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T"' - I tin Pteastsre of SEEING THEM EXPIRE / Is About to Visit Parts and the Authorities Are Afraid He May Take a Murderobs Pit While There and CThop Off the Heads of Some of ' the Foolish Women Who Are Bound to Flock to See Him. A, letter from Paris to the New York American says Than Thai, the terrible King of Ann&m, has become something worse than a white elephant on the hands of the French Government. Than Thai, it will be recalled, was deposed for slaughtering and torturing a gr^at number of his wives with dreadful cruelities. and one of his little sons has been enthroned in his place. France exercises a protectorate over Ann&m. which is a large county in Southeastern Asia, adjoining the French possessions in IndoChina. France controls the trade of the country, and makes profit out of the place, but permits a native king to look after purely native affairs. Now that King Than Thai has been deposed, it becomes a difficult ques- . tion just what to dp with him. He cannot be treated as a common criminal just because in a brief period of mental abberation, he has slaughtered about a score of wives. The natives of Ann am would feel shocked if their chief were treated with disrespect, and they might even rebel, for they have the instinct of submission to royalty bred in them by a thousand years of servitude. It is not even considered right to deprive him of his wives, who number one thousand. Surely the last thing a civilized power ought to do would be to seperate a man from his wives. It is true that the wives are more tiuiuctuu*3 uicui uic iawo ui wcjsuini civilization permit, but the laws and religion under which he enjoys this excessive number are recognized and protected by France. It would certainly be a gross violation of promises and treaty obligations to break up his Majesty's family. His wives, if separated from him, would become grass widows, and that status in Annam is a most disreputable and undesirable one. Incidentally it may be remarked that France's obligations towards the King of Annam are similar to those of the United States towards the Sultan of Sulu. This country would not think of interferring with that Sultan's domestic relations. On the other hand, France, as a humane country, cannot permit the ex-King of Annam to murder his wives as he pleases. The only course of France, therefore, is to maintain the King with all his wives in a palace suitable to his rank and descent, and at the' same time keep an extremely close watch on him to see that he plunges into no more fits of murderous madness. This, obviously, is an exceeding difficult task. It is almost impossible for the French official charged with the surveillance of the King to be quite sure how he is treating every one of his thousand wives at every moment of the twenty-four hours. Just now his Majesty proposes to jrojr a visit tu i mis, turn as uus is a privilege which has been allowed to Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar, and other deposed monarchs who are captives of the French, it is not considered reasonable to refuse it to Than Thai. It is hoped that the sight of France will impress him with the strength of the country, and that he will go back and tell his people that they nad better behave, rhe hope is also entertained that amusements of Paris will put him in a cheerful frame of mind, in which he will cease to have murderous thoughts. The proposed visit, however, necessarily occasions considerable uneasiness. It is possible that the Annamite king will be attacked by his bloodthirsty madness while in Paris. Will he take out his sabre and chop off the heads of the fashionable women of Paris, who will undoubtedly flock to see him at receptions and entertainments? Will he run amuck in the Pardin de Paris, or some other place of popular resort? These are troublesome questions. I Tne atrocities which led to Than Thai's deposition were concealed from the outside world long after they had begun, because they were committed in the seclusion of the harem. One day he assembled all his wives in the throne room, as their statements made afterward to the French officials show. The poor little creatures knelt down before him as if he was a di- i vinity. He clapped his hands and muscular slaves sprang forward to do his bidding. The King indicated one 01 nis youngest anu prettiest wives and ordered them to bring her before him. With his terrible Malay sword he cut long strips of flesh from the woman's body. The demon King gloated over every detail and thrilled With pleasure as he listened to the victim's shriek's. All the other wives 1 were compelled to watch every detail of the torture in order tbat they might be filled with terror and suffer in anticipation of their own turn coming. The next day the King slowly dissected a woman, joint by joint and limb by limb. Another was burnt with irons. In one case he began by cutting off the woman's nose, ears, hands and feet. Every day he invented some new torture. One of the victims was the Emperor's favorite wife. He killed her with his own hands, and subjected her to peculiarity atrocious tortures, the details of which cannot be described. But before he killed her her to pieces and served the remains at a banquet, which he forced the other members of his family to atXwo of his wives he hung to the ceiling with hooks. One was kept in boiling oil till she died. Two were thrown into die cages of hungry tigers. who devoured them. Thirteen unfortunate women were slaughtered or tortured to death in one week. The king was not satisfied with killing his own wives, but began to pay attentions to the wifes ana daughters of his leading subjects. He sent for his prime minister. Tong Doc, and ordered him to bring his young daughter to the palace. Tong Doc was most cordially received by his soverign, who, however, artfully contrived to send him away on an errand. When Tong Doc returned, he found his daugter laid out upon a great slab of onyx, with the king handling a lot of surgical instruments and about to begin vivisection upon her. Immediately after this the French Residents decided to intervene and entered the palace with a force of soldiers. There a terrible spectacle awaited him. The throne room and adjoining apartments were littered with dead bodies. Many victims of , , ? till -t: o vue wrtiur weir sun auve. oeveral of them were hanging from the walls by hooks passed through the fleshy parts of the legs. Some were lying about without noses, eyes, ears and hands. The surviving wives were in a state of unspeakable terror. The French official arrested the King, and Dr. Dumas, the chief medical officer of the French forces, declared him insane. His mental disease is well recognized by alienists. Few persons have the same opportunity to indulge this murderous mania as the deposed King Than Thai of Annam had. He chose his wives from the whole kingdom. They were divided into two classes. The wives of the first class were choosen from the daughters of leading personages of the country and comparatively few in number. The wives of the second class were choosen from a kind of opera house that is maintained in connection with the royal palace, They were thoroughly trained to dance and sing in order to amuse King before they were admitted to the harem. An early symptom of the King's approaching insanity was shown by the extraordinary ballets and dances in which he trained these women to take part. He forced them to give spectacles which were literally realizations of a madman's dreams. He spent his whole time training them to give these exhibitions and neglected to oppress his male subjects. At first he allowed these spectacles to be held openly, and the few foreigners resident in his kingdom were i !!._ J A. _ 1_ 4.. I A. l_ invitea u) De present; Dut as nis mania assumed a more bloodthirsty form he became secretive, and this course aroused suspicion concerning his doings. The territory of Than Thai is extensive and wealthy. It contains a population of 6,000,000. His principal palace is an extraordinary specimen of Oriental architecture. It is somewhat Chinese in character, but has many peculiarities of its own. It is covered all over with carving of amazing minuteness, which required almost incredible labor to execute. The palace covers 400 acres, its size being made chiefly necessary by the vast extent of the harem. No one is allowed to enter without taking off his sandals or shoes at the door. A still more remarkable rule is that no dead person is allowed to be carried out by the door. The body must be lifted out through the roof and removed in that way. The King still occupies the palace, because it would be difficult to keep him elsewhere without seperating him from his thousand wives and his numerous children. His son and successor being only eight years old and still unmarried, does not require much space. Since his murderous outbreak the King has been kept under close surveillance by French medical officers, and they now give their opinion that he is cured. In fact, he is quite | an amicable and entertaining com- J panion. It is well known that the ( shocking mania from which he suf fered may easily pass away. In fact, the cheerful companionship of French officers and the knowledge that somebody is at hand to check the indulgence of his mania would do much to cure him. Nevertheless, it is doubtful if the King is permanently cured and this makes the prospect of letting him loose among the curious and susceptible female population of Paris a very uncertain and dangerous one. Cant Hurt llryuu. The Washington Herald says "Mr. Bryan's quarrel is with that section of the press which labels itself "democratic," yet disagrees with Mr. Bryan's definition of democracy. We shall not attempt to compose1 his quarrel. It has been going on since 1896, but if it has seriously damaged Mr. Bryans reputation, the injury is not apparent on the surface. "Mr. Bryan, in fact, is and has been one of the most bountifullv misrepresented men in public life The conception of him continually presented by a certain section of the press to its confiding readers is distorted and malicious. No attempt is made to appraise the man at his real value. No effort is made to account for his popularity, or to analyze the source of his political strength. "The result is that to many 'constant readers' the name of Bryan evokes images of an oratorical windbag, a political juggler, or a mental freak. Mr. Bryan does not complain of this, but newspaper readers nave every right to complain. They are entitled to something better than distortion and misrepresentation as a regular diet." ering from the miscarriage of the plans of a few men who tried to corner the corner market. As a result of this wild speculation great banking institutions have been badly shaken* a number of banks and gmmb^rs have been put out of business, and large fortunes have changed hands. The losers are now hunting up more lambs from whom to recoup their vanished fortunes. All this gambling was carried on with the money of the people. The gamblers go to the banks and borrow money with which to make their bets, giving as security stocks and bonds, the value of which is based upon their condition of the money market from day to day. The money these gamblers borrow from the bank represent the deposits of the people, not only of New York, but from all parts of the country, as lor?nl hanlrn all nvnr iwnnfre now balances in these New York banks. It will thus be seen that the whole country is interested in this matter. The failure of a New York bank thus loaning largely to speculators, may mean the embarrassment of any bank whose balance the former carries. So that a panic in New York, if extensive enough, may carry disaster to the whole country. These fluries also depress the price of all commodities, and we would therefore advise our farmers not to sell their cotton kmtil confidence is entirely restored. Fortunately the trouble is about over for this time and no Southern interests was hurt, but we think it would be wise on the part of local banks over the country to keep as small balances in New York banks as they possibly can. If someone is not trying to corner copper, someone else is endeavoring to corner something else, and will so long as New York bankt. supply available funds. If this gambling in stocks must go on, let the gamblers furnish their own money. __________________ Narrow Minded Bigots. Burnside Post of the Grand Army of the Republic has taken to task a Washington preacher for preaching in a truthful and somewhat eulogistic manner of Gen. Robt. E. Lee, in a school address. The preacher said "great as were his achievments as a general, splendid his victories on the field of battle, the greatest thing about Lee was his spirit. When defeat came upon him he was a man. He refused to expatriate himself; he took up life among his people and labored to make the Union real, strong and permanent." In the preamble to the resolutions adopted by the post it is declared the "reverend gentleman, though expostulated with, had before this declared his intention to eulogfize General I^ee in nuhlir unrl has oin^?o asserted that the majority of the comrades of the G. A. R., are in sympathy with his sentiments, and he has since written, 'I have no fears that time will not set me right." In order to prevent time from setting him right, the Burnside post of the G. A. R., proceeded to make remarks and pass resolutions denouncing the preacher's allusion to Gen. Lee as unpatriotic and calculated to ead astray the youth of the 1 and. The men who made fools of themselves by abusing the preacher are to be pitied rather than condemned. It must be remembered that the man for whom this post is named was thrashed and run off the field of Fredericksburg by Gen. Lee. Possibly the men who passed the resolution were with Burnside on that occasion. The New Stale. rpl ? k... ?A. ? A. _ *-1 ft-! xut; luny-sixui siate 01 me union is Oklahoma. It is interesting to know just what its admittance into the Union may do politically. Oklahoma has elected four Democratic congressmen and one Republican. It may, therefore, make a difference of votes in the House of Representatives. Its legislature will elect two Democratic senators and i these will give the Democrats of the Senate 31 votes, sufficient to prevent the ratification of a treaty, even if supported by a solid Republican majority. It will have seven electors in the next electoral college, a number large enough, should the vote be close, to determine the next president of the United States. It will be represented in the national conventions by delegations of very respectable size which will have to be reckoned with in more ways than one. Consequently Oklahoma from the very beginning of its statehood i is in position to wield a considerable influence on national affairs. Yet partisan politics are, after all, not of much importance as loyalty to American principles. In its constitution which represents the sen timents of its people, Oklahoma is loyal to American principles. Therefore, its advent to participation more largely in governmental affairs should be regarded with grat mcation. Congressman Burleson of Texas has asked the national government to deposit money in southern banks so that the farmers might be financed in their cotton holding movement, and the request has been refused. "Why," asks the Spartanburg, Journal, "is $25,000,000 deposited in Wall Street banks to tide over a panic and a much smaller amount refused to southern banks to savd the farmers from the depression of the price of their cotton?" The Greenville News says: "With the stock market on the ragged edge, the Knickerbocker Trust Company going into the hands of a receiver, and Wall Street apparently convinced that a big financial panic was inevitable, it took some degree of moral courage for the man who "had turned on the light" to stand up and say that he would not alter his course one iota nor swerve from the administration's fight against the illegal money powers. ' But he rushed fifty million dollars of government i money to the reiief of the gamblers all the same. ROOSEVELT HED&NG. v _ v He Hopes Cam May Bedim the Brownsville Affair. Fcdnl Drpartmrat of Justice About . fc; . 4 '' to Open Fight for Southern Negroes Before Supreme Court. A dispatch from Washington says Roosevelt's Department of Justice is about to fight a battle for the ne groee of the South before the Supreme court of the United States that the administration hopes will bedim the recollection of the Brownsville affair. Attorney General Bonaparte has buckled on his sword, and the skirmish is now on. The case arises out of an alleged attempt of white men of Arkansas to frighten negroes who were working for the Arkansas Lumber Company, away from their jobs. Notices were posted warning the negroes from continuing at work. In this connection, a half dozen white men were convicted of violating the federal statute, enacted just after the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the constitution, which makes it an offense to conspire, to threaten or in timidate any citizen in the free exercise of his rights. A little more than a year ago, the Supreme court liberated, in another case, certain men who had been convicted of a similar offense. With this situation, and, it is understood, upon orders from the president, the attorney general, unwilling to entrust the task to a subordinate, himself has prepared to plead the cause of the colored men. In addition to his bnef, already filed with the Supreme court, Bonaparte is expected to argue the case orally before the court when it comes up in about ten days for hearing. "To be free isjto be wholly free," says Bonaparte in his brief. "It does not mean that a man may merely have his personal liberties and at the same time be hedged about by prohibitions and restrictions and denied first one right and then another that belongs to free men. "He can not have his full constitutional right unless he is in no sense whatever in involuntary servitude, and he may claim the protection of Federal law, if enacted by Congress, " against the first infringement of his freedom, without waiting until he is striped of all his rights and forced ihto a condition of absolute and abject slavery. "The government contends that the right of a colored man to dispose of his own service, to pursue any legitimate occupation or employment is a right secured to him by the thirteenth amendment to the constitution, and that to deprive him of the enjoyment of that right is to enforce upon him one of the inseparable and necessary invidents or badges of slavery, "If individuals can combine to hinder the negro, because of his race, in the pursuit of employment, they can, by persistent, progressive acts, at last deprive him of every right, 1 the free enjoyment of which is nei- essary to keep him from returning into practical bondage." I Why^Bryan Is Strong. In pointing out the reason why Mr. Bryan is strong with the masses ] the people the New Orleans of Daily States says "it is well to remark that it was William J. Bryan who in 1896 seeing the magnifi- < cent system of thievery which had been established in 'the garden of < America's richest prosperity' de- i nounced it and arrayed himself against it. For doing this that element of the Democracy which shared in the spoils of the system deserted i to the Republican camp, and he was j denounced far and wide as an anar- i chist, a socialist and even as an "en- i omu nf ' vi?*jr v*. vilV IC^UUIII. ' Today the men who have been . his foremost opponents and who posed in two campaigns as champions of 'the national honor' stand before the country as unmasked thieves, whose morals and methods are on a par with those of a sneak thief or a footpad. Yet there are people foolish enough to wonder why Bryan is strong, and who are apparently unable to understand that his strength with the masses of the people is vastly increased with every disclosure of the thievery of high finance of which there have been many, and more are yet to come. "The absolute justice of the challenge which he flung to corporate wealth in 1896 and 1900. is today receiving a bountiful measure of vindication. Bryan, the chosen of the people, stands at this moment unscathed in spite of intrigue, abuse and misrepresention, while a score vi mure 01 men wno nave IOUgnt 1 him savagely under the banner of 1 the so-callea 'safe and sane' Demo- j cracy are struggling to keep out of jail for stealing or nave become ob- 1 jects of public pity and contempt." ' Change of Heart. ( In a recent issue.of his excellent ' paper, the Gaffney Ledger, Fklitor ! DeCamp makes this honest confession: ' Ever since Mr. Bryan enunciated his famous free silver doctrine we have looked upon him as an extremist, and we have never felt like supporting him for the presidency, although he was twice nominated by the Democratic party. His recent advocacy of government ownership of railrdads has strengthened our opinion that he was acrank; but since we have met him personally, and discussed these vital issues in person, and hearing his speech in our city last Friday, our opinion of the man has changed. There is no foolishness about him. He is a plain American citizen and withall a bi? man, a very big man, in fact we believe hp is the biggest man in America. V I f:-r-v ' - >?< > - - I i II = HcM Their Tahm Vni They CM ) Their Price. By deal eonsumated at Henderson, Ky., on last Thursday the Imperial Tobacco Company purchased the entire 1997 tobacco crop pledged to the American Society of Equity in Henderson. Union. Webster, Hopkins and Crittenden counties. The deal Involves sixteen million pounds of tobacco and will bring one and a half million dollars of English money td the farmers of that section. The price paid was that demanded by the farmers, and is the highest ever paid there, with the exception of the war price. The deal was consumated by Stokes Taylor, chairman of the board of directora.of the Stemming District Tobacco Association and Edward Hodge, manager of the Imperial company. Negotiations have been on for more tuau a week. Equity employes are taken over by the Imperial company and will be continued in service. Deliveries will begin as soon as the tobacco is in order. The gold will be shipped from England at once., 1>KATH OF OLD WOMAN. She Was One Hundred and Nineteen Years Old. Dottle Postom, a negress, died in Carrollton, Ga.. Thursday, and in her death the oldest negress in that state passed away. It is well known that the woman had reached the advanced age of 119 years. She had been a ward of the county since she was 110 years old. She is survived by a son who 8 ninety years of age. \ x HUMAN MONSTKH. Burned His Wife's Eyes Out With Strong Acid. At I.awton, Okla.. John Hopkins burned out his wife's eyes by throwing carbolic acid in her face during a quarrel. He is in jail, which is heavily guarded to prevent summary vengeance by his enraged neighbors.. GI CO WING FATTKK. Peanut Philosopher Believes He lias Established His Claim. At Aurora. 111., Dr. T. J. Allen, the peanut philosopher, has gained three and one-quarter pounds on his "goooer" diet. He believes he has established his claim that the peanut is f'tMuuinn- ?- ?t-~ i uuui is un* experiment- i er's fourteenth day of his sixty days run on peanuts. SAW WlKlin PHANTOM. Had Premonition of Disastrous Kvplosion in Indiitna. John Walsh, who was engineer of the Big Four passenger train which was blown up while passing a ear of powder at Sundford, Ind., last spring, testified in the hearing of the personal injury damage suits against the railroad, that as he eamn alongside the freight train he had a premonition and then saw a phantom iu front of his headlight, whereupon he applied the emergency brakes, immediately following which came the explosion. One of the theories as to the cause of the crash has been that the brakes threw out sparks which entered the powder car. Nitrogen as a Fertilizer. Nitrogen is one of the most inert of all elements apparently indifferent to whether t combines with other elements or not. It is one of the mum iiiiiioniiin in an elements. Although it exists in the atmosphere all around us and really constitutes 4-5 of the whole volume of the atmosphere, yet it is the most expensive part of all feed stuffs and fertilizers, ind at the same time the most essential. No plant could grow without a supply of nitrogen in the soil and 10 animal could flurish without nirogen in the feed. It would seeni hat any artcle so perfectly abuniant as nitrogen and as free us it vould seem to he in the surrounding lir ought not to be expensive. It has ieen the dream of scientists for 100 rears to recover this nitrogen from he air aud thus make it available 'or plant and animal food, but the nanner of doing this has eluded hem all until within the past year or wo. 'It now seems that some parties it Niagara Falls are undertaking the iroduction of nitrogeu from the atnosphere. This has not yet come to >e a commercial success, but probibly will he at some future time. In the meantime, all the quarters >f the earth have been rausucked for source of available nitrogen for ferilizers and feed stulfs. Among the irst efforts to find large quantities of fertilizer containing nitrogen and jther necessary elements was work ng the Peruvian Guano deposits, rhese have long since been exhausted md this has lead to the manufacture if what, be called artificial fertilizer. The principal source of nitrogen for these fertilizers was at first the [?hili Salt-petre beds. These still supply large quantities of nitrate of soda, which is used in some forms of fertilizer, but by far tho most iml>ortant source of all nitrogen in all fertilizers and feed stnfTs at the present time, is cotton seed meal. The gradually increasing cotton crops and the rapidly increasing number of oil mills makes cotton seed abundant and cheap. It is the most easily handled of all nitrogenous materials. At the same time it is one of the most pasily assimilated. This is true of both plants and animals. All farmers in the cotton region are especially blessed on account of this proximity to oil mills and their consequent easy ability to purchase this most valuable feed stufT and fertilizer at prices which are really much below the actual. value as compared with other sources of nitrogen. '*Vv"; ' .5! struck mr hxvkku cuojl Twenty Pcrww bjorcd ?i Stack Property Iajured. A northwest storm pf short duration with heavy rain, passed over Galveston. Texas, early Thursday. The wind attained a velocity of 72 miles an hour for two minutes. About twenty frame houses were blown down, one woman being killed In a falling structure. II is estimated that twenty persons were injured In the western part of the city, where the wind was severe. Sveral business houses were unroofed and the stocks of goods were slightly damaged by water. The Mallory Line wharf shed was damaged to the extent of several thousand dollars. A few cars in the railroad yards were blown from the track. The gulf remained normal. There was no interruption to traffic. High Priced Beef. In the World's Work Magazine there is an article entitled "Why the Price of Beef Is High." by G. W. Ogden. The article carries a lesson to the people of the Southeast for these it might be entitled. "Why the pople of the Southeast states should now raise cattle for l?eef."' The article recites how the condltons are growing more and more unfavorable ir. the West for raising beef cattle. These conditions are comprised in the diminution of the grass lands by settlement, the increused adverse influence of droughts In the diminished area, the high price of feed stuffs and the increased demand for beef by increasing population, and also for export. The demand for b?*?f is growing greater, and the supply is growing less iu proportion. All these influences tend to enhance the profits of cattle raising in the Southeastern cotton area. While the feed stuffs in the West have been diminishing on account of the decrease of the grass area, those In the Southeast have been increasisg iU the increased production of cotton seed hulls and meal. There has always been in the Southeast, grass and forage enough to keep cattle 8 to 9 months iu the year. The other 3 or 4 months without grass or forage was the only thing standing in the way of a profitable cattle business, even when the ranges in Texas and Oklahoma were, for practical purposes, unlimited. The cotton seed hull and meal, having supplied this deficiency, and the grass lands of the West being very much diminished, the Southeast is not only in position to compete, hut is in actually better situation to raise cattle for the beef markets that any other part of the United States. Mr. Ogden says: "It is questionably whether, under the most favorable circumstances, beef will ever be as cheap In the United States again as it was five years ago. Since that times, there has been a gradual increase in the price of live cattle, and a corresponding increase in the price of dressed meat. This opens the second proposition bearing on highnriuAtl Itoof?? >- iii?.iconcu consumption at home and the growing export [trade, against the comparative stand [still of the live stock industry." According to this opinion, the conditions are not only favorable now [for the cattle raiser, but they will continue favorable for a long time I to come. It is a question of the demand outweighing the supply. A Ileef Trust I could not limit the output of beef, if fat cattle were plentiful and cheap. If it were possible to buy all in sight [and dress, store and keep the meat for an indefinite period such an action might be possible. Hut beef is perishable, and no man is bound down by la\?s prohibiting his killing and dressing meat for his own use and selling it to his neighbors. A capital of $.10 or $40 is all that is required to open a butcher shop in a village when fat cattle sell at $4.r>o to $5.00 a hundred. It is a business with so many possibilities that the Heef Trust could not block them all." Thus it would seem that the farmers of the Southeast cotton growing atates are now in fine situation to undertake the production of beef cattle with promise of good fair profit, and of the business being a lasting one. Frame* fitted to face perfectly FREE examination blank* CRYSTAL OPTICAL COMPANY 213 Temple Court. 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Charlesto I*- ' #Ld : \!j vV:..^"' i DONE AT LAST. ?- Est * Tilt Completion of a Great Rath A road Engineering Feat 'GOES OUT IN THE SEA Some Seventy-Fire Mile?)?The Live Passes Through Dense Swampe ami Across Open Sea on Concrete Arches and Bridges, Constructed Voder DMBcnlties, Connects Key West, Fla.. WUh the Main Land. The completion of the great bridge at New York over Hell Gate, which is to connect the Pennsylvania with the New England railroads, will form like a link in an unbroken line of railroad communication between New England and Key West, the southermost city in the United States. The other link in the line is being constructed from n nnlnf *" 5 ? "v?i mmiUI, Fla? 81 miles fnlnnd. across 75 iniles or sea and finally terminating at Key West. After the links are completed It twill he possible to run direct from New England to Havana, Cuba, without changing cars, as the trains will be conveyed in unbroken packages across the strait from Key West to Havana In view of the fact that the Panama region is sure to cause a | boom in trade, there is every reason to believe that the new through line will make Key West one of the great shipping stations ol: the Atlantic Seaboard. The railroad line that is being constructed from the coast of Florida across the Key West coral islands will be one of the wonders of tho age. It will be 156 miles in length, counting that It begins in the swamps of Florida, and is costing $100,000 a mile for construction. Henry M. Flager is promoter of the line. All the viaducts are built of reinforced concrete. The railroad will be on a line "0 feet al?ove low water Imark. It is found that the highest waves on the coast are 25 feet and the Islands serve to break the highest sea. The engineers are counting on this to prevent any washouts or I washovers. The longest of the viaducts over open sea is nearly seven miles. It is located near Long Key. At present 2,500 men are employed In this work alone. The viaduct consists of 186 concrete arches. Of these 75 are already complete. It will take 286.000 barrels of cement, 177.000 cubic yards of sand, 612,000 lineal feet of piling and 5,700 tons of re-iuforclng steel rods to complete this one viaduct, not to speak of the amount for the other 68 miles being built under similar conditions. The support of every one of the arches rests on 28 piles driven deep into coraline limestone which forms the bed of the sea. After the pile drivers have passed a cofferdam is lowered from a catamaran into place around the piles. Then the concreting begins, after the frames have twen set. The thick shell of concrete is backed on the inside by crushed rock and other ballast. Ir. the coral reefs the water varies in depth from i:i to 20 feet. Under normal conditions the tide flows at the rate of four miles an hour. The lf?6 miles of constructive work between Miami and Key West presents practically every problem known to railroad engineers. From Miami, for a distance, the road passes through heavy mangrove swamps, where there was too much water to use wheelbarrows and not enough to work a dredge. This difficulty was overcome by specially designed dredgesTlie islands in the sea are of limesstone formation, and in addition to being solid, they furnish excellent ballast. At the present time more than 2.000 men are crowded on the job. They are operating nine stern wheel boats, three tugs, 100 barges and lighters, 28 launches and upward of 50 pile drivers, concrete mixers, derricks, pump barges and dredges. The paper trust has not only raised the price of print paper out of all reason, but, according to the newspaper men up North, it has bought up all the product of the Canada mills, so as it can comf>el the publishers of this country to pay its price. Yet some people doubt the existence of a paper trust. YHOUKK lug a specialty of handling every- | inc. | ;ing order elsewhere. DO., Columbia, 8. C. I r Line Passenger Station. I LLY i .w i n : r to call at 1428 Main street and see of Malone's Music House. ; the fair grounds but at our store bargains to -?ffer you. >rms, to : : : Columbia, S. C. THE Cabbage. Big Boston Letft Crown from irnit of the Wf pjpjJ> have worked diligently on our Bf/ST ly that to-day they arc the best oh- - ErARLV kI the most severe testa of cold and \AW,55 nlnent growers of every section of the v ?\ I irrival of all goods shipped by express sg'a Island. SM for SIM. I to S,M*at SI.SO nd; 10,000 and o*rt at tl-00 per thousand. 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