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DEATH-DEALINe PANAMA.

From the New York Herald.
Yellow fever Chagres fever and the
other fevers still reign in their ancient
and indigenous realm at Panama.
The cruiser Panther has arrived home
with nearly all of her crew sick, and
forty of them have been sent to the hos
pital.
And these men were only six weeks
in Panama, doing mere patrol duty along
the line of the railway and under most
favorable conditions.
The mortality that would attend an at
tempt to extend the ditch of death be-
tween the two seas is something fright
full to contemplate. If it were completed
the tourists and around-the-w trav-
elers, who constitute such an important
factor in the volume of travel, would
steer clear of this pestilentiaI region.
Isn't. it really high time that President
Roosevelt should take vigorous measures
to secure the building of the great inter-
oceanic canal by way of the superior and
salubrious Nicaragua route?
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with this country. But # President
Castro can hold out against seizure
of his custom houses on the one hand
and of reYolutionists on the other, it
seems plain that Germany and Great
Britain will be led to violate the Mon
roe doctrine. The situation at any
rate is not comforting. The money
demanded is largely money that was
never inyested-profits and water to
a great extent. How much of the sum
is really and honestly due the world
viii perhaps never know. President
Castro denies the justice of the Ger
man and British claims. He says they
have never been judicially investigated
that they are small in amount, and
that he had never heard of them until
the requests of the governments were
presented.
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Pronresslve GERMANY.

Germany is more progressive than any
other country in Europe, and Is strong
commercial rival of the United States
said B. Steiner, who recently spent some
time in the fatherland.
"In education and art Germany is ahead
Of the United States. In commerce 1t is
not quite up to us, but it is pushing along
and is branching ont every year In for
eign fields. I attribute Germany's prog
ress to the Emperor Williams enterprise
and aggressive spirit. The emperor is
certainly a hustler
I'VE sometimes hear of a man who is
spoken of as all sorts of fool. Well,
William II is more sorts of a smart man
than any other Individual in his empire.
He is a good 1nancier, an all-round busi-
ness man. a soldier. a politician, preach
er, an artist, a musician and a man Of
letters. No ruler in modern times has
combined so many strong points. Some
monarchies become effete. but there is
nothing effete about Germany"
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alsndar wear. as follows :

1t will thus be seen that the ex-
ports of manufacturers were never
greater except in 1900, and then the
excess was not more than five per
cent. 485tea
About 60 per cent of our exports
in the ten months consisted of agri-
cultural products; 80 per cent of man
ufactures, leaving 10 per cent to be
supplied from the mines, forests and
fisheries and miscellaneous sources.
Manufactures still hold second place,
and this will no doubt be the case
throughout another decade, because
we feed and clothe the world, and it
is difficult to outweigh such bill
with manufactured articles. The re-
cord of our factories is, however, one
to be proud of, and the aggregate at
the end of the year will exceed $780,
100000.
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CANINE woNpERoF THE WABASH

From the New York Sun.
Many accomplished dogs are known and
loved. The Husking dog is only pup
and won't be nine months old until next
Wednesday. The Hon. Jacob Diffenbaugh
lives on The Stephens farm on the banks
of the Wabash, a stream of song. Mr..
Diffenbaugh was husking corn the other
day. The pup watched him with intelli-
gent interest. For full particulars see a
Wabash dispatch to the Chicago Trib-
une:
Then the pup went in on his oWp
hook. tearing the husks from the ears
with more celebrity than the average
farmland. He wasn't careful in piling
the corn and the husks, but he stripped
the husks clean. The next day he fol-
lowed Diffenbaugh and his hand to the
field and did several hours of efficient
work. The dog apparently was delighted
with its work
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SHAKESPEARE STUDY--ITS
IMPORTANCE AND EXTENT

John Phinn in the washington Times.
The works of Shakespeare are ac-
knowledged to be the browning glory OF
English literature. They are a mine of
wealth in which the students of the
world for $50 years have delved and
brought out treasures Of thought that
have enriched the inteIects of peoples IN
every land.
There never was time when Shakes.
peare was so generally studied as at
present In every center of activity from
the great city to the little hamlet far
back in the country, his works are read
In clubs established for the purpose, and
lectures are delivered upon questions re-
lating to the life and the plays of this
master genius The number of books
published each year on the subject is
rapidly increasing Last year over forty
new editions of Shakespeare's WORKS
were brought out.
1t is not difficult to account Tor the
popularity of this great dramatist ana
poet. In this first place. the history Oh
the English language cannot be UNDER
stood without a study of his works, Tor
in them are embodied the highest forms
of literary expression. With the Bible,
shakespeares plays present the language
of the age in which they were written In
the purest English known.
No young man or woman who desires
to be abreast Of the best thought OF the
age in which we live can hope to do so
without first securing an intimate knowl-
edge of Shakespeare and his works II Is
almost impossible to take up daily
paper or a magazine that does not con-
tain some reference to the plays OF the
dramatist. Nearly every public speaker
in handling the great questions of the
day will alude to some passage or char
cater made immortal by the bard of
Avon.
1t is, therefore, imperatively necessary
that the man whose early education has
been neglected should make himself IA
miliar with Shakespeares works for two
very good reasons:
First, because he will obtain from them
the highest esthetic ideas in the develop
ment of thought and second, because he
will secure an intimate view of the GUS
toms, manners, and life of the times in
which Shakespeare lived, such as can be
secured from no other source.
The more we study Shakespeare, the
more we are impressed with his phenom-
email genius, for without doubt he was
the greatest English writer that lived In
any age
We cannot account for him. one wouio
naturally suppose that in these days OF
advanced thought and of more generally
diffused knowledge there would be pro-
duced a man of even greater genius than
Shakespeare, but he has not yet made
his appearance.
The human mind is the same today that
II was COCO years ago, the only difference
being that we have accumulated vast
store of knowledge of which the people
of those days were ignorant. dwarf
on the shoulders of giant, but that does
! not convert him into giant. A school,
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The New Bishops Residence.

'Dr. Charles M Beckwith who will be
consecrated bishop of the Episcopal do
cese of Alabama next week, has not de-
cided in which city or town he will re-
side" remarked a churchman yesterday.
Birmingham would be a convenient
place of residence, but the new bishop
may prefer some other city. The late
Bishop Barnwell had signified his desire
to live in Birmingham and a committee
was appointed at the diocesan council
last spring to raise the necessary fun Is
for the erection or purchase of suitable
home; but as the bishop died shortly
after the committee was chosen, no meet
ing was held. OF course, nothing will be
done in the matter of procuring an epis-
copal residence until DID. Beckwith makes
known his '-;ishts.
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Asiatic and American indians.

An expedition dispatched by Morris
K. Jesup, president of the American
museum of natural history, in New
York, has just returned, bringing f1f-
teen thousand specimens of ethnologi-
cal and historical interest, and world
of information relative to the tribes
that live in the most primitive man.
ner in Siberia near the Asiatic sea.
The expedition was led by Waldemar
J. Joekelson, and he was assisted by
Waldemar Bogoras, 18th Russians.
They visited tribes that had never
seen a white man, treading land that
no. white man had trod before. The
carvings, implements, legends and Gus
toms they bring back are interesting,
and they have story to tell that will
be as new in Russia as in this coun-
try.
Above all else they come back con-
WINGED that the Indians of Siberia and
the Indians of this country had a COM
mon origin-that they are in fact one
people-that thousands of years ago
their canoes crossed the thirty miles
of sea that intervenes between Siberia
and Alaska, or perhaps their sledges
crossed on the ice, which is in the
winter season solid from shore to
shore. Gradually those Indians, SO the
theory goes, spread southwark until
they reached Cape Horn! Thousands
of years may have been consumed in
the process.
II it can reasonably well be estab-
lished that the hardy nomads of the
Arctic wastes in Siberia are essen
TALLY alike our North American In
dams, the case is practically made out,
for the barrier at Behring'S Straits
could be overcome by any hardy or
adventuresome Indians. They may
have passed and repassed on the ice
until they found permanent Judgment
on this continent. They could not
go southwark in. Asia, because other
and stronger peoples held the lands,
but once lodged in America no man
stood forth to forbid their occupation
of one-half of the world And this,
say the returned explorers, is what
they did do so many years ago.
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Aided Her Father.

From the Washington Star.
"Yassir," said Uncle Asburg, IT'S got
a daughter in de high school,
II suppose you are very proud of her."
"'Deed / is. An whut's mo-, she's
gwine ter be a greet hep to her father
She's studyin geometry at de present
time an she's sayin dem lessons over
an over ag'in SOS L kin hear EN-
Whats that for?"
well, suh l allus was kind o. anxious
to preach, but 1 neber didn't hab de
words to stand de composition. Now 1
recl<ons when I STAINS up in front o. dat
congregation an gifts to tellin' 'em bout
hypothenrses and pahlellograms dey's
gwine to rise up an admit dat dey;s lis
TENN to language sho' huff"
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Venezuela Helm Us.

The Venezuelan fleet, consisting of
four small vessels, has been seized at
La Guaira, and President Castro has
seized in return all the British and
German subjects in Caracas, the CAPT
tai of the republic. These acts are
acts of war, not of diplomacy or arbi-
tration or anything of that sort. War
exists between Venezuela on the one
hand and Great Britain and Germany
on the other. This situation has in
duced-was perhaps intended to in
duce-another revolution against Pres
ident Castro. General Rondo is at
the head of the new effort Altogether,
the chances are that President Castro
will be deposed, and a revolutionary
general set up who will agree to pay
the British and German claims.
But IL Castro can maintain himself
at Caracas, we may soon see action by
the British and German governments
that will strain the Monroe Doctrine
very seriously. Any occupation of
American soil by European govern
ments is violation of the Monroe
doctrine, and it is difficult to see how
Germany and Great Britain can collect
the sum of s5,OOO,OO or whatever the
sum demanded by the two govern
ments may be, from President Castro
without land movements and the occu
patton Of territory in Venezuela.
President Roosevelt told the South
American republics, in his annual mes
sage, that it behooved each one Of
them "to maintain order within its
own borders, and to discharge its just
obligations to foreigners" This wa.
intended, no doubt, for Venezuelan
ears, and 1t is believed Germany and
Great Britain have an understanding
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Are They Manaaers?

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
"I see the dressmakers, as a matter of
business. have been advised to secure
managers by marriage"
Nothing original in that
isn't there?'
Certainly not. Women the world over
secure managers that way"
yes"
care you married?'
yes"
"And you're your wife's manager?"
"Ye-es, l suppose So"
do you mind If I tell her that you
said that?'
Great Scott man, do you think I'm
looking for trouble!'
"Of course, there's nothing new in the
proposition that women shall get men
by marriage, but are they managers
when they are secured?"
Say! there is something original In
that scheme, isn't there?'
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IN HOTEL LoBBIES.



"Atlanta's success as a business center
is due to the public spirit Of its citi-
zens' said a prominent Birmingham
man.
The people of Atlanta pull together.
They talk Atlanta year in and year out.
They put their hands in their pockets and
put up money for all sorts of enterprises
that draw crowds to the city.
a certain banker of Atlanta said to
me recently: I could pick out ten men
in our town who could go into any
wilderness and build up big city These
men are no. only full of energy but they
understand the value of concerted ae-
ton.
birmingham has great future, but
our people have yet to learn some lessons
in the way of standing shoulder to should
er and working together. There has been
disposition on the part of many of our
business men to find fault and obstruct
rather than construct. We need con-
structive work here. a. constructive pol
icy made Atlanta and 1t would make BIZ
mingham."
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Limited Mine Workers.

1.-THE convention of Alabama District
No. 20. United Mine Workers Of Amreica,
acted wisely In re-electing W. R. Farley.
national board member, Ed Flynn, dis
trict president, and j. L. Clemo, secre-
tary-treasurer," said a prominent coal
operator yesterday.
while there are many level-headed'
able members of the organization in Ala
ADAM. Mr.. Farley and Mr.. Flynn have
proved themselves exceptionally success
full leaders and the unanimity with which
Mr. Farley was elected and the large
majority which Mr.. Flynn received was
a hearty endorsement of their services
The United Mine Workers were never
so strong in this district as they are to-
day and so long as they keep conserva-
tive leaders in office they will continue to
maintain an efficient organization.
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DOVER BEACH.

By Matthew Arnold.
The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full the moon lies fair
Upon the Straits;-on the French coast,
the light
Cleans and is gone; the cliffs of England
stand,
Glimering and vast out in the tranquil
bay.
Come to the window; sweet is the night
air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the ebb meets the moon-blanched
sand
Listen! you hear the grating roar
OF pebbles which the waves suck back,
and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin and cease, and then again begin
With tremendous cadence slow, and
bring as.
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocies long ago
Heard 1t ON the Aegean. and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
OF human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
The Sea of faith
Was once. too, at the full. and round
earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle
furled,
But now l only hear
Its melancholy, long, Withdrawing roar,
Retreating to the breath
OF the night-winds down the vast edges
drear
And naked shingles of the world.
All, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which
seems
To lie before us like land of dreams,
So variou, so beautiful, so new.
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor
light,
Nor gertrude, nor peace nor help for
pain;
And we are here as on darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms Of struggle
and of flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night
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him to his new position. He Is succeeded
at the Metropolitan by T. NJ. Kendrick.
who was formerly with the Hotel Albert
in Selma
". D. sommerville Of New York is at
the Metropolitan
]. R. Ryan and wife of Corona are at
the Hillman.
DR.. J. D. Gibson has gone to Chicago to
attend the Roentgen or x-ray associa-
ton, which convenes in that city this
week. He expects to return Saturday.
G. A. Gartner, Jr,. Of Nashville is at
the Morris.
J. H. Smith of Greensboro is at the
Morris
R. L. owens of Wilmington N. C., is
at lie Morris.
Albert ]. Brame of Montgomery is at
the Morris.
Amos Horton of Pleasant Ridge is at
the Morris.
D. A. Read of Sumter is at the Morris.
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boy today knows very much more Of
electricity and of chemistry than Aristo-
tie, but the boy does not possess Aristo-
ties intellect
Shakespeare was not appreciated in the
age in which he lived. 1t was not until
he was dead many years that the world
discovered his greatness. That is why he
knew SO little of his life. In order to get
an accurate conception of any mans
great work perspective is necessary, and
that perspective is usually best secured
at a distance of years and perhaps CEN
turtles.
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Mobile and Ohio.

James C. Clark, who died in Chicago
Tuesday, was president Of the Mobile
and Ohio railroad several years ago and
was we'll known in the SOUTH said q
railroad man.
Mr.. Clark was succeeded in the presi-
dency by Colonel Russell. and Colonel
Russell VISA in turn succeeded by Samuel
Spencer when the Southern Railway
company acquired control of the Moone
and Ohio While the Mobile and Ohio is
operated as a separate corporation, it is
known IN a general way as part of the
Southern system"
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Field SPORTS.

BIRDS are scarce this season, but I
found very good sport near Tuscaloosa"
said a hunter who filled his game bag
Jester day.
"It was the first day 1 was able to
kill 1aany birds. The dry summer pre-
ventco the eggs from ha:caing out. In
many fields that formerly afforded first
class sport the birds are entirely absent.
I do not know how to account for the
abundance in the neighborhood Of Tus-
calocsa. but I have seldom lad more
successful shooting than I had today.
Rabbits and squirrels are plentiful every.
where; only birds are scarce
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REFLEcTIoNs OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Men who haven't any money need to
spend to show that they have.
A woman's idea of showing a man she
loves him is to ask him how much he
loves her.
The girl who reads books has them
for companions; the girl who reads men
has them.
When a married man hears a wedding
march played he can play strong card
by going over and kissing his wife.
After a man has been in a red-hot love
affair and got out of It, he Is too suspi-
cious of women to believe that his owr
grandmother is not trying to marry
him.
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CHINESE cHRIsToPHoHlA.

From the Atlantic Monthly.
The chief obstacle to the spread of
Christianity in China is due, I believe,
not to any especial dislike of it as an
imported religion, but fear and an OBJ
lection to certain foreign concomitants
which, because of mistaken point of
view. are regarded by missionaries as es-
sentials. "Christophobla' lis due not only
to Chinese hardness of heart, but also
to the methods by which the message
of Peace on earth and good will to
men" has been presented to them.
The missionary tells the Chinese that
they need the gospel above and beyond
anything else, but ne supplements this
announcement with the idea that a Chi
naman cannot be Christian unless his
Christianity finds expression in exactly
the same forms and observances that it
would in the land from which the mis-
sionary has >emigrated. The missionary
does not stop with the statement that
the Chinanan is a non-believer in Chris
tianity. He goes q step farther and calls
the Chinaman n ''heethen"
The conversion of heather to Chris
tianity means much more than it would
In the case of an American. A Chinaman
must not only experience a Change of
heart" he must also undergo a complete
revolution of opinions, and sentiments. He
can no longer venerate his ancestors and
pray before their tablets that he may
keep unsullied the honored name they
have left him. In other words in order
to become a Christian according to mis-
sionary standards Chinaman must be
denationalized. In sentiment he must
become a foreigner. And, naturally
enough, his heather" countrymen who
still love their country and reverence
their ancestors, do not like the donation
alizing process.
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TnREE LIVING Ex.sPEAKERs.

From the New York World.
The death of Mr. Reed leaves only
three ex-speakers of the house still liv-
ing-Galusha A Grow who was welding
the gavel forty years ago and Is a menu
Der of the present house; ]. Warren Keif-
err who presided in 1851, and John G. Car
Isle, who served from 1888 to 1889 inelus-
i've. It is noteworthy in this connection
that by reason of the retirement Of
Speaker Henderson and ex-Speaker Grow
the next congress will be the first in many
years in which no man sits who was ever
speaker of the house. In the house Of
representatives of the fifty-first congress-
the first over which Mr.. Reed presided
there were two ex-speakers General
Banks and Mr.. Carlisle). every man who
has since been speaker and the next
speaker, Mr.. Cannon.