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THE TWICE-A-W EEK TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1907. WHAT IT COSTS TO REFORM A BOY !• 4 l-I t I IM-H-H-H-H M M-H -l-H i -1 I H-H-H-4 1 I l IW-H-l-H-fr+ H-H" jH-I-H-H-l-l-FH p.p.p-FH-.p.p.p.M-Dt-H-l-H' !■ I-H-I t-I-1 NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—It costa $20# . bad boy problem reveals the fact that ! T a , year to turn a bad boy Into a good the delinquent haled to the children's ,, court is largely the vicitim of clrcum- ! f stances—in this country sometimes a very young vicitim. for American courts can brand a child a criminal at Itlzen. At least, this the latest figure reported by the New York Juvenile Asylum, which, for more than half a century, has been engaged in the work of transforming street urchins of the | the age of 6. In Germany the criminal metropolis into self-respecting men. The price of reformation, like the price of almost everything else, is go ing up. A few years ago the young vagrant or petty thief or all-round bxvdx&xvs 'Revive *\Xse& *5ot CouwXt^’s €>oo& By C. H. FORBES-LINDSAY, in Richmond Times-Dispateh. methods were strident. Not many ■ delinquents were is In liar- the congregate the asylum city 1,100 r gue who was sent to the asylum cost $130 annually for clothing, food, lodg ing and the education by which he was polished up mentally and morally. B'ut times have changed. Reform was cheaper then because different and less years ago juvenile del huddled together like recks. That was under Idea. At one time wh occupied e building In lads were sheltered ut Now only 20 boys, and the same age. live In cottages or families tha little village on the h« Ghauncev .:. 1 Dobh- F> rry. same 20 miles out In the country. This is the segregate idea which offers better op- portunities f,,.- constant study of each individual case, and which is as different from the old method as the comfortable h ,me is f-out the white washed county jail. The number of Children at Ohauncey is now 320. Reformation In these days is con ducted on a businet s busts. The au thorities of the Juvenile A'ylurn can age begins between the twelfth and eighteenth year, in Austria at the end Our past' treatment of our Indian of the fourteenth year and in England wards has been humane, but sadly at the end of the sixteenth. In this lacking in intelligence and efficiency, city only boys under 16 are sent to re- Hardly any condition could have been formatorles. A boy a day over 16 may better calculated to promote barbar- 1111 H-H-M J.M i-M-l Mil M-H-M-HI I M I I I-M-I-M I III I «i bovs .11 about one of the If. : comprise the ights between tell the zith * Vl to a cent what it cost r»y a good citizen. Of etV costs the asylum each is contributed by the city, few exceptions the asylum boys are committed by city authorities /acting through the children’s court. The balance of the cost of making on honest man Is contributed by the di rectors of the asyhtm and other friends and champions of the bad boy- who, sociologist? have discovered, is more sinned against than sinning. Since the asylum was founded, the city of New v .rk has invested i- • V- work of re formation about $4,132.0(10. ,a sum many times less than the city has paid out in the same period for policemen, c-'-urt ( 'finer' and j iit wardens In the same half -century, private contribu- ti ns to this work in the promotion of good citizenship have aggreg&teed $2,600,000. Thus near!; $7,000,000 has been snent on bad boys in one city in 50 years, and in the past few years the annua! cost per boy has increased about $75. Does it pay? The Juvenile Asvlum people, who conduct the work of re formation on business principles, have figures to show that the work Is prof itable. The hoys who graduate from the asylum are generally sent to homes in the West and it is known that 85 per cent of these boys turn out well. A visitor now In the field has recently reported favorably on the 22 per rent of the children visited, hut this is a little better than the .average Tim question Does It pay? finds its an swer in numerous life histories which ' are brought to the attention of the .asylum authorities. A few days ago ; they received a letter from a business ; man in an Iowa town who 'hnnounced | his election to the office of countv r"- ■ colder. He wrote that he hopr£ the | asylum officers would be Interested to ! hear about him because they had sent j him to Iowa In 1587. "Most of all.” be j wrote, "I remember those words of j Abraham Lincoln which grOeteed me | in the assembly room—’Tell the hoys j of the New York Juvenile Asvlum that be sent to jail for stealing a street railway transfer check while a hoy a day under 16 may commit grand lar ceny and be sent to the asylum to re pent. arid reform. Judges agree that this system is working considerable harm to youthful delinquents, and the study of the question made by those Interested in the work of reform will undoubtedly lead to better things. In the study of the raw material for good citizenship, attention is paid to details which might at first seem to be trivial. The experts in boy training, for example, understand in the rela tionship of teeth to morality. Xinety- four per cent of the children sent to the Juvenile Asylum have defective teeth, and a large proportion suffer from eye and skfn troubles. "How could they be expected to act normally undei the circumstances?” asks the experienced and sympathetic superintend:: nt. So one of the first experiences of the newcomer at Chauncey Is that of be ing put in good phy.-i .:! conditl in. and to many of these boys the experience Is a decided novelty. As soon as the youngster h healthy boy, if he is old his- time in ism and pauperism than the system segregations, first adopted as a po- against the introduction of liquor into the Indian country, but the Commis sioner of Indian Affairs finds this a dif ficult proposition. Unscrupulous persons have secured land on reservations and engaged in the business of selling liquor to the lice measure, and continued from mis- J Indians, maintaining that an open guided motives of paternalism. That i reservation is no longer Indian coun- they have not been utterly ruined by it speaks loudly for the Inherent stur diness of c haracter of the North Amer ican Indian. Under the old policy the Indian was 1 and economic anomaly. He wns encouraged to disregard *he very- first lav.- of nature—that of providing the means of subsistence for himself and his offspring. His life was regu lated and circumscribed to the last detail. When front sheer revulsion of spirit he occasionally went on a ram- page, we stigmatized him as a "blood thirsty savage ” and shudderingly hur ried out our troops to herd him back to his confines.* I.ike our Incurables and hopelessly insane, we deemed him a useless encumbrance, and while we fathered him tenderly, fervently pray ed that we might be speedily rid of him. Time and a more intelligent study try. The Commissioner of Indian Af fairs is determined to oppose this traf fic with all the means at his com mand. but he is handicapped by a re cent decision of the Supreme Court and by the fact that his office has no fund from which to derive the means of proecuting offenders. It is heartily to be desired that some measures may be adopted for the protection of the In dian against his most formidable ene my. Experience proves that his safety lies in keeping liquor out of his reach. Once he touches it he completely doses control of himself. Nevertheless he is eager to buy it and willing to pay any price for it. facts that offer itrong temptations to whisky dealers tolevade the law if possible. There are probably 40,000 Indian children of the school age. Of the ma jority of these the Government hopes to make useful citizens, who will be come an important factor in the devel- INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY IN THE YEAR 1906 rl-H-:-? H-M-M-M-M H 1 11 H !■ H tra The Juvenil pec eng gins to feel like a normal. 1 his schooling b f-gins, and i ?nough he spend S .-MI,;-’- of j one of the slu >ps where ; aught. lie Asylum authc trities and j ;ed in similar v rork have | to find a corre ■t answer ; of this pitiful remnant of the -former j opment of the Western States, lords of the land have brought about-j The opposition of the parents to their a better understanding of them and a i education is constantly diminishing, wiser altitude toward them. We have! and there has been a marked Increase come to know that the Indian is natur- i in school attendance during the past been to the question. What is a bad boy? Most of the boys committed by the children’s court are classed as ungov ernable. which means in nine cases out of ten that they have been playing hookey. Boys who play truant to go swimming, boys who chase a circus out of town, hoys who try to run away to sea—all these come under the head of ungovernable, though the specialist knows that such delinquency Is in the blood and must come out and does not necessarily make a bad boy. In fact, the man who studies boys has an abid ing faith in the ultimate goodness if the average bad boy. The specialist knows from the returns in thousands I jAo stron , of cases that as a general rule the JLia 1 youngster will walk straight after get- ; ting the right direction. Too often he cannot get these at home and a stum ble brings him to court. While the price of making good boys and men out of wayward youngsters has gone up because of the new sys tem of surrounding them with home influences, the directors and friends of the Juvenile Asylum and the city au thorities as well are reconciled to the change. They believe in the new idea, se firmly that they are planning to build cottages where the boys my live in pleasant home surroundings. The.-e men have the utmost faith ih the method which separates one type of young offender from another, and brings out individual merits by discov ering and removing individual defects. Parents of wayward boys are coming to have the same faith, too, for in some cases they contribute to the boys* sup port according to their needs, which is a point the court determines, the as sessment? ranging from 50 cents to $2 a week. There are a few instances they must value Justice, truth and hu- where well-to-do parents pay the full manitv If thev wish to become useful i price, and would gladly pay any price and honorable men.’ I have often i in have their children subjected to th< thought of those words. I have tried to live up to them as Lincoln wished us to do. T wish the boys who leave fh-.* asylum would never forget them. Tell them to come West.” J,ike all other business men. the au thorities of the Juvenile Asylum study carefully the raw material from which ! husiness-like method of reformation : followed at Chauncey. But the asylum I prefers to take the children of the less j fortunate, who compose the bulk of 1 prisoners in children's courts today, j and who, according to the Chauncey : idea, will, In eight or nine eases out of I ten. become useful and honorable men aiiy or a peaceful disposition, that his forbearance under provocation is re markable, that ho has many inherent characteristics which might-excite the envy of the proudest people, and that in his general make-up are the qual ities that go to the composition of an admirable citizen if they be but given fitting scope and proper direction. The Indian problem which vexed our grandfathers has evolved itself into a comparatively simple and definite prop osition with encouraging features in the present and hopeful outlook for the future. The task of civilizing these children of nature is no easy one. We have to contend with the Indian’s un conquerable dislike to the white man, his temrermanuta i aversion to novelty, and other traits that conflict with the character of the Caucasian. These are to be overcome in the adults t middle age. and little more than tolerance of our efforts may be expect ed of the men and women in the earlier stages of manhood. It is from the more plastic material offered by the children that our Government hopes to mold the Indian of the future. Our national family embraces thing more than 2SO.OOO Indians. Thes are domiciled in reservations scatter?* all over the country west of the Mis sissippi. There are a few in the lak and one little settlement in North Car olina. Contrary to general belief, the Indians are holding their own in num few years. It has risen from less than 20.000 in 1S98 to upward of 25,000 in 1004. The Government maintains 33 boarding schools and 13!) day schools on the reservations. In addition io these there are 25 advanced schools, of which Carlisle University and the Has- kelUfend Hampton Institutes are the best known. The present Commissioner of Indian Affairs is strongly in favor of practical education and industrial training for the young redskins, and his ideas shape the policy of the principals. Let me cite one instance that recently came to my notice in evidence of tae substantial results that are being pro duced: A bridge to span a river was needed by Snohomish County. Wash. The officials' estimated the cost at S3,600. The Government employed ' in 'he construction the school boys of the Tulalin Reservation. The.y completed the work quite satisfactorily and at a cost of $650. their labor being almost gratuitous. The affairs of the Indians were never in such favorable hands as now. Frank E. Leupp, the present cammis- ome- j sioner. understands and sympathizes with his charges vantage of twenty years of close in- "Vt ASHINGTON. Jan. 12.—American manufacturers made their best record in 1906, so far, at least, as their record can be measured through imports of manufacturers' materials or exports of manufactures. In practiaclly all of the great articles imported for manufac turing purposes the records of 1906 show a larger total imported than in any preceding year, while the aggre gate value of manufacturers' materials imported, whether in the crude state or in a partially manufactured form for further use in manufacturing, was also greater than in any preceding year. Likewise in exports of manu factures the figures of the year are larger than In any preceding year, fiscal or calendar. So apparent is this greater importa tion of manufacturers’ materials and greater exportation of manufactures that It is unnecessary to await the December figures to justify the asser tion that the record of 1906 will be higher than that of any other year. In practically all of the great articles the figures of the eleven months ending with November, 1906, exceed those of the corresponding months of any ear lier year. Running through the list of great articles imported for manufac turing and taking them In alphabetical order, the records of the B'ureau of Statistics of the Department of Com merce and Labor show the imports of cement, chemicals. copper, fibers, hides and skins, lumber, rubber, silk, tin, tobacco and wool: and all of these, INSTAUEB III HOUSE ding months of 1905. Of tin. the im ports of the eleven months of 1906 were 90 million pounds, and in the cor responding months of 1905 were S3 millions. Of leaf tobacco, the imports of the eleven months of 1906 were practically 39 million pounds, against a trifle mor than 31 millions in the same period of 1905. The two import ant articles of manufacturers' mate rials in which a reduction Is shown arc fibers, of which eleven months' im portations fell from 2S0 thousand tons in 1905 to 263 thousand in 1906. and wool, of which the imports fell from 234 million pounds in the eleven months of 1905 to 1S3 millions in the corresponding period of' 1906. This falling off in the imports of fibers and wool is the more striking in view of the fact that the importations of man- i of the House a person h ufactures of fibers and wool show in ’ ” each case an increase in 1906 compared with 1905. Not only do the quantities of man ufacturers’ materials show an Increase, but the total value of the great groups also show an increase. ' The value of manufacturers’ raw materials imported In the eleven months of 1906 was 402 million dollars, against 370 millions In the corresponding months of 1905: and the value of manufactures for further use in manufacturing 223 million dol lars, against ISO millions in the same months of the preceding year. The export figures of the year also indicate great activity on the part of •the manufacturers, since in the large proportion of cases they show an in crease in quantity as well as value of with the exception of fibers and wool, ! manufactures exported. The total the importations of the eleven months j value of manufactures exported in the ending with November, 1906, are j eleven months of 1906 was, of mnnu- greater in quantity than those of the . factures for further use in manufac- corresponding months of any earlier I turing, 220 million dollars, against 194 year. Of cement, the imports in eleven j millions In the corresponding months months of 1906 were 773 million | of the preceding year, and of mami- pounds, against 307 millions in the same months of 1905. Of chemicals, the total value of the importations was 0 million dollars, against 63U millions n the corresponding months of the preceding year. Of copper, in pigs, bars, etc., the imports were 161 mil- I again lion pounds, against 147 millions in eleven months of 1905. Of hides and skins, the eleven months' importations were 373 million pounds, against 350 millions in the corresponding period of the preceding year. Of lumber, the ' spending month value imported in eleven months of ■ year; lumber. factures ready for consumption 438 millions, against 301 millions in the corresponding period of 1905, thus indicating that the total value of man ufactures of all kinds exported during the year will exceed 7Q0 million dollars, less than 63.0 millions in the ding year. Iron and steel manu factures exported in the. eleven months of 1906. for which statistics are now available, show an increase of 28 mil lions dollars over those for the corre- of the. preceding increase of 9 mil- 1906 was 29 million dollars, against [ lions': refined mineral oil, an increase 22'6 millions in the corresponding ; of 5 millions; cars and carriages, an months of 1905. Of India rubber, the i increase of nearly 5 millions: pig cop- number of pounds imported in the | per. an increase of 4 millions: Instru- eleven months of 1906 was 60 millions, j ments and apparatus for scientific and in the corresponding months of j purposes, an increase of nearly 4 mil- 1905 but 5S millions. Of raw silk, the ! lions: agricultural implements, an in WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Experi ments recently conducted by the su perintendent of the Capitol have proven so thoroughly the value of the “acoustieon" that it is expected the device will soon be permanently in stalled in the House of Representa tives. The acoustieon is a sound-intensi- fler. having ;he appearance of a small black metal disk, and will stand up right on the Speaker's desk. To tlie disk is attached a cable, which con nects with any number of ordinary telephone wires. It is intended that these wires run to every committee room and -office in the Capitol building, and 'to the office rooms in she new Congressional office building when that is completed. In each office will be an ordinary telephone receiver, and in order to know what is taking place on the floor merely to place this receiver to his ear. when every word spoken in the chamber may be heard with perfect distinctness: as well, in fact, as if one were standing# at the Speaker's desk. Thus a member will be able to keen track of the course of official business without having to leave his office or committee room until some hill comes up in which he is Interested. While this has not yet been actually demonstrated, there appears to he no reason why an ordinary long-distance wire might not he.connected with one of the acoustieon wires, and a member In New York or Chicago listen to tno speeches being made in the House of Representatives. Another somewhat similar device, planned for the more personal use of members, is the dlstograph, by means of which a Representative may sit in his office or walk up and down the floor and dictate to a stenographer several rooms removed. When lie has finished, if he desires to have the letter road over to him. he may press a but ton. and the stenographer’s reading will be heard with distinctness any- where in the room. A SCHOOL EOR rts of the eleven months were j crease of about 2 millions, and naval « . „ -. . , ,, , import He nas nad the ad- , nearly 15 million pounds, against stores also an Increase of about 2 mil- ... t little over 14 millions in the correspon- ' lions: tercourse with the Indian in ms natu- 1 . - —a ral environment, which is the forest ; on j and the plain of our sparsely Settled j j Ftates. where, in the old home and ■ I playground of the redskin, must be j i found the field of his future usefulness. | What of the future of the North Amer- ■ ,, A ,-bans increasing slightly I "hat ot the future ot the .North Amer- . ! eis. an ! perhaps increasing siionu>. I , can Indians? a race they have ; T he present enlightened pohe: ol the none They are fated, not to extinction. . X overnment is designed to set the in- ; hut to absorption. The process began ! T but to absorption. The process begar long ago with the hardy frontiersman who married the daughter of a red man and liegat a family of half-hn-rab it lias progressed in this direction » ^ since. they make :he finished product, that of 1 if they can be given a new start and a good citizenship. Close study of the fair chance. Growth of Industrial Wealth of the Southern States BALTIMORE. Jan. 11.—In its issue this week the Manufacturers’ Record e ays: "Consideration of Increasing wealth in the South must add to the $2,000,- 000.000 worth of farm products now raised each year. $2,225,000,000 worth of manufactured products and $260,- 000.000 worth of mineral products. Such annual productivity, now aggre gating about $4,485,000,000, accounts for an increase of nearly $50,000,000 in the capital of national banks In the South in six years and an annual in crease of $40,000,000 or $50,000,000 in __ the deposits in national. Slate, savings proving streets and private banks and loan and trust companies in that section, and the general progress has an expression in and Is immediately contributed to, by railroad construction, every mile of new track stretching toward great lumber tracts or toward deposit? of real, iron ore and other minerals, or bringing closer to markets virgin ag ricultural sections, being just that much power added to the South's mile age. 26.7 per cent of the total addition since 1900, and bringing the total to 64.035 miles. That is more than double the railroad mileage of the whole country in 1S60 and within less than 30.000 of the total mileage of the coun try In 1880. Texas alone has 3.600 miles more railroad than the whole country had in 1850, and during the past year it led in increase in the South 810 miles, the State nearest to i: in new construction having been Louisiana, with 472 miles. Arkansas ranked third in new mileage, the prom ise "f an enormous advance in the farther South, but it is almost equally significant to note 162 new mileage in Virginia. 192 in North Carolina and 216 in West Virginia, showing mine and timber development in those States. "Summarizing farm activities, em bracing the raising of practically every crop grown in the country, in addition to crops exclusively* Southern, manu facturing energies with 262 of the 339 separate industries of the country rep- r.^eppted in the South mineral pro duction in which the South is to be- more and more dominant, espe cially as to cort and petroleum and iron ore. lumbering operations in which the rut Of the South is about 40 per cent of the total in the country, rail- i read building, foreign eommerce. etc.. I a magnificent display of progress is than it handles through its own ports, and in that time its railroad mileage has Increased by 11.441, or nearly 22 per cent, and the assessed value of its property by $2,430,000,000, or nearly 48 per cent. "With all this money-making going on, it is not surprising that the South is spending millions of money for im r pro vent ents of many kinds. Counties are building better roads, better bridges and better school houses. Mu nicipalities are erecting modern public buildings, installing waterworks and sewerage systems and using up-to- date methods and materials in im- Railroad operations ern dian upon his feet, to sever the com munal ties that bind him to his tribe and to abolish his position as a depen dent upon the Government. Carefully, tenderly, we have led him along the entering paths of civiliza tion. and now. while still watching over him and directing his course, we are practicing him to walk alone. The contraction of the ration policy and the expansion of the labor policy are teaching our charges the value of in dividual effort, and the opening of the | coming generation of educated full-blood- reservations to white settlers is in- ed Indians is a less calculable quantity, stilling self-dependence and ernula- Ownership of land will draw the majority Mining seu ui iieuueui ” I to agricultural pursuits, and there is rea- tlon. . j son to believe that as farmers thev will We have during the past twentj : rnake a creditable figure in the main. The vears been individualizing the Indian | Indian is a natural diplomatist and logi- SOUTHERN MEN WHO ARE OFFICERS IN U. S. NAVY with constantly increasing . t uency. These half-breeds find in the white strain the practical qualities lacking in the abo riginal character. They display ability to take care of themselves, and to make their way in the world in competition with white men. Many of them are capable of occupying J LOUIS BROWNLOW, IN NASHVILLE AMERICAN. 4 I''!"l"l"!"H- i l l"l"t' , l-l"H"!"l i l"l"l“l"H"l ,, H"l"l"I"r"l"l"I~H-i- Louis Brovnlow in Nashville Banner. A study of the register of the com missioned and warrant officers of the navy of the United States reveals some prominent positions in’ business and the 1 interesting details as to the place of professions. The future activity of the 1 ’ as the owner of real estate by breaking up the reservations .which preserved the old communal customs and habits and establishing each Indian as an in dependent landholder. This movement has extended rapidly in recent years and will soon embrace the last of the ; jmne upon old-time reserva the Indian the w asking him to assume Clan. He may be expected to furnish a large proportion of the lawyers and noliti birth and place of appointment of these officers. The South seems to have her fair proportionate share of officers in the lower grades of officers, but, by reason of the fact that most of the Southern men In the navy at the out break of the Civil War resigned and DeWitt Coffman. Virginia: F. H. Sher- souri: Albert Gleaves. Tennessee: J. P. Parker, North Carolina: B. W. Hodges, Mississippi: V. S. Nelson, Tennessee; W. S. Benson, Georgia, and W. R. Rush, Louisiana. Of the 209 lieutenant-commanders in the service 69 come from the Southern States, and of the 304 lieutenants there are 94 Southerners, while 51 of the 166 ensigns are from the South: 55 of the 173 midshipmen who graduated this year were Southerners. In the medical corps 6 of the 15 medical directors are of the future West, but without sion of white in the tie the execi cast their fortunes ith the Confeder- from the South, 9 of the 15 medical in- m infu- , acy, the South does not white blood, he will never shine j m u ch representation in the hig; Aitivc VacuUy rCO ’shouid hc y f,nd a ! fades There is another interest! ,,,uic.ee c.v iuoc cu cue , -^on his land he would never work , fact shown—namely, that there h8 ,l nn< -rc-p „ rp e-iving i it. but try to purchase it from him and . been a greater number of retirements pa. hlrJn'c rhance ard 1 hp wi " dlivc - vou the hardest bargain j„ the past few years than at any | is a ssume 'h n /JhUe C mams ! ‘“StfSSM* 4 I other time in the history of the navy, j spec now have j spectors, 28 of the 87 surgeons. 14 of higher I the 50 passed assistant surgeons,-25 of resting ■ the 75 assistant surgeons and 12 of the *ve ! 16 acting assistant surgeons. In the corps, X of the 14 pay directors Southern man, 6 of the 15 pay in- pectors, 13 of the 76 paymasters. 9 the 30 passed assistant paymasters he is responding as a man of strong fibre might be expected to re spond to any demand upon his manli ness. We are getting good results as we learn to appreciate the individuality of the Indian and apply to his treatment a yard-stick cut to the measure of that Individuality, which is as pronounced as that of any race on earth. In the past the Government has been There are graduates of the school who | go back to the paint and feathers and beads and baskets of their fathers, add All Americans know, of course, that the navy has one admiral in the per son- of George Dewey, a Vermonter. find in tlie unkempt hair the dirty blan- i Admiral Dewey entered the service in structors; 5 of the 28 civil engineers come from the South, 5 of the 47 chief boatswains. 5 of the 93 boatswains, 5 constantly exercised to find the Indian | Indians have ket and the smoky wigwam relief from the irksome restraints of civilization. The love of the wild dies hard in the virile Indian. I have heard of a physician in good practice who found the call of Moth er Nature so strong at times that lie would steal away from his city home and abide with his people for a while. On the newly opened reservations the ,iQ=f dent ember i of the 45 chief guners. 6 of the 70 gun- J. active ' 1* of the 39 chief carpenters. 12 ' J I of whom, it is interesting to note, come something to do, with the sole thought j farms, but . z? l_ - • t mienkidf Dllf i m prplv' 9 ffl 111 of keeping him out of mischief. Our | merely a concession to are double-tracking their old lines and j *° encourage him to Independent lahor, extending new ones, are building hand- ! as against the old communal work some passenger Stations. Increasing i w’ith its lack of personal incentive and terminal facilities and adding to rolling 1 competitive stimulus. And the Indian stock. Individuals are devoting thel? : is “making good in every field which earnings to improving their homes in j he 113 town or country, or In building pew ; present policy is to direct his energies token of equality with the white neigh- . n .3|.Nie eh-inneic ond ■ b cr. Often beside the house is a tent, into useful and profitaole channels and ( and jn that the redsk j n i ives 1854, and during rounded out fifty-two service, over seventeen of which was spent" on the bounding main. Twenty-Four Rear Admirals. On the first of last January there were twenty-four rear admirals on the active list. Since then, however, there have been several retirements. The JmSm i fanning rear admiral I pointed from the South, and they are ” ~ " ' 3 of the 36 are built houses upon their many instances this from Yirginia; 12 of the 59 carpenters come from the South, and 9 of the; comes from the Old Dominion; 29 of the 201 warrant machinists are from Southern States. When it comes to the mates, 36 in number, there are only 2 of them ap- NORTH GERMAN FIRE INS. CO. MUST PAY THEIR LOSSES ones, in enlarging barns, in buying j stock, farm implements and machinery. ! in installing fencing and in adding to ! the machinery for manufacturing. ! These investments are likely to in- ! crease during :he coming year and to ’ keep pace with :he increasing earning capacity of the South. Theev are some j of the manifestations of a prosperity 1 that Is addins? every day of the year ' about $7,280,000 to the wealth of the i South, and which has brought that j wealth close to $20,000,000,000.” HAMBURG. Jan 12.—The North German Fire Insurance Company, ac- cording.to a decision rendered by the local court in a test case today, must pay the losses which it incurred as a result of 'the San Francisco earth quake last year. The court held that the earthquake clause in the policy was past generation shunned tne sanay j too ambiguous to justify the corn- waste its sons are helping transform | pany seeking to escape liability. The the desert into a blooming garden. In j court also ordered the.Trans-Atlantic mines, on railroad consruction and ! Fire Insurance Company to reimburse various other works throughout our ! two English companies which had re- first class at the Naval Aca- entered. Some of the best farms in the newly opened sections sye till ed by Indians whose fathers loafed through life on the same soil. The reclamation service employs j hundreds of Indians and welcomes all S it can get. for they have proved to be j the best laborers available. Where the j shunned the sandy j find THREE COLLEGE GRADUATES ARRESTED FOR BURGLARIES CHICAGO, Jan 12.—Three college graduates, one said to be a son of a wealthy family ! n London. England, were arrested tonight charged with having participated In a score of bur glaries in Chicago within the last two months. The police say that they re covered stolen property valued at $4,000 in the apartments of the men. The thiNe men who. the police state, have admitted the accusations against them, are Richard E. Friekson. 25 years of age. a graduate of Northwestern University; Percy C. Hichlin, 27 years of age. a graduate of Oxford Universi ty. Engalnd. and Wheeler J. Frown, years of age. graduated from an op tica! school In New York city. growing Westernland you will | them. And on these busy spots you I will gain a new and hopeful view of 1 the red race problem. When you see the Indian putting ’nis weight with a will on a mattock or sturdily swinging : a pick you recognize him for a man to : be respecteM. and you wonder at the density of your past misconception of j him. But the pleasing picture that your j fancy forms of the future of the Indian ■ is dimmed by a shadow it; the back- 1 ground—the sinister shadow of liquor. This is the greatest danger that he- sets his path to prosperity. It is a greater menace to him than to any other citizen of this country, for all others enjoy a certain degree of im munity. derived from generations, of users of alcohol. You might give your | child whisky with less il! effect than I would follow the ir,du!gence_in it by an j adult Indian. To him it is a crude j poison which will work its full force upon his system and soon set up an insured San Francisco risks with it for losses already settled. The case against the North German Fire In surance Company was won by San Francisco lawyers who came to Ger many in the autumn for the purpose of pressing this claim. the active list today is Robley Douglass , accr edlted to Virginia; Evans, a Virginian by birth, but ap- | fore j gn born, pointed from Utah. Admiral Evans ; j n jfirst was born in Floyd County, Va.. and • demy, which is composed of 120 mem- there countless legends linger still of , bers, 37 are from the Southern States, his prowess s aa scrapper in child- , j n tbe second class, consisting of 263 hood. Fear is said to have been an | members. 67 are from the South, as are unknown sensation to him. Beside#; j jcg 0 f ^e 246 members of the third him, out of the twenty-four rear ad- | c ] a s s . mirals there are two who were born : Coming by Her Own. in the South. They are Rear Admiral i jt will he seen by these statistics that Sands, of Maryland, and Rear Admiral Mead, of Kentucky. Admiral Mead is the commandent of the Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard, and figured as-the offi cial host of the peace commissioners last year. He Is a bosom friend of Commissioner Yerkes of the internal the South is getting about her fair share of the more recently filled posi tions in the navy. While the propor tion of Southern men in the navy is not as large as it was before the civil war. yet, in proportion to the popula tion. she has her fair representation, revenue service, who delights to Velate I As indicated by the third class at the incidents connected with his visit to I Naval Academy, the year that it grad- the admiral last year at the time the j uates there .will be 156 officers to en- peace treaty was being fought over. ! ter the service from the South to 190 Of the eighty-seven captains who are ! from the entire region remaining. This in the active service, there are fourteen I is more than her proportionate share, who were appointed from the South, j and if that ratio shall be kept up the They are as follows: W. T. Burwell. | South will soon have a full share of omandant Puget Sound navy yard, | the fighters who will prove the Anteri- A WEALTHY CLUBMAN DISAPPEARS MYSTERIOUSLY PHILADELPHIA. Jan 12—Frank A. Delone, a wealthy clubman and j appointed from MissourR^E. D.^Tauis- cashier for a big clothing store in thi; ’ born in Mississippi: R. M. Berry, com mandant Pensatoia navy yard, born in and appointed from Kentucky; Uria! Sebree. secretary Lighthouse Board. [ can navy to be the best manned navy i afloat. • In six years, with an increase in the population of about 2.400,000. or something more than 10 per cent., the South has increased the value of its farm products by $728,000 000, or 57 per cent, and the value of its manu factures $761.000.*'00. or 52 per cent. It has added 3.493,000 spindles to it? muon mill outfit an increase of 55 per cent, and its mills use in 190# about 2 375,000 bale? of \merican cotton, or 48 per cent more tir n in 1900 Jn the six vears the South's annual pig iron production hr-.s increased by S96.000 WANT GREAT BRITIAN TO MAKE AN EXHIBIT I unquenchable craving. Here is a prob- WASHINGTON, Jap. 12.—The lem in itself. House committee on industrial arts It must not be supposed that in plac- and expositions decided 'odav to make" ing the Indian in a position to enjoy a favorable report cn the resolution ! the benefits and perform the duties of authorizing the President, in eonju-ct- independent citizenship the Govern- ion with the Jamestown Exposition. ! men: has entirely resigned its guar- Company. to appoint a special com- , dianship of him. In opening up reser- mittee who shall invite Great Britian rations the allotment of lands Includes to make an exhibit relating to the 1 every soul—men. women and children period of exploration and colonization —among the Indians, and every rea city, disappeared on Wednesday and cannot be found. Delone started on Wednesday from Haverford for a ride in Fairmount Park. About 8 o’clock his horse was found on Wissahiekon drive, on the extreme border of the city. There was nothing to indicate that the horse had thrown his rider, or- that he had been ridden hard. The missing man always carried a large sum of money, and it is feared that he may have been waylaid. fivim 1580 to 162 sor.abie provision is made for giving them a fair start. ; notice to subscribers. SKi Examine label on your na- j improvements. To s-uard against the tr . j* unsophisticated aborigines becoming per. It teilS now yoil Stand on prey to sharpers their allotments are or 24 rer cent.: its coal produc- ! books DUP from da to on m trust by the Government for tier bv 24.202.000 rms or 69 per cent: I *'“* , J” , ’ „ IfOBl aaie Oil \ twenty years, and may only be sold or ■■Mue orf exports at its ports $i77.- the label. Send in dues and : leased with the approval of the Secre- rre .-o«\ or 38 per cert, though it fur- • r._ -inner tary of the Interior. It is desired to nishes more merchandise for export 8iSO renew for the yeflX 1907. j maintain tha operation of the law commanding the Massachusetts, appointed from Missouri; Seaton Schroeder. commanding the Virgntia. appointed from South Carolina: J. D. Adams, comanding the Olympia, ap pointed from Mississippi; W. H. Beeh- ier. commandant Key West naval sta tion, appointed from Maryland: R. G. Davenport, on duty at the Washing ton navy yard, appointed from Georgia: A. G. Berry, commanding the cruiser Tennessee, appointed from Tennessee; T. S. Phelps, in charge of the San Francisco recruiting station, appointed from Virginia: Karl Rohrer, stationed at the New York navy- yard, born in Germany and appointed from Missouri, and P. A. H. Nickels, commandant of the Charleston navy yard, appointed governing ; f rom Mississippi, but born in Massa- * cliusetts. Twenty-Six Southern Commanders. Out of the 122 officers with -the rank of commander in the navy there are 26 who come from the Southern States, company, the governing board has de- j Thev are as follows: Hugo Oster- cided to designate two negro men. not | haus, Missouri: J. B. Colions. Louis- connected with it. to serve with Jack- j jana: N. B. Milton, Kentucky; E. F. son as an executive committee In con- [ Qualtrough. Kentucky; A. M. Knight. Florida: W. F. Halsey, Louisiana NEGROES WILL HAVE "SHOW DOWN” AT JAMESTOWN WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Another conference between the board of the Jamestown Exposition ar.d the Negro Development Exposition Company, was held at the treasury de partment tedav. At the suggestion of Chairman Giles Jackson, of the negro nection with the collection and install ation of the negro exhibit. T. L. Cailo- way. of the War Department of this city, already ha? accepted appoint ment. bu: the second member has not yet been selected. Mrs. Doctor Curtis, of Washington.- has been appointed a special agent of the negro company. J. M. Helm. Tennessee: M. L. Wood.’Mis souri: W. M. Parks, Virginia: W. B. Caperton. Tennessee; W. F. Worthing ton. Maryland: W. N. Little. Georgia; C. J. Boush. Virginia: C. C. Rogers, man. Missouri: J. M. Orchard. Mis- Tennessee; Benj. Tappan, Arkansas; A Woman’s Way of Business. Mrs. Rawles Reader, the American millionairess, has just, propounded a novel theory for the proper conduct of business. She says that business needs sympathy between employers and employed. To insure this, when she ran a typewriting office in New York she kissed her sixty girl em ployees morning and evening.A news paper, commenting on Mrs. Reader’s suggestion, says: "The idea is good, and worth the consideration of busi ness men and women." 1 don’t know whether male employ ees would quite take to this policy of embracing. It would be unpleasant when a clerk was half an hour late in the morning if he had to go and hug the boss before he started to work. It would be more awkward if he wanted to slip away a little earlier at night and yet knew that the boss would feel himself slighted if he missed good night kiss. Besides, heads of businesses would be apt to overvalue their caresses. 'No. I can't possibly glve you an advance, but I appreciate your services, and you may come and kiss m» whenever you go to dinner." However, in cases where the em ployees are all ladies, there is more to be said for the policy. In fact, I may say that sympathetic kissing of lady employees has already been tried by more than one business man.—Man- chetter Chronicle. NORFOLK. Va., Jan. 12.—Tho Jamestown Exposition will appeal with compelling force to several classes of our citizenship. The patriot, who glo ries in his country’s history will visit tho Exposition in order to learn more of the nation’s story whiph cannot bo told In books and to view relics, docu ments and memorials connected with the eras of development which mark ‘the three centuries since first the Eng lish-speaking colonies landed at Jamestown and founded the settlement ; that was destined to be the present I republic. . Tlie student of science, as applied to every.day life, will visit the Exposition in order -to. observe the experiments conducted by the Government, espe cially those which form part of tho functions of the Interior Department. In many various linos and in divers ramifications of selected subjects tho Interior Department pursues investiga tions and experiments will bo con ducted for the purpose of showing visitors how to utilize commercial pro ducts of the soil and sub-soil, now re garded as useless or Impracticable. The amateur in beauty of construc tion will be fascinated by the Exposi tion, because it will show an idealized colonial city, with no discordant nolo or jumble of strange styles, nor 'hete rogeneous themes of architecture. Large or small, the buildings will rep resent an era in the world’s architec ture which was coincident with our country's early development and stands as the only distinctive type of Ameri ca's genius in building. The citizen interested in his nation’s position as a world power will be fas cinated by the military and naval dis play .made by tho United States in con nection with the similar showings of foreign countries. Thousands of sol diers from our regular army and mi litia regiments, and thousands of oth ers from foreign lands, will he en camped at the Exposition, where on Its immense parade ground they will march and maneuver. Hundreds of the world’s choicest battleships, cruis ers, monitors, dispatch boats. gun boats, torpedo boats, destroyers and sub-marines will lie at anchor before the Exposition or perform evolutions on the waters of Hampton Roads. 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. MRS. RUSSELL SAGE GAVE $25 TO CHARITY ATLANTA, Jan. 12.—Mrs Russell Sage, whose husband died some time ago, leaving her many millions of dol lars. which she proposes to give to charity in small amounts. lias sent a check’for $25 to Secretary Logan of the Associated Charities of Atlanta. While the organization did not call upon Mrs. Sage for aid. the letter in which the check was enclosed stated that following the publication in the papers that Mrs. Sage proposed to dis pense charity liberally with the for tune left by her husband, came on an average eighty letters a nay. These letters came from individuals, and Mrs. Sage had to employ a secretary, W. Frank Persons, of the charity organi zation society of New York, to look after this work for her. Among the deluge of appeals that - came to Mrs. Sage were quite a number from At lanta. Tlie secretary investigated these requests for help and found that while the applicants were people of moderate means, none of them were of the class That Mrs. Sage wanted to help with her means. She then sent the money direct to the local association of chari ties. COMMISSION MERCHANTS TO MEET IN SAVANNAH. PITTSBURG. Pa. Jan 12.—The fifteenth annual convention of the Nat ional League of Commission Mer chants of the United States, which has been in session in this city for the past thr£e days, was brought to a close to night with a banquet following the election of officers. Savannah, Ga., was chosen as the city for the next convention. These, officers were elect ed: President. Cha*. A. Muehlbronner, of Pittsburg: vice-president, Wilmer Sieg, Milwaukee: treasurer, A. D. Gail, his Buffalo. Secretary A. \V. Patch, of Boston, who has been the secretary of the organization since its inception, was re-elected for the sixteenth year of service. Honduran Revolt Quelled. WASHINGTON. Jan. 12—Senor Cal ve. the Costa Rican minister, has re ceived a cablegram front President Bo nilla. of Honduras, dated at Teguci galpa today, stating that the revolu tionary disturbance in the country had been completely quellfed. INDISTINCT PRINT I