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FAVORABLE REPORT
ON MORGAN BILL
Made by the Committee on
Istmian Waterways.
OPPONENTS OF CANAL SCORED
Alabama Senator Makes Rousing
Speech In Advocacy of the
Project Nearest His Heart.
The senate committee on isthmian
canals Thursday authorized a favora¬
ble report upon Senator Morgan’s bill
providing for the acqusition from Nica¬
ragua and Costa Rica of the right of
way via the Nicaragua route. Senator
Morgan later presented this report to
the senate, accompanying the return
cf the bill with a voluminous report
upon the general subject of a canal
across the isthmus. Action upon the
bill providing for the construction of
the canal was deferred.
Senator Morgan’s report covers
more than 500 pages of printed matter,
and deals with many of the questions
connected with the construction of the
canal, including a thorough inquiry
into the attitude of Great Britain upon
the subject of the different canal
routes. He also discusses the relation¬
ship of the Panama Canal Company to
the construction by the United States
of a waterway across the isthmus, and
while he makes reference to a letter
written by President Hutin, of the
Panama company, he does not give the
text of the communication, which was
written to Secretary of State Hay.
Referring to the Panama Canal Com¬
pany, Mr. Morgan says:
“The desperate financial straits of
the new Panama Canal Company com¬
pelled them to make overtures to the
United States to unload their enter¬
prise on the United States, and their
agents became accordingly aggressive
In this effort.”
Contending for the importance of
the enterprise, Mr. Morgan urges that
no nation nor any combination of pri¬
vate interests can have any right to
prevent its construction.
He attributes the failure to construct
the canal in the past to the attitude of
other, nations, saying:
,‘ > ‘For the past fifty years the power
and influence of the British govern¬
ment, aided by combinations In the
United States and France, has defeat¬
ed all efforts to open an American isth¬
mian canal.”
Continuing on this line, he says:
“That antagonism which is an im¬
perial policy of Great Britain in the
beginning has become a plan for gath¬
ering wealth by levying tolls upon the
commerce of America, and its strength
of purpose will increase until some
more powerful and just inducement
will lead Great Britain to relax its
grasp and permit us to take care of
our country. The combinations at
home and in France that have assisted
in suppressing the demands of our in¬
dustrial classes for a canal to connect
the great oceans are chiefly the trans¬
continental railways in Canada and in
Panama and those in the United States
—eight great corporations that now
control almost the entire transporta¬
tion service between the oceans that
wash the coasts of the western hemis¬
phere.”
He declares that if diplomatic effort
to rid the world of the baneful domina*
tion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty fails,
congress should abrogate it. The ma¬
jor portion of the report was made be¬
fore the new Hay-Pauncefote treaty
had been promulgated but in an appen¬
dix the following reference is made to
that treaty:
“If two-thirds of the senate shall con¬
cur with the government of Great Brit¬
ain in establishing an effective basis
on which a canal for ships through the
American isthmus shall be operated,
for the security and benefit of all na¬
tions, such agreement will be consid¬
ered as an advanced step in a true civ¬
ilization honorable to both govern¬
ments and rich In blessings to man
kind.”
PARENTS GIVE UP HOPE.
Miss Nelly Crosby Is Now Thought to
Be Dead By Searchers.
A dispatch from Elizabeth City, N.
C., says: The family of Nellie Crop-
sey, who have heretofore clung to the
belief that she is alive, are now of the
opinion that she is dead, but do not
state the basis for this change in their
■opinion.
A member of a committee of five in
■search of the missing girl today said:
“We believe we will produce the body
■of Nellie Cropsey within twelve
hours.”
BOERS AS MURDERERS
Kitchener Makes Serious Charges
Aginst Heroic Defenders of
South African Republics.
Lord Kitchener's promised state¬
ment specifying thirty-seven separate
instances in which natives have been
shot by Boers, and which involves the
loss of eighty-four lives, was Isued by
the war office in LYondou Wednesday
night.
In some of the cases mentioned the
blacks were shot after an informal
court-martial or upon being accused
of spying, but In numerpus instances
Lord Kitchener Indicates the natives
were shot In cold blood in order to hide
traces of the movements of Boer com¬
panies.
The period covered by Lord Kitchen¬
er’s statement Is over a year.
A correspondent of The London
Standard, telegraphing from Brussels,
says that he hears that confidential ne¬
gotiations are imminent between Great
Britain and Holland, which are not un¬
likely to result in an arrangement for
bringing Boer women and children to
Holland.
Lord idtchener, in a dispatch from
Standerton, Transvaal colony, dated
Tuesday, December 10, announces that
General Bruce Hamilton, after a night
march, surprised and captured practi¬
cally the whole of the Boer Bethel
command at Trlchardsfontein early
that morning. Seven Boers were kill¬
ed and 131 were made prisoners.
“Now than General xan Hamilton is
here,” the Pretoria correspondent of
The Daily Telegraph cables, “Lord
Kitchener has personally taken the
field and is directing the movements of
the troops.”
M’LAURIN “SHAKES” CAROLINA.
Rnmor Says Senator Will Hereafter
Abide In Washington City.
Information has reached Columbia,
S. C., from an authoritative source that
Senator McLaurin has formed a law
partnership with Messrs. Frank L.
and J. G. Welles and Claude Bennett,
of Washington, D. C.
This news is looked on in Columbia
as confirming rumors previously circu¬
lated to the effect that Senator Mc¬
Laurin would take up his permanent
residence in that .city. It is expected
that his family will shortly move to
the capital, although no direct intma-
tion to this effect has been received.
Politicians in Columba and those
well acquainted with McLaurin believe
that this move means the practical
abandonment by him of his political
career in South Carolina. Following
the dramatic scenes of the last few
days In the United States senate, the
news has unusual significance. Inter¬
est throughout the state has been ex¬
cited by this new development in the
senatorial controversy, and McLaurin’s
refusal to be drawn into a second “re¬
signation-throwing duel” is given a
fresh interpretation from the news of
the formation of the law partnership.
GEORGIA’S COTTON INDUSTRY.
Census Bulletin Shows That It Leads
All Other Manufactures.
The census bulletin on the manufac¬
turing industries of Georgia, issued at
Washington Wednesday, show that in
1900 the gross value of manufacturing
products were 1106,654,527, and net
value $78,154,611,
The capital invested in the indus¬
tries in the 7,504 establishments re¬
porting was $88,789,656.
The salaries of officials aggregate
$3,354,946; wages, $20,290,07x; miscel¬
laneous expenses, including rent, taxes,
etc., $5,321,330; materials used, mill
supplies, freight and fuel, $58,232,202.
The manufacture of coton goods is
the most important industry in the
state, employing 22 cent of all 1
per
wage earners and having a product
whose aggregate value in 1900 was
$18,544,910, or over 17 per cent of the
total value of the state’s products.
FIro Destroys University Building.
Fire of unknown origin early Wed¬
nesday destroyed the main building
of the University of Wooster, O. Tho
loss is estimated at $250,000. Insurance
about $70,u00. It Is supposed that an
explosion of chemicals was the cause.
WOULD-BE BIGAMIST EXPOSED.
On F.ve of Nuptials Gay Old Codger Is
Forced to Decamp.
A year ago Dr. John W. Seymour lo¬
cated at Pocahontas, Tenn. He was
polished and prepossessing and soon
worked into favor. He passed as a
widower and eventually became en¬
gaged to a charming young lady.
Meantime rumors arose concerning
his history. The engagement was bro¬
ken off and investigation, as It Is de¬
clared, disclosed that Dr. Seymour had
a living wife, a resident of Madison
county, Georgia. Seymour left Poca¬
hontas between two suns.
BILL ARP’S LETTER
Bartow Man Tells of Some of His
Earliest Kecollections.
REMEMBERS NOTED SHOWER OF STARS
Describes His Trip From Savannah to
Boston When There Was Not a
Railroad in the Country.
Shakespeare tells of a man’s seven
ages, but his seven does not fit our
day—nor indeed, did they fit his own
day with any distinct lines of demar¬
cation between them. They glide inth
each other and it is hard to tell where
the one quits and the other begins.
We have infants and school boys and
lovers, but very tew are soldiers, and
not one in a hundred ever becomes a
justice of the peace. His sixth age
does not do justice to our men and wo¬
men of three score years and ten, for
most of them grow fat instead of lean,
and our big manly voices have not
turned to treble, nor do they pipe and
whistle in their sound. I can still sing
bass to the long-meter doxology and
my wife can sing “Mary had a little
lamb” to the baby. As to the seventh
age, which he pictures as second child¬
hood and mere oblivion without teeth
or taste or eyes or ears or anything,
we never see them—our old people die
before they get to that. But in the life
of every man and woman there are
epochs, events, mile stones, as it were,
that stand out prominent in memory
and mark their progress from youth to
old age. My earliest recollection is
the killing of our dog Hector, who was
supposed to be made, and It grieved us,
for we loved him and he loved us.
Next I recall the falling of the stars in
1833. My father held me up and with
my feet upon the top railing of tne
bannisters, I saw them come down In
myriads as quietly and softly as snow¬
flakes and they went out as they near¬
ed the earth. They were separate and
distinct as the stars, but as near to¬
gether as the sparks from the chimney
of an oldtime blasksmith shop. George
Lester was my playmate and lived
close by and the next morning he and
I hunted all over his mother’s garden
to find some signs of the stars that
fell, but saw none. While they were fall¬
ing our negro cook, Aunt Ailsey, was
down on her knees praying, and as she
clung to my mother’s night gown, she
called on Jesus to come and take us all
to ie aven. That night was an epoch
anc j j s worth being 75 years old to
have witnessed it. My next remem-
trance of note is a journey to Savan-
nah with my father and mother and
brother, where we took a sail vessel
for Boston. I remember the magnifi¬
cent double row of china trees in the
long street and I wonder now if there
is a person living in Savannah who
was living there then and remembers
that row of beautiful trees that are
long since dead and gone. I rememn5r
that voyage of thirty-three days
around Cape Hatteras, where our ship
was almost wrecked, and mother held
fast unto her children and silently
prayed for deliverance. I remember
when we reached Boston and how, af¬
ter our visit was over, father boug!/:
a carriage and a pair of horses, and
we journeyed by land from Boston to
Georgia and never crossed a railroad,
for there were none to cross. I re¬
member our stop at the natural bridge
in Virginia, and how we walked way
down in the gorge and looked up and
afterwards stood on the bridge and
looked down from the dizzy height.
When I was about ten years old I
had another epoch, for 1 had a fight on
Sunday at a camp meeting and got
licked and my fine Sunday clothes
were all spoiled with mud and dirt. A
country boy said I was a town boy
and was dressed too fine and he was
gwine to take the starch outen my
ruffled shirt. And he did. I fought as
hard as I could, buc he licked me and
I cried. I had gone to the spring to
get some water and the fight came off
there. My father whipped me next
morning and the school teacher start¬
ed to whip me again, but I showed him
my legs and he let me off with a talk.
My next episode has left an indeliDle
impression. We had to walk two miles
to school and about half way there was
a big gully that we used to slide down
in. One morning BUI Maltbie and
Overton Young and Jim Wilson and
myselp stopped to slide down and Bill
pulled out a deck of cards and said
he would show us how to play. I had
never seen a deck before in my life,
but I had hearn tell of ’em. They were
mighty pretty, and he taught us how
to shuffle and cut and deal and turn
Jack and play seven-up. One morning
Tom Wilson and Jim Alexander came
along as they were going to school and
heard our racket in the gully and they
caught us playing cards. They slipped
up on us, for we were completely ab¬
sorbed In the game, and Tom said:
"Well, you are the youngest sot of
gamblers I ever saw In my life. The
sheriff will get you and put you all in
jail before night.” I never was scared
so bad In my life. I couldn’t study
my lessons nor eat my dinner at school
and watched for the sheriff all da?
long. But that cured me of card play¬
ing, and I never handled a deck again
until I got to college. College was a
good place to play cards then; it is a
good place to kick a baa now. Tim
Wilson and Jim Alexander were good-
hearted boys and never told on us.
Tom died years ago and Jim died last
month In Atlanta. He got to be a great
doctor and everybody loved him. When
I received the telegram that told me
he was dead I felt like another prop
was gone and that now only one was
left—his brother Tom in Rome. Malt-
bie Is dead and Young and Jim Wilson.
All my schoolmates are dead except
one and all my school teachers and
college professors are dead.
For several years there was no epoch
—no episode. Every day was alike un¬
til I began to notice the girls with a
peculiar longing emotion and brushed
my hair most carefully and carried a
cleaner handkerchief and wore tighter
boots well polished. In fact, I got to
be a dandy in my dress. Shakespeare
makes fun of the lover and dismisses
him with a line. Says he sighed and
wrote poetry about his sweetheart’s
eyebrows. We beat that in our day.
I didn’t sigh a bit, for my sweetneart
was as bad off about me as I was about
her, and we were too happy to sigh.
We soon Decame engaged, and she
fixed the day away on in June, but I
judged it backwards to May, and then
to April and at last to March, to all of
which she blushingly assented. I
wrote poetry, too—not to her eyebrows
—but to her from head to foot. Here
is the last verse, which is only a sam¬
ple of what I could -o in thos ehalcyon
days;
“When incense on the sacred altars
burned,
Its odors seemed in fragrant clouds
to rise;
So may my wishes ah to heaven turned.
Procure rich blessings for thee from
the skies.”
This is pretty good, I think. In 1S64
some yankee soldier came along and
stole the album and carried it off as a
trophy and gave it to his sweetheart.
She kept it twenty years, and married
another fellow and sent the album
back to him, and he mailed it to my
wife with a nice apology. He is a
gentleman, though it took him a long
time to repent and reform. Of course
our marriage was an epoch—a big
mile-stone. My wife was only 18 and
as docile as a pet lamb. I took uer
young, believing I could train her if
she needed training. For a year or
two I could make her do just as I
pleased, but later on I could make her
do just as she pleased, and now she
makes me do just as sh pleases, too.
But it is all right, and I have got used
to it.
Yesterday I received a letter from a
friend asking me to help him about
choosing a wife. He is a widower,
with one child, and wanted a woman
over 30 and under 40—a settled woman
—and he said he would make her a
good, loving husband, etc. Well, I talk¬
ed it over in the family and named
several good old settled girls, and my
wife stopped sewing and said: “I
don’t think you are a very good judge
of marriageable girls. You had better
let this matter alone.” I didn’t like
that remark, and replied: “Well, when
I was a young man maybe I was a
poor judge, but I think t can do bet¬
ter now.” I am sorry 1 said it, for a
woman can’t take sucn jokes and keep
calm and serene. I’ll be more care¬
ful in the future.
But I must reserve some epochs for
another letter. The birth of our first
child was an epoch, but afterwards
that business ceased to be a monopoly
and became monotonous.—Bill Arp, .n
Atlanta Constitution.
LOEB NOW A BENEDICT.
President’s Secretary Weds a Fair
Maid of Albany, N. Y.
The marriage of Miss Katherine W.
Dorr, of Albany, N. Y., and Mr. Wil¬
liam Loeb, Jr., secretary to President
Roosevelt, took place at the Emanuel
Baptist church in Albany Thursday af¬
ternoon. The ceremony was attended
only by the members of the families
of the bride and the bridegroom. Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt presented the
bride with a diamond brooch.
CHILE AND ARGENTINE
Threaten to Furnish More Fireworks
In South America.
Advices from Buenos Ayres state
that the relations between Chile and
the Argentine Republic are strained.
Chile has not yet replied to the de¬
mand relative to the construction of
strategic roads in the litigated terri¬
tory. The Argentine government be
lieves that the Chilean answer will be
satisfactory, but a part of the press
doubts this.
A QUESTION OF NEED.
^ ‘ What have you done witli aH the
mohey I gave you for campaign pur¬
poses?" asked Senator Sorghum .
“I Have put it where it was needed/'
answered the agent.
"That’s what I thought,” was the
disconsolate answer. “Before I can re¬
ly on getting it all placed, I suppose I’ve
got to wait until you get more than you
need"
ANOTHER CYNIC.
“Solomon says ‘In all labor there is
profit. » ft
"I wonder if Solomon ever tore up the
sidewalk to get a nickle he had dropped
through a crack?”
THE BRIGAND’S EXPLANATION.
“How did you come to reduce the
amount demanded as a ransom for that
missionary ?”
“She lectured us so eloquently on the
wickedness of avarice that our con-
science forced us to a rebate."
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