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TUE8DA> , ri EBRUARY 26, 1907.
THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
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I till MB OUTRIGHT REPUBLICANS PUB
SCORE ROCKEFELLER MOT WERE USED TO BREAK DEADLOCK
TLA NT A
ing at t
Ga.. Feb. 23.—At the
he Baptist ministers’ cen
ter . ommending John D.
or bis JOj.OuO gift to ed-
lntroduced for the ap-
l!o. kefelle
ucation w
y : ,V.U .,f the < nfcrence.
ln.:ric llatf-ly then- were a half dozen
ministers or. their feet, clamoring for
a chance to speak. Rockef Her was
termed a robber of the poor, a Teach
..n I \arlous other uncomplimentary
names were used, and in uadltlon the
minister who Introduced the letter was
also severely criticised.
WINDSOR. X. S.
men were killed an
jar 1. two of them
by an explo.-lon of
Meadow plaster qua
day. While
Feb. 23.—Two
d thirty were in-
probably fatally,
dynamite at the
-rles near here to- j
LIEUT LAWRASON'S TELLING TES
TIMONY ON THE BROWNSVILLE
‘•SHOOT UP." *
•SAX AXTONIO. Tex.. Feb. 23.—In the
Penrose court-martial. George W. Law-
rason testified today under cross-exami
nation that when he Inspected the guns
on the morning after the "shooting up”
of Brownsville, be found seven men with
guns that bad evidently been In use.
“At an order from Major Penrose, who
just then came up." said Lieut, fian
Bon. "I went ofT on another duty, leaving
those seven men and guns to Pennfeo
Capt. Lawson for further lnspec-
the workmen at the quar-
rles were eating their lunch in a
small house one of them stooped to
pick up a slick of dynamite. A spark
from his pipe fell on it. Igniting the
explosive. - T.'U- force Of the t-X 1 1 .J~I Jfl
was terrific. The laborer's house and
other buildings nearby were blown to
pieces, together with all the carts,
machinery and other apparatus.
cans Agree That Amend
ment is Strengthening
NEGRO MISSIONARIES
IN ANNUAL CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.—The negro
missionaries of the American Baptist
PROVIDENCE, R. I.. Feb. 24.—The |
deadlock In the State Legislature to elect
a United States Senator is to be broken ! ————
by the Republican Sts'.' i-i.tr. i! c- :.i- ,
mitt-, a. - rums to information gained Both Democrats and Republi-
here today, the plan • •••insr to unite the c
Colt and Wetmore forces and thus secure I
the election of a Republican candidate. I
For six weeks ballots to the number
of 20 have been taken without a Choice J
having been reached. Col. R. H. I. God- J
dnrd fDemocra. his led the list with
41 votes. Col. Colt (Republican) has 3S: |
Senator Wetmore (Republican) 31. and ex- t
Governor Utter ode. T.here has been no
break in this line-un during the six weeks
and ft s Senator Wetmore's time will ex
pire SCsrcb 4. and as there Is no prospect
of an ‘lection, the R-publican State cen
tral committee has planned to take up the
matter. Tho committee, it is understood,
will meet some time next week and will.
It Is expected, endorse
unite tha votes of the party. The Demo
cratic member ‘ * ~
HOUSE AMS m™*i
16 HOUR BIEL 1 “™ *
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Under a
rule reported from the committee on ;
rules, by Mr. Dalzell. of Pennsylvania, j
the HoaSe today amended its substitute ,
for the LaFollelte 16-hour railroad em
ployes bill by an affirmative vote of j
. candidate to . 279, there being no negative votes cast, j
h “ ! Both Republicans and Democrats I
BOSTON. Mass.. Feb. 24.—Inspector
Walker H. Smith was accidentally wound-
r er in the forehead tonight by a bullet
from a revolver carried bv one of the
j United States secret service men who
: came from Washington with President
Roosevelt. Two of the three secret serv
ice men were the guests of several. Bos
ton police inspectors at a dinner at” the
Quincy House tonight, after the dinner,
as the diners arose from the table, a re
volver slipped from the pocket of one
of the secret service men. The weapon
struck the lloor and was discharged. The
bullet made a grazing wound in Inspector
Smith's forehead. The wound is not se
rious.
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SOLDIER!; BE CLASH ORE DEAD ISO TWENTY
DR OPEN SAVANNAS INJURED BY EXPLOSION
SAN SALVADOR. Feb. 24— Public
opinion in Central America is in favor
of the friendly intervention of Presi- I " ""
dent Roosevelt and President Di.iz in East Forty - Second s ’ reet _tonight kill-
NEW YORK.
I explosion in tin
Feb. 24—A premature
lmont tunnel oft
tin...
The cross-examination, which was con
ducted bv Col. Glenn, was very minute.
C .art adjourned v.ith Lieut- Lawraaca
still on the stand
ROBT. H. HUMPHREY SHOT AND
KILLED JAMES B. DANIEL
AT MILLEN.
their annual conference in this
city, have decided to extend invita
tions to prominent white people of
the South to lecture to them in con
nection with their institute work.
Thebe Is a very large attendance of
missionaries and their sessions will
continue for ten days.
j LEGISLATORS KILLED
IN RAILWAY ACCIDENT
with his name at the
SALT LAKE Utah, Feb. 23.—Clin
ton B. Leigh, newspaper man of Salt
Lake City, and State Representative
MILLEN, Ga., Feb. 23—Robert II. ‘ Taft, of Wayne County, were killed
Humphrey shot and Instantly killed ‘ and Speaker Harry Josephs, of the
James B. Daniel, son of Ellas Daniel. . Utah House, was slightly hurt in a
this morning at 9 o'clock. They had i collision on the Copp'er Belt railway
been at outs for some time, anil this : a t the mining camp of Bingham this
morning they met In the road and each ■ afternoon. The victims of the wreck
began firing. Humphrey was the : W ere members of a legislative party
quicker and Daniel was shot in the visiting the Bingham mines. Mr.
face with a load of buckshQt. Hum- J Leigh was representing the Salt Lake
phrey telephoned the authorities here i Herald. He was of a prominent Ken-
nf what he had done and Immediately | tuckv family.
came to town and surrendered
Sheriff ICatonfield and its now in jail.
Both parties are of prominent fam
ine
FIRST TRAIN TO FITZGERALD
OVER THE O. & V. RAILROAD.
OCILLA. Ga. Feb. 23.—The Orllla
and Valdosta Railroad put its first pas
senger train Into Fitzgerald today and
quits a number of Oeil'.a citizens went
up to th" capital of B n Hill County
on tho Initial trip. There will be run
a double dully train over this line in
the future.
This gives Ocilla two lines of road
into Fitzgerald, which adds much to
the convenience to the travel and clti-
xens of the two cities.
The O. & V. road Is also grading Its
line southward toward Valdosta, and
tho work Is being pushed as fast as
labor can do so.
Captain L. W. Robert, of Atlanta, is
hero looking over the line as a pros
pect I ve contractor. Ho is an old con-
iractor. having built the old B & B.
Railroad from Brunswick to this place
-Jn 1902 and 1913.
The O. & V. Railroad Is projects to
run from Macon to Valdosta and about
forty milts of the line has been com
pleted.
CHARLES J. O’DELL SUCCEEDS
LATE BROTHER IN BUSINESS
SAVANNAH, Feb. 23.—It Is report
ed from Cincinnati that Charles J.
"**■ O’Dell, well known In Savannah, and
who was formerly recognized as one
of the leading "sports" of this city,
has succeeded his brother, the late
William J. O’Dell, ns president of the
O'Dell Brokerage Company. William
O'Dell left a fortune estimated at $5,-
000,000. nnd It Is believed that Charles
J. O'Dell will receive the bulk of the
fortune. Charles J. O'Dell has from
time to time gained noiariety
throughout Georgia because of trials
qn connection with gambling cases,
but for the last two or three years
he has not been engaged in any prac
tice that was without the pale of the
law.
RECRUITMENT OF FOUR BANDS
FOR COAST ARTILLERY
NO NEW CASES OF SMALLPOX
IN JEFFERSON CITY, MO.
JEFFF.RRON CITY. Mo., Fel». S3.—The
State Board of Hedlth “issued the follow
ing statement regarding the smallpox sit
uation:
“No new cases have developed In the
last 36 hours, and the situation is very
encouraging, and there is no panic or w
unusual excitement among the members , . N. . . .... d the n reoo lved itself
of the Legislature or the citizens. It Is J“ d,c, “>J® Je, ‘
that it would be satisfactory to the
President. The most important amend
ment adopted by the House is the elim
ination of the word “Knowingly” wher
ever it occurs, which has the effect of
relieving the railroads of responsibility
for- overwork unless it is permitted or
required with the knowledge of rail
road management that an employe has
worked overtime.
The House agreed to the conference
report on the legislative, executive and
only logical to believe that a few cases
more may develop, but this need occasion
no alarm. The camp was thoroughly
fumigated today."
NEGROES BEAT OUT BRAINS
OF COMRADE WITH CLUBS
into committee of whole for further
consideration of the sundry civil bill
holding a night session in the hope of
completing that measure.
By a vote of 112 to 33 an amendment
to the sundry civil bill was adopted,
which provided for the continuance of
the preparation of a geological map of
the United States under the direction
of the chief of the survey and made
WASHINGTON Feb 23—On the rec
ommendation of Gen. Murray, chief of
artillery. Secretary Taft has authorized
the recruitment of four new bands of
the coast artillery to be located at the
following posts: ,
Fort H. G. Wright. New London. Conn :
Fort Totten, near New York City: Fort
Dupont, Delaware nnd Fort Screven, near
Savannah. Ga. The six additional bands
for the field artillery authorized jiy the
law increasing the artillery corns, will not
he recruited by the department until it
has been settled where the new field
batteries will be stationed.
RALEIGH. N. C., Feb. 22.—A special
from Nicanor. N. C.. to the News and j
Observer says that at a logging camp
at that place yesterday, two negroes beat ! an appropriation of $100,000 to con-
o„t tbe brains of a comrade with clubs. | tinue tests of structural materials.
The two negroes were arrested, and in stone , c ] a ys. cement, etc. The House
shoMn*Vhe leg "TheVSS.cS wei^ttVcn | to niSht adopted an a.mendment to the
to Hartford today and after examination,
were committed to Jail without bail. The
motive for the crime is not clear.
tne existing trouble between Honduras ' cd one w
and Nicaragua, and the press of the ;
two countries is expressing the hope i - 1
that the two Presidents will ex u '
their powerful intlucnce to end the
war.
President Bonila of Honduras, ac
cording to a report, has taken up 3
strong position with his forces at
Choluteca. where he is awaiting the
attack of the Nicaraguans. Choluteca
is the nearest important Honduran
town to the Nicaraguan frontier. It is
seventy miles southwest of Tegucigal
pa and has a population of 5.000. The
country where the next engagement
probably will take place is devoted to
and consists of open sa-
cattle raisins
vannahs.
HOPES FOR PEACEFUL
SETTLEMENT DASHED.
Capacity of the Filipinos for Self- i,
Government.
From “La Independence.” ‘
Our enemies say that we cannot have i . , . , , ,
independence because the Philippine 1 cablegram fjorn American Minister
nation is not suffieientlv civilized or P°“ ba - dat ? d at Guatemala City yes-
WASHINGTOX. Feb. 24.—Notifica
tion of the existence of a state of war
in Central America has reached the
State Department in the sliar
WALKER NOT ARRFSTFD
AS REPORTED FRIDAY
SWALLOW BEAT CARRIER
PIGEON IN EXPERIMENT
ANTWERP. Feb. 23.—That swallows
make better messengers than carrier pig
eons has been proved. An Antwerp man
caught a swallow which was building a
nest under his roof and gave It to a cou
nt-- who was going to Compiegne. 145
mi’es distant, with a lot of carrier pigeons
When the pigeons were freed the swallow |
was. too. and it returned to its nest in i
67 minutes, nearly three hours ahead of
any pigeon. Its ilight was at the rate of
130 miles an hour.
sundry civil bill, providing that no bar
or canteen where intoxicating liquor I for each 5 000 inhabitants
nation is not sufficiently civilized or
educated. We venture to analyze the
nature of the culture or civilization of
a nation in this regard. Almost all will
agree that a nation is to bo reckoned
.cultured or civilized when it respects
order and when its citizens respect the
laws and respect each other. From
this point of-view the Philippines are
one of the most civilized countries on
earth. There are towns in the Philip
pines such as Cinagaran in Western
Negros where a chief and four police
men suffice for 15,000 inhabitants. Or
der is maintained. All work honestly
for their living according to their
means, some cultivate tho cocoanut
trees, others are fishermen, others till
the fields, nnd there is one policeman
terday, is follows:
“The Minister of Foreign Affairs for
Honduras telegraphed that Nicaragua
by its invasion of Honduras has ter
minated the pending negotiations for a
peaceful settlement.”
EDISON ON THE FUTURE.
rkman and injured twenty
others, two of them seriously. The
ccident occurred in a lock 175 feet
below the surface of the Fast river,
where thirty men were employed.
While the gang was working with
pi cits. John Johnson, aged 30 years,
accidentally struck a stick of dynamite
that had been placed in the wall of
tho earth. In the explosion that fol
lowed Johnson was instantly killed.
TOWNS BUILT ON CRATERS.
is sold, shall be maintained in national
soldiers’ homes.
The capital of Iloilo, with its large
area and more than 60.000 souls, has
only 65 policemen and most of them
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.—Four hun- I are in the city proper; the port, with
dred thourand dollars was added to the its many foreigners and large transient
appropriation for the geological sur- i population, one policeman for a thous-
vev. The sundry civil appropriation and people: and similar conditions pre
bill. the largest in the history of the j vail in most of the other cities. For
Government, carrying $105,000,000 ap
proximately, was passed.
the seven and a half million inhabit
! ants of the Philippines there is only I
OPELIKA, Ala., Feb. 23.—The man
arrested here last night, believed to be
William F. Walker, the absconding . , , , ,
treasurer of the Savings Bank of New j partof her varied ^dominions.
Britain, Conn., is another man giving j T
The Endless Harvest.
Mother nature enjoys no periods of
repose. The machinery of each in most
seasons is always at work in some
January sees harvest ended in most
the name of W. Harper. He was districts in Australia and New Zealand,
identified today by Chas. L. McGraw. ! while the people of Chile and other
a farmer living about ten miles from j countries of southern South America
WASHINGTON. Feb 24.—The Sen
ate Committee on Postoffice and
Post Roads, has reported to tho Sen
ate the postoffice appropriation bill.
The report on the measure will not be
completed until Monday, but it is es
timated that an increase of about $3,-
000.000 had been made over the
zmount appropriated by the House
bill, which was a little more than
The largest item of increase is in- ! sive number tho person who made the
one Supreme Court in Manila and its
docket is in direct ratio to the limited
number of ‘policemen, showing that no
more are needed because as a rule
there are so few disturbers of the
peace. ,
On thfe other hand, such civilized
countries as France make a different
showing. There are sixty policemen to
every 10.000 inhabitants* of Paris, or in
other words. 6,000 of its inhabitants
are policemen. In spite of this exces-
(From the New York Sun.)
Monday was the sixtieth birthday of
Thomas A. Edison. In the library of
his home in Llewellyn Park. N. .T„
whose windows look out upon the val
ley at the base of the Orange Moun
tain. Mr. Edison told something of his
plans for the future, while his small
son. Theodore, aged S, who thinks that
he has solved the problem of perpetual
motion, lay on the floor near by. In
the Edison library the predominant
note is that of metal. The statuettes I get
are metal, upon the walls are metallic
plaques, while the ornamental parts of
the fireplace are metal.
“All my life.” said Mr. Edison. “I
have been a commercial inventor. I
have never dabbled in anything that
was not useful.”
“Papa,” said Theodore, lifting his
are just beginning to reap the fruits
of their toil.
Upper Egypt and India begin and
continue harvest through the months
of February and March.
April enlarges the number with har
vest in Syria. Cyprus, coast of Egypt,
Mexico, Cuba. Persia and Asia Minor.
May is a busy time In central Asia
on. under tile presidency of Lady Paget. ! Persia, Algeria. Morocco, southern
who was Miss Stevens, of New York, are i Texas, Florida, China and Japan,
ortfanizintf nn art. historical anfl ^nt!- j j une calls forth the harvest in Cali-
toriM h ri S fornia, Oregon. Southern United States,
to collect relics and other material re- . r>^1
lating to Jamestown with a view to their , Spain, Portugal, Italj Hungary, Rou-
exhibltlon at the forthcoming exposi
tion.
this city, as Harper. He has been re- |
leased from custody.
COLLECTING ANTIQUE RELICS
FOR JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION j
LONDON. Fob. 23.—As a result of the I
efforts Of Charles W. Kohlsaat and Thos. 1
\V. Chllder. commissioners of the James- 1
town Exposition, seeeral American wom-
NORFOLK & WESTERN SIGNED
CONTRACT WITH BROTHERHOOD.
LAWFULNESS OF LANDING
ALLECE3 CONTRACT LABORERS
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.—The commit
tee on immigration and naturalization
today considered Secretary Strauss’ an
swer to the resolution of the House, in
troduced by Mr. Gardner, of Massachu
setts, asking for his oninion ns to the
lawfulness of the landing of alleged con
tract laborer*. Tho opinion was ex
pressed in common that the Secretary’s
answer had been transmitted in misap
prehension of the purport of Mho re-olu-
tlon. It merely deais with the question
a* to whether or not Commissioner Wat
son. of South Carolina, transgressed a
penal statute. "This is a very difficult
question," said Mr. Gardner, today, “from
the question whether or ne.t the alleged
contract laborers were lawfully landed."
The committee will reach a decision soon
«s to whether it will be necessary to pre
sent a now resoliifioi> to the House.
JOHN H. LEV/IS DIED
SUDDENLY ON TRAIN.
LYNCHBURG. Vn.. Feb. 23.—John
J. Lewis, senior member of Lewis &
^ewls prominent attorneys of Lynch
burg, well-known throughout the
3tate. died suddenly this afternoon on
i train en route home from Roanoke,
where he was taken suddenly ill last
sight. He was sixty-six years old
and a gallant Confederate soldier, and
Is survived by 3 wife, who was M!«s
Langhorne, a member- of the well-
known Virginia family of that name.
In addition to a son arid daughter here,
lie leaves a daughter who Is studying
in Germany.
ROANOKE, Va„ Feb. 23.—The Nor
folk arid Western Railway Company
today signed a contract with the
Brotherhood of Railway Corn: n for
that system which provides a .10 per Canada. Denmark and Russia.
mania, Turkey. Danubian states, south
ern France. Greece and Italy.
July sees harvest in England. Ne
braska, Switzerland. Iowa, Illinois. In
diana. Minnesota, upper Canada, north
ern France. Germany, Austria and Po
land. *»
August continues the gathering in
the British Isles, France. Germany.
Belgium. Holland, Manitoba,
volved in an item advancing the pay
of rural carriers to 5900. The present
pay of such carriers is $720 and the
House bill increased tjlis to $S40. The
House made an appropriation to in
crease the salaries of clerks and car
riers in postoffice of all grades, and to
this the Senate committee added pro
visions to carry into effect the plan
of First Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock for the graduated promotion
of clerks and carriers up to $1,200. Spe
cial grades are created above that
amount where emergencies and the
character of service make 5t neces
sary to provide advanced compensa
tion. Another amendment was adopted
providing $100,000 additional for clerks
in third class postoffices.
The controversy between newspa
pers and magazines which carry ad-
attempt on the life of Alfonso XIII. and I
the President of the French Republic
came near making his escape. Tho
attempt on the life of the King of
Spain at his wedding was almost suc
cessful. though there are forty police
men to every 10,000 inhabitants in ;
Madrid. Matters are scarcely better
in London. In Washington there are ‘
thirty-seven policemen to every 10,000
inhabitants In spite of all the pre- j
cautions President McKinlev was mur- l
dered and two other Presidents have
been killed in that civilized country, I
the United States. Here in the Philip- j
pines there are no such tragedies, and
yet we are considered as relatively un
civilized. Let it be aclfhowledged that
among the mass of the Filipinos there ^
are many who cannot read nor write.
We venturff to assert that if In an at>
vertisements was disposed of by the rnosphere of education men are reared
o finntinn of rhn cr nrnvi Qinn«3 • ... —. . . _
cent increase for the carmen. About
2,000 men are affected by the raise,
he conf rr-'noe between the brotherhood
and the railway officials has been on
here for the’ past week.
MRS. JOHN R. STETSON HAS
Sentember rules northern Scotland,
southern parts of Sweden and Norway
as well as the cold islands of the North
Sea.
October is the harvest month for
corn in America and for the hardy
adoption of the following provisions:
“That hereafter newspapers and pe
riodicals may carry .blank or printed
return coupons as part of advertise-
lower j ments or other blank space for writing
concerning the subjects treated not ir>
excess of one-third of the superficial
area occupied, by the advertisement or
article, without imparting their rights
to the second class rates of postage.
No discrimination shall hereafter be
made in the inclusion or the exclusion
MATCHED. CARNEGIE’S GIFT vegetables in northern Sweden, Nor- ! of any publication entered or offered
DELAND. Fla.. Feb. 23.—Mrs. John B.
Stetson, of Philadelphia has given to South Africa,
the Stetson University $40 000 to equal Australia.
the ’donation of Andrew Carnegie, and ,
work will begin at once on the library j
building.
way nnd Ireland.
In November harvest time begins in
Patagonia and South
L. & N. Engineers Get Increase
LOUISVILLE. Ky. Feb 23.—The
LGoIaville and Nashville Railroad to
day granted an increase in wages of when he stumbled and fell into it. head
Tv/enty-three Hours Head Down.
From the London Sketeh
. M. Thiercelin. of Milly. Seine-et-Oise.
recently met with an extraordinary mis-
hen. He was bending down over a deep
hole in which his ferret had taken refuire
! for entry as second class mail, but the
' rule of inclusion or exclusion shall be
uniform in regard to all publications
of the same class or character or re
lating to the same subject or matter,
and all of such publications shall be
either included or excluded.
10 per cent, to its engineers. The or
der is effective Marcli 1. An increase
of 30 per cenL for overtime was also
ordered.
Death of Mrs. S. F. Everett.
PELHAM. Ga.. Feb. 23—Mrs. S. F.
Ever it. a prominent lady. 84 years
>ld. died at noon today. She was the
downward, in such a way that it was im
possible for him to extricate himself So
he had to remain with his feet in the air
; for three and 20 hours, until a rescue par
ly of sappers .and firemen found him.
From the Washington Star.
Judge Delmas is a little more the
atric in that his demeanor, though
suave and self-contained, is well
guarded. When in the future occasion
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Philippine nation possesses these and
• many other of the virtues which fit
i people for independence.
like Civil Engineer Morrals who tried
to kill Alfonso at his wedding.’ or the
wou!d-be assassin of the President of
the French Republic, ortho wretch who
murdered’ President McKinley, we
would rather have our own people with
Its limited present education than one
which breeds such vermin. Wo give
the palm to a poor devil of a Filipino
who, half naked, climbs his cocoanut
tree to gather his fruit honestly, which
he sells to maintain his family, rather
than to a civil engineer who speaks
four languages, to blow up a boy king.
We would rather see our humble Fili
pino in his hut ready to invite any
passing stranger to share his hospitlity
and join him in his poor meal than the
rich owner of a .hotel who refuses to
receive the weary traveler simply be
cause he happens to be of another race,
not to mention the impossibility that
he would condescend to share a meal
with a dark-skinned Filipino any
where.
blond head from the floor, “I have
scheme for perpetual motion that I
think will work all right. You have a
pan of water and you arrange a syph
on so that it will carry the water down
and then back again, and then you
have perpetual motion.”
Mr Edison is hard of hearing, so he
had Theodore repeat the theory of his
scheme.
“Yes,” he said kindly, “if you could
arrange a syphon in that way you
would have perpetual, motion.”
Theodore subsided into silent
thought.
Mr. Edison went on to speak of fly
ing machines.
“I think,” he said, “that Some one
will solve that problem, and I have a
fairly definite idea of how it will be
done. No, I won’t say how.”
“Papa,” interjected Theodore, “has
an idea of a machine that will raise
itself from the ground. It will start
at an angle. His Idea is like this”
Mr. Edison silenced his son.
“That boy will tell all I know before
I get a chance to work it out." he said.
Then he added with a note of paternal
pride: “That boy’s education shall be
technical.”
“If I could convince myself.” re
sumed the inventor, “that the airship
would prove useful I might have a try
at it myself. "Whoever solves the prob
lem, however, must drop the idea of
the balloon The airship must raise
itself and it must be propelled by ma
chinery. There will be nothing of tho
aeroplane about it. I have no doubt
that in a number of years wo shall
have airships traveling, say, 40 feet
above the ground along the lines of
our roads, avoiding conflicts In tho air
in this wav.”
“Yes, I am sixty tomorrow.” contin
ued Mr. Edison. “No. I am only thir
ty. Looking at it from another stand
point I am about 103. I have worked
eighteen hours a day. Computing on
a basis of the average working num
ber of working hours in the average
life I am 103.-During my forty years
of experiment and observation I have
come across some things which were
intensely interesting from a scientific
point of view. These things, however.
I could not investigate, since I limited
myself to commercial possibilities.
From the London Express.
Some of the wonders of the volcanic
world were graphically described in a
lecture at the London Institution yes
terday by Mr. W. Herbert Garrison,
P. R. G. S„ who has climbed volcanoes
in all parts of the world.
“The greatest noise on record.” he
said, “was made by the eruption of
Krakatoa, in the Straits of Sunda, be
tween Java and Sumatra, in 1SS3.”
Here arc a few striking facts about
the eruption that Mr. Garrison men
tioned:
It caused a clould seventeen miles
high.
It was heard 3.000 miles away.
If it had taken place In Cornwall it
could have been heard in New York,
Constantinople. St. Petersburg, Cairo,
and Greenland.
The velocity of tho explosion was
three times that of an Armstrong gun.
It raised tidal waves 100 feet iiirh
that invaded the land for five miles.
It created dust finer than any rock
can be ground by man.
This dust was carried round tho
earth for three years in the air.
It caused air waves that encircled
the earth seven times.
It broke windows seven miles dis
tant.
The volcanoes of the world form a
“bolt of fire” round the earth, and tiro
rarely more than 300 miles from the
In the few exceptions to this
rule, the volcanoes are near large sheets
of inland water. This tends to prove
that the proximity of water is one of
the main factors in the cause of erup
tions, and that it is the percolation of
water through the earth's surface
that leads to volcanic activity.
Mr. Garrison explained what he
meant by the “belt of fire" by showing
a large mat' of the Pacific ocean, en
which the volcanic centers were mark
ed. forming a rough circle, beginning
in South America and following the
coast line to Alaska, then round by
Kamchatka. Japan, and the Sunda
Straits to New Zealand. In the Cen
ter of the circle lies the greatest cra
ter in the world, in the Hawaiian
Islands, which Is nine miles wide.
In this “belt of fire" are 300 active
volcanoes, which, said Mr. Garrison,
is a very small number compared
with the number once active, tire
quiescent or extinct volcanoes num
bering tens of thousands.
Among the towns built on old crat
ers Mr. Garrison mentioned Edinburgh
(Arthur’s Seat being the remains of a
volcanic ring), Keswick, Aden, Candy,
and Auckland.
Brentor, in Devonshire, was at one
time, probably within historic times, as
high as Etna, nnd Etna is calculated
to have thrown out 1.000 cubic miles
of material in historic times.
Among many remarkable photo- ,
graphs shown was one of a boiling
lake in an ice-bound crater, nearly
9.000 feet above sea lever, in Now Zea
land. Since the photograph was taken
the volcano has tossed the lake into
the air.
GLADSTONE IN HOUSE.
also renew for the year 1907.
THE NEW CHINESE ARMY.
learned District Attorney,'
armed
German nnd
Japanese skill. They are trained by
until by Japanese officers in strategy and tac-
m , y-i . • , «tt ij m i Ayioii tut Liiilii ut Japanese uuiLLib m mi<iv miu uc*
Keport ibstimates would iaKe sheer reiteration the phrase takes on a tics. They are equipped with signal
Three Years for Roads to
Equip
ay*gt*
IT A. Ga.. Feb. 23.—Amos Clark.
"il-rT >nu part owner of the
’lark Cotton Mill, was shot and robbed
f $350 this morning. Clark was con-
eving a large sum front the bnnk to the
till on account of payday. When near
he mill he wns accosted by a strait”e r
ho walked beside him for a short dis-
1’iee. then without warning disehsrged
1 Utol at Clark’s head. The nearness
f the wen non alone saved Clark’s life.
king below the left e.ar and
Ml Cln
in detention U
to the descrint
expected to 1*
cused tomnrrot
forward.
The robber
hoi and escaped. Most
an inside pocket,
e arrested and have
: Smith, tvho answers
vop by Clark, who is
to confront the ac-
23.—The will of Mrs.
thv aged woman who
kv.- rv ■; v'v.-h
a charge of murder,
•day. Under the will
at liberty
T ■- k. ■
rrlvlns
IEf HEAD A« RESULT
OF DRINKING WOOD ALCOHOL
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OVERALLS FACTORY
ORGANIZED AT POULAN
tl’hn.AN’. Ga , Fell. 23.—At a busi- :
noss n rn’.-s rt'oexincr at Pou!a:'. j
i*h:."it company was organ!?.: d
for tho pisipost* of manufacturing
a:»d «nvralls. jackets nnd
r n:.*\ The * ..rp. ration is ortr^nized 1
\' i‘ : •; l * : tal Ft k of $3i».P00 p , ■
which $i5,uC0 has been paid in.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.—The inter
state Commerce Commission has sent
to the Senate an exhaustive report con
cerning the investigations made of the
workings of the block system to prevent
mllrorni accidents. The commission rec
ommends the passage of a bi'.l which
wns submitted a year ago that would
compel all railroads to adopt the system,
hut now suggests that the time for com
pliance with compulsory features be ex
tended three or four years from the pres
ent. The report estimates that it would
take from one to three years for all the
to equip w’ith the block system, the dif
ference in time depending upon the time
required to train operators and for the
railroads to supply the apparatus needed.
Whether a law is nassed at tho present
session or the commission asks that
:: • -I rj.lv :•> i\ official in-
i vestiiration of al train accidents.
Reference Jo made to the commission’s
invest!»ntionr of the recent wrecks on
the Southern and the Baltimore and Ohio
' Railroads, both of which have the block
systems. Although these Investig.r. oos
j afe not complete the connhSsskm says the
; wrecks cannot be charged to failure of the
; Mock system, but rather to the laxity
of the operation of the system.
COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE |
IMMIGRATION SUBJECT.!
WASHINGTON, Fob. 23. — Vice- I
President Fairbanks tonight appointed |
St natois Dillingham. Lodge and Mc-
Laurin as the Senate members of the
commission created by the immigra
tion bill to make an exhaustive in-
ruiry into the subject of immigration.
The Speaker of the House is to name
three n.emb. i s also. The commission
is tsnj'.ow•.:ed to navel abroad in or
der to gather the desired facts.
dint of satire. He permits himself
no affectations or mannerisms, and in
stead of asserting his opinions seems
to suggest them with almost youthful
modesty, throwing himself on the mer
cy of the perspicacity to which he ad
dresses himself. He is not a young
balloons, wireless telegraphy, and a Red
Cress Society.
Their officers are graduates of ex-
cellent military schools, established in
various parts of the empire, in the
faculties of which are to be found a
large proportion of German and Jap-
“Now I shall take them up, or at
‘ff civilization means resnect for law. i least some of them, and work purely
for the sake of sccntifie knowledge:
that is. after .1 have finished with the
things I have under way. Tomorrow—
my birthday—I think I’ll work on the
phonograph. I have some improve
ments that I hope will result in a pho
nograph of such perfection that any in
strument can be reproduced exactly in
volume .and tone.”
Speaking of some of his experiments,
Mr. Edison said that he had spent some
time to trying to get a lamp on the i
principle of the glow worm, that should
give light without heat. This lead to !
Of Oo'irse She Was Cold.
I From the Musical Courier.
At .a late performance at the City Thea
ter of Hamburg, an extraordinary per
formance of “Tannhauser” was given. We
call it extraordinary because in it apnear-
ed four Tannhausers and only one Eliza
beth. There must be no misunderstand
ing of this rather startling statement. A
mortal town is Hamburg, and the onera a discussion of radium and the metals.
Shortly after Lord Hartington ac
cepted the thankless post of leader.
Gladstone began furtively to reappear
on the familiar scene. As the session
lengthened, the old passion awakened
in his breast. With increasing force
he felt himself drawn back into the
vortex of parliamentary life. That,
however, would never do. Had he not
publicly announced his retirement?
Was not his seat opposite tho brass-
bound box filled by another? But the
temptation Was Irresistible and he felt
himself yielding to it. That he did with
characteristic subtlety. When he
looked in on debate he assumed a cas
ual air unconsciously founded upon
remote study of Paul Pry, indicating
hope that he did not intrude. Also like
Paul Pry, he went the length of curry
ing an umbrella under his arm when
he emerged from behind the speaker’s
chair—an incident unparalleled in the
career of an ex-minister. Its meaning
was clear to tho seeing eye. When he
left home nothing was further from his
thoughts than resumption if au< nd-
ance on sittings of the House of Com
mons. Strolling down Parliament
street, meaning to take the air of ihe
silver Thames as it swept the embank
ment. his eye fell upon the lofty struc
ture of the Houses of Parliament.
"Hallo:’’ said Mr. Wemmlck taking-
a morning walk with Miss Sklfflns
his arm, "here’s a church. Let’s go in
and get married.”
Readers of “Great Expectations" will
man. nor an old one, in-the prime of anese instructors. Modern history has
DLtth of Mrs. Martha Normally.
iRIFFIN, Ga.. Feb.
’ her son. Dr. J. T.
ity,- at 11:30 o’clock
‘Firs: r-: h ; Jh
aves many relatives
her death.
Negro Burred to Death.
GRIFFIN, Ga., Feb. 24 —A 5-vear old
fired the hous*- while
life and vigor, with every nerve cell
and every muscle fibre under the con
trol of a disciplined mind and a splen
did will power. He has the strong per
sonality which one associates with the
forensic giants of bygone days.
Jerome is well worth portraiture. He
is a gray man. Gray of head—cold.
Iron-gray—gray In attire, and without
a warm, relieving tinge in speech or
manner. It i« not the coldness of ex
treme and altitudinous intellectuality,
but that of self-concentration. He con
veys the Impression of a rasping,
bloodless, utiring automaton, moved
steadily and solely by the energy of
persona! ambition. His face is lined,
its expression is nervous, but the
nerve- ar$ under control. His voice
has little modulation. Its tones of
stress are very loud—to soften them
requires effort. His face is that of a
worried being, one who has grasped for
much and attained much, yet who feels
that his clutch Is insecure. He is no
longer the dashing young crusader
against evil-doers in general: the ter
ror of the bedizened wantonness and
cheap gamblers. He is a fighter, but
one with his back to the wall, fully
aware that he is no longer an aggres
sor in affairs. The public is weary of
Gasconades.
This pitiful murder ease may give
him the chance to reinstate himself in
some degree as a plumed knight and a
champion.
Judge Fitzgerald at first impresses
unfavorably. His big gold watch chain
flashes incongruously from under the i
folds of his judicial black gown. There ;
is about him a certain suggestion of
"Big Bii!” Devery. but his manner of
speech, which whispers faintly of the
brogue, is clear-cut. direct and wed '
considered. He is the opposite of Je- I
tome, amply fed and a shade rosy of
,-ht-ek. with a genius for quick decis
ions and an utter absence of concern
about his own personality, which Is,
nevereheless, always dignified. He fol-
1 ws the ca-e closely, eyeing every
speaker with keen alertness. Common
sense and fair play seem to dominate
his purpose, to the exclusion of all
but one other example of a nation so
thoroughly, so rapidly, and so earnestly
renovating an antiquated and useless
military svstem as China. That ex
ample is Japan.
China’s army is en route to perfec
tion. Will it arrive? Has it wearied
by the way? Is the march ahead of
too great distance? These are the
questions now asked as the result of
the second annual maneuvers of the
Chinese imperial army, which tdok
place near Chang-te Fu.
was the genuine Wagner text, without
any exotic interpolations. The cause of
this phenomenon was simply the Hamburg
weather, with its favorite fogs and mists.
Birrenkoven. "the divine Eirrcnkoven.”
was the first to fall a victim to the epi
demic. The fog seized him by the vocal
cords, and his divine tones were enveloped
in hoarseness. Now. n hoarse singer in
the Wartburg is most intolerable, so Bir
renkoven vanished from the stage in the
first act But Hamburg is rich in tenors,
and the divine Pennnrin! was called upon
to play the part. Unfortunately he had
been singing two heavy roles, and did not
feel quite equal to the task, hut he had
to don the garments of Tannhauser. Blit
of what avail is courage? He had to quit
tile scone in the middle of the second act.
Then Herr Strata came to fill the gap.
He had been the Wnltlier. but passed tho
role to his understudy. But alas! the un
derstudy did not know the lines. Stratz
As was said by one of the experts: j had to act as prompter, and what with
“We do not know anything." said the remember how the great strategy of
ventor. “Probably in 500 years we Mr. Wemmiok’s life was an attnude of
unprepared ness for order - I ever. is. an
air of surprise at the development of a
deliberately arranged sequence. That,
of course, wns not Gladstone’s mental
habitude. But we can imagine him
on that particular occasion saving to
himself, "Hallo! There’s the House of
Commons. Let’s go in^ and see what
they are doing.” Entering he impr up
appearances by sitting at the remote
mv
shall have collected enough data to su
pect. We do not now even know that
the metals are elements that are stable.
With lead, silver has been found. It
may be that the lead ha.s been trans
formed into silver. I experimented
with radium for a time. I believe that
it is a disintegration from uranium. I
was carrying on a series of experiments
with radium, but because of tho danger
in them my wife made me stop.”
“I am very fond of the phonograph.’
went on Mr. Edison, “and I am going to
make it louder. My hearing is heeom
i end of the bench, the humble place of
’ 1 eX-under secretaries. In further evi-
> i dcnce of the casunlness of his Sail he
... , I put on his hat when ho sat down.
ing more difficult now. and I must hur- crossed gloved hands over the handle
ry with the phonograph, so that I shall I °f hi s umbrella, and looked round tne
not be deprived of hearing it." j House with that glow of p.eased nter-
“The maneuvers were good, but not
startling. They were more or less of
a disappointment. Last year those
who came to scoff remained to praise.
“Enough could not be said in appro
bation. The press went mad. The yel
low peril was imminent—at hand in
fact. All Europe was agitated. Ameri
ca wondered and the world at large
entertained new ideas of China and
her army.
“Thi? year there was no illusion.
Critics came to criticise, as they
thought, a modern army: then realized
how unfair they had been.
“They found that China had not pro
duced a modern army, as Western
countries understand the term: that
conditions, as found in China, were too
great a handicap: that her army, as a
homegeneous unit, does not exist:, that
it is quasi-imperial and subject to the
forces of the empire, nnd that therefore
the present-day standard of Western
nations cannot be apnlied.”
Other critics look upon China’s mili
tary future with enthusiasm They re-
gard the Chinese soldier with contemot
no longer. He has proved his capabil
ity. His discipline is excellent.
"Give me a few thousand of such
men." said one attache "and I should
not be afraid to.march from Peking to
Canton in the face of any onnositioD
that China at present can produce.”
When it is remembered -that these
same soldiers which are now calling
for the admiration of the militarv erit- j
ics of ten nations w^re onlv yesterday
the spearmen of China’s antediluvian
army, and as such the expression of
prompting and singing at the same time,
the ensemble parts were in terrible, con
fusion. So stratz got his walking panors.
Then came again the dauntless Penr.a-
rini; he had recovered from his hoarse
ness. and sang the third act. The critics
remarked that Elizabeth was cold during
the performance of the last act. Of course
she was; she is a modest girl, and had
plighted her love to the Tannhauser of
the first act. and natnra..v kent her faith.
The public enjoyed the performance very
much.
BOY MET DEATH
IN PECULIAR WAY.
ELMIRA. X. Y., Feb. 23.—While
coasting on the grounds of Congress
man J. Sloan Fassett, a boy named
James Buckley met death in a peculiar
manner. He attempted to pass under
pat seen on the faces of strangers in
the gallery making their first acquaint
ance with that historic scene.—-Henry
W. Lucy in Putnam's Monthly for Jan
uary.
How J osiah Forestalled Fate.
Joslah Quincy. Assistant Secretary
of State under Cleveland, was famed
an apple tree, the limbs of which hung for the energy he shewed in getting
MAN DROWNED FROM LAUNCH
IN FLORIDA WATERS
TAMPA. Fla.. Feb. 23.—E. D. Williams,
of Chicago, while en route from Tamna
to tho Little Manatee river,* on a cruise
foil overboard from the launch Pauline
this afternoon and. weakened by con
sumption, - was drowned before he could
be rescued. He leaves a wife and child
in Chicago. The body was not recov
ered.
close to the ground. One of the limbs
pierced the lad’s neck, passing clean
through. He lived but a few minutes.
LARGE BALLOON TOOK
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT
BAPTISTS WILL MAKE
UP TRUST FUND LOSS
HARTFORD. Conn.. Feb. 23.—Most
I of the $550,000 taken from the trust
funds of the Connecticut Baptist con
vention by the treasurer, W. F. Wal-
; ker, the defaulting official of the Sav-
: ing.« Bank, will be made up by friends
j in tho demonination. One item, a
• legacy of $35,000. left without condi-
, tions, will be used to restore the trust
: funds to their normal amounts.
What passes before him is pure- j her anarehronistic art.
!y objective: he does not realize that grasp th-' progress which China has
he is in the picture. * made toward military regeneration.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.—After a
flight of more than two hours and hav- I
ing reached an altiture of severs] Utons- |
and feet, the. big racing balloon “Ameri
ca.” under the auspices of the^Aerno Club. |
which made jts ascension in this city 1
today, successfully descended and landed
at Croom station. Prince George County.
Maryland, a distance of about 20* miles.
■ The ascension was made at 1:10 this even
ing. and'the balloon came down at 2:14 i
p. m. The pa-= -n?era consisted of Mr. 1
MrCoy. Allen Mawley, August Pos: of j
New York, a member of the Aerno Club. I
and Leo Stevens, the aeronaut returned I
to this city lata tonight and report ‘
having had a delightful trip. The bal
loon, which was uninjured, was packed
, up and returned to New York, and will I
. be entered In the races to be held In St. i
I Louis next spring. '
BOY STABBED TO DEATH
AS RESULT OF QUARREL.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. Feb. 23.—Follow-
ing a boyish quarrel between Arthur
Tornsden. and Walter Taylor, aged
fourteen and fifteen years respectively,
the former was stabbed to death late
f cday. Tayicr has been arrested.
NORTH CAROLINA HOUSE
AND SENATE DIVIDED.
RALEIGH. X. C.. Feb. 22.—The State
Senate today passed a 2>,4-cent pas
senger rate bill, a’so including the sec
ond class fare, which is made 2 cents.
The house had voted for a 2-cent rate.
. jobs for his constituents.
! One dav a laborer in the employ of
I the Department of the Interior was
drowned while bathing in the Potomac.
! A Congressman who happened to be
; near when the body was taken from
the water, hearing that the dead man
worked for the Government, rushed off
to the Department of the Interior to se
cure the job for one his followers.
When he reached the department,
however, the Secretary of the Interior
told him that the position had already
been filled.
"Filled:” cried the Congressman.
"Why the man hasn’t been dead half
an hour.”
-I know that,’ replied Smith: “but
Jo“iah Quincv heard the man was go
ing in bathing, so he put in an appli
cation for the job by telephone.”—Sat
urday Evening Post.
Livemool Cotton Statistics.
LIVERPOOL. F.-h 22.—Following are
th.- weekly cotton siaiistics: Bales.
Total aslos of all kinds si.rtOO
Total sales of American 410.hno
English stunners’ takings 9S.OOO
Total exports 21.000
Tmports of all kinds )! 1 000
Tmnnrts of American 120.000
Ptock of all kinds 9*0.000
Stock of American 897.000
Quantity afloat of al! kinds 4a4.OO0
Quantity afloat of American 38S.000
Total sales on speculation 1.100
Total sales to exporters 8.300