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ti The Slau Railrot By FredericA HE appalling slaug tention of the old - public sentiment, passing a law ma vices. The railro own satisfaction, t] maiming tens of fl new couplers. Ev to delay and defE of which was to cheek the wholesal corporations declared that there wer a falsehood and so absurd on its fa willing to aid in the outrage declin companies fought the law in the cc prehensible to them that a corporal for so vain and profitless a thing as They induced congress to give sion has long since expired, yet th< that there are thousands of cars n more progressive railroad managers murderous old couplers to the new has wrought so vast a devastation i tion of the antique couplers years a lem. A report recently issued by the that the total number of casualtie! states, during the fiscal year endir 2787 killed and 51,343 injured. Thi year. It is a large total, and, in cor complete destruction of any one of Antonio, Texas; Racine, Wisconsin cut; Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania; or anything like 53,000 inhabitants. I September 19, and October 7. 11, movements around Saratoga, as inc] cisive Battles of the World," ther( while the highest total give.n by C. the killed, wounded, and missing on est battles of all time, is 54,428 mer of United States railroad casualtie ments during the past year was 1 rolling stock and roadbeds. This g sions and derailments over 1903-1 ployes, in 1904, by 75,000.-Success. Respect By Beah ett@***** ACi of respect tow istic of the young Girls speak tC they anA the pare parents are quite lack of respect is If from infanc; L.....4versations, to have itself forward on grow self-assertive and domineering, it knows more than both its parents If it is a boy he will patronize "the old man;" if a girl she will ta sions, answering when the latter is as though she-the daughter-were If the girl who speaks disresp' sion she creates on outsiders, I am speaking. There is nothing that so her by word, look or deed show the The false pride that makes a and father, who have toiled and saca dren may have luxuries and educati should be strangled at its birth. Many girls who really love thei: them ol d-fashioned and ignorant. You often hear a girl say, "Oh k~now," and then the daughter goes had she consulted her mother's wis< * frcm doing. Excepting in very rare cases. til the instinct of love and mature wis< for their children. Not long ago I overheard a deli "Oh, moti'-er," broke in her disrespel ness; you're always ill." What do you think of that dau, man who was thinking of marrying would have gone away in a very the One thing that leads to this state can parents of effacing themselves y sult is that the young people get in things themselves and that the pres The American girl is the best gi independent and cavalier i-. her trea A well brought up English girl wo way her American cousins have of Nothing is more beautiful than th youth to age, and it is a great sham be marred by this one blot.-New Y 'Causes of By H. *...*****++ AN is a creature of +++$++ that is the main ri + why men do not a: * ~ loves the man tha * WE takes care of hisC * that feeds him, an ++++++ higher ideals and 4t******t+ fortable before he The great caus' that we expect too much of each ot by our literature. The heroes and h fifty year heads on twenty year sho1 sions. A man marries simply for, a ho: and himgcan do anything with him, with him. When a man is looking:i accomplishments, but does want th( That is the woman he is looking for. ry a demure little "country mouse," A girl less than twenty-five or band; any woman over forty will act elope with at twenty she would des; Afty, if he proposed marriage. Health Record in English Town. The little south Lincolnshire villag of Ewerby is said to be the healthies town in the world. Durin~g the pas ten years only one person has die between the ages of two and sixt: SMrs. Slargaret Vi!ckers. who has live in the vilg for 'sevy-i years eflebrate he~'r ' rothbrtda rhter of id Employes -Upham Adams. C hter of railway employes due to the r 'ashioned freight car evmplers so arouse -ears ago, that congress was forced mt ing obligatory the use of automatic d ad interests had figure:1 it out, to the iat it was cheaper to keep on killing an ousands of their men than it was to bu ery possible infirence has been employ( at the enforcement of this law, the at e murder of hard-working employes. Ti e no practical coupling devices, so pueri ce that even those who would have beE d to do so on this ground. The railroa urts and were beaten. It seemed incor ion should be compelled to spend mont the saving of human life. them an extension of ime. That exte statement is made and not denied th; ot provided with automatic brakes. Ti now recogni7n that the change from t ones is a profitable one. No modern w, a human life and happiness as the rete ter inventiv. genius had solved the pro Interstate " amerce commission shov to persons on railroads in the UnitE g June 30, 1904, was 55,130, comprisir s shows a large incres.se over any othi aparison, may be said to be similar to ti such cities as Salt Lake City, Utah; Sa Topeka, Kansas; Waterbury, Connec1 Augusta, Georgia, neither of which h, both the American and British armie tnd 12, 1777, in the series of fights at uded by E. S. Creasy. in his "Fifteen D were less than twenty thousand mei K. Adams, in Johnson's "Cyclopaedia," i both sides at Waterloo, one of the grea -not so many by 702 as last year's tot . The number of coilisions and dera: 1,291, involving $9,383,077 in damages 1 ives the astounding increase of 648 col stounding but for the reduction o: er to Parents -ice Fairfax. ard id elders is a deplorable characte people of this country. their parents in a manner which. bol nts should be heartily ashamed of. Ti as much to blame as the child, for th he result of bad up-bringing. r a child is allowed to break into all co a voice in every discussion and to thru tll occasions, the chances are that it wi and as it grows older come to think thi put together. is father and call him the "governor"< e precedence of her mother on all occ spoken to and acting in a general we the one to be most considered. ctful to her mother only knew the impre lure she would try and change her way< prejudices people against a girl as seeit slighest disrespect to her parents. ;irl ashamed of the hard-working naoth< ificed themselves in order that their chi on, is the outcome of an ugly feeling the - parents grow into the habit of thinkin mother means all right, but she doen ahead and does some foolish thing tha r judgement, she might have been save .e mothers always know best. Guided t oin, they invariably choose wvhat is be: cate mother complain of not feeling wel tful daughter, "I'm tired hearing of sic ;hter's manner to her mother, and if ar her had been there, don't you think b -ghtful mood? of affairs is the bad habit of many Amer then their children have visitors. The ri to the way of thinking that they can ru ence of their elders is quite unnecessar: ri in the world, but she is just a trifle tc tment of her elders. id exclaim in horror at the free and eas peaking to their parents. e tender respect and deference shown b efor the American girl to let her chan> rk Journal. 7nhappiness . La Rue. his senses; woman of her ideals. A2 eason that woman can never understan ad cannot love as women do. A woma thonors her; he loves the woman the mfort. Like a dog, he loves the han :d no other. He ma y claim to have th xpatiate on them, but he must be con can expatiate on anything. of the mass of human unhappiness her. Our ideals are very 1a:-gely forme eroines of our best fiction always preset iders, but marriage dispels all such ilhi ne, and the woman that takes care of and if she does not she can do nothin or a wife he does not demand beauty c "good face to have around the house. He will leave society beauties and ma: and society wonders;. hirty years old is not fit to select a hui nowledge that. A man that a girl woul ie at thirty, figh't at forty, and shoot a e Saying He Never Felt Better, Die: tth rdeath of W. H.I Rockhi. e: t er of the court s of this county. her es i a v a the ih -is of oeth noman ca: norvi ve a happy n2( NEWS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRYI Minor Happenings of the Week at Home and Abroad. Down in Dixie. Major John William Johnston died at Richmond. A new raliroad is projected from Norfolk, Va., to Beaufo:-t, N. C., along the North Carolina coast. The noted "moonshine"' distillery of William Nowlin. in Franklin county, was destroyed aid Nowlin captured. ir Miss Lilly Cary has been appointed d sponsor for Virginia at the Confeder Y ate reunion. d A contract for building 100 miles of the Tidewater road will be awarded Le June 1. n The trial of Reynolds Carlisle, d charged with the murder of Jofln D. Krombling, was begun at Berryville. Majority and minority reports on federation were made by the special I i committee of the Southern Presbyte e rian Assembly appointed to deal with e the subject. r Wesley G. Parker, until last Tuesday 2- exchange teller in the Arkansas Na, tional Bank, of this city, is missing, s and it is claimed that his accounts s show a shortage of $10,000. President C. g M. Rix, of the bank, admits the short r age and said that the institution is fully e secured by a bond. n i. At the National Capital. LS Second Vice-President Gage E. Tar s' bell, of the Equitable Life Assurance d Society, was examined by State Super intendent of Insurance Hendricks. t- Through the North. 1 Mrs. Lease was robbed in New York - Saturday Night. The Merchants' Trust Company of New York closed its doors and receiv ers were appointed. Chicago's teamster strike spread, as l was expected, but efforts to bring about peace were renewed. A wide difference of opinion on union developed among the Cumberland Presbyterians at Fresno, Cal. Considerable opposition developed in the General Assembly to the cathedral idea of Justice Harlan. A check so cleverly raised that it de ceived even the banks which cashed it caused the arrest of a New York bar keeper.. h The Chicago express companies re e fused to recede from their decisions not is to reemploy strikers, and the strike will now be fought out to the end. 2t The entire plant of the National Fire' 11Works Company at West Hanover, consisting of ten wooden buildings of one story each, was destroyed by an explosion in the mixing rom Of the ninety employes at the plant only five were injured, one seriously. Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia. re moved his Director of Public Safety andf Directoi- of Public Works as a step in his fight to prevent the lease of th'e ggas works to the United Gas Improve ment Company. One train crashed into another oni 1- the high trestle of the elevated near .the bridge over the Harlem river and 20 persons were hurt. SMay corn went up 6 cents a bushel on the Chicago Exchange, and there 'twas talk of a corner, wheat also un t, dergoing a sharp flurry. d The United States assayer at Seat tle states that the output of gold from ythe northern country this year willf i amount to $22,000,000. if not more. From the Klondike alone he predicts an output of from ten to twelve mil . lions, the balance coming from the1 camps on the American side. Foreign Affairs.1 Greece is to be warned against sup porting Grecian bands now active in Southern Manchuria. The Servian Cabinet has resigned. IA detailed report to confirm the iden-tification of John Paul Jones' body has been sent from Paris to Washington. y Gen. Linevitch, under date of May 23, s reports that a Russian detachment suc cessfully attacks the Japanese trenches on the heights south of the station of Changtufu, May 21, forcing the Japa- J nese to evacuate their trenches. SIt is believed the injuries sustain ed by Empress Augusta Victoria by falling down a stairway at Wisebaden Swere more serious than at first re- I ported.( Miscellaneous Matters. The General Assembly of the Pres Sbyterian Church, voting at Winona d Lake, decided unanimously for union with the Cumberland church. d More than 100 Methodist minis-:ers e marched to the Philadelphia City Hafl and protested to Mayor Weaver against the proposed gasworks lease. sMilton E. Rose, of Stafford county, ~ 1was drowned at Acquia creek. . The Charcoal Club opened its an nun! exhibition, the standard of the t work being higher than ever. ( SLabor agitators in Paris threaten to make a demonstration against King Alfonso of Spain when he visits tnatr city. - W:ec.:ers ditched a train on the t SAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail- 1 troad, east of Emporia. Kan.. and six passengers were injured, two of them fatally. Lull in Chicago Strike. c Chicago. Specia.-The final rejection eof the union teamsters' demands, es I- perially those of the express drivers, was oilicially announced by the employ-t Sers. thus annulling the present settle nvmen of the teamsters' strike. The em-1 'a ploycrs demand unconditional surre:n -der. Neither side in the strike madie a direct step towards peace and each3 is apparently waitinlg the next move of c rthc othe-.. The employers sent their rgoods all over the city undier police protection without encountering vio .lence T060 DEFEA Japanese Admiral Prac of th< 3ATTLE IN TIE STRAU1S OF KOREA kccording to Information Received ai the State Department in Washing ton, the Battle Began Saturday, the Japanese Sinking the Russian Bat tieship Boroclino, Four More War ships and a Repair Ship. According to the latest information. he battle between the Russian and lapanese naval forces for the suprem Ley of the Oriental seas, on which iangs the outcome of the far Eastern truggle, has begun, if it has not term nated decisively. All the dispatches eceived point to a Japanse victory, hough it is not yet known whether he full force of Vice Adrimal Rojest ensky's fighting ships took part in the :ontest, which. according to the dis iatches, took place in the comparative y narrow waters of the Straits of Ko 'ea. The first information came in a lispatch from the American consul at qagasaki to the State Department at ashington, telling that the Japanese ad sunk one Russian battl3ship, four ther warships and a repair ship in he Korean Strait, and this was fo! owed by a dispatch received by the tate Department, the date of which vas not given, that the "Japanese gov rnment had made the announcement hat its fleet had engaged the Rus ians in the Straits of Korea Saturday nd had held them." The State De >artment also received information hat two of the vessels reported to iave been sunk were the sister battle ;hips Orel and Borodino, and that three >f the other ships were cruisers. From singtau, the German port on the 'hantung Peninsula, came a report that L running naval engagement took place Lear the Island of Oki, in the Sea of apan, 200 miles northeast of the traits of Korea. and that the whole ussian fleet did nct participate, the low vessels having been sent around apan. Russian sources give no news f the battle, while the Japanese gov rnment, following its custom, is silent S to either the battle or its outcome. THINK TORPEDO BOATS DID IT. N'ashington Naval Circles Comment on Dispatches to State Department -Battleship and Five More Vesse1s Sunk--Straits Held Against Rus sians. Washington, Spa-lal.=- A dispatch re eived at the State Department says hat the Jananese Government has nade the announcement that its fleet ad engaged the Russians in the traits or Korea Saturday and had held hem. The reported sinking of the battle hi') Bordino is mentioned in a dis >atch received at the State Department reni the consul at Nagasaki. T1'he belief in the naval circles in ashington is that the Japanese re orted to the free use of torpedo boats n their attacks on the vesstis of Vice .dmiral Rojestvensky's fleet. The Fapanese have a large number of tor edo boats in their fleet and they de nonstrated their effectiveness in the >perations around Port Arthur. Na al officers here express the opinion hat it was unlikely that such serious osses as those reported could have een inflicted by ordinary fire.. The followng is the text of the Na Texas Town Not Destroyed. Austin, Tex., Special.-S. J. L. Math* tr mayor of Mineral Wells, Tex.. re~ iested a correction of the report sent o several papers that the towvn had een badly damaged by a torriado last veek. He sa:ys that no damage was one at all, and that excepting a very ugh wrind, which swept over the town ast Wednesday, there was no prova :ation for such a report. Floods North of El Paso. El P~aso, Tex.. Special.-A half miu ion dollars is .a conservative estimate f the damage done by the overflow f the Rio Grande north of El Paso a the Messilla valley. Some '7,000 cres of farm land are under water, rops and farm machinery have been st. and all houses in the path of the atrs washed away. The water in nost places is six feet deep. Every .bodo house in Anthony, N. M., has en washed .away and the people ave fled to El Paso. The water is tDi rising rapidly, threatening great aage, especially at El Paso. McGraw Fined. New York, Special.-Manager Mc r w. of the New York National Lea uBaseball Club. has been fined $150 r-suspended for 15 days for using a ane language to President- Dreyfus. -he Pittsburg club. McGraw will Sc!igible to resume the privileges of he ball field on June 11th, providing hat previous to that date the fine of 150 is paid, together with the sum of 10. which fine was imposed by Pres dent Pulliam because of his being re oved from the game May 20th. Another Dividend. Macon. Ga.. Special.-Receiver W. J. utler, of the First National Bank, rhich failed in the R. H. Plant col apse last year. will distibute next 'eek another dividend of 10 per cent o all creditors of the institution. This ;ill make a total of 95 per cent paid. Drummer Dies Suddenly. Augusta. Ga.. Spreclal.- Charles I. arren, a drummer for a Baltimore hewing gum mnanufacturer. fled :sud enly at the .ilbion ihotel Sunda'. orning. The coronera jury brought a a verdict of death due to natural ,S RUSSIANS tically Annihilates Navy Czar gasaki dispatch to the State Depart ment: -Nagasaki, May 2S.-Japanese sunk the Russian battleship Borodino and four more warships and i repair ship." The other dispatch read as follows: "Tokio, May 27.-Japanese met and engaged the Baltic squadron this af ternoon in the Straits of Fushima. which was held. Cannonading was heard from shore." From information which has been received in Washington it is believed that two of the Russian ships reported to have been sunk in the Korean Straits by the Japanese are the Orel and her sister ship, the Borodino. They are battleships of 13.000 tons. Three other vessels reported sunk are believed to have been. cruisers, the rcmaining one being a repair ship. The Orel and Borodino are of 13,516 tons displacement each, heavily armed, well protected, and were designed to make 18 knots. They measure 397 feet by 76 feet, with 26 feet draught. and both have a lofty spar deck fully 30 feet above the water line, extending from the bow to the quarter deck. For ward is mounted a pair of 12.4-inch guns in a turret protected by eleven inches of Krupp armor. Another pair of guns. of same size. is mounted aft. There are thirty other guns on the in termediate battery, the vessels carry two submerged torpedo tubes and two above the water. A special feature of the vessels is their verdical longitudi nal bulkheads of inch armor, running throughout the whole length of the ship at a distance of nine or ten feet inboard from the ships' sides, designed to localize the effects of a blow from a torpedo. Failed to Mislead Togo. Chefoo. By Cable.-Private tele grams from Korea to the Japanese consul here state that a battle was progressing Saturday afternoon at or near the Korean straits, between the main portion of the Russian squad'ron and the Japanese fleet under command of Admiral Togo. Telegrams almost identical with the above have been received here, and announce that a large portion of the Russian fleet was sighted approach ing the Korean straits Sunday, head ed for the channel between Tsu Island and the Japanese coast. According to the best information receievd here recently, the main por tion of Admiral Togo's fleet has been alm: - t constantly at Masampho bay. Advices from a reliable quarter re ceived here are to the effect that three Russian battleships, three armored cruisers and several colliers were off Shanghai Friday. It is believed that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky sent suffi cient ships to the vicinity of Shanghai in order to induce the belief that his main fleet was there, while the major portion of it pushed on toward the Ko rean straits. ,Sinkinr'g of American Ship. Washington, Special.-Conlfirmationl has been received here from Shanghai of the press report that the Russian warships have sunk an unknown Amer ican merc-hant ship off the Chinese coast. Heavy gun fire is plainly heard to the northward. St. Pete-sburg, By Cable.-Nothing is known at the Admiralty of the re ported sinking of an unknown Ameri can steamer off Formosa by Vice Ad miral Rcojestvensky. It is recognized at the Admiralty as quite possible. that "Rojestvensky may have been com pelled by military necessity to destroy a neutral. If he feared that to allow it to prcceed and report the where abouts and direction of the Russian fleet would endanger his strategic plan, he- had no other alt-ernative except to take off the crew and sink the ship. Such an incidient is unfortunate, but every naval officer must admit that the risk in such a crisis is too great to take any chances. If the ship was un justifiably sunk from the standpoint of international law. Russia. of course, will have to foot the bill: but any cost is cheap if it furthered Rojestvensky's mission." Shot Chief cf Police. Nashville, Tenn., Special-A special from Jackson, Tenn., says that A. D. Dugger shot and seriously wounded Chief of Police Gaston, of that place, Four shots were fired, two of which took effect. Dugger was drinking and Gaston attempted to arrest him. Dug ger was subsequently locked up. An interstate Railway. Columbia, Special.-Definite an nouncement of a railroad from Charles ton, S. C. to Monroe, N. C., N. C.. giving Charleston, Sum ter and intermediate points sea board connection at Monroe. was made, in the shape of a petition for a cmmission to incorporate the "Caro lina & Virginia Railroad." The com mission was granted with Win. H. Ing ranr. Neill O'Donall and Marion Moise. of Sumter, and State Senator Thomas G. McLeod, of Lee county, as incorpor ators. The initial capital is forty thous and dollars, and the ultimate two and a half million. The "purposes" state that it is the intention of the corporation "to acuire rights of way and build and maintain cotton worehouses; News of the Day. The mayor of Philadelphia won out in a stubborn fight against the ring he opposed. Stockholm, By Cable.-There were riots here Saturday night in connec tion with the scavengers' strike. A mob stoned the police, who drew their swords and cleared the streets. Many persons were injured and a number were arrested. Much damage was done to property. Vesuvius in Eruption. Naples, By Cable.-The eruption of Mount Vesuvius continues, the vol. cano showing four new openings through which lava flows, while the immediate!y. surrouinding country is covered with ashes. The funicular ralrcad has b:een comtnelled to cease running. Eig Saw Mill Fire. Washburn. Wis.. Special. - The large saw mill, owne:1 by Aktly & Sprague. has beeni destroyed by fire, together with the machine and black smith shops and a large cuantity 01 lumber1 - PALMET1O CROP CONDITIONS Weather Conditions Given Out by the Department Observer. The first of the week ending Monday, May 22nd, was warm, the latter part very cool, especially the nights. There were local high winds accompanying thunderstorms on the 16th that did some damage to fruit trees. The latter part of the week was fair with sunshine in excess of the normal amount. There were general rains on the 16th. heavy in places, and occasional showers in the eastern counties on the 17th, after which the ground dried rapidly. Cultivation of field crops made rapid progress during the latter part of the week. There is still widespread com plaint of grassy fields, and a probability that some land planted to cotton will have to be abandoned owing to the scarcity of farm laborers. Labor is scarce in all parts of the State. Cotton planting has been finished, and more than two-thirds has been chopped, with chopping still in prog ress. Cultivation has been begun. Stands of cotton are generally good, tho there are numerous reports of plants dying on gray lands in the wes tern counties and on sandy lands in the eastern ones, owing to too much rain and the recent cool nights. In some of the southeastern counties, some fiElds have been plowed up and replanted. Excessive rains and lack of cultivation caused the plants to turn red or yellow in many places, and the recent cool nights have checked its heretofore rapid growth. The first equares were noted on the 19th in Col leton county. The general condition of the cotton crop is poor, tho promising In a few localities. Corn is suffering from want of culti vation and is turning yellow, but where cultivation has been practicable it is in good condition. Stands are generally good except on bottom lands where worms continue destructive. There Is yet much corn to be planted on bottom lands, in the western half of the State. Tobacco is doing well. Rice planting Is delayed in the Georgetown district by high tides. The week was favorable for truck and shipments of potatoes and beans were heavy. The strawberry season is over. Wheat is promising where not rusted or damaged by the Hessian fly. Fall oats are fine, and spring oats have improved rapidly. Oats are ripening in the eastern cout..les and some have been cut. Pastures are fine. Peaches are plentiful in the eas tern counties, but are very scarce in the western ones. The first shipment of I Peaches was made this week. Apples are scarce and the trees continue to blight. Melons, gardens and other minor crops continue to do well.--J. W. Baier, Sec tion Director. Anti-Trust Law Valid. Columbia. Speciai.-About five years ago under legislative direction then Attorney General Bellinger brought a suit to disrupt the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company and appoint a re ceiver for the separate properties that went to make up the corporation. The case descended from General Bellinger to Attorney General Gunter and hias been pushed by both these officers. The Virginia-Carolina Company has, through its counsel. Mr.' Henry, A. M. Smith, and his associates, fought every inch of ground and the case is just about where it started more than four years ago, except that the State courts have held that they had jurisdiction 12 the case and the lower courts have held that the anti-trust act, under which the suit was brought. is constitutional. The State Supreme Court has decided that the State anti-trust law is valid and constitutional. It rreviously sus tained the lower court in overruling a demurrer. If the Virginia-Carolina Company does not interpose some new point, the master will take testimony at Columbia and the real inquiry will begin. The case is likely in the end to find its way to a jury and if the State courts decide against the Virginia Carolina Company, then the case will likely go to the Federal Supreme Court. Decision Expected This Week. It is expected that the'United States Supreme Court will file this week its decision ir. the case of the State of South Carolina against the secretary of the treasury for the return of cer tain license fees paid by the State in behalf of the State dispensary. This amounts to about $60.000 at present and involves tne payment of license In succeeding years. This matter was first agitate& by Mr. F. J. Mackey. a South Carolinian resi ding in Washington, not the no torious Judge T. J. Mackey. He se cured the permission of the dispen sary authorities to institute proceed ings. and agreed to take payment in a percentage of what might be ob tained. The case was lost in the court of claims and Mr. Mackey died. The dispensary authoritiec then en gaged Mr. G. Duncan Bellinger to carry an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Bellin~er secured the assist ance of Messrs. Mordecal & Gadsden of Charleston and Ralston & Siddons of Washington. The case was argued some time ago and the court will adjourn Saturday until some time in October, it is confidently expected that a decis ion will be filed this week. If the case should be decided in fa vor of the State of Soath Carolina the estate of Mr. Mackey will be paid for his services.--Columbia State. Telegray*hic Briefs. IFrenc~h soldiers blew up the house In which an outhw barricaded himself, and he got out only to narrowly escape being lynched. The Chamber of Deputies sustained the French Government by postponing indefinitely interpellation upon the neutality question. It is stated a speciai envoy will rep resent France at the wedding of the German Crown Prince. Mr. Watson to go North. Mr. E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture and immigration, has gone to Washington for a stay of a few days, and from there he will go to New York. Mr. Watson was very much encouraged on his last trip to New York, and will probably meet with an even more cordial reception this time. His object is not to in duce immigration, but to pick immi grants who arc desirable, for the for einers are pourin~g into the country 'ROTHiSCHILD IS DEAD Passins of One-of the Wcrld's Most Famous Financiers WAS A FOUNDER OF COARITI Eminent Financier Who Financed Billion Dollar Indemnity Fra Paid to Germany and Who Was Leading Spirit of the Rcthschil Their Relations With Euro Governments Succumbs to A Bronchitis, Aned 78. Paris, By Cable.-Baron Alphonse Rothschild, head of the French bra of the banking house bearing the n of Rothschild and gove:nor of t Bank of France, died at 4:30 Saturd morning from acute bronchitis agg. vated by gout. The eminent financi has been sinking slowly for many day but there was no apprehension that his death was imminent. He passed away peacefully surround ed by his family. The announcement of the baron's death caused widespread regret, for besides his position in the financial world, Baron Alphonse was known for his lavish charities, one of the latest being the gift of .$2,000,000 for the , erection of workingmen's homes. The deceased who was born in 1827,. will be succeeded as the head of the Paris banking house by Baron Lambert de Rothschild, of Brussels, whose bus iness capacity has earned him a world wide reputation. The burial of Baron Alphonse will be most simple, according to the strict. rule of the Rothschild family, includ ing a plain coffin without mourning tributes. The funeral, the date of which has not been fixed, will be the occasion of a notable tribute of re spect. A member of a Franco-American. banking house said: "Baron Alphonse was the leading spirit of the Roths childs in their relation with practical ly all the governments of Europe. Besides the colossal task of financing the indemnity which France paid to Germany after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-'71, he cariied on relations with other governments. In Italy these in cluded both government and Vatican finances. The house has also had con siderable dealings with American se curities through the Belmonts. J. Pier pont Morgan and John W. Gates, in cluding Louisville & Nashville an Atlantic Coast Line transactions, and also has extensive interests in mines. in California." Baron- Alphonse leaves two children,. Baron Edouard and Baroness Beatrix. He has two surviving brothers, Baroat Gustav and Baron Edmond. Speech by Judge Parker. Chicago, Special.-Judge Alton B'. Parker, of New York, addressed the Il linois State Bar Association at the Chi cago Beach Hotel on "The Lawyer in public Agfairs." Judge Parker was greeted by hearty applause as he arose to speak. After Ireturning thanks for the cordiality of his reception, he said in part: In studying, however casually, or with whatever care, the modern de velopment of the law, and the scope of the men who follow it as a profession. It is impossible to escape from a know! edge of the close relation which the latter bear, almost as a direct result of their professional life, to our politics. It is seen all along the line of public * effort whether in village, town. city,. county. State or nation. Its existence,. therefore, cannot be overlooked nor can. its importance as a feature in the his tory and dlevelopment g'f the law, or o politics be exaggerated. It is not a new tendency, having manifested itself even in our earliest days when. owin. to the simplicity of conditions, the nd for the lawyer and the recognitio~ of his place in our social fabric b ei only slowly apparent. Yet, it is ,a ten dency which has grown with the-C growth of the country and with the en larged facilities for the study of poli tics and also with the adder dignity d& the legal profession itself.7 In the earlier days in the history of the thirteen colonies, the'questions dis cussed were those relating to rights,. then popular denominated natural, most of which, in their practical asser tion, have since become legal, or re cognized as a part. of our institutions. It was almost a necessity that the few members of the; bar whose services, were then calle4d for should become at once the assertors of these rights be fore the courts. It was even still more imperative that they should comeV to, the front in. the discussion of them in the forum, in1 those bodies where hear ings must be held, and also in the re spective assemblies of the people. This was in the declirning days of a thec' cratic age when every profession other than that of the clergymans had to: struggle for a position. He argned fur ther that no truly great lawyer ever has been a demagogue. - More Chicago Riots. - Chicago, Special.-Rioting broke . afresh in the teamsters' strike. Al though nobody was seriously hurt, there were~a number of vicious fights the lumber yards during which the lice were compelled to use clubs, in one instance, revolvers, to dis the crowds. Four Killed in Collis' Augusta, Ga., Special. killed, one fatally injured, ably fatally and three slig inl a collision Thursday nig a passenger trolley car an ville & Nashville coal car o gusta & Aiken Railway, in a s woods some miles from Augusta, South Carolina side of the river: The dead: J. E. Holdman, motorman; Felix Boddie, employe of railway, who, was riding with the motorman. General Assembly Adjourns. Fort Worth, Tex., Special.--The forty-fifth General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church ad journed Friday afternoon. Moderato Plunkett declared the convention di solved at 5:30, and at the same tim caled the next session to meet a Grenville, S. C.. at 11 a. in., on the third Tuesday in May, 1906. The Republicaus of Ohio nominated .syron T. Hecrrick for re-election as Im-ovrnor of the State.