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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Brownsville Affair.
Fcdnl Drpartmrat of Justice About
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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
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' 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:
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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.
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) 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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