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sp^ I" ., 1 ? THE FOOLI: k\l ?? y rabbit is a gentle thing, jHis mien is never frightfulMis habits are retiring, , To him peace is delightful. He nerer sallies forth to find aaa/) on/) n r?*> if. ' Poiess the prize that looms in sight Kay be secured -without a fight? * * I)on't be a rabbit. rabbit is a synonym For cowardice and meekness: Tfce world has deep contempt for him. It jests about his weakness. The rabbit seems to think 'tis cause * . For g:ad thanksgiving. K he may lend a quiet life. If. he may keep away from strife, ^..ad earn his living. gft li ' ? it stc [By MRS. CHRIST ^ * flSI 0T was a ^teak, blustering ES tsi evening in December. A ? fine snow had been sifting _ _ down steadily all day, and, W as night came on, the wuiu, naving risen to a gale, sent it " whirling off the eaves, around the yard, till all objects were obscured by v the great snow-clouds which went fly isg past. it whisked into every crevice about tile house, making miniature drifts on ;window-sill and door-sill, and bade fair before morning to make the low, id-fashioned dwelling itself one enormous snowdrift. Kow its weathered clapboards rattied, and its shutters creaked and dammed as the furious blasts swept I Oft, wnne more luuu vutc iwscucu i * krlcks were dislodged from the top of j 1ft? huge chimney, fell down on the |. reof, and went bumping and rumbling i 'tTer the long eaves. * But there was one corner in the old >. Iiouse which was always cozy, let the wind blow high or low?the southwest reem. . In bright weather the sun lay on its p- v walls and yellow-painted floor all day Hog, and la the evening its dark corners were enlivened by ruddy flames Irom an enormous fireplace. To-night there was an unusually >? Uo dlrHnc nflfl K-,:-. UtC lis no uciiius, uw? ?. leaping high, while the wind roared in 0$-? to# capacious,, soot-covered throat, and sometimes whirled little sends of snow Missing down into the flames. Their dickering light danced fantastically ||| arrer the wrinkled face and white hair ? Grandmother Williams, sitting on a iip Jrigh-backed rocker, jogging back and ^ farth, cane in hand, and meditatively o; toppiug the toe of her list shoe, while H every now and then her whispered ||v; iMonghts showed that her mind was raving in the vividly remembered scenes of younger days. "Now, my dears." said the old lady, * as several grandchildren came into the room and huddled close about the "corv ners," "are the fires all safe for night? -Yau know your father and mother are aot here to look out for them, and it S .would be a sore night to be turned out f doors for young things like you, let ||r alone old lame bones like your grandp*. - ma's." "There isn't a mite of danger, unless the wind blows the house down," said Hben, who felt the importance of being left as manager-in-chief during the absence of his parents, who had gone on business into an adjoining county. "And the ashes, too," continued grandma. "If you've taken up any lately, do be careful and have them put into something iron, with a cover to it, so they can't get out and set tilings afire. They are treacherous tilings, children, ashes are, and will mull and mull for days, if there's any fire in them when they were taken up. That's the way our first house got kwrned down?nigh upon sixty-five If, years ago." "Tell us about it, grandma," said little Kitty, swinging herself ou grandmother's armchair., I "Yes, tell us," Eben put in, settling kimself comfortably in a corner by the waod-box, tongs in hand, ready to "poke" the fire during the recital. "You must know, my dears," began grandma, "when father?I mean your granaratner?ana i nrst came up uere to live, this whole town was nothing y hot a wilderness. We had only one SJtle log room to go into, with oiled paper pasted into square holes cut In tfie logs for windows, and a great stone chimney, with a fireplace, over tohieh I did all nay work. But life j was young with us then, and we were both strong, and worked hard, early and late, and were happy. I \ "However, there was one thing I could not *uite get over at first, and tlat was the loss of Sabbath day Meetings, But after a while, as other neighbors moved into the neighborhood, we used to have preaching in tie barns in the summer time. "Well, we lived in this log cabin nine years. That last winter grandfather got a chance to work in the logging-swamp up on the Androscoggin River, at eleven dollars a month, all found, and earned hard upon seventy dollars. I stayed alone here and did the chores and took care of the children; there were six of them thai. "With the logging money, and what we had saved before, grandfather built a new hens* the next year; and a nice house it was for those days?the ceilings and floors all of broad, yellow pine boards, that I used to keep scorned white and cl^an enough to eat off from. - _ H:'' fi - - ' . * " >; * * . v ... * *' n ; * SH RABBIT. The rabbit, being; poor end sntafl, Ft ets not at his condition; He doesn't seem to want it all, He has no proud ambition. Dnou^h is all he takes, the rest Is for his brothers; 7t doesn't seem to make hina fret That when he has all he may get, There's more for others. The rabbit is a scornful thinj* He shrinks in dread from dangor, Ta **11 + Via V"* a n/w* aii?? l or- m r-? na V* it JlW till UtV 14U|-/tP Vsli JUUpiU^D Wi?a^ The rabbit is a stranger. He never kills for seiii^ gain, It. is his habit To shrink from war and hunt for peace, To take enough and then to cease? Don't be a rabbit. -^-Chicago Record-Herald. >ry. INE STEPHENS. \ * "It was in December, the third winter after we moved into it, and just about such a night as this, only colder, if anything. Grandfather was away logging again; he used to go every winter, for your Uncle Jerry had got old enough to help me about the chores a good deal then. "It was Sunday night, I remember, and I had gone to bed in pretty good season, for I always got up before daylight to go to washing. Along about eleven o'clock I waked, with my eyes smarting and feeling all choked up. "T tell von. children, it didn't take long to make up my mind what was the matter,"~hnd I sprang out of bed and ran from room to room to find where the fire was, with the baby under my arm. "On opening the door Into the kitchen, I saw that the partition next, the shed was all ablaze and ready to drop. The stairway leading to the chamber where the children slept ran up out of the kitchen, and the fire had crept round nearly to it." "But what made you think that the ashes set the fire?" interrupted Eben. "Because I'd taken them up Sunday morning and set them just outside in the open shed in an iron kettle?I hadn't calculated on the wind's blowing so hard?and forgot them, and that's where the fire caught. Set you see it was the ashes fast enough. "Shaking and dragging the children out of bed, I got on to them, somehow, what clothes I could lay my hands on, and, throwing blankets over their heads, told them to run downstairs and out of doors as fast as they were ready; but being waked so sudden and the fear of the fire fairly dazed them. "Your Aunt Ann. next older than the baby, was the last one, and somehow I was so flustered I couldn't find anything to put onto her, for how the: fire was roaring down in the kitchen even above-the roar of the wind, and I was afraid it would cut me off entirely. "At last I felt out a coat that belonged to one of the boys, and I had scarcely buttoned her into it when a sudden light burst into the dark chamber. "My heart leaped into my throat as I thought of the great bunches of tow and linen-yarn?more than two hundred skeins, which I had just finished spinning?hanging round the sides of the stairway. They had taken fire." "But you didn't g:6 down through that, grandma?" cried Nell. "There was no other way, my dear. And there were the babies in my arras, besid'es those who had gone dofrn before. "But I couldn't stop long to consider. On the beds were big woolen coverlets, and, throwing one of these over my head, I dashed down the stairs, with Ann under one arm and the baby under the other, for I hadn't put the little thing: down once, for fear she would crawl away in the con i fusion ana darkness, ana i snouia never find her again. I ''The hot flames burned my hands and feet as I went through them. The way was completely cut off out of doors, as I had feared, except through a north window, and the smoke in the kitchen was so thick that it almost stopped my breath. "I can't remember how I got across the room to that window. Bat I found myself before it, and trying in rain tc open it, for it had ben fastened down securely to keep the snow and wind from driving in. A light stand stood near, and with thai I broke the window through, sash and all, and leaped out!" - . And, in her earnestness, the old lady half rose from her chair and thrust energetically with her cane at an imaginary window in the bright depths of the big fireplace. "Ann says I fen down, and perhaps I did; I don't remember," she added, subsiding into her chair and rocking gently. "After a little spell," continued grandma. "I got breath enough tc wallow through the snow around the house, but I couldn't find one of the children. I was about to give up in despair, thinking that, in their be wilderment, they might hare gxrt iutc the fire, when I heard shoute from the hog-house out by the barn. They oat driven the pigs up and bad all trad died together in their warm beds. "Well, I knew we couldH*t stay tber* all night, far the children wasnt tall ! dressed, end none of ns had on nnj | sheet, ami It was Wttsr c?1d! il v . v; i- ^ - , r ---v-v--. - ; - : ; . :r^'\ 1% i Mt-tlil 11 1111 M i 1*1111 f** I THE NEWS OF A WEEK | | SOUTH CAmiNA 4 Carnegie Gives to Winthrop. Winthrop college, the state college for women at Rock Hill, has received a gift of $20,000 from Andrew Carnegie, for a library building. c * * Tillman at Home. A Washington dispatch is as follows: "Senator Tillman has gone to his home at Edgefield, S. C.f to spend / ' J " 'Z-' "'*??. seamed as thaugc xre bad escaped from the fire only to be frozen." And a tear stood ?a grandm Ps withered cheek f t the remembranee ef that night's grief and suffering. "But I eouidn't bear to hear 1he little things cry and see thein freeze by inches," she went on, after a tine; so spurring up courage, I wrapped the coverlet about me as well as I could, and went out 011 the hill away back of of the barn, through the blinding snow to shout for help. "Grandfather's brother, your Grcatuncle Daniel, had then moved into the neighborhood, and his house wasn't more than a mile off by tne road and much nearer across lots. But the wind came from that quarter, and my voice didn't reach three rods. "Old Brindle. their dog, however, set to howling most dolefully?at sight of the fire, I suppose?and he kept it up so long it woie Uncle Daniel at list, and. after a while, I saw a lantern coming through the fields. We had a road across in the winter. "Then I knew that help was at bond, and began making my way back to the children. "There wasn't much of the house left standing now but the big chimney, and I expected to see that go down with every gust. "After what: seemed to me hours. Uncle Daniel hove in sight, and, as soon as he was near enough, he called: "Tolly! Tolly!' "That was me, you know; and I shouted back, to let him know where we was. "'Oh, Polly! this is terrible, ain't it?' be said. 'Are you all alive?' " 'Yes, Daniel, we are, due we suan i be much longer if there ain't something done, and that quick, too!' replied I, for the children was crying pitiful to hear. "'What can be done, Polly?' he asked, hopelessly "'You must go right back and get your oxen and sled, and take us over to your house,' I told him. "'It can't be done, Polly, nohow! Why. there's drifts ten foot deep, and you'll all perish on the way!' " 'Yes, it can be done!' said I, resolute-like, for he was a faint-hearted kind of man?not a bit like your grandfather?'and it must be done, and be spry about it, or I can't swear for these babies!' " 'Well, we'll try, Polly,' says he, and set off again. "I gathered the children together around me in a pile?the babies huddled in my arms?and covered them with the blankets that had been brought from the house, and then waited. "I think it must have been hard upon ? T'VioovH TTnr>!? "Daniel's nil iiUUI ULi.UA IT. A voice above the wind urging bis team through the snow. He brought a lot of bedquilts and one 'buffalo,' and with these we wrapped the children. "It was no wonder that Uncle Daniel had felt faint-hearted at starting, for such drifts, it seemed to me, I never saw before?nor I've never seen such wallowing almost out of sight, while the air was thick with driving snow. "Sometimes I felt afraid we never should get through, and was sorry we had left the hog-house: "But through the mercy of God, we weathered it. and I never felt so happy a moment as when we were all in Uncle Daniel's kitchen before a roaring fire, the children a good deal frost-bitten but all safe. "My own feet and hands were so burned and fevered that they didn't even chill, and it was a good m*ny weeks before they were healed entirely. "Ah. my dears," concluded the old lady, as was her wont after giving them reminiscences of her life experience, "your grandmother has had a hard journey ard a rough path in life bnt I'm almost through the weeds!"? Golden Days. M?kinz Radiroo. Although nobody can really answer the question "What is radium?" the process of its manufacture or separation is by no means a complicated or mysterious one. Radium exists in combination with lead, chalk, silica, iron and other things which must be eliminated. For days a ton or so of uranite powder, which is obtained mostly from pitch-blende, simmers oxer a slow lire with water and soda. This mixture is then put into big barrels, where a sediment is deposited, and put on the fire "o simmer again with carbonate of soda. Then follows more sedimentation ami washing, after which the residue It treated with hydrochloric acid. eoj1 orless liquid results, containing smaH quantities of radium. 1 The chemist's object is bow t? sep; arate tliesr small quantities, aod thia ! be does by a series of reactions and ' arystallizations. At each operation the crystals become progressively richer ' in radium and smaller in bolt, until, after six weeks manipulation, somo twentr-five grammes of wMte crystal! remain. The radium contained in these is of 1 low radio activity, and the greater part of their bulk is refined away. At the ' end there are left only a few oenth - 1 grammes, as much as \vomci cover um ' point of a knife blade, to show for a ton or so of nranite powder and south) ^ of work.?Answers. i Tk* Toi?V mf BovltL t The 1o?i> of David, king of Israel. Ifl stiil pointed out to travelers in Pales tine and, despite its age, is In a r?s markably good state ef pres<;rvati??. I David dlecl in 1015 B. C and rvas bur ied in the "City of David." His torn? becameHhe sepulchre of several sahse. quant kings and erne ?* tho sacred l places of the kingdom. It siunds an r Meant Jii-aiL at Jerttsales, just outside t ef Are city wail. r - - I two weeks. He has recovered from | his recent illness, but has not fully re- ; j gained his strength." * * x/a le Riot Machines. j The slot machines, whose death ! knell was sounded by the passing of a ' law recently by the legislature prohibiting their operation within the state ! of South Carolina, have now ceased to ! be, as the new act went in effect on j the 15th inst. ! Young Croft Slated for Place. A special sent out from Augusta, Ga., says: Theodore G. Croft has been nominated by the people of Aiken, S. C? for the unexpired term in congress of his father, recently deceased. Mr. Croft has accepted, and will begin a canvass of the district right away. Colonel James H. Tillman and several other candidates who had announced have withdrawn, and will throw their influence lo Mr. Croft. I Williams in Congressional Race. The first formal entry in the race for congress in the Second district was made by L. J. Williams, who paid the assessment fee of $50 to the chairman of the state executive committee. General Wilie Jones. There are several other candidates, but this is the first payment that has been made, although General Jones expects others in a few days. * * * Investigation Continues. mi... l t { /<hai><roc nf X ne luvcsiigaituii \jl cruelty which were preferred against the chaingang authorities of Newberry county by the grand jury at the February term of court will be continued immediately by Referee Fred H. Dominick. The investigation was continued to allow Mr. Dominick to subpoena other witnesses. Some startling testimony has been brought out by the investigation at that time, and it is thought that more will be forthcoming at the next hearing. Considerable interest is taken in the proceedings by the people of Newberry. * * Carnegie Gives to Converse College. Andrew Cs.rnegie has given Converse college $10,COO for a library building. The library will be erected on the campus and will conform in style of architecture with the other college buildings. The exact site of the library has not yet been determined. Dr. R. P. Pell, president of the college, has been in communication with Mr. Carnegie for some time relative to this donation and has convinced the philan thropist that this gift is a proper and appropriate one .yid that Converse college is institution of such rank and usefulness and of such assured future that its ability to maKe the best use of the library is beyond question. * m * Spartan Changes Hands) Evan J. Lide has bought the interest of J. C. Garlington in The Carolina Spartan newspaper and job printing business, and will conduct the business hereafter as sole proprietor. Captain Charles Petty will act as editor of The Spartan, resuming a relation held by him for many years. Mr. Garlington will give his attention for the present to the publication of the confederate rolls and other enterprises of that nature. Mr. Lide is a young man of fine business ability and high character and fcas a large number of friends in Spartanburg and elsewhere who will wish and confidentially predict for him great success. * * * i maims Colonel- Lipscomb. Colonel Thomas C. Lipscomb died I a few days ago at his home at NinetySix. Colonel Lipscomb was well known and prominently connected throughout the state. His death was the result of an accident he sustained several days ago. when he fell from his piazza and broke his leg. He is survived by a large family. His widow was Miss Lizzie Orchard, of Co> lumbia. i Colonel Lipscomb was a successful merchant and planter at Ninety-Six, 1 and his son, Mr. Edward M. Lipscomb, is president of the cotton mill at Ninety-Six. His other son surviving is William Orchard Lipscomb. The i two surviving daughters are Mrs. L. M. Moore, of Greenwood, and Mrs. Ben Hill, of Gainesville, Ga. Colonel Lipscomb was the leading business man of Ninety-Six, and was largely instrumental in making that l town what it is. He was an active member of the Methodist church, and was a gallant confederate soldier. # * , Dantzler Not Elected. A Washington dispatch says: in ; making its report in favor of Mr. Let ver in the Dantzler-Lever contest from i the Seventh South Carolina district, house committee on elections No. 1 ' ' ... ' '.v.; ; : % ... o . . ... -* ' y V-n; r :: / takes the ground that the investigation ! I shows that Dantzler, a colored man, ; | was not elected. At the same time the committee refuses to say that Lever was elected, and the report leaves ( him in the same position as if no ? contest had .been made. The basis of Dantzler's claim was that the constitution of South Carolina, adopted in 1895, was contrary to the reconstruction act of Juno 25. | 1868, readmitting South Carolina and other states to representation in congress, which contained no provision as to education and property qualifications, as fixed in the present constitution and laws passed under it. He averred that if certain citizens of his district had been allowed to vote under the provisions of the act of 1868, he would have been elected. The report of the committee passes over this j 1 claim by declaring it to be plain that | ] Dantzler was not elected, but it goes j | on to say that if the house should de- i clare that there was no valid election, then there could be no one chosen to |1 fill the vacancy thus created until the J ] constitution and election laws of the j state should be changed. If the house j ^ should declare the seat vacant, and i i thus set a precedent, the report goes ' 1 on to say that as practically the same < ' fundamental conditions" exist in Vir- ( glnia. North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, the house would be obliged to unseat almost all of the membership from those states, until their constitutions should be changed so as to comply with the reconstruction act.. Continuing, the report says: "However desirable it may be for a legislative body to retain control of the decision as to the election and qualification of its members, it is quite j certain that a legislative body is not I the ideal body to pass judicially upon the constitutionality of the enactments of other bodies. We have in this country a proper forum for the decision of constitutional and other judicial questions. If any citizen of South Carolina who was entitled to vote under the constitution from voting, he has the right to tender himself for registration and for voting, and, in case j his right is denied, to bring suit in j a proper court for the purpose of enforcing his right, or recover damages for its denial. That suit can be carried by him. if necessary, to the supreme court of the United States. If the supreme court of the United States shall declare in such case 'that the fundamental conditions' in the reconstruction acts were valid and constitutional and the state constitutions are in violation of those acts and hence invalid and unconstitutional, every state shall be compelled to immediately bow in submission to the decision. On the contrary, the decision of the house of representatives upon this grave judicial question would not be considered as binding or effective in any case, except the one acted upon, are as a precedent for future action in the house itself." vows To orn trouble. Mrs. Wood Strenuously Objected to Removal to Georgia Convict Farm. Mrs. W. J Wood, tne womaa wno was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for shooting her husband in a fit of jealousy, was taken from the Tower in Atlanta Wednesday morning and carried to tne farm at MllledgeTille. She created Quite a scene when removed from the Tower, vowing she would never go to the penitentiary alive. It looked for a while as if force would have to be used, but one of the jailers, who knew her very well, finally got her to enter the ca"b c/jietly. As she stepped into the cab she said with an oath that she would never wear convict stripes, but would tear them off as fast as the guards put them cm her. She swore she would give the guards all the* trouble she could, and ended by saying: "I will give them more trouble than did Mamie DeCris, and when I get out j { I -will go down to rein and drag as | many souls with me as 1 can." HOABLEY NAMED ASSIGNEE. i No Financial Disturbances Followed i Downfall of Cotton King. Following the failure of the cotton firm of Daniel J. Sully & Co., announced on the New York cotton exchange Friday, there was little to indicate at the. opening of the morning session Saturday any sensational developments anticipated. On arrival at his office, Mr. Sully conferred with his attorneys, and an injunction was served on his lawyers, restraining the firm from paying out any monies. A little later the formal ! assignment was made, naming Joseph j H. Hoadlay as assignee Mr. Hoadley | immediately took charge of the affairs of the Sully firm. No direct statement vag obtainable from Mr. Sully or any member of the firm. PREPARING FOR CANAL WORK. Plans of the Commission Discussed by Admiral Walker. In concluding his hearing before the house committee on Interstate and foreign commerce. Admiral Walker, president of the Panama canal commission, j stated that actual work on the canal j would be begun after the commission j | had made a stay of a few weeks on j | the isthmus, for which it was to sail j March 29. j The arrangements for this work j will be completed in Washington, ; where the committee is to have one of its headquarters. . . i PORTARTHUR FAILS . , ; . ; . ?*. I J" Such is Unconfirmed Report from the Seat of War. , i -V V*-' IK LAND AND SEA ATTACK Russian Troops Were Engaged in Rear ? of Port Arthur, and Jap Fleet Simultaneously Bombarcfcd the Harbor and Town. 4 ;.*i An Associated Press dispatch sent 'rnm ToVln Tonon ctoloa <hat a Tnlrtft paper published a report Monday af:ernoon to the effect that a Japanese iivision had landed in Liao Tung Peainsula, on March 19, and engaged the * Russian troops in the rear of Port -Arthur. Simultaneously the fleet bombarded the town and harbor. The action began at 6 o'clock on the evening pf the 19th and continued until 10 1 o'clock in the morning of the 20th. Sixteen ships were engaged in the attack. The result is reported to have t ' -. been the occupation of Port Arthur ? by the Japanese. No further: detaftfi are given and the report remains so far unconfirmed, but a fresh assaalt eu Port Arthur has been expected tor some days. "Sto o A sharp encounter is also reported to have occurred at Chyong Syong/^n the Yalu river, in which the Russians ^ lost 600 killed and wounded. J ITALIANS AND POLICE MIX. V* '> V. ' ?? ^ * Riot Occurs in Dago Settlement in ^ New YorK c?ty over a Mirraer. During a riot in an Italian settlement at 114th street and First avenue, New York, Monday, one man was killed and several wounded and the police wepe drawn into a battle which lasted half an hour. - ' ' ' *$ They succeeded in arresting three men suspected of complicity in ifee murder. ? The trouble started by Alexander /':> Fico and Cincenzo Maresco, who got into a fight over a woman. Knives were drawn and 60on a hundred were fighting. Several pistol shots were heard, and then the crowd made way^for the escape of three, who ran ,'i into a house. Fico lay dead on the pavement. The police were endeavoring to beat their way through the m6h and finally reached the murdered mans A weeping girl at his side pointed is the hoi-r> where three men had taken refuge. Then the police had another fight, but finally draggd the men from their hiding place and carried them away. It was found they had changed the outer garments aiM thrown away their weapons, but three * ' > .u ..J nine,gins laeuuueu lucui auu one iiad fired the shot which killer, - Fico. ? An Italian was probably * fatally wounded by a city detective who was trying to hold at bay a mob which bad V attacked him. , V* GEORGIA CONVICTS PRO-RATED. Secretary Yancey Figures Out* the Number Each County Will Get.1 Secretary Goodloe Yancey, of the nricnn miss ion has com pleted a table of tbe number of convicts each county which is to* wofk the short term men will get and the + place they are to come from. Fultdn county gets the largest number of men. 106 altogether. These eonvicts are to be put to work on the public roads of .' the counties which work them. The following is the full list: I^ibb county, 45; Burke county, 27; Clarke county, 16: Coweta county, 22; Coffee county, 15; Columbia eonnty. ' % 10; Dougherty county, 12; DeKaJb county, 19; Elbert county, 18; Fulton county, 106; Floyd county, 30; Green county. 15; Johnson county, 10; Jef- ferson county, 16; Jones eounty, 1$: Jackson county, 23; Lincoln county, 6; Monroe county, 19; Morgan county. 14; McDuffie county, 9; Oglethorpe county, 16; Pulaski county. 17; Rich- ' mond county, 48; Spalding county, is; *Terrell county, 10; Walton county, 1$: .$ Wilkes county. 12. Twenty-nine eotra- r j ties will receive a total of 613 convicts. ? CHINAMEN WIN THEIR CASE. ?.j Supreme Court Pasooo Upon the Que* j tion of Deportation. In an opinion by Justice Day, the ' v. j supreme eourt of the United States Monday reversed the decision of the district court for the eastern district * ' of New York in the case of three Chinamen (all laundrymen), who are'held i in Brooklyn for deportation under the * Chinese exclusion laws. All the witnesses had stated tint * the men were engaged in mercantile pursuits and that, therefore, were not ? subjct to deportation. The supreme * , v-~ an rtTvior to the JOWCT f.vuri uais ISOUCU au ? court directing discharge of the men. DATTO HASSAN FINALLY SLAIN. ^ % ?? " ? Obstreperous Filipino Run Down and 4 Exterminated by Troops. From Manila comes the news that Datto Hassc-n, who wounaed Major 9. L. 3cott during an engagement in Jolo -% In November last, has been killed , * AU the other Dattos aided the troops in locating Hassen. Everything is r quiet now, with no opposition of any kind to the American rule on the te- , land of Jolo. _ * / ,