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IN thejhilippinesT The Annual Report of Gov. Wil liam 11. Tafr. The Country Since Last July Has Been Policed By the Constabulary, a Force cf Five or Six Thou sand Men. Washington, Jan. 5.—The annual re port of the Philippine commission and a separate* report by Gov. W. H. Taft, made public at the war department Sunday, gives a review .of the results of the year's work of the commission and contains recommendations for h g islative action by congress deemed es sential to the welfare of Iho islands After reciting a history of llie es tablishment of civil government throughout the various provinces. Gov. Taft, in his report, says it lias not , bfen definitely determined w'.iat shall be done with respect to Mindanao, where, he says, hostility to the Ameri cans does not extend beyond the Lake Latino Moros. The governor is of the opinion that it may lie possible to in duce the sultan of Joio to part with sonic of the rights to claims to the Joio group and thus obviate many ol> r-tacles now encountered. The Moros. lie says, do not understand popular government and do not desire it, pre ferring control tiy dattos. "Possibly far in the future," says he. “control by dattos may cease. For 1lu> present, however, it is necessary only to provide a paternal, strong but sympathetic government for these fol lowers of Mohammed." Guv. Taft tells of ‘he conditions that have made.' it necessary for the islands to purchase about $15,000,000 worth of food on ^Rliicli to live, and of the etTerts war has had upon agriculture, almost th*^ only source of wealth in the islands. The greatest blow to ag ricultu^e. he says, is the .destruction of about 00 por cent, of f*Te water buf talo, on which the cultivation of rice is almost wholly dependent. After speaking of the ravages of Asiatic cholera. Gov. Taft says: '•The bane of Philippine civilization in the past was ladmnism, and the present conditions are most favorable for its growth and maintenance. It is not certain whether in the depressed statp of agriculture, with the tempta ,-fArfns to ladronism. that the eonstab ularv will be able without the assist anee of the military, to stamp it out. \V ere there temptations to agriculture were there prosperous conditions in the country, it would not he a trouble some matter to deal with, but when want and famine are staring people in the face the life of the freebooter forms to the desperate and the weak a very great attraction. Tne natural discontent with the government when suffering Is at hand, promoted as it i. by cholera restrictions and the high prices of rice and other commodities which have been greatly increased by the depreciation of silver, might well have caused a new breaking out of the insurrection, and in my judgment it speaks wonders for the ease with which this country may be governed in normal times that we have com paratively so little disorder since the surrender of the insurgent arms in April.” Since the civil government was com pletely established in the Philippine provinces throughout the archipelago in July of last year the governor says an American soldier has not. been call ed on once to fire a gun. the country having been policed by the constabu lary, a force of five or six tnousand men. “It may be.” says Gov. Taftr “that as the conditions grow worse—foi they are likely to do so before they grow bettor—it will be necessary in n province like Cavite, where ladron i«m seomrj inbred in the people, to pro claim martial law ami even to call on fT’c military finally to suppress it. but It is still hoped this may be avoided.' SUCCESSFUL TEST. Torpedo Boat Destroyer McDonough Speeded Over a Measured Mile. Boston, Jan. 5.—After waiting f< r two days for good weather the torpedo boat destroyer McDonough, built by the Fore River Ship and Engine (*o. of Quincy, Mass., was successfully speeded over a measured mile off Wood End, Provlncetown. Sunday She ex reeded her contract require ment of 28 knots, making one leg at a rate of 28.50. The best two runs over the mile averaged 28 <>2, whieh was the speed which gained her acceptance by the government board. Lincoln Memorial Sabbath. New York, Jan. 5. The American Missionary association is about to is sue an invitation and appeal to the congregational churches. Sahhath schools and endeavor societies of the country requesting an observance on Hunday, February 15. as “Lincoln Me morial Sabbath," commemorative of Abraham Lincoln. Boy and Horses Burned to D=ath. Dallas. Tex., Jan. if. Williams, « stable hoy, and 23 horses were burn «»d to death Sunday In a fire at the plant of Hughes Bros. Extract To A warehouse was consumed with Its eon j^feM^clAss $50,000 on machinery and ^^Mured goods. tenement of Coal. r». By' midnight v*li:i': ' ■’ < xp'-' t to market for 3,500 rars of r.vcment of JnR. THE COLORED POSTMISTRESS. It Is Feared There Will Be Trouble When She Opens the Post Office. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 5.—A staff cor respondent of the Commercial Appeal at Indianola, Miss., wires that paper at 1:30 a. m. as follows: Sheriff A. C. Cox. of this county, stated Sunday night that if Minnie Cox wanted to open the post ofllce and feared violence he would deputizo a sufficient complement of men to guard the office and patrol the town. The colored postmistress has made no application to the authorities for pro tertion. The flurry of excitement prevailing here is apparently contagious to the surrounding country towns and there has been an influx of visitors here Sunday. Special correspondents from Chicago. New Orleans, St. Louis, Cin einnati ami Memphis arrived on the night trains. The city and county of ficials believe that a number of secret service men are on th'e scene await ing any developments that may arise. Post Office Inspector Fitzgerald has been assigned here from Louisiana. He w’onf djreet to the home of the sheriff Sunday night with Mayor Da vis. where a conference was held. He .’aught a train out later. FIRE IN HONOLULU. Defective Electric Wiring Caused a Loss of Over $100,000. Honolulu. Doc. 5.— (By Pacific Ca ble).—A lire causing a loss of over $100,000 occurred hero Sunday. The fire broke out in the gem ral merchan dise store of L. n. Kerr it Co, and probably was caused by def -olive elec tric wiring. J F. Morgn., also sus tained heavy loss. A letter received here from Thos. Fitch, the Washington attorney for the Marcus Island Cl nano Co, says that Japan Is tefinquislung her claim to Maffiis island and is willing-to al low Hie United States to take posses sion. Japan will also deport her sub jects now on the island and is ready to pay as a reasonable indemnity $10.. 000 on account of I lie loss sustained in the trip of tlie* schooner Julia Wha len. which was refused a landing on lire island. WRECK ON THE SOUTHERN. Engineer White Was Killed and 27 Passengers Injured. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 5.—Passen ger train No. .'17 on the Southern rail way, bound from Atlanta to Binning ham, was derailed about 10:30 o’clock Saturday night near Weems Station, about 13 miles from tins city. The baggage and mail cars were complete ly wrecked and were thrown down an embankment. Although the train was filled with passengers Engineer White was tlie only person who was killed. His body was found under the engine, horribly mangled. About 27 passengers wore injured. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. It Is Conceded That Penrose Will Be Elected United States Senator. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 3.—The Penn sylvania legislature will convene on Tuesday noon and will adjourn finally probably on April 10. The republicans control both branches and it is con ceded that Boies Penrose will he elect ed 1 nited States senator to succeed himself. Henry F. Walton, of Phila delphia, will he chosen speaker of the house of representatives and John 31 Scott, of Philadelphia, will he elected president pro tern, of the senate. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE. Two Cases Reported in the Town of Ahomc, in Sinaloa. Laredo, Tex., Jan. 5.—A special from liennosillo, Mex., says: Two cases of bubonic plague have been re ported in the little town of Ahome. in Sinaloa, not far from the Sonora bor der. The authorities of Sonora have n 'titled those of Sinaloa that a sani tnry cordon has been established on tiie border and no one will be permit ted to enter the state from the south. Sir Liang Cheng to Wed. Peking, Jan. 5.— Sir Liang Cheng, minister designated to the United States, will mnrry the daughter of the Chinese minister at Paris. Yii K ng. before leaving for Washington. The wedding probably will take place at Canton. Yu Kong's daughter was od ticated abroad and speaks English And French. She is on«* of the few Chi nese women of modern education and modern ideas. Lutheran League of America. Omaha. Neb., Jan 5.—--Rev. laiflier Kuhns, pastor of draco Lutheran church, resigned to accept the general secretaryship of the Lutheran league of America, with headquarters In New York fi*y. The league has 3.000 so cieties ami 123,000 members. Pansy Roosevelt III. New York, Jan. 5.—The friends of Miss Pansy Roosevelt, cousin and chum of Miss Alice Roosevelt, have Just learned to tueir dismay that that eharmlng young woman, stricken with nervous prostration. Is under float ment In a private sanitarium. Lieutenant Disappears. I-eavenworin, Kan.. Jan. 5— Lieut. Edward O. Perkins. 4fh ravaly, disap peared from Fort Ix»avenworth last Tuesday and has neither reported to his commander nor been heard f 10m since He had domestic trouble. State News Pick-ups. At Wheeling, Thomas Norri3. col ored. took the oath of office as Justice of the peace, being the first Negro in West Virginia to hold any judicial o£ floe. Ife was elected in a democratic ward. The wife of M. M. Thompson, ol Clarksburg, died after a single day's Illness. The sad event distressed Mr. Thompson to such an extent that he became dangerously ill and 24 hours later was a corpse. He died of a bro ken hem t The funeral of wife and husband was held the other afternoon and both bodies were buried in the same grave. Mr Thompson was 1-t years old, was mayor of Clarksburg 1900 01. and was one of the most prominent lawyers and public-spirited citizens of Central West Virginia. He was the author of "A Magistrate's Manual and Forms," a hook in the li brary of nearly every lawyer and court officer in the state. .Tames Fleeland. of Montgomery, shot and killed Mrs. Charles McGee, of Longaero. at the home of the lat ter. The woman died before a state ment could he had from her as to the cause of the shooting, and Fleeland refuses to talk. In a saloon fight at Williamson .fas. Adams was shot and instantly killed by Iten Adams and the* latter serious ly wounded. Henry Swlegert. a by stander. was struck by a bullet and slightly injured. The Fairmont Coal Co. lias granted its employes an increase of 10 per ri nt. in wages. The car supply which lias been short during the past few months will he much better* in the near future, ami tlie mines will load a maximum number daily. Jay T. Drake, nephew of Congress man Hughes, was killed at Williamson while coupling ears on the N. Ai W. He Iiveil at Coredo. At Sisterville George Shrivcr was in stantly killed by falling from an oil «lei rick oast of Middlebournc. Tiie second annual report of the eommissioner of hanking of West Vir ginia shows a tremendous inc rease in the wealth of the state. The total de posits in state banks alone is now nearly $33,000,000, an inc rease in the past ten years of more than $23,000. 000. Twenty-two state banks were es tablished during the past year. The total deposits in state and national banks is $34,727,074. or more than $30 per capita for the entire state. Stephen W. Ripley, formerly chief of police of Wheeling, aged 02 years, and a civil war veteran, expired sud denly in Chicago. J. F. Shirey, Main street jeweler, Clarksburg, made an assignment. Lia bilities are $3,500 and assets $2,244. V. Scott was appointed trustee. Newton R. Lyddle, who claimed to be a detective and that his home was in Raleigh county, was shot and in stantly killed by Russell Lilly, a promi nent citizen of M« reor county. Lilly had been deputized to arrest the al leged detective by a magistrate. The arrest was resisted and Lyddle was trying to shoot Lilly wl n the latter got his gun into ac tion first. William Coleman, aged 60, and a vet eran of the civil war, committed sui cide nt Wheeling the other clay by tir ing a bullet into his breast near the heart. While breathing his last he was asked what caused him to com mit the deed and he replied: “Trou hies,” The dead body of Christ. Fagin was found beside the track of the Ohio Riv er railroad, just below Moundsville Foul play is suspected. Dr. F. P. Buckley, a prominent phy sician of Flemingsburg, was run down by a R & O. train and mangled. He lived but a short time. Joseph Crabtree, aged 21, a native of Smytiie county, was run over by a car loaded with (oal and instantly killed. At Wellsburg, Jo eph Chamherllr was struck by a fast train In the Penn sylvania yard and perhaps fatally hurt. The operators of the Flat Top con' field gave their miner an advance ol In to 2<> per cent, beginning January 1 Twelve thou and men are affected. While running at high speed, thro* hours late, fast train No. 5, on the C &■ O.. came near being wrecked by running into a rut near Ona. The en gineer, by f|iiicl< work, stopped hi* monster engine within five feet of the obst ruct ion. Allen Lewis who had left homo os tonsibly to go to Weston, returned Gillespie to find Ira Hyer. a railroad brakeiran. seated at his table with his fa i ilv. lie grabbed a Winchester and a i i<-d at Hyof’s head, hut a son of Lewis hit the gun with a broom handle and the ball struck Hyer In tlio abdomen, inflicting a probably fa tal wound. The son prevented hb father from shooting Hyer a second time. Lewis left then. It Is said Lew Is warned his wife About Hyer just before leaving, and said be would kill him if he found him nt. the house. The Aetna Standard mil). Wheeling which employs in the neighborhood of 3.000 men. and which has been shot down since May for want of orders will resume operations in a few day.* as a result of Hie American Sheet Steel Co. securing an enormous con tract, from the National Roofing and Corrugating Co. It will take the larg er part of 1f»03 to All flic contract. Prof. M. M. Ross, principal of ths Fairmont state normal school, died of apoplexy, lie was a graduate of Van derbflt university. Nashville. Tenn. and was principal of a school in that city ten years. < THE SUHDAY SCHOOL. f.eaaon in Ike International IrvlM fur January 11. IIMKI—4 t»rl« tian Living. THE LESSON TEXT. (Phil. 4:1-13.) 1. Therefore, iny brethren, dearly be loved and longed for. my Joy anti crow n, -o -tand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. -■ I be-eech Kuodias. and beseech Syn tyche, that they be of the same mind In the Lord. 2 And I entreat thee. also, trite yokefel low, help those w'ornen which labored with nil 1: the Gospel, with CIem*t»t. also, untl with ther iny fellow-la borers, whose nam. ::r in the book of life. 4 Jtejo!* e in the Lord alway: anti again I say, rejoice. 5 L<t jour moderation be known unto all mm. The Lord is at hand. '■ He careful for nothing: but in evetj • thing by prayer t.ml supplication with trank-giving let jour i.-cj'je.<ts be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God. which pa*«etb all uncii i'-landing, shall keep your h art* and minds thr< ugh Christ a Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever thing- tire li< ilt-st, whatsoever things tire ju-t. whatsoever thing- are pur., whatsoiver things are lovi :>•, what-, ever things j(re of good re port; If there be any virtue, and if there la- any praise, think on th* <• things. I*. Those tiling?, which ye have both leatrv I and received, and heard, and ? en 111 n- i . and the God , he with you. 10 Hut I rejoiced In the Lord gre ally, that now at the last your care of mi- hath flourished again: wherein j e wer aid careful, but ye lacked opportunity. j1. Not that I speak in j«.sn«ct ol want: • or I have it tuned, in whatsoever state 1 am. therewith to be content. 12. I know bf th how to lie abashed, and I know how to abound: everywhere and.In all things I am Instruetid both to be full and to be lHingrj-. botii to abound and to suffer need. 1-1- 1 can do ail things through Christ, which strengtheneth me. LOLUt > TEXT.—Hi-jolce in the Lord alway—Plill. 4tl. ANALYSIS OF SCRIF’TL'ItE SECTION Individual i xhortatlonr..PhiT. -1:1-7. t!< iif>ral i xhortat Ions . f.... Phil i !.*> 9 P. IM li t! references .Phil 4: Its 20. TIME.—€a A. IK l'LAi'li.- Koim-. An 1 plifting Message. - 1 Rar in mind lliat the epistle to the Philippiansywas written during Paul's iniprisoniiient at Home, and yet note how eln erv anil inspiring it is! There is nothing in it to show that the apostle is- downcast. Indeed, lie declares that the things that have happened unto him have turned out to lie for the progress of the (dis pel (1; 12). lie hopes that lie will be delivered, but is ready to die; and for his own sake alone, that he would be glad to do, for then lie would be with Christ (1:21-2!!). Paul had a special affect ion lor the Philippian church, and his love is plainly evidenced in this letter, li should he read, all of it, at one sitting. Hast Sunday the lesson was the story of the'eml of Paul’s work in Philippi. 1 his simple personal letter from the apostle, now perhaps nearing the end of his life, to his old friends at Philippi, was written from a Homan prison,and apparently after Paul’s affair., had taken a decided turn for the worse. Ib is still cheerful and hopes for release and to see his friends again, but his cause for hope and joy is not in his ciivumstances, but in the fact that lie is superior to them. The crisis which 'hould mean life or death to him was near (1:20-21). lie was ready for *"■ *h« r. lb* promises to send Timothy to them •’forthwith, so soon a-H shall see how it will go with me.” bead the whole letter and more than once if possible, and let the courage a ml con tentment and humility and affection ateness of the man whose life i» re vealed in it teach their own lessons. "\\ herefore:” Heferring to what he lias just said. Paul is counseling his friends from his own experience to let their faith in future glory be an in spiration to cm ry-day living. “Knodia . . . oymyche: 1 wo women, both »?f them ( hristians (“v\ hose mimes are in the Book of Life"), and yet who were hurting the cause by their un pleasant disagreement. "True yoke fellow; I here i>as be< n much discti^ sion as to who was meant, but prob ably the word translated yokefellow was the name of one of the Philippian disciples, and we should read. *‘i be seech tlire also. Syn/ygus (yokefel low). rightly so named (true).*' “Rejoice in the Lord:” This letter comes from Paul's own life expert cun s. ilis advice has been tested and tried. If we are to rejoice always we must lo >k from the small facts of life to the great ones, and the gr< itest is (iod and Ilis love. ••'Che Lord is at hand; ‘ I he reference is to an early reappearance of ( hrist on earth, which seems to have been generally looked for by the ( hristians. "In nothing be anxious:" The distressing anxiety of t hose wliii are depi tiding entirely upon themselves. The Christian may take all his troubles and cares to (iod. and so find the "peace of (iod.” "W hatso ever tilings are true. . . . think on these things:” Take account of them, let the mind dwell on them, learn fo appreciate them wherever they nrp found, and then, Paul goes on to say, “tIn se things do.” "Revived your thought:" They had wanted to send Paul aid before but had lacked opportunity. In the next verses Paul speaks of the secret of Christian contentment. lie had learned how to nliotind and how to be in want, nnd both with n thankful heart; but the strength which enabled him to do the hard things wns his only as a result of his vital union with ( hrist Jesus his Lord. PRACTICAL BCOCJE8TION8 Only one who has a clear trns) in the l.o-ci can be anxious for nothing. As one thinketh so is he; therefore think s»f whatsoever things are true, honorable, just, pure, etc. Learn the great sec ret of being con tent. 1 to not let. your happiness de pend upon outward circumstance*. r*# I mill Terwrly I ,.1.1 Prayer is more thnn petition, taitli is time's bridge between man and (1 o<f. Justice seeks those w',» will not . »eek mercy. H A prominent club woman, Mrs. Dan- B forth, of St. Joseph, Mich., tells how she* was cured -of "falling of the womb and its accompanying pains and misery by Lydia E. 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