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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-15

ST. PAUL. Mimi. January 15.-President
]. J. Hill Of the Great Northern railroad
yesterday sent a letter to Governor Johnson,
in which he gives his views the phases
of the railroad situation in the United
States. He gives the reason for existing con-
ditions and points out remedy. The letter
says, in part:
THE business of the United States is to-
day so congested that from every portion of
the country arises clamor for relief. The
railroads everywhere are taxed beyond
their power. The people of the United
States therefore, are face to face with the
greatest business problem that has ever
threatened the nation. During recent years
| the volume of business has increased and is
increasing with extraordinary rapidity,
while the necessary additional trackage and
terminals have not been equal to the de-
mands upon them The resulting situation
is freight blockade of enormous proper
tons, especially at al terminal points. How
to remedy this Is problem, financial. me-
chan1cal and physical No time should be
lost in applying such measures of remedy as
may be possible, and the first step toward
this is to reach a proper understanding of
the actually existing conditions The follow
ing figures, compiled from the officia! re-
ports of the interstate commerce commits
sion and covering the growth of the railroad
business for the last ten years exhibit the
significant facts:
Total single track mileage, 1895, 1870 667;
1905, 21S 1O1; increase, p per cent
Locomotives 1895, 36, $780, 1905, As, 1887; in
crease 30 per cent.
Passenger cars. 1896, 49, 112: 1905, 40, 713;
Increase. % per cent.
Freight cars. 1895, 1, 1856, 119; 1905, 1731,-
40; increase, 40 per cent.
passenger mileage, 1895, r. 1875, 446 271;
1908. =, 800. 40 1876: increase, % per cent
Freight ton mileage, 1895. 50 227 515 S91:
1905, 1876, 463. 100, $40; increase. lis per cent.
Increase Over 10 Per Cent.
"These figures show the cause of delay
in the national traffic movement which
threatens to bring industry to a standstill.
Within the last ten years the volume of
railroad business in this country has in
creased more than ITO per cent. Mean
while. the railroads have endeavored to
| meet it. Equipment is being increased as
rapidly as capital and labor can do it.
There are and will be cars enough to carry
the country traffic if the cars can be
moved, but engines and cars must have
tracks upon which they may run
"A striking tale is told by the statistics
of railroad building in the United States
Not only is this true. as stated above, but
| there has been in the ten years ended in
1906 an increase of but 81 per cent in
mileage. but the most impressive fact is
| that railroad building has within gen.
Grafton fallen off. just as the demand upon
trackage is increased. At this moment,
when that demand is greatest and the
f~Whele country is clamoring for relief, it
| is the>smallest in years.
These are the figures:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-15
Remedies and Their Cost.

An additional trackage of $4,000
miles in the next five years. This
would mean an expenditure Of ST.
1OO,000,OOO a year-more than twice
the circulation of the cOuntry's cur
rency-and the labor of 100000 men
to grade, besides tracklayers. bridge
builders and others. Decentralization
of traffic. more points for export and
more interior markets. A fifteen--oot
canal from ST. Louis to New Or
leans. More general diffusion Of ter
minal business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-15
Mr.. Clay Resents Aspersions.

MI. Sldy hSScALS ASpeTSlUuS.
AS soon as Mr.. Mallory had finished Mr..
Clay of Georgia took the floor. he said.
to reply in brief to the sweeping charge
against the prominent people of the south
made Saturday by Senator Patterson. An
injustice to his own state and other south
ern states had been done. when the senator
from Colorado had said that the leading
public men of the south were in favor Of
mob and lynch law.
This brought Mr.. Patterson to his feet
with a disclaimer. He had made no such
sweeping statement
Mr.. Clay, however. believed the record
would bear out what he had said. He ad-
mitted that there were differences OF opin-
ion in the south on the question Of negro
suffrage. but many states beside those in
the south had restricted suffrage-Ohio.
Massachusetts. Vermont and others. he said
He disclaimed any intention to discuss
the race question. saying he did not want
to monopolize a subject that belonged ex-
clusively to my good friend from South
Carolina" (Mr. Tillman).
Tillman Stirred Up.
This stirred Mr.. Tillman to activity and
Mr.. Clay was holly questioned as he pro-
ceeded to defend the President on his
Brownsville record
According to evidence furnished by Mr..
Tillman Saturday, Mr.. Clay said. the whole
ed fifteen years ago.
80 far as these negro soldiers con-
cerned / have doubt of their guilt re-
torted Mr.. Tillman. Il was trying to locate
the man who was more responsible than
the soldiers for this trouble.
Il think one more responsible than
the men who did the shooting" said Mr..
Clay.
But you can't find out who they are
persisted Mr. Tilman, so you punish 167.
when not more than twenty at the most
have been charged.
Trial Due to Every One.
Mr.. Tillman insisted he could not get
away from the fundamental principle that
every man charged with crime should have
a fair trial. Il say he continued, that
the President has been derelct; he tran
seconded his authority and was untrue to
the duties of his office in not holding the
troops in the army until he had exhausted
every means to ascertain the guilty ones.
Mr.. Clay held that a court-martial would
have resulted in nothing. He insisted that
the evidence of the former escapades of
this regiment justified their discharge.
That they were not discharged as the re-
suit of any of the previous offenses. Mr..
Tillman interrupted to say. was evidence
that the President and the Secretary of
War were ignorant of the character of the
negro soldiers.
Well" exclaimed Mr.. Clay, 1.-The sena-
tor ought to congratulate him that he has
acted right at last
Again announcing his adherence to the
principles of liberty Mr.. Tillman said he
did not allow his prejudices or feelings to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-15

Young Of New York had held confer
euce at the office of Attorney Ambrose.
During that time it is understood, Mrs.
Kayne told the story of how she had
been invited by DR.. Coggins and her
father. Mr.. George f. Conklin of Ham
monitor, N. j.. to lunch at country CLUB,
stating that she had subsequently been
incarcerated in the sanitarium. She was
asked many questions during the inter
view by Attorney Young of New york,
who. it is stated. is an old friend OF the
Conklin and Kayne families.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-15
EDphor1-o Youngs
Company,
428 Ninth st. Phone Main 1883
Groceries -Wholesale and Retail.

OLIVES-Early last sum-
mer we placed our order for a
big lot of olives for future deliv-
cry. The last installment has re-
Gently arrived. Since we bought,
the prices have advanced amaz-
ingly. The packers offered to
buy them back. We took that
as joke. The purchase was a
lucky one for us-and lucky for
you, because we are sharing the
advantage with our customers.
Queen Olives-stuffed Olives
(nany varieties)-Ripe Olives
the largest stock in Washing
ton.
Just now we are having a
very SPECIAL SALE OF
QUEEN OLIVES large 90
cent bottle for As cents.
JELLIES-Old Virginia Jel-
lies-all the popular fruits.
Regular I5-cent size at II cents
glass; a dozen glasses for
$I.2o. An excellent article
and going like hot cakes.
Everything for Luncheons,
Teas and Receptions.
DOWN TOWN
NEAR THE MARKET.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-15
*EStIuated.

'The limit of service of a common car
rier has been reached when it has moving
at all times over it's system as many cars
as can be run on it's tracks with safety and
transferred and dispatched from it's termi-
nails and junction points without unreal
sonable delay. Beyond that point in
crease in business cannot be handled by
otnd not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-15
Piles Cured in 6 to IA DAYS.

PAZO OINTMENT Is guaranteed to any case
OF Itching, Blind. Bleeding Protruding Piles In
6 to IA days money refunded soc.
oc2- tu&ss, SIT
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
ARGAND LAMPS.
A Swiss Doctors invention and What
II Accomplished.

What did Argand do for the lamp?
Examine an ordinary lamp in which
coal oil is burned. The chimney pro-
tects the flame from sudden gusts of
wind and also creates draft Of air,
Just as the fire chimney creates draft.
Argand's lamp was the first to have a
chimney. Look below the chimney and
you will see open passages through
which air may pass upward and find
its way to the wick Notice further
that as this draft of air passes upward
it is so directed that when the lamp is
burning an extra quantity of air plays
directly upon the wick Before Argand
the wick received no supply of air.
Now notice-and this is very important
that the wick Of our modern lamp is
fiat or circular, but thin. The air in
abundance plays upon both sides Of the
thin wick and burns it without making
smoke. Smoke Is simply half burned
particles (soot) of burning substance
The particles pass off half burned be-
cause enough air has not been sup
piled. Now Argand, by making the
wick thin and by causing plenty Of air
to rush into the flame, thereby caused
it to burn with white fame.
After the invention Of Argand the
art of lamp making improved by leaps
and by bounds More progress was
made in twenty years after 1888 than
had been made in twenty centuries be-
fore New burners We're invented, new
and better oils were used and better
wicks made, but all the new kinds Of
lamps were patterned after the Ar
gand.-S. e. Forman in ST. Nicholas.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
Absinth ForetoId.

A Paris paper publishes letter from
a correspondent who in the cause of
temperance cites a great authority-St
John the Evangelist It Is claimed that
the inspired writer proclaims absinth
as terrible scourge and foretells its
baneful powers in the eighth chapter of
the book of Revelation, where we read
in verses 10 and IL: "The third angel
sounded trumpet, and a big star
bright as lamp fell from the sky on
to the third part Of the rivers and foun.
tains and water This star is called
NORWOOD, and the third part of the
waters were changed, and many men
died of thirst because they were bit
ter Wormwood in the English au.
thorized version is rendered ''absinth'
in the French translation of the New
Testament
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
/ Was Mistaken.

A lively writer has said "I was mis-
taken are the three hardest words to
pronounce in the English language"
Yet it seems but acknowledging that
we are wiser than we were before to
see our error and humber than we
were before to own it. But so it is,
and Goldsmith observes that Frederick
the Great did himself more honor by
his letter to his senate stating that he
had just lost a great battle by his own
fault than by all the victories he had
won. Perhaps our greatest perfection
here is not to escape imperfections, but
to see and acknowledge and lament
and correct them.-Jay.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01

The great bulk of American law,
especially in criminal cases, and al
most the whole body OF crimina al
procedure, have been made by the
courts themselves. One small volume
containing the code of criminal pro-
cedure and the penal code embodies
all the legislative criminal law of New
York. 1t takes hundreds of volumes
and library far beyond the means
of any ordinary practitioner to con-
tain the court-made law.
Instead of taking the code as a
plain, Ineligible schedule of proce-
dure, adroit lawyers and learned
judges have used this as foundation
on which to rear colossal and in
volved structure of technicalities.
There is nothing in the code which
provides that the trials shall be either
primarily or incidentally to enable
lawyers to display their adroitness
and eloquence. Neither are judges
obliged to tolerate the spectacle of a
court of justice used as stage and
attorneys posing and mounting as il
they were actors.
How the law can do anything to stol
these practices it is hard to see. The
legislature cannot we'll pass a bill en-
joining a judge from permitting tht
lawyers to talk too much or command
ing him to exercise more ability
common sense and decision of charac
ter. The judiciary might as we'll tr!
to enjoin the legislature from passing
bad bill or the governor from max
ing an unfit appointment as for eithe
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
HIS RULING PASSION.

Failed of Success.
There lived in Detroit man who
was the champion letter writer to the
newspapers and to the heads of all
public enterprises. One Of his fads was
to write every day to President Led
yard of the Michigan Central railroad
and tell Ledyard wherein he was fail
ing in the conduct Of his road.
There was letter for Ledyard every
morning. They annoyed him, and he
sent for his general counsel one day
and said: Russell, I'm getting tired Of
these letters. I will give you $1,000
more year if you will find that man
and stop him for twelve MONTHS
Three thousand dollars more year
appealed to Russell, and he went out
to find the letter writer. He found
him and made business proposition.
"Now, see here he said, 81 want you
to stop writing letters to Mr. Ledyard.
If you will quit for year will give
you $1,000"
The letter writer consented gladly.
Things went along swimmingly for
eleven months. Ledyard was happy,
and Russell was happy. Then there
was a wreck on the road The letter
writer could not resist the opportunity,
and he wrote to Ledyard and told him
what he thought about the road and
its president and its management
Ledyard sent the letter to Russell
with this Endorsement: ''This is where
you lose $3,OO0." And 1t was.-Satur-
day Evening Post
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
A Real Distinction.

A young matron Of West End avenue
is the only one of her family who is
not in ''Who's Who,' her father being
a well known clergyman and her moth
er, brother and sister being more or
less celebrated writer's. One day her
sister was condoling with her on her
lack Of distinction in this respect.
"Never mind, Belle" said the literary
sister '.you may not be in Who's
Who but you're the only member of
the family who is in the telephone
book, and that costs real money!
New York Press.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
VIEWS OF VARIOUS PEOPLE
ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS

Congressman Burton of Ohio Great
evils have engrafted themselves upon
the body polite. Essential reforms
have been neglected. There have been
notable instances of dishonesty and
unfaithfulness in public life. Men
are judged and selected for Office not
SO much for what they do as for what
they say or promise. Public opinion
in a great measure is Influenced by
sensationalism or depends upon super
fetal judgments. We need revival
of action and conscientious attention
to those great questions which concern
the public. Mr.. Roosevelt alone, with
his courage and disposition to give
to all a square deal, is entitled to
special credit for aggressiveness. He
is facing the burning problems of the
day, maintaining his position as a
leader, and solving them in accord
ance with the best ideals of the people.
The browning distinction of his ad-
ministration has beenhis readiness to
curb the great, whether possessed of
colossal wealth Or claiming the fol-
lowing of an army of voters.
Philadelphia Ledger boundary
where fortune-getting ceases to be a
virtue and becomes vice has always
been very iudistinct. While the mora
lists are insisting that every one
should earn competence SO as not to
become charge upon the public, but
be assured of comfort in old age, not
one of them has had the temerity to
name the confines beyond which hoard
ing money becomes sin. The maxims
cling as the anathemas against wealth.
The oracles are confusing. Nothing
is more earnestly taught than the
value of the saving habit. but if one
saves too much he is in danger of be-
coming the subject of envy aud rail
ing.
Theodore Roosevelt in his James
town speech-This great republic of
ours shall never become the govern
ment of plutocracy, and it shall
never become the government of a
mob. God willing, it shall remain
what our fathers who founded it meant
it to be-a government in which each
man stands on his worth as a man,
where each is given the largest perso-
nal liberty consistent with securing
the well-being of the whole, and where,
so far as in us lies, we strive continual
ly to secure for each man such quality
of opportunity that in the strife Of
life he may have a fair chance to show
The stuff that is in him.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
MODERN FAlRYLAND.
Electricity More Potent Than Aladdin's
Famous Lamp.

Famous Lamp.
Was Aladdin's lamp so very wonder
full? Today we touch a button when
a messenger is needed; we press an
other, and the room is flooded with
light. 1t is not recorded that Aladdin's
old brass implement was of any value
for Illuminating a dark room. Our
slaves Of the lamp do not terrify us by
their horrid appearance. They are
placed afar off in a home of their own
and are always ready to furnish us
with light and heat at any time of the
day or night. Is not that simpler and
more direct than to have to carry an
ugly piece of brass about with us,
which when rubbed did not give what
was wanted, but merely brought the
servant?
And was the magic mirror so much
superior to the telephone? Who would
not prefer to talk with his friends to
merely seeing them dimly through q
clouded mirror? Truly the telephone
is one Of the most romantic devices
that has ever rewarded mans endeav
ors. And yet the magic mirror, while
1t seems improbable, may lead to it
| but even then it would only supple
| ment the telephone.
And in what way was the fairy boa1
or coach superior to the electric launch
or automobile? True, the rider did no
know how or why it moved, but this
same advantage holds for many wht
today use these very equipages. And
one can easily believe that we are no
!! far from the true flying machine
Electrical Review.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01

Invited to attend the ceremonies
when the Pennsylvania capitol build
ing was accepted, President Roose-
welt said not one word as to the scan
dals that went with the structure. His
friends explained that he could not in
terfere in matter so distinctly a local
one, nor, as guest, affront the graf
tiers who were his hosts and to whom his
presence served as both mask and
shield. But he issued orders to the
California Legislature and as the guest
at Harvard he saw no discourtesy in
attacking the administration of Presi-
dent Eliot and discrediting the accep-
ted policies OF the university! Why
this difference except that the grafters
still disposed of the votes of great
state?- Florida Times Union.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
Do Not Stare at the Officers.

Army officers in uniform abound in
foreign cities, and in Germany they
resent being stared at by tourists, Of
ten assuming threatening attitudes in
retaliation. AS the law permits them
to shoot civilians on provocation, it IS
wise not to excite them. 1t is well to
remember that they do not feel obliged
to turn out for pedestrians, even ladies'.
Travel Magazine.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
Your Eyes and Your Stomach.

1t was a matter of surprise to Elmer
son, says the Health Record, that the
following little piece of advice by De
Quincy should not have attracted more
attention: The depth and subtlety of
the eyes vary exceedingly with the
state of the stomach, and il young la-
dies were aware of the magical trans
formation which can be wrought in
the depth and sweetness Of the eye by
a few weeks exercise I fancy we
should see the habits on this point al
tered greatly for the better"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
Official Paper of New Ulm.

If the failure of our criminal admin
retrieve it by superficial measures;
but it does not. 1t is no more fragrant
than our failure to devise and admin
lister laws to control corporations.
1t is perhaps even less fragrant than
our failure in the matter of city govern
ment. Lapses SO numerous imply
deep-seated causes which no medica-
ton of outward symptoms is likely TO
cure. The fact is that our civilization
presents case of arrested develop
ment. More than a century ago we
devised scheme of government and a
system of Jurisprudence which was, for
the time, excellent. 1t was better than
had ever been seen in the world be-
fore. Having devised it we sat down
and began to sing paeans to its per-
lection, and we have been singing
them ever since. Meanwhile the rest
of the world has moved forward. Eng
land has remade her criminal Juris-
prudence. Germany has completely
revolutionized herinstitutions. France
has passed through changes numerous
and profound. In this country new
conditions have developed every
where. New problems have presented
themselves for solution. New enemies
of society have appeared. Old enemies
have assumed new aspects. To meet
the changing conditions we have done
little or nothing. We have sat still,
calling upon mankind to admire our
institutions while the elements of de-
struction undermined the walls they
stood upon.-Portland Oregonian.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01

of these coordinate departments of
the government to try to make lawyers
conduct themselves with dignity, de-
corum and decency.
The power to make it's ownlrules and
to conduct its own proceedings is in
herent in every American court. The
power to fix professional standards
and enforce legal ethics rests in every
bar association and every committee
on admission to the bar. The evils
are the growth of many years. They
were not created by Legislatures or
governors, but by lawyers and judges.
The power which created them is the
only power that can destroy them.
New York World.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01

That Pennsylvania cobbler's receipt
for cheap fuel, if the formula given
out be the true one, is not likely to
put the coal dealers out of business
this year. The ingredients called for
are very expensive, oxa]ic acid among
them costing one hundred and sixty
dollars a ton. The story seemed to be
too good to be true from the first.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01
The Drawback.

Mrs. Meeker (at the play)-I do wish
you'd pay more attention to this play.
George; it's as good as sermon. Mr..
Meeker (dozing)-It certainly is, my
dear, but the darn orchestra wakes me
up between acts.-Puck.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-01

Gov. Durbin of Indiana-All the
talk of the opposition to Mr.. Fair
banks taking the state of Indiana from
him is unwarranted. It cannot be
in the sentiment now existing