The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 17, 1906, Image 3
The Horry Herald,
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CSNIAY, S. C.
THURSDAY, May 17, \9*4
'?HK COMING IsfcUE.
PASTGENERATION, L.IKK ANltt%
I BEC1LE OLD FATHER,"
Bays Weaver, "Fas Disinherited its
Children, But They'll Break
the Will."
To a symposium entitled "Socialism
In America," and published In the
York World, General James B.
Weaver of Iowa contributes the following:
To the ~ *.'.tor of the World: The
movement toward wsialism In the
United States and elsewhere is strict
ly defensive and abnormal. It resembles
the movements of opposing
armh-a in the field. The soolallsts
prefer that the multitude shall own
and operate everything rather than
mat a few shall absorb all. II Is
eoonomlo war, and lying hidden within
it are dlglooatlona fearful to contemplate.
The same plutooratlo
foro wbloh engendered socialism in
the old world hare begotten it here
and are giving it growth, strength
and vitality
Sen -tor Il&nna's prophetic vision
was clear and acourate if his economic
and political theories are to continue.
9 nv?*onfcemplated a contlnu
aro* of the present plutooratlo regime
and he bad at that very time
been slated by monopolistic wealth for
el*ht years' service as president of the
United States. Visions of glgantlo
trust combinations and ship subsidy
sohnmes on trolled his great brain.
Under suoh conditions, of course,
nothing c uld avert the socialistic issue
In 1012. He would have forced
exactly chat Issue had ht lived and
suoeeeded in his ambitions. He, hit
o* nft res and associates have precipitated
a life and death struggle between
artificial persons created by the state.
oallnrl o rporationa, and natural persons
of 11 sh and blood created by Ihf
Almighty. The former, relnforoed by
an allied army of speculators, have
driven the men of flesh and blood Into
the overorowded market of day laber
ers, have absorbed the sources of
wealth, including the soil; have set
the laboring men at war with them
selv s, while the government in all
its branches is used oblelly as a police
force to keep the peace while the cor
porattons get In their work.
Tne allied corporations say nobody
shall do business but themselves acd
that competition shall be eliminated.
They have forced labor to say that a
man who dors not belong to the uuIod
shall not work, and they will say
whether or not he may Join. The
past wenr ration, like an imb oile old
father, has disinherited its children.
Tney will break the will,
T >e senate of the United States at
this mo?ent is creating socUllst>
faster than they can be organized am
equlppel. It is a great sccia is ic recruiting
station and Is deatro,ti g pa
trlotlsm faster than Abraham Lincoln
ver built it up. Nothing buo a
mt/)/) Ar\ V-* n 1 S 4 r* vk/vll# !/*?! f ^ ? *
ouuuou ijfviu iii &u*ira hi it
and ua tonal, and & change In public
policy, can avert the struggle It is
an ugly o .nditlon, but the conflict, ay.
waa or.oe before the case, is again
Irrepressible if present conditions ar?
to oontbue. Fortunately there ar>
signs of an awakening, and it is nation
wide It la adumbrated in the
skies. Something 1b shaking the
conscience of the nation a> d it is not
B03laiism. It la simply the mighty
tread of true democracy and Christ
ianity walking hand in hand Do no'
be alarmed. The alliance is wnolly
holy. Tnere Is neither excuse nor
necessity for socialism Id thiscountrv
If the government will honestly and
conservatively align itself onoo m t<
with the paple. But let me assure the
reader that th* safety of both persons
and property demands that this shall
be done speedily and without sham.
How to check the growth of socialism:
First?There must be less money
spent for military and naval esiab
jiBuuieuvo aliu mure lur reumnQiUK
oar unwatered empire, thus furnish
log homes for destitute people, and
wo should help poor settlers if need be
to get a start. Our policy in this
particular must be broad, liberal, aggressive
and must be inaugurated at
once. The army of foreigners daily
landing uponsoucr shores oan then be
consistently required to settle upon
and cultivate this reclaimed land.
Seoood?We must take up the ques
tion of land reform, nationally and In
states. Land monopoly is monstrous,
unOhristian and unclvllaed.
Third?There is but one way to
control the railroads. It is not necessary
that the government shall own
and operate our vast railway system.
The tentative way to approaoh that
problem Is to pass an act author sing
the government to oonstruot or pur
obase three transcontinental lines?
north, south and through the center of
the continent. If suoh a law were
passed the jueaent lines would be
/ quJck to sen at reasonable rates
Questions of connecting with these
lines and all subsidiary and collateral
matters would be easy of adjustment.
Fourth?We must eleot United
St&'es senators by pbpular vote.
Fifth?The struggle for community
con rol of public utilities mutt continue?and
it will.' Restore the oom-<
petitive equilibrium even if we have
to discourage corporations for private
gain. If they will insist on destroy*
lug competition and orushlng the in.W?
Si * V
dividual, to that extent destroy them
by recalling their charters. If It Is a
question of whlon shall live?the corporation
or the man?let the man
survive. The duty of the state Is to
the individual. The rerm dies will
be tried first before the option takes
the Cimmerian kap inio socialism on
the wide soale contemplated by your
question.
Sixth?Finally .nominate and eleota
conservative ticket In 1008 whose very
names will Inspire confidence In all
olasses. It will not be hard to fir.d
such a ticket, but it will have to be
selected with a view of taokling iivii g
and vital issues. No namby-pamby
administration at war with Itself o n
possibly grapple with the mlghiy
problems now prewlng for solution.
J A MKS b. WKIVKH.
Colfax, la., April 20.
Wed A111 Hi Debris.
The San FrancUco disaster so shook
the plans of Montford Splnlng, son of
the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. George L. SpiuIng,
of South Orange, N. J., that his
wedding took place an even month before
the date he had.set*for It. Mr.
Spintng Is treasurer of the San Franolsoo
Lumber Company. lie was to
have been married on May 24 to Miss
Alice Duncan, but everything was so
changed by the calamity that Respite
the faot that the home whloh had
been made ready was ruined, the two
were wedded on April 24, when they
with a quarter of a million other San
Franoissans. were homeless.
Bo<ly Brought Hume,
The body of Mr. Julius Jones, who
died In the Philippine Islands on
March 10, arrived at his home near
Eiloreo on Wednesday afternoon, May
0, and was burled in the cemetery of
Jerusalem Church. Mr. Jones was In
the United States army, stationed in
the Philippines. He had been in the
arm/ service several yeats. Some
time ago the war department notified
by brother, Mr. J. A. Jones, of his
death and later he received a telegram
stating that the bod/ would arrive.
The partioular* of his death have not
/et been received. Mr. Jones waa 32
years of age and was unmarried. He
is survived b/ several brothers and
sisters who live in the ommunity.
A iii?c Steamer,
The steamship "KaiserIn August?
Victoria" the largest steamship allo&t,
started frocu Hamberg, Germany, for
New York on Wednesday. The
steamer, which belongs to tne service
of the Hamberg-American Line,
carries a large number of passengers
and full cargo of freight. It is the
largest steamship ever built It Is
over 700 faei long, with 78 feet beam.
It carries 550 passengers in the first
cabin, 350 tu the seoond, 300 in the
third, and 2,300 in the steerage. The
crew comprises 650 officers and men.
The ship is equipped with every
modern convenience and has a large
restaurant where passengers may eat
a la carte m**!*
Trie I) <*ul/ riuto.
As a result of a collision between an
automobile and a street car at Oleveauo,
(J iio, Thursday night, Eiwaid
Dooobue is dead: Patrick Fitzgerald
and 11. B en a and another person
Whcsa nam? ia unknown
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tua-ny injured and may die. The macqiuo
was g 'lug at a high
rate of speed and crashed inx
Mcreet car which was standing
- iii at the corner of Sooville and
VV .xi land avenues. The machine was
*r c;c?:d. No one on the street oar was
nun. The accident, it in supposed
*\8 oao.-ed by t;ic ci ufeur losing
oo irol o' the autora Oile.
Gov<iri iu?*Ml M?|ih
It may qjl be known to some of
O ir Poilc* thao the Government of
. e Uu ted States Is making a min
uto f?u-v"y of the entire country, and
it issuing complete and accurate
maps of the parts surve>ed?inciud
log ev- ry r^ad, ev*r> farmhouse.
very callage, creek, together with
water shed and elovatlou;?and that
these maps are for hale, no far as
print ci, at a merely nominal price?a
few centh each. Tae person to write
to for information la Chas. D. Wal
oott, director of the United Stnt-*
Geological Survey, Washington, D
0. It may be that you particular
idig ib jraood has not yet neon surveyed
and mapped, but perhaps it Is;
we have told you how to And out
Get Acquainted with Machinery.
Some men are born kickers. He
who kioks about a new pleoe of farui
machinery not working just right,
would have less to kiok about if he
would spend a little time, on a rainy
day, studying the instructions issued
by the maufaoturer, Much valuable
time is lost by the farmer not knowing
his implements, and how to use
and care for them, 'j he maker of a
tool, whether It be a oarpet stretcher
or a mowing machine, knows more
about its working parts than any one
else. Therefore, read up and get acquainted
?lth thn n -w m<o tioes.
Hail One
A salesman dropped in on onetf
our young business men the other day,
carrying in his hand a finely polished
oak oablnet. "I want to sell you a
peach of a talklrg machine," he said
' Got one," replied the young business
man. "What kind?" was asked
"The best kind on earth," was tie
response. "Where did you get it?'
was the next question. "Married it."
said the y. b. m., and the salesman
hiked off to look for a victim else
where. _
An Old Preaeher.
A Methodist minister who had been
preaohlng for seventy-seven years is
worth some little attention. The distinction
belongs to R*V. Richard By
met, of Brixton, England. He was a
preacher wben William IV was King
of Bnglap4 and Andrew Jackson was
President of the United State*.
TEDDY IN A HOLE
Roosevelt's Double Dealing Revealed
by Tillman on
THK SFNATF FLOOR.
Senator Chandler Who Acted ai ' doBetween"
for the President and
Sen tor Tillman, Substantiates
Statement Made by the
Latter.
A dispatch from Washington says
during the consideration of the railroad
rata bill in the senate Saturday
Senator Tillman made an attaok upon
the p esident. He referred to the
Long amendment, saying that he did
so with tne purpose of making an explanation.
He said that the senator*
probably would be surprised to know
that he had been in ooDferenoe with
the president. He then, contrary to
hla usual practice, read a statement
of his negotiations regarding the bill
as follows:
sknatok tillman's btatmmmmt.
' On Saturday, March 31,1 was informer
by ex Senator William Uhand
ler that President Roosevelt had sent
to him a note asking him to call at
the White House that evening ; that
he had obeyed the oall and had been
told by the president that he desired
through him to get into oommunica
Gioa witu me u the senator In charge
of the railroad rate bill and with
Senator Bailey representing the
Democrats of the senate for the purpose
of ascertaining whether there
could be such united action among
the friends in the senate of the Hep
burn bill as would make a sure
tm.J irity In Its favor and against injurious
amendments. Mr. Chandler
aid the president named various lie
publican senators who he thougnt
were true friends of the bill, but said
that It mignt rt quire all the Demo
crats to defeat onnoxloua amendments.
Mr. Chandler said the president had
stated that he had oome to a complete
disagreement with the senatorial law
yers, who were trying to injure or defeat
the bill by Ingenious constitutional
amendments; Darning Senator
Kuox In addition to 'Senators Spooner
and Forakei; that the president stated
carefully and deliberately the basis
upon which he thought there should
be co-operation, v z : an amendment
expressly granting a court review but
Umil-log to two points: (l) an li quirv
whether the com minion had acted
beyond its authority ultra virss and
(2) whether It had violated the constitutional
rights of the curler. Mr.
Chandler stated that the president
repeated that he had reached a tlnal
decision that the right of review
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H11UUU1 UC UUUH 11U1IIW1 ) LIlftL LOUS rar
he would ({0 and no farther; that hia
d< clalon would he unalterable."
KKPOUTBD TO T1IK PHKHIDKNT.
P.oceedlUK, he said that Mr. Chandler
had said that the president had
assured him that he would be In fa
vor of a restriction against the Issuance
of ex parte Inj jnctions to meei
the wishes of Senators Tillman and
Bailey. After information Mr. Bailey
of the purport of the Chandler interview
Mr. Tillman s*id that on the
0"xt day he had told Mr. Chandler
that in his and Mr Bailey's opinion
there would be no d flloulty in coming
fo an understanding on the basis opposed
bv the president. "On the evenr
k of Monday Mr Chandler told ro?
he had so assured the president and
askt d him not to be disturbed hv r.hP
r.evspaper Items growing out of the
talk about Senator Long's amendment
published in toe u^wapapers as one
agreed upon at the White tlouse coo
f renoe on Saturday." He then said
that he and Mr Chandler had oontin
ued the conference and ou April 5 the
ex-senator had gone to the White
House to make a favorable report to
the president.
Ou April 8 Mr. Chandler told him
that he oouferred with Senator Alii
soo, asking him to intervene in the
conferences then in progress and that
the Iowa senator bad agreed to do so
Later Mr. Allison had seen the presi
ent. On April 13 Mr. Chandler had
tdvised that he (Mr. Tillman) and
Mr. Bailey see the attorney genera)
Consequently they had met that oftl
oisi ou tne 16th, finding themselves Unil
r f i.i.t-. n ... i/. rrl ' ? ? - ? 11
|r- &WV evwvwi'4 CAOT u IW* tu ft H IB ftl I
olff-renoe in the matter of Injunction,
"mere was absolute aooorrl from th'
tirnt of the proposition that- toe court
r- view should be limited to the In
julry whether the commission had ex
ooecied Its authority or violated thi
carriers' constitutional rights." M<\
M ody had theu a?rreid to supply t ie
enators with a memorandum of his
v| ;w? and had done so, "and we bavt
the original of It," said Mr. Tillman.
MADK TilKM HM ILK
The next day Mr. Tillman said, he
had seen Mr Miody and had assured
him that 26 Dt-mocratio voters oould
be secured for the compromise proposition
and bad told him that It would
he necessary to get 20 Republican
voters 'Tt was understood that we
should work together to get the votes
n<o ssary to pass the com promt see.
he attorney general had expressed
do lot of getting enough R publican
votes to assure the aooeptanoe of the
Bailey non-suspension provision but
ue said that he ft It sure of the Over
man amendment. Mr. Moody bad, he
said, assured him that It was the!
fl x<k! purpose to InalHt upon tbe Look
amendment end be (Mr. Tlllmarjhad
uad do susp'olon of a change of front
until May 4, when tbe president bad
his Interview with tbe assembled
newspaper men.
| The reading of the statement evoked
many smiles and some Uu* iter
from hi nators. There was especial
merriment over the statement of assurance
by the South Oarjltna senator
tb&t tbe presided need not be alarmed
over newspaper reports. He bad,
he said told the attorney general that
there was danger of the result as to
the bill If the president snould adhere
to bis plans. He t^en had tbe
clerk read the Moo^y memorandum
covering the points agreed upon &>
the basis of amendmcnls. Mr. Till
man's tlci^ expired before he had o?:m
pleted his statement, but he win permitted
to proceed by consent Hi said
that he and cx Senator Chandler had
been Informed at tbe time of the president's
change of attitude. They had
gone together to Mr. lUiley and all
three had repaired to the residecoe of
Mr. Moody, "the- fourth conspirator,"
and had found him apparently entire
y Innocent of knowledge of the
change.
t1mlm \n was patriotic.
He admitted that be had nesltated
about entering upon tbe negotiation
with tbe president because of his "just
indignation for a past wrong," buu ne
had coDOluded to pooket his pride In
tbe Interest of a great cause. He also
said that Senator Allison had promised
him 62 votes on the Republican side:
honoe he had felt justltied In his aaMiranoe
to the president's representatives.
Mr. Tillman further said if the
preside't had stood fast to bis original
declaration "we would have won
out."
"As for his treatment of me I shall
ay nothing." He closed by asking
whether or not toe president shi uld
be entitled to the glory of the legists
?u i -u * ?
?iuu wuiuu wjiM oonccvea in a Democratic
oonvfl&tlon. II) wou'd leave
the answer bo the people of the ecu a
try.
TKDDT DKNIK8 IT.
Some lime after Senator Tillman
had completed his statement Mr.
Lodge came tato the senate o camber.
He said he hi d not heard Mr. Tillman
but that ho had read portions of his
statement. Ho said he oould hardly
believe that part in wnioh ex Senator
Chandler was quoted by Mr. Tlllm&n
as say In# tha'J the president said he
had oome to n complete diHtureement
with senatorial lawyers, mentioning
Senators Knox, Spouiier and Foraker.
Senator Lodg< , continuing, said he
tad gone to the official stenographer
and obtained the i xaot sentence us? d
hy Senator Tillman and had called up
tne White House on the telephone,
that belli# the most rapid way of reaching
the president.
"1 read the sentence to the president,"
said Senator Lod^e, and he
*aid that the i.tatemeuc winch 1 read
'O lllDQ?attributed to him hv Mr
(JnaDfiler?wai a dellb irate and unqualified
faluei our; mat Sena or For
*kers name w:u? never mentioned at
all In the conversation; that Senator
Spooner's name was Only mentioned
by him to express a cordial approval
of Senator Spooner's amendment. Ah
to Senator Knox, he said that he did
not agreo with ^portion of Mb proposed
amendment, but thought that
made a very strong argument for
granting affirmatively the jurisdiction
of authority of the court.
"I think, Mr. President."continued
Mr. Lodge, "that it 1b a mere act of
justice to allow this seaoemont to go
out with that which was read and
attributed to t he late senator from
New Hantshlre.
cuandlku 8tickb to it.
This statement from Senator Lodge
caused the publication of the followlog
from Ex-St nat.or Ouaad'cr. "O ?
Saturday afternoon, M*rch 31, 1900,
a friend of m'.r-e o\m? into my office
tod told me of the White House conference
of that day, In whion an uu
derstandlng as to a limited (Jourt review
had been reached with Senator
Long and others and he *old me that
one president fished to get into communication
with the Democrats and
would shortly ask me to come and see
ulna. While he was talking a messenger
bof arrived with a letter to me
irum Mr. Loeb as follows:
14 'The Wbl' p House, Washington
March 31, 1900 ?My Dear Senator
Onandler: The President requests me
to say that he would be glad to have
you come to the White Hnnan in Of.o I
tiioa at 8 30 tonlgat. Will you please
let the bearer know whether you can
come. Very truly yours,
"Secretary to ihe President."
" 'Hen W. K. Chandler, 1,421 I
street:
I told the messenger I would be there.
" 'At the tin e and place appolntx-d
the President said to me that he wished
through me to get. Into communication
with Mr. Tillman Mr B&iley
vie other Dermoratic Senators, lie
stated his purpose slowly and oaref ully
aid In exact substance his statement
was this; That he|.*had reached the
conclusion that the best plan for railroad
rate legislation was to expressly
grant a Court, review, but to dtstinot1/limit
It to two points; first an in
qulry whether the later-Sute oommeroe
oomml&sion had exceeded its
authority, and second an inquiry
whether the constitutional rights of
the carrier hae been violated.
lt008JCV*LT MUCH TROUBLED.
He said that he had boon much
'rn>bled by the advooaov of an unlimlt
d Ocurl review by sooa^ of the
lawyers of the ?>enat??naming Senators
Knox, Spooner and Foraker as
trying to Injure or defeat the bill by ingenious
constitutional arguments, but
that he had oome to a c mplete disagreement
with them. He made the
point emphatio by repetition; said
that he would go thus far and no far
ther, and that* his decision wou 1 be
u laicerwbl#. He said that he wished
<<0 asonaln whet ii r there oou'd be
united set ion In uUe Senate among
the friends of the bill, so that Itoouid
be surely parsed without Injurious
amendments, and he named va^louItputhcan
Senators who he thought,
were toe friends of the bill, but said
that It would take nearly all the
Democrats to c?rry tho limitation and
defeat, all obnoxious provisions.
" 'Af&er the President had made
his statement 1 replied that I had
reason to believe that most of the
I Democrats In the Senate would sustain
his limitations of the Ciurbh
powers, but that I was sure that Mr
Uilley aud Mr. Tillman wuu'd losist
upon c >up\lug with the limitation
some restriction upon tho power of the
Courts to issue Injunctions against th**
orders of the 0 >mmlssiou. before 1
had tlalsh^d my statement on this
point the President Interrupted mo,
saying that 1 need not explain fur
ther tv. cause he was warmly in favor of
some such restriction. 'That evening
1 saw Mr. Tillman and told him what
had occurred.' "
KON1Y IH POLITIC#.
Campaigns Costa Uotti Parties Ijarge
Amounts of Money.
Did the late Mark Hanna upend sixteen
and a half million dollars on
r.he McKinley Bryan campaign of 1806,
In aid of the republloau administration
V Ttiat Is the question p ople are
asking slnoe the statement made on
the floor of the house a day or two ago
by ll3present&tive SuIzot, of New
York, while discussing the national
publicity bill. The difference be'w^en
Hanua's sixteen million of gold and
Bryan's half million of sliver is uxj
great, they say, to carry great weight
with It. Ills tUures, they beiinve, ate
pulled too wide apart, especially as
Bryan, in 1896, had the silver Inter
Hits of the country back of I im and
oould, and did, probably spend much
more than the sum accredited to him.
Lincoln was a good spsnder when It
came to politics. In his race against.
Stephen A Douglas* for the presidency
he kpeut $100,000, while his demo
oratic opponent used just half that
amount. Four years later, lu 1864,
Lincoln, when opposed by George B
McOlell&n. spent $125,000 ard McOlellan
$50,100. Grant, la his tlrst
campaign of 1868 \galnst Horatio Seymour,
r nent $150,000, while the latter
used $75,000. In his second campaign
Grant spent $250,000, then a large
amount, as against praotlcally the
same buna lu behalf of Samuel J Tilden.
Two yea.s later James A. G irtiold
running fur president against iV
S. Ha.ufw k, used $1 100 000, and thr
Utter $355,000 When James G Blaine
moused Cleveland the tiisc time 1 .
1884, it Cost $1,300 000, and Clove
laud used a little mure?$1,400,000
f M 1 OOC r > 1 I ? rr ? ? -
< m 1000 nerjamiu uarriHf'U uned fl,450
000, aud Cleveland 1855,000, while
lii 1802 the Mmfi o^n'MdHtHS cost their
supporters 11,850,000, and $2,050,000
respectively, Cleveland again using
more than his republican opponent. In
1800 McKinley Is said to have spent
$10,500,000 through Mark Hanna, it
Representative Sulzsr's figures are
correot, whllo William J. Bryan spent
075 000. In 1000 Mckinley spent $0,
500,000, and Bryan $425,000, win e
the Roosevelt Parker campaign or> t
$3,600,000 and $1,250,000, respective
iy.
lio Don*'.
It is all right to preach that a man
should love his neighbor as himself?
It sounds so good and platonlo. But
It Is not always possible. Take for
Instance the man who has planted a
fine garden and his neighbor has
chickens which he persists In permitting
to run at large. IIow can the
man with the garden love that neighbor
as himself? It simply can't be
done so long as those ohlckens are not
shut up.
Making ProgieiM.
For some time engine* have been
taking water without stopping, and
mail cars have been picking mall
sacks from posts without so much as a
pause, jnow an appliance Ser ?n*lIng
engines without, stopping has been
Invented and experiment*) with it are
[ said to have been satlsfaotors. The
next movement to save the running
time of trains will be a dev'ce for
throwing passengers on board and off
without stopping.
Fatal Itunawajr.
W. 0. Agnew and bis sister M1m
Janle Agnew and two of bis daugh
ters of Abbeville county were returning
In their carriage from Abbeville
on Wednesday when the horses ran
awpy. Mr. Agnew was so badly hurt
that he died, and the bister Is reported
fatally hurt.
A Bad Fellow.
G. Raymond Berry of Dlll^i*. the
defaulting oounty BuperlntenMaut o/
education in MaMon county has been
h^ard from again. He was shot In
Tampa Fla.f l?at work by a man
whose wife he had^'n annoying. Berry
tried to cllnob I" th* window and <va?
shot In the rno, but not seriously.
Two Mnr(lnrA(1.
Jamep Muochioand bis wife, Oelestt,
paoaof r 'us Italians were found murdered
Thursday morning In their
rooms In Brooklyn. They had their
Jugular veins put. An Italian who
boarded with the couple Is missing.
The police believe burglary was the
motive oft.h? Hw.
I Most of us count up everyi, dog else
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PHONE ON 8TEAM8HIP&
Lookout Will Convoy Warning Ovor
Wire Inatead of Shouting.
When the lookout In the crow's neat
of the ocean liner of the future sights
an object, in lieu of shouting he will
open a copper telephone box, and say
to the skipper through a transmitter:
"There's a steamer's smoke ahead, slK
Two iniles off the port bow. Four
miles away.'
Jaiues H. Hill's new steamship Dakota,
tho largest vessel ever built in
America, and a replica of the Minnesota,
now engaged In transpacific
commerce, is equipped with two distinct
systems of telephones, connected
with which are the newest wrinkles
in both general and marine telephony.
Telephoning at sea has never been a
success on account of vibration of t <o
vessel, noise of machinery, the roar of
the wind, and the admission of moisture
to the parts.
On board the Dakota one system la
an exchange, with instruments in all
the staterooms, women's saloon,
imoko room, Stewart's department
and executive officers' cabins.
Tho telephone girl will he In the
atom. At command of her deft hand
will he lf.O stations. If a passenger
wishes a steward he pushes a button.
On the switchboard drops a target,
disclosing the cabin number. When
"Central" Inserts the plug she looks
for a red lamp. If the rod light does
sot glow she knows that only a stew
ard Is wanted.
If a passenger desires to talk the
receiver Is raised froin the hook, the
tiny electric lamp aasoclated with
the plug reddens aad the girl knows
that conversation is called for. Any
umber of passengers can talk together,
conducting from as many different
parts of the ship a general conversation.
When the Dakota reaches her
pier a lino is run aboard, enabling passengers
and crew to call up their
friends ashore, or vice versa.
The second system Is the "Intercommunicating
" The officers using this
do their own switching. It will largely
supplant the gong and jingle systems
and the marine telegraph. It attends
between the navigating and engine-room
stations.
The stations are the bridge, the after
bridge, crow'H nest, port and starboard
engine spaces, wheel house,
chief engineer's room, chief electrician's
room, central electric lighting
station and the dynamo shelf.
The six exposed stations have waterproof
instruments. The holding cass
is of copper. The talking and list"
Ing part are connected, says the
American Svren and Shipping, so that
all the officer, fir sailor has to do is
to put the receiver to his ear.
To pass a hook ud and down would
admit dampness or wate r.
Over the earpiece Is placed a rubb?r
cushion to shut out the throb of thrt
engines. In slirenls requiring the
hotting of water-tight doors, engine
control, communications from lookouts
and delivery and receipt of messages.
the Intercommunicating telephone
Is expected to bo of superior
utility.
A mechanical arrangement of tbe
parts in designed to do away with
the objectionable feature of vibration,
which on ships has been the great
bugbear In marine telephoning.--New
York Mall.
Raw Cpium From the Poppy.
The preparation of "raw" opium la
North India is, according to the Tropica!
Agriculturalist, carried out as follows:
In February, as a rule, the Juice
Is gathered, the poppy plant being y
then in full llower and of a height of /
three or four feet, each stem having
from two to live capsules of the sue 1
of a duck's ( gg. Before the capsule!
are pierced the fallen petals of the
(lowers are carefully gathered and
sorted according to condition, in three
grades, and then are heated over a
slow firo and formed into thin cakes,
to bo used for the covering of the
drug when collected.
The piercing of the pods requires
great skill, and upon it largely depends
the yield. The opium farmer
and niH assistants each carry a small
lancelike tool, which has three or four
short, sharp prong*. and with this a
half dozen perpendicular cuts are
tnn^e, In each capfml? wr seed pod fit
the poppy. The Juice begins to flow
at once, but quickly congeals. The
flay after the thlckenefl Jtrtco Is carefully
gathered, being scraped off with
a small Iron trowel, and the mass
thus gathered la put Into an onrr*
vessel and kept carefully stirred for
a month of more, great care being
taken to have It well aired, but not
exposed to the son.
The material Is now examined by
expert testers, who determine Its
grade or quality, and then the whole
is put Into a large box, where It Is
worked very much In the same fashIon
as baker's dough, to give It the required
consistency. The opium is
now mado Into balls for export. The
natives wade about In the large vats
containing the paste like drug and
hand it out to hundreds of ball makers
sitting around the room. Every man
has a spherical brass cap, lined with
poppy flower petals, before him. Into
this Is pressed the regulation quantity
of opium. From this brass cup
when properly pressed, the opium ball
Is transferred to another man. who
gives It a coating of clay. This gives
the drug, when readv for shipment,
the appearance of a fair alxed cannon
ball.
When well prepared In this manner,
opium will keep Its properties for
fifteen years or more. Before It can
he used, the opium balls have to be
broken up and further treated.
The rellgloua revival In Carnarvon,
Walee, has resulted In Its prohibiting
the Landjnf Sunday excursionists
from Liverpool upon Ma pi era.