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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12. THE TWTCE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH CARS USED FOR STORAGE IN PLACE OF STORES it Sunday, ’’ He ai iging to. man l eish Archhl pendent ra, anno would bfi marriage would tx re ejected •e of impeding >p YHatte, head of the iride- tholle movement In Amerl- 'ed that a-priest hereafter ady to officiate at baptisms, jnd deaths and that mass elcbrattd dally. 'UANTA. Feb. 10.—In almost any r you pick up these days you will lumbermen, owners of mines, man- lurers. and in fact, every • other of shippers complaining that the >ads will not furnish them with a -lent number of cars to keep their ral enterprises going, and that in ^a7s n mon^H- ar Th°se n peo^°e U ^Ver to see where the trouble Is, and the roads are slow in furnishing but plunge right into the subject, roast the roads fore and aft for meeting the demands of the shlp- and meeting them as promptly as are made with any kind of equlp- The common carriers are expected o be. on top to answer all demands at panions. I a moment’s notice and if not the man- Young ! agement is rotten and should be irrested | changed at once, even If Government > r ;v of i ownership has to be resorted to. : I Well, it doea not cost much to abuse the roads, and as it seems popular, the newspapers very generally are glad to have stuff of that kind to publish as It makes them solid with the "down on the corporation element."' Now if tho people who are complain ing of not being supplied with enough ears to handle their business will come lanfa and investigate the cause of f will find at least one why the roads are short icri- impossible to handle it. IVe do not think the press should indulge in harsh Or unjust criticisms, unless they point out where improvements can be made. The road is being double tracked as fast as labor can do it. Cara are being put into service as fast as they can be turned out of the shops. “To reduce the possibility of acci dents like the unfortccate one at Lawyers, the Southern Is putting on a system of block house inspection. Mr. Finley is a man who keeps an eye on the minutest .details, and ho is work ing hard to secure and maintain a good condition on the system. It.'can not he done at once, and the public can rest assured that it Will be done as fast as men and -means can do it. IVe were fifteen hours late this morn ing: nothing but exceptionally heavy traffic caused it. The country is very prosperous: that is the main cause." 5^ f*, * r to Atlanta and in fi! I i - 1 the trouble, they fr E t ^ f good reason why I» 8 I 3 ■ J ; of cars. IIUIIL. Cars Use MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 10.— Advices received here, are to the efTect that it was President Bonilla, of Hon duras, who broke the treaty of Corlrt- to (which provides for the arbitration of questions in dispute between the Central American republics) and that as a result -of this tho tribunal which was sitting at San Salvador in art .en deavor to settle the differences be tween Nicaragua and Honduras was dissolved. PANAMA, Feb. 10.—Francisco J. Herbosa. Chilean minister to the Cen tral American republics, who is in this city on his way to Valparaiso, said to (he Associated Press today: "Before my departure from Costa 311 ca last Wednesday. I offered my eervioes to arbitrate the questions in dispute between Honduras and Nica ragua in case the San Salvador tribu nal could not reach an acceptable de cision, Both President Bonilla, of Hon duras, and President Zelaya, of Nica ragua, wired me such conciliatory mes sages that I left believing firmly* that war. between the two republics would not result.” • CHATTANOOGA. Feb. 10.—A mass theetlng of women was held at the First Baptist Church this afternoon Toy the purpose of protesting against the printing In the daily papers of the re volting details in the Thaw murder case and all other criminal court pro ceedings of like nature. The audito rium of the church was filled with women, .while only a few men were present. A sh’rt address was made by Mayor W. L. Frlersen. The protest. It was stated, was made "in the interest of the sanctity of our homes and the purity of our children and to protest against the minute and detailed account given in the daily pa pers of the sensational and scandalous proceedings of the criminal court." Mayor Frlersen in his address stated that the reports of the Thaw trial were disgusting and disgraceful In their detail. He said some of the news agencies had gone too far in their accounts. Tho : meeting today followed a preli minary meeting Friday when two prominent club women were appointed to draw up formal protest to be pre sented at today’s meeting. ed for Storage. Just come to Atlanta, and visit the I new freight .yards of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad on Hunter street almost directly in front of the State house, and there you will | find a dozen or more tracks covered I With hundreds of box and flat cars, that have been converted Into wore- I houses, and wholesale and retail stores. | These cars are loaded with coal, wood, lumber, apples, cabbages, turnips. • onions, and almost every other class of freight, and some of them are held by* the consignees and used as warehouses and. stores until .their contents are dis posed of. . • I Under the demurrage rules of th: commission, a consignee is allowed tae free use of a can* for two days, after he is . served with notice that the car has arrived. The two days are allow ed for unloading them. Then a demur rage charge of one dollar a day can be collected by the roads and at this rate the consignee can keep the car for a month if he wants to. All of this time the roads are out of‘the use of their equipment, and the shippers are heap-, ing all kinds of abuse Upon their heads, charging the management with incom petency and oft times criminal negli gence. Serve Customers from Cars. An investigation of the manner In which the consignees, who have freight turned over to them in the Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis freight yards, will show that the coal, wood and lumber dealers fill the or ders -of their customers, direct from the cars, and hold the cars until they have disposed of the entire shipment. They argue that it is cheaper to them to pay a dollar a day for demurrage than it would be to dray the .stuff to their vards, and then haul it a second time when it is sold, and believing this all of them have practically adopted this system of doing'business. The consignees, who receive ship ments of apples, potatoes, cabbages, turnips arid other such freights con duct their business in pretty much the same plan. The only exception is that they hang about their cars, ready to sell their stock In any desired quan tlty to consumers, peddlers, or mer chants. You can buy five cents worth of apples from them, or you can buy them in quantities of a peck, bushel or barrel, just any old yyiy, so • long as the apples go. and the money is paid over for them. Such stock as ap ples. cabbages, potatoes, turnips, etc., comes In.bulk, and.they are if so de sired by the purchaserssacked, crated or packed in barrels, arty quantity. During the day. if the weather is warm or spring-like, they can be seen seated in front of their warehouses on wheels, basking in the sun, waiting for customers, .and In winter when, it Is cold, some of them build fires in front of their cars so as to’keep com fortable while -vyaitlng for trade, Use Cars for Eecf Rooms. It Is even said* that some of these traders sleep in their cars at night, so as to. be there at an early hour in the, morning, and probably also a matter of economy. The.se cars are all of the places of business they have, and they are dirt cheap at a dollar a day., as compared with the rent of a store, where gas and electric light bills. Insurance and dozens of other item; of expense have to be met. And while this thing is going on in, Atlanta and other big cities all over the country the mill men, mine owners and large shippers are roast ing the railroads for not furnishing them cars. The roads would doubtless be glqd to furnish the cars if they could, as by keeping them moving with freight they can make much more’ than one dollar a day. the amount they are erifltiefl to as a charge for demurrage. There are, of course, other reasons I for thfp -scarcity Of ca-rs. given out by the. people who are closely connected • with transportation lines, or who are in close touch with almost every movement that they make. 1 H. C. Prlebe.. of Chicago, president I of a large equipment company In that I city, who was In Atlanta a short time ago. In discussing one of the principal causes of the shortage of rolling stock, said: . Freight Cars in Chicago. “In the Chicago yards alone." said he. "there are some 30,000 freight cars rendered unfit for service on account qtdiugeut nMiMASipr ulninutiil unuiiiflBbt fiuAlRuT leading linrs in that country he found HISTORY OF FRENCH 1 By BRIDGES SMITH. I am a bit puzzled this Mnorplng. Some lady, probably the mqther tof a hoy just arrived at the forks of. the road, writes me: the roadbed so bad that the rolling and tossing of the cars racked them to I pieces, and one day he and his com- I panions shifted from the PullniRii to ! the day coach and back again for fear j that the cars would turn over. ; Alongside the tracks were new rails I and new ties. but.the officers toid them j that labor was so sc tree that they had • found it impossible to lay the new ma- i terials. Some days ago a Moditer- ■ ranean fruit importer told me that his not one bit better than the boy of my , a Events in Turkey had written him day. After all, it is all in the boy, no , that there was a scarcity of labor and matter how many temptations for evil* j that wages were so much higher than EPISCOPATE ADDRESS -H-H+ FAKTP, Feb. in.- The Temps today prims what it declares in bn the true history of the address of the French Episcopate proposing model contracts. for churches. According to this ac count. which heirs internal evidence of being authentic, the TJltra-Montaines. who arc In the majority in the Episco pate. favored the maintenance of the status quo. but agreed to submit to no mutter how pie , . ... , - — - —■ , the Vatican the question of contracts . ... - iru :lnrt 1110 ; formerly in that country that it was which the Moderates proposed in the Do you think the boys, oftoday are } home influence is, no matter how poor j thls year difficult to secure sufficient j belief that it would not be acceptable labor, to pack figs. In South America } there. Mpnslgnor Pad- :•-. archbishop Bishop Touchet took the worse than the boys of your day, do you think they are better?" and humble or how miserable the ■ home Is. That parent who has a bad ; t f, e c ame conditions are existing, and j of Dijon, an | boy is unfortunate and deserves sym- j chill and other countries are making minutes to good An off-hand answer would be that ! pa thy. That parent who has the boys of today are better, because I boy is fortunate, indeed, there rises up plainly lu view the fact ! • • • that the world has advanced very Fop the parent who has a weak boy, much since I. was- a-thoy. that edude- : just arrived at the forks of the road, tionai advantages have multiplied' an ready to go to the right or to the left, hundredfold, and in fact every' other but leaning to the left. I would, were enlightening, civilizing, refining infiu- : It in my power, for that parent’s sake, ence has enlarged arid grown greater. : remove every possible temptation, and And yet when I look around me and ! wipe it from the face of the earth. see so many good citizens and so few i bad ones who were boys- with me. and memory brings up days and nights of devilment of the old times, and with it all so little crime. 1 am not so sure that the modern boy is better. WAYCROSS. Ga.. Feb. 10.—The city council last night passed an ordinance which will probably put a stop to the retailing of “juipe” in this city in the future. The ordinance is about as strong as could be mapped out by City Attorney Leon A. Wilson and gives the police force authority to enter any store suspected of selling thi3 so- called beverage and destroying same, should any of it be found on the place. Several alleged “juice” sellers who were closed up by order of Mayor Knightr last week were granted Ucetjse again this- morning upon the promise that they would not in future handle any of the stuff. great efforts to secure sufficient la borers from elsewhere to early on the wok of development under way. T-*e work of development under way. The workers In dqing the work 1 actually needed op the farm. In the factory arid j from the Episcopate, as he could not R-mo and Cardinal Merry Del Val. papal secretary -f stare, told them the Pope was willing to accept : he principle of the contracts if abso lute solidarity was shown, but that this decision must come ostensibly When you talk about. boys being good or bad, you general y consider the temptations that beset him. But, the real truth of the matter Is. when you come right down to business, it j The following letter to President W. is not so much temptation, not so ; w. Finley of the Southern Railway much home influence or training, that : has to do with the averag. boy turn- V'° mpanj from thc ed,tor of the Manu ’ ing out good or bad. Of course some , lecturers’ Record was called forth by boys are weaker than others. Some the former’s recent clear statement as can resist tempt mine and on railroad construction. Under these conditions it behooves the whole -country to recognize that this is not a time for.’ antagonism against railroads. It is not a time to denounce them and their officers. The time hqs passed for destructive criti cism. and now construction work should be the order of the day. -o.r else, just as sure as is the certainf/.* that tomorrow's.sun will rise, we shad see a breaking down of out- railroad interests and a general collapse of '■business iri the not very distant-fu- , ture. Then when a million or more I men are walking the streets vainly | looking for work, and when prosperity j has fled and poverty rules the iand, we i shall bemoan our fatal blunder: but ] it will be too late. Such a breakdown in business would cost us more bll- THOMA SVTLLE. Ga., Feb.. 10.— Judge Augustin H. Hansell died in this city* today at the age of eighty- nine years. His death was due to a fall he received several days ago. Judge Hansell was born in Milledge- ville, Ga., August 26, 1817. He was the oldest member of the order of Masons in Georgia. He was admitted to the bar in 1838 in Macon. Ga., was elected solicitor general of. the South ern circuit in 1S47. and judge of that .circuit in 1849, a position he served in with the exception of the period from 1853 to 1859, when he declined, appointment, until 1902, .when he de clined to serve. He was a veteran of the Creek war. The funeral of Judge Hansell .will take place here tomorrow, six of his grandsons acting as pallbearers. TOKIO. Feb. 10.—(Afternoon) The Ji rendered unfit for se in ., lending editorial anent the San I of accidents of more or less impor- Ji. in a leading editorial anent thc Sa ...... Francisco incident, expresses disbelief | tance. Ths repair facilities seem utter- in tho possibility of tho adoption of a i demand, new treaty mutually restricting -labor : Unfits are reported faster than they immigration as a solution of the public | cor* I** placed in condition. Repair school controversy. The JI Ji declares shops have more than they can do. that it la aware that a large number of j The Rock Island road Is compelled to Japanese are going to San Francisco ! send ears 500 miles for repairs. The from Hawaii and that this immigration ; Illinois Central scatters such work . i< causing jealousy on the part of the t throughout the country and even at white labor, but it contends that this » that time repair companies are receiv- is due to the imperfect provision of the ! in? a premium of 15 per cent over the existing law. which might be rented- ‘ actual cost of the work so urgent is led by an agreement on the part of ■ the demand.” both governments, but which should , Out of total number of nearly two constitute an entirely separate sub- j million freight cars in the United ject of discussion as not concerning the ; States. Mr. Priebe estimates. that an present San Franrisco dispute, *” ■ " VALUE OF EXPORTS FROM THE SOOTH Feb. 10.—In its issue Manufacturers' Record BALTIMORE, this week the says: "During the 12 months.of 1906 the value of exports from the 25 customs districts of the South amounted in value to $678.- 402.796 and at the 60 other ciistOms dis tricts of the country ’ to $1,119,147. The increase in the value of exports at all the districts in tiie country in X906 over 1905 was from $1,626,990,795 to $1.- 70S.247.943. or $171,257,146. equal to 10.5 per cent.; at the GO districts, not in cluding the South, from $1,033,219,293 to $1,119,845,147. or by SS6.625.854. equal to 8.4.per cent, and at the 25 Southern dis tricts from $593,771,502 to $678,402,796, or by $84,631,294. equal to 14.2 per cent. Comparison of individual Southern ports may be made from thc following table: Districts 1905 1906 Baltlmer Md $103,607,135 $107,979,104 Beaufort. S. C.. .. - S1.7S0 S7.300 Brunswick. Ga. .. 10.619,55S 11,172,304 Charleston. S. C. 1.080,862 1.171.407 G,443.427 8.223,295 34.213 34.937 17.748.271 18.700.389 unpUiion. arid some can- to the affairs of the railroads of the lions than are needed for railroad de- not. If you will study the subject a i country: | velopment to prevent such a collapse, little, you wil: perhaps eall to mind : BALTIMORE, Jan. IS. 1907.—W. 5V. i Unwise agitation against railroads, bad boys of your own acquaintance ' Finley. President Southern Railway J whether from ignorance or from per- who had the best of homes, and some Company. Washington, D. C.—Dear j verted demagogues seeking the favor good ones who had the most miserable ! Mr. Finley: I am giad that you have of the public, mav ruin the railroads, of homes. You can sometimes make a | so Nearly set forth in your letter to j but, like the temple of old, as they go good boy bad, but you have got a job ! public the true conditions of the 1 down business interests without this on your hands when you try to make j railroad situation, for we have come • pillar of support will crumble in the a bad b'oy good. • | upon a time when ah understanding wreck. - - ' - * * * - • | of the whole matter is essential to the j Let us look ahead and see the to’,- But there are people who helieve ' welfare of the country. Never before 1 ume of trade which transportation in- that a.-l boys, whether weak or strong, - have we faced stfch an acute condition t'terests must undertake to-care for. Our full of fun or serious, ore made h*/! i that which now confronts us. and i population is increasing at. the rate of simply because of temptation, and that ; every word 'of explanation. such-.*as j about 25 per cent every ten years, but the star temptation is the saloon. For you have made, which helps to clear lour railhead freight increased from SS.- the benefit of these, let us note the j trie atmosphere, is fraught with great i 50n.0nn.000 tons in 1895. to 187.300.000 - difference between the saloon of today i importance. j ooo tons in 1905. a gain of 111 per cent, and the saloon of forty or fifty years] The present railroad situation is of , Our iron output increased 86 per cent, ago. The modern saloon is described j mere importance to the court try itself j and our coal production 57 per cent, as a gilded palace, and made so that ; than it is to even railroad owners and '“ it may attract our boys. Now, wheti I i managers. Business has far outgrown speak of boys, remember that I speak f the transportation facilities: of- tlie of young men because to parents I country. Almost without warning the boys are always boys. j world suddenly leaped into business * * * [ activity greater than had ever been Leaving out the brilliant effects pro- I seen in human history. In seven duced by e.-ectric lights, then un- j years from 1900 to 1906. the' value of known, the old saloon—I don’t mean i farm property in the United States the ordinary bar—was fully as glit- ! rose from $20,400,000 to 828.000.000, a tering. fully as attractive, the furnish-1 sain of 57,600,000.000. This gain is ings and fixtures costing small for- * nearly ten times as great as the ag- tunes, and was equally as attractive i gregate capital of all the national' to the boy as the finest saloon of today. I hanks in the United States.- It is more This being true, so far as the saloon j than one-half as much as the total in is concerned, it is no greater tempta- | vestment in manufactures in the coun- tion today than it was forty or fi.'ty j tr -V- The value of our farm products years ago. I increased from $4,717,000,000 in 1899 ’ • * * ] « $5,917,000,000 in 1903, and in the There were other temptations, more ! Pest three years was as follows: of them, that surVdunded the bov of | •• *'• •• ..$6,139,000,000 my dajr. ' AmO’rig them' were gambling j 1906 ... 6,415,000.000 houses'as open arid : as easy of access j 1906 ...' .. ., 6.794.000.000 as -'riy store in Macon. There were } Look at the situation iri the South, keno rooms, numbers of them. In one J In , these: seven years the commercial place, publicly Intervene. Thereupon, the Temps says, the address was drawn up and submitted to the Pope who. with his own hand, supplemented the clause specifying that the contract must be accepted everywhere, with "or we do not wish it anywhere.” The document, the paper says, was then brought to Paris and issued in the name of the entire Episcopate, al though many of the bishops never saw it until it was published. , I remember, on Poplar street, value of the cotton crop, not including a gambling wheel of fortune was run j seed, has aggregated $3,686,000,000. in full view ’of -people as they passed by on the sidewalk. Boys frequented the keno rooms, and there never was. arid probably never will be, a more fascinating game of chance for boys than keno. now an obsolete game so far as I kriow. How many boys were ruined, or how many hearts were bro ken by this game,' I cannot say. I mention gambling 'as I do saloons. against $2,107,000,000 for the preceding seven years. Here is a gain of $1,579.- 000,000. Advance in diversified devel opment is illustrated in the fact that the South’s corn crop of 1906 was 729,- 000.000 bushels, -against '476,000.000 bushels in 1900, and the value of farm products in the South was $2,000,000, 000 in 1906. aginst 81.272,000,000. in 1900. ■ In the Same' time the assessed merely as being among the greater , value of property has grown $2,490,000, Fernandia, Fla Georgetown. S. C. Newport News,.. Norfolk and * Portsmouth. Va Richmond. Va.... St. Johns, Fla... Savannah. Ga.... Wilmington. N. C. Apalachicola- Fla Galveston. Tex... 150.112.542 Kev West. Fla... 717,485 Mobile. Ala 20.445,030 New Orleans. La. 144.352.004 Pearl HIv..'Miss 4.S91.983 Pensacola. Fla... St. Marks. Fla. .. Tampa. Fla. ■ .... Brazos de San tiago. Tex 318.889 Corpus Christi. .. 9.952.016 Paso del Norte..; T.795 768 Saluria. Tex. .... 4.357.618 8.080,381 5.400 329,265 62.546,068 19.631.276 242,126 16,305,730 1,822,503 2.257,242 11,678.005 21.600 495,370 59.295.705 17.454.289 206,150 196.843.998 994.928 22,377.888 167.988.257 7.512,953 19A39;351 1,613.150 i 2,785.786 180.121 14.950.199 11.231.458 5.764,352 which latter Japan stands on her treaty rights; The Ji Ji. judging by statements at tributed to both governments, draws ihe conclusion that if a satisfactory adjustment of the difficulty is reach"! tho credit will be solely due to the ad mirable- efforts put forth by president Roosevelt. NECK BROKEN BY BLOW average of one-fifth, or in round num bers. 400.006, are daily unfit for ser vice. "Taking 36 feet as the average length of a car." he -continued, “this would make over four solid trainloads of un fits reaching all the way from Atlanta to Washington. “The total amount of capital thus nr>r -rcr.tlv wasted must aggregate in the neighborhood of $240,000,000.“ Mr. Priebe Is of the opinion that the number of accidents is due in a large measure to the fact that the improve- raent in the draft rigging and draw- beads generally used has not kept pace with the increased size and weight of cars, the average capacity of which has been doubled several-times ta re* Total .$ 593.771.502 $ ,678.402.796 AI! Dist 1.626.990,793 1.798,247.943 “Of the 85 districts from which there were exports in ono or in. both of tho years, 26 exported less in 3906 than in 1905. Of these 26. five were Southern ports, viz: Savannah, - Ga.; Wilmington, N. C.t Apalachicola. Fla.: St. Marks. Fla.: and Itrasos de Santiago. Texas, their aggregate decrease being $5,811,447. hardly comparable with the decrease of $13,526,097 at Puget Sound alone. Gal veston led in the increases In values at Southern-ports, advancing from $150,112.=. 542 to $186,843,998. or $26,731,456. being second only to New York among ail the ports of the country not only as to this increase, but also as to the, value of ex ports In 1906. The Increase at New York, $62,747,137. was 73 per cent of the Ini crease at all districts outside the South, while the increase at Galveston was 42 per cent, of the aggregate increase at all Southern ports. In value of exports in 1906 New Orleans ranked third. Balti more fourth, phia sixth." temptations. • * * There were ohickeil fights, dog fights, and other like forbidden sports of daily occurrence, and there was no apparent attempt to keep the boy's away from them. To' a' boy, ' if you know boys as well 'as I do. .this must have been something of a temptation. And there were others. I do not care to mention, many of them several times greater than they are today. * *" * In these modern . days the list of temptations along the lines I have mentioned is a short one. On the other hand, there are so many places of innocent pleasure and amusement that the boy of /it,h,e,r days never had. There were no stich things as a Y. M. C. A. building with its baths, gymna siums, etc. There were no free libra ries.. The soda fount ' was a little goose-neck affair dispensing soda only to little children. The theater was closed nine months in the year. There Were no moving picture shows. There were no recration 'clubs. There were no street railways to carry the boys on outings. There were no baseball games to amount to anything, and tennis and golf were not then invent ed.. Really, there was precious little amusement for the boy. except a swim in the river under the old sugarberry trees near the Cemtery. 000.- compared with .$755,600,000 for the preceding ten years. . In the past sev en years the South’s coal production has risen from'49,000,000 tons to 83 ; - 000.000 tons. Turn to the country at large, and we see that pig iron production has grown from 13.789.000 tons in 1900 to about' 25.400.000 :.tons . .in 1906. TYe nearly doubled our Iron production in that time, while heretofore it has gen erally taken ten years to double our iron output. In 1900 our coal mines yielded 270,000,000 tons. Portland ce ment grew from 8.000.000 barrels— in 1900 to 40.000.000 barrels in 1906. Sev en years ago any thoughtful man could have foreseen something of this won derful growth, but it was hardly with in human power to realize in advance the magnitude of what we are now do ing. Under these conditions it is hardlv surprising that the railroads have not kept pace: in fact, this development would have been far greater but for the lack of transportation facilities, and thus broad activity in railroad building would have resulted in still more activity in industrial develop ment. It is indeed, true that we need to spend 85,000,900,000 in the next five years to enable our railroads to ex pand sufficiently, to meet the actual needs of the country. This was fully known long before President Hill late- ... . fishing In j Tracy Lake, or committing mischievous i ly emphasized it. He was but stating pranks after supper-. ' j what others had seen and. cleariy point- * » "• i ed out. There were no cigarettes in those ! What of the future, and how can this days. It wasn’t one boy in a hundred j money be provided, are questions to who smoked a cigar, and none smoked j which the American people.. from the pipes. And, thinking it ail over, these | highest to the lowest, must give tm- after-supper pranks were about the j mediate and -most profound considera- worst things the boys did. and there ! tion. It matters not what may-have was much more mischief than evil in been thfe shortcomings-of the railroads all-or them. The boys would take a j heretofore. Abuse now only makes gate off its hinges .in one part of. the j worsfe'the situation and .only makes it town arid carry It , to another. They } dtffiti&lt. if not impossible, for them • to. would stretch ropes across the side- • raise the money essential for proper walk and trip up pedestrians. They i development: for-wliq is going to make MEMPHIS. Fob. 10.—Ml*. More- Don >.•!■., wife of an officer c:' Mo •!..s fir,- dep.Lrtir.,*:i;, ; d\- a". • . %-sailant last Irish: -\ hi « i 1 broke her r.-.-ok w: '. .--turn from a chopping tour, accompanied ^•'.vera', children 'Ike at:,irk o, ur Mrs. Donovan's ;. ; - ■Op u lot •ithin iort time fter bi !. <-,l today,. Robbery been Die object. thought to ' ha- •Any weakness in the construction of '_ j a car is liable to effect the traffic of a ,1 i road In that a small accident will * sometimes block any number of trains. Sam Hardwick on Shortage. Our own San: Hardwick, general iv passenger agent of the Southern rail 'd way. who was here recently, in dis- t! j cussing the same subject, said: :: “We are doing everything within our • means to better these conditions."’ said e I Mr Har.jv. ■ k. “but the traffic our V#ystun is so Heavy that ii, almost WITH THROAT CUT MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Feb. 10.— The body of John A. Finley,, a well- known young man. of Montgomery, twenty-four years old and, unmarried, was found early today in a lonely spot in the southwestern edge of the city. His throat . was cut and there tvere forty-five gashes in the face and neck. Robbery is believed to have been the motive for the crime, as Finley’s pock ets had been emptied. Five negroes are being held by the police as sus pects. would poke rocks down the throats of the town pumps. They would ,cry out an occasional false alarm of fire. They would exchange horses left hitched in front of houses, and they would do lots of things of this kind, but they were in bed and asleep when the house was closed up for the night. large Investments in railroad develop ment when agitation against the. roads makes their future -uncertain? With continued denunciation and hostility in every direction, such as we have seen during the last, year or two, the rail roads will not be able to finance in or der to carry on the vast improvements and extensions needed, and everything that tends to make' this difficult ’inten sifies the present conditions. Whatever may lie the views of the people and the press about railroad management in the past, self-preservation now de- , Now. mind you, I do not say there were not bad boys in those days, be cause there .were, just as bad as they are now. There were hoys who were profane and who did awfully wicked things^ but as n general'thing, these 1 mands that both press and people hoys were a class to themselves. I j stand by the railroads and aid and on- have iri mind one gang, and if they J courage them in every way possible to had had the modern facilities, especial- f> n( l trie money needed for building 1)’ that of smoking cigarettes and • many thousands of miles of new track, Boston fifth and Philadel- reading dime novels, they would have I f° r double-tracking single lines and for been terrors indeed: but the average j ordering cars and locomotives so far boy shunned them, and many a time would run blocks to keep away from them. In cement the gain was 376 per cent, and In thc value of agricultural prod ucts there was a gain of from $4,717.- 000.000 in 1899 to $6,794:000.000. in 1906, or 44 per cent. By reason of man's in creased productive power through the utilization of labor saving machinery, business develops much more rapidly than population. In ten years-we will ,add about 21.000,000 to our present population or 85-000.000. a gain of 25 ner cent, but'the potentiality of the people as producers and consum ers will be so much ereatlr tlwt the 106.- 000.000 people of 1017 will doubtless equal in business potentiality wlmt 150.000.000 could do today. Our . freight traffic, which made a gain o? 1J1 per cent, would, if it continues at the same rate, be 349.- 000,000.000 tons in 1917. but allowing for the possibility of some dectines in' the rate of increase, we must as a minimum me- nnre to handle ten years hence 300.000.- 000 090 to 25n.000.000.000 tons In that period, considering the increasing per capita consumption, our iron production should grow from 25.400.000 tons in 1906 to over SO.OOO nno tons, and our co->l out put from 42J.000.000 tons to over 900;000.- 000 tons. So marvelous lias been tile ad vance in cement that it is not safe to at tempt a prediction as to that. A studv of this situation should awaken the neopie of the whole country to a real ization of the fact that the quickest' and broadest development possible' of tho transportation interests of the whole country, into which billions must' he poured, is the only means for the mainte nance of our present business nrnsperity. Self-preservation demands that tho peo ple of the country shall understand the perils which we face. For these reasons I am glad that-you have put the case so stronglv before the public, and trust that the railroads and the people may soon come to know each other better arid rec ognize that there is a mutiny of interest in the present and for the future, what ever may have been the conditions of the past, arid through this understanding make possible the raising.of the new cap ital essentia! not only to the railroads, but just as essential, if we are to enjoy eontlnued activity on the farm an,d in in dustrial fines, to the whole country. Wo are at a crucial period demanding the lay ing aside of all passion and hostility arid meeting on the common ground of self-in terest. -Unless ive do this I njn afraid that a few years hence Vp shall have, an abundance of time, on account of business depression, to lament our mistake. Very truly yours. RICHARD H. EDMONDS. Editor and General Manager. HOUSE LISTENS TO EULOGIES OF ITS DEAD WASHINGTON. Feb. 10.—The House today listened to eulogies on ihe life and character and public services qf thc late ' Representatives Rock-wood Hoar, of Massachusetts, and Rufus E. Lester, of Georgia, both of whom died during the past summer. The eulogies on Mr. Lester were participated .in .by Messrs'. Overstreet. Bartlett, Living ston. Adamson, Hardwick. .Lee, Bell and Brantley, of Georgia, and BUr=o(i. of Ohio; Burgess, of Texas: Davidson, of Wisconsin: Small and Thomasii of North Carolina: Hermann, ' Oregon: Gouiden, of New York; Sparkman, of Florida, and Lacey, of Iowa. Mrs. Lester, widow of the representative from the First Georgia district, was in- the members' gallery.' Mr. .Over- street presided. Upon the completion of the eulogies, the House adjourned until tomorrow. Alleged Offensive Terms Used to German Minister by Hayti. And there were boys who ran away from home, just as boys do now. I have always contended in that day and this, that whenever a boy gets to thinking he knows, moje' than his ahead as to make certain that new lo comotives and car works will be estab lished to meet this demand. The critics of the railroads say “improve the roadbeds, buy more cars and loco motives, and thus do away with the present congestion.” overlooking the fact that every locomotive and car building plant in the country.is sold daddy, and that he can make his own j far ahead, and that new locomotives way in the world, then that boy ought i and cars for early delivery could not to he allowed to run away that he may j be had at any price. Moreover, even if find out sooner or later.’as he always j capital could be had for building new will, that he doesn't know as ntu-h as * car and locomotive works immediate- 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. . he thought he did. Good, boys get the running away idea in : their heads sometimes, and make the trip. Nine times out of ten they come back, and it makes good men out of them. I know cases of this kind. * * * So. summing it all up. running over and comparing the list of temptations of that day and this. looking up toe good citizens who were boys of my day. and noting how few turned out bad men. viewing with pride and pleas- pure the present increased facilities for securing an education, and knowing the many places where a young man can find innocent pleasure and amuse ment, and-then judging of the young man. as I know him to^lay, .it Is my conclusion that'the-boy of today is ly. it is exceedingly difficult to buy the necessary equipment, since machine and tool builders are also sold far ahead. A wave of the hand will not produce new rolling stock. There is no j magic wand known to modern finance ) which can create new railroads and j new locomotive works. It should also j be borne in mind that the scarcity of i labor from which we arc suffering :n this country and the activity in busi ness which we are enjoying here are both world-wide. The iron and steel I interests of Europe are almost as busv and prosperous as those of America. In England and on the continent are seen some of the conditions which pre vail with us. A few weeks ago a Ba! imore banker made a trip to^M*iXico. PORT AU PRINCE, Hayti, Feb. 10.— The relations between the Govern ments of Hayti and Germany are strained owing to the refusal of Ger man bankers, Hermann & Co., by di rection of the courts at Port Au Prince, to return to the Haytian Government large sums of money alleged to have been obtained fraudulently. Among the alleged transactions of Hermann & Go., with the Haytian Government was one which is said to have proved fa vorable to the Government. This was concluded by the Haytian minister of finance, the German legation and Her mann & Co. The German minister de manded that this transaction, as well as others, be annulled but the Haytian Government, in terms that the Ger man minister deemed offensive, re fused to acquiesce. The German min ister at the same time demanded the withdrawal of the phrase objected to. This also was refused. Fears are en tertained here of grave complications ensuing. The Official Monitor recently pub lished notice of the expulsion cf Mr. Mnnsnur, an American citizen, but Mr. Furniss, the American minister, be lieving the call for the man’s expul sion unjustified, asked for the with drawal of the order. This, however, was refused, and Mansour has left for New York. The seal of the American legation has been placed on his shop. Two Centuries of Great Britain. New York Tribune. Little attention has been paid to the recent passing of a 200th anniversary of picturesque and romantic interest and of the greatest historic interest — to wit. the practical creation of the Kingdom of Grea Britain. The persona' and dynastic union of England and Scotland had been effected more that a century beforo, and It was not unit, some months later, on May 1. 1707, that the legislative union was formally- proclaimed ar.d put into effect. But the crux of the problem was solved and the fact of union was practically accomplished on January 16, 1707. when, after a prolonged and embittered struggle, both senatorial and popular, the act of legislative union was finally carried through the Ccottish Parl’.a fnent. The contort had lasted un broken since the beginning of October The Unionist cause had been chntn pioned by a group of the ablest parl'n- ment aria ns fn Scottish history Incluri-, ing Stair, Queer,sbury, Seaiield, Rot:- burg and Argyll, while apposed to the"’ were the “spellbinding" Belhaven. th studious Fletcher and the brilliant but erratic Hamilton (of “Esmond’’). Inc: dentally, there were mobs In the street: of Edinburgh, with some broken head* and many broken windows, and brick bats flung at the coach of Argyll. Stair killed himself with his superhuman ex ertions in debate, falling in the very moment when victor)- was assured, and a little later Defoe, tho unmatch.■ i chronicler of the campaign, wrote: I have now. I hope, the satisfaction of seeing the fruit of all this, mischief, the effect of ail the laboring, mobbing:, etc., viz., union." It was high time for the union to be made. Indeed, it was far past the litre when It should have been made, and it was too late-to .save the realm from at least one irreparable loss—a loss tho exasperating realization of which di 1 much to bring about tho locking of tho stable' door after the horse had been stolen. It was only a few years before, in 1694. that the genius of William Paterson conceived the scheme of mak ing the Isthmus of Darien a British colony, of constructing there an inter- oceanic canal, arid thus of securing for Britain “the keys o' the universe, thus enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans and to become thc ar biters of the civilized world." It was fn. 1698 that he actually planted a col ony on the isthmus, and it was in 1700 that the enterprise finally failed and was abandoned. The reason of its failure was nothing more n-or less than the absence of legislative union be tween England and. Scotland. - In such lack of union his venture was a purely Scottish one, and was not only not aided but actively opposed by Eng land. .with all possible political and commercial influence. That was why it came to grief. Had the union been effected a few years earlier, or had Paterson delayed his venture until a few years 1 later, his colony and canal might .easily have been as successful as was his Bank of England, for neariv two centuries past (here might have been an isthmian canal under the British flag, and the history and geog raphy of the world might have been , far different from what they are. But In 1707 "New Edinburgh" and “New .->t. Andrews” were dead beyond revival, and today only a few names on :he map of a neglected shore—Puerto Es- coces, Paterson’s Hill and Caledonian Bay—remain as memorials of one nf the most ambitious -schemes in the story of that land of schemes. It was this, together with other and lesser incidents to . the .same purport, which abore a!) convinced t'nr most thoughtful statesmen of Scotland of the necessity of either union or sepa ration. The mere link of the crown was not sufficient. It was either too little or loo much. The kingdoms must be united in legislation and ad ministration for the common good, or they must- be entirely separated, so that each might pursue its' owr. way. They finaly chose wisely, for complete union, and that union has now endured for two centuries, to the unquestioned profit of both. AVithin the last ?ew years we hav- seen a .precisely similar problem decided in the opposite man ner, in the case of Sweden and Nor way. ihrough entire separation, while yet another, that nf Austria and Hun gary. remains unsolved, incessantly exatious and ominously menacing. In the case of Great Britain and Ireland, both' solutions have been tried without complete success, and the final deter mination nf the problem is still In the lap- of; the gnds. But the reflective historian will find a fruitful field for investigation and speculation in the circumstances that while two centuries of union of Great Britain have been a time of practically unbroken peace and mutual profit, a concurrent century of union of Great Britain and Ireland has been chiefly an era of disturbance, dis satisfaction and disaster. MAYOR OF KINGSTON DEAD OF EARTH QUAKE INJURIES. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 10.— Charles Tail, mayor of this city, died this afternoon at the public hospital as a result of injuries sustained at the time of the earthquake. He was then conducting a meeting of the coun cil and the building collapsed. Mayor Tail was sixty-eight years of age, and of Scottish descent. EXPORT OF IRON AND STEEL r>30,000,000 OVER LAST YEAR. TVAiHI NGTON, Feb. 10.—The ex portation of iron and steel manufac tures reached their highest record dur- the past year, according to figures Death of-Mrs. Carrie Evans Davis. BOLING BROKE, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Carrie Evans Da%"is. wife of Mr. W. ^ B. Davis, died suddenly at her home, near here, today, at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. Davis has.been in declining health for ■ some months, but was well as usual—* today, and had performed her routine of household duties. While sitting in a chair conversing she expired of heart failure. Mrs. Davis was a highly esteemed Christian woman, and will be greatly missed. STRIKE IN MEXICO REPORTED TO BE SETTLED. EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 10.—The strike of machinists in the shops of the Mexi can Central railway at Nuevo Laredo. Mexico, which has been on for several compiled by the bureau of statistics | months, of the Department of Commerce and Labbr. The total of these products exported in the calendar year 1906 ag- __ _ gr^gated $172.500.000. an,■ increase .of in a two days’- journey on one of the f $30,096r!>00 over the preceding year. and the strike of cotton mil workers at Queretaro. have been settled, it was reported today. In the former case all the demands of the workmen were granted except lecog nition of thp union. In the latter, th* strikers surrendered unconditionally.