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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, Ittfri
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DISCUSSES AT
WASHINGTON, Jan 17.—Th© Pres
ent, Secretary of State Root, Speak-
er Cannon a no C,- • vprnor.s Warfleii. of
Maryland, and Swanson, of Virginia,
Wrr«' the prim i;»nl sp^nkf-rs on ;hr- pro-
RiMinme at t lianijurt Riven
Rat* s «.f tho r. i! i1 ronvention f-*r
the promotion <.;* 1 >r»\gn c mimne to-
niRht the Arlinfrton Hotel by the
New York Ho.m.1 of Tr.nJe and Tr.nim
portation. T..:- were guests a: the
di nfjiiM,
Tho prlnri;»ai feature of the final ses-
M-.jl .»f ;h*. • ;:la III Was * he
adoption of .’in ions re- o:mn< inline:
the passage hv u ongr^ss of such leg
islation as will promote the growth f
the American merchant marine. The
reeoinmer.uatk.n was reported by the
committee on reHolutions and w.-.i
unanimously endorse»i by the conven
tion.
Among tho*»" who spoke were D. A.
Tompkins, of Charlotte. X. C., on 'Tim
importance of nr. American rr.**r hant
marine”; J. Hampton D mgherty, of
Now York, on “Shit* ‘Oib«i li* s and -lo-
eo- commercial relations with South
Amori- an countries,” .in i Thom;m M.
•rth of the Island
iliowed immediate
O-horne. r.f
•‘Ohr.taeies to :
A lively di.-*-
♦he nature «»f
ho made on th
sidy. Th#* me
;• s.»oeia t jon of
adoption Of a
Xf
ZTi
rcha
Xev
id expo
urj
tne
solution which ap
proved of the ship subsidy hill now
pending in C<*nip- T ii y aetion met
with a vigorous prote* * by the delc-
gates from the M, -Is^Ippi valley
States. The eor.vei: t !• .a refused to
place itself on record in behalf of the
measure before Congress.
Cheered President Rcosevelt.
The guests urns.* and cheered far
five minutes* win n President Roosevelt
entered the banquet hall and was In
troduced by Resident McCarroll of the
cm vent ion. 'J’h.e President declared
that it was a peculiar pleasure for
him. on behalf of th'- Government, to
greet the delegates and "to hav- tho
Governors of the great States of Mary
land and Virginia present.'* !fe paid a
tribute to Secretary Root and declared
that the minute %ve leave American
.‘oil. party lines are disregarded. "And
we all are Americans." He said he
would talk on three subjects, first: Our
relation* with San Homlngo; second,
the consular service, and third, the ex-
isten e of our trade in Central and
South America. The first duty of the
Government, the President said. Is to
help San Domingo “stand on her own
feet.” He referred to the pending
trea.tv. which he declared if adopted
will remove all danger In future of any
necessity of intervention. “One of the
greatest objects of the San Doming »
revolution.” the President declared,
"was to get control of the custom
house. Under the present plan this
privilege Is denied.”
The President then took up the ques
tion of reform in the consular service
and praised the convention for Its work
in this connection.
‘I believe that a great Improvement
has he.-n worked in the consular ser
vice.” he said "Rut I do not believe
power of removal should be restricted.'*
The President declared that both the
eivi and military service keeps open
“tlm door of the ready exit for the
unfit ” He said that no one but him
self had the power to close this door.
He urged the passage of laws by the
present Congress that will extend
AmoricxTi trade to .every section of the
globe. The President declared that
there is no doctrine advocated by any
nation of the world that compares with
the Monroe doctrine in advancing the
cause of pence.
He predicted a continued reign of
prosperity not only for America, but
tor Europe and Asia as well.
If there is anything that the South is
proud of it is that the great President
of the United States is a half South
erner—his mother being n Georgia
woman." said Governor Swanson. <»f
Virginia, in his address on “The South
and Her Progress."
“We of the South,” he continued,
"have followed the President in half
of his politics—those he inherited from
his mother. We admire him because
he is too honest to be corrupted and
be always dots what is right regard
less of consequences."
Governor Swanson reviewed tho
progress of the South s*n e the war.
and compar'd the old and the new
South. The one died, he said, with the
surrender .if “The Immortal I.ee.” and
the other was horn at Appomattox in
darkness and despair.
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and commercial city of that island. It
' is situated ,,n the ’south . oast and on
i the north s de of a :ino harbor. The
| latter is a la:..llo.-kcd basin available
for the largest ships and is enclosed on
| tho south by a long tongue of land at
1 the extremity of which is Port Royal,
i The population o' Kingston ,s about
I 50.000.
I The only voh anic formation in th©
l«!ar.d Is that a: the Lowlayton and Re- .
treat estates In the parish of Portland.
| a mile from t! e sea In the County of
i Surrey. In which Kingston is situated.
There is, howerer. no defined erater
and the volcanic mate-rials are the ;
I only evidence remaining. The coast
formation of Surrey County Is of white
I and yellow limestone and the greater
| part of the country is very mountaln-
; oas. In August. 1994. Jamlca was
swept by a burrl one which almost to
tally des .roved Pott Antonio and in-
• flirted damage in various parts of the
I l-land amounting to about $1".000.000.
l Thousand? of : nus.-s In Kingston were
damaged, the wharves were battered ■
and sever:.' co-sting vessels were
sunk. . in Xov.-mb r 13 last a sharp .
I o .rth shock was fe in the s nth and
Jamaica. It was 1
by a second shook
which was the leavlest experienced In ,
.1 imalca ir. manv years In 1632 a great
earthquake destroyed Por - Royal, of
whose 2.000 houses only IN'" were left
.-landing. It was this catastrophe
which I'd to 'he founding of Kingston, i
l. any of TV survivors removing to the
plain of Liguanen and seettling on land I
belonging to Colonel Beeston, where :
Kings! n nov stands.
ir. ITS-' n severe conflagration visited ;
Kingston, destroying property to the j
value of $2,.VO,000, and in 1843 another i
tire caused damage to the amount of 1
about $15,000,000.
In August, l.xso. a cyclone passed
over the eastern half of Jamaica, de- j
striving nearly all the wharves .‘n the'
harbor of King ton and also caused
much damage to the shipping In the
harbor. The storm lasted about five
sours, but little rain fell in Kingston
and there was moonlight throughout.
There was a double .shock of earth-
quake at Kingston, each consisting Of a
large number of tremors, lasting seven
or eight seconds, on December 7, 1880.
The shocks were felt throughout the
Island. A tremendous hurricane visit
ed Jamaica In l-l.T. The whole island
was deluged, hundreds of houses were
washed away, vessels were wrecked
and about l.nno persons were drowned.
The city of Kingston Is laid out with
regular and wide streets and the bet
ter class of house'' are neatly built,
with wide verandahs and surrounded
by handsome gardens. Street cars run
to the suburbs and two lines of rail
way connect the city with the northern
and eastern parts of the island. King
ston has a botanical garden, library,
museum, hospital and various other
public buildings and Is the seat of an
Anglican bishopric. The harbor of
Kingston is considered to be one of the
finest in the world, 'and Is protected by ■
forts. There is a naval arsenal at Port :
I and Instantly had Tillman going.
‘ "Every man. woman and child in this
great republic ought ;o approve and
applaud the President f..r discharging
these brutes,” was his opening shot at
the pitchfork artist,
j "If he had discharged ihem the first
i time, or the second. ->r the third or the
I fourth.” retorted Tillman, "there would
i never have been an affray at Browns-
1 vii’e.”
"If the President was wrong the first
time, or the second or the third.” re
sponded Clay, "we ought nevertheless
! to be glad that he was right at last.”
; ‘I'm n’t one of those who justify a
Constitutional or legal wrong simply
because tin ir prejudices approve the
■ result,” shouted Tillman.
"Glad to hear the Senator admit that
; he has some prejudices.” howled Clay,
"A< knowledge I've got 'em!” came
i back Tillman, "and if you say you
{haven't got any, you know—I won’t
say what you know.”
"I never did any man an intentional
' wrong,” exclaimed Clay.
"I can say as much." rejoined Till—
• man.”
"Well, I am glad we are together on
•on" thing at least.” said Clay,
i But they were together on another,
i They both denounced the negro soldiers
; as murderers, brutes, cut-throats and
v other similar kinds of malefac-
trv and his sovereign he'll be ban
ished.
The emancipation of woman has. no
doubt, had much to do with this sum
mary dealing with pessimistic men in
public life. No private escape \alvo
lias been allowed them, so there they
are, stirring up the nations with tf.eir
open grumbling. "Optimism has g mo
Responsible for Injuries.
London Cabl. to New York World.
Housekeepers shudder at the new
rn.! vast respr-nsibiIity thrown >n them,
but 2.000.000 sr*: v;»nts jn the thn o kin.T-
t! »:ns i%*joiv * and ar<* exotv di: cr slid.
liability bill passod
for the emplo
it all dc
tied t*
-—fmrr
\ nti
Un
enti
HOT SHOT IT TILLAGE
om
sati
to smash.
Stevenson hlmsei
changing times, ;
befoi
aid the sunny-tempered • or disease Incurred in thi
f. in the face of the their work,
nd whether this was
after he had "domesticated
the recording angel” with so much
difficulty at his fireside, it is on rec
ord that he went outside with even so
small a complaint as that he could no
longer keep cats. It is impossible,
however, by any device, to land Ste
venson among the pessimists, and, as
he came of good Presbyterian stock,
he clung to the last to that deep and
logical optimism which believes In the
ultimate good—the "ultimate decency
of things,” as he characteristically pu
ll. through any fires of time or the
end of time that fate or creeds could
put in its way.
Indeed, Stevenson even went so far
as to instruct the derelict and pessl- i cornlt>tlon „ ct , vhIo
mistie clergy in regard to their duly January 1. Its purl
; art
fixed
any injur
course .
To
or tripping
and falling
dependent on
11C:
clergy in regard to their
here. “To blow the trumpet for good.”
he writes, “is the parson's business;
and since it is not in oiir own strength.
or?, keeping it up for the best part of but by faith and perseverance (no ac
in hour.
Value of Optimism
as American Asset
Without question, the most pictu
resque ruler on the face of the earth
today is William II. Some say it's
a toss-up between, him and our own
chief executive, .Tnd, for interest and
personality, it would be impossible to step of the way
Roy
Nearlv all the trade of the colony of i later, who is quite unnerved, closes the
Jamaica centers at Kingston and interview, and returns home hut half
the commercial houses of that I appeased by the jovial apology of the
city have extensive relations with monarch.” How far an American
Southern Cuba and Central America. President, “with Congress on his
as well as with the United States and hands.” could utilize such foreign de-
Europe. The exports are mainly rum, j vices for holding his own may not be
declare whiejj would come down fore
most if the proverbial cat-in-the-bag
act were tried upon the two. That h
what cements the friendship between
the distinguished pair, but threatens
to disrupt the friendship between "our
kaiser and his people,” as one rebel
lious subje. t beholds it. The Kaiser
and the President are too friendly by
half, and "Americanism is creeping in
sidiously like a dangerous pestilence”
into Prussian national life.
A leaning to the "personal regime”
and a persistent scorn of muck rakers
are two points of similarity especially
noted between the two rulers. Here,
as elsewhere, however, the unique
monarch shows himself William “the
II. to none” in his unique and direct happy hope, which, as Stevenson says
methods of declaring himself. For in- springs from the fundamental doctrine
termeddling counselers, he has a pet of Christian faith, should spread itself
dog that begins Its gambol? as the , over -ill the earth. Then, likewise, it
Minister of State begins his high con- . may be true, as that same kind soul
foresee. Very shortly, as the man be- i divines, that along the broken arc of
hind tne scenes reports it, "this pet 1 time "to travel hopefully is. after all,
cur rushes between the legs of the min- better than to arrive.” Walk in hope
ount made of slips) that we are to run
the race. I do not see where they get
the material for t'-toir gloomy dis
courses. If you believe in God. and
that in the long run he means kind
ness by you. where, is there any more
room for terror or unhappiness?" he
asks, and this, no doubt, is the logical
and profound Christian optimism _
which builds upon the overcoming of They will begin the new year by refus-
ev J{ against the shallow optimism , j n g 'tips to waiters or railroad porters
which glibly denies evil in the teeth . —only because thev are lawabiding.
of Its most glaring exhibitions. !
It is an optimism, too. which turns j Guides to Culture.
‘‘its glorious morning face upon every j jjy prof. William T. Brewster, in the
I January-March Forum.
If a housemaid dies
over a hole in the caq
down stairs, her mistr
$70 to any one who was
the maid.
Let a outlet' tackle a burglar and he
disabled for life. However ungrateful
his master, he must nav the butler for
life half his weekly “earnings." And
“t rnings” include not only his wages,
but the amount expended on his keep,
which, it is estimated. Is nearly three
times his wage.
The only balm In Gilead for the cm- | to the tin
plovers is that they can insure against *
such contingencies at about SI a ser
vant per annum.
Another statute of far-reaching so
cial importance is the prevention of
h comes Into force
purpose is to end the
practice of secret commissions .which
has become a part of English commer
cial life, to end the bribing of agents
acting for their principals. But. inten
tionally. it is drawn so wide that the
tips given by the butcher or milkman
to the cook, by the tailor to the valet,
by the milliner to the lady’s maid be
come misdemeanors, punishable by two
years’ imprisonment or fines up to
$2.r>r,o.
But the slaves of the “tipping" sys
tem base hopes even wilder on this bill.
the Editor of tho Brooklyn Eagle:
Senator Tillman asked tho Senate yes
terday the question: "Is President
R . ■ sev•"' 1 ’ ready to act up to his own
theory and have his children marry
men and women of the other races?
Would
a Chin
Mj
w.
a daughter-in-law
an Indian or a ne-
: the doctrine laid
igo which 1 have
now he would not.
and while “fine we
nips.’ words like ti
in ilculable evil, ^
high source."
This query c. use
hen t
mage preached a
advocated miscege
Simon P. Richarc
clergyman, and
Georgia, replied a.-
tter
a r«
aur
lining from such a
ate Rev. Dr. Tal- I
non In which he
inn. The Rev. |
a Methodist i
siding elder of
One Woman’s
Experience
How Iloaltli in After Years
May Be Safeguarded.
Dr. William’s Pink Pills a
Boon to all Women,
Used to Keep the Blood Rich
and Pure They Will Prevent
Much Suffering and Sub
sequent Misery.
and allows "no beams
from happy human eyes' nor any
diance beneath the summer sun to
"knock at the sullen heart in vain.”
Above all. it makes its advocates kind,
and. as kindness is about all the sad
.world needs the very heart and soul
of true religion or morality the earth
around, this is no small part of tho
matter. Rulers may well take it into
consideration: the people must. Life
to them is made up, as Sir Humphrey
Davy says, “not of great matters and
duties, but of little things, in which
a " ! “Culture.” said Arnold in the preface
to “Literature and Dogma,” “is indis
pensably necessary, and culture is
reading; but reading with a purpose to
guide it. and with system. He does a
good work who does anything to help
this: indeed, it is the one essential ser
vice now to be rendered to education.”
The remark, whether it be the cause
or not, may stand for the type of mo
tive underlying many a modern treatise
on the subject. There have been fa-
. mous lists of the one hundred "best
smiles and kindness attd small obliga- j books.” now depreciated by a more
tions. given habitually, are what win . catholic taste; we all know of numer-
and preserve the heart and secure | ous pamphlets on the subject of what
comfort.” ... j to read: and the literary counsel "fea-
If only to stem tne tide of human | tured" In popular periodicals for do-
sadness, optimism, the true kindness of mestie consumption is beyond analysis;
they all tell us what books, both classi-
dye woods and fruits. The
slreets of Kingston run at right angles
to the sen.
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From the Sunset Magazine.
Probably no one class of people are
in greater need of consolation, inspira
tion and entertainment to be found in
good nooks than are the blind. So
many of the recreations and enjoy
ments of life are denied them that the
blessing of lining able to read and of
having the books to read is doubly ap
preciated.
By .a wise provision of the postal
regulations the embossed books used
by the blind may be sent through the
mails free of charge, ai 3. taking ad
vantage of this provision, the Califor
nia State Library is lending embossed
books to any blind resident of Califor
nia who will apply for them.
This work was begun in June, 1905,
clear at a glance, but they certainly
must appeal to him in some cases.
For the pessimists and muck rakers,
the remedy made in Germany is even
more complete?*. The energetic and op
timistic Kai?er has invited them all to
emigrate. "An optimist through and
through." he declares himself to be. and
any one of less cheerful propensities
js not wanted in the empire. Like the
though you may never reach the goal,
aye. though there be no goal to reach.
The victory is in the immortal spirit,
in the soul that "acquires the strength
it has overcome.’' There Is nothing
truer in all the philosophy of life,
either, he the goal near or far. visible
or Invisible, than the poet’s trite assur
ance that—
A merry hea-t goes all the day.
Your sad one’tires In a mile.
No nation can be strong that makes
cal and contemporary, it is best for us
to taste, to chew, or to digest. In such
trains of advkte one may be reasonably
certain, before opening any given
treatise, to find stock ideas: books are
our priceless posession: you should, in
Lowell’s words, “read what will make
you think rather than dream”: news
papers are a public, menace and should
he read swiftly, merely for the sake
of the Important news; excessive novel
reading is deleterious to the moral
fibre, th? Bible is the best of all books
for culture. Indeed, these Ideas cannot
too often be repeated, for we do not
hear a tithe as much about them as we
do about passing politics, the stock
market, theaters, and athletics; but
the specific interest in the present
■ pessimists of its people. To export guides to culture lies in the variations
them is not half so well as to inspire from such worthy remarks and the
them. National discontent means , fresh applications of them,
more than emigration ships can rem
edy. and, in Germany or America,
exasperated parent who was wont to should command prompt im estigation.
meet childhood's wailings- with the . ' s well, of course, for American mil-
portentous announcement, “I’ll give you j Ilonaires to propose instructing dis-
something to cry for,” this fatherly : couraged young people in Lie way to ^wealth of the Southern. States are
THE SOUTH’S INCREASING
WEALTH.
The estimates of the increasing
"I cannot understand how nnv man I
with Dr. Talmage's wisdom can id- j
van re such a miserable doctrine as ;
miscegenation. Whenever you try to i
improve the work of the Almighty and >
blend two distinct races as the African I
and the Caucasian you not only bring :
out and develop the bad traits in each, I
but weaken the human family. The ;
negro' is as distant from the white j
man as is the coon from the fox, or i
the wolf from the dog. That the Al- i
mighty Intended that these races :
should be kept separate and distinct
is evidenced by the fact that while I
they readily cross, let two mulaitoes I
marry and in the fourth generation
they cease to produce their species, j
This is an unfailing fact that is not
generally known. The I,ord created
the negro.as an inferior race, and it is
destined that ho so remain. To amal
gamate the two dwarfs the species and
weakens every mental and physical
power. They are utterly devoid of
virtue, honesty or gratitude. Their
passions are as uncontrollable as those
of a wild animal. If Dr. Talmage is
really sincere in his theory, I suggest
that he marry one of his daughters
to the blackest negro he can find, and
then try the crossing process in his
own family before he forces it upon an
entire nation.” The American people
want no coddling of the negro, the
Chinaman or the Japanese.
HANCOCK.
‘Brooklyn, Jan. 14. 1907.
As a woman approaches the age of
forty or thereabouts, she should pay
particular attention to her health. The
hard work, which She may have been
accustomed to do and the worry and
excitement of her daily life should he
lessened or avoided as much as pos
sible. As her health after she passes
this time will depend in a large meas
ure upon it. every woman owes it to
herself to build up her health during
those years. It is absolutely neces
sary that the blood he made pure and
rich, thereby enabling all the organs
of the body to perform their work
regularly. For this purpose Dr. Wil-
; Hams’ Pink Pills have long been recog-
| nized as the standard medicine, be-
; 'nuse of their great blood building and
tonic properties.
The case of Mrs. Hannah A. Loz.lor,
of 1161 Michigan avemfe. Detroit. Mioh.,
I well Illustrates what lias just been
i said. Mrs. Lozier is a member of the
Auxiliary of the Masonic Engineer
LAND FOR ADAMLESS EDEN.
FORT WORTH. Tex.. Jan. 19.—'The
deni for the 59.009 acres- of land in Re-
fugis County to be used excluslvelv by
Airs. Maty F. Hayden, of Chicago, hn’s
been closed. Airs. Hayden is expected to
arrive in Texas In February and make
the necessary arrangements for her colo
nists to begin to move in.
Since this Adamless Eden has been
given so much publicity through tlm press.
Airs. Hayden has !*e,. n swamped with let
ters from women who are anxious for in
formation concerning the new colony.
Some of these letters come from England
and Canada, and all seem eager to learn
of Texas and matters connected pith the
new enterprise.
handle money if as one wag suggests,
they will kindly leave them a little
money to handle. It may be a trifle
t00, " t0 begin to wonder,” after
best is like the worst” ever dreamed 'the newspaper fashion, what there
| will be to kick about when the trusts
Kaiser clearly thinks that the hour
for extreme discipline has arrived. To
ship the grumblers “east of Suez” or
some other lawless point, “where the
of In the glad fatherland, is the ter
rible purpose to which their ungrate
ful hearts have driven him. and now
the languorous nosts of the Orient may
be looking out for German Immigrants,
who “have a madness” that no “Car-
ida system” nor Znmboangoese indulg
ences can appease.
Even occidental ports should have a
care lest some of the ships miscarry
and land the malcontents on western
shores. America, especially, should
take such precautions, and to her po
lite question as to the immigrant's
acquaintance with almshouse, prison
and insane asylum, or even, anarchistic
brotherhoods, append some dexterous
query to discover his relation to knock
ers. So many malcontents, in fact, are
unloaded on her shores that, if the jo-
arc busted.” but the rumbling
and
highly interesting and as encouraging
ns the most hopeful could desire. The
Telegraph has recently printed the
estimate of the Baltimore Alanufac-
turers’ Record placing the total wealth
grumblings in more than one direction . . . . , . . . ,
indicate considerable use for the ! a P to date as over nineteen billion dol-
“cheering-up man’ who could decorate : lars.
his optimism “with an idea.” record- i A bulIetin f ssue( i by the Census Bu-
ing to the advice of the great _GIad- 1 J
stone to ‘the honorable gentleman” who i reau' estimates the wealth of the
laughed in the wrong place. Southern States, Including Maryland
To recommend sunbaths to people
Who seldom or never see the sun may
do for London doctors, hut Americans
have a way of saying. “You must show
me” to those who deal in sunlight: that
thev never see. Fortunately, however.
and West Virginia, for the year 1904
at $15,623,671,285. as compared with
the estimated wealth for 1900 of $12,-
i 934,333,376. In tho listed wealth of the
and there are now 132 borrowers scat- vial William has the warm brotherly
ESTIMATED 1.000 PERSONS
KILLED; 90,000 HOMELESS
ST. THOMAS, T>. W. I. Jan. 16 —
Reports received here from Jamaica
say it is estimated that one thousand
persons have been killed by the earth
quake and Are and that 90.000 persons
are homeless. The damage :■> Kingston
alone is placed at fully $10,000,000.
1 Noon—Later advices received here
from Jamaica declare that all people
have been warned to keep away from
Kingston. The stencil there is de
scribed as awful. There is no fodder
for animals and famine is imminent.
Money is useless. Tin banks have
been burned, but the vaults are sup
posed to be safe. The misery on all
sides is indescribable. Rich and pote-
alike are homeless. Provisions of all
kinds are urgently needed. It is im
possible to sax where anybody can he
found. Fir jarr.es Ferguson, vice-
chairman of the Royal Mail Steamship
Company, is among the killed. The
loss of life is very great, but the exact
numbers are not yet known. The dead
are buried under smouldering ruins.
Tlie mercantile community suffered
■nost severely, warehouses falling upon
them. Many professional men are dead
or Injured. ’ The negroes are looting.
Ghastly scenes are heing witnesses.
AH the shops have been destroyed and
all the buiidlngs in and around King
ston are In ruins Very few of them
are safe to live in.
CATANIA. Sicily. Jan. IS.—The
earthquake at Kingston. Jamaica, was
coincident with increased activity of
Mount Etna and slight earthquakes in
the Medoninn mountains. Prof. Rieuo,
the director of the Mount Etna observ
atory. says that either the fire open
ings' inside the erater which ,\.is dis
covered in 1S93 have increased in size
or that eruptions are occurring inside
the volcano, as from the outside noth
ing but smoke and a reflection of fire
can be seen. The volcano Is throwing
out a considerable ouantity of ashes,
ani" subterranean detonations are
beard. The present phenomena are
similiar to those of 1893 when one of
the most severe eruptions occurred.
Kingston Is the capital of the Island
•f Jamaica, and the principal seaport
tore,l over the length
the State.
These books for the blind are Issued
in different types by the various pub
lishers. according to the systems they
advocate, the principal ones being the
New York point. Moon. Boston line
letter and American'Braille. In order
to be able to read all the books printed
for the blind, therefore, a person must
be familiar with all the different styles
of type.
The books are curious looking vol
umes. being very bulky, hut not of a
corresponding weight. All the systems
use an emboss, d character of some
sort to convey the meaning, and this
accounts for the thickness of the vol
ume. .Many of the patrons of the li —
lirary can read two different types and
some of them even more.
Not only books, but also alphabets
and primers, are loaned to borrowers,
and since the work began eleven per
sons who previously could not read at
I all have learned either the Moon type.
1 the New York point or both.
I One of the eleven is a lady 91 years
of age. who stated that it was the hap-
! piest time of her life when she learned
to read the books for the blind. Surely
if so aged a person could learn to jead
no ope need despair of being able to
acquire the same accomplishment.
Bacon “Riled” Tillman.
Each McGhee In Columbia State.
It was a great day in the S"nate to
day. and not tho least of it was the
resurrection of the Darlington dispen
sary war. Senator Bacon told the Sen
ate how Tillman, when Governor of
South Carolina, disbanded troops of
the State militia by executive order,
and the Senator from South Carolina
got immediately and intensely mad.
for a few minutes. Senator Bacon
had road an editorial recently pub
lished in The Macon Telegraph, in
which an editorial in the Charleston
News and Courier recounted the inci
dent of the dismissal of the Newberry
company in 1894. Senator Bacon called
attention to the fact that Senator Till
man then quoted exactly the same sec
tion in the articles of war that Presi
dent Roosevelt referred to in his
Brownsville order message in support
of h:s action in the Brownsville inci
dent. It was when Senator Clay got
up. though, the fun was at its height.
In less than a minute Mr. Patterson,
who stirred up a whirlwind of protest
and recrimination among the Senators
Saturday, was or. his feet soiemniy
and breadth of j feeling for her that his critics claim,
! he ought to see to it himself that none
of his troublesome pessimists are turn
ed in her direction. To export her own
grumblers may become a painful neees-
sitv if much more “Junglo” life declares
as to remain long hidden from the
light. Neither by nature nor human
heritage is it any place for pessim’Jts.
and if by chance the distracted Kaiser
should unload some of his sour-faced
children upon us. America would make
short work of them.
Already she is charged with de-Ger-
manizlng the immigrant from the fath
erland to such an extent that he dc-
itself In her midst. However, while i mands both his sermons and his news-
Rockefeller and Tillman think well of j naners in the English tongue. To hold
us. optimism may still wave her sunny ; their young German congregations, the
banner over our heads.
The grandest plea for optimism that j
any nation can present comes assuredly 1
from one of our own sons. ”1 find the
gayest castles In the air that were ever
piled." says Emerson, “far better for j
comfort and for use than the dun
geons that are daily dug and caverned
i out by grumbling, discontented people.
A man should make life and nature
happier to us. or lie had better never
! been born.” That’s the philosophy of
' the whole matter, the problem of
j pessimism and Optimism reduced to a.
; legitimate conclusion.
The thing that avails for' comfort
and for use In the hard tussle of life.
| is the one to stand by. and the pessim
ist has never made life happier or bet- :
: ter to any fellow-being since time be
gan. He is out of the moral order of i
the universe, at variance with both ;
; the. soul of nature and of man. taking ;
. shadow for substance and a perturbed ;
j and clumsy environment for the true |
and fair reality. There are hosts of •
brave battlers against the evils of the '
I hour, who never lose sight of the un-
| deriving good, and a shallow judg-
: ment sometimes confounds their truni-
! pet blasts and warnings with the wa3I-
! ings of the pessimist. One might as
well confound the millennium notes of
the Archangel Michael with the rebel-
j iious plaint of a Lucifer, in separating
: the sheep from the goats, wise shep- I
: herds no doubt will bear this in mind.
Pessimist Never Helps.
| The out-and-out pessimist looks
j down and not up. in and not out. and
, never ’fiends a hand” as Hale’s bright
! optimism requires. To tran-port him
I would be no loss to any country, but
I it takes the ingenuity and wit of the
Emerald isle to reduce the matter to
1 a science. The Kaiser should con-
I for with the knowing Irishman to
; achieve the neatest system for discov-
| ery and disposition of his sullen of-
■ fenders. "Hurrah for Ireland.” sings
j out the Jolly patriot on St. Patrick's
; day. . "Hurrah for hell ' growls the
; grouchy bystander. "All right, sor:
I every man holler for his own country.”
! replie-: smiling Pat. and the newspa-
i pers give the incident for afi it is worth
to the less inspired nations, who have
the sun is a familiar acquaintance in j Southern States for 1904, Texas comes
America, and few corners are so dark I , . ,
first with $2,836,322,000, Kentucky sec
ond with $1,527,486,230, Alaryiand third
with $1,511,488,172, Virginia fourth
with $1,287,970,180, Georgia fifth with
$1,167,445,671, and Tennessee sixth
with $1,104,223,979. The wealth of the
other Southern States in 1904 is esti
mated as follows: Alabama, $965,*
014,201; Arkansas, $803,907,972; Flor
ida, $431,409,200: Louisiana, $1,032,-
229,000; Mississippi, $688,249,000; North
Carolina, $S42,072.218; South Carolina,
$585,853,222, and West Virginia, $840,*
000.149.
As to railroad building, interesting
by the Rail
way Age. The following table gives
the railroad mileage of the South and
the rest of the country at the end of
each decade, beginning with I860, and
the percentage of the whole that was
Southern:
Year. South.
Other
Sections. P. C. Si
11860 ....
10,865
19761
35.48
• 1S70 ...
... .15,422
37,500
29.14
' 1SS0 ...
....24,141
69,126
25.88
1 1S90 ...
... .50.565
116.138
30.33
1900 ...
... .62,225
132,037
32.03
1906 ...
....76,918
146,217
34.47
giving notice tha he should not at- I "grouchy bystanders' .-n their hands.
tempt to reply to Clay by interjection
now. but would come back and repulse
him at length later. The unterrified
Clay preceded then to state as his
cause of action that "The people of my
Slate abhor mob violence. They ab
hor en?e law. There is not a man
in the State who would countenance
such acts." Up rose Foraker. "Didn't
a prominent Atlanta paper run. a
standing offer of a reward for a lynch
ing last summer?" he asked. "If ir did
I didn't know it." responded Clay. I
am sure not a dozen inen in Georgia
approved it if tt did." Then he turned
hts batteries toward South Carolina
To be sure, they are of the order of
tho^e "sullen ones" whom Dante de
clares hell, as well as heaven, rejects,
but somewhere in “desolate wind
swept space" they would fit better than
on our sunny earth, and since its in
habitants are beginning to find this
out. there is nothing left but to drop
them off it. "There are two powers
at which men should never grumble."
says Disraeli, “the weather and their
wive*." and this, coming to be grant
ed. takes away man's last excuse, jjis
last comfort in the whole business.
When be turns his discontent and
grumbling in the direction of his coun- ' school boards.
Lutheran ministers declare that they
have to nreach to them even in bro
ken English, when the language is not
fully mastered, and if this would not
nut therm in a merry humor then the
delicious English of the genial Gprmnn
has been greatly misrepresented in the
funny paners. There is scarcelv any
thing. unless it mav bo the Afonroc j statistics are furnished
doctrine, that America can not turn
to cheerful account in her dealings
wH'h any poqole. With her. too. above
al 1 other nations, it remains true that
“there is always a new horizon for on
ward-looking men" and hones like
stars, inaccessible to any destroyer's
arts.
IRENE FT,>RK SAFFORD,
in St. Loui? Globe Democrat.
Why Good Teachers Are Scarce.
Rv Ossinn H. Lang, in the January-
March Forum.
Good teachers are getting scarce.
Cities which exact a hieh standard of
qualification find their eligible lists de
pleted and no immediate supply in
sight. This state of things is in • a
measure accounted for by the prevail
ing shabbiness in the remuneration of
teachers. The rewards are not such
as to induce enough ambitious young
men to invest their time and strength
in a thorough preparatory course. The
increase of money-earning opportuni
ties for working women has still fur
ther reduced the influx of desirable
material. The situation is a serious
one. Thousands of efficient teachers
leave school work every year for more
remunerative labor. They feel that
they cannot affzrd the luxury of teach
ing. Meanwhile the number of inef
ficient ones must of net essitv increase,
and as a matter of fact is increasing,
their ineffciency ranging all the way
from lack of professional judgment
down to rank illiteracy. People devoid
of almost everything included under
the term culture, a considerable per
centage f them possessing not even
a modicum of elementary instruction,
manage get employment as teach
ers
Frederick the S=rnnd of Prussia has
be«n held un to sco-n because he in
sisted that hi? non-com missioned of
ficers. manv of them confirmed drun
kards, wanting emtdovmcit. should be
appointed a« school teachers. All pro
tests were met hv '.be exnlanations that
they must have shelter during the in
clement winter days: that teaching
jeould keen them out of mischief: that
being military drill-masters they would
keep the children in order; and that
the wages naid to teachers were all
thev were worth. The frugal Fred
erick's reasonings, especially thsi’ft-
ter point, are not very unlike flx'se
actuating some of our American
It thus appears that the South, with
36.36 per cent of the population of the
: country already has 34.47 per cent of
the railroad mileage. That it is gain
ing more rapidly than any other sec
tion is shown by the fact that it laid
44.3 per cent of the railroad tracks in
1906.
The one drawback is the lack of la
bor. The one thing needful is immi
gration of the right kind, bringing
white laborers, both skilled and un
skilled. and thrifty progressive white
farmers.
LOUISIANA SYRUPS
MAY NOT BE MARKETABLE
NEW ORLEANS. La.. Jan. 17.—The
fact that probably nearly all of the sugar
cane syrup and the molasses output of
Louisiana of last fall is unmarketable,
under a strict Interpretation of the pure
food law. is brought out In correspond
ence made public here todav between
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and
Louisiana sugar dealers. The dealers
pointed out to Mr. Wilson that for 50
years sulphur had been used In this State
in treating cane juice for clarification, and
that because of a widely published and
erroneous statement last fall, that the
Department of Agriculture should permit
the use of sulphur to continue the prod
uct to be marketed in 1907. In few in
stances this product lias been refused tty
those who contracted to take, contractors
fearing tlic law.. Mr. Wilson, In repiv,
said:
“It is the purpose of the department
where goods had already been manu
factured by methods of common use be
fore tile law had gone into effect- to give
the very greatest nosslble freedom under
the law for the utilization of these good*!.”
hut Mr. Wilson, nevertheless, pointed ovt
that the use of sulphur is unlawful, at
least as applied in most Louisiana cane
syrup products.
and of the Pullman Relief Corps and
has held high office in each. The au
thenticity of her statement may be ab
solutely relied upon. She says:
"I began taking Dr. Williams’ Pink
Rils about four years ago. after T
had been suffering for some years
from dizzy spells and nervousness
which were brought on by overwork.
I tried several medicines without help
and all the time became more irri
table, nervous and weak. At times T
had no appetite and could oat noth
ing. At Intervals of every two or
three days, my heart seemed to ris-
up in my throat and I would have to
lie down until tlie feeling passed
away. I also had dull aching pains
under my right shoulder and across
my back. When I looked up T wouM
see blacks spots. Occasionally 1 would
become so dizzy, that I had to steady
myself to kp.qi from falling.
"I read that Dr. Williams’ rink
Pills were a blood-purifier and build
er. I decided to try them. After t
had taker them a short time tlie
dizzy spells became less frequent
finally stopped. I
seven boxes of tli
dizzy spells. 1 wai
I now fee! like a
gether.”
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills an> adapted
for diseases due to impure blood and
shattered nerves. They are invalua
ble in anaemia, rheumatism, after-ef
fects of the grip and fevers and in
sick headaches, dizziness, nervousness,
neuralgia, and even partial paralysis
and locomotor ataxia.
A valuable booklet entitled “Plain
Talks to Women" will be sent free, in
a sealed envelope, upon request, to any
woman Interested.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by-
all druggists, or sent, post paid, mi
receipt of price, 50 cents per box. six
boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams
Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y.
a nd
took them uniii
pills stopped the
entirely well and
new person aJto-
BANK OF BROOKEN
APPLIES FOR CHARTER
ATLANTA. Jan. 17.—Secretary of
State Cook today received an applica
tion for a charter for the Bank of
Brooken. in the County of Bulloeh.
The bank will have a capital stock of
$25,000. The petitioners are J. x.
Shorehouse, J. A. Warnock. R. H. War-
nock. P, B. Lewis, J. M. McElveen. D.
M. Bearley and J. W. Robinson, all of
the County of Bullock. The charter
will be granted as soon as the law in
regard to advertising is complied with.
GOVERNOR MAY EXAMINE
BOOKS AND BROKER’S SCHOOL.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jail. 16.—Ill
the House today a resolution was pre
sented authorizing the Governor to
examine the books and accounts of the
Booker Washington negro school at
Tuskegee, and to report to 'the State.
Tills school receives a small appropria
tion front the State, but is supported
by contributions from philanthropists
of the North.
DEBATE TOUCHING GENERAL
WELFARE OF JEWS.
ATLANTA. Ga„ Jan. 16.—The second
: day’s session of the council of the
Union of the Hebrew Congregations
was chiefly devoted to discussion of
the so-called American Jewish com
mittee. The debate was animated .and
showed great divergence of opinion
The final action of the council was to
the effect that all Jewish organiza
tions in this country must unite for
the promotion of the general welfare
only in so far as to prevent unjust
discrimination.
! Philadeinhia was selected as the
next meeting place. Thp reports of the
several committees and the determi
nation that the American passport for
American citizens must be recognized
in all civilized countries, regardless as
to whether the holder of such pass
port is a Jew or not, were al! acted
, upon affirmatively. Tonight a banquet
i was tendered the visitors by the Jew*
1 ish citizens of Atlanta.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE
ON INDIAN TERRITORY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The report
of the select committee on Indian Ter
ritory was made to the Senate todav.
It criticises Secretary Hitchcock's
withdrawal of land for forest reserve
as illegal, recommends sale of coal
lands, and the indefinite holding of the
mineral rights. It recommends also
the removal of all restrictions on tho
surplus lands of the Indians, but not
from homesteads.
Man’s Proper Diet.
From London Tribune.
In the course of a racy lecture de
livered at the Workingmen’s College
recently on "The Care of the Body.”
Prof. William Osier said that ntilk was
the original food of man, and contain
ed the four things necessary—fat, eurd.
sugar, and salt, all dissolved in wa
ter.
Dr. Vere Mitchell had once showed
the lecturer a robust looking patient,
and Prof. OHer remarked: "He looks
as if he had been living on the fat of
the land." “No," replied Dr. Yore
Mitchell, “on the fat of the cow.’ That
patient had a five years' milk diet, ex
cept on Sundays, when his wife In
sisted on rice pudding. Many people
got on without meat if they took por
ridge. which was as good as meat. If
vegetarians would eat their vegetables
and say less about it. they would do
well. Many vegetarians were not 's
robust m entH Hy a-' physically. People
often ate too much meat, especially
if they ate cereals as well.
Alcohol. Prof. Osier said, was quite
unnecessary. If all the bee r and spir
its could be dumped into the Irish
Channel, the English Channel, and the
North Sea for a year people in Eng
land would be infinitely better, and it
would, of course, solve almost al! the
problems that philanthropists, physic
ians, and politicians had to deal with.
"If,” the lecturer continued, “on the
second day you dumped all the to
bacco into the sea it would be good
for you and hard on the fish.” Tea
and coffee, like alcohol, were also real
ly not necessary, and. in fact, dis
turbed the furnaces of the body. Tak
ing them was a matter of habit.
Proper diet, no spirits, very little
beer, tea and coffee, plenty of fresh air,
and lots of good, hard work—these
ytere w hat was needed in life.
“OLD TOM” IN WASHINGTON.
Prom tho Washington Herald.
A "grand old man" from Georgia is
ex-United States Senator Thomas 51.
Norwood, of Savannah, who is at the
New .Willard. He is 76 years of age.
but his face glows with health, his
keen blue eyes need tlie aid of no glass
to decipher the finest print, and his
sturdy form Is as straight ats in his
youthful prime. He is a scholar and
orator and an able lawyer, and though
he long since retired from Congress,
for the past twelve years he has iec
the busy and useful life of judge of
the City Court..
in answer to a Herald reporter’s
question as to tho secret ot his lon
gevity. the ex-Son.ator said that he had
lived" a temperate life and had never
be»n extreme in any °f h!s habits,
though h" had no ironclad rules of liv
ing. He went to bed when he got
sleepy, whether thp hour was early
or late, nr.d i ver got up until thor
oughly refreshed. He rarely drank
whisky, but was not a total abstainer.
He had chewed tobacco from boyhood,
hut stopped smoking several years ago.
In regard to his Senatorial career.
Judge Norwood said.
“] was the first 'rebel’ to get into
the Senate after the war. the carpet
bag regime being of shorter duration
in Georgia than in any of the other
Southern States. Elected in 1S79 over
seven competitors. 1 took my seat in
1x71, after a contest. A few weeks
later (Jen. Matt Ransom, of North
Carolina, cane along and was admitted, i
after a contest, so that I had a rebel
associate. In March or April, 1X74, I
made- the most memorable speech of
my life on the Civil Rights bill, occu
pying a large part of t"'> days in its
delivery.
“Matt Carpenter was president pro
tern, of the Senate. I undertook dur
ing the first day to cover the bill with
ridicule, to laugh it out of court, oy
showing its manifold absurdities. I
must have succeeded pfatty well, tor
people are still writing to me for a
copy of tlie speech, and it was made
over thirty years ago. While 1 talked
Matt Carpenter scarcely took any pains
to hide his laughter. Ho threatened
to clear the galleries for the applause,
but his own fat sides were shaking and
the racket kept up. Roscoe Conkling,
sitting near me, buried his face in a
newspaper to conceal his mirth. It
was different with Hannibal Hamlin.
That venerable statesman from Maine
was enraged at my burlesque of a
great party measure. Fussing and
fuming, he strode up near Carpenter
and ejaculated that it was a d out
rage to let that d rebel make a
speech of that kind in the United
States Senate. But Carpenter gave no
attention; he was too full of laughter.
Well, my speech did not kill the bill,
but it was the cause of Its being
pruned of some of its most odious
features.”
"Who was the greatest man, in your
estimation of the Senators of that
day?"
"Roscoe Conkling. beyond question,
certainly the. ablest man on the Re
publican side. I think he was even tho
intellectual superior of Thurman. When
I first entered the Senate I had little
use for Conkling. In fact. I had made
up my mind to hate him. I thought at
the outset that he was insufferably ar
rogant, and his disdainful, scornful
manner was so repellant that I never
expected to even speak to him. By
accident we were on a committee to
gether tha: went on a trip of investi-
• gation. Thrown in contact with him,
the frigidity of his demeanor gave way
to a charming courtesy, and ere the
; close of the ‘Junket’ we were congenial
associates. Afterwards w© became
very close friends, and I revere his
memory."
PORTSMOUTH. O.. Jan. 16.—Th© Ohio
river tonight was one and a half feet over
the danger point and still rising. Many
cellars are already filled with water. Ful
ly 109 families have been forced from
their homes in the lowlands. Several big
eianufacturlng plant* have been closed.
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