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funston talks war In Banquet Speech Kansan Fires Some Sizzling Shot. GUEST NEW YORK LOTUS CLUB Goes Into Details Regarding the Cause of Hostilities In the Philip, pines.—Raps “Traitors” In America. Brigadier General Frederick Fun ston' was the guest of honor at a din ner given Saturday night at the Lotus Club in New York City. More than 300 members of the club were present. General Funston made a speech, in which he said: “When Manila was surrendered to Dewey and Merritt some thousands of Spaniards were in the city. In the eyes of the world these people looked to us for protection, and to have turned them over to the uncontrolla ble mob known as ‘Aguinaldo’s army’ would have been the blackest page of American history; one that a thous and years of repentance and restitu tion would not have satisfied. General Funston then told in min ute detail of the instances that led to war fare between the American ar my and the insurgents, and during the narrative told of the shooting of sev eral sentries by Filippino scouts who had passed the lines. He said that on the opening of the battle between the army and the insurgents, Major Met calf, of the First Nebraska regiment, had come to his quarters, and said: “The dance has begun.” “What dance?” I asked, and Ma jor Metcalf replied: “Go out and hear it,” and I went out and heard the put tering of rifle balls, and that was the beginning of the war over there.” General Funston then said: “All sorts of men get into the army. There are good, bad and indifferent, but I believe that 95 per nect. of the American soldiers are a brave and humane lot of men. The other 5 per cent, who have been writing letters to newspapers, have ornamented the inside of a grog house for a longer time than they have distinguished themselves in the field.” “All of those men who have fallen since December, 1900, have been the victime of a lot of misinformed and misguided people here in the United States. It is perfectly proyer for us to have all sorts of opinions as to what we should do with the Philippine is lands, but for heaven’s sake, let us keep them to ourselves until every square inch of territory recognizes the" sovereignty of the United States.” General Funston then gave many examples to show that the Pilipino leaders were not patriots. He men tioned the slaying of Antonio Luna, who was ordered slain by Aguinaldo. General Funston said that Aguinaldo had told him in regard to Luna’s death: “I had him killed simply because he would have been dictator instead of myself.” “Would you imagine George Wash ington doing anything like that?” asked General Funston. The general said there was not one of the so-called Filipino patriot who could not be convicted of murder if he was tried by a jury. He declared that there had never been a war in the world’s history where the soldiers had shown such humanity as had the American troops in the Philippine is lands. Traitors in America. He then told of twenty-four Ameri can soldiers who had joined the Fil ipinos and who were afterward capt ured and executed as traitors, and then said: “There are many men in the United States who did more with their mouths ana minds to aid the insurgents than did these poor men with their Krag Jorgensen rifles. I would ratner see those men hanged for treason than to see one cf the soldiers dead on the field of battle.” The general then declared that the Filipinos could not be classed with the Cubans, and he said that if the United States could now leave the Philippine islands there would be half a dozen different kinds of civil wars there, and that the world would hold the United States responsible fsr them. The general said he talked with Ag uinaldo on their way back to Manila on the Vicksburg, and that Aguinaldo told him that neither Dewey nor any one else had promised him anything, but that he and his people had faith in the Americans. The textile workers in the King mill, of Augusta, Ga., have demanded a 10 per cent increase in all depart ments and ask for a reply on March 17. The mill management declares a raise impossible, and a strike may follow. BOER AMMUNITION FOUND. British scouts Run Upon a Large Cave Used as a Magazine. Lord Kitchener in a dispatch ta London from Pretoria Saturday, re ports the discovery of a Boer maga zine in a cave northeastward of Reitz, Orange River colony, containing 310, 000 rounds of ammunition, hundreds of shells, 200 pounds of powder, a Max im gun, helios, field telegraphs and quantities of stores. CABINET MEMBERS MUZZLED. President’s Order* Forbidding Them to Give Out News to Reporters Creates Consternation. A Washington special says: The announcement from the white house that hereafter all news concerning cabinet meetings must be given out by the secretary to the president and that members of the cabinet must not discuss cabinet meetings with repre sentatives of the press is generally re garded as the hardelst slam that any president has ever given the members of his cabinet. It is, in effect, notice to members of the cabinet that the president does not consider them the possessors of judg ment or discretion. The heads of the different executive departments do not take at-all kindly to this reflection upon them, especially as their friends in the senate and house are inclined to poke fun at them concerning the po sition in which they have been placed. No previous president has ever gone to these lengths. There have been times when, before cabinet meetings broke up, there would be a general agreement that certain matters should not be discussed with outsiders, but even Mr. Cleveland, who was criticised for keeping members of his cabinet in the background and dominating them, never went to to the length of forbid ding them to discuss such cabinet mat ters as in their judgment they saw fit. President McKinley had the happy faculty of impressing all those who conferred with him with the feeling that he reposed absolute confidence in them, and on important matters this confidence was not misplaced, either in the case of members of the cabinet or of others. There are one or two members of the present cabinet who seeme to be lieve that the newspapers of the coun try have no right whatsoever to know what is going on. These are men who have never before figured in public life and whose heads have suffered de cided enlargement since their selection to high place in this administraton. These men are understood to indorse the mystery which the president seeks to throw around his conferences with his official advisers. But the men of widest political experience in the cab inet and out of it construe this action of the president as not only an unpoli tic move, but one which is a distinct reflection upon the members of the president’s official household who are told, in effect, that they are mere de partment chiefs whose judgment not be relied upon. ROOSEVELT STEALS MARCH. Outwits Congress by Securing Import ant Section in Census Bill. A Washington dispatch says: Pres ident Roosevelt has outwitted Con gress. Both house and senate passed the bill for a permanent cen sus bureau with the understanding that all of the twent-three hundred clerks now in the bereau should, upon the bill becoming a law, be placed in the classified service. Rut President Roosevelt would not have it that way. He sent for Sena tor Quarles and Representative Hop kins, members of the conference com mittee, and directed them to put a sec tion in the bill providing that only such clerks as are in the census office July 1st shall go into the classified ser vice without examination. The clause was inserted. Then Hop kins and Quarles reported back to the house and senate that the conference committee had agreed upon the bill practically as it had been adopted. Thereupon it was passed without fur ther question. It was not the orig inal bill, but a gold brick. Under the Roosevelt clause, Direct or Merriam will fire all clerks in the bureau before July first, except the eight hundred he needs for the perma nent bureau. He is a republican and will of course, pick out eight hundred republicans for retention. Between now and July first, fifteen hundred democrats and republicans will get the axe. Congress knows to day the trick has been turned and there is general dismay. —Prince Henry dined with the Van derbilts Sunday night. Monday he went to Philadelphia. WHAT BREEZE SAID. Bank Official Admits That He Got Benefit of Funds. In the Breeze-Dickerson bankruptcy case, in progress at Asheville, N. C., George M. Coffin, the acting comptrol ler of the currency when the bank failed, testified Friday that the de fendant, President Breeze, had admit ted to him shortly before the doors of the bank closed that he, Breeze, had gotten the benefit of the bank’s money to the amount of $114,000, and that Cashier Penland got the benefit of $80,000. and Director Dickerson got the benefit of $60,000. ANOTHER ONE FROM SHANGHAI. Merchants of China City Expect Imme diate War With Japan. In a dispatch dated Shanghai, China, the correspondent of The London Standard says that Chinese merchants coming from Port Arthur declare they have been ordered to remove their families from Port Arthur because preparations were being made there for a war with Japan. BILL ARP’S LETTER Bartow Philosopher Again Re verts to Ancient Mythology. MARCH IS A MUCH DESPISED MONTH With lt« Bluster and Diaagreeablenesa It Has no Friends—How the Month Got Its Name. March has no friends. It is a disa greeable, uncertain, blustering month. It was named for Mars, the god of War, who was the son of Jupiter, and was always hunting around for a fight. He was believed to be the father of Romulus, the founder of the Roman Empire, and hence was held in great reverence by the Romans-. March was named for him. Those old greeks and Romans had no weeks— nor days of the week—no Sundays or Mondays or any other day, but they divided time by Calends and Ides. The Calends were the first days of the month And the Ides were the fifteenth. All the intermediate days were des ignated by these, for instance, the third day after the Calends of May, of the fifth day before the Ides of March. 'The Roman senate always began Its sessions on the Ides of the month, except that after Julius Cae sar was murdered the annlversity of that day, the Ides of March, was ob served as a sacred day. I want the young people to know and remember that we got our months from Roman mythology, and the days of our weeks from the Scandinavian mythology. Now listen to a part of this wonderful story, for it is classic and more fas cinating than the Arabian Nights. Two thousand years ago it was the faith and religion of millions of peo ple. Jupiter was the god of the Greeks and the Romans, and Woden was the god of the Norsemen, and each had a son who was the god of war. There vMs the son of Woden. Wednesday was named for Woden, and it was originally Woden’s day. Thursday was named for Thor, and Friday for his mother. Each of these mytholo gies had a hades or infernal region for bad people and evil spirits. Pluto presided over the one, and a woman named Hela over the other. That is where the word Hell comes from. It seems an awful thing to put hell in charge of a woman, but they said that no man was as bad as a bad woman. Her father was named Loki, and she had two brothers. One was a serpent so big and long that it wrapped around the world and swallowed its own tail. The other was a wolf so strong that he broke the strongest chains just like they were cobwebs. Then Woden got the mountain spirits to make another chain, and they made it of six things: The noise of a cat walking, the beard of a woman, the roots of stones, the breath of fishes, the smiles of bears and the spittle of birds. When the chain was finished it was so small and smooth and soft as a silken string, but no power on earth could break it. And so they chained him and killed him. But listen what kind of a home Miss Hela had. Hunger was her dining ta ble. Starvation was her knife. De lay was her man servant—Sloth her maid servant. A precipice was her doorstep. Care her bed, and Anguish the curtains to her bed chamber. wonder she was cruel and always wore a stern, unhappy and countenance. a This is just a sample of their myth ology. It fills up several books. Now, where in the world did that people get all those wonderful stories. Away back in the ages they must have had poets more imaginative than Homer. Some of our learned men say they got the foundation of many of them from the Bible. For the story goes that away back in the ages the people got so bad that Jupiter got dreadful mad with them and resolved to destroy them. So he summoned all the gods to come to him, and they came from all parts of the heavens, traveling on the milky way, which is the street of the gods, and after taking counsel together the determined to destroy all mankind and start with a new pair. So Jupiter was about to launch a red hot thunder bolt at the earth and burn it up, but one of the gods told him that he had better not, for he might buri< up heaven, too. So he concluded to use water instead of fire, and then came the flood which drowned every human being except Deucalion and his wife, who were good people. They escaped to the top of a mountain called Parnas BUS and were saved, This is- very much like the Bible story of the flood and of Noah and Mount Ararat. And just so they got Hercules from Samp son, and Vulcan and Apollo from Ju bal and Jubal Cain, and the Dragon from the serpent that tempted Eve, and the giants who tried to scale the walls of heaven from Nimrod arid his tower. Every great heathen god had a favorite son just as our Christian God has a Son. There is something sublime and comforting in even be lieving or imagining that a great and good being is somewhere in the heav ens overruling the earth and its peo pie, prospering the good and punish ing the evil. The fact that this all powerful being is invisible makes His existence the more impressive. Ju piter had a bountiful palace of gold and silver at Valhalla, and it could only be reached by walking on a rain bow. And we pray to our God, saying: “Oh, Thou who dwellest in the heav ens, ” and not in the temples made by hands. History gives no account of any people who did not put their trust in some God, and this proves our con fession of weakness and our need of strength from some supernatural di vinity. The more cultured and en lightened we become the more con scious we are of our weakness. Chil dren depend absolutely upon their pa rents until afar up in their teens. They do not need any other God, but by and by the parents pass away or fail to supply their increasing wants and then comes that feeling of helplessness and the want of a protector. Reflec tion comes with age, and the more reflective a man becomes and the more intelligent from study and culture, the more he must realize his ignorance and dependence. Therefore, I cannot understand how such a cultured gentle man as Ingersoll could be so irreverent so careless and prayerless about his own existence, for he cannot tell by what power he raised his hand or closes his eyes when he wills to do so. He says he would have planned many things very different. He would have given a man wings and the power to fly. He would have made health catching instead of disease. He would have made infants colic proof, and they should have been as lively when born as little chicks when they come out of the shell, and the old men should always be calm and serene. In fact, he would have made everybody happy during life and every death a painless one. He ought to have gone a little farther and abolished death and then created more worlds for the never-dying people to live in. But we are here and we have to submit to things as we find them, and as Gov ernor Oates said, “Mr. Ingersoll, what are you going to do about it?” And now I want this month of March to hurry up and pass away. It is ag gravating my grippe, and I feel more like writing “an ode to melancholy.” It contracts and withers my charity for my fellow men. I don’t care a cent for Roosevelt and Tillman, nor Spoon er, nor the Atlanta depot. But as the old Persian prophet said, “Even this shall pass away.” Fifty-three years ago today my wife and I were married, but on our account the weather was as lovely as a Lapland night. I was one of ten children—my wife was one of ten, and we have ten, and they have twenty, and no great calamnity or af fliction hath befallen us, thanks to the good Lord for His mercies.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. SAW MILLS OF THE SOUTH. Preliminary Census Report Shows Enormous Capital Invested. The census bureau Thursday issued a preliminary report on saw mills, planing mills- (operated in connection with saw mills) and timber camps of the Unified States in 1900. It show's a total of 33,065 such establishments, with an aggregate capital of $611,611,- 524, with 43,322 proprietors and firm members. The value of products ag gregated $566,832,984, which includes $422,812,061 for saw mills, $107,622,519 for planing mills and $36,398,404 for timber camps. The table shoving the capital value of products of the in dustry includes, among others, the following states: State. Capital. Products. Alabama .. ..$13,020,183 $12,867,551 Arkansas .. . 21,727,710 23,959,983 Florida....... 14,937,693 10,946,403 Georgia 11,802,716 13,704,923 Kentucky..... 9,804,404 13,774,931 Louisiana .. . 20,093,044 17,408,513 Mississippi .. . 17,337,538 15,656,1)0 North Carolina . 13,385,097 14,862,593 South Carolina. 5,187,727 5,207,184 Tennessee .. .. 12,900,595 13,127,784 Texas 19,161,205 16,296,473 Virginia..... 9,299,046 12,137,177 West Virginia ..10,421,570 10,612,837 BRYAN SUPPORTER HOOTED. Jubilant Bedlam Breaks Loose In Mis sissippi Legislature. The McAllister resolution urging a political and business alliance between the south and east was adopted in the Mississippi legislature Tuesday afternoon with practical unanimity, and with demonstrations of great re joicing. In fact, it seemed as if bed lam had been turned loose in the house. Members slammed books, pounded on desks, jumped on top of them, whooped, yelled and applauded. A leading Bryan man protested, but was howled down. He said: “Before this vote is taken, I wish to £>;t in a parting shot for William J. Bryan. But he never got an opportunity to fire the shot. NEW PARTY A FIASCO. Only Two Men Willing to Join, and One of Them Quickly “Renigcd.” J. H. Cook and Dr. James Chambers, both of Missouri, leaders of the new "allied party,” addressed a small crowd at Omaha, Neb., Friday night.. When Dr. A. J. Cook, of Omaha, who presided, invited ail who were in fa vor of organizing a club of the new party to rise, only two stood up and one of them dropped back into his seat. Considerable confusion ensued and the meeting adjourned. REBELLION IN CHINA. - Troops Are Sent to Scene of Disturb ances In Kwang Si Province, Advices from Hong Kong state that ^e rebellion in Kwang Si province j s spre ading rapidly. Signs of unrest are a i re ady apparent at Kwe Lin and Nanking, the newly opened river treaty ports. dispatched The Canton viceroy has troops to the scene of the disturbances an( j has stationed 1,000 men at Kwe Lin and Nanking. CLAIMS ARE REFUSED No Compensation For Families of Battleship Maine Martyrs. TURNED DOWN BY COMMISSION Barred By Fact That Officer* and Sea men Were Injured In Line of Duty—One Commissioner Files Dissenting Opinion. Thursday the Spanish claims com mission at Washington handed down a decision against the claimants for death and injuries by officers and sear men in the wreck of the battle ship Maine in Havana harbor. The com mission holds that: “Individual claims of citizens of one nation may arise against the govern ment of another nation for redress of injuries to persons or property which such citizens may have sustained from such government, or any of its agents. But such Individual claims do not arise in favor of the officers and sea .men of a ship of war, who receive, in the line of duty, injuries to their per son for which a foreign government is responsible. The claim against the foreign government is wholly national, and all injuries tc such officers and seamen are merged in the national in jury and can look only to their own government for such remuneration as it may choose to give them. “A seaman Injured by the explosion which destroyed the battle ship Mb ne in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, cn February 15, 1898, had no individual claim against Spain, even If that gov ernment was responsible to the United States for the explosion, and therefore such a seaman is not entitled to an award in his favor from the Spanish treaty claims commission, organized by the act of congress of March 2, 1901, to adjudicate the individual claims of citizens of the United States against Spain, which the United States released to Spain, and agreed to pay by the treaty of peace of December 1898.” The claims so far filed with the com mission, which will be affected by this decision, amount to about $2,500,000, which probably would have been in creased to $5,000,000 had the decision been favorable to the claimants. Commissioner Chambers filed a dis senting opinion. He said that if the steamer, City of Washington, lying near the Maine at Havana, had been blown up and its sailors killed, “this commission would present the anomal ous aspect of investigating for the pur pose of adjudicating the claims of all these private citizens who were in jured or killed upon the meiyhant ship while the claims of the equally unfor tunate sailor citizens whose injuries were received or whose lives were sacrificed while in the line of duty, at the same time on the battle' ship Maine, are denied a hearing. To ray mind no principle of law, divine or human, international or municipal, recognizes or could justify such an in congruous procedure.” FILIPINOS CRUELLY TORTURED. Crazed Americans Adopt New Method of Exterminating Rebels. Advices from Manila state CTiat a courtmartial has been ordered to try Major Waller and Lieutenant Day, of the marine corps, on March 17, on the charge of executing natives of the is lands of Samar without trial. Some of the circumstances in the case are pe culiarly atrocious. One native was tied to a tree and publicly shot in the thigh. The next day the man was shot in the arms. The third day he was shot in the body, and the fourth day the native was killed. Friends of the two officers attribute their actions to loss of mind, due to the privations which they suffered in the island of Samar. Quarter-Million Blaze. The most destructive fire that Plain field, N. J., has experienced In many years, destroyed the Babcock building, a five-story brick, and two adjoining buildings. The total loss was $250,000. PICKPOCKETS IN CHURCH. Three Atlanta Parsons Tackled By Men and Women Crooks. A gang of professional pickpockets, composed of men and women, made their appearance in the Baptist Taber nacle at Atlanta Tuesday afternoon while the Bible conference was holding a sessior, and before they left they succeeded in riflng the pockets of three ministers of the gospel. It has been known for several days that pickpockets were in the city, but that women were among them had not been suspected. BRYAN GUEST OF PRESS CLUB. Says He Adopted Newspaper Work Because Oratory Was Ineffective. William Jennings Bryan was the guest of the New York Press Club Wednesday evening. The occasion was the club’s regular monthly smoker. Mr. Bryan said that he did not go into newspaper work entirely cf his own free will, but was led into it after he had become convinced that his oratory was not sufficiently clear to convince a majority of the people that his ideas were good. Cream of News. Brief Summary of Most Important Events of Each Day. —The body of the man found in a swamp, near Macon, Ga., was exhumed Sunday and examined by Dan Coffey, who declares it is his missing brother, Mike. Signs of violence were found. —Although agreeing to accept the decision of the arbitration committee, the Norfolk, Va., strikers reject the committee’s decision. The strike is still on and trouble is feared. —Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the president, is to visit General and Mrs. Wood, at Havana. She left Wash ington Sunday night. —German papers say the cordiality of the Americans toward Prince Henry is greater than could have been ex pected. —The American legation at Constan tinople has sent a second note to the porte regarding the capture of Miss Stono by the brigands. —The courtmartial to try Major Waller and Lieutenant Day, charged with killing Filipinos without trial, will convene at Manila on the 17th. —In hs speech at a banquet given In his honor by the Lotus Club in New York city, General Funston poured some hot shot into the ranks of the anti-imperialists. —The list of dead in the frightful wreck on, the Southern Pacific has been reduced to twelve. The blame cannot be placed. —Judge Speer, at Savannah, Ga., Friday, ordered the bonds of Greene and the Gaynors forfeited, and de clared them fugitives. —At Asheville, N. C.. Comptroller Coffln testified that Breeze admitted he had been benefited by funds of the bank to the amount of $114,000. —Mississippi’s new capitol will not be dedicated until next fall. It was the intention to have the dedication on Jefferson Davis,’ birthday in June, but the building will not be in readiness by that time. —The street car strike at Norfolk, Va., is growing worse. Friday night soldiers fired a volley over the heads of an attacking party of strikers. —Developments indicate that Co lombia, Nicaragua and Costa Rica are scheming to make the United States pay dear for a canal route. —In a wreck on the Southern Pacific early Friday morning fifteen persons were killed and twenty-eight injured. —Prince Henry completed his tour of the United States Friday and re turned to New York. He visited Al bany and West Point on that day. —Dr. Joseph Parker created a sen sation by bitterly rebuking King Ed ward from the pulpit of the City Tem ple in London. —No further news has been received of the Cunard steamer Elmira which was reported crippled in mid-ocean. —The British government will adopt strong measures to put down the united Irish league. —Benjamin F. Greene and John D. Gaynor, defendants in alleged conspir acy case, failed to appear in the United States court in Savannah Thursday. Judge Speer ordered that if they failed to appear Friday, their bonds should be forfeited. —The matter of converting the pub lic parks in Macon, Ga., into wagon yards has aroused the people. Several citizens have threatened injunction proceeding if such action is attempted. —Ten residences in Oakcliff, Tex., were destroyed by fire Thursday night. A young boy was probably fatally burned, and his mother, attempting rescue, was seriously injured. —Luke Sanders, the negro who mur dered William Mullins, a white over seer, last April, was hanged Thursday in private in the jail at Marion, Ala. —Officers of the Second battalion, Third regiment, Alabama infantry, at Anniston, are trying to effect reorgani zation and restore harmony in the regiment. —Prince Henry was entertained by Boston Thursday and received the de gree of doctor of laws from Harvard university. —The house republicans met in cau cus Thursday night on the Cuban question, but reached no agreement. —By an explosion in a Pennsylvania coal mine Thursday, five men were killed and many injured. —Senator Hanna spoke in favor of the ship subsidy bill Thursday. Sen ator Tillman tried to “pitchfork” the Ohio senator, but never “tetched” him. —It is 'charged that Major Waller and Lieutenant Pay have tortured Fili pino prisoners. A courtmartial has been ordered. —W. E. Small – Co., brokers, with offices in Atlanta, Nashville, Chatta nooga and Macon, suspended business Wednesday. —A meeting of the Georgia Fruit Growers’ Association was held Wed nesday afternoon in Macon. President Hughes says all indications now point to a large crop this year. —Senator Bacon, of Georgia, in a speech Thursday, opposed certain fea tures of a bill for the protection of the president, claiming that the measure invades the rights of the states. —The progress of the rebellion in China is eausing apprehension to tEe imperial court.