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Tuesday, July 9, 1907
THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
SPECULATION AS TO HEADS
OF THE CHIEF COMMITTEES
Committees of Both Houses 1 " Ia ^' par !r r ^ 80ns, ? er *„. how "
I ever, that Mr. Peeples recent alliance
! with Tye and Bryan will probably ellm-
jlnate him Jor business reasons. Others
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1 By BRIDGES SMITH. |
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Will Be Announced
Monday Morning
iD-PACIFlUMt
Honolulu Scenes and the
Life of Its People
Batch of Current
Gate City News
Coming right down to brass tacks, j We go to the telephone. We hold
nmminentiv ; do ' ve not P a > r to ° much attention to 1 the ’phone to the ear, hold the mouth
rion n?e Jud e T j K. Hines and Z t l £ e litt,e " orrics thls llfe? Are | to the receiver, and hold “the. desired
Vlle/o' Mao'on ' bo’h of whom ha« I there SOt enoU?l1 of tie big ones to fret i ni,mb<r ,n the mind - Wo " ait one -
I L k a experiencl and ar? h?w! ? vcr *? the iittles one3 S° by - to two. three and sometimes five minutes
i ^ Ln. k „ P n l„ ohitlfv ft to not f ? rffct? Every man and woman have for a sweet voice to say "number.”
fikehr that the MBohltment* wi?I be 1 l helr worries - and even the children. Then we dandle the lever, at first slow
Imade /or seveml weeks to come u i Some are 30 fortunate, so circum- ; a nd measured, then jerk it up and down
Tu-tfce Cobb does not exnect to tend% constltutcd b >' nature. t»at and worry. We wonder what on earth
hfs resirmttion unS? som^ time abouL are few, but the major-prevents the girl from saying • number,” ” t
October •i ^ U ' 1 ' ity of us have plenty of them with us and our little worry grows big and w:
tJCtODer 1. 9W.VO „ krln„ . - . . . . ■ , h
always. Sometimes we bring them on
j by our own acts, but more often they
come unawares. True, there are some
Winder Guard*.
ATLANTA, July 6.—The Winder I people to whom worries come, worries
ATIXANTA, July 6.—The standing : Guards, of Winder. Ga„ are now form- of all kind.-, big and little, and over
committee* of both the House and «Hy in the military service of the State whelm them. And there are people
Senate will be announced with the 5'°I]’ lp 5. n ? C ’, t Il- r< i- in J^ ntry ’. muster " who half-way meet worries at every
opening of the legislative session Mon- i ed ,n *7 < > 0, ° ne . ! G - obear - taw<*or
day morning. There Is a good deal of; »« n " aI of State troo P s - Tb* officers
eecrecy maintained about the com- bf ‘ he new company are Captain G A.
'Johns, First Lieutenant H. E. Milliken,
mlttees because the presiding officers . J otins . Fl ™t Lieutenant H.E.Milliken.
consider It a breach of courtesy lo ; bocond Lieutenant C. Ferguson,
give out any information regarding company was mustered in with
them until after announcement has ? 8 „ man and thr f e u 2
been made to their respective bodies.! ' b,1 y to the requirements of tne United
The gossips however, have hit upon ; stat - 3 war department,
a number of the new committee chair- ■ _ e . . ~ L . ...
8KQ sad It is generally admitted they I Gov. Smi.h Honors Requisition,
have named a number of *hem with ATLANTA. July 6.—The first requi-
conslderable accuracy. In the House sltlon from another State honored by
Spoak»r Slaton win, of course. In ac- I Governor Hoke Smith, came today from
cordance with custom be chairman of | Governor Ansel, of South Carolina. It
the committee on rules, and he has al- | called for the delivery of Ed Brooks,
ready named Mr. Russell, of Musco- , wanted In Abbeville County. S. C.. for
gee. bb chairman of the committee on seduction. Brooks was in jail fn Gaines-
privilegcs and elections, which was j vine, Hall County, and was ordered
appointed the third day of the session j turned over to Sheriff C. J. Bruce, of
for the purpose of disposing of tne; Abbeville County, vho came to take
McIntosh county contest. j him back.
Here are what are considered some 1 ;
accurate predictions as to important Women in Uniform.
House committee chairmen. Appro- , ATLANTA. July 6.—General Clem'
’ prlatlons, Hun. Murphy Candler of De'ent A. Evans, commander of the de
Kalb: General Judiciary. Hon. Boykin partment of Tennessee U. C. V., com
Wright of Richmond: Temperance lies menting today upon the action of
between Hon. Scab Wright of Floyd : Frank Cheatham Bivouac U. C. V.. of
and Hon. W. A. Covington of Colquitt, j Nashvill, Tenn., in demanding that all
with the chances. It Is said. In favor female soldiers attached to any camps
of the gentleman from Floyd. Mr. | withdraw at once, and condemning the
Wise of Fayette, will head the Com- : wearing by two of them at the recent
turn. There are people, too, who worry
over worries, especially the little wor
ries, more than others. There are
people who will not worry over any
sort of worries, and some few whose
worries are so little that they don’t
mind them. Amd there are people who
will worry most over the most trifling
of worries, and possibly scattered about
here and and there are some who never
let the little worries worry them. These
are the fortunate, the blessed, but the
very few.
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If you are an early riser, and you
ought to be, because, if you are not you
miss the fresh morning air, the health-.
bigger, and, we forget the -number
wanted. Now that’s a very little
worry. I suppose, but it's one of the
kind that kills. Should we allow our
selves to be worried over such a little
worry as this? Would it not be best
for us in the long run to simply stand
there with an unperturbed mind, sing
a hymn or think of pleasant things—
to wonder if the girl who obstinately
refuses to say “number” is red-headed
and freckled, blue-eyed ahd fair, ugly
or pretty?
Now these are only two of a thou
sand worries that upset us. that fall in
our way. Say what you please, in the
cold clear light of reason, they are
really only little worries. The carrier
who failed to throw his hard wad of
paper at the front door may have been
sick—carriers are but mortals and are
liable to be sick even as you and I.
The telephone girl may have been—
well, I don’t know of any good reason
mittee on Ways and Means, which has
charge of matters relating to raising
the revenues of the State, a position
he held last year; and Hon. L. H. O.
Martin of Elbert, w!l preside over the
deliberations of the Committee on
General Agriculture. Mr. Perry of
Hall will head Constitutional Amend
ments. Mr. Alexander of DeKalb the
Western and Atlantic Railroad Com-j
Richmond reunion in wearing the Con
federate uniform, said:
“I consider the action of the Ten
nessee camp unfortunate. Of course
the Confederate veterans do not ap
prove the idea of women wearing the
uniform, and it Is repugnant to their
regulations. But I do not think there
was any necessity for such action as
might result In wounded feelings. The
mittee. Mr. Holder of Jackson, the action grew out of the appearance at
Committee on Penitentiary. Mr. Black- the reunion in Richmond of two csti-
burn of Fulton, the Special Judiciary; I mable women, one of them a Georgian,
Mr. Bell of Fulton. labor Statistics: ' wearing the Confederate uniform, with
Mr. Whitley, of Douglas. Hygiene and ■ the exception of course of skirts in
Sanitation. j stead of trousers. I do not think |t
Little hns come to light about the ( will occur again, or that anything more
Sennte committees. It Is pretty well ! will be heard from It.”
known »hnt Senator L. G. Hardeman, \ One of the ladies referred to was a
of the 33d. will head the Senate Tern- i Louisiana woman who recently nursed
perance Committee, and Senator E. General Stephen D. Lee through a
K. Overstreet, of the I7th. will preside ; severe Illness and was appointed an
over General Judiciary. The Senate; aslstant surgeon on his staff. Another
General Agriculture Commttte is said Is an ardent Confederate sympathizer
to lie between three well known mem- whose home is in Augusta, Ga.
hers. Camp, of the 31st; Henderson, |
of the 39th and Stapleton, of the 12th.
As soon as the committees are
named they will get immediately to
■work as there is plenty for them to do
In considering the numerous bills
which have been Introduced. It Is
expected that many Interesting meas
ures will be reported back to both
bodies for action by the latter par: of
the week.
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Prohibition Will Be Cassed in Senate,
ATLANTA. July 6.—A strong effort
is going to be made to get the State
prohibition bill through the Senate
next week. It Is planned, it is said, to
call a meting of the Sennte commit
COL. THOMPSON SAYS THE RE
PORT SENT OUT FROM NOR
FOLK WAS INCORRECT
COLUMBIA. S. C.. July 6.—Col.
tee on temperance Monday to takejHendley Thompson, commanding the
the bill up for Immediate considera- ! Second South Carolina Regiment at
_ . , _ 1U | the Jamestown Exposition, returned , .
v The Hardman State prohibition bill to Columbia today with his regiment Aa Americans,
has already passed Its second reaamg . . . . , A .
In the Senate and needs only the com- ! and made a statement concerning tha
mittee. report to put in before that body trouble on the “War Path” on the
night of July 3. In which he says that
the reports sent fourth from Norfolk
regarding that affair were in some
particulars incorrect He declares that
his regiment not only did not “throw
off all discipline,” but that he had at
all times during the trip complete and
absolute control of his men.
“On the night In question,” he says,
“about two hundred soldiers, repre
senting practically all the commands
for pnssnge. Dr. Hnrdman will be
chairman of this committee, and there
Is no doubt about the fact that the
large majority of Its members will be
dyed-ln-the-wool prohibitionists. A
prompt and favorable report will,
therefore, be forthcoming without
much consideration. In fact It tnay
be said to be a foregone conclusion.
The State prohibitionlnts are claim
ing more than thirty votes in the Sen
ate. and if these materialize, the bill
ful air, the bracing air. the pure air— j but something may have happened and
if you are an early riser, and slip out she couldn’t say “number.” Then
on the porch in a half-dressed way, Uvhat’s the use of worrying over such
and pick up the hard wad of the morn- i small things? Goodness gracious!
pa J D i r .“' and tke way its a hor- j Aren’t there enough big worries? Just
rlble habit of the carrier to roll up; think of losing your job and not know-
your paper in a hard wad and catapult . jng whether you will be able to pay for
it at the side-lights of your front door f groceries next month! Think of your
—so you can read the news fresh from house burning up. Think of vour bov
the press and enjoy what the news
paper men have gathered especially for
your eye—I say, if you are an early
riser and get in the habit of finding
your paper every morning ready to
be picked up, and fail to find it because
the carrier is late, isn’t that a worry?
Isn’t it a great big worry! Can you
help fretting over it? Don’t you look
up and down and Across the street
watching for the tardy carrier? Don’t
you look around the yard, under the
steps, or among the rose bushes, on
the supposition that perhaps the car
rier missed his aim at the front door?
Don’t you crone your neck looking on
the porches and in the yards of your
neighbors just to see if they got their
paper and you were slighted, or if your
paper was perhaps stolen? Isn’t that‘a
worry? Would you classify that as a
big or little worry?
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Don’t we allow a little thing like this
to worry us too much? Of course we
can make this almost any kind of a
worry, just as we choose. You may al
low yourself to be worried over it, so
worried that your breakfast is spoiled.
I might regard it as a worry too trif
ling to worry over, and our neighbor
may not give it a thought—not even
think of worrying.
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Scientific physicians says worry kills
more people than disease. Missing
your morning paper, even though It
does not worry other people, surely
worries you and me—I’ll swear it wor-
roes me—but beyond all doubt-it can
not be otherwise than a very little
worry, if worry at all, and then comes
the question: Should we worry over
little worries like that and thus shorten
our lives by ’dying of worry?
house burning up. Think of your boy
or girl leaving you. Think of your
children sick, or somebody else sick,
and lots of big worries.
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As a general thing big worries are
no respecter of persons. They coma
singly and in droves to the.rich and
poor: they hit a colonial front as hard
as they hit a shack. You may escape
for a while, but sooner or later they
come. And there’s no dodging.
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You can’t even stave them off. You
can tell the grocery bill or the meat
bill, or any kind of bill, to come next
month, but when worry comes you
have to take it right there on the
spot. These are the real big worries
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But you can get away from the
small worries. You can brush them
aside and pass on.
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The trouble is. we don’t pass on. We
simply stop and worry over a little
worry. We play with it, fool with it,
even pef.it. until it becomes too famil
iar and gets suclt a hold on us that
we can’t shake it off. You cannot
play with or pet a full-grown worry,
not after Us claws grow out and its
teeth get sharp.
If we could only go along and kick
the little worries out of our path, how
much happier we would be. Suppose
next time you go out on the porch of
a morning and miss your paper: or.
the next time you go to the ’phone and
the girl doesn’t^ say “number” until
after five minutes, just remember
what the scientific physicians say
about worries killing so many people.
Wouldn’t you be better off in the long
run? Of course!
has been destroyed by the floodwaters
of some river, does not always realize
that it was primarily the destruction of
the forest covering at the headwaters of
that river which was the direct cause of
the floods.
will probablv go through next week ! * n ramp, marched Into our camp slng-
as slated. Then the fight will come in boisterously and endeavored to en-
the House. i t,ce some o{ our men away with them.
When I heard them. I promptly order-'
Child Bit By Mad Dog. ! ed them off and they obeyed. Shortly
ATLANTA, July 6.—A two-year-old afterwards I saw the same crowd on
child of a Mr. Thompson, of Wetump-l. th ?. mid F a >’ and ,he y then bad some
ka. Ala.. Is at the Pasteur Institute In
Atlanta suffering from the bite of a
mad dog upon Its face. The dog. a
three-months' old collie, is held at the
Institute for examination. It Is said
to be In the last stages of hydrophobia.
Despite the fact that face bites are
half a dozen of our men with them.
These I ordered to return to camp,
which they did at once. When the
row was precipitated very soon after
wards. thcro were crowds of our men
standing around With the members of
other regiments, ’seeing the fun,'
e love to take liberties
with Nature, doing and daring feats which
tend to change the plan of the Universe.
We do not realize that for every such
liberty taken. Nature will provide some
form of revenge in order to teach us that,
clever as we are, we may Improve on
some of Nature’s methods, but we can
not entirely change her plans with impu
nity. The slaughter of the. forests is one
example of this principle. When the
hills, from whence the streams and rivers
flow, are protected by forest covering,
rain and snow are protected from the
direct rays of the sun, much of the water
is slowly absorbed by the earth, and de
structive freshets are unknown. The for
est covering Is removed by the hand of
man and nothing now prevents the
full force of .the falling rain and melting
snow from rushing down the watercourses
in a race for the ocean. The results are
excessive Roods and freshets. loss of life
and property, and tons of silt and gravel
carried into the navigable rivers, blocking
their channels and Nature laughs a hear
ty laugh at her revenge.
considered the most dnngerous. the expressed it. One of these, Mc-
phvslclsns have hopes of saving the Elveen. of the Second South Carolina,
child's life ' who was near the front of the crowd,
(was arrested as#one of the ring-lead-
Switchman Killed. : ers - but at the hearing the next day
• TT V ^ TA j ulv s —James E Her- ' h® was released, as the evidence
.u o witVhnnn /in th» showed most conclusively that he was
Railway, was killed at an early hTar ! onder"! mintm>rehe*nslo
"’n o?d° r varS» "'ho winding '£n I '^ateolutely wi'thoTtjlf.either In
iop of n box car whon a suddcn lur?h | the difficu,ty or in kefp -
of the train threw him between two
cars- where he was crushed to death. I
He lived at 1H Mill street. He Is sur
vived by his wife and two daughters, j
Prohibitionists May Put Out Ticket.
ATLANTA. July 6.— There is a
movement on foot among the prohibi
tion element In Atlanta to get the
City Democratic Executive Committee
.i-dlled together for the purpose of
I ing it up.”
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j American Forestry {
There is hardly a person in the United
States at the present time whose busi-
vocati.on or employment does
, • \ i n, ' ss ' vocation or employment does not
changing the da** of he local P r| Tary depend in some degree upon its forests,
from Ausnest • to somet.me In Sep- y e t very few of them have considered
There is perhaps no subject before the
general public today where public opinion
is based so completely upo n misinforma
tion. or an entire lack of knowledge of
the problem in hand as that of forestry,
and yet it bids fair to produce the
most vital problem of the nation In years
to come. Perhaps the most Important
claim made today by professional for
esters Is that tree growth may properly
be treated as a crop, to he planted, de
veloped and harvested, much as other
crops are grown, though under .rules
which apply specifically to tree growth.
—Lumbermans Review. June, 1907
When it is announced from Washington
that an area of land has been added to
the Government's forest reservations
which does not at present support a pro
lific and mature tree growth, a great hue
and cry is raised against the general for
estry plan of the Government on the
ground that there must he a great ele
ment of graft behind any vwvement
which would invest the people's money
In land that Is nearly, if not quite, bar
ren of tree growth. Certainly the farm
er docs not insist upon Ills prospective
farm being covered with fully developed
crops before he buys it. He wants to
know that the soil is strong and fertile
and will produce desired crops. It is just
this latter feet that encourages our tree
farmers at Washington to go into Xebras-
ton mill products alone worth $70,000,000.
With the forest cover removed, this wa
ter becomes not productive, but descruct-
ive. Fields are buried or eroded, and
mills, factories, railroads and homes
washed away. Here, in a single year,
over JIS.OOO.OOO worth of property was
destroyed by floods.
In the White Mou.wains rise the Con
necticut, Merrimac, Saco, and Ondro-
scoggin. watering all the New .England
States except Rhode Island. In the South
ern Anpalaehians rise the important riv
ers of the South which water practically
all of the States south of the Ohio and
Potomac and east of the Mississippi.
The Merrimac “Rhine of America.” sup
ports a population of 359.000. with prop
erty assessed at $240,000,000. It drives
mills wo-th $100,000,000. employing an-
nuallv 80.000 people earning $37.000,000
annually In wa'-es. Other river Interests
involved, including the Connecticut, are
vast, all depending upan the preservation
of the White Mountain forests.
Correspondence N. Y. Evening Post.
HONOLULU.—In some of its as
pects Honolulu is almost as much of
an anachronism as would be a Roman
Senator carrying a Waterbury watch
in his toga. To the impressionable
stranger entering her gates today she
somehow suggests the half-fledged
state of a man wearing evening clothes
ith tan shoes at an 11 o’clock break'
fast. If you know a nice, prime, tidy old
New England town—Kennebunk, Me.,
for instance—I can make a picture of
Honolulu for you by merely splashing
in a little tropical scenery for a back
ground.
Instead of the white picket fence of
the New England town, put in a tall
hibiscus hedge covered with heavy,
brilliant crimson blossoms the size of a
cocoanut. In place of the oaks or elms
growing in the front yard substitute
slender twisted cocoanut palms lean
ing perilously before the steady north
east trades. For the modest shrubs
growing in tubs, scatter about groups
of luxurian banyans. Where the fra
grant unobtrusive beds of pansies,
sweet Williams and violets grow along
the edge of the piazza and about the
steps, conceive great,- brilliant hued,
flowering plants of the tropics, whose
names I am not enough of a botanist
to know.
Now. imagine, if you can, a severely
plain New England house, but orna
mented with the architectural ginger
bread horrors of the late ’80’s, set in
this lush magnificence of sub-tropical
vegetation. The house of the banker
and the county judge would have an
avenue of royal palms instead of the
more common cocoanut. That is one
impression of Honolulu. As one might
say, a Salvation Army girl with her
cheeks painted and her eyebrows pen
cilled.
This is the one bill of complaint that
the visiting stranger with a passion
for the fitness of things can bring
against the citizens of Honolulu; that
when they came tot build their homes
they did not take advantage of their
scenic environment. The omission is
easily accounted for, The first white
settlers who came here were mission
aries from New England, and they
have made a deep impression on the
islands. When they came to build their
homes they built, the only sort of
houses they knew anything about. The
only concession made was in adding
deep, cool, shady lanais (porches) and
in subdividing the interior of the house-
into a? few rooms as possible.
The late comers followed the exam
pie of their predecessors, and did not
strike out along new lines. Unlike the
gay and artistic homes-builders of Vic
toria, B. C., they did not build for
themselves rambling bungalows and
bower them with creeping roses hnd
flowering vines. This isn’t to say that
Honolulu isn’t a delight to the eye. for
it is. But the people have not lived up
. DUN’S REPORT OF BANK CLEARINGS FOR JUNE.
Bank clearings in June, u reported by R. G. Dtw Sb Oa. show further development to
trade, total exchangee for the month, at all cities United States, outside New To ,
being $4,767,300,601, an increese of 7.7 per cent over feat year and 16.6 per cent over June,
1905. The increase Is mainly In the West There is still a loss in bank exchanges at New
York City, due to the much smaller volume of security trading and the much lower aecurt.y
▼sines this year than in either of th* two preceding years, and to some extent this condition
affects th* Boston and Philadelphia figures unfavorably, and this eauaes a small doorcase ta
the New England and Middle States. The increase at Pittsburg reflects the contiiwed
activity in the iron trade, and the large gain at Chisago and other leading
Western cities reflect the greater activity in grain and higher grain valnee,
though trade in all lines ia very active at the Went mid payments prompt.
There is an increase at Baltimore. Cincinnati and St Louis, but a small loss at New Orleans
and Louisville. San Francisco and other Pacific coast points report a large him naan in ex
changee. The average dally figures include New York City bank exchanges, and the amount
at New York Is so large and the loss so heavy, that a decrease in the average daily figuras ap
pears in the comparison with last year for every month but March, that month being the
only month this year in which New York reports a gain, and the only month this year in
which stock trading was more active than in the preceding year. Compared with 1905 aver
age daily bank exchanges for the year to date show normal conditions. Comparison ia made
below of bank exchanges by sections covering three years; also the average daily figures ice
the year to data:
JCX*. 1907. 1906. P.C. 1906. P. C
New Knglan.1 *737,609ATI S7SP.796-542 - 0.3 ± H
Middle... 979 387.590 1,006,669^28 _ 2.7 +,So
9oolh Atlantic 237-541.070 320.420.494 + 3.5 J2».«2.S5S 4-19.0
Southern . 53PJ79.739 469.1S4.385 +9.3 4,,. 1>9i! 19 +11-4
Central West.... 1.HS.101.2S3 1,33434+238 +13.4 -['—‘J
Western 42H.119.I.60 343.8S6.186 +24.0 315.G9\l95
pacific SOS.467.302 299,203.482 -r’24-4 2S3 338-510 +90-0
Total $4,767,300,664 *1,426.292.65,5 + 7.7 $4,069.872 594 +1M
New York City 0,889.172.984 7,810,2903587 —1S.2 * 6,73o.310.I19 — s - 4
United States $11,136,479,028 $13,242,513,432 - 9.8 $102525,183,711 + 3.C
Average dally:
June $441,511X00 $470,097,000 — 6.1 $416,353X00 + 6.0
Mav 475,907,000 006.820,000 — 6.5 484.2753100 + 2.5
Anni”... 4S5.32H.IHW 515X593*00 — 6.9 AOit-S+WWO —4-7
March 565,629.000 461.303.000 +17.5 *05.3s3xe0 +21.8
February 535.201.000 50rt.433.iWi) — 5.5 4c-l.o»S.()00 +10.rt
January:. 377,031.000 827,705X00 — S.1 473,902.000 +21.8
In tho South Atlantic States there is again a further improvement In the June reportof bank
exchanges, reflecting better conditions in that section on account of more seasonable weather
and better ootton crop prospects, but at some points exchanges still show a decrease. The
larger volume of payments through the banks is shown by the increase at Baltimore. Rich
mond, Norfolk. Atlanta, Maooo, Oolombus and Jacksonville. The figures in detail are
printed below:
JON*. 1907. 1906. P. a - IMS P. a
Balctruore #123.969.022 «110.842.27G + 3.6 *03.783.596 +25.4
Washington — 26.529.806 26,545.767 — .1 fJ.049ASl -flj-g
Richmond 28X57,986 24,800»«W + 2.S 22,I48,°75 + 14 -5
Norfolk Il.06o.s73 9.698180 +15.0 t 7,981.635 +88. i
•Wltmingtoa... 1,333 410 2.181.307 -11-1 ............
Charleston 4.880.000 4.540,«15 ----- 1 ,4X01.878
3avanuah...... 124169-196 14,1:24)76 —10.6 10i f) i ■ —— 2.—
Atlanta 18,139,300 16.tM9.407 + 9.2 12.554,6« +44.«
4 783 505 5,207.909 - 8.1 £5*2-320 -31.0
Malodn ....... 3-385.603 17557.259 +2S.5 ’ 1,616.76* +31.3
Dotumbus 1.299381 1.141342 +13.8 +613
Jacksonville... 6325.996 5,468.(91 +19.3 4,712.019 +3SA
Bo. AUasOc.. *337X41X70 *229,430,494 + 3.5 $199,622,383 +16M
'-‘Emitted from total
Erosion, following denudation, deposits
annually untold volumes of silt and rub
bish in rivers and harbors. Congress
annually appropriates millions for river
and harbor improvements, for digging out
these deposits and for raising the levees
of the Mississippi. France suffered a
similar experience. After spending $15,-
000.000 she has planned to spend $20,000.-
000 more in attempting to remedy im
perfectly the mischief resulting from
mountain deforestation. In such cases,
an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of
curd.
Millions of capital are being invested
in the South in industries and in bonds of
water-power companies, both dependent
upon' the preservation of the water-pow
ers. With the forests cut these invest
ments will become worthless.
ternber. with a view to putting In tha | seriously the relation of the forests , . .. —-
field a full ticket of prohibition candt- I ’-heir Individual welfare, nor do they re-| r ^70>n-
d.-iTo* Whether it will succeed or pot 1 Eli *e the many methods, direct and indi- “
le problematical. This movement is ! reo i- by which the forests play as im-
ir Hne with the recent threat of the commercial prosperity
Len. G. Broughton that all of ■hose' nation.
I mend the development of forest acreas
upon vast stretches of land where the
promise is for a full crop of-“trees. If
ijauuii< the ground will produce trees, there is
-------- . - f Paper manufacturers consume enough i am Pl© tt ere 3?* a
members of council who votpd for the of our forest products each vear to build j ^rontable market for thein when they
Berutell resolution urging the defoot of a lanre city in its entirety; turpentine i for- harvesting. By all means
g#cte prohibition movement, would I m&nu^facturers are slowly but surely ex- j ^ * e *u tr * ee +^ arri ^ crs $ * ve a _/ iand
bntrf oonoVlUcn. terminating the Ion* l^af pine in the 1° P ut
* ~ South; JeiegTaph and telephone poles de- j German Review, June, 1904.
Tho Appalachian Forest Reserve ques
tion is not local or State, but National.
The problems involved arc inter-state.
The evils of denudation affect most se
riously distant communities and the Na-
. , - , %Aj-n wy.L e.*L. stroy thousands of young: trees annually:
Atlanta Lady Will Play With Sothern. , railroads devastate more than 200.000
ATLANTA, July 6.—Miss Gladys acres of timber land to secure each year’s
Hanson Snook daughter of P. h. supply of ties; the box maker, the cooper,
Qnnok i well-known Atlanta business I the furniture, piano and vehicle manu-
" Vine alirned » rnntr facturer utilize millions of feet of forest riously distant communities and the Na-
man. hns signea a ^ct to piay I products every 12 months; and all those; tion itself. The States containing the
tnrough ali oi next season witn kj. H. | manufacturers who do not directly utilize : forests cannot be expected to reserve them
Sothcr In Shakespenan roles. Miss forest products in their business’depend i for the benefit of other States: while
Snook whoscs stage name is Glady's ! upon them for many thousands of crates States outside the forest area, but suffer-
TTar.son but recently went upon the end boxes in which their manufacturers ing from the denudation, are powerless
»nd has made a <*ucce-=s from ' are distributed throughout the world. ] to help themselves. The Nation alone
I- »ice Atiem* ^ i can act. Sixteen Western States and
tap-v.rtr. in Atlanta at present FotIr hundred vears ago there lived in i Territories, containing a population of
rn a \lrit to her flunllj. I France one Bernard Paliasv. famous in 110.447.S98. now have 144.313.495 acres of
; historv as the "Potter of the Tuilleries “' national forests: tile remainder of the
Child Died of Burns. who. in addition to the manufacture of | States, with a population of 73,494,112,
ATLANTA, July 6.—D. S. Eng'.and. j excellent pottery, was a noted phllos- i aavo none,
the two and a half ~ ’
to the stage setting provided !by
bountiful nature. One peers about
eagerly and in vain for the grass huts
and semi-nude natives of the picture
postcards. It Is in the people, their
mode of life, and the customs of their
hospitality that one finds the typical
island life, rather than in the houses,
whose architecture has been drawn
from the “missionary spirit.”
Asiatic Preponderance.
Looked down upon from a balloon
Honolulu might be any New England
seaport town of 50,000 people, were it
not for background of volcanic hills
and mountains and the fronds of the
cocoanut palms silhouetted against the
blue color of the sky. The church
spires of every American town rige
from the greenery. In the business
section of the town’ there are modern
shops and office buildings of the same
type to be seen in every American
city. The streets are macadamized
and traversed by an excellent system
of trolley cars. It is only in the pic
turesque street life .and the prepon
derance of Asiatics that one first sees
difference from things as they are at
home. Delicate iittle adventures em
broider the routine of the day.
One day an automobile taking us out
to "Waikiki and around Diamond Head
suffered a mishap to its interior econ
omy opposite the aquarium. I went in
to see the preposterous fishes, leaving
the chauffeur to dree his weird alone.
The aquarius building is simply two
bisecting corridors with a rough-hewn
stone 'basin full of goldfish set into the
ground in the center of the building.
Seated on the low stone coping of
this basin was a captivating little
family party; a Chinese mother wear
ing brightly embroidered silk trousers
and a dtill green brocaded coat made
after the simple fashion of the jacket
of a pair of pajamas. She had jade
pieces set in gold about her neck. With
her were two of the tiniest, cleanest,
most gayly bedecked little Chinese ba
bies ever seen off the sides of a tea
jar. Each of them held a huge ship’s
biscuit in his chubby fist, feeding
crunibs to the goldfish. The woman
knew a few words of English, and I
invited myself to the party] The little
ones shared their provender with me,
and cackled softly when the voracious
fish would rise almost out of the water
to snap at the falling crumbs. No one
ever thinks of a Chinaman as laughing
in enjoyment of such simple scenes,
yet three who came In were reduced to
audible chuckling over the play of the
children and my effort to establish lin
gual communication with the mother.
Honolulu has about 50.000 inhabit
ants, of whom about only 7.000 are
white: The others are Japanese, Cf i-
nese, Hawalians. Portuguese, Koreans,
Porto Ricans, and various permuta
tions and combinations thereof. There
are a few negroes in the city, but I
did not see one of them. Local and
long-di3tance telephone wires are
strung all about the city: there is
wireless communication with the other
islands of the group and cable connec
tion with the United States.
Honolulu Newspapers.
Three excellent daily newspapers are
printed in English. They receive & ca
ble report of one hundred words daily
from the mainland: fifty words in the
morning and fifty words in the after
noon. One -day the principle item in
this dally news report was this strik
ing piece of intelligence:
MADRID. May 11.—The young
Prince of Asturias is a blonde.
Here are some other samples of the
suffered from infections brought by
ships. They have dearly purchased
the knowledge of the value and neces
sity of sanitation.
Life is not the savage competition
here that it is at home. The stream
of affairs moves drowsily between
pleasant banks. No one lets business
interfere with pleasure. The people
take plenty of time to divert them
selves as one golden sunlit day and
soft silvery night succeeds another.
Out at Waikiki they have a wonderful
curved crescent of hard white beach
with blue seas booming in ceaselessly.
Every day In the year the surf is full
of bathers. The little children living
in the cottages along the beach front
spend their entire days in the milk-
wdrrn water, Instead of on their green
lawns. By the time they are six they
move about in the water with the un
conscious skill of fishes.
Surf Riding.
At Waikiki there is practiced a sport
which can be found only in the south
ern Pacific. This is surf riding. This
may be done in an outrigger canoe or
on a surf board. One paddles far out
beyond the line of breakers to where
the great combers begin to form and
uprear their crested heads. Then seiz
ing the right moment the canoe is
driven furiously towards the shore un
til it is caught on the crest of a wave
and driven shoreward with a dizzying
velocity. It is a ride that makes a to
boggan slide seem almost tame. With
the surf boards the Kanaka boys spring
upright as soon as they are- caught up
by the waves, and come sliding inshore
apparently standing on the crest of the
wave, like some young water god, their
olive-hued bodies glistening with spray
and shining in the sun.
Gay, But Not “Fast.”
Honolulu has the reputation of being
a gay place. It is. but without being
“fast.” In the old days it welcomed
every newcomer warmly and did not
inquire too closely about his or her
credentials. Steamer days are still
marked with a red ring on the calen
dar. Al! the tide of travel between
the Pacific coast and the Far East and
Australia halts for a day and a night
at Honolulu, both going out and com
ing back again. There is always danc
ing at the hotels In the evening when a
steamer comes in. There are fights
and music, soft laughter and bright
eyes to entertain the visitor, even
though he come for but a da'y, for these
are a pleasure loving people, and much
given to a generous hospitality.
E. G. Xi.
ATLANTA, Ga., July 6.—The follow
ing military staff changes are sched
uled to be made at an early date by
Governor Smith: Hon. W. B. m'c-
Cants, of Winder, will be named as
commissary general of subsistence,
with tho rank of colonel. The position
is now held by Col. Morris Weslosky.
of Albany. Capt. Barry Wright, of
Rome, a lawyer, will' be appointed as
judge advocate general with the rank
of colonel, succeeding Col. Geo. M.
Napier, of Atlanta. Col. Harry Sil
verman, of Atlanta, will be succeeded
as quartermaster general by Hon. H.
H. Fitzpatrick, of Madison. Morgan
County. It is practically certain that
the Governor will name as aides-de-
camp on his military staff Capt. John
A. Clark, of Augusta: Lieut. Rodney
Cohen, of Augusta; Hon. J. A,. Horn,
of Milledgeville; Hon. S. M. Clyatt, of
Tifton; Hon. Floyd A. Scales, of ,
Waynesboro.
The military code of 1905. which now
regulate the National Guard of Georr
gia, limits the Governor’s staff to for
ty-eight members, twenty-eight, of
whom wifi be aides-de-camp, with the
rank of lieutenant colonel.
THE WINE REVOLT IN FRANCE.
The Aopnlaehian area includes the
White Mountains of New Hampshire and
the great ranees of the ■ South. It
touches the States of Maryiand, Vir-
West Virginia. North Carolina.
South Carolina. Georgia. Alabama and
Tennessee, and affects the entire Ohio
Valley.
How Teddy Trie* ’Em Out.
Mr. Dooley in the American Magazine.
“It looks to me as though 'feddy was
thryin’ in a bunch iv green mortormen
to see whether they cud run th’ car
th’ way he wants it run. He skipped
Fairbanks, who niver dbrove anything
befure but a mule team. He cudden’t
stand f’r Foraker because he only
wanted to stop to let passengers on at
th’ alleys. He thried Root, but Root
hauled up at ivry crossing. An’ now
he’s thrying out Taft.
“Look at thim cornin' up th’ street.
Taft knows th’ brakes well, but he
ain’t very familyar with th’ power.
‘Go ahead.’ says Rosenfelt. ‘Don’t stop
here. Pass that there banker by. He’s
on’y wan fare. There’s a crowd iv
people at th’ next corner. Stop f’r thlm
an’ give thim time to bet aboord. Now
start th’ car with a jump so they’ll
know something is goln’ on,
“ ‘Go fast, by Wall sthree an’ ring
th’ gong., but stop and let thim get
aboord whin they’re out iv breath, j news of the outer world as" served in
Gowan now. Who’s that ol’ lady stand- tabloid form to the residents of the
in’ in th' middle lv th’ sthreet wavin’ |sl ___
an umbrelly? Oh, be hivlns, 'tls th | I an almost judicial air by the °care
Explanation And Analysis Of A Nearly
Revolutionary Crisis.
From the New York Sun.
The agitation for Government relief
of the vine growing industry in South
ern France, which was started some
weeks ago by an obscure viticulturist,
one Marcelin Albert, has gradually ac
quired formidable proportions.
What are the grievance? They may
be reduced to one, namely, the low
price obtainable for the wines on the
production of which the natives of
Southern France mainly rely for their
support. It is doubtless true that the
prevailing prices for most of the wines
produced in the four departments of
Herauit. Aude, Haute Garonne and
Pyrenees Orientales are so low that
they do not afford the cultivator
margin of profit above the cost of
production. The disastrous decline in
values is imputed by the vine growers
to the competition of adulterated or
fabricated wines, which undoubtedly
have flooded the Fbrench market for
some years. Cette, the Mediterranean
port which lies in the heart of the re
gion concerned in the present agita
tion, has itself long been a notorious
offender on this score. So far as this
grievance is concerned the French Par
liament has passed law after law in
tended to abate it, and the present
Minister of Finance has expressed a
willingness to introduce supplemental
legislation on the subject. The legisla
tion, however, is certain to encounter
opposition on the part of- the potato
growers and beet root cultivators of
France, who furnish the material out of
which artificial wines and brandies are
made. Some Paris newspapers suggest
that the vine growers of Southern
France should be looked upon as the
victims of a catastrophe and should re
ceive a Government subsidy proi«
cities and large towns, they have for
two or three decades shown themselv»s
Inclined to prefer a small glass of :i+v
spirits to a bottle of ordinary wine.
The shrinkage of demand has been at
tended with a surplus of supply. For
some years the wine growers of the
Midi have had to compete with extra
ordinary harvest garnered in the vine
yards of other section^ of France. In
stead of taking warning from the
shrinkage in consumption and from the
excess of competitive production to re
duce their own acreage In vines and to
devote a considerable fraction of their
lands to mixed crops, they have con
tinued to rely solely on their vineyards
for a livelihood, with the result that
almost all the viticulturists in the four
departments above named are poor and
many, of them are starving.
What is to be done now that, owing
to the sweeping resignation of the civil
authorities s state of things scarcely
distinguishable from anarchy exists
t.-.roughout the \<-hole of the country
formerly known as Languedoc? Ex per
rience has taught French statesmen
that owing to the excitable tempera
ment of their countrymen it is but a
short step from dislike of a given Min
istry- to angry repudiation of a political,
regime.
NAT THORNTON WON
TENNIS CHAiVWIONSHIR
ATLANTA. Ga.. July 6.—Nat Thorn
ton, of Atlanta, won the Southern ten
nis championship in singles today, de
feating Hugh Bates, of Cincinnati, in
three straight sets. 6-4: 6-2; 6-1. The
victory today entitles Thornton to the
title of champion of the South in his
class, as Reuben Hunt, of California,
the former holder of the honor, was
not present to defend his title.
Thornton and B. M. Grant in double
contest defeated Rogers brothers In
three straights as 6-3; 6-3: 7-5.
In the mixed doubles. Miss Logan
and B. L.ogan, of New Orleans, defeat
ed Miss Evans and L. D. Scott, 6-2;
7-5; 6-3. They then captured thp
championship from Miss Brown and
Sam Williams, of Atlanta, 6-2: 6-3:
613. The consolation singles. Carietor.
Smith beat Victor Smith 6-3; 8-6. H" 1
completed his day’s work by defeating
C. M. Ramspeck 6-3; 6-4.
Thornton will probably play- at the
fall tennis tournament at Newport for
national honors.
Wife Selling in England.
Fifty years ago. writes a reader of
a London paper, is by no means the
most recent date of wifet-sellliM* in
England, for even as late as the
, eighties such cases were by no means
I infrequent and the thing was given
England is a | tvjt when I had written down a great j in from 10 to 35 vt ars.
, number, I did perceive that there could ; New Hampshire S4.000 acres have been
I be no end of my writing, and having made completely bar-en in the last 15
j diligently considered. I found there was vears. "Manv lumbering towns and
not any which could be followed without l smaller cities have collapsed from the
wood.” The same is true today. j exhaustion of the forests.
Justice Cobb's Probable Successor.
ATLANTA, July 6.—Political prog-
r> jjtieators who are speculating upon
the probable successor to Justice An
drew J. Cobb, of the Supreme court,
i tie appointed by Governor Hoke I upon the soil.
Smith, .ire talking at present of
prominent Georgians in this
.ion. One o. these .s Henry O. ^Peeples, t person who lives many- hundred mileslmous value in manufacturing, the Carol!-
in able lawyer ana Mr bmith s .orm- 1 away from a forest, and whose property’nas and Georgia annually producing cot-
The indiscriminate cutting and desirue- | Upon the Southern Appalachians de-
tion of our forest*, by reason of its effect j scends a rainfall s- oond In volume only
— *' —" climate .via topography, to that of the Northern Pacific coast
f several i ** direct cause of disastrous results ' Eight inches have fallen in 11 hours,
connee- i wh,ch arp of financial Interest to every ' inches In r month, and 105 in a ye
I citizen and to every- community. The ! This water, utilized as power, is of en
i cf-PlCfc, 1 nAVCfltl sgb rt Hi.mm — — .w. I I I — _ — - 1 _ _ J .. n 4..—1 —. —a A 1. a
In^ Northern | handle that ye can remove to subjoo
’ riochous passengers.
“An' there ye ar-re. A fine lot Iv
men Fr anny Raypublican to choose
fr'm an' an akelly fine fist fr him to
reject fr’m. He can take his pick an’
be sure that he can make no mistake,
f’r no matther who th' candydate iv
th’ Raypublican party that you an’ I,
Hinnissy. will be bound be our love iv
Political and economic
of great importance,
forbid the French Gov-
adopt this solution of the
that the lowness of the
able by the wine growers
France for their product is
much disorder. | largely due to two causes, for one of
ASTORIA, May 12.—The Whangho ! which they are themselves responsible,
is probably wrecked on the bar. ! In the first place the consumption of
A Clean City. j wines in Central and Northern France
Honolulu Is a clean city. The sur- ! ha s undergone in recent years a re-
geon-general of the United States army ! markable curtailment. In those parts
has declared it the second healthies": I of the French Republic the habit t\
post at which regular troops are sta- i taking wine at breakfast and at dinner
tioned. The city has learned by expe- j has long ceased to foe universal, and
rience the high cost it must pay in ' the substitution of cider, beer, coffee
lives for uncleanliness. Diseases of the j or filtered water is going on apa
counthry ant* thro.uble to throw bricks j _ |
at next year, his right name will be ; torrid zone are swift and terrible in I among the professional and shopkeep-
Teddy Rosenfelt.” „ All of the ports of these islands haye ing classes.
purchaser with
halter around her neck. Thomas
Hardy, however, who has made the
sale of a wife the theme of his novel.
“The Mayor of Casterbridge,” says
nothing of any such conditions.
As kite as 18S7 a wife was sold in
a halter at Wakefield for half a
guiena, while three years before two
cases were reported from York in the
same week. As a general rule it was
only the poor and ignorant who fol
lowed this practice: but at least one
case is on record in which the- wife
(duly haltered) and her husband
drove up to Smfthfield in a coach, and
the price reached the record figure of
fifty guineas and a handsome horse.
“I sell my wife at Smiffel. ros-bif,
pot of beer, God-dam” was the ignor-
ant Frenchman's view of English. And
As for the workmen in he was s&t fSB —