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ISfvvf- * r- ' ' M?IKCR??S, 'An empty room, and yet how full Of her since she has gone: No trifle but becomes a thing For thought to dwell upon. The very silence misses her. And moves on noiseless feet. Fearing to wake some memory i The nrave heart could not meet. Irrevocable fate is felt In every place, and look! , How tirm its iron hand has grasped That open half-read book. ?Edith Turner Neweomb, in Harper's Bazar. v- || . I DR. JIM'S TEST| ?s@ flga ..ifec THER TOM" and "DoeM 1 IN tor Jim" they were called j p by the villagers. They JS jJJ were brothers, Thomas ^ ra* and James Radcliffe, respectively, old bachelors both, one the village parson, who looked after the souls of the brethren, while the other, Brother Jim, doctored their bodies. Father Tom lived in the little parsonage next the church, with the oldest woman inhabitant of the place?a dame past seventy, but who knew how to darn stockings?as his housekeeper. Dr. Jim lived at the other end of the village street and looked after his own housework. " "Even brothers who are so fond of each other as Tom and I : ought to live apart." said Dr. Jim. 4Tt strengthens the affections." The brothers passed every evening of their lives together, one night at , the parsonage and the next at the 1 wftPPAd At?AXTT Ar?n < UUtlWJi UUU liicj yuoocv* citij um, over their pipes, for the parson wasn't ] a prig, and the doctor was wont to say ] that tobacco was the only known specific for all human ills. 1 "Tom," said his brother one evening, < *T see that old Bill Lamson has died over at Leeds." "Yes, Jim," said Father Tom, "and I was at his deathbed." j "I always suspected, Tom, that you ] knew all about Bill Lamson's part in 1 the Johnson killing years ago, if he i had a part in it which I am inclined j to believe, by the way, and that you j kept the whole thing to yourself." i "Well, suppose I did know about it, ' Jim. If Lamson told me anything? i which I won't grant even now?he j told it to me because I was a clergy- 1 man, and it's not in the clerical prov- 1 ince to tell on a man who is repentant, l no matter what his crime." 1 "Right you are, Tom, and I tell you 1 that a physician ought to hold secrets 1 just as tight if they come from, a pa- < tient. I wouldn't give up a wounded 1 SL,- / murderer if He Had come to me ior j treatment and had thrown himself on 1 my mercy and on my professional < care. I'd consider myself a sort of a s father confessor to his bodily ills, as i yon might to the sins of his soul." 1 "You're all wrong, Jim. You can't 1 class the physician with the priest. < / The soul and the body are things 1 apart, and the touch of the sacred < doesn't enter into your profession as it j does in\o mine. You have no right to 3 claim the clergyman's exemption from j giving evidence against an evildoer j who has trusted you. In concealment 1 you do the state an injury-" ! "Likely I would if such a condition ] ever confronted me, Tom, but I ] X. , .wouldn't give the fellow up if he had ! once trusted me and I had cared for i him. I might be an enemy of the state 1 in so doing, but I'd sleep better after 1 m: ? " The brothers separated for the night. 1 Dr. Jim went back into the little labor- i atory back of the sitting room, musing i * ? a* UTi. over the tain witn ms Droiuer. iu i would be a curious situation to be : placed in," he thought, "to have a -I. * wounded criminal on your hands and to feel that the state might look to you as an accomplice because you had failed to turn him over to justice after you had patched him up." Dr. Jim sat up late studying. He heard a noise outside the door at an hour after midnight, and, throwing it open, a man fell into the room and on to the floor. "I seen your sign, doctor, With the light behind it. I guess I'm done for, but mebby you can fix me up." The man gasped and fainted. Sturdy Dr. Jim picked him* up and carried him to the laboratory, where he laid his burden on the lounge and made a hasty examination. The man had a bullet hole through the thigh, and was .weak from the loss of blood. Beyond that his injury wasn't serious. Dr. Jim stanched the flow and gave the , \, man restoratives. "Where did you get this wound?" he asked his midnight visitor when he had regained consciousness. "Don't tell on me. Doc. I trusted you. I cracked a place with a pah He got away all right and has the swag, but I got shot when the old feller in tlie house waked up. Maybe I done for him. I don't know, though, but he didn't shoot again after he hit me. and I let drive back." ' You can't stay here." said Dr. Jim. "Patients and other people will be here to-morrow, and you can't travel for a .week. I'll put you on a cot in a room over the summer kitchen at the back of the yard, and I'll look after you. though it goes against the grain." And the doctor smiled a bit grimly as he thought of his conversation with Father Tom a few hours before. An hour later the wounded burglar was bandaged, fed and secreted in the upper chamber of the unused summer kitchen. There was a fierce pounding at Dr. Jim's front door. He opened it. The village constable and a dozen excited citizens were there. "Father Tom has been shot!" they fairly howled at the physician. Dr. Jim felt his knees tremble under bim. The constable, who had some ] . i. . sense, hastened to .say: "Ob. he ain't hurt bad. but come along." The doctor found his brother suffering from a slight scalp wound and lamenting the loss of $500, nearly all the money he had in the world. Dr. Jim treated his brother, and then strode away toward his home. Sentiment was all right, but when a man's brother was shot. why. that was different. "You shot and robbed my brother," he said savagely to the patient tossing 011 the cot. "Was lie your brother. Doc? I'm sorry, and you've been good to a feller. Don't give me up. Doc." The doctor cogitated. "Have you got 'he *500 you robbed him of?" he asked. "Xo, honest. Doc. I ain't. Sam got the hull of it." "A man should not do for his brother what he would not do for mankind at large," mused the doctor. He went to his study, took $500 111 bills from a recess in his desk, put it in a huge envelope with a slip of paper, 011 which i\e wrote in a disguised hand: "Here's your money. I didn't know you was a preacher. My father was one?Snaky Sam." The doctor saw to it that his brother got the money next day. The patient over the summer . kitchen improved rapidly. Day by day be would repeat: "So the parson is your brother. You're a good, game one, Doc." In a week the burglar was gone. Three days later Dr. Jim received a package. It contained ana a letter which said: "I met Sam. I got the money back, and, then I raised some more; no matter how. The extra hundred is ferperfessional services. You're a good, game one, Doc. Lanky Ben." The next night Father Tom and Dr. Jim were sitting smoking together. "Jim," said Father Tom. "if I'd hit that burglar I shot at and he'd come i here, what would you have done with him?" "Tom, my boy, the time has come to talk of other things." ? Edward B. : Clark, in Chicago Record-Herald. An Unprofitable Convert. In Burmah the drum major of an infantry regiment, noted for his steadiness, good humor and constant attention to his duties, one day suddenly ( disappeared from the barracks at Rangoon. At first it was supposed that he had gone on a spree in the town, ? ' 1 J Ai ana ne wouia turn up wueu uis uj<tu m was over, but as day after day passed ] ind no news came of him it was at last 1 assumed that he had gone off in one of ' the American ships which called at j tnat port, it being no unusual thing j Tor soldiers at Rangoon to desert in j this way. About eight months afterward a native Burmese came to the j barracks one' morning and by means ( af the regimental interpreter made it ^ known that he had been sent by a i j ahoonghee (native priest) from a neighboring Buddhist monastery in the for- ] est to say that there was an English 1 soldier there whom they wished to get 1 rid of. An escort was despatched and brought back no less a personage than the absentee drum major. The only explanation he had to give was that the spirti of adventure seizing him one , lay, he had taken a fowling piece and ?one into the jungle to shoot. Com- ] ing across the monastery, the phoon- , jhees had behaved hospitably to him, md had allowed him to sleep there tj r?5<rh* Tinrinf the niirht the fancy seized him to become a Buddhist, and making known his desire to the community next mornihg he was accepted. 1 For a few months all went well.. He J remained quietly indoors absorbed in 1 the study of Buddhist mysteries, which ! had a peculiar fascination for him. J But after a time the demon of unrest 1 began to stir him up again. He made repeated incursions into the jungle find each time returned laden with game. The taking of any form of animal life is contrary to the principles of Buddhism, and the phoonghees expostulated with him, but without avail; so, finding him an unprofitable convert, they got rid of him by communicating with his regiment.?Golden Penny. Gum Chewing and Lunacy. Who would have thought that doctors would countenance the practice of gum chewing? Yet here is the news from St. Paul that the Minnesota State Board of Control includes chewing gum in the list of supplies for insane j n cv in ma os its lisp is often found to ! have excellent effect upon patients, soothing them during violent spells, and enabling t]iem to concentrate their minds upon various forms of work. Doubtless it is the, muscular, not the secretory, activity that produces the beneficial result. The secretory activity may deplete the salivary glands, ' and thus prove prejudicial to digestion. Insane people are nervous, and' almost every one inclined to nervousness has discovered that there are forms of fidgeting which enable him to relieve the tension upon his nerves and help him to concentrate his attention. Many a lawyer and many an orator would be at a loss in speaking if he could not twiddle his watch chain or twirl his eyeglasses. Many a traveling man and many a politician would lose Ills reputation ior ease ui iumma i? . conversation i? deprived of the cigar J lie gracefully puffs in the intervals of j his talk. And the fan! What mistress ! of coquetry would be willing to sur- i render her fan? But while gum chewing may relieve : the fidgets in the case of those who do j the chewing, the sight of. it is likely j to give the fidgets to other people obliged to look on.?Milwaukee Even- , ing Wisconsin. Hold to Your Friendships. A man should start out in life with the determination never to sacrifice his friendships. He must keep them alive or sacrifice a part of his manhood and a part of his success. There must be a live wire kept continually be- j tween him and them.?Success. " . v. . vCr.">'"v., . 'S- ' " ' . J . t.J.ff,.t.ff,,f-- --t--1--*--?-rl-rt?r!--* 4 X T^l'T 'IVj TT T Jr T A T T TTTXT I T l | THE NEWS OF A WEEK | | IN SOUTH CAROLINA.| tP ^ w w. w w W- W._W_.T..T.-g.? _ l f t t Ti^'r I r'r r r i ? TTTV-i 'i'Tl^rV'rTTTT New Industries Reported. The Chattanooga Tradesman reports the folowing new industries for South Carolina during the past week: Newberry, $500,000 building and loan company; Liberty, $50,000 cotton mill; Charleston. $90,000 manufacturong company. * * * Appointed Deputy Collector. Collector of Internal Revenue M. J. Jenkins has announced the appoint** T - 1 TTT Cwaaw ment 01 jonn w. ?oiufii, ui uiccuwood county, as deputy collector, to succeed W. R. Dillingham, of Spartanburg, who resigned recently. The newly appointed deputy collector was once collector of customs at Charleston. * * * Cut to Death by Gin. Martin Riddle, a well-to-do and highly respected citizen of the Warrior creek section of Laurens county, met with a tragic death a few days ago. While passing through his ginnery he was suddenly jerked into the machinery and terribly mangled and bruised. Death ensued in fifteen minutes. Hel was 60 years old, and a veteran of the j civil war. * * * Army Surgeon- Goes to Atlanta. Dr. Francis A. Halliday, surgeon of j ^ A?ff f o t rfArf Mah It rip lilt; AI LUlCIjr i uoi cll jl- vi ? ?>vu.v..., Sullivan's Island, has been ordered to report for duty at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Halliday has been at Fort Moultrie for three years, and has made many friends in Charleston, who will regret the departure of himself and family. Dr. Halliday will be succeeded by First Lieutenant Henry S. Greenleaf, assistant t. surgeon, who (is now on j duty at San Francisco. * * Inspecting Railroads of the State. On Monday last the railroad commision Began to inspect the roads of the state ,this being their annual trip. This annual inspection always results in new depots at some of the small towns and better bridges at some points. The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta branch of the Southern will be inspected from Charlotte to Augus:a, and the Carolina Midland railroad 'rom Blackville to Hardeeville. These inspections were delayed by the request of the Southern's general superintendent, who desired to accompany the officials. * ? ? Six-Year-Old Negro Criminal. A Charleston news item states that j charged with the larceny of silverware ' valued at $400,, Sam Fenwick, alias j Peas, colored, aged six years, will be j tried in the criminal court, which has | just convened. Fenwick was arrested by the detectives while asleep in a | trundle-bed. Fenwick, or Peas, as he is known to the police, is the youngest thief, probably, in the United States. According to his own statement he has been stealing since he was four years of age, but he has never before been under arrest. ? * * Gamblers Ousted from Columbia. Columbia, it is said, has had practically no gambling during the past week. For some time there nas oeen a movemeni in the city against the gambling rooms, led by the Columbia State. Appeals were made to stop the wide open rooms 'along Main street. About a week ago, it is said, the police visited the various gambling houses and advised the pproprietors thta it would be better for them to close tightly. This they did and turned the tops of their tables to the floor. Nothing has therefore been going on for the past' week in the public gambling rooms. * * Improvement in Stock. Says a Columbia dispatch: The exhibition of live stock at the state fair has thoroughly demonstrated that South Carolina can produce cattle and horses equal to any portion of the TTT>;to^ ctotoe Tntprpst in the breed U 111 tvu k;V?AVV?J. ing and perfect development of all classes of stock is perceptibly on the increase. The stock exhibit was much larger and in better condition than heretofore. There was a fine Jersey herd of A. T. Smythe during fair week and then there was the handsome herd of Guernsey cattle exhibited by John G. MQbley, of Winnsboro. It will be remembered that this herd competed at the Charleston exposition with some of the crack herds or the north, shipped to Charleston from the Buffalo exposition, and evenly divided the premiums wilh them, when judged by Professor Scoville, of the Kentucky Agricultural College, who was also the expert who judged the cattle at Buffalo. Mr. Mobley's exhibit of horses and cattle at the state fair was extra good and they won a number of blue ribbons. To the management of the fair is due much credit for the gcVd business judgment displayed in the conduct of the business of each department. It is a certain fact, however, to those who know the situation, that it . i ^ \ lias outgrown its location, and that1 more commodious buildings and larger grounds are absoluely necessary to en-; able it to keep abreast of the times, j *** Senator Tillman Pleads for Keith. ! The following is from a recent issue of The Atlanta Journal: United States Senator Ben Tillman,1 of South Carolina, will appear before the Georgia prison commission this af- j ternoon in behalf of Robert A. Keith,: an Atlanta man, who shot and killed j Jesse A. Wall in Atlanta in the sum- i mer of 1901. Keith is serving a life sentence in the Georgia penitentiary, j having been convicted of murder in j the Fulton county superior court. Refore romin? to Atlanta Keith was a resident of Edgefield county, Soutli j Carolina, the home of Senator Till- j man, and the*South Carolina political; leader knew the boy from infancy. He, has interested himself in his behalf, I and will appeal to the prison commis i sion this afternoon for a pardon. Senator Tillman and Senator A. S. j Clay, of Georgia, were callers at the : capitol and made the engagement with j the prison commission. During their; visit at the capitol Senators Tillman : and Clay called on Governor Terrell ; for a few minutes. ' The crime committed by Keith is well remembered in Atlanta. He be-1 came suspicious of his wife, thinking j she was intimate with Wall, and called j to see Wall about it The two men j engaged in a . fight and Keith shot Wall, killing him. On the trial, J against the advice of his attorneys, j Keith pleaded guilty and received a j life sentence. It is now urged in ex- j tenuation of the crime that as soon as j Keith approached Wall the latter | threw his hand to his hip pocekt and ; made an effort to get out a pistol. Keith's wife and his six-year-old j 1 daughter will be present at the hear-! I . > - ? 1 | mg Deiore me pn&uii cumiuia?n/u wio afternoon. Senator Tillman is very | much interested in the matter and j will make a strong argument today j for the release of his friend. I * * Governor Stands by Constables. Attorney General Gunter has gone to work on the case of Constables Grady and Hoy, who were imprisoned in the Charleston jail in default of bond. Governor Heyward was worried about the matter, and is sorry that the case has taken such a turn, but he will espouse the cause of the constables and insi3t that the constables continue to do ;their duty in all parts of the state. Rudolph D. Wieters charges five dispensary constables, Bateman, Hoy, Gideon, Grady and May, with assault- j ing him at his place of business. He has indicted the constables in the criminal courts and in addition has brought an action for $10,000 damages on the civil side of the court. t? noco fnrmor ittnr. | ILL LUC? Ullliiuai v,?ov av* **?w. : ney General G. Duncan Bellinger deI fends the constables, but as he is now j engaged in court at Barnwell the case | may not be tried at this session of the court. Mr. Wieters alleges that he is a subject of Germany, and on that account has brought his suit for damages in the United States court. Grady and j Hoy were arrested and the bond for | each being fixed at $5,000 they were \ unable to give it and were sent to j | jail, pending the arrangement of the ! bend. Seme years ago, in the case of Cantini vs. Gaillard and others, Major Barker obtained a verdict in favor of Cantini in the United States court, but the judgment against the state has never been paid. The bond in that, case evidently was not sufficient, or it j I would have responded to the judg- j ment, and evidently in the present suit j j there is a remembrance of the Cantini! j case, in which there is an outstanding j ! judgment. i The dispensary authorities think I ! that such a heavy bond for each of1 the defendants' in the case is entirely I too much, and that a nominal bond | would suffice. WHAT TILLMAN SAYS. ' ! Prognosticates that Race Problem Will j Be Issue of Campaign. . j United States Senator Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, has given his opinion as to the possibilities of the democratic party in the -coming presidential election. In a recent interview j he said: . j "The democrats have a good chance of putting in their candidate. * The elections in New York, Maryland and Rhode Island are victories for the i democrats that will be a great help l in thp. rnminz election. "The election of McClellan in New York will have a national effect. You see the election cf democrats here and there will spread the possibilities over | the entire country. "Some people have argued that the { comparatively small majority in Maryland is not a victory that will be very effective nationally. I would like to call their attention to the fact that , heretofore-we have had no majority j at all, and the election of a democrat , is a great victory. "Roosevelt's attitude towards the negro is going to hurt the chances of the republicans. The race problem as an issue will be a good one. The people over the country are taking an interest in the election. The trouble that the negro caused in the north the other day during the election will harm the republicans. "The people all over the United States are changing their ideas regarding the black map." ' fc* 5V' k;: - . \i ' ^ I ' ^ % ' " * N ' '* s " H '' "if EXTRA SESSION l Fifty-Eighth Congress Con-! venes at National Capital, PRELIMINARY PROCEDURE Grant Enthusiasm and Crowded Galleries Greeted Solons?Cannon Elected Speaker and Both Houses Organized. The fifty-eighth congress convened in extraordinary session a.t noon Monday. in accordance with the proclamation of President Roosevelt for the purpose of enacting legislation to make effective the Cuban reciprocity ' treaty. The day was devoted simply to personal greetings and organization. The house elected Joseph G. ' Cannon, of Illinois, speaker. The hnnco. nssumhlorl tho larwet membership in its history and the j scene before the gavel fell in that i . body was one of animation, both on I the floor, in the cloak room and in the | lobbies and corridors. The day was crisp and bright, and the capitol building presented the appearance of a new structure with its coat of white paint and complete renovation within. Crowds of eager spectators, both men and women, thronged the corri- j dors and rotunda of the capitol early i in the day, and the galleries, to which ; admission was had by card only, were taxed to their capacity long befo-e the hour of assembling arrived. Committee rooms, which had been in the hands of the renovator during the recess, weer thrown open and many formal receptions were held by popular chairmen. With galleries crowded, with the chamber a mass of elaborate floral tributes and nearly every senator in his seat, the gavel of President Pro Tern. Frye sounded at the hour of noon, calling the seriate together. The special session of the senate following the adjournment last spring of I the fifty-seventh congress eliminated much of the routine work which otherwiro wnnlfl liava hepn nprformpri /it thfc first day's session. Senator Hanna's pronounced victory in the Ohio election won for him what was one of the 'most pretentious floral designs ever seen in the senate, a shield 5 1-2 by 4 1-2 feet of blue immortelles, in which was wrought the American flag. The oUering bore the inscription "Senator Mark Hanna, from his friends, 'the Irish Democrats' of Cleveland." Fully a score of smaller tributes ; were banked around Senator Hanna's ; desk. Senator Gorman's triumph in the Maryland election was recognized by the second largest floral piece, a handsome wreath more than two feet : in diameter, with a crossed luster of j roses, carnations and chrysanthe mums at the base. The senate adjourned at 12:14 o'clock. Many familiar figures of the last congress were missed. Galusha A. Grow, { the veteran member of Pennsylvania | and a former speaker, were among I the absent ones. I The democrats rallied around a new j leader, Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, who was chosen to take the place of Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, who retired from the leadership of the minority. A call of the roll by states developj ing a quorum. 350 having answered, the clerk called for nominations for speaker. Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, chairman of the republican caucus, formally nominated Mr. Cannon. " TT; nf m.r. Hity, U1 Viigiuia, wallrnau va | the democratic caucus, nominated Mr. ! Williams, of Mississippi. No speeches ; were made in making the nominations. J The mention of Mr. Cannon's name J was received with applause on the re- i j rublican side and the naming of Mr. j ! Williams as the minority candidate r I was likewise greeted on the democrat- j ic side. The roll was then called, resulting in 198 votes for Mr. Cannon and 166 j for Mr. Williams. Mr. Cannon was ! then declared duly elected speaker of i the house. In a brief, felicitous speech Mr. Williams presented Speaker Cannon, and i the latter delivered a short, but comj prehensive inaugural address. Mr. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, upon whom falls the titular honor of "father of the house,"- bestowed by reason of his having seen the longest contin I uous service, in accordance wun cus- j ! torn administered the oath to the j j speaker. The members were then | sworn in by Mr. Cannon. , Following this, a resolution was ! adopted re-electing the old officers of the house: Alexander McDowell, clerk; Henry Casson, sergeant at arms; Frank B. Lyon, doorkeeper; J. : C. McElroy, postmaster, and Rev. H. j N. Couden. chaplain. BOOSTING SENATOR GORMAN. | Southern Democrats in Congress Show Preference for Mary lander. | A Washington dispatch says; One of the most notable features of the : democratic situation is, the almost j unanimous sentiment among southerners for Arthur P. Goran as the democratic nominee for president. The : southern state delegations are talking Goran in and out of congress. BISHOP IS THANKFUL Lauds President Roosevelt for Having the Courage to Eat at Table With the Black Man. The general committee of the Frcedman Aid and Southern Educational Society of the Methodist Episccpai church began a two days' business session at Lincoln, Neb., Monday. Bishop James N. Fitzgerald presided. ' Nearly all the bishops of the cbnreh were in attendance. Extended reports were submitted by the general treasurer and correspond-. ing secretaries. The report 0/ the board of managers showed that 11,161 pupils .are attending the schools maintained by this society. This surpasses _ .1 , .? ? ? . ii - ^ an recoras) m me nisiory 01 me socxe- < ty. Appropriations have increased and the faculties have been materially added to. The total receipts of the society ajad schools for the vyear amounted to nearly $500,000. ^ Short addresses by a number of the bishops following the reports were marked by the freedom with which they discussed the attitude of the two leading political parties toward the negro race. Bishop Cranston criticised the national party in power for its alleged remissness and declared his belief that it was time for the Christian people to desert any organization that thought more about itself and its politics than about the welfare of a pfepyv": pie down trodden and in need of assistance. Bishop Hamilton e/oked applause by an eulogy on President Rooseveit, w saying in conclusion: "I thank God that we have a president who is not afraid to sit down with a naorj-A on/X tft cViftur Vi 4 m tVi.o rpfinp/T. that is due." Bishop Walden said he was glad they had a Senator Tillman in the south, because he was needed to stir up things. '",J Bishop Hamilton made the princf- ^ pal address of the day. He said that the Leland Stanford Junior university cost $30,000,000, and that notwith- | standing that great outlay of money its instruction was confined to ahout. ? 1,200 or 1,300 students a year. The ^ Methodist schools in all the south cost . : about the same amount of money and l they were called on to educate 50,000 persons, a year. Bishop Hamilton said that Booker T. Washington was not the first per- son to introduce industrial training -. among the negroes. The Methodist schools did that long before Washington began his work. More than 20,000 capable school teachers were the result of the Methodist education in the south. Bishop Ham ilton ^said that a race could not be elevated by industrial education alone. 3 The head and heart mu^t be taken care of as well as the hands and other parte of the Dody. "The north must solve the negro problem," the speaker declared. "The north signed no protocol that would allow southern sentiment ta prevail in -ili the settlement of the negro problem."' $ x ; Sli WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED. -;J? Five Negroes Found Dead in Their ' t Cabin Home, Near Marianna, Fla. In a negro cabin near Blue Springs, eight miles from Marianna, Fla., last Saturday morning H. Y. Kelly, his wife and baby were found in bed with their heads crushed and two other * children with their heads cut off. The bodies were very much decomposed. The woman's mother discovered >v blood on the porch and called the neighbors to her asistance. The door ^ was found to oe locked.- A plank was - \ prized off and All the family of five were found dead. The coroner's jury found circumstantial evidence enough to hold Allen Roulhacs and a boy. named Gerdon. the nearest neighbors, who were at the inquest and acted suspiciously. On Saturday previous to the find, Kelly was in Marianna and paid a bill at C. M. Messers' store, and that was the last seen of him alive. . Minister of Finance Suicides. Italian Minister of Finance Rosano committed suicide at Naples Monday by shooting He was found dead in his room, with a revolver at his side. He had been wrongfully accused of malfeasance in office. COLOMBIA MAY REPENT. r Prospect of Negotiations Being Resumed in Canal Treaty Matter. Reports were current in Washington Monday night to the effect that an effort was making whereby negotia- ' % tiens for a Panama canal treaty might yet be resumed with Colombia, notwithstanding the defection of the department of Panama and the establishment of?an independent government ^ there. - ' ' ~ j WARSHIPS GUARD PORTS. Colombian Troops Will Not Be Allowed to Menace Panama. Embarking of Colombian troops < from Buena Ventura or any other Colombian port of the isthmus of Panama will not be permitted by the ' ; Washington government and American warships will be ordered to any port upon receipt of an intimation that Colombian troops will attempt to sail for the isthmus. The Washington government holds that this policy is in the interest of the general good. ' / . . ' '3