THE MOENESfG OREGONLAJN, -THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1904. PARKER WON OYER He Finally Agrees to Make Few Stump Speechesr WILL 'BEGIN NEXT WEEK New York Meeting Is to Ee Addressed Monday, and Then Trips Will Be Made to Connecticut and New Jersey. NHW YORK, Oct. 26. Judge Alton B. Parker, the Democratic candidate for President, -will make three speeches In three states, according to an announce ment made by the Democratic National Committee tonight. The first -will he at Madison-Square Garden, New York, Mon day night; the second at Newark, N. J., Tuesday night, and the third at Hartford or New Haven, Conn., Thursday night. In its official announcement, the Demo cratic committee says: "This series of meetings involves the appearance upon the platform for nearly five nights next week of Judge Parker, or Mr. Cleveland, or bothy and three states are Included In the schedule. "Tho first meeting of the series will be held In Madison-Square Garden on Mon day night under the auspices of the Parker and Davis Business Mens' Club, which supervised tho meeting held In Carnegie Hall a few days ago. The chair man of this meeting will be Isador Strauss, and the speakers so far as ar ranged will be Judge Parker and Hoke Smith, ex-Secretary of the Interior. The names of other speakers will be announced later. "On Tuesday a great meeting will be held In Newark Under the auspices of New Yorkers resident in New Jersey. It will be presided over by Richard V. Lindsbury, and Judge Parker will be the principal speaker. Arrangements are under way for the appearance of an ex-Cabinet of ficial. "The meeting on Nevember 2. in Cooper Union will be under the auspices of the Germans of New York. The chairman of this meeting will be Carl Schurz, and Mr. Cleveland will be the principal speaker. Several prominent Germans will also take part and all the speaking will be in that language with the exception of the speech to be delivered by Mr. Cleveland. "On Thursday a meeting will be held in either Hartford or New Haven, Conn., at which Judge Parker will be the princi pal speaker. "On Friday a second meeting will be held In Newark, 'over which Mr. Cleve land will preside and the principal speak er will be James H. Eckels, ex-Controller of the Currency." Judge Parker will go to Rosemount to morrow. After his speech at Brooklyn on November 5, he will return to Esopus. and will spend Monday, November 7. quietly at his home. On Tuesday he willj fcu laj oiuwu w vuie. rwiums irom the election will be received at Rose- mount over special wires. Mayor Carter H. Harrison of rhlmtrr. spent half an hour with Judge Parker late in the afternoon. Ho said he had been summoned by William P. Sheehan. chairman of the executive committee, for a conference concerning the situation In Illinois, when he learned that Judge Parker is to make speeches In New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut, he said he would like to have the candidate visit Chicago, but would not make the request If the idea was contrary to the the Judge's wishes. After seeing Judge Parker the Mayor said he did not'belleve Judge Parker would go "West. HAY SPEAKS AT BIG RALLY. New York Crowd Is So Large That Doors Have to Be Locked. NEW YORK, Oct. 25. The crowd at the Republican mass meeting in Carnegie Hall tonight waff -so large that the doors were locked at 7:80 o'clock. At that time all the available space within tho hall was filled and several thousand people were crowded about: tho entrance seeking ad mission. John Hay. Secretary of State, who made the first speech, was given an ovation when he appeared. The band played and flags were waved in every part of the house, while the audience cheerd. The audience rose as one man when the presiding officer characterized President Roosevelt "a man whom all admire and love." Great cheering greeted Secretary Hay as ho arose. He said In part: None of ns will make tho mistake of think ing the contest of this year unimportant. On the contrary, it goes down to the very foun dations of our National welfare. It is no( campaign rhetoric, it Is merely the simple fact to say that nothing but disaster could follow the reversal of the policies to which we are indebted for the prosperity of the past few years. The country cannot afford to give up the gold standard and to drift on the ehlft lng currents of financial experiment and quackery. It cannot afford to give up the prin ciple and practice of protection to American industries. Any radical meddling with the tariff would throw 1000 industries Into con fusion and bring many to ruin. Stability, unity of purpose. Is absolutely necessary td the complicated and delicate machinery of modern business, where the change In the price of a single by-product may vitally affect the prosperity ot a great Industry and may make all the difference "between comfort and want to thousands of worklngmen and their families. Nobody denies that the tariff must from time to time be revised. But it is too evident for argument that the revision must be intrusted to friendly hands to those who believe, as a matter ot business and of pub lic morals, in the policy of cherishing Ameri can manufactures and of caring for the well being of millions of American workmen. It Is not & matter to he handed over to those who insist at the Ptart that American in dustries have no right to protection at all, and that such protection is "the robbery of the many for the benefit of the few." It was an old maxim .of English law that said, "A child should not be given in charge to a nurse that loves It not." Neither can the country afford to Intrust its vast domestic Interests to those who de nounce as extravagant and unconstitutional all money spent for the "general welfare," to promote which was one of the special objects for which the Constitution was brought Into bring. Do we want to give our gallant little Army to the care of those who think It ought to be disbanded, or our Navy which, under this Administration has carried our flag into so many distant seas, never on a wanton er rand of hostility, but always as the friend of American commerce and the protector of our citizens do w want it handed over to the men who will eay It ought to be thrown to the scrap heap? Do we want the Phlllplnes abandoned to be the victims of misrule at the hands of their own agitators, or the prey of any covetous power that may wish -to en clave them for its own prollt? Do we want to raeak out of the Isthmus of Panama, ack nowledge we have no right there and basely surrender the hope and the dream of centu ries? And -do we want to f oreoke and repudi ate the foreign policy of McKlnley and Roose velt, which' was also the policy ot Lincoln and Monroe, which had its august origin In the heart and brain of George "Washington, of treating all countries as friends, doing busi ness with all the peoples of good-will, meet ing court mtt with courtesy and wrong with firmness, being Just to all nations and partial to none.? Touching upon Parker's, declaration that the Philippines should be.promised Independence, Mr. Hay said; Judge Parker eays further that the Philip pines have cost us 200,000 lives, wherein he Is wrong to the extent of about 195,0000. But these mere errors in his figures, gross as they are, do not compare with the monstrous lev- - i - lty 'with which ha proposes to tal;e a step which would cover ns with Indelible discredit, which would be an abdication of our posi tion In the Pacific, ihe surrender of our com mercial prestlee In the Far East, a base treachery and betrayal of the loyal and In telligent Filipinos who have trusted us. and direct Invitation to Intestine war and for eign Invasion. And if he pretends that we zhould relinquish control of them and stm be responsible for their acts that we should give up the task of civilizing them, asd still stand between them and a hostile or covet ous nvorld. no matter what they may do the Inhumanity 'of such a proposition is only equaled by its want of common sense. It Is a blunder well-nigh incredible for him to say that we should treat the Philippines as we did Cuba? There is no analogy between the two cases. "We have never owned Cuba; we have never claimed to own it. The Phil ippines aro ours by every sanction known to" public law; by fortune of" war, by treaty, by purchase, by occupation, by undisturbed and undisputed possession. To say that the cases are tho same and require the same treatment simply shows in the man who says it & con fusion ot mind or a deliberate misrepresenta tion, either cf which proves hlmto be In tho words of one of Judge Parker's most ardent admirers "not? fit to be President this year or any other year." It quickens the pulses to think what splen did progress we are to make on every line of National welfare in the next four years with Theodore Hooeevelt at the helm. In the strength of his young manhood, with lofty hopes and purposes, with large experience of life, with the country his only care and God his guide, He will nil his high office with rev erence for the law and the Constitution "as ever la his great taskmaster's eye." His Just fame in history will add a new splendor to the glory of his native state. Men of New York! Will you allow It to be said that while the rest of the country stood by him you fell away? "When President Roosevelt ascends the steps of the Capitol next March, shall it be said that his mother state T" no part In hbr triumph? If that shall be so, yours will be the loss, not his. Many times while he was speaking Mr. Hay was interrupted by applause, and there was a great outburst of cheering when he finished. Ex-Governor Frank S. Black also spoke. Lieutenant-Governor Higglns also spoke and was enthusiastically received. TAKES FLING AT BARRETT. Bryan Refers to Panama Minister in Discussing "Big Stick." SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 26. W. J. Bryan left here today In his special car for another day of speech-making In In diana, Knox being the first town at which an address was announced to be made. After speaking at Knox and North Jud son, Mr. Bryan addressed a gathering In Wlnamac. He said: "We have been trying to point out to Republicans the fact that President Roosevelt is changing tho Ideals of the Nation and substituting the 'big stick' for the light of liberty, but many have refused to believe It. Now an ap pointee of this administration has come to our aid and declared this change in language 'so plain and forcible that no Republican can longer doubt It. I re fer to the article written by John Bar rett, United States Minister to Pana ma. It is a campaign document con tributed by the President's appointee, and spread broadcast as an argument in favor of Mr. Roosevelt's election. I call your attention particularly to a paragraph which reads as follows: " 'If they -who today- are stumping the land against President Roosevelt could have gone to foreign parts In the old days wrhen the flag stood for nothing, when American merchants and travelers were everywhere snubbed, when our Army and Navy wer the laughing stock of tho world, when we had no influence In the councils of the nations; and if then they could have Journeyed around the world now, when the flag means more .than the standard of any other nation, when our merchants have access to all markets, when our Navy Is respected in every port and when our advice Is sought In every conclave of powers, they would In sheer sense of stricken conscience renounce their present attitude and pray for the success of a party which Has accomplished this mighty change and of, a leader whose name Is honored in the most remote portions of the earth.' "Republicans, what do you think of this? What do you think of 'the old days when the flag stood for nothing? Washington held that flag In his hands. Did it stand for nothing then? Did It stand for nothing- when our revolution ary fathers- followed It from Bunker Hill to Yorktown? Did It stand for nothing when it was In tho hands of Jefferson, tho author of the Declaration of Independence? Did It stand f6r nothing when Itwas held aloft by the elder and younger Adams? Did It stand for nothing when Madison held it or when it was held bv Monroe, who has given his name to the Monroe doc trine? Did It 'stand for nothing in the hands of Jackson, in the hands of Lin coln, of Grant, of Hayes and Garfield and Harrison? ! "Did It stand for nothing until It be came the emblem of an empire and be came the companion of the President's big stickr Did It begin tq stand for something only when It waved over Filipino subjects bought in a Job lot at $z.iiu apiece.' .rtepuDiicans. did you indorso this doctrine or will. you put It aside and say that it is merely the flattery of an office-holder who kneels before this new-built throne and eulo gizes the man from whose hand ho re ceives his daily bread? "Barrett is a true and faithful expo nent of the policy of our President. He speaks with brutal frankness of the new DOlicy that tho Nation is to pur sue it imperialism is indorsed. "We must forget all that we have ever known of patriotism and the prin ciples of government before we can throw our hats in the air and cheer for Roosevelt and his colonial policy. Surely there must be a multitude of Republicans who will refuse to apolo gize for a century of glorious history, as they must do if they indorso tho doctrine of Barrett and tho doctrine of Roosevelt." At Renssaelaer. Mr. Bryan referred to the destruction there recently by dyna mite of the home of Thomas McCoy, son of a banker who failed. Mr. Bryan used the Incident to condemn Governor Pea body, of Colorado, "as an application of Imperialism to American politics." BRYAN ENDS INDIANA TOUR. Strongly Urges His Friends to Sup port Parker. HAMMOND, Indv Oct 26. Mr. Bryan's tour of Indiana ended at Hammond, where an overflow meeting was held In addition to the regular one annunced. Hero Mr. Bryan spoke as follows: "As this is my last meeting In Indiana, and the end of my ten days' tour of the state, I desire to make- this farewell appeal to those who voted for me when I was a candidate. Let no friends of mine hesitate about the support of. tho ticket. Let no friend ot mine Imagine that he can help me -by contributing toward the election, of Roosevelt. Judge Parker's election will hasten every reform In which I am Interested by removing" from the arena of politics the questions -which now divert public attention from econom ic and Industrial problems. "President Koosevelts election would delay every reform in which I am Inter ested by keeping Imperialism and kindred Issues before the country, and none can tell what new Issues .this warlike spirit may compel us to meet during the next four years. "A victory for our National ticket will not be a victory for Parker alone.. It will be a victory for me as Well, because I made my canvass on imperialism four years -ago and stood then where' Parker stands now. If we can only overthrow the doctrine of Imperialism there will be glory enough In the victory for all of us. You can't help liking them, they are so very small and their action so per fects Only one pill a dose. Cotter's Lit- EXPECT AN ATTACK Russians Believe the Japanese Will Soon Strike. ALL. IS QUIET AT MUKDEN Clothlrrg of the Dead Shows the Mikado's Army Is Prepared for, a' Winter Cam paign. MUKDEN, Oct. 26. The appointment of General Kuropatkin as Commander-in- Chief was received . with universal ap proval. It will greatly facilitate the mili tary operations. The Japanese attack is now expected shortly. The Russian batteries continue to harass the Japanese. Otherwise all Is quiet. The Japanese dead recently found showed by their warm clothing that the Japanese are prepared for a Winter cam paign, whereas the Russians have not re ceived their Winter outfits. On Sunday night the Japanese made a. feeble attempt upon Lone Tree Hill, but the attack was not pressed. The Rus sians used several siege guns of great range on Monday, bombarding the Japa nese positions near Shakhe. The Japa nese replied with shlmose shells. The Chinese say the Russian fire destroyed three Japanese field pletes. The Japanese have evacuated Shakhe railroad station, but It and the railroad bridge between the lines are in the field of firo of both sides. Although it is reported that there is no activity on the Russian left flank, little Is really -known concerning the situation. A Japanese movement from the west along the railroad Is reported, but this nas not been confirmed. On Mondav a heavy artillery fire was heard westward. The Japanese prisoners say the cold weather is causing an Increase of Illness among their troops. The tree which gave Its name to Lone Tree Hill has disanDeared. It was . cut down Monday night for firewood. PERFECT RAIN OF LEAD. Fighting at Tumln Pass Was of the Most Desperate Character. WITH GEN. RENNENKAMPFF-S COLUMN. (By Courier, via Mukden, un dated.) The critical day of General Gerngross attack on Tumln Pass was October 10. The Russians divided into three groups, the extreme right - beint composed of two battalions of sharpshoot ers in command of Lieutenant Gariatsky and the same units were In the center under Lieutenant Nlchausoff. The left was composed of parts of the Yenesel and Krasnoyarsk regiments. The bat teries opened against Eagle Nest Rock, commanding the pass. The country in front of the positions was very broken and the attacking columns of infantry suffered greatly from the shrapnel fire of the Japanese guns. The attack began about daylight, and about noon the attacking columns reached the hills adjoining Eagle Nest Rock. The mlddlo column, balked by tho precipitous character of the rock, stopped 00 yards from the top. Meantime from the observation point the Russians saw a line of rocks along the crest which were used to mask the Japanese batter ies, up to 1 o'clock the intensity of the artillery fire Increased. It was then sig naled to stop. Reserves came up and storming began, the men going forward by rushes, clambering the slopes by aid oi trees or ousnes and dragging each other up. As the Russians advanced perfect rain of lead was poured down upon them and stones which bad been placed in position over night -were also thrown down, killing many. At the same time the flanking column went forward at double quick In the face of the murderous volleys, losing many. The scene was one of horror. Many batteries went Into action singing the national anthem. Instead of their cus tomary hurrah, tho Japanese tried to confuse the Russians by singing the Rus sian anthem. The right column reached and occu pled the first line of trenches and the Japanese Immediately retired to thesec- ona line ana opened u. muruerous lire. Both sides stuck to their trenches, fir ing point blank at each other. The Jap anese once attempted to charge. They rose as one man -In their trenches, "but dropped back under a withering fire. The fighting continued for two hours, when the Japanese received reinforcements and the Russians were forced to retire The slaughter was great, not only ho- cause of the rifle fire, out by reason of a peculiar hand-granade which the Jap anese threw in large quantities. A high explosive caused these bombs to shatter Into thousands or pieces, riddling every thing in the vicinity in which they ex ploded. On the left there was much hand-to hand fighting, and many men were clubbed or bayonetted In the melee. GLAD ALEXIEFF IS OUT. Russians Believe He Will Return, Now Kuropatkin Is In Power. ST PETERSBURG. Oct. 26. Viceroy Alexleffs order of the day announcing Kuropatkln's appointment is in the same trrandlose vein as Kuropatkln's order- of w.iwvj.i , " " " " - " ill-starred document- While Alexleff takes particular pains. in turning over the supreme command of the land forces to Kuropatkin, to inform the soldiers and the world of the marks of imperial confidence reposed In him, and to announce that he will remain as Vice roy, tho order is considered as virtually his farewell address, and that It will soon bo followed by his return to St. Peters burg. His elimination as a factor In the military situation has caused a sigh of relief. The papers all welcome the announce ment of Kuropatkln's appointment to the chief command as a well-merited recom penso for the manner in which he dls charged the difficult role Imposed '.upon him, and. reading between, the lines, as a promise of better results now that Alex left Is eliminated, and there is no longer a prospect of elevation of a Grand Duke to the supreme command. BIG MEAT ORDER FROM ORIENT Omaha' Firm Is to Supply 3,000,000 Pounds in a Hurry. OMAHA. Neb., Oct 26. A local packing house today received an order for 3,000,000 pounds of mess beef for shipment to the Orient Meat Is for Russia. KANSAS CITY, Mu., Oct 26. D. H. Mc Mullen, a Tacoma, Wash., lumberman, who arrived here today from Omaha, says that the order for 3,000,000 pounds of meat received by an Omaha packing company was given by the Russian Government He said: 'The beef must be shipped out of San Francisco within 30 days. There were two Japanese agents in the packinghouse office at, the time that the Russians were there to give the order." McMulIen added that the Japanese also had given an order for meat at the same time, but on a. smaller scale. He con tinued: "All sorts of stuff Is shipped out of Seat- tie and Tacoma every week for the com batants." He said that beyond a doubt much of this was being sent Into Port Ar thur. "Shipping masters," said he, "take a great risk, of course, but i know it Is being done." Russia May Buy the Calchas. TACOMA. Wash., Oct. 26. It Is current talk In well-informed shipping circles that negotiations are on between the Russian government and Alfred Holt & CO., of Liverpool, for the purchase of the steam ship Calchas, which the Russians cap tured on the way to Japan and took as a prize to Vladivostok. It is said the pur chase price Is 5730.000, which will be ample to cover all the damages incurred in the seizure of the vessel. It is said the ship cost $500,000. but others say from 5300,000 to 5100,000 would be a good price for her. Gunners Again Drafted Into Service. KRONSTADT, Oct. 27. It Is generally stated here and not denied In Russian naval circles that notwithstanding Rus sian statements to the contrary, officers. gunners and the deck, englneroom and stokehold crews from the cruiser Variag and the gunboat Korietr, sunk at Chemul po In February, have been drawn upon by the Russian admiralty for Admiral Ro- JestVensky s Baltic ships. EOT) TO EAELROAD WAE. St. Paul Has Advices That Securities Case Has Been Settled. ST. PAUL. Oct. 26. Private advices from a source In Wall street which Is generally possessed of reliable secret Information are to the effect that a settlement of the Northern Securities case has already been effected. The statemnt from New York is: "The securities deal was put through finally just before President James J. Hill's departure for St. Paul, after hl3 recent visit in New York. The substantial lines of the settlement were marked out and are definitely agreed to by the various interests. Details of the settlement are In the hands of perhaps a half-dozen men, who are carefully guarding them from the public and who, it is anticipated, will not make a public announcement for some time, until the plan is well on toward completion." Inquiries have been coming from New York today for information of "President Hill's new acquisition in tne Nortnwest arid details of the big deal now in prog ress." Further than the securities settlement. nothing Is known ot other deals of Im portance now pending. At Northern Pacific headquarters mucn faith Is placed In the outlined settlement of the securities troubles, and the division of Interests outlined Is welcomed. SAYS HARRIMAN HAS OPTION. St. Paul Paper Sure Deal for Chicago Great Western Is Pending. ST. PAUL. Minn., Oct. 26. The Dispatch today, commenting on the alleged option given the Union Pacific by President Stickney, of the Chicago Great "Western Railway, says: Local railway circles today were great ly Interested In the report that the Union Pacific had secured an option on the Chicago Great Western. The Maple Leaf will by this movement cease to be a 'dis turber of traffic' In the west and north west, and become aligned with the Union Pacific properties as part and parcel of the big central transcontinental system, with which It connects both at Omaha and - Kansas City, supplementing the Union Pacific through route west of the Mississippi River gateways with connect ing links, which are imperatively neeaea between', the Missouri and Chicago and the Missouri and the Northwestern com mercial centers. "For several days Judge Cornish, vice- president of the Union Pacific, and for merly of St. Paul, has bejn In the city. He left for the East on Monday even ing. It 13 now believed that his presence signified tne acquisition of the Great "Western and the rapid completion of the details of a transfer. "The fact that an option has been given Is declared to be a settled fact. "The Union Pacific has been given tho privilege of a purchase within a specified time, and it is now at liberty to take over the property If subsequent Investigation and consideration prove that the action Is desirable. "These facts are now believed to have behind them the rapid advance of Great Western common, which has sold as low as 56 a share, and which has Just touched 244 on Monday without apparent reason, beyond the knowledge that a deal for the property has been In progress." In connection with the union Pacific- Great Western deal the Dispatch savs that the option given the Union Pacific Railway on the Great Western property has a direct bearing on the Northern Se curities settlement, and continues: "Private advices received by a St Paul railroad official from New York Indicate that the settlement of the Northern Se curities Company trouble is near at hand. the most important feature being that the Great Northern and Northern Pacific will be separated and operated without refer enco of one to the other. The plan of settlement Is that the Great Northern and the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul aro to bo aligned and the Northern Pa cific, Burlington and Union Pacific are to. be grouped together. Harrlman Denies It." NEW YORK, Oct 26. A rwport that the Union Pacific Railroad had secured an option on the Chicago Great Western Road was denied today by President Har rlman, of the Union Paclfl system. BIG TUNNEL IS COMPLETED. pinisning loucnes at Seattle Should Be PutOn in Two Months. SEATTLE, Oct 26. At 11 o'clock tonight wononen broke down the wall between the norths and south sections of the Grist Northern Railroad tunnel, which runs directly beneath the business section of Seattle, and the shaft Is now clear from end to end. All that now remains I3 to complete the concrete work, and lay the tracks. This should be completed In two months. The tunnel Is tho largest In area of any in the United States. It is 30 feet wide and 2S feet high above the tracks. It is 5120 feet in length. The work was begun in May, 1S03. PAV0ES PEACE C0HEEEENCE. Germany Welcomes the Movement Inaugurated by Roosevelt. BERLIN, Oct 28. While the United States note Inviting a second peace con ference at The Hague for the purpose of broadening and strengthening the original convention, has not yet been received by the German Government the Foreign Of fice again emphasizes to the Associated Press Germany's vwish for another confer ence. This must, however, avoid plans for universal peace, and 'alms solely at practical reforms. While the confer ence cannot have any direct effect upon the Russo-Japanese .War, since neither side wishes outside interference, still ques tions of International law have arisen In connection with this war which demand a settlement and it lies to the Interest of the world's peace to reach an Interna tional agreement on such questions, and get as many nations as possible to sub scribe to its terms. Gillette Safely Razor Wins. ST. LOUIS, Oct 26. Special.) The Gillette. Sales Company, of Chicago, was awarded . the gold medal at Fair for beauty, safety and practical shaving quality' of their safety razor. It has by far the largest sale of any In the world. DiSCREDlt8HISTALE Jury Indicts County Treasurer for Embezzlement HE TOLD OF BOLD ROBBERY Prominent Ohio Church Leader Is Declared to Have Taken $f4,500 He Is Short, and Is Suspected of Having Confederates. i POMEROY, O.. Oct. 25. After Investi gating for a month, the grand Jury today indicted County Treasurer Thomas J. Chase, charging him with the embezzle ment of 514,500 from the County Treasury on September 9, when he alleged the treasury was looted by masked robbers and" himself locked In the vault. When Chase was brought from the County Treasury Into the court his bond was fixed at 510.000. As he was unable to furnish ball, he was remanded to Jail. There Is much excitement tonight over the Indict ment. Others are expected tomorrow. As soon as the indictment against Chase was reported the grand Jury resumed Its investigation, on the theory that there was at least one; probably two confed erates In the so-called robbery. Chase comes of good family. Is GO years old and has a wife, two sons and one daughter, the younger son, Guy, being Deputy Treasurer. Chase Is a member of the Methodist Church, a leader In Sunday school work, a-prominent Mason and was never before suspected of wrongdoing. The memDers or tne family are noted singers, MIGHT- HAVE AVERTED WAR. President of Council of Women Says They Failed toJDo Their Duty. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 26. The World's Fair meeting of the International Council of Women, held here today. In Liberty Hall, was aevoted to an address by Mrs. May Wright Sewell, of Indianapolis, honorary president or tne council. In denning its aims and purposes she said: The International Council, composed of Asauonai councils, stands for social peace and International arbitration, a sin gle standard or morality and the abolition or every right and privilege of Govern ment that is limited by sex. in many ways the progress of our council has been retarded by the several wars which have arisen since its organi zation. The action taken by Christian nations during the late Boxer troubles. such as the looting of temples, the Ill- treatment of priests and the violation ot women, deserves most severe criticism. Relative to the present conflict rajdnjr In the Orient, If every one of our 7,000.000 members had done her duty war would have probably been averted. The present attitude of our Government toward the extension of the Navy is subject to con demnation. The argument advanced that the building of warships will establish a feeling of security Is ridiculous. Are we not mad? Have we not forgotten our origin? Have we not forgotten our des tiny? "In speaking of a single standard of morality, it is blasphemous nonsense and a denial of the divine origin of the race to advocate else. "As for woman suffrage, It Is an Insult. to womanhood not to have It." RAILROADS HAKE DEFENSE. They Declare Hearst Made Advance In Price of Coal Too Great. NEW YORK, Oct 28. The presentation of evidence by the defendant companies In the hearing on the complaint of William R. Hearst 'against the anthracite coal-carrying roads, alleging collusion in charging excessive and extortionate prices, was begun before the Interstate Commesce Commission today. The case of the complainant was concluded yester day. When Chairman Knapp called the hearing to order today George Brownell, of the Erie Railroad, submitted a state ment on the- capacity of the colleries tributary to the Erie and showing that a total of 124,365 gross tons mined by the independent operators was transported in 1904. 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I was In charge of a Sun dispatch-boat through the Spanish-American "War. "The effect of the tropical climate and the nervous strain showed plain ly on my return to the States. Lassitude, depression and Incessant kid ney trouble made me practically an invalid-. This undesirable condition continued, despite the best of treatment "Finally, a brother newspaper man induced me to give a faithful trial to Peruna. I did so.. "In a short time the lassitude left me, my kidneys resumed a healthy condition, and a complete cure was effected. "I cannot too strongly recommend Peruna to those suffering with kidney trouble. "Today I am able to work as hard as at any time in my life." I. B. Richards. OCTOBER Is notably the month of kidney diseases. The reason Is: During the warm months the skin has been freely throwing off water in the form of perspiration. The cool days and cooler nights of Oc tober In a measure stop the action of the skin. The superfluous impurities must flna their way out through the kidneys. This puts upon the kidneys a great strain, of function. 'The passage of these poisons through the kidneys Irritate them and excite Bright's disease. At this time the kidneys need some en couragement some assistance. Peruna gives just this assistance. reached the Insular Bureau that by leg islation contained in one of the appro priation bills recently passed at Manila the strength of the Philippine Constab ulary has been reduced at one stroke by 1200 men. The reduction will take place at the beginning of the next fiscal year, leaving the strength of the force at 6000 men. Cardinal SatollI In Runaway. ROME. Oct 26. While driving here to Makes the weak healthy and the healthy, hale. Flavor preserved forpalatc't enjoyment in hermetically sealed can. Seeing is Believing It Is hard to believe ac Evaporated Creaa eaa Bake so aany delicious disbe until you try it yourself. Whea you do, be me you get Economy Brand ' Evaporated Cream heavy aad ceestant consistency. Be sure you see the cap label K is tne cap ot Kent tne st&.ot.nsnest goods. HELVETIA KILE COXDXVSHrQ CO., KigUui, DHmm. KIDNEYS ill It gently stimulates the kidneys to in creased function, and thus guards against the possibility of disease. "People inclined to weakness of the kid neys ought to use the precaution of tak ing Peruna during the month of October. At the first sign of kidney disease, such as scanty urine, backache, pufnness under the eyes, eta, Peruna should be taken. It may save months of sickness. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from 'the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. S. B. Hartman. Pres ident of The Hartman Sanitarium, Co lumbus, Ohio, and he will give you the benefit of his valuable advice gratis. All correspondence strictly confidential. day. Cardinal Satolll's horses took fright and "bolted. Fortunately they were stopped before any damage was done. Japan Thanks United States. t ST. PETERSBURG, Oct 26. The Amer ican Embassy here has received from the Japanese Minister at Berlin a letter of thanks for the aid rendered by Ambas sador McCormlck in getting Japanese refugees from Russia into Germany. )ELLI5 DCHOttMTE r sea ether brand wkkk hi our cap label reproduced fcerevkk. It k a gaaraatee that it is BSthiag bat abso lutely pure caw's auIV, star Used, by Kaeat&c process, rich a butter fat asd at It delifhts the cook aad tickles tie palate. cn the can before yes bey.