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ers certificate, and thenceforth a
Schoolmaster worked his way into the
Ohio Northern University.
Obstacles Seemed Insurmountable.
In spite of poverty, poor health and
weak eyes-obstacles that seemed insur-
mountabe at times-he fought his way
through and got his diploma when TWEEN
ty-three. In the meantime he had also
been studying law in his brothers office
at Huntington Ind. and was admitted TO
the bar when twenty-four. year after
leaving college. At this time two of his
present rivals for the vice presidency
Kern and Williams-were also Hoosier
lawyers. Kern, after having daily ridden
ten miles to school at kokomo. and ten
miles back. and after having taught his
way into Ann Arbor law school had been
defeated for the legislature and was now
reporter of the Indiana supreme court
Williams, having recently broken with the
democrats, was the same year promoting
the first national conference of the single
takers. But while young Watkins had
enjoyed the study Of law. he found that
he now disliked the practice: so he ac-
cepted the position of superintendent of
schools at Quincy and married Miss
Emma l.. Davis of East Liberty. 1t was
StTlcliy a love Ildtcii- boiH were poor IN
money but rich in hope of what the
future might hold. Their happy union
was blessed by a son. now ten years old
Ii was DIR. Watkins mothers ambition
that lac become minister of the gospel
and il was while superintendent of the
Quincy schools that he joined the central
Ohio conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. Unhappily, however his
mother had died before it might be her
good fortune TO see her son take orders.
He was nrst assigned to five pulpits ac-
cessible only by mud roads 50 forbidding
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now four thousand miles of telegraphs in
these colonies and there are ninety-sx
telegraph offices. The African transcon-
tinental telegraph line has been extended
northward as far as Cjiii, on Lake Tan
Eanyika, so that one can now send a
message via the Cape to the heart OF
mid-Africa. There are telegraph lines
running from the Mediterranean south
ward almost to Uganda. and within A
short time there will ba iron wires reach
ing from one end of the continent TO the
other.
Northern Rhodesia.
During the past few weeks I have been
travelling through Barotsaland in north
ern Rhodesia. am surprised at the ex-
tent of the country and its possible re-
sources. Our general idea of Central AZ
rica is that it is low jungle infested
with fever. The truth is that vast part
of the continent is high and healthy. Al
geria and Morocco at the north have as
good climate as Italy. Abyssinia is as
healthfu as almost any part of Europe.
A large part of British East Africa con-
SiSts of plains which are more than
mile above the sea. and the same is true
of parts of German East Africa. The
most of southern Rhodesia lis high, and
SO is great part of the region from
there down to the Cape of Good Hope.
The land between the Zambesi and the
kongo watershed is composed of high
plains with the Kafue valley running
through them. | rode for three hundred
miles and more over open grassy plateaus
spotted here and there with low trees and
brushwood. Nearly everywhere the land
seems fitted for cattle, and ] am told
that there are parts of it where the ma
tives keep them in large number. One
of the dangers is the tsetse fly, which
kills the stock, but IL may be that this
can be wiped out by quarantine and other
ways.
In southern Rhodesia and in parts OF
northern Rhodesia there is a spear-head
ed plant known aSsegai grass which
kills the sheep. This grass has A sharp
point. with barbs extending down toward
the ground. When it gets into the
sleeps wool 1t works it's way through
the skin. and finally goes through the
sheep, just needle is said TO travel
through the human body if 1t is once
inside it. This grass kills the sheep. but
il is not injurious TO cattle.
So far the chief towns in north
western Rhodesia are: Broken HILL Kali
oma and Livingstone. Broken Hill is a
mining settlement. kaloma has been I'M
it consists of the administrative offices.
a few tin shanties and the seat OF
branch of the Standard Bank of South
Africa Livingstone is small settle
ment near Victoria Falls. 1t contains
some offices. half dozen stores and an
hotel which is patroniZed by few Of
the white settlers of southern Rhodesia
during the hotter months OF the year
Northwestern Rhodesia has all told less
than one thousand white settlers.
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
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RACE

was the beginning of Mr.. Graves move
ment for another EZRA of good feeling"
but Mr.. Bryan was not exactly on all
tours with him on the proposition His
choice by Mr.. Hearst as running mate
for Honest Tom" Hisgen the indie
pendence ticket was influenced by,the fact
that he is editor-in-cilief of Mr.. Hearst's
New York American.
Graves is not only Il successful journal
list. but an eloquent orator. He is classed
with Henry w. Grady as a star SPELL
binder of the souths progressive ele-
mcnt He was born at Wilmington Church,
S. c.. in 1886 and three days after presi-
Dental election will be fty-two--Watkins'
senior by seven years and the junior Of
Kern. Williams and Sherman by respec-
lively seven. four and one year.
Is Nephew of j. C. Calhoun.
nephew of John G. Calhoun. He was
graduated from the University of Georgia
when nineteen married the first time
when twenty-five. became editor of the
jacksonville Fla. Union when twenty
five. of the Atlanta Journal when thirty
one and Of the Rome Ga. Tribune when
thirty-three: married the second time
when thirty-five and took charge of the
Atlanta Georgian three years ago when
forty-nine. He was democratic presi-
the Cleveland Blaine election and from
Georgia in the first Iiarrison-C Cleveland
contest leading the ballot both times He
has been chosen orator for many notable
gatherings. notably the worlds congress
of journalists at the Chicago Worlds Fair.
and also served as colonel on the staff Of
Gov. Northen of Georgia. He is The
author of several histories. lecture text
books and has written a number OF maya
zine articles advocating the separation OF
the white and black races. lie a
candidate for United States senator before
the Georgia legislature three years ago,
but withdrew and last year was persuaded
by his admirer Mr.. Hearst. TO resign as
editor chief of the Atlanta Georgian
and take charge of the New York Ameri-
can. Having run four papers previously,
he knows something about the business.
Like Sherman his rival candidate for the
vice presidency. Mr.. Graves fell i'll soon
after his nomination. but bis case took
a more serious turn and since submitting
10 an operation he has been at health
resort convalescing.
The socialists have nominated for Debs'
running mate Ben Hanfo-d. a labor lead
err and the socialist-la borites have put
up, FOR Vice President Donald Munro OF
Virginia, another trades union man. When
the latter party's convention named for
President 'Morrie'' Preston the twenty
tive-year-old murderer. VINO lately conf
menced a qua"ter-century term in the
Nevada penitentiary one of their lea d-
ers stated in convention that II the Con-
stitution could not be dsocated to seat
the convict Munro would meet with the
legal qualifications OF a chief magistrate
ana would be seated i'm his stead This
seems to he the first case I'm our history
where a vice presidential nominee has
run with the assurance that. if his ticket
be elected. he Will hold the first Office
JOHN E@-SRETH WATKINS.
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but before graduation. he tells me. h,
quarreleu with mis- professors over fore
ordination and left the college because
he believed man to be a free moral
agent" This his first kick over
the traces. Another. which bent the
course of his career. yet 10 come
Having thus thrus; the cloth aside at the
age of nineteen he drummed Indiana and
Illinois FOR a wholesale grocery house.
Studied Law While Drumming.
Carrying his law books in his valise he
studied on trains while His fellow drum
mers played cards in the smoker and at
the towns where they stopped over ,igths
he left his travelling companions To their
revels while he stayed up late In his hotel
room still ravenously digesting the law. Al
this time John Kern had just finished
his law course in the Michigan University
and had opened his law office over in
kokomo, Indiana lin -. when only
twenty-one, Williams siumped Indiana for
Greeley aud Brown and the democratic
state ticket headed by Thomas A Hendricks
for governor. Hendricks ran ahead of his
ticket and was elected. although the re-
publicans got away with the rest of the
ticket. During this campaign young Will
lams' acquaintance with Hendricks rip
ened into a lasting friendship and eleven
years later when Tilden fell out with
Hendricks, the latter sent young Williams
q
Grey Park. When twenty-five he gave
up drumming and entered law office in
Nincennes being admitted to the bar when
twenty three. The next year he was
elected prosecuting attorney and ut the
end of his two years term became Sam
uel ]. Tlden's special representative in
Indiana, which gave its vote to that dam
ocrat. This was when Williams was but
twenty-five and the accuracy of his fore
cast of the Indiana vote by counties
surprised the older politicians He stump
ed Indiana again in rs and during the
Garfield Hancock campaign in 81
Two years later his party advanced him
10 state leadership and, cooperating with
William II. English in framing the demo-
cratic platform out of state issues, he car
RED the state and was himself elected To
the legislature. This was in 1889 and he
Was but thirty-one. The lower house of
the legislature being democratic he be-
came floor leader and upon reelection was
chairman of his partys caucus in the
lower house
He forced Investigations Of state insti-
tullons, joined with the independent and
labor members in forcing radical measures
ana. altogether, introduced more bills
than any of his colleagues.
lie had so many bills that were being
fought by the conservatives that at the
close or the session he appealed To the
governor for a special session which was
granted on condition that the extra ses-
sion should not last more than sixteen
days. Williams kept his promise and
many of his measures became laws
He tells me that his bill regulating tele
phone tolls in Indiana was our first state
law of the kind limiting the charges of
public service corporations. 1t was frughI
hard at every stage. until. finally the
highest tribunal of the land declared II
constitutional
But now Williams launched upon a career
so radical that il was soon ~ divorce
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was gold smelling furnace.
The Mines of Rhodesia.
There is no doubt but that there is a
vast amount of gold in Rhodesia. This
country. which is almost as big the
Mississippi valley. has minerals Of one
kind or another scattered here and there
over it. Tie gold fields already discov-
cred cover more than five thousand square
miles and there are now moro than three
hundred companies and Syndicates work
ing them. Considerable copper and gold
have been taken out and something like
eight thousand tons of chrome iron. Rho
deSia has diamond mines. which have al
ready produced about 1,SO0 carats of pre-
cious stones. and coal mines. from which
300 600 tons of black diamonds have been
taken. The chief mineral value of the
country. far, has come from its low
grade gold propositions. which are mined
at small cost. The British South Africa
Company is doing what il can to help the
small miners. and by the present laws
the first license is issued for l shilling
and nine others at s. a claim. single
miner can peg out ten claims, 80 feet
wide and coo feet long each. for little
more than the cost of the licenses No
royalty is paid to the company until the
miners have been compensated for their
labor ard have had some profits on their
work There are number of mines here
WHICH, are D'iIiS bpeIdteu DIT toSt VI
10000 per mine. but as a rule few of
the mines pay enormous profits. and the
quick fortunes which are SO often made
in our mineral regions are not to be had.
The Mounted Police.
The British government has the practi-
cal control of the natives of this part of
Africa. The country is owned by the
South Africa Company. and it is governed
by an executive council appointed by that
company with the approval of the secre-
tary of state of Great Britain. There Is
also a legislative council and courts. ap-
pointed by the government of Great
Britain. on the nomination of the COM
pany. The head of the whole govern
ment is the high commissioner. and there
is a military police appointed by the
crown which is under his control
1t is wonder to me how the British
keep in subsection these hundreds of
thousands of natives with comparatively
few soldiers. The total police force con-
sists of 800 whites and 800 natives. The
whites ara mounted. and they patrol the
country just as do the mounted police of
western Canada. There are white settlers
living here away off in the wilds. and are.
nevertheless. comparatively safe. | met
the other day Capt. Mcqueen of the
mounted police OF MaShonaland. He has
d territory large Illinois, which
he keeps in order with seventy men. who
ride on horseback from farmer 20 farmer
and bring back reports to the condition
OF the territory. Every European set
tier must be visited at least once a
month, and the policeman has to get from
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A Mining Camp in Southern Rhodesia.

each written repor; to the condition
of the country about him. Said Capt.
Mcqueen:
Il believe RhOdesia is almost as safe
as England. and If il We're not for the
lions and leopards man might so over
1t without a gun. The natives are quiet.
and our white settlers are a grea- deal
better off than those of the ordinary
frontier. The conditions will grow better
than they now are as the country set
ties. as / believe il will rapidly do
A Mid-Africa Post Office.
Speaking of the government. the British
postal system has now been carried into
every part of southern Rhodesia. and the
postal runners are taking mail as far
north as the frontier of the Congo Free
State. More than two million letters were
sent last year in and out of southern
Rhodesia. and there are now something
like thirty-fve post offices I'm the British
territories above the Zambesi river
During my stay at the end of the Cape
to Cairo railroad. ! took a photograph OF
the Broken Hill post office, which is now
the mail station farthest north. 1t is
more than two thousand miles above the
Cape of Good Hope. The post office con-
sists of a galvanized iron shed about
fifteen feet wide and thirty feet long. The
postmaster sleeps in it, and he distributes
the mails on the arrival of the trains.
About seventy bags of mail come every
week. After this has been sorted it is
carried by natives to all parts OF the
country. Sixty-four runners left during
the day | visited the office. Fourteen OF
them went to the Kishanshi copper mines.
which are 80 miles away, and each car
ried a bag Weighing fifty pounds on his
head or back. The men are expected to
make that distance in twelve days.
Another set of post runners was loaded
with the mail bags for Fort Jameson.
which lies 200 miles due east of Broken
Hill. and they will reach there within
thirteen days. while a third has started
out for the station of Mumbwa. which is
100 miles westward. At each of these
PARKWAY places there are branch routes
going out in different directions. SO that
almost every settler and miner has his
regular mail. There are altogether 2S0
runners to whom the kings mails are
intrusted. They have been carrying them
failed to make good. The men are paid
10 shillings a month and their rations
They carry two days food with them
and enough calico to purchase what they
need for the balance of the journey. each
being allowed one-half yard a day for
eating and lodging.
While at the post office T sent a letter
to the United States. The postage was 9
cents and my letter will be about a month
on the way. I asked as to the telegraph
rates and was told that | could cable to
New York for 81 cents per word. \ tele-
gram which I sent to Livingstone. the
capital of northwestern Rhodesia. $50
miles distant, cost me only % cents. which
was at least II cents cheaper than |
could have sent it through the settled
portions of our own country. There are
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DOP ULIST Candidate
Z Williams Once Demo
: cratic Leader in Indiana
Educated for Ministry, But
Quarreled Over "Foreordina-
ton" = Studied Law While
Dru m mi n G Prohibition
Nominee Took Opposite
Tack. Starting AS Lawyer
and Becoming Preacher -
Now University Professor
Independence Candidate
Nephew of ]. c. Calhoun
Has Edited Five Dailies-
. Why Vice President Candi-
date Munro Will Be Presi-
/: dent If Ticket Wins.
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"opyright. 1905. ny John Elfreth watkins)
~ + this years seven vice presiden-
tial nominees three are lawyers.
two are labor leaders. one is a
preacher and one a journalist.
One of the lawyers-William ms,
che populist-started out to be Il preacher,
while the preacher candidate-Watkins.
tho pronibitionist-began as d lawyer. OF
the republican and democratic candidates
volumes have been written since the cam
pagn opened but of the small-party can
didstes the public at large knows prac-
tically nothing.
one of the biggest men of the latter
category is Samuel Wardell Williams
running mate of Tom Watson on the
populist ticket. He is tifty-nine. just
three years the senior OF his republican
rival. Sherman. and three years the junior
OF his democratic opponent. Kern. Like
the la tier he was born in the middle west
in the days just preceding the civil war.
and. like Kern, again, he is Hoosier. al
though not by birth, having missed that
distinction only by the breadth of the
Wabash on whose western bank, i'll the
town OF Mount CarGel-down that stream
2 piece from old Viacennes--he first saw
the light His blood is Scotchlrish stuff
that cxcels as raw material for politicians
The thistle came To him from his ma
fernal and the harp from his pategnal
grandfather. the latter Protestant
Hishma1. who got to southern Illinois
became democrat and Tor a quarter cent
fury WAS village postmaster.
Ills father, q democrat. lawyer and poll
tician. made enough by his practice To
start young Williams education under a
private tutor. who prepared him for "A
nearby Presbyterian theological school
Here he was educated for the ministry,
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DUINS of Ancient Min
~ ing Cities-A Look at
Khani and Zimbabwe-Gold
Mines Which Have Produced
Fifty Millions - How the
British Police the African
Frontier The Post Office
Farthest North-Mails Car
ried by Native Runners
Something About Barotse-
land.
>. ~. u Nh AxAxA-
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land which are said to have belonged
TO the ancient miners. and in Mashona-
land are the ruins of Zimbabwe which
may have been built by the very men who
dug out that gold. All over Matabele-
land and MashOnaland find the remains
OF ancient workings, and the gold mines
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Copyright. 1905. by Frank G. Carpsnter
Special Correspondence of The Star.
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The Mines of Rhodesia

fragments of soapstone bowls. Near 1t
WAS a gold smelling furnace
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y =. ~ =. " =. Nm SA.xM.&A.
Copyright. 1905 hy John EIfreth Watkins
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ID the gold of King Solomon's
temple come from Rhodesia?
Some noted Psychologists
claim that it did. There are
mighty ruins here in Matabele-
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this years seven vice presiden'
tial nominees three are lawyers
two are labor leaders. one is &
preacher and one journalist
One of the awyers-William
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Raising Gold Ore From Workings of
King Solomon's Day

said to be the land of Ophir. to which
KIM Solomon and Hiram of Tyre sent
out parties who brought back gold
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-10
MURDER STORIES
AFFECT BOYS MIND
BENJAMIN BIOtcky, Alameda
SchOOIbOy, Goes Insane Read
ing About EImhurst Crime
Becomes Morbid and Believes
Members of His Own Family
Are Being Killed

OAKLAND, July 9. - Benjamin
Blotcky. an Alameda schoolboy, Il
years Of age, has become insane brood
ing over stories Of Mark A. wilkins
and the murder and burial of VERNE
Carmin beneath stable in Elmhurst
The boys father, NJ. /. Blotcky, mas
sworn to a complaint alleging insanity
in his son, who will be examined be-
fore Superior Judge Harris tomorrow
morning
Blotcky said that the boy was un-
usually bright and a wide reader for
one Of his age. He was fascinated by
the stories Of wilkins trial and the
grewsome recitals of the finding or the
body and its identification hlled MS
mind TO the exclusion Of all else.
HallucinatiOns developed soon after
wilkins was convicted. The boy be-
Meved that his own mother had been
murdered by his stepmother, and that
the body had been buried as was that
OF Mrs. Carmin. He refused TO per
nit any member of the family to touch
him. as he feared the pollution OF
crime.
Within the last few days young
Benjamin has cried out that cholorforn
was being used to murder him and he
asked to be saved from the drug.
His father wept today as he made the
complaint, saying that he was unable
10 soothe the boy or TO clear his mind
from the illusions which terrified him
Benjamin was taken before Judge
Harris and had the date set for his
examination. He is an attractive
yOungster. with a face which indicated
unusual intelligence for one Of his age
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-10
HIGHEST PRICE EVER
PAID FOR SERIAL STORY
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO The CALL

NEW YORK, July 9.-The price
Charles Scribner's Sons will pay Presi-
dent Roosevelt for his account of his
hunting trip through the African jun
giles is the highest ever given to an
author for work of similar length
Not only will the president receive
a lump sum Of between $4,000 and
$4,000 for the serial privileges. but he
will also get high royalty on the book
into which the magazine articles will
be Incorporated. 1t was learned on
god authority that the royalty is not
less than Is per cent on the gross
sales, and may be as high as 20 per
cent
Charles Scribner said: president
Roosevelt's articles will run serially
in Scribner's magazine and then will
be. published in book form. There will
be from eight to twelve installments,
each OF from six to eight thousand
words. The price we are paying is, l
believe. the highest ever paid for any
ma gazine SERIES"
Scribners announce they have sold
over 100000 copies of The Rough
Riders" published in 1893; 100. 900
of oliver Cromwell" a 81 book; 10000
of The Roosevelt Book" supple
mental reader for school children, and
at least $4,000 of Outdoor Pastimes
of an American"