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LAUDS TEDDY For the Brave Stand He Has Tak* en For the People. IN A LATE MESSAGE. Bourke Cockran Defends the Demo cratic Party, Praises President Roosevelt for His Message, Which He Says Outlines the Conditions Under Which Bryan Becomes the OrdAined Champion. During the consideration of the Indian appropriation bill in the House Mr. Townsend, of Michigan, delivered a speech in which he re hearsed the history of Republican legislation, which, he said, he did for the purpose of "disputing the unwar ranted claims of our Democratic brethren." He was not, he said, defending the present Administration. "It needs no defence with the American peo ple," he said. "Its record will ilu mine the pages of United States his tory and mark an epoch in popular government." He declared that the student of the future would point to it as "the period when the people came Into the possession of their o-vn by establishing by facts the theories of a Republic, whereby Federal law is enacted for no class or financial condition, but for all the people." He said that the legislation of the last two Congresses had been charg ed with producing the late financial disturbance, and he undertook to refute the charge as untrue. He re ferred especially to the railroad leg islation and said that Democratic pol iticians, findng that the legslation was good, desired to adopt it to themselves as a political asset in fu ture campaigns. Declaring fault finding to be the largest part of the capital of the Democrats, he declared "the Demo cratic party has a nose for carrion, It can scent corruption at very long range, but it has no refined distine tion as to the kind." Every little while, he said, he heard or read of some Democrat saying that the rate bill, the anti trust law and the en forcement of them were of Democrat ic origin; that Republicans had stol en Democratic thunder; that Presi dent Roosevelt, "to use a classical expression of Mr. Bryan's," had been wearng Bryan's cloths. Ordinarily he said,. he had not thought it wise to notice these things, but the state ments had been made so loud and sc long that some of the younger gener ation might believe them, "and the Democratic party may come to claim them by right of posession under the statute of limitations." Mr. Townsend denied that the rate law and the principles it represented were of Democratic origin or con ception, and he inquired if the Pres Ident had departed from Republicar policies which it had advocated. He then discussed anti-trust legislation and compared the action under the Cleveland administration and unde> the Roosevelt admiJnistration. As compared with Cleveland's adminis tration he said there had been unde> the Roosevelt administration fou2 times as many bills in equity filed nine times as many indictment! found and seven times as many .con victions, with nine indictments cases still pending . Anti-trust law, he sa-id, was not of Democratic origin and its enforcemenit was not to Dem ocratic credit. Cockran Answers Townsend. Representative Bourne Cockran, oi New York, Democrat, denied the ac curacy of Mr. Townsend's statement and said that since the beginning o1 the Republic thers had not been a single policy prominently incorporat ed into law that was not of Democrat Ic origin. Wild Democratic applause greeted Mr. Cockran when he remarked thai the policies of Jefferson, adopted tc avoid war with France, had been ap plied by the Republicans to "the con quests of the Philippines and the pui-chase of men.'" He compared the Phillipine acquisition with the Louis lana purchase. "one glorious posses sion of our country," and said the Republicans were seasick of the Phil lippine bargain they would be wil ling to blame Providence for it. He asked if the Monroe doctrine was of Republican origin. It was not, and yet, he added, it frequent ly had been involved by them. Mr. Cockran spoke of the civil war and said that while it was true Re publicans led the Union forces, Dem ocratic patriots manned the army. "The message which the President sent here Friday raised a question that goes to the very existence of the growth of civil government," he said. "After we pass the portion con taining complaints we come to the part where we all applauded, and that was the paragraph relating to charges that business distress was brought on by the Government, and the para graph saying that the knife should be freely used in cutting out rotten ness." "If there be any forces outside of our penitentiaries who would pre vent the enforcement of such action they themselves assert that rotten ness is the foundation of our pros perity." Denounces Dishonest Officials. Mr. Cockran denounced bank pres idents and corporation officials who had been guilty of illegal acts. In s'.otking of the recent financial crisis h' said it has been caused by suc cent.ui revelations of depravity in high r' aces in the financial world. The w& " thing, he declared, grew our of a a;.:rrel of the plunderers of insuarnce e- e nies over,. the dis tribution of I "' spoils. So deeply did the public conscience become ap palled, he said, by the spectacle of un punished crime that never before did instead of certain corporation heads being suffered to do house cleaning in the corporations they had pillaged, they ought to be sent to do some cleaning in the penitentiary. These gentlemen," he said, "when their ra pacities had exhausted the supply and there was nothing left to steal, did not even surrender control of the corporations they had wronged. They do not," he continued, "flee from jus tice, fearing its sword, but they go into a Court of justice and obey its protection." Regarding recent bank failures in New York, Mr. Cockran said that not judgment, but through crime. He cliarged that the officers who were being pursued before grand juries and Criminal Courts actually had set the:m'seives to work to raise funds to reopen the concerns and induce de positors to sanctioi delay in the pay men, of their money. "It had been asked," continued Mr. Cockran, "why don't the President prosecute the gen tlenen? But," he said, he noticed, "it was always propounded by those who. if they thought there was any danger of prosecution, would not en gage In public discussions or be quozed in the newspapers, but be quietly seeking steamship tickets to foreign lands." He did not believe the President yet had exhausted all his powers, but, he soid, ' i do say this message shows he appreciates his duty. Inspired Proclamation. The message was, Mr. Cockran de clared, an inspired proclamation to the American people. M!r. Cockran discussed the judi ciary and said he noticed in his own State Federal and State Judges leav ing the Bench to accept professional employment by corporations. It was no wonder, therefore, he said, that public conscience should be alarmed. He spoke of the President's love of justice and said it had been charged that the President was indiscreet. "Can it be taken as a reproach against any public servant?"headd ed, "that his love of justice is so strong that it does not comport with the interests of the people?" He deckred that justice was the foun dation of prosperity. The value of the President's message, said he, is that both parties "would swear by the board for it." Mr. Cockran referred further to President Roosevelt as a Crusader. "the only one the Republicans had," but said the President was disqual ified. Never before in the history of the country, he said, "had a President still in office, the subject of the bit terest attacks, been able, while still in office, to practically fix the condi tions upon which the parties will con tend." Referring to Mr. Bryan Mr. Cock ran said: "We have a Democratic Crusader as to whom there is some doubt as to whether he is not too strenuous. I opposed him in the past. I might still oppose him, but I believe this message has outlined the conditions under which he be. comes the fore-ordained champion of law and order." Mr. Cockran said that if Bryan de clared himself the champion of the principles which were directly and indirectly embodied in the Presi dent's message, "if he represents the determination to prosecute malefac tors for their crimes, and if a vig orous enforcement of the law should result in congesting the Criminal Courts, then the plunderers of mil lions will be given precedence in the pathway to prison over the pilferers of pennies." USURY SHARKS To Be Outlawed in This State as Thy Are In Others. There was a long debate in the House on Tuesday on Mr. McMaster's bill declaring unlawful the charging and receiving of usury. Mr.Mca ter explained the operations of the money sharks in Columbia and thei: successful work in robbing the pool people who are compelled to pay as much as 40 per cent. on a loan of $10. The bill finally passed in the folowing shape: I"Section 1. That it shall be unlaw of 20 per cent. per annum on the tion to charge, accept, -receive or contract to receive, as interest, comn mission or other premium for the use of money, directly or indirectly, by any fiction, guise or pretense, any greater sum than shall equal the rate of 20 per cent. pr annum on the loan. "Sec. 2. Any person, firm or cor poration violating the provisions 0f the preceding section shall be deem ed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 or imprisoned for not exceeding thirty days for each and every offense: Provided, That nothing herein con tained shall be construed to confii with the present provisions of law~ jas to usury, but shall be taken as additional to said provisions." CAROLINA DIVORCEE WARNED Divorces Granted in Georgia Are Not Valid Over tiere. Judge Hammond, holding court at Augusta, Ga.: recently granted1 a di vorce in the case of W. A. Crapps vs. Cedella Crapps, on the ground of the wife desertng hex' hus band, Crapps testified th'at the mar riage ceremony was lerformed mn ISouth Carolina and th'ey had lived in Ithis State. At the conciusion of the brief testimony. establishng the ground of the petition, Judge Hiam mond said: "Mr. Crapps I don't know whethe.' or not you intend to become a bona fide citizen and resident of this state, but 1 want to warn you. that if you cer go back to South Carolina Iand attempt to get married again they will put you in jail as sure as you live. The state of South Caro lina does not recognize divorce even from another state, or at all. "I recall that a short time ago a man from South Carolina came into this very court, got a' divorce and went back to South Carolina to get married again: they sent him to the pententiary for four years. The court merely viges you This informa io ~Olas a warning. SENT TO PRISON. Ice Trust Men Failed to. Have Ver' dic't Set Aside. Members of the Toledo, Ohio. ice trust were resentenced Tuesday by Judge Kinkaid. Nearly two years .go, they were fined $2,300 each and sentenced to six months in the work house. The supreme court remand ed the case for re-sentence on the ground that defendants should have been sent to the county jail, instead of the work house. Tuesday the Isame judge, after hearing pleas for mercy imposed a sentence of six months in jail. The ice trust men begin their sentence of six months in ail at 4 p. ma. today. They are: R. C. Lemmon. Rollin Beard and Joe Miller. IThe lives of some of its friends hur 0reigion more than the logic of BOILERS BU.RST, ]KHJL1N(x SEVEN. Terri>Ile Explosion in Pennsylvania Rolling Mill. Seven men were killed and more than a dozen injured by the explosion of a boiler Monday in the rolling mill of Van Allen & Co.. at Nor thunberland, Pa. The dead are: Grant Reeder, aged 40 years, mar ried. Edward Kreps. 38. married. Wim. Brouse. 40. married. Samuel Sarvis. 46 married. Duval Clark, 48 married. John Scholvin. 50, married. Thomas Jones. 65, single. The seriously injured, who were brought to the Sunbury Hospital, are: Wm. Morgan, single, badly cut and bruised. Harry Smith. married, injured about the head and scalded. Daniels Sanders. married. injured internally, probably will die. Wesley Reichenbach. married. bad ly scalded and bruised. The rollng mill had been shut down for three months, and was tc have resumed work the next morn ing. All the boilers and machinery had been overhauled during the sus pension. The men were preparing to begin work when from some un known cause a number of boilers blew up. The whole building in which the boilers were located was wrecked. and the dead were found under the ruins. Those killed were well known citizens and are surviv ed by large families. The loss tc the plant is estimated at $75,000. PROTECT THE BIRDS. The Cold Weather North Sends the Little Robins South. The cold weather of the past fey days has sent the robbins from th( north to the warmer climes of th( south. Many of them are stoppini in this section and it is hoped tha the little feathered visitors can spent a short while here unmolested. Thesi Iiitle birds. tame but unlike th< filthy English sparrow are a pleas ure to have around and every effor should be made to keep them here. Boys with sling shots and parlo: rifles are their worst enemies an< every year they slaughter many o them. There is a law against th shioting of robins and th officer ougth to lcook after ts enforcement A few arrests for the offense woul< doubtless have a good ifect. Blue birds, now getting very scarce are al so the victims of the parlor rifles These too should be protected. The; are migratory birds and give th, barren fields and hedges life if a] lowed to inhabit them in the col winter months. 'UNUSUAL DEFORMITY. 1.A Two Headed Child Born Recentl to Virginia Family. A dispatch from Roanoke. Va says news reached there from th Hiawaszi district of Pulaski count of the birth of a child with two head to Mr. and Mrs. John Meredith.] is said the mother of the little on 1is almost frantic with grief over th deformity of her offspring. She constantly in tears and is unable t sleep. Some relief, it is said, has bee afforded her by a dream, in w~hic she saw the baby's extra head re moved with no harm to the natura head. This led her to believe tha surgery can accomplish this resul1 and it is asserted that the famil doctor shares the mother's belief. TIGER AND LEOPARD FIGHT. The Latter Killed His Enemy B Ripping Him Open. IAt Peru. Ind.., there was a figh to the death between a big Benga tiger and a leopard in the arena o the winter Quarters if the Wallac shows in which the leopard was th victor. The tiger got the leopari down and was tugging at his throa1 when the apparently exhausted ani mal turned upon his back, and, wit] hind feet, began clawing at the tig er's breast. With every stroke th blood flowed in streams. In a fe' moments the claws of the leopar had reached the vitals of the tige and these were torn out. The tige fell over on his side. dead. The leo pard is badly injured, but it is be lieved will recover. SOLDIERS PERISH IN STOI$M. Members of Algerian Comnpany Over come in Sniowi Storm. A dispatch from Aiu-Sefia. Alger-ia says twenty-one men of the'24th comn pany of the foreign legion, and p)os sily others of the same company perished on February 1 in a blindini snow storm which overtook the sol diers on their way to Fort Hassa IThe entire company became seperat ed, and later searchers recovered th bodies of twenty-one of them. 3 section of the company succeeded ix reaching F'ort Hassa n a pitible con. dition, but many ar-e unaccountet FRENCH AND) MOORS FIGHT. Moors Lose Teni Thousand and the~ French Ov-er a Hundred. A London news agency publishies a dispatch from Tangier, sayini there has been a bhttle betwen the French and the Mcoors ncar Settat. Morocco, in which 10(,000 Moors were killed or- wounded and in which the French losses amounted to 1MO meti including four officers. The Moors, with interpid bravery, charged right up to the mouths of the guns until their corpes lay dead in piles on the ground. The Farmer. Daniel Webster once p.aid ihe fol lowing tribute to the ifmer: "Let us never forget tha~t cultivation 0f the earth is the mos:. important labor of man. Man may be civilized in sonie degree without pr-ogress in manufactures and with little com merce with his distant neighbors. but wihout ':he cultivation of the ear-th he is. in all countries, a savage. Un til he gives up the chase and fixes hi'elf ,n some place and seeks living from the earrh he is a roam ing barharian. Wh'n ti!!nzw hcgins other arts follow. The farmers a-e the founders of civilization. Patience with les::er livers is 'jorn SECRET OF YANKEE SUCCESS. Not Confined to Trades of Forefathers Nor Dismayed by Failure. In tht pilace called Monte Carlo every tin the wheel turns and the uall rolls into its place it marks a fresh cond.iuu uf the game, an ab souteiy new chance which has noth ing w .atever to do wita what has gne before or is to appear in the fu ture. Each spin is the year one ot the bank. Therefore the bank wins. America has appreciated the year one, and that fact has not been un co:Inctcd with Tankee suc-ccss. Yon vill find that a muan loses money as a farumir, a reenanic. a booa can vasser. and suddnly rises to wealth as a buildur. The peg has found the hole at last. An Englishman, unappreciative of the year one. WoUlt. have been chain ed to faliure by the precedent of cen turis. -e would have argued that he had always been a farmor, that his father was a iarmer and his un cle a dairynan. Therefore it was plainly imwpossible that he could ever make money as a builder. In conclu sion Ie wouild nave (jutOed you that falsest of all false proverbs, "A roll ing stoie gathers no moss." I say "false" only in the English applicaiion of the ancient proverb. For otherwise it is an up-to-date mot to enough. Tne rolling stone of to day reniains pulished and fit for busi nets. The stationary stone is liable to accilitllate such a quantity of moss that it is only fit for a cushion-to be sat on by all and sundry. The re is in America today an exem plification of the principle of the year one in a ne-s-,paper proprietor with some -b.:hty thousanid pounds a year to his cr I-t. Until he has over fifty years of age he was a farmer. and not a very ef:t farmer at that. Then he startci his paper. and-away he went on ti, ro:id To success. How many of -.r :m!--rs could change their trade after any?-London Ex press. Balzac and His Debts. "WiLh Balzac'- rising fame rises the I mountain of his debts, writes a crit ic. "These. start:ng tron his two dis astrous years ot prin1ing and publish ing in 1aris, accumulated until, at the top of his !iterary renown, he had to hide from his creditors in a garret under the name of his landlady or his washeruoman- In 1637 Balzac, at that date the best known and the : most debated novelist in France, owed 162.300 francs-about . Then he must needs buy a cane which was the talk of Paris, some gold buttons for a new coat. a 'divine opera glass' and a dr.ssing gown be yund words and give a diner to the dandies of the opera r2specting which Rossino said that 'he hal not seen more magniilcence when he dined at royal tables.' "Balzac. three times a millionaire. would still have buried himself in debt for the mental exaltation of his creative hours was reproduced when he broke ioose froin the galley bench. He lavished in anticipation the wealth he had dreamed would be his. This gone. he borrowed anew or devised another of 4hose schemes that were to enrich him beyond the possibilities eof literature. His schemes were es sentialy a part of Balzac,. the sover eign, unconq;ueratie visionary. e"He wouldl transport oaks from Poland to France:nothing like oaks from Poland to make your own for tune three tinies over! Behold him again grve'.y working out his plan to make a corr.er in all the arts and put ting up the Apollo Belvidere for corn netition amocng the nations-to act as auctione er to Europe. The 'child 1man, as his devoted sister. Mame S-ar viyle, used to call him." Breathing Microbes. In the course of an interesting talk recently onl the subject of Lon don fogs Mr. Sydney Brooks miakes some suiprsing statements concern ing the quality of air that. Londoners are compelled to breathe. "For every microoe that you find in mid-ocean air you fin.d 1:>G00 in the atmfosphere of the four-mile radius. Among the mountains. you inhale with every cu bic inch of air- 31.0o0 particles; in London, 10.000.(Oi. Memorial to Woman Physician. W\hat is said to be the first statue erecteri in honor of a woman physi cian in the Unitedl States has been unveiled in Fuller'ton Memorial Hall at the Art Institute. The friends of the late Dr. Mary Harris Thomnpson ha ve presented portrait buts! of her to the institut< D. Thompson wvas th'e founder a~ 3865 of the Mary Thompson. Hospital for Womien and Children. and was the pion eer woman physician of the Northwest. Th memorial cost $2.250 and is the work of Daniel C. French. the sculp tor. Early H:stCr'y of Sugar. "Sugcar as .abaied the history of Europe and ol the wo:'ld in imor'e ways than~ one," snya a writer-. "Used tour' centuneas ago. alm~ost exclusively ini the prei~arattion of muedieinies. and log I terwaru( an artic-le of luxury ouy aecessible to the rich, it has by enlarged prodtionl and cheapened mani acturei bes~ brought within the reach of all. The universal use (1 ths pratically piure carbohydrate. which is not only: a free'ly~ burning fuel and protei i sparer' but a muscle food. increasi:it the power of' doing work and lessening fat i-t:e. must have hai v.id'spread andi beneficial effects on the generiaI hiealth. E~s pecially in the case o! chiluren. whosE greed of su-:ar is the expression ol' a physiological wanit. has that fco been valhibl in er~nd'ucing to growth contentmanit :md nell-heing." Don't comiti the error too fr'e quently made by the politicians. Theie is a vast diffei'ence between woking the woirld and working for TE'rRRIlL. EXPERIElNCE. A S'oldier~ St'ealing ai Ride( Was Near 11- Frozen to Death. J1ames O'Connor. a private of the Twenty-sixth coast artillery, station ed at W'tas hington barracks, is a pa bient at. University h~ospital, Balti ioe, suffering fr-om the' effects of exosur'e while riding on the cow catcheri oi a Baltimore and Ohio ex pies from W\ashing:un to iBaltim.ore. WXith h'is hand and feet frozen. oConnor more dead than alive, was takr- f'om tIu cow-catcher of the engine at tne Camden street station. -td hurried to the hospuital. He~ had een seeni by the telegraphi operator at Laurel. who notified the Balti 1,ore aiuthorijies 1 hat a dead man was on the cow(-atchier. The polie and authorities wecre waiting for the train and rescued O'Connor from his irilois hoSitioni. WHY COOKS ARE SCARCE. They Can Make More Money Selling Whiskey Than Working. A prominent citizen of Lancaster says his cook, a colored woman told him that the reason why servants are so difficult to get is because negroes are making more money selling liquor than they can possibly earn by workng for the white people. The Lancaster News says "if there is any ruth in the report, It is an unpleasant commentary on the manner in which our prohibition laws are being en forced. No liquor can be legally sold in this community or county un der existing laws, and if there are persons, whether whte or black, en gaged in the nefarious business of running blind tigers they should be suppressed. But this matter rests largely with the people themselves. They voted on prohibition and now if they want prohibition they must help to enforce the law. Unless the offi cers of the town and county are sus tained in their warfare against blind tigers by a strong, healthy public sentiment, their efforts to break up the illicit liquor traffic will be re warded with but indifferent success." LYNCHING IN FLORIDA. A Mob Makes Quick Work of an Al leged Mu-derer. Jack Long was lynched near New berry, Fla., Thursday. Long was ac cused of the murder of Elias Sapp, a prominent farmer, and was taken from the town jail by a crowd of 200 men, carried to the scene of the crime and there hanged to a tree. Excitement in Newberry is at fev er heat and the citizens of the town are armed. It is feared that there may be further trouble. It is said that another lynching is threatened. According to the police Long's broth er was killed by one of the Sapp family, who has never been captured. This is believed to have given rise tc the trouble, which culminated in the death of Long. DYNAMITE IN SHIP'S COAL. Commander of Battleship Ohio Re ports Finding a Stick. The commanding officer of the bat tleship Ohio reports that -while tak ing coal from the chartered collier. Fortuna, at Port of Spain, Trinidad, a stick of dynamite about five inches in length was found. The Fortuna had a cargo-of new revier coal sup plied by the Berwind White Coal Mining Company, of Newport News. Va. This dynamite was evidently a stick used in mining coal and es caped the observation of miners and pei sons who subsequently handled the coal while loading into the collier. IMPRISONED FIVE DAYS. MIan Was Almost Frosen and His Reason Is Impaired. Locke'd in a box car for five days, without food or water, George Schmidt, fifty years old, traveled from Newark, N. J., to York, Pa. He was taken from the car almost frozn and his reason is impaired. Schmidt last Weanesday morning boarded a freight car at Newark to have shelter from the storm. Shortly afterwt~ard railroad employes locked the car and it was atached to a freight train. Schmidt was unable to make himself heard until the train reached York. STEAMIER LOST. Nothing Heard of Steamer Bluefields -Bound For Philadelphia. All hope for the steamship Blue fields, which sa.iled from Jackson vile, on January 24, for Philadelphia has practically been abandoned, and the best thing that is hoped for now is that Capt. Higgins and his crew may have been picked up by some foreign bound vessel. It is feared that the vessel foundered on the night of January 23, in the storm that swept the North Atlantic coast. The Bluefields carried a crew of eighteen. DEATH OF A MEMIBER. Hon. J. M. Major, of Greenwood, Succumbed to Pneumonia. On Thursday the House of Repre sentatives adjourned immediately af ter prayer out of rspect to the mem ory of Representative J. M. Major. of Greenwood, who died Wednesday night of pneumonia. Resolutions were adopted and a committee of four were appointed to attend the funeral. This w as Mr. Major's first session, as he had been elected to take the place of a member from Greenwood County, who died last year. PLUNGES TO DEATH. Riload Man Falls Out 01 a Sleep ing Car Window. H. B. Bighaam, assistant industrial agent of the Seaboard Air Lino rail road, was found near Method. N. C.. Tuesday. It is believed he fell out of a sleeper car window of a Sea board train, which runs parallel with the Southern at that point. EvERY time Mr. Bryan says any thing about a subsidized press some corpration organ rises up and abuses the greatest Democrat of his time. As Sam Jones use to say you can tell the hit dog by the way he* howls. THOSE newSpapers that are criti sizing the Attorney General for emi poying Atlanta lawyers are wrong. Those Atlanta lawyers are needed to work up cases in that city, which they have certainly done to the sat isfaction of all who want to see the grafters brought to justice. WE hope that Congressman Le gare's effort to have Col. Coward placed on the Carnigie teacher's list~ will succeed. No teacher is more worthty of this great benefaction than Col. Coward, who has devoted his life to the noble profession of teaching to the great benefit of his State, and thoucands of young men. THOSE farmers who have held their cotton up to this time should! hld nout to the e-nd, THE NEW KING Ascends the Throne of Portugal and That Country is UNDER A NEW REGIME Premier Franco, Who Was Made Dictator by the Murdered King, Has Been Driven From Office, and a New Cabinet Has Been Formed, Which It Is Hoped Will Bring Peace to Portugal. A dispatch from Libson, Portugal, says under a new regime with a King and the establishment of a new Cabinent, Portugal seems to be for the moment at peace. There is an underlying current of revolution, however, and the strictest measures are being taken to preserve order. Franco, the once dictator, was forced to resign because of the bit terness of thei people against him, and the Cabinet will strive for the welfare of the fatherland under the Presidency of Rear Admiral do Amaral. An official statement given out was to the effect that the President of the Cabinet would be supported by all the groups of monarchists, who had agreed to forget previous differ ences . The situation for Premier Franco, after the assassination of the King and Crown Prince, became impossi ble. During the days which preceded the tragedy and during the tumul tuous manifestations on the streets with the later discoveries of the vast scores of arms and bombs public opinion backed him in his efforts to maintain order, but the 'murders changed the entire complexion of the situation. He has not been seen on the streets since his meeting with the King im mediately after the latter's arrival from Villa Voicas, but all possible places where he might have been are closely .watched and guarded. The new Cabinet, which s compos ed of the strongest members of var ious factions, but all opposed tc Franco, has drawn to it a strong pa triotic supporting movement. During the night do Amaral and the chiefs of the Monarchists party held a protracted session and laid out a programme looking to the pac ification of the people. The ' opening session of -the nev council was held Monday. King Manuel II appeared before his minis ters and with a voice vibrant witt emotion said. "I am yet without experience it the science of politics. I place my self entirely in your hands, needint and believing in your patriotism ani wisdom." Some of the new ministers hav4 been notably opposed to Franco's irox rule. Not one of the Franco minis ters remain, so that his regime dis appears with him. After the list of the new Cabine1 officers was given out it was an nounced that these selections wer4 not final, and that changes weri probable. The most notable changes are those of the President and of the Minister -of Justice, the latter. Senho: Ampoim, having been foremost II opposition to the Franco regime. The city is still in the throes o1 intense excitement, and the authori ties continue to follow unceasingl3 the detsails of the plot, which culmi nated in the assassination of th4 King and his heir. It was establish ed that Buca, one of the regicides is a widower with a daughter, aged seven and a son only a few months old. The newspaper, Noticas, says one of the regicides who was killed was a Spaniard who was taken into cus tody recently in connection with the discovery of a depot of bombs, but who was later released. IOne of the men- now under arresi is an Italian. who played in the or chestra in a theatre of Lisbon. This man is in an extreme condition of hysteria. His food in the prisot is served him without knives or forks for fear that he will kill him self. The investigations of the police show that the murders were carefully planned. On Saturday the assas sins met secretly in the back room of a cafe and there laid out every step of the plot, which they were en abled to do, as all the details relat ing to the home coming of the King had been made public. To each was assigned a' post in the work of shooting down the mem bers of the royal family, but lots were drawn for the selection of each particular victim. Those who drew Queen Amelie and Prince Manuel. failed to carry out their bloody task. TWIN BROTHERS MEET. n Augusta After a Seperation of Over Seven Years. A dispatch from Augusta says the truth of the old saying that "fact is stranger than fiction" is proved by a remarkable chance. Frank Ling ham came to Augusta several months ago from an Illinois town and en gaged board at a well known Broad street boarding house. He never talk ed of his family and none of his fel low-boarders knew he had a brother. The other night a stranger came to Augusta and engaged board at the same place. At supper some one re marked to him tha~t he looked enough like one of the older boarders, who did not happen to be present, to be his twin brother. The newcomer naturally asked the name of this dromio and was startled to hear that it was Lingham. He turned pale and gasped that he had a brother whom he had not seen or heard from in seven years. Sevreral hundred miles from home, neither perhaps, thinking of the oth er, these two men had come to the same boarding house, had picked out the same place out of the dozens in the city. Needless to say that William and Frank Linghaim, twin brothers, had a happy meeting. even though it was entirely unexpected. * No wonder the hv'i jt, 'i~V' bimself when he is (oolsh : a1 thi n he isdecivingr the Almighty. Confidente when eating, that your food is of highest wholesomeness- that it has nothing in it that can injure or distress you - makes the repast doubly comfortable and sAtisfactory. This supreme confixlence you have when the food is ra Ised with ADow oarVan PosW---e The only bang powder made with Royal Grape Cream of Tartar There can be no comfo-ting confi dence when eating alum baking pow der food. Chemists say that more or less of the alum powder inunchanged alum or alum salts remainsin thefood. Our Great Navy. - American navy today is 2,523, of Just at this time when the great which one is an admiral, 20 rear battleship fleet is making a trip admirals, and 84 captains. more thanhalfway around the world, The total number of petty oficers when the despatches are filled with and enlisted men- is now 8,500. accounts of an attempt to blow up whereas in 1885 it was only 8,250. one or two of the magnificent vessels At present there are under con in Admiral Evans' command, and struction for the navy seven battle when Hobson and the president are ships, two armored cruisers, .three striving to secure consent of scout cruisers, five torpedo-boats congress to a plan that will destroyers, two submarine torpedo mean a much greater navy in the boats two colliers, and two tugs. near future it is pleasant to know With tihese figures of Mr Forest that all the world concedes that o in mind there-is no reason for us to feel alarm-d, concludes7 the Chroni navy is the second strongest in the cle even though it mightbe well world says the Augusta Chronicle. that we maintain this position at the It is surpassed by Englands alone, cost of la-ze sums.. For the worst and will continue to be indefinitely feature o'- the present naviesis that andwil cotine t bemdeini they mu. - be constantly improved, on account of that nation's schemea t e onaut a pded as it take z o-nly about a decade foi of naval defense, always striving to them to hesome obsolete. The build as many ships annually as any ships that :iefeated Cervera. then as two nations combined. As long as fine as th! i c class anywhere in the this plan is pursued it is eviden world woud present but poor com that the United States will have t parisons azainst the vessels that are taaccompanying Admiral Evans on his contiue to allow Albion to bear the trip arot id South America. The title of Mistress of the Seas. Connecti. tt compares favorably Just wherein the excellence and with any vessel aloat with the -pos sible exception of the Dreadnaught ' strength.of our navy lies is told i and the Jpanese Satsuma both o Brassey's naval annual, which is an the sam- type. gut the exas authority in matters of the kind. which w; with Schey and Samp Comentng n tis her isalm son. the New York and the others iousmexnation tin tharer's a um- would be out of place with Evan's ly written by Newton Forest, who in Japan is building a number of the coitrse of his article tells the fig- ships mostly of the battleship class, ures in an interesting way. so is Engand and -Germany, which Gret ritin UntdSelast named niation will probably out-. Grea Brtam UntedStaes'rank us on the seas when ships now France, Germany and Japan, is the buildingsrelauniched and in commis order in which the list of the world's sin. We have in fact to look . live naval powers begins. ly if we would continue to .occupy Great Britain alone exceeds the the prou-i and peacecompelling po .sition w'e now have among the - United States in fighting forces navies of the world. aflat. To attain its position the THEpoticalotwil soo bei United States, during the twenty- 0tI oicathloo out lfoor beualn four years which have elapsed since biadte okotfrsuls the building of the modern navy be- WE do not believe that President gan, has expended $300,359,190, or Roosevelt would'support -a candi an average of nearly $13,000,000 a date for president who would be ae year. c eptable to the Wall streetintereste fA comparison of the naval strength SENATOR Latimer has introduced ofJapan and the United States is bills in the' Senate for rsublie- build doubly interesting in view of the re-igsnadoe ormetws ent departure of the American i hsSae ahblsd o fleet of battleships for the Pacific, aon oarwo is and the significance which has been attached to this event. The Amneri- TESaeo ot aoiawl an navy has on its list 29 battleship> oda l~ n h hse us of 10.000 tons and over, while Japarinti ume.I ht tt oe has 13; our navy has 11ecoast-defence fySuhGrln ol olwsi vessels, Japan 3; we have 15 armored o h is opruiy ruisers, Japan 13, But in the num- WEE h hri anm ber of torped! oats and torpedo- h a fbeHei al at boa detroersJaan s fr aead gs in oua.zno. mr on peo-bat estoyes, hil th eegtio Stat e hls o Dner United ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ H Statshsol33treo hudginte forhaina il boaldsannd 2,..orpenotheawhiskeyoques On th othr han, Jaan hao o thRE umer doubtaot Stae otes 9 sbmaine whlewe ave19. croi ng ou hotarnwd tfhemllosi In te cot ofbatteshis of one mre rthanpportuny . navythe onneticu andthe RE, ar ohnwhereuis Farnum Kans led te oters thefor winning tie, anEe biev adl wnt boat destroyer $766,66and tahelat, red tha Coua.fe h evrCn Sh e fa h torpeofoat shnd is Hotor-y coo unhs roedba crusters, hile.47 pr-the tesnwchswt iifut teted cruiera ol $5 3.6 torpe d t.Ws, tn n se a boats and.5.21torpedo-boat stoe- egts. is aiisad ae n put themothroughnadmeatpcnohperowit $50s620a98;submaie, $26,45.1. nts Fedhecopralraig Inthe ot numberttleships in thohur i adtent, itea mriav navy Conis u ; n the v ie.Pctdw ihnbkn Knsavy leadi the nayoftherathe thfor- n u btenbra 210randsJapan$has6194.0It wil thus utt- r asnce lfeat number of waship of Weislde r ikn aet in ol:Battleship sge Grat6r36.5e87.12;okfrmhedcoatr :tad tonnagerf $82302; un-dfeetdsgs ragn hmI n Sate, $11.58.16: trnedo-boat1 ter oks hti ilmk eraye, 7354.2; trpa,19,48. cat, o.I hswy hywl pn The totalonume of hipes ofsips the aphusadbecnetd interc navy is foun in the ovyae oseeryPe facttha sh ha 27 topd-bo T Whs Staten is fosebryn, nte hasony 7 trpeo-oat ad 4fllew"gtoon that pesreo sprnin ubariesandtheUuied tatshlttfoud goe tuced op. 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