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wm^mm Trl'J-r 'C ' - tHT rF*’^* OTTB NB^' OCTQSER 10, ISII B7 Associated Ptmi. Richmond, Va., Oct 10.—DUtlnct gains In th« matter of waterway Im* provementa were made In every state along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida during the past year by reason of the activities of the Atlantic Deeper Waterway’s Asosclatlon, Pres ident J. Hampton Moore, of Phlladel phla. announced to the delegates of the aseociatlon at the opening of Its fourth annual convention here today. While general progrese had been made In bringing public attention to the Import ance of a connected Intracoatal water- ■way, Mr. Moore said, there also had been a decided advance in local proj ects, and an increasing tendency to Im prove waterways as a moans of trans portation. As a startlinf preaentment, which, he said, demanded consideration ac the hands of the governmenf, Mr. r^Ioore quoted from the report of the committee on traffic appointed to col lect data with reference to the coast wise trade in general. In it» report it said; "One of the strongest arguments in favor of an inside route Is the fact that in a single decade, from 1900 to 1909, there were over 5,700 disasters to shipping on our Atlantic seaboard. Not all losses are reported, but these accidents are known to have destroyed §40,500,000 worth of vessels and cargo, and to have caused the loss of over z,- 200 human lives.’ President Moore pointed out that the $4^,500,000 loss would more than build a ship canal across New Jersey from New York to the Delaware river, if doubled, the amount would be sufficient to complete a barge canal from Bos ton to Beaufort Inlet, N. C., 600 miles, and the addition of $20,000,000 would doubtless complete a serviceable water way from New England to Florida’s southernmost key. If the whole chain were to be constructed at once — which is more than any reasonable waterway advocate asked or expect ed — and the cost were fixed at >io0.000,000, that amount would be only half that already spent upon the Mis sissippi, with Its 4,500,000 tons of commerce. It is only one-half what has been pledged to the Miasisslppi system to complete a 9-foot channel from the Lakes to the Gulf. It is only $37,000,000 more than congress and the president have endorsed over to the Ohio river for a 9-foot depth from Pittsburg to Cairo, and it is only one- fourth of the actual construction cost, to say nothing of the tremendous main tenance cost, of the Panama canal. After lauding the work on the Pana ma canal as complimentary to Ameri can engineering »kill and as having brought laurels to the American na tional reputation for commercial phil anthropy, Mr. Moore asked whether It was not time to take an account of what Americans have failed to do nearer home. "While we are pouring our hundreds of millions into this vast enterprise, which is to be maintained by the United States at ite own risk and for the benefit of the nations of the world,” he said, ‘la It not fair to pause and take account of what we have failed to do alittle closer to home, where the circulation of our national appropriations would aid do mestic enterprises, encourage domestic business, and profitably employ the labor which is immediately round about us?’ "It does not seem unreasonable,” said he, "that if the government Is able to appropriate and spend approx imately four hundred millions raised from the masses of the American peo-. pie for the employment of both foreign and American labor in the construction of a canal at Panama, which must be of equal benefit to all other nations, as it is to the United States, that it might stil be able to spend the paltry 15 or 20 millions that would be neces sary to provide the people in our neighboring statee with modem trans portation facilities between the Chesa peake and Delaware Bays. “The estimated tonnage of the Pan ama canal for the first year being only about 4,500,000 It is certainly not un fair to insist that the time has come to give the people of the Atlantic sea board better facilities for the 50,- 000,000 to 90,000,000 of tonnage be tween the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays for their 50,000,000 that reported as passing Port Judith each year, or the 24,000,000 (1908) shown by the returns of the Delaware river alone. If the Panama canal is to do no greater mixed business than is indicated it is not unfair in consideration of the mon ey we have spent upon it and our woe ful lack of attention to American wa terways and canals that we should com pare its commerce for the first year given at 4,500,000 tone with the 11,000,- '000 of the Arthus Kill, a 14-mile stream between Staten Island and New Jerdey, In 1905, or the port of Providence, R. I., which last year reported a tonnage of 3,000,000.” After discustlng the progress al ready made In waterway improve ment President Moore criticised the halting attitude of statesmen when ever a proposition was made to im- .prove Eastern streams. He said: "We have noticed the eaae and grace with which great men of the nation have given their approval to the 63,000,000 water-harvesting project of the Ohio river while they have gravely ponder ed over the ‘expense’ and ‘engineer ing difBcultiea’ of the Connecticut, of the Hudson, or the Delaware, or the Savannah, or the St. Johns. These rivera obtain some national recog nition and the rivers and harbore ^O^mitte^ hae every disposition to .glv^ 6m fair treatment, but, as a 'rule, heretofore statesmen and engi- neera have readily eased their con- aciencea with regard to vaat expend!- t\ur«t that build up Western and South- 'em vallays with uncertain river com* 'merce and irregular water stagea while ’they have halted and hesitated and j turned pale, at tlM augestion that a ;few millions of ddlara ahould be spent upon Eaattm streams supporting a coaatwlae trade and encouraging an Intematiooal buaiDets which contrlb- utea a third of tha revenue of the government" Sour Bdching; Poor Appetit* and Cooatipati^ci, you seed FOR HEARTBURN SIMMONS RlBD Z LIVER REGULATOR (TRB MWDSR FORM) It sweetens the stomadi and purifies the bowels. It is a fine tcmic for a torpid Uver. Hdps digestion, mak^ you feel bright, vigorous and cheerful Sold ky Dealers, FHetk Larg» Packagm, SM.OO, Atk for the ffeoniM wWt the RaASeatkeliM. fc bf miil potcpeid. SUmmm Liver ReolMer te k. PikeAflO] If CfWM M it k ra op alt* in Uqnld Look for the Ro4ZuEcL it remh to «•, «ei triU Mai ioim for ttiew who pietar J. H. ZEILIN A CO.* Pra^rtotJMt St. L—!■» MtMoarl # MISS JOHNSTON TO HER CRITICS Defends ‘'The Long Roll” and Rer Picture of Stonewall Jackaon. From Baltimore Sun. At a meeting of L«e Camp in Rich mond, Va.. last week an effort was made to obtain an indorsement by the camp of Dr. James Power Smith's criticism of Miss Mary Johnston’s splendid Civil War novel, “The Long Roll.” The effort was defeated but the newspaper accounts of tbe meet ing were, in Miss Johnston’s opinion, so exagerated as to elicit from her the following letter to Lee Camp and to the newspapers: May I speak through your col umns as to the division of opinion upon the tiistorical accuracy of “The Long Roll” obtaining In Lee Camp? My comment is that the gentle men composing the minority opinion apparently have read neither the records left by their own men nor “The Long Roll.” Lee Camp must readily strike out of existence the hundred and odd volumes of the official records, the whole series of the Southern Histor ical Society papers, all the newspa pers of ’61-’65, the articles contrib uted by Southern officers to “Bat tles and Leaders,” as well as those contributed to Mrs. Jackson’s life of her husband. Henderson’s bio graphy, histories, memoirs and di aries without number, forms of record too numerous to mention. It must also stop its own members and the members of other Confederate camps from telling war stories. I quote from a letter received yes terday—the writer would, I know grant me the privilege. “Dear Madam —Because of divers letters publish ed in the Baltimore Sun I take the diberty of writing to you • • • I will state that I never knew General Jackson personally, he being one of the few celebritiea iii either the civil or the military aervice of the Con federate states whom I did not, be cause of my staff position, first or last know well. • • • During the first year of the war I was a pri vate soldier in the . Through the second year I served as aid-de- eaap on the staff of General , and later I served as adjutant-gen eral on the staff of -. ••• I re peat that I never met General Jackson. But I was, of course, much interested in him and made many inquiries about him and his character istics, and I might say learned to know him well from the army talk about him. • * • And when I read your book some months ago I thought then, and I think still, that it was the truest representation of the real Jackson that I had ever seen in print. “It was his ‘camp’ character in the Army of Northern Virginia. as understood around every campfire. We, the army at large, regarded him as a rude, impetuous, energetic man, absolutely arbitrary, with a singular penetrating mind and endowed with brilliant military genius, but not a man to be loved like Robert E. Lee) by those associated with him. His soldiers learned to adore him; they learned to know that all they had to do was to obey him and they would be victors no matter what the odds.” I may say that this letter is used simply because it chances to be under my hand at the moment. It is but one of a large number of simi lar utterances—not only from men who did not personally know Gen eral Jackson, but from men who did. As to profanity among soldiers. It is notorious that in the early part of the war—the only part treated in “The Long Roll”-^eneral Ewell was a hard swearer. In “Battles and Leadera” Impoden, in recounting the opening of First Manassas, records his own oaths in abundance and the rebuke they brought upon him from Jackson. I think in Major Stiles’ “Four Years Under Marse Robert” you will find an occasional dash, sometimes even a word spelled out. And so with the countless other good and gallant recorders of that time o* stress. Personally I do not lay up against a man a strong word in a moment of exasperation, excite ment or agony. Right or Wrong, strong words were used. Perhaps they occur too frequently in “The Long Roll”— that is a matter of personal opinion. Quite mechanically and un consciously In the long course of writing such a volume—It takes two years to write a book that you read in two days—quite uncons(dously writer may stress too heavily such or such an incident or characteris tic. It has been done by every writer from Homer down. But the statement that in four years of war, among hundreds of thousands of marching and fighting men, there occurred less profanit.y than occurs in this book is profoundly absurd. For the character of General Jack son. Dr. Smith says that it is evi dent that I have never read Hender son's unapproachable “Life of Jack son.” I beg to say that I have read Henderson five times. There is no trait of Jackson's as given in “The Long Roll” that you will not find also given in Henderson. And why? Because as I found when I came to study for this book, Henderson, too, had gone to the original sources. Where he got his material I also got mine—from the countless scattered statements of participants in the struggle. Henderson and I used the same data and draw the same con clusion; and that is that a great man is none the less a great man for all his possible peculiarities Jackson may have had theee in goodly measure, he may have sucked lemons been awkwai^ in appearance and manner, have sometimes been harsh and to some extent unjust (wit ness Garnett after Kemstown), even at some time have flagged from hts highest (as Stonewall Jackson un- doubedly did flag during the Seven Days), and remain a great unique, heroic figure, a vast military genius, a man whose fall was the fearfulest loss to the South! “Paint me," said Cromwell, “with my warta." Stonewall Jackson is great enough to have no peculiarity apologized for or smoothed over, or bundled out of sight. He Is great enough to be given not with all outline dimmed and blur red by the mist of time, but starkly so as he appeared to the Southern armies, as he was talked of around campfires. May ! add that no true artist would ever think of trying to paint either Cromwell or Stonewall Jackson save in the light of what he was. In portrait galleries it is not the smooth, unlined faces, the dapper figures for which we care. It was not my intention - to enter upon any discussion of this matter. Until I read this morning’s paper 1 had put it aside with a smile. But I will speak today, and I speak out of an indignant heart. This book that you talk of has done a service to Virginia and the South. I say that Jerusalem la not the only city that stones her prophets, nor anti quity the only time that preoccupies Itself with some blemish—it may be real, it may be fancied only—on the forehead of a great and real GAi*vio^ MARY JOHNSTON. October 14, 1911. Fresh for the Biahop. “Look here, Dinah,” said Blink* as he opened a questionable egg at br^k- fast, “is this the freshest egg that you can find?” “Naw, fluh,” replied Dinah. “We’ve done got a half dozen laid disa mom’, suh, but de bishop’s comin’ down hyar in three months, suh, and we’s savin’ all de fresh afgs for him, suh.”— Harper’s Weekly. 8jr thm Author of TUB Mjtjr oir the hox iTHE iCARPET iFROM Only Team With Perfect Score —IN THE Of the 67 Motor Cars that started from New York last Saturday morning, the kaxwell Team is the only one that consistently withstands the terrific punishment of bad roads and maintains a perfect score. Only two teams had a perfect score at Roanoke, but at Winston-Salem last night, after an awful days struggle with soft clay, the MAXWELL was the only entry to arrive with per- pect score. The MAXWELL entry is composed of four 1912 Specials, the new big 36 H.P. Touring Car at $1,280.00 and 30 H.P. MaxwellMercuryat$1,150.00. They are the sensation ot the tour. Watch for them this after noon. They will arrive in Charlotte the only perfect score team in tour. United Motor Charlotte Company 19-23 West Fourth Street J. H. Manager W. S. BOYD, Asst. Mgr. COOK TOO MUCH FOR POLICE LIKE *‘DRY»» SUNDAY PLAN Domestic Decline to Be *‘Flred” De spite -Best Efforts of Bluecoata. Chicago, Oct. 19.—Bluecoats as bouncers” aiding his majesty, the Americap citizen, when domestics prove oDStinaite are not always effec tive. Dr. Edwin J. _Kuh, No. 4330 Drexel* called two policemen to discharge his cook. The physician himself discharged her but the kitchen monarch refused to “stay fired.” “I will not go,” was h^r ultimatum, until I am good and rea,dy.” Dr. Kuh called Patrolman Geesord, who told the cook to leave, but the recalcerant culinary expert declined to quit her Job even at the command of a man of the law, whereupon Patrolman Gessord smiled feebly, drinks by slipping through side doors Atlantic City Drug Storea Rushed on Soda. Water. Atlantic City, Oct. 19,.—Proprietors of practically every drug store and restaurant in the. city have come out as strong advocates of the Sunday closing of bars. By far the most pecular twist of the dry Sunday was the enormous business done over the soda water and lunch oounters, Bccause of it hurry calls were sent by the druggists to ice cream con cerns, the demand was so' much greater than the supply that orders went unfilled by nightfall. When moderate tipplers found that they could not procure their favorite MacGrath At HIm Best BAGDAD By HAROLD MacGRATH u CatfUfrom Bagdad is the perfect type of tW pcou- »r roBMincc af the hour. A first-rate romance, full of coW. never dull for a moment. —Ckieago Rteord-H^rald pUuMied, swiftly moving tale of adventure* ^tQnther a deligbttul story of its kind, omital enteftainmeot from first to last. Yori Tributu Harold BlacGrath has seldom if ever written more enter taining^ than in his latest novd, Tk$ i^rpit fr&m Bmgdad. --Chicago Tribune Tk$ Cmftiftom Bagdad is intensely fascinating. —Boston Globe ithninied^ CeUr by A$»dti CaMgme. $tJg dt ail BtokaHltrs, wished he knew what to do in such circumstance and went away. Another policeman was called. . Now its no use to send any more policemen!” he cook screamed. “All the police hi town can’t make me quit until I want to.” The second policeman turned sadly away, and with a parting shot the cook went to her room and packed up her things. A short time later she left of her own accord, head defiant ly erect and chin tilted far forward. The Trouble With Humor. EL N. Brown, president of the Na tional Railways of Mexico, discussing in New York a railroader who was al- wi^ys out of word, said: “He is too quick with his tongue—that’s his trou ble. He has a ready wit that he is too apt to use upon the boss.” Then, with a laugh. Mr. Brown uttered this epi grammatic and true saying: ^‘Repartee has lost as many men their jobs as it has made others their reputations.” Big Will at Stake. Los Angeles, C^l., Oct. 19.—An es* tate valued at $99,S00 will be distribu-' ted in unequal shares among ten heirs of Mrs. Rebecca Jeffries, who died on Sept. 5 and whose will was filed for probation yesterday. Among the resi duary legates is James J. Jeffries, former world’s champion pugilist and son of the* dead woman, who is made a beheflciary with other children in consideration that they care for and support their father in his declining years. A provision specifies that any attempt to break th« will shall be re warded with disinheritance. "Hades,” said the lady who lores to shQi)/“woi^ a n^gBtfloent and end- lesa.batgalti «oi)attiraiid I looking on wtthdut a cent,**=r'«rowninirs Xaga. rine. they adjourned to the nearest restaur ant or. drug stC're to compromise on ice cream or soda water, promptly at the stroke of 12 lights flashed in all thd drinking places, and there was a concerted rush of old-timers for their favorite positions. Many of the places which have hitherto closed at 2 o’clock in the morning kept their doors open on hour or two longer. Ladies Fair. All blondes are not light-headed. Girls with liquid voices should be careful not to strain them. Some women are a delight to the eye, and a drug to the mind. Never tell a pass widow that she is in the hay-day of life. The girl who marries for a lark of ten finds out that she was a jay. The idea of marrying will haunt a woman if she has the ghost of a chance. Girls feel proud of having many new admirers, but one old one is really more to her credit—Boston Tran script. OVERALLS COST HIS PULPIT. Pastor Working to Eke Out Small Salary, Forced to Resign. Chicago, 111., Oct. 19.—Rev. Henry M. McDowell preached his last sermon Sunday at the Woodlawn Park Congre gational church, where he has served as pastor for one year. He resigned because members of the church object ed to his donning overalls and working as an express niessenger at |18 a wek to augment his salary of $120 a month from the church. That manual labor lowered the dig nity of the pastor was the objection made by the members of the church, and, acording to friends of the pastor, while they were unable to have him ousted from the pulpit, they made things so unpleasant for him that he resigned. WHEN THE HONEY’S WAFFLES. ON THE Must Be Joking. We looked into our family recipe book the other day. Lots of articles looked appetiziiig, but wedidntget a real laugh until we came to the follow ing direction: “Then sit in'front of the stove and stir constantly.” “If we had to sit in front of a stove these days ve wouldn't help stirring constantly. %We fear that the fair au thor of the cookery book is kidding us. —Cleveland. Plain DeaTer. FlguratiTely Ouly ‘Ta.- said lltUe WnUe,“what Is the meaning of ‘figure of ^eech?n “That, my son, the very latest nanie for a nuui'y better half.”~ Judge. V (By George Gowen, in The Virginian.) the sparerib’s good and'hot, and the sparerib’s good and hot. And the aroma’s floating upward from the shining coffee pot; And when mother stirs the batter that was “set” the night before. And when little Jack and Sally emack their lips and yell for more. Oh, it’s then a feller’s feeling very near his Ifvel best— If there isn’t any trouble with the works beneath his vest— And it’s then he ought to humbly thank the Lord for all he’s got. When the honey’s on the waffles and the coffee’s steamin’ hot. There’s a fragrance now a-floatin’ from brown batter on the plate That should brace a man for action— give him nerve for any fate— There is joy, there’s inspiration in the smears on Bessie’s chin. And it’s life to see dear Bobbie as he scoops the waffles in; And what sweeter music is there than the rapping, slapping sound That the dear old cook produces as she stirs the stuff around? Oh, each luscious,, precious mouthful^ quickly finds the proper spot,^ When the waffles melt the butter and the coffee’s steamin’ hot! Father Fixed It. 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