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Snake Hypnc By Graham Beck. SH11RE Is a certain power tnents. I saw only the power of a snake to fas< Over in the pine w by a black gopher snak< snake's mouth almost a: a sewing machine rises it ^peelbonnd. When the gopher sna) s^nirrei it gave a leap and threw thre apeTI was. gone. The fascination or c msA was no doubt broken the very m< sqptrrel, for the animal gave three cor its, death moment had come. I believe implicitly that all sna fascinate their victims to death. B!a< the power to a large degree. Rattle among all the poisonous serpents in t ing among poisonous snakes are dece: their prey once only. The poison doe a branch, it may be, or runs a short d TH? poison dees its deadly work, and net having se<m the attack, might be was the glance of the snake and not 1 m i Suicide is H< By Coroner Moses P. ?" 3 there such a thing as be I Medical authorities .answ Jl I never read a medical v J affirmatively out of my amples of inherited suici 3KJ suicidal impulse as a have beea positively es The question grows in importance to he sure, that because one or t'he that the suicidal impulse exists in tin tain. But when it does exist, what L= la tjie only common sence advice. If oooilat If you find your miud manil control of your will, you don't need The cure for inherited suicidal t 'v meigacholia. The alienist will work gy^Aoo hygienic surroundings correct d tendency is hardest to fight when it the core rs most often solely wrough Dr. Mauds'ey, the noted English of treatment. He was consulted by a suMdal impulse through five generati . tie became subject to spells of ii to eelf-destructlon was almost irresis case, decided that the periods of depi excessive application to his business, the middle of the day. The man protested he could not s tho physician told him promptly at n eyes and dose off with a dinner bell hell would drou from his band and ai The man tried it and. though his mental relaxation proved of immense of depression entirely passed away. *mm tie first of his line for five genem J The Summer What Happens When a F the Olfac By Walter B philisopby of sneezin ^ hay fever victims. It i 1 ways indicates that thei cur in health unless sot branes of the nasal pas: a*e distributed. I*a hay the repeated sneezings three sets of nerves; the nerves of s tioa. The former communicate to tl stances with waich they come in cont the second communicate the impress cles of the nose, but their power is When a sneeze occurs, all these The most minute particle of floweriu vtttk despatch to the brain this in nostrils." The brain instanty sends a mar modes, saying "Cast it out!" and 1 60 offensive is the enemy besi< soap is not left to its own defence. Ab allied army of muscles join in 'roused against the intruder; from t abdomen, all unite in the effort for the particle of the weed. f#et us consider wbat occurs in 1 The lung become fully inflated, t ward, and the veil of the palate drop of the air through the mouth; and no for fbe purpose contract simultaneous lungs in a torrent out through the ni mination to sweep away the particle tattoo therein. Such, then, is the complicated ac doeo not succeed, then follows a se uoW victory is achieved does the arn setBe down into the enjoyment of pea By removi g the nose from the whole process U reversed. By leaving it off hay fever may be This advice is not to bo sneezed m i ^ ^ - -1 ^ n ?<uiog/ uu By Col. F\ M. Woot ALL the animal friends I M I owe the most. I wish tl I m. F I neon-day meal, might i has placed thereon. I'd chair; I'd take the ere; pie, the cream biscuit, t leave you to make a m< picks. There is not a thing from noi of xnaD. We use her horns to comb o keeps plaster u:>on our walls, her hoc gtfes us our milk or cream our ehees< meat of the nation; her blood is used grotmd to fertihze our soil, and ever, the irst chemical process necessary fi board, and they have discovered that quality of false teeth. No other anir By day she gathers food and when we reehew and convert it into all thine? mas from Plymouth Rock to the setti: first sod in the settler's clearing; it wa for the sturdy pioneers as inch by ir the star of empire takes its way' wit the day's march was done she came breast to feed tl:e suckling babe that ' coaatry. Who says that much of wh friend, the cow" Treat her kindly, g scribe the situation. What's in a Name. Ob one occasion North Ovington Messenger, a Washington political writer, was doing report.rial work and was assigned to- interview Marat Halslead, 3cme\vhat of a political writer himself. Mr. Messenger sent his card up to Mr. Halstcad, hearing the words "N. 0. Messenger," and no othI >tism. to fascinate in a snake's eyes and moT?other day a typical illustration of th? :inate. oods I saw a ground squirrel fascinated e. The forked tongue darted out of the 5 regularly and Tapidly as the needle of and falls. The squirrel seemed to watch j ce was within two or three inches of th* e coils about the squirrel. Instantly th* harm there had been over the little anioment the serpent's coils were about the ivulsive, terrified chirps and realized that kes have a certain degree of power to :ksnakes, gopher snakes and racers have I snakes have the most fascinating poweT he Southwest. The indications of charmiving sometimes. Poisonous snakes fang s not kill at once. The victim flutters to istance and stops. The snake watches it. ! the bird falls. Any one who comes up, readily deceived into imagining that it the poison that caused the victim to fall 6 - sreditary. Jackson, of New York. reditary suicidal iinpluse? Is it curable? er both questions affirmatively. If I had vork, I could answer the firs! question experience in the Coroner's office. Exidal impulse are frequent. The exist.-nee form of insanity and its transmis-ibility tablished. as suicide increases. It does not follow other of one's parents commits suicide g offspring. The exact contrary may ob, to be done? Consult an alienist. That your eyes are impaired, you consult an 'tsting tendencies which are beyond the a surgeon, but an expt rt in mental disendency is very much the same as for to build up the general system, insist ieting and cheerful environment- The is developed by chronic illmss. Then it by strong mental influence, alienist, mentions a remarkable method i patient who had a history of inherited ons. When he reached the age of thirtyitens? depression in which the tend ney | tible. Dr. Maudsley, after studying the ession were augmented by the patient's He advised him to take a daily nap in pare the time from his business. Then oon to lean back In his chair, close his in his hand. Wlrem he fell asleep, the vaken him. nap often lasted but a few moments, the ] benefit, and within a short time his fits j He overcame his suicidal tendency and rations to die a natural death. SST m ?w Sneeze. 'article of Ragweed Invades tory Region. everley Crane. g should be thoroughly understood by s a well known fact that a sneeze al'e is something wrong. It does not ocne foreign substance irritates the memsagss, upon which the nervous filaments fever these are unduly excitable, hence which then occur. The nose receives mell. those of feeling, and those of motie brain the odorous properties of sub:act, in a diffused or concentrated state; ions of touch; the third move the musvery limited. faculties are excited in a high degree, ig ragweed excites tne olfactory nerves, telligence. "Ragweed has attacked the idate through the motor nerves to the ihe result is unmistakable. ?ging the nostril held to be. that the It were too feeble to accomplish this, the rescue; nearly one-half the body is he muscles of the lips to those of the ' expulsion of the microscopically minute his instaneous operation: he abdominal organs are pressed downis down to form a barrier to the escape w in all the muscles which have relaxed !y and force the compressed air from the isal passages, with the benevolent deterof ragweed which has been causing irrition of a sneeze; and if the first effort icond, a third, and a fourth; and not ly of defenders dissolve its compact and ice and" quietude. face and replacing it down side up the i avoided. at?New York Sun. vsar ryar 3r? csr the Cow. is of man she Is the greatest. To her we lat L as you are about to sit down to the emove from your table what the cow take the cup of milk waiting at baby's am, the cheese, the butter, the custard be steak, the smoking roast of beef, and ?al of potatoes, beets, pickles and tooth;e to tail but that is utilized for the use ur hair, her skin upon our feet, her hair )fs make glue, her tail makes soup; she ? and butter, and her flesh is the greatest to make our sugar white; her bones are her paunch she herself has put through or the production of the best white cardsuch paper can be made into the finest nal works for man both night and day. are asleep at night she brings it back to i of which I speak. She has gone with ng sun. It was her sons that turned the s her sons that drew the prairie schooner ich they fought to prove that 'westward h the old cow grazing behind, and when and gave the milk to fill the mother's ivas perchance to become the ruler of the at we are, we do not owe to man's best ;ently, for without her words fail to deer designation as to his business. The old newspaper man sent word for the young one to come up. He was met ai the doer of Mr. Halstead's room with cordiality. Mr. Halstead had his call er's card in his hand. "I'm? r," he hesitated, "glad to sec you. Come in?but what is the New Orleans Messenger? I have never heard of that paper before." NEWS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY Paragraph# of Minor Importance Gathered From Many Sources. Through the South. Fredericksburg fair opened with a large attendance. Virginia last year produced 122.410,000 pounds of tobacco. Nettie Hall, colored, was beaten into insensibility by sailors at Norfolk. The clubhouse of the Ragged Island Gunning Association wos burned Saturday night. Eighth district Republicans met at Alexandria and nominated E. I.. Howard for Congress. Playing with matches, the 5-year-old son of Joseph Rebill. of Winchester, was seriously burned. two negroes were Kineu aim juit mortally wounded in a race riot in De Soto county. Mississippi. At Charlotte, N. C.. Wednesday night three men were killed by a collisionj on the Southern Railway. Samuel Moran, of Norfolk, is charged with burglary in having taken j worth of theatre tickets. Sixteen people were made seriously sick in Columbia, S. C., Wednesday by eating poisoned ice cream. Ex-Mayor J. Samuel McCue is to be placed on trial on the charge of wife murder at Charlottesville October IS. At least 12 persons were drowned, many bridges washed away and damage estimated at $200,000 resulted from ! a flood at Watrous, N. M. In a raid on an alleged gambling bouse in Norfolk a number of proniinet young men were caught by the J police. Adelaide Thurston, the actress, has started a movement in Memphis, Tenn., ! tc erect a monument to Dan Emraett, 1 author of "Dixie," who died recently ! Un?nt Uarr>nr O If is nrOIlOSed CI I iU UUUb T V< UVU) V mm- tr ~ ~ M to raise a sufficient funds by benefit tbreatrical performances in five Southern cities with the co-operation if the ! Daughters of the Confederacy. I Washington Happenings. Secretary Hitchcock made public a iong reply to charges that the Interior Department is not pushing prosecutions in the alleged land fraud cases. The Panama Minister has filed with the State Department a protest against the management of affairs in the canal zone. Representatives of labor allege railroads are discriminating against their organization in not allowing reduced rates to the San Francisco convention. In his annual report Surgeon-General O'Reilly, of the army, expresses a belief the leprosy is curable. In the North. The fruit steamer Alleghany arrived in New York in flames, which, were soon subdued. A letter from President Roosevelt was read before the Irrigation Congress at Mandan, N. D. The triennial national convention of the Polish Roman Catholic Church a f., Opcnt'U 1:1 rmsuuig. Carlos Fredriques von Bauditz, a rich young Venezuelan, committed suicide in New York. Thirty-one persons were hurt, some seriously, in the derailing of an Iron Mountain train near Vulcan, Mo. The third Eucharistic Congress of the Catholic Church convened iu St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The German liner Kaiser Wilhelm II arrived in New York after a narrow escape from a collision Monday, bringing many notable persons. The body of the young woman buried under the name of Martha Lambeer in Hempstead Cemetery. Long Island. wa? fully identified by her mother as that cf Margaret Lynch. The collapsing of a floor at the correr-stone laying of the Polish Catholic Church at Adams. Mass.. caused the injury of Bishop Beaven and 11 others, some seriously. The convention of the Brotherhood c? St. Andrew, in Philadelphia, came to a close with a great meeting at night. Most Rev. R. T. Davis preached at Old Trinity Church. New York, in the morning and at St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church in the afternoon. Foreign Affairs. Field Marshal Oyaman is completing his envelopment of the Russian army around Mukden. The Japanese Government established a tobacco monopoly, buying the business of the American Tobacco Cornjinny in that Empire. Miscellaneous Doings. - " uan scnurz wmes a icuvi umanug tor Parker and Davis. Dispatches to the New York Herald from doubtful States throw interesting light on the political situation. The total attendance at the St. Louis World's Pair to date was given as 12,>15,511. The blight of the late war in South \frica is still pointedly shown in that country's trade with the rest of the world MR WATSON WRITES I Letter Accepting Populist Nomination Made Public !SCORES BOTH OTHER CANDIDATES ! Populist Nominee Declares That He Devotes Most of His Fire to Parker as an Artful Dodger, since Roosevelt Stands Boldly Out in the Open. The letter of Hon. Thomas E. Watsor. accepting the Populist nomination for the presidency is in substance as follows: "To Hon. Samuel W. Williams. Chairman Committee on Notification: "What two groat political parties have, in turn, governed a country, and have, between them, brought unsatisfactory conditions, it is but a natu:ji fact that a third party should arise. Citizens who have looked in vain to "the two great parties" for remedial legislation lose confidence in both after a while, and adopt one of two courses: They either submit to the evils of had government, or protest by organizing ? third party. "To the student of history, there is nothing more saddening than the tendency of the people to submit. As a rule, political education never reaches the masses. State-craft, like priestcraft. jealously guards its secrets. There is always the inner sanctuary, which the people are taught to believe would be profaned by the touch of their unholy feet." Mr. Watsoi then takes a fall out of the ruling classes in England. Germany, Italy,, Egypt and India, and continues: "How is it in our own land? God - o onnrtor hnniC for hii. I iii in iiiiiuv u 6iu**uv? children than that which the Cavalier of Virginia, the Dutchman in New Ycrk. and the Puritan in Massachusetts sought as a refuge from the systems of the old world. In natural advantages this earth holds no reigu superior to cms. Once it belonged to the people. With his gun. the common man won it mile by mile from the Indian, the frenchman, the Saxon, and the Spaniard. What the common man did not win with his gun, he bought with his money. From sea to sea, the land which is ours became ours because the common man was ready to pay for it with his tax money or his blood. What has become of it? With bewildering rapidity, it has been taken from the common people and given to the corporations. It belonged to the governnent. to all the people. It was meant to supply homes to individual citizens, and >there was enough of it to last for many generations. To the extent of about 200,000,000 acres, it has been given to railroad corporations; and now. when a common man wants a home in all that vast domain, he must go to the railroad corporations to get it." THE GOLD STANDARD. "Once upon a time we had a financial system of our own. Placed in the constitution as part of our fundamental law. it seemed to be firmly fixed. For a hundred years this money system was in operation among us. Therefore, it seemed to be 'irrevocably fixed.' Very wise men created this system of national finance. It was the one subject upon which Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton agreed. Those two were, perhaps, the greatest statesmen this country ever Drodueed. So pre-eminent were they above all others, that they divided the people into two distinct schools of political thought. But, upon the vital subject of finance, these master-minds reached the same conclusion; and that conclusion became a ..1ft nf ?hn constitution. V. "To establish the single gold standard, which sets the constitution ac?d?. the statue had to be violated.' The word <oin' had to be constructed to mean 'gold only:' and the paper note, issued op silver, had to be redeemed in a manner different from that prescribed by law. I "There are at least five reasons why | the gold standard cannot be consideied as fixed: "(1) It is unconstitutional. "(2) It violates statute law. "(3) The supply of gold might increase beyond all the circulations of the money power. Thus, the standard of value would get beyond their control. In that event, the money power itself would change the standard. "(4) The supply of gold might suddenly cease. In that event, contraction would at once set in, because the country's expansion in business and increase in population required a constantly increasing ulation of currency. If the horrors of contraction should i again come upon us by the selfish polj icy of the money -power, the people I would compel a change in the standard, j Wall street gave us the panic of 1873: j Wall street gave us the panic of 1S93. j Let Wall street give us another, and it I an/1 that it has given us one too many. The American people I have about reached the limit of endurance. "We have heard much of 'constitutionalism' in this campaign. The sincerity of the crime is known by the fact that the gold standard, which violates the statute law and the constitution, is rot only supported by Theodore Roose\elt, the emperialist, but by Alton B. Parker, the chosen apostle of constitutionalism. "(5) The gold standard is not 'irrevocable fixed,' because it is unscientific j and wrong. Nothihg is more certain I than that the people of this country I will continue their struggle until they have a national currency, which, the , rr'oney power cannot control, and which i answers the purpose of perfecting ex: changes without becoming an armory, j from which the baceanecrs of modern I finance draw the irresistible weapons i with which they attack values and raid the markets. "One of the worst features of our financial system in the fartning out to liif national bank of the power, privi- i lege and profit of supplying the coun11 y with paper currency. Instead of .icing its own credit for the equal beni fit of all the people, the government ends this credit to the national banker I .0 be used for the benefit of the banker. Thus, the national banker becomes the beneficiary of special privileges; and, -rising his noies upon the credit of the government, charges his fellow citizens ior the use of them. He, the privileged, fattens upon usury at the expense of the unprivileged. There are now about fite thousand national banks, which keep in circulation more then four hundred million dollars of their notes <\t SO per cent, this represents a yearly ptofit of more than thirty million dollars. which they derive from the special privilege of using the public credit for their private benefit. Clothed with the sovereign power of creating what is practically a legal tender currency, they ran contract it or expand it whencver they please; and, if they decide to give the country a taste of their despotic power, as in 1893, there is no power which can protect the victim. No class of citizens should be clothed by kiw with such terrible advantages over their fellows. discussed al considerable length, as also the trust question. There is also a sbaracterij&ation of Parker . and Roosevelt. The Populist creed is given at length. Mr. Watson claiming that it represents true Joffersonian principles. In conclusion, Mr. Watson says: "The Peaple's party favors the public ownership of public utilities. In nearly every civilized country the government owns the railways, the telegraphs and the telephones. The last two should be a part of our postoifice system, to which should be added the parcel post, to free our people from the extortionate cnarges of the express companies. The People's parry has always advocated the graduated income tax. This would not only throw the support of the government upon the rich, where it should be, but would, in a great measure, prevent the accumulation of huge, unnecessary and dangerous fortunes. We favor the eight-hour law, and the abolition of child-labor in factories, where the unhealthy moral and physical conditions are almost certain to destroy the child. We believe It to be a part of man's natural liberty and equality to labor for himself and not for a master, and that the laws should be so framed that there should be no monopoly of the land for either the living or the dead. Recently we Iiava heard the insidious voice of those who tell us that man is not born free, but must earn his freedom. This j?ernlciou8 p.nd fajse statement comc3 from one of those millionaire colleges, where opinions are censored. just as books are censored by the Carnegie libraries "Upon this subject Mr. JefTerson said that 'the God who gave us life | gave 113 liberty at the same time.' He also announced as a principle that 'the earth is given as- a common stock lor man to labor and live on. If for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be provided to those excluded from the appropriation. If we do not, the fundamental right to labor the earth returns to the unemployed " FIANL APPEAL. "To the courage and the intelligence of the voter, I appeal. If you think I am right, vote that way, or you are a moral coward. Do not fear that your vote will be 'thrown away.' Your vote is never thrown away until it ceases to be the representative of your honest convictions." WORLD'S FAIR. Bulgaria's exhibit has cost'lier $100.Ouo. ' The model street is on? of the unique exhibits of the World's Fair. A tine Angora goat skin decorates the wall of the Montana exhibit. A model of (he imperial- hunting preserves at Shinhama is shown in the Japanese Government exhibit. Austria's exhibit at the World's Fait} centres at its official pavilion situated no.>i- th.-> Administration building. A mine tramway forms an interest-, ing feature of the Missouri display Iflf the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy. Com sufficient to reach 3000 miles.; if laid ear to ear, represents the' I amount used in the Palace of Agriculture. An interesting exhibit in the Palace;, of Mines and Metallurgy is an immense topographical map of Niagara Falls and vicinity. I A cross section of a poplar tree 800 years old is exhibited in (ho North Carolina section of the Palace of Forestry, Fish and Game. A gold brick pyramid, seven feet high and three by six feet so.nare at the base, is exhibited in the Alaskan building at the World's Fair. In the Government's exhibit in Pel- , gium's national pavilion is a ease con- | taining thirty-five replicas of the seals 1 of old free cities in Belgium. The World's Fair classification for hares and rabbits provides for seventytwo awards fo- Belgian hares and for seven awards in each of seventeen sections for rabbits. Paintings and phonographs of the biggest gey t in the world, the giant Waiwanju, which, c.ery second day, throws un a vap* body c boiling water 1300 feet high, are exhibited in New Zealand's section in the Palace of Forestry, Fish and Game. Child Fatally Burned. Newberry, Special.?The house FrcH Trihhle. colored, on the Dlanta tion of Mr. J. R. Senn, near Longshore, this county, was burned Fri day morning about 10 o'clock, and a young child within was severely and probably fatally burned. Three children were left alone in the house and one of them attempted to pour kerosene on the fire. The flame caught the child's clothing and on tho floor ol 'he house ana soon reduced the little uillding to ashes. Tne children es "od without injury excepting the ':?;ed the kerosene. * Wnatever goes up must eom? down" is unfortunately not true 01 the book on the shelf. j GEN. RANSOM IAD Prominent Southern Statesman Goes to His Reward WAS LOVED, HONORED, RESPECTED The Imperishable Career of North Carolina's Most Distinguished Private Citizen Closes at the 78th Milestone in His Life. Weldon, X. C., Special?Ex-Senatoi Matt. W. Ransom, North Carolina"? foremost citizen, died suddenly Saturday morning at his country home in Nortnampton county, near uar/ouuig, of heart failure. The end came shortly after } o'clock and was the peaceful passing of a flame which had flickered but feebly for some months. It was his 7Sth birthday. Gen. M. W. Ransom was born on Oct. 8. 1826, in Warren county. He betame Attorney General for the State oi North Carolina in 1852, being only 2< years of age at the time, thus being the youngest man to hold this position in the history of the State. By reason ol Gov. Vance being unable to qualify as Senator after his election, Gen. Ransom ljecame United States Senator in 1872, which position he hold constantly until 1895, immediately after which he was appointed United States minister to Mexico, in which capacity he served for two years. He was a member ol the board of arbitration in the Venezuelan troubles with Mexico. He leaves five sons and one daughter and a wife. He was probably the largest landowner in the State, the acreage being variously estimated, from 14,000 to 18,000, in fact, he recently remarked: "There is only one person who knows how much land I own and that Is myself." The funeral will take place Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock and the interment will be made in the family burying ground. He will he buried with Masonic honors. j The following is a brief life sketch of Ex-Senator Ransom: ' He was born in Warren county, this State, in 1826. and Is -now, therefore. ' >4 sixty-two years of age. For more than half a life-time he has been a conspicu ous personage, and a mail of recognizee ability and pronounced influence in North Carolina. Shortly after bia graduation from the University, at Chapel Hill, in 1847: he was admitted to the bar, and five years later he was elected Attorney General of the State. Few men have merited or won such success so early in life, and fewer bave followed it with so continuous a publip service. In 1835 he resigned the Attorney Generalsuip, and was not again in office until the year 1858, wbea he was a Representative in the State Legislature. And again, in 1859 and 1860. he filled that position. He. war, sent as a peace commissioner from the State ol North Carolina to the Congress ol Southern States at Montgomery, Ala. in 1861. On the breaking out of the Civil War he entered the Confederate army, and rose successively through the positions oi lieutenant colonel, colonel and brigadier general to that ol major general. In the last named rank he served until the close of the war and surrendered with General I^ee't army at Appomattox. As a soldiei General Ransom showed himself to b< a courageous man and a brave and skillful officer, and he endeared hlmsell greatly, by his humane management and courteous bearing, to the men ol his command. Returning to his uativs State at the close of the war. Genera! Ransom resumed the practice of the law. at the same time being engaged extensively as a planter, and it was not until the year 1872 that he again*cntered public life. Then, for the first time, he was elec ted to the Senate ol the United States, a position he has occupied continuously until the present time, having been re-elected In 1S7C and in 1883. At the expiration of his present term, in March, 1889. he will have eighteen years in the highest office within the gift of tho people of his own State, an honor of which he and the State may be proud. Senator Ransom was a man of marked ability and of broad culture. 'inougn n? uaa ?eidom made set speeches in the Senate, yet his efforts were characterized by those qualities of conservative good sense, elegance of expression and grace of delivery that arc peculiarly his own. News of the Day! Julius H. Stone and others, indicted in the United States District Court at Trenton. N. J., for conspiracy in placing iron inside of cork life-preservers, were arraigned and released on bail. Mrs. Rosa Barbadi, 22 years old, shot and killed Michael'Roge when he tried to force her to leave her husband in New York. The ereuptiou of Mo . :it Vesuvius is greatly diminished. Russians at Port Arthur have been striving in vain to rttahe poHitioris which the Japanese captured. Czar Nicholas will go to Revaf Tuesday to bid farewell to the Baltic squadron. King Edward telegraphed his condolences to the widow of Sir William >Vrnnn T-Tnrpnnrt Countess Lonyay pronounces her sister. Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg, sane. General Stocssel issued an exultant proclamation at Port Arthur in honor i?t the repulse of the latest Japanese attack. Southern Itaiv was shaken by %an earthquake. Premier Belfour. in a speech at Edinburgh. stated that he was not a protectionist. There is a bitter political controversy i;i Denmark over the proposed rc-e^tablishment of the whipping post. Frederick A. Br.rtholdi, sculptor oi the Statue of Liberty, in New York bay, is critically in in Paris. Emperor William will have his younger sons schooled in industrial and iinancial problems. " * " A - -x.