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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-30
he Swiss are going to continue diggi
tunnels.
Problems for the Future.

the Swiss are going to continue digging
tunnels.
Problems for the Future.
If the Swiss rest on their laurels Ger
many will scarcely benefit by the Simplon,
and the same will be true of Holland md
Belgium; while France Will beneht--bscaGse
the northern section of the great p L. NJ.
trunk line will find the distance Paris-Milan
very much shorter by the Simplon than by
the Gothard
On the other hand, suppose the Swiss tun-
mel, the BerneSe-Oberland at Wiidstrubel,
as they are almost sure to do. Germany
viii be remarkably favored in trunk line
connections TO the shortened distance, Bale
Milan.
What are the French to do in that event?
They must further shorten their time to the
Stmplon. There is already a second-class
mountain railroad from Portarlier in
France. to the big Swiss lines al Lausanne.
1t could be made trunk line for some
So, 100000 The big business interests of
Lausanne desire this
The business men of Geneva however
urge the French to tunnel the Fauclne. II
would mean a big tunnel from France into
switzerland and the construction of a new
trunk line to the Simplon, passing near or
touching Geneva, at a cost of $40. 0o1 900
what VIII be done remains to be seen but
ne face of Europe IS changing as surely az
If :aen of faith commanded mountains: Be
removed! STERLING HELLO.
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Northern, and the Grand Trunk Pacific is
now building a branch which will connect
with itsmain lins and thus bring another
river of wheat 10 this point. BY these
roads Port Arthur and Fort William have
access to every part of the wheat belt,
and the traffic which will grow up in con-
sequence. Will make this one OF the COM
mercial centers Of the Canada Of the future.
The Breezy West.
At least that is what the Port ArthurItes
and Fort Williamites claim, and they claim
It so enthusiastically that I believe them. /
like the towns. They are full of the spirit
OF the breezy west. You can feel It In the
air The moment landed on Thunder bay
the cold. calculating wet blanket of the
moneyed east fell from my shoulders, and
l seemed to stand strong and free in a land
with a future.
This region is more like the United States
than eastern Canada. 1t is full OF twentieth
century progress. The towns are made up
of young men, with red blood In their veins.
The people look at the future through the
right end OF the opera glass, and most OF
them have microscopes in front of the
lenses. Every one is building air castles
not in Spain, but upon Lake Superior-and
although he acknowledges that he has not
yet gotten beyond the foundations. he can
in his minds eye see thirty-story skyscrap-
ers far surprising the cities of the present.
Port Arthur has six thousand population
Nevertheless their citizens rather sheer at
Montreal and Winnipeg. and think that
when Joined together they will be the great
middle city of the Canada of the future
Said Mr.. f. h. Allen. the editor OF the
Port Arthur Chronicle to me last night. as
he put his thumbs In the armholes of his
vest and threw out his chest:
THE Canada OF the future will have
three big cities. One may possibly be Mon
treal. but rather think IL will be situated
on the Atlantic ocean east of that point.
The second may be Vancouver, but rather
think IL viii be Port Simpson, at the ter
minus of the new Grand Trunk Pacific. and
the third will certainly be at Port Arthur,
for this is the natural situation set aside
for a great metropolis by the Almighty.
Nature has put the resources here and given
us the combination of water powers. rail-
roads and the great lakes. We are at the
very neck OF things, and there Is pos
sibility for any place to compete with US.
We can get coal by water at the lowest
freight rate. and we have mountains OF
iron In the Antikokan range nearby, Mac
kenzie g. Mann are already putting up
blast furnaces which will make hundred
tons of pig iron day. and we shall even
tually be a great Industrial center. We al
ready have one of the largest sawTnills on
the lake. and there is Plenty of lumber
within easy reach.
I'VE have a hundred and nifty thousand
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ocean steamers which take It to Europe
The wheat Is stored for the first fifteen
days for three-quarters of cent a bushel
an equal charge being made for each month
thereafter.
Canada's Elevator System.
Indeed Canada is fast building up what
will be the best elevator system on this con-
tinent. The most of her machinery Is new
and in that she surpasses the older eleva-
tors of the United States. The Canadian
Northern elevator at Port Arthur can I'M
load five hundred cars or a half million
bushels Of wheat In one hour. 1t can ship
out two hundred thousand bushels in an
hour, and 1t has ten scales in each of its
buildings, each of which will weigh forty
three tons at one time
The Canadian Pacific Railway elevators
at Fort William have a total capacity. of
thirteen and a half million bushels There
are five of them represented by the first
letters of the alphabet and some of them
are each more than an acre in area. In
elevator B. eighty-seven thousand bushels
of wheat were recently loaded In one hour,
and train of wheat Is unloaded every
twenty minutes during the season. / timed
them as they unloaded a car, and It took
just seven and half minutes. That car
oEtained sixteen hundred bushels OF wheat
enough at twenty-five bushels per acre to
iofHh eue toiai ctop ol siNty-IouI acres.
Nevertheless IN less than eight minutes 1t
was all In the tanks.
The Elevators Of the Wheat Belt
These elevators at Lake Superior are only
the end of great system which extends
throughout Canadas new wheat belt. There
are more than twelve hundred small eleva-
tors now scattered along the railroads In
that part of the Dominion giving every
farmer a short haul to the market. These
elevators have altogether a capacity of
twenty-eight million bushels. They repre-
sent an investment of fifty-f1ve million dol
lars. and many of them are owned by
American capitalists. A single company
will have a long string of such granar.es
and 1t will either buy the wheat direct from
the farmer or will store 1t for him. or han
die 1t on commission.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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PHOTOGRAPHS By WIRE.
Successful Experiments in Germany
With Selenium as the Agent.

Consul Lefeld of Frieburg furnishes a
clipping from the London Standard. whose
Berlin correspondent reports q lecture at
Munich. delivered before the E1eotro-Tech-
meal Association by Prof. Korn, In which
the progress made to perfect his apparatus
for transmitting photographs over te1e-
graph wires Is giveni
Prof. Korn stated that the problem OF
telegraphing photographs had been solved
in principle. The apparatus will be ready
for general use when a few technical i'm
provements have been introduced. The ex-
periments which the professor has already
transmit ,nn a Photography o. sketch. six Or
seven inches square, In a period varying
from ten to twenty minutes. These expert.
ments were carried out on the telegraph
line from Munich to Nuremberg, a distance
that precisely the same results would DO
obtained II the photographs were transmit
ted by a telegraph line or submarine cable
5000 miles in length.
mitted IL placed on q transparent glass
cylinder which revolves slowly. and at the
same time moves from right to left. A ray
Of light 10 thrown on this cylinder by
when the ray Of light reaches the interior
of the cylinder it Is brighter or darker, &C.
cording to the coloring Of that particular
part Of the photograph through which 1t
pdSSoS. lNSioe tut CyhuoSg Ii soHe Scich-
jun, which transmits the electrical current
in proportion to the intensity Of the light
brought to bear on It, The selenium trans
mits the current more rapidly in bright
light and less rapidly as the Light decreases.
The selenium within the cylinder Is con-
nected with the wire over which the photo
graph is to be transmitted.
The receiving station consists of an cleo
trical Nernst lamp placed inside a glass
cylinder covered with sensitized paper. The
Nernst lamp burns more or less brightly,
according to the varying current transmit
ted by the selenium at the other end. 1t
thus reproduces the exact shade of the
original photograph. provided that the
cylinders at each end of the wire revolve at
exactly the same speed. The professor has
ascertained a simple means OF regulating
the revolution of the cylinders SO that the
speed is identical at both ends Prof. Korn
stated that when the improvements on
which he is now working are introduced it
will be possible to transmit photograph
or sketch. Of half a dozen inches square,
within five seconds instead of ten or fifteen
minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-30
First Time Out Of House In Sixty Years

COLUMBUS cor. lnulanapoEs news.
Larson Folger. who lives near this city. is
sixty years old. but yesterday was the first
time he was ever out of his house When
he was thfee months old he suffered an at
tack of whoopiig cough, accompanied by
fever. which left him a cripple, and he
has never been able to walk. His suffering
diminished as he grew older, but he was q
man Of small means and was unable to buy
an invalid chair. therefore he was kept in
the house all the time.
When the recent state convention OF the
Christian Union Church was held west of
this city Mrs. William Cassidy and Mrs
o. c. Macy of Rush county. who were dele
gates to the meeting, were entertained at
the Folger home. They took an interest In
Folgers case and when they returned home
they made up the money to buy him a
wheelchair. The chair was purchased and
1t was the intention to send 1t in time to be
a Thanksgiving present. but It did not ar
rive until yesterday.
The old man was placed In the chair and
Immediately started for the home of q
neighhor making the first visit of his life.
He gets about the neighborhood with ap-
parent ease and his thanks for the present
know no bounds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-30
Tn Washing Rememher-

That flannels are washed first.
That white things come next.
That eolored things are done while white
things are boiling.
That dirty kitchen aprons and cloths come
last of all.
That soaking Is done in cold water.
That rinsing Is done in tepid water.
That soap must be thoroughly rinsed out
before bluing.
That blue must be well mixed through the
water.
important.
shrinking.
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Get It In Indiana.
the Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore American.
There are sixteen million school children
in this country. which fact furnishes SIX
teen million reasons why the system of edu-
cation should be the best ana most prac-
teal which the resources Of the age and or
the nation can AFFORD
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13OOO,o 900 bushels. Port Arthur has the
Canadian Northern elevator, which Will
hold 100000 bushels, and the two towns
are now running neck and neck as to other
improvements They are both enterprising.
Both are building up rapidly and they Will
eventually come together. They are already
united by a street car line, and the land
between them has been divided UP into town
lots. although for farming purposes il would
hardly be worth 10 cents an acre.
Municipal Ownership.
Both Port Arthur and Fort William be-
lieve In municipal ownership. They man
age their own electric lights, telephones and
waterworks. Port Arthur owns the street
car line which supplies the transportation
facilities of both cities. and the fare from
one to the other. a distance of four miles.
is only cents. The car line was put In
when Mr.. Van Horne moved the shops to
Fort William. In order to keep the en-
ployes who lived at Port Arthur there, and
the electric light system was instituted by
the city because the town wanted lights
and no one else would supply the money
AS il is, Port Arthur has now about $500
900 Invested. in municipal enterprises, and
II is making per cent on all she has spent
The actual profits last year We're almost
$4,000. The total cost of running the town
was 100000, SO that the telephones, street
cars electric lights and waterworks paid
altogether just one-fourth of the taxes
talked with a councilman. He said:
Our assessment this year will be about
30 mills. but this includes the rate we pay
on a bonus of 1925 600 which we gave for
the establishment of the blast furnaces here
We are cutting down our taxes, and we be-
lieve that these institutions will eventu-
ally pay all the expense OF running the
municipality. We own a power plant in
addition, and we can furnish power at low
rates"
Cheap Lights and Telephones.
But does IT not cost the consumers more
to have the lights and telephones managed
by the town.
No. Our street car fare for nlne-mile
ride is five cents. use twenty-one lights
in my house and can keep them burning
all day and all night for S3.7 a month.
our telephones are so low that we are
crowding the Bell Company out"
find the same conditions as to municipal
ownership prevail at Fort William. Mr..
Trautman. the editor of the Times-Journal
tells me that that city has invested less
than half a million dollars In It's light,
waterworks and telephone plants, and that
It could today sell its franchise for mil
lion.
Said he: I'VE have now coo 'phones and
are practically crowding the private tele-
phone company out OF existence. We charge
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
"A Small Crop.

A dispatch from Dallas, Texas,
says John 7. Garner, business agent
and manager Of the cotton depart
nent OF the Farmers Union, has is
sued cotton report, showing reduc-
tlon or Gotten as per sworn statements
rom union and non, union farmers
through tile southern cotton belts
He says that about January /, $50, 900
cotton coupons were sent out to mem
bers OF the union, on which coupons
the farmers were each to state what
their cotton acreage vas last year.
and to write pledge that 1t would
not exceed given number Of blank
acres this year. He adds: 81 have
had every coupon tabulated and the
full report show; reduction in cotton
acreage OF 80 1-3 per cent Tue late
cold, wet weather has caused still
greater reduction in acreage; then the
web, or as some call 1t, the "careless
worm" Is stripping the foliage off
OF thousands Of scores all over Texas.
most OF which will have to be planted
over even at this late date. At the
present outlook this years crop will
not exceed 5000, 600 bales"
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23

The postal officials have issued an
order debarrlng from the use or the
mails DR.. Winfield & Co., OF Rich.
mond, Va, who advertised a com.
pound which would turn the skin Of
the blacKcst Of negroes to a lily white.
The story is related that several years
ago DR.. Winfield met celebrated
French scientist, who gave him bis
discovery, "marwip," with which he
guaranteed to change red, blue, black,
green or yellow to a beautiful pinkish
white. Department. chemists say
marvin" is composed of biclorid OF
mercury, benzoln, glycerine and dis.
titled water. While the compound
has temporary bleaching eff act, 1t is
not permanently beneficial, but it is
ultimately Injurious" says the de
partment fraud order.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
BENNETTsvILLE s. G.. FR1DAY. JUNE %, 1905

sun came out, the first time in quite q
while, the trooper said he was very
tired and sleepy and suggested that he
would lie down and take q nap, If the
negro would keep watch for him, and
arouse himAif anyone approached. He
was soon asleep, and Eraphaim, not
relishfng that manner OF approprlat-
ing his masters property, proceeded to
repossess itby killing the trooper with
lightwGod knot. He carried his mas.
ter's horses and mules, as we'll as the
soldiers horse, back into the swamp.
and they we're all rescued.
Mr.. Sowell, Ephraim's owner, was
the fatherIof Mr.. James NJ Sowell, the
well known supervisor of Kershaw
County.
PATH OF THE AMERICAN ATTILA.
Sherman's march from Savannah To
Raleigh, aud especially through South
Carolina, was belt Of absolute desc.
lation, forty miles wide, where black
ened ruins and lone chimneys stood as
silent WITNESSES to show where pace
and plentyan happy homes had been.
The inherent grit and self reliance OF
the Southern character have reclaim.
ed the de5olate fields and largely made
them blossom as the rose. The chin.
neys and blackened ruins may be for
gotten bg those who are to come after
us, but THE heroic death OF James Mil.
lcr and Of others who perlshed In the
spring ofj1865, will be remembered.
VIM D TRANTHAM
camden, 5. O., June, |, 1905.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
"A Premier Stabbed

AT Athens Theodore P. Delyannis,
Che popular premier of Greece was
stabbed and mortally wouno cd by a
professional gambler named Ghera-
karis, at the main entrance of the
chamber of deputies at 5 p. m. Tues.
day. The premier died within three
nours. The assassin who was imme-
diately arrested, said he committed
the deed In revenge for the stringent
measures taken by Premier Delyannis
against the gambling houses, all of
which recently closed. The premier
arrived at the entrance of the cham
Der In carriage. Gherakaris approach
ed, saluted the premier and opened
the carriage door The premier was
IN the act OF thanking Gherakaris for
his courtesy when the gambler plunp-
ed long dagger into M. Delyannis
abdomen, inilicting frightful wound.
The murdered was Immediately over.
powered by the attendants.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
Saved Cunrd,sI,itc

Frank Davis, a negro convict on the
Fairfield Ohaingang, has been reward
ed for saving a guards life, by being
released. Davis was sent up In 1902
fbI housebreaking and larceny and his
sentence was five years. The other
day one OF the negro convicts on the
same gang with Davis planned to es-
cape. While the guards back was
turned the negro rushed at him with
pickax and only the quickness OF
Davis prevented a tragedy The other
negro fought desperately, but Davis
finally Overpowered him and the sup
ervisor Of Fairfield al once took steps
to have Davis set free. Governor
Hayward sigaed Communication OF
sentence to the present time and the
order for freedom was sent on a,
once
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
Work OF an Asssssin

What is believed to be the sequel to q
feud OF long standing resulted at Val.
dosta, Ca, Wednesday night in the
assassination OF the IT year. old son
and the 16 year.old daughter of W..
l.. Carter, formerly Baptist minis
ter. The young people were attracted
by the barking of a dog in the yard
Surrounding their home and went out
TO investigate, followed by younger
child. They were fired upon by some
one from behind the smokehouse. The
young lady fell dead, the young man
crawled back to tie house, where he
died, and the younger child was
wounded. Carter fired upon some one
prowlihg in his yard early Wednes-
day. lie says the intruder was a ne.
gro. He believes the assasssins are
negroes, but says others may have
been instigatcrs OF the crime.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
HiiieG EX aEsi;

John w. Arnold, white we'll dig.
ger, fell from his seat in large buckt
which was being hauled up from the
bottom OF we'll, and was instantly
killed Tuesday. Arnold and several
Workmen were employed to deepen a
we'll OF the d. Il Converse company,
near the Glendale mills, Spartanburg
county, and he was lowered to the bot.
tom to inspect the undertaking. AS
he was being toWed back to the top,
and about the time he had nearly com.
pleted the trip, he suddenly lost his
perch and fell headforemost to the
bottom. His neck was brcxen by the
fall. Arnold had complained OF being
unwell prior to beginning the work
The accident was in no monner due
to the WOrkmsn VINO assisted him.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
Shot Himself,

w. III. Werner, Of Columbia, S. @. {,
committed suicide at Morganton, N i.
c., at hall past six O'Clock Thursday
evening. A bullet hole in the head
caused instant death He was found
In lumber yard. From the meager
details that can be obtained he is
thought to have came to Morganton
on Southern railway train No. IL
Thursday to enter the hospital there
for treatment for nervous disease.
A letter was found in one OF his pock-
cts addressed to his father In Colum.
bia. Young Werner was the winner
OF a Cecil Rhodes American scholar
ship at Oxford university, England.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
In the Crop Reports Of the Agri.
cultural Departments.
THE RUMORS AFLOAT-
In Washington Are of Most Sensation.
al Character. Chief wllkie, of the
Secret Service Bureau, Said TO
Have Made Some Start.
ling Discoveries.

The Washington correspondent of
Ihe News and Courier says some very
sensational discoveries are being made
% the Investigation of the sleaks in
5ae crop reports" from the agricultur
al department. progresses. A Govern.
nent official, who is taking an active
part in the investigation, in conyersa-
tion with The News and Courier cor.
RESPONDENT to day, said in substance.
ohief Wilkie, OF The secret service
bureau, WHO has the Investigation in
hand, has made some Startlirg discoy.
cries, which may involve not only Az.
5lstant S5aeisoician Holmes, but also
Chlef Statistician Hyde, who is now
IN Europe, and one OF the female
CLERKS In the agricultural department.
VINO handle the data upon which the
cotton crop reports are based.
While some OF the evidence Ia cir
cumstantial, enough has already hean
liscioses to show that advance infor.
matlon on the cotton crop report. and
also other reports which affect specul-
| atlon has reached q few stock brokers
through the medium OF a woman,
Ihe woman in the case Is said tn he
one OF the three persons to handle the
hgures for the last time before the of.
hclal report is promulgated. This wo.
man, who, 1t is said, receives $50
month salary, has rec,ntiy bought a
comfortable residence in this CITY and
furnished 1T in fine style. On the same
authority it is said that Assistant
Statistican Holmes has invested large.
y in suburban real estate, from his
meagre salary, Mr.. Holmes is now
under suspension, because of the in.
vestlgation and the reflections upon
| him.
The progress OF the investigation ia
| being kept profund secret, pending
the absence Of Chef Statisticlan Hv6e
VINO sailed for Europe few days be.
lore the charges OF leakage In the de.
partment were filed. Secretary VII
son, who Is sincere in his endeayors tn
probe the matter to the bottom. has
requested Mr.. Hyde to abandon his
European trip and return to WASHING.
ton at once. Thus far Mr.. HYDE has
made no reply to The summonds. and
some OF Those who are interested IN
The investigation declare that he has
no intention OF returning to face an
Investigation.
Members OF Congress who have been
specially favored by the department
OF agriculture In the way OF allowances
Tor their respective districts are en-
deavorlng to smc ther the lnvestiga.
6lon, Claiming that 1t will be injurious
60 agricultural interest generally to
nave the experimental appropriations
and disbursements by the department
TOO closely scruntiniZed.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
Midshipman Drowned.

A dispatch from Annapolis says a
wireless message was received at the
naval academy Tuesday night from
Commander G. j. Badger, command
Ing the U. S. S. Newark, conveying
news OF the death by drowning OF
Mldshipman L. l. Vertrees =; .se sec
ond class. Tue Newark II VS. the
vessels now engaged in TIL, md
navy joint exercises and wasQ. /, or
off Hackett Point when yoY. Sr.
trees was In swimming with me
companions. Young Vertrees w-Sl0
years of age and son Of w. j. Yer.
trees, OF Bushnell, Illinois.