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BISHOP-ELECT OF CUBA CONSECRATED THIS WEEK. THE CEHEMOXY IJf ST. LCKE'S CATHEDRAL WEDNESDAY. Bishopii to Be Present from All Parts of the Country—Bishop Sea sums of Louisiana to Preach the Consecration Sermon Bishop Knight to Leave at Once for Havana. Atlanta, Dec. 18.—Elaborate prepara tions are being? made for the consecra tion of Rev. Albion W. Knight, rector of the Cathedral, as Bishop of Cuba, to which post he was elected at the recent Episcopal Convention In Bos ton. The consecration will take place next Wednesday morning, Dec. 21, at 10:30 o'clock, in the cathedral. There will be an unusually large number of bishops present to take part in these services, and arrange ments have been made for entertain ing them at the homes of various prominent Atlantans. Among those who have stated they expected to at tend the consecration of Bishop Knight are: Bishop D. S. Tuttle, of Missouri, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States; Bishop Edwin G. Weed, of Florida; Bishop William H. Moreland, of Sacramento, Cal.; Bishop Davis Sessums, of Louisi ana; Bishop Theodore Bratton of Mississippi; Bishop C. M. Beckwith, of Alabama; Bishop Ellison Capers, of South Carolina; Bishop Reginald H. Weller, Jr., of Wisconsin; Bishop Lo gan H. Roots, of Hankow, China; Bishop O. W. Whitaker, of Pennsyl vania; Bishop J. B. Chesire, of North Carolina, and Bishop W. C. Gray of Southern Florida. The consecration sermon will be preached by Bishop David Sessums, of Louisiana. Bishop Knight will leave within a few days for his new post of duty. He has for years been rector of the cathedral here, having come to Atlanta from Jacksonville, Fla. IN HONOR OFDEL BUFALO. St. Peter’s Was the Scene of a Pon tifical Ceremony. Rome, Dec. 18.—St. Peter’s was es pecially decorated for the formal an nouncement this morning of the beat ification of Gaspare Del Bufalo, found er of the Congregation of the Precious Blood and Canon of San Marco under Pius Y XI. The function was perform ed at the altar of the chair, so called, because It contains the sacred wooden episcopal chair of St. Peter. This afternoon Pope Pius X, accom panied by the cardinals of the court, and all the bishops and dignitaries of the church at present in Rome, went to venerate the blessed Del Bufalo. The ceremony had the added object of the demonstration of loyalty. Over 30,000 people crowded the basilica. It was much remarked that Pope Pius, instead of walking to St. Peter’s, as had been arranged, went in the se dia gestatoria, although that mode of travel invariably causes him nausea. He was unable to-day to walk, be cause of gout, with which he has suf fered so much the last few days that he was obliged to sit during the audi ences. WHAT HE SAID TO GIRL Iteftnltcd in Smithson's Being Killed by Potter. Nashville, Tenn.. Dec. IS.—At Wood bury, Cannon county, tc-day Thomas Potter, a prominent merchant, shot and instantly killed A. J. Smithson, an attorney. The tragedy grew out of a sensa tional law suit, in which Potter’s tes timony on the witness stand was ad verse to Smithson’s interest. This morning a young lady, who was ac companied by Potter, was accosted on the street by Smithson, who is said to have remarked she should not keen company with a man who would swe>ar falsely. The men met later, a quarrel ensued and Smithson was killed. Pot himself and was ad mitted to bail. three br °thers and his son are tteid to be greatly wrought up over the tragedy, and the town to-night is in a state of uneasy expectancy. enough foreign officers. The Porte Tells Austria and Russia It Wants no More. Constantinople, Dec. 18.—The Porte has replied to notes from Austria and Russia that it objects to the suggest ed Increase in the number of foreign officers in the Macedonian gendarmes, ?L ,he .. lrround that disturb the native populations. New Cotton Company. Montreal, Dec. 18.-A new cotton company with a capital of 110,000,000, nus been formed here. The new com pany will take over the mills of four ik. th lar S e *t Canadian companies— l? *?. ominlon ’ the Merchants, the Mont Morenci and the Colonial Bleach- ! n ® Companies. Senator Forget will oe the first president, with A. It. I?,®*® the Dominion and W. T. 'itehead of the Mont Morenci Com pany, as joint managers. Payne Acquitted. Lawton, O. T.. Dec. 18.—Judge E. M. Payne of Chickasha, United States commissioner, has been acquitted In tile federal court at this place of the cnarge of drunkenness, and permlt xs.. the Bale of Hiuor in the Indian Terr tory. The charges were made public some time ago. The Attorney General of the United States was ask- L” to call for an Investigation, and the matter was referred to Judge Town send of the federal court. ninliop rhelan'a Condition. PlUnhurj, Pa., Dec. 18.—At midnight Bishop Phelan's condition is extreme ly critical. His physicians think he nia > r not live longer than a few hours. Aylmer Inspector General. London, Dec. 18.—Col. Lord Aylmer “PPplnted Inspector general the Canadian forces. YOUR CHRISTMAS DINNER will not be complete without Jell-O America's most popular dessert, which received Highest Award, Odd .l**!' KxpoaPion. An <irustic table daooratlon that also pii-aaaa the palate. Very aaay to pre pare. lit rhotie flavors:—Lemon. Orange. Kjapberry. strawberry, • cordate and Cherry. Order a pack age <tt each to-day from your gro cer. |Ac, When you make lo# Cream uae Jell-O |OK CKKAM Ponder. All edtent* In the package, At all Discount 25 Per Cent. Off Overcoats For Boys andChildren This reduction begins this morning and will lust during the week, enabling mothers to get at low prices useful presents for tlier hoys. Every Boys’ and Children’s Overcoat In this store is touched by this reduction. VOTED FOR ARBITRATION. Textile Union Makes Recommenda tion to the Unions. Fall River, Mass., Dec. 18.—The tex tile council voted to-day to submit an arbitration propostion for the settle ment of the strike in the cotton mills to the individual unions, and in case of their approval by a vote on Tues day to ask the Civic Federation to choose a board of arbitration. The arbitration proposition was agreed upon by the textile council at a three-hour session, when the follow ing resolution, to be submitted to the textile unions for their action, was adoDted: “Whereas, believing in the justice of our cause and always favoring the grand principles of fair arbitration, and, whereas, realizing that a contin uance of the long and protracted strug gle is detrimental to the best inter ests of our city, be it "Resolved, that we submit the whole proposition to the members of our respective unions, it being identical with the one submitted to the executive council of the Cotton Manufacturers' Association. All efforts having failed to effect a satisfactory settlement of the strike existing in our city, we agree to submit the whole subject mat ter in dispute to a board of arbitra tion to be chosen by the National Civic Federation from its executive board, and agree to accept their decis ion as final.” The individual unions will meet to act on the proposition at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. A two-thirds vote of the unions will be necessary to adopt the resolution, but the labor leaders say that it is hardly possible that the members will reject it. The leaders take the stand that they are satisfied to submit the settlement of the strike to arbitration and believe that it will hurt the course of the man ufacturers materially if they refuse to accept the plan. President Borden of the Manufactur ers' Association was seen to-night and said he did not know how the manu facturers would consider the proposi tion, and he did not know when the manufacturers would meet. The textile council will meet again on Tuesday afternoon after the unions have voted. The strike, which is now entering upon its twenty-second week, *-as call ed when the manufacturers announced anew wage scale reducing the in come of operatives 12V6 per cent. Thir ty-seven mills and nearly 26,000 em ployes were involved. POWERS ARE WATCHING. They Note the Disorders That Oc cur in Macedonia. London, Dec. 19.—There is reason to believe, according to the correspondent at Sofia of the Times that the marked aggravation in the situation in Mace donia is seriously occupying the at tention of the powers. The warfare of Bulgarian and Greek bands, the correspondent reports, continues, and there have been several fights re cently, while the Porte has done noth ing in the direction of the repatria tion of Bulgarian refugees in the Adrlanople vilayets. ganders Was Asphyxiated. New York, Dec. 18.—James P. San ders, aged 86, believed to be the oldest past master of the order of Odd Fel lows in this country, was found as phyxiated by gas in his home in Yonk ers to-day. OBITUARY. Mrs. Mury A. Clark, I.s Angeles. Cal. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 18.—Mrs. Mary Andrews Clark, mother of Unit ed States Senator William A. Clark, is dead at her home in this city aft er an Illness of but seven days, aged 92 years. Senator Clark, unaware of the serious Illness of his mother, sailed from New York for Europe Saturday. Mrs. Clark was born near Connells vllle, Pa. She has been a resident of this city since 1882. Mnrcu. D. Urorefy it. Paul. Minn. St. Paul. Minn., Dec. 18. —Marcus D. Grover, general counsel of the Gregt Northern Railway, died here to-day, aged 62. He drew up the articles of incorporation of the Northern Securi ties Company and since the Institution of the anti-merger lltlgntlon had given hia entire attention to that case. Conrad Weasellinelt. Massaebasetfa. Boston, Dec. li.—Conrad Wasael hoeft, a homeopathic physician of na tional reputation, died last night at Newton Center. He was formerly pres ident of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was born In Get - many In I*l4 and practiced for forty seven years 111 the United Ml it tee, 1 1 , M. 'l'renlirUer, lie troll. Los Angeles, l'al, Dec. 18—Itev ! Luther 11. Trowbridge of Detroit, for thirty-two years editor and proprietor of ffee < Viiklen Herald of that ‘fly, died hero to-day He * eme to Loe Angelas • mouth ago for hid baalth. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1904. SOUTHERN SOCIETY AND ITS LEADERS Social Conditions in Savannah and Atlanta as Seen by Annulet Andrews. Annulet Andrews has an article on Southern Society and Its Leaders" in the January Eeverybody's Magazine in which she reviews the society of the South and the elements that go to make it up. This is what she says about Savannah and Atlanta: Atlanta and Savannah are, from a social standpoint, as diametrically op posite as Jack Sprat and his wife. Let the stranger within the gates of Savan nah come with a broad smile, a full purse, and a genial desire to amuse and be amused, yet if he bring not with him a family-tree upon which the Savannah aristocrats can hang their faith, he might just as well give his dollars over for paving-stones. Birth is everything, and with it all things are accepted. You may work for a living and wear a five-year-old bon net, if only you have blue blood. Nothing else counts. There are, more over, certain rules one must hearken to before being allowed the freedom of the city—strange rules, indeed, are these to the untrammelled girl of At lanta; for whereas there she is free to regard the denizens of the Capital City Club reading their newspapers on the colonnade, and even to eat and drink in proximity to their retreat, she may not even lift her modest eyes to the balcony of Savannah's Oglethorpe Club, which overhangs one of the broad thoroughfares of the down-town section. This is manifestly quite un fair, since the men from their lofty perch may look down upon feminine shoppers without even a haughty "How dare you. sir!" from the eyes of the oppressed. If it be a breach of social decorum to gaze at the club por tico, it is social anarchy and high treason for any woman of position to be seen walking, in the light of day and the upholding consciousness of her own honesty, upon any street along "The Bay,” the cotton dis trict of the city. It is dirty and smells of oyster-shells down there, so no woman would wilfully seek it as a promenade, but the more pro gressive and free women of broader en vironment rather resent the fact that they cannot with decorum walk on any street they choose. "These be some of Savannah's nar rownesses and restrictions, more than made up for by the beauty of the city, the simple manners, the unpretentious hospitality of the people in her smart set to such newcomers as are admitted to its circle. Like Philadelphia, Sa vannah has Intermarried much. Every body is more or less related to every body else. The Elliots, the Schleys. the Lawtons, the Cunninghams, the Gor dons, the Habershams are all connect ed with one another in some way. Mrs. Willie Gordon may be mentioned as one of the social leaders, and besides her Southern affiliations she has the distinction of having been the first white child brrn in Chicago. Mrs. Alexander R. Lawton Is another lead ing woman of Savannah society: she was the daughter of the late Bishop Beckwith of the Episcopalian diocese of Georgia. There is much riding and driving in Savannah, the principal drive being the great white shell road shaded by live oaks that leads to the clubhouse at Thunderbolt, where there are famous fish dinners. Walking is also, strange to say, a fad in this semi tropical city. Bull street is the city’s Mall, and along its walks and in its statue-ornamented squares one may see all the younger portion of society between four and six in the afternoon, for it is an outdoor city. In the sea son there is of course the usual round of formal dinners, but in the autumn and spring the entertaining is contin uous but informal. This easy, open air life on the proper street perhaps makes up to the Savannah girl for the restrictions about the Bay and the club. Savannah has always been more in touch with foreign life and Its so cial elements than most Southern cit ies. Being a coast city it is brought in contact with European countries through its foreign trade, and a num ber of Savannah women have made brilliant foreign marriages.” “Atlanta, by reason of Its growth, Its progress, its newness, has been called the Chicago of the South. It is dif ferent from any other Southern city in nearly all respects. It Is the city of the New South, brilliant, independent. Initiative. It is the biggest city of its size in the universe; its scandals, its enterprises, its entertainments are ail on a colossal scale. It is always to the fore, always In evidence. If something sensational happens in an other city, Atlanta is sure to go it one better by producing a sensation more startling. Just as society has been dulled and contracted by the selfishness and egotism of many other cities, so has society expanded and blossomed In Atlanta, through the un selfishness and breadth of Its leaders. Atlanta Is the Gate City of the South, and the gates stand open. Streams of new people pour In constantly and are absorbed Into the city’s life. These newcomers take their places according to their individual merits and tastes. The clubs, of course, have the accepted standards for membership, and the stranger to be admitted must bring proper credentials, but social Atlanta makes no great point of pedigrees. This Is paradoxical, since the majority of the founders of its social fabric are men and women of most aristocratic birth. The president of the Capital City Club, MaJ. Livingston Mims, em bodies In his personality those qualities which made the Old South's reputation for gallantry, picturesqueness and fine lineage, and yet he is the most pro gressive and democratic of men. He has lived up to the times and taken on the spirit of the New South. “In the loyalty of Atlanta people to Atlanta lies the city’s power for so cial growth. They love their city and live for it. work for it, entertain for it. Society accepts newcomers on their own merits, it Is true, but these newcomers must have merits. Any newcomer, no matter how much money she has, how well she dresses or en tertains, makes herself unpopular the Instant she shows herself the least bit of a snob. She then learns, to her chagrin, that Atlanta’s generosity Is a case of noblesse oblige; and If she cannot be one In spirit with the well bred, unpretentious leaders of the smart set, If she wishes to close her doors against other newcomers and form un exclusive circle of her own, her so cial position Is radically Injured. •The Capital City club of Atlanta stands out among Its genre as excep tional. Eminently a man's club of the conservative, heavyweight sort. It has opened Its doors wider to women than any other club of Its kind In America. Th# clubhouse, standing at the gateway of aristocratic Peachtree, Is handsome arid spacious Hevernl years ago there was added s ballroom which Is ona of the most beautiful In ths country There Is a resiaurant for ladies to which dub members may take their women-folk. or where the rted or single, may entertain other women In any way 01 at any um tn-y 1 Odors of Perspiration \ Hoyal Foot Wash Kom (YiaAkc, on#** lu-liliif Vvoilf fi. lire 4 desire. This example, as has been demonstrated by experience, might well be followed by many other men's clubs at present less generous to the fair sex. The restaurant is entered by a winding, picturesque balcony at the left of the clubhouse, and is a thing apart from the main building. The south veranda and restaurant be long to the women, and not one of them would think of intruding beyond, into the holy of holies of masculine clubdom. "There is no fox hunting and little riding in Atlanta's smart set, but a great deal of driving and coaching. The Horse Show, given in the autumn, opens the season brilliantly, and serves to usher in the months of lavish entertaining for which Atlanta is noted. It attracts society people from all the Southern cities, and from the view-point of dress and beauty is one of the most notable of its kind in America. During the Show the quaintly picturesque Piedmont Driv ing Club is very much the center of things. "In every respect Atlanta is pro gressive. Many of its social leaders take an active interest in .club life, reforms, and the broader educational movements with which progressive women are everywhere identified these days. Mrs. Joseph Thompson, whose beauty and charming personality are so well known in Southern society, and whose country place, Brookwood, is a social hub for Atlanta's smart set, held the responsible office of pres ident of the Women's Department of the Cotton States at the International Exposition of a few years ago. Mrs. W. B. Lowe, another brilliant social leader, held for two terms the office of president of the Federation of Women's Clubs of the United States. Mrs. J. K. Ottley, prominent in those educational movements which have for their purpose the solution of some of the South's most serious problems, is another woman whose brain and time are divided between smart society and the serious side of woman's work. Mrs. James Warren English, Jr., is eminently a social leader in the younger set, a clever and chic who makes a career, and a very bril liant one, in society. In any list of those who are recognized lead ers in Atlanta's social life, es spedal prominence would be given Mrs. Clark Howell, wife of the editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Others socially prominent are Mrs. Edward C. Peters, Mrs. William In man, Mrs. John Grant, Mrs. Robert Maddox, Mrs. W. H. Kiser. Mrs. Wilmer Moore. Mrs. H. M. Atkinson, and Mrs. Robert J. Lowry—or rather Captain and Mrs. Lowry, for the two are always associated in the minds of Southern society; their coaching par ties and their many delightful and lav ish ways of entertaining, and above all their personalities, have made them among the most popular people in the South. Mrs. Clark Howell, who as Miss Comer, was a great belle in Southern society, is one of the few native Savannah women who have assimilated with the social life of Atlanta. She is a woman of strong personality and great charm and beauty, and her social position is a dignified and distinguished one.” In writing of Southern society gen erally, Miss Andrews stays: “To me people—even well-bred peo ple who wear frocks and bonnets stamped with the same names, who speak in modulated tones as all well bred people do, who have good manners, good educations, good bank accounts, 'and good blood, all the adjuncts neces sary for social purposes—to me these people all have the stamp somewhere upon them of their upbringing and the clime from which they came. It would be extremely stupid if they did not. Southern society in such circum stances would resemble the Southern plays wherein one type has done duty for generations, though it may be stated that the composite voice of the best Southern people would not in the least resemble the nasal drawl, with Its illiterate pronunciation, which is ac credited along with a slouch hat, a broadcloth suit, and top-boots, to the "down South” hero of the Southern drama. There are dozens of different dialects in the South, and by these nfay one discover the native place of the most cultivated people, with as much ease as the French ear discerns the best bred, dame du Midi by her soft, long-drawn-out voice, and dif ferentiates between the nasal notes of Northern France and the blrd-iike twitterings of the native Parlsfan. Ken tucky and Tennessee take on a tinge of the West in their r’s and o’s. The Virginian and Bostonian of the best class speak much alike, but by the Virginian’s peculiar pronunciation of "dar” is the native state revealed. There is little difference in the accent of the people of the different middle Southern states save in the coast cities. Charleston and Savannah people have a pronunciation peculiarly their own. They talk rapidly, and the patois in the lower classes is almost unintelligi ble. "There are differences, too, In the appearance of Southern women, due to climate and locality; due also to their upbringing. In New Orleans, for instance, the Creole girl is almost as restricted as her Parisian sister, and can scarcely be accounted an American at all. “It is true that the new life of the South is eliminating these differences to some extent. In the old days South ern women were refined and cultured, but they were home-keeping people. Asa rule the daughters of good fami lies received their education from gov ernesses, under the paternal roof. Now adays many Southern girls are edu cated In the North or abroad, though in the matter of American finishing schools the South Is still in a large measure faithful to Baltimore, and the majority of Southern girls of smart society who are educated outside of their own state are sent to one of the famous schools In Maryland. This ex cellent foundation is supplemented usually by a year or more In Europe, where the girl naturally assimilates the chic appearance and the coquetry of the French woman. Nevertheless, the discerning tan usually find traits which reveal a Southern woman’s naive state, under all her foreign polish.” • SOCIETY, hOCIKTY EVENTS AND PERSON A US, Mr, and Mr*. W. A. Anderton of Alabama ar* expected In Savannah Thursday to spend the holiday* with Mr. and Mr*. Thomas John Davis, Mr. J. J. Apple, who I* a student of Ihe Teel), u expected Savannah Thursday to spend the holidays with hi# parents. Mr. and Mr*. 11. J. Ap ple. He will be accompanied by Mr. dtephen Dalgarn. Mias Nannie <'oney, who has been visiting In North Carolina for several week*, baa returned to th* city. Ml** Cadi* A. William* of Hard**- CONFIDENTIAL! December 19th, 1904. MR. PUZZLED HUSBAND, Every Street, City. DEAR SIR: The most sensible new fashion in Christmas Gifts is the be stowal of an adequate life insurance policy upon his wife by a husband who otherwise might leave penniless the mother of his children if he were taken away before the coming of another Christmas Day. The cost is no larger than that of any one of thousands of seasonable trinkets or things worth while. But the value! So great it is, in its certainty of preventing want and hardship, that if is measureless as a widow's woe. There's lust time enough for us to have made for you your priceless Christmas Gift. Will you not call upon us or telephone us (Nos. 232 Georgia or 1133 Bell) at once? and we will immediately place ourselves at your service. Yours for Her Protection, HARTY & APPLE, Managers for Georgia and South Carolina, 117 Bay Street, East. INCORPORATED 1851. MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. ville, S. C., is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas John Davis. Mr. E. Howard Kingman of Toronto, Canada, will arrive this morning to spend the holidays with his sister, Mrs. Arthur M. Lucas, Jr., on Waldburg street, east. SHAKESPERE CU B ANNOUNCEMENT. The Shakeepere Club will not hold a meeting this afternoon, and it has also been decided not to hold one on Monday, 26th. CHRISTMAS DOLL SALE. Circle No. 12, King’s Daughters, will hold a sale of dressed dolls at the res idence of Mrs. Beirne Gordon, No. 12 Oglethorpe avenue, west, to-morrow afternoon. All Chrlstmaß shoppers are Invited to attend. SOCIETY EVENTS AND PERSONALS. Mr. Armond V. Berg, who is taking a course in architecture at Columbia University, will return during the week for the Christmas holidays. smokedTm off THE CONTESTED HILL Hon the Japanese Droxe the Hui staus Away. Che Foo, Dec. 18.—Commander Mlz zeneoff of the battleship Poltava, who was wounded in the leg during the battle of High Hill and who arrived here from Port Arthur, Dec. 16, bear ing dispatches which were turned over to the Russian consul for trans mission to St. Petersburg, said to the Associated Press correspondent; "Since the Japanese on Nov. 28, be gan their attack on High Hill, which they call 203 Metre Hill, the fighting has been continuous. The steep and sandy slopes of the hill were streak ed and dotted with snow when the Japanese began the battle, which waa destined to furnish so many deeds of heroism that they became common place. There was so much slaughter that even Port Arthur’s war-harden ed veterans shuddered at the sight. “Japanese were compelled to clam ber up the slopes of the hill in many cases without firing, in the face of one of the most murderous deluges ever poured from rifles and machine guns. “The enemy went down in squads and companies, but there were al ways others grimly coming forward. Their bravery was beyond praise, as was that of our own men. Worm times, the fighting was hand to hand, with the muzzles of the rifles at the breasts of the contestants, the bay onets being used as swords. “The sides of the hill were strewn with bodies, and the snow waa crim soned with the biod of the wounded, some of whom had crawled Into it, seeking In its coldness relief from their dying agony. Eventually In similar Instances which were to follow, we retired, leaving the work of driving the enemy from the eummlt to the re sistless guns of the neighboring forts, notably those of Llsotl mountain. “When the Japanese retired under an artillery fire the Russians reoccupied the summit. "The second’and third assaults were replicas of the first, although the sec ond was the most ferocious, being near ly all hand to hand fighting, In which mercy waa neither asked nor glvan. "The Japanese adopted a curious ex pedient which assisted them greatly In the third eaaault. They had pre pared huge piles of wood, coal and cornstalks which they Ignited, the wind taring In the fa* ee of the Kuaelana. The (aeultsnt fire was Immense and th* flames and smoke > ompeiled the Rus sians to retire The red glare from this fire dis closed a ghastly pint are mors Infernal titan ever dreamed by {hints.’ 1 STILL EXPECTING GARRISON TO HOLD. St. Petersburg, Dec. 18.—Gen. Stoes sel’s latest dispatches from Port Ar thur were published to-day, but as given out do not carry the story Of the garrison's stubborn defense beyond Dec. 10, thus leaving a gap of at least five days between the official word of the military commander and the un official story of Commander Mlzzeneff, which was given out at Che Foo. It is not pretended that the dispatches are published In full. The story of the operations, as far as it has been given out, is Intensely Interesting, and shows that there has been an almost uninterrupted assault of the most desperate character from Nov. 20 to Dec. 10, when the Japan ese, after losing over 22,000 men. cap tured 203 Metre Hill and were able from that position to shell the squadron In the Port Arthur roadstead. There the official account ends; but It Is ex plained that the Japanese do not oc cupy the top of the hill, which is still exposed to a deadly fire from the Rus sian artillery. The Japanese are using a plunging fire from very heavy guns from behind the crest of the hill, but that this fire is efficiently directed is shown by the damage suffered by the Russian squadron. The public reception of Gen. Stoes sel’s dispatches as a whole Is not bad. The Japanese so far have used every device of engineering skill In making approaches, but with enormous sacri fices, have been able to take only the outer line of defenses. It is declared the garrison probably will be able to hold out a considerable time yet. REPORT THAT JAPS SAILED FOR SINGAPORE. London, Dec. 19.—A report from Che Foo that a portion of the Japanese fleet has left for Singapore and that a number of Japanese merchantmen have been lightly armed to maintain the blockade of Port Arthur is published to-day in a Che Foo dispatch to the Daily Telegraph. WARSHIPS ABANDONED BY THE RUSSIANS. Toklo, Dec. 19.—Official reports state that the Russians at Port Arthur have abandoned the battleships Peresvlet, Poltava, Pobleda and Retvlzan and the cruisers Palladia and Bayan. IN THE LAND FRAUDS. Oreaon Senator and Congressman Are Alleged to Be Implicated. Washington, Dec. 19.—The Post to day says; Henator Mitchell and Representative Blnger Hermann of Oregon left Wash ington last night for Portland to ap pear before the federal grand Jury and face chargee which, they have been advised, have been made Implicating them In Oregon land frauds. Both Henator Mitchell and Mr. Her maim declare In moat poeltlva terms that they are absolutely innocent and have nothing lo fear from returning to Oregon. Roth aaeert with equal poslttveneaa that the lime has come when “this outrageous persecution must stop.” They will Insist upon their right to go before the grand jury to make an swer to all i hargaa thal may be made against them, ronAdmit thal they will be able to establish their Innocence. They egpaet to have a I tearing on Mat or day. MYHTKRY MARKS STORY. Career of a Virginian Who Had Hern a Man of Prominence. New York. Dec. 18.—Mystery marks the story of Elwood W. Chapman, 78 years old, an Inmate of the Polyclinic hospital in Westchester. Up to the time of his admission to the institu tion, Chapman lived as a recluse amid valuable paintings of his own and a quantity of antique furniture in an old mansion owned by the city in a remote section of Pelham, Bay Park. Chapman was found 111 in the old man sion. After his removal to the hospital a young man named Eugene McCiue was arrested for taking pictures and furniture from the house. This inci dent brought to light the fact that Chapman had been in his early days a prominent marine and landscape ar tist and that at one time he was a member of a military staff of former Gov. Wise of Virginia. When McCiue was arraigned, Henry Wise, a lawyer, appeared on behalf of Chapman, as prosecutor, Wiiae says that he is a grandson of the former Virginia Governor upon whose staff Chapman served. Many years ago Chapman became estranged from his wife and friends in Virginia and dropped out of sight. Mr. Wise said that hearing of the robbery of Mr. Chapman he made an Investigation and recognized the once prominent Virginia artist in the old man at the hospital. FIREMEN FOUGHT HARD. t&sploslons "Would Have Been Caused Had Tliey Fallsd. Chicago, Dec. 18.—The sash and door factory of Philip Rinn & Cos., located at Croaby and Halstead streets, was destroyed to-day by fire that for a time threatened to spread to two large supply tanks of the People's Light and Coke Company. Both of the tanks were full of illuminating gas and it was only by the hardest kind of work that the firemen kept the flames from overheating the gas tanks and causing an explosion that would have brought death to hundreds of persons and de stroyed every building In the vicinity. Three firemen were seriously Injured by falling walls. The loss was 1100,- 000. CASTOR! A For infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of T&&V. BY MAIL Best Sewing-ilachine Needles FOR ALL MAKES OF MACHINES ONLY 5 CENT* Per Package. postage one rent for t to 10 paekaga. Hritd Coin or Mlaittpa. (Mate kinds wanted. Address TUB SINOEk fIANPCJ. CO.. 180 UMiskrr *t„ kiiMMitali, (la 5