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was of the same kind as that near
Lynchburg few days previous, in
which President Sam Spencer and
others were killed. Both were rear
end collisions, a heavy train running
into another which was standing still
on the track ahead of it, and plow-
ing its way through the shattering
timbers and twisting iron. They were
clearly in the class Of avoidable ac-
cidents-more than that, they were
accidents impossible except under
gross and criminal negligence on the
part Of some one.
Our country has become THE
country Of railway accidents. We
have more disasters on the rail than
all the rest of the world combined.
This horrible tragedy is being play
ed so continuously that it has become
the subject for jest, and our railroad
horrors have made us the butt of
ridicule among the nations. It is hor-
rible, and it is humiliating. The time
has come when this condition should
be changed.
Railroad wrecks are of two kinds,
the preventable and the unpreventa-
BILE. The line Of demarkation between
them may not be exactly located, and
Of some accidents it may be impossi-
BILE to determine on which side of
the line they should be placed New
ertheless, there is such a line, and
in many accidents, and in nearly all
the terribly fatal accidents, there is
no difficulty in finding that they be-
long to the preventable kind, and
are due to the criminal carelessness
of some person, without which it
could not have happened. When a
train runs into an open switch, left
open by one whose duty it was to
have closed it, the resulting accident
is clearly a preventable one, and
many If not all the horrible accidents
such cases.
1t cannot be expected that human
care and foresight will ever reach
such stage Of perfection that no
railroad wrecks will occur When it
10 1OluSuIUSISu IudI d UI0dh Ill Ou0
single bolt may cause an accident,
and that the strain of body weigh
ing hundreds of tons and moving at
a speed Of nearly a mile a minute
Is something fearful, it causes won
der to think that human ingenuity
and human foresight should be so
great as to make such feats possible
at all, and still more, comparatively
SAFE The accidents, as a rule, which
result from what may be classed as
unpreventable causes are the trivial
ones. If We prevent the preventable
accidents, or those which can be
clearly charged to a cause that should
not be allowed to exist, these fearful
conditions Of daily railroad horrors
would be ended.
How can this be done?
This question can be answered If
we trace up the cause Of the prevent
able accidents This is the private
ownership of railroads.
You don't believe it. Then Just con-
slider:
Under private ownership railroads
are operated for profit to the own.
ers This is perfectly natural, and is
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-02-07

We have $4,000 worth of
Our competitors standard
machines which we will
sell at less than half price.
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THE WEEKLY JEFFERsONIAN.

ploye falls just a little short of hav-
ing the required skill, or the over
worked man Is overcome by just a
little fatigue at the critical moment,
or an unfit engine or car is pressed
into service beyond it's strength in
an emergency, the accident follows
as a natural sequence. Railroads
should be operated for the public
good, and this can never be expect
ed until the element of private gain
is eliminated. Some necessary safe
guards would not pay in dollars and
cents. It would be wrong to expect
private owner to supply them. The
government alone, operating the rail
roads for the public good, could do
that. Hence it is that in those coun-
tries where the governments own the
railroads there are fewer railroad
wrecks.
But there is more than good road
bed and ample engines and rolling
stock of the proper kind, which would
tend to prevent the preventable ac-
cidents. Under our present system
Of private ownership, when an acci-
dent, say a rear end collision, is caus-
man, Indignation is reused against
the company and is given vent pr1n-
cipally in heavy damage suits, which
juries are always ready and eager to
decide against the defendant corpor-
alton. The culprit in the case receives
punished, and usually is posed as a
but minor consideration, is never
semi-martyr who has worked beyond
his capacity or beyond his skill to
save expense to the railroad A man
who, knowing that human lives are
entrusted to his care, neglects his du-
ty and causes a fatal wreck, should
be punished as a criminal; but this
can never be done until private own
ership is changed to public owner
ship which can properly reward all
service without regard to cost.
The first case on which the writer
served as juryman was case against
a railroad for the killing of an en-
gineer, who lost his life by running
into a switch left open by the section
boss in passing his handcar into this
siding. Clearly in this case the rail
road company was not at fault, yet
under the instructions of the judge
a verdict was returned against the
defendant company-and no action
of any sort was taken against the
man whose criminal negligence was
responsible for this homicide. If the
government operated the railroads,
employed only competent men for ev-
cry position, and properly punished
all acts of criminal carelessness which
led to disaster, all preventable acci-
dents would be prevented, and our
railroads would cease to be the horri-
BILE man-killers they are now.
And not until the element of pri-
vate gain is eliminated from our rail.
road business will this condition be
eached.-Augusta, Ca, Tribune.
y D D.
TOM E. WATSON
To Speak at Ruston, La, on February
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IDLEWILD PROLIFIC COTTON has

captured the south. Two bales per
acre sure. Seed limited. Price cheap.
Selling fast. Home grown, guaran-
teed garden and flower seeds, cheap
Sole owners Of Siberian Lettuce,
grows outdoors all winter. Planted
now brings 10c per head. Pkg seed
10c. Write us. IDLEWILD FLORAL
GARDENS, College Park, Ga.
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DRINKING BLOOD.

SO SuDtly do many trusts operate,
and so successfully do they, in many
instances, conceal the rapacity of their
operations, that their victims remain
in comparative ignorance of being the
victims of systematic plunder and out
rage, until the season is over, and
then the despoiled are too busy hust-
ling to undertake to get restitution.
Now that the summer is over, for
example, the people of New York will
raise no kick now, no matter how glar-
ingly the oppressive greed Of the Ice
Trust may be exposed. While the facts
adduced in the case against the Amer
ican ice cOmpany-the inhumanity to
man, even to babes-practiced by the
trust, is revelation Of shocking atroc-
ity, yet now that ice is no longer a
daily necessity to be purchased from
the trust at it's own price; now that
the people are enjoying few months
respite, they don't bother about what
is done past" People in the country,
who have never lived in a densely
populated city, do not fully realize
that in the city ice is not luxury, but
a prime necessity, in many ways.
According to the People, the trust
first reduced the ice fields, available
for New York's summer supply to one
third that of the year previous. The
next step was to raise prices higher
and still higher-three, four, five hun
dred per cent On top of that, the trust
watered its stock-not by drops or cup
fuls, or pailfuls-but by whole hogs
headfuls.
The assets claimed by the trust
amount to 6,325, ,488. Of this amount
only 12,964,882 was tangible. In other
words, $33,360,606 was water-or near
ly three times as much water as wine!
Nor was this all. The trust declared
9 per cent dividend on it's inflated
or watered assets; the dividends actu-
ally raked in, considering the much
smaller real assets, were nearer to SO
per cent, or $4,169,293 of plunder-
pIunder? Nay, blood!
In order that the trust owners should
enjoy the summer, and be ready for
the rigors of the winter, the poor had
to bleed. But not the poor adults
merely, the poor babes especially. Ad-
dressing a mothers meeting few
weeks ago at an uptown public school,
one of those well-fed female lecturers
to workingmen's wives upon their
"derelictlons" stated that 24,500 little
ones had died in the city the previous
year. How many of these were parch-
ed to death for the want of ice that
has become a necessary of life!
1t is no figure Of speech. The capi-
talist class is a vampire class. Thirst
ing for the wealth that labor produces,
the capitalist class also thirsts for the
blood of the working class-and drains
it. 1t is not sparkling wine, it is the
blood of children that the Ice Trust
magnates are quaffing.-Southern Mer-
curry.
y - -
The party that needs all force of
fear, prejudice and cowardice they
can arouse in the voter to assist in
maintaining a majority, has not a
good cause.-Sou. Critic.
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TOM e. WATSON
To Speak at Ruston, La, on February
9Th.

10 Speak at RuSton, La, on Eepruary
9Th.
Arrangements have beeen made for
Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, and
C.. S. Barrett, National President of
the Farmers Union, to speak at Rus
ton, La, on February 9Th. Brethren.
do not miss this opportunity to hear
two Of the South's greatest men. 1t
may be years before you have a
chance to hear those great men again.
We will arrange for reduced rates
over all The railroads. So now, boys,
we want at least 1000 people at this
meeting. and we are sure that num-
Der will be present. The speaking
will be at the Chautauqua grounds if
the weather is good. and if it should
be bad weather it will be held at the
courthouse So, come on and bring
the family to hear these great men,
Banner, Wingfeld, La.
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The party that needs all force of
fear, prejudice and cowardice they
can arouse in the voter to assist in
maintaining a majority, has not a
good cause.-Sou. Critic.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-02-07

How can this be done?
This question can be answered II
we trace up the cause Of the prevent
able accidents This is the private
ownership of railroads.
You don't believe it. Then Just con.
slider:
Under private ownership railroads
are operated for profit to the own.
ers. This is perfectly natural, and is
not wrong in principle. The object
Of the owners in acquiring railroad
stock is to make dividends. OF course
they will not incur any expense that
can be avoided. They make every.
thing last as long as possible. They
make employees work as long as pos
sible. They will make out with as few
engines and cars as possible. II in
the pursuance Of this policy they
should leave rotting tie, a weaken
ing piece Of timber in a brige,
rusting bolt Just little too long, a
catastrophe happens. II the cheap EN-.
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A Puzzled Author.

When Alphonse Daudet brought out
Sappho" an American publishing
house that issued religious books, not
knowing Its character offered NJ. Dau-
Diet large sum for advance sheets of
the work. He accepted the offer, and
the advance sheets were sent. When
the publishers received them they de-
cided that they could not issue the
book, and they cabled to the author,
"'Sappho' will not do" This dispatch
puzzled Daudet. He consulted with
numbers of friends, and this was the
conclusion at which they eventually
arrived: "SapphO' in French is spelled
with one ''p"-"Sapho," after the Greek
fashion. In English 1t is spelled with
two. An unusually acute friend point
ed this out to Daudet, which much re
lieved the novelist and he cabled back
to the publishers, Spell it with two
p's." 1t is needless to state that the
publishers were more astonished at
Daudet's reply than he had been at
their cable dispatch.
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LOVE CHARMS.
Some of the Queer Superstitiona That
Live In Sicily

some of the Queer Superstitiona That
Live In Sicily.
The love charms of Sicily are many
and curious. One, very popular and
considered very powerful, is to put
into an eggshell a few drops of the
blood of the longing lover The shell
Is exposed to the sun for three days
and to the dew for three nights. 1t Is
then placed on hot ashes until calcined,
when the whole is reduced to fine
powder and administered secretly in
cup of coffee or a glass Of wine to
the object of affection
Another charm is for the witch TO
undress at midnight and tie her clothes
up in a bundle which she places on
her head Then, kneeling In the cen
ter of her room, she pronounces an in
cantation, at the end of which she
shakes her head If the bundle falls
in front of her, it is good sign; should
1t fall behind her, the charm will not
avail.
Yet another is worked In the follow
ing manner: Pieces of green. red and
white ribbon are purchased in three
different shops, the name of the per-
sons to be charmed being repeated
mentally each time The shopkeeper
must be paid with the left hand, the
ribbon being received in the right.
When all the pieces are bought they
are taken to a witch, who sets out to
find the person to be charmed. On
finding him or her the witch mutters
to herself. with these ribbons l bind
you to such one" Then she returns
the ribbons to the purchaser, who ties
them beneath his or her left knee
and wears them at church.-Macmil-
lanS
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toward the hote7 stages with a heavy
heart Now that the train had gone
on he knew that he had fallen In love.
and with an unknown girl at that.
There were letters waiting for him
at the hotel, including one from his Sis
ter urging him to close up his business
and get home quickly, as she wanted
him to reach there before her school
chum went back home.
Clifton caught up a sheet of note pa.
per and wrote a line to Nell He SOL
EMMY warned her to cherish no hopes
that he would fall in love. al met a
girl on the train" he wrote. Unless
/ can find her you will never have a
sister-in-law. l think l shall stay here
until your visitor goes"
He sent the letter downstairs and
turned into bed. but sleep was Iaggard.
He could see in the darkness Of the
room that golden head, and he re-
preached himself for his foolishness in
not finding out who she was
He rose unrefreshed In the morning
and went duly about his business.
The girl Of the train was before his
eyes all the time 1t was silly, he told
himself, to feel so about a woman he
would probably never see again, yet
at the same time he realized that she
had made an impression upon him that
time could not efface
He tried to read that evening but he
could not keep his mind on the maya
zine, and at last he threw it down and
gave himself up to meditation. He
knew that II he brooded on the sub
ject he would be unfit for business or
anything else. He must find the girl
somehow. Perhaps he might trace her
through the conductor of the train. She
must have come on board about 7
o'clock Perhaps he could run up the
line and find out from the ticket agent.
He had about decided upon that scheme
when there came a knock at the door,
and he went to open it, A bellboy
/, thrust telegram into his hand and
stood waiting to see If there was an
answer. Clifton broke the seal list
lessly, then gave a shout The message
ran:
Come home, you silly. Bess Win
ston was the girl in section Is. She
saw your name on the suitcase. That's
why she was SO nice. Nell"
ANY answer" asked the boy, hdget-
Ing first on one foot and then on the
other.
81 hope the answer will be yes "
said Clifton absently 81 mean." he
went on quickly, yes. there's an an
swer." And he stretched out his hand
/ Cor the blank
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DIED A BEeGAR.
The Pathetic Career of John STOW
the English Antiauary

The Pathetic Career of John stow,
the English Antiquary.
John Stow, the celebrated English
antiquary, was a remarkable man. He
was born of poor parents about 1925
and brought up to the tailor's trade.
For forty years his life was passed
among needles and thread, but in the
few leisure hours which his trade al
lowed him he had always been fond
reader of legends, chronicles, histories
and all that told of the times that
were past. BY such reading he grew
to be so attached to old memoirs that
when about forty years of age he
threw down his needle, devoted him
self to collecting them and followed
his new profession with the faith and
enthusiasm of All apostle. Short OF
means, he made long journeys afoot
to hunt over and ransack colleges and
monasteries, and, no matter how worn
and torn might be the rags of old pa
pers which he found, he kept all, re-
viewing, connecting, copying, compar-
ing, annotating, with truly wonderful
ability and good sense. Arrived at
fourscore years and no longer capable
of earning livelihood, he applied to
the king, and James l., conserving to
his petition, granted to the man who
had saved treasures of memoirs for
English history the favor Of wearing a
beggar's garb and asking aims at
church doors. In this AFFECT state,
forgotten and despised, he died two
years later.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WHEN THE
FLOOD
By
CAME D s,a.
Copyright, 1905, by P. c. Eastment

" OOPlT1knIs ny O- EdStuSut u
osOsosOsOsOsOOsOsOeOsOsOsO
Jennings sprang forward as the pas
sengers entered at the Fulton street
station. In the first moment of glad
ness at seeing Nell Preston again he
did not even recall that his letters had
been returned without explanation
three months before and that since
then his communications had been re-
turned unread.
Nell passed him without glance of
recognition, and as he followed her
down the car hand shot out and
caught his collar See here, you
dude" abjured husky Irish voice.
"You can't do any MASKING in this car.
You keep away from that lady"
Jennings cast a look of appeal at the
girl, but she gazed at him with po-
lite but mpersonal interest. Clearly
she would not interfere to clear him of
the charge, and he sank back into
corner of the car and sought to shield
himself with a newspaper from the
filters of the crowd.
The car filled at the bridge stop, and
this helped little, but he felt as
though those already in the car were
telling the new arrivals of his conduct,
and he read on steadily.
In his confusion he did not notice
that the train was slowing down until,
with jolt, 1t came to a dead stop.
Then he glanced out of the window,
but to his surprise there was only the
blank wall, so he settled himself more
comfortably in his seat and resumed
his pretense of reading.
He did not see the printed page. He
had not read line since he opened
the paper His mind was busy with
schemes for inducing Nell to listen to
him. If she went back to San Fran
cisco he could not hope to reopen cor
respondence, and he could not endeavor
to speak to her again with that husky
knight errant keeping guard across the
aisle.
If he only knew how he had angered
her he might be able to explain, but
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rhe Eirnt Dancers.

People have danced for thousands Of
years and will probably continue to
do so for ages to come. This custom
is of ancient origin. The first people
to dance were the Curetes, who adopt
ed dancing as a mark of rejoicing in
1913 B. c. In early times the Greeks
combined dancing with the drama, and
in % B. G. pantomimic dances were
introduced on the Roman stage. At
the discovery of America the American
Indians were holding their religious.
martial and social dances.
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Small Boy-Pa, what is the difference
between a pessimist and an optlmist?
Pa-Well, let me see if can Illustrate.
You know I am often discouraged, and
things don't look to me as If they'd
ever go right. Well. at such times |
can be said to be pessimist. But
years ago, when | was young man,
everything looked bright and rosy, and
l was always hopeful. Then l was an
optimist. Now my son, can you I'M
derstand the difference between a pes
simist and an optimist? Small Boy
Oh, yes, one is married and the other
isn't-Harper's Weekly.
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Tho Burlington and Bristol Steam6odt
Ferry Company.

schedule In effect 6.55 a. M. December H. 1910.
Daily-Except Sundays and Christmas Day
LEAVE BRISTOL FOR BURLINGTON.
856 500 800, 1000, HOO a. M. l23o, I.5o' z.oo'
$50, 4.80, $50 p. m.
LEAVE BURLINGTON FOR Bristol.
75O 83O $50, 1885, HOO a. M, i.OO, zuV, 5'oo'
400, $780, $50 p. M.
SUNDAYS AND CHRISTMAS DAY.
First boat leaves Bristol at 800 a. m. Last
boat leaves Bristol at $40 p. M
First boat leaves Burlington Al o.5O q: IN.
Last boat leaves Burlington at $50 P. M
The 4O.p m, trip from Bristol and 6.oo P. M.
trip on sundays VIII De Withuia"H
there is ice In the river.
Notes.-The above trips Will be run on
schedule time, unless prevented by lce-wnen
there is ice in theriver no trips Will be guaran-
iced. a. 40 And
The boat for the Performances in the AUD
storium will leave Bristol at 7.4O p. M, retur u
ing will leave Burlington twenty minutes
after the Performances 49,
WILLIAM E. DORON,
Sec'y, Treas and Gen'l Manager
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From the Rountiful East.

A small proportion of the fora is in
digenous The majority came from
the east. like all the great ideas on
which our culture is founded, and were
developed and improved on this classic
soil. Italy received the lemon and
the orange from the Semites, who in
their turn had obtained them from
India. The olive, the fig, the vine and
the palm were grown by the Semites
long before their cultivation penetrat-
ed to the west. The laurel and myr-
tie, indeed, are indigenous in Italy, but
their use for ceremonial purposes came
across the Mediterranean from the
east. The home of the cypress Is not
in Italy, but in the Greek archipelago.
northern Persia, Cilicia and Lebanon
From Strasburger's Riviera"
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Section
Sixteen
By CARRIE NEWMAN
Copyright. 1905, by M. M. Cunningham

WV~v~wvSSSeVe~~~S~ S~fSse~'SSS~e'~Se~W
Clifton glanced down the car at the
last section. Somehow 1t lrritated him.
Last night the chap who had that Sec
ton had beaten him at penuchle. He
might find diversion and revenge II the
sleepyhead would only tumble out and
recognize the fact that II was broad
daylight.
The night before the car had been
well filed. All through the night they
had dropped off at the way stations.
and Clifton thought viciously Of the
man In his section who had stepped on
his face In climbing down from the up
per berth about o'clock So far this
morning he had the sleeper to himself,
save for the occupant of section 16.
He finished the breakfast that had
been served from the buffet and stroll
ed down the car. Reaching through
the curtains, he gave the shoulder a
shake. wake up, old man" he shout
ed your alarm clocks broken,
guess"
There was muffied feminine shrek,
and the porter came dashing around
the corner from his tiny kitchen.
"Waffor you wake dat lady?" he de-
manded. You all amt got no right to
wake lady dataway."
'There was man went to bed In
there" exclaimed Clifton. How was
to know that he wasn't there yetT
Dat gemman yo' done play cards
wifi las night?" demanded the porter.
HE done get off at Falls Crossin' bout
leben. Dis hyer lady done come on
bode bout two hours ago. She shuah
am sleepy"
Tell her I'm sorry" commanded
Clifton, backing away. II was lone
some, and thought I'd rout that chap
out. I'm awfully sorry"
He went back to his own section, and
the porter, Modified by the bill slipped
into his hand, made full explanation
to the unseen occupant.
Clifton settled himself savagely In
his seat and fixed his eyes on the
berth. He wondered what the woman
might look like. Her voice suggested
that she was young. More than that