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TUE8DA> , ri EBRUARY 26, 1907. THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH 5 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. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa- misaionanea or tne American o»pu« | cratlc members of the'General Assembly I D,, “ per. It tells how yOU Stand OH Publication Society, representing all atm maalq flrm in the sunport- of tbslr:} agreed that the amendments made to the books Due from date O' 1 of the Southern States, who are bold- < candidate, tot Qoddard. and hare led the the bill strengthened it greatly, and j ... _ , . , % * -• • ' — the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. 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 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label' - on ycur pa per. It tells how you stand on the hooks. Due from date on Jove of order and inclination to work, the label. Send in dues and retard for charity and hospitality, the 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 : ' :'.~I \V V " ■ U : ,• 1: ]rr Vi- g w o. ..1 ; t.y - S U ■>•■. ! •••.mVw’Vw m‘v.‘ nv:e ke children 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