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RIOTERS AND LOOTERS JUDGE
ARE EXECUTED IN MEXICO UPHOLDS R. R.
CITY OF MEXICO. Jan. 12.—Late
advices from the Orizaba strike dis
trict are to the effect that 5.562 of
the T.OS3 men which were out have
returned to work. Although every
thing Is quiet at present, swift pun
ishment was indicted by the Oovern-
tnent upon the men who were the lead
ers in the late rioting. Just how many
men were executed for the part which
they took in the riot is not known, but
seven of ih<- leaders were shot In sight
of hundreds of Witnesses. The shoot
ing of these leaders, among whom are
Rafael Moreno vice president. and
Manuel Juarez, secretary -of the work
ing men's organization, was dramatic.
It was at .V30 o'clock in the morn
ing. when :..ono of the already half-
■tarved strikers decided to turn hack
to work. The factory whistles were
blowing and throngs of men wore
about to enter the open doors when
they saw a squad of soldiers leading
♦ he condemned men to the ruins of
the stores that have eon razed by the
mnh.
Rioters Were Executed.
Flaring the men on the piles of
smouldering rubbish the soldiers step
ped back the desired number of paces
f ml the volley that followed closed
tills dramatic chapter of the strike..
The throngs <*f dazed workingmen
v no unwittingly witnessed the horrible
sight, waited a moment until the
smoko cleared away, and then entered
the mill, flater a workman who ap
parently had been drinking, came to
the door to resume work and as he
entered he thickly shauted: "Muerto!
Mtiertn!” (death}. Instantly ho was
firoii on and killed hy a squad of sol
diers. The executed men wore speed
ily buried.
Great Excitement Prevailed.
(treat excitement prevailed last night
in Santa Hisa. Rio Rlanro and Nogales
when word whs given out that all the
houses In these three seilements would
he searched for stolen goods. As a re
sult of this order during the early
hours this morning, the center of the
streets were filled with velvets, laces,
furniture, bottles, sewing machines,
typewriters, clothing, etc. These arti
cles were piled in heaps and notwith
standing ihc .thsenre of the guards,
■were not molested until gathered today,
by the authorities. By this moans,
M. Garein will recover a portion of his
merchandise and thus retrieve In part
his losses. Many of the factories are
now working, though with reduced
forces.
Preacher Appeals
to the President
UNIONS GREAT HATERIAL SUGAR NOT FOR CONSUMPTION IS
nsion
Soldiers at McPherson Bar
racks Said to Violate
the Law
ATLANTA,
ears, beyond
Jan. 12.—For many
the recollect!«n of any
one who takes an interest in such
matters, the soldiers at McPherson
barracks have been playing baseball
n Sunday afternoon. A suitable piece
f land for use in playing the game
.‘as graded off by fhe men during their
h-lsure hours, and with funds rai«ed
by popular subscription uniforms and
other equipment were purchased.
The grading of fhe ground was done
oars ago. and'every regiment that
has been stationed there has had an
thletic club, which organization
looked after the expenses of maintain-
ATLANTA. Ga. Jan. 12.—In a
rendered today. Judge Newman, of the
Federal Court, sustained »nc right t-f
tli>- Georgia Railroad Commission to ad-
' ance the Southern Railway from class
C to class B. The decision sustains a
demurrer entered by tiie commission
against the Southern Railway's motion to
restrain the commission from putting
into effort circular 31k TTt' effect of
the decision Is to reduce freight rates 10
per cent within the State.
A similar demurrer was filed by the
commission against the Central of Geor
gia. but no decision has been handed
down in this -a.se.
History of Case.
In January. 1*06. the Heilroad Commis
sion of Georgia advanced the Southern,
the Atlantic Coast I.ine and the Central
of Georgia Railway Companies from - lass
<’ to cbtss B. The effect of this was to
reduce the intra-state rates something
like ]n per cent. Before the order of the
commission went into effect the railway
companies filed their original bills in the
Circuit Court of the t'nited States to en
join the enforcement of the orders, on tile
ground that tlte reduction in rates would
deprive them of just compensation and
amount to the taking of their property
without due process of law.
hown in thf
CHICAG-
Palmer's n
drive, tonis
ference of
aires. all of
i. Jan. 12.—Mrs.
msipn a; 100 l.a
fit was the scene of
labor lea.ders and million
whom were received
PROSPERITY OF
n-
m
person by Mrs. Palm
ago the nation i! civic
ceived the idea of ho]
to explain to employer
r. Some time
federation eon-
ding a meeting
.1 employees
the aims of
efforts to pla
dustrialisrn
thought and
the organization and its
je the two classes of ill-
oil a common plan of
action. Mrs. Palmer of-
ing the club or clubs, formed of officers j earning oMhe Centml Railroad would°h>
ducert something like I0S.<H>*>. while the
and privales alike.
In recent years some of the ministers
if the city, among them Dr. A. R. Hoi-
derby. have 'been making strenuous ef
forts to break up this amusement, and
while they have had poor success so
far. are not disheartened, and will ! th»-ir property without
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BOY ROBBED GIRl
01S340 AND Ml
NEW YORK. Jan. 12.—Margaret
Hoffman. 14 years old. with 2340
clasped to her breast, the pay roll for
the employes of an East Side factory,
was today held up and the money
snathnd away from her while she was
on her way to the shop from the Ger
man Exchange Bank, at Bond street
and the Bowery.
With a fast gathering crowd at his
heels the highwayman ran through the
streets to Broadway, where a police
man tripped him and arrested him.
The robber, who proved to be an Ital
ian, 17 years old. threw the wallet con
taining the money Into the gutter and
almost as It fell, the girl, -Who had fol
lowed breathlessly, pounced upon It
and then sat down on the curb in the
rain and cried.
OP
will continue the fight with the hope of
Closing down the lid on baseball at
McPherson on Sundays during the
coming summer.
A few years ago, while Col. French
and his regiment were quartered at
McPherson, a letter was written by
some of the Atlanta ministers to tho
War Department at Washington, pro
testing against the soldiers being al
lowed to play ball, on Sunday. It was
alleged that the games attracted dis
orderly crowds to the post on Sunday,
and that they should be stopped, in
the Interest of the good morals of the
community. The letter was forwarded
to Col. . French for his consideration,
without any suggestions to him from
the War Department ns to what action
he should take in the matter. As soon
as the letter was received by the com
mander at McPherson, he addressed a
communication to tho complaining
ministers in which he said in sub
stance that the diamond upon which
the men played ball was In front of his
quarters, and that he and the several
members of his family viewed the
game every afternoon from his front,
porch, and had so far seen no disorder
ly conduct either among the players or
the audience; that some of the com
missioned officers of the regiment were
always in the game, and would
promptly put a stop to anything like
disorderly conduct. Col. French said
that. In his opinion, the men were do
ing less harm playing baseball on thfir
own grounds on Sunday than wouid be
the case if they went into the city,
hunted up blind tigetrs. got drunk on
mean whisky and were locked up in
ihc callaboose. He concluded by In
viting the ministers to come out and
see him on Sunday afternoons, and see
for themselves that the games were
conducted In an orderly manner.
A few days ago Rev. A. R. Holderby.
who seems to be actively Interested In
this matter, wrote a letter to President
Roosevelt making objections to the sol
diers at McPherson playing football
and baseball on Sunday. When asked
what were his objections. Dr. Holder
by said this morning:
“It Is a violation of the State laws
as well as what the church holds to
be the divine law. Moreover, the games
at Fort McPherson, some of which
attract thousands of people, bring an
undesirable lot of people out on the
cars on 'Sunday'afternoon and the res
idents along the car line have made
complaint.
"For some time there was doubt as
to whether a State law could be
broken on a United States reservation
like McPherson, but recently It has
been decided that State laws apply to
the reservations as well.
"Several years ago, when -the Six
teenth regiment was stationed at Fort
McPherson, games of baseball and
football were played on Sunday. We
had it stopped, but as soon as the
new regiment came, with Its new
commander. It began again.
"I have written to President Roose
velt making objection to this viola
tion of the State laws and the matter
has been referred to Secretary Taft
for consideration. Sunday ball has
been played at other posts, but so far
I have not heard what Is to be done
about Fort McPherson."
gross earnings of (lie Southern Railway
would lx- reduced about $33,000. The claim
of the railway companies was that the
rates were already too low- that any
further reduction would to •'tar extet*
amount to confiscation or tho taking of
due process of
Temporary Order Granted.
Judge Pardee granted temporary- re
straining orders against the commission.
The case of the Central was heard before
Judge Newman the latter part of Octo
ber. 1906. on a demurrer to the bill and on
answer to the rule to show cause why
an injunction should not be granted. That
ease was fully argued by eduusei and the
court now lias It under consideration.
Early in December the ease of the South
ern Railway was heard by Judge New
man on a demurrer to the bill, no re
sponse to the rule being then filed.
Saturday morning counsel for the com
mission asked to be allowed to file a re
sponse setting out the facts. At this stage
of tiie proceeding Judge Newman an
nounced that he had reached a decision
on tiie demurrer, and would sustain it
on tiie ground that the'bill had failed to
distinctly allege that the Southern Rail
way was in fact charging the maximum
rates allowed by fhe commission, and in
absence of such an allegation it could
not lie said that the reduction in rates
amounted to confiscation or to the taking
of the pro[Wity of tile railway company
wihout due process of law.
Judge Newman has not rendered his
decision in the Central case, as in that
case he is considering not only the de
murrer. but also a great amount of sta
tistical evidence. It would seem, how
ever, that his conclusion in the Southern
case would control the Central ease. •
fered her residence as a conference
hall. More than 500 guests and dele
gates attended the meeting in the art
gallery of the Paimer mansion, - which
was decorated for the occasion.
The meeting, which was presided
over by Franklin Mac.Veagh. was at
tended by some of Chicago's most
prominent business men and by labor
leaders from many parts of the coun
try. The principal speakers were Au
gust Belmont and Seth Low, of New
York: IV. S. Stone, Grand Master of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers, ami W. D. Mahon, president of
tiie Amalgamated Association of
Street Railroad Emp! ryees.
Mr. Belmont spoke of the national
civic federation, while Mr. Lowe ex
plained the “Conciliation department.”
Mr. Stone related "What the (civic
federation has done for our brother
hood.” and Mr. Mahon told of the
'■Welfare work for street railway men.”
W. W. Finley.
One of the most interesting stories of
today is that of American industrial,
commercial and agricultural expansion.
The decade closing with* 1906 was
'.lie most remarkable in American his
tory. In the ten years the republic
emerged tull-fledged as a world power.
In this development the South was
mo;
Southern States
able period gave the county
ance of trade with foreign lands. Cot
ton was the largest single article in
the list of agricultural exports, and a
majority of
IT, SAY THE
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—“Is London de
veloping an exaggerated and somewhat
sombre sense of humor, or has the sugar
trust a press agent?"
This is the question which the medical
experts in this city put to themselves
when they read the cable dispatches from
London in which a physician was credited
with characterizing sealing wax factories
and candy factories as the finest health
resorts imaginable. In the same cabled
classic appear the declarations that "cliil-
l was dren should be taught to like sugar. It
' would do away with the vast army of
nspicuous. The farms of the . consumptives and degenerates. Every
during this remark- person ought to eat at least 20 lump *
its bal-
carae from the States
sugar daily.'*
Local specialists in consumption are
willing to admit that the sugar wo/id
"du away" with the patients The cura
tive effects they do not agree with. Neith
er do they see the necessity for “teaching
children to like sugar.” On the same
is all fish ought to be taught to
traversed bv the Southern Railway and swim.
Dr. John S. Billings. Jr., in charge of
t? consumption w ing of the -Departm
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Bids Ranged 6.75
to 28 Per Centum
ANGER AND JEALOUSY
CAUSED DEADLY ONSLAUGHT
COLUMBUS. Ga„ Jan. 12.—Angered
because he had been discharged, and
also influenced,' it is said, by jealousy,
Howard Wychee, a young man, at
tacked .Tames Canovan, foreman of the
finishing department of the Topsy
Hosiery Mills, yesterday afternoon, and
cut him in nine places with a knife,
one of the slashes being nearly a foot
long. The knife blade was not long
and this fact is probably all that saved
the foreman's life. As it is. he will
recover. A young lady to whom
Wvehee is said to have been paying at
tention is employed at the mills and
when the yovjng man was discharged
he cautioned the foreman not to say
anything out of the way to her.
its allied lines.
The Southern Railway, like other
lines of the country, was taxed to tho
limit in taking rare of traffic. The
growtli of business exceeded the an
ticipation and prediction of the most j jtt]
optimistic economist. To have fol- ,
lowed the dictates of ' the over-san
guine might have proved disastrous,
hence the unfilled requirements of the
factorv. store and railway. To over
reach and overdo is never a safe bus
iness proposition. The Southern Rail
way was engaged in local betterments,
and in anticipation of natural increase
nad orders placed for additional equip
ment, but the call for skilled workmen
and laborers became so widespread and
insistent in new directions that old-
established enterprises, . including the
railways, were put to distress to meet
demands.
The main territory traversed ty the
Southern Railway system—south of
tho Potomac and Ohio, and east of the
Mississippi—comprising about 12 per
of the
of Health, scfnded the note of objection
when he said today:
. "I believe that the medical profession
in this country will disagree with the
London doctor. A diet of fats \>th as
i of sugar and starches as possible, is
tile best for consumptives.”
Dr. James A. Miller of 350 Park avenue,
who has given much attention to con
sumption. characterized the London dec
laration as "utter nonsense."
"Excess of sugar would do harm, and
no good to tho patient," he said. "In
consumptive cases we have to he espe
cially careful to avoid sweet cough syr
ups. because the digestion is disturbed
by the sugar. No treatment which will
interfere with the assimilation of nutri
ment by the Datient would be.beneficial.”
Dr. L. R. Loomis o' 209 Madison ave
nue. regarded as a consumption expert,
said:
"Sugar is good only to a certain extent,
and immediately let me express my in
terest at the statement that children
should be taught to like sugar. None that
I ever saw had to be taught. As a matter
of fact, sugar is the curse of tho upper
classes because of excessive candy eating.
It disturbs digestion, upsets the 11 vi
and has an HI. rather than
WASHINGl i:\—In a most
remarkable report, published ns a bul
letin by the Bureau of Animal Indus
try of the Department of Agriculture,
warning Is sounded as to the danger of
tuberculosis being communicated to
hum m beings through cows.
The bulletin embodies a report of ex
periments that have been conducted by
Dr. E. C. Schroeder and W. E. Cotton,
of the experiment station of -the Bu
reau of Animal Industry. They have
undertaken experiments with hogs and
j cattle for the main purpose of testing
the susceptibility of the lung to in
fection with tubercle bacilli regardless
of the point at which the infectious
material enters the body. Not only
was it shown -that tuberculosis may
readily be caused in the lungs, no
matter through what channel the ba
cilli gain entrance to the body, but
various other facts were demonstrated
having an Important bearing on the
, communication of this dread disease.
The experts, as the result of their
j investigations, conclude that .tubercu-
| losis is contracted through the ent
rance of tubercle bacilli; that the lung
is the organ most frequently affected,
regardless of where the lhfectiouj ma
terial enters the body; -that tubercu
lous Infection may pass from one part
; of the body to another without leav-
th:
■the
ind -
re-
ing a chain of lesions to mark i*s i
that fresh tubercle material has
highest significance, and that dried
pulverized material has a doubtful
nificanee.
These Important conclusions . in
gard to cattle and dairy products are
drawn:
"Tuherculous material from cattle,
has the highest virulence for all -test
ed species of the mammalian king
dom. to which man anatomically and
physiologically belongs, and tubercu
lous material from man has a lower
cent of the continental area
Union—contributed more of the fruits
of agriculture to world use than any other cases.”
other e'aual area on the face of the' ... . _ - , __ ...
earth. The staples of this Southern P0TJ6 S&yS the X Hitt? I 111 MllSt j through his we of dairy
Bloody Trail to
Place of Murder
region have thus become international,
rather than national and sectional.'
They enter into the necessities of more
people than those from the other sec
tions of the planet. Of the eight im
portant American exports, four are al
most solely produced in the South, and
these four—cotton, tobacco, oil cake
and meal, and vegetable oil—contribute
_ood, effect.
This Is true in tuberculosis and in all j virulence.
"Man Is constantly exposed to fresh
tuberculous material tn a heln’ess way
uots from
Be Prepared for all Sorts
Trials
ROME, Jan. 12—The Osservatore
Romano, official organ of the Vatican,
today published the text of an encycli
cal addressed by the Pppe to ‘‘Our
5 per cent of the entire farm surplus venerable brothers, the cardinals,
of the American republic, coming, as bishops and clergy and of the French
already stated, from 12 per fent of the people.” In this document the pontiff
An Old Man Murdered for
Money and Effort to
Hide Grime
RALEIGH. X. C., -Jan. 13.—Milton
Bunnell, Confederate veteran, was
found dead on the Aberdeen and Ashe
country’s area.
The year 1906 is one. of an even
dozen in the history of the Southern
Railway, each a year of increased
growth as well as responsibility, for
not only has the road more than
doubled its length, and earnings as
well as operating expenses increased in
said his chief object in addressing the
faithful in France was to comfort them.
In their sufferings, which he felt deep
ly. There was, however, great conso
lation in the fact that the Catholics of
France were united. The French Gov
ernment In its declaration was not only
against the Christian faith, but against
proportion, but new problems present : all spiritual ideas. ' The French Catho-_
themselves for solution. Originally an
agricultural line, it Is now an indus
trial one. for the' industrial growth of
the South in the past decade had no
[ equal in anv other geographical divis-
i Ion of the United States.
boro Railroad, near Star, X. C. A ! The relation the South sustains ag-
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Proposals
opened by the Canal Commission to
day for the entire construction of tho j other"sharp implement and the body
freight train had run ever him dur
ing the night and one leg and one
arm were severed and the body cut and
bruised. The peculiar appearance of
wounds on the head and neck led to
an investigation by the coroner. The
jury returned a verdict that the de
ceased had been killed with an axe or
rlculturally to the peonie of the world
is fully established. For years it was
regarded as a one-crop country, but
within the decade it has risen to a
lies must be prepared' for all sorts of
trials, but they were certain of final
victory. This meant the maintenance
of their union with the holy see, which
was of the greatest importance, as
shown by the efforts of the enemies of
the church to dissolve this union.
Coatray to the statements made of
the subject the church did not desire a
religious war involving violent perse
cutions. Regarding the ecclesiastical
tuberculous rows and cows associated
wPh tuberculous cattle."
“While many cases. of tuberculosis
’undoubtedly have their origin through
fond directly or indirectly infected
with fresh tuberculous material hy .tu
berculous persons, there is no means
today by which persons are brought
into closer contact with fresh tuber
culous material than milk and dairy
products obtained from and in the en
vironment of .tuberculous. cows. The
wide use of milk. Its rapid distribution
because of its. perishable character, the
ea=e with which it may be contami
nated. all speak for. ono conclusion,
namely that we have no -more active
agent than the .tuberculous cow for
the increase of tuberculosis among
animals and Its persistence among
men.” ■
commanding place In various ways and properties the encyclical said the Pope
' H - had not abandoned them. The French
WATERLOO, Ia.. Jan. 12.—The body
of James Cullen, lynched last night hy
>a mob of i.noo men who battered down
lthe doors of the county jail at Charles
'City. Ia.. swings today from the bridge
Saver the Cedar river.
Cullen was lynched because he had
killed his wife and stepson, and. In the
Infuriated crowd which dragged the
murderer to his doom, four clergymen
and a number of women are said .to
have been recognized. The prisoner
fought desperately, protesting that his
wife and step-son had attacked him
and that he had used his knife and
pistol In self-defense. He was allowed
time to pray.
The lynching is the result of a par
don granted Louis Busse. a wife mur
derer. Who, after two reprieves, had
bis sentence commuted to life Impris
onment. Members of the mob made
no attempt to disguise themselves.
With pick axes and railroad Iron they
bartered down the door and cut
through tho wall.
Cullen was torn from the grasp of
his Jailers and carried, screaming, to
the bridge. Though sixty years old.
he showed enormous strength and
fought like a tiger.
As soon as he had been overpowered
and had been given time for a brief
prayer, the noose was placed around
his neck and he was shoved off the
bridge.
Cullen on Wednesday killed his wife
with a knife. His stepson. Royal Ja
cobs, a fifteen-year-old boy, awoke (to
find the knife at his throat and Cul
len standing over him. The lad es
caped the knife, but was shot In the
back as he ran from the house.
Cullen, who was a contractor worth
$50,000, was regarded as eccentric. All
kls life long he had been a violent ad
vocate of (temperance and had never
taken a drink of intoxicants or smoked.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—A com
plaint has been received at the War
Department from the Evangelical Min
isters' Association, of Atlanta. Ga.. in
Panama canal were as low as had been
expected by experts on construction
work. For some time it has been
known that several members of the
commission believed seven percentum
upon the estimated cost of construc
tion would be a fair remuneration for
a contractor under the form of con
tract prepared by the commission. The
lowest proposal was that of William
J. Oliver, of Knoxville, Tenn., and An-
som M. Bangs, of New York city, who
offered to do the. work for 6.75 per
centum of the estimated cost, which
falls even lower than had been hoped
for. Granting that the estimate of
$140,000,000 for the construction of the
canal, which had been frequently spo
ken of in Congress, is accurate, the re
muneration of the Oliver-Bangs com
bination would be $9,450,000 in case
it were to be awarded the contract.
Much discussion has been caused by
placed on the' track to conceal the
crime. It is evident that the motive
of the murder was not robbery as
$395 in currency and $75 in gold coin
were found in Bunnell’s pockets.
in combination with its former great
staple—and still.staple—it has a multi
plicity of farm crops which now par
ticipate in supplying Northern and
foreign markets.
Corresponding with this marvelous
agricultural growth has been the in
dustrial development, an attainment
that has a most substantial basis. No
other region of equal size on any con-
iruro-.A?,?™ on'°™ .'tUSTSS ! tinent has greater diversity and ‘extent
that Milton Bunnell was seen changing
money in Star Thursday and when his
body was found about $40, which was
in a wallet, was missing, while $470
was found sewed in his clothes.
After the verdict of tho coroner’s
jury a bloody axe was found near the
place and a trail of blood showed that
the body had been dragged three hun
dred yards to a curve and left on the
rails where it could not be seen by the
engineer of the train.
INTELLIGENCE OF A TREE.
It is not only in the seed of the
flower, but in the whole plant, leaves.
of natural resources. In deposits of
coal, iron ore, structural materials, and
of rare and economic minerals, com
bined with forests of merchantable
timber and unrivaled water powers.
The increase in capital in Southern
manufactures in the five-year period
ending with 1905 was 65 per cent, com
pared with 40 per cent in the whole
country, while the-Increase in products
was 44 per cent, compared with 32 per
cent in the country at large. Reports
to the land and Industrial department
of the company show that 1,198 new
industries were located In territory
covered by the Southern Railway and
! Government had imposed on the Cath-
, olios of France an organization which
the church was absolutely unable to
accept without imperilling her exist-
1 ence as a divine institution. The
: church could not prevent the unjust
| spoliation in progress.
In conclusion the Pope appealed to
the judgment of history, which, he said,
will recognize that the papacy, in act
ing as it has, did so because it did not
wish to humilitate any trival officials
or oppose any form of Government,
but defended with all its strength the
work of the divine founder of the
church, demanding “respect for the
hierachy and the inviolability of its
property and liberty.”
The papacy wished to remind the
world that “man must concern himself
here below with higher ideals than the
occurrences of every day life, and that
the supreme, inviolable joy of the hu
man soul on earth Is to accomplish its
spiritual duty at all costs and thus, in
spite of all, honor, serve and love
God.”
the 'Mobile and Ohio Railroad during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, j PARIS. Jan 12.—The eagerly awalt-
percentum to 28 percentum. William I work, many traces of a prudent and i and there was no diminution of activ- led papal encyclical, in which the pope
x *_* *, , ;i.„„ I ity for the last half of the year. I explains his reasons for forbidding the
The financialgrowth has been wide- j faithful to make declarations under the
the great difference in the only four i stalks, roots, that we discover, if
bids received, as they ranged from 6.75 j stoop for a moment over their humble
J. Oliver and Ansom M. Bangs have
both been in the contracting business
for many years, and the statements
they furnished with their proposal
show that they have done much im
portant work. Mr. Oliver states that
he has completed $18,100,000 worth of
work in the past ten years, and now
has $31,500,000 worth of work in prog
ress. Ife gives his assets at $3,000,000.
quick intelligence, writes Maurice
Maeterlinck, in Harper’s Magazine.
Think of the magnificent struggle to
ward the light of the thwarted
branches or the ingenious and cour
ageous strife of 'trees in danger. As
for
pin of heroism giv
the other day in Provence, in the wild
and delightful Gorges du Loup, all per-
regard to the Sunday baseball playing ! Mr. Bangs gives his assets at $2,000.- i fumed with violets, by a large centen-
of the soldiers at McPherson. It Is i 000.
asserted that this past time leads to The other bidders were George
disorders within the post and on the Peirce & Co., of Frankfort. Maine, and
roads leading to it. On the other hand, | New York city, who offered to do the
work for 7.19 percentum upon the es
timated cost: the North American
Dredging Company, of Los Angeles,
Cal., who offered to do the work for
28 percent of the estimated cost, and
the McArthur Gillespie Company, of
New York, whose bid were 12.5 per
centum.
spread find well distributed as evi- . law of 18S1, and defining his attitude
deneed by the . growth of the banking toward the amended church and State
business. According to the report of separation law, was published here this
the United States Comptroller of Cur- j afternoon. This formally places the
r myself I shall never forget the ad- j rency, deposits in the banks of the seal of official condemnation on the
irahie exuinnie r ,r heroism (riven me ' South June 30, 1896. were 221 % mil- ■ new law and will constrain the bishops
n.ioie example 01 nerumm given lion .s, which sum had increased June at their meeting to he held here .T->n-
30, 1906. to 8S2- 1-3 millions, or four uary 15, to range themselves against
limes as much. Fifteen years ago
there were 1.100 banks In the South.
Now there 2.700. Thirty years ago
there were 900 newspapers. Now there
are 2.500. Educational facilities have
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—That
American importations of cotton goods
into China suffered a. heavy falling off
during the year just closed, * is the
assertion made in a statement Issued
today by the bureau of statistics of
the Department of Commerce and La
bor. ' This reason for this marked de
cline in China's importations of cotton
products is due, it is explained, to the
fact that the flowery kingdom bought
more of these goods than she could
consume one year ago.
It is shown that China purchased
about fourteen million dollars worth
less of. cotton goods for the eleven
months ending with November last,
than during a corresponding period in
1905.
American importations in China for
the eleven months in 1905 aggregated
$31,000,000 ana in the same period dur
ing the past year they amounted to
only $17,000,000. Kerosene oil—the
second article ' in importance of the
American export trade to China—also
shows a marked decline for the last
year. During eleven months in 1905
our export trade in that product
amounted to 71,500,000 gallons, while
like period in the past year, the
the military authorities at Fort Mc
Pherson state that baseball playing
has not occurred there for many
monthp, and the games have never at
tracted disorderly people. The War
Department will take the stand In the
matter that It took in Massachusetts
in the case of the soldiers at Forts
Rodman and Strong, which were ac
cused of playing baseball on Sunday.
It was decided that the enlisted men
can pl^y baseball on Sunday provided
they keep within the limits of a mili
tary reservation.
arian laurel tree.
It was easy to read on its tortured,
and. so to speak, convulsive trunk, 'the
whole drama of its hard and tenacious , ...
life. A bird, or the wind, masters of I multiplied, but Particulars of growth
destiny, had carried the seed to the j
THREE MEN INJURED
BY GASOLINE EXPLOSION.
TAMPA, Fla.. Jan. 12.—A gasoline
explosion on -the auxiliary schooner
Falcon. lying at dock here tonighL re
sulted In the probable fatal Injuries
to Capt. Leon Key and Mate Richard
Sawyer and severely burning of En
gineer King Johnson, all white.
The striking of a match to find a
key dropped on deck ignited the gaso
line. of which the Falcon has a cargo
for Key West. Fire following the ex
plosion was extinguished by firemen
after doing considerable damage to the
boat.
" ’I do.’ said Mr. Dooley, ‘but I’d
rather put a limit on how little be can
have.’ “-—Dooley.
SURVEY IN LEE COUNTY 1
FOR PROPOSED ELECTRIC LINE
LEESBURG, Ga., Jan. 12.—The engi
neers of the proposed electric line from
Macon to Albany have this week been
busy locating the survey through the
county and from present indications
Leesburg will soon have cars passing
on close schedules.
Farmers generally are not trying to
Increase the cotton acreage this year.
The last season with Its expensive ex
perience and poor yield seems to have
put a good deal of discouragement on
the cotton situation.
The present winter has been exceed
ingly mild. Flowers are In bloom in
the yards, numbers of gardeners have
beets, lettuce, radishes, cabbage and
other garden truck In plenty, and some
few of the brave peach trees are about
to bloom. Leesburg has not had any
snow since February. 1*99. hut we look
for It to make up for the summer !
weather -of this winter. i
TWO BIG COTTON MILL8
TO CLOSE AND REORGANIZE.
CHARLOTTE. N. C.. Jan. 12.—It is
expected that a reorganization of two
big cotton plaits, the Southern and
Vermont cotton mills, at Bessemer
City, near here, which it was reported
yesterday would be placed in the hands
of a receiver, will be effected in a few
days when work at the plants will be 1
resumed. No ultimate failure of the !
two concerns is anticipated here. Prac- j “Most !v th’ ol’ married men 1 know
ticaily little or nothing can be ascer- j threat their wives like a rockin'-chaire.
talned why the mills shut down. The a great comfort whin they're tired, but
two mills were capitalized at an aggre- I apt to be in th’ way at other times.**
«»te of $355,000. •—Doolej.
NO REASON FOR JAPAN NOT
8ENDING OVER FLEET
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—In the ad
vices to the State department from
Ambassador Wright at Tokio and
through tho Japanese Ambassador
here, regarding the abandonment by
the Japanese Government of the pro
jected dispatch of the fl(;pt of naval
training ships from Japan to San
Francisco, no reason is officially as
signed for the change of program, and
indeed it is learned that the St((te De
partment extended a cordial invitation
to the Japanese navy to visit this
country. It is. of course, understood
that the Japanese Government has
taken notice itself of the agitation in
San Francisco, and deemed it prudent
to avoid any possibility *f a disa
greeable incident.
LIQUOR NOT TO BE MADF
SUBJECT TO 8TATE LAWS
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.—The house
committee on judiciary decided today !
by a vote of 9 to 7 not to consider the
Hepburn-Dollivor bill making liquor
carried In interstate commerce subject
to the laws of any state it enters. The
members who voted against consider
ing the bill were Representatives Par- ;
ker. of New,Jersey; Alexander, of New |
York: Nevll.. of Ohio: Sterling, of Illi
nois: Birdsall. of Iowa: Fester, of Ver- -
mont; Brannon, of Ohio: Brantley, of !
Georgia: Jenkins, of Wisconsin. Those
who supported tlv bill were Repre
sentatives Littlefield, cf Maine:-Pearce,
of Maryland: Tirrell. of Massachu
setts: DeArmond of Missouri; Smith of
Kentucky: Clayton, of Alabama, and
Henry, of Texas.
flank of the rock, which was as per- |
| pendicular as an iron curtain, and the I
‘ tree was born there. 200 yards above |
the torrent, inaccessible and solitary, 1
1 among the hurning and barren stones. |
i From the first hour It had sent its :
I blind roots on a long and painful |
I search for precarious water and soil. I
But this was only the hereditary care
: of a species that knows the aridity of
j the south.
j The young stem had to solve a much
graver problem: it started from a ver
tical plane, so that its top. instead of
j rising toward the sky. bent down over
I the gulf. It was. therefore, obliged,
notwithstanding the increasing weight
I of its branches, to correc; the first
| flight, stubbornly to bend its discon-
i cc-rted trunk in the form of an elbow
; close tp tiie rock, and thus. like a
•swimmer who throws back his..head.
• by means of an incessant will, tension
! and contraction, to hold Its heavy
| crown of leaves straight un into the
1 sky. i
j Thenceforward all the preoccupa- |
■ tions. all the energy, all the frep and j
J conscious genius cf the plant had cen- 1
i tered round that vital knot. The mon- ■
, strous. hypertrophied elbow revealed
. one by one the successive solicitudes
of a kind of thought that knew how
1 to profit by the warnings that it had '
received from the rains and storms. |
Year by year the leafy dome grew !
heavier, with no other care than to
spread itself nut in ttm ligh; and heat,
while a hidden canker gnawed deep
into the tragic anil that supported it
pace.
in all directions could be indefinitely
detailed.
The South has nearly as many sea
ports as all the rest of the country
the law on all points. The French
bishops must follow tho • orders of
. Rome, no matter what individual ideas
may be held. The Temps considers
1 the encyclical as proof that the Vati
can is determined to continue the war.
As an illustration of what is termed
the speciousness of the papal argu
ments, the Temps points out that the
statement that a priest cannot be a
exports to China
about 44,00(1.000.
had fallen to only
STORY OF SALOME.
the
The
combined. The total exports and im- 1 juridicial occupant of a church, is no
longer true under the new law, and
that the disaffection of churches,
which the pope says was never ad
missible, was a possibility even under
the concordat.
ports are not as great, but the figures
are growing. During the fiscal year
1906. Southern ports sent abroad 642
millions of products, compared with
millions in the preceding year,
while imports increased from 83 mil
lions (o 101 millions. The norts of the
South are nearer the "West Indies.
South America and the r>,uama canal
than any other in the Union, and in
the trade now in sight with our neigh
bors of Latin America the South has
the supreme advantage.
The known potentialities of the
South and many yet to be reckoned
with under the whip and spur of steam
and electricity, aided by scientific re
search and application, promise much
for industry and intelligence in the
coming years, and so the Southern hor
izon shows no signs of stagnation, but
instead aeceleration and achievement.
The wealth and variety of possibilities
and onportunities for brain, brawn and
capital are so vast in the South that
thev -baffle the mind to fully grasp
their magnitude. Go where you may
there is room for energy and ambition
with amble compensation for every ex-
pendlfure of effort. There will be dis
couragements. Individual and sectional,
and occasional impatience that some-
hodv or some place may be doing a
SOUTHERNER FOR PRESIDENT.
NEGRO WHO ASSAULTED
VALDOSTA JAILER tS CAUGHT
VALDOSTA. Ga.. Jan. 12.--.Tini Ben
nett. the negro who assaulted Jailer Ellis
yesterday, and after taking his pistol and
seven dollars in money escaped. was
caught last night at Jennings. Fla., and
returned to jail here. H ’ was surrounded
In a house by Officers Dowling and Guy
Presley, accompanied by Deputy Jones
and two others of Hamilton County. Fla.
When the negro came from the house he
came shooting at the officers and they
shot him several times, peppering him
with bird shot. The shots were tired at
a distance su the negro was not badly
injured, though 50 or more shot entered
*n his skin. 1
I little better but persons and localities i
most sure to win out and share rightly !
in the increasing greatness are those !
who know there is a great work tn do
and coneent-ate their energies and
bach faithfully everv Interest directly
or indirectly nece a ?arv to their home
development. All ambitions and emnl- j
umenrs cannot be realized this week
or month or year, hut the earnest and
honest worker of the South, regardless
of bis railing, is living in a section i
which has no equal on this continent ;
for gaining all of the rewards of per- |
sis»»nt and intelligent labor.
Is it true that Northern Democrats
would support a Northern Republican in
preference to a Southern Democrat of
high character and conspicuous ability?
We will never know until a Southern
Democrat is nominated for the Presi
dency.
We know this: That a Southern man
has been elected Governor of Rhode 1s-
| land, that an ex-Confederate officer has
j represented Kansas in the United States
' Senate, that a Southern man has repre-
j sented a Minnesota district in the Na-
; tional House of Representatives, that a
Southern man has been elected Mayor of
New York city, that a Southern man
i has been elected to the Court of Appeals
: In New York, that a Southern man
I has represented Pennsylvania in the
: House of Representatives, that a South-
: orn man represents Nevada in the United
; States Senate, that another Southerner is
. Governor of Nevada, that several ex-
i Confederate soldiers have represented
; New York districts in Congress, that a
i Southern man lias represented Washing-
i ton in Congress, and that there have been
1 since the war many Southern men. ex-
1 Con'ederate soldiers, elected to office In
the North
The trouble is that there is not in the
North at this time a Democratic party
worthy the name. That Is a painful truth,
but the Post believes there are in the
North at this moment tens of thousands
of men who would support a Democrat
like Culberson, Bailey. Aycock. Daniel or
P.ayner who would not support a man
like Hearst. and there are thousands of
Northern men who would vote for any of
these Southerners who would not eve.n
support Mr. Bryan. It. is idle to discuss
the possible attitude of Northern men
toward Southern statesmen until a South
ern man has been nominated. If for any
reason Mr. Bryan should decline to Ije-
•ome a candidate two years hence, tiie
nomination of a Southern candidate -will
Every Southern center has large ! we well-nigh imperative, and then we
plans of development in not only new ' shall see what the attitude of our North
enterprises, but in the enlargement of . south™ nominaUon-the* right' man
old ones. The Southern Rail"a\ will upon a Democratic platform—would oh- , , .
continue a progressive policy in bet- tain far greater support in the North I *John the Baptist, called Jokanaan
terment*. $haa many people think.—Houston Post by Wilde and Jochanaan in the opera.
As O scar Wilde Wrote it From
Biblical Version.
From the January Broadway.
This Is the story of the drama:
curtain rises, disclosing Narraboth, the
Syrian, talking with soldiers and pages
on the great terrace in the palace of
Herod. Teirarch of Judea. To the right
is a grand staircase leading to banquet
hall. To the left, at the back, is a cis
tern, surrounded by a wall of green
bronze. In this cistern Jokanaan.* <
held a prisoner by Herod, is confined. *
The pages talk of the moon, the
while the Oriental atmosphere grows
on the observer. Narraboth interrupts
with passionate outbursts on the beau
ty of Salome, whom he loves:
How pale the Princess is! Never
have I seen her so pale. She is like
the shadow of a white rose in a mirror
of silver.
Salome comes In, satiated with the
feast, and mad to free herself from
the loathsome caresses of her mother’s
husband, Herod. On the terrace she
breathes the pure air and is happy.
She speaks: “How good to see the
moon! She is like a little piece of
money: you would think she was a
little silver flower. The moon is cold
and chaste. I am sure she Is a virgin,
she h is a virgin’s beauty. Yes, she is
j a virgin.’’
I The voice of Jokanaan speaks:
j The Lord hath come. The Son of
I Man hath come. The centaurs have
| hidden themselves in the rivers, and
the sirens have left the rivers, and are
lying beneath the leaves of the forest.
The Princess asks who it is that
cries aloud, and. being told, asks to
see him. The soldiers try to dissuade
her: it Is against orders to take the
prophet from his prison. Meanwhile a
slave, sent by Herod, attempts to in
duce her to return to the feast.. She
becomes more insistent, finally prom
ising a smile to Narraboth if he will
lead Jokanaan forth. The love-sick
Syrian yields.
After, she has seen the prophet she
desires to kiss his lips. Being refused,
she appeals to Herod. Herod says th^t
if she will dance for him he wilL grant
her any request. The dance follows.
- I Salome demands the head of John the
J j Baptist (Jokanaan): and
to.her on a silver charge
is brought
indistinct
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