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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 Timm i t i h- i t i 1 j 1 1'1 1 ! 1 I H- 1 * I or as to any other fa 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