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FOOD FOR THOUGHT * Furnished Southern Democrats by Mr. Patterso.i * IN SIGNIFICANT SPEECH Declares South's Sef-Abnegation Has t Lasted Long tnougn mm w<aiv Should Furnish a Candidate for the Presidency. In a speech delivered in the house of representatives, Congressman Patterson, of Tennessee, voiced tersely and clearly a sentiment which, though perhaps long latent in the thoughts of southern public men, has recently be* come most pronounced in the undercurrent of discussion of democratic possibilities in this year's campaign. Has not the time como when the democracy of the south may, and in justice . to itself should, name one of its leadfoi. +>i,a r?rocir1onfiAl hnnOTS? tlQ iUl v,u^ Jt/l VWIWVMMW* ? The most significant utterances of Mr. Patterson were as follows: "The time lias come for the south M to assert her political independence and resume her historical place in the union. The hour is now for the south to lift the mortgage on her electoral vofes, which she has paid to the uttermost farthing. "I do not think that to nominate a southern man for the presidency would change one electoral vote . against the democratic party. For one I am weary of herring the constant 4 i and subservient it eration that the sooth is for u u, _i^n whom the north may name for president It Is an injustice to the south and a reflection i ^ upon the intelligence and patriotism of the northern democracy. ~*rne question snouia no longer ue, fraau w?at state or section a possible nominee of the democratic convention ? ehqjnld hail, but should solely be, what are his qualifications, what his worth j as measured by the high office to which he aspires." "r ___________ EDITOR RICHARDSON DEAD. Well Known Georgia Journalist and , Orator Succumbs to Grim Reaper. Hon. F. H. Richardson/ who for was at different periods editor of The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Joitnal, Columbus Enquirer-Sun and Macon Telegraph, and one of the best i known newspaper men in the south, lied Saturday morning at his residence ' _ in East Point. Ga., six miles from At&nta, after a lingering illness of aesrly two years. l!be anncnncement of the death of thlijt brilliant journalist, whose writing! have attracted attention in all parts of the United States, will be recelled with great sorrow in every section No man was better known or better loved than Henry Richardson. His death was not unexpected, as he^fcad been in a critical condition sinte November, 1&02, when he was taken suddenly 111. At times he would grow better, and at one time he recovered saffldenly to resume his work on The Atlanta Journal, but in a few 1 -? j--* hi V uays ne was la&en 111 agam auu uau to give up. Mr. Richardson leaves a devoted wtfe and one little child to mourn their losg. And not only will his family mourn, hut thousands at his friends > everywhere will bo bowed in grief when they read the sad news of his death. i * F. H. Richardson was born in Upson county, Ga., July 4. 1858. His family moved to Atlanta when Mr. Richardson was two years old and he lived there nearly aH of his life. . He attended tie -city schools add th^n wen| to Emory college, graduating with second honor at .the age of sixteen years. On his return to Atlanta from col4 > lege, Mr. Richardson began the study of law under Lucius J. Gartrell, and was admitted to the bar. Shortly after becoming a lawyer he was offered a position on The Columbus Enquirer Sun, which he accepted. He worked - on that paper in Columbus for a year and returned to Atlanta to take a place on The Constitution. He worked on The Constitution for several years and was then made Washington correspondent of that paper. In Washington Mr. Richardson did excellent work and won a national reputation. He made hundreds of friends among the public men at Washington and the ^ members of the newspaper fraternity ' there, and for years he sent to The Constitution the happenings in the national capital. Leaving Washington, Mr. RichardV son returned to Atlanta to do editorial work on The Constitution. Later he accepted the editorship of The Macon Telegraph, where he served for two years, returning to Atlanta in 1889 to v become editor of The Atlanta Journal. MAKING GOLD MONEY FOR JAPS, Mint at San Francisco Changes Bullion Into Coin of the Realm. The San Francisco mint is mating United States coins for the Japanese government, the gold being sent there for coinage into money which will be ? used in the purchase of food and other supplies for the army and navy. The. last two steamers from the Orient have each brought $2,000,000 worth of gold bullion from Japan. ; % TAFT TALKS OF ROADS, f Secretary cf War Tells Senate Committee ef Prospects of Railways \ in the Philippines. Secretary of War Taft appeared be ! fore the house insular committee at j J Washington Thursday to give his j j views regarding the building of rail! ways in the ThHippineM. The secretary said that when the Americans took possession of the is-, land there was one railroad on the island of inizon 120 miles in length. This road waa built in a most substantial manner with large stations and useless apparatus. The Spanish government guaranteed 8 per cent on an r\f t~ OOfi flflO in thp road. illVUOVUAVMW W4. yvyvv*^vVf The insurgents destroyed bridges and rolling stock. The company has filed a claim for the guarantee of S per cent, but its validity has not been recognized. The commission has granted two franchises, one for 34 miles from a point just north of Manila to the northward and one of 17 miles from Manila to the foothills to the eastward. , Secretary Taft said Secretary Root had consulted Sir William Van. Home, of the Canadian Pacific, who is building railroads in Cuba, as to securing American capital for Philippine rairoads. Mr. Van Home suggested two engineers to make an original investigation and the result of this work is given in a report which Secretary Taft submitted to the committee. A trunk line was suggested in the north of the island of Luzon and also a line in tne southern end. Secretary Taft said he had talked to the president of the English company and believes it "will sell out. It desired, however, to sell to a certain London banking house. This the secretary objected to. The projected road in the south of the island. Secretary Tait believed^ would pay from the beginning. The total mileage needed, he said, would be between seven and eight hundred miles and $25,000,000 or $30,000,000 would cover the total cost A 4 per cent burden on the Philippine treasury on this investment would be about $17,000,000, and the secretary believed that it could be paid without hardship. DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE DEAD. Was Cousin of Late Queen Victoria and Prominent in Military Affairs. An Associated Press dispatch from. London says: The Duke of Cam<bridge died at 10:35 o'clock Thursdaymorning He was a cousin of the late Queen Victoria, and was born March 26, 1819. The duke died peacefully at Gloucester house, his Georgian residence, in Park lane. The king and queen went to Gloucester house Thursday afternoon to offer their personal condolences. It is not generally known to the present generation that the duke's wife was a burlesque actress and dancer named Farebrother. She was i Terr well known in 1840 or there- I abouts and made a great sensation in playing in burlesque at une Lyceum theatre. She died in 1890. Neither the peerage nor other reference books mention her marriage, which -ttas not recognized by Queen Victoria. The Duke of Cambridge is supposed to have been wealthy. On the death of his father parliament gave the duke an allowance of 40,000 pounds ($300,000) per annujnj ks commander in chief the duke received a salary of $22,500 until 1887,- and thereafter $33,160 yearly. As colonel-in-chief of I the Grenadier Guards the duke rc?j ceived $11,000 per year, while numerI ous other appo'ntments brought him I in good revenues. i United States Ambassador Choate, the other ambassadors and ministers and many peers and members of the house of commons ca.led at Gloucester house In the course of the afternoon. Colombia and the Canal. The arguments of Colombia against the Panama Canal Company were re- ' : sumed at Paris Thursday. After extended arguments the case went over to March 23. CORSET MAKERS DISHEARTENED. American Girls Take Up Too Much ' "Space" to Allow'of Profits. Dealers in corsets in Paris say that their profits are growing smaller as 1 the American girl keeps on expanding. Puny-sized corsets are no longer in demand for the American market. In- i stoad of three and four shoe measures, < five and six are demanded, and the ] extra sik and cotton that goes into the i stockings intended for the American ] market is enough to make a manufao- j turer's hair stand on end. ] Sports and good living are blamed < for the change. SUMMERS LOSES HIS JOB. I 1 Dietrich Affair Proves Boomerang H Nebraska District Attorney. A Washington dispatch says: As a i result of the inquiry into the charges j 1 against Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska, j Williamson S. Summers, United States district attorney, of Nebraska, will be ! removed from office. President Roose- j 1 vslt has given notice that he would i ' | take such action against Mr. Summers, j J .) RUSSIA LOSES AGAIN Sanguinary Conflict Tak? Place on Korean Soil. ANOTHER BOAT BLOWN UF Submarine Mine, Accidentally Strucl at Port Arthur, Does Disastrous Work?Casualties of Land Battle Not Made Known. The London Times reports a bloodj battle near Anju. No details are glv en. The Japanese now hold Anju. The Chronicle reports that a Japan ese reconnoitering party of 200 Li tin Ping Yang road ambushed 300 Rus Bians. The Russians suffered heivily There are no details. Russians Lose Another Vessel. Another Russian war vessel anc Viavo h?on hurled to destructioi by a mine at Port Arthur, says an As sociated Press dispatch from Che Poo Wednesday as the torpedo boat da stroyer Skorri was entering the harbor she struck an unplaced mine. An ez plosion followed instantly and th< boat was literally blown to pieces. Th< boat carried a crew of 38 men, o whom only four escaped, and the] were badly wounded. The men wh< lost their lives were literally torn t< pieces. It is said that the harbor Ji full of floating mines which have beer displaced by the repeated attacks o the Japanese, and that Russian war ships are forced to move with th< creat^t caution to avoid being do stroyed. Russian Headquarters Selects. A St Petersburg special saysr-Tlu first headquarters of the Manchuriai army after General Kuropatkin's ar rival will be. at Liao-Yang. Tho gen eral - selectel that point instead o Mukden fron whence to direct the op eratlons. Liao-Yang is ten miles Wes of the railroad, being connected witl the main road with a special line which will be completed by tho tim? General Kurojatkin arrives. It hai many advantages over Mukden, bem( a point whence both tne telcgrapl line and the Pekin road go to tho Yah river. While the Russians are mobiliziuf for the purpose of working out ai ? - - " . * offensive military problem, tnep wa be prepared to move heavy forcea li any direction to meet the Japanese whose command of the sea giver, then great freedom in selecting their point of attack. If the Japanese land li force on the coast of northern Xores General Kuropatkin will move hii quarters farther north, aiong the rail road. If there is fighting along tin Yalu, which now seems probable, h< will go forward to Feng-Hun-Cheng. Great preparations are being takei to guard against surprises. The Jap anese always have shown a preference for night attacks, and most rigoroui orders have been issued to keep up i continuous advance of scouting par tie; and to have heavy -pickets , out a night. General Kuropatmn lis now near Omsk, Siberia. He is loakini fast time, averaging over 532 mile: per day, everything being sidetrack* t/x ?rAt him to Mukden bv March 26 D"" ? ? the only stops, except to char ge en gines, being occasionally to inspec passing troop trains. ' ! j V i $ * ^ / ' * THE FEAR OF ABSORPTION Leads South American Republics t< Form a Defensive Alliance. A dispatch from New Orleans tc The Chicago Tribune says: According to mail advices just re ceived an alliance has been formed bi Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Chlie an< Bolivia, to guard against absorption bj the United States. The belief, it is declared, prevails throughout Brazil and Argentina, thai in the event of a revolution in eithei republic. President Roosevelt will in terrene and recognize the revoluton iets, thus paving the way for annexa tion. H. CLAY EVANS SUSTAINED. Disbarred Pension Attorney Loses Caa< Before Court in Washington. At Washington Wednesday, Chi a] Justice Clabaugh sustained the de murrer of Farmer Commissioner ol Pensions If. Clay Evans, now consu general to Great Britain, to the amend ed declaration filed by Henry D. Phil lips, in connection w*h tne latter'* suit for $10,000 damages against Mr Evans. Phillips complained that Ev ins, as commissioner, had disbarred Phillips and advised the latter's clients af the disbarment. COLOMBIA LEAVES US. Legation at Washington Closed and Herran Will Return Home. The Colombian legation in Washngton has been closed and Dr. Thornis Herran, who for a long time has aeen acting as charge d'aftaires, will eave the United States for his former lome in Medelln In two or three veeks. Future communications will ie conducted through Consul General 3rigard at New York I CHINA AIDING JAPANESE? I . ?if - * . Russia Suspects and Charges that Mikj ado's Warships are Being Secretly > I Coaled on China Coast. | A Sr. Petersburg special says: The j gorercment's private information is j j not completely reassuring as regards I China's sincerity in observing a neutral attitude. Secret advices indicate that at least a powerful party in the Chinese government is abetting the Japanese. Although at first reluctant to credit these reports, the Russian authorities continue to receive evidence that the Japanese contemplate landing on Chinese neutral territory west of the Liao river and 17,000 men are being held especially to await developments in that direction. ' ' AV._ /.mr.nrni.'n n O TTQI OT. j moreover me cm^ciui a uwiH. ? perts who have been studying carefully the puzzle as to where Vice Ad miral Togo's fleet is coaling and provisioning between its appearance off Port Arthur, are becoming more and more convinced that it is using as a I #base some quiet spot on the Chinese { coast. After each disappearance not ra word is heard of the fleet's where" abouts until it reappears. A calcula tion of time and distances show it is - quite impossible for the fleet to steam to Nagasaki or Hiroshima, take on board coal and ammunition and come 3 back. 5 j It is also certain the Japanese warf ships could not take on coal, much t less heavy projectiles at sea in the 3 face of the prevailing rough weather. > The idea that they are using ChemulJ po, Fus'an or some other place on the i Korean coast for this purpose is ref jected, as it is believed that if such ' were the case the numerous secret cor9 respondents and secret agents of the ? Russians in Korea would certainly have reported the fact, whereby, by process of elimination, the Russians seem compelled to arrive at the con) elusion that the vessels of the Japani ese fleet must be refilling their bunk-. ers in some inlet on tihe Chinese . coast .either on the gulf of Liao Tung f or the Shan Tung peninsula, so fer from ports and inhabited centers that I the correspondents are unable to get I wind of it. i Thp dwindling number of Japanese battleships appearing off Port Arthur is increasing the conviction that many of them have had to put back to Japan for a thorough refitting. & RUSS VICTORY UNCONFIRMED.! ? Report Was Current That 1,800 Japs Had Been Taken Prisoners. A private dispatch received in Che Foo from Mukden states that a battie has taken place on the Yalu In which I the Russians claim to have captured I eighteen hundred prisoners. Nothing has reached London to confirm the foregoing report. |A dispatch f from St Petersburg to a news agency I dated-Sunday says there has been no j change in the situation, and that all j is quiet on both land and sea between I On?a.'nn Una 'mm 'Pine Vflnff tfl J LUC iluooiau HUE liwui A. iue ?"O ? the Yalu rive.r and the Japanese line , to Gensan. There have been slight j skirmishes ^etwoen scouts, but no batx tie has taken place, as the distance j between the oppos'ng armies is great t The bulk of the Russian forces, the T dispatch adds,' has not jet passed the r Yalu river. i j | CONGRESSMAN THOMPSON DEAD. ' j Representative of the Fifth Alabama ^ j District Passes Away in Washington. Representative Charles W. Thomp{.son, of the Fifth Alabama district, died f in Washington city Sunday afternoon of pneumonia, j Mr. Thompson had been sick just ono week. Toward the end he suffer y ed intensely. Accompanied by his son, Charges W. Thompson, the Rev. F. J. Pettyman, 4 " - " " ?- Tr *r.Al JJ_i T j pastor ot tne Mount vernon xueuioaisi I | Episcopal church, south, where Mr. r ! Thompson worshiped while in Washington. and the congressional committee, the remains left Washington t | Monday night for Tuskegeo for Interr i ment. ! Representative Thompson was in j the forty-fourth year of his age and | was serving his second term in the house. Two sons, his mother and several brothers and sisters survive him. FOR UNIFORM INSURANCE RATES. s i Report that All Fire Companies Have Agreed to Combination, f It is reported that the national board of fire insurance underwriters, t at a meeting held in New York Wed1 nesday, came to an agreement .with a committee of twenty representing in. i romnanies hv which all fire . | insurar.ce companies in tnis country " j and all foreign companies represented [ ! j here will form a combination. Uniform 11 rates are to be fixed for the same ! | class of risks in all cities. ! TO AID NON-COMBATANTS. j ' Uncle Sam's Good Offices Secured for i Japs in Siberia. Russia will be asked by the United i ' States to treat kindly the Japanese | non-corabatants who have been left in J Siberia and to enable them to make ' their way back to Japan. This is in 1 compliance with a request made by Mr. Kogoro Tafkabira, the Japanese minister, who called at the state de- , partment Saturday. j PENSION DOOR AJAR sr -' > Most Important Ruling Made by Commissioner Ware, OF WIDESPREAD iMPORT Treasury Will be Thrown Open After April 13th Next to All Federal Claimants Beyond 62 Years of Age. Commissioner of Pensions Ware, with the approval of Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, promulgated the most important pension ruling Wednesday that has been issued m a long time. It directs that beginning April 13 next, if there is no contrary evidence and all other leeal reauirements have been met, claimants for pension under the general act of June 27, 1890, who are over 62 years old, shall be considered as disabled one-half !h ability to perform manual labor and shall be entitled to $6 a month; 65 years to $3; over 68 to years to $10, and over 70 years to $12, the usual allowances at higher rates continuing for disabilities other than age. This order will not be retractive. Commissioner Ware, just before leaving for a trip south for his health, said the order would save both the old soldiers and the government a good deal of money and time. He said it was based on the Mexican war pension legislation of 1S87, approved by President Cleveland, which placed all t^e Mexican war veterans on the pension roll thirty-nine years after the close of that war. "It would seem that if thirty-nine years after the expiration ol service a Mexican war soldier was entitled to a pension at 62 years, and no other, requisite for drawing a pension should exist except age, that to soldiers oi the civil war, who fought vastly more and longer at least, as good a rule ought to apply. ? "The order could not have been issued earlier because it is only now that the thirty-nine years fixed by the congressional limit has been reached. The civil war ended April 13, 1865. Hence the thirty-nine years would expire on the 13th of next month." Mr. Ware said the order would save the j government at least $300,000, a year." He was not able to say what expense the bill wonld entail in the shape of additional payments. "The extenr*"w> which it will augment the necessity for further appropriation cannot be told," said v Mr. Ware. "It will, without doubt, increase the payments to some extent, bnt no one is able to fix the amount The bureau has not considered tEat as the proper element of consideration. I do not think, however, that the increased expense in the long, run will be very noticeable, because the death rate ia also to be considered, and there is also to be considered the fact that the ones to whom we give the pension without proof other than tneir ages would have proven themselves anyhow under former cfrcumstances as entitles to the pension by reason of their disabilities." RUSSIANS CROSS YALU RIVER. Such Report "tomes from Yin Row and is Given Credence. An Associated Press dispatch from Yin Kow says; The only reliable reports at the present; moment from the main Manchuri&n cities show a quiet movement along the railway, and such cities as Mukden, which is off - the main line, are nndisturbed. The people here are not in possession of definite news of the outside events. * j The chief movement on th# Pong Huang CTTeng military road Is; the dispatch of riders to and from the Russian advance forces. - " A credible native arrived here to day bringing a report as late as March 12th from Fong Huang Cheng to the effect that the main body of the concentrated forces had crossed the Yalu, leaving small bodies of troops at Antung and other points to guard the river. JAPAN LOORS TO CHINA. Hope of Alliance With United States Causes Mikado to Change. The Bourse Gazette (St Petersburg) says Jajan's hope of aid from America is gone and novr she can only depend on China. With the latter's hatred of the west in view, she is trying to effect a? aii-onra tVia dftzettft nredicte that Chinese neutrality will soon be broken. Cleveland is Sixty-Seven. Ex-President Cleveland passed his sixty-seventh birthday quietly at his home in Princeton, N. J., Thursday. QUACKENBOSS FORCED OUT. Mississippi Officer, Under Embezzle* ment Charge, Has Resigned. Governor Vardaman and Adjutant General Fridge have succeeded in their endeavor to force the resignation of Colonel L. W. Quackenboss, of Vicksburg, as commander of the Third regiment of Mississippi National Guards, who is under trial at Vicksburg on the charges of embezzling about 57,000 from the Searles Brokerage Company. . 1 ... II11 111 I lfrHl 11M I! til HI .'1 |Cream of News.? 11"T T 11I II f ? T I I III H * "Br-jf Summary of Most Important Events of Each Day. ^l! ?The dead body of an unkno** man was found in the Chattahoochee -Jja above West Point, Ga. It is beliewad he was murdered and thrown in (fee river. ?At a conference of the republicans in New York Sunday it was decided . to let Piatt remain as leader of fee . party in the state, while Odeil wiM he :$j? made chairman of the state committee. ^ ?Professor Gayley, of the Univer- ---'fM sity of California, who is opposed to J co-education, calls his poetry class a lot of "giggling girls," and dlsiniawi \ , jiS class and hurriedly leaves room. j ?Hon. Charles W. Thompson, gressman from the Fifth Alabama 'J|S district, died at Washington, D. 8*, Mm J Sunday of pneumonia. i ?The condition of Postmaster Gemeral Payne, who is ill at Washing**, is reported to have improved. ?Confederate veterans at Grenada, ? Miss., pass resolutions denouncing die -M recent lynchlngs in that state. |jj ?Department of agriculture esti- .-aMj mates the cotton crop of the world tor 1902-03 at 17,179,769 bales. | ?Burglar in New lork kills one fO- ^ j|a r| liceman and mortally wounds another 'M ?American steamship New Teste, from New Tork for Southampton, grounded off Cape La Hague, France, *3?^ and later the same day collided witii _ another ship in the English channfi. ?Lord Beresford, commanding Bait- . ish squadron in Mediterranean, entertains Emperor WJllam on his flagship. ' M v| ?An American while "looping the v|| loop" at Geneva, Switzerland, falls and is fatally injured. . ?Booker T. Washington has written sM a letter to Mayor Chappell, of Colujtn- :'M bus, Ga., thanking him for the act ef Columbus in erecting a monument to ;v||Bi Bragg Smith, the negro who lost hie 3jS^l life while trying to save a city ofi- '''Jjl ?The committee in charge of the; relief of the Gainesville, Ga., storm \J? sufferers has made its final report showing over $55,000 distributed. i|S ?Henry Williams, the negro Vho as- '/."jjKjj saulted Mrs. Shields at Roanoke, "Ph., ;||i.gl was hanged there Friday. No demonstration was made, but troops weip held at their armory. -4 ?The bill validating the merge* of | M the Southern and the Mobile and Ohio -Js M passed the Mississippi senate Friday ;?ST **g after a bitter fight. It had already;?9 J| passed the house. :.4 ?Daniel Sully, great cotton hull, .j*f| ::| announces that he is unablq to meet his engagements. Great excitement ~j| followed in New York and New -3 ?A majority of the subcommittee of the house judiciary committee finds -tMpjl that the charges against Federal Judfl^ Swayne, of Florida, have been sas- ^jjfi ?The officers of the United Mlae Workers have finished counting the Trnfrt one? rannpt O arrant mniAvitT >' VOwH has been cast against strike. . ?J| ?General Leonard Wood was too* "f|li firmed as major general by the senate ^ ^ ?The court house fight waa ended y in Worth county, Ga., Wednesday, t when the proposition to move the v v| county site from Isabella to Sylvester was carried,by a vote of 2,126 to 4Jb. v|j ?Colonel L. W. Cftackenboss, of the ' Third Mississippi regiment of infantsy, who has attracted much attention by ;\?r.S his refusal to resign, pending charges i'jgH-: of embezzlement, has finally tendered " :;|a| his commission to Governor Varda?Owing to trouble with employees in the open hearth department, the ^^9 ' steel mill at Ensley, Ala., is closed vi down. The management is taking si- >J|| vantage of the shut down to make needed repairs. ?Judge Emory Speer in a decision v.-SM ! in peonage cases differs with Judge W. T. Newman who has ruled in similar -J|B cases. f|8 ?Thirty Russian students, seratai of them women, have been ordered to leave Germany for protesting agatet >i the government permitting Russian ' police spies to watch Russian rest- >J1 dents in Germany. Wm ?At Budapest, the palaces of Em- ~ peror Francis Joseph and the Arehduchees Clothiede were stoned 'Wednesday because the buildings were not * j,5| in tinnni- nt tlio annivArftBTV UQWittbVU 4M UVMV| V* V4AW of the revolution of 1848. ?The house committee on tend tories is considering the statehood pjohlem. It is probable that a bill will be framed for the admission of Afizona and New Mexico and Oklahoeaa 'Sll and Indian Territory as two states. ?The Mississippi house voted to 'cSs sustain Governor Vardaman's veto of _ the bill making an appropriation tor ^ the Holly Springs negro normal school. .'Ji? ?Henry Morgan, who, with Sidney si M Harrell, is charged with attempting t# ^ bum the town of Preston, Ga., says they intended to burn the court home and churches. ?Bishop Derrick, of ^he A. M. E. church, in a sermon at New York, ad- ' vocates the removal of the negroes to ;v-fj| Africa. ^8 " m