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THE STATE OF DADE NEWS. 1 — 1 " *■" 1 - - - IT. " ' . ' ' L ■' " 111 u - *"• 1 ■ , j ■ .iitii.i - t i.i_ m VOL. X. NO CHANGES IN CABINET. W ■ - President’s Official Family All Asked to Remain, GIVES CABINET GREAT CREDIT For the Achievements of His Admln lstratlon--Cordlal Relations Be tween the President and His Advis ors. ) Washington, D. C., Special.—Presi dent McKinley has announced clear ly and forcefully to the members of bis cabinet his desire that they should all remain with him during the four years of his coming administration. His wishes were made known in an extended speech at the cabinet meet ing in the White House Tuesday. Responses were made by all the mem ber* present, and while there was no definite pledge from any of them that they would accept the portfolios thus tendered afresh, there was, on the other hand, no definite declination. The day’s proceedings set forth the wishes of the President in the matter and relieves the members of the cabi net of the customary obligation of ten dering their resignations at the end of the terms, unless they have made an irrevokable decision that it will be im proper for them to continue in office. It also sets at rest all speculation and slate-making of the country’s political prophets, for it is understood gener ally that there is hut one doubtful fac tor in the homogeneity of the present cabinet. That factor is Attorney Gen eral Griggs, as he holds his present position at a great financial sacrifice. Still Mr. Griggs replied in terms of warm appreciation to the complimen tary remarks of the President and voiced no intention of retiring from his present position. This is not the first time that the President has expressed to the mem bers of the cabinet his pleasure at the support they had given him. He said as much in a general way at the last cabinet meeting, when the members, several of whom had been scattered by the political campaign, got together for the first time and congratulated him upon the outcome of the election. Tues day the President evidently had pre pared for the occasion and in his ad dress reviewed the work of the admin istration in the past four years—four of the most exciting years the country has known in three decades. It was rather a surprise even to the cabinet members themselves to note how ac curately the President had fixed in his memory the sequence of events and how calmly he relinquished the per sonal credit for suece-sful strokes of policy or prudence and attributed the honor to the member of his official family In whose Immediate depart ment the matter in question had arisen. He said that if the result of the re cent election was an endorsement of his administration, it was no less an endorsement of the men who had stood by him in the time of strees and ne cessity. The credit for success, he said, lay with the heads of his various departments and he should shrink from entering upon another four years of office without, the men who formed his present official household. He said he knew that in asking them to remain with him there was scarcely one who could do so without some sacrifice either in money, leisure or personal inclination. At the same time he said he should feel happier if all of them could gratify his wish. Secretary Hay was the first to re spond. He said that for his part he deeply appreciated the complimentary references made by his chief and that, he thought there was not a member of the cabinet who yould sever such pleasant official relations without re gret. and even then only in case of the most urgent reasons for retirement Secretaries Gage, Long. Hitchcock Wilson, Attorney General Griggs and Postmaser General Smith each spoxe in turn and in much the same vein. Engineers flay Win Sirike. Terre Haute, ind., Special.—The strike of the hoisting engineers in the Indiana coal fields, which was declar ed Monday, may be settled by the end cf the week. Ten of the Indiana oper ators signed the Illinais scale and will pay the wages demanded by the engin eers for one year. The signing cu t :e realc means an eight-hour day and a 20 pen cent, increase in wages for the ttrikers. 25 Imigrants Barred. Philadelphia. Special.-Twenty-flve immigrants, who came here as saloon passengers on the Americah tin steam er Sweasland. were denied admission to this country by a hoard of inquiry ’ of the United States immigration com missioners, on the ground that they had violated the contract labor law. It was proved that a ‘first class passage ha l been paid for them by John Alexander Dowie, the "Divine Healer of Chica go >• w ho is about to found a city call ed Zion, near Waukegan. 111., where he intends to eetablish a lace-producing plant. PARIS SHOW ENDS The Great Exposition Closes With Brilliant Scenes. Paris, By Gable. —The exposition closed Monday with (the evening illu mination. Bbve tickets were charged for one admission. There were few visitors in the daytime, tickets lacking purchasers ait a sou each. The boom ing of a cannon from the first story of the Eiffel tower announced that the exposition of 1900 had ceased to exist. It ended in a blaze of illumination, the final evening being celebrated by a night fete. The attendance, however, was small, visitors being kept away by a cold, drizzling rainfall. Official statistics show that the exposition was a gigantic success from the 'point of view of attendance, which was double that of the exposition of 1889, when 25,121,975 passed the gates. When the gates of the exposition of 1900 closed this evening, more than 50,000,000 per sons had passed through. The British and Belgians headed the list in 1889, in point of number, but this year the Germans were first and the Belgians second with the British far behind. Americans also formed a very notice able contingent. Indeed they were im measurably more numerous than at the previous exposition. The record pay ing day this year brought out more than 600,000 visitors, as compared with a maximum of 335,377 in 1889. This evening tickets which had brought a sou in the afternoon, were so.- at the rate of five for a sou. A curious scene was witnessed at the exposition gates shortly before 6 o’clock, when the authorized ticket booths which earlier in the day had been selling tickets for two sous, re duced the price to one. The street hawkers, indignant at this, attached cards to their coats inscribed: “Give you a ticket for nothing.” The work of removing the exhibits can begin after midnight. No vestige will be left of the great exposition but the art palaces. The prefect cf .the Seine submitted to the municipal coun cil a scheme to demolish a.ll the build ings on the Champs de Mars and T ro ~ eadero. The centre of tne grounds will be maintained in the form of gardens for the embelishment of the city, while the wide border will he sold for building Jots for the erection of man sions and hotels. The State is asked to abandon its right to use the site for future expositions. The closing days of the exposition have been marked by wholesale bailiff seizures of the properties of a num ber of concession holders, chiefly res taurant-keepers and proprietors of side shows, who have failed to meet their financial obligations. Fatal Fire. .Popular Bluff, Mo., Special.—Fire, accompanied by a terrible fatality oc curred Monday morning, resulting in the total destruction of the Gifford house, a large three-story frame build ing. The known dead are as follows: Heck Clark, Rebecca Owens. Helby Dehart, Curly Borry. Fatally injured: Etta Hargrove, Winslow Stowe. Miss ing: Eugene Dalton. Injured: T. A. Smith, mrney Pernaud, Charles Stradley, Mrs. Benjamin Shelby. Pink Berry, Elmer Freshear and James Up church. An unknown woman is also thought to be fatally injured, and about a dozen more are slightly burn ed or received bruises in escaping from the building. The fire originated at 12:30 in the morning in the rear o£ the hotel and in a few minutes the building was a mass cf flames. There wore in the neighborhood of forty five guests in the building. Death of Harcus Da y. New York, Special.—Marcus Daly, cif Montana, one of the wealthiest mine owners of the world and the man who put up such a bitter fight against W. A. Clark when the latter ran for the United States Senate, died at the Hotel Netherlands. Bright's disease complicated with heart weakness was the cause of death. His wife and chil dren were at his bedside, and the ehd came peacefully. Alaskan Report. "Phe report of Gen. Randa.ll, of the department of Alaska, conveys con flrmation of the reports which have come from that region, from time to | time , concerning the decimation of the i Indian and Eskimo inhabitants. Gen. : Randall makes it clear the advent of j t he white man from the States is re sponsible for the difficulties of the aborigines and appeals for prompt succor. The gold hunter has taken f-om the Indian his means of subsis tence and communicated to the ISski- L, O h ie dhecscs without giving to the one new resources, or to the other the I knowledge and remedies necessary to I combat the imported allroauta. TRENTON, GA.. NOVEMBER 16,1900. THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY The South. After spending nearly two months in Belief work among the sufferers at Gal veston and other places on the Texas coast, Miss Clara Barton feels there is no longer a necessity for her to remain in the field. Th% work of relief will he continued; however, during the entire winter, but the local Red Cross in Gal veston, organized at Miss Barton’s sug gestion, and the local committees at the variousjpoints on the mainland will be amply able to distribute the supplies noyon hand and the large quantity that will continue to be sent without thetgid of Miss Barton’s staff. It is her purpose to leave Texas within a few days. Iln the basement of the chapel of Washington and Lee University, at LexingtonAVa., the office of the late Robert EM re tormorly president of that instW preserved exactly 83 he a paper has b sturbed. Once or twice a yeuA t com is carefully dusted, but at a 1 lies the windows lire kept close and the shutters drawn. Letters iat he received the laot morning tb‘ was able to work lie on his writii 'hie under a paper weight. The me g papers of the different membe >f the faculty lie untouched. They . re never exam-j ined. Rev. C. A. Langston, formerly of Boston, Muse., was istalled aa pastor of the Church cf ,Our Father, anew Unitarian structure, in Atlanta Mondoy night. Among the officiating ministers were Rev. Marion F. Ham, of Chat tanooga, Tenn.; Rev. Fred V. Hawley, of Louisville, Ky.; Rev. George A. Thayer, of Cincinnati, 0.; Rev. Sam uel A. Elliot, of Boston; Hon. Fred erick G. Bomberg, oi Mobile, Ala., and C. Breckinridge Wilmer, of Atlanta, Ga. It is announced that the North At lantic squadron will winter in Gulf waters and that Pensacola, Fla., has been designated aa their coaling sta tion. Large quantities of coal is now being received at the Fensacola navy yard. The fleet is expected there early next month, and will manoeuvre iD Pensacola harbor. The North. Mrs. Lizzie Doty, of Mexico, Mo., has Just won a curious law suit brought against her by a firm which manufac tures bronze monuments. Some time ago she ordered from tbe plaintiffs a $384 bronze monument, to be erectei: on the grave of her parents, with this inscription: “Tbe Lord is my Sheph erd: I shall not want.” The engraver made it read “fear” instead of “want,” and Mrs. Doty refused to pay the bill The,lawsuit followed. The judge in structed the jury that if they consia ered the inscription to be a material variance from the words of the Psalm ist they should find for the defendant and they did so. Divorces have grown to such an alar ming extent in Indianapolis, Ind., that the judges have agreed to suppress the record of divorces granted. Thev place this action upon moral grounds. Judge Carter, of the supreme court, said, in explaining their action, that it is believed women are impressed with the ease of securing divorces when they read the long lists of cases. The judgts believe eight hundred divorces are en tirely too many for the county in one year and will do all they can to sup press the evil. At the recent meeting of the West Pennsylvania Lutheran Synod the pres dent stated that the Rev. Dr. Daniel Hauer, of Hanover, had entered the 75th year of active service in the min istry, being now 95 years old, and per haps the oldest living minister in the world in point of service. He was pas tor of some Lutheran churches in Vir ginia in the arly years of hl3 ministry. President McKinley has sent a life saving medai to the sailor. Olsson .at Copenhagen, Denmark, who saved 20 members of the crew of an American schooner. A St Paul, Minn., dispatch says: “The condition of Senator C. K. Davis took a decided turn for the worse to day, inflammation of the kidneys hav ing developed.” Governor Jomes A. Mount, of In diana, has been suggested as Secretary of Agriculture. The Governor is not seeking the place. Foreign. Gen. Baden-Powell, according to the London Mail, has contracted enteric fever, but his condition is not serious. The Russian minister of agriculture, M. Yerloff, after visiting the coal de posits recently discovered on the Black Sea coast in the government of KutaK estimates that they will yield 1.640,000 tons annually for 60 years. He consid ers the quality excellent. Sunday laws are strictly enforced is Honolulu. Not only are all saloons and bars kept tightly closed and stores forbidden to sell, but any one who at tempts to pls-y ball or indulge in any other sport on Sunday is carried before a magistrate to pay a fine or go to Jail. A Berlin dispatch says that Mgr. Stabewski, archbishop of Posen, in Prussian Poland, issued a manifesto against the German Centrist candidate and in favor of a Polish candidate. His course has attracted much attention and the government will probably take notice of it. A London dispateh says that Earl Cadogan has consented to continue to retain the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. DEMOCRATIC, IT’S A SICKLY SMILE Arp Says He Tries To Be Good to Republicans; MEETS THEM WITH A SMILE But Bill Says That It Is a Very Weak Article--Didn’t Know There Were So Many McKinley Men. The scriptures tell us to rejoice with these who rejoice and weep with those who weep. I am trying to do it, but it is an awful strain. When I meet a McKinley man I try to smile, but it is only a sickly grin and is only skin deep. They are 'pretty thick around here now since the election and so be tween mouitning with the Bryan r. en and rejoicing with the republicans my countenance has lost its normal and natural condition and it Is hard to tell whether lam crying or smiling. We did not know that there were more than a dozen respectable McKinley i-tes in the comini unity, but it turns out that there were scores of them. Neuiiy all of the plutocrats voted that way on the sound money platform. They lend money and want it paid back in gold. A good many farmers who have some cotton on hand were led to believe that it would go up again to 10 or 12 cents if McKinley was elected, but it dropped 15 points the day after the election. But it is all over now and the wheels keep rolling on. Let them roll. The millionaires and plutocrats can’t eat their money or wear it out. It is obliged to go back bo the toilers, the people,, in some way. The Stand ard Oil Company dei.lrred a dividend yesterday of 40 per cent, but Rocke feller don’t hoard it. He give-5 away a b’g slice to education and utilizes the ■rest. What a blessed thing it is, that a man can’t take his money with him when he dies. If he could I reckon we poor folks would perish out in a gen eration. After all it is not money that brings happiness. A good living, a competency honestly earned, brings far more happiness than riches. This kind of talk is 4,000 years old, butthe people don’t believe it yet; everybody wants money, a big pile of money; 1 would like it myself; I want some for a rainy day and some to give away, but we are not in distress, and never have been, though for some years of the war and just after we were on the ragged edge. Talk about ’prosperity, J saw it last week over in South Caro-’ Tina. There is a nice little town over there called Prosperity, but I didn’t see it. II went to the old town of Darlington. I was there eighteen years ago. It was a good old town then, but it has renewed its youth and taken on new life and I hardly knew the place. Cotton mills and oil mills pnd good farming have done it. The botton crop of that ooun.ty is 30,000 bales and the tobacco crop was 6,000,- 000 pounds and it brought half as much money as the cotton crop. Fif teen years a.go there was not a pound for sale raised in the county. They didn’t know it would grow there. Now there are three large warehouses, where it is auctioned off every day. I attended the auctions and it was a re yelatdcn to me. The farmers’ wagons were unloading all around and their ’> tobacco was piled up neatly in long rows and their names and the number of pounds written on a card and stuck in the split end of a little white pine stick and that was stuck in the center of the pile. For an hour or two be fore the auction begins the buyers from Richmond and Wineton and Dur ham and Liverpool and other markets went all around and examined the quality of every pile and took notes. The auctioneer talked so fast I could not understand him, but the buyers did. I reckon there were two or three hundred piles in each warehouse and the aucti crowd went from pile to pile and sold each one whore it was. I heard some knocked down as low as 9 cents and some aa high as 57 cents. There is one curious rule about tobacco auctions that does not apply to any other auction. The farmer can reject the highest hid and keep his tobacco. Ilf he and his boys have resolved that their crop shall bring 20 cents a pound and it bring* only 19 he turns the card down and takes his tobacco home, or maybe hauls it around to another warehouse, where the same buyers find it {next day amd mayble bid over 20 fbf. it. This is one of ihe * of tbe trade. The different, between the grades was hardly perceptible to ray , eyes, but the buyer/? know. It was all a bright yellow, hut some was brittle and wormeate-n and some 4yas soft and pliant as a kid glove. This was bought for wrappers. This evolution has come within ten years, and is increasing every year, for an acre of good to bacco will bring SIOO and it costs only stocu3tivate4t2.s ollay shrdlu srdl $25 to cultivate it. My friend, Mr, Williamson, the banker, told me hfc had thirty-five acres planted this year and it netted him $77 per acre. There is another evolution in Darlington county. Ten years ago no wheat waz grown there. Now every farmer cows wheat and a large flour mill has re cently been built. It was the same way in middle Georgia. Until about five years ago all that region was under the ban, and the farmers did not pre tend to grow wheat. Now they make more wheat to the acre, all around Griffin and Barnesville. than we can make in north Georgia. And so evolu tion and revolution is going on, but they don’t give McKinley credit for it in South Carolina. It is amusing to hear them tell about the prosperous segroes over there. Between cotton jod tobacco they pocket a pile of mon ey, and spend nearly every dollar be fore they leave town. One man sold them thirty-seven Rock Hill buggies in one week, and Mr. Williamson told me of a darky who drew $57 and spent $35 of It that day for a fine gun and a pointer dog. He will be begging h* landlord for an advance before Christ-* mas. II hada delightful time at Dar lington and %pnnettsvllle and Bishop viUe and iasfflbt Rock Hill. Blshop ville ought named ‘Sweet Ab buth, the loveHVi village of the plain.” I found old friend® and ac quaintances at every place and was honored far beyond my deserving. My wife hasent got me back in the traces yet. Near Blshopville I found an old time friend, Mrs. Reid, the sister of my schoolmate®, NeJ Gouiding and John, and of Frank Gouiding, who wrote the “Young Ma.rooners.” She is now eighty-nine years old and came nimbly dcwn the steps to meet me. Her husband preached in Jftit. church, near by, for fortyfour ygf*&s ana is buried in the Mt. jton' r’Mfis- 5 vard, where that eminent is*rj by iivlne, Leighton Wilson is bur/* % teansglistened in tne dear old s syes 'as w r e talked of her honor th ar, Dt. Gouiding, and the olu , ' >f Coluinous, who bad passed ove raver. ■ ■ * And Rock Hill was another revela tion. It is a beautiful little city of s,ooo,people and four large cotton mills and the largest buggy factory in the sou . lit turns out 10,000 a year, all kinds and prices, from a darkey’s chep vehicle for $3O, to a rubber tiro for $l5O. And then the college girl®. Oh, my country. Four hundred full grown girls in uniform, and they looked so happy, and healthy, and loving, that I found myself humming. “Oh, wx>uld I were a boy again.” lit made me feel cad to reflect that all these girls were born to be mated as well as married, but some would be neither, and alas, some would be married- but not mated. —Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. To Make Bone Compost. One who can scrape together sev eral barrelfuls of old bones on his farm can convert them into valuable fertilizer. In order to do this he must decompose the bones. This may be done in several ways. Perhaps the simplest, most effective and most economical way is as follows. Place the bones in a wooden tank or hogshead, packing them with un leached wood ashes. Supply enough water 0 keep both bones and ashes thoroughly moistened, and in months the bones will be so softened that they may be pulverized by mere ly sho*big them over and sifting them. 4th _ and ashes both on- the farm, ihe-warmer may with this simple method, and with no out lay of fljgney, produce a considerable quanth >f the very best fertilizer for some if *‘S of vegetables. Where one wishes to hasten the pro cess, he can use caustic lime instead of the wood ashes. Tlys method means the outlay of some money, and the caustic lime is not easily obtain able in remote places. A third method is to use caustic potash instead of the ashes. Like lime, this costs something. It the caustic potash 3 dissolved and heat ed, and poured .vhi a hot over the bones, at the rate of one part of pot ash by weight to four parts of bone, It will decompose the bone so that it will be ready to use in several weeks. If the farmer have several wagon loads of bone on his farm, the result of the accumulation of a year or more, he may not be able to handle it in wooden vessels. In that case he can dig a trench in compact soil, and put the bones in them in bulk to be treat ed with the ashes, the caustic lime or ♦he caustic potash. The wood ashes will make nearly as valuable a com post with the bone as either of the other two substances named. Tbe farmer can take time to use the ashes. Knowing when he wishes to use it, be A*an begin three months before that time to use the ashes method. F'or example, if he wish to use a bone cqtopost next May, he can collect .tfie bones from now until next TSrember, and in that month he can ypgVn the ashes method. In April he JLil have the bones decayed so that he/can fine them thoroughly, and in they will be in proper shape tr apply to the soil. Ecglish Superstition In 1900. In tbe West Country only last week a field at standing barley was “over *loq>te<r;fcy a crone who had long been supjteyied to desire to add the field to her own adjourning acres. W T hen the owner of the barley sent his men to cut rt down, tbe cutter would not cut: then the horses would not move. So he borrowed a neighbor;* cutter. It fell to pieces. It wa4-topairetoJ4a neighbor's horses Caw 0611 P ut on anand the These horses and "men had not s J>een included in the "overlooking.” And this is seriously believed, even by edu cated farmers of today, to be duetto occult influence REPMT le Views the Situation in the thil* ippines From Several Points. MFFICULTkS OF PACIFICATION Hpt Concealed by Commanding Gen eiwi. Dosen’t Seem Hopeful oi Termination of the Guerrilla WaV. Washington, D. C., Spedai.— Id. lea. MacAithur, commanding e Urmy in toe and naif y fovomor cf the islands since 8 1900, has submitted his report, t. a War department. A consd-darabV' lan of the report relate* to 1 which took place previous to tb when he assumed command,f a publishes some of the eorresi ind proclamations of the F-iii. tainod before that time. Ho ss* ihe change cf Aguinialdo’B pdlns, ibandontirg his army mi, 111 101? fp starting a guerrilla worfaire. The con ditions of the country have afforded advantages for such a policy, he says, x is they have cabled the insurgents- to appear and disappear at 'their conven ience. Ait one time they are soldiers a Lely after are within the • os in the attitude of ves. A widely scotterc'’ Filipinos quickly toffy warfare, which led g dissem inatooh of' An there ba|np *3 mvl t-\ e . W energetic- implication lot, 1000. #es government is number oP e course by senti which did Kess-like considera regular r pointed between thf 1 -wxpert iflb the Americans him fq ChlJ. H’ captured, the'* '* the snmeJ>e>ruA , „ W< wounded andiS® to uf< fo t Gen. and with OU, distribution ofx^^ | soldiers of the end mien c-e. He says desultory work has demanded morev discipline and aa much of valor Jr , required during - the period rjfcai- operations against concentrat* efflfei-d forcee of iuaurrectiaaiste. Gen. MacArthuT , speaks in the highest tortus of the service rendered by th* troops amid all labors and Wardships. “The Filipinos,” says Gen. Mac- Arthur, “are not, a warlike or feroc-ioua people. Left to themselves, a large number of them woufd gladly accept Amoncan supremacy, which they are gradually comjng to understand mean? individual liberty and absolute %ecurl ty in their lives and property. Tt have been maddened, however, dr the past five years by rhetorical istry and sentiments applied b tional pride, until power of d(i' uating in matters of public e private interne it has ben a’ tireiiy suspended. Asa all other ooneldcratior seem to be actuated in all doubtful xv' wair men are r when going . kin, regard’ The as*' dt orumeat- e*** a r&ecl the 'in- Jxciueive ■the United hut this me* difficulties wppns Filipinos were placed* 1 entirely in <\)mtrol, and secret muni cipal governnjents were organized in various tow net under insurgent aus pices to proceed simultaneously with the American) government and often through the 'same pqtj?onnel. NPre®i dents and town in hchclf of \rr.e-- v in behalf 'T (I-,. paradoxical a- it may con siderable apparent follrit^^@B| , -the Interest of bo h.” Wherever there is a group at insur gent forces contiguous towns contrib ute to their support and render great assistance in secreting th-cisoldiers and helping them to escape. The report slays the su-oce s of the guerrilla sys tem depends upon complete unity oi action among the native population. Thsit there i-3 such unity is frankly acknowledged, but how it is brought about Gen. Mac Arthur suys he is un able to ascertain. Intimidation ac counts for the condition to some ex tent, hut fear would not be sucoeesfu/ os the only mauve. Value of Standard Oil Stock. New York, Special.—Standard Oil certificates were quoted eit 7.00 bid, none offered, as against 6.55, Fr-iday’i highest and until Saturday the highest on record. The par value of the com pany’s entire outstanding stock is $97,- 500,000 and $7.00 per share Indicates a market value of $682,500,000. During this year the company has paid $46,- 800,000 dividends. . Aga inst Cotton Oil mil - . Jaekscn, Miss., Speulal.—Attorney General McClurg haa filed a declara tion in the circuit court charging 1$ cotton oil mills in the Stete with vio lating the new anti-trust law. The de claration asks for a forfeiture of char ter and that the otatutaryi *enalty be imposed. It also sets forth that the mills violated the law by entering In to a combiner ion to control the price pf cotton seed and that this combine ticn*also prevents competition among insurance fompanics for old mills and' competition a more railroad* fcwL&ul tug jhe seed. During the early pwrt of Ihe season the pike of the seed we*4 as high as S2O per ton. AT f\ ol £itL