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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09
COTTON MILL MEN
ESCAPE PENALTY
Suits for Alleged Violation of
Labor Law Dismissed.
CASE ENDEp RATHER SUDDENLY
Counsel for the Government Made the
Motion--MiII Men Accused of I'm
porting Seventy English Cotton Mill
Hands.

Greensboro, N. c., March 8-The
trial Of the test case against the Char
lOtte mill men, who were sued by the
government for $71 geo in penalties
for alleged violations Of the immigra-
tion laws, ended rather suddenly and
abruptly in the United States circuit
court Thursday evening, when upon
the motion OF counsel for the govern
ment, the jury was instructed to bring
in a verdict in favor of the defend
ants.
1t carries all suits against all men
off the docket, and moi. pross was
taken in the criminal case, charging
them with conspiracy.
The defendants were Edward A
Smith, president of three big cotton
mills at Charlotte; Sumner B. Sar
geant manager Of he D. A Tompkins
company; E. c. Dwelle, secretary
and treasurer of the mills Mr.. Smith
is president; Thomas M Costello is
immigration agent.
The latter is missing and could not
tuted.
It was alleged in the complaints
that the cotton mill owners employed
Costello to so TO England to hire la
Dor for their mills, and that, in pur-
suance Of this agreement, Costello
went, and by promises, contracts and
agreements, secured the consent Of
the aliens to to come to America. 1t
was also alleged shat Costello pre-
paid their passage and gave them
''shOw'' money. There were seventy
one Of the aliens to come to AmPri-
ca to work in the mills in and around
Charlotte.
The defendants offered as a de-
tense that Costello exceeded his au-
chority as agent. Judge Boyd held
shat the government must show that
the defendants shared in the unlawful
purpose with Costello. The defend
ants also commended that as there was
not skilled labor of a like kind unem-
ployed in this country, they were not
amenable to the law.
h6 uSISuudHIS Drought #COIUOn mill
men from every section of the cOun-
try TO testify that there is a great
scarcity of cotton will help. It was
shown that there is millions of dollars
worth Of machinery standing idle in
the mills of the south and east on ac-
count Of the scarcity of labor The
department of labor and commerce has
taken great interest in these suits,
and it is said that the department is
really responsible for the institution
of the cases. Assistant Attorney Gen,
eral Cooley appeared with local at
torneys for the government.
Much interest is felt in the case by
cotton mill men. They can now bring
in labor TO start their idle machinery
without fear Of mOlestation from the
government officials in this district.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-09

Foreign Agitation Against immigration
Madrid, March S.-The agitation
against immigration is active here on
account of 700 families sailing for for
eign lands.
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ON THE JOYS OF TRAVEL
o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.f,

to me like cleaning the ashes out of an anthracite stove. I meanwhile in- haling smoke through my manly and open pores until have all the indica- tions of a home cured ham. l buy railroad cigar and I have to clutch 1t firmly behind the gills to keep it from turning on me and biting the hand that would caress it. I order half pint of railroad rye, and when the coon draws the cork red and green balls fly out the same as a. Roman candle
 "On retiring to my snug berth, discover that the stout party down. stairs has been taking deep breathing exercises in a night school. I know 1t was a night school where he took, 'em, because he doesn't start until after he goes to sleep. He lays there sleeping peacefully and giving off yv- shaped sounds from his larynN and it's southern connections, and I lay there, In arms reach of a warm and brilliant gas burner, counting sheep jumping over fence and wishing they'd break their foolish necks.
 When I get where I'm going, I'm sorry I'm there and I'd hurry back, only I'm dreading the trip. The man who really enjoys travel is the man in jail who ain't got anything to read except a guide book"
 "They say travel broadens a man." remarked the head bell boy.
 Between being broadened and be- ing fatened, there's little difference, said tha Hotel Clerk
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f's it.

pulled tn plug out iv tn other mans bath f'r me touched me on tn shoul- der. I turned an see a frindly gleam in his eye that made me wondher if he had a knife. l gave him what they call tn bobs over there, which is wan dollar an thinty cints iv our money. He touched his cap an says "Cue." !" I was greatly moved. 1 have now as large a collection iv cues as Jake Schaeffer an more expensive. But it's done wan thing fir me. It's made me competint fir amy office connected with tn legal departmint iv a sthreet railway. Be hivins, cud hand piece iv change to a judge iv tn supreem coort. 1 hear tn Conyard line has passed a dividend They ought to make merger with tn head stoort, says he.
 An there ye ar-re A boats boat even whin it looks like hotel. But it's wonderful, anyhow Whin ye come 10 think iY it 'tis wonderful that amy man cud cross tn Atlantic in anything Tn Atlantic ocean is fine body iv wather, but it's a body iv wather just tn same. It wasn't in- tinded to be thraveled on. Ye cud put ye'er foot trough it anywhere. It's sloppy goin' at best. Tn on'y time a human being can flot in it is afther he's dead. A man throws a horse shoe into it an tn horse shoe sinks. This makes him cross, an he builds a boat
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Squedenbo7an church IS undher repair.
a.fa.

street car-Saphira Skate, She took the freight, and c1inkers ate, And had to wait, And got in late, Upon the Road of Cinder Slate-than 1t Is when you're doing it in person with a chunk of slag in your eye and superior coon porter charming the two-bittses from your reluctant clasp. Whats the use of going to look at other places, anyway, when the souvenir postal card is within the reach of all? But we do it. It's form of madness that comes stealing over you like the Standard oil. You want to ride on a merry -go-round? That's circular in sanity. You long to run over the coun- try and it's live stock in large, guady automobile? Dementia Peacocks. You want to hustle throgh the Middle West on day coach during the August drouth? You have a serious form of Locomotive Attackus.
 q get 1t myself. Eleven months of the year I'm as sedentary as the Prisoner of Chiffon, and then in the twelfth month an unconquerable de- sire rises up in me to desert my comfort and travel on the devasting and salf killing choo-choo. If I took it out in dreaming, know 1t would be fine: getting ready to cut water melon always beats splitting out seeds. But I have to go.
 q get aboard a sleeping car that has a name which would be suitable for one of the Presidents little boys or a new face bleach. I observe that the scheme of dcoration was designed by
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tn weather. There was plenty iv 1t other days An tn music?' Tn
 music was spilled be tn stoorts.' An
 tn beautifully jooled ladies?' No wan knew whether tn ladies were beauti- fully jooled except tn lady that searched thlm at tn custom house. Don't ye make a mistake, Dooley, says he. "A boats boat That's all 1t Is. Anything ye can get at sea ye can get betther on land. A millyonaire is made as comfortable on an ocean liner as a longshoreman on earth an ye can play that comparison all the way down 10 tn steerage. Whin 1 read about this here floatin palace I says to mysilf:
 'Ill add little money and go acrost in oryental luxury" Whin I got aboord tn decks were crowded with happy people worryin' about their bag
 gage an wondherln' already whether tn inspector in New York wud get onto tn false bottom iv tn thrunks
 l give tn old an enfeebled gintleman that carried me satchel piece iv sill yer. He touched his cap to me an says "Cue." Cue" is tn English f'r q thank ye kindly" In Irish. He car rid me bag downstairs in tn ship. We kept goin' down an down til we touched bottom, thin we rambled through long lanes neatly decorated with steel girders till we come to a dent in tn keel. That was me boo door. At taste part iv it was There were two handsome berths in it an had tn top wan. Tn lower wan was already occypied be gintleman that had started to feel onaisy on tn way down firm London an was now pre- pared f'r tn worst. I left him to his grief an wint up on tn roof iv tn ship. It was a gay scene, fir tn boat had started. Long rows of ladies were stretched on invalid chairs with shawls over thim, pretendin' to read an takin' deep smells at little green
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one of the Pullman family who sui fered from color blindness at the time. worsted hangings of the shade Of an aged dill pickle and woodwork with a grain In it like an added egg. l draw an upper berth. l always do. They save 'em for mo.
 Its summer time and we run into the heart of long dry spell where most of the landscape Is blowing ln through the windows in the form of molecules. Or, it's spring time and we hit washout at one of them small but excitable southern streams that gets out of its banks every time they tap man Up the creek for dropsy.
 "If I want to talk, the only other person in the coach Is human hang nail who instinctively hates me and the same to all others. u l don want to talk, I am surrounded and overcome by an intellectual giant who's spent hard years of his life prac- ticing one of those classy travelling mems signatures that will fool any hotel clerk During my last attack, a clever devil of this type had the use of my starboard ear all the way across the state of Ohio. He felt no hesitancy in showing me many letters he had received from beauteous bankers daughter in Indianapolis. He said she was crazy about him. And she must have been!
 Tn the dining car I am just brush ing the dandruff off the inland clans when we hit the longest tunnel in the world, and the rest of the meal tastes
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Buried In Box Above Ground.

Logansport Dispatch to Indianapolis Star.
 In the course of it's researches into the oddities of other days, the Cass County Historical society has discov- cred what is probably the oldest grave in Indiana.
 Believing that the devil was afraid of tar, John Connor of Adams town ship caused his body to be inferred above ground in coffin filled with pitch.
 The grave was discovered by Dr. B. z. Powell near Hoovers crossing. It is in a seldom frequented, inaccessible spot, on a knoll covered with walnut trees. From one of the trees that grew here Connor hewed the coffin in which he was subsequently, buried,
 Notwithstanding he was at times irrational in his final illness, the last wishes of Connor were carried out. ,He was hurled in box above the ground and after the body was placed in the box the coffin was completely filled with tar. It was one of Connors be- liefs that Satan abhorred tar and would never go near 1t. To satisfy this belief, and because Connor had a firm conviction that-there exists per- sonal devil the relatives agreed to bury him as he requested and fatih- fully kept the old promise. They built a cut-stone tomb around the coffin later, five feet high and set in mortar. Connor was born In 17S0.
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mon country from the highly instruc- tive map covering the entire middle panel of the underskirt. You will observe that a straight, broad, black line drawn from New York to St Louis passes directly through Phila- delphia, Buffalo, Chicago, Duluth. Cincinnati, Baltimore, Louisville and Richmond, Va. You need pay no at tention to them thin, wayering, crooked, foolish, snarled and almost invisible horse hairs which go zig zagging around the old corners Of the various states, stopping at such places as Red Bub, Ark, and Paducah Juno tion. They are of no moment, being merely the opposition roads. I'll bet you. Hops, some of the smartest imaginative painters in this country is drawing railroad maps right this minute. Only I never could under stand how locomotive engineer could have the nerve to run his train around a curve and then come back and look the map of his own road in the face.
 I'm strong for them maps. Through them I have been cured of many early delusions regarding the location of the principal cities of the Union that I imbibed from the mis- leading primary geography. But l own to you that when l begin to rassle with the reading matter, find myself far beyond the life lines with cramps in both legs and the life guard gone up to the hotel to get a lemon sour. never knew anyone
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"lfs tur-rble aeOkzvard thing 10 haOs to have 10 force n1orey on an English
 man in an adn1f,a['s nnftorn1.

self-made man. He was a poor boy in Bloomington, Ind, and his one asset was the pony Romeo" which he
 trained out of sheer love. The pony was so clever that Gentry got the idea of giving an exhibition, and when it came to renting a theatre he had to mortgage Romeo" to raise $5. The show was success, and from that day the Gentry fortunes started to turn. The next pony was Juliet" and soon others were added, and then trained dogs, and the show grew in size as it increased in popularity, until it is one of the biggest of it's kind in the coun- try. MT. H. B. Gentry now owns about one-half of the town of Bloomington, where, as poor boy, he gave his first show, and the finest residence in the town is his. For many years the main- stay of his show was Romeo" but one day MT. Gentry got the idea that Romeo" was getting old and tired. So he shipped him back home and gave orders that Romeo was to have the run of the place. Even the flower beds on the lawn or the cabbage gar den in the rear were not held sacred from him. and it would have been as much as any employees job was worth to have spoken an unkind word to the pony At last he died, and MT. Gentry had him buried on the sloping lawn in front of his house, and over the grave he erected a $12,000 monument of marble, inscribed: "To Romeo. Faithful friend and honest servant. Founder of the Gentry fortunes"
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who could tell what a time table meant by reading 1t, although l once knew talented German who played the contents of a neat folder issued by the Erie road as an obngato on the clarionet. l have a notion myselr that the arrangement is Chinese in origin. Every time I see a Chinese laundryman figuring out how much you owe him for doing ou your other shirt on @ cute contrivance composed of cranberries and shoe buttons mounted on wire frame, instinc- lively think of a time table. Under the Chinese form of calculation, you start from the bottom and work up. To Chinee the Washington team is now leading the American league and has for several seasons past. The system comes down from the great scholar Confucius. Hence the word confuse
 ''So, as I was saying, I read time table through and then I got to the depot holding my hands to my throb- ing brow while reason totters on her throne. And the announcer comes out and sings his solo to me and am so near to being a gibbering idiot that I can feel the little apple green gibbers splashing around inside of me, making merry.
 Hops, when you come to think about it, travel is a great deal more enjoyable when you read about 1t in the back covers of a magazine, where the best fiction is frquently found, or from the literary department of a
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being, dye mind, to inform the waiting public, that, owing to misplaced switch on the part of the traffic man. ager's wife, or something, today's train leaving at 10:45 for Laryngitis, H.. and points west, on Track Number Four, won't be leaving until tomor- rom. and would you be kind enough to come back about that time; or words to that effect.
 "T wonder where they acquire tho strange language which they hurl through the damp interior slopese or megaphone at the inoffensive excur- sionist and the harrassed round-trip- per carrying three days cooked ra- tions in a shoe box? Maybe they learnt it off the time tables.
 Mind you, I'm not saying word against the time table. It's a fine study for the human intellect, the time table is. I would rank 1t among the great modern inventions for the aid of Tagging brain, placing it. if anything ahead of Pigs in Clover, which you may recall as having been popular during the second Cleveland administration and directly next to the comparatively modern How Old Is Ann?
 'I know of no more pleasing men, tai exercise for the passing hour than to undo one of those time tables that a simple child can unfold, but Thomas A. Edison can't put it back again, and spread 1t out over the two living rooms and the dining room and gather intere esting facts in regard to our com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
BY IRWIN s. COBB
PAGE. with brass buttons run

PAGE, with brass buttons run A ing up and down him like 4 \ warts on gherkin, was cir culating through eight corridors and five cafes on the ground floor of the St Reckless carrying note on a sil- yer tray and occasionally uttering In a loud voice something that might be interpreted as Mister Jerfiullum"
 Eventually he bumped into a man who was apparently waiting Tor message from somebody. The man ba,ted him and looked at the address on the note.
 "say." he said to the page, that's for me. Why didn't you call my name?" times"
 The mans name was Johnson
 CT can see that lads finish, said Jish Mclean. the hotel clerk to the head bell boy. Hes qualifying to crow up and to be an announcer of trains at a railroad station-one of those fiends in human form that comes ont in the waiting room where lot of tired parties are sitting around upon their shoulder blades on benches that would be perfectly comfortable to a contortionst; and swells himself up like an oyster four days dead and gives a correct imitation of drunken Zulu with a mouthful of hot rice pud- ding and poker dice trying to sing a Polack folk lore song. His intention
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bottles. Three or four hundherd men had begun to walk around tn ship with their hands folded behind thim, A poker game between four rale poker players an q man that didn't know th' game, but had sharp finger-nails, was already started in the smokin' room. About that time I begun to have quare sjnsation. 1 haven't been able to find out yet what 1t was. l must ask Dock OLeary I wasn't seasick, mind ye. I'm a good sailor. But l had a funny feelin' in me forehead be- tween me eyes. It wasn't headache exactly, but a kind iv sthrange sinsa- tion like l used to have whin I was boy an thried to look crosseyed. suppose it was tn sthrong light. 1 didn't have amy aversion to food. Not at all. But somehow I didn't like tn smell iv food. It was disagreeable to me an 1t seemed to make tn place in me head worse. Several times l wint to the dinin' room intindin to iine tn jovyal comp'ny there, but quit at tn dure. It was very sthrange. l don't know how to account fir it. Very few people were seasick on tn wage, but sivral hundherd who were injyin' pud- din' a spoon in a cup iv beef tea on deck spoke iv havin tn same sinsa- tion. I didn't speak iy it to tn ships doctor. I'd as lave carry me ailments to a harness maker as to a ships doc tor. But there it was, an firm me pint iv view it was tn most important ivint iv tn passage. Next to that most ex- ctin' thing was thryin to find amy bodythat wud take money firm me. It's a tur-rble awkward thing to have to force money on an Englishman in uniform like an admirals an talldn' with an accent that nanny iv tn finest people on tn deck were thryin' to imi- tate, but I schooled mesilf to 1t. An sthrange to say, they niver rayfused. They were even betther thin that. was lavin' tn ship whin tn fellow that
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in It's wrath they show their contimpt f'r it be bein seasick into it. But no matther how 1t behaves they niver quit usin' It's face fir right iy way. They'll niver subjoo it, but 1t niver bates thim. There niver was a time in tn histhry iv little mans struggles with tn vasty deep that 1t didn't deserve decision on points
 "Well, it's all very well, but f'r me tn dhry land," said Mr Hennessy. twill ye iver cross tn ocean again 2"
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of tn same mateeryal as a mi1fyon horse shoes, loads 1t up with machin- cry, pushes it out on tn pillows an
 goes larllin acrost thim as happy as ye plaze If he didn't go over on a large steel skyscraper he'd take dure off it's hinges an go on that. All ye have to do is to tell him there's land on tn other side iv tn ragin flood an
 he'll say: All right, I'll take a look at it, Ye talk about tn majesty iv tn
 ocean, but what about tn majesty iv
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this here little sixty-eight be eighteen bump iv self-reliance that threats it like tn dirt undher his feet? It's wondher to me that tn ocean don't get tired iv growlin' an roarin' at tn race iv men. They don't pay amy heed to its hollerin'. Whin it behaves itsilf they praise it as though 1t was good dog. How lovely th' ocean
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Philosopher Speaks.

From the Chicago News
 There Is one peculiar thing I have mo- ticed about men and women,' remarked the homegrown philosopher
 What Is that?" queried the youth.
 Tt Is so much easier for them to tell what they don't know than it Is to hlde what they do know" replied the wise party.
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Pony That Made Fortune.

From the Washington Herald.
 The oldest one of the Gentry broth CTS, who are the leaders in the dog and pony show business, is H. B. Gen try, and he is a fine example of the
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Not" said MT. Dooley, 'till they asphalt it an run tn boats on throl- leys."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-05
RUSSIANS WERE WAITING
Disaster Overlook Party Of Japa-
neSe in an Attempt to Raid
Seal ROOkery.

Victoria, B. c., Aug. 4-Advices have
been received here Of an attempted sealing
raid by the Japanese sealing schooners
Kaike Maru and Midori Maru on June
on the seal rookery at Cooper island
guarded by Russians The schooner
kaike Maru has returned to Moyako
Richuku province. Japan. and reported
three of her sealing boats and twelve
men captured by Russians. The other
Japanese sealing schooner, the Midori
Maru. which had been anchored close to
the Kaike Maru had been fired upon
by the Russian rookeTy guard and her
mast had been damaged by the shell fire
from a field gun on shore. Investigation
by the local authorities shows that the
two schooners had gone to Copper islands
TO raid the seal rookery ana had been
surprised by the Russian guard. which
had been strengthened and armed with
field gun. n addition to rifles, since
the organized raid OF several Japanese
sealing, vessels of the season before. One
of the Japanese sealers was shot and
twelve captured from the Kaike Moru,
and it was not known what befell the
Midori Maru and her crew.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-05
I this is leading up to.

Pittsburg. Aug 4.-What promises to be
hard fought and sensational legal bat
tie is now in progress between the city
Of Pittsburg and the Philadelphia COM
peny, a s10o,0OO,O0O subsidiary concern of
the Railroads Investment company of San
Francisco. which controls the public utiH-
ties of Allegheny county. An effort is
under way 10 annul the charters of the
chOmpany
In the meantime the local government
is taking vigorous action to collect nearly
three-qUarters OF million dollars ar
reaTage bills for bridge tolls, street clean
ing along the right of way OF the Pitts
burg Railways company, a subsidiary
company, and for back rent for street
cars. An injunction restraining the Phil
adelphia company from raising the price
of natural gas cents a thousand feet
has also been filed in the local courts.
The trouble IS attracting much atten-
ton throughout the country, especially
in this city. where over 1.o00G09 persons
are affected by the control of the gas.
electric light and street car facilities by
the Philadelphia company.