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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-03-27
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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-03-27
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unVU prGctuohce over trains of s,me class
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The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
IMPROVEMENT ON
MARCONI SYSTEM

. New York, Feb. 23.-In the current
issue of the Electrical Review is des-
cribed AN important invention in wire
less telegraphy by Peter Cooper
Hewitt of New York city, son of the
late Abram S. Hewitt.
This device, which is a development
OF the Cooper Hewitt mercury vapor
lamp, takes the place of the usual
spark-gap for discharging in the an
tenna, or sending mask
1t consists of a glass globe eight to
ten inches in diameter with two mer-
curry electrodes contained in tubes
sealed at the lower part of the globe
Ihe device is effective. and it is stated
by this authority, will enable a much
more powerful electrical wave to be
set up than is possible with the meth
ods at present in use. and will also
make secrecy in transmission easily
possible.
Dr. NJ. l. Pupin, professor of electro
mechanics at Columbia university. and
widely known from his invention in
lohg distance telephone transmission
Is quoted by the Electrical Review as
SAYING:
The Cooper-Hewitt mercury vapor
lhterfupter at once establishes wire
less telegraphy on commercial basis,
The problem of selective signalling is
solved and transatlantic transmission
will be easy.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
REPUBLICAN LEADERS WOULD
COMPROMISE ON STATEHOOD

Washington, Feb. 22.-The Republic
can leaders conferred all day yester
day on the subject Of the statehood
compromise, and most of the Demo-
Gratis were informed OF the general
terms of the proposition, which pro-
poses to admit two states, one to be
Oklahoma, according to its present
boundaries, with q proVisO that Indian
Territory shall be added to Oklahoma
in 1906, when the treaty obligations
with the Indians will not be in the
way. The other stnte is to be COM
posed of New Mexico and Arizona un-
der the name of MonteZuma, with a
proViso that when the present terri
tory of Arizona has a population of
100000 people it shall become a sepa-
rate state, providing that the people of
the territory affected vote in favor of
being divided from New Mexico.
Senator Spooner was entrusted with
the legal questions involved, especial
ly in regard to the rights of the Indian
tribes in Indian Territory.
While this compromise will be ac-
ceptable to the Republicans, there is
yet considerable doubt about the DEM
'Ocrats, and so far as can be learned
they will. oppose it with vispr, which
means defeat at this stage of the ses-
sion. To all questions as to whether
they would accept such compromise
they said they wanted to see a definite
proposition. and to know from whom
at came, when they would be in a posi-
iion to confer and decide.
On the Republican side it is found
that two Republican senators, Bev-
eridge and Nelson, both members of
the committee on territories, are loath
10 accept any compromise save that
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
Captain Pershing Made Datto.

Manila, Feb. 90. - While Captain
Pershing was at Bayan, the Moro
stronghold in the Lanao district of the
island of Mndanao. the Moros conse-
Grated him a DAFT. which is a priest
ly office. After the consecration, the
Moro leaders and Captain Pershing
subscribed to peace over a copy of the
Koran. When the United States flag
was raised over the Bayan forts, Cap
tain Pershing's batteries saluted it
with firing shrapnel shells, having no
saluting cartridges. The execution
done by the shrapnel impressed the
Moros wonderfully. The battleship
which is expected to. reach Mindanao
shortly will greatly increase American
prestige in that island.
Colonel Scott's force of scouts and
constabulary has returned from it's eX-
pedition through the provinces of Ri
zal and Bulacan. The colonel found
the country quiet and saw no signs of
the ladrones who are believed to have
buried their rifles and fed to the hills
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
CONFERENCE ON
SILVER QUESTION

Washington, Feb. 24.-SecrSary
Shaw, Robert B. Armstrong, who will
qualify soon as an assistant secretary
of the treasury, and. a subcommittee
of the House coinage committee, con-
sisting of Representatives Southard,
Southell and Cochrane. held a confer
ence with President Roosevelt yester-
day concerning the means of putting
into effect the proposition transmitted
by the President to Congress on jan
uary 29th in a special message. Pres
ident Roosevelt's message conveyed to
Congress report from Secretary Hay,
with accompanying notes and memor-
anda from the Mexican ambassador
and the Chinese charge d'affaires.
Mexico and China are seeking the CO.
operation of this government in such
measures as will tend to restore and
maintain fixed relationship between
the moneys of the gold standard coun-
tries and the silver using countries.
1t is not asked that the United States
eodify it's monetary system; and it is
stated distinctly that there is no move
uell III IoA lllt ltStoi
tiOn of international bimetallism. The
particular desire is that measures be
adopted that will prevent the great
fluctuations in exchange which now oc-
cur in trade with silver using countries.
Citizens of the United States now have
investments in Mexico alone aggregate
ing more than $500. 100000. The earn
ings of these enterprises have suffered
a serious fall in gold value with every
fall in the value of Mexican money
This fact, it is suggested, brings home
to this country the desirability of
adopting some means to insure the
stability of exchange.
After considering the subject care
fully, it was the opinion of the parties
to yesterdays conference that it would
be wise for Congress to confer upon
the President the authority to appoint
three commissioners to participate in
any international conference on the
question of the stability of exchange
that might be arranged. 1t is expected
that another effort will be made at
the present session to leave that au-
thority to the President.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
FARMING MATTERS.
How to Raise Farmers,

In a recent address on The Apric-lI.
tural College and the Farmers Bo7
delivered before the students of lba
New Mexico Agricultural College. M-
c. ID. Case said:
These agricultural colleges are Tho
means by which the country will re
ceive the greatest amount of benefit .g
future years, for it is here that Tie
farmers boys of to-day will learn h0E
to successfully operate the farm. aaJ
these same boys will be the farmers oi
ten and twenty years hence. who
broad ideas. liberal and sprogressi
views, gained during their college lie
will be the means of placing the s.l-
ence of agriculture upon the plane
where it righttully belongs And tins
brings me to discussion of the farm
er's boy of to-day and his handlire
Every farmers boy is not cut out for
a farmer. The main question with tie
writer's on the subject seems to b..
How shall we keep the boy on the
farm?' To my mind this question oug I
to give way to the question: How shall
we put the boy where he ought to be
and keep him there?'
Some writers go into panic over
what they term an exodus from the
farm to the city, and we are led to
believe that there is veritable Co
ey's Army of farm boys marching on
the cities and are made to quake with
fear over the imminent danger that tht
farms may become bowling wilderness
esses. So far as | can learn there was
never a time when the farm boy was
so well satisfied with the farm and
farming as an occupation. or, rather
profession. was more highly regarded
and. when intelligently followed, was
more profitableA Farming, indeed, has
become an art, requiring study and
skill of high order and giving en-
ployment to the highest type of intel
lect. There is, to my mind. evidence
of reflex movement from city to the
country. brought about by the ever-in-
creasing strain of the city life, the i'm
provement of farm conditions and the
growing tendency to view successfully
farming as an occupation promising
to the up-to-date. intelligent tiller of
the soil ample returns for his invest
ment of time and money The ad-
vantages of town and city life are
rapidly extending themselves into the
country, and the trolley, telephone, ru-
raj mail delivery. etc, are bringing
them close together
Then comes the question of how to
keep on the farm the boys who have
the farm instinct. The answers are
all reduced to the simple one. namely
Cultivate that natural instinct. AS Mr..
Sprague says, Make out of the boy.
while he is yet a boy, a real farmer.
Educate him along farm lines. Buy him
books and papers presenting this kind
of work and OF the best sort. Talk with
him about the farm. Lift him above
the level of a farm hand. Give him an
independent position on the farm early
in life "
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
MAY STOP EXPRESS COMPANIES
CARRYING LOTTERY TICKETS

Fargo Express Company in Texas for
shipment TO California. He was arrest
ed in Chicago. to be taken TO Texas.
and Immediately sued for a writ of ha-
beas corpus, which the Federal Circuit
Court sitting in Chicago refused to
grant. He appealed from that adverse
decision to the Supreme Court. and it
is this appeal which was decided to-
day, the decision being adverse to him.
Summing up, Justice Harlan said:
I'VE decide nothing more in the
present case than that lottery tickets
are subjects of traffic among those who
choose to sell or buy them; that car-'
riage of such tickets by Independent
carriers from one state to another is
therefore interstate commerce.; that
under its power to regulate commerce.
among the several states Congress,
subject to the limitations imposed by,
the constitution upon the exercise Of
the powers granted-has plenary au-
thority over such commerce, and may
prohibit the carriage of such tickets
from state to state; and that legisla-
ton to that end is not inconsistent with
any limitation or restriction imposed
upon the exercise of the powers granted
to Congress"
Those who Joined with Justice Har-
Ian in sustaining the law were Justices
Brown. White, McKenna and Holmes.
Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Brew
err Shiras and Peckham united in
dissenting opinion, delivered by the
chief Justice
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
May Limit Height of Buildings.

Washington. Feb. 24.-The judg
ment of the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts in the case of Henry Bigelow
Williams and c. +. Ayres, trustees,
vs. Attorney General Parker Of the
state of Massachusetts, was affirmed
yesterday by the United States Su-
preme Court. The suit was filed by
the attorney general in 1896, under
the legislative act of that year limiting
the elevation of buildings in certain
parts of Boston to ninety feet.
The law was attacked as unconstitu-
tional. but it was not so held by to-
days opinion of Justice Brewer, who
delivered the opinion of the court, and
said explicitly that the statute is not
in conflict with the constitution.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
WASHINGTON ON
NEGRO PROBLEM

Newe York. Feb. 24.-Washington's
birthday was observed here by special
services of patriotic societies and many
clergymcn made the anniversary the
subject of their sermons.
Booker T. Washington was the ora
tor at a memorial meeting held in tho
Academy of Arts and Sciences. The
speaker devoted his address to the con-
sideraton of the yace problem, and
said. in part:
Unlike the Indian, the original Mex
ican or the Hawaiian, the Negro, SO
far from dying out when in contact
with stronger and different race, has
continued to increase in numbers to
such an extent that. whereas the race
entered bondage few in number. there
are now more than 100000. So want
to emphasize the truth that whether
we are of Northern or Southern birth,
whether we are black or white we must
face frankly the hard, stubborn fact
that in bondage and in freedom the
negro, in spite of all predictions to the
contrary. has continued year by year
to increase in numbers until he now
forms about ore-seventh of the entire
population and there is no sign that
the same ratio of increase will not
hold good in the future.
Further than this, despite all the
changing, uncertain conditions through
which the race has passed and is pass
ing, you will find that in every year
since the black man came into this
country, whether in bondage or in
freedom he has made a steady gain in
owning property, habits of industry
and Christian character.
THE age for settling great questions,
either society or national. with the gun.
the torch and by lynching, has passed.
An appeal to such methods is unworthy
of either race. l believe the time has
come-and | believe it is a perfectly
practical thing-when group of repre-
sentative white men. both North and
South, should meet and consider with
the greatest calmness and business sa-
gacity the whole subject as viewed
from every standpoint"
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
NATIONAL GUARD
APPOINTMENTS

Denver, Feb. 23.-Gov. Peabody has
announce the following appointments:
Sherman Bell. Independence, adju-
tant general
William H. Sweeney, Jr., Pueblo, as
sistant adjutant general
Frederick w. Gross, Denver, inspec-
tor general.
William r. Freeman, Denver, mill
tary secretary
Peter Oliver Hanford, NJ. D., Colo
RADIO Springs, surgeon general
Charles II. Miller, Denver, state ar
morer
Harvey N. Dorsey. Denver, stenog-
rapher.
Aides - Kenneth L. Fahnenstock,
Leadville; w. II. Combs, Denver; d. c.
Jackling. Canon City; Henry j. New
man, Denver; George +. Fonda, Boul-
der, w. T. Gilbert, Colorado Springs;
John @. Mcdonald, Florence; Fred
srick Greydene Smith, Canon City;
james II. Brown, Denver; Richard W.
Corwin, Nj. D., Pueblo Leonard c.
Jones, Denver; William C. Newell
Cripple Creek; s. b. Tuttle, Denver;
Barley b. Calvin, Siverton John B
E. Bell. Genver; Robert Bailey, Den
yer; Milton Louis Anfenger, Denver;
7. b. Russell, Denver; Hugh r. Me
Clelland, Denver.
Sherman Bell, the new adjutant gen
eral. was born Nov. 12 1866, neal
Paris. Ill. He came West when he
was about is years of age and engaged
in the cattle business. He went tC
live in the Cripple Creek district III
1898. He has always taken an interest
in military affairs. He joined TrooI
A. First Colorado cavalry. nj Colorado
Springs, and in 1894 served as a deputy
sheriff in the Cripple Creek strike
When the spanish-American wal
broke out he enlisted in Theodore
4tOosevelt's Rough Riders and served
through the Cuban campaign. His ap-
pointment to the adiutant generalship
was said by Gov. Peabody to be due to
his practical experience in military life
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
GERMANY STILL TROUBLESOME
IN THE VENEZUELA MATTER

request is not known. Such draft.
however, it is presumed, would be ne
gotiable, and the result would be that
the Germans could Immediately obtain
the money it called for. The whole
matter is presumed to hinge on the
question of the return of the ships, ma
tiCnal and private, which were takeE
by the German warships during the
blockade and regarding which there
appears to be a hitch.
Minister Bowen has received several
cablegrams from President Castro re-
garding the action of the allies in re-
tanning the ships and he is evidently
growing restive at what he considers
breach of trust. srhe allies representa-
tives. however, take the position that
the ships will be returned as soon as
the necessary formalities" have been
enacted. The British ambassador has
assured Secretary Hay that the London
government was doing everything pos
sibel to expedite the return of the
ships.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
LAYING THE CORNERSTONE OF
NEW WAR COLLEGE BUILDING

general staff but step supplement-
ing the passage Of that act. rounding it
out and rendering 1t of a far wider and
far deeper usefulness.
One word first to the nation and
then another word 10 the army. To the
nation first. 1t has been well said that
the surest way to invite disaster is for
Il nation to be Opulent, aggressive and
unarmed. (Appause). The nation that
is rich, that is so high-spirited as to be
somewhat careless of giving offense.
and that yet refrains from that pre-
paredness which is absolutely neccs-
sary il efficiency in war is ever 10 be
shown-such nation is laying deep
the foundation for humiliation and dis
aster. AS 4 people. whether we will or
not, we have reached the stage where
we must play great part in the world.
1t is not open to us to decide whether
or not we shall play it. All we have
to decidc is whether we shall play it
well or Ill. The part is before us. We
have to play it Well tApplause).
During the sessions OF Congress that
is now closing we have seen the first
stride taken in putting the national
guard the militia of the country, on a
iooIiHS VI chitItINs, lic HlSl louG
stride taken on the lines marked out
by Washington himself-the first Sue
ceSsful effort made to put into effect
Washington's plea. which for 10 years
has been disregarded by our people.
And again, the first long stride has
been taken towards the modernization,
toward increasing the efficiency of the
army in accordance with modern meth
obs as devised by General Sherman
over quarter of century ago.
The army of the United States Is,
and it is not desirable that it should be
other than, small army relative to
the population Of the country. but we
have Il right to expect that the small
army shall represent for its size the
very highest point of efficiency Of any
army in the civilized world. Gap
plause). And | have the most absolute
faith that to that degree of efficiency it
will attain. and that it will attain 1t in
no small part because of the wise and
Jealous use it will make OF the oppor-
tunties afforded by the erection of this
very building" cloud and continued
applause).
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27

Washington, Feb. 24.-Having failed
in the effort to obtain from Mr.. Bowen
the immediate payment in cash or the
$27,500 which it was provided in the
protocol of February 18th, should be
paid to Germany thirty days from date,
Germany yesterday requested Mr.. Bow
en- to give a draft for the amount, pay
able in Caracas on the latter date.
This latter request was made on be-
half Of the German embassy by Herr
Baltazzi, formerly charge d'affaires at
Caracas, but who has since come to
Washington and has been assisting the
embassy in the pending negotiations.
Mr. Bowen was again forced to de-
cline this request, which he did polite
ly, at the same time reminding Herr
Baltazzi that he was bound by the
terms of the protocol. which provided
that the s2T, 500 should be paid at Car
acas the 18th day OF March, to the dip
lomatic representative of Germany.
Just what reason was given by the
German representative for making the
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27

Washington. Feb. 22.-In the pres
ence of an assemblage of distinguished
people, including the President OF the
United States. members of the Cabinet
and of Congress, justices Of the Su-
preme Court, representatives of for
eign powers and others eminent in the
life OF the nation, the cornerstone OF
the Army War College was laid here
yesterday with impressive military and
Masonic ceremonies.
The occasion was rendered notable
and interesting by addresses delivered
by President Roosevelt and Secretary
OF War Root. and Major General S. NJ.
B. Young, president of the War Col
lege. The site selected for the new
building is on the reservation of the
Washington barracks.
While the foundation of the new
structure, which is to be practically
unique, has been only just begun, the
plans contemplated by the War Depart
ment and by Congress include the con-
struction of an entirely new set of
buildings on the arsenal grounds.
Among other structures there will be a
hospital barracks, officers quarters
and an administration building, all to
architectural design.
The Army War College grounds have
been selected as the site of the statue
of Frederick the Great which Emperor
William has proposed to present to the
people of the United States. A pctur-
esque feature of the ceremonies yester-
day was the participation of the mill
tary. About 1000 troops, representing
the various branches of the war service
took part in the exercises.
President Roosevelt wac introduced
by General G. L. Gillespie, chief of en-
gineers, U. S. A. The President was
given a cordial ovation. His address
in part follows:
Gentlemen and Ladies: 1t should be
a matter of pride and congratulation
to every American citizen interested in
the welfare of his country that to-day
we lay the foundation stone of a build
1ng, the erection Of which signaizes a
long stride forward in securing the eff
cheney of the United States army, a
step less important than that marked
by the enactment of the law to create
The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27

Washington. Feb. 24.-The decision
rendered yesterday by the Supreme
Court in the famous Champion lottery
ticket case is regarded as more i'm
portant and far-reaching than all the
trust legislation enacted by the pres
ent Congress.
The power of Congress to prohibit
the sending of lottery tickets from
one state to another by other means
than the mails was passed on. but the
effect of the decision is far reaching
as giving Congress full power to con-
troll and regulate interstate COM
merce
The question arose in connection
with two cases: that of Champion vs.
the United States. and that of Francis
VS.. the United States. In both cases
the constitution3lity of the act of Con-
gress of 1895, prohibiting the trans
mission of lottery tickets from one
state to another by express or other
wise, was challenged.
The opinion in the Champion case
was delivered by Justice Harlan. and
sustained the validity of the law. In
the Francis case, Justice Holmes spoke
for the court, holding that the offense
alleged did not come within the scope
Of the law in question. Both were
criminal cases.
Champion, at the time of his arrest
was in Chicago representing what was
known as the Pan-American Lottery
of Paraguay. The particular charge
against him was that of delivering a
box of lottery tickets to the Wells