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r ~ " Clearing the A With Some Discus Upper and Nether From an Editorial in th 0K art' constantly vcrifyii social order depends i .\ffairs grow worst and J':c outlook seems hop* set'Ie down into a stoli ilenly from tin mistake unexpected sign of delh heart of cheer ami. spea that peril. We take it as a good omen of social j?: n oue liatul, the exposure of the organ!: ?. ,,? Park Wl\ lUf UiUl'l, uir UJitll wii? n uvu v* ? With the proper combination of either error of the necessities 01 our intricate but it is in the highest interest of legitii have besn threatening it front above and the trusts of la 1.or?arc now. through 01 way to lose their prestige, which means Let us see what has been gained. Tt posed by the revelation of reckless met! industry hate been reduced to the rani drummed out of earn p. "The water has h <lilutod securities, though also in the pro those of the widow and the helpless and tl so sadly misplaced, tlreat is the oonser rest in the mad rush for enormous weal and thinking is about the only thing the < It will be well if the thinking goes deep ration of the financial distress caused bj down to the philosophy of happiness as r< to believe that through the sorrow that i a reaction 1'roiii the vulgar'ty of high-pile to give distinction to its votaries! to a n ness based ou the things most worth hi tentious wealth can never seem to ns so the recent revelations of toy-finance. j2? jS> Automobiles at N the whole the automobile i O marker. Affluent persons wl Island Sound and sailing up a find novelty and pleasure in y Bto go through the same exper motor-wagon, run by electric] liiire. advancing front car to < horse-power and greater speed capacity pasture and carriages to be stored to collection of devil wagons. There is no doubt that the machines u 1heir capacities to cover distance has grea they are still a fad, and in so far as they of their attractiveness. And as a fad at is told, with diagrams and pictures to b are getting uncomfortably fat. and it is a of others are not working as smoothly a sociates could wish. Can it be that autou it fuils to give its votaries due physical though it may come to he tiresome, is Horseback riding and ]>olo playing jolt advantageous to that organ. Walking and wholesome for persons whom they suit, recreation in that it engages and entertain on the body. That is a serious defect in cultivate sports, not so much as a kill-til dition as will l>est sustain the urgent act! ?-an't keep its owner "in condition." it w leave the golf-course bare of players. It who just now find it their sole recreation eises tliat exercise. Man is intended to work both with h Ingenuity succeeds in making any difflcu tenance?so easy that it is no trouble, th: measure to perform its office in keeping cnlty has to be substituted for it. If we have to invent suitable forms of trouble t< is precisely what folks do whose lives ha wise enough to realize it.?Harper's Week A Tip For Dai By L. M. Hodges ST is one of the noblest constantly 011 the look*, and kind and true. ev have our beiug in a wo ists. Indeed this very better things of far gri all to look out for the was nothing bad, large! an impossibility to fintl a waste of time to look for aught else, side of men and of things in just such a niuble and divinely related characterise of us. Long researches into the subtlei have brought us proofs undeniable that positions and, our chnraetcrs, are large with which we come in contact. If thes makes to its various calls of duty and also. If they be distorted, untrue, ugly them. Then, you say. since there is ! swiii of necessity to partake of that n: one side, and it takes a light to cast 1 brought about by laughter as well as tb wr??i-T- chnrf i?ron(- l.itv* nf romnonsnti that for everything which lacks beauty greater measure. Therefore it remains < beautiful in order that we may have it. jZ? JZ Laziness and H 37 Robert (lichens ST is really quite extraor pa rent ly normal, people thing which "goes agai some and inconvenient. < persistence will bring tl aware of this. Many si: to have the advice of a home, keep to some pn then come to him again according to his rule for a week or two errors of feeding. If one asks them wh; regimen, they will reply unblushingly. know too well poor humanity's Jack of ago visiting the late Sir Andrew Clarke, me. looked at me seriously, and said: * hut minced ehiqhen for a month':" "Of smiled slightly, and said: "Well, if you Eating minced chicken for a month difficulty in doing it. There is greater say, three-quarters of an hour, a considc nected with any game or sport. People are 110 longer human, or play tennis nm seem to he melting off their faces, hilt only three-quarters?of an hour every da Ihe physical culture of their bodies. an< doubtful and begin to murmur something to do it.'' And yet. those three-quarter! form them from feeble, ailing, grumbling men and women. itmosphere tsion of Cracks in the Millstones e Century ig the saying (hat the safe;y of '.be tpon the unwisdom ol" tlit* wicked, worse in sonic direction or other until loss ol nmelioration. :i)id the people d content with diseontent. when suds of the rogues themselves comes the rem nee. Then nl! the oppressed take kiug otti aggrfssively. make an end of [ ogress that the same week witnessed, sat ion of the Shipbuilding Trust and. ;s, the blackmailing walking delegate, capital or labor no right-minded oh* e tuodern life can have any quarrel: nate business that The tyrannies that from below?the trusts of capital and retrenching personal greed, in a fair ultimately to lose their power, le debauch of prosperity has been exIsods in "high finance." Captains of ks. and some of them deserve to be een squeezed out" of liot a few highly i-ess. alas! out of many tearful eyeshe aged whose trust in trusts has In-en rative value of this long-expected arIth. It has set the country thinking ountry had not lately done in excess. ?In, 11 tl.o mul l. rmid^u?junn n.un iuv xV... .M the traders in public confidence. and dated to wealth. We are bold enough makes us wise we are likely to reach ?d luxury (now no longer rare enough lew gospel of simplicity and genuinemug. .Meanwhile the i?ower of pre* real or awe inspi;::ig as it did before J& id Exercise s the most amusing toy now in the 10 have got tired of navigating Long nd down the Atlantic Toast in yachts, aehting on shore. Most of them seem ienee. Beginning with a modest little ity. perltaps. the? duly aspire and aei-ar. each time a bigger one with more , until they have to send horses to make room in their stables for the ire interesting, and that the testing of { fascination. But with many owners , are a fatf they will in time lose part itomobiling has some drawbacks. It iclp. that a good many automobilists matter of observation that the livers s their owners and their owners' astobiling is defective as a sjtort in that exercise? It looks that way. tiolf, an exceedingly salubrious exercise. 1 the liver in a fashion that is highly 1 I tennis keep down fat, and are plainly But automobiling. though it is a true is the mind, seems to he a hit too easy a sport, for our older men especially j hip, as to keep the body in such eonvities of the mind. If the automobile I on't have all the stable to itself, nor will not perish, of course, but persons 1 will have to supplement it with oxer- is uiiud and his body. When human J It tiling?like transportation or main- ] it particular difficulty ceases in some people healthy, and some other diffi- 1 could live without trouble we should < nkeep us from degenerating, and that 1 ve been made too easy, and who are ' iy. /2T \ Iy Living < sentiments of ltuman nature to be >nt for what is good and beautiful en though we live and move and irld where much that is opposite exfact makes the desire to see the ater merit. It would be nothing at good things m a world where there ly because, as you see. it would be I anything hut good, and therefore But to insist upon seeing the better world as this is, is not only an estik\ hut a decided help to every one sciences which surround our being our lives and our thoughts, our disly molded by the nature of things e tilings lie beautiful the answer life responsibility is apt to be beautiful . evil, the answer is apt to be like <0 much of evil the answer would it lire Rut clouds are srrav onlv on j. shallow, and tears are sometimes rough weeping, and. to make a long on lias provided in some divine way is some other thins: which has it in nily for us to seek the good and the 7 j& ealth dinary how many educated, and npseem unable to persist in doing auynst the grain.'' which is a little irkeven when they know quite well that :iem permanent benefit. Doctors are [fferers will pay two or three guineas specialist, but if he tells them to go irticular diet for three months, and , the chances are That they will live i. and then relapse into their former i y they do not stick to the prescribed i It's too difficult.'' Groat physicians [ will power. 1 remember some years k after a severe illness. lie examined j Do you think you eould eat nothing j course." I replied. "Why not':" lie can. go away and do so." is certainly a bore, hut I find little difficulty in making every day for, rnblc physical effort that is not eonwill hicyele now and then till they >v and then until their very features ask them to spend three-quarters? y of the week. Sundays included, in 1 nine out of ten of them will look : ahout the "difficulty of finding time < of an hour eaclr day would transwretches into strong, healthy, happy / CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS What the Nation's Lawmakers Are Doing Day By Day, Speaker Takes the Bit. Speaker Cannon Friday took the bit in his teeth and ran completely away with sanctified legislative precedent in the House. Incidentally he broke all pievious records in the dispatch of private pension bills. Under his guidance 320 of these measures of relief received the favorable consideration of the committee of the whole and passage by the House in the short space of 155 minutes. Nearly the whole of this time, however, was consumed ia committee of the whole. The House passed the bills "en bloc under unanimous consent, which the Speaker himself asked iur. AUUlll llUll Ul llic LfUIO n CiC uaoposed of uhder this request?those without amendment. When objection was temporarily made the Speaker plainly showed his displeasure by dragging the proceedings. The objection was withdrawn when the remaining bills were declared passed without even the formality of having the clerk read their numbers. Mr. Finley, of South Carolina, was the objector. He made the statement that ht did not consider this mode of procedure proper for a legislative body. "The objection is perfectly proper," replied Speaker Cannon. "This method of procedure could only be done by unanimous consent, and the chair has been very careful, and it is quite within the power of any member to object." Then, with a note of disappointment in his voice, he concluded: "Objection is made. The clerk will report the first bill." The first bill contained an amendment. and when the clerk announced that fact, the Speaker inquired facetiously: "Does tha gentleman from Carolina desire to hear the amendment read?" ? " HAnllorl Mr Vinler WU, 1IW, i in, * (uiv^ "Well," continued the Speaker, "the gentleman does not know what the nature of the amendment is. Neither does the chair." He then insisted on the reading of the entire amendment and, when this was done, his announcement of the third reading and passage of this bill was noticeably slow. In the meantime Chairman Loudenslager, of the pension committee, and several of Mr. Finley's Democratic colleagues went to his seat to remonstrate with, him for Ihe objection. When a fresh request for unanimous consent was made no objection was offered. Mr. Grosvenor. of Ohio, made what he declared, with some heat, was his last attempt to get a day set for the consideration of the bill creating a ioint commission to consider the question of ship subsidy. His request was that this measure be made a special order for Feb. 20. Several objections had been made and withdrawn. Mr. Hardwick. of Georgia, objected because Mr. Bartlett. his colleague, had objected when the request was made previously and was not in his seat at the time. - The Senate will vote on the Panama Canal treaty on some day between February 15 and 23. An agreement was reached in executive session today to take action on Monday next to de ude upon a time for voting on the treaty, and it was determined that such date should be on or before KebFuary 23. The Senate was in executive session tor more than four hours, and after the agreement to vote on the treaty lad been reached nearly the entire time ivas devoted to general discussion of th encroachments of the Senate and the President on each other's prerogative under the constitution. Senator Teller opened the debate on this subject. In a speech lasting more than two hours, and filled with inci- I lents where the Senate nas interrerea ; vith the President in regard to making federal appointments, he aroused a lumber of the Republican leaders to he defense of President Roosevelt, tome of the Republicans agreed that here had been many encroachments iv the White house upon the rights )f the Senate. The political phases of he debate were flnaly eliminated, with lie result that several administrations vere discussed and brought under the )an of disapproval. The first was unler the Cleveland administration, in vhich it was said that the President ispd undue influence for the repeal cf he purchasing clause of the Sherman ict. President McKlnley's influence ipon Republican members of the Senite for the ratification of the Paris reaty and President Roosevelt's irossure In bringing about the ratlficaion of the Cuban treaty, and also he influence he has brought to bear ooking to the ratification of the Panima Canal treaty, were cited as initances in which the Senate has not ,o6" cppp to ripal with these tonics iccording to individual judgment. The riticlsm was not alone of the adminstratiot). and several Senators, includng Messrs. Spooner, Allison. Dubois, 3allinger and Piatt, agreeing that the Senate had often insisted upon the ap)ointmcnt of certain men for execuive positions against the wish of the Picsidents mentioned. Steamer Ashore. New York, Special.?Marine advices eceived here reportthat the ship Henry 3. Hyde, bound from New York to Balimore, with coal, is ashore near Dam. leek life-saving station, Va., having tone ashore during a furious gale. The crew o? 14. including the captain's 7ife, were taken off safely today. Alhough the storm continued to rage, aterapts will be made to save the ship, vbicb lies in a fairly good position. > i A JAPANESE^ Brave Stand Made By Russian Ships That Went Down THEY GALLANTLY WENT TO DEATH With Bands Playing and Fleeti Cheering the Rueslans Faced th< Enemy in Prospect of Certait Death. # Nagasaki, By Cable.?The vessel" comprising the Japanese fleet whict ettacked and destroyed the Russian cruiser Varigan and Korietz at Chemuipo on the 8th inst. were the cruisers Naniwe, Akaehiho, Akashi, Suma, and the Asama. Japan did not lose a mac The survivors from the Variag and the Korietz. the Russian cruisers thai were sunk by the Japanese fleet al Chemulpo last Tuesday, still remain or board the British cruiser Talbot, the Italian cruised Elba and the French cruiser Pascal. The situation is becoming acute as the Japanese have twice made demands on the commanders of the three foreign vessels that the Russians be surrendered as prisoners of war. The captain of the Talbot, being the senior naval officer, each time replied that he was awaiting instructions from his government. None of the Russians is on board the American gun-boat Vicksb'jrg whose commander considers that I .SIB El tf MANCHUIRtfy*^ Www* y^0Mm/ %$PSt 7i4 L I ^^V/f ! z^Silow^^ ^^^^Kan?MA? ^ ^FOOCMOwN _ 3IAP OF THE SCENE OF H0STIUT1 the Japanese are right in their demand. us the Russians took advantage of the clemency of the Japanese in returning to the harbor, then taking refuge on the foreign vessels and refusing to surrender, whereas the Japanese fleet refrained from sinking them in the open sea as they could have done. A magnificent episode in the battle was the second sortie of the two Rus sian cruisers. With bands playing the national anthem, the international fleet loudly cheering the bravery and gallantry of the Russians, the Variag and Koreitz faced the Japanese fleet in what was certain death. The positions of the wreck appear to be such that it will be easy to recover the guns. The Russian losses were one officer and 40 men killed and 464 wounded. Two Killed; Seventy-five Injured. Cumberland. Md.. Special.?Two persons were killed and about 75 injured. 25 of whom were seriously hu: t. in a trolley < ar accident in Frostburg Sunday. The car ran away, on a steep grade and crashed into a telephone pole. The dead are: John Gough, of Midland: J. J. Ross, of Laconing. i Gorman's Challenge. Washington. Special.?In the report on the naval appropriation bill made to the House by Chairman Foss. of the naval affairs committee, the gauntlet thrown down by Senator Gorman in his announced policy of internal imp'ovements in place of naval construc...ifV. vimr Thf re lion, IS laivcw up mill . .0v... port says: j "If we judge public sentiment aright I it is in favor of the continuance of the policy of building up the navy. If we stopped now we would be left and behind the leading countries of the world. "The Amer'can people are not willing to lessen, their influence on this hemisphere, nor forsake their interests on the other." 1,800 Reported Killed. > Nagasaki, By Cable.?Six Norwegian steamers chartered by a Russian naval :oHtractor have been captured. The vc-ssels are the Lena. Aotiv, Sentis, Seirstadt. Argo and Hermis. They carried coal cargoes. The Hermis arrived here Sunday and under convoy of a cruiser. It is rumored that 1.800 Japanese soldiers have been killed, presumably by the sinking of a transport. Disturbances are reported in Seoul. RUSSIAN FIGHT j Tokio Celebrates Victory. Tokio, By Cable.?The night celebration far exceeded that of the day in noisv enthusiasm. Many impromptu | processions of thousands of men were I I formed and paraded through the principal streets, and surged about the public building6 and the palace, carry' lng banners and cheering wiilly. The ; Russian legation was dark and silent. ! No unfriendly demonstration was made there by the immense crowd constantly passing it, but Baron De Rosen's associates plainly heard the din and noise of the triumphant people. ! Bands, drums and horns added volume , to the cheers of the noisy populace. Every reveller carried a lantern, flag or transparency. The people have been restrained and calm for so many s months that they are pouring out their I long pent-up feelings into a wildly enthusiastic celebration of victory. It was Manila. Ladysmith and Santiago 1 nights duplicated, with an Oriental t setting. Hurry Orders at Colon, i Colon, By Cable.--J7urry orders were s received yesterday to embark a battalion of marines on the Prairie. A 1 special train left Colon this morning and returned at noon with the 450 t marines who were encamped at Ba3 Obispo station on the Panama railroad. The Prairie's boats were kept busy all day embarking the camp fittings, . baggage, stores, etc.. and this task is , not yet finished. Major Lucas will command the battalion and the Prairie * will sail under sealed orders. It has i I nn? Vom that ths m o r I n pu arp ? itaAru uUl Ut4t H??v tuv tMM* ...vw i destined for Santo Dotrlngo. Only about 100 marines now remain at Bas . Obispo. arjBMMMMaaaMapMWBH pa i(to j f^APANj? * >en3?n y ijal < y) llf i **? ?,? S.CALI Or MtkCt - y LKS BETWEEN* JAPAN' AND KUSS1A. London. By Cable.-The Daily Mail, 1 the Daily Telegraph and other papers ; publish disratches from Tokio, Naga! saki and Shanghai, reportiig the dc j struction of three Russian cruisers by mines or torpedoes in Tsugari Straits. The Daily Mail, which at i first described the news as official, iu a telegram says the report still lacks absolute confirmation. In the absence of confirmation the reports are generally discredited. A statement that China will maintain neutrality is published in Pekin. It is reported from Tien Tsin that all foreigners end civilians have been ordered to leave Port Arthur. It is also reported that the Siberian railroad has been wrecked in six places, covering a distance of seventy miles. " | New Steamship Service. Roston. Special.?Announcement was made that a new steamship service had been inaugurated between the Mediter1 ranean ports and this city. The steam; c:s of the new line are all under Ital;nn registry. On their outward trips they ! will not load here, but will proceed to New Orleans and Galveston, where they j will oad cotton, provisions and general merchandise for Mediterranean ports. i Judge Brewster Dead. Danbury, Conn.. *? ?Judge Lyman Dcniscn Brewster, a jurist of na tioual reputation, is dead at his home in this city Sunday. He was a charter ; member of the American Bar Association. From 1890 until the beginning of the.present year he was chairman cf : the committee on uniform State laws. ; The uniform divorce law, which is j expected will be adopted by nearly every State in the Union, was drafted l by Judge Brewster. He was associated ! with Joseph H. Chcate. now United States ambasastlor to England, in ' breaking the will of the late Samuel J. | Tilaen. . I \ Turks Attacked. ; Berlin. By Cable.?The Frankfurter Zeitung Salonica corespondent telegraphs that a Bulgarian band, numbering 100. has been attacked at Evhumbala by Turkish frontier guards, who were reinforced by two companies of infantry. The battle, the correspondent adds, lasted a long time and the Bulgarians fled at night, leaving twelve dead on the field. The Turkish loss was one man kiled and two wounded. / . ' TEN IUSSIAN SHIPS SUNK. Japan Strikes Hard and Fast?The Japanese Did Not Lose a Ship. London. By Cable.?Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minister here, has received official confirmation from Tokio of the destruction at Chemulpo, cf the Russian first-class cruiser Variag and the third-class cruiser Korietz. The text of the official dispatch received by Baron Hayashl is as follows: "On Monday, a Japanese squadron escorting transports met on the way to Chemulpo, Korea, the Russian gunboat Korietz, as the latter was coming out of port. The Korietz took up n nffpneivA attitude towards the Ja panese vessels and fired on the Japanese torpedo boats. The latter discharged two torpedoes ineffectively and then the Korieta returned to. her anchorage in the port. "Early in the morning of Tuesday Admiral Urik. commanding the Japanese squadron, formally called on the Russian warships to leave Chemulpo before noon. The admiral added that if his demand was not complied with he would be compelled to attack them in the harbor. The two Russian warships left the port at about 11:30 a. m. and a battle ensued outside the Polynesian Islands. After about an hour's engagement the Russian warships sought refuge among the islands. Towards the evening the Russian cruiser Variag sank and about 4 a. m. today, Feb. 10, the Korietz was ported to have also sunk, having been blown up. The officers and men of the two sunken vessels sought refuge on the French cruiser Pascal. There were no casualties on the Japanese side." A summary of the losses sustained by Russia in the first 24 hours of the nrlfh To no n ahnwo that 14) Ptioafan j n cu n uu uo^uu OUVTVO MU*V AV warships were placed out of action in one way or another and that the Japanese did not lose a ship. The losses were as follows: ' Battleship Retvizan, torpedoed and beached at Port Arthur. Battleship Czarevitch. torpedoed and beached at Port Arthur. Battleship Poltava, hole below water line at Port Arthur. Armored cruised Boyarin. disabled by Japanese Are at Port Arthur. Cruiser Pollada, torpedoed at Port Arthur and beached. Qruiser Novilt, hole below water line at Port Arthur. Cruiser Askold, hole below water line at Port Arthur. Cruiser Diana, hole below water line at Port Arthur. First-class armored cruiser Variag, . destroyed at Chemulpo, Korea. Torpedo gun vessel Korietz. dcrtroyed at Chemulpo. Manifesto of Nicholas. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?The Oificial Messenger Tuesday morning contains the following: "Supreme Manifesto: "By the grace of God, we Nicholas, Emperor and autocrat or an me Russians. make known to^our loyal subjects: "In our solicitude for*the maintenance of peace, which is dear to our heart, we made every exertion to conserve tranquility in the far East In these peaceful aims we signified our assent to the proposals of the Japanese government to revise agreements regarding Korean affairs between the two governments* The negotiations begun on this subject were not brought to a conclusion and Japan, not awaiting the iast responsive proposal of our government. declared negotiations broken off and diplomatic relations with Russia dissolved. Without advising us that a breach of such relations would mean the opening of warlike operations, the Japanese government ordered its torpedo boats to attack suddenly our squadron in the outer harbor of Port Arthur. Upon receiving reports from the Viceroy of the far Ea?t about this, we immediately commanded him to answer the Japanese challenge with an armed force. "Making known this our decision, and with firm expectation of and reliance upon the unanimous willingness of all our loyal subjects to stand with us in defense of the Fatherland, we ask God's blessing upon our stalwart land and naval forces. (Signed) "NICHOLAS." Libel Suit for $30,000. Pensacola, Fla., Special.?A libel auit for $30,000 was filed in the United. States Court here by John H. Thompson, administrator of the estate of Jefferson Davis, of Mobile, Ala., against the Linea de Vapores Serra, a corporation known as the Serra Line of Steamships of Bllboa, Spain. The suit also named the Spanish steamer Vlrina. one of the vessels owned by the firm and which is now in port, and the vessel was taken into custody by the United States marshal and is held. The suit is brough on account of the death of Jefferson Davis in Mobile harbor several months ago, ^'-ik* it is said, he was at work on the *>Geamer Alicia, also owned by th*'. coinn??y. Starch Factory Burned. " " r% 1-1 m.- _.u: US A ego, .r\. x., special.?nrc * men started in the chemical room of the Corn Product Company's starch factory threatens the destruction of the whole establishment. Aid has been requested frcm Syracuse and three engines have arrived from there. The plant is the largest starch factory in the world. The loss will not be less than S500.000. Addressed Virginia Committee, Richmond, Va., Special.?Colin McIsaac, commissioner general of the Lewis and Clark centennial exposition, Oregon, addressed committeo of both houses of the Legislature in behalf of the enterprise he represents. It is desired that Virginia shall take special * Interest in the exposition referred to, Lewis and Clarke both having been Virginians. 1