Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The E1emer Concentration an ment i LL through the wor dering how In some m every one who All cannot be - one can make But not al Education .cation, bait the As a result brains work more they did in the past. Active min ing fortunes, in many cases, by sathers. It is not, in my opinion-an cessful men in many lands-the old-fashioned store and settles d w:ho necessarily makes a fortune There are thousands of men make fortunes that way and nevi and teaches his employer to sell eventually becomes strong enou; shop or some other shop. But he must be well all the self to the great secret of succe1 Fortunes may come to great examples do, I know, disturb the life is, I admit, a little of a gan pose that is the backbone of all poet or the pork packer. The m tion looks around every propositi en to buying gold bricks. The gambler not only buys t story of the combine of the si plenty of gamblers on our side o: gamble in industries, and I hop After concentration has br( temperament is necessary. It around one and brings with it th When Ferdinand de Lessep: one believed him,and as a matta the wrong track at first. But gi vidual after individual, and then should. be done, and it was done, task was impossible. His caree view of one seeking success. H centrated his whole existence on It is the study of that-kind < for fortunes. Get rich quick is t Concentration and new me World. Anpparitioa - By. -.+ OW are we to e: for these was z H + satisfactory. + could, of cour: Again, even if a fact in natu: +++++++ prove his ident To take a< - alone inhis r< standing beside him. He roset tise mother of Odysseus in Home parents, adding th.at -on the che had -not seen in her lifetime. 'I alone,, flowers around the dead dentally scratched the face, but Now, if telepathy exists, th daughter, might transmit the wi mind of her distant son.--Harpe *Th s a Som 4j{pmw'itip-m By E lla eeeee4 NLY recent:ly fi I learned some in ma city. Th i i voice of superi third, ability t< *p*oeeesthe chances f ~4 ing dozens of engagements f engagements voices of extraordinary q-uai.ty. For a girl with a voice of: only opening seems to be the ch voice is the chief essential, but ment and aptitude for learniing further requirements. Also, the alty for appearing serious, troubl 'The salary of the chorns girl a from which she must pr.y her 1 against months of summer idlen ing, there being always one and or three hours, and sometimes and perfected while running, it formance.--Good House Keeping T "The E1e~ aga& EST authLorities Balways redoub Bit is in Rtaly tl which we have It is from Ital over Europe; many wies sixteenth cen:t in the modern sense of the won as evidence, and the fact that 1 Europe-were the &ist to percei ceased to be the most importan elegant slaughter possessed by accordingly reduced the breadtl of to admit of a readier thrust a ary positionl in their system. WX of time that brilliant, cunning. 'I15e rapier was ultimately but. in England at least, it was tion from the older fighting cla! News of the Day. More than one hundred hors Chicago were victims of the fac1 Christmas came this year on Si and was followed by a holliday. animals, dropping in their traci der stress of work have died of paralysis or were shot to end sufferings. Azoturla is the tee] trouble, resulting from two cot tive days of Inactivity in the stab] the eating of the same working 4 ion of oats and corn. its of Success d an Optimistic Tempera' ire Necessary. By Sir Alfred Harmsworth. world today there are millions of young men they are to obtain success. easure good fortune is, of course, possible to reads my words and is blessed with health. equally prosperous in their a'iir , but every some' kind of mark. ng the old roads. all over the world-I do not say the best edu kind that makes money-is increasing. rapidly, though perhaps not as thoroughly as ds are breaking away from tradition and ,nak an actual reversal of the policy of their fore d I base my statement on knowledge or suc .yQung man who seeks an appointment in an own to the humdrum work of doing his duty in this and every other city who are trying. to er will. It is the man who goes into the store new kinds of goods in new kinds of ways who ;n to enforce his demands to a share of that time in body, so that his mind may devote it s-concentration. gamblers now and then, and such disastrous minds of young men. And every venture in Lble. But after all it is concentration of pur ,uccess in the world, whether it be that of the an who has cultivated the habit of concentra on so thoroughly that he is not, as a rule, giv hem, but seeks them. Witness the disastrous tipbuilding yards of this country. We have f the Atlantic, but we do not as a rule, as yet, we never shall. >ught about the initial success, optimism of does much to carry with it those who are at leadership which then becomes essential. began to talk of cutting the Suez Canal no er of fact, as he himself confessed, he was on -adually his forceful optimism persuaded indi nation after nation. that the thing could and despite the belief of great engineers that the r is all ideal one to study from the point of e did a new thing in a new way, and he con it. )f life that l suggest to those who are looking nore dangerous even than idle pipe dreaming. thods are winners every time.-New York Ls After Death ndrew Lang. eg eplain apparitions of the dead? The evidence nuch less copious, and, necessarily, much less o coincident crisis in the affairs of the dead e, be detected, as in the case of the living. we grant that telepathy between the living is re, a ghost of the dead can hardly hope to ity. ase: A young Ameriean commercial traveler >om at a hotel, suddenly saw his dead sister o embrace her, but she fled like the shade of r. He went to his distant home, and told his k of his sister there was a scratch which he 'he mother explained that in arranging, when body of the sister in the coffin, she had acci concealed the mark with powder. Le mother, brooding over the memory of tho ole vision of the dead, scratch z.nd all, to the r's-Maegazine. .e oice *** -ce of JRevenue Worris Kretschmar. eGnmukba.Ij -om a handsome and well-educated chorus girl hing about the voice as a source of revenue Srequirements of choir positions are first, a or quality and volume: second, training, and >read at sight. Qualified for a choir position, r securing one -are forlornly remote, there be applicants for every possible p.lae. Parlor all to the lot of only a rare few, while concert tre, of course, out of the question for all but really excellent quality and fair training, the orus of light and grand opera. For the latter, for the former, a good figure, grace of move gestures, diffcult evolutions and dances are ability to look happy is necessary, as the pen. Ld or unhappy while on the stage is dismissal. nges from twelve to twenty dollars per week, oard while on the road and lay up something ess. The work of the chorus girl is very .tax sometimes two rehearsals a day, Lasting two ~vhen new pieces are being put on, or revised S necessary to rehearse all night after a per ant Siaughter" ~gerton Castle. show that although the Germans were able at the rougher games of swordsmanship, aat we find the first development c:f that nim ulated, more cunning, better controlled play learned to associate with the term "fencing" y that fencing, as a refined art, first spread not from Spain, as it has been asserted by It is in the Italian rapier play of the late y that we find the foundations of fencing L The Italians-if we take their early books hir phraseology of fence was adopted by all e (as soon as the problem of armor breaking t one in a flght) the superior capabilities for the point as compared with the edge. They of their s word, modified the hilt portion there tion, and relegated the cut to quite a second ith this lighter weapon they devised in course atlik play kmown as rapier fence. dopted everywhere by men of courtly habit; Snot accepted without murmur and vitupera is of swordsmen. Odds and Ends. es in Teiegraph Operator J. R. Matjiis es that caped what might have been a serious inday injury Tuesday morning at a quarter The after nine, says the Union Times. He :s un- was receiving a message when on hear pinal ing a sound. he looked up and saw the their big clock, which is regulated by the mical United States Observators, falling upon secu- him. Fortunately he jumped away in e and time. The clock was demolished. It had. y ra- in some way siipped from the nail PROGRESS OF THE EASTERN WAR Some Hard Fighting is Promised in Near Future. St. Petersburg. By Cable.-The War OF.cc does not admit that the appear ance of General Mistchenko's cavalry southwest of Liao Yang is more than a fa:ding e:pecdition designed to strike :he railroad at several points and in terrupt the traniortation of General Nogi's guns from ?ort Arthur to Mnt ,huria, but from certain indications seems possible that it is preliminary to an operation of magnitude. Ge'i eral Mistchenko has over 20,000 horse men, and, moving rapidly, might be able to damage seriously communica tionr in the rear of Liao Yang. T!6 tone of dispatches from some Russiaa correspondents vaguely hints at very important developments, and the mili tary writer for The Novo Wremya ex l,iesses the opinion that the long calm since the battle of Shakhe is about to be broken. It is also not.warthy that t ere have been :to o:fci.l disp.1eices from General Kuropatkia for two c:ays. Oyama's Sappers at Work. Hun Cnan, Bc Cable.. via :aukden -- Thci.' has been no serious li;ting for 'e (ral days, ti-ough nig'i: skirmi-has ot. both sides continue. iie no.t im'po tant acti ) recentcf v.ac tlcat i; v:hich Captains Kosinoc: and Troit g.', with 75 Cossacks, dro .- the Jap arese out of the villages of .,.itzi ard 'ikau, ay and captured n i:1rge n:'L,ucnt of forage at both placec. G;-eral Linevitch has been inl:et ing tire whole f:ont a::.1 !irds that t-e men and supp'ios are in eXcce:llet coL:;i-on. The Ja-a on iheir side a:^ rtshing sa,,isg operations t. ward the Russian lines at several Jix.i:, but have t.ot ina!e serizius pro gress. China's Neutrality Violated. Tokio, By Cable., noon-Late reports from Newchwang indicate that General Mitchento's Cossacks in their recent raiding southwest of Liao Yang delib erately invaded neutral territory and broke the limits of the war zone. The reported Russian note to the powers calling attention to China's non-en forcement of neutrality is regarded here in some quarters as absur-1. It is felt that China's weakness and con stant failure to enforce neutrality must release Japan from obligation to observe restrictions which Russia openly ignores. While the extension of belligerent territory is to be regretted, it is felt that Japan must take steps to protect herself against the repetition of raid ing expeditions whose success depends on the violation of neutral territory. Gen. Mistchenko Cut Off. London, By Cable.--The .tone of the rescript addressed by Emperor Nicho las to the army and navy is regarded here as putting an end to all present hopes of the possibility of mediation or peace and as indicating the likli hood that General Kuropatkin soon will resume the offensive. A dispatch to Lloyd's from Yinkow, dated January 15, gives a report that General Mistchenko's raiding force was cut off on its way back by 8,000 Japan-, ese dispatched from Sanlihoo by Gen eral Oku. This report, however, is not confirmed -rom any other source. By Wire and Cable, Governor Peabody began his con test against Governor Adams for the governorship of Colorado. Two Dem ocrats were expelled from the State Senate. The receiver charges irregularities involving $662,869 in the wrecked Ger man Bank of Buffalo, of which Richard Emory, of Baltimore, was president. Four persons were burned to death in a freight wreck at Piggo.it, Ark. Ex-Gov. Morgan G. Bulkeley was nominated by Connecticut Republi cans, for Senator to succeed Joseph R. Hawley. The steamer Indus was stranded near Fire Island on her way from Ha vana to New York. F. R. Pierson, of Tarrytown, N. Y., has paid a florist $20,000 for a new variety derived from the Lawscn pink. The American Medical Association complimented Havana on its sanitary plants and adjourned. Zachariah Armstrong. who was con victed of a criminal assault at Rich mond seven years ago, is now declared innocent by the prosecuting witness. The West Virginia Court of Appeals elected Ju,dge Henry Brannon president of the court. The message of Governor White to the Legislature of West Virginia is lengthy and makes recommendations concerning the railroads and State taxes. There is a movement inl the Peters burg Chamber- of Commerce to invite the President. to visit that city. Robert B. Gllenn. Dem., of Winston Salem, was inaugurated governor of North Carolina. Republicans who are opposed to an cxtra session for the tariff revision claim that a large percentage of the Republican members in Congress does not want tariff legislation. A writ of hebcas corpus directing that Brodi-- L. Duke be brought be fore him was issued by Justice Gay nor in New York. Frank P. Flint. Rcp.. of Los Angeles, vas e!crted Unit2a States Senator by the California legi'.lature t' rucceed f' homas RL. Bard. Severe fighting continiues in Morocco. The Midvale Steel Company, of Phila delphia, was the lowest bidder for ar mor plate for the battleship New Hampshire and the armored crusers Montana and North Carolina. Samuel Spencer. president of the Southern Railway, spoke before the House Committee on Interstate Com merce in opposition to enlarged powers for the Interstate Commerce Commit tee. It was declared in St. Petersburg that Russia must (ontinue the war until a victory is gained. King Edward issued his proclamation calling Parliament to convene on Feb DR, CARR'S SAD [NI) Prominent Physic;an Kills Himself ii Fit of respondency ILL BEALTIH TlE IMMEDIATE CAUSE Prominent Durham Physician Puts a Bullet Into His Own Head-Gave Intimations of His Intention-M e Death Calmly While at Prayer-A Brother of General Julian S. Carr. Durham N. C., Spccial.-All of Dur ham was horrified early Friday morn ing when the news spread rapidly oves the streets that Dr. A. G. Carr, one of Durham's cid and highly honored cit i:ens and one among the best known physicians in the :ate, had taken his own life. He committed suicide in his elegant home on East Main street at 6:45 o'clock. using a 32-callibre pis tol and firing one shot into his brain. The barrel of the pistol was plac^i in his right ear and the ball reached a vital spot, death following instnat ly. At the time of the suicide there were but three persons in the house Dr. Carr, his wife, Mrs. Annie Carr, and the ccok. The only son who is now at home, Mr. William Carr, had left but a few minutes before for the Durham Hosiery Nill. where he holds a position. The muffled shot was heard by the cook, who was on the first floor almost immediately under the bath room, where the tragedy was enacted. She ran up stairs and found Dr. Carr in a small closet, connecting with the bath room. in a kneeling po sition with blood streaming from his head. She ran back down stairs and told Mrs. Carr and then told the col ored man who was at the stable when the shot was fired. The latter ran into the bath room and- then went to the house of Col. Harper Ervin, just across the street, and- told him to come quickly. This he did and just as he ran into the bath room and' raised the head of the doctor, he breathed his last. He never uttered a word after the leaden messenger of death was fired into his brain. Coro ner Maddry was summoned and exam ined into the fac surrounding his death, but an in t was not deemed necessary and body was turned over to the unde ker. FAILURE OF H LTH THE CAUSE. There is no doubt but that failing health and melancholia caused by his physical condition caused him to take the rash step. For three months or more he had beeri greatly depressed and did not seeem like his former self. He was dejected and care-worn. Several times he expressed himself as wishing that the end would come so that he could pass away from his sufferings. No one, however, anticipat ed that he would take his own life. The dead man was last seon alive by his son. When Mr. Will Carr started to the hosiery mill about 6:30 o'clock, he saw his father, who was in his night clot'hes and going towards the bath room. The position of the dead man when found was such as to leave no doubt but that* he knelt In prayer and then fired the fatal shot. S. A. L $eorganizationl. New York, Specia.-The plan to con solidate the different properties of the Seaboard Air Line Railway into a sin gle corporation and to provide addi tional capital, was made public by the re-organization committee. The com mittee is composed of Thomas F. Ryan, chairman; James A. Blair, Ernest Thalman, James H. Dooley, T. Jeffer son Coolidge, Jr.. C. Sidney Shepard, and S. Davis Warfield. The new plan, as announced is as follows: "The cap ital of the company is re-arranged. The total authorized stock issues are to aggregate $72,000,000 divided as fol lows: Fi::st preferred 4 per cent. stock authorized $1S,000,0. 0, of which only $7,625,000i is to be issued at present; second preferred non-cumulative sit: per cent. stock. authorized $18,000,000; -mmon stock authorized, $36,000,000. Steamer Goes Ashore in Fog. New York, Special.-While feeling her way through the dense fog early Thursday, in an effort to reach this port, the sugar laden steamer Indus. from West India ports, struck Fire Is land bar and is now stuck hard and fast. At midnight the Indus was still ashore, with little prospect that E'2 would be n'oated before the next higa Russian Prisoners Pleased. Nagasaki, By Cable.-The Steamers Kaga and Sunuki have arrived here with 1,600 Russian prisoners of war and 50 officers. All the prisoners have been quartered at Inasa, a village near by, where had also been prepared a lodge fo:' General Stoessel, who will arrive next Saturday. The Russian officers are allowed much liberty with' in the bounds of the town, but they are unde r police escort. General Stoessel and staff will sail from here for Europe on a French mail ste'amer, 'January 16. The Rus sian prisoners are unfeignedly pleased at the end of the hardship of the siege and the considerate treatment of their An Appeal Dienied McCue. Richmond. Va., spccial.--The Su preme Court of Appeals refused a writ of errcr in the case of ex-Mayor Mc Cue, c<:.Charlottesville, convicted of wfe-rr.rder and sentenced to hang the 2.1 of this month. A Charlottes vlle mvial says that when the news of the action of the Supreme Court in denying a writ or error was convey ed to McCue, he lost his nerve and Old Man Accused of Arson. Suffolk, Special.-Accused of arson n slow county, N. C., an aged white man, Furney Jarman, was arrested here. Shortly after Jarman's arrival at a local hotel he was ;followed by two detectives, but Police Chief Brink' le got ahead of them in the arrest. Sheriff Mididletoni, of Onslow county, wired Brinkley to hold Jarman, say. ing that there was $200 reward for his cpture and conviction. Jarman told the local poliCe that he fled for fear o lynching. CONGRESS Al WORK. The Senate and House Regularly at Work-What They are Doing. Morgan on Statehood Bil!. After the passage of the omnibus bill claims bill and fixing January 28 for the delivery of addresses in mem ory of the late Senator Hoar. the Sen ate devoted the day to the Statehood bill. Mr. Morgan spoke for two hours against the bill. The speech of Mr. Morgan followed closely the arguments he made against the Statehood legislation proposed two years ago, but he. spoke particularly of the character of the population of New Mexico and Indian Territory. He declared that the framers of the legis lation were of the white race and that it was not the intention of the Mexi cans, Indians. negroes : half-breeds should be brought into citizenship. He said that if Arizona and New Mexico were admitted into the Union this class of citizenship would control the elec tions and that bribes and whiskey might control them. Mr. Mallory presented the minority report of the merchant marine com mission. It was referred to the com mittee on commerce. The omnibus claims bill was passed with several committee amendments. it carries direct appropriations amount ing to about $2,800,000. The Senate ad journed. The Swayne Investigation. The House of Representatives de voted its entire session to discussion of the impeachment charges against Judge Charles Swayne. of the north ern district of Florida. A dramatic incident occurred -when Mr. Little field, of Maine. called on Mr. Lamar. of Florida, who filed the charges against the judge, to admit or repudiate an alleged interview which the former claimed tended to incite the people to commit an act of evidence against Judge Swayne. Mr. Lamar said that although Judge Swayne was known to be the most lawless man in Florida he had remained secure from bodily harm. Mr. Lamar. of Pennsylvania, chair man of the committee of seven, ap pointed by the Speaker to prepare the case against Judge Swayne, ex plained that the majority of the com mittee had received their conclusions after most painstaking deliberation and it remained for the House to take such further action in the case as it might deem proper: Mr. Palmer defined what constitut ed impeachment offenses and said a judge could be impeached for any mis behavior. He then gave a resume of the 12 articles of impeachment, which his committee had brought in. Replying to a question by Mr. Cock ran, of New York, as to whether any tigatiant was opposed by the alleged failure of Judge Swayne to acquire a legal residence in his district, Mr. Pal. mer said the evidence abounded in such' cases. He discussed at length the statt.te governing contempt cases. apd said it was "'so plain that a way faring man or a fool may not err therein." That, he said, was "where this man has sinned." Mr. Palmer evoked loud applause when, raising his voice, he declared his intention of introducing at the present session a bill which would give every man punished for contempt the right to appeal to some higher court. Mr. Palmer reviewed the contempt cases of Belden and Davis, saying that Judge Swayne claimed that the pun ishment of the two men was moderate. "I hope" he added, "God will be good to the men that Judge Swayne imposes a severe sentence upon." Referring to the real estate trans action of Judge Swayne in Pensacola,I Mr. Palmer said that no other judge on earth would have done such a thing. Judge Swayne's court, he said, was reeking with bankruptcies, scandals and suicides, and he did not 'bclieve the judge had a friend in his district. The Senate and the Mormons. Nearly the entire day Thursday in the Smoot investigation was devoted to a continuation of testimony relating to political conditions in Idaho. Frank Martin and F. H. Holzheimer, promi nent Idaho Democrats, testified that a majority of thz Democrats of the State opposed "an unnecessary attack" on the Mormon Church, which they said vas the effect of the anti-polygamy plank of the party's State platform. James H. Bradley, chairman of the Republican State committee, told of taking advantage of the Democratic charges in order to get votes for the Republican ticket. He charged also that the Democrats traded off Judge Parker, the Democratic candidate for President, for votes for former Senator Ieitfield, the Democrmatic candidate for Governor. Just before the adjourn ment was taken, J. W. N. Whitecotton, of Prove, Utah, was called to the stand and an examination began in relation to political conditions in Utah. Mr. Holzheimer said there had been no plural mar-riages in Idaho since the manifesto. He said all young Mormons were opposed to polygamy; that the practice of polygamy in Idaho is only in isolated cases: that there had been a few cases where children have been born in plural families since the mani festo, but that there are not more than 21) or 30 plural families in the whole State. and that the Church did not in terfere in politics. Mr. Martin said he never had known of any instance of Mormon intei'fer nce in tne politics of Idaho. He said e had heard it charged that Mormon~ influence had defeated former Governor Morrison for re-nomination, but he be lived 830 per cent, of the people did not credit the charge. The witness ex pressed the opinion that it was an an nouncement by Senator DuBois that he' intended to push the Smoot investiga - tion that provoked the Mormon contro versy of the last campaign. Mr. Brady said-that he made a care ful investigation of the number of polygamists in Idaho, rnd to the best of his information there were only 56. He haid thatMormon precincts in which Mormon polygamists campaigned showed a falling off in the Republican vote. This information was given to show that the younger Mormons were opposed to polygamy. "It is all bosh," said the witness. "to say th,at Mormons get everything they want in Idaho-at least, if they do they vant very little." Currency Bill Taken Up. Washington, Special.-The session of the House Tuesday was given over al most entirely to a discussion of the bill reported by the committee on banking and currency "to improve currency conditions." - A sudden in terest in the measures seemed to de velop, as evidenced by the large mem bership present throughout the day. Democratic opposition mainly was dis sipated bythe adoptionof an amend-j ment offered by Mr'. Williams, of Mis sissippi, providing that government deposits shall be made only upon com petitive bids. Final action on the bill =as not taken.___ HiE FILIPINO NEEDS Taft Writes Interestingly of +ffatrs In Cur Fastern Possessions SUBMITS COM ISSION'S REPORT The 3ecretary of War Says in His Let ter of Transmittal That Tranquility is the Rule Throu-hout the Islands. Washington. Special. - Secretary Taft has submitted to the. President the annual report of the Phil ippine commission, together w ith the scuar:ate reports of the com mission of the civil governor of the islands. The se-retary says in his let ter of transmittal to the President that the reports show the great benefit which has been conferred upon the islands by a ecntinued state of tran quility. Execpt in the wild, mountain ous regions of tife unexplored island of Samar and in the Moro region of the Rio Grande and Lake Lanao, in the sparsely settled island of Mindi vao, and in the island of Jolo, condi tions as to tranquility and ladronism, he says. continue to improve, and ex cept in the places mentioned agricul ture and the arts of peace are not at all interfered with by lawless bands or depredations. He says it is quite satisfactory to observe the good ef fect of a settled policy with regard to the civil service, under a stringent civ il service law, on the personnel and efficiency of the service. Many of the Filipinos are learning English and ap plying for examination as English clerks. He says that the total expen ditures for education last year were Dearly $2,000,000, although $5,000,000 a year could readily be expended with out wasting money. The secretary says one of the most satisfactory results of the govern ment's transactions during the year in the islands is the establishment on a firm basis of the new coinage. The Spanish Filipino coin and the Mexican coin have been practically driven out of the islands. The danger which pre sents itself now is the rise In price of silver, which, if it continues, may make silver peso worth more than 50 cents in gold, the present standard cf value, and thus lead to the melting up of the new silver pesos of the Philippine government. During the year the commission has enacted an internal revenue law and abolished the industrial taxes, which had come down from the Spanish regime. The present bill imposes a tax on the pro duction of liquor and alcohol, upon the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes and also upon banking and corpora tions. The law has not been in op eration a sufficient length of time to justify criticism or praise of it. Regarding the tariff on Philippine products in the United Stajes. the Sec retary says: "The reports of Governor Wr.ght and Commissioner Worcester show what has appeared in the re ports from the islands since the Amer ican occupation, the necessity for re ducing the tariff on Philippine pro ducts entering the United States, in order that we may give the island a market in America, leading to the revi val of business in the islands. I have already mentioned this so often that It is unnecessary to repeat what was said in my annual report." Of? the Moros, Secretary Taft says: "The report of Maior General Wood on conditions in Moro province is ofI much interest. The report is given with a view to giving persons respon sible for the Moro government great lat:tude in dealing with the various Moro tribes, and the wisdom of this latitude is shown by the event. It was supiposed when the Moro act was passed that the Moros were sufficient ly advanced in tribal government to have laws which. after the elimina tlooi of ouch features as were savage or barbarous, might he adopted for prac tical use: but General Wood's re po:t shows that among the customs of the Moros there is practically noth ing which a government under the aus pices of the United States can make itselt ruponsiole for. and he recoin mends that the effort be to make the cr'iminal la-ws of the islands substan tially uniform throughout '.he archi pelago, and inl this view I fully con cur. French Cabinet Resigns. Paris, By Cable.--The ministry of M. Combos, after emerging successful ly from its bitter midnight struggle in the Chamber of Deputies has decided to abandon the' field while some por tion of its prestage still remains, and has signified its intention of resign ing. The formal termination of the ministry, after a tempestuous career of three years. only awaits the for mal submission Cf the letters of re tirement. Schooner Beached at Southport to Prevent Sinking. Wilmington. epecial.-The schoon er Lizzie E. Dennison, from New York to Jacksonville with a cargo of ferti lizer and cement, was towed into Southport January 13, leaking badly after having been buffeted by wind and waves. The condition of the ves sel. required the constant attention of the crew for two days and nights to pr event her sinking. The crew was ex hausted upon arrival at Southport, where the vessel was beached to pre vent her filling. Telegraphic Briefs. Secretary of the Navy Morton, in an a::ticle in the Outlook, suggests a solu tion of the freight-rate probiem. The articles of impeachment of Judge Charles Swayne, of Florida, were dis cussed in the House of Representatives., in the course of the debate there was an angry controversy between Repre sentatives Littlefield and Lamar. The plan of rehabilitating Balti more was criticized by a Philadelphia architect at the convention of the American Institute of Architects. The Western Union Telegraph Coin I any began taking down the wires and poles th-at remain along the lines Cf the Pennsylvania railroad. 'Tho thiirteer th armrual convention of thc- National Le.gue of Commission Mierchants opened --n New Orleans. Jchn Matthe ws, a Baltimore actor, whlo for a tiir.e was hel.i as a suspect in connection with the aisasination of Piesident Lincoln, died In New York. Mrs. Webb-Duke succeeded in secur ing a writ by which the sanity of Brodle L. Duke, now in a New York maitarium, will be decided by a jury. fO REDUC HIS PAY After General Miles For Acceptiag a State Office UlOUSE DEMOCRATS RESENTFUL Mr. Hull, in Charge of the Army Ap propriation Bill, Creates a Stir by Offering an Amendment That High er Retiring Officers Shall Not Re ceive Full Pay When Assigned to State Militia Duty. Washington, Special.-The appoint ment of Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles as inspector general of the State of Massachusetts overshadowed all other questions in the aiscussion of the army appropriation bill in the House of Representatives. The debate had proceeded leisurely until Mr. Hull, in charge of the bill, offered an amend- - ment providing that retired officers above the grade of major should not receive the full pay of their grade when assigned to duty with the militia of -the several States. Several members de clared that the amendment was direct ed especially at General Miles, but Mr. Hull insisted that he had no such thought in mind, and argued that the best results were obtained fro onilo'yer of the lower grades. He asserted that net until the law was passed allowing increased pay for officers assigned to the militia did retired officers of the higher grades apply for the appoint ments. He said it was such increased pay and not patriotism which prompt ed them, and he characterized .their conduct as unseemly.. The statement 'oused Mr. Cochran, of New York, who declared that it wo.simply penalizing superior officers to the advantag. and' profit of inferior officers. After a live ly debate the amendment was aopt ed. Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, was out spoken in the statement that the rea ' motive behind the amendment wa' an' attack on General Nelson A. Miles, In-i spector general of Massachusetts, '"who is extremely persona non grata in circles in the Republican party." it was, he said no new thing' for Republican party to slight the' heroes of the nation and push its favorites to the front. Student Hangs Ilmself. Asheville, N. C., Specal-Oscar ., Whitaker, of Paragon, Ind., aged years, and a student of Bingham Sc committed suicide in Vivtoria by hang himself with a half-inch cotton to a small white oak tree. The-,o reason assigned by those who knew "th; boy and by Col. Bingbam is .that h.be was homesick. Some time after 'clock this morning several m negro children while going.toward th southern Hallway tracks frois the f Victoria caw an object hanging to tree in the woods surrounding'Vi [nn, and about 200 yards from. the~ place. The children became frighten and going to the home of 3. R. Nlco a short distance from the'jate, formed that gentleman offtieiind." Mr Nichols, in compan2fiwt1 a boyanzDme Earl Hollingsworth, whio had also' heard the screams of the children and,~ iad followed them, went -to the seene al the hanging. Oni reaching <the place'~ Mr. Nichols saw that the object was that of a man and telling the Hollago worth boy to .remain near by, tvent to the Glenn Rock Hotel and notified Sheriff Reed. Sheriff Reed hastened to he scene and Immediately took oSclfa charge of the case. He, cut the ropS' and ascertaining that 'the mah was dead, searching the pockets for alli ef. ects, and sending a messenger to a nearby telephone, summoned Hal'e, Bard and Company to take charge 'of the remains. Reaching ,the city with~' te corpse, the sheiff notified -Coroner" Hemphili, at Arden, and that officer irrived shortly after 12 o'clock and held an inquest. .News of the Day. Advices from Mexico say that the. Cuanacevi Tunnel Company has hteen. oganized for the purpose-of construct4 ug a tunnel through a mountain a dis tance of 10,000 feet in the CGuenace,f mining district of Mexico. The e I.ated cost of the tunnel is $4O~ gold. Over 200 known veins of gl I~ ver and copper will be tapped. The tunl iel will be 2,200 feet below the surface at one point A pawnbroker about to open a new business in Yarmouth, England,- an nounces that all persons making pled-. ges with him on the first day will be. presented with a tiuarter of a- pound of tea. Lady Donoughmore, formierly Mise Grace, of New York, is known as "the children's angel" in Ireland. She is giving much of her time and monet to teach the impoverished children'ID the west of Ireland the beauties cf nature. A pawnbroker about to open a neW~ business In Yarmouth, England, an> lounces that all persons making pled ges with him on the first day will be presented with a quarter of a pound of tea. Lady Donoughrnore, formerly MISe Grace, of New York, is known as "the' children's angel" In Ireland. She Ii giving much of her time and mOneY to teach the impoverished children Iir the west of Ireland the beauties 'ci nature. OneFare Rate For Growers' M.eI New Orleans, SpecIal-The .ot eastern Passenger Association has an nounced that a rate oi one fare fLr the round trip plus 25 cents has been authorized by all lines interested 'fLr ie Southern Cotton Growers' Protec tive Association, which Is to meet jaf New Orleans January 24-26. The last report of the British Royal commission on sewerage dsp states that there Is no doubt many cases of typhoid fever, as well as other diseases are caused by eating shell fish obtained from waters COB' temnated hy sewerae.