The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 20, 1905, Image 6
THE ANSWERING CHORDt
BT ITAKSIE BTRD TURNER.
The city's tumult surges high
Here in this noisy, struggling street;
With fretful voice and hurried feet
The restless morning march goes by.
A thousand sounds are born and die,
But one, that will not faint nor fail,
Keeps up its slow monotony?
An old street-organ's plaintive wail.
A beggar, tremulous and blind,
Is playing dreary airs that must
Earn from the world a daily crust
As long as weary hands can grind;
But scant the wages that they find,
For nowhere in tne jostling throng
A** lives with leisure left to heed
The crude petition of a cong.
Clatter and rush and dust and grime
And the hot. tired morning done.
But not a listener had they won?
The faulty tune, the halting time: _
When with the sudden noonday chime
From out the jingling medlev come,.
Like words of comfort healing pain.
* The tender notes of "Home, Sweet Home."
"There is no place like home." he says.
The old, forsaken, homeless man.
With soul too worn and warped to span
The pathos of the thing he plays?
And somewhere in the crowded ways
Men hear old, silent voices sing.
And. spite the current's onward sweep,
Falter a while, remembering.
"No place, no place like home"?the word
Grows faint and fainter down the street,
And somewhere slower pass the feet.
And somewhere sudden tears are stirred,
And dim, far whisperings are heard
In hearts that deemed them surely dead;
And one petitioner has gained
The penny for his daily bread.
?Youth's Companion.
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0 you mean to tell me
3 -p. )g that's the third to-night?"
0 I I O I asked in amazement of
^ ^ Miss Raveline. She nodVOW
ded, and looked steadfastly
at the portrait before
her. "I knew he was one," I went
on. "It was evident. His case betrayed
itself. He was as if moonstruck."
"I think you're a little unkind," remarked
Miss Raveline, scrutinizing the
portrait with interest. "He's?he's
quite nice."
? - "It must be a great nuisance to you,"
1 said.
"It's horrid," she declared, moving
to the next portrait. "One doesn't like
to?to hurt people's feelings, don't you
know; and besides, it's embarrassing."
"Do sit down and let's talk about
-t' it," I urged her. "It's really very interesting
to interview a girl who's been
proposed to so often."
Miss Raveline reluctantly sat down,
and glanced apprehensively down the
picture gallery. "One can't, talk about
such things," she said firmly.
"Oh, we needn't name names," I
said, with my eyes on the rose in her
cheeks. "I think I pretty well know
who?"
"Ob, no, you mustn't" she interrupted,
hastily. "I've no right to
hear you. I won't say anything."
"Very well, then," I conceded. "But
I know all the same; and I'm sorry
for them, of course, but I'm sorrier
for you."
She sighed and opened her fan. "Yes.
I wish I wasn't so rich. It's all that
money."
I said nothing; she glanced at me,
ancf repeated with another sigh, "It's
all the money." \
Still, I made no answer, because, as a
matter of fact, I was interested in a
picture on the wall, and the light was
none too good. We had come up to see
some picture. Which was it?
"I thing we must go back," said
Miss Raveline in a cold voice, as she
rose.
"Ob," I said, getting on my feet.
"But you haven't seen that picture
yet. We'll just go round and find
it."
Miss Raveline hesitated, and then
followed me, and we moved along
under the low light. "We couldn't see
it by this light," she observed, still
coldly.
"Oh, by this light it looks so much
better," I explained. "I'm afraid
there's no help for you," I went on.
Miss Raveline looked at me. "No
help!" she echoed.
"No; you see, your beauty draws
itbem as flames the moth."
She averted her head slightly to examine
a picture. "You can't blame
them," I added.
"Of course, no one blames people
like that," she replied, evidently from
far away. "It's a compliment that
any one should want you to?" she
nonenrl r\f PAni'CP it*C tha nifl!!.
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ey, and then?"
"Oh, it isn't the money," I said decidedly.
"Don't yon think so?" she asked, fingering
her fan again. I sat down.
Miss Raveline sat down.
"Of course, you are aware you are
beautiful?" I said.
"Oh, no," deprecated Miss Raveline.
"I know?I suppose I've got certain
good points," She was deeply interested
in her fan. I gazed at her, and
the low light enhanced her beauty.
"Good points!" I said reflectively,
and very coolly, "i'es; you have certainly
good points. For example, your
head is set on prettily. Some women
have meager necks, out the throat
should be columnar; it is the pillar of
life, and should show strength and
grace simultaneously."
."Do you think so? How interesting:!"
said Miss Raveline.
' Then, for another thing, your eyes
are good in shape and color, but?"
Miss Raveline, whose eyes had been
dropped, raised them quickly at the
"but."
"But what?" she asked hesitatingly.
"Oh, well, I've no right to criticise,"
I said, apologetically.
"You have, if I ask you," she replied
somewhat abruptly.
"But still?" I said, and passed on
hurriedly. "Your nose is really fine in
line and molding, though of course it
would be better if it didn't turn up
[ just a?"
"It doesn't,"7 protested ^.iiss Kaveiine,
crossly.
"Xo, of course," I Lurried on. "But
your hair?"
"Yes; is there anything the matter
with my hair?" she asked with lofty
sarcasm.
"It's color is good," I said, "and as
for your complexion?" I hesitated.
Miss Raveline was drumming on her
fan impatiently.
"Well?" she said, almost defiantly.
"I can't see well enough in this light
to give a definite opinion," I said
"Before deciding I should like to inspect
it more closely and more thoroughly.
so to speak."
"You're right. The light is bad,"
she said abruptly, and got up resolutely.
I rose after her.
"I was afraid you wouldn't like me
to?to give my opinions so bluntly," I
said timidly. "Of course, I'm sorry if
I have hurt?"
"What an absurdity!" she said, with
hauteur. "I don't in the least mind
what you say. And you've been quite
complimentary, I suppose. Pray go
on." She reseated herself, a monument
of statuesque reserve and frigid
civility. "It's nothing to me what you
think," she said, icily.
"Well, there is your mouth," I wont
on very nervously. She turned slightly
toward me with a lofty inclination of
her head, as though giving me gracious
permission to take liberties with
her mouth. I wished that I could.
"The lips are perfect in color and design?so
far as I can judge from a distance,"
I explained, "but here again a
more thorough examination would be
necessary before?"
"Have you nearly finished?" she
asked in her scornful voice.
"I think there's only your waist left,"
I ran on precipitately.
"Oh, yes, my waist, of course," she
said with irony, "what are you going
to do to my waist?"
"I wasn't going to do anything," I
replied, but I wished I was. "It only
has always struck me as being well
proportioned and jimp, as they say in
Scotland. The stature is sufficient,
and the modeling is just?always providing
that it is natural and not?"
Miss Raveline rose for the last time,
magnificently angry. "Thank you so
much for your candor," she said loftJly.
"But?but we haven't seen this picture,"
I urged. She paused, and then,
ignoring my remark, took one step toward
me. "You'd better take me down
again, I think!" she said, almost under
her breath, and her face quite rear
me. "Why?but why?" she asked almost
tearfully, "but you said I was
beautiful!"
"So you are," I answered promptly;
"the most beautiful woman in the
world." She was silent, as if astonished.
"There is no beauty but has
some strangeness in the proportion," I
quoted from Bacon. "The slight tilt
of your nose?"
"It isn't," she said feebly.
"The faint irregularities of your face
only enhance your beauty. You are
not icily, regularly, splendidly null.
And, personally, I happen to adore all
the defects in you."
"I don't see how you cculd do that."
said. Miss Raveline in a tremulous,
half-laughing voice. 'But you said?
my waist?" She stopped.
"Well, you see, I don't know from
personal experience," I replied. "I
dare say it is?if I only knew."
"It is?it is really."
I made the experiment boldly. "It is,"
I whispered, and added, "I'm sorry to
make the fourth to-night."
"You might have been the first. Why
weren't you?" she asked.
"Well, you see, it was all that money,"
I quoted.
"You said?you said that my lips?"
"Yes, I must make sure 1 was right
there," I declared, and I did so?H.
B. Marriott Watson, in London Mail.
Bottled Money Thrown Away.
"While walking through the Westchester
County hills looking for dogwood
last Sunday," said a Harlem
grocer, "I came upon an acquaintance
who was with a party picknicking on
a shady hillside. Introductions were in
order and I was asked to have a bottle
of soda. Five of us clinked bottles
and disposed of their contents without
the aid of glasses. As each man finished
his bottle he threw it down the
hill into a clump of bushes. They were
good, sound, patent-stopper bottles j
that it costs five cents each to manui !
fact ure.
" 'Don't you take the bottles home ;
with you?' I inquired.
"My host looked at me in amazement i
'I should say not,' he said; 'it is hare !
enough to carry three dozen out here ;
without lugging the bottles all the waj j
back. I never knew anybody to d< j
that.'
"I lose on an average a gross ol
bottles each week during the summei
from my two stores, for which I have
to make good to the wholesaler. We j
make a pretense of asking for a dei
posit on the bottles when we deliver
a case. But when a womau makes
a fuss about it the boy on the wagon
waives the deposit rather than bring
the bottles back to the store and risk
losing a customer. Verily, if a man
wants to find out the inside workings
of bis own business he must wander
far a-field from it"?New York Press.
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Farr Honored by University.
Dr. James AT. Farr, formerly of
Union, and well known for his hign
literary attainments, has been honored
the past week by being elected
vice president of the state university
of Florida, which is located at Lake
City, and will continue to have charge
of the department of English literature.
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Cotton Mills Elect New Officers.
At a recent meeting of the stockholders
of the Whitaker cotton mills
the following directors were elected:
A, H. Pollock, J. W. Rhyne, C. Ai.
Smith, J. Eb. Jefferies, W. P. Whisonant,
P. H. Freeman, with P. H. Freeman
as secretary and treasurer; C.
M. Smith, president; E. M. Bird was
appointed superintendent in place of
J. R. Killian. .
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Not in the Association.
After carefu] inquiry it would seem
that the cotton mills of Union are
not in an association which is alleged
in the press report from Greenville
exists among the cotton mills of Union
and vicinity, though this does not
include statements from the mill
presidents, as it has been impossible
to cdmmunicate with them.
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Library for Anderson.
A Carnegie library for Anderson is
an assured fact now. The lot has
been selected and an architect has
been appointed to draw plans . and
specifications. The amount to be p\'en
by the city has been secured and
the building will be placed on the corner
of McDuffie and River streets.
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Shaft to Editor Gonzales.
A marble company of Gainesville,
Ga., has just built a monument which
is being put in place on the state
capitol grounds at Columbia, in honor
of the late Editor A. E. Gonzales,
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of The Columbia State, wno was suui
and killed upon the streets of Columbia
some years ago by Lieutenant
Governor James Tillman. The monument
is to cost between $3,000 and
$4,000, and the money for its purchase
and erection was raised by
popular subscription.
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Stolen Diamonds Recovered.
The diamonds which were stolen
from the Sea Island hotel at Beaufort
were recovered after a diligent
search. The box which contained the
jewels was found under a tree by Dr.
W. D. Vincent in a yard -near the
house occupied by the girl who has
been in jail accused of the theft.
When shown the box she confessed
and led Mr. M. D. White where the
jewels were hid. She will be tried at
the September term of court.
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Bonaparte Revokes Orders.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte
has revoked the orders recently issued
for the transfer of Civil Engineers
J. W. G. Wialker and F. R. Har
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ris from the Charleston navy yarn
to other stations.
Soon after the orders were issued
they were suspended at the president's
direction and an investigation
made into the matter of the alleged
differences between the engineer officers
and the contractor^ for the dock
now being built at that yard. Citizens
of Charleston forwarded a petition requesting
that the officers be retained.
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Prohi Campaign in Anderson.
A meeting of the Anderson county
prohibition committee was held a few
Jays ago with the following result:
Two thousand copies of an antidispensary
letter are to be made and
circulated through the county. In conformity
to the statute bearing on
such measures, petitions are to be
submitted for the signatures of the
requisite quota of the qualified voters
of the county. The petitions are to
be sent to the respective pastors and
each of these is to assign a committee
of three to the work of presenting
the petition.
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Many Hard Kit by Failure.
Representatives of the bankrupt independent
Cotton Oil company met in
Charleston a few days ago and appointed
July 26, at Darlington, for
a meeting of the creditors. It is
now estimated that the liabilities will
reach $800,000 and the principal assets
are a number of mills and ginneries,
which might not bring onethird
of that amount on the bloc/.
Charleston is said to have lost about
$375,000 in the failure. It is fully
expected that the entire stock issue
<V $1,000,000 will be wiped out. The
failure is far-reaching and banks have
been hard hit in many eastern as we:.
! as southern cities.
Bright Williamson, as receiver, is!
sued a circular to stockholders of the
| concern reporting the concern in
: bankruptcy and giving a statement of
i assets and liabilities which, he says,
j is as near right as possible to get in
t the limited time he has had. The as|
sets are given at $1,275,315.46; items
being plants (per inventory, May 31),
$1,089,056.63; real estate, scales and
seed houses, $23,539.53; stock of supplies
and products (actual), $40,962.32;
tools, live stock, etc., $<",204.11; bills
recivable $765.13; accounts receivable
(nominally), $87,399.83; cash in
bank, subject to investigation, $26,387.91.
Total liabilities, $1,790,793.33; items:
Capital stock, $1,000,000; bills payable,
$722,500; accounts payable, subject to
investigation,' $48,293.33; accounts
navable in oil estimated at $20,000.
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Brother Bought the Drug.
The coroner's jury in the case of
R. Keith Dargan, the former president
of the Independent Cotton Oil company
of Darlington, who committed
suicide, returned a verdict that the
deceased came to his death by taking
carbolic acid. It was developed at
the inquest that Mr. Pegram Dargan,
the brother of the dead man, was in
the room with the suicide when he
took the poison, and stayed with him
until he died. This brother was placed
on the stand, but declined to make
a statement, saying that the note left
by Targan would explain all. This
note was read, and in it the dead
man slid that although he had mismanaged
he was no: a coward.
The physician who was called to
the dead man's aid testified that Pegram
Eargan said he bought the acid
and saw his brother drink it.
M. WITTE CHIEF ENVOY.
Greatest of All Russian Diplomats Appointed
by Czar Nicholas Head
of Peace Plenipotentiaries.
A St. Petersburg special says: Emperor
Nicholas has signed the an
pointment of M. Wifte, president of
the committee of ministers, to tie
chief plenipotentiary representing the
Russian government in tne peace n#
gotiations to succeed M. Muravieff,
resigned, The appointment clothes M.
Witte with plenary powers. Official
notification of the designation of M.
Witta to head the mission was forwarded
to Washington Thursday morning.
M. Witte will take passage on
the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser
Wilhelm der Grosse, which sails
from Cherbourgr July 26.
It has been intimated that Japan
formally objected to certain utter-,
ances attributed to M. Muravieff, reflecting
upon the Japanese nation, but
inquiries made so far have failed to
obtain any confirmation of . the rumor.-'
The peace party is overjoyed at the.
fact that negotiations have been
placed In M. Witte's hands. It is
the firm belief that this not only insures
a successful termination of the
negotiations, but that M.-Witte will
secure the best possible terms for
his country. Some of the grand dukes
and courtiers of the emperor's entourage,
however, aye reported to be furious
at M. Witte's selection. s
Sergius Witte may be regarded a&
the leading liberal statesman of Russia.
For the last -thirteen 3i$ars he
has been -one of the strongest per
scnalities in the Russian bureaucracy
although his political fortunes suffered
a setback when he was compelled
to resign the portfolio of minister
of finance, in August, 1903, and
again when, after being appointed as
president of the council of ministers
in the same month, his office gradually
lost its importance, until rumor
of his intention to resign and go
abroad had been persistently circulated.
Witte is about 56 years old and
has steadily worked his way up from
the position of an underpaid railroad
clerk, who occasionally acted as porter,
to that of the leading statesman
of Russia, in spite of the faet that
his enemies are numerous and include
some of the most powerful men in
Russia. A man of large stature, biglimbed
and muscular, standing ov.er
six feet high, Witte has the reputation
of being harsh to his subordinates,
but his honesty and ability have
never been doubted, even by his worst
enemies. He was created a count in
1901.
M. Witte is thoroughly familiar
with the Far Eastern question in all
oi its bearings. He understands the
Japanese position and fully realized
before the war that -the aggressive
policy being pursued under the lead
of Viceroy Alexieff and M". Bezobrazoff,
president of the Yalu Timber
company, and the coterie of adventurers
connected with them, would cause
Japan to take up the sword. At one
time Witte talked over the situation
with Marquis Ito, president of the
Tananese Drivy council and one of the
leading statesmen of Japan. Practi- I
cally it was WItte's disapproval of
Russia's Far Eastern policy and the
creation of a viceroyalty in the Far
East which caused his downfall ati
minister of finance.
DEATH LIST UNLUCKY NUMBER.
Thirteen People Died of Heat in New
York City Thursday.
Thirteen deaths attributed to the
hot weather were recorded in New
York city Thursday. In addition a
score or more of persons were over- j
come by the heat and are under treatment
in the city hospitals.
The high humidity and the continuance
throughout the night of temperatures
varying only slightly from those
of the hottest hours of the day hav*
caused te heavy fatality attending the
present hot spell in the city.
LAWSON VAPORINCS
Frenzied Finance Apostle
Crusading in Minnesota.
ADMITS DOING UP PEOPLE
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Says He Has Several Millions Wrong,
fully Wrung from tho People and
Facetiously Promises to Pay
It All Back.
Thomas Wl Law son of Boston was
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the guest of the Minneapolis Commercial
Club Thursday. Mr. Lawson
spoke before 300 members of the
club. lie seemed full of energy and
the utmost respect was paid to him
by his hearers. He said in part:
"I am not afraid of personal violence.
I came out here unguarded,
paying my own expenses, and I am
going to make a life work of this. I
have several millions myself, and 1
wronged the American people in getting
it, but I did not know it at the
time. When the time comes I will
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give that money back to them.- If
I live I am going to make'the American
people sell every dollar's worth
of stock they have, and by that time
they will know better than to buy
back."
Mr. Lawson scored the Equitable
Life Assurance Society.
"I have several millions," he said,
"but I haven't any more than I am
entitled to, the way the game is playpd
fnr T know the came, and I have
Iked up to the rules of it.
"I'm going to kill the 'system' not
;by law or anything they can delay by
red tape, but by arousing the anger
o! 50,000,000 people.
Lawson also spoke in St Paul to a
large audience. In part he said: "I
have no political ambitions. I could
not accept political office were it tendered
me. I have work cut out which,
even if I devote 18 hours per day to
it, will last me Wtil I am over 90
years old?^oo old to thihk of political'
honors." ,
t Mr. Lawson did not deliver a set
speech The talked informally in a con.
versational tone, devoting his time to
^answering a series of questions propounded
to him by a local newspaper.
He declared that should his socalled
remedy be put into efTect there |
would,be no political revolution; the
various parties would go on battling
for their principles as heretofore. But
a great financial revolution there
would be; there would be no more
stock inflation; the money stolen from,
the people by the "system" would be
returned to the people, and, because
railroads and industrial corporations
would have only to earn a fair percentage
on the true- value of their
investments, the cost of living would
be reduced and wage earners would
be able to enjoy greater luxuries and
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10 lay, oy a. coin ?
earnings. As to when he would propound
this remedy he said that it
would be foolish to make it known
until the people were ready for it;
otherswise the "system" would find
means to render it non-effective. The
people must first get rid of
their stocks and bonds; sell them
to the "system" at the present
inflated prices and then when tie
"system" was forced to let them go,
the people should buy them back
cheaply and forever keep the control
in their own hands.
When this had been accomplished,-!
his remedy, which he declared to be
a simple business proposition, could j
be put into force, and there wonld J
never again be inflation of capital j
stockB.
14 BODIES IN SUBMARINE.
8unken Boat Brought to Surface Reveal*
Sickening Horror.
The submarine boat, Farfadet,
which sank at the entrance of the
port of Sidi Abdullah, Tu^.'s, July 6,
was towed into dry dock Saturday
after ten days' incessant efforts to
raise her. j
When the door of the Farfadet was j
opened there was a rush of nauseous .
gases from the decomposing bodies j
of the fourteen men who had perished j
in her. An inspection of the FarfadA :
shows ihat her crew employed every j
imaginable device in their attempts '
to escape.
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PEARY BEGINS LONG JOURNEY, i
Well Known Explorer Starts Out ;
Again in Quest of North. Pole.
Lieutenant Robert E. Peary started ;
from New York Sunday on his long
Journey in quest of the North Pole, j
His ship, the Roosevelt, weighed an- j
cbor and got under way at ten min- I
utes after 3 o'clock , in the after- !
noon. - j
On board the vessel, besides the ex- j
plorer's party, were a number of :
guests and newspaper men, who ac- |
coinpanied the ship as far as Sandy j
Hook, where they were taken off by ;
a navy yard tug. ;
The Roosevelt was saluted by all j
manner of steamer and sailing craft
on her way to sea.
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CANDLER SffEDS^LIGHT.
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Ex-Senator Believes Passage of EschTownsend
Bill by Congress Would
Kill "Jim Crow" Car Laws.
A Washington dispatch says: In *
recent interview former Senator
Chandler of New Hampshire brought
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forward a question that was generally
discussed when the Esch-Townsend
bill was under consideration during
the last session of congress, but which
is sure to come up if a similar seasure
is brought forward next winter.
Mr. Chandler favored the Esch-Town
send bill and one of his reasons for
doing so was that "if national control
of railroads is allowed^ all discriminations
between whites and ;j
blacks in the enjoyment of railroad
facilities will, be abolished; in other
words there will be no Jim crow
cars, and the white ma^ and the
negro will lave to sit side by side "%
in the same cars all over the south." , '
This utterance by Mr. Chandler has
already given rise to considerable dife- ' Ij
cussion and some of the friends of ^
the Esch-Townsend bill have endeav- .o
ored to explain that it would have ij
no- such effect, as he believes, and fga
that it yrould not be construed as nul- 'Ma
lifying the laws that have been passed ,;f|
in southern states requirir^ rail- |j|
roads to afford separate accommoda* '.yM
tions for whites and blacks. It is
certain that it would not affect these
laws so far as they apply to transportation
wholly within the bounds |1
of a single state. It is not so clear 0
that it would not be within the power
of the interstate commerce commission
and of the courtp to compel the Jj
roads to grtnrt' equal accommodations
to whites and blacks traveling across "?
state lines.
The language of the bill which Mr. ; ?
Chandler believes would place negroes . |j
on an equality 'with white men and
women in southern railway transit is ;?
found in section 1. This section pro- v||
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- "That whenever, upon complaint JH
duly made, under section 13 of the
art to regulate commerce, the inter- ,32
state commerce commission shall, &f>
ter full hearing, make any finding or
ruling decl^feg ioy?-existing rate for
the transiJoKaffori of persons or prop- \":fi
erty.or any regulation or practice
whatsoever affecting the transports?- ^
tion of persons or property to be un- l||l
reasonable or unjustly discriminatory/ |ja
the commission shall have power, and * it
shall be its duty, to declare and ";T|
order what shall be a just and rea- .
sonable rate, practice or regulation j|
to be charged, imposed or followed
in the future in place of that found ;. ?
to be unreasonable or unjustly discrim
inatory, and the order of the commis- ':
sion shall, of it? own force, take effeet
and become operative thirty days
after notice thereof has been given -M
to the person or persons affected
thereby." .
While the chief purpose had in view v
, by the trainers of the Esch-Townsend M
btyl was to give the interstate com- ' ^
merce commission increased authority
over freistit rates, they did not stop
there. The ..bin proposed to confer
upon the commission power to change :
any "regulation or practice whatso- *5
ever affecting^ the transportation of )t)
persons or property" that might be
found to be unreasonable or unjusTh'
discrimnatory. This Is very broad , ;
language. Some of the opponents- of
the bill have gone so far ?s tacontend
that it would give the commission
practically absolute power over
the management of all of the-rail
- <Jx.
roads in the United States, eves en- 3
abling them to prescribe the schedules
on which trains should move r
8nd the stations at which they should v
stop and to fix the wages of employees.
A much less extreme construetion
would seem to make it cover a ^
"regulation or practice'that might be -'M
alleged to be "unjustly discrimnatory" $?
as between a white man and a black
man. ? . "
Many Babies Dying in Cleveland.
Within nine days eighty-two infants
under one year of age have died m
Cleveland, Ohio, and the city health ^
authorities are making a close investigation
into sanitary conditons and
the mitk supply.
WITTE PREPARING FOR MI88ION.
Russian Peace Envoy Has Many Calls
to Make Before Departure.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says: ' r
M. Wltte spent an hour with Mr. Meyer,
the American ambassador, at the J;
Kleinmichei palace discussing the
forthcoming peace conference. Before
leaving for Paris M. Wttte will have -.j
still another audience with the emperor.
In the meantime he must pay
a round of official visits to all the
imperial ministers. M. Witte is expected
to be the bearer of a personal
message from the emperor to
President Roosevelt.
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TWO SWIM NIAGARA RAPIDS.
Graham and Glover Go iThrough
Deadly Whirlpools in Safety.
C. D. Graham of Niagara Falls and
William J. Glover, Jr., of Baltimore,
Md., successfully swam the lower
rapids of the Niagara river from the
American side of the whirlpool to
Lewiston Monday afternoon. The distance
of four miles was covered in
26 minutes by Glover. ^ M