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?.* .. . -.. ' * ' ' Y~ / STRINGS ATTACHED" < lt To Pennsylvania Railroads By Your Uncle Sam. MANY EXCUSES ALLOWED Jn Great Majority of Cases Fines Do i Not Mean Suits Paid?Some Sam\ pies of the Various Excuses Offered. A Washington special says: Declaring it to be bis purpose to have no concealment in connection with the fines levied against transportation companies carrying the mails, Second Assistant Postmaster General McCleary Friday gave out some figures in connection with- the Southern railway and the Central of Georgia railway, which are interesting. These figures show that fines for delays tfre being regularly levied. It tj is declared moreover, that they will be collected. Still the railroads are given an opportunity to show cause why they should not be penalized for late arrivals of trains, which cause . iV delays in the delivery of mail. Fail*ure to perform satisfactory mail service according to contract has recently subjected the Southern to a single fine of $4,000, it is announced. For the quarter ending December ? ? 31, 1906, during which so many serious and protracted delays occurred on KAKt . . .... ,, _ trains entering Atlanta, tne ooutnern road was due to earn for the {* . transportation of mail matter and rent p of postal cars, a total of $244,225.70, Against this it is announced that fines were levied aggregating $1S,328.26. On the main line of the Southern between Washington and Danville, the fines for 'delinquencies'" as the deV partment designates delays, and failure to perform satisfactory . its service as mail carrier, fines levied amounted to 10 per cent*of the total ' v pay due the road. - On the Central of Georgia railroad between Atlanta and Savannah, and on the Atlanta, Albany, Mcntgcmery, fe " Ala., and Columbia, Ala., line the f . amount due to be earned was $32,168.80, and the total of fines levied on these lines for the quarter was $703.59. , The work of the division of inspecP ; tion of the postoffice department ^ which has charge of tabulating the T fines against transportation companies and keeping the accounts, is always three months behind In its . work. For instance the roads are required to make an affidavit of the failures in mail train service at the * end of each quarter. The department works over these figures during the next quarter and at the beginning of Sep*, second quarter following casts up its secvond quarter following casts up its y. v accounts and the roads are permitted to submit applications for remission of fines. ^. Even broken-down and worn-out equipment, which very frequently causes delays will not subject the roads to punishment, if, when such delays occur, it is shown that the equipment was properly inspected and > found to be in satisfactory condition when the train nulled out for the _ _ , ran. When a settlement is finally reached it is fully possible, in view of the excuses accepted by the department, that fully 50 per cent of the fines may be remitted. The following excuses for late arrivals are held to be satisfactory. 1. Waiting for mail connection. A railroad cannot escape fines for delays caused by waiting for a connection unless such connection is a mail train from which mails are to be received. 2. Breakage of machinery, hot box. es and trains breaking in two after proper inspection; provided the equipment was in good condition at the time of such inspection. 3. Repairs or damage to bridges. 4. Wrecks, slow track, soft track and slippery rails, when satisfactorily explained. ESrab - V GOT ONE THOUSAND PER CENT. Contractor Was Paid $90,748 and Only I Expended $2,060. According to the advance report of \ the auditors of the capital investigating committee at Harrisburg, Pa., Jno. H. Sanderson & Co., Philadelphia, were paid $117,258 fcr the furnishings of the house caucus room of the new capitol and $88,242 fcr the furnishings r- of the senate caucus room. The* most expensive furnishings in these rooms were the rostrums, for which Sanderson was paid $90,748, and for which he paid $2,060 to the sub-contractor who supplied them. - ? GUATEMALA SNUBS MEXICO. 1 . . Shows Defiance and Refuses to Turn Over Alleged Assassin. A City of Mexico specif says: Guatemala has refused to comply with the request of the Mexican government that Jose Maria Lima and Colonel' Onofre Bcree, charged with complicity in the assassination of General Manuel Lisandro Bariillas, be extradited. ?* \ *. f . " a: c-- ' . ' . -v TWENTY MEN CRUSHED.! I Wall of Big Dam Gives Way and Mexican Workmen Are Whelmed Under Avalanche of Debris. A special of Friday from Chihuahua, j Mexico, says: Without an instant's warning the great walls of the Chiuvuscar dam gave way Thursday, engulfing nearly forty men under the enormous weight of masonry and water, between fifteen and twenty of whom are dead, and thirteen injured and others unaccount* ed for. Some of the injured will die. All of the victims are Mexicans. Meager details of the affair reached San Antonio, Texas, early Friday morning, when the judicial authorities and several surgeons departed immediately for the scene. The disaster is only the last of a large number which have recently claimed nearly 200 victims in that section, and mostly in the neighborhood of. Chihuahua. The authorities are making a thorough investigation into the present catastrophe and will severely punish those upon whom they place the blame. According to one version of the affair the men were working on a foundation close to the foot of the main rampart of the dam, which had already been constructed. The main wall was weak and gave out under the water pressure. The dam was being put in for irrigation and stock watering purposes, and was a large enterprise. The loss will be heavy. AFTER THIRTY YEARS FREE Aged Man is Arrested Under Indictment for Murder. William G. Graham, an old man of 70 years, who was indicted in Madison county, Georgia, at the March, 1S77, term of the superior court for . the murder of William King, but who made his escape from the scene of the crime immediately after its com- j mission, was last Friday morning; placed under arest, ten miles northwest of Gainesville, Ga., at Bolding's mill, in the upper part of Hall county, by Sheriff Orr, of Dawson county, to whom the warrant was sent by the Madison county sheriff a few days ago. The facts of the killing* are, of course, meagre, but few of the present day remembering them. However, it is said by a former citizen of Madison county, who is now living in Gainesville, that a difficulty arose between Graham and King, as they came out of a stream or pond, where they had been in swimming. It is said that King came at Graham with . an open knife, when the latter brained King with a stick, inflicting such serious injuries that King died shortly thereafter. It is also understood that Graham left Madison county on the night that the sheriff went to his house to arrest him on a warrant charging him with murder. Graham went to Hall county, and located near where he was arrested. He has conducted himself properly since he has resided there, and is held / in estem by the people of that community. Graham has a wife, who is older than himself, and *he is nearly blind. The old man took his arrest calmly. His neighbors never suspected he was wanted for murder, and his arrest caused much discussion. The crime has been well nigh forgotten in Madison county^, owing to time elapsed since its commission. ' ATLLANTA SIGNS FOR FAIR. % Contract "With Georgia State Agricultural Society is Approved. The final plans for holding the Georgia State Fair in Atlanta next .October .were perfected Friday when a contract was signed by the Georgia State Agricultural Society and the Atlanta Fair Association on the comple-" tion of the guarantee fund of $15,000 required. Under the contract the date of the fair will be from October 10 to 26, which will give two weeks for the fair. \ ANOTHER PREACHER SINS. Leaves Wife of H.s Bosom and Elopes Witn Young GirlMembers of the fashionable St. George Episcopal church at Hempsteau, L. 1., were astonished Thursday when they learned that their pastor, Rev. Cooke, had departed from xiempstead, and that Miss Fioretta Whaley also had left her home and haa written letters saying that she would not return. The Rev. Mr. Cooke is a married man. His wife left home some time ago and returned to her father's home on account of his attentions to Miss Whaley. BARON KUROKI ARRIVES. Noted Jap General Peaches Victoria En Route to Jamestown. General Baron Kurcki, wearing a khaki uniform, accompanied by a representative party cf Japanese military j men, arrived at Victoria, B. C., 1 Wednesday afternoon on the Aid Maru on their way to the Jamestown exposition. They left for Seattle Thursday morning. i / ' , .. f. JACKIES ATTACKED" | By Cub^n Police While on Shore Leave at Santiago. SEVERAL BADLY INJURED Americans Were Unarmed and Not One Policeman Was Hurt?Investigation Under 'Way?Cubans Were Aggressors. Confirmation was received both at the navy and state departments at Washington Wednesday of the attack of the police of Santiago upon a par| ty of sailors from the United States cruiser Tacoma who had been given liberty and were returning to their ship early in the morning. A full investigation is in progress, the results of which are awaited with in; terest. Regarding the affair a Santiago dispatch says: The conflict between the sailors and police followed an orderj ly banquet which was given at the Cafe Leon de Oro. by a party of first class seamen of the cruiser Tacoma. j At 1 in the morning the men separated and twelve of them went to the Cafe Union. They were not intoxicated. A police captain named Lay, who was in 'citizen's clothes, hhd been ; watching this cafe all the evening, with seven or eight policemen to support him. At about 2 o'clock in the morning the seamen started for the wharf with the intention of boarding the Tacoma. Captain Lay claims thac the seamen started the trouble and the sailors claim that Captain Lay, without provocation, caused the disturbance. as me enusiea men naa -ueen cindered by the police 011 their Way to the wharf, Ensign Brisbin decided to walk slightly ahead of the party. Suddenly he heard a revolver shot .and immediately afterwards tne police charged with revolvers and machetes. Brisbin received an ugly cut on the arm and was felled tp the ground three times. As the crowd of seamen came up the policemen emptied their revolvers at them, at the same time attacking the Americans with machetes. A fierce fight ensued, with the result that Henry L. Lee, a fireman of the Tacoma, will probably die of a compound fracture of the skull, caused by a machete, and a gunshot wound in the right breast. Ten/other members of the crew of the Tacoma were taken to the ship hospital suffering from machete wounds and clubbing. Not one of the policemen was badly hurt, though several of them suffered from fist'contusions. The captain and all the policemen who participated in the affair have been suspended by order of the civil governor of Santiago, on the representations of Commander Tappan of the Tacoma, and the American consul, Mr. Holaday, who affirm that the lives of the American officers and men who go ashorp are not safe while such men are aeting as agents cf the law. Mr. Holaday is making a thor ough investigation of the incident. DEmTH-DEALING mine disaster. ? 9 Three Men Killed, Four Entombed and Several Badly Burned. Three men were killed, four were seriously burned and four others are entombed and probably dead as a result of a mine explosion at the Whipple mines in the Leap creek district, near Charleston, W. Va.f Wednesday afternoon. The mine where the explosion occurred is ? shaft 456 feet deep. MISSOURI FIGHTING BOOZE. Legislature Passes Bill Intended to Curtail the Traffic. The house of representatives of Missouri Wednesday passed a bill prohibiting brewers, distillers and wholesale liquor dealers from dealing in. retail liquor. A bill giving the right to search for liquors in local option counties was also passed. ENTOMBED MINERS RESCUED. Seven Men Were Imprisoned in Pit, Nearly Five Days. A special from Johnstown, Pa., says: Taken from the dark corridor of a coal mine where they had been imprisoned for over 100 hours, the seven men taken from the BerwincL-White mine No. 38, at'Foiistwell, Wednesday, are lying in' the Windber hospital, physically exhausted. The hospital physicians stated that the men would be able to be out in a few days, but would be unable to resume their reguiar duties for a week or more. A CRANKY DEMONSTRATION. # . Labor Fanatics in New York Show Sympathy for Alleged Murderers. Two long lines of men and women, probably 20,00o of them, trailed in parade through the streets of the upper and lower east side in New York Saturday as a demonstration of their sympathy for Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, the officials cf the Western Federation of Miners. N t ! ! 1 PROBLEMATICAL. There came a ring at the telephone. "Herbert," asked a feminine voice, "what time are you coming home to dinner?" "I don't know, dear,* answered Herbert. "All I can tell you is that I am going to start right now." A few minutes later, with a more or less firm reliance upon the protection cf Providence, he boarded an elevated train and began his journey around the loop.?Chicago Tribune. I ???????- i HIGHT OF WAVES. Frenchman Says Observation From j the Decks of Ships Has Created an Illusion. M. Bertin, a Frenchman, has been making new observations of the size of ocean billows. He kays they are greatly over-estimated when the term j "mountainous" is applied to them. The longest waves he measured j were 2,590 feet (from crest to crest, j he says, and' their average duration j was 23 seconds. They were not very high, only about 50 feet or one-fiftieth j of their span. Indeed, he is of opinion that the greatest height ever reached by waves in open water is fifty feet, and he ! accounts for higher estimates by say- j ing that they have heretofore been observed for the most .part from the decks df ships, and the perspective effect resulting from looking up along the slopes has misled the eye and Judgment. When waves become breakers, striking against some oostacle, there is no doubt that great masses of water are hurled to a height of 100 feet and volumes of spray are flung and j blown still higher. Very few waves 2,500 feet long and' j 50 feet high are ever encountered, he ! adds. In average had weather the j waves run from 160 to 320 feet from j crest to crest and their height seldom | exceeds 33 -feet. Their duration is ' not over 6 to 8 seconds. ., r ? Hammer Oldest Implement. The hammer, besides being a tool ! of universal use, ds probably the old- j est representative of a mechanic's tool kit. The hammer was originally j a stone (fastened to a handle with ; v.r>ncrc nnH it was as useful as a | weapon as a tool. Hammers are represented on the monuments of Egypt twenty centuries before our era. They greatly resemble the hammer now In use, save that -there were no claws on the back for the extraction of nails. Claw ham-mers were invented come time during the Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts of the eleventh century represent carpenters with claw hammers. Hammers are of all sizes, from ^he dainty instruments used by the jeweller, which weigh less than half an ounce; -to the gigantic fifty ton hammer of shipbuilding establishments, some of which have a falling force of from ninety to 100 tons. Every trade has its own hammer and its own way of using it?Baltimore Sun. MORE BOXES OP GOLD And Many Greenbacks. 325 boxes of Gold and Greenbacks will be sent to persons who write the most interesting and truthful letters of experience on the following topics: - 1. 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Contest will close June 1st, 1907, | and no letters received after that j date will be admitted. Examinations of letters will be made by three judges, not members of the Postum Cereal Cb., Ltd. Their decisions will be fair and final, and a neat little bor containing a $10 gold piece sent to each of the five writers of the most interesting letters, a box containing ' a $5 gold piece to each of the 20 next ' best,, a $2 greenback to each of the J 100 next best, and a $1 greenback to each of the 20QL next best, making cash prizes distributed to 325 persons. 17"f.ionrl /-if fc IITO'Pfl tO lu fci j ii iguu v/*. x *w v. 0 ? write, and each letter will be held in high esteem by the company, as an evidence of such friendship, while the little boxes of gold and envelopes of money will reach many modest writers whose plain and sensible letters qontain the facts desired, although the sender -may have but small faith in winning at the time of writing. Talk this subject over with your friends and see how many among you can win prizes. It is a good, honest competition and in the best kind of a cause, and costs the competitors absolutely nothing. Address your letter vo the Postuni Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich., writing your own name and address j clearly. .. .. ? _ ANOTHER RAILROADFK Only About One Hundred and Twer the isthmus of Tehuantep For Big S On the isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the country through which runs the now railrnaH from Salinn. Pruz on the Pacific to Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf Df Mexico, the rapid growth of vegetation is said to be one of the most i serious problems in the maintenance | ; K'z- -y'- G -u~ -L'1 ? x. fC^ 1 :AACn(A C2VZ\s^^ \ r*c 'i r TEHUA??2?2^ ? ? ?'/! ?/7 ;V "."i *.''i*.*' , MAP HP TR1 of the road. The engineers found, in , fact, that the tropical vegetation I grew faster than t_e force of men at j their disposal could cut It down. Af- i ter a number of experiments it was ' found that boiling water was most I effective in eradicating this too-will- j ing vegetation, and now, just as the: roadbeds of northern roads are sprinkled with oil to lay the dust, the line of.the Tehuantepec road is liberally scalded' at frequent intervals to keep cocoanut groves and sugar plantations from springing up over night between the ties and blockading the road. Writing Table. A Chicago man has devised and patented an exceedingly useful combination writing desk and table, an illustration of which is shown below. Although at all times convenient, individual writing desks are not used to any great extent at the present time. The ordinary table usually serves the purpose, paper and pencils Table and Writing Desk. 1 : being placed in a nearby drawer. How much more useful the table shown here would be. This table has an open top, fitting into which is the triangular drawer. The latter is divided into small compartments for holding pens, pencils, paper and other writing accessories. When not used as a writing desk, the drawer is lowered and the top of the table pushed back in guide ways, comniptpiv hiding the drawer from view. ? ?f * '' ' 1 THE CAT OUT Chatty Old Gentleman (as they j lent view of the'asylum from the railv Escaped Lunatic?"Ah, but you c asylum!" % ? *\ ' ' ' ' - . i ' i i . . - *> IOM OCEAN TO OCEAN. ity-five Miles Long, But It Crosses ec?Harbors at Each End teamships. At least until the Panama Canal is completed, many expect that the greater burden of traffic between the Atlantic and the Pacific will be handled by the Tehuantepec National, on account of geographical advantages, as it affords the shorter . , -<fi -V ? ::-*> vAv?: ? '/ ?*.: : '/-i '1 J-.- :' ':; : irJ -v'vV'.v ' d tb4 ,Jf^v-^KC-;'r~:ayV . "' . '- ' 3 ISTHMUS. '. ,||j route between the chief commercial :.ports of the world. The isthmus of Tehuantepec is sit- % uated in the southern portion of 4: Mexico, in the States of Oaxaca and ^ VeraCruz. From ocean to ocean ?he ^ distance is 125 miles. Considering ,7 i the fact that the Sierra Madre Mountain range crosses the isthmus, the .4 territory is conmaratively leveL From the Atlantic, or Gulf of Mexico y side, the rise is gradual, culminating in Chivela Pass at a height ot only CJ 730 feet. From that point to the Pacific or to the Gulf of Tehuantepec, the descent is abrupt. . I The table can then be used as the. $| ordinary small table for reading, ?Philadelphia Record. Sugar Statistics. The consumption of sugar in the1-/til United States is increasing rapidly, -ifJ more rapidly than is the production. ^ During the year just ended we hsed the enormous amount of 6,500,000, 000 pounds of sugar, worth $300,-.^1 000,000. If each citizen got his fair share, during the twelve months yhs' A consumed seventy-six pounds. this sugar only one-fifth was produced, in the United States; one-flfthK||$ came from the island possessions, and ^ | three-fifths was imported from foreign countries. Of the American pro- ';fr duced sugar, ^a little over' half' was ./| from the sugar beet, the remainder from cane. This is the first time the|| beet sugar has exceeded in quanti^ ' ^ that manufactured from sugar cane. During the last ten years the increase >a in the consumption of sugar has been $J| three times as great as the increased - M domestic production. 1 Country Doctors Dying Out. ' ; ' ^ The country doctor is rapidly becoming extinct as a species. The men ;'? one meets at their societies y<|| dress, talk and act as the met do at any meeting of city physicians. The /-J papers presented are quite up to thb v| city standard, the discussions mark- 'jA edly above those of the city men. The g| surgical experiences related would ; astonish some men who think' the city clinics and clinicians do all of this work, or at least all ihat is well done.?Kansas City Star. A professor in Copenhagen Uniyer-. || sity is said to chloroform plants. After several days they bud in great/'. Jjg profusion.. * - ' ? h OF THE BAG. iass the asylum)?"We get an -excelray." , . ?ught to see the railway from the