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THE TWICE- A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, MAROH 8, 1907.
TRAVELING SALESMEN
TION CASE
SHOW IH COURT
FOR ^-RESIDENT
WASHINGTON. March 7.—E. H.
HaTimar.. the railroad magnate. who
hap hern in Washington since last
Friday, tonir.-.t granted a farewell In
terview to 15 naw'nnper man. an
num, ing a: the time that he will
return to New York tomorrow and
stop talking for publl itton. Mr. Har-
rirr.an discussed transportation prob
lems. railroad legislation, the tariff. _
the currency Question, the attitutde of ! Tf
the public toward the railroad corpo
rations and the probability of a panic
1n the future.
“I notice that the afternoon papers
say that the New York Central hold
ings and the old W&ssennan pool in
the Rending Railway were taksn over
last night. This Is not true. I have
not purchased a single share of rail-
rood stock since I have been In Wash
ington.”
He refused to answer the direct
Question as to whether he had secured
Control of the Reading.
A" to the currency and the tariff,
Mr. Harrfman said:
Hard Times May Come Again,
"I think that the currency and fftrilt
questions should be settled In a more
definite way before Congress and the
present administration devote so much
precious time to regulating the rail
roads. The Interests of the country
demand that there should be some
definition of the tariff, but I fear that
the prospect for such legislation Is not
very encouraging. The United States
will not always enjoy the prosperity
that has prevailed during the last de
cade. Hard times will certainly come
again unless Congress and the people
change their tactics toward the rail
roads and corporate interests.”
As an argument against the ten
dency for a wholesale reduction In
railroad rates. Mr. Harrlman called
attention to the increased cost of
everything that enters In the main
tenance of railroads. "Even money Is
higher." he said, "than it has been at
any time in the last fen years. This
is Just the same to the railroads as
if the oost of labor and material is
raised.”
Admitting that the railroads to a
great oxtent are responsible for the
hostile movement that is now sweep
ing over the entire country. Mr. Har
rlman said that the only way to solve
the problem was for the Government
. and the great corporate interests to
get Into closer harmony and to try to
. tiring about a solution that would be
to the Interests of the Government $md
the railroads a a well.
Mr. Harrlman commended the
HtAfid taken by President Roosevelt In
a recent message to Congress when he
advocated a "reciprocal agreement”
between the Government and the rail
roads. ‘It was a vary bold and cour
ageous stand for the President to
take.” said the railroad magnate,
"and the only thing for the adminis
tration to do Is to give us a law that
will legalize our combines.”
.. March 6.—In
large number f
nr.tendents. oth-
saJesmen. Gov.
Introc iced as a
efore
I GREENSBORO. N.
} addition to c.'.aminir.g
j cotton mill owners. j i:i
I er officers and travel!
I 1l. B Glenn was
witness for the defend mt? n t
su.'.fc Kga'.:.it Bdw.rJ A S
, tier B. Sargent, the Charlotte
I charged wltn violations of the
: lion laws, which are helr.g ti
i Judge Boyd. In the United Staler cir
Court. <’■ veroo: file:;", wa ur. ' ■
; but a few minutes, und was not o r -..- s _
, examined by c'-raal for rh* O 'verr.rr.-
I The Governor staled ; ..it he had ret .v--i
visit from the two defendants and
omas M. Costello. At the request of
these gentlemen he commissioned Mr.
Costello iTTimiprH.-.t .-.ger.- for rh- Slate of
North Carol.r.a H- r.ls i I <■ \
snendence he b«d with the imrr.igrari an
f.ff.oi..:s. notify:: a th-m of ; , appoint
ment of Mr. Costello. Twenty-nine wit
nesses for the defendants were on the
stand during the day. and this afternoon
tin da the d f n ! * • t» ’ ■ i.-< strong* r •>. n
ever. Among those who gave evidence
today were many prominent cotton mil!
man from every section of the South and
traveling salesmen from every section of
the Union. They all said that during the
year 1906. there was a great scarcity of
cotton mill operatives In every section of
the country, varying In different locali
ties from 10 to 35 per cent short of the
number actually necessary to keep all of
who late this afternoon decided that
Sheriff O’Neil! had not shown due
diligence In producing Reuf for trial
and appointed Coroner Walsh to serve
a bench warrant for Reufs appearance
in court. The coroner was ordered
to make a return of service tomorrow
afternoon.
the machinery In operation.
WOMEN AGITATORS
RELEASED IN ENGLAND,
LONDON, March 6.—The woman '
suffragists, by Insisting upon martyr
dom, are placing the authorites in an i
embarrassing positon. Mrs. Dospard,
a sister of Gen. French, and several
•of her fellow agitators, were released
from prison today after a term of con
finement for participation in the recent
agitation at the House of Commons.
James Keir-Hardle, M. P„ who has a
reputation for eccentricity, presided to
day at a public breakfast given in hon
or of these women. . Several of the
suffragists delivered speeches in which
they announced their purpose of forc
ing the authorities to keep them in
prison by commiuing breaches of the
peace whenever tiiiY opportunity offer
ed, until such time as suffrage legis
lation is enacted.
Since the Eritsih law s no respecter
of persons these women of refinement
have shared the prison life of the com
mon criminals of their sex. and the
regime of English prisons is remark
ably severe. The question of woman
suffrage will come up'before the House
of Commons next Friday and prepara
tions are being made for another dem
onstratlon on that day.
I PITTSBURG, Pa., March 7.—Judge
Nathaniel Ewing, of the United States
Circuit Court, filed an opinion today
to the effect that if non-residents are
to enter suits in the future against
American companies there will have
to be farther treaties made between
this and foreign countries. Mayer
Zeiger, a citizen of Zenta. Hungary,
entered suit against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company for $50,000 dam
ages as the result of the death of
George Zeiger, the sole support of the
plaintiff, who was killed In a wreck on
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Harris
burg on May 11, 1905, in which a
score of persons lost their lives. Judge
Ewing said:
“We cannot legislate for perosns be
yond our jurisdiction. When the law
intends to concede to non-resident
aliens the rights which our own citi
zens have under and by virtue of the
act of April 26, 1855, it will say soi*
We have a number of statutes which
expressly confer rights upon aliens,
but none which confers them by im
plication or inference.”
The court says that the courts of
the United States cannot look after
the interests of other than its own
citizens, and that the only way an
alien can use our courts is through . — - -
treaty between this and the other that during the -day one of Reufs at-
JUKE DIMES REUF
IS HRJ HIGH
SAN FRANCISCO, March 7.—Attor
ney Abraham Reuf, jointly Indicted
with Mayor Eugene Schmitz -on
charges of extorting money from keep
ers of French restaurants, is tonight I
according to superior Judge Dunne, | train plunged over a twenty-five-foot
NINE INJURED WHEN
TRAIN MADE PLUNGE
WARREN, Pa., March 7.—Train No.
33, on the Western New York and
Pennsylvania division of the PennsyJ^
vania Railroad, was wrecked tonight
between Irvineton and this place. The
embankment and nine persons were
injured, none fatally. The train was
: running behind a freight from Irvine
ton to Warren, and when three-quar-
I ters of a mile from Warren, the freight
ran onto a siding to allow the pas-
1 senger train to pass. After the freight
; was on the siding the passenger etart-
After two adjournments had been j ed through the switch, which is set
taken today. Assistant District Attor
ney Francis Heney presented to Judge
Dunne a lengthy affidavit signed by
himself in' which he asserted the al
leged facts: That Sheriff O’Neill is a
close personal friend of Reufs; taht
Reuf “recognized as the political boss
of San Francisco” had procured
O’Neill’s nomination and assured his
election, and that consequently O’Noid
was under obligations to Reuf, unfitt
ing O’Neill to serve as the arresting
officer. Similar assertions were made
regarding the sheriffs deputies, who
it ’ was alleged, had been named by
Reuf.
Assistant District Attorney Henry
also stated that he had been informed
GOES 001 EXISTENCE
OXFORD. Ala., March 7.—Hobson
Cit>* the only town governed exclu
sively by negroes in the South, has
gx>ne out of existence with the passage
of an act by the legislature making it
a part of Oxford, he town was lo
cated ten years ago and had at one
time a population of 1,000. In recent
years it has languished and there is
little of the original town left.
WAS IT WALTER T. COLQUITT?
from a tower about a quarter of a mile
away. The switch was not entirely
closed, and two cars were thrown from
the rails and down an embankment
into a pond. Near the railroad track
runs a pipe line of the Pennsylvania
Gas Company, carrying two hundred
pounds pressure. This pipe line was
broken and the coaches filled with nat
ural gas. There were four passengers
in-the rear coach which was turned
completely over, and they had a nar- , , .... , , .
row escape from suffocation by gas I s0 overwhelmingly outclassed bj the
fumes. Had the lamps in the coaches i brains in an unmentionable part of his
been lighted an explosion would have
Mr. Louis Pendleton, Who is Writing
• History of Stephens, Thinks it. Was
He Who Threatened to Swallow
Alex.
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
I have been interested in the discus
sion in your correspondence .columns
of the identity of the man who threat
ened to swallow Alexander Stephens,
and who refrained on being curtly in
formed that after that operation the
handful of brains in his noddle would
countries which have never yet been
made, governing just such happenings
as the one Involved in this suit.
Depew Denies Sale of Holdings,
WASHINGTON. March 6.—Senator
C. M. Depew, upon Tils return to
Washington, tonight from New York,
denied that the New York Central had
sold its holdings in the Reading to E.
H. Harrlman.
EXILES
MAT GO
FREE
ST. PETERSBI’RG. March 6.—The pre
sentation by the Lower House of Parlia
ment fit' a unanimous petition for amnesty
for nil political offenders except those
guilty of actual murder, probably will re
sult from a conference of the Conserva
tive Deputies ledd tonight. At this meet
ing It was decided to support any request
made by the Liberal membors of the
House for the pardon of all persons im
prisoned or exiled for revolutionary agi
tation or propaganda whose hands were
not actually stained with blood. The
Radicals desire to make this demand In
clude those guilty of murder, but In order
to secure a unanimous vote they will con
sent to a separation of the two classes
and present an appeal for the Terrorists
as a separate motion.
The Central Commission Of the Agri
cultural Department also held an import
ant meeting today to hear the report of
M. Golovin. President of tho Lower
House, on his audience with Emperor
Nicholas today. The Emperor’s cordial
reception of M. Golovin, and his devia
tion of good will toward Parliament,
created an excellent Impression on the
central committee and dispelled the lin
gering fears that the governing body was
seeking only a good opportunity to dis
perse this second Parliament and rule the
country until a successor be brought to
gether.
PRESIDENT CASTRO IS
SPEEDILY RECOVERING.
CARACAS, March 3. Via San Juan,
P. R.. March 7.—The wounds from the
last operation performed upon Presi
dent Castro hayp healed, and with the
permission of all his doctors he sat
up today for a brief time. Unless un
foreseen compllcnti.-ns occur. It Is pre
dicted that the President will teturn
to Caracas within a month. This does
not mean, however, that he will com
pletely recover, for It is certain that
President Castro never will be the same
man again. His disease had reached a
stage where death follows only by the
alow destruction of the tissues and ev
ery authoritative source unites in the
statement that the immediate danger
Is over. Important administration
changes are promised when President
Castro returns to Caracas. This means
those ministers who acted upon the as-
oumption that President Castro would
(lie will he made after all to give an
account of their husbandry.
The influence of Senora Castro al
ways has been exercised toward bring
ing about a reconciliation between her
husband and Vice President Gomez.
The situation, however, required Senor
Rivas, whose bold accusations of in
trigue convinced President Castro of
the Vice President’s sincerity and the
reconciliation speedily was effected.
CAPT, THOS. H. FRIERSON
DIED FROM APOPLEXY.
BUTLER, Ga., March 8.—Capt.
Thomas Frierson, one of the most
prominent citizen of this place, died at
his home here last night at 11 o’clock.
Several months ago CapL Frierson
had a stroke of apoplexy, but had
seemingly recovered from this attack,
when, a few days ago he had a similar
attack, and from this he rallied, only
for short Intervals.
He was born at Athens, Ga., where
his two sisters. Misses Sarah and Mary
Ann Frierson, reside,, the former of
whom has been librarian of (the Uni
versity of Georgia library for many
years. Both of his sisters were at his
bedside at the time of his death. He
leaves an interesting family, and is.
survived by his wife, and several grown
children. They are Mrs. James Hall,
of Macon; Mrs. H. P. Wallace and Mrs.
Clyde Bateman, of 'Butler; and his sons
are Messrs Robert, Herbert and Flem
Frierson. .
Capt. Frierson went to the front In
the Civil War with the Athens Guard,
afterwards Company K, of the Third
Georgia regiment, which company he
served as captain, and besides the part
he took in many sanguinary battles,
fought with gallant distinction at Get
tysburg, in which great battle all of
his company were killed except three.
He came to Butler about thirty*
three years ago. where he has since
resided, during which time he has held
many positions of trust and honor. He
was for years the cashier of the Bank
of Butler. Many years ago he was
tax-receiver for this county, and was
Mayor of Butler for more than one
term. He was a Mason and a Knight
of Honor.
JAPANESE WAR LOAN TO BE
FLOATED IN FRANCE.
PARIS. March 7.—The credit Lyon
nais is to handle the largest portion
of that half of the Japanese conversion .
loan of $115,000,000 alloted to France, j.Dunne so ordered.
The loan will be issued at five per
cent, and the issue price will be 99,
99%. As Japan is expending large
sums in Europe for war ships and
other war material, a number of the
French firms during the negotiations
concerning the placing of this loan
here, tried an agreement by which
they should receive a proportion of
of these Japanese oredrs, but whether
or not they succeeded has not yet been
known.
torneys had applied to the district
court of appeals for a writ of prohi
bition, declaring at the same time that
if this writ was granted the missing
attorney would be produced. For these
and other similar reasons, Henry asked
that Sheriff O’Neill be replaced by
Coroner Walsh as the officer delegated
to produce Reuf in court, and Judge
taken place. Nearly every rasseriger
on the train was bruised and several
were taken to the hospital here for
treatment.
JUDGE GESUiES
IGIESS:
BLUE LAWS OF 2,500 B. C.
From the Chicago Inter-Oeean.
The members of the Bartzen graft
investigating committee and the agita
tors for a strict enforcement of the
Sunday closing laws were probably too
i busy yesterday to pay a visit to the
' opening session of Professor George E.
Vincent’s cla=s in sociology at the Uni
anatomy.
I have found no written record set
tling the question, but in my forthcom
ing volume on Stephens for the Ameri
can Crisis Biography Series, the man
uscript of which was delivered to the
publisher on the last day of 1906, I
relied on the statement of Georgians I the equinoxies.
who knew Stephens personally that
Judge Walter T. Colquitt was the man.
and that the incident occurred during
the Congressional campaign of 1843.
I also noted in the manuscript that
"Stephen’s quickness of wit and origi
nality of method are not rendered any
less marked by the fact that his fa
vorite Scott had long before caused
the dwarf in ‘Kenilworth' to make
varsity of Chicago. But if they had
they might have obtained a few inter- i J t „ „
j;a• _„_j__a j _ i-1-, - v •] m I virtuallv the sumo retort to s.
ditions projected upon a background of i j,onoen Elian h*th's
THE SEISMS ^
As the month proceeds the retreat of
winter before the northward advancing V.
sun becomes a rout. Bluster as he
may. he must go. and stand not on the
order of his going. On an average of
the month the sun each day stands
higher in the sky at noon by a measure
equal to about two-thirds of his own
disc. On March 21 at 1 p. m. the sun
will reach the equator, and winter must
literally get off the earth. Everywhere
days and nights will be of equal length,
and at either pole the sun will just
Show above the horizon, at one the
sunset beginning six months of night
and at the other the sunrise of an
equally long day.
As the sun shines steadily on age
upon age. regardless o*. the gyrations
of the little spinning eareh 90,000,000
miies away, the latter always must
have one-half its surface, and no more.
Illuminated. It is evident also that at
one point on the earth’s surface, the,
center of the Illuminated half, the sun-*
must appear in the zenith. Also it
must appear east of half, west of half,
north of half, and south of half the
illuminated portion. Where the sun is
In the zenith, there for the moment It
is noon. At the eastern edge of the
illuminated portion is sunset: at the
western the sun is rising. This condi
tion is constant, but tho center of
illumination Is forever shifting, moving
constantly westward at rates varying
at from less htan a mile a day at the
solstices to thirty-five miles a day at
As the surface of a hemisphere is
twice that of a circular plane having
the same diameter, it is obvious that
the illuminated half of the earth re
ceives only half as much light and
heat as it would if it were spread out
flat. This heat, too. is very unevenly
distributed. The surface immediately .
overhung by the sun’s disc is snhall, \
tlons projected upon a background of I
forty centuries.
Professor Vincent told a few inci- j
dents taken from the happenings in |
persecutor during Queen Elizabeth’s
visit to the Earl of Leicester’s country
seat.” Doubtless a parallel, or more
or less of a parallel, of the incident
B’abvlon about 2.500 B. C. to illustrate b ® ~ d
that laws are not always
SECRETARY TAFT MAY PERMIT
COCK FIGHTING IN CUBA
WASHINGTON. March 6.—One of the
questions that will probably confront Sec
retary Taft upon his arrival in Cuba in
the course of a few weeks will be the
propriety and policy of abrogating Gover-
"° r „ to "the” order and “so ~dld“ the "defend-
JACKSON, Ky„ March 6.—Judge
Carnes entered an order today direct
ing that the cases of the Common
wealth vs. James Hargis. Elbert Har
gis, John Smith and John Abner, be
transferred to Elliott county, in the
Thirty-Second Judicial District. The
Commonwealth waived an exception
even among the records of the an
cients.
The persistent connection of Toombs i into space..
the fact
obeyed.
“A few centuries hence,” said the
ndav eincincr lows ! poll.ically, except in Georgia s secession I what u
being about equal in area to Westches
ter County. This small surface receives
practically the same rays which would
fall upon a flat surface but all the rest
of the illuminated portion receives less
and less, until at the edge the sun ap
pears at the horizon and here only a
feeble fraction of his rays are received.
I the rest passing over our heads and off
with the incident is surprising, for Ste
cock fighting in Cuba. An overwhelming
majority of Cubans themselves demand an ts. The change of venue was
I may find* the Sunday closing laws
i there, and draw conclusions. They will
probably be at fault, but it will not be
; their fault.”
I For some of the “blue laws’’ of the
| ancient students were referred to the
“code of Hammurabi.” which was in
the right to fight their chickens as they granted on motion of the Commo- j about 2 500 B’ C and which has
have done for many years, even since the wealth’s attorney. while Attorney
application of the Wood decree though Young, for the defense, favored the just recently been t.amslated bj Pro-
the sport has been necessarily conducted
clandestinely.
Probably Secretary Taft will adopt the
expedient of permitting cock fighting out
side of Havana and the larger Cuban
cities just as he did in the Philippines to
the satisfaction of natives and their em
ployes.
action’personally but for the sake of ! Harper of the
ELECTIONS FOR TESTING
NEW CUBAN ELECTION LAW.
his client wanted the trial held here.
Judge Carnes said:
"In view of all the facts and what
I know. I am convinced in my own
mind of the state of lawlessness here
and that this case should be changed
from Breathitt County.”
University of Chicago.
I Here are some of the "blue laws”
I they found:
j Capital punishment may be inflicted
j for a false accusation of a capital
i crime: a causeless cur* or .ban: aiding
a slave to escape; kidnaping: the de-
WASHINGTON, March 7—Municipal
and provincial elections probably will
be held in Cuba within a few months j
for the purpose of testing the new elec- j
tion law and discovering the exact tem
per of the republic before trying a !
national election. This has not been !
decided upon positively, but is being I
considered in administration circles
and a decision doubtless will be reached
shortly after Secretary Taft’s trip tp
Cuba, Porto Rico and Panama, on
which he will start March 24.
In case it is decided to give the Cu
bans a trial on municipal and provin
cial elections it is likely that these
will be held not later than July this
year, and if the experiment proves
successful a national election will be
held six months later.
Elliott is totally Inaccessible by ! « e £ ,on o£ his dut y b >' “ offlcor of the
telephone, telegraph or railroad and i . . , . ,
its county seat, Sandy Hoo_k. has less ” hnn«»hSidl U SSf!
than 200 inhabitants. Judge Carnes
will leave for his home tonight. The
militia will go with him.
IMPOSSIBLE TO MEET FRANCE’S
DEMANDS FOR RECIPROCITY.
VICTIMS OF ENRAGED
HUSBAND’S BULLET DIE.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 7.—Mrs.
Fred Schwomeyar and Edwin Gill died
today from bullet wounds inflicted by
the husband, who returned unexpected
ly to his home at Ben Davis yesterday
and found the two together. The two
men have been close friends for years.
Schwomeyer had started for Indianap
olis but misled his car and returned
home. Looking through a window he
found his wife and Gill together.
Thrusting his arm through the glass
he began firing. Gill was shot five
times and the woman once. Schwo
meyer was arrested.
KING EDWARD OFFERS TROPHY
TO WINNER OF YACHT RACE.
NORFOLK, Va„ March 7.—President
Harry St. George Tucker, of the James
town Exposition, received a cablegram
from Sir Thomas Lipton tot?ay, in
which the noted Irish sportsman an
nounced he had been authorized by
King Edward to inform the exposition
authorise;
WASHINGTON, March 7—The exec
utive branch of the Government has
aoandoned all hope of finding any con
cessions which it can offer the French
Government to prevent the application
of the maximum tariff rates on Ameri
can products not specifically exempted
therefrom by existing arrangements.
Officially It stated that the situation
as to France is therefore similar to that
as to Germany, in neither case can
this Government at present meet a de
mand for reciprocity treaty as the price
of minimum tariff rates for American
goods and products. Through their em
bassies at Washington the Governments
of the two countries named have been
made aware of this fact, and also that
it remains for Congress to decide
whether it cares to divert these blows
at the American export trade by ap
proving reciprocity treaties with France
and Germany.
PROMINENT
ASHBURN. Ga.. March 6.—G. W. May,
a prominent and wealthy citizen of this
county, was waylaid and killed near his
home last night. A negro whom Mr. May
had employed the day before is suspected
of the murder and the Sheriff and a posse
are now in search of him.
The body of Mr. May was discovered
today. It had been dragged from the
roadway and concealed in the. bushes.
This was within 200 yards of his homo.
The body showed that he had been struck
on the head with an axe.
Mr. May had been to this place and
drawn $150 from the bank. It is pre
sumed that the negro was aware that the
money was on Mr. May’s person. The
pockets had been rifled when the body
was found.
and negligent householder, her hits
band shall divorce her and reduce her
to the rank of a servant in his house.
If a woman has “gadded” she shall
be drowned.
If a man steals furniture at a fire,
thrown him into the fire.
If an officer or a,constable is or
dered on an errand of the kind and
hires a substitute, put him to death.
If a wine seller does not receive grain
as the price of a drink, but receives
money or gives' short measure, throw
her into the water.
If there is a brawl in a wine shop
and the wine seller does not cause the
arrest of the offenders, put her to
death.
If a priestess enter a wine shop or
keep a wine shop, burn her.
If an officer absents himself from his
own ward for more than three years,
let some one else have his property.
PEACEMAKER STABBED
TB GET IMMIGRANTS
BATON ROUGE, La., March 6.—A
plan which contemplates supplanting
negro plantation laborers of Louisiana
wity Slate-imported white immigrants
from Europe, was announced today by
Charles Schuler, State commissioner of
immigration and agriculture. This _
plan is an outgrowth of the fact that j not contesting thi3 argument, insisted
NANTES. France, March 6.—A po
lice court judge today inflicted fines of
$3.20 upon each of twenty-seven Ursu-
lirte nuns and a fine of $5 upon the
Mother Superior, for persistently re
fusing to quit their convent In com
pliance with the law dispersing relig
ious communities.
The defendants pleaded that both
the grounds and the buildings them
selves belonged to the order which
had been authorized to carry on edu
cational work. The prosecution, while
labor is scarce and it is furthered by upon obedience to the act of congre-
The accidental stabbing of a young
man who endeavored to intervene in a
that the King would offer i fight 'between two of his friends, oc-
a silver trophy cup to be contested for | casioned a crowd of people to gather
in the international yachting regatta to J at the corner of Mulberry and Second
A. B. A.
ENTRANCE TO ATLANTA
ATLANTA. Ga. March 7.—It is
announced here today that negotia
tions looking to the use of the tracks
of the Atlanta and \Vc et Point road oy
the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlan
tic, from LnGrnnge Into Atlanta have
terminated in failure and that the A.
H. A. will not secure its Atlanta
connection until it builds here.
Several reasons are given for fail
ure to negotiate the deal through
which this new road would have got
ten Into Atlanta a year in advance of
its building here, but the most likely
reason is *said to be fear of competi
tion on the part of the Central of
Georgia, which is a controlling in
fluence in the Atlanta and West Point
and which Is said to have officially
blocked the deal.
be held here during the exposition./The
King’s cup will be the prize for" the
swiftest twenty-two-footer. The an
nouncement was not a surprise to ex
position officials, as they had been in
formed informally some months ago
of King Edward’s intentions.
Other cups for yachts have been of
fered by President Roosevelt. Emperor
William and Sir Thomas Lipton, and
several by the exposition.
CLOSING COLORADO RIVER
BREAK GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT.
WASHINGTON. March 7.—When
shown the Associated Press bulletin
tonight announcing that another storm
had broken out over the Saiton Sea.
and that the - Southern Pacific tracks
are under water. E. H. Harrlman. head
of the Harriman system of railroads,
said:
“That reminds me that I was asked
today by one of the Interstate Com
merce Commissioners what I regarded
as the greatest achievement in my rail
road experience. My reply was that I
considered the closing of the break in
tho Colorado river an February 11 as
the most remarkable achievement of
recent history.
"In the handling of rock and stone
our engineers made a record which is
likely to stand for many years to come.
The time actually consumed in making
the closure was fifteen days and two
hours, during which interval 77.000 cu
bic yards of rock gravel and.clay were
handled.
•Temporarily, at least, the Colorado
had been conquered, but like the Mis- '
sisslppi in Us delta region, it will bear
watching always.
"If the storm reported tod iy results ■
in another break I will do the work I
oyer aagin with the determination that
when completed the work will be an
even greater achievement than that ac- .
complished in February.”
streets, yesterday about noon.
From information gained, it seems
that Ross Hackney, in company with
a young lady, passed a group of young
men Tuesday night, when it is claimed
Hendrick Beeland, one of the group,
passed a slighting remark about the
young lady with Hackney.
About noon yesterday, Hackney met
Beeland at the aforesaid spot, and
when the former asked the latter for an
explanation of his conduct the night
previous, a fist fight ensued.
Julian Peacock, a friend of the fight
ers. happened along at this juncture,
and began to act the role of peace
maker. In some manner Peacock was
accidentally stabbed by Hackney in the
thigh, inflicting a painful wound, from
which blood flowed profusely.
Peacock walked to the Taylor-Bayne
drug store, where his wound was
dressed, bein
hospital.
The principals are all well known
young men of the city, and the affair
is regretted by their relatives and
friends.
the establishment of the immigration
bureau recently authorized by Congress
to be establish.d here. The State pro
poses to enable the Louisiana planter
to engage immigrant labor in advance
and with a fixed wage without violat
ing the contract labor law. B’y July
15 next every planter desiring such la
bor is to deposit $150 for every fam
ily he wishes, this sum to be a guar
antee to the State that he will rep?-y
it for its expenses in bringing over the
immigrants. A State employe will then
engage in Europe the required number
of immigrants and the State will pay
their way to this country.
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J. A. Harmon, of Lizemore, "West
Va„ says: "At last I have found the
perfect pill that never disappoints me:
and for the benefit of others afflicted
with torpid liver and chronic const’pa-
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Life Pills.” Guaranteed satisfactory,
25c at all druggists’.
gations and at the same time gave
warning that further refusal by tho
nuns to leave the buildings would be
followed by ejection.
During the trial the courtroom had
to be cleared because of the demon
strations of a crowd of Catholic sym
pathizers who, at the conclusion of
the hearing, accompanied the nuns
back to their convent with cheers.
iLliH
UNDERWENT
FOR ANNULMENT SALE
OF HANDSOME PICTURE,
GENOA, March 7.—The courts have
begun action against the Marchioness
'Boncompagni, the Marchioness Bardi
and Count Dalverne, the present guar-
later removed to the : dians of the Cattanne children, to bring
to an end their administration of the
estate of the children. The court pur
poses to appoint new guardians who
will take steps to \bring about the an
nulment if the recent sale of several
famous paintings by Vandyke to J. P.
Morgan by the Cattanne family.
SAVANNAH, Ga, March 6.—Chas.
V. Hohenstein today decided that he
did not care for Judge George T. Cann
of the Superior Court to give the rea
sons why he would not appoint Ho
henstein to the posit on of magistrate.
Several days ago Judge Cann declined
to appoint Hohenstein. The latter filed
a reuest that the Judge formally de
cline. The Judge did so. Hohenstein
convention, in January, 1861. They were
life-long friends, and Toomb’s admi
ration for Stephens’ commanding’ in
tellect was always sincere and of gen
erous proportions.
The incident fits perfectly into the
campaign of 1843. for then the young
Whig orator, Stephens, was almost un
known, and when he met on the stump
the experienced, able, proud and con
fident Democratic champion. Walter T.
Colquitt, v the latter, little dreaming of
the drubbing he would receive, was
naturally stirred with contempt for the
frail and diminutive “boy.” who dared
to face his betters. To be mistaken
for a boy. and to be addressed as "son
ny” or “buddy” was a common ex
perience with Stephen? during that
campaign, but before it was over the
"boy” of thirty-one was known as the
best informed man among the Geor
gia Whigs on the issues of the day.
as well as on the history and theory
of the Government of his country and
he at once became one of the acknowl
edged leaders of his party.
In the old Georgia Journal (Mil-
ledgevllle), of October 24. 1843. I have
found the following editorial comment:
"We must not forget in rejoicing at
the late Whig vlclorv in Georrra to
justice to this gentleman [Stephens]
for the arduous and able service
which he rendered to that cause, of
which he is so nobie an advocate. To
the course pursued by him. in
small degree, may be attributed the
great change which has taken place
in the mountain region of Georgia.
His attacks upon the enemy and their
principles were so overwhelming that
whoever engaged him at one place
dreaded a repetition of the same work
in another. The Whigs of Georgia
owe to his exertions a debt of grati
tude.”
LOUIS PENDLETON.
Philadelphia, March 2, 1907.
, [Mr. Pendleton has devoted much la-
ber for two years' in the work of
looking up data for hi? history of
Stephens and much time was spent
■with those nearest the great commoner
that are yet living].
Who Swallowed Alex Stevens.
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
The only proof I have as to the iden
tity of the gentleman who proposed to
devour Mr. Stephens is that I heard
the story over sixty years ago from
my father, who was an ardent Whig,
and I also heard it told time and alrain
in my boyhood by different gentlemen
who also named Mr. Alford as the
one who proposed to perform this
gastronomic feat. Now, if he was not
the man isn’t it a little odd that he
was the only one named until this
latter day. And I am thoroughly sat
isfied that if It were not Mr. Alford it
must have been no other than the
great unknown who struck Billy Pat
terson. S. F. MANN.
Was It Walter T. Colquitt?
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
Gol. Flem Jordan, a prominent law
yer of Monticelio, and a man who
take? a keen interest in Georgia and
her distinguished men, said today that
when he was a boy it was common
talk what "Stephens said to Walter T.
Colquitt."
Col. Jordan’s father, Charles Jordan,
used to tell of the days of Whigs and
Democrats. Mr. Stephens had ap
pointment in Forsyth, a large crowd
had gathered to her “the boy.” as some
had gathered to hear “the boy,” as some
through the country in his buggy and
asked for division of time. The'“boy”
Whig readily granted it. Colquitt was
a large man and attempted th* humor
ous at Stephens’s expense—laughingly
told the crowd how he could swallow
that thin lad, and then came the quick
retort.
Col. Jordan says all his life long he
has understood that Walter T. Col
quitt was the man and Forsyth the
hfs
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is mild and pleasant, and does not gripe
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pills, aperient waters and all ordinary
cathartics as it does not irritate the
stomach and bowels. H. J. Lamar &
Co., agents, near Exchange Bank, Ma
con.
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FREIGHT TRAIN AND ICO BALES
COTTON DESTROYED BY FIRE.
RALEIGH. N. C-. March 7.—The j
freight station at Youngsville, N. C., i
together with two loaded car? and 100
bale? of cotton on the platform ad- ’
joining the station was destroyed by ;
fire that broke out after midnight. A
message was sent to this city for aid
fire department, but before a
pedal train could be sent out. the
as under control. The loss is
probably $20,000. The cotton was the
property of Percy and Patterson, but
was pla'ed on the platform for ship
ment. so the loss will fall on the ,
SEVEN WERE INJURED
IN TRAIN COLLISION.
NEOGA, Ill.. March 7.—Seven per
son- were injured, four seriously, in a
collision on the Toledo. St. Louis and
Western Railroad this afternoon when
an east-bound passenger train ran into j
a freight train.
The ioc- motive of the passenger was !
demolished.
The seriously injured are: Edward |
Kennedy, engineer of the freight train: :
Mrs. Corn Welton, Greentown. Indiana:
.-'lien Gaskell Neoga, III.: Mrs. E. E. :
Ford. Deiphor, Ohio.
then announced that he would take the j _ h ,° Ka J’ s
matter to the supreme court, as the
grand jury had recommended his ap
pointment. Thereupon Judge Cann
announced that he would state in full
his reasons for refusing to appoint
Hohenstein. Hohenstein adhered to
his determinat.on for two days. Then
he changed his mind, deciding that he
did not care for the Judge to go into
matters that had brought about Ho-
henstein’s indictment sometime ago
for malpractice in office as a justice
of the peace. The cas? had never come
to trial, as the ind; ctments had beeh
dismissed. Judge Cann announced
that he would pursue the matter no
further in view of Mr. Hohenstein’s
decision.
father used to tell him. when he was
a youth, that Mr. Stephens completely
routed the gi^at Democratic champion j
on that occasion.
“Sayvoyard” says Alexander II. Ste
phens is the idol of the South. Any- i
how, what pertains to him interests I
the people. And the life of Mr. Ste
phens, now in press, by Xouis Pendle- !
ton, is looked for with deep interest Pollux, the Heavenly Twins, and near
Before we lament too greatly tho
hich is lost it is well to think ot-
ould happen if such were nijL
the case. Half the time—no more, nc'
less, when the year is reckoned—we are
turned away from the sun, with one
part of the earth radiating away into
space the heat which it has received
during the hours of sunshine. In
spite of this fact, the actual heat con
stantly received from the sun is suffi
cient to maintain an average tempera
ture of about 500 degrees above the
absolute zero of space. The man who
is anxious to have the temperature
raised by another 500 degrees carries
his dislike of cold weather to the verge
of fanaticism. As a matter of fact
there would be no. possibility of living
at the equator if it were not for the
interchange of winds modifying the
heat of those regions. On the whole,
we would better take the present ar
rangement as it is even with an occa
sional cold February thrown in, before
we ask for another of our own devis
ing.
The splendid constellations of winter
are still with us, but evidently are pre
paring to depart. AVe look south now
to see the finest of all—the incompara
ble Orion—and unless we look early we
shall see him “slowly sloping toward
the west.” Except the the Big Dipper,
Orion is. perhaps, the easiest to identi
fy of all ‘ the bright configurations of
the sky. The bright second-magni
tude stars arranged in a row, each be
ing about three moon breadths from its
neighbor, form the famous Belt of
Orion or Yardstick. The latter de-tr
stsmatlon no doubt comes fro-* tb" fact*
that, bein^r three degrees in length. It
serves the student excellently for- J
purposes of comparison. At a distanco
of about ten degrees on either side of
the belt, to make immediate use of our
lesson, we find a brilliant first-magni
tude star, while two other stars of
lesrer magnitude complete a quadri
lateral inclosing the belt, the two
first-magnitude stars being diagonally
opposite each other. Of these bright
stars, the one higher in the sky Is
named Betelgeuse, the other Rigel. The
belt points downward toward Sirius In
the constellation ’Canis Major, and up
ward toward Aldebaran in the con
stellation Taurus. These two stars,
with Betelgeuse and Rigel form a vast
diamond-shaped figure, whose ma
jestic outlines can be better realized
now than at any other time of the year.
The color contrasts are exceedingly
fine, Betelgeuse and Aldebaran being
of a deep red color, while Sirius and
Rigel are the purest white.
' Sirius, also known as the Dog Star,
is the brightest of all the fixed stars.
Its constellation, Canis Major, has a
number of bright stars, but these re
ceive less than their due'share of at
tention. because their low latitude
causes them to skirt close to the south
ern horizon. They are now at their
greatest altftude in the early evening,
and may be studied with ease. Taurus
is now moving toward the west. An
hour ahead of the Aldebaran is the f
beautiful little group known as the
Pleiades. Aldebaran is at the end of
one arm of the V-shaped figure called
the Hyadea.an asterism of great beauty
and interest, and containing one of tho
few naked eye double stars; that is,
a star which on extra clear nights Is
seen as two stars very close together.
Turning from the south to the north
we see the Big Dipper acts of the Polo
with its handle pointing toward the
eastern horizon. Looking In that di
rection when the evening has well ad
vanced we see a brilliant star, which at
once compels attention. This Is the
mighty Arcturus, the leader of4 the \
constellations of spring and summer.
The outer stars in the howl of the Big
Dipner point toward the North Star,
which is so near the Celestial pole that
it seems to maintain the same position
all the night through all the nights of
the year. The same stars point back
ward toward the great constellation of
the Lion which does not bear any ex
traordinary resemblance to the beast
from which it derive* its name. It
contains a group calleed the Sickle,
however, which is exceedingly w.-)_i|j
named, though unofficially so. The~
bright star in the end of the Sickle is
named Regulus, and Is interesting as
the star whose changes of position led
Hipparchus to the discovery of the
procession of the equinoxes.
Near the zenith we find Castor and
our
not only by Georgians, but by
whole people.
The charm of romance rests about
Mr. Stephens His wonderful speech |
by we find the constellation holding as
j temporary guest the planet Jupiter. As
J this planet outshines all the fixed
stars there Is no trouble about his
before the Georgia Legislature against ! identification. High in the sky be-
secession, his Hampton Roads mis- I tween Taurus and the zenith may be
sion, his mission to Washington on 1 ?een the constellation Auriga, marked
an errand of humanity, and Stanton's by a pentagonal fig’’re of bright stars.
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Changed His Tune.
! From the Cleveland Leader.
“My dear,” murmured tbe siok man to
his wife. “I am nearing the golden streets.
I hoar strains of sweetest music, un-
I earthly in Its beauty. I ”
| “John.” said his wife, “what you hear
: is a phonograph in the next flat.”
I “So it is. Darn those people, anyhow.
. No consideration for their neighbors. Go
and tell 'em to stbp that inferno! racket
j at once,”
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refusal to let him enter the city, or
I Mr. Lincoln, his writing books in his
! feeble condition to liquidate debts, and
I helping so many young men, his strong
friendships and his love of country!
: all combine to add lustre to his fame
| and keep green and fresh his mem-
' ory.
After the war. a Northern man vis
ited Crawfordville. Before presenting
himself at Liberty Hall, he met on the
j street an old negro. “Do you know
Mr. Stephens?" he asked. “Ef you
takin’ 'bout Morse Ellick. ye? I knows
talkin’ ’bout Marse Ellick. yes I knows
“What sort of a man is Mr. Ste
phens?”
“Who? Marse Ellick? Ef you talkin’
’bout Marse Ellick. he Is dis sort of a
man; He treats dogs better than other
folks do people.”
V j. c.
I one of these being the first magnitudo
: star Capella. In the west the constel-
’ lations of autumn the Royal Family,
is sinking into obscurity.
Of the planets Jupiter is now alone
1 in the evening sky. Saturn, who has
I borne him company for two months
past, being now in the daylit sky. Mars
rises shortly after midnight now. and
will be with us next summer, when Ju-
niter has departed. Venus is Morning
Star, and her surpassing brilliancy af
fords all necessary irlentiflcatkgi. Mer
cury may be ?een for the first"two or [
three evenings of the month If th®^^
weather should happen to be unusuallyf
fine. Those are the only conditional
under which Mercury deigns to appear.
Look as soon as possible after sunet
in the part of the sky whence the sun
has just gone down. If you see a star,
It is Mercury.