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r , . ^?MM , f~ ? ..The.. | Pay of College Professors j jJ By president Charles F. Thwing, of Western I Reserve University. w t..'. f , T lhe present time the salaries cf most college teachers are * 3S as the salaries of most clergymen of the cities or I I l0Wns in which these colleges are placed. There are, of W JL\ f course, exceptions upon each side. In Cleveland, for inI I staQce, salaries are paid to clergymen higher than are paid III )t0?hn^ co|,ege officer. But in Cambridge and Boston, as - salaries are paid to college officers as are paid to any I clergyman. The higher salaries paid in the University ot ' to th , , Chicago are probably about equal to the higher salaries paid 8>men of that city. Certain phvsicians. especiallv surgeons, earn Qtvinimta tknr A(>. 41 . . " " mU ? 3nr onllMr* ma a. iUC ?aiu o ,.^e ^ame lemark might fce made respecting lawyers. Bat the salaries ? ?. c lt0^s are- on l^e whole, not so large as those paid to college profes* ?ipmunt *ou,d usually, also, 1 suppose, be acknowledged th: . there are other hi th 8 m wor^ of an editor, some more agreeable, o:;iers less agreeu ' *n are man>' Parts of college teaching. On the basis, ti. relore. of Adam f s pr'nciples, it is hard to make an argument for larger pay for college essors. On the basis of temporary conditions and feelings, of individual oe s and relationships, it would be easy to make an argument. But the prncpes are permanent, the feelings and conditions temporary. It should. wever, be said that it would be advantageous to the community for professorship to command a larger salary, because the college would, through a term of years, be able to command a finer type of the man, of the scholar and of the gentleman. College places should never be so rich as to become objects of avariciousness but they should be made so full and noble as to become 0 jects of worthy ambition for human service.?Harper's Weekly. V f\ r hi/} f*^\ f The Ijeal Pat// Jones *1 1 iHERE is in the Library of Congress at Washington a large collection of manuscripts relating to Paul Jones. He him. J ^ was a voluminous correspondent, diarist and writer, I possessing a lucid and direct style. Beside his own, there I | ? are letters to and about him, and various memoranda conI cerning him. They have never been printed in full, but ex* I tracts from them corroborate the judgment that Paui Jones ' ^was neither merely the lurious sea bully that certalu Briti?*1 writers have plctu -ed him. nor yet the fortunate and recklessly adventuresome ocean free lai ce that certain American historians nrtrtmvt.fi w? rwasossfvi nor onlv * commanding mind and an undaunf d resolution, but a cool temper and a magnanimous spirit. He was tried^by every extreme of fortune, and his life was as checkered and as illustrious, and his end as pathetic as that of the brilliant byt unhappy Clive. But Paul Jones is easily the most picturesque figure in American sea annals. "Had he lived to my time," said Bonaparte, ten years later, "France might have had one great admiral." What he would have done with the resources of France ar^ rayed against a Nelson can only he conjectured. But his spirit and ability would have won distinction in any field. He was the intimate of philosophers, statesmen and scholars. After his great victories he was made a chevalier of France, whieh country was then at war with England, and was for a ttme a lion in fashionable circles?a veritable "uncrowned knight of the sea." as he was dubbed by a dnchess of the blood royal. He never married. He was but thirty-two when he won his last great victory for his adopted land, and so lukewarm were his friends, so malevolent his enemies, that during the seven I years of the Revolutionary war th's most restless, vigilant, and efficient of our sea heroes was actually able to be at sea in full command of ships of leas than six months all told.?Outing Magazine. ^ ^ W- ' I | The Insolence of Office" | ^ By "Eddy S. Brandt ^ F Mr. Shakespea e could have h.d the pleasure of riding on * ? % the New York subway, and been,greeted at every station X _.???. uvoiv nir-nsp-'f if he could onlv have 1*1111 IUC IIUU'VUI MW ? ...V v , SIX been met by the average young office boy, whose impudent Z stare suggests that you are intruding into his private dottllMMM main; if he could have been ushered into the presence of ^ the gauking third assistant in the next office, and from there turned over to the blunt and uninviting second and first assistants, when Mr. Shakespeare, I say. did at last reach the sanctuary of the average business manager, having run the gauntlet of attendants and assistants, the wise old poet would have opened up with stronger language than those words, "tho insolence of office!" Of course, the average office assistant does not mean to be discourteous, but it does seem to be very hard for him to be genial. His boss, the head of the firm, is a man of few* words. The assistant copies his manager's bluntness and forgets that he has not the brains or tact or occasion to support the attitude. It becomes discourtesy in the assistant, whereas it is a Just form of command in the chief. . "The insolence of office!" And the degree of insolence seems to vary in Inverse ratio to the height of the position. In not a few offices every stranger who enters is an opportunity for the assistant to liberate his importance, ^ especially if the manager "is out." Sometimes this attitude is not expressed in actions, but discourtesy, it should be remembered, is simply a lack of courtesy?a negative quality. And when the right atmosphere is wanting an office, the stranger is the first to be impressed with that fact. Kindness should first be a pleasure, and next a business rule. Commerce ' often waite QP courtesy.?Tha Business World. / ^ & & & ~ s _ 5 I \ Turning Our Deserts Into | | .. Date Orchards.. I y ffjr Rene Bache. J HllllllttHr to do with our deserts in the southwest nas long been a nuzzling problem, which the department of agriculture is J X trying to solve by importing plants of economic usefulness J W "W T that thrive in extremely dry regions of the Old World. Ex{ %/%/ * periments in this line are being made with the pistachio X T i nut which, as has been found, when grafted upon wild J a stocks obtained from the Sahara, will endure heat and ? 7. ~t draught almost without limit. Choice varieties of date ***.* palms, also, have been fetched from the Persian Gulf and from Saharan oases, and plantations of them are being started. We import ?ix hundred thousand dollars' worth of dates annually, which might just as well be produces in this country, and there is no reason why we should not erow superior kinds, whkih are never seen on this side of the water, such'hs ? /\f aii*> rlncortc q rn for Hrvor than tka CaKmwa 1 the famous Lfegiei ?wr. ovmc ? ?, ? ? ^ U(iUa,0i but are all the better for dates on that account?a remark especially applicable to the Colorado desert, in southwestern California, which, most of it being below the level of the sea and Just about the hottest place on earth, is likely at no distant day to become, with the help of irrigation, one of the nrer4-st date-growing region! on the globe.?Outing Magazine. v.? - -r ^_^f*ERHAPS NOT HIS LAST. COULDN'T BE OUT. "There got^s Muchwedd." I'm looking for Miss Passay," said . "Is that his^lan wife he has with the stranger to the man in the hair bim?" dresser's shop. "I understand she oc# "Well, it's h^s latest." cupled the upper floors here."*' i ? "So she does," ed the man, NATURALLY. " and she's in 7">w Grayce?MarryMiipa? "But I got n to the bei' Gladys?^hy^ot? Are you sure 'Jrayce? He's 'feet eflod. "Positive p^Vr I Will Fffllfll I7F TiXFS T T ILL L^Vllbibk ....... i Comptroller General of South Carolina Taking Active Steps to Wipe Ont Injustice of Present Tax Assessment System. Columbia. Special. ? Comptroller General Jones means business in the steps lie lias taken toward fretting ilie tax assessment of propeity, real as well as personal, in this State on a market value basis, instead of on an uneven pretense of a GO per cent, basis. The cireular letter of instmc *-? . >?!< li><? wt'i'k to I u?:i> IVIIK II lie mui ....I ...... .. . county auditors, assessing boards and county equalizing boards directing tli.*;: the law be strictly observed with tl - beginning of the new year and tli.'*J property be assessed uit its true mv* ket value, will be followed1 this wet!; by a call for a convention of county auditors to meet with the comptroller general has taken has caused much talk throughout the State ami has set property holders to thinking. Of course it is a sort of revolutionary measure, and while the justice and the sense of it has appealed to many good business mep and big property holders regardless of the fact much of this sort of property will be affected, still the thing has not been generally understood said there is a fear also that the purpose of the comptroller general to equalize tiie projjerty throughout the State more nearly will not be sucessful under the departure be is making on account of the great proficiency and skill individuals ami communities have acquired by long practice and experience in the matter of tax-dodging. "The erroneous idea apeais to have taken hold in various parts of the State.'* Mr. .Jones said, "that this is a scheme to increase the taxes. Such is not the case. My object is to get projierty equalized in this State and 1 *! ?? ^Knmafiil tov ilrultruiir Thprfl I I III:* ?*lltl UK" 1 II I IUA UWMpilii,. 3re some notorious exceptions, but generally speaking the cotton mills ami other hi? propertv holders are being jffc.-essed on a genuine tit) per cent, basis, ind small property is being assessed ut t'rom J) to 100 per cent. Only so much money is needed to run the State and many county officials and the higher the assessment the greater the yield of money on .a given levy, but the levy may be easily changed.^ In other words, if the assessment is doubled throughout the State the levies for State, couuty and city purposes may be cut itrbalf. The -inequality and injustice of the taxation of property in this State has been a shame and a disgrace for decades. 0 S. C. Baptists. The South Carolina Baptist convention has been asked to endorse compulsory education' and the establishment of a reformatory for youthful criminals in a memorial to the Legislature. The request comes in the form of a petition from Graniteville, one of the oldest centers of common school education in the State, though it is one of the chief cotton mill centres, The petition was referred to a committee which will report before adjournment is had. This section of the State is also the chief hope of Representative Toole, of Aiken, of succeeding with his ten-hour labor kill, which lie'-pushes session after session with a plodding patience and pcisistency that at least evinces the determination and faith of the man. Another matter that attracted the attention and engaged the thought of the convention was the masterly handling of the delicate subject. "I)o the Scriptures Teach a Divine Call to the Ministry?" by the Rev. C. C. Brown, of Sumter. He argued with force and great logic that they do. He was opposed with an able presentation of the other side of the question by the Rev. Dr. A. C. Osborne. The convention has elected these officers for the coming year: ('. A. Smith, president: William II. Lvles ami the Rev. ,J. T. Hieis. vice-presidents; the Rev. Dr. ('. P. Irvin. secretary: the Rev. V. I. Masters, assistant secretary; the Rev. J. L. Yaps, treasurer. | The\ report of the trustees of the Connie Maxwell orphanage showed 1S3 orphans being cared for in a splendid way. the Hnancial report indicating that the institution has a strong hold on the affection of the Baptists of the State. v $16,000,000 Appropriation Bill. Washington, Spepial.?A bill to provide appropria* n of $16,000.00# for the Panama (I il Commission, to be immediately ave^able for the purpose of liquidating the cost of the work of construction, has been prepared ami will he introduced in the House, probably Monday, on the opening day of the fifty-ninth Congress. The hill stipulates that money shall be refunded through the sale of bonds provided by the Spooner act and these bonds, to be taxable at a rate of one half of one per cent., when deposited to secure the circulation on the same basis as government twos. , W 1 ? No Decision Was Given. Baltimore. Special.?Jack Johnson and You lie Peter Tackson, both erf whom are credited to California, met in a twelve round tight before the Eureka atlilectic club. At its conclusion no decision was 'riven. Johnson had undertaken to knock Jackson out within the twelve rounds or take the smaller end of the receipts. He tailed to so. ' Life-Saving Service P?eport. ^Yashington, Special?The report of Superintendent Kimball of the Life ' Saving Service, for the last fiscal year shows that the life saving crews saved and assisted in ?saving 464 imjieriled vessels and thejp" cargoes, besides affording r>r?:<r*Bfce of ? or '' im\ PALMETTO AFFAIRS > 1 Occurrences of Interest From All Over South Carolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS [ c A Batch of I.ive Paragraphs Cover- * ing a Wide Range?What is Going j" On in Our State. r t Claimr Agent ?Tar;ed .Governor f Tlir^ard h (!: cnor Hey van! aui]?>**i;t-c?t tli.nl ? li'1 had closed a contract with W. |<?*vci Kvans to represent the Stale v of South Carolina as agvir. i.i propnr- ' ing data on which to secure1 the pay- *; of claims due. this State from the |C Spanish-American war. These claims amount to about $55000 or $40,000, it is said. The agent will get 15 per cent., but a part of this will be paid to Messrs. Calhoun & Sizer of Washington, D. ('., who have already done a great deal of work on the preparation of these claims. But a month remained before these claims would have been barred by statute of limitation, as the act of (^ingress declares that the claims must ,,e filed before January 1st, 1006, or 'iliev will not be valid. The agent whom Gov. Hey ward has appointed has been engaged in this work since he was tirst appointed by Gov. Kllerbe, to whom he was private secretary. Gov. Hey ward would make no contract except by special provision authorized by the legislature. The funds will be disbursed by the comj)- j troller general's office. The Class of Claims. The claims due to the Stale of South Carolina is the raising of Span- . ish-American war troops are of the . following nature: (a) Extra pay due to soldiers who . were accepted into the service from ^ the date they voluntcred at their , homes in different parts of the State until they Avere accepted and mustered into the United States army by the mustering officer. vb) Pay due those soldiers who volunteered at their homes and came to /the place of rendezvos and were ex- . amined by the mustering officer and turned down on'account of physical \ disability. , (c) Compensation for all matcral , and expenses ocurred by tie governor , in raising these troops, such as supplies, etc., funiished by the the State on the order of the governor, f (d) Damage done to oroperty of 3 anv individual bv ihe soldiers while 1 at their rendezvous before they left : th? State. The bulk of the money is service : pay for the men of the two regiments : and the battery of heavy artillerv ^ from this State. Adj. fJen. Frost 1 has declined to let the claims ajrtnt remove the 27 rolls of these or- : ionizations, but certified copies will \ be made from the records in the adju- | tent general's office. The adjutant 1 ireneral will assist in making the cop- 1 ies and will prove them. t A Dairy for Charleston. Charleston, Special.?C. F. Hott- j in?er has becun the erection of one of the largest and'most improved daries j in Charleston, the plant beincr situated r in the suburbs of the city. In a section drained and reclaimed bv the ( (. harlcston drainage commission. Hottinger has purchased a tract of SO acres on which the neessarv buildings . are now being1 erected. The place is, J to be a model plant in every way ? t Lumber Kilns Earned. t Georgetown , Special.?The dry i kilns of the Gardner & Lacey Lumber c company were partially destroyed by t fire and a large amount of lumber con- t sinned. The flames spread from the t kilns to the lumber piles on the yard, and at one time it seemed that the en- ^ tire stock, together with the tramways and the planing mill, would certainly be burned. But little wind was blowing. and the firemen did fine work j with the fire protection apparatus installed in the plant in confining the ' fierce flames to a limited area. The c loss cannot be estimated but it is j heavy. A Trestle Burned. Sumter.-Special.?For the second time within a few months the trestle over the Southern railroad at Green 1 1 Swamp, one mile from the city, was < burned at 3 o'clock. This trestle is c nearly 200 yards long and about 30 ] feet high. The origin of the fire is 1 unknown. The construction train is i here a id is rebuilding it. Until it is /Completed the Southern trains will < come in on the Atlantic Coast Line I # i May Deve lop Water Power. ' Spartanburg, Special.?A party of j Pittsburg capitalists have been in the , city for several days for the purpose j of inspiring several water powers in this region. The party accompanied by several local capitalists inspected a site on Broad River which is owned by persons here. It is the purpose of the Pittsburg men to build an electric power development if they ' obtain the desired site and transmit the current thus generated to sevral enterprises and manufacturing plants in the county. 1 Football Is a hard and dangerous game at best. Even when played fair*ly and henorably the strain on the p'ayers is great, and the chance of injury considerable. But when tricky and dishonorable tactics are employed, when men are coached to put formidable rivals out of the' game by deliberately injuring them?as is sometimes vhe case?and when roughness Is cn'tivated as being In Itself a desirable quality, it is time that some efforts were made to reform the game' or perhaps, better, to reform the men no "av ?t 4h'nkg, tie Indknjpoli* 30NSTABLES_T0 REMAIN ftiey Will Stay in Spartanburg and Greenville. .After careful consideration Gov. leyward decided not to remove contabulary from Greenville and Sparanburg counties. He also decided to eturn the constables to Darlington ounty to assist the officials tliere in he enforcement of prohibition: the onditions there beine: such that he elt this action on his part fully waranted. Governor Hey ward further stated hat he had found it necessary from >ast experience, where elections were icld voting out the dispensary to deermine upon a fixed policy and not lave the question arising in each case fViofkor r?r not oon?jtihl*-; should be mployed. The situation under these ircumstr.noes may appear not to have lifficulties to tlirse who are unfamiiar with all of his aspects but it cerainlv presents perplexing questions n eaeh instanee. The governor referred to the statenent, made by him some time ago, hat he would give the counties an >pportunity to enforee the law thro heir legal officials, as several counties lad voted the dispensary out with his understanding. He feels that it vas only just to them that the contables should not immediately be reurned but he would await further re x>rts and would not hesitate to take luch action as he thought the situaion demanded. Governor Heyward feels that is is is necessary to employ constables in he enforcement of prohibition as unler the dispensary law, and as the law daces upon him this responsibility, le says he does not propose to shirk t. New Enterprises. | The North Carolina Land Company ecured a commission from the Secreary of State. The company is capialized at $50,000 and the corporators ire: D. C. Heyward, F. H. Hyatt, Sdward Ehrlich, Augustus Koha and iV. D. Melton. The company proposes developing the land recently purihased north of the city and a defilite announcement as to its purposes vill be made in a few days by the lirectors. There were a number of other comnisions and chartedrs. The Sraoothng Iron Heater Company of Sumter vas chartered. The company win lave a capital of $25,000. E. L. iVitherspoon is the president, C. M. iest is vice-president and J. Bt iVitherspoon secretary and treasurer. The St Matthews Telephone com>any was comroisioned. The capital tock is $2,500 and T. H. Dreher, G. i. Baxter and others are the petitiolers. The Piedmont Grocery Company of Spartanburg was commissioned. The apital is $50,000 and G. W Steplis, V. G. Leg and Brooks Rogers, all of firginia, are t'.ie petitioners. The Cold Point Granite Company >f Laurens county, a quarry concern, vas given a commission. This eom>any will have a capital stock of >30,000 and M. A. Carlisle, G. R 3rvant, S. B. Aull and others are he petitioners. The Eddy Lake Cypress Company >f Horry county'increased its capial from $20,000 to 300,000, a part of vhich goes for the construction of a ocal railroad for the carrying on >f the lumber business. 3oroner and Jury Disagree on the Finding. Winnsboro, Special.?The coroner's ury found that the killing of W.Bose Durham, colored, by a train of the Mint hern railway, was acidental and hat no blame should be attached to he railroad but to this verdict Magstrate P. M. Cathcart, acting coroner, lemurred, as the train, acording to the estimony, was running over six miles in hour, the speed limit prescribed by he ordinance of the town. BigJity-Five Majority Against Dispensary Kingstree, Special.?F;:U reports :rom the various polls are now oblainable and the total vote oil the juestion of "dispensary" or "no dis>ensary" in Williamsburg county mows a majority of So votes in falor of "no dispensary." Spartanburg Dispense ry.. Spartanburg. Special.-County Beer Dispenser Thackston's doors are dosed, and his stock will be checked >ver by Dispeusiary Inspector Mart Floyd. It is understood that very little stock is on hand. At the several other dispensaries, since the conviction of dispenser Riebling, purchasers of beer have to drink it out in the yard and not on the premises. The entrances to the adjoining quarters to the beer dispensaries are securely barred, and those who delight in partaking of the beverage seek the yards in the rear of the establishments. Darlington's Quota. Darlington, Special.?Mr. E. McIver Williamston forwarded to Mr. F. H. Hyatt, the treasurer of the Southern Cotton association in this ? 't- r? if/iAA io State, a cnecK xor .tuw, nuuu m Darlington's collection of the tax of 10 cents per bale on the cotton raised collected to pay the expenses of the association. Mr. Williamson made a : thorough cavass of the county and i the result shows that good work has been done here for the association. A Farm House Burned. Spartanburg, Special?The dwelling of Mr. Wallace Littljohn and almost all of its contents was consumed by fire last week. Mr. Littlejohn lived near Rich- About 11 o'clock flames were discovered in,the upstairs of the building, and the ' family, consisting of the man, his sick wife and foui children, had a ntrrow escape insetting out aliyg. C ly a -ewin/ * and a *eaf r r frightful Slaughter Wrought By Government Vessels CONQUEST OF THE INSURGENTS Desperate Struggle Between Mutinous Sailors and the Loyal Troops at Russia's Black Sea Stronghold End in Victory to the Latter?Fire From Fleet of Ten Ships Was Opened on the Batteries and the Town and a Furious Exchange of Fill; Continued For Two Hours and a Half. | St. Petersburg, By Cable?ScbastoI pol was ibe scene-of a desperate battle between the mutinous sailors and I the troops in the forts on shore. During the battle the town and the forts were bombarded by the gun? of the cruiser Otchakoff, which now lies a burning wreck off Admiralty Point its hull riddled with shells and its flaunting* red ensign of revolution hauled down. Many of the crew of the Otchakoff were killed or wounded. According to one report the barracks of the mutineers was carried by storm after the mutinous fleet, which is said to 1 have numbered ten vessels, had surrendered, and the whole position is now in the hands of the troops under the command of General Neplueff. unable to guarantee the correctness of this report. The commander of the Otchakoff. Lieutenant Schruid, immediately accepted the challenge, replying with both batteries, one trained on the town and tie other on the Fort Alexander batteries, on the north shore. Captain Zilotti. aide de eame to Admiral Wirenius. ehief of the naval general staff, informed the Associated Press that the latest dispatches re eeived from Sebastopol showed that the Otchakoff was on fire and badly riddled, with its revolutionary colors hauled down, hut he was unable to fcive more definite information. According to a more detailed,report ffrom another source and purporting to come from the Admiralty, tbe battle tuwran at oVIock. when Lieut I ??. ^ enant Sell mid, not receiving a reply to the demands of the mutineers, opened fire from a fleet of ten ships, to which the northern batteries at Fort Alexander, artillery posted 011 the .shore and several vessels which remained loyal replied. During the naval battle the sailors on the shore, entrenched in the barracks, defended their position with machine guns and rifles against the attacking infantry. After an engagement lasting two and a half hours, with the Otchakolf riddled and od tire and the cruiser Dniper and another vessel sunk, Lieutenant Sehmid who had been badly wounded, surren! dered the entire squadron. The mil| tinous sailors on shore surrendered | to the Brest and Bielistok KcgiI ments. I According to this rejiort. the Pnnteieimon, formerly the Kninz Potcrakine, was injured below the water line and a torpedo ls?at is ashore on the rocks. No details of the casualties or of the damage suffered by the town are j obtainable by the Admiralty, but j owing to the confined space in which the action was fought it is improba ble that the town escaped witnoui heavy damage. The demands ol" the mutineers are said to have included, besides the L"> proj)osals dealing with service condi| tions, the eouvocation of a constituent Assembly and the complete realizutioif of the liberties promised by the imeprial manifesto. Deranged by Hard Study. Columbia, Teun.?Special?A tragedy in which two close friends lost their lives occurred near Rally Hill, in Maun- county. The dead are Fred Early and Henry Coleman. Early killed his friend and then himself. Both men were theological students. Early's mind is thought to have become deranged by hard study. Roosevelt's Thanksgiving. Washington, Special.?The President and Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by two of their children, Archie and Ethel, left Washington foe Plain Dealing, their country home in Virginia. where they spent Thanksgiving quietly. They returned to Washington Friday. Plain Dealing is about ten miles from Red Hill, which is-121 miles south of Washington, and was recently purchased by Mrs, Roosevelt. Two cooks from the White House accompanied the party to prepare tlis Thanksgiving dinner. Carolina Wins. Norfolk, Va., Sjjecial.?In the preso i ? aoi\ 1 _ _x 1 p ence ot io.uuo peopie, ai iea>. nan ui whom were supporters of the White and Blue, Carolina Thursday afternoon, defeated her old rival, Virpfnia, in a fast and furious pa me of football, file Carolina eleven piled up 17 points while her opponents were being held in complete control and kept fiom crossing the goai line. Two Killed by a Train. Philadelphia, Special.?While walking the tracks of the Reading Railroad on their way to catch a trolley, which would ipke them to " me at Langhorne,' Penusylvai of three persons. prominc. home society, were run d New York" Express^. Mir bier was instantly killeo ^rude Pc'>a{I had both r* lie. The ny*k sissai^ Status of (he Isle of Finally Determined \ BjB HOPES OF SETTLERS BUOu M Secretary Boot Writes in Warn ^^9 Tone* to the American Ooloni |^H Who Have Been Working To^a HH Secession From Cuba and Inci IB 8ion in the United States u a Te: ritorial Possession. .*>*> Washington, Special.?The admin^HH istration dashed the hopes of the tie band of American colonists on the Isle of Pines, who have been working voward the separation of the island T from Cuba and its inclusion in the, . * United States, when Secretary Root, < after consultation with the' Presidents^nB made public the text of a letter which he had addressed to Charles Ravnard, president of the American Chtb of the/ Isle of Pines, defining the attitude ef: the United States government- toWaAggfl the proposed formation of a Tevritorial government in the island as m: y* part of the United States. The Se^r retarv was most pointed in the statements in his letter, which says: t /vitfS 4'There is no procedure by whifk>^ you and your associates can lawfuliy establish a Territorial government' g in that island. The island is ly subject to the control ambgpverxH'' } meut of the republic of Cuba, aajPl M you and your associates are bound to, render obedience to the lawp of that country so long as you remain mjfce 4 gj island. If you fail in that obedi*9?? fl yon will be justly liable to proseeo*^ 3 tion in the Cnban courts and to suel|i$il ] punishment as may be provided by>^ ; the laws of Cuba for such offense ?gj^ you commit. You are not likely t??"^gy have any greater power in tbe futuepU^H The treaty now pending before Senate, if approved by thai relinquish all claim of the Unitp|Lfc?q^ States to the Isle of my* judgment the United^ftatS^M nosubstantial claim tojme Isle of The treaty merely~1tccords to what is hers in accordance with teroational law and! justice. i j "At the time of the treaty of peacdyg which ended the war between the^/ i United States and Spain, the Tslc'of M Pines was, aifd has been for several centuries, a part of Cuba. I have doubt whatever that it continues t^^H be a part of Cnba, and that it is ne^^H and never has been territory of United Statea. You may be quite suJHH that Cuba will never consent to np the Isle of Pines, and that ^HH| United States will never try to e^H^B pel her to gira it up against^H^H A Minister of War Resigns.: , I San Domingo, By Cable.?At a cabr-wl H net meeting the minister of waf ! H signed to become commander of tha army. Governor Carlos Ginebra was ,v"B appointed minister of war. n change was the outcome of a cabinot^ A crisis (luring which the minister of fl war took charge of the fortress the purpose of maintaining orde&Mj ' Great excitment followed and severdK/" arrests were made. Quiet lias been vjj restored and the crisis is considered ..A By Wire and Cable. L&ll j By a decision of the Supreme Cwurt $ m Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland I A-ins n victory in his fight for tkree-\ cent fares. On one ground or another all . the other franchise ordinances ^ | granted by the Cleveland eity eoun-e| I cil proposing three-cent fares ha*s? I been set aside by the courts in uti^jW gat ion inspired by the opposition com- W A special from New York city says: Geoi^e Aekerman, 23 ye^rs old, and . convicted of illegal voting at lie re- j cent eity and county election, was sen- ' tenced to the EIraira reformatory for lo^a than 14 mnnfls W uu 1 "? MM? ??? /The Presbyterian Synod of Texai * adopted a resolution dismissing the Rev. Wm. Caldwell, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Fort Q 1 \ Murderer Patrick's Move Fails. ' Albany, N. Y., Special.- JfcBj|L^ J of Appeals denied the moti M behalf of Albert T. Patr^\^HnHHB amendment of the remittitur ing the court's dismissal of his peal from conviction of murder the first degree. The matter is p?rely technical, but it was of great im- * portance to aPtrick, because its iutent was to have the court so amend ^ the papers as to show that points in-^fSi volving the apellant's rights undei the Federal constitution had been j passed. | W-.l If1_l A.ii J rung naa&un IUR u??u. Christiana, By Cable?King Haakor , before the Norwcigian parliment at noon. took oatii to support the eon- i etitution. President Bonier, approaching the King delivered a mm address. Then in a loud roicd, the King pronounced the prescribed oath --va In a subsequent speech, hia Majestj. said he would govern aetypding ts JH the constitution and the peojy^s will aH Big Steamer Ashore. J? Duluth, Minn., Special.?In qne oi the most terrific gales in the historj of Wisconsin or the Great Lake} even surpassing in fury thejcjribh M storm of last September, in " many meu lost their lives in uty of the Apostle Islands, th'r^i nke steamers were driven asfcotfgjH 1 sight of tb*