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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-19
DOMINION
. STEAMSHIP CO.

Night Line for Norfolk.
reave Richmond every evening ffoot An
sfrecn az =. n, stopping or Newport News
en- route Fsre 900 one way. $3.50 round
Trip. Including statcroo7a berth. meals. SO
each. Street cars 90 steamers WHARF.
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Tor sale alive. Nonlnaily steady at s7eT.B for
hogs; S7.l5g7.25 Tor pigs

CINCINNATI o. January -S-FOGS-Ac-
tive. Butchers ana shippers. 81. s0H6.S5: COM
mon. S6.l6rs 81 cattle STEADY. Fair - good
shippers. - d-lfa6 co. common. s2f775. Sheep--
steady az S-.5QQ53. I,ambs--Steady at $500
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BALTIMORE MD. January lS-ScahoarI
Air Line common and preferred-N Nothing do
ing
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was 'sH'~c. lower. aud oats &c lower Provis
ioHs showed nee loss % 7fsricirr
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KICKHONr GRAIN MARKET

Richmond Va. January Il 7eo~
QUOTATIONS. 49, ''S''
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The quotations arc "a follows.
nARE ErREn TOBACCD-NE.W
The independent., 1907-04-11

the country, and from indigo brought
hence by caravans.
More than 5000 female weavers are
employed at Uschak in the preparation
of carpets. The looms are set up in
about 1000 houses. The operators in
each house are generally members of
the same family, but there are num-
Der of girls who earn about six or seven
cents 4 day. The Ghiardis carpets are
generally smaller than those of Uschak.
Very fine prayer carpets, closely woven
and OF harmonious colors are produced
in imitation of the Persian carpets. The
dimensions of these carpets average
five to seven feet by three feet ten
inches. The weayers of Koul and Char
dis use wool OF a superior quality to
that of the Uschak weavers for the
woof. while the web is made of hemp
Large carpets as we'll as prayer rugs
are made in koule.
In the village of Demirdji the car
pet industry was for some time ne
elected, but ancient oriental models
having again come into fashion, the in
dustry has improved and the district
nov produces a very fine carpet, thick
and closely woven soft and very
strong. The web, like that of the Per-
sian and Ghiardis article, is Of cotton.
1T is estimated that the three cen
ters of carpet manufacture OF Ghiardis.
Koule. and Demirdji produce more car
pets than the Uscilai center Their
prices are also little higher for they
sell at not less than 1925 to $4.90 the
square yard, the superior qualities at
from 1913 to s16.30 per yard, and for
certain old carpets which have become
THE carpets are made into bales of
$50 pounds each and covered with goat
skins. The caravans pass the night i'm
the open country at the foot of some
hill, the drivers under tents and the
camels and their loads in the open air.
Very large carpets. too heavy to be
packed, are folded and thrown across
the backs of the camels in the form
of a covering. When the carpets ar
rive in Smyrna they are spread out
beaten, broomed, and repaeked in bales
Weighing 500 to 500 pounds each for ex-
portation to the various countries of
the world"
The independent., 1907-04-11
Oriental Rugs


New York Times: e. L. Harris.
United States consul at Smyrna, has
made a report on the manufacture OF
carpets in Persia and Asia Minor
Nearly all is done by hand. he says.
and he continues:
The carpet industry flourishes as
never before in both Persia and Asia
Minor. The market value of the car
pets may be the same I'm the two coun
tries. yet great different exists in the
way they arc made. This applies not
alone to the various shapes and lines.
but TO the grouping of forms and col
ors as we'll, which enables even one
nnskilled I'm the business to distin-
suish between the make OF Smyrna
and that OF Tahriz. The article which
Is sold In the worlds markets as the
celebrated smyrna carpet is not made
In smyrna. il Is a product OF the villa
yet OF Adm, of which smyrna is the
capital.
The chief places OF manufacture are
the villages OF Uschak. Koule. Char
dis, Makri. Melessos. Kirkagatsch.
Axar and Demlrdji. The production Of
carpets In Asia Minor is essentially n
house Industry, and tile natives are
exceedingly skiifui in their handiwork
The .adustry gives employment and
a livelihood "a thousands or needy
people, especially women, who are
Obliged 10 do the work almost entirely.
while tile men spent their time In the
coffee houses drinking strong coffee
and smoking numberiess cigarettes. all
On true oriental fashion. Little girls
are compelled 10 take up the work
early, NJ seven or ten years NJ age at
the latest, and they keep NJ II uneeas-
lngiy until they 50 60 their graveA
The independent., 1907-04-11

Some efforts have been recently
made to introduce the carpet factory
system into Smyrna, which has been
attended with indifferent success. La ;
Dor is dearer In Smyrna than il is in
lhe country districts. and the girls and
women must pay more for food and
lodging In this city than in the coun-
try villages. Many claim that the
work done on the looms at Smyrna is
more exact in measurement and neater
In appearance. for the reason that the
manufacturer or merchant is able TO
superintend the operations at any time
of the day, thus preventing mistakes
which might prove fatal to some beau
tiful design. The looms set up In
Smyrna. and operated by some sixty
girls, number twenty. On the whole,
tie experiment does not seem to be
d success, and the number is not in
creasing.
'Eschak carpets are made in two
styles. They are made either of spun
wool or long wool, those OF the former
costing from ninety-eight cents to $1.63
pen quare yard. the latter $2.45 to $3.50.
according to the design and color and
the Size OF the carpet. The web and the
woof OF the Osenak carpets are made
men wash this wool in the rivers and
the women comb and twist it softly in
such "a way as to allow the threads of
different colors to lightly blend on the
edges i'll the same way as the different
tones on picture.
"The market for the woods which
have been thus spun and colored ready
for the carpet weayers Is held every
Thursday from dawn to sunset in the
bazaar Of Uschak, which is then filled
with purchasers, who have arrived on
buffaloes, camels, donkeys, and other
picturesque beasts of burden. The spun
wools are not dyed by the weayers
themselves, but by special dyers. For
a short time artificial dyes We're used,
but their use was soon abandoned in
favor of the better taste displayed by
the amateurs of oriental carpets who
desired the ancient models and colors,
thus reyiving the use of vegetable col
ors extracted from madder, yellow ber-
ry, and valonia, and other products of
The independent., 1907-04-11
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT

ster. Douglas, JEFF. Davis. Blaine, Gar
field and Mckinley all began their po-
litical careers In the national house of
representatives
Henry Clay's congressional career
was perhaps the most singular of all,
though not an extended one He was
first elected to the United States senate
To fill vacancy before he had reached
the constitutional age of thirty pre-
scribed for u senator He was but
twenty nine. the youngest man ever
elected to the senate.
-Four, years later he was elected to
the house, and was Immediately chosen
as its speaker, the only case OH record
of a representative being made speaker
in his first term. But Clay was a
record breaker in nearly all the walks
of political life.
His house tenure was no more than
ten years, and with two hiatuses. but
as regularly as he appeared in the
house he was at once chosen its
speaker during the entire period Of his
membership, a record without par
allcl
lie was chosen senator -four several
times, and was defeated for tie prc8l-
dency twice. His power in his own
party was marvellous. Its rank and
file had no political opinions until they
were voiced by Erary Clay.
Few people remember that Jackson
was judge, a congressman, senator
successful general and president
eight years. Many OF the new genera
ton conceive that he was an uncuti-
yated granger of domineering ternpera-
mcnt, whose success was the result of
luck. Not so He was a lawyer with
clear and penetrating intellect. a man
of decision and OF much personal mag
netism.
Jefferson Davis served in the federal
house only part of term, resigning in
1916 to take a hand in the Mexican
war. He was elected to The United
States senate three different times, and
was secretary of war in the Pierce ad-
minisrration. After the war was over
he steadily declined to re-enter the ma
tional political field.
On the other hand, Alexander Fl.
stephens. vice president of the con
federacy, almost Immediately entered
the field of federal politics after the
south laid down its arms. He was
promptly elected senator from Georgia
in 1866, but was refused admission at
In 1878 he was elected to
the house and added seven years to his
record of sixteen years service in the
house prior TO the war.
A noteworthy feature of these long
tenures is the large number of Pennsyl-
among them Seven of the
thirtyfour are from that state. Five
of the seven represented Philadelphia
city districts. and in length of tenure
they stand right up near the top.
That city already holds the record for
tenure in the person OF
Kelley, as above stated with the
strong probability of new high record
In that of Bingham. still sitting. Will
liam Findley was an Irishman who
first located in Philadelphia, but after
ward settled in Westmorland county.
John Dalzell. the long time Pittsburg
was born in New York city.
The great average age of these
thirty four representatives is proof that
few or none Of them entered the house
rs youths. The youngest one to do
so was John W. Taylor of New York,
one of its speakers, who was under
twenty-nine when first elected
The independent., 1907-04-11
(By DIR. Edward A. Ross.)

New York Tribune A century ago
Robert Nautilus showed that the spon-
taneouS fecundity of man is such that
with purely natural mortality, popu-
lation doubles in twenty-five years,
whereas the subsistence obtainable
from a given area cannot be indefinite
~ Increased. He Shaved furthermore
that, since the reproductive instincts
are in no wise correlated with mans
power to increase the food supply,
population tends to increase even whal
additional numbers can no longer be
supported. Under such circumstances
the equilibration Of population with re-
sources is brought about by war,
misery, plague, famine and vice, which
raise the death rate until it equals the
natural birth rate. Although this
cruel mode of equilibration has
prevailed through human history.
a milder mode is possible if, by taking
thought. men will restrict reproduction
until the births no longer exceed the
deaths. This, however, presupposes
more foresight and self-control than
can be looked for in the average man,
so Nautilus saw no prospect of the
abolition of poverty, cherished little
nope FOR the laboring masses. and
painted the future of society with a
sombreness that gave economics It's
nickname of "the dismal science"
1t is nothing to the discredit of
Malthus doctrines that he did not for
see certain social transformations-de
mocracy. the emancipation of women,
the replacement of custom imitation by
fashion imitation which have general
lied his preventive check" until the
birth rate of entire populations hetrays
the domination OF the instincts by the
will. Although the population of
Europe leapcd from 1900. 600 TO 400.-
900. 600 during the nineteenth century.
the last thirty years she 4 steady de-
cline in the birth rate.
Let IL not be imagined that the rc-
duction in fecundity has been at the
expense of the natural increase of pop
ulation. The death rate has fallen even
more than the birth rate, so that dur
ing the 9os the European peoples grew
at the old rate Of ono to one and one
half per cent per annum Since. how
ever, the influences lowering the birth
rate are by no means the same rs
those lessening mortality. IL In likely
the former Will continue 10 operate att
es shc latter have spent their force.
This is why we may look I'm the near
future for a retardation in the numerl-
cal growth OF the Occidental peoples.
The independent., 1907-04-11
~~~~ Size Of Families


pressure, forgetting that the child
crop of sober, rural communities is Oft
en- Scantter than that of intemperate
mining or industrial towns and that
the falling off in the birth rate seems
due to smaller size of families rather
than to the greater frequency of child
less couples New South Wales, with
lower birth rate than England, has
less than half the proportion of sterile
unions. What means it, moreover, that
the Australasian population, with its
surprising physique and vitality,
shows III recent years an abrupt de-
cline in fecundity?
Some lay the phenomenon to the in.
dGstrial emancipation of women and
the comfortable celibacy of cities, neg
lecting the statistics, which show there
is no marked weakening of the incli-
nation TO marry. The true cause Is
one that will make clear why, for ex-
ample, the native married women Of
Massachusetts, bear only seven
elevenths as many children as women
coming from Germany, senven-thir-
teenths as many as those from Ireland.
and half as many as those from
French Canada. Others blame the
broadening freedom of divorce, un-
mindful that divorceless Ireland has
divorce Switzerland that teeming Ger
many is five times as inclined to break
the conjugal bond as Canada, where
the size of the family shrank twen-
tieth during the 90's, and that prolific
Japan leads the world with nearly
twenty times the divorce rate of sta
tiondTy France. Still others blame the
postponement of marriage pointing out
that marriage at PAS years as with En-
glish brides, at 25.l years as among
college bred women. cuts deeply into
the fecund years. But they overlook
the fact that the last child in the aver
age family arrives seven and half
years after marriage. so that even tina
woman who weds at 2e.5 years ceases
child bearing with yet many fertils
years before her.
In the face of the hobby riders main
tain that the cause OF the shrinkaxs
In fecundity lies in the human will az
Influenced by certain factors which
have their roots deep In the civillza tiCn
OF our times.
Democracy n Factor.
one master trait OF contemporary 30
ciefy IL damneracy. The barriers o.
caste are down. and leSs and less Il
mans place In society fixed by mis-
origin, The more flourishing people
grade men according to something that
can be acquired-wealth. efficiency.
knowledge. character Wide stairwayH
are opened between the social levels.
and men are esh0rteG Ga climb III ,hay
can. IN such ease prudence bids each
avoid whatever will impede his ascent
or imperi his social stnnding. To the
climber children are membranes, and
40 the ambitious dread the handicap of
The independent., 1907-04-11

titt Speaker Cannon, still living and
stu representative. has already
passed the Holman record by two
years. and Is reelected To d full term
beginning March T. At the close OF the
Sixtieth congress. IL he lives. Mr. Can
non Will be the house long tenure
record holder by one year over the
ketchafn high mark and by four years
over Nr Holman.
Scanning the list Of high record pos
sibilities now in the house and con-
sdvt.ag the chances as modified by
age. political fluctuations. etc. leaves
strong conviction that many years
Will elapse ere the ultimate Cannon
tenure Is beaten.
Gen. Henry r. Bingham of Pennsyl-
vania Is apparently the only sitting
member with chance in either the inn
mediate or the remote future. He has
the one advantage OF being five years
younger than Mr.. Cannon but mean
While the latter evens up with four
years excess Of tenure already earned
an Interchangeable lead SO long as both
remain Ia congress. That both will
remain IA the house until death over
takes them ~ Il moral certainty, bar
ring the possibility of Mr.. Cannons
election TO the presidency In 1908.
With their ages at the expiration of
service of to date Ii still members and
In the neW order Of tenure the follow
ing II III exhibit of the thirty-tour
representatives who have served for
tweuty years and upward.
The independent., 1907-04-11
Partial Explanations.

A phenomenon 80 widespread and
striking II a challenge 70 the tyro and
the fanatic. and hence all manner nj
silly, cheap or partial explanations
compete for public credcnce. some at
tribute Il To physiological stegillty On.
dueed b alcoholism. city llfe and hlgh
The independent., 1907-04-11

al kAAt htElilHiilS ol lSVV twenty
names composed the list. This small
numter was remarkable, because some
$4,000 individuals had represented the
different states in the house since 1889.
There has been not only the break
ing of the tenure record since that
date. but also marked increase in the
aggregate OF long tenures. The name
of Robert L. Hit was added March 3.
1908. and that of Serene e. Payne
March g. 1905
With the close of the fifty ninth con-
gree six others step into the record list
as above made up, namely, MessrS.
Wadswotth. cilosvenor. Dalzell, Hep
burn. Rankhead and Robertson. There
arc indications that with the nations
increasing age the tenure OF it's rep
rasentativeS is growing longer Sixty
years ago the tweny-four years tenure
of John Reed was thought to be won
derful. and he was finally known as the
life member.
Tho service or Kelley, Bingham, Ran
dali Mercer Macon, Bland. Hit,
Thomas Is. Reed. Dalxell, Bankhead,
Robertson, Taylor. Springer, Hender-
son. Elount and McMilin forms a con-
tinaous record: that of all the others
was broken. in some cases with sever
nj hl&tUses between terms.
The three high record tennres those
of Ketchlm, Cannon and Holman. are
not continuous. There were two breaks
in Mr.. ketcham's house career, three
In that at Mr. Holman. one in Mr.
GanaonS
Eenon mated hy his party. the latter
IVES defeated In 1890 by Samuel Il.
BuSeN. Democrat by the narrow plural
lty ot IS. That was the year OF the
great popuhst uprising There was one
break each in the o'Neill and Harmer
tenures
For continuous house service the rec
oui holder - the late William u. Kel-
seN - Pennsylvania. twenty-nine years
Nitae3t break. General RinghaniN
tNHhtN~@sNat years tenure has been un-
hro<sas iad II he lives 10 serve though
ine AeNi nuSress he wili beat tho Kel.
ley eeon' by a year.
six II these long tenure members
were Speakers of the house. Macon.
Taylor Ranks. Randall, Thomas n
Rsea ana Cannon Three only. MessrS
Macon. Randolph and Johnson. also
saw set 20 ln the senate. johnson
WIS also vice president.
Twenty three OF the thirty four arc
dead. Nine Of tho living are stiiI
Meintcrs ~ the house, ana seven ~
them are reelected 10 the Slxtteth
eengssse a, ssrs 9sgosvenor and Mads-
worth trtirV next week
None ef The great magnetic leaders
who lillrd the public eye IN tire last
century appears In this llst af long
tenurvs, Ncf Jackson. Calhoun. Web
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1907-08-04
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Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1907-08-04
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