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I The Kind of Mai Bj Beatrice Fairfax " "^RITELY speaking, every girl ha Tshe seldom marries him. Her ideal is an impossible j eyes, commanding features am inspiring attributes, yyyy She does not talk much abo the depths of her heart and sly she meets to the great disadvan mmI Then some day along come: had an ideal, or if she thinks of him at al ever have admired any other type of man 1 And now, girls, a word as to this san fact of a man's being handsome or plain x tuppiness. I remember once hearing an old womai man. but be was a good and kind provider. The whole sum of earthly happiness ? being well provided for, but the man wh family Isjpretty sure to be a good husband The young man who is gentle and ten fchildren and animals is pretty sure to mab Not long ago a person occupying a ve a request to a young man to walk with I quest was an honor and almost a oommam declining the honor, his excuse being tl .walk with his mother. Not much doubt .will make. Do not be dazzled by the man who tal of the entire room; do not be carried makes a brilliant dash on the football fieb Keep your eyes open for the man that i the man who is not ashamed to say that he Is earnest and doing his share of the wo man consider yourself fortunate if he ofl pay a woman no greater honor than by as! Journal. ? > t > The Making ot i )T * By Felix Adler HE common saying Is th,i amend that by saying tha i of phantom-like outline < |> I I I we can convert into a soi m ? 3 The whole aim and p I If it is to get him a soul' which la a shadowy out man's life is to become ai distinctive selfhood. This may be acquired in two ways, work that we do, whether it bo in busine vocations, is the means of developing in u kind of litany of labor that I would like of our labor, of our daily task, is to give n This is true intellectually as well as m< constant attention is the means of euablii of knowledge, to get down to bedrock in st N The honest hod carrier, the sailor on li your priest and your President and your s every day the chance to become real, to ge i-oolltir flour into them. UJV DUliUUj Ui >IU>.V To get hold of things, to really know s irhat a sense of stability it gives to a mar second-hand, but to feel that somewhere v It is the daily task that helps us to do One can deal with real things in a thorough ;?rith them In a unique way. Every man different angle. Every man feels things ] real he will develop distinctiveness. His that of others, though they be engaged on It seems a most audacious thing to sa the counting house, down on the wharf, d in the church, is the place where the soul; on which you beat out your selfhood. When this year is done and merchants and losses, let them calculate how much how much the problems that have come to greater mental strength, or how much tl lessened their mental power. Let them d< ..They will And that their true profits or lo Sand character. What sort of a man are you getting to always looking at the outward objects?a question is?what are we getting to be? Even a philanthropist may be a loser at sum up greater than bis profits, if be tries poor fellow does?by base means, by resort compass the good ends. It is not the service the physician rend builds; it is what the architect becomes I great question is?what kind of mind and This is my litany of labor.?Verbatii cgrapher. Marrying a in By Dorothy Dlx, The Most Famous Woma of the greatest drawbac To 7 the senseless horror she hi I thk^ as she will, bluff abou I I of a latchkey as she may, t 1 tion upon her attractlrenes sands of wouien annually Hymen, just to prove that t l~l ?I ? I Everybody will admit tt that can happen to a womar that oue of the great probh woman from her folly who is marrying i from being engraved on her tombstone. Strangely enough, the answer to this land that these misguided old maids have they have been supporting missionaries b flannel petticoats, and knitting fascinators weeks ago a young maiden of high degre trothed by death just before the weddinj could never be another's, yet desiring the ( she was solemnly and with great pomp mi There, in a nutshell, you have the solu who marries just to be married. Let her thing. Nor is the idea so startling as it .1 ji.n/vrnm oftor elm is married that she h; VJOtVVCftO M?*v? -- _ " man, and would be glad enough to swap There are men so full of conceit and vanit liave espoused a gas bag in the first pla j\nd so hard to get uioncy out of that they toe cash registers. The woman whose husband sits up li *the paper glued before his eyes would fun ing. A vinegar cruet might be substitute without his wife finding it out. while ther their business that they are no more com entry ledger. On the other hand, the advantages of hand are many and obvious. It would hat about bills, it would never complain of tin tf.f nights. True, there would always be the like a human husband, might get full, or wife is bound to take anyway. In a word, if the flower vase ISra can all the privileges and none of the penalt commended to the consideration of the w< for the missing man it takes the weddinjj i ; n to Marry s an ideal man. Fortunately for her jerson. with noble brow and piercing J dear knows how many other soulut her ideal, but keeps him buried in ly compares him to every other man tage of the latter. 3 Mr. Right and she forgets she ever 1. it is only to wonder how she could than that represented by Mr. Right, lie Mr. Right. In the first place the rill not add one atom to your married 11 say, "My husband was a very plain Iocs not. of course, lie in the fact of 0 provides well and "kindly" for his and father. iler in his manner toward old people. ;o a good husband. ry high position in this country sent aim on a certain afternoon. The reI. The young man wrote courteously tat he had made an engagement to as to the kind of husband that man ks brilliantly and holds the attention ay by the exploits of the hero who il. is manly and gentle at the same time. 1 does not like cocktails, the man who rld's work. When you meet such a 'era you his love. A good man can king her to share his life.?New York a Soul Tilt man has a soul. I should like to t we come into the world with a kind of a soul, a kind of shadow, which ul. urpose of a man's life as I look upon -to convert into substantiality that line. In other words, the aim of a a individual, a personality, to acquire intellectually and morally, and the ss or as a mechanic or in the higher s a distinctive selfhood. That is the to chant?that the glory and dignity is a soul. >rally, because that to which we give ag us to master some one little tiehl mething, to gain a footing in reality, lis ship, the factory hand, as well as ;tate8man. find in the things they do t into contact with reality, and to let something, what a happiness that is; i, not to be a borrower, not to get at re are masters! this, if we look upon it rightly. No -going way without somehow dealing 's eyes loofc upon the world from a in a different way, and if he is only selfhood will become different from similar tasks. y, but it is true, that down there in own.there in Nassau street, and not is born. Your daily task is the anvi! take stock and calculate their profits they have gained in mental calibre, i them have forced them to put forth leir experience has depreciated and > the same with regard to character, sses can bo stated in terms of mind ? be? That is the question. We are t what we do and get, but the real the end of the year. His losses may to work his philanthropy?as many a lug to improper methods, in order to [era, it is not the house the architect bimself while he is building it. The soul is he building up In himself? n by the New York Journal stening ? '- ? - n numonst 111 me tt unu ks to woman's real advancement is is of being an old maid. Disguise t being a girl bachelor and the Joys be feeling is there that it is a reflecs not to have a husband, and thouoffer themselves up as sacrifices to hey can marry if they want to. lat a good husband is the best thing i, but a bad one is so much the worst ?ms of the world is how to save the lot for love, but to prevent spinster enigma comes from China?the very been calling "heathen," and in which y means of making pincushions and for church bazaars. In China a few e had the misfortune to lose her bewhereupon, feeling that her heart liguities and perquisites of a matron, trried to a red tiower vase, tiou of the whole case of the woman marry a dead thing, instead of a live ippears on its face. Many a woman as wed a whisky bottle instead of a it off for any kind of a tiower '.asp, y that their wives might just as well ce. There are otner men so stiugy might with advantage to their wives ke a graven image all evening with [1 a wooden Indian just as entertainil for many a sour lord and master e are millions of men so absorbed in pany for their wives than a doublebeing married to a flower vase huse no bad habits, it would never row p cooking, and it would never go out danger that a red flower vase spouse, go broke, but these are risks that a I I be popularized it will give a woman dps of matrimony, and it is hereby mien's clubs. As a happy expedient ; cake.?New York Evening World. l~ ' LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many Matters of Oeneral Interest Is Short Paragraphs. Down in Dixie. Convicts made a desperate attempt to escape from the Missouri penitentiary. Teachers in a Methodist college, near Tampa, were drowned by the overturning of a joat in a gale. The new battleship Virginia was launched at Newport News in the presence of a crowd of 30,000. In a lecture at Louisville Dr. W. M. Morrison, a Presbyterian missionary, declared King Leopold maintained an army of cannibals in Congo. Bishop Wilson announced the appointment of ministers of the Baltimore Conference. Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Alexandria. Col. Marshall Green, one of the most widely known historians in the South, died at his home in Kentucky last Thursday. Five persons, members of a pleasure party from the Methodist Florida College, at Sutherland. Fla.. were drowned in the Gulf by the overturning of their boat. At The National Capital. In the Senate Mr. Morgan (Dem., Ala.) spoke about the Panama canal concessions and some amendments were made to the Postoffice Appropriation bill. The House passed ihe Military Academy Appropriation bill after listening to a political argument between Representatives DeArmond and Grosvenor. The Senate finance committee adopted an amendment which will allow national banks to use Panama canal bonds as a basis of circultion. The House committee on judiciry heard testimony against the alleged news print paper trust. The Senate committee on education and labor resumed hearings for and against the eight-hour law. In Washington it is felt the only jarring note in the growing popularity of Judge Parker for the Democratic nomination for President is ex-Senator Hill's advocacy of him. The Cabinet decided that if necessary the property of the Panama nauroaa tompany win 00 pruiecieu against strikers by a force of marines. Naval officers say the honor of the service is involved in the reports that "high authority" tries to influence the court of inquiry finding in the Missouri-Illinois collision. At The North. Chicago last week elected Aldermen and decided the question of city ownership of street railways. Mormons held a thanksgiving service at the annual conference in Salt Lake City. Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania, announces that he will not be a candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court. The Democratic State convention of Kansas elected uninstructed delegates to the national convention. The delegates-at-large are W. A. Harris. David Overmeyer, J. G. Johnson, S. I. Hale and J. N. Haymaker. The delegation, according to personal preferences, will stand 6 for Hearst and 14 against him, it is said. From Across The Sea. Another bombardment of Port Arthur on April 3 was reported. The Hamburg American liner the Fuerst-Bismarck was sold to a Russian firm. Count Tolstoi denounced the war in the Orient and all wars, but declared he was not entirely free from the error of patriotism. The Anglo-French colonial treaty was reported as being about ready for signing, the principal provisions having been agreed upon. Three prominent Cubans were arrested at Havana in connection with the riotous proceedings in the Cuban Congress. Lieut. Mattasich, Austrian army officer, was reported to have tried to rescue Princess Louise of Coburg from an insane asylum. Miscellaneous flatters. Poor horses and inability to manage them properly was pointed out as the cause of much delay on the part of the Japanese armies in Corea, it being oeuevea in uueiu inai n win ue & month still before the real fighting begins. The steamer Discovery returned safely to New Zealand with the British Antarctic expedition. The Havana Express, on the Cuban railroad, was wrecked in a fire near Santiago. Senator J. R. Burton, of Kansas, was sentenced, at St. Louis, to six months* imprisonment, and to pay a fine of $2,500 for using his influence before the Postoffiee Department in behalf of a St. Louis ccncorn. Pennsylvania Republicans in convention nominated J. P. Elkin for Justice of the Supreme Court, indorsed Roosevelt, and named delegates. Ex-President Cleveland was reported as being satisfied with Judge A. B. Parker as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. Circuit Attorney Folk declared he was not a candidate for the VicePresidency. A stubborn fire in the New York subway blocked traffic, crippled w-ire service and placed in peril fifty workmen, who were rescued with difficulty. The Continental Securities Company asked an injunction against the Northern Securities Company from distributing stock according to the plan. The seventy-four annual conference of the Mormon Church closed at Salt Lake, Utah. 1 WARFARE IS SLOW : es * cf Neither Russia Ncr Japan Making An ? Effort to Fight [J , hi NEWS SCARCE AND CONTRADICTORY ? n: M Russia Tries to Explain That She Has >s Sustained No Serious Losses Up a. to This Time. si St. Petersburg. By Cable.?The gen. erally anticipated attack on Port Arthur did not occur, although a tele- S: grain received from Grand Duke Cyril reports that the enemy's ships were sighted on the horizon. It is oresumed cr, that the Japanese were warned of the q, extra precauticns which had been Uf taken to guard against a surprise. acj There was no lister merry-making g)( at the front. By special dispensation m tfc( soldiers and sailors there were re- th Moved of ail religious exercises on at- tj, count of the necessities of the military tj, situation. ad Vi.e Admiral Makarcff's torpedo <-r( llotiha patrolled the open sea. while the warships, with full steam up. re- pf1 ntainod outside Port Arthur. SG( Elsewhere throughout the theater of jg? war all is reported quiet. A high mili- tQ tarv authority, in conversation with qq( the Associated Press, explained why t() G(n. Kuropatkin's plan of campaign tej docs not contemplate a heavy resist- wj ance to the Japanese advance at the Q. Valu. saying: arI "Either defeat or victory in a battle ?t] there would be disadvantageous to us. at If wc lest we would have to fall back 0] through a difficult country. If we won ?and I say to you that Russian strateey >s based on the idea of victory. j cod not on that of defeat?success would be fruitless. We could not fol- ^ lc w it ur> without exposing the army to ^ too great risks. On account of the Japanese control of the sea, if we pursued the enemy into the peninsular of ^ Korea we would open both flanks to a possible attack in the rear. No. the Japanese must come on to a point in ^ the interior which we have selected, _ . tni where we can follow up a crushing dey ^ feat to the bitter end with blow after blew rnd seal the fate of the campaign. 1 "Our plans on sea and land will con- Mo verge at a time next summer when lut Vice Admiral Makaroffs fleet will be the relieve! by the arrival of 1 enforcements. Then, if successful ca land, we m' can clear the sea of the enemy, cut his km communications, and the Japanese in ion Kcrra and Manchuria will then be at s0 on* nercy. ' The World must not be Impatient. rcs The prelude to this war is not yet finished." It is understood here that as the re- q suit of Gen. Kurowtkin's vist to New cnj Chwang. re-inforce^ents of 100,000 men will he sent forward from Liao Yang. Gr< Berlin. By Cable.?The Tagloblatt's Re war correspondent, Maj. Gaedke. writ- * es ing on a train while nearing Harbin, am March 19. said: vig "Only six trains daily pass east on pai the railroad to Manchuria and only ide four thence to Harbin, but these con- in sist of as many as 38 ears. The rail- sag road apparently is able to meet the the military demands." str The Japanese Fleet. . 3 London. By Cable.?A eorrespondent of the Times at Wei-Hai-Wei. ^c' cabling under Friday's date, says: *ea "The result of a week's cruise leads an me to believe that the Japanese fleet cril is engaged covering arrangements for a new landing of the troops recently bra mobilized. A close blockade of Port Fe< Arthur is not maintained, presumably He because of information regarding the a t state of the channel. Certainly up to the present no Japanese transports the have enetered the gulf of Pechi Li." Mobilization of Black Sea Reserves, on; St. Petersburg, By Cable.?The mob- sta ilization of the Black Sea reserves is ha< necessitated in order to fill gaps eaus~-l 1... oallnro tn thu far K&St. inC eu uy uiaum* ~ ? ^ It is expected that a similar mobiliza- Do tion will come into effect in the Baltic sor provinces within a month. Pai An authoritative denial is given of the rumor of a Russian reverse on 8ta the Yalu. No official telegrams were tar received from the front today. sar The steamer Suminoye Maru called cor in at Chemulpo Friday to take on 1101 board 300 men belonging to the first ite' division. The newspaper correspon- aPI dents on board the Suminoye Maru were not permitted to land and a correspondent who was here waiting to go forward with .the Japanese troopS was refused permission to embark on | the steamer. re< The Russian Plan. fe< Paris. By Cable.?The Russian plan wa for retrieving the reverses at Port Ar- Bii thur and Chemulpo has been communirated to cne of the embassies through thi | official channels having access to the coi | highest naval authorities at St. Peters- er; | burg. The plan is explained as fol- ,ia I lows: ica Russia recognizes that the Japanese tr] now has preponderating naval strength tnt i in the far East. Therefore it is esseu- m( j tial to reverse the present Japanese | preponderance. This will be attempted by two distinct moves. First, urgent efforts wijl be made to have a naval concentration at Port f'o: Arthur, the Baltic. Red Sea and Vladi- tht vostock fleets joining Vice Admiral erf Makaroff's command, if possible, and r.a thus giving the combined fleets prepon- pu dcrance over Vice Admiral Togo. ot Second, it is foreseen that it will be . difficult and probably impossible to 1 effect this concentration, as Admiral vn Togo may intercept the Baltic fleet be- 1,a fore its arrival at Port Arthur. In that tat ste ' ! ' F I z 'cnt the Baltic fleet, which is com- j iratively small, will attempt the peril j is task of engaging the large Japan;o fleet in the hope of disabling some ' the Japanese ships and thus retcing the Japanese effectiveness. Ac- | >rding to the Russian calculation ic Baltic fleet may suffer annihilation i such an unequal combat, but it will ive served a valuable end if it is able i cripple a sufficient number of Japan- . :e ships to reduce Admiral Togo's I xval strength below that of Admiral akaroff. The foregoing information no part of current speculative report, . it credited from official sources. The ithcritlcs at Washington will receive ir.ilar information shortly. IN CONGRESS :nator Morgan Speaks on Canal ' Question. 1 After listening to a two hours' v eeeb by Mr. Morgan on the Panama ^ inai question, tne senate again wus ^ i the postoflice appropriation bill, but % Ijourned without completing its con- j deration. Some important amendents aside from those suggested by e committee were agreed to. among ^ em one increasing from 2 to 4 ounces j e size of franked letters and another ding 25 members to the force of rural j ?e delivery agents. Mr. Morgan declared that the new , mama Canal Company is only a les- y f? of the property rights on the v hmus, and said that when we pay ^ the government of Panama the ?10,- rj ),000 this government wJll be entitled y deal with the canal company as a t lant. Ho criticised in sharp language e lr.t he denounced as the surrender j. the United States to the new Pan- ^ la Canal Company, saying that j, lere is some undisclosed influences v work which has given that company a atrol of all our recent actions in a anection with the canal enterprise." p s predicted that if there should be de- c r the new canal company, backed' by t ance, would be responsible for It and n hinted at the possibility of the c npany refusing outright to make a v isfactory sale., He pointed to what t called the delay in making payment t Panama and said that it was in ong contrast with the haste manl- t! ted in securing ratification of the q y-Varilla treaty and argued that g s delay was due to th? demands of d ( carnal company. b Ifter concluding his speech, Mr. y irgan asked for a vote on his reso- f, ion, but Mr. Kittredge moved that a i resolution be referred to the com- c ttee on inter-oceanic canals. "I d ow," he added, "that I am playing a s ie hand, but I am not afraid to do n so long as I hold the joker." The n olutlon was referred. e The House. v rhe proceedings in the House were j, ivened by Mr. DeArmond and Mr. Dsvenor. the former attacking the publicans for failure to order an instigation 'into tie postoffice charges ^ 1 to revise the tariff, and the latter ^ orously defending the Republican S( ty for its policies and lauding Pres- j nt Roosevelt for the part he played e the postal investigation, the pas- a ;e of the Cuban reciprocity law and g ' treaty with Panama for the con- ^ uction of an isthmian canal. b dr. Grosvenor devoted himself to a s ense of the Republican party. Mr. \ Armond, he said, had indicted the fi ders on the floor of the House for a attempt to cover up crime. * "What l me." Mr. Grosvenor asked, "has t( ;n committed in any one of the p inches of the administration of the tl ieral government and by whom?" G sarcastically remarked that when s uember of the House knew enough e hurl in the face of the majority of s; i House the charge that they were a ering up and protecting crimes "he fl jht to know enough to make some x -a oatti on'h oi'a lenient mat auuiciAiuj, oi/mvnuv.v 1 committed some crime." Why are you opposed to investigat- 8 ; the Department?" inquired Mr. h Armond. "For the manifest rea- r i." said Mr. Grosvenor, "that the De- * tment has been thoroughly investi- . ed." Then, branching off on the G iff, he called upon Mr. DeArmond to te what ought to be changed in the iff. "There would be no ten of ne item; no five of you that will ne within 50 per cent of it, and ae of you will agree upon all of the ms of the tariff." Mr. Grosvenor jlauded the President's enforcement j the anti-trust law and defen. ?d the , narna policy. v Large Cotton Ginnery. 1 Kingston. By Cable.?Under the di- r :tion of the Imperial Department oi n xiculture the largest and most ef- u tive ginnery in the West Indies is opened here yesterday by W. " eabrook, an expert ginner from 1 mes Island, S. C. The factory is a i a ree-storv building and the machinery! 1 - - - ?_ - ._ . c. nsists of six or tne Dest gms upttcd. ginning 3,600 pounds of cotton ? ily. The baling presses are of Amer- a in manufacture. The cotton indus- c r here is developing rapidly. The p til steamer will take a large ship-: h ?nt of cotton to England. Cat Likes Flowers. Mrs. C. M. Brocksieper of New Lcnn, Conn., has a big tiger cat, "Jack," e it has a mania for eating cut flow- j >. "Jack" likes all varieties, and is \ ^ rticularly fond of palm leaf ends, t his choicest floral menu consists j violets. On Thanksgiving day he : e ned up his nose at turkey and de- '< n ured a large bouquet of violets that h d been left in a vase on the dining t ;le. He did not even leave the s ms. V ) fv" ' " 1%; C0L7lira Is DEAD 3e Lived in Raleigh and Charlotte at Different Times )IED SUDDENLY OF PNEUMONIA Colonel Turk Was a Mao ol Fine Sense and Infinite Humor?An Interesting Character. Charlotte, Special.?The following clegram was received by Mr. P. L. ' ?rf tYic* P.har aciYianus, suiicnuKuutui - otte division of the Southern Railvay, Saturday night: "Mr. W. A. Turk died Saturday afternoon about 1:45, of pneumonia, very sudden and ery unexpected." The message was rem Mr. S. H. Hardwick. The people of North Carolina will egret to hear of the death of Col. Turk. He was well known in the State, '"br many years he lived in Charlotte, ,nd was in every sense of the word a oya) Tar Heel. Col, William A. Turk was born in tugusta county, Virginia, about ears ago. He came to Charlotte 30 ears ago. and helped the late Dr. larter Berkley to work insurance. They went from here to Raleigh two ears later. Mr. Turk continued in he insurance business until ho seeurid a position as clerk at the Yarlorough House; there Col. A. B. An- ^ irews discovered that he was a genus and took him into the railroad seru? tr\ Charlotte ice. 1 MX l CI UC iciuiuvu ^ ? ,nd was assistant general passenger gent of the old Richmond & Danville tailroad. He remained here in that opacity for nearly a year and was hen transferred to Washington and aadc general passenger agent of the Jouthern. Three years ago Col. Turk as promoted to the place of general raffle manager. He was a capable .usiness man. It was not as a railroad agent that he people of this section knew Mr. 'urk, but as the great, big-hearted iant thai he was. He had a tremenous body, fine intellect, a powerful rain and a keen sense of humor. He .as the kind of man that the other pllow would look at when he came bout or listen to when he talked. He ould entertain any sort of an auicnce. He knew men?had a keen inight into human nature. The day was ovpr so eloomv that Col. Turk did ot have a joke, or a jest. He laughd with the world. Men amused him: e played with the best of them. He as tactful in dealing with people. He ad splendid ability. Sunday Row in New York. New York, Special.?In a feud fight ere Sunday three brothers. Thomas V'illiam and Michael Gilbride, were eriously, if not fatally, stabbed, and larry and John McShane, also brorhrs, were badly wounded. On Saturday fight occurred between Harry McIhane and Thomas Gilbride, and both rere arrested. Sunday, meeting Gilride and his two brothers on the trcet with several of their friends. IcShane gathered about twenty or nis riends in the back room of a saloon *"" t the corner of First avenue and 'wenty-third street. Then, according 3 the police, he approached Gilbriae. rofessed regret over their trouble of tie day before, and finally induced the rilbride party to go with him to the aloon to drink and forget their differnces. As soon as all were inside the aloon MeShane is said to have given sign on which his friends began the ght. Tornado Strikes Tex*s. Calvert Tex.. Special.?A tornado truck the country five miles west o? ere Thursday afternoon, unroofing the esidence of E. S. Peters, presfdent of he Texas Cotton Growers' Association, nd wrecking a number of tenant ouses on his plantation. On the T. J. iavrett plantation great damage was one to crops, many houses destroyed nd R. F. Drennan, the manager, was ajured. Severe Wind Storm. Katrhez. Miss.. Soeclal?Natchez was hrown into great excitement Thnrsay night by a severe wind storm rhich amounted almost to a tornado, 'he wind, accompanied by a terrific, ain and hail storm, came from the orthwest. Part of the city hall was nroofed. Several warehouses and u umber of residences were shorn of heir roofs. Fences were blown down nd huge tree9 were torn up by the oots by the fierce wind. St. Mary s athedral was damaged and hundreds f electric light wires are badly disrranged. Horsemen coming from the outry districts after the storm has assed. report that the growing crops ave.been destroyed. Democratic Chairman. Washington, Special?(Representative V. C. Cowherd, of Missouri, was elect- ? d chairman of the Democratic conressional committee without opposiion tonight. About 30 members of he congressional committee were presnt at a meeting tonight in the miority room at the capitol. Mr. Cowerd was not present The question of he election of a secretary caused coniderable discussion.