kil l reform heeded.
f Mr. Jordan Profoundly Improssed
by what Ho Saw
Ob His Trip to the Foreign Cotton
Centres, Makes Powerful Plea for
Reform in Handling Cotton.
No word has been spoken in regard
to tbe handling and shipping of cotton
is of more vital interest to the
Southern farmer than that which we
are reprinting on this page from
President Harvey Jordan's recent, article
in the Baltimore Manufacturer's
Record. What Mr. Jordan Bays is
not guess work. He went abroad to
see ana nna out things that affect the
price of the Southern farmer's cotton,
and he has written the results
of hie Investigation. As long as the
American farmer sends abroad two
out of three bales of cotton that he
raiseB, the foreign buyer will be a
factor in fixing the price that the
farmer cannot ignore. And when it
is demonstrated, as Mr. Jordan demonstrated
it, that the shabby clothes
our King Cotton wearB when he
is abroad stimulates the cultivation
of the staple in foreign countries and
that ragged cotton bales abroad make
ragged cotton farmers at home, it is
high time our growers were taking
up in dead earnest the matter of
enforcing a superior and more attractive
method of covering and handling
their export cotton. But wc
will give Mr. Jordan's presentation
of the matter, and nothing we have
printed on the subject is better worth
your serious reading. He says:
The average grower of cotton in
the Southern States has been educated
to believe that cotton of good
quality and in large quantities can
be grown only in America, and that
therefore it made no particular difference
as to how badly the cotton
crop was handled, the spinning world
had to take it and make the best of
it.
There is no doubt upon my mind
that we are in error as regards the
idea that foreign countries do not
possess land and climatic conditions
favorable to the production of the
bent grades of cotton in large quantities.
The trouble in more rapidly
Increasing the production of foreign
grown cotton lies in unfavorable
climatic conditions as it does in the
education of the people in those countries
where cotton could be grown to
tako hold of the industry and push it.
In Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Australia,
Egypt, India, Mexico, South Africa
and other countries where the
staple can he grown by natives are
as yet but semi-civilized and where
Din iew or me moaern luriiuies tor
agriculture and transportation have
been introduced.
Anyone who will take the pains to
carefully investigate the imports of
cotton from all sources into Great
Brltan and the Continent each year
will soon ascertain that a large number
of countries are now growing cotton
and that the annual production
of these foreign cottons, is increasing
and In some sections to an amazing
degree. While these shipments,
aside from Egypt and India, are not
large, still so many small shipments
are beginning to foot up largely in
the aggregate. India alone produced
In the past yeur 4,000,000 bales of
cotton, weighing on an averuge of
400 pounds per bale. This is as large
as the American cotton crop was a
few decades ago. One large firm.
Piatt Bros. & Co., which I visited in
Manchester, alone turns out annually
3,000 new gin out tits, none of
which comes to America, hut all are
shipped out to meet the demands of
other countries.
Undoubtedly the South holds a
commanding positiou in the predominating
supply of the. world's cottAn
and will perhaps always maintain her
prestige, but American cotton is
bought by foreign spinners under
protest, and only after similar grades
of foreign-grown cotton has been exhausted,
not because foreigners are
prejudiced ^against American-grown
cotton, hut oitjause of the had manner
in whiciiAmerican cottou is haled
and delivered ^abroad.
American Cotton is the only cotton
in the world Vhere every hale
is sampled and carefully examined
through which it passes from *he
local cotton buyer in the interior, on
through the hands of the foreign cotton
merchant, and finally by the
spinners under the roofs of their
mills. It is the onlv cotton in the
world where grades in the same bale
are not uniform and where deductions
have to be made for "country
damage." If the growers and handlers
of American cotton do not. reform
the present method of delivering
our cotton abroad, it will only
tend to intensify the determination
of foreign spinners to induce a larger
production of cotton in other countries.
I make this plea in behalf of
American cotton after having visited
the great cotton centers of Europe
and personally investigated the facts
herewith recorded.
I personally inspected large cotton
warehouses at Venice, Bremen, Manchester
and Liverpool. At every
point visited, accompanied by my associate,
Mr. Walter Clarke, of Misslsippi,
we were shown every courtesy
by the large 'cotton merchants,
the members of the exchanges, and
shown through all the warehouses
we cared to Inspect av.u freely given
all the Information we wished.
Everywhere, in response to our
questions as to American cotton bales
V compared with other cotton, the an
I swers .were the same, namely, that
American cotton was generally received
In bad condition; that it reN&
quired more sampling, carried highS?^k
er rates of Insurance, heavier tare,
|||^L expensive arbitration and losses from
what is termed country damugg or
rot. Everywhere we were uuked if
the American bale could not he reajflpBaMk
formed. We had fine opportunity of
judging comparisons, as we found
thousands of bales of American cotton
stored Bide by side with thousands
of bales of foreign-grown cotton*
E^Sq9|H^^^ The American bales were cut to
Qffi?m^B^Wieces from numerous sampling, I he
B^BgggQB^Hnt hanging out from these j.igged
BQBBHBg^klcK. while the jute bagging in
SH90H9g^^ch the hales were originally wrapwas
torn, cut and hanging in
I^DBK^R^^Bds. The bales were neither unifl^HH9ftHB|^Kin
length, breadth or thickness.
other hand, the cotton receivother
countries was haled in
n?HHR|9HMB^M,kagrH. wrapped In closelyH^HBBnSNR^^tnvas
and of uniform size.
|HHBMHj5K9B|^B bale in t?n, as a is
foreign cotton, while the
Hj^HKHflNKuHE^Kidiing. rate of inBurauce,
less as compared with
mH9RBSHRHER|^^^Wton, and no arbitrations
RHKEfflffiKBSaSHKi^Ldtimage." As a Southand
a close observnHBnraH&oiiodly
impressed by I
f . a
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
A Doctor and His Wife Held on Serious
Cliargc.
A dispatch from Raleigh. N. C.. ^
says an indictment was rendered by
the grand Jury of Wake county
against Dr. D. S. Rowland and wife,
who have been in jail charged with
the murder of Engineer Charles R. 1
Strange of the Seaboard Air Line
rail way.
Tk. J-.**- O. - "
11*3 ucam ui oirange occurred in
March, and in six weeks his widow
married Dr. Rowland. Evidence at
the coroner's inquest showed inti- \
macy between Rowland and the wo- 1
man, but no trace of poison was 1
found in Strange's stomach. 1
Rowland had a few days before 1
been released after arrest for the al- ,
leged murder of his youug son.
A YOl'NCJ lilFKSAVER. 1
1
Master Robert Dougherty. Rescues a |
Ruby From Drowning. I
Robert Daugherty, aged twelve j
years, whose home is on Fayette <
street, Cumberland, Md., Thursday ]
saved the two year old son of Mr. l
Isreul Morgan, of Cumberland, from <
drowning in the Potomac river.
The child had wandered down
Johnson street to the edge of the
river, and young Daugherty saw hip
fall in. He rushed into the water 1
and rescued tho child after he had
gone under twice. 1
these revelations, and I sincerely
trust that, my exposition of tho facts >
stated will have some tendency in
turning the tide of sentiment in the '
South in favor of Improving the ,
American bale, which under existing
methods is costing Southern cotton
growers a heavy penalty for their
apparent indifference.
We were shown through the ware- 1
houses of the Manchester Ship Canal
by the president of the Association.
Mr. Robinson. Here we found the
finest warehouse facilities in the;
world, a solid warehouse nearly one
mile In length, four stories high, and ,
built entirely of reinforced concrete.
In one apartment of this warehouse is
a large space set aside for picking
American cotton bales of the so-called
"country damage" or rot. No 1
oother cotton shipped from any other 1
part of the world carries a loss for :
country damage. On the tracks on i
the outside of thl? wi-Unn .?r n...
warehouse I found ten car-loads of
cotton being unloaded to be sent Into
.this section for picking on account of
damage, l found that all of this particular
lot of cotton came from Memphis.
Some of the bales being pick- ]
ed showed a loss nof at least 2b0 i
pounds to the bale in solid rot.
Upon ni> inquiry as to who stood j
these heavy losses, which was due
entirely to the storing of this cotton ,
during the past winter on the streets '
of .Memphis, I was amazed to find j
that the marine insurance companies
paid all losses from country damage '
on American cotton, i naturally sup- '
posed that the cotton factors or ex- J
porters of this damaged cotton from j
Memphis would stand some loss on ?
account of their negligence in allow- ,
ing these (tales to rot on the streets .
of Memphis, but I found that the insurance
companies paid the full damage,
and that the cotton shippers *
from Memphis got full pay for every |
bale they shipped, whether damaged '
or in good condition. 1
I then decided to call on the ofli- 1
cers of some of the largest marine ]
insurance companies in Livrpool. 1 \
met several of them the next day and
was Informed that what I had heard ,
was substantially correct, and that
the insurance companies protected :
themselves by charging a high rate ]
on American cotton. They said that 1
affidavits were made by American !
shippers that cotton was damaged af- j
ter it was insured, and they had no \
recourse but to pay. 1
The point which I wish to make .
is that this excessive tate of insurance
on American cotton made to
pay damages of cotton improperly
cared for is one of the fixed charges (
which the growers have to pay and 1
for which they are in no wise respon- 1
slide, as cotton sold by farmers in a |
damaged condition is usually picked
at the local warehouses when the j
purchase by the buyers is made. We |
should have some stringent laws
aiong tnis line which will force the v
large cotton centres of the South to ?
more properly store and protect our '
cotton from these heavy losses. i
Never before in the history of the i
cotton trade has such activity been i
displayed in the building of new cot- (
ton mills in the Lancashire strict j
and elsewhere Millions of new spindles
an? being put in annually, and j
new mills can be seen going up on J
every hand. The foreign spinners are J
making more money than ever be- 1
fore, and their only fear is that at
the present splendid condition of the
business too many mills will be built
There is but little fear of lower 1
prices for either the raw materials
or thn^Jlnlshed product within the
next year or two, and there need be
no fear that every bale of good nor- (
nial crops of American cotton will c
not be damaged at good prices. The i
one essential thing for the Southern
grower to learn is to raise his food (
supplies largely at home, curtail the ?
credit business and begin at once to s
improve the present method of the {
baling, handling and delivery of his (
cotton to foreign parts. We should (
make the American bale of cotton as t
attractive from every standpoint as s
any other bale of cotton grown on
any other land in the world. This
should be so not only from a matter
of pride, but from the economic de- 1
mands of the present time in good (
business methods. # J
With these problems solved, we c
will l>e a long step forward on the ?
highway of bringing about still clos- ?
er relations between the growers and j'
spinners of American cotton.
The growers and spinners of Amer- r
lean cotton are more vitally interest- *
ed In the cotton industry than all i
others combined; hence It is eminent- <:
ly proper that these two interests 1
should cordially co-operate to the J
mutual advantage of each. c
Manchester spinners insist that 1
farmers first ship the cotton to Manchester,
and if grades are satisfactory
upon examination by their ex- '
pers, then the trade le consumated, *
but Ihey are very much opposed to
paying for cotton on this side before v
shipment. It seems to me. .therefore, a
that the growers must first inaugur- a
ale the reforms noted with respect to c
baling and delivery, build warehouses v
in which to store and finance their .
cotton, and get Into a position strong
enough to.demand such prices from 0
the buyers, whoever they may be, as *1
will secure for themselves a fair and F
Just profit upon the products of their p
labor. c
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FARM LABOR LAW.
udge Brawley's Decision Carried
to Supreme Court
rhc Present I^abor Situation is Said
to be One of Demoralization All
Over the St tfe.
A dispatch from Charleston says
the dicision of Jud^e Brawley declar
ing to oc invalid tne act 01 tne legislature
making the breach of a farm
labor contract a misdemeanor is to
be submitted to the supreme court
af the United States for a ruling.
In the office of the district court
today the necessary papers were filed
appealing from Judge Brawley's decision
and taking the case to the
highest tribunal. The papers were
filed by Attorney William Henry
Parker and W. St. Julien Jervey, acting
for Attorney General Lyon, with
whom they associated in the recent
hearing of the test case of Elijah
and Enoch Drayton, in which the
court rendered its decision and released
the negroes from custody.
A lenghty bill of exceptions, prepared
by the attorneys, is filed in the
case, setting forth the reasons for
the appeal. The court is held tj have
erred in taking the position that the
imprisonment of the negroes on the
chaingang for violating their contract
was a violation of tne thirteenth
and fourteenth amendments of
the constitution of the United States.
The view of the court is objected to
on the purpose of the act in question,
the bill of exceptions stating that "it
is respectfully submitted that both
the purpose and effect of the said
act is not to secure compulsory service
in the payment of a debt, but,
in the legitimate exercise of the polic
power of the State, to punish
crime in repressing fraud in the
breach o" a civil contract, and incidentally
thereby to prevent the commission
of such crime."
The court is held to have erred in
finding that "there is no essential
distinction between an act which
penalizes the breach of a contract
for personal service 'without sufficient
excuse to be adjudged by the
court' ard the act in question here
which penalizes such breach made
'wilfully and without cause,' that
is, fraudulently." It is pointed out
that there is "an essential difference
in the eye of the law between fraud
in the making or procuring of a contract
for personal service and fraud
in the failure to perform the same.
"The essence of the South Carolina
statute," it is declared, "is the rep- j
ression of the fraudulent practice of
breaking contracts of a personal
service of the kind indicated, that is.!
by laborers on farms lands 'wilfully
and witnout just cause* and incidentally
only to induce the performance
:>f stipulated service in liquidation
[>f the debt which was the consideration
for the promise."
The court is further held to have
?rrcd in holding that the breach of
a contract of personal service, even j
if dishonest and fraudulent, can not
be a crime under the constitution of
the United States and can not be;
penalized as such by any State in
this Union.
Error in judgment is also held in j
the construction of the court that
there shall be "neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude except as punishment
for crime, whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted," but
also that there shall not be "involuntary
fervitude" even for crime, if
the crime arise from the breach of
a contract of personal service.
In concluding, the bill of exceptions
states that the court "failed to
iistinguish between criminal legislation
for the purpose of preventing
fraud and incidentally inducing the
aborer not to commit fraud."
mi ?
i iit- case is a very interesting and
mportant one and its consideration
ay the supreme court will be followed
with much concern. The decision
if Judge Brawley declaring the State
aw unconstitutional caused much demoralization
of labor conditions on
iccount of the peculiar relations of
nuch of the farm labor to the farmer
and much pressure has been
brought to bear upon the attorney
general's oflice to press the case further
and if possible fecure a favorable
decision to sustain the farm labor
aw.
C AN'T I Id S T TI1I0M.
Vrmy mid Navy Itun Out All Japs
anil Chinese.
Following the policy of putting
>nly Americans on guard, it is understood
that orders have been issued
iorbidding employment of foreigners
on all military works at naval
stations. A similar order was issued !
?ome time ago relating to the embloyment
of foreigners on the ships j
>f the navy. This resulted in the dis:harge
of a large number of Japanese
and Chinese who had shipped as
stewards and in other minor capaci;ies.
The naval officers were rather sor y
to let them go, because of their
efficiency, but it was found that the
Iananese especially were using much
>f their time in making careful examination
of their ?hii?c onrl
%*??va ftUIIO
ind learning a lot about machinery,
>tc., which it was not supposed a
nere cook or cabin boy would care
o know.
The policy of depriving foreigners
>f this source of information has now
>een extended to the works on
American fortifications, and the news
:omes from Manila that a number of
Japanese who have l>een employed
>n the fortifications and also the 01mgapo
and Cavite naval stations
lave been discharged.
Army manoeuvors similar to those
vhich are going on this summer at 1
til the principal ports of this country
tre about to be conducted at Olong- 1
>po, where army and navy forces
vill join in an attack and defense of
hat place. That is for the purpose
>f developing the strength or weakless
of the meagre fortifications in
lace there now and to ascertain the
oints at which new defenses are nec-1
essary, |,
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^CLERK LOCKED IN. .
Flrenen Broke Open Big Vault to t
Rescue a Man. ..<jt
Locked in a vault for more th^\
an hoar, Joseph H. Daly, a clerk i?
the oftce of the Consolidated G J*
Electric Light and Power compai W
Baltimore, came very near smotht^V
Ing to death in the Continental Trui.l
building Thursday night, and hadi
not been for the prompt action of th^vl
police and flre departments In break- 1
ing open the vault, William E. Brash- (
ers, a fellow clerk, who locked him in 1
accidentally, would probably have 'i
passed the night in the station house \
with the charge of causing a fellow-t,
man's death laid at his door. I
As It was, when Daly was Anally ,
released, he was weak from his Ineffectual
efforts to free himself from 1
his plight. Daly and Brasher had
been detained at the ollice of the i
company during the evening. As they
were putting the records away,
Brashers said to Daly that It would
be a joke to lock Daly in the vault.
While bantering over the subject,
Brashers swung the vault door, the
lock snapped, and Daly was a prisoner.
Brashers was panic stricken. Tie
tried to work the combination on the
vault, but could not. Then he yelled
for the watchman. Next it was decided
to telephone to the police. The
police cnnie and then it was decided
j to call out the tire department.
The vault was surrounded bv.. a
six-inch wall of terra colt a and brick.
so the fire fighters got out their picks
and nxes and went to work digging a
hole In the vault. After an hour's
work they made a six-inch aperture,
through which they passed tools to
Daly. He was able to wrench the inside
of the lock apart and the door
flew open.
Daly staggered out so weak he
could hardly stand. He had been '
cramped in a standing position and '
had been unable to move or tuni <
around. An electric light burned n
the vault, and Daly felt that he woud
stiile before aid could reach him.
FATAL TO TliltlCK.
H
About Thirty Workmen Curried
Down With Structure. (
Three men are known to have bean j
killed, one was fatally hurt, and 18'i
others were injured in the collapse |
of a new concrete building Thursday
at the plant of Hridgman Brothers .
company, manufacturers of steam j
fitters' supplies, at 15th street and '
Washington avenue, Philadelphia.
About 30 workmen were carried l
down in the debris. i
The body of Marshal Hopkins ,
aged 4b years, and the bodies of Two" j
unidentified colored men have beea
taken from the ruins, it is believe*
there are others hurled under tha 1
heavy mass of concrete as the pc- 1
lice and contractors have not been <
able to locate two Italians and tlree <
colored laborers who were on the {
building when the accident occurred. <
The building, which was being |
erected as an annex to the Hridgunn j
plant, collapsed according to the sdluissions
of C. II. Miller, boss cui- 1
pouter, because the shortings w?re .
taken away from the concrete before '
it had properly set. A. S. Ite'ls,
trading as the Sheet Metal and ,C>rnlee
company, wus the contractor of
the building.
The structure was four stJufies
high and the heavy concrete crashed
down like an avalanche. Besides ^
those carried down in the fall, a
number of persons were struck l?y i
u> inrrrh ui uiv uuuuicif iiU'i tui
about the face and hands. . 1
But for a dispute between the
bricklayers' helpers and the contrac- i
tors as to wages the former were to ]
receive for hoisting brick to the top i
of the building after hours, an addi- .
tional number of workmen would ^
have been on the building when the j
building collapsed. 1
WILL HELP FAHMERS, ]
<
Edison Predicts That Nitrogen Will '
Come From-Air. 1
Thos. A. Edison predicts t>Jat before
long science would ena lo the !
farmer to enrich his lands by means !
of nitrogen from the air.
"The element necessary fo* mak- 1
ing land fertile," he said, "is nitro- J
gen, which exists in almost incxhaus- i
tible quantities in the atmosphere, j
Until recently, however, the utiliza- j
tlon of atmospheric nitrogen was re- v
garded as merely a laboratory de- \
monstration. Ilusiness men said it
could never be obtained cheap
enough to sell to the farmer as fertilizer.
f
"But the day is Just about :o dawn
when the air will be made to give its
nitrogen to the earth, and make it
yield more abundant harvest and
fatter herds of cattle. Tn Norway a .
plant has been established which has
been conducted with such pood results
that I expected to se</j|atmosphere
fertilizer on the markcLin this t
country within the next tenCjpars.
"That such a product will^oon he
imperatively necessary there is no
doubt. Every shipload of wheat and
corn which goes abroad leases the ,
United States so much poorer, not in '
gold, hut in nitrogen. !
"Sir William Groks. when he was
president of the British association ,
for the advancement of science,
prophesied that in another quarter h
of a century the earth would lie !
drained of nitrogen to sucn a degree
that there would be famine in many '
regions of the world. He may have
taken too discouraging a view of the
subject, but nevertheless his statement
had a true basis of fact.
"At the present time the bulk of .
the world's supply of nitrogen comes
from the saltpeter beds of Sotfth
America, but these are being dug up
so fast it will not be long before they
will be exhausted." ,
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l?OSKI> AS MRS. TII.IJMAN.
Ordered ? I>ot of .Jewelry to lie Scut
to the Hotel.
Representing herself ifa the tyife '
of United States Senator Benjamin x
Tillman, of Smith Carolina. Mrs. Isaholla
Loomis, of No. 8 West Tentli '
street, a woman of striking beauty,
wearing jew.els of value and hand- '
somely gowned, was arrested by .
I.ieutenant Andrew Nugent., of the
Central office as she was leaving a
Maiden Lane jewelry store. She is 1
charged with ordering jewelry and 11
goods of high value from Maiden
Lane stores, having them sent to 11
prominent hotel and then disappear- 1
Ing with the articles forwarded her. ^
Many a man's failure Is due to his y
being afraid to try. c
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Many a man who is fancy free jy
doesn't fancy his freedom. I
h.'i
WOMAN WHIPS TWO JAPS.
And Says She Gould Handle a IKntW
of Them.
A St. Louis dispatch says: "And
ire those the little chaps that think
;hey can whip the United States?
Why, I could handle a dozen of
jherr.."
fSuch was the boast of Mrs. Essie
Earner as she passed into the Four
Courts holdover today, proceded by
. Managa and Tom Muratsidi, Japinese,
whose heads she had beeu
knocking together "just before two
letectives seized her.
TIanaga and Muratsidi run a restairant
at Ninth and Chestnut
stieets. Mrs. Warner was employed
th?re as cook. She went to work
st\3, because hei husband is ill.
5he asked her employers for $1.
Wien no dollar appeared Mrs. Warn?r
began to recite to Managa her
opnion of his country and of himsdf.
When blows were struck the
Jipanese received all the punishment
ard his nose was trickling crimson
ynen Muratsidi came to his aid. An
\ppercut from Mrs. Warner's fist
uscomfited Muratsidi and she then
g'asped the collars of the two and
Irought their skulls sharply together
several times. They struggled and
Picked, but succeeded only in upsettng
a table and breaking some dishes.
Mrs. Warner says if they practiced
any jiu-jitsu on her she was not
aware of it.
Detectives Keaney and Finan found
Mrs. Warner in full control of the j
fituation. They arrested the trio and
ill will have to go before Judge Tra:y
Friday on charges of disturbing
the peace. Unless bondsmen appear
they will have to stay in the holdover
m Independence Day.
ST A AIXKUATION
Aade by (Ih1 ,la|MUK'M> and Korean
; Kxelusion Ijcngnc.
A vigorous protest has been received
by the government from Japanese
ind Korean Exclusion league, the
leadquarters of which are at Seattle,
Wash., against what is asserted to
be an organized traffic in Japanese
women, who, it is alleged, are being
brought to this country in large numbers
for immoral purposes.
The protest declares that wholesale
misrepresentation, perjury and fraud
ire perpetrated on the part of immigrants,
and perjury and collusion on
the part of Japanese residents in this
country. It is said that the traffic
is regularly organized and that the
women are brought into the country
ind sold into n <if eloir<ii>ir In
connection with the traffic there is
mid to exist a pang of blackmailers,
composed of Japanese, who live on
the "hush money" collected from
the importers of the Japan slave
girls.
It is asserted by the officers of the
league that hundreds of these women
ire scattered among the cities of the
Northwest and in the legging and
mining camps and that they are
drifting gradually to cities throughout
the country.
The protest is signed by P. B.
Grill, president, and A. E. Fowler,
secretary of the league. It will be
brought to the attention of the insmigration
authorities.
Fourteen Japanese laborers, who,
ander the immigration law, are not
permitted to land in this country evaded
the authorities in Philadelphia
and are at large somewhere in the
United States. The men arrived in
Philadelphia on the ship Erskine M.
Phelps, sugar laden, from Hawaii, on
May 29. They were a part of the
crew of the vessel and were paid off
n Philadelphia.
In accordance with the law and
egulations, they were taken before
:he immigration authorities by the
captain of the ship. They could not
ie landed, but, as they indicated an
intention to reshipon another vessel,
;hus continuing their occupation as
seamen, the immigration officials had
io control over them. An inquiry
nto tbe matter was made, developng
the fact that the 14 Japanese
simply disappeared into the country.
Where they are now nobody knows.
WIIITK MAN SHOT.
Thirteen Negroes in Jail Charged
nun i no iTliiic.
The Waihalla Courier says the
'Glorious Fourth" brought with it
lot ouly hot weather, hut "hot times"
is well. Magistrate J. Mat. Whitulre
of Newry lias sent up several
latches of prisoners to the Oconee
iail, numbering in all thirteen.
They, all colored, are charged with
[lartielpatlng in a row and shorting
it Old Pickens, in this county. YV.
Marion Gray, a white man, was shot,
and is seriously wounded, though
lope is entertained for his recovery.
Mr. Gray had been working in his
leld, but left there to po to Gautt's
itore for something, and while in the
lUhlic highway came in contact with
he crowd of negroes, who were engaged
in a general hilarious row.
A number of shots were fired by
nembers of the crowd, and it is said
hat George McKinney was their target.
One of the bullets struck Mr.
iray just above the left breast, rangng
down, and passing between the
irst and second ribs.
TWO YOl'Xti P(HU.S.
remiessee I toy and Girl Obtain Parents
Concent to Will.
A dispatch from Knoxville, Tenn.,
ays in tlie marriage of Willie Richirds.
aged fourteen, the youngest
ottple ever to marry in Tennessee
vith Hie consent of their parents,
vtll become man and wife Saturday
light at Thorn Grove.
oijuu t' .loirn w. tirown win omiate
at tho ceremony and the school
?oy and girl friends of the contract*
up parties will serve as attendants,
" he groom-to-be Is yet In knickerloekers
and the bride's dresses do
tot come below her knees.
When young Richards first called
it the office of County Clerk John M.
'urrier to obtain the marriage liense
he was refused, the clerk sayng
he would not isuue one to such
outhful people without the consent
if their parents. This afternoon he
eturned with the written c. n --.i of j
Irs. Belle Nelson, hiu mother, uud of |
saac Brock, father of the girl.
Yariir^^^^V
Nowhere ilr-all J^^^is the effect
of the late war with 'lussia more obvious
in her navy yards. The
statesmen of Japan have not not been
slow to recognize the advantage of a
large navy and a powerful and numerous
mercantile merchant marine.
During the late war a single company,
the Nippon Yusen Kaisia, was
able to place at the disposal of the
government 250,000 tons of shipping,
with which it successfully carried 1,250,000
men, 124,000 horses and 2,000,000
tons of stores. ITmW th?>
same paternal encou? agemcnt the
same company has increased her mercantile
marine to 951,000 tons displacement
in the past three years, an
increase of 335 ships. The shipyard
at Kure is the most active navy yard
in the world.
The navy yards at Kure came into
existence 11 years ago, the offsprings
of the war with China; to-day it provides
employment for 30,000 men and
is capable of building battleships the
equal of any afloat. They are complete
and self sufficing in every detail.
The yard turns out everything
connected with the construction of
battleships, from a rivet to a 12-inch
gun.
Prior to the late war nothing bigger
than a third class cruiser of 8,000
or 4,000 tons had boon attempted,
but the war gave great impetus
to Japanese naval construction, and
in January, 1005. the keel of the first
large cruiser, the Tsukuba, was laid
down. To-day she is all but completed
in her dock at Kure, a powerful
first class cruiser of 13,750 tons. A
little way off lies her sister ship, the
Ikoma, though not quite so far advanced.
Japanese ambition has not stopped
here. Two vast battleships, the Satsuma
and the Aki, are now under
construction at Yokosuka and Kure
respectively. Not even the Dreadnought,
the latest pet of the British
navy, will boast superiority to these
monster engines of war. With a displacement
of 19,000 tons, a speed of
19 knots and an offensive armament
of four 12-inc'n and 12 10-inch guns,
they will meet with but few equals
upon the sea.
There are at present being completed
in Japan two first class battleships,
four first class armored cruisers
and three small cruisers. In addition
to these two batsleships are being
built in England, Russian ships
captured by Japan in the war will
shortlv lip nnf fp coo ?1"
,v ?v I.U OV.O. 1 IICJ IIICIUUU
six battleships, four cruisers, two
coast defense ships, three destroyers
and two gunboats.
OLDRST WOMAN IN AMERICA.
Oregon Claims to Have Her in Mrs.
Mary Wood, 120 Years Old.
Oregon claims the honor of counting
among its residents the oldest
white woman in America, Mrs. Mary
Ramsey Letjions Wood, and in the
celebration of the Fourth of July,
Mrs. Wood, aged 120 years, 1 month
' an 1 15 days, was crowned Queen of
Oregon.
The coronation was performed by
Gen. George H. Williams, attorney
general under President grant, and
the only living representative of that
cabinet. Gen. Williams is in his
eighty-fifth year. He was assisted
by Hon. J. D. Lee, president of the
Oregon Pioneer Association.
Mrs. Wood was born at Knoxville,
Tenn., May 20, 1787. She was twice
married, her first husband. Mr. Lemons,
dying in 1839. In 1852 she moved
from Missouri to Oregon, settling
in Washington county, where she
still makes her home, riding on
horse-back the entire way.
Mrs. Wood married her second
husband, John Wood, May 28, 1854.
Of her four children, all of whom
lived to ripe old age, only one is today
living, and that is the youngest
child, Mrs. Catherine B. Southwortn
Reynolds, who was born in 18150.
Wise and Otherwise.
Where there's a will there's always
an heir.
Holding a convention doesn't stop
its progress.
A foregoing disposition is the first
law of self-preservation.
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I President aud Wants to
^^^^isclose Secret
mJt
Be?
niKtut Submarines, Kxpcets W?r
Willi Japan, ami \Ynul<l Help Win.
ljoeb I'lays flutter, as I'suul.
A dispatch from Oyster Bay says
only the vigilance of the secret service
guard saved President Roosevelt
from an uninvited guest, who arrived
at Sagamore Hill at 4 o'clock
Monday morning in an automobile.
He was stopped by the guard a short
distance inside the entrance to the
president's grounds, before he was
in sight of the house.
The stranger said that he wished
to call the president's attention to a
new kind of submarine. He offered
no resistance when the secret service
men told him that he must leave the
grounds at once, but drove back to
yster Bay, and had an early breakfast
at the Octagon Hotel. He refus
cd to register.
Leaving the hotel the man went to
the executive othces. where he waited
two hours for Secretary Loch.
He told the secretary that he had
been troubled by the reports of a
possible war between the United
States and Japan, and had decided
that it was his duty to tell the president
about an improvement in submarine
boats which he had perfected.
Secretary Loeb talked for some
time with the man, and came to the
conclusion that ho was demented.
Ijoeb finally persuaded him to leave
town without making another attempt
to see the president. The secretary
refused to toll who the stranger
was, but said that he belonged to
a prominent New Jersey family, and
would be taken care of when he returned
home.
"The visitor was a tall, broadshouldered
man," said L >eb. "He
gave evidence of breading and education.
It was easy to see that he was
not quite right, and he was such a
powerful fellow that I took good
care not to excite him. 1 used all the
diplomacy at my command, and persuaded
him to leave town quietly.
Of course, if he had insisted upon
seeing the president I should have
been obliged to have him taken in
| charge."
It is suggested that the stranger
was incited to make an attempt to
reach the president's house so early
by a story recently printed to the
effect that a man had driven, unmolested,
through the grounds after
j dark.
KI.I.FP l(V A FOI L.
Catcher Krfused to trie M41.sk ami
(oil Hit.
Philadelphia's first baseman (.'ontoy
died Wednesday morn inn in St.
Luke's hospital. lie had lieen the
catcher in a name played in Fairmount
park Saturda> afternoon. Ids;
daining the use of a mask, lie was
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of the head. II?' became unconscious
immediately, tun) wjts ttikeii to Hie
home of one of his companions, near
the pairk. A physician who wsis summoned
advised his removal to the
hospital.
There the operation of trephining
the skull was made ineffectually. His
widowed mother, whose sole support
he was. went to the hospital
from her home. 1527 Kmily street,
aind was with him when he died.
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