first experiment:^ crop the
chipping was reduced to half the or
dinary depth: in the second, to half
the ordinary height; and in the third.
of shall be punished as prescribed in
section 1039 of the Penal Code of
Geotgia, 1895.
By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
Here is a pointer for the grand juries
of Bibb County: The law says that
the affidavit and certificate required in
the child labor act shall be open to in
rand juries of ajny
A meeting of the Board of Road j spection by the
------ county where such factory or manu
facturlng establishments are located.
Commissioners of Bibb County was
called for last Saturday—the final
meeting in the year 1906. In this con
nection it may not be Inappropriate
to say that Mr. W. H. Mansfield has
been chairman of the board for more
than twenty years. During this long
period he has faithfully and efficiently
discharged his duties. Bibb County’s
splendid system of highways is due in
a great measure to the experience,
skill and energy of Chairman Mans
field. Since he has been at the head
of the board he has seen great im
provement made in the roads of the
county. He has also seen the county
rapldly grow in wealth, and increase
in population. Mr. Mansfield Is one of
Macon's most energetic and substan
tial citizens.
Any person or agent, or representa
tive of any firm or corporation, who
shall violate any provision of this act
shall be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor, and on conviction shall he
punished as prescribed in section 1039
of the Penal Code of Georgia, 1S95.
Any parent, guardian or any other per
son standing in parental relation to a
child, who shall hire or place for em-
plovment or labor in or about any fac
tory or manufacturing establishment
within this State, a child in violation
of any provision of this act. shall he
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be punish
ed as prescribed in section- 1039 of the
Penal Code of Georgia. 1S95.
A hobby of Senator Steeve Clay's is j
the enlarging of the rural free mail j
delivery service, and the advancement ;
of the best interests of the carriers. I
He is doing his full part in keeping j
the farmers in daily touch with the ■
rest of the world, and informing them I
each day the condition of the markets ;
in which they have a vital interest, j
By reason of the regular delivery of
the farmers’ mail, more letters
There will be a number of strong
and interesting speakers in the in
coming House of Representatives of
Georgia who have had considerable
legislative experience. I will mention
a few:
The orator af the body will be Sea
born Wright, of Floyd. He is the
Demosthenes of the mountains. He is
always dramatic and naturally takes
read and written in the country, and \ the most striking attitudes. It may oe
more newspapers and literature circu
lated.
said his gestures follow “Hogarth's
line of beauty." fjjis voice rings otit
clear as a bell. a.E'K' echoes through
-> word is
rhetorical
halls and corridorsT Not
ever lost. H-* spreads
It* has been published that Atlanta
has used more water during the pres
ent month than in any previous month banquet adorned with the most beauti-
* ■ . n . . . , „ . ! of tlie year. The barooms, you know, ; ful flowers of fancy. Wright makes no
to half both the ordinal height and j were c ] ose( j from four o’clock Christ- pretentions as a parliamentarian. He
mas Eve until five p. m. the day after has never made a study of the code
Christmas. of parliamentary law. I do not recall
I that he has ever presided over the
DUNDEE, Dec. 30.—Alexander Wil
liam Black, member of Parliament
from Banffshire, who was injured in
the railroad accident near Arbroath
Frida}’, died last night.
NEW YORK. Dec. 30.—A young wo
man, who. with her companion, Sid
ney Kaufman, was shot while both
were guests at the Hotel Knickerbock
er, on the East side, early today, died
at Bellevue Hospital this afternoon.
Not until told by the physicians in at
tendance that her recovery was impos
sible. did she admit her identity, and
a statement subsequently made to the
police was unfinished when she lapsed
into final unconsciousness.
The dead woman was Mrs. Eva Tot-
ton. the wife of John Totten, of Tot-
tenville, St«:ten Island. She was twen
ty-three vears of age. and her hus
band is in his eighty-third year. They
were married two years' ago.
DANVILLE. Va., Dec. 30.—Two per
sons were killed outright and two
more injured in a big freight wreck on
the Southern Railway at Chatham,
seventeen miles north'of here, this aft
ernoon. The dead are Grover Frank-
linwind Archie Wyq4t, two young white
men of Danville, and the injured Phil
White, of Danville, and Stanbury Mays,
of the county. All of the victims were
probably beating their way.
PITTSBURG. Pa„ Dec. 30.—Believ
ing his wife, -whom he shot three times,
was dead, Robert Ford, 40 years of age,
of Homestead, a suburb of this city,
fired a bullet into his own brain to
night, dying instantly. His wife, how-
e.vor. was rot fatally ' injured. Ford,
who was extremely jealous, accused
his wife of.' infidelity at their home
tonight, and beforo she-could leave his
presence he shot her.
depth. In the fourth experimental
crop, limited to trees 10 inches and
over in diameter, the chippings were
of ordinary size, as in the standard
crop, but all trees between 10 ,and 16
inches in diameter had not more than
two faces, whereas the usual practice
is to chip more faces on trees of, these
sizes. In addition, an innovation was
made in this crop by chipping some
what narrower faces on the smaller
trees and somewhat wider ones on the
larger, so as to preserve a more con
stant ratio than commonly between
the width of the faces and the girth
of the trees.
It is too soon to attempt a statement
in exact figures of the results already
secured, and final determination must
wait until the experiments shall have
run for the regular commercial period
of three or four years. The yield for
this year points, however, to the fol
lowing conclusions:
Reducin
half in height or depth will give an
equal first-year yield and a larger total
yield for the working period.
Reducing the size of the face one-
half in both height and.depth will ma
terially increase the annual yield, ow
ing to the lessened injury to the vital
ity of the tree.
Crops of the larger-sized trees with
fewer and smaller faces will produce a
considerably larger annual yield than
ordinary crops, in which large and
small trees are chipped severely and
the. larger trees have more faces.
Thus the conservative method will
insure the best annual yield and the
best total yield for the working period.
The most important gain, however, is
likely to be found in the longer period
during which the trees can be cropped.
It is believed that by cropping the
larger trees only and reducing the
size and number of faces the cropping
can continue for eight or ten years,
by which time the smaller treees will
be ready to take their place. Thus
It is now a part of the political his- House, though the Speaker has often
invited him to do so, Wright is
reformer, and as such, he has a splen
did field for the display of his oratori
cal powers. In discussing child labor,
temperance and kindred topics. his
tones come in deep and musical
cadence. Wright was cradled and nur-
tory of Georgia that during the recent
Gubernatorial campaign. Hon. Hoke
Smith was very combative towards
Governor Terrell. Meriwether is the
home county of the Governor. “How
will Meriwether go?” was a question
often asked during the campaign. As
e | we all know, Meriwether voted for Mr. j tured in the very Eden of eloquence.
Smith. But this was not the first time
that Meriwether failed to stand by | when Joe Hill Hall gets in motion
one of her distinguished sons. In ! his speech is like an ocean in a storm.
ISS0, a fierce effort was made to de
feat Governor Colquitt for re-election.
Chief Justice Warner of the Sum-erne
Court was one of the candidates
The swell and roar of his voice strike
upon the ears of his interested audi
tory like waves on the shore of the
surging sea. Ever and anon he throws
against him. In the campaign for the out a thought that hits the listener like
nomination Meriwether County, the a bullet. He cares nothing for tropes
life-long home of Judge Warner, gave and loss for images, and pays no at-
a* majority of district delegates for tention to the proper blending of
v,,. Colquitt for a county conv«-ffion to se- colors. He is no Don Quixote shatter-
lect State delegates. Colquitt’s vie- ; ing his lance on the wind-mills, but
tory in Meriwether greatly displeased uses a meat ax to hew his way. Ho
Judge Warner. The Warner men ap- i ip a Nemesis that haunts the slumbers
pointed ■ delegates, and there resulted , 0 f an y would-be Constitution brealt-
a contest in the State convention. A ; ers. When the House convenes next
few days after the nomination of June and the phalanxes are gathered
Governor Colquitt. Chief Justice War- j n parliamentary battle array, when
ner resigned h's place on the Supreme ■ th e trumpets sound defiance and the
bench "for reasons of a private nature drums beat to charge, the voice of
exclusively.” In a speech in Green- | Speaker Slaton will ring out above the
ville. Judge Warner said: "I tendered
my resignation so as to give the Gov
ernor an opportunity to appoint a per
sonal judge who might be willing to
decide upon his official acts in accord
ance * with his own personal wishes,
and thereby save him the trouble of
appealing to the people to review the
judgment of. thd Supreme Court.
din with the question: "Are you there.
Joe Hill?" and back will come the,
stentorian answer, "Frisent!” and the
Speaker will order, "Then let the com
bat proceed.”
W. A. Covington, of Colquitt, is clas
sical. He is well versed in science,
philosophy, art. law. manners, morals
and religion. He will sometimes sand
wich a piece of humor between slices
of legal lore and political economy.
There seems to be some doubt, more
or less, in the public mind as to the
provisions of the act which was passed 1 gls" style is unique, yea, pictur
at the recent session of the Legisla- jjis favorite place when speaking
ture, approved by the Governor August standing in the center of the midd
1st, 1906. to regulate the employment a j s i e of t he House. Frequently h
be ready to taue then- p ace. thus of children in factories and manufat*- cc-stu-es with both hands, raising them
the same area will supply the operator ^nwi.hmont 1 ! in this Btnte u ‘, ! , , , . , “ ,
indefinitely, and the turpentine indus- : tur J n 5. State. up and down from ills head to his
BRUNSWICK. Ga.. Dec. 30—The steam
ship Ogoeelice, the'second of the fleet of
freighters of the Brunswick Steamship
Company, will sail from New York to
Brunswick on the evening of January 5.
Tliis steamship line is run in connection
with the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlan
tic Railway.
indefinitely, and the turpentine indus
try will be greatly prolonged without
destroying the Southern pine forests.
EATONTON. Ga., Dec. 30.—At a
negro Christmas tree frolic Nathan
Sherwood was shot to death by three
brothers, Jim, Sam and Riley Lucas.
A dispute over a trivial matter led
to the killing, the murdered negro be
ing shot six times. Only one of the
murderers has been captured.
and to provide for punishment of via- i cepns au d bends his head over on a
lations of the regulations prescribed. ; lovcl wlth breast, and looks down
It is evident, from publications, that i U p C11 tj. e floor, still raising and lowoc-
some people think that all of the pro- j vjjc. band®, as he is finishing
MOBILE. Ala., Dec. 30.—A petition
is in circulation here to Chancellor
Smith protesting against the appoint
ment of the receivers for the Mobile,
Jackson and Kansas City Railroad, and
asking that the bonds of the receivers
be made not less than one million
dollars.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—At this
season of the year one has merely to
step across the Potomac river to find
onesself back, so far as sensations are |
concerned, in the midst of Christmas j
visions of the law go into effect on sentence of strong thought, or brigli?
and after January 1st, 1907. What | idea, or "burning sarcasm. Covington
are the facts? The law distinctly pro- never fails to be interesting, tie i t
scribes that from and after the ap- one jy, e mos t instructive speakers
proval of the act. August 1st, 1906, no on t j le door
child under ten years of age shall be '
employed or allowed to labor in or Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb, always
about any factory or manufacturing like a man who has something to
rstablishment within this Srntc under say. T-Ie appears at the front on b’.^r
any circumstances. This regulation of questions. He reminds me of an
the law as to children under ten years fvenhoe conic to the tournament—
of age has been in operation in Georgia dashing, chivalrous, knightly, ready to
five months.
meet all comers and willing to break
a lance with any man. He has a full,
sonorous voice, and a fine command of
language. He stands erect in t:i•;
The law further prescribes that on
, and after January 1st, 1907. n> child
festivities such as the "good old days under twelve years of age shall ae cm- C ] as j, 0 f debate like a great oak amid
of Merrie England knew. It is llko ployed oi" allowed to labor in or about the <-{ orrn
going to a strange country and past any factory or manufacturing estab- | ‘ '
age—this transmigration from a busy lishment within this State, unless : Boykin Wright, of Richmond,
speak?
CHARLOTTE. N. C.. Dec. 30.—The
Searboard Air Line's fast mail. No.
32, north-bound, from Atlanta to Rich
mond. crashed into a string of loaded
cars at Peachland, a flag station, nine
teen miles east of Monroe, late last
night, partially wrecking the passen
ger train and killing Engineer S. E.
Maxwell, of Raleigh.
National capital to peaceful Virginia, such child be an orphan, and has no c ] Par iy ;im i f ran kly, and
All that is needed to bring back the other mevns of support, or unless a intense emotion He makes but
holiday of the eighteenth century are widowed mother or an aged or dis- - few &pstures , chiefly only one. a quick
the plodding stage coach and the abled father is dependent _ upon Urn 1>rk of th0 kalf c]o5er j 55p.; n hand, :(s
■ labor of such child, in which event, were hitting a nail. This partie-
strolling minstrel.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 30.—John
Price, whoJias been under arrest in this
rnce, wnu^nas Deen unuex arrest m tms
city since December S. according to a
statement made today by Capt. of Detect
ives Donaghy. has confessed that he mur
dered Mrs. Maurice Lewis, at No. 2103
North Eleventh street, on the afternoon
of September 10.
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Dec. 30.—The
Southern Educational Association elected
the following officers: President. R. F.
Tighe, Asheville. N. C.; first vice-presi
dent. Dr. E. D. Craighead. New Orleans;
second vice-president. J. Y. Joyner, Ral
eigh. N. C.: third vice-president. E. L.
Floyd. Montgomery, Ala.; secretary. J. B.
Cunningham. Birmingham, Ala.; treas
urer. E. P. Burns, Atlanta, Ga.
I , — _ _ | The clear cut, direct sentences of
beauty and charm, are nb less ardent i Ordinary shall issue any such certin- j Murphy Candler, of DeKalb, puncture
in the hunt than the men, and they cate except upon strict proof in writ- j. a legislative bubble quickly and oom-
appear to as great advantage in the , ing and under oath, clearly showing pietely. He possesses tact and inteiii-
saddle as on the waxed floor at the j the necessary facts; and provided pence, and salient and potential traits
hunt ball that invariably closes the day further, that no such certificate shall 0 f leadership, and in all and through
of sport. . he granted for longer than one year, a ]j puns a fluent, forcible dictioh.
Numerous parties from official j nor accepted by any employer after Candler's speeches demonstrate' that
Washington have left to enjoy the • one year from the date of such certifi- he is a man of ready intellectuality.
1 cate. I
ATHENS. Ga., Dec. 30.—Henry Fos
ter, a negro man. was fined $200 and
six months on the streets by Mayor
Dorsey this morning for having insult
ed a l2dy in her back yard yesterday.
The insult came very near making out
a State case of the gravest kind, and
had the husband of the woman caught
the negro instead of the police, there
would have been trouble for him. The
limit of the law was given him by
the Mayor and when the grand jury
convenes in April that body may find
a way to indict Foster for his offense.
MANILA, Dec. 30.—The tenth anni
versary of the execution in 1896 by the
Spaniards of Dr. Rizal, who was
charged with fomenting a rebellion;
was celebrated here today with enthu
siasm. There was a parade and ad
dresses were delivered on the Luneta.
at the spot where Dr. Rizal was execu
ted. The native speakers expressed
confidence in tty future independence
of the Filipinos, who were urged to pre
pare themselves for the full benefits of
Self-government.
HAMBURG. Dec. 30.—Art express on
the Hamburg-Cologne Railroad this
morning collided with a freight train
at Ottersburg station. Five train
men were killed and four were danger
ously ind six slightly injured. No
passengers were hurt, but there were
a number of narrow escapes. One
sleeping car crowded with passengers
was thrown down an embankment.
LONDON. Dee. 30.—The Foreign
Office announces that King Edward
has approved the appointment of
James Bryce as Ambassador to the
United States.
Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, has
decided to visit New York this winter.
He is a r present on the continent ma
turing his plans for a great campaign.
In Virginia the habits and customs before putting such child at such la- u , ar gesture comes in motions of in-
of the English founders of the Old bor. such father shall produce and file tensity. There is a directness in his
Dominion have clung tenaciously. The in the office of such factory or manu- manner that impresses you with the
music of the hounds on the frqsty air. facturing establishment, a certificate canr i or an( j sincerity of the man. He
the pack followed by red-coated hunts- : from the Ordinary of the county in shows a consummate readiness in de
men, is a common sound during Christ- : \vhich such factory or establishment is bate: and is a speaker of force and
mas week, when the big houses are located, certifying under his seal of carne ?tness.
opened to relatives-and guests of the ; office to the facts required to be shown
owners. The women, noted for their \ as herein prescribed: provided, that no
Christmas gaieties in the old St:ite.
Many have, been invited to the great
houses. They will find there all of the
poetry and romance of an English hol
iday week, and England never boasted
of such carol singers as the darkies
prove to be. The voices of the negroes,
blending in the thin mountain air, fur
nish music that would turn the old-
time carol singers, with their lanthorns
and scores, green with envy.
■But it is not alone on the aesthetic
side that a Virginia Christmas pleases.
All the old English dishes appear on
the Christmas board, from the chest
nut-fed, roasted pig, with apple in
mouth, to the real English Christmas
plum pudding, borne in by an ebony
butler and holly-decked and blazing
with flaming brandy. The recipes for
many of these dishes are brought forth
for inspection, for they are yellow with
age and revered as heirlooms.
There are the pickled walnuts, the
rich fruit cakes and the delightful
mulled ale and wine of the old Cava
lier days. The plum pudding has been
"ripening” for a twelve-month before
it is consecrated to the feast. The
roast pig has been as carefully tended
and fattened as though it were of a
royal line. "What more could a gour
mand ask?
It may sound a trifle incongruous to
the iconoclastic guests to hear, instead
of a lusty chorus in broad Saxon, the
Christmas carol sung beneath their
window on Christmas eve by a knot of
darkies. But it will lose nothing in
melody, will the famous old carol.
“God bless you, merry gentlemen!”
And when the visitor returns to the
workaday world from restful and
quaint Virginia he will rub his eyes,
for it will seem as though he had
stepped in the space of a single night
out of an era of two hundred years ago.
The above are the only two require
ments as to the age limit of. the child
which shall be in effect for 'the next
twelve months, but on and after Jan
uary 1st. 1908. no child under fourteen ma]1 y resources.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Examine label on your pa
per. It tells how you stand on
the hooks. Due from date on
the label. Send in dues and
years of age shall be employed
allowed to labor in or about anv fac
tory or manufacturing establishment
within this State between the hours of
7 p. m. and 6 a. m.
H. H. Perry, of Hall, is a man of
strong and sensible ideas, and ever
faithful to his convictions. He has
fine courtesy, but can give kepn
thrusts. Mr. Perry is a speaker of
and a very effective
extemporaneous debater.
Until John M. Slaton, of Fulton, be
came Speaker his position for many
years as chairman of the general judi-
ciary committee required him to make
It is further provided that on and many speeches on the floor, and he
after January 1st, 1908. no child, ex- sustained himself with rare ability. Kc
cept as heretofore provided, under was cool and unconfused, lucid and
fourteen years of age shall be em- forcible. Frequently his argument?!
ployed or allowed to labor in or about had a miracle of effect. It is seldom
any factory or manufacturing estab- that he leaves the Speaker's ohair to
lishment within this Stare, unless he ; advocate a cause on the floor. He i3
or she can write his or her name and a genius as presiding officer, the acme
simple sentences, and shall have at- i of diplomacy. His rulings are fair
tended school for twelve weeks of the : and impartial, his manner firm, but
preceding year, six weeks of which : courteous. He is one of the best
school attendance shall be consecutive,
and no such child as aforesaid between
the ages of fourteen and eighteen years
shall be so employed unless such child
shall have attended school for twelve
equipped men in public life today. HU
future is full of promise.
Besides the above mentioned Legisla
tors, there will he a number of other
weeks of the preceding year, six weeks bright men of Legislative expericnc
of which shool attendance shall be
consecutive: and at the end of each
year, until such child shall have passed,
the public school age. an affidavit cer
tifying to such attendance, as is re
quired by this section, shall be furn
ished to the employer by the parents
or guardian or person sustaining pa
rental relation to such child. The
provisions of this section shall apply
only to children entering such employ
ment at the age of fourteen years or
less.
who will
It shall be unlawful for any owner,
superintendent, agent of any other
person acting for or in behalf of any
factory or manufacturing establish
ment to hire or employ any child
unless there is first provided and
Iplaced on file In the office of such em
ployer an affidavit, signed by the
parent, guardian, or person standing
in parental relation thereto, certify
ing to the age and date of birth of
such child, and other facts required in
this act.
_____ it,_ sonr? inis act. Any person knowingly furn-
aiso renew for the year 1907. I ishing a false affidavit as to the age, | question, and usually with" successi
rticipate in debate, and
engage in parliamentary clash on the
floor of the incoming House. Some of
these arc; C. E. Dunbar, of Richmond,
a polished -speaker, whose clear tones
never carry a weak utterance: E. R.
Hines, of Baldwin, of resonant ac
cents,^ whose gifts always shine bright
est when the institutions of his countv
are in the balance; Hal G. Nowell, of
Walton, the very essence of fine sense
and speech; J. B. Jackson, of Jones,
speaks with fervor, and is very inde
pendent in action: E. M. Donalson, of
Decatur, of musical speech—and will
any that heard his pirn in protest
against the cutting off of a part of
Decatur into Grady County ever forget
his sympathetic tones? T. R. Whit
ley, of Douglas, who shoots direct as
a cannon ball, ,-tnd lets the ohips Isll
where they may: j. w. Wise, of Fay
ette, clear-headed and sound as a dol
lar. whose position on a tax measure
generaily decides its fate; Madison Bell,
of Fulton, sparkling and fervent: R.
B. Blackburn, of Fulton, animated by
good humor and ready to grapple any
