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) i 'i w. j. ~| | VOL. XXVIII. 1.. E OLD DACUERREOTYPES. BY JOB LINCOLN. Uj lii llic aUlo I founfl them, locked in th cedar chest, Where ibo flow ere I rowos Ho full" I, which once were brave as the best; Ami, lik" the queer obi jackets au*l the waistcoats gay with strlpos, 'i'ney tell of a wora-out fashion —those obi daguerreotypes. Quaint little folding ease; fastened with tiny hook, Seemingly made to tempt one to lift up the latch and look, L nlngs of purple velvet, odd little frames of gold. Circling the Jaded faces brought from the days of uid. Grandpa and grandma, taken over so long ago, Grandma's honuet a marvel, grandpa's collar a show; Mother, a tiny toddler, with rings on her baby hands l'ninted—iest none should notice—in glittering, gilded bands. Aunls and uncles and cousin 3 , a starchy and stlfT array, Lov*t' and brides, thou blooming, but uow so wrinkled and grny. Gut through the misty glasses they gaze at me, sitting hero Opening tn*? quaint old cases wjth a smile that Is half a teur. I will smllo no more, little pictures, for heartless It was, in truth, T>> drag to t!in cruel daylight those ghosts of a vanished youth. Go hack t< your cedar oha;nh*r, your gowns and your lavender, Aud dream, ’mid their bygone graces, of the wonderful days that wore. —Saturday Evening Post. &****?*#•; • | A BOND OF SWEETNESS. | -44 F awful sorry for MTss San ders, ” remarked Mrs. Abijah 1 Smith, “oven if she is prouder 1 4 thau ein. I s'pose she cau’t help that, though. All the Saude rses was that way. Poverty and pride aiu’t good bed-fellows, however.” “That’s true as the Gospel,” re turned Mrs. White, with whom Mrs. Hmitli was spending the nfteruoon. Husband was saying only yesterday that Miss Sauders must find it pretty hard hoeing. Hut she’s got so ranch pride that she’d die before she’d have anybody suspect she needed help. It’s too bad she’s that way. Folks would be glad to help her if she’d lot them.” “Good laud! Don’t attempt to give her anything!” cried Mrs. Smith in alarm, “or she’ll treat you like she did mo “How was that? “Well, the other day I happened to inn in while she was eutiog her din ner. She was awful upset, but I made out I didn’t notice anything, though it did make me feel bad when I see she hedu’t nothing ou the table hut tea and a fow crackers. A couple of days later, I run over agaiu with a custard pie I just made and t says to her, says I; ‘Miss Sanders, I just linished baking anc. 1 brought over one of ray custard pies for you to try. Mias Lo.vo gave mo a now recipe.' Hho took it as nice as you please, though I was dreadful afraid she wouldn’t, and I was tickled to pieces, but I didn’t let on. That was ou Thursday and behold, my name ain’t \huiry Smith if Miss San ders didn't come over on Saturday with the clegantest raised cake you ever saw. The poor dear just made mo take it, though she must have btarved a week to make up for it.” Addie White, who had been studying her lessons for the next day, overheard this conversation, and it made a deep impression upon her. “Poor Miss Sanders,’ she sighed pityingly, “I wish I could help her.” A few days later Addie paid Miss ganders a visit. “Next Friday I shall be twelve years olu, aud I’m going to have a birthday party after school,” she told her eagerly, “and I thought it would be just fine if you would make us some of your elegant cream candy. We’ll need a lot of it, you know, for your oaudyisso good every body will want all they get. Will you make me some?” Miss Sanders hesitated and flushed. Addie was shrewd enough to guess that she was thinking of the expense compliance with the request involved. “Pleaso say you will,” she urged. “Mother says you can come over to our house in the morning and make the candy while she is doing her bak ing. Our kitchen is lots bigger than yours, and everything is handy, and there’ll he only one mess to clean up.” Miss Sauders looked nt her rather suspiciously. “Did your mother plan ail that?” she asked solemnly. “No’ora, I thought of it myself,” returned Addie. “Mother didn’t want me to ask yon at first, because she said it would be too much for you. ” “Oh, no! I like it,” answered Miss Sauders, all her sus|Jicions vanishing. “I’ll come over, then, Friday morn ing, and make ycu ad the candy you want.” Miss Sanders kept her word, and the delectable sweetmeats disappeared down the throats of the Goshen young people with remarkable rapidity. The next day Addie brought a little box addressed to Mr. Albert Evans, Springfield, Mass., to the postoflico and mailed it. A letter which Addie sent to the same address read thus: Pear Uncle—There’s the loveliest old lady lives her**, hut she’s as poor ns poor can ha, and she’s just n-s proud as she’s poor, because her folks wore rich oncojbut they’re all dead and she’s the only one of the family that’s left, and she’s got no money and there ain’t anything she can do. Khe makes the finest cream candy you ever st", and I'm sending some she made for my birthday party, for you to try and see if you don’t think so too. I’ve been think* log that Sprlngtleid folks must eat lots of candy, and why can't they eat Ml.ss San der's as well us anybody’s else’*? If I have her make some and send it to you will you put It in your store to sell? Please do, uncle, for she’s awful poor, anti I feel so sorry for her. Don't toll anybody about this; it must b> a secret between you and me. Write unu v.;| (n0 j, 0 w many pounds you want to begin vtth and how much you will pay for It. Storing niece, Addie. “Bless her dear lu j!'' exclaimed the head of Evans .v Cos?; Sen he had finished reading this epistle “That girl is always thiukiugof some scheme to help other people.” A few days later Addie put in an appearance before Miss Sanders, her face wreathed in smiles. “Oh, Miss Sanders, something nice has happened to you!” she exclaimed. “To me!” echoed Mias Sanders in amazement. “Why nothing very pleaiant ever comes my way.” “Well, you just listen and sec, re turned Addie, gayly, drawing a letter from her pocket, “It’s all because of ' Lilt candy you made for any party. You know I’ve got an undo in Spring field? He’s just lovely, and of course I had to send him some ot my birth day candy. This letter iB from him. He wants to kuow whether ‘the person who made that delicious, old-fashioued cream candy’—that’s just exactly what he said, interpolated Addie, looking up from the letter and nodding her head emphatically, as she saw her listener’s eyes opeu very wide in astonishment—‘would be willing to give him the sale of it.’ Ho says be is sure that he can sell a great deal, be cause there are mauy people who will pay a good price for pure, home-made candy. He’d like twenty-five pounds to start ou, to see if it takes as well as he expects, and he’ll pay thirty cents a pound for it, aud he sent the tnonfty for it. There now I” concluded Addie, triumphantly, “ain’t that nice?" Miss Sanders gasped. The tears came to her eyes, but her heart bounded with thankfulness. “Morey on me! I nevor hoard of such a thing!” she incredulously exclaimed. "Don’t folks in the city know how to make cream candy?” “I s’pose they do,” answered Ad die, “but not as good as yours. No body can make it like you, everybody says so. Yon’ll make the caudy for uncle, won’t yon?” “Why, yes, especially as he’s paid for it already, at a good prioe, too,” returned Miss Sauders. “But does your mother know anything about this?” she asked abruptly. “Why, no. She was over to Miss Smith’s when father brought me tho letter, and I ran right over here the minute I rend it,” answered Addie a trifle uneasily. The old lady looked much relieved at her reply. “I thought perhaps it was your mother’s doings, and I couldn’t bo beholden,” she said apologetically. “I’ll start on the candy the firt thing in the morning." “And I’ll come in and help yon after school. I want to see how you'll get along.” “Thank yon, dearie. I hope I’ll havo good lack. I’m not used to making so much at one time.” Early next morning Miss Sanders went to work ou the caudy. Sho watched her kettles anxiously, but luck favored her. Everything turned out just as it should, though all her pots and pans were pressed into ser vice. Addie, ivlieu she called after school, found Miss Sauders flushed but happy over her “beautiful luck.” Of ooursc Addie tasted the candy, and pro nounced it the best she had ever eaten. Then she set to work, under Miss Sanders’s direction, and the candy was daintily wrapped, weighed and packed. Miss Sanders was very happy over the result of her day’s work. She hud labored like a Trojan, and she was thoroughly tired out. “I’ll just be ou needles and pins till I find ont bow the candy suits, and if yonr uncle will want any more,” she remarked anxiously. Bat even Addie did not suspect how eagerly the old lady prayed that Springfield folks would find her caudy to their liking and she would be kept busy supplying the demand. Eew Goshen people had any idea how far along on tho road to the poorhouse Miss Sanders really was. After the cooking utensils bad been washed aud the kitchen tidied, Addie went home with a light heart, and wrote her nuole a letter which that gentleman cherished as a treasure. “Another letter from Uncle Alberti" announced Addie, rushing in upon Mlbs Sanders about two weeks later. “Good news in it, too!” “Yonr face tells that,” answered the old lady, beaming. “But what does ho say?” “He says the candy sold twice as fast ns he expected, and he wants yon to make 100 pounds this time, and seud it as soon as you can!” was the gleeful reply. “Land of mercy!'’ ejaculated Miss Sanders. “And he’s going to send yon a bar rel of sugar aud a case of flavoring ex tracts, at the wholesale rate,” con tinued Addie, “and he’ll take the price off what he’ll owe you. He says that will be cheaper and better than buying in small lots, for he expects to have a demand for the candy right along.” “Did you ever!” again exclaimed Miss Sanders. “Thirty dollars’worth! What great candy eaters those city folks must be!” Miss Sanders was more than busy after that. She hired a little girl to nelp her, and orders for the candy, which Uncle Albert judiciously adver tised as “Cupid Cream Candy,” con tinued to come so fast that she was obliged to make regular weekly ship- ments, and the demand is still grow ing. The dread of the poorhouse passed away aud Miss Sanders beoame her own cheerful self. Addio is allowed to have all the candy she wants at any time, and she and Miss Sauders are the very best of frieuds. “I do believe yon had more to do with your Uncle Albert ordering the candy than you ever told me of,” said Miss Sanders to Addie one day. “Now, didn’t you?" And Addie blushed aud began to talk about something else.—St, Louis Globe-Democrat. BEEF-KILLINC IN MANILA. Novel ami Striking Scene* In tho Public Ahbatoir of the Filipino Capital, A visitor from foreign parts in the city of Manila, whose sensibilities are not too acute, will find it worth his while to “drop in” nt the public slaughter-house, in the place known as Arroceres. This is on the river hank to the northeast of Manila, and is a much-frequented spot, where, be* sides the slaughter-house, are located the tobacco factories, the* botanical garden, a Spanish theatre, and the Kiosko, designed for public dances. The proper time *to visit the slaughter-house is about midnight, for this is when the principal business of the place is done. Owing to the tropical heat, in which fresh meat be comes putrid in an incredibly brief period, it is necessary that the killing of animals should bo dene a’t night and the meat distributed at once for immediate use. All this work is done in the wide-spreading, low building in the squaro at Arroceres. When operations are at their height the sceuo is picturesque in the ex treme. Tho great majority of the ani mals slaughtered are tlie large native cattle, most of whom are brought here, to cell the truth, not because of their being in a specially fat and juicy con dition, but because they have outlived their usefulness elsewhere aud are here to he converted into beef as a last resort. The killing is done en tirely by natives trained in tho busi ness until they havo become experts. Tho cattle are led in from the pens at the side of the building and are held by stout ropes over long troughs that run up and down all through the structure, and into which the blood (lows when the animals are first struck. The fatal blow is given with a large, sharp knife in tho spinal cord, just hack of the horns. Asa rulo one blow is enough. Tho animal drops without a sound aud scarcely a quiver. It sometimes happens, however, that ih© thru*}; miscarries aud the iB only badly wounded, Then some times a terrific and exciting struggle ersnes before the enraged animal is subdued and tho finishing stroke given. A specially novel feature of the pro ceedings is tho rush made by the native women and children, who are always present in great numbers, to collect the blood as it flows from the freshly killed animals. This product of the slaughter-house is greatly prized by the natives and is served up in various simple forms at their meals. It costs them nothing except tho struggle to catch it as it drips and flows in the slaughter-house, and this price mauy of the poorer class are willing enough to pay. The scramble for blood is not attractive to the casual visitor, for the stuff gets spilled and streaked around over tho hands and clothing of the people, and the scene is grewsomo enough. As soon as the animals are killed tho meat is cut up and distributed at once among the local markets in all parts of tho city, —Leslie's Weekly. Great Fishing In Aliukn. Fred Cox, who is visiting his parents on the East Siuo, has been ou Gravina Island, Alaska, for over a year. “Tho fishing there,” he says, “is not excelled anywhere in the world. I still hold that the red salmon are different from most of the other spe cies. They are red, male and female, all the time, and are unlike tho sock eye or any of the other kind iu those waters. The Indians call them the ‘Koo-Hoo.’ I think the salmon urea distinct species of themsolves. Fish ing in the little creeks is immense. Sometimes they run np the streams so thickly that they actually dam up the water. I have stood on the hank of a little stream and pitched thorn ont with a pole with a hook on the end until I got tired. And they are sweet and flue. I have stood ou tho wharf aud watched them in the water when they were in schools by the thousands. The mass would look like a great black cloud as they moved about in the water. When they make a dash up the little streams they fill them so that the streams look like a living mass of squirming fish, and if their hacks were not so slick, I oould walk across ou them.”—Morning Or egonian. Papa anil the Weather Alan. They had heard a good deal of talk about what the weather man says, and they had formed some rather queer ideas as to his identity, appearance and duties. “He lives,’ one of them was over heard saying, “’way up in a tower six teen stories high. I’m going to ask papa to take me up to see him some day.” “Oh, I wouldn’t dare,” replied the other “I’d he afraid.” *‘l don’t believe he’d hurt a littlo girl,” returned the first, doubtfully. “Maybe he wouldn’t mean to.” Haul the other, “but how could von he sure some of the wind or ice or something wouldn’t get away from him. And then, think how fierce he must look!” “I wouldn’t he afraid if I was with papa,” persisted the first. “Papal” returned the other, scorn fully. “What could papn do with a man 'most ten feet tall?”—Chicago Post. THOMSON. GA„ FRIDAY, MARCH 23. 1900. GOLDEN SAYS HE WILL TALK And Tell All He Knows About the Assassination of Goebel. SPURNS TO BE CALLED COWARD BoldStatementof Young Sergeant Creates a .Sensation Through out State of Kentucky. A special from Lexington, Ky., says: Sergeant F. Wharton Golden, the man alleged to have made incrimi nating statements in the Goehel mur der case, arrived in the city Tuesday night in company with his attorney, Smith Hayes. They oame from Win chester. Their movements have been kept in tho dark and their presenoc was not known until several hours after their arrival. They did not register at the Phoenix hotel, but it is stated Golden went through the rear door of the Phoe nix and subsequently to his room in the hotel. Another story is that they were mot by a carriage aud driven to the home of a Goebel Democrat. As tho hotel clerk know nothing of their arrival ef forts to find Golden proved futile. Many rumors are in circulation. One is that Golden is trying to get away from Goebel influences, but he is elofely watched. It is improbable that he lias given them the slip. Another l-umor is that he was in the city for further conference with Goe hel attorneys. ' Tho stories growing out of the con ference between Sergeant F. Wharton Golden, of tho Barbourville company of state militia, and the attorneys who ure managing the investigation of tho assassination of Governor Goebel have caused a sensation throughout the state. Golden will be placed on the staud by tho prosecution in the trial of persons already arrested for alleged' complicity in the assassination, but in formation as to the exact na lire of the testimony he is expected to give is lacking. j “I, will final! T can |nr fpyfrienfis all the time,” Golden is reported as saying, “but I must first be true to myself. When the time comes J will tell ull I know. Whatever else may ho said about me I do not think I can lie accused of being a liar, a coward or a Democrat, aud I want it distinct ly understood that I am not here un der guard.” The story is published that Golden has divulged to the attorneys the name of the man who fired the shots that killed Goehel. The person men tioned is a mulatto, who formerly lived nt Winchester, was prominent in the French-Eversole feud and is known as a dead shot. This man is now supposed to bo in the wildß of one of the mountain counties. Evidence that ho was in Frankfort at the time of the assassination was found among papers token from W. H. Onlton, a clerk in the auditor’s of fice, when the latter was arrested a week or so ago on a warrant charging him with being an accessory to the m urder. Among these papers were receipts for hoard hills amounting to about S3OO, incurred by eighteen men who were in Frankfort for some time be fore and at tho time Goebel was shot. In one of those receipts the name of the mulatto mentioned is given. The receipt in this case is for money re ceived from John Perkins by Bettiua Pittman for the board of three men. Perkins is a porter about the state house. BOTHAM’S BIG DEBT, The Net Hondod Debt, of New York City Kcaclie* the Hundred .’Million*. Comptroller Coler has made public a statement of the New York city debt on February 3d. The total gross funded debt was $304,195,859; the net $2.58,312,484 and tho net bonded debt $258,340,084. There were then besides outstanding bonds of various corpora tions now wholly or partly included in the city of New York amounting to $4,385,391. OOM PAUL IS FIRM. Kruger Say. Bneri Will Have fmlepen dcnce or Hie In the Struggle. A dispatch to the New York Herald from Pretoria dated February 10th, says: "Yonr correspondent has just had an interview with President, Kruger. ‘“This war was forced upon ns by England, which has been misled by Cecil Rhodes and the mining million aires who want the country,’ he said. “The Boers yielded as far as possible until they saw that nothing but com plete surrender of thoir independence would satisfy England. “ ‘Having been forced into the war, the Boers will conquer or die.’ ” Woman Kills Woman. Miss Annie Strother, cashier in a Chicago restaurant, and in stantly killed early Tuesday morning by Mrs. Charles Smith, wife of a saloon keeper, for alleged alienation of the affections of her liege lord. Cable to Honolulu In Sight. Tho senate committee on naval af fairs has agreed to a favorable report on tho bill to construct a cable line to Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, REWARD FOR LYNCHERS. Uovernor Candler of Georglt Wants Members of Cobb County flob Punished. Governor Candler of Georgia is de termined that tho perpetrators of the crime at Marietta, last Saturday night, iu whioli the negro John Bailey was practically shot to pieces, shall be brought to justice. Mouday afternoon the chief execu tive, in compliance with request of Cobb county officers, issued notice of a reward of S2OO for the arrest with evidence to convict, of tho first mem ber of the lynching party, and SIOO for each subsequent arrest. The mob which took Bailey out of the hands of the law is believed to havo been 150 strong, and while it is not on record that any lynching mob was ever captured eutirelv, Bhonld 100 of the lynchers be located and con victed the cost to the state would be $10,200. Tho county officers of Cobb, or at least some of them, requested the governor to issuo a large reward for the lynchers in tho hope of at least bringing tho lenders of the party to justice. Tho governor immediately complied with the request, expressing iu plain language his condemnation of tho work of the mob. The sheriff of the county anil his deputies are understood to he hard at work iu attempting to discover the perjietrators of the deed, though un der tho law they ennnot receivo the reward, as they are sworn to do their duty regardless of money offers. Following is the order of Governor Gaudier providing for a reward for the apprehension of the Cobb county lynch ers: Mabch, 19, 1900.—Whereas, official information has been received at this department that on the night of March 17, 1900, in the county of Cobb, some unknown persons committed assault with intent to murder upon the person of John Bailey, colored, by forcing an entrance to tho jail and taking there from the said Bailey and shooting him; and Whereas, the malignity of the crime and the promotion of justice require that tho said unknown persons be brought to justice for the crime with which they atand charged; it is, there fore Ordered, That the secretary of state record aud publish n proclamation of fering a reward of S2OO for the appre hension and delivery, with proof suffi cient to couvfct of the first of said un known persons to tho Sheriff of Cobb comity, and an additional reward of SIOO for each additional one of said unknown persons apprehended and convicted of said crime. A. D. Candour, Governor. ALLEGED CONFESSION Of Suspected Goebel Assassin Stlra Frankfort—Trials Are Post poned By Judge Moore. Caleb Powers, John Davis and Wil liam H. Culton, charged with being accessories to tho murder of William Goehel, were arraigned at Frankfort, Monday, for trial before Judge Moore. The commonwealth was not ready and by agreement tho trials wore sot for Friday. Ex-Governor John Young Brown made a demand for a list of witnesses for the commonwealth, but this was refused by the prosecution on tho ground that publicity might cause some of them to avoid being sum moned. News of an nllegod confession of F. Wharton Golden, of Barbourville, in regard to the assassination of William Goebel, reached Frankfort during the day and produced a sensation. Golden was formerly a guard at the penitentiary in Frankfort under the Republican administration and iB well known. It developed that the police and detectives have boen watching his movements since tho day of the assas sination on the theory that he kuow something about it. Commonwealth Attorney Franklin and County Attorney Polilsgrove de cline to discusß the alleged confession, as did others who aro assisting in the prosecution, though one went so far as te say Mr. Golden will be one of the most important witnesses introduced by the state. Some regret that the matter became public so soon, as they fear it will not nly make it dangerous for him to rp turn to his home at Barbourville. ATLANTA POSTOFFICE BILL. Bon.’tl© Passe* the Measure ami Prospects In House Are Bright. The Atlanta publio building bill was called from the calendar in the senate Monday afternoon and unanimously passed that body. Tho bill carries an appropriation of $500,000 for enlarging and otherwise improving tho present federal building in Atlanta. The bill will be reported by the house committee as soon as Colonel Livingston returns from Georgia, and the prospects are favorable that the bill will soon become a law, and the work on the building will begin during tho summer. Wheeler Talks of Guam. General Wheeler called at the navy department Saturday to consult with Secretary Long and Assistant Secre tary Allen, respecting the report he was charged to make regarding the Island of Guam. A Lynching In Alabama. Lee county, AJabama, had a lynch ing Sunday, when Charlie Humphries, a negro who had attempted to outrage a young white girl, was canght And shot by a number of white men. JAIL DOORS SMASHED Mob In Marietta Shoots Prisoner In tho Publio Streets. CHARGED WITH THE USUAL CRIME After Firing About Fifty Shot* the Would- Be Lyncher* Quickly Dispersed. At 1 o’clock Sunday morning a mob of masked men, numbering about 150, marched to the jail in Marietta, Ga., battered down the doors with crow bars, rudely awakened John Bniley, a negro charged with attempted rape, marched him to the center of the court house square in the very heart of the city and fired fully fifty shots nt him, leaving him for dead in the spot where he fell. It is not known who composed tho mob. All or nenrly all were masked. It is thought, however, that they came from the country. The crime which Bailey attempted and which caused the assault on the jnil is not often attempted iu Cobb county, where in the past there has been but little trouble with the ne groes. • The knowledge of what the negro had attempted, however, stirred the people of Marietta and vicinity as that quiet country folk has not been moved iu many years. Thursday afternoon, shortly after 4 o’clock, while Miss Amanda Snell grove, a young lady of Cobb county, was returning to her home, which is within a mile and a half of Marietta, she was accosted by a negro man, who made known his purposes in unmis takable terms. She sought to escape him, bnt he seized her iu his grasp and she could only struggle aud tight for her honor ns best she knew. Evidently alarmed by her screams and fearing that the neighboring farmers might be attract ed, the negro released his intended victim and ran into the woods. Miss Snollgrove, faint and sick from her experience and narrow escape, mndo her way to her father’s home aud related her experience. Sundry bruises about her head, throat and body attested the violence with which she had struggled while in the negro’s grasp. The relatives of the young lady im mediately informed the sheriff of the attempted assault and a posse within a short time was scouring tho woods for tho negro. Suspicion pointed to John Belding Bailey aud at 10 o'clock Thursday night his cabin wns surround ed. He did not resist arrest, but pro tested his innocence. He wns taken to the Snellgrove home, where a confrontation with Miss Sncligrove ocrurred and her identifi cation of him was complete. The ne gro was at once conducted to the jail, whoro ho remained until tho mob stormed the place Saturday night. SHAMROCK VIES WITH PRIMROSE Green I.nrgely In KvUlence Throughout Eiiklihkl On Bt. Patrick's Day. A London dispatch says: Shamrock day promises to vie with primrose day in tho hearts of tho people, judging from the enthusiasm with which the loyalists all over the United Kingdom celebrated. From Windsor castle, whero tho queen observed the day by wearing a sprig of genuine four-leafed shamrock, to the east end of the slums of London, nearly everyone sported something in the shape of a green flag. A word from her majesty has turned the emblem of semi disloyalty into a badge of honor and has made the shamrock the moat prized of all the plnnts iu the British isles. By the queen’s older, the bells of the curfew of Windsor castle honored St. Patrick Saturday morning; Irish airs played by the Grenadiers enliv ened the qneen’s luncheon, and Lon don’s mansion house floats a now Irish flag, with the Union Jack in the upper corner. Most of the government officials hoisted tho Irish flag and tho clubs were similarly decorated, the officials all wearing tho green. The lord chief justice, Lord Russell of Killowen, set the example in the law courts and all tho judges followed his example of wearing the shamrock below their ermine collars. PLATFORM MUCHLY DISCUSSED. Action of WotiralUun. An Interesting Topic at National Capital. The platform adopted by the Demo crats of Nebraska was much discussed in Washington Thursday because of its presumed bearing npon the na tional platform. The fact that Mr. Bryan, in some degree, outlined this utterance of the Democrats of his own state was sufficient cause for its being much talked about. The principal criticisms which were made against it were by Republicans and those Democrats who ore not rec onciled to the Chicago platform. PETITION OF PORTO RICANS. Large Mass Meeting Held In Han Juun tn Discuss Needs of Inlander*. A large gathering of 10,000 people, hoaded by the San Juan chamber of commerce, assembled at the palace of the governor general Tuesday to sub mit a petition with reference to the needs of the island. On behalf of General Davis, Lieutenant Colonel Hall, his adjutant general, assured them that Porto Rico would receive justico, and expressed pleasure at the interest in the question. An account of the proceedings will be transmitted to Washington. NO. 7. A HOT BED OF INSURRECTION Has Manila, the Philippine Me tropolis Proved To Be. REBELS INFEST THE CITY General Otis Finds an Abundance of Troublesome Situations Right nt Kin Door. Adviece from the Philippines state that General Otis considers Manilla the most troublsotne center in the situation there, just now. The insurgent junta in connection with that iu Hong Kong, growing active. The military authori ties have been forced to put a stbp to Mabini’s intercourse with the public. The local and foreign press considers his recent utterauces calculated to in cite the Filipinos toa continued revolt and prejudicial to American control. Flores, who has just arrived iu Ma nilla says he comes trusting to Ameri can leniency, and that he would not have dared come to Manilla if Spain were yet in control. He cher ishes the hopes and aspirations which actuated him when in the field and de sires to watch congressional action upon the question of the Philippines. The insurgents, he says, do not expect to vanquish the Americans, blit are maintaining a resistance with the idea of forcing congress to accord them tho best possible terms. A number of representative insur gent lenders from different parts of Luzon have recently been in confer ence in Manila. Some have been placed under arrest, bnt tho Others tliiiß far have not been interfered with. Louis Spitzel, head of the fism of Louis Spitzel & Cos., contractors to the Chinese government, and himself a suspected filibuster, came from' Hong Kong to Manila last week and was temporarily detained in custody on suspicion. It is asserted npon good authority that tbroo loads of arms and ammunition have recently been landed ou the east coast of Luzon. Reports are current of active rebel reorganization in the province of Mo roug, where the insurgent leaders are said to be assisted by prominent Span ish residents. Inhabitants of this province who are now in Manila have been advised not to return to their homes, but to remain undor the pro tection of the Americans. It is algo reported that the rebels are reorganizing in the province of Zambales under Macardo. Brigands are committing atrocities in the prov ince of Nenva Ecign, whero they have murdered twenty natives and China men. Eight other murders have been committed near Tarlac, The Neuva Eeiga insurgents are heavily taxing local traders and farmers with the re sult that business is paralyzed and there is a general scarcity of food. The funds for maintaining this guerilla ivarfure are collected from the various towns of the island, wheth er occupied by the Americans or not, even including Manila. In the province of Albay the insur gents have ceased harassing the Amer icans, owing, it is reported, to a lack of ammunition, but they continue rav aging the country by burning and looting. The natives are tiring of this sort of thing and threaten to turn against the marauders. Already the townspeople of Legaspi, Albay and Donzoi are slowly returning to their homes. Major Allen, of the Forty-third regi ment, has been appointed military governor of the island of Samar, whero Lukban, the former leader of tho rebels in that locality, is still in the mountains. Evidence acnmulates of the treason and perfidy of tho municipal presi dents in the provinces of General Mnc- Arthur’s district. The presidents of several towns in Lepanto and Union provinces havo declined to continue in their positions, saying that they do not desire any further identification with the Americans. Travel between the towns garrisoned by the Americans is becoming more dangerous. All wagon trains must bo escorted by heavy guards to insure their safety. SCHLEY’S HOME FUNDS. Committee Is Informed That Subscrip tion* Are Ahnmlnnt. At a meeting in Washington of the national executive committco engaged in raising funds for a home for Roar Admiral Schley Saturday night Sec retary Evans reported many favorable responses to the circulars soliciting contributions. Ho also reported that absolute refusals to contribute to the fund had been received from the naval contingent on duty in Washington, with ono single exception, that of Ad miral Hichhorn, ami in some instances the refusals wore accompahied by ad verse comments on the committee’s projeot. CAUSED BY GASOLINE. Five Persons Die of Injuries ntul Others Are In Precarious Condition. Five dead, one fatally and ono seri ously injured, sesultcd from an at tempt to start a fire with gasoline at Columbus, 0., Friday night. George White used the fluid ot James Wea rer’s residence and on explosion fol lowed, tho building was set on fire aud tho inmates were covered vritb the burning fluid.