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THIS YEAR'S COTTON CROP. West of the Mississippi the Crop is Smaller ; East of That River it is Larger. The reports during the last ten days reflect a stage in the development of growing and maturing cotton that usually occurs during the last days of August, and accounts for the wide? spread prevalence of rust and shed? ding. Of itself it does not mark any unusual deterioration, but occurring so late in the season, it does indicate an unusual backwardness of the crop, that makes the yield more problemati? cal than generally is the case in the middle of September, and more de? pendent on an early or late frost whether the crop will be of a record breaking size or merely a full one. West of the Mississippi, it seems, the reports indicate a loss under last year's yield even with the increased acreage, while to the eastward there will be a large excess over last year. Since the reports were received upon which the State summaries are based, heavy rains have occurred over the eastern and central portions of the belt that lowered the quantity of open cotton in the bolls, but did no other material damage except on bottom/ lands that were overflowed. Picking has been retarded by these rains and cotton which was opening fast will for awhile mature slowly, thus keeping back the market supply for awhile. The condition of the crop has been summarised for the different States as follows: In North Carolina the condition of cotton, as reported by the department of argiculture, is the' lowest through? out the cotton belt, except in Texas and Arkansas. The weather condition cannot further benefit the plant in this State, except that showers would secure better maturity of the upper bolls. .Cotton is opening very rapidly and picking has become general ; the Tesults of the first picking indicate a shorter crop ?ven than anticipated ; cotton gins are in operation and some uew bales have been sold. Damage by shedding and rust has somewhat diminished during the past week. In South Carolina cotton opened fast, except along the northern border counties, and some opened premature? ly owing to rust that has increased rapidly. The hot weather induced shedding, and stopped growth of young cotton. The crop is reported in a less favorable condition than it was a few weeks ago, and is not as heavily fruited as it promised to be. Boll worms have appeared, in many sections and have caused much injury. Sea island cotton improved during the week. Picking has made fair progress, although little has as yet been ginned. In Georgia with the exception of scattered showers dry weather prevail? ed during the great portion of the week Tendering the conditions favorable for picking cotton and saving hay. The ory weather caused cotton to open very rapidly and did some damage to late growing crops, but in most instances the temporary setbacks seem to have been overcome by reasonable showers later in the week. There is still complaint of rusting and shedding of cotton in many coun? ties and it is the universal opinion that the bottom crop will be somewhat ^>3low last year while the top is in many sections almost; an entire failure. In some counties considerable cotton has been ginned and marketed. In Alabama: Cotton continued to open freely, with picking being rapid? ly pushed : many complaints of rust, rot, and shedding are received, with a general admission that inst h as dam- I aged the staple very considerably, so that the yield wiii be very light: there seems to be but slight prospects for a top crop. In Mississippi : Cotton is opening "Very fast, and at many places over half of it is open. Picking was pro? gressing very nicely until about Wednesday, since then very little has been gathered on account of the un? favorable weather. The exessive rains and continued damp weather during last half of the week have damaged the crop considerably. It is shedding over the greater portion of the State: while in many delta and northern counties it. is rotting and beginning to sprout from the open bolls. In Louisiana: The early part of the week was generally favorable for cot? ton picking, except in some northern parishes where the weather was show? ery. General showers throughout the State at the close of the week mate rialy interfered with outdoor work. Picking was rushed when the weather was favorable and is well advanced in many localit?s. There are complaints from some of the southern parishes that bolls are rotting as a result of continuous wet weather and in some instances the quality of the staple has been reduoed. Rust and shedding are reported from several parishes. Re? ports from Concordia state that late cotton will be a fair crop if frost holds off sufficiently long. The yield of cot? ton is below the average. In Tennesse : Since the August rains, cotton has been making abnormal stalk growth to the great detriment of fruit? age, besides the yield has been much lessened by shedding forms and rust. In Texas: Although considerable damage, the result of heavy rains, oc? curred in many localities of the State, the weather during the week as a whole was more favorable than other wise to the farming interests of the State. The drouth which has prevail? ed for so long over the central, south? ern and southwestern portions has been thoroughly broken and excepting a few localities the moisture has been ample for the immediate needs of all crops. Farm work was greatly retard? ed during the week, cotton picking es? pecially having been interrupted by the prevailing wet weather. Washing rains injured open cotton to a great extent, and the early crop was gener? ally damaged, by the wei weather, which, in a measure, lowered the quality of the staple. Late cotton has improved in some localities and some correspondents report the crop as bloming and putting on sqquares, out the general reports indicate that the crop has failed to respond to the mois? ture and that the season is too far ad? vanced to hope for a late crop. The benefit to cotton from the rains has been more than overbalanced by the shedding and rusting of the crop. The boll weevils are still working in late cotton and considerable damage is re? ported from this source. The yield of coton continues to be very unsatis mmmmammmm?mmmmmmmmmmammwmmmmarmwmmmmmtmm I factory and all farmers who have based j their hopes upon this crop alone j are much discouraged. In Arkansas: Cotton continues to i open rapidly, and in some localities the greater part is now open: picking pro? gressed rapidly under the favorable weather conditions of the first part of j the week, but has been seriously delay? ed by the heavy rains of the last few days. As a rule the rains have been rather injurious than otherwise to the I crop, beating the lint from the bolls into the ground, causing it to stain. ! All sections, with a few exceptions, 1 report the yield will be shorter than I expected. "IMPORTANT, ?F TRUE." Reported Sale of the S. C. & Ga. Railroad Extension to the At? lantic Coast Line. Yorkville, September IS.-It is said that for some time negotiations have been in progress between parties repre? senting the Atlantic Coast Line Rail? road Company and ,the owners of the South Carolina and Georgia Exten? sion, looking to the lease or purchase of the latter road by the former, and, although it lacks official confirmation by either side interested, there is a very plausible story in circulation here to the effect that a deal has been perfected, as a result of which the Coast Line people will assume the management of the South Carolina and GeorgiafExtension on October L It is said that the new owners will operate through trains, both freight and passenger, between Charleston and Marion, X. C., via Sumter, and that the entire road will be improved to an extent that will cause it to com? pare favorably with the other lines owned and operated by this great sys? tem, and that the equipment will be second to none. The report goes on to say that it is the purpose of the new management to operate double daily passengers trains between Charleston and Marion. Your correspondent does not write any of the foregoing as absolute facts, but has secured his information from a source that leads him to hope that there is a solid foundation for the story, and there will be a change in the affairs of the South Carolina and Georgia Extension at an early day. The entrance of the Coast Line peo? ple into this territory would be hailed with pleasure by the people from Camden to Marion, because of the well-known policy of the company to use every legitimate endeavor to devel? op the territory in which it operates. The present management of the South Carolina and Georgia Exten? sion, it is said, is so managing its affairs as to pay operating expenses and a fair profit on what the road cost them, and it is also doing what it can to please and accommodate its patrons, but, owing to the fact that the road is "independent," and has no outlet under its control, it is seriously hampered, as also are the towns that depend on it in whole for transporting freight.-Yorkville Cor. News and Courier. The Wonders of Liquid Air. If anybody had told me when I studied natural philosophy in my young days that common air, atmos? phere, could be and would be com? pressed into such a shape that it would freeze meats, vegetables and milk into solid ice before one's eyes on a July day I should have felt some? what as did those ancient disbelievers when an illustrious astronomer told them the world was round and not flat. Maybe I would not have gone quite so far as Galiileo's enemies did in disgust and indignation, but I should have uttered some very strong remarks upon the sort of faith that depends on works and actual knowledge. A gentleman preaching before a large auidence a few days ago told of experiments he witnessed with liquid air a short time ago. Pie said the cans of air were sitting around on the platform promiscuously, ready to be used on demand. He saw the operator take up a piece of porter house steak about a foot long and plunge it into a can of liquid air. In a minute he held the same piece of steak up to the view of the au? dience, frozen solid as a brick. He saw him hack the frozen meat, and the frozen lumps flew far and wide, to be picked up and examined by the audience. A lady handed the lecturer a bunch of lovely flowers and he plunged the bunch into another can and the flow? ers came out as hard as icicles and were shattered around like icicles over the crowd. He saw a can of plain water set to boil over another can of liquid air and the operator reached down and scraped snow from the bottom of the topmost can and flung it all about him. We are walking in a maze, with these wonders exhibited before our eyes. With all the water powers in the and utilized for electricity, the time is coming when the country places will be lighted just as cities are now, with artificial light. And the electricity will provide heat to warm houses, cook food and take the place of horses in farm work. Those that live to see the close of the present new century will see wonders in the air and wonders under the earth, such as we never dreamed about, or could conceive, and God will be glorified. Jim Brown, Rapist. Hanged. Asheville, Ala., Sept. 20.- Jim j Brown, th.;- neirro rapist, was hanged in the jail yard this aft?rnnoon. The hanging was conducted by thc deputy sheriffs and Col. Higdon, Fourth reg? ment, as Sheri fi' North is under arrest on a ?barge ?)f murder for his part in the jail riot a month age. when be prevented the lynching of Brown. Brown repudiated a former eoriies sion. lie died of strangulation. "Of ti;e million pensioners." it is noted by the Boston Journal, " " 7(H). (KX) live in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas. Massachusetts. Mich i iran, Missouri. Nebraska, New York; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin." These' twelve States, therefore, get about 8100,OOO.(?00 of the annual pen? sion bounty. It is a valuable crop and a regular, comes easy and is all net profit. They ought to be prosperous. And they are." STRANGE STORY FROM LIFE. Divorced Husband of Amelia Rives Appears in Virginia as From the Dead. : Richmond, Va., Sept. 50.- A Char lotteville, Va., special says: John Armstrong Chanler, the di? vorced hubsand of Amelia Rives, now i Princess Troubetsksy, and who has been lost for nearly a year, many of ? his friends thinking he was dead, arrived in this city this morning on the Southern train from Lynchburg, where he has been stopping at the Arlington hotel for six weeks. He was met at the train and driven to the residence of his friends and counsel. Captain Mieajah "Woods. After a brief consultation Mr. Chanler and Capt. Woods took the train for Louisa Court House to attend the cir? cuit court for appearance in a civil proceeding, it is said, in behalf of Mr. Chanler with reference to certain property in Louisa county in which he is interested. His attorneys are said to be Senator Daniel and his law partner, Frederick Harfer of Lynch? burg: Micajah Woods, common? wealth's attorney for Albemarle coun? ty. Charlottesville: Armistead C. Gordon, city attorney of Staunton, and Augstus Van Wycke of New York. These, it is said, have with Mr. Chan? lers approval given out the following statement : "On the 13th of March, 1897 Mr. Chanler, then a citizen of Albemarle county, Virginia, visiting in Xew York, was committed to Blooming dale asylum at Whiteplains. X. Y., on an order of a judge of the supreme court of that State. "On Thanksgiving eve. 1900, after numerous fruitless efforts to secure legal counsel, having managed to bor? row from a friend a few dollars, he es? caped from the asylum and went to Phiiadeplhia. There under the guise of an attorney representing a client, submitted his case to a distinguished neurologist. Dr. J. Madison Taylor, and upon Dr. Taylor's expressions of wil? lingness to assume charge of his alleged client, he disclosed his identity. "In order to afford Dr. Taylor ample time and opportunity for obser? vation, Mr. Chanler, of his own mo? tion and without compulsion, repaired to a private sanitarium in Philadel? phia, under the charge of Dr. Taylor, and remained there for six months. "During this time, a number of j eminent alienists, neurologists and phycologists were called in consulta- j tion by Dr. Taylor, and the records of the proceedings in Louisa county dis? close the unanimous opinion of all these experts as to Mr. Chanter's sanity. "Later, having placed himself in touch with his counsel by correspon? dence he came to Virginia and lived at Lynchburg up to Sept. 20, when he returned to his home in Albemarle where he now is and where proceed? ings will be instituted under the Vir? ginia statutes to demonstrate before a court of competent jurisdiction and in an affirmative manner, his entire sanity. Horrible Railroad Wreck. Bucharest, Sept. 22.-The collision yesterday at Palota between the Vien? na express and the petroleum train ap? pears, in the light of the latest devel? opments, to have been a mest terrible alfa ir. In a few seconds the whole area of the collision became a huge lake of burning petroluem. Trees and every? thing inflammable within an area of a quarter of a mile were destroyed. There were some ghastly scenes. A girl was burned to death in sight of both 1?er parents who escaped. M. Dinu, a Roumanian millionaire, got his foot jammed in the wreckage and be.frsred one of the train guards to sever the foot with an axe. promising him a large reward if he would do so. Be- j fore the guard could help him he sank back into the flames and was barned to death. Schwarb, the conductor, who was similarly jammed. ? clung so desperately to the man who tried to extricate him that his would-be rescuer sustained flesh wounds in the neck and had to be dragged away just as Schwarb perished in the flames. Most of the 32 who were killed were burned to death. Lightning Bolt Rebukes Circus. New York, Sept. 19.-The big tent erected on Sunday by circus men next to the Rev. J. G. Edwards' church at Trenton. X. J., was struck by light? ning soon after the minister had pro? tested against the work and lodged a complaint with the mayor and chief of police. James Radcliff, one of the circus men. was severely hurt by being caught under the canvass when it col? lapsed. The others were badly fright? ened. Circus men are superstitious, and the bolt from the skies falling so soon after the clergyman's warning is likely to cause the removal of the tent to some less sacred spot. The men disturbed Mr. Edwards' morning service by their hammering and loud talking. At the conclusion he went out and ordered them to stop. They laughed all the afternoon until the rain came. They had no sooner crawled under the tent for shelter than a bolt struck the center pole. A Pacific Cable in Sight. Albany. X. Y.. Sept. 23.- The Com? mercial Pacific Cnblc company, with a capital stock of 8100,000, was incor? porated here today by the following gentlemen : John W. Mackav, Clarence J?. Mackay, Edward C. Plan. Albert Beck, George (!. Ward, Albert \>. Chandler and Wm. W. Cook. Respecting the purposes and pros peels of '.he hew; company. Mr. Mackay said today that the <Commer? cial Pacific Cable company had been organized for the purpose of.laying a submarine cable from California P> the Philippine islands by way of Hon oluln in the Hawaiian Islands. The length of the cable will 'oe about s.?co miles, th'- part to be first laid being from California io i!??> Hawaiian isl? ands. This portion Mr. Mackay ex? pected will be in operation within nine months. The time required for the laying of the remainder of the cables from the Hawaiian islands to the Philppine islands will depend upon how quickly the cablecanbe manufac? tured, but Mr. Mackay believes the whole cable will be completed within two years from this date. I FOiSOH THEORY EXPLODED. No Poison was Found on Bullet or Pistol With Which President McKinley was Shot. m Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 22.-The most important development in the Czolgosz case today was the announcement that no poison had been found on the bul? lets or the revolver with which the anarchist assassinated President Mc? Kinley. Chemical and bacteriological examinations were made by both and revealed the fact that no poison was used by the murderer. An examina? tion to determine the exact mental condition of the prisoner was made in the Erie county jail this afternoon by Dr. Carlos McDonald of New York, the alienist who was brought here for the defense by the Erie County Bar association, and Dr. Arthur W. H. Hurd, superintendent of the Buffalo State hospital. The alienists were with the assassin for one hour and a half and when they left both declined to discuss the case. District Attorney Penney and his entire staff spent all of Sunday at the city hall preparing for the trial of Czolgosz which will begin tomorrow morning. Mr. Penney had confer? ences with the alienists and with City Chemist Herbert H. Hill, who sub? mitted his report upon an examination of the bullets and the revolver. Immediately after the death of the president one of the physicians in at? tendance on the president expressed the opinion that the bullets may have been poisoned. District Attorney Penney, who had possession of the assassin's revolver, ordered careful and thorough examinations to be made. Dr. Hill was directed to make a chemical examination of the bullet and the chambers and barrel of the revolver, and Dr. Herman G. Matzin? ger, one of the surgeons who perform? ed the autopsy upon the president's body, was ordered to make a bacteriol? ogical examination. This atfernoon Dr. Hill reported to the disrtict attor? ney that his work showed that no poison had been used. He also pre? sented a written report, but it will not be used on the trial as that question is now eliminated from the case. Dr. Matzinger has finished his bacteriol? ogical examination and his work also revealed] the absence of any poison. The district attorney has been inform? ed to that effect, although the formal report has not been submitted. Au? thorities on this question state that the two examinations form a complete test and that the slightest trace of poison would have been revealed. Dr. McDonald and Dr. Hurd, alienists of the defense, called upon Distict Attor? ney Penney shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon and remained with him until 3:15 when they were escorted to j the jail by Detective Solomon. The insantiy experts went to Czolgosz's j cell in "Murderers' Row" and were j locked up in the cell with him until 4:15 o'clock when they returned to the city hall and held another con? ference with the disrtict attorney. Fif? teen minutes later Dr. Putman, a local alienist, appeared and joined the con? ference. Although great secrecy was main? tained at the district attorney's office, it was learned this afternoon that Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton, one of the most noted alienists in the United States and who was an expert witness at the trial of Guiteau, is in Buffalo. Not a doubt as to Czolgosz's sanity j exists in the mind of District Attor? ney Penney, so that it is presumed that Dr. Hamilton is here merely to meet the question of insanity should the defense determine to make a fight on that ground, although the defense declines to make any definite state? ment on the subject pending the final opinion of Dr. McDonald. It is the concensus of opinion among those in? terested in the case that no insanity plea will be interposed by Judges Titus and Lewis. DEFENDS THE 000T0BS. Medical Journal Discusses the Death of Mr. McKinley. New York. September IS.-The next edition of the New York Medical Jour? nal will discuss the case of President McKinley. It will say: *It is a melancholy consolation to ? know that the fatal termination of President McKinely's case was not in the slightest degree due to any omis? sion to give him the full benefit of all ! the present resources of our art, and there is nothing humiliating in the fact that the favorable prognosis which forgive or six days seemed justi? fied should have finally proved falla? cious. "At the time of his assassination! President McKinley was probably in better physical condition than most men of his age: that is, men who lead a sedentary life. So far as is known, he was free from all organic disease, though? his vitality may have been somewhat impaired by the fearful men? tal strain to which the duties of his office and its responsibilities and anxieties had long subjected him. He was suddenly cut down by a cruel wound, but he bore it bravely and there was little of the condition known as shock. This freedom from shock was correctly interpreted as showing that no considerable internal hemorrhage was going on. "Without delay he was taken to a well-equipped hospital and attended by surgeons of world-wide reputation and vast experience. The operation itself was performed by an exceedingly capable gynaecologist, who was assist? ed by equally capable general surgeons. lt is perfectly certain that there was no technical fault in the operation, and it may be said with equal positive? ness that it would haye verged on ! madness t?> prolong the search for the ; bullet after it brid been ascertained ! that it had not inflicted any very grave ' injury beyond that cf the stomach i ascertained, that, is to say; within the j limitations of warrantable efforts. "The operation having been finished without seriously taxing the distin? guished patient's vital powers, there j followed at least live days of freedom ; from serious symptoms. This we say j with full appreciation of the fact that the record ol' the pulse and respira j tion seemed ominous, for the high rate might have been due to any <>f a number of conditions not in them? selves of grave import. The hopeful ; view was taken, and quite naturally, I that it could be so explained. "It is easy to be wise after the event, and to say that in this respect the surgeons were in error: err they certainly did, as the result shows, but to err in such a way argues no in i capacity or avoidable lack of judment -it simply, we repeat, illustrates the fact that the medical man is not a ? perfect being. "Gangrene was probably establish? ed two or three days before the fatal issue followed, but it could hardly have occurred very early without giv? ing rise to more disquieting phenome? na than augmentation of the pulse and respiration rates, which, as we have said before, might well have been due to some comparatively un? important disturbance. To the wound of the kidney we attribute little im? portance further than arises from the fact that it made one more traumatic surface to become gangrenous. There is said to have been a trifling degree of haematuria of brief duration, but not enough to indicate a very serious renal lesion. "The case of the profoundly lament? ed President may be set down as unique in some of its features, not so much, perhaps, as regards the actual traumatism inflicted by the assassin's bullet as wtih regard to the deferred appearance 'of the gangrenous pro? cess that blotted out his fair pros? pects of recovery." WflB IN SOUTH AFRICA. London, Sept. 22.-The war office has received the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, Sept. 22: "Kritzinger, while endeavor? ing to force a passage of the Orange River near Herschal at 1 o'clock Fri? day morning, rushed the camp -of a party of 20 of Lovett's scouts. Ke failed to cross the river but the scouts lost heavily. Lieut. Col. the Hon. Andrew Murray and Captain Murray, his adjutant were killed. Deeply re? gret the loss of Col. Murray," who throughout the war had led Lovetts' scouts with great gallantry. "Under cover of darkness the Boers managed to carry off a gun. They were promptly followed up and the gun was dropped in a smarting engage? ment. " Lord Kitchener also reports that the ! British captured by the Boers in the ambush near Scheepersnek, Sept. 17, have been released, and the British casualities in the recent Vlakfontein engagement when the Boers captured a company of mounted infantry and two guns were one officer and five men killed, 23 men wounded and 6 of the 109 men taken prisoners. He announces that these prisoners have since been released. He further re? ports the capture of two commandoes, one consisting of 55 men under Com? mandant Kochs, who were taken with their transport west of Adenburg, and the other consisting of 54 men includ? ing P. J. Botha, who were taken with 68 wagons and their belongings 45 miles south of Carolina. London, Sept. 20.-The succession of "regrettable incidents" which Lord Kitchener has reported has evoked editorial counsels to the govrenment to cease to endeavor to wage war by proclamations and to recognize the need of crushing the Boers by force of arms. No news has yet been received that the Boers have liberated the prisoners recently captured : and according to Boer circles in Brussels, Commandant General Botha intends to hold the 150 British prisoners as hostages against the carrying out of the terms of Lord Kitchener's proclamation. London, Sept. 20.--Lord Kitchener reports that the Boers have captured a company of mounted infantry and two guns at Vlafontein. One officer was killed. The Boers, in superior force, surrounded the British. Lord Kitchener is making a strict investigation and has sent columns of troops in pursuit of the Boers. Norfolk, Neb., Sept. 23.-The asy? lum for the insane in this city was completely destroyed by fire today and it is believed that three of the inmates were burned to death. When the fire? men reached the site it was found that the main building was doomed. There were six hundred inmates in this structure and they were rescued with difficulty. Shrieks and yells filled the air and many of the lunatics fought against the attempts of the rescuers to save them. Others were completely cowed and the attendants had no diffi? culty in leading them out of the burn? ing building. Three of the inmates are missing and probably were burn? ed to death. State Librarian Resigns. Columbia, Sept. 23,-Today the gov? ernor received the following letter of resignation from the efficient State librarian, which he has formally ac? cepted. Dear Sir: I have the honor to sub? mit, my resignation of the office of State librarian to take effect at the close of the present month, pud to re quest your early acceptance thereof. Very respectfully. Lucie Barron, Librarian. --TT^- -*+<>? *7Z- - 11 - Hanna a Broken Man. Cleveland, September 21.-The Plain Dealer says: Asked to make a brief statement as to how lie regarded the policy of Pres? ident Rosevelt so far as it had been expressed and what sort of an adminis? tration lie believed the new President would give to tile nation, Senator 1 lanna sa i il : "1 am done with being interviewed for all time. " '*Have you decided not to again pub? licly express your opinion*:" was ask? ed. "No more," was the brief answer. The Senator is broken by the tragedy .-it Buffalo and his face shows how deep his grief has been. STATE FAIR NOTES. Do yon wis:: to see the progress the farmers ol' our Stale are making ip. diversified and intensified agricul? ture*? If so, visit the Slate Fair, Oct. 2Sth to Nov. Isl. Do not miss the opportunity to take your family to the State Fair. Young and old will be instructed ami entertained. All immoral, gam? bling and questionable features are rigidly excluded. Liberal railroad rates to the State Fair will be made Fair Week. Our Washington Letter. Washington, September 23. 1901. The news that President Roosevelt will retain the present Cabinet intact came as something of a surprise to the country in general. Perhaps no change which he would have made could have surprised the public as much as this unlooked-for conservatism. But it is an old story, as regards Roosevelt, that the only thing you can really expect of him is the unexpected. It is no secret that Platt and Hanna were doing considerable squirming for a few days after they realized that the I man whom they had shelved as vice President was really headed for the White House. They did not like it. They were afraid of him, and they are still, but in a modified way. They realize that Roosevelt is going to do what he says he will, and they have that much to build on, but whether he will do it in the way in which they want him to is another question. When he says he is going head first through a plate glass window the window had better be insured, and some of the enterprises in which these two sapient gentlemen are engaged are of the nature of a conservatory. They are raising infant industries under glass, and that sort of thing. It would not be nice if the Rough Rider should rmt his boot through the shel? ter of the shipping subsidies. Hanna says he will not, but maybe the wish is father to the thought' It is known that Roosevelt is very much interested in the upbuilding of the Merchant Marine, and particularly that of the Navy. He wishes to unite the coun? tries of the two Americas by com mecrial links. The question is wheth? er he can join the two wings of his own party so that they will flap in unison and take him where he wants to go. President McKinley never exactly said anything in favor of subsidies, but then, he never said anything against them. Roosevelt never was neutral in his life. He reminds one of a remark of one of the characters in Tourgee's once famous novel, "A Fool's Errand." "Old men generally get the credit for all the conservatism in the world, but it is a mistake. A young man backs just as hard as he pulls. If he is opposed to a thing he fights it tooth and nail." Roosevelt is only forty-two, and that is the kind of a conservative he will be when he is one at all. The very exuberance of the utter? ances of various Republican senators as to the confidence they have in Roosevelt, since his decision to retain the members of the present cabinet, is a little suspicious. It indicates that they have been scared and now are reassured. Another thing which should not be overlooked is that Roosevelt's princi? pal friends and supporters have not yet come on the scene. It is thought that when Senator Lodge comes back from Europe there may be a change in the. existing situation. There is no doubt that Roosevelt will be strenuous in some direction. It is said that he will favor not only a large navy but a standing army of a strength equal to that provided under the reorganization act of last winter. Whether the army can be enlarged in? definitely without interfering with the welfare of the people as a whole is one of the questions not yet settled. We are not ready for any such ideals of military services as those which pre? vail in Europe, and it is doubtful if we really want to be. Another place in which there is likely to be some shaking up is the secret service. President Roosevelt has been collecting testimony about the performace of the secret service men at Buffalo, and it is stated that he regards them with contempt, as a lot of incompetents, and will make some radical changes in that branch of the government very soon. In this connection there is a little story about Josiah Flynt, the tramp detective, which is interest? ing. Flynt, as most people know, is. a college-bred man who has been knocking about in the disguise ol a hobo for the last ten or fifteen years, gathering information ab ?ut tramp and criminal classes, and is possible the best authority in the country ou this subject. He published an article sometime ago which was a terrible ar? raignment of the New York detective force, and the New York people were mad. They said they would show him that he could not talk in that way about the police of a great city. For two days they hunted for him. At the end of that time he strolled into the "Front Office," talked with the chief about an irrelevant matter, and asked incidentally, 1 Have they caught that man Flynt yet?" He was regaled with unvarnished opinons of himself and strolled out again in a state of inward amusement. They have not caught him yet. The fact is that the detective and the secret service men are not as sharp as the criminal, and until they are-until men who are re? sourceful, shrewd and incorruptible make up these forces, the criminal will have about as good a time as he does now. It, was stated by some correspondents that Roosevelt had positively said that i he would not be a candidate for the Presidency in 1904. He has denied this interview point-blank, but he ad? mits that what he really said was something like this: That while he was vice-President he had considered such a candidacy and begun to work for it, but since the tragic event which ? made him President he could not make any personal canvass for the nomination. Anybody can see that But it is thought that he would not refuse to take the candidacy if it should happen to be offered to Jj im, and that is as far as it is proper for him to go at this early stage of affairs. An interesting statement which President Roosevelt made on Saturday morning to Senator Pritchard, of N. C., Representative Kluttz, of tho same state anti Representative Gibson, of Tenn., was this : "I am going to be President of the United States, .anti nor of any section. I don't care tnat (with a snap of his fingers) for sections or sectional lines. " The perfect system t<? which govern? ment has bern reduced in America, thus enabling it to grapple with any emergency and withstand the most in? tense shock, was manifested by the manner in which the people received th" unhappy news from Buffalo. No one ever dreamed of any danger to the government. Even though the presi? dent should die they knew that "God reigned and the government at Wash? ington still lived.''-Indianapolis Sen? tinel.