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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-24
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Lvli. CONGRESS.
Three.State Bill.

After the Senate Monday had
agreed to the House resolution for a
holiday recess from December 20 to
January :. Il briefly discussed the
bill to rcorganizo the National Guard,
Mr. pettus. Alabama. moving to
strike out the provision for reserve
force of trained soldiers on the
ground that 1t is direct infringe
ment of States rights. The bill for
the admission of New Mexico. Arl.
zona and Oklahoma as States was
taken up. Mr.. Bate, Tennessee, sub.
mitted the report of the minority Of
the committee on territories. favor
ing the bill. Mr.. Quay. Pennsyl.
vania, said that as the Senator from
Minnesota (Mr. Nelson) had suddenly
and tumultuously withdrawn the sub
stitute, which provides for the admis-
sion only of Oklahoma and the In
dian Territory as one State. II was
his desire to know If Mr.. Nelson In.
tended TO rereport the substitute.
Mr.. Nelson said It was his purpose to
re.roport it. Mr.. Dillingham;. Ver-
mont. spoke In favor Of the subst-
tute.
Rural Free Delivery.
The House Monday passed the
urgent deficiency appropriation bill,
carrying 100000. to eradicate the
foot and mouth disease among cattle
and $500 600 for the rural free deliv-
cry service. The Senate bill to pro-
vide for a Union railroad station in
Washington at cost of 100000
was passed The Senate amend.
ments to the miners strike commits.
sion bill were disagreed to and the
bill sent to conference.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-24
Funds for Antitrust.
Pure Food Bill.

Representative Dalzell presided
over the House Thursday in the ab.
aence OF Speaker Henderson. A res.
olution was passed calling upon the
secretary of state for the facts re.
garding the Venezuelan situation and
. statement of its effect upon the
Monroe doctrine. The bill to reduce
the tariff ON imports from the Philip.
pines to 2j per cent OF the Dlngley
rates was passed after a motion fer
free trade with the Philippines had
been defeated by vote of ~ to 122.
The pure food bin, TO prevent adult.
Grafton, misbranding and Imitation OF
foods. beverages. candies, drugs and
condiments, was taken up and dis.
cussed until the close of the day
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-24
win Pay In silver.

Unofficial advices have reached
Washington that China intends to pay
the next installment OF the Boxer"
indemnity In silver.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-24
Coming Are 5000 Beers.

Nearly 5000 Beers, It Is said. are
preparing to come to America. and
will settle In Colorado. New Mexico
aud Texas.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-24
Italy Sends Another Warship.

The Italian cruiser Agordat mas
heen ordered to proceed at once fCt
Venezuela.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-24
Bureau Transferred.

The House Tuesday passed the bill
transferring from the treasury de
partment to the department OF agri
culture the power to establish regu.
lations for the suppression of con
tagious diseases among live stock
Mr.. Martin. Of Sou1h Dakota, intro
duced a bill making October | the an
niversary of the discovery of Amer
lea, legal public holiday, to be
known rs Columbus day.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-24
Rural Free Delivery.
Ratified Spanish Treaty.

When the bill to admit New Mex
leo. Oklahoma and Arizona as States
was called up in the Senate Tuesday
Mr.. Dillingham;, Vermont, concluded
his speech in opposition. and 1t was
agreed that there would be no further
discussion until the Senate reassem.
hles on January 5. A joint resolution
was adopted appropriating $4,000 for
the purchase OF a bronze bust of the
late President Mckinley. Mr.. Nor.
gan, Alabama, asked that his resolu.
tion fixing the salaries Of isthman
canal commissioners at $1,000 a year
he referred to the committee on In
teroceanic canals. which was done
In executive session the Senate rati
fed the treaty Of friendship with
Spain,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-27
SUPPOSED BURGLAR
SHOT AND KILLED

MACON. Jan. 23.-Lee Bland. alias big
Geechee," a negro crap shooters. was
shot down and killed in Third street. at
Cherry street, last night at s o'clock. Mr..
III. p. wrigley, of the Atlantic and Pa
cific Tea company, did the shooting.
The coroner's fury returned a verdict of
justihable homicide. and the police de-
clined to take charge of Mr.. Wrigley. He
had voluntarily surrendered to them pend
ing an investigation.
The negro was found with a pistol in
his right hand, an open knife in his left
hand and a couple Of dice in his pocket.
The pistol had been snapped on the only
empty shell in the cylinder. Several peo-
pie witnessed the shooting.
The trouble occurred In this way: Mr..
Wrigley, Mr.. Jack Dennis and Mr.. j. L.
Pearce were in the rear of Reds shoe
store. posting some lodge books. The front
part of the store was in darkness. They
had not been at work long before the
front door creaked. Mr.. Dennis turned
on the lights and Mr.. Wrigley seized the
pistol that was lying on the desk. The
negro was seen rushing out of the door.
1t was thought he had burglarized the
store and Mr. Wrigley chased him. At
Third street the negro turned and snap
ned his pistol, and held his knife ready in
his left hand. Mr.. Wrigley's shot entered
the right side and made its way into the
heart across the body. Death was almost
instantaneous.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-27
SUNDAY Saloons in London.
New York Evening Post.


Oddly enough, at the time when the opening
of saloons on Sunday is advocated in New York,
the closing Of public houses" on that day Is
agitated In London The experience OF England
during the past century shows a strong ten
dency toward restriction Of the Sunday traf-
fc Formerly there was no legal check upon
the sale of liquor the first day of the week,
and consequent disorder, which interfered with
religious services, had become so strong that
parliament passed act closing the public
houses in London during the hours Of such SER
vices in the morning and evening.
But this rule allowed people to drink In
the early forenoon, and there was still so
much trouble that in 1899 the law was amend
ed SO as to forbid opening before O'Clock in
the afternoon. The restriction worked so well
in London that Liverpool Manchester and New
Castle secured it's application TO them. and in
1873 the arrangement was extended to the whole
of England BY 1854 public sentiment in favor
of keeping the houses closed a larger part
of Sunday impelied parliament to reduce the
hours of opening to from 1 to in the afternoon
and from 6 until IL in the evening.
There has thus been q steady progress toward
the restriction Of the Sunday traffic in England
and there is now strong sentiment in favor
of legislation forbidding all sales. In view Of
the theory that the workingmen demand Sun
day saloons il is worth while to note that IN
a recent canvass of the men employed in
fifty-six London workshops showed in round
numbers IL, COO for closing and only 1000 for
openng 1t is also interesting to learn that a
canvass of over 400 ''publicans" as the Eng
fish style what we call saloon keepers, in many
different London districts, resulted in vote Of
1924 for Sunday closing and 1888 for opening.
1t is known to those who have made tnvesttga-
lions here that many saloon keepers in New
York would prefer not to do business on Sun
day.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-27
FaIIacy Of Ridsins Corn.
Farmers Voice.


No farm practice is more inimical to in
telligent corn culture than that alarming
ly common I'm the corn belt of laying by
the corn with large shovels set to throw
the earth from between the rows into a
ridge centering in the rows. Ridges thus
formed increase the exposed surface and
hence make possible larger evaporation Of
foisture. Moreover they leave the mid
dies hard and compact. so that the soil
pumps ooze out the water by the ton, and
compel the foraging roots Of the plants to
go straight down for food and moisture
which should be available in the first sew
eral inches of soil that has been removed
from the middles and thrown about the
base of the plants
Ridging spoils the surface of the ground
for pasture and meadow unless it be re-
peatedly worked. If you should sow
clover in the corn and lay the latter by
with ridge-forming shovels your clover
pasture always would be a series OF
bumps. which would aggravate the driver
of the moving machine, cause the hay
loader trouble and annoy in other ways.
In a rolling country, where, strange to
say ridging is commonest. the practice is
of greater disadvantage than in the prairie
country, since in the former it furnishes
convenient surface avenues for the es-
cane of water which in a short season
transforms them into small bitches and
skins off the cream, as it were, of the
land and deposits it in the creek or
stream, leaving the farmer a veritable
new but poor farm.
Level culture is not only easier on the
corn, team and workman, but is decidedly
better for the land. 1t avoids root prun-
ing. aerates the soil and removes weeds.
Experiments have shown that it also VIII
give larger yields than ridge culture. Then
why ridge your corn?
we know one of the principal reasons
vvbv corn growers do it. Ridging covers
nm a large number of weeds growing in
the hill and thus makes the field appear
clean. We are convinced that the weeds
If left uncovered cannot do as much in
Jury to the corn plants as the ridges VIII
infict.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-27
WITH THE EXCHANGES.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
State pispensaries.

From an explanation of the dispensary
law in South Carolina, by Senator Tillman
to few friends at his room Wednesday,
says the David City, Iowa Press, it comes
the nearest to being an equitable solution
of the liquor question yet devised. Under
this law, state commissioner, with an
advisory board, purchases all the liquors
brought into the state. 1t is taken to a
central depot, analysed by experts for pur-
ity and quality, as the law permits no
harmful authorizations, after which 1t is
bottled and sealed up, its age and quantity
labeled and every kind and quality has
the price printed on a card. There are 30
dispensaries in the state. A dispensary
looks like any drug store, rallied off in
front like bank. The purchaser goes to
the railing, looks over q card to see what
ne wants, makes his selection, then fills
out a blank, stating his age and place Of
residence and the kind of liquor he wants
He pushes this blank and the price over
to the dispenser and receives the liquor
in the sealed packages as they were put
up in the state dispensary. The blank is
not for the purpose of espionage over the
purchaser, but as a check on the dispen-
ser. No liquor is allowed to be sold af-
ter shutdown, and none to minors. The dis
pensers are appointed by the state board,
but in most counties the party conventions
nominate the dispensers, and the success
board and the peoples choice is invariably
appointed.
The dispensers are under bonds and
draw a fixed salary. He has neither OPP
portunity nor desire to push the trade.
One of the benefits is the fact that by the
elimination of the treating habit drunken
ness and street brawls have disappeared.
There is no organized liquor power.
watchful for it's profits and expert in mar
shaling the weak or devilish in defense of
its interests. 1t has been a blessing to the
blacks Like many Whites-only more so,
the colored man is a great hand to buy
anything he can get on credit, therefore,
the liquor held a perpetual mortgage on
the negroes. Under the dispensary sys-
tenn liquor is cash. and the blacks are
using less of it. Where certain streets
used to be filled with brawling negroes ev-
cry Saturday afternoon and evening, now
all is quiet. Whatever the traffic earns
over expenses, is divided as follows: One
half to the state, one-quarter to the coun-
ty and one-quarter to the municipality
where the liquor is sold. The one-fourth
interest brings more revenue to the towns
than under the old license system, when
they got it all. If the South Carolina law
was in effect all over the country, four
ifths of all the great~problems that now
vex the social and political situation
would have no existence.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-27
THE NEED OF DIET REFORM.

We have lately heard from many SCI
entists and practical philosophers that the
average man eats entirely too much and
that he could both reduce his living ex-
penses and improve his health and vigor
by adopting lighter and simpler diet.
It is undoubtedly true that most OF US,
who can procure all the food we desire,
take in too much.
A great many Of us for one reason or
another eat so rapidly that we do not di-
gest our food properly.
Dyspepsia is a national and an increas-
ing disease. We are slaves to habit in
eating as well as in other matters. A
famous English surgeon has given 1t as
his opinion that more persons acquire dis
eases and shorten their lives by overeating
than by indulgence in intoxicating liquors.
The two meal-a-day plan is growing in
popularity and has its enthusiastic advo-
Gates among the plain people as well as
those who have studied the question SCI
entifically.
The Americans besides eating too much
as a rule do not choose their diet wisely.
They are the most caniverous race on
earth. More vegetables and less meat
would save them much money and many
bodily ills. Comparatively few of us ap-
ply the rules of common sense to our
habits of eating and pay a heavy penalty
for this rashness. The reformers who are
They are the most carniverous race on
sometimes go to extremes, but on the
whole they are on the right line and VIII
accomplish much good.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-27
ORDINANCES. SHOULD NOT
CHARGE THE PENSIONERS

Under the above caption I desire,
through you, to call the attention of the
honorable 'ordinaries of our glorious old
commonwealth to the heretofore practices
of charging the poor old destitute soldiers
and widows 81 for the few moments SER
vice required to receive and deliver the
checks given by the state to these benefi-
Charles as pensions to protect them from
hunger and suffering. While the dollar is
of small moment to these officers, 1t is
sufficient to furnish these poor old people
their breakfast coffee during the entire
year, without which but few of them can
relish their food. In view of the hardship
of camp life and the perils of the many
hard-fought battles which these worthless
so heroically endured, 1 do not think it
robbery to suggest that the ordinaries de-
liver and the banks cash these checks
without remuneration or discount.
With the highest regard for the welfare
of these living monuments of our glorious
yet lost cause, as well as a desire that
these officers win regard this suggestion
in the same humane and friendly spirit
that prompts the writer to make it, i, as
a non-pensioned Confederate soldier, sub
scribe myself very truly and devotedly a
son of Dixie. L. B. L.
Adrian. Ga, Jan. IL
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-27
SUGGESTIONS FROM
OUR CORRESPONDENTS

broken into smaller pieces, and finally
transferred to the roast sheds. 1t stays
in these sheds. roasting for about ninety
days. and is then removed to the furnace,
from whence it issues pure copper, or al
most so.
The sulphur fumes coming from the
ore while roasting at the sheds of the
mines are strong enough to stife any
one remaining in them for any length
of time, but at the Burr mines they are
even worse than at any of the others.
The men who work at these sheds are
very particular. when they must go into
this smoke. not to lose their bearings. for
if one were to get lost in the smoke II
would mean almost certain suffocation.
These two men who were thought dead
seemed to have become confused in the
smoke and before they could get out into
pure air they were overcome, and had it
not been that help reached them imme-
liately they would have most certainly
died
This sulphur smoke has also done much
damage to both the farming lands and
the timber in the surrounding country.
covering a radius of about ten miles. or
course the land farthest away is damaged
the least, some of it not showing any
signs of being at all damaged. The lands
in Tennessee are damaged far more than
those in Georgia. although a part Of
Ducktown is right on the line, the rea-
son being that most of the roast sheds are
about five miles from Georgia.
There are several cases in the courts
now against the company for damages TO
lands and to timber, and it is rumored
that Superintendent Adams has received
orders from New York to pay all wages.
take the pumps from the mines and shut
down everything as soon as bill OF in
junction has been filed. Should such
thing occur there would be hundreds or
people almost upon starvation within a
very short time, for there are about 5000
people depending solely upon the mines
for a living Many are the hopes ex-
pressed that no such thing will occur,
for it would be a pitiable sight to see
several thousand men thrown out Of en-
ployment right in the dead of winter, with
nothing whatever to fall back upon, for
most of them live up to every cent Of
their wages. X. ;. ROBB.
Epworth, Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-27
EXPLAINS HOW STAMPS
WERE SOLD BY NEELY

Dear Sir: Having read in recent issues
of your paper, accounts of the reopening
of the Rathbun-Neely trial at Havana,
and as 1 happened to be engaged in busi-
ness there during 1898, 1 believe that
can furnish some interesting information
in regard to the frauds perpetrated at that
time.
At the time our government took
charge of the Havana postofhce the old
Spanish stamps were discontinued and our
United States stamps with the word
Cuba printed across the face in
black were put in use for the time being
and about six months afterward, the reg
ular issue of Cuban stamps were received,
and we are all familiar with the facts as
published then. How the old stamps
were counted by the inspector, wrapped in
bundles and were supposed TO have been
burned, before witnesses. But the govern
ment discovered that they had never been
destroyed which was proven by a witness,
but the government was never. able to
find out how the stamps were disposed OF,
as they were not sold at the postoffice.
This is what 1 believe 1 can easily ex-
plain. At that time I was conducting
soda water and ice cream parlor on
O'Reilly street, one of the principal streets
of Havana, and on about August LIST Post
master Rathburn's chief clerk came to see
me saying that the postofice department
had decided to establish several stamp
agencies throughout the city, and that to
secure an agency / would have to pur-
chase S25 worth of stamps, not less than
twice week, and would receive one dollar
per month for handling them. This 1
willingly agreed to- thinking that an agen-
cy would attract trade, but soon discov-
cred that these agencies had been estab-
lished in every little store and cigar stand
in the city, so you will readily see the
scheme. AS all of these agencies were sup
piled with the stolen stamps, it did not
take but a short time to dispose of the
$4,000 worth of stamps in a city the size
of Havana I give this story for what 1t is
worth, thinking that If the story has new
sr been told it may prove interesting read
ing for the public. Yours very truly,
STANFIELD H. JOHNSTON.
P. S.-You will remember me as having
been the agent for The Journal at Column
bus for several years. S. H. j.
Fries, Va, Jan. 18th.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-27
NO DIVISION IN NEWTON
IN COMING LEGISLATIVE FIGHT

In your paper of last Friday there was
a communication which indicated some
contention in the politics of Newton coun-
ty between the eastern and western por-
tions.
AS one who lives near the middle Of the
county and who has been in the county
more than thirty years. 1 wish to say that
this article was the first intimation had
had of any existing division between any
portions of our county or of any which
has ever existed.
1 am we'll acquainted with Mr.. Coffee,
of the east side, and Mr.. King, Of the
west and am sure no strife exists between
them or their many friends. 1 have just
interviewed Mr.. Coffee and he says he is
not even candidate at present and is not
sure that he will be one in the future.
1 will thank you to say in your widely
read paper that in old Newton we are a
united people, north, east, south and
west.
Please publish this in the earliest issue
of your daily after receiving il.
G. c. ADAMS, oxford, Ga
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-27
TIE SOUTH GAINING FAST.

The discovery that the south is gaining
nopulation proportionately faster than the
north has surprised many persons, but not
those who have observed what has been
going on in this section during the past
ten years.
The recent statement of the census bu-
reau of the remarkable absolute and rela-
tive growth of this section, which was
more marked in the last decade than in
any previous one, has attracted the at
tention of capital and enterprise in this
direction even more decidedly than it had
already turned hitherward.
The commercial and financial journals,
as we'll as the political press, are devoting
much time and space to the discussion
of this matter. All agree that there is
a. great future opening before this sec
ton and predict it's rapid and substan-
tial advancement. The st. Louis Republic
says:
1.-THE increasing attractiveness of the
south as a field for investment and settle
ment accounts for this marked increase of
population. Outside capital is being drawn
TO the DEVELOPMENT of the souths natural
resources. The sections industrial growth
has been amazing during the past few
years.
1.-The demand for labor has been vast
ly stimulated as a consequence. The inev-
liable result of these changed conditions
is now apparent In the census reports.
1.-THE southern states have every reason
10 look forward with confidence to pc
riod of growth such as has not heretofore
been known. The attention of capitalists
is most favorably secured. Where capital
goes, the labor necessary to industrial de-
velopment follows. Within the next ten
years the south will unquestionably take
the lead in the rate of population in
crease If present indications possess any
value as affording a basis for estimate"
Opinions like these como from the lead
ing newspapers Of every part of the coun-
try. There is a remarkable unanimity
of opinion that the south is on the up
grade and moving at a sure pace toward
= magnificent future.