Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ftHWbat do we do when we plant th~ "e? I We plant the ship which will crosWe plant the inast to carry the s We plant the planks to with gales? The keel, the keelson, and beam and knee; We plant the ship when we plant the tree. What do we do when we plant the tree? We plant the house for you and me. jWe plant, the rafters, the shingles, the floors, We plar.t the studding, the Jaths, the doors, The beam and siding, all parts that be: We plant the house Avhen we plaat the tree. SHWhat do we do when we plant the tree? thousand things that we daily see; j^BWe plant the spire that out-towers the K&i crag, We plant the staff for oar country's flag, plant the shade, from the hot sun free; g^BWe plant all these when we plant the tree. iH-From the poems of Henry Abbey, D.. Appleton & Company, New York. I j HIS GUARDIAN | I ANGEL. { S a neighboring clock slowly jj^Bf _ W clanged out the hour of 5 Ho f\ a on a raw, gusty December ^ evening, Mr. Richard BarVoif ker climbed the stairs ng|| whicli led to his shabby SHlttle bed-sitting room and flung his S^Breary body into tliQ remains of a once ^Hespectablc armchair. 3BM Since S o'clock that morniug he had ?B)een vainly looking for work. IS&B He was twenty-one years of age, he ^Bjras strong and healthy in body and in nHnind, and yet?he was useless; he had l^ftbsoiutely no market value. Three months before, full of hope and o^^kfrhKhpn rt<^lv><js; hr> h:wl li>ft his native I [own of Drrfleld. in Yorkshire, in deaauce of his father's wishes. A uianupcturer and mill owner, the father was. trongly of opinion tbat his only son hould follow iii his footsteps, and take ip a commercial career. Richard was f an entirely different opinion, and ?id so. His was the artistic temperaBent, he told his father. He would i aver prosper in business; he was not jt out for it. If Richard was obstinate, so was the Id man. The two parted in anger, lid the youth was warned never to pme near the paternal roof again. [Friendless and unspeakably lonely, fcirhard arrived in London with a oort Iianteau, a few sovereigns anil uniimitd confidence. He took a couple of aoms in Baker street, and there, after bree or four hours spent in sightseeig, he settled down to work, and covred reams of paper with his small, eat handwriting. Stories, sketches, rticles and even plays?little one-act lays?poured from him day by day. Ie wielded, indeed, a most prolific pen. But, as he was soon tb discover, stores and articles were one matter, getug them accepted quite another, tamps were bought, capacious enelopes. too, and countless manuscripts rere dispatched to this paper and to la t. They came back with a promptitude 'hich caused the writer no small mount of surprise, for, though he had |>ld fiis rattier tnat genius was not aiays immediately recognized, he firmly ilieved at the time that his own ef?rts would be unhesitatingly accepted. Eventually h? gave up his rooms in aker street and took a small bed-sitng room in the neighborhood of the dgeware road. Hore he labored away om morning till night, Jiving a life rigid economy and watching his nail store of gold with the jealousy I a miser. Puttieng his literary work aside, he ade an effort to find other employent. Day after day he searched the >lumns of the newspapers in the hope : discovering some suitable vacancy; ly aff-ir day he bought stamps with le little mo/iey that remained and rote imploring letters to various em I overs; clay after clay lie scourea tne Dg metropolitan streets till be was int with fatigue. But nothing came it. No on* would have him. [n everything else unfortunate, It lanced that he was fortunate with s second iacdlad... Unlike the marity of her kind, she was a mild, otberly person, with a large heart, id she was ever readj to show a prac;al sympathy with any one in disess. Kot being acquainted with another ill in all London to whom he might jeak freely Barker nad confided in jis woman to a great ext<-nt. She ew all bis difficulties, she saw in his es the wild, hunted look which is to observed in every one who is closepursued by poverty, and. with chafpristic generosity she permitted him I retain His room ana toia mm not to rry about the rent until be was forlate enough to find something to do. 'overty begets humility, even In the ?udest of us, and Barker after he 1 occupied his room for three weeks tnout paying his landlady a penny i had pawned everything that beged to him with the exception of ' ciothes on his back, so far humbled uself as to wrote to his father, consing his failure and asking for help. L.nd now a fortnight had elapsed ce he had written, and as ypt no re bad bean rec?ived. Hope bad now ircly fled, and black despair had en its place. rooding over his misfortunes, be 'ay Idled up in tbe broken armchair for ae considerable time. Suddenly he ang to his feet, and groping about the darkuess secured a caudle and le ma teller. jgbting the candle. ho wa-ked to a board, which stood on one side of fireplace, and took from oue of the Ivps ivIi.ii looked like a mediciue I tie. It bore a red label on which the rd "Poison" was plainly printed in ck letters, and contained a clear, arless liquid much resembling water rker iiad secured tbis a week before, ring at the tinio a dim idea that it uld prove useful in case of emerlcy. le set the bottle on the table and by i side of it a wineglass, then he went a drawer situated uuiierneath the iboard nnd procured a sheet of noteler and au envelope. Ink and pen ^unrl nn tha inn n iv vl LAVA vu W**w \ Having secured tbese tew things, he sat down again for a brief moment, and indited a short note in which he thanked his landlady for her kindness to him. and bade her farewell. This done, he sealed up the letter, addressed the envelope and placed it iu a conspicuous position on the mantelpiece. men lie iocKea rue aoor 01 uie room. With a trembling hand?for, sick as he was of life, he was yet nervous of death?he drew the cork from the neck of the bottle and pourejl some of the liquid into the wineglass. He held it up to the light and stared at it for fully a minute, as though he were still undecided whether to live or die. Then, with a sudden determination, he drank it off, and sent the empty glass crashing into the darkness of the fireplace. A moment later, after he had collapsed into the armchair and had buried his face in his hands, a knocking was heard at the door. Barker raispd his head. "What is it?" he asked. "I've brought your tea up, sir. seeing as you're 'ome so early," said a voice. "I was out meself, else I'd 'ave brought it up before." "That's all right. Mrs. Thompson. I don't require any tea this evening, thank you," said iJaricor. quieuy. "Just a cup. sir," pressed Mrs. Thompson, without. "It'll cheer you up. and it's a pity to waste it." , "No. thank you. Mrs. Thompson; I? I'd rather not to-day. I don't feel very well. I think I'll go to bed." "All right, sir." said the landlady: [ "just as you like." Then she added: [ "I've got a letter for you. sir?come not a minute ago." "What do you say. Mrs. Thompson? a letter?" cried Barker. Rousing himself, he weut to the door, unlocked It and opened it. "A letter? Where's it from?" Then, seeing it on the tray which Mrs. Thompson carried, he snatched it up, and examined the writing. "O Heaven!" he ejaculated. "I 'ope there's nothing the, matter," murmured Mrs. Thompson, sympathetically. "O Heaven! O Heaven!" repeated Barker. Tearing open the envelope, and unfolding the paper, he read as follows: "bear Dick?My heart is not so hard. my nature not so brutal, as you may perhaps have supposed. Though I am still of opinion that you would have done better to stay at home and enter the business, I feel I can no longer conscientiously oppose your wishes. I don't think I need say any more except that you can count on. two hundred a year in future, and that I shall be glad to see you and hold you by the band ouce again. Believe ine, dear Dick, your affectionate father. "WILLIAM BARKER." "0 Heaven!" said Barker once more, when he had reached the conclusion, "it's too late now." As he thought of the misfortune which had so relentlessly pursued him, a groan of self pity escaped him; he grew light-headed, he reeled, he clutched at the table for support, and innmanf l>o 1 nXT' mnfinnlpSS on the floor. Mrs. Thompson, who bad not moved from the top of the staircase, ran to his assistance, and raising his head, looked pityingly into his pale, emaciated face. "Poor fellow!" she murmured. "'E ain't 'ad a bite since breakfast?no wonder 'e's fainted." Then, happening to glance at the table, she saw the red-labelled bottle standing uncorked. "Wot a blessing!" she ejaculated; "wot a blessing I emptied that there oid bottle and filled it with water!"?New York News. An Acid Made of Wood Ga?. Aside from the deposits of metallic copper in the Michigan region, practically all the ores of copper, zinc, lead and nickel consist of compounds of the metals with sulphur. In smelting, the sulphur is burned out and gives rise to enormous quantities of sulphur dioxide?tbat gas that has taugnt man to postpone for a moment the pleasure of his cigar when lighting it with a sulphur match, and has caused many a housewife to mourn for the untimely fading and passing away of her most cherished house plants. At Leadville, Joplin, Galena. Argentine. El Paso and other sections of the country not only treeless bat also grassless deserts have been produced by the large smelting establishments. Near Mt. Shasta stretches of the finest timber land stand biastod because of this waste, which, were it utilized, would doubtless be sufficient to erect a new plant for the company every two or three years. By what is known as the "new contact nrocess." tbis'zas can be trans formed into the best of sulphuric acid, and where smelting establishments' are near enough to the manufactories using this article, large revenues are being derived from this waste product every year. However, since sulphuric acid is very cheap and freight rates very high, the economical utilization of the gas in the Shasta and other regions similarly situated, far removed from manufacturing centres, has not yet been, accomplished.?William Conger Morgan, in Harper's Magazine. 1 Scented a Kented Fit Speaker Cannon is consulted by his colleagues on many themes other than those political. During one of the recent night sessions of the House, the Speaker, tired out, was taking a short siesta on tiie lounge in his room, and, ua waiving, nt* uuieu IUUL uiL* ut?iff;aie from New Mexico was hovering around waiting for him to get back to the business world. "Uncle Joe" stretched, yawned and finally got off the lounge. Mr. Rodey came forward and Mr. Cannon. always amiable, asked innocently: "Well. Rodey. have you been waiting long? Anything I can do for you?" For answer the New Mexican peeled off Lis overcoat and displayed liis graceful form clad in evening attire. "I am going out to dinner, Mr.j Speaker, and I just wanted to ask you: how I look in these togs." He turned around with the precision of a figure in a modiste's window in order that the Speaker might view the effect from every point. "Why. you look line," said the Speaker, heartily: "you look just fine. Why, man, if you rigged up like tliat every evening tli? Statehood bill would pass in r.o time. But. Rodey," the Speaker added, in a soft, caressing voice, ''why don't you buy a suit of your own?" -New York Press. CURIOUS FISHES OF THE DEEP SEA. BY DB. 8AJIDEB80N CHBISTI80X. HAT one animal can deL vour another twice its own q O s'z0> a siHole swallow, * A * is n statement that mav Vo>rr seem to the uninformed to be as incredible as any fish story ever Invented. Nevertheless, it is true of certain fishes. So far as known, such fishes are inhabitants of the deep seas, where utter darkness perpetually prevails, with an unvarying temperature almost as cold as ice, and a pressure ranging, according to depth, from a quarter to three or four tons upon every square inch of their body surface. The deep sea is commonly regarded as commencing where the rays of sun? light cease to penetrate, which is estimated to be less than twelve hundred feet below the surface, and may extend to twenty times that distance, or even I ([Fl?h 6% Inches Jop^contalnlDR to itejjtomaci?Tf i (CHASMODON. NIGER (CABTEBJ. flop vlewof % 6-inch flahwUlT 10^-Inch ftah in its much more, down to the bottom of the ? I ocean. Fishes have been dredged from i below twelve thousand feet. Under i such diverse conditions of life, we j would naturally expect that their re- i 6pective inhabitants would present con- j siderable difference in their structural ( particulars, and also in their habits. | To a considerable extent such is the case. But in this connection we meet \ with some surprises of quite sj remark- ] able character, and which seem to op- j pose the current evolution theory. For , example, instead of the total darkness ( Invariably abolishing the organs of , vision by disuse, we find that the deep- ? sea fishes commonly possess eyes, , while only a few are blind. In this , connection it may be remarked that , some' surface-water inhabitants are ( also blind. There are evidences, however, which appear to be characteristic J qualities of deep-sea fishes, namely, weak connective tissues and extremely , delicate fin muscles, indicating still- , water conditions; also thin fibrous , bones, full of cavities, indicating high- , pressure conditions. White these peculiarities are doubtless well adapted , for deep-sea life, an idea of their unfitness for superficial waters may be. gleaned from the following extract from Dr. Alcock's recent book, which records his observations as naturalist to the ship Investigator of the British | navy. He says: "When a deep-sea i fish is brought to the surface, how | gradually and carefully soever, its j bones are often like so much touchj wood and its muscles like rotten pulp, i while its eyes are burst from their sockets, and its vicera are often blown j out of the body cavity by the expansion of the air bladder." It frequently happens that deep-sea fishes are found .floating helplessly on the surface of the ocean, with large prey in their stomachs. Their appearance under these circumstances is accounted for by the efforts of their struggling victims to escape from their jaws, causing them to ascend beyond the horizontal zone which they usually inhabit. "This explains," observes Gunther. "the fact that all the specimens known of Saccopharynx. and Jfelanocetus?deep-sea I fishes with the same extensile stomach ; as Chiasmodus?were found with large j fisbes in their stomachs. The speci| mens swallowed were found in each case to be in a very early state of digestion." Yet, in a general way. tbe structural forms of deep-sea fisbes are identical w^tb certain fisbes familiar to surface waters, so that they are regarded as simply being adaptations of existing surface-water species, and pot a special order by themselves. Ia addition to the extraordinary I 1.?Paroneirodes glomerosus. 3.?Corynolopb SOME PHOSPHORESCENT FI rfcpacionsness of certain deep-sea fishes, there are many which are remarkable for their possession of illomlnatiflg organs. These attributes are not limited to deep-sea fishes, but among these flshes there are examples which eclipse anything elsewhere found. With the exception of the socalled "lures" of deep-sea fishes, their luminous organs appear to be modified mucous glands, which produce the "nWnenhAPDcnonf" Hcllf THlPSA AT*?* ^/uuopuv/i v.ov,v *1 u ? v. _ said not to exist in the small-eyed fishes, which, instead, possess sensitive organs of touch; and while they are commonly absent in the blind fishes, 3ome possess them highly developed, as in the Benthobates moresbyl. But illuminating power may exist without phosphorescent glands. For example, in the Leptoderma afflnis, which has eyes resembling goggles, there are no phosphorescent glands, but its skin gives off a luminous bloom. In the Ipnops, the two eyes are flattened out, covering the whole top of the head, and are luminous in life. In the Ortboprora, the luminous body covers (.he end of the nose."like the headlight of an engine. The deep-sea "angler" or MHLAJExW HIOER (ALCOCXjl ?* v t?>ML " *L Ire-flab ".with row. oflumlnouB fcalefci rOSTOMUS ETijJHIJS:(COCCp)> DUbloe cnttle-floh broader"Chan Itself^ 'sea-devil" has a rod-like barbel rising from its head and ending in luminous aiaments, which are supposed to act is lures for other fishes. According to Sunther, fishes have frequently been :nken from the stomach of the "angler" lulte as large as itself. It is commonly from three to sir feet long. The little Melanocetus, which is illustrated here, is not quite four inches long, but contains in its stomacii a ash seven and a half Inches long, rolled up spirally into a ball. This fish is also remarkable for having a vertical mouth. According to Guntber, three ipecimens of the Saccopharynx (a deepsea eel several feet long) were found floating with fishes in their stomachs which many times exceeded the length [>f their destroyers. The Plagyodus ferox is about six feet long and very ferocious. From the stomach of one were taken'several octopods, crustaceans, a young brama, twelve young boar flshes, a horse mackerel, ami one young af its own species. One peculiarity is that It has ribs symmetrically arranged the whole length of its abdomen. The Odontostomus atratus 1st a rapacious fish whose, teeth are so large as to prevent its mouth from shutting. The specimen in the illustration has swallowed a cuttlefish, "whose breadth is much in excess of its own body." A IitOCETOS MUBRATI (gUNTHEB), A fish less than 4 inches long with a fish in its stomach 7J^ inches long. remarkable peculiarity is that its eyes,1 which are lateral, can be turned to look upward. The specimen of the Chiasmodus niger here illustrated is six and five-eighths of an inch long, but contains a fish in its stomach which is ten and a half inches long. The stomach or reeaevourerrastretched as thin as gold-beater's skLn.j It has hooked teeth, and teeth whichj cross each other from opposite sides of the mouth.?Scientific American. 2.?Notoacopelus resplendena. '?.^~ T>v .us Bernhardt i. gtr^g nr> rrrrre rM?r?p CT? A" Lifeboats were launched on service no fewer than 294 occasions on the American coast last year and savel 519 Jives. ?3SttEi \faronnl ic nnrttoil no Siivini? that when one station, now in process of construction in Pisa. Italy, is completed, it will be possible to send wireless messages around tlie world by way of Australia. ' The use of local anaesthesia from the injection of sterile water was begun by Dr. S. 0. Grant, an American physician, in 19)1, and it has proven so satisfactory In several hundred operations, especially about the lower intestines, that other anaesthetics have been practically discarded except in the most serious cases. The new type of tetantograph of Isaac and Membret, French engineers, includes a desk transmitter, on which the writing is done with an ordinary pencil, and an apparatus at the other end reproducing the writing on a roll of paper. Designs, music and signatures, as well as messages, are prepared in Paris and are accurately reproduced in Rouen, the results being much superior to those attained from time to time during many years of experiment. The ghostly ring that appears to sur IUUI1U. liiL* L'ULLU, IJL-UULlili;^ tlSHJIC ak certain seasons as a cone of light in.the west after sunset, or in the east before sunrise, is thought by A. Hsnsky, a French astronomer, to be an electrical phenomenon connected with the corona seen about the sun during eclipses Observed from Mont Blanc on the 21st and 22d of last September, this zodiacal light had the form of a spherical triangle, with its apes near the ecliptic, and resemblances suggest that it is a prolongation of a coronal streamer. The fear of death, we are assured, is waning. Those who have witnessed the "death agony" in many :ind varied forms tell us that it is not ho terrible, after all, and even that dying is not at all painful. C. W. Saleeby, an English writer, points out that in all but very exceptionaal cases, such as accident, the immediate cause of death is the poisoning of the nervous centres by carboiic acid. The gas accumulates in the blood through failure of arrangements for its removal, and it has its usual anaesthetic effect Normal death is a painful occurrence, usually preceded by gradual loss of consciousness. In long experimenting with grass solutions an English biologist has noticed that putrefaction does not occur in ? J KIma ISswKt }? All 1 rr ofSmil. auuiii^ ieu ui uiuc a{jui, umj oumulated in clear yellow, but really takes place In dirty yellow light or in darkness. He has also seen that workers behind dirty yellow screens are subject to skin eruptions. This has suggested to him the novel idea of color treatment of disease, a dirty yellow of the skin being assumed to indicate a degeneration of the yellow fluids of the body?the bile, etc.?and to require a yellow restorative, like dandelion, lemon or sulphur, while lack of healthful redness shows the need of a red tonic and- massage with a red stone. Blue is needed for "black blood," congestion, chills, and to destroy mould fungus. A South American Niagara. Last week there returned from South America to New Orleans a party of explorers which included scientists from different institutions. With a i;core of natives they visited the Rio Leon territory, near the equator, and penetrated a part never before seen by j jvhite men. Among the discoveries was a wonderful cascade, which rivals that of the Yosemite height and Niagara in volume. It is crescent in form and has eight cataracts, divided from each other by islands smaller than those at Niagara. It is thought to be only a question of a few years when these islands will be swept away and leave one vast cataract. The leader of the expedition, Professor Caracristi, of New Orleans, had visited the region twice before, but did not go in so far on his previous journeys. This time he was employed by a company to learn whether the coal lands which he had discovered were worth working. He reports the coal to be inferior and transportation too costly. He found only two sections suitable for banana culture, one near Santa Marta, the other on the easl/ coast of Dar en.?Philadelphia Ledger. The Foot In MeAsi]rem?nt. Professor Edward B. Rosa, in a recent address on scientific standards of measurement, collected interesting facts about the foot, tlie most widely used measure of length in both ancient and modern times. It is derived from the length of the human foot, but apparently has varied more than that portion of the skeleton can possibly have done in historic times. The ancient Welsh foot, for instance, was nine inches long, whereas thePiedmont was twenty inches. In modern times it has varied from the Spanish foot, of less than eleven inches, to the Venice foot, of more than thirteen inches. Almost every country has used a foot measure of a different length. It was this confusion which led the French to devise the metric system.? Youth's Companion. Blackbirds in Flight. Recently army after army of blackbirds flew over Aline, headed north. The advance guard was about a half mile long, and flying in lines of files reaching from the Rock.Island to the Orient track. TUe second new in column lormauon, and was fully three-quarters of a mile long. At intervals of from fifteen, minutes to an hour all through the' forenoon patches and squares of birds followed. A conservative estimate of the number that passed during the forenoon would be 500,000. The birds flew, very low, and their wings and chattering could be heard at a great distance. ?Kansas City Journal. Tlie Prize Jollier. They had just been introduced. "Really," she said, timidly, "your face seems so familiar to me I think we must have met before." "Impossible!" lie sighed. "If we had ever met before I should either be en-j gaged to you, married to you, or deadof a broken heart erej_thi5!"--.Gliicago! Journal. MAKING PANAMA HEALTHY Prophecy of Retiring Governor, Home With the Fever General Davis Says That the Iithmai Will Soon Be Sanitary?Securing Pore Water Sapply. New York City.?General G. W. Davis, tlie retiring Governor of the Panama Canal zone, and bis two daughters, arrived here on the steamship Allianca from Colon. General Davis has been suffering with malarial fever. He at grst declined to leave the canal zone before the arrival of his successor, but was formally ordered to do so by Secretary Taft. He ignored the advice of physicians to leave some time ago, fearing that his sudden departure when health conditions were adverse would be misunderstood. Secretary Taft's message, however, ordered General Davis to leave Colon by the next ship, on the ground that his malarial condition made it necessary for him "at once to have a change of air after a year's hard and dangerous service." Concerning the general sanitary condition of the Isthmus General Davis said: "I can safely predict that by the end of July, T~h,?n the water and sewerage systeino l,-ve been installed, there will not be ?ase of yellow fever on the Isthmus. The Government haa spent one-half million dollars for the water supply, taking the water from the head of the Rio Grande, some ten miles awav. This will eive all the ca nal zone a bountiful supply of excellent drinking water. Four hundred thousand dollars is being spent on the sewerage system, and this will make the zone perfectly sanitary. In a short period of time Panama will be as healthy as Havana. "The people of Colon are now satisfied with the American occupation. They are getting the benefit of the j money the United States is spending, j and naturally the people are happy over it. "The account of sickness in Panama has been greatly exaggerated during the year I have been there. For example, less than three per cent, of the employes were in the hospital when I left. We have accommodations for 600 or 700 patients, and at no time has there been a call for half of them. The work of the sanitary experts stamping out yellow fever has gone on methodically and scientifically. To be sure thero were two deaths from it shortly before I left, but these are nothing in comparison with the spread of the disease in the country before the American occupation. "There are between 7000 and 8000 Government employes in the zone at the present time. The Government is doing everything to make them happy and to guard their >welfare. A number of excellent houses have been built for them, and many more will be constructed. These houses are as good as any in the smaller towns and cities of this country." General Davis said that It was true that a ..large number of employes had returned, but adde? that they had been easily frightened by some exaggerated stories abo.ut the perils in Panama;-and had returned to the United States ^without waiting to learn the truth. The General said that he had received great benefit from the sea voyage, that the malaria had practically disappeared, and that he believed that after a short rest in Westchester County he will fully recover. The Allianca also brought twentyfive employes of the canal commission. Some of them had been on the Isthmus eight months, and were returning home in the regular order, while others left the canal zone because of the health conditions there. As many more ar rived here last week, and some of them admitted that they had been driven away by the fever. The Allianca was detained at the quarantine station while her passengers and crew were examined by the health authorities. Two of the crew were removed to the detention hospital for further observation. *Vi "NAN" PATTERSON TO ACT. Oirl Arrnswl of Murderinir "Caesar" i Young to Reappear on Stage. Philadelphia, Pa.?So quietly that not half a dozen persons knew of her arrival, Nan Patterson visited this city, spent less than three hours here rnd upon leaving toou with her. a contract to appear in vaudeville on the Hurtig & Seamon Circuit at a salary understood to be $2000 a week. Miss Patterson arrived at the Broad Street Station shortly after 2 o'clock, took a closed cab to the Walton, where her lawyer, Daniel O'Reilly, was wait-/ ing for her with a vaudeville agent. The three at luncheon discussed the terms of the contract ... FRENCH TO LEND TO RUSSIA. Offer to Raise $200,000,000 ? Russia Gets $100,000,000 at Home. Frankfort.?The Zeitung's St.'^etersburg correspondent says that the syndi* cate of Ftench bankers with which Russia last February began negotiations for x new loan has now declared its willingness to raise ?200,000,000, provided one-quarter of the proceeds is spent for the building of war vessels at French yards. St. Petersburg.?An imperial decree is published authorizing the issue of $100,000,000 of short-term bonds, $75,000,000 of which has already beeri placed. Another Russian Fleet. Another battleship division is man eavring off Cronstadt. preparatory tc starting to reinforce Bojestvensky. Killed Sweetheart and Himself, i Unrequited love ied A. Brightman to kill Mrs. Charles IT. Gurney and himself at Los Angeles, Cal. fy British Steamer Detained. y The British steamer Carlisle was detained at Saigon 011 suspicion of carry* LUg wuuuauauu ui tt ui. Personal Gossip. *' The Pope lias no objection to having bis photograph taken. Dr. Richard Strauss is considered the richest composer in Europe. The Grand Duke Paul of Russia is so tall that no hotel bed will lit him. Governor Warfield, of Maryland, claims to be "an alumnus of Yale, once ruinnved." On Adelina Patti has been conferred tlie rank of knighthood in the French Legion of Honor. Count Tolstoi, of Russia, has given, up reading the newspapers, hut his 1 friends tell him the news. ' 1 WINOR EVENTS OP THE WEEK WASHINGTON. . " * ' n ti. . J 1J ?1 iL.t k rresiaeux uooseveit uetiaeu iuu? * Isthmian Canal material shall be bought where it can be bought eheaj> est, whether at home or abroad. , t Delegates to the International Railway Congress received a cordial mes? sage of greeting from the Emperor ot Germany. The number of desertions from U?ef army in the ,last year has been fac greater than in any previous year, ac* cording to figures which are being re* ceived by the War Department. i The day after his return home PresI* dent Roosevelt presided at a Cabinet meeting, considered the Loomls-Bowea affair, approved Secretary Morton's recommendation that the body of John Paul Jones be buried at Annapolis, Md., and transacted much other public business, besides receiving manjj callers at the White House. , _ 1 1 OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. s j Captain Hayson of the constabulary, who was stationed at Seassi, near Manila, P. I., was shot and killed by] h<n rrtia dk(1(?%. ' U19 l/WU U1ULU OCJLI JLJLIC JC JUliAy, 1 pine Commission is considering the question of reducing the constabulary, to 2500 men and reorganizing them as provincial police, instead Qf maintaining them as a semi-military body, as at present. The proposed change is \ due in part to the fact that the force as at present constituted is a heavy, drain on the insular treasury. The army transport Buford ranr ashore while entering the harbor of Malabang, Island of Mindanao. The troops on board were landed. The transport will probably be refloated undamaged. There was marked activity in the volcano of Kilauea. The flow of lava: began increasing and rising ia, the cjater. , - ? ^ -***" ij DOMESTIC. & gift of $10,000 from a Harvard $raduate to Yale University was announced at the May meeting of the ?ale Corporation at New Haven, Conn. Storms passing over Red Rivet counties, in Texas, destroyed wires, roads and crops. Charged with not making a proper accounting of postal funds, Alexander 0. Brown, for five years assistant postmaster at Pensacola, Fla., was tried! ranrl onnniftoH hr nf tVlf* Judge. In an address before the Phi Delta* Phi Club in New York City, Justice Vernon M. Davis expressed his belief that Miss "Nan" Patterson held the pistol when "Caesar" Young was shot, and said it was evident that she lied! on the witness stand in her secpnd trial. The body of Reuben Lester Cornell, i naval militiaman who disappeared an April 8, was found in the East River, New York City. ' A statue of Abram S. Hewitt was unveiled at the Chamber of Commerce, in New York City. Emil H. Neumer and Samuel Loblej. were arrested in New York CItyj charged with complicity in the Equitable Life Assurance Society swindle. It was anounced at Cambridge, Mass., that Andrew^ Carnegie had offered $75,000 for a library to Radcliffe ,s College. . ^ H. Roger? Winthrop, assistant secre tary of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, was examined by State Superintendent Hendricks in New York City. Mayor Dunne, of Chicago, 111., declined to grant the request of the labor leaders in Chicago that the police be taken off the wagons. He told them \ in pffprt tJiflt the teamsters' strike had' collapsed. Captain Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, who attempted to find the northwest passage, sailing from the Atlantic, may soon appear on the Pacific coast, as the Consul at San Francisco, Cal., has ben asked to send supplies north to meet him. Louis J. Rens, one of the best known business men of Oconto, Wis., short in his account for a sum that may reach $100,000, left the city on his bicycle, went to an abandoned barn three miles south of the city, and shot himselw, dying instantly. , FOREIGN, i Several cases have occurred of penalizing yachts from Southern ports of the United States, charged with disregarding the order of the government of intervention prohibiting the entrance into Cuban ports of vessels not carrying health certificates. E. W<! Deming, of New York City, complain* that his yacht Zeta, in which he cruised for a year, was detained at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, for twenty rlnTTc +h/?r-a liain cr Tin lofro I nmPPffUnPf?. uajo, iucic ?v .v0?. 0? Mr. Deming furtlier says that customs officers at New Orleans, La., stated that clearance health papers were unnecessary for yachts coming to Cuba. Minister Squiers is asking the Cuban government to expedite the case. The maximum penalty for violation of the intervention government's order is $5000. The French government, it was stated, will send an official representation to the wedding of the Crown Prince of Germany. Two seamen were picked up oft Scatterie Island and taken to North Sydney, N. S., after spending twelve day on ice floes. Cuba has been warned by the United States of the necessity of promptly carrying out contracts for sewering and paving, to protect the health of both republics. Tbe strike of 14,000 agricultural laborers in Porto Rico was announced by President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, to have ended in a victory for the workers. Due Decazes, a special cable despatch stated, for whose safety in the motor boat race fears were entertained, arrived with the crew of the Quand-Meme at a Sardinian port oc board the destroyer Arbalete. President Loubet, in recognition o! the reception given at Buenos Ayres to M. Charcot, an Arctic explorer, has sent as a present to the Argentine Re? public, a large Sevres vase moucieu on a splendid pedestal. At the request of Emperor William, says a special cable despatch, the LIam< burg-American steamships will call regularly at Tangier. Fearing complications in Mcrrocc and renewed lighting by the Kabyl* tribes, the Spanish government at Ma drid has ordered the garrisons of <3ra? ada and Malaga to be ready to de tach cavalry and artillery at a mo uienl's notice to go to Melilla. Yl Han Eung, the Korean Cbargi d'Affaires at London, Eng., committed suicide by hanging at the legation. Two Russian war ships from Vladi vostock have appeared in the Tsugart Straits. Rioting at Zhitomir has been mud exaggerated, total casualties beinj 'eighteen killed anil sixty-flve woundetj.