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FRIDAY, JANUARY 18. 1907. THE TVTICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH 8 ;; Caught on + the 'Wing | . .j 1 I 1 1 1 l 1 1 M-M-K- Mill 1-H- By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. Today I Invite the readers of The Telegraph to tarry with ine a few min utes on Macon's "Cloth of Gold. There are eight banks in Macon with capital and surplus, in round numbers, of two million dollars ($2,000,000). The largest capital of any one bank is fi\e hundred thousands dollars ($500.000). The deposits in the banks aggregate six million eight hundred ihou-tand dollars ($6,000,000). This is a dazzling sum of money and shows that Ma con Is on the highway that leads to commercial supremacy and Industrial dominion. The deposits of one of :V- banks exceed two million dollars ($2 000.000). and the deposits of an other bank about reach the two mil lion dollar mark. Neither of the o hanks has what might he termed the savings hank feature; they are com mercial institutions. There are four savings hanks In Macon arid they have a total deposit of two million one hundred thousand dollars ($2,100,000). This speaks well for the frugality and economy of our people, and shows that It Is raining in their fields and good fortune is smiling upon Paul, Providence. Buffalo. Indianapolis and Denver. Memphis fell eight num bers. Augusta fell seven numbers; she ranks fifty-fourth. Mobile non- h -ids fifty-fifth place, using twelve numbers and more than doubling its clearings. Seattle leads in the- far Wes; with a gain of 61.1 per cent. Despite a lost of Cabbage plants, cele- y plants and all kinds f garden plants cheap, ipe raised in t he air, will stand cold. Express ■heap. We will ou the ext ~r- Clamor for Relief From All Sections New Rating of I HEALTH the World’s Fleets INSURANCE The man who insures his life is ST.' PAUL. Minn.. John A. Johnson toda; from James J. Hill. Northern Kallv . 11.—Governor H-clved a letter esldent of the impany. declar- "If the system of rating the fighting values of the world s fleets adopted in the latest issue of 'Fighting Ships’ be over a month last spring by the earth- rd; «V- quakq. San Francisco gained 8.9 per 1 : t -... cem. 1 ne large-1 gain reported over 'V’-. ■ • -'-f"I gt ■ w-r :n ;Ir.g that it vror' l require .1 permanent correct, we must entirely revise our } °, f r, an ' ' * S ''? at by Mo- tfsX'Ji-f ! ' " ':' n nr o-id-'’t'he’ rdlroad'i^rf tl°e estimate cf the relative power of some bile—163 p>-r cent. Among t:.e large fofJtriy Vfr'-U iey gr \v;ng ere- hie j-.-alb to prut id- the ia.iro.uis o. the * , _ . i fries of the couri:v, one i< struck bv SL t* i:i garden country with means to hand.n properly of the leading navies, says the Scien- the frequency of the recurrence of the \%>4L^2Z!£l0or farm. Particulars The "bitter tific American. “France yields second tigure 1 in the list of increases. Chi- Address says:* - MO place to the United States, and Ger- and San 8.9 per cent. Boston per cent. Mlnneapoli: Cleveland •,.) per , er for Mat in for ISOS and she ranks seven! list of cities reported. SCO each gamed i- i Cincinnati 8 i s.4 per cent, and ;. The clearings were $31,916,293. .'-five in the long N. H. ELtTCH COMPANY. Tha Largest Truck Farm in the World, Mcagotts. S. C. "The basin to Tl. tocy.i of the United States tested that from every por country arises ■•'ain r f.• railroads everytvli.';, power. The peopl There Is a fine natural growth in the banking business of Macon which Is due to the expansion of commerce In this city and an Increase in busi ness generally. The ca pitalizatlon of the Macon hanks in 1906 was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($2.60.000) more than it was In 1908. The fart that the hanking capital Is Increasing ts txtuse for congratulation and encouragement, and is one of the many favorable signs of the times. The Influence of the growth and pros perity of the banks runs like a sil ver current through the entire com mercial life of the city. When hank stock rates as high as two hundred ; dollars ($2009 per share, as is the case In Macon. It Is evidence that The city Is en.1o.vlng an era. of fortunate times The deposits In the hanks of Macon tell the story of Industry and j success. The fact that citizens of other places have removed to Macon | with their money to invest i< in the j hanking business in this city shows 1 'filth In the financial solvency of her 'established Institutions and confidence ! In her future commercial advance- ; ’ment, and the onward march of her Industrial affairs. Railway employes In Georgia are very much Interested in the hill which I lias been Introduced in the United I Stares Senate, and has been under dis- I eusslon for several days, to promote I the safety of employes and travelers j upon railroads by making it unlawful for any railroad to require or permit j any employe engaged in or connected with the movement of an;* train to re main in service more than sixteen con- | secutivo hours. This bill was drawn I by the official representatives of the I railway brotherhoods of the United Stales. Rut since the measure has i been hefore the Senate a number of j letters and other communications have j been received by Senators from railway j employes urging opposition to the hi!!. ! These protesting letters have come i principally from individual employes . living hevond the Mississippi who j work on the mileage system. Senator | LaFollette expressed the opinion that • the railway companies have exerted i themselves to secure from the em ployes a disapproval of this legislation. The chairman of the general committee of conductors of the Union Pacific sys tem has written against the bill, and letters have also been received from leaders of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers and Firemen; also of hrakemen. These protests have come chiefly from the West, one Idea being that the hill appears to require a uni- : form treatment of situations that in ' various sections of the country are far from uniform. to whether not.” Senator 1 they are able to go or matter to said it is a the men who their homes quir cm tme at the tl ti It tn is ne As we all know, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 1s one of the strongest and most conservative labor organizations in existence. Senator Dolliver. of Iowa, stated on the floor of the Senate that the brotherhood is a national organization and objections to the hill do not c*me from the national organization or from the national or ganization of railway trainmen, hut from organizations local in character, surrounded possibly by unusual cir cumstances. Speaking of the engi neers. and the pending sixteen-hour bill in the Senate, it may be interest ing and apropos to state right here that in 1890, at the request of the Rrotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of Georgia, a bill was introduced in the Legislature of this State limiting the maximum time of service of employes on railroads to fourteen consecutive hour.-. It was held that to serve for a longer period than this continuously was too severe a tax upon the physical endurance of the engineers. The meas ure was considered of very great im portance. not only to the employes, hut to the railroads and to the public, and would he the means of preventing | many railway disasters, as the men en- ' gaged In the movement of trains would the opinion of Senator Bacon that eight hours will re uperate any man. and six hors will recuperate very many men, especially if upon the return to the homo terminal they are to have fif teen or twenty hours, for a greater ; length of time for rest is always giv- i en to them at their home terminal. It was Senator Bacon's belief that ninety-nine railroad employes out of a hundred would say that in prac tical operation they would be in good condition upon the completion of a run to the away-from-home termi nal after six or seven or eight hours at the outside of rest to start back on the run to their home terminal, and that it tvould be better for them, looking to the question cf their physi cal recuperation, to say nothing of their comfort and domestic happiness, if they were permitted to take the larger part of their rest at their home terminal and not be required to take an undue proportion of it at the far away terminal. Railroad employes and railwyas all over the country are greatly interest ed in the bill which Senator Bacon says is more far reaching in its prac tical effect upon the railway business of the United States than any bill that has ever been hefore Ihe Con gress—much further than the rate bill, very much further than the safety ap pliances than th _ pm crefor to face with the greatest business prob lem that h 's ever threatened the nation. During recent years the volume of busi ness has increased.- and Is increasing with extraordinary rapidity; while the necessary additional trackage and termi nals hr- net ‘"f> cual to tile demands upon them. The resulting situation is a freight 1 i shade of enormous proportions. csp< cl '”v at ;ii! terminals. No time should he lust in applying such measures of reme dy as may bo passible. \V;;ii:n tile Inst ten years liie volume of railroad business in this count|'v has increased over 110 per cent. Mean whir, the rail roads have endeavored to r.t-et it. Equipment is be ing increased as rapidly as capital and labor can do it. There are "nd will be ears enough to carry tlie country's traffic if the cars can lie moved, but engines and cars must itare tracks upon which t"M-i- I -i-! ';"i-i-i-;"i"i"}"h'i-i"i"i";"i-: 'i' i balance of his life. Upon the cessa tion of hostilities Dr. Baber resumed the practice of medicine at Hartford, and later removed to Marion (another town now extinct), in Twiggs County, where he built up a large practice. But Dr. Baber was ambitious, and he desired a larger field for the exercise and employment of his talents, so in the Spring of 1S24 he removed to Ma con and at once obtained an extensive practice, which Increased with the years. No physician hi the Southern States ever performed a greater amount of service. Soon after locating in Macon. Dr. Baber became involved i in a personal difficulty with Mr. Thor;. D. Mitchell, n lawyer of the Southern ■circuit. Friends endeavored to settle the matter amicably between the two men. but Dr. Baber, who was an ex ceedingly sensitive person. declared- that for the complete vindication of his honor there was but one way. an ap peal to the code, at that time so popti- bill, and very much further lar with gentlemen in th? South. Ac- employers' liability bill. J cordingly a duel was fought with rifles, on the Carolina side of the Savannah River, and Mitchell fell mortally wounded at the second fire. is many, which before the Japanese war was considered to he at least equal if ir not superior to the United States, moves down to fifth position with Ja pan ahead of her. Russia being sixth, Italy seventh, and Austria in the eighth position. The placing of the German navy below that of Japan in an estimate of relative fighting power would -seem,, at the first blush, to savor of absurdity; but when we begin to examine 'into the basis of comparison adopted in Fighting Ships,' we find that the change has been made on grounds which are at least plausible. "This startling advancement of some of the navies and depreciation of oth ers is due to the fact that the new sys tem of rating is based strictly upon the stern lessons of the Japanese war, in which, during a few short months, the third greatest navy of the world was practically swept out of existence. Outside of its reassertion of the value j of a trained personnel, that war em phasized the importance of the big, heavily armed and heavily armored battleship. Furthermore, it is the unanimous opinion of naval experts that the war established the over whelming value of the heavy, long- range gun. It proved, once more, that the final command of the sea. other things heing equal, will lie with the navy which can bring the largest num ber of big guns to bear, when the rival fleets are facing each other in line of battle. This fact has been .so far ac cepted that the building programs of all navies for the present year are : based entirely upon its recognition. "In the new rearrangment of the na- wlse for his family. The man who insures his health is wise both for his family and himself. You may insure health by guard* ing it. It is worth guarding. At the first attack of disease, which generally approaches through the LIVER and mani fests itself in innumerable ways TAKE. f)ut of the vaults of the hanks of Macon every week pours streams of gold for payment of wages to em ployee In the manufacturing plants in this city. The amount thus used is estimated at about fifty thousand dol lars per week, or two hundred thou sand dollars monthly. In this sum Is not Included the monthly pay rolls of the railroads. which amount to about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ho if the two sums are added together there will be a tgtal of Jhree hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($360.0009 that goes over the tills of ♦ he Macon banks every month to he paid to wage earners in the various Industrial and railway establishments tn this city. What would Macon he without her railroads and manufact uring Institutions! There would he stagnation V’ business of all kinds. commerce would decay and the wheels I no t ^e overworked. of prosperity would cease to turn. Ma- eon’s wage earners are the foundation j Reverting now to th of her growth and advancement, and she should give them all possible en couragement. A city that has a large number or wage earners like Macon. Is most fortunate and should strive to steadily Increase the number. If Ma con would be truly wise she should do her full duty In encouraging the build ing of industrial enterprises and not put obstacles In the way of any le gitimate concern. The wages that are nald weekly in this city are the life blood of trade. Whenever you are feeling out of sorts and Inclined to think Macon does not amount to very much just think for a moment tfhout the three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ihat are paid monthly through the hanks of the city to the wage earners In the railroads and manu facturing plants, and you will see a silver lining to the cloud of your pes simism. Perhaps Macon is more of a manu facturing city than some of you may suppose So far as I know there are one hundred and ninety-eight manu factories of different kinds In the city and suburbs, such as cotton mills, for spinning yarns, knitting mills for mak ing stockings and underwear, iron foundries, cotton compresses, establish ments for making cornices, cotton gin manufactories, cotton press manufac tories. cotton oil plants, sash, door and blind factories, candy and cracker fac tories, ice plant and numerous other concerns like stave and barrel facto ries, brick yards, harness factory, etc. The annual output Is worth easily seven million dollars. The plants have i a capital of more than five million Idollars. An ice company here is said Tto have the largest plant and cold ■torage warehouses south of Cincin nati. The products of some of the manufactories are shipped all over the TTnited States and in some Instances across the waters. A, short time ago a gentleman told me about meeting a Macon drummer selling his goods in Portland. Oregon: that is getting away freon home some. national bill: Senator Bacon has taken a very active part in the discussion of the measure on the floor of the Senate. He declared It is a mater of the most stupendous magnitude, turning over to Federal legislation the question of the hours of employment upon every railroad, long or short, within the limits of the United Stales. It Is proposed, he said, to put it within the domain and prov ince of Federal legislation and Federal litigation, and be no longer either within the province of State legislation or within the jurisdiction of State courts. Senator Bacon said all agree that the employment of railroad opera tives for an undue length of time is a I From the brilliant court of Louis j Philippe. King of France, in 1842. to ; a photographer’s gallery in Macon, in j 1907, is a long period as we measure ■ time and a great distance as we reck on miles. ; Miss Mary Sweet Baber Blackhear ’ granddaughter of the 'ate Hr. Ambrose ! and JJary Sweet Bahor. of this city, : sat for three photoglyph-; on las: gat- i urday. In the first, she wora the sat in brocade and lace dress worn by her grandmother at her presentation at the court of the King and Ooeen of F a pci*, when Dr. Bioer was chft'ge d'affaires to Sardinia, a postq> jn of France, In the Mediterranean. The ele gant gown and lace were made by hand. The thread lace on the bodice is nearly two hundred years, old. She also wore the same jewels worn by Mrs. Baber on that occasion of mag nificent pageant -y. also a medallion worn by Dr. R'aher at the rime, and a linen thread hand’ lace and hand embroidered handkerchief. A fan in the hand is a rent Japanese far. pann ed on feathers, and with carved ivory sticks. In the pia'ure is a oua;i,t old straight hack, hand carvel chair, which was brought to this country in 1620 hv some of D r . Baber’s ewtu tors and has been handed down in the family from generation to genera tion. The second picture is in the black silk velvet gown, which was the pre scribed mourning when the Duke of 1 Orleans. son of the reigning King, Louis Philippe, died on July 13. 1842. The whole court was ordered to wear black velvet. The black lace shawl over the shoulders was made toy hand, and is atoout two centuries old. This dress was made by the Queen’s dress maker. The Duke of Orleans referred : to above was very popular, and his un- : great evil, hut it should be reached properly, without Incurring or causing j timely death was greatly lamented by other evils. The Senator wanted to I all FYance. He was on his way to visit his parents at NeulIIy when his horses became unmanageable and When Dr. Baber was at the very zenith of his professional and public usefulness, at the age of 49, his health seriously failed him and he sought a foreign appointment under the United ; States Government in the hope that a change of climate would benefit his condition. President ’Harrison. in March. 1841. tendered him the position ' of charge d’affaires to Sardinia, refer- ; enee to which was made at the com mencement of this article. Prior to i Dr. Baber's departure for his Mediter- ; ranean post the citizens of Macon gave him a publics, dinner as a token of their esteem and admiration. Dr. Baber remained abroad until the spring of 1844, when he«=r.Pturned to Macon slightly improved in health, and he re sumed the practice of medicine. But his improvement was only temporary, and he commenced again to decline. Howtjver, his life was ended not by sickness or disease, but by an unfor tunate mistake in a prescription in tended for a patient suffering from a pulmonary complaint. A dose of cyan ide of potassium, ’compounded by Majendle's Recipe, as published in the seventh (7th9 edition of Ellis* Yormularv, was the cause of death. There was a misprint in the Recipe. The prescription was carried to Apoth ecary Aleck Menard, father of Victor Menard, to be filled. When Mr. Me nard had compounded it he told the party in waiting to inform the patient for whom the prescription was in tended that the dose was fatal and if he took it he would die almost in stantly. The patient received the mes sage and he communicated the samo to Dr. Baber, who laughed at the state ment, and to prove that the prescrip tion v)iaa.. not over dose swallowed the medicine ito the presence of the patient and in q, few moments Dr. Baber was—dead. “That one so dls- . . , tinguished for his'sagacity, his knowl- jumplng from his carriage he fell on e( ]g; e and his wisdom: so thoroughly the pavement and fractured his ^kull. versed in the theory o He was taken to a neghborlng house, where toe expired after a few hours. The Duke was thirty-two years old at his death. He was a brave officer in numerous 'battles fought by France and of his profession, and so deservedly popular in his prac tice, should have fallen a victim to an error in his own prescription is no less strange and anomalous than it is pain ful to contemplate." was the comment And speaking of money, everybody In Georgia knows of the warm contest toeing made by Atlanta and Savannah for the proposed sub-treasury. I read In sn Atlanta newspaper yesterday of Atlanta's boast that her bank elearings are larger than those of Birmingham and Columbia. S. C„ combined, both of which cities wantlfcho sub-treasury. But why go over Into Alabama and South Carolina? Why does not At lanta make comparison with Savannah, her only Gporgia rival for the sub- treasury? According to Bradstreet’s the bank clearings for Savannah in 1908 were $242,603,427. and the clear ings tor Atlanta in 1996 were $239,997.- 896. This shows that Savannah's clear ings were $6,605,531 more than At lanta's. According to Bradstreet’s some Important changes are shown in the rank of the cities as a result of the 1906 operations. The rank of the first eight cities. New York. Chicago. Bos ton. Philadelphia. St. Louis. Pittsburg. San Francisco and Baltimore is un changed. but the ninth. Kansas City, has supplanted Cincinnati, which fell to tenth place. Detroit also moved above Louisville. One of the notable galne was made by -Seattle, which moved up five numbers, passing St. know the practical operation of the bill. He was particularly desirous of relieving employes of anything bur densome in the hill arising from the present arrangement of terminals upon some of the railroads. He said: “A railroad employe starting from his home and making, it may be. a hard run to the other terminal, is very de- slrous to get back to his home and j n a conflict with the Arabs in Algeria of the late Dr.' C. B. Nottingham. '’form have his rest there, hut he would be j, e tyas wounded. er ] v iin eiiiinent nhvsician of Macon, compelled under the bill to remain ten j n tho third picture Miss Biackshear Dr.’ Baber died on March 1. 181*6. aged hours at the other terminal, and In that | was taken in an exquisite lace empire 54 years. His death was deeply mourn- wnv have that much less rest at his -hall dress, made toy hand and worn ed. Over his grave in Rose Hill Cem- before the Revolution by a great great, : etery is a handsome monument that great aunt (Mary Sweet9. at Newport, was' erected by the Masonic fraterni ties of Macon. He was one of the founders of Lodge No. 32, and of Con stantine Chapter No. 4, and was the presiding officer of each for years, and also Grand Master _ of the Grand Lodge of Georgia. Dr. Baber took a leading part in the organization of the Episco pal Church here. To his character as a Christian, Bishop Elliott paid a beautiful tribute. He was foremost in the advancement of the educational, home terminal.” of the ‘Kansas’ and ‘Louisiana’ type mounting four 12's and eight 8's: five ’New Jerseys’ of the same battery power, and two ’Idahos,’ also, carrying four 12’s and eight S's. Franco has six ships of the ’Liherte' and ‘Republique’ types carrying .four 12's and a numer ous battery of 6.4's or 7.6V. Japan has two ‘Kashimas’ carrying four. 12's and four 10’s. Germany has nothing in this class’ In the fourth class Great Britain has twenty-five ships of the ‘London.’ ’Duncan,’ ’Warrior' and ’Black Prince’ tyres, the two iart- narned being cruisprs. We have three of the ‘Maine’ type and four n: ;'■ cruiser ’Washington’ type, the latter mounting each four ld-inch in the main battery. The French have the ‘Suffren’ and Telia'; the Japanese nine ships, including those that were en gaged in the war, two the former Rus sian battleships, the ‘Grey and ’Czare vitch.’ and four new cruisers, now un der construction in Japan, which will carry 10-inch or 12-inch guns in the main battery. In this glass ■ Germany has a strong showing, including five •Deutschlar.d.s,’ and five "Kraunsch- weigs," each carrying four ll-!nch guns, besides two new crui-ers each mounting eight S.2’s. In the fifth class due mainlv to thelact Great Britain has fifteen battleships of the Majestic and Canopus’ types. "We have three Alabamas*; the French seven battleships and three powerful cruisers, and Japan three battleships, namely, the ’Fuji.’ and two that were captured from Russia. Germany Inis no ships in this class. In the sixth class the British have twenty ships, including seven ’Royal Sovereigns.' the ‘Hood,’ two 'Trafalgar's,’ and ten ar mored cruisers of the ‘Drake’ and ’Cressy’ types, the latter carrying 9.2’s in their main battery. In this class also the United States is strong, hav ing twelve ships, including two of the ’Kearsarge’ type, three ’Jndianas.’ one ‘Iowa,’ and the six armored cruisers of the ‘California’ type. France has seven ships: Japan one: and it is to this class that, because of the light character of their armament, ten of the latest battleships of the German navy, launched between 1S96 and 1991, are relegated. “It is not necessary to pursue the comparison further. but attention should be drawn to the new value as sumed by that most efficient type of ship, the armored cruiser. The plac ing of some of these ships in the sa MILITIA COMPANIES MUST RECRUIT TO 58 MEN ATLANTA. Ga.. Jan. 15.—The an nouncement comes from Washington that Cant. Joseph Wheeler, son of the lat<- ! Gen. Joseph Wheeler, has been detailed , by the War Department to inspect tho ■ National Guard of the States. Capt ■ Wheeler is now stationed at Fort Screven. Under the Di.-k law the States militia l must be inspected by army officers, i It is stated there are quite a number of ! companies in the State with 10 men or : less. These commands will have to be re- ; eruited up to 58 or new equipment will I not he issued them. This order, which is from the National War Department at Washington, goes into effect at once. Every company will get busy or they won’t get those Spring- lielii lilies exchanged for the Krog-Jor- gensen. It is absolutely necessary that militiamen as well as the regular army have tile regulation gun. therefore enlist ments must be increased. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT ON CONSTITUTIONAL FOINT. LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Jan. l j.-~Tho Arkansas Supreme Court today ruled that the clause of the Arkansas anti- trust act providing for the taking of testimony in another State is constitu tional. This decision was in the anti trust suit of the State against the Hammond Packing Company, a foreign errp ration. The lower Court as sessed a fine of $10,000 against the packing company because its attorneys refused :•> p.'-rut :ho taking of testi mony before a specie.! commissioner in Chicago several months ago. The Supreme Court holds that tho State has a right to force corporation officials in other States to t 'stify and produce records before a spec;.;I com- missioner in that State, to be us-ed as ‘ evidence in suits brought by the State ef Arkansas against these corpora tions. Certain roiLvay emploves^conductors Rhode Ts , an a. with this dress was worn a lace scarf, made by Miss Black- shear’s mother, and the wedidng lace handkerchief of Mrs. Blackshear. also made toy her, was in a little beaded reticule over a century old. and others. I presume, of Georgia some of them in Macon, perhaps, ad dressed Senators Bacon and Clay the following communication, which Sena tor Bacon had the secretary of the Senate to read: “Gentlemen: It has come tn our no tice that there is now pending be fore Congress and the House of Rep resentatives a bill known as H. R. bill IS.671. or better known among us as the “sixteen-hour bill.” which Hr. Ambrose Baber was no ordinary- person. He was a man of genius, cul ture and elegance, a skilled and high ly successful physician. He was a philanthropist and a jcholar, a patriot j moral and religious interests of Ma- , , , . . , .and a public spirited citizen. Hr. Ba- con. He frequently, represented Bibb we think has some^very objectionable | an evon ff u | career. If you are in the State Senate and was ‘ * ‘ ~ not aware of it read the following practical and useful Senator. He took ; vies of the world in the order of their fighting importance above referred to. the ships are set down in parallels of fighting value, with the battleship ’Hreadnought’ taken ns the unit. In the estimate are included all the war ships of the various fleets that are built, building or proposed. The high position given to the United States and to Japan i that fortunately neither of these pow ers was affected by the agitation of a few years ago in favor of installing guns of medium caliber in the main batteries of warships and abolishing the 12-inch gun. As a consequence, not one of the first-cla'ss battleships of either navy carries, as its main armament, anything lighter than the 12-inch gun. while eight of our own ships mount a 13-inch piece of greet power and accuracy. Tha German designers, however, in the ten years from 1S90 to 1900. were leading expo nents of the school which advocated the substitution of a lichter and han dier gun in place of the then cumber some. and comparatively slow-firing, 12-inch gun. As a consequence, every one of her battleships built during that date carries, in its main battery, a weapon which most of the leading powers of today consider to be not even sufficiently powerful for use in the intermediate battery of battleships or the main, battery of cruisers. The ‘Kaiser Friedrich III.’ class of five ships, and even the ’Wittelsbach’ cla-'s of five ships launched as late as 1901, mount nothing heavier than the Krupp 9.4-jnch gun. Even tho ten latest ships of the ’Braunschweig’ and ‘Heutschland’ classes carry only a 40- caliber 11-inch piece, and there is not a battleship afloat in the whole Ger man navy today that mounts a 12- inch gun. “In the ‘Fighting Ships’ comparison the warships arc rated under fourteen classes, with the ‘Hreadnought’ as the unit: and it must be borne in mind that her high efficiency is due not alone to her ten well-proportioned 12- inch guns, but alsp very largely to her abnormally hich speed. In the first class the British have the ‘Hread nought’ completed and two new ‘Hreadnoughts’ proposed. The United States has the ‘South Carolina’ and ‘Michigan’ and the new proposed 20,- 000-ton ship. France has nothing pro posed of equal efficiency to the ‘Dreadnought.’ Japan has two new vessels proposed, and Germany none, of the same power as the unit ship. ; “In the second class the British have two ships of the ‘Lord Nelson’ type carrying four 12-inch and ten 9.2-inch guns, and two so-called armored cruis ers which will probably be an im proved ‘Inflexible’ type carrying eight or more 12-inch guns. The United States has nothing in this class. The French have six of the ‘Danton’ type j carrying four 12’s and twelve 9.4's. | The Japanese have two ‘Akis’ mount- | ing four 12’s and several 10’s: the Ger- : mans two of the ‘Ersatz Sachsen’ tyne mounting fourteen ll-)nch guns. In the third class the British have eight of the ‘King Edward’ type carrying four 12's and four 9.2’s, and three of the ‘Inflexible’ type mounting eight 12's. In this class we have a very strong representation consisting of six Chronic Constipation Cured. One who. uffors from chronic con- stipation is In danger of many serious ailments. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrun cures chronic constipation, as it aids digestion and stimulates the liver and bowels, restoring the natural action of these organs. Commence taking it to- dav and you will fee! better at on-e. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nauseat or gripe and ,is very pleasant to take. Refuse substitutes. H. J. Lamar, near Exchange Bank. The Ominous Strength of China. By Mohammad Barr.katullab. In the Jnn- uary-March Forum. The Chinese have the best fond ir. :he world, rice; the best drink, tea: and the best elolhing. cotton, silk and fur; an i possessing these staples and their inn- - ‘nterable native adjuncts, they do not need to buy a cent’s worth 1st where, while their empire is in itsoif so great and they themselves so numerous thot sales to each other make an enor mous and sufficient trade, and export to foreign countries is unnecessary. Lot those who still preach the gosnel i’; fores hear what John Chinamen says, and which, in the opinion of this writer is soon to he realized: “Yes, it Is we who do not accept it that practise of the Gospel of Peace: it is you who accept it that trample it under fo.v and—iror.y of ironic < it is the nations of Christendom who have com 1 to us io teach us by sword and fire that the Right in this world Is powerless unit ss it is supported by Might. Oil. do not dorbt that wc sliai! learn the lesson. And woe to Europe when wc have aequh 1 i- You are arming a nation of 400.000,000 t nation which, until , — -- . -- j" *■- -..w .. ...... >.. ..... until ,vo« came, r class with the battleships is justified better wish than to live at peac by the' fact that in the engagements themselves and nil t!u> world. name of Christ you h ~ - of the late war Togo did not he to put his armored cruisers in the front line of battle. Undertthis pieth- od of rating, the author of ‘Fighting Ships’ has placed those fine armored cruisers of our navy, the ‘Washington’ and ’Tennessee’ and their sisters, in the same class with the British battle ships ‘Duncan’ and ’Formidable.’ the Japanese battleship ‘Mikasa,’ and the German battleships cf the ‘Deutsch land’ class. In the same class also he places the British cruisers of tl-ie 'War rior' type. The compiler of these ta bles even prefers the ‘Washington.’ with its high velocity 10-inch armor piercing rifle, high speed and great coal endurance, to our own three 'Aln- bamas,’ which are placed in a class below it. The high position given to our navy in this table, which has been drawn by the man who. in all Great Britain, has probably given the great est amount of attention and thought to this particular phase of the sub ject, is an indorsement of that tradi tional policy of the United States navy, dating from its earliest days, which has insisted that our ships must carry the heaviest possible battery of long- range guns.” in the Confuc R'qht Name. Sherpe, the Mr. August overseer of the poor, at Fort Madison, la., says: "Dr. King's New Life Piiu are rightly named; they act more agr. eably, do more good and make nAo fee) better than any other laxative.” Guaranteed to cure biliousness and constipation. 25c at all drug stores. TALE OF TWO L’F.OTHERS. From the Among prises whi Hughes-H January Broadway, the iranr interesting sur- ch were brought out by the earst contest for Governor 'How to Cure Chilblains. “To enjoy freedom from chilblains.’’ writes John Kemp, East Otisfield. was the complete split in the well- known Straus family of Now York, Nathan Straus openly supportin'* HearsL while his brother, Oscar, now in R'n.seveit’s cabinet, naturally took the side of Hughes, the President’s candidate. 1 Both brothers are men of decidedly interesting personal traits, each being a type of s certain kind of American j of today. Nathan Straus, philanthro pist, humanitarian, and lover of ) fellow-men. is undoubtedly the one | more loved in retUM by the “under J dogs” of New York City: Oscar repre- the best type of the successful “I apply Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Have . 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Not only is it true Miat there | lias been in the years ending 1906. an in The Forty-Second Anniver sary oftlie Fall of Fort Fi>her | crease of but 21 per cent in mileage, but He was a twin son of Thomas Ba- an< 1 Savannah by means of the Con- j tn e most impressive fact is that railroad ber. a veteran of the war of the Revo- tral Railroad. Five years after his I building has, within a generation, fallen lution. and was born in Buckingham might, as a rule, do away with long-J county. Virginia. September 12. 179 MIND hours on duty, we do believe and kno that there are circumstances that arise in the handling of traffic by railroads that, while strictly speaking, are unavoidable, yet would not come under the exceptions provided for in the bill as it now reads. There are numerous things that might happen to a train that is only a few miles from its terminal, and perhaps on the main tine, that the time limit might expire hefore relief could he gotten to them. Then, again, the crew might be but a few miles from their home terminal and the time expire, while in a few minutes, perhaps, they could reach their home terminal. where they could get their rest at home, where. they should. We do not believe that you want to make a law that will compel a crew to Jay up five or fen or fifteen minutes front their home terminal just because the sixteen hours were up. (hen when their rest was up run them into their home terminal and double them right on: of it again. "Then a crew may have a hard run from fheir home terminal to their away-from-home terminal, which, un der the hill as proposed would com pel them to have eight or ten hours off duty, as the case might h». This crew might stand for a good run home after five or six hours’ rest, which would take them ro their home ter minal in five or six hours. The pro pped law would work an undue hard ship on the crew under such condi tions. This would also work a hard- 1 shin on the railroad comnanv. but a much greater hardship on the men. We therefore request you to do a!l in vour power to amend this bill in favor of the railroads of this coun try so that unavoidable and unfore- I seen accidents be excepted, and in I favor of the men that when an hour or two will get them to the;- home terminal he excepted, and. further, in favor cf the men that when a few i hours’ rest at their away-from-home i termina! will start them toward their } dan home terminal that the man be a!- • time what brought on your “spell of stom ach trouble” but just get a bottle of the Bitters at once. You will notice its beneficial results from the start and (hat. bef re .long your ailments have disappeared. liOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS is the medicine that has been doing such things.for over 53 years and is Just as effective today. It Cures Poor ^petite, Costlveness, Dyspepsia, Indi- ^ion, Colds, Yernaic Ills, cr Ma'aria. ! lowed to use their oVn Judgment as * sumption, from which he suffered the i The grandfather of Dr. Baber was j with Gen. Washington tut Braddock’s i defeat, and was killed. George Bur- | leigh Baber, a son of Dr. Baber, was ! one of the officers lost In the wreck ■ of the old and ill-fated Porpoise, a ship pronounced unsenworthy by the ship carpenter employed to fit her out i for the Behring strait expedition, in 1 1852. He was a midshipman, but was ; soon promoted to the rank of acting ! master, being the youngest officer of ! that grade ever commissioned. He was ! a brave’and gallant man, an only son. and the sole dependence of a widowed mother. The Porpoise went • down ir. the China Sea. as the result of the unsound physical condition of the ship, and according ro my recollection, no: ; a person on hoard was saved, and not even a niece (if timber floated away from the wreck as i memento of the terrible disaster. At the age of twen- ry years Hr. Ambrose Baber left his medical studies and volunteered Jn the war of 181? against England. He was promoted from the ranks to the pay master's department, in which posi tion he remained until the close of the conflict. He then resumed the srttdv of medicine, graduating at a college in Philadelphia. In 1817. Dr. Baber was never very robust. and wishing to hui’d up his health re moved from Virginia to Georgia, locat ing first in Dublin. Laurens Countv. where he remained but a few months and then removed to Hartford (now extinct), in Pulaski County. General Jackson arriv'd in Hartford in February. 1818. to take 'nmrnand n J the troops assembled under Goner J Glascock for the invasion of the Span ish territory in Florida. General Jack- son n:ej Dr. Baber and was so well pleased with his gentlemanly manners and his patriotic spirit, and learning of the high estimation in which ho was hold as a physician, he invited him to accept a position on hi= medical staff ns assistant surgeon which Hr Raher did. and he shared rh“ hardships ard s of the campaign and ar rha' ron'r' first letter was written on the subject ; of building a line from this city to the seaboard the charter for the railroad between Macen and Savannah was granted. As a Senator, he was instru mental in obtaining banking privileges for the Central. In 1829, in Savannah, Dr. Baber married Miss Mary Sweet, daughter of the Rev. George Dunbar Sweet, an Episcopal clergyman. 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At this moment, when that demand is greatest, and the whole country is clamoring for relief, it is the smallest in years. “The disparity between the growth of traffic and the additions to railroad mi leage and the extenson of terminals, shown by new mileage of less than 1% per cent per year since 1901. to take care of a traffic increase averaging 11 per cent a year for ten years past, pre sents and explains the real problem. The best judgment of many conservative rail road men in the country is that an imme diate addition of not less than 5 per-cei* per annum to the rat^-oad trackage of the country for, say five years, should be made to relieve the situation. Enormous Sum of Money Needed. “Suppose that 25 per cent adidtional track was necessary to terminals and equipment, making 33 per cent, were to be built during the next five years, or. say. in round numbers 75.000 miles of track as the requirement of the country to meet immediate needs. No practical ; man would furnish the facilities required, j including additional equipment and ter- | niinal facilities for less than $75,000 a mile. The new work would amount to $5,500,000,000 in round numbers, or a. yearly average, of $1,100,000,000. That is : the sum which should be spent before the j commerce of the country can be moved , properlv. The prohibitory expenses now attached to enlargement of terminals at many points, and the absolute lack of available space at anv price may be met. There must be more points for export, more interior markets. A 15-foot canal or channel from St. Louis tn New Orleans would go forth- I p r to relieve the Middle TUe s t and South- j w-eef than anv other work that could he undertaken. "Terminal facilities admit, of a, more general diffusion of business, permitting and forwarding ’ WILMINGTON, N. C.. Jan. 15.—^Three hundred veterans of the Blue and Gray from a dozen States, survivors of the combined sea and land attack upon Fort Fisher, at the mouth of tile Cape Fear river, guarding the last gateway of tile South during the Civil War, are here on the forty-second anniversary of the en gagement for the annual reunion, which will take place at the battle grounds to morrow. Among the distinguished survivors i attendance are Gen. X. M. Curtis, v.h led a land attack on Fort Fisher, an' Win. B. Lamb, of Norfolk, who defender the stronghold. The visitors are being ligiot entertained by the Confederate Survivors • TU-th Association. | Seventy odd of the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Infantry of the New York volnnteers arrived toni ca. N. Y. Tonight the program consisted of a re ception at the court house, at which ad dresses were made by Co!. A. M. Wad dell. Mayor of the city; Judge A. O. Wright, of Jacksonville, Fla., and others, with responses by Gen. Curtis. Capt. J; s. Parker, Lieut. E. H. Rislcy and others of the Union Army. in organized charity, and bearing a rather culm and official attitude toward the world around him. Nathan is a joint proprietor with his brother, Isadcr, of the gigantic busi ness known as “R. H. Mi C v & Co. ” is originator of the “recreation piers.” which alleviate the suffering if New York’s poor im,summer: distributor of coal in the u 'omer.t districts during ffcard times” in winter, and—best of ized milk to East Side starvelings at a price which the milk trust doesn't like. For this the Health Department gives him cred 1 1 for having saved many thousands of infant lives. 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