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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1907.
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have un-
■gy of po-
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ful agriculture. The balance of trade
for the year in favor of the islands was
{6.ore. oor. xho commission recom
mend s again that ati agricultural bank
be fou: .. .] or. the plan of the Egyptian
Agricultural Bank, for the quicker de-
vciop.v.e; ; of the agricultural resourc-s
of the islands. The commission also
declares that "he Philippines offer an
excellent opj>oriur,ity for the invest
ment of American capital, and adds
that the archipelago affords a splendid
r>' i for active and intelligent Ameri
cans to become residents.
with American money. She visited |
Boston. New York. Chicago. Pittsburg j
and Philadelphia in the interests of | book'to
the scheme, spurring her fellow-coun
trymen to contribute by appeals to
their National pride.
"When the Johnstown flood happened,
and when the great earthquake worked
such havoc in Charleston. Englishmen
There wjl
. the tree
proba
it Hous.
>n unc
y dlflf
in I ion
jly be a pretty row
the Senate and
i the immigration
passed a; the last
ame title, bu; with
xts The bone of
educational test.
i-hic
Senator Lodge
Senate
had
but
mb
House pram
is anxious to get to
trouble In the immigratl
the appointment of ir
r.hyslcians with police ]
inserted it
which th<
The Hous<
jue
i gn
ur
Apart
on by
ors and
s at for-
eatly the
ie educa-
undoubt-
•e will be
Pre
Is r
before they are
;ls planned by I
ift a: d.
proha-
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tary Si
not It
den benea
• led!, at Ion
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1*1 some I
> V. • *> ■•
r'A.e kr.o
tilling to
and impoi
•on. Wash
'vKh the t
iight re
; bushel,
next Re
ENORMOUS RANCH
if
Ur
Joe may be
. In the nui
o feasts this
day;
(Cal ) Tribune.
, owners has fallen
i of acres that was
husband to Mrs.
■fetv woman, phil-
ir of 1,500,000 acres
if Texas, a ranch,
raid, one thirl the
R
public!
ver the
ling the
Whil
skirmishing
honor of h
the Democrat^ are sot
In the Sooth there 1
defined and extremel
fcr Representative .T
vinnc
tick*
aders
3s fo
the
‘what at a loss.
- been a well-
populnr boom
in Sharp Wll-
T.hf
most
Irst
chus
if London’s
set." Mrs.
Wl
er m
ame
Hams, 'he leader of the minority in
the House ,\fr. Williams this week
put a quietus on the movement by de-
. clearing that he had not taken any
■»»|s:ep*i whatever toward securing the
I ’nomination at the hands of his party,
nnd added that It. might be stated that
! he had decided not to take the plnr°
■were’ it offered him. In his droll way
Mr. Williams said that, his principal
objection was the fact that the White
House Is too damn nnd that Mr«. Wil
liams declares she Is Irrevocably op
posed to risking the health of their
daughters. Kit nnd Snllie, In the Chief
Executive’s home.
her
idern
drh
dro
the
pr<
and
have
taller ranchers
ranching un-
rertaln nride to
Secretary Ro
paring a state)
his New York
of centrallzatto
the Secretary
disgruntled at
is said to be pre-
it supplementnrv to
’ech on the subject
It is reported that
Ft.ate is decided!'"
: manner in which
the country received his recent New
York address. ITc had r.ot intended It
to he revolutionary in any way, and he
believes that it has been thoroughly
misinterpreted by the press. It is ex
plained that the Secretary meant only
to raise the country to a realize'lee of
Its shortcomings in the individual
State Government", a condition which
is arising through the great growth of
commerce and the consenuent reorgan
ization In the lines of general hnsine'S.
He especially desired to call attention
nf the time to the dnegp.- nf enacting
laws that would conflict with the Fed
eral laws or with legislation enacted
by neighboring States Because of the
wonderful and ranid growth in all lines
of business organizations of men.
known as corporations have com? Into
existence in order to reduce expense"
nnd cheaper the cost of production, to
the |>u,d that the nation mav capture
its 'share of !he world’s trade. These
big corporations, properly conducted,
have made th? United States one of
the greatest commercial nations in the
world. Practically aV their business
is inter-state, and because a few of
the so-called "trusta" violated the laws
of the land, the States"have endeavored
to remedy what should have heen left
to the National Government. Goose- j
quertly there has heen a confliet in
authority that endangers the commer
cial structure, not of the individual .
State, but of the nation at large. The
Secretary believes that the dancer of j
evident, and be was seeking to point
out this legislative error in his New
Y( rk a.hire Tie undoubtedly will
seize upon 'be earliest opportunity to
discuss further the subject, and make
clear what he believes has been niisin- i
ferpreted.
The Panama cocktail, according to
the reports of President Roosevelt,
who says that it is drunk with coffee
at dinner every evening by the prent
majority of families in the canal zone, I
will hardly became norular here. It
is really a health coekt.ai!. to which
not even Carrie Nation could object
since It con'ists entirely of liquid
quinine and is taken not Tor pleasure,
nut to ward off those ills to which
Panama flesh Is heir. It is not much
of a" compliment to Iho Panama c’.i-
njate. but that is liable to continue In- I
^definitely ns a matter of discussion.
Fome of the vistors who return to (
Washington from the canal make re
marks about this climate whb h are
lurid. to put it mildly Minister'
Squirts, on "he other hand, who h:i c
now occupied tbe no-; for two months,
has had nothing to say against it. Hi"
Washington friends have been grieved
to learn th.a" since going t Panama
estate, the
ch in these
and machine
f capital whi
of smaller t
rail, making
> to thousand?
points with a
i the fact that two of the bigg:- = t
ranches within her borders are owned
nnd controlled by women. That each
is managed with Infinite core .and with
success, their survival of years of
keenest competition indicates.
Mrs. H. M. King is the other Large
; land owner, but her estate in South-
I west Texas ean not he compared to
, the Ad.air tract. ’There are 1."70.000
j .acres, it fs true, but that does not ap-
I preach Mrs. Adair’s 1.300,000 acres, all
in one body.
There are points of difference quite
ns er^.at between the two women. One
a woman of home instincts, of a bus-
| mess application and entirely devoted
to the management of her estate, the
; other quite as able, quite as proficient
in management, hut of a wider range
i of thought and viewpoint, fond of so-
! cietv and travel. One of the most re
markable things in Mrs. Adair’s re
markable success is that she can com-
hine her London social duties and her
| annual travels with her business to
I such an extent that neither suffers.
J There Is a romance even in the pur
chase of the great ranch. Twenty-nine
years ago the husband of Mrs. Adair
bought 1,300,01)0 acres near Clarendon
in Texas at about 20 cents per acre.
That was when much land in the Pan
handle was regarded p.t practically
worthless, even for grazing. With the
High- of years these ideas changed;
deserted tracts of land became the
grazing ground of vast herds of cat
tle, and the Adair estate, if now put
up for sale, would easily bring $10 an
acre—that is, $13,000 000 for land alone
and the land is by no means the only
wealth there.
Mrs. Adair has in .he Panhandle a
little kingdom of her own. of which
she is the fnirv queen. Across the
wide tracts within its borders 59 900
cnttle roam at pasture; annually lo.ooo
calves are branded at the great round
up. whose fame has spread over the
entire Stale. Each year from 6,000
to 8,000 steers are marketed. In the
cattle alone, the annual net profit ef
the Adair ranch during the last ton
years has been more htan $100,000
This. too. in the fare ef opposition of
the strongest and of leagues of ranch
ers that promised for a time to kili
all indiivdual ranchers in Texas.
■Where formerly ranchers left their
cattle graze at will over the enuntrv.
stepped forward with promptness and iS03
showed their sympathy in a practical ! F u:t
"•ay.” she said. "Now it is America’s
chance to repay this and show her ap
preciation."
Ar.d n;.onev flowed in upon her for
the project. One concert alone in New
York brought $12,000 to help maintain
the Maine.
Who is she. and where does her
great wealth come from? Of course
she is an American.
Her father was General Wadsworth,
of Wadsworth Manor. Genesee Valley.
New York, one of the first members
at the Union Club to volunteer his ser
vices at the outbreak of the Civil War.
The General was military governor of
Washington.
The Misses Wadsworth had the elig
ible young men of the day at their
feet. One of them married a Phila
delphia Rogers, another became Mrs.
Arthur P s;. of New York, and upon
his death married Arthur Hugh Smith
Barry, now Lord Barrymore.
Miss Cornelia Wadsworth became
the wife of Col. Ritchie, a distinguished
officer of the English army, but soon
after the birth of Wadsworth Ritchie,
their son. the father died.
It was in 1S6T that Mrs. Ritchie be-
enme Mrs. Adair. Her husband was
John George Adair, of Rothdaire,
Queens County, Ireland, one nf the
wealthiest commoners in England, and
was a close friend of the Prince of
Wales, now King Edward. Mrs. Adair :
soon became one of the most popular
hostesses in London. That much-en
vied reputation she has retained to |
this day. Her husband died in 1S92, j
leaving his widow a princely fortune.
In spite of the fact that advancing i
years make former feats of horseman
ship impossible, .Mrs. Adair Is still
dently fond of outdoor sports and her
visits to her Panhandle ranch are al
ways eagerly looked forward to by
the scores of employees. Ranch own
er and dashing horsewoman, society
leader and philanthropist, multi-mill
ionaire—those are a few of the various
gifts fortune has showered upon this
accomplished daughter of General
Wadsworth. Even her beauty she re
tains to a large extent, and in former
days in Washington Cornelia Wads
worth was a toast to bring society
full to its feet.
war jind why restoration were a better
licy than reconstruction. It is a
n every library."
Judge Reagan was r.ot a general in
the army. But he was a hero—a civic
hero. His life is an epic worthy the
poet's pen. He lived to the ripe old
age of $7 years. He attended the Coil-
ederate reunion in New Orleans May,
dressed in a new Confederate
made for the occasion, wearing it :
for the memories that clustered around
it; and when attacked with his fatal
stroke he was wearing this suit, and
his wife and physician divested him of
his Confederate gray forever.
It was fit that he died in the Con
federate gray, for “the best of him was
given to the Confederacy—and there
lies the heart of bis memoirs."
mm Afil BALKED
IN MAYORALTY CASE
STORY OF SAN
WRITTEN
FRANCISCO
BY A REFUGEE
Situation Shifts
in Church and State
JOtlM H. REAGAN
By JAMES CALLAWAY.
fully
sung its re?
itiroes and their
wi
own possibilities, prosperous farmers
now. surround the Adair ranch. No
effort is made, however, to farm any
part of the large tract composing Mrs.
Adair’s e.sr°te. Like an ameient bn-onial
castle is the ranch bouse., an impos
ing pile of stone. There is nothing
about it to suggest the rourh-and-
ready ways of tbe old Texas rancher.
Rather, it is a p.aiace transplanted into
the Texas grazing country, a thing
of awe nnd wonder to the hard-work
ing. hard-Iiivng riders from the re
mote sections of the Panhandle coun
try. Equipped with every convenience,
electric light, waterworks, modern sew
erage. and every modern comfort, the
ranch house is a fit abode for a King.
Mrs. Adair does not suffer from Jor.e-
linecs or the want of companionship
of her kind when she takes up her
residence each year at the Texas home.
Thither she brines with her large par
ties of British and American friends.
No addition to Confederate literature
Is more -instructive and interesting
than the ’’Memoirs" of John H. Rea
gan. the Postmaster-General of the
| Confederacy.
Professor Walter F. McCaleb in the
close of his preface to this book says:
“Texas, the South, the Union, ought to
be proud of the grand old Roman, as
he has been called."
Speaking of the causes of the war,
: Judge Reagan says;
■’During the Congress which imme
diately preceded the war. thirty-odd
compromise measures were presented
in the two houses of Congress, all of
them offered by Southern men or
Northern Democrats, for the purpose
of trying to get some plan adopted by
which war* and secession could be
avoided, and the rights of the States
preserved. Every one introduced in
the House of Representatives was re
ceived with hooting and derision by the
Republicans. When the Southern
members appealed to those from the
North to aid them in some measures of
peace which would preserve the Con
stitutor and also preserve the rights
of the States and of the people of the
South, such appeals were answered by
the statenjent: "We are in the ma
jority and you will have to submit.
The Southern members and the South
ern people did not want secession—
; they only sought the protection due
them under the provisions of the Con
stitution. The Southern people had al-
wavs shown their devotion to the
Union, even while New Englanders
were threatening secession and dis
union."
Judge Reagan fines not go as far into
Northern rebellion against the Consti
tution as fines E. W. R. Ewing in his
book. “Northern Rebellion and South
ern Secession.” but he shows very
clearly that Northern nullification of
the laws applying to the States pro
duced a disregard of the Constitution,
and the appeal to what the North
termed "a higher law.” Disunion had
its origin in the North.
“In attempting to withdraw from the
Union the Southern people hoped to do
so peaceably and had no purpose to in
terfere in any way with any of the
rights’ of the Northern States. They
simply desired to withdraw from as
sociation with a Government which j
had already demonstrated its deadly i
hostility to the rights and interests of
their citizens, and to establish for
themselves a Government friendly to
their own interest. . . . The causes
which led up to the war our adversa
ries will not discuss, for the public
record is against them."
Judge Reagan, when captured in
Georgia with President Davis, was
brought to Macon and sent with Vice-
President Stephens to Fort "Warner, j
Boston Harb
in i serab
PARIS. Jan. 6.—Developments in the
Church and State situation indicate
that the Vatican authorities feel con
strained to vindicate their course by
which Church property in France to
the value of $120,000,000, was forfeited
by tl^ rejection of everything offered
by the Government and will even go to
the> extent of ordering the clergy to
leave the churches in the hope of driv
ing the FYench Catholics to demand
redress at the ballot box.
Bishop LaCroix. of Tarentaise, which
is situated in a poor mountainous re
gion of France, has received orders
from the Vatican necessitating the dis
solution of an association which he
had formed with the object of retain
ing the Church property in order to
support the stricken clergy of his dio
cese. Many bishops are issuing ap
peals to the faithful for funtts, paint
ing the spoliation of the Church in
the blackest colors. Cardinal Richards’
appeal, which will be read in the
j!_ j churches of Paris tomorrow. 1 will say
In part:
“The spoliation of the Church in
France will soon be complete. The
Government has repudiated its sawed
obligation by suppressing the public
worship budget. The small recom
pense which is accorded will not pay
for what is owing to the clergy for
the property seized during the revolu
tion. The bishops and priests have
been driven from their homes, nnd as
B I if this was not enough, the Church
has been stripped of all the property
| received through the liberality of the
| faithful during the past century. ‘The
! property of the wardens, pius, endow-
j ments, seminaries, recotories and even
i the fund of the aged and infirm clergy
j’s to be sequestered, and tomorrow will
j be confiscated.’
I “We protest against this action in
| the name of the Church and of the
| elementary principles of justice.”
ALBANY. N. Y., Jan. 6.—Supreme
Court Justice Fitts today, on motion
of counsel, representing Mayor McClel
lan. of New York City, issued an order
forbidding Attorney-General Jackson to
hear the re-argument on William Ran
dolph Hearst’s application for leave
to begin quo warranto proceedings
against Mayor McClellan, pending a
hearing before Justice Fitts on Janu
ary 12.
This will prevent the argument be
fore the Attorney-General which had
been set for next Monday. The writ
was asked for on the ground that a
similar application for leave to test
Mayor McClellan’s title to the office
of Mayor of New York had been acted
upon by former Attorney-General May
er and that the present Attorney-Gen
eral had no right to open the pro
ceedings.
Population of United States
Increased by 1,166,353
Immigrants.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 6
1 year ended June 30. 1906. produced a
record eclipsing all former figures on
; the subject of immigration, according
! to the annual report of Frank P. Sar-
geant. the Commissioner General of
Immigration. During that period, the
reporc says, the? population of the
; United States was increased by the
admission of 1.100.733 imlgrant aliens,
and 65.61S non-immigrant aliens en
tered at its ports, making the total ad
missions 1.166.353. The increase over
Inst year’s record of 1,059,755 (1,026,-
199 aliens plus 33,256 transits), was
106.59S. During the fiscal year, 1905,
I1.4S0 aliens were rejected, and dur
ing the past year 12.432. Of the im
migrant aliens, that is, those who in
tended settling in the United States,
there were 764.463 males, and 336.272
females. Th etendency of imigration
during the past few years to gather
its steady increase principally from
the countries of Southern Europe Is
referred to.
•Without exception," the report says,
“the countries from which we former
ly obtained the greater part of out-
foreign population, and which are in-
habited_ by races nearly akin to our :
own. have supplied us with smaller
numbers during the past year than J
during 1905—Ireland,, 17,950; England.
15,21 S; Sweden. 3,281: Germany, 3,010: :
Denmark, 1,229, and Scotland, 1.111 less j
On the other hand the four most con- i
siderable gains are: Italy, 5.-1C5: Rus- j
sia, 30.76S; Greece, S.974. and Turkey
(in Europe and Asia). 5,165.
The immigration from Austria-Hun- I
I After my first excitement was over
| nry thoughts ran thus: I will return
again to the Sunny South,
j April IS. 1906. it was hard to believe
that the Queen City of the Golden
j West was laid low in the dust. Her
magnificent public buildings. her
palores. her beautiful extensive parks,
with their evergreen foliage and ever-
blooming flowers. Like Tyre of old.
she was a merchant city, and like
Tyre, she dwelt in the entry of the
sea. Her bank clearings excelled that
I of all the great combined cities of
the West to Sait Lake City and Helena.
She had forty-two national banks,
twenty-one private banks, sixteen com
mercial banks and seventy-three sav-
! ings banks, and not a single one failed,
although they were all burned. Cali
fornia fire insurance companies were
the first in' the field to adjust claims,
paying dollar for dollar, with no dis
count. When the awful blow fell upon
her. California north of Tehachipi. was
paralyzed. But the city, the pride of
the Pacific, was laid low. Mortal
tongues nor pen can never tell the
story of the day and night which ii-
| lowed that awful shock cf Wednesday
I morning. No one can tell the loss of
life. .
| The famous clock in the sower of
The fiscal • Ferry building told at what hoim
! the quake began. It stopped at the
j minute.
The broad avenue of Van Ness
1 marked the boundary line between the
city that stood and the portion
sumed. The tragedy proved how
tificial a modern city is. how helpless
it is when the Almighty sees fit to
brealt water mains, sewers, telephone
connections, street car lines and
sources of supply in forty seconds.
The quake shook down in ’’Frisco”
hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of walls and chimneys, but the
conflagration that followed burned
hundreds of millions worth of proper
ty. There is no estimating the actual
damage wrought. Within an hour
after the shock the smoke was a lurid
tower visible more than a hundred
miles away. And for three days and
nights smoke swayed in the sky, red
dening the sun. darkening the day. and
filling the land with smoke. Inside of
twelve hours after the first shock the
heart of the city was gone. Dynamite
was lavishly used and many of the
city’s proudest structures were crum
bled to earth. An enumeration of the
buildings destroyed would be a di- |
rectory to San Francisco. An enu- j
rne.ration of the dead will never be
made. j
I passed Wednesday night in tbe I
path of the advancing flames, and in ;
all those terrible hours I saw not one !
woman who wept. Before the flames j
throughout the night fled tens of
thousands of homeless ones. Some
and trapezes and all visible at once
from the tiers of seats that make the
place the most commodious in the
world. In the scant hours of ease the
builders of San Francisco will have
frequent occasion to bless the memory
of Adolph Sutro.
mrs. c. L. davis.
Lynn avenue. Vineviiie.
H.
R. Brown Writes Letter on
Negro Labor in Georgia.
Nearly $90,000
r 7 , 3 T , ne tmmigration irom Austna-xiun- j wrapped in blankets, others car-
For State treasury F ar> ' a T Ume n l? 2G 1 S .- 13S: , ) l t ., a F mc ' ud - I tied bundles of dear household treas-
I VI C ing Sicily and Sardin.a 273 120: Rus- i ures . Baby buggies, tov wagons and
sian Empire and Finland, 215,660: Chi- A
ATLANTA, Jan. 6.—The o.uarterly
i rental of the labor of the long term
1 felony convicts of the State has reached
the handsome figure of $83,362.52. as is
shown by the report of Secretary Yan
cey. of the Prison'Commission, which
will be found below. The report shows
the contractors and the amount due
the State by each:
' Office of the Prison* Commission of
Georgia.
Atlanta. Ga., Jan. 7, 1907.
Statement this day rendered to the
' Comptroller General of Georgia of the
amounts due the State for the hire of
convict labor for the quarter ending
December 31. 1906;
Hamby, W. B. Atlanta. Ga..$ 32,108.66
Durham Coal & Coke Co.,
Chattanooga, Tenn..11,854.6S
Chattahoochee Brick Co., At
lanta. Ga 9.S52.S9
Cruger & Pace. Albany. Ga.. 5.813.70
Hon. E. J. McRae, Kinder
Lou, Ga 5,519.00
Lookout Mountain Coal &
Coke Co., Atlanta. Ga.... 5,420.24
Flowc-rs Lumber Co., Jakin.
Ga 2.996.09
Flowers Bros. Lumber Co.,
■Blakely, Ga 2,975.46 •
No. Ga. Iron & Coal Co.
(Palmer Brick Co.), Atlanta,
Ga 2.862.02
E. E. Foy Mfg. Co.. Egypt,
Ga ’. 2.771.51
The G. V. Gress Lumber Co..
First National Bank of Tif-
ton. Ga. . 2.755.98
J. Lee Ensign. Tifton. Ga.. 2,715.34
Dr. J. B. S. Holmes, Val
dosta, Ga
na, 1,544: Japan, 13.S35; the West In
dies. 13.656.
General Unrest Among Laborers.
The immigration from Southern and
Eastern Europe, the -Commissioner
says, is a result of general unrest ex-
i go-carts were used as trunks. Never
j in all San Francisco’s history were her
! people so kind and courteous as on this
night of terror. All night those home-
: less ones fled before the flames.
| They had left their home, burdened
with possessions. Now and then they
isting among the laboring classes of j would lighten up their burden, flinging
1.711.95
$89,362.52
We certify that the foregoing state
ment of the amounts due the State
for hire of convict labor for quarter
ending December 31, 1906. is true and
correct.
THE PRISON COMMISSION OF
GEORGIA.
By JOS. S. TURNER.
Chairman.
PERIS’ SPECIFIC
DENIAL OE CHARGES
NEW YORK. Jan. 6.—“I am not
The cell assigned was ; guilty of the offenses charged against
and Judge Reagan became , me by the indictments. I did not
anxious for Lie health of Mr. Stephens, i make the entries in the "books of' the
and inquired ef his officer if Mr. Ste- New York Life Insurance
Mrs nnd Miss Squlers
illnesse". bu: the minis
flrses to attribute the <v
mate saving 'hat it li
ft!--tor. Mr. Sqt! : r.’s
" i T h him. with the exc
younger children, who
here, s'rr? h? has eer:r
perhaps rather ’. l-tash
effect that to whatever
be sent bv his country,
rations slmuid he seeo:
This belief" may pwhq
from Mr. Squlers’ train!:
where he served for ■’-'■:;
fore entering the r
suffered
o the
' mav
Iircll- !
the English
spoiitd Lone
•, v.l’d life
■n son
h
peer and h's wife, to
the
eals
so
in ?
non.
the ranch
amp.
ng power.
Mrs
Adai
icted house parties
which society people
an ;nv!
's protr
something to
E.'-.e'and aspi
The spirit of the chase prevails at
thes? visits, for where would an Eng
lishman he satisfied unless he could
ride to dogs? Mrs. Adair herself is
a passionate devotee of the chase. On
;he ranch is a stable of blooded horses
and a Ir.ry kennel of dogs, whose ped-
igrees run back to a period that an
tedates the founding of many families
en vears be- ; of world-'
out
latic service.
has
heen ad
nelly, 'he .an
lie Gloucesto
him famous
in the 1 nit- 1
Alabama,
a ccr-rded
The Navy Depart men;
vised that James K Cot
thor "‘hose stories of
fishing fleet have made
bus enlisted as a yeoman
States Navy. Mr. Connelly
assigned to the battleship
and it is said that he "111 lie
certain sneeinl privileges so that his
work of preparing a move' in laudation j
of the nav -1 service will not be irr- |
peded. It is Mr. Connelly’s ambtrimj
to do for the American N.aw what ;
Kipling ha_s done for the British army, j
According to the annual report of 'he j
Philippine Commission for "he fiscal ,
year ended Jure 3-i. 100c. the "little j
brown brothers" in the Philippines I
have been benevoioctlv assimilated and j
peace has spread !'s wings over 'he 1
islands. Thm Pulajanes and the !a- !
drones, by reason ef a policy of "be- I
nevo’ent assimilation.” either have
been wiped out. are under sentence of
death for attveious murders, or have j
been driven into the fastnesses of the
hills, where their power for evil hr"
•'mrtle.aiiy disappeared. With regard
to the industrial conditirm ! u * 'e
Islands, the situation I« excellent. Tile
typhoon of the early pant of the '"ear
damaged th? crop, r ■> the c::te*u of
some feu r million dollars, but 'ti the
whole the farmers ere more prosperous
and there Is a general spread of peace-
level
she
of
I hnse. r
; hut t Ill's
' Not a wire fence can bo
I the borders of the Adair
But
Adair’s life
world ofter
[Vndon. Close
wilt by the dllk
and tli
sees—a
=e to :
xvorite sport,
courses far
has led the
1 obstruction
>r the snort,
found within
estate.
fide of Mrs.
: is the side the
society leader in
inderland house,
of Marlborough after
phens. delicate as he was. was con
fined in such a cell. Of his confine
ment Judge Reagan says:
Vice-President Stephens and I were
allowed -to walk out on the walls of
the Fort accompanied by an officer,
for half an hour each day. when the
weather was good, but never together:
and we were not permitted to com
municate with others. In taking my
walk I passed by the window of Mr.
Stephen-"’ room, and from hearing me
talk with the officer he learned about
the time of the day I went out. and
placing himself at the window of his
room, he hailed me as I went by. I
made inquiry as to his health, and
after a few words passed on. A first
lieutenant. Woodman, was my escort.
He seemed to be looking somewhere
Company,
; specified in the indictments, or any of
them, nor was I in anyway connected
; in the making of such entries, nor did
I aid and abet the making of such en
tries, nor did I, directly or indirectly,
counsel, command, induce or procure
any other person to make such en
tries.”
George W. Perkins, formerly vice-
president of the New York Life In
surance Company, made this sworn
answer to the charges that he had
caused false entries to be made in the
company’s books to conceal the real
nature of some of its stock transac
tions. These charges form the basis I
of the six indictments for forgery in
the third degree handed down against j
Mr. Perkins and Chas. S. Fairchild,
those sections which is encouraged, or
even fomented, by the agents of the
transportation companies scouring the
country for passengers, and the Com
missioner says, more drastic measures
are required to effect a discontinuance
of these steamship practices. The
North Atlantic and North Central
States together received 90 per ceait
of the entire immigration of 1906, and
the. South 4 per cent. The report re
fers to what Commissioner Sargent be
lieves to have heen extensive schemes
to secure foreign labor brought to light
in the past year and now being in
vestigated. The evidence is already at
hand, the report says, to show that
some individual or corporation is en
gaged in importing numerous of Jap
anese laborers to work on the railroads
of the Northwest. These Japanese come
to Hawaii destined to “hotels” kept by
labor agents and claim that they are
J merely seeking labor that may be se
cured in the islands. ’After remain
ing a few days or weeks there they
ship for Northwestern mainland ports.
Having been admitted at Hawaiian
ports their voyage thence is coastwise
and they cannot be examined on arrival ,
at the mainland port under the alien :
labor contract or any other provision |
of the immigration laws. Japanese
have been arriving at San Francisco,
coastwise, from Honolulu .and Cana
dian ports, at the rate of 1.009 to 3.000 I
per month, and the report says sev- ;
era! thousand laborers have been im
ported under this evasion of the law. !
Discussing difficulties in enforcing the '
Chinese exclusion law the report rec-
1 ommends stationing officers in China j
to investigate and approve certificates
j issued bj" the Chinese Government to ;
members of the exempt classes, such
plan to supersede that of having the !
investigation made by United States j
Consular officers. Complete and de
tailed registration of all of Chinese
in the United States is again recom
mended. Any Chinese laborer found
in the United States after the regis- i J
tration act, who has not a residence |
certificate, and if found to be here ;
unlawfully should, the report says, be j
deported. The Commissioner reports j
that on the Mexican border Chinese
coolies are constantly being smuggled
into this country from Mexico. The
President’s suggestion for closing the :
Mexican border to all aliens except cit- |
izens of Mexico Is also urged. Dur
ing the early part of the year, the
report says, the “white slave” traffic !
was exceedingly revived. Many of the
girls and women, imported for immoral '
purposes, were brought through Mexico
and secured a right to citizenship by
marrying Chinese born in this country. :
out upon the street clothing and troas
The Georgia Immgirqtion Society,
which will meet here in a short time,
is planning a definite campaign to se
cure laborers. A convention is to be
held in Macon in the summer, which
shall have representatives from all the
cities of Georgia.
Air. Herbert R. Brown, in a recent
trip through the wire grass region, re
ports the following condition in that
section and institutes comparisons
which are well worth consideration.
He looks to white labor to remedy the
evils that retard the prosperity and
growth of the Southern States. Fol
lowing is Mr. Brown's report:
To the Secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce. Macon, Ga.:
With the idea of getting the people
of Macon more Interested in immigra
tion, it seems necessary to discuss and
plan ways and miens. Several years
; ago the writer went over a large sec-
i iion of Georgia in company with
| what is known as an expert commer-
I cial engineer, sent out by New A’ork
capitalist, largely interested in various
trust companies. His report was a
great surprise to them. I cannot say
to what extent these facts were dis
seminated. or what influence It may
have had upon the growth and devol-
! opment of what is known as the wire-
grass section of Georgia. But I do
know that not one of -the forty-five
; Elates is as healthy as Georgia. Its
climate is superb. No spot on this
i earth can excel it. No State Is better
t 1 watered. The variety and quality of
| its timber are remarkable. In the
variety and quality of its grasses,
i grains, fruit, all food products, even
j cotton and wool, it is ahead of any
1 other State. In thrift and labor it is
j far behind, especially in the energetic
, and thrifty kind, that has built up and
: cultivated the Western States. Coffee
| County. Georgia, has more square
j miles in it than the State of Rhode
| Island. In the last census it had less
than 17.900 people, while that Stale
had nearly 400.000. All the people in
that State could not produce enough
to feed and clothe them one month out
of twelve, while if all the people in
Rhode Island were moved to Coffee
County, and fenced in, they could pro
duce enough to feed and clothe them
twelve months in the year, and yet
Georgia has 145 counties.
I would not discount or discourage
any kind of labor that we have. By
comparison and example I would en
courage them to better ways and ef
forts. The negro labor, and a large
part of the white labor, waste and de
stroy as much as it earns. The plow
ures they had dragged for miles. Thev 1 anfl the , ho ^ are ,e . ft ,n . the ‘! 1P
held on longest to their trunks, and j ."’agon in the yard and weather, the
harness on the floor, the feed in the
dirt. Few are fit to own any stock of
The garden is a patch, the
dirty, the fence corners
over those trunks many a strong man
broke his heart that night. The hills ,
are very steep and up those Hills, mile , an >" aind.
after mile, were the trunks dragged, premises ar
Everywhere were trunks and some- I and ditches are covered with weed
times across them were lying their ex- j and worthless growth, patches cult
hausted owners, men and women.
Before the march of the flames were
flung a picket line of soldiers and
vated here and there, and the .barn
and house look neglected nnd care
worn. The bone nnd sinew have nr>
a block.at a time, as the flames ad- ! tact for anything except fat meat, corn
vanced. these pickets retreated. One j bread, pot liquor, corn whisky and
of their tasks was to keep the trunk- 1 tobacco. How can we get the premises
cleaned up. the little white house and
red barn, that dots the Western coun
try. The same labor and thrift be
stowed upon Georgia soil would
double the product, and make millions
of acres worth one hundred dollars per
acre.
r do not believe it is possible to di
vert any perceptible amount of itnmi-
I gration from New York to the South.
‘ It must
come direct from Europe and not by
way of Castle Garden. The Legisla
ture could not do better than provide
ways and means for an emmigrant sta
tion near Savannah, an inspector and
agents, and encourage hv official acts,
and the promulgation of facts abroad
that will start the tide farther South.
Ortce started. It will take care of itself.
Will the Chamber of Commerce take
up this matter, discuss and promote it?
Yours very truly.
H. R. BROAVN.
Macon, Ga.. Jan. 4. 1907.
a week ago Friday. In adidtion to de-
else and took no notice of our greet- j daring that he had nothing to do with
ing. Every day after that Mr. Ste-‘ 1 the entries in the books of the New
his marriage to Miss Consuelo Vander
bilt. Mrs. Adair’s Lend n residence is
the largest private mansion in Mayfair.
Her er.tert:iirm°n's rank as the most
er.gfrlv sought and the most lavish in
n world where entertaining has reached
a refinement of extravagance. The
fanev dt'e's ball with which she open
ed the London season May 13. 1993,
and at which the countess nf Warwick,
now famous as a socialist leader, as
well a society leader, led the pom-
radour orndrille. is still referred to as
the most striking function of many
seasons. It was at this bail that Mrs.
Adair wore some of her famous jewels.
As a practical relief worker Mrs.
Ad Br has shown the same executive
abilitv she displavs in the management
of her estate. When Lady Randolph
Churchill was in Bouth Africa, in 1909.
Mr. Cornelia Adair was put at the head
of the executive eorrp r ”'tlee of the
Ar r ' , r : o:r hospital shir Maine, a pro
ject to outfit „ n ri maintain a hospital
ship for wounded and sick British sol- j
diers during the South African war,
phens would draw himself up to the
window to let me know he was stiM
alive. He was so frail he was re
moved to a dry and better ventilated
room, else he could not have lived
much longer.
“The famous letter, written in this
prison, addressed to President John
son, asking leniency for President Da
vis and the Southern people, is pub
lished in this book as an appendix.
That letter Is worth the price of the
book—$3: Noble Publishing Company.
That letter is a strong presentation of
the causes which led to the war, show
ing how Northern rebellion against
the Constitution, in activiv like a vol
cano from 1850 to 1860. filled the South
with apprehension and alarm, resulting
in secession as a hope, not for war,
but peace for peace. He showed the
Southern view of their rights, and act
ing not treasonably but righteously
under their views of the compact, and
as such were not traitors like those re
belling against a king, as no moral
turpitude attached to them from their
view, and therefore it were statesman
ship to treat the Southern people as
an honorable people. He asked for
restoration and not reconstruction. It
is a remarkable letter, penned in his
York Life, Mr. Perkins says there was
no evidence before the grand jury to
show that the particular entries were
fraudulent, or that the stocks of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railraod
and the Chicago. Milwaukee and St.
Paul were not sold by the company as
entries indicate. He also declares the
grand jury has a mistaken idea that
the crime of forgery could exist under
the laws where there was no proof of
intent to defraud or conceal a larceny
or misappropriation.
He lays stress on the presentment
with which the grand jury accom
panied their indictments and in which
they said while they were constrained ;
to indict on the advice of District At- j
tornev Jerome, they believed nqjther
Mr. Perkins nor Mr. Fairchild was
actuated by any motive other than a
desire to reap profit for the New York .
Life’s poiicyholders. j
GEN. BAGDADI WOUNDED;
RAfSULI FLED TO MOUNTAINS
TANGIER, Morocco, Jan. 5.—News
from Zinat is conflicting, that originat
ing from native sources, stating that
the place has been shelled by artillery
and Is half in ruins and that Raisuli
has fled to the mountains. The same
source states that General Bagdad),
chief of the Sultan’s army, was wound
ed while leading an attack. Many
others are also reported wounded. It
is impossible at this ttme to determine
the actual results of the engagements.
The Anjera-Fahs tribesmen have joined
the Sultan's army in small numbers,
thus showing their loyalty.
TANGIER, Jan. 6.—Zinat Raisuli’s
stronghold was virtually destroyed by
fire and fell into the hands of the
troops of the Su!t%n at noon today
after a short and almost bloodless
fight. Raisuli and his 700 followers
succeeded in eluding capture, and
reaching the mountains, despite the
elaborate plans of War Minister Gab-
bas to prevent their escape.
LETTER ON MURDERED MAN
LED TO ARREST OF WOMAN j
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Examine label on your pa
per. It tells how you stand on
the books. Due from date on
prison cell, -with no books of reference, j the label. Send in dues and
yet it is not equalled for strong, sue- r._ iv„ 1 nnn
cinct statement of the causes of the ' 3^30 renew for the year 1907.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—The murder last
night of Adalph Johnson, a cheese and
fish peddler, who was stabbed to death
in his barn, was followed today by
the arrest of Mrs. Rose Sorensen, who
had been employed as janitress at the
New Theater. She admitted having
written the^ letter found in the cloth
ing of the' murdered man, but said
puller moving. The exhausted crea
tures. stirred on by the menace of bay
onets. would arise and struggle on
the steep pavements, pausing from
weakness every five or ten feet, and
often after climbing a heart-breaking
hill they would find another wall of
flame advancing upon them, and they
; would be compelled to change their
line of retreat.
; In the end, after toiling for dozens i or bring it from the W
j of hours like giants, they would be
compelled to abandon their trunks.
Many of them dug holes in vacant
; lots and back yards and buried them.
Nine o’clock Wednesday night I
: walked through the heart of the city.
. Here was no fire. AH was in perfect
order. The police patrolled the street.
. Every building had its watchman at
; the door, and yet it was doomed. There
was no water and dynamite was giv
ing out. The sewers had been pumped
; dry.
At 1 o'clock everything was still in
tact. hut there was a change. A rain
j of ashes was falling and at right an
gles two different conflagrations were
sleeping on it- The police had been
; withdrawn. Everything was absolutely
abandoned. Two United States caval-
i rjrracn sat and watched. I urged one
! old man to seek safety in flight. Said
he: “Today is my birthday. I bought
five bottles of wine and some other
things for my birthday, as yesterday
was worth thirty thousand dollars
(and pointing to his crutches); today
those crutches are all I have left.”
I went inside with the owner on
whose steps I sat. He was cool, cheer
ful, and hospitable. “Yesterday morn
ing.” said he, "I was worth six hun
dred thousand dollars. Today this house
, is all I have left. It will be gone in
twenty minutes. Try this piano, listen
to it's tone. There are few Iike.it.
; There are no horses, the flames are
i coming. Everything is doomed."
I On Thursday night the fire-fighters
made their stand on Van Ness and had
they fe.ild here every one of the few
1 remaining houses of the city would
; have been swept away. All day
i Wednesday. Wednesday night Thurs
day, Thursday night, Friday and Eri- j 99-day
: day night, the flames raged until twen-
j ty square miles, including Russian Hill
| and Telegraph and three-quarters of a
: mile of wharves and docks, had been
j licked up. Only one line was left open
| on the Postal Telegraph and no private
' message was sent. Before the office
; of the company an exhausted crowd
, of men and women surged hack and
I forth, imploring the manager to send a
1 message through for them.
; On Thursday night the first wire
was open to the public, and the mes
sages on file had grown to thousands
and up to Saturday night there was
on file 25,000 messages to be sent from
Oakland.
During this hour of terror a military
band appeared and of a sudden there
burst upon the air a grand, glorious
and heavenly tune. “America.” Then
the eye brightened, the heart leaped,
the blood raced through the chilled
veins of men and there sprang from
the innermost soul, as well as the lips
that sweet refrain, “My Country, ’Tis
of Thee.”
The splendid baths unique in Amer
ica. and the greatest indoor swimming
baths in the world remain. There is a
system of mains laid to carry pure
ocean water from the open Pacific
into the heart of the city for the peo
ple to swim in all the year round.
New York would have to go to Fire
Island to get a supply as good. But
the Sutro baths do not have to de
pend on the mains for a supply, for
they are right in the edge of the
ocean, cut in the solid rocks of the
Cost of the War of 1861-65.
From th? New Orleans Picayune.
Questions are constantly being asked,
and statements are numerously made, as
to the comparative forces engaged in the
Civil War of 1861-65. and as to losses of
pronerty in the South, the cost of the war
and other matters of interest.
It is not difficult to get Information as
to matters on the Northern side, since all
records and reports of the war are pre
served. but on the Southern side the de
sired particulars are not so easily ob
tained. Some of our records were de
stroyed and many captured and carried,
to Washington, and in the course of time,
interesting information is brought to
~Mr Cazpnove G. Lee. of Richmond, but
now residing in Washington, has been
searching in the archives of both sides,
and he has got hold of a- variety of im
portant particulars from the official rec
ords From some figures of his recently
printed statement in the Richmond Dis
patch the following are extracted:
Enlistments in Northern Army.
Whites from Northern States... .2,3o3.981
Whites from Southern States.... 316.424
Negroes c
Grand total 2.859.132
It is claimed that some of these we-e
emergency men, and that if the
entire force be reduced to a three years’
basis the aggregate will be 2.320.272.
The total Confederate enlistments were
695.000.
From this it Is seen that the Southern
Army had to fight nearly, if not quite,
four to on?. . ,
The following figures are Interesting:
Federal prisoners in Confederate
hands 270,000
Confederate prisoners in Federal
hands 220.000
Confederates died in Federal pris
ons 26,436
Federal? died in Confederate pris
ons 22,670
Percentage of Confederate deaths in
Federal prisons 12
Percentage Federal deaths in Con
federate prisons 9
When we come to figures of costs and
losses we have the following:
Cost of the war to the United
States $2,086,438,635
Pensions paid by United
States since 1865 3,127,804.280
Interest paid by United
States since 1865 on United
States debt 2,794,318,623
that it had nothing to do with hi-
death. She admitted an acquaintance | cliffs and supplied with unlimited clean
of several years with Johnson, but de- : water by wave power. The water is
dared that she could not understand ; pumped in under the glass roof and
how or why he was murdered.
John Sorensen, husband of Mrs.
Sorensen, was also arrested a short
time after his wife ‘ had been taken
into custody.
sprinkled down In fountains warmed
to just the temperature. The main
tank is 275 fed, but there are smaller
tanks of various degrees of wasmth.
AU equipped with spring boards, slides
Total to United States.. .$9,008,561,538
Confederate bonds lost by the
war $2,000,000,000
Confederate notes lost by the
war 500.000.000
Census valuation in the.
South. 1869. in excess of
valuation. 1879 2.372,830,179
Bank capital and circulation
lost 112,986,429
Specie spent in Europe dur
ing the war by the South.. 18,075,090
Increase of State debts of
South during reconstruction 293.020.641
Total Confederate los."...$ 5.296.912.249
Grand total of losses.... 14.305.473.787
When it fs considered that the South
fought four years against such odds of
men and against enormous superiority in
material supplies, all the Southern ports
being closed by blockade against the
world, and after suffering vast losses in
men and property, has recovered to the
remarkable degree now en toyed, one of
the most astonishing facts in human his
tory i» presented to the world.