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TUESDAY. MARCH 5, 1907. the twice-a-week telegraph 3 irch of —In thla lfacturers' this commerce movements, as reported to the Department of Commerce and Lp- bor. through its Bureau of Statistics, show that live stock arrivals at seven Interior primary markets during Jan uary aggregated 3,542,455 head, against 3,886,358 in January, 1906, and 3 749,943 in January, 1905. Of the different ani mals, cattle constituted 775,716 head; calves. 53,743: hogs, 1,845 050; sheep, 812,242; and horses and mules, 53,704; while of the total movement Chicago received 1,675,249 head; Kansas City, £33,243; Omaha 459.351: St. Joseph. I 3S4.282; St. Paul. 134,693: Slop* City. 167.289, and SL .Louis. 118,346. Shipments of packing house products from Chicago during January totaled In contrast with i 890.000.000 for the nex: two or three t 267,534,955 In January. 1906. and 189,- years and a strong sentiment prevails I 267,597 in January. 1905. The differ- ; throughout thp Union in favor of an- ! ent articles wore shipped in the fol- nual appropriations of at least 350,- l lowing quantities: Dressed beef. 90.- | .100.000 for rivers and harbors. Even! 864 333 pounds: cured meats, 56,441.- balti motif. week'? Isk:;.- o: Record C ngre* dell, of Louis! u for irr.provenr.en country, says: "The ora of water improvement Is at hand. New York is spending $100,- 000,000 on an art!»< ial river, the Erie canal, 375 miles long from Lake Erie to the Hudson. Congress during the past ten year;: ha* parsed river and harbor bills • nl> ever} •: c v i.-s ns is the n -e wttb other great bills, and has giver, for improvement of all the nation* waterways an average of about 820,oaf) 000 ,i year, but the pend ing river and harbor bill carries nearly ! 229.174.788 pounds this amount would be inadequate, for the projects demanding improvement ore enormous, and as the expenditures of Government are nearly $1.000,000 000 A year, this sum would be only about 5 per cent of thp whole. When we re flect that the army and navy and pen sions receives considerably over $300,- 000.000 every year—about 40 per cent of the whole—and that the postoffico bill Just passed carries over $200,000.- 000—upwards of 20 per cent—It will be seen that 350.000.000. or 5 per cent, is n modest sum for all waterways of this, the greatest nation on earth. "The seaports of the South are being fairly well Improved. Baltimore and • Now Orleans have projects for harbors of 35 feet, and when completed they can receive at their wharves the largest ships afloat. The pending river and harbor bill carries 32.215.000 to finish the work at Baltimore, and $2.- 500.000 to complete the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi river. Galveston re ceives 31 000,000 to prosecute work on Its 30-fee6 project. There are good harbors at Norfolk, with 28 feet; Wil mington, with 20 feet; Charleston, with 26 feet; Savannnh, with 28 feet; Brunswick, with 21 feet: Jacksonville, with 24 feet; Fernandlna, with 24 feet; Tampa with 24 feet: Fensacoia, with 30 feet: Mobile, with 23 feet: Gulfport, with 19H feet: Port Arthur and Aransas Pass. At all these points the Government has spent large sums and a great deal more is needed to give them the highest efficiency. The larger the vassel. the greater Its ca pacity as a carrier and the cheaper its rates of freight. Tho size of ves sels seems to bo limited only by the depth and width of channels in the harbors they hnve to enter, hence it follows that every harbor should be aa deep as possible. Congress has au thorized a dept of 40 feet at New York, but It will be several year* before It is attained, and the other great harbors of the upper Atlantic are Boston, with 35 feet provided for. and Philadelphia, with 30 feet. "In the volume of commerce the Southern harbors compare very favor ably. Of course. New York is first, and Its entire Import and export busi ness in 1906 aggregatoed thp enormous total of $1,411,451,416: New Orleans came second, with $212,848 509; Boston third. with 3209.704.896; Galveston fourth, with 8191.S93 261: Philadelphia fifth, with $160,481,475. and Baltimore sixth, with $143 316,837. "One of the most interesting projects of river improvement in the South is tho Trinity river, Texas. The plan is to canalize It by locks and dams at a cost of 35.000,000 to $6,000,000 and give It six feet to Dallas, about 511 miles from the Gulf. When this Is finished the vast section around Dallas the flnest cotton region on earth, which now pays $3 per bale to ship its cotton to Galveston.-can ship at $1, thereby saving on cotton alone nearly as much every year ns the entire east of per manently canalizing the river. "Another unique project is the cnnal- izatloYi of the Black Warrior and Tom- bigbee rivers to obtain six-foot navi gation to the Alabama coal fields at a cost of $6,000,000. All of this monoy has been appropriated except half a million, and the work is approaching completion. This river penetrates as rich coal fields as there are on this continent, and they are nearer the sea board than any field having water .con nection. Coal can be delivered on barges at $1.25 per ton and conveyed alongside the largest ships in Mobile B'ay for 35 cents additional making a total of $1.60 per ton. This project will demonstrate as well, or perhaps better, than any in this country the wisdom of improving rivers; “Other cases might be montloned if space allowed, but these are fairly illustrative of all the others. Every State In the South has many miles of navigable waters which need the help ing hard of the Government to render them of real use and benefit.” 410; lard. 40,756,937: hides. 18,571.059; beef, 6.82G.60O; canned meats. 6,080 473: tallow, 3.002.457; pork. 2,998.200: stear- Ine 2,412,917, and dressed hogs. 1,220,- 400. Compared with thci shipments of January. 1906, losses occurred in all of the articles specified with the ex ception of beef,’hides, pork, tallow and stearlne. ATLANTA, Ga., March 2.—The cot ton growers of the South are urged to adopt the policy of diversified farming under an intensive system tor the crop year of 1307* On account of labor con ditions and high prices for all kinds of supplies the extensive culture of cotton at the expen;e of the 1 production of necessary fo;d supplies on the farm Is a policy which has long since; proved suicidal to the average, cotton grower. A genera! reduction this year of 1C per cent in the total cotton acreage planted last yeajr end ah increased acreage of 10 per cent In food supplies will to a very great extent solve many of the present perplexing problems which confront Southern cotton growers. Every effort should be exerted by each individual cotton grower this year to steer clear of the credit evstem and establish a cash basis of trading. The credit system is responsible for the • enormous receipts of spot cotton dur ing the fall and early winter, which al ways tends to depress prices. It will he difficult to systematize the warehouseing and financing of spot cotton so as to regulate the supply to meet the actual and legitimate de mands of consumption so long as the credit system honeycombs the South. ROYAL NICKNAMES. fact that Queen Maud, of Nor- ts called “Harry” in her own ly has gone the round of the press some writers , have gone so far as express surprise at royalty sanc- •.ing the use of nicknames, which e publicists seem to think undig- Is. It too much to expect royalty never to unbend and became human? The very limited choice of names that Slew Two Officers Who Went to His House to Quell Disturbance WTLLMINGTON, N. C., March 3— special to tho Star from Fayetteville. X. <?.. says ihat early tonight Policeman Owen Loekaniv was shot and kilted and Chief of Police Chason was fatally lded .and has since died, and another Rare Relics for Jamestown appear for use at the christening of a j officer was probably fatally wounded by baby prince or princess Is reaillv a : Tom Walker, a negro deperado. BOSTON, Mass.. March 3. 1907.—A collection of telephonic apparatus rep resenting the history of the telephone from the time of its invention by Alexander Graham Bell up to the pres ent day, has been shipped from this city to the Jamestown Exposition. It is undoubtedly the -most complete col lection of its kind ever made. How ever, it is not the completeness of tho assemblage that, makes it of popular very good reason why royal families The chief and iwo officers had gone to i ‘ illt ' ercst .'but the fact that it includes should have pet names among them- Wafter^ house ^ the ho«e wh“n | rnany instruments of inestimable his- 1 they were fired upon. Lockamy fell at | torical value. Indeed, some of the m- tho first shot and the others were struments- dating from the first periods wounded by succeeding shots. Several | of telephone development are priceless pi-tols in possession or tho negro were ; «- auv prir<; enirnled V.alkor was suspeetej of H e- j " of COUI V 0 the most interesting Sc'd aft?r the shootlr! “ . “ i features of the exhibit, which will rep- Go\erner- Glenn, fearing trouble if the ! resent the American Telephone and negrp should be captured by the posses j Telegraph Companv. are the old forms •mperor’s fam- t now in pursuit- h is placed the Fayette-!• of t he telephone illustrating the work dcrick for the | vnic Light In'antry under command of [ done by tbe invent0 r and his aasoci- unn and Mar- T.-.ek hounds are on the , n»n» more than thirtv venrs selves. Almost without exception Engl'sh princesses ere named either Victoria, Alexandra, Louise, Mary or Maud. Among princes Albert has been most popular, while Alfred, Edward. George and -Frederick practically exhause the list. j Among the German emperor's fam- I ilv. Wilhelmn and Fro* sens. Victoria. Alcxandr garet for the daughter-, are as usual as Olga, Alexandra. Nicholas, Mich ael and Alexander In the imperial family of Russ’a. The adoption of nicknames In our way from Wilmington on a special train, j Chief Chason died tonight. ates a little more than thirty years ago. The most valuable exhibit of all is a bulkv and homely instrument la- Tom Walker Captured. | belled '.Parts of Bell's Original Tele- WILMINCTTON. X. C., March 3—A I phone of 1S75.” The parts referred to Eastbound trunk line movements of ] ^ |t does t0( j a y. There is but little was always anxious that the yonug days of her children should be as happy and unsophisticated as those of ar.v among her subjects. Since his accesion the nursery name of "Turn-Turn” has been allowed to lapse, but to this day King Edward is known to his royal consort and' his nearer relatives as “Bertie,’ while many yonug cousins and distant con nections speak of him as “Uncle,” this following a habit that is prevalent in almost all families, who speak of their parent’s intimate friends as “Uncle So-and-So.” 857 in January, 1905. Of the different j fewer acres cultivate and fertilize bet- t Frederlck'^ff Pruada'^carne 0 wimi^'our b?,«h a Jis TUrn 1 nnR d '".’Vr 1 i ter and use the latest and most ap ' ! 15-vear-oid princess royal the queen . o?V 5 Hk' I Implements and labor j at ' once educed his long name to the ------ .. , - lor.g distance telephone message’from ! were the essential features of the first own royal family was only a part or . Esjvetteville, at midnight, says Tom ; electric telephone that .ever transmit- the simple, humanizing methods of -^.iker ti, e negro who. shot and killed ! ted speech. They belonged to. the tele education and upbringing instuutea policeman Lockamv there tonight, has j,phone referred to in the-celebrated af- by Queen Victoria and the prince cor,- been car)ture d at Dunn, N. C. He will j fidavit made by Bell’s first associate, sort. The queen herself had never , be taken to Raleigh for safe keeping. ! Thomas A. Watson in the following known the true joys of family and s - — - -- - *• nursery life in its best sbnsre. and she Great excitement in Fayetteville. The ; language. “In January, 1875, Mr. Bell Governor has put a local military com- i told me of plans he had devised for pany at the command of the Sheriff and Mayor of the town. provisions from Chicago during Janu ary totaled 93,237 ions, falling below corresponding shipments in 1906 b> nearly 11,000. and those of 1905 by more than 6.000. Grain receipts at fourteen interior primary markets hape of relief from the iniquities of the credit system so long as cotton grow ers persist in keeping their corn cribs and smokehouses in the West, and using their local supply merchants as the medium through which the pur- during January j chase and distribution of the necessary amounted to 65,061 625 bushels, against staple commodities are made. 72._539.46I In January, 1306. and 54.170.- j Solve the labor problem by planting Cl WORKERS JL C, t 501: barley. 6,381.890. and rye, 91 ,.645. j saving devices. Solve the credit sys Compared with like receipts in Janu- , tern by producing the nece*sary food ary. 1906. losses occurred in the arri- {supplies at home. Solve the question vals of all the grain specified with the i a f marketing the crop for fair and more friendly “Fritz,” which name he always bore with is wife, and later with his people.,. In the charming nurseries at Os- exceptfon of corn, in which a gain of j profitable prices by retaining the own- j home where Queen Victoria’s olf- over 1% million bushels was recorded ; of the staple after it is made. | spring spent so many happy years, Eastbound trunk line movements of : a nd placing it on the market only when princess Helena—who afterward mar- grain from Chicago and Chicago June- ; prices are satisfactory. The planting, tion „?° n * B durla ff January amounted cultivation and harvesting of the crops to 10,890,000 bushels against 14.075.000 | ca n be done by individual action. Mar in January. 1906, and 11,380,000 in Jan- ! keting, however, must be done under nary, ^J.905. ^ Flour movements from i modern methods of compact organiza tion and system. While arranging for a broader expanse of diversified plant ing this spring do not forget the equal- ^ ly important matteer of cementing , „„ waukee. Duluth and Chicago from Au- i your local organizations and making or addressed as a prince. After some gust 1. 1906, to January 31, 1907. totaled the right kind of preparations for sys- i am.-inw thp nnrl run- tematizing the state of the crop next season. A crop Which cannot be sold profitably to the producer Is not worth the time and labor expended in its product’ n. Let every * man do his duty in 1907, and win the success to which his great avocation in the field of production entitles him. Verv truly, HARVIE JORDAN, President S.- C. A. WAYCROSS. Ga..'March 3.—The cat workers of this division of the A. C. L. were ordered out today. They went on strike for an increase of two and one- half cents an hour. They have been receiving $1.25 to $2.25 a day. They say that if their demand is not granted they will go to other roads. Forty men went out at this place. At Savannah, none, it is reported struck but the forces employed at Montgom- the same territory for like months were 641.772 barrels in 1907, 484,523 in 1906, and 475 342 in 1905. Wheat receipts at Minneapolis, Mii- A revolver was fired in the melee, but the bullet missed the mark. IN SOUTH LOUISIANA 101,042.214 bushels, of which Minneap olis recel\ od 44,351.959: Milwaukee. 5.740.0GB; Duluth, 33,159,182, and Chi cago, 17.791.004. Corresponding ar rivals at these markets in 1905-6 amounted to 118 339.272 bushels, and in 1904- 5 to 106.357,442 bushels. At the winter wheat markets of To ledo, St. Louis, Detroit and Kansas City, wheat receipts from July 1. 1996, to January 31. 1907. amounted to 50,- 550.414 bushels falling below like ar rivals In 1905-6 by nearly 5 millions, but exceeding those of 1904-5 by over 3 millions. Toledo’s quota was 3.843.150 bushels: St. Louis’s. 13.231.162: De- ■ roll's. 1,465,102, and Kansas City’s. 32.011,000. Grain receipts at Boston. New York, Philadelphia. Baltimore. New Orleans, and San Francisco during January to taled 19 948.434 bushels, against a cor responding movement of 38.072.942 in 1906. and 22.453.976 in 1905. Compared with the January, 1906, movement, all of the markets specified show losses, the decrease at New Orleans of nearly 6 million bushels being the largest, either from a relative or an actual standpoint. Cotton sight receipts during January reached a total n* 1.808 768 bales, being the lowest total for any one month of the current season with the exception of September, but exceeding like re ceipts In January, 1906 or 1905, by about 900.000 bales. For the crop year to January 31 like arrivals aggregated 9,830.750 bales -in 1906-7. 7.987 831 in 1905- 6, and 8,988,357 in 1904-5. The net overland movement for the first five months of the current season totaled 776.059 hales. exceeding that for like months in 1905-6 by more than 200 000 bales, and that of 1904-5 by nearly 150,- 000 bales. American spinners' takings for the same period were 2,901,305 bales during the present season, 2,715,- 922 during the preceding one. and 2.505.801 in 1.904-3. Of the current year's movement. Northern mills took 1.640.703 bales, and the mills in the South 1.260.602 bales. Anthracite coal shipments from Eastern producing regions during Jan uary amounted to 5.249.946 tons. In contrast with 5.49S.084 for January. 1906, and 4.40S.57S for January. 1905. The production at ConneHsville dur ing January. 1907. amounted to 1.157,- 361 tons, exceeding that of January. 1906. by approximately 20.000 tons, and that of January 1905’, by over 140.000 tons. Shipments of coke from this dis trict during the month required the MODERN COLOSSUS OF RHODES. (From the Philadelphia Ledger). “What manner of man is this who has attracted the attention of the world? Who is he who has drawn the lightning from the White House on his head? For whose story does the finan cial, railway and political world all stand agape?” He is about five feel- three inches in height, and not of strik ing appearance. His gestures are few and devoid of meaning, his voice re veals nothing by tones. There is no dignity, there is no “presence,” th.ere is no outward showing of inward qual ity. His eyes attract your notice at limes, for he has a trick of staring at you from beneath drawn brows in a disconcerting, because puzzling, fash ion. He is enigmatic. Not that he speaks in riddles, however. He is. on the contray. direct and sticks close to Bis subject, 'but it must be his own subject: he pays little attention to the , one you may Introduce. He is per sistency Itself. So agree all who know him well. Now, as to the bright side of this war of the financial giants, who is with Harriman? W. K. Vanderbilt has been the friend of Harriman for some years. H. H. Rogers, of Standard Oil, is among his warmset supporters. Hen r ry C. Friclc, who has Immense holdings in Pennsylvania and Reading stocks, and is the dominant factor in the Penn sylvania Railroad and its policy is Har- riman’s friend and-admirer. William Rockefeler,' Standard Oil, brother of John D., who is not mixed up in the row, is staunch for Harriman. James McCrea, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, is with Frick and the Vanderbilts. BY a coincidence, Pennsylvania does its big banking bus iness through Kuhn. Loeb & Co. So does Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, the head of that firm, is subpoenaed to fol low .Harriman on the stand this week. Mr. Schiff. it is needless to say. knows a lot. Then there is James Stillman, president of the City National Bank of New York, another staunch Harri- ried Prince Christian, of Schleswig- Holstein—was known by the pretty dimunitive of “Lenchen,” while Prince Alfred, who died duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, was called “Affie.” When the sailor prince joined the navy he was still of a most shy and retiring dispositon. and begged that on no account should he be either treated or addressed as a prince. After some cogitation among the officers and con- siderab!" thought among the men. the hands u .io served in the gun room hit company. [ s used by John D. Rockefel- on the designation of Mi. Alfred, and I j er jn d 0 n n g ou t with his left hand a throughout the na\ j the name of Mr. peroen tage of what his right hand real- Alfred ’ stuck to the prince for a score | j zeg f rom 0 j]. railroad, gas, real estate making a telegraph instrument which should utter spoken words. June 2, 1875 he directed me to make an electric speaking telephone accord ing to instructions which he gave me. I made it that day. or the next, and we tried it. When he shouted at this in strument at one end of a telegraph line, I heard and recognized the sound at another instrument at the other. He told me on that second day of June that he considered he had solved the problem of the transmission of speech.” There is a telephone at the Smith sonian Institute in Washington which has been described as Bell's original production, but the facts are that it merely contains the parts missing from the instrument which is to form a leading feature of the Boll system's exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition. Hardly less interesting and valuable than this original instrument which solved the problem of the transmission of speech by electricity and opened a new era in soqial and commercial life ery, Ala., and Albany, Ga„ followed the directions of the union leaders and quit | are several instruments in this col lection which were shown at the Cen- work. . A fight between a foreman of the lo- ; tennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in cal shops and two of the strikers oo- i 1876.’ One of these is labelled_"Bell’s curred tonight. MR. ROCKEFELLER’S SYSTEM. Much the same system adopted by Carnegie,' excepting the novel trust of years. When Prince “Eddy”* and Prince George of Wales, went to sea as bits of boys and shared ail the joys and tribulations of midshipman’s quarters with half a dozen other youngsters, their nicknames were scarcely compli mentary. Prince Edward, who was always tall and slender, was at once called ‘'Her ring,” while the smaller Prince George answered to the name of "Sprat.” It says much for their sensible ideas of and other properties. As the Standard Oil king stands at the head of the 5,000 men in this country whose respective fortunes are computed to exceed $5,000,000 his benefactions and .sys tem of. giving away money have ex ceptional interest. His fortune is con servatively estimated to be in the neighborhood of $320,0000,000, on which his income is approximately $5,000 a day, or $200 an hour. In order to successfully keep pace 1 with this immense volume of incoming life that ^ey wr °te home with great j wealth lt is nece8Sa ry for John D. ! Rockefeller to employ several men. names their shipmates had bestowed on them. j who, under the direction of Starr J. ' Murphy, formerly a practicing attorney on the assertion that in his family the late duke of Clarence was known as | "Eddy.” to the Rockefeller gifts. Everybody knows that the pet Rockefeller beneficiary is the Chicago But If many tender references to : but no one saVe John S! him by that name in Queen Alexandra s j Rockefe ]i er a nd Starr J. Murphy knows letters are-not sufficient!} conducing, h extent of tbe combined annual gifts lt may interest unbelievers to know ; ' L tho that one day, while the King’s family still lived at Marlborough house, the young prince went into one of his sis ter’s sitting-rooms and idly scratched his pet name “Eddy” on the window pane with a diamond ring. A few weeks later the present Em peror of Russia, who was then the Czarevitch, was visiting his English made by the oil king. When Charity Manager Murphy was asked to explain the nature of the gifts he said: “It would neither be politic nor wise to divulge the names of the beneficia ries other than such public institutions as have been assisted by Mr. Rocke feller. . As a matter of fact, a great Czarevitch, was visiting bis English | — - ■ of his charities are personal with cousins. He noticed one daj the Duke i bimse if—donations about which he consults no one and regarding which ‘ —***•**» ‘-'IUIU.U . yjx. .ten piuuin.w uawi ervices of 59.4S7 cars, 18.79S of which | man man. He Is regarded among finan NEW ORLEANS. La., March 3.— Southern Mississippi and Louisiana have for two days experienced the worst storm of the winter, the disturb ance manifesting itself in torrential was divided as follows: Coal. 99,614 rains, electrical displays and cyclonic tons: lumber. 41.94S tons: grain and winds. At least .one death was caused flaxseed. 35.278 tons: ore and minerals, bv the storm in Mississippi and thou- I 2S.784 tons: flour. 18.479 tons, and un- were destined to Pittsburg and the river, 33.39S to points west of Pitts burg, and 7.291 to points east of Con- nellsville. The cars required to handle the corresponding coke shipments in 1906 were 57.672, and in 1905. 49.352. During January total freight ship ments from all port on the Great Lakes, exclusive of exports to Canada, totaled 349 316 net tons, exceeding like movements in 1906 by over 20.000 tons, and those for 1905 by more than 100,- 000 tons. The commodity movement . sands of dollars’ damage has been done, j Philadelphia. Miss., reports a tornado I which damaged small buildings. At Meridian, Miss.; more Than five inches of rain fell, making South creek a river ] a half-mido wide, classified freight, 124.213 tons. clal men as "the coldest proposition in banking” in New York. Mr. Stillman took wings when rumors of the inves tigation got abroad. His health needed repairing,-and he has taken a house in Paris, where he will secure a much- needed rest. At least until the trouble blows over. There need be no surprise at the atti tude of the Pennsylvania Railroad in this gigantic war of the money bags. M». Cassatt never patronized J. P. Morgan & Co. to any extent. He had some dealings with Speyer & Co., but as they were a Gould firm in a way, Pennsylvania natu rally drifted to Mr. Schiff, who in time became identified with some of the largest financial institutions of this city. It was through Cassatt and Frick that the Penn- I sylvanla’s holdings In Baltimore and Ohio of Clarence’s name on the window, and with his ring cut beneath it his own pet name "Nicky.” For some years before his death—in fact from the time he entered the Tenth Hussars—the Duke of Clarence was nicknamed "Collars and Cuffs,” a little joke at the expense of the extremely high collars he affected, and one which he bore with.the good nature that was so characteristic of him.—Manchester Chronicle. no one except himself Is authorized or able to speak. "Besides, we are kept busy at pres ent attending to a rather large number of daily applicants, and if it were known just what attitude Mr. Rocke- , feller takes in such things we would be swamped—literally swamped.” Starr J. Murphy and his staff in 1904 i make tlle soun a to be transmitted, be- JANITOR OF GEORGIA UNIVERSITY ARRESTED ON REMARKABLE ' CHARGE. AUGUSTA. Ga.. March 2.—George Har ris. negro janitor of the Medicai School Centennial Iron B'nx Magnetic Receiv ing Telephone.” This instrument was made in March. 1S7G, about tbe time that Bell patented his invention It was first shown publicly at tbe Amer ican Academy of Arts and Sciences in New York, on May 10, 1876. But the circumstance that makes it of partic ular popular interest is that, it is the identical instrument'to which, on June 25, 1876. at the fair in Philadelphia, Dam Pedro, who was then Emperor of Brazil Sir William Thomson, who is now Lord Kelvin, and several other distinguished persons, listened. It was after witnessing the performances of this instrument, together with receiv ers made for the occasion, that Pro fessor Henry, one of the judges at the centennial, remarked that “The tele phone of Mr. Bell . . . was considered by the judges the greatest marvel hitherto achieved by the telegraph.” This instrument, by the way, was the first telephone having both armature and diaphragm of iron. The telephone made the year before, and which is also part of this exhibit as previously stated, had a skin diaphragm. It was the second telephone, the one .dated March, 1876. to Which Sir Wil liam Thomson referred when, speak ing of his experiences at the centen nial, he said that the Bell telephone was practically a perfect Instrument. That he spoke wisely and not too well is proved by the fact that from that time to the present the telephone in strument has not been radically im proved upon. Those who from time to time have read about the “crude but practical” instrument exhibited by Pro fessor Bell at the centennial, will, dur ing the coming summer, at the historic town in Virginia, have an opportunity of seeing this wonderful device with their own eyes. Among the other precious relics of the telephone’s infancy Is what is known in the scientific world as Bell’s "Figure 5” apparatus. This is so call ed because it was thus described by the inventor in the original patent granted March 7, 1876. In the early, experimental days two Instruments like this were used in connection with each other, the two reeds, used to od by the Bell companies, and it has been ip vogue ever since. Such a transmitter was used on the occasion when the record is long distance tele phoning was made over the Bell lines between this city and Little Rock, Arkansas, a distance of L950 miles. This transmitter, which is also known as the "solid back” transmitter, forms one of the comparatively new features of the exhibit sent to .1 imestown. There are. by the way. special trans mitter'. such as tli se used in the daily conversation between Boston and Omaha, a distance of about 1,600 miles, engaged in on every business day by representatives of one of the big pack ing houses; but these special types are not regarded as illustrating the nor mal or genera! development of the art, and consequently are not Included in the exhibit. Since the opening of the long dis tance Bell lines extending from the At lantic seaboard to tho Mississippi, and thence to Western points, the aim has been to improve conditions within the practicable field, rather than to pnako records which, while showing increased mastery of matters'scientific, would not enhance the popular or everyday value of the telephone. In this connection may also be seen the development of the telephone along the byways of commerce. For in stance. in this exhibit of the Bell sys- ter will be seen the apparatus used in mines as well as that used on ship board, both between decks and in the military tbps. There will be on ex hibition the receiver that is clasped to the head of the .operator at the cen tral office, and the transmitter, curled up like a shepherd’s horn, which Is al ways before her mouth no matter to what point on the switchboard she may turn. Then there Is the apparatus which the always busy lineman car- r"es, and there arc the different forms of telephone* which serve the business man and the social leader the trans portation agent and the farmer. ’ Altogether there are some seventy- five pieces of apparatus dating f>- u 1875 to the twentieth ceniury. Fame o£ the instruments, representin'- spas modic individual efforts, are ra little or no practical value:, but the majority of them, and particularly those adopted and used by the Bell companies, have had much to do with the development of the telephone from a crude device, intended for use in a small way. to the instrument now serving millions of people and, so far as the Bell system is concerned, furnishing instant means of communication, for both social and business purnoses, from one place to thousands of other places within a radius of two thousand miles. moved into offices of the Standard Oil building in New York, facing B’owling Green, 'and as a strange antithesis this bureau is one of the busiest in a build ing full of Rockefeller money-makers. For the Standard Oil building is the hub of the Rockefeller universe, from which are directed the numerous vast of the University of Georgia, has been t ! Rnr-kefeller control arrested charged with stealing and selling j enterprises undei Kockeiener concroi. to physicians throughout the country over • John D. Rockefeller himself rarely 100 skeletons. The average price was $30 j visits his office nowadays, naving per skeleton, and it is said that Harris , turned over the details of his many in- could hardly supply the trade at that j terests to his son and associates in the price. The skeletons were taken from the dissecting room bone by bone until the frame was completed. Harris has been janitor of the college for years. : 1.084 of 1 113.902 net tons, of which 3S ! of 31.750 tons cleared light or without At MoConnell. Miss.. • cargo, and 1.046 of 1.0S2.152 tons car- any bridges were washed away and ried more or less freight Correspon- ln the vicinity of Laurel planting has j ding clearances in January. 1906. num- Yessel clearances from all ports on i were sold to Harriman. In return. Harri- tho Great Lakes during January totaled j man helped Pennsylvania on a deal in the been temporarily stopped. The rail roads suffered many washouts. TEXAS SENATOR SCHEDULED FOR A DEFENSIVE ADDRESS BE FORE THE SENATE. WASHINGTON. March 2.—Senator Bailey, of Texas, who has just passed through a harrowing investigation at the hands of ;he Texas Legislature, is expected in Washington before the clove of the session. His friends say he will speak on the floor In defense of himself ami In a scathing attack on his enemies. He is said to feel deep ly the efforts made to asperse his char acter. and to want an opportunity to Impress on the country in this public war that there was no justification for the charges made against him. It Is expected that his proposed ad dress will create a sensation. bered 1,034 of 1 078.663 tons, and January, 1905. Sll of 897,212 tons. in West. In lining up the gladitators in this great battle, they stand as follows: LET SOUTH SETTLE > THE RACE PROBLEM oil and-allied industries. He, however, is in almost daily communication with his charities bureau, which, as in the case with Andrew Carnegie, is one of the leading interests of his life today. Until he recruited Mr. Murphy the Standard Oil magnate 'empowered a former Baptist clergyman to investi- _ gate the numerous appeals for aid ; a”Vough-looking device with a wooden ing tqned to the same note. Thus the vibrations of one reed, however caus ed. would produce at once similar vi brations in the other. What makes this particular instrument highly in teresting, not only to the seicntlst, but also to the legion of telephone users, is the fact that ’ its operation showed conclusively for the first time that ex tremely feeble electric currents flow ing in the telegraph circuit could and would reproduce in the receiving in strument an exact duplication of the sound made by the transmitter. In the comparatively small area which will be occupied by this exhibit and in the short space of time which it will take to look it over may be traced the development of the tele phone. The visitor will see the first form of telephone used commercially. NEW YORK. March 2.—The third an nual banquet of the New York Alumni Association of Trinity College. N. C.. was held at the quarters of the Aldine Association tonlsht. Willis B. Dowd, president of the association, presided. Among the speakers were Dr. John C. , . - _ .... ,, Kilgo. president of Trinity: Dr. John D. Rockefeller to the effect that it was which were addressed to him. But the number of applicants became so nu merous eight years ago that, after a business transaction which impressed him with the ability, integrity and judgment of young Murphy, the attor ney was engaged at a handsome salary to take charge of the Rockefeller bu reau of benevolence. That this bureau is no sinecure is shown by a recent statement of John mouth piece. It will also be noticed how rapidly the telephone developed in other hands than Bell’s. The ex hibit will show’,, through the various pieces of apparatus, that the inven tor’s connection with the development of the telephone lasted only for a short time, for here on exhibition will be the Blake transmitter, made in-1878, and improved type after type until it gax-e way to the White transmitter now generally used by the Bell companies. There will also be on exhibition the Against Harriman J. P. Morgan. James J. Hill. George J. Gould. Thomas F. Ryan. .Tames Speyer. George F. Baker. Wm. H. Moore. Wm. B. Leeds. In financial circles when there is some thing especially rich for distribution the term of "cutting a melon" Is used. But Harriman has a melon that he will not cut: hence the opposition of his powerful antagonists. The extent of the Harri man holdings was recently divulged in a ering before the Interstate Commerce For Harriman. .Tames McCrea. Henry C. Frick. W. K. Vanderbilt. H. H. Rogers. Wm. Rockefeller. Jacob H. Schiff. •Tames Stillman. E. H. Harriman. AFTER COMMITTING MURDER MAN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE NEWCASTLE, Pa.. March 3.—Geo. CachrU-k shot Nicholas Majon through the heart here today and then turning tho weapon on himself fired a bullet threugh his abdomen. Cach- rick Is now at the hospital and prob ably will not survive. The shooting occurred in a South Cochran street hoarding house where both principals lived Thev quarreled ar.d fought yesterday, but were separated. This morning. Majon was descending the stairs for breakfast when Cachrick. who hAd probably been awaiting his appearance, drew' a revolver and be gan firing. PEACEFUL INDICATIONS. Wall Street Summary. Battleship building statistics are not joyful reading to enthusiasts who ad vocate universal disarmament. From plainly inferable nations believe in maintaining peace by increasing the strength of their re spective navies. In 1892 the world add- ! Commission. It was shown that the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Southern Pacific the Com panv were virf -a'b- under the same ad ministration. Mr. Harriman appearing as president of each comuany. What Is known as the Harriman group of railroads extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific oc*an in continuous service, something that Is not equaled be any other railroad rombimtlen in the United S’ates. Edwa-d Henry TTa-riman and hi* associates can start at Baltimore and go c'irect. without change over lines that they control to Sen Francisco or other points on the Pacifie coast. They can ride over their own jfors from the Great Lakes to tne Gulf of Mexico. ed S3 engines of destruction to its float in *A t°VS 1< £ f nS ’o nnJ T C^vMhe'o^ci'sh^^Li^a^ and the T nited State- 9. In 1.893 the ■ Oregon Railroad and Navigation C total dropped to 51. and in 1S94 to 57. In 1895. it rose to 82. of which England built 44. and 84 of a possible 92 in 1896. In 1897 her contribution was 33 I out of 90. and in 1S98. 2S out of 91. | In 1S99, she only claimed IS out of j 91 and In 1900. 20 of a total 99. In i 1903. 119 were built and England claim ed 38. and 33. the following year, oat of 102. In 1905 and 1906, she had 23 , to her credit each year out of respec tive totals of 118 and 14S. The record I of the United States is insignificant in ■ comparison and only attained double figure in 1900. 1901. 1902, 1993 and 190 i with respective totai6 of 13. 17. 27. 13 ar.d 14. with an aggregate tonnage of 317,087 tons against 611.S52 ton* for England for the same periad. In the fifteen-year period since 1892. England has launched 413 warships. United States 135. France 139. German}' 125. Italy 69. japan 107. Russia 10,7 and all others 293. From these figures it is manifest that England believes in HOKE SMITH WILL RRFAK ON TRANSPORTATION. CINCINNATI. March 3.—Gov. Hoke •itb of Ge.-gin. h •= a. erred the !r- Frank Crowell, former president of_Trln- easier to make a million dollars than to ity. and Walter H. Page, editor of World’s donate a similar amount with satisfac- | transmitter which Thomas A. Edison irii™ tw rh„ tor y results. He demands only one ; devised, and also the same Inventor’s In his address. Dr Ivilgo sahl that the . f a rur rhv. which is .. treramitter in which South is now coming into her own. thing of Manager Murphy, which is | m otophone, a transmitter in which "There is a'great unknown South." said that for every dollar expended in chari- ; contact is made through a moving ' " ‘ - ’ ’’ • * *- — cylinder of moist chalk. Besides, there the speaker, "and certainly this South is ! table and benevolent Investments there bringing things to pass not alone Indus- . must be a dollar-or-dollar return on trial and commercial life, but In the sen- ; the investment. If a sum given to any' til U££ t °o -/I „* i : cause does not satisfy him on this The South hns grown tired of its old . . to tho kind of leadership and there is a longing p0 at ’ t '.', ore , IS n0 u ’ e a PP'5j n 5 ^ ae for some one to come forward and voice Rockefeller bureau for further aid. its new sentiment. Never before was tnere felt throughout the South by worthy men in every line of work a deeper humil iation than that recently provoked by the rough and sectional uterances of Sen ator Tillman in the United States Senate. The day has now nassed when the build ers of the new Sooth will applaud the voice of sectlonnl strife. The fact is. men in the South has grown tired of the pro longed struggle over the negro problem. It hag, been settled by nature that the white race and the black form twfe dis tinct races: and it shall lie the dutv of the South to grapple intelligently with the great problem. Those of us who know the negro from the standpoint of the fields and the shops, know. too. much of the sit uation to be swept away by delusions of those who have never worked with them in the industrial life of tha South.’’ Dr. KHgo -’sin thnt the n?o-,le of the South were Americans, and that we, as Americans, are becoming tired of not be imr raccg-dge ally for the country's good Gov Beckham to Protect Court. FRANKFORD, Ky.. March 3.—Gov. Beckham today decided to send troops during^the*proceedings [n'^’o^h!l’froduced his transmitter, which was will be found the transmitter or hand telephone produced by Elisha Gray and the various forms of transmitters and receivers intended for special uses. Among these will be included the telephone which Bell made for fire alarm purposes. All the early Bell telephones were box-like affairs'. Then when Blake in- r.nd Shippers' Association to deliver the addres* at t'.-.e third annual dinner on March 14. .and Transportation" was announced today as his subject. It is understood that he will speak on his well-known views on the commercial avoiding international difficulties by j re'ations of the various States as af- GOVERNOR OF PORTO ,RICO TENDERED NEW POSITION WASHINGTON, March 3—It was announced tonight that the President had tendered to Beekman Wlnthrop. vilation of the .Cincinnati Receivers’ j of New York, at present Governor of Porto Rico, tho position of Assistant Secretory of the Treasury, for which position he was recommended by Postmaster General Cortelyou, and that Mr. WintbrOD had acoeped tho appointment. It 13 expected that tie ,-J!l assume his new duties at an early frelng prepared for them. fected by the transportation problem. date. the outgrowth of the demand for transmission beyond the twenty-mile i limit fixed by the first Bell company, I the instrument began to assume other forms due to the necessity of having ! a combination of transmitter and re- ! ceiver instead of the single instru- ! ment generally used at first for both : speaking and hearing. The Blake Examine label on your na- transmitter was also box-llko in ap- J - pearance. though smaller than the Bell telephone. In developing the re ceived. such as hangs today by the side of the telephone in office, factory and residence, little was demanded ex cept a change In the exterior form from the box to the vulcanite sheath which was found to be best fitted for the purpose. The essential features, such as magnet and diaphragm, were retained, though on a reduced scale. This fact may be demonstrated by lisina the receiver to talk through as well as to hear through. It will be found that, as it did in the earliest days, the single instrument can serve a double purpose. After the field of what is known as commercial telephony became appar ent, and the long distance lines be gan to stretch from State to State, the White transmitter, the invention of «ne of their -own experts, .was adopt- ! Commonwealth vs. James Hargis, charged with Cox’s mur.Tor. Accordingly special Judge Carnes will, on Thursday morning, bo accompanied from Lexington by a detail of about 50 men from th* Frankfort Battery and a Lexington company of the guard. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. par. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and ^ working JSy also renew for the year 1907. REGISTERED MAIL WORTH $5,000 STOLEN IN CHICAGO CHICAGO. March 3—A United 1 States mail wagon containing three pouches, one filled with registered mail said to be worth $5,000. tonight was stolen from in front of the Stock I Exchange -building. LaSalle and Washington streets, while the driver was making a collection in the build ing. Two hours after the robbery the wagon was found three miles away I from the stock exchange. The pouches '.-Srere gone. NW YORK, March 3.—Governor Hughes, in the course of a speech to night, declared that it was his desire that there should be a recount of the votes cast in the Mayoralty election in this city in 1905. It was not a ques tion of personalities, he added, but for the seating of the candidate elected. Governor Hughes .was the chief speaker at a complimentary banquet tendered tonight to "Tody” Hamil ton, whose retirement .to private life was the occasion of a notable gather ing of newspaper men and other per sonal friends of the widely known public agent. ALL HE HAS TO DO IS RIDE AHEAD AND PICK UP THE BOMBS ST. PETERSBURG. March 3.—The Wine-tasters of Etheired ar.d Ered, who saved the lives of those merry mediaeval monarchs by reaching for the poisoned wine aheqd of the kings for whom they were hired to die, have modern prototype in the man who journeyed in a railroad tricycle ahead of the* train of the Gzar of Russia. Held pretty closely at home by tho well-founded idea -that his appearance outside unguarded will be fatal, Nich olas employes one courageous Rus sian as a bomb-fender. This man, mounted on the section boss sort of self-propelling tricycle, runs on ahead of His Majesty’s slowly moving train during the rare journeys ho makes and picks up all stray bombs that anar chists may have left upon the track. No record runs are made by the royal specials in Russia. In fact, the commuter from the outlying districts of St. Petersburg has his royal master badiv beaten in getting to and from his work. For the railroad tricycle, foot propelled, which must precede the train each time the Emperor or the Empress takes a trip, can run no fast er than twenty miles an hour, and throughout the journey must keep half a mile ahead. The bomb shield has never yet been killed, but he has saved his own life, and those of his imperial master and mistress a dozen times by keeping a sharp watch in front. It is said that, outside the Governor ' . of the palace, he receives the largest salary of any Government official In ; St. Petersburg. He must be a judge not only of the well known face and form of the anarchist bomb, but he must know nitro-glyoerin ' in small, harmless-looking vodka bottles, as well. Tills latter form of assassination has become quite popular in Russia of late, and so it happens that the man in front is paid from the Czar’s own living fund for being the best explo sive expert in the empire. IMPORTANT DEVICE AFFECTING COTTON CULTURE PERFECT ED BY GOVERNMENT EXPERTS. 'WASHINGTON, March 2.—One of the most Important devices in the his tory of cotton culture practically ha* been perfected by experts of the De partment of Agriculture. It is a ma chine for the removal of the fuzz on cotton seed and for the separation of light from heavy seed. The process has been in course of development for about two years, and it is the opinion of the cotton experts of the department that its universal use would effect a saving of about 10 per cent of the entire cotton crop. As the crop of America amounts to about $750,000 000 a year, it easily can be re alized that such a saving would be of vast importance. By the removal of the fuzz from the cotton seed, the seed may be planted with an ordinary grav ity drill. B’y the ease with which tbe smooth seed can be manipulated, they can be placed in hills, without unnec essary waste and the plants so located can be tilled in two directions. The machine, it is stated, can be made at very small expense, and as the inven tion is in the hands of the Govern ment, cotton planters who use it will have to pay no royalty for it. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN DYNAMITE PvlAGAZINE. NEW YORK, March 2.—A dynamite magazine containing explosives used in the excavation work for the Pennsyl vania Railroad's North river tunnel, at Homestead, N. J.. was blown up short ly after midnight, injuring a score of employes at work in the vicinity, and shaking buildings for miles around. The shock of the explosion broke probably every window in Homestead and at Union Hill, and was felt in this city, where many tall buildings trembled perceptibly. Thousands of persons were awakened from sleep. The cause of the accident has not 3>een deter* mined.