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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 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how yon stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dnes and also renew for the year 1907. 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 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. 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 PRINT