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4 THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, Ittfri I 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. NOTICJE 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. 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. 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“v r ear 1907. Are BOOKS FOR THE BUND. May Be Bulky, but Light, and Mailed Free. 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. I INDISTINCT PRINT