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VOL. XI. I BILL AkP. I A cbtipter of the Daughters of the Confederacy writes to me for a list of the Georgia senators end representatives who seceded In January, 1861, and also for a list of their successors in tb?; confedwate congress. But few men can answer these questions, and indeed the answer is hard to find in any book. Rnt these women are after information that is worthy of preservation in tieMr archives and they will sor.n know more about the chril war than the tomi. "Well, oir state senators belbre the, war were Ttobert Toombs and Ben.; Hill. Toombs made a withdrawal :J peech whlie11 was grnnd mul (Wiant. Our representatives were Martin .1 Crawford, Peter E. Lore. Thomas .1 Hardenuu . Lucius J. Gartrell. John W. Tl. Underwood, James Jarkstn. Joint Jones anii Joshua Hill, who resigned. They are .all dead The members ot the first confni'erefrcongress <were Senaton, !33?us Tl 111 <nr?d Herschel V. Johnson. Toombs was elected, hut had serious opposition and it irritated h'.tn so that, he refused to serve anfl later >n, Johnson v as elected. Toombs vai I, "The manner in whim this trust has been conferrals on nie relieves me from ativ obligation to accept it." So "he unsheathed hie sword and went to fighting The representath.es <!lected were Julian RaTtriflge, J. C. Mimnertj-n, Hines Holt. A. H. Kenan, David W_ Lewis, W. W. Chirk, Robert T. Trlppe. L. J. GartriU, Hardy Strickland and Augustus R. Wright. These are all dead. "Time rots down all, both great nnC small." A letter from another chapter wishes to know r he maiden names of the wires of the presidents anr! the names o'. the mothers of the presidents. 1 tell you these women are in ettrnest. For centuries their sex has boet under .the bun. You can't find i history of ?yv Loped la that tells anything a'oout wives ; or the mothers of great men. and yet I it is the mother wlro makw the men. ; George Washington's father died when he was 11 years old and hr.s mother trained him ami taught hint and planted within hint all those virtues that made him great and yet there are In it few of our American people who know who Vis mother was. 1 have thiee sets of standard cyclopedias, hut oaJy meager mention is madoiu them of ths mothers or wires of the president. Who knows anything about the mother of - * Webster. Clay or Calhoun? I hav? #/innA SVn - f ..II ?.L. umiii.j nit- ujara'u uaiunt iu ? mc vivos oi tho presidents and the names of all their mothers exo?V?t those of Zacharlah Taylor, William 11. Harrison, Franklin Pierre, James Buchanan, R. B. Hayes and Ben Harrison. Maylte they had mothers. Well, to begin. George "Washington's mother was "Mary BalL His wife was widow Park Curtis, nee Martha Dawlridge. John Adams' mother was Susannah tJoyiston. His wife was Abigail Smith Thomas Jefferson's mother was Jane Randolph. His wife. Martha Wales. James Madison's mother. Fanny Taylor His wife, Dolly Payne. That Fanny Taylor's brother was grandfather to Zaehary Taylor. J tune s Monroe's mother, Eliza Jone* His wife, Elizabeth Kort right. Juim Q. Adams had a grandmother Quiey.. No mother is named. His wife was Louisa Johnson. Andrew Jackson's mother, Elizabeth Hutchiaason; his wife, Rachel Douelson. Martin Van Buren's mother, Mary Hoes: hit wife, Hannah Hoes. William H. Harrison's mother not named; vile. Anna Symmes. John Tyler's mother, Mary ArmiEtead; wif?; Lctitia Christian. James K. Polk's mother, John Knox; wife, Sarah Childress. Zaehary Taylor's mother not. earned; vife, Margaret Smith. .Milliard FHmorc's mother was Phoebe Millard; lie never married. Franklin Pierce's mother not named; wife. Jane Appleton. James Buchanan's mother not named. He was a bachelor. AbnJiain Ifinrohs's mother. Nancy Hank*, wife. Mary Todd. Andrew Johnson'* mother too poor and isrwjant to tiaioo. His wife. Eliza McCnrJo. educated him. U. S. Grant's mother. Hannah Simpson; his wife. Julia Unit. "It. L?. Hayes' n:oth?r*ot named; his wife. Eucy Ware Wehh. James A. Garfield's motSicr was Eliza Ballon; his wife. latere;ia Rudolph. Chester A. Arthur's mother. Malvina Stone; his wife, Ellon L. Hern don. Grcver Cleveland's mother. Anne | Neal; his wife. Frances Fobswn. Ben Harrison's mother not .named; J his wife was Miss Scott. William McKinley's mother. Nancy C Allison; his wife. Ida Saxton. oow, or course ir a man can afford I to buy thi separate biographies of those men. though some have no', been written, no doubt he could loarn more about their mothers and wives, but not very much. We know but little concerning the mothers of Milton. Shakespeare, Cowper. Powe, Gray, Johnson, Hood, Burns, Moore, Byron, Coleridge or any of the noted writers of England or Scotland. The idea seems to have been that women ns a general rule were of no consequence?except to Inar children and stay at home and nurse ;neni. But that Is not the idea now. Women are coming to the front and claim a more notable position in history an 1 biography. Mrs. Do. Burt, of Brunswick, ha3 in press a book devoted exclusively to the mothers of the notable men of Georgia, the mothers of our governors and statesmen and ministers and military heroes, and I know eho will do justice to them. Some time r.-^o a friend of mine died and as ho v.is a man of some note, his son, who is growing old, wanted to answer Mrs. 4, flh. . -minn auoui iwor?>* w ai ninyiun r ?nu nm> of the lioys suid: ''Ho wiis bom on Mount Vermont:" A lit'lo vtirl said: "\"o. it was Mount Vernon." Another hoy said, "iio wn?. nam^l fnr t: v:'y ?* Washington."' und oue thur said."lie was the father of .:il! the county rhil?t'on." and another.- saih, "He out a oAiorry tree down to >nn fin ehorr es. :md didn* t loll a lie uincit ft and "his frliter never llekoti hint i?>- !t. but that | Jti?ht lie "tind the* oolie priny had." I .And h?TT.e Is a finod 'ft; ml Vtter <wf i sjrrnpathy from a fc'll-blovdod Cherokee i Indian. who wrihn front tiro Indian ! Territory ;;md snyj. ho wits tUtrn l?, 'Murray ecurnty and loves Georgia anft iter people. He asks about the Rowells, and says hlrs father "knew .'lie oVl man on 5,ho Chattahoochee arid always said there was some Rood lndir.n bWod in bis veins. VSell. they do to?k like it. I expwt our ?van caiw Sideways down * from old Powliattan. Just its nry wife ! came from Forahontaa. Hello, Cwnsin 1?van; we ar? Jcin.?Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. PROMINENT PEOPLE. T.ord Tonuyron lias hoen nppolnloV! | Governor-!Jonora 1 of Australia for oiu? j year. t'niliil Stab's Aluliassail'ir to I'.ntrlanil Chimin i? i-i?in.r t.. i.'..i-..i ii... " -.-J" | opening of I lit* Xile ilnui. Emperor William lias inv'ied <V*nio-' : 1 i 11. the French actor. in lip a member ' of his next hunting parly. ('ri)\vn Prince Frederick of Saxony I I ho other ilay broke his I ,-ir below tbo knoo while hunting near daizborg. Tin* Sultan of Turkey and the Queen ! of the Netherlands are said to he the i only total abstainois among European I sovereigns. Padorewskl has decided to appear at ' the festival in Uerlin next October, despite liis declaration not to play again hi that city. Sir Ivlelinrd -T. Hurt weight. Minister of Trade and ('onimeroe of the Doinin* Ion of Canada, lias heen made a I Sri t is ii , Privy Councillor. Prince Henry XV. of Pious. who reI ceatiy visited the Fnited Stales, said j tie thought President Uooseveit was | full of electric sparks. Professor Wood, of Hm Department | of Agrleulljive, has I?rea sp nding smile j mouth* in Western Slates studying tlie j dietary conditions of men in lumber > camps. Social lionizing since his return from South Africa serins to hare brought oft the Intent geniality of Lord Kiicliens-r. lie is now deserilied as not half 1 lie- Pear he used to be. Sir Wilfred l.auriev. Premier of Cannda. will, it is srdil, shortly retire from I public life, tlie step being urged l>y Ills | physicians, who say that he can eonI tinue his. public activities only at phy! a leal peril. Among tlie mnltifnrious duties assumed by Governor Tnft in the Philippines is the voluntary duty of urging : the development of Filipino music. One result has been a series of symphony concerts by the ltizal orchestra at Manila. Ar English publisher is bringing out n work in which the pedigree of the vj m i t h famlltr lo teooA/l ?11 ramifications. It is not stated how many volumes there will be. No doubt the Smiths are related in one way or another to most of the reigning and all the noble families of the world. Tli?>re ought to be no difficulty in tracing their descent from Adam, whose other name is supposed by some to have ffeen Smith. At last we shall find out what the world owes to the Smiths in the arts and selences, in war and peace, in society and trade, in politics and tr.eology. It ought to .xclte the Drowns and Joneses, also mighty elans, as they appear in city directories, to bo up and doing and prove their right to public recognition * FOE Burt's letter about his grandmother, j and he told her he dldn'tkniwanything I about her?didn't even know her mai- t den name. He said that he never saw her. for she died when he was a child and he never heard bis father say much about her. That has been the way, but it will not be much longer, for the elevation of woman to her proper position by the side of man and not beneath him, is rapidly coming on. This federation of woman's clubs will assert woman's rightH. This recognition of woman has gained ground rapidly since the war. Before that our school teachers were generally men and where we had women at assistants they were imported from the north. We had five in succession )7i our town. One by one they got married and we sent off and got another. Our well-to-do widqwers took u "liking to them. Tor our girls wouldn't marry a widower and our young men wouldn't, marry a ya'akee school mistress. But since the war our own girls have gone to teaching and are found in every school room in the land. If they are more fit to teach-our children than am the men. then why am they not hotter "aid. and why are they not member?; of our school hoards? 1 have Kiitiwu men to be elected on school 1 oards who couldn't do a sum In the rub' of ttare*> :i*nd ffin*t "knvrw whether algebra vras L,atin c-r astrcmomy. Some of these same men ?tre put<on the committee to choose school bt?oks. Srhool brards are not always elected for scholarship, but for sectarian Influence and because they have an nx to grind. Hut this is enough for one letter. I hope the young people wiE < at if- out and pas*e it In tbeir scrap books and keep it fv?r referent e so that when they are married *od have inquisitive children they car answer these questions. "Every ytiiing person sltodll has a a a Top book. One of our teachers was not long ago asking her scholars about "Washington. * Who can tell me wjoho T MILL, S. C? WEDNI POSTAL SERVICE IN 1902 Receipts Amounted to $121,818,047; Expenses, $124,785,697. DEFICIT FOR YEAR, $2,937,649 Th* Annual Repnrt of the l'oilmtltrr? Grneral?Til* K*tln?iite<l Dfllclt Forth* Yfir Kndius ) una 30, 1004. 8S.':?3.S56 ? Somit Uenoflta of Kural Free llcllv rjr?.Klglic-Hour llajr For Clerk*. Washington, 1?. C.?The annual report of the Postmaster-! Jrneral for tli?* year ending .luue last shows total receipts for the year of ?121,S4S.047.'Jb. ns compared with the previous year's receipt's of The expeti- i <1 it ores for *he year were SllM.7N.~t.?597.07, its compared with Si 1o,oo4,412US7 for the preceding yen;. The excess of expenditures, $'J.0o7,- j <54J1.S1, was less than the previous 1 year's deficit hy .S9Sti.077.d7. "i'lie esti- ; united deticit ftir the year ending June iW?, 19U4, is SS.lMli.Soll Kfforts June been made in the past and are noxv l? ing made to better, wherever pus. ible, the <*01111111011 of ' postal employes, the report says. This I is especially so in the ease of elerks 111 I I postollices. There were upwards of | i-t.ooo clerks promoted on July 1 Inst, t2ie aggregate allowance for these pro- ' motions being about Fully : ] t.OUO of these promotions wore of clerks \vJL*o received loss than $1(HH) por annum. The work-ins hours of olorks hi: the larger postotticcs were also reduced st? as u t?i .ivora.se inoro ihan o'islu hours *\ day. The report continues: "ltural free delivery sort lop has become an established fact. It is no longer iri the experimenial stage and iKidnubtcdly Congress will oontimio te inoro:r-o the appropriation tor this pej'vioo iKviil all I he people o." the conntn are trenched, where it is thiokly enough s? tiled Jo war rant it. Tito est! mates of the department are to the effort tha the available territory for this; service cuv truce* about l.OUO.OttO square inDes. or one-fit i I'd of tie* nutli tr/";s area exeluoive ? !' Alaska. The 11.050 routes now iu .operation rover alioBt one-; bird ?f the available territory. The .rapid .extern ion of ;the serj vioe will, of onursr. inetn.aso the deficits I, during the next three yetrs. After it is I completed t 'a** re von lies will .quickly i fct*l tie efi'eet of it* establishment, and j whiitm'r deficit rnny le occasioned will gradually disappear. It wiia also ! 1*' Interesting Jo ttcv-te thxt rttraS free I delivery carriers removed applications dnrlng tJie past year for tl*JTi.t>l(? money orders. "Specific instances Itnve been brought to the attention of the ftepartmciit where The prompt delivering of live stock quotations Indicating n temporary glut it: the market to farmers intending to ship to the stockyards, by enabling them to hold back their sliint tents til! the markets resumed their i normal conditions, l as saved to individual cattle raisers more than the total enst of one year's rural delivery over the .onu s oil which they lived. "The number of domestic money or ! tiers issued was td. 17 1.227. amount'ir.:* t<> .27P. The number of international money orders issued durii.z the year was 1.211.111. amounting: to S22,t>74. 172. The number of interna-, tiotml orders paid dttrirtr the year was ! 2o7.<>7!?. aiiiouniinu to JSo.S21.72D. It will lie interest ing to note that the amount of the foreign orders issued was nearly four times as great as the amount paid, 'l'lie fee at pres: tit for an order of Sliid is thirty rents, and it Is recommended that legislation he passed nuthoririug tlie department to 1 educe this fee to twenty-live cents. "The star service discontinued during the year ended .le.ne 11)02. hy reas, n of the estaldJslmtent of rural free de livery service, amounted to S2(Jo <)Kl.l,s. "Legislation is taed.d for the pros lion of railway |t<>vt:tI olevks while in the discharge of their duties. This is a matter which has heen fully presented in previous annual reports. "Last year tiie Department v>aid for the transportation of foreign mails the stun of .$2.21 n,112" tin the suhjeel of the parcels post the report says: "From tlte statistics taken it nnncars that the average weight of parcels despatched from this eounfry to nli connf l'tne eh 1 - * ....... ..... ..... .-Aiirus unci' .'11111 one-half pounds. Tlu? averago weight of parcels despalohcil from this romitr.v to Germany is two and two-tliinis pounds. In view of the fnot that footpounds as a limit of weight will fairly meet the requirements of this country, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General recommends the tender of parcels post conventions with England. Era nee, Italy and other countries of Europe, similar to that now In force? between this country and dermany. witli the exception that the weight of parcels be limited to four pounds nnd that six month's notice be given to Germany of the desire of this country to modify the existing convention so as to reduce the weight of parcels from eleven to four pounds." Attention is Invited to the remarks of the Second Assistant PostmasterGeneral concerning the need of a universal stamp, or some substitute for it, which will facilitate International corfwpontience. XVoulit-Itn IMieliat* Krronrllrd. Thomas BranifT. Jr., and Manuel Hi- ! eon Gallardo. the young society men. I of Mexico City, Mexico, who were arrested and held by the police to pre- i vent them from lighting a duel, have ' secured their release by shaking hands In open court and promising the Judge j flint they would abandon their dueling plans. BranifT was fined $180 ami Gal- ' lardo $100. which they paid. 'jl : ?81)AY, DEC EMBER ' WENT SMILING TO NOOSE Job Williams Gave His Life For an Atrocious Boublo Murder. II* Cnnlrnril lie I.urnl Fanner Ilolmra aud Mla< Sliutr to Hum. Sliot Tliem itiitl Set Structure on I'ire. Drill gel on, N. .T.?Willi :i smile sprt'iulintr over his conn ten an re. .Iol? Williams. the ooloretl murderer of .lohn V 1 .-1 M!.... I'atl.n., ., . WI...I,. ?". i iwuiH.iim * <i> i ii i iiic r*iiuir( walked briskly to the gibbet ami paid the penalty of his horrible crime. The execution took place in an enclosure in the rear of the county prison, and despite the fact that rain was fallins hard, there were thousands of people gathered about the jail, but only those with signed passes were allowed within. It was exactly lO.rtn o'clock when Sheriff Diaincut called the condemned man from his cell. He marched with head erect, smiling and nodding to acquaintances, and walked briskly to the scaffold. At 11.31 the trap was sprung and the negro's hock was broken by the fall. In eight minutes he was pronounced dead. The body was taken in charge by an undertaker, and was buried in the front yard of his mother's home at Othello, :t little settlement near here. The crime for which Williams paid the penalty on the scaffold is best told in his own confession, made in writing, since his convict Ion. It was made public after the execution. In this confession Williams says he had robbed the old farmer for the purpose of getting money for his approaching wedding. ! lie had liie money in his pocket and | was getting away from the farm, when it occurred to him that it wouM be liec| essary io kill Holmes to prevent discovery. Ho told the old farmer that |? horse -was sh'k and lured him out. ! When Holmes reached the barn Williams felled him with a heavy mallet. ! When Miss Shttte ea?n? out he strtiek her with his fist, knocking i:??r insensii hie. Then he fired pistol hnlN into , their prostrate forms to make sure of their deaths, looked all the doors of I the barn, set the hay and straw on fire | and left the premises. He says in the I eoufession that lie had no though! of I harming the eonple until lie had the money. At the trial It was shown that the | eritue was enmmitiod in the house I and the bodies of the victims I dragged out into the barn, which was ; then tired. Tile absence of any quaui lilies of hi nod about the house always puzzltvl the authorities, hut it was ae<M?pted that the crime had Iteen committed lit the dwelling. The confession clears up all the mystery, and shows that the murder was more brutal than ever supposed, and certainly was one of the most cold-blooded premeditated crimes ever committed in the State. BAN ON NEW ENGLAND CATTLE. Kipoii From Hoiton rrohUiitnl l>y S??rr??tury WiUon. Washington. I>. C\?Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Itas promulgated an | order establishing a quarantine of eat 111.. wtmoli . .1 ..It ......I......... .....I KwitH' in tlir New lOiv I :m? I Stairs, lie prohibits the exportation o* Mich animals from tlio port of iiostoii nuiil further orders. Tills net foil is taken oil account of Hi!- discovery of :i highly contagious disease known ;is "foot ;iin 1 mouth disease" in Now Knglaud. Littleton. Mass. fully half n hundred rattle iti this virinili nrr ntfcctcd with tho disease of the fret and mouth which is causing hoards of agriculture and Slate veterinary otlirers iniirli anxiety. The contagion tirst appeared in the stable of li. \\\ Whitney anion:; cattle whicii had eouie into rontart with 110 other animals of their I: i in I for inont lis. WITCHCRAFT AMONG INDIANS. Two Starved tt? Dentil lo Drive Out Devils ?Trill* Tut Under Arrest. Taronm, Wash, fniird States C'oinmissioiier Kolsoin. .Marrhal Iloplinrii aud I'rosecutl ' Attorneys Lyons have returned to Juneau from lloonnli. vrliere they held an inquest over the remains of ilie two starved Indians. They wore starve I to d 'alh because tiny were thought to lie witehes. One of them was tied to a tree in the woods and eonipelled to stand eight days and nights without food, with heavy rains falling on him. 'i'lie olrieet of tliis treatment was to drive out devils. lie died soon after being released at the end of eight days. The other victim was handled less severely. Federal officers placed the entire trile under arrest while investigating. Four members, found directly responsible. were taken to Juneau, charged with murder. I.argent Gun In tlic World. The ldg sixteen-ineh coast defense gun, the largest gun in the world, which was manufactured at the Watcrvlict, X. V., Arsenal, has been shipped tin a barge to the Sandy Hook proving grounds. The largest crane in the world loaded the gun on the barge. The following are the dimensions of the gun: Length, I'd feet 'J.tt inches: diameter at breeeii. r? feet: bore. It! inches. It shoots a projectile weighing 2H70 pounds a ?1 Is taiteo of 21 miles. The crude steel from which the gun was assembled weighed "(JS.OtjO pounds. Its cost was $l.r?<).(KW>. Oil Into Uolltnc Syrup slut t\ in Killed. Falling Into a vat of boiling syrup near elio, thirteen 111 ilea from Savannah. tla.. Charles David Snooks, a farmer, lost his life. The syrup plant consisted of two pots on a brick foundation under which lire was built. While giving bis attention to one of these pots Mr. Snooks lost ids balance and fell backward into the other. 1902. NAVY IN NEED OF OFFICERS Secretary Moody's Report Shows There Will Be a Great Deficiency. WANTS MORE CADETS APPOINTED Gr?:t Offlrfm Ar? >>nlfil Vow. and lOOO Will ttp Wanted In About Knur Yeara* Time? I'.xtrunion of A n n:?i>ol I h mill 111creime In I*rmn?tluii4 l'rt-omitiriidctl? Tiie Naval Programim*. Washington. P. t\?Secretary of the Navy Moody lias made his report for tlio fiscal year ending June .'10. The report deals with the ships under construction, those authorized by Congress, those in and out of commission, the personnel of tli service and with the future of the Navy, as seen by Secretary Moody. < *f the vessels under eousl met ion, the report says: "At the eh.se of (lie last fiscal year there were under construction for the Navy, liy contract, the following vessels: Kicld hattleslrps, six armored cruisers, nine protected cruisers, four monitors, thirteen torpedo boat destroyers. seven torpedo boats, and seven submarine torpedo boats. The general progress upon these boats, particularly those of the larger class, lias not lie.".! found to be satisfactory. The battle ships were, oil the Z tot It of June. 11 Mil!, from ten to twenty nine months behind contract time; the armored cruiser.ftMIII f.tlll* III t htldillltl lllllllt lie til.. (It*.I teeted cruisers from six to <>iixlit months. while tln? monitors wort- fron sixteen to nineteen months in ai rears "Pttrint: the fiscal year the follow hit: vessels have Oeen nnally accepted: Tin battleships Alabama. Wisn nsin. am 1 Illinois: tile torpedo boats Hailey. Han ley. Hartley. Ithhlle.Sluibriek ami Stock ton. The torpedo boats Thornton ant Wilkes, antl the destroyers Decatur Perry and I'reble have been ]irelimin ttrily accepted. 1 Set ween .luly I. lt'it'J I and November 1. lbtVJ. the Thorntot lias been linally ami the following ves ' sels preliminarily aeeepted: The inoni tor Arkansas, the torpedo boat destroy ers ltarry. t'hauneey. Pale. I'anl Jones ' Truxton. Wltipple and Wordett, and th torpedo bottt l>e Long." 1 of new vessels the author i/.cd repot j continues: "At the last session of Pongress tit : construction of the following add! " j tioiinl vessels of the Navy was ttullioi 1 ir.ed: Two battleships, one to be bitil : ! at stu b Navy Yard as the Secretar, 1 iniiriit designate: two armored cruiser and two gunboats. In pursuance o ' litis net i lie Department without dela. approved plans for the eonslruction <i I he i\v<> lialtloships ami direeted ilia \.? ! !; on one of litem, tin* <'oiineetieui If etremeneed at onee at tin- Xnv Ynril. .New York." Of i lit* I'll inn- of t!ic Navy the Se< ( lvtary says; "If tile polity i*l* sitvw.il lienitm nil power upon the sea I ? the point wher it ran r <puinl lit lti*' National neeils ti not nlriudoued. tln? X;lv v 1 as manll'ol ne. <!s'. Tin re innst (.,? ailiiMioiial iniv; ami eonlh.tj station-: more . 'ops. flfjlil im*; ami auxiliary; ami an iiu'iease n i r.h?eers and men. "The most imperative need of th Navy to-day is of additional olliei i>. e.inuot overstate this lma;. It invito, the instant attention of t'on^ress. TI., ! .'"imlnlstrntion of the I >oj>ai tnient i ?-ui!. massed almost daily l.y the lael of oliieevs nelow eonnmind r Tin: I condition has lieen appro.n liimc f<> ; > le a ears, and was clearly appp headed and . tated hy my predeees.-oi in ?.iV . Il is aenif to.da\ :>n<l o i , ill - ships already authorized are com l?li t' il. it will hi dcspernl Unless t lirVi . is early net ion." The report shows that aI prcst n I t' re is a deileien.y o.' .".TV officers foi , 11 ships ol" the N:ivy. It speaks o| l t-'O v'.ys in wiiieh more officers ina.v ( he obtained, and adits: "I therefore earnest.y recommend that without n year's delay the mini h< r of midshipmen at the Academy Ik increased sufficiently to meet present and prospective needs of the service." The report continues "From time to time during the last forty years attempts nave lieen made l?y various foreign jrovermm tits, as well as hy our own. to utilize .oil aa fuel for naval service. Fourte< n otlielal tests have oeen made, from which valuable iufotualion ha; been secured. "As a result of the investigations thus far conducted the Thief of the Kitre.'tii of Steam Knjrinoeriiijr recommends tli- installation of liquid-fuel appliances without delay in at least a third of llie torpedo boats and destroyers. Willi respect to the larger war vessels ami particularly the battleships, the installation of liquid fuel presents serious difficulties, entirely apart from the question of the satisfactory use of /ill lltlflnt* liAllnee "In recommending that the Government olitain control of all wireless telegraph stations the rhlef of the Hnrca.i of Kquipment says: 'In time of war the department will undoubtedly f'.ml if necessary to communicate by means of wireless telegraphy with cer. tain receiving stations along the I coast. Nothing should be permitted j to interfere with the transmission of I Mich messages, nor should it be pessi! bh? for unauthorized persons to receive j them." Itinfrlrt Attorney lictlir i ftrnii|i?lnlrit, President Ifoosevelf re-appointed Sol1 onion H. Itethea I'tilted Stales District | APtrncy for Hie Northern District of ! Illinois. Mr. Hethert is til" ofiieev who I gathered the greater |> rt of the evi| deuce which led to the prosecution of < the combination of meat packers I?y ' tL_> Federal Government. NO. .57. Doing His Sent. | It somehow noetus llt'lo ctiou.;li when you say Tha* teller. If "dcing he brat." It mounn that ho tolls ami ho hopes day by day That H'.'avdi will attend to the rent. He is jo.-tted aside hy the hurrying orowil, I'tisouitht by tin1 lonely: fo:y,ot t>y the proud. He e.iYnw what he gets. and no more ! allowed To the fellow t. lio's "doing his best." ? Itut oiwnwr a crisis arises, wo look T-? the man who Is doing his host. Tire prince with his splendor, tho sage wi'.h h'? book. Pull oft fail to answer tho tost. And when there's a home or a country to serve. We turn to the matt with tho heart and the nerve. The -nan whom adversity's touch could not swerve. The man who kepi doing his l> -at. ?Washington Star. A Phenomenal Boy. A merchant in I hestnut street has become very fond of an office boy he engaged last Juuo. The boy entered very early in the morning when the merchant was reading the paper. Tho latter glanced tip and went on reading without speaking. After throe minutes the boy said: "Kxcuse me?hut I'm In a hurry?" "What do you want?" he was asked. ! "A jot).' , j "You do? Well." snorted the man of 1 j business, "why are you in such a 1 hurry?" i ' (lot to hurry," replied the hoy. , "Lett school yesterday to go t > work and haven't struck anything yel. I ' can't, waste time. If you've nethit:c fnr tne. sav so. and I'll !o i. e'se [ whore.1. The only place 1 can 'top i long is whore they pay mo for it." "When can you come?" a.K- i tl.es \ surprised merchant. "Don't have !o come," he v.as told. ' "I'm here now. and would hav? h< -p to work hefisre this if you'd said so."* I Philadelphia Dodger and Time.*. - ; When the evolution of history is In id hack it results in a revolution. i ! There is morn Catarrh In tills nueiio.i of the l country than all oilier diseases put toi;ether, 1 and until the last few years was supposed to ' I be incurable, for a great many years doctors e pronounced it a local disease and prescribed loi'nl remedies, and hy constantly failing to t cure with local treatment, pronounec.i it incurable. Science has proven Catarrh to he a , 1 constitutional disease and thoroloro requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured hy P. .T. Cheney .V. <.'o., *" Toledo. <?., is the only constitutional euro on t the market. It Is taken Internally in doses y from lOdrops to a tcaspoonful. It acts directs ty on the blood and mucous surfaces of llie I system. They offer one hundred dollars for any ease ii falls to cure. Send for circular* arid testimonials. Addniss P. J. Chrxey <!b Co., Toledo. I), t Sold by Druggists, 75c. I. Hall's Kivuiily I'ilLs are the host. K\cry man has his price, and it's gencr? ' ally a good deal lens than he marks it up. . I PIT .dp ?r u inontly euro l.No !ltsor ncrvonr ntfstftor'.lrjt day's use of Or. Kline's Great N?rvf>Iiostorer.$2trial bottle and treat.i e j ?*? " Ml "'? I lie girl \yiih the leg Imt seems to he nil 11 nroi until v.hi begin to talk with her ; Mr?. Wlaslow'sBoothfng Syrup forohihli a * tcetliing.noftcn tint S'i nj, reducesintla.nu.T^ tion,allayspain,cures vrtudooUc.'Joc. u'nttfe 1 The Czar K'lssia lms eeiSblisltrd a , l^n liour v orbing day. . I ; Ali creameries use hotter eolor. Why not dr. a- they do ? use Junk Tint Kt'i, Tint Coitm, v l' The .li'thracite he'd is limited to a space *>t .'l.tiKj s junto miles. I b<? k Cure Ls the host medicine wo over r od 1 for nli .iffo-Mions of throat uml lungs. \w. i t?. Esmlbt, Vanburan, ln?l., Feb. to, 1VOO. A Ueriiuer takes, on the average, .-'J street cat rides a venr Tlic Soilttitiiiiil I'.nlln Stion Ft. y I. CO. and the Sot; nut hn tlini. for i 1.00, nro the most pojiular high-grade Indies' shoes fO" tli'? price in America. They are Soutl."?'U u..id. for Southern Maids up-to-dato er?-nti m.-. in !?u t.stiiiitial material combined with , artistic workmanship, from the extensive p.ant or <'iiAimuck Tkrky i o., Lynchburg, V:t. Iteacl their adv. in this paper. lion.id a man, and he can't hcip having a dog's life. r "i j\sthma "One of my daughters had a terrible case of asthma. VC'e tried almost everything, but without relief. We then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and three and one-half bottles cured her."?Fr.ima Jane Entsminger, Langsvilk, O. j -Ayer's Cherry Pectoral certainlycures manycases of asthma. And it cures bronchitis. II hoarseness, weak lungs, I whooping-cough, croup, ft winter coughs, night j 8 coughs, and hard colds. ftl Tfiroo mtfi: 2.V., ninuch for nri ordinary K rtild; rifcl.t for uronrhllia. IinnrarI ik'U, li ird colds. etc.; $1. most fH-niionilitl M for cluuutf ooei nr.l to keep on hmiil. : j K J. (!. AYKU CO., l/owell. Mass. V *??>. 411. I The dog catcher's labors should be curtailed. -