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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-29
THE ISTHM|AN CANAL
Report of the Commission
Made Public.
PROGRESS OF THE WORK
IN A BETTER SANITARY CoNDI-
TON THAN EVER BEFORE.
Excavation Already Done Simply Pre-
paratory Until Character of the
Canal is Determined

The report of the isthmian canal commits
sion made public today contains a mass of
interesting detail as to the progress of the
undertaking, but there is little in gen
eral way that has not been covered by the
speeches of Secretary Taft and Chairman
Shonts. The essential points in which the.
public are interested are:
The work of sanitation preliminary to the
digging of the canal is complete
The isthmus has been rendered fit place
for human beings to live which it never
was before.
There have been 100000 yards of dirt
excaVated from the Culebra cut, but the
type of canal has not yet been decided
upon, and until that is done further eX-
cavation in the cit is impra cticable.
Engineer Stevens in his section of the
report says that on arriving on the isthmus
he found the whole force in demoralized
condition. There was no harmony between
the different departments, and very often
not between the divisions of the same de-
partment. The frequent changes of eX-
ecutive officers had given rise to number
less baseless rumors, and there was gen.
eral air of listlessness and apathy and a
feeling that the whole enterprise was
doomed TO failure.
This feeling has now been changed. The
commission has made all the arrangements
possible for the comfort and recreation of
tile empioyes mas arranged d series vi ciup
houses for them at an expense not to eX-
coed $500 each, has devoted one of the
transport steamers available to free excur-
sions to the Island of Abago, in the bay of
Panama. Living expenses on the isthmus,
the report says, are not so high as has been
generally imagined. The cost of the aver
age hotel in Panama Is not more than So
a month, and the complaint of the en-
ployes is not SO much at the price as at the
character of the food. The diet that the
well-to-do American is used to in the
states, the report says. cannot be had on
the ist hnluS at anV price.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
COLLEGk NOILS.

Chicago University has established
a department of social science and
arts.
Last year no less than 1868 men took
some form Of regular exercise at Har-
ward.
Harvard and Yale are discussing the
raising of their tuition fees TO 5000 a
year.
The reorganization of the School of
Architecture has practically been COM
pleted.
The old medical laboratory at the
University of Pennsylvania las been
renovated.
The Frazier debate prizes at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania this veal will
be SIS and $25.
A new steam laboratory is being con-
structed for the mechanical engineering
department of the University of H.
linois.
In remodeling Morgan Hall. at Will,
Jams, every bedroom will be recon,
structed to secure better light and ven
tilation.
The Yale Library has received a
large portrait of w. B. Ross, Yale '52,
from whose bequest Of $250,O0O the
addition will be built.
The success of the summer school of
the University of Pennsylvania. inau-
gurated last summer, has influenced
the faculty to hold it again.
President Eliot, of Harvard, in his
annual report said that the deficit of
the university for the year 1G03-04
amounted to more than $4,000.
At a recent meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the New York City Col
lege Dr.. Paul L. Saurel vas appointed
assistant professor of mathematics.
In the School of Laws of Boston Uni
yersity courses have been added i'll in
terstate commerce. consular service,
international law and Spanish-Ameri-
can legal procedures,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01

Cleveland, O., Special.-Mrs. Chad.
wick, when placed on the stand in the
bankruptcy proceedings against her
before Referee Remington, she re-
fused at first to be sworn. After con-
sultation with her attorneys she finally
consented to take the oath. She was
then asked to state her anne. She
refused to reply to this or any other
questions that followed.
Mrs. Chadwick sought refuge in her
privileges as an accused person, and
she refused to answer most of the
questions on the ground that what she
said might tend to aid the prosecution
of her criminal cases. Referee Rem
ingtont found in her favor, although
he insisted, against her counsel's wish
es, in making her give a quasl-expla-
nation of her refusal.
my financial affairs are so closely
allied with the Ease in the Federal
Court that anything affecting the one
must necessarily affect the other" said
Mrs. Chadwick, and the referee de-
clared that that explanation of her
position was as admirably expressed
as it could be.
what they want is to get posses
sion of our information" stoutly de-
clared Attorney Dawley, on behalf OF
Mrs. Chadwick.
Despite Dawley's objections and his
irate declarations that Mrs. Chadwick
was being ~unjustly and improperly i'm
posed on Mrs. Chadwick was forced
to take the stand and be sworn. This
she did very gracefully, smiling pleas
antly and cheerfully, as the referee
administered the oath. But she refus-
ed to say that she was Mrs. Cassie l..
Chadwick, and smilingly persisted in
that course. Referee Remington vain
ly appealed to her, explained to her.
cajoled her, and almost threatened her.
Mrs. Chadwick was an interested lis
tener to all he had to say, but his
conversation moved her not a jot. Fin
ally Remington grew a little exasper
ated at her cheerful Indifference.
Is this by your advice y .+he>Ster-1
ly inquired of Dawley-
81 refuse to answer" was Dawley's
reply. Counsel can take care of him
SELF" he said significantly. Il am not
under obligations to disclose to any
one, not even the court, the nature Of
my professional advice to my client"
Theentire examination was a series
of wrangles and disputes. Mrs. Chad
wick answered a few questions but
her answers were remarkably free
from information. Finally the court
and counsel agreed to resume the hear
ing March 10, with the understanding
that Mrs. Chadwick would testify free
ly on that date if the criminal cases
against her had been disposed of by
that time.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
LABOR WORLD.

The English cooperative societies
Owl nine ocean steamers.
1t is estimated that there are over
100000 coal miners in the world.
There are nearly 2,O0O.OO O members
of labor unions in Great Britain.
About 200 miners at the Birdseye
coal mine, Jellico, Tenn, went OF
strike.
The only cooperative store in the
anthracite region, which was opened in
Wilkesbarre, Pa, last June, has proved
a success.
Over 1900 men employed in the build
ing trades at Trenton, N. j., obeyed
the order of Business Agent Smith and
laid down their tools.
Twenty thousand tin workers en-
ployed by the American Sheet and Tin
Plate Company have received a ten
per cent. increase in wages.
The International Carriage and
Wagon Workers Union has decided to
move the organizations national head
quarters from New York to Chicago.
A bulletin issued by the Commits
sioner of Labor Statistics shows the
average per capita earnings of Ohio
miners during the past year was
$4,000.
There is a plan on foot at San Fran
cisco, Cal, to abolish the death benefit
assessment with the International AS
ISOLATION of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers and create a death benefit
fund locally.
In Germany every description Of
child labor is prohibited in such indus
tries as brickmaking, bridge building,
Quarrying,. stone breaking. chimney
sweeping and some portions of the car
rierS' business.
On account of black smallpox in a
boarding house at Branchdale, Pa,
County Medical Inspector Daniel
Dechert has had a dozen miners, who
boarded there, removed from the Ootto
cOlliery and QuarantineQ,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
Gen. Miles to Retain Full Play.

Washington, Specialize confer
ees on the army appropriation bill
perfected an agreement which covers
all points of difference. The agree
ment regarded as most important is
that affecting the pay of retired Off
GERS and involving the pay Of General
Miles, who at present is the recipient
of the full pay of a lieutenant general.
The effect of the agreement as to
General Miles is to give him his full
retired pay, without reference to any
compensation he may receive for SER
vice on the staff Of the Governor of
Massachusetts.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
Virojnia Cadet in Trouble.

Annapolis, Md. Special.-For leav-
ing the Academy enclosure and going
to Baltimore. where he spent Thurs
day night without notifying or asking
permission of the authorities at the
Naval Academy, Midshipman Bradley
S. Johnson is confined aboard the
prison ship Santee, awaiting the De
partment's action in his case. Young
Johnson, who is from Richmond, Va,
is a member of next years graduating
class. He is a grandson of the late
General Bradley T. Johnson, the noted
Confederate officer. and a son of Col.
Bradley S. Johnson, of the famous
Maryland Line, Of the Confederate
Army. Midshipman Johnson's offense
is a serious one. which places him
in danger of being expelled from the
Academy
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
AN EMPEROR'S POEM.

Every educated japanese is supposed to
be proficient in writing with his brush in
india ink one of those. charming little
poems which CRAFTY the natio4al art taste.
The following poem was written for the
Peeresses' School Of Toxic by the En-
peror of Japan. 1t was translated by Ar
thur Lloyd for the independent, by whose
permission it is here used:
WISDOM'S GOAL.
BY M~UTsUHITo.
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
The water placed in goblet. bowl or cup
Changes its form to its receptacle;
And so our plastic souls take various
shapes
And characters of good or i'll. to fit
The good or evil in the friends we choose.
Therefore be ever careful in your choice of
friends.
And let your special love be given to those
Whose strength of character may prove the
whip
That drives you ever to fair wisdom's goal.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
Too Large For Railroads..

Savannah, Ca, Special.-The eques
trian statue Of General Nathan Bed
ford Forrest, the great Confederate
cavalry leader, has not arrived at
Memphis as enormously stated, but is
in the railway yards, having arrived
last week by steamer from New York.
whence it was received from Paris.
where it was cast. The statue was
not sent by rail from New York. 1t
is more than thirteen feet high in it's
crate and the railroads would not re-
ceivc it, being unable TO transport it
through tunnels. 1t is said that the
read that received it acre may find
it impossible to get it under bridges.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01

"A small infantry attack was repulsed
by the Japanese
Siege guns That made Port Arthur
capitulate are now shelling Kuropat-
kin's forces.
G~ripenberg, removed from command
of Russia's second army il Manchuria,
arrived in st. Petersburg.
Field Marshal Oyama reported that
the Russians continued to build defen-
sive works and to shell the Japanese
line.
General Kuropatkin reported that
large quantities of stores at YinkoW
were burned by the Russians in the
recent Cossack raid.
Japanese dispatches from the army
say that General Kuropatkin has
changed his base to Fushun. and seems
to be preparing a general attack.
General Gripenberg says he was or
dered to retreat when victory was
within his grasp by General Kuropat-
kin, who, he says, refused to support
him.
Persistent rumorHeo1 approaching
peace were strengthened in Paris by
the withdrawal of the new Russian
bonds distributed through France for
purchase
General Kuropatkin reported the cap
ture of %Sandepas, a strongly fortified
village, and of positions neal Shakhe.
Japanese attempts to recapture the IT,
trenchments have been repulsed.
Dispatches from japanese headquar-
tiers in Manchuria reported the repulse
Of Russian attacks on Waltao Mount
ain and the retreat of the cavalry
forces which had moved against the
Japanese left.
Lord Spencer declared in Parliament
that the dearest wish of the British
people is to see the end Of the Russian
Japanese war. Foreign Secretary
Lansdowne promised that the Govern
ment will seize with alacrity the first
chance to urge npacp.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
Want Lower Raw Cotton.

Fall River, Mass. Special.-The
sales in the print clotl market this
week will reach d total OF about $780,
coo pieces. The general market for
printing cloths without special fea-
turc. The tone is quiet and steady
cid prices for both wide and narrow
standards are unchanged on a basis
Of 2 So for regulars. Little cotton is
being purchased, as manufacturers
generally believe in a lower market
for the raw material.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01

Mobile, Ala. Special.-1n an inter-
view Mr.. D. M. Moraques, consul for
Nicarauga, and also an extensive ship
owner whose vessels touch at all Cen
trail and South American ports and
also in Mexico: stated that nothing in
the way of filibustering is going on in
Mobile. He is in a position to know
because he has close communication
with all vessels touching at Mobile.
any foreign country there.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
IA Die in Church.

New York. Special.-Eleven persons
were killed and upwards of fifty in
jured, One probably fatally, by the
collapse of the flooring of the Fleet
Street African Methodist Episcopal
Church, in Brooklyn, Monday night.
Of those killed, eight were women.
two men and one child. The building
was an ancient ramshackle frame
structure, erected 60 years ago in the
leart OF the colo1ed section Of Brook
Ign, in Fleet street. near Myrtle Ave
rue.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
SHE WOULDN'T TALK
Mrs. Chadwick Declined to DiYulge
All She Knows
REFEREE SCOLDED Her In VAIN

Supported by Her Counsel, the Female
Financier Refuses Even to Give Her
Name in Bankruptcy Proceedings
Which She Declares Closely Allied
to the Criminal Proceedings Against
Her-Consented to be Sworn With
ReIuctance-Will Testify at a Hear.
ing March 10, IF Criminal Case Has
Then Been Concluded.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
Female Physicians in Russia,

-e number of female physicians is
s lilly increasing in Russia. Accord
:ng 20 a recent report there are low
nearly 400 ladies studying medicine at
Russian universities. the largest num-
bers being at st. Petersburg and Mos
COW.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01
SWAYNE ACQUITTED
Senate Failed to Convict on Charges
Of Impeachment
THE VOTE LARGELY A PARTY One

Highest Vote Recorded For Impeach-
ment Was 35 and the Lowest Against
1t AZ, SIS Being Required to Convict
The Larger Votes Were Largely
Along Party Lines-OnIy 10 Votes
Iating to Use of Private Cars.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01

the single exception of one appropri
ating s95, 900 for continuing the cable
from Valdez to Seward, Alaska. Thert
was renewed discussion Of the pgovis.
ion regarding retired officers on duty
with the militia of the several States
the name of Gen. Nelson A. Miles
once more figuring conspicuously in the
debate. Determined opposition devel-
oped to a motion by Mr.. Ames, OF
Massachusetts, to agree to the Senate
amendment on the subject, which is
favorable to the retention of full re-
tired pay by officers of high rank serv.
ing with militia organizations. Mr
Ames said the appointment of Genera.
Miles as inspector general of Massachu,
sets was a political one.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01

AMELIA AND THE BABY.
By C. H. AKER.

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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01

@o< Ohm JACKSON uncon-
4 Y sciously increased his pace
@ g as his home came in sight.
4 J He walked quickly up the
~N~ 1itt1a moth UlancinU in
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01

NEWS OF THE FAR EAST.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-30
Little REQ R,1,nx.bo,s

Little Red Riding.bood Is the heroine
OK well known nursery tale. which
relates her encounter with wolf III
the forest, the arts by which he de
eeir"d her and her tragicnl end. GrImE
derived the story from tradition cur.
rent in the region bordering upon til
river Main, in Germany. The legend Is
however, widely disseminated. In thu
Swedish variation OF tho story Little
Red Ridlng-hood takes refuge in a tree.
the wolf meanwhile snawing ut the
roots, when her lover. alarmed by her
cries, comes up just In time to sec
the tree fan and his ladyloyc crushed
beneath it.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-30
SLAVERY IN CHINA.
Savage Cruelty Melted Ont For tho
Most veninl OHcnaes.

Savage Cruelty Melted Ont For tho
Most veninI oTcnaes.
Says an editorial in the Picking
Times: 'TTbc position OF the slave girl
in Il Chinese home Is n very hard one as
Il y'ilc. These slaves are generally the
property of the wife. and no one inter-
rciHs with the mistress in her treat
in..nt of tho poor little things, who will
40 often as not be subjected TO the
most savage cruelty for most venial Of
fcDaes. a few weeks ago we recall a
eaae OF great hardship being brought
into the mixed court. Shanghai, in
which, small slave girl had been gag
ged with q piece Of iron and severely
beaten because, when half starved. she
helped herself to some scraps of food.
''Our attention has now been called
to piercing cries which emanate from q
house near Canton road and are said to
proceed from 4 little slave girl who for
come reason IS beaten almost daily
with thick knotted rope. but for what
reason Is unknown.
Our informant thinks IL word in
public, showing that the incident has
been noticed, may suffice to check the
crdelty without lodging Il formal com
piant with tho municipal police, which
might make matters worse for the poor
little sufferer In the long run"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-30
THE CITY MAN.
SKIS Lot An Life Compared With That
of the Furmcr.

SKIS Lot An Life Compared With That
of the Furmcr.
According TO the National Magazine.
"H III III the cities work twice ms hard
ls the farmers. aud they get few or no
Dlidays.' Thousands and thousands OF
professional men, clerks and men In
small business enterprises delve and
,oil their entire lives away and at the
md are curtcd out TO tie cemeteries
Without having had any more leisure
Or enjoyment IN their lives than horse
ON treadmili. The rut they toll along
In is as barrow rs case knife" This
Is not the farmers view OF the city
.naa, whom he sees only during vacn-
ton, when the city man IS taking a
brief and much needed rest The farm.
er sees him sporting his glad rags"
ami mistakenly imagines him to be all
the year round only an idle butterfly.
consuming the produce OF the horny
handed son OF toll. The truth, it is
held, is that the city man, as rule. is
the harder worker and gets much less
enjoy out OF life. He longs for the
rural scenes and occupations of the
farmer; his dearest hope is to get back
to the country toOspend his last years.
A few OF the city folks make q big lot
OF money and get their follies and
aDnscInents In the newspapers, but the
great majority of city, toilers live q
very monotonous and stupid as well IA
n very laborious and poverty stricken
life. Tho farmer. 1t is concluded, has
''t)p: real thing" while tho city man
has only barren aspirations and disap-
pointments. The contentcd farmer is
not only the wjscst but the bappIest
Of Observation-Disclosures Sun.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-30
IN EFFECT OCTOBER I, 1905.

$3.50 a. m.-Da,ly. Local for Suffolk,
Franklin, Emporia, Danvillo and in
termedlate stations. Close connec-
lions made Mt Danvillc with fast
through trains carrying Pullman
sleeping cars and through coaches 10
all points South and West.
$3.50 n. m.-Daily. Local to Clarks-
Vile, Oxford, Durham and intermc-
diate stations. Arrive Durham G:35
D. m.
1870 p m.-Daily. Fast Express train
for all points South and West, carry.
Ing through Prllman sleeping car to
Charlotte. Pullman car handled
South Of Danville on Florida Elk.
press, providing in this way through
service without change of trains to
Columbia, Augusta, Savannah and
Florida points.
1880 y m.-Daily except Sunday, for
Durham and intermediate stations
Trains arrive Norfolk 1856 n. IN. and
5:35 u. m.
City Ticket Office. % CRANKY Street
(Monticello Hotel)
STANTON CURTIS,
Passenger Agent, Norfolk, Va.
n. q. SPENCER, General Manager.
w. H.;TAYLOR, G. p. a.,
Washington, D. c.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-30
Merchants g. Miners
Transportation Co.'s
Steamship Lines for Boston, Provi.
dence and Baltimore.

Steamship Lines for Boston, Provi
dence and Baltimore.
+ Leave Newport News, via Norfolk
for Boston every Tuesday, Wednes
lay, Friday and Sunday. Leaves for
Providence every Monday, Thursday
and Saturday. sailing from Norfolk at
900 y. m.
Leave Newport News for Baltimore
laily. except Tuesday and Wednesday
1t p. m, connecting for Washington
Philadelphia and New York.
Fare to Baltimore. one way, $500;
round trip, $500, including atateroom
berth. Accommodations and cuisine
rnequalled.
Freight and passengers taken for all
ooints North and Sonth. Steamers
leave Baltimore, foot OF Long Dock,
iaily. promptly at 6 p. m.
Only line running Sunday steamer
between Newport News and Baltimore
For further information apply to
l.. G. SAUNDERS, Agent,
Newport News, Va.
W. P.TURNER, G. p. A.
j. G. WHITNEY. A. D. STEnBINS
Cd V.-P. & T. NJ. Gen'l Mgr.
General Offices. Baltimore. Md.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-12-30
weekly TRADE REVIEW
JnseasonabIy Mild Weather Accent
yates Usual DuIIness.
GRATIFYING CHRISTMAS TRADl
strong Tone Established and Conf.
dence Regarding the Future lie
More Pronounced-Faiurcs For
Week 221,-Asalnst 252 Last Year.
(Dy Associated Prcss.)

NEW YORK. Dec. pr. G.. Dun
and Company's weekly review o..
trade tomorrow will say:
"Unrcasonably mild weather &C.
centuatcd the customary holida.
week dullness in distribution of sta
pie merchandise, but gratifying re
suits of Christmas trade established
strong tone, and confidence regard
ing the future Is more pronounced
Outdoor work Is facilitated by the
high temperature and lack of SNOW
making the years total of building
operations even greater than tho
most sauguinc expectations Trade In
iurs and heavy clothing is unfavor-
ably affected by the open winter. but
he net result Is most satisfactory
Outputs arc Large.
Despite inventories and repairs.
tutput OF manufacturing plants has
continued large and preparations for
spring shipments Indicate that ad.
vance orders were heavy. New bus
ness at first hands is seasonabl,
iu;ct. but machinery will be full.
occupied well into the New Year be.
fore additional orders are required.
Statements of railway earnings
continue satisfactory. figures thus far
available for December showing an
average gain OF Go per cent. over
1904.
Failures this week numbered 22l,
against 2J2 last year"