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? ee ; Congressman NIcDermoti Says President Is Vaiti and Loud. Representative Allai, L. McDexmott, upon his return to Jersey City yester dav,-says .the New York Herald, gave out an ?atev?ew in which he attacked Pr?sident Roosevelt, Hayingr.awwmg ot?er things: 'JThe one fact that has become ;ail \ Impressive upon a resident of Washing ton is tha^ .this land o:f^:? free aad: the'home a? the brave has a President who is absorbed by a desire for notoriety. He has been photographed while walking, running, on horseback, in civil and/military costume, in tall, short and slouch"hats;' with his hands UJP5 down, and folded, with his mouth stem, relaxed, open,,- half open . and shut?in short, in al|^ttitu?es- and moods, p> *| ' Mm ' The advent ci Roosevelt was a great thi?ig for^ashingtoK?^hotograpn?rs. Sis likeFwas never seen in the White ?, where he yells, bawls and impresses the-average visitor wii?r thel idea *$hat the charge up San Juan I&1? j& yet fiercely progressing. It is safe to say. that.if 3u Roosevelt had -ron the civil war he positively would have been; unendurable. The truth is that our President is a gentle man of very limited mental capacity, fond of skyrockets and attuned to the symphony of a brass band, Consider ing the condition then and now, to be I found in the metropolis history will1 truthfully record that when he was cal^d. to Washigton New York lost an officer peculiarly fitted to act as one of its police boards. " In. referring to the Philippines q*o?? tionMr. McDermott says: "Volumes of -the Cbngressionnal sRecord have bee2 required to print the speeches made on the Philippines question and the President has announced that everything is satisfactory over there.. In fact, we are assured by that -high ] authority *bat there is not a trace c f infiammatigli left in our Asiatic vermi form appendix. As a truth, the mat ter is not settled and nerer will be until the colonial policy upon which" we^have entered is forever abandon ed.5* Of the Cuban situation he says: "The Cn|$iu question is an exhibit of the power of the protected ijp?pests of t$is cou^y. Againsi their greed nothing can prevail exce??evo?ion at the baf?ot box. Napo?al >*h<?or promises sojftmnly ma^eggge fkM} of ?Bmon;hmnanity^t?fes^are^e't? ing "when ^opposed by the protected g?niemen $?feo are expected to foofethei hill*of theppxt campa?gH^?^ ? s ? I wu GOES home, as Been Appointed by Pek?n, July 13.?Sir Liang Chen * *^ :5 ^ ^" Kin?^dw'arc% today was appointed Chinese minister to the United States. The new ministers to Russia, Prance and Italy have also been nominated. The selections for these poets show that the dowager empress continues to regat?the dfpiamatSPIIWIftce as un?m^* portant. None of the appointees is of higher than the blue button rank and none has held any important office. All of them except Liang Chen Lung are unknown to the foreign commun ity. Liang Chen Lung's appointment pleases the Americans hem The newly appointed diplomat was educated in America. He is a graduate of Yale university, and is able, dignified and honest. He is the iirst oi: the body of students sent to America in tibe 70s to receive recognition befitting .itheir ac complishments, the Chinese officials j naving disliked them because of their progressive views. Washington, July 13. ?Mr. Wu, the Chinese minister at Washington, was not surprised to hear of the appoint ment of a successor to himself as he has been expecting an announcement of this character for some time. He has received notice that his services would be required in another capacity. liquor dealers liable. The ' Suprime* Court of held, in the'retient case'of Govey et al. vs. Keiley et al., that in a suit brought to recover damages for the less of sup port of the family of a man to whom the appellants and others sold intoxi cating liquors the trial court properly instructed the jury that the. furnisher -of any part of the iicjior causing the loss oi support was liable to the full extent of the loss approved : that the word " support" in the statute did not mean the bare necessaries of life, but eeuh means as would enable the plain tiffs to live in a "style and condition, and with a degree of comfort, suitable and becoming theirstation in l?f?T" and that an instruction to the effect that the plaintiffs in an action against liquorjjsellers were entitled to compen sation for loss of support caused by the husband and fathers intoxication from all who . sold ?r gave him the liquor, did not assume improperly any continuity of euch ?ntcixeation. in Accident at West Point. West Point, N. Y., July 12.? Capt. Edwin S. Grebie, United States army, instructor in artillery . tactics, and three cadets wereinjured today in an accident during artillery drill. Capt. Grebie, accompanied by six cadets, was. taking a gun along" a high em bankment west of Highland Falls, when the horse he was riding became unmanageable and leaped over the embankment, drawing the gun car nage with it. The caisson fell on Capt. Grebie, crushing , both legs and injuring him internally. Three cadets who were riding on the caisson were also badly injured. The Southern's Latest. Knoxville, Tenn. July 12.?It is re ported that the Southern Railway has secured or will secure the Ohio River and Charleston Railroad, and will ex tend it from Huntdale, N. C, to Marion, N. C, to connect with the main line between Asheville and Salis bury, in order to have a coal road nearer its Washington and Carolina end without the long haul from the Jellico district through Knoxville. f?lMFLETIi 0OKFEBER?TE HOLLS. What is Expected of the Township Committees, the Sons and Daughters. . Th? folio w?ng3s a portion of. an im ^rtaat^cSrcn?a^ of Instructions just issted? by Chairman Zimmerman. Davis ,oithe-S^teJc<)mmittee ?n details of enrollment of ^Confederate veterans, which work is now about t? begin in jeach. county in the State: j County Enrollment Committee?The L?ounty enrollment committee, shall consist of one veteran, who shall be [ the chairamn,-?nd of one son of veter an and one daughter of the Confeder }-aey..- ' .... Township Veterans Enrollment Com mittee, duties of.?There shall be in every townshipi; an en rollmen t commi t tee of veterans, which shall consist oi three or more ^veterans, 'appointed by the veteran member of the county committee, "fro'definite number being fixed for the membership of this town I ship, .committee,. and. the^number of committeemen appointed may be in creased as the size of the township or work^to be done may require; so tfcat therecmay'"be one'or more members of I $ais township veterans' committee appointed ?n each neighborhood, city, ward or village. The township com mttee of veterans sbalKhaVe the ex clusive control of the enrollment, and they only shall have the right to enroll or ordena veteran's name upon evidence satisfactory to the committee that the person enrolled rendered mili tary or naval service to the Confeder acy, and while it is exceedingly im portant that no name entitled to en rollment shall be omitted from the roll, it is the duty of the township enrollment committee of veterans to carefully examine and guard the rec ord and see that no name not entitled ta enrollment shall be enrolled. Any. member-of the township enrollment committee of veterans shall have; the" right to enter or have entered on the township enrollment book the name or names of veterans with details of ser vice, etc, subject to the right of a ma jority of the veteran township enroll me^c?mm^tee at any time-'to revise, correct or amend the record. Auxiliary Work of Sons and Daugh ^to^imult?neously witkthe amx>int mest of th? i&wnsMp veteran's enroll ment committee, the Sons-'of Veterans fed'Daughters of the Confederacy are borhocc z~i ::wsship for the" purpose of arousing interest locally, and, by their individual and organized efforts, titled to enrollment with proof of his service, and submitting the same 'to -the.veteran township committee for enrollment and to render clerical and other aid to said veterans' committee. The county enrollment committee is : jested :to arox?se the Sons of Veter ans ahd'Daugntefs of the Confederacy to this important auxiliary work to be ^ndei^;by>themi> *|* *f* *f* Who Are Entitled to Enrollment Only those are entitled to enrollment who, while citizens or residents of South Carolina, rendered military or naval service to the Confederacy in the war (1861 to 1865) between the ?ktate?; Again : . those .entitied to en rollment must have from South Caro lina served (1) in the Confederate States navy; or (2) in the regular army of the Confederacy; or (3) in the volunteer provisional, army of the Confederacy, or served the Confeder acy (4) in the South Carolina reserves ; or (5) in the South Carolina militia ; or (6). in the corps of South Carolina Military (Citadel) Academy cadets; or (7). in the corps of , Sonta Carolina Arsenal cadets.. Illustration of Working of Plan? "Ai ." entered ?rom a township of Fairfield county, Co. A. of the Sixth South Carolina Volunteer infantry, and was subsequently removed to a Chester county township, he would be enrolled in both the Fairfield township book and in the Chester township book, but in each as having served in Co. A, Sixth South Carolina regiment of infantry?thus having two enroll ments by township and only one by military organization; if, however, he was transferred in the Seventeenth regiment, South Carolina \7olunteer inafntry, or into the Confederate navy, he woul?l be enrolled in two township books; and subsequently entered in two places when the enrollment by organization in later years is completed from the county enrollment book. Disposition of Township Book when Completed?Every township enroll ment book when completed shall be by the township committee of veterans turned over to the clerk of, the court of the county, whose receipt shall be taken therefor, and the chairman of the county com mittee notified of the fact. Upon re ceiving each township enrollment book, the clerk of the court shall, as directed by law, record the names of the veterans with details of service, &c, into the county enrollment book, and both township and county enroll ment books shall become permanent records in his office. NORTH CAROLINA LYNGHERS !H JAIL A Sensation Caused in North Caro lina on Account of the Efforts to Catch the Guilty Parties. Greensboro, X. C, July 13.?Judge Shaw today issued the first bench war rant ever known in the State for the ar rest of a member of party engaged in lynching. The accused was arrested in Salisbury and placed in-jail with out bail on charge of murder. Trial will take place there at 10 o'clock to morrow. Three weeks ago two negro boys weTe lynched there for murder of a white woman and Gov. Aycock offered rewards aggregating 330.000 for the ar rest and conviction of the partici pants. Trouble is expected. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Charlotte, N. C, July 13.?Tom Sparneil, a white man was jailed in Salisbury, N. C, last night on the charge of participating [in the recent lynching of two alleged negro mur derers1 in that town. The arrest was made on a bench warrant issued by Superior Court Judge Shaw. Sparnell was denied bail pending a hearing, the charge against him being murder. LORO SALISBURY RETIRES. He is Succeeded by Hon. A. J. Balfour, Government Leader in Commons. Joe Chamberlain Turned D<twn by King Edward. \ V / ?.'?.'/ ?_ London, July 13.?The Marquis of Salisbury has resigned the premiership of Great Britain and Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, the first lord of the treas 'ury and government leader in the house of commons, has been- appoint ed to succeed him. The Marquis of Salisbury tendered his resignation at an audience which he had with King Edward last Friday. Yesterday M. Balfour visited the king and accepted the premier London, July 13?.The fact ' of the resignation" 'of * the premiership of Great Britain by Loruq ,d Sali,J? a .fpresjhadowed iu-the dispatches of The Associated Press, was officially given out this afternoon. The pilme minis t?re laid down the responsi bility of his b"fi?ce 3C?ly; 11:?. Within 24 hours his smajesiy ; elevated Mr. A. J. Balfour the governments' chief representative in the house of commons-to the position of premier. While it. was expected in offiV?J and political circles that Lord Salisi, ujt's retirement would be coincident viA the coronation - of King Edward, ft was scarcely looked for prior to' that event. Consequently, about the only surprise expressed as the news spread through London was concerning the date, rather than the fact of the. resignation. The real interest was not so much in Lord Salisbury's withdrawal as it was in the appointment,of his successor. The liveliest speculation is rife as to the personnel of the new cabinet. The most distinguished feature of the proposed changes is the position of Mr. Chamberlain, the colonial secretary, who, in many quarters, has been re garded as the most promising candir date for the premiership. As to Lord Salisbury's withdrawal, the main reason is considered by pracjr ticaliy all the best informed^ persons to have been simply, a desire for quiet life on the?pairt of a man?dvancj ed years whoie activities nave been unusual and r?ioe? scientific tastes'l predispose him to study and seclusion. j?h?&,-'the retiring premier's.- health-; has failed to some extent is -iindeniaj ble ; but this .is not more than, per ha^s,'! to be expected in a man, of his years, ahdithe close of the war in South Africa and the return* of the commanding general there is'consider ed an appropriate time for his with cSwat^s*i|^*8 * ~ ' " " il Ubi fwei?{r^utrhy ^atwlidates TaHc; About Fighting at St. George's Saturday. St. George's, July 12.?The Sena torial and Concessional meeting was held here nrthe"Court Hoiise today in the presence of about 300 people. A number of ladies occupied seats in the "jury box" and were interested spec tators of all that transpired. The meeting was divided into two sessions, one in the forenoon, the oth er in the afternoon. The morning session was not with out incident. Messrs. Evans and Lari mer were "at it" again, and at one time it looked like there would be a fight within the bar of the court room, but the sheriff of Colleton, (an adjoining county, ) put a stop to the matter. It came about in this way: Mr. Evans was the first speaker and in his speech prodded Mr. Latimer in the same way and on the same matters which had been brought out at pre vious meetings. Mr. Latimer made about the same refutations and said that they, meaning the Reformers, had carried Mr. Evans as long as- they could and had dropped him, and made some allusion to Evans being his 'friend," to which Evans replied: "You.never, were, my friend. You betrayed me fike a dog." Mr. Latimer: "I am tired of this: let us go outside and settle this mat ter now." Mr. Evans: "All right, I am ready now," and they both moved toward each other, but mutual friends inter fered and the matter rested. Then Mr. Latimer brought up the S15.000 bond deal and said Evans had been charged with it in the last cam paign, and Evans corrected him by saying that it had only been rumored, and some reference was made to anony mous circulars in connection with Mr. Duncan's name, but their meaning was not cleared. Mr. Evans added that he had denied the accusation at the time, denouncing it as a lie. He now denounced it as such and the man who repeats it is a liar. At this point Mr. Latimer appeared to have reached the point where en durance ceased to be a virtue, hence the enactment of the little tragedy. ' The meeting proceeded without inci dent until after recess, when the party went to the hotel to get dinner. Mr. Latimer proceeded to Mr. Evans's ruom and said: "Mr. Evans, I wish to have a word with you." to which ; Mr. Evans replied: "No, sir, you cannot talk to me," and walked down stairs and went out and cined with a friend. There was no excitement, but those who know both of the men think that matters will soon reach a crisis. Both evidently had friends in the audience, and the other four candidates were perhaps the most interested spectators. ' Proper Way to Advertise. A merchant over at Rolla, North Dakota, states that his advertising last year cost him 45 cents for every 8100 worth of goods sold. He uses a half page for his business announce ments each week, and says that as long as the people read newspapers he will advertise. There's a man possessed of a good head! Just as soon as merchants j begin to look upon advertising as a branch of their business which requires as much care as any other part of it, then will advertising com mence to pay. Honesty, force, origi nality and persistency in advertising make it a paying venture. THE STRIKE SITUATION. Coal Miner's Strike Begins Tenth Week?Crisis Expected. Wilkesbarre, Pa, July 13. ?The tenth week of the great anthracite miners' strike may witnesses the crisis. Every thing now depends upon the national convention which meets at Indiana polis on Thursday. If the convention votes solid support to the hard coal miners now on strike, the conflict with the operators may be prolonged in definitely. . On the other hand should substantial support not be forthcoming it may have a discouraging effect on the strikers, and the operators, tak ing advantage of it, may attempt ta resume operations at some of the col lieries. This is the consensus of opin ion as expressed in operators and strike circles. No effort will be made by any of the large coal companies to start up any of their mines this week. Indianapolis must speak. first before any move is made in that direction. All the delegates from the anthracite region will vote as a unit in. the con vention. ; , Sheriff Jacobs reports that the whole region is unusually quiet. Chicago, July 13.?Final overtures for the settlement of the strike of freight handlers and teamsters were made at meetings of the . two unions tonight. At the instigation of the members of the Chicago board o:' arbi tration, the freight handlers agreed to send committees to all the railroads tomorrow morning. This agreement was made after, .the board had announc ed to the union men that eight of the largest, roads entering Chicago had agreed to pay 1734 cents an hour to truckers, and pay for overtime and do away with the demand for a pro bationary period of service. The general managers of two of the railroads declared they had agreed to no such, proposition. They declared that when the committees shall visit the railroad offices tomorrow morning the roads will offer them the same terms as those which were rejected by the union men yesterday. The freight handlers agreed to make another effort to reach a settlement with the rail roads only to please the teamsters, who previously had endorsed the at tempt of. the, board of . arbitrati on to settle ? the strike. There is lack of evdence of their intention to make a serious effort to settle the controversy. President Curran of the freight han dlers* union said tonight that the committees tomorrow will insist on the payment of 18 cents an hour, and hereafter will reject all proposals which shall not stipulate for the payment of the wage scale as formulated by the union and the recognition of the or ganization. SUNDERING 4 MISSIONARY. The Report of a United States Official Does a Great injustice. Several weeks ago we called atten tion to an evident slander upon the late Dr. T. P. Crawford, who was a missionary to China for more than fifty years, and whose good name and honest intentions were called into question in the report of IL G. Squires, secretary of the American legation in Pek?n, to the State depart ment in Washington. It was alleged that Dr. Crawford entered a claim against the local authorities at Tien Tsin, China, for his traveling ex penses to this country of $1,100 and for eight months house rent in Orreen ville after his arrival in this city... The distinct charge was made by Mr. Squires that missionaries used their peculiar positions to get payment upon claims of this kind, and the inference was that Dr. Crawford came under the ban of censure for this act. The outcome of these statements in regard to Dr. Crawford is just what we predicted, and there is no founda tion for them. Mrs. Crawford has written a* letter to Mr. Geo. A. Nor wood, of this city, in which she gives all the important facts relating to tneir journey to this country. The American consul at Chefoo was John Fowler, who chartered a steamer at $300 (Mexican) per day which was to cnovey all the missionaries from the interior of the province to Cheefoo, and Dr. Crawford paid his part. Mr. Fowler requested the missionaries to make an inventory of their property left behind, which was thought to be certainly destroyed, and to include all other expenses incurred by enforced flight. The property was not detsroy ed and no claim was made for it. Dr. Crawford thought it right to include his steamer fare to America, as they could not stay in China. He did not push this or any other claim, but sim ply made a list of legitimate expenses and left the matter entirely to the discretion of the authorities. Dr. Crawford thought the claim he made represented a just debt and that it was right to ask payment, but he never pressed any of the claims, leav ing the rightful authorities to decide in regard to all the details. As a matter of fact not a cent was evei paid to him for expenses in coming to the United States, and Mrs. Crawford knows nothing of any claims for house rent in Greenville. The total amount received by Dr. Crawford for indemnity was $221.40, and part of this amount was expended by his agent upon repairs on house in China. The foregoing .is a condensed state ment of the facts given in Mrs. Craw ford's letter, and is a complete vindi cation of the conduct of Dr. Crawford, ? whose uprightness and integrity were .never called into question during' his long life.?Greenville Mountaineer. The contractors have begun the con struction of the plant of the new glass works to be established in Co lumbia. Already the heavy work in and close to the ground is well under way, the masonry making the ground look as if honeycombed. The work is beinir rapidly pushed and it will not be long before the works will bo in shape to begin the manufacture of glassware. New York, July 13.?Charle:; G. Latta, the cotton broker and alder man of Raleigh, N. C, who had his skull fractured by beine: knocked by a street car Friday, is still in a critical condition tonight. THE OFFICIAL DEMAND. Government Insists Upon the Ex Extradition of Gaynor and Greene. Washington, July 13.?Steps have been taken by the state department for the extradition to the United States of Col. Jno. F. Gaynor and Capt. Ben j. D. Greene, now under ar rest at Quebec, Canada. A formal application for their extra dition has been made by Secretary Hay to Mr. Raikes, charge d'affaires of the British embassy, who is now at Newport and who, it is expected, will cable the request promptly to his gov ernment. The grounds on which extradition are asked are comprehensive in charac ter. The action of the state depart ment is independent of the proceedings now in progress to obtain the extradi tion of the men ; through ordinary judicial process.- The secretary has not yet acted on the suggestion of the department of justice that there were obstructions placed in she way of the Canadian,. proceedings by reason of connections between counsel for Messrs, Geene and Gaynor and crown officers. The Case of King Edward. The illness of King Edward is dis cussed by some of the most eminent physicians in America, in a series of signed| articles, printed in the cur rent number of the New York Medical Journal, and their views ar? of very general as well as professional inter est', because of the fact noted by one of them that the subject is of "greater consequence than the Boer war or the war in the Philippines, on the score of death rate at least, because the annual death rate from appendic itis improperly managed is greater than the death rate from war;" and because of the further fact, noted by another, that? ' the King's case is an objcet lesson to the world" in that disease. We note some of the'points made by the writers which are most instructive for the general reader. ' In its introduction to the symposium the Medical Journal first gives a sum mary of the previously published opin ions on appendicitis of Sir Frederick Tr?ves, who performed the operation on the King, in one of which he prac tically identifies Perityphlitis with ap pendicitis. In another he quotes Dr. Einhorn, of New York, who gives the origin of perityphilitis as appendicu lar in 91 per cent of 18,(300 post-mor tems. "Perityphlitis," he says, "represents the very commonest form of peritonitis, , and the remarkable fre quency of inflammation in this posi tion is due to the fact that the appen:, dix is one of the weakest points in the abdomen." He also mentions typhoid fever as one of zhe causes of the disease, which suggests to the Journal the possibility that the attack of typhoid from which the King near ly lost his life in the sixties was com plicated by appendicial disease, then unrecognized. "The main feature," he says, "in this treatment" (during an acute attack) "consists of the ur gent advice that a free incision should be. made down through the in flamed area as soon as there is evi dence that suppuration has taken place." It is to.be noted that che King's attack, which began on June 16 with a chill, nausea, severe pain and ab dominal trouble, subsided later, and that the symptoms became so acute again on June 24 that an instant ope ration was performed. In discussing his case Dr. Alexan der H. Ferguson, of Chicago, re marks: "If he were a beggar, instead of a King, I judge that an early ope ration, within twenty-lour hours of the attack, as is our jale in Chicago, would probably have been done and the disease have been thereby proba bly robbed of its dangers." The King's case, he goes on to say, "is an object lesson to the world in ap pendicitis. ... At ?he beginning of the attack, and for a few . days thereafter, the symptoms and signs were not alarming, and herein lies the deception in appendicitis. The symptoms improve, and then liarb't up again, as they did with the King. . . . I do not think it wise to tempo rize: once a diagnosis is made, an operation is the only rational and safe treatment. ... In the gravest cases the mortality is higher, but in early operations, that is, within twen ty-four hours, very few die. In my experience the mortality is less than 1 per cent." ?)r. John B. Murphy says : "If the diagnosis of appendicitis had been made early it is probable tue operation would have been performed, immediately, as the consensus of opin ion of the American medical and sur gical pof essi on is tjat the immediate operation, i. e., operation within the twenty-four hours after the onset of symptoms, give the best results and subjects the patient to the least risk. There is a unanimity, of opinion in the profession that no one, no matter how familiar with the disease, is able to predict from the early o^mptoms what will be the subsequent course of the disease. It is therefore, incum bent upon the profession to operate early to avoid the probability of later and most dangerous pathologic con ditions. Expectant or medical treat ment is uncertain, inefficient and hazardous, and thousands of lives have been sacdficed by this method of treatment In Chicago alone in the past three years there have been seven hundred and fifty-two deaths from ap pendicitis. What a colossal crime! What an indulgent and forbearing public to tolerate such results frcm the medical profession!*' Dr. Robert F. Weir, of New York, discusses the case briefly with, refer ence to a special complication (diabetesi in the King's case, but notes that where the operation is done, in general cases, within thirty-six hours after the inception of the disease the mortality is under 3 per cent : after that period to the fifth day is from 4 to l.*3 per cent, and after the fifth dny, when the disease often limits itself to a circumscribed abscess, again markedly diminishes. Dr. Robert ?bbe, of New York, re marks that "accumulating experience shows that not once in hundreds of operations in this region does the sur geon find any cause for perityphilitis, or inflammation around that part of the intestine, except as a result of a diseased appendix." The attitude of surgeons and physicians alike today is not to allow an appendicitis attack to advance to the stage of abscess formation, which has many perils." I The factor of age in a well-cared for patient "is hot so much to be dreaded as the public fears." Dr. Abbe has seen patients at 80 years of age "make as beautiful convalescence from opera tion for appendicitis with abscess as a vigorous youth." The great lesson to be learned from exhaustive study of the subject, he adds, 1 ' is that an ap pendix once diseased is always diseased and a perpetual menace to its owner." "The King's appendix must have been diseased many years, whether it gave evidence of it or not. The so called 'first attack of appendicitis' is awlays the death struggle of long dis eased organ. ' ' "We have ample reason to advise early removal of any appen dix once known to be diseased." The discussion ends with a paper by Dr. Kobert. T. Morris, of New York, who says that the. King's case ' ' appears to be one of appendicitis of a rather common type," which had been better treated by early operation in advance of abscess formation.." ! It is not generally understood, he re marks suggestively, that "in any case of appendicitis an operation for removal (destruction) of the appendix is actually being done by bacteria, and that an operation by the surgeon is simply to forestall the work of opera tors already in the field." He closes his paper with the remark, quoted in the outset of this article, that the an nual death rate from appendicitis "improperly managed" is greater than the death rate from war. The ' ' consensus of opinion of Amer ican authorities," according to Dr. Murphy's paper, is that proper man agement consists in operation within the first twenty-four hours- after the onset of symptoms of the disease.? News and Courier. CURRENCY FROM A CAMERA. Two Alabama Counterfeiters "Print" Numerous $20 and $5 Bills by Photographic Pro cess and are Exposed by a Clever Barkeeper. . From the Montgomery Advertiser. B. Clayton Hicks ana Jim Williams, the young- white men who were arrest ed early yesterday morning charged with passing counterfeit money, con fessed their guilt to Police Capt. W. H. Taylor and were arraigned before United States Commissioner John A. Elmore, who continued the cases against them until Monday morning at ]# o'clock, and fixed their bonds at $5,000 each.. In confessing to Police Capt Tay lor Hicks and Williams said they resided near Centreville, Bibb Coun ty, where they conducted a photo graph gallery. After experimenting in photogravure work, they said, they reached the conclusion -that by careful photography they could make spurious Government money. Their secret experiments covered many weeks, and when they succeeded through the photographic process in counterfeiting several hundreds of dollars' worth of bills they left their country home and proceeded to try the home-made money on the city folk. They were candid in telling of the success with' which they met in Montgomery, and according to their statements numerous counterfeit $20 bills and $5 bills are now floating about the city. When they were arrested Police Taylor took from Hicks and Williams several spurious bills. After their confession they produced the genuine bills from which the counterfeits were made. The $20 bills were photograph ed from a $20 gold certificate. The $ bills were taken from a silver cer tificate. Each side of these genuine bills was placed before a camera and duplicated on extra fine silk paper. Then the two photographs were pasted together so nicely that the bill had the proper thickness and closely ap proached real money. In the photographic process the color was slightly changed, although doubting ones in receiving the bill of exchange would easily have attributed the soiled coloring to dampness or wear of a purse. It was enough to observe the perfect signatures of Ellis H. Roberts. Treasurer of the United States, and J. W. Lyons, the negro register of the treasury. The counterfeiting was executed as cleverly as is usually done by counter feiters using plates. The Bibb County men only gave their attention to mak ing $20 bills and $5 bills. When they had gotten together a goodly bunch of these spurious bills they left their Bibb County homes and went out into the world to distribute the money of their make and to have a good time. True they had real money, for which they had worked, but what was honest money to them whenHhey had set up a money mill of_ their own. % Reaching Montgomery R. Clayton Hicks and his companion of the lesser name began to distribute money. In cidentally they took in the good things that money will buy when lav ishly spent. They had suppers and things that make "the pace that kills," and their pace led them into the clutches of the police and their names are now writ ten in Uncle Sam's book, along with others who have heretofore tried this game. Last Friday night Eicks and Wil liams tendered a $20 bill in payment cf an account and the bill was sent to a downtown bar room to be changed into smaller money. The down-town bar room man is keen. He had seen bad money before. He said nothing about bad money or good money. He kept his counsel for a time. Then he telephoned the place from whence the money came, suggesting that Williams and R. Clayton Hicks be detained a few minutes Next the keen whiskey man communicated with Police Capt. Tavlor. Taking two or three of his trusted men the police captain proceeded to Bell street. When the fact dawned on R Clayton Hicks and his companion, Williams, that the police had discov ered the quality of their money they showed fight. One of them attempted togdraw a revolver, but a big police man suggested to him in the most emphatic fashion that this was not the proper thing to do.