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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-18
Important Factors In Speed.

"How fast does your automobile g0!'
can't say" replied The mOtOrist.
1T all depends on how many sheriffs
we meet on the route y Washington
Star.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-18

Louis Straus & Co. have purchased
the Toncray copper mines near Floyd
Va, and according TO terms of lease
will prosecute development ard smet
ing up to 20, 600 tons. The company
has completed construction of tram
ways and hosting shaft to smelter and
Capacity of 40 tons.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-18
Those Fool sh Questions.

sour train struck bear on the way
down."
"Was he on the track 2'
mo; the train had to go into the
woods after him.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-18
A Long Campaign.

Madam, you We been looking over
o If goods every day for month. Dol
you ever buy anything?"
'Sir, have merely started my Christ
mas shopping.
"Ob ~
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-18

Geo. Byrne, a staff correspondent oil
the Manufacturers Record wri'ilg
from Charleston, says:
"A deal of great moment to this
city b as just been consummated be-
tween the New York Central and the
Coal " Coke railroads, On the surfa ce
it is mere traffic arrangement. but
beyond that, it Is argued, lies the con-
troll of the Coal & Coke by the New
York Central and its probable final
absorption. l wrote the Manufactur
ers' Record the other day that the
Pittsburg 4 Lake Erie Ry., which is a
New York Central line, would build to
Morgantown, and GO thence to Row
l,sburg Over the Morgantown & King
wood, already completed to that point,
from there building line to Parsons
to a connection with the Western
Mary land, over which it would go into
Elkins to connect with the Coal u
Coke. That, indeed, is one plan that
has been discussed, but the one that
will probably be followed out is to build
from Morgantown up the Monongahe-
la river to Fairmont, and thence up
the Tygart valley through Grafton to
BelingtOn. At the latter point it
would connect with the Roaring Greek
road, and by way of that with the
Coal & Coke.
ut is said that the deal between the
New York Central and the Coal&COke
embraces the building of the latter TO
tue head of Elk river. This will mean
the Development of large timber it,
terests and the ultimate opening up of
very large coal area.
The bringing of another great rail-
road system to Charleston will mean
much for the future of the city. The
Coal u Coke Was begun by Charlie stOn
people aud built for good many NILS
by the money of Charleston men, aided
by funds voted by Kanawha aud Clay
counties, and it will be the cause OF
much satisfaction here if it proves the
means of giving the city the bene lit
of another great trunk line.
1.-The New Y ork Central owns 75 per
cent. of the stock of the Little kauaW-
ha Syndicate, which has large coal
holdings in Gilmer. Upshur, Mononga
heIa and other counties. TIE Davis
people, owners OF the Coal & Coke
Railroad. have 10000 acres Of coal in
practically solid body along the line
of their road. Should the New York
Central finally purchase the railroad
and the coal holdings from Senator
Davis and his friends it would have
one of the greatest coal properties in
The country.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-10-18

b. F. OverhOlt of ScOttdale, Penr Il,
one of the incorporators of the propOs-
I'd FairmOnt Il Southern Railway, is
reported as saying that the rights of
th an 20 miles of the route have al
ready been graded. The road will
connect at Belington. w. Va, with
the Western Maryland Railroad, and
a meeting of the incorporators is ex-
pected soon, and be is further quoted
as saying that one concern alone will
subscribe So, 100000 toward its con
struction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
TO SEND THEM TO GALVESTON.
Zangwill Society Wants to Divert I'M
migrants From New York.

LONDON, January 1.-Israel Zangwil, in
an interview today regarding the colonial
ton scheme of the Jewish territorial or
ganization. said the organization would
start a propaganda in Russia to explain to
would-be emigrants, to most of whom the
words New York and America are synony-
nous the advisability of making Galveston
instead of New York their port of arrival
as from Galveston no fewer than six rail-
road lines lead out to all the best points for
emigrants.
There is no idea whatever Mr.. Fang
will continued 'of these emigrants remain
ing even a single day in Galveston. The OBJ
ject of establishing an information bureau
al Galveston is that emgrants, Immediately
upon arrival, may learn of the best places
where work at their particular tades can
be obtained. and there has not been the
faintest idea of establishing a colony in
Texas. The whole matter reduces itself to
a moral guidance of those emigrating with
their own resources. and to the simple IA
clitation of their embarkation for Calves
ton instead of New York. Once the emf
grants arrive in New York the mischief is
done, as few proceed further"
Mr.. Zangwill quoted statistics to bear out
the point that the great bulk of Jewish emil
grafton from Russia seeks New York, and
said that the present movement was not
only for the best interests of the emigrants
but the best interests of the United States.
He stated that the general superintendent
of the work in the United States would be
undertaken by Cyrus Sultzberger of New
York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
Chicago's Press Agent.
From the New York Tribun

From the New York Tribune.
The competition between cities in these
days is fierce and unparalleled. The live
lest activity and vigilance are necessary
to keep a great city from being overlooked
and forgotten, existing for the public only
in the census tables among municipalities
with a population of over one hundred
thousand" mere vortex of humanity, I'M
sung and undistinguished among hundred
others. Something has to be done to keep
the city's name constantly in the head
lines of the world or the city goes the
easy way downward to living oblivion.
The populous but unprogressfve east Is
full of metropolises whose names surprise
us in the gazetteer. Picking is known to
fame only from the march of the allied
armies. Shanghai possesses a distinction
above the unnumbered unknown through
the self-sacrifcing efforts Of that servant
Of publicity, 1.-The Shanghai liar Pubic
spirit, which counts no personal pains lost
which rebound to the fame of the beloved
home town, accomplishes much. Pitts
burg for instance can trust to the scan
dals that it's wealth parades for more than
its share Of big headlines. But private
and random enterprise for the cultivation
Of 'bruit" in this busy and lnattentlve
world is becoming old-fashioned. A sys-
tematc and well-directed effort toward
definite end, free from the old, haphazard,
If frequently happy. methods OF the past
ia now found necessary to produce ad-
equate and certain publicity.
fewer great cities to absorb the public at
tention. Athens cut big figure IN It's
dav 1t was unrivaled-the world city, the
home Of that culture" which is now the
business of the women and their CLUBS:
Rome, too. though only city, was world
empire Fame was not parceled out then
among cities as it is today-among, say,
the ten most populous American cities. SO
far as we can learn, Athens never needed
a press agent; Rome never needed one.
Publicity was easy in those days. But
Chicago. with all its greatness. Is driven
to the services Of a press agent. The cit
liens of the town upon the lake beheld for
some time with alarm the constantly OWN
ding space which it filled in the news
papers Of the country. A great dread reli
upon them that Chicago would pc Iol = ~.
ten-would spend the. rest Of It's gay. gays
~ the living death Of the unadvertlsed
Hitherto Chicago has relied successfully uii! ),
mon nrivate enterprise to keep the city
in the public eye. It has put astonishing n.
narsons into Office. 1t has fought with It's
traction companies. 1t has. enjoyed rep
utation for eccentric learning at Its uni
Versities. It's laureate alderman. Bath,
house John Coughlin, could be depended
upon every fortnight, or SO for poem EN-
which the world would not willingly let
live. But in some way the advertising
too has shown signs Of weakness Chi
no longer go exclusively to Chicago 1t Is
no wonder, then, that Alderman Powers
nroposes that press agent be appointed
at a salary Of $1,000 a year 70 see that
the city gets its share of publicity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
mThadu Stevens of Pennsylvania.

Ida NJ Tarbell, in the American Magazine.
Mr. Stevens at this time was a man OF
seventy. somber and gaunt, with rugged
features, deep set eyes and splendid
brow. He was lame, club foot, and at this
time his health was much broken. But never
had his wit been keener, his eloquence
greater. his will more indomitable, his sar-
casm more biting. He understood congress
sional tactics as few men ever have, and
he was a fiIibuster of the first order. He was
frequently INSCRIPTIONS in getting what he
wanted If he wanted 1t, 1t must be right
and the means were a secondary conSidera-
ton.
Stevens always stood by his own, right
or wrong not that he entertained illusions
about his republican colleagues. (which one
Is our damned rascal?" he asked one day
election case, and "our damned rascal got
his vote The last thing Stevens would al
low was delay over revenue bills. If a men,
Der took to questions he considered imma-
terial in the debate he hauled him back
sharply to his muttonS, and 1t was rash
man indeed who objected. There was only
one thing that would send him off on a tan
gent and that was an effort to secure some
advantage over man of another race or
color In the debate on the present bill, for
instance he broke out In fiery denuncia-
tives were trying to secure a high duty on
cleaned rice which the Chinese used almost
exclusively The Californians frankly avow-
ed that the duty intended was a dscrim-
ination against the Cinnamon. Stevens was
at them in an instant, the engineering of
the bill quite forgotten, in a hot speech
against the injustice of their attitude.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
BOOKS THAT BROUGHT DEATH.
Volumes Which Worried Monarchs
and Led to Punishment of Authors.
From Pearson's Week.


The Emperor of Germany has been very
much worried recently. An ill-advsed young
man, Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Schil-
lingsfurst, has published the memoirs of his
father, the late imperial chancellor, which
made public facts about the private life of
German rulers and statesmen and home and
foreign politics
And as a result of the Kaisers indigna-
ton, Prince Alexander has rendered to the
imperial statthalter of Alsace-Lorraine his
resignation of the post Of president of the
district of Upper Alsace.
In offending Emperor William, however,
by the publication of a book, the princely
culprit does not stand alone. Not many
months back the kaiser was very indignant
because Of the publication in German of a
book entitled 1.-The Confessions of a Prln-
cess" said to be from the pen of ex-Crown
Princess Louise of Saxony, who, 1t will be
remembered, left her husband, now King
Frederick Augustus of Saxony. to elope
with Andre Giron. a tutor of her children.
1.-The Confessions of a Princess dealt with
the wretched and scandalous daily life or
various royal houses on the continent
When the news of the volumes publication
rea ched the Emperor Williams ears he Or
dered all copies to be seized and destroyed,
and forbade editors Of newspapers, under
pain of Imprisonment, TO review or mem
ton it.
In times gone by. monarchs gave short
shrift to the authors of books that offended
them. The Bourbons, for instance, did not
scrupe about paying assassins to remove"
those writers, such as the gifted Paul
Courier, whose works displeased them.
Nor did the great Napoleon hesitate at all
in shooting or hanging the unhappy author
who crossed his path. So
On one occasion he executed the publisher
one named Palm of Nurnberg-of book
attacking him because that individual re-
fused to disclose the name of it's author.
A terrible fate befell a nineteen-year-old
authoress of poem which was read by no
other person than its. writer, lady of the
| Empress Elizabeth of Russia's court. and
the empress herself. This was Vera Pas
kin. who wrote about 200 lines of verse
satrizing the empress'-vices.
In youthful pride and imprudence the
girl showed the manuscript to one of the
court ladies. To curry favor with the en-
press this woman showed it to Elizabeth,
who thereupon ordered Vera Paskin to be
cruelty knouted and banished for life to
Siberia.
A poem has even brought about the death
of its writer, and in England, too. James /
was the offended monarch, John Williams
the poet Williams for safety, inclosed the
verses in an iron box and sent them to the
king, who, always fearing assassination.
jumped to the conclusion that the box was
none other than an Internal machine.
When the news of the real nature of the
box's contents leaked out, however, James
grew so angry at the jeers that were lev
eled at him from all parts of the kingdom
that he had the unfortunate John Williams
hanged, drawn and CHARTERED
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
Mortality Among Bishops.
From the Boston Transcript.


The death of Bishop McCabe of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, following so soon
after the deaths of Bishop Tigert of the
Methodist Church South and Bishops Mich
olson and Seymour of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church. indicates something of the
strain that modern ecclesiastical and social
conditions put upon episcopal overseers,
whether their fields of official service are
diocesan or national. The death of Bishop
Joyce the serious Illness of Bishop Fowler,
and now the death of Bishop McCabe,
create a serious situation for the Methodist
Episcopal Church during the major part OF
the auadrenDium which must intervene be-
fore the general conference can add to the
episcopal board. 1t will throw an excep-
tional load on the bishops who still In
the harness. since the territory they have
to cover is large, with the number OF con-
ferences increasing yearly, and most OF
them are elderly men. Had the last general
conference substantially increased the num-
Der of bishops. or had 1t permitted the EN-
ployment of bishops who had retired, there
would have been no such burden cast upon
the present board by the course Of events.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
de14-d&ds. eSu
CHINA NEEDS THE FOREIGNER
Left to Herself She Did Not Exploit
Her Own Resources.


1t has been asserted that China is go rich
In natural resources that she could supply
all her needs without going beyond her own
boundaries. Hel resources undoubtedly are
vast. If she only knew how to exploit them.
Yet, according to the British consul at
F'oochow, China produced very few ar
ticles capable of adding much to the coun-
trVs wealth until foreigners came to take
hand. Those she did produce were prac-
tcally only two-tea and silk
Here, too, the undesired alien could not
pc ehtlreiy eliminated. 1t was the crcum-
stance That the alien was ready to barter
MS silver FOR tea and silk which gave these
products their value as wealth producers
Moreover. China is not at the present dav
as she was In the past, the only country
where tea is procurab BILE; silk also is To he
had elsewhere.
Young China may say with a swagger
that he Will produce tea for his own drink
ing ana SILK for his own wearing and be
content TO torego the strangers silver But
how is he then to pay for the hundred and
one articles which he has learned to con-
slider essential? For western education has
brought with 1t western tastes
He cannot even make for himself ont OF
Chinese tobacco the cigarettes he loves TO
smoke In the year of trouble 1900, a
Foochow official had gone to Picking to
nave audience of the emperor, and who on
May Is narrowly made his escape from the
Boxers, told me that one of his great ha rd-
ships was that the Boxer bands outside the
capital through whom he had to make his
way searched his person closely and made
him discard anything of European make
which things included handkerchiefs, but
tons and the like. He added plaintively:
They would not let me keep even my
packets of cigarettes"
In cigarettes we have one of the few ar
ticles which China can manufacture with
out going abroad for the wherewthal. She
has tobacco; 1t is not very tasty She has
also rice she has q reft
of her own, which she calls "Makuyin,"
and which specifically resembles the
Egyptian or Virginian cigarette.
Still the ''Makuyin' is only a cigarette
''of sorts, and is no more the genuine ar
ticle than margarine is butter. So ii is
with many other imports from Europe
simple things which have become necessar-
les. In many cases China has the raw ma
terial, which. with her initiative faculty,
she can manufacture into something which
really bears astonishing likeness to the
European import, only it is not so cheap,
not so finished, not SO durable, and Alto
gether not so good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
GREAT GROWTH IN INDIA.
Methodist Missions Made Great Prog
ress in Eighteen Years


BARIELLY. British India, January l.
During the celebration of the Methodist
missionary jubilee, which began here De-
cember %, number of Americans made
addresses. Addressing the conference at its
formal opening Saturday. Rev. Dr. A. B.
Leonard, secretary of the Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
dwet upon the growth of the work in eigh-
teen years, the period of his administration.
In the course of his remarks he said:
I'm 1883 there were three conferences,
now there are nine, a gain of six; then 141
missionaries, now 1874, gain of 1893; then
1,3SO native workers, now 1896, a gain of
3,515: then there were 9,S47 communicates,
now 10000, a gain of 40, 1853; then Oil Sun
day schools. now 3,2G1, gain of 1856; then
a gain of %, 62S; then 81 churches, now 1913,
a gain of 2J1: then our church property was
valued at S353, 767. now at $71O,95O, a gain
of $500 1S3.''
Bishop Cyrus D. FosS said in brief:
My visit to India nine years ago has ever
since been one of the greatest inspirations
and most cherished memories of my life
Since then l have pleaded the cause of our
most successful mission in more than Tic
public addresses. l now return to India
accompanied this time by my wife, who
bears the greetings of the Woman's For
eign Missionary Society, for a jubilee as
festival ever celebrated. Who dares predict
how early in the next half century all Asia
will be aglow with Pentecostal f1res?'
Bishop James NJ. Thoburn, missionary to
India and Malaysia, in his address last
night in the missionary service, said:
when l came to India, forty-eight years
ago, the Indian mission was confined to q
narrow strip in the Doab about the size OF
Indiana. There were 100000 people and
We were told we should be happy, for we
could evangeliZe this section in one Ian
guage. Now we are preaching from At
ghanstan to Manila in thirtyseven differ
ent tongues. and have a church of more
than 1000. with twice that number of ad-
herents. And the work is only begun"
Bishop William F. Oldham of Singapore
who also spoke last night, said:
Il have just returned from wide tour OF
the churches in America, before whom
have sought to put our work in southern
Asia. Their hearts are with us, and the
word l bring you is that the home church
is eager and most interested witness OF
our foreign achievements
Bishop James n. Fitzgerald of st. Louis
said:
THE most notable event in our missionary
life this year is this India jubilee Far re-
moved from the Immediate observation OF
the church. you have given wonderful &C
count of yourselves So great has been your
success that the church at home ought tC
pour out upon you great Jubilee gift "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
BAD FOOD is BARRED
ANTI-ADULTERATI LAW GOES
INTO EFFECT TODAY.

NEW YORK, January, 1.-Adulterated
foods, drugs. candies and liquors will pass
out of the market today, providing proper
respect is given to the pure food law
This measure, adopted by the last Con-
gress after a long fight becomes operative
today, and it's trainers expect it to work
wonders. They believe 1t will put an eff
fective stop to the sale of adulterated and
impure foods.
1t will be possible, they say, from now
on for a man who buys a piece of peach
pie to know that he is getting peaches, and
not a mixture of starch, glucose and sac
charine, and for woman who purchases
fancy-named cereal to know that She is
getting just what she pays for. The
abuses to be corrected by the pure food
law numberless, and army of in
spectors, working under the supervision of
the Department of Agriculture, will be
constantly employed to spy on dealers of
all sorts. -,sr,-ro'
Onenses against the law are punishabl
by fine and imprisonment 1t is made I'M
lawful to manufacture an article of food
or drug which is miSbranded or adulter-
ated. Punishment for conviction of an Of
Tense against this provision is fixed at
fine not exceeding $500 For all subsequent
convictions the punishment shall be fine
OF $1,000 or one years Imprisonment, or
both.
1t is provided in the act that dealers
receive guarantees from manufacturers or
jobbers. Such guarantees have been sent
out with all recent shipments, and in other
ways grocers, druggists, confectioners and
de!icatessen dealers have prepared them
selves to meet the requirements of the law
AS result of the new law, there will be a
scarcity, if not a complete disappearance,
from the market of certain brands of
jams, preserves and canned goods. The
law prescrbes that all goods must be
properly labeled, and if proper labels were
affixed to certain articles offered for sale
in some parts of the city there would be
danger of riots. 1t is well known among
| dealers that so-called blackberry jam that
contained nothing even kindred to black
berries has been sold in vast quantities,
and that peach. pear and ounce preserves
that contained only a suggestion of the
fruit have been marketed by the ton.
Under the act all liquors in bottles Of
fered for sale at bars must be labeled.
Those containing what to drinkers is
known as straight rye whisky must bear
a label marked pure Bottles containing
so-called blended whisky must bear a
label calculated to describe its contents
Just what this label shall be has not yet
been determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
Met Girl and Didn't Go.

ROCKVILLE. Md, January 1.-Robert G.
Hilton Of this place, county treasurer of
Montgomery county, narrowly missed being
a passenger on the Inflated train that was
splntered in the collision at Terra Gotta
Sunday evening. He was on his way to the
depot to take the train for Washington.
just before reaching the station he. met a
young lady acquaintance, changed his mind
about visiting the city and accompanied the
young lady up town. Mr.. Hilton does not
use tobacco, and invariably rides in one OF
the rear coaches. He is firmly convinced
that the chance meeting with the young
lady saved him from serious injury, if not
death.
AS Il happened, there were no Rockville
folks on the train, something that would
not occur once year.