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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." A Curl on o Custom. No document con have the authority of the imperial throne of Ch'na unices it bears a red mark placed there by the sovereign. 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